Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-06-08
PRUY YAGANDA BY
PARAD|NG FAILS
HOSTS CARRYING BANNERS IN
WASHINGTON DON'T ACCOM-
PLlSH THEIR AIMS.
BARRED FROM WHITE HOUSE
Latest Gang of Marchers Sought Re-
lease of Those Who Tried to Undo
United States During the War
Pacifist Women Busy.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK

which marched over the mountains
from Ohio and descended on the capi-
tai about thirty Years ago, Is looked
on as the progenitor, If that be the
word of all the be-bannered hosts
which come here to attempt in
a spectacular way to force congress
or the administration to do something
which the paradlne ones want done.
Washington is hotbed today. and
has been q hotbed for some time, Of
propaganda Of this, that or the other
kind. Much of the effort Is expended
In typewritlng and Liuch In parading.
The paraders seldom get anywhere
and the typewriters fail or succeed as
their cases happen to appeal to the
powers that be. If Washington cor
respondent were moved to write In
behalf of this or that cause by the
stuff which comes to his office every
day he could do little else than con-
stitute himself pleader, pro or con,
for a hundred different endeavors
The latest street demonstration has
been In behalf of prisoners who today
are where they are because they at
tempted to undo the United States In
the time of trouble. A procession of
men, women and children has tried
several times to make Its way into
the White House, carrying banners
Of various kinds, In order to induce
the President Of the United States to
set free men Who did their best to
jeopardize the liberties of their coun-
try when 1t was in the throes of war.
Sentlmentallty That Fails.
President Harding refused to meet
the paraders In behalf Of the so-called
political prisoners. One Of the BAN
ners which has appeared, and at this
writing still is appearing, at the head
Of the column Of paraders, Is borne by
the side of child who holds one hand
upon the staff. The banner Is in
scrIbed: II never have seen my ia
ther."
1t was believed by these paraders
In behalf Of the sedltious that this
banner certainly would win the day
with the President and the people.
There are some hard-headed patriotic
ones in this town, however, who know
that there are a good many American
children whose .athers died for their
country in France some months before
the little ones were born and who
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prisoners Of today whose release Is
sought and the thousands of persons
who escaped Imprisonment for like
talk and like deeds, had not by their
influence prevented the United States
from preparing Its men fully for the
battlefield, giving them adequate
means Of personal defense and ade-
Quate means for defense against bat
teries Of artillery and ships Of the air.
Judging from the present-day ca
pers Of persons akin In sympathy and
in policy to those who are parading
In behalf of the imprisoned ones. there
is to be no ceasing from the endeavor
to propagandize In America in behalf
Of un-Amerlcan policies.
Women Who Would Be DIsloyal.
Recently In this city there was held
q meeting Of women who form the
American section of an international
league which declares its object to be
to secure lasting peace in the world.
At meeting of representatives of this
international league in Geneva not
long ago IT was voted to be the sense
of the gathering that In the years to
come no woman Of any land should
raise her hand to help her country In
case it was called upon to take up
arms against another nation, or even
II the call was to arm itself for purely
defensive purposes against invasion
and tyranny from without.
Any amount Of printed propaganda
material was received by the Wash
ington correspondents from the repre-
sentatives Of the American section Of
this international league. The inti-
nation was that the American women
who were to meet were to pledge them
selves to refrain from all war work In
case the United States should become
involved In a conflict.
What would this mean? It would
mean simply that If this country
some day should find 1t necessary to
defend itself against foreign aggres-
sion the women members Of the
| American section Of the international
league and all the women they could
influence to follow their own course,
would refuse to do works Of mercy for
Ameri n wounded, or to do those
other things which woman knows how
to do for the comfort of the soldiers
fighting in the field for their country's
sake.
Three foreign women, It Is an
nounced, will travel through the
United States to speak in behalf Of
the objects Of this international
league. One Of them is an English
woman, another Is a French woman
and the third Is German woman.
They all have the nonreslstance idea
and their endeavor probably will be to
attempt to bring American opinion to
the point where it will be willing to
make a second Russia out of the
United States.
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