The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-16
A VfrtuOus Virginia Paper
Draws the Line ON
Some FakirS.
please take hold of your mind and put
it on this here piece:
THE FORTUNE TELLERs.

the finance committee ever put them on the
license list.
other foolish things to Norfolk. He paid
$3.50 for city license, and rented quarters on
Freemason street, CRANKY
Ills first setback came when the Ledger-Dis-
patch refused to allow his advertisements to
appear in it's columns. When the paper announced
that fact the Chief Of Police sent for the Hindoo
Seer and told him few things. A man did not
even have to be able to tell the future to know
that Norfolk not going to be any fruitful
field for his operations and he willing to go,
but he thought he should have some of his money
back
He paid $3.50 for year only few weeks ago.
Norfolk might we'll afford to get along without
such money and would do we'll to hand him back
his money, and rescind all future licenses to for
tune-tellers.
1t might not to some of the impressiona-
Me people who patrOniZe mind-readers, clairvOy-
ants and fortune-tellers to ask how it is possible
for them to tell all about the future of other peo-
pie and know so little Of their own.
The Ledger-Dispatch may have lost few humid
red dollars by refusing to print these advertise
ments, but it's policy to publish but honest
and legitimate advertising is that will not be
knowingly broken, and in this case we saved the
people Of Norfolk very likely many hundreds of
dollars.-NorfoIk Ledger-Dispatch.
That reads we'll, doesn't it? And yet I
venture to say the man who wrote it will not
throw any contempt at the Roman Catholic
priests who swindle people out of millions Of
dollars, every year, by pretending that they
can pray souls out of purgatory, grant for
giveness of sins, and turn pieces Of baked
flour into Jesus Christ.
] IS the Hindoo juggler do anything more
ridiculous than those things which the
Romanist priests are always doing?
Is there any bigger humbug in telling your
fortune, than in lifting your great-grand
mother out of place that does not exist?
Even if there ~aoeye a purgatory, with
cargo of half-damned souls, waiting for
something to turn up, how does any priest
h220qo that he can liberate any of those souls;
and how is he to prove to anybody that the
half damned soul has been released?
The priests also pretend to forgive sins,
and they have a scale Of prices for doing 1t.
For hundreds OF years, the priests have
been robbing the ignorant and the supersti-
tious by selling these pardons, which they
call "Indulgences."
That was the humbug which Martin Luther
denounced-he being an honest, intelligent
Catholic who could not be silent while such
takers of Rome were swindling the German
people.
The great Protestant Reformation began
with Luther's denial of the Pope's right and
power to forgive sin. But the priests are still
cheating the ignorant out of their money by
that fake, just as they were dong in the days
of Luther.
Another swindle is the "Saint" fake The
priests pretend that the Saints in Heaven
will do certain things for Roman Catholics,
if proper amount of money is paid to the
priests, here on earth.
It is amazing to see how much money the
priests rake in by playing that game on the
ignorant and the superstitious.
One of the magazines, printed IN tbiS CONN.,
a. 1icIooo Of bn Oft writ
ten by the dupes, as they send their money
to the priests. is located at Lackawana. New