The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-06-28
PAGE TEN
ROME'S "LTTERARY DIGEST"
HOW THE FOREIGN, IDOLA-
TROUS "CHURCH" THROT-
Tiles FREE PRESS IN THE
UNITED STATES.

1SCGHI ISSUE Ol i lie JSi0TSOnldn, LHdC
the Managing Editor of The Literary
Digest Is a Romanist is the cause of
my sending you this letter. About
seven years back, l expelled this pub
lication from the list Of periodicals
that were reaching me by subscrip-
ton, because it had become so nau-
seatingly prO-papal that could stand
it no longer; although, under the
editorship Of DR.. Edward J. Wheeler,
now editor OF Current Opinion, q
monthly review, The Literary Digest
had been decidedly my choice of all
such WeeklieS in the United States
The publication was capital in every
respect, evenly balanced, and at no
time did he allow it to approach the
status of an organ, it being now an
out and out organ, almost an adyo-
cate, Of pupery. Dir. Wheeler would
cover the Away from Rome"
movement in Austria and the papally-
alleged Away from Protestant sm"
movement in Scandinavia in an ex-
ceptionally impartial manner. He
followed the divorce Of State from
church in France, under the Prime
Ministership Of that world-leader Of
Latin anti-clericals, Emile Combs,
himself a Roman Catholic priest for
a half century, and who therefore
knew Rome's hellishness from within
the inner sanctuRl, in such a liberal
and fair spirit that NO man could
reasonably object. (By the way, NJ.
Combes, after whom a Birmingham
Court of Guardians of Liberty is
named, is listed in the 1917 year
books as still a member Of the
French Parliament, IT years Of age,
and Zone Of the famous old men.D
Now, just here is where the agents
of the pup" of Rome show their
hand in career Of Tie Digest. These
deft gentry had seen the liberal, fair,
fundamentally progressive spirit Of
The Digest under DR.. Wheeler's man
agement, and this Is just what they
did not want it to be, for FAIRNESS,
liberalism, and human progression
make rapidly sd strongly away FROM
the Roman Catholic alleged church's
control Of peoples and institutions.
Rome wanted this widely circulated
and powerful review to become an CT
gan for pupery, and such it is and
has been since about the time it's for
mer edited was bounced. | was
determined to learn the true inward
ness of this Jesuitical subtleness, and
now after or 10 years, l have it in
your declaration that Rome has Sc
cured financial control Thus is eX-
hibited to the people OF this nation
another of ROme's slip-up-on- 'em-in-
the-dark tricks.
Now, | want to show here how this
papal control Of a New York periodi-
cal has it's reflection in this city.
That you yourself may see this papal
scheming, and not have to accept my
unsupported statement, l am send
ing you by this mail, and under sep
erate and single cover, a copy Of each
Of the following Birmingham news
papers, three in number, and the
only daily papers published IN this
city, namely: The Age-Herald, The
News, The Ledger, all Of March IT,
1917. The first named is the morn
ing paper and the other two are is
sued in the afternoon. Please note
the quarter-page advertisement Of
The Literary Digest in The News and
in The Ledger, and the total absence
of any Digest advertising in The Age
Herald-advertising in both after
noon papers, while passing by the
only morning newspaper here. Now,
"theres a reason" for this, and it's
very patent to those from whom
Rome cannot hide her craftiness.
Here is the explanation: for more
than twenty years next prior to
January /, 1917, Rome had full con-
%roI Of The gn-Hero1d through the