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WHAT 18 "WILSONISM"? Answer to Republican Campaign Oj for Defeat of Policies. (Philadelphia Record, Sept. 14.) Republican organs and orators arc telling us that tho country has had enough of Wi Isbn ism Tho duty of tho hour is lo save the American peo ple from a continuance of Wllsonism, To that end a Republican President must ho eluded. Only thus can a rad ical change of policy be effected. Down willi Wllsonism! The cry bas a plausible sound. Mut thc iceni is pregnant with undefined menning. Those who Book to rally the country against Wilsonian) do not tell the country what Wllsonism ls. They impart to tho word, by the con text of their partisan appeals, a vaguo and terrifying significance. Upon the ears of the unthinking it falls with an import of menace lo tho national welfare and assault upon the sacred rights of the individual citizen. What is Wllsonism? What evils ha? it brought upon tho nation? In what calamities does it threaten to engulf us? The Republican proposal to destroy it is a negation which can not bo clearly understood until wo receive a positive perception. Let us examine Wllsonism to determino ex actly what it is from which we aro to bo saved. "The Record" might declare with inalloyed truth that Wllsonism ls the introduction of morality, in it broadest sense, Into government. Wil Bonlsm is the constructivo promotion of the Just interests of the many at the expense of the unjust privileges of the few. Wllsonism is unparalleled devotion to tho welfare of humanity nt homo and abroad. Wllsonism is the faithful performance of solemn pledges to an aspiring people. Wi! eon ism is the ungrudging sacrifice of health, happiness, popularity, and il may well bo life itself, to tho service of thankless and unappreciative mil lions. In Its broadest application tc international affairs, Wllsonism is ar idealistic effort to Christianize Chris tianlty. Down with Wllsonism and its pro \ onent! \ye, crucify bim! Our Republican contemporaine: may criticise this outline sketch o Wllsonism as moro assertion. The: can pick flaws In the President': charactor which show na to bo bllm and Idolatrous hero-worshipers.. Tin fowl on yonder fencerail looks to ward a magnificent landscape. / broad green valley, rich with tin bounty of Nature, stretches away bc fore bini. Through it purls a crysta stream. A lofty mountain, clad wi tl stately pines, rears its head in tin distance, bathed in golden sunlight Does the fowl see these glories o Cod's handiwork? No! his pcrspect ive does not embr.u > them. His at tentlon is concentrated upon a dung hill. Those who want to save America from Wllsonism will tell us that tin President is cold, reserved, self-opin ionated, egotistical, autocratic. With out Inquiring into tho truth of thesi indictments, let us analyze Wilson ism and see what lt has done to thc country. Its opponents do not dwell upon concrete facts, lt may help thc seeker after truth--if such there bf in the partisan mob which has con stituted itself into a lynching party to catalogue a few: It was Wilsonism that promised Justly to revise a tariff enacted foi tho enrichment of intrenched specia interests-a tariff that a Republican President denounced as Iniquitous even while be was signing it-and did il. Wilsonism destroyed a discr?dita hie banking system under which pan les were artificially created for thc benefit of special interests, and re placed it with a system which Wal street cannot manip?lalo for the pur pose of undermining public credit. ll was Wilsonism that devised ant submitted to the States a system o taxation which dist ribo (ed the bur den not in proportion to tho power o wealth and Intlucnco to dodge it. hu in proportion to the ability lo bear il as gauged by income, Ibo only prac!I eal measure' of just taxable capacity Wilsonism gave to the worker ih anti-injunction law, tho eight-houi day, thc act for the safety pf rail Way employees, the workman's com pens?t ion act and the seaman's law. Wilsonism gave to-the farmer Hu good roads act, the rural credits act the warehouse act, the g ra in-grade: act. the act to prevent gambling li farm products, and the agricultura extension act. Wilsonism submitted to the State; Die constitutional amendment whlcl enables the voters to select theil United States Senators; abolished bossism In the House of Representa lives, and passed Hie Clayton act tr curb the power of the trusts. Wilsonism kept the United States out of tho World War until lt be came clearly apparent that the Issue drawn was between barbarism and civilization, and that without our help civilization must perish. Wilson ism kept us out of war until the con science of tho nation wns aroused and tho people were ready for tho sacrifice. Ii was Wilsonlsm that gave con crete expression to tho purpose of the war; Wilsonisn! that framed in words tho thought in every patriot's heart; Wilsonlsm that supplied the moral stamina which keyed America op lo tho point of tremendous and unparalleled achievement; Wilson ism that aroused the weary, stag gering world to fresh effort, lifted IOU rope from tho abyss of dismay and despair, and spurred democracy on to victory. lt was Wilsonlsm that prevented America from resorting to the futile expedient, of raising a volunteer army officered by incompetent politicians, and compelled reluctant traders and tricksters to adopt principles of fair ness and efficiency through tho select ivo service act. It was Wilsonlsm that built 32 encampments, each to house 4 0,000 men, in 0 0 days. Wil sonlsm raised in a peace-loving coun try 5,000,000 armed men. and trans ported 2,000,000 of them across the ocean in an incredibly brief period to roll back the Gorman hordes. Wilsonlsm raised $37,000,000,000 for tho prosecution of the war, and oxpended $27,QOO,000,000 of it (the remainder being lent to the Allies) with BUCh scrupulous honesty that, after dovoting $2,000,000 of public money to futile investigation, parti san snooping committees were unable to unearth a single instance of cor ruption or graft. Oh, yes, there was waste. When lives were worth moro than money, when victory was de pendent on liaste, when science moved faster than the almost super human speed of production, and forc ed new inventions Into obsolescence, when speed wns at an Incredible pre mium, there was waste. But it ill becomes the party which conducted the Spanish-American war to men tion it. If there had been no waste there would hhve been no victory Wilsonlsm is human, not divine. Wilsonism-selfish, arrogant, par tisan Wilsonism, which robbed the Republican party of the glory of the war-placed Gen. .lohn J, Pershing. r|a Republican, tho son-in-law of S ator Warren, a Republican enemj 11 tho administration, in command of the American Expeditionary Pore Wilsonlsm placed Admiral Sims life-long Republican. In high com mand of naval operations in the dan ger zone. Wilsonism put Howard C. Collin, Republican, in charge of air craft production; te. R. Stettinus, a Republican, tn Hie War Department in charge of supplies; Major-Gen. Goethals, Republican, in charge of hip-building; Major-Gen. K. H. Crowder, Republican, in charge of the draft. Wilsonism made a Repub lican, Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of staff of tho rutted States army. Wil sonlsm turned control of the Emer gency Fleet Corporation over to Chas. .M. Schwab and Charles Plez, Repub licans. H. P. Davidson. Republican, headed the Red Cross; Frank A. Vanderlip, Republican, was placed In charge of the war savings stamp cam paign; Harry A. Garfield, Republi can, and son of a Republican Presi dent, was made Fuel Administrator; Herbert Hoover, Republican, was ap pointed t'ood Administrator. Of ' leight members of the war trade board Wilsonlsm appointed five Republi ' j cans, and it gavo five out of eight places in the Council of .National De fense to Republicans. Republicans ' I seem to have had a very fair shave of the places of honor, trust and re sponsibility in the military and civil tasks incident to the prosecution of the war, but they did not control the Kennte or the House, Down willi Wil sonism ! Wilsonism undermined German morale. The Wilson notes, both ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" is gen uino asporlll, proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Accept only an un broken "Hayer package," which con tains proper directions to relievo headache, toothache, earache, neu ralgia, rheumatism, colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost fow cents. Druggists also sell larger "Hayer packages." Asperin ls trade mark Mayer Manufacture Monoacetic acidester of Salk) licacid.- adv. S . i'.. prior to and following our ten- ; tranco into tho war-the butts of ? thinking partisan scorn and derision at hoiue-sapped the foundations of Gorman militarism until tinnily'thc whole edifice crumbled into dust. The ) German army, beater, io e&nh by. tho ! sledge-hammer blows 01* America and her associates in the I'.C?I?, loqked homeward for moral and material support and lound that the force inion which t relied h'd coved Ju. Wi ison ism li: tl destroyed German faith that mi:.lu makes right. ! Wilsonism carried to Paris a new creed of international faith embody ing the highest aspirations of tho best elements of the American peo ple, without distinction of party-a program approved, before it was made an issue In politics, by many i leaders who are now, for selfish rea- j sons, masked in a cloak of pseudo- j patriotism, its bitterest enemies. WU- j sonism, single-handed, but backed by the world's conscience, crammed this creed down the throats of unwilling European statesmen, who had hoped to set up on the smoking ruins an other edifice based, on a concert of power, secret diplomacy and military supremacy. Wilsonism was handicapped in its efforts to achieve an enduring peace rather than a temporary make shift by secret plotting and open reaction ary defiance at homo. Even while the President was struggling to commit European chancellorsod shrdlu cmfw European chancelleries to the embod iment of the League of Nations In the peace treaty, the treaty wreckers In the Senate strengthened the hands of lustful Imperialism abroad by serving formal notice that the Senate would vote down ratification. Not withstanding this back-fire, Wilson ism emerged triumphant from the Paris conference. Eor the time bein? the power of enlightened public opin i.on was victorious. The suffering peoples of Europe knew what they wanted; their rulers were afraid to deny it to them. Wilsonism, having successfully prosecuted a war which ended in a blaze of glory for American arm., thus successfully framed a peace which kept its solemn pledge to the people that the blood of American soldiers shed on the battlefields of t* rance should not be spilled In vain, uown with Wilsonism and up with fl Ppil Vr-VT^M/iV, r.lto|V)o!oQu1v i proposer flie repudiation of Ho nu;-' j lion's i;oiitriu.d wah the .. '..!,..; '.?nd i i fit- ii i !>';;? ti, the li."'.l ?bu '....ii. ?wi the blind VViibunisin has aou&ln io loud nut* country along paths of justice and equity to moral heights which make dizzy the greedy, tho selfish and the unscrupulous, whose material inter ests and illicit ambitions have suf fered in the progress of the march. By tireless energy, forced on l y au indomitable will, Wilsonism achieved a progressive program of domestic advancement in six years that out strips the legislative record of any preceding generation. I'nahle to thwart lt at home, the sinister forces that hanker for a return of Ibo good old days of invisible government found a more promising field for their subterranean operations in tho peaco program of Wilsonism, and have thus far succeeded, at tho ex pense of truth, honesty, decency, pa triotism and honor, In balking it. The probability is that the leaders of the Old Guard, the Senate oligar chy, do not care a fig for thc League of Nations ono way or another. Nei ther the ratification nor the rejection of tho peaco treaty would put a penny in their pocket? or an additional place on the patronage roll. Their real interests are sordid. They have seen in the League Covenant a con venient means of humiliating and punishing the man lo whom they owe the loss of their power a.s brokers and solicitors for big business in the legislative mart, and an easy instru ment with which to delude and di vert the people. And so, with tho League as their putative objective, they rasla the cry: "Down with Wilsonism!" By all means let us return to tho good old days when the reactionaries rode rough->'iod over the popular will and contiolled the making, tho In terpretation and the execution of one-sided laws. We cannot strike down the man who has served, slaved and sacrificed for us except by strik ing at his cherished ideals so let us elect as Piesidont the safe, pliant? reactionary Harding, whose every ut leranc.o proves his innocence of n sin gle constitutive idea and his ponder ous platitudlnosity. Through him we can smite the forces of progress li ip and thigh, crowd our way back to tho P.OSh-pots and reap the legitimate fruits of "normalcy." "Down willi Wilsonism!" lt is an alluring program. The triumphant return of reactionary Republicanism may easily be achiev ed If only a sufficient number of vot era can be persuaded that black In-1 gratitude ia a sparkling virtue. ar.d ; that it is their solemn duty to reward with an assassin's blew Hie man who has so ably and faithfully fought their battles and championed their cause. Is America capable of doing it .' ? C::n a little handful of Lod.'es, Pon roses, Sinoots, Brande fees, Moseses, j Hardings and ll ay sos poison the j minds and becloud tho Intollcgcnc? of tho ma jar; ly o.' a luau'rod millions of people? Is while to be voted black I to gratify malice and spile? Is diele | Sam a moral bankrupt, a pitiable de fective who does not k::ew right from wrong? (?reat is the power of partisanship, bul we believo that for once it hath essayed too great u task. Let Wilsonian) be tried in the bal ance-and God help America if hon est tuen mid women blindfold them selves mid permit thieves mid slan derers to manipulate the scales! "Drop your dollar for Democracy. Rainfall and Temperature. Below is a record of meteorological observations taken by H., W. Brandt, co-operative observer of the Weather Bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, during the week ending Oct. 10th, 1920, at 7 p. m. (Tho instrumental readings are from gov ernment standard Instruments ex posed in the manner recommended by the chief of the Weather Bureau) : Character of Day. Date Tempera ture. I I I Oct. 4 -Ptly cldy. .1_j 78! 4 2 Oct. 5-Ptly Cldy.. .... 87? 48 Oct. 6-Clear.1_] 72! G2 Oct. 7-Ptly cldy. .1. . .J| 68 4 1 Oct. S-Clear.....!! 74 48 Oct. it-Clear.j_j| 82, 40 Oct. 10-Clear_|_|| 87] 44 Total rainfall. You Do More Work, You are more ambitious and you get more enjoyment out of everything when your blood is in good condition. Impurities in the blood have a very depressing effect on the system, causing weakness, laziness, nervousness and sickness. GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC restores Energy and Vitality by Purifying and Enriching the Blood. When you feel its strengthening, invigorating effect, see how it brings color to the cheeks and how lt !mrov?i the Tr^'tc. yow will then . ppfc .f i <i?t? true tonic value GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC not a patei t ni' il ino, il is simply IRON and QUININE su&pended in Syrup. Sc saai nt i \ en childe ) i: %e it. The Lio^v* needs Quinine to i urifj it and IRON to Enrich it. These reliable tonic prop erties never fail to drive out impurities in the blood. Thc Strength-Creating Power of GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC has made it the favorite tonic in thousands of homes. More than thirty-five years ago, folks would ride a long distance to get GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC when a member of their family had Malaria or needed a body-building, strength-giving tonic, e The formula is just the same to day, and you can get it from any drug store. 60c per bottle. CARE FOIi SWEET POTATOES. More Danger from Under-Curing than from Over-Curing. Clemson College, Oct. 15.-Sweet potatoes should be dug before frost or continued cold weather approach ing frost. The sweet potato ls a trop ical plant, and both vinos and roots may be damaged by temperature above the frost point, warns the ex tension service horticulturist. The earliest dato of the first kill ing frost in the Piedmont section ls Oct. 23, sandhill section Nov. 1st, coastal section Nov. 9th. The prevalent idea that, the vines must be frosted before the potatoes are dug is wrong and the practice is dangerous. It is unsafe to wait later than the above dates to gather po tatoes. Many growers who waited until frost last year lost their entire crops, regardless of the kind of stor ngo facilities. Of the two evils. Immaturity and frost, injury, the former is least in jurious, as the immature potatoes can bo kept, while frost-bitten roots eannol be kept under any condition. Vines should not be removed ex cept from potatoes to he dug on the same day that the vines are taken away. Experiments and observations Indicate thal potatoes so treated are hard to cure. However, If frost kills tue vines before potatoes can be dug, clip the main stem at base of plant before thawinr ikes place. The house sh aid bo Ulled within two or three days, and curng should begin on first day and continued ten to fourteen days, depending upon tlio weather conditions. Thero ls more danger resulting from under-curing than from over curing, the latter being indicated by tho appearance of long sprouts, a condition wheh is undesirable, but moro safe than the absence of all sprouts. The aurora borealis is rarely seen I in Central Europe. Itll soon foe Calomel loses you a dayl mercury; quicksilver. Cal?me sour bile like dynamite, crampi attacks the bones and should Take "Dodson's L "When you feel bilious, sluggish, constipated and all knocked out uno1 believe you need a dose of dangcroui calomel, juBt remember that you. druggist sells for a few cents a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone, whicl is entirely vegetable and pleasant t< take and is a perfect substituto foi ?KATH OF MILS. MAH Y L> SMITH. (?oed Woman Passed Away Recently at Her Home Near Walhalla. The news of the death of Mrs. Mary Levina Smith cameras a great sur prise to the people of this commu nity, she having passed away Wed nesday. Sept. 29, 1920, at 12.30 p. m., at her home near Walhalla. She had been In declining health for some three years, but she was able to be up and about her home with the exception of brief periods, until a few days before her death, when she was take., seriously ill, and her relatives were summoned to her bed side. The deceased was born and reared in the Little River section of this county, and was a daughter of the late Jacob B. and Lucinda Alexan der. She was born March 19, 1866, and was, therefore, in her 55th year. In October, 1SS6, she was happily married to Harrison P. Smith, and to this union five chldren were born, one of whom died in infancy. She is survived by ber husband and four children-Mrs. Annie Adams, of Pickens; John J. L. Smith, of Sa 'bm; Mrs. Zettle Cantrell and Jas. N. Smith, of Walhalla, and four grandchildren. Besides her'immedi ate family she leaves two sisters, Mrs. A. C. Smith and Mrs. J. B. Bur gess, Jr., of Solem, and four broth ers, D. T. Alexander, of Pickens; J. F. Alexander, of Salem; D. H. Alex Vou know what calomel is. lt's ;l is dangerous. It crashes into ng and sickening you. Calomel never be put into your system. iver Tone" Instead 1 , calomel. It is guaranteed to start I your liver without stirring you up inside, and cnn not salivate ' Don't take calomel 1 It makes you sick the next day; it loses you a day's 3 work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight 1 cn8 you right up and you feel groat. J Give it to the children because it is r perfectly harmless and docent gripe. ' auder, of Toccoa, Qa., and I. S. Alex ! auder, of Walhalla, and a wide circle ? of friends to mourn her death. In early life she professed faith in Christ and united with the Little Uiver Baptist church. She showed her .love for the cause of Christ and the church, which she served with marked regularity and commendable fidelity. Tho Christian influence of j her noble life has long fastened and i perpetuated Itself on her children, I and on all with whom she came in i ; contact. This good lady will be very greatly missed by all who knew her, for she had such a genial and sunny disposition that she dispelled gloom wherever she went, and she was al ways ready to help those in sorrow and need. But lier loved ones ?hould find condolence in tho thought that she has entered the sweet rest, as she told those around her bedside that she would be happy with Jesus when lie saw fit to call her. lier remains were laid to rest the day following her death, tn the fam ily cemetery near Little River, In the presence of a largo concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends. The funeral services were conducted by Kev. R. A. Hu on The heart-broken farnilj and eda? tives have the s; inpnthy of many friends in their I) roi roinont, Kissing the itande uf gr. tl men was a Grecian custom. "Drop yor - dollar for Democracy." ATTENTION! We have to offer for sale some Splen did Bargains in Oconee County Real Estate-and on terms so liberal and easy that anyone can buy if be only Have tbe Judgment to Know a good tbing when he sees it, and the grit to . try to get it. -THESE LANDS aro known ns tho NOHHIS LANDS, on tho Stump House Mountain, fronting on the Now National Highway soon to bo built from Clem son College, by Seneca and Walhalla, to Highlands, N. C. Tho Turn Pike Hoad from Walhalla to Cashiers Valley, X. C., also runs through these lands. This tract of over Two Thousand Acres has been divided up into more lliim Twenty Tracts, containing from Twenty-Five to Ono Hun dred and Seventy-Five Acres euch-and all lOxtra Strong, Ked Land -und will average bettor and moro lovel than nay other land in Oconee County, not even excepting tho lino hinds around Oakway and (''air Play. The average price ls only $:1(>.()0 per nore, and on terms of One Fourth Cash, and tho balance on time-One-Fourth each year for titree years. There is not n tenant farmer in Oconee County who, if ho has got anything in him nt. all, cannot buy himself a home on these terms and easily pay for itv Think of tho tlilYorenco between Thirty Dol lars un Acre ami Two to Four Hundred Dollars au Acre--the price of other lands in tho County-not nny better-not even so' good as this lund! There is another thing to be said for this land: It hus been proved by actual tests that it raises just, ns good cotton-mid just ns much per nero-as any of Hie lands in the lower part, nf the county. And there is still ono more Important thing to ho said, to-wit, that (his land will never be invaded by tho boll weevil. ?^s DON'T YOU THINK IT WISE ^ to gel in on it while it is still so cheap? .lust imagine what it will sell for when the groat National Highway mentioned above is com pleted, so us to make lt. a ten to twenty-minute drive and a down hill pull to market at Walhalla! And it is worth considering that, tills is practically now the only large body of land left, in this county which still hus on it (he origi nal Forest Pine Timber for building purposes. Many of the tracts aro so heavily timbered ns to, when cut, furnish lumber enough to pay the whole purchase price of tho land. TENANT FARMERS, HERE IS VOI R CHANGE! - AND LAND SPECULATORS, IIIOHIO IS VOCR CHANCF, ALSO! - APPLV TO - WM. J. STRIBLINO, Walhalla, S. C.. - OR - J. D. ADAMS, Spartanbunj, S. C.