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C) es [ ersonian 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. X- * 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. ‘ ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.? 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, COL. TllllEE.) Price, Five Gents