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Vol. 14, No. 6
Is This the Way Arthur Brisbane Writes History ?
'T' HE editor of the Hearst periodicals is the
best paid member of our profession—l
being the worst paid, and therefore the most
independent.
A big salary is in many respects a desirable
thing, but it often exerts a restraining, or
coercive influence over the individual who
draws it.
When you are not paid anything, you can
take it out in saying what you please.
Brisbane is one of the greatest of editors,
but, when he undertakes to write history, he
impairs my appetite, disturbs my digestion,
harrows my feelings, makes water
and my hair stand up.
Not long ago, he wrote a piece for Hearst’s
New York paper in which he alleged that all
the popes had been the strongest men of their
day; and of course I had to inquire about
Pope Joan, the lady pope who had bad luck
during a papal street parade; and also about
the boys who had been made Popes, and about
the various times when there were two Popes,,
and even three Popes at a time, each one
hurling pontifical thunderbolts at the other.
Mankind never realized how one human
being could curse another, until they saw and
heard three popes simultaneous at it.
In the Atlanta Georgian, my brother Bris
bane recently said: .
“FATHER” PARK SAYS THAT THE “CATHOLICS ARE THE
FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES.”
'T'HE Fort Worth Record, Tex., joyfully
1 prints a string of lies told by “Father”
Frank Park, in a recent spiel to she pope’s
band of American footkissers, the Knights of
Columbus.
Said string of lies follows, as an'exhibit of
Roman mendacity, and of the willingness of
our daily papers to publish the output of
mendacious papal propaganda:
That America’s liberty today is directly due
to Catholics, and that ever since there has been
such a country as the United States Catholics
have always been patriotic, loyal and true, was
the contention of the speaker. The life of Co
ulmbus was reviewed from his birth in Italy
down to the discovery of America, the saving of
the liberty of the country by Lafayette and other
Catholics; the financing of Washington’s army by
four Irishmen of Philadelphia, all Catholics,
when starvation and exposure had almost ruined
it, and other deeds of valor of direct bearing upon
the formation and establishment of the United
States as a country, were referred to.
“It was a Catholic who discovered this country;
it was a Catholic queen who financed the expedi
tion that gave this country to the world as a
civilized nation; it was soldiers who
saved it from the iron hand of oppression, and
it was Catholic money that financed it in its
darlTbst hour and clothed and fed its army in time
of distress, and yet we, as Catholics, are charged
with disloyalty,” declared Father Park. “I often
wonder why wo Catholics, we Knights of Co
lumbus, are questioned as to our loyalty when
these facts show that America is our country.”
Every one of those statements is a most
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, February 15, 191 /
Caesar s wife, we are told, was above suspicion.
But Caesar’s wife had a despot for a husband, and
it w’as extremely dangerous for anybody to suspect
her publicly.
That’s a fair specimen of historical writing
which makes me continue to taste the shad,
next day after eating it.
Caesar’s wife was not above suspicion.
That’s what ailed her. She had behaved very
suspiciously, indeed, by allowing a dissipitated
young, Roman, named Clodius, to enter
Caesar's palace, unknown to Caesar, and dis
guised as a woman.
In this disguise, the dissolute Clodius had
been present at the sacred mysteries of the
goddess of births, violating the law which
permitted none but matrons to attend, and
violating the sanctity of Caesar's home.
Y hen Caesar learned of this unprecedented
escapade, which made a great noise in Rome,
he divorced his wife, saying, in substance,
that she might be innocent of any wrong
doing with Clodius, but that her conduct had
brought suspicion upon her, and that
“Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.”
He would not continue to live with her, be
cause she was not above suspicion. At that
time, he was a private citizen, and not “a
despot.”
I sincerely trust that my friend and brother,
Brisbane, will employ some diligent student
unblushing, premeditated, inexcusable, un
scrupulous falsehood.
The several discoveries of this continent,
the first of which was by Scandinavian
pagans, did not become important, so far as
our national existence is concerned, until suc
cessful colonization took irtace; and that was
accomplished by the Protestants of England
and the Huguenots of France.
This is a historical fact which no honest
scholar will deny, and if “Father” Park is
ignorant of it, he is unfit to discuss the sub
ject.
Catholic colony thrived’, no good to this
country is traceable to Columbus. On the
contrary, he introduced slavery, and thus be
came morally responsible for the extermina
tion of the Indians of St. Domingo and other
West Indian Islands.
The Puritans of New England and the
Episcopalians of Virginia, together with the
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the French
Huguenots of the Carolinas, founded the
Democratic Republic of the United States.
The Catholic church is the historic foe of
Democracies and Republics, because her law
and her system is monarchical, anti-demo
cratic, and anti-liberal.
None blit a tyro in history can be ignorant
of this.
A church which laid its official curse upon
the Great Charier of our liberties, takes you
to look up this matter for him, and verify my
correction. The youth of the Gate City and
other cities should not have their historical
information given to them in reversals of
facts.
The subject of Bro. Brisbane’s Sunday Ser
mon is ‘"Slander.” He appears to have had
m mind somebody who has been wofully dis
abled by scandal-mongers; yet I can hardly
believe he was thinking about me.
If he was, I can tell him right now to at
tend to his own business. Scandal-mongers
don’t worry me. The only reports that per
manently hurt, are the truth’, lies don’t kill.
Weak people may go down under lies, but
their own weakness is most to blame.
No man can be permanently whipped, until
he himself gives up.
Slander didn’t give Nero a bad name: the
truth did it.
Scandal-mongers did not blacken the char
acter of Messalina and Agrippina: the facts
did it.
So it was with the Duke of Alva, Torque
mada, Pope Alexander VI., and scores of
other putrid Papas.
The facts made the reputation of Benedict
Arnold; and the facts are what destroyed the
political life of a certain man who now con-'
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for an ignoramus, when it claims to be the
founder of this Government, whose Supreme
Laws embrace the principles of the Great
Charter.
A church which has for 20 years fought and
scotched an Immigration bill, because its
reading. test would expose the fact that, in
Catholic countries the people are.not taught
to read, displays amazing effrontery, when it
claims credit for our Government, based as
it is, upon free education, free thought, free
speech, free vote, and people’s rule.
How asinine it is the gabble about La-
Fayette saving the liberties of our country!
In the first place, La Fayette was not a
Catholic, and I have published the evidence,
again and again. He hated priests especially.
He helped to overthrow them, and to con
fiscate the huge loot which they had got to
gether in France.
He utterly detested, loathed, and despised
the popish system, because it is a Pagan
affair, imposed upon Christians who don’t
know its true nature, and who are never
allowed to learn.
Such priests as “Father” Park keep the
eyes of papal dupes securely sealed.
In the second place, LaFayette’s share in
Washington’s success was almost negligible,
not to compare with that of John Laurens,
John Paul Jones, and the obscure Southern
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