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The Secret Is Out ~ Lloyd Georqe
Tells It.
The Great American Public still likes to
be fooled, as it did in the days of the late P.
Iff
cm his recent MMt hot u Hi was winul a
o-mnl. ,. and flat.ered to his lioa t s content, i
t,." Bailors ot the V orld ® ’
in ms effort ^’ ® 8 ke the^L C agae oS Nations
ajipeai what threat Biitain, h ranee, Italy all
w.nnt it 1° appear to this so-nch and ^-gener
(HIS Lmted Mates §f America. public that Aost j mil
ri l° fJ 1 ’ eat Ameilean
lible ... , propaganda, of all , publics, is leading ^ caretufiy all ot
1 his
ol European statesmanship, twidijpng yjndering its
1 immbs, feeling its pocket book, sometluiiL and this
if, atter all. there may not be *6r| in
I' 1 "" ..f ■■ t hp c!v,ltat, M ., of the tod-
1 "~ •rf'vYV i
The Munioe „ rihpfrbio'? Doctnne? nit Oh well, iTr.li Lnntr many nf ot
- the they old hove beliefs na«l and to the change; o^kl orders and ha^ve|hanged this fe where
Ihc wily little TV elshman was able to jfov put over
so many of his specious saying arguments than: the
League, wliiclt is really Great
Britain will keep on claiming rriore of tfie map;
Italy will keep on doing, the same thfiig; and
France will hold to what she has. refuse to
pay hack that which she has borrowed, but the
sp-good Uncle Samuel will be tightly sewed up
id. an agreement which will make him for ever
tbc banker and the endorser of the grabbers
of Europe.
In one of his last addresses delivered in
Ke'w York, just before lie went home to giv CD
an accounting of bis tour, Lloyd George nsk yi
the United States to “share in saving Europe.”
Before what was said to be one of the most
brilliant audiences ever gathered in New York,
. the little Welshman,, eager to report success to
Tils Most (jraeious Majesty, King George IV
of Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, etc., rang
the changes on all he lias said in his trip
through this country—and “cetoentmg the the chances are he
w.ll succeed m ties of this
great; end glorious country, to her sisters
•x¥'7\vxi cffi ghln,Vhen Will 1 'pK‘f^at -great and and
vr t nited States - such a bargain has
been sealed?
This;
She will he dragged into every war that
will eome-and they will come as surely as the
next days sun. when Great Britain, France,
Italy and their allies decide to make war on
those other nations not represented.
Men, arms, ships, money—all of these will _
be poured into Europe, when Downing Street
says the word
And what does the United States get?
The shackles of the International Bankers
so firmly fixed that nothing will ever loosen
them. ‘
Taxation to the utmost limit, on every
thing that an American uses, eats, wears and
makes.
The New York Herald had one of the most
comprehensive reports of the speech of Lloyd
George, and extracts are given here:
“Why did you enter the war?” he asked
this American audience, and answered his
question with the sort of passage that has
swept many a staid English audience off its
feet under liis spell.
f “Why did the unanimous impulse come to
you? You cannot tell, you cannot tell—mystic—
\the »know wind whence bloweth it cometh where it li.steth, and wo
not or whither it goeth.
It was one of those great impulses which come
when a nation’s .sense-of justice is outraged.
r T^at is why I say that nations that are moved
by %ueh fWmdom incentives are the only sure guarantors
of and civilization in the world.”
Then he swung into one of those fine pero¬
rations of his, as follows:
“Thc .commission of trusteeship for civil!-
'/a tionldoes not e<rfne irom- Kings; it does not
come irom frulers or Princes; it does not
come t'rem Senates and Parliaments nor Coun
cils. Incomes from on High. When it comes
if does no j,, come from the choice of the people,
It comes from t]ie will of God.
' r U-“Thai commission—thfct commission
is
y urns and Iou:-responded o>ir today. The soene invisible is a divine
to the message
1917 and we had already done so: but the
ijEjinssion it is is fulfilled. discharged The work is half
Plot fully—fully—
pHI Ipk yzatioii oatariropirr' is doomed such tfithin the world this generation has
as never
(blrokiqgJps hrensl). But if you here,
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Price $1.80 Per Year
A Biography of Thomas E. Watson
By Grover C. Edmondson and Alice Louise Lytic.
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Thomson, Georgia, October 1923. (Copyright.)
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ldeas of lcyaty he staid with that side'
which had sent him to Congress—and there dug
his political grave for many long, weary, heart
breaking years.
Th e u tter desolation of that period of his life
when he was prevented from taking his seat
to which he had been honestly re-elected, is one
of the most tragic periods in the life of any pub
he man for many decades.Returning to his home
»t the close of the Fifty-second Congress, the
demonstration made by his “own people” repaid
him for much of what he had been made suffer
j n former years. A carriage festooned with
Sowers awaited hta, and t, this » of his
* rlends bore u R° n theii shoulders. Driven
to a grove on the out skirts _ of town, he made an
address of more than two hours, giving an ac
count of his service m the House of
tives, and laying before the people the derelid
(ions of the Democratic party-its violations of
its pledges and Jeffersonian principles.
Having refused to neglect his duties in Con
gress to conduct his campaign for re-election,
and having no publication of his own through
which to answer the charge of having bolted
from the Democratic party, there was injected
into the very beginning of the campaign an ani
mus and a bitterness which Mr .Watson never
forgot, and never recovered from.
When he had finished the last part of his term
and came back to Georgia for good, it was too
late to overcome even in part, the undermining
of his candidacy for re-election, and some of the
tactics employed by his opponent, were unpar
alelled in the political history of Georgia, for
dishonesty and cruelty.
In Richmond County—the home County m big
opponent, frauds were committed which vverpj
only paraded in later years when the
were burned by George Carswell, to defeat Mr,
Watson again, for Congress but the
tjrtioni..<voters fp>m South Carolina:
0 A E * V ° n ’ mVer
Obliterated.
'. Hid defeat could not be accomplished by any
other means; and when the governor himself
said “Watson ought to be killed,” it was not
W to see the end.
Outlawed, vilhfied, hounded, howled at, pillor
led . and lampooned—was it any wonder that he
withdrew from the world, and leaned again on
the patient arms of that brave, loving little soul
™ 601 ^ ,a ’ w 50 !tad * one hte P b Y ste P
Wltb hl “- ai ' d clo f ed tbe doors of their ,
against the world
T ?, h ®f If of th w p f noc ........... oJ: JJ ei 5
w U thif . indigaation; . hor- 1
. .
ror f or * hat tbe tnmds of menxould conceive, even
® the heat of political passion, the schemes and
P lan f that wei ^ Put m operation; indigna
tion that , he seemed to be so utterly alone and
defenseless in this-the darkest hour of h.s life.
Chapter IV.
After IT ail—what 11 makes a marhgreat. Is it
that ,, he stands apait tiom the ordinary ot
run
man because of his bram power, or because of
t e gift he has oi doing I lie ordinary dung in
an extraordinary way.
® r « a P® 111 q} 8 ov ' n nilIld l bos. E. \V a,son
felt . ,, that day would above lus
some ie rise
tellows, as he did; but bad ne known the price
ne was to pay , had he known thiougn what
avenues of sorrow, humiliation and agony he
was-to tread the way to greatness, is it. possi
ble lie might have chosen to ho less famous and
iappier?
In the days of his ^ young manhood, cursed
as he was with a disposition that was at times
at war with itself, no less than with its sur
roundings, he has said frequently that much
of his later unhappiness dated from it. lie
was, essentially 7 , a lonely man; he had few in
timates even at the time when all young men
are supposed to have them. His ambition had
so little to feed on other than his brain capaci
ty. Knowing no influential people, having no
money and no wealthy relatives, his short
college term at Mercer—that college which
never honored him nor noticed him in
way, and whose ignoring of him lie frequently
referred to—were not the carefree days of the
average student. He knew that the poverty of
his father would not permit him to look for
ward to another term, and he also knew that
he wottld Jiave to enter on the profession
of teaching as soon as he could secure a school.
In those days he learned, through that
bitter school of experience whose lessons we
IqjcjoiU the $klkur of iius Jam Miuu
Thomson, Georgia, Monday, November 12, 1923.
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pt* 0 p] 0 and their descendents who formed that
J, ^rmidable politician'in army of “Watson tried men” placate, whom
er y the State to
& the years Watson was a power.
j| « xt X is never the members "dual of one’s own fam
fiends y know the as well as the
one makes, in the world of work and
feting. To the family, Tlios. E. Watson was,
% i,; s vounaer those'who davs not the man of vision
he'was to met him on the liust
r+ : a Wfl ii +j ia t fi ds : s so f or no man
^ keen 1ID jj ie strain at home that he
E es under “f .Swlrld w j,en lie is making wSiehbs his so''1A tight for a
to
g the victor, and again so eager to turn
f nimbs <i own + n the vanouished Mr.‘
l n a letter written hv Watson while
United st»tn« V Senate Mnv o 1090 to
S pp. f rSn r ; 01H i t n tvs dire F Loimlev " of Ln Grume
0 bo ’*' ’ *
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A “vr v d'-ir [iidm.
•' '* '*
I You •
should have followed your first
■ impulse, and addressed me as those who
; love me usually do.
yt I never stand on ceremony, and I am
just the plain, simple Democrat that I al
, ways have been since I hit the grit at
sixteen years of age, without house or
home, without a dollar in my 7 poeliet, and
worked my way up in the world.
The reason why the common man under
stands me is because I understand him.
In the old davs, when I was teaching
. school for a living, and reading law at nigl^
‘In the blaze of the pine knots of Southeast
Georgia, where the wire grass grew, and
J ,, , , ,, ,, ,, •
l-v^mdI / f’ knew vvhatlt the'be w->s to md th-V at
<])e « al)|e * 0 ] the l poor, ; share U- H 0 f
| for School aIlf) housed tea h t dm~hter< ir
hs which w walkcii
\ a a;;;- ■■ ^
It was in this hard but beneficial school
of experience P that 1 I Far e^tU nod the lessons of
tUm 1 *f ve r '
1 a “ now toa aId to c/iange, 1- and A what , , , L
, ,
‘ ‘\ T ery - truly tuuj and*respectfully ai a lespcauuD yours >ours,
{k ® lu } ‘ % E< ^ atson ’
This att itude was not a poseSwith him—
it was the real man. lie hated ceremony
red tap6t and 0 f a n the public
has had. he was the easiest to get at, personally..
u was this which held his followers to him;
there was no disrespect meant when lie was ad
dresged as ««T om »> on ai iy and every occa
s j on by those men who were actually the tillers
‘
of the 8bil< and Avhose friendship and affection
^ valued to the day of hs dea th.
And this is thc answer to the query at the
beginning of this chapter: it was part of what
made him great. His brain power was a thing
apart; it was his doing the ordinary things
an extraordinary way that le brought to him
f hat army wh ich would followed
through left any path he laid ou^prhich would have
to him the planning, the answer to all nr
g lim ent, and rested securely 7 in the feeling that
<.x 0 m knew how, and all would be well.”
Fanaticism? Perhaps.
every great movement, in every 7 phase
0 f civilized history has been started on such
f ana tieism, and every great leader—who was
^j r8 f a student of conditions—came from just
such environment, up from just such sur
roundings, waded through just such difficulties,
as did Thos. E. Watson.
There w-as sorrow in plenty at this period
of his life, and some of his best work was
done under the shadow of it. The little fami
ly had grown to three children two daugh
ters ana the only son. The home in which
they lived is very much as it was left when
affluence took them to the more pretentious
“Hickory Hill,” but it was the “Old
Place” which held more of the dreams, more
0 f the sorrows and tragedies than did the
home, which hp had dreamed of—and
whose dreams lie fulfilled.
Louise, Ihe younger of the children seemed
to be closer to him. in her baby days than
either of the others. much Disappointment had em
bittered him; of what he had fought for
lacked leadership- and af-tet the death of
Louise in 1889 he again entered politics, com.-,
ing out as a Farmers’ Alliance candidate for
Congress.
JCte'-Xi
Issued Weekly
Why Sch00 ‘
For many years the lute Tlios. E. Watson
agitated the question of free school books for
Southern.School hook Deposit on. A gentle
n !:m 111 Atiums ' ,lcs ini V r tw knmv f‘ nu, ( 1,n ' s
this , concern as a t Imsim-ss investment, n rote
his bank connect ion in Ajlnnta—the Atlanta
^rust ( ompany, and here is the lettci no 10 -
reived in reply
Dear Sir.—
In re Southern School Book Depository ultimo 7 .
Answering your letter of the 21st
with regard to the above company, we wish
to advise that this is one of the oldest in¬
stitutions in the city of Atlanta, having op¬
erated over a period of a great many years
profitably and satisfactorily to its officers
and stockholders.
The management are men of integrity, and
of the highest ability and character,
are well thought of iu Atlanta,
They opened a new department of thei;
business at the beginning- of their fiscal
year, and this has grown to such ehormout
proportions that they are seelur ; to in
crease their capital investment. busi
\Ve believe that the future of this •
• ness is propitious and will be an indication
of splendid results to the stockholders.
Very truly vours,
S. McGAUGIIY,
Vice-President.
No stronger idea for the abolishment of
this gigantic trust’s control ot the State ot
Georgia can be given, than an exact repre¬
duction ot the leaflet sent out by the concern
j itself. On the first page ls givcn. under the titio
of “At Five otrategic Points, ’ an outline map
I of Texas- Tennessee, Mississippi, (icorgia
and Florida, The cities in which the Book
| Trust Dallas. is Texas; located Memphis, in the respective Tennessee; States Jackson, are:
Mississippi;* Atlanta, Georgia, and .Jaoksou
fattening on thlpeople of the Stare of conductive Georgia
is- an unpopular thing to do—one
to J filthy abuse, curtailment of one’s business,
and , ,i„ <1 r - led!lorf ^ money mnnpv
X
wavs resent the ’status of her rank in the illit
‘
w e have educational laws, and
we should devise some'means of making ertu
cation less costly than : t is. But we will never
do that Until wo kill the‘Southern School Book
Octm Sead ms.
for yourselves, and then see that your
extra legislative session dor - something in the
matter
AT FIVE STRATEGIC POINTS.
Capitalisation L-97-1922 Surplus
$725,000.00 $311 -172.47
THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL-BOOK DEPOS¬
ITOSY, INC.
(Georgia Corporation.)
Offers direct, for a limited period, a portion ot
original capital stock. Fifteen Hundred
Shares (Treasury- Stock) paid up and non-as
sessible at Par $100 a Share. Now’ yielding 8
per cent and above. Tax free in Georgia and
not, subject to Normal Federal Income Tax.
Summarizing from the more detailed de¬
scriptiou within, your attention is directed to
the following facts:
BUSINESS AND DIVIDEND STATEMENT
After three years of successful operation
as a corporation this state-safeguarded, suhstau-. supor
vised business has never failed to pay
tial dividends, averaging 8 per cent. Still
larger yields are indicated iu (he immediate
future,
The corporation now has 1,500 shares of
capital stock recently acquired from the foun¬
ders of the business. The stock is being of
ferred direct by our own salesmen, to our cus
tomers and their friends,
This business accurately forecasts its de
mand for five years ahead at fixed prices—a
"ahiahlc and unusual safeguard for investors
vade poss ’ le by State lows fixing school-book
pri es on a tine-year contract basis. Rrgulari
*'< o e earnings assur'd and certainty of profits are in
h ' > for this corporation and its
'Ooicholders during dull as well as good times.
Every form of government under which
you live fosters this business by enormous ap
propriations Each for use in purchasing school
books. year marks an increase in chib
drew and, nat.irally. an increase in the business
* iOffltijtaue ]d v.n I 'W .j.
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