The paper money of the Government sus
tained the Civil War, and would have been
even more usefid to the country after the
War. But the bankers forced the Govern
ment to burn its notes, so that their notes
should be the money.
This new Democratic bill endorses that vil
la nous principle and proposes to fasten it
upon the people forever.
ff-s a Jeffersonian, a Democrat, a lover of
justice, I DETEST THAT PRINCIPLE,
lished has been explained often to be the
questions which men put to women when the
man and the woman are off to themselves in
the Confessional box.
Any man who puts those questions to a
woman ought to be cowhided within an inch
of his life.
Any man who will knowingly allow
another man to put those questions to his
wife, sister, or daughter, ought to be ashamed
to look his women-folk in the face.
Any man who can put those questions to a
woman, and not feel the fires of sensuality
burning in his veins, is either a eunuch, or
so old that his time has passed.
I have no apologies to make for letting
our people know the horrible secrets of this
Italian church. If my case tends to arouse
my countrymen to the awful dangers of
Roman Catholicism, it will have served a
good purpose.
It cannot much matter to me what hap
pens. In the nature of things, my personal
connection with the case, is its least import
ant feature.
But whether the Italian secret societies
can intimidate others by prosecuting me, is
a question of vast importance.
Whether freedom of the press can be
impaired, is an issue that is hardly second to
any.
