Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-30

would now be involved in Britain's
war against Russia, in the Italian wal
with Bulgaria, in the Grecian wal
against the Turkish Empire, in the
French war against Syria, in Eng.
lands war against the Arabs on the
Red Sea and on the Euphrates.
These leaguers, who are being
hoodwinked by the international bank.
ers and bondholders, are even now
slamoring for American troops to
help the British and French beat the
Russians back, when they have driven
the Poles from Russia, which country
the Poles invaded at the instigation
of France, England and President
Wilson.
The Poles were supplied with guns
munitions, clothing and food by Eng
land, France and President Wilson.
Even now the egomaniac Wilson is
stealthily aidig Poland in every pos
sible way.
Against Forced Training.
co. am immovably opposed to
compulsory military training in
peace.
Such training is the death of dem
ocracy and the cultivation of univer-
sal war lust and blood lust.
In defense of our country, in war,
the volunteer has always been invinci-
BILE.
In time of peace, surely the state
militia, the national guard and a
standing army of 100000 men can
keep down the riots that break out
when the billionaires try to starve the
workman and reduce him to the posi-
ton of slave, to toll all his life, at a
pitiful wage, and then be turned out
to die when old and exhausted.
We do not need to have this coun-
try turned into vast military camp
where the boys are to be taught that
murder is right, if commanded by an
officer.
We do not want it made into a
Goddess profteerism of monopolists
upheld by soldiers.
No young man will be safe in his
field, in the shop, in the mill, in the
store, if we have compulsory military
education and league, with Article
10 in it, which may call those young
men, any day, to far away Poland,
Persia, Shantung, or to India to de-
fend the British Empire; or to Syria,
and Madagascar or Africa, to defend
the empire of France.
l am opposed to conscripting men
for military service in foreign coun-
tries; ever since 1915 this has been IL
legal.
The Great Charter forbids it, and
our constitution forbids it.
Cd If elected your senator,
pledge myself to do all in my power
to repeal what is known as the frank
ing privilege, which allows members
of congress, cabinet officers, heads of
departments and the president him
self to send thousands of millions of
pounds of mere Junk through the
mails without paying postage on it..
(8) will endeavor to stop the
appropriation of money to publish
government papers and magazines.
1t will be one of my purposes to
improve the R. F. D. service, and put
the parcels post on such footing as
that it will really compete with the
express companies.
At present it does not.
For States Rights.
(9) If elected to the senate, l VIII
do my utmost to reassert and restore
the reserved rights of the states.
We need determined leadership,
which will establish the Amerlcanism
which is written in the declaration of
independence, in the United States
constitution, in Washington S farewell
address, and in the great messages
and addresses of Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, An
drew Jackson, Robert Toombs, Ben
jamin Hill and Alexander Stephens.
We do not intend to have our Am
ericanism measured by the secret
code of those Polish organization
the Knights of Columbus, the Jesuits
and the young officers of the Ameri-
can Legion.
00) | will do my utmost to have
the postmaster general deprived of all
power to censor the mails, and to
crush publications which do not meet
his approval.
Let every publisher be responsible
to the courts for airy abuse of free
press, but let the postmaster general
keep his paws off.
His office does not impose upon
him the arduous duty of teaching a
free people what to say and print;
his official duty is to see that the
mails are efficiently handled; and if
he does that, he will have measured
up to the full expectations of the
public
We don't intend to take our opin-
ions from the White House or from
the postoffice department; and the
sooner that idea soaks into the heads
of such petty tyrants as Burleson
and Woodrow Wilson, the better it
will be for democracy, civilization and
the happiness of mankind every
where.
GD We want the thousands of
useless employees, the majority of
whom are negroes and Catholics, put
off the nay rolls of the government
since they have nothing to do-if
they had anything to do, except to
enjoy themselves at your expense.
(12) Without any authority
President Wilson loaned
to European kings and European gov
ernments nine thousand million dol
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