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' '' kg.) "turn of tidT fteaocub Will S?m Find GsrenuieBt Reins in Their Hands. SAYS W00DR0W WILSON The President of Princeton College Predicts that the People In their Distress Are Turning to the l>em? ocmls for Relief.?He Telia How the Country Will lie Benefited. That the political tide is now turning Democratic, and the day I \nm rver-it ie ivq rt V miial WUCU IUU UVUi\n?iUViv |/U? v/ take charge of this country's affairs, is almost at hand, were declarations made by Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton university, in a speech at the Democratic dinner in Elizabeth.. N J., recently. Mr. Wilson outlined the character of legislation Ahich the Democratic should give the count-y to meet the present economic problems. In this connection he said: "In the first place we should wish not merely to curb the trusts, and above all, wo should not wish to regulate them in such a way as will make them either partners or creatures of the government itself, we should wish to square their whole action and responsibility with the general interest regarding them, not as objects in themselves, but meroily as conveniences in our economic life and development. Recent proposals or regulation have looked too much like a wholesale invasion by government itself of the field of business management. "Our regulations of public inter est must be legal regulation and not direct management. 'In t*e second place, It is clearly our duty to take the government out of the business of patronage, the business of granting favors and privileges. of arranging the laws so that this, that, or the other group of men may make large profits out of their business and draw it back to the function of safeguarding rights general, not particular right; the rights which make not so much for th" prosperity, which enables small groups of individual to pile up enormous fortunes, as for a general stimulation, a universal opportunity for enlightenment and justice. I am thinking of course, of tariff legislation. Whatever may be our views with regard to the policy vagely called the policy of protection, It is clear that in fact it haB long since, as dealt with by congress, ceased to be a policy of protection, and become a policy of patronage. "We are told that the present extraordinary high price of commodities is due, not to the tariff hut to the fact that we are not producing enough to keep uip with the daily demand, and that is particularly true with regards to things we eat and have dally need. Take meat for example and see what the truth is. The truth is that the meat trust has been able to conI enl I Itn mnnl ntu rlr nt t n oiiph fill extent that scores of ranchmen have been driven out of the cattle raising business because it was unprofitable. The short supply of meat is due to the monopoly created by the meat trust. Ii is therefore true that the supply is short compared with the vast demand. Irut it has been made short l?y the operation of a trust unquestionably fostered by the legislation of the government. "In the third place it is one of the chief duties of the Democratic party to introduce such reforms in local and federal governments as will secure economy, responsibility, honesty, fidelity. "In brief our program should be a general revival of popular politics, of common counsel, of responsible leadership. We must supply efllcient leaders, and eschew all the lower personal objects of politics. It is a case of must us well as a case of may a oase of necessity as well as a case of privilege. A new day has come. Men and measures are being scrutinized as never before. For myself I veritably believe we are upon the eve of a new era of political liberty, when more literally and truly than ever we can realize the ideals of popular government and of Individual privilege." flood Iiong Term. Kighty years in New Jersey State prison was the sentence imposed by Judge Hlair in Jersey City Friday upon Bmil art Von Muller, the "marrying count" who was convicted on Tuesday last of bigamy. Testimony at the trial showed that Von Muller married various women In many different States Iieft liiltle Fortune. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Maria Heidlaff. a supposedly poor scrub woman, died last August. It is now disclosed by a local bank that the woman left seventoen thousand d* " to charity. LOVE AND THE CARDS WIDOW READ SHE WAS TO MARRY A VERY' RICH MAN. He Was a Nobleman and Worth $30,000,000; Now She is Wiser. the Knowledge Costing $3,000. In the bustling German city of Hanover lives Krftu Stler, who be came lonely after she had lost her husband, so lonely that she decided to mend her heart with another. With that view she consulted Frau Nixdorf, who advertised to straighten out life's tangles by card reading. All the cards ran the Widow Stier's way and she was told that she was to marry a wealthy nobleman. Chamberlain von Buelow, who was worth 520,000,000, and would forever live happily. In a few days Frau Stier's phone summoned her to a love a.owal, the voice at the other end of the wire professing to be that of Chamberlain, who said that one glance .of her on the street had so excited hiB emotions that he could no longer restrain himself from declaring his undying love for her. He begged her to give him hope. Then and there she accepted him. Another telephone call, a few days later, purporting to be from Chamberlain, gravely informed her that he had discovered that she was a woman of lowly birth, and that it would be necessary for her to be ennobled before he could wed her. This oould be accomplished, he said, by a deposit of about $3,000 in a Hanover bank, believing in the cards, toe widow deposited the money. Then came the awakening. Frau Stier accused Von Buelow of the crime, but he had no trouble clearing himself and showing that he had absolutely no knowledge of her love affairs. Then her lawyers turned to Frau Nixdorf. That proceeding brought ti light a journeyman shoemaker as the sender of the telephone messages, and the law soon made short work of both him and the soothsayer. MJOKTS W1TII 1>KATH. VoUsl Areplanist KUIt><l in an Exhibition Flight. Another French aviator has met death while making a flight in an aeroplane. Hubert LeBlon, was kiled while making an exhibition flight at San Selmstian, Spain, Saturday. He was circling the royal palace of Mlramar, at a height of 140 feet, when his motor broke down. He attempted to glide back to the shed, but the machine turned over and swooped with terrific force against the rocks. The aviator was crushed like a shell. Mine. Le Illon witnessed the accident, and when the body was recovered from the sea she rushed shrieking towards the ambulance to which it was being carried. She threw herself upon the lifeless form, kissing it repeatedly and refusing to be led away. !As the weather was stormy. Le Blon's flight was unexpected and only a few persons assembled to see the start. After the accident, however, an enormous crowd quickly gathered and followed the l>ody to the police hospital. There an examination was made, but the doctors were only able to confirm that death must have been instantaneous. * HOOT .MAYOR OFF STAGE. Four Thousand Citizens Show Their Indignation. At Pittsburg, Pa., the indignation of four thousand citizens and of many wonirn who wish to be, over the l?olitioai corruption now being unearthed by the grand jury and by counciimanic confessions and denunciation of civic vice generally was vehemently expressed Friday night at a mass meeting in Kxposition Ilall. Mayor William A. Magee, who sought to address the meeting was hooted off the stage. The resentment shown was at his alleged failure to work promised reform in the red-light district. delayed action of traction problems and other local matters. * Drank Poison for Booze. As the result of mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid for whiskey, J. Luther Abbott a clerk in a tobacco ware house at Danville, Va.. killed himself. Abbott had a bottle of whiskey on a bureau and beside it was another bottle labeled whiskey, hut containing the poison which he drank. He died in terrible agony in thirty minutes. Life for Shoes, 'At Now York Alfred Payne, a clerk, lost his life in an early morning tenement fire because he stopped to put on his shoes after he had l>een awakened by the cries of the tenants below. Fireman found his dead body seat'^d upright on the edge of the bed. He had been pulling on his shoes when smoke and flames pwept in through the air sh'aft and suffocated hi in. | KEEP THE RED * > o By J. Colt < To the editor of the Atlanta Journal: In his recent speech at Ogdenburg, N. Y., ex-Vice President Fairbanks repeated the untrue and worn-out phase about the war between the north and the south being fought to establish the freedom of the negro slaves. iMr. Fairbanks said: "The sword of the nation was drawn in order that the equality of men beneath the flag of the United States miiyht heroine an accomplished, a living fact." Note that Br. Fairbanks says 'the sword of the nation was drawn." It is not difficult to understand Mr. Fairbanks' pretty conceit about that. Abraham Lincoln, however, never indulged It, and that really was one of *l.e causes of the war. He would recognize neither eertier ts "t'ae nation," but Insisted on that name being applied to the unbroken union of the states. Mr. Lincoln said In plain words that the fate of slavery was not to be considered, that he would free the slaves or not as the one or the other course would the better serve to save the union. 1 ('o * at intend to recrosch up in your space with a detailed recital of violations of .he principles laid down in the Declaration of independence, and that basis of the confederation known as the ronstitution of the I'nit ed States. I will say at once that the war was fought for the principle and right of self-government. Is anything clearer in statement than this. "That governments derive their just powers from consent of the governed," and are ins-i luted among men to secure their inatienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that whenever any form of government become destructive of or fails to secure these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. and to institute a new government laying its foundations on such principles hnd organizing Its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety an<i happiness." I What, in all history, could more clearly define the right of the southern states to withdraw from a union into which they had, as soverign communities, voluntarily entered; that > )w> denial ? e .I~L, _ ' u..v ucuim U1 i ii a L I Iftlll WHS H violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the states: and that the war waged by t?he federal government against the seceding states was in disregard of the limitations of the constitution and destructive of independence? In all free governments the constitution or organic law is supreme over the government, and in our federal union this was most distinctly marked by limitations and prohibi tions against all which was beyond the expressed grants of power to the general government. At the very beginning, then, we may take the po sition that those who resisted violation of the compact were the true friends and those who maintained the usurptation of undelated powers were the real enemies of the constitutional union. Sectional issues appear conspiciously in the debates of the convention which framed the federal constitution in 17 87, and its many compromises were designed to secvre an equilibrium between the sections, and to preserve the interests as wall as the liberties of the several stats?. African servitude, at that time was not confined to a section, but was numerically greater in the south thai in the north, with a tendency to its continuance in the form or and cessation in the latter. It, therefore, thus easily presents itself as a disturbing element and the provisions of the constitution, which were known to be necessary for its adoption, bound all the states to recognize and protect that species of property. Wlhen, at a subsequent period, there arose in the northern states an anti-slavery agitation it w ts a harmless and scarcely noticed movement until political demagogues seized upon it as a means to acquire p>?vfeMr. Davis, in his book. "il:sQ an-l fall of the Confederate Government," says of this anti-slave agitation that ' Had li ',een .eft to ps?.ido-phiian tn?t>pl8ts and fanatics, mo^t zealous where least informed, it never could have shaken the fomida*i >-?3 of the union and have incited one section 10 carry fire and sword ir.to the o'her." He has shown in the same work that the ncLatio i wai ,.oiitl" il in character and was clearly developed as early as 1803. Hofore the . ar an 1 during the war Mr. Lin coin said that its purpose was not to free the slaves but -"o restore the union. The emancipation proclamation, which when it wa-* issued, he humorously admitted to oe a nulity. had to be validated by the action of the highest authority known 1 > our institutions?the people assembled ia their several state conventions. It has'' been asserted, and it is by many still believed, that the south was fighting to maintain slavery. In this proclamation Mr. Lincoln stated that in all the southern states which might re-enter the union "by January 1, 1863, the institution of 3RD STRAIGHT j ; on Lynes. 2 slavery should remain under the control of those states and be retained \ or relinquished as they ml^ht see fit. But. said the proclamation, if you do not re-enter the union by that elite I shall then declare yous slaves | free. You will find this In the stat utes at large of the United Sttes for I 1862-63. appendix, page 1. It is an ' express and unmistakable offer that if the south would renounce independence it might retain slavery. The south declined the offer. It was fighting, for independence and not slavery, and it would not renounce independence. Then Mr. Lincoln carried out his threat and issued his famous proclamation. This has been glowingly represented as the sun bf righteousness arising, as the genius of liberty shattering every fetter, and so on and so on in many a hign-flown platitude, but the proclamation speaks for itself. Mr. Lincoln never claimed to be doing a philanthropic or benevolent thing. He was a plain, direct man, and he blurted out the real truth of the matter in a blunt, unvarnished honest way. He said he issued the proclamation by virtue of the power in me invested as commander-inchief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion ae-ainst the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion," and then he proceeded to Justify his act as one "warranted upon military necessity." The "military necessity" was that, at that time, the Confederate forces stood before him invincible, a serried wall of steel. His best commanders had been out-generaled: his finest armies had been overcome; the I roar of the southern guns, the rattle of the southern sabre, the tramp of the southern infantry were resonant , upon the air. Behind these magnifi, cant troops were millions of contented slaves who tilled the fields and .furnished the troops food and forage. The slave nvust be rousod to mutiny and turned loose upon the I rear of the southern army, just as in I the Revolutionary war Great Britain I had stirred up the Indians and then launched them at the back of the colonists. The fields must remain fallow, so that the armies should remain unfed. The internal peace of the south must be broken so that troops must be withdrawn from the front to restore order. This was the "military 1 necessity" which led to the emancipation proclamation. It was a cruel and shrewdly derived thunderbold of war. but. to the credit of the southern slave, and for which he should have a monument?it failed. He remained quietly at home tilling the field and supporting the soldiers; he wa$ the happiest, the most contented. the best fed. and longest-lived laboring class the world has ever known. By the terms of this celebrated proclamation emancipation was specifically restricted to so much of the south as was in arms. The slaves of Maryland, of Delaware, of West Virginia, of Kentucky, of Tennessee, of Missouri, of tide-water Virginia, and of half of Louisiana were to remain slaves, or, as the document itself puts it, were "left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued." When anyone hereafter tells you that the Confederate soldiers died in an effort to maintain slavery, point to the federal statute book and say. here is the proof that he fought for independence, and not slavery, ! for, here is the nromlse th;it if would renounce Independence he nii'.'ht retain slavery. The truth remains intact and in- | convertible, that the existence of Af rican servitude was in no wise the cause of the conflict, but only an incident. It is said that the Confederate soldier was a foe to republican institutions and fought to tear down the constitution. The fact is the military glory of the southern Confederacy has so far overshadowed its , civic renown that few, very few, know anything of the principles upon which the government of the Confederate States was based. The Confederate constitution was framed amid the mutterings of impending war. and, after a brief and stormy existence, ceased to be operative. It was never well known and is now almost forgotten. Desuetude and oblivion have been its portion. but for ail that its histr?rv ar.a ! ciples are worthy of the most careful consideration at the present day. That history lies upon the shelf, as it were, unoticed and unguarded, like a jewel long overlooked, but when we brush off the dust and let in the sunlight tlie diamond will be found a diamond still. The Confederate constitution was modeled on that of the United States, jand so modeled because the antebellum south loved the organic law of its fathers. It was framed by deputies chosen by the South Carolina. Georsia. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas secession conventions, and front the journals of these bodies it nbundantiy j appears that the south revered the ' constitution of the United States f ind never would have seceded if the ( lorth had in good faith respected ~ md conformed to that document. jgg "When the South Carolina convention adopted its ordinance of secession it issued an address in Justi- _ Dcation of that step, and in this ad- pc ilress said: "The one great evil from which all other evils have flowed, is the overthrow of the constitution of me United States." (Journal, page <j?c 437); and, following up this. It resolved "That in the opinion of this convention the constitution of the United States should be and constl tute the basis of the confederation py of such states as shall withdraw their connection with the government of the United States." (Journal, page 467 ), and, following up this, it re- _ ces of the seceding states we find 0| this adoration of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the constitution of the United States. Rut notwithstanding the clearly established rights of the p( states to individual soverignity the north decided on coercion or war. War it was. Six hundred thousand southern men took the field against over two million northern enlisted men. Of the 600,000 southern soldiers only 200,000 owned slaves. What were the other 400,000 fighting for? Yours very truly, J. Colton Lynes, Late Adjt. Gen. and Chief of StafT, 1 Georgia Division, U. C. V. Atlanta, Ga., January 17th, 1910. Killed in Wreck. Engineer John Grifliu was killed. Fireman Vaughn was more or less seriously injured, and five passengers were slightly hurt, when Norfolk & West rn passenger train No. 17, west bound, left the rail near \Vatts_ Tank. VV. Va., at 4.20 o'clock Friday afternoon. The engine, tender, baggage _ car and three coaches Jumped the track and turned over. * llrilie Taker Resigns. At Albany, N. Y., Senator J. P. Allds, who was accused hv Senator Bonn Conger of having accepted a bribe to further the interests of cer tain bridge legislation in the New |?( York Legislature, has filed his resignation with the Secretary of State. Shoots Indian. At Murphy. N. C., Dan llird, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, was shot and Instantly killed Saturday by Ed Sneed. Sneed Is night watchman at the planing mills and claims the In- ? dian attacked him with a knife. I* Manaper Frank J. Shauphnessy, of the Virpinia Leapue Champions, found Noah's Liniment best for Sore Muscles bruises, scratches, stiffness. h One trial will convince you. 11 Noah's Liniment penetrates. Requires but little rubbing. ^ si Here's the Proof u "T have bad occasion to use Noah's a Liniment on two of my players' arms, i and the lesult was most gratifying. 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