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Vol. 38
What Some Others Think of
Our Present National
Condition.
There come to me by every mail, letters from
Well-meaning friends who warn me tnat 1 am too
radical; too sweeping in my statements regard¬
ing our present political condition; that I am apt
to exagerate; that I am an unregenerate agitator
and so on.
It is not my custom ever to make up our
paper with “clippings,” but for the benefit of these
—and other good friends,—I am going to quote
from “various and sundry.”
i First, we will quote from the New York World,
the opinion of Dudley Malone, on the so-called
“American Legion.”
Mr. Malone is a very prominent personage,
New York, arid I have paid him my respects once
or twice.
It rather surprised me that he should have ob¬
jected to the "Legion,” and I give you his state¬
ment, as it appeared in The World of Friday,
Jan. 2;
MALONE WRITES HOW HE DISLIKES
AMERICAN LEGION.
Barring from Membership “Attempt to Control
Opinion by Social Ostracism,” He Says.
Dudley Field Malone, who has been
barred from Croton Post of the American
t Legion because of his radical activities,
issued this statement last night:
“My membership in the American
legion was solicited by a naval officer and
filed at least six months ago. I
thought then that members of the organi¬
1 zation were organizing to restore that spir¬
it of liberty and tolerance in America for
which so many of our comrades had died
i abroad.
■ My opinions are objected to as radi¬
cal. I have never advocated even a peace¬
*4< ful and orderly change in the form of
our government. But I have advocated
and shall continue to advocate a return
to the Constitution as it was written and
not as it is constantly perverted by officials
and courts.
“Our country entered the war net on¬
ly to destroy German imperialism, but
for the, Kclf-determination of all people.
And I have urged arid HIiull cdriUnue to
urge the rights of the people of Ireland,
India, Egypt and Russia to choose any
form of government that seems to them
• more suited to their - needs.
“A constant study of Webster, Lin¬
coln and Wendell Phillips convinces me
that this is the only attitude of vis¬
ion and understanding worthy of Ameri¬
can traditions. This is my simple creed.
Membership in the American Legion could
not buy it from me.
“And any attempt by the American
Legion to control by social ostracism will
ts- only strengthen the light for political
and industrial change.”
I have frequently referred to President Wil¬
son’s disregard of the. Constitution of the U. S.
Some people seemed to think that each Presi¬
dent was free to interpret that Constitution ac¬
cording to his individual opinion—or rather, as
he would have it,
From “Harvey's Weekly,” published in N. Y:
City, I clip an editorial which shows I am not
alone in the opinion I expressed:
“ONLY WHEN SOUGHT.”
The President’s letter to Senator Fall,
rejecting the suggestion of advice, cooper¬
ation or aid from the Senate in the Mexi¬
can embroglio, is noteworthy and will, we
think, be long remembered for several of
. its qualities and expressions, but probably
for nothing more ill an for its statement of
the time, occasion and circumstances when,
in the President’s opinion, the Senate is
to be associated with him in the direction
of the foreign relations of the nation. In
, making triat statement the President was
at his best as master of a simple, direct and
quite unmistakable English Style, It
would have been impossible "the for anybody,
, even for himself, to express thought
) [ with more convincing clarity.
He was speaking of the Constitution.
' In the course of four sentences he had re¬
ferred directly to that instrument twice, to
constitutional practice once, and to consti¬
tutional authorities once. And then, ex¬
pounding the constitutional relation be¬
tween the President and the Senate, he
Jt 1 said:
The advice of the Senate is provided
*•" for only when sought by the Executive in
regard to explicit agreements with for
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CAN YOU ANSWER? AND WHAT
WILL YOU DO?
You are rather expecting that somebody, who
lives somewhere, will dig up his hatchet, and set
things to right.
Are you going to help?
Your ideas are reasonably clear as to what is
wrong.
You can see how your natural rights have been
undermined, and how the foundations of your
grand Republic are being sapped.
We were promised that when German mili¬
tarism had bsen “crushed”, our Constitutional lib¬
erties would be restored.
Has the promiss been kept?
Have the war-laws been repealed?
Tou know that they have not been removed;
and you know that our Prussian Militarists are
urging Congress to make those laws move des¬
potic than they were during the great war.
What is the object of this?
At whose freedom are these autocratic meas¬
ures aimed?
At yours!
You realize the truth of this, and you are
distressed about it; but where will your vote be,
at the next general election?
M ill it be. at the disposal of the Congressman
who betrayed you? Or of the daily paper that de¬
ceived you, all through the war?
The deadliest enemies of democracy are in con¬
trol of yovr Government!
Without, any warrant alleging crime, and with¬
out any real process of law, within the meaning of
the Great Charter, or of your Constitution, men
and women are being summarily sent into banish¬
ment. beyond seas—a power never exercised by the
Tudors, by the Bourbons, or by the Hohenzolierns.
The Jesuits, at whose head in this country,
stand Cardinal Gibbons, Cardinal O'Connell, and
Joseph Tumulty are in complete control of the ma
chinery of this Administration.
A Popo abolished this infernal organization;
and he predicted , at the time , that they would, poi¬
son him.
T hey nm.
For/h time, they hid out, in Russia; but when
trie Napoleon made 'Clin his fatal mistake of rehabilitating
Roman roll, the Jesuits were again allowed
to reorganize.
They undermined his Empire, in Austria, in
Belgium, in Italy, in Spain, and even in France:
they dragged him down, at last; and they tried to
have hinreassassinatad, in Southern France, when
he was a prisoner on the way to Elba.
Why did they so hate him?
Because he had compelled the Pope to re¬
linquish control of education, and had established
a splendid system of public schools.
Bismarck drove these Jesuits from Germany,
and they tried to kill him; but the young Kaiser
permitted them to glide back into the college- and
schools: see what the result was!
This horrible secret society has been exposed
in all sorts of books, in great law cases; in revela¬
tions made by members who withdrew from the
criminal society; but it always glides in again. .
It has been banished from nearly all coun¬
tries—and then allowed to return.
A very nice little person, named Pleasant
Stovall, has been for many years our minister to
Switzerland.
We have no particular use for a minister to
the Swiss; hut Mr. Pleasant Stovall was one of
Mr. Bryan’s “dererving Democrats,” and he had
a particular use for this ministry.
He is now coming home; and, as liJ conies,
he -is shrieking to us, in behalf of Europe.
It is easy for Pleasant to do this, because near¬
ly every one of our Better Class of People has
done it.
If it were not so tragic, it would lie tho joke of
the ages.
Herbert Hoover has a list of twenty-millions
of Europeans that will starve, if we do not send
something to Ilitn.
(Of course, he will not keep any of it for
Himself.)
When did our duty to Europe get started?
It is earnestly requested that all letters, money orders
and business communications be addressed
The Columbia Sentinel
P. O. Box 393
Thomson Georgia
Harlem, Ga., Friday, January 9, 1920.
It's oath of office is a declaration of eternal
warfare against, every principle embodied in your
supreme law: yet your Chief Justice is a member
of the Order.
You OWE THAT TO WlLLIAM UoWAKl) TAFT!
Your acting President is a Jesuit.
The militarists who demand universal compul¬
sory military service are members of it.
The Knights of Columbus are controlled by
it.
The German-Irish secret clans are its servants.
The American Legion is to be its Army-Of¬
ficer support.
You see all this, don’t you?
Yes you see it: but what are you going to do?
This year is the turning point in history.
For Heavens sake! be a man.
Don't he misled »y the paid propaganda of
cheap politicians and hireling editors.
Listen: The men who are running this Admin¬
istration ARE THE SWORN ENEMIES OF OUR FORM OF
Government.
Cardinal Gibbons is the sworn foe of every
institution which our forefathers sanctified with
their blood.
So is every other Roman Priest.
So isj, every Roman Catholic who has taken
the layman's vow.
Therefore, Tumulty is, and so is tlie Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Isn’t it an amazing thing, to see these sworn
enemies of our Republic taking charge of it?
Isn’t it astounding to see them “deporting - ’
people, on the pretext those people have said some¬
thing against our form of government, when all
these Roman priests hav taken solemn oaths to
overthrow this same government?
They claim to be afraid of the talk a few hun¬
dred Russian “Reds,” when we tolerate 11,000 Ro¬
man priests, who have sworn to pervert and rev¬
olutionize our Republic!
They have sworn to do rr!
And they are doing it.
Your ballot was intended to bo your sword,
your shield: it was thought that with your vote j’ou
could alkays preserve the monuments of those wlu
fought and died, in order that you bright have
those liberties which you are allowing to slip from
your hands.
Read again the noble principles of your Dec¬
laration of Independence!
Read the Bill of Rights in your State Con
stitution.
Any lawyer will show them to you.
Read them! Think of them.
As you do this, remember that every line of
that setting-forth of the elementary rights of the
Human Being—made in the Image of his God!
was won on bloody fields of battle, by Anglo-Sax¬
ons who fought Popes and Kings.
Ton are now asked to yield your rights, your
independence to a vast conspiracy of Priests,
Bankers, King:; Manufacturers, Bondholders,
Slave-Drivers.
Don’t no rr!
Remember, your ballot is your sword!
Have it ready when the November elections
come.
HAVE YOU SAVED EUROPE?
Stndv for a moment the various elements of
our population, and then ask yourself what cause!
them to come over from the Old World.
The Puritans came, on account of religious
persecutions they had suffered in England.
The Cavaliers came, on account of their do
sins for a larger measure of personal freedom.
The Huguenots came, to escape torture and
death at the hands of the/ Roman Catholics.
The Salzburgers came for the same reason:
and they were German Protestants.
The Baptists came, because Europe outlawed
them.
The Methodists came, as missionaries, for they
were hounded down in England.
Tl\c Irish Protestants came, because the Cath¬
olic Irish, led by fanatical priests, were about
to kill them out.
The Scotch came because of clan-ware, and the
exactions of a few land-lords who owned the whole
Issued Weekly
The Attorney General Wants
More Power.
Every State in th« Union has Ians which pun¬
ish those extremist who abuse freedom of speech,
of press, ami of assemblage.
Every incorporated town and city ha- the. po¬
lice-power to protect itself, and to protect the pri¬
vate citizen.
sihy, then, should Attorney-General Palmer
ho demanding that Congress grant him i nov pow
ers than Congress has already given'
We see in New 1 ork papers the account of
wholesale capture, of 400, in that City, alone; and
we read also of raids made on ■ i3 other cities, where
'‘extremists" were arrested, their private, papers
seized, and their newspapers suppressed.
If this kind of thing is done according to Fed¬
eral lav \ isn’t the t, aw strong enough?
If federal judges are acting according to Fed¬
eral law, when they forbid miners to hold peace¬
able, meetings, isn't the law strong enough?
From The Nation , of Jan. 3, 1920, the follow¬
ing is taken;
“Judge Anderson's action in the cosl
strike, stretches still further the use of the
much-abused power of injunction, has al¬
ready resulted in several orders in other
courts of which it is- not too much to say'
that if such rulings are a’lowed to stand, f
the country is in danger of having a new
and vicious legal doctrine fastened upon it.
For instance, when Mr. Scott Nearing was
invited recently’ to speak on amnesty for
political prisoners liefore the Central La¬
bor Union in Lafayette. Indiana, the May¬
or of the City prevented the meeting by
getting an injunction from Judge Henry
II. Vinton of the Superior Court. The
order not only “enjoined and restrained”
Mr. Nearing “from addressing or speak¬
ing in the Labor Temple” at Lafayette
“at 7 ;30 o’clock this date, or at any other
time pending the hearing of this petition,”
but also decreed “that all persons whom¬
soever axe hereby enjoined or restrained
from holding a meeting at any time pend¬
ing the hearing of this petition anywhere
in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to be ad¬
dressed by said defendant, Scott Nearing,
or any other person upon said subject.’’
This is nothing less than a revolution in
the doctrine of the injunction as hitherto
understood. .. .....
If Mr. Nearing had spoken in Lafay¬
ette and in doing so had violated any law,
ho could have been arrested and tried.
The conception of the criminal law is that
it shall be enforced by th punishment of
the individuals who violate its provisions.
The injunction, on tho other hand, as
pointed out in The, Nation of December 20,
lias nothing jto do with crime. It origi¬
nated as an equity measure to protect prop¬
erty from impending injury for which
there could be no subsequent redress in
civil law. To deprive a guiltless man of
his rights under the law iu order to fore¬
stall a possible crime, is little better than
stringing a guilty man to a lamp post in
order to forestall a possible failure to
ptuvfeh him. It Is uncomfortably close
to introducing lynch law into the courts
themselve.”
To coridemn a public speaker, and prohibit
his speech, before it. can be known what the speech
will be, d-oes resemble a judicial lynching.
To enjoin a whole community from assem¬
bling inside their own hall, to hear the speaker
who has been invited there for the purpose of ad¬
dressing them, would seem to be a climax of law¬
less procedure.
But the Democratic Attorney-General wants
something stronger: how much stronger?
country.
The Jews came, on account of the massacres,
planned againist them in every Roman Catholic
country, such as Spain, Poland, and France.
The mermans came to escape compulsory mili¬
service, and the endless strifes of royal families.
America was the Asylum of the oppressbo.
Oppressed by whomf
By the Popes, by the Kings, by the Autocrats,
by the Monopolists.
Living where f
In Europe!
And now we are beseiged by the Powers, in
behalf of these very Oppressors.
We are told that it is our duty to feed Europe;
to clothe Europe; to finance Europe; and to snatch
tip armies of our young men and send them to all
parts of Europe, to fight for “causes” that we know
nothing about.
A Supreme Council, in Paris, assigns oqr regi
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