The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-10
WATSON CONE ON GAME

man ny att VI CONGRESS anu pIeSlue0-
tial signature, will and should mere
ly laugh at the red-headed lawyer
who comes into court. - Watson
knows this, or if he doesn't know it.
he's not a good enough lawyer for
trusting fathers and mothesr to send
their money to so they will be legally
represented in this draft tesla
test that will never be made i'll &C
tuality, although Watson will doubt
less file enough papers somewhere,
or attempt to file them. to justify to
his own elastic conscience the keep
ing OF the money he has collected.
In the meantime, the provost mar
shall issues a solemn and timely warn
ing. Once a man is summoned to join
his camp and refuses he becomes au-
tomatically a deserter and will be
treated as such. The army is strict
about these things The army must
be- Tom Watson won't be able then
to help the son sentenced to Leav
enwOrth, or to ten or fifteen years in
some other detention pen, just be-
cause his parents listened to the Mad
MuIah of McDuffie and took his by
no means disinterested rawlings as in
spired messages from on high.
Senator Hardwick with his open
encouragement of this fatal foolish
ness going on in Georgia. more lately
expressed by his efforts to have an
amendment to the cOnscript act that
would compel every soldier to volun-
teer to go to France before he could
be sent there, won't be able to save
the family whose boy listened to his
ed to copperhead personally in the
only way he could, by resisting the
draft from the shame and LIFELONG
ignominy of having an army deserter,
a coward and Stacker officially list
ed against the family name.
There are only a few people in
Georgia so deluded but they are hon
est and sincere about it and they are
called on to exercise the moral cour-
age and the physical danger of re-
sistng the draft. No such demand is
made on Watson-hes far too old to
be ever called. The Telegraph and
every other right thinking, honest
agency in Georgia would protect
them, and though they are very few
in number they are enough to put the
whole state in an unfavorable light
and bring a large aggregate of later
suffering, humiliation and woe to
Georgia families
In the meantime, if the government
wants to stop this pro-kaiser. anti
American agitation going on in Geor-
gia. it should arrest Watson and shut
him up and do it at once, without
talking about it and intimating dark
ly and pOrtentously that if he doesn't
watch out the COLLINS will certainly
get him. Watson isn't afraid OF these
sort of COLLINS. His especial personal
brand of COLLINS are dressed as Jes-
uits and knights of Columbus and
constantly circle his house and peer
at him over the foot of his bed and
rattle the doors of his cupbOards and
hide in lis shrubbery and whisper
treachery to his armed guards and
meet every night in the home OF
Cardinal Gibbons, when they don't
hon over to Rome to plot how they
can spirit him away and burn him
alive. or how they can sneak in q
side door and shoot him, or stab him.
or nut some Borgian phial in his COT
fee at breakfast, or make him take
fish and whisky, or milk and choke
cherries. and all sorts of vile and in
genious schemes to bring him to an
unholy end.
If the government wants to slap
Watson it had better clap him in jail
charged with melting to treason. re-
bellion and resistance to law, and ar
que the niceties of his verbiage in
court later on. and do it before he
makes any real trouble for some mis-
guided though honest folk in Georgia,