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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1919)
4 to o =5 O G> to O 3 a 5 5. uj (n c Jay W. Forest of Albany, New York, has again bobbed up. He “worked” the Populists, as campaign Man¬ ager and Campaign Cashier, as long as there was any cash for Joy. He worked the socialists, until they found him out. He then became one of tho Guardians of Liberty, and collected membership fees with great willingness and assiduity . He now blossoms out as one of the Sons of Washington; and all he wants this time, is $2. apiece for entrance money. Ktin along, little sucker, and join Jay’s “Sons." King Albert has left us: he took Lizzie and Leopoldie back home with him. Before he left, he crawled between the cracks of the White House fence, and saw Woodrow. The interview between him and the Presidential invalid was very affecting. You’ll see a picture of it in the papers, before long. When the Belgian Monarch reached the White House, he elevated himself to the President’s floor hv stepping into the elevator and pressing the button. T perused an account, of it in the Daily Toot toot—and was deeply affected. With reasonable time to prepare for it, I could have hnggod King AltxTt. He is such a democrat; and all he wanted of us, was common civility, garnished with a loan if $50,000,000. He said he was sorry he couldn’t stay longer. He was quite down in the mouth at not being able to attend the Fiddlers’ Convention in Atlanta Tt, seems that he is a fiddler himself, and he. was anxious to show John Carson and others how he can play Durang’s Hornpipe and the Arkansas’ traveler. He said that it would be one of his lasting re¬ grets that he. did not see Billy Sunday preach. He told me to give you his love. His last words were—“God bless you!” Don’t you think that the President of the Re¬ public of Ireland might have the politeness to step over into Mexico, and give the Prince of Wales a chance to pay us a visit? The English Prince cannot consistently come whflo the Irish President is here. Is this country being made the hnse of Ireland's preparations for war against England ? President DeValera is actively at work agita¬ ting against England, collecting funds and organi¬ zing the Irish Societies. It is strange that England makes no formal protest lx to our government. tRe League she waiting until h fastened on ns! A typical case in Atlanta: A school teacher at the Inman Park school persistently dumped the school-house sweepings in the street, although admonished by a police officer not to do so. Because of her defiance of City law, she wij summoned to Court. She told the officer that she would not appear in “that dirty old court." Sim did not appear. Wan she in contempt? Oh, no! She is a Catholic. The Honorable Mayor praised the officer for trying to do his duty, and excused the offender from appearoing in court. The officer got off light. The Honorable Mayor is a fervent upholder of law and order. “Tt may be interesting to some people to know, that the highest paid men among us is the locomo¬ tive Engineers and they get eighty-five cents an hour. Conductors get sixty tlyee cents. In Miami at. the present time, plumbers are getting one twenty five per hour, paper hangers one dollar per hour. These rates of the local tradesmen of Miami are the least they get, and I am fsrsowslly acquaint¬ ed with men who get away aWwe the minimum rates. In creating public sentiment ag ainst Rv. em¬ ployees. the daily papers will not give the hourly rate the men get. They "ill pick out some man that has worked a lot of overtime and then show that his monthly salary is so and so. If a plumber should put in the same hours as one of our engineers or conductors, it would lie, a sight to see his check at the, end of the monttli., Is there any fair minded man who would not say. that, a locomotive en • gineer or a conductor is not worth more money than a carpertte.E plumlier or painter? There is no comparison as to responsibility. If a plumber fails to do his work well, there is some leaky pipes. Tf an engineer does a bad job, a train load of souls pass into eternity. Trainmen who are compelled to take their meals in two or throe places, necessarily, have to spend n great deal more to live, than those who can he at home every night. 1 mention these things in order to give you a few ideas as to what Rv. employees think. I myself hold a very humble position on this R. II. T am one of the very few men on this R. II. who does not belong to any union. While T am not aftilated witrf the unions 1 feel sure, that, were if not for the pro¬ tection the unions afford the employees would he in a sore plight.” A Florida friend. Neither can Herbert Hoover tell a lie. He tried it once, and it choked him. Speaking of the callow youths at Stanford THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. University, Hoover said that the League would never force our soldiers to fight abroad. He rejected the idea! His very words were— “To me every line of it is the complete negation of militarism.” That’s the reason why the League so carefully stipulates that we must go to war with Germany, whenever France demands it, and defend English possessions throughout the earth, whenever they are in danger. That is also the reason why our Prussian Staff at Washington demands universal conscription, and n standing army of 1,500,000 men. Hoover’s lore of the truth is equal to that of Woodrow Wilson. The Catholic papers are still bragging aboui the costly, precious mosaic which Papa Chiesa gave Woodrow Wilson. They say that medieval mosaic would be cheap at $40,000. But the truthful Tumulty assesses it at $13.65. Forty-six big boxes of royal, municipal, ami papal presents showed an awesome shrinkage, when they were examined by truthful Tumulty. I suppose you have heard about the cat-fish and the negro. The Washington Post, says that “the President is entitled to some seclusion.” Well, hasn’t he had some? I haven't heard that any rude intruder dis¬ turbed his slumbers in the Buckingham Palace. If anybody tried to break down the door, while he was locked in with those other three ravenous democrats in Paris, I haven’t been told. He had some seclusion during those seven months: yes, indeed: in the parlance of the day. that was some seclusion. lie had some sectusiion at the Vatican, some at Cardinal Mereier’s, some in London, some “every¬ where.” The President, of the National Farmer’s Union went from Georgia to Paris, to see our great Presi¬ dent, and failed to see him. Our greatPresrdent. was indulging in some seclusion. Since his return to America, he has, so to speak, luxuriated in seclusion. The Dalai Llama was never more wrapped in mystery. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan was a man of the market-place, compared to Woodrow Wilson. The Sybil of an ancient Temple was convivial, in comparison with the English school-master. The White House is a Castle of Secrecy, and its stables hold enchanted horses. “Entitled to some seclusion?” Of course, he is; and he has more sorts of it, at more different places than any man I ever read of. The Edict of Nantes. It, is such a rare thing to see, in a daily paper, anything revealing the truth about the Church of Home, that I am glad to republish the following from the Birmingham. Alabama, News : THE EDICT OF NANTES. “I wonder how many Birmingham people remembered that October 22 was the 234th anniversary of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.” said Emmett R. Cal¬ houn, State, Secretary of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. “On Octo¬ ber 22. 1685, Louis XIV issued the order that expelled the Protestants from France. The revocation of the edict was ‘pushed’ by a woman, by Madame de Maintenon, enormously clever sovereign of the King’s affections and guide of national destinies. Mine, de Maintenon was a bigot and high- Iv intolerant. She made a foolish and fatal move in this ‘revocation,’ for tho Protestants of France emigrated in great numbers to Britian. Holland and other protestant countries, driven out by the per¬ secutions that, followed, and in foreign countries they established manufactories of silk and other goods, to the great pre judice of France. The Edict of Nantes, allowing the protestants free exercise of their religions and the opening to them of all offices of State had been signed a cen¬ tury before by Henry TV. Amusingly, but sadly true, is the witty French lawyer’s saying, ‘Cherchez la fennne.’ ‘Find tho woman.’ A woman's influence is an eerie thing to King or common.” My brother Calhoun, of the. Junior Order, will. I am sure, welcome a correction of, errors in his statement to the News. The Edict of Nantes did not allow the Protest¬ ants—Huguenots—the free exercise of their relig ion. What the Edict did do, was to grant n limited freedom, confined to lorn)Hies named in the decree. For example, no Protestant worship was tolera¬ ted in Paris, in Bordeaux, in Lyons, in the Ven dean province, or in the Avignon district. The Edict confined the limited freedom of Protestant worship to Rochelle and other regions where the Huguenots were to strong too lie ousted without civil war. King Henry IV. was horn a Protestant, in his ow n country of Navarre: but on the night of die St. Bartholomew Massacre, the French King. Charles IX. gave him the choice of being put to death, and of changing his religion. He confessed himself a Catholic, and thus saved his life. When he regained his freedom. Henry never again put himself in the power of the Catho, League. At the head of the Huguenot forces, he defend¬ ed their cause; and was aided by Queen Elizabeth, of England. He gained the great victory which Macaulay commemorates in the fine ballad—“The Battle of Ivry,” Twice he was on the point of capturing Paris, but a Spanish army came to the relief of the be sciged C atholics, each time. Worn out by these civil wars of religion. Henry decided that Paris was “well worth a mass,” and he again professed Romanism. Because the French King. (Henry III.) was cooperating with the Protestants, the Jesuits had him assassinated. And because Henry of Navarre—who became King of France after the death of Henry III — published the Edict of Nantes, and was making military preparations against Catholic Austria, the Jesuits had him assassinated. His son became King, with the title of Louis XII.; and the Edict of Nantes remained in force, Cardinal Richelieu ruled France, in Louis' name; and he made war upon Rochelle, because it had set, up a sort of independence of the crown; but Richelieu was too much of a statesman to adopt a policy which would drive the Huguenots from the realm. Cardinal Mazarin ruled the Kingdom during the minority of Louis XIV,; he, too, was wise enough to continue the restricted freedom of wor¬ ship which the Protestants enjoyed. But when Louis XIV. had become an old man: and had married the widow of the obscene poet, Scarron; and had repented of the sins he could no longer find pleasure in: and was the slave of his Jesuit confessor, he allowed his wife—Madame de Maintenon—and his confessor to persuade him into revoking the Edict of his grandfather, Henry IV. It 1? not accurate to say, that Louis XIV. expelled the Protestants. That was not the idea, at all. Tlie idea was, that the Huguenots could be converted to Romanism; and. as a matter of fact,, nearly all the aristocrats did forsake their creed, and profess themselves Roman Catholics. Thousands of Huguenots, who were not lords, gave way under the barbarous methods used •o convert them; and. to escape this persecution, changed their religion. Brother Calhoun seems to be under the impres¬ sion that French Protestants wer# not only at lib¬ erty to emigrate, but were forced to leave. This is a mistake. Those Huguenots who escaped the fearful Dragonnades and the death-penalties of the new laws, had to flee by night, or in disguise. They had to go by “underground railways,” the slaves escaped from the South to the North, uefore the War between the States. A Word on the “Negro Question ” By the M. E. It isn't good taste, sometimes, to say anything about the homelife of people more or less promi¬ nent, but I am going to break the rule, and sav a few words of the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Watson, in regard to their treatment of the ne¬ groes in their employ. Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson arc what we are pleased to call “typical Southerners”: each has grown up since the Civil War, and each was too young to know anything of the reasons that lead to that, horrible epoch in the history of the South— but each saw their families lose nearly all they had, and each had to practise that clo-c economy that was bitter to ;t>! who l ad to pas: from comfort to almost poverty. Neither Mr. Watson nor Mrs. Watson have any theories about the negro, nor have they ever been unreasonable in their demands on their ser¬ vants; they know the limitations, the weaknesses, the ability and the racial failing of the race. As these lines are being written. Mrs. Watson is preparing nourishment for a little negro girl who has been ill in the Watson home for the past ten days; the little girl's father is the lot man on the Watson place; her mother died of pellagra, and was buried by the late Mr. J. D. Watson, the negro man then being Mr. J. D. Watson’s field hand. Mrs. AVatson took over the two children of the dead negro woman, has clothed, fed and taught them. Their name in the household is "The De¬ mons." ami there has been nothing—from the ty¬ ing of the cats' tails together, to putting the dogs in -postholes, that the demons have not done: they have broken more crockery, stolen more things, ripped the insides out of more clocks and locks, and done more bedevilment generally, than an or¬ phan asylum full of white children could have done. One of the best stunts they pulled off. was the eating of a five pound fruit cake that had been hidden—as we all thought—safely: they recently found a bag with a dozen bananas that Mrs. Wat¬ son had put safely away, and the little girl is sick— from overeating. The doctor who attends tile Watson family, is attending this little negro; the nurse who was Mr. Watson's “Mammy”, is nursing this youngster, and Mrs. Watson is making her nourishment. Does that look like a "negro problem?” There nrr many other white families in the State of Geor¬ gia. who are doing for their negro tenants and field hands, some of what Mr. and Mrs. Watson are do¬ ing for theirs. A most insulting, anonymous letter was sent me Bred In The Old Revolutionary Stock. On September 4th, 1319, President Wilson made a speech at Columbus. Ohio, in which he said: “I have been bred, and am proud to have been bred in the old Revolutionary stock which set this government up when America was set up as a friend of man¬ kind.” The Revolutionary war ended in 1783: at that tirtie, not a single one of Woodrow Wilson's ances¬ tors had left England. During the whole Revolutionary period, none of the Wilson stock, or the Woodrow stock, came over. His grandfather did not emigrate to this coun¬ try until 1807, His mother was born in England, of native English parents. These facts appear in a “Life” of the President, which he sanctioned. He himself boasted of his English “stock” while he was in England. Taking the cue from him. the London papers flatteringly called him “the greatest living English¬ man. This didn't hurt Llovd-George's feelings, be¬ cause little old George was born in Wales. It didn't hurt Balfour, because he is a Scotch¬ man. But after Wilson had made so much of having been “bred” in English "stock.” wasn’t it queer that he told the Ohio brethren that he had baeu bred in Revolutionary stock? The Avoid “bred" is not a very nice word to apply to one’s forefathers and mothers; and I wouldn't care to call my old Revolutionary peo¬ ple “stork." The President must have been thinking of Durham bullf and Jersey cows. No wonder he mixed his geography. > When a man’s mind wanders so that he states he was bred in the stock of both England and the American Colonies, he is apt to locate a modern city in one of the Ancient Monarchies. Please take notice of how careful I am, not to insinuate that the President had any idea of fooling anybody about his Revolutionary “stock.” from an from an Atlanta negro man last week; he knew so well the temper of the Southern gentle¬ men when the ladies of the household are insulted, he wisely refrained from signing his name, or mak¬ ing it possible in any way to trace him; when the men at the plant read the letter, it was well the ne¬ gro writer was not available—-else the Northern papers would have had another attack of front¬ page ink histerics. Another letter, from another negro man has just been received by the editor: if %«S4ljM(Ak itself, and it would be well for the negroes who are trying to stir up dis cord among the two races, to read this carefully, and to realize that it is written by what should lie called a “representative” of the negroes: the letter is well written as to spelling and punctuation, and the sentiments are certainly to be commended: Dear Editor Sentinel: I api a Darkie; was born and raised in McDuffie County, Georgia. I hear the words about the black people want Stocial Equallity with the white people of this country. Me for myself. I don’t want such a thing; I really don’t think a negro in the South wants a thing like that; I don’t I am sure For five long months I have been teaching this very thing about. AVe colored people don’t, want social equality with the white people. I myself was born in 1867, April 28th, and I should think I know a little thing or two. I have four boys, I try to teach them the best I Know how. I do think when the black people wants Social Epoalitv with the white people. T would think the time is up. If a colored man thinks something of himself, he is re¬ spected by the white people of the South. Dear friends, they raised we colored peo¬ ple. they can’t do without us and we can’t dowithout them. The North set us free from slavery, and that's all she did for the negroes of the South. AVhen Columbus found this country in 1492, 1 fully believe he found it for the white race. Martin Collins left McDuffie county, Ga.. and went to California and Nebraska, and 1 asked him how was the people out there; lie told me this: -Asa, a white man is a white man and a negro is a negro. So "hen Columbus found this country I am sure he found it for his race of people. Dear Editor I think you must have been called by the Lord to preach the gospel you are preaching. Asa Collins. Raysville. McDuffie County, Ga. COFFEE COUNTY FARMS OFFER GREAT OPPORTUNITIES Wecin sell at less than $90.00 per acre 1136 acres high red pebly soil, 950 cleared, 800 stumped with $40,000 improvements. We have all size farms $10.00 and up per acre. TANNER & YEOMANS, Union Bank Building, DOUGLAS, GA.
