The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-13

Are The Menace, Tom Watson and the rest of
the bigots the real defenders of country?
Let's open court at and call the Catholic
Church in America to the witness stand. Catholic
Church. what have you done and what are you
doing that you may be permitted co exist in this,
our free country?
Answer: | have done nothing but my duty. l
gave you Columbus, who discovered this great con-
tinent; I gave the Catholic Queen, Isabella of
Spain, who financed the work Of Columbus when
the colonies were founded When the Puritans
came to the eastern shores and prosecuted their
fellow non-Catholics l gave them an asylum,
where they could worship God according to the
dictates of their conscience in Catholic Mary
land under Catholic Lord Baltimore, when Eng
land got control of this vast country and imposed
a taxation without representation, and the peo-
pie rebelled which they mad just right to do.
OH Guardians of Liberty! Oh, Menace! Oh!
Tom Watson and the rest! you are trying the
same game on the people of this glorious age, on
your Catholic neighbor-a taxation without rep
resentation. You would not only tax your Cath
Ollie neghbor but you would deny him even the
air he breathes Taxation without representation
brought on the War Of the Revolution. l gave
you Catholic LAFAYETTE, who fitted ships at his
own expense and aided to save the country. L
gave you Catholic Jack Barry to command the
navy and who did so much to throw off the yoke
of tyranny I gave you General Stephen Moylan,
who aided e-camp to Washington. gave you
Jean Baptiste, Donation de Vincent Comte de
Rochambeau, whose 5000 saved yorktown.
Catholic Poland gave the flower of the coun-
try in Koscrusko, Pulaski and Caslmlr. Pulaski
commanded the American and French forces at
Savannah He died for the cause of American
liberty and was buried at sea. Germany gave US
Catholic Baron steubens and De Kalb. In fact,
the whole Catholic world with us, because
the colonies fighting for what the Catholic
Churches teaches-"All men are born equal
II gave you Columbus who discovered this
great continent"
Which he did not do. With the chart given
to him by a dying pilot, he found the West
Indies, but never found the continent at all,
until after the Cabots had done so.
Columbus introduced slavery and the slave
trade into the West Indies and South Amer
lea, and he is directly responsible for the hor-
rible atrocities practiced upon the natives
atrocities which wiped out the entire race.
Queen Isabella of Spain" Yes, and low
able character she was, too. She and her dla-
bolcal husband Ferdinand, broke their treaty
with the Moors, inflicted upon them the
bloodiest persecution; outlawed, massacred,
and robbed the Jews. and made the name of
the Spanish Inquisition hateful throughout
the world and down to remotest ages.
''Whcn the Puritans came to the eastern
shores and prosecuted their fellow non-Catho-
lies, gave them asylum"
Did you, verify?
Dd you GO IL III F1Orlda, WHeIe Tie 1eIO-
cious Menendez, under orders of Church and
King fouly massacred every nonCatholic he
could lay his cruel hands on?
Was it your Church or your champion that
nailed the inscription over the heads of the
murdered Huguenots:
'',o7oin, not as Frenchnen but as hereticS?"
Was it your church that built dungeons for
the Jn1uisition in Florida in Mexico, in Cen
trail and South America; and was it yo~T
church that tortured the hereto in secret be-
fore burning him in public?
Tla Marvlnnd Catholics favored liberation