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Vof. 38 Senator Underwood Exposed. Some months ago, an Alabama brother wrote to Senator Oscar Underwood, asking that smooth article how the President had spent his secret service fund of $100,000,000. The Wand Oscar replied to his inquisitive con¬ stituent, by saying that Mr. Wilson had spent all the money, and had fijled a«n accounting at the ap¬ propriate place in Congress. Open covenants had been openly arrived at, with Thomas, Richard, Henry and a few others, and the hundred million had been publicly spent and officially reported. Thin was such an impudent whopper, that 1 challenged the Alabama Jesuit to make good his statement. Blandly, he ignored the challenge. Politicians of his stripe always do that, when there isn’t anything better to do. My friend, Dr. G- V. Jenkins of Laurens County, Georgia, had his Confederate curiositj aroused by this conflict of testimony—Underwood's and mine—and he therefore wrote to his imme¬ diate Representative, WJilliam W. Larsen, asking for more illumination. Brother Larsen happened to be ill when the Doctor’s inquiry arrived in Washington; but his alert and intelligent Secretary immediately fell to work on a reply to my friend Jenkins—who is not to be confused with Kidnapped Jenkins, of Mexico. Now, I ask you to read the letter of Mr. Lar¬ sen’s Secretary, especially the passage which I print in Italics. Washington, D. C., February 27, 1920. Mr. G. V. Jenkins, Route 4, Dublin, Georgia. My dear Mr. Jenkins: Your letter of the 23rd instant, requesting a copy of President Wil¬ son’s itemized report to Congress as to money spent for War purposes, has been duly received, Mr. Larsen is out of office just at this, time on account of illness. I understand, however, he is recuperating latter and will week. probably return to office the part of next I have made inquiry at both the Home and Senate Document Rooms with reference to the re¬ quested report and have been informed that no such report was ever made. The Superintendent of the House Document Room, told me that he had noticed tome similar statement m a newspaper but that no official report had- been made up to this date. With reference to Air. W it sou’s gift <“f- fifty thousand dollars to a Catholic paper in Ireland, beg to advise that I have been unable to ascertain anything in this connection. I see from the records that Congress has not authorized it. I shall bring your letter to Mr. Larsen’s attention and have him write you upon his return. Very sincerely yours, T. E. Williams, Secretary. Now what is your candid opinion of the Alabama Senator who deliberately lied to his constituent ? The fact is, that a secret fund—$100,000,000— was voted to President Wilson in April, 1917, and it distinctly stated his use of it was never to be the subject of inquiry, and that he should never be questioned as to what he did with it. He never has itemized the account of his secret use of it, nor has he in any reported on it to Con¬ gress, to the Treasury nor in any other way. Nevertheless, the bland Oscar Underwood, who made a Tariff to suit the Trusts and who dropped his Free list bills—Fanners’ Friend Bills— told his constituent, that an itemized aoooukt of the $100,000,000 WA6 ON FIIM IN CONGRESS ! Will the bland Oscar now explain? Will he make the investigation that Mr. Lar¬ sen’s Secretary made ? No: he won’t. He will blandly ignore the whole thing, for the reason that lie had better not stir it. ..r To correct a misapprehension, I will say, that the April appropriation of $100,000,000, personal to Wilson for secret use , must he distinguished from his second $100,000,000, demanded by him when he was in Paris, and readily granted by the jel|1y-fish Congress then still in office. This second $100,000,000 was granted in the Spring of 1919, as I remember. Whether the Holy Bull ever accounted for this second hundred million, 1 do not know. Possibly, Oscar Underwood can tell us; but the fair inference from Secretary William’s letter to Dr. Jenkins, is, that no itemized accounts by the President are on file. None at all! Sacred Cows arc not expected to stoop so .low as to render in expense accounts to the populace. The $50,000 paid to the Freeman's Journal of Dublin Ireland, was vouched for by the Pitts¬ burg Observer, a standard Catholic paper. When Mr. Larsen’s health is fully restored, I hope Dr- Jenkins will hear something loud and distinct from his Congressman. ♦ 1 Price 92,00 Per Year A PAUSE IN THE MOST AMAZING OF STRUGGLES. Elsewhere in thia issue of The Sentinel 1, you will find a detailed report of the final vote on the League-Treaty, as published in The Sun and York Herald. You will sea that a majority of your Senators were in favor of surrendering your blood-bought Republic to a foreign Government composed of Spaniards, Portugese, Hindus, Arabs, Japanese. Negroes, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders etc. A majority of your Senators, sworn to pre¬ serve your Constitution and government in their preset shape, were false to their oaths and to you. They are perjured traitors. They will tell you that they voted to ratify the League and the Tree tv became your civil liberties and your national independence were preserved in the fifteen Reservations. They wil,l lie when they tell you so. You are no lawyer, no casuist, no hair-splitter, but you have your common sense; and your com¬ mon sense will convince you, that no President and no Senate can make you and your Republic the subjects of a new and foreign government without YOUR CONSENT. Why did Congress have to send the Suffrage Amendment back to tho States for ratification? Because Congress cannot, in any other way, change your Supreme Law. Wllty did the President and the Congress have to refer the Prohibition amendment to you? For the same reason. Yet this White House Usurper and traitor locks himself into profound secrecy in Paris, for months , concocting this new World-Government, signs you into it without your knowledge, de¬ mands that the Senate sanction his base forfeiture of your republican form of government, become an accomplice in all the imperial crimes of Japan and Great Britain, write an insurance policy cov¬ ering all the conquests of all the robber nations, sink your 48 States to the level of San Domingo, degrade your Union by social and political equali¬ ty with the negroes of Liberia—and, Great God l a majority of your-- Senators violate their paths, prove recreant to their trusts, and pnt themselves on record, as being willing to surrender, forever , the priceless heritage won for us by the eloquence of Patrick Henry, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, the Rutleges; by the heroes yvIio fought at AJniance and Lexington; by the fearless farmers who de¬ clared for Independence at Mecklenburg, before Jefferson wrote the Declaration at Philadelphia; by the fortitude of George Washington, Nathaniel Green, Henry Lee, Francis Marion, the dashing Sumter, brave old Moultrie, John Sevier, John Eagar Howard, John Morgan; and by the aid of French, Polish, and Prussian officers! Did you ever read Victor Hugo’s terrific ar¬ raignment of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Dutch bastard who became the Emperor of the French? This Louis Napoleon was the. son of Hortensc Benuhamais; and she had another illegitimate son, Yvhose. father was the Duke of Flahaut, and who wore the title of the. Duke de Momy. A most polished, capable, and brilliant rascal ho was—this De Morn v—and all French to the tips of his fingers. He was a man of the world, a favorite among the (ladies, an expert in financial speculations, a patron of art and letters, a parliamentarian of the first order, a politician of the surest sagacity, as brave a man as ever walked, and a most elegant cynic. He married a Russian princess, and she was so infatuated with him, that when he died—of sexual exhaustion—she cut off her beautiful black hair and put it on his breast in the coffin. In a few days, she began to overhaul his pri¬ vate papers, and she found so many love-letters from the gay countesses, and marquises, and dueheases, and prima donnas, that she became quite indignant; and so sho (let her hair grow out, and when it was sufficiently long, again, she went and married a mere ordinary individual, whose ob¬ scure name escapes me at this trying moment. Victor Hugo was one of the Masters of Liter¬ ature, a glory to France, and to the human race. He was one of those sublime democrats who loatlfed the tinsel, the, frippery, the cruelty, the hollowness and sham of aristocracy and imperial¬ ism. Whoever wrote the plays of “Shakespeare,” despised the common people, and lost no oppor tnnity to hold them up to the scorn of the Better Class. The same thing is true of the novels of Sir Harlem, Ga., Monday, March 29, 1920. Seven years of war, and nil the miseries of war. were not too high a price to pay for this American freedom. "Liberty or death"’— cried Patrick Hendv. Liberty or death, was the inspiration, the spiritual support of every half-starving soldier who dragged his bleeding feet after Greene, in his hurried retreat through the Carolines. Liberty or death, was the sustaining potver at Valley Forge, amid the slush of sleet and snow, and the hunger that prowled the encampment, until the food vkom Georgia came! And now the. Record will forever show that both Senators from Florida voted to ratify (he Infernal Thing that the English put over Wood row Wilson; one Senator from Ixmisiana did so; one from Kentucky; the two from Oklahoma; one from Maryland, and one from Georgia! It cannot be truthfully said that those who voted against ratification were, the real enemies of the League of Nations. On that you will find the names of Sena¬ tors Borah, Johnson, Norris, Sherman, Knox, La Follette, France, Reed, Shields, Thomas, Poin¬ dexter (paired) and Brandegee. Why did Senator Smith of Georgia vote for ratificationf And why did Senator Harris vote against it? You can easily recognize the reason of our Junior Senator: the President personally"' ordered Qtark Howell and other harness-marked Demo¬ crats to elect William A., and the trace-worn breth¬ ren did it; and, inasmuch as the Sacred He-cow disapproved of any change in the ink, or the punc¬ tuation, or the text of his New Constitution of the Civilized World, Senator Harris felt con¬ strained to vote against those futile Reservations. From his point of view, he was consistent. But what about the vote of Senator Hoke Smith? A New York daily paper took a poll of the Senate soon after the Senate procured a copy of the mysteriously-made document; and among the names reported as being in favor of the League was Senator Smith of Georgia, i—, 'then, I- observed that the large and abk bodied Senator was playing leap frog along tlie branch, and was leaving tracks on both sides. Being somewhat familiar with his double shuffles, this leap-frog business did not surprise me in the least. Then he came down to the Hoover-Palmer city of Gainesville, to make a speech on the League He is said to have almost whispered his ora¬ tion; and when he finished nobody was willing to make an affidavit as to how he stood. It is said that his letters to “my constituents,” are also mystical, ,'eaving the recipient, of his “Sincerely yours’" in considerable doubt and be (Continued on Page Three.) THE HISTORY OF A CRIME. Walter Scott: at heart, he was a Papist and a fawner upon royalty. But Hugo wae a Man of the, People, as Jefferson was; and his heart was as big as human¬ ity is. He wrote “The, History of a Crime,” a small book which I read in 1878, and jiave. never wanted to read again, because it gives too much pain to the reader. In brief, the story is that of two bastards who schemed to overthrow the French Republic-, and who accomplished their purpose by a series of perjuries, a secret bargain with the Roman Catho¬ lic Hierarchy, the sudden arrest of the leading members of the legislative body, and the ruthless use of the military. The two criminals most concerned were the half-brothers, the Duke de Horny and Prince Louis Napoleon. By a preliminary deal with the Roman Church, the dull adventurer, Louis Napoleon, had bee l elected President of the French Republic. He publicly tpok a most solemn oath to pro¬ tect, defend, and preserve it. The Pope soon demanded part payment for the support which the Roman Catholic bishops and priests had given to the advfenturer; and Louis Napoleon responded to the Papal demand by sending a French army to shoot down the Italian democrats who had erected the Roman Republic of 1S48 The Pope had fled from Rome; but he came back under the protection of French bay¬ onets; and this foreign support upheld the fright ful misgovernment of the l’ope, until 1870! Thus Italy and France had to suffer twenty odd years;, in consequence of the foul secret deal made by the two stvindlers with their equal in (Continued on Page Three.) Issued Weekly Unacceptable to Me. W. kV. Has Senator Hitchcock got enough i Can he digest any more? J How mucJi self-respect has he, by way or remnant? Why didn't he let Swanson do it? These doleful inquiries pop into my head, as I ponder upon the latest epistolary passage between Senator Hitchcock and The Man Higher Ur. The Nebraska Senator has earned much fame, in his persistent championship of W. W.—his wit, his ww.Jom. his unearthly state-papers, his super¬ human speeches, his majestic silences, his gaudy European exhibitions, and all the rest of it, No matter what it was that W. W. said, wrote, or did, it was the very best possible, accord¬ ing to the faithful, diligent, vigilant Senator from Nebraska. Senator Swanson aspired to the proud position of being known to mankind as Chief Interpreter for the Joss at the \\ hite House, but Hitchcock cut Swanson out of (he job. Swanson is now reconciled to his fate. Hitchcock has got, to where he is willing to hold his noble forehead in his hand, and let any <>!d Senator do the rest of the talking for W. W, It came about in this way: Senator Hitchcock wrote to the Secluded One, asking whether the White. House would permit it to be known whether the Ambassadors from the Sovereign Democratic States might be allowed to vote for a mellow modification of Senator Lodge's immortal Reservation on the Everlasting Article X., which had been written in a moment of in¬ spiration by an English Schoolmaster and Jackjeg Preacher, named Wjoodrow Wilson. This Senatorial letter managed to gffdo through the fence at the White House, and to reach the Holy Bull. The H. B. perused Hitchcock's missive, and then margined on it the words—cryptic and final— '‘‘‘This is unacceptable to Me. IF. IF . 33 It is not. permitted to be known, as yet, wheth¬ er the Sacred Bull used the Senator’s envqlope in returning the Senator’s letter. The Washington Post says that Hitchcock, after having read what was on the margin of his own letter, went on a strike: looked worn and de¬ pressed: became silent and pensive; and actually' sat still yj. liis chair. (Right now, I can see. in my minds eye, Colonel George Harvey, rushing gleefully to his editorial precinct, to write something about this, for his cheerful “Weekly.”) Ever since it dawned upon Woodrow W* that he had been diplomatically peeled in Paris, and that a,U the world was commenting on the mournful fact, he has been quite cross. Besides, lie has had his medical advisers to deal with. ' v Also, the late Mrs. Galt, who makes us such a beautiful Presidentess. Likewise, Robert Lansing, who had become a Usurper, and had interrupted the evolution of a constitutional system, setting up dangerous pre¬ cedents which, if left unchecked, might have led ii; astray. Between the two trying jobs of watching a few Southern Senators, and a few European Kings, I frankly admit that the Joss had suffi¬ cient reasons for becoming cross. For instance, the King of England desired to take a pleasure trip in Ireland, a few days ago, and he cabled our Sacred Male-Cow to that effect. Was not this provoking? Of course, our Holy Bull had to wire, back, “This does not meet niv approbation. W. W. Next came a message from France, stating that the Fiuine question really should be settled by the Fiumians. To this, the Sun of Suns—of guns—could only reply : “I have already told you what to do: obey my rigid, unalterable orders, or disagreeable con¬ sequences may ensue. W. W.” The debt to LaFayette immediately sank lie low par; and all true Frenchmen immediately went into as much profanity as (heir miserably inadequate vocabulary of expletives admits of. Inasmuch as Fiuine had unanimously voted to join Italy, and had notified W. W. of the result of their self-determination, the Italian government imagined that it might absorb Fiume, by the con¬ sent. of Fiuinians, while Japan and England ivere absorbing several empires, without the con. sent of the inhabitants. No such thing! The cable front the White House read: “Drop Finnic at once, or my country will take unpleasant steps in your direction, W- W.” No wonder* Senator Hitchcock quit. Even Mr. Polk preferred to back down, rath¬ er than buck up. Mr. Lansing's empty chair keeps the pass* (Continued on Pago Four A No. 25.
