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Wi —rr > IM Wft Wn XT - Alft S jm OF ft ft >■ ft ft* » TrSmb. jy iSrjjj a3Sis w ssf~ liSw'Wfflv : '/ 3SBBb hb - iaBQHIiEKl r * <■*» Vol. 14, No. 34 The Alleged Inconsistency of The Jeffersonian 1 N painful remembrance of the many, and * sudden somersaults turned by President Wilson, his well-bought admirers derive a meagre diet of comfort from the back-num bers of this paper—which have engrossed so much of the official attention of Judge Lamar, Solicitor for the Post-Office Department. These well-bought admirers of our gyrating —but always sanctimonious —President, have discovered that in March, 1917, The Jeffer sonian was a bitter foe to “the Prussian idea.” Bring the date down to the present, please. I hate the Prussian idea more than ever, since Judge Lamar and other officials have dosed me on it. The Prussian idea was intensely hateful to me —a typical democratic civilian who be lieves in letting every man attend to his own business —when it was confined to Germany; but piow that the idea has taken possession of our Government, and our men are being criminalized for peaceable expression of hon est opinion, my loathing for it is so aggra vated that any attempt to express it would, I am sure, bring down upon me additional severities from Judge Lamar. The well-bought journalistic worshippers of President Widson remind mankind that, oxi March l&thijrAa Jeffersonian advocated, the sending of men, money, and to Frapce, m case Germany sank a sin>«, one of our ships in violation of international law. Very well, what of it! 'T'HE President of the United States has * again edified mankind and given a notice able uplift to democracy throughout the uni verse, by spying that every soldier should be equipped with a Bible. Unfortunately, this admonition came too late for the negro soldiers at Houston, Texas. Those colored brethren had become so accus tomed to shooting unarmed civilians in Mex ico—where the Army was sent to get Villa, and didn’t get him—that they couldn’t resist the temptation to resume the congenially safe practice, after we started into the European Adventure. However, the score of white folks that the negro soldiers murdered have been quietly buried, and it will now be the proper thing —not to summarily shoot the murderers—but to remove them tc another camp and supply them with Bibles. To what passages of Holy Writ should the attention of the man-killer be directed? The war will hardly last long enough for him to read the whole Book. To start fn at Genesis and go straight through to Revelations would require too much time; because, it stands to reason that the man-killer must give the most of his time to eating, sleeping, recreating, and prepara tions to kill his fellow-man. Comparatively little time can be devoted to Bible-reading. Besides, the chaplain is paid to keep the A Bible for Every Soldier Tfioikstm, G 0.., Thursday, August 3Q, 1917 We had been sending munitions, for two years; we had been sending money, for two years; and volunteers had been going, for two years. Col. Boosevelt was clamoring to be “sent”; and he vociferously declarer! that nearly 200,000 men were ready to go with, him, as volunteers All that Col. Boosevelt asked was, that tho Government accept him and his volunteers, and “send” them to France. The Jeffersonian favored the sending of these volunteers, and all others, as our remember. Congress side-stepped the Boosevelt propo-* sition, and passed it up to the President What did the President do with it? He turned it down, alleging as his reason that, this was no war of “amateurs.” (Col. Roosevelt had served in the Army, at a time when Dr. Wilson was teaching Jurisprudence at Princeton.) Whatever amateurishness clung to Col. Boosevelt and his Spanish War volunteers might have been trained out of them, in less time than it will take to train some of the boys who have recently been called from the fields, the stores, the banks, the offices, and the mills. As many soldiers as we need, Here or else where, could h<v& beexj enlisted under the tofemteer systems,'had the proper Wurse been 5 pursued, and had the real object of raising a great army been what was pretended. J * troops supplied with the greater part of their devotional exercise. This is where I invoke the aid of the Rev< Dr. J. B. Gambrell, who led off the Southern Baptist Convention in that Indian War Dance, where Christ was suddenly made the usurper of the things that are Caesar’s. Will Dr. Gambrell cite me to those verses which the hurried soldier may digest, before he goes forth to shoot the soldier on the side s icho is also reading his Bible? Will Dr. Gambrell cite me to the verses which will give the tired soldier the most comfort, as he turns in at night, after having shot the Bible reader on the other side? Will Dr. Gambrell cite me to those sacred passages which will pour balm upon the lacerated hearts of the fathers, the mothers, and the wives of those sojdiers who, according to President Wilson, are going to be sacrificed by the million on far-away fields of blood ? This is no war of Faith against This is no war of Christianity against Pagans ism. Where Christian America goes forth to slaughter and be slaughtered, in a war which divides Christian Europe into blood-dripping halves, no scriptural text about Canaanites and other idolaters will apply. We are face to face with the ghastly fact, that the Great War rages, all the way from Bethlehem and Calvary, to ancient Nineveh The crux of the whole matter is, the hidden purpose to revolutionize our Government. A great standing army is to be maintained in time of peace, to silence the people, over awe public opinion, and quell internal resist ance to Dollar-Despotism. A greater army than has been sent to France is being used now, against ourselves; and these plain-clothes hirelings of Dollar- Despotism are going around, telling every dis contented citizen to keep his mouth shut, else he will get into trouble. Even the women and children are being warned and threatened, against any expres sion of opinion that is different from the policy of the Government. Germain autocracy, at its worst, went nd farther. Two years ago, it was the Kaiser who shocked the world by saying— “ There is but one will in Germany, and that is mine. Whoever resists me, him will I crush.” '■ President Wilson now assumes the same' tone, and adopts the same methods; and in one of his recent public eddr: “ises he threats ened destruction to “those who oppose us.” i I defy anybody to produce the {slightest 'evidence that on March 15,1917, such a policy ■ The clause pf the Army Increase BiJi which (continued ok page two.)’ and the Garden of Eden, and from thence all the way through to where Paul planted and Apollos watered. There is no hiding the awful truth: the whole Christian world is blood-mad, raging with insane lusts, furious with a clamor for destruction which has no parallel in the an nals of time. Every soldier should have* a Bible! Surely. Will the President add to his pious thought fulness by indicating the chapters which con vey to the military reader the greatest amount of spiritual good, in the shortest time ? There is a large quantity of raw butchery in the Old Testament, but those chapters hardly fit the case. The rugged Jews of those old times were bent upon appropriating to themselves the lands and portables of their enemies; but our military aims are not of that low degree. We want nothing for ourselves—as we as sured the Russians—and we are not in the war because of any special grievance of our own—as we assured the Red Cross brethren and sisters—and we simply mean to bank rupt our country and deplete its young man hood for the general, good of our soul 3 and the democratic elevation of humanity throughout the world. Consequently, the sordid aims of the an- L ( CONTINUED FROM PAGE THREE.) Price, Five Cents