The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-09-06
AGAIN HE psFILEs THE PRESl-
DENT.

puts forth as his own would be re-
ceived with anything short of con-
| tempt. But at every opportunity he
seeks to borrow the livery of a re.
spectacle name and with perversions
of the truth which amount to brazen
mendacity, trumpets recent authori-
ties as endorsing as his own views
says the Macon News.
His charlatanry is not even clever.
1t is SO stupid that it is literally an
olfense to the understanding CT the
most unpretentious of men. He pro-
cesses to appeal to the plain people
Does he think the average man is
literally so dull-witted that he can't
read print?
His German Deutsche Journal
printed for the special benefit of
those who are so pro-Gcrman they
refuse to read English, does not cir
culate to any considerable extent in
Georgia.
But the Sunday issue of such of his
dailies as are printed in English are
filled with an Ubiquitous affrOnt 10 the
president of the United States by
claiming that the executive in his re-
ply to the pope voices the identical
views advocated by this reptile of the
newspaper world who was driven
from England as remorselessly as St.
Patrick drove the Hearst ancestors
from Ireland,
1t seems incredible that any man
should presume so far upon the SIM
plicity of the people as to think he
could get by" with this odious asso-
citation OF the presidents name with
his own, and yet the record is before
Us; and as ii in utter scOrn for the
comprehension Of Intelligent men,
Hearst himself furnishes the record.
He reproduces a signed editorial
which appeared in the Hearst news
papers of July 10, in which the fol
lowing paragraph appears:
Let the United States, alone, out
of her great wealth, restore France
and rebuild Belgium"
Was there ever a more infamous
proposition made to an honorable
and decent people? Was ever a
greater premium placed upon pilIage
and rapme and every other form of
cnormity OF which Germany has been
guilty, not only in France and Bel
GUM, but in Poland and Serbia and
Rumania and Armenia and Pales-
tine?
And yet this impudent charlatan
shouts:
The president has agreed, word
for word, with the terms advocated
by the Hearst newspapers
Even the dullest mind has seen
that the views of the vatican and
those Of the president OF the United
States were worlds apart. 1t has
been so accepted by every sane man
in every neutral or belliserent coun-
try-and by the pope himself Even
the Hearst press carried the state
mont: THE pope did not attempt to
conceal his bitter disappointment"
And YET in his desperate and fro
teaque effort to borrow a respectable
ijy which his own name can never
command, the unspeakable Hearst
dares to say:
When the policies we have advo-
Gated are thus endorsed and adopted
by the head OF the Catholic church
and by the Protestant president of
the United States, we feel that our
motives and our Judgment have in
deed received the mcat noble vindi-
cation that was ever accorded to a
public journal in the history of the
| world"
Q, shame, where is thy blush.
The destruction caused by the Ger
man brigand in the fair lands he has
laid waste amount to billions upon
billions. The actual money he has
stolen from the banks in those coun-
tries is so vast that the United Staes
would feel the burden of it for years
if, in some utterly unthinKaole mo
ment of idiocy, we undertook to pay
it back-and yet it would not be a
drop i'll the bucket.
Not even the dreamiest Missionaries
in Russia who have been caught by
| the shibboleth put into their mouths
| by the German hirelinS, Lenine, INC
indemnities," think of abs0lving Ger
many from the ordinary obligation Of
restitution which the court would i'm
pose on d sneak thief.
The utmost that any honest mar
has urged is that Germany shall MOI
be required to pay punitive damages
which every cross roads lawyers I'm
derstands as meaning something b.
way Of punishment over and beyont
the actual damage caused.
Even to release the Prussian ban
dts from this punitive damage woult
be to encourage them in another SO