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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
THOMSON, GA, OCTOBER 3, 1912.
Am Appeal TO My Friends.


HAVE [ got 800 friends who believe in me
to the extent of One hundred dollars
each?
If so, can so expand the business of The
Jetfersonian Publishing Company that qOlW
personally guarantee at least six per cent on
the stock.
Only about $4,000 has been subscribed and
paid for.
Only about 100000 can be bought at any
price, for [ mean to keep enough of the stock
to assure control
But one man cannot do it all, and my
resources have been sufficiently drawn on
My time, labor and thought has been given
to the work for five years. I never expect to
charge the Company salary, or take pay Of
any kind for my work.
But we need more capital to develop our
book department, to advertise and to put can
vassers in the field.
BY hard work and unremitting attention,
/ have worked out all the Lanier nonsense,
and put the business in perfectly healthy,
self-sustaining condition-which happy
result is largely due to the cooperation of
our Managing Editor and our competent and
interested labor-force.
Our plant is one of the largest and best in
the South With the exception of fifteen
hundred dollars, it is all paid for, and even
that small sum of purchase money is not in
arrears.
We are meeting the instalments as they
fall due.
Now then:
After all these years Of trial and labor, and
the investment of so much of my own money,
I want to know whether or not there are 300
men in Georgia and elsewhere who feel
enough interest in me and my work to put
$500 into it.
Three hundred well-wishers, sending one
hundred dollars each, means $4,000 to the
onward, upward push OF my work.
Remember! | am up against 100000
Knights of Columbus who have sworn to put
me out of business.
Remember! The Knights have sic1ed the
Federal Government on me.
Are there 800 Protestants, Masons, Odd
Fellows, and non Romanists, generally, who
are able and willing to invest one hundred
dollars in this great fight?
Who will put their names on this Roll Of
Honor, and enlist with me, in the struggle
to save our country and our liberties from the
clutches of Rome?
l most earnestly hope the 300 Gideon's
ba'od-will promptly volunteer.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
Waason's Reply TO Windlc.
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE oNE.)

taste, symmetry, poetry, language, rhetoric,
anthology, morals and practical wisdom.
"There was never such range of specu-
lation.
"Out of Plato come all things that are
still written and debated among men Of
thought"
Emerson classed Plato as 'Sthe Bible Of the
learned, for 1920 years.
"Calvinism is in his Phado: Christianity
IS IN It,"
Speaking of the "Supreme Ordainer,''
Plato said
"He oos good. AA things are for
the sake Of the good, and 1t as the cause of
everything BEAUTIFUL"
Yet Mr.. Windle alleges that much Of what
Plato wrote lis unprintable;" and he further
says that the philosophy Of the ancients-
including Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras,
Manou, Seneca and scores Of others-was
t'lnhuman." *%*t VI k ~
If Ralph Waldo Emerson had anticipated
what Wi1rdle meant to say about Plato, the
great essay on the Greek philosopher might
never have been written.
Even Mr.. Emerson could not foresee the
advent of such a Roman Catholic champion
as G. A. Windle.
In "The United Editors Encyclopedia and
Dictionary" under the head of 'EPlato,"
Volume 29) Mr. Windle may read
''The works of Plato were extensively
studied by the (Roman) Church Fathers,
one OF whom ]oyfully recognizes in the great
teacher of the Academy, the schoolmaster
who, in the fulness of time was destined TO
educate the heathen for Christ, as Moses did
the Jews"
Plato's morality and philosophy are of the
loftlest type, and he was SO tender of heart
toward children that he condemned those
misguided parents and nurses qUho fq1Qbt-
ened the little things qOih dreadful stories.
plato not only taught every modern prin-
ciple Of right living and good government,
but advocated compulsory education.
AS Emerson said, the most enlightened
and humane Of modern thinkers are moving
within the circle which Plato drew.
Suetonius and Juvenal described and
denounced the vices of bad Emperors. and
of the aristocrats of the city of Rome Does
any reasonable man apply those descriptions
to the entire Roman world?
AS we'll might you say that all England
was rotten, when Charles IL reigned AS
well might you say that all the United
States are rotten because New York CITY is.
Would 1t not be grossly unjust to say that
there are no honest men and virtuous
women In New York? Don't we know that
the majority of New York men are honest.
and majority of the women chaste?
When the King and Court of Catholic
Spain were rotten, no one supposed that
every Spaniard was putrid. When the
King and Court of France were corrupt,
nobody said that the whole nation was.
When the Vatican was brothel, the Pope
hbertine, and the women about him Iicen-
tious, it was not alleged that every house in
Italy was equally lewd.
Bless my soul! This Mr. Windle repre-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
THE JEFFERGONIAN
A History of the Papacy and of
the POpeS.

a1RG ropes
7 TNDER the above title, will begin
another series of Chapters for Wat
sons Magazine
With the October issue, we published the
final chapter of the series which has been
running for more than two years.
Those chapters are now in book form;
and In order that this volume may be read
by the largest number Of people, I have
placed the price at $125.
(But this means P. O. Money Order for
$1.25.
It does not mean bank check for $1.25,
on which we would have to pay Is cents
exchange.
If bank checks are sent for single copies,
add Is cents.
Where 5, or more copies of tie book are
ordered at the same time we will accept
checks and drafts at their face value.)
In my new series of chapters, I will give
the history of the Primitive Church, the
adoption of Christianity by the Emperor
Constantine, and the division of the Chris
tians into warning sects.
[ will tell you when, where, and why the
Roman Papacy was established; and how
pagan Symbols vestments, practices and
beliefs crept into the church.
Lou Will D0 Interested III UI6 SUOTV OF Un0
wars waged under the banners Of Popes.
You cannot be Indifferent to the story of
how Popes took away crowns and thrones
from some kings and gave them to others.
You will 60 with the Crusaders to the
Holy Land, where apparently sane kings
and mobiles led their vassels into a vain and
bloody fight to capture an empty tomb.
You will witness the horrors Of the massa-
ores of the Waldenses, the Albigenses, the
Vaudois and the Huguenots.
You will see the Christian martyr burnt at
the stake because he will~not take his religion
from Pope, but insists upon taking it from
the Bible.
You viii see the hideous dungeons into
which "heretics" are cast to rot, starve, or
be tortured to death.
You will see the Pope become supreme,
claiming dominion over all kings and king
doms, in all things spiritual and temporal
You will see proud and mighty emperors
hold the Pope's stirrup, as the Pontiff
mounts his horse.
You will see German emperor, forsaken
of his subjects, because of the Popes curse;
and you will see this humbled monarch
standing, barefooted in the snow, for three
days, awaiting the Pope's permission to enter
the Castle where temporarily lodges the
earthly representative of the meek and lowly
Jesus.
You will see the Roman Church become
as rotten as it is powerful foe to freedom,
to learning and to virtue.
You shall know what the Dark Ages were.
You shall know what the Inquisition was.
You will learn how Popes encouraged and
rewarded assassinations.
You will learn how every attempt to
reform the Church from within was choked
in blood.
You will be told about Savonarola Arnold
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
EMIT CEs

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means that your subscrlp-
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dnued promptly date of expiration. RENEW
NOW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Other Interference Reported.

During the summer of 1911 there were
from time to time reports of other inter
ference with trade and commerce, and the
first session Of the Twelfth Congress was
called to meet month before the regular
time. The message of the President rela-
tive to foreign affairs was accompanied
by correspondence between Mr. Monroe,
the Secretary Of State, and A. j. Foster,
the British minister, as to neutral vessels
and relative to the encounter between the
United States frigate President and TT z
British sloop Little Belt, with the ~oceed-
ings of the Commodore Rodgers &C of
inquiry also correspondence relati. a
the military occupancy of Florida by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
FREE AGENT IN
BASE BALL DEFINED
National Commission Decides
Against PhiIIies and Issues
important EdiCt.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. March ON one
of two decisions made public yesterday
by the national base ball commission a
new rule was adopted affecting players
known as free agents.
Player Charles A. Deal complained to
the commission that while a free agent
he signed with the Philadelphia National
League team at stipulated salary for
the playing season of 1912.
On reporting March to go on the
training trip with the team he was in
formed that he had been released to the
Lancaster team of the Tri-State League
at a salary 20 per cent less than he had
signed for.
The commission annulled the release to
the Lancaster Club and restored Deal to
his status as a free agent.
The rule adopted declared that a free
agent who signs a contract with a ma
tiOnal agreement club and is transferred
without his consent to another club or is
released without trial, shall be declared
a free agent if the club to which he is
released does not assume the salary his
original contract calls for.
Charles l.. Herzog of the New York
National League team, was allowed 1910
half of the draft price paid by the Gin
cinnati National League team in 1911 to
The Reading Club of the Tri-State League
for Pitcher Horsey.
HerZog was allowed the amount because
he had a written agreement with the
Reading Club that he was 10 receive hall
of the draft price for the player in case
he was drafted in 1910 or 1911 Herzoc
having induced Horsey to sign with the
Reading Club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22

Senator Samuel Smith of Maryland had
in the revolutionary war risen TO the
rank of brigadier general and was a ma
jor general of Maryland militia Wien
few years after the hattie OF North Point
was fought. Joseph Anderson Of Tennes-
see was an officer in revolutionary days
and subsequently, from 1915 to 1885, was
the first controller OF the Treasury. :. Il.
Bradley Of Vermont had been a reVolu-
tionary officer, and Nicholas Gilman or
New Hampshire was a member OF tie
Continental Congress. Not few
others opposed the war, including Gen
Philip Stuard. who commanded the
Maryland militia in the southern Part of
the state, whose forces were actively en-
gagged in watching and harassing the
enemy in lower Maryland. and who for
many years subsequently was resident
Of East Washington. And not the least
CT the patriots was Phil Barton Key.
who at the breaking out of the revo'u-
ton resigned his commission as captain
in the British army and refused to draw
his sword against the colonies. He repre-
scented a Maryland district from 1907 t.
1913 and was afterward a resident OF
Georgetown, where he died in 1si..
The day after the passage of the act
declaring war President Madison issued
his proclamation putting the same into
effect, and IL was not long before the
American forces were earnestly engaged
in preparations for the contest. Con-
gress, however, did not adjourn until
July &, having been i'm session 20 days.
On that day Mr.. Madison communicated
to Congress documents as to impress
ments from American vessels, with a list
of British French Italian and Danish
captures.
Congress was again called to meet No
vember =, 1872. and two days after Presi-
dent Madsons message was received he
referred to having placed considerable
force in Michigan territory for security
before the declaration of war; referred
TO Gen. Hulrs loss of his force and sur
render of Detroit; the employment OF In
dian cruelty by the British side, the am
pie force from Kentucky, Ohio. Penn
sylvania and Virginia under Gen. Har-
iison marching there; that the gov
errors of Massachusetts and Connecticut
had refused to furnish militia: that ia
vorable progress of the war WAS being
made on the ocean; that peaceful rela-
tons had been resumed with France and
other nations, and expressing confidence
In the issue of the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
CHINESE LADS SCHOOLING.
Ideals for Scholarship Rather Than
for War.
From tine Century.

For centuries most Chinese boys have
had three or four years of schooling be-
fore going to work at the business Of
their ancestors: but all that the common
people got was memory-work by sight and
sound They did not reach the higher
grade in which, according to immemorial
custom. the teacher began to explain the
meaning of words, characters and ref
erences. Thus most coolies, whose vocabu-
larry is very limited, can read characters
little, but with imperfect comprehension
of their meaning.
The bright boy is encouraged to go fur
ther Indeed, the ideals of the race have
always been for scholarship rather than
for war, for mental rather than for ply
steal accomplishment, and the hero-tales
told to children show ambitious youth
arriving at prodigious learning, and con-
sequently high Office in the state, after
many years of incredible labor and self
denial.
Society is still divided into the four
ancient classes: Scholars. from whom all
officials are chosen; farmers artisans and
laborers, merchants. Yet it is possible for
a clever boy of any class to become a
scholar and enter the government service,
and there are many instances of poor
parents scrimping and starving to keep
a gifted son at his long and severe studies
until he can pass tine final examinations.
become mandarin or officeholder and
begin TO reward his family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
l directly addressed Florence

my life, 1 directly addressed Florence
Lloyd.
when You went up to your room at
10 o'clock the flowers were there?'
asked. and l fe.. a most uncomfortable
pounding at my heart because of the
trap I was deliberately laying for her.
But it had to be done, and even as
spoke I experienced a glad realization
that if she were innocent my questions
could do her no harm.
Yes she repeated, and for the first
time favored me with look of interest.
l doubt if she knew my name or scarcely
knew why l was there.
And you pinned one on your gown?
Il tucked it in among the laces at my
throat yes
Miss Lloyd. do you still persist in
saying you did not go downstairs again
to your uncle's Officer
Il did not" she repeated, but she turn
ed white. and her voice was scarce more
than a whisper.
Then said I, chow did two petals of
a yellow rose happen to be on the floor
in the office this morning."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Spanish Jews in New York.
rom the American Hebrew.


Almost unknown to the general COM
munity is the steadily increasing immi-
grafton into this city of Spanish-speakine
Jews from the orient. 1t is estimated
that these descendants Of the Jewry eN-
PEELED from the Iberian peninsula over
400 years ago now number about 10000
in New York city.
Others are spreading abroad through
out the country. and a body of these
Jews who have chung so faithfully TO
their Spanish tongue held religious serv-
ices according to their own minhag last
Rosh Hashona so far west as Portland,
Oregon
In New York they are at least nuner-
Gus enough to support two newspapers
printed in Ladino-Spanish in Hebrew
one, appearing weekly, enti-
tied LAmerica. edited by III. $. Gadol.
the other a daily paper entitled III
Aguila, edited by Mr.. Mizrahi
This immigration has become so con-
siderable that the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society has recently
been compelled to form an oriental bu-
reau. through which the immigrant Jew
speak king Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Arabic
or Sephardic Hebrew can receive proper
care.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
. Not Property Thunder.
From the London Times.


Even the greatest actor-managers do
not know all there is to be known about
stagecraft, to judge from a curious story
concerning Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
1t appears that at the rehearsal of a
certain play at His Majesty's Theater a
wonderful climax had been reached,
which was to be heightened by the effec-
tive use of the usual thunder and light
ming. The stage carpenter was given the
order. The words We're spoken, and in
stantly noise which resembled sue
wings.
What on earth are you doing. man?''
shouted Sir Herbert, rushing behind the
scenes do you call that thunder? It's
not a bit like it,
'AwfulIy sorry. sir responded the car
penter. but the fact is, sir. / couldn't
hear you because of the storm. That
was real thunder, sir
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Whole Section Unprotected.

AT Greenleafs point, the present site
of the War College, were a few shops. the
first erected about 1874, and a few ma
chanics under the superintendent of A.
d. Filleard: and four years before the
place had become resort for military
supplies in charge of Henry Rozier. At
the barracks was a small force of ma
rines, and the garrison at Fort Washing
t0n guarded the approach by way of the
Potomac. So this whole section was in
an unprotected condition.
When Mr.. Madison became President
in 1909, such was the condition of af-
fairs that he called the Eleventh Con-
gress together May - of that year, and
in his message referred to the intention
or the British government to make rep
aration for the attack on the Chesapeake
and to withdraw such orders as inter-
fered with this countty's foreign trade.
He also recommended changes in mill
tary and naval affairs and that provision
be made for the defense OF harbors. At
the second session OF this Congress, No
vember q. 1909. Mr.. Madison in his mes
sage referred to the refusal of the Brit
ish government to revoke it's orders, COM
planned Of the offensive conduct of the
British minister and referred to the
French government not being friendly.
Mr.. Madison in another message of the
same date inclosed the correspondence of
the British minister, and stated that the
American minister to Great Britain had
asked his recall.
January 3, 1910. he asked Congress to
consider the enlistment of volunteer
force of 2O.CoO men and the expediency
of classifying the militia and putting in
service portions of the naval armament.
In message Of April ) he gives the in
formation that since 1907 412 seamen
sailing under the American flag had been
impressed into the British service At
this session the President was authorized
to employ public armed vessels and to
permit merchant vessels to arm for the
defense of American commerce. At the
third session Of this Congress. which met
December 3. 1910. the message of the
President announced the revocation of de-
crees by France and the expectation that
the British would relinquish their orders
as to blockade, and referred to depreda-
tons by Danish cruisers on this country s
commerce. January 81, 1911. copies Of
letters from the charge d'affaires at
Paris relative to the detention of the
frigate Essex and the seizure of the New
Orleans packet were received.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
SONG AS INSPIRATION
1.-THE American Star" Made
Patriots in War of 1912.
WRITTEN By AN FRESHMAN
Served Its Purpose Well in Second
Fight for Independence.
COUNTRY DIVIDED ON ISSUE
Events Leading Up to Declaration
Kept Nation in Excited
State for Months.

One hundred years ago 1.-The American
Star" was. with Hail Columbia the
popular patriotic song which inspired the
patriotism of the American people on the
eve of the second war for independence.
The words of this song. adapted to the
music of "Humours Of Glen an Irish
tune famous during the war Of the revo-
luton. were written by Capt. McCreery
OF Petersburg. Va, who was one Of the
exiled United Irismmen who came over
about 1873. This song began:
Come. strike the bold anthem, the war
dogs are bowling
Already they eagerly sniff up their
prey,
The red clouds of war Ger our forests
are scOwling,
Soft peace spreads her wing and flies
weeping away
For several years this country's for
eign affairs had betokened final resort
to arms, but the country being young
was ill-prepared to take the initiative
against such a formidable adversary as
Great Britain. The population numbered
but few million in seventeen states.
the nation owned only small number of
vessels and the army was mostly engaged
in guarding the western frontiers. Com
merce was growing, but had been
hampered by France and Great Britain,
then engaged in the Napoleonic wars.
The capital of the nation then numbered
less than 10000 people, and the entire
District about 5000, and although on
the subject of war there was no una
nimity, Yet when war was declared the
community generally sided with the gov
eminent. Besides the regular militia
there were numbers of Well organized
and equipped volunteer companies, some
Of them Of horse and a few Of artillery
which did good service when called to the
field. The navy yard, which had been
established under Commodore Tingey
about 1900, after the war with Tripoli,
was at this time a busy place. numerous
vessels. from frigates to gunboats, being
built, repaired and fietted out here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-22
Report of the Committee.

Happily for the nited states It's ues-
tiny under the aid of heaven is in Its
own hands. The crisis is formidable only
by the love of peace. AS soon as II be-
comes a duty to relinquish its situation
danger disappears. 1t has suffered no
wrongs il has received no insult, however
great, for which it cannot obtain redress
After reciting that seven Years has
elapsed since the beginning of hostile ag-
gression and reciting the wrongs. the re-
port closes: Your committee, believing
that the free sons of America are worthy
to enjoy the liberty which their fathers
purchased at the price Of SO much blood
and treasure. and seeing in the measures
adopted by Great Britain a course begun
and nersisted i'm which must lead to loss
of national charter and independence, reel
no hesitation in advising resistance ID!
force, in which Americans OF tne pies IN
day will prove to the enemy and TO the
world that we have not only inherlted
that liberty which our fathers gave us
but also the will and power to MAINTAIN
it. Relying on the patriotism OF the ma
tion and confident that the Lord OF
Hosts will go with us to battle in a rlght-
eous cause, and crown our efforts with
success, your committee recommends dii
immediate appeal to arms.
An act was reported by this committee
declaring war against the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland anu
it's dependencies. authorizing to use tne
whole land and naval force and TO issue
to private armed vessels United States
commissions or letters of marque. This
act was passed by vote of ~ TO ~ IN
the House and 10 to l., i'm the Senate.
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware
voted in the negative in both Senate and
House. and in all the other state delega-
tions there were negative votes cast eX-
centing South Carolina. Georgia and Ten
nessee. and in some there was a majority,
as in the cases of Massachusetts. New
York and New Jersey. At this time the
president of the Senate was William III.
Crawford of Georgia, Vice President Gin
ton having died April 20 preceding. The
Speaker of the House was Henry Clay,
who, having served in the Senate and
being elected to the House, was chosen
the presiding officer at the first session
There were still in the public service