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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
Judge Foster Rules Watson In
dictment Illegally Drawn
SPECTATORS CHEER DECISION
(By The Associated Press.)

Augusta, Ga, Oct 21-Holding that the
Indictment charging Thomas E. Watson, edi-
tor, author and once presidential candidate
of the Populist party, with sending obscene
matter through the mails was illegal, Fede-
raj Judge Rufus E. Foster today ordered the
case thrown out of court.
A large audience attended today's session.
and when the judge announced his ruling
the spectators broke into cheering Judge
Foster ignored this demonstration, which
quickly subsidized. 1t was solely upon the con-
tention raised by Mr.. Watson himself that
the court ordered the case dismissed
Extended argument on the motion had been
made by S. G. McLendon, of defendants
counsel, when the defendant asked permission
to present 'other phases of the matter"
Mr.. Watson addressed the court briefly,
laying stress upon his claim that the indict-
ment should not select certain passages of the
article written by him, but should include
the entire matter. He said that unless this
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were true, it would be possible to indict per-
sons mailing copies of the Bible or the crlmi-
nal code of Georgia.
Argument against the motion by District
Attorney Alexander Akerman was brief and
limited to a defense Of the Governments
opinion that alleged obscene passages and not
the entire article. In announcing his decision,
Judge Foster said
1T appears In this indictment, in all three
counts, that the publication alleged to have
been sent through the mails in violation Of
the law is an extract from a complete article
1t is clearly my opinion that the Government
is required to plead the entire article The
article is obscene as whole, or is not obscene,
and we cannot take out few paragraphs
here and there and charge them as obscene
and make them the basis of an Indictment
1t may be that paragraph here and there
is sufficient to impress the whole publication
with obscenity but the defendant is entitled
to be charged with sending the complete arti
Gle
"The publication is an entire thing. It is
not part or extract We would be able to
lndlct a sender of the Bible on this theory
We might take the episode of Potiphar's
wife, or the relations of Oman to his brothers
widow, or something of that sort and indict
just as we'll.
= Il am not pretending to rule on any other
feature Of this Indictment. The question Of
whether it is obscene If set out in dead
language is not passed upon. On this view
L will sustain the motion to quash.
1T is possible for the Government to re-
indict and make these entire articles part of
the Indictment"
What course the United States District
Attorney will pursue still is in doubt, as he
has refused SO far to discuss the matter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30

The foreman of a grand jury should be q
good judge of what is fit to be printed i'm a
courts records.
So say we, all of us.
The quotation from Liguori's Theology,
for which Thos. e. Watson was indicted, was
classified by the foreman of Georgia grand
jury as mot fit to be placed on the court
records"
Roman Catholic priests use that quotation
every time they confess" woman or a Girl.
Get an eye Opener and read i'm English.
that quotation and the questions the Roman
Catholic priest must put to his "penitents."
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
PAGE TEN

red verities Of real Religion are on my side:
the sound dictates of Reason and Common
Sense are on my side: the Law Of the land is
on my side: TIE PEOPLE are on my side
Thrice armed, in that my cause is just. [
will press on; and when it pleases the
Almighty to snatch the flag from my hands,
ten thousand other and younger men will
spring forward to grasp the standard, and
to keep the colors flying.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
The Law OF the Watson Case.

I HE decision of Judge Rufus E. Foster in
the Q. S. District Court of Georgia. is
likely to become one of far reaching import
ance. 1t will probably be cited as a prece-
dent, and accepted everywhere as good law.
The point was this:
The District Attorney had selected certain
extracts from series of Magazine articles,
arI had indicted Watson for these cctyacts.
ihe Court ruled that the chapter. or arti-
Gle, or pamphlet or book, Gas the case might
be- must be Judged as a aeho5e.
The Court held that the District Attorney
could not take paragraph out of a chapter,
and indict the author because of that para
graph, without alleging the chapter, in its
entirety, to be of an obscene character.
The Illustrations cited by the Court are per-
fectiy convincing.
For instance, he named the episode in The
Old Testament, where Oman was directed to
raise seed to his brother, by the widow of his
brother. Genesis 38)
That passage in the Bible is utterly obscene
when taken by itself. In fact, [ do not know
Of anything in the Heptameron, or the Deca-
meron, or Burton's Arabian knights that is
more so.
But when the Bible is considered as q
aoho1e, it is the opposite of obscene, because
ats intense, divine purpose is, to reclaim fall
and lift them to duty, self-restraint, and
spiritualisn
Very many other illustrations could be
given to support the business of Judge Eos
terS conclusion.
In every indictment under the Federal
Statutes, the District Attorney should allege
that the general trend and character of the
book, magazine, paper, pamphlet, picture, let
ter &c, are obscene.
Otherwise he has no case to start with.
In every Madonna and child, in every
Venus and cupid, in every angelic infant Of
Raphael and Murillo, it would be possible to
present that part of the picture which is
obscene.
On that line of prosecution, every Roman
Catholic priest could be sent to the peniten-
tlary, for exposing the naked images and pic
lures that are to be found in almost every
Catholic Church.
1t is certainly sound law, and sound sense,
that every publication should be judged by
ITS general character and not by garbled
extracts
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-10-30
THE JEFFERSONTAN


r a vote of u to II, the Federal Grand
Jury indicted Thos. b. Watson for tell
ing the people qohat the questions. are, that
bachelor priests, who are sometimes drunk,
put to women and girls in the secret, secluded
confessional.
BY a vote Of II to -, another Federal
Grand Jury, last week. came within one vote
Of indictlng Watson second time, for the
same thing.
Thus. % grand jurors, out of 46, believed
that Watson deserved to be disgraced and
sent to the penltentiary, for letting the peo-
pie know what the Romanist bachelors say
to the women, IN the privacy of the confess
sional box, when nobody is there besides the
bachelor and the woman.
# At be such criminal thing for Watson
to tell aohat the questions are, rs THERE
NO CRIME COMMITTED, WHEN THE
PRIESTS ASK TIE QUESTIONS?
Ii so many Of the sworn grand jurors think
that Watson ought to go to the penitentiary
for publishing the questions, what do those
virtuous grand jurors think ought to be done
with the priests?
The priests, assisted by their lusts and by
the Devil, Matched up those questions
The priests, instigated by their lusts and
by the Devil ask women those questions.
The priests, to inform other priests, pub
llshed those questions III books, and taught
them In their seminarles.
Watson simply found the cat in the bag,
and let the cat out.
II Watson has committed crime in letting
the cat out of the bag, what about the Pope's
bachelors who are responsible for the cat?
It isn't Watsons cat.
Watson isn't accused of asking women a
lot Of questions that would make billy-goat
blush
Yet Watson is the man that the Knights of
Columbus, and the Ancient Order of Anal
gamated Foot-kissers have been bounding for
two years.
Why not set the dogs on the lustful bache-
Tors who ask women those "unfair" ques-
tons?
For Gods sake, think Of this:
They do not deny the questions: they do
not deny that they ask the questions: they do
not pretend that they will quit asking those
shameful questions but they say By their
repeated efforts to indjct Watson, that they
q05U do their almost TO crush any man qUAo
dares to TELL on THEM.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
VASSAR GRADUATES 243
President Taylor Delivers His
Last Commencement Address.
REPORTS $4,000 IN GIFTS
Member of Board Gives
$4,000 to Establish Chair
of Political Science.

Pouehkeepsie, y. Y. June ll-At the
fortyeighth annual commencement Of
Nassar College to-day President Taylor
announced a gift OF $4,000 from Mrs F..
+. Thompson. a member OF the board OF
trustees, for the establishment OF a chair
OF political science. and a gift Of $1,000
for general purposes from Mrs. Mary
Crosset Dodge. an alumna OF the college.
President Taylor delivered his last COM
mencemcnt address before a class of 23i
graduates. His resignation. already an
nounced. will take effect on February J..
1914 nj the end Of tweuty-seven years OF
service. After the trustees luncheon.
which followed the commencement eXer-
cises. Il was learned that his successor
had not yet been chosen.
The commencement speakers were Miss
Mary Agnes wilson. Tabriz. Persia Miss
Rebecca Park Lawrence. Gaesburg, III.
Miss Helena Doughty. New York, Miss
Ruth Holiday. St Louis; Miss Miriam
Winter. Des Moines Iowa, and Miss
Helen clark. Cortland. y. Y.
II was announced at the close OF the
commencement exercises that the new fire.
proof art building at the main entrance
Of the campus would be called Taylor
Hall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
PALISADES PARK INQUIRY
CommissiC-. FAMED TO Investi-
gate Land Deals.

Albany. June &c. Stating that 10 had
been reported 90 him that resort had been
bad to improper Influences loo the prr-
chase o- land f1r. tho Palisades PARK.
Governor Sulzer appointed to-day John
4 H-uncss.y his executive auditor.
Henry T.. Stoddard and Ernest Haryter.
au Of Sew Noio. as special commission
,rs 90 serve without compensation boo i'm
y.stleatiur tho affairs ~ toe Interstate
Palisades PARK Commission. The Gov
.rnor has been informed that 10 tine work
az OBJ. commission as 10 u.s. roa being con-
Quoted is continued the state viii be
forced to pat o.t NOR" than S.O@""p for
the park The sum OF y.I'"p1 has aI-
ready been spent
so wrouEdoIug has been charged asalnst
the commissioners. uut 10 .s said they
have turned over much Of th" work Of
the commission Goo secretaries because Of
their own business activities 10 is al
legged that these secretaries have wasted
iarge sums OF money Dy securing options
ou land Tar away from the river which
can never bee used for the park % Is
said that in one instance $1,000 was paid
fof a trap rock quarry which was practi-
,alIy worthless
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
GARRISON AT WEST POINT
Reviews Cadets and Will Dis.
tribute Diplomas To day.
rBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune. J

West Point. y. Y. June 1.-THE last
day Of the June week exercises was
busy one for the cadets At II o'clock an
organ recital in the new chapel was at
tended by cadets and alumni, at noon the
graduates had a special luncheon at the
oficers' club and az 3 o'clock the alumni
repalred 10 the chapel for their annual
meeting
The Secretary OF War arrived here at
roon. At 4 o'clock Secretary Garrison.
who will present the diplomas and make
the address 10 the members OF the gradu-
ating class tomorrow, reviewed the bat
TALON which. under command Of Colonel
Sladen. was drawn up on the plains. a
reception 10 the Secretary was held aiter
the review on the lawn In 'front.' OF tne
superintendent's quarters
The members of the class OF is went
through their last parade at O'CLOCK 'niS
evening Tonight the cadets and one Oh
the largest crowds ever in attendance a'
an affair OF this kind here participated IN
the graduation ball in the big gym.
During the day various members OF the
alumni held Informal reunions at the
officers club The class Of So held DIN
ner this evening. or the forty-four VINO
were graduated swenty- eight we're In al
tendance.
The graduation exercises OF the hrst
class will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning at the battle monument OH Tro-
ply Point.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
WELlESlEYS CLASS LARGE
Eighty-two Girls Receive Diplo
mas at Commencement.

Boston. June ll.-Three New York City
girls We're included in the eighty-two Well
lesley graduates who received diplomas
to-day from the principal OF the Dana
Hall School. Mss Helen Temple Cook.
The commencement exercises were held
In the village Congregational Church and
We're attended by large gathering Of
relatives and members OF the alumne.
Dr. Robert f.. Speer delivered the address
10 the graduating class.
Among those who received diplomas
were Elsie F. Blanchard and Dorothy
Fuller. OF New York CITY; Elizabeth =.
Jessup. Of Brooklyn: Margaret \. Boyd,
OF F1atDush. Donna A. Couche. OF Nyack;
Gladys Cowan. Of Buffalo. Josephine No
sIlister. OF Gouverneur Marjorie @. Rich
mond. OF Fredonia; Susan Dorothy West.
OF Gens Falls. Margaret VI. Zabrskie, Of
Glen Cove. Katherine Birckerhopf. OF
Orange. y. J.; Eleanor Irving. of East
Orange. y j.. Helen G.. Park and Louise
r. Nermilyea. Of Englewood. y. j.. and
Ruth H. Simmonds. OF Montclair. y. j.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
PRINCETON'S NEW TRUSTEE
H. G. Phillips, Chicago, Chosen
Van Dyke in History Chair.

Princeton y D.. June ll.-lloWard 90
Phillips. OF Chicago. class of % was elect
ed u member Of the board of Princeton
University trustees to-day. To serve for a
period az nyc Years The board am
nounced the appointment OF j.. o. II. PIT
uey. class of 81. OF Newark. a. life
member. to succeed the late stephen ;.
Palmer.
Professor Paul Van Dyke, ~ the uni
vcrsity faculty. was appointed TO the re-
Gently endowed chair ~ history on
foundation Of 5000 by an auony nous
donor. Professor Leroy McCay also Of
the faculty. was made fhe Incumbent OF
the chair In chemistry recently endowed
3y Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore. OF New
York city. with fund of $40,
The designations Of Francis Laudoy
Patton a. lecturer In ethics and ~ Stock
ton Arson as professor OF English were
annourceI after the meeting.
At the alumni luncheon 10 the after
noon the speakers referred To the rumor
that Professor Henry van Dyke had been
appointed 10 the post of Minister To the
Netherlands. and finally h" was called
upon for q speech. he automatically
avoided committing himself one way or
the other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
DOCTORS GIVE TOO MUCH
MEDICINE, ONE M. D. SAYS
Boston Physician Asks Who's a
Quack?" and Defends Fried
mann s Right to Practise.

Just when a good idea OF the worth or
the United States Public Health Service
~ beginning TO be felt, along comes the
National League for Medical Freedom
and says it's all wrong DR.. Almus Pratt
Evans, one Of the leagues Wce-presi-
dents. came down from Boston and told
a number OF reporters who met him yes
terday Al the New York branch Of the
league. at No. 30 Fifth avenue, that the
American nation Is heading right into the
thrall OF the doctors.
DR. Evans said that the powers eXer-
cised by Surgeon General Rupert Blue are
n menace, because they interfere with the
citizcns medical liberty.
Take the case Of d.. Friedrich Franz
Friedman as an example said Or
Evans. WHY should not the people have
the right to try his remedy? II may be
that his vaccine is valueless, but It
should be left for the people TO judge, not
a few arbitrary doctors
The Boston physician said he thought
the Berlin doctor had as good a claim on
the American public as most Of the reg
ular medical practitioners, anyway, and
that he was no worse than the thousands
Of American physicians who see a case
OF appendicitis every time a patient has
the collie and want to perform wholesale
operations for adenoids.
Who's a quack?' was the way Dr.
. Evans put IT,
The League for Medical Freedom
charges there is covert effort wherever
new powers are sought to be given by
legislatures TO health boards and similar
sources OF medical power 10 force every
BODY TO take medicine; and not only that,
but 10 make them take a particular kind
of medicine. The league regards the
allopathlc doctors with aversion. and con-
siders the American Medical Association
its supreme foe. it leans according To its
sponsors. to homeopathy. osteopathy
christian Science "or the eclectic sys-
tenn"
The "eugenic" movement does not meet
with the approval OF the league.
~ don't take much stock" said DR.
Evans lin eugenics. It's just another
excuse for the doctor to be called in"
The New York branch OF the league is
ms, now wrought up over the .Seeley bill,
not signed. which provides for additional
no,rers 10 the health authorities in this
state. The chairman of the New York
branch is Poultney ,Bigelow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
BOARD OF TRADE DOUBTS
Not Prepared to Indorse Pur-
chase of Bush Property.

The directors OF the Board OF Trade and
Transportation met yesterday In the
rooms OF the board No. 2oS Broadway
and listened TO the preliminary report ~
It's committee on waterfront improve
ments in regard 10 the proposed purchase
OF the Bush Terminal Railway by the
city. The committee said # fsvors con-
struction OF the marginal railway by the
city, but regards with some apprehen-
sion the great haste with which negotia-
tons have been recently proceeding.
we feel the more concern" says the
report. because this same committee OF
the Board Of Estimate and Apportion-
ment last winter conducted similar ne
gotiations with the Bush Terminal Com
pany for the purchase by the city OF the
company's piers and other waterfront
properties. and actually recommended
such purchase The proposition was
finally abandoned, as against the city's
interest.
I'VE are not prepared either 10 approve
or condemn the pending proposition for
the purchase OF the railroad OF the New
York Dock Company and the railroad ~
the Bush Terminal Company. II has not
heretofore appeared 10 us 10 be necessary
20 acquire either OF such railroads mas
much as We understand the right OF way
over such lines may he secured by the
city or the operating company under eX-
listing provisions OF the law. The figures
stated i'm the newspaper reports OF ths
sums proposed to be paid for the prop
critics impress us as very large"
:. resolution was adopted that all city
owned automobiles should he conspicu-
ously painted so as TO be easily identi-
fed in order to discourage by every means
possible the private use OF such ma
chimes >"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
DEGREE FOR BISHOP BURT
Syracuse University Honors
Many New Workers..

Syracuse June 1.-THE following hon
orary degrees We're awarded 10y Syracuse
University at the commencement eXer-
clses today.
l.. II. D.. Bishop william Burt. of Buff
talo.
LID. Louis H. Marshall OF New
York: the Rev DR.. Ezra Squer Triple.
president OF Drew Theological Seminary,
Madison y j.. and the Rev George Peck
Eckman. editor Of The Christian Adyo-
r D.. the Rev Albert {. Fulton
and the Rev Thomas A. Fenton. OF SYRIA
cuse and the Rev. Richmond II. Gesner.
rector OF the Episcopal Church Of Os-
wego
d. D. he Rev. Earl Dorman Shepard,
OF Rochester. the Rev. Eben 5. Johnson.
of Sioux City. Iowa the Rev. Frederick
H. Conan OF Buffalo: the Rev. Wallace
Harold Finch. OF New York and the Rev.
Andrew Schrver. OF Chester
Lit. D. Professor John Green, OF Col
gate University. Hamilton. y. Y.
LIT M William II. Coats. OF Saratoga
Springs. y. y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-12
SENIOR SOTO EXPLAINS
Cuban Says His Attack on A. M
Beaupre Was Not Personal.

Havana. June Representative Soto.
whose attack In the newspaper Cuba
on the American Minister Arthur NJ.
Beaupr6. and on the Secretary Of the
American Legation. Hugh :. Gibson.
was the subject Of serious romon-
STRANGE from Washington 10 the Cuban
government made statement In the
House this afternoon, In which he de-
clared that he was simply fulfilling mis-
duty as a journalist IN exposing the
wrongdoings OF the American Legation.
He dlscaimed any intention Of insulting
the American nation OF the American
Minister.
Senior Soto was warmly congratulated
on his explanation by several fello" Con
gressmen. but the House did not take
any action. In view of the approaching
retirement OF MIR Beaupre, the incident
apparently was designed TO stop iufther
action against Representative Soto