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Vol. 38
Two of the Sinister Meanings of
The League of Nations.
On the 5th of September, 1919. at the Thom¬
son celebration of my 63rd birthday, I said—
“7/ the real purpose is , to create an interna¬
tional Guarantee and Collection Agency for the
great hankers and bondholders of indebted nations ,
then the League will be a success.
If the real purpose is, to permanently fasten
the yoke of the conquerors upon Egypt , Asia Minor.
Africa, India , Oceanic a. and the greater part of
China., then the League will be a success. ’
Since that address was made, the following
events have taken place:
(1) The British Government hfs sent to this
country three of its most adroit diplomats , to ob¬
tain from our Government an agreement, that a
part of the war debts of the European nations shall
be pooled, into a vast bond-issue of $35,000,000,000,
and that the United States shall directly take
$15,000,000,000 of these bonds.
(You already have a war-debt of your own, r.o
the extent of $30,000,000,000!
But the League of Nations proposes that you
shall take care of that huge unpayable debt, your¬
self.) '
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Who will be the owners of these International
bonds?
“The great bankers and bondholders of in¬
debted nations."
What International Power will be. the Guar¬
antor and Collector of the interest on those Inter¬
national bonds?
The League of Nations!
There you have it— the Monet Power grasp -
7NG THE WORLD!
Two titled Englishmen—Viscount Edward
Grey, and Sir William Tyrell—were sent to Wash¬
ington, a few weeks ago , to secretly secure the aid
of this Administration in having Congress endorse
THIS COLOSSAL SWINDLE.
In some way, Mr Hearst secured inside infor¬
mation of the plot. \
He lias money enough to employ secret ser¬
vice men, himself; and it is highly probable that he
knows the inside doings of the Wilson gang.
Anyway, he got the facts, and he published a
statement as to what the three Englishmen were up
to, in Washington.
At once, those Truthful Democrats—Secretary
Lansing, Carter Glass, and President denounced Harding, of
the Federal Reserve bank system— the
Hearst statement as “an idiotic fake,” a “fantasy,”
“with no vestige of truth in it,” “preposterous,”
“malicious,” etc.
Of course, the New York World and the New
York Times echoed the denials of Lansing, Glass,
and Harding.
Later than Viscount Grey and Sir William Ty¬
rell, came Sir George Paish.
Sir George was not in close touch with Grey
and Tyrell; and no sooner had he landed than he
began to talk, and he gave the whole thing away!
He and his two colleagues were here to not
only persuade Wilson’s Administration to take,
fifteen thonsand million dollars of the Internationa/
bonds, but to endorse $15,000,000,000 more.
Mr. Hearst charges that the Administration
AGREED TO DO IT.
In what sort of fix does the statement of Sir
George Paish leave Secretary Lansing, Secretary
Glass, and Governor Harding?
Why is it that Wilson and his immediate staff
of servitors never can tell the truth, about any¬
thing/
No wonder Mr. Lansing told Mr. Bullitt, in
Paris, that if the People of the. United States kne w
what the League of Nations “let them in for" they
WOULD NEVER JOIN IT.
We can now see clearly one of the things that
the League meant—and still means—“to let them
in for.”
It meant to let them in for the financing of
bankrupt Europe, the assumption of Europe's wow
debts, the boosting of Europe's lowered, credit, and
the validitating of Europe's depreciated bonds.
To this almost, incredible crime against Ameri¬
ca, President Wilson gave his complicity , at Paris
and he signed his name as President, to that most
perfidious compact.
Had the Senate been stampeded into ratifica¬
tion, it, would, now be impossible for us to escape
the consequences of his vast betrayal of his coun¬
try.
When'you think of how secretively he worked
this whole scheme, and how intent he was upon ma¬
king us the financial and political victims of his
English Kinsmen , it is hard for you to escape the
conclusion, that he is one, of the craftiest and falsest
men that ever teas the official head of a great
people.
This recent revelation of the secret purpose of
the mission of Viscount Grey, Sir William Tyrell,
and Sir George Paish, explains the influence which
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A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER IN
For several generations, his folks lived within
five miles of Thomson, at old Union Church, on
one of the roads to Wrightsboro.
His Uncles were volunteers in the Confederate
Army: back of them, his ancestors were volunteers
in the Revolutionary War.
A fin? old family, the Johnsons.
The subject of my story went West, some years
ago, in response to that adventurous spirit which
creates restlessness among young men.
In 1917, there came the clarion call, to save
civilization, defend our rights, crush the Prussian
monster, establish the benign sovereignty of Right,
organize the conscience of mankind, rule the world
with Sunday School lessons, and to enthrone lib¬
erty and democracy “everywhere,''
This Georgia boy, up in the North-West, heard
all this, and was entranced.
He had the “vision”; he “sensed” the dawn of
the new day; and with “proud punctilio,” he vol¬
unteered.
From the outside, every thing seemed inviting:
the blare, of brass bands, the fluttering of flags,
the hurrahs of the multitude, the patronizing
smiles of the Hoflicers.
But the moment this volunteer was securely
inside, things began to look different.
The Ninety Day Wonders—Lieutenants, Cap¬
tains, Majors, Colonels—commenced performing;
and their ideas of discipline would have made a
Prussian drill-'Sergeant stare in amazement.
The private soldier must be made to under¬
stand, immediately, that he was made of ditch-water
and mud-puddle sediment.
Could the private buy something to cat from
a station-booth, on the railroad?
No, indeed, No! He must swallow the spoiled
tomatoes in the. tin-can, eat the chemical beef of the
Packers, even though he had to “throw up” the
whole mess, in ten minutes after he gulped it down.
This Georgia boy developed apendicitis, and
was sent to the hospital.
The military autocrat required him to be
strapped down and eut open, without any an¬
esthetic!
The wung man refused to subit to this barba¬
rous requirement. *■ »
He appealed to his Hofficer, and the Hofliccr
coldly refused to either have the operation per¬
formed in a humane manner, or to allow the suf¬
ferer to apply to an outside surgeon.
Mind you, this youth was not a captured slack¬
er, and not a conscript, but a volunteer !
Physically unfit for the service in France, he
was nevertheless packed off and put upon active
duty.
He told me, that sometimes on the march, he
almost had to fall out of the line, and that his side
felt as if it would burst open.
Still he toughed it out—brave Georgia boy!
The Hofficers were so harsh, so arrogant, so
ready to inflict the cruellest punishments, that—
as he says—the privates “hardly dared to look,”
much less speak and write.
On duty at the front, he was attacked by the
Flu, which developed double pneumonia.
A French Surgeon, seeing his condition, took
pity on him, and had him put on a train which
was carrying the sick and the wounded to hospitals
in the rear.
All the way, the French Surgeon watched him,
attentively, and occasionally would inject some re¬
viver into his arm.
But this noble Frenchman had to go on w ith
the train, and young Johnson was left at the Hos¬
pital, to the care of American nurses, surgeons,
and Hofficers.
He lay unconscious—he does not know how
long.
When he “came to,” his cap was still on his
head, his spurs were still on his feet, for he had
been acting ns mounted orderly for his Colonel.
His pillow showed the red hair of the man
who had occupied the cot before Johnson was
flung upon it; and in a little while, the'lice of the
red-headed man were making a new settlement on
Johnson.
Those were the first lice he got —got them on
the foul bed of on American Hospital.
The nurses spent so much of their time with
It will be a great value to us to have all subscrip¬
tions sent to
THE COLUMBIA. SENTINEL,
Thomson Office,
Thomson, Ga. - F>. O. Box 393.
Have money orders made out in this way, and much time
will be saved in booking your subs.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
Harlem, GaFriday, January 1G, 1920.
the Hoflicers, that they did not change sheets and
pillow-cases!
By sheer strength of constitution, young John¬
son at length became strong enough to leave the
hospital; and he—accompanied by a marine who
also had been in the louse-infested hospital—went
to the American Red Cross Hut for food.
They couldn't get any!
They saw other soldiers eating in the hut, but
they were turned away.
They then went to the French Red Cross hut, and
the good old woman there gave them all they
wanted.
This Georgia ex-soldier says that lie. had to
spend every dollar of his pay in France, to support
life.
The stuff his officers furnished, his stomach
could not retain.
The foul mess was so unfit for a human being,
that it. was vomited.
Therefore, he had to buy decent food, and that
took all his pay.
The Hofficers, however , fared well.
From the American Red Cross, this Thomson
boy purchased, some smoking tobacco; and, one
day when he was filling his pipe from the sack,
he felt a slip of /paper.
It was the name and address of a Western
girl that he was attached to, and who had donated
the Tobacco which • the Red Cross had sold.
He says that at Fort Scott, there were great
quantities of home-knit socks which patriotic, and
charitable women had donated to the hoys in
Franc*, and which were never sent over.
They were all,owed to rot. just as Hoover left
24,000 tons of flour to rot. on the Trieste docks,
when the people for whom that flour was intended
were starving in Vienna.
WiU the American Red Cross explain why it
sold to the soldiers the tobacco that was GIVEN
to those soldiers by their home folks?
Let them answer, if they can!
And let. them tell us what went with the Christ¬
mas boxes that were sent from loving ones here at
home, to the soldier-boys in Brtuioc. * •••>*
The Red Cross has done its Catholic best to
discredit the Y. M. C. A.: now let this Popish Red
Cross face the music.
Just before the Expeditionary force was break¬
ing up and leaving France, that cheap jumping
jack, Gen. Pershing, sent postcards around to the
privates, with a form of eulogy of himself printed
on them, certifying to his good treatment of the
soldiers in France!
Each private was to sign the testimonial to
Cheap John’s humanity, and mail the card to the
soldier’s family!
Did you ever hear of anything like that?
Can you imagine Gen. Grant, or Gen. Lee, or
even Hindenburg or Ludendorff, adopting such a
contemptible device?
Some soldiers may have signed those cards, for
fear of punishment if they did not; but 1 make this
prediction—
If Pershing runs for President, not one sol¬
dier in a thousand will vote for him.
They found him out in France; and they have
no respect for him as a, Commander, and they hat*
him as a man.
The Georgia ex-private soldier whose simple
story I have related, told it to me today—Sunday
Jan. 10—at my home; and he gave me permission
to use. his name.
It is Ben Johnson, son of Wig Johnson, now
of Hancock county.
His uncles, Ben Johnson and Jim Johnson
live in Thomson.
Let, me add, that it was not until he got
honorable discharge, in May, last year, that, he
could have the operation performed for apendicitis.
He took the first train, afterwards, and went
to Wichita, Kansas, where he was operated upon
in the customary way, and the, operation was a per¬
fect success.
His utter detestation of the brutality of
American up-start officers is the same that is
pressed by every private.
Issued Weekly
Attorney-General Palmer, the
Most Dangerous Radical
\ln America.
Mitchell Palmer was a Pennsylvania lawyer
who got into Congress.
Any Pennsylvanian who can get into any im¬
portant office has to be "acceptable" to the Pennsyl¬
vania Railroad, the Steel Trust, and the Standard
Oil Company.
I'lie fact that Palmer got into a judicial office
in the State, and then got into Congress, is sufficient
evidence of his rcccpfability to the Corporate
11 calth which rules the Government.
To bo acceptable to this ruling power, on must
be its very obedient, servant.
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And Palmer has been just that.
President. \\ ilson appointed Mr. Palm r. CI1S
todian and auctioneer of the German private prop¬
erty which the German residents left behind, when
the war forced them to hastily leave for Genna.nv.
This private property was under the general
protection of International Law, and the special
protection of a treaty with Germany.
Neither the Law nor the treaty was respected.
The property was put into the icustody of
Mitchell Palmer, and Mitchell auctioned it, off, in
private.
In one case, if his own Administration nevs
papers didn’t lie on him, he sold, in a private r.o ok,
at Boston Massachusetts, a German Manufactu¬
ring establishment, located in New Jersey.
Jt whs worth millions of dollars: it. probably
did not sell for any staggering sum.
Palmer disposed of other German'property, in
the same way; and the total of the property which
Mitchell custodianed and auctioned off, in. private-,
was valued at $80,000,000.
The rampant violation of Law and Treaty, by
the said Mitchell, was so very raw. so very scanda¬
lous, so utterly indefensible, that Woodro w 11 ilson.
trird to carer it up. in the Versailles Treaty and
League, with a provision, requiring the helpless
Germans to give their sanction to the lawless free
boote.ry of Mm,, the said Mitchell Palmer.
If .Palmer’s action with regard to that private
property had not been illegal, why demand, that
the Germans acquiesce in it?
The very fact that the advocates of the League
have caged ratificatacn, ow the -.grrmnd that the
Treaty quiets the. title to the property which Palm¬
er handed around to his pets—and perhaps his
pals— is a confession of Palmer’s octet.
Since September, we have had no President: Mr.
Wilson has been curtained off from public view;
and, whether his ailment be nervous collapse, ulc'i>
ation of the prostate gland, thrombosis, or some¬
thing else, lie has been out of it.
The Viziers have been running the Government.
The President is mentally incapable of knowing
of the career of revolutionary Radicalism, upon,
which his Attorney-General has entered.
If Palmer knew any history, he would know
that he has put himself where George III. stood;
where Metternich stood: where CastiereagU stood;
where Charles X. stood, on the eve of the revolt
which expelled the last of the real Bourbons.
It may impress Palmer's mind more deeply, if
I remind him that he. is now standing where Car¬
dinal Antonelli forced Pope Pies IX. to stand,
on the eve, of the forcible overthrow of the Tem¬
poral Power.
What does Mitchell Palmer know about the
historic origins of the great principles of Anglo
Saxon liberty?
Did he ever read The Great Charter, or the
Petition of Rights, or the Bill of Rights?
Does he know—or care a damn—about the
victory won by English Whigs and Protestants,
against English Tories and Catholics, in tlio
Revolution of 1688?
Before he could begin to “function.” as Attor¬
ney-General, Palmer had to swear fealty to the
Constitution of the United States:
“To preserve, protect and defend.”
That’s what he swore to do; and the place was
hardly dry where he kissed the Book—if he kissel
ity before he began to, violate his oath.
• There never was a more tyranieal misuse of
power, than his establishment of a system, of forced
labor, by the use of a Federal Judge, and an omni¬
bus. cast-net Injunction.
If miners can be driven back into their holes un¬
derground, and forced to bring up coal at 60 cents a
ton, in order that heartless profiteers imp sell it at
2,000 pei‘ cent profit, then any class of laborers
may be forced to work.
The Injunction thus becomes the slavevdri
veks lash; and while it is now' laid on the back of
the miner, it may, tomorrow, lie laid on the back
of any other workers, whether in factories, saw¬
mills, sweat shops, printing establishments, rail¬
roads. or dock yards.
What right did Palmer have—through Judge
Anderson—to forbid the miners the use of their
own money? »
If that's the law, he can enjoin a bank from
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