Consolation, November 13, 1940
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Contents
Eglon's Excrement (Part 1) 3
"Full of Dead Men's Bones" 4
"The Sword of the Church" 5
Who Put Hitler in Power? 6
The Business of Inciting Riots (Part 2) 10
Mistreatment of Women 10
Outrages Against Children 11
Some Kind Words 14
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Vindication 16
Public Utilities 18
The Converted Utility Magnate 18
Earth's Greatest Structure 18
Motoring 19
Saved Her Child's Life 19
Palestine 20
Palestine for the Arabs 20
British Comment 21
The Devil Abroad in the Earth 21
In the Battle Front 23
Kingdom News No. 7 (British) 24
Religionists Devise Mischief to Destroy Christians 24
An Open Letter to Senator Connolly 26
Birds and "Birds" 28
The Home Guard of What? 29
The Smoke-Screen Birds 30
The Pinchots 2
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Appetizers
Rewarding Her Benefactor
The waiter was taking the order of a pretty girl who was accompanied by a pudgy middle-aged man. When she did not mention the lobster included in the meal she ordered, he asked: "And how about the lobster?"
To which the fair lady replied: "Oh, he can order whatever he likes."
The Widow's Reply
When a certain widow was asked how she came to marry in succession a banker, an actor, a preacher and an undertaker she replied (with the quick wit that had safely landed all four of them), "It was a case of one for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, and four to go."
Clad in Holes
Women are seeking the great open spaces—blouses with eyelets and sheerest of laces, stockings of mesh, a sandal that shows through punctured partitions sections of toes. It goes very hard on sensitive souls to step out attired in nothing but holes.—Mad Hatter.
Bargains
Vicar: We intend having a rummage sale in the parish hall. This will give all housewives an opportunity to get rid of things that are not worth keeping and yet too good to throw away. Ladies, do not forget to bring your husbands.—From Politiken, Copenhagen.
All Aboard for Heaven
Old lady (in airplane): And what would happen if you should run out of gas now?
Pilot: Believe me, lady, there's a lot of poor fellows up here that can't get down because they've run out of gas.—Kellygram.
Surprise Package
Whifflebotham: You boys of today want too much money. Do you know what I was getting when I married your aunt?
Drummer boys: No, and we'll bet you didn't either.—Labor.
The Pinchots
◆ Amos Pinchot, New York city lawyer, is not Gifford Pinchot, former governor of Pennsylvania, who now supports Roosevelt.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, November 13, 1940 Number 552
Eglon's Excrement (In Two Parts—Part 1)
ONLY Jehovah could foreknow conditions and events thousands of years before they happen. In order that faith may be established in Him Jehovah today causes His prophecies made of old to be fulfilled. If anyone is in doubt that Jehovah is maneuvering both the totalitarians and the religionists into position for the final conflict he has but to examine the many pictures recorded in the Bible concerning the rise of this religion-dominated monstrosity. If he sides with the totalitarian gang butchering Europe, woe unto him! But if he desires righteousness and the destruction of those who are destroying the earth, then he will rejoice that the Scriptures foretell not only the assumption of power by religious radicals, but their everlasting doom. One of these pictures recorded for our learning today (Romans 15:4) is the account of Eglon slain by the knife of Ehud.
Eglon was an ancient king of Moab who lived about a hundred years after the death of Joshua. Foreknowing the purposes of the Devil and his dupes, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, God used this wicked king of Moab and His servant, Ehud, to enact a drama depicting the reign and ruin of Romanism. Funny that, just like the Catholic Hierarchy today, Eglon, while simply a puppet in the hands of the Great Dramatist, thought that he was really going to town in his persecuting and enslaving the Israelites. Jehovah's witnesses, the antitypical Israelites, are so treated by the Hierarchy, and they too think they are invincible; while all the time their days of power and their end were unalterably fixed thousands of years ago. The fate of Eglon is the fate of Rome!
Also the "dirt of Eglon" was a picture of the dirty deeds of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Eglon's dirt was really his excrement which ran from his bowels when Ehud drove his knife in. (Judges 3:20-23, The Watchtower, September 15, 1940) Consideration is given elsewhere to this whole prophetic play staged by the Lord's directed actors who knew nothing of what they portrayed. Only the Lord God could so marvelously enact the events of the future. Herein only the villainous deeds of the fat Eglon's counterpart of today will be considered. It would be difficult to get the record of all these filthy acts of violence and treachery into the spacious shelves of the Congressional Library. But some of their more recent and more notorious crimes will be recounted to demonstrate that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, pictured by Eglon, the fat-gutted, never changes.
St. Ignatius church-fortress, San Francisco, ready for the big putsch. See the huge cannon, out in the open, aimed directly at the downtown district. After Consolation's photographer was seen taking this picture the cannon was taken inside the church-fortress.
--Jehovah's witnesses have a share in this drama. They have the great privilege of driving the knife home in the entrails of Eglon, thus picturing the exposure of Rome's infamous guilt. Ehud pictured Jehovah's witnesses doing this very thing. So it is with joy that we obey the commands of our King and point out some of the rankest deeds of the Roman-Totalitarian butchers. Their stench was well portrayed by Eglon's excrement.
Jesus prophetically foretold the Roman Catholic Hierarchy when He described the scribes and Pharisees, in the twenty-third chapter of Matthew. "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"—Matthew 23: 13, 24, 33.
"Full of Dead Men's Bones"
The Devil, the great Devourer, is on the rampage in Europe. He has found a willing instrument in the Hierarchy's Hitler. We hear nothing from France except how Protestant organizations, such as Masonry, have been abolished and of the excessive Catholic religious festivals. There is all praise for Petain as a good marshal, a good Catholic, and a good Fascist. Of course, the pope "is against Hitler", but Hitler, who is noted for his unselfishness and consideration, has kindly let the pope dictate the form of government of conquered France. This is the story American newspapers hand us by orders of the pope. In truth, a considerable portion of the French population must be now engaged in digging graves for the millions slain, and caring for the maimed wrecks of Hitler's Catholic Crusade. Has anyone read anything about this? No; for the "outside of the cup" must be cleaned up. "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness."—Matthew 23: 27.
The press and radio of September 10 report that Myron C. Taylor, personal ambassador of Roosevelt to the pope, made public the statement that Pius XII, "the holy father," is doing all he can to bring about world peace. How quickly the Americans forget!
It has been but a few months over a year since this same pope congratulated Franco on one of the bloodiest slaughters of Catholics in civil war ever known and gave him the title of "Defender of the Faith". It has been but a few days over a month since this same "Supreme Pontiff" found the government of France established by Hitler over the bodies of several millions of French, English and Belgians so much to his liking that he declared the puppet Petain, who is naturally a Catholic, "a good marshal." The pope is thus hollering "Peace" with his hand out for his share of the spoils of war. The pope does the braying while Hitler does the goring.
Furthermore, the peace talk of Pius is designed entirely for consumption in America. Almost in the same breath with his message to Roosevelt concerning his peace efforts, see what he says to the Italians (New York Herald Tribune):
POPE'S ADVICE: PREPARE TO DIE FOR FATHERLAND
Rome, Sept. 4.—Good Catholics must love their fatherland and be ready to lay down their lives for it "whenever the lawful good of the country demands the supreme sacrifice", Pope Pius told 5,000 members of the Italian Catholic Action today at the Vatican. His audience received with great ceremony in the Hall of Benedictions, and overflowing into other halls, where loudspeakers were set up, responded to this counsel with prolonged applause.
The Pope quoted from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, xiii, 1: "There is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God," to introduce this war-time counsel.
In this talk the "Common Father" forgot to mention that in America he was telling the Catholic population and all others that his powerful exertions were in behalf of peace. The pope claims just as much authority over English Catholics as over Italian Catholics.
But how could the "holy father" be both for peace and for war? "His Holiness'" answer to that simple question would, if he deigned to give one, be long on verbiage and short on plain statements. But in simple American it is just plain double talk. It is a damnable lie designed to lull to sleep those who might find out that the Papacy is backing Hitler for all it can. This is generally admitted by European Catholics. But our American press seems entirely bought out by rooters for Rome, so they keep on painting the "whited sepulcher" with lily-white enamel. When anybody wants to look inside the box some editor or priest says in a shocked whisper, "Mustn't touch."
Inside the Box
But it is high time Americans looked inside the box unless they want to be presently in there themselves. Let those who do not wish to keep on whitewashing the Hierarchy pause and consider the evidence herein submitted that the Hierarchy's record is just as "full of dead men's bones" as Jesus prophesied. This issue must be faced by everyone. Why not have a look?
First it must be pointed out that the great newspapers and periodicals cannot be relied on to publish the facts. There are two reasons for this: fear, and collusion. Thus most of these concerns are either afraid of the Hierarchy or in with them. For example: The Saturday Evening Post has had a good many articles about Hitler and his threat to America. Their foremost writers, such as High, Bess, McKelway, and even Ullstein (the great German publisher despoiled by Hitler), never mention the Catholic connection. No doubt the circulation manager had much to do with this omission. Even the article "Alien Poison" omits the grim danger of a foreign priesthood. This is merely one example. It goes to show how far advanced are the effects of Catholic Action on the "free" press.
In the parlance of journalism the Catholic Church, with all its adjuncts, is a "sacred cow". Never must any of its utterances be described as "moos" or "brays" or "bellows", but as dulcet expressions of valued wisdom. To criticize is to bring down the wrath of an implacable enemy. So the whitewashing of the doings of Rome goes on to the point of nausea. Forget the crowd who have no devotion to anything but dollars and consider some shocking but prophetically foretold facts.
The Sword of the Church
Long before Adolf Hitler was born the idea of a Catholic Europe was fought for by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. In this battle they used the most degraded criminals that have ever been the battalion of any religious order. This order has the shocking name of "Society of Jesus". This is the name of that Devil-spawned secret organization that has earned the most infamous record on the pages of history as "Jesuits". Hitler was trained by Jesuits, his ideas and technique are Jesuit, and his purposes are the century-old schemes of this order hated even among Catholics and banned by one pope. The whole structure of their operations is studied hypocrisy. Hitler's desire to bring France and England to Munster in Westphalia, where the Treaty of Westphalia was signed almost three hundred years ago, has been the Jesuit and Catholic objective for most of those years.
Says The Converted Catholic, issue of May, 1940, and itself written by former priests: "Europe's tragedy, in Catholic opinion, is due to the breaking up of its great papal-controlled confederation of states by the Protestant Reformation [made valid by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648]. All the efforts of the Catholic Church since have been directed to the work of counter-Reformation, to re-establish the political and social order of pre-Reformation days. That order of states was hierarchical, not democratic, and was ruled at the top by the dual sovereignty of Pope and Emperor, by the union of church-state authority. The political and social order that resulted from the Reformation, both in Europe and America, is regarded by the Catholic Church as pagan and anti-Christian; they give it the name of 'pseudo-democracy.' " The Jesuit publication America condemns this "pseudo-democracy" and asks for a return to "an integral social order . . . of the great medieval experiment". (April 13, 1940) Coughlin has constantly leveled abuse against this democracy. Twenty-three hundred Catholic students were told by Bishop Kearney that democracy is "something that had been given as an excuse for the most criminal events in the world's history". (The Converted Catholic, June, 1940)
Jesuitizing Europe
Has not everyone heard of Hitler's threats against democracies, and of his successful destruction of the French democracy? To destroy the Protestant democracies is a Jesuit principle. Says The Converted Catholic, back in its May issue, which sounds like a prophecy as far as France is concerned:
This is specifically a Jesuit principle of action, with the ultimate objective of inducing all Christian sects to unite with the Catholic Church for a "Christian reform of states"—the establishment of an hierarchical grouping of corporative states entirely devoid of Jewish, Masonic and Protestant influence. Bishop Hudal of Germany and other German prelates have pointed out the identity of the fundamentals of National Socialism [Nazism] and Catholicism. Father Coughlin and his Jesuit supporters preach the same in this country. To date, Hitler's blitzkriegs are accomplishing in fact everything set forth in ideological concepts for a "New Order" in all of Europe after his ruthless extermination of Judaism and Masonry.
Since this article was written Masonry has been abolished in France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania by the axis powers. Baptists and Lutherans have been abolished in Rumania at the insistence of Rome and Berlin, and this has likely occurred in war-demolished France. Anti-Semitic riots have been reported in all of these countries.
Continuing the quotation: "The Jesuit Order has its 'Aryan paragraph' corresponding exactly to Hitlerism. Its Constitutions contain six impedimenta against reception into the Order, the first of which is Jewish descent up to the fourth generation." "The Jesuit Father Muckerman, in his many works on race hygiene, fully explains this ideology which is at the basis of all the aims and acts of Nazi-Fascism." "The 'new order' which [Hitler] has vowed to bring about in Europe" is that of the Catholic Church. "With or without Hitler . . . it had to come. . . . But it is only by facing this fact, and forgetting Roman Catholic propaganda in our daily newspapers, that we can understand why a victory for an authoritarian Germany, not its crushing defeat by the democratic Allies, is fervently desired by the Vatican."
The Fervent Desire of the Vatican
The pope is bent on a Nazi victory and is equally determined that America shall not know in advance of her turn for destruction; this is his fervent desire. This real objective is discreetly outlined by the Catholic Herald (London) in its issue of July 12, 1940:
It is not impossible, as the well-informed diplomatic correspondent of the Observer suggested last Sunday, that something in the nature of a Latin-Catholic bloc, comprising France, Spain and Italy, may shape itself on the Continent. This bloc would endeavor to act on the Catholic populations of Germany and Austria in the hope of at least diminishing the influence of the anti-Christian [this term as used by the Hierarchy always means anti-Catholic] elements in the Reich so that ultimately an anti-Bolshevik Christian [Catholic] authoritarian bloc may be formed in Western Europe in opposition to the liberal-secularist-protestant-popular-front tendencies of Great Britain, America, Russia, and even Prussia.
At the moment this seems a distant ideal. . . . We shall not deny that we believe the true welfare and prosperity of our country to be linked with the influences making for this Catholic bloc rather than with America, Russia and Prussia.
The rest of the article is a defense of Germany, Italy and Spain and a reference to America as among the "internationals of High Finance" and "anti-Christian internationals".
The reference to "anti-Christian influence" in the Reich and in Austria and Prussia is merely smoke-screen and to furnish an excuse to tell British Catholics to continue to fight. But the amazing part of that adroitly written article is that it favors the submission of England to the hordes of Hitler and Mussolini.
The British are well aware of the Papal backing Hitler receives. It appears that the British government does not think it expedient to denounce this alliance, but there is this proof that they know of its existence. To quote from the (Catholic) Universe of July 5: "You have probably noticed that there is not one Catholic in the new British government—not even in the most junior post. The blame lies not with the Prime Minister but with ourselves; but we needn't go into that now." When the Catholics themselves make an admission like that it must be true, and the reasons, of course, would not bear going into.
There is more information constantly piling up proving this alliance. It accounts for the Belgian cardinal's approving Leopold's deflection to the enemy and for Pius' prompt "blessing" on Petain's Vichy government, puppet of Hitler. It accounts for the destruction of Protestantism and Masonry, and attacks on the Jews all over Europe, all such acts being the eternal objectives of Jesuit Catholicism copied in full by Hitler. See also:
CATHOLIC SUPPORT OF NAZIS INDICATED
A solemn pledge of loyalty to Chancellor Hitler by the German Catholic Bishops Conference at Fulda is to be read from Catholic pulpits at the end of the war, D.N.B., official news agency, said today. The pledge is contained in expressions of gratitude to German troops, adopted by the Conference, which ended on Thursday.
The agency said the view predominated at the conference that "the Catholic Church in Germany is indebted to German troops for the victorious advance and defense of the German homeland. Without the successful warding off of enemy invasion by German armed forces, the German Catholics could not have pursued so undisturbed and quietly their church work and ministerial offices." [New York Times, August 28, 1940]
Who Put Hitler in Power?
Let it be borne in mind that the key to understanding the joint conspiracy between the pope and the totalitarians is the prophecies of the Bible foretelling this evil combination. (2 Chronicles, chapter 20; Judges, chapter 3; Ezekiel, chapters 16 and 23; Revelation, chapter 17, verses 1, 2, 16) Further in support of these prophecies and proving they are in course of fulfillment is abundance of proof. A piece of extremely revealing circumstantial evidence follows, which is most interesting in view of the other known facts:
(Translation)
"Thurgauer Arbeiterzeitung," February 1, 1940.
("Worker's Daily of the Canton of Thurgau," Switzerland)
Friedrich Thyssen Confesses:
"Pius XII—as Nuncio—brought Hitler to Power."
In the Basle "Arbeiterzeitung" the editor in chief, Mr. Weber, writes:
Thyssen is not our man; for he is a representative of the German iron industry. What we hear from him we consider critically, even though from a helper and collaborator of Hitler he has now become his ardent enemy. In a letter to his collaborators, Thyssen now says things which largely confirm, however, what we have long ago stated. Coming from such a personality these confessions are shocking. They show a great collapse and reveal not only the rottenness of the Nazi regime, but also that of the Big Business groups who allied themselves with Hitler. The end of the dictator must also be the end of the capitalist dictatorship which has been unable to organize economic security and peace for men in spite of all the world's riches and in spite of all the Christian creeds.
It is not news that Big Business in 1932 put the finances of the Hitler Party on a sound basis. Thyssen admits that he succumbed to the persuasive force and the solemn declarations of the Fuehrer. And Thyssen tells what he had expected of the Nazis:
"Over a period of many years I had the opportunity of observing the Nazi regime—and as Councilor of State and a leader in German industry I was therefore well able to do this. With increasing anxiety and finally in real terror I recognized what a great mistake I had made in 1932 when I undertook, together with Messrs. von Papen, von Schroeder, Kirdorf and Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, to put the finances of the Nazi party on a sound basis and when we, as it were, stood as the guarantors for Hitler's good conduct towards Germany and the world and assumed the responsibility of permitting him to get into power. Then, as now and ever, Hitler promised anything we desired: to Mr. von Papen, power and positions of honor; to Mr. Krupp, orders and money, mountains of money. To all of us, preeminently, a quiet German policy at home and abroad, the settlement of differences with England, arrangements with the working class which would compensate for the loss of all their political rights, for the destruction of the labor organizations and the confiscation of their property. We had in mind a kind of Christian Corporative State whose authority would be based upon the Church—in the West the Catholic Church, in the East the Protestant—and upon the military power."
This zealous Catholic, Thyssen, also now admits that the final decision for delivering the power into Hitler's hands was maneuvered by Pacelli—now Pope Pius XII. It is here openly admitted—as far as we know for the first time—that the death blow against the German Republic came from Rome, and this without the knowledge of German political Catholicism. Thyssen also discloses that the Concordat was the price Pacelli received for intervening in favor of Hitler through his agent, Prelate Kaas. For this the Catholic Church has received the same thanks from the House of Adolf as have the big industrialists.
Thyssen describes these events as follows:
"Hitler then promised, solemnly and expressly—and this to me was the essential point—that the rights of the Catholic Church would not be infringed upon. He repeated this solemn promise in a conference with Monsignor Kaas. This conference lasted several hours. Kaas had come to see him by order of the then Papal nuncio, Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, and without the knowledge of the Chancellor of the Reich, Brüning, chairman of the Central Party [Catholic]. This conference led to the downfall of the Brüning government, the last legal German Government, and meant the beginning of that period of German and European politics to which we owe the present second World War. The Catholic Church, or better, the diplomatic mastership of Nuncio Pacelli, which had put its stamp upon the whole policy of the Weimar Republic during its last years, was successful in gaining the one and only victory over Hitler—the Concordat, which he has not as yet openly nor with brutal force repudiated. In truth, however, this concordat has from the first existed only on paper, for that which matters is the spirit which fills the letter of an agreement with life and which gives it meaning and import."
Mr. Thyssen is perhaps in a position to tell us more, occasionally, about the "diplomatic skill" of the former nuncio, not only about the year 1932, when the Catholic von Papen paved the way for Hitler by taking over the power from the Catholic, Brüning. Perhaps such a report might reveal something of the part Roman diplomacy played in Vienna resulting in Schuschnigg's surrender to the Fuehrer.
Seeing the role which Papal diplomacy time and again has played in international decisions, the question arises as to whether or not it is absolutely necessary that a faithful son of Rome take over the political department of the Swiss government [the political department is the Swiss Foreign Office, whose head was Motta, a faithful Catholic, who died a few weeks ago]. In saying this, we do not mean to claim that every Catholic conservative is of necessity a pupil of von Papen. But precaution is particularly necessary in this hour.
The above translation was brought to this country by a refugee. It definitely makes clear the coalition between the Vatican, represented then by Pacelli, and von Papen, Hitler and certain business interests such as Thyssen and Krupp of armament fame. We have another interesting specimen furnished by no less a person than Hermann Ullstein, gigantic Jewish publisher who was impoverished by Hitler. In his article "We Blundered Hitler into Power", in The Saturday Evening Post of July 13, 1940, he reports a personal conversation with the Prussian premier, Braun, shortly after the Nazis' first election success.
Braun said, "I have found out that this election cost Hitler about twenty million marks. Perhaps Thyssen contributed one million. Perhaps a second million came from scattered contributions from all over the country."
"And the other eighteen million?" I asked. "Where did they come from?"
"From Italy. We know that Hitler is receiving enormous sums from Italy. They come to Munich through a Swiss bank."
"But if you know that," I asked heatedly, "why don't you confiscate the money?"
"What right have we?" the Prussian prime minister asked me coolly.
This is pretty strong evidence that the Hierarchy was financially involved in Hitler's triumph. Italy is a poor country. They are largely lacking in such war materials as oil, tin, copper, coal and iron ore. And she was just then embarking upon a career of war. It is unlikely that she would or could have put over the candidacy of Hitler. On the other hand, the Vatican has much of the treasure of earth heaped together. Also, the Vatican had a large stake in the success of Hitler. Russia had destroyed some if not all of her holdings there. Spain was rumbling against priestly control. Liberalism even among Catholics was on the march. The entity and power of the Church of Rome was in peril. Therefore the conclusion seems thoroughly warranted that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, through Pacelli and von Papen, put Hitler in power. This is the supreme hour for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy and she is using Hitler, "the sword of the Church," to again gain control of the whole earth. "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."—Revelation 17:18.
Straining at a Gnat
The above proof has been augmented many times by the pages of Consolation for several years past. The coalition was pointed out by Judge Rutherford in 1933, and every year since. And strongest of all convincing evidence of its verity, aside from the Scriptural prophecies, is the fact that the Hierarchy never denies the accusations but has made a constantly increasing effort to destroy Jehovah's witnesses, who are telling the truth. It is a really terrible fact that the world contains some 300,000,000 Catholics whose overlord and spiritual leader is the ally of the greatest killer of any epoch of history. It is to be hoped that some of these who have not already killed one another in the pope's "Holy European War" will learn the facts and denounce the pope. But how many, when the choice lies between love of their respective countries and fear of "purgatory", will not choose to escape the "torments" they imagine await them if disobedient to the Papacy? Will they not reason: 'Is it not better to be a fifth columnist than to be "tortured in purgatory" '?
It is sad indeed to contemplate the miseries that have been brought on Catholics and others by the bloody wars in Europe. Behind all the visible agencies is the Devil himself laughing at the horrible plight of men. The Lord foretold this day: "Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." (Revelation 12:12) The "short time" until Satan the Devil must fight the great battle of Armageddon is rapidly coming to an end. Meanwhile the Roman Catholic Hierarchy are engaged in a terrible persecution of the servants of Jehovah who expose their evil deeds pictured by Eglon's excrement and constantly howling at some (compared to her own guilt) trifling consideration such as the dangers of Communism. She strains at a gnat.
This country is literally being eaten up by foes within and without, most of whom are either Catholics or Catholic-controlled. The dangers to a democracy from Communism are practically nil. But her peril from fifth columnists with the backing of the great politico-religious organization of Rome with her vast spy system and control of money, men, and the news is deathly close. She is continuing to scatter dust in the eyes of the people by attacks on Jehovah's witnesses and on the Jews. In true Jesuit fashion the Protestants and Masons will likewise be destroyed in their turn. Stanley High points out how many German consuls such as Wiedemann, of San Francisco, and Peckelsheim, of New Orleans, are engaged in forwarding Nazi propaganda here. Wiedemann, said to be the highest German official in America, and formerly Hitler's commanding officer in the first World War, secreted diplomatic dispatches on a "visitor" from Germany whom the FBI apprehended in Los Angeles. These Nazi documents were headed for South America. His bail, put at $15,000, was paid by Wiedemann. Of one of Jehovah's witnesses was required $20,000 merely as a witness in a New England trial. Peckelsheim, in New Orleans, has threatened that America will rue the day it gives help to England and refuses it to Germany.
You flag-wavers, why does "Father" Moran, St. Xavier church, Detroit, refuse to salute the flag? See above; see italics on this page, and see paragraphs 4 and 5 on page 11.
There are many other very imminent dangers. A series of articles in The Nation entitled "Aviation's Sitdown Strike" calls attention to "Hitler's Made-in-America Planes": (August 24) "Three American aviation companies extended aid to Hitler in building up his air fleet: Pratt and Whitney, Curtiss-Wright, and Douglas Aircraft. Equally valuable was the help rendered by Sperry Gyroscope, maker of automatic pilots, gyro compasses, and other aviation instruments." The article further indicates that the German dive bomber, now so terrible an instrument in the Nazi air force, was copied from the American Navy bomber and the secret transmitted to Germany by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
A previous article in this magazine exposes the fact that the manufacture of battleships is limited to a half dozen companies who charge this country about two prices for them; that no company without political backing can get a contract; and that while competitive bidding is supposed to be engaged in, what happens is that one company bids much less than the others by agreement, but much higher than cost, and that each large company is given opportunity to get a fat contract in turn. In other words, a conspiracy to defraud.
Worse still is the inclination for appeasement of Hitler by many industrialists. The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News contains an article by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner (August 3), headed "Fear Business Men May Promote Appeasement". Here are mentioned officials of oil and motor companies who favor a "business-like" or "realistic" approach. Also Westrick, who was recently ousted from his rented place in Scarsdale, has been given several board room luncheons in Wall St. It thus appears that the danger to America from within becomes ever more pressing. If the Hierarchy were sincere in their flag-waving and howl against Jehovah's witnesses' refusal to salute the flag they would set about to protect America against such a vast tide of dangers. But they don't, because they are straining at the gnat and swallowing, without protest, Hitler and all his monstrous villainy. —Elton Groves.
(To be continued) The Business of Inciting Riots
(In Two Parts—Part 2)
The Women and the Flag
IF THERE are two things that a real, manly American admires they are a good woman and the institutions which have made America what it is, and of which the flag is a symbol.
No woman has anything to fear from any man who, for conscientious reasons, refuses to lift his hat to any woman; rather, she should admire him that he is so courageous, so conscientious, so honest, so manly in a course of conduct which he believes has the Divine approval. And with regard to the flag it is the same thing, identically.
But any woman with good sense would not wipe her shoes on the best-dressed, most suave, most hat-raising masculine automaton that ever walked if she had reason to believe he was cowardly, selfish, hypocritical and untrustworthy. It's exactly the same about the flag. Now to pick out some of the hypocrites.
First in the list is Mayor John J. Burns, of Burlington, Vermont. Burns believes and practices rude, malicious, and unlawful treatment of Christian girls 15 and 18 years of age. He denies them the right of petition. He shouts at them on the public streets while they are engaged in doing work which the Supreme Court of the United States says they have a perfect right to do. He is so small that he accuses them of stepping on the grass, and finally he orders police to kidnap the girls (a crime on the face of it) and eject them from town; which was done.
Without a doubt, if Mayor Burns would see two of those black scarecrows in maternity gowns walking down the street he would lift his hat with the utmost politeness. The Burlington Free Press gives a picture of the mayor reading "the booklet entitled Judge Rutherford Uncovers Fifth Column". The mayor stands a chance to learn something out of that booklet, whether he ever learned anything before or ever learns anything thereafter.
Referring to the conduct of Mayor Burns the Waterbury Record contains an article by "Rev." A. Richie Low, in which Mr. Low says with good common sense:
We are afraid that if you begin by "choking off" Jehovah's witnesses there is a possibility that some other minority group may receive similar treatment later on. Better treat 'em all alike, sinner and saint, big and small, orthodox and "heretic".
More Mistreatment of Women
At Merced, California, City Judge A. H. Groesel issued warrants for the arrest of two girls, Barbara Laing, 22, and her sister Evelyn, 17, charging them first with canvassing and then, when he found this was wholly ridiculous in view of the stand of the United States Supreme Court, he changed the complaint to trespassing, and also changed the name of the signer of the complaint. In the first place Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller and Thomas Hayes signed the complaint charging that the girls called on them (which is not illegal) and "started a dispute". Wouldn't it be a wonderful civilization where nobody would dare disagree with anybody about anything? After the second complaint was signed by police officer Dean Dudley, this brave judge courageously jailed these two girls for lack of $100 cash bail or $500 property bond each. Talk about sitting on the bench, this bird would be unfit for even a recitation bench.
Another candidate for judicial honors would be one who at Connersville, Indiana, tried to force two women to confess something of which they were not guilty, and failed in the attempt. Others were bluffed into admitting that they had desecrated the flag by refusal to salute it, and were let off by this fungus growth in ermine, but he ran up against the real thing in the cases of Mrs. Lucy McKee and Mrs. Grace Trent. They decided they would rather be in jail than lie and get their liberty. So this buffoon kept them there for weeks in the hottest summer known in years and went off on a vacation. They finally got out on a writ of habeas corpus; but when that judge comes up for his own sentence at Armageddon it will be a different story.
At Gibsonburg, Ohio, four men, four women and eleven children were kept prisoners in their meeting hall until 4:30 in the morning, until the mayor, John W. Henline, and five police had made them promise to hold no more meetings in Gibsonburg. The children ranged in age from eight to sixteen years. Who incited this mob is not known, but these officers would have been perfectly justified in shooting to kill every person who prevented these peaceful people from leaving their hall, after their evening's meeting was over.
On the same night a similar scene occurred at Mooresville, Indiana, where forty-seven persons were compelled to spend the night and a little girl of eight was cut by glass when a window of the hall was broken, by an egg and lemon bombardment from the outside. In this case, un-American War Veterans (probably drafted) incited the riot.
Another disgrace to the legal profession made his appearance at Hanford, California, where Judge K. Van Zante sentenced five of Jehovah's witnesses to ninety days each, and held the bail at $1000 each, making it twice the amount set before the imposition of the jail sentences. Two of the five were women, a mother and her daughter.
Jehovah's Theocracy publishers and their Kingdom Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah
Outrages Against Children
There is no law compelling grown folks to salute the flag, but some people seem to think that the school boards should now take it out on the boys and girls who desire to obey God. The flag decision voiced by Justice Frankfurter paves the way.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contains a picture of a thin, anxious-looking mother, her husband and four beautiful children with the news that the husband had been fired from his WPA job with the information that as long as he was looking to the Deity for enlightenment, he might as well look to the Deity for substance. All right, the Lord's arm is not shortened in Seattle, but without reasonable question the men responsible for this attack upon the lives of these four beautiful children will die soon and perhaps die of starvation. The family's name in this instance is Coyle (W.H.).
At Melvindale, Detroit, Michigan, Brazel B. Peppenhorst, twelve years in the pump-house, was fired because of his conscientious refusal to salute any flag.
Only three days earlier, at the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, there was a big flag dedication at which apparently everybody except the "Reverend Father" Moran of St. Francis Xavier church saluted the flag. The picture (page 9) shows all the big bugs nearest the microphone saluting the flag, but the "Reverend Father" Moran, of the Roman cult, holds his hat over his paunch with both hands. The question is how a hard-working mechanic can conscientiously refuse to salute the flag and lose his job and a racketeer who never did anything of value to his fellow men could be too lazy, or conceited, or both, to raise his hand, and yet continue to be probably the best-paid man in the community. "Reverend Father" Moran offered a written prayer to the Devil on that occasion.
Other Outrages
At Charleroi, Pennsylvania, twenty of Jehovah's witnesses were arrested for exercising their right to placing magazines on the streets.
Eight of these were children from eight to fifteen years of age. The children were sent home and the others were sent to jail. At Delphi, Indiana, pioneers Roy and Lillian Marie Thompson were arrested on the same ridiculous charge.
At Albany, New York, Police Chief William J. Fitzpatrick, not having heard much about the Bible and not knowing or caring much about the decision of the Supreme Court, stated there must be no more circulation of petitions or distribution of Christian literature in Albany without official sanction from the city hall, which means from himself or the one to whom he confesses. A fat chance any of Jehovah’s witnesses would have of doing in Albany the work Almighty God commanded them to do if they first had to get the consent of any priest.
Detroit has one paper that advertises that it has been “on guard for a century”. It did not say what it has been guarding, but it seems that it is just one of the watchdogs of the Hierarchy, whose principal office in life is to see that none shall dare tell the truth about the ‘old whore’. But the Detroit News rises to a higher level. It dared at convention time to say a few kind things about Jehovah’s witnesses; that they did not seem different from other people; that Detroit has a reputation as a tolerant city (despite the Free Press); that Jehovah’s witnesses are conscientious Christians; that there is no act of Congress that requires a salute to the flag; and that Detroit “should be proud to proclaim that even in time of public danger the First Amendment to the Constitution is still the law in this community”.
At Norman, Oklahoma, two of Jehovah’s witnesses were arrested, but, according to newspaper reports, “were released when prosecuting attorneys said they knew of no state charge which could be filed against them.” Now, isn’t that too bad? Maybe they can think of something.
At Sundance, Wyoming, Doctor C. D. Waffel, osteopath, one of Jehovah’s witnesses, was kidnaped and driven twenty-five miles out of town and left to walk back. He was threatened with death at the point of the bayonet in the hands of a member of the American Legion; was cursed and abused. Waffel (of South Dakota) threatens legal action against all members of the Legion known to him. Also against the county. He claims that the Legion men themselves had the key to the jail.
Here’s an editorial from the Pittsburgh Press entitled “ ‘Defenders’ of the Flag” which speaks for itself:
Eight prisoners, working outside the county jail at Pottsville, Pa., overheard what they considered an unpatriotic remark by a man passing by. One of the prisoners demanded that the man salute the American flag on the Courthouse staff. He, being a member of a religious sect which believes saluting the flag to be sinful image-worship, refused. The eight prisoners dragged him into the Courthouse basement, beat him and daubed him with paint.
Mobs of free citizens, here and there in the country, have been committing such outrages in the name of patriotism. But here was a mob of jailbirds—law-breakers being supported at public expense for the protection of Society—undertaking to enforce their ideas of patriotism on a man who, however misguided, violated no law by refusing to salute the flag.
This, surely, must be almost the ultimate example of how the flag and the ideals it represents can be desecrated by its “defenders”.
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Theocratic publishers, Bedford, England
The Voice of Protest
The voice of protest rises here and there. The Protestant Digest, referring to the mob actions from Maine to California, said, “Jehovah’s witnesses will not give in. The Supreme Court has met something stronger than itself." This is in every sense of the word a very remarkable statement, and it is true.
The Michigan Christian Advocate says similarly and with equal courage:
However much we may disagree with the theology and techniques of the sect Jehovah's witnesses, all of us instinctively feel a sense of admiration for their sincerity of conviction, their courage and their persistency. Many pastors wish they had a few more members in their churches who had a little more of these qualities, and no doubt there are laymen who wish their preachers would show a little more of them too. The fact is Jehovah's witnesses and their recent publicity have served to supply a contrast, which, if appreciated by our churches, should say something pertinent to them.
Here is a group that, in this year of our Lord 1940, is not ashamed to witness for Christ in an unmistakable manner. It believes in Jesus and makes it known. In a day when religion has taken on a kind of compromising sophistication, when some church members think membership an end instead of the beginning of witnessing for Christ, when all too many of us hesitate to speak a testimony for fear of embarrassment, these Witnesses come on the contemporary scene as a challenge to our pagan complacency.
Nor are they afraid of the consequences of their acts to themselves. They do not count the cost. Aside from the times they have violated city ordinances and the technicality of the law, there have been innumerable instances when they should have received the support and protection of the law when they did not. They have had their property destroyed. They have been driven from towns where for years they were known as respectable citizens. They have been beaten and their lives have been threatened. Every form of persecution has been theirs. But they carry on apparently undismayed. Their lot is not unlike that of the early Christians who set out against a pagan Roman Empire to bring Christ to the world.
The New York Journal and American says that nothing is more shameful in the United States than the treatment Jehovah's witnesses have received and that it is an edifying spectacle for Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. The American Civil Liberties Union offered a reward of $500 for the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of any person who took part in the assaults of Jehovah's faithful people at Litchfield, Ill., Rawlins, Wyo., Jackson, Miss., and Tillamook, Oreg. That ought to be easy money for somebody, and here is hoping that they collect it.
The Journal-Every Evening, Wilmington, Delaware, says there is no essential difference between what has been done to Jehovah's witnesses and the old witchhunts of New England or lynchings in the South.
The Salem (Oreg.) Capital Press says,
Those who attack Jehovah's witnesses are the kind of people who would pelt a crippled kitten with rocks and then stick out their chests and brag about their prowess as lion-killers.
In the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News a country judge, and a good one, too, says something that makes a man wish that there were a judge like him in every court in the land. This man, who is too modest to give his name, but who lives at Yellow Springs, Ohio, says:
Persecuting a few Amish, Dunkards or Jehovah's witnesses will have absolutely no effect upon possible dangerous "fifth column" elements in America. In fact, the mob is just the place where your "fifth columnist" is most vociferous in his proclamation of loyalty to that which he would like to destroy. There are some loud-mouthed disloyal Americans who will in the coming months salute the flag with one hand, meanwhile using the other to sell military secrets, scrap iron, munitions and anything else salable to those very governments most likely to use them against us.
Also one upright on other side; Bedford, England
Announcing The Theocracy over microphone, in four languages, in Burma
--Some Kind Words
In the midst of the flood of abuse that has poured forth from such rotten sheets as Life and many other syndicated and local articles attacking Jehovah's witnesses and misrepresenting them, and (as The Saturday Evening Post, for example) seeking to bring further persecutions upon them, there have been a few remarkable exceptions. The Bloomington (Ind.) Telephone contains a two-column story by P. W. Bradfute which seems not to contain a single unkind or untrue statement except that the writer does use the word "sect" throughout his article, and this Jehovah's witnesses are certainly not. There is also an excellent article in the Washington (D.C.) Daily News, July 12. This also seems to be truthful and friendly.
An article in Time of July 29 is also a fair presentation and contains an excellent picture of Judge Rutherford as he really is and not as the Detroit Free Press tried to make him appear to be.
The Salem (Oreg.) Capital Journal says of Jehovah's witnesses that they have proved by their record of thirty-five years in Salem that they are law-abiding, order-loving, good citizens. The Oregon Grange Bulletin demands that the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses cease forthwith.
In the New York Sun, Raymond V. McNally thinks it about time that the patriotic witch-hunters cease their assaults on Jehovah's witnesses and their little ones, and go after the high-pressure group who are asking the government to protect them from competition.
In the Columbus (Ohio) Sunday Dispatch G. H. L. Beeman, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Wooster, Ohio, thinks it a pity that Governor Bricker should refuse the use of the Fair Grounds on religious grounds. He says:
Is there any statute which requires any American citizen to salute the flag? I was brought up in Ohio (at New Lexington). Never in my school days was I asked to salute any flag. I have only heard of such a ceremony in recent years.
In the Morning Free-Press, Easton, Pennsylvania, Clare Swisher said:
Before the European war started us singing God Bless America and advertising our patriotism in the newspapers, we paid no attention to the failures of the Witnesses to salute our country's flag. Back in those sober days, we were able to realize Jehovah's witnesses did not salute the flag for the same reason a Catholic does not eat meat on Friday, or a dyed-in-the-wool Methodist doesn't dance on Saturday evening. . . .
Perhaps it might be well if we calmed down, and realized that the really dangerous fellow in our midst is saluting the flag with the fervor of a Nathan Hale or Paul Revere. He leaves no stone unturned to impress upon fellow citizens that he too is heart and soul with the U.S.A. The man who is planning to steal a war secret, mine New York harbor or shoot the President is not going to tell the whole country he won't salute the flag. Indeed not. He is going to wear out his right arm saluting the flag he is planning to destroy.
Equality magazine, speaking of the persecution of Jehovah's witnesses, identifies the persecutor with Hitler, and that, of course, is the absolute truth. Hitler and the Hierarchy are working together for the domination of the earth, and both Hitler and Goebbels were Jesuit-trained and use Jesuit methods. Equality says:
We shall not end Hitlerism abroad by establishing Hitlerism at home. There are people in America, and some of them used to be liberals, who spend a suspicious amount of energy beating the bushes for aliens and reds and religious zealots, but never seem to have time to investigate avowed terrorists, Fascists, and anti-Semites.
This sort of behavior is strange in a democracy. It is familiar in the best German circles and is the basic form of propaganda used by those who are up to no good.
The Charleston News and Courier says of the witnesses that it "knows nothing and cares less", but that they have a right to do the work in which they are engaged. It then says:
The News and Courier, concerned for its own freedom to express opinion, is concerned for the right of other people to express opinion as long as it be not criminal.
Nor does The News and Courier believe that saluting the American flag or any other flag should be compulsory. In the army and navy it may properly be compulsory, but The News and Courier objects to extension of this compulsion to civilians, adults or children.
The Confederate soldiers did not salute flags. Hampton's "Red Shirts" had banners, plenty of them, and did not salute them. If Americans cannot love their country and fight for it without first going through these salutations, the republic would as well shut up shop.
Those who are able to do so write some wise and kindly letters to the newspapers and get them published, but persons with very limited education or poor ability to present the truth in a reasonable light had better leave that work to others. There were some fine letters from H. W. Beck and Mrs. Steve Thomas in the Arkansas Gazette, and an excellent editorial in the Noblesville (Ind.) Daily Ledger as a result of a visit to the editor by Frank A. Julian.
As a result of a call by two of Jehovah's witnesses on the sheriff of Smith County, Texas, i.e., by Miss Flora Murphy and Miss Adalea Inman, an excellent and favorable column article about the witnesses appeared in the Tyler (Texas) Courier-Times, just when the outrages in Texas were at their worst. The publication of this story had an excellent effect upon the people of that entire part of Texas.
A Striking Example
After the county detective of McKean County, Pa., had distinguished himself by saying that hereafter Jehovah's witnesses would have to keep out of McKean county, or else keep still about God's kingdom while they were there, the Bradford company of Jehovah's witnesses, by its company servant, A. P. DeRosia, wrote the following letter to the Bradford Era, the most influential paper in the community, and they published every word of it. Surely this was worth while, both for the witnesses and for the Era, which was much more than a cup of cold water and will not be forgotten by the Lord:
Owing to the controversy concerning Jehovah's witnesses and in fairness to them, we as members of the local company take this means of pointing out our position to honest-hearted, liberty-loving people of Bradford.
First of all, we are not political, neither are we Nazis, Communists or Fascists. We are members of Jehovah's organization and are His witnesses, whose duty and privilege it is to testify to the name and supremacy of Jehovah that the old world has ended; that the Lord Jesus Christ has been placed by Jehovah upon His throne of authority; that the relief and blessings of the people of earth can come only through Jehovah's kingdom, under Christ, which has now begun.
This message should not be subversive to any who will name the name of Christ. The fact that we declare the judgment written against those who for centuries have taught and injected creature worship into the minds of the masses and have taken unto themselves high-sounding titles and demanded the reverence which alone belongs to God, is reason for our persecution. Jesus said, 'I seek not the honor of men. How can ye hear me who seek honor one of another?'
If the higher powers spoken of in the 13th chapter of Romans refer to governments and constituted authorities of the world, could it not be construed to mean the dictatorial governments of Europe? Do those who resist the ordinances of Mussolini, Franco and Hitler resist the ordinance of God? We recognize the higher powers to be Jehovah God and His Son, Christ Jesus. "There is no power but of God." Those rulers are not a terror to God's obedient creatures. God is His own interpreter.
Jehovah's witnesses were the first to receive the most cruel persecution in Germany. They refuse to "heil" and salute Hitler. The result is that many are still kept rotting in the prison camps as an example to those who would dare to name the name of Jehovah. Many have suffered martyrdom. "Perhaps it was by choice or deliberate planning." The same could be said of Jesus Christ and most of His apostles, "the troublesome sect of the Nazarene."
As the prophet Daniel refused to bow before the golden image, which foreshadowed totalitarianism, so now we refuse to break the first commandment of the Lord and will obey God rather than man. It is an easy matter to follow the band and shout with the crowd, but it takes real faith and courage to stand out against the modern Goliath.
We are tax-paying, law-abiding citizens and will obey every law of the land that does not conflict with the law of God. Therefore we 'render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God that which is God's'. The state has nothing to fear from Jehovah's witnesses. 'He that is for us is greater than all that can be against us.'
The little company of Jehovah's witnesses in this locality have practically all been born and raised on McKean county soil. What other country or what other flag do we know? Many of us who have brothers sleeping in France or have nursed and cared for those who returned broken in mind and body have given as much, no doubt, and possibly more to the flag than those who today are so outwardly patriotic.
Does the flag stand for taking the liberties of a few or their God-given right to worship Him according to the dictates of their own conscience, or does it stand for mob violence? To those who think it does we would suggest the reading of the Constitution, Matthew's gospel and the book of Acts. There are no other people on earth today who have greater love of liberty and the ideals for which the flag stands, but we stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ made us free, and cannot become entangled with the yoke of bondage. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The flag is not the issue, but is being used as the penny was used in Jesus' day, as a trap to becloud the real issue. We at least have never asked that any other flag be raised above the American flag at any time or for any purpose.
So we shall continue to proclaim, to hail, to salute, to prostrate ourselves before Him to whom all power in heaven is given, Christ Jesus the King, and His kingdom, which is the only hope of the world.
Counsel by Rutherford
Vindication
WHOSE name, above all, must be vindicated? and why is it necessary to vindicate His name? The time is at hand when the name of Jehovah the Most High must and will be completely vindicated. The name Jehovah means His purpose toward His creation. “Vindication” means to prove that His Word is always right and true and that His name stands for righteousness and truth and that He will completely destroy all things of unrighteousness and will favor and preserve and keep only those who love righteousness and who do right.
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