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Vol. 38
Cultivating A National Deficit.
The Hebrew idea of money has captured the
world.
By this method, the Hebrew Kings of Finance
an ruling the Gentiles, “everywhere.”
They have put their vaults in the Temple; and,
before we can worship, we must pay.
There is now no Christ to scourge them out.
iWhat is the Jews idea of money*
It is, that the coin of final payment must be
confined to the smallest possible sum.
Any sort of circulating medium may be used
so long as it is not “legal tender.”
The law prescribes the coin which the creditor
mast accept when tendered by the debtor.
Thus the law makes the money.
The Hebrew idea is, to Emit the amount of ac
; trod money, and to comer it.
At present, the gold coin is the only money
\ wtdeh creditor must take.
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It is dm coin which he can demand, before he
, nce iphs you for the debt.
i How, then, how modi, gold coin is in existence?
Hot enough to pay one-fifth of our national
BP oer Wilsonian debt were to absorb all the
we would still owe twenty-five thousand mil
doBsrs; and there wo.ld be no gold left for
; Rngiamd, France, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Spain,
B e lg i um , Holland, and the other nations.
r< l .What They would fix would be they the be left in?
%dti at mercy of the btmJcers who
the bonds.
< The Emperor Charles V. (of Germany
and
Spain) owned all the gold mines in America, and
his royalty was one-fifth of the output.
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' Emperor owned Belgium, Holland, Italy,
and f left , the public treasury °* German drained, - v: buc be died P oor ;
How did this happen?
He too fond of and he had <oA ^
was war, iire
his troops.
In those days, no infernal conscription laics
forced men to surrender their sons to the bloody
work of Kfhgs'and Gdid-seekers.
When the Emperor abdicated and left his son
Philip to hold the bag, the son became fonder of
wars than liis father had been.
Philip believed himself “raised up” by God
to extirpate heresy everywhere.
He made war on the Huguenots of France, the
Episcopalians of England, and the Lutherans of
Holland!
His fleets, his armies, his endeavors to subdue
Europe to universal royalty and popery, exhausted
his resources.
He repudiated his debts, declared m 'y l ,ii
bankruptcy, and ruined bankets and merchants in
Antwerp, Amsterdam, Brussels, Florence, Venice,
Naples, Genoa, Lisbon, and in the chief cities of
Spain.
All the wealth of the American mines and all
the surplus money of Europe were insufficient for
the hired marines and the hired soldiers of the King.
lie hadn't thought of conscription, you sec.
Spain never recovered from that declaration of
bankruptcy.
She bad been the greatest power on earth: she
owned the greatest and richest part, of this conti¬
nent: she owned thousands of Islands: she ruled
over Portugal: she dominated Italy: her troops
were the best in the world, and her fleets the terror
of nations.
But. her King was a fanatical Papist., who
burnt all the independent thinkers in Spain, and
wanted to exterminate them in other lands.
This mad policy ruined his country.
A national debt incurred by war-loving mon¬
arch?. and by the scarlet women of the same, dragg¬
ed France into the abyss.
Canada was French: India was largely French:
Malta, was French, the vast Louisiana Territory
was French; the West Indies were largely French.
But tho High Nobility, the High Priests, and
the High Harlots were too much in need of all the
national income to let the army have necessary mu¬
nitions of war; and so France lost her colonial em¬
pire.
The interest, of the debt could, not be paid.
A deficit came, and this deficit grew ever more
unmanageable.
The crisis was reached under Louis XVI.
The distracted Minister of Finance appealed to
the High Clergy—
“Won’t you save the country by renouncing
your exemption from taxes?”
“0 horrors! No!
Tho Church property is God’s: we dare not
allow you to tax God.”
Then the frantic Minister of Finance appealed
to the High Nobility—
“Won’t you save the King by renouncing your
exemption from taxes?”
li What! Impoverish ourselves and rob our
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MR. HEARST’S GREAT EDITOR WRITES
SOME HISTORY.
Cardinal Mercier paid a visit to John D. Rock.
efeller.
Tlie joyful news is in all the papers.
Mr. Arthur Brisbane, under his own great
name, wrote a piece about it, and I suppose that
his ten million readers have seen it
One of these ten million sent me the clipping,
and I perused it with “mingled feelings.”
Such editorials as Brisbane writes about his¬
tory, always mingle my feelings.
At my age, one does not relish mingled feel¬
ings; and, because of the fact that Brisbane is
old offender in this respect,. I feel my Quaker spirit
moved, and I am going to dust his jacket for him.
If Brisbane wants to vary the monotony of
his political outpourings, by indulging in fiction,
he has a perfect right to do so; but. he ought to
call it fiction, and not parade it under the name gi
history. a X
In his picturesque comments upon the visit of
the Belgian Prince of the Holy Roman Empire to
and ^Banking ‘° Imp^M^Brfebane 1 ~
(l Ihe Cardinal observed, perhaps, the startling ,
lesemblance that Mr. Rockefeller hears to old en ;
grayingso the original Medici, founder of the gb
gantic Medici fortune and powerful Medici fam-
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Yon WlH _ obsen perhaps, that Brother
?’ Bris
. “P?*®** ] not tbose o£
an ® 1S R own V10W f: anc
tlie ,, Cardinal: therefore, you will understand, per
haps, that Brisbane injects the blood of the “origi
nal Medici ” int ° the veins of Brother John D.
This flattery is calculated to puff up the old
man, and fill him with such hauteur that he won't
come out to church any more.
Brisbane alleges that Brother John D. deserved
the Cardinal’s visit because of Mr. Rockefeller’s
admirable work in Belgium.”
Yes, that’s quite true: all of us were in a great
hurry to do admirable work in Belgium: but Mr.
Brisbane refrains(from any embarrassing inference
tS Mr. Kbckeieller’s admirable work IhThe Colorado
and West Virginia and Pennsylvania coal and iron
fields.
Mr. Rockefeller also did admirable work, when
he suppressed Ida Tarbell’s book, which told all
about the admirable work Mr; Rockefeller had
done in heaping up the billion which he expects
to accompany him to glory—but Brisbane didn't
refer to it.
Mr. Rockefeller did some admirable work in
keeping his son, John, out of the war, when tour
son was being rounded up, forced into a canton
ment, stripped of his clothes, stood up in the ehil
ling rain, and examined with the tender care of a
Yucatan Boss, inspecting a newly arrived Yaqui
Indian slave.
Incidentally, Mr. Rockefeller and his son, John,
both did admirable work in mairing money out of
the Great War; and while they were doing admir¬
able work in Belgium, they might Have done work
equally admirable, had they had eyes to see and
hands to help the hungry poor of their own coun
try.
But, perhaps , the most, and admirable work
Mr. Rockefeller has ever done, was that of dodging
the Tax Collector: perhaps Brother Brisbane has
never observed it. -
Brother Brisbane's observer is very much like
the Chairman’s eye, at a political convention \
Brother B. observes those things, only, which suit
his sermon.
Mr. Brisbane observed, perhaps, that when the
Tax Collector went after Brother John’s personal
taxes, in New York, Kfe didn’t live there: and when
the T. C. went after Brother John In Cleveland, he
didn’t live there: and when the T. C. meandered to
Tarrylown, the elusive John D. was not at home.
However, Cardinal Mercier foiiffd him there.
In fact, it was in the Tanytown shanty that
the Cardinal observed, perhaps, the startling re¬
semblance between Mr. Rockefeller and the origi¬
nal Medici.
The Cardinal observed, perhaps, that John D.
was the living image of Lorenzo tho Magnificent.
Well, Sir, there is a De Medici living here in
Thomson, and I never have observed any startling
resemblance, between his face and that of John D.
Rockefeller.
Our Thomson Medici does not “favor” Mr.
Rockefeller, at all.
If Arthur Brisbane is solicitous in behalf of
Cardinal Mercier, and really craves the Cardinal’s
recognition of the Italian (last of a Medici counte¬
nance, he should bring the Belgian Prince to
Thomson.
At Thomson, we have never seen a King or a
Prince; and while King Albert and Prince Mercier
are endearing themselves to this country, they
might remember that Thomson is not only on the
map^but on a first-class railroad. i
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Harlem, Ga., Friday, October 31, 1919.
While our hotel accommodations are not ex¬
actly as good as those of Brussels and New York,
we can find decent grub and house-room for both
the King and the Prince.
And I’ll undertake to prevail upon our Medici
to hold up on his carpenter-work long enough to
give their royal highnesses a hospitable reception,
at the depot.
And if John D. Rockefeller comes, too, he
can see a town in which there is a prevalent public
opinion, that he charges too d—d much for his gas¬
oline.
This thing of robbing American Peters to pay
Belgian Pauls, is racking our nerves.
Those of us who buy John D.’s oil and coal
and ironware, are the real feeders of those Bel¬
gians.
Consequently, we a to the ones who “deserve” a
visit from the Cardinal.
We fed the hungry, everywhere, at the same
time that our great President was planting Liberty
Trees, “everywhere.”
1 want to “ Bri «'
bane that there doesn t exist on this planet a single
descendant of the “original Medici.”
The main branch of the family became extinct
about a hundred years before John D. Rockefeller
entered this Vale of Gasoline and Standard Oil.
Tho De Mediais of today are derived from a
collateral and junior line of the great Florentine
^chants of all the seas, and bankers, whose whose caravans ships tracked went the the paths de-s
erts; and whose enthusiasm for art, literature and
all “polite learning,” con famed upon Christendom
the inestimable boon or the Renaissance.
There were others, of course, but these modern
ist Medicis did more than any King, any Prince, any
Cardinal, or any Pope, to restore to Europe the an
dent classics which the monks, the priests, and
early Popes had destroyed.
Copies of those rare and invaluable manuscripts
were found in Constantinople and Bagdad, where
the ^Mpbammedans -had preserved them r ^nd the
.Medici lovers-of-learning paid enormous prices for
the very classics which today are the lights of mil
lions of homes, throughout the world.
My Brother Brisbane says the Medici family
“included one Pope, at least.”
That's a queer way to write about the Medici:
what's the matter with Arthur?
If he should say that the Tudor family gave
England one King, at least, we would have to gig¬
gle: we couldn't help it.
The first thing Arthur knows, he will have a
brain lesion.
“One Pope, at least!”
Dog my cats! If Mr. Hearst were paying me
a thousand dollars a week to write syndicated stuff,
I think that, in case my memory didn’t work right,
I’d get out of my chair and consult the Encyclo¬
pedia.
I haven’t done it, because my memory is right
here in my head, where it belongs.
One of the landmarks of universal history, is
the Pontificate of the son of Lorenzo the Magnifi¬
cent, known as Leo X.
This Pope was a patron of Letters and Art,
just as his father had been; and this Pope won, and
has kept, a place of favor in the world of litera¬
ture, because he was an exception to the papal rule
of antagonism to modernism and intellectual prog¬
ress.
Papa Leo was not cut out for a Pope: he was
by nature and by practise a most worldly Prince.
He was as fond of hunting as any medieval
lord; and be was fond of painted ladies, and be
lingered long at the festal board, where the meats
were spiced and the wine was red..
When this Medici prince was elected pope, he
said—
“Since God has given it to us, let us enjoy if.”
He seemed to enjoy it; and he made the Vatican
a House of Mirth.
Harems of extravagant women, stables full of
the finest, horses, banquets rivalling Nero’s, cour¬
tiers of the harpy sort, “neiees” to be dowered for
marriage, “nephews” to be set up as princelings—
all these luxuries cost Leo a lot. of money.
Or rather, it, cost, the papal treasury a lot; and,
at length, the bottom fell out, as is liable to hap¬
pen to any treasury.
Besides, the cost of building St. Peter’s was
prodigious: and there wasn’t enough available
wealth in Italy to finance both the Pope and tho
Cathedral.
It occVirred to Leo and his Cardinals that, there
were millions of Germans in purgatory, and mil¬
lions more ong root , and that the financial wind
could lie raised by selling Papal clemency to these
Germans, the living and the dead.
Of course, you know the rest: Leo’s auctioneers
aroused the indignation of a pious German monk,
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Issued Weekly
Nearing The Niagara Falls.
The interest on our public debt is now moro
than the debt was in 1916.
The national income is now less than the na¬
tional out go by four thousand million dollars.
In those long-ago days when the word "Dem¬
ocrat.'' stood for democracy . the national debt was
paid off, and the expenses of the Federal (iove.ru
ment amounted to sixty-jive cents for every man,
woman and child in the United States.
The Federal expenses have now risen to Sev¬
enty-eight dollars apiece. for every soul of us, little
and big, young and old.
(That’s why you pay four or five times as
much for every necessary of life: the taxes are col¬
lected indirectly as I have often explained.)
What will happen to a country whose public
servants spend all the national income, and then
run up a debt of four thousand million dollars , A
YEAR.
One hundred million white people—horn into
a legacy of democratic principles, sanctified by the
blood of men who fought and died to win these
liberties—are indifferent, inert, silent, meekly sub¬
missive, while secret and foreign interests are con¬
verting our independent Republic into a province
of the British Empire.
The English schoolmaster who swore to sup¬
port. defend, and preserve our Constitution —which
ENSHRINES Oi l! DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES— locked him¬
self in a room with other Englishmen, at the Pans
“Conference,” and deliberately betrayed the Inde¬
pendence he was sworn to defend, protect , and
PRESERVE,
Does the human record disclose a crime more
colossal?
And this perjured Englishman had the phe
nominal effrontery to appear before American
audiences, and tongue-lash the Senators who took
a stand for the Independence which bad been
bought with the blood of our forefathers when his
forefathers were preaching Toryism, in English
pulpits,.
Did he get rot,ten-egged?
No! The eggs were thrown at a Southern
Scnat.or , who was doing his best to defend, pro¬
tect, and preserve the Independence which our
ancestors had wqn risojg Woodrqw Wilson*.
An Alabama negro is said to be Assistant Sec
ret.ary of War.
When President Taft appointed a Boston ne¬
gro Assistant Attorney-General, the noble editors
of the South wailed and swore.
When President Roosevelt asked Booker Wash¬
ington to partake of an informal luncheon, there
was a storm of Southern indignation.
When I stated that President Cleveland had
invited Fred Douglas, and his white wife to a so¬
cial function, I was denounced on the floor of the
House of Representatives—and when I proved my
statement, no retraction Wias made.
But now when Secretary Baker’s luncheon
comes in on a tray, while Emmett Scott is present,
does Baker eat alone?
Emmett Scott was Booker Washington's
PRIVATE SECRETARY;
He is now one of President Wilson’s secreta
ries.
- If Booker Washington had lived he might
have had Baker’s place.
The Secretary of War abolished Welfare Work
at tho cantonments and camps, excepting the
Knights of Columbus.
These industrious agents of a foreign Empire
enjoy a monopoly of proselyting. non-Catholiq
Thoir army-officers compel the
privates to attend Catholic sendee and take Catko
lia teaching. teaching of Christianity
That is the reverse
and democracy—but who cares?
Nobody seems to care. Democratic Re»
Not a single daily paper, or
publican has dared to say a word.
Yet they know what Catholic education does.
They have seen Jesuit teaching reduce the
world-empire of .Spain to the depths of imbecility,
illiteracy, immorality, hopeless decadence!
They have seen Catholic immigrants, from tho
most. Popish parts of Europe, come over here .n
hordes of pauperism, ignorance, vice and crime.
They have seen what Catholic education did
for the Filipinos, the Cubans, the Mexicans, the
Central Americans, the South Americans and for
San Domingo. of
Yet. these Editors dare not enter one word
protest, when the Wilson Administration surren¬
ders to the demands of the Knights of the Slave
driving Columbus, and gives them the monopoly of
military education!
Attorney-General Palmer runs around to public
gatherings, to announce his stern determination to
maintain “law and order.”
Whose law?
What sort of order?
The Czar of Russia proclaimed, “Peace reigns
at Warsaw”; and the City was mucky with the best
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