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VoL 37 “Such Men as Tom Watson , Now in the Penitentiary for Treason!” The National Labor Tribune, of Pittsburg, Pa., took sides with the persecuted Russellites, and thereby incurred the bitter wrath of one R. A. O’Connor, of Sharon, Pennsylvania. This rose of Sharon is hedged about by so many thorns, that he strikes all around, like a copper-head in the slrin-shedding season; and of course he aims at T. E. W., as well as at Judge Rutherford, Pastor Russell, and the Labor Tribune. O’Connor wants to know, “Why is it that the toscin is sounded by such men as Tom Watson, now in the penitentiary for treason, and Mr. Ruth¬ erford now in Atlanta Prison on the same charge?” Somebody has been making mule out of O’Connor. His facts are far, far from straight. His temper is hot enough, but his trail is cold. He has a dim recollection that the Knights of Columbus, some years ago, passed a Resolution, at the New Orleans Confemce, to “ put Tom Watson out of business and O’Connor naturally as¬ sumes that the K. of C. succeeded. It is quite a pleasure to set*him right in this matter: the K. of C. had this accursed heretic ar¬ rested, because of his republication of an extract from one of the many vile books in which priests are tau-ght how to corrupt Catholic women at the Confessional. The prosecution lasted several years, but the heretic was never in prison, for one moment. He was out on bond until the jury, in Novem¬ ber, 1916, rendered a verdict, of “Not guilty.” In less than a year after the K. of C. failed in the U. S. Court, Mr. Burleson confiscated the property of The Jeffersonian Publishing Com¬ pany, and swept away the fruits of thirteen years of my labor, without any process of law. ./ have never been informed wherein “Watsons Magazine ” offended the Government. I do not know/ I would be grateful for the information, even at this late day. It was alleged that The Jeffersonian (weekly) had violated the Espionage law, but no jury, either grand or petit, said so. .There never was any ^judicial decision in the case, except that Judge Emory Speer denied my application for an injunction against the local postmaster. There was a legal test case against the Con¬ scription law, and the case went, to the Supreme Court, mainly on the argument I had made in the U. S. District Court; but when the highest tribunal decided in favor of the law, I bowed to the decision and had no more to say. There never was any charge of “treason’.’ until (PCarmor made it. The rose of Sharon says that the Catholic church has been the object of attack ever since the days of Nero and Diocletian. O’Connor has much to learn: in the days of Nero and Diocletian, no such organization as he belongs to was in existence. Nero persecuted Christians, not pagan pap ists. Diocletian persecuted those who worshipped God, after the manner of Paul, Peter, John, Bar¬ nabas, Timothy, and James—not those who pray to a woman, who rely upon other men to forgive their sins, who pantlieize Christianity, and place an Italian priest in the seat of supremacy once occupied by the Pope of Paganism. When Nero and Diocletian persecuted Christians, the* Pagan Pontiff was yet the supreme head of Paganism, and both Nero and Diocletian were Popes, as well as Emperors. Of course, O’Connor knows this; conse¬ quently, he should not attempt to mix Popish Catholicism with genuine primitive Christianity. The Sharon smartee says, that Popery has survived all the attacks made on it. So has Mormonism. Buddhism is 400 years older than Christian¬ ity, and it has not only survived all attacks, but now counts more adherents than any other religion. Confucianism is older than the era of Christ, and counts greater numbers than does Roman Catholicism. If a mere survival of a religion proved any¬ thing, we should all be Pagans, for there is not a distinctive dogma, rite, practice, or ceremonial, of the modern Church of Rome that is not Pagan in its origin. Mr. O’Connor says that party politics have no place in the Roman church. It is a deplorable fact, that O’Connor is mis¬ taken: the Pope and the Cardinals are politicians first, and ecclesiastics second. Time and again, during recent years. Popes have declared that American Catholics must so use (Continued on Page 8) SEP+4'’V. I Price $2.00 Per Year EDITORIALS By THOS. E. WATSON, “THE PEOPLES ARE IN THE SADDLE. In his 415th speech in France, our absentee President announced the glorious news that “the peoples are in the Saddle.” These are his exhilirating words: “You are aware, as I am aware, that the airs of an older day are begin¬ ning to stir again, that the standards of an old order are trying to assert them again. “There is here and there an at¬ tempt to insert into the counsel of states¬ men the old reckoning of selfishness and bargaining and national advantage which were the roots of this war, and any man who counsels these things advocates a re¬ newal of the sacrifice which these men have made, for if this is not the last bat¬ tle for light there will be another that, will be final. “Let these gentlemen who suppose that it is possible for them to accomplish this return to an order of which we are ashamed, and that we are ready to forget, realize they cannot accomplish- it. The peoples of the world are awake and the peoples of the world are in the saddle.” A ou will observe that the President, with his usual expansiveness, includes in his “vision” the peoples of the whole world, and puts saddles un der all of them. The 315,000,000 peoples of India are in the saddle, not under it. The 400,000,000 Chinese are on top and astride the saddle, prepared to ride in any direction selected by the principle of “self-deter¬ mination.” The peoples of Egypt, of Korea, of Algeria, of Asia Minor are in the saddle, perfectly free to take any road the prefer. How satisfactory this is! The Golden Age is upon us, once more. Who cares whether the Millennium arrives or not? With all the peoples of the world in the saddle, what more could you ask? Being in the saddle, the people of England, France, and America took a referendum vote, a instructed Four Men to lock themselves up, in Paris, and to incubate secretly, until they cou ijd hatch out a new sort of chicken, known as the League of Nations. The whole world could not furnish more than Four Men fit to do this incubating and hatching. This shows the extreme intellectual poverty that had fallen upon “mankind.” The world is almost at its last gasp, when the brains of it are monopolized by Four Men. Future psychologists may determine wheth¬ er this paucity of intellect , caused the Great War, or was caused by it. “You are aware, as I am aware, that, the aims of an older order are beginning to stir again, that the standards of an older order are trying to as¬ sert themselves again.” Yes, we are aware of it—painfully so. And we are also painfully aware of the fact that the stirrers of the old airs, the advocates of the old order, are crying “Stop thief,” in order that their own sly work may not be detected. Did the federated kings, princes, grand-dukes, and high-priests who manipulated the Congress of Vienna, in 1815. accomplish a gi'eater work for Privilege, Absolutism, Toryism, and Reaction, than has been achieved at the Conference of Paris? At the Vienna Congress, the five strongest nations—England, France. Russia. Prussia, and Austria—sat in secret, excluding tiie smaller STATES. At the Paris Conference, the four strong nations—-England. France. Italy, and the United States sat in secret, excluding the small states. Who authorized the Big Five at Vienna to dictate to the rest of the world? Nobody authorized it: in their case, Might was Right; and usurpation was easy, because the largest armies were back of the usurpers. Who authorized the Big Four at Paris to shut out all the others—such as Belgium, Portu¬ gal, South America, China, Korea, Bohemia, Greece, Roumania, and Servia? Nobody authorized it: the Big Four appoint¬ ed themselves the arbiters of the world, and their usurpation was successful, because of the aimies back of it. The conscripted millions of American and English troops were illegally held in Europe, for no other purpose than to back up the arrogant powers usurped by Wilson and Lloyd-George. Those millions of soldiers were not needed If you wish to read a brief but complete exposure of THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM, so that you can fully understand the campaign now being fought out, between ROMANISM AND AMERICANISM, order THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY, priced elsewhere in this paper. Harlem, Ga., Friday, June 13, 1919. against Germany, for the German Empire had been reduced to the size of Pennsylvania, her army had been disbanded, and her llect surren¬ dered. If the armies of France, Italy, Servia, Roumania, and Greece can not now cope with disarmed Germany, what will they be able to do, 30 years hence, when the smouldering German discontents flame into another War. Must it always be our duty to protect the European sheep from the Teuton wolf? “There is, here, and there, an attempt to insert into the counsel of statesmjen the old reck¬ oning of selfishness and bargaining and national advantage.” How true! Even at this distance from Paris, and through the fog of censored cablegrams. I have noticed it, myself. If such lamentable things are dimly discern¬ ible at Thomson, wha must be their vivid trans¬ parency in Europe! “The old reckoning of selfishness and bargain¬ ing, and national advantage are to be seen, here and there.” Yes, we saw it in Japan, when she Snperious lv demanded that Woodrow Wilson ratify the bargain she had made, secretly, with Great Brit¬ ain. in February 1917! That secret bargaining for the German pos¬ sessions in China, was unknown to the world until Mr. Wilson went to Paris! Should he not have suspected something of the kind ? Should he not have inquired into England’s compact with Japan, before committing this country to a war whose result involves the loss of China’s independence? In effect, our soldiers fought for the general outcome of the Paris Conference, and a most im¬ portant part of that outcome is, the conquest of China by Japan. Has Mr. Wilson ever referred to his slip-up, in the matter of England’s secret bargain with Japan? He has not: he never will: he continues to drape his figure in self-adulation, and to pose as the Apostle of Democracy, ignoring the historic h® Republic is jwrticeps^ oi criminis to the subjuga the’ China by the Autocratic Emperor of Japan! What sort of diplomats have we, anyhow? Do they depend upon the newspapers for information concerning such matters as the secret treaties be¬ tween France and England, on the one part, and Japan and Italy, on the other? Italy was bound to Germany and Austria by Bismarck’s Triple Alliance; and the King of Italy wavered a long time before deciding what course to take. For months, the newspapers told of the strug¬ gle at Rome between the diplomats of Germany, and those of England. ‘tr> Was not this enough to have put Mr. Wilson on notice that, when Italy at length broke away from the Triple Alliance, she had received better offers from England than the Kaiser was willing to make? Surely. Mr. Wilson had not deluded himself with the belief, that the Italians were intoxicated by the same Arcadian ideals as governed himself. Why did the ubiquitous Col. House fail to nose-out those secret treaties, which engulfed Pres¬ ident Wilson’s Fourteen Points? Alas! the points have gone to join the Lost Tribes of Isrrel; the lost mines of Solomon;- and the lost Book of Livy. Also, we Americans are in the saddle. You may cast your eyes in any direction, any time, and you will see the plain people in the sad (lie. Being in the saddle, the people put up the prices of meat, shoes, clothes, and flour, in order that the oppressed Monopolies may not have to go hungry on less than 400 per cent profits. Being in the saddle, the people so arranged the prices of what they need, that almost any man can. at almost any time, go almost anywhere, and buy a quarter’s worth of something for a dollar. Before the people got in the saddle, there were times when prices tetered up and down, and competition was the life of trade; but owing to the saddle which the people have placed on the back of Monopoly, you now pay the same prices everywhere, and you can go barefooted, if you don’t want to pay three prices for a pair of shoes. If the people remain in the saddle, where they have been put by the Greatest Man that ever wore pantaloons, I really don’t see what’s to be (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.) Issued Weekly Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson. In the New York Ann riean. there appeared recently a strong editorial emphasizing the fact that President Wilson is not really an American, although the accident of birth gave him the tech¬ nical right to call himself one. His grandfather was a Tory pteacher, at Car¬ lisle, England; and his father came over to this country long after Andrew Jackson whipped the British at New Orleans. The New York World is against Mr. Hearst in all things, just as it was against Mr. Roosevelt in all things; and it is now Wilsonian in all things. Wilson can't turn over in bed too often to lose touch with the World. Every time that Wilson changes his position, the World changes—which means that the World is never the same for three weeks on a stretch. Concerning the recent editorial in the Ameri¬ can, the World says — “The always amusing Mr. Hearst now has a new issue, which is that nobody shall be eligible to the Presidency who is not a native son of a native son. This restrict¬ ion would not remove any of Mr. Hearst’s disabilities, but it would have kept out of the White House one Andrew Jackson and one Woodrow Wilson, both sons of immi¬ grants.” 1 his paragraph is not happy in its comparison of Woodrow Wilson to Andrew Jackson. It is true that the father of Andrew Jackson was born in the north of Ireland, and that he emigrated from his native land to escape the hard conditions that the Tory aristocrats of England had fastened upon Ireland. It is true that Andrew Jackson was born, the son of an immigrant; but it is also true that his mother, and her two fatherless boys, were most active on the side of the Americans during the Revolutionary War. The mother lost her life, nursing the sick and wounded American prisoners, held on the British hulks at Charleston. 1 he boys joined the American army, volun¬ teering when they were mere lads. Andrew Jackson was slashed over the head, with a sword, by a British officer, whose boots the captive boy refused to clean. —f He bore the deep scar of that cowardly blow, to his grave. Tie hated the English with such consuming passion that he never forgave Washington for the Jay Treaty, never condoned our desertion of France, and was never so happy as after the Bat¬ tle of New Orleans in which he and the Southern volunteers had made such short work of Welling (on's veteran troops. 'O that she could have lived to see this day!" he exclaimed, 'meaning his mother.. lo compare this American hero with the ovn ical Englishman, who wrote a book against uuv form, of government, is a gross insult to the living and the dead. Woodrow Wilson’s “Congressional Govern¬ ment,’ is a covert attack upon our system of repre¬ sentative government. In that book. Professor Wilson endeavored to demonstrate the Superiority of the English system to ours. Alexander Hamilton attempted the same thing, in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Mr. Wilson’s book argues that (he Executive power should dictate to the Judicial and Legisla¬ tive. That was Mr. Hamilton's view! This pro-English idea was not that of Wash¬ ington. or of Madison, or of Jefferson, or of An¬ drew Jackson. General Jackson was elected as a People’s Man. as against the concentration of power at Washington. General Jackson’ defied the great financial in¬ terests. destroyed the National Bank, paid off the national debt, and issued Treasury notes instead of bonds. President Jackson put his foot down upon the proposed exclusion of Abolition literature from the mails, saying that Congress had no authority to make any law abridging the freedom of the press. The worst administrations are those that pro¬ hibit criticism. The worst of churches is that which damns freedom of the press. Woodrow Wilson borrowed from English pre¬ cedent his policy of gagging the independents. That was the favorite tyranny of George III., against whom our ancestors battled for freedom—an integral of which this Tory Englishman—Wilson—took away, when he allowed the British government to draw him into the whirlpool of European, Asiatic, and African barbed-wire-entanglemjents. From those entanglements, the learned Prof¬ essor does not seem to know how to release himself. President Andrew Jackson pursued a course: he stayed out of them. l\lo. 38.