Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-31

not denied to the state, remained in the
| people.
From what source does Senator Smith de-
| rive his authority to vote away our republl-
! can form of government?
| What did his cath mem to him, when he
swore to defend, project and preserve the
| constitution made by our fathers?
| Who vested him with power, not given
him by the instrument he swOre to defend
| and preserve?
How can reservations be made by sworn
| preservers?
| What is there to hinder another congress-
or supreme council of the league from null
| lifying those reservatio 8?
| Nothing at all.
There are many honest people who sin
cerely believe that the League of Nations
means peace.
The evidence is en- the other side; have
cited it.
/ How can You harmonic the races, reli-
! gionS, dynasties, and differences of govern
mcnt among all these people:
| No national. racial. religious question
has been settled by the league; and history
fels us how former leagues, like this. have
bred fearful wars.
All the way from the league of Delos
down to that of Cambray and the Holy ALI
ance of 1915, these dreams of peace have
! faded away in the elemental passions of
men.
Italy is battling Bulgaria; Greece is in
vading Turkey; and Poland is kindling an
other and greater world war, instituted by
England, France and Woodrow Wilson.
The Irish war is in bloody progress; ia
pans war on Siberia is in full blast; the
| Russian war is vast welter of blood, for
which President Wilson is largely response
| Bile; Germany rocks and reels, under revolu.
ton after revolution; Turks still slaughter
| Armenians; and Great Britain is using the
gun, the bayOnet and the bomb in every one
| Of her hed-down dominions.
She got enormous spoil out of the great
| war-Egypt Persia, Mesopotamia, German
| Africa, and Islands of the Seas-and Pres-
dent Wilson pledged England the help of
our men and our money, if her vast loot
should ever be endangered
| How can a man of intelligence make the
mistake of believing that the league has
made for peace, democracy, and the COM
monest rights of menu
who despise the people, and who feel the
need of our money, our navy, and our
army, to safeguard the spoil.
people Of f ssSSf in tne Tom lowest y
highest: and l believe that candidates for
president should be nominated by q direct
| vote of the people.
In no other way dethrone the
bosses of corrupt political machines who
go to every national convention and wire
work during the whole time, to nominate
| somebody that the people have not chosen.
We need never expect reform from the
| White House.
The monstrous one-man autocracy of
Woodrow Wilson is too deeply intrenched at
that end of the avenue, for any president
The work has got to be done in the SEN
ate and to a lesser extent, in the house.
You have seen what a few senators
could do, in repulsing Woodrow Wilson $
traitOrous attacks upon the fundamental
principles of our government
1 mention such intrepid senators as Reed,
of Missouri: Shields, of Tennessee; Borah,
of Idaho: johnson, of California.
II four senators could prevent the be-
trayal of your country to England and ia
pan, a fifth one of the same sort would
| certainly not weaken the barrier against
pendence to foreign league, which holds
out to him the prospect-sO aluring to his
little soul-of becoming the first emperor
of the world.
No foreign congress issuing orders to ours!
j No foreign congress assessing taxes
! against ours!
No foreign bankrupt governments unload
ing their debts on ours!
No foreign land-grabbers; no coal and oil
grabbers; foreign timber thieves and in
| tcrnatiOnal slave drivers, ordering our young
men to fight for England in Russia, in Per-
sia', in Mesopotamia' in Egypt in the
| Arabian mountains and plateaus.
| No foreign supreme council ordering your
sons to Syria, and to Turkey, to Ger
man Africa to fight for the booty which
| France luStS for, as her spoil of war-the
| war in which she said that she wanted moth
ing more than her salvation from Germany
40 1 stand, and will continue to stand
| for government ownership of railroads, tele-
| graphs, and telephones; will oppose those
| who seek to unite church and state; will
combat those who seek to abridge, in the
slightest degree, the full freedom of the
press, of religious worship, and of 'the
utmost freedom of speech" which Wilson
| told the Parisians he had always advo-
| Gated.
Thomson. Ga, July PC, 1920,