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Vof. 41 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, (Continued on Fag? Tbree.j 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 1 (.Continued on Page Four.) - r r No 8
