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A Statement Concerning the
High C. of L
fThe -worst administration the -world ever saw
is using up all the spruce-pine-paper, in publishing
things that nobody reads and, in telling things
that ain’t so.
(Woodrow Wilson has an unerring instinct in
Wrecking his propagandist liars.
Nearly every one of them is as good at it as
he is.
Hero comes a circular iufter addressed to man¬
kind, telling ’Is poor idiots how to get the better
of our old friend, the High Cost of Living.
His name used to be. The Cost, of High Liv¬
ing: but since we gave our dear friends in France
several mountains of the good things of life, and
paid the salaries of those One-dollar-a-year Pa¬
triots, we now call our come-to-stay visitor, The
High Cost of Living.
1 This statement, issued by the very worst ad¬
ministration that the world has ever seen, asserts
that the following are the only true and exclusive
causes of the H. C. L.
“That the Nation’s productive powers have not
been fully utilized since the armistice.
That too few goods, notably the necessities of
life, have been produced, and that even some of
these goods have been with held from the market,
and therefore from the people.
That the High Cost of Living is clue in part
to unavoidable war waste and increase of money
and credit.
That there lias been and is considerable profi¬
teering, intentional nd unintentional.”
Taken through and through, by and large,
that’s the funniest piece of wisdom I’ve ever read,
since I out-grew the novels of James Fenimore
Cooper
“The nation’s productive powers have not
been fully utilized since the armistice.''
And we have not yet used up all the after¬
clap hash of Thanksgiving turkeys, which we so
gratefully ate, because the President congratulated
on thq good crops , which fed all the nations of
earth, in addition to amply feeding ourseh'cs.
It is not good form for Secretaries Baker,
Daniels .Lane, Houston, Redfield, and W. B. AYil
-son to be circulating literature contradictory to
the Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued in the name
of our invisible President.
True, the supply of coal is running low, but
that’s because the operators woijt arbitrate the
“shocking profits,” which our esteemed son-in-law
so suddenly discovered. ,
Awfully sorry we are. that his discoverer wasn't
in working order in time to save us a dollar or
two. ,
Dadburn these discoverers who tell us all about
it, after the ducats are gone!
“Too few goods, the necessaries of life, have
been produced, and that even then some, of these
goods have been withheld from the market.”
It is a pleasing innovation to see the necessa¬
ries of life, classed as “goods.”
Potatoes, hams, mutton, butter, cabbages, fish,
eggs, veal, beef, lard, and pork are goods that have
not been sufficiently produced, “ since the armistice.''
The armistice has lasted only one year, and
you naturally can’t add very much to such “goods'
in so short a time.
These explanatory Cabinet Officers do not re¬
fer to the quantities of stuff we saved, by patri¬
otic self-denial, and which were stored in France,
and whitn this worst of Administrations clumped
npon the French.
The French have more to eat than they have
bad since the days of Julius Caesar.
They are actually becoming fat.
Even old Glemencean has thickened up. and
has hired a fisherman's hut on the Vendean sea
coast, to hibernate in for the winter.
“Some of these goods have been withheld from
the market.”
Too true! (All flesh is grass.)
r Some sugar—withholders shipped millions of
pounds from Savannah, last week: I fear they
wanted to sell it somewhere, that was free from
isinine governmental interference.
This feeblest and rottenest of Administrat¬
ions kindly let the French have 22,000.000 pounds
of our sugar; and France is now in better sacharine
condition than she has been since she lost San Do¬
mingo and Louisiana.
It is to lie feared that the sugar shortage is
Sue to little groups of wilful men, who are hoard¬
ing, for several hundred percent profit: and that
ihe meat Packers are desiring theii <‘**ual 400 per
tent; nnd that, if it is our wish to continue to live,
we will be constrained to pay the other fellow’s
price for the privilege.
If lie is in possession of what we must. have,
ind if the law is so made that, we can’t buy it from
inybody but him, it stands to reason that we must
tross over, and pay him what he asks.
. If you can state it more lucidly and truly than
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WHAT ARE THE OBJECTS OF THE
AMERICAN LEGION ? 4
When you see that a new organization, com¬
posed of ex-soldiers, suddenly begins its activities
by combatting free speech, it, is to our interest, to
find out the purpose of this new secret society.
We. know what the Knights of Columbus are
aiming at, but, what is the object of this New
Legion ?
Week before last, a lecturer who was billed in
a Western town, to make a speech against the du¬
llish League of Robber Nations, was kidnapped by
members of the American Legion and forcibly
taken many miles from the city.
In another town of the North West—Minne¬
sota—a hand of American legionaries did *the
same thing: not even in a hall hired by the speak¬
er would the American Legion allow a speech
against a secretly made League which degrades
our grand Republic into equality with a rabble
of Arabs in Asia, and a squad of Negroes in Africa.
Why is the American Legion so frenziedly in
favor of a nejw world-government which gives
France one vote for herself, another for her do
-pendency Siam, and several others for the new
States with which she has encircled Germany.
Why is the American Legion so brutally
trampling on our Constitution and inherited rights,
in favor of an abortion, which seeks to give Eng¬
land six votes to our one, and restore the universal
political supremacy of the Church whose record
is ono long blood-trail of horrors?
In the Kingdom of tho Steel Monarc.hs, at
the city of Reading, the sympathisers of Eugene
Debs advertised a peaceable assemblage.
The announced purpose of the meeting was,
to petition the Government for amnesty to the im¬
prisoned Socialist.
Tho New York American states that 2)000
members of the American (Legion paraded the
streets and made such threatening demonstrations
in front of the socialist hall, that the speaker for
(he Debs sympathy-meeting was warned to leave
town.
His "hame is Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, a
Chicago Episcopal minister.
The Mayor E. M. Filbert personally notified
one of the Socialist leaders, Henry Stumpy that
“bloodshed” would follow (any attempt 'to hold
the meeting, and he, the Mayor, ordered Stump “to
call it off,” and Stump obeyed the order.
This astounding statement occurs in The Amer¬
ican for Monday, November 24, 1919.
I read it with feelings almost inexpressible—
the more so as the great Editor of the Hearst pa¬
pers made no comment upon what was by far the
most ominously important news item in the paper.
The things that are being done in Fiume, Ire¬
land, Egypt, India, and Shantung are as nothing
to us, compared to what is being done by our own
autocrats here.
The Hearst papers are dying for a war with
Mexico, because of the alleged kidnapping by ban¬
dits, of the very dubious Jenkins; but tho Ameri
can Legion has kidnapped American citizens, in
America, and has prohibited peaceable assemblage
of citizens, inside halls of their own, and Mr.
Hearst has not said a word against it.
It is said (hat the American Legion has a mil¬
lion members: if this is true, its power for harm
is colossal.
When we see them doing the same lawless
things, at several widely separated places, it is fair
to assume that those lawless acts are done on pur¬
pose. in pursuance of a definite policy.
Thus far, their public acts strike at the very
foundations of democratic liberty, freedom of
speech, and peaceable, assemblage, s
We vividly nnd bitterly remember how the
War-drive was made against ns. ana how it became
a crime to condemn an abolition of personal rights
that had been continuously enjoyed ever since the
downfall of Feudalism.
It seems now (hat a similar drive is to be
made, to force us to accept the most infamous plan
that was ever devised for the perpetuation of in-
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
will be saved in booking your subs.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
Harlem, Ga., Friday, December 5, 1919.
terlockcd autocracies.
The prostitute press has already become so
ferocious in abuse of Americanism and these who
fight to retain it, that the editorials incite to mur¬
der.
A Southern Senator is roften-egged in a Sou¬
thern town, for doing the noblest work for the
South that has been done since Gordon, Toombs,
Lamar and Ben Hill died.
It fills me with shame and indignation that
such an attack should have been made, on James
A. Reed, to whom eternal honor is due for his re¬
fusal to be a party* to the betrayal of his country,
and his unanswerable exposures of this secretly
hatched League.
If the American Ivegion has been formed t:>
act as Cossacks or Sepoys for the despotic reac¬
tionaries, there will be no freedom of opportunity
for patriotic speakers to explain to the people
the true inwardness of this most detestable League.
In their public statements, the Legionaries say
hey have organizel to fight the Reds, the Bolshc
viki, tho Radicals.
So long as these folks, whom we call those
names, commit no crime, how does it come to he the
business of a secret society to fight them?
After those bad folks shall have committed
crime, isn't it the province of the Government to
punish them?
The Government is prosecuting them, and the
Government declares its purpose to rid the country
of them.
What more does the American Legion want!
Are they aware of tho fact that they are pro¬
posing to usurp die powers of the States, and the.
powers of the United States!
Are they to assume that the balance of us
have no sh|r<i in their civic virtue.
Biooe. 'bp'ii&iffitfhey acquire fcs.
This mushroom organization is apparently
based upon the idea, that the States need them, to
maintain law and order; enjoin public meetings of
radicals, and to outlaw every man who does not
concede their right to adjudge him, (in a secret
meeting and without hearing or appeal) a disloyal
citizen.
Where do they get such a right?
What causes tl mi to think that their assump¬
tion of the right to prohibit peaceable assemblages,
and to run speakers of our choice out of town, will
not be resisted with as much violence as may be
necessary to maintain our blood-bought liberties?
Who gave these young ex-soldiers the yard¬
stick by which they can measure Radicalism?
Who constituted them the dictators of polit
cal principles?
Who licensed them to form an order whose
foundation is an insolent declaration against our
Declaration of Independence?
Have they read the Constitution of any of the
48 States?
This American Legion proposes to violate
all.
Have they read the Constitution of the Uni¬
ted States?
The. declared purpose of The American Le¬
gion is to inaugurate a campaign utterly subversive
of the personal liberties guaranteed in that “scrap
of paper,” for which Woodrow Wilson, his Cabinet
valets, his Congressional firm keys, his bought-up
Editors, and the American Legion have such a
profound contempt,.
I earnestly appeal to my friends, who have
i been draped, into joining this Legion, to come out
op it/
Those who are, out, I entreat fa stay out /
We don't want, or need, a Secret
to try us for “disloyalty,” condemn us in
midnight conclaves, and to punish us by the meth¬
ods of assassins.
Issued Weekly
is the Acting President
of the United States?
It ts well known, that, the English Govero
t has, more than once, continued in run no,
langed. after the King had lost hi.- reason.
This happened under Henry VI.. and under
rge ILL
In the. case of George III., the Whigs
ed the issue; the monarch was pronounced irt
>; and the Prince of Wales was ma le Regent.
Our law does not. admit of a regency; but it
ares that the Vice,-Preside..t, shall at once bs~
b President, Tn event of the President’s in¬
dy to discharge the powers and duties of his
The Constitution does not say that the Presi
nt shall have a month, or two months, thre-a
>ntihs or a year, to recover his ability.
The Constitution contemplates that the Fedr
d Government shall always have a capable, c<v
msible head; and the emergency of a President
ickm into inability by disease or other causa,
provided for.
The Vice President is there, in the frame
>rk of the Government, for the very purpose of
ring the place of a president too sick to perform
i duties of his high office.
If the Vuv President, in his turn, should be
ieken down, the law designates Ids substitute,
d the government goes rigid, on. v
It is no ordinary period during which Presi
nt Wilson has been concealed from everybody,
septing the. Jesuit Secretary, and the attendant
ysicians, and the faithful wife.
On the contrary, it has been a period in
lieJi a titanic struggle was being waged over the
ague, which meant as much to the future of this
int.ry as any conceivable clash of interests could
ssibly mean.
The fate of the League, was being determined,
ring weeks of fierce debate, whale the Chief Ex
itive was incapable of being consulted and adt
wd with by the Senate.
It is his constitutional duty to receive the
wee of the Senate concerning all treaties.
He has been unable to discharge this supremely
portent duly. s^erksfigSS
oiuto autdStn niraKv
> Vice Preside]
same well and sane.
Who really has seen the President since Ik? I
•s immured, at the White House 1 l
Senator Hitchcock, Wilson’s leader in fba
nate—where he has maintained the Presidents
le with great ability and unfailing loyally—*
s been unable to see Mr. Wilsop, although he >
mted to advise with the President on the Treaty.
Last week, Senator Hitchcock w ns unable to j
> even the Grey Cardinal, Tumulty.
And next, the Democratic papers state, last
mday, that even the Private Secretary, Tumulty,
is turned, bade by Mrs. Wilson, and not allowed
see the President.
'
IIow long should 110,000,000 people writ for
the truth about Mr. Wilson's condition?
Because of the greatness of our country, and
theawful tangle that onr President made, when h*
took’upon his shoulders the task of feeding man¬
kind, mentally and materially, national settlement*
are in abeyance, in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Nothing is firmly adjusted in Turkey, in Syria,
in the Balkans, in Russia, in Italy, in Serviii, in
Greece, in Egypt, in India, and even in Hedjaz.
When Admiral Grayson first ordered the. Pres¬
ident into strictest seclusion, he had to make a
statement.
“Nervous collapse,” Jseemed a .natural, dnd!
therefore satisfactory explanation.
But on that very day. the Senate received from
the White House an official document, bearing the
familiar signature of Woodrow Wilson.
Who wrote the document and signed the name?
No man, nervously collapsed, could have dona
it.
From that time, there has been a flow of docu¬
ments from the sick room, addresses to the Indus¬
trial Conference; to the coal miners: to tire people,
urging observance of Thanksgiving Day: to the
public again, advising celebration of Armistice Day; his
to Democratic Senators, ordering them to vote
way on the League. official
Did he write or dictate, any of these
papers ?
If he can do this amount of work, ns well ns
consider Acts of Congress, why cannot he see his
own lieutenant. Senator Hitchcock?
Was he, able to do all the talking, that was re¬
ported, as to how he meant to continue the fight
for the League of Nations?
If Mr. Wilson did not do that talking, who did?
What individual, or what Cabal, is running
this Government?
Congress uncertainties owes it which to the people causing to put. suspijjfl an ejjlj
to the are
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