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ebc 3efcsonian
Vol. 13, No. 43
Does President Wilson Command the Respect of Europe ?
IT becomes a national misfortune, when the
* Powers-th at-be in any country earn the
Reputation of being weak, doubting, and
■fickle.
Neither President Buchanan nor Hayes in
spired respect: Cleveland did, and he brought
to time in Venezuela: Roosevelt did,
and lie gave a hint or two which caused the
German battle-ships to quickly get out of
American waters.
Does Woodrow Wilson command the re
spect of foreign governments?
It is a serious question, which grows ever
more serious. '
Let us put our minds upon some facts which
are universally conceded.
Germany drew an imaginary line around
the British'lslands and called it a blockade,
neutral vessels not to enter that
•portion of the high-seas which the Kaiser
£aid was his.
President Wilson should then have adopted
a policy, and stuck to it.
Two courses were open to him: he could
have warned Americans to travel in no other
than our own ships, putting upon them the
Responsibility of taking risks on belligerent
vessels; or he could have insisted upon neutral
• Rights—as hei did do —and prepared to
enforce them. ,
No matter how much you may differ from
me about the merits and the causes of the
War, you will agree with me that the Presi-
How a Democratic Vote-Beggar Talks to the People.
'T'HE following mis-statement appears in
The Mountain Eagle of Jasper, Alabama:
More than once in recent years, <ie Republi
cans had only one majority in Congress, and one
time, by this one vote, unseated two Southern
Democratic Congressmen, one from South Caro
lina and one from Virginia, and seated in each
of their places a negro, who helped the Republi
cans to make laws for our country. This was
Caused by one majority.
Trusting that you will be as enthusiastic for
she ticket as you were in the primary, I am.
Yours very truly,
NORMAN GUNN, Chairman.
If Mr. Gunn will name the “laws for our
country’'’ which negroes helped the Republi
cans to make. I will show him that the Dem
ocratic party has not only helped the Repub
licans to make those laws, but that those laws
have been made far more hurtful under Presi
’dent Wilson than ever before.
There has not been a single Ja w which the
Republicans wanted to make, ajul did not have
votes enough of their own to make, that were
liot made by the help of Democratic votes.
Don't let us unload the infamy of existing
legislation' on two Southern negroes, ‘'one,
from South Carolina ami one from 1 irginia."
Don’t let us try to fool the folks by pre
tending that the laws would be if two
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, October 19, 1916
dent should have decided upon a fixed policy.
Had he recognized the changed conditions
of naval warfare, brought about by the under
sea boats, and promptly told Americans
everywhere that they must not expect govern
mental protection, if they took passage on
the passenger ships of England, France, Italy
and Russia, his policy would have been a sur
render of neutral rights, under a, new system
of warfare, which new system may of itself
develop a new doctrine of neutral rights.
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THOS. E. WATSON,
President.
Southern Democratic Congressmen had not
been wickedly “unseated."
Chairman Gunn virtually says that the
horrible class-legislation which? robs the mil
lions J)f producers, to enricn the few non
producers, are the direct consequence of a
Republican majority of one, which “unseated
two Southern Democratic Congressmen, one
from South Carolina and one from Virginia,
and seated in their places a negro who helped
the Republicans to make laws for our
country.”
What laws? Tell us the names of these
baleful laws which the two negroes put over
on us.
Wake up, Brother Gunn, and Hie an
itemized account. Mavbe it isn't too late to
lynch those two niggers, yet.
Is Mr. Gunn thinking about the Demone
tization of Siler in 1873, wherein Thomas
Bayard, the Democrat, co-operated with John
Sherman, the Republican?
Is Mr. Gunn thinking of the repeal of the
Silver Taw in 1893, when Grover Cleveland
was Democratic President, and the Indiana
Democratic Senator, Dan Voorhees, led the
light to kill the only law friendly to silver?
Is Mr. Gunn thinking of the National
banking system which the Democrats helped
the Republicans to renew, and again renew',
But President Wilson did not hare the
nerve to make the surrender.
I say ‘’nerve," because it sometimes requires
the higher courage to surrender an abstract
right, than to fight for it.
General Lee was braver at Appomattox
than at Gettysburg, because he surrendered
an abstract right which had been taught him
at West Point, and in which he earnestly be
lieved.
But Mr. Wilson did not have the sheer grit
to say to American citizens, "Keep off Eng
lish vessels: I cannot protect you. If you travel
on them."
Had he been courageous enough to utter
these words, the 119 American fathers,
mothers, and children, who went down with
the Lusitania would never have left our
shores.
Instead, he chose to hector Germany on
account of her imaginary war-zone: and to
say, in effect, ‘’American passengers have the
abstract right to travel in belligerent ships,
and if you harm those Americans, I, Wood
row Wilson, will hold you to strict account.'’
That truculent note and threat was sent in
February 1915: what was the answer which
Germany gave to the Princeton school
teacher?
The answer was two-fold: one part of it
was the advertisement w which Ambassador
Bernsdorff put in the newspapers, warning
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until at last Woodrow Wilson fastened it on
us, permanently?
Two niggers! One from South Carolina and
one from Virginia!- They made these laws
which crush the common people, and enthrone
a soulless commercialism and military plu
tocracy !
So says Gunn of Alabama.
I guess Brother Gunn got his facts and
his dates mixed. lie w r as thinking about the
day, in 1911, when 23 white Democrats de
serted Champ Clark, the Democratic leader,
and w 7 ent over to old Joe Cannon, the Stand
pat Republican leader.
Mr. Gunn may have forgotten that these
23 white Democratic deserters enabled the
high-tariff Republicans to again adopt the
Joe-Cannon Rales, by means of which the
Aldrich tariff* law was railroaded through
Congress.
It was that Infernal law which doubled the
cost of tiring.
It was that abominable law’ which enabled
the Trusts to exact the highest prices ever
known to be paid for manufactured goods.
It was that law which put a tax of 165 per
cent on (lie poor man's blanket, 75 per cent
on qommoi* clothing, and 250 per cent on a
■cheap overcoat.
(continued on page four.),
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