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As To Presidential
Impeachment.
When President Andrew Johnson took the
stump against the senate, his conduct was consid¬
ered undignified.
In his speeches, he assailed the senators who
opposed him; and he laid himself open to the
charge of trying to bring into contenfpt a coordi¬
nate branch of the government.
For having done this, and for having removed
from office Secretary Stanton, he was impeached.
After a long and hotly contested trial, he
escaped conviction, by one vote.
The two main points in the impeachment
were, the two I have mentioned—the dismissal of
Stanton, and the attacks upon the motives of those
who opposed his policies in Congress.
President Johnson was not accused of having
signed away the soverignty of the American peo¬
ple. He was not accused of having bound this
country to keep a standing army on the Rhine for
the protection of France, for fifteen years.
He was not accused of conspiring with the capi¬
talists of England, France, Italy, Japan and Amer¬
ica, to seize the oil and mineral lands of Russia; and
of personally ordering an American army in Siberia
to co-operate with the armies of the robber na¬
tions, when Germany would hare rushed, had not
four million Russian troops gone to the rescue.
President Johnson was not accused of having
agreed that a Council of foreigners, sitting in
Paris, should hare the right fo more our soldier
boys into Hungary, Silesia and Armenia — as that
FOREIGN COUNCIL HAS ACTUALLY DONE.
Nor was President Johnson accused of having
made this country the accomplice in every crime
heretofore committed against weaker nations by
England. France, Italy, and Japan— not only the
accomplice in the, crimes, but the guarantor of
THE LOOT.
Had the Senate been able to make such accu¬
sations as these, and to prove them by the docu¬
ments which the President himself had laid before
the Senate , Mr. Johnson would most certainly have
been convicted.
And had his stump-speech attacks on the
Senate been a series of angry complaints at its
hesitation to endorse his amazing usurpations of
jK/.wer, almost incredible his^afjjoijiiding efforts betrayal of his cctjptry* his
to altogether change our
form of government, the verdict against. President
Johnson would doubtless have been tianimous.
Under such circumstances, President Johnson
would, have been most lucky, had he escaped a
PROSECUTION FOR HIGH TREASON.
For infinitely less an alleged offense, Vice-Pres¬
ident Durr was prosecuted by President Jefferson.
For infinitely less an alleged crime, the French
government during this late War, shot Bala Pa&ka,
and now holds ex-Premier, Joseph Caillaux, for
trial.
Has President Wilson signed away the sover¬
eignty of the American people, and is he now rail¬
ing at the Senate for its refusal to become a party
to the erime?
That's just wiiat he is doing!
He confesses that the. soverignty of this Repub¬
lic is yielded in the League, of Nations; and he ana¬
logizes th# case to that of the private citizen who
yields his personal sovereignty to the State in which
he lives.
The fact that he defends his surrender of our
sovereignty by the analogy which he selected,
PROVES HIS FULL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ENORMITY
or WHAT HE HAS DONE.
But the attempt at analogy breaks down: in
fact, no such analogy exists!
Tho person who is the citizen of any State in
this Union, is a citizen by reason of his descent
from, one of the original patriots who made this
Union for themselves; or he is a person of for¬
eign parentage who has voluntarily naturalized
himself, or a descendant of one. who did so.
All organized society rests upon the mutual
fears and interests of those composing it; and
these— because they wanted mutual protection and
friendly co-operation— voluntarily agreed to give
up a, portion of the sovereignty of the individual,
in order that each might reap the Ixmefit of the or¬
ganisation.
To state it in a simpler form: if a number of
individual Baptists, Methodists, or Presbyterians
wish to organize a church, they voluntarily agree
to abide by the laws of the church; and thus each
member voluntarily surrenders a definite portion of
his individual independence, as a Chrisitian.
In like manner, when each citizen of one of the
original Thirteen American States voted for the
organization of a State government, he knew, defi¬
nitely, just how much of his personal soverignty
he was required to yield.
His action was voluntary, he was free to
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THE ONE TERM PRESIDENT IS NOW CAMPAIGNING
FOR A THIRD TERM.
One of the heavenly purposes of the League of
Nations is, to furnish the vehicle for Mr. Wilson's
ride into a third- term.
He never intends to be a private cit zen again:
he is so intoxicated with power; so infatuated with
himself; so deliriously fond of having hundreds of
millions of our public money to spend on his glori¬
ous self, and to hand around the nations of earth,
that he could not now return to private life.
He fooled the country on his one term plank,
and his promises to smash monopoly, and his pledges
to break up the autocracy which enables a few cor¬
porations to govern our Government.
Most positive were his promises: most piously
moral his campaign speeches; most democratic were
his professions.
Col. George Harvey’s pen had written Wood
row Wilson into a national figure: and you will re¬
member how Wilson insulted Harvey at a certain
banquet-, telling Harvey that, if his paper, Harper's
Weekly, kept on booming him—Wilson—the people
would suspect that he—Wilson—was J. P. Mor¬
gan's candidate.
Do yon remember the incident?
It created no end of talk; and Wilson's rank
ingratitude to Col. Harvey was so universally c-Mi
demned, that Wilson at length made a clumsy apol
ogy for Ids conduct.
He had feared that the people would sec. in him
the, candidate of the Morgan banks!
If the people have not seen that very thing, dur¬
ing the Great War, and in the campaign fo> the.
League and a third term, it is because the people
have not been looking.
It was J. P. Morgan and Ids associated banks
that England relied on for the vast sums needed for
the War.
Morgan became so prominent, as the financier
of France and England that a German tided to kill
him.
More than any one man Morgan pushed us into
the war.
More than any one man, Morgan made money
cut of it. y *
The Morgan bank in New York: the Morgan
bank in London; the Morgan bank in Paris—there
is no telling how many thousands of millions of
profit they made out of the sufferings, the sacrifice,
and the blood, of the 4.000,000 American boys
whose courage saved the investments of Morgan and
other profiteers, when Russia’s collapse was about
to give the victory to the Germans.
And to complete the picture, we have seen Mor¬
gan’s banks represented at the Peace Conference
in Paris.
Thomas W. Lamont, a member of Morgan’s
company, sat with the conference, and extended a
greater influence than any official minister, except¬
ing the Big Four.
Bernard Baruch—Wall Street banker—was also
at, the Peace Conference; the newspapers report, that
President Wlson paid him $150,000 of your money
for his services.
Any law for it ? None.
In 1012, he angrily snubbed his benefactor. Cot.
George Harvey, because too much of Harvey’s
booming would create the impression that the Mor¬
gan banks—which were said to own Harper's
Weekly —favored the election of Wilson.
* In 1010. we have seen one more cover come off
one more Wilsonian deception: the Morgan banks
arc openly and violently demanding the League of
Nations!
They know that Woodrow Wilson takes this
ROAD TO A THIRD TERM,
During the third term, the Morgan crowd and
their associated bandits will gobble up the illimit¬
able mineral wealth of Mexico, just as Persia and
Shantung were gobbled by the English and the
Japs,
In one of his recent speeches, President Wilson
said that the moral elements of his League of Na¬
tion made it “« poem."
Did ho recite any portions of it that are poetic?
He certainly did not.
Is it poetry that sends our soldier-boys to fight
for Japan, Great Britain, and the. Russian auto¬
crats in tho ice-fields of Siberia?
Is it poetry to send our soldiers into Prussian
Silesia, to see to it that the election results favorably
for tho Roman Catholics of Poland?
Is it poetry, to surrender our national resources
of men, money and material to a Foreign Council,
which will forever have the power to commandeer
thosn resources?
U n d e r the Wilson-Morgan-Lloyd-George
League, England will control Persia’s vote, and thus
the nation which is jealous of us, and is building
more battleships as fast as she can, will have seven
votes to our one.
Harlem, Ga., Friday, September 19, 1919.
To get this League established and Wilson re¬
elected, the English could afford to spend millions
of dollars, buying pamphleteers, campaign speakers,
propagandist writers, newspapers, politicians and
voters.
The pope could afford to invest millions in
our next national campaign.
France could likewise contribute; but the
American profiteers have accumulated such stupen¬
dous gains, that they will put up millions of dol¬
lars, to keep in office a man who has made no effort
to strike at monopoly, and under whose administra¬
tion the sharks and cormorants have glutted them¬
selves upon the unorganized consumers.
Out in the. West, he is telling the fathers and
the mothers that, if the League is accepted, their
boys will never have to be sent back to Europe.
That sort of talk is a reminder of what he
said in 1916, the substance of bis talk being—
"If you elect Hughes, the Republicans will put
you into the war; but if you will elect me, I will
keep you out.”
The people had not learned what sort of a
man Woodrow Wilson is, and they took him at
hiii word.
Before he was sworn the second time, lie was
secretly making preparations for the war.
He now expects to be believed, when he says
the League will prevent American soldiers from
again crossing the ocean.
Has he so soon forgotten his special treaty with
France, binding our Government to send the sol¬
diers back, “immediately” whenever France de¬
clares herself attacked by Germany ?
Does he forget that he gave, as an excuse for
this separate treaty, that the League might not be
agreed on and organised, in time to defend Francef
He declared that the separate treaty with
France was intended as a temporary arrangment:
and that the League would automatically put an eni
to it.
In other words, the League would order our
troops—-and others—to the help of France when
needed, just as the special alliance bound us tempor¬
arily to do.
Thus, you see, the sending of our soldiers back
to Europe was made compulsory, so long ns the
special, temporary pledge to France should be in
force; and then afterwards our obligation under
the League would compel us to send them perma¬
nently.
Didn't President Wilson say this, in substance,
again and again?
Of course, he did: all the daily papers pub¬
lished this attempt to justify his one-sided bargain
with France—a bargain which bound us to do every¬
thing for France, but which did not bind France
to do anything for us.
But now that he is coming in contact with the
people, and realizes the bitterness of their resent¬
ment of his forcing millions of young men to quit
work and cross the ocean to die in a war which was
not ours, he fluently promises that such a thing shall
never happen again.
“Adopt the League,” he shouts, “and your boys
in khaki will never have to bo. sent overseas again.”
What a shameful effort at another deception!
If the League is adopted our boys will always
be subject fo another conscription, and another
BANISHMENT INTO FOREIGN COUNTRIES?
Wilson himself signed a contract to that effect
-with France; and he. himself said that this obliga¬
tion on us— temporary in the French treaty—would
become permanent . in the League.
Every effort should be made to impress the
true nature of the League of Nations upon the
minds of the people.
If that monstrous product of inordinately am¬
bitious autocrats is accepted , a constant stream of
American conscripts will bo pouring to the coasts
to be convoyed to all parts of the world, to tight
for things they do not understand, to kill people
with whom they have no quarrel, and to be killed,
thousands of miles from home.
If Woodrow Wilson believes what he is say¬
ing, if he believes that the League will abolish
why is he demanding universal compulsory military
training and a standing army of nearly 600,000
men!
He knows that the League will plunge us into
small wars all over the world: he knows that his
pledge to France absolutely provides for another
American Expeditionary Force: he knows that the
vast preponderance which his English blood caused
him to give England, compels us to fight her bat¬
tles, on all parts of the planet; and that the people of
these United States can never derive any benefit
from the League.
issued Weekly
How Are We fo Understand
President Wilson’s Deliberate
Misstatements ?
Ion can hardly believe that Mr. Wilson would
plan a series of speeches, on so vital a subject as the
League of Nations, without mapping out before¬
hand what he would say.
But the statements he has been making are so
at variance, with what he lias said heretofore, and
so at variance with the well known facts, that lie
actually bewilders llmse who are naturally dis-t
inclined to apply a short and ugly word to a Pres¬
ident of the United States.
Let me illustrate what I mean:
in bis first speech, he declared that “Germany
was a self-governed nation.''
How often has Mr. Wilson himself said that
she wasn't ?
How often did lie proclaim his sympathy
for the German people, because they were not sclf
governed i
Time and again he expressed his friendship
for Germany on the ground that it was governed
by a, Military Autocracy which must be “crushed. 71
In his last address to Congress, on his second
return from Paris, he again referred to the Mili
(ary Autocracy, “a monstrous thing, which threaten¬
ed the liberties of peoples and the civilization of
Hit* world.
One of Ins highest and noble aims in the War,
he said, was to emancipate Germany, and give her
self-government. 5
.Vow lie says she had it: both statements cannot
be true,but be is the man who made them both
In the same speech the President said, “This
war was a commercial and industrial war."
This statement is simply dumbfounding.
Didn't (be espionage art penalize men, maga¬
zines and newspapers, because they published utter¬
ances like that-?
Isn't Eugene Debs in the Atlanta penitentiary
because of similar expressions?
“The war was commercial,” says the President,
therefore it was sordid in its motive, tainted with
considerations of making or losing money!
So it wasn’t a Crusade of the righteous against,
the wicked! It wasn’t a war to save civilization
and to liberate the under-dog, “everywhere!”
I give you my word, that when I came upon' the
President's statement, that the war was waged in
THE INTEREST OF SORDID COMMERCIALISM, I COUtd
scarcely believe my own eyes.
Of course, I had my own opinions as to the
hidden causes of the war all along, but, I had ro
idea that Woodrow Wilson would ever express m*f
own beliefs , so publicly.
Whether lie meant to do it or not, ho let the
cat out of the bag rand he made rubbish out of all
those fine speeches—in America, France, England,
or Belgium—in which he said tho war was waged to
give weak peoples the right of self-government, and
to establish liberty everywhere, and to enthrone con¬
science, the moral forces, the principles of right,
the abolition of might—and all the rest of the hyp¬
ocritical tinsel and fustian.
That rhetorical stuff, served it’s purpose and he
now cynically says, that the war was “ commercial
and industrial."
If that does not mean “Money and Markets,” I
wish he would tell us what it does mean.
Evidently, Mr. Wilson knows his weak point,
and knows that the American people are gating on
to it.
He. an Englishman, is putting this country
into a new government, which England will bulk
by her majority vote.
For an Englishmen to attempt such a mon¬
strous betrayal of our Country to England, is be¬
coming more and more provocative of national in¬
dignation.
Therefore, Mr. Wilson has taken pains to de¬
clare himself “an American,” and at Columbus,
Ohio, lie said—•
“/ have been, bred, and am proud to have, been,
in THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY STOCK, WHICH SET THIS
GOVERNMENT UP.”
What on earth caused the President of the
United States to say a thing like that, when he
knows that the untruth fulness of his statement can
be. so easily proven?
It hasn’t been more than six months, since
President Wilson was in England, boasting of his
English blood and, parentage.
Every daily paper carried the story of his
English mother; and at least one magazine printed
the picture of Mr. Woodrow Wilson shaking hands
with Mr. Thomas Watson, who had been a
member of Woodrow Wilson’s grandfather’s church,
at Carlisle, England!
(A Georgia soldier, then in France, sent me
the picture and I have it still.)
President Wilson’s ancestors, on both sides of
the house; were English, in England, during the
whole Revolutionary period, and before.
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