The President, The Tariff, And
The Sugar Gamblers.
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from Fifth Avenue palaces to Miami, Florida?
Where ^will you find Mr. Laborer’s New
York mansion? His Winter resort? His pri¬
vate hunting grounds? His Imperial Yacht?
His Palace cars and Tax-free bonds?
J. P. Morgan favors the Tariff, and he is
now in London, where lie entertains Ambassa¬
dor George Harvey at Morgan’s country man¬
sion. ,
Elbert Gary favors tlie Tariff, and he vis¬
ited the Pope, a few days ago.
Wall Street Senators favor the- Tariff, and
a score or more of said 4 * noble Romans” are
mixing with fhe Big Dogs of High Society in
London and Paris.*
John D. Rockefeller & Son favor the Pro¬
tective System, although the Young Robber re¬
fused to pay tariff duty on million dollar tapes¬
tries, purchased, last month, in Europe and
shipped to the United States.
For more than a century, the Tree of Pro¬
tection lias sheltered the Malefactors of Great
Wealth. The immense wealth of the Rockefel
ler-Morgan-Gary elan is proof enough that the
tree turned out rich fruit. But, who. gathered
that fruit? What share did the “Protected”
Laborer receive?
The Sugar Barons favor the Tariff.
The Childrens Bureau at Washington City
lias recently announced that wage standards in
sugar beet fields force mothers to fasten their
fi-year old tots to baskets, while they toil for
the Sugar Barons; the reports say that moth¬
ers work long hours in the fields, in addition'to
their domestic duties; among the laborers fami
lies nine out of ten mothers having children
under six vears of age, work in the fields of
the Sugar Barons; laborers report their entire
family’s earnings less than ‘the father alone
was accustomed to earn in an equal period of
time at other work.
That is tin' “protected” laborer’s side of
Jhc sugar controversy.
Wliat do we find in the case of the Sugar
Barons? The "protected’’ manufacturer's
earnings for 1922 range all the way from 300
to 3,000 ner cent tax-free, .stock dividends.
. The present high tariff on sugar is defend¬
ed on the ground that it protects American la¬
bor, but this industry, according to Senator
David I. Walsh, employs the cheapest labor in
America.
The following letter from the U. S. Sugar
Association speaks for itself:
“In Hawaii over 95 per cent of the labor
in the sugar industry consists of Japanese,
Chinese, and Phillipine immigrants, and
Mawaiin sugar interests are now endeav¬
oring before Congress to obtain spbeial leg¬
islation to allow them to import- Chinese
Coolies to ■ relieve the preponderance of
Japanese influence on the islands. They
‘prefer the Chinese to any other nationality
principally because they will work for less, ■
and their present labor elements are not
satisfied with the' present wages paid in ’
. proportion to the sugar companies profit.
Japanese, Mexican peons, and some Hin¬
doos constitute the labor in the domestic
beet industry of California.
1 Mexicans', Japanese, Russian-Germans,
and children prevail in Utah, Idaho, and
Colorado.
Russian-Germans and the surplus foreign
labor supply of the larger cities comprises
the labor employed in the rest of the states.
This class is usually rounded up and con¬
tracted for by agents of the factory and
furnished to a farmer upon the basis of so
much per acre of beets. They afe the ”
cheapest kind and class of labor that can be
secured.”
And I pray you, Mr. Protected Laborer, to
cite me to your Mansions, Stock Dividends,
Government, Bonds, and other non-taxa'ble
Wealth. Was it your wife who bedecked her
ball-room with $1,500 flowers and crowned her¬
self with Marie Antoinette diamonds? Was it
your daughter that bought the European Prince
in the matrimonial market? Was it you who
hired detectives to shoot down the poor Car
riegies and Fricks at Homestead? Was it you
who let 1,400 Havemeyers beg for bread in
Hocking Valley—the very cradle of the |Pro- 1
tective System?
Answer these questions, and you will then
begin to realize who it is that protection pro¬
tects.
J. ,T. BROWN IS IN A HOLE AND HE CAN’T
SCRATCH OUT.
Dear Editor: i am enclosing a club of subs to
The Sentinel, am also enclosing check to cover same.
I want to thank you in advance for starting them in on
your mailing list promptly. Will also ask you to please
mail me one of Senator Watson's photos if you have
any on hand.
I want to> say that we are more tliau pleased with
the way you arecarrying on the l*te Senator Watson's
work. We don’t believe there is another man that can
fill his place and carry on his unfinished work as near
to perfection ns you can. We are glad to see you going
after J. J. Brown and other rotten office holders and
office seekers.
Yours very truly,
Georgia. C, V. WINN.
Even Queens have ordinary troubles; the
lady at the head of Italy has just been robbed
of six hats and some plumes.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA.
Charging Hotel Bills To Sol
Beeswax And Wife .
Little did I believe Commissioner Brown
and Representative Kittrell capable of filching
your tax money bv charging hotel bills to Sol
’ be it from to
Beeswax & Wife. And far me
insinuate that they actually paid Kittrell’s ho¬
tel bill with the State’s money. My point is:
Mr. Brown approved a requisition, drawn certain on
the Governor for a warrant covering
debts incurred by the Port& Harbor Commis¬
sion (another rat hole), and said requisition,
among other items, contains the name of Rep¬
resentative C. II. Kittrell, of Laurens County,
debtQr to Kimball House for 53 days board.
The requisition is as follows:
Use these blanks for all maintenance.
'REQUISITION BLANK. Government.
Departments of State
Atlanta, Qa., Sept. 2, 1922.
Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, Governor:
Please issub warrants for the Department
of Market Bureau, Port & Harbor Terminals,
to be used for salaries and expenses for the
month of August, 1922 as per itemized state¬
ment hertwrth:
Kimball House Expenses for F. W.
Cowie, 10 days $40.40
C. H. Kittrell, Rep. Laurens Co., 53
days Kimball 90.84
Miss Mvtle White, Seety. 50.00
TOTAL $181.24
J. J. BROWN, Cornr of Agr.
APPROVED:
.........................Governor.
Requisitions must be filed in duplicate.
The following letter from Hon. T , S. _ „ Me
u.
Lend oil, Secretary of State, explains nothing,
The Sentinel publishes it because Mr.
don sent it to us for publication. \\ h> Kittrell lie \ o
unteers this “defense” of Brown and
is not for me to explain. parties—Brown It seems to and me
though that the interested
Kittrell—should have signed their names to
Mr. McLendon’s letter.
Editor Columbia Sentinel,
Thomson, Ga.
In your issue of April 2nd, in column 1, on
the front page, you say “Mr. Brown charged
his man Kittrell’s hotel bill to the State of
Georgia, and that act involves Mr. Brown’s im¬
official life and he will be lucky to escape
peachment, ’ ’ have
I do not know what facts you to sup¬
port this statement that Mr. Brown charged of
his man Kittrell’s hotel bill to the state
Georgia. I suppose you refer to a bill which
Dr. Kittrell made for room rent at the Kimball
House last summer, and which bill Dr. Kittrell
directed the Kimball House management to
^end'to the Secretary of the Harbor Commis¬
sion. As to this bill, Mr. Browif, so far as I
know, had nothing in the world to do with if.
except that he declined to pay it.
You understand, of course, that the ex¬
penses of the Harbor Commission ,were to be
paid out of the appropriation made to the Bu¬
reau of Markets, and that this appropriation
had to bo handled through the Department of
Agriculture. All bills of every character made
by the Harbor Commission were, therefore, pre¬
sented to the secretary, Miss Myrtle White,
were approved by me as president of the Har¬
bor Commission, and on this, the
issued bis warrant, and, in that form, it went
to the Commissioner of Agriculture, as it could
only be paid through his action, either, in ap¬
proving tie bill, or disapproving it, and he did
not approve Kittrell’s bill.
Miss Myrtle White received the bill from
the Kimball House, sent it to Dr. Kittrell for
his approval, he approved it, and so it passed
on. I approved it, just as 1 had approved sev¬
eral other bills presented by Dr. Kittrell, for
instance, the expenses of a trip to Savannah,
expenses for a trip lo Brunswick, expenses
covering several trips to Atlanta to attend
meetings of the Harbor Commission, his ex¬
penses to Montreal, a trip which he made by
direction of the Harbor Commission. All these
bills I approved as preski ent of the Harbor
Commission, and I also apf> roved the hotel bill,
as it had been approved by Dr. Kittrell. I
asked no questions about any other of the bills
mentioned above.
s. g. McLendon,
i i . . r • v Secretary of State.
' Mr. McLendon admits that Dr. Kittrell
ap¬
proved this Kimball House hotel bill for his,
Kittrell’s 53 days board and lodging; there is
no denial that Kittrell lived at the Kimball
during that session of the General Assembly;
and Mr. McLendon’s letter states that lie
1 t asked no questions” but approved it because
it came to him bearing Dr. Kittrell’s approval
Mr. McLendon is utterly wrong in his state¬
ment that the bill .went from his office to Gov¬
ernor Hardwick, thence to Commissioner
Brown. Th e requisition bearing Mr. Brown’s
signature shows on rts face that, this document
went from Brown’s office to Governor Hard¬
wick and not from Governor Hardwick to Com¬
missioner Brpwn, as stated by Mr. McLendon.
Equally erroneous is Mr. McLendon’s asser¬
tion that Mr. Brown “declined to pay it,” and
the same is true of his statement that “the
Governor issued his warrant, and, in this form,
it went to the Commissioner, of Agriculture, as
(Continued on Page Four.)
Letters From The People.
THE FIRST OF THE OLD GUARD TO ANSWER THE
CALL.
Dear Sentinel: I have just read your article in
last week’s Sentinel. I am enclosing check for $5.00.
Call on the boys to do likewise. We must keep The
Sentinel going a; long as Mrs. Lytle and Mr. Edmondson
are spared to hold down the job.
Georgia. F. W. TOOTLE.
THE LATE SENATOR WATSON WAS LIKE GLAD¬
Dear Editors: STONE. Aui HE THINKS.
well pleased with your man¬
agement of the little paper; you ha-e leld it square to
the principles since the Chief left us. How 1 did hate
to give him up, It seemed the country could not
spare him at this time. He was to this country like
Gladstone was to England, but his work will live even
If he is gone. *
May (he work of The Sentinel prosper in your
hands.
Your friend for right and justice,
Florida. W. J. HALL.
NOTHING SOUND ABOUT JOSEPHINE.
Dear Editor: T have read your writings in re¬
gard to the Department Qf Agriculture and Josephine
Brown and Andy Soule, with a great deal of pleasure.
1 have reached the opinion that the Department
should be abolished. 1 can't for the life of me, see
how it benefits the farmers, and to think that 350 thou¬
sand doliurs of our tax money goes into that rat-hole
makes me sick.
Do you reckon there is a sound spot in the whole
outfit?
I now understand why the daily papers never tell
u * the Inside operations of those Atlanta political in
chines, since you published the statement that report¬
ers draw $75 a month of our money to boost the High-
1 w *y gang and the Brown-Soule crowd.
That grave-yard scheme hatched by J. J. Brown is
altogether the most infamous thing 1 ever heard tel! of.
My God. to think that Brown would stoop to such
.tactics in view of ail that Tom Watson did to make
him Commissioner of Agriculture.
7 he people are with you. and those rascals can't
destroy the only truthful newspaper in Georgia.
Em osed find five new names. Get The Sentinel ;o
boys, and there will be an honest-to-goodness house¬
cleaning , pretty soon.
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THIS SPLENDID LETTER HELPED WONDERFULLY.
Dear Editor: f must write to congratulate you.
I am all .over for the woman, 1 had a good wife as
ever was born, mother not excelled, I am proud to
know you own The Sentinel, 'and glad you aud your
editor and yourself are giving us a paper so near
Thomas,E. Watson's line Of Ideas, but you will pardon
me when 1 say there Is ndt anothei man now on earth
that can i qua! Tom Watson. way.” Some have but said his to princi¬ me,
"Well Watson is out of the Yes,
ples v, ill live forever.
Of all the men 1 ever knew I loved Watson above
them all, and while I live.i'll mourn his loss, and read
The Sentinel if I can raise the price.
I send every paper on the way that the good may
be carried on. 1 have taken Watson's magazine and The
Jeffersonian for years, Only for the K. C..'s and the
spineless Protestants we would have Watson with us.
What this great good man passed through broke his
constitution, but not his spirit. Never will; one with
his ability be with the people again. This is saying,
perhaps, too much. I am my own Judge.
I hope yog will live many, many-years and suc¬
ceed in publishing this grand, good little paper. I
won’t be one of your readers much longer. I'll stay
by you until the call. January 1st, 1887, I first
breathed this air. As I loved Watson, permit me to say,
I love Alice Louise. WINERMAN.
Illinois. PARKER
THIS IS A SPLENDID IDEA FROM ONE OF Oiq
AGENTS.
Dear Editor: As one of The Columbia Sentinel's
agents 1 want to say the paper is -owing up to mv
expectations and Pm going to try and get some clubs ■
for the paper. Mr. Watson a death was such a shock to
me 1 wish every subscriber would pledge at. least one
club for we must not let the paper go down, for there
is only one paper in Georgia that will give the under
dog side of .every question. You may look for some
more clubs from me. Yours truly.
Georgia. HULL ANDERSON.
From shirt sleeves to snobbery is a very
easy reach, in the United States since the
World War.
