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jBR *4 "torn of tide Demerits Will Smi Find Government Reins in Their Hands. SAYS WOOOROW WILSON Tlie President of Princeton College rrcdicU tlmt the People in tlieir Distress Are Turning to the l>em? ocratft for Ilolief.?Ho Tells How the Country Will He Benefited. That the political tide is now turning Democratic, and the day when the Democratic party must take charge of this country's affairs. almost at hand, were declarations ^Qtade by Woodrow Wilson, president iPf Princeton university, in a speech at the Democratic dinner in lOlizabelh, N J., recently. Mr. Wilson outlined the character of legislation which the Democratic should give the country 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 lo regulate them in such a way as will make them either partners or creatures of the government itself, wc should wish to Bquare their whole action and responsibility urtth the genera] interest regarding them, not as objects in themselves, but mereily 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 tield of business management. "Our regulations of public interest must be legal regulation and not direct management. 'In t%e Becond place, it is clearly our duty to take the government oul of the business of patronage, the business of granting favors and privileges, of arranging the laws so that this, that, or the other group ol men may make large profits out ol their business and draw it back tc the function of safeguarding right* general, not particular right; the rights which make not so much foi the prosperity, which enables small groups of individual to pile up enormous fortunes, as for a general stimulation, a universal opportunity for enlightenment and justice. 1 am thinking of course, of tariff legislat ion. Whatever may be our views with regard to the policy vagely called the policy of protection, it is clear that in fact it has 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 ex? ) a t?ir K t <v b t \ <{ o/i o/tnr V i i\\J i iiinai j ii 11 |' i i vc v/ i v/w in uiv/vi ities is due, not to the tariff but to tile fact that we are not producing enough to keep up with the daily demand, and that is particularly true with regards to things we eat and have daily need. Take meat for example and see what Ihe truth is. The truth is that the meat trust has been able to control the meat market to such an 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 moat trust. It is therefore true that the supply iR short compared with the vast demand, but it has been made shcfrt by the operation of a trust unquestionably fostered by the legislation of the government. "in the third place it is one ol the chief duties of the Democratic party to introduce such reforms in local and federal governments at 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 efflcioni leaders, and eschew all the lowei personal objects of politics. It is t case of must as well as a case o may a oase of necessity as well a* a case of privilege. A new day hai come. Men and measures are be ing scrutinized as never before. Foi myself I veritably believe we ar< upon the eve of a new era of politics liberty, when more literally and tru ly than ever we can realize the ideal; of popular government and of in dividual privilege." Good Long Term. Eighty years in New Jersey Stat< prison was the sentence imposed bj Judge Blair in Jersey City Frida: upon Ernil art Von Muller, the "mar rying count" who was convicted 01 Tuesday last of bigamy. Testimony at tne triai snuwcu uiai vun munvi married various women in many dlf ferent States liCft ldttlc Fortune. A1 Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Maria Heldlaff, a supposedly poor scrul woman, died last August. It is now disclosed by a local bank that the wo. man left seventeen thousand to charity. LOVE AND THE CARDS \V11K>\V KKAl) SIIK WAS TO MAK< HY A VKllY RICH MAN. lie Wan a Nobleman and Worth $20,000,000; Now She is Wiser, the Knowledge Costing $;t,000. In tho bustling Gorman city of Hanover Uvea. Krau Stier, who became lonely after she had lost her husband, ho lonely that sho 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 Stler's way and she was told that she was to marry a wealthy nobleman, Chamberlain von Iluelow, who was worth $20,000,000, and would forever live _ happily. In a few days Frau Stier's phone summoned her to a love avowal, 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 his emotions that he could no longer restrain himself from declaring his undying love for her. lie 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 bo ennobled before he could wed her. This could be accomplished, he said, by a deposit of about $3,000 in a Hanover bank, believing in the cards, tne widow deposited the mono/. Then came the awakening. Frau Stier accused Von Huclow of the 1 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 ts light a Journeyman shoemaker as the senior of the telephone f m ooan (yoa o h/\ 1 ??- ? ~ CDOI Iftvo, mm UIU UIW auuil IlltlUU t short work of both him and tho > soothsayer. t MEKTS WITH IHOATIf. r [ | Noted Arcplanist Killed in nn lO.vlii? bit ion Flight. I Another French aviator has met I death while making a night in an ' aeroplane. Hubert Hellion, was kilj ed while making an exhibition flight at San Sebastian, Spain, Saturday. . He was circling the royal palace of Miramar, 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 i swooped with terrific force against the rocks. Tho aviator was crushed like a shell. Mine. Le Blon witnessed the accident, and when the body was recovered fix>m the sea she rushed shrieking towards the ambulance to which it was being carried. She throw her' self upon the lifeless form, kissing it repeatedly and refusing to be led away. lAs the weather was stormy, He Blon's flight was unexpected and only a few nersons assenihloit tn b?o tn?? start. After the accident, however, an enormous crowd quickly gathered ' and follow-ed the body to the police hospital. There an examination was made, but the doctors were only able 1 to confirm that death must have been instantaneous. * HOOT MAYOK OFF STAGE. Four Thousand Citizens Show Their Indignation. At Pittsburg, Pa., the indignation i of four thousand citizens and of many * women who wish to be, over the > i>olitioal corruption now being unearthed by the grand jury and by > council manic confessions and denun* elation of civic vice generally was * vehemently expressed Friday night t at a mass meeting in Exposition Hall. * Mayor William A. Magee, who sought 1 to address the meeting was hooted f off the stage. The resentment shown 3 was at his alleged failure to work 3 promised reform in the red-light dls" trlet, delayed action of traction probr lems and other local matters. * 3 ? ? ? ' Drank Poison for Boo/e. As the result of mistaking a hot3 tie 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 urh ial/atr a? o Kunoo i? ^ K*/>. 1 J - 11 i iiimivj wit ? uuicau ailtl UumilC II a was another bottle labeled whiskey, / but containing the poisen which he / drank. He died in terrible agony in - thirty minutes. \ ? r' 1/ost Life for Shoes. p 'At New York Alfred Payne, a " clerk, lost his life in an early morning tenement tire because he stopped to put on his shoes after he had been awakened by the cries of the ten ants 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 swept \ in through the air shaft and suffocated him. ! KEEP THE REC 1 By J. Coll To the editor of the Atlanta Journal: In his recent Bpoech at Ogdenbuig, N. Y., ex-Vlco President Fairbanks repeated tho untrue and worn-out phase about the war between the north and the smith being fought to establish the freedom of the negro slaves. iMr. Fairbanks said: "The sword of the nation was drawn in order that the eonalitv of men beneath the flaz of the United States might become 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 indul.zed it, and that really was one of 4he causes of the war. He would recognize neither sectirr ts "the 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 ho would free the slaves or not as the one or the other course would tho better serve to savo the union. I do * ot intend t.^ recropch up >n your space with a detailed recital of violations of the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence, and that basis of the confederation known as the ronstitution of the Unit 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 instituted among men to secure their inatienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that whenever any form of gov eminent become destructive of or fails to sociure these ends, it is the 1*1 rv I, nf t l,? I _ -I. - - , iiKuv ui mu (ii-upie iu niter or anoiish it, and to institute a new government laying its foundations on audi principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness." ' 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 the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the states; and that the war waged by the 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 secure an equilibrium between the sections, and to preserve the interests as wd.i as the liberties of the several states. African servitude, at that time was not con lined to a section, but was numerically greater in the south tha i in tho north, with a tendency to its continuance in the former 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 an t protect that species of property. Wthen, at a subsequent period, there arose in the northern states an anti-slavery agitation it wis a harmless and scarcely noticed movement until political demagogues seized upon it as a means to acquire pjwu** Mr. Davis, in his book, "il'se and fall of the Confederate Government," says of this anti-slave agitation that ' Had ii been .eft to ps? ido-philnntnropists and fanatics, mo-d zealous where least informed, it nrtver could h ive shaken the foundaCj?3 of tin: . union and have incited one section 10 carry fire and sword into tbe i o'her." Ho has shown in the same [ work that the ackatio 1 wai t.oliti".l in character and was clearly devel oped as early as IS03. H >fcre the \ ar an ! during the war Mr. Din . colli said that it? .. ." .?< - ru.|'UU M UO HUl 1 U free the slaves but "o restore the union. The emancipation proclamation, which when it wa- issue,!, he humorously admitted to do n utility, had to bo validated by the action of the highest authority known t ? our institutions?the people assembled in their several state conventions. It has been asserted, and it is by many still believed, that the south was -fighting to maintain slavery. itv In this proclamation Mr. Lincoln stated that in all the southern states which might re-enter the union by January 1, 18G15, the institution of ORD STRAIGHT 1 ton Lynes. S slavery should remain under the control of those states and be retained or relinquished as they might see fit. But, said the proclamation, if you do not re-enter the union.th?ts date I shall then declare yous slaves free. You will find this in the statutes at large of the United Sttes for . t T* I _ >uv?-uu, u|f|icniii.\t i. 11 IS Ull 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 of 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 against 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 11 nest armies^nad been overcome; the i roar of the southern guns, the rattle ! of the southern sabre, the tramp of the southern infantry were resonant i upon the air. Behind, these ruagnift, cant troops were millions of contented slaves who tilled the fields and furnished the troops food and forage. The slave must be roused 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 ' 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, i He remained quietly at home tilling j tho field and supporting the soldiers; I he was the happiest, the most contented, the best fed, and longest-lived laboring class tho 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 nroof nmt , . v?V4b liv iUUglll for independence, and not slavery, for, here is the promise that if lie would renounce independence he might retain slavery. The truth remains intact and inconvertible, that the existence of African 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 Con- j fedoracy 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 1 framed amid the mutterlngs 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 all that its history and prin' ciples are worthy of the most care' ful consideration at the present day. That history lies upon the shelf, as 1 it were, unoticed and unguarded, like a jewel long overlooked, but when we brush off the dust and let in the sunlight the diamond will be found a diamond still. Tlio Confederate constitution was I modeled on that of the United States, and so modeled because the ante- ! helium south loved the organic law of lfs fathers. It was framed by deputies chosen by the South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas secession conventions, and from the journals of these bodies it abundantly j appears that the south revered the I constitution of the United States and never would have seceded if the north had in good faith respected and conformed to that document. When the South Carolina convention adopted its ordinance of secession it issued an address in justification of that step, and in this address said: "The one great evil from which all other evils have flowed, is the overthrow of the constitution of the United States." (Journal, page 437); and, following up this, it resolved "That iu the opinion of tnls convention the constitution of the United States should be and constitute the basis of the confederation of such states as shall withdraw their connection with the government of the United States." (Journal, page 467 ); and, following up this, it reces of the seceding states we find this adoration of the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the constitution of the United States. Hut notwithstanding the clearly established rights of the 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 Lynos, Late Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff, Georgia Division, U. C. V. Atlanta, Ga., January 17th, 1910. Killed in Wreck. Engineer John Griffin was killed, Fireman Vaughn was more or less seriously injured, and five passengers were slightly hurt, when Norfolk & Western passenger train No. 17, west bound, left the rail near Watts Tank, W. Va., at 4.20 o'clock Friday afternoon. The engine, tender, baggage car and three coaches jumped the track and turned over. Bribe Taker Resigns. At Albany, N. Yn Senator J. P. Alltls, who was accused by Senator Benn Conger of having accepted, a bribe to further the interests of certain bridge legislation in the New York Legislature, has filed his resignation with the Secretary of State. Hlioots Indian. At Murphy, N. C., Dan Bird a full-blood Cherokee Indian, was shot and instantly killed Saturday by Ed Sneed. 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