The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-10-12

IN America at living wages.
When there are two laborers for
every job in the fight to live inevita-
bly, on the wage of every working
man and woman is beaten down.
1t is worse than folly to preach
patience to jobless men looking into
the faces of their wives and children.
| believe that higher moral stand
ards should be fixed in our immigra-
ton laws. We fail against foreign
anarchy and lawlessness broadcast
in the Republic-the cowardly poll
tician in all parties cringing before
the foreign vote are responsible for
it know and you know it.
Woe unto US if we do not realize
that our Fathers were right when
they declared that the only enduring
foundation of the Republic is a Writ
uous and intelligent citizenship.
Fifth. One other question remains
undisposed of.
What is known as the Dyer Bill
pending in Congress, and from it's
unconstitutionality has in it the faint
of the efforts repeatedly made by
Northern Politicians since the Civil
War, to NEEDLE in the domestic af-
fairs of the South
Except in instances like the pass
age of the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Federal Constitution where the
STATE FIRST PASSES UPON THE
QUESTION, thereby giving to the
Federal Government the right to in
terfere-I say-except in such in
stances, all rights of the State should
be jealousy guarded.
In concluding this announcement,
let me say-This Republic faces since
the Great War inevitable changes,
the character of which depends en-
tirely on the man whom the people
put in Office.
There should be no place in office
for the pussy-footing, card-stacking
politicians.
Since the death of Senator Wat
son, | have watched the undignifed
playing for position, the pickering,
the almost childish scramble for the
highest Office in the gift of the peo-
pie. No mention by the candidates
of their stand upon any principals vi
tai to the people. They seem dead
to the spirit of the times.
AS to myself, l have little to say.
The people of this State ought to
know me reasonably well. My name
has been more or less connected with
every reform in Georgia since
entered the legislature at the age
of twenty-one. Strange as it seems
these very reforms now the laws of
Georgia, because 1 fought for them
when they were unpopular, tainted
me with radicalish that was almost
repugnant to my nature.
| am not a radical.
Neither am / a conservative.
l will have no part with the vast
code of law-breaking un-American
radicals swaming larger and larger
into the Republic.
At the same time l would oppose
to the limit of my power any effort
similar to the Daughtery Injunction
denying to any man or organiza-
ton of men, rights guaranteed to
all men under the Constitution.
have no love for that class at
the top whom Roosevelt called the
criminal rich. Because of their in
telligence, their power, their utter
want of principal, these are the men
who are the real anarchist in this
country, who will destroy the Re
public if not checked in their insane
passion for money.
stand with Henry George wher
he said in his famous speech in New
York: 81 am not the friend of tn,
rich man, l am not the friend of tn,
poor man, but 1 stand for justic,
and Equal Rights of ALL MEN"
As l see it, the only hope for thu
future is that the millions of toilins
men in tbs country will paw of Their
organizations the radical anarchist
which infest them that the homes
> rich, the honest business men, tn
= heads of our great industries, will
realize that they, too, must driv,
| out of their ranks the original an,
anarchists which infest it.
The Ship of State is Forging ahea,
between the rocks on either side.
, 1t is no time for shifty politician
" at the wheel
If ever fearlessness and honest,
= are needed in politics, it is now.
Whatever, even my enemies ma,
think of my ideas on public question
:, whether with me or against me