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Vol. 13, No. 3
The Empire State of Dixie Must Not be Debauched
’f’VNE of the most conservative and influen
tial of our daily papers recent!v said:
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. .Without reviving the old discussion as to
whether the world has suffered most from its
Staves or its well-meaning fools, it is time to
point out the dangers of a false humanity which,
»n the plea of forgiveness of injury, works up
jffltnpathy for the most atrocious criminal, which
over the homicide in the death
chair, but has no tears for the victims of his
which pleads the respectability and family
dbligatious of the dishonest bank official, and
fbrgets the imperative necessity laid upon society
tp protect those who entrusted him with their
Savings.
In his Latter Day Pamphlets, Carlisle said:
*‘A blind, loquacious, prurience of indiscriminate
has substituted itself, with much
Self “laudation, for the awful, divine sense of right
ajul wTOng.” Some of those well-meaning- persons
Tfrho are agitating for peace at any price come
under this definition. They are immorally dis
posed to concede that there is no right and no
Wrong in the present titanic struggle. Extremes
meet. They endorse that doctrine of the absolute
Unmorality of nations where national interest is
concerned which is behind the Teutonic view of
its right in the present war.
Irrespective of the practical fact that peace on
any such basis is an impossibility, that it would
represent a degradation of human conscience too
terrible to conceive, that it would place a premium
upon future wars of aggression, the false hu
manity involved is a matter of the gravest concern.
As Tom Paine said of Edmund Burke’s rhapsody
lipon Marie Antoinette, the sympathy was all for
the spoiled plumage and never for the wounded
bird. The intolerable injustices suffered by the
French peasant through the grinding ages of
feudalism were forgotten, and only the more
picturesque sufferings of an articulate class—
some seven thousand of them altogether suffered
by the guillotine—were used to stimulate the
sympathy of mankind. This figure is scarcely the
“The Los Angeles Investigation” at Last Hits the Snag
MILLIONS of copies of an alleged
“-speech” of Congressman Kettner, of
California have been printed by Public
Printer, Pat Ford—Knight of Columbus—•
and broadcasted over the Union by K. of C.
Congressman who franked the alleged speech
through the mails, without postage.
Kettner made no speech: be abused and
p ■ siituted his position as Congressman to
• give the Knights of Columbus a coat of
whitewash at the expense of Uncle Sam’s
taxpayers.
The whitewash consisted of an absurd cer
tificate signed by some Los Angeles Masons
in which they were silly enough to assure the
country that the 4th degree Columbiad
traitors had shown them their most private
And secret papers.
These Los Angeles persons attached to
their signatures their official and Masonic
character, thus seeming to speak for their
great. Fraternity.
It would be useless to ignore the fact that
this Los Angeles testimonial, signed offi
cially by 32nd and 33rd degree Masons had
its effect.
Scattered among millions of people who
had no means of investigation, and who re
vived their copies fiom the Public Printing
Office of the United bl ales, stamped with a
Thomson, Ga„ Thursday, January 20, 1916
daily butcher’s bill in war as at present conducted.
Maudlin sympathy for the criminal, as evinced
in some of our efforts for the elevation of the
prisoner in jail, or for keeping the criminal out
of it, approaches perilously NEAR CONDONE
MENT OF HIS CRIME. It was a French philoso
pher who said that he was willing to abolish the
ROME MEETS A WATERLOO IN
MISSOURI !
The jury acquits the editor and
PUBLISHERS OF THE MENACE.
In that case the Roman Catholics procured,
from a pliable District Attorney and a jackass
Grand-jury, an indictment against The Menace
Publishing Company, as well as against all
the acting managers of the corporation.
In the Watson case the papists and their
pliable District Attorney, Alexander Akerman,
singled out one man, for it was THE MAN
they wanted to “get.”
In The Menace case, some stubborn member
of the trial jury held the others twenty hours
before he would agree to a verdict in favor of
innocence and a free press.
In the Watson case, the jury was out about
twenty-four hours, as I remember; and it was
the pig-headed obstinacy of one man that
prevented a verdict in favor of AMERI
CANISM, innocence, and a free press.
And that pig-headed person has since said,
in explanation of his obstinacy, that HE
WANTED TO MAKE IT NECESSARY FOR
THE GOVERNMENT TO PROSECUTE THE
CATHOLIC PUBLISHERS OF THE BOOK
FROM WHICH THAT VILE CATHOLIC
LATIN WAS TAKEN.
Fine reason, wasn’t it?
congressman’s name, and carrying the idea
that a speech to that effect had been made
in Congress, “The Los Angeles Investigation”
—as the “speech” was called—created doubts
as to the real character of the 4th degree
Knights of Columbus.
Os course those who are at all posted on the
ways of bona -fide secret societies know that
the members take the most solemn oaths not
to do the very thing which the Los Angeles
Masons certified that the K. of C. did.
How could any Mason believe that one of
the Pope’s secret societies would really ex
hibit to him its genuine secret ritual and
oath t
The very idea is ridiculous. How could
any Mason loiew that the papers exhibited to
him were not bogus?
He could, not possibly know it.
A Jesuit, Dominican, Hibernian, or 4th de
gree Columbiad would no more disclose his
secrets to a Mason, than a Mason would to
a Jesuit, or a Columbiad.
Any man of information must realize that.
Some months ago, I was informed by a
Georgia Mason that the conduct of those Los
Angeles Masons was under investigation by
the Fraternity.
He was right: the Grand Lodge of Cali
fornia was making it hot for the signers of
penally of death, if the murderers would begin
first.
It is not thus that the vengeance of a just God
operates, as any but a self-deluded fool should
know. The tremendous developments of the past
year, and those social tendencies which they have
to such an extent, overshadowed, should teach us
that the enforcement of law is one of the greatest
problems before our people, and that this is no
time for the pratings of false humanity.
The headline under which the above was
written were appropriate words,
U FALSE II UMANITY.”
Seldom will you read a stronger, truer,
wiser editorial.
Sympathy for the criminal is natural and
healthy; but when that sympathy grows in
proportion to the crime he has committed and
loses sight of the fate of the victim and of
the Law, then that sympathy is unnatural,
abnormal, maudlin, unhealthy—a menace to
society.
Two or three years ago, there was a great
criminal confined in the Atlanta penitentiary.
He was the only Wall Street felon that had
ever made us a visit in that character.
Others had come down South, in palace
cars, to steal our railroads, our power-sites,
our timber lands, our street-car lines, and our
cotton crops; but Charles W. Morse was the
only one who had come down to us under the
escort of the Law.
Morse had a savory reputation. It was said
that he had virtually stolen old man Dodge's
wife, with the astute aid of one Abe Hummel,
a legal light from Jerusalem.
(continued on page five.)
that certificate, Flint. Weller, Hervey, Burke;
and for William Kettner; the Congressman.
In The New Age, of Nashville, Tenn., ap
pears the report of the Special Committee of
the Grand Lodge of California.
The Committee slates that it summoned
Motley Hewes Flint, Dana Reid Weller, Wil
liam Rhodes Hervey, Samuel E. Burke, and
"WILLIAM KETTNER. and examined these
men in executive session.
As a result of this investigation, the coin
niittee reported to the Grand Lodge that it
did.not believej
(1) That these Masons ipteant to degrade
or stultify their own Fraternity in “this
most unfortunate happening”, and that the
said Masons did Qpi mean to extol and exalt
another orgwizafcbh.”
In other words, they did it, but did. not
mean to do it!
(2) the said Los Angeles brethren
were not bribed by “a7iy large Sums of
money as a direct reward” for the infamous
paper they signed for the Knights of Co-
Itinibtis.
(The legitimate inference is, that those
Los Angeles persons had been accused of sell
ing themselves.)
(3) The Committee w;\s satisfied that
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