The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-19

this country of the natives of other countries
where the Catholic faith overwhelmingly or
largely prevails is stopped, that ultimately Catho
lies will predominant in the United States and
bring about union of Church and State. If
there those who really believe this, and
thereby moved to favor the passage of this bill,
all that is necessary to be said is, they mis-
taken and are supporting the bill as result of
misconception is no reason why those VINO know
better should oppose them upon that ground alone
instead of looking further for genuinely existing
conditions we'll for arguments which
material. Those who would create religious
prejudice direct their suggestions of apprehended
union of Church and State toward the Italian
immigrant because he comes from country
where the Catholic faith prevails among an over
whelming majority of it's people,
They forget that while Italy is the residence of
the temporal head Of the Catholic church, and is,
as I have just said, Overwhelmingly Catholic in
numbers has not union Of Catholic Church and
State. France also is overwhelmingly Catholic.
Yet the Catholics Of that nation only few years
ago separated Church and State
Mr.. Johonson ought to be ashamed Of him
self He kn0a08 that Italy suffered indescriba-
BILE degradation from the union of Church and
State, for century after century; and that the
people rose, again and again, under such
leaders as Arnold of Brescia, Rienzi ''the last
of the Tribunes.''
Each time the people rose the Pope's army
put them down, with the most barbarous cru
elites
So late as the Napoleonic era, they had won,
again, their freedom from the hateful yoke
of Popery, and the Pope called in the ruth
less soldiers of Austria to drive the people
back into uaion of Church and State
It was not until 1870, that the italian peo-
pie at last won the long fight. Under Cavour,
the statesman, and Garibaldi, the soldier, the
Pope's internal yoke was finally broken.
The whole popish world has been growing
complaining and lying about it, ever since.
e do not charge that every Catholic is
papist)
Out of this bloody struggle for separation
that each Pope, since Plus TX, has been "a
prisoner"
Many devout Italian peasants buy straws
of wheat, or rye, from cunning priests who
tell them these straws came from the Pope's
mattress in his prison!
Mr.. johnson says that France separated
the State from the Church. Yes, she did; and
the papists howled and threatened and lied
about it all over the world.
The American leader of these papist howl
ers and liars was James Gibbons Prince Of
Baltimore.
A flood came upon portions Of France, soon
afterwards, and this same j. Card. Gibbons
eXulted in it, saying that the awful calamities
of that-flood were Gods judgment on France
for having separated Church and State!
France has gone further: she has broken
up the foul brothels of the nuns and the
monks; and she has expelled the Pope
entirely from her public schools.
Mr.. Johnson says that Italy and France
are Overwhelmingly Catholic!
Then if Catholics themselves declare war
on the Italian hierarchy, that gang must be
pretty bad.
What has Catholic Spain and Portugal
been endeavoring to do?
To 6reat the hateful chains of italian pop