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( Vol. 40 NOTES EROIVI UNITED STATES SENATE. According to the press dispatches, Enver, who was one oi' the three leaders of the Young Turks, has been killed in Bokhara, fighting the Bolsheviks. If this report is true, the last of the great criminals of the Turkish-Gennanic movement has passed away. ' It will be remembered that for a whole generation torrents of abuse were poured upon Abdul Hamid, the Sultan of the Turkish Em¬ pire, because of his atrocities against the Bui garjans and the Armenians. The name of Abdul became, perhaps, the most hated of all names worn by men. Taking advantage of the vast unpopularity of the Sultan, a conspiracy was organized against him by a few leaders whose was called that of the Young Turks. Abdul was exiled and ke^t a prisoner at Salonika. An imbecile uncle, or something, of his was set up in his place; but the real rulers, as everybody kneAv, Avere three very' strong young men, Talaat, Djemal, and Enver. The youngest and Avorst of these was En¬ ver, and that is saying about all that the Eng¬ lish language admits of in,characterizing the infernal cruelty and rapacity of Talaat and Djemal. Last year, Talaat, who had taken refuge in Berlin, was killed by a young Armenian, who was tried by a jury of Germans and acquitted. A part of the evidence Avhich convinced the jury that the Armenian was justified in killing the Turk, consisted of an official order issued by Talaat to one of his subordinates in Armenia, ordering the indiscriminate slaugh¬ ter of men, Avomen and children. Their rrnly crime was that they were Ar¬ menians—Christians who had been faithful to the Cross throughout the ages in Avhieli the Crescent had been in the ascendant, thereby winning the undying hatred of the Mohamme¬ dans. Djemal was murdered in Tiffin. a months ago, but it does not appear that anyone has been arrested. It is believed that it was the act of an Ar¬ menian, taking the law into his own hands, and dealing out swift justice to the butcher of his unarmed and helpless compatriots. By far the most brilliant of these three monsters Avas Enver, who is said to have been partly of Jewish blood. He was guilty of wholesale murders in Armenia, in Turkey, and in those regions around about Mecca and Medina. He is said to have been a monster of greed MERE IS HOPING MISSISSIPPI WILL GIVE IT TO VARDAMAN By a strong plurality the people of Mis¬ sissippi expressed their wish that their old Avar-horse, James K. Vardaman should return to his seat in the United States Senate —from which he was thrust by the dictatorial Wood row Wilson. Because Yardaman refused to become a pupil in the Wilson school room, and to obey every order issued by the pedagogue in charge of the White House, the Junior Senator from Mississippi became an object of the dictator’s hatred, arid, accordingly, he AA r as rerributively birched out of the Senate. In those wild days, it was political -death for any Democrat to have a head of his own, ori a will of his own, or a tongue of his own. It Avas necessary to be the HooA'er-Ba ruch-Creel-McAdoo-Tumulty-and-Wilson satel¬ lite, or down you went. Times have changed; and people now',see hoAV shortsighted were many of the policies of President 'Woodrow Wilson. The Government has reversed his policy in the matter of the Manama Canal, and the granting of Tree tolls to American ships pass¬ ing through from ocean to ocean. They rejected his policy as to the League of Nations. He opposed Woman Suffrage as long as he , dared to do so, and he merely jumped on the band wagon to keep from being left. The man who proclaimed the strange doc¬ trine that there was such a thing as being too right to fight, and too proud to fight, and who was re-elected on that strange doctrine, plunged our country-—all unprepared as it was —into the World War, in which our losses .were so vast that none of the Wilsonites is r- -2 enfold Price $2.00 Per Year and ruthless rapacity. Temporarily, he took refuge in Berlin, but finally Avent to Turkestan, where he procured his selection as king of at least a portion of the wild tribes inhabiting th'ose vast plains. His ambition came in collision with the interests of the Russias, for, as everyone knows, Turkestan had been a province of old Russia. In the breaking up of the huge Russian Empire, some of the provinces struck for inde¬ pendence, which w*as quite natural, especially where race and creed divided them from the Bolsheviks. It was also, large perhaps, portion natural that Poland should grab a of Russia, and at¬ tempt to hold it by force of arms. The very circumstances of the case, made it necessary that a semi-independent State be set up at Anatolia, because that province had been a central part of the ancient Turkish Empire; and the Greeks striking from Smyrna, had used the utmost endeavors to conquer this province, whose subjection would logically have been folloAved by the conquest of Constan¬ tinople. The victory of Kemeal was a Avonderful achievmeut, because he won battle after battle in driving out the Greeks, after the Greeks, led by their perfidious King, had come within sight of the walls of the capital city of Ana¬ tolia. But perhaps the most daring and brilliant of all the adventures that followed Turkey’s defeat in the great war was the "setting up of a kingdom by the adventurer,' Enver Pasha, in Turkestan. The proA'ince, deprived of the wonderful young man Avho lifted it into life, will now probably be absorbed by that part of the Rus¬ sian AA'orld ruled by the Bolsheviks. It has been four or five or six weeks since President Harding,-between golf games, an¬ nounced, with impressive earnestness, that the coal mines must produce coal, or something bad would happen. The railroads must run, or something un¬ pleasant would occur. The operators and the strikers must got together, or the troops would be called out. To make sure that the soldiers would be ready, the President took the precaution to telegraph all the Governors, asking, in effect, Avhether, in case civil war ensued betAveen the Administration and the parties who were strik¬ ing, the military aid of the States could bo re¬ lied on. willing to state them. In 1918 President Wilson demanded of the country a Congress Avhich would be' subser¬ vient to himself—and the country rejected his demand. He involved us in the secret treaties of Great Britain and Japan by which we have be¬ come the accomplice of the robber nations in the plundering of the weaker countries, such as Korea, China and Russia. Not a single one of the Wilson policies triumphed. Without a single exception, they failed or were repudiated. What was the unpardonable sin committed by James K. Vardanianf Nobody will claim that lie did not make a good member of the Mississippi Legislature. Nobody will claim that some of the work done by him as Governor of his State will not be his monument, long after he shall have pass¬ ed away. Nobody claims that lie made a bad Sena¬ tor, unless to have defied "Wilson and to ha\ T e folknved his own conscience was sin not to be forgiven. Had I been in his place, I would have done exactly as he did. I would have taken the position, as he did, that I was a sworn servant of the Constitution, and that it was my sworn duty to have follow¬ ed the estates of my own conscience, and to speak and to vmte as my conscience told me to do. My information is that, during the recent campaign, ex-Senalor Yardaman has been se verely censured throughout Mississippi bo- Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Aug. 28, 1922. According to the newspapers, eA'ery State, excepting North Carolina, promptly placed its military resources, at the disposal of the Pres¬ ident, who is much fonder of playing golf than he is of jsweatiug blood o\’er questions of State. Again and again, it has been announced that the operators and the coal miners had just about reached a state of mind which Avould soon lead to mutual embraces. We have been told, day by day and week by AA-eek, that the railroad workmen and those who imagine themselves to oAvn the railroads in fee simple, had almost come to an agreement which would settle everything that had caused such unfortunate differences as the blowing up of unsuspecting innocents in cities, and the landing of ladies who were “in a delicate situa¬ tion” in far Western deserts, Avliere two storks made visits Avliere no stork had eA'er made a track before. Yet the situation remains unchanged. Members of the Cabinet have talked until their tongues need repairs. Newspapers have written, until tired prin¬ ters almost fall asleep setting up the same edi¬ torial. As to the President, he has read to au¬ diences, more or less large, written more, or less lucid, until, to put it mildly, the world believes he has said its much, on both sides, as any human being could possibly say. After one of his little written addresses, the operators have been heard to say, “Tho President is with us.” But, in a few days, there would be another little writion address, made to the workmen, and they would proclaim joyfully, “The Presi¬ dent is with us.” Therefore, to dissipate the vapor and make his meaning perfectly clear to all sides, the President fell back upon that favorite re¬ treat of those Presidents who prefer to shift the responsibility. He called a Joint Session of both bodies of Congress, and he read to those assembled to listen a smug little Avritten address in which lie announced, positively, that the Ten Com¬ mandments Avere still in force, the Rule of Three could still be relied on, that tho Consti¬ tution of the United States was never less full of holes, and that the' law must be enforced, though the heavens stay right where they are. Since the President made his speech, noth¬ ing has happened. The coal situation is unchanged: the rail¬ road situation is just where''it was, and no doubt President Harding is enjoying his usual health, ready for another game of golf, or an¬ other joyride on the Mayflower, ivith such cause he did not go into the unbusinesslike, if not unconstitutional, ship-purchase policy of President Wilson. Now that the people know—or can know if they Ai'ish the information—that over $3,000 000,000 of their tax money was wasted, Avith no beneficial results Avhatever to this Govern¬ ment, or to any other Government, surely they will begin to realize that Vardaman was not so far wrong Avhen he opposed the ruinous ship buying policy of Woodrow Wilson. Other war policies he opposed, just as I Avould have done, and just as I now do: I held them then, and I hold them noAv to have been unconstitutional, usurpatory, and destructive of our liberties. , *■ ' ' - Is it not a strange thing that a man who has had a fair test, and who lias been repudi¬ ated both in Europe and America, should now be issuing his orders from his private home, dictating to the people whom they should select to the highest law-making body on earth? At present, Woodrow Wilson is a private citizen, pitably wrecked in mind and body, an object of commiseration, to whom the ordinary man and woman, knowing his condition, Avould go with some Avord of sympathy and consola •tion; rather than for dictatorial advice as to how to cast a ballot for a Senator of the United States. He tried it A'indictively in Missouri; and Missouri, in the pride of her own self respect and in the confidence of her own capacity to select her Senator, threw aside the unsolicited advice of Woodrow Wilson, and elected the liorihearted James A. Reed. In Mississippi, ex-President Wilson at tempted the same thing—virtually grder§d tho Issued Weekly choice companions as Harry Daugherty, the King of Spades and the Queen of Hearts. Late on yesterday afternoon, the Senate passed the worst Tariff Bill that Avas ever of¬ fered to this or any other country. The principle of protecting neAv industries which have not obtained a secure foothold in America, and Avhich therefore need temporary protection against the competition of the well established manufacturers of the Old World, has been entirely ignored. For instance, the Steel Trust sells its products in South America, in China, and in South Africa, at a lower price than it will sell to the American consumer. To do this, it has to meet the competition of the goods manufactured in England, France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium Can you give a reason why one hundred and ten million American people should be compelled to pay such high prices for the pro¬ ducts of the Steel Trust, the Harvester Trust, and similar combines, to enable them to under¬ sell England, France, Germany, and other countries in those far foreign lands? If the Steel Trust can meet and beat the. English mills in China and South Africa, why cannot it meet and beat the English mills in this Union i During the long discussion of the Tariff Bill, it developed that the Republicans Avere placing high tariff upon articles which are not imported into this country at all, but which avc sell in vast quantities abroad. If Ave do not produce these articles, we necessarily ha\'e to buy from foreigners, and if the foreign producer lias to pay a license be¬ fore he can sell to us, it follows that Ave pay the license. The 'Sugar schedule was made up by a trade between Senator Smoot and some others. It was shoAvn to the Senate that Mr. Smoot, who is one of the Senators from Utah, and one of the leaders of the Republican Party, that he wrote to those Avho controlled sugar production in Cuba, that unless they would re¬ duce their production of sugar to a limited amount—2,500,000 pounds, as I remember— our Congress, meaning at this time the Repub¬ lican Party, would lay a duty of two cents a pound on sugar, which would of course lessen the profits of the Cuban planter. j The Cuban planters spurned the offer, preferring to retain their independence; and the result was that Mr. Smoot Avas able, by one vote, to get that tax of two cents a pound upon sugar placed into the Tariff Bill which passed (Continued on free men and women of that great State not to return James K. Vardaman to the Senate. Whai’ business was it of his? He is not a voter in that State: none of his A'ast Avealth is invested in that State; none of her interests are the same as his own. She does not belong to him: Avhy does he treat her as a vassal, to whom lie can give or¬ ders, saying who shall come to Washington from her imperial domain, wearing the highest honors within her gift? I have no Avord to say against the Hon. Hubert D. Stephens, who is recognized uni¬ versally as a good, safe man: but what are Ms especial qualifications that make him the su¬ perior of James K. Vardaman in a body, like that of the Senate of the United States? Who is it that will claim that Mr. Ste¬ phens can, with more brilliancy and courage, fight the battles of his State on the floor of the Senate ? 1 As to the other candidate, Miss Belle Kearney, she had a full and fair trial before her own sex and the other. She polled a comparatively small propor¬ tion of the one hundred and fifty thousand votes that Avere cast. To an outsider, dispassionate and impar tial, it would seem that Miss Kearney, as her oum claims had been postponed for the present, might be silent, while the people now decide between Vardama* and Stephens. The time has been when I had many friends in Mississippi, and these friends had some confidence in my judgement and patriot ism: I trust that everyone of them who still survives, will go to the polls on the day of the second ballot, and Avail cast a ticket for JamoB Yfudaman. IV®, 48
