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Vof. 39 wstasimsM V..W-. >. emmigm £» m W^T: ia.i-n.vs |'^j «- ■BBl pssKZiit ^ If the newspapers are to be believed, Mr. Herbert Hoover, the Englishman who pat hi* finger into every American pie- during thetGreat War, is demanding that you give him twenty-three million dollars to feed the children of Europe. According to these newspaper repor-ts, this Englishman, Mr. Herbert Hoover, asserts that 3,500,000 European children are in dan¬ ger of starvation unless he can get the desired $23,000,000. The Literary Digest, a Roman Catholic weekly of very large circulation, baa opened a drive to raise this amount to feed those Catholic children of Europe. Why doesn’t the Pope feed them? He has -more ready money, and money loaned out at Interest, than any Potentate in the World. If there are starving children in Italy, as I have no doubt there are, does their cry of distress awaken in the heart of the Popo no responsive thrill? ' He is an Italian himself, as all Popes have been for the last two hundred years, and as all Code Popes of the will Roman forever Church be, because the that Se¬ cret Cardinals requires a majority of shall be Italians, and these Italians shall always elect a Pope from among themselves. A^e the Belgians in need of food and clothing? tourists* American returning to this coun¬ try write me that the Belgian population is in a more comfortable condition, generally, than the Americans are. As to the French, haven’t we given them enough? COULD THERE BE A GREA1ER THAN THIS? Carry your mind hack to the first week in August, 1914, and try to recollect what was happening The Jesuits then. of Austria, after * having con quered Bosnia and Herzegovina, had laid their treacherous hands upon Servia. At that time, there were ten thonsand Roman Catholics in Servia; the remainder of the population of more than 3,000,000 were Greek Catholics: nevertheless the, Jesuits, by threatening to nse against Servia the military power of Austria, forced the aged King Peter to sign a concordat with the Pope which turned over to the Jesuits the journalism and the educational institutions of Servia. You ‘ can imagine the intense rage of 8,000,000 Greek Catholics at,being put under the feet of 10,000 Roman Catholics, As everybody knows, the Greek Catholics are the legitimate descendants of the primi tive Christian churches of the East, reaching back through the churches of Antioch, Alex andria, and Jerusalem, to the time of Christ. The Roman Catholic Church, as it now stands, is nothing in the world but the pagan¬ ism which existed under the rulers of ancient Rome. There isn’t a single feature of ancient Roman Paganism that is not reproduced in the ceremonial worsMp of the Roman church. A Greek Catholic student filled with the hatred for Jesuit Austria, which all the States of the Balkans then felt, gave way to his over-excited patriotic feelings, and when the haughty Jesuit Archduke Ferndinand of Aus¬ tria came down to Bosnia, in royal state, to .gloat over the conquest which the Jesuits had so bloodily accomplished, also his this yoimg man shot the Archduke and wife. Thus the Pope caused the War. You are familiar with ,most of the conse¬ quences—with some you have not been made acquainted by your daily papers. As Soon as Austria and the Kaiser mo¬ bilized their armies to crush Servia, the Czar of Russia mobilized his troopg to protect the small Greek Catholic State—the Russian em * pire was then Greek themselves Catholic, as the Emperor and his family were. The-RussiSh armies by the millions were thrown into Prussia, and they were such .tremendous headway, that several 01 of German troops advancing rapidly upon Paris had to he transferred to East, Prussia to luck the Russians. That's the main reason wily the Kaiser t Bill I Jill ' <5f vf xf /4hw pi? •■ffirv - \ : . %mstip ; Price $2.00 Per W e gave them enough sugar to last them ten ceal*. \' e gave them enough food, and clothing, to last them five years. Wo have paid them rent for the very ground our troops camper on while they fought to save the life of the French Republic, We have fluid them for the trenches in which our boys lived the life of dogs, while they fought like lions for France. We built for them miles and mi I as of railroads to bring up the troops and muni¬ tions needed for the beating back of the Ger¬ mans: they now put in a bill for damages done to French railroads by the passage of our debt young men LaFayette. going to the front, to pay their to It’s a shame. It’s a burning shame. The blame does not rest upon the French people: it rests upon the Imperialistic gov¬ ernment which now rules, not with laws, but with bayonets. The French people are kind-hearted, gen¬ erous, brave, proud: the French aristocracy is German, and it has all Jhe pride, all the coldness, all the greed, all the haughtiness, of the aristocracy of England. I notice that onr President-elect, Senator Harding, sent In his cheek to this Hoover business, for $2,500: does Senator Harding believe that his money would not have been of equal benefit to suffering humanity, if he had given it to one of the charities' of his own State? Are there no poor people in Ohio? Are there no suffering children in the State which produces two candidates for Prea- (fid not dine in Paris on August 15, 1914. Four million Russian soldiers were killed outright in the effort to save France, England, and Italy, At that time, America was “too proud tq fight.” Let the Russians do it, was virtually what Woodrow Wilson said, Then came the collapse of the Russian Empire February, 1917, and a large number of patriotic Americans, such as J. P. Morgan, ? for instance, would have lost large sums o monev had not the United States stepped into the place of Russia. A revolutionary government took posses sion of the Russian empire just as a revolu tion gave a new government to England half a dozen times; and to France at least as many times, and to Italy more than a score of times, To the head of the Revolutionary gov erament in# Russia our President cabled his congratulations, Ms prefacing the message with customary “may I not.” While Mr. Wilson was in Paris, he ar¬ ranged for a conference between the Allies and the Revolutionary Government of Russia; the conference was to have been held on one of the Prinkipos Islands, near Constantinople. As one of his representatives at the pro¬ posed conference, the Hon. Woodrow Wilson appointed Prof. Herron, the well known So¬ cialist;’in fact. Prof. He: fen was more of a Socialist than Debs is: Debs believes in law¬ ful marriage: Herron didn’t. Prof. Herron deserted his lawful wife md ran off to Italy with Carrie Rand, who had lots of money and no. morals worth men¬ tioning. but this was the man that our Pres¬ byterian President selected to represnl this Republic at the proposed Pvinkipo confer¬ ence. For some reason, not yet explained, Prof. Woodrow Wilson, while in Paris, declared war upon Russia, and sent irnnes to slaughter her democrats. Those American troops were compelled to butcher Rnsshm soldiers from Lithuania in the South to northern Siberia, whore our boy-. had to endure the. tortures of gleet, snow, in¬ sufficient clothing, food, that a hungry dog would hesitate to eat., and the brutal treat of British officers. | Without authority of law, this monster, Woodrow Wilson, joined in with Great Britian and blot haded the vast ocean, front of the Ruanisn dominions. (Continued on Page Three.) msoti, &a., BJumgiJiy, iMm&miker 22, t&2P 'idenf ’« iho same year? "ho LOies of New York City swiftly n e an enormous amount of money to ^ mi : «,i n.muL.k: a ■*hr*vi-hosp,;r. m ! r.. /<> : is Mew V ovk City itscil overstocked with charily hospitals? Vv is the Aitmrioan citv which has no j crying heed for such an 'institution, o; <-n die and prepare the bed, the cine and the food, the nursing and tin care, for the maimed soldier, the down-and-out vihnn, the outcasts, and tho waifs, which can be found by thousands m that vast, metropolis. One night when I was in Now York, and out upon the streets, a terrible snow suddenly Such broke haggard ever the city. " men. such rk Kerin* thinly clad women, such wrecks of humanity, fcs saw driven along the side-walks or trying to moke a bed on a cemented door-way, the en trance of some great building which afforded some shelter from the pitiless storm, I will never forget it: if Dante could have seen it, he would have drawn from it one of his pictures of Hell, What’s the matter with our American people? Who made us the caretaker-s of Europe? Who performed the surgical operation which put this bug into our heads? • Is there no Lazarus lying prone at the front of onr gates? Do we owe no duty to onr own flesh and blood? We are preserving, at immense cost, twenty national parks which no eyes but those THE PRESENT FACULTY OF MERCER UNIVERSITY. In running W my comment on the late cam paign which wound up in Macon, I made sor rowful allusion to the fact that my Alma Mater, Mercer University, disdained my pres¬ ence in Macon, ignored my existence, and SU pereiiliously overlooked the fact that the greatest Convention that Georgia ever held had nominated a Mercer boy, always a Bap¬ tist, to the highest gift a people of one State can give. University Suppose a former student of the Stale had been given the overwhelming vote. of the peoplo of Georgia, and the Con¬ vention had been convened in Athens—do you suppose for one moment that the University would not have shown some pride in the tri¬ umph of one of her sons? You know' very well that, on the contra¬ ry, there would have been a delegation from the Faeuhy and the official representation of the student body, to pay their respects to him, and take scats on the platform while he made his speech of acceptance. The present Faculty of Mercer Univer sity was chosen by my enemies. ' Iheir predecessors in office had commit t.ed the unpardonable sin of showing then •n-’vos my friends, They had attended my trial ; I; • ,.rn- 5 ta when ‘tin, Rm an Catholic Chu ' Knights of 'Ambus, was trying t< <ln> pepiu idLiry tc having : ir» ■ -wine, a p iti r - im ol idlest '■ at) r’J. books t • ever V. >■; i or debau Fed a worm . The odds wer Y ;:pamat%iu . i there . vet w'ls a ti u; - hen I needed u-Yms it. was then. The friendm were there,'and among most prominently. were the oid Faculty Mercer- Uni verst tv. F Dr, J. Forrester; J'' Pulliam, All aiid J. noble ScoL Murray these rr:m were summarily dls " h:sed in m the Faculty, while T was in Flor¬ ida, broken in health. For what reason were these men thrown out? There has never been irk Georgia i pro founder scholar, in the classics, than Prof. J .Scott Murray. There has not been in the Mercer Faculty, at pet time, a better teacher of Latin thru. Prof. Pulliam. Where did the Pro. at faculty pick up a bettor teacher of tho, Bible class than my noble brother, Dr, Forrester? Let me tell you a little incident : issued Weekly * of the rich will over sec and enjoy: we are con¬ serving timber resources, mineral resources; power-site resources; for what? Yvhat, sort of government is this which does 'u'nc nnderattmd that our oue invaluable natural resc nrecs, in, the mind of the oncoming genera j*iom : ' We are - not educating our children: we are exhausting ourselves to educate the chil f toreign nations which have better school We'are systems than we have, of feeding and clothing the children f, rei , ri nations and leaving our own to !, f „ lon tt, ^ e ' „ hp , Fr ® r “ mU(,b lce , f the . the bu * thrR decreasing , ‘ e iar , bel popu- ™ ’“ u adout ! e f , e lt- “ th ratei wc aro concerned Why not let the French work that out, themselves? They've got the men; they’ve got the women, let them pro-create to shit themselves: it’s their business and not ours. But, consider for a moment what a ghast¬ lier thing it is for us to increase our popula¬ tion, when we are bound to know that, under existing laws and governments, this increase of population means an increase of national hellwardness, poverty, illiteracy, vice, crime, downwardness, into which the foreign agitator can throw his match and have the American world wrapped in unquenchable flames. Please follow the example set yon by Senator Harding: y#u can mail your checks to The Literary Digest, or to Mr. Herbert Hoover, or to Mr. h rank Vanderlip. -t ft When I was crossing the Chattahooche River, on the ferry with John Hendon and Grover Edmondson, on my way to speak at Carrollton, I became greatly interested in the young man who ferried us across, and after wards back. He was an ex-service soldier, who had fought in France, but, he was uneducated, his parents having been too poor to send him to College. As soon as I got home, I wrote to John Hendon for the name of the boy, authorizing him to .my for me that I would undertake his education to the extent which I had re¬ ceived one. The young man gladly accepted my offer, and through the intercession of Doctor For¬ rester, he was placed in the Freshman Class cm the Watson endowment. I am now informed by the Bookkeeper of Mercer University that my endowment of •>‘5,000.00 cannot pay the expenses of this ex oldiev through the Fv-tyhn:..in class. If the inKres*. on $5,000.00 cannot pay the way , tv-r, ; ' one term, at Mer '■ .vortyev,’tlim • ; ■ omething rotten up the ; ■ ; in ii >- Fern,. The *js < >de in Forester^ writing, apor, between -mi Dr. .md L w-wi i v.-YA n of or, Dr. Piek it that the money art i.-e u:> ; d frxvepf for th> enent of poor hho ap\ V hi endation of ; .' ' n .'■(!»':'< for - i .loi ter and Iheir wm ■ gtrt t'ha Dean of this S.3 Faculty 5^ non on fha !l -*. <;>/ , ; : • ’■ a br or trusts equal, in moral - X r» Le.ct .y after Trust, which, on * 1" s jury, puts a m; n in the penl -y tor a • enn or years. U institutions who place endowments in Eduea ; have the old English Oom -r r Law right of visitation. That means, where a college accepts a m,’s r onev, ns an endowitK-nt fund, the man vho gives the money has a right to visit the college end find ont for himself whether hi* money is being appropriated to the uses in¬ tended. The present Faculty of Mercer University have inner deigned to give me the slightest not, e of- the boys who are selected to be the beneficiaries of the endowment being They have gone ahead by themselves, and, my enemies, they '-arc educated the sons of my enetnks, on ray money. on Ato. 7
