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       From ROMANISM, by Father Jeremiah J. Crowley, 1912.
                       (Page 122 to 126.)

                          CHAPTER VIII.

                        PAPAL DESPOTISM.

     Nothing more startling has ever been put before the public
than Rome's recent resolutions of boycott of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, Watson's Magazine, the Protestant Magazine, the Menace,
etc., and her attitude as Censor of the United States Mails. At the
annual convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies,
held at New Orleans, November 13-16, 1910, resolutions were passed
calling for the passage of Federal laws to prevent the transmission
by the United States mails of matter offensive to the Roman
Catholic Church. In these resolutions postoffice employees were
boldly called upon to destroy, without any warrant of law, any such
mail in transit. The leading ecclesiastic at this convention was
Archbishop Falconio, Papal Delegate to the Roman Catholic Church in
America.

     Archbishop Falconio had good reasons for tendering his
sincerest congratulations to the American Federation of Catholic
Societies at its convention held at Columbus, Ohio, August 20-24,
1911, for its "rapid progress" and "the effective good work
accomplished" by it. He was fully aware, I presume, of the
destruction of much printed "matter offensive to the Church" in the
postoffices of the United States of America since their last
reunion at New Orleans.

     I know that several large parcels of printed matter mailed at
the General Postoffice in Chicago during the months of December,
1910, and January and February, 1911, never reached their
destination. This destruction commenced immediately after their New
Orleans convention. On receipt of numerous complaints from
subscribers the sender called on the postoffice authorities for an
explanation, but received no satisfaction whatever. This party's
mail continued to be held up, and, surmising the cause, the sender
threatened public exposure of such unlawful action on the part of
the Postoffice Department. This threat of exposure scared Rome and
her Jesuitical agents, and since then the mail of said party has
been unmolested. Ah, Rome fears publicity!

     Meanwhile, to divert attention from their own criminal acts,
they are loudly inveighing against the circulation of obscene
matter through the mails; and by obscene matter they mean all
matter inimical to the Church of Rome. Non-Catholics think they
mean indecent and licentious matter.




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     The inconsistency of the private lives of popes, cardinals,
prelates, priests and monks as compared with the deference exacted
by them in public from Catholics and non-Catholics alike, is, to
say the least, ridiculous: for example, decollete gowns and peek-
a-boo waists are out of order at formal receptions for male members
of the Hierarchy. Any one who knows the kind of pictures and
indecent realities that most delight the eyes of the Roman Catholic
Hierarchy will not be faked by any pretended shock that they may
profess to experience on contemplation of the nude in art, much
less decollete gowns at formal functions.

     As a satisfactory evidence of this fact it may be stated that
the telephone companies in different cities have threatened to take
away the phones from the residences of some priests because their
conversation was at times so vile that the female operators refused
to receive their messages and threatened to resign if required to
do so.

     The Roman Catholic Hierarchy should be indicted for illegally
using the mails to operate confidence games, chainless letters,
etc., in the alleged behalf of "the poor homeless children," "the
poor orphans," and "the poor suffering souls in purgatory." No more
shameless and outrageous system of fraud was ever perpetrated by
men.

     The American Federation of Catholic Societies, which embraces
the numberless Associations, Societies, Clubs, Church
Confraternities, etc., as well as their widespread military
organizations, is a menace to our freedom and an injury to the
Catholic people whom it pretends to serve. It is a mighty power for
evil in the hands of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

     At the Columbus convention, among other boycotts, a "boycott
was declared against the Encyclopedia Britannica, which boycott was
soon after printed and circulated broadcast throughout the English-
speaking world.

     The following additional proclamation of the same boycott was
issued and circulated with the endorsement of the New York County
Federation of Catholic Societies, of which Cardinal Farley is the
principal under the pope.

     "No Catholic should purchase the eleventh edition of the
Encyclopedia Britannica. No purchaser of it is bound to keep or pay
for a work which falls so far short of the representation of the
editors and publishers. It should be debarred from our public
libraries, schools and other institutions. It should be denounced
everywhere, in season and out of season, as a shameful attempt to
perpetuate ignorance, bigotry and fanaticism in matters of
religion."

     Mr. Samuel Byrne, editor of the Pittsburgh Observer (Roman
Catholic), addressing the Catholic editors at the Columbus
convention, said in part:





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     "I have come here for the purpose of very briefly suggesting
one thing. It is this: That the Catholic editors of the country,
concertedly and persistently, urge their readers to notify the
proprietors and managers of the daily papers that unless they use
instead of the European dispatches of the Associated Press, those
furnished by the newly established Catholic International United
Telegraph Agency, they will withdraw their patronage from them,
either as readers or as advertisers, and will, moreover, boycott
both the offending newspapers and those who advertise in them."

     The boycott is the most powerful weapon and one in constant
use by the Roman Hierarchy. By intimidation, threats and terror,
they are able to suppress literature and destroy private business,
and they do it most effectually. Few and far between are the
newspapers who will dare to print anything which would fall under
the adverse criticism of a priest.

     The owners of newspapers, and especially of the great dailies
which circulate in the large cities where there are many Catholics,
are notified that there will be a sudden drop in their advertising
patronage if they publish or refuse to publish certain matter
condemned or approved by the Censor Bureau of the Roman Catholic
Church, which has its representatives in numerous and extensive
Catholic societies. Non-Catholics, too, who receive from some
source or other information that the Roman Catholics are boycotting
a particular paper, withdraw their advertisements to gratify and
retain Catholic customers. The mere circulation of a city daily
does not pay for the paper on which it is printed; the whole
revenue is derived from their advertisements -- thus the press is
at the mercy of the secret Roman boycott.

     But the boycott is by no means confined to the press. It
reaches out and extends universally in all directions. Business men
and professional men of all kinds are at the mercy of the boycott.
From some mysterious cause, which they can not comprehend, their
patronage falls off, their receipts diminish, and if they do not
make terms when informed of the cause of the falling off of
business, bankruptcy stares them in the face. In many instances
where the Roman Catholic Church possesses the influence, teachers,
clerks, agents, and the ten thousand individuals of humbler rank,
are absolutely at their disposal to be discharged from their places
and turned out upon the world without means of support. These
boycotts are rarely published as such. Sometimes, it is true, on
special occasions when big interests are involved, they do not
hesitate to have the boycott printed and circulated, but in the
vast majority of instances the Roman boycott gets in its deadly
work in the dark. And did anybody ever hear of an injunction being
issued against a Roman boycotter, or any one of these said
boycotters ever being put in contempt of court? So far does the
influence of Rome extend that even the courts themselves, which are
supposed to be the citadels of impartiality and justice, are
prostituted to serve the interests of the, Roman Hierarchy. The
non-Catholic people should engrave it on their memories and keep it
forever fresh in their minds that "eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty."




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     Why prosecute and punish non-Catholic clergymen and other
citizens, while Roman Catholic priests and prelates -- foes of the
nation -- commit similar crimes, and worse, with impunity?

     Why waste time and money in sham efforts to curb the trusts,
and at the same time permit, and even assist, that trust of trusts
-- the Vatican system -- to continue the even tenor of its way?

     If the governments of the United States and of the British
Empire had done their duty toward Catholics and non-Catholics
alike, whose interests have been injured, and sometimes wholly
destroyed by Romanism, the majority of priests and prelates who are
"operating" under the protection of the Stars and Stripes, and the
Union Jack, would be behind the bars -- not a few of them would
have been rewarded with the hempen tie or electric chair.

     Furthermore, if the Government of the United States had done
its plain duty in protecting my rights and interests as an American
citizen during the past ten years, Cardinals Martinelli and
Falconio, Archbishop Quigley, Bishop Muldoon, and many other Roman
ecclesiastics, would now be wearing stripes in penitentiaries as
the guests of Uncle Sam, instead of purple and gold in luxurious
palaces as "Ambassadors of Christ."






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