The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-01-13
HOW TO FIGHT THE FOREIGN
POPERY, AND MAKE AMERICA,
AMEI gHANH
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among politicians during the past
quarter century, has quite definitely
lost it's potency in this region, and
no longer is heard from political
sycophants the boast, 1--WE have that
Catholic vote. >, No longer do the
papal subjects hereabouts publicly
f1aunt and hawk that Catholic vote,''
which always seeks patronage and
never principle, so shamelessly and
brazenly before the now informed
and outraged voters.
Up to about two years back, when
the Knights of Columbus wished to
tndorse candidacy, they induced
that candidate to speak before that
order (by this means signifying to
that Catholic vote" over the city
and country that candidates willing
ness to do Rome's bidding when in
Quoted into office), and then stirred
their publicity committee into super
activity in spreading the news by
means of the public press, which as
rule snatched it up as eagerly as
if it had been tidings from the planet
Mars and spread it before the gaping
public in screaming headlines ad
nauseam. The footing of Gabriel's
tuba" would not have been accorded
more space or larger headlines than
this dope from the doughty
knights.
Referring to newspapers and al
legged newspapers, this city has an
extreme monstrocity in a sample Of
the latter class This thing has long
since ceased to be newspaper, and
for some years past has been, and it
now is, the very grind-organ of the
half-handful of knights of Columbus
here. 1t can truthfully claim to be,
and it is, the official organ of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Alabama,
State in which the Roman Catholics
officially claim total population
OF just little over one per cent,
with half of these on the Alabama
Gulf coast and half of the remaining
half nOncitiZens, unable to speak or
read the English language. This
paper (not newspaper circulates
Though very sparingly) in terri
tory that is not one iota less than
90h per cent Protestant, yet the
obsession Of papalism has it with a
strong vice-like grip and it's chief
owner and nominal editor, man of
considerable intelligence and wealth,
has utterly abandoned this alleged
newspaper to a Knight of Columbus
who willingly and eagerly does
Rome's every bidding, and under
whose censorship every word submit
ted to this publication, editorial or
repertorial, must fall. Thus North
Alabama beholds the spectacle of a
Roman Catholic daily paper circu-
lated among people unanimously
Protestant. Reference is had here to
the alleged news columns of The Bir-
mingham Daily Age-Herald, for to
preach popery editorially to Prot
estant people would be too plain a
perversion of the functions of even
this thing. By means Of it's news
columns, one could stay in Vladi-
vostock, Asiatic Russia, and know
every move made by the 1877 Knights
of Columbus in this county of three
thousand population. Draw radio
cut of this city in every direction for
$50 miles, close the circle, and there
is the territory that ought to be serv-
ed by this miserable sheet, yet in all
that vast region it has a paltry 700
subscribers-just half what The Biz
mingham News, real newspaper, a
live and vigorous Newspaper, no
organ for anything or anybody, has
and even The Birmingham Ledger,
another genuine Newspaper, owned
by gentlemen who are Catholics, has
one and one-half times The Age
Herald's subscription list. And The
Ledger is not an Associated Press