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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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