The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-07-09
william Varney, OF New Jersey,
RakeS Z. E. w. Over the Goals
About Roman Catholicism.

"'0lSoli' M D., June IL, 1914.
EAR Six: In your campaign for the Pres
loency on the Peoples Party ticket, you spoke
at Newark N. j., at Krenger Auditorium
was one OF your listeners and after your
speech was proud to be able to shake your hand,
you were my ideal type of real freedom loving
american, a Southern gentleman, who believed in
the rights OF man. Since that evening 1 have
read much that you have written and your
straight from the shoulder talking your calling
spade spade made me greater admirer of
yours than ever.
But of late Mr.. Watson have become disap-
pointed in you through your continual mud sling
ing at Catholics. I am Protestant and know
that the Catholic Church in the past has done
much that is hard to wash but do you really
believe it behooves a broad thinker like yourself
to be mixed up in religious arguments?
Surely you are not going to bring the Jefferso-
MAN to the level Of the Menace Why this agita-
ton against the Catholics? Are you Thos. Wat
son afraid they are going to steal the United
States when we've got them outnumbered six to
one?t
the man you've got beaten before he starts?
Some of the squarest men I know men
brought up in the Catholic faith, who got their
education in the Catholic schools, these men
never enquire if one is Catholic Protestant
When I voted for you for President I
asked what your religion was.
The Rockefeller's and the rest of the polecats
who are squeezing the blood out of the Nation
and trampling on the Constitution, they get
ting orders from Rome?
There was a bitter struggle in our city just one
year ago, twenty-five thousand silk workers asked
for little more bread, the owners of the facto-
ries who robbing and cheating them were
not Catholics, many of them I know to be pillars
in the Protestant churches.
The Chief of Police who so brutal1y ordered
these poor struggling workers dubbed into sub
mission was not Catholic, no friend Watson, he
is Freemason.
I will admit the Irish Catholics control politics
in many places, but it's because they aggres-
sive always on the job. The other mollycoddles
organize Guardian of Liberty courts sneak into
some hall and SILVER with fear, lest two
rough Irishmen come and chase hundred so
home.
thing Mr.. Watson
Some time ago a friend of mine gave me
ticket to attend one of their lectures. went and
in the audience the finest bunch of blacklegs
could find anywhere Guardians of Liberty,
patriots Bah Why seated the platform
some of the biggest crooks our city could pro-
duce.
The Chairman. local clergyman, opened the
meeting by denouncing the Supreme Court of the
United States
And the speaker of the evening rasped out the
sillest bunch of junk I heard.
Why are you bothering with these un-American
conspirators, Mr.. Watson?
Do you think there is room in the United States
for organizations who consp1re against their fell
low men, be it Free Masons, Guardians of Liberty,
Knights of Columbus?
Cut this religious stuff from your publications,
Mr.. Watson, as it don't mix we'll with your fight
for the rights of the Under Dog.
Yours respectfully,
VIM. VARNEY.
If you think it worth while you might print
this and your answer in The Jeffersonian.
w. V.