The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-09
The POpe's Foot Kissers Not Only
DenOsance OUR Public Schools.
But Want 10 Suppress Our
Patriotic Songs!
''NEY COUNTRY, IT'S OF THEE"

"NlY COUNTRY, IT'S OF THEE"
4 this is the time of year at which graduating
4 exercises are held in Catholic schools and
Catholic colleges it will not be out of place to
sound a note of warning against the singing of
America by the pupils of these educational
institutions The doggerel lines dear to the
hearts Of all Anglomaniacs should never be heard
within the wall of Catholic school or Catholic
college. Unlike the "Star-spangled Banner they
do not generate a true national spirit. Every
American knows of the thrilling night and morn
ing. when Francis Scott Key wrote 1.-THE Star
spangled Banner" It is not generally known that
the words Of America were originally composed
to be sung at d Sunday school picnic
That is the history Of the song the pro-British
element would like to popularize to the exclusion
of the "star-spangled Banner" Sung. to the tune
of God Save the King it helps perpetuate the
fiction that a nation of "Anglo-SaXOns.''
The ''Star-spangIed Banner, in it's oroginal form,
cannot be utilizd to further the "hands-across-
the-sea policy. Therefore, the national anthem
is under the ban Of Anglomaniacs From the
viewpoint of broad national spirit these are the
reasons why a sectional song by Yankee Pro-
testant Sunday school picnic, is Objectionable.
1t is especially unsuitable for Catholic celehra-
lions. Think of Catholic boys and girls singing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims pride.
A few months ago the Freeman, commenting on
the improperly Of having such stuff sung in
atholic schools said: 1--WE have heard of the
ant minister for a Protestant Sunday school, pic
mic to- the tune of God Save the King, being sung
at Catholic school exhibitions under the auspices
of Catholic priests who, if they had lived in Mas
sachusetts in the time of the Pilgrim Fathers, y
would have met with short shrift from these gen
try whom Catholic. children in Catholic schools
Indirectly are taught to hold in reverence.
En- the article from which we have quoted we
expressed the hope that the next time America
should be sung; at of these exhibitions, some
thing should be done to call attention to the
inappropriateness- Of doing honor to the memory
of marrow minded bigots Of the CromWelIlan
breed If any of our readers happen to be present
on an occasion when this ofense shall be repeated,
we advise them to hiss and hiss vigorously no
matter if they disturb the harmony of the pro-
ceedings.-From the New York Freeman's Jour
nal, June %, 1913.
Why do these American apes Of the italian
foot kissers object to honorIng 1.-The PHI
grims"
Because the mention of "the Pilgrims"
naturally suggests a study of the Old World
abuses from which "the Pilgrims" fled.
The ''narrow-minded bigots Of the Crom-
wellian breed' were the English patriots
who made the glorious fight to free their
country from the corrupt, degrading rule OF
Popery.
The "CromweIliam BREED overthrow the
tyrannical Stuart king, and chopped his
head off. at the same place, and with the same
axe, that had been used by the Popish
tyrants, when such patriots as. Algernon
Sydney had been iudicially murdered.
The Pope's foot -kissers detest the memory
Of Oliver Cromwell, because he acas q demo-
GRAFT, and believed in civil rights and religious
liberty.
Oliver Cromwell did not hate the. indi-
viduaI Catholic, but lie hated Popery and
what it stands for fully as much as all
enlightened statesmen have always hated it.
If the Pope can discredit our Public
Schools, silence our patriotic songs, and