The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-21
THE BEFFER SONIAN
What Sort OF Free Masons Are
These?
These 2

IReSey
AQUEER lot Of alleged AIasons, living in
Los Angeles requested us to believe that
the 18th Degree Knights Of Columbus had
exhibited to them their most secret ritual.
oaths, bylaws, etc.
We believe it, of course There was moth
ing else for us to do.
It is so well-known that Popes
have always been ravenousy fond of
Masons and that Papal secret societies
were SO largely ready to reveal their inner
most mysteries, that we at once accepted the
assurances Of those Los Angeles patriots.
However, we were much set back by the
peculiar conduct of one p. Fl. Callahan. the
Paint, Veneer and Varnish man of Louisville.
Kentucky
Callahan is the person who heads the
Pope's Committee of Inquisition, as to the
causes of ''prejudice" against a foreign
church whose law says that we Protestants
ought all to be murdered, and our republi-
can institutions overthrown.
Callahan wants to know why it is that we
harbor an absurd and unreasonable prejudice
against religion" whose law forfeits o,r
lives, our liberties, and our civilizations; and
whose Infamous DEGREES, now being enforced
among us, denounces our relations with our
wives as that of Filthy concubinage.'
Galatians desire for knowledge is so com
mendable that the Masons of Kentucky took
him at his word, and propounded to him the
following questions in the Masonic Home
Journal:
QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY MASONIC HOME
JOURNAL TO COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS
PREJUDICES OF KNIGHTS OF CO.
LUMBUs, p. III. CALLAHAN,
CHAIRMAN.
81 Are you acquainted with the text or gen
eral tenor of the various encyclcals of the late
Pope Leo XIII, and his predecessors against Free
masonry, and if so, do you agree with their views
and feel bound to carry their commands?
%. Are you acquainted with any directions
to Roman Catholics emanating from the Vatican
at Rome, to become active in politics, so that
stitutons and legislation and governments may be
changed to conform to the principles of the
church. and if So what are the principles refer
red to?
GAS Roman Catholic and Knight of Column
bus are you believer in the freedom of all
and at all times? Does the order you represent so
believe?
a. Do you and the order you represent believe
in the separation of Church and State?
"5. Do you and the order you represent believe
in free public schools supported by the State, and
free from the control of any church or religious
organization, including your own?
IS. Should your religious superiors require
you, matter of religion, to cast your vote in
school elections against those who adhere to above
opinions (see No. 81, would you feel yourself
bound to do grounds of religion and obed-
fence to religious authority?
'7. Should your church become dominant
in America and recognized the religion of State,
would you accord freedom of opinion, of speech
of press and of worship to other denominations,
even when same actively opposed the Roman
Catholic Church?
80. If you answer that you would, please state
what you would do in event the Vatican the
Pope commanded that such tolerance be NOT
granted?
49, Would you and your order protest against
a union of Church and State in this country, or
take active measures to prevent such union?
80 Are you acquainted with the papal declar-
ton To off hot Ernnr III nnd