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VoL 40 NOTES FROM UNITEO STATES SEIM ATE. When the World War began, the prettiest language which the propagandists could find in the dictionary was used to convince you that your sons were going to be slaughtered in the holy cause of liberty, democracy, self-govern¬ ment, organized conscience, the higher morali¬ ties and all the other virtues that could' be named. The smoke lifted from the last gun of the Great W T ar on November 11, 1918, nearly four years ago; and since that day, the world has never been at peace. , France, England and Woodrow Wilson made war on Russia, because she adopted a form of government in which the money-bag could not dictate the terms on which human beings could live. These civilized nations—France, England and Woodrow Wilson not only sent troops into Southern and Northern Russia .to shoot down the people, but they blockaded the sea-ports so that Russian men, women and children could not sell their products to the outside world, or buy food to keep them alive. m lens of thousands ot mnoeent . , Russians ,, perished . , , under ............ this diabolical policy of „,, L , , . ... , I use Wilson’s name, instead of the Uni¬ ted States, because Wilson’s personal orders sent the troops and the ships; Congress had nothing to do with it. In spite of all that France, Poland, Eng¬ land and Woodrow Wilson could do, the Rus¬ sians remained unconquered. Their government has now lasted nearly four years. Ours refuses to recognize it, just as some corporations refuse to recognize labor unions. Why any sane mortal should refuse to sea what is a known anflTvisIWe *fact, is one'of the mysteries of human natui •. A man driving an automobile may refuse to see a telegraph pole, but something unpleas¬ ant occurs if lie happens to strike the pole. And the star-gazer said, “the world is getting better every day”: so it is: there is less of it every day. The Greeks killed all the Turks they pos¬ sibly could when they landed at Smyrna and marched inland toward Angora—from which place our choice goats are supposed to take their'name. Then/the Turks got help from somewhere and they began to shoot up the Greeks in a truly uncivilized manner. The Armenians got massacred again, for, no matter what happens, the Armenians get their share. i By the latest accounts the Greeks had been wiped out, Smyrna was on fire, the raping had begun, and King Constantine, who started it all was thinking that he had better come to America and spend on himself the remainder of Mrs. Deed’s tin-plate money. Let him come! Any country that can stand Elbert Gary, Herbert Hoover, and Charles W. Morse can put up with Constan¬ tine. Our pot is fearfully and wonderfully made. S The English say that the Turks shall not have Constantinople, and the English are pre¬ paring for another war. The City of Constantinople never did be¬ long to England—why does she claim it now? As every one knows, it was founded by a Roman Emperor, although an Asiatic town had existed there from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. The Eastern Empire of the Romans, on the Bosphorus, reached a height of power, glory and civilization which lasted for cen¬ turies, but, strange to-say, the average histo¬ rian has treated it with slighting contempt. A connection was kept up between the Eastern, and Western Empires of Rome, the Bishops of Rome cut loose from §1$ {Mitttlm j 'A: Price 92.00 Per Year tinople and thus caused the great division in the Christian Church. Many of the law's of the Western world came from Constantinople, and her Emperors carefully preserved the remains of Grecian and Roman literature, while the bigoted Bish¬ ops pf Rome destroyed every classic they could lay their hands on. When the Turks in the Middle Ages cap¬ tured Constantinople, there was a whole sale scattering of the learned men of the City; and these men not only betook themselves to Eu¬ rope but carried with them the precious man¬ uscripts which the Turks would doubtless have destroyed. It was in this way that the learning was revived in the West alter the Id- hops ot Speech on Financial and Industrial Problems The Daugherty Inunction. DKWVKKED BY SENATOR WATSON IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE SEPTEMBER 13th, 1923. Mr, President, in one of the biographies of Alexander ,, . , H. T Stephens—who, everybody , as Knows . president of the Southern Con- „ was vice federacy, and one of the purest, best, and ablest of men that ever lived—he gives an ac¬ count of a journey which lie made by private conveyance from Georgia through Alabama on up to Washington City, on to Baltimore and other points north; and I remember that in this diary of liis journey lie says: I sat in the gallery of the Senate, and 1 heard Daniel Webster delivering a long speech, apparently from notes, and there was nobody listening to him on the floor, and nobody in the galleries. Next morn ing when I peached Baltimore I was amaz ed to see on the front pages of all tlyo pa pers'the headline: “The great speech of Daniel Webster on the finances.” In listening to speeches here in the Senate I have often been reminded of that. The seats mostly are vacant, and desks neither open nor shut. The disbursing officer pays the salaries, and the salaries come from the peo¬ ple; but the men who draw those salaries are, according to common report, some in Europe, some in the East, some in the West, some in 10 SUBSCRIPTION CARDS FOR $10. We Are Making This Special Club Offer Until The Fir& Day Of October. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. As we have had numerous requests from subscribers, whose subscriptions had expired, to continue sending them the paper until they were able to pay for it, and this is impossible. If we were financially able to carry these unpaid subscriptions, the postal rules would not permit us to do so. To help these subscribers, and others who have been hard hit by the “hard times,” to keep up with Senator Watson’s activities in the Senate, we are going to make a \ M t \ *- > SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST. 810.00 FOR CLUB9 OF TEN. We feel that this is as much as we can do, and still keep The will Sentinel going, We have enough paper on hand to last us until October, when we have to pay tor an¬ other car at the advanced price, so do not expect to get the paper, after the first day of October, at this price. Subscribers, whose subscriptions hav yiot expired, can also take advantage of this offer and have their paper marked up a year. No single or six months subscriptions will be accepted at this rate. THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, P. U. BOX 303, THOMSON, GA, Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Sept . 25, 1922. Rome had done their best to bury it forever. England holds Egypt, under a dummy King: she holds India with its native popula¬ tion of nearly 200,000,000: she holds the huge island oi Ceylon: she holds Gibra’ter which commands Spain and Portugal: she holds Can¬ ada, which is larger than our Union: she holds Australia and New Zealand, which command the South Pacific Ocean: she holds a strategic position of vast importance in Central Ameri¬ ca : she holds Mesopotamia,- the land of an dent empires, whose ,-wheat and cotton will soon drive ours from the markets of Europe: she holds Singapore which controls the China Sea: she is the ally of‘Japan which shares with her the dominion of Asia: she owns an the North, some in the South; and no doubt the mail reaches them all in due time, bringing their monthly salary check. The Senator from Alabama (Mr. Heflin) deserves the thanks of his constituents and of the country for the many able speeches which he has made against our present financial sys¬ tem. I can not add to what he lias so elo¬ quently said except by this prediction, and there are men living who will see it come true, even if I do not: Unless this system is changed this Government is going into the vortex of a revolution -and a new Government will arise and take its place. The Senator from Idaho (Mr. Borah) ask¬ e'd the Senator from Alabama from what source he read, and the Senator from Alabama .said he was reading from John Skelton AUil liams, who was for four years, I believe, the Comptroller of the Currency under President Wilson. I will read just one extract from the official reports of those who now control the Nation’s money. In December, 1920, there was in circula¬ tion $34,000,000,000. In December,; 1921, there was in circulation $24,000,000,000. (Continued on Pago Four.) Issued Weekly in Africa: she virtually owns Belgium and Portugal: she has her infamous Herbert Hoov¬ er in Har ing’s Cabinet continually draining off Americ’n money to finance England’s schemes under lie pretext of feeding those who have been beggared by England’s insatia ■ ble greed. She now' grabs at Constantinople, whoso possession in strong hands, would mean tho domination of the East and the West. Were I in the White House, I would put into the tight every ship and every man able to hear arms before she should have it! The Senate spent Friday debating a point of order, and it. spent Saturday doing the same. The acting Vice-President, Senator Cum¬ mins, announced that he was in doubt how to decide, and would like, for the Senate to ad¬ journ, so that he might have all day Sunday to meditate and pray over the subject. These were not his exact words, but they are in substance what he meant, and out of respect for the Chair we adjourned. * The Senate never presents a more ridicu¬ lous aspect than when it devotes a whole day to a point of order—which really is not de¬ batable at all. Preceding the fearful point of order came a “personal privilege” oration from my good and great friend Heflin of Alabama. One or two ineffectual attempts were made to shut off the Honorable Thomas Heflin, but he sublimely ignored these feeble interruptions and went right on for about two hours. By the time he had finished,- he was through, and he sat down victoriously. So you see, we are nearing adjournment rapidly. President Wjlson proposed to lend five million dollars of your money to the negroes of Liberia As you know, these colored brethren were sent to a choice spot of Africa, about 100 years ago by white dreamers who believed that if the black man could be given a fair chance, all to himself, without contaminating contact with the whites, he would develop a culture and civ¬ ilization which, in due time, would save a lost world. < • Therefore the shemales and the hemalea of the Colonization Societies raked up the du¬ cats and the free negroes and sent them over, on "free tickets, to Liberia, and expected to see them flourish like the green bay tree. Sad to relate, these free negroes who en¬ joyed all their “rights” in Africa, did not prosper. On the contrary, they made continual calls on the funds of the .Colonization Societies. Naturally these well-meaning Societies fi¬ nally grew weary of feeding a lot of lazy Li¬ berians who wouldn’t even cultivate corn patches on the richest land in the world. The philanthropic Societies cut off the ducats, and the free negro, enjoying all his rights, immediately mortgaged the country to European speculators. Of course, the 'blacks never even thought of paying the debt, and the civilized specula¬ tors, seeing that President Wilson was lending your money to nearly all the nations of the earth, could see no good reason why he should not lend Liberia enough to pay Morgan and other cultured buccaneers. But a hitch occurred somehow and some¬ where and gay Paris had got the best of Wil¬ son before the Liberian loan was made. At this late day, when Mr. Harding says we have no money to pay our soldiers, the hard-pressed Republican leaders boh up with this Liberian loan, their purpose being to pla¬ cate the negro voters in close Republican States. They have not yet got this outrageous loan through, and I don’t heliaye they will, ' X l l i,l No 50
