The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
THE eJEFFERSONIAN
ID. s. Phelam ON The Western
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the current issue of his paper Rev.
Phelan thus speaks of Professionalism:
The unchurched and unsexed millions who dis
grace every civilized land are the waits of the
Reformation. The disrupted homes norgues of
pnghted love, are the handiwork of the Refor-
nation The debauchery in high and low life in
every land where Professionalism holds sway
attest the general loosening of bonds of morality
caused by the Reformation. Professionalism has
become the synonym of unbridled lust domestic
1nhdeity and irreligion throughout the world
Compared with England, Japan is clean. Judged
on the score of honesty, the United States stands
below Southern Italy. In divorces and illegiti-
macy the Protestant peoples are first and all the
rest nowhere.
Professionalism is par excellence the religion of
dirt When it disappears there will be a monster
Augean stable to clean out; and the nations will
feel relieved of plague that threatened to last
forever. The world is vile and sinful; but filthy
as it is, it is far too pure for Professionalism!
The United States stands below Southern
Italy" says the Reverend Phelan.
Yet In the United States, the husband kills
his Wlfes lover, and the seducer of his sister
and daughter, while in all Italy the qoifo's
right to haze q zover is recognized by father,
brother and husband-a,od the Pope same
tons the arrangement.
Can Phelan dispute the facts?
Practically every married woman in Italy,
III 1dSlIlOltOLt CIICloS, mas n0f CIC1SO6O. her
lover; and it is from Italy that comes the
lady-lilze phrase, as to kisses, "Mv hand, for
may fr5e7ad; nag cheeks, for my husband; NY,
LIPS, for mey 1over."
What standard Of morality does that
imply, Rev. Phelan?
In Roman Catholic Central and South
America, the traveller, needing a temporary
wife, can buy a Roman Catholic girl from
her Roman Catholic father, just as he can do
among the poems of Mexico, and the niggers
Of Africa.
What standard of morality does that
imply, Rev Phelan?
Spain is also Roman Catholic country
country where the priests have seduced
practically all Of the handsome wives.
Recently an official report on conditions in
Roman Catholic Spain has been made.
/ quote from The american Citizen:
At the instigation of King Alphonso, Premier
Canaejas directed the Minister of the Interior to
prepare a report giving particulars regarding the
emigration of Spanish Subjects of educational
conditions and measures and other information
regarding the economics of the land. The report
has shown shocking and deplorable state of
affairs
It has revealed that so per cent. Of the land of
Spain is uncultiyated and 38 per cent. of that
under cultivation lacks irrigation entirely; $500
villages have roads methods Of commune
cation, not even bride paths, and entirely lack
railroad facilities; 1000 villages are constantly
under fever plaques; 10000 towns and villages
(two-thirds of those in the country possess no
schools any of education and IL, 600, 600
of the IL 600, 600 inhabitants Of Spain neither
read write.
This disgraceful and shocking state of affairs
is only equalled in other countries subject to the
papacy of Rome. Italy, Portugal, the Philip
pines, Cuba, all show the marks of the Roman
Hierarchy. ever struggling to keep the masses in