The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-07-20
PAGE FIVh
Notes ON the National Situation.

able to determine whether he looks best
as the War-lord, or as William Penn. A
spiked helmet doesn't set very we'll on Wood
row but broad brimmed Quazer-hat might
not please his lovely young wife. However,
the country would like to see him choose his
part, and then stick to it. We Democrats
hate to be churned around so much These /,
frequent somersaults make us real bilious.
One month he is too proud and right to
fight, and then we recognize William Penn;
the next month, he tells the awed Press-club,
"If anybody is looking for fight with me,
he can get fight to finish" Then he goes
to Indianapolis to make a speech, and de-
clares that its none of our business to meddle
in Mexico, after which he NEEDLES very ex-
pensively, in blood and treasure.
Three weeks ago, the spiked helmet was his
topper, and he declared II am in my fight
ing mood, and am accepting all challenges;"
then he borrowed the Quaker hat, and said
In effect that Brotherly Love was what
Mexico needed.
Next, they buried the dead niggers, at
Arlington, alongside the heroes of the Blue
and Gray, as though the brutes who shot up
peaceful San Geronimo and made an un-
provoked attack on Carrizal, were the equals
of the men who fought and died at Gettys-
burg.
That was famous trick they worked, to
trap our young men into the y. S. Army.
The State troops were called out, with hys-
terical haste and clamer, Just as though there
had been an i7ovasion, an resurrection, Or a
concerted resistance to the enforcement Of our
EuirS.
On those three grounds, only, can the Presi-
dent lawfully muster the militia out of the
States; and neither of those three grounds
enisted.
Congress could not authorize the use of the
State troops on the border, because Congress
hos no such authority
Congress is a creature of the Constitution,
and is not superior to it's creator.
But in the excitement and hubbub, the
young men rushed from the mills, the stores,
the Offices, and the farms, intending a short
scrt3ce IN the maa15tia.
AS soon as the y. S. officers took charge,
these young men were required to swear
themselves into U. S. service for years!
This was mean and unlawful advantage
to take of those young men, and of their
fathers and mothers.
A fair illustration Of what has taken place
is given in the following letter:
Dear Sir: have cousin who joined the State
militia at Piedmont, Ala, about 80 days ago.
June the 26th they were ordered to Montgomery,
arriving at Montgomery they were asked to take
the Federal oath, whereby they might be forced
to go to Mexico, across the seas.
Several of the Piedmont company have refused
to take the additional oath, cousin of mine is
of the men that refused to take it, have
been told by of the boys that refused
by the medical examiners and sent home, that
the officers are making fun of the boys that re-
fuse to take the oath, and making them do
all the dirty, nasty work they find, and
twitting them BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO
TAKE THE OATH,
This boy has a wife and two small children
His wifes parents dead and he is the only
support she has. They in very bad circum-
stances. I under the impression this boy is
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