Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-02
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON,

a British spy. lie told plausible story, as
we know, but those plain Americans took
him to General Washington and Benedict
Arnold made his get away to England,
where he lived out his days--fed, clothed
and sheltered amid the foes of America, with
British gold We all understand that very
rich criminals Are hard to convict, and easy
to pardon, for example, Chas. Morse, who
drank stuff that foamed out Of his mouth
(but was harmless) and President Taft par
doned him out of the Atlanta federal pen
itentiary. AS a rule, the way of the rich
transgressor is not hard, but easy. More
money, more safety These British symLa-
thizers in the United States who would carry
this country into the Versailles League of
Nations, under present conditions, should
be arrested and brought to trial as suspected
people were tried in United States courts in
1.-THE city of New York in 1918 and condemned
to federal penitentiary for twenty years, while
others deported traitors to this
United States government.
Have the voters of this country so soon
forgotten? Can they be led thus into danger
and used to beat down the real Americans Of
our nation? Without hesitation, in the pres
ence of God and man, measuring my words
as if they were solemn oath: | here declare
that people who would unite this country
with Europe, the second time to furnish
soldiers and cash. and loans and donations
for conducting wars over there, should be
life-termers in federal penitentiaries.
There was much money loaned to Europe
by international bankers-a good proportion
of the loans were, made in this country.
They want their money. If the U. S. govern
ment can be united in solemn league to
fight whenever Great Britain and other
countries are obliged to fight, then goodby
republic. The glory will have departed from
Israeli AS old Rome fell, we will fall!
| This Box episode is only straw to show
which way the wind is blowing 1t is small
revelation, but a notorious reality in extent.
It has been gravely stated that it required
many months and diplomatic ARRIVALS in
| Washington City to sufficiently influence
President Wilson to go into the war with
/ Germany. Until he reelected in 1916
he turned a deaf ear to foreign applications.
He impressed this country the one man
needed ito keep us out of war" After his re-
| election he was surrounded with foreigners,
and they were backed by the international
bankers, who uneasy about their money,
and he was evidently coaxed into that I'M
Lrecedented trip to Europe, and was feted
and flattered the arrived Moses who would
carry them through the deep waters, and
supply the needed cash to do it, l suf-
ficiently persuaded that he was sick man,
or tempted person with sick mind, he
would have sent capable men to Europe and
taken the people of this country into his
confidence.
| 1t is reported that book is in evidence
now in which British dgnitary has writ
ten down these methods of flattery, and the
joy that prevailed when he became a guest at
Buckingham Palace. He so enthused he
called for an extra hundred million of
dollars, to distribute over there-ad libitum.
| AS long as he flung it wild on his triumphal
progress the rabble shouted for their Moses.
When he was outgeneral by Europeans skilled
in diplomacy he came back to the White
House determined to vindcate his war meth
DDS, and awaken again the hurrahs and
plaudits in Europe, and show to the world
he was the at" in the United States, and his
people would obey him they had been
| doing in 1917-18 etc.
There are fifty thousand graves in one
French cemetery at this time to show us a
part of the price paid for that ephemeral
military glory. We have a staggering debt
of thirty-fiye billions of dollars, which grew
out of it, and we have country filled with
the confusion, disorganization and destruc-
ton of And to add to this demoraliZa-
ton this debt account, and the piled up tax
alton there and women racing from
pillar to post to influence the voters of the
United States to still adopt the principles Of
the Versailles League Of Nations