Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-06-03
WATSON AGAIN INDICTED BY ROMANIsTs
For Quoting From the Theological Works
Of the Roman Catholic Church,

For Quoting From the Theological Work
Of the Roman Catholic Church.
| No sooner had Priest Rossman
of Wheeling, W. ", instituted
suit against The Menace in ths
Federal Court at Joplin, than tht
news reached US that Tom Watts On
editor of Watson's Magazine anc
the Weekly Jeffsrs onian. Thorn
son, Ga, had been indicted fol
the second time on the charge Of
using the United States mails fo,
her transmissinn of obsc9 one litera.
ture.
1t would appear that Tom Wat.
sou and The Menace are causing
the hierarchy mere worry these
days than any other obstacle OF
combination of obstacles in exsist
ence, and that the priests and pre-
lates of Rome are staying awake
nights trying to ooncoct some
method that will effeotually chunk
the wheels of the great jugger-
nauts at Aurora and Thomson
which ara grinding the idols of
Rome to powder.
Mr.. Watson's first trouble with
the. courts after he started his
campaign against the Roman
Catholic political machine came
on June first, 1912, when he was
arrested on warrant issued by
United States District Altornev,
Alexander and Alderman, oharg-
ing him with sending obscene
matter through the mails.
The indictment in the first case
was fathered by the Knights of
Mob and Murder, and for months
and months they made a great
flourish of trumpets about Wat.
sons srrest.and howled long and
loud about how Rome was going
to vindlcate herself and put Wat
son behind the bars.
Instead of silencing Watson, az
they evidently hoped to do with
this prosecution, they only helped
TO put him in fighting trim, and
from that day to to this, in every
issue of his two publications, he
his poured volley after volley of
truth into the camps Of Rome un-
til she is again forced to make sn.
another demonstration in order to
pacify her dupes and hold them in
line by making pretenss at re
sistsnce. ssgssis sss. 4
Like sue arss .nuiosu. sal, shs.
present ons is based on quotations
which Mr.. Watson make from the
Roman Catholic theological works
of Dens and Ligouri, being ques-
tions which priests are required to
put to the mothers, wives, sisters
and daughters of Roman Catholic
parishioners in the sacred" con.
confines of the confessional box.
After about year and a half of
blunder and bluster on the part
of the Knights. Watson's first
case in the Federal Court came to
an abrupt end when, on 0cs. 81,
1918, Federal Judge, Rufus F.
Foster, sustained the m otion of
the defense to qussh the indict.
ment, virtually declaring that no
law had been violated.
A telegram from Mr.. Watson to
The Menace states that the pres.
ent indictm snt ls based on ths
same old quotations which he
made in good faith from the theo.
logical works mentioned above,
used in the confessional of the
Roman Catholic church and
taught priests in R oman Catholic
theological schools and colleges.
The facs that men are being in.
dicted, and some convicted, for
quoting the questions of priests
put to women of this county in
the confessional is damnlng in-
dictment of Roman Catholic the.
ology. This accounts for the fact
that thousands Of Roman Catho
lie fathers are learning why their
daughters coma away from the
confessional in tears and why
they are refusing to make them
return as they once did. The
time Is coming, in fact, when even
the fathers who still cling to the
confessional will demand the
right to accompany their daught-
ers on such occasins and protect
them from the insults of run
soaked libertines who pose-as re.
presentativss Of Christ and at the
same time use language in the
presence of female parishloners
which the law will not allow Us
to use in newspapers.
Mr.. Reader, how would you like
to belong to church whose tie
ology is 90 vile that 1t is not al
lowed to be printed and transmit
ted through the United States
mails? Ever stop to think of iti
The Menace.