The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-11-21
SIZING UP THE SITUATION.

wealth gladly gives space in it's columns to ex.
cerpts from the gentleman's complete exposure
of the malicious tactics resorted to by the Repub.
licans in their efforts to gain control of the federal
government again. The following is commended
for your careful ~perusal:
"The most remarkable campaign ever waged
in this government has terminated in the most
unexpected manner.
THE war waged on Wilson was deceitful and
hypocritical from it's inception, and never was a
public man, who has served his people so wisely
and so well, been villified and abused. He had Of
Tended the money worshippers of the East, who,
although reveling in the most wonderful prosper
ity ever known in America, were not satisfied,
because they were not permitted to exploit the
government and direct it's destiny along the path
way of pelf and greed. They have worshipped
money so long, and it was so long enthroned in
Washington under Republican rule, that they re-
scented bitterly Wilson's efforts to advance popular
government and the interests of the common peo-
pie. Above all things they resented the success
full effort of our president to take away from Wall
street control over the finances of the government
and make it possible for a few men in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago to initiate or de-
press the money market and to create a panic
whenever it suited their interests. It is not to be
wondered at that they rallied their slaves and
money worshippers and struck with all their
might at the leader of the people. They cap
tured New England, New York, Pennsylvania,
and Illinois, where the golden calf is worshipped
above all things, and they dreamed that these
states meant the Union, and consequently before
the voting had ceased in the West they proclaim
ed the election for their candidate. They did not
realize that there had been an awakening of the
people in 1912, or if they did they thought they
had fallen asleep again and would vote for name
and not principles.
1.-THE sturdy farmers and laborers of Ohio, and
the great West could not be deceived. They knew
their leader, their friend, their guide and protect
or, and they rose in their might and smote the de-
voices of Mammon and Moloch. 1t was a conflict
between men and money, and there were enough
men and women outside the influence of the
great interests" to uphold popular government
and the divine principles of a higher American
ism. They arose in their might and smote the
money barons and their followers "hip and
thigh" They have said to they: "Your cove
nant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the
overlooking scourge shall pass through, then We
shall be trodden down by it" "
my father, when / was a boy, had a dream
OF the day when the people of the South and West,
the producers of America, the sons of the soil and
the laborers of the shops, would see that their
interests, their hopes, their desires were the same,
and would fall into line and march together in
solid rho1onv opoipct Tho r,opoyy L;o~o and +bo
Of the protective tariff. That dream
in this year of grace has become a reality, grand
and imposing, and l wish my father could have
to have seen Georgia and Ohio, Virginia and
Nebraska, Texas and California, Mississippi and
arm in arm, gaining a marvellous victory
in favor of popular government. I sometimes al
despair of a government by the people, when
| see them so negligent of civic duties, but to me
this election is the dawn of the brightest day in
the history of the American government. Lin
colin proclaimed the emancipation Of the negro,
but the voters of the South and West have pro-
in tones that will reverperate through
the centuries the emancipation of white men and
women from the money masters of the East.
This is an epoch in the existence of this govern
nent and history is being made that will have a
marked effect on the future of our government.
Blessed be the Lord God for He hath visited
and redeemed His people,"
With England growing, Germany p~rowling
md Mexico snapping.at the American heels, Uncle
Sammy occupies anything but an enviable position
n the society of nations.
If the European combatants continue scrapp-
ng back and forth the grass will soon be in dan
ger Of extinction.
Some are Growing and others are eating crow,