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VOL. 37, NO, 3.
MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY, J932.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
More Plain Talk!
“More Taxes!”
“To Prop
Eigate the Faith”
Fellow Americans:—
In lost issue of Tlie YeUow Jacket
■We inid'iilg'ed' an some pretty plain talk
about tie tax-eating .pollticiaais of this
debt-cuTsed. country, but we only got
started. We assure you tJrat tie
lu'usic bas just begun.
We called' your attention tben to the
startling fact that the cost of all the
goveroiments of the U. S. has increasied
347% during the .past 1*6 years, while
at the same itkne the National- ineoihe
has increasisd only 148%, and the
population but 26%; that -governrn’eiit
exiJendatures have; increased m'ore
than twice as fast as National inccrtie
and more than 13 times as fast as
population’.
We told' you that the time and place
to start out to raotify this state of
affairs was in the primaries this year.
Congress isn’t going to act till you
force it to act. The only way under
heaven to get action from Congress or
from the other departments of goveni-
ment is to apply the inouisitorial
branding iron to every candidate for
office -of every .party, from do.g-catcher
fco President. Force them to pledge
themeis:l.ve& upon th-eir sacred honor to
work for and vote for.the reduced
cost of government all- along the line,
and work like 'the dievil grinding tan.'
bark to this end.
Here we have the spootacle of the
G'US'atest Nation on Earth paying a
Departoent of Agriculture $315,000 a
year to tell you farmers how to raise
higger a.nd- better crops, while at the
same time paying a Federal Farm
Board $500,000 a year to tell the
farmt&Ts that the best way to relieve
tlvemselves ds to .plow up every third
■row! Doesn’t that beat the Devil for
ineonsistency and waste?
Every intelligent pers'On’ know.® that
this country at the out-break of the
World War threw all economic re
strictions overboard and set out on a
wild and r2okLe.gs career of borrow
in.g, spendiinig, speculating and wasting
that has had no parallel' in jncdern
(times. Well, you see where it has
landed- us. The fact is that the Plain
People—the backbone, heart, pallar
and fou'ndation of the American Nati'On
—^are being “taken for a-'ridie’’ an true
racketeer fashion. Now, folks, W'hat
you better do for the present, and the
time is right now tip for action'—^is to
lay all partizan .politics aside and for
get whether you are foldoviers of the
fat and lazy Elephant or Che dog
eared and dum donkey, and give your
orders to the powers that be to “get
down to .brass tacks”, cut out the
granid'-standi play and begin soane
experLsef-slashing legislation or hell
-will soon (be a-popping.
What Mr. John Taxpayer wants—
aud is about ready to demand, seize^
take, or wrest—is for the. national
law-makers to start in their own back
j-ards when that long-delayed clean*
upreally begins.
Congress-can holler about cutting,
expenses-'-yes, reducing salaries of
'the Poor Devils who get a scant
living' wage—but there won’t be any
•righteousiness in the deal until mem
bers-of that HON.ORABLE body.stop
their legalized plundering of the
Treasury.
That’s piTtly strong talk, eh?
Well, what would 3'ou call it when
.Senators and Represientatives, know
ingly, and year after j-ear, accept as
traveling expenses several times whai
their actual expenses amoimt toP
That an antiquated law sa-nctions such
a “Treasurj- raid’’ doesn’t make it
rigiit!
More than a century ago, W’h'eri it
required many days of hard traveling,
and many nights in inns along the
route, for a Congressman to get from
hi.m some to the Capital ,of the nation,
there may have been justifioation for
allo-vring 20 cents per mile as traveli-
ing expenses for each member. B-irt
those days have passed.
TGdaj’, when first class passenger
transpoi'tatioii costs less tlian 4 cent.s
a mile, aud pullman fare a surall
(Cont.inued on page 3. column 1)
Befouling the SuimyviSouth
R'fecesntly a toddy-tippling tumble-
.'ibug Tam.mamyite reared up on' his
hind legs and in a speech and thru
the papers jimsulted the South and
President Hoover thus:
“We must give Hoover credit .for
d'oiaig onie good thing. He kicked the
South out of th-e Democratic Party and
we shoiuld thank him for 'that For
the> South has been the canker in the
Party aai these years. It has a.Iwaj’s
bee® the h-ot-bed of troublosi, first with
ais .slavery, then its Protesitaint in-
ibolerance and Its Prohibition. , It’s a
good' thing we’ve got nid of the South.”
Of course it would be sheer idiocy
evea to hope to have such a foiol as
•t.hai..k9;ow that, it was; the;-Santli that
gave .this republic, its'"fath^ of our
cotmibry”, its finsit- -presMeiKt; its Dec-
l-arabian of Independenjce, and' the im
mortal Constitution “pants, of which”
as A1 Smith -said',—'these high-handed
Tamm-any •pcQitlca'il highivaymen. now
hoartily “hale”. It was a Southern
etatesiman, Thomas Jeff-eirsion-, who
founded -the Bemocratio Par.ty, and
the only stetesnuen with the exception
of Cleveland anid Eudhiaaifan (wmo
wasn’t a slait'esimiaji) .the ‘ Democrats
have ever el-eoted PneiSide.n.t were from
the South.
The Senegambians in.the Ta3n.many
woodpile as plainly to be sieeiii. Tam-
, many is the poOitioafl machine of the
. Bo’pe’s devilish claim, ho “make
. Artiex'ida CatheJic”, s^slze. this |;ovem-
‘meut, wreck % ccaiistltution and turn.
, the great fkioncdal treasures of this'
republic info fhq '^brtioa'n: vaults.
New York City, -alien in ideate, popu
lation and pei-sonal habi'cs, luate-s th-e
Sduth becaus'e the Prciteistant South
fitubboj'irly blbcks Tamimny’s' anti-
conistitutional schemes, keqps tlio
Pope from coming' ■over to' Am-wica
and otherwise is a thorn' 'in Rmne’s
side. New'York City is-no-t as miich
American a-s Cairo, Egypt, or Paris,
France. It is composed of a hod,_
pod'ge of foreigners, many of whom
are Qithoi'.sts and oniai’dii^ts, a,nd even
those .who goto church must have the
gO'&pel preached in .theia* 2.00 alifen
churches in '35 diffierent ' fc-reign
language®. The So'uth, most An-gJo-
Saxon native Caucasian .section of the
country, . pre-veate.r- Tammeny’sis -“in-
tem'at,iC'nal!izing” thiB govemmenit, rob
bimg its golden treasuries and shack-
•ling Lt,s poopld with 'the handcuff-s of
the Romish Chmxib'. Alien ideals and
inhabitanitis are neither wanitisd no-r
welcome.d in the Sioiitb; Am'erica is
good enough for us and the Constitu
tion is still oiur guide,
•And- th'e crown of insult heaped on'
the head'S of the Southern Dera-o«iracy
by Tammany is the fact that they
entertain such conibempt for Southern
Democracy, and yet admit, as they did
xe’centlly, that “they can lelect their
msan P.resiid'en,t, even if some of the
big Easitem' and Northerp. states go
•against hto, BY» THE VOTE FROM
THE S(^TH.” in oth'er 'sr.ords-, Tam
many uaeig the Southem Democracy as
'• (Continued on page i,' column 5)
The day may die, the sun. may set.
But taxes, like the river,.
Keep going up, and' hig-h'er get,
Andi will it st^p? No, never.
You get a raise m weekly ■wage—
The Income Taxes grab it;
Y'OU-r uncle leaves a heritage—
“Inheritance” will mb ■it.
You put your saving an some bank—
The Exmse Tax will take it;
You try to hock jmur auto crank—
It cost-s a tax to stake it.
You can' not give a-way your clot'hes
Un-lefeiS' the “Gift Tax” nails you
And -tweaks your pocket-book and nose
Until youir h-eart near fa-lls jxiu.
You can’t buy rouge for jmur pale wife
But what the .^rafters tax it;
You 'try with d'ni-iik ’bo take your life—
The “Beverage” tax man smacks it.
You telegraph the Co'unty Horde—
And pay a tax for wiring;
You pray for death’s’ release to come—
And get taxed tor expiring.
You seek to buy a .s'eft of furs';
T'O keep jiour wife from freezing—
Th-ey tax her “ten percent” on hers
And ad'd more for her sneezing.
You buy a gill or so ■of Malt
To take An apiK.tizer—
The tax man yells for j'ou to “Halt!
And' pay our tax divisor.”
You give your graduating girl
A box of gum or oaud-y—
They tax it till you're in 'a whirl
And mve like Old Man Ga'ndhi.
If there’s a thing they’ve failed to tax.
Please keep i't from the papers;
For they have heaped tax on our backs
Until We cut up capers.
It's tax on gasoline and gum,
On theatres -and races.
On matches, rod'ios and rum.
And rides, if you go places.
They tax a man for wearinig shoes,
. And even tax the leather;
Thjy -tax his debts and revenues,
.And a.lmfOst tax the 'R'eather.
They tax a Jay for drawing breath,
The license for his marriage;
And when he aseks relief in deatii,
Th-ey tax the fun'ral carriage.
“Fundamefitalism Vs: Liberalism”
.Th^e’s pobod'y as nmeh away from
■ home in the -upper story as an editor
of a religlcnji® magartne, when he -tries
• to soft-pedal' on B'omo sheieiianiigiii he
•perponaH.y lakes to roll,
Fco* instance, before us is the
OhTistlan: Evangelist, a St. touis
. ch'w-^ papeir, (that 'trie® to straddle
• (the -equine o-f Chrristian progress® in' an
apology for ‘Taberaldsm” in ' the
' •chiHsch,
Soya this stpinel-e;^ scrib® anent
ic»rtaia Bible critics;
“SofUDe ipreachieir® boast o£ She fact
• that they ore ‘Liberals’, whole oHters
rejoice that they are fFun.'damentaliists'.
Boat boasts are dn vaizu 'Wh'^ I9 the
TOhte of going off into any ‘ism* oboirt
a ^laool of tbKmght'? Neither Liber-
aMsm DOf EkmdamentaMsoit avaOeth
anythhrg”, etc., etc., mtil you gag.
'Vnslch is om She 57 varieties of
reasons that Cbe church today
■ better iKdd on the a-venage, hard-
ftsadikW flober-dbiuikiDg son of m-orjit
'We have always n'otLced 'that it Is
usually .the putt3’'-s!pinied sky-pilot
sipillbesi who lean toward peace at any
priie just so the crowd© come and* the
ooll-ection plate© jingle who chant such
imbeciMc twaddle. This ixartioular
■ paper repTesenit.gi a Foreign.' Missionary
•Board that has ©plit its oomm'Unlbn
by .supporting, foreign misBionaries
■'who assert that Jesns Christ was a
mere man, that e-veryhedy isi '-the "Son
of God” the same as- He wasi, and .that
the dootritt© of the Trinity can or
cannot be believ’ed, a® suit® th'e sweet
■will of the applicant for grace.
Fimdamentalisan is simply standing
on the Book and believdng it to be the
Word of £h'e Lord; liberalism 1® the
sort of Spiritual s-Viill that puts Fo®-
dicdzsf and Cadmans and c(their 'Ri'bi-ioal
assassin® in. big. ipulpitSi
And as f'CO' us and also oitr house,
■we win serve iha Lord by iz^evaibs
that 'She ^ble -is 'whai life said it 'was,
Hia Lispired Word.
For -we’d rathetr any Qmi& he caBed a
Fundamentalist tfhaa a . fool, 'wMch
preachers, or anybody, are -nho ’deny
God’a WiU'iL
Announcement!
I'cUoiy Ameryians;— . j,.
The liftle did yiiltbw Jacket,
wlucli lias be*n swatting dema
gogs, hip and thigh, for the past
37 years, desires lo announce to-
its million readers tliat it has the
stage all set ”and the ivires all
strung for the Presidential cam
paign and 1111!“’ real, simon-pnre,
old-fashioned, £00 - in - the • shade,
juice 3viU begin to sizzle and flow
in the June Ainnber. We uill
regard it as a personal favor if
you will coiney this neus to tlie
bsethren in yojir community and
elsewhere about the country that
they may send clubs that all
friends of the'paper everywhere
may be rejnni^ated with the pare
and unadulterated elixir of po
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today and help drive the blues
aw.ay.—ik BOX L.iWS, Editor.
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MORATIAK FALLS, K. G,
SPEAKISG OF TAMMAXY’S SMELL
A iraanibUfCtaous'j''esidier of 'the Stmger
W'lio 1© -ev'idently fesb-amed of M'Snaimie,
for be Calls to aL.-write© thus:
“■Wbat right bave. you to say that
Tammamy^ Hail 14 fotom.? You seem
■to take. pl-easure in saying ©o, but I’ll
©ay it’s ntot.”
Porbops. Tammany is I*fke the dark-
compl-eicted Ne@ro womaio’s baby.
The d:ootqr., orf a visit to the wo-
man’s borne,’ notioed one of the youg-
sters sitfttog on -the floor bowling and
ralstog merry Heck for flair.
“That 'baby is spoiled', asai>y! it,
AumtyS” asked Iho doot-or.
Nc>, eub, docftoh, bit bain-’t spoi-lt.
AM Nigger -babieg gmeU© flat ■way.”
It may be tlhai Tammany’s natural
smeM i© being rotten.
Muicit a® we dislike to csltldze the
Roman CathoMc Gburoh wia don’t
think much of an- Institution that puts:
a bid on 4ibe cradle and n baj> ^ ^^01
srave. ■ . ,
Elaewheire, gentle .reader, you will
read in this .paper of the j^ericu'n
Catboli-cs’ gift of $1,100,000.00 to ihe
Pope of Rome. A© tbii© is ten per cent
LESS itaia® tbe usuali ANNUAL do
natio® of Am-eri'ca® Catholics to the
Pope, luaitura'lly you may lose some
sleep wondering what all tbis' money
is- for.
Well, we’ll eu'lighten' you.
The Pope ©ay© it’& for “the propa-
giahio®' of -the faith.”
And, of course, America® Catholics*,
being human and a lot nrore Catholics
and lA'm.eri-ea'n's, wouldin’.t dig dovm in
thieir jeainjs omd hand over such sta.gi
gering sumg every j'-ear just to
“propagate the flaith” in dark Africa
or dusky Ai^’a or eteewhere where
they have no kin.
It's the Pope’© big blind to “pr-opar
ga-te'-’ the Pope’s poilitical. “faith’'
right here'in the good old. U. .S. A.,
wbere he hopes to get hi© talons on
our treasUT5’, siedze our goverament as
he ha® every other go'vernment where
the picki'Ug were good, and let the
Dertl take the hind-most.
Bosh and silly chatter, 3''ou say?
Wtell, listen to these few uncoutra-
dicted facts:
VTien the Pope pressed his I'Oiml
oath-hound subject, A'l S'mdth, to run
for Presi'd'ent in 1928, AT not only got
properly swatted at the pollS'; he 'lieft
a Democratic deticLt of $1,497,391.00
for Sir Private Cbamiberlai® to the
Pope John J. Raskob to pay. Oh
June 6, 1929, Sir J.obni made Ms
financial reiport ito Clerk Page of
Congress, as the law requires.
Sir John revealed $1,056,277.00 in
collections, and said he got $989,000.00
of iJiat out of New Yoi'k City.
Sir .Tobn reported' $150,000.00 a© given
by himself; $50,000.00, by William H.
Tood'; $160,000.00 by another holy-
beme budrdy, W. F. Kenney, Al Smith’s
bod3--guaTd‘ companiLoin'; $50,000.00 by
Bemiard M. Baruch, a Jew with ■an
easy mind toward aiU thing© “Catho
lic"; $2d,000.00 from P. D. duPont,
who get© lot© mo-re ba.'dt e3’'eTy time
the ammuni'tioii-boys- ©tir up a war;
$100,000.00 from'M. J. Meehan; $150,-
000.00 from Jlerbert L. Ijehman;
$50,000.00 fr'om T. J. Mam; $50,000.00
from John F. Giicbrist; $50,000.00
from James' J. Riordan, amother Al
Smith buddy; $25,000.00 from D. A.
Harrington; $25,000.00 from Daniel J.
Riordan; $25,000.00 from P. F. lienney;
$10,000.00 from D. J. Mooney, a^-
$10,000.00 from George R. Van Namee,
all of which is a lot of “jack.” In
none of these, nia'nbes will you read
the ou’tsitandihg letibeiTS spelling the
“tongivefn- name” of the Pope. But in
practically ev'ery one, you will ©ee tlie
fish-gills of dievout ■i^m-a'n Oatbolic
isubject©. If our mind hasn’.t gone
plumb -pudding, that 'last is just a set
up of Papa’l dummies, AND THE
POPE, THRU HIS HENCHMEN. IS
THE REAL PAYMASTER OP THIS
PELF. Not ■{bat the Holy .-Papa."'
donates these ddtiars out of hiS' ow-u
swag. Mercy, ne^'er. “Rom© never
changes',” ©ay© the d-ogma, the Pope
•adways keep© the change. But, 3'ou
un'derstand, gentle reader, the Holy
Papa, aforesaid', just raise© his annual
S’hake-d-O'W'n of the “true a'nd’ faithful”
Papalcrat© 'in the United States'; the
washer-wom'en’, the ©crub-womien, the
need’le-heroin'e© and .the har-d-working
Papal dupes dig diow® and; cough up
from their wages', "to pT0.paga(t& the
fait’h”, 'tlii'nki’H'g, no doubt, they are
sending the Oo-spel to the heathen as
the im'ss'ionari^ d'o. And out of
whatever the d-ear Daddy-buok Pope
has left of that sum after takin'g out
hi© own d’^ires, he passes on to his
“faithful” dnmmieg—and they put it
do'wn a© their own gran'd, gorgeous,
giglorioiis' gi'fts to the great' “Cause.”
If the New York Herald-Tribune of
IVIarch 22, 1932, is to believed—and it
is—^tbisre’s something -smelly about the
Smith Fund’ for a fact That paper
says that the Smith Fund* note (they
©tiill owe over half a million more)
is in the hands cd the County Trust
(Continued on page 3. column 4)'
A Pemocratic Prayer
To Our Noble Flop-Eared Jackass:—
We. the un-washed and imwos'kabie,
Prohibi'tion-hafting, depression-cussing.
Hoover-heckling Dourbon-bred', and
Tsiimman3'-buttiei'’ad follo-wer© of' £hy
Donkci'Ship bow down on our marrow
•bones '-ihis evening in convention as
sembled’' -to offer up our prayer® to
thee.,
G’l’ca-t hee-ha'wang jackass, -we thank
thee for condes'cendi-rag to become oxir
political emblem. We .thank thee for
^3" hair-trigger he^s, for thy di’Camy
•eyes and for thy hypnotic bray. Thy
heetei, teach us to Mok the po'litical
backslidei'S in the skat©; toy eyes
move us to pr^ent our inno'cenrt poise
before the people, and thy hiope-
lasp’iri'ng •hee-haw reminds u© ito vote
early and oft'en: 'Thy tois'tle-eoiing
■proclivitie® remi'nd xis that, we, too,
have 'been Idvinig on toe toistlcg of de
feat for ei'ght long year© and now we
are ■longing for the fl'esh-po-t© ia« in
‘the day© of Wilson'.
Most adorable Donkey, we ,thank
thee for braying Brcto'er RaskO'b into
the Democrolac folds. The Rep© were
too dry for Johnny and toy al-cohoLic
hee-haw cut this Gordian, Knot that
bound Raskob to toe Elephant’® side.
We to'ank toee for all to© Democrats
that have fallowed; thy voice -in toe
past. We tha'nk thee for letting the
Pope sprinMe toy head with holy
•wnter and putting toe sign of the
cr-os® on thy rump. We thank thee for
inispiring Al' Smith 'with the courage
to'kick to© Prohibition plank of toe
1928 Dehiocratic platform into king
dom come. We 'thank thee for moving
Jimmy Walker to stage a beer parade
in New York City. We thank thee for
encouragtog the Tamm'any tiger and
Brother Rask-Ob 'to “sm-ear”' Hoover
aud 'belittla the Republican part3‘.
We thank toee for toe opportu'nity of
©Landonig up before toee and pointing-
to thee a© our preciou© emblem with
■oUr voice exclaiming “Hee Haw, We’re
Coming Back.” We thank toee for
teaching u© all how to bray. ' We
toamk thee for sho-wing u® all how to
use our heei© and, -may we never cease
-kicking until we have succeeded in
knocking toe letemali ®awidu©t out of
every Hoover Democrat in America,
just a® we did Tom Hefl-in, and may
we never .cease braying for lickeir and
damming- Rrohibitlbn untli- we have
cajpt’ivabed, saddledi end bridled- every
Repuhlieami who'loviee' hi© Moker bdter
than he iove® ho© sacred Elephant.
Lead the way, Adoraible Dofnkey and
we ■wi'll' foJcliow. We f-oilowed thee
■without a whimper thru toe Clevcaaud
ponia We followed toee to dieS^
thru the “free stiver” 'battles* 'We'fol-
lowed toiee with Alton Begum' Rarker'
on his gold bug platform: the
garbage cant We f-ollowed th'e© under
the banner “He -wKl koeip ms looit of
war” and’ got Into a hell of a war for
our pains. Then we f'Cllowed} thee into *
an orgiLe of borrowing and- ^pend-mg' '
and speculating unfci'l we had used up
aM the m'o-ney dm toe United' States
three times over a’nd ■which startod tod'
(Continued on page 3, column 4)
A Socialism We Favor
"While we Jiave never trailed much
■with The 'Sooialist©, ■wie have co-me to
toe 'conclusion that at l-east one of
their ©ul'gestioma would -be h'elpfuX at
this 'fcl'mie.
We favor toe government’s .going
into thia banfcm'g ibusmes©, and taJdng
frosi.lhapilvate.jndh^u8ia allliconse.
to lend money left in (thear fceeplng'by
depositor©. The fact that bankers, all
ovw the couu'try have dosed' up shop
and left their wage-ea'rmimg deposdtors
in the I'uxch for thdr savLo^ is a re
flection on the- ©ffleiemey of our
government, to put it m-Udl-y. One
Asheville, N. C., 'banker who stole
over $15,000,000.00 from toe county,
city and hi-s de'posd’tor®, i© still living
in luxury after a year’© court triais
for his dastard deed', and, many of our
bigge^ hank bosses ha.'VB not only
robbed their patrons but add'edi insult
to their injurle©.
We know a bank whfere a man had
'nearly a toousand doUai^ on d^eposlt
and who wa® on a flriemd’s note £(»’
$75.00 as ©ecord't^. When too hank
dlioeed the bankera oodored tbe so*
curity to pay toe note «t onoe^ amd
as hi® fund's •were aM tiea up to toe
same ba-nk, t.e toM them to credit the
$76.00 on toe fund® 'he hadijn the
bank. They refused! to do so and
tomehtenM to sue him. And^ under the
inefficient system of bank control we
have,'he could'.-h'ave beeai. sued, and' hi©
home aucticmeii off op.* a judgment,'too
he had 'ina'ny indre time© toe amount
to toe safes of the closed hank.
Up in New Yoak to© Jirein:bera* of
toe big aodal clubs walk out of the
’rooms every time a baniloar walk© in.
They refuse to asBociato -with certaiii
bankers, and w© know some who are
not fit 'to be associated ■?vifh.
If private indivlduala -wi^ to
'gannze banks for toe purposa icff
lending money on inters. Jet 'toon
•put up toeir own money a-Twi tak«
th’^ O'wn risks. The government
should take over aM banking bxisimesB /
where deposits are made, by wage- ^ -
eamera and b-usinesB pronroters, and
give ampto secuotty flor every doMar
intrusted to theta* keeping.
So, -wtneo it comes to goveroment-
ownerisftitp of the basdcis, we are tlMt
much and that flar a Soeoattit,