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The Columbia Sentinel.
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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.