Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-03-08
ninistration.

high ar low, who dares to resent their
dictatorship! If such there be, then
the floodgates of lying press propagan-
da are released, sweeping the unhappy
public servant to an earthly as we'll
as political grave, or compelling him
to compromise with his conscience
and become their subservient tool to
the end of his term.
Reason for Drive to
Cancel Our War Debts
Some of our international bankers.
the protection of whose foreign invest
ments, loans and credits abroad, was
one of the moving causes of our en-
tering the war are now urging that
we remit the ten billions of debt which
these European governments owe to
the Liberty Bond holders of the Unit
ed States.
They would have these debts de-
ferred, scaled down or cancelled alto
gether. In other words, the payment
of the billions rightfully belonging to
the American government and which
would go long way toward reduc-
ing taxation, setting the wheels of in
dustry humming, and giving to the sol
dlers their just demands, is to be de-
TERED or possibly cancelled in order
that the international bankers NAV be
repaid their loans, plus large bonuses,
made on their own initiative before
the United States entered the war.
We Jumped from
Frying-Pan to the Fire.
Now and then the people revolt
when conditions become too oppres-
sive. They did this in the fall of 1920.
In installing the present national adj
ministration the voters undoubtedly
believed that they were successfully
repudiating foreign entanglements,
but they were doing no such thing.
1t was simply case of jumping from
the frying-pan into the fire.
The League of Nations was revived
under the title of Association OIL Ma
tons" and several treaties were en-
acted which are intended to have Amer
lea work in double harness with old
world Imperialism.
Our influential wealth lord rulers
know the past and they are satisfied
with the present, but the future-"Ay.
there's the rub as Hamlet would say
They saw the handwriting on the wall
i'll the 1922 elections. They are already
attempting to control the candidates
of the Republican and Democratic par
ties in 1924 If this can be accomplish
ed, the subsequent election will be of
small interest to them, for the people
will have to select one or the other of
the candidates of the major parties.
At the 1922 election the people were
nightly moved and a new alignment
took place in the American electorate
Organized labor, the men on the farms
and the plain everyday citizens found
that they had a common interest anil
united in its accomplishment. Party
lines and fealty were smashed. The
corrupt party boss found that his ma
chine did not function as readily as
heretofore. The corporation newspapers
discovered that they were no longer
moulders of public opinion.
Public right instead of private priv.
ilege jumped into the saddle and the
commonweal received the considera-
ton which predatory groups had too
long snatched for themselves.
1t was splendid opportunity to Sc
cure the restoration of at least a mea-
sure of representative government, and
the people seized it. They will do so
again in the future. If the old parties
do not adopt progressive platforms
and select men of proven humanitarian
and progressive records in the Nation
al Convention of 1924, then a third
party will be inevitable and candidates
will be elected who will see to it that
our political institutions register the
popular will and not the dictates of