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EDITORIALS AND SHORT COMMENTS ON THINGS' IN GENERAL
THOS. E. WATSON.
All Wars Are Much Alike .
When I was beginning to recover from my
desperate illness in Jacksonville, last July; there
appeared: in the Times-Union a silly account of
General Sherman’s celebrated phrase “ War is /yell."
The story was, that a Southern woman, hav¬
ing been accidentally shot by Sherman’s men, the
soft-hearted General jumped off his war-horse, ran
to the dying woman, knelt at her side, burst into
tears, and sobbingly exclaimed, “War is hell.”
The piece in the Times-Union was so absurdly
fictitious, that I wrote the noble Editors a brief
letter, stating that Gen. Sherman’s well-known
phrase occurred in one of his letters , wherein he
was replying anion to the criticisms he had provoked by
hi burning of Atlanta.
'Jacksonville was then crowded with Northern*
officers, and the Times-Union's- noble editors flung
my letter into the waste-basket.
1 They knew I was right, but lacked the spunk
to let the truth bo known.
> “War is hell, and you can’t refine it,” was
the full statement of the grim old Captain
who burnt Atlanta, ravaged South Carolina,
and then lied about setting fire to Columbia.
If you will turn to the Old Testament and
read about the doings of Joshau, and contemplate
what the Jews did to the Hittites, the Amorites,:
the Bethshemites, the Girgashites, the Canaanites,
the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, your
eyes will widen.
I don’t now how much these ancient wretches
deserved it, but Moses and Joshua certainly did
give them hell. times—not
But let us come down to modern
the times of the Caesars, the Goths, the Huns,' the
Vandals, and the Normans, but comparatively
recent times.
Let us start with the Grand Monarch, the
Sun-King, Louis XIV., who condescended to live
and reign in France at the time of Bacon’s
Rebellion in Virginia—which, as you well know,
was not so very long before the beautiful descendant
of Queen Pocahontas married Woodrow Wilson.
This vivid fact serves to bring the French Sun
King within immediate range’ of our “vision”—
all of us now being men of vision.
This French Sun-King was exceedingly fond
.of war; and he used to go to the front, in person,
royally accompanied and festooned by his wife and
several of his lovely mistresses, to say nothing of
other light ladies, play-actors, singers, dancers,
fiddlers, cooks, court-turnkeys, and so forth.
On his death-bed,' this French Sun-King ad¬
mitted that he had perhaps been too fond of war,
but this confession was made after he had been
badly mauled by Marlborough, Prince Eugene, and
the Prince of Orange.
This glorious Monarch of the French made
war upon Holland, upon Italy, upon the English,
upon the Germans, upon nearly all of Europe; and
he utterly laid waste to the beautiful German
provinces known as the Palatinate.
"The historian, Menzel, says:
“Worms, Spires, Frankenthal, Alzei, Oberwes
el, duced Andernah, Kocheim, and Krondnach were in¬
to ashes , the inhabitants murdered .or dragged
into France .”
Menzel names twelve other German cities that
were burned the to the ground. “They (the French!
overran lower Rhine, laid waste the territor
ies of Liege, Juliers, atrocity." and Seigburg where they
practiced every
(At that time, the Germans held Alsace and
Lorraine: France acquired them later.)
most'' This same Sun-King, Louis XIV., ordered the
hideous atrocities to be committed upon the
Dutch, who refused to bow down and worship him.
His great Captain, Marshal Luxembourg, writing
to the Prince of Conde, says, in describing how
the French burnt two Dutch towns and all the in¬
habitants: “There was a frying of all the Hol¬
landers who were in those burghs, not one of
whom was let out of the homes."
Now if Von Ivluck had written that of two
Belgian cities, in 1914, the whole world would
have blazed with indignation.
Then Marshal Luxembourg proceeds to tell the
Prince of Conde how two Dutch drummers came
to him, the next morning, to claim the body of an
officer whom the Dutch greatly honored, *“/ have
him in cinders, at this moment,” says the jocose
French general. In other words, the Dutch officer
had been among those who were shut up in the
houses, and burnt.
Speaking of other Dutch officers, who were
missing, the French general says—“They were
killed, I suppose, at approaches to the villages,
where I saw several rather pretty little heaps."
Little heaps of human ashes, “rather pretty!”
4f Von Hindenbnrg had written in this horri¬
ble strain, we would have been most justifiably
shocked.
Did you ever read of*the Indian Mutiny which
Englnnd suppressed in 1.857?
If you don’t want to feel miserable and dream
bad dreams, remain ignorant of that fiendish bar¬
barity of ovif dear allies, the English.
Do you happen to know the two noblest speech¬
es ever heard by the British Parliament?
One was Edmund Burke’s terrible arraign
ment of English cruelty and rapacity in India: the
other was Lord Chatham’s fiery denunciation of
England’s use of the savages against'our North-
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YOUR CONSCIENCE AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Twelve months ago, we had not discovered that
America needed a League of Nations.
Suddenly, we woke up one morning and found
that our national happiness, security and existence
depended upon Japan; Italy, France, England, and
four others. Unless we went into harness with
these four named Nations—and four others whose
names are withheld—we would hit the rocks and go
to everlasting smash..
Six months ago , even, we did. net know this.
Six months ago, President Wilson* did not
know it-—or. if he did. he kept the secret to him
self, “Col.” House, and Col. Tumulty.
If the President was ignorant of the vital
necessity for a League of Nations, six months ago,
who enlightened Him, afterwards?
How came this wise man not to know, until
he was starting for Europe, tlia| America must go
into a League with Japan, or be lost?
In President Wilson’s Fourteen Points, he de
dared that we needed freedom of the seas: he no
longer insists that we do.
In the Fourteen Points, he declared that all
small nations needed the right of self-determina
tion: he no longer insists that they do.
In the Fourteen Points, he. declared
nation's must disarm: his position now is,
Japan, England, France Italy, and four other
named nations, shall decide how many
ships our Navy must consist of, and how
troops shall compose our standing army.
But the most amazing part of the jug-handled
contract that our President demands we make with
foreign nations is, that we guarantee to them their
territorial possessions.
No matter how these territorial possessions
were acquired, we must- issue an Insurance Policy
on them.
What premium do we get for underwriting the
vast loot of England? None.
We insure, forever, her bloody conquest of
India, Burmah, and Egypt: why should We?
Wo guarantee to Japan, in perpetuity, her
bloody conquests in China and Corea: why should
we?
We issue to France an unlimited Insurance
Policy for her bloody conquest of Algeria, Mada¬
gascar, and Cochin-China: why should we?
In like manner, we guarantee Italy’s conquests
in Tripoli, and in the newly acquired territories
won from Austria.
President Wilson, with almost incredible levity,
has rushed ahead, without any popular or consti¬
tutional authority, and has—so far as he could per
sonally do it— committed'this Republic to the
est war-risk ever conceived by the mind of
Is there no question - of morality involved?
conscience no voice in the matter?
Japan has recently massacred 10,000
and imprisoned 25,000 others— for what ?
edpendence, For panting Wilsonian local self-government, racial in
“self-determination.”
The murderous war of the Japs is still going
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on, and will continue to go on, until tho weaker
Corea ns are beaten into submission by the stronger
Japanese.
What says your conscience about this? Wil¬
son's fantastic league makes us a party to the
crime!
In Egypt, the same ruthless work of massacre
and conquest is under full headway, England be¬
ing the bloody oppressor.
Shall there never' be an Egypt for the
Egyptians?
Shall the land of the Pharaohs always be the
slave-province of insatiable England?
Perhaps the oldest civilization of the world
developed and flourished, uflder the far-gazing
eyes of the Sphinx and the towering summits of
the Pyramids: under the Wilsonian League, we
say Nile to the fertilize enslaved the wonderful Egyptians, valley “As long enriches as the
can that
England, so long shall you be outride the door of
hope OETF.RMINATION.” — OUTLAWS FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF “SELF
Christians! What say you to this? Does your
conscience approve perpetual serfdom, guaranteed
to Englnnd by these United States?
The oldest Bibles came from Egypt; the old¬
est Christian Church is in Egypt: the first great
strength the of Christianity was put forth in Egypt;
Greek New Testament, we owe to Egypt; the
Harlem, Ga., Friday, March 28, 1919.
oldest and sacredest traditions of Christianity are
inseparably connected with Egypt; yet we are
asked to allow Great Britain to forever enslave
Ibis Cradle of Civilization, and we arc ashed fur
t ^ cr to guarantee the slaves to their English mas
fjrever/
'
Consider the case of Russia, whose troops, in
1914, swept into East Prussia, called off several
' isions of Germans who were rushing toward
Paris; and, by causing this diversion of the Huns,
save ^ France.
At that time, England wasn’t ready, and the
Unite d Slates were not interested,
Russia sacrificed four million men , to save
France; and when the armistice was signed, last
^' kghting llVl ‘inbcr, with there and were for the 300,000 1' reneh. Russians in France,
Yet look at the present situation! France and
* ll( ' United States and England are all three wag
b'" W!,r upon Russia!
Isn’t it a strange thing? The explanation
£' ven is* that Russia has set up a Bolshevik gov
I \ enk But if a Bolshevik government suits
1 ', Vf hat business is it of ours? or of the
0I '. of tlle English?
to be denied the sacred right of “self
BtP •
send soldiers all over the globe to
from setting up governments of
■PJr^wii TnTlargest choosing, and unholiest we certainly of have with gono into
Italy, contracts France,
and England.
■> How do we know what the Bolshevik govern¬
ment is? What business of ours is it, anyway?
So far as T can sec, the Russian government
is pretty much the same ns that which President
Wilson addressed when he sent his cablegram, be¬
ginning with bis usual formula, “May I offer my
congratulations?”
In other words, he effusively offered his hand
(o the Russian revolutionists and soon afterwards,
d:«£Vtn to nuyke war upon them.
Can you understand it?
We endorse, insure.- and guarantee, for Japan,
Italy, France, and England— and for four other
nations not vet named.
Here is, truly, a fine leap in the dark.
Which are the mysterious unidentified four,
upon whose bond we must go?
Your thoughts should get. busy with that qi U'S
rion, for it concerns your country for ages to come,
one way or the other.
Which ■ are the four other nations that may
fter .join the League, and cast four votes to
he % in the Supreme Council governing the
?
may be sure that Germany will be one of
four; Austria, another; Russia, a third.
The fourth may be Spain, or Turkey, or
Poland, or Greece.
Can you think of any other four?
Use your mother-wit on this stupendously
preposterous propostion: you arc asked to sign an
unlimited guarantee for four nations, whose names
ABE KEPT SECRET FROM YOU.
Here’s your “open covenants,” with a ven¬
geance !
Wilson blindfolds you, leads you to edge of
the abyss, and orders you to jump off.
Look here! Suppose some man should ap¬
proach you on the street and request you to put
vour name to a blank endorsement, to bo used for
four unknown persons!
In such a case—if you can suppose such a case
—you would probably inquire of the man making
the request, “What lunatic asylurfy did you es
cape from?"
And if you went ahead, and signed the blank
endorsement for the four unknown persons, your
derelict friends—supposing you had any—would he sadly
if they failed to send you to the asylum.
When General George Washington became
dissatisfied with the workings of the Old Confed¬
eration, he quietly went to work—through Madi¬
son, Hamilton and others— to have a Convention
called by the States, in order that a better Con¬
stitution might he formed, to be submitted to the
consideration of the Thirteen Sovereign States.
If Washington had locked the door on him¬
self, Madison, and Hamilton, and had secretly,
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Issued Weekly
Moses and Wilson: the Two
Tables and the Fourteen Points
“May I ask” whether you have a good memory ?
Of course, I’ve asked you this before, but
there’s no harm in repeating.
Moses went up on a high Mount; and, after the
fireworks were over, he brought down Two Tables
of Stone—the originals of which are lost, and the
copies considerably mutilated.
Moses proposed to put a stop to stealing, but
stealing has become one of the fine arts of modern
civilization.
■ In fact, the Big Thief makes the law which
legalizes his grand larcenies.
Moses proposed to put a stop to sexual im¬
morality, but it cannot be said that he succeeded.
David and Solomon followel Moses and were
theoretically staunch supporters of the Seventh
Commandment: but the pious preacher tells us,
with a sort of holy jov. that David took another
man’s wife; and that Solomon helped himself to
12.00 women, not including the Queen of Sheba,
who went much out of her way to help herself to
Solomon.
Moses likewise sought to put an end to man¬
killing. hut as we have just paused in our pious
labors, after 7.000.000 Christians had slaughtered
one another—with the hearty approval of Chap¬
lains on both sides—we must admit that. Moses
failed in his efforts to abolish murder.
Yes, the Ten Commandments are still in
force, wherever the criminals happen to be in a
hopeless minority; but what has become of Wilson’s
Fourteen Points?
These famous Fourteen were hailed as the
sublimes), output of human Wisdom, Goodness,
and Light.
The flapdoodle Wilsonian press went info
eestacies, rhapsodies, millennial transports over
these Fourteen Points.
Moses was thrown into the shade, eclipsed,
shoved ihto the dim background.
Wilson stood upon the Mount, inspired, eliosen
of the Lord, the Evangel pf a. New Dispensation-—
when? ’
Less than Six months ago/
And now where are the Fourteen Points?
(“Where are the snows of yesteryear?”)
“Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at:”
the public to see and to hear all that the diplomats
said and did.
How was the promise kept?
P>.v locking the door in the public’s face, seiz¬
ing' the cables to prevent news from crossing the
ocean, trafficking and trading in secret, and handl¬
ing out, at the close of each secret meeting, a brief
statement which nobody outside could know to be
triu%
Self-determination by each nation, and the
right of small people’s to assert their right to gov¬
ern themselves: that was one .of the Fourteen
Points: what's gone with it?
Even as Moses? Wilson sits at the Peace Table.
.
Egypt tries to assort her independence and to rid
herself of England’s tyranny. What happens?
England crushes the Egyptians with ball and bay¬
onet, Corea and machine-gun.
and struggles to free herself from Japan,
what happens?
The Coreun patriots are beaten down in the
same manner that we did beat down the priest
ridden population of the Philippine Islands.
The Russians seek to set up a government of
their own, after they had fought Germans and
Austrians three years, at the sacrifice of 4,000.000
men— and what, happens?
Without any declaration of war by Congress
against Russia, and without the slightest constitu¬
tional authority. President Wilson sends an Amer¬
ican army into Siberia to fight tlm Russians. French
soldiers arc also fighting the Russians, who saved
Fra nee.
Thus, one by one, the Fourteen Points disap
pear.
They served their immediate purpose, and
were then cynically cast aside.
They wore used to entrance (lie Wilson
satellites, and to throw dust into the eyes of men
who read, hut never think.
The Fourteen Points won', six months ago,
the extreme altitude of philanthropy and states¬
manship: they were radiant harbingers of the
Millennial Dawn.
They now repose at the bottom of the waste¬
basket, and it is not polite to refer to them.
Truckling Politicians.
Protest was made in con fVess on the 12th insfc.
i because President * i Wilson had accepted
hooks from King George of England. a set of
word of dissenffiiave heard But, not a
1 dispatches, the we columns seen or in Associated
ress of the metropolitan
press or from the halls of congress, because the
president accepted vaaluable presents from the
pope, who claims to l»e a temporal ruler with
much or more authority than the as
u e cannot account for the discrimination king of England
less it, is because the Irish Catholic un¬
hostile to the English tang, and loyal contingent the is
The and politicians to pope.
papers knuckle under to the
said Irish ( nthohes and follow suit to get their
money and votcs.—The Menace.
No. 27.