The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-02-01
WhY ShOIldnf
They Support
The President?


;ssues of the Marietta Journal, Jan.
9Th and 25th. | was delighted to
raad them and also delighted to know
that YOU had discerned the true ami
,nus of the opposition to Equal Suf-
frage when you said it was the dread
If women's votes against the liquor
..raffic. The excuse rendered is the
dread of cutting down of Georgia's
,anutation in Congress. And ami
mostly to the votes that MIGHT BE
east by negro women. Our eleven
congressman appear as violent Anti
Snffragists. Our immediate mem
her Representative, Hon. Gordon Lee
has published an open letter in Ma
con Telegraph where he predicts the
defeat of the movement by the Sem
ate "The wish was father to the
thought" 1t is perfectly legitimate
and entirely proper to say that Geor-
gia's Eleven-would be Small pota-
toes and few in the hill" if the votes
Of California women had not given
Mr.. Wilson his reelection. Their
own promotion in Congress is alb
solntely due to the fact that the re-
election of President Wilson cOntin-
ued them in prominent committee
nlaccs. To be perfectly candid they
would have been of as much real SER
vice if Mr.. Wilson had licked post
age stamp marked Georgia" and
Fastened it to the luxurious seats they
occupy IN the Hall of Representa-
t1yes, for they have been (up to the
9th day of january only solicitors
in shifting all responsibility to the
Presidents shoulders. While these
elegant gentlemen drawing more
than twenty dollars day, Sundays
included, have disappeared as mere
figure heads i'll national legislation.
What do feed you for?"-as Dad
DIV Rufus said to his oldmule, Kit,
when he whacked her launches, 'to
put move on her! Old Georgia
has never experienced such a crisis
as the present one. People hav ac-
italy frozen to death with heatless
nethods-and the coal situation has
been terrific during nearly two
months of blizzard weather. Did
any representative from Georgia rise
and say, "Mr. Speaker, the people of
Georgia are freezing. We demand
attention to this situation. While we
are feeding Belgium and sending hun
dreds of millions of dollars over sea,
our sick-our aged-our little chill
dren and their mothers right here
need coal, and they must have it," |
am in my 83rd year, and | wrote an
appeal to some of these representa-
tives, and told them we were being
Garfielded to the freezing point, and
Hooverized into a sugar-famine.
What did they answer? One said
he had himself been obliged to chop
some wood, before he left his ele-
CANT Georgia home for Washington,
and another said he would have been
scarce of fuel if he had not found
billets of wood around and about his
elegant Washington home-where the
the workman had left them, but all
they could do, was TO SUPPORT
THE PRESIDENT, to WIN THE
WAR.
Did you read that tragic story
where one of our belated Congress
men, arrived in Washington and the
friendly reporter said he shivvered
on his front porch-to know there
was no coal in his house. He didn't
know which to do first, whether to
up DR.. Garfield or project himself
into the arms of the Chairman of
ederal Trade Commission. But
in that serious crisis, fine limousine
rolled up-a colleague who was ex-
pecting his arrival was conveying
several sacks of coal to the perpleXed
congressman. Wasn't it touching?
When we recollect that the people OF
Atlanta were freezing on their knees,
with q basket in one hand and the
money in the other, begging, pray
ing, weeping, and clamoring, for just
enough coal to make a fire one more
time, and COULDN'T GET IT! Con-
gressional ignorance or inefficiency
were plainly evident.
On the 10th day of January, 1918,
the scene changed. The Democratic
Congressman from the Southern
States were warm-had coal-had
fine clothes-had sugar and good
things to eat, drawing more than
twenty dollars per diem-with 'pick-
ings." All appeared in solid phalanX
to vote against the mothers, wives,
eistarC ap1 da1pb+o7.- Of GaorCj9 he