Priceless, as an example of backwoods credulity feeding on religious bigotry, is the story (said to emanate from the Ku Klux Klan) that the 1917 Series of one-dollar greenbacks carries Catholic propaganda.
One Barrett, vigilant patriot of Los Angeles, wrote to William G. McAdoo about it. He received a reply stating that the 1917 Series is printed from the identical designs and engraved plates adopted by Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Mc-Adoo added:
The statement in your letter that this one-dollar bill "has the picture of the Pope...
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