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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-06
PAGE TWELVE
MIR. WatsOn's Statement i'm Re-
gard to Charges Against Him.
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE N1NE.)

to ask those questions of maids and matrons,
out Of the hearing Of parents and husbands,
In the privacy of the confessional-box, every
patriotic American citizen ought to know it.
Every Roman Catholic father has a right
to know beforehand the scope of the CUES
honS which a young, unmarried priest is
bound to ask his daughter.
Every Roman Catholic husband has right
to know upon what private matters the bache-
Tor priest will question his wife.
In my Magazine did not carry, in parallel
columns translation of the Latin questions
That very thing, however, is done in the
volume known as ''The Horrible Book;
Extracts from the Theological Works of
Peter Dens, on the Nature Of Roman Catholic
Confession"
This work was issued by the Jordan Pub
fishing Co. of Philadelphia.
My copy is of the twelfth edition, which
was published In 1895.
1t was copyrighted in 1892 by Jordan
Brothers.
The book contains precisely the same Latin
questions, with accompanying translations
that used in Watson's Magazine.
Why did the United States government
protect with its copyright, a book that is
unfit for the mails?
I'D hOO CA0 AOuOA6 SON0Aill11C1lG 0oCOpP0u
from prosecuting me for quoting from books
which are protected by National copyright?
| think the lawyers will see the force of
this point, even if the President and the Car
dinals do not.
1t is universal practise among authors,
English and American, to place in foreign
tongue, or one of the dead languages some
statements that are considered too bald and
raw for our own language.
AS every reader of ''The Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire" knows, Gibbon con-
stantly does that, and when his great work
came to be revised and annotated by the Rev.
DR.. Millman he left all of those notes as Glib
bon originally wrote them.
The United States mails makes no obiec-
ton to Gibbons Rome, although many of his
Latin notes are far more obscene, and are
used for less praise-worthy purpose than
those [ quoted.
In "The Students Manuel" by the Rev.
Dr. John Todd Of New England, there is a
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-06
THE JEFFERSONIAN

are advised to abstain from certain vice.
That book was placed in my hands by one
of my teachers, Robert. III. Pearce as pure
man as ever lived.
used it constantly when Twas at Mercer,
and it was of immense benefit to me-
That work was also copyrighted by the
Federal government which is now bounding
me, trying to destroy business which has
cost me five years of the hardest work ever
did, and about $4,000 Of hard cash.
The Federal government does not inter-
fere with the sale and circulation of Queen
Margarets "Heptameran," Boccachios
"Decammeran," ''The Merry Tales of Mar
succio," "The Adventures of the Chevalier
Faublas," Daudet's "Sappho," Flaubert's
Madame Bovarl,' and the "Temptations of
ST. Anthony"
These books are not only salacious in their
text, but are illustrated by nude pictures,
vller than any ever seen in bar-rooms.
'Leda and the Swan which is almost as
far as the bar-rooms ever CO. is chaste pic
ture, compared to some of those in works I
have mentioned.
In fact, the young people of our country
are debauched on the unclean literature of
Roman Catholic authors living in Roman
Catholic Europe.
D'Annunzio is devout Roman Catholic,
and one Of the most horribly indecent writers
that ever put pen on paper.
Yet out government places no ban upon his
literature.
[ am an American citizen and Protest
ant, hence [ am to be prosecuted for doing
what the Roman Catholic authors do with
lmpunity.
Last year the Knights of Columbus, in
their annual convention, resolved to make
WON nj e l,1cI,
Ever since, they have been trying to do so.
They are using President Taft, just as they
used him in the Philippines, the Panama
Canal Zone, and in the Indian school matter.
Our three Irish Cardinals, Gibbons Farley
and O'Connell, took an oath to persecute
those who did not accept the Roman Catholic
faith.
A writer to Golfers Weekly, describing
O'ConnelPs look when he took that oath, said
his face wore a terrible SMILE" as he took
that traitorous oath, binding himself to take
his orders from foreign potentate and to
persecute his fellow citizens of America
Evidently the Cardinal means to live up to
that oath.
We will see whether he has done wise
thing to pick me out for immolation.
1t is not my purpose to surrender one inch
Of ground, or to take back one word / have
said, and [ don't ask our laundering BOBBY
of President, and his three Cardinals, the
least bit of odds.
feel [ can Trust implicitly to the good
sense Of Georgia uPors, and to the patriotic,
independent spirit of all true American citi-
zens.
Those who will read the 38th Chapter of
Genesis verse nine, will understand the sub
stance of the most unnatural questions asked
of married women by the Roman Catholic
priests.
lnasmuch as the Romanist Hierarchy hates
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-06

A Letter TO The Atlanta journal.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE NINE.
you do not even try to keep faith with them.
You indulge in too much Hypocrisy.
You indulge in too much meanness.
You won't give fair treatment to any oppo-
nent.
You indulge In too much villifcation.
You make too many accusations that you
cannot sustain.
You accuse your antagonists of all sorts of
deals and after the campaigns are over, the
conventions held and adjourned, your accu-
sations turn out to be malicious fabrications.
You have done this so often, that no one
will believe you when you are attacking some
one who opposes your man Smith
You even stoop to the infamy of putting
false headlines on communications which you
do not dare to refuse to print.
Let me suggest you take trip to Hot
Springs, Arkansas, and have some Of the
virus of unmitigated, monotonous and con-
prehensiVe meanness stewed out Of your sYs-
tenn. THos. e. WATSON.
P. S. By the way, do you still think there
was deal between me and the city politicians
who climbed over to Underwood, after I GOT
the wagon going briskly?
Have you read what Loyless says in the
Chronicle?
Have you read what Clarke Howell says in
the Constitution?
Have you read what Pendleton doesn't say
in the Telegraph?
Have you perused what Eel-Slzinner Fielder
did not say in the convention, where I was to
be skinned like an eel?
= It's all very funny, isn't it?
T.E.W
A copy of this article was sent to The
Atlanta Journal.
Do you see anything "obscene" or untrue in
it?
But here is the letter from virtuous James
Richard Gray, In which he refuses to publish
the article, for reasons therein stated:
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL.
Daily, Sunday, Semi-Weekly T"@fh*@*
JAMES r. GRAY
Editor and General Manager.
JOHN S. COHEN Managing Editor.
MORTON SMITH, Asst. Managing Editor.
Atlanta, Ca, June l. 1912.
Mr.. Thomas E. Watson, !
Thomson, Ga. u
Dear Sir
Your communication of 31st ult. is herewith
returned for the following reasons:
Much of it is not responsive to the Journals
editorial.
1t is not true.
1t repeats certain obscene charges that YOU
have previously made in your own publications
This paper cannot be made medium for the
dissemination the repetition of charges which
consider indecent.
For these reasons we are returning your article.
Very truly yours,
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
TO PROTECT LIVES
State Industrial Commits
sion Sends Warning of
Deadly Corn Cutters.
ALL FARMERS TO RECEIVE THEM

Before the corn husking season be-
gins in November, farmers of Wiscon-
sin will receive a bulletin designed to
save them the loss of arms, hands,
fingers, ETC., in the deadly corn husk-
ing or corn shedding machine. Under
statutes Of the last two legislatures
the industrial commission is charged
with the duty of enforcing the law
which requires that corn shredders and
corn huskers shall be guarded. The
commission has been successful so far
in stopping absolutely the importation
into Wisconsin of unguarded ma
chimes, but at the present time it is
estimated that there are nearly a
thousand huskers, shredders and feed
grinders so dangerously lacking in
proper safeguards that human lives
are constantly in peril, not to mention
arms, hands and fingers. These ma
chimes were sold in Wisconsin before
the edict against unguarded machines
was issued.
The Forthcoming bulletin Of the COM
mission will be unique in many ways
1t will contain the results of an in
vestigation made early this month Of
nineteen serious corn shredder acct
dents. The nineteen victims of these
accidents were seen personally and in
tervieWed. Every one of the nineteen
manned victims of agricultural ma
chinery admitted that the accident
which lessened his efficiency could
have been prevented by ordinary care
The lesson to be drawn by farmers
from the corn shredder bulletin is
obvious in the extreme. In this bull:
letin the industrial commission ca :
tions. greater care on the part of opera.
tors of unguarded machines. IT also
tells how these machines may be made
less dangerous by the attachment of
simple guards. Like other bulletins of
the industrial commission, the new
publication is issued with a view of
saving life and limb. The pamphlet
will contain information regarding
ifty-nine serious accidents on huskers
and shredders and thirty-fve acct
dents on feed grinders.
Exhaustive investigation was made
in the nineteen serious cases "a depu-
ty Of the commission visiting the in
jured persons, and also the owners of
the machines. The stories told by the
nineteen victims are graphic in their
very simplicity.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
CAR HITS CHILD.
Genevieve Madison Four Years Old
Struck by Electric Car Thursdgy.

Genevieve Madison, agend four years
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nieis Mad;-
son of Superior street was run down
and seriously injured by car on the
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Rail
way, just south of the Elizabeth street
crossing on Thursday. The little girl
is a student in the Kindergarten at
the Columbus school and she was on
her way home from school when the
accident took place. She was walking
along the track and failed to see the
approaching car. The car struck her
and threw her to the ditch at the side
of the track. An ambulance was hur-
ridely called and the little girl was
taken to the Kenosha hospital where
it was found that her injuries while not
Of critical nature were very pain
full. She had a bad wound on her
head and was bruised in all portions
Of her body.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10

The Kenosha city council will prob
ably make an Appropriation of $4,000
at the request of the board of indus
trial education, but the appropriation
will probably have string tied to it
in the request that the Industrial ed.
ucation board spend as little OF the
money as possible until it is definitely
decided whether or not the law under
which the board is established and
the appropriation made is constitu-
tional or not. There has been no great
objection to the provisions of the law
in this city, but the same cannot be
said of other cities in the state where
strong objection is made to raising
any money for the purposes set forth
in the law. These cities propose to
test the law in the courts and they
have received assurances from attor
neys that there is little doubt but that
some sections of the law, particularly
the sections dealing with the powers
OF the industrial boards to demand
the levying Of taxes, are unconstitu-
ticnal. It is improbable that this city
will join with any of the other cities
in the state to make a test of the law
in the courts, but at the same time il
is plain that it would be a waste of
time and money to build up any very
elaborate system of instruction under
the new law here in Kenosha. If the
measure is going to be knocked out by
the courts. Il would be better to 20
slowly for a while and spend just as
little as possible until the law has re-
ceived the sanction Of the courts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
TO REGULATE SALES.
Merchants Believe Council Should
Regulate Sales from Harbor.

Retail grocerymen in Kenosha are
being urged to join with the merchants
Of Racine and other lake shore cities
in an effort to prevent Michigan fruit
raisers from shipping their fruit AMI
vegetables for sale in Kenosha In
past years it has been the plan of these
people to either charter boat and
have the fruit and other food products
shipped to some of the. lake shore ports
or to sell the product outright to the
owner of some small sailing vessel
and have it brought to these ports.
The potato, the grape and the peach
boat have been familiar things in the
harbor during the last few years and
it is certain that large number of
these boats will drop anchor in the
harbor during the next few months.
The local dealers insist that these
sales from boats are unfair to them
and unfair to tie people. The men
who brings in his boat does not pay
any taxes in the city and is not watch
ed by the state pure food officials.
Often the baskets of peaches and the
bags of potatoes sold are under the
weight represented by the dealers and
as a result it is declared that the peo-
pie do not receive what they are pay
ing for. With baskets with high bot
toms the men who bring fruit in the
boats undersell the merchants of the
city and they pick up considerable
trade OF course the boats are launch
ed in the harbor and it is hard for
the officials to interfere with the bust
ness Of these traders.
1t is possible that the merchants
will join with the Racine merchants
in asking that an ordinance be passed
for the express purpose of regulating
sales of fruits and vegetables from
boats in the harbor.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
NOT KENosHA MAN.
Body Found at Winthrop Harbor Not
That of Missing Kenosha Man.

Body Found at Winthrop Harbor Not
That of Missing Kenosha Man.
The mystery of the disappearance
Of w. j. Fox, missing from Kenosha
for the past seven months has not been
solved as the wife of Fox, who
went to Zion City on Wednes-
day afternoon believing that the
remains of man found dead
along the lake shore at Winthrop
Harbor were those of her husband
failed to identify the remains. When
she returned to Kenosha late Wednes-
day afternoon Mrs. Fox was convinced
that the body at Zion City was not
that of her husband. In many ways
the body found tailed with the des-
cription of the missing cigar maker of
Kenosha, but as soon as Mrs. Fox took
a look at the badly decomposed face
she declared that it was not the body
of her husband.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
Increasing Railway Returns.

Current reports Of the revival Of
railway traffic are verified by the Of
fetal returns for the month of july
compiled by the Bureau of Railway
Econmics from reports to the Inter
state commerce Commission covering
over 100000 miles, about 80 per cent
of the steam railway mileage of the
country.
The increases in net revenue were
mot, however, universal. For the east
ern group of railways the Increase over
July, 1911, was 400 per cent, or $2.01
PEI mile of line per day; for the west
ern group 16.4 per cent, or $1.29 per
mile Of line per day. The net revenue
of the southern group decreased SIS
per cent, or Al cents per mile Of line
per day.
Taking the average per mile of line
for the month for the country as a
whole, total operating revenues in
creased $50 or ST. per cent; operating
expenses increased $50 or 7.6 per cent;
while net operating revenue increased
$3.50 or IL per cent. Taxes amount
ed to $40 per mile of line, an increase
of 8.5 per cent
The aggregate of all net operating
revenue for the month was $50, 1877 43,
an aggregate increase of $9,O37O16.
This net operating revenue per mile of
line for the seven months of the cal
endar continues less than for the cor
responding seven months Of 1911. Net
operating revenue is the amount avail
able for taxes, rentals, interest on
bonds, appropriations for betterments
and MISUNDERSTANDING Bureau.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
HIT AT FAKE CURES
Pulpits to be Used to Edu-
cate People Against Cures
for tuberculosis.
MOVEMENT TO Be NATION Wide

From thousands of pulpits in all parts
of the United States, fake cures for
consumption will be exposed and de-
nounced on tuberculosis Day, October
9th. This is part of the program for
the movement announced today by the
National Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis.
Literature giving information on
fraudulent and alleged "cures' for
consumption will be sent to clergymen
all over the country, and an organized
crusade against the traffic in these
drugs and devices will be instituted.
The hturature will be sent to ministers
either directly from the National AS
ISOLATION Office in New York or through
the many state and local anti-tubercu-
losis associations scattered throughout
the country. 1t is estimated that over
100000 clergymen will be reached in
this way.
From actual records on file in the
Office Of The National Association. it is
estimated that the volume Of business
done annually by the various concerns
who sell fake. remedies for tuberculosis
amounts well over $15,000,000. The
number of these remedies now being
used as so-called "cures" is over
500.
Three classes of "'cures are dis
tinguished by the National Association.
In the first class are included hundreds
of devices and drugs which can be
bought for any sum ranging from ten
cents to five dollars at drug store.
The second class of curesD include
the institutes, = professors - or
companies of DOCTORS" who for a
consideration guarantee to cure con-
sumption by some secret method which
they are the sole proprietors. There
are nearly one hundred-ffty Of these
institute frauds in the United States,
cheating people out of millions of dol
lars annually.
In the third class of "cures" are
placed number of home made remed-
les, which either through ignorance or
superstition have been advanced as
treatments for tuberculosis. Some of
these are onions, lemons, rattlesnake
poison, coal dust, lime dust, pigs
blood, dog oil, milk "strippings," and
even alcohol.
None of these remedies will cure
consumption, declares The National
Association. No drug, gas or other
material has yet been discovered,
which, when eaten, inhaled or injected
into the system, will kill the germs of
to the body. The only real cure for
tuberculosis recognized by The Nat
ional Association consists of the com
bination Of fresh air, good food, and
rest taken under the direction of a
competent physician.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10

The first registration day has been
Get for October 8th and the second for
October 10th and every qualified voter
who failed to register by voting at the
primary election is expected to appear
on one of those days at his regular
polling place and get his name on the
list of voters The registration lists
now being compiled are new in every
way as there has been no copying of
the old lists and none will be permitted
and the voter who wants to get in his
vote on election day without the au-
noyance and delay of making out an
affidavit will have to get his name on
them If you failed to vote there is
no way to do it except to appear on
one of the registration days
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10
Making Faces at the Trusts.

We find no warrant for the state
ment that Progressives stand for
regulated monopoly" What they
stand for is giving up the futile and
miscellaneous attempt to compel compe-
tition at all times and under all cir
cumstanees. Monopoly is scarcely
imaginable. The steel trust, be it re-
membered, controls barely fifty per
cent Of its field. Though it has abb
sorbed a number Of competitors, nota-
bly, the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany, it's proportion Of the total trade
is slightly less than it was at the'be-
ginning. The history of the Whiskey
Trust, of the old Strawboard and Lin
seed Oil Trusts, shows what may be
expected Of any effort to force mono
poly. The concern that can't stand
competition will fall to pieces as fast
as it is put together. Under free con-
ditions competition will proceed only
up to the point where it ca justify
itself economically.
"The concentration Of business in
some degree is both inevitable and
necessary for national and interna-
tional business efficiency" says the
Progressive platform, and that is true.
But the whole intent of the Sherman
Act was to forbid combination and
compel competition all along the line.
The courts understood it that way I'M
til the situation became SO impossible
that the Supreme Court, by Judicial
legislation wrote the word treason
able" into the achieving it in such
ambiguity that nobody can tell, in
advance of Supreme Court decision,
whether a given combination is law
full or unlawful.
The Progressive platfrom simply rec
ognizes the fact that combination may
be benefcial-that it exists and in
creases in spite of all statutory and
judicial efforts to prevent it. "We
do not fear commercial power" it de-
clares, "but insist that it shall be ex-
ercised openly, under publicity, super
vision and regulation. That is the
intelligent attitude toward the trusts.
The opposite attitude consists in re-
garding them as fearsome things and
seeking to exocise them by an mean
tation.-Saturday Evening Post,