Golden Age, June 3, 1936
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Vol. XVII - No. 436
June 3, 1936 CONTENTS
LABOR AND ECONOMICS
Starvation in 1934 562
Fascism in Tell City, Indiana 565
Florida’s Superior Law 566
Arkansas, the Happy Land 567
California Is Busted 568
Pay Roll Census of United States 570
Uncle Sam’s Gold Bricks 570
“Shoot ’Em Off” 570
15 Years for Stealing Bread 570
Talk About Santa Claus 570
SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL
HEAVEN 561
King Trying to End Old Customs 562
Superpatriots of Massachusetts 532
Ohio Against Parochial Schools 565
Two-Month-Old Freezes in Wisconsin 565
There Are Honest Policemen 566
Out in the Rain 566
Fascism in U.S. School Boards 567
Letter to City Commissioners 569
Oxman’s Telegram to His Wife 569
An Interesting Contrast 570
Why Overlook Pa and Ma? 571
Veterans of Future Wars 571
DISOBEDIENCE BRINGS DISAPPOINTMENT AND DEATH 572
FINANCE—COMMERCE—TRANSPORTATION
Where the Disloyalty Really Is 562
The Port of Stockton, California 568
Bogus Land Titles in California 569
POLITICAL—DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
King Ananda of Siam 564
Siam Rulers Against the People 564
The Black Telegram Seizures 566
General Butler’s Picturesque Language 566
The State Emblem of Louisiana 567
From Texas Declaration of Independence 568
The Song of the Dictator 571
TRAVEL AND MISCELLANY
The Fruits of Java 564
Cannibals Travel by Airplane 564
Texas Blows Its Horn 568
Lions Once in Alaska 571
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
PHILISTIA [CATHOLIC ACTION] A MURDERESS FOR 1500 YEARS (Part 1) 547
Blessing Instruments of Murder 548
Double-crosses the League 549
Pressure in the United States 551
Always for War, Never for Peace 552
Contempt for the Bible 557
Inventors of Evil Things 558
Murder by Witchcraft 563
Dutch Preachers Pressed Toward Honest Toil 563
The Anglo-Israel Joke 563
Americans Never Got a Tally 563
Unusual Step for Peace in Wales 563
Marquesans Embarrass Missionaries 564
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Volume XVII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, June 3, 1936 Number 436
Philistia [Catholic Action] a Murderess for 1500 Years
(In Three Parts—Part 1)
ONE of the reasons why Judge Rutherford’s book Riches is the most important book of this generation is that it is the first publication to positively identify Philistia, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, as the greatest enemy of righteousness in the whole earth.
In that book, page 278, Judge Rutherford says:
Heretofore the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has had its own way. It has been a great test to the true followers of Christ Jesus. That wicked organization, acting under the pretext of being God’s representatives on earth, has crushed every organization that has ever risen against it.
Because their minds have been blinded by the Devil the human family learn more slowly than seems possible to imagine. Who would suppose that it could have in its midst for 1500 years an institution with an unbroken record for murder and not identify it for what it is?
Everybody knows that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy claims that the kingdoms of this world constitute the component parts of Christ’s Kingdom and that the subjects of these kingdoms are or should rightfully be subjects of the Hierarchy and dependent upon it for spiritual guidance and salvation. Yet the Roman Hierarchy has always consented to war, which is mass murder.
No doubt, having the blasphemous and pretentious claims of the Roman Hierarchy in mind, President Tyler Dennett, of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, said:
The human mind has not devised an adequate alternative by which human life as it changes, sometimes expanding in healthy life and sometimes degenerating in decadence, can be adapted to existing institutions. It must be clearly apparent to all thoughtful observers that this worship of force, this exaltation of the military and coercive power of the state, has poisoned the public life and thought of our day. The saddest aspect of the present-day life is the complacence with which free citizens acquiesce in the curtailment of their liberties. It is not a healthy sign.
"Honey, we’ve been (hlc) drunk together for fifteen centuries for the (hlc) advancement of civilization."
Ethiopia a Case in Point
When Mussolini announced his intention to seize Ethiopia he made no bones of the fact that his motive was thoroughly selfish. If the pope represented Christ as he claims to represent Him, he had a chance when the war first broke out to take his stand by the side of the Prince of Peace, even if it meant to suffer martyrdom. It is no more for a pope to suffer martyrdom than it is for a carpenter.
But the pope is not the representative of Christ. Instead, he is the representative of the Devil. His first pronouncement was that he would not interfere. That was equivalent to saying: "Go ahead, Mussolini, and murder the poor Ethiopians and take their land, and I will not say a word against it." Later, when the murder was well under way, the pope, in an address to some nurses, said: "The hope of all is that the rights, the exigencies and the needs of a great and good people, which is our people, may be recognized, satisfied and guaranteed with justice and peace." This was a direct approval of the murderous course of Mussolini. The pope’s "great and good people" are the ones who are doing the murdering.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the most powerful and most influential organization on earth. If the pope had said to Mussolini: "You shall not carry on this war of conquest; if you do, I will excommunicate you and every soldier that follows you," Mussolini would never have started the war. But the pope did not do that. On the contrary, he and his Hierarchy have given their blessing to the murderous army of Mussolini. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is therefore just as guilty of the murder of the Ethiopians as is Mussolini.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the "Philistia" of the present day. It is the most wicked and most hypocritical organization that has ever existed. It has been a murderess for 1500 years. It has been the cause of more bloodshed than any other organization on earth. It has been the cause of more misery and more suffering than any other organization on earth. It has been the cause of more ignorance and more superstition than any other organization on earth. It is the "abomination of desolation" spoken of by Daniel the prophet. It is the "mother of harlots and abominations of the earth" spoken of in the book of Revelation. It is the "man of sin" and the "son of perdition" spoken of by the apostle Paul. It is the "wicked one" whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.
hoped for "justice" in the contest. He hoped for nothing of the sort. What he hoped was that Mussolini would win and that similar methods will win all over the world and bring the nations to his feet.
There is enough truth afloat in these days that even the Catholic journalists could plainly see the pope's opportunity and his failure to grasp it. Thus the Catholic Reichspost of Vienna said:
Italy is not only a Catholic country, with Catholicism its official religion. Rome harbors both Italy's government and the head of the Catholic church. It will be difficult to explain to the Asian rice farmer and the African goatherder the peculiar status of Vatican City.
When it became certain that the invasion of Ethiopia was only a matter of a few weeks a congress of 2,000 Catholic nurses called to see the pope at his summer home, and were urged not to let their neutrality hinder them from rendering enthusiastic service on the battlefield.
All the church bells in Italy, including those of St. Peter's, rang when war was declared against Ethiopia. The pope, however, explained that while the other church bells rang to call the people to war, St. Peter's rang for a different reason. But probably nobody believed that, not even the pope himself.
"Christians" vs. Catholics
The Coptic priests have led the people of Ethiopia far from the letter and spirit of Christianity. Nevertheless, the Ethiopians claim that this war is a war between Christians and Catholics, with themselves as the Christians and the Italians as the Catholics.
Portuguese explorers were much surprised in A.D. 1490 when they found an unknown land with a church on every hill or sightly piece of land. Between 1490 and 1630 Jesuit priests came in large numbers, and in 1626 prevailed upon the then emperor Susenyos to issue orders that the people must accept the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church. This they refused to do, and thousands were killed.
Susenyos was forced to abdicate, and his son Fasilidas restored the rights of the people to worship as they had done for centuries before they even knew there was such a thing as a pope. To this day the Ethiopians, in grateful memory of Fasilidas, when they cross a bridge named after him, and which is still in use, all say, "May God have mercy on the soul of Emperor Fasilidas."
The Ethiopians to this day hold the memory of the Jesuit priests in disesteem. To gain possession of this extremely churchy country is one of the ambitions of the pope, and sufficiently accounts for the encouragement he has given to Mussolini to pursue his Ethiopian objectives. Meanwhile he showed some diplomatic benevolence by directing that the Italian Catholic mission at Addis Ababa be turned over to the Ethiopians for use as a hospital for wounded Ethiopian soldiers.
When the war got under way many of the more intelligent and independent editors, as, for instance, the editor of the Huntington (W. Va.) Advertiser, made inquiry,
What would be the effect, we wonder, if the Roman Catholic church would threaten to excommunicate all Italian communicants who took up arms against Abyssinia [Ethiopia]?
Seeing that the pope was caught in a jam between Italian sentiment for war, on the one hand, and the consciences of all the rest of the world, on the other, the Roman Catholic archbishop, Arthur Hinsley, of Westminster, England, tried to dodge, for himself and for the pope, by saying that the pope is a helpless old man and could do nothing as respects the Italo-Ethiopian war. This strange admission was made in the face of the fact that the pope claims to be the vicar of Christ and by his triple-crown advertises himself as emperor of heaven, earth and hell.
The plain fact of the business is that the pope backed Mussolini in his Ethiopian campaign morally (?) and financially with the hope and expectation that Italy would win the war, in which case he expects the Jesuits to regain control of Ethiopia's religious business, and give the Roman Catholic Hierarchy the master key to the "Dark Continent".
Blessing Instruments of Murder
Many American papers have carried pictures taken in Ethiopia showing Italian Roman Catholic priests blessing tanks used and intended to be used in the murder of their fellow men.
The New York News, under the caption of "The Soul Is Not Forgotten as Il Duce's Men March On", contains a picture of an "Altar" mounted on a tank, with a typical hypocrite standing behind the candles and cross with which, apparently, he cannot carry on his business.
The London News Chronicle carried a dispatch from Rome reciting that, in a competition open to the whole country, the bishop of Civita Castellana, Orte and Gallese was awarded the first prize for propaganda, but returned the award to Mussolini to help forward the war. At the same time, so says the dispatch of the British United Press:
Then the bishop removed his gold beads and pectoral cross and handed them to the premier, declaring that the entire Roman Catholic clergy of Italy had invoked the blessing of God on the Italian troops and prayed constantly for victory.
The archbishop of Taranto, Italy, is well pleased. He declares that Italian troops are advancing in East Africa as pioneers of civilization, with the élan of the ancient Roman empire and the noble sentiments of its successor, "Christian" Rome.
Joao Becker, Roman Catholic archbishop of Porto Alegre, Brazil, is reported as saying:
I pray to God that in the present international controversy that intrepid Italy, land of genius, science and art, may not be humiliated. I also pray to God to protect Fascist Rome, the pope's Rome, eternal Rome, Christianity's seat. Can anyone contest Italy's right in this matter when, in the last analysis, the entire question hinges upon equitable redistribution of colonial domains among European countries?
All these things show that in all parts of the earth the Roman cult is at one with Mussolini in his rape of Ethiopia.
Roman Hierarchy Double-crosses the League
Never for peace at any time, the Roman Hierarchy upset the British plan for peace. When that apostle of "sanctions", Great Britain, sought to use the League of Nations and discourage Italy from doing in Ethiopia what Britain has done in every corner of the world, the pope broke up the party as cleverly as any burglar ever jimmied a safe.
Without the knowledge or consent of the League the pope's man Monsignor Luigi Maglione, then a bishop, now a cardinal, persuaded France and Britain to offer to split Ethiopia in half and thus end the war by giving Italy much of what she wants. The plan did not go through, but it virtually destroyed the League of Nations, and it placed Anthony Eden, whose sympathies are largely Roman Catholic, in virtual control of the British Empire. The London Daily Herald said pointedly and savagely:
While in Geneva Mr. Eden was pursuing, to all appearance, the straight course of a League policy, while on the platform ministers were pledging themselves over and over again to that policy, a secret diplomacy was at work behind the scenes. Quietly a plot was being hatched to sabotage and destroy the work which was being done in the open.
The Hierarchy tried in vain to put the blame for this act of treachery upon the Masons, whom they have attacked so savagely in Italy and Germany. In their hue and cry after Jehovah's witnesses, and anybody and everybody else that they think stands across their path to world-domination, the Jesuits are not forgetting the Masons, so signally marked for attack in Italy and Germany by the Fascist forces, and so one reads in the New York Times the parenthetical comment of Sir Norman Angell:
Believe it or not, Freemasons are much favored in France at this moment as the scapegoat in the present Italo-Ethiopian war.
This, of course, is Hierarchy propaganda, put out to throw the public off the scent as to the identity of the real originators of the Italo-Ethiopian contest, the Roman Hierarchy.
The Singapore (Straits Settlements) Tribune said:
The League of Nations is dead. All that we can do is to bury it decently. The League of Nations could not succeed because it was based on two false assumptions—that the people of the world were willing to give up fighting and that the governments of the world represented high-minded and unselfish interests.
Foreseeing that the League of Nations is done for, the presidents of Colombia, Guatemala and Dominican Republic have suggested a proposed Association of American Nations for the government of the Western world. The plan is endorsed by the heads of 17 other South American and Central American States. The suggestion is made that such an association or league would most certainly be under the direct control of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
German papers accuse the Austrians of being under Jesuit control, which is no doubt as true in one land as in the other. Public notices have been posted in Austria that all persons must register as being on the government's side or be counted as state enemies and be treated as citizens of inferior rights. This is characteristic of countries under the thumb of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
Rebuilding the "Holy" Roman Empire
A careful study of the drawing on this page shows the "Holy" Roman Empire in process of reconstruction. The details are worthy of the closest scrutiny, from the hands of Gog, the prime minister, at the top, to the blueprint and the conspirators at the bottom.
Under the title "What Is Fascism?" from the pen of David Wilkie, The Golden Age has twice published the facts as to how the Roman Hierarchy is moving "with great velocity" to bring the entire world under its control. Having had fifteen hundred years of active co-operation with the Devil the Hierarchy is more suited to his purposes than any other institution. It knows how to call to its assistance the munition firms which control the governments, the politicians which do their bidding, the newspapers which extol their acts of folly, and the clergy of the Devil, both Catholic and Protestant, that are ever ready to do the will of their father.—John 8:44.
The newspapers contain many stories of "persecution" of Catholics in Germany, but at an interview in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Hans Luther, German ambassador to the United States, when questioned about such persecutions, said angrily, "There is nothing of the kind." This statement was no doubt the absolute truth. Why should Hitler persecute his fellow Catholics and thus mar the partnership between himself and the pope that made his seizure of Protestant Germany possible? The ones that are really being persecuted in Germany are Jehovah's witnesses, and Jehovah alone is their shield and their exceeding great reward.—Genesis 15:1.
The Devil is not clever enough to cover his tracks even if he so desired, and does not betray any very great anxiety to even make the attempt. Thus, the pope telegraphed Hitler his congratulations when the latter occupied the left bank of the Rhine in violation of Germany's treaty obligations. And at the very time that the newspapers were carrying stories of the arrest in Germany of 150 Catholic priests for possessing and circulating Communist literature Hitler telegraphed congratulations to the pope regarding something of interest in the pope's life or priesthood.
The Roman Hierarchy is so far in control of the British Empire that the present king of England is the first in centuries to fail to state in his oath of office that he will protect and defend the Protestant faith.
Rebuilding the "Holy” Roman Empire
The People Are Unhappy
The rule of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is intended to benefit the Hierarchy; it is not intended to benefit the people. The natural effect is that the Hierarchy has everything and the common people have next to nothing. They are not even allowed to see the films that they wish to see or to read the books that they wish to read.
How the Ratti-Hitler and Ratti-Mussolini partnerships work in practice is shown by meatless and butterless Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Germany, and meatless Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Italy. Also, in Italy, there are stringent rules as to quantities of meat that may be served in hotels, restaurants and dining cars. After a while some bright Dominican will probably suggest that there is no need to worry about the meat supply so long as guillotines can be made and operated so cheaply.
In all seriousness Charles Morgan, London correspondent of the New York Times, declares that there are now more martyrs of conscience in Europe than in the fiercest period of the Inquisition. What he did not say, and perhaps did not know, is that the persecuting power is the same now as it was then, and is taking advantage of human distress and weakness to make the pope once again the master of the world. This time the scheme will fail.
Quebec is unhappy. Charges were publicly made against Abbé Lavergne, and suit was brought by political opponents, that he had represented it to his followers as a mortal sin to vote otherwise than as he dictated. As soon as news of the suit got out the Abbé Lavergne went to a hospital to attract sympathy for himself. In the hospital, surrounded by every comfort that his foolish parishioners could bestow upon him, it was the easiest thing in the world for him to send out verbal slop about his great peace and joy in thinking about "Christmas" instead of the election which he had tried to control.
Ontario is unhappy. Thus the Toronto Evening Telegram said editorially of this bunch of highwaymen in black nightgowns:
We can subscribe to Roman Catholic charities, do business with Roman Catholics on the same basis as we do with Protestants, employ dozens of Roman Catholics in our business and treat them with utmost fairness—but dare to oppose them in any matter of principle or public policy and we are 'bigots', and are promptly damned with 'bell, book and candle'. We believe in living in peace and amity with our Catholic friends—we have Catholic friends—but the official mouthpieces of the Catholic church make it very difficult.
The statement is often made that the Catholic church is not in politics. One wonders, therefore, just what particular thing it is in in the province of Ontario when it circularizes every parish in the province that Catholics could not vote for either one of two parties named, and in many parochial schools the children were taught to pray for the fall of the government.
Pressure in the United States
No government wishes to be subjected to constant irritating pressure from one group. The Knights of Columbus have made a nuisance of themselves by their repeated insistence that the United States embroil itself in Mexico's internal affairs. Not only has the Roman Catholic archbishop McNicholas said in effect that nothing that the Knights of Columbus have to say on the subject is of any interest to anybody, but the Mexican government itself, in an open letter, published in the New York Herald Tribune, said, in part:
It is a fact not denied that, in our past history, the Catholic church, through its spiritual conquests, had attained a political hegemony of such extent that at one time it had in its hands not less than four-fifths of all the property in the country, to the regrettable detriment of Mexico's inhabitants.
The same open letter accused the Roman Catholic clergy of appealing for freedom of conscience, whereas that same clergy condemned such freedom as opposed to its fundamental dogma, applying this criterion in its cruelest form by means of the inquisition. It accused the church directly of instigating and supporting most cruel internal conflicts in Mexico, and asserted that the church was guilty even of treason in seeking and aiding foreign invasion.
Dr. Heinrich Bruening, former leader of the Catholic Centre party of Germany, and one-time chancellor, last fall spent several weeks in America, closeted with Catholics, apparently discussing some great plan they had in hand. While in America Bruening's presence was concealed. After his return to Germany it was announced he would be back this spring; and one naturally wonders what is his mission.
Reverend Father E. J. Higgins, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Astoria, Queens, Long Island, N. Y., claims that whereas Roman Catholics are only one-seventh of the total population of the United States, yet in the Great Foolishness of 1917-1918 they comprised 42 percent of all the American soldiers and more than 50 percent of all the naval men. Assuming that this statement is correct, why is it that Catholics are so much more eager than any other people to show their contempt for Him who said, "Blessed are the peacemakers"?
At Buffalo the Reverend Carlo Celotto, pastor of St. Anthony's church, baptized an American flag. This is plainly paganism, the attempt to graft a new and godless "religion" upon the American people, and, instead of being meekly accepted, as the Germans accepted Swastikaism, should be most indignantly rejected.
The Los Angeles Examiner mentions that there are "seven Jesuit provinces in the United States". This is all a part of the arrangements for taking over the country.
In an address before the Miami Police Benevolent Association, Andrew J. Kavanaugh, director of public safety, said, in part:
The German government stands out today as a paragon of police efficiency. German methods, I believe, can and should be put into effect in Miami. I believe every Miamian should be required to register at police headquarters as well as to be mugged and fingerprinted. In this way, we could have on file a complete record of our citizens as well as all pertinent information regarding them and their whereabouts.
A necessary feature of the modern inquisition will doubtless be the fingerprinting of everybody, barring priests, politicians and plutocrats.
Co-operation Between Clergy and Laity
In the pope’s latest encyclical he says, “The close co-operation between the clergy and laity involved in Catholic Action is strongly approved.” Catholic Action includes such efforts at throttling free speech as were made to get Judge Rutherford put off the air. Additionally, it is interested in replacing Protestant postmasters and other employees with Catholics, even if less efficient, wherever it can be accomplished by fair means or foul. It includes boycotting radio stations that broadcast anything, regardless of how true it is, that displeases the Roman Catholic Hierarchy or wounds their “religious susceptibilities”.
The pope extended his blessing to the United States and its rulers (the people?). This blessing was supposed to come via the virgin Mary, Michael the Archangel, John the Baptist, the holy apostles, Peter, Paul, and all the saints. Not sure if a radio blessing works the same as the other kind, but in six months after the pope blessed Woodrow Wilson he was a helpless cripple, and when he blessed the Charity Bazaar at Paris it took fire within a few minutes and 150 women were burned to death. The pope’s blessing usually works this way; scores of examples can be cited, so look out.
Every effort is being made to get the United States in as a part of the revived “Holy” Roman Empire, twentieth-century style, but the same underneath as it was in the Dark Ages, when millions of victims suffered because of faithfulness to principle or devotion to Jehovah God. The Hierarchy has not changed, and will not change, because it does not want to change. It is the same power for evil and misery that it has always been. Its complete annihilation is imminent.
Coughlin and Catholic Action
Everybody knows that Coughlin is trying to seize control of the United States. Those who enjoy what the Yankees call horseplay, and what the Europeans call camouflage, enjoy his sudden outbursts against Roosevelt. These outbursts are all the more ridiculous in view of the fact that the assassination of Huey Long was of such interest to both ends of the partnership that Coughlin hastened to tell Roosevelt of Senator Long’s death personally. Coughlin readily perceives that the American people are easily bamboozled, and no doubt gets a big kick out of his part in the performance.
In Chicago twelve men, Cardinal Mundelein one of them, have seized the purse strings of the city. This is Fascism, pure and simple. Fascist elements other than the cardinal in this scheme are the presidents of four banks, four newspapers and advertising agencies, two packers, and one railway. The people of Chicago, the taxpayers, are tied hand and foot. They can have only what these twelve men consent to give them.
Always for War, Never for Peace
The pickings of the Hierarchy are usually more in times of war, and so they usually prefer war. That they really could do something for peace, if they were the least bit interested in peace itself, is shown by what happened in southern Ireland when they thought there was a chance that the kaiser could win. The priests compelled 2,000,000 Irishmen to swear they would not obey the conscription act. They were all afraid they would be sent to hell if they disobeyed the priests, and that is one reason why American boys were conscripted to take their places in France.
Those who were educated or who have lived under the influence of the Roman Hierarchy, as is the case with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the “first lady of the land”, do not see the horror of the Devil’s civilization in the proper light. The college girls who waited upon her, telling her they were of the Gold Star Mothers of Veterans of Future Wars and would like free trips to France so that they might see where their future sons would be buried, were truly patriotic in the most absolute, complete and perfect sense of the word. They caused no end of laughter at the expense of the munition-makers and the super-patriots that are under their hegemony.
Mrs. Roosevelt did not rise to the occasion. She had the opportunity of a lifetime to stand squarely behind these courageous and sensible young women. Instead, she reprimanded them, prefacing her reprimand with the infantile pablum about its being "just as funny as it can be" and "a grand pricking of lots of bubbles". Then she let it be known that she believes in war, saying, "There are certain things that are sacred, and you don't make fun of them."
To a logical mind, reasoning along that line, it naturally follows that the following are, by inference, "sacred": The World War; war profiteering; the cruel loss to mothers, wives and sweethearts; the death of soldiers on the battlefield; the wounding and maiming of men, women and children, and the shell-shocking of the same; the shedding of tons upon tons of human blood; shells and bullets flying on their deadly mission; the orphaning of children; starving of noncombatants; hospital bombing; spreading of disease, especially venereal; the preaching of bloodlust and hate; bargaining over the price of human blood; the squandering of untold billions of the people's wealth, wrung from them by force and violence; all the official acts of the wartime officials (not to mention the strategical blunders by army officers that caused the death of millions); and after the war: the continued drive for bonuses by professional legionnaires; the oompah of the brass band that accompanied the gold-star mothers and the bribe that it was; and, finally, the author and instigator of it all, Satan himself. (The dictionary defines "sacred" as referring to that which is devoted to Jehovah. To blame Him for the World War, by saying that it was for His sake, is to defame His holy name.)
The White House glorifying the Morgan-Wilson nonsense of 1914-1918
Hierarchy Must Be Reckoned With
All lovers of peace instinctively know that the Roman Hierarchy is for war, and not for peace, and that it must be reckoned with in any peace moves. To be sure, the pope did send a radio blessing to his eucharistic show in Peru in which he hypocritically said, "God wills that the Christian spirit of true peace be spread over Europe and over Africa," but this was at the very time when he was backing Mussolini morally and financially in his African venture.
The correct view of the Roman Hierarchy is that nothing that it does is ever honest, ever sincere, ever true. The mantle of hypocrisy covers its every move. Whenever it can do so it uses Protestants to glorify itself. Thus Dr. John Milton Phillips, of Connecticut, proposed a "Truce of God", a prominent feature of which was an appeal to Pope Pius XI by Greek Catholics, Lutherans, the Federal Council of Churches, etc., that there shall be no war for five years. The Federal Council of Churches, however, was not willing to go along on the scheme.
Eight months later George Lansbury, British labor leader, proposed another "Truce of God", and started it out the same way by an appeal to Pope Pius XI. This time the proposition was that all the churches were to get together at a world congress of religions in Jerusalem, and from Mount Calvary call a "Truce of God" and bid the war spirit to rest.
This Jerusalem setting for the "Truce of God" propaganda is especially interesting in view of the fact that for generations, while the Turks had control of the country, these heathen gentlemen had to have armed guards at all the principal shrines, especially that of the so-called "Holy Sepulchre", to keep the professed Christians, Roman and Greek Catholics, and other schismatics, from murdering one another.
Quite likely both of these "Truce of God" plans originated in the fertile brains of the Jesuits, an important part of whose job is to keep the Protestants busy with idle and foolish words while they deprive them of their liberties. There is no certain proof of it, but it looks likely.
An agreement has been reached between Ratti and Mussolini by which, in case of air raids, Vatican City will go dark along with all the rest of the country. The pope is having a bomb-proof shelter made in the Vatican gardens, where he and all the residents of his little burg can hide in case of an air attack.
When people that believe in killing one another get caught in an emergency they show plainly the spirit of their master, the Devil. Lum's restaurant, New York city, burned while the Roman Hierarchy's "Holy Name Society", consisting of some 20 priests and other men and women, 100 in all, were having a party, dinner and dance. When the fire broke out pandemonium ensued, and the newspaper accounts show that the holy (?) participants acted like wild beasts.
Men and women were pushed from all sides, were trampled, were piled in struggling heaps and were stripped to the waist. One man had his shoes torn off; another fell on the stairs and was pushed all the way down on his chest; one girl escaped without her shoes and stockings. (There is some doubt as to when all this stripping occurred, however.) Seven died or were killed, and 35 were injured.
The New York Times did its usual job of playing up the Roman church in a "glorious" manner, even in this disgraceful scene; for it published the account of the wretched and shameful panic under the title "Heroism of Priest Saves Many Lives". Subsequently they even published one of his pictures. Anything! Anything to gain a little notoriety.
“Building Up to an Awful Letdown’’
Self-confessed Murderers
The Glasgow Herald, commenting on an address delivered in that city by Dr. G. A. Frank Knight, said:
He stated that it was an undeniable fact that whereas all other churches had in modern times abjured principles of intolerance and persecution as being contrary to the law of Christ, the Church of Rome by recent legislation had maintained the medieval claim to exterminate heretics by force. That this is no mere piece of imagination he showed from a large number of recent declarations made by church authorities at the Vatican, in which it was stated that "the Church, being perfect, must kill, and killing heretics is the only efficient remedy". This was announced in 1900 by Father Marianus de Luca, professor of Canon Law in the Papal University in Rome, and it was followed by the official statement of Cardinal Lepicier in 1910, who stated that the Church of Rome held that heretics should not only be excommunicated, but rightfully put to death, just as it was not an evil act to kill ferocious animals in the jungle. These views of Lepicier had been endorsed by the Vatican with its warm approval. The Roman Church therefore stood committed to the murder of Protestants. That that was so was brought out by a large number of other quotations from eminent Roman authorities, even as late as 1934.
There is no other known aggregation of men that boast of their desire and intent to tyrannize as do the shameless creatures that make up the Roman Hierarchy. In "The Belief of Catholics" Reverend Father Ronald Knox says: "A body of Catholic patriots, entrusted with the government of a Catholic state, will not shrink from repressive measures in order to secure domination of Catholic principles among their fellow countrymen."
In an address in Boston Cardinal O'Connell said that "the Catholic church is a power and influence which had better not be overlooked".
A dispatch from Vatican City says that the pope "prays each day in his private chapel for the welfare of American Catholics and non-Catholics". The latter, it was explained, are "equally the spiritual sons of the 'holy father'". If that be so, then why does he wish to kill them? And if he does not wish to kill them, why do Catholic theologians insist that when the Catholic church gets strong enough that is just what it intends to do? And if those Catholic theologians are wrong, then why doesn't the pope himself come out and say so? And if murder is wrong, anyway, why doesn't the pope come out and denounce that too, while he is about it? And why does he at the same time finance and back Mussolini?
Read carefully the public proclamation of John Harney, reproduced on page 556, from the New York Herald of 1901. That unmistakable statement of purpose, made officially by a Catholic leader who today is even more prominent and powerful as such in America, no pope of the Roman Hierarchy has yet repudiated as the position he and his cardinal allies insist is theirs.
Hierarchy Dirty Work
It is hard for the Roman Hierarchy to do anything except lie, but in these days it is hard even to do that without getting caught at it. "Fides" should mean truthful, faithful, honorable, but does not, when applied to the news-distributing agency quartered at Vatican City. It seems to be largely devoted to trying to "get" Jehovah's witnesses. At hand the Malaya Catholic Leader of Singapore, containing the silliest lies about Judge Rutherford as trying to arouse the Africans against the whites. Then The Golden Age published the truth about the Roman Catholic "Watch Tower Movement" in Northern Rhodesia, and "Fides" sent out other dispatches of a widely different tone, now trying to shift the blame to the Watch Tower, but not admitting that it is its own baby, now back and on its own doorstep.
Furious because Judge Rutherford told the truth over WCPO about the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, The Catholic Telegraph shamelessly admitted and even boasted that "The Catholic Telegraph ran him off the local radio station a few years ago".
It can be added that no one else would do such dirty work. When it comes to doing despicable, underhanded, un-American work of this class, no one but the Hierarchy can do it as well or would do it at all. Frightened by the Hierarchy the owners of WCPO, Cincinnati, apologized to the Hierarchy, and said they had given instructions Judge Rutherford would hereafter be denied facilities of their station. So be it. God's arm is not shortened.
In the same issue in which The Catholic Telegraph boasted of this second piece of dirty work it also made reference to the manager of station W9XBY, of Kansas City, saying threateningly:
Evidently he needs a little education, and we have no doubt about the ability of the Jesuits to impart it.
The New Orleans Sodality, group of female agents of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, make a comical declaration that they are for peace, but only if Judge Rutherford is shoved off WDSU radio station and kept off; otherwise, and in six days, they threaten to go after all WDSU advertisers. Such a cry for peace is by no means original. In ancient days the wicked Jezebel, as well as her son, made a similar proposal to Jehu, who was zealously bent upon executing his God-given commission. See the record at Second Kings, chapter 9.
The McManuses and Callahans
In an address at Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Alfred McManus, of Philadelphia, let the cat out of the bag. The Jesuits, in their great hue and cry against an imaginary peril of Communism, have enough sense not to mention Jehovah's witnesses at all, for they are well aware that the people as a whole know the harmlessness and innocence of the people of Jehovah God.
What they aim to do is to inflame the minds of the people against an imaginary Communistic foe so that they may with popular consent seize the country under the pretext of desiring its real welfare. When they get what they want (if they get it), what they will do to Jehovah’s witnesses will be good and plenty (so they think). But their man McManus at Hazleton lacked their shrewdness. He put the two together in his address. They should keep him at home, for he let the cat out of the bag.
‘His Rivirince,’ ‘Rivirind’ Mr. Callahan, broadcasting for the so-called “Church of the Air”, says that he is sick of the new candor in which “children refuse to do reverence to the flag”, by which he means to take a crack at the children of Jehovah’s witnesses, the only ones involved.
He fails to mention that, as a result of virtual control of America by Catholic gangsters, the country has become so unsafe for decent people that Lindbergh and his wife felt called upon to leave everything and flee to England. It is the idea of ‘His Rivirince’ that when the Catholic Hierarchy has killed off all the Protestants or chased them out of the country there will be no reason then why anybody should refuse to bow to the flag of the pope, and everything for which that flag stands.
Stefan Zmuda, Roman Catholic police chief of Phoenix, Illinois, objects to the gospel’s being preached in that city, and, though without police clothing, badge, warrant, or even an ordinance to back him up, assaulted one of Jehovah’s witnesses, broke his eleventh right rib, and pounded him black-and-blue both before and after taking him to the station house. The injured man, Frank Wasick, is now suing the chief for $25,000, and Mr. Zmuda will have a chance to explain in court.
Many who know what the P.O.S. of A. (Patriotic Order of Sons of America) once stood for will be interested and amused to know that in the vicinity of Reading, Pennsylvania, the posts, at least two of them, definitely lined up on the side of the pope, and against Jehovah’s witnesses, the only living protesters. The P.O.S. of A. in Reading and vicinity is entirely satisfied to see the United States under the control of the papacy.
Proof of the Contemplated Massacre
Lincoln Foresaw It
On page 715 of his work Fifty Years in the Church of Rome ex-priest Charles Chiniquy quoted Abraham Lincoln as saying to him:
I do not pretend to be a prophet. But, though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. That dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone such as the world has never seen will pass over the country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is over there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been for ever swept away from our country. Neither you nor I, but our children, will see these things.
The work of preparing for the big shambles that will make St. Bartholomew’s Massacre look like a maiden-ladies’ tea party goes cheerfully on. The Rome-controlled WPA now building secretly 925 armories, costing or to cost $65,000,000, is a part of the plan.
Contempt for the Bible
On Pope’s Day, Madras, India, February 6, the Very Reverend Father S. R. Santos, referring to the doctrine of papal infallibility as a beacon to light the path, said that man’s guide was “certainly not the Bible”. Wonder if he ever noticed Jesus’ statement, “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth,” or the apostle’s statement that the Holy Scriptures are able to “make thee wise unto salvation”, and “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”, and a hundred other texts of like import. But, since these texts are all from the Word of God, for which, as the Very Reverend Santos implies, all Catholic priests have only utmost contempt, why should he bother his head about them?
An INS cablegram from Vatican City represents the pope as saying to the 2,000 Roman Catholic nurses that they should “pray to the good Lord that he may second the activity and industry of clairvoyant men who understand the exigencies of the real happiness of peoples and social justice”. That the Roman Hierarchy is under the guidance of demons is true not only from the above statement of the pope, but also by his words which follow: “For those men are doing their utmost, not by use of threats, and cannot make the situation worse by irritating the spirits who render this situation more difficult and threatening daily.”
Not being sure as to the year in which Christ died, the pope made both 1933 and 1934 “holy years”, and at the close of the second one, Joseph Schrembs, bishop of Cleveland, issued a prayer for success of the bread show at Cleveland, referring, in 1934, to “these days of universal distress and affliction”—thus showing what the two “holy years” accomplished.
The Hierarchy is all twisted on the “Christmas” business, as on everything else. Everyman’s Almanac (put out by the Santa Fe Railroad System), page 27, in a footnote under the month December, said:
Christmas to celebrate the birth of Christ was first made a legal holiday in the Roman Empire in 534. Though the exact date of Christ’s birth is uncertain, December 25 was probably selected because it already was a festival in honor of the Sun God, Mithra, which seemed an appropriate association for the Christians’ “Prince of Light”. Customs for celebration vary in different lands, some of them even having been adopted from pre-Christian times.
Says Emily Kardelic, of Illinois:
I just have to tell you about a remarkable experience in a funeral chapel, where, on January 19, 1936, two bodies lay, one of a deceased sister in the truth, the other a deceased elderly woman who had attended the meetings of Jehovah’s witnesses some years back, and had no sympathy with church systems. Her dying wish was to have Jehovah’s witnesses take care of her funeral, but somehow her daughter and friends were not satisfied and called a Catholic priest to deliver a sermon in the chapel, to which he agreed. Everything went off splendidly; the priest was in a front seat listening to Judge Rutherford’s lecture, “Where Are the Dead?” After the lecture was over the priest got up very angry and strode toward the rear. Suspecting what was up, I followed him and heard him say to the daughter, “Now how can I get up there and talk when Judge Rutherford said the dead are dead and know not anything. What can I say?” The daughter tried to encourage him to go ahead and speak his piece anyway, but he strode on out, leaving her in the lurch. It was a splendid witness for the truth.
The Hierarchy an Italian Racket
The previous make-up of the cardinalate of the Roman church was twenty-four Italians and twenty-five non-Italians. The new make-up is thirty-seven Italians and thirty-one non-Italians. Peter was not an Italian; he was a Jew. In the new batch of cardinals, fourteen out of eighteen were Italians. One of the fourteen was the assistant in charge of Jesuit work in Italy.
In The Catholic Encyclopedia saints are quoted at $44,000 up. The more money that can be scooped in, the better, but the least that a real Roman Catholic “saint” can be made for is $44,000. This is just that much more than it cost in Bible times, as anyone can see by reading Romans 16:15, 2 Corinthians 1:1, Ephesians 1:1, and a dozen other similar texts.
If Dutch Schultz gave up enough to the Hierarchy racketeers he will be made a “saint” some day, and steps in that direction have already been taken, including his glorification in The Literary Digest. Murderer of nobody knows how many of even his own friends, a villain that not even his fellow racketeers could trust, untrue to the women he called “wives”, with a racketeer income of about $150,000 per week, every dollar of which was made in crime, Dutch Schultz, when mortally wounded, became a Roman Catholic, was buried in “consecrated ground” (which is a joke, because all ground belongs to God himself), and the man who sprinkled him says that when he had done so “sanctifying grace, a higher life, the life of God himself throbbed in his soul".
What presumption! What blasphemy! What foolishness! As one gangster said of his deceased comrade, "If a guy like that can get into heaven, there won't be anybody in hell." That is merely another way of saying that the heaven of the clergy will be hell for everybody, including the clergy themselves. What a farce!
In a 2,000-word encyclical the pope said of an ordinary Roman Catholic priest that "he is a mediator between God and man. He must be another Christ [an antichrist]". It is not necessary to say more; that says it well.
The pope wants Americans "converted". A leaflet issued by the Paulist League sets forth the following benefits which accrue to members: "A plenary indulgence (1) on the day of enrollment; (2) on various feast days; (3) once a month, if they assist at mass in honor of the holy spirit and pray for the conversion of America to the Catholic faith; (4) at the hour of death." In addition, various and sundry indulgences.
Purveyors of Idolatry
A note from R. E. Browning, of Quebec, enclosed a picture, taken from a Montreal paper, showing poor human creatures on their knees kissing a bishop's episcopal ring. His landlady, a French Catholic, saw this picture. She had been reading Mr. Browning's French Bible. Of her own self this lady saw the point when she read Revelation 22:8, 9: "And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God." Commenting on this Mr. Browning said: "When the lady read the ninth verse she got as deep a thrust from that two-edged sword as I ever saw: in fact, it was suicidal."
A statue of Mary in the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, wears a mantle upon which are embroidered 78,000 pearls. The statue is also adorned with many other jewels, such as diamonds, rubies and emeralds. Mary was poor and married a poor man. As everybody knows, when her Firstborn came into the world He first saw the light of day in a stable.
At hand a "fine lot" of advertising literature from "Father" Stedman, The Confraternity of the Precious Blood, 5300 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Notice that he says of the particular "miraculous medal" sent along with the other material that "Mary Immaculate herself" "designed this medal".
This is interesting because the last "miraculous medal" received by The Golden Age was of a different design. This new one, sent by "Father" Stedman, has quite a few improvements, consisting of eight arcs nicely arranged with the curves toward the center. Whichever one of these medals Mary designed, the other fellows should let it alone, and not horn in with something different, pretending that Mary designed it, when she didn't design it at all. It confuses purchasers.
Inventors of Evil Things
The following are the dates of various Roman Hierarchy inventions: A.D. 300, prayers for the dead; A.D. 539, the "mass"; A.D. 600, "Purgatory," worship of Mary and the "saints"; A.D. 788, worship of cross, images and relics; A.D. 965, baptism of bells; A.D. 998, imposition of "Lent"; A.D. 1000, "holy water"; A.D. 1079, celibacy of the priesthood; A.D. 1090, worship with beads; A.D. 1190, sacrifice of "mass" and sale of indulgences; A.D. 1215, transubstantiation and auricular confession; A.D. 1220, adoration of wafer; A.D. 1414, refusal to give communion wine to the people; A.D. 1545, church traditions placed on a par with the Scriptures; A.D. 1546, apocryphal books placed in the Bible; A.D. 1854, Mary declared born without sin; A.D. 1870, infallibility of pope claimed.
Patrick Hayes, archbishop of New York, has himself mixed with Peter the apostle. In an address at Cleveland he said: "Peter is here in the person of the legate of Peter's successor. The apostles are here in their successors, their excellencies, the members of the Hierarchy, who shed such splendor by their illustrious presence."
As there were but twelve apostles, whereas there were 150 bishops at the Cleveland style show, and as Mr. Hayes was Peter, the other eleven apostles were in the other 149. That makes about one apostle to every 13 bishops. Maybe that is all right, but it just doesn't seem fair for Mr. Hayes to have one apostle all to himself and each 13 of his fellow bishops have each to get along with part of one. And besides, 13 is an unlucky number!
Simon-pure Hypocrites
Notice an item in the Cleveland Press that the Most Reverend Joseph Schrembs brought to the United States and located in that city a bevy of Franciscan nuns, one of whom will be on her knees every second of the year. What sense is there in that? and where in the Scriptures can any justification be found for such a course? Bishop Schrembs’ paper, The Catholic Universe Bulletin, is the one that managed to call Judge Rutherford 78 evil names in one issue.
In a letter to all Catholics in the Cincinnati archdiocese, John T. McNicholas, archbishop of Cincinnati, said to the flock whom he was encouraging to exercise their right of suffrage: “We must give an example, in word and deed, of a fine spirit of religious toleration.” Too bad he did not think of this two years ago, when his official organ, The Catholic Telegraph, was resorting to such intolerant measures to get Judge Rutherford off the air in the Cincinnati territory. Archbishop McNicholas is a Dominican. In the days of the Inquisition the Dominicans were the inquisitors.
The pope, nearly 80 years of age, is reported as resting after a tiring week-end in which he celebrated the feast of the purification of the virgin Mary. Everybody thought the Roman Catholic Hierarchy believes in “Mary Always Immaculate” and wonders why the pope should celebrate a feast commemorating her purification.
D. Gatto, Maryland, sends information copied from the New York Times, that Mastai Ferretti, otherwise known as Pope Pius IX, was expelled from the Grand Lodge of the Masons, Scottish Rite of the Orient, of Palermo, Italy, March 27, 1874, for perjury in cursing those he had solemnly pledged to love and fellowship.
A dispatch from Vatican City says the pope blessed 52 Jesuit priests, many of them Americans. It looks, at this writing, as if they were going to need it.
Bait for Suckers
Somebody sent in a picture of the so-called “holy” figure on the tile chimney of John Sterle, of Fairchance, Pennsylvania. At first John got 25c each for letting people see this tile. By no stretch of the imagination can it be called a miracle, but the newspapers whooped it up, the chimney was removed to the local Roman Catholic church, and before the fake blew up the church had netted $1,100. The 4,400 suckers that invested in this fake are now ready with another 25c for the next one.
It will set you back only $10 to send a list of 20 living and 20 dead people to the Very Reverend Father Bede, O.M.C. Provincial, 812 North Salina St., Syracuse, N. Y. Then when he gets your $10 he will, so he says, bind the 40 names in a scroll and leave it where St. Anthony-on-Hudson can take a look at it whenever he likes. Don’t let the fact that Anthony is stone dead disturb you. Others have paid, and why should you hold back and not give Mr. Bede your $10?
Advertising matter of the “Purgatorian Society, St. Peter’s Church, Fifth Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.”, explains that one may have a “perpetual membership” for $10, which may be paid at the low rate of 50c a year, if necessary. When you get your card you are assured that “perpetual members are free from all further obligations and will partake of all the spiritual advantages and benefits of the Purgatorian Society forever, both before and after death”. According to the regulations, “if after the death of a member the certificate of membership is presented, the ‘holy sacrifice of the mass’ (low mass) will be offered specially for the repose of his or her soul.”
The only objection to this arrangement is that the cards have to be on asbestos, to stand the 1,000 years in “purgatory”. And if the poor soul loses the card he is out of luck. Suppose a fellow sticks out in the bake oven for 1,000 years, and finally lands in glory. He thinks everything is all right now; but not so. He is still a member of the Purgatorian Society “both before and after death”. He may be walking innocently down Main Street of the Happy Place, talking to some friend of the long ago, when up comes a spiritual cop and says, ‘Let me see your card.’
He looks around, and behold! the card which was at first safely in his breast pocket, under his left wing, has been fanned out by the feathers of the pope’s flabelli, and he is left cardless. The cop leads him to a magistrate with red wings (who was once a cardinal). The magistrate thereupon tells him what a fool he was to part with his $10 in the first place, what a further fool he was to spend 1,000 years in “purgatory”, when Dutch Schultz didn’t even stop there overnight, and finally tells him he will have to go to hell after all, and turns him over to an angel with an Irish brogue who takes him to a chute and with a good shove sends him on his way.
Bones and Boneheads
The bones of Lazarus are being shown in France; not the Lazarus who went to Abraham's bosom, for he has them along with him, but the other Lazarus, who went to hell, the Bible hell, and was awakened out of death. At least a Catholic priest in France says he has them. If you don't believe it, then you are lacking in "faith", and just like everybody else.
Incidentally, if there is any real demand, the Catholic church is prepared to show the complete skeletons of every animal that was with Noah in the ark; and if somebody will raise the ante high enough they will even show Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth and all the girls, and even Ma Noah herself. It is all in the business, and anyone who has the price can get anything he wants.
The French Press declares that in various Roman Catholic churches there are now to be found five bodies, eight heads and six arms of St. Anne; five bodies, six heads and seventeen arms of St. Andrew; eleven heads of St. Erasmus; four bodies, eight heads and sixteen arms of St. Stephen; two bodies, four heads and sixty-three fingers of St. Jerome; eighteen bodies of St. Paul; sixteen bodies and thirty-two fingers of St. Peter; twenty-six heads of St. Julian; four bodies, ten heads and twelve arms of St. James; ten heads and eleven hands of John the Baptist; three bodies, seven arms and seven legs of St. Ignatius, who was devoured by lions; three hearts of Jesus Christ; the skin of Mary Magdalene's forehead; the tongue of St. Francis of Sales; the tongue of St. Anthony; some hairs from St. Peter's beard; the chin of St. John; a finger of St. Thomas; some roasted fat of St. Lorenz; the kneecap of St. Ruffin; some nerves from the hand of St. Phillip Neri; one hair of the virgin Mary; the holy veil; one foot of St. Lawrence the martyr; a bottle of the blood of Jesus; a bottle of the milk of the virgin Mary; a stone where the Lord wrote the laws given to Moses; a piece of the manna fed to the people in the wilderness; a part of Aaron's rod that budded; three thorns from the crown of thorns; four pieces of the true cross; and some of the vinegar and gall from the cup of which Jesus drank at Calvary. Every item a swindle de luxe.
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