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ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, April 4, 1919.
It begins to look as though the TJ. S. A. wasn t ex¬
actly the Moses it had begun to regard itself.
Some people are asking: “Where is Mr. Bry¬
an?” But more of us are asking: “Why is Col.
House?”
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Instead' of a “Unanimous Peace” it seems to be
developing into a unanimous disagreement in every
particular Mr. Wilson proposes.
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Wouldn’t it be a good idea for the Southern
farmer in the cotton belt, to cut out cotton for a
while, and concentrate on hogs?
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What's become of the old-fashioned woman
who used to boast that her husband “never came
home to a meal, that it wasn’t ready?”
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“Wilson stands with Orlando,” chirps a head¬
line. Good; now when he gets tired, let him sit
down, and he may find more company.
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Seeking the “necessary legislation” to deport
enemy aliens. L- a very concrete example of lock¬
ing tiie stall after the horse is gone.
New York City demonstrated again her ability
to do unusual things. Snow and a fifty-mile gale
celebrated the return of some more of her soldiers.
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Another of her in stepping from an itomo
Igsfite. fftt: not he*--, tm hev muff. fn Jd
‘tiavc broken -dihe of her “innards.” As
had to go to a hospital to be fixed up.
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First and last., Lloyd 0 urge has more horse
sens* 1 packed in his head than any two of the
English speaking piember of the talk-fest which
we had hoped would be a Peace Conference.
France hasn’t lost sight of the fact that pun¬
ishment, lots of it, and soon, are what she intended
for the Germans, and no amount of talking is go¬
ing to swerve her from that original idea'.
Tne shade of the late Mr.. Monroe must be
Throwing some fits at the wobbly fate of bis so
worthy doctrine, in the present debate in Paris.
Tt. Seems to be in the class with On-again-off-again
Flanigan.
Well, from this angle, it looks as though “sav¬
ing daylight" was as good at sun-up. as at sun¬
down, and some, of us will stay put and keep the
clocks where they were before Sunday’s freak
measure went into effect.
The armed bandit, in singles, pairs and droves,
seems to be making good pickings in various parts
of the country. The unerring instinct which many
of them have for locating tne loot, would point
strongly to “inside information.”
Drop in the price of hard coal seems to he
held in abeyance, as so many States are kicking on
(lie daylight-spring stunt. And not more than a
week ago. statistics were printed to show that all
the anthracite mines had coal in bunkers, waiting
for shipment. Queer, isn’t it?
Hcrc’s a warning to the tight-skirted women:
one of her lmd to be lifted from the train, and lift¬
ed into a uniting automobile. To all intents and
purposes, sin- hadn't any legs, though a pair of per¬
fectly good 'feet were visible from the hem of her
garment.
Women avc again proving that kind words
mean a lot to them. Mrs. Catt. the suffragette, is
cheered bv the statement that Mr. Wilson hopes
suffrage will be adopted. But even this august well
wisher who adopted suffrage only after some very
spicy letter- were written' a couple of years itself. ago,
will pot change the status of the question
In the Missouri legislature a bill providing for
the elimination of foreign languages from public,
private and parochial schools has been passed voting to
engrossment, with onlv seven members
against it. The debate'over the bill was a the warm old
affair but papal representatives found that
erv of RELIGION wouldn’t work. This be a
“show me” state.—The Menace.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
William and Henry Taft: Teach
ers of Democracy and High
Righteousness .
Henry W. Taft is Attorney for the Sugar
Trust: one of his partners is George Wickersham,
who was Henry Taft’s brother’s Attorney-General,
when Henry - brother Bill was President of these
United States.
That was a glorious time for the Sugar Trust,
the Guggenheim Smelter Trust, the Morgan Gen¬
eral Electric Trust, the Standard Oil Trust, and
Big Business, generally.
Let me state it again: William Taft was Presi¬
dent; his brother’s law-partner was the attorney
of the Sugar Trust; and this Sugar Trust lawyer,
—Wickersham—was President Taft’s Attorney
General.
What happened ? Henry Taft., working with
his partner, Wickersham, got for the Sugar Trust
those enormous Sugar-plantations out of which the
Romanist Friars had cheated and defrauded the
ignorant natives of the Philippine Islands. *
Here is the irony of it:—
Taft had been Governor of the Philippine Is¬
lands, and it had become his official duty to inves¬
tigate the causes which had provoked theFilipinos
into armed revolt against Spain.
This investigation disclosed the workings of
the Roman Catholic priesthood, wherever it gains
the upper hand.
Men of the highest character gave damaging
evidence against the Church; and the proof of its
systematic crimes was overwhelming.
The testimony proved that the Romanist monies
and friars had swindled the natives out of vast
tracts of the richest lands; that no Filipino woman
was safe from the beastly lusts of these bachelor
priests; that fathers and husbands, who were un¬
willing to submit to the debauching of their
daughters and their wives, were either banished or
murdered.
This sworn testimony also revealed the hideous
fact that the Romish monks claimed and exercised
upon the brides of the natives the infamous medi¬
eval “Right of the first night.” (In other words,
the bridegroom bad to surrender his bride to the
monk on the first night after the wedding.)
AH of this damning record against the Roman
Church was officially reported to President Mc¬
Kinley, by Gov. William Howard Taft, and was
sent to the Senate, where it was printed under the
title of “Document 190, .‘>0th Congress, 2nd Session.”
(If you wish a copy of this astounding Report,
write to The Menace, Aurora, Mo.)
Nov. what did William IT. Taft himself do,
after hi investigation had developed the utter rot
ten ness and tyranny of the Roman Church in the
He became .) .. ......................; ;
the public advocate of the Pope’s
work n the Island;-, and he journeyed to Rome, for
a personal interview with the chief-priest who eon
froh a- million or tiro of American votes.
Taft wanted those votes, for the Presidential
bee had begun to buzz in his ear.
He agreed to pay the Pope seven million dollat <
for the lands which the Friars had cheated tli •
natives out of: and he bonded the Islands to raise
the money.
Thus the Po]x> got the ducats and Taft got tl
votes.
Tin s iif. ni:r.\MK President.
Later, he continued his diplomatic relations
with the Vatican: and a very gallant gentleman.
Major Archie Butt, lost his life in acting for Taft.
—in his secret dealings with the Pope.
(Ma jor Butt had carried to the Vatican a con¬
fidential letter for President Taft, and was on his
wa v home, with the Pope’s confidential reply, when
he sank with the Titanic.)
At this time, those three noble patriots, George
Wickersham, Henry W. Taft, and William If.
Taft are clamoring vociferously for the League of
Nations!
George, Henry, and Bill—all three—tell ,us
that all blessings will flow from the League,
especially, if Woodrow Wilson is made the Presi¬
dent of it.
(Dick Ballinger’s opinion to the same effect is
momentarily expected.)
Who selected these three Republicans to teach
us democracy?
What is the source of their inspiration, their
harmony, their industrious propaganda?
IV110 PAYS FOR IT?
Are they working for A-Dollar-a-vear?
Or do they write, speak, t ravel, and agitate for
the mere joy of it?
I notice that William Taft loves to deliver his
address in churches!
In the pulpits, lie no doubt cuts a tine figure.
Political speeches in religious pulpits are be¬
coming quite till fashion.
If this thing goes on, no preacher will be con¬
sidered up-to-date, if he is not ready to make a
stump speech from his pulpit, on any subject, when¬
ever the necessities of politicians seem to require it.
What is Taft's game? What is it that he ex¬
pects , FOR HIMSELF?
Ilis oratorical invasion of the Democratic
Solid-South is not accidental.
He and his brother and his former Attorney
General are working for Woodrow Wilson t why?
And why are these three Stand-pat Republi¬
cans chosen to teach democracry and altruism to the
Democrats of the country? chapter
In Owen Wisteria Virginian , there is a
full of delicious humor, describing what took place
at a country dance to which young mothers had
carried their babies, and had left them on the beds
in the spare room, while the youthful mothers
joined in the dancing. The Virginian slipped into
this room, at the height of the frolic, and mixed
the babies! S6 that Mrs. Smith’s infant occupied
the place where Mrs. Jones had left hers, and so
on, all afcrund.
After the dance, the ladies went to where they
had left; their babes, caught up the little sleepers in
material arms, and went home, suspecting nothing.
Next morning— 0 Heavens! there was a noise
throughout the community: each fond mother had
made the horrid discovery that, “This ain’t my
baby.P'
Such a getting up stiars there was, to be sure!
Ladies had to visit one another, in hot haste, and
make comparisons of naked cherubs.
Private marks had to be gone over, and memor¬
ies refreshed as to each little peculiarity of each
little cherub; and it was ever so long liefore the
mixed babies could be unmixed.
It seems to me that somebody has been mixing
our political babies: whether we will ever be able
to assign each to its proper maternity remains to
bo seen.
Some Political Comparisond.
In a recent issue, The Christian Index editor¬
ially says—
“Joseph W. Bailey, former senator
from Texas, has anhounced his repudiation
of the Democratic party because he says
that, it has abandoned its old-time party
traditions. Its chief offense in his eyes has
been its support of a Constitutional amend¬
ment providing for national prohibition.
Senator Bailey acquired anunenviable
reputation some years ago through his
comiection with certain Standard Oil scan
dais. On his re-election to the Senate in
the, face of serious charges affecting his
official character, a widely knownpublica
tion printed an editorial regarding him,
under the caption “Rich, Re-elected and
Ruined.” He has always been in politics a
reactionary of the narrowest and most
self-centered type. His repudiation of
the Democratic party is a high tribute to
the improvement/of the moral standards of
the party.”
It. may interest you for a moment to test, the
above ill-natured paragraphs by the actual facts.
First, the Ex-Senator from Texas repudiated
t’iC Democratic party because it has entirely cut
h se from democratic principles, because it has
1 nne despotically autocratic, because it has wan
I Iv wasted such prodigious sums of public money,
a i beAuise it is deaded straight, for militarism and
i uarehy.
The Christian Index says that the Texas Ex
twjuivotl an imonviable his rejyif with Mfchvn . certain a fen
ago' through connection
Standard Oil scandals.
• What were the facts?
Ex-Governor David B. Francis, of Missouri,
introduced Senator Bailey to the President of the
Waters-Pierce Company—an alleged subsidiary of
the Standard Oil—and Senator Bailey accepted
employment as a lawyer to represent the Waters
Pieree Company.
The ugly part of the business was, that the Oil
Corporation seemed to contemplate the purchase of
the. Senator’s political influence, which was at that
time all-powerful in Texas.
He lost his case, but won a re-election, and
thep retired from public life, to practise law in
Washington City.
Senator Bailey’s acceptance of fees from the
Waters-Pierce Company, and, his subsequent votes
for Lorimer and certain corporation measures
rained him politically.
Blit what became of David Francis, who had
been the tool of the Standard Oil Company in
seducing Bailey?
Everybody knew that Dave Francis was a most
servile henchman of vulpine corporations, yet
President Wilson chose him to represent this moral¬
ly improved country, as Ambassador to Russia.
David—very much improved morally—is Jin
Russia now representing the American uplift and
the Standard Oil Company.
In fact, David Franck is like “Colonel” House,
one of our “moral standards,” and his “improve¬
ment" is as marked as that of “Colonel” House.
Secondly, Senator Bailey voted for Lorimer,
the Lumber Trust patriot, who came into the
Senate with hands that were far, far from clean.
But Senator Tillman voted for Lorimer, toot
Senator Fletcher also voted for Lorimer; and
President Wilson was so well pleased with Dune
Fletcher’s improvement in moral standards, that
he sent a Presidential telegram into Florida order¬
ing the re-election of uplift Dune.
Thirdly, Senator Bailey x voted wrong on free
lumber, coal, iron, and a few other matters; but his
votes were the same as those of other Democratic
Senators who still roost high, and whose improve¬
ment, as moral standards, has almost kept pace with
the moral improvement of Woodrow Wilson and
Colonel House.
Fourthly, the Index says that Bailey has
always been a reactionary of the narrowest and
most self-centered sort.
v Th is statement is the opposite of the truth.
As a Representative from Texas—young, able,
dustriotis, and broadminded—Joe Bailey was a
Liberal to the core*; and he stood then for democracy
of the Jefferson ia 11 -Jacksonian type.
lie was a fearless advocate of both Silver
Gold, as legal tender money, just as Jefferson,
Jackson, Hamilton, and Washington had been in
the early days of the Kepublic. governmental
He championed a free currency,
in opposition to national bank notes.
He fought for a Revenue Tariff— a Constitu¬
tional Tariff—as against the monstrous legislation
which shuts us up within the market of monopoly,
and enables the monopolistic Trusts to rob us at
will by extortionate prices set by unconscionable
monopolists. , t ■ 1 ’ *
For many years, Joe Bailey was faithful to
these democratic principles and he opposed Con¬
gressional extravagance of every sort.
That he afterwards went wrong.is true, and it
sincerely grieved me.' best -e constitutional
He had grown to be the
lawyer in Congress, and he was a power in debate.
When the South lost him, it lost one of the
broadest intellects that ever shone in her service.
Lei Me Tell You Something of Egypt.
(Continued from Page 1)
astute Jew, Disraeli, at once prompted the Roths¬
childs to buy the stock for the English government.
The British Parliament ratified the bargain;
aiid thus Great Britain came into the ownership of
the remaining Egyptian shares—176,602—at
less than £4,000,000, considerably less than $20,
000,000. This fatal mistake finished the Khedive,
for ever after, he was ruled by the Committees
representing the hungry creditors.
The English government had a profit, even
then , of $6,000,000 on these shares, in a Canal
which is principally beneficial to her, and which
did not cost but $91,000,000.
What the Rothschild«»and other great bankers*
made out of the various loans floated for Egypt,
there is no way to ascertain: the sums were prodi¬
gious.
England and France came into joint financial
control of the Khedive, by reason of the Suez
Cana] and the Public Debt.
Afterwards, the French Republic refused to co¬
operate with Great Britain in her barbarous bom¬
bardment of Alexandria, her massacres of the un
armed Egyptian laborers, and her military ex
pedions into Negro!and.
England was glad to dissolve partnership with
Republican France, and to assume undivided con
trol of Egypt.
To one phase of this crooked conquest, I call
your especial attention: the English ministers have,
again and again, stated in Parliament, that England
meant to get out of Egypt.
England never meant to get out., does not now
intend to get out, and never will get out.
“Self-determination” sounds well in Wilsonian
rhetoric, but it has no place in England’s policy.
If Woodrow Wilson cannot see how English poli
ticians have used him , he is very obtuse, indeed.
Ev«jy date-tree in "Egypt will continue to pay
its poll ta.y to England, and every little farm—■*
watered by hand —will continue to pay England its
yearly tax on $75 an acre.
(My authority for the astounding facts show¬
ing how De Lessepe, Napoleon III., Disraeli, and
the Rothschilds enslaved the Khedives and Egypt,
by fraudelent financial juggles, is the book of Dr.
Elbert E. Farman. formerly Consul-General of the
United States at Cairo. He was conversant with the
tragedy while it was in progress. His book came
out in 1908: The Grafton Press, New York, Pub
lishers.) T E W.
Why the Delay of Peace ?
(continued from page one.)
'classes against the non-producing despoilers con
tinue to beat higher and higher upon the beach.
I hp non-producers give this industrial upheav¬
al had names: the exploiters are hell-bent on keep¬
ing the exploited down.
Five armies of “Crusaders” who went forth to
make the world safe for democracy, are now crusadr
ing in Russia, where the labor-unions of the produ¬
cers are being butchered.
Those five armies of “Crusaders ’’ are the
troops of America, England, France , Italy and
' Serbia-.
To the number of 269,000, these allied crusaders
are waging war upon the democracy of Russia—
for whom,?
Our Government has not. declared war against
Russia, but our conscripted soldiers are fighting
Russians, just the same.
The kernel of the League of Nations consists
of Mutual Insurance: the exploiters of the in¬
dustrial classes and the despoilers of weaker na
tions are trying to “put over” a scheme, whereby'
the exploited and the despoiled shall forever be
held ill poverty and servitude.
Hence, peace is secondary to the League: these
schemers at the Peace Conference know, that, un¬
less they can interweave the League with the
inseparably , there is no hope for the League.
The League cannot travel on its own merits'
therefore, it must be put, as a rider, on the Treay of
Peace.
The, exploited and despoiled' cry for Peace: the
exploiters and despoilers cry for the League.
That’s the case, in a nutshell.
And King Canute may have to move his chair,
Again/
“Life and Timet of Thomas Jefferson", by Tho
E. Watson. The dignified, cultured Jefferson that
Mr. Watson gives us, is a very human man. Can you
imagine President Wilson going to the trouble to
buy a pair of spectacles for a friend? Jefferson did
that. Price $1.50.
The Jeffersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga,