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| N round numbers, the amount of money that
Uncle Sam Wilson has loaned to foreign
nations, is fire thousand millions of dollars.
The North American States which de
clared themselves independent sovereigns, on
July 4, which were acknowledged
to be such by Great Britain, after the sur
jrcnder of Cornwallis at Yorktown—after
wards met in convention, by State delegations,
and created a Federal Government, for speci
fied purposes.
These purposes were such as the States
could not well deal with, separately, without
conflicting laws, varying systems, and conse
quent confusion.
The States desired a Federal agency, or
government, for the establishment of unifor
mity in our relations with foreign powers,
unifornuty in the currency system, the postal
System, the commercial system, the natural
ization of foreigners, the enactment of laws
relating to commerce, and the raising of
armies to repel invasion, suppress insurrec
tion, or enforce tin laws of the Union.
To enable the newly created Federal agency,
or government, to carry out the foregoing
purposes—for which the sovereign States had
voluntarily created it—the Federal Union
Was empowered to levy taxes directly upon
the people, instead of calling upon the States
for what was needed.
. Realizing that these taxes would be insuffi
cient, sometimes, the sovereign States author
ized the Federal Union to borrow money.
Quotations from Macaulay, the Favorite Historian of the Papins
ROMANISTS arc extremely fond of re
printing what Lord Macaulay said about
the perfection of their organization, and the
long life of their Papacy.
Their Papacy began in the year of our
Lord 606, when Bishop Boniface prevailed
upon the Emperor of the Roman Empire of
the East to grant him the title of Universal
This fact is historic, and can be proved by
at least as much evidence as can be brought
so prove that Constantine the Great became a
Christian convert.
Before the Roman Papacy began its course,
Buddhism had existed in a well-organized
State for hundreds of years, and it does not
iio .v show any signs of decay.
No Buddhist Luther has ever arisen, to ac
cuse it of terrible abuses, and to tear it in
two, with a Reformation.
The same statement can be made of Con
fucianism.
Each of these religions has a greater num
ber of votaries, than Popery.
Both of these so-called Pagan religions
produced glorious literature, and the most
elevated morality.
. Popery suppressed, for centuries, the clas
sic literature of Greece, and Rome, and re
placed it by a ridiculous lot of stuff about the
[virgin, the Saints, the Devil, and “Miracles.’’
LITTLE NOTES ON THE GREAT WAR.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, May 24, 1917
Consult any constitutional lawyer, and he
will tell you. that the foregoing outline gives
you substantially the truth about the origin
and character of our Federal Government.
This being undeniable, you can readily see
what a tremendous usurpation has been ac
complished, when the Federal Union takes
from the people enormous sums of money,
to lend to foreign nations.
Why didn’t the Democratic party produce
A Man, who would stand up in Congress,
and fight this tremendous usurpation?
Because President Wilson calls himself a
Democrat, and his own so-called Democrats
cannot fight their Chief.
AA'liy didn’t the Republican party produce
men enough to combat the usurpation?
Because the Republican party believes in a
centralized Federal Government which usurps
power, and tramples upon the States and the
people.
Democracy, the name, hypnotizes the Dem
ocrats; while autocracy, the thing, charms the
Republicans.
It’s as it used to be with Prohibition, in
Kansas: (lie Dry's liked the situation, because
they had the law; and the Wets liked it, be
cause they had the liquor.
AA r e Democrats have the name, all right,
but the Republicans have sure got the thing.
When Daniel AVebster successfully opposed
the conscription law of 1814, he illustrated
Mahomet founded his religion at about the
same time that Popery got on its first legs;
and the Mohammedan adults, nearly as nu
merous as the Papists, are much more truly
Christian.
Mahomet forbade the making of images,
and the bowing down to them, just as the Ten
Commandments do; and the Mohammedans
of today are true to the Commandment, and
therefore despise the Papists who kneel in
worship to idols made of stocks and stones.
Two of the four great religions of the
present time, as you can thus see, are about
the same in age, while the other two are im
mensely older; and these two oldest religions
—Buddhism and Confucianism—embrace
nearly half of the human race.
Christianity itself is a minority religion,
and it is not gaining upon Buddhism and
Confucianism, although it has made prodi
giously expensive efforts to do so, for more
than 100 years. ;
Roman Catholics are in a minority, even
among Ch ristians.
So much for age and numbers: now let us
see what Lord Macaulay really did think of
the Roman church, its creed, and its record.
(1.) Macaulay classes, as monstrous, the
doctrine of transubstantiation, and expresses
his wonder that sane people can believe in
such “absurdity;”
his unanswerable argument by asking his
brother Senators, whether the constitutional
authority to borrow money could be distorted,
by the Government into a tyrannical power
to force a, loan from the people.
He argued that the Federal Government
had no more legal right to force the citizen
into the Army, than it had to force him to
lend his money to the Government.
Can you answer the argument?
Can anybody do so?
Let one of our AA r ar-whoop dailies try it!
Mr. Webster’s speech was made to the Sen
ate on December 9, 1814. The weight of his
reasoning was so great, that it killed the bill
for conscription.
At that time, the country was in distress,
because the AA r ar with England had lasted two
years and the Eastern States had refused to
contribute troops.
Less than four months before AA'ebster
made his speech against conscription, the
British had scattered our forces at Bladens
burg, had looted and burned public buildings
of AA r ashington City, and had chased Presi
dent Madison into the Virginia backwoods.
Yet, Congress refused conscription, even
under those trying circumstances. In other
words, Congress refused to become an odious,
tyrannical usurper.
Congress relied upon the patriotic volun
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(2.) He speaks with contempt of the
Papal decree which condemned Galileo, and
which dogmatically asserted that the sun goes
round the earth ;
(3.) He says that just such performances
as those of popery, have caused him to “cease
to wonder at the vagaries of superstition
He cites the fake “miracle cures,”, which
the priests are constantly making;
(4.) He speaks of how the human intellect
has four times risen in Western Europe
against the yoke of Popery; and how Super
stition has cruelly suppressed intellectual
freedom and progress twice, and nearly sup
pressed it, twice.
He instances the horrible Albigensian Cru
sade, in which Pope Innocent 111. blotted out,
in the blood of indiscriminate slaughter, the
literature and civilization of Southern France.
Macaulay shows how the Pope created the
hellish Inquisition, for the purpose of rivet
ing the chains of papal slavery.
This was Rome’s 'first suppression of men
tal independence and material progress.
The second, he mentions, was the persecu
tion of the Emperors of Germany by the
Popes. Macaulay says:
“Frederick IL—the ablest and most ac
complished of the long line of German Civsars
—had in vain exhausted all the resources of
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