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War Clouds Hover Over
Lausanne.
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dnfted so f far apart , on the great names of the
Near Bast conference that all signs indicate
occupies a seat at the table He has delivered;
several notes and spolten freely to the assent
ue e ega es. |
emze os, repiesentmg Greece, and Dr.j
Aansen. representing the League ot Nations,
informed Ambassador Child that the United :
States would be expected to care for morel
/ Lieeks, who cannot
ia.n a mi ion remain lUi
Turkey and Asia Minor, lour spokesman ut
tered no protest.
•Mussolini, the new Italian ruler, informed . „
his cabinet that a confidential communication
had gone from Rome to Washington, urging!
President Harding to propose modification of
our immigration laws, in order to admit one
hundred thousand Italians to this Country,
yearly.
Secretary of Labor Davis, informed news
paper reporters that there is . constant , ; W> a
tion, in the west and East, which seeks to let
down all bars erected against immigration.
Industrial kings argue that we have reached
the highest state of industrial prosperity
achieved in the Nation’s history and that we
must throw open our gates to the incoming
hordes from southern Europe, who come to
tms country to compete with American labor.
Gary, bchwab, Rockefeller, with other fi
nancial and industrial monarchs, want
theap la loi. \ emze.os and Mussolini want to
|iump an enormous pile of Catholic trash into
aus country, to menace American institutions
and product starvation wages.
Europe is in worse condition today than
fhe was when the Morld War’s last gun was
Jeard, November, 1.18 four years ago.
The war-torn nations have done little to
restore normal conditions: tycy have persis
tently refused to face their economic troubles.:
*hey have wallowed in intrigue against each
nthaRf tbffl haye been mnta’ue to tkemaelves
and to the world: and Uncle Sam s strong box
is all they think or talk about.
At Versailles, France and Great Britain,
aided by President Wilson, signed a judgment
against Germany, requiring her to promise
an impossible indemnity.
To collect this extortion, France moved
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an army of black troops into Germany, and
neither' England nor America, voiced n protest.
The white nations refused to hear the appeals
from the White women of Germany, who re¬
cited the terrible crimes committed by those
black brutes.
France is governed by a group of milita¬
rists, who bleed the French people by requir¬
ing them to support the largest standing army
in the entire world.
France is vindictive, exacting, vicious, and
unreasonable in her conduct toward Germany.
’She expects the United States to support her
in this blood-thirsty and oppressive attitude,
and her military masters are offended because
this government will not join hands with the
French in a. debt collecting invasion of Ger¬
many.
The militaristic policy of the French gov¬
ernment, since-the armistice, has cost'France
the friendship of her recent allies.
Cablegrams from Europe announce that
Russia has champiofied Turkey’s side at the
Lausanne conference. Turkey claims to be
fighting for her right to Rve in peace and
govern 'herself without outside dictation; and
the democrats of Russia, strange to say, ex¬
press their belief in the sincerity of the Turl^s,
who are the worst butchers this world ever
saw.
Scenting the dangers - of an alliance be¬
tween Russia and Turkey, the League of Na¬
tions suggests that a general war fund be
launched against Turkey.
The Dardanelles problem is the bone of
contention: Turkey claims the straits in fee
simple, and the Turk believes that he should
he master of his own house.
You will recall that the game at Versailles,
named “mind matching,” by Mr. Wilson, re¬
sulted in an agreement among the experts that
Uncle Sam should become guardian for Ar¬
menia. President Woodrow Wilson, who got
mixed in his geography while speaking in . the
West, agreed to accept the guardianship so
generously tendered by Great Britain and
France. Our 14-point hero must have known
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Price $2.00 Per Year
The world is full of young men who are:
»* «“* * -HU open f a new etepter in
book o{ humau ach ev , me n t ,
In lhe Coilrt . ho n w he rfl win eases which
A::*: T n w n “ w ~
me didnl; he will cure where Pasteur,
r Koch, or Battey would have killed.
In science, he will make Humboldt and
gp encer and Huxley and Darwin appear pig
m i e s
As an Orator, he will spell-bind, where
or Frentiss W(> uld have put to sleep.
jy a Statesman, he will begin where Gladstone
off . As a Warrior, the first “round” in
his ladder of glory will he ail Austerlitz or a
j ena
y f au ^ ’ a gLev ^ ry - ^} asf U In 1 faelNheivwml ’ 6 e e
two or three of him in every class. And, of
course, I was one of him, myself.
That was long ago,—so Jong ago that when
I mot one of “the coming men” of those eol
lege davs a few weeks since, I found him as
y an{ j SU ! K ] UM ] as a still, drizzly day in
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October. He was traveling about, selling a
new edition of an excellent Cookbook.
This feverish, desperate contest for Fame
and Wealth and Position—is the reward worth
the labor?
j s there any “reward” at all, in the suc
cesg achieved, which brightens the home, glad
deng the heart, and fills the soul’s desire with
satisfaction?
[ n the hub-hub talk about you, which the
calls Fame, how many of the talkers are
meu w hose good opinion is of actual value?
And how many of these worthiest of people
are citizens whose good opinion is so indispen
s ;y e to you that you would work your legs off
and your heart out to get it?
What is that good opinion going to do
f or y0 u, that you should turn your days into
drudgery and your nights into sleepless vilgils
0 f anxious thought? What are you going to
ou t 0 f jt, that repays you for the health
attd f,he peace? and the happiness it costs?' •
Napoleon believed that Fame was the only
immortality. He had no belief in the soul.
Yet, after toiling so bard over his books
tha,t lie stunted bis growth; after reaching su¬
preme power by such a career of blood, hy
pocricy, selfishness, genius, labor, lies and good
Juck, as the world never saw before; after
carrying his triumphant eagles from Cairo
to Moscow, he had the mortification to learn
Do You Want a Whiskey-Soaked Democratic Party?
David Lawrence, celebrated newspaper cor¬
respondent at the national capital, says that
Democratic leaders believe it impossible to
unite the populous Eastern States—wet—and
the Solid South—dry—and elect a wet Presi¬
dent on the Democratic ticket.
Mr. Lawrence intimates that Southern
leaders have no objection to a modification of
the Enforcement Act, permitting “light wines
and beer.”
He says that President Harding, by his
splendid reference to strict enforcement pf
prohibition, alligned the Republican party
the dry side. The inference is, that the wets
only alternative is to support the Democratic
ticket, provided Democratic leaders—Boss
Murphy, A1 Smith, Senator “Wet” Edwards,
Woodrow Wilson/ et at, all wets—promise to
use their influence for modification of ffhr en
forcement laws.
It may true that office-holding Democratic
leaders of the Solid South will follow Tamrna
ny Hall, Woodrow Wilson, and Senator “Wet”
Edwards in this attempt to commit the Dem
ocratic party to beer and booze. But, the
rank and file of Southern Democrats will not
follow the Eastern leaders in their efforts to
debaueh both the Democratic party and the
United States, by'tampering with our laws
against the whiskey traffic.
The Eighteenth amendment to the Federal
Constiitution is a fixture. President Harding
is right when he says that it has come to stay.
The American people will not permit cor¬
rupt politicians—time-servers—to restore the
bar-rooms, and this attempt to let down the
to wines and beers is a scheme to under¬
prohibition enforcement.
To license the beer and wine saloon, is an
invitation from the Government to bootleggers,
who will take advantage of the* proposed
amendment, and every licensed beer and
Thomson, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 18, 1922.
IS IT WORTH THE PRICE?
By Thos, E. Watson.
that there were people living, even in France.
^ N aS 0 ^:
Once upon a time a very prominent burgher Sent
of respectability the town where I intelliienee,-closed lived,Aa man of
^ and ,; a ha
to r •*
with the\tolst serSiSV Napollon P was
dead.
M hat was there in the splendid fame he
won, which made it easy for Henry Grady to
give up his young life?'
Wlmt is there in it that Bill Nye should
work himself to death—killing himself to sup¬
ply the public with fun?
Where is the recompense which repays to
the slave of ambition for the loss of the sunny
days in Hie fields, the myriad voices of the an
turan woods, and the leisure hours at the fire
side of a happy home ?
Shall there be no rest for weary feet, iu
this mad race for Fame and Wealth and Po¬
sition? Shall there be no furlough from this
all -devourin g army ?
Shall there never come a time when the
rainy day is mine, and the long, sweet hours in
the quiet library?
Shall the fever of pursuit so entirely en¬
slave us that there shall be no hour which De¬
long's to friendship, none belonging to solitude
and reflection, none to memory, and to the
sacred teachings of Regret?
A great man once said to me, “We are
not judged by character, but by reputation.”
Just so: and perhaps that’s the very rea¬
son why it is worth while to stress the fact
that the reputation is not worth 'the jjrice we
pay for it—for surely the leal valueof the
man is his character, and not his reputation.
Get all the fame that flows from a good
life. Such fame is as healthy as the light that
pours from a star—as unfeverish as the breath
of a rose, or the song of a bird. Such a fame
is but the halo that follows sterling worth.
Get all the money you honestly can. You
owe it to yourself and those who depend on you
to bring the vessel into port, if you can—
safe from the storm. ‘
The man who says he loves being poor, is
U ll.vr, and he takes you or a fool—else he
rvouldn’t tell you so.
Win position in life, if you feel that Duty
calls for you there.
No man should under-rate the Importance
of Fame, of Wealth, or of Position:—but the
man who pays his health and his happiness
and his life for them, pays too much.
vendor will become an open dispensary for
red whiskey.
President Handing should be commended
by all decent and law-respecting Americans in
liis advocacy of law-enforcement and clean
government. It is the finest thing his adminis¬
tration has done since taking charge of our
national household.
If tlie Democrats have any political fore¬
sight, they will speak out and commit the Dem
ocratic party to law-enforcement, and public
.decency.
R "will he a great day for America when
the two recognized political parties unite in an
effort to dethrone the bootlegger and drive the
booze-peddler from every community in this
nation.
The Republicans have spoken, through
their accredited leader.
What will Democracy say?
Can the Democratic party afford to tern
porize with this law-defying element of organ
ized criminals, who trample upon both the Con
stitution and laws of this Republic?
Better no Democratic party than one corn
mitted to booitleggors and their goods,
The Solid South will split, if Boss Mur
phy of Tammany Hall, A1 Smith, K. of C.
Governor of New York, Senator “Wet” Ed
wards, and the discredited Wilson commit
Democracy to the brewers, distillers, and boot
leggers.
This Republic will not tolerate, much less
.recognize, a Whiskey-soaked political party.
The President’s message will drive De
mocracy into either a wet camp or a dry one.
Truly, our Democratic brethren have come
to the cross roads.
Will Democracy take the road leading to
clean government, wholesome laws, and civic
righteousness, or will it bury *1 its hopes in a
of beer? »'V* v*v v w- v ^ v • •
Issued Weekly
The Money Question Of
Interest to the People.
In this series of short talks on the Money
Question, The Sentinel will do its level best
to set forth the argument in a. plain and sim¬
ple manner, in order that the subject may ie
comprehended by editors of daily newspapers.
A great many writers refer to money as a
medium of exchange. That is not only incor¬
rect, but misleading. Money is the medium of
exchange —there is no other.
Yo; should get it clearly in mind that the
substance—metal, paper, or wood—is not mon¬
ey until the government stamps the breath of
life into it.
A lump of gold does not become money
until the supreme authority of government
stamps it, fixes its value, nvd gives it license
to circulate as money—the medium of ex¬
change.
The student must not lose sight of the
fact that the government’s wealth not the
intrinsic value of the metal—is the power be¬
hind all money. Mr. Calhoun, undertake speaking of
money, used this language: “I to
affirm without fear of successful contradiction
that a paper issued by the Government, - with
the simple promise to receive it for taxes,
would he as uniform in its value as the metals
themselves. Adam Smith's “ Wealth of Na
t.ions,” page 490, states the identical conclu¬
sion; Aristotle said: “Money exists not by
nature, but by law.”
In the past, the governments of the world
have used many substances for money. The
wooden stick of England, tobacco England, of Maryand
and Virginia, Wampum of New the
Peltries of Western States, leather of France
and Spain, bark of China, lead oil Burmah,—•
all were used for money. Those substances
did not beqome money until recognized govern¬
ments designated them as the medium of ex¬
change. Once stamped by royal authority,
they circulated as money, gnd answered every
legitimate purpose. humbuggery is
This gold standard a modr
ern invention!
It lias gripped the world because a Money
Trust, where the metallic basis is law, has
power to corner the supply of gold. It places
illegitimate power in the hands of a combina¬
tion individuals, who; by expanding or con¬
tracting the currency, raise and sink prices at
pleasure, and by buying during the greatest
depression and selling at the highest elevation,
this Money Trust commands every channel of
industry. The gold standard was invented destiny by
hankers, for the purpose of placing the
of the many in the hands of the few.
Not, satisfied the hankers went a step far¬
ther: They usurped royal prerogatives by ob¬
taining license to issue their individual notes—•
paper—and the government permits Mr. Bank¬
er to loan you his $100 note for $8 interest.
This farming out of a royal prerogative
had its Origin—in modern times—in a con¬
cession granted by Charles II to the East
India Company and to the goldsmiths of Lon¬
don. Barbara Villiers, the King’s mistress,
was bribed by London goldsmiths to persuade
her lover, Charles II, to sign the Mint Act
of 1666—and the bribe is named in the Act.
The Aot. of 1666 gave the goldsmiths and
the East India Company almost complete con¬
trol of the supply of money, and the gold, sil¬
ver, copper, and lead, stamping them as coin,
of the realm.
What happens when the government sur¬
renders to private bankers control of the me¬
dium of exchange? A monopoly, of course.
This monopoly inflates and deflates the
currency to suit the financial interests of the
Favored Few; Commerce, Agriculture, and
Manufactures are left to the tender mercy of
this Money Trust; and the Trust, by retiriug
large volumes of money from circulation, par¬
alyzes industry, because it controls the na¬
tion’s supply of money, and the government
refuses' to lift the shackles by.asserthurits in¬
herent right to issue paper money, as Mr. Lin¬
coln did during (he War between the States,
and as Mr. Roosevelt refused to do when J. P.
Morgan treated us to the panic of 1907.
Every money panic in the history of this
Government cam be traced ‘o the door of the
Bankers’ Trust!
This Money Trust—birds of iprey—follows
in the wake of every financial storm, to salvage
the wreckage
Let us trace the history of the Money Trust
from its beginning in 1791 to its ultimate tri
un>ph over both government and people, in
1922- a lengthy stretch of time.
‘ In 1791, the first United States Bank was
established.
Congress refused to re-charter it, in 1811,
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