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The Columbia Sentinel
Official Organ Harlem, Ga., and Columbia
County.
^Published Every Friday at Harlem, Ga.
Entered in Post Office at Harlem, Ga., as
Second Class Matter.
Price $2.00 Per Year in Advance.
E. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher.
THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, March 7, 1919.
Von Ilindenburg is trying to get the Kaiser back
into Germany. Spiteful old wretch, isn't he.
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There must be a German Burleson: the people
are tearing down (he telephone lines in some out¬
lying places in Germany.
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Sh ipped of its rhetoric and high-faintin' words,
it would seem that the much-proposed League of
Nations isn't so much, after ali.
Oh, look who’s here! Our old friend Villa has
gotten back on the front page, and seems to be up
to bis usual tricks.
Labor says you may cut off everything but its
lieer, but it will be jiggered if you can leave that
out of its scheme of things.
Mr. Wilson's announcement as to bis refusing to
be a candidate for a third term, shows at least that
Mr. Wilson had “given the matter some thought”.
Women painters and sculptors have grown so
numerous in this country, they are having an exhi¬
bition of their work, all by their lonesome, in New
York.
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llndjo ever noticed just how often—and how
quickly—Son-iu-La w McAdoo gets out of the public
eye, when il looks ns though Pa-in-Law was in bad
again t
What th, amateur gardener wishes for most,
at this season of the year, is a soil that will grow
things to look like the pictures in the seed cata¬
logues.
Hefty editorial in the New York World on
“burdening a boy with money." The usual accom¬
paniment to a burden of that sort is also a burden
of trouble.
.lust when we thought everything was going to
1,, nice ami quiet, comes another , outbreak .I,,, by the
Spanish socialists, and Alfonso and Ins ljueen look¬
ing for a bomb-proof.
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.1. R. Morgan has just returned from Europe,
when lie ays he went to see friends, but “also
transacted some business", and it's dollars to dough¬
nuts lhal i he business came first.
The fact that \Lr. Wilson chose to land in Bos¬
ton. because be Idol never been near the Sacred
Codfish before', would seem to stress the “See Amer¬
ica First” slogan of the tourist agencies.
Now*) lmt so many men are back from the War,
and looking a tier the old jobs, what a lot of dis¬
cus-ion has risen as (o woman's fitness or unfitness
for the job she held down while the War was on.
If the Average Farmer of Georgia would like
to have a slant at a Northern cotton item, here it is:
Slionnard. Mills & Co. say: "In the main,
we regard the price of thi- raw material as low
enough to invite, speculative commitments, and
at the same time we urge the trade to provide
for their future wants in the contract market at
current levels or on any reasonable recession.”
Judge Brand i- one of the few Georgia men who
seem to lie lnenMireing up to the pledge/he made
when lie ran for Congress. In his recent speech, he
fenrlc-.-ly sets forth the harm and the damage being
done the Cotton Belt of the South by the embargo
on the South's only money crop, cotton. Athens is
to be congratulated in having the honor to claim
Judge Brand as her son.
There isn't any use in expecting Congress to take
anything from the control of Mr. Burleson, the
P. M. (i. and Pooh Ball of this Administration.
The gentleum nnamed lias done too much of the
chestnut pulling to have any fault found with his
methods whether in regard to telephone and tele¬
graph matters, or postal regulations. Under his
administration, we have had a nearer glimpse of
Prussianism and Rnssianisni, than, we hope, will
ever be our lot again. As the South lias been made
to suffer more, through the rulings of Mr. Burleson,
than any other section of the country, it may be that
n Solid Smith will not be so solid n thing, as it lias
been, tor the Democrats.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, 6a.
Ireland and the Sinn Feiners
The ancient inhabitants of the Emerald Isle were
divided into clans, like their brethren in the High¬
lands of Scotland.
The Scotch clans gave the name of “Chiefs” to
their headmen, and the Irish gave the name of
“Kings”, to theirs.
The Scottish Chiefs were almost always at war
with one another, and the Irish Kings were equally
as quarrelsome.
There were scores, even hundreds, of these Irish
Kings—Celts, by race and .character—and they
wrote their history with their swords.
When I say that these Celts were of a* distinct
race and character, I mean that they were wholly
unlike, the Teutons, Saxons, Angles, and Normans,
in that the Celt is by nature quick, witty, combative,
imaginative, poetic, the creature of impulse and
passion.
Originally pagans, these Irish “Kings” were con¬
verted to Christianity by St. Patrick, who was a
Catholic, but not a Roman , Catholic.
By that, I mean that Patrick never bent to the
supremacy of the Pope, for, indeed, the Bishop of
Rome had not established any supremacy at that
time.
Patrick converted the “Kings”, and the Kings
converted their tribesmen.
Charlemango had converted thousands of Saxons
in one day, by a brief sermon on this text:
“Get religion and be baptised , or PU have m.y
soldiers cut your heads off."
This sermon had the desired effect, and the whole
Saxon nation got religion, at once.
So with the Irish: when their Kings embraced
Christianity, the whole Island embraced it ; and if
the people did not practise it. they at least kept their
heads on their shoulders, where heads naturally
belong.
William the Norman conquered England, in the
year 1060, his banners having been properly blessed
by the Pope.
The English were Catholics, too; but they were
not very good Papists; consequently the Pope
hacked William the Norman.
After the Conqueror had made good his con
f|uest. he checked the Pope’s encroachments on the
civil power, and never would allow the Papacy to
have anything to do with the political affairs of
the realm.
Tn the 12th century, an Englishman became Pope
—the only Englishman that ever wore the triple
crown.
This English Pope. Adrian IV., granted (1156)
to King Henry II. of England the right to conquer
Ireland, with the proviso that a perpetual tax-levy
in favor of the Pope should, at the same time, be
imposed upon the conquered Isle.
A morCyinfamous bargain is not recorded in his¬
tory; and to this foul trade between the English
King and the English Pope, the Catholics of Ireland
could trace all their woes, if the priests would let
them know the facts.
The Papal decree (“Bull”, as Catholics call it,)
which authorized the English King to subdue Ire
lnml> nntm . dly (lhrhM fhe all of whom wre
Catholics. Some felt hound to obey the Pope and
surrender the independence of the country, while
others armed themselves to resist, the invaders.
This fatal division of the Irish, made it easy for
the English to defeat the patriots, and to fasten
noon the unhappy land the hateful yoke of foreign
tyranny.
Il is so dear to flu* historian, that the Pope’s
sanction of England’s designs upon Ireland was the
true, first cause of'the long, long struggle, of the'
Celts to free themselves from Saxon rule, that
Catholic writers never mention the unholy bargain
to which Pope Adrian was a principal party.
In ibis country, where there are millions of Irish
Catholics, the unscrupulous priests deny that Rope
Adrian sold Ireland to England: they impudently
claim that tin* Papal decree was a “forgery”.
The document is as authentic, and provedble, as
Magna Charta. or the decrees of the Council of
Trent.
Front the time of the original Conquest of Ire¬
land by the King of England, the annals of the vic¬
timized Celts drips with-blood. Rebellion followed
relx'llion, crimes followed crimes, massacres fol¬
lowed massacres, until the soul sickens, as the record
is read.
Fearful outrages have been committed on both
sides, and some of the most atrocious laws that were
ever made were aimed bv the Saxon against the
Celt.
These laws breathe the fiercest hatred of Irish
independence, and appear to intend the reduction of
the Irish to the lowest depths of degradation.
On the other hand, the Celts committed all sorts
of savage crimes against the Saxons, and particu¬
larly against the Protestants of North Ireland. The
priests have ever been the prime movers in these
hideous retaliations inflicted upon the English, and
have over been the instigators of the horrible mas-:
saercs of Protestants.
So late as 1798, a vast conspiracy of the Irish
Catholics resulted in such wholesale, atrocious mur¬
ders of Protestants, that the official reports of them
read like the tale of an orgy in hell.
Let us bring the story down to a later date, con¬
necting it with the present time. After the failure
of the rebellion which was headed by Lord Edward
Fitzgerald, and in which Robert Emmett was impli¬
cated, repeated efforts were made by Revolutionary
and Napoleonic France to strike the Tories of
England, by sending French troops to aid the Irish.
These efforts,"however, were not successful.
The irony of fate is conspicuously displayed
throughout the entire history of Ireland’s subjec¬
tion -to England, in that the Irishmen, doing mili¬
tary service in the British Army, have won some of
England’s most famous victories.
As Sergeant S. Prentiss said, in his exquisitely
beautiful speech in New Orleans, when appealing
for aid for the Irish during the “Great Famine,”
“They have successfully fought the battles of every
country save their own .”
These Celts of the Emerald Isle are so raven¬
ously fond of fighting, that they have fought for
Spain, for France, for Germany, for America, and
for England, all round the world.
As the British drum-beat follows the sun in its
daily course, so the Irish soldier follows the drum.
He has fought for his conquerors at all times, and
in all places: he has fought for England in France,
in Portugal, in Spain, in America, in Hindustan, in
China, in Afghanistan, in Egypt, in Africa, in
Thibet, in Canada— everywhere , on land and on sea.
During the reign of King George III., the Irish
were allowed to have their own Parliament, inde¬
pendent of England’s; but it was a factious body
and it failed to accomplish anything of importance.
By the use of lavish bribes, the English government
prevailed upon the Irish Parliament to vote away
its own independence, and to unite with England.
Thus the Union, now so destestable to the Irish,
had its origin in the venality of Irish representa¬
tives. »
Of Ireland’s brief independence, Henry Grattan
mournfully said. “I sat by its cradle and I stood at
its grave.”
Daniel O’Connell made a grand fight for the re¬
peal of the Union, but he failed: English troops
menaced his monster meetings, and he shrank from
the responsibility for Civil War.
O’Connell had won his battle for “ Catholic
emancipation”, thus putting the ballot and the local
offices in the hands of Catholic voters— and thus
elevating the priests to the political control of Ire¬
land.
Mr. Gladstone vastly increased the power of the
priests, when he put through the British Parliament
the celebrated grant for Mayrooth College, surren¬
dering to the priests the higher education of Irish
youth.
Mr. Gladstone’s land-laws for Ireland gave to
the tenant the use of government credit in the pur¬
chase of the landlord’s property. Th# land was first,
bought by the government, cut up into small tracts,
and sold to the Irish tenant on 20 years’ time, at a
low rate, of interest. /.
In this manner, the native race came back into
the ownership of the soil.
As to political power, the Irish have full repre¬
sentation in the British Parliament, and they enjoy
as much Home Rule in Ireland, as Georgians do in
Georgia.
What, then, is the real purpose of the„ Sinn
Feiners ?
Not representation in Parliament—which makes
laws and levies taxes, for that they already have.......
Not local self-government , for they already have
that, in the fullest measure.
The trlie answer to the question is, that the Cath¬
olics of Ireland are hell-bent on riding, and driving
out, the Protestants of Ulster.
South Ireland, which ts papal, means to put
tiie heel of the Pope on North Ireland, which
is anti-papal!
The religious question is at the bottom of the
Sinn Fein movement: and if this sinister secret
society is not radically different from the Clan-na
Gael, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the
Fourth degree Knights of Columbus, it is bound
together by a terrible oath against Irish Protestants
If ever the Sinn Feiners sit in power at Dublin,
the Presbyterians of Belfast will have to get out,
or submit to fhe yoke of Rome.
As the Jesuits drove away from France all the
Huguenots who were not “converted”, or slaugh¬
tered. so the Sinn Feiners will either convert the
Protestants of Ireland, or kill them, or drive them
away.
Since the men of Ulster are content with Home
Rule and Parliamentary representation, the Sinn
Feiners must want something more.
The Irish Catholics in Ireland already have as
much political independence as the Irish Catholics
of New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and California.
What more do they ask for? What else are they
aiming at?
What they want is, a free hand to turn loose
the HELL-HOUNDS OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION UPON
the Protestants.
The League of Nations a Betrayal of
American Independence.
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those Nature gave us, when thousands of miles of
deep water were put between us and any? possible
danger.
Do we need protection from England, or France,
or Japaki?
Have we suddenly lost our pride, courage, and
self-confidence?
The men who are betraying us into this foreign
League are the patriots who penalized free speech,
gagged the free press, trampled upon the.U. S. Con¬
stitution. squandered fabulous stuns in lavish appro¬
priations. loaded unborn generations with an unpay¬
able Public debt, adopted the most brutal methods
of Prussian militarism, gave despotic powers to irre¬
sponsible bureaucrats, placed the army and the navy
in the hands of the Pope’s Knights of Columbus,
and filled the prisons with thousands of citizens
guiltless of any other crime than mental indepen¬
dence.
The traitors who did these things in the name
of war-time necessities, are the same men who now
have the brazen audacity to say that we are the
traitors, unless we follow them into the League of
Nations.
Why are they afraid to let the people vote
ON IT?
The answer is easy: these traitors know per¬
fectly well that the American people will never
vote to mutilate the sovereignty of these United
States.
The traitors, who seek to chain us to European
and Asiatic Systems, know that the American people
will never vote for a leap in the dark.
The North American people fought seven years ,
to gain complete independence : they fought four
years to preserve the Union of States: they are
now asked to lie down, in abject submission, while
Woodrow Wlson surrenders our complete indepen¬
dence, and defeats the main purpose of our Union.
“We must give up something,” he says.
Are “we the People” to be consulted ?
Will the steward account for his stewardship ?
Will the keeper of the vineyard deed away a part
of it, without asking the owner?
Will the servant sell his master into "foreign
bondage ?
It remains to be seen.
President Wilson pledged himself to “open cove¬
nants of peace* openly arrived at.”
He pledged himself to “pitiless publicity.”
As usual, his words went one way and his deeds,
another.
Behind closed doors, in Paris, he secretly com¬
pared the several plans for a League and then
adopted that of England.
• He did it so hurriedly that he could not even ex¬
plain it to the Senators whom he invited to the
White House dinner!
He demands that the Senate adopt the .plan of
England, just as himself did—with eyes shut..
One of the Senators who dined with our School¬
master declared that he seemed “befuddled.”
Another said that the Schoolmaster betrayed
amazing ignorance of the Constitution of the
League.
Still another said that our Schoolmaster seemed
“like a boy who had forgotten the piece he was to
speak.”
B\it the Senators who dined with the President
all agreed that he confessed, that the United must
surrender vital points of sovereignty, if it joined
the League!
That confession is enough to kill the League.
Taft’s “arguments” for it are crippling to nTbut
Wilson’s confession is fatal.
Looking Backward
(CONTINUED FROM PAG® ONE.)
secret diplomacy; and there was juggling behind the
door.
George Creel cabled us the delightful news, that
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson would eat Christ¬
mas dinner, in truly democratic style, with the priv¬
ate soldiers in the trenches, and not with the officers.
But the President, and the descendant of the
illustrious Queen Pocahontas, ate Christmas dinner
with the officers, and not with the soldiers in the
trenches.
George Creel informed us that the President was
in favor of sinking all the captured German battle¬
ships—so that the Steel Trust could get some more
big contracts at 485 per cent, profit.
This country howled at the idea, and the Presi¬
dent's asidious Creel vigorously denied that the
President had ever favored the sinking proposition.
At present, the sinking proposition looms up
again, and we may soon learn that the Steel Trust
will get the desired contracts.
George Creel cabled us to the effect that, unless
Wilson could promote a League which should in- .
elude all the nations of the world, he would have
none at all.
(See the New York World of Dec. 31,1918.)
“Wilson for a world League, or none”; so ran
the large-type headline.
But he “brings home the bacon” in the name of
a League which is, at present, “without form and
void,” and which, if adopted, will give the world a
new Balance of Power, Controlled by Great Britain.
In this way, I could go on and cite instance after
instance where Woodrow Wilson has flim-flammed
the public, and used words to hide his designs.
As to what has been going on in Europe, we
know as much as Wilson wanted us to know.
The President promised ns the fullest informa¬
tion as to what would be done at the Peace Confer¬
ence: he vowed that there must be an end to old
time secret diplomacy; but the Congress of Vienna,
a century ago, was not more secret than this Con¬
ference at Paris.
B hen one recalls the hysterical women Pade¬
rewski has been accustomed to for the past 25
years or so, his job of ruling Poland must seem a
small, easy matter to him.
Japan is going on record as knowing what she
ivants, and demanding that she gets it when she
wants it: and China will doubtless have to repair
all the gaps in the Wall to keep the Japs out,