The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-02-27

I have just received information from a thor
oughly reliable and influential gentleman who
lives in Chicago, that there is movemnt on
foot by the Jesuits to bring from Belgium
large colony of settlers for tract of land COM
prisng about $4,000 acres in Florida
These plans being carried out by small
syndicate of Chicago men, through a member of
the family of ex-King Leopold. While being con-
Quoted under the mask of purely business and
developing enterprise it's real purpose is to estab
l1sh colony of Jesuits in Florida and to extend
the already growing power of the Romanist in
this country-which is rapidly waning in Europe
The plan is entirely dependent upon the co-opera-
ton of the Governor of Florida which will be
sought for the purpose of obtaining financial aid
from the legislature and also exemption from tax
alton for term of years and other special privi-
leges. A committee from Denmark is the
way to the Governor and obtain his aid and
favorable cooperation in the scheme
I write you with the hope that you may bring
influence to bear upon the Governor of
Florida to head off this enterprise so dangerous
to the we'll being of country. [ know how
you feel in this matter, and I also fully realize
the strange apathy the part of people
generally as to the alarming encroachment of the
Catholics and to their never ceasing efforts to
control the political affairs of the country.
The Governor of Florida has already been
made of the movement referred to, but it
is exceedingly desirable that he be approached
and warned from as many angles and influential
sources as possible, and hope you may the
way to do some effective work in cooperation
with others in check-mating this very dangerous
movement. A FRIEND.
Those of our readers who are familiar with
history, will remember that the Romanists
were the first settlers in Florida, where they
introduced slavery for the first time in our
history.
When the French sought to establish Pro
testant colony, near St. Augustine, the Span
lsh Catholics eXtermlnated it.
A full description Of that horrible butchery
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of the South and West.
The Spaniards did not flourish in Florida,
any more than they did in the far West.
They enslaved and slaughtered the Indians,
but after that was done they were powerless
before the onward progress of the Anglo
Saxon.
From the above letter it is clear that the
Roman Hierarchy intends to adopt, in Flor
ida, the same policy which is now in operation
in Canada and in our Western States
The lower classes of Southern Europe,
whose minds have been dwarfed and hermet-
ically sealed by the Roman system of educa-
ton, are to be dumped upon our shores and
colonized in such a way that nobody but the
priests shall gain access to them.
The Romanists have discovered that where
the Catholic immigrants from Europe are
allowed to mingle freely with our people,
their minds soon absorb the free ideas of
America, and the monstrOus dogmas of Rome
become absurd, if not to the immigrants them
selves, to their sons and their daughters
In fact, the American public school is an
unfailing antidote for the Romanist poison,
and that is one of the main reasons why the
Roman Hierarchy wants to colonize the Ro-
lnalrist immigrants
Forewarned is forearmed: it is to be hoped
that the press of Florida, the Governor, the
Legislature, and the Protestant leaders of
thought will array themselves sternly against