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AT OF 187MI During the FrancS-Prussian War ox 1870, I was a student of the High School at Thorn son; and my sympathies were altegetlier with France, as they continued to be, and as my historieal works will show. - ; I remember how the public sentiment _ of the world was shocked, when the tinsel Empire of Napoleon III. fell before the Prussian on slaught, which the Spanish bigot, the empress Eugenie, Jiad deliberately provoked; and by the indemnity of one billion dollars vhten tco Germans imposed, while Frencn armies were still eager to fight. The sum oi $1, , , ' stupendous: it was, in truth, half the (mount thab President Wilson’s bluppmg Board hom -SS l j£S* Until the indemnity of one billion dollars was paid, 1 the Germans ' maintained garrisons in several French cities. d As soon as the indemnity was paid, the garrisons were withdrawn. The Germans did not destroy French ..shipping, sink her navy, nor disband the ar¬ mies of the Republic which had taken the place of the tinsel Empire. fight, and the It had been a white man’s Africans had not been called into Europe to perpetuate horrors on either side of the Rhine. The provinces of Lorraine and Alsace had been taken by the Germans—a big mistake, although these provinces had been shuttle cocked since between division France of the and empire Germany of .Charle- ever the But Bismarck restored to France the im¬ mensely important fortress of Belfort, on the Swiss frontier. Had the Germans, in 1871, kept Belfort, for themselves, they would not, in 1914, Rave violated the guaranteed neutrality of Belgium, because there would not have arisen what they called the “military necessity. ” Directly, it was this invasion of Belgium which brought England into the Great War;. - - S2&VSZ ... , * . , tte , , , p W that to German anni M decitoSy checked hut unt bv auv maaus broken tin ceased to fight when President Wilson published his Fourteen Points; and the armistice wax signed, early in November 1918. England, France, Italy, and Japan, headed made peace with the new German Republic, by Ebert President Wilson vetoed the peace Reso hition of our Congress, and we are still at war with Germany, by means or this veto. Just as the Great War of 1914 grew out of the failure of the Berlin Congress of 1878 to make a definite, final setlement of the Bal¬ kan question, so the renewal of war against the German people is caused By the failure of the Versailles, French, English, and of Americans the indemnity to fix, which at the amount the Germans should pay. That question was left open, and every¬ body could see that this unsettled question might lead to future trouble. It has done so. .The Erench-English-Belgians, etc. say they want fifty-six thousand' million dollars/ The Germans reply, that they haven’t the money, and cannot get it. Now let us consider the undisputed facts: (1) The Germans were disarmed, on the conditions ^named in the Fourteen Points; (2) The Kaiser took refuge in Holland, where he remains, and the German people es¬ tablished a republican form of Government, which has been officially recognized. (3) The German war-fleet was confisca¬ ted—a just consequence of defeat in war— her merchant vessels seized ; her inland water routes of commerce bottled up, and made useless for tho purposes of sea-going com¬ merce: her coal-supply was taken over by the French; and, if her factories can be stoked, the manufactured goods must pay about one third of their value, before they can leave Germany cm foreign ships and reach foreign markets. wMch the goods cannot enter, with¬ out first having paid at the custom-houses about one-half of their home value. (4) Germany has no gold worth men¬ tioning in the same breath with the “reserves” of gold held by England, France, and the Unit¬ ed States'—especially by J. P. Morgan’s Uni¬ ted States. (Russia had more gold than any nation of Continental Europe; but we did not want Russian gold in exchange for American pro¬ ducts, because we disapproved of the absence (Continued on Page , , i' / r eae THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. We are requested to cancel the claims we hold against Yourup. in cas h, these claims amount to ten thou sand million dollars. if ^- e gouid ca u hack the 100,000 young mell w ho died for Yourup, and restore to health the 250,000 who were maimed, blinded, and g a8ge( j f or Yourup, we might very well say to Yourup,— “Take onr mouev, you ravenous beast, and gQ to the Devi] * ith it .» But this same Yourup, which wants us to cancel what she owes ns, sends savage negro ^ I - white people of Germany, Germans have none of the bU lions which the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, lhe Amours the DuPonte, the Morgans, the Gar YS, and other bloodsuckers piled up, moun tain high, by pushing us into the land-war which an eminent Ex-Personage declared was “none of our business.” If we cancel what those foreign nations owe us, we must follow the logic to its legiti¬ mate conclusion. After a debt of ten billion dollars shall have been marked paid, when no payment will have been made, then every banker should cancel what every debtor owes his bank. It would be absurdly inconsistent, in a State or National Bank, to foreclose on poor John Henry Jones for an unpaid note of a thousand dollars, when the President of the Bark gives out an interview for the papers in favor of “cancelling” the European debt of $ 10 , 000 , 000 , 000 . If big debts are to be marked paid, when nothing is paid, why shouldn’t small debtB bo paid in the same JubileeaH manner! A 3rio„3 0, „rS oT^eri“°Sd «ade B to blood of your sons, now ar^e,, that the to restore prosperity in this country is to “* for - - the cancelled due-hills. am not able to understand this new philosophy. If the ten thousand 1111111011 dolla ™ whlcb »°*, OED of onr people by bond drives, were brought back, it seems to^me that justice would be done, no nation wronged, axicl the people supplied with enough ourrenoy to put the breath of life into that delightful nw 'word “normalcy. According to this new doctrine of can¬ celling a debt of ten thousand million dollars, the true way to prosperity is, to lend out all the money you can rake and scrape, and then cancel the note. We paid England more than a hundred million dollars for the use of the nasty cattle sMps in which she transported to Flanders and France the soldiers whose bravery and sacrifice saved her rotten Dollar-mad Empire. We paid France for the very land upon which our soldiers laid the railroads which took our boys to her rescue. We then gave France and Belgium more food than they had had in a hundred years. To Italy, we gave comparatively little; and, to the Great War, Italy contributed more than her share —far more than her share. When the Morgan Banks and satellites went to Paris to make peace, it was Italy that got the stony stare, and no foreign “annexa¬ tions.” It was Italy that had to take the Wilsonian insult, after Wilson had taken the Pope's se¬ cret advice, accompanied by the $40,000 gift. But France got from the Morgan satellites a vast foreign Empire: so did England: Bel¬ gium likewise got increase of territory. Italy has not repudiated her debt to ns: but Franco shamelessly pushes that propagan¬ da of dishonesty, at the same time that she imports negroes from Africa to collect her claim against Germany. It is earnestly requested that all letters, money orders and business communications be addressed to The Columbia Sentinel P. O. Box 393 Thomson Georgia Thomso **ur % March 21, 1921 ’ rs h England is a criminal party to this savage of getting blood out of turnips. From what source will the Germans he able to secure the $56,000,000,000 required? If victorious England—trading with all the world and virtually stealing our cotton at one-third its value—cannot pay us an honest voluntary “borrow” of five billion dollars, how can the defeated Germans pay ten times that amount of war damages, when their coal mines have been taken from them, when their merchant vessels have been seized, when they have lost even the use of their own rivers, and when they cannot defend their own wives, daughters and sisters from the black ravishf.rs turned loose upon them by France, with Eng¬ land’s collusion? Had the victors tried, condemned, and executed the hateful Kaiser, his Von Tirpitz, his Ludendorff, his entire outfit thought of brutal of¬ ficers, I wouldn’t have lost a on it. But the French-English victors carefully refrained from punishing the authors or the Great War. No Hapsburg has been shot: no Hohen zollern has been shot: the Jesuit Vatican-spy has not been shot: the treacherous Constantine has been allowed to buy his way back to the Greek throne, with the money of a foolish American woman; but the whole ven¬ geance of the victors is falling upon the Ger¬ man people, who were not responsible for the war, who were as helpless In the matter as we wore, who were Hooverized and bond-driven, just as we were; end who are now expected, by some trick of necromanoy, to create the stu¬ pendous sum of fifty-six thousand million dollars. T ” T did T7T ”° I “ T ^ “ d «, “ “ey™not 6 T tomsetos inenr any debt. *"if Their votes °f were not taken on the War , The war ™ was forced 'TSn on them by *- their over to ™ a 11 ’•P™™ I C an say this now, (1) because it is , true; and (2) because I said it in 1917, when it was dangerous to say it. The statement is contained > in my printed argument against conscription, read to the Supreme Court of the U. S. But the Year of Jubilee has come. The new day has dawned. The vision is a reality. The people are in the saddle. Conscience is organized, and Bernard Ba¬ ruch has lunched with Brother Harding. Democracy is considerably safe, and Might hows meekly before Right: might having de¬ cided what is right. Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who owe us ten billion dollars. The railroads will give ns free rides; the hotels will give us free meals and rooms; the newspapers will give ns free copies; the banks will mail us receipts; the promissory note is a token of brotherly love; the mortgage and the trust-deed cease to mean what they seem to mean; rents disappear; taxicabs take yon where, and the expense eliminates itself; the slave is free, the master joyfully emancipates. After we shall have given Yourup ten thousand million dollars, it would be ridicu¬ lous to ask any Son of a Gun to pay any smaller sum. With “proud punctilio,” we made war: with sublime simplicity, we make a bonfire of due-bills, totalling $10,0000,000,000. Then we go iuto an “Association” of Nations and congratulate ourselves that we narrowly escaped the word “League.” We are indeed a great people, and those of us High-ups who are not in office, are prac¬ tising Law. Issued Weekly THE STORM CLOUDS GATH¬ ERING OVER THE WORLD. There is a time, now and then, when the idlest onlooker can see and feel the coming of some awful change; but even he must bti wil¬ ling to hear and to know, else he will remain at ease, until the tempest breaks. If President Wilson bad closed those Ger¬ man wireless stations in New Jersey and in New York, the Lusitania would perhaps have escaped the trap set for her by the Irish Cath¬ olics and the German U-boat. Why were those spy-stations allowed to signal to the Catholic Irish ambush the ap¬ proach of the foredoomed Lusitania? Nobody knows: nobody ever will know: the most secretive Chief Executive this coun¬ try ever had is not now mentally able German to ex¬ plain his reasons for permitting the wireless to continue its terrible work of espi¬ onage. If President Wilson bad loosed our Navy against Germany, after 119 American tourists had been atrociously massacred by the cow¬ ardly attack upon the Lusitania, the combined fleets of the United States, England, France, and Italy could have swept the German flag and submarines off the ocean. ' Why wasn't this done/ Nobody knows: nobody will’ ever know: the secretive Administration the modem world has known went down and out, and its hideous secrets are buried forever. Evi-n when President Wilson published his warning to the Kaiser’s militarists “Don’t repeat the Lusitania crime,” the everlasting charlatan, W. J. Bryan, tip-toed around to a German embassy, and revived its drooping spirit by telling* the Austrian Ambassador that the President’s note of warning ivas not to be taken seriously by the Kaiser and his allies. The note of warning, signed by W. J. Bry¬ an and Woodrow Wilson, was merely meant to humbug the American people. Jo DtfS’de^onrs’IrifwS de Nemours drifted into thewar to w'’JSj ,, after. ^JTtoJpSts. p ““ mvest - ancestor of DuPont de Nemours (who for'sale) lost MS h.»d itt'IKe French Revolution, his desoendant-who makes powder to sell—has dropped the “da Nemours” from his ancestral name; and he will doubtless continue to be a 1,000 per cart American, so long as he can sell'Ms powder at 3,000 per cent profit. When Russia collapsed, in February, 1817, these Patriotic American Investors became horribly anxious, about their Money: the word “cancellation” had not then become the cure all for honest and dishonest debts. England, France, and Italy had borrowed immense sums, through J. P. Morgan et al; and they owed prodigiously to the Packers, the Shoe-Trust, the Clothes-Trust, the Copper brethren, the Steel altruists* the Flour venders, and the citizens who had furnished a dozen or so saddles*, sets of harness, collars, every possible mule and horse that might bo needed to pay our debt to LaFayette. Consequently, these debts had to be paid, by Yourup; and Yourup could not pay a cent, unless we sent huge armies across the ocean to save civilization. i You remember what followed: the memo¬ ry of it will linger in our minds as long as we live: it was a night mare of Hooverism, Creel ism, Crowderism, Bakerism, systemmed law losslessness, brutality, and terrorism. Heads of Departments became Oriental satraps; Judges ferociously prosecuted; juries lost their minds; the Declaration of Indepen¬ dence was seditious, and the Constitution a dead-letter that any Hoffieer could—and did— spit on. Wilson was The State, Hoover was the Empire, Baruch was the War-lord; and ninety million white people trembled at the official frown of Emmett Scott, an Alabama negro Whom Wilson had made one of the Secretaries of War. A Roman Catholic “Board” seized $36, 000,000 of our war contributions; and, with our money, stamped “The Knights of Colum¬ bus” on every camp-luxury, from a match up to a box of stationery, while bloated Catholio chaplains compelled all soldiers to attend “mass,” and see bread and wine manufactured into divine blood and flesh. Hoover, the evil-faced Englishman, like an adder, spread over tho American path¬ way; and no man or woman dared to keep house, run the store, go to mill, sugar the coffee, or set the clock, except in accordance with the diabolical and tormenting orders of this English adventurer. Nobody’s pen was free; nobody’s tongue ^ (Continued on Page Four.}* /Vo. 23
