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Zsbe lafftrsonian
Vol. 13, No. 50
Aftermath Comments on the Great Tria! in Augusta, Georgia
IT may serve a good purpose, if I give to
you, in the plainest, simplest way, some of
the leading facts in my five year combat in
the Federal Courts, with the Roman Catholic
Hierarchy.
If, in doing so, repetitions of what has
already been said, should occur, you must
make allowances for the peculiar nature of
the case, and excuse me.
Six years ago, after a confidential talk of
an advisory nature with one of the most
prominent clergymen of my own church (the
Baptist), I published in the Magazine, a
pectus of a series of articles, in which I pro
posed to demonstrate, that the Roman Cath
olic Hierarchy constituted the deadliest
menace to American institutions, and to
Christian civilization.
Upon the appearance of this prospectus, I
was notified, from New York, under the di
rect inspiration of Cardinal Gibbons and the
present Cardinal John Farley, that, if I
should publish such a series of articles as was
outlined in the prospectus, I would be boy
cotted by the American News Company, and
destroyed, if it was in the power of the Ro
man church to effect my ruin.
In great excitement, the Business Manager,
the late Jas. Lanier, brought me the letter
while I was at work on the first chapter of
that series which now make up the book which
bears the name, “The Roman Catholic Hier
archy.”
My reply to the threat of these arrogant
Roman cardinals would hardly be fit to
print, but the substance of it you may guess
at, from what followed.
We began the series, in exact accordance
with the promise made in the prospectus, and
the Roman cardinals immediately applied
their malicious, cowardly, and illegal boycott
—their church being the only church whose
moral theology, political organization, and
MORE NAMES ADDED TO THE HONOR ROLL.
'T'HE responses to the Editor’s appeal, in
1 order that the work of The Jeffersonians
may be carried on, have continued to come in.
The six propositions still hold good, and
one or the other have been taken advantage
of by:
S. S. Bowers, Royston, Ga.; E. R. Braziel,
Eastman, Ga.; N. J. Evans, Red Oak, Va.; J. L.
Bradbury, Eatonton, Ga.; A. Benoit, Shreveport,
La.; Celeste Martin, Danvers, Mass.; W. S. Roe
buck, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Rendle Davies, Blue Island,
Ill.; E. N. Roberson, Tarheel, N. C.; J. M.
Rosier, Augusta, Ga.; J. D. Brett, Norristown, Ga.;
W. B. Weaver, Pinehurst, Ga.; L. S. Trimble, Rt.
7, Carrollton, Ga.; H. O. Suggs, Commerce, Ga.;
J. H. Cauthen, Felton, Ga.; C. H. Sheppard,
Tennille, Ga.; HL. Hon, DeLand, Fla.; Mrs. J.
C. Walker, Wrightsville, Ga.; J. L. Hammond,
Rt 1, Bonham, Tex.; J. L. Woolley, Tupelo,
Miss.-; H. C. Clemmer, Putnam, Tex.; John O.
Hart, Comanche, Tex.; J. C. Milleson, Higgins
ville, W. Va.; Robert Durham, Farmington, Ga.;
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, December 7, 1916
unmarried priesthood are so utterly rotten,
that it cannot endure exposure.
They destroyed our news-sftmd circulation
of eight thousand copies, but, after six years,
we have rebuilt it, in spite of all they could
do.
They threatened to boycott those who ad
vertized with us, and thus frightened them
off, but we have managed to exist, even
though deserted by the weaklings that were
frightened by the threatening letters of
Anthony Matre, secretary of the Federation
of Roman Catholic Societies.
In the summer of 1912, a warrant was
sworn out, at the instigation of this Italian
scoundrel, Anthony Matre, and 1 was ar
rested at my home, upon the charge that I
had re-printed some Latin which the Roman
church had been printing for the last hundred
years or more, and which had been going
through the mails during my whole life.
This Latin is a part of the unspeakably
vile language which the Roman Catholic
priests, who are not allowed to marry, use to
married Catholic women, and unmarried
Catholic girls, in the secrecy and seclusion
and confidence of the confessional box, when
this unmarried priest and that Catholic
woman are the only two who are present, and
can know what is said and done.
If that Latin is translated literally in Eng
lish, and published by itself, it is, beyond all
comparison, the filthiest stuff that ever was
poured by a man, into the ears, into the mind,
into the heart, into the soul of a frail, im
pressionable, inflammable and fallible woman.
There isn’t a human being that can possibly
associate those questions with the legitimate
functions of religion.
No human genius could frame a plausible
excuse for any clergyman to take advantage
of his office, and defile a pure girl, or chaste
woman, by pouring over her that sewer-
J. H. Forester, Leaf, Ga.; D. T. Spring, Wheeling,
W. Va.; C. G. Guthrie, Smithfield, N. C.; Mrs. H.
M. Timmerman, Batesburg, S. C.; G. J. Ro* Jar
rell, Tex.; Dr. M. M. Yates, Santa Barbara. Cal.;
Mrs. Chas. W. Parker, Elberton, Ga.; E. B.
Daniel, Locust Grove, Ga.; J. T. Brogdon, Buford,
Ga.; Hickory Jones, Walnut Grove, Mo.; J. F.
Montgomery, Cairo, Ga.; M. H. Pittman, Rebecca,
Ga.; W. W. Deardorf, Hale, Mo.; D. H. Cros’s,
Highland, Wis.; Goo. W. Shurley, Warrenton,
Ga.; Dr. J. C. Jarnigan, Warrenton, Ga.; D. C.
Spaulding, Detroit, Mich.; H. A. Odell, Summer
field, Tex.; T. M. Wilbanks,'Osierfield, Ga.; J. G.
Smith, Bethlehem, Ga.; Geo. A. Dalziel, Alta,
Iowa; E. J. Kimsey, Cornelia, Ca.; J. T. Brogdon,
Buford, Ga.; C. M. McLeod, Mt. Vernon, Ga.; E.
A. Mosher, LaPorte, Tex.; James P. Hill, Eu
faula, Ala.; J. F. Beall, Rusk, Tex.; David Smith,
Brook Smith, Tex.; John O. Zabel, Petersburg,
Mich.; W. E. Gregory, Swink, Okla.; W. Logan,
Dillon, Mont.; H. C. Grider, Appleton City, Mo.;
S. A. Swanson, Los Angeles, Cal.; A. A. Gray,
San Antonio, Tex.; C. H. Beazley, Crockett, Tex.;
John W. Mensel, Galena, Ill.; Robt. S. Menefee,
Wewoka, Okla.; P. D. Preston, Farmington, Ga.;
stream of lewdness, lasciviousness, obscenity
and filth.
Now. the amazing thing is. that after I had
re-printed their own abominable Latin, as a
necessary part of my book, the horror that
was expressed by those Federal officers who
made themselves the willing instruments of
the pope, was directed—not against the priest
hood, which systematically debauches women,
with this polluting language, but against the
man who had lifted the cover, and exposed to
the people the hideous practices of the Roman
Catholic Hierarchy.
lake that section of the Northern press
which is horrified at a Southern lynching—
but ignores the hellish crime against women
which lynch law punishes—the indignation of
the law in this case, has been directed for five
years, not against the men who commit the
crime every day of their double lives, but
against the man who exposed it, for the pur
pose of checking its ravages.
ASSUMED ALL RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE
FIRST.
Something has been said by near-Catholic
dailies in this State, about my having at
tempted to shirk responsibility for those
articles.
The official record shows I never did. At
the committment examination, on the demur
rer before Judge Foster, on the first trial be
fore Judge Lambdin, and on the final trial, I
assumed, fully and unconditionally, the re
sponsibility.
Lawyers know that it was necessary for me
to have done this, before I could demur to
the former indictment covering this very same
matter, when Judge Foster sent the case out
of court, because, on the face of the indict
ment, the defendant had not violated the law.
(continued on page two.)
R. L. Durham, Farmington, Ga.; P. W. Durham,
Farmington, Ga.; B. F. Coffmon, Smithville,
Ark.; T. D. Strickland, J. T. Strickland, R. L.
Garrison, Helena, Ga.; W. C. Greenlae, Charles
ton, Tenn.
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