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H 1 Democratic Princi U?* 17 ?r< x uj juv" By As long as Democracy, as an organlzod party has any excuse tor ex- j lstence or any mission to perform it muBt cherish as its chief tenet rigid and uncompromising opposition to every form of special privilege in government. This since Jefferson's day has been the essence of real democracy notwithstanding that at some particular time certain agencies or leaders may have temporarily led or forced .the party into strange paths. The prostitution or emasculation of this doctrine by the Democratic party will mean its extinction while Its intelligent advocacy and practical application will do much to solv-i the economic problems that vex society. The evils of legislation designed to aid or protect a class at the expense of all have grown into most alarming proportions and today the entire commercial world is upset by the conditions for which this form of legislation, directly and indirectly, is responsible and the manifold schemes which are proposed to overcome them. And as usual the Republican party is acting the part of the quack doctor in the presence of disease. But to look to the Repub vdican party for permanent or genuine relief would be like looking to Abdul Hamid for a Code of Brotherhood. For nearly fifty years, if we eliminate the -war prejudices, passionB and misunderstandings which a perverse and malign leadership has kept alive, the stock in trade of the Republican party lias been some form of ppecial privilege. First they would protect "infant industries" but the time arrived when the ipeople were demanding that many of there alleged Infants be permitted to walk alone and requested to walk out of legislative halls. The menace of the possibility of certain of these monopolies controlling the government, iustead of the government controlling them seems only recently to have taken hold of popular Intelligence. Next they would foster monopoly in the guise of this same form of legislation attractively labeled as something to protect tne American worklagman. But the workingman has long since discovered that monopoly is protected by staute while his position is the law of supply and demand and he is the victimif a logic that doesn't work. By their various forms of special legislation abnormal economic and commercial conditions are created; business is first over-stimulated than unnatural pniiHltlnno ? panics and depressions ensue, and then come endlesd agitations for change and redress. Will not the business men of the country, who are looking to government for subsidy or privilege, ever grasp the cause and remedy for these commercial upheavels? Thrtv and the producers and consumers generally are the victims of these policies and disturbances and if once they understand and demand the Qiily rational solution, even the most powerful interests could not pervall against their righteous and intelligent protest. Today Manufacturers' Associations. Chambers of Commerce, Common Councils, Roards of Trade and m other bodies from one end of the country to the other are passing resolutions calling upon the people, the Congress and the various legislatures to discontinue agitation and legislation with respect to commercial and corporate affairs generally. They justly complain in their preambles of the unfortunate business oii.iiai.iuii, qui mey attribute the conditions to,a large extent to agitations rather than to the real cause which the Republican party lias been chleflest In creating; viz. Un whole some, uneconomic, unscientific special legislation. While sympathizing fully with the purpose of those who ardently seek a return of prosperity this 'Magazine protest against the sinister argument of these resolutions. * The people have been persistently taught that the Republican party is the "advance agent of prosperity," that it could by the mere 'act. of being and keeping in power open the mills, if not the mints, and that in Its train or wako is all that Is good to have. Hut the people have seen bank failures of appalling mag a.nme ana a commercial depression with endless ramifications of dlsnj- >r attend the closing months a;:il Ine I r passing of one Republican administration and they behold another Republican administration apparently ? powerless to cope with the coinioer- <1 clal havoc that has been wrought. 1 The remedy for all this certainly I cannot be found In a cessatlo i of 1 agitation. Neither can it befoe id in i old-time patch-work privilege legls- i lation. Business will revlvo In time t no matter what Congress or Legis t latures may do but if the same old c methods of legislation obtain the r sanve depressions and disorders ma t a recur with more alarming frequen- t cy. This certainly is the lesson a ijr . f: . S K ' , i > pals Vindicated <> < i C < snto <I >^1A%V? i of experience and forms the Indictment of intelligence against Republican buncome. Coincident with the resolutions alluded to all over the United States there appears a movement designed to resist the increase of resentment and.back of this movement appear the very forces which have demanded and which have profited by favoritism in legislation and which row insist that all agitations about tho evils their methods have wrought shall cease. Various kinds of special legislation for facored industries are enacted, until monopolies are created and fostered, individual business enterprise is menanced, both the producer atvl the consumer are victimized and li ikn 1/-v Tin r*n r? m net sllannca or larr. niv,u iV| uv v/?iv uiuov utowuoa vi lv-b islate a remedy. i When a patient Is In .such serious straits that even a consultation of doctors is deemed dangerous, what must he said of his previous treatment of future prospect? When the economic situation of the country is so complicated and disordered that even a consideration of the ailment and its remedy by the chosen representatives of the people is deplored, what must be said of the agencies, individuals and party policies which with full swing in government, h^ve achieved such an end? If the masses of the people, the great body of producers and consumers, that vast army of industrious and enterprising business men who seek nothing of the government save equality of privilege and opportunity, including legitimate competition, would grasp the fundamental economic principle and then demand its application,, that every time a special privilege is granted by government the individual is the loser in economic liberty an,I possibly there would be an end to this jugglery with Congress and courts to sustain and justify these pernicious policies and government outrages. Hut what is the practical thing to be done? It was a favorite remark of Jefferson that that government is b^st which governs least and government for governmental purposes is the sole design of civic institutions. Every age must adapt this doctrine to itd peculiar needs and the complexities of its civilization. In this age clearly the way is pointed to the divorcement of government from business by the repealing of all laws which foster mon ui uy wmcn special privileges are granted to a few at the expense of all and the assumption by government as one of its necessary functions the proper regulation and control of quasi-public corporations.? National Monthly. ? i Wealth Becoming Dangerous. i Two or three years ago a prominent banker of Georgia embezzled a i large amount of fuuda lb; was con- ] victed, and It was discovered that since lie committed the offense it had been graded by the legislature ] so that it could be interpreted by jury and judge as a misdemeanor. In pursuance of the vigilance of his lawyers and the nmiability of the legislature he got olt with six months jail sentence and a fine that would not seriously jar the average police court. This is one of the incident which make for the growing contempt*of the people for legislatures and courts. The astonishing increase in the difficulty of getting rich men punished in porportion to their crimes 13 renting on public sentiment as shown by the recent lynching of a half dozen powerful cattle magnates in the Panhandle region of Texas and Oklahoma. Despairing of ever seeing them punished for crimes they had committed, the people as sembled ann pht them to death. The nine win soon ho here when the pop- , session of much money will doom a 1 man who is charged with crime to i an impromptu execution rather than ' protect him from the gallows to > v hich he is fairly entitled. The or- ' dinary exemption from punishment 1 enjoyed by rich men will react, and the posession of wealth will be a danger, more likely to permit a man no trial at all than guarantee a fair i cne. i \ "In a mln life" is an expression i frequently heard. A minute sefroi 1 a very small and unimportant frac- ' g tion of time, and because of ttyat ( Idea most people waste a good many j In the course of a day. Yet think t what can be done in the short space \ of a minute. Take traveling as an l example. In a minute the average v pedestrian walks sizteen rods, a j Lrotting horse and an ocean "grey- s lound" cover half a mile and an ex- o oress train clips off a mile. That is t jietty fast traveling but nothing to e vliat this old world is doing. In one y liinute it whirls up around on the s Mitslde of the earth hy its diurnal o notion some thirteen miles, and it p peods us on in the same space of e lino 1,080 miles on its grand tour t< round the sun. But even that is h< I i THE TRUE BASIS >F GENUINE WORTH IN A YOUNG j MAN IS CHARACTER. G!ov. Hughes on the Young Mens > Christian Association's Platform and Service. We are her today upon a platform upon which all good citizens can stand because there is a knowledge in this association and in any gathering of American citizens that character is the basis of industry, the surety of the endurance of the Republic. .What a noble thing it is to see a man well equipped for life's work, not a narrow-minded man, not one who tries to shield himself from all pleasures of life that go to make well rounded and symmetrical character. but a young man who realizes that he is hero In t he wnria tn n,* I something and before he can do something worth while, he must bo something worth while. What a noble thing it is to see in a democratic community, with the development of the capacity for work, which tend to interfere with proper enforcement of legislative work, to see at the same time the soundness of the views of our people on what stands for decency and for justice. We honor every organization which attempts to keep men up to the responsibility of their obligations, which attempts to make clear the duty that is placed upon them as free citizens of this republic. Every one of us knows how soon is the relapse if we are not held steadfast to our ideals by social sentiment. It is a remarkable thing that the Young Mens Christian Association has been so successful in providing so many different fields of activity for young men. Educational, or physical improvement, social, religious; it seems to comprehend about everything that a young man needs. I heard, some years ago, a distinguished educational expert say that the object of a liberal education was the wise conduct of business and the noble employment of leisure That seems to be the tfbject of this association; fitting men to play their part in life with ability, providing them resources tor the noble employment of leisure, and giving them jjiui"'! uuuuuu 01 now lire snolil be spent. We have had a good deal of overemphasis in the past on what has been called success. The young America has started out fired with ambition nB he has frequently read of the adventures of those who have preceeded him to obtain what he 1 calls success; and too frequently, that goal has been defined in terms of accumulation of material benflts and of prominent position. In these days, 1 think, we are taking a truer view of life. It is a splendid sight to see the young man of today going forth to make the most of himself, not for himself alone, but for the benefit of his fellow men. There never was a time in our history when mere wealth gave i;s posessor so few advantages as it iloes today, in the opinion of h's fellows. There never was a time when mere place or ollice, mere title to distinction, gave a man so li'.le is it does today . TIiq KllonlUn ~ r *1. uiivuuuii me cuumry ih riv ?tod upon worth rather than Uwon position, upon the means by wlilth m end has been attained turn upon lccumulation. That is a m9.it wholesome thing. There has been a moral r< viva', a sharpening of the sense of justice, a dearer view of the man's obligation o those around him, a trurer per eption of the limits which a man should set for himself in the pursuit of his ambition, a quiet deter ninatiou on the part of the people it large that no man shall overstep hose limits and be faithless to his ihligation to the community as a vhole and at the same time enjoy he public respect. There Is nothng in this country that is worth laving which involves any forfeiture of that self-respect which conlitions all true results and every eal achievement. w Find Joy in Your Work. The man who really finds enjoynent on this mundane sphere is the nan who gets his pleasure in his vork. If a man can't find real joy v n doing wnat he does as a matter of linking a living, he ought to seek a lome now employment and keep on r locking until lie can find something ' hat will bo a pleasure as wi.l as a al?or to him. Did you ever notice ' he difference in the work of a man I1 vho conies down to the office in the 8 uorning with a smile and tin man vho sits down at his desk wi'h a awn or a sigh as much as if to ay: "Gee, I wish this day was c ver?" The smiling man is usually he one who wins favor from his e nipioyer and is advanced, while his awning brother plods along at the ei ame old desk year after year. The n?> with the smile is ho who finds b leasure in his work, while the'oth- tr r is he who seeks new fields or try ) find pleasure in the task at which 11 o labors. a FIGHT THE TRUSTS BY BUILDING FACTORIES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. fhey Will Double and Treble the Value of Our Raw Materials, Says Terrell. For years the thrifty North has Bold us our necessitities, and now it Is also selling us our luxuries. Take the item of automobiles alone. You see them everywhere. In some towns the bootblackB have them. They are growing in popularity beyond any invention of recent years. Texas is paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, but not one to my knowledge is manufactured in a Southern state. ? "We sell cows and buy butter; we sell steers and buy beef; we sell fruit and buy 'preserves; we sell hides and buy leather; we sell wool and buy blankets; wf* sell cotton and buy calico; and then we stand up like brave men and cuss old man Aldrich and the little state of Rhode Island. Would that we could Bell a great many demagogues and buy a few statesmen. To be plain about it I would like to purchase Aldrich himself and keep him down here a few years. I believe it would be a great investment. He would certainly turn things upside down. I would enjoy hearing those New lingland 'Yankees' groaning and complaining that the South was getting all their money. "Gentlemen do you wonder that the South Is dissatisfied? Are you surprised when you hear complaints? Do you wonder that her newspapers are constantly telling of her woes? W'hose is the fault? Where is the enm and where is the euro? Can conditions be reversed by constantly abusing the northern manufacturers? We have tried that plan for more than a quarter of a century, and our hearts are weary. 4,|Can it come from political conventions, from silver-tongued orators, from high soundinc nl.itfnrm declarations? Alas! wo have already had more of these things than any other hand under the sun. "Can we reach it by abusing the trusts? The trusts care but little how we abuse them so long as we continue to buy from them. Has anyone quit buying from them. Has will not permit them to do business in Texns. but we send them our dollars just jtlie same. If we had a few trusts ourselves they might, worry the people of some other State, but they would bring their money hare. They would create a balance of trade in our favor. I have noticed few complaints of the trusts froni the state in whjoh they are situated. An old farmer friend once declared to me In a confidential way that most of his troubles arose from the fact that he paid more for the things he bought than he received for the thlnes he sold. He seemed surprised when I told him that much if the trouble of tho world arose from the same cause. "And yet the case is plain and the remedy is easy. Iluild facf >ries in the Southern Stat s. I-i not waif for a new generation; bulb' thorn now let their smoke i !se lik?> intense. I^et the in double and treble he value of our r.;.v materials, and et the money of the S. ?;t i remain it nouie. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. Remember, my son, you have to vork . Whether you handle a pick >r a pin, a wheelbarrow or a set of j >ooks, dig ditches of edit a paper, I ing an auction Dell or write funny I hings, you must work. If you look < iround, you will see the men who ire most able to live the rest of i heir days without work are th?e t lien who work the hardest. Don't i >o afraid of killing yourself with s iverwork. It is beyond your power i 0 do that on the sunny side of 1 hirty. They die sometimes, but it 1 s because they quit work at six p. i n. and don't go home till two a. m. t's the interval that kills, my son. I The work gives you an appetite for I rour meals; it lends a solidity to 1 'our slumber; it gives you a per- c ect and grateful appreciation for < 1 holiday. There are young men 3 vho do not work, but the world is 1 lot proud of them. It don't know heir names \ven; it simply speaks >f them as "So and So's .boys." 1 Cobody likes them; the great busy i vorld does not know they are there. 1 !o find out what you want to be i ind do, and take off your coat and t nake a dust in the world. The 3 under you are, the less harm you 1 re apt to get Into, the sweeter will f >e your 3leop, the brighter an<l hap- f. ier your hilidays. andj the better t atisfied the world will lie with you. f ? c. Reflections of a Woman. I Most of man's troubles wear petti- ' oata. 11 Some fast young men are apt to ? rperlence swift finishes. 1 lleware, my son, of the dark-balr- e d woman. She can't possibly be fair. a The hen is a meek and lowly bird; " ut she has done moro for her conn- 11 y than the eagle will ever do. No, Alonzo; a girl is not neoesaary in the angel class because she's 11 high flyer! xpi ^ 111 1 J'PPMj % I I: Ought the Newi < an Op * * It Is the opinion of somo people that the paper should be only the I carrier of news pure and simple and | that nothing should be atti.apted in the way of decided plan. However, the one agen In the Uni'tnl States that has been a power is the newspaper. The opinions enunc"..i*e l are discussed and accepted or rejected according as the reader pleases. Hut the editor of a paper f nd the different writers are bounJ to and should have some op'nion. If we are condemned because we suggest or advocate some principle or something that seems a necessity it is nothlnfe more than any one who has had advanced ideas has . been subject to. We believe that the function of the paper is to lay out now plans' and advocate that which Is for Mio 1m nrnvdnnm t r?f iKo J r. V,^...v?v VI bUV v, v?il I ill 1III 1IV 5111(1 where any great wrong or crime is being done, strive by every means to eradicate it. But to sit in the editorial chair supinely and gossip about the neighbors is not our idea of what a paper should be. To hav J a principle and stand for it. it its function and to fight for it if necesFAltMEltS' SONS. If you are a farmer and yoa waut your son to be a farmer after you, teach him from his earliest lK>y- ! hood to respect his father's calRng. j Instill into his mind the fact that the great men of all ages were sons of farmers. Teach him never to be ashamed of the senseless ar.d threadbare jokes of the would-be humorists over old Hayseed and his lumbering old market wagon and his quaintness of speech when n? visits j the city and stares rouud at the; sights and does not make half so much a fool of himself as the aveiase city man when he come to the country . I)o not fill his life entirely with work. Recreation is as necessary to happiness and to a healthful development of the spiritual and the healthful faculties as is pure air, and there is untold wisdor, in the old saying, "All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. ' Encourage him when he tries ta do well, even if he fails. Failures! which teach us how to avoid fa mi re I'isast* rs are successes. Make him feel that you rest upon his hf ? ness and truth in whatever you entrust to him. Do not blame him when ho is not at fault, even if things do not turn out as you expected. Nov r disparage his eflfortB. Conti ual disparagement breaks the boy's spirit, and there is nothing more inspiring, nothing more refreshing in this world than the broad, courageous, undismayed hopefulness of a manly boy. Take 'him into your confidence early. Let him know what you are going to plant ii> the 10-acre field, and how you propose to make the upland fields pay. Don't snub him. The man who snubs a boy is unworthy to be the father of a son. Let him have the money he earns. You would have to pay the hired man for taking care of the calves and the colts; why not remunerate your boy? Do not distrust him with farming i in the beginning by telling hira that he does not need anything but his i board and r^othes now, because he'; will have "it all" when you are' ; gone. Five pounds when a boy is i ten years old is more to him than ! ; five thousand will b^ when you are ? lead and gone and he has the farm, i Do not starve your family for the 1 3ak< of taking the best of every- s thing to the market. A broad and j generous soul can not develop in a starved body. Live in just as good ( i house as you can own, free from < nortgage. Have a pleasant, sunny < iving room with books and papers ( ind music. I | Encourage your boy to invite his i 'rlends them, and yourself greet ? .hem cordially when they come. The ! ack of Social privileges at home is { )ne fertile cause of the temptation jxerted by city life on the country > foung man. ?New Zealand Dairy- * nan. t A man's success in life is not de- j lendent upon ancestry or circum- j stances. To be successful a man ^ nust have will, concentrated decis- on, determination, action and in- ? egrity. "(let all you can out of j four ancestry, because if you do j lot get anything out of it, nobody dse wilt be able to do so. Ilut don't :o back too far in your ancestral ree; you may find your great grand c ather hanging on a tree. Your an- v estry will not make n mnn f> f you cannot pride yourself on an K deal father or an ideal mother, nake an ideal man of yourself. Pov- j( rty is noi a hindrance to nobility, 'he sons of washerwomen have ris- n n to the highest pinnacle of success i nd nobility of character. Depend I w pon yourself, not upon your ances- 1 0 ry. tl You can tell a spinster by her appy and contented look?some- fj mes. f( ?K'iMP *, ? * - . . -r ? spapers to Have | ' 9 i lmon; . | f Bary. To suggest is not all, but to advocate with argument and influence is what the paper should do. We do not feel that our duty was done nor de we believe we onght lo exist unless we stand fo?* something. A man who stands for nothing should not live. A society which has no object had better be disbanded. A newspaper above all that is only a news monger had better seil its presses and type and break up lecause it is no use whatever and unless it can numerate some bonefit done to the community, it has missed its aim. And every walk of life should be touched. The farmer needs the paper, it will teach him c.>1111-1 mug- i ne merchant needs it, the mechanic needs it, the old, the young, and unless we touch the people on every side of life moral, material, spiritual and intellectual our cim has not been reached nor our object realized. To do this we must have an opinion, enunciating that opinion we are within our rights, which no one can gainsay.?Hendersonville (N. C.) French Hroad Hustler. Farmers Yesterday mid Today. Only a few years ago the absorbing question with the common farmer south and west, was "How shall I make buckle and tongue meet in providing for my family?" The tbought of putting a dollar away was not entertained for a moment. The light was for broad and a scanty variety of food to go with it to meet the datlly hunger of the family, and a few plain clothes?in most instances not enough for comfort. All week long the old farmer and his children eonld bo seen with their simple implements of agriculture bending between the rows early and late working with little heart and hope; and on Sunday, the father, a gaunt, shrunken, neglected looking figure could he seen dejectedly standing about over his mortgaged Oelds, trying to discover some faint whisper from old mother earth, beneath his feet, or the sunny seasons that came and went above bis head. Little encouragement did he find only that nature was his friend. The fields would and did respond liberally to the touch of his hand, but his crops often sold for less than it cost to produce them, and by the time the Interest on the mortgage was paid, little was left with which to buy calico and cotton<*des to scantily clothe his family. Hut that scene is changed, and fast changing. Fate seemed in hniii those noble sons of toil to their fields, and some good spirit began to whisper the secret of more intelligent methods and plans of cultivation and market, and a recognition of mutual interests, until out of that chaotic condition of abject slavery has come a new world of I t auty and happiness. Our farmers are now fast becoming the mortt prosperous men in the nation. Their mortgages have been paid, their homes have been built, and liberally supplied with utensils of convenience, besides furnished with tho products of skill and art until they are atfractive, beautiful and inviting. The inmates have thrown off the scanty garbs of mere necessity, tnd are now clad with comforts and *re happy. The dejected look on the r.aco of the father has given place to \ nroail smile of victory, and he 'teps about his little kingdom with he tread of a conqueror and with a ittle hank account to his credit, he smiles when he meets his old mortgagee. What has been the secret of this \onderfnl change in only a decado t time? The only answer is, "Inlimlrlf I-t-11' ? ..H. uiKfiirc anil I'TUKiUlty." ">iit of these virtues have grown imiroved implements and methods, igrieultural education and enlightenment, and an organized husband- _ y. that has elevated the vocation to listinetlon, honor and power. Today there is no direction in \hich our young men can turn their ittention with larger promise than he farm. The industry is now buildd upon stable foundations, and it as came to abide. Xo happier lomes are to be found than our ;ood country homes, and no men .re more highly honored and rei| ected than the sturdy tillers of he soil, and no people enjoy mora i uiTiy. Homemade Philosophy. Tho dainty girl wliose summer lothes arc all ready for the trunk, ronders which dress is strirtly propr. Poor girlie, a minister might ive her the code. A woman of the world ran enay life without the strong arm of er husband. The stay-at-home man lisses seeing his wife at her heat. Tho road of life is better traveled rhen you leave the heavy burden ? f pessimism behind you. The steady worker finds the loafer ie worst bother in the world. All men are equal, according to le constitutions, but not according > their constitutions.