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THOS. E. WATSON, Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, August 29, 1919.
Mr. Wilson is having a hard time getting his
chickens to come home to roost..
It would seem that the Russian Reds were
getting too red for even the Russians, to stand.
Any dance that was named the “shimmy '
should have died a natural death, from its name
only.
Aeroplane flying is said to be a cure for ner
gemsness. Nerves die a natural death, mebbe, while
Hp in the air.
Is it possible that the Coal Trust is paying a
bonus to the Indian who is prophesying a “heap
much cold” winter?
* * * *
Archduke Josoph has “resigned” as head of
the Hungarian government; he should feel quite
chesty over the fact that he was able to resign.
The landlord who boosts his rent will proba
Hy have an attack of heart failure when he finds
the taxes are playing tag with the boost and “go
ing up, too.
* * * *
Admiral Von Tirpitz is wrangling still as to
luw Germany lost the war: blames it on treach
ery, which may be construed as to mean treachery
of Fate.
Is it altogether the higher cost of living that
is to blame for the troubles of many of us? Or the
hig' -r cost of the things we couldn’t get till we
got the higher wages?
“Buying . of .. homes urged by banker,”
head line. Ain’t says news
he the nice man, though? and
wippose he is quite willing to finance the buy, for a
little matter of 12 per cent or so.
* * * *
A judge in Columbus, Indiana, tried a man
over a telephone and assessed a fine. Snothing;
many a woman has been tried over the telephone by
other women, and bankrupted of her character.
* * * #
If some of those actors and actresses in New
v Yera , . had , struck . . . because of the lack of clothes,
or
because of the stunts they had to do. the sympathy
of the public would have be,en^with them en masse.
*
Ir ‘ the ” est estimates for a 20 per cent crop,
. rain, balanced
f ne to no are by the estimate of a
little less than a 50 per cent cotton crop, because of
too much rain. And there you are, says old Gen.
Depression.
The manager of the Swift Packing Co.'s cold
storage plant was fined 8500. for storing food. A
fat lot ol good that will do, and the public will
have paid the fine a dozen times over, before the
farce is re-enacted.
1 he up-to-datest thief is one who operated on
tne cash drawer f a clothing house in Maryland,
and moved the electric, fan so that it would keep
him cool while he opened the combination of the
money box.
If Shantung is battledored around much more.
it will wake with a pain in its head directly, won
dering where on the map they are for the next
twenty-four hours. Congress says China is to boss
the Shantung works.
It s pitiful the amount of advertising the big
Chicago meat packers are doing, to -convince Ol
Man Peepul that the high price of meat isn't tin
fault of the packer. But even at that, most of u
are decidedly from Missouri.
At last the Congress of the U. 8. A. has be
pen tv> realize that our soldiers have no business in
R* s ria, never ‘'id have, and it will be a blot on (>:
till they are called home, and the capitalists nr.
made to finance, their own wars, when capital only
i' at stake.
After reading all the row about woman 6
rights, it gives us a hen sense of the fact that
ti ore are really n few of the old-fashioned women
left: one of her wrote to a newspaper to a It advice
in the matter < f marrying the husbr.i ! of bet
fu.censor] aunt and i f course the news; »; « r i vc
it the best afrentbr of the <hop. and advised so a
o make Friend Husband a s h . rii, r.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HAKLEM, GA.
mn^rnmconscmon.
(1). They want it, because a volunteer army
c mnot be maintained under the barbarous mistreat¬
ment which the privates had to suffer in the canton
nmtspf 1917, and in the camps and prisons in
trance.
The General Staff at Washington is at least
»» and despotic as was the General Staff at
Berlin; and the natural consequence is, that the
average officer becomes a cruel autocrat, who treats
i,J>e private as an inferior human being,
The General Staff being haughtily self-im¬
portant and domineering, the whole officer-force
tends to become arrogant, overbearing, contemptu¬
ous to civilians, and oppressive to private soldiers.
Thus the spirit of caste, supersedes the spirit
of democratic and sociable equality.
The private who has had a taste of being look¬
ed upon as a dog, and cursed like a dog, and beat¬
en like a dog, and starved like a dog, will never
again go into that hell unless he is coubcrieteo.
Hence, President Wilson’s fine democratic
heme for an army of conscripts.
( 2 ). They want it because the army-spirit is
the very opposite of the democratic spirit.
Militarism enforces blind obedience. If the
citizen, drafted into the army, does not blindly obey
every order, he is subjected to immediate and sav
a ge punishment by the officer whom he offended.
The court-martial—in its last analysis—is the
officer sentencing the private whom he condemned
b< fore the “court” began its sitting.
Militarism breaks down the self-respect and
the independence of the individual; and, inasmuch
rs our democratic-republican institutions rest upon
the independent action of self-respecting individ
uals, militarism is their enemy.
The more militarism you have, the less democ¬
racy is possible.
There can be no democracy in an army; and if,
bv universal conscription, you make the army uni
'trsal, no democracy is left. *
That’s what Woodrow Wilson is aiming at:lie
and the Capitalistic-Catholic interests that control
him are the inveterate foes of democracy.
(3). They want it because the League of Na
Hens means war ; and it means that American sol
t trs must be ready at all times to leave the United
States, and fight for England, or Spain, or Liberia,
or Hedjaz, or France, or Italy, whenever the Coun
oil of Nino Demigods shall say that some territor
J -- conquest of the robber-nations needs defense
from “external aggression.”
Who will decide whether the “external aggres
ricn” exists?
The Nine Demigods.
Suppose they say there is such aggression,
when in fact there is none?
If they say it, that ends it: the “external agR
gression” exists,
Volunteers would never serve England in
Egypt or India; never serve France in Syria or
Africa; never serve Greece in Asia Minor: nor
Italy in Tunisia.
But the League of Nations binds us to send
t• oops anywhere, at any time, when the Nine Demi
; ds so order; and therefore. Wilson demands a
permanent policy of conscription to produce its
permanent army of conscripts.
( 4 )- Th «.T want it because the Wise Man,
\ hose slippers Solomon was not worthy to have
rissed, went off to Europe, stayed seven months
. nd messed up everything he touched, until dozens
" f wars sprang up while he was fiddling around
among kings, queens, popes and potentates—and
embroiled this country in every European, African,
and Asiatic entanglement that has arisen or may
hereafter arise!
Nothing like it was ever seen before; nothing
similar to it can ever happen again.
It was jackassery reduced to a fine art, and
elevated into an international institution,
Imitative asses may come along later and
emulate the Great Protagonist; but, like Simeon
Mylites, Woodrow Wilson will always have a
pillar, all to himself.
He messed us up in the Russian entanglement,
-here his man, Kolchak, is the forerunner of res¬ '
ted Czardom; he messed us up in Hungary, where
>ur troops helped to overthrow a democratic gov
>•) r.mcnt, and where the Hapsb» v gs are once more
■nthroned.
lie messed us up in the affairs of Japan and
hina; and we are there betraying the Chinese
•public to Japanese imperialism.
He messed us up in the affairs of Turkey: and
wo are accomplices to England's seizure cf what's
•ft of the ancient empire of Darius and Xerxes.
We ourselves will probably toke Const an tino
ne under our benevrl-nt, assimilative guardian
dp, as per the Philippine Islands.
All tin's world-wide entanglement needs blood
nd iron. Rhetoric is good, and propaganda i
good, but the gun is better than phrases, and “lit
n.turo.”
Hence. American soldiers must lie ready to go
jid keep going, light keep '
and fighting, to the
' ,;S L to the H ost, to the Cuckoo’s nest, wherever
f 't pital has a debt to collect, and Monopoly a new
field to exploit.
Volunteers cannot be obtained for such work,
i or will a self-gove rning people long stand for it :
Tjsequcntly, universal military training must
educate democracy out of the coming generations.
’""1 i'OWN ‘ription must replace volunteering.
So, vou >'(N* (hat* after nil, the people paid for
i hoi r men • n 'uthu when they bought ‘'Liberty '
(5). They want it beeat .u»e it gives unlimited
<4 portunities to the Knights of Columbus and the
Romish chaplains. social equality
At the same time, it gives to
the negro soldier's —such as they had in France,
and such as will repeat the race-riots of Washing
ton and Chicago, in every city of the United States,
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The Guile and the Wiles of the White
House Jesuits.
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Reservations, in a declaratory way, but not as a
part of the League and Treaty.
In other words, the Jesuit said, “Put your
Rcservations outside the international League and
Treaty: on the outside, they won't bind anybody
but you; and I’m perfectly willing—in the concil¬
iatory spirit of compromise—that you shall fill the
Congressional Record with Reservations, so long as
you don’t put them where they will ever be arty
more than academic expressins of harmless opin
ions.”
It takes a Jesuit to talk that way.
President Wilson’s written statement to the
Foreign Relations Committee reminds me of
Alexander Hamilton’s papers in Federalist.
To those democrats who were suspicious of the
new Constitution of 1787, and who feared it car¬
ried the seeds of centralism, consolidation, and
One-Man Dictatorship, the plausible Hamilton
held forth as follows:
“The rights of the States are fully
safeguarded: no danger of Federal en
croachment.
“The inherited rights of the citizen
are safe, because everybody knows what
they are, and nobody disputes them.
“There is no reason for fearing that
unjust wars will be undertaken, or stand¬
ing armies created, since the lower House
must go before the people every two years,
and military appropriations are limited to
two years.
“This being so, the people can cor¬
rect any abuse in this direction, in two
years time,
“There is no reason to put into the
Constitution the principles embodied in
the Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights,
and Magna Charta, because everybody
knows that Congress has no power to
abridge freedom of speech, and of press;
nor to make any law that deprives the
free-man of his life, his liberty, or his
property, save by the verdict of a jury of
his equals and by the law of tohe land.
'•'■Congress can't do any of the things
you are dreading-, hence, your fears are
groundless.”
In that strain of bunco reasoning, the Feder¬
alist leader hoodooed the Democrats into adopting
the new Constitution, which has made our govern¬
ment as Federalists as Hamilton wanted it to be:
ns Capitalistic as he wanted it to be: as un
democratic as he wanted it to be: and as Pro-Brit
ict as he wanted it to be.
And Hamilton could never have dreamed that
an English Tory would be our Dictator, clothed
k Congress with vaster powers of purely personal
rule, Trajan than Julius weilded. Caesar, Tiberius, Nero,' Caligula,
or ever
“The State?—That is I!”
So said the haughtiest of Bourbon Kings,
when in the enjoyment of the full development of
Cardinal Richelieu's ideal of a One-Man des
p. tism.
This English Tory, Woodrow Wilson, is not
only the whole State, so far as this country is con
cerned, but he aspires to be the One-Man of a
despotized world.
The Jesuits at the White House are frighten¬
ing the people by saying, that business can’t re¬
sume its normal conditions unless the Senate ends
<he War by ratifying the League.
The League lias nothing to do with Germany;
l ot the Jesuits know that millions of our people
are unaware of that fact.
The country went into the War upon a joint
Resolution of Congress: it can come out, in the
same way.
He dont have to become Japan’s accomplice
in crime.
H e don’t have to become accomplices in
Woodrow Wilson’s complicity.
If he did things at Paris which no honest man
•an endoise, the fault is his.
The Senate was not consulted; the Senate did
not advise.
Oil the contrary, the Senate was studiously
ignored, and its advice never sought.
Wilson came home, bringing a monstrosity
hybrid of Treaty and League—a mongrel of
, <ace and war. democracy and imperialism: and lie
demands that the Senate and the country hurry
up. to commit themselves to it, before they learn
Arif the ugly secrets behind it, the ugly sebivls
"thin it, and the ugly intentions before it.
Verily, the Jesuits fear the light, because their
dads are evil.
And the Jesuit, bad the Cuckoo newspapers
'•'led with the terrific news that, if the Senate did
no! ha ten the ratification of the League, we would
'•'Vo to go. back to the Germans, "hat in hand."
g them to agree to the changes.
[fill the Senators said
Mv. President, Germany is not to lie a mom
net of the League, and therefore is not concerned
shout the changes.” Wise answered—
To which King Solomon the
“Oh yes! That’s so: I had forgotten it!”
The White House “entourage”—as the safc
ellitos, courtiers, flunkeys, and smaller Jesuits are
called—chortled over the outcome of the confcr
nuee with the Senators; and they said, that the
Senators about it!
Did he spend seven months malting it, without
becoming familiar with what he was doing t
An architect who wuuld devote seven months
;o the construction of a house, and then, before it
was occupied, needed a whole day bo study it, be
j'ore he could intelligently talk about it, would be
considered an amateur who did not know his busi
ness.
A lawyer who gave seven months to the pre
paration of a case, and then announced “Ready;”
but who then had to hold the court, while be
studied it another day, would probably make just
such a failure as Woodrow Wilson made in At
lanta.
The Plumb Plan for the Government
Ownership of Railroads.
(Continued from Page One.)
the use of those franchises.
To have the Government own and control a
navigable river, and not own and control the
railroad which parallels it, is inconsistent folly,
The reasoning which applies to the water-way,
aj plies to the iron-way.
They are both public in their nature, and in
cheir functions.
To surrender the American highways to priv¬
ate exploitation, is to enable the pirates to exact
tribute, from every traveller, and every piece of
merchandise.
It must cost piles of money to pay newspsn
pers, book-writers, Congressmen, legislatures,
judges, lawyers, lobbyists etc.
Free passes and private cars!
Advertisements that they don’t need, but
whose price somebody else needs!
“Specials,” in the Religious Press!
“Propaganda,” “The for higher rates!
poor railroads are entitled to live, etc. 5 *
Government ownership would cut out all of
this.
Read the following clip from The Nation, and
then soften your hearts towards us old crazy Pops,
who advocated this principle, at a time when Glenn
E. Plumb, the author of Labor’s Plan of Govern¬
ment Ownership, was probably a school-boy: ,
“In brief the plan provides:
1. For the purchase by the Gov¬
ernment of the private interest in the rail¬
roads. ' j f
2 . For the operation of the roads as
a unified system by a board composed of
fifteen directors, five to be appointed by
the President to represent the public, five
to be lected by the operating officials, and
five by the other employees.
3. The corporation has no money
capital. At the close of the year, after
paying all expenses of operating and fixed
charges, the surplus is divided into two
equal sums, one to be paid to the Govern¬
ment, the other to the operating officials
and other employees as a dividend on lab¬
or. When the Government’s share, in any
given year, is more than five per cent, of
the gross operating revenue, the Interstate
Commerce Commission will be obliged to
reduce rates to absorb the amount the
Government has received. The employ¬
ees' share is paid to all employees; but the
operating officials receive twice the rate of
dividend paid to the other workers.
4. Extensions so far as possible are
to be paid for by the community benefit
ed; and when ,
tire the building a community pays the en¬
sum, of the extension is
obligatory upon the corporation. If the
community cannot pay the full cost, the
Government pays the remainder out of
its profit, and as deemed wise. The Gov¬
ernment can, at its own expense, build ex¬
tensions through regions that would re¬
ceive no local benefit, if such an extension
would be in the interest of the general
public.
5. A sinking fund is set aside from
the gross operating revenue for the retire¬
ment of the government securities with
which the property is prchased. Pending
the determination of value by the courts
the railroad companies receive half the
present rental, this to be deducted from
the eventual purchase price. Ultimately all
the debt from purchase is cancelled.
6. The Interstate Commerce Com¬
mission retains all of its present rate
fixing powers.
7. On the failure of the corpora¬
tion to live up to the terms of its contract,
Congress may revoke its charier.”
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