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Jot. 41 The President , The Tariff, And * The Sugar Gamblers. President Harding orders another investi gation. American public! Cod save the . The President ’s reason for punishing Attor- us in this manner has not been set forth by uey-General Daugherty, who is sick, and there Is of course no way for us to learn the truth, until our National Legal Luminary is able to ialk for publication. Daugherty left Miami Attorney-General according to greatly improved in health, daily papers. But, by the time his private car reached St. Augustine, the newspapers had al¬ ready announced Draper Daugherty’s murder-black- connec¬ tion with the Dorothy Keenan mail scandal. Therefore, our noble Attorney General was forced to stop at St. Augustine, for another vacation. And theft, in addition, 1 'aughertv, whose frail constitution has been shattered by his vigorous prosecution prosecution ol war of grafters, can’t proceed in the tiie airplane thieves because the documentary proof of their crimes was destroyed by tire, Saturday, March 31, 1923, and there is no way to convict those grafters now that the records are gone. (This is not an April Attorney-General joke.) It seems to me that the should have deposited written records of graft cases in fire-proof vaults, instead of permitting the defendants to stick a matchyto that rickety powder-can at Bolling field. But I am wandering from my text. Let me present a few points in regard to President Harding, the Tariff, and the Sugar Gamblers, If Congressional investigations benefit the public, there is no way of proving it. As a rule, prices climb skyward every time there is an official investigation, conducted by V ash ington City, whitewashed. instructions, from The President’s sent Florida, notify the Gamblers that tariff duties on sugar will be reduced by the Executive, un¬ der the terms of the Fordney-MeCumbe'r tariff, provided the tariff experts, after hearing from all parties, find a verdict against the Gamblers. The, experts claim that it will not be possi¬ ble for cRem- to complete this investigation $£ six months. J L You see, therefore, the Gamblers will have |fof (robbed dollars 1/he before consumers this of report hundreds is placed of mil|' in ions the President’s hands. President Harding pretends to believe prices. that She tariff is not responsible for sugar Herbert Hoover says that the asinine “bul¬ letin’’ issued from -his Department, is not a contributing cause. neglect Both to the state President the facts, and and Seeretarjj the Tariff Hoover Board at Washington City will, no doubt, render a judgment in favor of the Profiteers. Our people are beginning to learn the truth about the Protective System. Tariff iniquities confront every American consumer, daily. Pre¬ vailing high prices of sugar are traceable to the Tree of Protection. Congress enacts Tariff la-ws to protect the Manufacturer, the Gambler, the Profiteer. The Protectionist claims that tariff robberies are enacted by the national legislature to “pro¬ tect” American laborers against the “pauper labor” of other Nations. European Protec¬ tionists tell their people that their tariff laws are passed to “protect” European laborers from the “pauper labor” of the United States. Now, where is this “pauper laborer”? He is found in both Europe and America! Duties are imposed upon foreign goods for the express purpose of giving to the home man¬ ufacturer the monopoly of the home market. The Tariff wall shuts out foreign competition. The Manufacturer is not interested in domestic or foreign labor; lie is vitally interested in this monopoly of the home market. Your Protectionist friend cites you to full dinner-pails, etc. enjoyed by the “protected” American laborer, lie neglects to mention the Manufacturer’s dividends ranging from 100 to 3,000 per cent. • j If your mind is supporting the theory that 'Schwab, Gary, Rockefeller, Morgan, et al are interested in the laborers of this or any other country, pray dismiss the idea. It doesn’t do credit'to your intelligence. It is, no doubt, a source of immense amuse¬ ment to Protected Manufacturers of all Na¬ tions, when they meet at Winter and Summer resorts, to recall the artful methods by which they fool the workers of each nation, into sup¬ porting this infamous Protective System. Suppose we apply the doctrine, “By their fruits yf, shall know them," For more than 100 years, the American la¬ borer has beep “protected” by Tariff lawk The Manufacturer has enjoyed the fruits of the same system, for the same period of time. „ How , . laborers . many accompany the High brows of Special Privilege on their journeys . lC° n &Q ue £ o^ Paga b ^ v If c U * jt Price SI.50 Per Year THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED BY THE BUILDERS. By Thos. E. Watson-. ! The missionary funds of the Roman Pagan Church are being devoted almost exclusively tb “Make America Catholic.'' The crafty Jesuits who rule the inner mechanism of the Pagan sy.stem which grew up within the Christian church at Rome, do not scatter and dissipate their efforts upon hnmov able China, apathetic India, and skeptical Ja pan. The Jesuits recognize the United States of North America as the coming world-power, dos tined perhaps to an imperial and militaristic domination to which Great Britain herself will play second. r As clear to my mind as anything veiled in the future can be, is the secret purpose of our Trusts, to aid England drive Germany out of Asia Minor, Africa, and South America— and n^xt to drive England out. For the present, millions of our best men, our picked men, the flower of the land, may fight and die with England, to put an end to German gains of territory; to wrest Turkey from her control, and to seize Armenia, Ana¬ tolia, Persia, and Mesopotamia; to capture Constantinople, and appropriate the Eastern part of the Berlin-to-Bagdad Railroad, but you may Manufacturing rest assured that our Money Trust and Trusts will never allow Eng land to reap all the fruits of victory, Our Emperors of Finance and Trade will divide with England the spoil they have jointly won with the blood and treasure of our people; and when the day of division comes, America and England may come to blows, Our Emperors of Finance and Trade had already squeezed nearly the last gold dollar out of England and France, when those Eng bsh and French Commissions came oyer. It was a case of “Save me Cassius, or 1 sink.” And our Emperors decided to pull England and France out of the water, because England, especially, Our Emperors had the couldn’t bait-gourd afford in her pocket. let Eng¬ to land and France go down, because of profits and investments already made, and because of profits and investments, in prospect. This line of reasoning, and none other, ex¬ plains the terrific pressure brought to bear upon Congress, in favor of those revolution¬ ary new Acts, appropriating for foreign ser¬ vice such quantities of our blood and treasure as dumbfounded the human mind. If you have, for an instant, believed that the powers which give orders to Congress care one straw about German militarism, or about the making of the world safe*for democracy, or for the vague, altruistic welfare of universal THE DEVIL AND HIS SPY. Be it remembered that Josephine J. Brown conspired with George W. Seals, Legal Lumi¬ nary Miller, and others, to destroy The Colum¬ bia Sentinel by court proceedings. The plot was hatched in the Thomson cem¬ etery, the day of Senator Watson’s funeral. The conspirators couldn’t wait for the Under¬ taker to complete his work, .at the grave. The Arch-conspirator, J. J. Brown, called his con¬ federates to a secluded spot inside the ceme¬ tery, and explained his plan for crushing The Sentinel and his ambition to re-establish The Jeffersonian with Brown as Editor-in-Chief. They figured that an Injunction would tie the publisher’s hands and that non-appearance of the weekly issue of The Sentinel would ac¬ complish desired results. An injunction was filed, Judge Hammond restrained the publishers from printing and mailing The Sentinel, and Brown instructed his guano agent,. Miller, to watch the Thomson end of the conspiracy while Brown and Seals handled the Atlanta end. When The Sentinel exposed the scheme, Brown and Seals failed to pull Jeffersonian Stockholders into this- conspiracy. It was then that Brown instructed Seals to assume the attitude of enemy to the Georgia Department of Agriculture. Seals was instruc¬ ted to see well-known anti-Brown men in At lala, explain to them his willingness to fight the Machine, and make overtures to The Senti¬ nel, ete. Atlanta friends informed me that Seals had turned against Brown. They asked me to write a personal letter to George Washington Seals. They believed.that a letter from me to Seals would encourage him to tell me what he knew about Josephine’s double-life, I wrote the letter, and the next I heard from Seals was his open letter to The Atlanta Journal, attacking me. warned my Atlanta counselors to take Seals’ conversion with a grain of salt. I ask ed a friend to watch the activities of George Seals in and about the State, Thomson, Georgia, Monday, April 9, 1923. “mankind,” pray dismiss tl^e idea. In your heart of hearts, you are bound to know that Congress obeys the Great and the great Trusts—including of course the Railroad Trust. Do you ask for evidence? If so, study the statutes-which have made the Government Itself, the mere rubber-stamp of the Privileged Capitalists, and Vhich have reduced to poverty the millions of toilers whose industry enriches the non-producing Do not believe, for a single minute, such men as J. P. Morgan, John lb.Rockefeller, Elbert Gary, Henrv Frick, Frank Yanderlip, Jacob Schiff, Julius Kahn, Jame'k William. Baker, the Guggenheim Brothers, and John Hays Hammond would turn on their heels to “save the world for democracy,” would give one dollar for the freedom of peoples throughout the earth, or would take the slight¬ est interest in changing the inner government of 65,000,000 Germans. Such an idea is absurd. But 1 am wandering froffi, my text, which IS— “ t The stone that teas rejected by the builders .” Listen! In 1848, pur forefathers to erect a noble monument to George Washing ton. He had done a groat work, in a great way: on a question of-principle; he had risked for¬ tune and l(fc in a long battle with a King. He had liberated the Colon; r had made them independent States, had organized the Federal Union, had sunk its foundations deep and securely, and had then retired to his farm to live out in peace and privacy the remainder of his days. So, his countrymen decided to rear him a monument that should be worthy of*him and of his country. Its erection proceeded slowly: in fact, rise was so slow that I can remember when the Washington monument was the subject of jests by the newspaper pliers. y . During the construction of the memorial,, matte various pjublic donations of marhfc to tit, bv bodies had and by those eign potentates who come to Washington as one of the greatest and men that ever liyed. In 1854, there came to Washington City, be used in the monument a small marble sent by Pope Pius IX. Now, of all living men, this Italian (Continued on Pago Four.) Capitol, and Lo! my friend followed Seals Brown’s private office, where the. two conspir¬ ators met behind, locked doors. Our friend, T. W. Clonts, writes the lowing letter in regard to George Seals’ early life, and it proves that spy is running true to form: Editor Sentinel: As a life-long friend and supporter of the late Senator Watson, than whom no man was more constant in devotion or more steadfast in loyalty, I would offer a few thoughts about the paper he left us, and his two friends, trusted co-workers for years, now its editors! I wish to say that Mrs. Lytle and Mr. Edmondson have surpassed ail expectation in making the paper conform to the Wat¬ son standard of democracy. Every friend and follower of our lamented Watson should feel proud and rejoiced that his pa pea - goes on with no deviation in Shame upon the little coterie of self-seek¬ ers in the ranks of the Watson following who would feather their own nests at the expense of harmony in our ranks and dam¬ age to The Sentinel! Sufficient to the followers of Watson is the fact that the present editors of The Colurtibia Sentinel were honored and trust¬ ed by Watson himself, for years and select¬ ed by him for the places they now hold. What is a better recommendation? George W. Seals, who is seeking to array the old stockholders of the defunct Jeffer¬ sonian Co. against The Sentinel, and who has been trying to damage The Sentinel ever since Mr. Watson’s death, lived until middle life in th? same community in which the writer has always lived, and we make bold to say, that if his influence generally is no greater than it is here where he spent a great part of his life, it will have about as much weight as a gnat on an elephant’s snout. Long live the Sentinel! We must rally to (Continued, on Pa ge Four,). / V v Issued Weekly The Roman Catholic Church: An Empire. The Associated Press cablegram from Rome, March 29. quotes the tliat Pope, as follows: ' “The Pontiff asked Church dignita ries be set free on t lie ground that they are members of. the Catholic Hierarchy and are therefore his subjects.” The question jurisdiction is, By what authority does the Pope claim over citizens of the world’s recognized governments? In the ease at bar, the Russian government caught certain Roman Catholic dignitaries who plotted the destruction of the Soviet regime, Those tjaitors were charged with offenses for which they would have been equally liable for and conviction, and execution in any nation of the 'World, namely, ’the secret Lncite meat to violence in defiance of l^w of the land. . If the Pope’s subjects in France violate the highest law of the French Republic, they subject themselves to the death penalty. The* same rule applies to the Holy Father’s “sub¬ jects” of the British Empire, of the German Republic, and of the United States. The Pope’s demands drawn against th’e Russian government speak of the condemned Priests as “subjects.” Whose “subjects”? Pope’s of coujse. He asserts that the Rus sian government is without lawful authority to" try his subjects for treason. The insolent autocrat demands that said criminals be set free. Why! On the ground that they violated no laws? No: the plea is that Russia is without jurisdiction to PUNISH P.APAL SUBJECTS FOR CRIMES COMMITTED in Russia. If the ruls. applies to Russia, it extends also to every government in the World, where the Pope’s subjects reside. If Archlfishop Curley and other Roman Catholic dignitaries ’ of the United States or¬ ganize a conspiracy to overthrow the Washing¬ ton government, they Eannat,. according to the Pope’s law, be fried by an American jury and sentenced to deathdiyyafi American Judge. This Papal demand has the endorsement President Harding and Secretai Hughes, Tl}e Pope asked the American government ter -petition the Soviets for clemency for tha convicted conspirators. • 'The same request went from the Vatican rto nearly I very World Power, and Papal influ¬ ence dle in caused the internal outside, affairs governments of the Russian’ to intermed¬ gov eminent. In our case, Secretary Hughes brushed aside, for the moment, American non-recogni¬ tion of the Soviet government, in order to com¬ ply with the Pope’s request. made The Soviet government ibis reply to the Vatican: “The Soviet government is not prepared to tolerate such activities', particularly when the offenders declare that their allegiance is to a foreign religious authority, and not to the Russian government, and still less when thei'c is reason to suspect direct intercourse with a hostile state. In soviet Russia, as in all other civilized countries, priests have no privileges or extra-territorial rights in the eyes of the law.” The mightiest political issue confronting the World is • Is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy really a Church or an Empire? Cowardly politicians cannot dodge this is¬ sue, always. The day for settlement is fast approaching, and such mellon-stalks a s Charles E. Hughes, Warren G. Harding, and Oscar Un¬ derwood—alleged Protestants—will he forced to find judgment either for or against the Pope. The Church census gives the Pope eighteen million subjects in this nation. Those millions of 50-50 Americans owe allegiance to both our Government and the Pope’s. This divided allegiance threatens the cor¬ nerstone of ov ■ Republic. It will destroy re¬ publican died. government, if not checked and reme¬ The nation couhl not live half-slave awl half-free: it cannot endure half-American and Half-Papal. The demand for 100 per cent loyally to Hu American flag knocks at the door of the White House and of. Congress, and our leaders amp rulers at Washington City cannot continue t<r ignore this issue, and they will be forced by public opinion to require (lie Pope’s subject's to pledge undivided loyalty lo our institutions or get out of our Republic. The Papal system is an Empire, a political despotism, and il must be driven from Ameri¬ can soil. «ud Papal Ambassadors go from the Vatican to London, to Berlin, to Paris, to the capitals of nearly every government on earth, and the Pope’s Ambassador roosts in Washington City in violation of our highest law. J ’ 4 A ^Continued on Page Four.); No, 26
