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2 THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL. Issued Every Friday at Harlem, Ga. Entered in Post Office at Harlem, Ga., as Second Glass Matter. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR ; when sent in dubs of five $7.50. RATES TO NEWSDFALERS—Three cents each, cash to accompany order. Thomson address of The Columbia Sentinel P. 0. Box 393. E. H. MILLER, Publisher and Business M’g’r. THOS. E. WATSON, Editor. ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor. Harlem, Georgia, August 22, 1919. Mr. Wilson and Senator Lodge seem both to be staying put. * * * * Mr. Wilson may-I-notted his sympathies to Mrsf Carnegie, on the death of her husband. • * * * A threat is made to call out the gas makers. Legislative? * * * * “Democrats see schisms ahead” says N. Y. Sun; if that is a new name for pink political ele¬ phants—then the Dernmies see ’em all right. * * * * A man just, convicted of bigamy, says he fell for the extra wife because, she was “a Christian and a good cook." This is a hint to the unwed girls. * nt * * Two—count ’em, two—are held as “profiteers” in a $40,000 sugar sale. Let the good work go on, and round up a eoupla or so of beef profiteers. * * * * From here it would seem that Mr. Wilson’s next Treaty of Peace will lie written for himself and The Senate. • * * * In saying that this Nation is suffering from shell-shock Senator Sherman is wrong: it is suf¬ fering from dollar shock. * * * * Mr. Henry Ford’s verdict, of eight cents for libel may please him as a “vindication,” but to most of us it looks like a joke. * * * * We didn’t see any cf the Southern papers, breaking out in ink-hysterics when the “mob” on Broadway, N. Y., got after a negro man who cut a white man with a razor. Why* ***** A lot of things make us tired, but what tires ns most is the bunk about “Senate to investigate the high cost” of everything. Why not enforce the law* which prohibit profiteering? * * * * A man with half an eve can see the effort, to manufacture a presidential boom for Gen. Persh¬ ing—but the man back home will cast, votes, ai home, this year. * * * * The law partner of the son-in-law of Col. House is willing to tell Congress what the Secre¬ tary of State cannot tell about the League of Nations. Some one says that the outcry over hoarding • of food stuffs begins to resemble hysteria. Right; and the one, who is having the hysterics is the Mere Man who is the head of the family. * t * a The very newest ruler in Russia (and who may be deposed before this sees the press), is named Jack Peters; and that ought to he democra¬ tic enough to please the reddest Rod there is. * * * * Remember that man who bad eight wives, we told you about ? Well, all he got was throe vears and six months in jail—and with living where it is, ain't he the lucky guy? ^ * * * * It cost Henry Ford $250,000., and the Chicago Tribune a like sum, and it took a jury three months to sit on a case that resulted in a verdict of eight cents; which proves that Law still runs true to form, and costs as much as ever. If you are interested in Southern cotton, just how do you figure out. the peculiar actions of that commodity—in not bringing the price of pro¬ duction when Germany alone is talc ng $5,000,000. worth, and 30,000 bales of it for immediate deliv¬ ery. Here’s a good item to read to the children when they howl at having their faces washed: soap is so scarce in England, thov have “Soap Clubs,” and the drawings for the weekly ration of soap is by lot. * * * * A magazine article states that Our Boys would not stand for the freaky dressing of the middle-class French women and girls, and would not he seen on the street with them. Queer the Boys wont make that rule work home here. * • • * Of course it doesn’t affect you very much just yet, hut one of the negro papers published in At¬ lanta “points with pride” to the fact that the post office and (he customs house in New York have negro women and girls in important positions there. And this is a Demoratic administration. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. doing Back to the Dark Ages and One Man Government. (Continued from Page One.) l being that America would not meddle with Euro¬ pean affairs. This firm attitude of our Government saved the Republics of South America, of Central Amel 1 - iva, and of Mexico. This Monroe Doctrine now fades away in the League of nations, where it is ambigiously referred to as a “regional understanding.” * It is not a regional understanding, but and*inap¬ a na¬ tional policy, peculiar to this country, plicable anywhere else. Spread it over the world, ancl it becomes meaningless. So, the Holy Alliance which said it meant Christianity and peace, did not practise Christ¬ ianity and did not keep the peace. Therefore, when the various Tafts assume that this new “Covenant” will accomplish what the other one didn’t, the burden of proof is on the Tafts. One of the very questions at issue is, “Will the League be a dove or a hawk?” and if you begin the argument by assuming that the League is a dove, you “beg the question.” So far as that point is concerned, there is nothing left to debate, if we let the legion of Tafts assume as true the very thing that is denied. Of course’ wo are all for peace. At least, most of us are. We may have to go down and annex Mexico, before wo stack anus for good; and we may pos¬ sibly have to fight England, on account of Ire¬ land: and we may want to take possession of Con¬ stantinople; and it is barely possible that we will have to help France take Germany apart and give the limbs to her receptive neighbors; but after we shall have faithfully complied with our contract to help France reduce Germany to a status of na¬ tional impotence—I am reasonably certain that wte can all agree that permanent peace is a good tljing. Like the Great War, it will be a blessing ?h disguise—very much disguised, just as the War's blessing was. The opponents of the League have not vat made the strongest points against it. Thus far, the debate has been surface-talk. The foes of the League should set. their coulters for deeper plowing, else the friends of it will continue to have the advantage of position. The fundamental objections to the League are, that it revolutionizes the Anglo-Saxon prin¬ ciples which are hereditary in our race; which were codified in the times of Alfred the Great and Ed¬ ward the Confessor; which were subverted by the Norman conquerors, but. reasserted in the Char¬ ters of the Henrys, of John, of Edward I.; which triumphed under Oliver Cromwell,' and again ai¬ der William of Orange, in the Revolution of IfiSS. Our Revolutionary War was fought on the proposition, that the English colonists brought those Anglo-Saxon liberties to this country', and were entitled to their protection. Our Fathers won, on that proposition; and those liberties afterwards found first-place in the Constitution of each of the Thirteen States. By amendments, they were tagged on to the Constitution of the United States, where they re¬ main. The Constitution of the League sweeps away those Anglo-Saxon liberties! In the Great. Charter of 1215, and in the sub¬ sequent Charters, it is made unlawful to force any free-man into military service beyond the limits cf the realm 1 Under the Feudal System, the King had the right to summon his earls, lords etc. to follow him, forty days in the year; but he could not compel them to serve under any other leader, in a foreign country. You will, recall the familiar anecdote of King Edward I. and his vassal, Lord Bigid: The King had two wars on his hands, one in Flanders, and one in France; and he proposed to go in person to Flanders, but could not of course, be in France, at the same time. His lords told him they Would go with him to Flanders, but would not go with another leader to France. The King blazed out in wrath at Lord Bigod, and exclaimed. “By God! you will go, or hang!” But the stout lord answered, “By God! I will neither go nor hang.” The King was wrong and had to give in. The duties imposed upon this country by the League will compel our government to annul the Bill of Rights of every state in the Union, the Bill of Rights in the U. S. Constitution, and one of the main clauses in the Great Charter of 1215. The Constitution of the league null ip s the English laws that Imre been honored for thousands of years. Whenever these laws were ignored, the evil was temporary: the violations of those laws have been exceptional. The laws themselves have been the rule , which brave men, devoted to these hereditary liberties, were sure to re-assert and re-establish at the first opportunity. These, are the fundamental rights > f man that are totally Relished in the Constitution of the League! (1) . The right of the free-man to contin uously reside in his native land, and not to be ban ished therefrom, except as a punishment for crime, iff of which crime he shall have been convicted by jury of his neighbors and equals. - (2) . The right to be directly represented, by an agent selected by himself, in any Parliament, or Congress, or Council, or Legislature, which lev ies taxes upon him. (3) . The right to establish a government bv popular vote, and to change that government, whenever the majority becomes dissatisfied with it. , (4). The right to elect all those who make the laws of the land; and to elect the Supreme Executive whose sworn duty it is to administer those laws; and to hold to accountability by Itn peachment , and dismissal from office, any Preri dent, any Congressman, or any Judge who shall have made himself amenable ‘ to legal condemns ( } on (5). The right to personal liberty in time ef peace, unless legally arresed by warrant charg ing crime. Constitution (8). The right to consider the of the United States as the Supreme Law, until set aside by the same power that made it, towit, tuk Sovereign Peopi.e of this Country. Now, the League threatens to abrogate and forever destroy each one of those hereditary Anglo Saxon rights. (1) . The League cannot send American troops to all parts of the world, at the beck and call of International Freebooters, unless cons&rip Hon is made permanent— as Wtosotr is now at TEMPTING TO DO. When an American citizen is sent abroad, to fight for the negroes of Liberia, or the Arabs of Hedjaz, or the Roman Catholics of Spain, his Chartered, Constitutional right to abide in his native land is abolished. Lie becomes a worse than feudal serf. (2) . When a Council of Nine is set up in Geneva to rule your country, and to assess your country for expenses—yon having no part in choosing those Nine Demigods, and no voice in the matter of the tax-assessment, you lose the right, for which your Fathers fought England , in 1776. (3). When Woodrow Wilson and a Senate —which wan not elected on. that Maw—arrogate to themselves the power to put their Supreme Law over yovr Supreme Law, they are usurpers, who take away from you,, the Sovereign People, the right to make , unmake, and remake your govern ment. (4). "When the government, of the world is committed to Nine Woodrow Wilsons, plus Col. Pussyfoot House, and plus the Pussyfoot Pope, you are refilled of the sovereign right to represen tative government. Those Nine Demigods are not. to be elected by you. They ate not amenable to yon. They cannot be voted out by you. They oannot be impeached by you. To whom, is given the power to appoint the Nine Demigods? Nobody tells ns. To whom is given the power to remove those Nine Celestials? Nobody tells us. For what length of time, was the Pope’s man elected General Secretary of the Nine Demigods? Nobody tells us. For what, length of time, will the Celestial Nine hold office? Nobody tells us—and nobody vet ' knows, ex cept the Men-on-the-Inside. My guess is, that the Nine are to be life-term ere. (5.) The fact that personal liberty in time of peace is to be eternally done away with, is suf ficiently proved by the conscript bill which your Jefferson Administration is demanding that your Congressman support. You'd better see to it that your Congressman doesn't vote for that slavery bill—else your boys will be among the slaves , subject to another ex perience in Europe under John G. Pershing, W. W. Harts, and Ilardboiled Smith. (6). If the, Senate votes to ratify the usurpatory action of Woodrow Wilson, in making a new government for this government, and a higher law than our highest law , what becomes of the Sovereignty of the People ? Both the President and the Senate coolly as same that they can legally make a government whieh shall rule the one that, your Fathers made! Both the President and the Senate compla •cently proceed upon the idea that they are the American People. Let's show them that they arc mistaken. What Did He Do With It? Let us suppose that every man, every woman, every hild in the United States handed a dollar to the Sacred Cow: this contribution would total up One hundred million dollars. Suppose the Sacred Cow had said, “Give me your money—a hundred million dollars of it—I want it for secret, purposes, and I want it under¬ stood that you must never ask me what I did with in¬ If you hadn’t read of this in the newspapers and in The Congressional Record, you would doubt that any such demand was ever made and con¬ ceded. | h ,, o„ would think y<m dreamed it. rend! or 7 i it in some book of fiction, such as Alice in re dorian. ; The Mysteries of Udolplio, The Ea-i tailed Gat, Gulliver s Travels, The. House of Ush er, King Solomon's Mines, or SJps-who-must-b© d. If you didn't know it was so, you d swear it wasn’t. The Sacred Cow demanded for himself, $100, 000,000 to be spent secretly, and without ever hav ing to give an account of how he spent it! And Congress gave it to him! At that time, Congress would have given him the sun, moon, and stars, if he had demanded them. At that time. Congress had no mmd of its own: the inside of its collective skull was like the contents of our grandmother’s soft-soap gourd, At that time, Congress was a piano, with an automatic player attachment; and the Sacred Cow did all the pedalling, be sure! i The result was melodious, to The whole blessed government, the entire Church, and the hypnotized, terrified People re¬ solved themselves into just one thing, and that was The Cow. We were Hindoos, through and through, ana the Saered Bull, like the wilful wind, blew where he listed, and wherever he blew the vegetation bent. What did ho do with the hundred million - dollars? Surely, he did not keep it: surely, he did not lend it out, at interest: surely, he did not invest it in Liberty Bonds and War Stamps, When a man beomes Supreme Moralist of Mankind, he ought not to be ashamed to let lower mortals know how he spends his money—especial ly when it was public money given him by a eon filing lot of virtuous Congressmen. But how can a Supreme Moralist, the Har binger of the Dawn of die New Day, honestly dis pose of a hundred million dollars, in secret? Tou needn’t snort or sniff, or sneeze—it* a fair question, and lots of inferior bipeds, who 'were taxed for the monejq want the question answered. DA me see: Did any of the Daily Papers, ‘ don K about that time, exhibit any signs of sud- - den prosperity? Did six or eight thousand editorial columns begin to look like the keys of a piano, all playing the same notes at the same time? Since I come to think of it, I think there wad something of the sort. Dut 111 bet you that, the secret hundred-. million-dollar fund didn't have a thing to do with Along about that time, the Wicked Pacifists wanted to have a pacifist meeting in a certain city °f the North, and they were unpacifieally prevent nd from holding it: then they tried a city in the W est, and again they were prevented: and then they tried a God-forsaken town in the North West, and were again preventd: by this time their money and their courage had both oozed out—for they didn't have any hundred millions to draw on. Those of us who are old-fashioned and getting along in years, were brought up in the belief that God is love, and Christ the Prince of Peace! William Jenkings Bryan made a pot of ducats lecturing to the noodles on the Prince of Peace, and any number of pulpit orators have made fame on the theme of God is love. Fanc Y feelings w hen I found all this sort °f conversation thrown into the discredited rub bish ' and heard thfi churches resound with war whoops. d assure you, it almost took my breath away: when was preached to me, that the Great War which COst ten million lives was God's way of bestowing a blessing upon us. Ancl now the same men aa 7 that w e must join League of Liberias, and Japans, and Hedjazes, order bring about everlasting peace. But if war is a blessing, why not have more of them? If wan is God's way of blessing us, who’s to ^ ee p him from blessing us that way, again? ff a hundred million dollars were put to work amon S poor, weak mortals who edit papers, and deliver lectures, and preach sermons, and vote in v ongress, and give out interviews, and write Spec ' a ' articles, do you reckon it would have any in duCnoa ■ d aee we are t0 have a permanent con script . law put upon us, and our country is to lie transformed into a vast convict camp, and martial ' s t0 * abe place of civil authority, and mil bons y° un £ men w ' d have 1° leave home and go *° * be aftermost parts of the earth, when foreign demand it. ni - v surprise, I see the same piano-keys playing that tune; and the pulpits may soon ex pafiate on the democratic advantages of autocratic military rule; and the lecturer will orate; and the special writer will resume his noble efforts; and the press-bureau will put. in extra time; and the same old crowd of patriots who whooped for War and Patriotism will whoop for Peace and Inter¬ nationalism. A hundred million dollars to be used in secret! Suppose you had that amount of money, to spend honestly , in secret, how would you go about it ? Scratch your head a little bit, and drop me a line. Of course it isn’t a bit of our business, but we haven't anything else to put in this space and ask Mr. W ilson needs another hundred thousand or so to investigate the highcostofliving. where under Ho canopy did he put that eoupla million he got out of the strong box last year?
