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Cfye, Jeffersonian
Vol. 13, No. 42
GET AT THE FACTS IN REGARD TO MEXICO
AN AD A has her domestic troubles, but
our Government never takes a hand to
Straighten them out.
Before our Civil War there had been dozens
Os revolutions in Mexico, Central America,
and South America, but our Government
never intervened “to restore order.”
If a villainous combination of European
Kings—intent upon restoring the rule of the
Spanish tyrant and the Pope of Rome
threatened to send armies to South America,
>£or the suppression of the newly established
Republics, our Government, speaking through
a Virginia Democratic President, sternly
iwarned the foreign potentates, that the United
would not tolerate the re-establishment
in this country of the European system.
At that time, everybody understood that
the restoration of Spanish control, carried
with it a restoration of the Pope's rule.
The Monroe warning had the desired effect,
'especially as England declared that she would
I) ack us up.
That's one reason why the Roman Catholics
Jof this country so intensely hate England.
In 1864, when the Austrian Archduke
Maximilian and a French army were brought
into Mexico by Jesuit intrigue, the Pope. Pius
IX., gave Maximilian written instructions to
'annul the Mexican Constitution of 1857.
The curse of Rome had been laid upon this
'glorious document, just as it had been laid
upon the Great Charter of our own liberties.
De Soto, Missouri, Sept. 30th, 1916.
The Jeffersonian:
I’VE been reading the Jeffersonian for years.
At first I didn’t agree with all you said,
especially about missions. Then one day you
jsaid, “If I am wrong, don't CUSS me; TEACH
me.”
I went after your facts; I couldn’t find a single
flaw. I spoke to prominent persons in the F. M.
Board and asked them to bolster my failing faith.
I wanted something, a “reason for the faith that
was in me.’’ They said I should be ashamed to
read that kind of stuff. No man will ever con
vince me by advising me to disregard a fact be
cause of the origin. The Jews tried that once
when they asked, “Can any good thing come out
of Nazareth?’’
I was talking to an old man—a minister in
the M. E. Church —and he told me he was sore
and tired of the eternal harague for money for
F. M. He said he was just from conference in
St. Louis and that he was as old as their oldest
minister and was going to talk plain, and had
told them how he knew personally that they had
retrenched in their home work until scores of
churches he had himself labored and built up
were now abandoned, and the community was
ehurc’hless and Godless. He said, “I’ve read Tom
Watson, and he is right about this thing.”
In 1914, when the war began, the F. M. Board
our church sent out the slogan—“No Steps
Backward” —and then began to “Jimmy” the
A Presbyterian Preacher Writes Me a Touching and Generous Tribute.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, October 12, 1916
Pope Pius IX. admonished Maximilian
that the salvation of his soul depended upon
his closing of secular schools, his suppression
of the free press, his re-uniting the Church
with the State, his prohibition of civil mar
riage, and his complete restitution to the
Spanish clergy oT the vast properties which
the Jaurez government had confiscated.
The pretext which the Jesuit-ruled Empe
ror of the French gave for sending a Catholic
army and a hand-picked Archduke to domi
neer over Mexico was, Mzz/ European nations
had made huge investments in Mexican securi-
mines, etc.
AS TO THE P3OSRESSIVE NOMINATION
Had I been offered the place which
Mr. Roosevelt declined, soon after he
declined it, my acceptance would
have been as prompt as his declination.
But it is now too late.
I cannot accept the place, nor can
I allow the use of my name on the
ticket.
This decision has been reached after
careful consideration, and after con
sultation with friends whose judge
ment is not influenced by any parti
san bias.
THOS. E. WATSON.
Oct. 9, 1916.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
cash from every church. They—F. M. —are still
running on “High,” and the home work has been
compelled to retrench and re-retrench. They
(Home work) fell back in 1915 to “Intermediate'’
and in this year to “Low.” They get offended if
I ask for reasons and say that all they want to
know is that Jesus said, “Go.” I insist that
“Go” is a generic word like “Travel,” and may be
done in any one of a' dozen ways and what 1 am
still asking is, “What are the reasons for this
specific manner of going?”
The Great Peasant of Nazareth said, “By their
fruits ye shall know them.” This certainly ap
plies to individuals, institutions and nations, also
to plans and methods. The fruits are depleted
fields at home, squalid and godless conditions
right at oui’ door.
A poor little crippled, orphan boy was shivering
at the R. R. station one day, and asked me when
the next freight train went out. He wanted to
try to steal a ride to his aunt’s in Arkansas. 1
couldn’t see that Child do this and ever respect
myself again. I took him home with me and
gave him clothes and his supper and then went
to the Y. M. C. A. and asked for help to get a
ticket. “Short of funds,” was the answer. There
was no institution to help this kind of condition,
even right here in the gizzard, of the “Goose that
lays the golden egg.”
With the help of men who were members
of no church at all, I got the ticket. 1
couldn’t heln but think that had it been
President Lincoln, recognized the hollow
ness of the pretext; but, to deprive Europe of
even an excuse for armed intervention, Mr.
Lincoln caused Secretary Seward to propose
to President Jaurez, that our Government
would advance whatever money Mexico
needed, to meet the interest on all of her
foreign indebtedness.
Nevertheless, the French Emperor persisted
in his military occupation of the country,
because the money question was a mere pre
text.
The real object of the French occupation
was to restore the confiscated loot of the papal
church, to re-instate the looters, and to undo
all the progressive work of the Constitutional
leaders.
Mexicans wanted a Republic like ours, with
laws like ours, and institutions like ours—free
from the greed, tyranny, and murderous in
tolerance of popery.
Our Government sympathized with these
aspirations, and after the Civil War ended,
the French Emperor was politely requested
to re-call his troops.
General Grant got ready for a clash, if one
should become necessary, by sending General
Sheridan to the border, at the head of a strong
force.
General Grant also supplied Jaurez with
arms and ammunition.
The French Emperor realized, at last, the
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in China, Korea, Africa, or India the case
would have been different. This is a sapiple of
fruits here, and th’ere is no evidence of. anything
over the seas. What must the verdict be?
I just couldn’t help writing you this letter and
let you know that I esteem you above all other
public men I know. 1 wish every admirer of
yours would write you a personal letter like this,
and let you know how many people were rocking
you in the purple cradle of their hearts. But you
would be buried-in a mountain of mail. One of
the strongest Republicans I know told me he
wished you would run for President; he wanted
to vote for you.
Paul went to his last sleep on a martyr’s bed,
but with the softest, sweetest pillow mortal head
ever had —“I have fought a good fight, and kept
the faith.” We devoutly hope that you will be
shielded from your enemies, but God himself will
crown your great work as He has already given
you the sweet Consciousness that you have done
right and been faithful.
Forgive me for taking your time.
Your faithful friend,
T. S. MATTHEWS.
(comment.)
A few days ago, an ex-soldier of the'
Spanish-American War went the rounds in
Thomson, soliciting contributions, in order
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Price, Five Gents