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Mr. William J. Bryan Makes
Another Speech.
Mr. Bryan is the political prophet who an¬
nounced, on Tuesday of last week , that the League
Treaty would be ratified on last Friday.
Missed it, you see.
The pressing question, at Monday noon, this
week, seems to be, whether Borahgard and John¬
son will tear Senator Lodge to pieces, or tear the
Treaty to pieces.
I haven't as- yet, quite made up my mind as
to which of these two possible happenings, 1 would
prefer to happen.
I am indignantly amazed at Woodrow Wil¬
son’s monumental conceit and contempt of law,
in assuming that he, alone, h id the rightful au¬
thority to change our form of Government, “by
■ and with the consent of a small number of Ameri¬
cans, who would rather not tell how they came to
be Senators.
So that, when I see Attorney-General Palmer
landing in Russia, 247 windbags, that had “plot¬
ted to change our form of Government, I do mv
best to “visualize” the invisible President and the
frantically struggling Senators, who are in actual
daily athletics to do the •very thing that the al¬
leged Russian anarchists were accused of intending
to do.
Isn’t it rather funny?
Here romps Palmer, shouting “Plots!” “Con¬
spiracies!” “Uprisings!” “Bloody murder” and
“violent change of Government!”
He casts his net over 35 slumbering cities, and
he rakes out 2 here, and 1 at another place, and
3 at another, and he got 700 from New York and
Chicago.
He must have grabbed many a policeman.
Evidently, he had to turn loose the larger
part of his cast-net catch.
Will they prosecute him?
'What amends will he make to the innocent
victims of his unlawful, unprecedented proceed¬
ings?
What I am angry at Senator Lodge about is,
that he accepts the League principle.
That’s the granite foundation on which he
could easily have built an impregnable fortress.
His unanswerable arguments would have been
easily understood by the most illiterate of the
, common people: ,, . „ „
(1) The Constitution itself provides the
method by which our government can lie changed,
and that method requires a majority vote, by all
qualified voters of the States.
The federated States, by a vote of the people
of each State , made: a new Federal Government.
That Government cannot be legally changed,
by itself, or by its officials who were chosen by the
people, and whose limits of legal authority are
set in the Constitution which they must swear to
preserve , protect, - and defend —before they can
perform any official act.
(2) The President has no legal right, to live
in Europe and perform official duties there: nor
has he or the Senate the power to delegate their
delegated powers to foreign governments, or to
become component part of any foreign League,
Covenant, or government of any kind.
The People, alone have that sovereign
POWER.
The Constitution itself decides the question
that whatever of sovereign power is not, written
into this Constitution and not delegated to States,
remains in the mass of the people.
The States were given certain portions of that
sovereignty of the people; and each State Con¬
stitution says how* much.
The States, authorized-by the people, delega¬
ted a certain amount of their powers to the Fed¬
eral Government, and the U. S. Constitution
shows how much.
The right of Radical Amendment, by vote,
is preserved in the Constitution; and the People,
by Amendment, can absolutely change the form
of State and Federal Government.
That inherent right of popular self-govern¬
ment, and change of form of government, ap¬
pears as one of the undisputed truisms stated in
our Declaration of Independence.
The Covenant of the League kills this dem¬
ocratic principle , forever.
In the first draft of Article Ten of the Guy
Fawkes Covenant, this fundamental right of peo¬
ples to change their form of government , was
written, in the plainest, strqngest terms by
Woodrow Wilson.
Why did he knuckle to England, and allow
the liberty clause stricken out?
In Atlanta, Mr. Bryan was introduced to a
very cold audience—the weather being bad—by
Judge Broyles, who said that Bryan was the most
calumniated tnan on earth, but that his shoulders
were broad, his epidermis thick, his smile screwed
on, and his flow of language so incessant,, that he
seldom heard what his vile fees were saying about
him.
In the generous summing up of the reception
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REPUBLIC ANS-DE MOCR ATS • •
THE WINGS ARE FLOPPING TOGETHER.
An Attorney-General of the Pennsylvania
and Illinois Corporations decided to use injunc¬
tions mere radically, than William Howard Taft
had used them.
U. S. Judge Taft enjoined locomotive engi¬
neers from quitting work, when they were mis¬
treated and dissatisfied.
That injunction was wholly illegal, a daring
innovation, unknown to afiv statute-law, unknown
to England's unwritten constitution, and violative
of the Bill of Rights of every Ameriian Consti¬
tution.
Taft belonged to the vast Corporate Interesls.
and such a decision as his was needed by those
gold-hunters who drive human labor to the ut¬
most limit, to get dividends upon watered stock—
stock that cost nothing more than ink, paper, and
a few lines of printed matter.
But Mitchell Palmer, Attorney-General, was
armed with ampler powers than those asserted
by President Roosevelt and Dr. Garfield and San¬
derson Burleson and Tumulty combined, and he
hetieved that the Dragonnades and Prussianizing
to which our people had been subjected, bad bro¬
ken their spirit.
It has been the fixed policy of Woodrow Wil¬
son to erect Personal Rule upon the ruins of our
Constitutional liberty.
Ho knew that conscription, and his ether
war-laws defied the Constitution.
He knew that his vast loans to foreign Gov¬
ernments were utterly unconstitutional.
He know that the, infamous Espionage Act
was a clear violation of his oath of office.
He knew that he was violating the law, which
located his post of duty in Washington, and he
knew he was violating his oath of fidelity to the
sovereignty of the Constitution—and that he be¬
trayed this country to England—when he sneaked
in and out of the Secret Room in Paris, and sold
out these United States to a foreign League, in
which, this Republic is to have no better position
than one of England's colonics.
But our people were cowed—afraid to speak
what they felt, and afraid to peaceably assemble
and denounce the usurpations and crimes of tiits
Administration.
Mr. Burleson had distinguished himself, vi¬
olating the Constitution, autocratically destroying
private (Property, in the suppression of free press.
Mr.Baker had earned an enviable reputation
as an autocrat who was above the law.
Mr. Palmer came to the front, hy the masterly
manner in which he distributed among his friends
$80,000,000 worth of German private property —
regardless of International law and the Treaty
between Germany and the United States.
He was endeavoring to practise Woodrow
Wilson’s way of conducting the war “with proud
punctilio.”
But the Trusts saw big troubles ahead, because
of their workmen’s desire to share to a slight ex¬
tent in the monstrous vrofits which the owners of
the mines had made out of the blood of our sol¬
diers.
Son-in-law McAdoo said those profits, in some
cases, reached 2,000 per cent; in ail cases they were
prodigious a nd shockingly unjust.
Mitchell Palmer bethought himself of the
easy manner in which the law of injunction had
been revolutionized and prostituted by Taft, and
had forced engineers to do forced labor for the
Railroad Kings, therefore Palmer went to a
,
Trust-made and Trust-owned U. S. Judge and got
an injunction which gave to the miners the, choice
of going to jails or going back to work in the
mines.
These miners had been digging and bringing
up the ton of eocd for which the miners got. (59
cents, and which costs you about 812. by the time
the Railroads kindly fetch it to your town.
Peonage, bv “law r and order!”
Chattel slavery, by law and order!
To prevent the miserably imposed-on miners,
from staying out and forcing the unmerciful own¬
ers to pay them a living wage, Palmer' enjoins
Beginning with this issue,
THE COLUlVfeiA SENTINEL
will be dated Monday of each week.
The many delays in the handling of papers, due to the “Zone System”
cannot be remedied by the publishers, and while our papers will be mailed as
usual, our day of issue will be Monday, instead of Friday.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL.
F*. O. Box 393
Thomson Georgia
Harlem, Ga., - -day, February 2, 1920.
tub Labor Unions from the use of their own
MONEY.
In England, the nabobs who owned the mines,
kept the miners, their wives and their children,
in the mines, all the time.
Children were born in the mines; and they
lived, and they died, without ever having known
what the sun was, what the moon was, what the
twinkling stars were, what the rivers, the trees,
the flowers, and the sea were.
They used mnles and horses in the mines at
that time, cows and pigs were kept above ground;
and when the mine was sold, the chattels went into
the sale as a part of the property, and these chat¬
tels included- cows, pigs, mules, horses, men, wo¬
men AND CHILDREN.
If Palmer could have his way—and his Judge
Anderson’s way, the miners would again bo re¬
duced quite to that brutish level.
They are not far from it. when such a Thing
as Judge Anderson can lash them to involuntary
servitude with a court order.
I simply remind Mr. Primer that there are
court decisions which nobody respects: soldiers
can enforce them, but reason soon annuls th n.
It seems to me that he could without much
difficulty recall how the. people forced a repeal
of the Alien and Sedition laws in 1800.
The people not only voted into office a Presi¬
dent and a Congress pledged to the immediate
repeal of those damnable lows; but the people
killed the Federalist Tarty, for having dared to
repeal the Constitutional rights of the Individual
Citizen.
I,et the Attorney-General of the Trusts study
the fate of the party of John Adams.
The fact that both Democrats end Republi¬
cans are now working hand iu hand to overthrow,
one by one, the foundation pillars of this Gov¬
ernment, while feeding us on “plots” and “conspir¬
acies,” does not blind the people.
The people would be stupid indeed, if they did
realize that the worst plot and conspiracy against
the principles of democracy is that of such men
Ms Palmer, Burleson, Baker, Daniels.-the -Senators
and Representatives who are legislating along the
lines of the old Federalist, party; and who have
enlisted churches, papers, magazines, “societies"
and so forth, in the noble effort to prostitute this
greatest, of Republics to the power-lust of Great
Britain.
Having been a “bookish” lad, and having
continued to be bookish all my life, I have read
of all sorts of cruelties practised in the name of
“law and order,” and I have read of the coldest
acts of murder anti of massacre and of war,
classed a State-necessity.
On that ground, Philip II. and Peter the
Great defended the murder of their sons.
On that grtvuu.i the Ro::>n> Catholics defend
the Massacre of St Batxhdomew, the assassina¬
tion of Henry IV., Henry III., William of Or¬
ange, and President Madero.
For the good of the State, England hired the
Indians to fight our forefathers, and, having made
them drunk, sent them against the white settle¬
ments, year in and year out, from Ocean front in
New England, the Gulf-front in the South, and
against the settlements in our Great North-West,
where the torch, the tomahawk and the scalping
knife made many a demoniacal scene—such as
England is even now repeating in Egypt, India,
Afghanistan, and Russia.
In the records of Congress, for the last 50
years, you will find the most hellish atrocities
practised on the coal miners—records that would
h- ve given Dante new facts and ideas for his lu¬
rid description of hell.
“Leave all hope behind\ ye who enter here!"
That terrible line which Dante wrote over tlic
gateway of his purgatory, might be written over
the entrance of the Pennsylvania mines whose
owners are so ably protected in their 2,000 per
cent profits by Attorney-General Palmer and
his Judge Anderson.
Not under feudalism, not under villjenism,
not under the peasant system, not under the slave
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Issued Weekly
An Ex-Soldier Asks Some
Questions.
Macon, Ga., Jan 22, 1920.
Ediidf Columbia Sentinel,
Dear Sir: I wish to express my apprecia¬
tion for the splendidly well written editorials of
your paper. It is very pleasing to me to see that
you are doing everything possible to expose the
Roman Catholic System in this country. Nothing
that can be said against the Roman organization
can ever be called “an exaggeration" because it is
absolutely so rotten that mere words can never be¬
gin to express the real depth of its crookedness.
I was in the army for over a year, having
been in the 117th Regiment of Field Artillery
which was a part of the Dixie Division. I had
ample opportunity to observe the part the Roman
so-called church, took in the army, both in this
country and in France. Thor, an many questions
that the American soldier would like the present
Administration to answer. Here are a few of
them—
(1) Why were such a large number af pro¬
motions for officers, selected from Roman Catholic
material? Also, who was responsible for that
damnable partiality ?
(2) 11 hy were the Knights of Columbus al¬
lowed sueh a fr-.e hand m all of oier camps/ ......Why
were not the Knights of Pythons and the Masons
given an equal opportunity to build halls in the
various camps? Why were these two wonderful
fraternities treated in such a manner? On whose
head should the blame rest?
(3) If hy was it necessary to put the Amer-'
icon Soldier in a camp like that at lliesf. France/
It was worse than any hog wallow 1 have ever
seen?, or any place that I ever expect to see, hi
this world or the next. The people over here did
not dream■ that such conditions existed, or rather
I believe were kept, in ignorance. Where did all
the money go that was appropriated for the army?
11% wasn't some of it spent ai Brest before we
got there or while we were there?
(4) Was it morally right to place a Roman
Catholic General at the head of the Dixie Divi¬
sion? I was always under the impression that
this was a protestant country. I still believe, the
majority of it is.
Before closing T would like to say a word con¬
cerning the. American Legion. I do not believe that
this Anglican Legion is wlint if is"‘Cracked up to
be. I believe that if many of the men already in
it would go into it a little deeper, many of them
would drop out. Not long ago the Macon News
published a statement on their front page stating
that a Roman Catholic priest was the spiritual
head of the American Legion, also showing his
picture. While I am not so stroing for the Macon
News, I am inclined to believe this statement to
be correct. Therefore without any long and care¬
ful study of the American Legion, I say, that if
a Roman Catholic Priest is its spiritual head, then
I don't, want anvthng in God’s world to do with
it. And T know that there are other.- who served
in the American army who. if they knew would
wash their hands of it.
Trusting that your good work will continue
with its usual I am
Sincerely yours,
Answers.
In the first place, neither the President, nor
the Congress, nor the Supreme Court told the truth!
about the causes which provoked this Administra
tion to enter, in April, 1917, a war which began
in July, 1914,
England maintained a blockade against the
United States, as well as against all other non
trals; and we were admonished by President Too
right-to fight to blockade onr own thoughts and
sympathies.
And I must appeal to your patience, while
again refer to Bryan, a fact which will hurt the chances for
of William if William runs again
President, as he shows violent symptoms of doing.
William will have to me t this charge:
When the single-track mind of th. 1 President
caused, him to write to Bernsdorff that severe
note warning the Central Powers, not to do any
further injury to American life or property ou
the high-seas, else they “would bo held to strict
accountability,” Mr. William Bryan stepped pus
syfootedly around to the office of the Ambassador
of one of those sinful Central Powers, and in
formed him in effect that the President's rude,
(which of course had Bryan’s name signed to it,
as Secretary of State,) was not, to be taken, seri
ousty, Iry Germany and Austria: IT w.A meant for
“HOME CONSUMPTION.”
In the history of diplomacy there are many
black, and many bloody pages; but there is not
one perfidious act of duplicity which surpasses
this.
Consider; the William G. Frye, American,
had been sunk by the Germans, just outside the
three-mile limit: our ship was carrying grain
(contraband) to England.
The Lusitania had been sunk off the coast, of
Catholic Ireland, where the German submarina
had been in ambush and was waiting for the prey.
President Wilson had most, strangely allowed
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