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treason by breaking up a happy home at Ar
lington.
b hat is it, when the Bishop of a foreign
church, holding a foreign commission, sworn
subject of a foreign potentate, introduces
among us the foreign law of his church, set
ting al defiance the statutes of the State?
H7m/ Zx Z/2 How can you fail to see that
it is moral treason?
if Bishop Keiley had lived in England, a
few decades ego, and had brought the Ne
ton ere decree into the realm, lie would hare
lost his head.
Under the law of praemunire, the introduc
tion into England of any foreign decree, bull
of excommunication, or other papal order
violatire of English, law, was TREASON,
punishable by death !
It was because General Oglethorpe, and
other planters of the Georgia colony were
familiar with Rome's hideous record, that
they forbade papists to settle in Georgia.
The time rapidly approaches when we will
bitterly deplore the fact that the law was not
retained, and rigidly enforced.
No papist can be a loyal American citizen,
simply because the laws of the papacy are
irreconcilable with those of this republic.
So much byway of prelude, for it is neces
sary for us to get our bearings, as we drift
into a struggle with the foreign church whose
tremendous efforts are being directed against
our public schools, our freedom of speech,
our free press, and our laws safe-guarding
personal liberty.
The U. S. Constitution, and the Constitu
tion of every State, guarantee a republican
form of government, and the natural rights
of citizens.
Those natural rights are well understood
by everybody. They include full enjoyment
of personal freedom, choice of vocation, the
acquisition and use of property, and one’s
good name, health, and locomotion.
Bishop Keiley! you, an American citizen,
deliberately chose to swear off your allegiance
to our laws and government, and to become
the sworn subject of a foreign power.
Not only did you swear yourself into blind
obedience to the Italian pope, but you swore
io persecute to the utmost YOUR FETTLON?
CITI7.ENS, who are not as treasonous as
your sei f.
Not only that, you swore —if you took the
usual Jesuit oath—to carry this persecution
of your fellow citizens to the extent as
assassi nation /
Yet you live among those fellow citizens,
fully enjoying all the privileges of our
“accursed, heretical law.’’
You bring into free America a foreign
monastic system, which has been a curse to
every nation that has tolerated it.
That infernal system makes slaves of boys
and girls, men and women.
Decoyed into those un-American dungeons,
girls try to escape, and are flung back by
Catholic policemen. Some leap from
windows, and are killed in the fall.
With an astounding disregard for law,
Juvenile Courts, Recorders, and Police Mat
rons have been parties to the filling of Roman
sweat-shops with Protestant toilers.
Forty-five of those hell-holes disgrace our
Union; and sfa? thousand Protestant serfs
are now slaving, from morn to night, for the
profit of t he foreign Pope.
In the nunneries, 58,000 American women
are deprived of human intercourse, except
with 20,000 bachelor priests.
The man doesn’t live who can frame a
decent excuse for Rome’s infamous mistreat-
TME JEFFERSONS AM
ment of nuns, and of Protestant girls in Good
Shepherd laundries.
Christianity docs not exact the immolation
of women, and die merciless exploitation of
children.
Every institution of Roman monasticism
is a defiance to our form of government, and
a violation of our laws.
The State owes it to herself and her citizens
to Inquire whether persons held in bondage
vol anta, ll y serve, and voluntarily endure con
finement.
That investigation must not take place in
the presence of persons interested in holding
the prisoner.
No representative of the Pope shall defeat
the purpose of the law by intimidating the
inmate.
The "presence of a papal agent, would do
that very thing.
Bishop- Keiley denounces the legislators as
fools, and says they should be sent to the
lunatic asylum. Not long ago. he was saying
practically the same thing about the statesmen
of France.
It hasn’t been many weeks since he was
denouncing President Wilson; but since Wil
son has massed an army on the border, in
readiness to invade Mexico after the elections,
Keiley lias become reconciled.
He says that he will appoint a “gentleman”
to accompany the Grand jurors when they
visit the houses to be inspected. A gentle
man ! How would “Father" Schadewell do?
I don't suppose Jerry Walsh wants to beat
him, again.
Apparently, Schadewell had acted the
‘"gentleman" quite in the Roman style, for
Jerry couldn’t even wait until Father S. left
Bishop Keiley’s mansion.
Jerry is a good Catholic, but he invaded
the Bishop’s house and came near killing
Father S.
And it was beautiful to see how Bishop
Keiley kept the story out of the Savannah
papers, and swept the case against Jerry off
the docket.
Bisho]) Keiley told the reporter of the Sa
vannah Press the following:
I will of course feel called upon to insist that
some gentlemen should be present, for 1 would not
think of permitting members of this legislature to
go into any religious house in this diocese unless
the inmates had some gentlemen present upon
whom they could call in case of necessity.
“I would not think of permitting!”
“Unless the inmates had some gentlemen
present!”
Keiley can’t think of allowing State laws
to apply to Catholic marriages, and he can’t
think of permitting State inspection of
Catholic bastilles, except upon his own terms.
It seems to me that the alien prelate is ar
ranging for a trial of strength between laws
made in Italy and laws made in Georgia. In
that contest, there is no doubt as to which will
win.
Individual Protestant wives are helpless,
because we have not heretofore felt the need
of penal legislation against moral treason.
We will amend our laws, so as to make it a
felony for any Roman priest to introduce
and enforce a law of the Roman Catholic
church, in conflict with ours.
As General Grant wrote in his dying days,
that form of popish aggression “must be re
sisted and suppressed at whatever cost."
On March 4th, this year, Bishop Keiley
occupied half of the front page of Archbishop
Blenk’s paper, The Morning Star. Blenk re
ferred to Keiley as “His Lordship."
In the lurid interview, His Lordship de
nounced the courts and the people of Geor
gia, because Leo Frank had been convicted;
and His Lordship clamored for my removal
from the State tp some region where decency
prevails.
The only editor m. Georgia whom His Lord
ship did not include in his violent denuncia
tion. was, of course, the Augusta Slatonite
and Romanite, mho editorially advocated my
assassination, in commenting upon the Veazey
bill.
Assassination being a peculiarly Jesuit
practice, excites no horror in Benjamin
Keiley.
His Lordship has a poor opinion of us
Georgians. In March, he said that no honest
jury could be secured in this God-forsaken
State, and now he intimates that there are no
“gentlemen" in the grand-jury boxes.
Truly, we are to be pitied—especially as
Schadewell’s name is not on the list. Suppose
we ask Cardinal O'Connell to send us his
priest. Petrarchi. who ravished the Catholic
woman in the Catholic church of Bridgeport.
Archbishop Blenk might lend us 7ws priest,
Scotti, who swindled one woman out of $62,-
000 and persuaded another to adopt him as
her son —her bouncing boy of 42 summers.
Or we could borrow that Macon priest, who
recently moved to pastures new, leaving a.
plum]) mulatto souvenir behind him—the ne
gro girl was also left behind.
In conclusion, The Jeffersonian will speak
plainly to Bishop Keiley:
There was never any objection to Roman
Catholicism in Georgia, so long as it was a
question of religious worship. Nobody be
lieves that even the Catholics have any faith
in a God, made by a man. out of a glass of
wine and a piece of bread; but if they want to
go into church and pretend to believe that
sort of thing, that’s their business, not ours.
The antagonism now existing, and increas
ing every day, grows out of Rome’s political
aggressiveness, and Rome’s brutal crimes
against free speech and free press.
When a Jesuit stands at the door of the
White House, insulting California Masons,
insulting an Episcopal Bishop, appointing to
the most lucrative offices the members of one
of the Pope’s criminal secret societies, and in
fluencing the President in all his policies,
foreign and domestic. Protestantism resents
it, as an intolerable affront, given deliberately.
When such papal lobbyists as Scharf and
O'Hern hang on to Congress, session after
session, wire-working for the Pope, securing
appropriations for papal purposes—choking
off such legislation as the Burnett Immigra
tion bill, and moving heaven and earth to
have the mails closed to anti-Romanist lit
erature, Protestantism resents it, as an evi
dence of foreign intereference with American
politics.
When Cardinal Gibbons demands an in
crease of papist chaplains, and compels Con
gress to do his bidding; and when these Chap
lains force non-Catholics to attend their
papist services, Protestantism resents it, as a
flagrant violation of religious liberty.
When the Pope insists on sending an am
bassador from his foreign church, and com
pels our Government to receive this ambassa
dor, and thus give to the Roman church a
distinction not even claimed by any other,
Protestantism resents it. as the entering
wedge to foreign church-influence, and a union
of church and State.
When the Pope, in 1908, at length feels him
self powerful enough in America to revive
the old medieval dogma on marriage, and to
order its enforcement here, for the first time,
Protestantism resents it, as the beginning of
a foreign empire, within our empire— antago
nistic, treasonous, the fatal harbinger of civil
war.
Now, Bishop Keiley, listen to one more
word:
Obey that law!
And if assassination becomes a game, rest
assured it's one that two can play.
