Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-12-23
MORSE PARDON ATTACKED
BY THOMAS E. WATSON
In CUrrGgt Issue Of "ThG
JGffGrSODian"

Atlanta, December 22.-The pro
posed pardon of Charles w. Morse is
mercilessly attacked by Thomas E
Watson in the current issue of "Thc
Ieffersonian"
Mr.. Watson makes sensational
charges against all who have beer
interested in the case on Morse's be-
hail. He says that Morse's illness
is probably all fake; that Morse S
shipping trust has already been re.
fUmed in New York and that the men
behind it are only awaiting the return
Of Morse to take charge of it.
Friends of Mr.. Morse here are as
founded, for Mr.. Watson's editorial
is the first intimation from any
source that Morse was in anything
but a hopeless and dying condition.
They still insist that this is true,
and that Mr.. Watson's attack is a
cruel and wanton blow at a man who
is down and out forever.
Attacking Morse personally, Wat
son says:
THAT remorseless brute, that pitt
less fiend in human shape, was re-
sponsible for the death of more in
nocents than Herod slew.
"He sent boats up the Hudson and
destroyed the natural ice formed on
the river. He put up the price,
of artificial ice, and changed the
rules of selling. No quantity less
than ten cents worth would he sell
This new rule and the increased price
shut out the very poor.
Thus Morse became the ally If
disease and death. In the noisome
crowded, airless, suffocating tene-
ments. the sick died like flies. Child
rem wilted, babes painted and died.
"In vain, the newspapers of New
York and Newark implored Morse 10
have mercy on the sick and the poor
The fiinty-hearted monster was deaf
to every entreaty. He reaped lis
prof1ts-he and death both cashed IN.
"Of all the horrors of monopoly,
that of Morse was the most appalling
ly hideous.
Finally, he was convicted of fl
nancial swindle, and was sent to
serve a term in the penitentiary near
Atlanta.
Ever since, his wife and some
friends have been moving heaven and
earth to get him out. Having failed
in all other pretexts, they have now
resorted to the doomed man" racket,
The doctor says Morse has an incura-
BILE disease but he cannot say when
the end will come.
PRECISELY. That leaves a nice, big
hole to crawl out through when Mr.
Morse, having been pardoned, lives
the natural term of his wicked life.
That human butcher has never
really suffered any further punish
ment than confinement to the peni-
tentiary. He is now in first class
hospital, the star inmte What he
wnts is freedom to form other trusts
and to wiring blood money from the
victims of some other merciless mo-
nopoly."
To all this invective, the friends of
Morse here point to two facts. One
is that Morse's condition is not se-
cret He is very, very i'll, they say
at the army post at Fort Mcpherson,
and physicians who have nothing TN
earth to do with the governments at
titude in the matter, have pronounc-
ed him a doomed man. The other
point they make is that the govern
mems attitudt in the matter, have
pronounced him a doomed man. The
other point they make is that the
government, far from holding out any
hope of giving Morse his freedom, has
lust announced that he can hope for
nothing more nor in the near future
than the mercy that has already beer
extended in removing him from the
penitentiary to the federal hospital.