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Che 3efp<sonian Vol. 14, No. 11 (is treason to be glorified on memorial day? ,r '.JJ -A. ■■ ■■ ■■■■■l ■»»■■».. i ■ ■■■—»■■■ .. ~ ■■■■■—■ ■■ ■ . ... 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- Price, Five Cents