Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-17
Has Independent Political
Thinking Bec0meMexcuSable
Crime IN Stare OF Georgia?

Editor The journal: Is 1t mol
sad spectacle to see that a fa act y,
cringes to the dictation and control
of northern politicians and which
seems to glory in it's servility? Men
and newspapers who gladly display
the collar of their political serVltude
and their self-confessed political in
feriority.
Have we reached the point where
mental and intellectual debasement
is at a premium in Georgia? Have
we reached the point when we must
become as absolutely intellectually
enslaved as were the people during
the middle ages? Have we reached
the point when we must believe that
the titular head of any political party
is INFALLIBLE? Does such titular
head of any political party hold the
"keys of st. Peter?" Have the people
of Georgia reached the point when in
dependent personal inquiry, investi-
cation and thought have become an
unforgivable crime? God forbid!
Let it never be seaid, let 1t never be
thought, that the citizens of our be-
loved state, the state of stephens
Toombs, Hill, Brown, Warner, Lump
kin, Jackson, Cobb and scores of 9TH
ers whose memory and whose teach
ings form resplendent past as bril-.
liant as the GLORY that was Greece
have so far forgotten the traditions
of the past and the teachings of his
tory as to damn and crush independ-
ence Of thought.
Then why this vicious attack or
Senator Smith? Because a man lives
in Georgia, has breathed the mora
and intellectual atmosphere of Geor'
gia, does that proclaim him to tht
world as mentally inferior? Is the
atmosphere of Georgia more con
taminated than that of Pennsylvania
u Vt trying to Obscure Issue
The traducers of Senator Smitf
are seeking by vil1ification ant
abuse to obscure the true issue nov
before the people of Georgia. l:
their personal attacks on him they
atty to Mr.. wilson, who, it will b.
remembered. kept US out of war"
Any man who puts loyalty to party
or to Wilson above loyalty to the
American government and her consti
tuition is misguided, and his vote
is a menace to the American form
Of goyer4m 1e It is not a CUES $,
any other leader which now con
fronts the people of Georgia.; it is
that question which is as serious as
that which confronted the secession
convention; a question touching the
very life of the nation itself ant
vitality affecting our
and form of government.
The question to be decided is
simply this: is Palmer right or is
Senator Smith right? Mr.. Palmer
stands for the adoption of the cove
nant of the League of Nations as
Mr.. Wilson brought it back. Sen
ator Smith is against it without
reservations which will protect his
native land, his fellow-countrymen
his government, her institutions ant
her constitution.
Senator Smith had the manhood
intellectual independence, and full
filled his sworn duty to investigate
and study the meaning of this cove.
nant, and for that independence. fol
performing what the people of Geor-
gla commissioned him to do he is
viciously attacked.
Meaning of Article x
Let the citizens of Georgia re-
convention means. Let them realize
That with the guarantees contained
there1n we give warranty of the
blood OF our fellow-countrymen and
unborn generations to foreign ma.
tons to protect them and their ter.
Tltor1es. Is it right? Is it Just:
Let them also realize that when we
place it in the power of a supreme
ambassador sitting in the council to
plunge this country into war. we
Vlolate the constitution which places
t tnat power solely in the hands OF
Inc American congress.
Let them realize that when we ac,
cept the eighth paragraph of Ar.
ticie Ky, as insisted on by Palmer
ana wilson, we surrender TO Eurone
EngIand, Asia and Africa the rirht
70 decide what is a domestic ones.
Ion .aHectlng this nation. They NAV
decide that Japanese fmmigra tion is
IOL a domestic -
orolled by us; but an international
one to be decided by them, -'i'e''
artieG tnem understand that under
sist - as it is written and in.
~ upon by Wilson and Palmer
r ra1 d modfoe doctrine IS virtually, sur.
allen nations who have ALWAYS Ra+ed a.
it. always mated
90 Let them realize that under article
20 sub-paragrap A that we s1,rren-
ger to this league the control of orr
lii!ternal labor questions. information.
country. wi
20 Let them realize that under article
90, sup-paragraph B, that this lea pnf
composed and controlled by En- eIand
Europe, Asia and Africa (includine
the negro republic, Liberia), under.
taxes to secure what is termed itfs,
treatment of the native inhabitanf RS
viii the government Of Liberia ciafr,
that we are not treating the souther1
negroes tteg right in denying to then
the free and unrestricted ballot?
these are but few of the pro-
VISIONS or this covenant, which If
accepted, as Mr. Palmer .wishe s; will
+ doom the American republic. HoEe
Smith in performing his, duty AS =
senator has been trying to protect
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