The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-08-06
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scope Of the Catholic church. which during it's
life has entirely forgotten it's spiritual mission,
it's sole right to be recognized by modern society.
The church has consecrated itself principally to
conquest in politics.
ViIlareaTs Charges.
''To secure it's object it always has been allied
with the reactionary government and the despots,
and even with foreign invaders It has shown
itself an implacable enemy to the liberal move
ment and progress from the first revolution of
Ayut1a until the present time, and has Illuminated
its ridiculous communications the most grand
and glorious benefactors Of the country, Hidalgo,
Jaurez, and Lerdo de Tejada.
THE pictorial and clerical rulings Of Porfiro
Diaz and Huerta, against which the Mexican peO-
pie have been struggling heroically for many
years, have had the sympathy and assistance Of
the Mexican church. The church has had it's
benedictiOns for the crimes corruptions of
Huerta and has unsuccessfully worked to incte
the public against the Constituencies cause"
Ceremonials Criticized.
Some of the ceremonials of the church were
criticized, Villareal alleging that in Mexico they
have tended toward weakening of moral charac-
ter. The colleges came under his disapproval,
ALSO and he declared it the of wisdom to
close the clerical schools for the present tbs
ground 'it is a supreme national necessity to
stamp out at the root the arrogant abuses Of the
Catholic church and remove the grave danger
which the institution represents more political
than religious for the tranquility and future pro-
gress of the country 1t is not the intention of
this government not to recognize liberty of
science, persecUte any cults while others enjoy
guarantees, and for this reason the privilege has
been accorded five Catholic churches of reopening
their doors in Monterey
You will see from the foregoing that the
Governor of Nuevo Leon takes exactly the
same ground against pOpery that our fore
fathers took; the same that Garibaldi, Theirs,
Cavour, Cromwell, Gladstone, Bismarck,
Gambetta and all progressive statesmen have
taken.
Humbly following where our great ances-
tors led | have been unselfishly, and at great
expense of labor and money, endeayoring to
make our countrymen see that unless ace
0arahe IN time. POPERY WILL PLUNGE
Us INTO Il RETOLUTION.
It has drenched Europe with human blood.
1t has caused enormous calamities in Central
and South America.
1t has caused several horrible revolutions
in Mexico.
It fastened peonage on that afflicted coun-
try, and was party to all the crimes Of
Macmillan, of Diaz and of Huerta.
1t is using all of its arts, through Cardinal
Gibbons, the Pan-American Jesuits, and the
Roman Catholic diplomats of South America
to influence our Government in favor of the
despOts and. the priests in Mexico.
More than that, it is laying in this country
the plots that will convuIse the Republic in
less than twenty years.
In Mexico, the political priests are being
driven out, and their popish schools shut up.
In the United Suites, the political priests
openly dictate to your Gorcrnment and teach
100000 Of your children in its popish
schools.
How much more will it take to arouse YOU?
How much longer will Protestants sleep?
How much further will your Federal courts
lend themselves to destroy those American
publishers ach0 ac0nt to kill this p0piSh 8naLe,
before its poison enters into every vein and
artery of our private and public life?