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Pecking on Mexico, Because
She is Weak.
i Austria * < and ~ Servia Again.
On July 23rd, 1914, the Jesuits, backed by the
Roman Catholic Ministry of Austria, forced the
aged King Peter to sign for Servia, a Concordat
■with the Pope, which put over on 3,000,000 Greek
Catholics the hated rule of 10,000 Roman Catho¬
lics.
The situation was much the same as that im¬
posed upon the South, after the war between the
Stajfs, when the blacks were educated, civilized,
and made Statesmen, by Act of Congress, while the
natirri whites were outlawed, because they believer!
they had as much right to go out of a League of
sovereign States, as their fathers had had, to go
out of the Second Confederation, and to enter this,
the third.
If, in those days of Carpetbaggers and Afri¬
can statesmen, Thacldeus Stevens had come down
here, to gloat over his work, I fear that some of
our hot-headed young men would have done some¬
thing rash.
That's what happened to the real ruler of
the Austrian Empire—a Roman Catholic and a
Jesuit—when he went-down to Bosnia to gloat
over what he had done to that little State: he had
used the Austrian army to savagely impose Jesuit
rule in the Balkans.
A maddened Greek Catholic student shot the
Austrian Archduke,-and his morganatic wife.
The Austrian Roman Catholics, the Jesuits,
and the Pope—a stupid old man, named Joe Taylor
.—saw a fine opportunity to crush the weak State
of Servia, on the pretext of punishing all Servians
for the crime of an infuriated Servian boy.
Austria sent her famous ultimatum to Ser¬
via, demanding, in substance, the surrendpr to
Austria of Servia’s independence.
In vain, the weak State endeavored to appease
the strong one:
Servia begged that the case be arbitrated by
the Peace Tribunal, which had been organized and
maintained at the Hague, in Holland.
Austria flatly refused.
Servia agreed to submit to all the Austrian de¬
mands, except the control of her press, and the
trial of Servians by Austrian Jesuit judges.
Stiffened into inflexibility by the military Kai¬
ser, Austria refused to modify her terms. •
— Russia being u Greek Catholie country, whose
dominant race is Slavic like that of Servia, made
every exertion to preserve the peace.
I remember one of the telegrams the Czar
sent to his cousin, the. Kaiser: it was pathetic in
its earnestness, I thought: the exact words have
escaped me, but the exact purport of it was, an
appeal to his cousin to make good his private tele¬
grams, which disavowed war-like intentions, and
.were so different from the official la,nguage of the
German Ambassador, at St Petersburg.
Austria stretched out her military arm, to seize
little Servia—and now where is Austria?
She sat down hard, on a warm stick of dyna¬
mite, and she seems to be very much distributed,
around and about.
She lest an Empire of a thousand years, by
trying to impose upon the Servians the judicial
power of Austrians.
The Cabal that has been governing us, in the
name qf a disabled President, is acting toward our
sister Republic, in exactly the same inadmissible
way that Austria tried on Servia.
Whoever it is that has been ventriloquisng for
Mr. Wilson, puts forth the astonishing proposition,
that President Caranza must immediately order the
release of an American, who is a Mexican prison,
by due process of Mexican law, awaiting his trial
by a Mexican tribunal.
With patient courtesy, the President of our
sister Republic set forth the facts, and he presented
his side of the ease so unanswerably, that the Cabal
that is governing us, in harum-scarum manner, did
not try to answer.
Col. House doesn't know any law, and Tu¬
multy doesn't, and Dr. Grayson doesn't, and the
only law that the present Attorney-General knows,
is a smattering of knowledge concerning the il¬
limitable war-powers of the President—and he
knows so little of those war-powers, that he warns
“drastic” additions.
Of course, Lansing doesn’t count: he does what
lie is told: he got the habit when he saw Lindley
Garrison put out of the Cabinet, for daring to be
A Man, who had opinions not made by the Super¬
human Wilson.
President Caranza’s long and conclusive reply
to the White House demand for the immediate re¬
lease of that transparent fraud, Jenkins, is
That, no American, living in Mexico, can ex¬
pect to be exempt from Mexican law:
That Mexican Consuls have been arrested and
imprisoned in the United States, and the Mexican
government has never protested against their being
tried by American courts:
That the President of Mexico has not the au
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WHAT IS RADICALISM?
AND WHAT IS THE AMERICAN LEGION ?
Every man of experience knows that the Rad¬
icalism or today may be the Conservatism of to¬
morrow.
Every well-read man will remember how finely
Emerson expressed this idea.
But let me put some historical illustrations
before you:
Along about 1835, there was a Chartist reform
movement in England—so called because its plat
form-demands were named, “the Charter.”
This reform movement became so formidable,
and its Charter was so hateful to the Tories, that
the Duke of Wellington stationed troops, bene
and there, in London, to cope with the “rad'cal
mobs,” and issued to his cavalry the stem order— - -
“Sharp-grind your swords, as at Waterloo!”
The Reds gave the Government no excuse for
a massacre; and even the Iron Duke did not have
enough Steel-Trust ferocity in him, to ride down?'
and cut down, and shoot down unarmed, unoffend¬
ing people, as Rockefeller and Gary and Frick and
the rest of those. Profiteer hellians have done i’l
Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and even in
Mississippi and Tennessee and Georgia.
What were the demands made by those Reds
of England, in their Charter?
They demanded Manhood Suffrage —an awful¬
ly red demand to the Woodrow Wilson Conserva¬
tives of 183jt*..
The, English Tories insisted on a property qual¬
ification, contending that men, as such, had no r.ght
to vote.
What do the duped young Americans —who
have eagerly joined the American Legion which the
army-officers mean to use for themselves —think
of the proposition, that the ownership of a house,
or a bit of land, is necessary to qualify them to vote l
(Go slow, brave boys, go slow!) .(
These Bolsheviki of England also demanded
the secret ballot.
Can you believe that they were refused tins
indispensible safe-guard of a free vote, until
You brave young men of the American Legiln
who have to earn a living with youp you^ealizemat hands, and w!
know what the job-lasli is, car)
the English Tories would not give your class a se¬
cret ballot, until 40-odd years ago?
Those Reds of England, whom the Duke of
Wellington prepared to butcher, demanded equal
electoral districts, for Members of Parliament.
We then had equal Congressional Districts, and
those British Bolsheviki wanted the same demo¬
cratic rights that we had always enjoyed.
Why did the English Conservatives violently
oppose this demand, and court a provocation to use
Wellington's veteran troops?
The reason was this:
The aristocrats, a few thousands of whom own¬
ed all the land of Great Britain, had inherited the
privilege of naming members of Parliament, just
as our Steel Trust names such members of Con¬
gress as Senator Sterling, and others whose names
I withhold for the present.
One of the proud British Dukes had seven seats
in Parliament for sale, to the highest bidder.
Charles Dickens in liis novel, “Our Mutual
Friend,” tells how the newly-ricli Mr. Veneering
got into Parliament.
Our newly-ricli don’t take the trouble to go in¬
to Congress: they buy seats for faithful dummies,
such as Senator Penrose.
There was a place called Old Sarum, which in
prehistoric times, had been a village: in 1835, only
a chimney-hearth was left of the town; but its seat
in Parliament was regularly sold, by the nobleman
on whose estate this chiinney-hearth was happily
situated.
Everybody khew its market-price, and the for¬
tunate grandee could have supported his family,
in a conservative manner, on this fine old coservativ'
remnant of a chimney.
At that time, there rias no representative in
Parliament for the new but-magnificent city of
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 1919.
Manchester, nor for Leeds, nor few Liverpool.
Now, when the. British Bolsheviki made speech¬
es against, such abuses as these, should an English
Legipn have driven the speaker out of town?
'(Go slow, brave American boys!)
Old Sarum’s piece of a chimney is not in Par¬
liament, now; but the millions of people of Man¬
chester, Leeds, and Liverpool are represented there,
on the principle of equality in representation.
Another demand of the English Reds, whom the
Dukes vvated to shoot, was a yearly session of Par¬
liament.
when Previously, the King had called it in session,
it suited the Conservatives—and more espec¬
ially when he was in a tight for money.
Kings have ever been the most importunate of
beggars, almost equal to our Infant Industries.
Well, the Chartists redly demanded annual ses¬
sions of Parliament, and England, after having said,
many times, “She’d neer consent, consented.”
The last demand which the British Reds put
on the British Whites, was a salary for every mem¬
ber of Parlitemcnt.
You could not, under any conceivable circum¬
stances, disassociate our Congressmen from their
salaries, their mileage, their little persequities of
mailing tons of letters and unspoken speeches to
Every Man in the United,States.
But, under the Tory regime in England, only
a rich man could afford a seat in Parliament, and if
a salary has ever been provided for a member, the
fact has escaped my attention.
Therefore, every demand made by the British
Reds of 1835, is now the law of England, except
salaries for members of Parliament—and you will
doubtless conclude that the giving of a" salary to
a poor man, enabling him to represent his people,
should also be an English law.
Nancy Astor can afford to sit in Parliament,
because her husband’s great-grand-father bought a
large portion of Manhattan Island, by cheating In¬
dians. out of their furs.
(No offence meant to you or your' husband,
J'adVy) v But Abraham Lincoln's htolheY, also
woman, named Nancy, could never have sat in the
British Parliament, for the reason that she was
P oor -
Iler immortal son could not have afforded to
serve in Congress and in the White House, had
there been no salary.
lie, also, was honestly poor.
Let me give you another illustration.
Toward the end of the 18th Century, a poor
man, in France, could not kill any kind of depreda¬
ting animal that was destroying his crop.
He could shoo off a wolf, a wild boar, a deer, or
a flock of pigeons, but he could not shoot them off,
or injure them in any way.
Peasants often had to stay up all night, at cer
tain seasons, to prevent the wild animals from re.
ducing them to starvation.
They were not, allowed to kill the partridges
that fed on their ground, and they were not permit
ed to manure the land when the young coveys
were coming off, lest the manure disagreeably affect
the flavor of the birds.
Great hunting parties, mounted for the chase of
the boar, or the stag, would come tearing through
the peasant’s vineyard, or grain injuries field, or truck
patches, inflicting almost ruinous upon him
—and the law gave him no redress.
The peasant was forced by law, to give . his la
ibor to his landlord: he had to keep up the roads: he
had to pay terrible taxes to the Roman Church, to
his landlord, and to the King.
If his daughtep was pretty, the landlord claim
ed her, and used her until he tired of her.
If his wife was handsome, the priest wanted
her, periodically, and got her.
The peasant was forced to carry his . grain _ to
the landlord’s mill: his grapes, to the landlord's
press.
If he had any surplus thing to carry to the
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Issued Weekly
Short Notes on Various Topics
of Interest.
Also a Few Q ucries.
The New York Evening Sun says, editorially,
that we must go to war with Mexico, to restore
our prestige,” there.
That doesn't seem to me to be much of an ex
cuse fof war, but it is sufficient for those who think
the atrocities practised on Jenkins, by himself, en¬
title us to run a straight line from El Paso to
the Pacific, and swipe all Mexican territory to the
North of the line.
I am inclined to believe that this much of our
sister Republic would restore our prestige, and sat¬
isfy Mr. Hearst for the present.
The world will think a whole lot more of us,
when they see us jump on the weakest man ii
sight and rend him. as we glorim y dij in 1848.
John Burroughs continues to exusperut® me.
by his Nature Notes.
They are not nature notecs: they are Bur¬
roughs giddy fancies about the Hudson River
zoology and ornithology and fishologv.
He gives bis admirers—and I'm one of them—i
some additional information about squirrels.
The question and answer follow: ,
“2. Does the squirrel spend the winter and
summer in the same, nest?
The squirrel’s home, is usually in the trunk of
some old birch or maple, with an entrance far up
amid the branches. In the spring he builds him¬
self a summer house of small leafy twigs in the
top of a neighboring beech, where the young are
reared and much of the time passed. But the safo
retreat in the maple is not. abandoned, and both old
and young resort thither in the fall, or when danger
threatens.”
As I said last week, there arc a large number
of squirrels that live with me, winter and summer.
They do not migrate as most people believe.
Migration is caused by lack of food and water.
I provide them with both, all the year round.
There are, some birches on the place, but these
eccentric squirrels of mine pay no attention to them,
at all.
I have a beautiful beecli avenue, and several
isolated beeches, but these anti-Burroughs squir
rels do not patronize my beeches.
'"Either mv squirrels are but of my
birches and beeches are.
My variety of squirrel is the common grey one,
and he prefers a small empty paint-keg, nailed
high up an oak tree,
Just give him a keg, and he will live in it,
year after year, without building a summer house
of leaves.
I have never seen squirrels show any preference
for maples,
The leaf home is built of the largest leaves
the squirrel can get: he kill not use the small
leaves of the hickory, the maple, the birch, or the
beech, if he can get leaves from the oak.
I am sure that these leaf nests are ifted Winter
and Summer, because I have seen new leaves being
added, in the Spring: when the nest gets too many
fleas and mites in it, the squirrel quits it.
If Brother John wants to really get acquainted
with squirrels, he should cordially invite himself
to visit his friend T. E. W.
A man who signs himself A. R. Coleman, Red
Bank, New Jersey, asks the Sun this question:
“Why does a' bird on perch put its head under
its wing and draw up one leg?’’
If this New Jersey brother had asked about
the leg of a pointer-dog, when setting a partridge,
he would have landed right in the realm of reason.
But when he inquires about perched birds
with heads tucked away under wings, and legs
tucked under tails, he is evidently thinking of our
little friend Alice, or our little friend Fauntleroy.
If I -must give a reason for this unnamed
perched bird, I would guess that its leg was cold,
and that its tail was the best warming pan availa
bio.
Whatever may be the name of this New Jer¬
sey bird, it was a mistake to give it two legs.
As to its head, its wing was its most conve¬
nient resting place.
Even man needs a head rest, occasionally. ••!
Ever since I was able to aim a gun. I took i%
boy’s delight in hunting birds: I quit it some 20
years ago, because there was no longer any sport
for me shooting harmless things.
Neither in the Winter nor in the Summer did
I ever see a dove perched on a limb, with ono foot
hidden away under its tail—-and I have seen and
shot very many doves on the perch.
I have seen, on perch, many a jay, many a
thrasher, many a blue bird, but never have I seen
a bird using one foot, only. ’^fuirro
Did anybody'"'ever see a w^mwfrT <*
mocking-bird, a French mocker, a red-bird, a wren,
or a pigeon acting in the way this New Jersey gen
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