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Clemenceau Blames Us For Europe’s Madness.
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Wh way throw a blanket t over the militaristic .
policies of France? -
If militarism in Germany is menacing the
Peace France? of Europe, what of militarism in
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j ,p ' n ,~'y icncials will kindle in
ne nearts ot their soldiers and the people
01 Tcspcct for militarism.
... tt hen mitered , the , World
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' 0 ' 10 ? ,a n ] bug . military
'finiany Ue said Dial wo bad
"ar m make against the German people.
the then existing government of (lie
ser and his military men has disappeared, and
t.ie people of Germany arc making a brave
and commendable effort 1o set up a
<'y.
The bigots in France are determined to
use every available means, soldiers,
and propaganda,—to crush Germany and re
due,; the masses to pauperism.
And Clemenceau is in An erica, truing to
enlist our support in that enterprise.
There is not a word of truth in the
ment that Germany is engaged vn building
war-ma.ffiine and making rigantie preparations
for another invasion of Belgium and France.
Germany has no navy, her munition far '
tories have been turned into industrial
prises, and her army wa by the terms of
treaty, reduced who to the minimum. Financial!
sxnerts, recently .'hidied German
ics from a disinterested viewpoint, tell us that '•
it is utterly Impossible for the Germmi nation
en pnv the indemnity imposed !>.v the Versailles'
treaty, ami Senator Borah expresses the
opinion on the floor of the United States Sen- ,
ate. i
Will this government join France in a
debt-collecting enterprise ?
effort Will the United. States aid France in a nl
to enforce payment of this mdemniriv
declared by experts to be impossible? '
Is it right for France, Rmrland, and the
United States to bankrupt the German nation!
and reduce the German people to pauperism?
If Europe is sweltering in misery, and
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which he expressed his private opinion
y-nlimem on to-e pioluhition . question . is “shift- ,
mEr -
Hie l’r< blent didn't, dream ti.it the good
lady would make public his confidential
but Mrs. Robinson did not: believe it right to
hold back such interesting news. The' letter
was read at one of the many pqlitieal meeting
the women of New i ork are holding, and it
drifted into the newspaper*, and caused the
temperance people to put coals of lire
Brother Warren G. Harding'- back.
do lost no time in making public an “ex
planation.”
He says 'that it is not possible lo eliminate
the prohibition question during tin's generation.
Mv. Harding, as Senator fiom Ohio, voted
tor the prohibition amendment and for the . n
forcemeat Act.
|j; s i j t |„. prohibition question is
fa r srnorior » Woedne* ........ Wilson T
Prc.-udciit Harding did not congratulate
the sneeessfu! “wet” candidate- fov the Hons<>
and Senate.
11- has >m. p m,bed lo support any “ wet"
legislation, and m view ot the lac!, that lie sup
nortccl the prohibition .... candiaato ... tor ,, the , v- New
Seoatoi'slnp, . , , it . . reasoxtat'ile.to . . .
.Iri'-ev is assume
that he will not be friendly to the efforts of
Senator Edwards to nullify prohibition.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA
war olouds hang everywhere, as alleged by
aad en,Gnct ? ood ‘ aa judgment > ,^ un y° demand u believe that that these wisdom United
oChe Furop ,^ eir °™ business and stay out
Eur ° f an «nd intrigue.
Great f + Britain has her emissaries on the
ground, and France treats us to lectures from
jthrough 2® 7 T”i the daily ? d newspapers, WaU Str «l the ta JH big s maga- to us
zmes, and hired men preach to us from the
! pulpit and platform. The universal strain is,
Join the League of Nations.
harles Edward Russell delivered , . lec
a
ture inM ashington City, last week; and he told
bia audience that Europe’s one chance of
vntion is, The United States. He predicted
2 Germany at Araenca enough ™ nld cash caucel to balance th ? a,hed her dpbt budget, >
and become a member of the League.'
: bankruptcy threatens Europe, why should
this country liquidate the debts of
nations?
.
T ,r U .* m, tens th< ‘ P° a r. e of Eur °P p ’
should , America involve . the lives and
of our people in those wars!
if the nations of Europe desire peace, let
ihem dismantle their war-machines, and let
On- work begin in . France.
Hie people of Germany will not love
Fraitec for puttingVigro troops on the
and I ranee will not improve her financial
dition by terrorizing the white people of Ger
many
Military men write essays on Peace. Man
is assured that a big army, and a big
stick, will guaranteethe nation’s security at
home and to abroad, their ^lie assertion military experts and cite 1
no ease prove
furnishes many cases where big armies w r
groat, empires.
German’s powerful machine did not, pre
vent the World War. On the contrary, that
machine wrecked the Hohenzollem dynasty i
and shattered maintained the peace France of Europe. is "The guarantee! huge j
bv no
of peace, but it may be the cause of another
great war, CC nd the'next, war in Europe ma y j
the F ench republic, because France has
policy’ auv. is friends, and her present militaris
tie responsible for lost friendships.
The.surest plan to prevent was jfairlv is. to Jet
people decide for themselves, in
elections, whether they are willing andl to
declare war against a neighboring nation,
ami starve innocent women and
helpless Humanity childre a ■ . the everywhere; j
is same, and
there is abundant evidence to pr-ve that the
have grown tired at fighting wars for
military masters and international gamblers. !
’ !
Ciemeneeivu is shrewd, versatile, and pos- i
- ssi'd of all the graces of oratory; He under-i
stands human nature. He knows the game of
politic*, ami he plows his cards well. But lie!
will not convince the American people that the!
League of Nations is a good thing for us !
And Georges Clemenceau would have made
a better inptression if he had swept around his
own back door, before coining The to this
to lecture us on how to keep peace. !
There can bo ho mistake about the position
ot the wliisscv people: they have discarded
j party, and they arc standing together for
booze.
(
There should be no hesitancy on the part
of the temperance people: they should
parties to the four winds, and’stand together,
and fight together, to save our laws against
whiskey traffic.
n niT tin* dyke i> cut and light wines and
)t erff pei-niitted', red liquor will follow audTho
barroom will again menace the home and
String poverty and distress to innocent-women
and children all over this land.
.’" 8S Mrirphy , will .. find it no easy task to
u Homamst and tool of tlve \\ hiskey
‘ r< ' sts ,,K ' Demoeratic ticket for Presi-
1 , !( ' r:l
;, Inmuiauy llal! i- hi
a power
.eouneits, and ex-Pivsideut Wilson controls
. many a Democratie vote, and the Whisker In
mrc.sjs will vote with the Democrats if the
n an ij ;u , administration refuses to tamper
’with prohibition, hut all these combined influ
f , !1(Vs viII nul , t ro„g enough to set aside the
most wholesome . . legislation . , .. . , bv Congi
passed ■ n -ess
din . . this .. generation. ,.
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Reasons Senate Should Defeat Pierce Butler.
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on the Supreme Court and District Courts.
It may be dangerous to suggest such radi
cal departures, but there it no place in a dem
ocra^ for life-termers. A man appointed for
Pierce Butler, who walks from the office
of railroad and corporation lawyer to the high
est court, carries with him his prejudices, and
he "rite decisions for his masters, just
as has been done in many instances by other
corporation lawyers appointed to the Supreme
Court.
The Recall is not yet the law of this coun
try, and until it does become the law, the Ju
dietary will continue to nullify Acts of
nnd make laws for the Big Rich.
Pierce Butler should be defeated by the
Senate, and the progressives are congratulated
for their determination to fight, confirmation
of this nomination.
Hie Supreme Court is no place for this
Minnesota reactionary: let him return to his
State and renew his association with corpora
tion lobbyists.
President Harding does not improve the
appearance of this nomination by telling the
country that Chief Justice Taft endorsed
Pierce Butler. Taft himself is a corporation
lawyer, a reactionary, and his decisions prove
where he stands. As President, Mr. Taft,
pointed Judge White, a Roman Catholic, to
the Chief Justiceship, nnd he stated at the
tram that he was forced to ‘yield to
pressure.”
President Harding yielded to the same
pressure,— the Roman Catholic Church and
the Knights of Columbus,
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More War Vets Railroaded To Madhouse.
Officials . at Washington deserve impeach
ment and penitentiary sentences for their
criminal neglect of our ex-soldiers.
World* War veteran s, who are not crazy,
b«t whose shell-shocked condition entitle them
to .treatment by nerve specialists, are railroad
ed to tbe Government’s m u d-house, at Wash
known as St. Elis a beth’s asylum for
the ; «sane.
- Citizens of Boston have appealed to Con
xress for an investigation of the orders trans
sick and disabled veterans from gov
eminent- hospitals to mad-houses.
Senator McCumber, and Representatives
F^ss, Dallinger, and Lahlbach have interested,
themselves, and the country is promised a
searching inquiry, and ex-service men and
<] icir relatives throughout the nation will
' rat< -‘h this matter with more than ordinary
interest.
Again and again, it lias been charged by
responsible men,—civilians, ex-service
and membevs of Congress,—that our soldiers
returned from France with shattered
Df, rves, wrecked bodies, and temporary mental
! Ust»rder> caused by Hofficer-brutality, are #
Gms of gross carelessness and improper treat
mer sanitariums : t 'V government for shell-shock hospitals,_ patients. especially the
Hobart L. Crosut, of Park Hospital, Slone
ham, in writing a complaint to his
man, says that these sick and disabled vets e
ceive “rotten treatment at St. Elizabeth’s ’nos
pital for the insane,” and lie cites specific
cases to support his charges. Mr. Crosut
forms Washington officials that vets are trans
from naval hospitals to St.
and that he made a personal investigation of
conditions at this Washington mad-house, and
found sane patients in cells with insane per
sons. He adds, that food and clothing fur
nished these patients by St. Elizabeth officials
would shook the American people, if they had
an opportunity to see for themselves the pre
' ailing conditions at this lock-up for the in
U is a shame and a crime for the govern
merit to confine a. physically disabled ex-sol
db ‘ r in a f “ eb an insane patient.
U the sane patient retains his
equilibrium under such conditions, it is noth
in? short of miraculous.
Take the mentally normal veteran, who
suffers with a physical disorder, and
j,i m ; n a cell with a raving mad-maa, as
dollP a f St. Elizabeth’s, in Washington
and the sane victim will become insane in less
! than thirty days.
While in Washington, 1 knew an
j f rom New York, who was transferred
from a government liosmtal to the Washington
mad-lionse, where they locked him inside an
iron cage with hopelessly insane patients, and
the poor fellow cut his throat and gained free¬
dom in the arms of death.
i talked gitli the boy the day he was trans¬
ferred, and I would be willing to take an oath
that he was not, in my opinion, an insane man.
He suffered from shell-shock, his nerves were
shattered and gone, and he should have been
Our Baptist President fell into the same
trap, and the Italian church captured another
seat on your highest court, and Justice Pigrce
Butler will write decisions for RomeJ if there
people, fail to find a Protestant lawyer quali
tied to fill this vacancy!
Whv'did the President ignore his own
party, his church, and the Protestant millions,
in this vital act!
Pierce Butler is condemned by the people
of his home State, and the City Council of
Minneapolis passed a resolution demanding
that his nomination be rejected bv the Senate.
The people of Minnesota know the man,
ihi? former connection. his reactionary lean
ings. his prejudices, and his religious bigotry,
The people of Minnesota: realize that Pierce
Butler's intimaev with the High-uns of the
Roman Catholic 'church and his willingness to
serve the Trusts, promoted the man fjofn rail
road lawyer to a life-Judgeship.
As Associate Justice of the Supreme Court,
will be your dangerous enemy. He agrees
with‘Archbishop Curley, who speaks contemp
tuonslv of your institutions,-your government,
your Protestant churches and fraternal orders,
and puts Protestant marriages on a level with
bigamv.
The very walls of the Vatican chuckled
with glee when the Pope announced Pierce
Butler’s promotion to the United States Bu¬
Court.
The All honor to La Foimte, Ladd, and Norris.
Progressives in the Senate will earn
the gratitude of millions, if they kill this ap-
treated by a nerve-specialist,
There was another case, an eighteen-year
old boy from Washington City, who had en¬
listed in the Ravy. He received injuries at his
post of duty, and developed epilepsy. He was
transferred from a veteran’s hospital to St.
Elizabeth’s, where t CP e custodian confined him
to a cell with mad p SO tients. By luck, his peo
received a message from the boy. Habeas
corpus proceedings released him, and he walks
the streets of Washington City today, a nor
mal person. Had lie- remained at the mad
house for thirty or sixty days, he would have
lost his mind,
There may be thousands of similar cases.
This Government’s treatment of our ex
soldiers—Mr. Wilson’s crusaders—-is the dark¬
est spot on the pages, of our war-record, apd
it has wounded the pride and patriotism of
the ex-service men and their families and the
public generally.
More than a year ago, Congressman Gal
livan ventilated these charges on the floor of
Congress, and the matter has rocked along the
red-tape highway until now, with hundreds
the poor victims too far gone to be rescued,
and many of them have been carted to the
cemeteries.
Conaressman Dallinger has called Secre
tary Fall’s attention to the charges against the
Veteran’s Bureau and St. Elizabeth’s mad¬
house, and Mr. Fall referred the complaint to
Dr. William If. White, Superintendent of St.
Elizabeth’s. Dr. White says the complaint
will “follow the usual course,” and that means,
pigeon hole.
The Republicans promised our ex-service
men fair treatment; a bonus, or adjusted com
pens&tion: and a majority of the soldiers vot
ed for President Harding. They swelled the
ranks of his seven million majority, expecting
the President and Congress to keep faith with
the four million youngsters who sacrificed their
time and health for the government.
President Harding vetoed the Bonus Bill;
and the Republicans have done nothing to re
deem their pledge to the veterans.
Returns from the States which, on Novem-
7, voted on the bonus referendum show
that public sentiment favors a bonus for the
vets,
Four Republican States—Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, and Oklahoma, voted for adjusted
Those States have 52 Repre
and eight Senators in the new Con
gross, and they have been instructed by their
|constituents The Senators to vote and for Representatives, bonus legislation. Demo
erats ns well as Republicans, who failed to re
deem the nation’s debt to the soldiers, were
snowed under everywhere,
If Congress continues to neglect the dis¬
abled veterans, their comrades will resent it,
and recreant national legislators and the Exe¬
cutive himself, will hear from these soldiers
in the next election.
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