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Vol. 13, No. 34
Rev. M. Ashby Jones Preaches a Papal Sermon*
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Argues that Nunneries, Monasteries, &c., are Like “ PRIVATE RESIDENCES.”
TpHE following appeared in The Macon
1 Telegraph last week:
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 6. —In a sermon marked by
eloquence at the First Baptist church here Sunday
morning, Rev. M. Ashby Jones, pastor, discussed
the Veazy bill, which has passed the Georgia
House, and which is pending in the Senate.
Dr. Jones sounded the warning that it is the
Catholics who are now marked for slaughter.
Next may come the Baptists, and next the Meth
odists. The subject of his sermon was “The State
and Its Religious Institutions.”
Democracy and Christianity Same.
The minister took for his text Luke 9: 49-50,
“And John answered and said, Master we saw one
casting out devils in Thy name and forbade him
because he followeth not with us. And Jesus
said, forbid him not.” The speaker said that
democracy and Christianity are identical. “De
mocracy is the right of each individual to choose
for himself, limited only by the right of others,
and there is no more sacred right than the right
to worship God according to the dictates of his
conscience.
Opens Up Private Institutions.
“The State already has the right to investigate
any institution supported by the money of the
State, and it is for this very reason that a State
would never appropriate money for organized
religion, for an appropriation carries with it a
right to enter institutions supported by the State,
but not a right to enter private institutions. The
most fundamental rule of the law courts is that
no man has to prove his innocence, yet here the
government has the right to enter private insti
tutions to hunt for unnamed crimes. The plea is
that if the institutions are innocent tney will not
object!”
Aimed at Catholics.
Dr. Jones here made an impassioned appeal to
the congregation as to how they would feel if the
same argument should be applied to their private
homes, and they were investigated by a grand
jury. And he went on to say that tne deep signifi
cance of this bill lay in the fact, which was shame
lessly admitted by some and shamefully denied by
others, that this bill was aimed at the Roman
Catholics. The justification urged in the accusa
tion that unspeakable crimes are committed in
some of these institutions.
17 ACH time a borrower gets a loan, $5.00
out of every SIOO is held back, and the
Land-bank gives Uncle Reuben bank-stock,
instead of cash.
You’d have to be stone blind, if you failed
to see that Uncle Reuben gradually buys a lot
of banks, with borrowed money, for which he
has to deed away his land. ..
His land may not be paying him any profit,
but he must pay 6 per cent interest on the
loan, in addition to the 5 per cent purchase of
stock.
Uncle Rube will deed away his land, and
pay (> per cent interest on the full amount of
his note, although he loses the use of $5.00,
in every SIOO.
THE GIST OF THE RURAL CREDITS BILL.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, August 17, 1916
The Rev. M. Ashby Jones has established
plenty of reputation, such as it is.
He has for years officiated at The First
Baptist Church, which consists largely of Rich
Respectability.
Having been for so long a season the ap
proved Spiritual Guide of Rich Respecta
bility, the Rev. M. Ashby Jones has cultivated
a certain state of mind, familiar to those who
have observed the ways of the Pharisees. If
ever he alludes to Hell, he eliminates the brim
stone and the never-dying worm; if he casti
gates the Devil, he abolishes the horns and
the hoofs.
He is unable to distinguish Religion from
Morals; and, therefore, his sermons would
sound just as well to a gathering of Chinese
mandarins, if he would omit the name of
Christ, and use that of Confucius.
lie dotes on Decorum: at his services, reli
gious rapture must wear a straight-jacket and
preserve silence: at the funerals he conducts,
grief must stifle its sob, and hold back its tear.
During the many years that the Rev. M.
Ashby Jones has distilled episcopal rose-water
at_The First Baptist Church, there have been
few political issues which did not seem to need
his attention and invite his counsel. Nothing
of consequence could get past the Rev. M.
Ashby Jones.
With a meritorious determination to illu
minate with his opinions every profane dis
cussion, he has exhausted many a font of type,
and measured his length along many a column
of the daily papers.
Was it a question of enforcing the Law rmd
the mandates of Supreme Courts, against the
vilest criminal that ever preyed upon young
girls in Georgia? Was it a battle-royal, be
tween Big Money on one side, and of Justice
on the other?
The Rev. M. Ashby Jones had nothing to
do with it; and he had never concerned him-
Then, when Uncle Rube owns all the Land
Banks, he will discover that he has acquired
a system of grist-mills which won't turn a
wheel, until the National Banks open the
water-gates, in order that the new paper
money, which the Government makes for
these bankers, EXCLUSIVELY, may flow
into Uncle Rube’s mills, and start the ma
chinery.
Thus the new mills belong to the Foxy
Farmer, while the water-supply belongs to the
Unsophisticated BanJcer.
It’s like an Arid land proposition: the
Settler owns the land, while the Irrigation
Patriots own the water: the Settler may fail
on his crop, but the Water Corporation plays
a sure thing.
self, in the least, when Georgia law was
executing Gentiles, of all ages and conditions,
for crimes of varying enormity; but when
a married, middle-aged Jew was legally con
victed of the most damnable of all crimes,
and upon a. poor little Gentile girl, scarcely
fourteen years old, one of the church digni
taries who interfered, to prevent the State
from doing its duty, was the Rev. M. Ashby
Jones.
More recently, he has gone up and down the
Republic, delivering addresses on ‘’Prepared
ness,” as if Militarism were peculiarly a sub
ject for the ministers of the TTinoe of Peace ;
and as if the State—acting through the
President, the Cabinet, the Congress, and the
Governors —-were unable to fitly exercise its
functions without the eloquent aid of the Rev.
M. Ashby Jones.
In this respect, he earnestly emulates the
example of Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop
Benj. Keily, who lose no opportunity to guide
the State with truly Roman wisdom.
It is no matter for surprise, therefore, that
Pastor Jones should misuse his pulpit,
to denounce the House of Representatives
for its vote on the bill of the Rev. Prior G.
Veazey, the able and fearless Baptist who rep
resents Warren County.
The priests of Rome, bringing their foreign
superstitions and un-American institutions
into this country, contend that their mon
asteries, their nunneries, and their commer
cial laundries are private residences!
The Rev. M. Ashby Jones adopts that view,
and thereby writes himself down a facile
dupe.
Not by imposed by designing priests
upon inexperienced youth, but by due process
of law, AND AFTER CONVICTION FOR
CRIME, are citizens to be deprived of
(continued on page two.)
You have to get up early in the morning, if
you catch such National Bank toots as the
Hon. Carter Glass, favoring a bill that isn’t
just what the Money Trust wants.
Offering the land-owners the glorious
privilege of becoming the feudal serfs of the
Barons of High Finance, is the crowning
achievement of Woodpecker Wilson’s admin
istration.
No wonder the Chamber of Commerce em
ploys experts to go around advertising the
advantages of the new Feudalism.
If it were really a Rural Credits system,
run on government loans, it wouldn’t be neces
sary to employ oratorical experts.
Price, Five Qents