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

Consequently, Daddy Noll, of the Sunday
Visitor, backed doa0n.
Maybe, Daddy Hardeman can get Daddy
Noll to buck up.
AS to Bible reading, that was forbidden
by the Council of Trent, and by the canon
law of the Roman Catholic Church. Again
and again, the popes have prohibited the
reading of the Bible especially all transla-
tons of it into the common language OF the
people.
I would like to ask Priest Hardeman some
questions
Where were you in 1896, qrhen your church
qoas burning heretics en- Menico?
Did you open your mouth against it?
Where were you when one of the Pope's
secret societies murdered DR.. Cronin, Of CHI
caqo?
Did you say word against it? ~
Have you condemned your church's muir
der of Canalejas, Ferrer, Rial, Gaynor, and
William Black?
Do you not know that the Ancient Order
of Hi6e19aans IS a criminal and treasonous
secret society,"?
Do you not know, that the record of your
JesultS reeks ac5th the blood Of murdered
Professionals?
Do you not know, that your church's zaeo
necessarily makes 1t the dcadziest enemy tie
human race eUer encountered?
Finally, let me ask Priest Hardeman,
whether he has ever publicly denied, or can
ever publicly deny, the truth of the Roman
Catholic position, as stated by the veteran
priest of ST. Louis, D. S. Phelan, whose pa
per, The Western Waterman, is an approved
organ of the foreign church which is SO des-
perately striving to gain the upper hand in
this country?
[ copy two of those statements. and chal-
lenge Priest Hardeman to refute them
1--WE Are Foreigners"
HE (the pope) tells us we must be foreigners
we (CathoHc) Christians must be FOREIGNERS:
foreigners in every land and in every country in
the world; foreigners under every sky; foreigners
under every law foreigners everywhere and
always. And that is why we Catholics are uni
Versally expatriated Every country would claim
us; every country would like to have us as it's
own. England would like to have her Catholics
all Eng1shmen; France would like to have her
Cathollcs all Frenchmen; Italy Spain and Ger
many would like to have their Catholics thorough
natlonallsts; and here in the United States they
would ike to nave us Catholics Americans first
ana before everything. WE'LL would like to
be accommodating; do the best we can but
the truth of the matter is, we can never be
french, or English, or Italian, or German or
American; we can never be these things entirely
And why? Because uncompromising for
elgners and we must never forget that by our
own laws we are foreigners. We must never denv
our character as foreigners Western Watch
man.
"TO He'll With the Government
I'VE of the Catholic Church are ready to go to
the death for the church Under God she is the
supreme object of our worship. Tell us that we
think more Of the church than we do of tha
United States of course we do Tell us we are
Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen
afterWard; of course are. Tell US, in the con-
Hlct between the church and the civil government
we take the side of the church, of course we do.
Why, If the government of the United States
were at war with the church we would say to-
morrow, to hell with the government of the
United States; and if the church and all tho co.,