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ATTENTION READERS. The Sentinel is one of the best edited newspapers in the United States as well as one of the fastest growing weeklies. If it were possible we would put at least one copy in every home in the U. S. This being impossible without our readers co-opera¬ tion, we are going to ask every one who will, to send as many names with correct addresses within.the next few days as they can, and we will do the rest. The Sentinel will be sent to any address for one year for $2. 8 months $1.50, 6 months $1. 3 months 50c., or in clubs of five $7.50. E. H. MILLER. Has Anybody Seen a Soul that was Made Happy by the War? Of course, I am not inquiring about Mr. Henry Ford, nor J. P. Morgan, nor the patriots who deal in powder, bombs steel, flour, meat, boats, and ships: if the getting of big gobs of easy money constitutes happiness, those patriots are doubtless feeling well. A banker went on the witness stand in New York, and swore that he was president of an Electric Boat Company which did not seem to be able to secure any contracts from the Government; but he had a talk with Son-in-law McAdoo’s seedy brother, and this brother went to see William G. Son-in-law, in Washington, and straightway se¬ cured the much desired contracts. The McAdoo person got $43,000 of the banker’s money, and the banker’s boat contract’s paid him very handsome¬ ly, indeed. Col. Deeds, you will recollect, had the spend¬ ing of $6-40,000,000 of your ducats, on air-craft, and not a single one of the birds reached battle front Ex-Govemor Charles E. Hughes was ap¬ pointed by the President to investigate this air¬ craft mystery, and Hughes made thorough inves¬ tigation which he reported in writing., That report has never been published. But the question contained in my headline was meant to apply to nations. Which one of the belligerents got any satis¬ faction out of the Great War? Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey got none: they didn’t deserve any. But look at poor little heroic Belgium, whose army checked the Germans just long enough for the French to fall into battle array! Belgium has been treated so badly at the Peace Conference that she feels now almost as if she made a big mistake in not allowing the Ger¬ mans the use of her roads, as Luxembourg did. If King Albeit had consented for the Ger¬ mans to move toward Paris, along the Belgian highways, there would not have been any desola¬ tion reigning over, half the Kingdom, and no other unforgettable Belgian atrocities. By gamely acting as buffer for France, the Belgian kingdom was well-nigh ruined, to say nothing of outraged women and slaughtered sol¬ diers. It seems to me that France should have shown more gratitude; should have invited Premier Delecroix to a place of honor at the Peace Table; and should have postponed her own demand for indemnities, until after Belgium had been satisfied. As matters now stand, France recovers her provinces, gains a slice of Germany, where nobody speaks French, and is to be paid a huge indemnity. But are the French people satisfied? The May-Day riots look the other way; and we hear an occasional echo—over the censored cables— of French dissatisfaction. Is Spain contented? My own opinion is that she won’t be, unless England gives qp Gibraltar. However, Spain was not a belligerent and does not fall within the scope of my question. Is Japan satisfied? Not at all. For the time, she professes to be content with the free hand given her in China; but racial equality is a rank¬ ling question with the Japs, and it is sure to bob up again. That people will not always willingly, or sub¬ missively, wear the badge of racial inferiority. She whipped the whites in one colossal War, and she will never forget it. Italy, of course, is fiercely dissatisfied, else she would not have seceded from the Peace Con¬ ference. Fiume is Italian: Fiume has exercised the right of self-determination: she has joined herself to Italy, and she has telegraphed to President Wil¬ son the notice of that accomplished fact. The Italian flag flies over Fiume: who will haul it down? Who will shoulder the responsibility of recom¬ mencing' the War? Whoever does, will be the most hated man on earth. The world if weary of bloodshed, and weary of the endless “parleyvous” jabbering at the Peace Table. Consider Russia whose prompt support of Servia and France saved both from annihilation! Russia has lost enormously in men and mon¬ ey: and among the allied nations she fought with, and for , she cannot name a friend. All of those for whom her four million sol¬ diers shed their blood, are now waging war THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. against her. Is England satisfied? She ought to be, for she gobbled Egypt,—an empire including the Soudan, Uganda &c.—lost nothing of her vast territorial empire, and has prevailed upon President Wilson to commit this country to the defense of every acre of ground that England has conquered in Burmah, Ceylon, Africa, India, and the Islands of Oceanica. But even in England, the people are dissatis¬ fied : they furnished the men and the money, while the Tory oligarchy and the big capitalists reaped the harvest. At every recent election, the Tories who are running the government were badly beaten. As to these United States, you can read unrest' in every daily paper. The Great War, and the way thiw/s were managed from IT ashington, have sown discontent all over this Union. Such wild waste of life and money was never before seen, since governments were established. The United States of the World. Woodrow Wilson, First President. (Continued from Page 1) of Bulgaria never resorted to a foxier trick. But Bryan is an honorable man: Wilson is an honorable man: they are all honorable men: yet they have murdered our Republic , while smiling in its face, and presenting petitions for more money than ever haunted the dreams of Creesus, Pizarro, Cortez, and John D. Rockefeller. The ghastly masquerade which crowned Christ and spat upon him, put a sceptre in his hand and then struck him, hailed him “King” and then i v: : ~-> <o the Cross, was horrible enough, God knows; but the systematic way in which American democracy has been lied to, and betray ed, finds no other parallel. Did we go into the War to lose our status as an independent Republic ? Was that what 75,000 of our boys died for, thousands of miles from home? Was that the motive : -- 7 ’ - v '- ,, 'r'od 20,000,000 Americans to put their money in Liberty bonds? Did Congress have in mind the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency of the United States of the World, when it gave him a second one hundred million dollars? Japan laid down her law to the Kaiser, and he obeyed: Japan laid down her law to Woodrow Wilson, at the Peace Conference, and he obeyed. There is no Pope in Japan: she killed out the Jesuits, some centuries ago, and the Catholic church has not forgotten the lesson. Bismarck drove the Jesuits out of Germany, in 1870, but the present ex-Kaiser allowed them to come back—they ruined the empire in this Great War, as they ruined the Empire of Napoleon III. in 1870. As soon as the League of Nations settles down to ruling the world, the Jesuits will ruin this em¬ pire, just as they have created efiaos in Mexico. Woodrow Wilson, First President of the League, will be the facile papal tool: as governor of New Jersey he catered to the Catholics: as President-of this country, lie Iras immensely ad¬ vanced the power of a foreign potentate; as Presi¬ dent of the League, he will recognize the Pope as a world-sovereign. When the League becomes an actuality, dem¬ ocracy will be dead, for awhile. The Wilsonian autocrats will be able to mock it, crucify it, place it in the tomb, and set'soldiers on guard. Sooner or later, it will happen as it has hap¬ pened before: the oppressed people will rise; the intermarried Kings and Queens will flee for their lives; those who have sinned against the light, will answer for their crimes; deeply imbedded thrones will be overturned; Man will stand erect, claiming the Rights of Man, and he will get them in the mid, old way. As a great French orator said, “The price of liberty is the blood of the braveP It has ever been so, since centralism usurped the prerogatives of local self-government. For thousands of years, the Arabian tribes have been free: each tribe has its Sheik, or Chief, and his tent is open to the humblest of the tribe. The poorest Arab seats himself in his mon¬ arch’s tent, and calls him-by his name, without any courtly prefix: and then his monarch talks with him, eats with him, and, if a night’s lodging be needed, the self-invited guest sleeps in the tent of his Chief. It was so when Abraham was a boy: it is so now. But when centralization and usurpation go mad, overleaping all bounds, ruling the masses with rods of iron, taxing them to death, trans¬ forming'the law-making power into a vast and ir¬ resistible machine which makes the unproducing millionaires still richer, while it reduces the pro¬ ducing millions to a desperate struggle for bread —look out! , • Get a copy of “ Foreign Missions Exposed ”, by Thos. 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. TflF SENTINEL WILL BE SFNT TO ADDRESS FOR ONE YEAR FOR $2. 8 MONTHS $1 50.6 MONTHS $1. 3 50C, OR IN CLUBS OF FIVE $7.50. "About Roman Catholics (continued from page one.) Pope Pius IX. whose bastard daughters were Roman belles. As all well-read persons know, Pope Gregory XVI. lived as openly with his kept woman, as Pope Alexander VI. lived with both liis women and his illegitimate children. But as to getting “information at first hand, - ’ why should any one go to Farrell when the law of the Roman church is so accessible to everybody? Why take the word of an irresponsible lay¬ man who cannot speak for the Pope, and who does not quote the law of his church? If you were to ask me a question on constitu¬ tional law, I would quote that section of our Supreme Law, as I have done in numberless in¬ stances. This Mr. Farrell never quotes the law of his church. Why doesn't he? Because the Catholics are not yet strong enough to publish and enforce that diabolical code. The latest English form of it that I am ac¬ quainted with, is the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX., approved by him in 1867. Ask Farrell if ho ever read it! Mr. Gladstone published a powerful attack upon these Dark-Age laws, which the Protestant world had come to believe obsolete. They are not obsolete, and they carry the Catholic brain back to the Dark Ages, when it was “a merit” for a Catholic to murder any one who opposed the will of the priesthood. (Write to P. Stammer, 61 4th Avenue, New York City, and order “The Pope, the Kings, and the People,” by William Arthur. The full Sylla¬ bus is in the Index to Volume I.) Will Farrell’s laymen’s Association deny that the Syllabus of 1867 is the latest codification of the general laws of the Catholic chureh ? If he has a higher authority, where did he get it? In those laws of 19th century Romanism, there are no such rights as freedom of speech, of press, of censcience, of voting, of legislating, as are in¬ dispensable to modern progress. These laws condemn those democratic princi¬ ples, and condemn modern progress. Those laws claim for the Pope the control of education, and control of the civil power, and offi¬ cial union with the State. Those laws claim that n® Christian religion, other than the Catholic, is in existence; that no soul can be saved outside the Catholic church; that no marriage can be made valid by the law of any State, or the celebration of any church, without the sanction of the Pope’s bachelors. Section 80 of the Catholic Code of 1867 ex¬ pressly declares that— v “The Roman Pontiff cannot be reconciled to modren civilisation and progress or compromise with them (Page 420, Arthur’s work.) The law of the Roman church requires that a majority of the Cardinals who elect the Pope shall bo Italians, always, and that this Italian conclave must elect the Pope from among themselves, always ! This rule has been in force four hundred years: consequently the Roman church is strictly foreign, and Latin. When these Latins of Rome declare that their church will never become reconciled to modern progress, and will never compromise with civiliza¬ tion and progress, what is ahead of us? It means one of two things; either the base surrender of all that has been won from Popes and Kings since the days of Magna Charta —700 years ago—or just such a fight as our ancestors waged to secure the free principles which consti¬ tute modern civilization and progress. As an advertising medium The Columbia Sen¬ tinel is a leader. Try an ad. Wanted—a young peacock. Price must be reasonable. S., care of The Columbia Sentinel. Read the lists of Mr. Watson’s books, and yourself to some of them. The Jeffersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga. If you know where sample copies of The Sentinel will be read with interest, send us the names, we will do the rest. A club of subs will help mightily to spread the doctrine of pure Americanism, and $7.50 gives The Sentinel to five people for a year. Thos. E. Watson is recognized ns the absolute authority on the question of Roman Catholicism, and his editorials on this line will appear in The Sentinel each week. Did you ever stop to think what it would mean if the Roman Catholics succeed in “mnking Ameri¬ ca Catholic?” It would mean that we would take our laws and our mode of living from an Italian whose doctrine is “Ignorance is the mother of de¬ votion.” Keep posted by reading The Sentinel. In “ Prose Miscellanies ” Thos. E. Watson it shown at his best in lighter vein. The book is com posed of literary gems, many of them written in retrospective or reminiscent mood. Otliprs touch on phases of life that are hidden in the every day living, and the whole collection is worthy of its author. Paper cover only; 50c. The Jeffersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga. The New “War Tax” Has Gone Into Effect. Washington, May 1.—The so-called luxury tax went into effect today and adds 10 per cent, on the price to purchasers of almost everything from shirts to petticoats, kimonos, pajamas and hose. It will even cost more to keep out of the rain, for parasols are among the articles classed as “luxuries.” Commissioner Roper, however, has ruled that alterations are not taxable, so thero is hope for the made over suit, patched shoes and patched clothing. Congress extends the hopo of repealing the tax when it meets in extra session. Meantime your jewelry will cost more whether it is genuine or imitation. Soft drinks and ice creams are also placed on the luxury list. Here are some of the ar¬ ticles affected by the 10 per cent, tax: Carpets and Rugs—Tax on amount in excess of $5 per square yard. Picture Frames—On amount abdve $10 each. Trunks—On amount above $50 each. ^ alises, travelling bags, suit cases, hat boxes and fitted toilet cases—on amount above $25. Portable light fixtures—On amount above $25 each. Fans—On amount above $1 each. House or smoking jackets, bath or lounging i-obes—On amount above $7.50 each. hats FOR am. on the list Men’s waistcoats—On amount above $5. Women’s hats—On amount above $15 each. Men’s hats—On amount above $5 each. Men’s caps—On amounts above $2 each. Shoes, for Everybody—On amount above $10 per pair. Men’s Neckties—On amounts above $1 a pair. Women’s hose—On amount above $2 per pair. Men’s Shirts—on amount above $3 each. # Pajamas, Men’s Women’s Children’s—On amount above $5 each. Kimonos. Petticoats and Waists—On Amount above $15 each. Soft drinks will he taxed one cent for each 10 cents or fraction thereof of the price. Five or 10 cent drinks will cost 6 or 11 cents and 15 or 20 cents drinks will lx? sold for 17 or 22 cents. In discussing the application of the tax, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue said that the tax cannot be included in the price, but must be billed as a separate item over and above the prico specifically mentioned. It is agreed, however, that nothing is to prevent the proprietor of a soda foun . _ ta,n ' rom reducing _ his price so as to keep the eost °f the drink down to the present amount. tea and coffee exempt The tax picks and chooses in such a manner that the frequenters of the marble bar must know their drinks in order to find which are taxed. For example, these drinks are not taxed: Tea, hot beef tea, coffee, hutUirmilk, milk, hot chocolate* hot b «iHon, hot clam broth and bottled drinks sold direct from the container. These are taxed: Orangeade, lemonade, pineapple juice, coca cola, root beer, rnoxie, phosphates, fruit or flavoring syrups mixed with plain or carbonated water, milk shakes, cream and egg shakes, ice cream, sodas, sundaes and cones or sandwiches and flavored ices. Ice cream when taken from the fountains in containers is not subject to tax. The medicinal drinks such as bromo seizor, Rochelle salts and seidlitz powders aro also tax free. Why Not Summer Congress ? Mr. II. A. Wheeler, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, voices the well-nigh universal feeling in arguing that immediate return to this country of President Wilson and an extra session of Congress to deal with problems of in¬ dustry are essential toAmerica’s business. But the Congress could he called by wireless, or by cable. Not even Br. Burleson would use his remaining days of control to hold up the Presiden¬ tial summons. It isn’t necessary to put Mr. Wilson to the inconvenience of actually coming homer But * sn ’t the real reason why no summons has been issued. Does it need a prophet or a prophet’s son to guess the true answer?—New York Evening Sun. The Sentinel is the most unique paper in the country. Independent and fearless, it is showing Americans what the Constitution stands for, and points out the danger of uniting the State with the Church—the church in this instance being the Roman Catholic. “Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson ”, bv Thos. 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. “The Life and Times of Andrew Jackson ”, by Thos. E. Watson. This is one of the series of his torical works that has placed Mr. Watson among the foremost historians of the literary world. The data was carefully gathered, much of it being from direct descendants of those who came in personal contact with Mr. Jackson. Handsomely bound in red cloth: gilt lettered: illustrated. Postpaid, $1.60. The Jeffersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
