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And We are Still at War.
There never was a country “so situated” as
Mrs is, and this situation gets worst', month by
month.
This appalling state of things is not the re¬
sult of natural occurrences or the logical effect of
providential events.
(ha the contrary, we have been suffering for¬
cibly, are now suffering terribly, and will continue
to suffer terribly, because we have a Federal Ad¬
ministration which has meddled with everybody,
meddled with everything, meddled in the affairs
of every nation on earth, and has shown an in
eompetency which equals its usurpations.
Three years ago, the United States had no
enemies in Europe, Asia, or Africa: we had fol¬
lowed the traditional policy of The Fathers, and
had cultivated foreign friendships and commercial
gelations, avoiding political alliances which would
necessarily involve us in foreign rivalries, race¬
hatreds, and territorial ambitions.
At present, the United States haven’t, a friend
M earth!
t For goiod reasons, fwe 'are hated by those
countries that have always been our friends; and
we have aroused suspicions, jealougies, and ap¬
prehensions which isolate us, in the midst of our
ostensible alliances.
In 1916, the Washington-Jeffersonian doctrine
nef non-intervention in foreign politics was still
honored: in the choicest of academic rhetoric, it
■was preached to a people who did not dream that
the preacher meant, to soon practise the opposite,
•aad reverse, overnight, the national policy which
had acquired the force of Constitutional Law
Whatever invisible power caused President
Wilson to spurn this traditional policy of letting
European entanglements alone, is responsible for
(She condition in which we find ourselves.
President Taft, it will be remembered, declared
Chat he had intended to appoint Justice Harlan to
(be Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court, Har¬
lan being entitled to it by seniority: but Mr. Taft
said he was compelled to appoint Justice White,
because of the enormous pressure brought to bear
Ml hkn. in White’s favor.
The first great work of the Jesuit Chief Jus
See wa« to disembowel the Sherman- Anti-Trust
LAW.
-Since the®, there ha 13 begB ao check upon the
monopolists, and they are stronger than the gov¬
ernment.
, In fact, thev are the government.
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Not for a day, was this administration a neu¬
tral in the war.
From the_ very first, it favored England.
We supplied her with munitions which were
absolutely necessary to save her life.
Her ministers had been so short-sighted that
they had swapped Heligoland to Germany in ex¬
change for a German claim over part of Africa.
They had laughed at the warnings of Lord
Roberts: they were amused at the Kaiser’s periodi¬
cal rattlings of the sabre.
der. TJhe war came on them like a clap of thun¬
They had no army, they had no acumulation
of powder, high explosives, up-to-date cannon, no
store of provisions.
Since the armistice, a British Admiral has pub¬
lished a bock in which he says, the British fleet,
was in such poor condition, that the German fleet
could have beaten it.
Like everything else in England, it was living
on its reputation.
Almost from th first, the English had to come
to us for money.
J. P. Morgan negotiated these loans, and his
commissions on one of them was $12,000,000.
The Powder Trust supplied the British army
with powder and high explosives.
The Munition men. the Meat Packers, the Cloth¬
ing Trust, the Shoe Trust, the Tobacco Trust, the
. Steel Trust, the Motor Car Trust, and every other
American Trust sold incalculable amounts of goods
to England and France.
B ithout these supplies of American grain, cot¬
ton, munitions and so forth, Germany would have
won the war, while Wilson was writing Sabbath
school lectures to the Kaiser.
Nobody American ever will know how vast was the sum
that bankers and manufacturers would
have lost, had not Russia’s place in the war been
so promptly taken by the United States.
What was the invisible power that caused the
President to do what he had so recently said ho
Would not do?
And why were his secret war-preparations so
exactly coincident with the collapse of Russia?
The export to Europe of such prodigious
amounts of American necessaries of life, natu¬
rally put up the prices here.
The high cost, of living is due* primarily to
the Tariff, which enermities inevitably breeds monopoly; but
the present of the monopolists arc due to
toe war.
Our failure to observe strict neutrality was the
beginning of the phenominal rise in prices; but
when our government went in, and virtually told the
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IN ATLANTA, THE WILSONATIC CAMPAIGN
OF 1920 OPENS.
Mr. Homer S. Cummings is Chairman of the
National Democratic Executive Committee, and he
looks it, walks it, talks it, and most evidently feels
it.
He is a little corporation lawyer, of Stamford.
Connecticut: he has even been Mayor of the town.
He came down to Atlanta, a few days ago, and
it was arranged that he should be fed at the City
Club, and invited to read the speech which he had
brought from Stamford and Washington.
As soon as Cummings had been fed at the Clul
and had read his speech, he put right out for some¬
where else—Washington, it is said.
Therefore, purang two and four together, 1
arrive at the suspicion, that Homer was sent dowh
to make a Wilsonatic key-note speech, and’to open
up the Wilsonatic campaign against Senator Hoke
Smith. A
The State of Georgia has become a do !
State, in the mind of Wilson ocracy. r
Georgia fact, gives signs of followng Kentucky, v
In that is just what Georgia will do.
Wilsonian lies will never again fool the peop
of Georgia. .
And as it is in Georgia, so it is in Alabam
Mississippi, Texas, the Carohaas, and Florida.
The people of the South have had to submit 1.
every abomination, because of their intense, uncon¬
querable determnation to maintain White Suprem¬
acy; hut now when Woodrow Wilson has compelled
the Democratic Party to accept social equtlity.
and has forced it upon our boys in the Army, anc
has made an Alabama negro one of the Secretaries,
of War. we are done with Wilsonocracy.
If the Democratic party continues to endorj^
and advocate the viciously undemocratic schemes "of- A
Woodro w Wilson , then Wilson can take it an
go to Halifax with it. \
The Southern States remained solid, to main
tain Home Rule and White Supremacy; they wi;
not remain solid for Federal Usurpation and
Negro Dominion.
“Wilful foes of the League of Nations were bit
terly attacked at the Capital City Club Frida'
night by Homer S. Cummings, Chairman of the Na¬
tional Constitution. Democratic Executive Cqhimittee,” says tljg
At this time, last year, had Mr. Homer Cum¬
mings ever heard of a League of Nations?
Had it been a Campaign issue, in the Con¬
gressional elections of 1918 s
When President Wilson took the insolently un¬
precedented step of demanding that the people
elect Democrats, did Cummings know that Wilson
wanted a lot of dummies who would vote for any
betrayal of this country t# England and Frame
that Wilson favored?
Mr. Homer Cummings bitterly/ attacks the wil¬
ful foes of a secrethj made League which pander:
to foreign autocracies and drowris American indn
pendence: he not only denounces stalwart Ameri¬
canism, but does it bitterly.
His propensity to prostitute his American sta¬
tus to the polyandry of a foreign harem is aggress¬
ively immoral.
, Let him curb his obscene lusts for political
prostitution. let him look to the State of Georgia
And not.
to go with him into his foreign bed of adultery.
She isn't gowg to go!
Virginal site has been since her birth, amid the
smoke of battle and the blaze of swords.
Like her Southern sisters, she before was overborne
by conquering armies in 1865; and she will
submit to again become a province, bankers of England’*
ambition, or the catspaw of the of
other armies will have to beat her down.
After the campaign of their 1918, perfect Mr. Burleson satisfaction. and
Mr. Cummings expressed said.
“Didn’t hurt us at all,” they
“It was really quite a victory,” commenting said Burleson.
These same sapient ones, on the
loss of Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Kentucky,
and the awfully close calls of Maryland and Ala¬
bama, now cheerfully lie, once more, and say that
the recent elections signify nothing.
O yes they do! They signify that the solid
South goes to smash next year.
It can’t bear the load that Senators Under
wood, Fletcher, Simmons, Bankhead, Williams,
etc. have put on it.
The South is going to put some Men in the
Senate, to stand for her old traditional principles,
It will be a great value to us to have all subscrip¬
tions sent to
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL,
Thomson Office,
Thomson, Ga.
Have money orders made out in this way, and much time
I
will be saved in booking your subs.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
Harlem, Ga., Friday, November 28, 1919.
against the Supreme Enemy of Popular Self-Gov¬
ernment—the Englishman who has preached
democracy and who in practice out-Kaisered any
Kaiser.
As was to have been expected, the first half of
Mr. Cummings speech was occupied by the glorious
achievements of the Democratic Party, since March
1th, 191T
These achievements consist of the new banking
system which, a few days ago, broke the cotton
market, by announcing its hostility to loans on
cotton.
Again, this Administration has established
land-loan hanks—which do not seem to meet the
small land-owner, at all.
Again, the lobbyists have been driven from
Washington—which rated achievment, I fear, is greatly
-
’J here was a tremendous lobby there, rooting for
he League of Nations, and a few other little things.
You might anchor the Capitol Building in the
midst of the Dismal Swamp, and, next day, the
lobbyists would be alighting from air-planes.
Mr. Homer Cummings should not tantalize us
W vehievablfe. telling of happy achievements which are un
Mr. Cummings takes credit, also, for the good
roads which are so provokinglv hard to find, and
for the almost miraculous mail service which has
endeared Mr. Burleson to the people.
He likewise appropriated the Credit, for the
Parcels Best and the Rural Free Delivery of mail.
In-as-rnuch as the R. F. D. was started by a
Populist, in 1893, Mr. Ouipmings’ memory must, be
as treacherous as his politics.
In his Elegy: on the Wilson Administration,
Mr. H. C. followed the ancient classic maxim of
Sav nothing but good .of the dead.”
His Funeral Sermon was all bright and
eulogistic.
He said nothing about Mr. Wilson’s devotion to
the marauding corporations that have controlled
Wilson’s entire course in public life.
He did not sketch the characters of the. Big
“A Men Dollar •* ho took Year,” WiOfe^KUTTaailfigtoiiTS lfilY, for
stuff, a and bought enormous quantities
of their from themselves, for the government,
lie said nothing of Wilson's sustained contempt
>f the farmers, or of how Wilson’s son-in-law was
instrumental in the $400,000,000 robbery of the cot
ton growers.
He said nothing of Price-fixing, H never ism,
Army Barbarities, the National Debt, the National
Deficit, the Death of the Constitution, the Pise of
Absolutism, the foul intimacy between the Roman
Church and the Wilson Administration.
filled He made political no mention of the American Bastiles,
with prisoners.
He did refer, to Attorney-General Palmer’s de¬
mand for a new law to make more “drastic” the in¬
famous Espionage Act,
He did not allude to Wilson’s demand for more
“drastic” laws empowering him to send out of the
country such persons as he considers “dangerous.”
No furtlter laws are asked against Monopoly'.
No drastic measures are to be taken against
such inhuman monsters as Gary, Armour, Morgan,
Ryan and Company, who have Cornered the River
of Life, and peddle the water - to whoever wants tc
live. + 4 '.^..
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The following is the rhetorical gem of Homer
Cummings’ speech:
“The war had set a great task for the statesman¬
ship of the world. The best thought, of the world
demanded that a serious attempt be made by the
leaders of the allied governments to formulate a
treaty of peace which should prevent the recurrence
of war. Every rightful impulse of the human heart
was in accord with that purpose. For tfee first time
in the turbulent annals of the human race such a
projeet had become feasible. The destruction of
militarism, the crumbling of thrones, the dissolu¬
tion of dynasties, the world-wide m pp reetofcion of
the inner meaning of war and the final triumph of
democracy had, at least, made it possible to realize
the dearest dream which had crossed mam’s dark
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The Traditions of the Fathers.
In hs Thanksgiving Proclamation, President
Tumulty unetiously congratulated himself and the
populace, generally, upon the manner in which this
‘‘Democratic" Administration had pursued toe
traditional policies of our forefathers.
As who should say. after the fam !v heirlooms
and munimfents of title had been dev.crouslv pur¬
loined. "I felicitate you upon still possessing them.”
We don’t know tor certain who has been acting
as President, here lately, We don't know who
writes these Presidential papers. y
All we know is. that <J»e Jesuit. Score tar^ is nl
lowed to disappear in the direction of the sick-room,
and that when he crawls back through the Grayson
fence, lie brings the President's signature to the
papers which the Jesuit carried in.
Any up-to-date secretary can write a signature
which will.answer every purpose.
On the very day the President was put to bed
in complete collapse, his signature appeared on a
paper in which he. refused to give, some, important
information that the Senate had requested.
The traditions of our forefathers: let us refresh
our memories.
In every one of the original Thirteen States,
you will find monuments commemorating the pa¬
triotic courage of the delegates to the Philadelphia
Convention which put forth Cue Declaration of In¬
dependence.
Georgia has thus honored Bur, ton Gwinnett,
Lyman Haul, Geohoe Walton.
Mouth Carolina lias nobly remember her repre¬
sentatives who risked life and fortune when they
signed: they were Edward Kim. cock. Thomas 1 lm -
ward, Junior, Thomas Lynch, Junior, Arthtir
Middleton.
North Carolina had already adopted the Meck
lenberg Declaration: but her delegates signed, also,
at Philadelphia: they were William Hooter,
Joseph If ewes, John Penn.
Virginia had led in the years of agitation
which led to the Declaration.
Because he denounced the usurpations of the
British King, Patrick Henry had been howled at
as a Traitor by the Tory landlords in the Virginia
legislature.
Because he fearlessly wrote against the personal
government which King George was attempting to
JSkm.Jzgtfkjn..{fee Thomas Jefferson’s .jfk had been blacklisted by .
name
the usurping king.
The Virginians who signed the Declaration
were George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas
Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson,
Junior, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
A! number of charges were brought against the
odious English tyrant, who was using against
democracy, in England and in America, the
weapons of patronage, intimidation, bribery, ar¬
bitrary imprisonment, aud military pressure.
Against him, our forefathers brought the ac¬
cusation of rendering the military independent, of,
and superior to, the civil power.
The whole drift of the Woodrow Wilson Ad¬
ministration has been to do precisely what King
yGeorge tried to do.
Martial law has been continually asserting its
superiority to civil law; and huge areas of this
country are now governed by the military.
Month by month the civil power loses ground
before the encroachment of army officers.
Another charge brought against King George
was. that he had been cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world.
Woodrow Wilson has done that, and he has
done it with murderous effect..
He continued the blockade on Germany, long
alitor it ceased to hove any oilier effect than to
leave the American cotton planter, wheat, grower,
■etc,, at the mercy of toe English.
The blockade of Germany, after the armistice
served no military purpose whatever.
It starved the German people, whom Wilson
had sanctimoniously professed to love.
It enriched the British spinners who. had. no
competitors m buying American cotton, cereals and
other foodstuffs.
In the case of Russia, the blockade was as black
a crime as this modern world has ever seen,
Congress did not declare war on Russia, and
Russia committed no acts of war against ns.
Woodrow Wilson personalty made war upon a
nation that has always been the, friend of America;
and he, personally, ordered an American army to
engage in hostilities against these national friends.
As a part, of his impeachable usurpation of the
war-making power, ho blockaded Russia., thus cut¬
ting off owr trade with that vast market, and re¬
ducing to death by slow starvation iwnocent men,
women and children.
A finer illustration of the sincerity of his super
fine talk about morality, democracy aad the
idealities, could not be imagined.
Another charge brought bv our forefathers
against the English tyrant was “/or depriving us,
in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.''
With even more justice, that charge can be
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