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Cl)e Jeffersonian
Ahl. 13, No. 38
Worried Again About That Oath of Treason and Murder!
Knights of Columbus LIED About the Swords, LIED About the Rifles, and
LIED About the Oath.
r PHERE was an Englishman of humble
•* birth who left home, and sought ad
ventures and advancement in continental
Europe.
He joined the motley army of Spaniards,
Italians, and Germans which followed the
Duke of Bourbon in his attack upon the City
of Rome, in 15*27.
Bourbon was killed, but his troops poured
over the walls, and through the gates, and
beat down all opposition.
The Pope fled into a fortress which had
been made out of the Tomb of Hadrian; and
there he cowered in fear, for several months.
In the meantime, the leaderless army of
Bourbon ravaged the Holy City.
Week after week, month after month, the
wild troopers feasted, rioted, ransacking
palaces, and cathedralsj violating women,
flogging priests, holding revels in churches,
and gambling upon the altars.
The German soldiers were Lutherans; and
they wreaked savage vengeance upon Roman
Catholic idols, images, paintings, “holy vest
ments,” and all the gimcrackery of Catholic
paganism.
The “Relics” were the especial objects of
|this Lutheran scorn and hatred; and the
marauders destroyed all the “True Cross”
relics —both the whole ones and the pieces.
Therefore, when Romanists tell you that
THE RAILROAD CRISIS: THE ONLY WAY OUT.
ONCE upon a time, private companies
owned the main-travelled Dirt-roads, and
the toll-gate halted everybody, just as it even
now does on the privately owned canal down
the East Coast of Florida.
In many a book which is standard litera
ture, both in Great Britain and the United
States, you will read of the hero and the
heroine, journeying along the Turnpike, and
paying the fee at the toll-gate.
Sometimes when Angry Papa was galloping
for dear life, to overtake eloping Susan, it
was the obstructive gate which stopped Papa,
and gave Susan the chance to make good her
escape.
At other times, the Villian would be kid
napping the Beautiful Heiress; and it would
be the Toll-gate which delayed him, and
allowed pursuing Virtue to earn another
glorious reward, by rescuing the kidnappee.
* Even in John Gilpin’s famous ride, the
Toll-gate played its humorous part; and in
the adventures of the fascinating highway
man, Claude Duval, the gate was an indis
pensable thriller: it either stopped the gal
lant Claude, or he leapt his wonderful horse
over it, I don’t remember which.
The English system “came over,” at about
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, September 14, 1916
they have some of the “True Cross” in Bos
ton, New York, and several other places, ask
them whether they know that Bourbon’s
army DESTROYED THEM ALL, 400 years
ago.
Among those irreverent despoiler’s of the
Pope’s hoarded stock of humbug Relics, was
this Englishman that I was speaking of.
His name was Thomas Cromwell.
When he returned to his own country, he
entered the service of Cardinal Wolsey, who—-
as you will remember—was the right-hand
man of King Henry VIII.
The King’s wife had been his brother's
widow, and she had not borne her husband
an heir; therefore, as she was getting ohj and
had no further hopes of children, the King
wanted another wife, just as Mrs. Drexel-
Emmett recently wanted another husband —-
or at least wished to rid herself of the one
she had.
King Henry asked the Pope for a divorce,
just as Mrs. Drexel-Emmett did; but the
Papa refused, because the King’s old wife
was the aunt of the mighty German Emperor,
Charles V.
The Emperor had taken the Papa prisoner,
virtually, when Bourbon’s army chased him
into Hadrian’s Tomb —renamed, the Castle of
St. Angelo.
Consequently, the Pope, being in the power
the same time that our honored ancestors im
ported all those English brick, for the con
struction of Colonial Mansions—about which
so many entertaining lies have been told in
the books.
In Virginia, Carolina, and Mary
land, the Turnpike and the Toll-gate halted
travel on all the main roads.
It was a great nuisance, as well as expense;
and the people never ceased their efforts until
both the Toll-bridge and the Toll-gate were
abolished.
The people then rejoiced in The Open Road,
which was free to all, the rich and the poor,
the black and the white.
In every nation of which history tells us,
the people owned the Highways. There are
paved roads in Europe, still used, that were
made by the Roman Government more than
2,000 years ago.
These solid highways led from the Capital
to the remotest Provinces, and the Govern
ment oicned them.
Imperial couriers took their headlong way
upon these roads, and favored travellers were
served with relays of horses at the regularly
distanced Road-houses, ~but the highway was
free to all
of the Kaiser, dared not put shame upon the
Kaiser’s aunt, for the Kaiser took up for his
said aunt, and threatened to do ugly things
to the Papa, if any dishonor was put upon his
said aunt.
So, the King's application for a divorce
dragged along, instead of being quickly;
granted as was that of the rich Mrs. Drexel-
Emmett.
Year after year, Henry VIII. waited and
implored, pleaded and waited, and still no
divorce.
If it should be delayed much longer he,
like his wife, might be too old for the heir
production; and therefore his impatience can
be better imagined than decently described.
Cardinal Wolsey had been responsible for
these delays, or at least the King thought so
—and that made it all the same to Wolsey.
He lost royal favor, and had to step down;
and out. Don't you grieve over him, though
for he had been a parlous robber in office, and
had amassed vast wealth.
Thomas Cromwell stood by his fallen
master, when many were forsaking him; and
the story goes that Wolsey sent Cromwell to
the King to whisper in his ear a most im
portant secret.
Anyway, Thomas got access to Henry; and
when he did so, what do you reckon he did ?
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Modern development has converted the
Railway into the indispensable Public Road-
It has virtually banished the boats from the
Rivers; and it is the only practical means by
which men can travel, do business, and ship
freight. <
Is it not so? 5 ....
The States and the U. S. Government more
than paid every dollar that built the Trans
continental Railways, whose routes were sur
veyed by Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War:
yet the private corporations were allowed to
own what the public had built.
Not only did Huntingdon, Stanford,
Crocker, and Hopkins have no money to build
those Pacific lines with, but the surplus of
donations, left after cost of construction, was
the source of the regal fortunes of those dar
ing adventurers.
Much the same thing is true of all the older
lines: they were paid for by donations of pub
lic land, and by the money of contributing
Cities and States.
During Cleveland's second term, the Pacific
Roads were systematically run down, in order
that Wall Street sharks might get them.
President Cleveland could have bought in thp
/ Price, Five Cents