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Vol. 14, No. 5
IN iiyvember, 1916, a gentleman who had
more than once communicated with The
Jeffersonian, wrote us a letter which we pub
lished, and which reads as follows:
MURDEROUS MONKS IN FLORIDA.
• Dear Sir: Permit that I write you these few
lines in regard to conditions in this part of
Florida. Pasco County, the stronghold of the
St. Leo Monks, is ruled politically and otherwise
by this gang of crooks. In that monaster.y the
Sturkie resolutions were concocted; this same
people dispatch the news of the r. E. Pearce
murder and Sheriff Sturkie, after conferring with
the hierarchy had his theory about the murder,
and would not make any effort to bring the guilty
parties before the bar of justice.
Now, one of the fellows we suspected has left
the State. My grandfather fought for the liberty
of our country, under General LaFayette, and
now my children will have to do the same, if
the hierarchy is not stopped from ruling this
country.
These arrogant monks own the 12th part of
Pasco County and pay not one cent of taxes and
live like kings and work the poor people to death.
My son had bought 40 acres of land'; and as the
land joined their lands, they entered suit against
him, and got my son’s lawyer to let it go by
default and my boy did not know it until the
GO dayl were passed, so he could not reopen the
case.
As soon as the primary was over, and we heard
that Park Trammel was elected, we knew J. T.
Catts would be our next Governor; but the monks
got busy and now they are trying to beat us, and
put Knott in.
Now I want to tell you that I am afraid that
if J. T. Catts is elected the hierarchy will have
him assassinated, as I have heard several parties,
all K. of C. say that J. T. Catts, if elected, never
will be governor of Florida. If you reply to my
letter in your estimable paper, The Jeffersonian,
“ You’ve Been Dreaming Again, Old Woman.”
I F you ever read Dickens’ novel, Little Dor
-1 ritt, you will remember Mrs. Jeremiah
Flintwich.
She was a merry old soul, and she dwelt
and abided in a cheerful old house which was
haunted and falling down gradually; and
her only female companion was old Mrs.
Clennam who was paralyzed, bilious, stern,
virtuous, and full of unbearable self
righteousness.
Mrs. Jeremiah Flintwich had a habit of
dreaming when she was wide awake. Her
•husband resented this frailty of hers very
much.
She would be passing along a dark cor
ridor, or up a gloomy staircase, and she-would
hear a noise which she could not locate or
describe or understand, and then she would
dream dreams and see visions.
Her aggravated husband, Jeremiah, com
ing upon his better half at such times, would
lose his temper to a mild extent, and would
seize her by the shoulders, from behind, and
..would shake her with energy, and would
snarl at her, calling her by name:
“Affery, old womah, you’ve been dreaming
“THOSE MURDEROUS MONKS
of
PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA.”
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, February 1, 1917
I would beg you to send me a copy, as I got
mined by this gang of crooks, and 1 am not able
to subscribe to your paper. "
If you need more information please write, and
I will Cheerfully answer the best I can; you know
I am a farmer and not much of a pens man.
With my best wishes Mr. Watson, to you and
your paper, and that your life be' spared, is the
sincere prayer of yours very truly,
Florida. FRENCH HUGUENOT.
Some one sent to the Pasco monks a marked
copy of our paper, and the head of the
monkery wrote, asking that we print his re
ply.
As a rule, The Jeffersonian complies, but,
in this case, exceptional circumstances ex
isted.
In the first place, these people had been
boycotting the business of The Jeffersonian
Publishing Co. for seven years.
They had not only slandered and libelled
me malignantly in their own papers, but had
gone into papers supposed to be Protestant,
and had vil lifted me grossly, there.
Furthermore, they had vindictively pursued
me with a criminal prosecution, for five years,
because I had re-published a few pages of
their “Moral Theology," which instructs
priests how to supply themselves with women,
WITHOUT HAVING TO MARRY.
These people were therefore the last in the
world who should have*asked a favor at my
hands.
If I were to ask space in their papers to
defend myself from their libels, they would
laugh me to scorn.
again! I will have to give you a dose— such
a dose.”
The exasperated Jeremiah wished to cure
her of the habit of day-dreaming, you see.
But his doses of medicine failed to have
the desired effect, and Mistress Affery kept
on day-dreaming, until one day the house fell 1
down.
Her husband had had the good sense to
get out from under; and by the merest acci
dent (invented by the compassionate Dickens)
the two old women also escaped the crash.
I can't remember what great writer it was,
who stressed the fact, that impractical,
academic men who find themselves possessed
of power and full of good intentions, can do
more harm to the world than almost any
other type of man.
A school-teacher who has passed the age
of 55, runs a big risk when he transplants
himself into the realm of politics.
Woodrow Wilsoh is academic, and not
practical: his turn of mind, his store ot
knowledge, his manner of speech, his styh
of written composition, his stiff angularity of
I am an accursed heretic, and it is a meri
torious act for a priest to do me all the harm
he can.
If I publish any libellous falsehoods on
these priests, or their foreign church, or their
murderous secret societies, they have their
redress. They can sue me for damages, and
prove that they have been falsely accused.
But the venomous cowards sneak behind
the U. S. Government, and bring their prose
cutions where the malicious persecutor cannot
be uncovered, unmasked, and sued for dam
ages, OR PUNISHED BY A COUNTER PROSECUTION.
Such a persecution in the U. S. Court is a
shot from the dark; and, at present, the
foreign church which is creeping up on the
blind side_xif American Protestants, and try
ing to transplant Koine's infernal law in our
soil, are afraid to openly meet their Protestant
foes in the court-house.
For the present, these malevolent priests
and Rome's murderous secret orders will use
P. O. Inspectors and District Attorneys,
wherever it can be done.
Only now and then, can they afford to
openly execute Rome's law against heretics,
by having a William Black atrociously assas
sinated in his own room.
The letter from the Pasco Monkery came,
when I was in the midst of the very extensive
and expensive preparations to meet these
papal persecutors in the U. S. Court; and I
laid it aside without paying any particular
attention to it.
(continued on page three.)
personal deportment, all savor of the library
and the class-room.
Take a mental review of the four years he
has been President, and see how slight has
bieen the .agreement between what he has
preached, and what his Administration has
actually practised.
(1.) Is it not true that he began by pub
lishing the most edifying remarks about de
stroying monopoly, by “cutting it up at the
root?”
He certainly did. The speeches are on
record, and they read Populistically.
Has he cut monopoly up by the roots?
Not yet.
(2.) Is it not true that he rivalled the
New York World in screaming at President
Roosevelt for spending $225,000,000 upon
our Military Preparedness?
He certainly did. The speeches would have
enraptured the Cobden Club, the Peace
League, and the Dorcas Sewing Society.
Wliat has Wilson been prevailed upon to
do? He has been persuaded to sign the most
useless, the most dangerous, and the most
extravagant military bills that were ever
known in the history of mankind.
Price, Five Cents