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Che 3efp<sonian
Vol. 14, No. 11
(is treason to be glorified on memorial day?
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VV'HEN the Monastic system of the
Christian sect first came into existence,
it resembled the monasticism of older reli
gions.
That is, those few Believers who felt duty
bound to devote their whole lives to solitude,
self-communion, and idle contemplation of
the Hereafter, went off into the desert, or into
the forest, or into some cavern, to spend their
time in religious thought and exercise.
These fanatics, like the Hindoo fakirs, ran
from one extreme to another, mortifying the
flesh, and committing outrages upon Nature,
in the crazy conviction that Piety consisted in
Misery.
. The Buddhist monk will let his finger-nails
grow until they are a yard long, and then ask
sane Hindoos to give him the food which they
have made in the sweat of the face.
This Buddhist monk will squat in the same
place by the road, for years on a stretch, and
thus acquire prodigious merit among the poor
dupes of superstition.
The Catholic Filipinos in the Islands inflict
bloody flaggelation upon their bare backs, in
the belief that suffering in this world gives
one a license to happiness in the next —a belief
which runs like a vein of dross through the
whole ledge of Romanist doctrine.
We must always try to remember that our
Faith, in its origin, is Oriental: the Old
Testament, particularly, is marked throughout
by the peculiarities of Eastern minds.
The Jews came in contact with Monasticism
in Egypt; and we would lose tmr bearings in
studying Scriptures, if we ignored the fact
that Christianity and the Bible, humanly
speaking, are Jewish products.
Alexander the Great was a friend to the
Jews, and when he determined that his great
city in Egypt should be the commercial capital
qf the world, he encouraged the Jews to settle
there.
NATIONAL NOTES ON NOTABLE TOPICS.
Dv. ALEX. E. KEESE is delivering a se
ries of 20 lectures in Florida, on the sub
ject of “Romanism, or Americanism?”
He will address the people at the Court
house in Quincey, at 7:30 P. M., March 22,
this Thursday night.
Go out and hear an honest, earnest, cultured
gentleman make a sensible talk, with proofs
to support his every statement.
Governor Sidney J. Catts is the first man,,
since the War between the States, to be elected
to that high office on a straight-out anti-Rome
platform.
Catts won because he is brave, strong, ag
gressive, and American to the backbone.
To with these fake Americans, who
must join papal secret societies, swear allegi
unco to an intriguing foreigner, and then make
bitter attacks upon the persons, the reputa
tions, and the business of their Protestant
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, March 22, 1917
In great numbers they went to Alexandria,
and it was among these immigrants from
NOTICE ! !!
On and after the first of April, the
price of The Weekly Jeffersonian and
Watson’s Magazine will be $2.00 each
per year, or $3.00 for both.
Self preservation compels me to
move up the price.
I have already explained that the
enormous advance in the cost of
getting out our publications has caus
ed us to become heavily in arrears to
our bank and unless we can get some
relief, we will not be able to stand
the pressure.
A car load of paper, just received,
is costing us, freight and all, $3,200.00;
whereas this same quantity cost us
$900.00 just a few months ago.
The United States Trades Commis
sion has ruled that two and a half
cents per pound in car load lots is a
high enough price to pay for paper,
but we have had to pay, freight in
cluded, upwards of six cents.
The $5.00 proposition will remain
in force until the first of May.
Inasmuch as I have been giving all
of my time to the Jeffersonian Pub.
Co., without salary, for many years,
Ido not feel that I should be under
the necessity of making further re
duction of my personal estate to
maintain our business.
I most earnestly beg our friends to
ponder this statement carefully, and
to act upon it in such manner as their
own patriotism and desire to co-oper
ate may suggest.
March 19, 1917. Thos. E. Watson.
fellow citizens.
We are going to. elect Catts to the highest
office in the Union, three years from now.
Remember what I tell you I
The Italian pope has a sworn subject in
Savannah, named Benjamin Keiley.
He says he went into the Civil War, at the
age of 13, and fought four years. He certainly
took an early start. Was he in the infantry,
or did he “jine a critter company?”
After the Yankees had at last whipped
Keiley, he went over to Italy, to be educated
in treason to his native land.
He took a solemn oath against our form of
government, and against his non-Catholic fel
low-citizens.
He is under oath to persecute Protestants
to the utmost, and to extirpate them !
That’s the man who never figured as Me
morial Day orator until last year, but who is
Palestine that the Scriptural books were given
their Greek form.
It was among these Jews in Egypt that
the fanatical monk was evolved: and these
unsociable fanatics withdrew into the desert,
to dwell in caves and empty tombs, and to
cultivate what they supposed to be their
Christian virtues.
Those virtues consisted mainly in savage
isolation, morbid uselessness, long matted
hair, long finger' and toe nails, and compre
hensively foul bodies.
(You can read about them, if you feel in
terested, in Gibbons’ “Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire.”)
These hermits of Egypt never allowed a
woman to come anywhere near. The hermit
was not so far gone in fanaticism as to lose
knowledge of the old Adam that was in him.
He was afraid to trust himself. He wanted
to keep out of temptation. Even the rustle
of the breeze was offensive to him, because it
reminded him of the rustle of skirts.
(You can read about this, also, in “The
Temptations of St.- Anthony,” and similar
devotional works.)
To make himself safe from the women, one
monk would wall up the door of his cavern,
and get his daily bread through a crack.
To put himself beyond the reach of the
temptress, another hermit ’would dwell on the
top of a high pillar, and get his daily ration
of dry crusts by hauling it up with a rope.
(Read Encyclopedias and things, especially
the title “Stylites, St. Simeon.”)
If you desire to pursue the subject, you can
order from P. Stammer, Gl, 4th Avenue, Nev/
York, a book called “The Paradise of the
Fathers,” published by Chatto & Windus, of
London: the author is E. A. IV. Budge, of
the British Museum.
The “Paradise” was the imaginary world
(continued on page three.)
now indispensable to the murderous Knights
of Columbus, to the Catholic women among
the Daughters, and to those misguided Pro
testant Daughters who believe that “Sena
torial courtesy” should prevail in High Sas
sietv.
Bishop Keiley was never known to shed a
tear, or a drop of ink, over the fearful fate
of the white woman, raped and throat-cut, by
a black beast.
Keiley’s sympathies have invariably gone
out to the rapist whose unendurable crime
met swift punishment at the hands of an in
furiated community.
Keiley so deeply sympathizes with the ne
gro rapist, that he has written bitter tirades
against the people of Georgia, arraigning
them as a horde of ignorant miscreants who
have no regard for law.
These lampoons have been excessively vio-
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