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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. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR ; when sent in clubs ft, of five *7.50. _ RATES TO NEWSDEALERS-Three cents each, cash to accompany order. Credit given for unsold papers if returned. Postage prepaid one way only._ SAMPLE COPY RATES—$1.00 per hundred in bundles or wrapped in single packages and sent to seperate g' addresses. In lots of five hundred $4.00 or $7.50 per thousand. E. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher. THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor. ALICE LOUISE L YTLE, Managing Editor. Harlem, Georgia, April 11, 1919. Funny no one has thought to introduce gas masks in legislative bodies. If the Anti Everythings keep it up, they may even try to make the volcanoes stop smoking. * * * * Russia’s national beverage is tea, but look what a blood-thirsty critters they are becoming. Too bad some of that four cent gasolene can’t get any further away than in the States that have the gas wells. » The War may be over, but American aviators seem to be dying in smashes, just as they were do ing a year ago. li might be a good idea to round up all the bolsheviks and the still ructious Germans, and let them tight it out among themselves. Just, now Uncle Sam seems to feel that Europe will rock along awhile without bis worry, and he again “turns his attention to Mexico.” * * * * Germany seems to be like the too-trusting wife: she is. the only one that doesn't know just how other Nations regard her, and pity her. * * * * The Man Without a Country bad a rough lime of if, hut The Man Without a Portfolio (Col. House), seems to be nearly the whole works*, in Paris. It's a sure sign of a scarcity of other scare-us to-dcath news, when the Japanese question again assumes the altitude of “The Yellow Peril”—on the front pages of the newspapers. * * * * Some of the English »“lmmor,” anent the League of Nations as defined by our most worthy Mr. Wilson, isn’t humor so much as it is down right truth, in very plain shape. This is especially true of the cortoons. * * * * “His policies felt in danger, Mr. Wilson is con lined to his lied,” says newspaper headline. Also that the fact was “cabled to Mr. Tumulty.” And again: "Col. House Acting in President’s Place,” which is quite a bunch of Democratic precedents, eh? And why not have cabled the sad facts to the Vice President? "Great Mortality Among Bishops” is the head¬ line in a Romish sheet which shows how the pope’s bishops in the United States have died numerously in recent years. While others suffered from the high cost of living, these pampered aristocrats have been penalized by the cost of high living.—The Menace. Spanish diplomats are carefully following the trend of the so-called Peace discussion. One of the writers in a Spanish newspaper says: “Only one quality is possessed in common by President Wil¬ son and Premier Clemenceau, and that is ‘sublime obstinacy.’" Which shows how clearly Mr. Wil¬ son is living up to his chin. The, Libra man of a New York library refers to the fact that the volumes of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in his care, have to be re-bound every year, because of their popularity. Maybe, with the trouble the police have had with the returned negro soldiers, the Northern mind—especially the New York mind, may get a clearer insight into the real Colored Brother, and the glamor will not he so keen. Tt"s queer, but i< is historical fact: every nation, every tribe, even' community, civilized and uncivilized, has its peculiar Brew that will bring oblivion, in various forms of intoxication, It will be well for the prohibitionists to realize from the start, just what, a gigantic thing they are undertak¬ ing. And while it is true civilization always follow¬ ed the Flag -not only that of the IJ. S. A., but of every other country, drunkenness also followed it in the shape of the white man’s brew: but the sav¬ ages always lin’d a brow of their own which had sufficed, until the white man brought his. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. Can the Senate Change Our Form of Government ? (continued from page one.) taxes, by way of a custom-house duty on foreign manufactures: we have seen this custom-house duty raised so high that it does not produce revenue, but does produce national monopoly, which does not rob the foreigner but does rob the 'American. The Fathers denied to Congress the right to make any law abridging the freedom of the press; but we have seen Congress mefke law after law abridging it. The Fathers denied to Congress the right to forbid peaceable assemblage of the people, open to free discussion of public questions;. but like the “open covenants of peace openly arrived at,” this Constitutional guarantee has disappeared. The Fathers thought that they had perpetuated the Anglo-Saxon right of free speech and of trial by jury; but we have seen that freedom to talk is allowed to those only who endorse the Administra¬ tion, and that trial by jury is a luxury not permit¬ ted to those whose property the Administration determined to confiscate. Now, suppose the President and the Senate— the people not being consulted at all—merge this Republic into a League of foreign nations, under a Constitution made by foreign politicians! This League is to have its own machinery: it must have organized power: it must have Supreme Control of all nations composing it. By necessary implication, it must have a treas¬ ury, and this treasury must be filled and replenish¬ ed by taxes levied upon the member-nations by the Supreme, Council. The League must have its army, its navy, its civil service, its diplomatic service, and its inter¬ national code of laws. Of course it must have its publicity Bureau, to create favorable opinion in all parts of the world. It is to hare its periodical Congress. Do you not see that this international Con¬ gress and Supreme Council will overshadow and subordinate every nation which belongs to the League? The centralization of power would begin at once, just as it began under our Constitution of ;787. This inevitable centralization would most as¬ suredly operate to the advantage of some mem¬ bers of the League, and to the disadvantage of the others. And this would breed Civil War on a world¬ wide scale, just as centralization and Sectional pre¬ ponderance bred our Civil War, of the Sixties. Shall the usurpers lay the sword of Washing¬ ton at the feet of Mikado of Japan, or the King of England? Shall Taft, and Wilson, and the Senate stultify flic Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Inde¬ pendence? Shall Christianity bow to Buddhism? Shau. tiie White Race sink to the level of the Yellow? If Thirteen States of (lie same race, language, and faith could not originate a just, peace-giving League, how can it he expected of a Union com¬ posed of Anglo-Saxons, Latins, Greeks, Slavs, and Japanese? The United States of the World will be one of two things— a monster which cannot live, or a despotism ’which will not allow liberal insti¬ tutions to live. Why Rome Hates Freemasonry . Rome's hatred of Freemasonry is of such a nature as to concern every .friend of freedom whether a member of that great fraternity or not,. The popes have declared and re-declared war on Freemasonry; and the reason for their hostility is plainly staled in papal documents which none can deny and no papist repudiate. The pamphlet,. “Why Rome Hates Freemasonry,” is a brief but compre sensive exposition of the fact that what Masons be¬ lieve in and popes condemn is the very essence of Americanism—religious freedom, liberal institu¬ tions, universal free non-sectarian education, sepa¬ ration of church and state, popular government and related ideals that Americans have made the key¬ stones and corners of the nation. Send .ten cents for a postpaid copy of this 32-page booklet to The Menace Book Department, and be informed con cerning this vital issue that must be settled, and set¬ tled soon if aright. BRUSSELS, Belgium.—Belgium is fac¬ ing a crisis in its political history. The present government, als and three comprising socialists, six Catholics, three liber¬ is acknowledged everywhere to be only a provisional one, a government of tran¬ sition. A real government which will direct the re¬ construction of Belgium is in the making. It is not expected that elections can be held ivi less than six months. Meanwhile the political fight will he waged upon a basis of universal suf¬ frage—-one man, one vote. Before the war the priests had four rotes, land owners and nobles as many and votes socialists as they had estates in different prov ces and liberals only one vote each. 1’he socialists were mostly workingmen and the lib¬ erals mostly professional men. This enabled, the Catholic party to be in power for more than forty years. I nder the universal suffrage system which would relegate priests and land owners to the same category as workingmen, doctors and lawyers, it is asserted the Catholic party may be placed in the minority. sonality Nevertheless, Cardinal Mercier’s great per¬ and the energy he displayed in behalf of Belgians during tho war is sard to have greatlv helped the cause of the Catholic party .—The Chica¬ go Daily News, January 15, 1919. Can You Ever Expect a Speech More Divine Than This ? (continued from pact one.) than 90 days, he and the Entente wanted peace based upon sqch a victory as would forever “crush” the militarists of Germany. The President said— “I am seeking only to face realities and to ** face them without soft concealments.” What sort of a concealment is any softer than any other? Soft concealments, indeed! Are those conceal metns at the Peace Conference “soft?” If the are, I’d like to see some that are hard. Proceeding with his address, the President said—“ victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed, upon, the vanquished.'' The President declared that such a peace could never endure, for the reason that it would leave i sting of resentment, a hitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently , but ONLY AS UPON QUICKSAND. Quite true: but what is the Paris Peace Con¬ ference doing, if not building the Temple of Con¬ cord upon sand? * * Nobody believes that Germany’s military mach¬ ine has been “crushed,” and everybody can see that tiie sting of resentment” already rankles in the Ger ‘man mind. The German authors of the War deserve con¬ dign punishment: the German government should pay huge indemnities, even as France was made to pay Germany in 1871: but the kind of peace, which President Wilson now ftoVyi to to that which he favored in 1917. He is building on quicksand; no matter what is done with the League, Germany will France in less than 50 years— to wipe out the bitter humiliations of the iVar of 191 /hand the Peace of Paris. Continuing his speech, the President asked— “May I not add that I hope and believe that I am speaking for liberals and friends of humanity in every nation and of every programme of liberty?” It is evident that the President “clean forgot” —as we used to say when we were children—about India’s 200,000,000 people, held in bondage by England; and China’s 400,000,000 held under the iron rod of Japan. And of course he forgot about Korea, Egypt, Algiers, Tripoli, Morocco, Ceylon, Madagascar, the Philippine Islands, and a few other enslaved nation itics. Lack of space prevents me from quoting other gems from the President’s address, but I must do him the justice to lay before you his concluding oracles. Said he— “I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doc¬ trine of the world: that no nation should to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, un threatened, unafraid, the little along"with the great and powerful. . “I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances which would draw them into competitions of power, catch them in a net of intrigue and selfish rivalry, and clisturb their own affairs with influences intruded from with out “I am proposing government by the consent of the governed: that freedom of the seas which in internation conference after conference representatives of the United States have urged* with the elo¬ quence of those who are convinced dis¬ ciples of liberty; and that moderation of armaments which makes of armies and navies a power for order merely, not an instrument of aggression or of selfish violence. “These are American principles, Amer¬ ican policies. We could stand for ho * others. And they are also the principles and policies of forward looking men and women everywhere, of every modem nation, of every enlightened community. They are the principles of mankind and must pre¬ vail.” This bracketed word “applause," jars on me: Congress should not have viilgarly clapped or stamped, or whooped: it should have remained per¬ fectly still, in a trance, softly as it were; and when the spell had had time to relax its hold, upon the mutes, they should have quietly pussy-footed along the velvet aisles to the sound of dulcet sym¬ phonies froYn the orchestra. Each mute should have betaken himself to his own place of abode, and devoted the rest of the day to silence and beatific visions of lions and lambs lying down together, the wolves protecting the sheep, the hawks making love to the doves? Go from January 1917 to March 1919, and see what you see: this same President comes back from Europe, convoyed regally by battleships, and lie lands at Boston amid the loudest fanfare of trumpets, and he dictatorial^ presents the Consti¬ tution of the League of Nations, saying that it must be adopted, without amendment, by the Senate, not by the People. That Constitution abolished, in material parts, the Constitution of the United States which Wil¬ son lifts twice sworn to support and defend! The League Covenant abolished the Monroe Doctrine. The League gave each nation the right to in¬ terfere with the internal affairs of others. The League provided no way for us to get out of it after we had gone in: that's where the Southern States got left, when they conditionally entered the 3rd Confederation. The League guaranteed the conquests of the other members of the League, and thus nullified Wilson's pledge to the weak nations. The League surrendered the sovereignty of this Republic and submitted its future to the maj¬ ority votes of Japan and Great Britain. The League, by necessary implication, made this Country subject to taxation by the other nations of earth! In short, the League was Wilson’s own contra¬ diction of his speech of Jan. 22, 1917. The League in the Light of the Past. (continued from page one.) world—to fight for England’s territorial posses¬ sions. Baron Steuben would not have come over to drill our raw militia into unconquerable soldiers. Kosciusko of Poland could not have come: Count Pulaski of Hungary could not have come. France would not have given John Paul Jones the Bon nomme Richard, the ship which he immor¬ talized and which terrified the coasts of Scotland, Ireland, and England. John Laurens of South Carolina could not Jiave obtained from Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. the casji which-financed General Washington's l’orktown campaign. In short, if, in 1776, there had existed just such a League of Nations as the one now proposed, these United States would never have been anything more than the 200,000,000 Hindus now are— sub¬ jects of Great Britain, - v , We would have remained in the situation of Canada, of Australia, of New Zealand, of Egypt, and of Ceylon. The League now proposed will be all-power¬ ful-. SUBJECT PEOPLES CAN NEVER WIN FREEDOM, IN¬ DEPENDENCE, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY. A similar League, in 1776; would have been all-powerful; and the subject peoples of North America, Suotli America, Mexico, Italy, and Greece would have remaied in bondage. There would have been no triumphant Marco Bozzans, no heriocally successful Simon Bolivar, no victorious Juarez, no glorious Garibaldi— whose monument in Rome, was not visited and enwreathed by President Wilson. Nor would there have been any acknowledge¬ ment of the Independence of the Thirteen Ameri¬ can States. Had it not been for England’s war with France, and the complete freedom of speech and press ac¬ corded in England to such friends of America as Burke, Barre , Chatham, Wilkes, and Rockingham, there certainly would have been no Yorktown vic¬ tory for General Washington. England might have loosened her grip on us, as she had to loosen it on Canada, but American troops would have had to fight her battles, as the Canadians have had to do. The League now proposed will make us do that very thing. Hence, the League is a step backward, and a mighty long step at that. This League is reactionary and will inevitably evolve absolute despotism in the Supreme Council. No. nine men that God ever made could- safely be trusted with that much power. No irresistable Combination of Nations could humanly be other than arrogant, autocratic, imper¬ ialist, militarist, and papist. The Pope’s law is the only code on earth that fits such a League. The Pope’s autocracy is the only absolutism on earth that regembles this League. That* the Pope is a secret party to it, as the Pope was to the Holy Alliance, I have no doubt whatever. Put that League on us, and it is an eternal farewell to democracy and Protestantism. Why did Europe form the Holy Alliance of 1816? The avowed purpose was to govern mankind in accordance with the principles of Christianity. What was the true and secret purpose of the Pope and the federated Kings? It was to push the wtyrld backward, to fully re-establish the hereditary Divine Right auto¬ crats, to re-enthrone the Roman Catholic priest¬ hood, and to forever bury the democratic principles of the French reformers. In other words, the pious pretentions of the Holy Alliance were the opposite of the actual pur¬ pose, as proved by what the League did in Spain, •Piedmont, and Naples. What is the avowed intent of this new British Society of Nations? It is virtually the same as the avowed purpose of the Holy Alliance of 1816. But what is the real object? Listen to the pins of England, in Egypt; to the guns of Japan in Korea; to the guns of France, Italy, Britain and America, in Russia! Those guns, slaughtering peoples who rise against tyranny, drown the rhetoric of Taft, Wil¬ son, and other voluble Millennialists. If any form of a League of Nations is im¬ posed upon us, by usurpers who refuse to allow the peoples of the league-nations to vote on it. the clock of human progress will have been set back fifty years—just ns it was when the allied despots defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. The fact that none of the proposed league nations will permit their people to vote on this supremely important World-Federation, is the best evidence of the existence of a hidden pur¬ pose which dares not face the public.
