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THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL
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THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, July 4,1919.
Looks queer to see the name of De Y alera as
the President of the new “Irish Republic.”
Summef styles for young men seem to include
the tooth-brush growth on the upper lip, and coals
that give the corset effect.
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Horrible headline in Northern newspaper says
“South Looks North for Juleps,”—and fails to say
how far North.
That dark cloud hanging over Georgia is due
to the fact that the Legislature is in session, and
new laws are brewing.
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“Dry enforcement laws separated” says item
from Washington. What some of the old salts want
is “dry laws liquored.”
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Just imagine the reckless anger of that New
York man, when lie threw a perfectly good glass
of beer at another man.
If some communities had less “piosity,” and
nioro piety, there would be fewer scandals, broken
homes, and tragedies.
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Some churches seem to regard their preacher
as a cross between a poor relation and a candidate
for a home for the ‘'feeble-minded.” ,
Congress is “investigating the Russian Loans,”
and that’s about as good a way as any for the com¬
mittee to spend its time—with the answer not hard
to guess.
Women continue to risk broken legs, by wear¬
ing skirts too narrow to take a natural step in, and
yet they claim they have as much sense as the
average man.
We are fed up on a lot of things, and among
those present are photographs of Bill the Butcher,
and his sons—either before or after the recent up¬
heaval.
Br’er Henry Ford seems to bd’ having a pleas¬
ant time with his suit against those people and
paj>ers for libel, hut it's tough on the reading pub
lie.
At least one signal honor has l>een paid the
South: Charleston, S. C., was made the point of
debarkation for 2,000 undesirable Germans, who
are being wished back on Germany.
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Wonderful things are happening this summer:
it is recorded that an entertainment committee was
unable to get Win. Jennings Bryan to deliver an
address—even for a “considerable consideration.”
Texas is doing a lot of bragging because she
can have “corn on the cob six months in the year."
‘snothing: Georgia can have corn in the bottle
twelve months and never a word.
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The burning of one of the new aero-route mail
planes, and the destruction of all the mail it had
for Chicago, will not add any enthusiam to those
lukewarm watchers who preferred the risk of the
old line mail routes.
Last, call for service abroad in the U. S. A.
The word has been sent out from Washington that
no further recruits for our “Army overseas” will
be aken. Must be the little mess in Mexico promises
to bo serious.
New York hotel men, in an effort to help their
patrons keep happy, promise there will lie no more
tips, and no more checking of hats. Many a man has
paid twice over for his summer hat, in tips to the
hat boys for handing it bafk to him.
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A preacher is going to preach from a balloon
in Ohio: lie will talk into a tube which will act as
a telephone to the crowd below. Realizing some of
the sermons some preachers got away with, it's a
wonder none thought of it. before.
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Something to cheer you this hot weather: a
proposed “Department of Federal- Highways, the
Secretary of which is to receive $15,000 per year,
with an assistant at $10,000 a year, and an initial
outlay of $100.000.000.. t i lie followed bv an ap¬
propriation of $200,000,000. for seven years,” is be¬
ing discussd by our over-worked Congress.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
The Latest from Mexico .
The press dispatches announce that the Villa
bandits have murdered fifty Mexican peons, in re¬
venge for the military execution of General Blan
quet, who was captured by President Carranza's
troops not long ago, when Blanquet invaded Mexi¬
can soil to overthrow the government.
Who was this General Blanquet?
He was one of the conspirators who plotted
against President Madero, and instigated his cold¬
blooded murder.
You will remember that the Jesuits had recov
ered, under President Porfirio Diaz, almost all the
power they had lost under the heroic patriot,
Juarez.
Diaz had made himself a military dictator, and
had virtually set aside the Mexican constitution of
1857.
In his old age, he married a young woman who
was a tool of the Jesuits—and you can guess the
balance.
Thousands of Yaqui Indians were sent into
hopeless and barbarous slavery in Yucatan by this
Porfirio Diaz.
Thousands of Mexican peons shared the same
fate.
At the same time, he conciliated public opin
ion in this country and in Europe by granting to
various corporations the national lands, minerals,
and oil fields of the Mexican people.
Finally, Francisco Madero ran for President
against the old Dictator, Diaz, and defeated him.
Then the Spanish land-kings, the Catholic
highpriests, and the Jesuits began to conspire
against the new President.
The place where the foul plot ripened, was the
American embassy; and our Ambassador, Henry
Lane Wilson, has been accused of lending himself
to it.
Madero’s trusted lieutenant, General Huerta,
became one of the chief traitors, the others being
Felix Diaz, Archbishop Mora, General De la Bar¬
ra, and General Blanquet.
How Madero was assassinated is told in the
following confession of the man who did the shoot¬
ing:
“Washington—An alleged confession
by Major Francisco Cardenas, giving the
details of the assassination of President
Madero and Vice-President Saurez in
Mexico, has reached Washington.
“Cardenas was arrested on the Gua¬
temalan border near the Chiapas frontier
last June. He was disguised with whis¬
kers and denied his identity, but after a
Guatemalan barber had removed the beard
Cardenas admitted it. He was then put
through the “third degree” and the fol¬
lowing statement purports to bear his sig¬ j
nature and be a full confession of the part
he played in the assassination:
U 6 On Feb. 22. about 1 o’clock in the
afternoon, an aide-de-camp of the Military
Commander of Mexico called at my hotel
and told m that General Blanquet desired
to see me at once. I went to Blanquet and
he told me that the country demanded a
great service of me—the killing of Presi¬
dent Madero. The abrupt manner in which
he said this disconcerted me.' I was taken
to the War Department where General
Manuel Mondragon, Felix Diaz and Don
Celilio were in conference. Mondragon
said:
ii i Major, these services can be intrust¬
ed only to a man in whom we have full
confidence.’
“I thought that this might place the
responsibility for the killing solely upon
me and I asked where it was to take place.
Ocon explained that the murder was not to
be a formal affair. He told me how they
had planned to have Madero and Saurez
removed from the National Palace to the
penitentiary at night. On the way the
party was to be subjected to a fake attack.
While the so-called attack was proceeding
I was to shoot Madero. General Felipe
Angeles also was on the black list hit his
name was removed because he was ex¬
tremely popular and Huerta feared that it
might have a bad effect.
“Don’t be afraid. This is not the first
time you have shot a man,” Gen. Mon¬
dragon said to me.
“‘That is true, General, but I have
never shot one of this importance ’ I re¬
plied.
“ ‘He is only a little fellow,’ Felix
Diaz replied.
“Ocon added that it had been the in¬
tention of the party to kill Madero even as
far back as Feb. 13.
“Blanquet then told me to see Huerta
in the National Palace. TIuerta said that
the Council of Minsiters had decided that
Madero must be killed, and told me to
proceed according to instructions except
that I should not kill Angeles.
“I returned to headquarters and saw
Ocon and Gneral Acosta, who had given
orders to a party of ten Rurales to make
the fake attack on the party.
"Later in the evening General Blan¬
quet ordered General Chicarro, who was
in command of the prisoners at the Na-'
tional Palace, to turn Madero and Saurez
over to me.
“They were placed in two automobiles.
Madero sat in the first machine with me
and Saurez followed in the second machine
with Corporal Rafael Priminta. We start-
ed for the penitentiary, but the detachment
of Rurales did not appear, so I stopped
and got out to see what the trouble was.
“I found that Ocon was with his de¬
tachment on the south side of the peniten¬
tiary. I entered the machine and we start¬
ed toward Ocon's party. *
“At this juncture Madero appeared to
realize that he was to be done away with
and he asked me to allow him to enter the
penitentiary by the closest entrance, which
we were then approaching. A moment
later the detachment of rurales appeared
and bejjan to fire into the air.
“Madero attempted to jump from the
machine, and as he did so I shot him
through the head. Suarez was killed at the
same time, by Corporal PimientaP
“Blanquet is supposed to be now in
Spain; Felix Diaz and Ocon are in
New York. It is expected that
the Carranza Government will ask that
all be extradited in order that
they may be tried for murder.”
I will add, that Archbishop Mora saved his
life by fleeing from Mexico City and taking refuge
with General Funston at Vera Cruz.
He is now hid out, somewhere , just as Felix
Diaz was, prior to his recent reappearance as an in¬
surgent in Mexico.
This Diaz is a nephew of the old Dictator
whom Madero defeated; and his life had been
spared by Madero, after he had attempted a rebel¬
lion at Vera Cruz.
It was reported in the papers that Cardinal
Gibbons had a secret interview with Felix Diaz in
New Orleans, and that the Catholics of this coun¬
try had raised a fund of $10,000,000 to finance
another revolution, for the purpose of putting Felix
Diaz in power and re-enthroning the expelled
Jesuits.
* President Carranza has been in hot water ever
since he has been in office.
Apparently the Jesuit Cardinal Gibbons, and
the greedy American corporations will continue
their noble efforts, until constitutional government
is destroyed in our sister republic.
Villa (or Villa’s name) is being used for the
same old purpose of again making Mexico the slave
of the Roman Catholic Church.
War Pictures, German and
American .
In the. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 12, 1917,
appeared a special dispatch which told a pitiful
story and one of terror:
A German woman living in Wilmington, Del
aware,' had received a letter written from Germany
by her sister, who described the sufferings of the
l>eople in Germany, where food was measured out
by the censor, and where the women and children
and old folks were almost starving, and where the
feeling against the Kaiser was growing in bitter¬
ness.
This German woman wrote, that she had suf¬
fered so much from war and hunger, that she felt
sometimes as if she could kill the Kaiser.
This letter, from sister to sister, had been al¬
lowed by the German censor to pass through the
mails, but he had himself written a line on its
margin: that line was—
“I our sister teas shot this morning .”
The comment of the Philadelphia paper fol
lows—
> “It is believed that the German Government
took this plan of showing the punishment which is
meted out to those who talk against it.”
Desperate with hunger, anxiety, and perhaps
grief for all the woes that the war had brought up¬
on the people, the woman had given way to an ex
pression which could not possibly harm any one,
and which merely conveyed the idea of her own
oxtreme distress.
But the Men in Power killed her for it!
She had no right to even think “as if” she
could kill the Kaiser.
To punish her for sometimes feeling “as if”
she could kill him, his tools did actually kill her.
Our papers published these facts, to show the
Americans what atrocious brutes the Germans
were.
The item appeared a few days after the Presi¬
dent suddenly plunged us into the War that he had
said was none of our business.
(Of course he had kept us out as long as he
could, but when Russia collapsed, and England
faced defeat, he had to go in.)
When we got into the War, did our Men in
Power imitate the brutes who shot that frenzied
German woman?
It would be a delight to answer “No!”
It would be an eternal glory to our national
sense of justice, wisdom, moderation and humanity,
if we could shame the Kaiser by contrasting our
military and civil courts with nis.
Can wo do it?
Look at those court-martial sentences exposed
bv Col. Ansell. and vehemently defended by Secre¬
tary Baker. General Crowder, and the General
Staff of Washington Autocrats!
Those bloody sentences for trivial technical
offenses —committed by raw , inexperienced, home¬
sick American boys —read like the barbarous do
imrs of Dessalines in San Domingo, of Chnka in
Africa, of Cortez and Pizarro in Mexico and Peru.
Tt is almost impossible to believe that those
white officers, who so fearfully abused their mili¬
tary power, belong to the same race that produced
George Washington, U. S. Grant, and Robert E.
Lee.
Those military “trials,” and the ferocious pen¬
alties imposed, are as black as anything written
upon the inhuman records of “the Huns.”
But it was not the courts-martial, only, that
saw red during the War, and revelled in the ele¬
mental fierceness of unrestrained animal passions:
the civil courts were maddened by the same venge¬
ful ferocity.
The judges lost their reason; they raved at
the accused; they terrorized the witnesses and the
attorneys of the defense; they eagerly fanned the
fires of the prosecution; they took possession of
juries and dictated verdicts; and then came sen¬
tences which will excite astonishment and horror,
hereafter, if ever we emerge from the baleful spell
of Woodrow Wilsonism.
There was an American citizen who became
enraged at the manner in which his bosses had
forced him to buy “Liberty” bonds; and, in his
anger, he said he wished the Government was in
h—1]
A fine of ten dollars would—don’t you think*
—have been sufficient punishment for that petu¬
lant outburst of ill-temper.
But “the Court” didn’t think so: “the Court"
put a penalty of twenty years in prison on that
man, whose wife and children will have to scuffle
along the best they can, while the breadwinner of
the family toils for the Government!
Another American citizen was possessed of cen
scientious scruples against war: he was a college
graduate and a man of the best standing: he did
not hide, nor did he wait to be arrested: he went
to the board and told them the state of the case.
The court-martial gave him teweny-five years
in~the penitentiary —this being the penalty for hav¬
ing a concsience.
For precisely the same reasons, the govern¬
ment of ancient pagan Rome martyred the early
Christians!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Columbia Sentinel,
Harlem, Ga.
Dear Sir:
Am sending you a good solid list of Patriots
thrnout thevstate of Washington, who would like
to have a sample copy of your good paper. The
Columbia Sentinel.
The Columbia Sentinel is sure the best ever,
that Mr. Watson has ever got out, so I want to do
all I can to help you all to success.
Am a Democrat, but Mr. Wilson—Tumulty
and Co. have never received my vote or any vote
I could keep them from getting.
Will get you up a club or two soon.
Yours for America First,
Washington. W. EDWIN TRIBBLE.
Dear Sir:
I am a subscriber to the Sentinel and want you
to know that I like your nerve, and appreciate Mr.
Watson’s writings.
I am enclosing the names and addresss of
friends that I think would be interested in your
paper. Pleas send copies.
With best wishs for the Sentinel and'Mr. Wat¬
son, I am, yours truly,
Ga. HENRY HUDGINS. j
—s’
Dear Sir:
I am writing you to let you know that your
friends, where I go, are delighted with vour con
tributions to The Columbia Sentinel. The way you
handle the present situation, is enough, it seems,
to convince anyone that the “man" in authority has
things headed toward wreck and ruin.
If the true American Patriots don’t throw a
chunk in the cogs of the great antiyVmerican
wheel, it . to grind
is sure our liberty into Roman¬
ism.
It is a God-send to have a man like Tom Wat¬
son to appear on the scene at such a critical period.
May God bless and keep you.
Yours of the old guard,
Ga. J. L. MOORE.
Dear Sir:
For the last few months I have been a constant
reader of The Sentinl and in its issues I have
found a message that could not have been carried
to the American People, so appealing and touching,
save through the great author Thomas E. Watson.
1 1 have been an admirer of Mr. Watson for sev¬
eral years and am glad to see the one brainy man
of our state warn the people of America and of the
orld a S ainst great net of Catholicism which
. endeavoring
is now to strangle the Protestant
ples of the World. peo¬
a ty at America has not more men
... like Thomas_E.
Watson to carry'the messages to
the savage corners of the World.
With best wishes. I am,
Gq. Very sincerely;
W. B. RICE, JR.
HARLEM, GA., TO HAVE NEW COUNTY PAPER.
Mr. Claude Birchmore, a newspaper man of
r&Tx T3KS h L‘tV ver establish ,h8 “The
County Press.”
Since The Columbia Sentinel has entered the
national field. TTftrlcm and Columbia County have
been without a local paper, and it wiB be
<>f great satisfaction a source
to the people of that section,
to know they are again to have a real, “home”
paper.