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The Columbia Sentinel.
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i*,. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher.
THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, April 25, 1919.
Mr. Burleson seems to have started something
he can't stop. ‘
Mexico resembles one of its own earthquakes:
jujst when we have begun to forget it, the eruption
begin?.
Two ironical things about the ads of some big
stores are : A sale of “summer furs,” and “Blankets
reduced.”
The scientist who said “we cannot command the
wind," must not have lived to learn what a legisla¬
tive lobby can do.
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Berlin may feel more or less sympathetic with
this U. S. A. A general strike is taking the place
of old Gen. Disorder.
The Treaty may (cl¬ nay not) ,, lie , signed • by :
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and • . re running a chance, , at . that. •,
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The belsheviki movement begins to resemble a
huge snowball: it gathers anything that is in its
way and the obvious result is about due.
Germany is, according to all reports, able and
willing to take up the late scrap just where it was
loft otf, even without the brood of William the
Butcher.
, From Wilsonian mental somer-
1 the MVhiroe Doctrine
* jafely counted “among those
might again dp as
present.”
Mr. Wilson must begin to feel like the father
of a set of unruly twins. When he leaves Europe,
the situation there gets beyond him, and when he
leaves his job here, that goes a windin’.
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Some of us have wondered what the Ladies
Home Journal was really good for: well, here’s one
reason: the editor has just spent some of the money
from it to buy an island for the Boy Scouts of Phil¬
adelphia.
Just to show you the perfect system which New
York's burglars are able to maintain, we mention
for your enlightenment the fact that burglars stole
tho automobile containing the pay for New York’s
police, and absolutely no clue was left.
The demand for tho removal of Mr. Burleson
is ono that will meet with hearty sympathy from
more than ono source. He has become an absolute
men a ci to the Democratic party, and Lor’ knows
the old party has enough to stagger under, as it is.
A “puffeek lady” in one of the New York
papers, says if this prohibition movement it to keep
up, and folks—especially Indies—are to be prohi¬
bited from smoking and “cussing,” when they feel
like it, what in — are said ladies to do, when
the mood is on them?
The erstwhile gentle Korean, in spite of the
enormous sums of missionary money spent on him
by and large, is ns blood thirsty when he begins to
fight, ns though he had never heard the Gospel of
Brotherly Love. And he seems to he “taking his
spite” on the missionaries.
Far be it from us to discourage any rash youth
who feels the matrimonial instinct, hut when he
reads that “a black satin gown, with biscuit colored
crepe de chine trimmed with fringe and a tortoise
shell buckle” is to he considered the proper thing
for ladies, we wonder if he will feel a weakening.
The fact that the flier into “government owner¬
ship of public utilities” has resulted so disastrously,
doesn't, necessarily mean that the old idea of the
Populists was faulty: it means that,, instead of
operating it as they meant, political capital—and
not welfare to the people, has been made the foun¬
dation, under the present im-Democratic adminis¬
tration. The old idea is all right, and can he made
to pay (lie Government, if run as a business propo¬
sition, and not as a clearing house of payment for
old political scores \n,1 Mr. Burleson is not the
man to put it over, ns a successful measure.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
Who Made Us Responsible for
“The World?”
One of the faults of the late Mr. Roosevelt,
when he was President, was that his finger was in
every pie.
He wanted to change cur system of spelling:
he wanted the married folks to have large families:
he wanted to show army officers how to ride: he
wanted to tell Congress how it must behave: he
scolded General Nelson Miles at a public reception:
he deprived both Sampson and Schley of the merit
for the naval victory over the Spaniards: he “took”
the Panama Canal Zone; he ordered the Central
Americans aicund; he caused the arrest of New
York apd Indianapolis editors who criticized him;
and he >jumped Dr. Wood from the bottom of the
pill-box to the top of the military ladder.
People finally grew weary of too much
Roosevelt, and were willing for him to retire from
the White House, and go away on a distant hunt¬
ing trip.
President Wilson has become the slave of the
same habit of regulating everything and everybody.
He is not only the self-constituted trustee of these
United States, but of “the World,”
With him it has become a sort of mental
disease, a monomania, an obsession; and be actual¬
ly seems to regard himself as the One Man who
knows it all.
In a recent cable message from Paris, Mr.
Wilson use's these words, and they clearly reveal
his morbid conceited state of mind—
“// America at this "juncture should fail the
world. WHAT WOULD BECOME OF IT?”
Carefully avoiding any mention of the sub¬
ject to which this queer message refers, let me ask
you to reflect upon the meaning conveyed.
The meaning is, that if we fail to do some¬
thing or other in this country, “the world” will he
lost!
Of course we do not mean to fail of our duty
to our Government, or in any way obstruct its
policies, so far as they have been defined by law.
As good citizens, wc must obey the law, and
99 men out of a hundred have done so, no matter
liow repugnant the law.
But to make us responsible 1 for “the world,”
and to ask “what to become of , it,” if we do , not ,
is
do ..... this, that, and , ,, the other, is the merest nonsense,
Since when did the Almighty lay upon our
shoulders the political responsibility for “the
wor ] ( ] «
Since when did “the world” nominate us us
its caretaker, its “guide, philosopher and friend?”
“"What will become of it?"
To read a question like that, propounded by
an American President sets one’s head -jn a, whirl.
No man is indispensable to society, and no
nation is indispensable to “the world.”
Empires rise and fall, but humanity endures,
i The world did not collapse when Cyr uynd SfhguT
A Tfxsnnder passed away: nor when the vast
empire fell; nor when Roman provinces faded into
separate kingdoms.
Nations, like individuals, are forever dis¬
solving, regrouping, and again dissolving.
Who, in 1814, would have thought that
England and France would combine to fight Prus¬
sia, in 1914?
Who, in I860, could have believed that Aus¬
tria and Germany would unite in this Great War?
Wise is the statesman who knows that we will
not bo at war with England, in less than fifty
years? Germany take
In such a struggle, where will
her place? birthrate:
France is a land of a declining
what will be her relative weakness in the future?
America has become the motley country of the
immigrant: where will the native American cle¬
ment be, a few years hence?
Responsibility for “the world?”
For Asia, with its countless hordes?
For Africa, with its teeming millions?
For Europe with its intricate web of local,
racial, dynastic, industrial interests?
The idea is fantastic beyond description.
No matter what we may do, or do not do, the
immovable East will remain just what it is, and
what it has been ever since Europeans first be¬
came acquainted with it.
The Malay will remain Malay—as nature
made him.
The Ethiopian will continue to breed his dis¬
tinct type. Tho Brown man and the Yellow will
pursue their own laws and customs, unaffected bv
Wilsonian rhetoric.
“What will become of it?” asks the President
concerning “the world.”
Oh, tho world will wag along, pretty much as
usual.
Half the world never heard of Woodrow
Wilson.
The other half has heard too much of him.
and is beginning to become awfully bored by him.
Sometimes we could * almost believe that if
the Germans would elect him Kaiser, he would
wlcome the change and so would we.
Get a copy of “ Foreign Missions Exposed ”, by
Tlios. E. Watson, and see if you don’t think we
might do a little more home mission work, and not
suffer. Paper bound: illustrated; 75c. The Jef¬
fersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
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Read the lists of Mr. Watson’s books, and treat
yourself to some of them.
The Jeffersonian Publishino Co., Thomson, Ga.
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As an advertising medium The Columbia Sen¬
tinel is a leader. Try an ad.
A Bugle-Call to Americans!
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fond of this Great Charter, which his infallible
Papa cursed.
You can believe the Cardinal, if you want to.
(9). The Italian church had grown to such
a preposterous and intolerable imposition in the
15£h century, that all Christendom groaned under
her crushing yoke.
In the churches, 'preaching had ceased!
The bible was lying buried, in a dqcid lan
gunge.
The universities taught nobody, except stud¬
ents for the priesthood and the professions.
There were no schools for the children of the
common people.
The classic literature of Greece and Rome in
Europe had been destroyed.
Science was cowed by the cruel imprisonment
of Roger Bacon, the torturing of Galileo, the
curse pronounced upon the great discovery of
Copernicus, and the burning of Bruno, in front of
the pope’s palace, at Rome.
It was death , for the layman to have a copy of
the Bible in his possession; death , to translate into
the common language any portion of the Book;
death , to question the God-ship of the pope; death ,
to denounce the vices and crimes of priests; death ,
to agitate in favor of the Rights of Man, and for
civil or religious liberty.
Above all, it teas death , in its most frightful
form , to deny that the priest—no matter how low,
ignorant, criminal and depraved— could transform
a glass of wins} into God's blood , and a wafer of
bread into God's actual physical flesh !
Priests no longer called sinners to repentance-.
they changed the word to “penance;” and they fix¬
ed a price-list , according to which these “penances”
could be satisfied, in money.
(10). Ponce de Leon of Spain was imprisoned
for years, because he translated the Song of Sol¬
omon out of Latin into Spanish: Tyndal was burnt
—after having been strangled—for translating the
New Testament out of Latin into English: Savon
arola was burnt, for denouncing the Corruptions of
the priesthood, at a time when most of the priests
lived openly with concubines, and when Pope
Alexander VI. kept his mistress and her brood of
bastards, in the Vatican.
Jerome and IIuss of Bohemia were burned 'o
ashes, because they advocated restoration of Gos¬
pel Christianity: and Arnold of Italy was burned,
because he asserted that the Pope should not be
supreme lord of both Church and State.
And it came to pass, that popes who lived
shamelessly with concubines, enriching their bas¬
tards with the loot of the church, invented the
first partnership between the Scarlet Woman of
the Tiber, and the scarlet, women of the street; and
the pope licensed the brothels , taking for his share,
one-half of the wages of sin and death!
(11). These things grew so abominable, that
when Poptrfcerr —who was afflict<?d with chron¬
ic syphilis, of which he died—sent forth his bands
of monks to sell papal pardons for sin, the haran¬
gues in which the pardon-peddlers hawked their
wares, were so blasphemously impudent, that an
educated young Augustinian brother, Martin
Luther, felt his gorge rise.
He denounced this brazen and blasphemous
traffic!
The priests answered him, and he replied to
the priests; they retorted, and he rejoined; and
thus one word brought on another, until the bold
German found himself in rebellion against the
Italian church.
The Pope excommunicated Luther, and Luther
burnt tho excommunication.
Luther took a nun out of a convent, married
her, and made her the mother of a family.
Then he devoted his whole life to the restora¬
tion of New Testament Christianity.
Without fear and without earthly reward, he
gave all that was in him to the noble effort to re¬
lease the Christian church from the pagan mum¬
meries, pagan ceremonies, pagan superstitions, and
pagan corruptions which the superstitious Latins
had wrapped around it,
(12). The Reformation, which took its first
step, when Luther denied that the Catholic church
had the right to burn people for not joining it,
and that the Pope could take God’s place in forgiv¬
ing sins, gave birth to the common-school educa¬
tion , to civil and religious liberty , to the Sovereign¬
ty of the People , to the separation of the Church
and State, to the freedom of speech and of press,
AND TO THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN.
Parsons and Pastors! study this glorious
Reformation.
Quicken your own spiritual lives by a rever¬
ent examination of the Roman Catholic abomina¬
tions against which Luther, Calvin, Knox, Zuing
lius, Melancthon, and Erasmus, so courageously
spoke and wrote.
Call back to life tho buried past!
Resurrect the spirits of the mighty dead!
Roman soldiers have again sealed up the tomb
of Christ, and rolled a stone upon it—and, this
time, tho Romans who do it wear, not the uniforms
of the Pagan Emperor, but the regalia of the
Pagan Pontifex Maximus.
The Pilate of today dwells in a palace, not in
Jerusalem, but in Rome; and Pilate’s uniformed
soldiers are now called Jesuits, Knights of Colum¬
bus, Ancient Hibernians, and Clan-na-Gael: they
have crucified Christ, anew, and upon his sepulchre
they have built altars to strange gods — unknown
to the bible— altars to a Jewess, named Mary; al¬
tars to a Jew, named Joseph; altars to a Jew.
named Peter; altars to a pantheon of lesser deities ,
called Saints.
Parsons and pastors, roll the stone away I
Redeem the Holy Sepulchre from these In-
fidels, who defile it with Pagan rites.
Restore the pristine simplicity and purity ol
Christianity!
Release it from the cerements of antique Latin
Paganism!
Lift the Cross from the mire of sordid eccle¬
siastical ambition, and make it again the symbol ol
re-birth, re-gen'eration, and spiritual Life.
Judicial Constructions of the Espionage
Law.
(continued from page one.)
be equally frank in confessing their infernal bar¬
barity. officers,
Like the Prussianized army some civil
judges have forgotten that all Americans are citi¬
zens, endowed by heritage and birth with sovereign
rights and powers.
In reading the Espionage Act, any lawyer is
bound to see that Congress meant to draw the. dis¬
tinction between words and acts, between mere ex¬
pressions of opinion and the overt act of obstruc¬
tion. .
If you do not nullify the whole structure of
English and American liberties when you penal¬
ize thought, then you cannot nullify it!
If a citizen is not entitled to think, then he has
no civil liberties whatever.
The right to think, is pure democracy: its de¬
nial is monarchy and popery,
The right ■ to speak, is pure democracy: its
denial is despotism and papalism.
The right to print, is pure democracy: its de¬
nial is the death of civil liberty.
Properly construed the Espionage Act never
did intend to make a criminal out of a man who
merely expressed his opinion that the War was
wrong, or that the Conscription act was unconsti¬
tutional.
The law never did intend to make a criminal
of a ™n who honestly believed that Congress was
composed of limber-legged jumping jacks, and
that President Wilson never in any case kept his
word.
What Congress meant to punish, were acts of
obstruction to the creation of an army, acts of in¬
terference with military and naval forces, acts ol
conveying to the enemy such information as actual
spies have generally been employed to convey.
Listen to me a moment, longer:
If Lord Northcliffe had not done in England
the very things that, if done in this country, would
have doomed him to the penitentiary, England
would have kept on blundering —as she was doing
in 1814 and 1815— and Germany would perhaps
now be dictating peace in London!
Listen again:
If Clemenceau had not published those hones!
denunciations of the' French government which
caused his paper to be suppressed; and if the old
Tiger had not had the pluck to start up another
paper, and denounce the government harder thaa
ever, President Poincaire might never have
changed his programme; and the Germans MIGHT
now be at Versailles, as they were in 1871, dicta¬
ting THE HARDEST TERMS OF PEACE TO FRANCE.
No GOVERNMENT IS SAFE WITHOUT A CRITICAL
OPPOSITION.
When the waters are stirred by agitation, they
are sweet : when no breath of life moves upon their
surface, there is stagnation and death.
Who Dug Up William Howard Taft,
and Why?
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John-IIayes-Hammondism, -ism and every other putrid
that smelt to heaven.
Alaska grabs, Powersite grabs, Public-land
grabs, Oil-land grabs, mineral-land grabs, timber
land grabs—every grab known to lobby experience
and corporate greed flourished under the smile of
Taft,
^uch utter disgust was felt for the man and
.
the corrupt crew controlling him, that the coun¬
try spewed him out, in 1912, in spite of the fact
that Elihu Root (Apostle of Special Privilege and
incorporated loot) steamrolled Roosevelt at the
C hicago C onvention, threw out the Roosevelt dele¬
gates, and gave a stolen nomination to William
Howard Taft.
Toward the close of that memorable campaign
of 1912, the Republicans themselves refused to hear
Taft speak, and he was forced to quit,
At his last attempted public meeting, his
audience rose, in violent indignation, and shouted—
“We have had enough of you! Wc won't lis¬
ten to your speech."
This is the besmirched, discredited, repudiated,
stand-pat Republican whom President Wilson has
chosen as Champion of his fantastic League ol
Nations!
M ilson was hard up for a champion, wasn’t
he?
....-Since the League suits such a man as Taft,
YOU LET IT ALONE!
if you want to get a slant at just HOW LOW
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WILL GO TO GET MONEY,
SEND 10c TO THE RAIL SPLITTER, MILAN, ILL., AND
READ THE LIFE-HISTORY OF “MADAM GAIN,” MOST
A
NOTORIOUS DIVE-KEEPER. BUT HER SOUL IS TO BH
“saved” with MASSES, for which SHE LEFT Till
MONET TO PAY.
Wanted—a young peacock. Price must be
reasonable. S., care of The Columbia Sentinel.