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Vol. 37
Father Tobin Bitterly Denies the
Dark Ages.
Gradually we are learning that profane his¬
tory was badly written, and that the priests must
shoulder the task of doing it all over again.
Father Tobin enters the held, eager to do his
bit, and he serenely tills the Dark and Middle
Ages with the glory of his Church.
He says, in eii'ect, that the Roman church and
the literature of classic Greece and Rome were
amiably living at peace with one another, when,
“about the 5tli century after Christ, the Goths,
Vandals and Huns broke into Europe and began
to tear in pieces the Roman Empire.”
At this crisis, the Roman Church stepped in
and saved civilization, according to Father Tobin.
What are the historic factsf
On page 312, of his great work, “The Intel¬
lectual Development of Europe,” Dr. Draper
shows that the policy adopted by Constantine the
Great had opened the way to power, privilege
and wealth for ambitious prelates, who, having
reached such lofty stations, “were tempted to set
up their own notions as final and unimpeachable
truth, and to denounce as magic, or the sinful pur¬
suit of vain trifling, all learning that stood in the
way.
Ill this the hand of the civil power assisted.
It was intended to cut off every philosopher.
Every manuscript that could be seized was
forthwith burned'.
Throughout the East, men in terror burned
their libraries, for fear that some unfortunate
sentence contained in any of the books should in¬
volve them and their families in destruction.”
Such M'ere conditions in the fourth century,
when no Goth, no Hun, no Vandal had profaned
the soil of the Empire.
Religious persecutions began under the SllC
cessors of Constantine the Great; and, by Theodo¬
sius the Great, they were pushed to the extremes
of death, on the demands of the clergy. Any sub¬
ject who refused to become an orthodox Athana
sian Christian, was denounced as a heretic and
deprived of civil rights: any Christian celebrating
Easter on the same day with the Jews, was put to
death—in less than 400 years after Jesus Christ
Juid^criebi-i. fed Easter on the day observed by the
Theodosius 'was ar: {ignorant, bigoted, pruel
Spaniard, who not only hated learning and rigor¬
ously enforced religious conformity by civil law,
but he set up Inquisitors of faith, and these men
became at once spies, witnesses and judges.
Here, then, was a portentious development of
Intolerance, based on pride, power, ignorance and
superstition.
From such a beginning, the- Dark Ages came.
Long before Alaric had led his Goths to the
seige and sack of Rome, the ignorant, fanatical
monks had destroyed the immense collection of
invaluable manuscripts which had been given to
Cleopatra by Mark Antony, after the Ptolemeian
library had been accidentally destroyed during
Julius Caesars attacks an the city.
The Egyptian monks not only destroyed the
heathen literature of Greece, but they brutally as¬
saulted and tore to pieces the beautiful intellectual
Grecian girl, Hypatia, who was then, teaching the
same Creek classics that are taught in all the \
colleges today!
rio far as I have been able to learn, the hor¬
rible murder of this Grecian lady was the “first
blood” of monkish fanaticism. A. D. 415.
The Jews were cruel enough when thpy
stoned Stephen, but Stephen died a merciful
death compared (lie to that of Hypatia, stripped
haked in street, and literally torn limb from
limb, by the dirty monks of the Thebiad.
To show that this promiscuous destruction of
books was not a sporadic case, we have only to
remember the Roman bishop, now galled lYp
Leo the Great, who set fire to the Imperial
Library at Rome and thus inflicted irreparable
injury upon the literature of the world.
In his “Intellectual Development of Europe,”
Dr. Draper says—
“Participating in the ecclesiastical hatred of
human learning, and insisting on the maxim that
‘‘Ignorance is the mother of Devotion,' he (Greg¬
ory the Great) expelled from Rome all mathema¬
tical studies, and burned the -Palatine library
founded by Augustus Caesar/ He forbade the
study of the classics, mutilated statues, and des¬
troyed temples.”
Dr. Draper states that this Pope was so suc¬
cessful in destroying classical literature in Italy,
that when Pope Paul I. sent to Pepin of France
what books lie could find, they were three, only, a
grammar, an antiphonal, and the work of Diony
sins the Areopagite. (See Draper, Vol. 1. pp.
857 and 358.)
Now, Father Tobin knows that Leo the Great
was not elected Pope until the year 590. the end
of the 6th century: what, then, does he mean by
saying that the Goths, Vandals and Huns des¬
troyed literature “about the 5th century?”
Alaric, the Goth, captured and pillaged Rome
in the year 440, but he did not burn any libraries:
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EDITORIALS By THOS. E. WATSON.
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE—IS IT WORTII
MAINTAINING ?
In a short while, the people of these
States will be celebrating the anniversary of our
Declaration of Independence.
On the Fourth of July, business will suspend
its activities, and patriotism will exalt the heroic
virtues, of the Fathers who made so long and so
hard a figh to establish our national sovereignty.
For seven years, Americans struggled to free
themselves from foreign control, and we have
ever since been boasting about it.
This year is a bad time for spread-eagle ora¬
tory.
This year we are expected to enthuse over the
surrender of what our Revolutionary forefathers
won.
In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies could no longer
endure the bondage of Great Britain: in 1919, we
must run joyfully into the bondage of Siam, Japan,
Liberia, Hedjaz, Ecuador, Honduras, Peru, Aus¬
tralia, Spain and England.
When the Fourth-of-July orator steps for¬
ward this year, what can he say?
If he chants the praises of the Fathers 'who
won Independence, he will be casting reflections
upon the Sons who are about to lose it.
If George Washington is exalted to the skies
for having compelled England to acknowledge our
Independence, what’s to be said of Woodrow Wil
son who usurps the authority to barter away that
blood-bought freedom?
President Wilson appointed himself andjf
House to go to Europe, and make a new Con.,.i
lion which overrides the Constitution made' 0 V
Washington, Madison, Randolph, Rutledge and
Franklin.
President Wilson and Col. House go to Europe
and form a Federation of the World which com¬
pels those United States to vacate their proud
position as a Sovereign Power, and to occupy a
lower place, as the equal of the small Mohamme¬
dan state of Hedjaz, the small Negro state of Lib¬
eria, and the small Catholic state of Spain.
Can the 4th of July speaker go into rhapsodies
over that unauthorized surrender of the absolute
freedom and independence of this Republic?
Since July 4th, 1776, no political issue more
important than the proposed League of Nations
has presented itself; and the manner in which that
issue conies upon the country is supremely insult -
ing to a self-respecting, self-governing democracy.
The people were given no hint of the inten
tion of President Wilson and Col. House to
us to a foreign domination. _
The guilty secret was well kept.
The had conspiracy been against our form of gfiked ^
mant, concerted in the dark, while
conspirators themselves were loudly proclaims
their devotion to American “ideals,” the
can “mission,” and the American principle of
“self-determination.”
Such Republicans as Taft and McCumbcv
were let into the secret of the conspiracy, but
such democrats as Harvey, Vardeman and Reed
were kept out.
/Since when, did Mr. Taft become a good
democrat, solicitious for the interests of the plain
people ?
Since when, did he cease to be the little fat
brother of the Big Rich?
The very mention of liis name .suggests the
Morgan Money Trust, the Guggenheim Smelter
Trust, the Sugar Trust, the General Electric Pow¬
er-site Trust, the Standard Oil Trust, and every
other price-fixing despotism of Big Business.
“ Sei.e-detekmin ation ! ”
• Every people, however small, were to be giv¬
en the democratic right to decide for themselves
what sort of government they should have in the
fuure.
Does the Constitution of the League recognise
that democratic principle?
A re the people of these United States to be
allowed to say whether they are Mulling to enter
into a political partnership with foreign Kings,
aristocracies, ana inferior races?
No! This’great people, 110,000,000 strong, are
not allowed to exercise the democratic right of
self-determination.
Arbitrarily, their Supreme Law is subordinat¬
ed to another and higher law, made by four old
men secretly incubating behind locked doors.
Arbitrarily, President Wilson and Col. House
surrender us to a foreign federation whose fetters
they put upon us, before we dreamed that such
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fetters were being forged.
Isn’t it a marvellous thing, that those who
charmed the ears of “mankind ’ bv proclaiming
democracy should secretly plot to dethrone it?
Isn t it a wonderful piece of legerdemain, that
those who fixec^ our eyes upon self-determination
for Poland, Silesia, and Alsace-Lorraine, should
successfully divert our attention from our own
loss of self-determinationf
\\ hile warning us against Germany’s designs
on our freedom, the tricksters have fastened upon
us the irons of the League of Nations,
11 hile admonishing us to beware of the Ger¬
man robbers, the Angle)-American plotters PICKED
our pockets!
Our Constitution is displaced by a new one,
made secretly abroad: our Sovereignty of the
People abdicates in favor of a Sovereignty of
Foreign Powers: our democracy is crushed and
silenced, by the despotic autocracy created for the
benefit of Great Britain, the Trusts, the Papacy,
and Japan!
What kind of July oration can Mr. Taft
make?
What is to become of the. Independence for
-
}\ r \ u Revolutionary soldier fought „ the In
whose tnum P h has been onr proudest
l\ ?feS' al herita afn K e? a
5' ette c0 me ov " to lend his services
ify’ 1v ’ , ucb , tbe , ,lu would dominate
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fleip'i*'/ ai " 116 Americans, .
' Steuben come from Prussia, Kosciusko
i-dm .
Poland, and Pulaski from Hungary to fight
for a League that would level the Colonies down¬
ward to the plane of desert Arabs?
“All just governments derive their powers
from the consent of the governed.”
Who are the people that have given their
consent to a government of nine men, chosen
nobody knows how or wiry?
Have the people of France been consulted
about this new government? No!
Have the English been asked to give their
consent? No!
Have the people of America been given any
chance to express themselves concerning this revo¬
lutionary subversion of their federal government?
No!
President Wilson scorns and flouts, the pen
nle, asking from them nothing but slavish submis
f ^x-President jailor-made speeches Taft runs around, doping out
for the League, not dor¬
V’?D let the people vote on it.
;/ They impudently demand that Senator James
resign, and take the issue before the peo
p] e 0 f Missouri.
Will Senator John Sharp Williams resign
and take the League-issue before the people of
Mississippi?
Will Senator William J. Harris resign and
take the issue before the people of Georgia?
O that he would!
Will President Wilson resign, and take the is¬
sue to the people of the United States?
■O that he would!
Yes. (he glorious Fourth draws nigh.
Prepare to illuminate the statue of Liberty
lighting the World!
It wilt he the last. time.
Let the orator drink deep from the founts of
Patrick llenrv, Daniel Webster, Sergeant Pren¬
tiss, and John Adams: the speech this year, will
be the swan song.
Play Dixie, and the Star Spangled Banner,
and America, and Auld lang Syne, and the Long
Metre Doxology: there won’t be any Independence
left when Taft and Wilson and House get
through.
When Congress gave the President one hund¬
red million dollars to use secretly, all sane men ex¬
pected queer things to happen, but nobody sus¬
pected that our form of government was to he
overthrown and a foreign despotism put on our
necks.
And it is so pleasant to think that this secret
betrayal of our independence was the work of
men who formulated such divinely perfect deduc¬
tions in favor of freedom, democracy, enthroned
conscience, moral forces, altruistic ideals and all
the rest of the Wilsonian beattitudes, platitudes,
and sanctimonious hvpocricies.
Issued! Weekly
^ ie Frank Case, Polish Mass
acres, and a Lawyer of Atlanta.
Ii\ the favor of Senator Iloke Smith, the of
iire of l . S. District Attorney in Atlanta is held
by an eccentric individual, named Hooper Alex¬
ander, nominally a lawyer, and by habit the 1 over
of lime-light, footlights, and die glare of pitiless
publicity.
'When nobody else invites him to it, lie ores
of his own inspiration.
Some years ago, there was a murder case in
(ieoigia which attracted national attention, because
the leading attorney for the defense made a race
out of it.
Instond ot trying the man on the merits of
the case, and leaving him to take what was com
ing to him, as the legitimate result of the legal
this leading attorney thrust into the
the fact that the defendant was a Jew.
Whenever a lawyer makes an appeal for or
is race-prejudice, he dot's so as a last resort:
the tactics of professional desperation.
Mr. Hooper Alexander never had a big case
court, and never was leading counsel for a man
of attempted rape and murder, hence,
I am saying is Sanscrit to him.
There was a pencil factory in Atlanta, which
ployed a considerable number of young girls
wages often amounted to as much as six
J°!! ars contact " week with ’ and the these Southern Leo girls Frank, came who in
down manager,
come from New York to work under
uncles, the owners of the business.
Leo Frank was a married man—childless—
slightly under the middle age: at the trial,
girls testifid to liis lascivious characer, and
indecent conduct of his, in his office.
One of those white-girl witnesses gave evi¬
which is unfit to print, and she offered to
it, by exhibiting physical marks on
person.
More than a dozen white girls and men were
witnesses against Leo Frank, and they were not
impeached.
Only one negro gave material evidence against
the accused, and even without his testimony, the
case against Frank was complete.
I his negro is of low character, has continued
to live in Atlanta, and has even been sentenced for
violation of law; but nobody has ever produced a
scintilla of evidence against him, in the matter of
the murder of Mary Pliagan, the little girl whose
lifeless body was found in the basement of the
factory of Leo Frank’s uncles.
After the conviction and execution of Leo
the mother of Mary Phagin entered suit
for damages against the owners of the factory, al¬
that her minor child had been killed in the
by the manager, whom the owners had put
her; and that, therefore, these owners
legally responsible for the crime of their
These uncles of Leo Frank—defendants in this
case— settled the case out of court , pac¬
to the bereaved mother a sum of money which
was satisfied to accept.
In other words, Leo Frank's uncles virtually
that, he had murdered the girl, and they
for the damages thus inflicted upon the
So much by way of preface: now, where does
Smith's District Attorney comr inf
Ho comes in, when least expected' or desired,
a public meeting held in Atlanta, the purpose
which was, to protest, against Catholic mas¬
or Jews, in Roland.
One would naturally suppose that, a public
of that sort could be made, without un¬
disturbance, almost anywhere in Georgia,
of course, in those immediate precincts
Catholic priests censor public meetings and
utterances.
You could hardly expect Father Potbelly and
Flannelinouth to sanction a denunciation
Polish Jew-killing, since Jew-killing is one of
ancient pastimes of Popes, Cardinals. Bishops,
Jesuits, and Dominicans.
But we were not aware of the fact—if it is a
Senator Smith’s District Attorney is a
Catholic; and, consequently, disinclined
hear an Atlanta meeting condemn Polish
The Catholics are slaughtering the Jews in
per ancient custom—and the people of
assemble to protest against the slaugh¬
and Mr. Hooper Alexander invites himself to
meeting, to protest against the protest!
Not only comes there, to speak against the
but fetches a paper to read to the helpless
And why does Senator Smith’s protege ob¬
to a protest against Cathholic battues of Is¬
Why does he virtually contend, orally and in
that there must be no” Atlanta protest
Catholic massacres in Poland?
Th,is comically eccentric District Attorney
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