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VoL 37 The Guile and the Wiles of the White House Jesuits . Fon the first time in our history, the Executive Mansion is in control of the Jesuits. For the first time, our Republic is ruled by Jesuit casuistry, falsehoods, guile, and wiles. Consider the efforts being made to hoodwink the country, as to the real nature and purpose of the League of Nations. In the first place, it was a Jesuit trick to put this snake in the same basket which holds the Peace Treaty. The snake had no business in that basket Nobody had any right to say to us, “You shan't have peace , 'unless you poison it with the League,” No one Jesuit made the government under which we have lived and grown great: no one Jesuit should be allowed to substitute another gov¬ ernment for the one our fathers made. It is Jesuitical to say that the Constitution of the League is a mere “Covenant,” when in fact, its cwn text shows that it is a Constitution, in ever)' sense, and that it creates a new government for this country, as well as for other countries. Nobody but a Jesuit would coil the moccasin cf the new government within the folds of the Peace Treaty, and call the combination “a treaty of peace.” With the League inside of it, the treaty is not one of pcaoe: it is a mere temporary vehicle for the League to ride into our citadel—a Trojan horse full of the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty. The Peace Treaty shbuld have, been a thing apart, limited to the pacification of the world: a lew and future government of the world, should have likewise been a thing apart, to be submitted to the deliberations of the peoples concerned. The Jesuits knew that, as a separate propo¬ sition, the peoples would never ratify the Consti¬ tution of the League: hence, they put the goat with the sheep, in order that, the new government might go into effect before the people could be heard to say they didn’t want the goat. The morals of the man who resorted to this sibterfuge , cannot be tore. The man who mixes a new government with a peace-treaty, is full of guile. Consider the White House conference be¬ tween the President and the Committee on Foreign Relations: What do yon make of a man who tells the Committee that the obligations imposed upon us by llie League are “merely moral” not legal. Merely moral/ If good morals are not the source of all legal obligations that hind the con¬ science, then I am no more of a lawyer than Wood row Wilson was, when he tried to be one and failed. “Merely moral!” Is this the same man who has been the rhetori¬ cian of the New Day, calling upon the vasty oteps of European degeneracy to rise to the Alpine summits of Right, of Conscience, of duty to others, of organized moral forces? To disarm the opposing Senators, the Presi¬ dent suavely assures them that the pledge to pro¬ tect other nations in their territorial possessions, is not a legally binding pledge. It is merely moral, and we will be at liberty to repudiate it, if we see fit. Is this the same man who preaches about fctains upon our national honor? He says that, if we do not rush headlong and pill-mell, and ratify in seven weeks what it took him seven months to do in Europe, “it will be a stain upon our national honor?” Whose honor? Not fils, apparently. Any man who can talk of national honor, hi oi.e breath, and urge the Shantung steal, in the next, isn’t cumbered to any noticeable extent with rational honor, or any other sort. The man who can sign a pledge to send Amer¬ ican troops “immediately,” when France calls for them; and who then tolls the Senators that this written contract is not a legal obligation, has ideas < f law that are as queer as his conceptions of E orality. Clause X. of the League Constitution uses the mandatory word “shall,” when it provides that the I eaguo shall guarantee to all the predatory nations toe conquests they have ipade: if this is not a leg¬ ally binding compact, how would President Wil¬ ton word one? And if that clause is “merely moral,” what about the others? This is the kind of casuistry the Germans ap¬ plied to the Belgian treaty: it is the same that the Jt.ps applied to their written guaranty of Korean independence: it is the same that England used, when cancelling her pledge to evacuate Egypt. The White House Jesuit proposed to the Sen¬ ate—as an ideal compromise—that they adopt their (Continued on Page Two.) 1 1 k 1 1 : ! Price $2.00 Per Year EDITORIALS By THOS. E. WATSON. f HAS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BEEN SLANDERED ? In the Gadsden (Alabama) Times- .tews, is printed a full-page, unsigned article, half of which ts devoted to the defense of the ‘•Sister nurses, - ’ and the other half to the defense of Popery from the slanders of “our lying enemies.” Concerning the “Sister nurses,” I have noth ing to say, except that they are commonly believed *" *■ - - 1 i1 ' can employ. These Romanist nurses take charge of the Protestant, when he is wounded or sick; when he is weak and suffering; when he craves kindly at tcution, and is grateful for it; when the barriers of his mental resistance are let down; and when the gentle, patient, helpful nurse insensibly becomes the personification of Roman Catholicism. Under these circumstances, a Protestant, who wouldn’t let a priest, talk religion to him, and who wouldn’t read one of the Jesuitical, sophistical, end utterly mendacious Popish books, feels him¬ self softened toward the faith of the Sister who ministers to his wants and coaxes him back to health. The priests leave no artifice untried: they use the means best fitted to the end—the end being to make America a papal fief, just as the Sinn Fein ers in Ireland secretly conspire, and openly shed blood, to make Ireland the Pope's. To the soldier who is well, the Knights of Columbus give cigarettes, candy, stationery, soft, drinks, and matches—all marked “K. of C.,” and carrying the unspoken word in behalf of the Popes church. Nearly nineteen million dollars, much of it contributed by Protestants, was thus used to Rom arize the American Army in France. Entering-wedge activity, of the same general character, is assigned to the “Sister nurse:” every kind word she speaks, every soft touch of her hand, and every alleviation of pain that she can bring al out, is missionary work on her patient. His people may not know his whereabouts; and may not be able to reach and help him, even if they do: they assume that the Government will tpke care of him. if he is in the) Service; or li t Organized Charities will comb to his relief, if prostrated in some city distant from his home: but h." may find himself alone, sick, penniless, amid strangers: in such a case, the Sister-nurse is the Angel of Mercy; and he wouldn’t he human, if he were not softened toward the Church which em¬ ploys her—and which gets the money she earns. Do not the Protestant churches in foreign fields employ the nurse, the physician, the surgeon, a.,d the school-teacher in their missionary work? The idea is, that the heathen who receives the benefit will embrace the religion in whose name it is given. The Roman Catholic nurse in this country, is doing precisely the same that the Protestant nurse does in China, Japan, India, and Korea. If the one is a proselyting missionary, the other In what respect has Popery been slandered by “our lying enemies?” Who are these lying enemies, and what “lies - ’ have they told? The anonymous writer—in The Times-News does not specify. Should he not? Is there any reason why ho should not give his own name, and also the names of the “lying ene¬ mies” who assail Popeiy? This anonymous writer recurs to the over¬ worked apd worn-out statement that. “Columbus discovered America.” He didn’t—but suppose he did. Are we to accept everything that Columbus be¬ lieved and practised? Columbus believed in chattel slavery, and he introduced it into this country by enslaving the AVest Indian natives: are wo to believe in slavery, and practise it, because “Columbus discovered America?” Columbus believed in burning people to death, for not surrendering to the Pope and worshipping THE THOMSON MASS MEETING. There is every indication that it will be great. Help make it so. Short-talks will be made by returned sol¬ diers, whoso names will be announced next week. Mr. B. J. Stevens, of the Thomson bar, will act as Chairman, and will present each speaker to the audience. Ladies, returned soldiers, and young folks no especially invited. The Chairman will call the meeting to order at 10 o’clock, A. M., fast time. The speakixq will be out-doors, so that all Harlem , Ga., Friday, August 29, 1919. image of the Virgin Mary: are we to bum peo pie for not being idolatrous papists, because “Col¬ umbm discovered America?” Columbus believed that Pope Alexander VI. had the right to divide the Western Hemisphere, 4s you would split an apple—and to give this half Af it to the King of Spain: must wo transfer our al to King Alfonso, became “Columbus dis¬ covered America?” If Columbus discovered any part of America, he didn’t go to do it—for he was en route to China, and India, when he bumped into the .Bahama Banks. To say that, we must shrivel our minds into the faith that was good enough for Columbus, is equivalent to saying that our- ships should be cut down to the size of the tubs that brought him over. Since the days of Columbus, we have enlarged and improved our ships: we have likewise enlarged Ld improved our minds. The system which has not enlarged and im¬ proved, is Roman Catholicism: it is still navigating in the same old tubs. • \ The Romanist who fills five col¬ ,,, anonymous umns in The Times-News, reminds us, once more, that Benedict Arnold was not a Catholic. q Nobody said he was; but. General Thomas who tried to oust George Washington mm Chief-Command, and who almost wrecked the Revolution, was a Roman Catholic, born a 'Catholic in Ireland; trained as a soldier in the Catholic army of France; and steeped in a treacli jerous plot in America, more dangerous than that of 'Arnold. This anonymous writer in the Gadsden paper snys, that Arnold, in a private letter, gave as a reason for his treachery that he hated the “damned I Papists that Washington had surrounded himself with,” I challenge this statement, denounce it as false, ai.d demand the proof! Washington had not surrounded himself with Papists, unless the traitor, Conway, can bo Called surroundings. La Fayette hated the Papists, and died hating them: the other French officers were free-thinking young fellows who were as far removed from Pap¬ ist devotees as possible. Who, then, were the Pa.pists that “Washing¬ ton had surrounded himself with?” Name them! The list of Revolutionary officers is contained in Lessing’s “Fieldbook” of the Rev¬ olutionary War: pick out the Papists! It can’t be done, for they are not there— ex¬ cepting Conway, thf. Traitor. Almost without exception, the Irishmen who fought with ns in the Revolutionary War were h orth-Ireland Protestants, sueh as Gen. Richard Montgomery, who was killed at Quebec, and in whose honor the State of Georgia named one of her original Counties. “We have helped to found this government says the anonymous writer. Who were the “we?” And when did “we” help found it? Every single agitator against English oppres¬ sion, was a Protestant. Not a Catholic spoke out against the tyranny of King George, until after the Revolution was in such full swing that the owner of the Peggy Stew¬ art had to burn his own ship, at Baltimore, be¬ cause its cargo was English goods! This being so, you can see that it was tho best of policy for Charles Carroll to climb onto the band wagon, which tho Protestants were driving. He signed the Declaration of Independence, against a Protestant King, whose dynasty had driven out the Catholic Kings, of the Stuart dynasty It was very natural, indeed, that a Maryland Catholic should take sides against a heretic king¬ dom, which the Popes had cursed; which had de (Continued on Pago Four.) may hear. It will be on the North side of the Court House. We will take a vote on the League of Na¬ tions, the Peace Treaty, and tiie Triple Al¬ liance. AA r e will submit to the pleasure of the audience, the question of an afternoon session , and more speeches. At 5 o’clock, i*. m., THERE WILL BE A BALL GAME at the Park. Issued Weekly The Plumb Plan for the Govern¬ ment Ownership of Railroads. It, may seem a strange thing that, “the roa'P* s.'ould be the most important physical thing devel¬ oped by any society; but a moment’s reflection vjifl. tel! you why this is so. The road of the. Caravens of the East, bringing Oriental products to AA’estern markets, have been the same for thousands of years. The road of (lie A Vest em merchants, seeking the riches of the East, were the same for thousands of years. The control of these roads, by private or laf public robbers, was a question of such vital conse¬ quence that, they were fought over, by those who had them and those who wanted them. Th'c road of the caravan crossing plains, and deserts, and mountain-passes, was beset, by rob boy bands, bent on plunder. The only way—or the cheapest way.—out of this trouble, which sorely hampered commerce, was to buy off the Arab Chief with a regular tribu’.e—> the respectable name for “bribe.” The road of tho merchant’s ships was watched by sea-rovers—-abusively called pirates—and these buccaneers would stop the merchant’s vessel, and take toll out of it, or perhaps scoop the whole tiling—as modern commission-merchants some¬ times do to our car-loads of peaches, vegetables, .u'd watermelons. The cheapest way to deal with these sea-rorr ere, was to buy them off. All of the European nations that used tho Straits of Gibraltar, to get into or come out of the A (diterraneen Sea, paid a regular tribute to the “Algerine Pirates” who controlled the mouth of the Straits. This tribute (or bribe) was collected at a place called Tariffa, where the unspeakable Algerians nad a custom-house. The European trader sav the advantages of lids sort of piracy; and hence he borrowed it from the unspeakable Algerians, put. up a custom-house at every port, made everybody pay to pass in, and gave tho system the name of “Tariff.” Thus does the cultured mind of the civilized Christian improve upon the erode methods of primitive ’robbers. The Roman Empire was proud of its roads; Ri me was the hub of the highway-system, and the spokes threw their different lengths to the remotest frontiers. M ■ The road belonged to the Empire! At convenient distances, there were stations where post-horses were kept for the use of the go** ernment, or of any citizen who could pay. There was the right side of the wide paved road, on which the going vehicle must go: on the Lft, the coming vehicle must come; and the sepa^ rate pavement of the foot-traveller must, lie used by him, and not by any horeman, or vehicle. Such a state of things as we tolerate, the Romans would, never have endured, nor allowed tq be established. AVith us, there is no separate way for the anto nubile, going or coining: no part of the road be¬ longs exclusively to the foot-traveller; and in the fittort of the locomotive and tho auto to use the aamc crossing at the same time, whole families are killed, somewhere, almost every week. In new York, for instance, the utter confusion of vehicle movement, causes the death of some man, some woman, or some child, every day in the year. If you ask, “AAfiiy not remedy all this and make travel safe?” the answer is “Oh, it would cost too much.” That was the only argment I heard in Con¬ gress, against (lie automatic coupler, when we passed tho law compelling the Railroads to adopt it. The platform of the Peoples Party demanded government ownership of railroads, nearly thirty years ago. | I made the first speech in Georgia that w»a e\er heard in favor of it—making it to the Legisla¬ ture in Atlanta. General Toombs had believed, that (.lie Rail¬ roads could he controlled by a Commission; and his views are embodied in the State Constitution of 1877. But Commissions are more apt to be con¬ trolled by railroads, than railroads are by Com¬ missions. Combinations like the Union Pacific, the Penn¬ sylvania Central, the New York Central, the New A ork, Hartford and New Haven, the Southern Pacific, and the Louisville & Nashville, cannot on¬ ly control commissions, but they control legisla¬ tures, and pee-wee governors. Therefore what? The Government must own and control. Ownership of public franchises should be puB l‘e and should be accompanied by public control of (Continued on Page Two.) A o. 49.
