The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-04-02
To Convert MaSOnS 90 Cath
OliciSna.

D ECENTLY pamphlet entitled els the Catho-
N lie Church the Deadest Menace to Our
Liberties and Our Civilization" by c. A. Windle
Editor of the Iconoclast, has been sent extern
s1Yely to Masons throughout Texas. The send
ing 1t to members Of the Masonic fraternity calls
for notice at our hands otherwise if vOu1d no
passed in silence.
1t is intended to answer the charge made by
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, that the Catholic
church is the deadliest enemy to our liberties and
civilization, and the price of the booklet is 10
cents per copy, but is sent to Masons free. Who
is paying for this, and what is the object or
sending this 30 page pamphlet to Masons? If
1T is to convert Masons to Catholicism we hope
that copy will be sent to every member of the
fraternity in the United States Mason who
can be converted to Catholicism through this
pamphlet can be we'll spared Masons, unlike
Roman Catholics, who prohibited reading
anti-Catholic literature, are left free in their
search for light, and his intelligent Judgment
guides him as to how to apply the arguments for
against the fraternity He needs no censor
but his common sense, and he answers
directly to God for the use of his God-given tai
ents
The answer Mr. Windle makes to Watson's
charge, is that concentrated wealth, and not
Catholicism, is the great menace to our liberties.
For arguments sake, granting that this is so,
how is this concentration of wealth made posi-
bic but through vicious laws? And how are these
vicious laws secured but by corrupt legislators
elected by selfish interests through purchaseable
votes, and not the great majority of these
purchaseable voters illiterate Roman Catholics?
If you don't believe this, investigate the opposi-
ton that every bill for educational qualification
of voters meets in the State and National legis-
latve bodies, and see if this opposition does not
come from the Roman Catholics and the interests
who want to use this purchaseable voting ele-
ment. Investigate the opposition to the lteracy
test in the immigration bill now before Congress-,
and see if the Roman Catholic hierarchy is not
bending every energy to it's defeat, even to it's
vote by the President, as was done by President
Taft
Windle lays great stress the work of the
Roman Catholic church in civzing Europe, and
rescuing it from paganism but he fails to say
that the 1900 years of the Dark Ages was while
the Roman church held supreme power; the his
tory of the popes will reveal murder, immortality,
oppression, ignorance and mental and spiritual
slavery that would make some of the pagan
rulers look like white-winged angels of peace;
that it was Luther who made the rift in the dark
Clouds which ended the Dark Ages that the
Roman church has attempted to block the
advance of every important discovery in science
and art.
Then he lauds the church for it's spirit of
tolerance, and attempts to acquit the church of
the crimes of the Inquisition, by saying that the
Church simply tried the case, and the State
executed the sentence. A court martial sentences
a man to be shot, and firing detail shoots him;
who is responsible for the mans death?