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rsday, August 30, 1917.
If the anti-draft people intended tO go
outside the city, Sheriff James R. Hicks declared
ho would swear in they,entire police force and
deputy sheriffs and disperse the gathering any
where in the county. «
If these officers should not be sufficient in num
ber, it was said that the, United States marshal
would be asked, for some of the troops at Camp
Harris. r '
A. M. Petty headed a delegation of 200 citi
zens Who went before the city council tonight
with a petition with 700 names attached asking
that Watson be allowed to speak.
Council rejected the petition, but refused to
turn it to the petitioners. The petitioners were
told by City Attorney JlcNell that “it will make
interesting reading United States district
attorney.”
Many of the signatures attached to the peti
tion were duplicated; Some cf the signers are
declared not to be genuine.
The anti-draft meeting had been called off be
fore the petition was presented, but city council
men did not know it.
The Pope Comes Over to “The
Jeffersonian’s 9 ’ View
What Will the President and the
Catholics Do A&oqt It ?
OUR readers will remember -that <1 called
attention last week to the fact that the
Pope has now taken the position occupied by
the President just previous to his sudden and
tremendous self-reversal.
bases his appeal for peace upon
address to the Senate, a few
months ago.
The Pope calls upon those eminent states
men and editors who endorsed the President
then, to endorse the papal plea, now. '
What reply shall we make to the Papa ?
He very neatly puts the Wilson war
whoopers in a hole.
He says that the statesmen and publicists
who endorsed the President, a few months
ago, must now endorse the Vatican’s plea,
or contradict themselves.
Isn’t that what The Jeffersonian said, last
week?
. Is there any getting round it?
The'Pope says that Belgium should be re
stored and indemnified. The German Chan
cellor promised that, in open session of the
Reichstag, three years ago.
The Pope also says that no nation can by
force of arms, impose upon any other nation
a form of permanent government which that
nation disapproves.
Iga’t that what The Jeffersonian said ?
few Pope appeals to history, in support of
his contention: so did The Jeffersonian.
Has anybody tried to refute The Jeffer
sonian?. No.
The paper can be suppressed, but it cannot
be refuted.
The Pope’s position is stronger: he can
neither be suppressed nor refuted.
I want you to read what the Pope says, and
then you will begin to realize better how the
sane views I have tried to impress upon our
people have taken possession of other heads,
higher than mine, and are at length bringing
temperate councils to the seats of the mighty.
Christendom is committing suicide, while
Buddhism and Confucianism look on, com
placently and mockingly.
Civilization is going back to barbarism, and
the inherited treasures of humanity—won by
enormous effort and sacrifice—ant being cast
before the swine of Brute Force. ■- ■ .■’ ■■■ *
It is a national madness, diabolically
worked up by the Dollar-Despots who would
not care two straws if a million of your sdns
were slain, so ,long as they pile up billions,
of profits out of the war.
Never did I expect toprint with approval
any papal statement, bi# the Pope —whose
motives may be wholly different from mine—
is pressing upon our Government the same
views which caused Mr. Burleson to close the
mails to The Jeffersonian.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
XCopyright, 1917, by the United Press.)
Rome; Aug. 24. —The United Press was
authorized today by the Papal Secretary of
State to make the following statement:
;i The first two points in the Pontifical ap
peal for peace, treating respectively of dis
armament and freedom of the seas, were sug
gested by President .Wilson’s message to the
Senate.
“Consequently we are inclined to 'believe
that they will now find, on the part of the
American people, the same reception that they
enjoyed when President. ‘Wilson proclaimed,
them at the Capitol.
“The third and'fourth points, wherein mu+
tual condonation of war expenses and dam*
ages, as > well as mutual restition of occupied
territories, was proposed, were formulated
from public speeches recently delivered by
statesmen of the different belligerent nations
and from" resolutions passed by there respec
tive parliaments. Therefore, the same states
men cannot refute them now without contra
dicting themselves.
“Moreover, it is necessary to remark, as to
condonation of damages caused by the war,
that there is an exception applying particu
larly to Belgium.
“The fifth and sixth points concern special
territorial questions, about which the Holy
f ather does not and could not propose any
definite and concrete solution. Consequently
he confines himself to expressing the wish
that said questions slhll be examined in a
conciliatory spirit, taking into consideration,
as far as possible, any just aspirations of the
people. ' ;
“The Holy See wishes to emphasize the fact
that the appeal was not suggested by any of
the belligerent powers and was not to the
particular advantage of any warring nation.
“Finally, the Holy Father said nothing
about democracy and the'democratization of
any existing government, because history
teaches us that a forth, off government im
posed by arms does not and cannot live, and
also out of respect for the free will of the
people themselves who, having the'right of
universal suffrage, mgy choose whatever form
of government they pleq&e. h-
“For the rest, democracy will receive such
an impulse from the war that wisdom must
prevent it deteriorating into any excessive
forms, such as anarchism.”
O . ...
A Bible for Every Soldier
, (continued fbom page one.)
cient Jews are not akin to ours, and thq
texts which justified them ip butchering chil
dren, ripping up the bodies of soon-to-be
mothers, and taking away the virgins to serve
as are abhorrent to our
present motto, which, in the words of our
President, obligates us to observe, with proud
punctilio, the nicest rules and regulkti'ons in
the killing of the Bible-students on the other
side.
By the time this editorial reaches the vigi
lant eye of the severe censor at Washington,
I will be almost 61 years old, and my experi
ence in Law and Religion will have under
gone a sudden, rude, revolutionary and some
what shocking change.
. lam now learning—as fast as possible—
that Congress can enlarge its own powers, if
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the President so orders; and that Doctor
Woodrow Wilson was eminently correct when
he said in his book, that the Presidential
power was anything the President chose to
make it, if he were a person of force and
sagacity.
President Wilson seems to be the very man
that Doctor Wilson had in his mind, at the
time he wrote the said prophetic passage in
his said book; and if anybody can tell me
what Congress now exists for, except to regis
ter the Presidential will—as the clock regis
ters the time of day—l really would like to
listen.
So you see, I am re-learning law; and at
rn y age this new sort does not make me
happy. 4
As to Religion, the same new doctrine is
upon us; and we are now told by the clerical
High-brows that we have never understood
the case.
It now seems that Christ came to manage
Caesar’s business for Caesar, and to bring
Caesar a sword with which to massacre Chris
tians throughout the earth.
The angel-song of Bethlehem is a myth:
. , J singers heralded the coming of
Peace and Good Will among men: let us for
get all the sermons we ever heard preached
upon that beautiful conception.
Abolish the Golden Rule: it is mere acad
emic altruism, having no place in the hard
actu&hties of life: blot from your memories
the noble exhortations you have heard' from
your youth up exhortations that rang in
trumpet tones from inspired lips and touched
the better chords of your own soul with pro
found emotion.
Blot out the Sermon on the Mount! It
has no place in the Bedlam that rages now.
We no longer heed a Prince of Peaces we
have changed our Christ into a Pagan god
of War. , ; ° *
Instead of Calvary, and its sacrifice for
humanity sunk in sordidness, we have re
created Olympus and re-colonized it with di
vinities that cry for human blood.
The halls of Odin never rang with fiercer
clamor for war, rapine, and monstrous Brute
Force than do the halls of Congress.
Every instrumentality known to modern
progress is pressed into service, to goad the
people into ungovernable madness for war—
the moving-picture shows,' the theatres, the
street signs, the magazines, the newspapers,
the cartoons, the songs, the catch-cries, the
sermons, the banners, the parades; and at
every elbow is the Secret Service Man whis
pering warnings and threats against any one
who dares to protest against this national
craze, which did not exist six months ago,
and which may subside as suddenly'as it
arose.
But let the soldier have his Bible: he will
read it, no doubt.
In kindness, however, the President should
tell the soldier what particular passages he
should peruse, before he shoots the Bible
reader on the other side, or gets shot by said
brother Bible*student, as the case may be.
— e
"The 4th Begree Oath of the
Knights of Columbus.”
TO meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
A those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath-bound
subjects of a foreign power, I have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our Government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens.
This question of Popery is the most impor
tant .question now facing the people of
America.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents. *
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