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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1921)
4 A PLAIN, POLITE WORD TO THOSE ASSOCIATED ARMY NURSES. Some indignant ladies—male and female —have published resolutions condemning me for what 1 said iu the Senate, concerning some officers and some nurses. The Congressional Record show,that indiscriminate attack was made upon the morals of the officers or the nurses. These Georgia ladies—of both sexes—re¬ solve and declare that I have insulted “Ameri¬ can womanhood.” How could that bo true, when my own wife, my two grand daughters, and some of my oldest and dearest friends constitute at least as respectable a part of “American wom¬ anhood,” as do Misses Sally Van de Vrede, Helen Hatch, Clio McLaughlin, Mrs. M. M. Jones and Mrs. L. C. Saville? 1 notice that these indignant dames live in the cities of Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, and Milledgeville—and, so far as I care, they may continue to indignantly dwell in those afflicted and helpless towns. Before they again vent their indignant wrath upon the junior Senator from Georgia, they had better peruse the Congressional Re¬ cord, which shows exactly what 1 said, arid what these indignant ladies unintentionally misquoted. T say “unintentionally”, because 1 am giving them the benefit of the doubt. To this conclusion my mind came, after a careful study of published picture of the new Nurse-President, Miss Sarah Jane Van de Vrede. If that picture bears the remotest resem¬ blance to the honored new President of the Associated Nurses, and if she served in France, looking like that, attempted'to 1 am reasonably certain that no army Hofficer ignore the facial warning—“K eep off the grass.” There is a sound that comes to me, as 1 listen to the storm gathering in the West: I have heard it before, and it left me unafraid. The sky becomes grey, and the leaden clouds hang low; but' I have seen them before, and I know the impost trails of the Valley of the Shadow. The bleak, wind-swept, faded grasses of the fallow-field arc passing before me; and 1 hear the sigh of the dying flowers, as they seem to say to the Great Lord Sun, "H e \chn are doomed, salute you!” The sob of the stream, as its waters shrink; the moan of the pine, as its needles fall; the voices that come at night when the tempest rages—all these I have known, and on many a pillow have bitter tears been shed, as I seemed to recognize the calls of those who long since passed flie Divide. coni* Must I lose, also, my illusions, my denoe in human nature, my inclination to for¬ give and forget? Must I be driven into the cynicism which money for free elementary school hooks? Will the State be any better off, when her l>est. property has been sacrificed? It is a pity that no public spirited lawyer will tender his services, lo enjoin the ruinous policy which Governor Hardwick has adopted. Why is the Governor of Georgia opposed to the honest., fair, simple plan of compelling invisible wealth to come forth, and pay its equitable share of Ihe State’s legitimate ex¬ penses? To Require promissory notes, mortgages, trust-deed, hills-of-sale, stocks and bonds to show a cancelled tax-stamp, before they shall enjoy legal privileges, is a perfectly fair, and practical plan. If any tax-dogcr wants to leave Georgia on that account, the sooner lie leaves the bet¬ ter for tbe State. Nobody should be allowed to enjoy all the benefits £>f our laws, institutions, business advantages and opportunities, unless hr. is willing to help you and me pay the public ex ponses. If Governor Hardwick can maintain a different position, let him’go to it. And the Agricultural Depart is still being run “on a high plane.” Brother M. P. Roane is not playing his favorite 50-50 game on Brother Holloway. Brother Mills did not draw two salaries while he was serving in the Legislature; and his Agricultural bonus has not been increased, recently, is just Brothor Pete, Bahnsen as virtuous as ever: no accusation, warrant, or indictment worry Brother Pete. Serum and cow-ticks are his specialties the same old ticks the cows always gathered wherever they ranged where hushes ticks grew. You can find the same on broom sedge rabbits, and on the dogs that run the rabbits. Enough money has been lost on vats, a ml cattle, and insolent loafers v.ho ty THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. On the very day that my charges against some oflieers and some nurses appeared in the papers of Richmond, Virginia, au ex-nurse of that city f w.rote me a letter confirming my 1 showed the letter to Senator Claude Swanson, and placed the material part of it in the Congressional Record. For reasons which you will readily guess, 1 did not mention her'name. Numerous letters from ex-service men are iu my possession, corroborating inv state¬ ment. and these letters will lie made public in due time. By the same mail which brought to my desk the indignant .denunciation of these Georgia Vestals, came the following, from Williamsburg, Virginia: i i There is a former Red Cross nurse here in Williamsburg who says that every word you say, and even more, about the way the boys and nurses were treated over seas is positively true. The Virginia lady signs her name, and gives me the name and P. < >. address of the former nurse. This nurse says she will come to Washing¬ ton and testify “to a whole lot,” if I “will hack her up.” Of course, 1 will hack her up;'and if 1 need the help of some of the Georgia, hoys, 1 will have them come here. There is not the slightest intention on my part to submit to any insolence from Per¬ shing, or his gang. In Nashville, he “branded” me as a liar, according to the newspapers of Tennessee. Once is enough. “WHEN WE HAVE SAID GOODBYE.” * foreign to soul? is so my Must I always he the victim of base in¬ gratitude and broken promises? Must i always tie made the accomplice of those who set out to deceive the people and to betray the best interests of our country^ Self-control was a part, of my training at the bar: self-restraint, accounts for my unim¬ paired manhood; severe training and many hard lessons taught mo that I must control my temper. Notwithstanding all Ibis, there is a limit: and that limit lias nearly been reached, by cer lain Migrates and traitors in Georgia. On the day when I say Goodbye t,o all my illusions, concerning certain men who hold of¬ fices in my dear old Stale, and for whose SllC cess i almost, worked myself to death, it will he a bad day, either for myself or to those men. The people will soon he asked to choose us. AS TO CLEAN SWEEPS AND HIGH PLANES. (continued from page one.) rammed over our people, to have paid for text-books for every child in Georgia. What fun Brother Jim Miller used to poke at Brother Lem Jackson! If either of these patriots will tell us what goes with those cotton samples, sent to Atlanta, 1 will listen patiently. When I was in the Georgia Legislature, 1882-J, and before that, the Agricultural De¬ partment was in one small room, and its sala¬ ried officers consisted of Commissioner Hen¬ derson, am! his Assistant, Mr. Nesbit. ment,'and Wo came near to abolishing this Depart¬ it was saved on Ihe plea, that every other State had one. I Aider the Conuuis.sionersliip of Mr. Hen¬ derson, the rust-proof oat was imported into bur State, from Texas. That was the one very great benefit our people received from the plain old inexpensive Agricultural Department. See how the thing has grown! It never gets enough money; it isn't worth a third of what. it. costs; it is always in poli¬ ties; it never helped us a particle when the boll weevil was destroying our cotton; arid it isn’i doing anything now. except to stave off an investigation, hush up legitimate criticism; and lay pipes for next, year’s campaign. I do not mean to say, or to insinuate, that the Hon. J. J. Brown is a had man, or that all the employees of the Department aix' ineffi¬ cient. What I mean to say is, that Mr. Brown is spending too much of the State’s money, and giving too little service in return; and for the scandalous doings of his Department, are more the work of Jackson, Bahns.en and Roane than of himself. But Mr. Brown is the head of the Depart nient, responsible to ihe people, and lie should not permit any set of employees lo make a vast political machine which serve A l hem, does not serve taxpayers who bear * * burden of the expenses. WHERE'ARE YOUR PERSONAL RIGHTS? The present Attorney-Geperal of the Uni¬ ted States made a speech to the American Bar Association in which he said, that personal liberties were not a matter of law, but or po¬ litical philosophy. What do you really think of a lot of law¬ yers who -would applaud a statement like that? What do you honestly think of the legal ability of an Attorney-General who would say tiling like that? Brother Daugherty selected “the famous William <1. Burns, to be the Direc¬ of la#-enforcement in this Republic. Burns is the famous detective who made hasty retreat from Marietta, a few years ago. The famous detective has written me a asking for suggestions as to the better of the law. I am going to make a few suggestions may very much improve the law-and situation: First, that we release from Atlanta, Fort and several other places the men minds were like that of Robert Lansing, not on the single track mind of the late Woodrow Wilson: Second, that Harry Daugherty resign, af¬ having first sent to the penitentiary his detective: Third, that Federal Dry Enforcers be to observe the laws of the land: Fourth, that Church Conferences and or¬ “Home-builders” he earnestly re¬ to attend to their own homes and own business. The Federal Department of Justice has no authority to put orders on the police of our or the sheriff's of our counties. Let, the Federal Department and its fa¬ mous detective keep within the legal bounds their own jurisdiction. Let the organized “Home builders,” of and elsewhere, spank their babies, not try to spank their Senators. Harris and I had our full share of spank in'the days of our boyhood, and wo are Editorial Motes by Grover C Edmondson . (Continued from Page Two.) cide. The surface of this world is limited: ,i the human power to replenish the earth is un¬ limited. If populations increase without re¬ gard to space for life and sustenance, wars are inevitable; and no disarmament conference, and no league, will be able to stop human be¬ ings from killing fellow-creatures when it be¬ comes necessary for one tribe to destroy an¬ other tribe in order to make room for still another. The police arrested Mrs. Sanger and other would-be speakers, hauled them to jail in a Police Wagon, while Capt. Donahue and his police reserves used their clubs upon the heads of those anxious souls who had gathered at, the Town Hall. The fact that the highest law of this Re¬ public guarantees free speech and free assem¬ bly did not hinder Capt. Donahue and his blue coats in their lawless attack upon this meeting of American citizens. Donahue, a Roman Catholic, had orders from Archbishop Hayes to break up the meeting. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is against free speech and free where assembly. In the big cities of this Country, the police power is controlled by agents of Rome, it is impos¬ sible to hold public meetings without first se¬ curing a permit from an Archbishop, or Bish¬ op, or Priest. - After M rs. Sanger was released from jail, several hundred, citizens met at a private res¬ idence, somewhere in New York City, and pass¬ ed ringing resolutions against Archbishop Hayes, the Catholic Hierarchy, and the Pope, and charged that the Police broke up their meeting because the subject of birth control is distasteful to the heads of the Hierarchy. The subject may be distasteful to a ma¬ jority of our people, but that is no reason why police officers should deny a minority the Con¬ stitutional right to hold a public meeting. A few months ago, Mr. Ledoux, leader of an army of unemployed, was denied a permit to hold a public meeting in New York City. Ledoux hired a hall and was attempting to address 'the gathering when a hundred blue coats. armed with brief authority, drove both -peaker an audience from Hie hall. It. is a disquieting sign of the times when officers of t lie law have no respect for their oaths and no respect for the Constitution of the United States. Tu Georgia, Bishop Kciley tramples upon State laws and no attempt has been made to bring him to the bar of justice. In Alabama, Prohibition officers shoot down people on suspicion; and the same thing is true in almost every State of the Union. In all our big cities, the Police power is controlled by a lawless element of the Catholic church. Those armed with authority have become lawless clement, and it , hat. J . lie cur most seems judiciary and tin* Executive are poweiloss to bring th.ese offenders to justice, The Republic of Rome flourished for more three hundred years and no sign of de- both too old to be spanked, now. ' ~ I hope that this gentle hint will be kindly taken by. those estimable. Savannah “ Home¬ builders”, Mesdames Hughlett, Norwood, and Stubbs. Their attempt to justify the outrage com¬ mitted upon the private premises of Miss Gar¬ diner, by those Federal brutes -who week credit headed ry E. B. Henson, will not improve their in the opinions of fair-minded people. The first thing Benson knows, he may find it beneficial to his health to leave Georgia, as hurriedly as Mr. W. J. Burns did. A sudden change of environment is often beneficial to one’s health. T am not making any threats, but merely offering suggestions as to the better enforce¬ ment of law and order. Adieu, Mrs. Hughlett! Au revoir, Mrs. Norwood! Good evening, Mrs. Stubbs! When I come home, it is my intention to visit the beautiful old city in which Amy wife spent her earliest years, and to make a speech whileh 1 am sure will attract the attention of these estimable Home-builders who momen-* tarily forgot home-building and endorsed home destruction. “May T not” suggest to them, that, if a white Federal official can thus rape a white woman ’s home, a black man mat do it. Pause, dear ladies! I,,was a prohibition anti-saloon man be¬ fore you were born. If there had been any reasonable ground for the rape of Hie home of Miss Gardiner, these esteemed Home-builders might at least have armed Henson with a search-warrant. In the rape perpetrated upon Miss Gardi¬ ner’s house, you can see the danger of tour own. There is a way to protect our homes, our persons, our vehicles and the effects of our wives, sisters and children; and if these Dry brutes continue their Reign of Terror, the peo will rise, in self-defense. cay appeared until the ruling powers disobeyed the fundamental law. The same is hue of other Republics. Let us hope that it will not be true of this Republic. Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro politician, held office under Presidents Taft and Wilson, the office being that of Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. When Taft was President, Henry Lincoln Johnson was a Republican. When Wilson became President, Henry Lincoln Johnson reversed gears and proclaim¬ ed his Democracy from the house-tops. He made speeches for Mr. Wilson. During Mr. Wilson’s administration, and during the time Henry Lincoln Johnson held office under that administration, Georgia was represented in the U. S. Senate by two ster¬ ling Democrats, Hoke Smith and T. W. Hard¬ wick. Both Smith and Hardwick admitted that they enjoyed great power in the party and they confessed that they had influence at the White House, at times. * Did they bounce Henry Lincoln Johnson; from office? , They did not\ WHY? ' When the Republicans came into power at Washington, one of Mr. Harding’s first official acts was to name Henry Lincoln Johnson for the Recordersliip of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Almost immediately, a storm of protest; came to Senator Thomas E. Watson, of Geor¬ gia, from white girls who are employed by the Recorder of Deeds. Do you blame these girls for protesting? Would you have your daughter work for it negro poltician of Link Johnson’s stripe? Senator Watson took up the fight-for the white girls who appealed to him: he went after Link in a lawyer-like way: he secured from the court officials of Fulton County the documen¬ tary evidence in regard to “Colonel” John¬ son’s dealing with his negro clients. THIS DOCUMENTARY EYIDNCE CON¬ VICTS HENRY LINCOLN JOHNSON OF, DEFRAUDING HIS CLIENTS. This evidence was in existence at the time Henry Lincoln Johnson held office under Pres¬ ident* Woodrow Wilson and neither Smith nor Hardwick made any attempt to bring it to the attention of the President or the Senate. WHY? *• When Senator Watson submitted this evi¬ dence to the Republican members of the Senate they voted unanimously against Johnson. Henry Lincoln Johnson was able to hold office under President Wilson for two rea sons:—• (1) Because he supported Woodrow Wil¬ son, the candidate. , (2) Because Georgia’s, Senators, both Democrats, failed to expose Johnson’s totton record to a Demacratie Senate,
