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SVTLL LECTURE IN GEORGIA
AND NEIGHBORING STATES.
I am glad to announce that I will
Start on an extensive lecture trip
through Tennessee, Alabama, and
Georgia immediately. The towns
booked in Georgia are as follows:
Demorest, Morris Station, Quitman,
Molena, and Carrollton. The plan
of campaign is to stay one week
each place and close with the lec
ture to men only on Papal Moral
Theology and Priesthood Corrup
tions. All lectures are free except
the last night. All I ask from the
local people is a place to speak.
This campaign will be conducted
indefinately and other communities
should write for dates immediately.
Let us - make this campaign year a
great year in Patriotic work. A
strong effort will be made in these
meetings, to extend the circulation
of The Jeffersonian and The Menace,
as my mail is forwarded daily com
munities desiring lectures should
write me care the home office Milan,
111. I will answer the falsehoods of
Collins who recently spoke in sev
eral Georgia towns and cities.
. Yours for a free nation,
WM. LLOYD CLARK.
WILL THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE MAKE A MARTYR
OF TH OS. E. WATSON?
The proposed action of the De
partment of Justice at Washington,
in-prosecuting Thos. E. Watson, in
some other State, for alleged publi
cations in the Frank case or against
the Jews or Catholics or Foreign
Missions, and the protest of the
Georgia Congressmen, is entitled to
more deliberate consideration.
This proposed prosecution by the
Department of Justice seems so
flagrantly violative of the funda
mental principles of this Government
that it must “cause us pause.” The
personality of Watson is a mere in
cident to the fundamental Question
involved.
One may, or may not, approve his
publications in the Frank case —his
flaying of the Jews —his arraignment
of the Catholics or his attack on
foreign missions. They are nothing
relatively to the governmental pre
cedent that would be established if
he were indicted and prosecuted, as
proposed, in another State.
If the Catholic Church cannot pro
ceed and progress in its benevolent
work regardless of Watson’s attack,
then it should be dissolved.
11 the Jewish race cannot continue,
serene and undisturbed, to their
great destiny and laugh at Watson’s
attack on them, it should become
extinct.
It the contributors to foreign mis
sions cannot continue in the great
spiritual upLft of the human race
and smile at Watson's criticism, then
such missions should be discon
tinued.
Greater minds and stronger men,
by pen and fire and sword, for cen
turies, assailed the Christian relig
ion with all possible Watsonian un
fortunate vindictiveness, yet, its
votaries persevered, unswerved and
undismayed, quietly diffusing its in
effable Lght of truth on mankind,
and illustrating the exiom that “the
blood of the martyr is the seed of
the church.’’
This Government is itself a pro
test against the proposed action of
the Department of Justice —judicial
tyranny.
Our ancestors on the other side
were the victims of kingly judicial
tyranny, and the Bill of Rights in
the early State Constitutions and the
subsequent recital of rights in the
Federal Constitution is more pro
nounced against judicial tyranny
than any other form of oppression.
The Legislature may become dem
agogic and the executive may grow
dictatorial, but if the judiciary is
independent, just and impartial, jus
tice to the citizen, and oppression
is impossible.
O”r forefathers were searched,
seized ami imprisoned without war
rant and held without bail. Their
THE JEFFERSONIAN
trials were delayed to coerce con
fession, and they were sequestered
to foreign jurisdictions for convic
tion.
They were tried without due pro
cess of law, and, if acquitted, in the
excess of judicial tyranny, they were
again put in jeopardy for the same
offense.
They were tortured to wring from
them their own incrimination, and
were denied the right of counsel, and
the list of witnesses against them.
They were denied the liberty of
conscience, as well as the liberty of
speech.
These and other fundamental
wrongs assembled our ancestors on
the plane of Runnymede, and after
wards drove them to this country,
and this Government was more of
a protest against such fundamental
wrongs than it was to establish a
xvepublican form of government.
Some of our forefathers may have
felt some misgivings about a Re
publican form of government, but all
agreed as to the denial of these
fundamental wrongs and the guar
antee of these fundamental rights.
Among, and one of the most vital
of these rights, was the right of any
person accused of crime to a speedy
trial by a jury of his peers—of his
neighborhood—and not of his State
and county, or district.
The people are almost uncon
sciously jealous of judicial tyranny—
from this their forefathers suffered
and fled.
An independent and just judiciary
is the surest bulwark and safeguard
of the life, liberty and property of
the citizen, and will so continue,
unless it should degenerate, as in the
past, into a mere arm of the Admin
istration, merely to do its bidding
and wreak its vengeance.
It can .defy the strong and pro
tect the weak —it can guarantee jus
tice and preserve the rights of the
citizens, or, as the arm of the ex
ecutive, it can strangle the citizen
to silence and suppress the liberty
of the press.
It can guarantee to every citizen
the right of trial by a jury of Lis
peers of the vicinage, or it may
sequester him to some remote juris
diction where the citizen is helpless
and judicial vengeance is sure
The formation of this Government
was such a protest against these
fundamental wrongs that in the di
vision of the judicial functions of
the nation and State, these vital
rights were not only firmly guar
anteed, but it was expressly provided
in the Federal Constitution that:
“In all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall enjoy the rights to a
speedy and public trial by an im
partial jury of the State and district
wherein the crimes shall have been
committed, which district shall have
been previously ascertained by law,
etc”
This is plain language and while
in the latter day juggling of words
it may be, by special pleading, tor
tured into meaning that the citizen
may be manipulated to another State
for trial, its original meaning and
purpose by the. fathers seems clear
and unambiguous.
We might say that, for the first
time, Watson embodies, as against
this proposed prosecution and his
sequesteration. into another State for
trial, by the Department of Justice,
a fundamental principle—that is, a
protest against judicial tyranny.
A just, impartial and independent
judiciary and the right of trial by a
jury of his peers of the vicinage is
the last anchor of any government
for the safety and security of the
life, liberty and property of the citi
zen, and to lift this anchor to reach
and prosecute Watson will tend to
ultimately engulf us all.
If it should be the purpose of the
Department of Justice to deny Mr.
Watson a trial by a jury of his peers
of the vicinage by sequestering him
into some other State, and if this
purpose should be consummated, it
will make Watson, against his con
sent, the exponent of the funda
mental principle of antagonism to
judicial tyranny, and the ultimate
political result in this State will b©
difficult to forecast.
This is more vital to Georgians
than the charge that his sequestera
tion and trial in another State "would
be an insult to the State.
The one is fundamental, the other
is mere politics; however, where a
fundamental principle is stirred by
political prejudice and passion, it
makes an irresistable force within
the sphere of its influence.
We trust that the Department of
Justice will forego its proposed pur
pose and if Mr. Watson has com
mitted any offense against the postal
laws, let him be prosecuted in the
jurisdiction which it has already
recognized and elected.
IT he is guilty, a Georgia jury will
convict him—if he is innocent, a
Georgia jury will acquit him, but if
this were in doubt, it were better
for ninety-nine guilty men to escape
by a regular trial, rather than the
Department of Justice should con
script the courts of another State to
serve its purpose and openly violate
one vital principle of our funda
mental law and thereby bring the
Federal judiciary into distrust and
disrepute by making it a vindictive
machine for oppression and persecu
tion. —Athens Banner.
e
A QUERY, AND AN ANSWER.
Dear Sir: Can a common man
have his say in your valuable paper
without being indicted tor obscene
language?
If 1 knew how, I would put some
flowers in your life, and not save
them all to put on your grave.
It seems you are having your share
of thorns. I with many others be
lieve you right. Go your length; the
same crowd that is after you cruci
fied Christ. I read a piece in the
Journal written by Ralph Smith; he
says you, by your publicity, will force
indictment in the Federal .Court. I
would like to know what he means
by “publicity;’’ is it because you
take the under dog’s part and ex
pose the big gentlemen who wear
tine clothes?
Who is Ralph Smith, and what is
his job in Washington?
Success to you and the Jeff,
family. I am.
Yours truly.
Ga. J F TILLMAN.
(Answer.)
Ralph Smith is Hoke’s poodle.
Hoke gets Uncle Sam to pay Ralph
a salary—as Distant Observer of the
Congressional Record—and Ralph
repays Hoke in manufacturing news
for him.
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