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Editor Keowee Courier: | see a.
picture shown in the New York Her.
! aid of August 9th-photograph of the
United States battleship Florida,
showing the papal ensign flying above
the Stars and Stripes. What is to
be done? What are the American
people going to do about this insult
| to "Oid Glory?" Why place the yell
low flag Of the papacy, or any other
nag representing that power, above
the Stars and Stripes? What author
ity is responsible? Does Secretary
Daniels approve Of this sacrilege?
Will President Wilson continue to
sanction it? The Protestant churches
nave no flag, and because the papal
church has one is no reason for fly
ing the yellow emblem aboard Amer
lean men-of-war. If it isoessential to
t1y it to let the crew know that it is
the Sabbath, and that it indicates di-
vine worShip-I say if it is essential
leave the yellow rag below the
stars pangled Banner" and court
marti&. the whelp who tries to place
it higher.
Woe be to that nation which wor-
ship before the beast, which goes to
do its bidding, to usurp their privi-
leges and to steal their birth-right.
Why insult the majority Of the Amer
lean people with such object lessons?
Are the American people content to
allow Roman practices to predomi-
nate in this land OF washington. JEFF
ferson, Davis, Lee ana jackson? That
papal banner floating upon our YES
sells means that a Roman Catholic
priest is conducting the mass: it
means that a papal chaplain pre-
sides on every ship where the pope's
banner hangs. The flag we call "Old
GlOry"-the banner Of the free, be-
fore whose Frightening, stainless
folds all men should bend the knee
hour, to any sort or kind of rag de-
| noting foreign power.
You who are responsible for this
outrage, what were your reasons for
issuing the permit? Were you afraid
to deny the papal request for floating
Of the papal flag ABOVE that Of
| YOUR COUNTRY ? Were you fear
full OF the papal wrath upon election
day? Were you apprehensive of de-
| feat in your political ambition if you
| stood by "Old Glory? Did you hide
| your face in shame the first time that
| Roman rag few above "Our Flag?
Did your manhood revolt against your
judgment when you realized the deg
radiation OF your authority? There
| are too many papal chaplains in the
United States navy; there are too
| many of them in the army. They ex-
alt Romanism and popery first last
and all the time
But what are we going to do about
| it? | say, pull it down. Nothing
! must float above the glorious
Stars and Stripes-NOTHING! If
our natural custOdians of the ma
| tion's honor will not do our bidding
| in this respect, then relegate these
men to private life, and make it such
political upheaval as to settle such
| things for all time to come.
Will they make friends with "Old
| Glory" and haul down that yellow
rag? Will you do it? Have you
manhood enough to do it? Dare
| you do it? / am making this appeal
to the custodians of the nations
| honor
Again, | ask the question, Do the
| President and Secretary Daniels ap-
prove Of such an insult to our ma
| tion's flag, under whose folds we all
| claim protection?
| This is the first time in the history
of the nation that the flag Of Rome,
or any other power, ever raised or at
tempted to raise. any kind Of a rag
above the United States flag. I tell
You Catholicism is getting too tame
in America.
| what | have written, | have writ
| ten," l. Russell WRIGHT
Johnston, S. G..
Since the purchase Of Alaska by
the United States its waters have
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