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Vol. 37 EDITORIALS AND' SHORT COMMENTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL THOS. E. WATSON. • • Espionage Law , As this paper has heretofore shown, it is a crime under the Espionage Act to reduco the acreage planted in cotton. The planting of cotton does not, to the eye of casual observer, have natural connection with . any the act of a spy, but the Democratic W ilsonian Congress, which incubated and legislated on spy work, during the month of -May, Llh, found that any possible bug in the buttermilk was a potential spy. The amended Espionage act of May 16, 1918, will forever remain the curiosity of historical . 1 rus sianism, the apotheosis of Oriental Mogulism, the craziest caricature of Jeffersonian simplicity, the elixir of life to soulless plutocracy, the labyrinth of lawyers, and the sphinx of ordinary bipeds. Under that act, it is,a crime to .tell the truth: under that act, it is felonious to tell a lie: under that act, the patriot who sees Ins country making a mistake is a criminal if he opens his mouth: un dcr that act, the citizen who expresses his honest opinion against a law which violates the prescrip¬ tion of 500 years, is a culprit to whom no mercy is to be shown. lo . increase the , terrors of , „ this . _ Draconian , law, the Attorney-General of the United States, (Mr. Gregory) virtually invited every man to become a spy upon Ins neighbor! - No wonder the black pall of fear fell , „ upon the , land, and even the sunlight seemed to grow dim. If the law itself, as construed, is the acme of legislative ferocity, what shall we say of the judges who enforced it? When the makers of our U. S. Constitution were debating the question of giving to the U. S. . Judges terms for life, what was the argument which overrode all objections? It was, that a Judge for life would be indepen dent... . independent , <1 t oi I wiiom I.* » pJrSf L5SS’. PP S Om- Fatliers were (akin- a leaf from English bv tvntnnical Kings-und remeveaWe 1„-them monarehs, loitered p^Slrt.T.id iJL' the' U.Zr Conntiy » lorriU, n.elrr Ibe laws, the Sedition laws, and the Libel laws, our Father s determined e to establish ° * the independence. indffpena<.nu of the judiciary* , so that ,, , the decisions . . would not veer and vary with the chanae of political fortunes and p passions ' ■ At first, the wisdom of our Fathers seemed to he vindicated. The U. S. Supreme Court was superbly inde pendent during Mr. Jefferso'n« administration, for instance, when lie exerted all the influence of the government to convict Aaron Buit. It was equally independent when it deeidUi the Yazoo case and the Cherokee Indian case Against the State of Georgia. During “ the' Civil War of the Sixties, the same august Court was supremely indifferent to the wishes of Secretary Stanton and of President ' Lincoln: again and again,, the Judiciary told the Executive, in effect, that its measures were arbi trary, tyrannical, unconstitutional. Chief Justice Taney rebuked President’ Lin coin as resolutely as Chief Justice Marshall had rebuked Presidents Jackson and Jefferson. A Federal Judge issued a Writ of Habeas Corpus against President Andrew Johnson, in the ease of Mrs. Surratt; and while ho refused to honor it, that refusal left an indelible stain upon his memory. YVhere now' is the independence of the Judiciary? /if is gone! Times have changed, men have changed, prin ciples have changed — and it is gone. During the cyclone of war-passions which swept over this country, so suddenly, after April 1917, the Judges fell prostrate and the courts be came storm centres. Judicial calm was no more: impartial serenity could not be found: the zeal of the prosecutor could not more than keep pace with the intense prejudice of the Arbiter. Arbiter? There wasn’t any arbiter: there were two frenzied persecutors, one at the bar and the other on the !' bench. Talk- about' the Courts-Martial, ’ and their ..... . a m The army officers a; now say that it „ not the ,, cwtun amount of dubious tespeiot, if they would (Continued on Page 2) m A m j ^ s ! -- 4 hi® tn, Si Price $2.00 Per Year A BUGLE-CALL TO AMERICANS ) • BEWARE THE DEGRADING SLAVERY OF A FOREIGN PRIESTHOOD WHICH BLASTS WHEREVER IT RULES. Shall shaven-headed bachelors and their “ home * f ece p Gr ” concubines rule you, and your wives, and youa children ?! Look to it • The Great War has enthroned Homan Catho p c j sm) j us t, as so many of us feared it would, The Jesuits and the then Pope caused the War, taking the side of Austria and Germany. So late as the close of 1910, the present Pope defended all German atrocities, including those in Belgium, Northern France, and upon the sea Later, he hedged and plilved neutral, but the , nos t dangerous spies were those nearest the Pope, It k time for us Americam T0 BK STAIjW aut Protestants. The time for mealy-mouthed temporizing with this f oreign brood of rattlesnakes has passed, q w j orm 0 f government —State and National — k a f wgr w Rj t Romanism ,, and cannot BE RECON¬ CILED to IT. Our State and National Constitutions are mil itantly antagonistic to Roman Catholic law, and cannot be brought into harmony with it Between the unchanged popish decrees of the Council of Xrent and the blood-bought conces sions embodied in Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the United States, there ia as vaat a conflict as there is between de« potism and f reedom , between hell and heaven' Don’t blind yourself to the facts. They are historic, indisputable, easily learned: you can knew tho truth if you will. For God’s sake, do not continue to drift, injhf ferently white Rome is coiling fold after fold of her fatal influence around your government. IP alee up, as you would if, at night, you heard Hie cr Y “Fire!” h . lv t ; me to i ose _ not nn hom . .«». learn ” i " h “l» i *•«* »*«...... . V' 11 ' ■ . . ....... 1’W « « *»W •» . *» ^ •— ^ Y jCarn ^ . 10w ^ rotestanfism gave you all you've ' ' J Ub lu CUIA llutIT liberty *v* Lenrn . Ilow <!,l! , Zeroes of Protestantism came down the ages, battling with priests and popes, to crown vou with the jewels of civil and religious ° freedom. | j <>n 8'';' J’ aere 'ueinorize. aro . somc bottom facts you need to thor-! j i * en ' 111 fll( ,]re lssnes of this paper, it will he ^ vndoavor to keep i alive yQur righteous hostility towaiHl this foreign roniTiCAi. machine which out y>ardly se&rn The to Christian be a.Christian church, church. founded / . by at h0,)le y was exactly the same, in creed and form, as that which Peter established, at Antioch: *'“'ittnew, at ilhnuuna; James, at Jerusalem, Pan! a * x'd’besus^&c. dbo Eastern churches gradually dove! oped supreme heads, known as Patriarchs, w ; m; .? J he Wostern churches slowly evolved one supremo head, known ns tho lope. foiuidcii , (°).* by Liore the Apostles, were many which Christian avoided churches, n,b Hie deadly P centralism and priestcraft, adhering loyal b’ to *he primitive doctrines and forms, ' s immensely important, and it not gen ©rally known, even to clergymen. Few priests know it, because they are moulded like bricks in a kiln, just as too many preachers are. The Christian churches which steadfastly maintained primitive creed and form are, the YY T ai ricnseiisians, the Syrians, the Nestorians, the Ar memans, the Greeks, and the Jacobites. lere, were Christian churches, in Western In¬ ( la > ™ >c 1 ia< ! never even heard of such a mon- 8troszt V as a Christian pope, until the coming of cd( ‘ brafcd navI g £ltor , Vft sco de Gama, in the 10th century! t (See Dr. Samuel Edgar’s “Variations of Popery,” page 38.) » As soon as the Italian church heard of this in¬ dependent branch of primitiveChristianity, a fer¬ ocious persecution of it began, and “the tranquility of 1200 years” was ruthlessly broken. f :I 0rtUg!1 ] ^ Sllbj ' ngated the primitive rL Christians r of the Indian sea-coast, but the churches of the interior stood out against g p ; sh attempts to enslavo . * """ of Timothjrj Barnabas, Did you know that Italian popery waged hartem, t>a., Friday, April 25, 1919. bloody war upon this Indian branch of Christian ity, after this New World had been partly col 'onized 1 I he fact is vastly edifying, and explanatory... (4). That the Homan church grew Up in Italy, where the Latin race had become thoroughly imbued with paganism, and worship of idols, and belie) m numerous gods; where the idea prevail ed, that oil ended deities could be placated by gifts to their priests; where the childish notion was prev alent, that gods and goddesses took part in bat lies; and where the credulous heathen were taught, that floods, famines, pestilences and other dire calamities were punitive measures adopted on high by displeased divinities. r lhe early bishops, elders, priests, and deacons of the Christian church of Home belonged to this Fa,tin race; and it came natural to them to gradu¬ ally tolerate more and more of the fabulous, inh < r ited superstitions of their people! Itow many American Catholics ever thou edit of that? Just as, in Japan and China, the Catholic mis¬ sionaries adapted their religion to local, racial, and ancestral beliefs which were too deeply ingrained to be eradicated, so in Italy, the Christian bishops, being of the Latin, race themselves, adapted the church to the inherited, ingrained, ineradicable Latin superstitions. Thus it came to pass, that Italian Christians gave their chief-priest the Pagan title of Pontifex Maximus; elevated the Jewess, Mary, to the place OTiCC lu ' ld l) v Cybelc. “the Mother of tho Gods and . ^lie Queen of the Heavens:” created a number of >ailds ) to take the vacant niches once occupied by demi-gods; lit candles before shrines, burnt incense in the temples, and crowned with flowers «*•* =•»*"« <* *• ****>■ S£nlIIl2d ' A",'d V '’"“T*’* " . . J.. . ... Z • Z" f if"' 7 '“f * ? / ./ a •> z 1 ’ rn/ ‘’ n rhf 1 ‘ ' c sacrifice, . • atlst as Tine : ' AC ' N 1 ’ Rn ' STa t’ormerly mb. - /V, /k\ rr, a U V . LiUln r . Christians ~ . had ' ' " e » tod b <7 ^ Paganism at Home, the bl ® 0 P s tof>k advantage of the absence of the Em perors- -who had removed to Constantinople—-and ! ’-cgan to claim municipal control of the city, and i03i, l V'n- ! k,n f‘ Io .* n- .... l , . ' ambition f of ihe P o/rt ■ ' l PS W8S ^ rntlfied an{1 j ' . 1 \ m ' t ’, 1 t , p : (l " 01 , . , a a te >! Srown , • > bv b J Ttalinri * J* _ 1 ”" t JSt 1S ‘°- l,n ” Uy over . T "' a " of ' / hoi u . "f f f ® r 'nation, as r the n outcomes of . the Great War.' (‘A. that the Church at. Home became so grasping in its ambition io rule the whole world, that a great division (schism) took placo in the Middle Ages; one-half of the Christian churches being forced by arms to obey the Homan pope, and the other half refusing to do so. The half that defied tho encroachments of Home was composed of YValclenses, Albigenses, Greeks, Nestorians, Armenians, Syrians and Jacob¬ ites. (7) That the popes, infuriated at opposition in Europe, waged relentless war upon the YValden- 1 ses, butchering them by thousands, and driving the remainder into mountain retreats; and preached a terrible crusade against the Albigenses, desolat¬ ing the fairest province of France with fire and sword, and sweeping into one hideous carnage men, women and innocent children (8) . That the Italian popes, becoming intoxi¬ cated with omnipotent power, carried their arro gance to extremest lengths. They took thrones from some princes, and bestowed them upon others. They deposed Emperors, and gave the Imper¬ ial crown to others. They claimed sovereign control of kingdoms, and transferred them from one man to another, as readily as you would take a sock off the right foot and put it on the left. They asserted and exercised the supreme right to annul any legislation which they disapproved, and thus the murderer of the Albigenses—Pope In¬ nocent III.—annulled the Great Charter of our liberties, and laid his bitterest anathema upon it. Cardinal Gibbons vows that he is ravenously ( Continued on Page Two) Issued Weekly Taft , and Why ? Sometimes when we get rid of a nuisance it puzzles us to understand why we are bothered with a second time. D often happens that when we bury a cat we bate to see it come hack. I have known men to lose their temper over such things. Bip Van Winkles are all well enough in books of fiction, but in politics wo feel that we are imposed upon ami taken unfair advantage of when a person whoso public obsequies wo have us¬ sisted at, comes corpuleutlv upon the subsequent scenes and undertakes to issue orders to the pall beavers, that's after thev luid almost forgotten his funeral, Taft. Somehow, he stirs our bile. YY e honestly believed that we had decently en¬ tombed him many, many years ago. V e have embalmed and interred such a great number of better men since he passed away, that we regard his seeond coming as a sort of con¬ temptuous disregard of those proprieties' that should prevail even among malefactors of great wealth. Tafts second advent is an affront to us, m that it contradicts what wo had considered a bona fide demise, on his part. •We considered him gone, for good: and there¬ fore we did not reserve any seat for him, or any room for him, any inhere. Who resurrected William Howard Taft? What Gabriel tooted him up? YVc have no more need of Taft than a‘horse has for five legs. YY'o have less occasion for Taft than a woman has for two tongues. YY’o cun no more expect (o be benelitted by the second coming of Taft than we can by the return of hoar-frost in Juno. ** *• »> ™ i f 'S , day. when . -I. ■ £ ‘Tnnvfiffl'iimi« }PT f®®®* ‘ By the use offthis word, fife '.-sSPaB imptieC i m ,J, .] P v , rr .,.j , inssflu «• ;**•, n "■ not ‘. 'tore % ^ l ;-.h,w .u copyright. My opinion o£ the man who WTOKT1 ■:f! stuff ia very, very low. ninn who would steal Taft’s stuff. ! ' S lronl a mud-puddle on another man’s land. ,\ eet i say that Taft ia for YVoodnnv Wilson?'' fhe r:•Ihiiy to ilm proposition is, that YY’il son is for Taft. Hands iTcn is; the sen! Taft joy fully cahlcsj YYilson: j!s- m joyfully cables Taft. (Burleson charges i! i ip to current expenses, joyfully.) And whoj is T-i»fi, any wav? He is the solitary horseman we used about: In- is the lone fisherman who had all the luck,: he is the one. American who has never known what it was to be without an office. No ' Liter which way the wind blows, Taft gets an office. No matter how the shuffle may go between Ins and Outs, Taft is always In, He is called a Inwvnv and lie nv vr-v a case in his life. The corporations lifted him into a Federal judgeship, arftl lie made a reversible overcoat out of tho Injunction by turning it into a Mandamus. He decided, in effect, that Railroads could dis¬ charge engineers, hut that engineers could not dis¬ charge railroads. Hp toadied to Hoosevelt until the unsuspicious Theodore loved Taft like a twin-brother: thus he got sent on high missions to Panama and became Governor of the Philippine Islands. At Panama ,he lent his smile to such patriots as Bunenu-Varilla and YVilliam Nelson Cromwell. In the Philippines, he lent his smile to the Spanish Friars, and finally pnid them seven millL.i dollars for the lands thev had virtually stolen from the natives. ' Ho fatly to Rome, and lent his smile ’ wont ♦ i the Pope, who, in the next, election, lent him the Catholic votes of these United States. Thus by the mighty help of Theodore Roose¬ velt and the Italian Kiss-my-foot, Taft became President—and such a President! Washington City revelled and orgied and camivalled in stnnd-patism, Aldrichism, Cannon ism, Bnllingerism, Wickershamism, Guggenheimismj, (CONTINUED ON FACT TWO.J I* /so. 31.