The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-16

lAins ABOUT thaC, and so on. Stand in the
gate and defend your section against who
ever attacks 1T, defend her record, defend
her liberties. and stand for them or
anybody, that's all right, but don't YOU at
tack the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, or we
VIII put you where you won't do it any
more.
Mr.. Miller: That's not the substance of
what said to the Jury, and resent the
statement
Mr.. Watson: The Jury heard what vou
said.
The Court: The court will charge tvs
jury the only question they can consider
is as TO the character of the articles in
question, and the motive behind the pro-
Secutlon, il there is any motive, or the
source OF the prosecution, if there is any
source, cannot be considered by them.
Mr.. Watson: Now, this first article here.
numbered chapter eleven. You would as
sumo that 1T is one Of a series of chapters,
ten chapters having been gone before
that's the inference, it being chapter
eleven. you must assume there have been
ten others already published by the au-
thor in the making of book. These refer
ences are made to the organization of the
PRIESTHOOD and the author calls it the
Deadliest Menace to our Liberties and
Civilization. If he thinks that, is not it
matter for public discussion? If the
defendant said anything untrue, or mis-
represented anybody, or anything. did not
they have the amplest opportunity to prose-
cute? Is there anything this defendant
has ever said, anything they claim was
untrue? They virtually admit that every
thing in the Indictment which he brings
against this foreign organization is true,
but they say. being true. it should not be
exposed to the world. The author attempts
In his first part Of the article to show that
the manly character of all preceding re-
GgiOns; all other religions originally deified
men. Let's see, now. how many pages
we nave here, one, two. three, four, fve
six. Notice that picture; it is simply
the production Of the publisher you see
there, 1t is perfectly harmless picture
Now, there is picture of a monk, with
that thing hanging around his neck. The
book from which it was taken, came to
me through the mails, and can show you
that book and that page from which it
was taken.
Now the defendant attempts to show
that the Roman Catholic Priesthood has
borrowed most of their rites and practices
from other religions some from the Budd-
hist religion. 1t is almost impossible to
tell the difference between the interior Of
Catholic Church and the interior of a
Buddhist Church. The garments worn
by the Buddhist priest are practically the
same as those the Catholic priests wear
are the same thing in Buddhist as in Cath
Ollie practise.
Going on, the author proceeds to prove
the Phallfc origin of these Catholic vest
ments He says the points are presented
as delicate1y as possible. He says the
three parts Of the cross point to the gent
tails of the male; the loop to the female
birth place. all of which are called the
holy four: that being a legitimate subject
of discussion in a magazine, on a subject
like this, and how could he go about saying
it more delicately than that? How could
any boy reading that have his passions
inflamed? How would it degrade anyone,
young or old? Then the author goes on to
say, they simply represent the phallic wor-
ship, the union of the two principles of life,
the two principles of life, male and female.
Are we a lot OF babies and children, and
Miss Nancys, so prudish that we are
ashamed for the Man in the Moon to look
at us Undress? So unreasonable as to put
paper around the table legs and wrap the
pianos to keep from seeing their bare legs?
Why not consider this jury composed of
average men, who have been using their
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