The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-09-19
Roman Catholic Lies: A Sample.

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n practically all of the Roman Catholic
papers,, there has re-appeared the villain
Gus article which was originally published In
The Marian, Of Opelika, Alabama
This slanderous, utterly vile, and wholly
un-C Christian magazine, In attempting to
refute the charges made in The Menace, and
In other Protestant papers, sought to show
that all the assailants of the Roman HER
archy were bad men.
The Marian catalogued these bad men as
follows:
1. William Lloyd Clark, who on Oct. 20
convicted in Peoria, ILL.,, for sending obscene
literature through the mail. He therefore is
branded by the law obscene criminal
q Evangelist L. G. King, the 'Ex-Prest of the
Roman Church. He arrested in Hunting
ton, Va Aug. 1909, public dissemination
of verbal filth and expelled from the town.
few months ago the Methodist mayor of Phoenix,
AriZ., ordered him out of town because of his
indecent diatribe against Protestant as we'll
Catholic women. In. Los Angeles Cal, on April
TO- he was forced to admit that he never was
priest He is therefore, liar we'll as obscene.
3. Fresenborg unfortunate priest, dis
missed from the functions of priesthood on
account of drunkenness.
4 Chniquy, another unfortunate, likewise
dismissed-for immortality. The Presbyterians
made him minister, then expelled him for
embezzlement. He is, therefore, immoral and
thief.
s. Watson, arrested on June for sending
immoral matter through the mail
s. Maria Monk, the Escaped Num- who when
near her death, admitted that she never had been
a She thief and prostitute who
died in jail.
These are the authorities that The Menace tells
you should be in your homes; the words Of the
liar and the obscene the drunkard and the~thieb,
the acknowledged prostitutes and the legally
declared criminal. You are asked to take their
word against the word-or whom? AWhy, against
the word of legion of the most fair minded and
the most reVered of the Protestant clergy and
laity; and against the word of those who are
neither Protestant Catholic-who the
lovers simply of fair play and the American
square deal.
If the converts be such things of horror as The
Menace would have you believe, how comes it
that $4,000 of the purest of American women
willingly stay there, would rather die than leave
there? Why is it that so many Protestant par
ents send their children to be educated there?
Why did even Tom Watson, with all his hatred
for the Roman Catholic Church. when he wished
his daughter to have the best training possible,
send her to convent school, and write many
Gommendatory letters to the Sisters, thanking
them for what they had done for his child?
G)William Lloyd Clark was fined for tell
ing the truth on the priests.
It was obscene, for the priesthood is
obscene although many good men belong
to it.
(2) The same thing is true of Evangelist
King.
(3) Of Fresenborg / know nothing; but /
do know that ex-priests Crowly, Hyacinthe,
Gavazzi, McCabe, O'Connor, Gonzales, Fer
rando, and scores of others, against whose
characters Rome dare not say word,
denounced the papaz system as bitterly as
Fresenborg ever did.
az The charges against Chiniquy are
absolute lies, and The Mariam knows it.
Only few months ago Canadian paper,
edited by Roman fanatic sandered Chini-
guy, and he had to, pay a fine Of So 900 for it.