The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-26

day to advance their pOIlt1Cal
and ecclesiastical propagandism is
the resort to that lowest order of I'M
fair method, the boycott. In a re-
cent issue of The Outlook, Cardinal
Gibbons said of the church, "She
disapproves of boycOtts. One does
not like to charge a man in Cardi-
nal Gibbons high religious and So
cial station with deception or un-
truth and yet Cardinal Gibbons must
have known when he gave that state
ment to the public that a well-orga-
Eized boycotting scheme was being
prosecuted by Roman Catholics un-
der his jurisdiction.
Of course, we have all along been
familiar with the index expurgato-
rius by which Roman Catholics are
denied the right to publish Or read
books of which Roman Catholic Off
Gals disapprove, but it is only with
in the last twelve months that Catho-
lie officials in America have shown
their hand fully in abridging the
rights of non-Catholics to publish
and circulate whatever religious
opinions they please.
However, they themselves furnish
the proof they have a well-organized
scheme of boycotting all American
publications which give them offense.
We give one quotation which is suffi-
cicnt to show that they are in the
business Of boycotting. In the
Catholic Columbian of Columbus,
Ohio, issue Of November II, 1911,
appears an editorial, Of which we
give the first paragraph, as follows:
Because the newsstand in the I'm
ion Depot at Augusta, Georgia, has
quiC selling Tom Watsons anti
Catholic magazine for the simple
business reason, that the Catholics
did not like it, and that when they
would see it on the newsstand they
would buy nothing there. Mr.. Watson
comes out with his threat"
Then follows a quotation from Mr..
Watson's Jeffersonian in which he
charges Catholics with the boycott
and defes them in q most courageous
manner That editorial in the Cath
Ollie Columbian is an admission Of
the truth Of Mr.. W2tson's charge.
The CinUrch Progress, of st. Louis, 4
Roman Catholic paper, in it's issue
Of November 90, 1911, discusses this
boycott in lengthy editorial, and
says among other things, watson
will see the folly Of his ways, just as
others have done IS Watson is
feeling the lash and will feel it while
he presses his vile campaign There II
be no quarter. There can be none"
Later the Catholics secured Mr.
Watson's arrest The Catholic Tele-
gram of June IS, 1912 s9ys: THE
matter objected to was contained in
an article in Watson's magazine at
lacking the Catholic Hierarchy"
The Catholics have long had a
press censorship among themselves,
and are now trying to establish it
for the American press generally.
The Sunday Waterman of June g.,
1912, Father Phel2n's organ, says:
Uncle Sans eyeslght is growing
kearer on Catholic views, perhaps;
and perchance the day is not SO far
distant when venomous tongues
squirting forth poison on the fair
name of the Catholic Church will be
called upon to answer why they
should not be punished, that the
Church is as much entitled to the
right to protect her good name as
tho individual"
This is only one of several publ
cations boycotted by Roman Catho-
lies The Catholic Federation has
a Literary Committee" specially
charged with publication matters. A
certain encyclopedia has fallen un-
der the Catholic ban, while Roman
Catholics are getting the Catholic