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Yol. 37 EDITORIALS AND SHORT COMMENTS ON THINGS IN THOS. E. WATSON. Laying Pipes for a Third Term The War ended on November 11th, last: it ended with a suddenness which has not been explained. Marshal Foch says that he would have captured the entire German army in four more days. Why was he halted? Nobody has explained ! Among the 300 reasons why we went into the War, the most prominently asserted was, that we meant to crush German militarism. But when Foch was just in the act of crushing it, he was peremptorily stopped. Why! From sea to sea and from the Lakes to the Gulf, the Prostitute Press dinned it into our ears, that we must enter the Great War, else Germany, after hav¬ ing beaten England, would cross over and beat us, next. Nobody explained how the Germans could come across the ocean in defiance of the combined fleets of England, France, Italy, Russia, and the United States. of , Explanations are not essential to the success the Prostitute Press: all that these bought-up papers have to do is, to keep on repeating, every day, from week to week, the most absurd assertions. Continual repetition carries conviction, after awhile. sound-minded . Millions of ordinarily men were carried away by the constant repetition of the non serisical statement, that unless we went to France and crushed German militarism, the Huns would beat the Allies and would then wade across the pond and beat us. 1 We must go over and whip Germany to a frazzle, to prevent Germany from invading America and laying waste to New York, Washington, Phila¬ delphia, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Leathersville, Ducktown, Gooseburg, and ^Pjornsori. Yet, we halted in mid-career. The “Huns” marched home, in leisurely fashion, and they were received in Berlin as unconquered heroes. flowers, (Tears, cheers, hugs, whoops, cannon booms Ac.) • in . Germany; and, , The same old crowd are on top million at the stamp of Hindenberg’s foot, three men would again rush to the colors. _ militarism. So, we did not crush Prussian Didn’t I say, two years ago, that it was folly to talk about “crushing”'the military power of 65,000, 000 Germans? the Paris . Peace Let that pass: let us come to Congress. early days of last December, _ , our During the Washington Presidential Schoolmaster set out from to Europe, amid pompous demonstrations ot every description. 1 _ Persia . No King of Babylon, Assyria, or ever made a royal progress with equal pageantry. Darius and Xerxes were eclipsed: Nebuchad¬ was made to resemble a leaden nickel: Alex¬ nezzar dwarfed Julius Caesar shrank ander the Great was : away: and Napoleon shrivelled up. Yet all of these potentates dearly loved pomp. As he left these shores, our Presidential School¬ master was escorted by a stronger fleet of battle¬ ships than Nelson commanded at Trafalgar. Airplanes hovered above the Presidential vessel, lest the skies fall on him and hurt him. Submarines dived under and around his ship, lest some monster of the mighty deep rise up and pull him under. O it was grand! ship the , George _ Wash- , And the name of his was ington. Schoolmaster went abroad, to In this vessel our Euio entangle us with all the nations of the earth, pean, Asiatic, and African. He went for the purpose of securing a Peace treaty: has he secured it? No, indeed: he coldly and deliberately postponed Peace, and went to work on a visionary, impracti¬ cable scheme called the League of Nations. Four months :tgo, the war ended, but no Peace has yet been made. Whose fault is it? The men who are placing the chimerical League ahead of what our soldiers fought for, are respon BIBLE FOR THE postponement of peace! ( and schemers responsible for These dreamers are the keeping of our men in France; responsible for the continuance of our vast expenses; responsible for the avalanche of taxation, the mountains of pub¬ lic debt, and the tremendously high cost of living. These schemers and dreamers are responsible for the delays which enabled Germany to recuperate - am) reorganize. responsible for the These schemers are (Continued on Page 3) [Cl if (Mtutthia Sentinel Price $2.00 Per Year THE LEAG UE OF JVATIONS A BETRAYAL OF The President’s Boston speech contains one ad¬ mission which should cause every lover of this coun¬ try to take warning. In all other respects, the Boston speech is a mere rhapsody of rhetoric—vague, highfalutin, roseate, visionary—intended to blind the dreamers and to encourage the schemers. The fatal admission to which I refer is, the Pres¬ ident’s statement that, if wg become a member of the League, “w r E must give up something.” Those are tho President’s own words: weigh them well. Heretofore, in this paper, I have stressed the fact that Leagues of Nations are nothing new under the sun. The noblest, greatest statesmen of ancient times tried their hands at Leagues, only to find that Jeho k vah, the omnipotent Potter, had moulded the human vessel in His own way, and that man cannot change the Potter’s work. Yesterday, today, and forever, the human vessel remains what it was, when the first man born of WOMAN MURDERED THE SECOND. Fanatics and dreamers refuse to see this: sensi¬ ble men, who are neither dreamers nor schemers, can see it, plainly. Even the Chosen People, leagued together by tribal kinship, sameness of race, sameness of exter¬ nal interest, sameness of language, sameness of cus¬ toms, and sameness of religion, could not live in peace. Civil wars of the fiercest character rent Judea asunder, and drenched Palestine with Jewish blood. It was the same with the Leagues of the Greeks. In the Middle Ages, there were several Leagues of Nations, such as the Communes of Italy, and the Some of our friends think two dollars a year too much for The Sentinel. And that reminds us : An Indian once began preaching to his fellow Indians. Some Cowboys came to hear him, and one said to him : “Heap much money for preach, hey ?” And the Indian said : “Twenty-five dollar year.” The Cow^ y said: “Huh ! Dam’ poor pay.” And the Indian said : “Yup ! Dam’ poor preach’ ’’. There are some weekly papers that are not worth $2 per year. But we still contend that The Sentinel is not in that class. 6 months $1.00; 3 months 50c.; In clubs of 5 $7.50. E. H. MILLER. League of Cambray: these Leagues went to pieces quickly, after the immediate motives passed. There was a League of Nations to check the spread of the democratic principles which France struggled for, in her Revolution of 1789: this League against democracy was headed and financed by England. (The other members of the League were Austria Hungary, Prussia, Russia, and — secretly — the Pope.) . The downfall of Napoleon, in 1815, was followed by a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and by another League of Nations, called “the Holy Al¬ liance.” The Czar of Russia, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria, and (secretly) the Pope were the chiefs of this Holy Alliance, whose published purpose was to govern Europe upon Scriptural terms, but whose real aim was, to crush democracy wherever it. raised its head. The Holy Alliance sent a French army into Spain to crush liberalism, and restore despotism: that was done. (1823.) The Holy League sent Austrian armies into Italy, at the Pope's request , to stamp out liberalism there: it was done, amid atrocities at least equal to those of the Huns in Belgium. Then, this Holy European League of Nations threatened to cross over to America, for the pur¬ pose of restoring monarchical despotism in Mexico and South America. But Mr. Jefferson cried, No! Mr. Madison roused himself, find said No! The President of the United States—a political pupil of Jefferson and Madison— flung at the feet Harlem, Ga., Friday, March 7, 1919. of the Holy League, the challenge to battle, “the Monroe Doctrine.” r lhe soul of that peculiarly American doctrine is, that we will not meddle with European affairs, and Europe must not meddle with ours. is it not so? Now let us go back to the President's admission: if we enter the League , “We Must give up some¬ thing.” Who are the “we”? What is it that “we give up?” How much of it do ‘*we givo up?” Vnd who the devil authorized the President to give up anything that belongs to the “we?” What right has Congress to give up “something” of America’s sovereignty? By what right does the President bargain with England for a surrender of any portion of our com plete independence? "We must give ur something!” It is impossible to construe these words in any other way, than to take them to mean a partial sur render, to a foreign League, of the Sovereignty of the American People. the I . S. Constitution, made bf representatives of sovereign States, and ratified by conventions of sovereign States, is at all times subject to alteration at the will of the sovereign States—and the States are, at all times, subject to constitutional changes by popular vote. The Sovereignty of the People! That’s the American doctrine, as opposed to the fundamental laws of the Italian Pope and of European King¬ doms. Whence comes this new doctrine, which clothes I resident Wilson with power to barter away the Sovereignty of the American People? Since when, has the U. S. Senate obtained authority to surrender any portion of our national independence? The people never gave any such plenary power to the Federal Government. The States never yielded such suicidal .authority to the Union of States. The United States Constitution utterly negatives any such monstrous claim of Presidential, or Sena¬ torial, prerogative. Who, then, can legitimately and rightfully dele¬ gate to President Wilson and his Senatorial foot kissers the authority to mangle and maim our inde¬ pendence, as a Republic? The sovereign people can do it, possibly but no other do it. , power can “I am your servant,” says Woodrow Wilson, meaning the contrary. Can a servant sell his master? Can the agent change places with his principal ? Can the representative usurp the sovereignty of those wdio elected him to represent them? “We must give up Something. To whom do we give it, and to what extent? What does England expect us to “give up?” What does Japan expect us to surrender? These foreign nations expect us to “give up some¬ thing”— what is it? In return, what recompense are we to receive? What does Europe “give up?” England cannot extend to us any proteption equal to (Continued on Page 2) Issued Weekly Looking Backward Is your memory good? If so, you can find much entertainment in re¬ calling some of the incidents and episodes and vir¬ tuous declarations of the last few years. We will leave out the Grape Juice flourish with which the Wilson-Bryan administration spread its sails: we will forget that wo abolished such bar¬ baric contrivances as battle-ships. AVe will not pause to weep, or to smile, over the twenty-odd Peace Treaties which Bryan negotiated, and which he so loved that he swiped the official table on which those sacred documents had been signed. Let us not chide Ambassador Gerard for allow¬ ing his wife to accept a diamond necklace from the hands of the Kaiser, whom Gerard had long known to be the wickedest of men-—as he has since told us in those Memoirs of his. Nor need we waste time on Gerard’s speech at the Berlin banquet, January 1917, scarcely more than three months before we went into the War— the speech in which Gerard assured this wickedest Kaiser that he had brought the olive branch from President Wilson. With April 1017 came our plunge into the War, not for any special grievance of our own, as the President declared in his Bed Cross speech, but to protect humanity everywhere, maintain the rights of small nations, destroy German militarism, and to make the world safe for democracy. Other reasons, too numerous to mention, have since been stated by our President, as his reasons for going to war. Before this attitude of implacable hostility to Germany had been proclaimed, and before Wilson had won a second term for Keeping us out of the War, he had been too right to fight, too proud to fight, and viewed with indifference the ebb and flow of battles in Europe. It was none of otir business, he said, in October 1916! Then came tho cautious steps toward raising the army: first, we were given to understand that vol¬ unteers would be called, for, but when Col. Roosevelt offered the services of himself and 200.000 volun¬ teers. President Wilson coldly turned him down. Conscription stealthily came forward, and fas¬ tened itself upon a free people overnight. Then the. press-gag; then the crowding of jails with men who dared speak their honest opinions; then the Courts-martial, with thousands of brutali¬ ties that would shame a Prussian 1 drill-sergeant. Congress abdicated its constitutional powers, and the Executive overawed the Legislative and Judicial branches of the Government. The sovereign people were coined by the servants whom they had entrusted with office. We were Wilsonized, Burlesonized, Hooverized, Crowderized, Baruchized and Press Bureauized, until nobody dared to speak when the Washington autocrats said “Shut up,” or to tako two lumps of sugar when the autocrats said take one. Our democracy was dragooned out of existence. Bv similar methods, a Bourbon King dragooned Protestantism out of France, delivered it to the Jesuits, and added enormously to the inflammable conditions which led to the Revolution. During all those terrible times, we were never told that 4,000,000 of our young men had been forced into military service beyond seas, to establish a League of Nations. When the armistice was signed, Nov. 11, 1918, President Wilson made another speech to Congress and issued a Proclamation of Thanksgiving; but neither in the speech nor the Proclamation was a League mentioned. In his much-praised “Fourteen points ,” nothing is said of a League —which has now become the Aaron’s rod that swallows all the other rods. How do you account for Wilson’s failure to specify the supremely important League in his Fourteen points? Was he committed to it then, or has lie been con¬ verted to it since? However, “we must not dwell,” as the preachers say. Wilson set out to Europe to make a Treaty of Pence. While he wns on the briny deep, going over, his asidious George Creel flashed a wireless message back to us. to the effect, that our President would not sit at the peace table. Nevertheless, he sat there. George Creel cablegrammed the news to us that our President did not intend to have any key-hole doings at the Peace Conference, no secret diplomacy, no juggling behind the door. But there were key-hole methods; there was (continued on page two.) No. 24.