Consolation, October 30, 1940
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Contents
The Business of Inciting Riots (Part 1) 3
Beards Are Out of Style 4
Refugees from Germany 4
Persecutions in Canada 5
Lawless American Police 6
"Running People out of Town" 7
Self-Defense Is Self-Defense 8
Is This Germany or America? 9
Above the War the Peace of Religions (!) 11
Under the Totalitarian Flag
Ambassadors to Religions 12
"That Clumsy System of Frustration" 12
No Compassion to Be Shown 14
Kingdom News
Time of Darkness — Isaiah 60: 2 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
The Only Hope 17
New York State 19
British Comment
Convention of Jehovah's witnesses 20
Wasting Food 21
Air Battle over Kingdom Farms 22
An Important Letter to
the Department of Justice 24
Neutrality 28
Declarations 28
Selective Draft 28
Ordination of Ministers 30
Ohio and Kentucky 31
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Appetizers
Not What He Thought
At a Washington dinner it was the lot of a pretty little lady to be taken into dinner by an eminent bachelor judge, who was forever worrying about his health.
She managed to keep him entertained until the dessert arrived, when suddenly he laid down his knife and fork and muttered anxiously:
"Madame, I fear I must ask you to excuse me. What I have been fearing has happened. I have suddenly developed a severe attack of paralysis of the lower limbs."
"Oh, please don't distress yourself!" exclaimed the lady. "It was my leg you were pinching, not your own!"—Labor.
Not Starting Now!
◆ Sandy McPherson was traveling to Glasgow, and on the way he felt thirsty, so he took out a bottle and drew the cork. Just as he was about to take a taste a fellow passenger in clerical garb addressed him:
"Excuse me, sir, but I am sixty-five years of age, and I have never tasted a drop of whisky."
"Dinna worry yersel'," said Sandy, "you're no' gaun tae start noo."
How Much Down?
One day when Grace was called into her mother's room to see a baby brother who had just arrived, she exclaimed, "Why, where did he come from?"
"The doctor brought him in," replied the father.
"Oh, I didn't know he was the agent for babies," responded Grace. "What did you have to pay down?"
That's So; What Is It?
My small son, for an imaginary reason, ran away from me. I said, "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." He stopped and asked, "What's a wicked flea?" There doesn't seem to be any answer.—A. Griffiths, England.
Twelve Non Compos Mentis
Judge: What possible excuse can you give for acquitting the defendant?
Foreman of Jury: Insanity, your honor.
Judge: What! all twelve of you?
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, October 30, 1940 Number 551
The Business of Inciting Riots
(In Two Parts—Part 1)
THE clergy do sometimes come out into the open in their incitement of riots against Christians, but they usually prefer to work through lawless officers of the law or through the newspapers. In Germany, this business is entrusted to Josef Goebbels, one of the world’s master liars.
Anything that will aid the joint cause of Pacelli and Hitler in America is a big help to the totalitarian curse that is overrunning the United States. It is admitted by both Hitler and the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, for which he works, that in all the earth there is not an organization as opposed to their devilish plans as is that of Jehovah’s witnesses. All the literature of the witnesses shows it. The imprisonment of all of them in Germany shows it. And the riots in the United States, always at the instigation of the Hierarchy, show it.
Life magazine is entitled to first place in the United States as a help to Pacelli and Hitler. The methods it pursues are efficient and clever. It desires to be of all possible aid to the worst cause on earth; and perceiving that Jehovah’s witnesses are being persecuted by the Pacelli-Hitler clique, it desires to aid in that persecution and to share in the anticipated rewards. Stanley High, in the Saturday Evening Post, is entitled to second place in this category of infamy and may receive some attention in a subsequent issue.
In Life, August 12 issue, are two pages of pictures and comments carefully put together in such a way as to encourage resentment and hostility on the part of purchasers of the magazine. To start with, there is a flaming headline “Jehovah’s Witnesses, Who Refuse to Salute U. S. Flag, Hold Their National Convention”. There is no hint here that they refuse to salute Hitler’s flag or any other flag, or that their one and only reason is reverence for the commandment of Almighty God, i.e., the second commandment, Exodus 20:4, 5, which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy has conveniently omitted from the ten commandments altogether. (See Consolation No. 480.)
Then follow the pictures intended to encourage riot. The headline “Mob Beat Up Witnesses as ‘Fifth Columnists’” is to encourage more mobs to beat up more witnesses, and to shield their comrades, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and their friend, Adolph Hitler. No so long ago Life pictured him as a lover of children. He must be, having, by now, caused the death of myriads of them.
The first picture here bears the title, “At Litchfield, Illinois, their cars were destroyed and Witnesses were barely saved from an irate mob.” The object of that legend is to encourage more mobs to get irate and destroy more cars, and thus more fully shield the agents of Pacelli and Hitler in seizing America.
Next is a picture several years old, but useful to Life in the accursed cause to which it is devoted. It is entitled “At Monessen, Pa., their flagless school was closed and Witnesses were crowded into a small jail”. The object, of course, is to bring in one more poke about this new and singular “patriotism”, limited to outward and forced salutes and inward conspiracy respecting all the flag stands for. Also, there is the hope that the picture may land others in jail.
Below that is a picture entitled “At Rockville, Md., witness meetinghouse was wrecked by mob that demanded they salute the flag”. Nothing said of the fact that the riot was first threatened by the chief of police, and was then led in person by two of his subordinates, and finally was endorsed by the clergy of the community, who are still, under difficulty, trying to work the old “torture” and “purgatory” rackets. The picture shows the reverent sign “Jehovah Is Our God” (a Scriptural expression—Psalms 90:17; 99:8; 106:47; 113:5; 122:9) torn into three pieces.
A hint to other mobs as to what to do to the name of Jehovah.
The fourth picture is entitled "At Kennebunk, Me., meetinghouse was raided, set afire on charge that witnesses shot two men". Nothing said of the fact that the raid was threatened and protection asked in vain of both the police and the governor; nor that the house had previously been stoned; nor that the night of the raid seven cars had threateningly patrolled the neighborhood; nor that the car that stopped at 2:30 in the morning was loaded with stones, and that the buckshot was fired in self-defense. Life's object is to get more meetinghouses raided.
Fifth picture is of Judge Rutherford's noble and kindly face. Beneath it Life was mean enough to put the word "Judge" in quotes. To please Pacelli and Hitler this was really necessary. That is the way the Roman sect wanted it done.
Even more offensive than the titles to the pictures are the provocative statements, which in forty lines of type managed to put in more than twenty abusive expressions, the object of every one of which was to get more religionists out as rioters. It was a fine piece of work for the Devil, and anybody admiring the Devil would be hard put to it to see how Life could have done a better job for him, for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, or for Hitler. In other words, these two pages of pictures were designed to do all possible to get the witnesses in bad with the public, and to keep right on with the riots.
Beards Are Out of Style
Everybody knows that beards are out of style, and so the Hierarchy's newshounds find pleasure in using so small an item as this to try to bring reproach upon God's people. Thus, in the Chicago Herald-American, Elgar Brown begins a lengthy article about Jehovah's witnesses with this sentence: "Twenty women and five long-bearded men, all members of the religious sect known as Jehovah's Witnesses, today enthusiastically refused to salute the American Flag in Judge Victor Kula's Fillmore st. Court." One of the men pictured did have a beard; but what of it? There is no difference whatever, in respect to their physical appearance, between Jehovah's witnesses and other people except, as has often been remarked by managers of great auditoriums, that the witnesses appear more intelligent.
Newsweek covertly resorts to the same scheme by picking up one bearded man and making him the center of a group entitled "Jehovah's Witnesses members listen to Judge Rutherford's address." In this instance Newsweek entitled its story, sneeringly, "Rutherford's Flock." Jehovah's witnesses are not the flock of any man. They are the sheep of the great Shepherd, Jehovah God, and of the Under-Shepherd, Christ Jesus.
Country newspapers help along the work of the rioters. Thus the Northern Virginia Daily, Strasburg, Va., said of Jehovah's witnesses that it had been "proven by the Dies Committee to be connected with the dissemination of totalitarian propaganda in this country. It is financed and its teachings inspired by the foreign agents Hitler and Stalin." It just happens that there is not a word of truth in either of those sentences. In a four-column story, putting the facts before the public, Kenneth Porter, professor of history at Vassar College, said:
Jehovah's witnesses may be mistaken and are undoubtedly fanatical in their method of displaying their convictions, but they are not Communists, Nazis, or "fifth columnists". A German, recently in a concentration camp, to whom I talked on the ship which brought me from the British Isles to the United States last September, said this of them. When I asked if any group of prisoners in the concentration camp were treated better than any other groups, he replied: "No group is treated any better than any other group, but one group is treated worse. That is the Jehovah's witnesses." "Why?" "Because the others realize that they must conform to the Nazi discipline, but the Jehovah's witnesses will not yield one fraction of an inch. They will not shout 'Heil Hitler!', they will not give the Nazi salute to the swastika, they will not sing the Nazi songs—and so every day, and sometimes several times a day, they are mercilessly beaten—but they will die rather than give in."
Mr. Porter's statement as above was courageously published by The Kiowa County Signal, Greensburg, Kansas, a week after that journal had been misled and it had been accusing Jehovah's witnesses of being "a German organization in New York City". It takes courage to publish the truth after a falsehood has been published on the same subject and directly contrary to the facts as they exist.
Refugees from-Germany
Having suffered the worst of any people in Germany, Jehovah's witnesses probably know more about the horrors of the Pacelli-Hitler regime than any other people in the world. In the "Public Forum" of the Observer, La Grande, Oregon, C. E. Abrahamson said:
Theocracy publishers, London tall-grass squad. Two feet of smiles.
A few of these good people managed to escape from Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia into Switzerland and France. From these points of vantage these people have been forwarding to their friends in England, Canada and the United States all the information they could concerning Hitler's terrible crimes in occupied European territory.
Consolation, the official journal of the "Jehovah's witnesses" sect, has published over a thousand book-sized pages of detailed information concerning Hitler's unparalleled, criminal persecutions in occupied European territory. In fact, it is one of the few publications in the United States that has gone into the subject thoroughly.
None of these people, either in Europe or America, have ever given a thought to any possible compromise of any kind with Hitler or Nazism. They are, in fact, if not in their devout conscience, Hitler's bitterest enemy.
The foregoing is confirmed by a reader in the Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, who said: "Did you read an article in the Saturday Evening Post by someone who had escaped from a detention camp in Germany? He said Jehovah's witnesses stood the harsh life better than any others."
No one has ever accused the Bundists of not saluting the flag, and no one has ever accused the subjects of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of not saluting the flag, and yet both of these organizations are definitely committed to the destruction of the American system of government. It is a strange commentary on the conduct of those sworn to the enforcement of the law that they do not remember that Jehovah's witnesses were working in America more than fifty years before the existence of either Fascism or Nazism. It is a strange thing also that the same individuals do not remember that Jehovah's witnesses were the first to warn the American people against the movement now wrecking Europe. It is a strange thing also that those same persons do not remember that the literature of Jehovah's witnesses is the first literature banned when any country comes under totalitarian rule. This was true in Italy, Germany, Russia, and all of Europe that is under German control.
Persecutions in Canada
When the Hierarchy wants to pull off anything particularly raw in the United States it tries it out first in Canada. If the politicians there fall for it, it is a relatively simple matter to persuade the politicians of the United States to follow their example. The clergy are always at the bottom of it. That was the case in 1918, when the work of Jehovah's witnesses was suppressed at the instance of the clergy, first in Canada, then in the United States. The same thing was done in 1933, when Hector Charlesworth, Canada's impossible radio censor, put Jehovah's witnesses off the air in Canada at the instance of the clergy. The same crowd tried to do the same thing in America, but made a lamentable failure, succeeding in bluffing only about twenty-five stations out of three hundred. The Catholic Press still delights to lie about having put Judge Rutherford off the air altogether in the United States, which statement is false. This is what is commonly known as "Catholic truth".
At the instance of the clergy, the organization of Jehovah's witnesses in Canada was outlawed July 4, 1940, for the specific reason that it teaches that man-made law is not recognized if it conflicts with the Divine law. That sounds like the clergy. Indeed, in the Exeter (N.H.) News-Letter the "Rev." Eldin J. Prescott made the statement that Jehovah God, whom Christ Jesus claimed as His father, "was a war God and about as immoral as any of the ancient gods of what we call paganism." That bird has the idea that man makes his own God as he goes along.
Results followed in Canada right away. The next day J. F. Letellier, of Montreal, a storekeeper, was arrested because he had in his possession thirty-eight thousand booklets proclaiming God's Kingdom as the hope of the world. It was "feared" that these booklets might "cause heated discussions". Isn't it too bad that people should be so heated that they would discuss things among themselves? That might result in their learning something, and this, emphatically, the clergy do not wish. Letellier was sentenced to six months in prison.
A few days later nine of Jehovah's witnesses were given a month in jail at Rimousky, Quebec, with the threat by the magistrate, J. F. Bugaud (guess his "church"), that if they did not renounce and sign a renunciation of their faith at the end of thirty days they would be imprisoned for the duration of the war.
Imagine the joy with which the "church" reports matters of this kind. Knowing full well the promise of the Lord that all the godly shall suffer persecution, and having in America no persecution themselves whatever, the Florida Catholic reports these Canadian persecutions as a "cracking-down of the Canadian police on the outlawed Jehovah's witnesses". Probably Annas and Caiaphas talked that way about the "cracking-down" of the Jerusalem police on Jesus of Nazareth.
At Port Arthur, Ontario, police raided the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's witnesses, seized two truckloads of Kingdom literature and phonograph records, and then raided the homes of Jehovah's witnesses all over town, stripping them of the literature of the Kingdom.
At Sarnia, Hamilton, Stratford, Brantford, Fort Erie, and elsewhere in Ontario, similar scenes were enacted. The names of some of the faithful ones who are now "prisoners of the Lord" in Canada are Carl Steinoff, Edward Jones, Joseph Meidenger, and Edward J. Bambridge. May the God of all comfort be their peace in their hours of darkness!
Lawless American Police
So far as is known the Canadian police did only what the law required them to do, but America has many police who have absolutely no regard at all for the law, neither the law of God nor national laws, state laws, or even the laws of the city in which they live. Take that case at Rockville, Maryland. There the police warned Jehovah's witnesses of their intention to break up their meeting, and counsel for the rioters in open court offered to prove that the police acquiesced in the action of the mob. Though the hall was totally wrecked and Jehovah's witnesses were pushed down the stairway, and two of them arrested, and others were ordered out of town, it took a jury only thirty-five minutes to approve the action of the mob and their so-called "red-blood Americanism":
Oddly enough, these very police of Rockville, who planned and executed this riot, are themselves accused of failure to salute the flag at Tacoma Park on Independence Day. Their failure to salute the flag as it passed so astonished Frederica F. Carlton, secretary of the William Frederick Redmont Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, that she wrote a letter of complaint to the County Board of Montgomery County, Maryland, about their shocking discourtesy to the flag. It was this same crowd of discourteous police officers that led the riot in Rockville. Jehovah's witnesses conscientiously believe it is a violation of Exodus 20: 4, 5 for them to salute a flag.
Commenting on these conditions Zarathustra, in the Washington News, says pointedly, interestingly, truthfully and comically:
One is inclined to believe that the Witnesses are not being persecuted because of a lack of patriotism and Christianity, but because they have too much of it and are addicted to telling the truth at a time when organized religion and the Government would prefer to have falsehoods or silence. Rockville merely proves that "the American way" can be Fascism under a different label.
At this point don’t forget the part the newspapers play in matters of this kind. The police and the newspapers work together to do the will of the clergy. Thus at Marshall, Illinois, the Park County Democrat, eager to defend riot, told about "a group of enraged Marshall citizens" led by Melvin Behner, who ran out of town a half-dozen men and women who, according to that lying sheet, "were selling and giving away a paper called the 'Watch Tower', which bitterly assails the practice by American schools of saluting the flag." No such material ever appeared in any WATCH TOWER publication.
Running People out of Town
It seems to be the idea of a lot of half-educated and half-baked police officials that they can order out of town anybody they choose; and one can but wonder just what will happen sometime when some of these officials order out of town some real American who has made up his mind in advance that his conduct is going to be governed by law and not by the whims of some mistaken official.
County detective Merle E. Dickinson ordered Jehovah’s witnesses not to do any more work of serving God in McKean county, Pennsylvania. He had as much right to do that and as much ability as if he ordered a star to cease from shining. At Waynoka, Oklahoma, Mayor W. D. Cope and the city council passed an ordinance directed particularly at Jehovah's witnesses. Mayor Cope admitted this, and also admitted that he did not know that it would stand up in court "but an Alva lawyer wrote it for us and we can try it". Mr. Cope’s ordinance is no good and will be ignored.
At Bethany, Oklahoma, the same stunt was considered and Mrs. Ruth Hines, city clerk, said, "We don’t want the Witnesses around here, and we’ll run them out of town if necessary." Ruth is all wet.
At Las Cruces, New Mexico, twenty-three of Jehovah’s witnesses, eleven of them women, were also ordered out of town by the city police judge, Albino Apodaca. Guess Apodaca’s "church". By advice of the city attorney, E. G. Shannon, who still seems to have some use of his brain, charges against these witnesses were withdrawn; so it should be understood that Apodaca was merely speaking for publication, and probably to please the "father"-confessor who gets part of his income. The name Las Cruces means "the crosses".
Murphysboro, Illinois
Murphysboro’s a happy name. In this city, on June 27, both the mayor and the chief of police stated that the witnesses would be run out of town the moment they appeared in their fair city, the reason given being that the witnesses had been attacked at Litchfield and their cars destroyed. This is quite an interesting reason for depriving Americans of their rights, and also for presuming to take away from Christians responsibilities placed upon them by Almighty God. The same paper the same day contained a letter from Edward L. Adams, Jr., probably a lawyer. In his letter Mr. Adams says that he does not like Jehovah’s witnesses, but, amongst other things, he made the following statement, which is good for any mayor to consider:
There is no law nor ordinance under which such an order can be enforced, and if such a law were to be placed on our statute books the courts would very likely knock it out as unconstitutional. In fact, there are numerous laws now on the books which are designed to protect our citizens from such arbitrary acts. In defiance of these laws, which he is sworn to uphold, our mayor has issued a decree attempting to bar from this community certain citizens of this country.
Five days later, in this same newspaper, the mayor of Murphysboro and his chief of police had to see the following from Grace C. Hall, of Carbondale, regarding a fellow mayor and fellow chief of police whom they doubtless held in high esteem. Miss Hall, referring to the prowess of this other mayor and chief of police, said:
Having been one of the women mentioned, naturally I am interested in seeing these accounts accurate. What I mean by this is that I went to West Frankfort to secure the release of three men being held there in jail without any charge having been preferred against them and two of which had received severe beatings at the hands of the police there and after having received the promises from both the mayor and chief of police that they would be released to me. Upon my arrival at the jail, I was placed behind the bars and held without being permitted to communicate with anyone, not even the police, for over 16 hours without sanitary supplies of which I was much in need.
Four days later the Murphysboro mayor and the Murphysboro chief of police, who were going to run Jehovah's witnesses out of town the next time they appeared in the city, had to see in the same newspaper the following interesting announcement, and it must have been as hard for their "father"-confessor as it was for them. Also, it shows that the publisher of The Daily Independent is a good American scout, "all wool and a yard wide; warranted not to rip, tear or ravel."
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, 906 Lake St., Watch Tower Bible study Saturday 7 p.m. Purpose of study: To increase the knowledge of the Word of Truth that all may be better prepared to be obedient to the requirements for those who strive to do right; to better understand the love of Jehovah for all who are obedient to His will and to understand the message of the Kingdom. "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever."—Daniel 2:44.
The mayor and the chief of police of Murphysboro also had to see the following statement from Arthur H. Taylor, M.A., published in the "Editor's Mail Bag" of the same able paper, The Daily Independent:
"Saluting the flag is a patriotic gesture to many of us, but it is a gesture only, not love of country in itself. No doubt many do it, especially in times of stress, who love themselves so much more than their country that they are willing to graft and do many other unpatriotic things. And to slug people contrary to law is to slap our law and country in the face, a far worse offense against true loyalty than refusal to make a patriotic gesture that, to many means nothing.
Theocracy publishers
Theocracy publishers, Newquay, Cornwall, England
This all had its effect and finally the mayor got down off his high horse and showed that he is a pretty good American after all. He announced publicly that he had reason to believe Jehovah's witnesses were again coming to town shortly; that he suggested citizens should extend to Jehovah's witnesses every courtesy extended to any other visiting Christian group; that a thorough check-up showed Jehovah's witnesses have no activity that could be construed as of subversive or traitorous tendency; that it was his business to keep the peace, and now that Jehovah's witnesses have been found OK they must be treated OK. So it's all OK after all in Murphysboro. All of which shows what a good newspaper can do and what an awful lot of rotten ones there are elsewhere.
Self-Defense Is Self-Defense
Self-defense is legal, both by the law of God and by the law of man, and when officers of the law turn into anarchists and show a complete unwillingness to protect citizens in the exercise of their lawful rights, then the citizens have to fall back on their right and do the best they can to be wise and kind and just under whatever conditions come up. In The Nation, H. Rutledge Southworth, quoted at length by Elton Groves in Consolation No. 547, speaks of the atrocious conduct of many officials thus:
One of the most disturbing features of this wave of violence is the complete unwillingness of local law-enforcement officers to protect the Witnesses. In many cases officers of the law have been active participants in the outrages.
The courageous "hitting-from-the-shoulder" Baltimore Sun uses language that even this magazine would hesitate to utter on its own responsibility, but read it anyway. It is from the editorial pen of Frederic Nelson, under the caption "Liberty, Not Litter". Mr. Nelson says:
THE RECENT tendency of the Supreme Court to abandon the individual to the wolves seems to me a particularly dangerous symptom, and the increasing abuse of this particular sect suggests that local witch hunters from coast to coast think they have got a judicial green light from on high for procedure with the ax handle and the harness strap.
Quite in line with this suggestion that regardless of the law any judge now has a right to do what he pleases to Jehovah's witnesses, Judge J. D. Cook, of Texarkana, Arkansas, not only fined one of Jehovah's witnesses, W. M. Manning, $100 and costs and sentenced him to thirty days in jail for circulating literature which he had a perfect right to circulate, but sneeringly referred to the statement of the Department of Justice as the sentiments of "wheel-chair artists in Washington". This case was, of course, appealed. Judge Cook should get a job somewhere off on a backwoods farm. The New Jersey Supreme Court has just decided graciously that it does not have the authority to interfere with the preaching of God's Kingdom.
Many newspapers have made much of an act of self-defense in Maine where one of Jehovah's witnesses, to prevent the slaying of his companion with a bar from an automobile spring (which companion is new in the truth, was immersed at Detroit), shot a man (who later died) described slobberingly as "a deputy sheriff and a shell-shocked victim of the World War". In the first place, the state of Maine had no business to make any man a deputy sheriff who is not in full control of his mental faculties, and if the man shot did not have any more sense than to start to murder another man because in a kind and considerate manner the other man asked if he could play for him a phonograph record about God's kingdom, then the result is what is to be expected.
Useful, four-legged information marcher, Wolverhampton, England
Theocracy publishers in London trailer camp — sardine squad
Is This Germany or America?
Considering this subject of the ease with which some officers of the law yield to the mob spirit, read the following copy of a true statement submitted to Consolation, prepared by Stanley D. Belden, attorney at law, Walters Building, Cushing, Oklahoma. Every right-thinking American will be glad to know that Mr. Belden is now going after these anarchists in uniform and will do all that is legally possible to see that they get in court the justice they refuse to give out of court. Mr. Belden says:
On Sunday, July 7, I was asked to represent a man by the name of Nichols who was of the faith of Jehovah's witnesses. I was told that he was in the Guthrie [Oklahoma] jail, and that no attorney in Guthrie would represent him because of the public sentiment existing in Guthrie. After debating the matter most of the night, though not believing as do Jehovah's witnesses and though their literature condemns certain of my ideas, still, I, believing as Voltaire said, "I may despise the thing you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it," and believing that everyone, no matter with what he may be charged, has a right, under the Constitution and the law of the land, to a fair trial and the right to make a defense in the courts of the land, and believing it my duty as a lawyer under the oath that I took when I was admitted to the bar, consented to take this case.
I went to Guthrie and there, before the police judge, defended both Mr. Nichols and Mrs. Sprague. They were charged with peddling without a license. When we gave notice of appeal, two men stepped forth to make the bond. One of the officers asked one of them what he was there for. He said, "To help make bond." They said, "In you go," and put him in jail. There were a number of officers and Legionnaires. They rushed me and demanded that I salute the flag.
I stated that I had no objection to saluting the flag, but asked to make a statement. They shouted "No". "Any lawyer that would represent the sons of b---- is just as bad as they are." They pushed and shoved me around, took my wallet, my watch and keys and jerked my brief case from my hand, scattering some papers which I held in my other hand, and put me in jail. I was later fingerprinted and asked a lot of questions, with a number of officers sitting around making remarks that the Legionnaires would tear the jail down that night and just what they would do.
I was put back into jail. Sometime between twelve and one o'clock at night, Fred Streeter, chief of the police, said he wanted to talk to me and took me from the jail into another room. He told me that I could go but that there were Legionnaires in the City Hall and he could not guarantee my safety. He stated that they would put me on a bus but that they would not guarantee that the Legionnaires would not take me off. Or, he said, they would take me out to the city limits and drop me off there. I told him I would call friends to come and get me; but he said that would be dangerous.
He said, "I want you to know that I will not give you protection; for if the Legionnaires get hold of you there will be bloodshed, and I will not shed any of their blood to protect you, because this is my home and my job and I have to protect it."
I told him I would wait until morning to leave, but he said he preferred that I not do that for fear of what the Legionnaires would do. He again stated he would not protect me against them. He finally, about one-thirty in the morning, told me he would take me to Coyle; which he did.
I often salute Old Glory and I am willing to do so at any time, but only when I am free to do so of my own will. For me to have to salute the flag at the command of a mob armed with guns and billyclubs would have been cowardly on my part and a desecration of the very principles for which I believe the flag to stand—"liberty and justice for all."
I am willing to set aside from seven-thirty to eight o'clock each and every morning, at which time I will salute the flag in my office with members of the Legion—one and all—and repeat the oath of allegiance, only asking that they mean it when they repeat "liberty and justice for all", and for every paragraph of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and their preambles, and the Bill of Rights, that they will memorize, I will memorize two, until we have committed to memory all of them in their entirety.
But I refuse to insult it by saluting it at the command of a mob.
To do so would be an insult to it.
Love for the flag is not to be gotten that way.
The former national commander of The American Legion, Harry W. Colmery, said:
"Americanism, true Americanism, means acceptance of and adherence to all of the principles and institutions of the American form of government. We cannot accept only those which coincide with our own individual point of view and violate those which do not; and we must not resort to force to suppress persons or groups whose opinions differ from our own. That is the very essence of un-Americanism. The Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and it declares that Congress shall not make any law prohibiting the free exercise of these sound principles. These are the most American things in the Constitution. Without these wise provisions, we would have no democratic government; indeed, history tells us we would have no United States of America—we must not deny the right of free speech or peaceable assembly to any person or any group, not even to those whose principles we despise."
I subscribe to these principles. This is not Germany, but America, and I refuse to help Hitlerize it.
(To be continued)
LES TROIS CULTES SONT REUNIS A CETTE POPOTE D'AUMONIERS. DE GAUCHE A DROITE, UN RABBIN, UN PASTEUR, UN PRETRE CATHOLIQUE
AU-DESSUS DE LA GUERRE
LA PAIX DES RELIGIONS
ABOVE THE WAR THE PEACE OF RELIGIONS
The chaplain of any confession plays an important role in the war. He exhorts the souls, calms the pains, comforts and brings consolation. In his godliness he exalts the most noble virtues. United in the same ideal, the representatives of the different cults fraternize and help one another. On account of the strange circumstances, agreement has been made to delegate from one religion to another the authority they hold from God, and so a rabbi or a pastor can, for example, in the urgency of a battle, receive the confession of a wounded Catholic and can give him by procuration a valuable absolution. A splendid fusion of common ideals.
LES QUATRE AUMÔNIERS DEVISENT, UNIS DANS LA MÊME PIÉTÉ
[Translation of the French comment. Notice the big cross on the French Protestant cleric.] UNDER THE TOTALITARIAN FLAG
Ambassadors to Religions
◆ If we're to send an ambassador to the pope, then why not send one to the Protestant churches, to the rabbis, to the Mohammedans, and the other religious heads or institutions? Why select the Catholic church for this special treatment? Back in 1867, under the administration of President Johnson, the U. S. Government decided to stop the dangerous and offensive practice of sending ambassadors to the Vatican. The step was taken by the simple expedient of having Congress fail to appropriate money for such a purpose. Since then we have followed the sane, sensible policy of paying official heed to no particular religious organization, which, needless to say, fits better into the spirit of our Constitution and traditions.
Needless to say, the explanation offered—to the effect that this is done in order to put the American government close to the pope's peace policies—can't be considered as anything short of the sheerest hypocrisy. Since when has the world been given concrete evidence that the Vatican is really interested in peace? Did the pope show a keen love for peace when he blessed Mussolini's war banners as that mass-murderer sent his Fascist army into Ethiopia, where 250,000 men, women and children were killed in cold blood? Catholic priests accompanied Mussolini's troops, and everything was done in order to help the blackshirts destroy the resistance of a people that belonged to the world's oldest "Christian" sect—the Coptic church. And how much love for peace did the pope show when he gave his material and moral support to General Franco's Fascist rebellion against Spain's Loyalist government? How anxious was the pope for peace when Dollfuss, Austria's little dictator, slaughtered 1,500 Socialists during the Vienna uprising against clerical Fascism? The Vatican is always for peace when the ends of reaction can be served, but once let true liberalism and democracy show themselves and you'll always find the Vatican ready to bless any force that conspires to destroy them, so long as it's done in the name of Catholicism and Fascism.
We must ask the president what it is he's recognizing when he established diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Is Roosevelt giving special recognition to a set of religious principles? If the answer is that Roosevelt is seeking to have the U. S. Government act with a view to co-operating along religious lines, then he is guilty of a grave attack on true Americanism, which opposes such co-operation. If Roosevelt prefers, instead, to extend recognition to a temporal State—Vatican City—then he is guilty of placing the American people in a position that is disagreeable to their traditional dislike for special, religious States. We send no ambassadors to Mecca in order to recognize the temporal headquarters of the Mohammedans. We send no ambassador to Palestine in order to have dealings with the Zionists in Jerusalem. We send no delegate to hold diplomatic or political meetings with the leaders of the Mormons. We send no ambassador to the Negro miracle workers in Bantu. Then why to Vatican City? — American Freeman.
"That Clumsy System of Frustration"
◆ From the minor tragedy of Jewish religion we turn to Christianity [religion—Ed.] in its most successful form of organization, the Roman Catholic Church. Successful as it is, this organization is nevertheless fantastic. Its central control rests with a close corporation of priests, many Italians. In the Vatican, supported by a handsome subsidy from the Fascist government and contributions of the faithful, the Holy Father steers the Church through the pitfalls of this world. He has had the medieval education of a priest; his advisers have worn the mental blinkers of the devout and, just as far as they dare, they influence the political life of the world, according to their limitations and prejudices. In all the democracies the "Catholic vote" obeys the tortuous wisdom of these scheming old anachronisms. Here tyrannies are blest, and here revolts are fomented. The devout in France or Britain, for example, must support the Franco pronunciamiento to the infinite injury of their own countries.
Some young Roman Catholics hope to see the re-establishment of the Holy Roman Empire under the emperor Otto with its headquarters in Vienna. This, they say, would follow the social legislation suggested in the famous encyclical of Pius XI. This probably seems fantastic to anyone but a young Roman Catholic, but if we want to see what sort of a society it would produce we have the object lesson of Eire.
In Eire censorship of books and controlled education have produced already a first crop of young men as blankly ignorant of the modern world as if they lived in the thirteenth century, mentally concentrated upon the idea of bringing the Protestant North under Roman Catholic control in the sacred name of national unity. The tension of surplus youth is increasing; hence the I.R.A. bombings of recent months in England carried out by young priest-taught men who purify their souls at mass and confession before they leave a bomb in a London underground station.
The Roman Catholic Church, that clumsy system of frustration, that strange compendium of ancient traditions and habit systems, is certainly the most formidable single antagonist in the way of human readjustment.— H. G. Wells, in "The Fate of Homo Sapiens", as published in the London Picture Post.
Re Propaganda
◆ At Habakkuk 2: 20 and Zechariah 2: 13 the prophets, speaking for Jehovah, and which prophecies are in course of fulfillment, say: "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him." "Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation."
Commenting on these scriptures the April 15, 1940, Watchtower, page 117, paragraph 16, says: "Jehovah now sends his witnesses among the people to speak his message, and thus the Lord Jesus by his servants is delivering the command to the people from the Most High to keep still and listen. All should keep silent, and not attempt to speak against Jehovah or against his message now, and thus to prevent others from hearing. The message of Jehovah to them is to cease spreading propaganda in support of Satan's rule."
The enemy of The Theocracy continues to charge God's people with carrying on a work of propaganda. On the contrary, our chief enemy on earth, namely, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, are the real propagandists. Referring to the word "propaganda", as found in any reliable dictionary, we learn the following: "1. (R.C.Ch.) A Congregation of Cardinals established in 1622 charged with the management of missions. The College of Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world." (This is from Webster's revised by Noah Porter, D.D., printed by Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass., 1902.) "A Society at Rome charged with the management of missions of the Roman Catholic Church." (The New Universities Dictionary, issued by The World Syndicate Publishing Co., New York, 1918) "1. (R.C.Ch.) A congregation of cardinals charged with the management of missions. b. A college instituted by Urban VIII to educate priests for missions." (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, third edition of the Merriam series, 1916)
Corroborating these definitions history shows that the Jesuits of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are the chief disturbers of the peace of nations and peoples by their devilish propaganda. And even now, when the truth concerning The Theocracy is shining so brightly, they refuse to be silent and listen to what Jehovah has to say through His witnesses, but continue to disturb the peace of the world. — G. F. W. Thomson, Vermont.
Nazism in Practice
◆ We see one-party rule crushing all opposition; 1,000 newspapers abolished, all others State-controlled; the radio and movie State-dominated; the church in handcuffs; all education regimented from the kindergarten to the university; labor unions destroyed, their treasuries confiscated; the health of her people cracking under the intense Spartan discipline and the neglect of political doctors; the lawyer no longer free to defend his client, but under a greater obligation to the State; the courts packed; justice the tool of the party boss; hours of work lengthened; wages decreased; strikes abolished; credit in the hands of the State; insurance largely run by the politicians; freedom to marry restricted; illegitimacy made honorable; science, art, music and the theater prostituted to the preconceived notions of party and race; bachelors taxed to procreate "cannon fodder", yet childless marriages increasing, marking a silent rebellion; every alleged father made responsible for bastard children; compulsory labor service (serfdom to the State); "Hitler elections" 99 percent pure; public office made the privilege of a new caste; religion paganized. "The Prussian soldier is the primal cell for"
the building of our complete being. . . . We seek the total destruction of dishonorable democracy which ignores the foundations of race"; the party line, which is the discipline of the army, carried into civil life.
We see women again thrust back to Kirche, Kueche, Kinder (church, kitchen, children); criminal punishment not only for defined offenses but "for acts which deserve punishment according to the sound conception of the people", i.e., government by the tyranny of men, not by the rule of law; ex post facto justice, i.e., punishment for an act not a crime when done; arrest without warrant and imprisonment without trial; search and seizure at any time and for no stated reason; no independent jury system; and finally the Gestapo and political murder.—Smoke Screen, by Samuel B. Pettengill, page 74.
No Compassion to Be Shown
◆ The latest motto of Italy is "Compassion is the negation of Fascism"; which is interesting for several reasons. First, it preceded by two weeks the announcement that 96 percent of priests in Italy faced the "call to service" under the command of the sleeping-car hero. These priests, however, will not need any bayonets with which to rip up their fellow men. If called up, the announcement explains, they would be called up to serve in hospitals as assistants to physicians and in clerical capacities as well as chaplains.
This is all regular. Let George do the dirty work and run the risks, but let the clericals have the soft jobs, the easy ones and the well-paid ones.
◆ The second point is set forth below; but these statements would mean not one thing to Mussolini or the gangsters that are backing him up, and this includes especially the horse-collar gangsters booked for the soft and well-paid jobs:
And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them.—Matthew 14:14.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.—Matthew 9:36.
Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.—Matthew 15:32.
So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.—Matthew 20:34.
And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.—Mark 1:41.
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.—Luke 7:13.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.—Luke 15:20.
The Loyalists Told the Truth
◆ The Loyalists told the truth throughout the war. This was bad tactics, but they were not instructed in the modern war code by Germans and Italians, as was Franco. The Loyalists never hid the truth of the murder of priests and nuns and the burning of churches in the early days of the "rebellion". Franco took the army and police with him, and there was chaos for a few weeks in which atrocities were committed. But the Loyalist government told the truth when it claimed that it had never killed a priest or nun or burned a church. Such violence as occurred was the work of elements that got out of hand, and when order was restored, crime was punished. Franco, on the testimony of great Catholics (Bernanos, for one), deliberately and cold-bloodedly murdered his opponents.
Every morning during the war Franco attended "Holy Mass", and every night he commended himself "with fervor to his guardian angel and the Virgin Mary, after approving the reports of the day's operations, in which he triumphantly recorded the number of enemy corpses picked up on the battlefield". It is estimated that 1,200,000 persons were killed in the war, and since Franco had ten times as many planes as the Loyalists, ten times as many guns, and more than ten times as many bombs, shells, tanks and other death-dealing instruments, it is most likely that Franco, who started the war, killed close to a million persons. In May and June, 1939, his tribunals were shooting one person every nine minutes; thousands had been executed, the arrests were at least a million, according to Fascist official admissions; but Franco went to the church of Santa Barbara, "delivered his sword to God and gave thanks to God for his victory over 'the enemies of Truth in this Century.' " [Carney, New York Times, May 21, 1939.] —The Catholic Crisis, by George Seldes, pages 253, 254.
(To be continued) INFORMATION for all persons of good will toward Almighty God. RELIGION is a snare and a racket. GOD’S TRUTH shields, and strengthens the upright.
KINGDOM NEWS
“. . . the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, . . . of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end . . . The zeal of JEHOVAH of hosts will perform this.” —Isaiah 9:6, 7.
DEVOTED to the principles of justice, truth, equity and kindness as exemplified in the life and teachings of The Creator of the Universe and of His King Christ Jesus.
Vol. 1 New York City - July 1940 No. 6
Time of Darkness - Isaiah 60:2
HYSTERIA of most violence has seized upon many parts of the land. Harmless persons are assaulted because they decline to obey the demands of fanatical persons. Their houses are broken open, burned to the ground; they are thrown into prison; they are driven like dumb brutes through the heat; forced to drink castor oil, tarred and feathered. The mobs are incited to do this work by religious leaders and others who claim to be great patriots of the nation. Engaged in these mobs are public officials who, because of influence exercised over them by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and because of their desire for political advantage, violate their oath of office, ill-treat and abuse American citizens who are doing no wrong, and wink at wicked acts of Nazis, with communists, and others who engage in a conspiracy against the government. This class is for lawlessness, wickedness, violence.
On the other hand there is a class of people who are honest and sincere, and who believe in Almighty God and His Son, Christ Jesus, and are in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of worship, regardless of who the person may be or what his belief may be. These seek the welfare of the people in general and want to know the meaning of the
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Total wars, threats of famine, millions of refugees, destruction of democracies, “distress of nations, with perplexity,” men’s hearts failing them for fear! What has RELIGION to say about these signs of the times?
“Jesus piping up hourly would talk ‘Christendom’s’ interest. Religious combine, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, is determined that the whole world, including the United States of America, shall go totalitarian this year, 1940. Even sincere, devout Catholic persons are horrified as they hear daily of faithless, treacherous acts of high Catholic leaders and other religionists. For example:
In Italy, in Germany, hierarchy archbishops, monsignors, and other church representatives publicly bless and pray for “success” of the totalitarian war machines. In Britain the same hierarchy’s lone cardinal joins contrarily in blessing and praying for those resisting the totalitarian aggressors. In the same breath that British cardinal condemns as insane upon Catholics who dare to demand that their pope excommunicate “son of the Catholic church” Adolf Hitler. Throughout Hitler’s dominion the hierarchy’s bishops publicly celebrate and praise recent victory over Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, and France.
A few years ago German bishops asked the same Hitler to destroy Jehovah’s witnesses. He promptly heard their requests and issued a pronouncement condemning Jehovah’s witnesses, as follows: “I dissolve the organization in Germany: their property I dedicate to the people’s welfare; I will have all their literature confiscated; I do not tolerate that German Catholics be tormented in such a manner by this American Judge Rutherford.” (The German
War, 1933? Immediately thereafter more than six thousand of Jehovah’s witnesses were herded into concentration camps, to live under the torture of cruel guards; a number have been shot because they firmly choose to obey Almighty God and Christ Jesus and refuse to “Heil Hitler” or salute his swastika.
WHY AMERICA?
America’s president, yielding to pressure exerted upon him for years, recently went so far as to commend to the public as personal admirer and worshiper “the Fascist” dictator of Moscow!
Vatican City’s own newspaper, the hierarchy’s official mouthpiece, now hails the rise of Fascist France as the “dawn of a new radiant day, not only for France but for Europe and the world”.
Says another Vatican mouthpiece (Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic weekly of Indiana): “The Holy Father has not condemned Fascism as such, and rightly so, we have; the church can get along with a totalitarian ruler if he grants her working agreements (concordats) with the pope.”
Both Hitler and Mussolini have individually working agreements (concordats) with the pope. France is negotiating one. Those four totalitarian masters and their concordats, including the chief of the Moscow government, now vigorously advocate for world rule, in line with the terms of those papal concordats.
America’s “radio priest” exultantly forecasts vigorous forward push by his “Christian Front”. His members he openly advises to prepare to “fight in Franco’s way”.
Already in nearly every state of the Union the Catholic hierarchy and its orders to suppress and drive out Jehovah’s witnesses are being ruthlessly executed by the American Legion and Knights of Columbus. The Legion’s 1940 national commander, Raymond Kelly, who is also a Knight of Columbus, now seriously urges the formation of a private army, uniformed but otherwise completely militarized, “to help supreme command and aid with all other posts of command filled by Legionnaires.” This recalls a stout claim made in 1923 by the then national commander (Alvin Owsley): “Do not forget that the Fascisti are Italy; what the American Legion is to the United States.”
IS THIS SPREADING HATE?
Why mention these things? Hierarchy leaders and religionists who choose to take orders from the “new god Jehovah’s witnesses spread hate. To every thousand, thousand and one, fearing persons Jehovah’s witnesses say: “In obedience to the command of ALMIGHTY GOD” (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 54:17) we publish these stirring facts. For what purpose? To aid every humble, order-loving person to discern the difference between religion and Christianity. These stirring facts we publish to aid such persons to FORSAKE RELIGION and embrace FREEDOM AND OBEY THE LAWS OF ALMIGHTY GOD written in His Word, the Bible, that they may live under God’s kingdom.
Is this spreading hate? Pause and consider.
Today politicians, business chiefs and other thoughtful people are witnessing the fulfillment of Jehovah’s ancient prophecy: “Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet [clergyman]: but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled.” The day of JEHOVAH is at hand, and a “destruction” from the Almighty shall it come. —Ezekiel 7:25-27. 11:10. American Revised Version.
Human wisdom, political and religious, has failed. Only a higher wisdom from international today’s ominous signs. Selfish and worldly-wise ones will scoff, but such scoffing in no way changes THE FACTS. Hypocritical religionists and their violent strong-arm squad of legionnaires will falsely accuse and attempt to “stamp out” Jehovah’s witnesses who faithfully sound the warning, but the decree of the Most High God, Jehovah, shall be executed by His heavenly hosts under Christ Jesus against every oppressor of His witnesses.
DEMONS
Human law-enforcing agents are powerless to cope now with the forces of violence. Why? Because back of this violence, the influence of God shows, there are wicked, invisible powers, demons, called “Nephilim”, that is, “fallen ones”, “bullies”, or “giants”. (See Genesis 6:4, 11. “Nephilim” in the American Revision.) In the days before the flood all the earth was filled with violence because all mankind, except Noah and his family of seven, succumbed in fear to those violent Nephilim and practiced demonism, religion. Violent men all perished in the flood.
The promoters of violence today are likewise demon-controlled. It is reported that Hitler does not make a move before he consults five astrologers. His astonishing conquest of other nations in rapid succession, with precision and devilish cunning, and according to schedule and announced months in advance, can be explained only by the fact of demon-possession and demon co-operation. His partners in violence, Mussolini, superstitious and consults astrologers, which the Bible declares is demonism.
Back of recent outbursts of organized violence and mobbings in America is the same diabolical power of the demons, acting under “the prince of the demons”, Satan the Devil. The demons have always used visible human agents to fight against Jehovah God and the proclamation of His Theocratic Government under Christ Jesus. The Sacred Record clearly shows that these agents of the demons have in every instance been the religionists and their allies. The demons under Satan their prince used Nimrod and organized religion after the flood. Religion is demonism. (See Cardinal Newman’s Essay on Development, chapter 8.) Babylon became the fountainhead of religion. Hence Babylon in Scripture is used to symbolize the modern organization of religion, of which “Christendom” is a part. As ancient Babylon was then destroyed, so shall “Christendom” shortly fall and be destroyed. —See Revelation 18:2, 4, 21; Jeremiah 51:6.
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