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Che JJefrersonian
Vol. 14, No. 15
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The Great War, the Gold Standard, and Prices After the War
'TTIE whole world does not contain as much
as eight billion dollars in gold. ($8,000,-
000,000.)
-John I). Rockefeller is worth one of these
eight billions.
He made it by going to church every Sab
bath, working hard, doing right, eating light,
and fasting during Lent.
His son is a chip or two off the old block,
and ho is now a faithful attendant on Billy
Sunday’s New York Military Revival.
Young John doesn’t go to the Sunday gym
nasium to get religion, because he got the
same sort his father has, many, many years
ago.
Aoung John attends the Billy Sunday re
vival as an example to other younger, and less
holy bipeds I
’However, what I started out to sav was
this:
We are on the Gold Standard, up until now,
but we are finding it ticklish ground.
Europe is dumping her gold on us.
It makes me laugh, even yet, to remember
how the rock-ribbed Democrat—who had
walked into town to trade a pound of butter
THE ROMAN BISHOP AND THE CONFEDERATE VETS.
Mr. Oglesby’s Defense of the Catholic Prelate Who Defies the Law of Georgia
IN the daily papers, any amount of space can
1 be secured, any time, for the publication of
anything favorable to Popery.
If you request the. space to publish a reply,
you are curtly refused.
In that manner, Protestantism is handi
capped, and the foreign papal system given a
free course.
Pou need not doubt that this jug-handled
arrangement is having the desired effect.
It is becoming popular to advocate Popery
in the daily press, and it is becoming impossi
ble to defend Protestantism.
How much money this sort of missionary
costs the Pope’s Congregation of the Propa
ganda, can only be surmised, but the annual
sum invested in the silence and one-sided
ness of the daily papers must be prodigious.
In 1908, the American Catholics were com
manded by the Pope to'set up the Inquisition
in the United States, and to enforce the papal
marriage and divorce laws, notwithstanding
the fact that papal law and American law
differed.
Did any daily paper protest against this
disloyal, treasonous introduction of •alle
giance TO A FOREIGN POTENTATE?
No!
When the 4th Degree Knights of Colum
bus began to carry out the decrees of the
secret papal Inquisition of 1908, did any daily
paper take notice?
Not the slightest.
Free speech was stamped out, where the
Catholics were strong enough to do it, as in
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, and
parts of several mid-Westeru States.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, April 19, 1917
and a dozen eggs, for some “store” goods—
would walk out of the store, take his stand
on the side-walk, and begin to cuss the d —d
Populists who were about to let Europe dump
her silver on us.
These patriots insisted on Sound Money—a
medium that would be good in Jerusalem,
Jericho, Kamschatka, Terra Del Fuego, and
other towns mentioned in the daily Gold-bug.
Well, they got what they wanted. They put
us old Pops out of business. They prevented
Europe from dumping silver on us. They got
a currency that was good in Mecca and Anti
och and Pekin and Tokio and Paris and Lon
don.
We never saw any of it down at Sweetwater
Creek, or in Billville, or at the Cross-roads,
or even in the town where we still traded but
ter and eggs, but still we knew that gold dol
lars were "good in Europe,” and that fact was
some consolation for the lessening amount of
the stuff we could trade our butter and eggs
for. at the store.
Mental comfort is a great thing, even if
ybur belly isn't full of good victuals.
For 20 odd vears. we have been educated bv
Rev. Otis L. Spurgeon was dragged out of
lis hotel in Denver, forcibly carried 20-odd
The S. 0. S. Call!
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Remains Open Until May 1
Then carefully read and consider
the following S. O. S. Call, which is
my last word : “ God help me, I can
do no other ! ”
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 and let us march to
gether. W
Give one day to the Cause to which
your friend has given 7 years.
the daily and the religious and the agricultu
ral press upon the intrinsic virtues of the
Gold Standard.
Then, when we were ready to graduate and
completely surrender to the Democratic
National Banks—renamed, to soften the hard
facts—the Great War came on, and our Gold
Standard was like a feather caugnt m a
cyclone.
How far could eight billions in gold travel,
in the financing of the War ?
It isn't a drop in the bucket. Europe had
to resold to paper, as the world always does,
at a crisis.
Nerer is gold and silver the salvation of the
people: always, paper is. Fiat money and
bends!
.Gold is the banker's weapon, against the
producer, and the mercantile exchanger, and
the developer.
Gold is the chib with which the Rockefellers
beat down the industrial competitor, and rob
him of bis property.
Gold is the bludgeon with which the white
handed Morgans, Vanderbilts, Bakers, Schills,
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miles, brutally beaten by the Knights of Co
lumbus, and left to die in the ditch by the
roadside.
Ex-priest Joseph Slattery was hounded out
of New Jersey by the Knights of Columbus,
the executive viUians of Itome's secret In
quisition.
Thos. E. Leyden was riotously prevented in
Massachusetts from speaking against the ap
propriation of the State’s monpy to the teach
ing of Popery in the State's public schools.
There is every reason to believe that Car
dinal O'Connell incited those Haverhill riots
in which the public buildings were stoned,
and Protestant ministers brutallv assaulted.
Did the daily papers condemn these Cath
olic outrages against free speech?
They did not.
’Would they have been equally silent if the
Protestants had dragged Bishop Keiley out
of Savannah, carried him 20 miles up the
Central Railroad, beaten him to insensibility,
and left him in the ditch, covered with blood ?
No, indeed! If any Protestants, driven to
desperation and retaliation by these villain
ous 4th Degree Knights of Columbus, over
seize a Catholic priest, and give him exactly
what the Catholic Inquisitors gave Rev. Spur
geon. you will hear a fine old howl about it.
Suppose the Guardians of Liberty should
go4o the room of Joe Scott, or Pete Collins
and shoot him to death because of his Cath
olic lectures, do you-suppose a Galveston
judge would tell the jury that the Protesatnts
had the right to do it—as the Galveston
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