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


ity given the aspersions on the Amer,
icanism of this state accustomed by
the Hardwick encouraged and Wat.
son fathered cOpperhead. anti-draft
| meetings over the state, we have al
least the comfort of knowing that
stacking in this state is not nearly
so bad as it appears to be. says the
Macon Telegraph. There have been
| dozen or so meetings held to pro-
money to make a sizeable attorney S
fee for Thomas (. Watson before he
embarks on a legal emprise on the
basis of "constitutionality that will
not be admissible when he does bring
it, if his poor dupes ever get even
that much show for their "cOme-on
donations. but even so this is state
of nearly three million people and of
all that great rural population only
few thousands have even attended
these anti-draft meetings. The fact
that we are afflicted with the resi-
dence of Watson has brought about
the main manifestation of his so far
largely unsuccessful efforts mostly in
that neighborhood i'll Georgia embrac-
ing his own congressional district.
Much worse trouble is on among
the hill-billies of Oklahoma and we
learn that the first outbreak serious
enough to bring about an appeal to
federal Intervention has come from
North Carolina The propaganda OF
Watson will certainly land a few OF
his followers i'll jail, when they'll
promptly hire him to get them out
and so fatten his already well filled
purse as he has replenished it from
the hard earned stores OF the coun-
try men and women who believe i'll
him. but so far in Georgia there
ings. no organized effort to forcibly
resist the draft as the ill-informed
and misguided minority in some sec
tionss have been stirred up by UNI
principled. treacherous leaders to at
tempt. The courage of the hero Wat
son has so far not broken bounds be-
yond mounting about constitutional
ity" and appeals for funds to be
placed in his care to pay him for
what legal activities he may feel him
self called on to exert at some as
yet unnamed time and at some as yet
unnamed stage in the application OF
the draft
The American republic has 100000
o00 people and it would be strange
indeed if there did not develop some
honest aid some by no means disin-
terested opposition to any measure
and especially one that strikes for
as high and pure plane of democ-
racy and idealism as the present con
scription law. The fact that there
has been so little demonstration, so
little opposition, such general ap-
nroval and resignation TO the draft,
with all it means to the individual,
is the surest earnest to the world OF
Americas pure Americanism. of its
patriotism and the vision and fealty
of its people
We have, it is true, few Watsons
who. when they are not actuated by
a semi-insane lust for stirring to heat
the passions of even so small a num-
Der of people, be that number ever
so small coax money from the peck
cts of deluded followers.
This latter is what Watson is dong
now. The moment a man is called
by the army to serve he is a sol
der. Not until he resists that ac-
tual summons can Watson or any one
else bring a restraining action be-
cause not until then will the indlYld-
nal freedom of conduct of any man
ne abridged. When he does bring it
there will not be court in the land
with authority to take that man from
the armys custody and he will have
ia test the cOnstitutiOnality OF the
draft law before a board of army Of
ficers. who, empowered to retain their