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Slick to Your Text or Bust.
Dear Brother Watson: I notice in the -Janu¬
ary S)th issue of your paper, reference to the fact
by you, that some of your '"well meaning friends”
deem you ‘‘too radical,” and “too sweeping” in
your “statements regarding our present political
condition: that you are “apt to exagerate that
you are "an unregenerate agitator and so on.’’
Most people mean well 1 presume in their
statements, evidenced by the fact that they make
them, there being no other good reason for utter¬
ing them.
Meaning well, and the meaning being well,
constitutes two distinct propositions.
The “well meaning friends” of ypurs no doubt
do mean well, in their suggestions, or warning
to you; but it seems to me they over-look the vital
fact, or facts involved in the matter.
Freedom of speech, and freedom of the press,
means that all of us shall be privileged to express
ourselves, in any regard or particular, that we
deem expedient, or wise, in the interest of public
good, then be responsible therefor, by legal pro¬
cess, to the party, or parties injured thereby, on
the facts of the case.
There can he no other definition to the right
thereto, that 1 can conceive of.
Public good and private interest arc two dif¬
ferent things.
The history of the world evinces the fact,
that the proposition in tlie main, has always been
to subordinate the former to the demands of the
latter, is where rest the danger-of free institutions.
We should remember that facts are facts,
whether they are dealt with, or told, or whether
they are not; and when they exist as such, bv
what transpires in the course of human events,
they cannot Ik* changed by any savings or doings
relative thereto; therefore, in the interest of the
public good, it is always legitimate, to deal with
them as such, and those who cannot stand by the
facts tlvcy make, it. is clear that they should not
make them; but when they do, they should be
made to stand by them.
When facts arc stated that cannto l>c met, (lie
proof is clear that they are true, and vour special
(act seems to be to be able to deal with them thus.
Private interest against public good, as I see
it. has always been against an exposition of the
facts involved therein, due to the injury thereto,
for the protection of public good contrary thereto,
and this constitutes the sent of the innate opposi¬
tion, so dominantly extant to your propaganda.
You live, speak and writ? for the public good,
against your private interest, and such acts have
always incurred heated antagonism, and harsh op¬
position, by those who love private interest against
public good.
Mere you shorn of this special gift, right, du
tv, and privilege, you would cease to be Thos. E.
Watson, and might as well be chunked off into the
waste basket.
Ordinarily, the way to make a hot enemy, is
to put up an argument to those interested in the
contention, that cannot ht* answered.
To vindicate themselves therein, as the last
resort, the proposition naturally incident thereto,
is to kill you some way. for their own fault in the
offence committed against the public good, and
their inability to meet the argument concerning
the same, and which they cannot answer.
These kind of fellows, and the ones who will
treat you wrong directly of their own volition, and
without cause, then propose holding you respon¬
sible therefor, instead of themselves, constitutes
the two meanest classes known to human existence.
You dig up. and reveal facts, that otherwise
would remain forever dormant, and the public
good*would be without the benefit thereof, again.-1.
private interest contrary thereto; threforc I sav
let sail, am] keep on lotting sail, just as you are
doing.
With *the reverse, your paper would not be
worth shucks to me, nor to the thousands of other
readers you have.
M itli lest wishes to you and yours always,
on the basis we have stated.
Yours very truly,
Alabama. W. id. Whatley.
Favoring Europe At the Expense of the Li. S. A
Dear Sir: I have just read the speech, and
am fully with you in regard to agglomerated so
called democratic party. Some of the European
dailies claim that we now have a now democracy.
They also claim that if Washington, Jefferson, Ad¬
ams and others who were the framers of our Gov¬
ernment were living now, they would see their
error an 1 1 >in in this progressive move. In all
of the arguments in favor of this League of .Vo
tions 1 have not seen any advantage set forth
wherein our Government would Ik* benefitted. The
argument is all for Europe. Therefore it looks !■>
me that tin so favoring the League, even in a mod¬
ified form, arc more Europeans than Americans.
A world wide righteous move at the sacrifice of
our Republican form of Government that has
stood for nearly one and one-half centuries as an
independent, and free government, and become the
greatest and best government that man has cv-r
seen. I can’t see why any true American can
think that it is necessary that we go back under
the wings of Europe, and the same will have to be
done again if we crawl under that yoke again.
The next war for independence will lie so much
greater than was tho Revolutionary war of the
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
r pi H H & (Z5 H o THE EDITOR
18th century. Of course these Europeans we have
with us will take sides with their own country.
And the true Americans will have to to battle at
their own doors. That war will be some war. It
will take patriotism and not conscription, to win.
I have no patience with a family whose members
have to be conscripted and forced to defend their
home. There is something wrong with that fam¬
ily. The management of that home is not at all
satisfactory-. Its management is rotten somewhere.
Yours truly,
O. C. Dotson.
Rome's High Handed Method.
Dear Sir: A Roman Catholic Judge, Martin
J. Wade, of Iowa, wanted to have Thomas E. Wat¬
son persecuted because he is one of the most formid¬
able foes of Romanism. Watson had made a pub¬
lic speech in June, 1017, and published it in Wat¬
son’s Magazine and in pamphlet form and sent it
through the mails from Thomson, Georgia. To¬
gether with a page of favorable comment, it was
reprinted by David T. Blodgett, in Iowa.
A prosecution based upon his comments upon
Watson’s speech was begun against Blodgett.
Watson’s speech was not offered in evidence at the
itral of Blodgett, but Judge Wade wanted a ver¬
dict based upon Watson’s speech in order to make
Watson’s speech appear to have been n violation of
the Espionage Act. Judge Wade evidently be¬
lieved that Watson thereafter would be prosecuted
in Georgia if it could be made to appear that
Blodgett had been found guilty in Iowa for the
repnblication of Watson’s speech. Watson’s speech
was not a violation of the Espionage Act, hut
Judge Wade carefully selected such portions of
Watson's speech os were calculated, to enrage men
on, the Jury whose opinions were in conflict with
the opinions of Watson which were read to the
Jury by Judge Wade. The jury decided against
Blodgett. Judge Wade sent him to prison for
twenty years.
Blodgett began habeas corpus actions to an¬
nul the Judge Wade judgement. In his petition
to a court in Wasington, D. C., Blodgett alleged
that by reading the parts of Watson's speech
which enraged the jurors, Judge Wade incapaci¬
tated the jury to act jus an impartial jury; and
that the verdict, not legally supported by evidence,
was not the result of a trial by an impartial jury,
but that the verdict part of the trial was an arbi¬
trary act of a partial jury in violation of the con¬
stitution of the United States.
In a letter to President Wilson's daughter,
Blodgett alleges that some official (it may have
been Tumulty or some other Catholic supporting
.’ 'go Wade's unconstitutional act), acting under
President "Wilson’s administraton, influenced the
judges in the habeas corpus actions to violate the
Constitution by upholding the unconstitutional
action of the Roman Catholic judge.
From an Old Confederate Veteran.
Dear Sir: I am an old Confederate veteran,
and was at the reunion in Atlanta, and some of the
Atlanta papers said all of the old soldiers held
up their hands to ratify the League of Nations.
Myself and hundreds of others did not hold up
our hands for anything Wilson did in France or
since he came liaek from France. I was opposed
to conscription to carry our boys over to France
to help the Roman Catholics fight, and they’ now
keep a standing army all over Europe. So. Tom.
go on with your good work. I and a lot of your
friends down here will stick to you, and if you get
in a tight, let me know, and I will come to Thom
son, just as quick as I can. and will bring young
soldiers and old soldiers and a heap that are not
soldiers. Tom, I wish that we could get you
nominated to run for President next year, 1
can’t speak much. I am nearly 75 years old, but
I hope to live long enough to see you President of
the United States. So. Tom. I just wrote you
these few lines to let you know somebody or some
paper has told a lie about all the old soldiers
wanting Wilson's holy mess ratified.
May God bless you. and may you live long
enough to see everything all right.
Ga. M. A. Burnam.
“Hear Ye!”
This is to certify that I believe Tom Watson
to he the sanest, man politically now running a
newspaper under the Stars and Stripes. So in¬
close money order for a years subscription, being
tired of chasing news stands.
May his good horse sense and unrivaled
courage in combatting rascals, traitors and jn
cnpables in high places help to restore our na¬
tional sanity and equilibrium.
Send paper to
California. C. Severance.
This Is Another of Our “Regular” Fellows.
Dear Sir: 1 mailed you a club last week and
hop■ to send you another soon. This is my fourth
one since I have been out of the “service.” I
admire the fnot that we have such a noble man jn
Georgia as T.E.W.and trust that you may be
spared to live many more happy and successful
years. I
am yours,
Ga. Hosea W. Lynch.
It Is No Wonder Mr, Wilson
Collapsed.
When Lloyd George and Arthur Balfour
and Lord Robert Cecil went to tine Peace
Conference, their hind-siglits were in the best of
condition.
If the foresight of former ministers had been
wofully deficient, and that deficiency had come
within an ace of wrecking the British Empire,
they , the new ministers, would show the world
that England had learned her lesson.
Their first object was, to banish forever the
German peril; hence, the terribly severe terms
imposed upon the conquered.
Heligoland dismantled; the German army
abolished; the German navy obliterated; the Ger¬
man merchant marine emasculated; German rail¬
way equipment confiscated; German guns surren¬
dered; German rivers and dockyards paralyzed;
German territory on the Rhine turned into an
armed camp of the Allies; and the German people
ground down by a staggering indemnity, which
may be increased, if Germany recuperates too fast.
The Kaiser, the Prussian militarists, and
Junkers ahve not been punished, but the German
people have certainly been made to feel the old
stern rule of “Woe to the Vanquished!”
Having “crushed” Germany—as she sapiently
supposes—England turns her attention to aggran¬
dizement.
She covets the vastest and richest wheat and
cotton a nd oil, fields in the world, and she gets
them.
Egypt and Mesopotamia can supply enough
wheat to reduce the price below the cost of Amer¬
ican production , because in the East the irrigation
method redoubles the crop.
Under the. treaty of Versailles, England ac¬
quired those boundless regions which formerly
furnished the .Roman Empire nearly all of its
wheat, its wool, and its cotton.
Engl a fid wanted Persia, and got it: Persia
produces the finest of wool, the wool of the Cash¬
mere shawl, and of the finest clothing, caps, hats,
blankets etc.
Developed by English experts, the Persian
wool will so ivdiice the price, that nothing save a
monopoly tariff can save the American sheep
herder; and that device will simply rob the con¬
sumer in the interest of sheep owners.
In Africa, Asia, and in Europe, the British
Empire has been expanded, until the mind can
hardly grasp its overgrown proportions.
Not by maps, but by studying a globe, can
you obtain some idea of the amazing concessions
made by Woodrow Wilson to Lloyd George, Ar¬
thur Balfour, and Lord Robert Cecil.
But tenirtoy is not the most valuable of the
concessions made by our Democratic President to
the King of England.
Those territorial concessions, amazing as they
are, do not affect us so much as do the obligations
to finance them with our money and defend them
with our military and naval resources.
Article 10 binds vs to da that , in frepetuity.
Forever, our dollars and our soldiers and our
marines, must be held at the beck and call of
England, to defend those huge territories which
President Wilson agreed should be her spoils.
Furthermore, we must go into a League.
with one rote , a League in which Australia has a
? ate, whereas England allows her none in the
British Parliament.
Could anything be more preposterous?
England will not allow Australia, or Canada ,
or Xrw Zealand to have a single vote in the Brit¬
ish Parliament , vet she demands that each of
TUESE COLONIES OF HERS HAVE A VOTE IN THE
Teague!
And Wilson agreed to it.
Thus the Colonies which are not England’s
equals in Parliament are to be the equals of our
48 States, in the League.
There’s English arrogance for you.
A Socialist Tries to '"Tangle
Me Up.”
A Socialist threatens to get me in bad Com¬
pany: hence his threat has the desired effect:
Here’s his threatening letter:
Nov. 29, 1919.
Doa Sir: T wrote you a letter some three
years ago in which I asked you some questions
but as you did not publish my letter I concluded
that you either did not get it or else you didn't
want to lock horns with so formidable an antago¬
nist as myself and after viewing thfe matter from
another angle it occurred to me that possibly you
thought that it would be too much of a oonde
scension to argue with a darned Socialist anyway
I am going to try another whack at you.
Here are the questions—
1st. Would it not lie better to allow the in¬
satiable monopolist to have a Prohibitive
and huge profits than it would to abolish
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same way it can be and the only reason that I can
give that it is not being done is because the Bene
ficiries of the most Devilish system that was
spawned in the womb of Hell don't want it run
that way and the victims haven't got any
sense.
Now. "Mr. Watson, if you don't publish mv
letter and fess up that you have been trumped
time, I am going to report you to Clark Ho web,
.Bishop Keiley and all the rest of the law
order bunch. >
An Unwilling Citizen.
Answer.
In the first place didn’t ask but one question,
which shows that his mind is confused. By the
first of Feb. he will probably remember what he
wanted to ask me.
His question, briefed, is this: 4
Do we not submit to tl\e very worst of Tar¬
iff because the manufacturing monopolist won’t
have it any other way, and the victims of the in¬
fernal system don’t care?
My answer is an emphatic “A T es,” to the first
prong of the question, and a qualified “Yes,” to
the second.
The only time, we have had a square fight on
the Tariff was when Cleveland beat Blaine, by
stealing votes in upper country counties of Yew
York. *
Mr. Crisp of Georgia did not gain the Speak¬
ership on the Tariff issue: he gained it by a deal
with the New York delegation, and thus killed'
both Tariff reform and Free Silver.
The victim of the Prohibitive Tariff now in
force, does care , so far as he understands the
question; but it isn’t every voter who can be made »
to understand that, when he pays outrageous pri¬
ces in the stores, he is really paying taxes, in
part; and Tariff-made home monopoly, in part;'
and partly the increased price which the foreigner
has to pay, before he can bring his goods through
the Custom-IIouse for sale in our market.
It may interest my Socialist friend to know
that the Hon. Oscar Underwood is the proud au¬
thor of the existing Tariff.
He had passed through Congress some “Far
mer’sFree List bills,” which put all farm supplies
on the free list: Taft vetoed these anti-Tariff
measures, thus incurring unpopularity.
The virtuous Oscar won corresponding popu- ]
larity; and those of us who appreciated his work
and believed, as President, he could carry it to
completion, took up. his cause, and carried tho ,
State of Georgia for him. A
It turned out, when the Baltimore Convention
met, 1912, that Undemcood had been used by the
Tmists to head, off Champ Clark.
In other Words, his candidacy was a sham, so
far as he personally was concerned.
Congress, under President Wilson, soon began
to make a new Tariff.
Oscar Underwood was the "Boss or the job.
Did he put, his famous Farmer's Free List ■
Bill in his ou)n Tariff law?.
IIn DID NOT.
Why?
Ask Senator Oscar Underwood.
The Republicans are so completely satisfied
with Underwood’s in^jistries—Oil, attrocious “protection” of the"
infnnt Steel, Coal, Copper, Clo¬
thing, Shoes, hats etc. that they are not proposing
to change it.
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