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


1crent priests in office, were clothed with
authority to judge the book, TO approve it
or condemn it, and without the approval
OF those priests books could not be printed
at all.
See where we are, when publisher is
arralgned III Court for the violation Of law
and the attempt is made to degrade him.
to destroy him, to criminali2e him if his
oftense be altogether in his publication OF
which he himself is the author, see how
the character OF every author that ever
lived is involved, how the liberty Of the
press is involved. In this case q man
entering bis 60th year is a1raigned as
Violator Of law and he says. Put your SPOT
light upon my whole life if YOU like; if
you will take my literature from A to
and tell me what | have done that
violates the law Of my country and the
welfare Of my fellow citizens; and they say
that out Of the / or 20 books you have
written and published books covering all
kinds OF subjects, books embracing ten
thousands OF pages, out OF all OF this mass
OF composition covering a period OF
eighteen or twenty years. the Government
says that you have offended the Roman
Catholic Church by four references to it,
i'll four different publications that you put
forth. That's the substance Of this case
no use to try to get away from it, either.
Talk to ne, may it please your Honor,
about there being nothing in the present
situation TO arouse an American citizen
and a Protestant to the encroachments OF
foreign organization whose Fundamental
law is in deadly antagonism to our funda-
mental law
Why, in the Seventies (and that was
not so long ago., in the Seventies there
were three men who stood foremost among
the men of the earth One was, Gambetta,
the great Jew of France; one, Bismarck,
the Great German, whose blood and iron
doctrine created the German Empire: the
other was Gladstone. foremost man OF
Great Britain
Each Of these men at that time stood
exactly where this defendant stands now.
1t was Gambetta who opposed Roman
Catholicism i'll France which that third
Napoleon had set up. It was Gambetta
who began the agitation OF the separation
Of Church from State, to subject education
to civil control, to separate religious teach
ing from secular teaching, to put the State
above the Church. and the law over every
body; the laws of France, not the laws OF
Rome; the laws Of men who wear the
breeches, instead of men who wear the
chemiSe
Bismarck, doing the same thing in Ger
many, expelled the Jesuits and fought his
toric battles with the Pope
But here was Gladstone, the foremost
man OF his day in England, a great wide
minded statesman one of the finest
scholars that ever sat in the English Cabi-
net. For a while he was King of Great
Britain and the Emperor of India, because
the Prime Minister is just that; moral
Isl IL ever there was one; a pure man, if
ever there was one; man who from the
very time he came out of college up to the
time he could scarcely totter to his seat in
the House of Commons, worked for the
cOnntrV-fOr lad
said in his celebrated pamphlet on the
Vatican DEGREES:
quote just a portion, my time is so
limited
Before all things however | should de-
sire it to be understood that, in the re-
marks now offered, | desire to eschew, not
only religious bigotry, but likewise theo-
logical controversy. Indeed, with theoi-
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