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Vol. 37
EDITORIALS AND SHORT COMMENTS ON THINGS IN GENERAL
THOS. E. WATSON.
An Interpretation of Bolshevism
When you see the working classes of a dozen
different nations doing the same things at the same
time, your common sense tells you that a general
came is the motive.
Russians, Germans, Englishmen, South Ameri¬
cans, and North Americans are too far apart,
geographically, to act in substantially the same
violent manner, if there were no common cause of
complaint.
The fact that in every one of these cases, it is
the downtrodden poor who rise against the rich, is
the key to the riddle.
In Russia, there have been vast estates, owned
by grandees who never saw them, and managed by
local agents who used the lash to collect the rents
and the taxes.
These enormous tracts of land were given bv the
Czars to their favorites, and the Czars themselves
held no better title to the land than the peasants
who had been forced into the army and made to
conquer these lands from previous owners.
For ages, the peaasnts were held in slavery by
the grandees, and were sold as chattels when the
estates changed hands.
Here is the root of Russian Bolshevism: the
peasants want the lands and the products of their
own toil.
In my “Story of France,” which is now a text¬
book in French schools. I demonstrated how this
very question brought on the Revolution of 1789.
The grandees of church and state, who did not
labor at anything blit court favor, held the land,
enjoyed the privileges, and treated the common
labor class like so many beasts of burden.
The base-born canaille, was the contemptuous
name given to the French peasants who did fall the
work, produced all the wealth, and lived in squalid
poverty themselves.
The canaille of 1789 differ but little from the
B olshevists of toda y; and if the Bolshevists killed a
Czar, we must remember that the canailleToTIecra
King.
So did the English.
Crimes are incident, to any gveat social upheaval
and reformation: we must deplore the crimes, but
we must admit the need of reformations.
When any class monopolizes the favors of the
Government, and takes to itself the whole net out¬
put of production, there will be unrest which may
soon swell into revolution.
My friend Harry Weinberger of New York has
me a booklet in which the trial of four Russian
Jews is set forth.
Thev were tried before Judge Henry D. Clayton,
of Alabama; and he sentenced them to terms of
twenty years.
For what ? For distributing circulars against
the employment of our army in Russia.
Senator Hiram Johnson and other Congressmen
have been doing the same thing, and their con¬
demnation of the use of our army in Russia goes
through the U. S. mails regularly.
Russia saved France, at the loss to herself of
four million soldiers, and yet our troops are now
fighting Russia.
Why? They say it is to put down Bolshevism.
But German soldiers have been shooting down
German Bolshevists, in Berlin and in Bremen: and
thus the German military caste, which we were to
“crush,” is again on top.
One of the prisoners to whom Judge Clayton
gave a 20-year sentence, was asked why he had
written the circular; he answered:
Since I came to my understanding, I have
always thought that government by the people,
for the people, and from the people—the work¬
ers—was the only right government. The
workers produce all the necessities of life.
They are the one* who build the prisons where
we are put and build the court-rooms where
we are tried, and I, therefore, thought that the
workers’ government should be established.
We should keep in power. I was overjoyed by
the Idea that, for the first time In the history
tofhe world, we have a government by the
people, for the people, and from the people.
When the Bolsheviks came into power, Presi¬
dent Wilson delivered speeches In various
parts of the country favoring the Russian Gov¬
ernment, that Is, the Soviet Government. In a
speech to Congress he said: ‘‘I stretch out my
hands to the Bolsheviks.” On another occasion
he said: ‘‘We will not conclude peace without
Russia.” .... Then, a few weeks later, he
sent, without announcing It to the people, a
military expedition to crush the Russian revo¬
lution. My Intent In writing the leaflet was to
protest against this.
Why not leave Russia to he rown “self-deter¬
mination”?
What have we to do with her internal affairs ?
We .might as consistently send an army to
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Price $2.00 Per Year
WHY THIS GOVERNMENT FIGHT ON COTTON
IT IS RUINING THE SOUTH.
It is quite apparent that the governments of this
country and Great Britain are discriminating
against cotton—the only possible money crop of the
Southern States.
There is reason to believe that the English spin¬
ners have bargained with our cotton gamblers to
secure control of the crops of 1918 and 1919.
These spinners dread the competition of German
goods in South America and in the Orient.
\ou will notice that the astonishing blockade
which England has established against American
goods, while the peace negotiations are in progress,
does not include cotton. This is very significant of
the fact that they mean to keep British ports open to
our staple, while the ports of Central Europe are
closed.
Congress has already appropriated the enormous
sum of 8100,000,000 to purchase food from the Meat
Packers and the Flour Trust, to feed the very na¬
tions with whom we were so recently at war, and
who are charged with having starved the prisoners
they took from us. from England, and from France.
We learn from the New York papers that thou¬
sands of tons of food from this country have already
been shipped across the ocean, and distributed in
Germany, Austria, Poland, etc.
There was a splendid opportunity when this
$100,000,000 appropriation was on its passage
through Congress, for some Southern representative
to have made a strenuous fight to put a rider upon
it— demanding that the German ports be opened to
cotton, just as they are open to meat and flour.
That, opportunity has now passed, but others
present themselves.
1>re si #it Wilson demands more than two thou
samT million Hollars as a donation to the wheat
We Cannot Send The Sentinel for Less Than
$2 Per Year.
Clubbing offers are at the rate of $1.50 for each yearly sub.
No commission on less than one year.
Agent’s commission is based only on full yearly subs.
No commission on clubbed subscription.
E. H. MILLER.
growers of the West: a large portion of that, money
will of course come from the cotton growers of the
South.
If the war is over, as to wheat , why is it not over
as to cotton?
Is it that the South belongs absolutely to the
Democratic party, while the West is independent,
fluctuating, and uncertain?
Another thing: the President has cabled to Con¬
gressman Padgett, demanding seven hundred mil¬
lion dollars for the Navy: he has not explained his
reasons for this sudden demand, and nobody knows
what those reasons are.
Could not a Southern Senator take the position
that the South must bear its part of that stupen¬
dous burden, and that the South is entitled to know
the reason why this burden is put upon her?
President Wilson is openly and solemnly pledged
against secret bargains with other powers, and
against secret policies affecting our public welfare.
Would it be out of place for a Southern Senator
to read these recent? public utterances of President
Wilson, and to demand that he take the American
people into his confidence?
He did not consult them about the War; he did
not consult them about Conscription; he did not
consult them about the Armistice; and he is not
now consulting them about Peace negotiations which
may affect the public interests of this country for
a hundred years to come.
Why shouldn't some Southern Senator rise to
the occasion, and quote Woodrow Wilson against
Woodrow Wilson?
And why shouldn’t a stubborn fight be made to
have this embargo lifted from the only money crop
of the South, when it has been lifted from every
product of the law-breaking, profiteering corpora¬
tions?
Pro-Catholic papers are uqw giving their readers
pictures of President Wilson and Pope Benedict
side by side, while underneath their pictures is a
front view of the Vatican, the home of the pope.
How do our Protestant readers like the coiqbina
tion?—The Menace.
Harlem, Oa., Friday, February 14, 1919
W hat objection can there be to letting the Ger¬
man: tmy our cotton?
B hy shouldn t the Austrians, Hungarians and
Turks be allowed to buy it ?
V-Hy should English and American SPINNERS
liE IT EMITTED TO HOLD US BY THE THROATS, WHILE
THEY ROB US?
The South has bought its share of the Liberty
Bonds and of the Thrift Stamps.
1 lie South sent her choicest sons to the War.
The South has borne every load that the Demo¬
cratic bosses chose to put upon us.
The South will soon be again asked to contribute
her share to the new six billion dollar bond issue.
how can the South respond to this demand, when
there is no market for our cottonseed and none for
,
our cot on?
Business throughout the cotton belt is demoral¬
ized: the labor situation is well nigh desperate; the
price of the things we have to buy to live on, are
exorbitant.
T ie actualities of destitution arc at the doors
of Bullions of our people; yet we aro asked to
donate inconceivable sums of money for the wheat
growers of the West, for the meat packers who
have been pocketing profits of 17fi per cent; for the
Steel T rust, which earned over 400 per cent, and for
the g eat banking systems, whose gains, made out
of tlfe War, cannot he calculated.
If he American hog can be carried into the mar
kets of Central Europe, why cannot the bale of cot¬
ton be earned there?
If die barrel of flour from America is donated
to the hungry Viennese, why cannot our cotton go
te th M r mills, and furnish employment to theJdP
hands which are now raised against civilization.
under the name of Bolshevism?
If you feed the hungry man, today, what about
tomorrow?
This handing out of a loaf of bread to a starving
man, is nothing more than the surface treatment of
a running nicer, when any scientific doctor would
say that the victim needed constitutional treatment.
If we, continue to drain America into Europe,
Asia and Africa, how long will it be before the level
of American life sinks to Bolshevism?
My idea is that some Senators and Representa¬
tives from the South should hold a separate caucus
on the situation, and resolutely determine that the
ban of outlawry should be lifted from cotton, before
any more of these monstrous appropriations should
be allowed to pass.
We do not know what Herbert Hoover is doing
with those vast sums of money; we do not know to
what use Woodrow Wilson puts them.
We cannot understand why we should take the
bread out of the mouths of our own needy classes,
and donate it to foreign people for whose alleged
conditions we are not in any way responsible.
What we do know is: that President Wilson has
virtually abolished Congress; has usurped greater
powers than the Kaiser ever arrogated to himself;
and that if this reckless course is continued, some
CATASTROPHE OF IMMEA8UREABLE EXTENT IS BOUND
TO FALL ON OUR COUNTRY.
Our Representatives in Congress were sent there
to represent us, and they are not doing it.
Let them be faithful to their trust, and make a
gallant fight for our interests; natiohnl necessity
calls for it, and life-long glory will be the reward
of the man who is brave enough to do it.'
Congress is the arena in which the battle should
be pitchtd. T, E. W.
The call of the hour is for men—men who will
stand for the free institutions that have been bought
by the blood of our forefathers; men who refuse to
bow the knee to Baal or to the pope; men who will
stand as sons, of liberty against the encroachment
of the sons of bondage.—Exchange.
Issued Weekly
Rev. Dr. Gambrell Sees It, at Last
In The Christian Index of February 0, Dr. J. B.
Gambrell publishes a very strong article under the
headline, “Are the Charges True?”
The “charges” relate to the favoritism shown
the Roman Church by our Government during the
War.
Dr. Gambrell says that "the Catholic hierarchy
has been given enormous advantages in the War,
while the non-Catholic bodies have been denied
everything.”
The Doctor further alleges that the huts of the
Knights of Columbus were the centres of Romanist
propaganda among the soldiers in the camps, “while
Methodists, Baptists, and others were outside, on
rented ground; and this was only a part of a gov¬
ernmental sectarian policy carried out in the War.”
This is a serious charge to bring against a Gov¬
ernment whose. Supremo Law prohibits that kind
of thing, and whose President has twice sworn to
uphold that Supreme Law.
In effect, Dr. Gambrell accuses our Government
of having deliberately betrayed us to the Pope
during the War.
In substance his charge is. that the military
camps, where several million Protestants were sta¬
tioned, became missionary ground upon which none
but Catholics were allowed to work for their reli¬
gion.
Protestant churches were “denied everything,”
and were forced to rent locations outside the en¬
campments.
Dr. Gambrell also charges that, the Knights of
Columbus worked for their Roman church in tho
hospitals, among the sick and wounded.
Ah, yes, the Doctor can see it now, when it is too
late.
The Christian Index, also, can see it plainly
enough, now that it is too late.
What do they propose to do about it?
The iior-G-dIndie clinches have no organizations
that can oppose the Roman secret societies.
I doubt, if any non-Catholics would bind them¬
selves by the dreadful oaths taken by the Jesuits,
the 4th degree Knights of Columbus, and even by
the Catholic priests, bishops, and Cardinals.
What do you suppose Dr. Gambrell proposes to
do against those immensely numerous and powerful
secret societies of Rome ?
Tho Doctor says—
“We are going to need some John the Baptists
shortly to look officials squarely in the face and tell
them the plain truth.”
That’s a fine remedy! What officials are you
going to look in the face, Doctor?
“We” are going to need some John the Baptists!
Are, we? When? And where are we to find
what we need? v
When Dr. Gambrell was figuratively slapped out
of the camps on the Mexican border, a few years
ago, “we” were going to do about and slay quite a
few hears, on account of it ; but what did we do?
Nothing,
As I remember it, a very little delegation of
John the Baptists went to Washington to raise tho
roof off the White House: and, after their arrival,
they forgot what they had meant to say.
The valiant protest against governmental favor¬
itism to the Pope ended in a fiasco.
Dr. Gambrell now declares that “there should
be such a protest as will make men in high plnces
sit up and take notice.”
Can these men in high places, after they shall
have been made to sit up and take notice, do any¬
thing?
They cannot disband the Jesuits and the Knights
of Columbus.
They cannot disfranchise the Catholic voter.
They cannot, repeal a single one of the autocratic
Jaws of the Pope.
They cannot apply the religious test to the mili¬
tary or the civil service.
They cannot force the daily papers to print anti
Cntholic articles.
They cannot now put an end to Rome’s control
of the libraries, the school-hooks, the “movies,” and
the theatres.
In fact, Dr. Gambrell, you have waked up too
late. T. E. W.
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The North and West will never feel the same
labor worries that the South has—and will always
feel. Climatic conditions are such that the negro
laborer looms larger than the immigrant in the
North and West. Tho negro population fluctuates
and diminishes from many causes; with the open
door policy, in regard to immigration, the North
and West have always a fresh supply of labor.
A + ♦
Telling the cotton planter to restrict his cotton
acreage, is just about as sensible as it would be to
tell him to stop fattening his hogs.
No. 21.