Consolation, January 24, 1940
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Contents
Roosevelt’s Ambassador to the Pope (Part 1) 3
The Tricks of a Dictator 4
Free Speech over the Radio 5
“The Forgotten Roosevelt” 6
Jim Farley’s Toe Hold 7
Manton, Persecutor of Judge Rutherford 8
The Murderous Hierarchy 9
Britain—British Liberties Gone 10
Why British Officials Are Pro-Arab 11
English Liberties Are Voted Away 11
Under the Totalitarian Flag 12
To Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII 12
Why Catholics Become Communists 14
Vicious and Un-American 15
Hitler a True Catholic 16
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford.
“Healing of the Nations” 17
California 18
The Lament Business 19
British Comment 21
Neutrality of Jehovah’s witnesses 21
New Government 24
Pioneers in Colombia 24
Too Good to Keep 27
Amos Weber’s Last Will 28
A Little Bit About Plant Life 29
Interesting Plant Peculiarities 30
Australasia 31
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Pharmacy is another name for tilling the soil.
False doctrine means giving people the wrong medicine.
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Thoughtful
Office boy, after investigating: No, the boss is not in.
Caller: Oh, and I have forgotten my visiting cards.
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Where Teacher Had Failed
Teacher: “I have went.” That’s wrong, isn’t it?
Pupil: Yes, teacher.
Teacher: Why is it wrong?
Pupil: Because you ain’t went yet.
CONSOLATION
“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XX1 Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, January 24, 1940 Number 531
Roosevelt’s Ambassador to the Pope
(In Two Parts—Part 1)
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT is the servant of the American people, not their boss. The people, by their duly elected representatives and senators, make the laws. The president executes them. He does what the people tell him he may do, and refrains from doing what he has not been commissioned to do. The Constitution, under which he works, sets forth the will of the people. They made the Constitution; it is their official statement of the limitations they put upon their own servants.
Roosevelt was entirely out of bounds when he appointed Myron C. Taylor, ex-chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, his personal ambassador to the pope, This was purely a political move, and against the best interests of the American people, and intended for their enslavement to the Papacy, above and beyond the enslavement under which they are already chafing.
Roosevelt sent for Archbishop Spellman, of New York, and told him on the night of December 23 of Taylor’s appointment, and asked him to convey to the pope this illicit compliment to him and outrageous insult to the American people. Spellman’s picture appears on this page. He was pleased with the president’s betrayal of the American people, his violation of the Constitution.
An Ostensible Peace Move
Roosevelt’s ostensible peace move was not a peace move at all; it was a political move, to see how the American people would take this latest insult to their intelligence and affront to their liberties. The war is principally between Germany and Britain, and the appointment is unwelcome to either the British Government or the British people. Only one British newspaper paid any attention to what the British people are clever enough to see is purely an internal American political move, a camouflage.
Roosevelt’s letter to the pope is as unscriptural and un-American as it was uncalled for and unwanted. In it he said:
We remember that the Christmas star was first seen by shepherds in the hills long before the leaders knew of the great light which had entered the world.
What is the use of remembering something that is not so? The star which the magi (magicians, spiritists) saw, some two years after the birth of Jesus, was not a “Christmas star” at all; it was merely an eerie, phantom light, which the Devil used to try to bring about the death of the newborn King. The shepherds never saw that false light, but they did see the angels from heaven, on the very night the Savior was born. As far as their “leaders”, the clergy, are concerned, they never saw anything; their only interest in Jesus, the Son of God, was to get Him out of the way, put Him to death, which they finally did.
Archbishop Spellman
(Roosevelt’s Intermediary)
Roosevelt speaks of the “dark ages” which he thinks were dark because of the barbarians and not because of the dreadful Inquisition which the popes inaugurated and maintained. He says of the period that followed the Inquisition that—through a rekindling of the inherent spiritual spark in mankind, another rebirth brought back order and culture and religion.
There is no “inherent spiritual spark in mankind”. Few indeed of the human family have ever been brought forth of the Lord’s spirit, and fewer still will ever see God’s face.
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.—Ecclesiastes 3:18-20.
Roosevelt thinks that after the “dark ages” there was more religion. He ought to know that there never was a period in earth’s history when the people were so downtrodden and overrun with superstition and ignorance of Almighty God as during those same “dark ages”. The people had too much religion then, and they have had too much always. Religion is merely reverence for human tradition and human teachers and ignoring of God’s Word of truth and of God himself, the Author of that Word.
Not All Are Children of God
In his surprising letter of misinformation Roosevelt said of the masses of the common people:
They know that the civilization handed down to us by our fathers was built by men and women who knew in their hearts that all were brothers because they were children of God.
Roosevelt should have been told long ago that Jesus said of the clergy of His day:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.—John 8:44.
He seems to think that there are no children of the Devil. How, then, would he explain such statements as these?—
He that committeth sin is of the devil.—1 John 3:8.
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.—1 John 3:10.
He knows that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy claims the right to murder every person teaching differently from the Roman Catholic Church, and overlooks the obvious truth that—
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.—1 John 3:15.
Roosevelt, as a matter of policy, extended a sop to both the Protestants and the Jews; he would see their representatives himself, and did so. But that was all camouflage. His real deal is with the pope.
A Dictatorship Foreseen
Forewarned through God’s Word, Jehovah’s witnesses have been anticipating for years that the present move would be made. In the book Riches, page 253, Judge Rutherford said, in part, “In other words, the president of the United States agreed to support the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, a foreign power, and to openly do so as soon as the public could be blinded enough to come around to it.” See the entire chapter on “Philistines”, and especially pages 249-254. The same subject is also referred to in the book Enemies, page 291, which please see. God foresaw all this centuries ago.
By one artifice after another Roosevelt has persuaded Congress to put in his hands the power to, at any time, without consulting Congress, (a) close all the banks of the nation; (b) close all the stock exchanges and forbid the sale of all stocks and bonds for ninety days at a time; (c) prohibit the export of coal; (d) restrict travel between the United States and foreign countries; (e) change the gold content of the dollar, and thus change the value of wages and property of every sort; (f) reduce the weight of the silver dollar; (g) commandeer all silver in the hands of the people, as gold has already been commandeered; (h) regulate rates of exchange of all foreign currencies and the amount of such currencies that American citizens may acquire; (i) raise or lower tariffs at will; (j) tell the farmers what and how much they can plant, and fix prices for their products; (k) extend or withhold money or work or farm relief; (l) exercise absolute, unlimited power to stop free speech over the radio.
Many other tremendous powers have been wheedled away from Congress (the people) and placed in the president’s hands, and when recently a Congressional body wanted a list of them, and asked the Department of Justice for them, the then attorney general, Murphy, refused the information. That is rich. Who pay the attorney general?
Free Speech over the Radio
Maybe you did not know that the Federal Communications Commission by its edict 42.03 decreed that a licensee of an international broadcast station may render only an international broadcast “which will reflect the culture of his country and which will promote international good will, understanding and co-operation”. In other words, you may talk discreetly about “Mother and Home”, but if you get down to brass tacks and holler about something wrong, then you are all through.
Samuel B. Pettengill, Democratic member of Congress in 1931-1938, helped write the Act which created the Federal Communications Commission, and declares that every member of that legislative committee most positively understood and intended and specified that not one thing was to be understood or construed as giving the Commission any powers of censorship at all, or promulgating or fixing in any way the right of free speech by radio communication.
Mr. Pettengill, writing on this subject for the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, says with a punch:
This is a smell of a mess! It used to be supposed that any American who had something on his chest could hire a hall and speak his mind. We used to think that this was the essence of free speech. Now, however, men are not to be permitted to buy time on the radio to discuss public questions. Through the control of “balanced programs” and “free time” the broadcasters exercise a censorship as to not only what is said but also who says it. This is a part of the black-out of freedom whose dark shadow is crossing the Atlantic.
The victims are the millions of American people who are to be denied the opportunity to listen if they choose to do so. The victim is any American now or in the years to come who may want to petition his fellow men and his Congress for the redress of grievances. The victims are the minor political parties and minority groups. The denial of the right of one American is an encroachment upon the rights of all Americans.
Excelsior!
Who egged on the broadcasters? This takes us behind the scenes where the wheels go round and the wires are pulled. It brings us to the question of the extraordinary power over the radio that is now in Mr. Roosevelt’s hands. Would you believe it if I were to tell you that today, now, the president may shut up any and all radio stations whatsoever? He may shut America off the air. He may take over the broadcasting stations and turn them and their apparatus over to some government department. He may make of radio a government monopoly, with the result that no program and no speech could go on the air that was in conflict with his views.
On its face the new code forbidding the purchase of radio time for the discussion of “controversial” questions has a clever appearance of fairness. But no one whose eyeteeth have ever cut need be fooled by any offer to give “free time” on balanced programs. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts! Free speech is the right of all, and the “gift” of none!
These “balanced programs” are old stuff. The reds know it well. It has been a practice with them to stage public debates. On one side they put up one of their veteran speakers, skilled in all the arts of the platform. On the other side they select a “soft” advocate of free enterprise—young, inexperienced, with pebbles in his mouth. The veteran steals the show.
This effort to control radio has been going on a long time. Advertisers, station owners, and manufacturers and merchants of radio sets had better wake up. Their interests are at stake. If the American people once get the idea that someone behind the scenes is deciding what they shall not hear, they may tune off, to someone’s huge detriment.
Frank Gannett, chairman of the committee last above named, and once an enthusiastic supporter of Roosevelt, now clearly discerns that the president is a dictator in all but in name, calls upon him to resign, and sets forth some additional reasons. The statement, issued at Washington, said, in part:
His Administration has proved a failure. It began with one hundred days of recovery and stimulation of private enterprise. Then it turned to a program of scarcity, to restriction of production, to regimentation, to control of everything and everybody from Washington, and finally it destroyed incentive and began a spending program that now endangers our country.
No president ever had so great an opportunity. Congress, at the peril of undermining our democracy, granted him the almost unlimited emergency powers and money which he demanded. He promised to use these delegated powers to bring recovery, but he used that power and money and patronage to get more power and to build up a great self-perpetuating nation-wide political machine.
He shackled private enterprise with political controls. Now he invades banking and credit fields with proposals which such advisers as Mr. Berle admit will give the government growing control of banking and private business. He saps the nation’s strength by overtaxation. While diverting the public mind with false promises of abundance and security he has failed to bring re-employment to ten million. The great middle class which earns and pays its own way and pays the taxes that support government now faces destruction.—In New York Times.
Not the Only American
To hear some people talk, you would think Roosevelt is the only American. He is said by some to be the idol of the Jewish people, the C.I.O., the unemployed, the Negroes, the pink-fringe political parties, and the old folks; but the facts are that the country as a whole, and hence the interests of all these, are in much worse condition than when he went into office. Roosevelt has not overlooked the fact that all these people are voters.
He has been on the lookout for religious voters, too, particularly Catholic religious voters. In one of his recent letters he said, “There never has been a time in our history when there was deeper need for calling our people to faith in religion than the present moment.” (New York Times) It is too bad he did not take time to digest Judge Rutherford’s “Counsel” in Consolation No. 501, page 17, on “Revival of the Spirit of Religion”. It covers the case completely. Here it may suffice to merely remark that religion caused the death of all the prophets, religion caused the crucifixion of Christ, religion murdered not less than 50,000,000 persons in the Crusades and in the Inquisition, and religion put 2,000 innocent Christian men and women in prison in America in the last few years for doing what the Supreme Court has now decided they have a perfect right to do—worship God by obeying His command to take the Kingdom message from house to house as did the Lord and the apostles.
This business of kowtowing to religion needs fumigating. Roosevelt would claim, no doubt, to be a Jeffersonian democrat. He says, “The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations are all the same fight”; but Jefferson called the clergy “cannibal priests” and their racket “superstition”.
“The Forgotten Roosevelt”
Roosevelt himself is an alleged Episcopalian, but the Columbia (Knights of Columbus) magazine of December, 1933, published the fact that his father’s first cousin, James Roosevelt Bayley, was the first bishop of Newark, N.J. See facsimile in Consolation No. 482, pages 14, 15. Roosevelt went into further detail on this in his note to the Catholic University of America when he said, recently:
I had hoped that I might, in connection with the jubilee, again visit the institution which honored me with its degree and in whose progress I have, therefore, the enthusiastic interest of an alumnus. God speed C. U. [Catholic University] in the attainment of its noblest aims.
Perhaps I may be pardoned for mentioning a personal and family interest in the archdiocese of Baltimore, which latterly became the archdiocese of Baltimore and Washington, within whose bounds the university is situated. An earlier archbishop of Baltimore, James Roosevelt Bayley, was my father’s first cousin. Those of you who are familiar with the succession in the line of Baltimore prelates know that Archbishop Bayley, a nephew, by the way, of Mother Seton, was the immediate predecessor of the venerable Cardinal Gibbons, whose friendship was very dear to me and whose memory is in benediction.—In New York Times.
Maybe Roosevelt does not know why he is an Episcopalian; so it may not be out of place to remind him that the 19th article of faith of the Church of England specifies that “the Church of Rome hath erred, not only in their living and manner of ceremonies, but also in matters of faith”. Also, article 22: “The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshiping and adoration, as well of images as of reliques, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture,” but rather repugnant to the Word of God.” Also, article 28: “Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by Holy Writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.” Also, article 37: “The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm of England.” It appears that Roosevelt is a much better Roman Catholic than he is an Episcopalian.
Jim Farley’s Toe Hold
Roosevelt is a clever politician, but not half as clever as Jim Farley, who made him president and who never forgets a name, a face or a fact. Jim goes over to Vatican City every little while to find out what he should do to please the “holy father”, and don’t you think for a minute that he goes without ideas or comes away without more. On a certain day not so long ago he visited the pope and told him that he is the only person in the whole world that can really mediate in the troubled condition now on earth. On that very day the pope sent his special ambassador to Warsaw to try to get them to surrender peaceably to their brother Catholic, Adolf Hitler. They did not do it, and you know what happened. Here are two interesting statements in this connection:
It was clear from the beginning that Pope Pius XII was working for a German-Polish compromise. The Vatican denied it again and again, but its denials were never very convincing. Now the cat is out of the bag—the Holy See admits a Vatican envoy went to Warsaw to put “sense” into the heads of the Polish rulers.—Ludwig Lore, in New York Post.
Even the Vatican has contributed its negative item in today’s news by unofficially denying that a high prelate has been sent to Warsaw. One can only repeat that the news came from an authoritative source and, whether true or not, it would be denied on general principles, since the utmost secrecy is always maintained regarding the Holy See’s diplomacy.—Associated Press dispatch from Rome.
The Cincinnati Post carried a big story, long before Roosevelt appointed his private ambassador to the pope, showing that the whole situation had been discussed between Mundelein, Roosevelt and Pacelli as to the position of the United States respecting this new war; that there had been conferences both as to policy and as to language and that the three were in complete accord. Without a doubt this idea of a private ambassador was fixed up months or possibly years ago.
In an address to the Haitian minister to the Vatican the pope showed that he had in mind that he would like to be arbitrator. He said, in effect, that he had a desire to see, after the present war, “a stable and fruitful international organization” that “will respect the rights of God”. That was good of him, to make a few suggestions for helping God out in a pinch. His idea of God is that it is the Roman Catholic Church, of which the Devil is the head and the pope is his spokesman. It might do the pope a little temporary good if he would take some time to think about the real God, the great Jehovah, and the limitless power which is always His. Here are some of the texts:
Is any thing too hard for Jehovah?—Genesis 18: 14, Am. Rev. Version.
Ah, Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.—Jeremiah 32: 17.
I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.—Matthew 3: 9.
With God all things are possible.—Matthew 19: 26.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.—Luke 1: 37.
Take Another Look at Spellman
Take another look at Spellman, the archbishop of New York, the president’s selection to bear his message to the Papal legate—a message that he has concurred in the Vatican’s wishes and illegally sent a personal ambassador to represent him there. You will see his picture on page 3. Spellman recently publicly deplored the fact that man “fails to realize his spiritual nature, his immortal destiny”. It should be explained to the gentleman that only a very few of mankind will ever have a spiritual resurrection or an “immortal destiny”. Man was made to live on the earth; and on the earth, with rare exceptions, he will live if he lives at all.
Spellman has some things to explain, notably about one of Roman Catholicism’s brightest and most shining lights, ex-judge Martin T. Manton, next to the United States Supreme Court in dignity at one time, and a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and living in Spellman’s archdiocese. In Spellman’s presence, the “Reverend Father” Cornelius J. Drew, addressing the Catholic lawyers of New York city, said:
“Inspired by her religion, a lawyer would never deface justice by shearing her locks that look like gold; he would never suborn witnesses for guilty criminals, whose retainer is ill-gotten goods that curse rather than bless their possessor; he would never exercise judicial authority for dishonest profit; he would never conspire to defeat justice.”
—In New York Times.
Manton was not mentioned by name, but he should have been. Why was he not? Archbishop Spellman was present and heard what “Father” Drew said, and missed the golden opportunity to stand on his hind legs and say: “Drew means that dirty crook, Martin T. Manton.” Such a statement would have done more to convince the American people of Spellman’s honesty and sincerity than all the other things he ever said and did put together.
Just about the time that Manton was sentenced to two years in prison for selling justice over the counter, like so much pork or molasses, Bishop Gannon made the public statement that the Roman Catholic Church has gone to great lengths to establish a national system of moral education in the United States and needs the help of the government to carry on. Awk!
Manton, Persecutor of Judge Rutherford
The first of the suits involved in the conspiracy, the Art Metal Works case, was begun in 1932, the defense being assumed by the Evans Case Company. Reilly, president of the company, was one of the conspirators. He advised with Fallon about the case on a number of occasions. He gave Fallon, at the latter’s request, many sums of money, aggregating thousands of dollars and for several years carried him on the pay roll of the Evans Case Company at $100 per week and paid him other sums, the whole amounting to nearly $20,000. The District Court having decided the case against the Evans Case Company, the company appealed. In another case decided in its favor an appeal was taken by the losing party. After some negotiations between Reilly and Fallon, the former expressed a willingness to pay $25,000 upon Fallon’s assurance of favorable action by Manton on the appeal, $15,000 to go to Manton as a loan. At a later time, Reilly was informed by Fallon by telephone that he had learned that the decision would be favorable and “that the Judge [Manton] was in bad circumstances for the money and wanted to know if I could not get $10,000 as quickly as possible”. About the same time, decisions favorable to the Evans Case Company were handed down, the opinions being rendered by Manton. Reilly then paid Fallon $10,000 in cash and also gave him three $500 checks. The $10,000 was entered in the books of the Evans Case Company as “Prepaid Royalties, Air-Flow”. Subsequently, on motion of Reilly, the board of directors of the company directed that the item be transferred to the “legal and professional account for litigation expense”.
During the summer of 1934, Reilly was introduced by Fallon to Manton, and thereafter Reilly, Manton and Fallon played golf together, and Reilly lunched with Manton at the Lawyers Club and went out with Manton and his wife, Fallon at times being present. In February, 1939, Manton resigned his office. A day or two before the resignation was to take effect Manton called Reilly on the long-distance telephone and told him he understood that he had Bill (meaning Fallon) on the pay roll. Receiving an affirmative reply, Manton said: “That will be very embarrassing for me if found out, because I heard they intend to investigate.” Manton then said: “Couldn’t you pull out these pages?” Reilly answered he knew nothing about bookkeeping and would not know where to begin. Manton repeated that it would be very embarrassing for him, and Reilly responded: “I don’t know what to do about it.”
After the lapse of a few hours, Reilly had another long-distance telephone talk with Manton, first asking him if it was all right to talk. Manton answered: “I don’t think exactly.” Manton then asked Reilly for his telephone number and said that he would call him back under another name. Later in the same day, the call was made, and the former conversation was repeated in substance. In the course of this conversation, Manton spoke of the statute of limitations and said that it would protect them in the Art Metal investigation; that anything that was three years old was outlawed. Manton again spoke of Fallon’s being carried on the pay roll, saying that it was a great embarrassment to him, and urged getting rid of the records because of the Art Metal investigation. Manton admitted the telephone conversation between himself and Reilly occurred, and that he initiated them, but gave a different version of what was said.
A few days later, Reilly directed the bookkeeper to procure all the records and to destroy them. The bookkeeper destroyed the records of the company up to 1935—cashbooks, ledgers, bills, vouchers and everything, with the exception of some papers subsequently discovered and turned over to the Government.
Manton’s Friend Spector
Spector had received from Andrews $5,000. Instead of transferring the sum by one check to Manton’s secretary, he first drew a check for $2,437.60, and then, a day or two later another check for $2,562.40, the two aggregating $5,000, the proceeds of both finding their way into the hands of a Manton corporation. On another occasion the sum of $5,000 was divided into two checks, one for $2,615.66 and the other for $2,384.34. Both checks bear the same date, and the proceeds followed the same course as in the preceding instance. Taken in connection with other evidence, it is hard to explain these devices upon any other theory than that they were adopted to conceal the real facts and to aid in the consummation of the criminal conspiracy.
—Part of the Decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals confirming Manton’s conviction of the conspiracy to obstruct the administration of justice and to defraud the United States.
It seems never to occur to the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that murder is murder. The extermination of the Albigenses, of Languedoc, now France, in the year 1229 (A.D.), was by command of the pope, was endorsed by Pius XI just before he passed into the oblivion from which he will never awake, and in direct line with every pope’s policy of butchering or causing the butchery of all who disagree with him. It is of interest to Americans to be told that the rosary was worn by all the soldiers that murdered the Albigenses. This information comes in the Burlington (N. C.) Daily Times. The speaker was the “Reverend Father” Ambrose Smith, of New Orleans.
At Valdese, North Carolina, are now living descendants of the Waldensians, whose ancestors also suffered similar terrible things in France because they loved God and hated the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. A quotation from the Fact Digest follows:
The army went from town to town, killing all they met, burning their homes and destroying their crops of corn. Sixty men and thirty women of Cabueres surrendered, upon promise that their lives would be saved, but as soon as they surrendered they were killed. Some women hid in a church were brought out and put in a barn and the barn set on fire. Twenty-two towns were destroyed and thousands were killed and the community ruined, all by the [Roman Catholic] church and its president [the pope].
The Murderous Hierarchy
America has few leaders who have any principle or any backbone. Maury Maverick, of San Antonio, is an exception. Favoring free speech for even the Communists, he bravely stood by the Constitution to let a little group of 75 persons hear a woman lecture. The archbishop of San Antonio, A. J. Drossaerts, is an anarchist and used his immense power to impede the carriage of justice. The county commissioners and American Legion of San Antonio yelped in the same pack, thus showing they also are anarchists at heart and serve the American flag only because they dare not do otherwise. Newspapers were yellow at heart, as usual.
Under the guidance of the “Reverend Father” M. A. Valenta, secretary to the archbishop, a mob of 8,000 was gathered which crashed through a cordon of 180 police and did $3,000 of damage, besides injuring 17 persons. Valenta led his mob to a policeman and they took away the officer’s pistol and cap. Police were stoned.
Not a priest, rabbi, clergyman, businessman, labor leader or newspaper had the courage to stand by the courageous mayor in this seizure of power by the anarchist archbishop and the Ku Klux Klan, and when some decent and honest Americans in the city wrote to the newspapers defending Maverick, the letters, though not printed, were turned over to other anarchists, who waited upon the writers and threatened them with violence. This exhibition in San Antonio is a fair picture of what the Vatican gangsters have in mind for America very soon.
Practically every window in the auditorium was broken. Though many police were injured by the Hierarchy-inspired mob, no citizen was injured in return. However, the mayor has served notice that the next time there is an ungodly riot in San Antonio the police will give them the works; and they should.
Judge Rutherford and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, of which he is president, have damage suits against the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and allies for some $450,000 for various conspiracies to deprive Jehovah’s witnesses of their Scriptural, legal and constitutional rights, in Colorado, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These suits can, and no doubt will, be multiplied in numbers and damages asked as time goes on. An item in the boiler-plate sheet known as The Register boasts that such a conspiracy in Grand Island, Nebraska, was a success, resulting in the cancellation of a contract for the use of the Majestic theater there. The headline read, “Catholic Groups Stop Rutherford Theater Lecture.” It did not read, “Jehovah’s witnesses Stop Catholic Group Meeting.” The conspiracy against everything American is patent on the face of it. Yet these gangsters would teach American democracy, and Roosevelt, without authorization to do so, sends a private ambassador to the head of the racket at Vatican City, to find out what the pope wants done in America.
(To be continued) Britain
British Liberties Gone
The censorship of the press is made absolute; radio always has been controlled by the government. The stage and newsreels are censored. Private mail, and that of diplomatic staffs is censored.
Any police officer may stop any public assembly if he considers it to be dangerous. Free speech is infringed by a decree providing that nothing bearing on military matters may be discussed. Government employees are ordered not to discuss their work, even with their wives.
Private premises, including homes, may be entered and searched without warrants. The government may billet soldiers or civilians in any part of the country.
The secretary of state may order any arrest he considers expedient. The government may restrict the movement of anyone in or out of the country. Any property, or undertaking, including land, may be taken by the government. Law cases, at the court’s decision, may be heard in secret.
The carrying of cameras or guns is forbidden. Private citizens are forbidden to use overseas telephone service. The postoffice is given power to ban all wireless transmitters.
A national registration of all citizens is ordered. Parliamentary bye-elections are canceled; it is planned to cancel the full election scheduled for November, 1940.
A broad list of general regulations is established governing food and resources. The rationing of food is ordered. Citizens are forbidden to buy more than one week’s supply of any food item, under penalties ranging from a fine of $500 to two years in prison. The board of trade [similar to the department of commerce in the United States] is authorized to search homes and stores for food. Prices are to be fixed for meat, sugar, tea, fish, fruits, fat cattle, sheep, and pigs. The government has taken over all wholesale stocks of sugar and all imports of frozen meats. All flour mills and cereal products factories are commandeered by the government. The minister of agriculture and fisheries is given absolute control over fishing industry and the use of farm land.
All foreign stocks held by the public [estimated at four billion dollars’ worth] are mobilized by the government. All British gold holdings are concentrated in one pool under government control. New restrictions are placed on the export of securities, currency, and gold.
Control of railroads is taken over by the government. All hospitals are placed at the disposal of the government. The government is given power to commandeer private vehicles. Government consent is required for the transfer or mortgage of private ships or aircraft.
Unauthorized communication with any ship or aircraft is forbidden. Imports of luxuries are restricted by decree. In addition there are numerous regulations relating to personal defense. It is, for example, an offense not to carry a gas mask, and a $500 penalty is established for showing a light at night.—Chicago Tribune.
Smaller Newspapers
It now comes out, as a result of careful studies, that even before the war British newspaper space for news was only 60 percent of that of United States newspapers, and that is one of the reasons why the American in Britain was surprised to find so little about America in the British papers. As a matter of fact, the average British paper devotes as much space to America as it does to either France or Germany, which is quite remarkable when the closeness of Britain to those countries and the urgency of the relations between them are considered.
Hard Conditions in Ireland
♦ It is no fault of the Irish lads and lassies that they cannot afford to marry young, but it is a fact that the Emerald Isle now has the highest percentage of young unmarried men and women in the world. All over rural Ireland the population is falling, as far as the new little folks are concerned. The Irish are a long-lived race, and hence the curious situation arises that the country tends to become populated by the very young and the very old.
Nephews of the King
♦ Nephews of King George, 15 and 16 years of age, in school at Eton, came near getting into serious difficulty by printing in their typewritten paper, the “Harewood News”, information regarding a type of gun they had seen. Reproduction of the offending article was forbidden.
Why British Officials Are Pro-Arab
I should say that those officials have never liked, and have never been willing to carry out the Balfour Declaration. They are pro-Arab for reasons which really do appeal to many of us. In the first place the whole official class in this country, and, indeed, throughout the world, has a certain latent sympathy with Nazi Germany. The authoritarian ideal appeals particularly to officials. The totalitarian state also appeals instinctively to officials. Therefore, we have in the Civil Service, in the Army, in the Navy, and in the Air Force, among a good many of the people on top—I am not talking of the rank and file, but of the officers—a great deal of sympathy with the authoritarian view which is predominant in Germany and in Italy. We have changed all that here, but we have changed it very recently. It is the experience of the last six months which has changed the sympathy with Nazi Germany which prevailed among the governing class in this country.
Of course, changes like that take place more slowly in the outlying parts of the Empire, and one can quite well expect that point of view to drag on in Palestine. It is illustrated in the Palestine administration in various ways. For instance, Mein Kampf was allowed to be sold freely in Palestine, whereas a reply to it was not allowed to be published or issued in that country. Representation on the Legislative Council was desired for the German colony in Jerusalem—by nomination. Propaganda which has gone on from Germany, and which is recognized now, has been repeatedly denied from the officials as not existing. In all these ways we have seen the German attitude of mind; and, of course, with that there is the German attitude towards the Jews.—Rt. Hon. Josiah Clement Wedgwood, in an address in Parliament.
English Liberties Are Voted Away
♦ Liberty of the citizen heads the casualty list in Great Britain. To meet the thrust of dictatorship, the Defense of the Realm Act has gone into effect.
Any man may be arrested on order of the Home Secretary on no ground except that the secretary considers the arrest advisable. All premises may be entered and searched without warrant. The courts have discretion to order star chamber proceedings, either civil or criminal. The government may seize any property, take over railroads and highways, make any food regulations it desires.
Holders of foreign bonds or securities or evidences of indebtedness, public or private, must list them with the government. They may not be sold or transferred, even to other British citizens, without official permit. If government needs them for exchange for purchases abroad, it can requisition them and pay in pounds possibly not acceptable abroad.
And in case such regulations are found insufficient, the king has power to issue decrees which shall have all the force of acts passed by Parliament.
King George VI thus is theoretically erected into a monarch with far greater power than the czar of Russia had. The defense act is temporary and for an emergency, yet, under its terms, the king is the judge of the emergency.
Made permanent, this act would put England back where it was politically before the Magna Charta was signed by King John, at the sword’s point.—San Francisco Chronicle.
The Jacob’s Pillow Superstition
♦ There are some millions of British people that really believe that the stone which Jacob had for a pillow was taken to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah, was then taken to Scotland to be placed in the seat of the Scottish kings, and is now in the British coronation chair. This chair, known to be 600 years old, is always carefully crated, removed from Westminster Abbey, and hidden in some secret place in time of war.
Morgan at the Cash Box
♦ Indications are that the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., financial agents of the British Empire in 1914-1918, and responsible for getting the United States into that war, have their old job now for the British Commonwealth of Nations. The Morgan home in Scotland, Gannochy Lodge, has been turned into a hospital for the wounded.
Oddities in the Big City
♦ Some of the oddities in the big city, London, as late as the summer of 1939, were 36 cowsheds, 250 sheep, and 13 horse cabs. Also, there were in the limits of the big town 938 pigs, and 1,042 acres under crops, while 121 people earned a living from agriculture. In 1937 the police found 700 doors and windows insecurely fastened.
UNDER THE TOTALITARIAN FLAG
To Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII
◆ Dear Gene: You did pretty well with that encyclical of yours, but you could not write that way for Consolation; they would not have it. You use too many words. Fifteen columns, 10,373 words. Why, man, you could have squeezed all you said down into two Consolation pages instead of the equivalent of twelve of them. However, for a starter it was pretty good; it is necessary to call your attention to about fifteen slips. Maybe the next one will be better. You know, everybody is fallible.
Fourth column: You say that when you think of the suffering that has just come on countless people you are tempted to lay down your pen. Why didn’t you, Gene? Why didn’t you? Most of it, so far, has come from those devoted sons of the Devil, Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. You know their “church”. Yes indeed! You might better have kept your pen idle—at least until you excommunicated them.
In the same column you say that these dark times may cause some to do a whole lot of thinking about the things you folks have been teaching and to grasp their importance. You betcha! Franco’s murder brigades and Hitler’s storm troopers and Mussolini’s bombers have taught them a lot more than you think. And they learned it outside of the newspapers and radio stations which you control, too.
In the same column, at the bottom, you mention that the denial of the fundamentals of morality had its origin in Europe. Maybe you mean that this business of judges selling their decisions for cash had its origin there, but has now spread to the United States, where one dirty crook, Martin T. Manton, “Papal Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory,” did it wholesale, retail and any old way, so long as he got the cash. Why didn’t you mention him by name? He belongs to your “church”.
In column five you say that somebody had a marvelous vision that God is the Father of all. You forget yourself. It is true that Jesus did say of the clergy, “Ye are of your father, the Devil,” and it is also true that the apostle Paul, whom you quote, referred to others as children of the Devil, “full of all subtilty and all mischief,” and you can class yourself along in with these, but it was indiscreet of you to bring this matter to attention. You slipped badly on that one.
In column six you express your approval of the commandment that Christians should love one another. Then how do you account for the conduct of your followers in breaking phonographs and records, seizing books, shooting at people and having them thrown into jail and beaten merely because they are Christians and are obeying Christ’s commands? You can have the evidence for the asking.
In the same column you speak about some church’s maternity. Better be careful along about there, Gene, or some will think you are not acquainted with the true church of Christ, which the apostle says is a pure virgin, and they will think this motherly church you are talking about is “the mother of harlots”, willing and anxious to make a deal with any renegade like Mussolini, Hitler, or even Stalin, for that matter, if she can see how she is going to get her desires gratified.
In the same column you say that wherever your church has gone you have taken up with all the heathen “usages” and “customs” and “sponsored” and “developed” them. You certainly have done that very thing, and made the child of the Devil tenfold more the child of hell than he was in the first place.
In the seventh column you say that your folks have raised mansions and temples to lofty and kindly heights, but you did not say how the poor people that paid for them had been browbeaten and bluffed and intimidated to build them. There are thousands of villages in every country under your care where the only decent buildings in town are the mansions and temples built for your money-mad priests to strut around in, and all the other buildings are mere hovels. Shame on you, Gene!
Bad Slip About the Soul
It seems too bad to have to reprove a brand-new pope about his first encyclical, but, Gene, you stuck your foot in it in bad shape in the eighth column when you said, “Of all that exists on the face of the earth, the soul alone has a deathless life.” Maybe you never heard of the prophet Ezekiel’s statement that “the soul that sinneth, it shall die”; and that when a man dies “his thoughts perish”. You are all wet on the soul business.
But, now, in the next column you uttered a great truth when you said that the only way the nations can get along together is to tell the truth. Wonder if you realize that your place, Vatican City, has the well-established reputation among the press associations of being the biggest disseminator of falsehoods in Europe.
In the twelfth column you speak of how rapidly Catholic Action has advanced. Why, Gene, you have no idea. Take those riots in Clydebank, Scotland, started by your priests, but carried on by the laity against those who dared to proclaim the truth about God’s kingdom as contrasted with the devilish arrangements of the present and the immediate future. It would take columns to tell about all the deviltry they did.
And in all of it your priests were the chief instigators and the biggest liars and persecutors of the righteous.
In the fourteenth column you say that you don’t want anything to do with earthly governments but to “do” them “good”. That is just it, Gene. That is just what you are after, “doing” them up brown. In the same connection, in the same column, you speak again of your motherly pride. Better let up on that, to keep the boys in the back seat from laughing.
In the same column you hope for a resurrection of the Polish government, reactionary though it was, and you talk about “the principles of justice and true peace”, but you and your predecessor conspired for the destruction of the Spanish Republic. You were both devoid of the principles of justice, and the “peace” now is one of the most devilish arrangements ever forced on any people.
In the fifteenth column you made another un-Biblical slip when you spoke about the little children receiving holy communion. They do nothing of the sort. You cannot find one word of it in the Bible. Indeed, and this will be news to you, you have never partaken of holy communion yourself. No man could do it and assume to stand in Christ’s room and stead as His vicar in the earth. The very fact that you take such honors to yourself shows that you are entirely outside of God’s arrangement and wholly inside of the Devil’s arrangements. The kingdoms you would help, and that you do help, when you get the chance, are merely kingdoms of the Devil, which he offered to Jesus, but which Jesus refused and you have gladly accepted.
In conclusion, Gene, the papers say that for six days you listened to four sermons a day from a Jesuit, immediately after writing your encyclical. Those twenty-four sermons ought to fill you as full of the spirit of the Devil as it is possible for a man to get; so maybe these instructions on writing encyclicals won’t do you any good after all.
Gene’s ghoulish wit
Prices Are Too High
◆ At hand an offer of a record, part English and part Latin, made by Ambrose Ratti (Pope Pius XI), which, it is stated, can be bought for the small sum of 90c and sold for $2. The statement is, “You’ll find that a 3-minute demonstration closes the sale.” Nix! The price is too high. Besides, the pope’s blessing isn’t worth a red cent, let alone 90 or 200 cents. Take note that to get the 90c price on this ten-inch record (one-sided) one has to buy 1,000 of them, and the show is all over in three minutes, Latin and all.
Comes now Walter T. Dolan, castigating the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society by quoting Kermit Kahn to the effect that “the group sells . . . records to its adherents at nice fees,” retailing at 70c.” (Investigation reveals that these records are twelve-inch, two-sided.) Dolan asks, “Who has the ‘racket’?” Wow! Consolation doesn’t need to ask that question. Consolation knows, and so does every reader of Consolation, and a lot of other level-headed individuals besides—millions of them.
Why Catholics Become Communists
◆ An interesting fact, to offset the fantasies about “Communism” in the Protestant churches, is that we have more communicants of the Catholic church as members of the Communist Party than of any other denomination. While we make many sympathetic contacts among active Protestants, they seldom become Party members; but among Catholics, the speed with which a sympathetic contact develops into a loyal and active Party man is much greater, and the proportion much higher.
When I asked one of our Catholic Party members to explain the reasons for this to me, he replied that his religious education and discipline had contained a recognition of the reality of the material world, which he found largely lacking in Protestant churches, but which he found compatible with the Marxian dialectical materialism. He considers himself first of all a Catholic, but he is intellectually convinced that Communism is the inevitable next stage of society, and he believes that if he helps to bring it about he will thereby contribute most effectively to the continuity of his religion. He points out that his church, despite all difficulties, did learn to adapt itself to capitalism, despite its ties to the old feudal society, and he hopes that it will, with less resistance, accept the new society of socialism. His views are at least interesting, and I pass them on to you for what they may be worth. This much I can testify toward their soundness, that in the trade union movement the Communists have found no more harmonious and effective coworkers than among those circles predominantly Catholic.
From such facts, you will understand why the Communist Party does not reply in kind to the furious diatribes directed against us by the reactionary clergy of the Catholic church, typified by Father Coughlin and the Rev. Edward Lodge Curran. They are not representative of the Catholic community, and as their links with foreign and native Fascism become clearer, they are doomed to repudiation by their own flocks. Meanwhile, there is a valuable by-product to their ravings; inasmuch as they are of such low intellectual caliber, most of their audience are left unsatisfied, but curious to really learn something about this much-talked-of Communism, with the result that the circulation of our literature among Catholics is increasing by leaps and bounds. A growing number of Catholic youth, who are sent to my meetings by Rev. Curran in order to scoff, remain, if not to pray, yet to enter into reasonable discussions from which they almost always emerge with thoughtful visage, minus the cocksure aggressive intolerance with which they were sent.
—Earl Browder, in “Religion and Communism”.
Thyssen Has Fled Germany
Fritz Thyssen, multimillionaire coal and steel king, whose deal with the Vatican put Hitler at the head of the German nation, became fearful for his life and fled Germany, leaving all behind to be confiscated. Serves him right.
Feting the “Crown of Thorns”
◆ If the crown of thorns being feted in France is really the crown of thorns which the religionists of His day implanted on the Savior’s brow, one can only wonder why present-day religionists would fete it and idolize it when they must know the suffering it caused. It all helps to glorify the Devil, and to bring reproach upon the Redeemer and upon the Most High, and serves no other purpose.
Sees It Coming
◆ Seeing the time coming when the religious racket will be played out, Cardinal Innitzer ordered all priests and nuns to provide themselves with ordinary street clothing, and instructed that priests must not cut their hair after the fashion of their orders. It all points toward the fulfillment of Zechariah 13:4, which reads: “Neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive.”
Seat Was Too Hard
◆ The London Daily Telegraph contains a touching passage about the pope. It speaks of him as “sitting on the elaborate golden throne, obviously distressed”. It just isn’t fair that anybody who “feels so deeply for the poor” should be given such a hard seat.
Dumb Dogs That Cannot Bark
◆ The Scriptures say that the clergy are “dumb dogs that cannot bark” (Isaiah 56:10) and a dog that cannot bark is not of much use. Still, there are a few things possible to it, and the story herewith, taken from the Victoria (B.C.) Daily Times, shows the possibilities:
VISITS ENGLAND TO SCATTER ASHES
LONDON—A Welsh woman has recently completed a 3,500-mile pilgrimage from Canada, to Pembroke to scatter the ashes of her pet dog on the fields where it played as a puppy. She is Mrs. Roetoine, who left her native Pembroke village nine years ago for Canada, taking with her Phil, her sheep-dog. Settling at Esquimalt, on Vancouver island, she met and married F. Roetoine, a retired official of the Canadian Pacific Railway. First her husband died; then Phil died.
Mrs. Roetoine, accompanied by a priest, Father Leon, arrived in Wales carrying the remains of her dog in a silver urn. Near Narbeth she scattered the ashes while Father Leon sprinkled holy water.
A few hours later she took a train on the first stage of her journey home.
There Is No “Good Fascism”
◆ There is no “good Fascism”, we warned the Jewish people, who at that time heard numerous wealthy Jews and reactionary Jewish publicists sing the praises of the “cultured” Mussolini, so unlike the crude Hitler. To our sorrow, our warnings have come true: every variety of Fascism is now seen to have anti-Semitism as a core, even when, as in Japan, there are no Jews. Fascism invents a “Jewish problem” in order to whip up race hatred and conceal its aims of conquest and loot from the masses of the people. World Jewry has an implacable enemy in Fascism. There can be no appeasement of the Fascist beast. Its very make-up demands victims, and especially Jewish victims. We can meet its arrogance and inhumanity only by fighting determinedly for our rights as human [creatures], and for democracy, which cannot exist alongside of Fascism.—Jewish People’s Committee for United Action Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism.
Holding Her Own
◆ The Roman Catholic sect is holding its own in Germany. An illustration of the truth of this is the fact that whereas 9,024 withdrew from the church in 1937, among the menfolk, the number withdrawing dropped to only 5,754 in 1938.
Hitler a True Catholic
◆ In his persecution of the Jew, Hitler is merely following out his Catholic training. Pope Innocent III proclaimed that the Jews “must always be dispersed as wanderers upon the face of the earth”; that “they are to us as dangerous as the insect in the apple, as the serpent in the breast”; that “they have already begun to gnaw like the rat, and to stink like the serpent”; that they are “not permitted to have Christian servants in their homes, either as tutors for their children or for domestic service, or for any other reason whatsoever”; and that, in case of dispute about the payment of a loan, the testimony of Christians given verbally is to be accepted in lieu of the written testimony of the same persons, if that written testimony is in possession of the Jews.
Pope Pius V ordered the Jews to sell all their properties to Christians and to leave the States of the Church within three months. Any who disobeyed were to be despoiled of all their goods and to be subjected to perpetual servitude.
Pope Innocent IV ordered the burning of the Talmud and all other Jewish books.
Pope Gregory IX decreed that for all time Jews of both sexes should be distinguished from others by their mode of dress, and forbade them to discuss either their faith or rites with Christians.
Pope Eugenius IV decreed that for all time Jews might not eat or drink with Christians, or cohabit or bathe with them; they might not exercise public offices in the State, and could not be merchants, tax collectors, purchasing agents, computers, lawyers, obstetricians or render other services to Christians; Christians might not bequeath them anything; Jews might not testify against Christians; they must live in certain streets only.
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