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HOMSON, GA., AUGUST 30, 1917.
. e World fttas! Be Made Safe
for Democracy 9 ’
THE following items clipped from last
1 week’s daily War-Whoops, will explain
how we are doing it:
Miss Maud Jamison of Roanoke, aV., after
being dragged through the muddy streets, ob
tained from a hardware store an automatic re
volver and fifty rounds of ammunition. She ex
plained that the headquarters was her home, and
if any assailant sought to intrude upon her there
shtti would shoot him without compunction.
Tor the first time a man attempted to inter
fei e on behalf of the Suffs. He was William
Bayard Hale, one of the special envoys sent by
Pr|esident Wilson to Mexico. He was on the
street when one of the banners wos torn from a
Suff. He upbraided the crowd, called the men
cowards and said they should be ashamed of
themselves.
Writer Hale Assailed.
“He’s a German! String him up!” shouted
the Crowd, and several of the boldest moved to
ward Mr. Hale. They pelted him with spit balls
and old newspapers and warned him to move on
or a worse fate might be his. Mr. Hale moved
on.
Most of the disturbances took place in front
of the Executive Mansion.
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That’s the way American ladies are treated
in Washington City—not in Berlin.
PRIESTS TO CENSOR PRESS
AND THEATRE IN ST. LOUIS.
Archbishop Names Morals Committee—Ban Put
V on Certain Kinds of Magazines.
(Special to The World.)
r , St. Louis, Aug. 15.—Archbishop Glennon has
. ’ nhmed three priests to act as Morals Cpmmittee
the St. Louis Archbiocese, it was learned to
day. The members are the Rev. C. E. Byrne, the
Rev. M. J. O’Connor and the Rev. F. G. Holweck.
The priests were named to co-operate', with the
Morals Committee of the Federation of Catholic
Societies, in the censorship in St. Louis of theatri
< cal performances, motion pictures, newspapers
and magazines.
’ The censors will meet monthly, and report on
complaints made by the laity against immoral
influences in theatre or press. Magazines that
print questionable stories, or contain elaborate
so-called art illustrations, are under the ban of
1 the committee.
This papal censorship of the press is in
America, not in Germany.
i
“There are men walking the streets of this
city tonight who ought to be taken out at sun
rise and shot,’’ Elihu Root said at the reception
• uven for the American Mission to Russia by the
T nion League Club last evening. ‘‘They are doing
,- k for Germany under false pretenses and are
.g about it. If we are competent for our
»rty we will find ’them out and get them.
ry one of us can help by telling to the au
ties all we know and hear.
t is only a matter of time when we will get
j spies and traitors. We can’t be fooled or
?d with too long. There are some newspapers
cd in this city the editors of which deserve
etion and execution for treason. Sooner or
hey may get it,**.
Lw**** ’ K *
.j man who littered the above autocratic
THEJEFFERSONIAN
sentiments—ignoring trial by jury—is Elihu
Root, who had a fine chance to fight for his
country during the Civil War, and did not.
He fights for the. Big Rich
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HOW TO INSPIRE PATRIOTISM. i f
To the Editor of The American:
Sir—l was formerly employed in the office of a
firm of manufacturers of chemicals, a firm which
made a fortune within a year’s time, due to the
present great war.
A couple of weeks ago its employes were asked
to contribute a day’s pay to the Red Cross. 1
did not do so. The other day I received a letter
signed by the president of said firm, asking if
there was any special reason why I did not do so,
to which I replied that the one and only reason
was that I could not afford to and that I had all i
could do to make both ends meet. A conference
was then held between the president, his private
secretary and the attorney of the concern ana
although the attorney and secretary thought it
wrong to let me go, the president stated that
unless I contributed my services would be no
longer desired. Since I was to go on my vacation
Saturday, I finally decided that I would do so,
and told my employer that I would contribute,
but would be unable to do so before about Octo
ber. He refused to wait, and I was told yester
day to look for a new position.
I was given until August 11 to do so. Although
I was employed monthly, I was only paid up to
and including Monday, August 6. Not only was
I discharged without receiving my full month’s
pay, which 1 understand I am legally entitled to,
but I was forced to break all arrangements al
ready made by me for my vacation which I in
tended to take Saturday.
Very truly yours,
ANNA N. RIVLIN.
In the same manner Liberty Bonds were
forced upon stenographers, typists, railroad
men, and thousands of others employed by ■
the Big Rich.
In the matter of Red Cross hold-ups,
-children were refused admittance to the pub
lic schools, until they produced their papr'h
little tributes; and President Wilson's -ex*
trcmely popular son-in-law, McAdoo, sent out
a circular letter to all the employees of the
United States Treasury service, assessing,
them according to the amount of their respect
tive salaries. ■ 1
After assessing a victim, say SSO, McAdo6
was careful to add, “You needn’t pay it unless
you want to.”
That’s what the railroad boss said to the
engineer and conductor.
That’s also what the eagle said to the lamb.,
after he had put the hooks into it—
“ You needn’t come along with me to my
mountain home where my dear little children
are hungrily waiting to eat you, unless you
want to.”
Wilson’s son-in-law, and McAdoo’s father
in-law make a great team for the world up-*
lift of democracy.
“THE NEW FREEDOM.” < r
A Suffragist Suggests Why It Is Unpopular With
Its Author.
To the Editor of The Suri-!—Sir: We notice that
in a recent editorial article you call attention to
the omission from the biography of President
Wilson in the Congressional Directory of “The
New Freedom” in his list of books. You seem to
think that he would not care at this moment to
have the members of Congress read his asser
tion: “I don’t want a smug lot of experts to sit
down behind closed doors in Washington and play
Providence to me”; or to read: “I am one of
those who absolutely reject the trustee theory of
government,” &c.
May we suggest that the President has not.,
seemed to take so much pride in “The New
Freedom” since it has proved to be the most
powerful weapon against himself in the hands of
the suffragists? The most picturesque language
which the pickets of the White House have used
on their banners has been the quotations from
that book, so perhaps Mr. Wilson has retired it
from public? notice until the war is over and the
women have won the suffrage.
LDA HUSTED HARPER,
Editorial Chairman Leslie Suffrage Bureau.
New York, August 16.
Managing Editor’s ’
Column
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'THE JEFFERSONIAN decision is like
1 Mahomet’s coffin, suspended. We don’t
know at this writing what has delayed an
expression of opinion from the august judge
before whom the case was to be brought for
final decision, last‘Saturday.
In the meanwhile, it is discouraging work
to try and get The Jeffersonian to those who
have paid for their subscriptions; we have
spent more money in getting the papers out,
in one week, under the present conditions,
than we have had to spend for the full month,
under normal conditions.
The subscriptions have dropped to less
than fifty a day; most of these are at the club
rate, and the end of the business is in sight
if Mr. Watson cannot get more support from
the people at large.
The plant represents an outlay of fifty
thousand dollars; it gives employment to
some splendid people, widows and young la
dies as well as men with, families. We are
located in the suburbs of a small town, and
• there are no other openings for these people
who will be thrown out of employment, if
the American people will calmly watch a
’business suppressed, and the investment a
dead loss, synply because the man at the head
of it has been honest and fearless.
It isn’t always well to give one’s woes to
the public; the public has away of rather en
joying what, mean's discomfort, in a- large Tie*
gred. Brit the'matter of closing The Jeffer
sonian will affect, in many ways, a very large
$ number of people., f
You will recall what we have said frequent
ly, when the efforts were being made to silence
Mr. Watson in his warning of the Roman
Church to “make America Catholic.” Many
of you doubtless thought the alarm a false
one—but if you read the daily papers; if you
note the prominence given the Pope’s “peace
plans”; if you recall that there has been
more shifting of officers in the Army and
Navy, and every shift has left a Roman Cath
olic officer in higher command than he was
before the shift; if you note that the Masons
have been refused the privilege of erecting
houses for Masons in the Army, on any of the
camp sites or reservations—but the Knights
of Columbus have been given the permission;
if you noted that the Red Cross association is
row entirely ruled by Roman Catholics, with
nuns as nurses—then you must realize that the
effort to silence Mr. Watson, and put The
Jeffersonian out of business, is the beginning
of another move to “make America Cath
olic,” and keep from the people the facts that
only Mr. Watson will give, and the daily pa
pers will not.
What are you going to do about its
Let the Catholics ruin Mr. Watson; let
them shut down a plant that gives honest
work, at living wages, to people who will be
put out of a job, for no one knows hoW long ?
Or will you find away to help the plant,'
keep the business going, in spite of the threats
rud;.against it? . . A. L. L;
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Thursday, August 30,1917.
