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"They Shall Not Pass.” Those who have made arid won such a tnagnifieent battle for the preservation of American independence are hereby warned that the black cat is coming back, under an¬ other name. If I had not seen it under his own signa¬ ture, in the New, York American, I would not hare believed that Senator Prance, of Mary¬ land, would have proclaimed himself the ad¬ vocate of another League of Nations: His own words are: “My resolutions provide for making immediate peace with Germany, and di¬ rects the President to invite all nations to .1 fiend tation delegates with to Washington for consul f regards to the formation of jj a League general concert as a substitute for the of Nations.” There’s the cat, again, t Wilson calls it League. Harding calls it an association. Senator France calls it a concert. Reduced to the last analysis all these propositions ran to the same conclusion. Artiole 10 wordea differently, perhaps, will be found coiled in the heart of every one of the Leagues, or Concerts, or Associations. / Senator “Such France conference says: a would look to a I.'"voluntary concert of nations, in which each can maintain its sovereignty, and would co-operate for general welfare 4 "under the established leadership of Amer ica-” That statement is Article 10 wearing a different form of words. We ourselves have seen to what purpose can be prostituted the words “the general wel¬ fare.” We have seen it rise above the most pre¬ dominant clauses of the Constitution itself. The words “under the established leader¬ ship of America” are as dangerous as any words in Article 10 or 11 of the League. It definitely commits the United States to take the lead in looking after the affairs of the States mentioned by Senator France. These nations are the following: Ireland, Egypt, India, Austria, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, ("bile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czecho-Slovak, Denmark, Dominican Re¬ public', Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatamala, Haiti, Hed jaz, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Jugo-Slavia, Lux¬ emburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Persia, Peru, Poland, Ppr tugal, Rumania, Russia, Salvador, Serbia, Siam, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Switzerland, Uruguay, gnd Venezuela. ! The Senator proceeds: “I believe that my plan will be ac- eepted. It looks to the deliverance of all people. All the pernicious doctrines of the treaty providing for a new armed co¬ alition designed for the protection of the great empires and for the perpetuation of a system of oppression and exploitation of the weak people by the strong were killed by the “great referendum” last Tuesday.” Snator France is falling into the ideas of Woodrow Wilson. How much concert and peace would there aver be in a Union which included Ireland and Great Britain? It may he a mere trifje, but I noticeMhat Senator France, after having named Ireland, puts Great Britain at a great distance from her on his list. How much concert of action could any sane statesman expect between China anil Japan? How much could there possibly be between , Russia and Poland? Isn’t it laughable to see a Senator form¬ ing a brptherly union between France and Germany, and between Turkey and the three nations who have carved her up, leaving her only one city, and a patch of land not so large as a county in Texas? In, the innocence of his heart, Senator France proceeds to say: “In preparing this resolution I col¬ laborated with the late Alpheus Henry Snow, one of the leading American au¬ thorities upon international relationship. He was asked by the State Department to submit special reports which might be used by the Peace Conference at Paris during their deliberations, and it is unfortunate for the world that the Peace Conference did not embody in the treaty more of th$ by' great principles so ably discussed him.” What are we to make of all this sort of talk? The international expert who helped to make the League, is the man who helped Sena¬ tor France prepare his resolution for a Union of all the nations. Are we to form a union with Germany, we send soldiers or marines down there to kill out the negro natives? Do we want, such States in the union as Bulgaria, Hedjaz, Japan, and Persia? THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GA. Are we to form a union with Germany so soon after we went crazy to such an extent that we drove from our harbors a ship ladened with^German mas \ toys, for the children at Christ Is Senator France such a visionary that h believes the Germans will forgive the delib erate turning loose of those native Africans upon the girls and married women on German soil? Can Senator France believe that the French will ever forgive the outrages which the Germans committed upon their women, their prisoners, and their industries? Could Russia ever forgive the United States the horrors inflicted upon her by Pres¬ ident Wilson, when he,—ignoring Congress— declared war on her, sent an army to light her democracy, and blockaded her vast water front, to keep out food and every necessary of life? Senator France misconstrues the mean¬ ing of the verdict rendered by the people: that verdict means that, the American people put the world on notice, that they will have no other government and no other union or as¬ sociation excepting that which their fore¬ fathers fought for, established and maintained even at the cost of four years of war between States. Our people are not going to have any other form of government, than that which we now have, and we mean to abolish every one of those war measures which swept ns into a military despotism. We are going to have back our Anglo Saxon liberties, or there will be another civii, war. We are going to preserve, protect, and defend our National Constitution, as Senator France svoreJo do. No concert of action between any Presi¬ dent and any Senate, can legally set up a new government in this country. The people only can do it, and the people said on November 2, that it should not be done. The Present Faculty of Mercer University. (Continued from Page One.) What do you think of such men as these? As to the boy who ferried us back and forth, on the Chattahooehe river, if that Fac¬ ulty doesn’t find the way to pay his expenses for one term, I will withdraw him from the University and place him in another school. The utter contempt with which the pres¬ ent Faculty have treated the people of Geor¬ gia, aroused the studnet body and 1 have re¬ ceived from those young men a tribute which you will find below. I do not give their names, and you know the reason why, but they represent young men throughout Georgia, and even Louisiana, Ten¬ nessee, Virginia, and Kentucky. If the present Faculty of Mercer Univer¬ sity have any regard whatever for the future of our grand old Alma Mater, they will re¬ sign, and let better men take their places. Mercer, University, Macon, Georgia, November 8, 1920. Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Mr. Watson: It is indeed sad to us, to know that a man of your ability, and with the love you have for your Alma Mater, should have been treated so coldly by the present Faculty of this institution. Mercer University which you have always loved and spoken of in the highest terms of praise. We regret very much that Mercer did not honor one of great sons by having the student, body at¬ tend the State Convention where vau were nominated and subsequently elected to the highest office within the gift of your people. We do not entertain any ill will to¬ ward any member of this school who op¬ pose you politically, but we do fail to _ understand why they did not honor yon in behalf of this great institution. You have always loved this place and the prin¬ ciples for which the founders of Mercer stood, despite the fact that there have been a great»deal of unjust accusations made against you on account of preju¬ dice. You have always longed to be a Trib¬ une of the people, leading them upwards and onward, cheered by their applause, made happy by the blessing of those whom your life work has elevated and benetitted. This seemed to you the no¬ blest task you could undertake. Therefore, we, the undersigned stu¬ dents of Mercer University, do pledge to you our whole-hearted support and co-op¬ eration in your efforts to give the people of these United States a clean govern, ment, uninfluenced by the Dago on the Tiber or any of bis cohorts in this coun try. You^a till success, _ Take advantage of the “Club Card,” at $1.50 each. No club smaller than five. Did You Vote for Palmer? When the Lever law was passed during the insane war-period, the labor leaders reai what it might do to them; therefore Hon. Sam’J. Gompers and others, made strong protests in Washington, before the Committee, against the enactment of the law unless it empted organized labor. Mr. Gompers was assured in the strongest terms that the Lever Act was not aimed at labor, at all, and would never be enforced against it. An amendment to the Bill was proposed, containing the substance of this pledge. The amendment was objected to as being wholly unnecessary, and Mr. Gompers oblig ingly allowed the wool pulled over his eyes. When the soft coal strike started, in Palm ers own State, and the Satanic measures were taken against the workers, by Palmer’s per sonal friends who operated the mines, lie could not b made to remember the pledges which had been made to the Labor Unions on the floor of the House; yet those pledges were known to Palmer, because they are preserved in the Congressional Record. The most terrible injunction that ever was issued since English speaking peoples had a fixed code of laws, was applied for by Palmer. It was absolutely unconstitutional—irre¬ concilable to any principle recognized in civ¬ ilized jurisprudence. The striking miners were refused 1 their legal right to u«e their own money, deposited in banks against the rainy day; and those miners were literally starved into submission, and driven back into the shafts and pits, where they dug and delivered at the top a ton of coal for sixty rents, and upon which the operator made 3,000 per cent profit when he sold it. Tt now seems that Judge A. B. Anderson of Indianapolis, who issued that fearful in junetion, was duped by our glorious Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. fie ordered the District Attorney, who was to try the cas<> against the operators, to suppress the evidence -which proved their guilt. This District Attorney was an honest law¬ yer. and he resigned his office rather than be¬ come the criminal accomplice of the criminal Attorney-General. Judge Anderson now says that in the sup¬ pression of tins testimony which saved the operators from being sent to the penitentiary that Mr. Palmer virtually compounded a fel¬ ony, which in itself is a felony. He also says that Palmer is in contempt of court for having claimed that he—Judge Anderson and the District Attorney—Mr. Sims—were in collusion with him in commit¬ ting the felony of letting the felons go by a private settlement. Judge Anderson and says that the arms of bis court are long, that they reach be¬ yond 'Washington. Palmer ought long ago to have been im¬ peached and sent to the penitentiary. A Federal Judge in Boston practically said that: a Federal Judge in Indianapolis practically repeats it. Did you vote for Palmer for President of the United States? Did your paper support him? Could There be a Greater Crime Than This? (Continued from Page One.) By doing this, he cut our cotton market half in two, and gave England the monopoly which now enables her to bankrupt Southern planters, Southern banks, Southern mer¬ chants; and to create throughout the South such a panic as we never had before. How many innocent Russians died under this blockade; how many women, how many children, how many old men, how many pris¬ oners of war—,God alone knows. The crime lies directly at the doors of the men who have been talking to the world in the name of a President who canont talk for him¬ self. How many Southern people will be thrown out of their homes by this unlawful blockade of Russia; how many Southern chil¬ dren will go half clad and half-starved because of this infamous Russian blockade? If there ever was, in the name of Gov¬ ernment, a greater crime than this Avar upon Russia and the blockade of all her coasts, and the horrible situation created in the South by the loss of the Russian market, I would thank somebody to name it. MARTIN FOR SALE. My Model 20 B Martin Ditcher and Ter racer—best labor saving tool made for farm drainage. One on nearly every farm in this County. I have sold my laud first. $55.00 buys my Martin. Never used or unpacked, but weather beaten. Check returned if sold. Reference Calhoun National Bank. JOHN J. PHILLIPS, Calhoun, Ga., Rt 1. 3 The Officers* Legion a Deadly Menace to Democracy It was not only in Georgia that, these swell-headed vouug officers, whose charter I will endeavor' to have annulled, attempted to dictate to the people who should he their Gov and their Senator; they did the same thing in other States. district in For instance, in the largest Ohio, this infernal Legion of Officers, which dares to call itself American, made a violent campaign against C. L. Knight, publisher of the Akron Beacon-Journal, because he de dared himself truly American, In other words, ho favored Free Speech, Prop Press, Free Assemblage of the people, opposition to conscription and to the murder- uu democratic doctrine of Compulsory hist education. Mr. Knight beat those officers in the most, populous district of the State which, this year furnished two candidates for President, and he beat them by more than six thousand votes, The editor of The Sentinel most heartily congratulates the Hon. C. L. Knight. This Legion of Officers is one of the most un-American things in America. It is a secret military organization at¬ tempting to over-ride the civil power and to terrorize civilians. If these self-appointed dictators could have defeated Knight in Ohio, and Watson in Georgia, no candidate would have ever dared to enter the lists without getting a written per¬ mit from such low-down scoundrels as Basil Stockbridge and Trammel Scott. In the very frame work of our Govern¬ ment. the civil power js made predominant: die military comes under,—-it cannot exist, it cannot act, it, cannot move a peg, except at the will of the civil power. This Legion of Officers intends to reverse all this: its purpose is to put the officer where the Prussian officer used to be. These officers have been dictating to Con¬ gress; have been publishing their propaganda of militarism; have been arrogating to them¬ selves the right to maintain law and order, thus aiming jo take from Governors, Sheriffs, Constables, and U. S. Marshals the power in¬ vested in them by law. They have threatened to have the mails closed to such papers as The Beacon-Journal, and The Columbia Sentinel. Mr.Knight will no doubt be able to meet these officers, when they try to throw his paper out of the mails: I will endeavor to meet them, when they try to throw The Columbia Sentinel out. t They have violated their charter; thus their charter is forfeit: it only needs an at¬ tack and the production of the eveidence which they themselves have furnished, to can¬ cel their organization and to perhaps prose¬ cute. on the criminal side of the court,, such in¬ solent rascals as Stockbridge and Scott. The Indian Alarm low priced Clock Alarm ia the Clock beat o ~ the market. II ght 6 inches, Nickeled and and Po ished. Bel inride case and fitted with famous stem shut off. Price, Postpaid 0SI.23 The X-Ray Radium with radium Dial dials At?rm and Clock hands is which fitted enables anyone to tell the time on the darkest night. Hight 6 inches, case nlcke ed and polished. Bell inside ca e and fitted with fameus stem shut off. Luminosity Buarante d for 1 fe of clock. 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