You say that hereafter nobody shall be neutral
as respects the disturbance of the world’s peace
for an object which the world’s opinion cannot
sanction. What do you mean by this, Hr. Wilson?
Why do you delay action to the future v.nen you
had the Hague Conventions to warrant action in
the present when Belgium’s neutrality was in
vaded, her cities spoiled, her men and women
slaughtered?
You say that hereafter America must exert her
whole force, moral nad physical, throughout the
round globe if the fundamental rights of hu
manity are invaded. Do you not know that it is
abject cowardice to say that this mu§t be done
hereafter when you do not dare do it now?
Ask the American missionaries who have been
eyewitnesses of the slaughter of the Armenians
and of the Syrian Christians what the facts are in
Turkey today. The' last extremities of outrage,
torture and murder h? ,e been perpetrated on
these writched men and women. They have been
show this administration to be the most ex
pensive in the history of this country, and
this extra expense must come from the
pockets of the common people who are least
able to bear it.
We feel that the State of Georgia needs to
throw off the yoke of servitude to the Demo
cratic party —we know that conditions must
become such that our votes cannot be counted
for the Democratic nominee before they are
ever put in the ballot-box if we ever expect
to have any hand in the affairs of govern
• ment or get any laws that are just and bene
ficial to Southern interests.
