The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-09-12
Windle Against Watson

Papal way to the White House.
And Windle-IconOcIast WindIe!
He will be sainted for it, and set up
with Saint Columbus-their sainted
Father of the United States; With
Saints George and Cecelius Calvert
their sainted Fathers of Religious
Liberty in the United States, and
with Saint John Barry-their
sainted Father of the American
NaVy--spUrious claims for making
Papal history.
Bnt Saint Iconoc1ast Windle!
W5ndle sainted for what? All. for
delivering the Pope from Watson
Tom Watson, the Terrible Saint
1conoclast Windle-"The Father Of
Papal Delivery from Tom Watson"
But has Windle delivered the
Pope from Watson?
We know that our Tom Watson is
the Father Of the Rural Free Deliv-
cry System of the United States
the real article, too; but we do not
admit that Windle has delivered the
Pope from Watson, nor do we be-
1ieye it, or that he ever will, or can.
Windle's Reply to Watson is
windbag Of glittering generalities.
Windle claims and writes as PaDal
priests claim and write. It is SO
clear it is beyond dispute. 1t sticks
out everywhere. The Papal priest
hood is speaking through Windle, or
Windle has reproduced them as his
own. But whether Of Papal priest
hood or Windle's reproduction,
"Winnow we'll this thought, and you
shall find
IT'S light as chaff that flies before
the wind"
It does not sift falsehood from
truth, or separate bad from good.
But with buXom air it fans false
claims with foul wind. 1t is q gilt
tering generality and proves moth
ing. It would be against history to
assert that the Papacy has done no
good since it's origin. It is equally
against history to hold the Papacy
to be without sin since it's origin:
for in sin it begat it's temporal
claim, and is guilty of sin-sin as
black as hell, innumerable times in
its assertion of temporal power and
abso1utism in mixing government of
tons, and State, in blight of ma
tions, communities, and individuals.
No one not bereft OF reason. or
dwelling under the cloud OF Papal
absolutism, would fail to see it.
Moreover, it is this GRapal claim of
temporal power in affairs of State,
and it's hierarchical absolutism to
regulate affairs of State through a
degenerate and corrupt priesthood,
that plunges it's nations into ignor-
ance and superstition, poverty and
despair, anarchy and revolution,
and make the Roman Catholic or
ganizatiOn-st strongest power the
world has ever known-the dead
lest menace to free peoples and free
institutions. Moral: Eternal vigil
ism is the price of liberty Watcn-
word: Watson.
Windle's story of Christopher Co
1umbus as the Father of the United
States, her free institutions, and
government of separation Of Church
and State, and his story Of the Cal
verts as the Fathers of Religious
Liberty in the United States, are the
claims of the Papal priesthood for
the power of the Pope, and repro
duced in Windle's winnowings as
Windles own in astounding ignor-
ance OF comparative politics, as in
many Of his other claims for credit
of Papacy.
There is some excuse for Papal
priesthood bigotry to bolster it's
false claims, as to beget false his
tory to prop it's tottering tower Of
Papacv founded upon falsehOOd and