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Edward Grey is the British diplomat who
was so completely hoodwinked by the Fox of the
Balkans, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria.
Foxy Ferdinand had been nursing an intense
longing for revenge' on Servia, because of the con¬
sequences of the Second Balkan War, in which
Greece and Servia had beaten him up, and taken
from him some of the territory he had grabbed.
Edward Grey was at that time the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs in the British Cabinet,
and he was complacently sure that he could
“match his mind’’ against the best minds, any¬
where and everywhere.
In his diplomatic dealings with Foxy Ferfli
sand, the complacent Grey of Fallodon over¬
looked two important factors in the Balkan sit¬
uation; one was, the German blood that filled
Ferdinand’s veins; and the second was, the re¬
vengeful spirit that he was humanly found to
have in him, against both Greece and Servia.
Now, you would have thought that England's
Minister of Foreign Affairs had realized that the
Bulgarian King was certain to ally himself with
the Kaiser, at the first favorable opportunity.
But Grey allowed Ferdinand to pull the wool
over his eyes, as submissively as Woodrow Wil¬
son allowed himself to be taken in, at Paris, by
Lloyd George, Balfour, and Cecil.
When the German success was at high tide,
and the British had made such a mess of it, at
Gallipoli and Constantinople, Bulgaria began
to mobilize her army.
The Servians were in a panic: their common
sense told them why Ferdinand was massing his
troops.
But the Servian King was tied up with Eng¬
land and France: he dared not mobilize his ar¬
my without the consent of Grey.
Frantically, Servia represented her immedi¬
ate and terrible danger to Edward Grey, and lit¬
erally begged him to allow her army to be mo¬
bilized for self-defense.
The astute Grey of Fallodon coldly refused
Servia's appeal, assuring the distracted little
State that Bulgaria was merely mobilizing, to
maintain her neutrality.
As we in America followed the course of
.events in Europe, day-Wdiyvff mrrriirethirt 90
per cent of us were amazed at the stupidity of
England’s Foreign Minister—this person who* now
dictates to us what to do about the League.
The thing which 90 per cent of us felt would
happen, happened.
When Ferdinand was quite ready, and his
If any human being has ever had a clear
idea of Woodrow Wilson's reason for appointing
Jos. Daniels Secretary of the U. S. Navy, that
knowing person has kept his secret to himself.
Probably he regards it as sacred.
Jos. was editing a third-rate daily Toot, in
the rustic village of Raleigh, N. C.; and he never
had done anything, except publish the customary
lies which a truly loyal Democratic Editor has
to publish, in order that Virginia may continue
her downward course; the Carolinas remain, as it
were, forgotten; Georgia to become the county
Palatine of the Lords Howell; Florida to Flctch
erize: Alabama to he Underwooded and Bankead
ed into the i-feel and Coal Trust; and Mississippi
left in a quagmire of John Sharp Williamsism.
As to Texas, her Senators seems to have for¬
gotten that she won her own Independence, at the
cost of heroic lives from Virginia, the Carolinas,
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi;
those two Senators have been thoroughly con¬
vinced, that the very best thing that could happen
to American Independence, is TO SURRENDER IT.
Fannin of Georgia didn't think so, when he
gave his life for it, at Goliad.
Davy-Crockett of Tennessee didp't think so,
when he died in the Alamo, engirdled with
the Mexicans he had killed.
Bowie, of Mississippi was not of that mind,
when, from his sick bed, he knifed and shot Mex¬
icans, until he himself was killed.
Bonham of South Carolina; Lamar and
Travis, of Georgia, Sam Houston from Tennessee
—they fought for the principle of independence/
Where is Texas today?
Misrepresented in Congress tile by men who pros¬
trate themselves at the feet of King of Eng¬
land, and beg the privilege of having Texas ill! I
the other 4 < States made tributary colonies of the
British Empire.
For what, then, did the martyrs at Goliad
fight ?
For what, the- Spartan band in the Alamo?
To what pnrpose did Mirabeau Lamar in
flueaee Sam Houston to stop the retreat, AND TO
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GREY OF FALLODON AND TAFT OF TALLOWROM.
German auxiliaries had come up, they fell upon
Servia. and the horrors of that conquest of an
unprepared State were not equalled by anything
that fell upon Belgium and Northern Frai PC.
Grey of Fallodon was to blame for all of it:
and his obstinate stupidity came near to losing the
Great War.
He was quietly dropped out of the Cabinet,
as Churchill had been dropped from the Navy
Department, and General French was remove!
from the command of the army.
This Yiscount Edward Grey, who now signs
tunwelf ‘‘Grey of Fallodon,” made us a visit, some
time ago, but did not get to see the President.
He probably saw Mr. Tumulty, and Cardinal
Gibbons, and Mr. J. P. Morgan, and Senator
Hitchcock, and Bernard Baruch.
Of course, he saw William Howard Taft:
whom he could not have refrained from seeing,
unless he kept both eyes shuf.
Everybody sees William Howard Taft, sim¬
ply because he's always in sight.
1 hose who have not had front views, profile
views, rear views, and every other conceivable
view of William Howard Taft cannot blame any¬
body except themselves.
On Sunday, Feb. 1, 1920. Lord Howell of
Druid Hill, published in his Atlanta Constitution ,
a long piece signed, “Grey of Fallodon.”
It was naturally a British plea that we hur
iy up aiid sign ourselves into the league, so that
England may ask the loan of a few millions of
our young men, to help her hold the Afghans back
from India, the Arabs from driving live English
out of Mesopotamia, the Syrians from asserting
their independency; and, above all, to drive hack
the Russian democracy from stirring up a re
hellion among the Hindoos.
I»ok at the plain facts, and see for yourself
why England wants us in the League—especially
England, because the wise old hero, Clemenceau,
secured the future of France by treaties with
England and with those new buffer States which
girdle Germany.
The British Empire—tha hks to Woodroxv
Wilson’s blundering incapacity—now holds do¬
minion over one-fourth of the human race, and
one fourth of the earth’s surface.
England laclcs the man-power to hold down
those conquered peoples.
There are only about 40,000,000 English,
The Backwoods Editor Who Went Down to the Sea to See the
fight, at San Jacinto?
To establish Independence!
And now the Texas Senators are eager to sur¬
render our Independence, in order that we may
become the Dray-horse of all the putrid royalties
and all the bankrupt governments of Europe.
However, I must not run off the track and
forget Jos. Daniels.
Jos. has long been the stale jest of all the
admiralties on earth.
His fondest admirers claim that he knows
which is the rear end of a gasoline launch, but
few have ventured to say that he knows which is
the business part of a battle ship.
He has been made acquainted with the Re¬
ception rooms, of course; and he knows that twen¬
ty shoots should he shot as a salute to Him, when
He comes on board.
Once, at Annapolis, the shoots stopped at
nineteen; and be was so grieved over the'loss of
the 20th shot, that he meted out immediate pun¬
ishment to the inaccurate gunner.
The popularity of Jos. Daniels in the Navy Is
almost unbelievable.
Hisi chin, as you will notice from his movies
in the illustrated papers and magazines, is weak,
butebis tongue makes up this deficiency.
Recently the heart of the world has been
nearly at the point of breaking, because of the
the things that Admiral Sims has been saying about
North Carolina newspaper man who has been
editing our Naval Department.
Of course, Professor Woodrow Wilson could
not be supposed to know how a great Navy shoul d
be operated, and he naturally presumed that Jos.
Daniels would select a wise old retired Naval of¬
ficer to teach him thejirick.
But when Professor Wilson, himself, made an
Admiral, out of a veterinary professional, named
Grayson, Daniels felt that, if a cow serum man
could be an effective Admiral, a North Carolina
Editor might easily learn how to manoeuvre the
fleets.
Sims asserts that Daniels botched his job,
whereupon a South Carolina Congressman, named
Harlem, GaMunday, February IS, 1920 .
and these cannot furnish troops enough to de¬
fend the Mother Country, resist Ireland, main¬
tain garrisons in Egypt, large forces in India,
a standing army in Persia; ditto, in Asia Minor;
ditto, in South Africa; in addition to the sailoi-s
and marines sufficient to give full crews to the
vastest. Navy that the world has ever known.
Think of England’s pound sterling, formerly
in circulation at about $4.84, and now down to
$3.37!
Think of her begging off from paying our
Government ‘he interest, on four thousand million
dollars that Woodrow Wilson unlawfully loaned
her!
Think of Premier Lloyd George excusing his
shameful breach of promise to repeal the Con¬
scription law — which promise won him the elec¬
tion of 1918— upon Tim ground op NATIONAL No¬
CESSITY 1
lle publicly declared, that the British Empire
must have more troops, and that conscription was
the only *ay of getting them.
But the League of Nations would put our
man-power at the disposal of a foreign Confed¬
eration, in which Great Britain will control mine
votes to our one.
Then England would have enough troops to
hold her shaky Empire together.
The man is blind who cannot see, that the
British Empire is in a desperate situation.
That Irish question is going to lie to England
what the Spanish question was to Napoleon.
It is an incurable, running ulcer, constantly
reducing the vitaMty of England.
Hindoo troops will not always obey the Eng¬
lish General Dyers, who order them to exhaust:
ammunition on peaceable crowds of unarmed and
unoffending Hindoos.
Egypt and the Soudan will not always fur¬
nish Africans to conquer Africa for the English.
This kind of thing can’t last forever: the Brit¬
ish Empire will fall of its own weight, as did
those of ancient Persia and Rome.
England is in desperate straits, right now,
and Lloyd George docs not see any way out, ex¬
cept, .through the League, which hinds every mem¬
ber to defend every other.
England is almost in the insolvent condition
which oiertook Spain, in the time of Phillip II.,
when it had to repudiate its debts.
That declaration of bankruptcy, published
by Philip, mined merchants and bankers,
throughout Spain, Portugal, Italy, Holland, Bel-
Byrnes, broke out into a fearful roar against Sims.
As briefly as possible, I will state the case,
for both sides:
(1) Admiral Sims says, in effect, that Jos.
Daniels doesn’t know any more about the man¬
agement of navies and fleets, than he knew when
he was writing limp editorials for the Raleigh
News:
(2) T'hat Daniels adhered stubbornly to
some theory that the fleets could win battles with¬
out the consumption of ammunition:
(3) That Daniels failed to supply the
American battleships, operating in European
waters, with necessary supplies;
(4) That Josephus meddled with every¬
thing, and seriously injured the Navy, by re¬
warding the officers who lost their ships.
Admiral Sims mentioned an officer, named
Bagley, who lost his ship, and who was promptly
rewarded by the ingeniofls Daniels.
Tlie unlucky officer got a medal for IqSing
the ship, and the supposition is, that had he lost
two or three more ships, he'd be loaded up with
several more medals.
In this case, a painful| feature is, that Bagley
is kin to Josephus, being his brother-in-law, or
son-in-law, or Aunt, or something of a personal
sort.
After Admiral Sims had testified to the many
derelictions of Secretary Josephus—one of which
was his promotions of naval officers who stayed
in Washington throughout the War—the Secretary
promised mankind that he would, in his turn,
defend himself, clear his fair fame, and demolish
Sinis.
Well, you ought to read the account, publish¬
ed in The Washington Post (Wednesday, Feb. 4)
of the manner in which Daniels came before the
Committee, to defend himself and annihilate Sims.
You will never see it in any Southern paper,
and therefore, I’ll try to give you some idea of it.
The Past’s reporter, Mr. Albert W. Fox
writes:
“Secretary of tho Navy Daniels yes
'teruay began his defense against the
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gium. South and Cenfral America, and in Meerico.
B hen the British Empire cannot pay the in¬
terest on its stupendous debts, it is,'in fadh
BANKRUPT.
England’s plan is. to pool all the IntemaCwjMol
debts,—due to the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the
Rockefellers, and the other blood-suckers rep¬
resented by Bernard Be rueh—so that England
wHl not owe us a. cent.
She will owe the League; ar.d the Tnterw*
tional Blood-suckers who ape spending money
lavishly on tile propagandists and the Prominent
1 eople and, I fear, upon officials in Washington,
wHl have the Ioagu n establish International
Banks, and issue International Bonds to pay
off the debts of members of the League.
When I saw, i n The Constitution of Lord
Howell, the humorous plea, for the League, sign ><i
Grey of lallowdon,” I laid the paper aside, to
wait for the other half of it, which T was coo
vinced wonki soon appear, over the familiar sig¬
nature of William Howard Taft.
In due time, if appeared: in tact, Baruch <%
Co. gave us just time to road Grey’s arti¬
cle before they chunked us with Taft's.
The two essays dovetail into each other) of
course; and they were probably written in the
same office, at the same time.
What is the gist of these two masterly, copy¬
righted efforts at deception?
The gist is, “‘Give England the help of Amen
lean men and money , and the Lodge reservations
will be accepted, because, after we organize the
League, those reservations can be, and wiH be^
IGNORED.*
Henry Cabot. Lodge is a literary man <rf
high reputation, based upon many excellent books;
and his personal character is unblemished; but
he lias no intuitions as to the drift of popular
sentiment, and none of the personal magnetism
which inspire® enthusiasm.
In his fight on the League, he has mads
some capital blunders, the first being bis accep¬
tance, erf the false, doctrine that the public ser¬
vants of a Gowriwocnt may-Tttahet » higher Gov¬
ernment, without authorization from the Softer*
sign People.
Having conceded the false principle, Senator
Lodge has been handicapped ever since.
Another blunder of his was, the agreement
to have a conference with the President without
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charges which Admiral Sims, members of
the Knight board and other ranking na¬
val officers have made before the Hale
Committee in the so-called naval awards
scandals. Contrary to expectations, there
were no thrills, Sir. Daniels simply de¬
voting more than two hours to the reading
of an elaborately prepared statement,
whereby he obviously sought to divert
the attack from himself by attempting to
besmirch Admiral Sims war record, and
by other trick methods of the skilled poli¬
tician.
Excepting for a few moments of
rare comedy, when Mr. Daniels sought to
pronounce .French words, it was a dull
performance, the Secretary having pre¬
viously asked that he lie not interrupted
or questioned during his reading.”
Further on, Mr. Fox says—
“At the outset Mr. Daniels explained
that he did not want to be questioned
while he was reading his prepared state¬
ment. He began in even tones and held
his audience well until toward the end of
the long ordeal, when be looked up fre¬
quently to find members of the committee
talking among themselves and unable to
maintain interest.
At half past twelve when Mr. Dan¬
iels, after two hours, announced that he
still had a half hour to go, there was a
rush for the doors by the majority of tho
audience, and Senator Hale had to take
a hand aild restore order.
“Let those who want to leave, leave
now,” Senator Hale admonished, so that
the steady flow of premature departures
might end.”
ill
In his extremity, Mr. Daniels had spent a no¬
ticeable sum of our money, sending cablegrams
to London. Paris, Rome, Lille, Tokio, and other
outlying districts, inquiring whether it was not
customary to promote and bemcdal officers wb«
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