are working for the Kaiser. Sir Roger
Casement was raised a Catholic, and so also "Jim" Larkin, the Irish
labor-leader who _is_ touring America denouncing the Allies. The
Catholic Bishop of Melbourne opposed and beat conscription in
Australia, and it was Catholic propaganda of treachery among the
ignorant peasant-soldiers from Sicily which caused the breaking of the
Italian line at Tolmino. So deeply has this instinct worked that, in
the fall of 1917 while the Socialist party in New York was campaigning
for immediate peace, the Catholic Irish suddenly forgot their ancient
horrors. The Catholic "Freeman's Journal" published nine articles
favoring Socialism in a single issue; while even "The Tablet," the
diocesan paper, began to discover that the Socialists were not such
bad fellows after all. The same "Tablet" which a few years ago allowed
Father Belford to declare that Socialists were mad dogs who should be
"stopped with a bullet"!

P. S. The reader will be interested to know that for the
statements on page 155, Upton Sinclair was described as a
"scoundrel" by a former prime minister of the Austrian
Empire, and brought suit against the gentleman, and after a
court trial was awarded damages of 500,000 crowns--about $7
in American money.

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#BOOK FOUR#

#The Church of the Slavers#

Bee, underneath the Crown of Thorn,
The eye-balls fierce, the features grim!
And merrily from night to morn
We chaunt his praise and worship him--
Great Christus-Jingo, at whose feet
Christian and Jew and Atheist meet!

A wondrous god! most fit for those
Who cheat on 'Change, then creep to prayer;
Blood on his heavenly altar flows,
Hell's burning incense fills the air,
And Death attests in street and lane
The hideous glory of his reign.

--Buchanan

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#Face of Caesar#

The thesis of this book is the effect of fixed dogma in producing
mental paralysis, and the use of this mental paralysis by Economic
Exploitation. From that standpoint the various Protestant sects are
better than the Catholic, but not much better. The Catholics stand
upon Tradition, the Protestants upon an Inspired Word; but since this
Word is the entire literary product, history and biography, science
and legislation, poetry, drama and fiction of a whole people for
something like a thousand years, it is pos