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The Columbia Sentinel.
Official Organ Harlem, Ga., and Columbia
County.
Published Every Friday at Harlem, G P.
Entered in Post Office at Harlem, Ga., as
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E. H. MILLER, Editor and Publisher.
THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, May 30, 1919.
The annual fakes known as summer vacation
literature now clutter the mails,
ami (lie question waiting lor ,
More more seems
an answer from many sources^ Why is Col. House?
There’s hope for some of the beer bounds yet:
brewers win the point that beer may contain 27.5
per cent, alcohol.
Another expression that we vote to be thrown
into the discard is: “The openness of diplomacy. •i
There '.tint no sieh.
Many a Mere Man. (lying to live, up to the
gospel of Mr. Hoover, wonders why the Lord
made chickens with claws.
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When it comes to variety, Russia has had j
more in the shape of government, than oven the
celebrated pickle factory had pickles.
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The. new Speaker of the House lias (he chance
of a lifetime to make good history, and here's
hoping be lives up to tlie opportunity.
The remark lias been made public that “Presi
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Considering (lie size of (be dividend (lie V ai
made possible, it seems odd to read that “Judge
Gary sees a record year for steel production.”
Should lie, have made it, “steal?
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The unworkable element in all these returned
soldiers is n<>( confined to those who lost a limb or
an eye; many of those who come back are unwork¬
able excepting as to their tongues.
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They do things better in Italy, sometimes: the
landlords there tried the annual rent-raising
scheme, but the government took a band, and
called a halt, and the rents stay as they were.
Real hefty editorial given to prove that “hard
eider is not wine.” Maybe it isn’t, but the Jersey
brand can raise as much rumpus and give the
police as lively a time, as some wine that circulates.
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Next to wondering why some men took up
preaching as a vocation, we wonder why others
have taken up the art of “professoring,” especially
when one reads the letter from the Dean of a
Georgia college, in this issue.
The weather man is taking too many privileges
with (lie weather lately, and wo don’t know
whether to buy more moth balls, and pack the
flannels away, or keep on playing tag with the
blankets and tilings.
The German Propaganda Organization seems
to have as many lives as a cat, and the spread of
their printed matter seems to lie circulating
through Switzerland, which again proves the
“neutralness” of that small country.
Honest now: doesn’t it seem that the Good>
Old Ship of State has been able to rock along
pretty well, with the Chief Executive telling
Europe how it ought to be done, and showing no
disposition to pack bis dishes and dolls and come
homo?
Now (hat nil the ocean fliers are safe, what has
been really gained by the tremendous risk of send¬
ing these heavier-than-air machines across the
ocean? We have grown mighty careless of human
life, lately, and it would seem we have now a race
of men who are “willing to try anything once.”
Already it is being said, where Suffrage has
been most recently granted women that “instead
of revolutionizing politics, they are joining the old
party gangs and machines,” and the opportunity
is too good to resist the “I-told-you-so” from some
of ua.
When you realize that at least 95 per rent, of
the saloon keepers, and 75 per cent, of (he brew¬
ers and distillers in this country belong to the
Roman Catholic church, do you need any further
explanation as to why Mr. Wilson “flopped” from
his original attitude on National Prohibition?
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
Roman Catholic Propaganda.
“Neglect not the day of small things:” a, pack
0 f cigarrett.-s, or a cake of chocalate candy, or a
suply of chewing gum may soften the edge of
Protestant “prejudice.” and incline the minds of
,] 1C & ; e k and the wounded to kindlier thoughts to
ward Roman Catholicism.
The weak and pain-racked man, confined to
the hospital, and drearily counting every stroke of
the dock, may not care to listen to prayers, hymnsj
sermons.
He may not be able or willing to read books
or hear proselyting preachment; but suppose the
nurse brings him, from day to day, little boxes
HI led with good things—-things which lie can
presently enjoy—won’t he appreciate tbo thougbt
fu] considerat i on ?
Will lie not feel grateful to those who minis¬
ter to him in this especial manner while ho is
bound to bis eot?
Ho certainly will: he would not bo human if
he didn’t.
Elsewhere in this issue of The Sentinel, you
will find an editorial under the caption—
“How the Catholics obey the Pope’s Com
MAN ns.”
Since that editorial was written, I have re
reived from the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Vir
ginia, a sample of those boxes used by the Knights
(> f (; f> i lin ,i >lis j„ (heir missionary work.
0pening the ljox> j find its contents to be:
(1). A package of Ace High Chocolate Pea
nut Bar, marked on the reverse side, “ Compli¬
ments Knights of Columbus;"
(2). A package of Egyptian Cigarettes,
mi, rked “ Compliments of the h eights of Colum
bus;"
(3). A package of Diamond Match Co.
matches, marked “ Compliments of Knights of
( olumbus.
On each of the sticks of these matches is
plainly printed', “ Knights of Columbus."
No soldier, sick or well, could strike a light
without seeing (hose words on the stick of his
match!
When the soldier opened bis package of
cigarettes, lie was bound to see on the inside bafld
(| iese words of (he manufacturers,
“Parked expressly for and distributed by
Knights of Columbus Committee on War Activ
itjks.
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Wvr were 10 of these Post ( ard views in . the
bundle, and every one of them glorified
\ny Us o <> 1,111 lus -
(’>)■ A smsdl s«PPly of stationery, envelopes
and letter sheets, each envelope marked in large
letters, “Knights of Columbus, War Activities. "
Each sheet of letter paper is conspicuously
beaded by the Papal insignia, with the words—
“Knights of Columbus War Activities.”
Now, let me refresh your memory as to one or
two facts which you may have overlooked or for
gotteir;
When the War Department first placed all the
influence of the Government behind the Charity
“drives,” it published a programme which requir¬
ed a separation of the funds, between the organi¬
zations raising them.
In other words, the Y. M. C. A. was to get as
much as it could, and spend it according to its
own judgment: the Salvation Army was to do
likewise: the Jews were to follow suit, and so on.
But this arrangement did not please the Cath
olic zealots: they wanted non-Catholic money to
use in their pro-Catholic missionary work.
Accordingly, they sent a protest to Secretary
Baker, denouncing the separation of the donations,
They sent a deputation to wait upon Mr.
Baker, and to demand that all the proceeds of all
the “drives” be put into the same pot, so that the
Catholic War Board would have access to all the
funds.
Secretary Baker yielded to the Catholic de
mend.
In no instance has this "Wilson adminis
TRATION RESISTED A RESOLUTE CATHOLIC DEMAND.
As the result of Mr. Baker’s surrender to the
K. of C. and the Catholic War Board, the K. of
C. was plentifully supplied with Protestant mon
ev, to buy unlimited quantities of cigarettes,
matches, candv, and stationery.
Financed by Protestant charities, the K. of
C. could—and did—go to the manufacturers and
make lingo contracts in which it was stipulated
tlmf every package of “soldiers’ joy” should ad¬
vertise the kindness and the loving care of the
Pope’s K. of C.l
tnnt activity in the camps and hospitals should be
poured through the funnel of the Y. M. C. A.
Dr. Gambrell publicly states, without contra¬
diction, that the Government built the houses in
which (lie Catholics carried on their missionary
work inside the cantonments and training stations.
Dr. Gambrell states, without contradiction.
Unit the Government denied to the Baptists, Moth
odists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians the priv¬
ilege of building, at their own expense, the houses
which were necessary to evangelistic work among
the soldiers.
Dr. Gambrell states, also that a protest
against this official discrimination was sent to the
War Department, and that a delegation went to
Washington to urge the protest in person.
Did Secretary Baker condescend to receive
this delegation?
Dr. Gambrell says that the delegation was
referred to the Third-Assistant Secretary of War;
and that this official politely informed the protes
tants that, the Department had not the slightest
intention of changing the ride. \
Mr. Baker does not refer Cardinal _ Gibbons
*° a Third-Assistant.
Mr. Baker dares not refer the Knights of
Columbus to a Third-Assistant.
No, indeed! When the Pope speaks, our Gov¬
ernment answers— u To hear is to obey."
Some weeks ago, a tremendous rumpus was
kicked up, because of the publication of an ar¬
ticle taken from The Catholic Register; and the
Catholic papers at once repudiated the article,
saying that there is no such paper as The Catholic
Register.
Nobody cares whether there is any such
paper or not: the important question is, Did that
article speak the truth?
I have read it carefully, and my deliberate
judgment is that a Catholic wrote the article, and
that it does speak the truth.
What was the gist of the article?
It "'as, that this TVilson administration lias
been (he best friend the Pope ever had at the seat
of government, and that it was to the interest of
tl,e Catholics to continue to support Woodrow
Wilson,
No matter who wrote the article, it is trite.
The timid, or indifferent non-Catliolics are
like a scattered flock of sheep, surrounded by
popery’s wolves.
Unless the shepherds do their duty, it is fare¬
well TO THE SHEEP.
How the Catholics Obey the
Pope's Commands.
There comes to me a letter from the U. S.
Naval Hospital Corps, Portsmouth, Virginia,
signed by a graduate of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute; and in this letter some facts arc stated
that cannot be denied.
(1). There are two priests there, who live on
^ie Hospital reservation; and these two priests de
vo * 1 ' U* e d a .Y 1° making the rounds of the cots in
sick wards, distributing Catholic literature and
dope.
the Itohnn Pope.
(2). The, Catholics also have representatives
frorn „ 1(1 rnnteen8 who through the Hospital
daily, giving eigareKes, candy, chewing gum etc.
to the sick; and all of these gratuities are so mark
(H j that they become Catholic propaganda.
(3). Nearly all the nurses are Catholics,
from t , hft East an d the Middle West,
fA 1, Every effort is made to convert the
Protestant patients to Romanism, and every par¬
tiality possible is shown to those sick and wound¬
ed who are Catholics.
To obtain this preferential treatment for him¬
self, many a weak Protestant—sick and 'wounded—•
naturally turns Catholic.
(5). It is easy for the Catholic boy to se¬
cure a discharge, upon the ground that he is un¬
fit for service, because of injury or sickness.
These Catholics, when let out of (lie service,
continue lo receive a certain amount of their sal
ar Y’ an< ^ so C0T, Hnue to receive it, during the
vc main tier of their lives.
After these favored ones leave the Navy, they
can take up any line of business they prefer, and
there will be no one to call them to taw, as to that
perpetual pension.
The Portsmouth situation is pretty much the
same as the situation at other Naval establish
ments..
What’s true of the Navy, is true of the
Army.
Every opportunity to proselyte has been op¬
ened to the Catholics and closed to the
Protestants.
Priests, mins, nurses, and K. of C., are every
where busy as bees, getting control of the Armv,
the Navy, the Civil Service—in short, of the Fed
oral Government.
The Pope’s Italian Church is concentrating its
missionary work on America.
USU^S Here ,, CotlSpire - ...... With AutOCM- „ .
cies Abroad
To Revolutionize Your Government.
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.)
Nobody could have foreseen that the garrison,
in the citadel of our Republic, would basely deliv¬
er the Keys to the monarchs of Spain, Great
Britain, and Japan.
After April 1917, we heard a vast deal about
“loyalty."
Everybody, and his wife, and his children was
expected to lie “loyal."
Not only expected, but persecuted if the ex
Jation . did not 100 cent loyalty. „
P e£ pan per
If the average man did not buy a “Liberty
R° n( L” he was a traitor to his country.
If he did not deny his family what it needed
and give to the Ked Cross and the Knights of
Columbus, he was a mangy hound that deserved
ostracism.
Every father and mother who did not gladly
and proudly send their sons across the ocean “to
fight for our freedom,” merited the scorn of all
true patriots.
The slogan was—“Be patriotic! Be loyal!
Buy the bonds; give to war-charities; sacrifice
your boys!
...... “-The freedom and the independence of your
country are at stake."
And what do we see?
The very men who shouted loudest for loyal¬
ty, for patriotism, for freedom, and for American
independence, are the very men who now shout
loudest, when President Wilson commits us to a ■
League of Foreign Potentates—in which League
we lose our Independence, lose our freedom, lose
our National individuality, and become a mere in¬
gredient in the boiling pot of international politics.
Is that what you call loyalty?
Is that what you call patriotism?
Is that what 300,000 American boys died for,
in Europe?
Did they suffer, and fight, and bleed, to sur¬
render. instead or maintain, the complete free¬
dom oj this Republicf
In the making of this monstrous League of
Nations, the peoples have been utterly ignored.
The peoples are scorned, flouted, ignominious
ly brushed aside.
Have the people of France been consulted?
Not at all.
Will they lie allowed to vote on the League?
By no means.
Have the Lords and the Autocrats and the
Oligarchs of England consulted the voters?
No!
Will they be permitted to express an opinion
on the League?
No!
Have “we the People of the United States”
been consulted about the surrender of our Inde¬
pendence 1
No.
Will we be?
No.
Suppose President Wilson, in April 1917, had
put the country on notice, that it was expected t»
furnish thirty thousand million dollars, and four
million young men, for the purpose of winning an
opportunity to surrender our national freedom,, t®
Japan, Spain, and Great Britain!
Suppose the President had been frank, open,
honest, above-board, in his dealings with Congress,
and the people!
Do you believe that those huge Liberty Loans
could have been floated?
Would 20,000,000 Americans have paid out
(heir cash so freely, if they had known that they
were financing a League of Monarchists, Auto- —.
crats, Monopolists, and Pappycrats?
Would Congress have voted for Conscription
and the. Espionage act, if the members had SUi
pccted the secret designs of President Wilson?
One hundred years ago, the allied Monarchs,
Autocrats, and Oligarchs of Europe conspired
with the I’ope to form a Holy Alliance, whose
professed purpose was, to govern mankind in ac¬
cordance with Christian principles.
What proved to he the real purpose of this
Holy Alliance?
The history of the Holy Alliance, written in
blood, shows that the secret purpose was, to solidi¬
fy the power of Autocracies, and to re-enthrons
the power of Popery.
It was so in Spain; it was so in France; it
was so in Piedmont and Naples; it &as so in the
Papal States, where the Pope reigned as King and
gave the people the rottenest, cruellest government
Europe ever tolerated.
Not content .with reaction and tyranny in the
Old World, this Holy Alliance turned its eyes
and its designs upon South America, Central
America, and Mexico.
They also must be made to again comb under !
Then it was, that President Monroe and
Premier Gengia Canning , said, no!
The Holy Alliance was checked: it could not
invade the New World, but it held Europe under
the rod of Iron, and the peoples of Europe had t®
wait, secretly organize, and then fight in many a
bloody battle, before Garibaldi and his glorious
comrades could shatter the yoke of Popes and
Kings.
Great God! What a mockery it is to prate
about conserving democracy, when the peoples are
not allowed a voice in the creation of an Inter¬
national Plunderbund, in which the peoples exert
no influence and have no place!
Will the. American people submit to THJB
REVOLUTION ?
Wil they submit to being shackled by foreigm
monarchs, autocrats, and oligarchs?
Will they submit to a new Constitution
THAT OVERRIDES THE ONE WE HAVE?
Will they calmly allow themselves to be de¬
prived of liberty, by the President and the Sena¬
tors, who swore to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution which they now betray?
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