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VOL. 33, NO. 8.
MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER, J928.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Think, Mr. V oter, Think!
The United States of America are
passing oat of an epochal era and are
about to enter a new one. America
will never be the same again" after
March forth, 1929. Whether the new
age in America will be one of prog
ress or of decline will hinge almost
entirely upon the' result of the great
National referendum in November of
this year. A new social order is
about to dawn, a new economic era
knocks at our door, a new moral
behaviour fs imminent, a different
culture and civilization await us, a
new industrialism and a new com
mercial life invite us. (.)ur Federal
Government, our states governments,
our country and municipal govern
ments, our society, our morrals, our
intellectual and spiritual landscapes,
our homes, and our many millions of
individual lives, face an impending
change. We are apprehensive and
we are eager. The old order passcth.
The new compels us on. Around the
personalities of Herbert Hoover and
Alfred E. Smith gather the contend
ing forces. Never in American his
tory have as many issues struggled
tbgether for supremacy. The year
19?.$ marks the decisive battle in
America between irreconcilable forces.
There is no neutrality in the revo
lution going on in the land. Every
man and woman in the nation will be
definitely arrayed on one side or
other by November. Every factor in
the contest is intolerant of its im
mediately opposing factor. No
quarter will be asked or given and
when the battle is over, one side will
prosper and the other will decline.
Protestant Women, Take Warning
American Mothers, Wives, Daugh
"ters, Sisters, women all, we want to
warn you that in your keeping lies
right now the destiny not only of
free Atncf tcs " but of th- civilized
world.
There's no beating Satan Devil
around . the bush unless ALL tTie
American women who can vote reg
ister and go to the polls and Iietp
swat the diabolical conspiracy of the
Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the
lawless aliens to clcci Al Smith
President of the United States, this
country's boasted freedom of speech
is doomed, free schools and free
press will soon be things only of
memory and the United States will
become the most tyrannical Roman
Catholic Hierarchy in the history of
the world. Talk about the Spanish
Inquisition and the. St. Bartholomew
Massacre- Those bloody incidents in
the crime-pages of regnant Roman
ism will be but child's play as com
pared with what a boastful bossy
domineering Tammany Hall Irissi
Catholic control of the United States
will be.
The 'igirs of it are already break
ing out for intolerant Rome can't
even restrain its rage at us Pro
testant Americans long enough to
deceive the voters into helping them
get into complete power. A United
Stales Senator has been refused op
portunities to address the voters in
Roman Catholic cities solely be
cause he prevented the Knights of
Let's Nail This Lie, Too
Since the nervous fish-market
nominee, Alcohol Smith, has been
setting us an example In gadding
about nailing "lies" about his "moral
character" (please don't laugh), what
about driving a large twenty-penny
nail thru the popular lie that the
Democratic spell-binders arc fond of
spreading about Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon as "the biggest
distiller in the world"?
Everybody ought to know that is
a lie, and as bald a lie as ever gained
favor with political cut-throats.
Mellon made his multi-millions as
a Pittsburgh banker, dealing in
bonds, stocks, railroad interests,
public improvements bond issues, and
the usual honorable and honest
methods of, big bankers. For years
the Mellon banks of Pittsburgh have
set the pace in public improvements
and advancement
Probably, many years ago, at the
time that Uncle Sam recognized the
manufacture and sale of liquor u
The victorious side will determine
the character of Americanism, in
clusive of every phase of our national
life, for the next full century if not
longer. And the average citizen
relishes the "showdown"' so joyously
that he would rather be alive today
and to campaign and vote as a
sovereign citiAm .this year, than to
have been Presidents Washington or
Lincoln in other years.
Let us inspect the rival chieftains
and their troops and estimate the is
sue of the imminent struggle. The
few notable exceptions from the
group allignmcnts here indicated,
only serve to emphasize the gen
erality of the alignments.
Marshalled under the standard of
Alfred E. Smith is practically every
Roman Catholic in America; ma
neuvored into such position by the
dogmas and ecclesiastical compul
sions which for centuries have guided
him to his present station and which
make any other political loyalty for
him unthinkable. Exceptions to this
case are so rare as to be negligible.
Joined with these by a self interest
which makes their group equally as
dependable, ardent, and determined,
is every "Wet" in the country. Wet
Republicans, almost to the last man,
submerge their Republican principles
and forget every obligation of party
honor, to join a leadership which
promises them "a full wine-cellar."
Wet Protestants put aside every
moral precept of their faith, ignore
every behest of duty and principle,
(Continued on page 2, column 5.)
Columbus from getting us into war
with Mexico. A poor struggling
printer in Syracuse, N. Y., has his
shop wrecked and his business ruined,
merely because he dared print articles
criticizing Al Smith. PreaencTS who
dare challenge 'this arch enemy of
Sobriety from their pulpits have b-en
hissed by hired thugs; the mails of
Protestant speakers have been inter
cepted; anti-Smith papers like The
Yellow Jacket find it almost im
possible to get to Protestant sub
scribers in some towns where Rome's
spies get first peep at them; Vnotion
picture makers who presume to print
views of the Protestant candidate for
President are threatened by the
Mayor of America's largest city;
the Catholic chairman of the National
Democratic Committee tries to bull
dose Protestant preachers who pre
sume to comment on Smith's wetness
and Catholicism; Babe Ruth, a lead
ing baseball player, insults the Re
publican nominee for President of
the United States by refusing to be
photographed with him saying "it's
politics" when everybody knows that
Babe Ruth is a rampant Roman
Catholic, raised in a Roman Catholic
(irphanaie and tarred and bestuck
with Romanism from his conceit&l
head to his flat-hoofs. A Democratic
cx-Govcrnor of Florida is rotten egged
in the capitol where he reigned, for
daring to speak against Al Smith.
(Continued on page 2, column 4.)
legitimate enterprise, and a perfectly
proper business, Mellon owned some
controlling stock in a local distillery,
but that it ever was the "biggest dis
tillery in the world" was a lie then,
is a lie now and ever will be a lie,
whether told by Josephus Daniels or
any other pious lip-smirking politi
cian lick-spittle. There were scores
of distilleries larger and better known
than those in which Mellon may have
had his investments.
And even had Mellon's been the
"biggest in the world" at the time,
he no longer has it, hasn't engaged
in the business in years, and to
spread that damnable falsehood is as
infamous as to assassinate a man's
character by any of the other
methods decried and damned by the
Holy Bible.
But when -a lie can boost the cause
of the Smith-ocrats crowd it seems
perfectly proper for even pious
"church leaders" like Joe Daniels, to
continue to broadcast that lie.
Nation's Destiny In
Hands of the Women
Every political prophet admits that
the results of the November election
depend chiefly on the way the 30,
000,000 women voters cast their bal
lots. Unless the women, who make
the home, , save it, ' Raskob's plan to
"put liquor back into the homes" is
sure to become a reality, with i!s
resultant ruin.
Judge Gilbert O. Nations, America's
best posted man oa Roman history,
says, "Tammany "Hall and similar
forces in other cities will join with
the political underworld in dumping
into the ballot-box the votes of vir
tually all women of low ideals. But
the noble womanhood of the nation
greatly outnumbers both the fore
going groups. The supreme problem
is to bring out the entire vote of the
women in whom the best ideals of
America are incarnate. .If this can
be done, the wet Tammany ticket
will be buried bej'and tne possibility
of resurrection."
Tammany's crowd is out trying to
hoodwink the women voters into
thinking the election of Smith won't
effect the American home, but we
believe the women are too wise to
be tricked" by any such political slush.
We appeal to ihc women readers
of this paper to Kelp us get the facts
of the campaign 'issues before every
woman voter in she country.
Women ofnWea, your time has
arrived. Unless youK vote against the
Tammany - herd- this November,
American ideals are forever doomed.
QUEER POLITICAL BED-MATES
Our widely-known Southern chi
valry compels us to rush to press
and congrat'iMe Clyde Hoey, Cam
Morrison, Josephas Daniels and those
other vviJely-alulating Demo-catholic
spell-binders v.n,' the acquisition of
Jack Johnson a national Al Smith
Democratic spevA-makcr. ,
' The spectacle of these well-known
white-supremacy view-with-alarmists
seated around jthe same speakers'
desk with a former Federal convict
miscegenist Nero champion prize
fighter certainly' is one to "inspire"
even the most ardent "brotherly love"
brigade which '"seems so dear to
Hoey's and the, others' souls.
But we can't help wondering if
Hoey and Jack Johnson's other
"white buddies"on the stump for Al
will talk so loud about "Nigger
supremacy" with the' ex-nose buster
on the same platform with 'em?
Truly, "politics makes strange bed
fellows" and Daniels on the same
platform with a Negro who may suc
ceed him as Democratic Secretary of
the Navy, if Al is elected, is one to
make even the saints shed tears.
LISTEN, EVERYBODY!
1 .
We have asked the readers of
The Yellow Jacket to do many
little things for u$ in the past and
they have usually responded very
liberally. Now, Listen Folks:
We are asking every one of you
who read this issue, when thru
with it, to hand it or to mail it,
to a friend whom you think might
be interested in our paper and its
policies, and ask him to subscribe.
Did you ever stop to consider
that your friends might like TJie
Yellow Jacket? We need the
patronage and co-operation of
every person that we can interest
in the cause. So if every sub-
scriber and reader will try out
this suggestion and pass the
paper on, we believe it will be
one of the greatest boosts the.
Stinger ever had. Try it out,
Friends, and let us see the results.
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Eli Tucker's Letter
Huckleberry Knob, N. C,
September 3, 1928.
Editor, The Yellow Jacket,
Dear (Sir: Here I am writing on
another national holliday. It seems
to beat all blazes how I just happen
to start my home-spun remarks to
your pesky little paper on days set
apart for great national doings.
Well, Mr. Editor, I think every
laboring man in the United States
ought to get all he possibly can out
of this Labor Day. If the worst
comes to pass, it may be the last one
any highly-paid, well-living"American
workingman may have to enjoy.
You know how Al Smith has bolted
the Democratic platform on Restric
tion of Foreign Immigration. Well,
it doesn't take a prophet to foresee
what will happen to Labor in this
country, if the low-wage aliens, with
their rice-ideas and rough-living
habits flood this country under
"President Al." Wages will go down
to a triffle, and a man can't make
enough in a twelve-hour joust with
a job to earn his salt. If Smith has
his way, Rome will rush its aliens
into this country and work will be
swamped with Gings willing to per
form all day for enough to buy beer
and a few kinky pretzels. American
laborers are the best living workmen
in the world and the highest paid.
Most of them have their own radios,
autos., and modern homes. They
can't keep these things up without
profitable jobs. Well, I ask any sane
voter, how will there be jobs, when
we have a dozen foreign sweating
ill-smelling toe-bussing garlic-eaters
Democrats
Probably the most serious handi
cap that has been placed on the
progress of the industrial South has
been its retention of its ancient at
titude toward the Negro. If you
want to start an. average pie-munching
SmUh-ocrat to slobncrmg at the
gills, just say Republican to him
and he begins to holler, "Look. Out 1
Nigger Equality! Fire! Murder!
Police!" To try to explain to such
a combustible individual tnat there is
no Negro problem in the South any
more; that the Negroes have mostly
moved off those having political
aspirations to New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Illinois and other sec
tions where they feel they can get
both Democratic and Republican rec
ognition; to try to explain all this
would be like trying to cool off
Vesuvius with a midget's ran.
Because the Negroes, learning from
their earliest birth that Abraham
Lincoln, a Republican President,
emancipated them, have insisted on
being loyal, where permitted to vote,
to the party they believe gave them
freedom, the favorite pastime of
dyed-in-the-feathers Smith-ocrats has
been to yell, "Look Out, Here Conies
a Nigger!" every time somebody ex
presses his or her intention to vote,
the ticket with Herbert Hoover's
name on it. The simple truth and
this is no "whispering", but uni
versally known in New York City
is, that Herbert Hoover has had
less direct contact with Negroes in
"An Abuse of the
Sweating, like he had just emerged
from pne of the 27,000 open saloons
his "Constitutional government" has
given to New York during his ad
ministration as governor, Al Smith,
at Oklahoma City, attacked ex-U. S.
Senator Owen for publishing a letter
he had written U. S. Senator Sim
mons, and made this remark:
"It was an abuse of the privilege
of franking and of reading matter
into the (Congressional) Record."
This seemed to worry Al Smith a
great lot.
But you can skin our epidermis for
a tarred tad-pole if, in the very same
mail, we didn't receive, mailed from
Raleigh, this state, and under the
United States Senatorial Frank of
Pat Harrison, a Mississippi Demo
crat, an unstamped letter bearing the
title, "The Alleged Oath or Obli
gation of the Knights of Columbus",
the same being a speech "read into
the Record" by one Congressman
William Kettncr, a Pope-toadying
for every job in the land? American
Labor ought to study this situation
that confronts them and vote for
Hoover who stands on restriction of
alien immigration. Their own self
protection dictates that sane policy
and I don't mean maybe.
The fact that New Jersey's and
New York's State Federations of
Labor have endorsed Smith for
election, should be a caution and a
warning to the labor leaders of other
states, instead of an example. Both
these states are largely populated by
foreigners. The aliens have grasped
the upper hand. If Smith's bolt
against the Democratic party- plat
form plank for a restricted foreign
immigration is permitted to become
a national reality, Mr. Editor, the
day will be shortly when labor in th
United States will be disorganized;
jobs will be impossible, and a horde
of workless worthless aliens will join
the racketeers, bandits and gunmen,
and Hell will break loose all over
this country. What we now have in
Chicago and New York both over
loaded with aliens and Roman Cath
olic thugs we will have in the now
thoroughly Americanized cities of
the South and the entire country.
We don't want such things to come
to pass. Hoover, both in the party
platform and in his speeches of ac
ceptance and public utterances,
stands for keeping the undesirable
aliens OUT. 'And that's what we
Americans must have to win.
Mr. Editor, don't the repeated
(Continued on page 7, column 4.)
and Negroes
business politics or religion than Al
Smith and anybody ought to be
aK1 tn 5fP it fnr hiirtp1f. Th Ro
man Catholic Church for years has
specially played for the Negroes.
Harlem, in New York City, has
hundreds of thousands of Negroes
and they are mostly adherents'of Al
Smith Al? so Mrs. Nicholson has
charged, and Al hasn't denied .goes
frequently up to hob-nob and confab
with the Harlem "Nigger-IIaven"-ites
and they do tell that Al is some
hob-nobber and confabcer. But be
ings as we are afraiJ Al will put
The Yellow Jacket on his "whisper
ing" list, have the dear old Pope
spiritually disinherit and excommuni
cate us, we won't say much about
Al's hob nobs and confabs and we
don't care a small-sized Tinker's dee
bow much Al hobs and nobs and
cons and fabs, any how. But with a
Negro head of Tammany's Civil
Service brigade and a white woman
6ide by each with him to take his
confidential dictations; with several
dark-completed high-up Negroes
from Harlem on Tammany's Boards,
at Albany in high office, ere, etc-,
until you raise the window for air
and with Joe McElmore, Negro lawyer,
riding high as the straight Al Smith
Democratic nominee for Congress,
from St. Louis, we are surprised that
the Smith-ocrats have the check to
mention the Negro Brother at al.
(Continued on page 3, column 4)
Franking Privilege"
California high-degree, watch-charm
Mason, as long ago as January 29, 19J5.
The contents were nothing more
nor less than an apology for the al
leged Knights . of Columbus oath
real into the Record during the
fight between two Pennsylvania Con
gressional candidates even before
that ancient period and we would
like to ask Al Smiht, in his righteous
rage over "abuse of the franking
privilege" just how long and how
many folks are entitled to clutter up
the United States mails with free
postage conveying political dipe cal
culated to help his candidacy and
boost the Knights of Columbus?
Our own private idea is that the
chief reason that the Postal Depart
ment has proved a big financial fizzle
and had to call on the tax-payers to
reimburse it for huge fosses is just
such political shcnannigln business
and we don't like it a whoop
whether it boosts Smith, the Kaseys,
or anybody else.