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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 Read Watson’s speech <fe fliver©®? at Thomson, June 23, Ten cents pet copy; ttiitpenfyjive cents per dozen; th?e dphars per hunetyyedJ the apt of h bdfy cw and JeffersiMtJati Co. Thomseut, Go. 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. * PAGE THREE i