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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
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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.
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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
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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
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