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The Columbia Sentinel.
Official Organ Harlem, Ga., and Columbia
County.
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E. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher.
THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, May 16, 1919.
The Bolsheviki are like all other vermin—hard
to kill.
Poor little Belgium seems to tie only “among
those present” in passing out the pie at the Peace
Table.
Will the Italians cease to fume against this
country, now that the matter of Fiumo has been
Bettled?
Mr. Maeterlink is the only dramatist who can
properly handle the dramatic features of the pres¬
ent gab fest in Paris.
While the Germans talk it over they mighe be
reminded that we haven't asked that the Kaiser be
turned over to the. Allies—yet.
• • • *
Now that all the hurrahing and bond buying is
over, let's get back to business and talk abojit good
roads for Georgia.
It seems a strange that, with all the huskies
turned loose from the Army and Navy, the cry of
the farmer is still shortage of labor.
Maybe the other Also Needs wefe only wait¬
ing to see how much the Plain Folks had left be¬
fore another “drive” is launched.
Secretary Daniels is in the class with Mrs.
Katzenjammer who says “enough is a sufficiency,”
and Mr. Daniels is on his way home.
Tlie Northern cotton speculators get green
around the grills, every time a Southern paper sug¬
gests restriction of cotton planting. And there’s a
reason.
The Afghans are “seeking relations with the
Bolshevik” says newspaper dispatch, and the com¬
bination will be a bad one to meet on a dark night
on a lonesome road.
Very hefty editorial in the N. Y. Evening Sun
•‘As to future peace.” But what man ever planned
another dinner when he hadn't finished paying for
the one he hjpl just eaten?
* * * *
What lietween poisoned candy and bombs be¬
ing sent *;>v mail, and the annual output of spring
catalogues by the thousand, the letter carriers’ life
is not a happy one at present.
. 1 edging from the clothing store ads and the
extra pages in some of the women’s magazines, the
matter of dress is getting to lie as serious a problem
with men as it always has been with women.
Along with the flowers that bloom in the
spring, tra-la, coines also the automobilist who
drives with n bun, tra-la. and joy rides until he
kills a few innocent bystanders and plain walkers.
Did we ever have a president before who re¬
fused to heed the warning of his Cabinet, turn a
deaf ear to his Ambassadors, and ignore the people,
as Mr. Wilson has done, and is doing? If so, his¬
tory failed to note the name and the time.
The Man Higher Up who is saying what’s
what in (he matter of luxuries, is stumped as to
whether to class corsets as luxuries or necessities.
Dear suds, man, if you have seen some of the “Ag¬
gers” we have seen, you wouldn’t hesitate a min¬
ute to class them as necessities of the first order.
If Jim Boykin of tho Lincolnton (Georgia)
Journal goes to the State Legislature—as he should
do by an overwhelming vote,—he will be one man
his constituents can tie to; he will stay “put” when
it comes to the interests of the people whom he
represents, as his former record in tho Legislature
** will prove
And another “perfect lady” conies out in a
New. York paper and acknowledges her penchant
for srii< king: says she does it to bo more chummy
with Friend Husband. And just think how easy
it will he f r Friend Wife to smoke the eigars she
gives Friend Hub for Christmas. Thus is married
life robbed of another longstanding horror.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
How to Answer a Catholic
The Christian Index states that there are only
15,000 Romanists in Geoigia, while there are 320,
000 white Baptists.
But it admits that there are 15,000,000, Cath¬
olics in the whole country, as compared to 27,000,
000 members of other churches.
The important fact which the Index appar¬
ently overlooks is, that the Catholics are organized.
No army was ever more thoroughly disciplin¬
ed and equipped, to meet the enemy.
Are the Baptists organized to fight Rome?
Are the Methodists disciplined and equipped
to combat popery? multitude,
The Index says that “the Baptist
with truth and God on their side, seem to cow in
the presence of a handful of Catholics.”
Well, is the Index guiltless??
During the years when mine was the only
paper in Dixie that fought Roman Catholicism,
where was the Index?
During the years that the Knights of Colum¬
bus were after me, on the criminal side of the Fed¬
eral Court, and in the Burlesonized P. O. Depart¬
ment, what word in my behalf ever saw light in
the Index?
Apparently, the Index was one of the “cowed.”
Let that pass: it is not my intention to com¬
plain of the late waking up of the organ of the
Baptists of Georgia: it came late, but better late
than never.
The crux of the whole matter is organization.
The Italian potentate , who seeks to rule this
country, from the school house to the legislative
halls and the highest courts, in the army and in
the navy, is devotedly served by secret organization.
The most dangerous of these are the Jesuits:
next come the 4th degree Knights of Columbus:
next, the Ancient Order of Hibernians; next, the
Clan-na-Gael; next, the Sinn Feiners; next, the
oath-bound priests, monks, and nuns who implic¬
itly obey every order that comes to America from
Italy. organized?
How are we Baptists In what way
are we prepared to meet this foreign foe?
Every fundamental law of the Italian church
antagonizes every fundamental law of this Ameri¬
can Republic.
Two mortally hostile codes cannot occupy the
same space, at the same time: one rtr the other
must do down.
Which 8hall it bet
Catholic societies worked upon every soldier
that was conscripted: Protestants were not permit¬
ted to do so.
The Pope's flag flies above the Stars and
Stripes, while the Catholic chaplain is carrying out
his Buddhist monkeyism on board the ship: the
Profestantk have no flag.
President Wilson ostentatiously visited the
Pope at the Vatican, where “Christ veiled in the
flesh” abides in a palace of 1,100 rooms, guarded
by Swiss soldieds armed with modern rifles: but
the President did not visit the Methodists in Rome,
nor call at the Baptist Seminary, nor pay his res¬
pects to the Archbishop of Canterbury, while in
England.
Catholic societies in every large city are cir¬
culating literature, as deceptive as the mendacious
book of Cardinal Gibbons: what are we doing to
counteract this steady, systematized propaganda?
What are we doing to put “the truth and
God” liefore the common people who do not sub¬
scribe to the Index, the Sentinel, the Menace, the
Rail-Splitter, the Yellow Jacket, the Twin-City
Reporter, and similar periodicals?
What Protestant Association is flooding the
country with leaflets, tracts, pamphlets, and cir¬
cular letters?
Truth has no voice of its own; your tongue
must speak for it.
God docs not work among us in person: you
are his deputy.
Get to work! /
When a Catholic approaches you, by letter or
in person, nnd tries to convert you to the. “only true
church,” ask him to answer a few questions:
( 1 .) Ask him why the Bible was placed on
the list of books which Catholics must not read:
(2.) Ask him why his church has to have
so many secret societies, which do not know each
others secrets:
(3.) Ask him why his Papal theology teach¬
es him that it is lawful to lie, to steal, and to
murder:
(4.) Ask him whether he knows what sort of
obscenity his priest pours into the mind of his
wife and daughter, at the Confessional:
(5.) Ask him why every priest, high and low.
is the sworn subject of a foreign potentate, and is
oath-bound to persecute Protestants:
( 6 .) Ask him why. the Pope
to be strangled and burned, for translating the
New Testament into
("•) Ask him why the service of his
is in a dead language, which no Catholic
tion understands: '
( 8 .) Ask him whether he truly believes
eats Christ at the communion rail:
(9.) Ask him whether or not he truly
lieves that one man can pardon another man’s
( 10 .) Ask him why it is that the housekeej
er of the priest is usually a buxom widow, in ti
prime of life:
(11.) Ask him why it is that beautiful gir
are sa=—- enticed into convents, locked up for - life, t) jaf
(12.) Ask him whether or not he will ew
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“literature” with you, and read yours, in your
presence, while you peruse his, in his presenca
If he will buck up to any of these questions,
and agree to the proposition about exchanging
literature, let me know.
Or, if you are in a hurry, hand him a Bible, and
wait until he finds popery in it.
If he objects to the Protestant translation, in¬
vite him to mark the passages which are not prop¬
erly rendered into English.
If that doesn’t suit him, buy a Catholic Bible
fporn The Benziger Brothers, of New York, and
put it into his hands.
Tie will not dare to read it.
Try him!
The Christian Index alleges that “the many
tremble in the presence of the few.”
“May I not” suggest that the many quit trem¬
bling, and go to. fighting.
Let vs give the tremble* to the other crowd.
..... ..
The Jews and the Papists.
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of any profession or trade of public credit, such as
that of advocate, notary, attorney, librarian, gold¬
smith, manufacturer &c.
'"The public schools and gymnasiums are
closed to them.
“The Jews are not only excluded from all
colleges .... but also from .... hospitals, houses
of refuge etc.
“Again, the Jews in Rome are not even per¬
mitted to hire a farm, or a foot of soil, or to culti¬
vate it, either for themselves or even as laborers
for others. ”
Such was the treatment of the Jews, in Rome
itself , down to the very last days of the Pope’s rule
in Italy. (Roba I)i Roma , page 436 and following.)
On page 432 of his book, Mr. Story states that
it was not until 1740 that the Jews were allowed to
traffic in anything except old iron and old clothes:
in the year mentioned, Pope Benedict XIV. al¬
lowed them to deal in cloth that was new.
On page 430, Story says—
“Banishment into the Ghetto was not the only
evil the Jews suffered . ... The Inquisition did its
holy of fie unto them, and many a one was burnt
in the Campo dei Fiori and the Piazzi di Min¬
erva.”
American Catholics are taught that the Inquis¬
ition was a Spanish horror, introduced by cruel
Kings: in fact, it was Pope Paul IV. who set up
the infernal machine, in Rome.
Even the privilege of living in their miserable
Ghetto had to be formally petitioned for, every
year; and a part of the ceremonial was that the
Jews prostrated themselves, while Catholic Sena¬
tors placed their feet on the brows of the kneeling
petitioners. (Page 428.)
Pope Eugenia* IV. decreed that no Jew could
give evidence in a court against a Catholic. V (Pase 8
427.)
Upon the inauguration of a Pope, it was ob¬
ligatory on the Jews to join the processsion, sing
the praises of the Pontiff, present him a copy of
the Pentateuch, (bound in gold) which they offer¬
ed him on their bended knees. The Pope would
take the parchment, and repeat the usual formula,
“We affirm the law, but we ...curse the Hebrew
people:' (Page 425.)
Therefore, when I see the evidences of an al¬
liance between rich Hebrews and the Roman
priests, I wonder whether the Hebrew remembers
the fearful record which the Papacy ^
has made so
red with the blood of his race.
Non-Catholic France made a President out of
a Jew, and a Premier out of another: non-Catho
lic England made a Jew its virtual King: non
Catholic America bars him from no trade, profes¬
sion, or honor.
At the very time when Pope ‘Pius IX. pro¬
hibited Jews from practising law, Judah P. Ben¬
jamin, who had been a U. S. Senator, and then a
member of the Confederate Cabinet, had become a
leader of the English bar. His book on “Sales,” is
a standard, used in every English court.
Had he gone to Rome, in 1805, he would have
been shut up in the Ghetto, deprived of his profes¬
sion, and made to earn his bread by peddling
scrap-iron and old clothes.
Have you never thought about the ancient
Jews, as compared to the modern?
In Biblical times, we find them to be cattle
raisers, farmerp, vine-dressers, men who tended the
flock and the herd, men who who cultivated the
dice and the fig &c.
What turned them fro-m agriculture?
What changed the business pursuits of the
whole race?
The Catholic Church did it, by centuries of
ar ° US legislation against the Jew '
Driven from the cultivation of the soil, frcL™
he ordinary callings that engaged respectable ma ’
from the professions, wn
not allowed to ov]j v
property ostracized socialU^
he caling Jew in w r as literally in fortune-telling, forced to become in a parasiLjj’
usury, fake mer
ine, and a good many other black arts. ilic
Shakespeare faithfully reflected the Cathoi 0 ]
of the Jew, when he cursed the whe^
by his delineation of that monster, Shyloc ,
As the Popes said, verbally and in official
"We take your law, but damn your peoph— 1_
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Interrogated As To Socialism.
(continued from page one.)
century—have governments been able to shake 08
the financial dictation of bankers.
Not only are a majority of thinkers in favo*
of abolishing all private monopolies, and adopting
State-Socialism, but the sentiment in favor of
governmental control of such monsters as the Coal
Trust, Standard Oil, Steel, Powder, Munitions,
Ship-building, Electric-power plants, Meat Pack¬
ing &c. is steadily growing. •
With a moderate income, how is the average
man* to prosper under such conditions as the cor¬
morant Trusts have Imposed upon us?
With a large family of children, how is a
poor man to feed, clothe and educate them?
That question is at the bottom of all the “Bed”
troubles in Europe and America.
The Great War brought extravagant prices,
and the men who control these law-made monopol¬
ies refuse to relent.
Having made so much, they are greedy for
more!
What power can force them to lower the cost
of living?
The Federal Government.
So, there you are: your logic leads you to
some form of State-socialism, unless millions of
our people are willing to see their wives and
children drift into vice, crime, beggary or starva¬
tion.
The real foe of sane Socialism is insane mil¬
itarism.
That was demonstrated in New York when
Catholic soldiers raided the offices of The Gall, and
planned to break up the mass-meeting in Madison
Square Garden.
The Capitalists and the Catholics have com
bined to protect nnd perpetuate Special Privilege,
Corporate Monopoly, the heartless Trust, the Few
who have gained control of the necessaries of lift.
These men—Capitalists and Catholics—put
their tools in the White House, in the Cabinet, in
Congress, on the bench, in gubernatorial mansions,
in State legislatures, and in the" Editorial rooms of
the Prostitute Press.
In this way, they rule and rob the unprivileg¬
ed masses, who sell their products at the other
man’s bid, and buy what they need, at the other
man’s price.
Our salvation depends upon finding soms
remedy: my own creed has always been that of th*
wonderful statesman who wrote the Declaration
of Independence and the Inaugural Address of
1801.
Add to these, as counterpart and complement,
the Virginia Bill of Rights, drawn up by Georg*
Mason, and you have my answer to the creed of
Socialism.
But I admit my discouragement, when I sea
a so-called democrat reduce Congress to
servility, possess himself of powers that, Julius
Ceesar never claimed, and dictate laws which
swept away the liberties of a thousand years.
If you know where sample copies of The
Sentinel will be read with interest, send us the
names, we will do the rest.
Thos. E. Watson is recognized as 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 “making 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.
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.
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 thb
Church—the church in this instance being thfe
Roman Catholic.
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imagine President Wilson going to the trouble to
buy a pair of spectacles for a friend? Jefferson did
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Sentinel.