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Che ’Seffesonian,
Vol. 14, No. 14
CIX months ago, we Democrats were howl-
• ing with delight, every time our Pro
fessor Wilson wrote a Peace Da per.
Now we are howling with delight, because
he has written a War paper.
This shows that we Democrats are neither
hide-bound, one sided, nor bilious.
What has Germany done to our beloved
country, since the first of last November, when
our President was accidentally re-elected be
cause ‘’he kept us out of war?”
For the life of me, I can’t see any material
change.
Germany said all along that, unless Eng
land loosened her blockade, the U-Boat war
would be pushed to extrmemities.
England’s blockade is legal, because she
warns vessels, stops them, and takes them
into the Prize-court tor trial.
Germany’s blockade is illegal, because she
gives no warning to the offending vessel, but
sinks it. and leaves its crew and passengers to
drown. '>*' -
If Germany had started this illegal and
atrocious policy, after the November elections,
I could better understand our present state
of righteous indignation.
But the facts are, that Germany has sim
ply done, since the elections, that which she
had previously said she woidd do.
How the Romanists are Poisoning the Minds of Protestant Youth
in the Public Schools.
Text-Books Prepared by Catholic Writers Who Falsity History.
'T'HE American Book Company is, in fact,
* the School-book Trust; and it is con
trolled by Roman Catholics, of New York
and Chicago.
For many years, it has had a strangle-hold
Upon the Southern States, because of its well
spent money. If circumstances make a case,
it has bribed newspapers. State School Com
missioners, County School officers, and Princi
pals in high schools—not all, but enough to
keep the Trust in full possession of its mono
poly.
More than a million American children are
being educated in the Pope’s parochial
schools, where none but Catholic teachers are
and where every book used is
thoroughly papist.
Not a line favorable to Protestant princi
ples, or to democratic principles, can find a
place in those Catholic text-books.
The pupils are taught to abhor everything
antagonistic to popery, and admonished that
their souls will be in danger of hell-fire, if
they read any book, or paper which exposes
Romanism.
Thus, Catholic education seals the mind
of the Catholic child, and it becomes closed,
to anything but Catholic literature.
Let these millions of children, who are
SHORT NOTES ON THE GREAT WAR.
Thomson, Ga. f Thursday, April 12, 1917
In bringing charges against Germany, f
notice that, the Lusitania, is dwelt upon, as
the worst.
WILL YOU JOIN MY CLUB ?
The war gave the Paper Trust an
excuse to run its prices up three-fold.
The government said it had con
quered the Trust, but The Jefferson
ian cannot see it.
We are heavily in debt, and we fear
for the immediate future.
T. E. W. cannot bear the brunt
alone. He needs your help. Will
you come ? Join our Volunteer Club
of agents who will get us 5 sub
scribers at full price, and send the
money without commissions.
Can’t you get 5 ?
If not, get ONE !
Join my Co-operative Club, and
help your comrade out of the hole !
Come along an<F let us ’march to
gether.
Give one day to the Cause to which
your friend has given 7 years.
I will publish your names so that
others may be stimulated to join you
and me.
every year attending the parochial schools,
grow into manhood and womanhood, to
become fathers and mothers, whose children,
in their turn, will be given the same
anti-PrOtestant training, and you can see what
a host of enemies our democratic institutions
will have to contend with, in a few years.
But the Roman Catholics are not satisfied
with the exclusive control of their own
schools: //n??/ have reached out and in refried
ours.
Into our Public Schools—-and even into
private Protestant schools —they have thrust
their teachers, to subtly propagate popery.
They introduce symbols that are peculiarly
popish, and in this way the minds of the
Protestant children are familiarized with the
system, and silently taught not to antagonize
it.
The crucifix, the madonna, the nun’s garb,
the priest’s habit, the picture of Christ and
the angels, the image of the Virgin, &c., art
fully placed where the pupils constantly see
them, teach, silently in favor of a foreign sys
tem which is nothing in the world but ancient
Paganism masquerading under Christian
names.
Heathen idolatry—borrowing the words.
Christ, Mary, Joseph. Peter, Paul. &c. —
comes into Christian lands, and impudently
So it is. Nothing worse than that massacre
of peaceable travellers, merchants, authors,
pleasure-seekers, wives, mothers, innocent
babes at the breast—was ever perpetrated by
the savages of Africa, or of the American
wilderness.
Neither in Belgium, nor in Northern
France, nor in Servia. nor in Armenia, has
Turk. Austrian, or Teuton done a more hell
ish thing than the deliberate sinking, un
warned, of that great passenger boat.
But.we overlooked the crime. We con
doned the cold-blooded murder of 119
Americans.
We knew that the German ambassador had
advertised Germany’s intention to murder
those travellers.
We knew that the doomed vessel was fol
lowed across the sea. by wirele-s messages to
the Submarines assassins.
Vfe knew that those fatal messages were
flashed from the Sayville station in New
York* which station we had — God. o t da.
Knows ‘whi/! allowed the Germans to continue
to operate.
1 herefore, we were, in some sort, partly to
blame for what happened to poor Elbert Hub
bard, and all the other .Americans who 10.-t
their lives by trusting too much to the Law
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says. '“Accept idolatry, and pay a high price
for it, because I have condescended to change
the names of Jove. Juno, Venus. Cybele, and
Pluto, for those of Jehovah, Mary, Anne,
Joseph. Peter, Paul, and Satan."
You remember the old lines of the poet
who says, that Vice is a monster of so fright
ful a mein that, when -first seen, it excites
horror, but seen too often, “we first endure,
then pity, then embrace."
Those old familiar lines exactly fit the les
son I am trying to drive home.
Roman Catholicism when first seen, with its
images, prostrations, Latin mummeries, day
time candles, unmarried piiests, walled-up
women, fake miracles, holy swindles, adora
tion of a foreign Italian priest, utter abase
ment of the laity, inner secrets, night-hawk
secret societies, armed military organizations;
wafers made into gods, ami then eaten: wine
made into blood, and then drunken —all this
excites disgust, loathing, horror, when -first
seen.
‘•But, seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."
Alexander Pope never wrote a truer line:
and he himself was a spiteful little papist,
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