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XL Ii c Jjeftcrsonian
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Thomson, Ga., December 10, 1914.
Who Got the Buy-a-Bale Money?
'T'IIE following letters need no “key:"
My Dear Mr. Watson: I see from Jeffersonian
issues that you are after the buy-a-bale-commit
tee up in Atlanta. lam sending you a letter copy
and an answer to same from these people. I was
trying to sell three bales of cotton for a tenant
hero who was really in hard circumstances with
a large family to suppost. After I got the letter
from them which I send you herewith, with their
envelope and all, I wrote them another letter and
described the circumstances of THIS TENANT
to the Buy-a-able crowd, offering three of his
bales for sale. To this I receiveci no response,
though this letter was directed to the office of
the Buy-a-bale of Cotton Committee as directed
by the envelope.
1 suspect you are correct. These people—H.
Y. McCord et.al., bought this cotton and sold it
to these numerous purchasers. It seems to have
been a swindle, and the Georgian and McCord
committee were on to the racket. Very truly,
Forsyth, Ga. LOCAL LAWYER.
The Atlanta Georgian,
Atlanta, Georgia.
My Dear Sir: I have three bales of cotton
produced by my own efforts, which I Avant you
to seii for me at the 10 cents a pound price. I
can ship it to you at once and draw sight draft
for the amount less two years subscription to the
Atlanta Georgian, which is past due. Why not
accommodate your patron and sell his cotton for
the 10 cents, and enable him to continue to take
the best paper in the world, to-Avit —the Atlanta
Georgian ?
Hoping you will give me an order for the cot
ton I have the honor to remain, Very truly,
Forsyth, Ga., Sep. 29th, 1914.
The next one. is this one:
H. V. McCord, Chairman H. T. Moore, Secretary
BUY A BALE OF COTTON COMMITTEE
Committee
Beaumont Davison H. Strauss
H. Y. McCord IL T. Moore
W. A. Parker.
Office of the Secretary
303 Chamber of Commerce Building.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 3, 1914.
Dear Sir: Your letter of the 29th ult., ad
dressed to the Atlanta Georg an has been referred
to this committee for attention.
I beg to advise that under our plan we can
only purchase one bale from tenant farmers liv
ing within the Atlanta zone. As information will
state that all of our orders to buy have been
accomplished, however, your application to sell
has been filed, and if Ave find that Ave can place
any of your cotton in the future, will advise.
Regretting our inability to aid you at this time,
beg to remain, Yours very truly,
HARRY T. MOORE, Secretary.
COMMENT BY UNCLE AVATSON.
(1.) What counties compose the Atlanta
zone ?
(2.) Who are the tenants that got a taste
of that 10 cent monev?
(3.) Let Henry Y. McCord tell us what
he did Avith it.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
If God Sent Us This European
War, What Would the Devil
Do, Provided He Got
a Chance?
TN the latest issue of The Chistian Index,
1 there is an article by Rev. W. J. McGotli
lin, D. D.
When a Christian is not only a preacher,
but a Doctor of Divinity, he is in more or
less danger of identifying himself with Je
hovah.
Some Doctors of Divinity seem inclined to
mistake themselves for the Divinity.
This lamentable mistake frequently leads a
comparatively ordinary man to utter some
very extraordinary sentiments, opinions and
predictions.
Such a man will become so chummy with
the Omnipotent, that he will say, “God wants
this,” and “God doesn't approve of that,” and
“God sends this,” and “God means to do
that,” and so on, until you wonder where and
when this Doctor of Divinity had his last
confidential chat with the Trinity.
Now you must be patient with me, and ex
cuse me for saying that a Doctor of Divinity
who talks, or writes in that strain, gives me
touches of sciatica, and lumbago, and “Tel
ler Johnders.”
This brings me right back to the Rev. W.
J. McGlothlin, D. I). He says—
/ !
“The war was sent on us by God; let us hold
fast to this. France prepared us the soup, Servia
started the fire under it, Russia brought it to us
and England is the kitchen chef. We know fairly
well how it came about on the human side. But
they are all instruments in the hand of the High
est. And they intended it for evil to our people,
but God intends it for good.”
This European War grew out of the same
Papal and Dynastic policy that has caused so
many other bloody struggles.
The Hapsburg family have practically
owned Austria for hundreds of years.
They are bigoted Catholics, and they Avere
the first to admit the Jesuits into Ger
many.
When Pope Clement XIV. abolished the
Jesuit society on account of its criminal code
and its criminal record, and was poisoned hy
the Jesuits, it was the Hapsburg family that
concealed the criminals and harbored them
until they could again intrigue themselves
into Papal favor.
It was the Hapsburg family that wiped out
Protestantism in Hungary, Bohemia, and
Austria proper. The horrible atrocities with
which this religious persecution was waged,
will be described in the January number of
tson’s Magazine.
It was the Hapsburg family that drove out
the peaceable Salzburgers, some of whom fled
to Georgia and settled near Savannah, where
their worthy descendants still live.
It was the Hapsburg family that waged
such ferocious Avar on the Dutch, because
the Dutch wanted to worship God, and not
the Pope.
At least 100.000 Dutchmen were butchered
in that long and bitter struggle.
It was the Hapsburg family that started
the Thirty Years’ War on the Protestants,
by violating solemn treaties and destroying
Protestant churches.
Historians tell us that this Avar cost the
lives of 12,000,000 human beings, and left
Germany bleeding at every pore.
It Avas the Hapsburg family that sent
armies to Italy, again and again, to crush the
Italian patriots who tried to throw off the
intolerable yoke of the Pope’s temporal gov
ernment.
Did God send all these cruel wars?
IF SO, GOD WAN BACKING THE
POPE AND TIIE HAPSBURGS.
If God was the ally of the Pope and the
Hapsburg Kings, lioav did it happen that Wil-
liam the Silent finally won religious liberty in
Holland? \
If God was the ally of the Pope and the
Kings, how came it that the Thirty Years’
War was a failure for the Catholics?
How came it that the Pope and the Haps
burgs at last had to surrender to the Italian'
patriots? *
The same old policy of the Italian Popes
and the Hapsburg kings caused them to un
dertake the conquest of the Greek Catholics
of the Balkan Pennsula.
The Austrian monarch broke the solemn
Treaty of Berlin (1.878) and seized the Greek
Catholic provinces of Bosnia and Herze
govina. \ '
After this criminal breach of treaty, the
Jesuits poured into the conquered provinces
and undertook to make the people the foot
kissers of the Italian Pope.
This created intense dissatisfaction, but the
Greek Catholics were helpless.
Next, Austria and the Pope reached out
for Servia, another Greek Catholic country.
In the early months of this year, the king
of Servia Avas.coerced into a treaty Avith the
Italian Pope, which paved the Avay for the
Papal conquest of Servia.
Then the bitter rage of the harassed people
found vent in the assassination of the actual
ruler of Austria.
The Archduke who Avas shot by the young
Greek Catholic Avas a fanatical Roman Cath
olic. and a blind slave of the plotting Jesuits.
Austria demanded the virtual surrender of
Servian independence, refusing to listen to
mediation or delay.
The family that virtually OAvns Germany,
backed up the family Avhich virtually OAvns
Austria —and then came the War. >
Did God send it?
If so, He sent it by Avay of Rome and the
Jesuit criminal society.
If God sent this fearful calamity upon the
poor human race —with its aAvful waste of
life; its immeasurable Avoe to innocent men,
and innocent women and children; its ap- '
palling destruction of property, its crimes
against young girls, its general relaxation of /
all the restraints which Iraa* and order place
on human passions— if God did, all this, what
MOUTH) the Devil do to us. if he qot loose,
AND HAD A CHANCE TO MAKE HIS.
HELL HERE ON EARTH? . J
It seems to me that the rational vieAA 7 is
something like this: • ) .
Man is a creature of passions, some of whiclr J
are good, ancTsome of which are bad: between I
these conflicting passions, Ave poor humans
spend our whole lives.
When the had gets the upperhand, Ave gQ‘
wrong, and do evil and commit crimes.
Nations are nothing more than large col-?
lections of individuals, and when the rulers ;
of nations go wrong, we have terrible Avars
into which people who cannot help themselves
are drawn and made to suffer and to kill each
other.
I cannot see “the. hand of God” in a mur
der, Avhether it is committed by one person in
plain clothes, or by ten thousand men in uni-y
form. i
I cannot see “the hand of God" in any sort
of Avrong. 1 j
What I see in such crimes against humanity
as this European Avar is, the evil passions of
rulers, who plunge their subjects into the
maddest of carnage—using all the time the
name of “God” to cloak their OAvn ambition,
pride, vafiity and insane temper. , ;
1 V?
Read “Life and Times of Thomas Jeffer- 1
son,” by Thos. E. Watson. The work is in* J
dispensable to all those Avho want to know]
the Avhole truth about Jefferson, and about
the Great Men and the Great Events of that /
period of our history. Illustrated. Paper} 1
cover. SI.OO. The Jeffersonian Publishing, |
Co., Thomson, Ga.
