The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-23
A DOUBLE VICTORY.

1t makes an epoch in the history OF
liberty and will hearten many men
all over our land. 1 do not believe
this country will ever be ready 10
punish man for telling the truth
under the American Constitution.
Your point that no others had been
prosecuted for circulating the same
matter and other similar matter, was
well taken and is unansWerable.
Some time last year the Arkansas
Gazette had q half tone picture of a
woman stark naked, face front, and
that half tone was not in "devo-
tional attitude" and there was no
baby in her Madonaships person.
If the government was so concerned
about "obscenity' why did not the in
spectors get on the trail. / also saw
in an American Magazine the naif-
tone picture Of a Sandwich Islander
wearing a silk hat, Prince Albert
coat and the balance of the suit was
fresh air. He had Il Bible under his
arm and l suppose that made the
picture "devotionaP'.
Benzinger Bros. New York and Chi
cago, booksellers for his holiness, CD
the Pope, constantly mail Liquors.
and Dens' Theologies from which
Chinquy quoted, and which you
copied, and this Romish rot goes
through the mail sacks uno mas all
the years; why don't the righteous
agents Of Uncle Sam go after thai
outfit? An English writer, whose
name l do not just now recall, said
that the chief defense of Romanism
was it's filthiness.
Your case has established one fact
beyond question. The theoIogy or
the Roman Catholic Church is SO alb
solutely nasty, even in Latin, thai
the agents of the institution are de-
termined the people snail not hear it
if they can prevent it; and the other
fact is that politician partyism has
become so subserVient to nome ror
votes that at Rome's behest prosecu-
tion is brought against you for copy
ing Rome's Theology, which Rome
dare not deny, while Rome goes right
on sending the same matter through
the same mail sacks without a word
of protest. This fact proves the
animus and source of the prOSecu-
ton prima facie; for if rne uovern-
ment was prosecuting obscensty per
Sc, it would prosecute Benziger
Brothers for circulating Sne same
matter and others for circulating
similar matter, especially perfectly
nude pictures of men and women,
not in devotional attitude" But it
does not, and when you made than
point and the Court ruled it ''imma-
teriaI' it was tantamOunt to a con-
fcsson that the Government was
aware of the facts you cited, and yet
that fact was ruled out. All oyners
can circulate the same things in the
mails, but Thomas E. Watson can
not do it. Plainly the prosecution
CD was at the person, not against
the obscenity. 1t was not a prose-
cution, my friend, but persecution,
and l congratulate you and the State
of Georgia and America that a jury
took the right position and refused
to convict you, when Romanism is
allowed to circulate the original, you
to protect the people and they to
corrupt them.
Another tremendous fact STANDS
out in this case like a mountain on
a plain: Why did they not prosecute
you for libel? Why did they not
deny the quotations from Dens and
LiguOri? They prosecute you for
telling the truth on Romanism! And
when you offer to shove Rome's own
books under the nose of the jury the
Court objects, and the government
attorneys plead that tbs marLeT is