ENJOYS THE STORY OF THE SOUTH AND WEST.

Dear Sir: I have been especially delighted with your historical writings, for they reveal a mind which weighs historical evidence, and which is not merely an instrument for compiling the mixed truths and errors handed down by earlier writers. I have all your published histories and biographies, and consider each a masterpiece.

In your new "Story of the South and West" you showed an insight which time will prove to be correct, and also a refreshing courage in cutting the halo off the head of that fraudulent Papal saint, Columbus, and giving the credit for the discovery of America where it justly eblongs.

Nobody knows better than the men in the Vatican that the Northmen not only discovered the New World, but that from their settlements in Southern Greenland (Eastbygd and Westbygd) their bishops for more than 100 years sent regular reports to Rome, giving the census, records of births and deaths, baptisms and marriages, reports of new discoveries, etc.

But these stiff-necked Norsemen, though they had finally adopted Christianity and had added many of their own ancient ceremonials such as infant baptism and the Yuletide celebration to the then already multifarious ceremonials of the Roman church, were never loved or trusted by the Papa at Rome, for they were intensely democratic and self-willed and never obedient and tractable to his gracious will.

The Northlands have never been conquered either by armed soldiers or surpliced priests-either by sword or superstition. They have always had kings, to be sure, but their ancient laws provided that the freeholders should be fined who did not join in killing any king who tried to dictate to the people. Besides this most effective "recall" they also had the "initiative and referendum." In ancient times any freeholder could call an assembly, propose his law and refer it to the people. A spirit such as this was utterly at variance with the genius of the centralized power at Rome. The Northlands are the cradle of free thought, of the free man, of the jury system, and of the doctrine that law and authority rest only with the people.

Gustavus Adolphus and his followers were embodiments of the spirit of the

North, and this unconquerable spirit has been the barrier which has balked the onward sweep of Rome.

Julius Caesar tells us that on the seas near Britian he had a great battle with a people whom he calls the "Veneti," and who, according to his own admission, "had the advantage." From his description of their superior boats of oak we know that they were an advance guard of the ancient Northmen. They turned back his tide of conquest. He did not attempt to go farthEven though they held all the trading towns on the harbors under tribute, and thus. made Rome's conquest of Britian and Western Gaul valueless, he did not afterwards molest them.

er.

For 2,000 years the conquest has been waged between the open, democratic, liberty-loving spirit of the North and the stealthy, insiduous, light-suppressing, grasping and ambitious power on the Mediterranean.

I would be greatly pleased to see you employ your splendid talents to expose that other hoary myth, namely, the "AngloSaxon" theory of the origin of the Englishspeaking people. There is far less author. ity for s than for the claim that Columbus "discovered" America.

Caesar never encountered or heard of any "Saxons" or "Angles." Neither did Tacitus, 100 years later. That England could have been conquered, after 150 years of constant fighting, by a race which neither before nor since that conquest was ever heard of in its native lands, is an impossible theory. The term "Anglo-Saxon" would never have come into use had it not been for the ignorance of the ancient Roman writers in regard to countries and peoples of the far North, and the fact that modern historians are for the most part mere transcribers.

Beginning with the third century certain Latin and Greek writers applied the term "Saxons" to the light-haired seafaring people of the North, probably from the fact that the long sword of the Northmen was called by themselves a "sax," and one form of the plural would be "saxene." But the context of these writings shows that the writers meant Northmen-the same whom Tacitus had called "Sueones," and who, he said, had great states and mighty fleets on the Baltic.

Archeology has proven that in the peninsulas and islands of the Baltic and

North seas there was a civilization in the time of Moses. Caesar tells that the Germans of his time had practically no civilization; but were dressed in skins and could scarcely make a rude shield. They fought with spears made from sticks burned at one end. The earth finds in Scandinavia prove that in the same period the inhabitants there were miners, metalurgists, skilled artisans, engravers, artists, farmers and traders. The warriors were equipped with beautifully engraved shields and helmets plated with gold and silver and set with jewels. They had swords of Damascus quality and inlaid with runic letters. These were the only people north of Rome who had an alphabet and a literature of their own. They had a mythology as elaborate as that of the ancient Greeks. That they carried on extensive commerce is proven by the fact that thousands of Roman coins dating from the time of Augustus have been found in graves,

mounds and bogs.

That a small tribe of the then uncivilized Germans could have sent wave after wave of

conquerors and settlers into Britian is utterly improbable, That the conquest of England in the fifth and sixth centuries was by the Northmen is proven by (1) the Latin and Greek writers; (2) Archeology; (3) similarity of the so-called Anglo-Saxon words and those of the Northmen; (4) the fact that the people of early England never called themselves Saxons; (5) the old Scandinavian Sagas or Essays; (6) the fact that when authentic history begins England was ruled by Northmen; (7) the similarity between the Englishspeaking people in physical and mental traits and the Norweigans, Swedes and Danes; (8) the fact that the early English laws, customs and institutions are distinctively Norse; (9) the large number of towns in England founded before the begin. ning of authentic history which end in "ham," "by," "ton," "bury," "borough, and other Norse endings.

The term "Anglo-Saxons" was never used till the latter part of the 16th century, and then only by one writer of any note. Not till the latter part of the 19th century did the scholars attempt to throw any light on the period in English history following the departure of the Romans. These scholars found that the medieval Latin and Greek writers had called the conquerors of England "Saxons." That settled it. They blazed the path. The whole literary world is thoughtlessly following in that path today.

For 400 years the enlightened world believed that Columbus was the first white man who had set foot in the New World. Every professor of history today teaches that Hengist and Horsa were Saxons, and that the Saxons were Germans. If he would look it up he would find that "horsa," meaning "horse," is an old Norse word

TRYING TO DESTROY WATSON'S MAGAZINE.

Dear Sir: You have by this time, no doubt, received my letter of last Friday, the 9th, which I posted at the postoffice at 10:30 p. m., relating to you my experience with the news dealers of this city, concerning Watson's Magazine, including that with the Washington News Company, located at 313 Sixth Street, N. W.

The Washington News Company has not yet let out Watson's Magazine to the news dealers, or to the public.

This morning I was talking to an employe of a news dealer, corner 9th and G, N. W., and I asked him why the Washington News Company did not let out Watson's Magazine to the public. He answered: "They tell me at the Company's office that they are holding them subject to the orders of the Post Offic officials. Thy also tell me they are holding them subject to the orders of the News Company of New York City, of which the company in Washington is a branch."

I said: "It has been suggested that Watson may be in financial difficulty with them and that they are held for payment of back indebtedness-what do you know about

it?"

He answered: "Nothing, and I don't think that. From what they told me at the Company's office they are held on complaint somehow by the Roman Catholics through the post office."

I asked: "How does the news company get Watson's Magazines?" He answered: "By express, I think." I said: "It is clear, then, that the post-office officials have no part in the hold-up, for not only is it out of their jurisdiction, by such mode of delivery, but had they been delivered by mail, delivery would have ended their control." I said further:

"The story afloat that the post-office officials are holding up the Washington News Company's consignment of Watson's Magazines because such magazine contains matter obnoxious to Roman Catholics is a simon pure cock-and-bull story-a lie of the first order-manufactured by the Roman Catholics to injure Watson's Magazine's business, in the first place, and, in the second, to mislead the public in trying to make them think the P. O. department has espoused their side. It is tommyrot and damnable Jesuitical tactics resorted to by idiots who have not enough sense to see it Iwill be to their hurt in ringing greater publicity to their, rascality than would their silence."

I repeated the same thing to the newsdealer himself (corner 9th and G) and he

answered: "That is true. I could have sold 300 Watson's Magazines for March if I could have gotten them. The February edition was all sold out. I had a hard time in getting that."

I said: "I don't for one instant believe the Postoffice Department is lending a hand in such nefarious persecution of Mr. Watson. I think it the devilish work of local Irish Catholics, led by Jesuit priests, in fanatical effort for political power, in service of their foreign Pope at Rome. They will stop at nothing in their attempt to destroy free institutions ana the turning of this Protestant country into a Portugal's plight of Papal blight. When we get at the inside facts of Watson's hold-up here by the Washington News Company, we will know that it is not at the instance or order of the U. S. government officials, but at the instance of the New York headquarters directing its Washington bureau, and the Washington News Co. itself, under pressure of fear of Roman Catholic threat and boycott. Further, I predict that when all is known it will be learned that the head of the New York concern, possibly the controlling factor, has held up Watson's Magazine of his own accord at the demand and threat of Roman Catholic boycott, or else he himself may be a fanaticbal Roman Catholic. Do you know the name of the New York Company?" He answered: "It was O'Brien last year, I think: don't know who this year." "Well," I answered, "O'Brien is a pretty good pointer towards the secret of Watson's hold-up."

I then said: "It has been a hard matter for me to get Watson's Magazine from news-dealers, and, from my questioning them, I have come to the conclusion that most of them are Roman Catholics, who have been warned be their priests to drop Watson's Magazine from their counters."

He answered: "It may be true. I have been asked to drop it." I asked: "Do you carry The American Citizen?'" "I do," he answered, "right alongside 'The New Century.' The late 'Father' Stafford asked me to drop it from my counter, but I answered: 'No, I am serving the whole public." "That is true American spirit," I answered. He replied: "The present man who followed Dr. Stafford has never asked me to discontinue that or any other, but other Roman Catholics have."

I answered: "Father' Stafford was not quite as bigoted, in my opinion, as his successor, Dr. Russell, and where Stafford made personal appeals, Russell has not, but he has organized societies of bigoted Irish Catholics directed by Jesuit priests, who in fanatical manner are asking and demanding the press to suppress criticism of Roman Catholic things, they intrigue to carry Roman Catholic literature because it is Roman Catholic, and even have lawyers to recommend legislation in Roman Catholic prejudices.

Read "The Washing

ton Herald' church notes under 'Catholic' every Saturday for what they do and publish about it."

Of course, it is un-American, but they are not Americans, though they boast it under cloak of their aim. They serve their foreign sovereign a Rome rather than their sovereign government at Washington.

The Irish Papists are the worst element in the United States. England has long had her Irish question, but America has its "Irish question," too, and it is Roman at heart, and would Romanize the country in absolution of the priesthood.

The Irish priests have organized the secret order of Columbus, and call it the right arm of the hierarchy in America. Its whole object it for racial and church aggrandizement. They got Congress to appropriate $100,000 for a monument in this city to Columbus, and they got that $100.000 from Congress when the treasury's resources were so bad off that expenses of an extra session of Congress was in contemplation to avert. The Roman Cath

olics can get most any amount of money out of Congress. They got $150,000 to build a monument here to that poor old lobster, John Barrv, as "Father of the American Navy." They mixed church and state in Congress by getting Congress to name the head of the Columbuses as one with equal power with the Secretary of State and other state officers in the erection of the Columbus monument. They would have bills before Congress for a "Columbus Day" holiday, thus reaching out for a church day holiday for the parade of the Columbuses-the right arm of the hierarchy. Congress will give it for a Roman Catholic church depository, the right of Protestants, and defying the principle of separation of church and state in government.

In order to advertise themselves and in effort to make history, they have devised a "Pan-American Thanksgiving, which the President of the United States lends his presence in mixing church and state, and dropping the people of his church. They have devised "military mass meetings" for them, and here in Washington the other day on the monument grounds, is great advertisement and future history-"a military mass for the Spanish War dead," and the President gives it official sanction by his presence. The repression of Protestants is appalling. They sink with destruction. The other day over in Baltimore, the President took care in his speech to Cardinal Gibbons to say he was not present in an official capacity. He is slow to learn, or he would have said the same thing at the unveiling mass and "Pan-American Thanksgiving." Think of his giving up an American Thanksgiving for a mongrel "Pan-American" skunk! All such stuff is a bantering for political party profit that is fast bringing this country to a di

vision between a national party and a church party, and the soner it comes the better for free institutions, for it is certain to come, as Portugal is now trying to wrest herself from its curse.

The President in lending his position to it, is not statesmanlike, nor is he mindful of his trust to the people.

June 15, 1910; Thursday Night-I have not heard from you. The News Company

is still holding up your magazines.

June 17, 1911; Saturday, 7:00 P. M.Your postal of the 12th, received 16th, I showed to news dealer this morning. He told me that a friend of yours had been to see him to ask him if he would handle 100 from you direct, and he said he would. He seemed to be glad of the prospect of getting this, as he said he wished to serve the whole public.

When I returned to my rooms a few min. utes ago, "The Jeffersonian" greeted me, and, most wonderful of all, on time for the first time since I became its subscriber. I cannot account for it unless the postman read the first page article entitled "The Roman Catholic Prlests Are on the War Path," and, instead of holding it up to show his priest (as I wrote you the 9th, I had inferred from what had taken place) he delivered it on time. Now, I have never gotten my Jeffersonian on time before, and being published on Thursday, it seems to me it should have reached me on Saturday morning, instead of in afternoon delivery, but I have never received it before Tuesday heretofore, and, in April and May, never received two issues at all, and one, that of June 1, was not delivered at my residence until June 7. In view of the facts, I desire you to write me of the mailing hour of "The Jeffersonian," that, in case of delay again, I may have data to place before the P. O. Department with my complaint.

10:00 P. M., June 17-I have just returned from my newsdealer's, 9th and G, N. W., Ham Starne's Old Stand, maybe you remember it. He told me, i. e., my news dealer told me, don't know his name, Ham Adams is dead, that Watson's had arrived, and with finger pointed at a pile, said: "200!" "I'll take two," I said, "and tell all I can, and I think you can sell out." He said: "Mr. Watson sent me 'The Jeffersonian,' one copy. "Oh," I said, "I found mine by mail at my residence today." He said: "I did not know it was published." I answered: "For over eight years, an excellent periodical, too, and you ought to carry it. I will write to Mr. Watson tonight to send you 100 copies, for I think you can sell all, and those reading the first page article will then want to see Watson's Magazine, and so all of them will be sold too, even if you have gotten them so late in this month." He thanked me for my interest.

By the way, when I went into the newsdealer's store, a man was talking to him,

so I engaged an employe, who said: "That man talking to him is the manager of the Washington News Co., and he is reading that article in 'The Jeffersonian' on first page. Watson's a dandy, ain't he? You told me you had written him, and sure enough he has got it in there." I asked: "What has the manager of the News Company to say?" "Well, he has just come in. It is funny that you both should get here together.'

Then the newsdealer-a young man of 35 or 40-came up. While I do not know this man, have seen him many times for many years.

Our conversation was about as recorded above with his clerk.

12:20 A. M., June 18, Sunday morning— Just returned from World office. I continued on to P. O. and wrote you a short letter. Hope you can read it.

Monday, June 20, 7 P. M.-Did not feel like writing you yesterday, and today I do not feel like copying the June 13th part. so will let you fight it out in deciphering.

Yesterday, I went to several news dealers and asked for Watson's Magazine. Some said they had heard of it, but never carried it. Others said: "We did have it once, and dropped it; we hear that the News Company has cut it out of its delivery." To such I showed my copy I got at 9th and G Saturday night, and on showing them said: "Watson's June Magazine was held out by the Jesuits' influence on the News Company, but Watson's Magazine will be on sale at certain places which are well known, and those places that do not sell them because of Jesuitical influence will lose custom and some of their patrons. You will find it a bad rule that won't work both ways, and so you will find that the rascality of the Jesuitical Roman Catholics will be met by fair and square means and measures."

WASHINGTON STUDENT.

A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST REFUSES TO EXPLAIN.

Dear Mr. Watson: I have asked several men here to talk with the priests about your exposures of the "heirarchy," but none of them would do it. So Friday afternoon I decided to act for myself.

A priest lives just around the corner from me, hardly half a block, so I paid him a visit, found him in the yard. He escorted me into his study and I opened fire by telling him that I wanted to become more familiar with the Catholic religion-making no pretenses whatever.

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He then wanted to know what faith I was brought up in, my parents' creed, etc. told him that my father was a Free Thinker, and allowed his children to think and act for themselves, so far as religious views were concerned; and that while I am a Baptist, some of my views are naturally skeptical. He told me I was not to

blame for that, then proceeded to tell me that Christ established one church, the Catholic, going over and over the same thing a number of times, and basting the Prostestants-"heretics!"-with such living words of fire that I could almost feel my flesh shrivel under his scathing accusations, calling all non-Catholics ignoramuses, with no head to construe or interpret for them; saying the Catholics believed what the priest told them, without seeking any further.

I could not get a question in edgeways, so I listened, but I intended for my time to come after awhile.

I kept my eyes glued to his face, but not once did he look at me, or even look up. He then got up and gave me a little book, a sort of dialogue between "Thomas the Soft, and Father the Crafty." I found it almost a monologue. Will send the precious document to you.

Then I proceeded to open the "Ball" by opening your last Magazine at the Catholic Hierarchy and asking him, in a really. I-want-to-know tone, to explain. He came to my side, looked at the heading, then turned quickly away-said he was busy, and refused to talk. I turned to cut 7, page 208, and walked right up to him, made him look at it, and demanded an explanation; he gazed as if fascinated, then turned away, as if dumbfounded at my persistence;

pressed him for an answer, which he evaded by saying he would not read an article against the Catholic hierarchy; I told him it was his duty to read it, and pointedly asked him about that sign of the Phallic-worship-holding the book before him, but he only gave vent to a venomous ejaculation, about "such damnable, devilish"--and the rest of the sentence was only an unintelligible, maudlin murmur. Pale with anger he left me in the study, walked out, picked up his evening paper and sat down under a tree.

Was I to be outwitted in such a manner? Not if I knew myself! I followed him and begged him for an answer. Finally livid with rage and shaking from some emotion (it savored of fear) he caught at the book, saying: "It is damnable, devilish stuff. I will spit on it, and tear it up; and you say I ought to read this damnable attack on the hierarchy. You see I am busy. Go!" (Busy reading the evening paper.) But I am not quite so easy to dismiss. I hung on. I was really enjoying his discomfiture, and told him yes, it was his duty to not only read, but disprove such attacks, and offered to lend him my magazine if he would read and explain how those pagan rites and customs got mixed up with the church of Christ. I had previously repeat

WHY CAN'T PROTESTANT AMERICA SEE?

Dear Friend: I address you in this way because I know you are a friend, staunch and brave, to every liberty-loving man and woman in America. I have been deeply interested in your fearless exposure of Roman Catholicism, true in every word and detail, and every Protestant American ought to rally to your support, for you are surely, and truly, sounding a note of warning that this nation must soon realize, or find itself bound to the greatest enemy that has ever yet threatened American liberty and safety.

Why can not Protestant America see this?

How can Protestant America forget the 1260 years of Romish history during which time more than fifty million Christian souls perished to satisfy this Beast-dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly— "it devoured and break in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet it of.”Dan. 7:7.

Who that reads and thinks can readily see that the Catholic church would do this same thing again if she dared? She is thirsting today for "all the power of the first beast whose deadly wound was healed."-Rev. 13-12.

And if the Protestant churches do not sit up and take notice the Catholic church will some day have the power, right here in free America, to put people to death, for the Book tells us that the deadly wound was healed.

e received the deadly wound in 1798, when the Pope was taken prisoner, dying in exile when the civic power of the church was broken.

Mr. Watson, pray you will never cease to fight this enemy, and that the churches may be awakened to see their position in the matter. They must either fight or yield. May God give you new light each day and give you strength and courage to show the people of our country the danger that ought to be proclaimed by the Protestant churches.

Nashville, Tenn.

MRS. LOLA REEVES.