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“Such Men as Tom Watson , Now
in the Penitentiary for Treason!”
The National Labor Tribune, of Pittsburg,
Pa., took sides with the persecuted Russellites,
and thereby incurred the bitter wrath of one R. A.
O’Connor, of Sharon, Pennsylvania.
This rose of Sharon is hedged about by so
many thorns, that he strikes all around, like a
copper-head in the slrin-shedding season; and of
course he aims at T. E. W., as well as at Judge
Rutherford, Pastor Russell, and the Labor Tribune.
O’Connor wants to know, “Why is it that the
toscin is sounded by such men as Tom Watson,
now in the penitentiary for treason, and Mr. Ruth¬
erford now in Atlanta Prison on the same
charge?”
Somebody has been making mule out of
O’Connor.
His facts are far, far from straight.
His temper is hot enough, but his trail is cold.
He has a dim recollection that the Knights of
Columbus, some years ago, passed a Resolution, at
the New Orleans Confemce, to “ put Tom Watson
out of business and O’Connor naturally as¬
sumes that the K. of C. succeeded.
It is quite a pleasure to set*him right in this
matter: the K. of C. had this accursed heretic ar¬
rested, because of his republication of an extract
from one of the many vile books in which priests
are tau-ght how to corrupt Catholic women at the
Confessional.
The prosecution lasted several years, but the
heretic was never in prison, for one moment.
He was out on bond until the jury, in Novem¬
ber, 1916, rendered a verdict, of “Not guilty.”
In less than a year after the K. of C. failed
in the U. S. Court, Mr. Burleson confiscated the
property of The Jeffersonian Publishing Com¬
pany, and swept away the fruits of thirteen years
of my labor, without any process of law.
./ have never been informed wherein “Watsons
Magazine ” offended the Government.
I do not know/
I would be grateful for the information, even
at this late day.
It was alleged that The Jeffersonian (weekly)
had violated the Espionage law, but no jury, either
grand or petit, said so.
.There never was any ^judicial decision in the
case, except that Judge Emory Speer denied my
application for an injunction against the local
postmaster.
There was a legal test case against the Con¬
scription law, and the case went, to the Supreme
Court, mainly on the argument I had made in the
U. S. District Court; but when the highest tribunal
decided in favor of the law, I bowed to the decision
and had no more to say.
There never was any charge of “treason’.’ until
(PCarmor made it.
The rose of Sharon says that the Catholic
church has been the object of attack ever since the
days of Nero and Diocletian.
O’Connor has much to learn: in the days of
Nero and Diocletian, no such organization as he
belongs to was in existence.
Nero persecuted Christians, not pagan pap
ists.
Diocletian persecuted those who worshipped
God, after the manner of Paul, Peter, John, Bar¬
nabas, Timothy, and James—not those who pray
to a woman, who rely upon other men to forgive
their sins, who pantlieize Christianity, and place
an Italian priest in the seat of supremacy once
occupied by the Pope of Paganism.
When Nero and Diocletian persecuted
Christians, the* Pagan Pontiff was yet the supreme
head of Paganism, and both Nero and Diocletian
were Popes, as well as Emperors.
Of course, O’Connor knows this; conse¬
quently, he should not attempt to mix Popish
Catholicism with genuine primitive Christianity.
The Sharon smartee says, that Popery has
survived all the attacks made on it.
So has Mormonism.
Buddhism is 400 years older than Christian¬
ity, and it has not only survived all attacks, but
now counts more adherents than any other
religion.
Confucianism is older than the era of Christ,
and counts greater numbers than does Roman
Catholicism.
If a mere survival of a religion proved any¬
thing, we should all be Pagans, for there is not
a distinctive dogma, rite, practice, or ceremonial,
of the modern Church of Rome that is not Pagan
in its origin.
Mr. O’Connor says that party politics have
no place in the Roman church.
It is a deplorable fact, that O’Connor is mis¬
taken: the Pope and the Cardinals are politicians
first, and ecclesiastics second.
Time and again, during recent years. Popes
have declared that American Catholics must so use
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EDITORIALS By THOS. E. WATSON,
“THE PEOPLES ARE IN THE SADDLE.
In his 415th speech in France, our absentee
President announced the glorious news that “the
peoples are in the Saddle.”
These are his exhilirating words:
“You are aware, as I am aware,
that the airs of an older day are begin¬
ning to stir again, that the standards of
an old order are trying to assert them
again.
“There is here and there an at¬
tempt to insert into the counsel of states¬
men the old reckoning of selfishness and
bargaining and national advantage which
were the roots of this war, and any man
who counsels these things advocates a re¬
newal of the sacrifice which these men
have made, for if this is not the last bat¬
tle for light there will be another that,
will be final.
“Let these gentlemen who suppose
that it is possible for them to accomplish
this return to an order of which we are
ashamed, and that we are ready to forget,
realize they cannot accomplish- it. The
peoples of the world are awake and the
peoples of the world are in the saddle.”
A ou will observe that the President, with his
usual expansiveness, includes in his “vision” the
peoples of the whole world, and puts saddles un
der all of them.
The 315,000,000 peoples of India are in the
saddle, not under it.
The 400,000,000 Chinese are on top and
astride the saddle, prepared to ride in any
direction selected by the principle of “self-deter¬
mination.”
The peoples of Egypt, of Korea, of Algeria,
of Asia Minor are in the saddle, perfectly free to
take any road the prefer.
How satisfactory this is!
The Golden Age is upon us, once more.
Who cares whether the Millennium arrives or
not?
With all the peoples of the world in the
saddle, what more could you ask?
Being in the saddle, the people of England,
France, and America took a referendum vote, a
instructed Four Men to lock themselves up, in
Paris, and to incubate secretly, until they cou ijd
hatch out a new sort of chicken, known as the
League of Nations.
The whole world could not furnish more than
Four Men fit to do this incubating and hatching.
This shows the extreme intellectual poverty
that had fallen upon “mankind.”
The world is almost at its last gasp, when
the brains of it are monopolized by Four Men.
Future psychologists may determine wheth¬
er this paucity of intellect , caused the Great
War, or was caused by it.
“You are aware, as I am aware, that, the aims
of an older order are beginning to stir again, that
the standards of an older order are trying to as¬
sert themselves again.”
Yes, we are aware of it—painfully so.
And we are also painfully aware of the fact
that the stirrers of the old airs, the advocates of
the old order, are crying “Stop thief,” in order
that their own sly work may not be detected.
Did the federated kings, princes, grand-dukes,
and high-priests who manipulated the Congress
of Vienna, in 1815. accomplish a gi'eater work
for Privilege, Absolutism, Toryism, and Reaction,
than has been achieved at the Conference of
Paris?
At the Vienna Congress, the five strongest
nations—England, France. Russia. Prussia, and
Austria—sat in secret, excluding tiie smaller
STATES.
At the Paris Conference, the four strong
nations—-England. France. Italy, and the United
States sat in secret, excluding the small states.
Who authorized the Big Five at Vienna to
dictate to the rest of the world?
Nobody authorized it: in their case, Might
was Right; and usurpation was easy, because the
largest armies were back of the usurpers.
Who authorized the Big Four at Paris to
shut out all the others—such as Belgium, Portu¬
gal, South America, China, Korea, Bohemia,
Greece, Roumania, and Servia?
Nobody authorized it: the Big Four appoint¬
ed themselves the arbiters of the world, and their
usurpation was successful, because of the aimies
back of it.
The conscripted millions of American and
English troops were illegally held in Europe, for
no other purpose than to back up the arrogant
powers usurped by Wilson and Lloyd-George.
Those millions of soldiers were not needed
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against Germany, for the German Empire had
been reduced to the size of Pennsylvania, her
army had been disbanded, and her llect surren¬
dered.
If the armies of France, Italy, Servia,
Roumania, and Greece can not now cope with
disarmed Germany, what will they be able to do,
30 years hence, when the smouldering German
discontents flame into another War.
Must it always be our duty to protect the
European sheep from the Teuton wolf?
“There is, here, and there, an attempt to insert
into the counsel of statesmjen the old reck¬
oning of selfishness and bargaining and national
advantage.”
How true! Even at this distance from Paris,
and through the fog of censored cablegrams. I
have noticed it, myself.
If such lamentable things are dimly discern¬
ible at Thomson, wha must be their vivid trans¬
parency in Europe!
“The old reckoning of selfishness and bargain¬
ing, and national advantage are to be seen, here
and there.”
Yes, we saw it in Japan, when she Snperious
lv demanded that Woodrow Wilson ratify the
bargain she had made, secretly, with Great Brit¬
ain. in February 1917!
That secret bargaining for the German pos¬
sessions in China, was unknown to the world until
Mr. Wilson went to Paris!
Should he not have suspected something of
the kind ? Should he not have inquired into
England’s compact with Japan, before committing
this country to a war whose result involves the
loss of China’s independence?
In effect, our soldiers fought for the general
outcome of the Paris Conference, and a most im¬
portant part of that outcome is, the conquest of
China by Japan.
Has Mr. Wilson ever referred to his slip-up,
in the matter of England’s secret bargain with
Japan?
He has not: he never will: he continues to
drape his figure in self-adulation, and to pose as
the Apostle of Democracy, ignoring the historic
h® Republic is jwrticeps^ oi criminis to the subjuga
the’ China by the Autocratic
Emperor of Japan!
What sort of diplomats have we, anyhow? Do
they depend upon the newspapers for information
concerning such matters as the secret treaties be¬
tween France and England, on the one part, and
Japan and Italy, on the other?
Italy was bound to Germany and Austria by
Bismarck’s Triple Alliance; and the King of Italy
wavered a long time before deciding what course
to take.
For months, the newspapers told of the strug¬
gle at Rome between the diplomats of Germany,
and those of England. ‘tr>
Was not this enough to have put Mr. Wilson
on notice that, when Italy at length broke away
from the Triple Alliance, she had received better
offers from England than the Kaiser was willing
to make?
Surely. Mr. Wilson had not deluded himself
with the belief, that the Italians were intoxicated
by the same Arcadian ideals as governed himself.
Why did the ubiquitous Col. House fail to
nose-out those secret treaties, which engulfed Pres¬
ident Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
Alas! the points have gone to join the Lost
Tribes of Isrrel; the lost mines of Solomon;- and
the lost Book of Livy.
Also, we Americans are in the saddle.
You may cast your eyes in any direction, any
time, and you will see the plain people in the sad
(lie.
Being in the saddle, the people put up the
prices of meat, shoes, clothes, and flour, in order
that the oppressed Monopolies may not have to go
hungry on less than 400 per cent profits.
Being in the saddle, the people so arranged
the prices of what they need, that almost any man
can. at almost any time, go almost anywhere, and
buy a quarter’s worth of something for a dollar.
Before the people got in the saddle, there
were times when prices tetered up and down, and
competition was the life of trade; but owing to
the saddle which the people have placed on the
back of Monopoly, you now pay the same prices
everywhere, and you can go barefooted, if you
don’t want to pay three prices for a pair of shoes.
If the people remain in the saddle, where
they have been put by the Greatest Man that ever
wore pantaloons, I really don’t see what’s to be
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Issued Weekly
Andrew Jackson and Woodrow
Wilson.
In the New York Ann riean. there appeared
recently a strong editorial emphasizing the fact
that President Wilson is not really an American,
although the accident of birth gave him the tech¬
nical right to call himself one.
His grandfather was a Tory pteacher, at Car¬
lisle, England; and his father came over to this
country long after Andrew Jackson whipped the
British at New Orleans.
The New York World is against Mr. Hearst
in all things, just as it was against Mr. Roosevelt
in all things; and it is now Wilsonian in all things.
Wilson can't turn over in bed too often to lose
touch with the World.
Every time that Wilson changes his position,
the World changes—which means that the World
is never the same for three weeks on a stretch.
Concerning the recent editorial in the Ameri¬
can, the World says —
“The always amusing Mr. Hearst now
has a new issue, which is that nobody shall
be eligible to the Presidency who is not a
native son of a native son. This restrict¬
ion would not remove any of Mr. Hearst’s
disabilities, but it would have kept out of
the White House one Andrew Jackson and
one Woodrow Wilson, both sons of immi¬
grants.”
1 his paragraph is not happy in its comparison
of Woodrow Wilson to Andrew Jackson.
It is true that the father of Andrew Jackson
was born in the north of Ireland, and that he
emigrated from his native land to escape the hard
conditions that the Tory aristocrats of England
had fastened upon Ireland.
It is true that Andrew Jackson was born, the
son of an immigrant; but it is also true that his
mother, and her two fatherless boys, were most
active on the side of the Americans during the
Revolutionary War.
The mother lost her life, nursing the sick and
wounded American prisoners, held on the British
hulks at Charleston.
1 he boys joined the American army, volun¬
teering when they were mere lads.
Andrew Jackson was slashed over the head,
with a sword, by a British officer, whose boots the
captive boy refused to clean.
—f He bore the deep scar of that cowardly blow,
to his grave.
Tie hated the English with such consuming
passion that he never forgave Washington for the
Jay Treaty, never condoned our desertion of
France, and was never so happy as after the Bat¬
tle of New Orleans in which he and the Southern
volunteers had made such short work of Welling
(on's veteran troops.
'O that she could have lived to see this day!" he
exclaimed, 'meaning his mother..
lo compare this American hero with the ovn
ical Englishman, who wrote a book against uuv
form, of government, is a gross insult to the living
and the dead.
Woodrow Wilson’s “Congressional Govern¬
ment,’ is a covert attack upon our system of repre¬
sentative government.
In that book. Professor Wilson endeavored to
demonstrate the Superiority of the English system
to ours.
Alexander Hamilton attempted the same thing,
in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Mr. Wilson’s book argues that (he Executive
power should dictate to the Judicial and Legisla¬
tive.
That was Mr. Hamilton's view!
This pro-English idea was not that of Wash¬
ington. or of Madison, or of Jefferson, or of An¬
drew Jackson.
General Jackson was elected as a People’s
Man. as against the concentration of power at
Washington.
General Jackson’ defied the great financial in¬
terests. destroyed the National Bank, paid off the
national debt, and issued Treasury notes instead of
bonds.
President Jackson put his foot down upon the
proposed exclusion of Abolition literature from
the mails, saying that Congress had no authority
to make any law abridging the freedom of the
press.
The worst administrations are those that pro¬
hibit criticism.
The worst of churches is that which damns
freedom of the press.
Woodrow Wilson borrowed from English pre¬
cedent his policy of gagging the independents.
That was the favorite tyranny of George
III., against whom our ancestors battled
for freedom—an integral of which this
Tory Englishman—Wilson—took away, when
he allowed the British government to draw
him into the whirlpool of European, Asiatic, and
African barbed-wire-entanglemjents.
From those entanglements, the learned Prof¬
essor does not seem to know how to release himself.
President Andrew Jackson pursued a
course: he stayed out of them.
l\lo. 38.