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VoL 37 What Manner of Man is Presi¬ dent Wilson? There is pending in the U. S. Senate a secret treaty which Mr. Wilson negotiated with Mr. Clemenceau, while Mr. Wilson was in Paris acting as diplomatic agent of the United States, under appointment of President Wilson. Mr. Wilson left the seat of government at a time when the atfairs of this country were in a chaotic condition, owing to the revolutionary legis¬ lation of Congress during the War. He left the government without a head: his party without a leader: his country without relief from the Profiteers who had clamored for the War, who profiteered during the War, and who became more aggressive in their profiteering after the ces¬ sation of hostilities. lie, said he went abroad to make pemr. Had that, been his sole object, and had he cut out the ovations, the self-glorifications, the visits to royal palaces, the secret interview with the Pope, and all the spectacular exhibitions of his rhetorical gifts, he could hare completed his work in four months. Indeed, if the making of peace hud been his sole object, he would not have violated the law by leaving the country: he would have' left the peace business to the State Department, where it belongs, and would have let Secretary Lansing go to Paris to negotiate with the Premiers of England, France, Italy, Japan, and Greece. But the mere making of peace was not Mr. Wilson's sole object, nor his principal object: he meant something else, altogether. lie meant to combine the five great Powers in¬ to a League which should dominate, the world; an.I which would make it necessary for the United States to maintain a huge standing army, adopt rapidly conscription transform as a permanent policy , and thus Despotism, our Eepublic into a MiV.tary controlled by the Capitalists, the Trusts, and the Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Wilson could not trust Mr. Lansing to do this work: he must go and do it in person. Mr. Lansing did not, possess the conceit, the audacity, and the hundred-million dollar secret fund. Mr. Wilson had the conceit, had the audacity, and hod tho money. ’ g- •• «• • “ •* Therefore, Mr. Wilson had to go in person, and had to remain away from American for seven months—doing what? Working upon the other Premiers , to gain /heir consent to his plan of so interweaving the League with the Treaty of Peace, that nobody could separate than, without resorlinm to such surgery as would separate a near-mother from her unborn babe. To gain the consent, of Japan, he had to agree ♦o’ the enslavement of 40,000,000 Chinese who had been our helpers during the War. He had invited China to take sides with us in the War; and China’s territorial integrity had been guaranteed; and China was ready to send any required number of troops; and China did send 200,000 of her laborers to make trenches and roads in France—-and. Great God! the charity of these Chinese coolies, in slipping bread to our poor boys in the. prison camps, saved some of them from star¬ vation! What had Japan done for us or for France during the War? Japan hadn't done, a thing, except to take from the Germans what the Germans had taken from the Chinese. Because two meddlesome German missionaries had provoked a riot in which they were killed, the Kaiser sent his brother Henry to make war upon the Chinese Empire; and the war was pushed sav¬ agely against the whole of China, until the help¬ less Empire was forced to cede to the conquerors the vast Shantung peninsula. Japan . confined her operations, during this War, to taking Shantung away from the German robbers; and when she demanded, as her price for signing the League, the same “rights” to Shantung that the German robbers had wrung from helpless China, Mr. Woodrow Wilson — Supreme Moralist or tiie New Day -hat has Dawned [—AGREED TO IT! Bv that one act of cold, calculating, hard¬ hearted turpitude', Mr. Woodrow Wilson has per¬ haps undone the moral and religious effect of a hundred years of Christian missionary work in the entire Orient. W hen President Roosevelt magnanimously, and with courageous justice , released China from her Indemnity-debt, imposed upon her by the Box-, er Rebellion, his generosity must have had a fine moral effect throughout the whole of China. But where Mr. Roosevelt acted the Christian and the statesman , how has Mr. Wilson acted—he the Interpreter of the Christian ideals of the Amer¬ ican people? China can never forgive so vast a crimo against her territorial integrity and nation continued on Page Three.) c'i vQV ' J V V? -••iifc \ 8 7 » + / Price $2,00 Per Year EDITORIALS By THOS. E. WATSON. MORE DEMOCRACY, MORE INDEBTEDNESS TO LAFAYETTE, MORE OPEN COVENANTS, MORE VISIONS, MORE SELF-DETERMINATION EVERYWHERE. The. Jesuit, takes an oath, with a mental reser ration to break it, if he can thereby serve his pur pose better: Jesuit theology teaches this to be jus tillable; consequently, all honest-minded men exe crate the Jesuits. Nevertheless, some Apostle of the new teousness may employ a Jesuit as private secretary! and keep him in the inner circle of secret govern! ment, year after year. 1011 look at the business-sign of the stored keeper, and you read the words, "Presbyterian^ Straight, (roods;'' but when you go inside, you se< a Jesuit manager, Jesuit clerks. Jesuit methods and Jesuit mercandise—and you marvel greatly the words of the sign. • It is the same as though you were needing at good, square meal of wholesome victuals, and fol-v lowed your nose to the nearest restaurant, whose; bill-board itemized it ; and then, when you sat down to eat it, you found poison in every dish. , Our Jesuit is -very fond of his rhetoric, and this is the speech lie made to mankind, to ity, to the world, to the heathen, to the angels, tej the Man in the Moon, and to the twinkle, twinkle. little stars: . "We owe an unpayable debt to La Fayette, ns I discovered after Russia's collapse had greatly dangered the financial interests of J. P. Morgan, Jake Sehiff Johannes Rockefeller, Ogden Armour^ “Judge Elbert Gary, Monsieur DuPont, Charles Schwab, Bernard Baruch, and many other patriot ic millionaires who made their millions by diligence and frugality. I "During the awful months of 1014. when the German onrush, almost reached Paris—and would have reached it, had not Russia dashed into Prus¬ sia, calling off from France many thousands Germany's best troops—I was ignorant of the eternal debt we owed La Fayette. “In my history of the American People, I treated La Fayette, as a gallat adventurer, in the same class with the Germain ■ arfvefSfcure'rip' Voii Steuben and Baron DeKalb; and I treated the French intervention as a move in the great game of rival national expansion and aggrandizement. “These views, resulting from my historical re¬ searches, I continued to hold while I was asking for a Carnegie pension, as a worn-out old peda gugue. “I also held these views while I was acting for the Pennsylvania Railroad, as Governor of New Jersey. "I remained steadfast in those views until af¬ ter I had ‘kept us out of war’ so long, that ‘us‘ came forward and made me President again. “America has now reached the full fruition of her purpose: she is now duty-bound to go forth in¬ to the world, an armed Crusader, to liberate the peoples bound down by oppressors; to fight for all weak nations whose liberty is threatened by strong nations; to crush autocracies; to abolish militar¬ isms; to establish the right of all peoples, the weak as well as the strong, to determine for themselves what government they shall live under. “We will enthrone conscience and organize, the moralities: we will establish Right and end the rale of Might. “We will do this everywhere. That is the vis- THE THOMSON MASS MEETING. The way to start something is to start it. Let 11 s start something at Thomson, on Sept. 5th. This whole country is boiling with indigna¬ tion at the autocratic, highhanded way in which One Man is using tho power given him by the People, because “ He kept us out of war." ♦Ie fooled you when he gave you that as a reason for re-electing him, and ho is fooling you now. He cares no more for the Constitution of the United States, than the Kaiser cared for the Bel¬ gian treaty which Germany had signed. To Wilson, as to Wilhelm, national compacts and Constitutions are scraps of paper. lie is even now demanding an extension and expansion of his war-dictatorship. He is demanding a conscript law which Prus¬ sianizes this republic, and robs all young men, of a certain age, of their personal liberty. He is laying the foundation of a military des¬ potism, which will be ruled by Monopolists and Popes. He is using all the machinery of the govern¬ ment, including all the war-magazines financed with your money, to build up a, sentiment in favor Harlem, 8a., Friday, 4 gust 22, 1919, ion we saw at our birth: that is the vision we must follow: the voices in the air tell me so. "If we. falter, the heart of the world will break. “The light shines on the path: wo must fol the light: the world looks to us-for guidance. for meat, meal, flour, eggs, and potatoes: ye not fail to lend the world, for tlie world looks to us for leadership, in cash, in counsel, in rhetor ic. and in something to eat." In Russia, the Czar was deposed, and a Repub¬ lic set up, and a Congress elected: we telegraphed congratulations—“May I not etc.” A second radical set threw out. the first radical set. and nationalized (lie land! Then we hunted up a naval officer, named Kolchak, and loaned him ati army! England, France, and Italy joined us in this commendable and consistent enterprise. Instead of re-calling the Russian Congress, and supporting it while it chose an executive, we around, and found Kolchak, who im prisoned some of the Russian Congressmen, shot a few others, scattered the remainder, and made himself a local Czar. American soldiers found themselves lighting Siberian snows, alongside Japanese soldiers! “Not (heir's to ask the reason why.?’ But you and I can ask why this officer, Koi chak. had the use of an American army, American munitions, and American moral support, The Russian people set up the government of ‘Kerensky: Russian workingmen's Committees set up the government of Leninc and Trotsky; but who set up Kolchak? Outsiders did it, and we were among the out What business of ours was it to pick Kolchaic {0 rule Russia, and then send soldiers to fight and die, for his pei-soml government? v< Personal government is czarism, whether, in Russia, or ill me United States. Unrestrained authority is autocratic, whther in Omsk or in Washington, In Hungary, our soldiers arc present, aiding and abetting the overthrow of a people's govern¬ ment, and the re-establishment of the Ilapsburg dynasty. Our Soldiers are not to blame. They must obey orders; but don’t you suppose they think it queer that they are used in the Austrian empire to overthrow democracy ? Our Jesuit said that his noble purpose was to bo a Crusader of self-determination, going forth with the invincible strength of American armies to say to each people, the small as well as the great— “What sort of government will you have? “Select what you want, and you shall have it.” And now, by George! the American soldier finds himself used as an instrument in the restora¬ tion of the Pope's Ilapsburgs! If I hadn't seen it in the Northern papers and magazines, I would think I was hallucinating. General Gordon of the British Army was at Budapest to welcome the return of the I-Iapsburg; and the King of Komnania was there to hold him (Continued on Page Three.) of the League of Nation.s lie is demanding more appropriations to be squandered on hosts of office-holders who go about, the country meddling with private business. He wants to put his un-American schemes over, before the voters of the country can get a chance to act. We must counter-act this in the only way open to us at this time: We mast, bring the pressure of public opinion to bear upon Senators and, Representatives. Mass-meetings throughout the land should he held, and these meetings should adopt resolutions to lie forwarded to Washington. The People must speak out! They must he willing to give one day to the cause of American freedom. The enemies of popular self-government are in control of this Administration, and they will control the next, and the ness, unless you arouse yourselves to the danger. 1 ft us come together at Thomson, by ]() o'clock, fast time on the morning of Friday, the 5th day of September. Ai I'm alive and well that day, I’m going to talk TO YOU—from my heart, to yours. THOS E. WATSON. Issued Weekly doing Back to the Dark &ges: and One-Man Government. The most amazing feature of the discussions on the League of Nations is, that its advocates as¬ sume, as a certainty, its power to maintain perpe¬ tual peace: and that its opponents tacitly concedes the nght of the President and Senate t" subordi¬ nate our government to that of a woriil federation, and to transfer Hr alt .<-me at the American, cit¬ izen to another government, which can. at any time, order him out: of his country for military service beyond sens. Nnbodv knows, or run know, that the League would insure permanent peace to the. world; but the Tafts and the Homy Tafts, and the Wicker sham Tafts, and the Standard Oil Tafts and the Tafts of Sugar, Steel. Morgan-Money. 'lent-Pack¬ ing, and Cold-Storage, nil unite in saying that the League means peace. I es it nfby mean to keep the peace, while the International Bobbers are collecting and reinvest¬ ing the loot. but. nobody knows that it will. The Iloly Alliance of International Robbers failed, 100 years ago; and this new one may over¬ do things, as the other one did. The Holy Alliance of the Kings, and the Pope, and the, Capitalists was born amid universal re¬ joicings, and roseate expectations. A new day had dawned; young men had dreamed dreams and old folks had seen visions; there were voices in (lie air, and these voices had all studied rhetoric; the crusader was abroad, and the oppressed were now to look up and lie glad; all peoples, both the small and the great, were to have whatever sort of government they thought they wanted. No national banfling should cry in vain for its stick of candy. The TIolv Alliance was going to govern Europe on Chvisian principles: and the Bible and the Hymn-book were to be the chart and compass of the Meftrrniehs, the Castlereaghs, the Talley rands, the Czars, the Kings, the Jesuits,, and the Popes. Mr. Woodrow Wilson himself never did ex¬ press sentiments that were more altogether ele¬ vating, inspiring, itfernafhypocrites trash-lifting, cob-floating, than did those who formed the Holy Alliance. It is generally believed that, England refused to join this Confederation of Tyrants, but this is not quite true. The Ministry did not formally sign the Arti¬ cles of Alliance, but. the Prince Regent—afterwards King George 1\.—wrote a letter to his Continen¬ tal colleagues, assuring them of his approval and adhesion. What happened, after the Pope and the Kings had agreed to govern Europe on Christian prin¬ ciples? These things happened: throw (1) limited,^constitutional . They sent an army into Spain to over- • establish monarchy: and to re¬ the absolute despotism of the Jesuit-ruled Bourbon King. j them (2) there . They sent armies into Italy, and kepi , to savagely put down every movement toward liberalism and constitutional government* The bayonets of Austria upheld the crushing, debasing tyranny of the Pope—a tyranny which banished education, forbade freedom of discussion, and used the horrible Inquisition as the engine of its cruelty. (3) . They sent armies to the aid of tho King of the Two Sicilies, to bloodily suppress tho democratic movement, destroy the constitution, and re-instate the very worst government in tho world—a government which Mr. Gladstone de¬ nounced as vehemently as lie afterwards denounced the Bulgarian atrocities of the Turks. (4) . They rooted out from all colleges and universities, every teacher who was not a devotee of absolute personal government. The Emperor of Austria said in an address to one of his universities, “I want obedient subjects, not thinkers." (5). They censored every book, every news, paper, every individual writer, and rigidly cut out and penalized anything that criticised the leaden despotism which Metternich and the Pope had es¬ tablished. (6). Having repressed democracy and republicanism, and re-enthroned royal absolutism throughout the Continent, the benevolent despots east their eyes across the' Atlantic Ocean, and threatened to restore the King or Spain to all of his “rights” in Mexico, and in Central and South America. Then it was that England “jumped the fencer ,, a Whig ministry had succeeded tho Tories; and the Whig government “recognized” the South’ Ameri¬ can republics. At the same time, President James Monroe of¬ ficially proclaimed the doctrine that Europe must not meddle with American affairs—the, ccrollaxjj , .(Continued on Page Two.) ► J Ho. 48.
