The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-05-03
PAGE FIVE
Did Protestant Women Never
Nurse Sick and Wounded
Soldiers?
Soldiers 2

T HE Romanists are again beseiging Con-
gress, demanding that part of the
National Cemetery at Arlington be donated
to the Italian pope, In order that the Molly
Magulres (the petticoat branch of the muir
derous Ancient Hibernians) may erect
monument to the ''Sisters' who nursed sol
ders during the War between the States.
These papists are proceeding upon the idea
that no Protestant nurses gave their lives to
sick, and wounded soldiers. either in the
hospital or upon the field of battle
The Protestants have not demanded lot
in the Cemetery for the honor of their nurses,
but the Romanists, with their usual nsolencc,
are claiming exclusive favoritism at the hands
of the Government.
Judge Gilbert O. Nations who yigilently
represents the Free Press League in Wash
lngton City, sends out the following notice.
which [ hope you will read, heed, and act
upon:
MONUMENT TO NUNS IN SOLDIERS GENIE
Terry.
(By Gilbert O. Nations, Vice President of the
Free Press Defense League, 52 Bliss Building,
Washington, D. c.
Senator Robert f. Broussard of Louisiana
again seeks to desecrate the beautiful Arlington
the Government to donate ground therein for a
monument to Roman Catholic sisters.
On December 16, 1915, Roman Catholic Rep
reSentatiye Ambrose Kennedy OF Rhode Island
introduced in the House the same measure which
Broussard now endeavors to push through the
Senate. The death Of Senator ohiyeIy of Indiana
made vacancy later on the senate Library Com
mittee, and Senator Broussard succeeded in being
appointed to that vacancy.
This placed him in strategical position to
offer in the Senate the identical measure which
his papal fellow-subject was pushing IN the
House and which Broussard has now again in
trOduced in the Senate.
The Committees on the Library have charge OF
measures like this So Broussard as a member
of the Senate Library Committee is again seeking
TO favor Rome in the Cemetery which the United
States Government has sacredly reserved for its
soldiers. For that purpose he has introduced
S. J. Res. p, which reads as follows:
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That permission be- and is
hereby, granted the Ladies' Auxiliary Ancient
Order Of }Hibernians lin America, to ERECT a
monument in the Arlington National cemetery,
Virginia, to the memory and in honor OF the men,
bers Of the various orders of sisters who gave their
services as nurses on battle fields, in hospitals
and floating hospitals during the Civil War;
records Of whose services are authenticated and
in possession Of said Ladies Auxiliary; and that
the Secretary of War be- and he is hereby, au-
thorized and directed to select a suitable site
location upon which to erect said monument.
If any Roman Catholic sisters served as unrses
during the Civil War, they were doubtless on the
payroll Of the Government jH1 were drawing
salaries from the national treasury ~.'the papal
system is so accustomed to do. Rome IA as
now, thrusts her hands into public treasures at
every opportunity
Many of the Protestant church buildings in and
near the District of Columbia were freely thrown
open for hospital service to sick and wounded
SOLDIERS during the Civil War, while Roman
Catholic churches closed to such humane
use. Great numbers of the Christian member
ship of these Protestant churches doubtless helped
to nurse the soldiers without thought OF compen-
sation. Their high sense of propriety, patriotism
and public duty does not permit them now to