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seen American men, women and children flying
for their lives from the fury of Mexican mobs.
They have witnessed their humiliation, their
plunder, they have helped to rob them, to insult
them; to drive them from their homes to the pro
tection of foreign consulates and on board for
eign ships.
They have seen them by hundreds last April,
men, women and children, at Tampico and Man
zanillo seeking the protection of British consuls
and German ships, while not avessel flying the
American flag was there for their aid, help, or
protection.
These peons will now hail the evacuation of
Vera Cruz as another triumph over the hated
gringo.
These Mexican mobs were not punished for
their assaults and outrages upon our people; they
■will not be punished for such deeds, and they
cherish these memories as evidences of their su
periority, their valor, and they are to them proofs
of the weakness of our own people and the cow
ardice of our government or its inability to pro
tect its nationals
It was time to order the evacuation of Vera
Cruz.
The administration can continue to watch and
wait, and Mexico will continue to insult, rob, and
murder our citizens who go there, or any foreign
ers who remain there.
Our troops should never have been snt to Vera
Cruz, if not sent to protect our citizens’ lives and
interests and to compel respect for our flag and
our Nation through the entire domain of Mexico.
It was all right to protect the French nuns and
priests in Vera Cruz.
It was proper and right to arrange for their
safety and their transfer, as their lives were not
safe from those in authority—those we had per
mitted to arm and by those arms and that per
mission to obtain control of that republic.
The administration was justified in saving these
peoples’ lives; justified in saving the lives of any
foreigners in that republic; justified as was the
captain of the German cruiser Dresden last April,
at Tampico, when he landed his sailors and ma
rines at midnight to save the lives of several
hundreds of American men, women and children
from the fury of the howling armed mobs of that
place, while our naval vessels were lolling idle 15
miles away at the mouth of the river. •
When asked by our refugees if he had come
by orders to save them, he answered, "Yes; I am
ordered by humanity to do this work.’’
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Even the New York World, as well as
many of the Southern papers, have been
forced to condemn the Administration fiasco,
and admit that the Wilson policy has been
a failure.
Our Government has been made a laugh
ing stock of, at a cost of over $5,000,000 to
the tax payers, and our flag has not been
saluted.
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Only a few days ago, Turkish forts fired
several shots across the bow of a steam launch
of one of our war vessels, the Tennessee, and
it was several days before an explanation of
the affair was given the public.
After taking her own time to do so, Tur-
UNCLE ALLISON SMITH WRITES
US, ONCE AGAIN.
Dear Sir: Since I have become
so feeble in my eighty-first year, I
have thought I never would ask you
to publish another piece from under
my old hand trembling from so many
years of hard labor, but I see a piece
from under the hand of a Georgian
suggesting Roosevelt to be the next
President and offering to bet his old
hat that Roosevelt would be the next
President; but his views are so very
incorrect. I want to say it should
be Watson for the next President
and Roosevelt his Vice-President. 1
want to say to Mr. J. Allen Ritchen
to ask himself who was the first
originator of Populist principles. Mr.
J. Allen Ritchen, dear sir, there is
not a reading man in Georgia but
what knows Tom Watson is the ori
ginal propogater of the Populist
doctrines, no, not in the United
States; and more than that, there is
no reading man in the United States
but what understands that Watson is
the originator of the country free
delivery of the rural mail route.
Then Mr. J. Allen Kitchen, do you
remember that Mr. Roosevelt re
mained a staunch- Republican as long
as his Presidency lasted? then it
THE JEFFERSONIAN
key informed us that the first shots fired
were blank, but that the coxswain of the
launch paid no attention to the blanks and
that then solid shots were fired in order to
make the coxswain halt, and be warned of the
danger of mines in the harbor.
That was Turkey’s explanation, but the
press reports stated that the captain of the
Tennessee was standing up in the launch, in
full uniform, when his launch was fired upon.
Turkey’s explanation has been accepted
and the incident closed, but how different our
course in this instance and in that of the ar
rest of the boat crew at Tampico?
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Mr. Bryan is now getting sore with the
newspapers, and declares that the newspapers
print certain stories that are not true because
the diplomatists do not say what the news
papers want them to say, and the newspapers
are coming back with the statement that in
stead of the newspapers being falsifiers, Mr.
Bryan has not been truthful in his statements.
Says the World:
THE DARK DEPARTMENT.
"Rumors of peace negotiations are revived by
the newspapers because the diplomatists do not
say what the newspapers want them to say.”
This was the reply given by Secretary Bryan to
a question which he might properly have declined
to answer but which did not justify an intima
tion that the press indulges in deliberate false
hood.
A remarkable change has taken place in Mr.
Bryan since he entered the State Department.
Formerly the most democratic of men, a believer
in the people, a beneficiary himself of a free press
and all his life an opponent of those who would
sequestrate government, in office he has become
secretive and contemptuous of those who in the
interest of publicity seek legitimate informa
tion.
In this spirit it has been his custom not only
to refuse the truth but to reflect upon the man
ners or purposes of those who inquire for it.
Questions that he has not cared to answer he has
pronounced “grossly improper.” Throughout his
department there is an atmosphere of reserve
unknown in the days of his most austere prede
cessors.
A case in point is just now at hand. On Nov.
12 it was publicly reported that Great Britain
and France had protested to Colombia and Ecua
dor against certain violations of neutrality and
that the good offices of the United States had been
asked. First pronouncing the statement false,
Mr. Bryan a day later crustily admitted that rep
resentations had been made to the South Ameri
can republics, but that if any request for our
good offices had been received he did not know it.
In this way the case stood for nearly two
weeks until Wednesday last, when the British
Colonial Under Secretary, in response to questions
as to this affair, told the House of Commons
that the British Government had “deemed it ex
pedient to communicate wiht the Government of
the United States and that the latter had con-
was that h sat down on the Populist
platform, knowing that Watson was
the originator of all these things in
behalf of the common people, and
you know Mr. Kitchen that Watson
has never stood any where else only
for the laboring people, the back
bone of the world. Why not say
Watson for the President and Roose
velt for his vice and moreover Roose
velt should feel honored at that.
Watson has done more good and in
more ways for the common people
than all other men put together in
America, and why he has never
faltered or failed to continue to the
end I am unable to tell —but it is
hard for him to give up the truth
for the people’s cause. Then let us
stand by him while he has got the
money power stunted. We should
never look back or listen to enemies
when they are abusing him for work
ing in the interest of the common
toiling class. I am an old man and
have been a hard toiling man my
whole life time and only a short edu
cation, but I have stood side by side
with Tom Watson for 30 years.
However the second time that Hoke
Smith hade his race Tom wrote to
me that Hoke had no fiirmness at all,
yet I went on and am so ashamed of
it today that I as guilty as if
I had stolen a big fat hog, and if I
were on oath today I would swear
that I believed that Hoke was
the trickiest trickster that ever
placed himself before the peo
ple in the State of Georgia,
and there is not an unbiased man
but what is obliged to see it, and
Tom will never stop until he shows
it to the people at large. God grant
how soon it may be that he may be
snowed under for all time to come,
accompanied with Hardwick.
Now my brother J. Allen Kitchen
I fully believe when you take a re
trospective view of Watson and
Roosevelt, and of their past life and
their firmness and ability, that you.
will change your mind as to which
one of them should be President and
which should be the Vice-President.
While of course if such things as
that should come before them Wat
son would stand in his own shoes
and would represent himself as he
has had some experience in a simi
lar way, and was shamefully mis
treated. While Wilson is the great
est failure as a President that we
have ever had and can never be be
fore ’the people any more—the next
contest is bound to be between the
Republicans and the Populist or
Jeffersonians, as the Jeeffrsonian
sented to communicate with Colombia and Ecua
dor.”
They have a responsible Ministry in Great Brit
ain, but in this country we have a responsible
press and people. It will be seen that the people
of Great Britain represented in Parliament were
able to get information which the people of the
United States represented by their press were' re
fused. The response was as courteous in one case
as it was discourteous in the other.
The United States is the one great nation at
peace. If it were not for its newspapers contend
ing hourly with unreasoning censorships abroad
the world would be in almost as great ignorance
of the actual progress of events as it was during
the Crusades. Every one will admit that our for
eign affairs cannot always be discussed from the
housetops, but is that any reason why requests
for information should be met at the State De
partment by misinformation and mockery?
Diplomatic language this is,in which our
Secretary of Sta.te is accused of being irre
sponsible, as well as doing what he accuses
the newspapers of doing.
“Given a flour-mill, a bakery, and a priest, in
numerable Gods could be produced in every wheat
field. “The House of Hapsburg,” in Watson’s
Magazine for December.
Watson’s Magazine
THOS. E. WATSON, Editor.
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THOMSON, GEORGIA.
Democrats have stolen about all the
Populist platform—it is bound to
bring the farmer and laboring people
together—and when laboring people
can get to thinking they will be
sure to come together. Then it can
be said, blessed is he that holdeth
out faithfully to the end. While
Tom Watson has been pierced on
every side and in every way that a
man could be pierced and tortured,
the faith he had in the laboring
people coming to the top never went
under. He would fight and fight
again, and has written the same
thing over and over hundreds and
hundreds of times that the common
people might finally understand it
and come out from under the money
power. Surely his faith and 30
years work is not to be lost, and in
my last words let me ask the united
laboring people to step in one ring
and be a power that will put the
money power down.
Respectfully,
Ga. ALLISON D. SMITH. 1
Read Foreign Missions Exposed,
by Thos. E. Watson. Beautifully
printed. Profusely illustrated. Price
30 cents. The Jeffs, Thomson, Ga.
