The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-09-21
STOPPING TRAITOR
Gus NEWSPAPERS

After far too much indulgence, the
various newspapers which for years
have been fourishing in this country
on filth, anarchism and lies are to be
gagged. One of the worst offenders
has been the Jeffersonian what a viol
lation of the name of Jefferson), pub
lished by Tom Watson the Georgia
paranoiae, one-time close friend ard
political running mate of Col. Bryan
Watson is extremely bitter toward
President Wilson, who he say is a
worse ~autocrat than the gar ever was
and a worse federalist than Taft on
any other republican president ever
was. Wilson, he asserts, has made
himself dictator and has done things
under the guise of democracy which
could never have been accomplished
under the banner of republicanism.
"The old federal party lives again
in Woodrow Wilson and in the con-
gressional hunkeys who, at his dicta-
ton trample on the constitution they
swore to support" he says. AS to
the senator's and members, he charaef
terizes them as poor little cuckoos5t
poor little witless, spineless, sightlg8
Goddess parrots" echoing only ~
masters words.
He declares that Wilson got himself
reelected on the plea that "he kept
us out Of war;" and then turned around
and got US right into the war, as "the
active partner of England in her land
war" He tells the president to call off
his dogs; call off the intimidation and
let the people be heard.
So scurrilous and unbridled have
been his attacks on the government,
the war, religion and everything else
that the postal authorities took the
matter up and shut his rawlings out Of
the mails. He brought suit for an in
junction to have this action rescinded,
but Federal Judge Speer, in a scorrh-
ing decision, told him his case had no
standing at the bar of justice.
The judge quoted freely from pas
sages in the J~effersonian, such as these
"What about a carload of German sbap
madeo nut of our boys? What abbut
manuring German fields with our bEa-
vest youth, and fattening German hogs
on the choicest selection from Ameri-
can manhood? 81 raised my boy to be
a soldier says the song, but did moth
er raise him to be pig feed?"
Judge Speer declared that Watson
had forfeited his claim to the right of
free speech by the way he had abused
that sacred right. People must come
into court with clean hands if they ex-
pect to be protected, he said. If such
fellows as Watson were allowed To
carry on such a propaganda as this to
make people believe that our young
men are as good as dead if they go to
the defense of their country, then this
nation would collapse just as Russia
has as a result of the same disloyal
undermining, he warned. A score or
more of our dirty socialistie and an
archistie sheets which have cumhared
the mails have also been shut out aid
the courts are upholding their suppress
sion.
Many persons all over the country
who have stopped over by opposing
the draft, interfering with government
work or transportation, threatening
the president or other high officials
ETC., have been arrested and some of
them have been sent to prison. Two
Virginia mountain leaders, Mccoy and
Phipps, have been sent to the peniten-
tiary for five years for trying to or
ganize the people of that region to
burn bridges, loot farms, resist the
draft and nght all corners. The evil
dence showed that German agents had
been through the country bribing men
to carry on this plot work, and each
man who Joined the band was paid
$3.50. The organizers scattered
some $4,000 and offered 100000 more
when the government got wind of the
conspiracy and promptly wound it W
by gathering in the ~ringleaders.
Mrs. Bertha Fraser was sent to jai'
in New York for making disloya.
speeches on the street, ridiculing tht
soldiers and s~tigmatizing the uniform
as a badge of shame. "If this kind Of
speech-making is continued, the au'
thoritie will stop it with an iron hand
said the judge in ~lecturing her
Adolph Deutsch-whose name wei
enough indicates his originals SEN
to the workhouse for making a soap
box" speech in which he denounced
the president and conservation.