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A MOST EXTRAORDINARY AND INTOLERABLE CONDITION: THE
r PIIE year before Austria jumped on Servia,
and Germany on Belgium, the Prime
Minister of Italy was asked to agree to the
conquest of Servia.
Premier Giolitti made this statement in
Italian parliament, some months after Aus
tria and Germany had precipitated the Arma
geddon; and Austria has never denied it.
With the connivance of Germany, the Aus
trian armies had already crushed Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the two Balkan states which had
been entrusted to Austria by the Berlin
Treaty of 1878.
Austria was to hold those little provinces
for the benefit of themselves and of Europe;
but she broke the compact, seized upon- the
trust property and converted it into a part
of the Hapsburgh empire.
When she committed this great crime, no
other nation, save Germany, was in a condi
tion to prevent it—and Germany was ready
then to fight with Austria, just as she was
in 1914.
But Austria coveted Servia, also, and sought
the co-operation of her then ally in the Triple
Alliance. Italy refused to become a party to
so unprovoked a war.
Jesuit intrigues, however, went right
along, until the King of Servia felt he must
yield to the demands of the Pope, and enter
into a treaty with him by which the Roman
Catholic hierarchy got itself officially estab
lished, to be maintained at public expense.
Hence three Greek Catholic states were put
Who the Prosecutors are in the Watson Case, and What Their
I N the official organ of the American Fed
* eration of Catholic Societies, for August
.1911, an editorial appeared from which I
quote the following lines:
FEDERATION AND WATSON’S MAGAZINE.
“The Federation has called to time Watson's
Jeffersonian Magazine, published at Thomson, Ga.,
winch has been publishing a series of insulting
articles entitled ‘The Roman Catholic Hierarchy
the Deadliest Menace to our Liberties and Our
Civilization.’ In these articles His Eminence James
Cardinal Gibbons was called ‘Jim Gibbons, the
Jesuit Cardinal.’ Os his Excellency, Most Rev.
Diomede Falconio, Apostolic Delegate, the article
says: “We find the Papal Delegate among tne
diplomats who represent foreign nations at our
national capital; we find this man (Falconio)
everlastingly taking a sly underhand part in our
political affairs.’ The priests are called thick-lip
ped, bull-necked men, who never do an honest’
day’s work in their whole lives.
Os relics and saints the article says: We see
nasty old human bones reverently appealed to for
cures. We see ‘miracles’ worked, saints created
and adored.’ ‘We hear the declaration of war
against our public schools. We see gigantic sums
of our money taken for that seed bed of super
stition, the parochial school,’ etc.
In short, the foulest language imaginable was
used to defame the Catholic Church and her
spiritual leaders. Knowing that a letter of appeal
to the bigoted editor would be of no avail, your
National Secretary wrote a friendly letter to the
reputable firms advertising in said magazine
prising them of the defamatory article and asking
them I hat if they respect the feelings of their
Catholic patrons they should send a letter to Wat
son expressing their disapproval of the method
lie is using in defaming the spiritual leaders of
Thomson, Ga„ Thursday, November 18, 1915
EUROPEAN WAR, &c.
under the feet of the Roman Catholic priests;
and you can easily imagine how the 6,000,000
Greeks felt at being thrown under a small
minority of Romanists.
When the Servian hot-head murdered the
Hapsburgh whom the Jesuits had so carefully
trained, a blind fury took possession of them,
and they caused the old Emperor to require
Servia, within 24 hours, to surrender her in
dependence.
When Servia and Russia and England all
begged for time, and for a reference of the,
matter to the Peace Tribunal, their pleas fell
on deaf ears’ The German ambassador, in
the Russian capital was asked how far Aus
tria meant to go, in punishing Servia for the
crime of one man. and the German answered
haughtily that that was a question to be con
sidered at the end of the war!
The Austrian army was moving, and Rus
sia ordered hers to get in readiness to move.
Then the German Emperor told the Czar
of Russia that if he did not disband his
troops (demobolize them) within 24 hours
Germany would attack.
The Czar continued to mobilize, to meet
Austria's invasion of Servia—whoses people
are of the same race and religion as those of
Russia.
Then, instead of attacking Russia, or help
ing Austria punish Servia, the German army
Real Purpose Is.
the Catholic Church. We are pleased to announce
that the following 18 firms have complied with
Federation’s request.
You will notice that not a word quoted from
Watson’s Magazine, was of the “foulest” sort;
and that the Secretary of the Federation,
Anthony Matre, in his report states that he
had succeeded in prevailing upon 18 firms
which had “complied with the Federation’s
request.”
The 18 firms did not write to me at all:
they simply discontinued their patronage,
rather than encounter a venomous Roman
Catholic boycott.
Thus the official Report of Anthony
Matre, Secretary of the Romanist Federation,
shows who it was, in 1911, started the boycott
on our Magazine, and why.
They were deeply incensed because James
Gibbons, was called “Jim,” and because I
said—most truthfully—that the Pope’s am
bassador to our Government is always med
dling in politics.
Nasty old bones are necessarily so—through
no fault of mine—but because I called these
fake “relics” (bushels of which can be dug out
of any old cemetery) by their true name,
Matre used the mails illegally to work a con
spiracy against our business.
Another editorial, based on the official re
port, stated that Congress would be asked to
amend the laws so that no one could make an
was dashed against France, whose only politi
cal sin was her relations to England and
Russia.
France had not given any cause of war
to either Austria or Germany: and one of
the anomalous features of the Armageddon
lias been, that Servia was never seriously in
vaded until after the two German Kaisers
had failed to crush France, or to reach the
English Channel, or to break the armies of
Russia.
Having failed everywhere else, the German
emperors now jump on little Servia ; and, by
the aid of the fresh troops of the perfidious
King of Bulgaria, the country is trampled
upon, and bleeding at every pore.
When the two emperors and the Bulgarian
King are checked in mid-career, by the
English, French, and Servians combined, the
war will have entered its final stage, and the
three monarchs who bitterly detest democ
racy, will suffer shipwreck.
But the conditions prevailing in our own
country are terrible, and nobody knows what
another week will bring forth.
The President took the word of German
officers that the wureless stations in New
Jersey and New r York would not be used un
neutrallv.
*-
Those officers laughed m their sleeves, and
used the w ireless stations as they pleased.
Officials closest to the German ambassador
(concluded on page five.)
attack upon the Roman Catholic faith.
After the National Convention of the Cath
olic Federation had resolved to “put Watson
out of business,” this Secretary Matre went to
New York and prevailed upon Anthony Com
stock, United States Postoffice Inspector to
start a prosecution against me.
I wrote to Comstock and asked him for the
name of the man who had brought our maga
zine to his attention.
He declined to give it, but did not deny that
the Roman Catholics had caused it to be done.
From a source, closer to Matre than he
would easily believe, the information was
given, that he had done it.
He has never denied my repeated state
ments to that effect.
But the clinching evidence, if any more
were needed, is furnished by Metre’s official
report to the Convention of the Catholic Fed
eration at Toledo, Ohio, this year.
His report in part appears in The Irish
World, of New York City, October 30, 1915.
This Romanist paper was founded by Pat
rick Ford, ana is published at 27 Barclay St.
In the issue named, appears, on page 3, an
article headlined in big capitals—
“TOM WATSON ARCH-BIGOT”
Beneath this, appears in smaller capitals
the following statement:
“AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
CATHOLIC SOCIETIES PAYS ITS RE~
SPECTS TO TOM WATSON”
The article goes on to quote from the of
(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.) J
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