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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
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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
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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
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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- ?
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(it'll. Itoyd to Quit.
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