The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-05-08
Oh, No! We Are Not Super
StitiOuS.
WHY THE "TITANIC'' SANK.

WHY THE ''TITANIC" SANK.
M ANY reasons have been given the cause of
IVA the sinking of the Titanic, but the Cath
Ollie Register claims to have the real
why the ship went to the bottom of the ocean, 1t
was because the White Star Line refused to erect
altar the vessel, so that Roman priests could
say mass Here is what the Register says:
eve are not superstitious, but who knows that
if mass had been celebrated aboard the Titanic
on that fatal Sunday, that the world might have
been spared the terrible task of placing upon the
records of it's existence details of the appall
ing OF all ocean calamites We wrote to
the White Star Line, asking them to put portable
affairs on their ships to New York. We got let
ter saying No. But they did put them on the
Canadian boats, because the c. P. r. and c.. N r.
boats were supplied with them. We had letter
from Mr.. Bruce Ismay himself the matter-a
quite stiff letter, which published at the time.
We told him he would be sorry, and we hope he
is sorry now Priests warned not to take
boats without these facilities."-(Truth Seeker.)
We are not Superstitaous."
Oh no! of course. eve" aren't. We pub
lish that kind of thing because there are so
many simpletons that "we' try to keep filled
with superstition.
The Titanic had no Romanish altar and no
facilities for turning bakery into God
shop, where they bake a bit of dough, and
then turn the dough, into Christ, to be eaten
by those who are no more superstitious than
eve" are
eve are not superstitious, but who knows
that If SPANS ships had been equipped with
fewer priests and fewer affairs, the Spaniards
would have Jared better at Manila, when
Dewey knocked their fleet into cooked hat?
1--WE are not superstitious, but who knows
that if the Spaniards at Santiago had been
equipped with better guns and fewer God
shops Schley would never have cleaned the
Spanish ships off the face Of the ocean?
that If" the Incincible Armada had not been
loaded down with so MANY affairs and SO
many rotten old bones of shady old saints,
and SO many fat, useless monks. the hereto
English would not have strewn the coasts of
three kingdoms with the wreckage of this
P0pe-6zesSed Invincible Armada?
I'VE are not superstltlOus, but who knows
that lf' the Mexicans had not depended so
devoutly upon relics and affairs and priestly
blessings, handful of hereto Americans
would not have whipped them, in the Forties,
all the way from Vera Cruz to the Hall of the
Montezumas?
owe are not superstitious, but who knows
that if' the second French Empire had not
been ruled by the Pope's Jesuits. through
stupidity bigoted Spanish adventures Euge
ME Montijo-tAe Protestant Kingdom of
Prussia would not have completely demol-
lshed the Romanist power of France IN less
than 90 days?
eve are not superstitious, but who knows
that if Garibaldi and his little army of
heroes had not hated the Pope and his priests
and his colossal imposture, with such burn
ing hatred, the Pope and the priest and the
altar and the hoary Superstition of ages
mlght get be eqotHr0med ON the T56er-where
no man really honors the Papacy, where q
Jea0 IS Mayor Of Rome, whose Socialism
Knocks at clericalism, where lordly monu-
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