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Vol. 14, No. 50
Are We to Have the Great War Unloaded On Us? i
yX/ITH startling frequency and in stagger
ing sums, the Wilson administration
brings forth its demands upon our national
resources.
The country which was dumbfounded when
President McKinley spent a billion dollars in
two years, now reads, in a sort of stupor, the
McAdoo estimates of three billions, six bil
lions, then three more, and still another three,
with another billion added for airships and
George Creel literature.
If this pace keeps up. the Government will
soon need the entire output of the paper mills,
to print new bonds, new issues of Wilson's
annotated speeches, new army regulations,
new appeals in behalf of more Liberty Bonds,
and more millions of McAdoo's addresses to
bankers and business men.
Within the last few months, the Govern
ment has spent half a million dollars in
printing, outside of the regular official bulle
tins, reports, Congressional Record, &c.
The church bells and the preachers had
hardly pealed off the first issue of Liberty
Bonds —three thousand million dollars—be
fore the President signed an appropriation
bill of the same amount; and before the con
tractors had well begun to devour these
mountainous cheeses, McAdoo was talking
about another three billions of Liberty Bonds,
Facts About the Great War—Do They Mean Any
thing to Yob?
IN 1911, the total wealth of the United
1 States was $130,000,000,000.
If somebody doesn’t head us off pretty soon,
the national debt, plus the debts of States,
counties, towns and cities, will amount to
more than half the national assets.
Son-in-Law McAdoo, working harmoni
ously with Father-in-law Wilson, struck us
for $17,000,000,000, at one whack.
Cleopatr-' dissolved a pearl and drank it,
and thus oecame a historical example of
folly: she was a prudent housekeeper, com
pared to our Inlaws at Washington.
The Manufacturers own more than $20.-
000,000,000 of our national wealth: the Great
War adds to this pile, instead of taking from
it.
The Railroads own more than $22,000,000.-
000 of the national wealth; and the Great
War increases, rather than diminishes this
little accumulation of worldly pelf.
The Express Companies, the Telegraph,
the Telephones, the Insurance Companies, the
Electric trusts, the street-ear systems, and the
banks of all kinds, own more than $30,000,-
000.000: and these corporations will not lose
by the Great War. On the contrary, they will
gain by it.
Thus you see, at least one-half of the entire
national assets are placed where they will in-
Are We to Shoulder the Whole Load?
Ga., Thursday, August 2, 1917
and demanding of Congress another appro
priation of six thousand millions.
Since "your great President" flung his
somersault, between his neutrality speech of
Feb. 26. and his War-to-crush-Germany
speech of April 2, we have h a d such a mad
revel of wild extravagance at Washington,
that our people are already loaded down with
as big a debt as Germany has contracted dur
ing three Years of actual war.
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Does our Government propose to take the
whole burden of the Great War on its
shoulders ?
lias our dispute over blockade-running
made us the controlling partner of the En
tente f
Must American armies be drafted into the
places vacated by the Russulas?
It looks that wav.
We had nothing to do with the war. on land.
Our rights were not assailed anywhere in
the world, except in the zone of the blockade.
Germany published a blockade of Great
Britain, and warned neutrals to keep out.
There are many other neutrals, besides our
selves.
None of the neutrals, except ourselves,
chose to make this a cause of war.
crease, as the War goes on, being in position
to reap profits out of the Armageddon.
ir/Rre ?r/77 the burden rest?
Upon iohom will the taxes fall?
How will the unfavored, unexempted
property be affected by the stupendous sums
that Congress is voting away?
President Wilson can as easily order Con
gress to give him twenty billions, next year.
This time last year, you would have thrown
rocks at me, if I had predicted that the re
election of Woodrow Wilson would bring
upon the country the national calamity which
now terrines us.
If Hughes had been elected, and had done
the same things that Wilson has done, the
very men who now want me shot for defend
ing your constitutional rights, would have
wanted me shot, for supporting Hughes.
Don’t you know it?
Don’t you know that those War-whoop
dailies, and these Blood-thirsty preachers, and
those Echo weeklies, who now shout for Wil
son's Conscription, and Wilson's press-gag
law, and Wilson’s Seventeen-billion-dollar
Expense-account, would have railed at me,
and would have said—
“ You are partly to blame for this, because
YOU HELPED ELECT HUGHES !”
Spain has been given exactly the same treat
ment as ourselves, whenever Spanish ships
have tried to run the blockade.
Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, South
America, and Central America have all been
treated by the Germans in the same manner
that they treat us.
The German blockade has been impartially
enforced against all the neutrals.
There has not been any special spite at our
blockade-runners.
It is not a question of our rights on shore:
it is not a question of our territorial integ
rity: it is not a question of American rights,
at all.
It is simply and solely a question of rnari
tine /air; a question of blockade on the sea:
a question what character of legal notice to a
neutral, is sufficient to warn the neutral
against attempting to run the lockude.
At great expense, the Government covers
the country with pamphlets meant to explain
“How the War came to us.”
The I’7/r did not come to us.
We went to the avail
The War was thousands of miles off, and it
was not molesting us in the least.
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Those very ranters who are now so ram
pantly the
would have yelled at you ami me—
“lf Wilson had been elected, this* Mor
ganized War-mania would not have taken
possession of the country.
Wilson kept us out of the abyss; ami if he
had been re-elected, on his Peace-dove and
Grape-juice platform, he would have kept on
keeping us out.”
I remember very well when the Southern
States had Military Governors, selected from
the IT. S. Army; and when the Yankees in
Blue were to be seen on every hand.
The Carpet-bagger came down from the in
clement North, to seek health, pleasure, and
wealth in the genial clime of the Sunny
South.
The Scalawag lifted up his head and 're
joiced; and the Emancipated Man and
Brother began to make laws and new taxes
for bis helpless Old Marster.
Bui even in those days of Reconstruction
and Federal Military rule, the postmaster
did not examine the mail, to see what pa
pers the folks should be allowed to read.
No postmaster was reported by an In
spector on he long-distance Telephone—we
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