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Presidential booms and boomlettes—as
Colonel E. S. Fuller, of Savannah, original
Fordite, would say—are attracting attention,
on a small scale, in many parts of this Eepub
lie.
The Trusts have adopted new tactics, this
year: Wall Street has notified the Republicans
that our Baptist President will not be opposed
for renomination, and the fake pre-convention Democratic
contests will be confined to the
wing of the national stage.
Many of the candidates, whose names are
appearing in our daily papers, belong to the
“Favorite Son” group, which strategem has
lost none of its old popularity.
Wall Streeters parade the virtues of cer¬
tain Dependables—-including Senator Oscar
Underwood, of Alabama; Senator Ralston, of
Indiana; Jimmy Cox, of Ohio; Wilson’s lanky
Son-in-Law McAdoo, of California, Texas, and
Salt Lake City; John W. Davis, of the Banking
House of Morgan; and the multi-millionaire
Virginia Senator, Carter Tammany Glass. Hall, and the
Roman The Bootleggers,
Catholic Hierarchy, permit it to bo
known that Governor “Al” Smith, of New
York, is their first choice, although the same
gang would, under certain circumstances,
swing to Senator Oscar Underwood, whose
strong poiuts must not be overlooked.
It may interest you to learn Wall Street’s
reasons field. for giving our Baptist President a
clear In the first place, President Hard¬
ing is the Elephant’s best bet. He is safe,
sound, conservative,, and an all-round “handy
man” for the Trusts. As a rule, the Trusts
ire not willing to turn loose a certainty for an
luknown quantity.
In his Western talks—which speeches were
Manufactured by Harding’s experts and caie
’uliy committed to memory by Harding in the
f irosenec of Daugherty, Work, New, and other
Wall Street tools, weeks before the Presiden¬
tial party left the White House—our Baptist
President talked a great deal, but he said
nothing. That’s one of Harding’s strong
points. He learned that trick while serving
.lie Trusts, in the United State Senate. In the
West, Harding told the farmers—the wheat
growers—that normalcy would restore itself,
if given time. He assured 1 he farmers that
their worst days are over; that better times
are just ahead; and that a wave of prosperity
is to sweep over this nation, soon.
The newspapers tell us that Harding won
Rube’s heart.
In fact, the newspapers say that the very
heart of the West turned to our Baptist hero;
snd Harding’s press agents said that the next
ilection would prove fatal,” etc.
Sure enough, it did: Magnus Johnson
smashed the Republican machine, in Minne¬
sota !
farm Magnus Johnson—the owner of a 140 acre
in Meeker. County, 80 miles from St. Paul
—was named to succeed the late Senator Knute
Nelson—the venerable Republican Chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Johnson
defeated the Republican nominee—Governor
Preus—(Harding’s choice), by a smashing
rote, and the Democratic candidate didn’t
amount to a hill of beans.
Eight years ago, the people of Minnesota
turned their backs on the Democratic party—
a hopeless alternative for the Trust-ruled Re¬
publican machine. This year, the people of
Minnesota turned against the Republican party
and the new Senators—Shipstead and Johnson
—represent a new movement, totally divorced
from the two old parties.
This Minnesota election worries the Two
Buzzards.
They pretend to dismiss it, by discussing
llie winner’s grammar and his garments.
Democratic and Republican bosses claim
that a dissatisfied element in Minnesota—far¬
mers and Socialists—elected Johnson. What
about Shipstead!
Their explanation doesn’t explain, simply
because the cities, as well as the farm W districts,
repudiated Magnus .the two old parties, electing
Johnson, who will, six months from
now, take his seat in the Senate, with his col¬
league, The Senator Shipstead.
farmers, and business men of the cit¬
ies of Minnesota, are not socialists. They are
not pupils of sovietism, communism, or bol¬
shevism. Those people of the Northern pra¬
iries own their homes, conduct their businesses,
and believe implicitly in the rights of private
property. They have watched the exploiters—
the Trusts, the banks, the railroads, and the
exchanges?—reduce whole States to pauperism,
while the exploiters themselves added millions
upon millions to their- holdings.
The workers of Minnesota—both on the
farms and in the shops, in the fields and in the
cities—know that the root of their troubles
lies in the Two Buzzards—the Republican and
Democratic parties—operated by the Trusts,
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ACRE OF ST - BARTHOLOMEW.
By Thomas E. IFa/sow.
In Armenia there is the oldest of Christian
churches, and the oldest of Christian sects.
The Xestorians did not travel any of the inn
perial roads that led to Rome. While the
church of Paul was evolving a pagan rnonar
chy in the West, and the church of
nople was growing into the Russian
ehate of today, the Xestorians kept the
faith, and the old simplicity of the Primitive
Church. •
In fact, neither the East nor the West
completely lost the original principles, and
the original forms. Ireland, Britain
land -were Christian before they were papal
Even in Europe proper, the light of the
Testament was not, wholly eclipsed by
splendor of the Roman establishment and
ual. Terrible as was the power of the.
it could not entirely put out the taper,
stifle the voice, of primitive Christianity.
In the hill-tops hard by the wall Caspian reared Sea;
in the valleys where the Alpine its
titanic ramparts; in the sunny fields of
yen ee where thought claimed the freedom of
the bird, the faith of Jesus Christ was a faint
agd flickering ray in the darkness which pagan
ism and ritualism and sacredotalism
brought upon the Roman world. Faint it was,
and flickering, but never entirely put out!
% Popes anathemized and thundered; armies
marched and butchered; homes were burnt,
villages swept away; men, women and chib
dren hunted like wild beasts; power and
wealth and intolerance and priestly pride,
leagued themselves with all the devil-passions
of hell; but all in vain!
The light would burn, in defiance of sword,
and torch, and papal Armenian excommunication. survived, Slay and
as they might, some
trim med the lamp! Slay as they might, some
Waldensian survived, and fed the light!
Vaudois might be massacred, until the car
nage drew all the vultures of Italy to the Alps;
but there were always some Vaudois, bid in a
cave, or fled to safety over the mountain pass
—and the holy flame lived on, despite the
Pope and his murderers.
At this very day, there is a Waldensian
church, in Rome itself, where a preacher of
Christ mav aim-st be heard by the Pontiffs
Maximus who sits in the Vatican, elaborately
lapped in the ceremonial of which the Caesars
ivere Popes—THE CAESARS WHO WERE
POPES AT THE TIME JESUS CHRIST
WAS MURDERED!
(VI.)
“Alwdys the same! ♦)
The church of the Pope of Rome never
changes.
“My chair,” said Pope Gregory, “is above
the chair of the Emperor.
“Whosoever says that the Roman Catho¬
lic Church is not infallible, let him be accurs¬
ed.” (Catholic Breviary.)
“The Pope * ** * alone ought to wear the
crown of imperial dignity; all princes ought to
kiss his feet; he has the power to depose ail
Emperors and Kings and is to be tried by
none. (Pope Gregory VII.)
“The Pope is prince over all nations, hav¬
ing power to pluck up, destroy, scatter, ruin,
plant and build.” (Council of Trent.)
“All mortals are to be judged by the Pope,
and the Pope by none at all.” (Lateran Coun¬
cil.)
“The Roman Church is the only one God
has founded.
It is not lawful to live with those who have
been excommunicated.
All princes must kiss his feet.
He has the right to depose emperors.
He can abrogate all sentences of all other
persons. He
can release the subjects of bad princes
from all oaths of allegiance.” (Pope Gregory
VII.)
“It is necessary to salvation that all Chris¬
tians be subject to the Pope.” (Pope Bonice
VIII.) Not that all persons be Christians!
“All Protestants, be .they Kings or sub¬
jects, are cursed. 11 (Pope Paid IV.)
“All magistrates who interpose against
priests in any criminal case, whether it be for
murder or high treason, let him be excommu¬
nicated. ’ * (Lateran Council.)
“Be assured, thou sinnest mortally, if thou
keep faith with heretics.” (Pope Martin IV.,
St. Thomas Acquinas, and Pope Innocent
VIII.)
“Heretics may justly be killed. > > (St.
Thomas Aquinas, Pope Innocent VII., Pope
Martin V., Pope Pius IV., Gregory IX., an 1
others.)
“Let them be accursed,” (at all times and
in all places.) “Cursed be their heads and
their thoughts, their eyes and their ears, their
tongues and their, lips, their teeth and their
throats, their breasts and their private parts.”
etc.
Thom-",017, Georgia, Monday, Judy 30, 1923.
(That is enough. Hell did not brew
damnable curse; popery did it. I have
only a small malevolent portion of it: the remainder is
the same order.)
“If “If a a heretic,” heretic,” (imprisoned (imprisoned for for that that crime crime) )
“demands absolution, and appears to feel true
repentance, it may be granted, imposing at the
nine, perpetual imprisonment.’’
(Perpetual imprisonment for not being a
papist!)
“But if the Inquisitors are suspicious of
prisoner’s repentance, they may refuse ab
and condemn him to be burned.”
(Life-imprisonment, in a grave-like dun
if repentant and submissive to the Pope:
death _at the stake, if the holy men of the In
believe the repentance insincere!)
“If a semi-proof exists against a person”
(charged with heresy.) he is to be put to the
torture.
If he confesses, and afterwards confirms
confession, he is to be punished as convict
ed.
If he retracts (the confession made under
torture) he is to be TORTURED AGAIN, or
condemned to an extraordinary punishment, ' *
“When it is proved that a person by his
judged writings or conduct dies a heretic, he shall be
and condemned as such, his body dug
up and burned, and Iris property confiscated.”
The white face of death is no flag of!
truce to the Roman Catholic church: the
is no refuge, no haven of peace.
The foregoing quotations are taken from
the articles governing the Inquisition, organ
ized under the brief of Pope Gregory IX.,
which reads:
“Since, therefore, according to the office
enjoined on us, we are bound to root out all
offences from the Kingdom of God, and, as
much as in us lies, to oppose such beasts (here
lies), we deliver into your hands the sword of
the word of God, which according to the word?
of the prophet, Jer. xlviii, 10, ‘Ye ought not to
keep back from blood,’ but inspired with zeal
for the Catholic faith, like Phineas, make dili
gent .inquisition concerning these pestilent
wretches, their believers, receivers, and abet
tors, and proceed against those who, by such
inquisition shall be found guilty, according to
the canonical sanctions and our statutes, which
we have lately published, to confound heretical
assistance pravitv, calling of in against them,’if need be, the
the secular arm.”
(The “assistance of the secular am” was
a euphonious diabolism for beheading, ' strang
ling and burning at the stake.
Under that infernal brief, 45,000 Chris
tians were burned in Spain, for the crime of
not believing in the Pope’s “religion.”)
“ Alwaus cl/ui-ch the same'”
The of He Pope of Rome never
changes ° ’
Mohammedans said:
“Accept the Prophet, or die!”
But they were mere imitators of the Ro¬
manists, who before that had said:
‘‘ACCEPT THE POPE, OR DIE!”
(VII.)
Long before Luther, there had been fore¬
question runners preparing the way. It had been but a
cf time when a Moses would arise and
lead Israel out of bondage—away from papal
flesh-pots, papal taskmasters, papal degrada¬
tion.
In England there was Wycliffe; in Bohe¬
mia, Huss and Jerome; in France, Farel and
LeFebvre. Long before this, there had been
Savonarola in Florence, and Arnold of Bres¬
cia, so sick was Italy itself of the abominations
of the Vatican.
Monkish ignorance and superstition no
longer satisfied the minds of men. Classical
literature, throwing off the cerements of its
long burial, came forth in radiance to re-ani
mate a beshrouded world. Night and night
birds passed away: the dawn and the songs
of a new day filled the awakened soul with
rapture.
From the mouldy hiding places, the grand
old pagans came forth; and thousands of busy
pens copied the masterpieces of Greek and Ro¬
man literature.
Bruno, Abelard, Erasmus, Rabelais, Tyn
dale, Eeuchlin, Von Hutten, Melanetbon, Zwin
gle, all had left in a different way the same
aspiration toward light and liberty; and it
was the spear of the scholar that made the
brazen shield of the Roman pontiff ring with
its defiant challange.
The scholar, against the monk: the thinker,
against the blind devotee: the Truth, against
authority; the Rights of Man, against the
of Thrones and Ecclesiastic;sms!
No wonder a subtle intuition led Kings and
Popes, lay lords and cleric lords, into a league
of the Commonweal—the community of inter
est and weal being that of Privilege, of Caste,
of ArL '•racy, of Monarchy.
(.To be Continued Next Week.f
Issued Weekly
If Not /Li Unscrupulous Knave,
What is T. s Man?
The ColuvibiSo ’ind did not. renew its
1 ;’/ 4 *’ 111 Oeoigia Department of Agri
U3 \‘ until Commissioner Drown >nt to
, atielul meeting, and to
' 0 a ' ,0llK ‘
corkscrew i 1IS . 1410 fellowship with
kou.e, ;iie College ot Agriculture, and the
For many years, there had been war and ru¬
mors of war, between Commissioner Brown
and Dr. Soule. ,
At the fopt of i hi editorial you will find
a letter written by Commissioner Brown, May
19,1921, to one of his “Dear Inspectors”, call¬
ing on his guano-smellers and oil testers to
sound out their Representatives in the Legisla¬
ture and to report findings to the Commission¬
er of Agriculture. I beg you to read the letter
of carefully, because it shows the queer make-up
sides, Josephine Brown’s mental apparatus. Be¬
it bears out Mr. Brown’s letters to me,
written during the summer of 192’ begging me
to try to enlist Senator Thos . Watson’s
sympathy for Brown in the “cruel war” then
waged on the Department of Agriculture by
this “Soule crowd of Athens.”
When I read the daily papers’ report of
the alliance entered into by Brown and Soule,
at Athens, I was amazed.
I couldn’t believe it, and I asked a few
questions through the columns of this news
P a P®D
-ie nem announcement irom the new co
artner .P Bou.e A Brown came m the
-oim a pictiue ot ttwo agrirultural t\vins,
pubus-aer. m Atlanta Cos uitution.
1 made ip my mind that, Commissioner
_ b £ ad the ^ to his 1921.criticism
/^ Jg n koule, S iv the f College ot Agriculture, and
“, ie aim Hduecu, and I rea ,J z ed that Brown
,va „ s.u.atv hunselt . to
s * 01 in oraer co
. good , standing
H'm with dbe united States De
P ai , ,rnea Agriculture, which department
iovni » political maemne,
c 1 jl e °* Di. Soule,
xea ai s ° ~ p 18 newspaper recall that_ we
, j-uneized . . 1 tae omeial of Commission
acts
' r 10s ' nior bevera - mourns, and inasmuch as
oiiticmm was based on the records ot
rowas <• epaitment, .te con dn t answer the
,
1
n spy.e ot the -act that we nave, hammered
j 1 e- out of Brown and .us machine, he
1 e Mnokea out o. ms den until Rep
lesentative . Caarles E. Stewart and Repres6nt<
,
ative H. R x,anister repeated our charges or
the H 00r °. f the House of Representatives.
* ma&mme reply to Mr. Banister was
swered m last week s Sentinel, and his attempt
!Hilburn 110A 11 int0 l 118 iaee bj Mr. incident, Stewart, which will wa* b(
answered ;- now.
lhe Sentinel gives you Mr. Brown’s state
™ nt ’ word fop word, just as it appeared i*
^ e Augusta Chronicle, under the Atlanta
date-line:
MATTER READ ON FLOOR IS FLATLY DENIED BA
BROWN.
Commissioner of Agriculture Briefly but Pointedly Dec¬
ides ReaiUngs from The Columbia Sentinel.
The Chronicle Bureau,
The Kimball House,
3no. w. Hammond, Mgi
Atlanta. Ga., July 21.—Commissioner of Agricul¬
ture J. j. Brown today made a br.of but pointed de¬
nial of tho matter read yesterday on the floor of tha
House by Representative Stewart from the ColumbU
Sentinel, during a personal privilege talk in which Mr.
Stewart said he had recommended to his constituents
that they vote lor Mr. Brown. i'lie ^Particular empha¬
sis of „ Mr. Stewart’s _ rei arks laid the
were on statement
in the now'spaper that J. M. Hilburn, alter bfeiac fired
from the Department of Agriculture, had called upon
Mr. Brown to return the Hilburn campaign douiribation
and, instead, Hilburn was kept on the department pt •
roll in January, for one month,'while Hilburn's su.
cessor did tho work of thje office. He referred, too, to a
letter sent to members of the Legislature b.\ the de¬
partment inviting them to visit the department and go
over its work. Mr. Stewart, in his speech, said Com¬
missioner Brown ought either to get a gun, demand a
legislative investigation or resign.
“The Hillburn mattar as published in that paper l
ts simply a lie,’’ said Mr. Brown today. “Hilburn was
retained In the work he was doing after I had selected
another man to pu,t in the place long enough to clear
himself out and get the other man familiarized with it
so that work could be carried on. Hilburn’s own hand¬
writing in the job he to ld shows that was the case
The manner of contorting the facts in tho Hilburn mat".
te r is no new procedure by the party publishing the
•paper read by my friend Stewart at ail, but Is his com¬
mon practice. Will Do So A.yuin.
"In re&pect to tko letter members ot the Leglsla
ture. I sent it to them, and I expect to do so again
when the time comes tor thorn to come to Atlanta for
another session. I have no apologies tp make tor that
but am conscious ol the tact that it was entirely proper’
ust what any department may do, and I was quite ear¬
nest in inviting the members of the General Assembly
to come into the department—any of them: all ot them
—and talk over our work with us. I want them and
■md any other interested citizen of the State to do just
what 1 invited those gentlemen to do, and I shall not
change that policy as long as I am in the office The
doors of that department and everything that depart¬
ment does is open to the members of the assembly and
to the people of the State, and that was exactly what
that letter said to them—we want them, and more of
them, to keep In touch with us. to know not only what
• o are doing, but the things we '-ontemplate doing and
the plans we make from time to 1 time to try to do
onstructlve things. The only complaint ve have ever
had to make along that line has been that not enough
of the members of the Assembly know -the Agricultural
Department well enough; that more of them d» ao(
^C ontinued on t Four.)_ ' v* * i
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