Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-08
INDEPENDENCE IN 1910
BY DR.. Frank Crane

On Independence Day, July 4th, 1776, the
Colonies of America declared their indie
pendence of Great Britain.
The New Continent declared it's independ-
ence of the Old.
Our fathers announced their determina-
ton to live their own lives, form their own
principles of action, and develop their own
TYPE of civilization.
In 1919 we are confronted with another
effort Of Old World ideas to master us.
All these ideas, grouped together, shaken
down and reduced to common denomina-
tor, mean just one thing-Class.
In one form or another it is the Glass feel
ing, or some by-product thereof that
threatens us.
1t is time we recognized this an dem
phaszed true Americanism.
Socialism, as shown by it's propagandsts,
! Socialism, as a distinct movement a party
cry and an organized effort, and not as a
vague attempt at cooperation, appeals di-
rectly to the Glass feeling. You see it in
every Socialist publication, hear it from
every Socialist orator.
Bolshevism, the Russian perversion of
Socialism, and all Bolshevism's kin over
here, such as the advocates of "direct ac-
ton" (meaning violence), appeal to the
Glass spirit
The thing we call Society, as we find it
among wealthy idlers and the endowed class
The lynching of negroes is an outbreak
of Glass hate
The constant harping upon our danger
from the yellow Peril" finds no response
except in Glass prejudice.
Those who advocate the isolation of Amer
lc2 our refusal to join with our Allies in
program for the stoppage of war the
maintenance of national security by
keeping up large army and navy bigger
than the armed forces of any other nation,
and not by entering into a rational agree
ment with all to disarm represent merely
the stubborn adherence to the Glass ideas
that throughout history have dominated ma
tons.
The whole fabric of government of pre-
war Czarism and Kaiserism was nothing but
Glass.
The present Bolshevist tyranny in Russia
is quite as much Glass
The whole trouble, rotten spot and mint
of irritation in the disputes between labor
and capital, comes from Glass. Whenever
employers and employed quit Speaking of
Glass and begin to treat with ech othear as
human beings, there is no more labor trou-
BILE
America means, if it means ANYTHING
that there ought to be no Capitalistic Glass,
no laboring Glass, no criminal Glass no ig-
norant Glass, no superior Glass, religious
Glass, educated Glass Or any other Glass
soever.
Ci'-@ X,
and barrels imported from the Old World
1t is not ours. 1t is un-American. It is all
wrong, septic and other things not fit to
print.
Let us declare our independence of it
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane)
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General March was talking about the I'M
preSsionS soldiers receive in the war
One" he said when i asked him how he
:elt, said he was too bus to feel. and when
/ asked him what appealed to him as the most
remarkable thing about the war, answered:
THE number of bullets that missed me-"
The Ho0siers are always talking about the
Frost on the Pumpkin and the Folders in
the Shock, Down here in Georgia its When
the Few is on the Watermelon and the
Bloom is Oh the peach. '-Martine Harmscn