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Vol. 15, No. 36
• A Plain Explanation of the Reasons Why Popery Cannot be Other than the Deadliest
- Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty.
THE POPE’S LAW be Changed; or OUR GOVERNMENT IS
DOOMED, if Roman Catholics Secure Control.
before the three Irish Cardinals
had finished their speeches in Madison
Square Garden, New York, the daily papers
Were full of them; and from Portland, Maine,
Miami, Florida, the Editors who are de
termined to see no breakers ahead, were con
iVulsing themselves joyfully over the verbal
patriotism which pervaded the great national
convention of Federated Catholic Societies.
'This spectacular outburst of verbal patriot
ism is theatrically staged in the largest, best
known place of public asesmblage in America,
for the reason that papal politicians realize
the necessity for an especially dramatic effort
to stem the rising tide of anti-Romanism.
The great American world has been stirred
to its depths by Romanist aggressions, lawless
ness, and crimes; and therefore something
.was badly needed to check the growth of
American secret societies formed to combat
those Romanist secret organizations whose
oaihs hind them to a foreign potentate ; whose
purposes are the undermining of our laws,
liberties, and institutions; and whose methods
embrace boycotts, criminal prosecutions,
Wholesale libels, bloody riots, and cowardly
assassinations. I refer especially to the 4th
degree Knights of Columbus, and to the
Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Tiiey Find it Hard to Digest That Cotton Insurance Deal.
pOR more than a year. The Jeffersonian has
1 earnestly endeavored to explain how the
gamblers obtained insurance of S7O, on a bale
of cotton which they bought for S3O. #
Apparently, I have not succeeded in mak
ing myself understood.
The facts seem so incredible that folks are
slow' to believe them.
For instance, consider the following letter:
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Lowland, N. C.» August 19, 1916.
JThe Jeffersonian Publishing Co.
Dear Sir: In your paper of Avgust 17th you
speak of the Government insuring 30 dollar bales
of cotton at 70 dollars a bale. Was the cotton the
Government insured compressed bales of Cotton,
two bales in one, or was it not compressed bales,
two bales in one. I ask for information.
Please answer in The Jeffersonian.
L Yours truly,
S. J. CLARK.
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Let me try my hand one more time:
In September, 1914, the price of cotton
'dropped to G cents, and the cost of ocean in
surance jumped to 20 per cent of the value of
the ships and cargoes insured.
The cotton gamblers were hungry for bales
at S3O each, but they did not want to pay one
fifth of the value to insure it.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, August 31, 1916
In their great New York pow-wow, the
three Irish cardinals—Gibbons, Farley, and
O’Connell —declared that Popery demands
nothing more than universal liberty of
worship; that it does not seek to control do
mestic or foreign politics; and that it is sin
cerely loyal to American laws and institutions.
These amazingly impudent falsehoods have
been published more generally than any
church utterances ever delivered in this Re
public; and, to the unthinking, they are
calculated to carry the conviction that any
agitation against this foreign church is wholly
unnecessary, palpably prejudiced, and per
versely bigoted.
This “FOREIGN church?” Yes, this
foreign church!
Its supreme, despotic, infallible head is,
and always must be, an Italian, living in Italy,
because a secret rule of the hierarchy requires
it; and a majority of Italian cardinals is
always maintained, to enforce the rule.
The Cabinet of this foreign monarch, who
rules an American church, is always composed
of foreigners; for the Pope has a Cabinet, just
as the United States, Great Britain, France,
Germany and Russia have cabinets.
He has his Secretary of State, his Secretary
of the Treasury, his Secretary of the Interior,
The Government did two things for the
anxious gamblers:
(1.) It ran the machines night and day
making new paper money, so that the gamb
lers borrowed $340,000,000 at 3 per cent, to
buy the cotton which the farmer was forced
to sell.
(2.) The Government set aside a huge sum
of cash, as an Insurance fund, and went into
the business of insuring ships and cargoes, at
'5 per cent.
Thus the Government relieved the specu
lators in two ways: it created new money for
their use, and it extended cheap insurance.
The identical bale of cotton which the
gamblers bought for S3O, was insured by the
Government for $65 and S7O.
There was no compression of two bales into
one.
It was the same bale.
When the ships Evelin and Caribb sunk at
sea, the Government paid the gamblers an
average of $67 on one vessel, and S7O a bale
on the other.
I drew the facts—after so long a time—-
from Mr. A. J. Peters, the Assistant in the
office of our Son-in-law, Mr. William G. Mc-
Adoo.
The whole Administration has been bilious
etc., all under names different from ours, but
all performing the same political services for
the Supreme head of the Papal Government.
This Papal monarch who. from Italy, rules
Catholics in America, has his Congress, com
pletely under foreign control: and this Con
gress is known as the Curia. He appoints it.
This Papal monarchy, whose capital is at
Rome, has its diplomatic agents, its ambassa
dors, its ministers, its envoys, just as every
other political State has them; and the papal
monarchy is represented in this country by an
Italian, John Bonzano, who is here in viola
tion of our Constitution.
This foreign, political, and ecclesiastical
monarchy has its imperial secret service, sup
plied by imperial funds, and working always
—under cover —to carry out the ambitious
aims of the papal hierarchy.
Likewise, THIS FOREIGN MON
ARCHY, which now exerts so powerful a
control in America, HAS ITS OWN CODE
OF LAWS.
The Protestant Reformation made it neces
sary for the Papacy to unify its adherents,
under uniform laws; and these laws, intended
to compel uniformity, were at length agreed
(continued on page two.)
on me ever since I made that exposure of its
complicity in the greatest swindle any govern
ment ever committed at one time on one class
of producers.
The cotton growers were robbed of four
hundred million dollars, directly, and God
only knows how much, indirectly and inci
dentally.
The cotton was insured for S7O, because it
was worth it.
In Liverpool, it was bringing fully that;
and, in continental Europe, much more.
If the Government had financed the farmer,
he could have held his cotton, paid his debts,
and sold later at 12 1-2 cents.
I understood the game, and held my cotton,
and got the 12 1-2 cents.
Idle Jeffersonian urged the planters to hold,
but they had no money, and had to turn loose.
President Wilson had coldly told Charley
Barrett and other Union leaders that the
farmers need not expect any relief from the
Government.
The newspapers published the story every
where.
Hence, the farmers lost heart, and sold to
the gamblers, who borrowed the money to buy
with, FROM THE GOVERNMENT, at
' three per cent interest.
Price, Ewe Gents