The awful American war of 1919

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AMERICA

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Chapter I. Hot Stuff For Deceivers

Are You a Saphead?

If you can reason and this book is a lie, you can easily nail it. If it is the truth, then these Washington buncombe-tooters rule us and our national and international affairs as though we were a nation of sapheads and hypocrites. Read this hot stuff half-way through and if you are not stupid, you will not need any one to tell you that it is the solemn truth. But it is hell to treacherous deceivers to be exposed. That is just what they deserve for being deceivers, let them take their medicine; get behind this hot stuff and rub it in. This book has the punch to sober up this war-mad world. If you know any other way to bring stupid humanity to their senses, get busy and do it before the deceivers force them into a worse hell. It is time to expose deceivers regardless of how exalted they are and have no mercy for their feelings. As many columns of vituperation as have been used here to deceive the people, no fair-minded man — no one but a deceiver would insist that only one side be allowed to indulge in that game of denunciation. Expose the politicians that pose as statesmen and deceive this nation and have no mercy for their feelings any more than they have had for those whom they have so brutally maligned here. Get busy; this book is the stuff for such men.

Last August and September (1915) this manuscript floated around among various N. Y. City publishers; but none of them of whatever nationality cared to lose money by publishing it. Recently it was hastily revised and made much hotter. Get busy and help the publishers push the book and bring people to their senses. I would never write such a book as this if there were any other way to bring the sapheads to their senses. Such a motive justifies me; but money would not. If this book brings the American people to their senses, this war will end suddenly enough. To end this war I am willing to take all the abuse this hot book will call down upon my head for exposing how the people here are deceived.

How to Get Honest Politicians

That will not promise one thing before election and then do the other thing after elected. A new, sure-do-it method that will make patriotic citizens laugh and weep for joy and stir the politicians as they have never been stirred since they smelled pork and it became contagious for them to lie and graft and rush for the barrel. It will wake up the politicians like a stick of dynamite — Democratic, Republican, Socialistic, not excepting that ferocious egotist of Oyster Bay. What causes hard times? What has the tariff to do with it? The most stirring political book since Uncle Tom's Cabin. The explanation of how the European scrap will yet affect the 1916 campaign will alone attract universal attention. Original, witty, live, hot stuff that will disilluzionize the obfuscated sapheads.

How to Get Honest Politicians By a Warranted-to-do-it

Method

Politicians, like eels, never enjoy being skinned ; nevertheless, the skinning has to be done. You will notice that the hides have been lifted from a bunch of politicians of various brands. Of the lot I consider Old Bull Moose hide toughest and you will observe that I helped myself to a plenty of that hide.

O, this is not polite literature and I do not care how much you cuss, just so you keep on reading. It is time to tell the truth regardless of whose political mug gets busted. The reasons given will not fail to convince any devil of that. It is only fools and mad bulls that believe in rushing ahead without looking at what they are butting into. This book is an eye-opener and has no mercy on those whoi deceive and obfuscate the American people. Read this merciless exposure through and do a lot of sober thinking before you go off half-cocked like that Oyster Bay demagogue.

No, thank you, I never take anything stronger than coffee ; but I give knock-out drops to shifty politicians and grafters.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt

That big-mouthed ranter last summer broke loose with the edict: "It is time for action." Well, why did not he head for the trenches and there turn loose with his ferocious gas? A good reason why; he would never get a chance to shoot a German in the back like he did the Spaniard fleeing for his life and then rush home like a hero and write a book about That German I Shot in the Back. That Col. Roosevelt recently said of himself: "Wilson fears ME." Wilson may be afraid of that Oyster Bay "ME" ; but that "ME" is not dangerous unless he catches you with your back toward him. I bet you when I get through with that ferocious "ME" he will go away back and squat down. Hot wallops are handed to a bunch of other politicians also, else they might feel slighted.

Prof. Woodrow Wilson

I tell you, fellow citizens, he is a great precedent precedent; he has kept us from being whipped by Mexico. For I tell you some of us are not too proud to fight. It takes a great man to butt into Huerta like the President did and set the Greasers to slaughtering Americans worse than ever and then not interfere and stop their bloody amusemerit of potting Americans. It takes a great man then to keep hands off. Fellow citizens, if you and I were only down in Mexico and the treacherous Greasers were trying to pot us, then we should fully appreciate the professor's kind of greatness. Yes, but his friends said, Taft did nothing with the Mexican muddle. Fellow citizens, after what you and I did to that Taft administration who would ever have thought that another would so soon invite the same wallop?

Once, fellow citizens, once we had a great man for President, and he was called "The Illinois baboon," "The nigger lover" by some of these very daily papers of N. Y. City which now make such a loud noise that to be a loyal American citizen you must stand by the professor who let his gall slip up where his honor should have been down at Baltimore; you will find hot stuff all the way through the book. Hot stuff backed up by facts and rubbed in so as to start the howls of the buncombe-tooters. This book has a heavier load of hot stuff in it than any ammunition ship that ever went to Europe.

A campaign has been launched for the sterilization of fifteen million Americans according to the International News Service as well as N. Y. City dailies. A eugenic organization, after four years' work in this country and Europe, reached the conclusion that sterilization of defectives is the greatest work before them. The committee on sterilization in its report demands the sterilization of 92,400 persons in this country this year. They have the backing of many prominent persons and multi-millionaires and intend to rush the matter with Congress. They have discovered the fact that where the sole object is to prevent the reproduction of life, sterilization is possible. They estimate that about 10 per cent, of the present population of the United States ought to be sterilized. These defectives are such a burden upon society and cost the country so many hundreds of millions that they want to make sure that they have no descendants.

I have been all over the country investigating and I have seen how 'it does cost this nation hundreds of millions every year just for one class of defectives alone. This class of defectives cannot see the same after election that they do before they are elected. Now I have fully investigated this class of defectives and find their defect is a gyrating intellect. They cannot help seeing things differently after they are elected from what they did before they were elected. These defectives with gyrating intellects cost the nation hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Now, sterilization is the sure cure. Then we can breed politicians that can see the same after election that they do before they are elected. Then we can get an honest man like Hearst on the job, but not now. Up bobs some aesthetic gent and bewilders and obfuscates the voters with his exquisite promises and gyrating intellect, and before you are aware he is on the job and the taxpayers are in for it again.

If men and women invest their savings in railroad stocks and some big crook loots that road and a bunch of the stockholders are reduced to want and suffer and go insane, they are to be sterilized on the ground that they are defectives. Sterilize the big crook as well as his victims. The crook is defective; he is soulless — has no heart. Sterilize the big swindlers as well as his victims. There are a bunch of big crooks that cost this nation more every year than all the insane asylums and other institutions for defectives do. Why sterilize the victims and not sterilize the swindlers that cause panics, bankruptcies, suicides and insanity?

Who Made Prof. Wilson President?

Many persons are not aware how Prof. Wilson happened to get the nomination for President, though Mr. Clark could inform them. So also could that beaming Nebraska sunflower that is so charmed with himself; but it would not redound to the trustworthiness of his hypnotic jaw as a delegate. It has long been the Democratic custom that when one seeker after the nomination for the Presidency has a majority of the votes of the delegates, then all other seekers withdraw their names. Prof. Wilson could not abide by that custom and withdraw his name like the honorable men before him did. Yet he since had the gall to talk about having "a decent regard for what others think." Mr. Clark had a majority of the votes, not one ballot only, but for forty-one or forty-two ballots, and yet Prof. Wilson would not withdraw his name and bow to the Democratic custom as the honorable men before him had done. He had the unprecedented gall to stick through it all, 42 ballots. It was Prof. Wilson's unprecedented gall that got him the nomination down at Baltimore. Prof. Wilson recently said (Feb. 27) : "The responsibilities of the office (Presidency) ought to sober a man even before he approaches it." Yes, I think so myself and you can see how it sobered Prof. Wilson down at Baltimore. I know twaddle and buncombe when I hear it. Prof. Wilson says : "The Republic was founded upon a profound principle of human liberty and of humanity." Prof. Wilson, that is just what Wm. Randolph Hearst stands for and fights for. You can tell what Hearst stands for by the kind of men and pluguglies that always fight' him. Hearst is such a fighter that he does not have to rely upon buncombe or twaddle like the present outfit at Washington. If this is not the truth, the sapheads will be able to see it by the time they have read this book half way through.

A man who will allow his gall to slip up where his honor should have been and then prate about having "a decent regard for what others think" should not be allowed to imagine that he is the only political pebble on the Democratic beach and then let him blow off through his hat that the Democrats are sure to win when it is only a political minority administration. Slippery Democratic politicians told me months before the raw gall of those 42 sweltering ballots at Baltimore that the big interests (crooked) wanted Prof. Wilson and not Mr. Clark nominated. See how the lawless men of Wall Street robbed the stockholders of untold millions by looting the New Haven R. R. But there would have been no exposure of that gang of crooks — not if Wilson's man, the U. S. Attorney General at the time, could have prevented it. Mr. McReynolds sat upon the lid ; but pestiferous

Folk persisted in raising both the lid and McReynolds. And Mr. Wilson showed which side he was on by rewarding McReynolds and boosting him on to the U. S. Supreme Court bench, where he can decide on important matters for the Wall Street gang. Mr. Wilson was serving the men who looted the New Haven R. R. then. That loyal American, Wm. Randolph Hearst, says : "This is a government for the protection of the powerful and the exploitation of the weak."

It is time to tell the truth red hot to Prof. Woodrow Wilson, and that ferocious Roosevelt and high-and-mighty Wall Street and their foxy Root and hoodoo Bryan and the lying papers that deceive the American ignoramuses and greedy sapheads here.

It is time to tell people what real Americanism is and do it in a way that will stir the measly liars and deceivers. It is time to let those who believe in Americanism know what a loyal, patriotic American Wm. Randolph Hearst is. This book will make you Tories and liars howl. Everything hot has been stuck into this book to wake up the maudlin sapheads and ignoramuses and liars and demagogues. If what I say is not the truth, you will have no trouble disproving it. If it is not the truth you will not need to howl about it. If it is the truth, damn it, it ought to be published and pushed, and if you are one who wants this book go do not fail to let the publishers know it and help them. You do not have to agree with everything in the book to want it to go.

Germany started out to conquer England with her millions and millions of inhabitants and subjects and France with her 44 millions and Russia with her 120 millions and Belgium with her seven and a half millions. We American sapheads know this is the solemn truth because that lying pirate, John Bull, says it is so. You ignoramuses, Germany could not have kept out of this war of England's on Germans. I show you, crazy sapheads, how you are deceived. If this book does not stir you, you are a dead one; call in the undertaker. Read this book and you will see that Wilson has cut his political throat. I am happy to inform you that this book insures the defeat of that Terrible "ME," Roosevelt. I am delighted to get "Me's" hide nailed on the barn-door to dry. Many of the worthless, titled bums of England would die paupers if it were not for the silly American heiresses. Heavily tax the properties of all extirpated title-chasers.

Sapheads, read this book through and you will find that you are just like the crazy Georgians that would not read the evidence in the Leo Frank case and that wanted to mob the Governor because he did read it. Not one of those rebels that took part in that lynching of Leo Frank can feel that Leo Frank was guilty, and not one of them cannot help but feel that they committed a fiendish, traitorous crime when they lynched him. It was done because the rest of the country considered Leo Frank innocent and he did not get a fair trial, and the rebels looked upon that as interfering with their local affairs and he was a northern man.

The late Alfred Henry Lewis wrote: "To-day, as twenty years ago, during the Cleveland regime, the country is being run by Wall

Street. Now as then Big Money is in the saddle. Also Big Money means not only American money, but English money ; and is as much the alias of Lord Cowdray and S. Pearson & Son, as it is of Mr. Morgan, Mr. Hill and Mr. House. . . . You are inclined to challenge the assertion. Take a look backward glance. Wasn't the New Haven muddle in its last arrangement adjusted to suit the wish of Big Money? Wasn't the telephone troubles settled upon plans submitted by Big Money? Isn't the Union Pacific just now splitting up an improper $85,000,000 as an alleged dividend because Big Money insists? As irons still in the fire. Big Money counts the Panama Canal (repeal of free tolls), the 5 per cent, freight rate advance and the rescue of the Steel Trust from dissolution or dismemberment. Big Money looks forward in these affairs to a triangle of triumphs.

Get at it by the Socratic method upon the hope that you have not read your Plato for fun. Doesn't Mr. Wilson, during his New York City visits, stop at the home of Mr. House? Isn't Mr. House, when in Washington, as much at home in the White House as Mr. Wilson? Can anyone to-day climb the White House back stairs without bumping into Mr. House in the dark? Aren't Mr. Morgan, of Wall and Broad, and Lord Cowdray, of England and Mexico, the partners of Mr. House? Don't all these names mean the railroads, together with the bonds and stocks thereof?" — From the N. Y. "American."

Since Mr. Lewis wrote this, the free tolls for American ships have been repealed and the 5 per cent, freight rate increase has been secured and no one has expected the Steel Trust to be dissolved, not after the way our politicians run the courts and the administration.

With the possibility of war with Mexico staring this administration right in the face for three years, it spent millions on pork and next to nothing on military defense of our Mexican border. Yet this shortsighted gang- has the nerve to ask us to prolong this national disgrace and inefficiency. Hearst told this conceited, blind bunch that the American arms and ammunition furnished the Mexicans were likely to be used to kill our own citizens and soldiery, and it came true months ago. Any man that will trust a Greaser is not fit to be president of the United States. If the American voters want to start in on another four years of such bungling inefficiency as this Wilson and Bryan administration, it is enough to thoroughly disgust a patriotic man with our politics.

Chapter II. Wilson, The Politician

Prof. Woodrow Wilson and Your Broken Pledges.

Prof. Wilson, is there a single pledge that you made to the voters in 1912 that you and your party have not busted? AVhat are your pledges to the American voters good for except to get office and pork for the Democratic Party? Here is one of your pledges that you and Bryan held up to the American voters to get office, and no pledge was ever more measly ignored and suppressed than this one after you got on the job :

"The Constitutional rights of American citizens should protect them on our borders and go with them throughout the world, and every American citizen residing or having property in any foreign country is entitled to and must be given the full protection of the United States Government, both for himself and his property."

Yet you, after you made such a bombastic pledge as this, were so unpatriotic as to do all you could for years toward suppressing the facts about the ravishing of American women and the killing of American citizens down in Mexico, for fear the American people would not stand for such outrages and "killings and lootings. Remember, you were elected on a pledge to not stand for such treatment of our citizens. You were proud that you and your wife came from the section of our country that claims to defend the virtue of its women. Yet the raping of our women by the despicable Greasers is a matter to be suppressed according to your standard of patriotism and the lightness with which you disregard that worthless scrap of paper known as the Democratic platform.

"Not only ONE American but HUNDREDS of Americans have been butchered in Mexico ; American women have been abused and tortured and defiled before being murdered ; little American children have been made the victims of beasts and assassins. These American men and women and children were tortured and murdered not because they had committed any crimes or treasons, but BECAUSE THEY WERE AMERICANS. That was their sole offense. They died cruel and hideous deaths because they were born on the soil of our own dear country and owed allegiance to our own free government. And from first to last there is not an instance on record in which one single one of these murders was avenged by the Government to which these poor victims owed allegiance." — N. Y. American^ Nov. 8, 1915.

II

United States soldiers were shot down on our own soil by Mexicans and not allowed to return the fire. How would you like to be a soldier under such a President? Yet this is President Wilson's record. Get what Roosevelt wrote about it in Metropolitan, March, 1915, and see how he burns him up. And the United States Senate demanded information about the treatment of American citizens in Mexico and this administration twice refused the Senate the particulars about it. See what Hearst's editorials says about it farther on. It is a new kind of patriotism to America that twice refused the Senate the entitled particulars about the treament of our citizens in Mexico. It was outrageous.

Of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt said in March, 1915, Metropolitan: "The rape of women, the murder of men, and the cruel treatment of little children leave their tepid souls unstirred. Insult to the American flag, nameless crimes on American women, cause them not one single pulse of emotion. But they have wantonly and without the smallest excuse and without the smallest benefit to this country shed the blood of twenty American soldiers and sailors in order to help put one blood-stained bandit in the place of another blood-stained bandit." Particulars about treatment of our citizens were withheld from the Senate "on the ground that it was not compatible with public interest," said Col. Roosevelt.

Prof. Wilson's Slogan of Preparedness.

He asks: "How can Americans differ about safety in America?" Hearst has been awake to this condition a good many years and has tried to wake up Prof. Wilson ever since this minority administration existed — especially when the Congressmen were gorging themselves with pork and more pork at the expense of our Navy and the United States Treasury. Hearst has been preaching preparedness for years and years and digging at Mr. Wilson. And now at last, after several years in Washington, D. C, Mr. Wilson has discovered that the best bait with which to go after the nomination is that we should prepare for war. Pork, more pork is the battle-cry that never fails to thrill the Democratic Party.

Hearst has preached preparedness when this Administration suppressed everything about preparedness it could. Hearst has worked like a patriot and Prof. Wilson has worked like a shifty politician until he needed a slogan to swing around the circle after the nomination at St. Louis, and then preparedness is just the thing. Prof. Wilson, why not use your old slogan of 1912, free tolls for American ships? Why not try your old slogan of 1912, economy in national expenses? Prof. Wilson, why not brag about what a fine Democratic tariff you have got? Prof. Wilson cannot stand on the record of a single fulfilled pledge that he made to the voters in 1912 to get the nomination at St. Louis. Garrison discovered that the less significant a man is in the Cabinet the better he stands with this Administration. You cannot take gall and rhetoric and sophistry and buncombe and make an American statesman.

Prof. Wilson and Our Navy.

Prof. Wilson has stood for the tail a-wagging the dog in the Navy Department until some of the best men have resigned and our Navy has dropped behind. They had to have money to pay old rebel debts and for pork, so they saved on the Navy. After they gave us the most expensive session of Congress in times of peace, with practically no construction work to show for it — only pork, Mr. Wilson congratulated them on their work and then went home to stand by the professor, and fifty-seven of the gang were counted out. The N. Y. World, January 8, says : "Ability has apparently become a crime in the Republican Party." Mr. Root, please take notice. The Democratic Party is still worse than that. Patriotism has been sadly lacking in the administration-peanut politicians. How can any man stand lor years to see American citizens slaughtered in Mexico and American women ravished and killed by the Mexicans and then suppress such particulars and claim to be an American patriot? It makes any man with red blood in him ashamed of such peanut politicians.

Our Weak Navy.

''We have not a single battle cruiser. The battle cruiser is a ship carrying guns as heavy as those of a battleship and having a speed as great as the fastest cruiser. Such a ship can roam the seas singly, destroying any enemy weaker than itself it meets and running away from any enemy stronger than itself.

The battle cruiser saved the day for the British at Heliogoland and at the Falkland Islands, and won the victory for Admiral Beatty in the only battle that has occurred in the North Sea. The German battleship Bluecher was sunk in that battle because she was too slow to keep up with her consorts, which escaped from the pursuing English ships. Yet the Bluecher was three knots faster than the best armored ship in the United States Navy.

Even Japan owns four battle cruisers. One of these powerful ships could in one battle crush our entire present Pacific fleet, could destroy our only drydock in the Philippines, cross the sea and raid every unfortified city on the Pacific Coast.

We have nothing to cope with them in speed. Our slower dreadnoughts, even when sent to the Pacific Coast, would be helpless against a battle cruiser they could not overtake. Two battle cruisers can even menace an extremely powerful fleet of dreadnoughts by coming up astern and concentrating their fire always on the last ship." — N. Y. American.

The Truth About Our Weak Navy.

These conceited, peanut politicians down at Washington will not allow men that are really competent and posted about the needs of our Navy to publicly express themselves about our naval weakness. I have talked with men in the Navy and that is the only way for the public to get posted about how this measly political gang down at Washington run the thing so as to make themselves as important as possible. Rear-Admiral Fiske was down for an address on "The Truth About Our Navy" at the Defense Society's luncheon in New York City, but the gag was applied by the Administration.

C. S. Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Defense Society, 305 Fifth Avenue, said of Secretary Daniels' action : 'Tt is plain that the present Secretary of the Navy is doing all in his power to suppress the expert information in order that his program alone may be kept before the country." Secretary Daniels was formerly only a country editor and is no expert on naval affairs. But he wants to be the whole cheese.

''Secretary Daniels, reluctantly and under pressure, has published naval statistics which show that the American navy is now fourth in strength.

"When this Administration came into power the American navy was, if not actually, at least theoretically, second in strength, and was both actually and theoretically a close third. A few months ago Secretary Daniels, with the approval of President Wilson, gave out a grandiloquent statement to the effect that never had the efficiency and strength of the Navy been so developed as during his tenure of office.

"And now, when cornered and made to produce figures, this same Secretary Daniels publicly confesses that during his tenure of office our navy has actually fallen to fourth place — that there are three Powers which could, single-handed, beat down our naval defense and, of course, land an invading army which we are not prepared to meet and defeat. What do you citizens think of this Secretary of the Navy?" — N. Y. American, January 25, 1916.

"Congress has persisted in ordering warships built that can neither successfully fight with nor successfully escape from the faster modern warships of England, Germany and Japan. The warships absolutely necessary to any successful defense of our coasts against the navy of any other first-class Power are warships that are as fast as or faster than the warships of the assailants.

"The first essential factor is the factor of speed. Two modern wars have proved this beyond cavil. The Japanese fleet totally detroyed the Russian fleet, in the decisive battle of the war, with but little loss to itself, because the Japanese ships in that battle were very much faster than the Russian ships. The Japanese ships could run rings around the helpless Russian ships, could assume their own distance at will, could concentrate their fire on inferior units, could temporarily withdraw from the range of superior units, and could make or refuse to make battle at any point on the line. They cut to pieces and sank the whole Russian fleet with hardly a bit of danger to themselves. Speed and victory were shown then and there to be simply two words with one meaning.

"The three naval actions of the present war fought by fleets resulted in two victories for the British and one for the Germans. In one of these the German ships were speedier than the British ships. They destroyed the British squadron with hardly any loss to themselves. The same German fleet was waylaid off the Falkland Islands by speedier British ships. They destroyed the German squadron with hardly any loss to themselves. In the third engagement, a running fight, the faster German ships came off with little damage. The slowest German ship, the Bluecher, was shot to pieces and sunk. And this comparatively slow German ship, the Bluecher, was faster than most, if not all, of our own battleships. And yet lack of enough speed was her doom.