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Annother Letter That Shows How the
Common Private Was Treated by
His Hofficers in France.
The Georgia Volunteer who told me his sto¬
ry, Sunday before last, and which I had written
out within half-an-hour after he bade me goodbye,
must have been extensively read, for I have re¬
ceived severul letters-about it.
From these, I have chosen one, that you mud
read: if anything could be worse than forcing a
half-starved soldier to march and fight, when he
had just been shot, through and through, and in
the arm; and when the through-and-through
wound was bleeding,—I would imagine that the
Germans were dealing with a Frenchman, or a
Servian.
It is unspeakably horrible to think of our
cocky young Ninety Day Wonders treating our
Volunteers in this inhuman manner.
In the propaganda for Popinjay Pershing
for President, he is represented as spending
pretty much all of his time visiting the sick and
the wounded, in camps, hospitals etc.
Other accounts represent him as having spent
quite a considerable share of his time in his mag¬
nificent chateau in Paris, where he is said to have
indulged freely in his fondness; for the gay com¬
panionship of the volatile and beautiful and fas¬
cinating young ladies of France.
From that scene of military fanfare, fire¬
works, and brilliant social festivity of the Hoffi
cers, turn to the letter of the private:
Jan. 13, 1920,
Sunday A. M.
Me. Thos. E. Watson:
Dear Sir: I was reading in your valuable
paper of a “Gleorgia Volunteer in France.” As I
was-one-and was through it all in France I want
to tell you a few things that happened and the
proof can be had from me if required.
When the war was declared I enlisted in the
army a-few days afterwards. At that time I was
cighteeai years of age, and was sent to Texas for
training until the following April when my di
,vision sailed for France.
I was in two large battles and one small scrap
in the Vosges sector near the Vogges mountains.
Was in the St. Mihiel drive September 12th and
one month later I went into battle in the Argon no
Forest OcL 12th, at six o’clock that morning and
within one hour I was shot twice. Once in my
left wrist and the other ball went into my right
chest going through my chest and coming out be¬
low. the shoulder blade.
I bled until I was so weak I could hardly
walk from the front to the first aid station. I
crawled and, got there about dark. The bullets
hit me that morning. Then they sent me S'
■ a field hospital to get the bullet cut out of n '<■
arm and it was black up to my elbow for it wo,s
fifteen hours after l was shot before W was oper
ated on. I was then sent to Hospital No. 17.
where the lice were thick. We soldiers call them
cooties, and nothing to eat but corned beef and
bread.
I was sent back to duty within a month
hiked through the mud and slop for fourteen
solid dyas resting at night, And we didn't, get
no rest on thanksgiving day and. eery little to eat.
Any private in that Virginia regiment 'will tell
you. we caught II — for those fourteen days.
But the worst is I came out of a hospital bed
and after being shot through and had to hike witn
those men that was well and healthy But I was
nothing but a volunteer and a kid and over three
thousand miles from old Georgia. But I had the
guts and made it. But when I reached that
French town, Savoisy, France the 29th of Novem¬
ber, the blood, was running from my wounded
shoulder. We didnot have nothing but a floor to
sleep on. I was with that company until my
wounds swollen so they sent me back to the hospi
tal at Chaumont, France, and from there they
sent me to America.
But on the ship we sick ones lived awful.
steamed liver three times a day. without any salt.
Until the day that we landed at Newport News,
Vo.., we had pork chops and chicken. I don t
suppose the Hofficers, as you call them, could eat
it all so the last day we privates ate the fine stufl.
I was then sent to General Hospital No.
t at Atlanta, Ga., and was discharged May
e 17, 1919. I was then given my dab of .change
and a ticket home. But what could I do after 1
got home? Mv right shoulder was so weak 1
could not do hard work and my left hand is
shaking and nervous. I don't know any trade, o
there 1 was. My father was not a rich man: he
could not keep me up. So I tried to do painting
but was so nervous 1 had to quit. Then I went to
the doctors and applied for a pension as 1 had a
ten thousand dollar insurance policy with the Gov¬
ernment.'
Afterwards I received a letter from the
Government that they had awarded me $3,(10 a
month. Well three dollars and sixty cents a
month was a large amount. So I agreed to run
a farm with mv father on halves. Then the Fed¬
eral board said they would send me to school next
year sometime. Then I wrote them and told (hem
about, the farm contract. They advised me to
give it up. I would live high I know in a city
with $3.60 a month waiting for them to send me
to school. So I have told you all. The doctor
is treating me now, and am so nervous I can’t
stand a loud noise, but the Government thinks
I am shot $3.60 worth.
Mr. Watson, you can use this letter anyway
you care to and mention my name.
Respectfully,
Route 1, Brooks, Ga. David P. Autrey, Jr.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
An Ex-Soldier Asks Some Questions.
(Continued from Page One.)
tiro German wireless stations to continue opera¬
tions. one in New Jersey and one in New York;
and from one of these were sent the messages
which informed the German submarine of the
progress of the Lusitania across the ocean.
President 11 ilson had allowed the Germans
to keep and use the wireless machines which seal¬
ed the fate of the ship on which 119 Americans,
non-combatants—men, women, and babes at. the
breast — w eke ass a ssi n atkd.
Mr. Burleson hod not then killed The Jeffer¬
sonian, and one of my sins against this Ad minis
tration was, my persistent attack upon those Ger¬
man wireless stations.
M hen Captain Boy-edd and his criminal ac¬
complices were blowing up munition plants, ^ .v
dor mills, outgoing ships etc., and the British
produced the papers which seemed to prove Bern
storff's complicity with Captain Boy : edd, this
Administration took no action.
When Boy-edd's gang returned to Europe,
in a British vessel, a member of Parliament,
standing in his place, asked why the German
bombers, dynamiters, blow-uppers. Reds, Bolshe
riki, were passengered home, in a British man-of
war, art English minister stood in ms place, and
stated , that it was nox k at the personal re¬
quest of President Wilson !
Now, if you please, we will return to our
God-bles«-you Secretary of State, and his visit 10
Dr. Dwnba. the Ambassador of Austria and twin
brother to the German Ambassador whom V. P.
Tom so delighted to entertain at his groaning ta¬
ble.
Bryan tiptoed around to Thimbu's official
abode, and found the Doctor sweating ambier
over that “strict accountability” threat which bad
so unexepectedly been written by the Chief Pa¬
cifist who had been speaking and publishing su¬
perhuman and supernatural rhetoric on being too
right, to fight.
Dumba was benumbed and dumfounded.
Bryan arrived at Dumba’s side, just in time
to head off a fit.
But, of course, as soon ns Brvan assured him
that the. President had written the piece just to
fool and satisfy the homefolk, D. came to himself
and said, to Bryan, “God bless you.”
Thin was a hint to Bryan, and he glided back
to bis office, and bowed to the table on which each
nation of Europe, excepting Germany—had signed
treaties binding themselves, not to go to war, until
each had given its temper twelve months to cool
off.
Nobody but us, are now at war with Germany;
but the English are in a state of war with Ire¬
land, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, Russia, India,
and Egypt.
France is at war with the Syrians.
Poland is making war on Russia, and de¬
manding that Roman Catholic paganism be made
the religion of any small State set up near her.
T he United States seem to have a war m
Haiti, but the papers don't tell us much about.
Of course, the native negroes of Haiti, who
are fighting for the freedom they lost a few years
ago, are called “bandits.”
So it is in Mexico.
So it was with the Filipinos who helped ns
oust the Spaniards, and were sold to us for $20,
000 , 000 .
That’s the treaty which Mr. Bryan assisted
the Republicans to put on us.
He is devoting his noble energies to betray
our National Independence, and put us on a
plane of a British Colony in the treacherous
League of Nations,
Perhaps it is time I remembered that boy's
letter:
To question (1) :
My answer is, that the Administration has
been largely the Administration of Tumulty, a
lay Jesuit; of Cardinal Gibbons, a priest Jesuit:
a War Board of Catholics, and the influence of
the Knights of Columbus, together with that of
Catholic Hofficers.
My answer is alxiut the same as to number
( 1 ):
Tumulty is a Iv. of C. and so are the Assistant
secretaries.
Admiral Benson is a Catholic and he may have
nullified the medals etc. recommended by Admiral
Sims, who is a Protestant.
Daniels is too weak to resist the presssure
which the Roman hierarchy can bring to bear in
this country.
When this Administration gave War Board
Powers to one church, and that a church whine
priesthood, from Cardinal down to lowest priest.
are sworn- to overturn, this and, all other democra
vies and republics, you can understand why Ad¬
miral Sims was left unsupported, as he says -
while in Chief Command of our fleeet in Euro¬
pean waters.
The people did not want (lie war, as was of¬
ficially proved at the November elections of 1918.
Woodrow Wilson persuaded Clemcnceau to
keep the news of this rebuke to him from getting
into the French papers; and it is doubtful where
any European nation learned that fact, until af¬
ter Wilson had finished his international mess-up
at Paris.
He can now “ point with pride”— if he is
alive —to the 23 wars on the go, and la more fix¬
ing to go on the go.
The reason why the Masons got such a freeze
out is, that the Roman Catholics, the Jesuits'and
Tmmdty knew that the Masons wouldn't secretly
murder the official who ruled the Masons in.
Secretary of Baker {seems to be quite fa¬
vorable to the killing of other men. but the Sec¬
retary of Baker has manifested much inclination
t-o save his own«hide and tallow.
He does not' wish that the Tinhorn of Per¬
shing shall advance heroically into a Hospital, and
make him a neat .little speech of congratulation Oil
the loss of Bakers leg.
M hat a misfortune- it must seem to Pershing,
that he couldn't have the luck to have his eyes
gassed out.
He couldn't meet with the good luck of i
shot-off arm!
Ho would have sat his noble war-horse in i
much more martial manner, had he one hand on
the reins of his proud steed, instead of tiro.
(Just think of what si figure Pershing would
have cut, “When Knighthood was in Flower!"
Both arms engaged with the bridle-rein*,
how would Sir Black Stack have used his sword,
or his lance, or his-battle-axe? j
The Protestant churches were outlawed, part
ly because they had never shown nnv sense of
the outrage the Government was guilty of. n
keeping an American army in the Philippines
to protect the Catholic Church in the crimes it
commits against Filipino land-owners, Filipino
payers, Filipino wives, and Filipino daughters.
Our record against the Philippine, Islands, is
blacker than England’s against Egyjpt, in that
Aguinaldo and his useful warriors aided immense¬
ly, us our allies, in driving out the Spaniards
which having been done, we crushed the Filipino
patriots, after ten years of horrible massacres.
This same Administration which lends an
American Army to the Pope, in the Philippines,
has surrendered education, to the Roman Church,
against which the natives were in armed rebellion
at the time we intervened, and took the 1,100 Is¬
lands for our righteous selves.
Since the War, Baker proclaimed that war
work must got out of the camps.
The Iv. of 0. rushed to the office of the brave
Baker, and said—
Ton surely meant, to make an exception in
favor of the K. of CP
“I sure otd,” said Bully Baker.
The exception was duly put in official form:
and. for many months, the K. of C. has been
spending millions of dollars leaching the Ameri¬
can soldiers to become dutiful servants of a for¬
eign potentate, whose law, proclaimed in 1365, put
tlie Roman Cathoilc Church in irreconcilable hos¬
tility to every American Constitution and every
form of government, municipal, county, State, and
National.
They are raiding and forcibly sending out of
this Republic, some hundreds of impotent dream¬
ers who believe our Government could he improved,
bv repealing laws which give the employer all the
profit in manufactures and the mines etc.
But we allow the Government to he run by
priests, who are hound by a solemn oath against
our form of Government, and against the Prot¬
estant RELIGION.
Cardinal Gibbons took that oath, and so did
Cardinals Farley and O’Connell.
Every Catholic Bishop takes a similar oath
against democracy and Protest an ism—heresy.
Every priest does it.
What about these 30,000 sworn traitors, who
hold 30,000 American girls and women in prisons
which no State has the pluck to inspect?
(3) It was not necessary.
You are mistaken: there was no such place.
A II. S. Senator and his wife tried to report
on that Brest hog-hole; but the censor soon shut
the newspapers as to any statement, except Sir
John Humbug, who reported the camp in “good
condition,” and said the reports against the Brest
Inferno had been “greatly exaggerated.”
(I) Yon are regrettably off the track, when
you say that this is a Protestant country.
To live and flourish, Protestantism must be
militant, in religion.
Protestant church will continue to vanish, and
congregations diminish, so long as our beloved
pastor preaches War. league of Nations, Liberty
Bonds, and the urgent need of -10.000 new school
houses and hospitals for Kamschatka and Babel
mandeb.
Mr. William J. Bryan Makes Another
Speech.
(Continued from Page One.)
of Brvan’s speech, the reporter uses this remark
—due no doubt to the cold Sunday night, when he
who had heard it all before, was duty-bound to
ache for an hour, as he heard it again.
This is what the cold reporter wrote:
u Mr. By ran was in a highly belligerent mood ”
(iix) much grape juice? T. E. W.) and his utter¬
ances were, at times, applauded.'’'
A few more reports like that, and Brvan
would take his bed.
“Applauded at times!”
Heavens! The reporter might as well have
said. “Mr. Bryan was applauded every once in
awhile.”
Bryan spoke “under the auspices of the
Anti-Saloon League,” as usual.
Ever since those Brethren and Sisters got
beyond the methods of Carrie Nation and the it¬
inerant lecturer, they have backfired on poor leg¬
islators and Congressmen to such an extent, that
the average opponent of house-searching and suit-
3
case openings are afraid to read the Old Testa
ment.
Now that Bryan is denouncing those who
eat victuals, at the same table with a wicked Wet
man, a new terror is added to life.
Bryan bitterly assailed Brother Homer S.
( uTurnings., National Democratic Executive Com¬
mittee. not for having been entertained at Clark
Howells home, but for dining with Gov. Ed¬
wards, of New .Jersey.
M as Bryan in better company, himself
when ,
he ass<x ink'd and dined with Tom Taggart,
at loins gambling and drinking resort/
Air. Bryan told the shivering audience his po¬
sition on the eague: they had read it already,
several times in the papers, or at least had had the
opportunity to do so.
There.ore, I am justified iu punishing them,
by stating Bryan's statement one more time, i:i
the hope that n respectable number of ns will learn
Bryan's position.
Bryan said that, at first, he had prepared to
swallow the Covenant, raw, unsliced, unbuttered,
unwashed: he did not in the least question its
Constitutionality, or its supreme wisdom, or its
working capacity, nor the inferior position >u
waich it leti our Republic, while burdening us
with the needs and demands of the Old World.
Later on. when the President's breakdown
awakened Bryan's ambition to be President, he
shifted his position quite a bit: he went to the
Jackson Day Dinner and cut loose from the Pres¬
ident, who for more then thret months hasn't l>een
seen by any outsider, and who cannot now he
seen by any one save his Doctors, his faithful
wife, his Jesuit Secretary.
Had he been able to revive a visitor, he would
certainly have seen some of his Dinner Day lieu¬
tenants.
After Bryan realized that it was impossible
for the President to become a candidate, he deci¬
ded to run again and his chances are good.
But there is one question that he fears: it is
the League of Nation s.
He doesn t understand it. he couldn't debate it
with Senator Heed, or Shields, or Gore, or Dolce
Smith, or with ex Senator Hardwick.
If he comes ,nfo Georgia, somebody aide to
handle him. will make hem debate or back out.
That's the reason why his third and last po¬
sition on the League is. “Lot the majority rule:
the Republicans in the Senate have a majority:
let them pass the Treaty their own way. then the
League question won't he in my way."
That's the exact idea controlling Bryan's
mind.
Brvan denounced the Senate for frittering
away time on the Treaty and League.
How much time did the President fritter
away on the league?
He had no authority to give months to the
League.
None to guarantee to France eternal protec¬
tion from Germany:
None to give Syria to France:
None to give Persia, Egypt, Mesopotamia,
and the Supremo Dominion of all the seas of the
world to Great Britain, and then pledge Eng¬
land our treasure and our young men to England's
service, for all time.
Before we chunked into the European War,
our Republic was the greatest the world had ever
known, and we had a comparatively small public
debt; we had no quarrel with any Great Power;
and we had taken Panama, the 1.100 Philippine
Islands, the Hawain Islands, and we virtually
controlled Cuba, Haiti, Nicarattga. Honduras and
Costa Rico.
In the name of God 1 Why did the Trusts
and the Washington autocrats want more?
Bryan said that the Senate was acting very
exasperatinglv in not sinking our country to the
status of British Guinea, and allowing JVilson
to become the first President of Hedjaz, Siam. Li¬
beria, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia,
Spain, Japan, and a few other foreign nations. .
The Pope will be a member of the League,
equal to the United States, and therefore Wood
row Wilson was to become the President of J utiles
Chiesa, the Pope.
Bryan said that while our Senators were
frittering and talking —O that Bryan should de¬
mean any mortal for talking —the nations of Eu¬
rope had all signed up, and were waiting until
these obdurate Senators finished their frittering
and ceased their talking.
Mr. Bryan is seldom right on his facts.
He, used to ask strange questions as to Sofia,
Bucharest, and Budapestsh; and the last I heard
of him. on that line, he was far, far sure that
Bucharest was not the Capital of Hungary.
When ex-President Roosevelt started on his
Unions African Hunt, Bryan spoke jceringly of
the lions Roosevelt would kill in that region.
An to the European nations that have nat,
joined the Ixxigue, Holland is one. Switzerland
is another: and if Norway and Sweden ham joined,
1 hare been loo negligent in reading the papers.
Austria is another, Italy's Parliament has
not ratified the King’s vsvrpatory act, in signing
the League; and with Germany out, Spain in, it
is a Ticagnc which Catholics predominate and
will control.
FOR SALE.
One fine registered Hampshire Boar, in excellent
condition. Weight about 300 pounds.
Address
W. A. WATSON,
Thomson, Ga.