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Vol. 13, No. 19
No Church Should Inflict Lifelong Imprisonment on Women nor
Hold Boys and Girls to Involuntary Servitude.
IT is to be hoped that the Georgia Legisla-’
. ture will adopt the Veazey bill, for the
State inspection of all private or church insti
tutions where men and women are kept in
confinement, and where boys and girls are
held illegally to involuntary labor.
'There are 58,000 American women impris
oned by the prtests.
, The priests say that their prisoners do not
want freedom.
ASK THE yVOMEN!
Let the State compel the opening of those
dungeons, and let the Law offer liberty to
each of the caged birds.
If they prefer to spend their lives in a
gloomy Bastille, under lock and key, at the
mercy of the priests, they can say so.
But they are the ones to speak.
They are the ones whom the State should
visit and question.
The jailers are Too much interested in
keeping their prisoners!
On a subject of this kind, priests are liars
by education, inclination, and self-protection.
The Italian church has quietly built up a
A German Sympathizer Asks Some Questions About the War.
IT would be a hard task to change the mind
* of anybody who takes sides with the
Pope and the two Kaisers in the present
European war.
If the Servian fanatic had shot an Aus
trian peasant, we wouldn’t have had any
Armageddon; but as he killed the Divine
Right heir to a throne, the Pope and the two
Kai sers plunged Europe into the savagest
conflict known to history.
Now, when a man is unable to see that the
cause of the war was dynastic, he is blind to
actual facts.
There isn’t a German on earth who can
figure out any advantage to be gained by the
German people, in return for the three mil
lion Germans who have already been killed
or wounded, in fighting for the Pope and the
Kaisers.
Dynastic advantages to the Hohenzollern
family, the Hapsburg family, and the papal
empire were expected, and that’s why the
Pope never whined ‘’Peace! Peace!” until
the Kaisers had begun to lose.
A German sympathizer at “Falkville, Ala
bama, R. 1.,” asks some fair questions, and
I will try to answer them fairly.
(1) “WAatf is the difference between Bel
gian and Grecian neutrality?”
There is no difference in neutrality, any
where. Germany, England, and France were
parties to a treaty safe-guarding the neu
trality of Belgium.
To get at France, before France was ready
for the blow, the German Kaiser threw hia
army into Belgium, destroying cities, butcher*
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, May 4, 1916
system of laundries and sewing-shops which
are immensely profitable, because the labor
costs nothing.
Those laundries and sewing-shops go under
the pious name of The House of the Good
Shepherd.
The labor is furnished by non-Catholics,
mostly boys and girls, who have been rail
roaded into the slave pen by some Police
Matron, or by some Juvenile Court.
There is absolutely no law for this popish
slave system.
Not only does the Constitution of the
United States forbid it. but the highest laws
of every State in this Union forbid it.
But the Roman priests are trampling these
laws under foot, East and West, North and
South.- "
A few weeks ago the Police Matron of San
Antonio, Texas, sentenced a Protestant girl
to three years' labor in the Catholic laundry,
without a warrant, without any sort of trial,
and without the slightest evidence that the
girl had done anything wrong.
The same Police Matron—a fat old Irish
ing unarmed non-combatants, ravishing wom
en, and mutilating little children.
For defending themselves, the Belgians
have been treated worse than dogs, their
women shot as “spies,” their remaining cities
subjected to ruinous fines, their civilians put
under rigorous martial law and thousands of
them enslaved, other thousands being kept
alive by the food of England and the charity
of America.
Cardinal Mercier is the only Belgian who
says,, writes and acts as he pleases, defiant of
Von Bissing, the Weyler of Belgium, the
cold-blooded assassin of Miss Gavel, who had
tenderly nursed German soldiers, and wdiose
only offense was that she had connived at.
the escape of three or four wounded English
men and Frenchmen.
Mercier defies Bissing and Bissing is afraid
to touch him— why?
Because Mercier is under the personal pro
tection of the Papa.
Greece was not a neutral, for she was bound
by treaty to aid Ser via, and she broke her
word.
Moreover, the Venizelos Cabinet —the then
Greek government—gave formal permission
for the Allies to enter, just as Carranza gave
permission for our troops to enter Mexico.
The Allies, accordingly occupied Salonica,
and fortified it; but not a Greek town was
injured, nor a Greek life lost.
It was a dynastic sympathy of King Con
stantine and his wife that caused Greece to
violate her treaty, for the King naturally
sides with his queen, and his queen is the
Catholic from Chicago—boasted of how she
had brought a Protestant widow, 27 years old,
from Houston to San Antonio, and had sen
tenced her to a term of years in the laundry.
I know the name of the girl, and know that
a brave lady made it so hot for the Police
Matrop and Judge Davis, also a Romanist,
that they pretended to release the girl; but the
probability is, she was transferred at night
to another slave pen.
As to that imprisoned widow, I do not
know her name, and she is still slaving in the
laundry.
Can't you see what wrongs can be done,
where the State does not inspect these places?
Your own daughter may go the way of poor
Laura Stone, and there may be no fearless
Mrs. Bannister to fight for her release.
Once your boy or your girl, or your young
wife is entrapped by the Romish prowlers, it
is an almost hopeless case.
You will find the courts and the police on
the side of Rome, and you will plead in vain,
very often, for the redress promised by the
highest laws of our land.
sister of William Hohenzollern, Kaiser of
Germany.
To compare the atrocious treatment of Bel
gium with the permitted occupation of Sa
lonica, is frivolous.
(2) does England wish for most,
Ser via and Belgium restored, or the destruc
tion of Germany's commerce?”
If England had been as eager to destroy
Germany’s commerce, as Germany was to
destroy England's, the presumption is that
England would have been training soldiers as
long and as feverishly as the Kaiser had been
doing.
The evidence that will forever carry con
viction to unprejudiced minds is this: "
England was unprepared for a great war,
while the Kaiser had long been fully pre
pared.
Every man in the Kaiser's empire had
been made a soldier, by the harshest treat
ment ever known in this world; and at the
same time he finally gave Austria the signal
to go ahead, there were 30,000 Germans suf
fering from the bodily injuries inflicted by
brutal officers.
One of those wretched peasants died from
a kick on his genitals, a few weeks before the
war began; and all of us remember the
Zabern shoemaker, a cripple, who was slashed
with a sworn, because he had laughed at the
“goose-step” of some soldiers.
For years and years, the toast of the Ger
man officers had been “The Day;” and as the
wine, or beer, or whiskey was drunk, they
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