IDOL SMASHERS.
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”HE SWORE”. "Uo, he lid not swear”, ”He played cards”. ”xTo,
did not play cards”. ”He drank”. "Ho, he did not drink”.
Thus goes the foolish dispute concerning the personal habits
of George Washington, as though such things were of the slightest
importance when estimating the character and capacity of the Rather
of His Country.
Even if it be true that Washington distilled his own liquor,
made his own beer and once passed 158 rabbit skins over the bar to
treat the crowd at the Yellow Tavern, does it take one jot from!
his greatness or in any way lessen the debt that we owe him?
The work of the world is done by red-blooded, keen-thinking
men of courage and imagination and not by sad-eyed, long-faced,
thin-lipped, flat-chested and anaemic psychological apologies mas
querading as reformers and whose only idea is that of denying to
otners the joy of life that has been denied them.
During the World War there were people protesting against
cigarettes to our boys in the trenches. As Chesterson said,
such, fanatics were prepared to send youth into dirt and filth and
vermin and the bloody house of death without any compunction and
ye were worrying lest a whiff of tobacco smoke might imperil youth*s
j-»et us quit this worrying as to whether Washington was a man
among men in leisure moments. Enough to know what he was the man
among 3,000,000 people in the hour of emergency. His greatness made
possible the nation now so rich that it is able to provide a living
even for those whose only thought is that of regulating the living
of others.
T.T , .Tiie i^ol smashers can do no permanent injury to the fame of
Washington, Time will turn to dust and blow away whatever mud thev
may splash upon his monument
THE PEOPLE EUST
DEHEAT ATTACK OH SOVEREIGNTY.
si gas indicate that soon the campaign to force the United
btates into the League of Nations will be re-opened,
people of this country have twice repudiated
^ihe fact that the people of this __^ W¥VA^C iCMUU
*f? t?agU?ua2d a11 its works by overwhelming majorities has no
weight with those who foolishly or selfishly are behind the coining
rive. However, tae forces baching the movement are so powerful
that only an aroused public opinion will prevent its success.
, x -m?6 ^anSer is great. The plain facts of the matter are simple
but they are not pleasant, Europe, as full of internal dissection '
MT0Tst+r®sP®cts’ is S^ally uniting on one issue - dis
like of tne United States. ...
We are disliked by European nations because
they owe us money; because we are happy and they
stand between them and the exploitation of South
At present, the Lon roe Doctrine effectively
aggression in this hemisphere
it alone, and no combination is
what if we were in the League?
Wo
we are rich; beaause
are not; because we
and Central America,
prevents European
nation of Europe dares challenge
m prospect that would dare, Hut
as soon as we entered that body,
a process of whittling down the 1 onroe Doctrine would begin
We would have all murope against us, and thus be outvoted on
fusetioi. Sooner or later some question would arise that ‘
wouid directly threaten our sovereignty, as well as the i.onroe Doc
trine, v/e would then be compelled to defy the League, ani tiiat would
lean war agaiist an alliance of league members who would be abl p
piously to claim right was on their side.
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