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Thursday, August IG, 1917.
we hold them subject to the whims, caprices,
prejudices, and personal enmities of Profes
sor Woodrow Wilson.
In the entire history of the human race,
no man has ever demanded so much power
as this man has demanded; and no despot
that ever wrecked a nation has been so scorn
ful of natural rights and legal limitations.
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“Witii Proud Pmici’l <?/’ Here
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tory order of his officer), because he was said
to have spoken his mind against sending our
armies to Europe, we get new ideas of "proud
punctilio.”
From The Washington Post, I quote —-
The dee th was at Harpers Ferry, where a part
of the Fourth was sent after being mustered into
Federal service March 25. Meyers, for infrac
tion of discipline, was sent from his post to com
pany head .{Barters, where the officer gave orders
for the punishment to be carried out. So hard
did Meyers fight against punishment that dilation
of the heart and death followed, it is declared,
despite the efforts of a physician.
The man was gagged during the punishment,
and the story that spread through Harpers Ferry
and surrounding territory was that he had choked
to death on this gag.
The Washington Times has this comment
on the facts:
A soldier was punished for some, minor viola
tion of discipline. He was GAGGED, as the po
lice gag a burglar when they have to. He fought
so hard against this humiliation that he died
under it.
This happened not in Germany, as you may
surmise, but in the United States, in Maryland.
We read in a dispatch to the Post from Baltimore:
*‘lt is believed among military men here that
the present inquiry is merely to give a clean
record for exoneration of the officer concerned.”
Something very different is believed in the
Times office. Secretary Baker, we believe, will
make somebody realize that when a man in the
army is killed as a result of brutal and stupid
punishment, something else is to be done besides
securing “exoneration of the officer concerned.”
We observe that the name of the officer is not
printed. What tender consideration! We trust
that the Secretary of War will print it, also the
name of the jail in which that officer will be
located while explaining how it happens that his
idea of punishment resulted in the death of a
United States soldier.
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Managing Editor’s
Column
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'T'ITERE are a good many things for which
Georgia is famous, and among them is
the revivals the Colored Brother pulls off
every once in a while —to the great distress of
the planter who is depending on the church
members for his crop.
At one of these revivals, the preacher took
for the text "Preach the truth, and the truth
shall make you free”; but there was an ob
jector to this, in the congregation. He was
a rusty black, and he was slow of speech, but
he rose and said : “Scuse me, preacher, for in
terrupting you; dat ain’t so. I done tole de
trufe about dem chickens I stole, and dey
done gi me six months on de chain gang.”
And that rule holds good practically all
over our country now, especially in Georgia.
The Jeffersonian has been telling the truth
about two things that our “Congress of Mis
representation” has passed—the new Con
scription act, and the Espionage act. Both
these things are such radical changes from
the old established principles of Democracy,
of (rue Republicanism, the people are in a
panic; they can get no hearing, much less
redress, and they have appealed to the only
editor who has been well-informed enough,
THE JEFFERSONIAN
and fearless enough to tell them the truth,
and this editor, Thos. E. Watson, is now
about to have the same penalty inflicted on
him as the chicken stealer who told the truth,
got; in other words, his publication in which
lie told the truth—‘•‘The Jeffersonian*’—is to
be barred from the mails, and thus kept from
the people.
Why has it taken so long a time for our
people to note “the fine, Italian hand” of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy ?
Why have they been deaf and blind, and as
indifferent as Mr. Wilson to the encroach
ments, grown bolder and bolder with each
successful move of this foreign church-polit
ical, power, in the absolute domination of our
government ?
Does anyone imagine for a moment that
any but the Roman Catholics are behind the
movement to bar The Jeffersonian from the
mails?
Has any other publication told you so often,
so clearly and so truthfully of the gaining,
step by step, of this hierarchy? Did you
know until you read it in The Jeffersonian
that at last the Red Cross had become an
annex of the Roman Catholic church ?
Don't you know that, once the nuns and
the priests are given full sway, not only the
salaries they receive as nurses and chaplains,
go to the Roman Catholic church, but every
wounded or dying soldier, makes no differ
ence what his religious preferences might
have been when he was a normal, healthy,
perfect man—once he is wounded and under
the Romanized Red Cress ministrations, he
is “anointed,” given “extreme miction," and
enrolled forthwith as a “good Catholic,” to
add one more name to the roster of uncon
scious subjects, “taken into the church.”
Get busy and do some thinking, and then
do some work.
Are you willing for Thus. E .Watson to be
silenced, and the truths he has been telling
you, kept from you?
Are you willing to let the men your votes
put in Congress, sit still while the powerful
enemies of your countr ysilenee the man who
has shown for ten years that he is absolutely
fearless, in telling what he knows, and what
history proves, of this devillish machine y
that burns men and women for telling the
truth, or for refusing to believe the hoary
fables on which the Roman Catholic church
is founded 1
The writer of this is the descendant of a
family who fled France at the time of the
Massacre of St. Bartholomew. They settled
in Ireland, where there were others who had
held out against the Roman hierarchy, and
the blood of these has lost nothing in trans
mission, to the descendants who are in this
country.
Are you afraid?
Are you among the number who write to
Mr. Watson and say, virtually. “I am with
you: all you say is true: here's ten dollars,
but don’t give my name." If you belong to
this clan, then you won’t do anything, but
“wait till you see what is going to happen,”
and then you won’t be in any better class
than that of the foolish virgins, and you know
what happened to them.
Make up your mind that we have not yet
had a revolution in this country that has set
aside the Constitution of the United States,
and get a copy to read; send me ten cents
and I'll mail it to you, provided Mr. Wilson
doesn't issue an order classing the Constitu
tion as “unmailable and seditious matter.'’
I'm glad I never even wanted to be a suf
fragette; they are spending a lot of time
“picketing the White House*’ when they
might be bombarding Congress, asking wh it
it means to clog the industrial wheels of this
country, take the flower of our youth from
their homes, break the hearts of fat hers ami
mothers, and set the wheels of American
progress back a hundred years, “to make t»hc
world safe for"—something that doesn’t ex
ist in this country.
Ton are still free men; use your freedom
to protect the freedom of speech and of press
which have been handed you as legacies, and
protect the man who is strong enough and
willing enough to keep those truths before
you.
Make your voice heard, and remind your
Congressman and your Senator that his term
is not a life one; that he will soon have to
appear before you for his accounting, and
ask him what part he is playing in keeping
your own country free for democracy, and
free tor the faith ol the founders of the coun
try planted here.
In the meantime, The Jeffersonian is wait
ing to see what is to be done, but it isn't
necessary for you to sit and wait, loo; you
can work.
We'll do (lie praying.
Alice Louise Lytle.
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