The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-11-07

SUpCISI1G1OQS
tons of the Romish sect, but those
who have broken away from the
church OF the Pope have, in many
cases, not broken away from his in
tolerant spirit. The so-called libre
penseur, the man who thinks that
ne is a free-thinker, is quite as in
tolerant and is sometimes capable of
prosecuting with Papal bitterness
and cruelty, as did Augagneur, the
Hbre penseur, when he was gov
ernor of Madagascar.
The Seicle the other day gave an
account of an incident in Spain
which adds another to the innumer-
able instances of the prosecuting
spirit Of the Papal Sect 1t is an in
stance that should be known in the
United States, where that sect is
making a desperate effort to seize
the reins of government, for when it
is in power it uses the army to carry
out it's prosecuting behests.
military mass was celebrated in
Madrid, and a detachment of ma
rines was ordered to take part in
the proceedings. In this detach-
ment was a Protestant sailor who
informed his superior officer that,
being Protestant, he could not
conscientiously take part in the
service. This explanation, however,
did not suffice to relieve him He
was ordered to march with the
others When it came to the eleva-
ton of the host, this noble young
man refused to kneel when the
others knelt The officer ordered
him to kneel; he refused to do So
He was instantly arrested and
placed in a CELL and was committed
to take trial before the court mar
tial on charge of characterization. I
was glad to see, by the papers of
August II, that a deputation of
Evangelical ministers waited upon
Senior Canalejas to protest against
the persecution Of this young sailor.
The Premier promised to give his
attention to the matter
This is but one of a number of
kindred instances of the prosecuting
spirit Of Rome. Protestant places
of worship are not permitted to
bear any external sign to indicate
what they are. Three years ago all
the Protestants places of worship in
Barcelona were closed by order of
the Government. There will ever
remain large section of intelligent
people in all civilized countries who
regard the shooting of Ferrer as
judicial murder. His zeal in the
cause of popular education was his
real offence, which the Romish sect
could not forgive. Spain herself
will not allow us to forget that she
was the birthplace of the Inquisi-
ton. For twelve centuries she has
been under Papal tyranny, and the
result is that, from being the most
powerful nation upon earth in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
she has today sunk to the rank of
fifth-rate power. Let her defeats in
Cuba and the Philippines, let her
failures in her attempts to colonize
in Morocco, let the class hatreds
that keep the country perpetually
on the verge of civil war, let the
paralysis of trade caused by the
trading privileges claimed by the
religious orders, let the financial ex-
haustion of the country caused by
the Unsuitable appetite of the church
for gold, let the cruel bull-ights in
which the Spanish populace rejoice,
furnish a lesson to the world at
large of the moral, social and COM
mercial ruin that awaits the nation
that bows under the yoke of Rome,
and retains in the twentieth century
the spirit of the sixteenth and. the