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Vol. 14, No. 7
THE GERMAN SOCIALIST AND THE AMERICAN s< DEMOCRAT.”
AFTER the death of the great and good
Herr Bebel, the German Socialists were
led by Dr. Liebknecht.
At the beginning of this Great War. Dr.
L. was a member of the German Govern
ment, being a member of the Congress—the
Reiclffctag.
Like all sensible Socialists, Dr. L. was
opposed to the War. He realized that it was
began for Papal and Dynastic purposes, and
could not possibly result in benefit to the
German people.
Dr. L. gave intense offense to the TTohen
zollern despot, by this anti-war attitude, and
it was even reported in this country that the
Socialist leader of Congress had been shot.
In fact, many Socialists believed it, and
their papers denounced the crime.
But it transpired, later, that the Doctor
had not been murdered, outright, by the dy
nastic tyrant who mentally occupies the 4th
place in the Godhead.
Instead, the Socialist member of Congress
was arraigned liefore a squad of army-officers,
picked by the Kaiser, and these officers, sitting
in judgment upon the Congressman, con
demned him to five years of torture and slow
''death, at hard labor in a German dungeon.
To have been shot, would have been the'
easiest way out.
When you think of that episode in Ger-
Where Will You Go to Find the Law of Roman Catholicism?
\I7HEN a foreigner wishes to know the
character of our State and Federal Gov
ernments. he would be>illy if he did not read
the Supreme Laws.
The Constitutions are there in plain view,
accessible to everybody, and easily under
stood.
They form, as it were, the A. B. C. of our
system, and the Codes 6f statutory law com
plete the subject.
In like manner, when you want to know
what are the peculiar doctrines of any church,
you must consult the highest authority.
You can’t afford to pass by the books, offi
cially sanctioned and published, which set
forth the creed.
For example, when the Presbyterians, or
Methodists, or Baptists, issue a declaration
of doctrines, under the approval of the offi
cial representatives of the church, you go by
this book, instead of the mere word of mouth
of some lay member of the church, who may
not himself know the creed.
/ ask you to apply that rule to the Roman
Catholic Ch urch.
The rule is simple, it is just, it is easy, it
is unerring, and it is final.
When a lot of lay members of this foreign
church employ lecturers, like Joe Scott and
Pete Collins, to travel over the country,
peddling soothing-syrup to gullible Protest
ants, it ought to occur to those Protestants
that the purpose of the lecturers is, to deceive.
Thomson, Ga>, Thursday, February 22, 1917
Dr. Leibknecht and Dr. Bryan.
many, and contrast it with the American way,
you begin to realize the difference between a
so-called Me-and-God government, and a gov
ernment by the people.
The Chief Executive of the United States
prepares an official paper notifying the Ger
man Kaisers that any violation of our neutral
rights upon the seas will be considered a hos
tile act, and that the aggressor in such a case
will be held to strict accountability.
Mr. Bryan signs this paper, as Secretary of
State.
Then what does he do?
He goes in privacy and secrecy to the offi
cial representative of one of the German Kai
sers. and tips it off to him that the paper does
not mean what it says.
Bryan, our Secretary o f State, visits Dr.
Dumba, Austrias ambassador, and informs
him that the paper signed by Bryan, for our
Government; was intended for home-effect,
and must not be taken at its face value by the
Central Powers.
In other words, William J. Bryan assured
Dr. Dumba that he and Wilson had cooked
up a solemn and dangerous piece of deception,
for the purpose of satisfying public opinion
in this country.
It was deceitful--according to Bryan—be
cause it said one thing while meaning an
other, and it was dangerous—on the face of
If it wasn't, the lecturer would read the
Roman creed to his audience, and leave the
audience to judge the church by its creed.
Is it not so?,
When a lot of laymen, like J. J. Farrell,
Jack Spalding, A. j. Long, P. A. Callahan,
and John Burke busy themselves to pacify,
conciliate, soft-soap, and side-track awaken
ing Protestants, the purpose is, to deceive.
If it wasn't, Jack Spalding, John Burke,
P. 11. Callahan, J. J. Farrell, and A. J. Long
would content themselves with circularising
the country with the Roman Catholic creed.
If they could prove to-you, 6// the church's
creed, that there is no menace to our laws,
liberties, and institutions in their foreign
church, THEY WOULD DO IT.
Why don’t they publish creed, and let
their foreign church be judged by it?
They dare not !
They are afraid.
They will never do it, unless they get the
upper hand of us and feel secure in their
power to drop the mask.
Where will you find that creed?
It is contained in the Revised Code of Ro
man Catholicism, carefully prepared by the
highest Roman prelates at the Vatican, and
officially sanctioned. by Pope Pius IX.
Can there be any higher authority?
Isn’t it the height of impudence for any
Catholic lecturer, writer, or talker, to ask
it —because the Central Powers might take it
seriously.
What effect'did Bryan's conduct have?
It had the effect which Bryan, as an intel
ligent man, must it would have.
The Central Powers practically ignored our
warning, treating it as perfunctory, and con
tinued to do the very things which they had
been warned not to do.
These farts have never been denied. Dr,
Dumba gave them out, and Bryan had to
admit them.
Now, suppose that Dr. Liebknecht's offense
had taken the form that Bryan's did, what
would have been his fate, after the confes
sion of his treason?
But Bryan’s peculiar conduct did not cease
when he resigned from the Cabinet: he has
recently been implicated in an intrigue even
more treasonable.
When he betrayed the Government to Am
bassador Dumba, our President had not cut
loose from Germany. It was still permissi
ble for Bryan to hold private conferences with
German representatives.
After President Wilson cut loose, however,
the situation was altogether different.
To hold parleys and conferences with Ger
man officials, then; was dangerously like de
serting to the enemy.
(continued on page five.)
you to take his word for the Roman creed,
in preference to the Pope's?
Isn't it supremely ridiculous for J. J. Far
rell, P. J. Rice, Jack Spalding, A. J. Long,
A. I). Daly, et al. to advertise their willing
ness to post you on what Roman Catholicism
means?
You don't have to depend upon such a very
questionable source of information as J. J.
Fa rrell.
You don't have to bail wisdom out of so
shallow a pate as A. J. Long's.
Jack Spalding, the Atlanta corporation
lawyer, understands that business well
enough, but I doubt whether he ever read the
Law of his foreign church. *
The Revised "Statutes of the Italian Papacy
were proclaimed in 1864, and referred to in
Roman Catholic lingo as The Syllabus.
In effect, The Syllabus is nothing more nor
less than the Code which contains the re
vised STATUTES OF ROMANISM.
In that volume, you can read the laws of
the Catholic Church, just as you can learn the
laws of Georgia from the latest Code put out
by the State’s authority.
Mr. Gladstone copied these Revised Statutes
of the Catholic Church in his book on “The
Vatican Decrees.”
The great English statesman was so
wrought up by this renewed evidence that the
Italian church was the same old devilish affair
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