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The Columbia Sentinel.
Official Organ Harlem, Ga., and Columbia
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ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, June 6, 1919.
It. looked as though the late Salvation Army
drive was to be “dollars to doughnuts,’ and the
doughnuts won.
It wouldn’t be a bad idea for Mr. Bryan to
head a movement for the prohibition of Mr. Bry¬
an as Perpetual Candidate.
“Pitiless publicity” is what we need in regard
t<> those confalra going on in Paris, as well as
“openly arrived ut” covenants.
• • * *
When you hear a man bragging about his
■summer garden, ask him just about how much, a
piece, the radishes and lettuce cost.
• * * *
If cablegrams have any truth in them, the
German people are a long way from being licked,
penitent, or unprepared for another war.
* * • *
You have only to read an editorial in the
Chicago Evening Post, on “Dandelions,” to realize
that, not only is the War over, but news scarce.
• * * •
A long sesion for Congress is predicted; may¬
be they hope to stay put long enough to greet the
Chief Executive before his term of office expires.
* . * • *
Canada is going to abolish titles; and it
looks as though these U. S. had just about agreed
to take them on. and bestow them on political fav¬
orites who had the price.
Between Mr. Tumulty in Washington and Col.
House in Paris, it does seem that. Mr. Wilson is
"" being spared all the details of government that
these two worthies can relieve him of.
Just how does it affect the British and the
French to read that “Wilson consents to arrange¬
ment which makes of Fiume a free city?” Just
how much did it matter whether Wilson agreed or
not?
“Is Woman Inferior to Man?” asks woman
agitator; she is, as long as she goes out half dress¬
ed. and wearing tilings that don’t give her legs
tlic chance to locomote her as the Lord meant her
to locomote.
Now that our great anil glorious State has at
last consented to look after the “feeble-minded,”
there arc one ■ two members of the Legislatrae
we would suggest as recipients of the kindly offices
of the experts.
* * * *
Well, it would seem that the recent automobile
races at Indianapolis gave all the thrills the price
of admission entitled the audience to: three men
were killed, and the affair was pronounced “very
successful” in the telegraphic reports.
* * * *
Hevvings! Fashion item states that “uneor
setted figures and unfastened frocks come into
fashion together.” If they come together, it’s a
safe bet. that, unless there’s a fastening somewhere,
they won’t stay together.
* • * *
Hoover is ready to feed Russia, says news
item. All right, but here and now we absolutely
refuse to do with less sugar, or take any of .the
sawdust and other “substitutes” that were wished
on us while we were “feeding Europe.”
It isn't exactly in the best of taste for Mr.
Bryan to go about the country, criticising Mr.
Wilson; Mr. Brvan did a lot while in the Cabinet
that called for bitter criticism, but. to give the
devil bis due, not a word against him was ever ut¬
tered by Mr. Wilson, in the public prints.
It. looks all right in print to say, speaking of
the soldiers, “Let us not forget the dead, when we
remember the living.” but it would be better if
none pf the living soldiers found it necessary to
continue to be members of the bread lines, and
similar charities; what most of them want is a job.
* * * •
From the number of returned soldiers who ara
committing suicide “lieoause of ill health and the
lack of work,” according to the newspaper dis¬
patches, it begins to look ns though all the news¬
paper hurrah about jobs and the like was very
much inflated. No darker stain than this can ever
dim our War record.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
The Congress of Vienna; How
the Game was Played 100
Years Ago.
The European monarchs, oligarchs, clericals
and monopolists had been waging war upon
“French principles,” for nearly twenty-five years;
and, in 1814, the stupendous efforts of the benefi
iaries of the Old State of Things, dragged Napo¬
leon down and drove him out.
In those years of titanic struggle, the ques¬
tions of Special Privilege for autocrats, and mon¬
opolized markets for manufacturers, were just as
primarily uppermost as they are now.
Napoleon having been exiled to Elba, the
triumphant Kings, Priests, Autocrats, and Mon¬
opolists came together in Vienna, to celebrate
their stupendous victory and to arrange for the
perpetuation of the power of absolutism, Divine
Right, class-rale, and capitalistic buccaneering.
One hundred thousand visitors are said to
have thronged the Austrian capital during the
brilliant days of September 1814.
The Czar Alexander of Russia, the King of
Prussia, and the Emperor of Austria were the
stars of the drama, in which there was a lesser part
for the Kings of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Den¬
mark.
The King of England was represented by
Lord Castlereagh, and Louis XIII. of France, by
Talleyrand—the Judas of Napoleon.
Over the Congress of Vienna hovered the
Dove of Peace, for it was the loudly expressed pur¬
pose of the sovereigns there assembled in brother
love, to put an end to wars.
To emphasize this sublime purpose, the open¬
ing of the Congress was blessed and consecrated by
the most gorgeously magnificent Field Mass that
the Roman church could stage.
Ten thousand soldiers added impressiveness to
the occasion; ten thousand voices accompanied the
bands that played inspiring hymns of praise for
peace; and hundreds of cannon boomed when the
venerable Archbishop monkeyed with a bit of
bread and made God out of it.
Following the religious fan-fare, came the
pageantry of a vast carnival of pleasure, in which
the crowded city seemed to be deliriously entering
a new era of universal happiness.
This was the outward pose of the Allied
Autocrats; the inner work was different.
While the carnival of thoughtless enjoyment
filled the streets, theatres, ballrooms, and banquet
rooms, the official representatives of the Great
Powers locked themselvos in a private chamber,
and secretly partitioned the European world.
The wars against Napoleon had been called
the War of Liberation. ,J
The peoples had been told that Napoleon was
the Tyrant who menaced the freedom of mankind.
“Rally to the ranks that fight against the
Tyrant; help us overthrow his despotism, and then
we will grant you relief from the feudal burdens
which still afflict the lower classes throughout
Europe.”
In these terms, the Kings had appealed to
their subjects, and their subjects had trustfully
responded, shedding their blood like water, from
Marengo to Leipsic. and from Leipsic to Champ
Aubert. in the belief that the Kings would keep
their word.
Did the Kings keep it?
“Put not your faith in Princes:” the secret ses¬
sions of the diplomats at Vienna never gave a
word or a thought to the relief of oppressed peo¬
ples.
The public pledge has served its purpose, and
is no longer needed: lay it aside, as the domino
is put off after the masquerade.
Saxony was divided like a loaf, and Prussia
got half of it.
Free Genoa was flung to the Emperor of Aus¬
tria. Poland was a crucified one, for whoso garment
the executioners cast lots—and each of three des¬
pots. (tlie Czar, the Emperor, and the King of
Prussia) got a portion.
Finland was confirmed to Russia, the Italian
States were handed back to the Pope, and Naples
was forced to restore her despicable Bourbon King
Ferdinand.
Populations were moved, like pawns on a
chess board, without the slightest regard to the
wishes or the welfare of the people.
The federated Kings had published proclama¬
tions in which they declared that they were at
war, not with the French people, but with
Napoleon : President Wilson plagiarized this
policy when he assured mankind that his war was
not against the German peeple, but against the
Kaiser.
Nevertheless, when the victorious monarchs
came to the making of peace, France was denied
a seat at the Council board, and the allied Despots
intended to deal with her as a conquered province.
But Talleyrand quickly united the lesser
kingdoms against the Big Three—England, Aus¬
tria. and Prussia—and the result was the admis¬
sion of France upon a footing of equality.
The Congress became a secret juggle of the
Big Four: the smaller powers remained on the
outside, and had to be content with what was
handed to them.
When Tuscany was assigned to the brother of
the Austrian emperor, no Italian could protest.
When Venice was conveyed to Austria, the
Venetians were voiceless in the matter.
Genoa was given a hearing, and then coldly
told that she bad been given to the King of
Sardinia.
Etruria went to a Spanish Bourbon; Napo
lean’s ex-wife was madei sovereign of the little
enlarged by the absorption of Illyria and Dalma
tia.
While these Star-Chamber negotiations were
in progress, Russia had aroused the jeolousy of
England, France, and Austria, because of the
Czar’s ambition to become less of an Asiatic des¬
pot and more of a European.
To check this Russian advance in the West,
the three suspicious powers already named signed
a secret treaty of combination against the Czar—
contemplating war upon him.
This confidential pact, within the general
treaty , was signed January 11th, 1815; and the
Czar knew nothing of it until Napoleon's return
from Elba.
Thus the crowned autocrats who had been
deceiving the peoples by pious professions, were
deceiving each other, by clandestine methods lead¬
ing to concealed agreements.
The Big Four of the Paris Peace Conference
have been imitating their prototypes of the Vien¬
na Congress; and, while the credulous peoples
have been fed on heavenly talk, they have been
bargained back and forth like herds of cattle.
In fact, the infamies of the Vienna Congress,
affecting such small states as Venice, Genoa, Sax¬
ony, and Poland, were insignificant in comparison
with the action of the Paris Conference which sur¬
renders to imperial Japan 40,000,000 Koreans and
400,000,000 Chinese— and China was our ally dur¬
ing the war.
The Congress of Vienna despoiled the enemy:
it did not betray and despoil its own friends.
All the seraphic talk that President House
Wilson can pour into the credulous ears of “the
human race” will never disguise the cynical infamy
of the betrayal to Japan of the largest family of
“the human race” that God ever drew together in
one compact portion of the globe.
China offered to send troops and food-stuffs to
the armies fighting Germany.
Japan sent neither troops nor foodstuffs.
Yet the Superfine Preacher of Universal
Benevolence, whose verbose mouthing about en¬
throning Conscience and the Moralities, have been
so edifying to unthinking devotees of the Prostitute
Press, deliberately sacrifices 440,000,000 Koreans
and Chinamen to the inordinate ambition of the
heaven-born Mikado!
Is there any person of average intelligence
who cannot realize the danger of increasing
Japan’s man-power by 440,000,000 of possible sol¬
diers!
Is President Wilson oblivious of the future in
which Japan can draw unlimited supplies of men,
money, and foodstuffs from so vast a territory as
China ?
The conquests of Alexander the Great were
modest, as compared to those of the brown and
yellow marauders.
Gengis Khan and Timour the Tartar—not to
mention Attila, the Asiatic Hun—erected empires
in which Alexander’s was a mere provnee.
The Arabs of Mahomet and his successors rode
their horses triumphantly, from the Jordan to the
Danube, from Medina to Seville, from Damascus
to Vienna.
Who knows what may happen, in consequence
of giving Japan, as an auxiliary, the inexhaustible
resources of China, the seat of Kublai Khan’s em¬
pire, the largest that the sun ever shone on?
On June 9th, the Final Act of the Congress
was signed: on June 19th, the Autocrats finally
overcame Napoleon at Waterloo, where the stupid¬
ity of Grouchy allowed the Prussians to force two
armies and two battles on the vastly outnumbered
French.
Then came the second abdication, due to the
action of Fouche, Talleyrand, and Lafayette.
Next came the Holy Alliance, which took its
final shape on November 20tli, 1815.
In the famous manifesto of September 26th,
1815, Czar Alexander, the Woodrow Wilson of
that period, invited the other sovereigns of Europe
to adhere to Christian principles, and to regulate
their conduct according to the Golden Rule, the
Sermon on the Mount, the Lord’s Prayer, and the
Long-metre Doxology.
Of course the Czar did not use those very
words, but what he said was so similar that many
intelligent persons scouted the idea, that he had
been accessory to the brutal strangulation of his
father.
So much superfine talk was indulged in by
this Russian Czar, and so much spectacular posing
as the friend of liberty, that he was not universal¬
ly regarded as the world’s supreme hypocrite.
The father-killing Czar declared that the
allied Kings should remain united “for the hap¬
piness of the world;” and that they must meet one
another, from time to time, to concert such meas
ures as would be most salutary for the peace and
prosperity of the nations of Europe.
Did the allied Kings remain united?
They did.
Were the periodical meetings held, as coh
tempi ated!
They were.
With what result?
(1) . That democracy was ruthlessly stamped
out wherever it made an appearance:
(2) . That the press was rigidly public shackled,
free speech mercilessly penalized, meetings
prohibited, and Roman Catholicism re-enthroned:
(3. That an army was marched into Spain,
the liberal Constitution abolished, and the despica¬
ble Bourbon King—a sanguinary tool of the
priests—restored to absolute sovereignty:
(4). That Italy was drenched with the blood
of patriots, pitilessly massacred by Austrian sol¬
diers:
(5). That the Kings and the Pope, triumph¬
ant in continental Europe, prepared to re-enslave
South America, where the foreign yoke had been
thrown off during the Napoleonic wars.
Then it was (1823) that President Monroe
published his memorable declaration, which warn¬
ed foreign nations to let America alone.
The net result of The Congress of Vienna
was, to buttress the tottering Temporal Power of
the Popes; to postpone for 55 years the unification
of Italy; to fasten upon France a dynasty and a
despotism that the Revolution had abolished; to
re-enslave Spain, and to prolong for another
generation the industrial, judicial, and legislative
abuses in England.
Not until the French Revolution of 1848, did
Europe begin to breathe again the stimulating
breath of liberalism.
Not until 1870, did the liberals of Italy smash
the Temporal Power of the Popes, and put an end
to the vilest, cruellest priest-rule ever inflicted up¬
on humanity.
The glory of Italy’s redemption was due to
Garibaldi, the hero of the 19th century.
Wherever you find a bigoted Papist, you will
hear Garibaldi denounced—and his was the monu¬
ment at Rome that President Wilson did not
visit.
Penrose and Warren Suited the
Wilson Democrats .
Hon. Thos. E. Watson,
Thomson. Ga.
Dear Sir;
Knowing that Republicans were to be
selected for Chairmanships of the finance
and appropriations committees in Con¬
gress, and knowing that Penrose and
Warren do not represent the people mi
these committees, why do you suppose that
the Democrats didn’t use their only
method of defeating Penrose and War¬
ren, that of supporting the Progressive
Republicans? Or did the Democrats have
this kind of an opportunity to defeat Pen¬
rose and Warren?
Yours very truly,
CHAS. W. MIMS.
Between Wilson Democrats and Stand-pat!
Republicans, there is no material difference.
T. E. W.
Whafithe Private Soldiers Say .
Editor Columbia Sentinel,
Harlem, Ga.
Dear Sir:— t
Received the last issue of The Sen¬
tinel today;; and I think it is splendid.
I have read every line in it with untiring
interest.. If ever a paper possesses a soul,
it is present in The Sentinel. It is the
cleanest and most inspiring paper I ever
read. Surely one who is capable of read¬
ing and appreciating The Sentinel is
blessed by such companionship.
I was a soldier in the World War,
and as 1 formerly feared Militarism and
Autocracy now I loath and despise these
hellish twins. There are very few of the
boys who do not hate Militarism. A view
of this monster looming ominously on the
the horizon will convince any one that the
struggle for Freedom and Democracy will
be a long, fierce one. Would to Heaven
we had a Congress of men like Mr. Wat¬
son, and a hundred papers with the truth,
spirit and purpose of The Sentinel.
Always with best wishes for The
Sentinel and profound respect for Mr.
Watson. I am,
Yours truly,
LEROY W. IIOSTETTLER.
Some one who is really interested in William
Randolph Hearst should tell him not to waste
time and space, telling us that “there were most
horrible lies told of the Germans during the War.”
There was enough truth told to damn even a big¬
ger and more heartlessly military nation, than
Germany.
To cite Mrs. Eddy, Carrie Nation and Mrs.
Hetty Green as examples of what women can do,
isn’t a heavy argument. Neither of these three
women made a home what it was meant to be, for
the men whose names they bore, and in at least
two of the cases, money was the ruling power that
made the two women stand out, apart from the
balance of womanhood.
It really Peace looks as though' the details of the
proposed Treaty would mean that Germany
was to suffer very little for her part in the War,
and it would be just as well, now that Congress is
in session, for our people to see to it that Congress
not only gets thoroughly familiar with the pro¬
posed terms, but that the people of this country
are given a chance to know too.
A well-known magazine published for women,
lias a full page picture of Mr. Wilson calling on
the pope; each is represented as approaching the
other, with hands outstreched; we have heard of
“poetic” license, but this painter’s license was the
worst ever. If Mr. Wilson called on the pope he
did exactly as every king and commoner called: he
knelt and kisped the pope’s thumb, or the ring
pope wore. And it doesn’t help matters
know that a Democratic President did it. jfl