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Vof. 37 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- 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.) l» iolinitia IlL'MrtOVi ♦ ffl Price $2.00 Per lfear 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 OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST IS GROWING. We are adding on each week from two to five hundred new names. We appreciate what our friends are doing for this paper. It can now boast of having the largest subscription list of any in the South. But this is not enough, we want it to be the largest of any in existence. This can be easily accomplished if every subscriber on our lists will re solve to send us in one or more clubs this month. In clubs of five $7.50. E. H. MILLER. 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, (continued on page two.) 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.