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Vol. 13, No. 40
Papal Propaganda in the Congressional Record, and the U. S. Mails.
IN Archbishop Prendergast’s organ, The
Catholic Standard and Times, I find the
following:
CARDINAL O’CONNELL’S ADDRESS IN CON
GRESSIONAL RECORD.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 11.—The Honorable
Petei* F. Tague, of Massachusetts, under the leave
granted him by the House to extend his remarks
in the “Congressional Record,” inserted the
speech of His Eminence Cardinal O’Connell, en
titled “Our Country,’’ before the American
Federation of Catholic Societies at New York,
August 20, 1916.
The address is printed under the heading:
"(From the ‘Boston Post,’ Monday, August 21,
z 1916.)
"Church America’s Best Defender. Stands Always
for Liberty Under Law, Says Cardinal O’Con
nell. Demands Real Liberty’”
To Mr. Tague, of Boston, is due the thanks of
the Catholics of this country for the insertion in
the “Congressional Record” of September 6 of
Cardinal O’Connell’s address, which is a master
piece and sets forth so clearly the position of
"Old Mother Church” towards “Our Country.”
During the last two years, the Romanists
have used the Congressional Record and the
free-mail privilege of Congressmen, to flood
this country with Catholic dope, at Protestant
expense.
Gallivan violated the laws in sending out
tons of free matter under his frank, contain
ing the bogus “Ims Angeles Investigation,”
the fake trial of Megonegal and Shade, and a
lot of other stuff that had no relation to Con
gressional doings, and which had no other
purpose than to advance papal interests.
Fitzgerald, another 4th Degree Knight of
Columbus did the same thing, and one of his
exploits was the insertion into the Record of
an address he had made to the Irish Catholics
in New York.
They put into* the Record a whole raft of
editorials published in Germany by Max.
Harden, and they have allowed the Bethlehem
Steel Co. to publish, and send through the
mails, free of postage, a bulky document
which would cost 50 cents a copy to mail.
. Assuming that it costs the Government five
times as much to publish, as to mail it, that
A STATEMENT OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN GEORGIA.
G\ THE victory won by Dorsey was the
•/ result of the joint efforts of Demo
crats, Progressives, Prohibitionists, Socialists,
and White Republicans.
The law of the election did not, and could
not, restrict the voting to Democrats.
The law did not, and could not, exclude citi
zens belonging to other political groups.
Consequently, the Convention itself, while
called by Democratic officials, is the direct
result of the union of all parties, and not the
partisan offspring of partisan organization.
(2.) During the campaign no partisan
national issue cut any figure. National
policies were not discussed. National dif
ferences were laid aside. Qualified electors,
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, September 28, 1916
document has cost the tax-payers at least two*
million dollars. I
The object of it was, to prevent the Govern
ment from doing its own battle-ship work.
The Cardinal O'Connell harangue was de
livered in Madison Square Garden, Nev
York, and is an appeal for Roman Catholi
cism.
It has nothing to do with the public service
bore no relation to Congressional doings, ant
had no other purpose than to promote Popery
At the New York meeting, the Romanist 0
declared that hereafter they would unite theii
3,000,000 votes, for political action, and would
work together for the substitution of the
Pope’s laws in place of ours.
THE CLUB OFFER OF THE JEFFER
SONIAN PUBLICATIONS
Is good only in clubs of ten or
more, at one time. Money in each
case must accompany list of names.
Names will not be entered singly, at
the club rate.
They demand that free speech be curbed,
that freedom of the press be restricted, that
secular education be abolished, that our mar
riage Jaws be changed, and that our Govern
ment be required to insist that the Italian
pope be accepted by Europe as the Arbiter of
peace and war.
The Democratic Congress'lTllow’s the Con
gressional Record thrown open, and the mails
used without cost, by purely, papal propa
ganda, written, spoken, published, and cir
culated in the interest of the Roman Catholic
church I
Ao Protestant church ever asbed, such a
tremendous and ILLEGAL FAVOR.
Ko sectarian document was ever before put
into the Record and sent through the mails,
free, as a governmental publication.
l\o Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, or!
representing every shade of political opinion,
exercised their legal right and political privi
lege, in the selection of the preferred men for
high office.
(3.) The Convention, then, is a State
affair, having nothing to do with any issue
which the people did not pass on at the polls.
(4.) Dorsey was elected on a platform
which told the people what he stood for, and
what be would try to do, if elected.
By giving their preference to Dorsey, the
electors gave it to bis platform; and, conse
quently, the candidate and the majority of
the voters adopted that specific platform.
Any effort to materially change the plat-
Episcopalian ever had the audacity to de
mand that a sectarian sermon, tract, address,
or pamphlet be made a part of the Congres
sional Record, printed by the Government,
and sent out post-free through the mails.
What the Protestants have never even
thought of doing, the Catholics have done.
The Government is to print, publish, and
circulate sectarian literature for the Roman
Catholic church.
Cardinal O'Connell’s papal address will
simply flood the whole country, at public ex
pense.
ILLEGAL? Os course, it is illegal.
It takes public money, and devotes it to the
use of a church, in violation of law.
Did any Democrat object? No.
Any Republican? No.
But when the tricky Carl Vinson mentioned
my name, and asked unanimous consent to put
the official record of my trial in the Congres
sional Record, a St. Louis Catholic promptly
objected.
117??/ didn't Vinson object, when Peter
Tague asked permission, to put a papal docm
me nt into the Record?
The record of my trial is not sectarian, ami
has much stronger reference to governmental
affairs than Max Darden's editorials, or the
alleged “Los Angeles Investigation.”
But the Catholics fear it, because it shows
up their priesthood, and hence Igoe of St
Louis objected.
Wliy is it that Protestant Congressmen do
not object to papal dope?
Why don't they play off one objection
against another?
Why is the Record, the Public Printing
Office, and the IT. S. mails open to the Pope’s
propaganda, and not to ours?
Unless some Congressman has the pluck to
make a fight nt the next session, and-throw
O’Connell’s sectarian harangue out of the
Record, it will go throtfgh the mails, for
years, and will cost Protestant tax-payers mil
lions of dollars.
to your Senators and Representa
tives!
form will be a breach of faith and a violation
of contract.
The people put their faith in Dorsey, and
the platform represents the contract between
him and the people.
(5.) The Convention should beware of
tricky politicians .who seek to convert Dor
sey’s victory to their own use, and to disrupt
the united forces to which he owes his elec
tion.
The men who designedly throw the fire
brands into the Convention, will not be Dor
sey’s friends, any more than they are mine.
(6) No set of schemers should be permitted
to rob the Convention of its sovereign right
to control itself.
Price, five Cents