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Vo!. <92 WoU Y bush7whiteMan? T Am 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. , ■ ,, ... 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 ’ „„ , _ , _ , _ , 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 (Contiuued on Page Four.) If N u JUtt r ^ . ■ '■'j ♦ n 3 I I / ■ Price SI.50 Per Year 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. , J2 ?t *J?J'“Z‘w„ ™ii.n Ibw V .““FU * ‘"’fi th ! moZ”.d“ 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 (Continued on Page Four.) 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 ? (Continued on Pago Three.) t Vo, f
