Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-02
THE BOX PEACE PLAN.

VIZ HEN the Box proposition appeared last
| wv fall several people wrote to me about
the matter. They said, "Nows your
| time If anybody has got it down fine you
have. Go to it, and get the hundred thousand
dollars" But | consulted with my common
sense and said, Nothing doing! That trick
| is exposed by the look on its face 1t is
a cooked up job. Anything which is spon-
sOred by Hon. Elihu Root means something
in the interest of Great Britain; and Hon.
Mr.. Root appears at this time to have been
"chef cook and bottle-washer' in the origin
of THE Box Plan" 1t was doubtless British
gold that paying for League of Nations
! propaganda. Even old woman nearly
ninety could the color of the Box apple,
| that was like the notable apple presented to
Mother Eve in the Garden of Eden, intended
| to fool somebody. Less haste and more
reasonable wages might have given the thing
! a rolling start, but it overdid itself and over
played itself, and had people behind it that
were too we'll ticketed abroad to carry out
| the hundred thousand gift lottery-to fool
| voters.
1t was the Versailles League of Nations
signed by other names. If Mr.. Box has spent
| his own money this debatable Lroposition
| he has sold out cheap. If it is straight cash
it was likely presented to him. and he admits
the winners will get $4,000, and the other
fifty will hardly pay him for what he is now
getting out of it, before congress- as pro-
|
| If | had entered the contest for writing a
| peace program for this country | could have
written it on correspondence card or fem
| mime stationery. | would have written ON
one slde-"Shun entangling alliances with the
allies OF Europe. The Monroe Doctrine has
been Il saviour to the United States. Be
friendly with people who desire to. have
agreeable trade relationship let US shun
| any intimate bedfellowship with Europe"
her Of 4bo
card I would have written in box-car letters
| stay out keep out your place is at home,
"hefe you can keep peace, by attending to
your own business"
This is the only program for patriotic
Americans. Any man, set of men, company
! or financial corporation that would put us
| back in Europe in another World War
should be deported from this country as a
meance to our blood-fought principles of
| civil and religious liberty.
It is understood that Great Britain and
| France are troubled about the thirteen bill
! lions of cash loaned to the allies to finance
| their with Germany. The other countries
are saying but little about their debts-wait-
! ing to see how Great Britain and France
can compromise England has too much at
| stake to openly repudate but France is
| brazen enough to say, eve are getting back
what the United States owed to Lafayette
and to France in 1883" 1t is evident that
| President Wilson and Secretary McAdoO
should have had at least two good names
| on the promissory note given by England and
| France, when the billions were loaned.
! Both countries are spending millions right
now in preparations. Hon. Lloyd George
| is openly declaring there is obliged to be
another They will postpone all debt
paying if allowed to do SO. If British In
! terests can join forces with Wall Street
! financial interests, and pay fifty-fifty as
| discount on their own notes, the conspirators
can afford to hire dozen like Mr.. Box and
! pay a million each instead of one hundred
| thousand dollars, TO befool the American tax
| payers
| If the way is opened to tie on the United
! States to European countries as was at
| tempted by the Versailles League of Nations
! in the year 1919, within fifty years these
United States will be of less reputation than
Canada, and as complete yassal of England
| as the East Indies
| When Major Andre caught on his way
| to West Point, N. Y, to carry the papers to
| Benedict Arnold, commander of the American
TROOPS, facing British regulars, at that place,
| these plain, illiterate Connecticut soldiers
were patriotic refused to accept British gold
and allow Major Andre to escape his fate as