The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-01-25
The Catholic Menace.
(Yictor 1. Masters, in The Missionary
Voice.


Voice.
One of the most notable things in
the present Romanist movement is
the effort they are putting forth to
capture America. In European cO1n-
/ tries and in South America, Central
America. and Mexico, Romanisn has
been weighed in the balance and
found wanting. In these countries
it has meant general ignorance. the
throttling of the spirit of liberty, the
tying of the conscience of the people
to a poor, infirm institution rather
than to God The path Of human
those countries are at last rising and
shaking off the incubus Of Catholic
rule.
But the pope and his advisers are
setting their traps to win America,
England, and Germany, particularly
America. With Catholic ecclesiast,
the end justities the means when the
end is to advance Catholicism and
squeeze out or destroy evangelical
faith.
In America three new cardinals
were made recently, and the daily
press of this country, the growing
readiness of which is to acclaim
whatever Rome desires acclaimed
and relegate to oblivion what Rome
wants so relegated, is one of the
most sinister items in the situation,
shouted in big letters and through
many columns about the high honor
the Roman pontiff had done to Amer
lea! And we cannot forget the
recent spectacle Of the celebration at
Baltimore of the twenty-ffth ami
versary of the giving of this cardinal
red hat to one of the Catholic digni-
taries. Our President, an ex-Presi-
dent, the Speaker Of the House of
Representatives the Vice. President,
the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, and large band Of political
leaders from both parties gathered
at Baltimore to do special honor to
the "red-ha celebration.
This was in America, the land of
the Puritans and the Quakers, the
land into which many of our fore
fathers fed to get away from the
conscience throttling dominance of
this same INSCRIPTIONS religious cult.
Alas, how the times have changed
since the sturdy pioneers dared the
dangers of Indian massacres and the
trackIess forests for the sake Of civil
and religious liberty!
The Catholics have put their finger
on the press in America in order to
juggle with fairness and gain advan-
tage for themselves. The Baptist
Standard vouches for this dispatch:
columbus, Ohio, August 25.-At
today's session of the convention of
the Cath Ollie editors an address was
delivered by Samuel Byrne, editor
of the Pittsburg Observer, in which
he said: L have come here for the
purpose of very briefly suggesting one
thing. 1t is this: That the Catholic
editors of the country, concertedly
and persistently, urge their readers
to notify the propriecors and man.
ayers Of the daily papers that unless
they use instead of the European dis
patches of the Associated Press, those
furnished by the newly established
Catholic International United Tele-
graph Agency, they will withdraw
their patronage from them. either as
readers or as advertisers, and will,
moreover, boycott both the offending
newspapers and those who advertise
in them.
We have faith in the continued
dominance of religious liberty in
America still we have no idea in the
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