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THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL
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OFFICIAL ORGAN HARLEM, GA., AND
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Published Every Friday at Harlem, Ga.
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Harlem, Georgia, NOVEMBER 1, 1918
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“Dollar are still dollar'’ screams a head-line. No they
aintt round about here they’re only about sixty liveeents.
The small boy and girl regard epidemics like the pres¬
ent as rather pleasant, curtailing as it does, Sunday
school and day attendance.
Theodore, the Colonel, celebrated his sixtieth birth¬
day by airing his opinion of the proposed peace-terms.
Needless to say, he enjoyed the day immensely.
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Besides the influenza, New York is aiso suffering from
an epidemie of socialism and Russian Bolshevikism. all
of which keep tile doctors, undertakers and police work¬
ing overtime.
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Oh yes - Colonel House has gone abroad again, “as
private representative of the President.” He has glori¬
ous nerve, lias’nt lie, to take all these trips, and nobody
outside the White House knows what for.
Aint it a hard hearted merchant who will head his
ads: “Buy war stamps ’, and then give a column or two
of tlelectaldcjiBl hat every woman with a dollar, will
Invest—in. the things the ad tells ;
ah ,/•
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The Ttaliansare showing their old form in theirreeent
engagements, and with the Frenchliaving held their own
so long, it would seem that the entire Allied Army was
in fine mettle, while the Germans are most certainly
beginning to show signs of wear.
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The Western wheat-planter lias attain played safe;the
crop is larger than for many years past.and yet. the “re¬
stricted" price is Based on what, a low crop, and high la¬
bor cost. Wlmt is flip matter with the cotton planter
Setting a square deal like that?
Tt’s real nice when you come to.think of it, that Ger¬
many will “restrict submarine boat warfare” if the rest
of her plans are adopted by tile Allies. And maybe it’s
on the cards that she will have to do as she is told, and
noteven get a look in at choosing.
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Pennsylvanians never realized wliat the hardships of
war couldmean, until it was found that shortage of labor
there would curtail thejoutputof sauerkraut and scrapple,
both of which are as valuable to the average Pennsyl¬
vanian. as hog and hominy to the Georgian.
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'Member when the Heinies first began to make back
tracks, all the news from Holland was to the effect that
Kaiser Bill was awful 111? Well, that did’nt seem to
stop the Fritzies from running toward home, so now, the
latest news is, the Kaiserin is most awful ill, and Bill
and the iix sons are called home, pronto!
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The signing of the Gerry law, by President Wilson,
makes it a felony for any one “to attempt to influence,
either by money or otherwise, any voter” who is
to east a ballot for Senator or representative, I t's
rather late for Georgia to receive any benefit, but it will
be well for candidates to remember it, in the future.
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An exchange sagely remarks that “hitman skepticism
Increases”. It certainly does, especially when one rends
of the profits of the profiteers, ol concerns like the rn : n
coat contractors, especially. To pass on to tli i men at the
front,"shoddy garments that were neither w.nd nor rain
proof, and to reap the amazing profits from Mi is steal,
makes one wish something more drastic than flue or in -
prisonment could be inflicted on tin- criminals.
Thin war with all the noble things being done by wo¬
men, in the aggregate, also allows the old tenduncy ol
the feminine to adopt strategetic niovenn-uu to outflank
disagreeable things. F'r instance: women were asked
to conserve cloth, and cost,in their dresses; they conserve
the cloth. In the length and width of their skirts, but
Oh Boy, didje ever see anything like the trimmings anil
furs they have piled on the dresses, to make up for the
shortage? And an “average" sets the fattier back about
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THE COLUMBIA ^INTI^EL. HARLEM. GEORGIA.
LITTLE BITS OF HISTORY.
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.Inasmuch as the name of Hungary is linked
to that of Austria, it’niay be of interest to you to
learn how the Hapsburg family came to rule over
both countries.
You must bear in mind, that during th 9 Dark
Ages, when Popery had smothered Christianity,
and Royalty had beaten the common people into
abject submission, the power to govern the vari¬
ous divisions of Christendom descended from
father to son, by inheritance.
Sometimes, a principality, or a kingdom,
would pass from one family to another by mar¬
riage.
The wife would bring, to the husband, as her
dower, vast territories which belonged to her
family, and the husband would thus come into
the ownership of powerful provinces.
In this way, England once obtained huge pos
sessions iu Frauce ; France gained Brittauy r and
Lorraine ; Austria secured the immense domains
of Burgundian monarchs; aud Hungary first be¬
came a part of the Hapsburgh family-estate.
In the course of time, the Turks conquered
Hungary, aud came very near to overrunning
Austria, too.
The illustrious soldier-King, John Sobieski,
whom the Poles had elected to rule over them,
rushed to the rescue of the Hapsburgs, beat the
Turkish horde iu a decisive battle, and drove
them back from Vienna.
However, these votaries of Mahomet held on
to Hungary, until the year 1099, when the fa¬
mous Prince Eugene, inflicted upon the Turks
such a crushing defeat at Zenta, that the Hnps
burg family took Hungary and kept it—for
Eugene was the commander-in-chief of Austrian
troops, and his conquest belonged to the Emperor
who employed him.
After Hungary had been won from the Turks
(who never forced their religion on the other
races) the Jesuits and the Pope determined that
the Hungarians should be compelled to accept
Roman Catholicism.
It is necessary for you to know, that the coun¬
try was not populated by Huns, although it still
bears the name which the extinct Huns gave it,
centuries ago; just as our own country, (North
America, Central America, and South America)
yet bears the name the aborigines gave it, hun¬
dreds of years before Christopher Columbus re
dmcovered it A
U'u ungary km rfrtlGfii), was peopled by'the Mrtgyffl*
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race, which had been converted toBibical Christ¬
ianity, at about the same time that Bohemia be
came Protestant.
(I will tell you of Bohemia, by and bye.)
The Jesuits, the Hapsburgs, and the Pope set
about the overthrow of Protestantism in Hun¬
gary, in a manner similar.to that which the Duke
of Alva used in Holland, which Philip II. used
in Spain, which Bloody Mary used in England,
and which the Papa himself used in Italy.
Read what the standard historian says about it:
“The most noble persons? the men of highest
reputation, and- the brave captains who had
fought in the war of independence, were led to
the scaffold, together w ith victims of a lower class.
Some were dragged out and lengthened on ladders
expressly made to dislocate limbs; others had
their heads bound with cortls, or bands of metal
until their eyes popped out of their sockets !
“They were hanged by the hands to gibbets
and enormous weights attached to their feet,
while the hangman burned their arm-pits with
wax candles, or shook over the wretched martyrs
torches of pitch which showered them with liquid
tire!” Pragay’s Hungarian Revolution, Vol. 1.
page 349.
Other tortures, far more diabolical, I will not
name, lest you think them fabulous. ^
The Austrian envoy who represented the Haps
burg Emperor in Hungary, during this destruc¬
tion of Christianity, offered a public reward of a
largo sum of money to any one who should in¬
vent a new method by which the Catholics might
inflict the pains of hell upon Christians.
Backed up by Austrian soldiers, the Jesuits
created such a reign of terror and atrocities
among the Magyar Christians, that the Protestant
faith was extirpated.
(The oath of every Romanist Cardinal, Bishop,
and Priest binds him to extirpate the Protestant
religion wherever the Catholics gain the upper
hail'd.)
The Hapsburg Kaiser who drowned in human
blood the Christianity of the Hungarians, is
known to history as Leopold I.
This sanguinary papist died in the year 1705 ;
his son, succeeding, fell a victim to small pox,
in 1711.
the „ Emperor Charles . VI., , rr second , ■
Then came
son of Leopold ; and lie was the Salzburgers heartless, eight mon-|
arch who gave the Christian
days to quit their homes, thus banishing 17,714
families at one stroke of the imperial pen.
Some of these persecuted Protestants were
gladly received as settlers in Prussia, by the
Protestant King of that country- others found!
refuge in Denmark and Hanover : others, as al~
ieady stated, crossed the seas and made new
iiomes in the State of Georgia, where their de
scendants have ever been esteemed as good
citizens and good Christians.
At Ebenezer, in Effingham County, these
pioneer Salzburgers were buried; and I have
never passed their old cetneter}', where the long
streamers of moss, hanging from gigantic live
oaks, drape the marble monuments, without lift¬
ing my hat in honor of the dead.
One of them, Peter Wailner, when Austrian
Catholics threatened to hang him if he did not
change his religion, gave them this answer:
“I am a poor man, but there is not a moment
that I am not, ready to die for the truth, » »
(Have we such heroic Protestants, nowadays?)
After the triumph of Prince Eugene at Zenta
had made the Hapsburgs supreme masters of
Hungary, the full ferocity of Jesuit persecution
and royal despotism was launched against the
Protestant, liberty-loving Magyars. These un¬
happy people suffered far more from Roman
Popes and Hapsburg Emperors than they had
ever suffered from the Sultans of Turkey.
DoPuv savs, in his “History of Hungary”—
pages 93 and 4 :
“The fundamental laws of Hungary were at¬
tacked ; its rights and privileges were annihilat¬
ed ; the offices, emoluments, and honors of the
kingdom were given to foreigners ; the native s
who resolved to leave the country were robbed of
their estates ; those who remained were doomed
to hopeless poverty and slavery. 1 t
The best evidence of the Emperor’s conception
of his owu power over the people, is furnished
by the language used in his published proclama¬
tions, which expressed the “Divine Right of
Kings,” as follows:
“The duty of magnates and nobles .ought to
ba subjection ; that of the people, servitude.
Itis , therefore, a high crime and misdemeanor
to inquire into the legality or i.legality of the
measures which it pleases the King to make,”
Here we have a Hapsburg monarch L ighten¬
ing his powerless subjects with an “espionage”
law, some 200 years ago !
Continuing itis definition of his own absolute
power over the Hungarians, the Hapsburg Em
said: r r" ' v
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“Curious and impertinent inquiries into the
alleged limits of royal power are hateful in the
eyes of Kings.”
(Would that none but Kings considered it
hateful to inquire into “the alleged limits of
power” !)
On the throne of Austria, one Hapsburg follow¬
ed another until the Empress Maria Theresa
succeeded ; and she soon found herself so beset,
by difficulties, that she appealed in person to the
Hungarians.
With a .young mother’s passionate entreaty,
she held up her infant boy to the eyes of the
gallant nobles whom the Hapsburgs had so
pitilessly oppressed; aud those chivalrous men,
forgetting all their wrongs, flashed their swords
from their scabbards and shouted, “We will die
for Maria Theresa !” .
Thus did the youthful Empress save her
throne ; she never gave Hungary any evidence
of gratitude. In all of her wais, and in those of
her successors, the Hungarian soldiers were as
good as the best that Austria qould t^end to the
field, the Magyar cavalry being particularly fine.
In the struggles with Frederick the Great of
Frussia, anti in those with Napoleon, the loyalty
of Hungary was a tower of strength to the llaps
burg family ; but, in the course of events, the
submerged people grew restless under the Aus¬
trian yoke.
Louis Kossuth—a ycung lawyer of marvellous
daring, eloquence, and ability—rose into world¬
wide renown as t ho indomitable champion of
Hungarian liberties. He battled for Home Rule,
free speech, freedom of the press, religious tol¬
eration, and representative government.
The Hapsburgs made ruthless war upon the
“rebels,” and many a desperate battle was
fought; but when Russia sent an array of90.000
men to help the Austrians, Kossuth’s became a
Lost Cause.
Not the least hitter of his mortifications, was
the treachery of false friends, especially of
Arthur Gorgey, the chief General of Hungarian
patriots.
If Robert E. Lee had betrayed President Davis
in the Civil War, we .Southerners could have real¬
ized how the Magyars hate the very name of the
l> rfidmus e Gorgi-y. n
Kossuth an 1 some of his generals took refuge
fr iin Catholic-Hapsburg vengeance, in Tui key ;
and although the Sultan was threatened wi lil
war by Austria aud Russia if he did not surrende r
Kossuth, the undaunted Mohammedan scornfully
refused to violate the sacred duties of hospitality.
The United States Government—I am proud
to say—sent a war-ship to Constantinople to re
ceive the illustrious refugee and bring him to
this country as “the nation’s guest.”
Here, in 1852, he was greeted with enthusias¬
tic ovations wherever he went, and he made some
speeches of unrivalled power, imploring Ameri¬
can aid to bleeding Hungary.
But our President (Mr. Fillmore) and out
leading statesmen, (Webster, Clay, Calhoun and
others,) took the position that our Constitution
and our national policy did not authorize us to
intermeddle with European affairs>
Thus, the most eloquent, true-hearted, and
unselfish tribune of democracy that ever came to
us, pleading for assistance, went back to the Old
World, sad of soul and downcast by despair.
Kossuth lived iu England awhile and then’
made his home in Italy, where lie died in 1894,
almost forgotten by the New World, where such
stories as his—animating young people to high
ideals of democracy and patriotism—have been
systemicially replaced by Jesuit literature glory¬
ing Popes, Roman Catholics, aud modern
idolatry.
In the meantime, the Hapsburg’s were made
to understand the wisdom of treating Hungary
with more justice ; and, therefore, the Revolution
which Kossuth aroused and led, was a blessing
to his people, after all, for it gave them practical
contiolcf their domestic affairs, and lifted them
into the status of joint-rule with Austria.
In the “dual-empire,” Hungary counts for as
much as Austria; aud she possesses a world
sympathy and admiration which priest-ridden
Austria does not enjoy.
In Henry W. DePuy’s ‘‘History of Hungary, » y
he describes the atrocities perpetrated by Haps
burg troops upon the conquered Hungarians:
■‘They bored out the eyes of some, and cut off the
flesh of others in strips. Some were roasted on
spits, while others were buried up to their necks
in the ground, and left to be devoured by hawks
and swine.
Women w-itli unborn babes * * were
murdered by biows which also pierced the off¬
spring yet resting beueath their bosoms. ' 9
(Fage 105.)
Instances are given where frantic fathers and
husbands shot their own daughters and wives, to
save them from the bestial lust of the Hapsburg
troopers 1 * *
The most gloriously inspired outpouring of
words that was ever sent heavenward in prayer
by a human being, was—in my judgement—the
invocation that burst from the lips of Kossuth, as
he stood over the graves of the Hungarian heroes
who had given their l.ves for the liberation of
their country.
In pext week’s paper, I will give you a sketch
of the .life of Kossuth, and an English transla¬
tion of his immortal prayer.
THOS. E. WATSON.
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MR. L. C. SMITH'S DEFENSE OF ONE OF
THE 15 AMENDMENTS.
Elsewhere will be found an interesting letter from
our f.iend, Mr. Smith of Winfield.
It speaks for itself and speaks well; but throughout
the article the reader will recognize the confusion of
thought and fact which Bishop Candler has carefully
created by speech, sermon, and newspaper contribu¬
tions, ever since his brother Asa gave a million dollars
of Coca-Cola money to the religious Institute at
Atlanta.
Has our friend Smith overlooked that paragraph iu
the Constitution of 1877 which declares that no sect,
denomination, or church shall ever directly, or in*
directly, get aid from the State treasury ?
If Asa Candler’s million is not exempted, the State
will get the taxes on it, and the church will get
what’s left. ,
If the Coca-Cola million be exempted, then the
church gets the whole million, and somebody else
must pay the taxes it escapes.
Can this be denied ?
Surely, Mr. Smith will admit the taxek which his
church should have paid on the million dollars, will
fall upon Baptists, Catholics, Rus.-ellites, Christian
Scientiests, Presbyterians, non-oelievers, publicans,
and sinners and Jews ! Why should all THESE citi¬
zens pay extra tax to finance any church aud build a
tax bomb proof for Asa Candler’s million ?
Mr. Smith says that all Catholic endowments are
outside the State. How does he know?
He savs that the endowments of negro colleges are
outside the State. Who told him so ?
. H Asa Candler’s million is so frantically eager to
escape just taxation, why not locate it in Nashville
and spend it in Atlanta?
Fiiend Smith alleges that Mercer and Iiinory give
the same sort of education : is he sure >
At Mercer, only a few students take the religious
teaching, while most of the boys choose the literary
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