Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-07-04
He Cuts Loose With n Horrible
Screech and Scream of
Protest.
His Insult to Catholic Women
Sounds the Depth of
Infamy.
The ICONOCLAST SCORNS HIN

iOW watson, says the July
Branns' lconoclast, has been indicted
once more for sending obscene mat
ter-his agazine-through the
mail. Tom let's out woeful wall,
suppressed groan, then cuts loose a
horrible screech and scream of pro-
test. He says:
"Alphonsus Liguori was an Ital-
ian who lived in the eighteenth CEN
tury. He was regarded as such
shining light of Popery that they
canonized him as a saint The
Popish secret organization, now
known as the Redemptorists, was es-
tablished in honor of Liguori.
Peter Dens, the Irish priest, and
Alphonsus Liguori, the Italian, pub
lished more fully than any other
Popish theologians the questions
which bachelor priests must use in
the confessional. BY the time a
decent woman has been defiled by
those nasty inquiries her modesty is
thing of the past. BY the time a
pure girl has all that filth poured
into her ears she will have a prurient
curiosity, on forbidden subjects,
which will tend powerfully to tempt
her to taste forbidden fruit. 1t was
the lascivious teaching contained in
the theological textbooks of the
Roman Catholic church that sank
Italy, Mexico, Cuba, South and Cen
trail America into the abyss of uni
versal immortality. To save our peo-
pie from that insidious poison they
need to be warned. | undertook to
warn them, and for two years the
Federal Government has been
bounding me, as though | we're a
sheep thief. Railroad thieves like
]. p. Morgan dominate public affairs
and dictate national policies. Sugar
trust thieves are able to stand in the
highest favor at the White House.
Standard Oil thieves and murderers
not only escape prosecution, but are
| powerful enough to use the army
and the navy in their business, both
| in Colorado and Mexico. But when
native American, whose ancestors
fought and bled for the Protestant
liberties of this country, undertakes
to warn our people of the rapid ap-
proach of this horrible system of
Popery, he must submit to the per-
oiSNNht persecution vi the
Government, egged on as II is by the
Pope's ambassador. the traitorous
Tumulty, the self-appointed Senator
from Georgia and Knights of Column
bus"
To Justify his guilt Tom says hh
took the obscene matter from certain
theological works used in Catholic
schools for priests. This is true, but
Tom failed to state that he increased
the obscenity a thousand-fold by his
| Shiny, salacious comment, by lech-
erous suggestions, vile jabs, rotten
suggestions, sinking illusions,
putrid insinuations, dirty deductions
and slanderous slobberings which
ran riot through the reeking col
umns of his cesspool sheet. In like
manner one might discredit the
Bible and cover the Christian world
with shame, but to do this he must
be faker. mutt or a mendacious,
malevolent, forked monstrosity, de-
void OF sense, honor, decency or
shame. In like manner one might
also discredit the medical profess
sion and its schools. You can not
print for ordinary circulation GER
tain parts of the Bible, nor many of
the things you find in the curriculum
OF medical schools.
have no objection to legitimate
criticism of the Bible. theories OF
medicine and systems OF theology,
but when a man resorts to the Wat
sonian method he invites the con-
tempt OF every man who has brains
and knows what to do with them.
What would you think OF the Icono-
clast, or any other decent publica-
tion. that would select and print
obscene things from the Bible and
medical books? II arrested we
might set up a howl that would
shake the eternal hills. but what re-
spectacle person could afford to
extend sympathy. much less come 10
my rescue, by raising large sub
scription clubs among his friends? II
guilty OF such perfidity, no man with
a moral character above the level OF
skunk would be found dead with
copy Of my paper In his pocket.
Watson's charge that Catholic
teaching is responsible for immor-
ality In any land under the sun, CON
tains as much truth as the assertion
that virtue is prostitute and
justice a tyrant.
His insult TO Catholic women, TO
wives and daughters who are stain
less as any who sustain this sacred
relation TO Tom Watson. sounds a
depth OF infamy that can not be
measured by human speech.
The following EXCERPT from my
speech In reply TO Menace Lee
turers seeuin. Bowles. spurgeon. ct
al. refutes all the points raised by
Watson against Dens and Liguori
1T IL true that the moral theology
Of Dens and Liguori contains matter
unfit for publication and general
distribution. but the same Is true OF
the Bible and certain medical
works. II II be reasonable to con