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Political opponents have fought many battles
in the State of Gedrgia, without resorting
coopsratloii from the negro. So fjo as I racall,
no white official, aver employed a negro to attack
a white antagonist, until J. J. Brown appeared
on the field of Georgia politics.
Of course, we all of us know that J. J. Brown
Jn his ambition 'to maintain a vast political ma¬
chine, has stooped to almost downright larceny,
iui I will demonstrate at the right time and be¬
fore the proper tribunal, but we didn’t know that
the man would employ a negro to ambush a
white feilow-Georgian.
While recovering from a recent operation
the Savannah Hospital, and when Brown
that I could -not defend myself, he prevailed Upon
that dirty sheet—The Savannah Buzzard-Eye—
to attack me.
This Savannah paper is published by a negro,
and ari unscrupulous white man, named Jim Mil
ler, of Statesboro, writes for it.
Miller was indicted, tried, and convicted for
sending filth through the United States mails.
My information is that Miller’s son, Frank,
was Brown’s Savannah Oil Inspector, and Frank
stole eleven hundred dollars from the State.
When the State tried to collect from Frank
Miller’s bondsmen, this ugly fact, developed:
Frank had no bondsman. J. J. Brown and Oil
Insnector Roane had permitted Miller to serve
without taking a bond, and this may have en
couraged the son of Buzzard-Eye Miller to steal
the State’s money. ,
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... It is . a significant . , circumstance . , that . Frank .
stole just $100 above the amount needed to pay
his rather s sentence for violating postal laws.
No person believes that Jim Miller’s fine was
paid by “friends.”
Jim Miller has no friends.
Savannah revenue men say that Jim Miller
and his negro partner print counterfeit labels for
Savannah bootleggers. When Jim Miller and his
coon companion are not rooting for Brown, they
handle odd jobs for whiskey runners and Ba
vannah street-walkers.
Jim Miller's under-cover worker is Dr. George
■W. Heriot, Brown’s Savann.li Oil Inspector,
Beriot is employed by the City of Savannah to
te c ‘‘ he red lwht dlstr,ct and okey the
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Brown s Atlanta press-agent reproduced the ar
tide, without giving the paper’s name, and with
out mentioning the negro publisher.
Since the Lankford whitewashes adjourned
the fake investigation of Brown’s. department,
Brown’s Atlanta press-agent and the Savannah
negro have worked overtime to parade Jose
phine’s virtues. John W. Hammond says that
the investigation cost the State $17,000. I
can’t understand Hammond’s arithmetic: the
Legislature voted only $750 for this investiga
tion, and if Brown thinks that the Legislature
will appropriate an additional sixteen thousand
dollars to pay Lankford & Company, he fools
himself. Jim Miller says that, the investigation
cost the State $1000. 1 We will not get the truth
until Samuel Oliveoil speaks. Maybe Brown’s
blind inspector in Augusta will tell us. x
In the meantime, I am anxious to know what
Bum Commissioner Brown paid Jim Miller and
his negro for their services.
Lawless Conduct of Oklahoma's
Governor.
The Sentinel refrained from commenting on
Governor Jack Walton’s controversy with the
Oklahoma Legislature until we learned all the
facts and circumstances. We believed, in the be¬
ginning of this row between Governor and Legis¬
lature, that something more than what was pub¬
lished in the daily papers moved Jackson Wal¬
ton to train his guns on two-thirds of the peo¬
ple of Oklahoma and the legislators elected to
serve that State.
From reading the stories sent out by hack
* writers for the daily and the
newspapers ae
counts carried by the Associated Press, it was
impossible to reach the bottom of this case.
The average hack-writers for such papers as
The New York Herald and the New York World
are paid so much per line for a piece of work.
In this case the New York papers employed
special writers to paint Rome’s side of the con
iroveisy, and it was not possible to paint this
picture without calling attention to the virtues
of Jackson Walton-—Rome’s tool. Therefore
many well meaning people, from reading this
propaganda, formed a good impression of Gov¬
ernor Walton, who claims to be fighting for law
enforcement and against alleged Klan lawless¬
ness.- ,
What are the facts?
What in the truth, and who violated the Jaw
in the great State of Oklahoma—the Governor
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Views and Comment on National Topics
From special articles sent out from the nation
capital, we learn that the President and Con
gress will turn their attention to agricultural
problems, when the new Congress mepts for
bus'.ness.
Strange to say, the Coolidge administration is
silent _ in regard to the details of its farm relief
program, and this silence on the part of the
ones higher up creates the tear in the ranks
that there is in this program more politics than
relief.
The articles _ written _ for the daily papers and
broadcasted by the United States Chamber of
Commerce at Washington City bear all
the ear-marks of inspired articles. Unless
ali signs faii, the two old parties will continue
to operate the government in the interest of the
financial highbrows behind the U. S. Chamber of
ft pel “ Yv’h 1 if* tftsr, »<! if tyi ns
como 8Wner 0 P lat er. tk farmers and workers
will pao l their strength and take charge of their
government, as the farmers did in Finland.
If our leaders would study the case of Finland
—one of the world's newest republics—they
would learn a few points. The ruler of Finland
—the premier—is a dirt farmer, put in office by
the farmers, who constitute seventy-five per
ce ^ D f °f in * that tke republic iast five s *»* population. S1X years Finnish farm
® rs placed agriculture on a firm, busmess
llke foundation, by establishing ten hundred co
^ tiv e credlt associations and by breaking
f the K big estates + and dividing the land among
th * ™ 2n wko f uItl vate
Bet me hasten + to say that f there is . no sug
g CR tion of confiscation of private property in
this exp eriment. The law of eminent domain
j a £ pp]i e( j ) the owners are compensated, and the
kickers are told that they must use their land
or give it up.
Under this program, Finland will have thrte
hundred thousand farms owned and cultivated
by contented farmers. Each farmer is the own
er of h j s own land and the cooperative credit
associations . enable the farmer , to operate his
rm without bending his back to interesfc-tak
^ mg money-kings.
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As a rule wherever you And a mortgaged
farm you find one tied up beyond its celling
lvalue..
The owner of a mortgaged farm is a tenant;
he is the victim of banking lords, ancf his case
is entitled to more sympathy—or pity—than the
case of the farm tenant who looks to his iaud
lord for supplies.
To win votes and to obtain political victories
old line politicians are willing to provide tem
porary relief for the distressed farmer, when
ever an election year is approaching; but both
Democrats and Republicans are blind to every
plan looking in the direction of PERMANENT
relief for agrculture.
It is no hard task for the outs to lambast the
ins; it doesn’t churn the bowels of a Democrat
on the outside to cuss the Republican who i?
on top for the moment; and to carry their point,
the old line politicians wage sham battles on
the field of national politics, in eacH national
contest; but when the successful party gains
contro! of th e government the “conservatives”
on Federal Reserve Boards inaugurate deflation
policies and the reactionary elements in both'
House and Senate are deaf to pledges made in
the heat of battle.
In one sense, the people themselves overlook
the biggest point in their favor, and this point
is, the value of cooperation.
With us, cooperation is in its infancy.
The farmer is caught between two mill¬
stones; the Federal Reserve System and the
Middleman.
Cooperation will curb the Middleman.
The Lord Himself must handle the Federal
Reserve Robbers, before the American farmer
obtains permanent relief.
Somewhere in the late Bard of 'Avon’s copious
writings there is a short sermon on the wisdom
of permitting a dead man^ bones to rest.
If the fanatics behind this movement look-
A BIOGRAPHY OF 1 THOS. E. WATSON,
will begin in next week’s issue of
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL,
and will continue weekly until a complete history
of his life and work is given.
Grover C. Edmondson and Alice Louise Lytle will write this
work, using data from many sources, making it almost complete his¬
tory of this out-standing figure in Georgia’s history.
Georgia, Monday, October 22, 1923.
ing to the removal of the Honorable General
,Oglethorpe’s bones to Atlanta, Georgia, pos
sessed common sense they would abandon the
scheme. This does not mean that Dr. Thorn
well Jacobs is a fool. Not a bit of it. Dr.
Jacobs is a great scholar and a wise man along
some lines, but he shows poor judgment in this
matter General Oglethorpe was an English
man and he died in full possession of his wits;
he died in his own country, and the presump
tion is that he wanted to rest where his country
men buried him; and the General’s wishes ought
tcs be respected by both England and America.
| Atlanta Knights of _ Columbus “celebrated
October 12, in elaborate style.
'Ex-Governor John M. Slaton delivered an ad¬
dress. Mr. Slaton paid a high tribute to “the
v jlor of the man who sailed into the West and
fofUnd America.”
America was discovered four hundred and
fifty Slaton years before Columbus was born, but Jack
doesn’t knoiv this truth.
The Knights of Coiumbus know how to fool
the public and the fact that, men like Mr. Slaton
f^li for Rome's propaganda proves the charge
that Protestants of a certain stripe run with
the footkissers for certain reasons.
Close upon the heel of Christ, Life, the son
of Americ, rescued a ship-wrecked group on the
hii'h seas, among whose number was a cross
backed Priest. The son of Americ was nick¬
named “Leif the Lucky” for this heroic act,
but the father, Eric the Red, rebuked the son
for saving the life of a Priest. Lief returned
to ■■ Greenland accompanied by a woman, named
Madam Gudrid, whom the Priests had converted
to J Roman Catholicism. Later, Madam Gudrid
made her way back to the Holy Father's holy
land, and the Pope heard her story of the dis¬
covery of “Vineland the Good.” In the year
1075 this discovery was scattered among the
scholars of Europe by Adam of Bremen—a
prominent historian of his time. Scandinavian lit¬
erature of this period has carefully preserved
this first “Discovery of America.”
Five, hundred years later, Cristobal Colon,
known to us as the true Christopher Columbus,
visited Iceland and obtained data essential to
his discovery of the land which had been discov¬
ered and colonized by the Norsemen.
The hitch was this: The Norsemen were the
true followers of Christ, and the Pope didn’t
to-receive credit for the-dis
covery; therefore, Papa sent Chris Colon to Ice¬
land. Chris stole the data of the Norsemen, re¬
turned to the Vatican, and it was then that the
‘Only True Church,” acting in concert with a
Catholic Queen, arranged for Columbus to “dis¬
cover” America
Columbus didn’t reach the mainland at all;
iis discovery found its winding sheet on the
east of what is now the State of Florida.
Roman Catholic intrigue has fastened the
names “Columbus” and “Columbia” to Ameri¬
can cities, streets, rivers and to the nation’s
capital—the District of “Columbia.” This crowd
of sappers and miners, working under cover for
Rome, have propagandaed “Columbus Day”
bills throughout State Legislatures and it is now
proposed that we build a national highway bear¬
ing the name of the man who did not discover
America.
An army of “drys” are meeting in Washing¬
ton City, this week. William Jennings Bryan,
Wayne B. Wheeler, W. D. Upshaw, Sam Small,
Jim Hollomon, Theodore Tiller, and other prom¬
inent prohi leaders, will point the way to pro¬
hibition enforcement with a kick in it. And the
Governors’ conference, called into life by Pres¬
ident Calvin Coolidge, will assemble at an early
date, for the purpose of regulating lost motion
in the machinery created for enforcing the 18th
amendment to the nation’s fundamental law.
Mr. Bryan’s program for prohibition relief
is as follows: That the President, Senators,
Representatives, and Governors, shall sign a
pledge committing themselves and their succes¬
sors in office to “teetotalism”, that is to say, our
.high officials shall not touch wine when it is red.
The question is: Will this pledge sink deep¬
er into the heart of the high official than his
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Issued Weekly
German People Trampled By
War Profiteers.
An industrial king, named Stinnes, is paving
the way for the Hohenzollenis to return to Ger¬
many'.
Germany’s present government is tottering,
crumbling; and Stinnes suggests a board of dir¬
ectors for Germany, with Stinnes himself Dir
ector-in-Chief.
This proposed directorship is backed by Ger¬
many’s military masters.
Who is the man, Stinnes?
I-Ie raked into his bulging pockets hundreds
of millions of dollars during the war.
He built up his immense fortune by profiteer¬
ing in munitions and other military supplies.
He is to Germany .what Gary and Morgan ara
to the United States.
Following the armistice, Stinnes entered into
a bargain with unscrupulous British and Ameri¬
can capitalists to control German industry and
pauperize the German people. Morgan and Gary
are Stinnes partners. In the name of Morgan
& Company, this clique of exploiters purchased
the biggest gun factory in Austria, and the pro¬
ducts of this plant will be used by Germany's
masters in their campaign against democracy
for the German nation and fair play for the Ger¬
man workers. They have purchased great plants
for a mere song because Stinnes and his associ¬
ates own the gold. In possession of all the gold,
Stinnes & Company wanted a depreciated cur¬
rency. This was responsible for the decline in
the value of the German mark. By destroying
the value of paper currency, Stinnes & Company
gamed control of Germany’s vast resources.
The gold dollar is king, and Germany’s oppres¬
sors—Stinnes, Gray, & Morgan—own the gold
dollars.
These scoundrels paid their workers with paper
marks; they cancelled their mortgage obligations
with paper marks; they satisfied the tax-collec¬
tor with paper marks; but they sold t he products
of their plants for gold and deposited this gold
in American banks, beyond the reach of the
German government.
Having .squeezed the life out of German indus¬
try and having stored the fruits of their crime
in American bank vaults, Stinnes, Gary, and
Morgan made it impossible for Germany to pay
reparations. . »
The League of Nations treats as a sacred thing
the gold of German profiteers.
John Bull has adoped the same policy.
Uncle Sam, ditto.
The -aliiAd governments eould block ferinttew- -
game, if those world powers were not ruled by
the gold bugs. But, St’ re partners in the in¬
ternational banker clique are strong enough to
prevent action against this set of the world’s
biggest criminals. Germany must pay the price.
THE WORKERS OF GERMANY. GREAT
BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES MUST
PAY TRIBUTE TO THESE ROBBERS.
When the Allies refused to take steps to force
Stinnes & Company to disgorge, France seized
the Ruhr.
To kick dust in the workers eyes, Stinnes
caused tha German government to spend on
“passive resistance” enough to have paid repar¬
ations for several years.
Passive resistance has been abandoned.
The German morale is a thing of the past. j
Germany is ripe for an industrial autocracy.
Stinnes, Gai-y, Morgan & Company will run
Germany “like a Steel Trust,” to quote the New
York World.
Keep Your Eye On Sen. Magnus
. Johnson.
When Senator Magnus Johnson, of Minnesota,
made the statement that two per cent of the
American people own sixty-five per cent of the
country’s wealth, Wall Street instructed its jour¬
nals and hack-writers to lambast Magnus.
What Senator Johnson said was the truth,
and this made it all the more essential to Wall
Street’s future that the statement be refuted, or
minimized in some plausible way.
Experts employed by the United States Cham¬
ber of Commerce, statisticians retained by the
big metropolitan* corporations, and feature writers for the
papers, have discussed this propo¬
sition from their viewpoints. They announced
a unanimous verdict against Magnus Johnson,
denounced his statement, and branded him
“fool.”
Eight years ago there was published in this
country a book entitled, “The Wealth and In¬
come of the People of the United States.” Dr.
Willford I. King wrote this book, and his state¬
ments have not been challenged by any respon¬
sible authority.
Dr. King said:
“More than half, in fact almost three-fifths
of the American property is possessed by this
fiftieth part of the people.”
How far wrong was Magnus Johnson?
And why does Wall Street ignore Dr. King's
hook and train its guns on the Senator from
Minnesota ?
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