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Who Writes the President's
Letters?
.For some veal's we have beeu made familiar
with Mr. Woodrow Wilson's “style.”
He was so pleased with it himself, that lie
lavishly supplied us with it; anl he then suppliel
Europe, Asia, and Africa.
His style in writing his Messages, in circu¬
larizing the Kaiser, in his written request to his
Son-in-law—for permission to buy a Liberty bond
— in his Thanksgiving proclamations, in his Peace
without victory, in his Fourteen Points, in his
addresses in France, and his sermons in England,
had taught us the President's "style."
It was a marvelous mixture of cant, hypoe
ricy. impudence, and transcendental nonsense.
Some' of his phrases were meaningless, and
some of them were amazing falsehoods.
■ He stood before Congress and fold the assem¬
blage that he, need not tell them what hal hap¬
pened in Paris, because Congress had known, from
day to day, what urn going on thereemfwypvbg
day to day, what wax happening in Paris.
He faced a Western audience and. boasted of
his Revolutionary ancestry!
Nobody, on the outside, yet knows what di/l
happen in Paris; and most people know that Mr.
Wilson had no Revolutionary “stock."
In the correspondence between Mr. Lansing
and Mr. Wilaon, von are truck bv the superiority
of the Lansing replies to the President's notes.
The Lansing letters reveal the surprised, hurt
feelings of an honest, faithful official who is sud
denly and publicly insulted.
The Secretary maintains his own dignity.
throughout: his words are perfectly chosen and
his sentences clear-cut.
That you may judge for yourself. I
from the Congressional Record of February 11.
1920, the entire correspondence between Mr. Lati
sing and President Wjilson, which has been incor¬
porated in the Record on motion of Senator
Brandegee, who asked for “unanimous consent that
the letters exchanged between the President and
the Secretary of State may be printed in the
Record.”
There being no objection, the matter referred
to was ordered to be printed in the Record, as fol¬
lows:
SECRETARY LANSING; REBUKED BY
PRESIDENT. RESIGNS--FTTLJ* . TEXT
OF’ LETTERS LEADING TO RESIG¬
NATION OF SECRETARY OF
STATE.
The White House,
Washington, 7. February, 1920.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Fs it true,
as I have been told, that during my illness
you have frequently called the heads of
the executive departments of the Govern¬
ment into conference? If it is. I feel it
my duty to call your attention to consid¬
erations which I do not care to dwell upon
until I learn form yon yourself that this
is the fact. Under our constitutional law
and practice, as developed hitherto, no
one but the President has a right to sum¬
mon the heads of the executive depart¬
ments into conference, and no one but the
President and the Congress has the right
to ask their views or the views of any one
ol them on any public question. ■*
I take this matter up with you lie
cause in the development of every consti¬ I
tutional system, custom and precedent
are of the most serious consequence, aud
I think we will all agree in desiring not to
lead in any wrong direction, I have
therefore taken the liberty of writing you
to ask you this question, and I am sure
you will be glad to answer.
I am happy to learn from your recent
note to Mrs. Wilson that your strength
is returning.
Cordially and sincerely, yours.
Woodrow Wilson.
Hon. Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.
•‘thought conferences wise,” offers to resign.
The Skcretart of State,. ....
Washington, Feinnwry 9, 1920.
My Dear Mr. President: It is true
that frequently during your illness I re¬
quested tlie heads of the executive depart¬
ments of the Government to meet for in¬
formal conference.
Shortly' atter yen were taken ill in
Octolicr certain members of the Cabinet,
of which 1 was one. felt that in view of
the fact that we were denied communica¬
tion with ycu it was wise for us to confer
informally together on interdepartmental
matters and matters as to which action
could not be postponed until your medical
advisers permitted you to pass upon them.
Accordingly I, as the ranking mem
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It is the wonder-city of the. Old World.
It, is the cross roads from the East, to the
West; from the North to the South.
In natural advantages, there is nothing to
compare with it,
Paris is subject to the periodical floods of the
Seine; London suffers from the fogs which en¬
shroud her, and destroy her poorer people; Romo
has no port, and her tertian fever is a desolating
curse,
You will have to look at a map, if von wish
to comprehend the marvelous situation of Con¬
stantinople.
You will see that the water system ol the
North connects itself with the Southern Seas
through these deep narrow passages.
You will see that the caravan commerce of
the East, and the ocean going commerce of the
West once had to meet by this route.
To hold the “keys of the Dardanelles,”' is
an expression which*once meant the control of the
commerce of the ancient empires.
There never was » time, apparently, when
there was not a City where Constantinople now’
stands.
The name has changed, but the City has
persisted,
Just as all Eastern traffic sought passage at.
tllfi dpe P al >d narrow straits, so the Western land
travel and commerce converged here,
As to sealing vessels, every ship from Eu
*'°1* 1,ad to pass through the straits on their
u< the big waters of the North,
Venice grew opulent by carrying her products
throngh the Dardanelles, and exchanging them
for Eastern goods, at the great fairs in the Orient,
| The ancients called the Sfraits by the name
of the Hellespont.: it was across the Hellespont
that Xerxes threw his bridge of goats, when in¬
vading Greece. «
(His army numbered one million hnman be¬
ings; and. as he, a Heathen, looked over this mul¬
titude. he wept: jn 100 years aH these would be
dead.
We modern Christians can go into a war
where ten million human beings are slaughtered
and starved, and the Better Class of our People
seem to think there is nothing to cry about.)
When Alexander the Great crossed over the
Hell&ipotiC""to^aVenfjfe the wrongs of Greece, he
diminished the importance of the old towns on
the Straits, by creating the City of Alexandria and
establishing his Capital at Babylon.
It was Constantine the Great who recognized
the supreme advantages of this geographical po¬
sition; and as even- one knows, lie founded the
City which now bears his name.
To adorn it, he ransacked the Roman Empire
of its art treasures; and the result was almost
likff an Alladin’s lamp miracle. .
On their way to the Holy Land, the Crusaders
crossed at Constantinople.
A German Kaiser lost his life swimming a
small stream, on the Asiatic side: his name was
Barbarossa: and I remember that, during the re¬
cent Great War. when William Holienzollern met
Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Belgrade, there was
much newspaper comment upon the fact that
Kaiser William was the first German Emperor
who had lieen there, since Barbarossa passed
through.
The holy Crusaders were so tempted by the
riches and the weakness of Constantinople, that
their virtue ga ve way: they attacked the .City.'
overcame its defenders, and looted its treasures.
These Crusaders established an Empire of
their own, and ruled the Straits for several gen¬
erations.
Then the Greeks retook the City, and held ii
until the Turks raptured it in 1453.
In front of the glorious hills upon which Con¬
stantinople is built, have taken place some, of the
most desperate naval engagements that the seas
liave ever known. •
On the land side, toward the Balkans, great
armies,' from almost everywhere, have struggled
for mastery.
When you remember that Christendom once
combined to overthrow the Mohammedan power,
you find yourself wondering why Christendom
has now combined to uphold it.
(We even read that the Pope is friendly to
'he disciples of Mahomet, and that the Pope’s
(atue is to be set up on the banks of the ancient
? Hellespont!)
The Russians have wanted Constantinople
for ^enturies: the Czars considered » this warm
open-port-passage-way into the Western World’.!
markets, essential to their Empire.
For hundreds of years, Russian armies
fought the Turks, attempting to drive them back
into Asia.
One by one, the European provinces of the
Harlem, 6a-, Monday, March 1, 1920.
CONSTANTINOPLE.
Mohammedan* were wrested from “Infidel" con
trol.
In her ambition to hold Constantinople. Rus¬
sia has been foiled by England and Krai kv.
Napoleon might not have had his ruinous
war with Czar Alexander, if. at the Tilsit eonfer
once,, he had agreed to let Russia take this south
em port.
During the long wars waged by England
against “French principles." her navy made a
dasli through (Ik- Dardanelles, to capture the
Great City: I a it ffte French officers directed the
defem.se. just as German officers directed the de¬
fense in the recent war: and the British ships
were beaten off—as they wen 1 this later time.
In the war between Russia and Turkey, in
1878, the Russians were camped victoriously, with¬
in sight of the minarets of Constantinople, and the
fall of the “Infidel'' seemed inevitable.
Great Britain moved her fleet to the rescue,
and again the Tnrlc was saved.
Previous to this, in 1835,—France and Eng¬
land actually joined forces, against Russia, for
the protection of the Moh-amooulmi empire.
This war in the Crimea was a most bloody
struggle; and the mortality of English and French
soldiers, in the camps, was as great as the fatal¬
ities in the battles.
Did those gallant soldiers tuyferstand what
they were fighting for?
Not in the least.
What does impartial history say they were
sacrificed for ?
To save the tni'eshments of French and\
Engli*h banker*.
Turkish bonds!
These bonds had been issued lavishly by ex¬
travagant, Sultans and dishonest Viziers; and the
Rothschilds of Paris and London had bought
them.
(In the same way. (lie bondholders got
Egypt.)
When the British government called a halt
on Russia, in 1878. the Great Powers convened in
a Peace Conference, in Berlin.
This Berlin Congress tore up She Treaty of
San Stefano, (which had already been signed
between Turkey and Russia), and it proceeded to
make a new
This new treaty, made by the sages at Berlin,
left the B alkem qvestiam unsettled.
Making no account of race-hatreds and re¬
ligious differnces, the new treaty handed over to
Roman Catholics of Austria, the Greek Catholics
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Awaiting her own good time, Austria forcibly
absorbed these two little Balkan States, doing so
•with her usual feocious cruelty.
In 1914, the .Jesuits and the Pope took advan¬
tage of the personal crime of a. mere hoy, to de¬
mand of Greek Catholic Servia, a virtual surren¬
der of her national independence.
The rest is history.
My point is this': the Peace Conference at
Paris has left unsettled more questions, and greater
questions, than were left open by the Berlin Con
grese.
There are more wars being waged than the
human race ever knew of, in any other age.
The whole world has been thrown into tur
moil.
In all my reading of ancient and modern
history, I cannot recall a similar situation.
The Thirty Year’s war in Germany, waged
by the Jesuits of the Popes, against Protestantism,
was so horrible, that the production of foodstuffs
was wholly insufficient, and cannibalism- resulted:
but this hideous state of things was local, not
universal.
The Hundred Years War, between France
and England, was confined to France—and in a
Jesser degree to Spain: the other nations steered
dear of it.
But now the whole world is ablaze, and
nobody can put out the fires.
The secrecy at Paris, in Rome, in London,
in Washington is impenetrable; but you can sec
that new forces are grouping themselves together
for another Great W^r.
These Peace-makers at Paris haven’t made
peace.
They have sown dragon teeth throughout the
world. (
.
You fee] that some enormously powerful syn¬
dicate of financiers are working to enslave the
producing classes througout the earth; -and that
• heir profits depend upon bayonets «nd bullets,
They are driving together the Socialists of
Germany and the Soviets of Russia: they are in¬
furiating the Italians: they have planted hatred
in the minds of the betrayed Chinese: all the way
from Dublin to Teheran, and from thence to In
dra, and from the Cape to Cairo, it is a revolting
story of moMaere, machine gym*, ace-plane bombs,
Issued Weekly
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An Old Georgia Lawyer
Inquires
(1) Mr. Attoiney - (ione r a l, is it a
not, that- our highest Courts have held, that
legal system m foundedr on English < tun at oti
('2) Is it a fact, or no/, that a re i
King or Queen, cannot legally leave tlx n::
until a Regency has been created;
Surely, an erudite person like yourself kino
that the young Queen \ ictoria threw the ti an ei’i ■
tuent of the Duke of Wellington into (ho tit mo
dismay by making a flying visit to the Queen of
Belgium,
1'bc old Duke was well up on the precedents,
and he named the various Kings of England who
had gone abroad, after having established Regen¬
cies to rule while they were away.
lie cited these precedents, and advised with
his colleagues, oil what course of action he, as
Premier, should take.
They finally decided they would tk> nothing,
unless the Queen's escapade became known to tha
public.
Her secret was kept; but if site had remained
iir Belgium and France, seven month*, the fact
would have become fulfil ic, and (ho Dute’s (Jwr
ernment; would have named a Regent,
(A) Is it a fact, or not, that an English
judge has asserted the principles of Magna Carta,
against the Parliamentary act for the Defense ai
the Realm?
The principles of The Great Charter are a
part of the Common Law, or the unwritten Ccav
stitution of England, are t.hey not?
If so, yonr war-measures are violative of cen¬
tury-old law, aren’t they*
.(H Do you and Taft smrrk at each other,
as volt pass, after he has read wo of your latest
law-papers, and $ after you have seen the latest one
of his?
If you and Taft are talking good law, the
makers of the standard law books—Coke, Black
stone, Kent, Story, Tucker, Coolly etc.—- were
crazy.
If they were cot all crazy, then you and Taft
are.
(f») Mr. Attorney-General, did you really
say dial you did not drive the coal miners back
to work by Injunction; and that all you did wa .
to separate them from their leaders, compel (ha
leaders%jo order the strikers back to work, n ,
to prohibit the miners from rising (heir c
money?
What else rim Id you have done.’an?! v.
else did you mean if not forced labor. when
00 N FISC ATE!) A MANS RIGHT TO HUT FOOD FOP,
family, with his own money?
(6) Mr. Palmer did you read what TVf,
said alxMil the right to strike?
Fm sure i( must have amused you.
William Howard said, as tlic Supreme
Co^irt tionably had the said, natural that the privilege right to strike is unques¬
of every laborer;
but William Howard gently reversed the Supreme
Court by saving, that while it was true that the
right to strike was a natural right, each striker
must strike individually.
Taft reminded the Supreme Court, that, cob
. worked “annoyance
* to the
l " d ’ rs '
,. p J f ° PT,l » ,lo - vers " «>«***
If Taft and Palmer arid Indianapolis Ander¬
son persevere in their collaboration in jurispru¬
dence, we will soon see a great rush for new de¬
cisions and new law books.
(7) Brother Palmer, have you discovered
any more plots to forcibly obliterate our 48 States?
Kindly remember to tip off to us the date of
the next “rising,'' and the place where it will rise.
We request that you do not “crush” this next
"rising", before it rises, because we want, to see it.
rise.
and the eternal use of the soldier to shoot down
THE CIVILIAN.
But the Sultan remains at Constantinople—.
in spite of the 800,000 slaughtered Armenian
ChriitiaM.'
No European nation is willing to see any
other possess the City; and the Big Bankers of
London and Paris bold the mortgage on it.
When the Pope's statue ; s set up, unveiled, ha¬
rangued, blessed, holy-watered and so forth, the
companion piece, should he a life sized effigv of
Mahomet.
The New York papers publish di.s ; i 1
Europe which credit Marshal Fodi f
servation of the Turkish control of Cot
the great soldier went to London. c< t.f
the British ministers, and gained their i
his plan.
Wliether the Marshal’s plan is a victory fi .
France, time will tell,
England drove the French out of India, drovt
them from Canada, drove them from Egypt, and
refused a word or act of friendship when France
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