The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-06-08

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Pull it's wearers for speeding. They
are too fast
A short time ago we roasted
Bloody Bill because he was going to
send the lunatics to the trenches.
Now watch the "-blats" come back
at us for putting the deaf mutes be-
hind the guns, as suggested by G.
Emory Horne, of Atlanta.
But at that it is only poetic justice.
For many. many years the deaf ones
have used horn, now the Horne will
use them.
America Must Fight Now" is the
British opinion. By jove, our ally is
rather astute, eh. wot? 1t took them
only two months after we had said
we would to decide that we would
fight, dontchernow. Yaas.
Peace Conference Desired by
Russia" Give Black Jack Pershing
thirty days and we will have the best
little old peace conference you ever
saw Russia
Negroes are catching it in Panama,
too. Trouble sings the Mutt and
Jeff hit to the black. "I'll follow you
where'er you go, from Portland,
Maine, to Mexico"
The Triton Gazette extends to the
bride most harty welcome" Well.
hart is dear anyway, J. Dana.
Another egg Spectator in these cold
storage days is the man who sits
down at a table and has an egg placed
, before him-Savannah News.
Eat hog and hominey, combine
America First" with Safety First"
!! But is an egg not as patriotic as
hog and hominy?" asks a reader.
Course it is not, when the egg con-
tains foreign body.
! Bryan gets into the dispatches by
buying $1,000 Liberty Bond. He
ought 70 have bought at least fifty of
that size.--Savannah Press.
Mr.. Sutlive seems to have forgotten
that Bryan ran thrice for the presi-
dency. Or else, having never run
himself he does not realize the ire
mendouS financial drain of such
proceeding.
Ben Hill county was one of the
few counties of the state that regis
tered in excess of the government es-
innate. And that despite the fact
that far greater percentage of vol
unteers has been obtained from Ben
Hill than from any other in Georgia.
what does that mean? 1t means that
this section has increased in popula-
ton tar in excess of the average on
which the government estimates are
based
A father might feel himself iusti-
ned in chastising his child for being
unduly rude to its little brother but
would warmly resent another man
taking the same privilege. Likewise
under certain conditions one man is
justified in going out and beating I'D
particular other man, whereas some
one else would not have that right, le-
gally or morally.
With those premises understood
proceed Among those who urged
| America to declare war were a few
who had nothing but selfish and nj
terror motives, while the great ma
-Jority were purely patriotic. Like
wise, among those who opposed war
the Pacihsts, were a few who were
wholly out of sympathy with Amer
icanism and were working entirely
for an alien. But just as surely, vas
majority of them firmly believed in
their cause, as their fearless sacrifices
on the altar of public opinion amply |
proves.
In judging pacifists follow the ex-
ample of the United States govern
ment. In the exemptions from con-
scription the administration refuses
to exempt any class of citizens, as a |
whole, but insists on looking into each |
case individually Follow your presi-
dents example.