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Obe. fersottiun,
Vol. 14, No. 6
We Democrats and
66 HE KEPT US OUT OE WAR.”
|T is a burning shame that the Kaiser
couldn t wait until we Democrats re-in
augurated Professor Woodrow Wilson, whom
we re-elected-because ‘“he kept us out of war.”
One more month would have put us over.
But the precipitous Kaiser, with a weird
disregard of our most delicate Democratic
susceptibilities, has punched Wilson's nose,
as it were, and now our Democratic fat is in
the fire.
Imagine my feelings!
What’s the matter with everything, any
way ?
Is Christian civilization a myth?
Is the Caucasian played out ?
Are things what they seem, or has the whole
modern system sprung a Tom-Lawson leak?
I myself cannot see that the Kaiser has
done anything unusual.
One more drop in the bucket needn't raise
such a row.
As the Jew said, when a thunder-storm
shook his house while he was enjoying a slice
of ham, “Who ever heard of such a d —d
racket over one little piece of hog-meat?”
The Kaiser sunk our peaceable merchant
ship, the William Frye, and we did not lose
our equanimity.
On the contrary, our own dear Democratic
Josephine Daniels invited the German pi
rates to take pink tea with him. at our Naval
review off Portsmouth, and we entertained
'T'HOSE daily papers that tried so hard to
crown with success, in the Frank case,
the patriotic labors of the Haas Finance Com
mittee, the Burns Detective Agency, and the
battalion of lawyers of which Governor Sla
ton was a member, are now giving free space
to a most sweetly virtuous proclamation, un
der the headline, “catholic laymen of Geor
gia TO THEIR NEIGHBORS, IN GEORGIA.”
The Athens Banner, Mr. Hugh Rowe’s pa
per, promptly gave space to this most sweetly
patriotic proclamation. I hope some real
Protestants will take this editorial to Mr.
Hugh Rowe, and demand that he print it, and
thus give evidence of his being as willing to
accommodate the Protestants as he was to
please the Catholics.
Os course, the Augusta, Macon, Savannah,
and Atlanta dailies will insert the pope's
proclamation, just as they are continually
giving space to anything and everything in
favor of the foreign potentate who is in
sidiously assailing our system of laws and
government.
The exquisitely innocent and suavely con
ciliatory Catholic Proclamation is signed by
Fourth Degree Knights of Coulmbus.
This is one of Rome’s many secret societies,
Organized in the dark, for the purpose sup-
ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC SECRET SOCIETY, AND
MORE PROSTITUTE PROTESTANTS.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, February 8, 1917
the said pirates in most elegant F. F. V. man
ner, to the immense edification of “humanity.”
(The strong point with us Democrats is,
our solicitous, sleepless, and monopolistic re
gard for “humanity.")
The Kaiser sunk our gasoline tank, in mid
ocean, and when the Gulf-light went down,
she carried with her two or three American
citizens—but did we fret about it?
Not very much.
Then the Kaiser sunk the passenger-boat,
the Lusitania, slaughtering Elbert Hubbard
and 118 other pacific tourists who madly as
sumed, that the Kaiser —who claims to be the
Junior partner of the Trinity—would not
deliberately murder non-combatants, travel
ling the universal ocean.
Did we lose our equipoise over the dastardly
assassination of 119 American fathers, moth
ers, and children on the Lusitania?
Not at all. We wrote some beautifully
academic “notes” about it: and all Europe
read those notes, with a derision which could
not be prudently expressed.
Then the elections came on, and we Demo
crats were most anxious to win. To do so,
we were willing to tell a few lies, and one of
these campaign fables put out by our
National Committee, was to the effect, that
Professor Wilson had forced the Kaiser to
his knees on the Lusitania case. We Demo
crats assured mankind that the Kaiser had
posedly of convincing sleepy-headed Protest
ants that Cardinal Gibbons told the exact
truth when he said that the Catholic church
had no secrets.
Gibbons is himself a Jesuit, the most secret
and the most historically criminal of all the
Pope’s secret societies; and we must assume
that he joined this Jesuit order because there
are no secrets.
Secret orders without secrets, are peculiar
to the only church whose fixed laws make for
treason, murder, corruption of morals, and
the extermination of all Christians who are
not papal footkissers.
One of the confidence-inspiring names ap
pearing in the Catholic Laymen’s address
“to their neighbors in Georgia,” is that of A.
J. Long, of Macon.
Ah, yes, indeed ! We remember that sweet
ly patriotic and suavely conciliatory brother.
He is the man who insulted the Episcopal
clergyman, the Rev. Augustus Davisson,
when that politest of gentlemen—then repre
senting The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany—entered the store of the said Long, bis
“neighbor,” and courteously solicited business
for our Company.
In his published address to his “neighbors
in Georgia,” this lovable and love-seeking
“disavowed’’ the sinking of the Lusitania,
and had ““adequately punished” the Captain
of the murderous German submarine.
It grieves me to say that we Democrats
lied. r lhe Kaiser has never disavowed the
Lusitania murders, and the punishment of
the Captain takes the shape of military
decorations placed upon his gold-1 aced
breast by the Kaiser himself.
Did we dig up the war-hatchet when the
German embassy at Washington became the
nest of dynamiters, bomb-planters, and as
sassins ?
We did not.
Captain Boy-ed, Von Pappen, Consul Bopp,
“Count" Bernstorff could do any insolent and
criminal thing they pleased, but they could
not ruffle golf-link tranquility.
Du Pont powder works might be Ger
manized to utter demolition, and the air
filled with the dismembered fragments of
laborers blown to pieces by German plotters.
It did not matter. We played golf with
rigid regularity, accompanied by Dr. Gray
son and the beautiful second wife.
Colossal crimes against America and
Americans devastated New Jersey, the ex
plosions causing a tremor throughout (the
Continent; but we played golf, dined Berns
torff, and saw nothing wrong.
Our Ambassador at Berlin, proudly grati
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person, A. J. Long, declares that he and his
biother K. s of C. “ask our fellow citizens to
find out about us.”
The Rev. A. Davisson did so. He found
out about A. J. Long. He quickly discovered
in A. J. Long a bitter, intolerant, revengeful
papist, who had no use whatever for a
Protestant.
J : Lon " 11OW sa .V s that ancl brother
K.’s of C. “reach out our hands as Georgian’s
true men, for a friendly, trusting, helpful re
lationship among all her worthy sons.”
How very, very soothing I
How meek, and genial, and harmless we
are, to be sure I
Is this the same A. J. Long who united
with the other Macon Catholic laymen, and
threatened to boycott the Hotel Dempsey, if it
did not immediately discharge Manager
Reed?
Catholic women had gone to Mr. Reed, and
demanded the use of' the ballroom for a
church function—possibly a euchre party, or
a lottery stunt, or a gim-crack fair, such as
the pope's crowd are constantly pulling oil.
Mr. Reed demurred, saying that he would
have to consult the President of the Dempsey
Hotel Company.
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