The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-28
THE .JEFFERSONIAN


God, the Pope"
Other English governments at later day,
ceased to attach any Importance to these
ancient Papal laws; and believing that the
dangers of Popery were a thing of the past,
they Internationally removed all the dis
abilities of Catholics.
They allowed the Papal hierarchy to be
re-established, and they committed the almost
incredibly unwise act of supporting the great
Catholic Maynooth University out of State
funds.
What is now the result?
Roman Catholic Engishmen and Irishmen
who owe allegiance to the government, are
not giving it.
Catholic Ireland is standing with the Ital-
ian Pope and the German emperors
Irish prelates in Ireland and in America,
have gone up and down the earth boldly
preaching treason
They have audaciously advised Irishmen,
IN Ireland, to default on their oaths of al
legiance.
Rome has told British subjects that they
owe no patriotic duty to the English nation,
in this crisis Of its history
In effect, the ItoziQn Pope, speaking
through the Irish priests, has pt0ticzy rezeas-
ed British subjects IN Irezoled, from their
duties as SuJi ectS.
Virtually, therefore the Catholics of Ire
land are allies of the Pope and the Germanic
emperors; and it will be remembered that the
cowardly and murderous attacks made on I'M
armed passenger ships-vessels crowded with
women and children-were made close to the
shores of Catholic Ireland.
There is hardly doubt that the Catholic
Irish have connived at the use of their harbors
as bases for the pirates and assassins who
have been sinking those English ships
Do not these facts impress Mr.. Roosevelt?
Should they not impress every loyal
American?
Addressing the Knights of Columbus not
long ago, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Our nation was founded to perpetuate demo-
cratic principles These principles are that each
man is to be treated on his worth as a man with
out regard to the land from which his forefathers
came and without regard to the creed which he
processes If the United States proves false to
these principles of civil and religious liberty it
will have inflicted the greatest blow on the sys-
tenn of free popular government that has ever
been inflicted. Here we have had virgin con-
tinent on which to try the experiment of making
out OF divers race stocks new nation and Of
creating all the citizens of that nation in such
fashion as to preserve in them equality of oppor-
tunity in industrial, civil and political life. Our
duty is to secure each man against any injustice
by his fellows.
Religion in Politics Means Harm
one OF the most important things to secure
for him is the right to hold and to express the
religious views that best meet his own soul-needs
Any political movement directed against any
body of our fellOW-citiZens because of their re-
ligious creed is grave offense against American
principles and American institutions 1t is
wicked thing, either to support to oppose a
man because of the creed he processes. This ap-
plies to Jew and Gentile to Catholic and Protest
ant and to the men who would be regarded
unOrthodoX by all of them against men because
of their religious belief and intended to prevent
men of that creed from holding office, have never
accomplished anything but harm