The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-04-08


Searchlight of truth upon her posi-
tons and records in the realms of
morals. Let us address ourselves to
the proof of one vital but compre-
hensive proposition concerning our
subject, namely: THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH AS A SYSTEM
NOT ONLY DOES NOT CONDEMN,
BUT CONDONES, AND, IN MANY
CASTS, ACTUALLY COMMANDS
THE COMMISSION OF CRIMES OF
MOST REVOLVING CHARACTER.
This we expect to prove by Rome's
own laws and declarations, and by
facts of common knowledge easily &C
cessible to all desiring to investigate.
Let it be understood, it is not my
place or purpose to arraign every in
diVidual in that church. [ am pro-
foundly convinced that there are in
dividuals in It who are better than
the church. The thing we are to at
tack, is the Catholic Church as a
SYSTEM Taken as an institution,
it is rotten to the core, whether found
in the real Of politics, society or re-
ligion. We will weigh Rome in the
balances of her own scales and see
whether or not she is found morally
wanting.
1. The first proof of our PROPOSE
ton is to be found in the Catholic
condition and position in regard to
TEMPERANCE.
A religious census of the saloon
keepers of the United States would
reveal an enormous per cent. to be
Catholic. The Wine and Spirit Ga
Zette, of New York, claims: "Fully
tWO-thirds, if not more, of the retail
liquor dealers Of the country are
Roman Catholics. Some of these are
liberal contributors Of church funds.'
If it objected that this is not Cath
Ollie =; thority, refer you to state
ment made by the president of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Society,
through the Catholic Standard: Zone
city has less than 80 per cent. of it's
population Catholic, and more than
So per cent. of its applicants for Ii
cense. Another has more than Sc
per cent of it's saloonkeepers Cath
Ollie, and less than 80 per cent of It's
population. Another had about Is per
cent. of it's population Catholic, and
5 per cent of applications for license
were Catholics. Cardinal Ireland
declares: catholics nearly monopo-
lie the Whiskey traffic. Our dis
grace and misfortune in America is
the number of Irish saloon keepers"
1t is strikingly noticeable that Car
dinal Ireland, although he complains,
does not condemn the whiskey
traffic. An in this he joins hands and
hearts with his yoke-felloW, Cardinal
Gibbons. that two-faced hypocrite and
ringleader of the Catholic. hierarchy
in America, who sits in Baltimore
and declares himself to be an ardent
advocate Of temperance, and then
runs right down to New Orleans to
visit his brother, and there gives out
an interview, declaring against the
prohibition of the liquor traffic in the
following language, which appeared
in a pres dispatch from that city to
the Chicago Tribune, March 8th,
1914: II am intuitively persuaded
that prohibition can not be enforced
i'm this country. 1t is calculated to
make hypocrites and to the manufact-
ure of illicit whiskey, REPLACING
THE GOOD MATERIAL, WITH THE
BAD, while at the same time Pobbing
the government of its legitimate tax"
Little wonder the Brewers Jour-
naI," of last March, the same month
in which the Cardinal gave out his
interview, issued the following Joyous
and reassuring statement to the
trade: '"The fact that the old Amer
lean Protective Association has been
revived by number, of latter-day
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