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Henry Frick Has Left Us.
The papers are full of the sad event, and El¬
bert Gary is gradually canonizing the departed.
Henry lived to joe 69; and he was a rail-road
spike, to be sure.
A ten-penny nail was as a sperm candle, com¬
pared to Henry.
The adulatory papers tell us that Henry start¬
ed out a poor boy, as so many of our industrial
buccaneers have done.
Even Brother John Rockfeller started out a
poor boy: he’d probably give all his ill-gotten gains,
if he could once more be a young, innocent boy.
The papers tell us that Mr. Frick did not
know how rich he was: it might be $200,000,000,
or it might lift less, when the death-tax collector
called.
He—Frick, not the Tax-Collector—lived in
a gorgeous palace in New York: little Pittsburg,
where iie had caused so many men, women, and
children to be killed by the Pinkerton Deputies,
in 1892. became too small and odious to him, and
he removed to the Paradise of Religious Robbers.
His chief mourner—outside of his family, of
course—was the baleful monster. Elbert Gary, who
is now repeating Frick's methods with dissatisfied
work people.
One of Elbert's Mayors recently published a
notice which reads—
“.Vo public meetings in this city , until further
notice from Me."
Another one of Elbert. Gary's Mayors person¬
ally ordered the calling off of a peaceable Socialist
meeting, in the Socialist's own hall, because 2,000
American Legionaries had made threatening dem¬
onstrations.
It did not seem to occur to this pusillanimous
Mayor, that it was his lawful duty to protect all
lawful meetings from lawless rowdies.
Last night. I was reading a facinating book,
“The Empresses of the East.” by Joseph McCabe,
and I came upon this scornful statement which the
Empress Irene made to her dying husband, the
Emperor Alexis Comnenas—
“Husband, while yon lived, you were full of
guile , . now that you are dying you are no
better
“It is permitted to be known,” that in Henry
j brick's last .will, he endca'vdh'v] o chejjft the U,. S.
Government and the States or New York and Penn¬
sylvania. by directing that no inventory be mode of
his vast estate!
With the death-ratttle in his throat, he was
true to h’ f s ruling passion.
He/could not have been ignorant of the laws
which require an inventory, especially in States
where the Inheritance tax is 'in force, and where
the net income is taxable bv the Federal Govern¬
ment; but because he had so long heen the dictator,
and had so long cheated the State and National
Governments out of so many millions of dollars.
; he assumed that he would become one of dead
rulers of earth.
(By the assistance of such lawyers as Sam
Untermyer, Elihu Root, and Geo. W. Wickersham.
he probably will.)
Henry W. Frick bought a few panels of wood
on which a starving French artist had painted
Hie Course of Love, for the last lady-friend of the
next-to-the-last Bourbon King of Franc®.
The lady’s name, along toward the end of
the Old Order, was Madame La Marquise Du Barry.
Concerning this most accommodating of young
French ladies, the King remarked to one of his
courtiers—
“'They tell me that I am the Successor of Mon
sier de So-and-So.”
The courtier wearily replied—
“Yes, Sire, in much the same way that you are
the successor of King Dagobert.”
Dagobert is supposed to have been contempo¬
raneous with King Solomon; and therefore the
courtier's remark about the French lady would seem
to imply that she had passed from quite a number
of hands to others, before she reached her royai
lover. King Louis XV.
But she wtte a good-hearted woman; Mie never
misused her position; she had been very poor, and
her money was principally used to relieve the poor;
and I do not. for one moment, lielieve the New
York story of the artist having been reduced to sta
vation. because Madame Du Barry refused to pay
for the panels which she had ordered from Frago¬
nard to paint for her own use.
The French artist would probably have thought
himself well paid, had the King’s favorite drawn
for him a treasury cheque of 1,000 francs—about
$200. in our money—the sight draft, for $200. would
not have cost her a single franc.
Henry Frick paid $1,200,000 for those painted
panels.
Why? Because he wanted to drink champagne
to his vanity!
lie wanted the Whole World to know that h \
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BEWARE OF THE AMERICAN LEGION!
Have we ever before had a General of the Army
touring the country, preaching political Prussian
ismf
John Pershing is doing so.
A ho made it hia business to inculcate in the
cx ‘ s0 lcrs a the popular self- govern
nicn ?
Who appointed^ Him to go around denouncing
Bolsheviki, anarchists, and radicals?
He doesn t seem to know that the monarchists
always consider democrats to be Bolsheviki
anarchists, and radicals.
Before the war between the States, the Abo¬
litionists were our Bolsheviki, our Reds, our Radi¬
cal s.
One of them became President.: his name was
Lincoln.
His Secretary of State had said, there must lie
a forcible change of government; and that’s what
w? got. ^
The Abolitionists denounced our form of gov¬
ernment, and mildly declared that our Constitu¬
tion was “a covenant with death ancl a League
with Hell.”
Anybody shot ?
Any puffed up General and resplendent start
raging around, and calling for the immediate death
or deportation of Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Garri
n. William II. Seward and Abraham Lincoln?
Any young officers handed together to break
up the Abolitionist meetings?
When Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe published
her seditious “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” was it thrown
out of the mails, under an infamous Espionage
Act?
When Hinton Helper wrote his “Impending
Crisis," and the Abolitionists eagerly seized it. and
made campaign literature of this inciter to a Sen
made campaign literature of this inciter to Ser¬
vile Insurrection, did democratic Administration
forbid its circulation?
The answer to all these questions, as you well
know is in the negative.
“The American Legion was founded in Paris,
ENTIRELY BY' OFFICERS.”
I copy this statement from The National Week¬
ly News, of Washington, D. .C.
'•in ; .-i li j -w , , 7 > it. - •
c.4 of '’The Soldioys, Sailors and Marines.
The first- caucus of The Legion, at St. Louis,
was controlled entirely by officers.
The National Weekly News makes the same of
social degradation, intended to be perpetuated by
the officers upon the privates , that! touched upon
last week—
“It wouldn't lie fair to condemn all officers as
a class. Some were autocratic and will confine to
be so. while others were as fine men as the Creator
put upon mortal earth. But all were a. part of the
military system during the war and that system
create! a caste line as distinct and irrevocable as it
was possible to make it.
In the army and the navy the officer and the
enlisted men under the militaristic sense are not
equals. The officer is superior, not only in the
military sense but in the social life.
The officer was taught until he believed it a
truism, that he was better stuff than the private.
He was not permitted to mingle socially with his
men. He had his separate mess. He had his sep¬
arate club. His voice commanded respect and car¬
ried the weight of authority. At all times he was
taught and the men were taught that the officers
were superior in every way.
It is not the purpose here to sav whether this
was right or wrong. The fact is that this feeling
was not erased by the process of demobilization and
it is existent wherever officers and men meet today
for social intercourse.”
In other words, The American Legion contem¬
plates the, establishmentof a permanent Military
Aristocracy, such as prevailed in Prussia.
If these officers can put it on the soldiers, they
will next put H upon all civilians.
I cannot imagine a more anti-American, un¬
democratic, and autocratic organization than that.
It condemns men unheard; it forbids peaceable
assemblages whose expressions of opinion they an¬
ticipate and condemn; it orders Protestant cler¬
gymen out of town, without, waiting to hear what
the speaker intends to say; it arrogantly measures
the patriotism of sound Americans by narrow, mili¬
tary and ignorant decrees of its own, and will soon
become ns great a menace to Constitutional libert”
as are the Knights of Columbus.
Of course, The Legion had to have propaganda ;
you can see the George Creel stuff in the great daily
Buffalo Chips.
Besides, The Legion had to have a magazine
of its own, and I will “enliven the interview,” as
Senator Hitchcock said, not with “a funny story”
—I don’t know any hut. with some of the arro
f gant, bumptious, swaggering, dictatorial stuff ptiat-
Harlem, Ga., Friday, December 19, 1919.
ed in this most recent addition to the George Creel
propagandering Buffalo Chips.
Let’s start the interview by the head-editorial,
page 12. November 28, 1919, which reads:
CONGRESS MAY NOW PROCEED
Congress has said that it awaited the action of
The American Legion before passing on a number
of enactments of major importance to the country.
It need wait no longer. If the American Legion
in its month of organization had left the slightess !
doubt in any deporting receptive mind of its attitude on tin j
subject of undesirable alien agitators j
and first-paper slackers, there can be no excuse for j ;
further doubt on that score. The Legion, its
majority voice, demanded immediate action on this 1
score. i
Now. in all vour life, did you ever read anv
thing equal to that? j
The powter-pigeon officer who wrote this, imag!
ined himself in France, drilling a company of pn- :
vates.
I can see vividly in my mind's eve. the faces
of Champ Clark and Senator Lodge as they hear
this peacock officer say to them, in effect—
“Gentlemen, Congress has been waiting for
us to tell it what to do: we have spoken: Congress
may now proceed, in order, without any fear of ]
being shot-up. black-jacked, gibbetted. or having to j
swallow lighted cigarettes.
“Congress may now proceed!”
The appropriate thing for a grateful Congress
to do, is to pass Resolutions of thanks to the j
American Legion. ;
Pleas? notice that Congress is peremptorily re- j
q.ured to deport “first-paper slackers."
They must be sent abroa.1 at once.
Farewell, Et-zell Ford!
Goodbye, young Brother John Rockefeller:
your sudden and sad fate I deeply deplore, because
we both cling to the outside bannisters of the Bap¬
tist Church.
Pleasant voyage ! All ye young first-pa per
slackers, whose daddies had a pull and barrells of
ducats and kept your bacon where it was safe!
The Legion tells Congress these men must go.
To what placet
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if Uncle Sant has to pay as much to England
h transporting the 5,000.000 rich slackers, as Eng
land made us pay for carrying over the men that
saved her, we shall just he obliged to ask Europe
for a moratorium.
Congress “need wait no longer.”
Congress, you have heard your orders: obey
immediately, and remove that smile from your face,
or it will be knocked off.
j
The amazing military ass who wrote the edi
ferial leader, proceeds to bray thus—
“The Legion gave Congress the benefit of ,ts
advice upon the matter of a proper military policy!
for the United States. It rendered in detail its
opinions upon proper beneficial legislation for men
formerly in the service. It defined a code of Amer
canisrn which should lie of value to legislators m j
passing upon measures entirely outside the 1.001
pending measures concerning men and women who
served in the world war."
The legion gave. Congress the benefit of its
advice upon the military rolicy' of the United
States.”
I hope Congress neatly and appropriately ten
tiered thanks for this advise.
By the bye, who asked for it?
From what source came the suggestion that
these young officers hector Congress concerning the
military policy of the United States.’’
Who made it any particular business of theirs?!
:
And these arrogant officers have made a code of |
Irvvs for the guidance of Congress!
The Legion “defined a dale of Americanism
&'Mch SHOULD BE of Value TO LEGISLATORS." ;
Did these recent personifications of Moses de-j
fine a code of Americanism more exact than that
w* had long before the human race was
by their arrival ?
Have they improved upon the Virginia Bill
of Rights, the Constitution, and the Declaration:
Bless their little swelled heads—they have
cubated a better Americanism than their great
grandfathers established by a Seven Years War:
and they are generously willing that Congress may
benefit by it, in passing on 1001 bills which these of¬
ficers have already prepared.
The most thoroughly nauseating article in the
A merican legion magazine, is that which fulsomely
fawns upon the young English Prince of Wales,
This article is positively sickening in its
gar snobbishness.
The writer tolls us that Prince Edward “is
stuck on pretty girls’’: and many a pretty girl has
been the victim of this Wolf family of Germans who
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Issued Weekly
Fourteen More Points.
The Democratic National Committee consistkig
chiefly of Roman Catholics, are pursuing the un¬
certain voters with Fourteen questions, based on a
most imaginative speech made by Senator McKek
lcr of Tennessee.
The Daily Buffalo Chips tell us that the lucky
number of the invisible one is 13: that's the day ho
landed in France. '
It appears to me that the luck of that famoas
landing at Brest, is open to debate.
We are not through with it yet.
The electors of this country are going to land
somewhere, in November, 1920; and Senator
■* ve * ,ai seeins to , x> keenly alive to mat , fact.
Hence, his Fourteen Questions, which are—
1. During whose administration has the Amen
ican farmer received the greatest returns for his
toil ?
2. During whose administration has the Amer
; can laborer had his fullest dinner pail and received
his greatest pay?
3. During whose administration has the Amer
ican business man made hi? largest profits?
4. During whose administration has the Amere
ican banker and American stockholder in other
corporations received the largest dividends?
5. During whose administration has Amelia
enjoyed her greatest prosperity ?
6. During whose administration has the great?
est merchant marine ever owned by America beat
built ?
7. During whose administration has the great¬
est banking system ever known been created ?
8. During whose administration has the wealth
of America been made to bear its just proportion
of taxation by the passage of income tax laws?
9. During whose administration did America
become the greatest financial center of tire worWP
10 . During whese administration has the
American navy reached its highest efficiency?
11. During whose administration was it found
that American citizens, untrained in times of peace,
could be transformed in a few short months into
better soldiers than those trained for a lifetime in
the standing armies of Europe.
12. During whose administration did America
achieve for herself, and aid in achieving for allies,
the greatest victory of a!! ages?
13. During whose administration was America
changed from the greatest debtor nation to the
-» y-
14. During whose administration -vif has ; America ; \ i
made her greatest strides toward becoming the first
world power, and has President of the Unifcd
States become the acki wledged peer of any rukg
on earth.
Answering these questions by asking others.
here I come:
During whose Administration did the cotton
producers, almost in despair because of 6 rente a
pound, hear their Pr dde’f tHl *he President of tks
Formers' I rion, that the farmers need not ss*
tect any aid from hi- Administration.*
That was in 1914. when cotton slumped to $3S»
-nd $30. a bale, and the growers saw- ruin ahead,
The Administration coldly, cruelly, atroeiom
/?/, refused ant relief to the farmers, who were for>
ed to sacrifice their sole money-crop
The Administration hurriedly established sm
Insurance Bureau, for the benefit of cotton gam
biers: the Administration rapidly created new paper
money, which was loaned to the gamblers to buy
our cotton with: and with this assistance, the gam*
biers got the cotton at 5 and 6 rents a pound.
When the Associated Press reported that two
steamers, loaded with cotton, and on their way to
Europe, had been lost, and that the Governments
Insurance Bureau had paid the exporters for ft,
] had a natural curiosity to learn the r-duation
at which those Imks had lieen insured.
So. I wrote to Mr. McAdoo. Secretary of the
Treasury, asking for the information.
No reply from Mr. McAdoo.
I persisted in the matter, and at length Mr. A.
J, Peters. Assistant Secretary, answered my ques
tion by stating, that the cotton on board one of the
vessels had lieen insured ai $70. a ! ale, and on the
other, at from $6.0. to $65. a bale,
(The vessels were named the Evelyn and ti»e
( a rib.)
In other words, this Administration discrirm
nated against millions of he'd-work big farmers,
white and black, and facilitated an out-and-out rob
bory. of at lJ-ast $30. a hale, on the cvp-of 1944.
Figure out the Ire on a crop .1' 12.000,000
bales!
Ijci Senator MeKellar remember how much ail.
our farmers have lost by the unreasonable prolon
gation of the German blockade, and by the doswre
) 0 w * 0 f the vast Russian market , by this moot
wicked blockade of Ri sslv.
(2) That question is certainly the zenith «f
impudence.
The laborer? Wiiat laborer?
Senator MeKellar must Ik- referring to the ar
duous toil of Elliert Gary, Bernard Baruch, Her
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Pfio. 13.