The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-08-07


has been long recognized by
sCGCIUns Of the community; but that
is something very different from a
nationwide awakening. A sleeping
nation is drowsy giant that can not
lie fully aroused in a moment. If
Uncle Sans slumber on the Romish
question has been abnormally pro-
found, it is because, for long time
past, he has been Systematically
doped with opiates. The Associated
Press has been carefully censored to
keep from the public eye anything
hostile to Rome, and to constantly
keep in the public eye the pageantry
and the pride Of the Papacy and the
much and OveradVertised
charities of the Romish Church.
Romish teachers in our public
schools, Romish librarians in our
public libraries, Romish editors in
some of our largest publishing
houses, have been Systematically
polluting the sources of information
on matters of church history. The
police system of most Of our largest
cities is in the grip Of Irish Papists
who hold it a religious ddty to sup
press clerical scandals and conceal
the criminal escapades of drunken
and licentious priests
Meanwhile Rome, whose intrigues
in all the courts and governments of
Europe for a thousand years have
fitted her to handle every political
situation with the sagacity of an
adept, has found it a comparatively
easy task to hoodwink the vigorous
and unsuspecting youth, the young
democracy of the Western hemis-
phere. She is now a great political
power in our midst, and she has at
tanned that position in silence and
secrecy without our being, as ma
ton, aware of the fact.
In several States of the Union and
in Washington, d. c., there exists
what practically amounts to Cath
Ollie lobby, and it is now being openly
agitated that such lobbies should be
Systematically maintained. The Kan
sas City Journal of May 19 last, I'M
der great scare headlines on the
front page, reports Bishop Lillis, in
an address to the United German
Catholic Societies at Roanoke, as ad-
Vocating the maintenance of per-
manent Catholic lobby at Jefferson
City:
approve very much Of your eff
forts to protect the interests of the
church while the Legislature is in
session. The bankers and other in
terests have representation at Jeffer-
son City. The Catholic Church is
one of the largest property-holders
in the State, and should be repre-
scented there all the time.
1 am sorry to say that there are
times when the church badly needs
representation in the Legislature.
During the last session a resolution
was introduced calling for an in
spection of the sisterhoods and con-
vents. 1 shall dismiss this subject
here with these remarks: Neither
the sisterhood nor the converts de-
pend upon the State for mainten-
ance, or even a small appropriation.
They are essentially private institu-
lions, and therefore this resolution
was the Outgrowth of bigotry based
upon ignorance.
You will observe the Bishops
logic. Those who moved for the in
spection of converts are ignorant
bigots, because the converts are pri-
vate institutions. This is after the
manner of Rome, to insult it's oppo-
nents, not to argue with them. A
few years ago it was discovered that
certain patent medicines and certain
foodstuffs were injurious to the pub
lie health. These articles were pro-