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Vol. 38
The Double-Doored Soundproof
Room.
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One of the properganders and white-wash ar¬
tists who went to Paris, after the armistice, was
Ray Stannard Baker, the noted magazine writer.
Brother Baker was a muck raker in the old
days, when Lincoln Steffens, Governor Hadley,
Sam Untermyer and Ida Tarbell sailed in, to
mend the manners of the Rockefellers, the Morgans,
the Garys, the Armours, and other Malefactors of
Great Wealth.
These champions of Righteousness became dis¬
couraged, and quit: they dropped the rake and let
the muck accumulate.
Brother Baker makes a very good propergan
der, and his artistic handling of the whitewash
commands admiration; but he doesn’t always fore¬
see the effect of his own verbiage.
In his labored eulogy of our great President,
which is being published in the New York Tele¬
gram, Mr. Baker says—
“No sooner had the Peace Conference
.
got down to business, sitting within the
double-doored, soundproof room in the
French Foreign Office, than the struggle
'*■’ began—and it centred at once upon an
issue between President Wilson, demanding
the acceptance of a broad principle of
policy, and the other allies, demanding
that their interests be served.”
“The Peace Conference.... sitting within the
double-doored, soundproof room in the French
Foreign Office!”
What sort of picture do these words suggest
to your mind ?
Does this language correspond with the White
House rhetoric to which our delicate ears have
been attuned?
Haven’t, we been played on, at concert pitch,
by sweet, inspiring references to a new Dawn and
» New Day, in whose radiance the virtuous diplo¬
mats would invite all of us to seats in the gallery,
where we could stop, look and listen, while the
[Virtuous Ones openly arrived at open covenants?
p- j The new dispenser at the White House abol¬
ished secret diplomacy.
The old dark alleys-of intrigue were walled up.
were opened out, everywhere,
go that everybody conld see what was going on,
everywhere.
Never more should the effete diplomats of the
tired old world, over there, huddle together behind
closed doors, and make a hlic'-orint distribution of
provinces, principalities, Kingdoms, empires, Con¬
tinents, and peoples.
The world was no longer a chess-board; and
peoples were never again to be given over to this
Ruler or handed back to that one, or swapped back
and forth in the game of world-politics.
No! The New Dispenser at the White House
gave us to understand, that he- bad been raised up
and divinely commissioned to stop all that.
He, in fact, stated that God had inspired what
1 m did at Paris.
He made this statement during his Western
tour, just before he demonstrated that England’s
six votes in the League were not six, but only one.
In the same speech, he proved that the one
vote of our forty-eight States was not one, but si>i
And he said that God had inspired the wont
which “fruitioned” the League!
Therefore, you have a natural right to feel
shocked when Ray Stannard Baker draws that
pen-picture of the four ancient mariners, huddled
together at the French Foreign Office, “within the
double-doored, soundproof room?
O! why these double doors?
O! why these sound-proof walls?
O! why these whispered words?
Step softly: those four ancient mariners are
putting an end to the secret doings of the effete
diplomacy of the bad old times, before the New
Dispenser wormed his way to the White House,
and began to beguile mankind with the rhetoric
which knows,no brother: with the type-machine
which has no \sist er: ana wun rne private secret
whose, foster-father was named Mephistopheles.
“No sooner had the Peace Conference got down
to business, sitting within the double-doored, sound¬
proof room —”
Mr. Baker is not altogether frank: he. should
have stated that the Peace Conference- had been
whittled down to four old men —Clemenceau, Or¬
lando, Lloyd-George, and Woodrow Wilson.
Hundreds of delegates had come from a score
of nations to take part in the Conference, but they
* were not allowed to partake.
The line was drawn against the weaker powers,
at the veiy start.
Ministers, envoys, and peace delegates had
come from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ser
via, China, South Africa, and other States; but, so
far as the Conference was concerned, their place
was no better than that of lobbyists attending a ses¬
sion of Congress.
In fact, it was not so good.
They were kept outside: they were not permitted
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THE POOR DOWN-TRODDEN NEGRO.
He was born in Africa, and it is a great pity
that he ever left his birthplace.
You can see him in the paintings of the ancient
Egyptian tombs; and whenever you do see him. he
is a slave, with the same hair, nose, lips, and fuel
that Nature gave him from the beginning.
In biblical language, he was an Ethiopian, and
he is not complimented when referred to.
In Roman literature, he is a Nubian, and no
love is lost on hiijj.
The editor who gets a thousand dollars a week
stated, that Queen Cleopatra was a negress; but the
editor who gets fifty dollars a week demonstrated
from the, records, that the other fellow was not
posted on the Negro Question.
In the Roman Empire, the Negro was the.
lowest of the slaves: those patricians who were able
to afford the expense of slave-cooks, slave-musicians,
slave-house-servants, employed Greeks, Gauls, Asi¬
atics, etc. who had been made prisoners of war.
The dark continent of Livingstone, was the
Dark Continent of the Pharaohs.
Tlie Darkest Africa of Stanley, was equally
dark in the days of Moses.
No good was in it, or ever came out of it.
No trace can be found of any Negro civiliz¬
ation: the ruins in Africa are Roman in every de¬
tail, just tis every ruin in Mexico, Central America,
and South America, is Oriental —not Indian.
The Cherokces at length invented an alphabet
an a written language: no negro tribe ever did.
To the Indian, as to the Arab, the law of hos¬
pitality was innate and sacred: no such law- pre¬
vailed among the negroes.
Cannibalism was not practiced by the Red Man:
it was universal among the Blacks.
The Indians dreamed of a Paradise of bound¬
less hunting-grounds and abundant Big Game: the
Negroes had nightmares of wizards, witches, devils,
and demons. I
The Indians used a beautiful rhetoric, as nat
ural as the crystal streams to which they gave mu
sieal names; and their eloquence of speech was as
free and unconscious as the flight of the eagle:
but the Negro had no gift of tongue, and thejuimes
ho gave to rivers, mounlains, and lakes
teral as the grunting of swine.
The Indian worshipped The Great Spirit,
whose voice was in every breeze; whose glory shone
upon the hills, flooded the plains with the radiance
of the sun and the shadows of the passing clouds:
the Negro quaked before his Witch-Doctor, and
knelt in fear at the feet of the god that, he had made
out of sticks and rags and bones.
The Abolitionists believed, that the doleful
chants of the Southern slaves were the murmurings
of the victims, who lamented a lost freedom: in fact,
those chants are the only approaches that the Ethio¬
pian ever made to music.
They were brought directly from the Dark
Continent.
They are to be heard in San Domingo, where the
Negro has reverted to type, and is luxuriously im¬
moral, densely ignorant, happily indolent, wallow¬
ing in monastic filth, sacrificing the black child to
the offended devil, and occasionally filling the hot¬
pot with human flesh.
If you will read some of the books published
by European missionaries, you will learn, that the
first difficulty they encounter among the Negro
tribes of Africa is, to put a stop to their killing and
one, another.
(Possibly you may doubt my word; and there¬
fore I name one of the books, which you can pro¬
cure for yourself by writing to P. Stammer, Cl,
Fourth Avenue, New York City.
The title is,—•
“On the Back Waters of the Nile”: its author
is, Rev. A. L. Kitching, a British missionary, the
book was published only seven years ago , in Lon¬
don.)
Like the Indians, the black tribes were contin¬
ually at war, among themselves; and, consequently,
many prisoners were taken: these were preserved
for eating purposes, or were sold to European trad
era.
A jng of molasses, or of New England rum.
would buy a boat-load of these captives.
When a Negro of high degree was buried, it
was customary to bury, also, some live persons, as
It will be a great value to us to have all subscrip¬
tions sent to
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL,
Thornton Office,
Thomson, Go.
Have money orders made out in this way, and much time
will be saved in booking your subs.
THE COLUMBIA. SENTINEL.
Harlem, Ga., Friday, Novemfr 9 1919.
a sort of escort to the deceased.
Travelers state, in their books, that hunting
parties, bent’upon a long trip into the Big Game
regions, buy negro girls from their fathers, at pri¬
ces ridiculously low.
The girls never object : they regard their se¬
lection as an honor.
Fat girls are the favorites in Africa; and 1
have here a book telling how the maids are fed tip
on sweet milk; and how the mother stands over the
prospective helle, heating her with a stick, to
force her to drink more: when sufficiently fat the
lady is sold to some cattle-owning buck who is
pleased by her personal appearance.
If you would know what monstrosities and
atrocities are natural to the black race, you should
read at least one of the following Winks:
“Where Black Rules White;” by Ilesketh
Pritchard:
“In the Shadow of the. Bush;” by Annuity
Talbot:
“Races of Men;” by Pickering.
“Santo Domingo,” by Samuel Ilazzard.
Those books were written by white people;
but do you happen to know that, blackest indict¬
ment ever brought against the Negro race, was writ¬
ten by a black man!
His name was Thomas, and he had come South,
with Northern notions of his race, and for the
purpose of uplifting it.
He spent years of his life at this task, but
gave it up in utter disgust, and (hen wrote the book,
whose title is “The American Negro.”
Booker Washington was only half negro, but
he ran true to the lower form.
He was imitative as an ape: was as liestial as
a gorilla; was as pompously self-assertive as Fred
Douglas; gloried in his triumph, when his pres¬
ence drove white ladies out of the Pullman car:
chortled with eestaey when he dined with Grover
Cleveland, in Andrew- Oarrnegie’s palace—and
wound up by being chased out of a white woman's
sleeping apartment, in New- York, and beaten as he
ran from, street to street.
And .while he was keeping his room, at a crack
until the Tr aces of OlfirtvsKeating would"not
bp, s0 conspicuous, the most prominent white Negro
lovers called, and sent up cards of sympathy, this
The white woman didn't get any of sym
pathy; and Ulriohs would have been severely pttn
ished, if the Negro-lovers had thought they could
afford <0 let the case come to trial,
{— To save Booker, they ignored Ulriehs.
Had Booker lived, he might now- be Secretary
of War, ordering your sons to the snows of Siberia.
to fight the white democrats of Russia,
Booker’s private secretary is one of your Sec¬
retaries of War, and is ordering, your hoys to
Europe!
Emmett Scott is a negro, and he is the asso¬
ciate or Newton Bak.br, in the War Department
of the Federal Government.
Did you know it?
No Tillman was in the Senate to make a fight
on this appointment.
No Vardanian was there to do it.
The Senators, from the South were mum, when
Woodrow Wilson made this appointment.
A few years ago, all the Democratic Daily Toot
toots stormed and raged, when a Republican Presi¬
dent, named a black man for a Charleston custom¬
house,
Roosevelt was trounced, savagely, for the ap¬
pointment ot Dr. Crum.
Don't you remember?
But Woodrow Wilson makes a Southern ne¬
gro the associate Secretary of War. and the Daily
Toot-toots do not daily toot. change?
Did you ever know of a greater
Could you have lielieved that a Democratic
President would elevate negro men over the
men and women, as Wilson has done?
The City-Court Judge of the Nation's
<1 negro Republican!
The Assistant Secretary of War, a negro
publican ! the District
The Reeordership of Deeds, in
Columbia, handed out to a Negro Republican.
It all comes of the secret deal which candidate
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Personal Liberty is
Left?
1 hero is a well known stanza of poetry which
speaks of the New World as the hope of mankind,
burdened by the yoke of European tits pot ism.
I his stanza expresses the idea that, it the ef¬
fort to establish freedom and liberty and irood
government proves a failure, in this country, it
« 7 ILI, BE THE LAST EXPERIMENT.
1 here is no ot her N CM World no other place
or such an experiment.
That's a solemn thought, mg brother!
To get away from slavish conditions in the
Old World, the emigrants risked ocean-storms,
endured colonial hardships, battled with the wil¬
derness, suffered Indian depredations -brijviny
death, in the attempt to gain the natural rights of
In the very first "state-paper" that White Men
'ver wrote in America, the .Jamestown Colonists
proclaimed the elementary principles of democracy.
1 hey were Manhood suffrage. Trial by Jvtrv,
Representative t iovernmenl.
These Englishmen did not think it neecssary
to mention iree speech, free press and free assem
binge, because they had enjoyed thou?, tin Old
England.
The Emigrants did not leave their homes in
gain those rights: they left home and came to this
country, because they wanted what they did not
then have in the Mother Country, to wit: Manhood
Suffrage, Trial by Jury, and Representative Gov¬
ernment.
Digest the facts, my brother!
Note what the Englishman already hath m
England; and then note, what else he wanted, so
much THAT HE RISKED HIS LIFE TO GET IT.
Not only did the Jamestown Colony proclaim
its principles of progressive democracy: the emi¬
grants bound for Plymouth Rock signed tip on ship¬
board, before landiing, a state-paper similar to
Jamestown's.
What s the situation now, my brother?
Is it not a frightful fact, that you have lost the
liberties your ancestors had, when they left home,
to get more?
Wake up! -cy-vr„
. Before the Englishman left his native land, in
the 17th Century, he already had freedom of speech,
freedom of press, freedom of assemblage, and a
limited right to demand trial by jury:
But he was not satisfied with these: he wanted
to escape the personal rule of a monarchy, domi¬
nated by hereditary wealth and Privilege: Ho
wanted to be a free man, ruled by himself:
He wanted In vote, and make his own laws:
He wanted all cases to he tried by a jury-:
He wanted what belonged to him, by natural
right, as a man —good as any other man.
That's democracy.
H« came here to got it!
He did get it; and he fought to keep it: an 8
he won the fight, after seven years of fearful strug*
gle with England —where Woodrow Wilson’s pto*
pU THEN LIVED.
Yes, he won the victory, and he straightway
organized that triumph in the State Governments
of the Thirteen States that had been thirteen colo¬
nies.
Then, lip organized the Central Government,
to “preserve, protect, and defend" the natural rights
of the individual, and the State rights of each.
State.
As a precaution, this ancestor of yours, matte
it a condition, that no man should hold high office^
without taking an oath of allegiance to Tins com*
TRY.
Not allegiance to Great Britain, but to tKe
United States: not to subvert the rights of the
States, but to guarantee them: not to take away
the personal liberties of the citizens, but safeguard
them.
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Mr. Taft says .that a laboring man has a rrgSt
to quit work, provided he does not agree with some
other man to quit when he quits.
Mr. Taft's a good lawyer, isn't lie?
Give him time and pay him well, and he wifl
dig up new law for the Corporations, whenewe*
they need it.
They now need it,: and Taft digs it up. ;
Attorney-General Palmer, also, is a good law¬
yer ; and the manner in which lie disposed of tbs
German private property required a League of Na¬
tions to convert it into stability.
Palmer agrees with Taft: these two immortal
jurists have a principle new to jurisprudence: the 9
say that a hundred men. or a thousand, or a millk®,
each haev a legal rigid to quit work, bitf. if they
agree, among themselves, to quit sirnu/tan-eouslg ,
THE AGREEMENT IS A CRIME!
These Monumental lawyers say, that a ley ad otA
becomes illegal, if a number of citizens do it, at the
same time,
These two National Ornaments to the legal
profession say, that an act, done individually, rs
lawful, hut, done collectively, is unlawful.
This is the first, time that I ever saw the lira
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