The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-01-17
ARsf1AL,L TALKS
70 LEGISLATURE
Vice President Discusses After
the War Problems-Unrest
Greatest Menace

:
/ the house of representatives last night
! to a large audience. The audience
!: was kept in good humor by a gener-
Gus supply Of apt anecdote, much OF
J this referring TO the office of vice
president and his duties in presiding
over the United States senate.
Mr. Marshall has always been a
! Dem ocrat, and to follow this faith in
the North and West in the years i'm
med:ately succeeding the Confederate
war tested mems souls. he said. The
the reconstruction period. but their
! experience was a pink tea in COM
parison to what il means to be a
| Democrat in Indiana. The vice pres
/ ident is not only a Democrat, but q
! Southern Democrat, and is an ardent
! supporter Of the doctrine OF States
rights. The speaker paid tribute to
the Democracy of the South. which
section is destined, he says, to be the
saving grace Of the republic.
The league of nations idea was sure
| to win sooner or later. He had be-
!, lieved in such authority to arbitrate
differences ever since he saw one
brother shoulder arms in the North to
go away to shoot down a. brother in
! the South. He thought q unanimous
lvote. doubtless. would have been given
on the South's right to secede had
there been an authoritative board to
which the question might have been
submitted prior TO a declaration Of
The great war has taught the
people many things and along with
the people the vice president. has
changed many Of his views. One Of
these is his attitude toward immisra-
! ton The North had profited by the
great hordes coming from Europe and
would not heed the voice. of the South
to stay the tide. Now the conscience
of the country was awakened by the
red menace and throughout the COIN
try the battle cry was~to send back
those who would not stand by the
american flag. NO foreign born citi-
! zen. had the right to speak against or
want to tear down the American
flag. and natura1aatson papers should
be taken away from every such for
eigner. The immigrant should under
stand that the United States is not
an international boarding house or an
International cafe.
Mr. Marshall also has changed his
views Of the freedom Of the. speech
and Of the press. and this freedom
should be abridged whenever an ap-
peal to force to tear down the gov
ernment is voiced.
Warning was also sounded against
the threatened menace of labor un-
ions. Mr.. Marshall says he has always
been for labor unions: and still IS for
them. but he is above, all for the
American union. The policy the un-
ions should adopt would be to sec
that every anarchist and bomb throw
er gets out. Without this the labor
union would become g menace to in
dustry as great as We're the trusts Of
former days.
The cnre for unrest was the adop-
ton of the brotherhood idea; the
realization on the part of the owner
oe an establishments that he was no
het1er than the. men he employed. and
the employees that they were no bet
,fr than the men they were laboFing
for
Much n1errinrent was created by
Mr.. aIarshalrs caricature of the office
holder. The people should not despair
Of the Republican form Of govern
ment, even if the voice Of the people
was not always the voice Of God. The
prevailing idea seemed to be that
knowledge disqualified a man for pub
lie Office or jury duty. The time
was at hand though, when the Office
holders should dismiss the noisy
ininorities >whistfing around the State
House" with the simple injunction,
Shut up and let the people rule
One Of the great faults with rep
resentatives, Of the people was that
they are too intent on knowing what
the people back home think" Ia
congress he had seen congressman
with both ears to the ground.
During the day the vice president
visited many places of interest in the
city One Of these was to the Wo-
men OF the Confederacy monument
at the rear of the State House. The
inscription on this monument. the
speaker said. had awakened in him
memories, of the heroic sacrifices OF
the Southern womanhoed. Il would
rather have been the author of that
inscription than to- have written any
speech I ever heard in the United
States senate he said. This was
written by Capt w. E. Gonzales, for
mer editor OF The State, who goes to
Peru as American ambassador, next
month.
The vice president was introduced
by r. E. Parish of Columbia. dictator
Of the Columbia lodge Of Loyal Orr
der of Moose. Following Mr.. Mar
shall's address, 3 brief outline of the
work undertaken by the order at
3Iooseheart. H., was given by W. 7.
Giles Of Baltimore. The order has
LOLA acres Of land in the Fox river
valley, where large institution has
been erected to educate children Of
deceased members of the order, Al
though established only six or seven