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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1920)
o © 0* LETTERS TO THE EDITOR t § $ e< “Father Abraham, We Are Coming!’' Dear Sir: At the beginning of the year 1020, I desire to express a wish that von may be a er power than ever before in this political paign. 1 think the time of awakening has arrived, for we ran feci our rights slipping from under us. as fast as die wheels of time will allow. Mr. Watson, any one who reads often is obliged to know that the day is almost here when the world will be ruled by Roman Catholics. The Catholics and- the money kings are carving things there way once more. God only knows , where they expect to stop. I was very much impressed with the article in which you told of the experience of one of our ex soldiers. It is certainly distressing to read of such an experience as this and to know it only one among many thousands that happened during the cruel war. On the 5th of last September I was present at the meeting which was held on your 63rd birthday, and listened to your speech from be¬ to end I have heard you make several speeches! and always g"od ones, but I thought the September speech, th best 1 ever listened to. In your dis¬ course, you asked the audience to make you their surveyor, and you would make them put the land¬ marks back whore they belonged. 1 with thousands of others, was ready then and have never changed, to make you surveyor. I know- that in the year 1920, you will sow good seed and I hope you will reap a glorious harvest. With best wishes. I am very truly yours, Ga. J. S. Cofer. • Maybe a Letter of Protest to the P. M. G. Will Help. Dear Sentinel: Some dirty scalawag in tho employ of Papa, his Holiness, who belongs to some department of the Postal Service, between here and Harlem makes way with my paper, and that of a friend of jpine every other week. Here¬ tofore, he has allowed one or the other of us to get the. paper, but last week he swiped them both. I have entered complaint at the postoffice, which I suppose will do a lot of good. I know perfectly well that the fault is not yours, and that the papers are all regularly mailed, but we can ill afford to miss a copy of your' valued paper, even at a dollar a copy it. is cheap. 1 am enclosing 25 cents hi stamps, to defray postage, etc., hoping that you can send me a copy of Feb. 7th. Keep -..up the good work: No other paper that I know of 'on this continent is doing the good vours is doing, and I believe the day is not far distant when this fact will receive general recognition. Sincerely "yours, Fla. D. D. Bryant. A Tribute From California. Dear Sir: Tom Watson is today the greatest beacon light in this nation, and is presenting to his readers—1 wish they included everybody who can read in this country—the best thoughts and the most practical ideas about laws and govern¬ ments to lie found anywhere. To read him re¬ freshes the mind, elevates the spirits, and revives hope, which is now flying low after a long spell of autocracy, and open repudiation of our funda¬ mental law—the Constitution. To such men, as he in this reactionary age. we must look for tho restoration and the perpetuity of liberties now -lost: so let us be not backward in giving him words of appreciation and of approval, for no man can long do his best without, as he must know he is not sowing seed on stony ground. All hail and long live Tom Wet.son! A man among men, and as good as they make 'em. Cal. C. Severance. Thinks He Has Missed Enough. Dear Sir: 1 am sure pleased to know that some of the people can have your writings and opinions on lite questions of the day. I have been without them ever since the Government excluded the magazine and weekly from the mails. 1 sure would be pleased to know how the Tin mson Mass Meeting came off last August or fall and the vote on the League of Nations by re¬ turned soldiers. Inclosed find my check for J'he Columbia Sen¬ tinel. Ought to have them from start. With kind regards, I am. Very truly vours, New York. A. B. Weisch. The Sentinel a Welcome Visitor. Dear Sir: Inclosed find money order fo. $19.50 to cover 9 subs and 4 cards. We would as soon do without some of our meat as without Hu cle Tom's spice. We look forward to the coming of The. Sentinel as to a visit from a true and trusted friend. Uncle Tom may not like the politics of his socialist friends, but we admire him for his courage in defending u»* in our rights as Anterican citizens. May he live to see the day when true Americanism, instead of fanaticism shall govern the American people. Your friend, O. K. Seitz. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA. Here’s Another Endorser. Dear Sir: Everybody 1 have seen the platform in The Sentinel—about 51 persons. All say you must make the Sentinel a sixteen page daily, and have it on every newsstand in America. it is converting the people fast. The embarassment is keeping The Sentinel out of main homes throughout the country. ihe President and his League is like the ger and the hog. The nigger worked all night to catch the hog and then had to have help to turn him loose. I am sending you some money, use as please, but send- on The Sentinel. Ga. Respectfully, A. 15. Finley. Meaning the Sentinel Is the Bludgeon. Dear Sir: Inclosed $2.00 M. O. for one year'- : subscription to The Columbia Sentinel. I want to hear from the greatest and grandest old states¬ man in the world. Today 1 know he is a prophet of the people, else lie would not lie denounced and condemned by the majority of the plunderers and grafters of his day. When, oh when, will the peo¬ ple wake lip? What a pitiful plight the poor w< rking people are going to find themselves in one of these days—bad enough as it is. iiut as some one said, it takes a bludgeon to educate most poo pie. Won. A. Bentley. Ga. We’d Like to See This Too. Dear Sir: This is my first club to The Sen¬ tinel. I used to see to it that the Jeffs were well circulated here—that they brought forth a crop of youijg Watson men of such zeal that they see to it that every one who wants a Sentinel, gets it without my active participation, although, I have helped raise several of the clubs sent in from this section. In past years I ham thought Mr. Watson wrote with a vigor, clarity and force unsurpas.nl. 1 am now inclined to beli: ve he is surpassing him¬ self. Let The Sentinel grow. By the first of November, it should have a circulation of fifty thousand: and an influence in elections second to none. Very truly vours, Ga. T. W. Clouts. Likes An Independent Paper. Dear Sir: I do not like to miss a copy of the paper— I've been taking it too long to do with out it, I like on independent paper such as yours, has ever been. I am now over 73 years of age and have been a subscriber ever since you pub¬ lished the ‘‘People's Party Paper," and expect to be a subscriber as long as I can pay for it, so please don't take my name frrom your list of sub¬ scribers. Pardon so much. I know I am no “pen pusher”, With the kindest regards and be t wishes,I am, Truly yours, Ga. J. O. Garrason, Sr. Late? Not a Bit of li: Right at the Beginning, Dear Sir: Here 1 come with my club; I re¬ alize I am a little late, hut here 1 am just the same. Please find enclosed check for $13.50 and list of subscribers, and send me two sub cards for the balance of the check. The pay 1 ask for my trouble is a chance to keep the good work going along. Friend Tom, just keep pouring it into them, if they leak, pour it. around them, and give Grover O. a chance to scold them a little once in a while, too. Yours for the truth if it hurts. Ga. C. D. Shaw. Hey You All—What Do You Think of This Chap? Dear Sir: Here goes 17 better for your pa¬ per, the light of the South, and the champion of Constitutional liberty, and personal rights. Please find enclosed $25.50 for which please send me five* cards that I can distribute singly, and send the Sentinel to 12 new subscribers as per other sheet. Best regards to Hon. Thus. E. Wat¬ son. Miss Georgia, and all Tho Sentinel crew. Ga. J. W. Stribling. A LIMITED EDITION OF THE STORY OF FRANCE By Thos. E. Watson II VOLS. 556.00 NET. The binders had an order for 500 of the sets; they have furnished us with less than one hundred, though the order has been with them since the early part of June, 1919. We have on file orders for at least fifty sets, which will now be filled. A. L. LYTLE, Mgr. Boole Dept., Box 393, Thomson, Ga. A Florida Club Swells the List. Dear Sir: Enclosed please (ind cheek for nine dolajrs for The Sentinel for one year for the fol lowing friends, whose names you will liml on an other sheet. We only wish it wore possible for vou to live forever to fight the Pope and crooked politicians for thev sure feel it. 5 on are gaining friends every day to add to your thousands. 1 will send vou another club soon, as 1 w ant tc*"get these on the mailing list. Now 1 have always beer with you and always will as long as you light as you have in the past. \\ ith best wishes lor you and The Sentinel, Yours very truly. Fla. A. G. Taylor. No Trouble to Get Subs Dear Sir: 1 find it no trouble to get people to subscribe if T had the time to go out after them. And, 1 have vou little spare time, hut when ever 1 the opportunity 1 try to land a sub for Ihe Sen¬ tinel. I have been thinking that if every one ol the 25,000 or more subscribers of The Sentinel would get out and secure as many as 5 subscribers or more in the next two months and let tl Sen¬ tinel go over the 100,000 mark. And 1 believe they could w ith very little elTort. Y ith best wish¬ es for Mr. Watson, 1 remain, Your friend. Ga. Lewis A. Smith. He Simply Has the Habit of *■Reading After T. E. W.” Pear Sir: I hope the Columbia Sentinel will stand like ar, impregnable Fortress against the attacks of the infernal old Roman Catholic Ilier archy. I imagine they will stop persecuting you in the future, but instead they ''ill treat you with all due respect, and they will endeavor in every way to make you their friend instead of their enemy. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy lias got oui country in a terrible fix. God only knows wind trouble is in the future for the people of our coun¬ try. J hardly think that conditions will be so encouraging as to remind our people very forcibly of the Millenium that- is spoken of in the scrip .tures. Dark shadows before me glide. What the portend, I cannot say: To solve the dread omen 1 have tried. But dark shadows vdl cross, my way. Wishing you a long and happy life, I am, as ever, Your true friend, Miss. \V. II. Newsum. Here’s One Endorser of Our Platform. Dear Sir: In regards to questions in Senti nel of Februarv 23c. 1 Nos. 1 and 2. Suits me. 3. Turn the rascals out. 4, 5. 6, 7, and 8. Repudiation of Administration. 9. Amen! 10. Don’t care. tl. Down with Wilson and social equality. 12. Suits me. 13. The present system should be changed. 14. Down with American Kaisemm. 15. “And the Star Spangled Banner . . . . Land of the free and the home of the brave.” 16. 17, 18. and 19. Suits me. 20. So say we all. *21 and 22. Suits me. 23. Pay attention to the election of your Congressman. 24. Suits me. Yours very truly, Ga. H. W. Shepard. This Man Sent a Twenty-Five Dollar Club. Enclosed you will find list of subs to The Sen¬ tinel which 1 hope you will send The. Sentinel to as soon as you can. You will also find check to pay for same. P. C. Holbrook. 3 Thinks That Speech Good “Propcrgander Dear Sir: 1 have been an old suscriber * a your independent democratic paper for a good many years and believe in your o' • I work. 1 sent for five copies of your speech last week and now 1 am sending for forty-three more to distribute among my friends who ire believers in Tom Wat¬ son. Enclosed find money order for Si.do. 1 am an old Confederate soldier going on 79" years old. Captain .1. A. Mason was my Captain. I belonged to the 3rd Georgia Regiment, Co. F. i belonged to Fans; Wright's brigade. L was under Robert E. Lee. 'l our old soldier friend, Ga. J. II. Bloodsworth. He Sends One Club—Plans Another. Dear Sir: 1 am sending you live new su!> scribers to The Columbia Sentinel. You will find enclosed $7.50. With love and respect to you for the noble cause you arc defending. I will send you another club sometime in May, and will renew my subscription. 5 on rs. Ga. F. I). Strickland. Here's Our Old Friend Dixon. Dear Sir: 1 am sending you a list of 76 subs. Please get names on roll correctly»*and send this week's paper to every one as they will he looking for it. Every sub is for twelve months but two. Ga. T. L. Dixon. Watson, Wilson and Hoke Smith. Dear Mr. Watson: 1 have just finished read¬ ing this weeks’ Sentinel and 1 am just obleeged to unburden myself of pent up admiration for what is therein contained ami for something entirely new in your touch of pen and sweep of wit. Since, as a boy more than thirty years ago I read by chance a lille book of your idle hours re¬ casting the old Roman heroes and lenders in “hu¬ man" language, to this good hour, T believe 1 have read every line you have published and if I live— believo me- nothing yet, le <•; me will miss me. Of all your work', that which you are doing now in the sere and yellow leaf of life, is the, l>cst. This new quality in your writing has come in the past two or three isues of your paper: a kindliness and good humor—a spirit of gentleness—that makes the sharp point of your wi( even more powerful for good than any bitter thing you have ever said or written. Of course I do not compare your current edi¬ torial comment with the finished workmanship of such as the Story of France, you probably will not at your age equal that again, but your recent lit¬ tle skit about the squirrels and your handling ofi the Marshall incident in Atlanta and this week'? tribute to Pershing, and the. “Passing of Frick* puts you among the philosophers. The Frick ar¬ ticle ranks with the best of Voltair and Tom Paine —and nothing that Revolutionary Debs has said in his own blistering way equals it as a challenge to tlr' 1 lords and rulers of the earth. Your birthday speech will live as long as the thoughts and traditions of a lictraved people art* enshrined in the printed page. Neither Wash¬ ington. Jefferson. Webster, Tombs, Lincoln, Ste-, phens nor Ben Hill have uttered anything that surpasses it as an expression of American states¬ manship, and while you will be denied all practi¬ cal reward for it—as yon have been denied by po¬ litical meanness and littleness— that speech will yet lee invoked to save this country in its darkest hour. It ranks you as the soundest living Ameri¬ can Statesman. Of course, I have not always agreed with your views, and God willing I never intend to agree with any man unless l want to, and 1 am sure you will disagree with me in what I am about to say but 1 say it. advisedly—you and Hoko Smith and Woodrow Wilson are the profoundesfc American statesmen of the hour. Senator Smith! has yet to develop a disregard for personal consequences to be your equal and time must clear; iqi and interpret President Wilson. I think Mr. Wilson visions a dictatorship— autocratic, and theocratic—backed by big business and labor—very sensitive—a highly benevolent feudalism. I think Senator Smith visions a very alert and sympathetic opportunism that will conquer? the powers of government for the middle classes* I think your statesmanship—essentially Jef¬ fersonian—contemplates a true democracy—intelli¬ gent and progresive—that will preserve all that ia worth preserving of the old Republic. (The frantic hordes of revolution now with¬ out o leader are challenging the present situation and everything may go to hell before either of tho above programs can bo got in motion.) I think it is a great blessing that, the three of you will never agree for out of (hat, clash of opinion I believe will come in the next few year? a complete revolution mental, spiritual and polit¬ ical—that is if you can keep the strength and means of forcing the Issues ns they come up. 1 have no apology to make for thus taking up your time. 1 have written under momentary im¬ pulse and hope it may have some measure of en¬ couragement to you who have suffered so much and sacrificed so much for conviction’s sake. Ga. Win, S. Weir.
