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Vot. 38 "Stovall Gives the Real Facts" So runs the headline in last Saturday s Constitution. I3ufc Mr. Stovall docs not ^ivc roal facts. He says, that our side expected the 1 aim er men to bolt, when the Convention voted down Mr. Albert Howell’s resolutions. Oar side did not expect anything of the kind. At first, there were leaders on our side who expressed a belief that the Palmer n on would bolt if we smashed Haile 10; but to each of these 1 said, “They will not bolt: they can't afford to.” At tbe time Mr. Albert Howell s Resolu tions were offered, the Palmer parliamenta rians had led their men too for afield to bolt. (1) Their first good chance to bolt was given, when Chairman Janies J. Flynt, of the State Executive Committee, pronounced the Convention a sovereign body of the people. |~ of Georgia. Executive Committee’s Chair The own man outlawed Rule 10, without protest from the Palmer delegates. situation and partici They accepted the which followed. paled in the proceedings (2) The second best opportunity to bolt was. when the Convention voted down the Resolution to endorse the Administration an 1 the League of Nations. The Palmer delegates, especially General Walter Harris, spoke long and welt in favor i of endorsing what the Federal Government had done, combatting passionately any con demnation of the Administration. They were voted down, and could then have withdrawn with dignity. their But they remained in seats, and they gained every advantage possible—such as the one one-third representation on the vitally important Committee on Platform. (3) The third opportunity for other a bolt was far less advantageous than the two: They could have bolted when the Con¬ vention condemned President Wilson, eon doomed the League, demanded the repeal war measures, and the restoration of our (Continued on Page Two.) As to New Maps. Some weeks ago, a friend of ours wrote to me, asking where he could buy a new map, showing the universe as rearranged by Pro¬ fessor Moonlight Wilson. This letter almost made me laugh, I as sure you. How can map-makers make maps when the boundary lines shift and change and travel so fast? Nothing is settled in Turkey, Armenia, Thrace, Poland, Russia, Smyrna, Germany, Greece, or Persia. Had a venturesome map-maker made a map of the rearranged world at the time the rearranger returned from Paris, he would now have to tear it up. Wise map-makers are waiting until the pot stops boiling. Half-a-dozen wars are being waged, but they are not described in your daily paper. England against the Nationalist patriots of Turkey. Those wars are the following: Greece against Turkey, for the conquest of Turkish Thrace; Poland agaiusl Russia, the Poles being aided by England and the United States; The French against the Turks, for ter ritory in Asia Minor; The Armenians against tbe Tartars, for lands in the Caucasus section; The English against the Russians, for the capture of the Baku oil region—the richest in the world; England against the Catholic part of Ire land; The United States against Russia, by illegal blockade, and by help given to the Poles, the British and the Japs. Those foxes that Sampson caught and tied torches to, making the tail of every fox a burning brand in the wheat fields, were as nothing compared to the fires that Professor Wilson started, hv his sagacious rearrange¬ ment of the Universe. . Maps? It will he years and years hefive anybody can safely make a new map of the Wilsonized 1 world. fit* I i 9 K Price $2.00 Per Year “See that Tennessee Stands for Palmer” The chaste Times (Chattanooga) pub fishes a largo advertisement headed <4 Palmeb for President. * 1 This advt. is neatly divided into sections, j ri order that he who runs may read, Let me dose it out to you, section by see fiou, with my running comment underneath each section. (Section 1.) ‘‘What Mitchell Palmer does with Profiteers and hoarders." Following this is a quotation from one of Mitch’s patriotic orations, as follows: “If I have my way about it, W{1 shall stait on the road ta the penitentiary every man in every eom munity throughout the country who is taking advantage of our distress as a nation to gouge our people out of unreasonable profits on the neces¬ sities of life.” Yet, you cannot see a single road to the penitentiary obstructed by Palmer's friends, the Packers, the Steel magnates, the Coal barons, or the Sugar millionaires. “If 1 had my way!” What hindered him from having his way? He had his way in discovering conspira¬ cies to violently overthrow 48 robust States, he had his way in “smelling-out plots,” and he had very much his way in raiding private domiciles without warrant of law. If he had consecrated the same energy and the same amount of money, and the same amount of brutal lawlessness in deport¬ ing Ogden Armour, Elbert Gary, J. P. Mor¬ gan and young John 1). Rockefeller that he did in pursuing a silly old woman named Em ma Goldman, the country might not now bo gasping under the throttle clutch of Palmer’s Big Rascal masters. The chaste Cliattanooga Times continues to advertise Palmer, as follows-— “ Profiteers: Ho arrests, prosecutes and sends them to Here is how Mitchell Palmer, as Attorney-General, tackles the food problem. Here is. what lie has-dose and is doing to keep food profiteers, hoard¬ ers and speculators from “gouging the people out. of unreasonable profits an the necessities of life”: Hoarders: lie seizes and forces on the mar¬ ket at reasonable prices food stocks held by speculators. Fair Prices: He promotes the formation of Fair Prices Commissions in all States. Packers : He prosecutes the Beef Trust, making it get out of the retail meat business and the wholesale and re¬ tail grocery business, breaking its rapidly growing monopoly time on food products, and at the same cutting its cinch on buying prices for cattle and selling prices for meat.” What glorious news! officially Indeed, it is a pleasure to he informed of Mitchell Palmer’s stupendous achievments. He had hardly finished distributing Ger man private property among his pals, than I 10 “tackled” the Beef Trust—smashed it: tackled the Coal Trust—smashed it: tackled the Steel Trust—smashed it: but by mere inadvertence Mitchell ■ omits mention of his telegram to the District Attorney at New Or¬ leans virtually telling the Sugar Profiteers to go ahead. Palmer, as usual, denied that he had done* this, until Col. George Harvey published a copy of the telegram in his Weekly. Then the brave Palmer shut up. Next comes the “Coal Strike: He ended the coal strike in be¬ half of the public. The coal strike would have starved and frozen the people by a tie up of fuel and trans¬ portation.” A very brief and false statement of one of the foulest blots upon American history. So good an authority as William G. McAdoo, declared that the owners of the mines had been profiteering to the extent of 3,000 per cent. Those of us who had to use the coal paid from nine to twelve dollars a ton for it, delivered. How much did the Coal miners get? Sixty cents a ton! Who took all the risks of producing this coal ? The miners. Do you know what those riskV~are? Harlem, Ga., .Jomlay, 'June H4, 1920. Imagine yourself going down in a cage, hundreds and hundreds of feet below the sur face of the earth: the tunnels run outward from the main shaft: there is darkness, rheu mat: damps, and poisonous gases: there is not room enough to stand up straight.: often the miner is on his back using his pick on the vein of coal at his side, or over his head. Having dug out his ton of coal, it is his duty to hoist it to the earth’s surface and dump it. Then gets 50 cents! ; Under Palmer’s “fair price” for sugar, , erne of these mine-slaves would have to pro (luce, TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF GQAI, TO PAY FOR TWO POI NDS OF SUGAR/ Now these mine-slaves— white men. with white wive., and children -asked that their wages be increased! 0 Heavens! Hero was a revolution which must be nipped in the bud! A stern refusal, was (be answer of the .1,000 per cent Profiteers. Then the workers simply laid down their tools, and quit. Wasn’t it their right to quit? The Supremo Court has said it. Common sense says it. Any sane conception of human rights the Rights of Man—says it. But there were two men, calling them¬ selves lawyers, who incubated over the sub¬ ject, and who hatched out a doctrine never before heard on this earth: That doctrine is, that the right to quit work belongs to every man, .so long as does not agree with some other man to qitsf, at the same time. Of course, Palmer is no lawyer at all: never in his life did he conduct a court-house trial : lie didn’t even have a Supreme Court license, until ms Cm mi nag Masters had in¬ formed him that he would be appointed Attor¬ ney-General ! As to Taft, the ex President has sunk to the level of a pander propagandist. The coal miners had a Reserve Fund in bank, put there, little by little, to fide them over an k 6 emergency.” A strike always creates this emergency. Now, what did Palmer do? He petitioned a Judge Anderson (not the Boston hero who denounced the methods of Palmer,) to issue an order to the labor leaders to command the men to go back to work—and the cowardly curs obeyed the ol¬ der. rather than leave luxurious apartments at the hotel and spend a part of their time in jail. Judge Anderson was also requested by Palmer t issue a blank injunction — the names to he filled in as the miners -were iden¬ tified —ordering the men to go back into those mine-holes. To his everlasting shame, Judge Ander¬ son did as Palmer requested, (fins going back to the General Warrant system of George III—abolished by Parliament after the fa¬ mous John Wilkes episode. But the worst remains to be told: Palmer requested Judge Anderson to enjoin the miners from using their Rainy-day funds! In the miner’s miserable cabin there was no food—“nothing in the house,” as the Eng fish laborers have said, during the dreary generations during which they were ground down by - British taskmasters. t < Nothing in the house!” Nothing hut a suffering mother of a broqd of hungry children. And Palmer, Mitchell Palmer. Attorney. General Palmer—head of Wilson’s depart men! of ,/u.sttee-—told the Judge to enjoin the husband and father of that famishing household from using his own money to buy food for his wife anil oTntdren! It is my deliberate and dispassionate opinion that the injunction which Palmer ap¬ plied for, which Anderson granted, and Sprout enforced, is the most damnable document to he found in the judicial annals of this Re¬ public, Sproul? Who is Sprout? He was Palmer's candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. 11 f, is a Republican/ He is contesting for the Republican nomi¬ nation for President at the Convention of the Republican Party. If he is nominated and elected, we will have as good a Democrat at the White House, as we now have at the head of the Department of Justice. “See Tii at Tennessee stands for Palmer/” Issued Weekly Ashby Jones Is Plumb Disgusted, Mr. M. Ashhv Jones is the Baptist preach* (Jr who fries ■.,> hard to be a. priest. 11 (> now resides in Atlanta, where he is admired. His sty'*, of preaching suggests the idea, that he thinks Ho i is peculiarly honored in having such a finished rhetorician as AMaby; Jones preach for him. Ilis sedate vanity injoys itself in senefirtg? articles to the newspapers. Occasionally one of these articles escapes': the waste-basket. Sometime since Me the People tooK charge of the Democratic Convention and Party, the Rev. Parson Jones wrote a piece which suited the Hon. Clark lloweU: said, piece appears, along with (lark’s own somr apples and clippings, in last Sunday’s Con stitut ion. The gist of Brother Jones’ complaint is, that We the People did not endorse the luna¬ tic who set tlie world afire, bankrupted, the National 1 roasurv. overloaded every house¬ hold in the Union by the monopolized neces saries of life; fore up the Constitution and, threw its fragments to the winds; penalized poverty by the Palmer route: and, as a last touch of malignant animosity to a people who now hate and despise him, refused to let the. country come to a peace basis, and excuses him soil for not signing the War-Measures repeal bill by saying, he had not hod time ta study it. Who is the ventriloquist that talks Wood row Wilson? Who holds the paralyzed manikin and* .. tluough ,, , J' 1 ,|in . (U 1 UIS0S him. Is it Baruch? Tumuliv? Palmer? Nobody knows: the fog which shrouds the White House dims not lift. That War measures-repcal bill has boon pending long enough for the moth at the White House to have learned it, by heart, because it is an unusually short bill. Tt is not much longer than the Lord ’3 Prayer. Vet THE bunch “had not had time try (Continued on Page Three.) French President , Too. When Monsieur Desehanel was effected' President of the French Republic, over Cle meuceau, it was announced that lie was thru most elegant gentleman living—elegant m ap«*j pare!, deportment, habits, and conversation^, ItiS'wife had the money: ho had the man¬ ners: she copied his manners and he spent! her money. I inferred from all this, that he never snorted with his nose at the dinner-table, nev*j er mistook the napkin for his face-wipe, never: bubbled over iiis soup, never drank from his, finger bowl, never inhaled his coffee, never, put his knife in Lis month and then in thcN salt-cellar, never picked his teeth at. table*,,, and so forth. Yet see how all this elegance and pride* is brought to the dust! President 'Desehanel, going some. 333 rrnsl» from his White House, to make a speech to a, multitude of mere provincial loots and loufc-J esses, falls out of the sleeping car. Or jumps out in his sleep, according tt* one hypothesis. Anyway, he left the train, when the train^ was going full speed: lmt he happened to land, on a sand-bank an unusually so'ft and long^ one and the President of the French Repuln lie rolled over and over and over, until be^ stopped and found himself awake, clothed hag iiis Ypsilanties, only. Bareheaded, bare footed, much bruized, much surprised, the President counted croaaJ ties to the nearest, railroad station. Had serious difficulty in persuading tha watchman that lie wasn’t an “escape.” Managed to get the privilege of showing who he was. Convinced the suspicions, and was per* milted to return to his White House. Doctors come to see him: shake flhei* heads: deliver themselves to this effect: i l Mr. President, your mind is cracked* yoa( you are unable to function as President: must he removed to some quiet place, f&c from noisy Paris: indeed, we think yon haw, bettter resign. ) I O Heavens! Where was Admiral Roefcaft Grayson? Where was the Johns Hopkins expertf”, and the Philadelphia hair-restorer? Why was no human screen thrown around p6or Monsieur Desehanel? A. Ko. 36.
