The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-07-04

those firms complying with the Fed
eratioR's request.
Puck has not as yet apologized,
and never will, no doubt, but our
Federation members ought to see to
1t that this sheet does not circulate
any longer in their homes and in
places which they are accustomed to
frequent, such clubs, barber shops,
etc. This is not the first offense of
Puck On a previous occasion it
circulated the Holy Father in con-
nection with the persecution of the
Church in France, and no apology
has to this date been made Pro-
tests at that time were few. If this
general protest on the part of our
Catholic Societies, the Catholic press
and the advertisers will have no eff
feet, we can conclude that the paper
has sunken to an A. P A. sheet, de-
serving of no further recognition on
the part of decent and respectable
citigens. It is encouraging for the
Federation to learn that the stand it
has taken in this matter was c0mpi-
meEted upon by our Holy Fathers
representative in the United t9ates,
His Exeellency, Most Rev Diomede
FalconiO, who wrote to the national
secretary that he wishes to thank
the American Federation of Catholic
Societies for it's efforts to protect the
FRsly Father in the respect and
EDnor which are due to him
Now here are the facts. The In
QUESTION is in operation in the
United States today, under the form
of the papal boycott. Americans
who say things offensive to Roman
ismare punished by attempted 1nan-
ciaI ruin.
And this vile method :, is pursued
by just one class Of foreigners
Irish Roman Catholics! We call
them foreigners" for though they
be natura1ized ten thousand times
over, their hatred for American in
Guiding free speech and the liberty
Of the press) proves them to be as
much foreign as are the Inhabitants
OF the African jungle.
And yet Foss has put nine Of the
members of this papal secret society
upon the judicial bench! And his
secretary says they are better
qualified" than Americans!
0 that all the American voters of
Massachusetts knew the TRUTH
American Citizen
The following decision or the
United States Supreme Court re-
Gently, will be of interest, in connec-
ton with the foregoing:
Newspapers cannot combine to
boycott a publication that does not
affiliate with them. That was the
ruling of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, and it has been affirmed by
the United States Supreme Court,
Three newspapers of the city Of Mil
waukee combined to boycott the
Evening Journal of that city because
it would not unite with them IN the
matter of fixing advertising rates
The Journal, holding the combina-
: ton to be in violation of the anti
trust law Of the State Of Wisconsin,
sought judicial relief.
the courts having upheld it's
contention, the publishers Of the
three boycotting newspapers are
liable 30 punishment by fine Or i'm
prisonmant. Justice Holmes, Of the
United States Supreme Court, in a
sentence stated the substance of the
decision: 1t would seem Impossible
to hold that the liberty to combine
to infict such mischief, even upon
such intan gibIes as business or repu-
tation, was among the rights which
the Fourteenth Amendment was in
tended to preserve The decision
while It's immediate effect is local, is
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