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Harlem, Georgia, June i0, 1919.
French mothers give babies wine, instead of
milk. Lucky kids.
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Too bad that the peach crop had to die again
at this late date.
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Woops my dear! Here’s Mexico right back on
the front page, same old scrap and all.
When you think of the German tinge to Mr.
Gomper’s name, you don’t wonder at his fight for
beer.
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Honduras wants to have a definition of the
Monroe doctrine, and many an American voter
might like a look-in on that same.
W hat a pity the proposed resolution of Sena¬
tor Knox of Pennsylvania, could not get to the
people in the form of a referendum.
Mr. Borah is one busy man these days, and it
is to he hoped he will really be able to make good
his promise of.‘‘locating the leak.”
Evidently the “new wars in Europe” are
started just to keep in the minds of the gab festers
now making the treaty, that the makin’s are still
handy.
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“Says Minister kissed nurse” screams a head¬
line from a newspaper. Well, why shouldn’t n
minister have a pretty nurse in the house, occas¬
ionally ?
• *
It is now proposed to give the returned hero
soldiers farms. Good idea; it will give the Con¬
gressmen more places to place five seeds, and thus
garner more votes.
* *
•Inst when news for the big Northern dailies
is scarce, comes a lynching in Tennessee, and the
usual front page ink hysterics will doubtless oc¬
cur.
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With Holland it is always “Business as
usual.” and she refuses to do any thing to deter
the Germans from losing anything, if said Ger¬
mans refuse to sign the Peace Treaty.
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Some of these newspaper headlines are so
startling: one of ’em reads: “Drops dead; had
$40.000.;” and that’s enough to make most any of
us do the same thing.
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That “Beer Special” that headed for Wash¬
ington to present petitions against national prohi¬
bition, was probably loaded with samples of “that
same.” ns well as delegates.
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Poor weather is Warned for the failure of the
later American airships to cross the ocean, the
British beating them. Whv not have blamed it on
the poor gasolene, and make .Tnwn D. responsible?
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Headline in newspaper trends to show “How
Germany Gan Pay Her Pebttfi,” hut the average
man up a tree is wondering how he and the rest
of the TT. S. A will pav the debts incurred by
them on Germany’s account.
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Folks up around Decatur have a new kind of
Santa Claus; man driving a big truck full of
frying-size chickens, spilled off two coops, and
everv one within reaching distance, had fried
chicken for dinner.
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"Radicals must he run down, savs Attomev
General: fine. Now if it is "oing to take a million
dollars or ro to do the running, we can see where
there will he n chance at crcntinrr another Bureau.
with a Staff and the usual Assistants.
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Tt seems more than strange that more small
communities do not real’ze the good investment
ice factories would he. Tn every town containing
more than two hundred white poonlo. the output
could be readily sold, apd connection with ad
^oinierr towns, where there were no iee faetories.
would be simply a matter of a Ford truck.
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Tf the homh-throwers can carry off another
stunt similar to the one thev pulled off a month
ago. and pot have to suffer anv more than thev
have, w mnv have to accent homh-throwinjr as
the lemfirunte mode of settling labor disnutes. Tt
can rid n place of a number of undesirable citi¬
zens in a verv short time.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
What Delays the Peace of the
World?
The war ended during the first quarter of
last November: the President so stated to Con
gresss.
Almost immediately, the President shoulder¬
ed himself and hiked off to Europe, to tell man¬
kind how to make peace.
He is still at it.
He shows no signs of being tired of Paris, al¬
though Paris shows many signs of being awfully
tired of him.
He has worn out his welcome, staled his
presence, dimmed his nimbus, ravelled his vocab¬
ulary, and dulled the ears of the polite French
who at least know when inflated Egoism has
reached the point of being ridiculous.
More than half a year has passed, since the
Apostle of Humanity crossed the ocean, in
than regal state, to teach Europe how to pacify
and quiet down.
According to the understanding of ordinary
mortals, we had gone to war with Germany, be¬
cause the Imperial German Government had com¬
mitted various acts of war againsta us.
That’s what the President said to Congress,
and that’s what Congress said in its declaration
of war.
Therefore, when the Germans had been beat¬
en into slicing for peace, and the President had
grandiosely published the Fourteen supplements
to the Ten Commandments, we naturally supposed
his going to Europe meant, that he and Moses
would insist upon a treaty which would soon
bring a blissful calm Upon the troubled waters.
The world wanted repose: the world still
wants it: apparently, the world will continue to
want it.
What is the matter? Why is peace so diffi
cult to make?
There is but one answer: the League of
Nations stands in the way.
The League of Nations has already divided
the world inta bitterly hostile groups, and has
ready made future wars inevitable.
The Paris Peace Conference
made Peace!
That was its mission and its duty:
and no more, the world expected of
But instead of making peace, and ha?
normal conditions throughout the world, it
been haggling and boggling, month after month.
over Something which had no legitimate con¬
nection whatever with a treat */ of peace.
That something is the League.
By what authority , . from , Congress _ the ,
or
People, was the League introduced and made twin
brother to the peace treaty ?
What legal or moral right had Mr. M ilson to
take the position, that the world should remain at
war. unless its peoples would become the slaves of
the self-appointed Monarchs of an Autocratic
League?
nv what right, does he usurp a position from j
which 1m can arrogantly say to us. that we must
Purchase peace at the price of surrendering our
National independence, and becoming subject to
the partial control of the negroes of Liberia and
San Domingo, the Catholics of Spain, the
lusts of Japan, and the, Tones of Great Britain!
In Wilson’s amazing speech on
Day in I-ranee, he declared that our
for a League of Nations, and that unless we
fied the League, the American heroes would
died in vain.
Was his statement true?
Of course, it wasn't-, his statements are hard¬
ly ever true: they are never true, when he has a
sinister purpose to conceal.
Did he tell Congress that he wanted a de¬
claration of war against Germany, in order that
a League of Nations might be formed?
Did Congress state, as its cause of declaring
war, that a League of Nations was the object?
Would Congress have adopted conscription,
price-fixing, press-gagging, Hooverism, and Ber
nard-Baruch-ism, for the purpose of merging our
national Sovereignty into that of Asiatic and
African potentates?
There were scores of different and conflicting
statements made in 1917, and 1918, as to why we
plunged into the European Malebolge—the bot¬
tomless pit of foreign complications—but no mem¬
ber of Congress, no Cabinet officer, no editor of
the daily hand-organs, no magpie at the street
comer, no parrot in the hotel lobby, no ex-Presi
dent chasing another job, no anybody informed
our four million soldiers, that they were being con¬
scripted, rounded up, manhandled, shanghiaed,
exported, and sent to the battle-lines, in order that
Japan might hereafter have more to say about our
national destiny than 110,000,000 Americans will
have a chance to say.
You know that this is the truth: you know
that the League was never mentioned among the
116 reasons why wo went to war.
Then why does President Wilson now pre¬
tend that the formation of the League was the ob¬
ject for which our soldiers fought and died?
Such hypocrisy is nauseating; and there are
abdications tending to show, that the world has
lieen sufficiently fed up on Wilsonian subterfuges,
duplicities, and hypocrisies.
His estimate of the intelligence of the aver¬
age American is entirely too low: when he enters
the race for a third term, he will find that the
common people have a fairly good idea of what
soil of man it is who ran, in 1912, pledged to on/
term, and who has proven to be the most incon¬
stant turn-coat that ever figured in public life.
We now learn that J. P. Morgan’s partner
(or ex-partner, which is it really?) had a copy of
the Secret Treaty, when the U. S. Senate had none.
Mr. H. P. Davison is a Catholic and a Knight
of Columbus: he is the head of the Red Cross, and
he succeeded in, having the Red Cross put into
the League of Nations.
This means that the Pope is in the
League!
As a faithful subject of the Pope, this Red
Cross banker, of the Mongan Money Trust, was
given the document which the President refused to
let the Senate have!
What do you think of thabt
The President of the United States, instead
of making peace and coming home, is dawdling
«nd intriguing, secretly, in Paris with the ulti¬
mate object of abolishing the political rights of
the peoples, doing away with the progressive
principles of democracy, and coffining “mankind”
in the narrow rigidity of a conservatism which
doJlansm , ,, . > monopoly, autocracy, and
And the President desecrates the graves of
Protestant democratic soldiers, by saying that
they crossed the seas to die for that sort of thing 1
Such cynical mockery of the truth, and of the
herioc dead, is horrible.
And its direct, immediate effects upon the
world are tragic.
Peace is indefinitely postponed: the Big Four
are losing the confidence and the respect of the
nations: the fourteen points are lost; the Germans
have recovered breath, and are dictating to
their conquerors !
The spectacle is astounding, but the sight is
there for all to see.
Germany is to become a member of the
League; and thus, in the long run, the labors of
the mountain, the thousands of millions of our
money, the hundreds of thousands of lives we
,ost ' enur ? to * he advantage of “the Hun,” who,
ns a me ™*? er °» ™ , e League, will partially control
*^ e destinies of these United States. This is
surel >' » £ lo ™ us for us!
1 unless the U. S. Senate and all other
an ? an , serous Americans agree to League which
a
r ? rma ny the power to combine against vs
League, and to Rule us wmi a rod of
wr shall not have pence!
^ ,OSe * l ' IIn “’ peace is less desirable than a
arnom 't of war.
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objects to the protest, upon the ground that Leo
j,' ran fc was lynched!
This being a fair sample of the logic to which
Judge Newman has to listen, I can understand his
willingness to retire from the bench,
if I were judge „f that district, and could
not get rid of Hooper Alexander any other wav,
rd res ign, and go to peddling jews-harps.
As reported by a “special” to the New Yoik
Times ' ,4- ’
« M r. Alexander told the audience
that the pe „ p l e (> f Georgia could not
vo ice a protest against Poland wit hout
theWsibility of a reply that “we no
long fr have any right to protest against
murder , since the slaying here some
years ago of a man for a crime of
h( , probal)1 was i nnocent »
« IIe thcn asked the pe „ n i S sion of the
audience to read a paper which he said
he had prepared, asking that fljie words
be received without any demonstration
and that he alone be made responsible for
their utterances. He then read from sev
eral typewritten sheets, in which he char¬
acterized as persecution the lynching,
“some recent years ago,” of a man of the
Jewish race, when he said it had not
clearly been shown at his trial that he
was guilty of the crime with which he
was charged.
“Not until the real murderer has been
impeached, not until the man who actual¬
ly committed the crime for which one man
was taken out and killed by his brothers,
has been convicted, can the people of
Georgia protest against Poland’s crimes
without fear of what we have done to
right wrong.”
From the foregoing, you will see that Mr.
Alexander intruded himself upon a public meet¬
ing, and officiously put himself forward to read \
deliberately malicious libel on the people of
Georgia.
There was no occasion under heaven why
Senator Smith’s Friday should have done this
thing.
There was no excuse for it, and there can be
no justification.
The case of Leo Frank had no earthly con¬
nection with the purpose for which the meeting
was called.
To resurrect the episode, and to use it as the
medium for a recklessly mendacious attack upon
the State of Georgia, was a most outrageous
breach of the proprieties, and a most disloyal act
on the part of a citizen to whom the good name
of this commonwealth should be at least as dear
■is the reputation of a convicted criminal —whose
guilt was confessed by his uncles, after every
tribunal which passed upon him had affirmed the
verdict of the jury.
Have the Catholics of Poland given their
Hebrew victims the benefit of eminent counsel,
legal process to compell the attendance of witness¬
es, ample opportunity to prepare for trial, a full
panel of jurors from which to select twelve im-
partial men, an unbiased judge to preside, and
an appeal through the lower courts to the high¬
est in the world?
Have the massacred Jews of Poland bees
legally convicted of attempted rape on Catholic
girls, and of murder following the assault?
Have the Catholics of Poland indicted the
Jews, tried them by jury, and convicted them, in
the same manner that Catholic criminals are con¬
demned ?
If so, a jaundiced Georgian might discover,
some analogy between the one Jew executed in
Georgia, and the thousands of Jews massacred in
Poland.
In Catholic Europe, the slaughter of Israel¬
ites is indiscriminate: white-haired men, little
boys, aged women, little girls, totterers on the
brink of the grave and dimpled-cheek babes at the
breasts, are done to death, with all the savagery of
demonism: does Mr. Alexander mean to identify
the people of Georgia with such as this?
In Catholic Europe, the victims of the priest
inspired mobs are not accused of crime: they are
accused of being Jews-, does Mr. Alexander dare
to say that Leo Frank was convicted because he
was a Jew?
I do not know the contents of the paper
which Senator Smith’s appointee read at the At¬
lanta meeting, but if he cares to open the ques¬
tion as to Leo Frank’s guilt, he will find us ready
to meet that issue.
The man was properly convicted: he was as
deserving of capital punishment as any criminal
that ever suffered it: and the fact that one OF HIS
own lawyers commuted the sentence to life im¬
prisonment, did not affect the legal status of the
ease.
Mr. Alexander intimates that he knows “the
real murderer,” “the man who actually committed
t.he crime:” if this he so, he is self-convicted of a
gross neglect of civic duty in not having had
that murderer arrested.
Mr. Alexander does not pretend to have dis¬
covered evidence which escaped “the great detec¬
tive, 11. J. Bums: Mr. Alexander does not say
that he knows more about the case, now. than he
knew five years ago: therefore, he leaves us to un¬
derstand that he has for years known “the real
murderer,” “the man actually guilty of the crime.”
Then why has this peculiarly eccentric prose
cuting officer not prosecuted that free and un
molested criminal?
In the Savannah Press, the following ap¬
pears :
“Attorney Alexander impeached
James Conley, the negro in the case, as
the guilty murderer of AJhr? Fbagtfh. He r
demanded a grand jury indictment an<T
trial of Conley on a charge of murder.
Failing in this he suggested the creation
hv the legislature of a special commission
to investigate the case. Failing in this,
he called upon the bar association of the
state to make an investigation.
“Attorney Alexander declared that
he had remained silent in regard to the
case for five years, waiting for the pas¬
sions of feeling to cool, but he believed
the time was now ripe for a calm and
dispassionate correction of the wrong and
injustice committed while feeling was in
a tempest.”
Why this belated eruption of Senator Smith’s
little tea-cup Vesuvius?
How has he managed to restrain himself
during all these five years when Conlev was where
Alexander’s claws could have grabbed him. any
time?
First, the grand jury: if this body be recal¬
citrant and delusive, then a special' legislative
commission: if this fails to convict Conley, then
(he State Bar Association, with Leo Frank’s lead¬
ing lawyer to preside, by virtue of his office as
President thereof.
That!s' a fine schedule, fine !
TAffi’* a splendid programme, splendid !!
Even Hooper Alexander never ‘dreamed of
anything more gorgeous.
,° f ' Atlanta must not protest
against Catholic butcheries in Poland, because,
five years ago, a Jewish convict, judicially
**' eon
Committee at ^ hands ° f a Vi ^ lance
How many American States could protest, if
Alexanders rule were given nation-wide npplica
California used to lynch gamblers and mur¬
derers: all the Western States lynched horse
thieves, cattle-lifters, and “bad men” who had
become too bad: Northern States have Ivnched
whites, the criminals and blacks, when the courts were slow and
were atrocious: New England has
not been free from lynch-law, nor has any South¬
ern State.
consistently Consequently, no American community can
protest against indiscriminate masRa
cres of Jews by the Catholics of Europe if Mr
Alexander’s logic is law.
As the Georgia legislature is soon to meet
we confidently expect Hooper to get busy with
his special commission.
This move, on Alexander’s part, will serve
opening of as
an ans ™ c,0,,s Senator Smith’s
. for re-election—particularly, cam¬
paign if the Senator
votes for the Leasrue of Nations and thus lifts
I!, .S'"”’ en ^ a Liberia, An l enca and to the political little Catholic
ity with the re United - States. UP a equal¬
It'» your move, Eooper!