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EDITORIALS AND SHORT COMMENTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL
THOS. E. WATSON.
Two Pitiful Pygmies—George
Washington and John Adams
Qute a lot of water has passed under the
bridge since Woodrow Wilson applied for a pen¬
sion, under the Carnegie Endowment, upon the
grounds that he was a poor old wornout school¬
teacher, and needed free soup for his tooth!:.&.
old age.
He did not get the pension, but that was n<
fault of his.
He had failed, as a lawyer: he had gone dry
as a Professor; he had missed the mark as
bookmaker; and, as a last resort, he offered him¬
self to the corporations, as an academic dummy
who could be relied upon to spread sanctimonious
verbiage over every piece of legislative rascality “Col.”
that such politicians as “Col.’' House,
Tumulty, and other “Colonels’’ of the Lobby
cared to hatch up.
So it came to pass, that the foiled applicant
for the Carnegie pension for wearied and worn
out old teachers, has been in Europe dining with
kings, gallivanting with queens, receiving carloads
of precious gifts, having himself written up as The
Greatest Thing that ever wore Breeches, and wast ¬
ing $5,000,000 of our money in parading around, as
the Chief Sight of the world’s Biggest Show.
Then, when he at length condescends to come
home, he denounces everybody who believes that
he has been betraying bis country, by bartering
away its sovereign independence to England and
Japan.
The Americans who deny his right to entan¬
gle us with every foreign nation and to dwarf our
national figure by putting it under orders from
Catholic Italy and Pagan Japan he contemptuous¬
ly villifies, as men of “pygmy minds.” This is the
..same old gentleman who, three years ago, admon¬
ished us to be “neutral in thought,” as well as
neutral in word and deed, concerning the Great
War!
It is none of our business, said this old gen¬
tleman! Let them* figlrt it out themselves,
said this aged relic of the academy.
We must be neutral even in our thoughts, de¬
clared this venerable fossil.
Only three years ago, he said it, wrote it,
preached it, and acted it.
No Belgian horrors cuddled his blood. No
butcheries of entire villages in Northern France
interrupted his daily equanimities and nocturnal
pleasures. Lusitania victims did not haunt his
dreams, nor did Armenian massacres disturb his
digestion.
Three years of war were necessary to convince
Woodrow Wilson that Europe’s business was ours.
His had been the “pygmy mind” up to that
time: his was the “pygmy mind” when he dismiss¬
ed from his CabmetLindley If. Garrison who favor¬
ed BrdparVdness.
His had been the pygmy mind when he stood
on Shadow Lawn, late in October, 191fi, and told
the assembled thousands that this country should
adhere to its historic policy and not intermeddle
with the complicationc in Europe.
This old man was then 60 years of age, and is
supposed to have reached his mental maturity.
But. according to his present bitter abuse of
those who differ from him, about his monstrous
League of Nations, he was a mental pygmy: let us
see who else, measureed by his recent yardstick,
were also mental pygmies.
The best, “Life” of George Washington is that
of Henry Cabot Lodge, who on page 206, Vol. II,
says—“No man who has ever held high office in
this country had, a more real deference for the
popular will than Washington ,” and he quotes the
noble letter of reply which Washington wrote to
the Selectmen of Boston. (Page 187.)
“But the Constitution is tiie guide which i
NEVER CAN ABANDON.
“ It lias assigned to the President the power of
making treaties with the advice and consent of the
Senate.
“It was doubtless supposed that these two
branches of government would combine those
facts and principles upon, which, the success of our
foreign relations will always depend." ,
In March, 1793; “All our accounts from
Europe hold up the expectation of a general war
in that quarter. For the sake of humanity, I hope
such an event will not take place. But if it should,
I trust that we shall have too fust a sense of our
own interest to originate any cause that may in¬
volve us in it.”
(Apparently Washington was ignorant of the
awful debt we owed to La Fayette.)
A few days later, President Washington wrote
to Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State—
“War having actually commenced between
Great Britain and France, it behooves the govern¬
ment of this country to use every means in its
power to prevent the citizens thereof from embroil¬
ing vs udth cither of these powers , nr endeavoring
TO MAINTAIN A STRICT NEUTRALITY.”
Edmund Randolph drew up the Proclamation
of Neutrality, the Cabinet unanimously approver
it, Washington proclaimed it,, and enforced it.
(No debt to La Fayette mentioned. )
This Proclamation of aloofness from European
broils and wars became the settled policy of the U.
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DO YOU WANT GERMANY AND AUSTRIA TO
GOVERN THIS
The latest news from Paris indicates that 4
our meandering Pedagogue, Woodrow Wil¬
son, has so interwoven the Peace treaty with
the League of Nations that the two cannot
be separated.
Therefore, when Germany and Austria
accept the peace terms, they accept, and be¬
come a part of, the League.
Therefore, Germany and Austria will
appoint two of the nine Moguls who will
compose the Supreme Council, and who will
govern the universe from behind a closed
door.
Therefore, Woodrow Wilson is betraying
your country’s independence to Germany and
Austria.
CARL VINSON AND HIS WHISKEY.
Last year, Carl Vinson was a candidate for
re-election to Congress.
He had slipped into the House four years be¬
fore upon a platform which (fledged him to beard
the Pope, send the Papal ambassador away from
Washington, and to call a halt generally upon
Roman aggressions.
Brave as a lion here at home among Protestant
voters, he wilted like a small may-pop when he got
to Washington where Roman Catholicism is in¬
trenched.
He made no fight upon the AntiChrist: he did
not even repeat to the House the fiery speech he
had made against the Pope in Warren and Glas
occk Counties: he forbore to have this noble address
printed in the Record.
Washington: In fact, the Hon. Karl Vinson lost his voice in
he became one of the mutes: he was
conspicuous as a wall-flower—a full-blown, odor¬
less* Amt ornamental -peony.
Being thirty-odd years old and unmarried, be
naturally drew to himself the languishing eyes of
many fair ladies, some of whom (since it was in
Washington) may have been frail as well as fair.
Needless to say, this young, florid, robust,
bachelor Congressman was paid the same salary
that drawn by members who amount to something;
and in order that he might do nothing with com¬
plete ease to himself, the paternal government
furnished him a Hon. private secretary at $1,800 a year.
Tlius the Karl was floating along at
luxurious high-tide, thinking of no rude interfer¬
ence with his personal delights, when suddenly a
challenger rode into the lists and struck his shield.
Then there was commotion. Then things hap¬
pened. Then tho wildcats got loose.
First of all, the Hon. Karl hastily bought a
Liberty Bond.
He had not done so earlier, for various reasons,
one of which was that he needed otther things more
urgently.
According to the Express Company books in
Washington—-as reported in the New York World—
...... the lion. Karl needed to stock up with a supply of
WHISKEY.
The bone dry law was voted by Congress, for
the District of Columbia, during the latter part of
1917: the vote in the Senate was taken August 1,
1917, and that in the House on Dec. 17, 1917.
Obviously, those Senators and Representatives
who were voting one way and drinking the other
had urgent occasion to sphed up liquor-shipments
The United States Government goes to some terrific expense to
provide reading matter for the citizens of this country.
Tons and tons of matter are printed in the Government Printing
Office in Washington.
It costs like smoke to pay for:
The Printers;
The Head Printers ;
The Boss of all the Printers ;
The Ink ;
The Paper;
And the Railroads charge all the Government will stand, for hauling
all this to the post offices.
But your voter doesn’t get all this Government stuff, and he often is
in the dark as to what is really going on,
And the answer is:
Send in your own $2., or make up a club of five for $7.50, and get
all the information you want on the affairs of this government, at home
and abroad. con and
aid: E. H. MILLER.
Harlem, Ga., Friday, March 21, 1919.
No wonder he declined to name the four
other powers-besides England, France, Italy,
Japan, and the United States that should
compose the League.
No wonder he kept this card up his
sleeve.
No wonder Sugar Trust Taft has been
silent about it.
If the Peace Treaty and the League must
go sarily together, as Wilson demands, then it neces¬
follows that Germany and Austria
Treaty. automatically join the League in signing (he
How do you relish the idea of being
governed by “the Huns?”
into the District of Columbia, so that when the
bone dry law went into effect, the said Statesmen
would be exempt from its parching effects.
and Consequently, the Express Company groaned
gurgled, ns the nnticipative Congressmen laid
fire-water the drouth
No one will he surprised to learn that Senator
John Sharp Williams was one of these thoughtful
anticipators. No one will he shocked to learn that
Hon. Frank Clark of Florida was another.
Only the stupid will he taken by surprise when
they are told that sundry underlings attached to
II kite House Service received goodly shipments of
the baleful red stuff, as a judicious preparation for
executive bone dryness.
But what will the Tenth District of Georgia
say, when the information spreads, that Carl Vin
sox Rdepress.Company, was one of the bibulous statesmen who rushed
the and laid away in a safe and
s ecret^ place his supply of bug-juice?
(\ ou will find tlie evidence, on tiio Tin ok s’ of
the Democratic Express Company, according to that stoutly
paper. The II or/d. page 8, Washingt on
dispatch dated March 13, 1919. )
Mind you, the Hon. Vinson/ stocked up on
whiskey during the final days of 1017.
He bought, his liquor-before he bought his
Liberty faith Bond —if, indeed, he ever did in good
buy a Liberty Bond.
At the time he made his virtuous speeches for
reelection, beginning in August, 1918, he was plen¬
tifully supplied with contraband.
He had not been shattered in health: ho had
not been prostrated by bereavements or bv bodily
ailments: lie had not been ordered by a competent
,medic‘inal physician to use wine or other stimulant for
No! purposes.
His health was perfect: no griefs had
compassed him about in the long, lonesome vigils
of the night: no intolerable pains had racked his
frame from head to heel, week after week, until
life itself almost became a hopeless burden.
No, this stalwart young bachelor, lustv and
lustful, a fleshpotter by nature and by habit, got
the whiskey to use as a beverage, after he had pub¬
licly displayed his virtue by voting it out of the
reach of less favored men.
And then ho came down to the old Tenth Dis¬
trict, to pose as the hero of bone dryness, and to get
the votes of honest men who couldn’t have believed
that his fiery abue of his opponent was inspired by
tho fire-water he had carefully stored away.
Issued Weekly
Shall We Hold the Rudder True?
Or Shall We Sail a Shoreless
Sea Without Chart, Com¬
pass, or Pilot?
On April 30, 1789, President George Washing¬
ton “started the Government,” under which we now
live by taking the oath of office in New York City.
Saying, "I swear, so help me God,'' the great
man stooped and kissed (lie Book.
The oath he so reverently took, and kept, was
the same that Woodrow Wilson took.
It publicly and solemnly bound President
Washington to support and defend the Constitu¬
tion of the United States.
* There was no Jesuitcal casuistry in his mind
as
to what this oath meant: to him it meant what it
said, and it bound his mind, and heart, and soul.
It was his stupendous task to start the gov¬
ernment, to organize its functions, to construct a
vast machine and put into successful operation.
(Of course, Woodrow Wilson could havo done it
better, with “Col.” House to assist him; but at that
time Wilson's folks, on both sides of the house,
lived in England and were Tories of the usual
Enylish type.)
In the main, our governmental machine re¬
mains office as Washington made Republic it; and his eight years
in saw the infant grow with giant
steps, in' population, wealth, territory and power.
With his sword, he had won its Independence;
by his influence, he had created and caused to be
adopted ltsConstitution; by his wisdom and vtn
selfishnes, he had originated its foreign policy and
barred the road to third teims—which lead to life
terms and then to heriditary monarchy.
Next year, Woodrow Wilson and his hosts of
hireling writers will make a mighty on-slaught
upon the Third Term tradition.
The inordinate selfish ambition of this English
man-at-heart will demolish the bar which Washing¬
ton set up between us and monarchy.
in 1920 tlWJWHdrtinrWil&&Wj|irBJ»aig*i is already under covered few*-a by third clouds iisr* of
way.
subterfuge, lies, hypocrisies, sanctimonious palaver,
and other familiar Wilson methods.
But the immediate crisis is that presented by
the astounding League of Nations, which admitted- ,
Iv surrenders our national independence, subjects
us to the jurisdiction of Japan, puts us under the
control of five men sitting behind a closed door
somewhere in Europe, strips us of the bloodbought
right of self-government, destroys the sovereignty *
of the people, hands us over to a committee of
foreigners chosen by foreigners, and oners us
nothing by way of compensation for the ignomin¬
ious self-abasement to which we subject ourselves? ; .
Isn't it incredible? Would you have believed it* ’
possible if President Wilson and his hireling
claquers had not so insolently proclaimed it ?
And he says that he will tell Europe that wc
are overwhelmingly in favod of this voluntary de- ,
gradation..
Japan to be one of our rulers, and even now,
there is a light on in China between Japs and -
American marines..
That riot in Ticnt-Sin is a fine commentary on
Wilson’s ludicrous rhetoric about everlasting,
peace, eternal brotherhood, and similar babel.
:
Before he was inaugurated, George Washing¬
ton had maturely considered and adopted his for¬
eign policy, as he wrote Sir Edward Newenham—' : .
“/ hope that United States will be aide to keep
disengaged from the labytntii of European pou¬
TICS AND WARS, lt. should bo in thfi power of the
United States to administer to their wants (foreign
nations) without being engaged in their- quarrels.”
(Lodge’s Life: II, 131.)
There was your chart: that was our rudder;
and as long as our Presidential pilots were true,
we never floundered into the whirlpools of foreign
affairs.
But Wilson flung away the chart, he being
wiser than Washington, and now he is whilred
hither and thither in the seething vortex ol Euro¬
pean currents whose character he does not under¬
stand.
Our Republic is afloat upon a shoreless sea,
and we are now committed to the proposition that
we must meddle with every race, every nation,
every international snarl throughout the earth,
world without end.
Poor old phrase-maker! It would be charita¬
ble to suppose that he is in his dotage.
It must not he lost, sight of that much of the
“high prices” plague has l>een due to inflation, that
is, a large increase of credit money or paper money,
and the issue of large numbers of Government
bonds. February 1st, 1919, the total pnuor or
credit money in circulation in the United Stages
was over $3,500,000,000. The per capita circula¬
tion of money in the United States has grown from
$35 in 1909 to $54 in 1919. Of course the prices ad¬
vanced, as the purchasing power of the dollar de¬
creased.—Exchange.
You can readily tell of tho paucity of news when
von see a scare-head over “learning the tn.
Mexico,” as a news item.
No. 26.