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THOMSON, GA.. NOVEMBER 23, 1916,
Georgia Matters Briefly Treated
HEARST’S Atlanta paper— which
cannot enter Canada because of the bad
character of the Hearst publications for
truthfulness — continues to harp on the Roman
Catholic features of the Atlanta public
schools.
It does not deny however that one of the
Romanist teachers robbed the Protestant
pupils of their Nev.’ Testatements, and de
stroyed these copies of the “Word” by burn
ing them in the stove.
Is not that a serious matter? Was it not
a crime for Miss Stewart to take books which
did not belong to her. and commit them to the
flames?
The foreign church to which this teacher
belongs is notorious for its opposition to the
Biblical injunction, “Search the Scriptures,*’
and infamous for its destruction of Bibles,
wherever it can be safely done.
Cne place where it can be safely done is in
one of the public schools of Fulton County,
the Ormond Park School being the place
where the “accused” Protestant Book is not
permitted except in the stove.
Miss Stewart was criminally destroying
those New Testaments at about the same time
her criminal church was burning the 2500
Bibles that the Missionary Societies of this
country had sent to Vigan, in the Philippine
Islands.
Ihe Hearst paper persists in publishing
denials in the case of Miss Riordan of the
Davis Street School, and I persist in saying
that this Romanist principal prostituted her
official position to compel Protestant pupils
of the 2nd grade to recite, in obedience to her
instruction in the school-room, “THE CATH
OLIC RELIGION IS THE BEST?”
Certain ladies of Atlanta have been pre
vailed upon to sign a card, endorsing the
Board of Education, exonerating the Roman
ist teacher, and accusing me of falsehood.
! will not be drawn into any controversy
with women, but if Brittain and Landrum
will come forward, from behind those petti
coats. / WILL CHEERFULLY COMBAT
BRITTAIN AND LANDRUM.
To stir up a question, is a preliminary to
having it settled, and I am indeed glad to see
that Brittain and Landrum feel the coal of
fire on their backs.
With a Romanist at the head of the Fulton
(Runty Board of Education, and the State
financing two Savannah schools, whose
marble tablet on the front of the building
tells the world that they are “CATHOLIC
FREE SCHOOLS,” we have been drifting
nicely toward Romanism, under the acquies
cent policy of Martin Luther Brittain.
The Recorder’s Court in Atlanta was for
many years used as a recruit-station for the
Romanist sweat-shop in Cincinnati, Ohio;
and I don’t suppose that any of those women
who signed themselves “Baptist” and “Metho-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
(list,” were aware of the fact that the Atlanta
Police Matron was an active recruiting of
ficer for the Cincinnati laundry, using her of
ficial authority TO CARRY GEORGIA
GIRLS OUT OF THE STATE, INTO
SLAVERY IN OHIO.
I have a lot of written evidence on this sub
ject, and will lay it before the public soon.
By accident, the facts were, developed, the
first hint being given me when the State had
to bring a Georgia, girl from the Pope’s
slave-pen in Ohio, as a witness in the case of
Leo Frank.
Investigation brought out the fact that she
had been railroaded into Ohio slavery from
the Recorder’s Court in Atlanta, by the
Police Matron.
That horrible abuse of authority prevails
throughout the country; and the Roman
priests are coining millions of dollars out of
the slave-labor of Protestant boys and girls.
When the little slaves attempt to escape,
they are usually maimed by the jump
out of the upper windows, or they are killed,
or the obliging police arrest them and fling
them back into slavery.
V
As to* Miss Riordan and the Davis Street
School, read the following:
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7, 1916.
Mr. Alex Keese,
5 9 Capitol Ave t City.
Dear Sir: I am inclosing you the address of
Mr. Spencer. He is glad to get the fight and you
can use his name as you like. He says he can
prove the charges, as his boy was going to Davis
Sti-eet School at that time, but is not going there
now, having moved out of the school district.
You will remember I gave Mr. Landrum this
man's address, BUT THEY NEVER WENT TO
SEE HIM.
You could mention in your article to the
papers that if the school board had made any
inquiries from the Patrons of Davis Street School,
THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND PLENTY OF EVI
DENCE TO SUSTAIN THE CHARGE, BUT THEY
DID NOT DO SO.
Respectfully yours,
M. JOHENNING.
161 Jones Ave.
Tn the meantime the “Catholic Free
Schools of Savannah are continuing to vio
late our highest law. and to contemptuously
defy public opinion.
The Board of Education, as now consti
tuted, cannot be reached by the people. It
elects itself, perpetuates itself, makes its own
law, and conducts itself upon the Vanderbilt
principle, of “the public be d d!”
Ex-Judge Samuel Adams is the titular boss
of this undemocratic Board, but Bishop
Keiley is the real Mogul.
The Attorney-General of Georgia has of
ficially notified Supt. Al. L. Brittain that the
Savannah Board is violating the law, and
that he, Brittain, has had sufficient notice to
withdraw State support from those papal sec
tarian institutions.
But the State's money goes on, right along,
supporting those “Catholic Free Schools.” ~
The Fall term has already been il
legally conducted; and the defiant Savannah
Board continues to “defer action.*’ The last
time they “deferred action,” they gave out
notice to the Savannah papers, that they
would confer with Bishop Keiley.
WHAT'S HE GOT TO DO WITH THE
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND OF GEORGIA?
The Savannah Board might as well consult
the Italian pope, and take his orders in the
premises.
Since when, have Sectarian School Boards
had to go to church dignitaries for directions ?
Since when, did the arrogant Bishop Keiley
become the dispenser of the State’s school
money ?
Supt. M. L. Brittain will be well advised if
he heeds the official opinions of the Attorney
General.
Tlie legislature, will meet in June, and if
this persistent violation of thA Constitution
goes on, it is Al. L. Brittain who may have
to face an impeachment.
We can’t reach Keiley, but we can reach
that lawless Board, and its accomplice, Supt.
Brittain.
The Board can be abolished, and Brittain
can be removed front office.
It is simply a question of enforcing the
law. Either the Constitution should be re
spected by officials of the State, or it ought
to be changed.
If the tax-payers want their money used
for the teaching of Roman paganism and
idolatry, it’s all right to use it that way; but
so long as the highest lave for bids it, the
people should compel all officials to obey that
law.
Air. Hearst’s Georgian has thrown a good
scare into us Baptists by printing the follow
ing:
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 17. —General Fred
erick Funston today made a hot retore to charges
made by Southern Baptists that he had attempted
to censor sermons preached to soldiers. The Geor
gia Baptist Association had passed resolutions
asking Congress to investigate.
“I did not tell the Rev. Mr. Gambrell that he
could not tell the militiamen they had lost their
souls,” said General Funston. “I told him that a
soldier’s soul was no more lost than those of
other people, and that I expected them to be
treated like others. You can tell the Baptists for
me that if they intend to continue misrepresent
ing me they had better place their property in
their wives’ names, for I shall sue them in the
Federal courts for libel.”
Fretful Fred Funston is gifted with a
growingly happy latent for making an ass of
himself.
When -Dr. Gambrell first complained of
Funston's insolence in refusing to see him, and
gave to the public the surly message, which
Fred had transmitted through his “Chief of
Staff. I noticed the Northern papers closely,
to see what the small edition of Julius Caesar
would say about it.
At that time, Funston treated the incident
very superciliously indeed, considering it a
rather smart thing in himself to have snubbed
Dr. Gambrell.
Fred’s own statement was, that he objected
to having preachers tell his unconverted sol
diers that their souls were in a “lost” condi
tion.
The Romanist papers seized upon the
pompous little General’s self-complacent state
ment, and they repeated it, commented on it,
and worked themselves into a high degree of
enthusiastic approval of it.
But back of Dr. Gambrell were four mil
lions of outraged Baptists, with even more
Afethodists quick to see that Funston's insult.
AND CENSORSHIP applied to all Protest
ants.
Then the State Conventions began to
“lumber.” Georgia led off, and I was re
joiced to see that Hon. Clifford Walker’s
resolutions of protest were unanimously
adopted.
Virginia followed, and then Alississippi,
with others on the way; and now the pompous,
inflated, and priest-loving little ass, Funston,
realizes that he has aroused the whole Protest
ant world to the real situation in the Army,
as to that Romanist chaplain domination.
Dr. Alex E. Keese and Dr. Augustus E.
Barnett—late of the Church of the Redeemer,
Philadelphia—will soon be covering this
State with a series of meetings ih the interest
of The Great Secret Society. They will be
in Augusta next, week, during my trial in the
United States Court.
Afterwards, they will visit Rome, Savan-
Thursday, November 23, 1916.
