The Washington times., 1920-05-26
Johnson In a Nutshell.
Ignorant Little Pig.
Workman and Trust.
Cross and Crescent.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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force and violence, but with equal
vigor ] would endesvor to reach,
suppress and punish the radical Of
great wealth and power, who en-
daR8ers the Republic by cunning
and dishonest practices. and in
sidiously undermines society by
illegitimate exploitation"
Big pocketbook gentlemen want
somebody that will JAIL, DE-
PORT, CLUB and otherwise AN
NlHlLATE the soap box an
archists that defy the law in re-
tail fashion, while treating with
respect the bigger anarchist that
dssPises the law in wholesale
fashion.
Oh the coast of the United
States, not far from the Narrows,
a small white pig was found
swimming, head pointed toward
Spain. The fisherman that pick
ed him up deplored the pigs
Ignorance, saying to his friend:
Could you imagine swimming the
way that pig was swimming, not
knowing where he was going?'
The pig, young, weighing only
thirty pounds, might have replied:
Where are YOU going; where
is the world going on which you
travel through a bigger ocean?
In which direction is your govern
ment headed? Some day | shall
have my throat cut, and that will
end mo. But what is going to
happen to you when you die?
I'll admit I'm an ignorant young
pig. but you are not to criticize
me-"
The fishermen were amazed that
the pig, after swimming for a
long time, had not cut it's throat
with it's short hoofs. Pigs usu-
ally do that when swimming. but
the fishermen need not have been
surprised. This pig, although his
swimming motion took his hoofs
dangerously close to the side of
his neck, did not cut his throat,
because he was a thin pig. His
thinness saved him. II he had
been a fat-necked pig, resembling
in shape, let us say, the patrioteers
that manipulated Hog Island"
his throat would have been cut
undoubtedly.
In the rescue of that little pig,
throat uncut, there ought to be !
a warning for other pigs on shore
that are getting fat, and to which
something is going to happen.
When the coal miners wanted
more work and said that they
would strike if they didn't get it,
they were told by the Department
Of Justice that they would be put
in Jail if they struck.
When the Sugar Trust says it
must have more money and the
public cannot have sugar unless it
pays the price, nobody says: "You
will be put in Jail if you do that"
and nobody issues an injunction.
Easy to enjoin workman from
getting more pay, but impossible,
apparently, to enjoin a trust
against vicious profteering.
Sodjar Assimavnu, of Turkey,
says;
the cross. The crescent will al
ways remain aloft, despite the
broken sword"
Sodjar may be mistaken.
About 600 years ago-on May
%, 1853, to be exact, the cross
stood at the top of Saint Sophia
in Constantinople. On the next
day Sultan Mohammed ii captured
the city. Making himself COM
Portable in the palace of the dead
Christian Emperor, Palaelogus, he
recited the Persian verse:
THE spider has woven his web
in the imperial palace; the owl
hath sung her watch song on the
towers Of Afrasiab."
Then the mezzin climbed to the
highest turret of st. Sophia, took
down the cross, put up the crescent
and shouted the news that Allah
and Mohammed, his prophet, were
the new rulers, while two thirds
of the Christian inhabitants were
driven away as Turkish slaves,
men for hard labor, women for
worse labor.
Mr.. Sodjar, il he reads the
history of his country, knows that
the crescent, like other things,
must have it's ups and downs. He
might find food for thought in this
fact: The Turkish Sultan who
put the crescent in place of the
cross on top of st. Sophia was a
man highly educated in mathe-
mates and other sciences, speak
ing five languages, believing in no
superstition and, least of all, in
Mohammed. Today's Sultan, an
allied joke in Constantinople, does
believe in Mohammed and doesn't
know much about anything else.
That's what's the matter with the
crescent.
There's agitation in London
among prosperous travellers from
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