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■ I !■ IL IL c> i ii r i i /*t ,:^ v g&5 ex? VoL 14, No. 20 | 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 ( CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) (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 (continued on page four.) Price, Five Cents