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League Swaps
For Turks.
A cablegram from Lausanne informs
that more than a million refugees in the
East look to Uncle Sam for food and
Uncle Sam is ordered by the League
Nations to provide for 700,000 Greeks
100,000 Turks, who are about to be
from one territory to another.
A territorial committee, representing
League, agreed among themselves that
can be no’successful peace negotiations
the Christian minorities, mostly Greeks,
removed from the domain of the Turks.
Therefore, 300,000 Greeks now in
tinople and 400,000 in Asia Minor will be
”° W ° C
rupying space in Western Thrace.
the League exchanges populations,
marks boundaries, and shuffles the cards
suit the emergencies of the situation and
advantages of international exploiters.
The cablegram says that huge masses
peoples—the civil populations—in
nople, Anatolia, and Western Thrace will
forcibly moved to Greece, just as cattle
removed from one ranch to another.
The Greek Government notified the
representatives that the United States
be expected to repeal immigration
and to admit an enormous army of Greek
vilians to this country.
Are you willing to take dictation from
League in reference to the immigration
tion?
Bo you want a million Greek
Venizelos—representing
the League representative—Doctor Fritz
cent—that there is no room in Greec for the
turning prodigals. He gave the League to
derstand that Greece has no money to
on this proposition,—the shifting of
and Turks.
Whereupon, the League announced
Its war-chest and peace-chest were
months ago, and that outside resources
lake care of the enormous expense involved
ihe exchange.
Dr. Fritz Nansen—League
figures the cost jit $50 per head, or fifty
lion dollars, lump sum. He qualifies by
ing, that the services of high-salaried
ond experts will be required; therefore,
less than $100 for each Greek and Turk
fee required before Turkey and Greece
fciade safe for democracy.
Where’s the
The Leagfie of Nations will, according to
\his cablegram from Lausanne, published in
•The Washington Post, December 2, charter
Greek and British ships with American money,
io transport these refugees to America.
There is no room in Greece for the re¬
turning Greeks, and there is some doubt abour
Turkey being able to provide for the return¬
ing Turks; the League proposes to dump this
huge pile of trash into the ports of this coun¬
try, and our foreign element will be strength¬
ened by more than a million persons.
The Greek government has appealed to
this government to provide food and clothing
for the refugees, for money to charter British
ships, funds to defray salaries of experts, and
we are asked to install and support them in
their destination until they are self-supporting.
President Harding named Ambassador
Richard Washburn Child to represept us at
this parley, and you see what he is about to
puli you for.
When Lloyd George and Clemenceau hood¬
winked President Wilson into accepting the
Armenian mandate, the British and French
schemers had the Dardanelles in mind. Great
Britain and France knew that Uncle Sam could
not approach this newly acquired domain and
enforce his orders without controlling the Dar
danelles; therefore, your government was di¬
rected to shoulder the responsibility and ^tr.
Wilson was willing, to require you to go to
war with the Turks in order to enforce the
jurisdiction .
League’s over Armenia.
Now, the Harding administration is ask
ed to donate more than two hundred million
dollars in cash, to be used by Greece and
Great Britain. In addition, we are asked to
repeal our immigration laws and admit a
lion Greeks to this country, to compete
American labor. That is not all: they require
us to care for these so-called refugees until
they are self-supporting.
If the Harding administration does not
repudiate Ambassador Child for consenting to
this nj/mstrous outrage, the people will repu
diate the Harding administration, at the next
election, and Congress will refuse to appropri
ate a dollar to this absurd and utterly uncon
gtitutional enterprise, -
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Price $2,00 Per Year
When Sir Walter Scott was lying on
deathbed, he was very calm and resigned; he
had always been a kind-hearted man; had al
ways been a gentle man,—and so when he came
to die, he was not afraid. He had worked
wonders in his way. The tireless hand, push
ing the pen, which, in his youth, a neighbor
;had see through the window that morning in
Edinburg, had written on, and written on,
until the books had grown into a library, and
all the world was reading—even as it does
today. enjoyed suf
| He had toiled much, much,
fered much,—and the last time that the old
literateur had gone to the polls, he had been
antagonistic'Utheim 09 ' “* ^
I |antagonistic to theirs
Then Then he he went went back back to to Abbotsford, Abbotsford, sorrow- sorrow
and soon afterwords laid him down to die.
His son-in-law Lockhart, an author of
; world-wide fame himself, was a different sort
of man. Bitter and cynical, he had slight ca
pacify for friendship; appeared to take a de
fight in giving poisoned wounds; had number
less feuds, and no reoociliations; had few inti
jmates and few friends; and faced with inflexi
| bility and scorn, a host of enemies.
As the misanthropic Lockhart leaned over
the death-bed, the dying Scott said to him:
“Be a GOOD man, my dear; be a GOOD
j man. It is the only thing that lie here.” can give yon
comfort, when you come to
Not riches, not place and power, not fame,
not great deeds of any sort,—only the good
works, they alone, can soften the pillow for
the dying head.
Sent into this terribly complex life, by the
unknown and unknowable, we are cursed by
the universal sin, and must struggle, if we
reach the light. Something within, us tells us
that it is better to do right, better to be honest
and true, better to resist evil than to embrace
it. fall,—we
We can not help the occasional
are just human, with hearts that are desper
ately wicked. But we must not stay down,
That’s the point,— WE MUST NOT STAY
DOWN.
Senator Caraway’s Opinion Of Political
“Lame Ducks.”
Senator T. H. Caraway, of Arkansas, is
gunning for political “lame ducks”—Repre¬
sentatives' and Senators whose wings were
cropped by the voters, at the November elec¬
tions.
The Arkansas Senator is right; de¬
feated Senators and Representatives until have next no
moral right to occupy their seats
March, and their legal right to do so must
abolished.
The people went to the polls, November,
1922, and elected many new representatives in
the House and Senate. The incumbents sub¬
mitted tlieir records, accounted for their stew¬
ardship, and asked the people for another en¬
dorsement, another chance to serve in Con¬
gress. The voters scrutinized those records,
considered the votes cast by national legisla¬
tors, and repudiated the stewardship of a
great many members now holding seats in our
National Legislature.
The Constitution provides that hold these their de¬
feated members shall continue to
seats until next March.
In the meantime, great questions come be
f ore Congress, daily, and the Special Interests
take advantage of this defect in our system,
ail fi they use these disgruntled and defeated
hold-overs to put through legislation favorable
to the Trusts,—the beneficiaries of special fa
vors guard
The defeated Congressman is not on
for his people: he feels, and votes, his disap¬
pointment, and his constituents have no way
to hold him responsible for his official mis
conduct,
If you will study the history of national
legislation, you will find that lobbyists, repre
senting the Big Rich, accomplish more for
clients during this interim, from Novem
ber to March, than any other time while Con
gress is in session,
Take the ease of Miss Alice Robertson, de¬
feated Congresswoman from Oklahoma: sh?
no longer champions the rights of her sex, be
cause she blames the women of her district for
defeating her at the polls, and she tells the
Washington News— the best daily paper at
capital —that women are not qualified to
hold public office: she Says that women are in
kindergarten of politics—not ready, for
Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 11, 1922 .
TOWARD THE LIGHT.
By Thos. E. Watson.
When I was a young man, twenty years
old, I entered my first political fight, a petty
local affair. With all the hot zeal of inexpe
rieneed youth, I worked for victory. Our side
goth fully the worst whipping "l you ever saw. Aw
cut up about it, was sitting on the
sidewalk, filled with despair, believing that
was ruined. An older man, seeing my dis
tress and sympathizing with it, said to me:
“Rise, and come again!”
Immediately, the load was lightened,
the fit of blues soon passed away.
Ever since then, tbat word of encourage
men has never ceased to be a benefit to me.
‘‘What’s"the '3"«X u«e7 iragainTyou’“Tou
Fate
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vueact these many years ago), Don t>
9we way to ft. KlbE AN . . tb AbAl*.
1 brush .the nus.. oft, bandage the
anf ' n 1 a "aiu.
" con ™ race mv rather, 1 want
to be ah, ° ™ sa >' ’° ra:
“Father, take pity . on me—it _ was^
who made me just what I was. With all
raging passions and disfiguring .
You sent me into the wicked world,
I there was so much that I could not understand.
1 1 know that I’ve sinned deeply and repeatedly,
but, oh, ray Father; 1 did try to please You.
Often guilty of wrongdoing, I strove ever to
get right, and stay right. I’ve done the verv
best I could—to be a just man, a high-minded
man, a pure man, a good man.”
If, at the end of the -chapter, I can still
say that, — -as.I com up to now,—I won’t be the
least bit afraid of Him. I know, in my inmost
soul, that He will forgive me the sins that I
could not help committing, and that He will
not doom me with His eternal, implacable
frown,
higher mathematics.
Be that as it may, is proves that the de¬
feated office-holders resent the verdict of the
people, and they do not take the same interest
in their constituents.
As to Miss Robertson, the good lady is
afflicted with indecision. She went to Con
gress in the zenith of feminine glory, politically
sneaking. The Robertson Club Women for exalted looked public to Con¬
gresswoman ser¬
vice, and they glorified the Oklahoma states
woman. The newspapers published her photo¬
graph in hamlet, town, and city, and when the
tariff came before the House, Miss Robertson
lost her equilibrium: she changed her mind
three times, on this purely academic question.
Of course, both mankind and womankind
accord the ladies the right to change their
minds as often as they find comfort in mind
exercise, and that’s pretty often. But, Miss
Robertson shocked her constituents—oattle
growers—when she voted for free hides. Ok¬
lahoma. furnishes Eastern factories with large
quantities of raw-hides, and the cattle owners
of the West are'very positive in their convic¬
tion that Congress should put hides on the
protected list.
All tariffs are rank robberies, and, as a
matter of principle, Miss Robertson was right.
It is a regrettable fact that her constitu¬
ents put pocket-book before principle.
Take the Ship Subsidy steal now pending:
the defeated hold-overs are supporting the
Shipping Trust in this attempt to loot the
treasury.
The people are helpless, and
Harding, taking advantage of the situation,
called the extra session ' to present his
subsidy Bill in order to catch the votes of the
hold-over members, who will not be in the new
Congress.
The Trusts know the game of politics,
and they play their cards at the ideal moment,
when everything is in their favor.
The people back home no longer look to
the incumbent. They voted him out, but the
Constitution holds him in until the new Con¬
gress convenes, next year. '
1) the Ship Subsidy Bill could be delayed
.(Continued 0 a Rage four.)
Issued Weekly
Georgia’s Delegation Is
Against Ship Subsidy.
The House passed President Harding’s
pot—the Ship Subsidy—by a scant majority,
after amending the original draft in many
vital partielars. The Bill goes to the Senate
where the Democrats and Progressives will
add more amendments, and it may be killed,
outright.
In order to show you, in their true light,
the objectionable features of this gift to ship
owru!r3 ’ a review will be given of the original
draft, as presented to Congress by the Presi¬
dent and his advisors.
Attorneys and lobbyists for Standard Oil
and United Fruit millionaires could not have
written a better law for their clients.
T,le Bill proposed to save the
government twenty million dollars oy donating
thirty millions to the owners and operators of
ships running on regular lines. “Tramp
ships”—-the real Merchant Marine—were ex
eluded from this thirty million dollar grab. In
addition such sterling patriots as Rockefeller
were permitted to deduct from their income
tax _ pro fitg derived by their companies in op
erating privately owned ships. For instance,
standard Oil was granted lawful right and
unhampered fe privilege to deduct from Eocke
f e fi er ’ s U g e income tax the profits earned by
!oil-carrying ships operated by the Standard
Company. It proposed to lend $125,000
of your money to millionaire ship owners
two per cent interest, while farmers pay
f rom six to twelve per cent. The fund was
D 0 have goir to the Shipping Board, where
scandal after scandal has been uncovered al
mos t daily from the birth of that white de¬
nfiant. The original draft proposed to license
bootleggers to transport liquor and actually
gave the bootleggers a share of the fund al¬
lotted under subsidy payments. Ten per cent
of all customs receipts were, by this original
draft, turned over to the Shipping Board, for
the benefit of the regular liners, including the
United States Steel Corporation.
When these outrageous clauses were at¬
tacked by Democrats and Republicans, admin¬
istration leaders realized that Congress would
«ot •permit the original draft to stand.
Representative Edmonds, Oil'"Company’s from Pennsyl¬
vania, one of the Standard fa¬
vorites, proposed an amendment, under which
he claims that Rockefeller and Gary will not
participate in the fund. The mere fact that,
lobbyists for Rockefeller and Gary wrote that
dishonest clause into the original draft, and
obtained the President’s approval, shows you
to what : ength those public robbers will go in
their efforts to loot, the treasury. The Ed¬
monds amendment may be defeated In the
Senate; the Standard Oil and United Steel
may again show their faces in this Ship Sub¬
sidy scandal; the Senate has the power to
restore those House-defeated objectionable
clauses.
You may be sure of oue thing: Expert
lawyers and lobbyists for the Rockefeller and.
Gary Trusts, who were able to insert special
favors for their clients in the original draft,
are shrewd enough to leave a joker in this Bill,
under which their, clients will participate in
the thirty million dollar steal.
While the amendments enacted by the
House eliminate a few of the rank injustices
of this corporation-hatched subsidy scandal,
the Bill as it now stands is rotten to the core.
Congress has no Constitutional power to
take your taxes and allot huge subsidies to a
few individuals.
The Hearst newspapers, the corporation
owned dailies of the big cities, and hired hack¬
writers who take daily orders from Rockefel¬
ler and Gary’s Washington lobbyists, tell you
that this nation will derive enormous benefits
from tins' so-called subsidy to our. Merchant.
Marine.
Is it right to tax all the people for the
benefit of a few ship operators?
If the administration had intended to bui Id
up a Merchant Marine, why did the original
^raft exclude the “tramp ships” and restrict
the allotment to regular linesrs?
The rich cornorations own the regular
liners, and this subsidy has those interests in
wind and not the welfare of our Merchant
Murine.
The Shipping Trust desires to drive
“tramp ships” off the seas, eliminate outside
competition, and give the trusts an open
road and free field to rob the public.
The beneficiaries of Special Favors are
entrenched in power. Their lobbyists and law¬
yers write tariff legislation, revenue bills,
subsidy grabs, and Congress has little to say
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