The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-15

IN washington to protect them in
executing the ORDERS
Rome despises the Bible. Strange
indeed that the ''Infallible" church
or the 1nfallible pope should be found
commanding disobedience to God
who commanded, Study to show
myself approved unto Cod"
''Search the scriptures Cruel, in
deed, the system that holds from it's
communicates the light, the love and
the comfort contained in the precious
pages of that blessed book for all
who come to receive it.
2. We came now to the Public
Press. Rome claims the right to
control all publications, religious
and secular, whether books, maya
zines or daily papers.
The first amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States pro-
vided that Congress shall make no
daw abridging the free
dom of speech or the PRESS" but
the Roman Catholic church has
knowledge. It declares that no man
has right to speak or write unless
in accord with the teachings of that
CAuA CA A0 COuuClI OIL tuG Lateral,
held at Rome, A. D., 1915, under
Pope Leo X, decreed that no article
should appear in public print with
out first having been approved by
the officials of that church under
pain of communication The Coun-
Gil of Trent passed ten laws regard
1ng publications the effect of which
was to condemn all books not writ
ten by Catholics and approved by the
church. to provide that no book
should be printed until first passed
upon by the officials of the church
and to place awful penalties upon
those violating it's rules. AS
late as Dec. 8th, 1854, Pope Plus TX.
in his syllabus says, "The church
has the power OF. requiring the State
not to permit free expression of opin-
ion" Later still, Pope Leo XIII. on
June 18th, 1885, called enjoined
Catholic Journalists to strict obedi-
ence to the church, lest the evils de-
plored by the church be aggravated.
The Catholic World, a leading Cath
Ollie publication, takes the position
that ''the supremacy asserted for the
church in matters of education i'm
plies the additional and cognate
function of the censorship of ideas
and the right to examine and ap~
prove or disapprove all books, pub
locations, writings and utterances in
tended for public instruction, en-
lghtenment or entertainment, and
the supervision of places Of amuse-
ment. This is the principle upon
which the church has acted in hand
ing over to the civil authorities for
punishment criminals in the world
of IDEAS
While in this country, the freedom
of the press as it least theoretically
preserved by the Constitution of the
United States, the Roman Catholic
church is desperately seeking by
every means to control, muZzle and
dominate the publications of Ameri
ca. This fact can be proven by evil
dence abundant and conclusive.
The public libraries of the United
States have almost entirely come un-
der the control of the Roman Catho-
lies, and Protestant church papers,
magazines and works of history
showing up the Infamous record of
the papacy have been culled out,
while all kinds of books, papers and
documents classifying history and
clarifying Rome are given promi-
nence in these public institutions.
Thus Rome has turned the public Ii
braries in the larger cities from a
blessing to curse.
The leading publishing companies
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