…“ This
propaganda by the clergy agaist a truly great
American is strongly reminiscent of the propaganda carried on today
against Marxian Socialists, aginst those who challenge the present property
system, and who prove it inequitable, inequitous and immoral, and the epithets
bestowed upon us ( chiiefly by the Roman Catholic clergy ) are almost identical
with those bestowed upon Jefferson by the clergy of his day. The same
defamation of character , the same
falsehood and misrepprentation of principles, and all to a similar end: to
frighten the flock from listening to the
voice of reason, from heeding the counsel of sanity, the pleas for a better,
and more decent and happy world in which to dwell. That the power of
priesthood is as real today as it was in
Jefferson's day – a power matched with a corresponding boldness – has been
recently demostrated by the commands
issue by the Catholic bishops to their flock to boycott moving-picture hauses
which present plays that fail to
pleas them, thas threatening with ruin
those wholly legitimate enterprises
business that may be bold enough to disobey the priesthood.“
From
REVELING of the GREAT
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