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Vol. 12, jNo. 37
Where are You Going, Farmer?
TjLRMAN money and Papal diplomacy are
weeding a wide row in this country.
Newspapers have been sugared and the Ger
man ambassador admits it.
factories have had unexpected and
mysterious explosions; and the Austrian am
bassador admits that he has endeavored to tie
up these plants.
The Pope has been busy through Cardinal
Gibbons, for the Pope sees that the Italian
army is smashing the Austrians, and the
stronger Italy becomes, the weaker the Pope
will be.
Tile Hapsburg figure-head, and the Ilohen
zollern despot have promised the Pope the re
storation of some part of the Temporal pow
er the papacy lost in 1870; and the Pope now
sees that it will be as much as the-German au
tocrats can do to save themselves.
Consequently, the most unprecedented ef
forts are being made in this country to change
‘public sentiment, to check the manufacture of
munitions, and to compel Great Britain to
surrender to Germany her superiority on the
ocean.
The German fleet hides in the Keil Canal,
afraid to come out and fight.
Her submarine assassins slip and slide near
the coast of Catholic ,Ireland, sinking un
armed passenger ships and murdering civilian
travelers.
If England had murdered a single Ameri
can on the high seas, the Hearst papers would
have suffered agonies.
Tlie Germans have murdered more than a
hundred Americans, some of them women and
children, but neither Gibbons nor Hearst is
shocked.
If Mexico had hilled our sailor boys, at
Tampico, instead of merely detaining them an
hour for trespassing, we would have poured
an army across the border; but Germany
slaughters our civilian tourists, on their way
home, and we listen patiently while the Ger
man ambassador tells us a new lot of lies
about it.
Last year—as the Reports of the Comp
troller show—our Government started the ma
chines in Washington, and made new paper
money for the Wall Street bankers, to the
amount of $440,000,000.
This money bought our cotton at S3O a bale.
H. Katz, Principal of Hebrew Institute, Writes a Review of the Frank Case
A7 ERY great prominence is given by the
* New England papers to a review of
the Frank case, written by Teacher Katz,
who claims to have been present at the trial.
This Jew is the Principal of the Hebrew
Institute at Bangor, Maine, and his story of
the celebrated case attracts unusual atten
tion, not only on account of his elevated po
sition, but because of his alleged presence at
the trial.
When I think of the newspaper stories of
Connolly, Macdonald, Burns, Lehon, Hfierst,
Rabbi Wise, Nathan Straus, John M. Slaton
and H. Katz, my amazement grows. I begin
to have new conceptions of the stupidity of
Frank’s lawyers. Rosser and Arnold should
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, September 16, 1915
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce was in
ou that gamble.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce never
said one word in behalf of the farmer, who
was being ruined.
The government ruined the Farmer by
breaking faith, and refusing Rural Credits.
The Government left the Farmer where he
had to sell his cotton.
The government loaned the gamblers the
money to buy it.
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The Government then established an Insur
ance Bureau, and insured the S3O bale for S7O.
When the ship went down at sea the gov
ernment paid the gambler his S7O for every
bale of cotton lost.
When England seized the cotton, on its way
to Germany, England paid the gambler SOO
a bale for it.
England has blockaded Germany, in exact
ly the same way the Union government block
aded the Southern Confederacy, during the
Civil War.
Because of that blockade the price of cotton
in Liverpool rose to 50 cents a pound.
Because of the present blockade, the price of
cotton in Germany has risen to 40 cents a
pound.
Hearst’s Sunday American
of Sunday, August 24,1913,
declared that Leo Frank had
had the fairest of trials.
“The trial has lasted longer than
any other in the criminal history of
Georgia.
It is difficult to conceive how hu
man minds and human efforts could
provide MORE for fairplay, than was
provided in the Frank Case.”
NOTHING was done or left un
done, that could give either side
THE RIGHT TO COMPLAIN of un
fairness.”
(Hearst’s Sunday American, August 24, 1913)
feel bowed down with remorse. They fum
bled a good case, and allowed an innocent
boy (who was only born in' April, 1884),
convicted on no evidence at all. This boy,
who was well advanced in his 32d year and
who had ruined more factory girls than he
had fingers and toes, was convicted on the
unsupported evidence of the lowest, mean
est, drunkest nigger that ever was low and
mean and drunk.
This negro confessed that he was Frank’s
accomplice; he was so low that it was impos
sible for any human being to sink lower; he
had committed nearly all the crimes known
to the calendar; he was so drunk that the
liquor oozed out of his ears; yet Rosser and
Now what ?
The gamblers who paid S3O a bale demand
that our Government force England to let
them run the blockade so that they can get
S2OO a bale.
That’s all there is to it.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce is deep
in the gamble.
Those patriots who handled all the money
that the Government lent last Fall have al
ready cashed in millions of dollars on the
Farmer whom they helped to ruin.
They are now laying plans to use the Farm
er as a cats-paw. to rake chestnuts out of the
fire for the cotton gamblers.
Farmer, mind where you are going!
Look before you leap.
Fight shy of typewritten resolutions sprung
on you by your congressmen at public meet
ings.
Be careful how you sign petitions presented
to you by congressmen!
Now's a good time to watch, as well as pray.
In this war, England and France are
fighting the battles of Humanity, of democ
racy, of Christian civilization.
If the Pope and the two German emperors
were to win. the law of Brute Force would
rule the world, and the clock of progress
would be set back 100 years.
For God’s sake don't be deceived by the
hirelings of Germany and the Pope.
LET ENGL AND A L ONE !
Let the blockade stand.
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Let Germany get the cotton if she can.
I have 200 bales of cotton myself, and I
would stick fire to it, and burn it up, rath
er than do a single thing to hamper France
and England while they are fighting for the
rights of humanity—rights which I want my
grandchildren to enjoy unimpaired.
Let me give Chas. S. Barrett and J. J.
Brown some good advice:
TELL THAT ATLANTA CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE TO GO TO TELL!
And call down the next Congressman who
bobs up at a public meeting and pulls out of
his pocket a set of Resolutions, IN FAVOR
OF THE POPE AND THE GERMAN
AUTOCRATS! '
Arnold allowed their client to be convicted
on the testimony of this sort of an accom
plice, in spite of the Law which says that
no man, however humble, shall be condemn
ed on the evidence of an accomplice, hov,-
ever sober, however high in the world, or
however previously righteous.
I never did think that Luther Rosser and
Reuben Arnold amounted to much as crim
inal lawyers—Arnold being a trickster, and
Rosser a bulldozing blatherskite—but I
never did rate them quite so low as they have
been rated by Connolly. Burns, Lehon
Hearst, Straus and H. Katz.
Not only did Frank’s lawyers allow him
convicted in plain violation of our Penal
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