Golden Age, April 21, 1937
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A JOURNAL OF FACT HOPE AND COURAGE
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JUDGING THE HIERARCHY
BY ITS FRUITS
(Part 2)
EXPOSED
GUESS WHAT "CHURCH"
ABETS MURDER
EQUAL PROTECTION
OF LAWS
DISOBEDIENCE TURNS
A WISE MAN INTO A FOOL
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Vol. XVIII - No. 459
April 21, 1937 CONTENTS
JUDGING THE HIERARCHY BY
ITS FRUITS (Part 2) 451
Mr. Roosevelt’s “Blessing” 452
Ku Klux and Other “Blessings” 453
The Liberty Bell Cracked 453
Transportation Wrecks Ahead 453
Keeping the “Saints” Busy 454
How to Dodge the Bonfire 454
Fishing for Suckers 455
Statesmanship in America 456
The Communist Joke 456
Magog—Magog—Magog 457
Great Conspiracy Against Liberty 457
The Coughlin-Gallagher Farce 459
Always Pleading Poverty 460
The Claims of the Hierarchy 460
“Religion” in
Hudson County, N.J. 461
“A War to the Death”
Admit Their Readers
Have No Sense 464
“The Battle of the Boyne” 464
Rome Begins to Feel the Heat 464
Probably Educated Parochially 469
The “Incorrupt Flesh” of
Saint Bernadette 470
Jealous of Miss Breen’s “Slacks” 470
Roman Catholic Cult Claims
Seizure of Schools 471
“Religion” in Public Schools 471
Catholic Women Control the Films 471
Papers Love to Put It On 472
“Boy, Take Off Your Cap” 473
Getting at the Bottom of
the Mass Business 473
$40 Cash for Forgiveness 474
Knew Where to Look
for Easy Money 474
Paterson Asleep at the Switch 475
When Chris Has Ear in the Pillow 475
“Peace and Safety” Dictatorships 476
Rape of the Spanish Republic 476
EXPOSED (C) 465
GUESS WHAT “CHURCH” ABETS
TORTURE AND MURDER 466
EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS 467
DISOBEDIENCE TURNS WISE MAN
INTO A FOOL 477
“The Wisdom of God
Was in Him” 477
“Wisdom, as He Promised” 477
Solomon’s Prayer Was Heard 478
He Loved Women Instead of God 478
CARTOONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
The “blessing” of the Hierarchy
—Ezekiel 16: 33, 34 451
“We are all going forward together” 452
What price glory? 453
Blessing the Supreme Court
and the Constitution 455
Reverend L. Sepmore,
the village cut-up, still at it 457
“COMMUNISM” AND THE
“SIMPLE SIMON” COPS 458
Destruction of one naturally follows the
destruction of the other 460
Choose! 461
PLAN YOUR FUTURE—BIG REWARDS 462
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The Golden Age
Volume XVIII Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday, April 21, 1937 Number 459
Judging the Hierarchy by Its Fruits
(Part 2)
MR. ROOSEVELT has received the "blessing" of the Hierarchy, and it is well for him and for all to take a look at the record and see what it means.
Pope Pius IX sent the Golden Rose to the king of the Two Sicilies, and in less than a year he lost his crown and kingdom. He sent his blessing to the Austrian kaiser, and in less than a year he lost Venetia, and suffered defeat at Sadowa. He sent the Golden Rose to Queen Isabella of Spain, and in a short time she lost her crown, and died in exile.
He sent the Golden Rose to the Empress Eugenie of France, and in less than a year the emperor and the empress lost their crowns, and both, later, died in exile, and their only son was killed by Zulus in Africa.
The empress of Brazil was blessed by the pope. She broke her leg three days after, and she and the emperor were dethroned and died in exile. The crown princess of Brazil was blessed by the pope; her babe was born deformed, and she died in exile.
The pope blessed the emperor of Mexico, Maximilian. He was dethroned and killed by his people. He blessed the emperor’s widow. She became a hopeless maniac, and died in exile.
The "blessing" of the Hierarchy—Ezekiel 16:33, 34
The pope blessed a steamer filled with nuns en route to South America in 1870. It never reached its destination, every soul perishing.
The pope blessed the floating palace bound from Montevideo to Buenos Aires. It foundered two days later.
The pope blessed General Boulanger, and in less than two weeks he was an exile, later committing suicide.
Mrs. Sherman, wife of the American General Sherman, received the Golden Rose, and died soon after.
Dr. Windthorst received the papal "Order of Christ"; he died in less than a year.
In 1895 the archbishop of Damascus, at Vittoria, gave the pope’s blessing to the Spanish troops and fleet; Spain lost two fleets and two armies.
The queen regent of Spain and King Alfonso were blessed by the pope. They promptly lost Cuba and the Philippines, and Alfonso has since lost his crown.
In 1897 the papal nuncio blessed the grand "Charity" bazaar in Paris. Within five minutes it was in flames, and nearly 150 of the aristocracy perished, including the sister of the empress of Austria.
The empress of Austria received the Golden Rose. She was murdered in Switzerland, her only son committing suicide previously, and her nephew losing his throne subsequently; Austria has ceased to exist as an empire to this day.
King Edward VII of England visited the pope and received, as a mark of favor, a signed photograph of Pope Leo XIII. At once came news of a reverse to British troops in Somaliland; the king’s health began to fail, and was never restored.
Princess Ena of Battenberg received the pope’s blessing. Within a fortnight she narrowly escaped death at the hands of an anarchist, some 13 hapless victims succumbing, and 80 others being wounded. Her wedding garments were bespattered with human blood. One, at least, of her sons is afflicted bodily. Her marriage was “annulled” by decree of the Roman Rota.
The pope blessed Queen Natalie of Serbia in 1906. She ended her days as a fugitive in exile, her only son, the king, being murdered.
The queen of Portugal—one of the Orleans—was blessed by the pope. Her husband, the king, and her eldest son, were murdered beside her in a carriage, and she and her surviving son escaped—as exiles—to England, throneless. Portugal has been a “republic” ever since.
At the height of his power, the German kaiser visited the pope, and received his blessing. He lost his throne, and has lived in exile ever since.
In 1926 a rich English landowner, Mr. Dyer Edwards, went to Rome, was “blessed” by the pope, and in four days he was dead!
In 1926 the pope sent the Golden Rose to the queen of Belgium. In 1934 the king was accidentally killed, and since then the young Queen Astrid was accidentally killed.
In 1928 the pope blessed the “Italia” airship, and gave it a “cross” to place on the North Pole. The airship foundered and broke in two, half its crew being lost, while General Nobile was severely injured, and has since been censured by an Italian committee.
The pope lays great stock on the blessing of the Golden Rose. It has been a feature of the papacy for 1,000 years, so it claimed. On April 5, 1937, it was delivered to Queen Elena of Italy, empress of Ethiopia. And now—?
PROSPERITY SWEEPSTAKES
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TAXES
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“We are all going forward together”
Mr. Roosevelt’s “Blessing”
On the morning of election day, five hours before it was daylight in America, the National Socialist Angriff, Berlin, Germany, published a statement flatly charging a deal between President Roosevelt and Cardinal Pacelli by which the president made important concessions to the Catholic Church, in return for which Cardinal Pacelli is declared to have delivered him the Catholic vote in the United States. This claim is now all the more remarkable in the fact that “Father” Coughlin’s supposed following of around 8,000,000 to 9,000,000 people disappeared like a snowflake in July. The great crowds that followed him must have got a tip at the last moment to vote for Roosevelt. That was Roosevelt’s “blessing” by the Hierarchy. Whether it turns out to be a blessing in the end remains to be seen.
The U.S. flag seemed to be getting along pretty well. People were waking up to the fact that the biggest flag-saluters were not the best Americans; and that some that refused to make the flag an object of worship are such staunch Americans that they will be jammed into a prison cell before they will give up their American rights on this or any other subject that affects their relationship to God. But now there is trouble ahead, probably. The “Reverend” John J. Ratigan, chaplain of St. Michael’s, is shown in the Newark Ledger in the act of blessing the Stars and Stripes. He seemed to have on a lace nightie, and the three boys also shown in the picture had on lace chemises, if that is the right word. Anyway, the future for the flag looks dark. Anything that the Roman Hierarchy hates as it does the things the U.S. flag stands for is in trouble when the Hierarchy starts to "bless" it.
Just to have it in the record: When the pope blessed the Spanish rebels he blessed Mohammedan Moors slaughtering Basque Catholics; also he blessed such soldiers for killing other Catholics on the very altar steps of the Badajoz cathedral. He was delighted when he heard of the fall of Malaga, where scores of Catholic children, barefoot, hungry and with only one garment on, were slain by his airplanes, and by his Moorish soldiers, in midwinter.
Ku Klux and Other Southern "Blessings"
The Ku Klux Klan has sold out. It never had anything to sell except nightshirts and real estate. It still has the nightshirts, but in pursuance of its policy of cashing in it has sold its so-called "Imperial Palace" to the Catholic church, which has turned part of the building into a chapel and will use the balance for a convent. A big Catholic church and parochial school will be built on the grounds. In the light of this information, the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses by the Atlanta Ku Klux is perfectly understandable. The Jewish high priests knew perfectly what they were about when they offered Judas his thirty pieces of silver.
The shrimp industry of Louisiana is in danger. Heretofore, by strict attention to business, the average shrimper has been able to make about $500 a year, but the business has now for the first time been officially "blessed" by a Roman Catholic archbishop; and all history shows that means hard times, little business and much danger.
What price glory?
The Liberty Bell Cracked
In the presence of Cardinal Dougherty and Hugh L. Lamb, of Philadelphia (both names will be recognized by readers of The Golden Age), Cardinal Pacelli drove to Independence Hall and inspected the Liberty Bell. He found it cracked, and very much so, since the two men with him bluffed Gimbel Brothers' radio station WIP into crowding Judge Rutherford off the air, from that station.
Something happened to convince Gimbel Brothers that maybe it was not such a clever thing after all to slap over 125,000 listeners in the face, but they got "blessed" as a result, anyway. The American Legion straightway conferred a "Certificate of Merit" on the station. Guess the "church" that is back of the Legion.
Transportation Wrecks Ahead
New York city purchased $500,000 of new apparatus for the fire department. Simultaneously twelve firemen were projected aloft clinging to the top of 85-foot extension ladders. So far so good. But then the new apparatus was officially "blessed" by Monsignor Wm. E. Cashin and the "Reverend" John J. McElligott, Jr.
The Parish Monthly Calendar, St. Joan of Arc Church Directory, Fairview, Camden, N. J., after admitting that there are more and more deaths on the highways in spite of the St. Christopher medals carried in the cars, puts it up to the "faith" of the drivers. If they believe in the medal, all is well; and this belief, if they have the medal in the car, "can stop skids, blow-outs or any other calamity." What a beautiful system of saving money for the customer when there is enough "faith"! and what a beautiful system of making money when there is enough "faith" to just pay for the medal and no more. In the latter case it is too bad that the man who bought the medal did not have enough "faith" to back up his cash, but the alibi for the man who finally got the cash is perfect anyway.
At hand a picture of some "church" in Berlin, N. H., where skis are being "blessed"; the idea is that when you get your skis "blessed" and take chances of breaking your neck, nothing happens. How silly it all is! Does anybody suppose for a minute that the great Jehovah God would take any notice of such nonsense, except to condemn it?
It is getting to be quite the thing for Americans to exercise their kissing rights. A few days ago there were pictures of Postmaster General Jim Farley down on his knees kissing the ring of Pacelli. The next thing was a column in a San Francisco paper about Mayor Rossi of that city doing the same thing when Pacelli came out to "bless" the bridge built across San Francisco bay by American taxpayers. Farley and Rossi have a perfect right to kiss any part of any man they choose. Pacelli liked it all right. When Farley was down on his marrow bones, kissing his way up, Pacelli had a grin on his face like a leopard at feeding time.
Dadisho N. Toti, Philadelphia, was given 4 1/2 years in prison for obtaining money under false pretense. He sold masses and "blessings", posing as a priest. Now if they would send up for 100 years each every man jack that sells masses, posing as a priest, they would be getting somewhere.
In Buffalo a youth posing as a monk bulldozed sixty families into giving him sums up to $10 for "blessing" them or withholding from "cursing" them. It is easy to see where young Rykaczewski got the idea of sandbagging the people out of their money by the pretense that he could give them indulgences or other favors, and if the police only had the nerve to tackle the big shots in the swindle they might get somewhere. But there is no danger. Instead of going after the real swindlers, the police are far more likely to take orders from them.
Keeping the "Saints" Busy
The Lord, in one place, speaking on the subject of prayer, urged that His followers be not as the heathen, who have the idea that the more prayers they offer, and the more they say in their prayers, the more sure they are of acceptance of their requests.
Prayer from the heart is acceptable, if offered in a proper manner by those whose hearts are right, but God is not interested in such trivial things as human words from His enemies, nor in the multitude of them, no matter who offers them.
Having this in mind one examines with interest a little piece of advertising matter sent in from Cleveland. The general theme is "Determined and World-Wide Opposition to Masonic Sects", and it is alleged to be "Recommended by His Holiness, Pope Pius XI". All right. November was the big month. The number of "saints" to be invoked on the program was just 26 in thirty days.
There were various objectives besides the Masons, such as thanksgivings, for the afflicted, the sick, the infirm, dead associates, local centers, directors, promoters, the departed, perseverance, the young, the first communions, parents, families, reconciliations, work, means, clergy, the religious, seminarists, novices, vocations, parishes, schools, superiors, missions, retreats, societies, works ("many", "wonderful"), conversions, sinners, the intemperate, spiritual favors, temporal favors.
The number of prayers (masses?) to be offered ranged from 895,645 for the clergy down to 14,023 for the local centers. All together, they ran to the whopping big total of 7,701,629. That is an interesting text, in Ecclesiastes 5: 2, where the Word of God says, "God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few."
Those that put up the 7,701,629 prayers in one month, especially against the Masons, have some consolation. They can plead, truthfully, that they do not know anything of what is in the Bible, and, therefore, that they did not know they should not have so much to say. And they can also plead that their prayers were not addressed to God, anyway, but to certain Roman Catholic "saints".
How to Dodge the Bonfire
Maybe you don't know how to dodge the big bonfire; but, if the New York Herald Tribune story is correct, it is so easy that it is a shame to take the money. All you need to do to get "the plenary indulgence of the Portiuncula" is to head for St. Patrick's cathedral between noon August 1 and midnight August 2 (when business is dull on account of so many being out of town on vacation) and do what you are told in the way of confessing and coughing up your spare change.
The result, as sure as you are a foot high, and are sap enough to believe the Herald Tribune story, will be that you will be granted “the indulgence, which grants remission of the entire temporal punishment due for sin so that no further expiation in ‘purgatory’ is necessary”.
Meantime the priest that collects what you brought with you in the way of cash will have added materially to his roll and can enjoy such satisfaction as comes to one who has rescued another from a place that does not exist and never did exist anywhere at any time except in the minds of the money-mad collectors of other people’s wages.
Blessing the Supreme Court and the Constitution
A letter just at hand from Martin J. Blake, C.M., under the general heading, “Queen of Angels, Pray for Us,” Niagara University, N. Y. Blake starts out fair enough. At the first go-off he says, “God grant that our departed are in heaven.” All O.K. Then he gets down into the subject of explaining about 45 masses in November, and says, “Your dear ones departed and ours look to you and to us for their share in this great manifestation,” etc., and then breaks the news that if you want to do something you should send along some cash, “The usual offering of one dollar or more.” It is positively awful the way some of these dead relatives are always hollering for money. In bygone years live ones have done it. One would think that it would be enough sorrow to have a relative pester one for money while he was alive, but when he, she or it is dead, to keep on pestering is just too much. Still, if you want to send him the dollar, you may.
Fishing for Suckers
“Reverend Romuald, S.O. Cist.,” prior of The Cistercian Monastery of “Our Lady of Spring Bank”, Okauchee, Wisconsin, would like to build a new monastery and would accept an offering with that end in view, and, incidentally, you would better step on it if you want to keep some of your friends from cooking to a cinder. Here’s how:
You surely have someone dear to you who has passed into eternity, but who might still need the help of prayers in the pains of ‘purgatory’. Please do not let him wait.
The idea is that if you come across with the long green there is a chance that your friend may get a break. Incidentally, it will be good for you too, for if you get these friends out of the jam they are in with the priests, why—
They will gladly intercede before the throne of Almighty God for their friends on earth and aid them in the battle of life.
Ah, yes, Mabel! It’s just as easy as that.
The German Golden Age says:
An Irishman, in some way getting hold of a Bible, read it with keen interest. His priest, who happened to hear of it, came to him quickly and, finding him reading it, said:
“Michael, you know the Bible is only for the priests, and not for the common people.”
“Really? But I have read in the Bible, ‘Ye shall teach them to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19)’; the priests have no children.”
“But, Michael, you certainly cannot understand the Bible. It was not written for the likes of you.”
“But, Reverend, what I do not understand does not hurt me, and what I do understand is of greatest benefit to me.”
“Michael, you must go to the church. She will teach you and give you the pure milk of the Word of God.”
“But, Reverend, where does the church get this milk? Is it not from the Bible?”
“Yes; that is true.” "Then excuse me, Reverend, but despite the great confidence I have in your dairy, I prefer to milk the cow myself."
Statesmanship in America
The generations of American statesmen that have gone were not trying to curry favor with the Roman Hierarchy. At the time of the Revolution there were only 30 priests in the United States; now there are 30,000, and they are breeding like flies.
George Washington was a manly man. Most certainly he would never have received such a letter as Judge Rutherford dispatched to Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding religious persecutions in the United States, and allowed it to go unanswered. One of his truthful (at that time) and statesmanlike utterances follows:
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States.
In the year 1875 General U. S. Grant set out the philosophy of the true American when he said:
Let us labor for the security of free thoughts, free speech, free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color or religion; encourage free schools, resolve that not one dollar appropriated to them shall go to the support of any sectarian school; resolve that neither State nor nation shall support any institution save those where every child may get a common school education, unmixed with any atheistic, pagan or sectarian teaching; leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
At the reception of Cardinal Pacelli at Fordham (Roman Catholic) University, in New York, the "Very Reverend" Robert I. Gannon, president of that institution, referring to the number of Catholic students dressed in the uniforms of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, asked the question, "Does it seem strange to anyone, then, that the first Fordham students to welcome him wore the military uniforms of the R.O.T.C.?" The answer is, No! It does not seem one bit strange; for the Roman Hierarchy is not now and never has been a peace-loving institution, but where anything whatever is to be gained by the mass murder called "war", it is enthusiastically for it every time.
A dispatch from Santa Clara, Calif., reported the receipt of six new army trucks at the Roman Catholic University of Santa Clara, and that more would be sent shortly. Why, sure!
New York city’s first colored judge, Myles Paige, is a Roman Catholic and a member of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. His salary will be $10,000 a year; the job expires nine years hence. Mr. Paige is a Harvard graduate.
The Communist Joke
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is using all the powers at its command to get the whole world, and especially the United States, all steamed up over the Communist problem, so that, in humble gratitude, the peoples of the earth will fall at their feet as their only saviors from this dread monster. It is to laugh. The total vote in the greatest Communist center of the United States was 2,750,000 in the late election, and the Communists got 31,987, or a little over 1 percent. This is like rushing up to a child and throwing it over the roof of a house to save it from a mad dog when there isn’t any mad dog at all.
In view of the fact that out of nearly fifty million votes polled in the United States, only 51,855 went to the Communist ticket, won't somebody explain why the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, in every city, in every town, in every newspaper and in every way is trying to scare the whole world, including the United States, with a Communist bugaboo? The answer is that it is all a smoke screen, all pure hypocrisy, an attempt to stampede the whole world into giving control of everything to those lovely successors of the apostles (?) who did such a marvelous job in Mexico and Spain.
The Knights of Columbus have inaugurated what they term a "world fight on reds", by which they mean any and every organization that believes the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is an anarchist organization, and is therefore opposed to it. In due time Jehovah God will inaugurate a "world fight on reds", the real reds, the ones that have filled the world with strife, sorrow, fear and turmoil. He won’t need to "plan" it; it is already announced in His Word. When it is over, the Hierarchy and all attendant curses, including the Knights of Columbus, will be for ever at an end.
Magog—Magog—Magog
The Sherbrooke Daily Record at hand with a column from Magog, announcing a big gathering of Knights of Columbus to fight Communism. The Grand Knight was from Magog. The chaplain was from Magog. The mayor of Magog was there. And one of the speakers was from Magog. And Gog of Magog was there, too. (Ezekiel 38:1-3) There probably aren't five Communists within 100 miles of Magog, Quebec. The big excitement was not to get the Communists; for they are weak and few. They want to get—whom do you suppose?
Reverend I. Spewmore, the village cut-up, still at it
Monsignor John A. Ryan, Catholic prelate of Washington, recently said:
If I had to choose between Russian Communism and Italian Fascism I should without hesitation take the latter.
He did not need to say it: everybody knows it. He could have come out flat-footedly in favor of Fascism, the same as his fellow prelates Bishop Schrembs of Cleveland and the late Bishop Gallagher of Detroit.
In an address at Belfast, Ireland, Captain Herbert Dixon made the statement that loyalists in the north of Ireland were faced with an alliance of Communists, Roman Catholics and rebel intellectuals banded together for the disruption of the British Empire.
Early last year the newspapers were filled with stories from Philadelphia of how the Jesuits were going to drive Communism out of the United States and had started a great school for that purpose, but a few months later, at an address in the same city, “Reverend Father” Charles P. Bruehl, of St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, pooh-poohed the whole thing as almost nonexistent in the schools, adding that “much of what is called Communism and Socialism is only what the 'holy father' has proclaimed as social justice”.
The Great Conspiracy Against Liberty
A Washington (D.C.) dispatch contains the following regarding the great conspiracy now under way for the deprivation of the common people of their hard-won liberties, at the hands of their most powerful, most unscrupulous enemy. It appeared in the Toronto Sentinel:
Which is more dangerous, a quarter of a million noisy and demonstrative Communists or twenty millions of Romanists under command of the shrewd and elusive Hierarchy? In the last presidential election, Communists cast 102,991 votes. That indicates that they number about 255,000 in the United States. The Romanists cast 8,000,000 votes because they number 20,000,000 in this country.
The Communists had their own candidate for president. Their 102,991 votes went to him. But if they were all in one big city and voted solidly for the Democratic or Republican ticket, their vote would hardly decide the city election. The Romanists cast their 8,000,000 votes solidly for Mr. Roosevelt under Vatican and Hierarchal command. Without that solid block of votes he would have been defeated. Which alien-minded group is the more dangerous?
Both are thoroughly un-American. But which has wrecked the New World from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn? Which has blighted all southern Europe? Which has kept the Bible on its Index of Prohibited Books nearly 400 years? Which is keeping the Bible out of all schools now? Which was back of the pope’s crusade that repealed the Prohibition Amendment?
Which holds billions of dollars of wealth in America? Which controls and censors the press and the radio? Which does no big newspaper dare criticize?
“Communism” and the “Simple Simon” Cops
Calling all cars—calling all cars. Go to the corner of 23d and Skunk streets. Break up a Communistic gathering—break up a Communistic gathering—
Calling all cowards—calling all cowards. Go to 23d and Skunk streets. Break up a plot against the U. S. Government—
Calling all tin-horn patriots—calling all tin-horn patriots. Go to 23d and Skunk streets. Break up a plot against the U. S. Government—
Calling all D.A.R.—calling all D.A.R. Pull up your skirts, gals, and run to 23d and Skunk streets. A Communist dame in red drawers threatening the position of the first lady—
Calling all American Legion—calling all American Legion. Go to 23d and Skunk streets and break up a plot against the U. S. flag—
Calling Mist' Hearst—calling Mist' Hearst. Hurry man, hurry. Papa's still seeck.
Here, you bum! Y're under arrest. Gi'me a holt of dem whiskers.
Ha, false! Why, why, Father Smellpot! Holy mither, it's you?—Shuddup, Cap.
Moral: It's always the innocent bystander.
Which keeps its critics off the air? Which empties our schools of its children but fills them with its alien-minded teachers? Which has forced the enactment of law in many States to fine and imprison school officials for asking or stating whether a teacher is its adherent?
Which is ruled here by an enthroned hierarchy created by the outstanding autocrat of all time? Which is absolutely subject to law handed down from the throne of a triple-crowned monarch in Europe? Which places its supreme ruler above all American authority by declaring him infallible as sole agent of God on this earth? Which declares that government by the people is fundamentally wrong and dangerous?
Who and what is back of the national hysteria about Communism? It is merely a smoke screen to hide the deadly work of the alien Roman Hierarchy and its 20,000,000 fanatical subjects. It is created by the Hierarchy and its autocratic master for that specific purpose. This writer has sought diligently to impress this foundation truth upon the public. That work now begins to bear fruit.
Their own bitter experience and persecution by the Hierarchy can no longer fail to open the eyes of some publications. The truth begins to dawn. They see that it is Romanism, not Communism, that is wrecking our country. They are helping to spread the light. Last February 26 this truthful statement appeared as a marginal note in The Golden Age, a weekly magazine published in Brooklyn:
American radio listeners and newspaper readers, February 12, 1936, were greatly interested in the news from Germany that 150 priests and others had been arrested, caught with possessing and distributing Communist literature. It is perfectly apparent that the Communist scare in America is of Jesuit manufacture. The attempt, in both countries, is to secure absolute papal control.
With masterly sleight-of-hand cleverness the Hierarchy is riveting public attention on Communism while it completes the destruction of liberty and of government by the people. While flooding the world with scarecrow propaganda about the dangers of Communism, the Hierarchy sends out hundreds of its priests to scatter Communist literature.
The infamy of its strategy is unfathomable. It scruples at nothing. It is not yet clear whether the Papal Empire with its hidden underworld methods and its vast unaudited wealth deliberately helped to inflict this depression on the world. But it is perfectly obvious that the depression has played into its hands. National and world calamities have uniformly come when needed to further papal interests and hidden intrigue.
When the Know-Nothing movement threatened to sweep the enthroned Hierarchy from our land, the Civil War came and annihilated that movement. When the American Protective Association—the A. P. A.—challenged new papal aggressions under Pope Leo XIII, the Spanish-American War killed the A.P.A.
When the Guardians of Liberty and kindred organized forces became formidable a quarter of a century ago, the World War lashed America and destroyed those forces.
When the aroused conscience of the United States met and vanquished Rome in the 1928 presidential election, the depression struck us as a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. Is the same covert hand of infamy and destruction producing such catastrophes? Is that why they appear with timeliness so striking? Whatever may have caused the depression, Rome is using its confusion and distress as the occasion for destroying constitutional government in the United States.
The Coughlin-Gallagher Farce
The Coughlin-Gallagher farce was good while it lasted. Gallagher is now dead, and Coughlin might as well be, for he could not fool 8,000,000 people again. Before Gallagher died he admitted that though Catholics constitute but one-fifth of the population of Michigan, one-half of the boys in the Industrial School for Boys at Lansing are Catholics. In other words, boys that have been made acquainted with the “purgatory” system, which is admittedly bribery in its worst form, or at least attempted bribery, are only one-fourth as law-abiding as boys that have not been taught that iniquity.
Before Bishop Gallagher died (according to his story, as published in the New York Times), Catholics who were planted in certain organizations in Michigan, as spies, reported that when the word is given for revolution, the first thing that will be done is to shoot priests and nuns on sight and burn the churches, and that this will probably come within four years. This fairy story, it may be added, was to do all possible to scare the American people into the arms of Rome. It is doubtful if there is one word of truth in the whole yarn.
Not saying so for sure, but The Golden Age is of the opinion that the Black Legion of Detroit is really of Roman Catholic origin and operation. Two of the members of this murder club were found to be members of Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice. The Legion is charged with the burning of Coughlin’s original Shrine of the Little Flower just when the new church was ready for occupancy. Wonderful system! It is alleged to be against the Roman Hierarchy. Why, sure! Part of the ethics of murderers is to divert the blame from themselves and throw it upon the innocent. The published oath of the Black Legion is almost exactly like the published oath of a 4th degree in a well-known Catholic organization. The Black Legion gave itself away when it revealed its aim to be a dictatorship in America. The Hierarchy is willing to use even a seemingly anti-Catholic organization to accomplish its ends.
Always Pleading Poverty
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, even when holding a third of the property of a country, as in Spain and Mexico, yet always pleaded poverty, so as to get more. But when it comes to living in palaces, dressing in the finest of clothing, eating the choicest foods and drinking the finest wine; also in junketing trips halfway around the world, they are there with bells. By way of point, at Syracuse Coughlin’s automobile had some little thing the matter with it, whereupon he blew himself to a brand new $3,000 car, in which to drive around and thereby thrust “the money changers out of the temple”, to use a sentence he uses in every so-called “discourse”.
Meet a “great” man, Walter D. Davis of Cleveland. Somehow he has a strangle hold on Cleveland’s great public auditorium. When Townsend’s convention was held there Davis required him to pay $3,000 for the privilege. The Republicans paid still more. When Coughlin came, how much did he pay? Not a red cent. Mr. Davis claims to be a Mason. There are many such. In his office are autographed photographs of Alfred E. Smith, Cardinal Hayes of New York, Bishop Schrembs of Cleveland, and Father Coughlin.
Bishop Ralph H. Hayes, rector of the Roman Catholic North American College in Rome, is quoted in the New York Journal as saying, “I think both Italy and Germany have solved the Communistic problem nicely.” Why, sure! What else would he think? The only Communistic problem in either country was a purely imaginary one, created by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy for the purpose of scaring both countries into the arms of their ostensible saviors, the very ones that had created the scare. If Hayes did not believe in Fascism (Catholic Action) or Nazism, which is the same thing, he would not be a good Catholic.
Destruction of one naturally follows the destruction of the other
The Claims of the Hierarchy
Charles C. Marshall, New York attorney, in an open letter to the leaders of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, of which he is himself a member, puts the claims of Catholics before the mind so that all may weigh them:
The claim of our Catholic citizens to possess for themselves in the teaching of their supreme pontiff the equivalency of the teaching of the Almighty God, obviously establishes for them in the political community a status and privileges as ordained of Almighty God, and therefore potentially superior to the moral status and moral rights of non-Catholic citizens. There is thus in our midst a body of citizens whose pious and sincere convictions require, in reason, that our laws, political concepts and institutions be conformed to Catholic doctrine and Catholic law, that their church enjoy full liberty and independence from the civil power, and that the sacred sovereignty of their pope enjoy supremacy over every human law and authority in matters belonging to morals.
A little while ago the Roman Catholic Hierarchy’s publications were insisting that the United States Constitution had outlived its usefulness; and now United States Senator Francis T. Maloney, of Connecticut, says that the Catholic church gives the stability and strength that no other institution can give and is the most potent defender of the Constitution. What is wrong with Senator Maloney? Doesn’t he take the Catholic magazines?
◆ "Religion" in Hudson County, N. J.
Everybody interested in "religion" will be interested to know that St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church and St. Michael's Roman Catholic church, Union City, N. J., and St. Patrick's church, Jersey City, N. J. (all in the bailiwick of Mayor Frank Hague, New Jersey's political boss), have been made defendants in lawsuits to determine if lotteries not to be tolerated in saloons are all O.K. when operated in churches. The average bingo game draws about 1,600 people, and the "churches" hate to lose the chance to have a hand in the graft. There is no need to worry for fear any of the three Catholic "churches" above named will get any worse punishment than a wink.
Choose!
Eight Roman Catholic priests were up before the grand jury in St. Louis on the charge of running lotto games after the police and their own archbishop had requested them to obey the law. Nothing will be done about it; it never is. The Post-Dispatch put it thus:
It was said at the circuit attorney's office that the grand jurors were getting the viewpoint of the priests. That is it. They were not locking the lawbreakers up; they had not the least intention of doing it. In fact, the account also says:
The police have been loath to stop the games or make arrests.
Why, sure! And do you know why? The police are connected with the same "church", and the priests flaunt the law with impunity and know they can get away with it, and count on it.
Just a moment, Pittsburgh. Just a moment. Why is it that in your city when "40 judges and lawyers", "Jewish, Protestant and Catholic," want to go away together for a week end, they have to go to St. Paul of the Cross Retreat House, Monastery Avenue, South Side? How does it come that in that place rooms are reserved for the police and fire departments of the city of Pittsburgh, doctors, school and college teachers, etc.? Do you want to convey the impression that Pittsburgh is absolutely run by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of Vatican City? Or is it, as a matter of fact, really thus run?
"A War to the Death"
At the golden jubilee dinner of Our Lady of Good Counsel church, Brooklyn, N.Y., "Reverend Father" John L. Belford stated: "Today we are in the presence of a younger generation of defenders of the faith in a war to the death with the enemies of religion and society." Wonder just what "religion" and just what "society" Monsignor Belford had in mind, and just when his proposed "war to the death" will start, and who will wage it, and who will be the victims. It all seems interesting.
The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is reaching new high levels all over the world. Not being able to answer Judge Rutherford's pointed lectures, they resort to the old plan of threats of boycott or violence to silence him. If it cannot be done in one way, the attempt is made to do it in another. At Minneapolis, Minn., the officials of radio station WDGY received a threat to blow up the station if it continued to broadcast the programs of Jehovah's witnesses, but the broadcast went on as usual.
"Father" Hauer, secretary to Archbishop John Gregory Murray, at 224 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul, Minn., could not arrange for two of Jehovah's witnesses to have an interview with the archbishop; he was too "busy". "Father" Hauer showed some interest in Judge Rutherford. He seemed not to desire that any Roman Catholic prelate should debate over the radio with him. He said, with some perspicacity:
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PLAN YOUR FUTURE
BIG REWARDS
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
BENITO MUSSOLINI
By his refined technique in persecution and violence he inspired the "Holy" papa to aid him in his career. He can aid you in yours.
ADOLPH HITLER
Although branded a madman by sane people, Adolf has been raised to the heights of a god-head because of his diabolical talent for persecution and torture. He is papa's favorite. YOU, TOO, CAN BE EXALTED.
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Take a good look at this picture. Is a Sadist receiving a blessing from Pope Pius, as a reward for his leading a mob against Jehovah's witnesses in the United States.
DAGON
FRIENDS, IT'S EASY!
FOR MURDERERS, TORTURERS, ETC.
PERSECUTE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES AND RECEIVE
WEALTH
We, the Hierarchy, offer wonderful opportunity for remunerative service to talented murderers, torturers, etc., and all forms of persecution.
FAME
From obscurity to fame. Everybody recognizes the men pictured here. Once they were mere nobodies. You, too, can be famous.
PRESERVATION
Be preserved in the turmoil to come. Papa's men are everywhere. Be ONE OF THEM. Assert your manhood. Learn how to be brutal and bestial.
A PLACE IN HEAVEN
is reserved for you, along with Torquemada, Alec Borgia and blood-purge Hitler, in case of any untoward accident, and the pope's blessing besides.
ST. JUDAS OUR FOUNDER
GENERAL FRANCO
Franco rebelled against an anti-torture government and plunged a nation into bloody civil war. His methods of torture can be recommended. LEARN HOW THE PROFESSIONALS DO IT.
BEWARE THE LONG ARM OF THE POPE REACHES ROUND THE WORLD
THIS SPACE RESERVED. POLITICIANS AND PROTESTANT CLERGYMEN, PLEASE NOTE. A word to the wise is sufficient.
COUPON VATICAN, ROME, ITALY
How can I receive the benefits resulting from your course of instruction?
Name ........................ Address ........................
Helpful Hints to the Hierarchy, or What to Do After God's "Strange Work
The usual practice for such discredited public nuisances is to go into the movies or vaudeville, if the censors will permit.
Sainted Stinko. Vatican Fertilizer Factory. Try Our Sainted Potash. Open a fertilizer factory, using tons of supposed bones of saints—a valuable source of lime.
Get job as wine taster, if board of health will permit.
Ambrose Pure? Soap. Get connection with soap factory, furnishing the necessary "lyes".
DPW. Experience at sprinkling holy water will be valuable to the D. P. W. of every town.
Here Lies The Latin Language. As Latin experts, could play dead with the other dead languages.
Go into cattle business (or landscape gardening), utilizing papal bulls.
Familiarity with images would be useful in department store mannequin factory.
Truecross Firewood Co. Get the firewood concession in Alaska. Inexhaustible source in tons of fragments of true crosses, images, etc.
Facility with crosses may qualify for job looking cross for big business executives.
Talent as hypocrites useful in bedlam. Could teach inmates how to be better Napoleons, etc.
Great weight in public affairs would qualify them as scale testers.
Authorities on wedlock—get a job making locks.
--Judging the Hierarchy by Its Fruits (Part 2)
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That would involve a lot. Rutherford is a danger-ous man. He has nothing at stake and can say any-thing. The archbishop at Philadelphia has had trouble with him. I understand Rutherford has sued the arch-bishop. Rutherford states things in such a way that we can't get back at him.
Come to think of it, Mordecai was a dangerous man. He feared God, but nothing else, not even Haman, ancient Persia's big cheese. Daniel was a dangerous man. He fell on his knees before God, but he would not bother to ask any favors of the king even to save his life. Jesus was an-other "dangerous man". He refused to compro-mise with the priests and Pharisees, and they said He had a devil and was mad.
Admit Their Readers Have No Sense
Admitting that their readers have no sense, The Echo, Catholic paper of Buffalo, N. Y., said:
Catholics deceived by Rutherford group. The latest activity of the members of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, followers of Judge Rutherford, whose radio attacks on all organized religion are carried by stations in various parts of the country, is the circula-tion of petitions which appear to be requests for the banning of the Judge from the air, but which turn out to be a demand for a debate between him and someone representing the Catholic Church. Catholics have been prevailed upon to sign such petitions under the impres-sion that they were asking for the elimination of the Rutherford programs. Needless to say, Catholics should have nothing to do with papers offered for signature by this group. It is suggested that readers of this notice warn their neighbors to beware of any peti-tions presented in the interests of Judge Rutherford.
"The Battle of the Boyne"
For reasons unknown, the address of the "Apostolic Delegate" at Adelaide, Australia, was interrupted right in the middle while some-body played "The Battle of the Boyne". The officials of the broadcasting station involved claim that the interruption was purely acciden-tal. Catholic clergymen are mad, Orangemen are laughing, and it is a mystery all round.
The Sydney (Australia) Herald gives the fol-lowing details of one of the dress shows held in Adelaide. All the "girls" just loved it:
Massed on the oval, the girls wearing white dresses, and the boys dark suits, the children presented a re-markable spectacle. Color was added by 400 Children of Mary in pale blue cloaks while nuns in their dark habits lined the avenue for the ecclesiastical procession to the altar. Acolytes in white surplices and purple soutanes [don't embarrass the works by asking what a soutane is; it is enough for you to know that a sou-tane is a soutane] led the procession of 400 priests and members of the Hierarchy from the grandstand to the altar, which was erected on the eastern side of the oval. The apostolic delegate was gowned in old world robes, which contrasted with the brilliant gowns of the Australian prelates. He was attended by Papal cham-berlains, wearing gaiters and Elizabethan ruffs.
Three of Jehovah's witnesses, with "sandwich signs" of the "Armageddon" lecture on them, were in a street car in Newark, N. J., that got tangled up in a Holy Name parade. Other ve-hicles got tangled, too, and the Jw's saw seven-teen buses also bearing "Armageddon" signs waiting for the parade to pass. Along came one of the "holy fathers" sporting a silk hat and a cane, and bowing left and right to his admiring flock, but when he got up to the stalled vehicles and saw "Armageddon" to the right and to the left he straightened up so quickly that he nearly lost his silk hat. The Jw's laughed aloud, and they all lived happy ever after.
Rome Begins to Feel the Heat
Beginning to feel the heat, one of Rome's prominent spokesmen, "Reverend Father" Hins-ley, Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster, issued a pastoral letter in which he said:
The times we live in call for united energy. The enemies of the church are not apathetic and passive. They are well organized. They have their cells, each of which is a nucleus of active, determined members, whose aim is to penetrate everywhere to spread the poison of their ideas. They are working on all fronts, and an equally energetic and determined headquarters is directing the whole of this world-wide movement.
The London Universe, Roman Catholic news-paper, is responsible for the information that in France there are 10,489 parishes without priests and every year there are 431 more deaths than ordinations in the priesthood. The present hope of the Roman Catholic church for France is that Irish Catholics can be trained to do the work which French Catholics are no longer will-ing to do. The facts are that French men are sick of the whole disgusting fraud, and only the French women are buffaloed into keeping the thing alive.
Eighty-five percent of the people of Lithuania are Catholics, but a large percentage of these hate their clergy and are in sympathy with the people of Spain. A resolution adopted by a con-
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A five-minute talk (C) by Judge Rutherford
DOES every man possess a soul separate and distinct from the body? No; for the reason that every living creature that breathes and moves IS a soul. A man IS a soul, but he does not possess a soul. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) The body and breath of life, which animates the organism, together constitute the soul, that is to say, the creature that lives. When the man dies the soul dies, because such is the decree of God. (Genesis 2:17) "For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:19) "All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul."—Psalm 22:29.
Is it true that the body dies and the soul lives on? No. The Devil's first lie, recorded and told to Eve, was: "Ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4); in other words, 'There is no death.' Eve being deceived by that lie, and Adam joining her in the transgression, both were sentenced to death and put to death. Therefore Jesus said of the Devil: 'He is a liar and a murderer.' (John 8:44) It is the soul, that is, the man or creature, that dies; as it is written: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."—Ezekiel 18:4.
When a person dies, is the soul conscious anywhere? No. It is the soul or creature that is conscious, and when a man or soul dies, that creature has no more consciousness. Such is the indisputable Bible proof. "For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) The dead man has no more thoughts: "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish." (Psalm 146:4) "The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence."—Psalm 115:17.
Will my contribution of money and my assistance at the sacrifice of masses or my prayers or the prayers of anyone else aid or benefit my friend in "purgatory" and shorten the duration of his punishment there? No; for the reason, there is no one in "purgatory". Your dead friends are not in "purgatory". As Jesus stated, they are dead, in the grave, awaiting the resurrection.—John 5:28.
It is well known by all those of the "Catholic population" that money is solicited, contributed and received upon the representation and claim that such money is used in connection with masses and prayers for the benefit of those in "purgatory". As a sample, the following is quoted from a letter issued by the "Franciscan Fathers" dated Louisville, Kentucky, September 21, 1936, signed by Fr. Anthony, O.M.C., Provincial, in which the following statement is made: "The enclosed scroll affords you the opportunity of discharging in a loving and beautiful manner, your duty towards your dead departed who, helpless in their purgatorial prison, crave the relief only Masses and Prayers can bring to them. Please do your full share to complete the Purgatorial Purse during the month of November."
Attached to that letter is a slip to be filled out by the contributor, which reads as follows: "Very Reverend and Dear Father Provincial: In fond remembrance of my dear ones, living and departed, and in gratitude for their daily participation in the Prayers, Masses and Good Works of the Franciscan Fathers, I enclose (or pledge) my offering of $.... for the . . . names listed above." Millions of sincere persons have responded to similar appeals and contributed much money to help their friends in "purgatory" and which resulted in no good to anyone whatsoever.
If a soul is dead, and not in "purgatory" suffering conscious punishment, any person who induces you to pay over your money, upon the promise that your money may benefit your dead friends, is thereby obtaining money under false pretenses, and such is a very great fraud upon you, working to your injury. To obtain your money upon representations that are false is a fraud, regardless of whether the priest collecting the money is sincere or dishonest.
(To be continued) [The foregoing is one of eighteen installments on the subject of the most gigantic racket that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The entire series may be had in recorded form, constituting ten double-faced records. They are being widely used to acquaint the people with the Truth, and may be had from the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 117 Adams St., Brooklyn, N.Y.]
Guess What “Church” Abets Torture and Murder
THE abettor in this instance is the “Reverend” Robert J. Dwyer, editor of The Intermountain Catholic, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Dwyer is perfectly aware that there is not in the entire Roman organization a man with the manhood, courage, knowledge or information to answer the truths put forth by Judge Rutherford. Therefore he desires to see him tortured or killed, jailed or subjected to mob violence, and is willing to do all he dares to set the ball rolling.
In this attitude of desiring to murder those that tell the truth, Mr. Dwyer does not stand alone. The clergy in his organization, especially the higher ones, are with him to a man, and the unchanged and unchangeable teachings of his “church” are to the same effect—the right to torture or murder those that disagree. Scores of Roman Catholic pronunciamentos on this subject have been printed in these columns in recent months.
Jesus showed that the clergy of His day had the same spirit of murder as actuates the Roman Hierarchy. He said to them:
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. . . . Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.—John 8:40, 44.
“Reverend Father” Dwyer, aware of the fact that the truth is getting out to the Catholic population on the subjects of “purgatory”, remission of sin, “supremacy of Peter,” the Rock, “the successors of Peter,” the keys, the church, images, fathers, and the Trinity, as set forth in Judge Rutherford’s lectures entitled “Exposed”, feels that the best way to stop it all would be to have Judge Rutherford impaled on red-hot tongs, or put in jail, or be torn in pieces by a mob, and he is willing to do what he can to suggest some one or all of these courses of conduct to that strata of society which has always produced the greatest proportion of vicious criminals. But let Mr. Dwyer speak for himself. The following front-page editorial is from his paper under date of February 12, 1937:
These are certain topics that one prefers to handle with a pair of fire tongs. One of them is the subject of Judge Rutherford. And however fanciful it might be to conceive that eminent and portly gentleman impaled on tongs, it cannot be denied that there would be a certain poetic justice in the act. The question would be where to drop him. A pleasing, albeit macabre, conceit would be to drop him into a closed cell where he would have to listen to nothing but transcriptions of his own radio addresses. The conceit, admittedly, is hardly Christian.
For some time past our local radio service has carried the Rutherford programs. They are paid for, of course, at the regular commercial broadcast rate. The point is, are they listened to? There are two answers. No intelligent person, be he Catholic, Protestant or Jew, ever consciously listens to the Rutherford transcriptions. The stupidity and general flatulence of these programs quite definitely forbid it. We have tried, occasionally, to endure the ravings of this disciple of “Jehovah-God”, but the result has been that within a few moments we ourselves were raving. Even the dog set up a lugubrious howl and gave every indication of going mad. But alas! there is no Intelligence Quotient test demanded of radio owners, as the advertising agencies very well know. How many people there are who drink in the words of Rutherford as they would the words of God Himself, no one can say.
It is of these poor people we are thinking in reference to Judge Rutherford. As for those of average reasoning power, we take it that they can afford to be amused. The problem, thus, boils itself down to this: should national action be taken by all civilized agencies to forbid the use of the air to such a man, or should we assume the attitude that freedom of speech demands that we allow him the liberty to blast away, in the trust that the instinctive common sense of the people will be proof against his nonsense?
It appears to us here and now, as it has before in regard to other questions, that freedom of speech is a thing very much misunderstood by the general run of Americans. Just as with bovine nonchalance, we allowed the notorious Mr. Browder the courtesy of the radio, so do we allow that courtesy to a man who is constituting himself a public nuisance. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to preach doctrines subversive of public morals, nor freedom to traduce and slander reputable institutions. Freedom of speech means the essential and human liberty of debating questions that are open to reasonable interpretation. This simple truth must be driven home to our people. As it is we are disarmingly inconsistent. We jail people for disturbing the peace, for public blaspheming, and so on, yet fail to recognize the obvious fact that men like Rutherford are guilty of equally offensive misdemeanors.
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