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Vol. 37 EDITORIALS AND SHORT COMMENT^ rHINGS IN GENERAL Tfie Woeful Plight of Robert Lansing. Whoever holds the American office, of Secretary of State, is our Premier. We once had a Premier whose name was Thomas Jefferson; another was known as Ilenrv ( lay; still # another was Daniel Webster. (Those little fellows are not to be compared to Woodruff Wilson, who is by far the biggest human proposition that ever wore breeches.) Then we hat} a Premier whose name was William H. Seward, who bought Alaska from Russia. We, have also had such Premiers as Elihu Root, who went to South America and made some lovely speeches to those barbarians, and arranged some agreeable programmes for Dollar Diplomacy. Then again we had John Hay as Premier, and a very fine gentleman he was. He refused to become a party to all the rascalities of the Panama Canal deal, and the rascals perse¬ cuted him to death. Then we had another Premier named Bill Fat Taft, and he wasn't worth his room in Hades except to talk soft-sawder for the Big Rich. (He is out of office now. but he is the same old Bill, bless him!) Along came Wilkins Jenkins Bryan, whom Wil¬ son made Premier, to the intense amusement of man¬ kind: and if anything could have increased the in¬ ternational hilarity, it was the way in which Wilkins Jenkins Bryan disported himself, before he quitted office. (The fact, that he committed a violation of law in carrying off the desk upon which ho had signed 27 abortive peace treaties, does not seam to have stirred anybody’s anger or risibilities.) But after Wilkins Jenkins Bryan had resigned (as a protest against the u-ar), amid a pious chorus of “God-bless-yous” from such holy men .is William G. McAdoo, Woodruff Wilson, Joe Paw Tumulty, and Bryan himself, there came to Wd#! the head of our rtmejii of State .one. Robert So tar as I know and believe, Robert Lansing is a fine man, a capable man. and a unique man because he is the one man in Wilson’s administration who has shown no sign of being drunk on power. (Josiah Daniel, A. S. Burleson, Newt. Baker— they are simply insane on their own authority.) But what I meant to call your attention to, is the official effacement of our Premier, Robert Lansing. This Wilson person, who kept us out of war, lias simply obliterated our Premier. Of course, if Lansing had been a Chiv, Webster and Calhoun rolled into one, it would have been the same. No man that ever breathed equals the Wilson person. When he vacated his office at Washington and left one of his old hats to govern us, he set aside the King of England, the King of Belgium, the Presi¬ dent of France, and the King of Italy, in order that he , Wilson, should be the Bismarck of/the Versailles Peace Conference. > (I don't enumerate the smaller potentates, because they don't figure at all: their duty is to grin and bear it, while Wilson feeds them on crumbs.) The Premier of England sits at the Peace Table, but ours doesn’t. The Premier of France sits at the Peace Table, but ours doesn’t. Even the Premier of Italy sits at the Peace Table, but ours doesn’t. The Wilson person is Us: our Premier is the little canine that curls himself up under the table. We are making the world safe for democracy, and nobody can show the Almighty how to do it except Woodruff Wilson. Poor Mr. Lansing! He is the most gentlemanly member of this Administration, but he appears to have been ab¬ sorbed in the vortex of the Englishman—Woodrow Wilson. I cannot imagine President Tyler treating Daniel Webster with such ostentatious contempt. Can you picture to yourself Henry Clay, curling up under a Peace Table, while President John Quincy Adams was presiding, as Premier? Yoii can’t even imagine John Forsyth acting as fice for Andrew Jackson, and you know that Abra¬ ham Lincoln did not Witliam venture to try such ignomin¬ ious treatment on H. Seward. When we see the negligible part being assigned to Robert Lansing in Paris, we are amazed that he doesn’t resign, and once more become A Man. T. E. W. Among the attendants at Cardinal Gibbons’ New Year Day sermon at the Catholic cathedral at Balti more, on Janunry 1, was William J. Brvati, who also went to the reception of the cardinal at his home after the sermon, and. according to the Wash¬ ington Post, “had a little chat” with the cardinal. William J. has been a candidate heretofore, and a national Democratic convention is to be held in 1920. Wilson visited the pope and Bryan Cardinal Gibbons, and its time for other politicians to put in their bid for the Catholic vote.—The Menace. ,M3a>:AH .i-H' ♦ n / . - & ■ ■< Price $2.00 Per Year THE SENATOR AND THE When President Roosevelt invited me to the White House, during the panic of 190‘7,1 met Sena¬ tor Robert La Follette in the Senate Cafe, where 1 was taking luncheon with Hons. Hardwick, Clark, Culbertson and others. Senator La Follette did not sit down with us. for he seemed in a great hurry, and he had his arms full of papers, and he seemed to be seeing things in the distance which required him to hurry up and get there. He was a rather red-faced man. of medium size, with hair which stood up in front with a truly belligerent attitude. He was then fighting a number of iniquities in the Government, and the job kept him in hot water. and busy. Later on, he became conspicuous . as • . hater . o Roosevelt, whose Progressiveness failed feivift the C iheTonr G^7ltZS\he sinking of the Lusitania, the Sussex the William G. Frye the Gulfhght, the murder of the American consul on the Arabic, the bombing of our munition plants, the slaughter of our laborers—and other German atrocities—but at last concluded to go to war'“for no special grievance of our own,” but on general principles. La Follette made a speech in St. Paul. In that speech, the Senator said many things which were so true that they were extremely objec tionable to the Government. The Government had made a law’against oh stinate truth-tellers, because it was a time when the Government could not afford to let the cat out of the ba<> It was easy for Pious Woodrow, Burleson, and Gregory to hush-up a small person down here at Thomson and he was hushed-up accordingly; hut it was difficult to decide what to do with a U. b. ko Nevertheless the prostitute Senators framed a formidable indictment against the alleged traitor, and they accused him of high crimes and misde meanors—such as treason, sedition, rebellion, mu tiny, insurrection, incendiarism, &c. Mind you. he had not done anything: he had not committed any overt act. He had made a public speech at St. Paul, and given utterance to his honest convictions; that was a U_ Yet the Senatorial Strumpets drew up against him a fearful arraignment upon which they * pro posed to expel him from the Senate. Had thov succeeded, they would then have had .. lum arrested, Federal •. fed , 1 water , sent to a prison, on principally, and whipped when he completed-** per the “conscientious objectors,” whose tales of woe at least equal what the American soldiers are telling us of German prisons. Senator La Follette faced his accusers with abso lute fearlessness, and challenged them to a trial. They dared not try him! For nearly two years they kept the sword over his head, hoping to cow him, hack him. silence him. The Greatest Catholic Asset. The only church that ever invented instruments of agonizing torture, and used them upon other people—Christians, Moors, Jews, and “sorcerers,”— is the Roman Catholic church. (Those frightful instruments of torture and death still exist in all parts of the world where this Roman church once held sway.) The Christians who were tortured by these ter¬ rible instruments of iron, steel, and wood, were those who persisted in getting their religion from the Bible, instead of from the Pope. The Moors who were the victims of these fearful persecutions were followers of Mahomet: they brought into Europe the highest education, the most lovely architecture, the most perfect agriculture, and the most refined manners that had been known up to that time. These Moors built wonderful palaces and mosques which the Spaniards appropriated to themselves, after the Moors had been burned at the stake for not believing in idolatry and Pope-worship. The Jews who perished under Roman Catholic savagery were those who clung to the Old Testament and to the faith of their fathers. Inasmuch as the Church of Rome claims that its first Pone was a Jew named Peter, and that, this Jew is the rock upon which the Catholic paganism rests, it seems inconsistent that later Popes should here l>een so hard on the Jews. The “sorcerers” who were tortured to death by the Roman Catholic church were the Christians of scientific turn of mind who had learned how to cure diseases by the use of surgery and medicine, and “invocation without the of use the of saints,” filthy old and rags, other bones, Roman “relief Catlw»! lie hmnbuggery. Harlem, Ga., Friday, February 7, 1919. THOS. E. WAl U » on W ; When they sawfeihat he was not to be conqered. they got rid of the case by voting him “Not Guilty.” But in Iowa there is # poor devil now serving a term in the penitentiary^for having done less (Jum was done by the Wisconsin Senator. La Follette mafic his speech in public, it was cir¬ culated through 'our sanctified postoffices, it went into the homes and hearts of thousands of young men subject to conscription. But in the case of the Iowa convict, D. T. Blod¬ gett, no publication was made: he privately printed some portions of my editorials, placing them in pamphlet form, and carried them to the sanctified postoffice, where Tie postmaster promptly confis¬ cated them. The pamphlets were nbot legally pubHsfed, at all, much ]ess circulated. H ow. then, could they obstruct the Government, JJ ’ C?"" ’ a " ( ^ * ‘ “? ter Trnst< n t he stool English lawyers are yet horrified at the wav in which Algernon Sidney was condemned, to death hecuase of democratic papers found in his desk English historians tell von how helpless King George III. was to wreak his vengeance upon John Wilkes, who had pi-iratdy printed a most obscene “Essay on Woman," and who had given a few copies to personal friends. The law could not touch him, for die reasun that the nasty “Essay” had not been published. , lf ! tr ” Cl P nor Blodgett meant to publish, to P" 1 lhs, .' : blit the local postmaster pre vented the . ^ ^ Strange to %n Ay, Blodgett's Attornek-if he had an y-do not to have made this!point in his defense. \ \ noWeronce the jury, and find to this legal point, although the Judge, Art himself states tfte fact that pamphlets went no her than the local post .office. {They were in wrappersJ) The Judge’s charge to the jury lays the whole ease on the passages which Blodgett took from The Jeffersonian; but none of those quotations are stronger than those taken hv the Strumpet Senators from La Follettes St. Paul speech. So late as November. 1917. after my publications £***? La Follette been destroyed was .regularly by the mailing Government, Us magazine. Senator »". v : h f *»" sbowin ? of tj ’ e Amencan Trusts had already made nearly one thousand million dollars off the war. Thoge fen triot5c war . bo orners are the Copper Tm<< the Leatlier Trust, the Meat Trust, the Oil TmsU the Polv(ler Tnist. and the Paper, Rubber, Sugar, and Wool Trusts, What do you suppose the Big Banks have made? How much did the war-boosting contractors get? And the Cotton gamblers—how much do you reckon they mean to steal from you? As to mules, horses, ships, and lumber, the less said, the better. • T. E. W. These scientific sorcerers who cured men, women, and children with extracts of healing herbs, or by other human agencies, infringed upon the holy hum¬ bug monopoly of the ignorant, greedy, sensual priests. Ever since the Italian Catholics rose up against the temporal rule of the Pope, the Jesuits have yearned for a general war which would give them opportunities which peace does not afford. They wanted a Great War, so that their secret societies, their chaplains, their nurses, tlieir politi¬ cians, their secret diplomacy—playing one nation against the other—could again make the Papacy the. balance of power. The Jesuits inflamed the Greek Catholics of the small Balkan States, and the Treaty (Concordat) which they forced upon the aged King Peter of Servia, late in June 1914, was the direct cause of the War. By that Treaty, the Jesuits placed two millions of Greek Catholics at the mercy of ten thousand Romanists. Inasmuch us the Austrian archduke, Ferdinand, was considered the tool of the Jesuits and had vain¬ glorious gone to the Balkans to assert Austrian authority, a frenzied Greek Catholic youth shot him. • •’ This was a foul crime, but it was personal, and should have been punished like any other personal ciime. But the Jesuits lmd other ideas: they played politics with the tragedy! they worked upon 'the senile Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph; thev worked upon (be military monomania. Kaiser Wil ludm: and in spite of all that could lie done by la. Russia, and England, the V ar came on with » of German armies to, Paris. > . (C nitmml Pa , on Issued Weekly The Newspapers Waking Up. ( A. L. L. ) AVith all due respect to the editorial policy of our esteemed journalistic neighbor, the Augusta Herald, its best friends cannot deny that it lias long been the habit of that paper to observe a reserved spirit —editorially—toward much that needed drastic handling on the part of the press. To many of us, it. seemed that the policy of the paper was founded on the motto of the Georgia Railroad “Safety First”, when it came to matters that were against the usual mode of our people. The newspapers were responsible, more than any other agency, for the tremendous pressure brought on our ]x>ople, in the matter of drives and money¬ raising on every possible occasion, and for every possible purpose, in the late War activities. It amazed many of us to know that our country, as a country, charitable was so near bankrupt, that it had to turn over to organizations—and that is the only way one can put it—the care of our men who had been drafted into service in a foreign war. R ith all due respect to the glorious achievements of the Red Cross organization, and the Y. M. C. A.y it is a melancholy fact that they, in the aggregate, accomplished their work only with the help given them by the country at large. Wo gave, all of us, uncomplainingly and generously, to every drive that was organized. We bought Bonds, beyond our ability, many of us. even if we didn’t plaster the fact all over the market place, hut the end of this sort of thing should he in sight. The need in our own country, among our own people now, for every cent that it is ours to give, is too startling for us to over¬ look. and it is here we salute the Augusta Herald, and give in full, an editorial from its Sunday edition: JUSTICE NOT WHOLLY FOR EX¬ PORT; AT HOME WE HAVE OUR HUNGRY AND UNEMPLOYED Millions of Russians starving in an agri¬ cultural country after fourteen months of ■ tVakKcvisriT ix-rlitK-h-mg ermdrrr.nrt toil '>f a Government that pretends to represent the poor. A nation that fails to feed its citizens in the midst of plenteous resources and will¬ ing workers writes its own death warrant. We. organized production, preached, prac¬ ticed and compelled economy, and collected billions in taxes and gifts to fight starva¬ tion in Europe and Asia. We watched and guarded against famine in far places. Serbia, Armenia, Poland, and Belgium were fed. even at the expense of our own tables. We learned that famine and suffer¬ ing anywhere weakens the whole line that battles for humanity and justice. Even before the signing of peace we were preparing to feed our former enemies. We do this because the war taught that misery anywhere spreads physical, political and moral disease everywhere. We learned this lesson in war. It applies in peace. We learned it internationally, We .must apply it within our own nation. Famine and suffering in Armenia, Ser¬ bia, Poland or Belgium is no worse, nor more dangerous, than in the slums and in¬ dustrial districts of our own country. We are justly proud of our response to the cry^ of the “Fatherless Children of Fiance.” We rightly congratulate our¬ selves upon saving the lives of multitudes of Belgian children. We cannot forever remain blind and indifferent to the terrible infant death rate caused by poverty in America. Distance may lend enchantment. It does not lessen responsibility. It is Pharisaical to point the finger of scorn at the Bolsbeviki for failure to feed Russians while the streets of American cities are filling with unemployed men passing idle factories and untilled fields. We are justly proud of the organizing ability that so quickly assembled and drilled two million men, and sent them safelv across the submarine-infested seas. We have a right to boast of the order and speed with which we built great terminals in France, and conducted unprecedented systems millions of of feeding and caring for these soldiers and other millions of civilians. In war and in industry we have made good our claim to be the greatest organizers and the wealthiest nation in the world. We can see no limit to our natural resources. Our workers excel all others in skill. R hat does nil this profit us if we cannot so manage our nation ns to provide work and comfort for our citizens? Justice is not wholly for export. Catholics at the national capital are upon the people for funds to erect there a at a cost of $1,000,000. How much Catholics give to build Protestant No. 20.