The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-27
SEER AND FAkiR

MdFSO T1GHTy Wdlt6ISOu, LOI ~
long a time editor of the Louisville
Ky Courier-Journal. was born in
the capital of the nation and was rear
ed in a political atmosphere.
He was nurtured on hot politics
fresh from the bat. He vas a news
paper reporter during the piping
times of slavery and secession when
duelling was regarded as the proper
vindication of ones personal honor
So in the course of time his fame
as political specialist became nation
wide, but like so many others, when
he grew to be aged, he fell a victim to
younger and more virile minds.
So one George Harvey. a hypnotist
and gifted fakir, used him for pur-
pose on certain fateful pilgrimage
to Princeton in the year 1912 to assist
in the political diagnosis of a certain
"school-master' who later has given
the world the most wonderful awaken.
ing along the lines of higher civiliza-
tion since the earthly pilgrimage of
the Man of Gallilee' .
But the good and kindly seer, like
a loyal Kentuckian and true to the in
stincts of the generation of the "Old
School, remains steadfast in his be-
lief that his associate was an adept
and was most skillful in his diagnosis,
and in this belief he is unshakable
and swears by the beard of the pro-
phets' that President Harding could
not have chosen a more likable per-
SON. to represents this government at
the court of st. James
His delusions have divorced him
from his old newspaper. much to it's
regret, and that paper. now controlled
by younger and more virile minds,
takes correct measurement of the
famous DR.. Harvey as the following
convincing editorial will show:
"The Scandal of Harvey.-"P Per
haps,' said Ambassador Harvey. fin
ally concluding the spectacle he made
himself at the Pilgrims Society din
ner in London, perhaps have gone
too far along the line already but, iii
SO, must ask you to attribute the
overstepping to the self-bestowed pre-
rogative of novice. You see, I have
never been an Ambassador before
But his gross violation of the pro-
prieties of his station even the pro
prieties of a gentleman-was not due
to his novitiate. He knows perfectly
we'll what the proprieties of an AM
bassador are. IL he chooses to trans
gress them it is not from ignorance
or inexperience. but because rather
than cultivate the qualifications for
an Office for which he is tempera-
unfit he prefers to revert to |
the unrestrained revels OF bilious
and pumptious scold. for which he is
temperamentally most fit.
It was not because he did not know
that the same license is not permitted
to Harvey the Ambassador which is
employed by Harvey the journalistic
jazzer that he insultad our associ-
ates in the war, of one of whom he
was guest by telling them they
only extolled our professed idealism
in anticipation of selfish reward: that |
be insulted the forty-odd Powers in
the League of Nations by contemp-
uously snarling that the United States
will not have anything whatsoever
mission of committee appointed by it /
or responsible to it directly or in
directly. openly or flrtively;;' that he
his own countrvmen by de-
claring, as an official representative +
Of the United States. that we were /
hypocrites and liars when we profess
ed any interest in civilization, democ-
racy or humanity on entering the /
Great War. that all we fought for was
Eor our own skins, and that even then
We fought because I'VE were afraid /
not to fight 1t is nothing short Of /
Infamous that our Ambassador to the
greatest Powers in Europe should I
stand up before the world and pro
claim his own people nation Of
towards. We fought because I'VE
we're afraid not to fight. Never did