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ernment;” “Romanism in its Home,” by Dr.
J. H. Eager; “Romanism or Americanism—
Which;” by Rev. John T. Christian; and
“Our Country,” by Dr. Josiah Strong.
For your convenience I give you the ad
dress of dealers who will supply you with all
desired books, whether new or old:
Henry MaJkan, New York City.
P. Stammer, 127 E. 23 St., New York City.
Scopes & Pierce, 59 Maiden Lane, Albany,
N. Y.
Lauriat & Co., Boston, Mass.
The Union Library Association, New York
City.
Schulte's Book Store, 132 E. 23 St., New
York City.
Brentano’s, New York City.
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Study the Situation in Mexico.
TO understand the Mexican situation, you
must constantly refresh your memory as to
the events which led up to the present revolu
tion. You must think of a native population,
born on the soil, tilling it, and owning none
of it. Like the Irish peasant of the Middle
Ages, the land had been theirs for hundreds
of years, until a foreign conqueror invaded
their country and reduced them to serfdom.
The Irish were Christians and Catholics,
but not subject to the Pope. St. Patrick was
never a papist; his father, a married priest,
was independent of Rome.
Pope Adrian determined to conquer these
independent Irish Catholics, and he made a
bargain with the Norman King of England,
Henry 11., father of John, who was forced
to sign the Great Charter.
The ambitious Pope issued a Bull (papal
decree) authorizing the Norman to subdue
the Irish, and the Irish were, in the same de
cree, commanded to come under the English
yoke. Naturally this papal order created di
visions among the Irish Catholics, and the
consequence was that Henry had no great
difficulty in conquering Ireland.
That is how the “IF rangs of Erin” com
menced. THE POPE SOLD THEM INTO
BONDAGE, the price being a yearly tribute
of “Peter’s pence.”
But under the wise and humane laws of Mr.
Gladstone, the vast estates of the English
conquerors were forced to sale, bought by the
Government, parcelled into small farms, and
sold to the Irish on long terms, at low interest.
In this way, Ireland again came into the
ownership of her own soil.
In Mexico, the foreign conquerors were
Spaniards, commissioned by a Catholic em
peror to whom the worst of all modern Popes
—Alexander Vl.—had granted half the New
World.
This monster of lust and crime exercised
the papal claim of power to dispose of all
kingdoms; and he was graciously pleased to
give half the New World to Portugal and the
other half to Spain.
The Spanish conquerors of Mexico parcelled
the lands and the natives among themselves,
establishing vast plantations of millions of
acres, cultivated by the forced labor of the
former owners.
M ith the mailed conquerors, came the
priests, and the natives were compelled by
atrocious cruelty to become Catholics in name.
Exploited for 400 years, never taught any
thing excepting a few rudimentary popish
superstitions, the fate of the natives was more
tragic and pitiable than that of the Irish.
The absentee landlord, the oppressive mine
owner, the dishonest officials who colluded
with foreign fortune-hunters, the insatiable
Spanish high-priests whose incomes were
greater than the salary paid our President;
the continual heaping up of treasure in pro
digious cathedrals, the utter lack of honesty
in the courts; the barbarous repression of
education, of free speech, and of free press;
the savage persecution of all who endeavored
THE JEFFERSONIAN
to change the situation— these were the lead
ing causes of revolts which were repeatedly
crushed with fearful severity, but which
finally came to success under Juarez.
Under Diaz, a Catholic re-action took place,
and the church of Rome gradually regained
its power. Jesuits returned, in violation of
the Constitution of 1857. Nuns and monks
also went back, although the law forbade mo
nastic institutions. Therefore, every Jesuit,
monk and nun who had been expelled, was an
insolent law-breaker who had no right to be
in the country at all.
General Carranza is trying to re-assert the
Constitution of 1857; to suppress Rome’s nun
neries and monasteries; to abolish peonage,
to establish free secular schools, to put all re
ligions on an equal footing, and to divide out
the lands among the"people, as Gladstone did
for Ireland.
But because the Roman church despises all
others, and craves CONTROL, her prelates
in this country are conspiring with the Span
ish priests of Mexico to restore the power
which they enjoyed during the evil latter
years of Diaz.
Ihe three Irish cardinals feel no concern
for German atrocities of which Cardinal Mer
cier and Lord Bryce gave such heart-rending
accounts; although nuns, priests, and monks
■were among the victims. The Turks have
butchered more than half-a-mi!liori*Christians
in Armenia, without moving our three Irish
cardinals to one word of protest against the
ferocious crimes of the Kaiser's Mohammedan
ally. In Poland and in Northern France,
deeds have been done in this war that blanch
the cheek and wring the soul; but the Kaiser
did them, and our three Irish cardinals do
not murmur.
Belgian Catholics were on their own soil
when outraged and shot down in village
groups: Poles and French and Armenians
were where it was their right to be, when their
honor and their lives were ruthlessly sacri
ficed : but the nun, the Jesuit, and the monk
in Mexico that had gone into a land whose law
forbade their presence, and they courted mis
treatment by their contempt for Mexican law.
This Government bore the expense of bring
ing away from Vera Cruz all those trespassers
who would leave. It cost our tax payers many
thousands of dollars to transport, those law
breakers to a place of safety. Have we got
any thanks for it?
Carranza abolished slavery in Yucatan, and
opened public schools: Archbishop Mora and
the three Irish cardinals hate him for it, just
as popery has always hated liberty and secu
lar education.
Carranza has swept peonage a wav in every
province he has tranquilized, and the land is
being divided, while the children are going to
school.
The exploiters who own tracts of twenty
million acres are as selfish as were the Eng
lish in Ireland; and they combine with the
Hearsts. the Hammonds, the Rockefellers, the
Guggenheims. and the high-priests, to force
this Government to imitate the French inter
vention of 1864.
They roar about the demolition of idols and
images, by scoffing soldiers, as if wood and
marble "were more precious than human
liberty and a freed country. And when they
brazenly assert that they want nothing more
than freedom of worship in A Texico and the
United States, they have so little regard for
consistency that they at the same time declare
their intention to control public speech, to
censor the public press, to dictate theatrical
displays, to revolutionize our marriage laws:
to unite for political control, in elections and
in holding office; to arm and drill their young
mon in separate military bodies; and to insist
that this Government aid the Italian Pope in
becoming the arbiter of the world’s peace.
If they openly and defiantly threaten vs
with an aggressive papal programme like
that, what might poor Mexico expect, if the
same papal gangs got control?
The American troops garrison the Philip
pines for the Pope, who owns one-half of all
the property in the Islands; and the Irish
cardinals have declared their purpose to re
peat in Mexico what they did in the Philip
pines.
General Grant Owned Slaves. 1
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COPY of a lettei’ in Confederate Museum, Rich
mond, Va., to L. W. Wise, Esq., 805 West
Franklin St., Richmond, Va., from Mrs. Ulysses S.
Grant.
“Washington, D. C., Nov 23, 1901<
2111 Massachusetts Ave.
Mr. L. W. Wise,
Dear Sir:—l would say in reply to yours of
November 22nd asking if General Grant was ever
a slave holder. Yes, ne was from the time he was
married up to the date of Lincoln’s Proclamation
freeing all the slaves in our Union. I owned five
slaves, two males and three females, Ann, Julia,
Eliza, Dan, and John, all children of one mother
except Ann, who was the eldest daughter of my
kind good nurse, Katie.
Ann died six or seven years after my marrirge,
the other four were of course liberated during
the war
I am glad to have this opportunity of declaring
as utterly false the report that my husband, Cap
tain Grant, ever sold a slave, he looked upon
these servants from my home as part of my family,
Yours truly,
JULIA DENT GRANT.”
In the Army and Navy Journal is an autograph
letter from Gen. Grant to his friend J. Remson
Lane. The following is an extract:
“Dr. Dent thinks I had better take the negro
boy he has’ given to Julia along with me. He is
very smart, and active. I can leave him here and
get about $3.00 per month for him now and more
as he gets older.”
Half Hours With Southern History.— Leslie
Hall. p. 175.
Copied from “What the South Can Claim.”
Miss Mildred Rutherford.
Hugh M. Dorsey’s Speaking Dates:
30 C 10 11 a a ji^tt e kell County, Wednesday, August
Thomasville, .Thomas County, Wednesday, Au
gust 30, 3 P. M.
Quitman, Brooks County, Thursday, August 31
10 A. M.
i v a!o(lsta, Lowndes County, Thursday, August
Tifton, Tift County, Friday, Sept. 1, 10 A. M.
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Friday, Sept. 1,
3 P. M.
lO^A 1 *!^ 11 ’ Monroe Count y> Saturday, Sept. 2,
Griffin, Spalding County, Saturday, Sept. 2,
o P. M.
The above is a schedule of Hugh M. Dorsey’s
speaking engagements the next two weeks. The
dates as arranged are the only speeches Mr. Dor
sey can make on this trip. You are invited to
attend the meeting nearest you and bring all of
our friends. The ladies are cordially invited to
attend Mr. Dorsey has been greeted by mag
nificent audiences throughout the State. His dis
cussion of the issues of the campaign is the one
big feature of the present gubernatorial race.
The 4th Decree Oath ct the
Knights of Columbus/*
'P O meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath-bound
subjects of a foreign power, I have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
I he men who take that oath are traitors
to our Government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
This question of Popery is the most impor
tant question now facing the people of
America. - .. f
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts fo£
yourselves. Priced ten cents.
