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Archbishop Curley And
The Klan.
Archbislwp Mike Curley se\eiely eon
demos i the Ku ivlux Klan, m a seimon de n
eerrl at Baltimoie, last week. He vas not
satisfied at having,denounced ie Klan: liea -
tacked our maruage aws, ec aietl 10
estant marriages to be worse than ilonnon
ism; that Masons are bad eggs; that Amen
can divorces conflict with the teaching ot Jesus
Christ; and that our public school system is a
public evil. •
Archbishop Curley's severe arraignment
ill American laws, and American institutions,
proves that his church is opposed to our sys
tem of government, and that, il Catholics had
their way about things, they would throw our
Constitution into the waste-paper basket and
M *t up tn its stead the creed of tae Iloly Ko
mat! Church.
.
ll is not necessary toi mo to lepuhlisl
here the oath of the Knights of Columbus, an
order to which the Archbishop belongs: that
oath has been published in the Watson pub
lications on many occasions and proof sub
niitted that it is genuine. rcstoiofi . .
VV hf*n Gregoiy XI, lu//, __ the
on
1 > 0 T]*it.ical See to .Rome, it^ liaviiig been at
Avignon for years, the Cardinals continued to
assume complete sovereignty over large por
lions of France. The Pope refused to sur
render his “rights” at Avignon, andju sonfe
of the finest sections of France, until Napo
leon the First concluded the Concordat, at the
beginning of the last century.
The oaths of the Cardinals committed
each of them to support the Pope’s claims to
Avignon; also, to the Duchy of Tolentmo in
Italy; also, they swore to watch the gold m
the Castle of St. Angelo, and it is well to say
here that there is stored in the Vatican mil
lions of precious metal, gold and silver money,
and the subjects contribute large sums annual
)y to the Vatican treasury, millions of dollars
being collected annually from the Pope’s sub
jects in America, the result being, that the
Pope is to-day the owner of a large share of
the world’s money.
When you^take into consideration the
fact that the Pope is ruler of nothing in the
form of a government, has civil no governmental
expenditures, maintains no government
of any sort, and is walled in to himself and
earefnlly*. restricted .bju.ihfaJtalian. on!side his domicile, it
'is allowed no privileges thing, for to
the most natural on earth you
ask: What, will lie do with his huge pile of
gold and silver?
It is collected for the purpose of spread
ing Papal propaganda and doing missionary
work for the Holy Roman Church, hoping to
increase its membership.
The Pope’s eyes have been turned in the
direction of America for several years, and
ho has announced, through one of his Ameri
can leaders, that he expects to “Make Ameri
ca Catholic.
Working enlisting to that end, the Catholics in this
country are negro recruits in all
sections of the nation. You see negro Priests
and Nuns in your cities, and they are on an
equality, in all respects, with white Priests
and Nuns. If the Catholics succeed in reach¬
ing out and adding the negro population to
their Church, and planting the seeds of social
equality in the heads of the negroes, it is
.frightful to -gontempate the results of such an
insidious and race-amalgamating policy.
It has been denied, official time and again, that
the Pope has an representative *
Washington. In the Washington Post, for
November 14, 1922, there is this item of news:
BONZANO OFFICIALLY INFORMED
HE IS TO BE MADE A CARDINAL.
Official notice was received from Rome
yesterday by Mgr. ,7olm Bonzano, apostoU
ic delegate, to the United States, that he
is to be elevated to the cardinalate at a
consistory which meets December 11. He
will leave tomorrow and sail from New
York Saturday on the steamer Providence.
Pending the appointment of a new dele¬
gate the Rev. Aloysius Cossio, auditor of
the delegation, will be in charge here.
The Washington Star, Nov. 18, informs us
lhat the Pope has appointed Archbishop Peter
Fumasoni-Biondi to succeed Bouzano, and this
appointment is made for a term of ten years.
The Washington papers publish fulsome
biographical sketches of this new Papal am
bassador, and he is given more prominence
than the ambassadors from France and Italy,
where political Romanism was banished years
ago.
If you will watch the papers for the next
thirty or sixty days, you will see that this
official representative of the Vatican and the
Pope will be received by President Harding,
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0fa iitaik
Price $2,00 Per Year
j^ Alive, forever. let us live. Where is
8 j. Where’s Tomorrow? It may
come> Today is here. Within its fleet
hours, runs the only certainty that you’ll
know. Come! eat, drink and no merry,
f or tomorrow you die 1
The chains of Self-restraint are'galling—
throw them off! The burden of Duty is griev
—fjj ng , jj. down! The cross of Responsi
' is crushing—let another hear it! Now. live
- Ve for yourse jf. ^ Y0 f or the
f or jj ie of living.
Drink! and forget, dull Cave! and
|j le ] iear t ac he Drink! an 1 drown the passion
for the lmat t a inable.
See how men are drawn to me 1 My lights
a brilliant welcome: l am never too hot
nor too cold. Mirrored Vanity smirks in my
gilded reflectors; and no one is ill at ease, in
, i;r Free-for-all Club. No shrewish wife can
tongue-lash, you here: no peevish child annoy
Y0U its cries, Leave to them the ug
‘p meS8 0 £ y 0nr ] ia o aa rd home, the’cold and come unto
me for comfort. Theirs, and gloom
lonely vigil—yours, the warmth and
gjQ-^r social joy. Drink,
(‘link your glasses men! again,
“Here’a hoping”. ’Tis well to toast her here,
w | iere b eg i ns the trail to the grave of Hope.'
g e jolly; ' let the place ring with laughter: matches re
j ate riewes t story—the story that
^ nu ^ e pictures on the wall.
What’s that? A dispute, angry oaths, a
violent quarrel, the crash of overturned chairs,
g-] eam 0 f steel, the flash of guns, the
s trcam of life-blood^ the groans of dying men?
Ob, well, it might have happened fathers,’I anv
whe re. The hearts of mothers and
W rench with pain: the souls of wives, I darken
w iph W oq. I smite the mansion, and there are
W ounds that, gold cannot salve: the hut I in
va< je, an( j poverty sinks into deeper pits.
j sow an( j j til], and I reap where I sow,
and my harvest—is what? ’
gQ i^utalized that, all of humanity is
lost, save the physical shape—men reeking
witb moral filth, stony of heart, bestial in vice
—-caen wrathful' lyho hear the name of God with a
stare, or a burst < f scornful mirth;
men w ho li ten to the death-rattle of any vie
+i m 0 f their greed or their lusts, without a
«ig»--o£~pityv--------- —j- - sing
^nd the women, too! How can I fitly
of Somali of my harvest time? Did you
ever hear her laugh? It must be the favorite
music of the damned. Did you ever hear her
ribald talk? The very sewers might- shrink
at. bearing it-a way. Have you ever heard her
libidinous songs? Did you ever watch her
eyes—those defiant, mocking, hopeless, shame
less eyes?
What warriors have I not vanquished?
what statesmen have 1 not laid low? How
man y a Burns and Poe have I not dragged
down from ethereal heights? How many a
Sidney Carton have I not made to weep for a
wasted life? How many times have I caused
the ermine to be drawn through the mud?
strong am I—irresistalbly strong,
When a great leader dedicates liis life
a given cause and thousands of men
women cast their lot with him and the
continues through thirty- odd years, and
victory is won in the evening—the very it
set,— of the leader’s tenure on earth,
to me that it would be disrespectful give to
memory of our departed Chieftain to
the fight, when the enemy was never more on
the alert, and never more anxious for us
throw up our hands.
The Watson publications have lived a
stormy career; political and religious command,
tried, by every means at their
destory them during Mr. Watson’s
and now that he is dead, these same
are still'determined that this mouthpiece
Old Man Peepul shall die.
:By the splendor of God, this corruption paper
live and continue to expose,
keep the people informed on questions of
hour!
Ring-Politicians, Foot-kissers, and
Dodgers will do well to pay attention to
Resolution on the part of the present
ment of The Columbia Sentinel. The word
“surrender” is not in our Dictionary.
don’t use the Word; it is obsolete.
There never was a time, during the last
forty years, when greater Deed National for jhst
a paper as this, existed. The
should alarm every American citizen, in
.Sections of the Nation. Roman Catholics
their confederates arc in full control of
every department at the seat of your
ment. and Protestant clerks fear lo
their convictions on any subject, and the siju
Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Nov. 27, 1922.
THE SONG OF THE BAR BOOM.
By Thos. E. Watson.
Samson-like. I strain at the foundations
of character; and they come toppling down, in
irremediable ruin. I am the cancer, beautiful
to behold, and eating my remorseless way into
the vitals of the world. I am the pestilence,
stalking my victims to the cottage door and
the palace gate. No respecter of persons, 1
gloat over richly-garbed victims no more than
over the man of the blouse.
The Church, I empty 'it. it: the Jail, I fill it:
the Gallows, I feed From me and my
blazing lights, run straight the dark roads to
slums, to the prisons, to the bread-lines,
to the mad-house, to the Potter’s Field.
I undo the work of tin School. I cut the
ground from under Law and <>rder. I’m the
seed-bed of Poverty, Vice and Crime. I 'm
the Leper who buys toleration, and who has
no! to cry “Unclean!” I’m the Licensed til tv
of Sm. I buy from the State-, the right to
my dynamite under its foundations. For a
price, they give me the right to nullify the
work of law-makers, magistrates and rulers.
For a handful of gold, I am granted
of-uia-rque, to sail every liuman sea and prey
upon its hie-boats.
Huge battleships they build, oasiug
triply with hardened steel; and huge guns
they mount on these floating ramparts, until
a file of Dreadnaughts line the coast—for
what? To he gnVthem ready for perils that may never and,
conic. But 1 a pitiful purse: right
in return, they issue to me the lawful
to unmask my batteries on every square; and
my guns play upon humanity, every day and
every night, of every year. And were my Do
stroyers spread out upon the Sea, they would
cover the face thereof.
Around that grief-bowed woman, / threw
the weeds of widowhood—but 1 paid for the
chance to do it; and they who took my money
knew that I would do if.
To the lips of that desolate child, 1 brought
the wail of the orphan—but Thought the right
to do it; and they who .sold me the. right, knew
what would come of it.
Yes! I inflamed the murderer: 1 madden -
ed the suicide: I made a brute of the husband:
X made a diabolical hag out of the once beauti
fui girl: 1 made a criminal out of the once
promising boy: I replaced sobriety and com
-fort, by drunkenness and pauperism—but
don’t blame Me: hlamr. those, from whom 1
purchased the legal right to do it.
No Roman Emperor ever dragged at his
chariot wheels, on the day of his Triumph.
such multitudes of captives as grace my train,
Tamerlane’s marches of devastation were as
naught beside my steady advance over the con
quered millions. The Caesars and the Attilas
come and go—comets whose advent means
death and destruction, for a season: hut I go on
forever, and I take my ghastly toll from all
that come to mill,
In civilization’s ocean, I am the builder of
the coral reef on which the ship goes down: of
its citadel, I’m the traitor who lets the enemy
in: of its progress, I’m the fetter and the clog:
of its heaven, I’m the liell.
A Personal Word To “Old Man Peepul.”
ation is so acute that even the girls who be¬
long to purely Protestant religious societies
fear to wear the pins of their societies, while
Roman Catholics, especially the traitorous
Knights of Columbus, hold the fattest jobs
and wear their emblems where all can see. No
Protestant paper is permitted inside any of
the departments, but any foot-kissing sheet
is given the glad hand of welcome. Heads of
nearly all departments are rank Knights of
Columbus, and they scrutinize the personnel
cards—the record of the employee—and if the
slightest trace of anti-Catholic and pro-Protes¬
tant feeling is found, the clerk’s name is
dropped from the pay-roll, after the head fur¬
nishes an “excuse” foreign to the real cause.
When discharged clerks, young men and
women, told me this, during iny last trip to
Washington, two weeks ago, it amazed me,
but when I reflect on the matter, I am not
surprised, becafase it is Rome’s system, and
from all outside appearances, Rome is in con¬
trol of our Government at Washington.
The Wilson administration revised the
b'ivil Service, and we were told at the time
that Catholics had received preferential The treat¬
ment in almost everything. feet that
Tumulty represented both our Goyernmen
axtd the* Pope accounted for that condition.
Whtffi the Haidifig administration took
charge of the Govehrment, we dreamed that a
change would take place, but it seems that
the dream amounted to nothing more than a
dream. It may turn out to he, a nightmare.
How it is that a Baptist President, and a
Mason, can permit this state of affairs, passes
Issued Weekly
Your County Unit Law Is
In Danger.
It. was announced from Atlanta, sever-!
. that Governor Hardwick would
days ago, at
* a °k -the County 1 nit Law in the first issues
ot his proposed weekly. This inspired item
°I the ne State, wa was sent to n< arly published ail the papers ol
and nearly all it, and the.
of the message was, that the Governor
j n d his newspaper expect to vi applause
nom the mnliiiude by assailing tijis hue leg
usia’.ion, known as the Neill i ouuty l nit Law.
It would seem to an outsider that this
• ooked-up it piece in of Atlant: the news means more
says words. In first place, its
mission is to feel out the folks, and see what
ducting they think about the present method of con
primary elections in Georgia; and in
the next place, it is to put Mr. .Hardwick for¬
ward as the champion of the re pen lists, j tro¬
video, the results obtained by the “tcolor
convince the astute Hardwick that there is a
chance to repeal the County Unit Law: anrKi*
the third pL -e, its mission is to inform W. ,'f.
Harris that T. \V. Hardwick i.- still running
office,—in other words, si ill at It.
When it comes to raising' a >m*\ tor cam*
paign purjKG i's, j . VV. iltirclvjck bea.t the
world, if Herbert Hoover, hi his campaigns
lor funds tor sutterers in Hu rope, would take
lessons from Hardwick on how io get. money,
he would soon rake in all the spare cash
Americans now have, and wc would bo left to
the mercy of Elbert Gary and J. P. Morgan,
wick’s Along about tin; time that Gov. Ilard
deliverance found its way into the
newspapers, there appeared another message,
Horn another Saint, named Iloke Smith, who
advised the farmers to hold their cotton until
Hoke himself spoke the word,
You can see for yourself that these self¬
ish and cunning politicians, Hardwick and
Smith, have formed an alliance, and they are
now engaged in paving the way for the i 4 come
back.”
The first, step in this campaign is, to de¬
stroy the County Unit Law; it destroyed,
Hardwick and Smith will concentrate on the
big cities, work through the ward ringsters,
buy u)i tire riff-raff, the gamblers, bootleggers,
and others of that stripe, and with the Coun¬
try Counties disfranchised, these thoroughly
discredited politicians might wire-work their
way back to the U. S. Senate.
All the tricky politicians who have cheat¬
ed the people in the past, at conventions, and
at the polls, and wherever it was possible for
them t<> put forward their mercenary work,
are behind Hardwick and Smith in their ef¬
forts to repeal the County Unit law and dis¬
franchise the Country Counties.
Why? . /
They fear the country people!
They have betrayed the rural people and
their interests so often that they are actually
ashamed to face them again, at the polls.
By analogy to our Federal Constitution,
where the Senate is made the balance-wheel
for the protection of Ihe States, the County
Unit is good law. The U. S. Constitution
gave to each State, big and little, two Sena¬
tors. New York, with her powerful popular
vote strength, lias only two votes in the Sen¬
ate, and little Rhode Island, with comparative¬
ly no popular vote strength, has two votes in
Hie Senate. The framers of the Federal Con¬
stitution meant to pro-.eet the 'iitle States
from the large numerical superiority of the
big opes, and the framers of the Georgia
Constitution followed the example and es¬
tablished the county unit principle, in order
to prevent the Big Cities from disfranchising
the County Counties.
The repealists speak eloquently of the
right of one man’s vote to weigh for as much
as the vote of his fellow-citizen in a different
locality. In other words, they wish to wipe
out County lines, open the gates and let nu¬
merical majorities control elections in Geor¬
gia, If that is good doctrine, sound doctrine,
why not. do the same thing in choosing Presi¬
dents? The President himself is not elected
■by popular vote: he is chosen by the Electoral
College and not directly by the neoole. He is
elected by the States, and not by the people,
“Hjetlv R)>ooi-; r in-, Tpp same thing is true in
the case of Governor Hardwick: he was elect¬
ed by the Counties.
The truth is, the politicians now trying to
destroy the work of General Toombs. Charles
J. Jenkins, Judge Hansell, and the other great
and good Georgians who framed the Consti¬
tution of 1877, want a chance to buy votes and
stuff ballot boxes in the big cities.
’ In defending this law, we have no splendid desire
to illfike an attack upon any uf oUr
cities. There are lots of fine people in etery
one of tliem, and Georgia owes a great deal to
the industrial progress of our cities, Atlanta,
Savannah, Columbus, Augusta, Macon, and
Rome; but we must not overlook the fact that
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