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NOTES FROM UNITED STATES SENATE.
When the World War began, the prettiest
language which the propagandists could lind
in the dictionary was used to convince you that
your sons were going to be slaughtered in the
holy cause of liberty, democracy, self-govern¬
ment, organized conscience, the higher morali¬
ties and all the other virtues that could be
named.
The smoke lifted from the last gun of the
Great War on November 11, 1918, nearly four
years ago; and since that day, the world has
never been at peace.
France, England and Woodrow Wilson
made war on Russia, because she adopted a
form of government in which the money-bag
could not dictate the terms on which human
could live.
These civilized nations—France, England
and Woodrow Wilson not only sent troops into
Southern and Northern Russia to shoot down
the people, but they blockaded the sea-ports
so that, Russian men, women and children
could not sell their products to the outside
world, or buy food to keep them alive.
Tens of thousands of innocent Russians
perished under this diabolical policy of France,
England, and Woodrow Wilson.
I use Wilson’s name, instead of the Uni¬
ted States, because Wilson’s personal orders
sent the troops and the ships; Congress had
nothing to do with it,
In spite of all that France, Poland, Eng¬
land and Woodrow Wilson could do, the Rus¬
sians remained unconquered.
Their government has now lasted nearly
four years. Ours refuses to recognize it, just
as some corporations refuse to recognize labor
unions.
/ Why mortal should refuse to
any sane see
what is a know?: and visible fact, is one of the
mysteries of human nature.
A man driving an automobile may refuse
to see a telegraph pole, but something unpleas¬
ant occurs if he happens to strike the pole.
And the star-gazer said, “the world is
getting "better every day”: so it is: there is
less of' it every day.
The Greeks killed all the Turks they pos¬
sibly could when they landed at Smyrna and
marohad inland toward Angora—from which
place our choice goats are supposed to take
thedr name.
Then the Turks got help from somewhere
and they began to shoot up the Greeks in a
truly uncivilized manner.
The Armenians got massacred again,
v for, no matter what happens, the Armenians
get their share.
By the latest accounts the Greeks had been
wiped out, Smyrna was on fire, the raping had
begun, and King Constantine, who started it
all was thinking that he had better come to
, America and spend on himself the remainder
of Mrs. Deed’s tin-plate money.
Let him come! Any country that can
stand Elbert Gary, Herbert Hoover* and
Charles W. Morse can put up with Constan
, tine.
Our pot Is fearfully and wonderfully made.
The English say that the Turks shall not
have Constantinople, and the English are pre
paring for another war.
The City of Constantinople never did be¬
long to England—-why does she claim it now?
As every one knows, it was founded by a
Roman Emperor, although an Asiatic town had
existed there from time whereof the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary.
The Eastern Empire of the Romans, Oil
the Bosphorus, reached a height of power,
glory and civilization which lasted for cen¬
turies, but, strange to say, the average histo¬
rian has treated it with slighting contempt.
A connection was kept up between the
Eastern and Western Empires of Rome, until
the Bishops of Rome cut loose from Constan-
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tinople and thus caused the great division in
the Christian Church.
Many of the laws of the Western world
came from Constantinople, and her Emperors 1
earefully preserved the remains of Grecian
and Roman literature, while the bigoted Bish
ops of Rome destroyed every classic they
could lay their hands on.
hen the Turks in the Middle Ages cap
tuied Constantinople, there was a wholesale
scattering of Lie learned men of the City; and
these men not only betook themselves to EuK
lope but cairied with them the precious
uscripts which the Turk's would doubtless have
destroyed.
It was in . this way that the learning
rcvived in fhe West after the Bishops of
Speech on Financial and Industrial Problems and
The Daugherty Injunction.
DELIVERED BV SENATOR WATSON IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE SEPTEMBER I3tli, 1022.
Mr. President, in one of the biographies of
Alexander H. Stephens—who, as everybody
knows was vice president of the Southern Con¬
federacy, and one of the purest, best,-and
ablest of men that ever lived—lie gives an ac
count of a journey which he made by private
conveyance from Georgia through Alabama oi
up to Washing-ton City, on to Baltimore and
other points north; and I remember that in
this diary of his journey he says:
I sat in the gallery of the Senate, and
I heard Daniel Webster delivering a long
speech, apparently from notes, and there
was nobody listening to him on the floor,
and nobody iu the galleries. Next morn¬
ing when I reached Baltimore I was amaz- 4
ed to see onMhe front pages of all the pa¬
pers the headline: “The great speech of
Daniel Webster on' the finances.”
In listening to speeches here in the Senate
I have often been reminded of that. The seats
mostly are vacant, and desks neither open
nor shut. The" disbursing officer pays the
salaries, and the salaries come from the peo
ple; but the men who draw those salaries arc, ;
according to common report, some in Europe,
some in the East, some in the West, some in
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Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Sept. 25, 1922.
Rome had done tlieir best to bury it forever,
England holds Egypt under a dummy
King: she holds India with its native popula
tion of. nearly 200,000,000: she hoids the lio "9
of Ceylon: she holds Gibralt.er whim
command Spain and Portugal: she holds Cau
which is larger than our Union: she holds
Australia and Rew Zealand, which command
the South Pacific Ocean: she holds a strategic
of vast importance in Central Araeri
»a : sir. holds Mesopotamia, the land of an
empires, whose wheat and cotton will
mi drive ours from the markets-of Europe:
j 10 lcls Singapore which controls the China
she is the ally of Japan which shares with
the dominion of Asia: khe owns an empire
the North, some in the South; and no doubt
the mail reaches them all in due time, bringing
their monthly salary check.
The Senator from Alabama (Mr. Heflin)
deserves the thanks of his constituents and of
the country for the many able speeches which
he has made against our presgnt financial sys¬
tem. I can not add to what he has so elo¬
quently said eAept by this prediction, and
there are men living who will see it come true,
even if I do not: Unless this system is changed
this Government is going into the vortex of
a revolution and a new Government will arise
and take its place.
The Senator from Idaho (Mr. Borah) ask
gd ,ttye Senator from Alabama from, what
source he read, and the Senator from Alabama
said he was reading from John Skelton Wil¬
liams, who was for four years, I believe, the
Comptroller of the Currency under President
Wilson. I will read just one extract from the
official reports of those who now control the
^ adou s mnne M
In December, 1920, there was in circula
tiou $34,000,000,000. In December, 1921, there
was ' n circulation $24-,000,000,000.
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in Africa: she virtually owns Belgium and
Portugal: she has her infamous Herbert Hoov¬
er in Harding’s Cabinet continually draining
off American money to finance England’s
schemes under the pretext of feeding those
who have been beggared by England’s insatia¬
ble greed.
She now grabs at Constantinople, whose
possession in strong hands, would mean the
domination of the East and the We A.
Were I in the White Hous», 1 would put
into the fight -every ship and every man able
to bear arms before she should have it!
The Senate spent Friday debating a point,
of older, and it spent Saturday doing the
same.
The acting Vice-President, Senator Cum¬
mins, announced that he was in doubt how to
decide, and would like for the Senate to ad¬
journ, so that he might have all day Sunday
to meditate and pray over the subject.
These were not his exact words, but they
are in substance what he meant, and out of
respect for the Chair we adjourned.
The Senate never presents a more ridicu¬
lous aspect than when it devotes a whole day
to a -point of order—-which really is not de¬
batable at all.
Preceding the fearful point of order came
a “personal privilege” oration from my good
and great friend Heflin of Alabama.
One or two ineffectual attempts were made
to shut off the Honorable Thomas llefliu, but
he sublimely ignored these feeble interruptions
and went right on for about two hours.
By the time he had finished, he was
through, and he sat down victoriously.
So you see, we arc nearing adjournment
rapidly.
President Wilson proposed to lend five
million dollars of your money to the negroes
of Liberia.
As you know, these colored brethren wove
sent to a choice spot of Africa, about 100 years
ago by white dreamers who believed that if
the black man could be given a fair chance, all
to himself, without contaminating contact with
the whites, he would develop a culture and civ¬
ilization which, in due time, would save a lost
world.
Therefore the shemales and the hemales
of the Colonization Societies raked up the du¬
cats and the free negroes and sent them over,
on free tickets, to Liberia, and expected to'
see them flourish like the green bay tree.
Sad to relate, these free negroes who en¬
joyed all their “rights” in Africa, did not
prosper.
On the contrary, they made continual calls
on the funds of the Colonization Societies.
Naturally these well-meaning Societies fi¬
nally grew weary of feeding a lot of lazy Li¬
berians who wouldn’t even cultivate corn
patches on the richest land in tile world.
The philanthropic Societies cut off the
ducats, and the free negro, enjoying all his
rights, immediately mortgaged the country to
European speculators.
Of course, the blacks never even thought
of paying the debt, and the civilized specula¬
tors, seeing that President Wilson was lending
your money to nearly, all the nations of the
earth, could see no good reason why lie should
not lend Liberia enough to pay Morgan and
other cultured buccaneers.
But a hitch occurred somehow and some¬
where and gay Paris had got the best of Wil¬
son before the Liberian loan was made.
At this late day, when Mr. Harding says
•we have no money to pay our soldiers, the
hard-pressed Republican leaders bob up with
this Liberian loan, their purpose being to pla¬
cate the negro voters in close Republican
States.
They have not yet got this outrageous
Iqml .tkamg'ii, and I daa’ibelieys .they stilly
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