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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914.
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DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1914.
And all the while the king business is declining.
• Street preachers and blind tigers are about to take
Dalton.
After all, that short-tailed toga will just about fit
Hardwick.
One trouble with Slaton was that he had too many
deserters for delegates.
All the soreheads will blame it on Hoke, which of
course, will not worry Hoke a bit.
Another consolation is that Hardwick’s nomina-
is a hard slap in the face of the Thomson fraud.
Prom Kansas it is reported that a hen swam a
river. Kansas, of course, is a prohibition state.
It matters little now who started the war. The
real thing is that it is going, and should be stopped.
The Atlanta Journal says all the labor saving de
vices ever invented have failed to make the loafer
popular.
The Rome Tribune-Herald says the women can
bear the horrors of the war very well if the cook
doesn't quit.
OLD SOREHEAD.
Senator Smith is very jealous of the Presi
dent’s welfare. The sailing is smooth and Hoke
enjoys it. If a squall should come up such as
.the silverites started during Cleveland’s adminis
tration and Wilson really needed a man to stand
by him, Hoke Smith would be the first to turn
tail and run—just as he did Mr. Cleveland. As
a monumental humbug, the senior Senator meas
ures up from more different angles than any man
in public life at Washington.—Macon Telegraph.
The old sorehead continues to wail. Before Sen
ator Smith was elected by the people The Telegraph
was continually nagging because the senator was
elected by “his” legislature. Now that nearly every
county in the state has spoken unmistakably in favor
of Senator Smith, giving him one of the greatest
and best endorsements a public official ever had, the
old sorehead continues to nag. In effect it says the
people of Georgia haven’t sense enough to elect as
senior senator anybody except a humbug in the person
of Hoke Smith. Such conceit and bigotry smacks of
the rankest kind of autocracy. The people of Geor
gia benighted and ignorant, should stand aside, with
heads bowed and hats in hand while the Telegraph
tells them who is who and what is what. However,
a paper that thinks with its liver instead of its head
can hardly be expected to be safe in picking publie
men to serve the people.
The Macon Telegraph says: “Senator Smith now
belongs to all the people.” Hipl Hooray 1 Hold
your horses or they’ll get awayl
The fact that Hearst deplores the European war
is liable to be.taken by the “unthinking” as evidence
that he owns no vast estates east of the Atlantic.
MoBt everybody is satisfied with President Wilson
except the Colonel. And it doesn’t make much dif
ference whether the Colonel is satisfied or not.
The Monroe Tribune wants to know what a thim-
blerigger is. If it will read the “Potshot” column
in this issue of the Citizen we are sure it will be
satisfied.
We salute you, Senator Hardwick 1 You are a
game fighter, a hard hitter and possess the faith in
yourself that it takes to snatch success from the jaws
of defeat.
Up here the ultra pious do not seem to care a hoot
about blind tigers, but they are awfully worked up
about soda water and ice cream. How the devil must
be laughing!
“JESUS PAID IT ALL."
“Refused Notice.” Every editor has received
them. The postmaster sends them to the editor.
For instance, there is a man by the name of
John Blank, who refused to take his paper out
of the postoffice. He did not want it any longer,
and we 'wondered what was the matter. Upon
investigation of our subscription book, we found
that John was short $1.50. He stopped the paper
as a matter of economy to us. One evening we
went to church and John’s melodious voice rang
out loud and clear in that soul stirring song,
“Jesus Paid It All.” We might have been mis
taken but his earnestness impressed us. The next
day we sent him a receipt in full, begging his
pardon for not knowing he had made arrange
ments for his liabilities in that manner.—Cordele
Dispatch.
This manner of man afflicts all communities. He
takes the paper as long as he can without paying for
it, then has the postmaster mark it “refused.”
He may sing as loud as he pleases, he may pray
louder and longer than the pharisees of old, he may
boast of his honor and debt-paying qualities (dead
beats generally do), but the devil will finally get him,
because nobody else wants or will have him.
THE COUNTY UNIT AGAIN.
There has been a great deal of foolish talk about
the county unit. Many of its strongest advocates
are positively ignorant of its workings. They are
blind followers of political outcasts like Tom Watson,
who rather than think and analyze for themselves,
prefer to be guided by the specious arguments of those
who. would use them as pawns in their political
treacheries and misrepresentations.
The Citizen believes in democracy, not merely as
a name, but as a fact. It believes in the votes of
all the people who are qualified being brought into
the equation. Why should one man’s vote be differ
ent from that of another? In other words we be
lieve in the individual unit as opposed to the so-called
county unit. The county unit is a complete plan of
disfranchisement. It places a premium on one class
of voters while disfranehing another.
Josiah Carter, in the Marietta Journal, explains
the system as follows:
The people can do as they please without con
sulting me, but for my part I consider the indi
vidual voter the unit of power and not any geo
graphical lines. As for the idea that one com
munity is to be trusted more than another, I don’t
take any stock in that. I think Fulton is as hon
est as Pickens and Bibb as much to be trusted as
Glascock. Besides, I would rather try to influence
a few hundred people in three small counties than
17,000 voters in Fulton. A voter in one of the
smaller counties has twenty times the weight
under the county unit plan than is exercised by a
voter in Fulton, and yet the Constitution says
each voter shall have the same power at the ballot
box. I am willing to have even a direct vote for
President. One effect would be to prevent the
concentration of money in doubtful states. Why
should a Presidential election hinge on the buy
ing of a little state like Delaware?
The individual voter is the man to look after.
He should be the unit of power. If he hasn’t got
sense enough to vote let’s teach him.. If he is
corrupt let’s reform him or out-vote him. But
don’t let us think we can run a republic 'by tak
ing the position as a matter of right that one
man shall have more influence than another sim
ply because he lives in a less populous county.
The missionaries have been sent to the wrong
places. They are not needed in so-called heathen
lands. They are needed, and badly, in so-called Chris
tian Europe.
Of course, most anything and anybody can preach
hell and damnation, .but it takes a real good man,
imbued with the Christ spirit, to preach and teach
real brotherly love, sympathy and charity.
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The reason we didn’t go to the convention was that
we didn’t want to see our good friend, Jack Slaton,
steam rollered. We are not much on steam roller
tacties, no matter by whom or what employed.
A physician says that if you are perfectly normal
you should be able to hold your breath from 30 to
10 seconds. If you can’t hold your breath more than
20 seconds it is unsafe for you to take an anaesthetic.
The county unit plan is a plan that takes away
from the people their right to elect officials and places
this right in the hands of the. manipulators of con
ventions. Witness the spectacle in Macon this week.
Some of those newspaper reporters at the con
vention are regular “Mole St. Nicholas” liars. The
truth might do just as well, but where prejudice and
hatred of Hoke Smith creep in the truth is impos
sible with them.
“A SCRAP OF PAPER."
According to the German Imperial Chancellor the
great European war is all caused by “a scrap of
paper.” And when you come to think of it almost
everything of any importance is caused by “a scrap
of paper, ’ ’ or the written words thereon. A ten-
dollar bill is a scrap of paper, and we have it on the
authority of-the bible that “money is the root of all
evil.”
The New York World, discussing this “scrap of
paper” feature of the war, makes use of the follow
ing choice English in an effort to impress the im
portance of certain scraps of paper and the sacredness
of moral obligations:
“Just for a scrap of paper,” exclaimed the Ger
man Imperial Chancellor in his final interview with
the British Ambassador—“just for a scrap of
paper Great Britain is going to make war on a
kindred nation! ’ ’
That “scrap of paper” was the treaty guaran-
teeifig the neutrality of Belgium. The whole his- •
tory of human liberty is written on just such
scraps of paper.
The Magna Charta was “a scrap of paper.”
The Bill of Rights was “a scrap of paper.”
The Declaration of Independence was ‘ ‘ a scrap
of paper.”
The Constitution of the United States is “a
scrap of paper.”
The Emancipation Proclamation was “a scrap
of paper. ’ ’
The decisions of the United States Supreme
Court and of the British law Lords are “a scrap
of paper.”
For a hundred years “a scrap of paper” has
maintained an unbroken peace between the United
States and the British possessions of Canada
along an unfortified frontier of 3,000 miles.
The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was *' * a scrap of
paper, ’ ’ but the United States, despite the tempta
tion, took no move to construct an Isthmian canal
until that scrap of paper could be amended with
the consent of both parties to the contract.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty is “a scrap of
paper,” and one of the most brilliant moral vic
tories won by President Wilson is the act of Con
gress which voluntarily repealed a violation of
the terms of that “scrap of paper.”
Respect for these scraps of paper measures a
nation’8 honor no less than, its freedom. Democ
racy itself is only “a scrap of paper,” but it
looses forces that no autocracy can stay. The
German army is the most wonderful military ma
chine ever constructed by the hand and brain of
man, but in the final reckoning, of history “a
scrap of paper” will prove more powerful than
all the Kaiser’s legions.
If Berlin did not know that great maxim of
democracy, so much the worse for Berlin.
The. Hearst papers are throwing fits in six-inch
type about the awfulness of the European war. It is
awful, of course, but why did the Hearst papers want
war between this country and Mexico? Wouldn’t it
also have been awful?
The Telegraph is still running “Little Joe.” It
says the “abuse” of power by the victors is going
to make him loom up stronger.' Well, Tom Watson
ran “Little Joe” one time as an independent, so
why should not the.Telegraph try its hand one time?
It is just natural for Rufe Hutchens to raise h—1.
He is built that way, and of course he had to butt
into the Macon convention without even being a dele
gate. With his eleven Watson delegates dangling to
his coattail he undertook to be the whole convention
and was very properly howled down.
The LaGrange Graphic credited the Citizen with
a short paragraph last week which didn’t belong to
it, and then yelled almost a column about it. We
fear that our good friend McGinty is taking himself
too seriously. This old world will manage to wag
along when both he and Tom Watson are gone and
forgotten.
The Macon Telegraph has actually approved of
something Mr. Bryan has done. The Albany Herald
thinks the millennium must be approaching. Maybe
so, but it is not yet in sight. When the Telegraph
approves something Hoke Smith does it will then be
time to cease all labors and prepare for the thousand
years of peace and harmony.
If it had not been for the county unit rule of Jack
Slaton’s own crowd, he would today be the nominee
of the democratic party for the United States senate.
A nomination is equivalent to an election. Therefore,
the county unit plan applied to a primary cost Slaton
a United States senatorship, after he had won a
plurality of both popular and unit votes.
According to the New York World the recent rise
in sugar is said to have put $40,000,000 into the
pockets of Louisiana *planters and refiners. In other
words the sugar trust is taking advantage of the
European war to plunder the American consumer. The
World also notes that $40,000,000 was the exact
amount the Germans ‘ ‘ fined ’ ’ Brussels for fighting
for the country it so loves. In' both instances the
money was demanded for about the same reasons,
namely, the victims could not help themselves.
Editor Loyless, of the Augusta Chronicle, spoke the
truth when he declared in a speech in Macon: “Any
delegate sent here instructed for Slaton who betrays
that trust until released by Governor Slaton himself
is a contemptible liar, coward and unworthy the re
spect of decent people. ’ ’ That is rather strong lan
guage. A county that was carried by Slaton should
have sent delegates that would have stood up to him
so long as his name was before the convention. This
same rule should have applied to any of the other
candidates, but we notice that it didn’t apply to any
of them. The delegations split in many instances,
regardless of who carried the counties represented by
them.
Life and
Laughter
BY JAMES WELLS
“The Printer-Poet”
“I Should Worry ”
Tune Up Your “Cosmic Urge.”
(“Life’8 harmony consists of adjusting one’s being,
one’s Cosmic Urge, to vibrations which give forth a
concord instead of a discord.”—New philosophy.)
If you’re feeling dull and dreary,
And the world don’t treat you right,
Everything goes all contrary,
While the day is dark as night.
Matters not what be the trouble,
Though you’re on destruction’s verge;
It will vanish like a bubble
If you tune your cosmic urge.
If your sweetheart has deserted,
And gone with another jay;
And you find with you she flirted,
Just to pass the time away.
Oh, do not pine nor sicken,
Buy a gun or make a splurge—
You can find another "chicken,”
If you tune your cosmic urge.
If your landlord gets behind you
When you cannot pay the rent;
Oh, do not let folks find you
Paying him a single cent.
But just refrain from givin ’
Though his angry passions surge,
You can find a place to live in,
When you tune your cosmic urge.
If you have a visitation
From the mother of your wife;
And you feel a hesitation
As to entering in strife.
If you’d have her quickly leave you,
Of her presence you would purge
Your sweet home ere she could grieve you,
Just tune up your cosmic urge.
So whatever be the matter,
If a trifle or if grave;
You need not. your “noggin” bother,
In a vain attempt to save.
If it’s “heart” or if it’s liver,
Oh, your troubles all will merge,
Rolling off in one great river,
When you tune your cosmic uyge.
Longin’ for the Old Times.
Nothin’ ’gainst the new times—
Sky is bright an’ blue;
But I want the old times,
Honey, dear, with you.
Honey, dear, with you,
Honey, dear, with you;
Longin ’ for the old times,
Honey, dear, with you.
Sun is shinin’ brightly,
, In the times ’at’s new;
But I want the old times,
Honey, dear, with you.
Honey, dear, with you,
Honey, dear, with you;
Longin’ for the old times,
Honey, dear, with you.
Hills of glorious grandeur,
Burstin’ on my view;
But I want the old times,
Honey, dear, with you.
Honey, dear, with you,
Honey, dear, with you;
Longin’ for the old times,
Honey, dear, and you.
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Coming Home.
Full soon the glad vacationists,
Who played and romped their best,
Will cease to roam and hie them home
To take a well-earned rest.
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Out of Sight.
I wish they’d take a war balloon,
’ Those- guys on warfare bent,
And sail up somewhere near the moon
To see where sugar went.
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A Master-ful Way.
If I’d a suffragette as slave,
I think I’d seek new pastures;
They seem to have a fearful craze
For tearing up ‘ ‘ old masters. ’ ’
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“There’s a Reason.”
In every town in this fair land,
Just anywhere you go;
You’ll find some men a “raising sand”
Who cannot raise the “dough.”
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Smile.
Smile when the world all around you is gray,
And the darkness of night has enveloped the day.
When the hordes of despair has invaded your life,
And nothing in sight but just trouble and strife.
Smile.
Smile, though your heart may seem ready to break,
And even the Lord may seem you to forsake.
Just keep up your courage; be ready to fight,
And do not give way to the darkness of night.
Smile.
Smile! And the clouds will all pass away,
And a vision you’ll catch of God’s great, glorious day,
For the heart that gives way to the depths of despair,
Forever and aye will stay buried there.
Smile.
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In the Fall.
In the fall the only oyster
■ Makes his advent in the stew;
In the fall the thought of coal bills
Makes the householder feel blue.
In the fall the busy blackbirds
To the "South begins to flock.
In the fall we fall to musing
Of our overcoat in hock.
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Be Up and Going Again.
If you ‘ ‘ fall down ” on a thing you may try,
Be up and a-going again.
It doesn’t help matters to sit down and cry,
Be up and a-going again.
The vict ’ry is not for the man who will quail
When jostled aside like a reed that is frail;
The fight-s for the fellow who will not say fail—
Be up and a-going again.
Tho’ dark is the day and you fall by the way,
Be up and a-going again.
Just gird on your armor and back to the fray;
Be up and a-going again.
Just keep on a-sticking and kicking along,
With a smile on your face and your heart full of song.
As full of brave courage as though naught were wrong:
Be up and a-going again.
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♦ Letters From The People. ♦
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The Franco-Prussian War.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Frank H. Vizetelly, writing in Monday’s Consti
tution, says: “Due to Napoleon Ill’s intense jealousy
of the increased prestige of Prussia .... the
Franco-Prussian war was the unloading of its instiga
tor. ’ ’ Can you imagine, Mr. Editor, such gross error
coming from a man who claims to be a Litt. D., LL.D.,
and to have lived in France from 1866 to 1874?
He further wrote: “How greatly Napolepn III
had been deceived as to the efficiency and readiness
of his army is a matter of history.”
The truth of the matter is that Napoleon III, the
Emperor of France, bitterly opposed the war. A Ho-
henzollern, nephew of Bismarck, had been elected to
the throne of Spain by the Spanish eortes, and had
made up his mind to accept, but before doing so con
sulted his Uncle Bismarck, who was at the time occupy
ing his summer palace at Emms. Bismarck in all
probability refused to give his nephew any advice
whatever, for soon thereafter a committee from the
French corps de legislatif visited Bismarck and urged
him to persuade his nephew to decline the Madrid
throne. Bismarck, “the Man of Blood and Iron,”
replied to the committee that ‘ ‘ as his nephew had only
consulted him as a relative and not as a ruler he
could 1 not under the circumstances ask him either to
refuse or accept the election.”
History further shows that another visit was made
to Bismarck on the same mission but without avail.
The French legislature, then in session, declared war
and the cry went up all over France, “viva la Napo
leon!” and his picture and statues were displayed in
all public places, but when he went before the as
semblage and told it that France was by no means
armed for such a conflict and scarcely in any way
prepared for such an encounter, French wrath, vola
tility and impetuosity broke forth in all their fury,
and the pictures and statues of Napoleon were torn
down and trampled beneath feet and the cry “Down
with Napoleon!” and “Down with the Emperor!”'
went up all over the land. But Napoleon assured them
if they persisted in war he would be at the front and
battle his best. The French counted on the political
division, then existing between the North and South
German states, as a war asset. They thought that
fully half Germany would refuse to go to war
they reckoned without their host. General Count’y**
Moltke was at the head of thecGerman army ac ,j
brilliant generalship has been the admiration of
world’s most noted army men ever since. He ea
about four French to one of his own at the h ^
of. Metz. He used some of the first Napoleon
gies, in that he pretended building a railroad • *
famous Metz pass, thus fooling Bazaine and ifeHah^
Yon Moltke with 40,000 men, captured 150,000 0 f ° # ’
flower of the French army. This sortie made eaL a*
battle of Sedan for German troops, and resulted •
the French capitulating at Sedan and ending T
Franco-Prussian war victoriously for German or *
and arms. The Von Molkte referred to was .... 688
,a3 dfl Qflcie
of the present Count Von Molkte, chief of staff 0 f
German army-now in the field. 1 e
The siege of Paris took place the day of the f UEe . .
of General Robert E. Lee, and I once heard the la
General John B. Gordon say with reference to
that “one could almost imagine the very guns of tk
Prussian army were silenced at the gates of
as the funeral cortege of Lee was passing down the
streets of Baltimore out of respect for his beloved
memory. FRANK T. REYNOLDS*
[If w.e have read history right Empress Eugenie
yet still living, was the real instigator of the Fi&m
Prussian war.—Editor Citizen.J
Why the Hammering Should Continue.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
Brother Shope says this everlasting hammering 0!l
Catholicism' is doing no good. Well, if it is doiu° no
good, it is not the fault of those who are doing the
hammering. If people refuse to believe when' the
evidence is clear, positive and overwhelming it cer
tainly is not the fault of those who have produced the
evidence.
For one, 1 believe in hammering anything and
everything, whether Catholic, Protestant, religious or
political, that seeks -to corrupt the government of this
country, and to abridge the liberties of the American
people. I, for one, am everlastingly opposed to the
mixing and mingling of polities and religion for any'
body or anything; and when any church or religious or
ganization of any name whatsoever begins to dabble
in politics, to meddle with civil affairs and to trv
to dictate civil law, we believe with all our soul h
such church or organization being told in unmistaka-
ble language to mind its own business.
No, Catholicism should not get all the hammering
for already Protestantism is showing the infallible
symptoms of an unholy ambition. Yes, while the lib
erty-loving people of this country are watching the
mother-hubbards, they should not forget to watch the
jim-swingers, too.
The Christian church was never intended to be a
political party. And it was never intended to be a
money machine. But in many Protestant pulpits more
little political speeches than gospel sermons are heard
and Protestantism has built up a money system in this
country that extorts many thousands of dollars every
year from the poor.
These well-meaning but misguided people believe
they are helping to convert the heathen, when in
reality they are helping to keep up a gang of soft-
handed dead-beats^ and free institutions in other
lands, while they must foot their own bills.
4 ‘ Go ye, therefore, into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature,” said the Christ. Bat
the Christ did not say that His poverty-stricken, hard-
handed disciples were to be taxed to keep up free
schools, free colleges, and free hospitals in other coun
tries while their own children grow up in ignorance
and many of them go -to permature graves for the
want of proper medical attention. Of course, if peo
ple want to do this it is strictly their own business,
but it shows to what lengths good people can be lead
by their religious leaders.
People who read and think for themselves are as
yet mighty searee, and right here is where the trouble
lies. A few set the traps and the millions walk into
them.
In things political and religious the masses believe
whatever their leaders tell them. If the Protestants
of this country would only do a little honest reading
and thinking, how long do you suppose this foreign
mission business would be run as it is being run now!
If the Catholic millions should suddenly go to reading
the Bible and history for themselves, independent of
“church” and priest, how long do you think the
Papal system would continue to exist? As the con
stant dropping of water wears a stone away, so the
constant hammering of a few have broken some oi
the chains ignorance and superstition have fastened
upon men and women. But all the chains have not
been broken. Therefore, let the hammers wielded by
strong arms continue to ring throughout the world
until the last shackle shall fall shivered in the dust.
Romanism is nothing under heaven but paganism,
and it was the partial triumph of common sense and
truth over paganism that gave Protestantism to the
world. Protestantism has never been entirely tree
from error. Protestantism has never taught the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, but Protestantism has
helped to gain mighty victories for humanity. And a=
the old Protestantism weakens and rots a new Protes
tantism will spring up, fresh, vigorous and freer trom
superstition and error, and gain other victories ior
the children of men. Religion has ever been an im
portant factor in the lives of the nations. By study
ing the religions of ancient peoples we gain a deep
knowledge of their national character. While they
were strong and vigorous and manly they worshipped
the gods of wisdom and power, but when they were
growing weak and effeminate their religions became
womanish and they sacrificed not to gods, but to
goddesses. Study Romanism and the religions of P 35t
ages for yourself and you will be convinced that
Romanism is nothing under God’s heaven but a mix
ture of pagan doctrines, superstitions, and ceremonies,
with some Christian truth thrown in. If Romanism is
the friend of the poor, the champion of the oppress® >
the deliverer of the down-trodden, the friend of hu
manity, then God forbid that we should lift a hand or
utter a word against it. But judged by its own claims,
its own record, Romanism is the implacable foe o
liberty and of humanity. Because it stands -° r
subordination of the state to the church, for despot^
ism against democracy—the right of one man to -
according to his own will—against the right of tae
people to rule through their chosen representatives-
We hate it with all the power God has given ns t0
hate anything. No person who knows what Roman
ism is, what it teaches, and what it stands for ■ a
who loves humanity, can watch its steady grow‘A
this country without a feeling of alarm as to w a
the result will be.
Everywhere it is the same. Everywhere it make
a record that record is written in blood and tears-
In every country where it has gained a f° ot 0 ^
the people have been trampled down in ignorant
and superstition and slavery. Wherever it rules
ing but the rabble of monks and the authority t
church ’ ’ flourish.
Remember the Philippine Islands and Cuba,
under Almighty God the arms of the United
broke the power of popery in those places; Loo' ^
Mexico now soaked with blood and strewn with
dead. Read the history of that torn, distracted
try and learn for yourself that at the bottom or
its troubles has been the representatives of popefy-
JESSIE BAXTER SMITH-