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THE INAUGURATION.
All the world knows that the Demoocratic
party, as represented by Woodrow
Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall
and a majority In each branch of Congress,
assumed control of the government
of the United States March 4.
Mr. Wilson, after taking the oath of
office as President, declared that the
party had been chosen by the people to
perrorm a tasK; tnat tne event was not
one of mere politics, not a triumph, but
a dedication.
The Capital was crowded by hosts of
visitors from all parts of the nation,
who demonstrated in the parade and
the associated acclaim, a rejoicing for
party success, the first since 'March,
1892, when Grover Cleveland became
President.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
In delivering his inaugural address,
after noting the complete change in
government from Republican to Democratic
control, the Preside/it defined the
purpose of the change as follows:
"It means much more than the mere
success of a nartv. The success of a
party means little except when the nation
Is using that party for a large and
definite purpose. No one can mistake
the purpose for which the nation now
seeks to use the Democratic party. It
seeks to use it to interpret a change
in its own plans and point of view. Some
old things with which we had grown
familiar, and which had begun to creep
into the very habit of our thoughts and
of our lives, have altered their aspect
as we have latterly looked critically
upon them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and shown
themselves alien and sinister. Some
now things, as we look frankly upon
them, willing to comprehend their real
character, have come to assume the
aspect of things long believed in and
familiar, stufT of our own convictions.
We have been refreshed by a new inslebt
into our own life."
After defining the more prominents
policies of the new administration, the
President coucluded as folows:
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-<be
neglected, fundamental safeguarding of
property and of individual right. This
is the high enterprise of the new day;
to life everything that concerns our life
as a nation to the light that shines from
the hearth-fire of every man's conscience
and vision of the right It is
inconceivable that we should do this as
partizans; it is inconceivable we should
do it in ignorance of the facts as they
are or in blind haste. We shall restore,
not destroy. We shall deal with our
economic system as it is and as it may
be modified, not as it might he if wc
had a clean sheet of paper to write upon;
and step by step we shall make it
what it should be, in the spirit of those
who question their own wisdom and
seek counsel and knowledge not shal
low self-satisfaction or the excitement
of excursions whither they cannot tell.
Justice, and only justice, shall always
be our motto.
THE PHESIDENTS CABINET.
The Cabinet selected by President
Wilson and confirmed by the United
States Senate is as follows:
Secretary of State?William Jen 'ngs
Bryan, of Nebraska.
Secretary of Treasury?William G
McAdoo, of New York.
Secretary of War?Undley M. Garrison.
or New Jersey.
Attorney-Genoral?James McReynoldt
of Kentucky.
THE PRESBYTERli
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Postmaster-General ? Representative
Albert Burleson, of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy?Josephus
Daniels, of North Carolina.
Secretary of the Interior?'Franklin
H. Lane, of California. f.
Secretary of Agriculture?David F.
Houston, of Missouri.
Secretary of Commerce?.Representative
"William C. Redfield, of New York.
Secretarty of Labor?Representative
William B. Wilson, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Burleson is a Texan; Lane, a native-born
Canadian, but a resident of
California; Bryan, a Nebraskan, but
born in Illinois; Houston, a North
Carolinian, but a resident of Missouri;
Wilson, born In Scotland, but a resident
of Pennsylvania; Redfield, a New Yorker;
Mclteynolds, Kentuckian, but a resident
of New York; Daniels, a North
Carolinian; McAdoo, a Georgian, but a
resident of New York.
THE WEBB BILL IS LAW.
The Webb liquor bill, prohibiting the
shipment of liquor into "dry" States,
was repassed in the Senate on February
28 over President Taft's veto within
two hours from the time the President's
message of disapproval had been
laid before that body. A short debate,
In which the advocates of the bill voted
down a motion to postpone action and
In which they reaflirmed their belief that
the measure is unconstitutional, ended
with the passage of the bill by the
large majority of G3 to 21. The Webb
bill passed both houses of Congress,
and -went to the President ten days before.
His veto message was accompanied
by an opinion from AttorneyGeneral
Wickersham. Basing his decision
upon the Attorney-General's findings,
the President expressed the belief
that the measure was clearly unconstitutional,
because it gave the
States the right to interfere with Interstate
commerce. Closely following
the Senate, on March 3, the House
passed the Webb bill over the Presi?
dents veto by an overwhelming majority.
Representative Webb, author of
the bill on being informed of President
Taft's veto had said: "I am not at all
surprised at Mr. Taft's veto, lit was
ux|in-ioa rruru mo ueginmnjj, aunougn
in doing so he arrogates to himself
much superior Knowledge; for the bill
passed the House by vote of 240 to 64,
and passed the Senate by practically a
unanimous vote, and I think each Representative
and Senator who voted for
it reveres the Constitution as much as
the President. His Inclination and
surroundngs are against such salutary
legislation. I felt that when the bill
fell into his hands that it had no more
chance than did poor Madero on his
way from the palace to the penitentiary.
"I am greatly surprised, however, at
1 the President's cheap conduct in holding
the bill until the eleventh hour
- and fifty-ninth minute, evidently for the
1 purpose of making its passage over his
L veto that much more difficult, owing to
the crush of business in the closing
hours of Congress.
i TOE LAM) OF NOD.
That North America -was the Blbllcan
land of Nod and that Its first city,
F>noch, founded by Cain, son of Adam,
: was located In the Klamath lake eoun1
try of Southern Orepon, Is the statement
Jnst made by Charles Hallock. Ph.
i D., archaeologist, which he has filed In
the Peabody museum of Harvard TTni.
verslty. Dr. Hallock has concluded extensive
research work In the Klamath
replon and he found numerous remains
of a hleh civilization that flourished at
i a remote period of tlmo Here, says Professor
Hallock, Tubal-Caln, first artl
n'n or the 8oora*
it Events
fleer In Iron and bronze, flourished, and
Namah, his sister, granddaughter of
l^amech. Eden itsolf, he believes, -was
located on the now submerged continent
of Tula, of which the Islands of
Polynesia are the sole remaining mountain
?>eaks. This continent was submerged
by the Noachian deluge. At the
same time, the southern portion of
South America arose from the sea, the
subsidence of the other continent causing
a corresponding bulge, equalizing
land surfaces. "The actual discoveries
on tne pacific coast regarding the city
of Enoch have consisted ef bone, stone
and a few metal tools at various levels."
Dr. Hallock says "There are also traces
of crude machinery as well as inscriptions
and pictographs on -what appear
to have been temples. "The discoveries
show that the whole place formed a
great empire and that many routes extended
out from the city. The facts indicate
the birth-place of the people
from whch the early inhabitants of
North America sprang."
BALKAN DEMANDS.
According to ofllcial information received,
now the Balkan States will insist
upon the following conditions for
the conclusion of peace, even through
the mediation of the powers: First.
The contracting parties pledge themselves
to the immediate and simultaneous
cessation of hostilities after the
signing of the treaty of peace. Second.
Contemporaneously; Turkey must sur
render to the allies Adrianople, Scutari
and Janina. Third. The Bulgar-Turkish
frontier shall extend from Rodosto
to Midia, the exact line to be established
by a military commission composed
by Bulgarians and Turks. Fourth. The
Peninsula of Gallipoli to be ceded to
the allies. Fifth. All the Aegean
Islands occupied a-ti present by the
Greeks to be ceded to the allies. Sixth.
Prisoners of "war and hostages to be
exchanged with the briefest delay. Seventh.
Turkey to pay the allies $300,000,000
war indemnity, deducting from
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It, however, that portion of the Ottoman
public debt borne by the Turkish
European provinces. Eighth. A special
representative of the Sultan to be permitted
in the Balkan territory for religious
purposes having under his Jurisdiction
all mosques, pious funds and
church properties. Ninth. All treaties,
conventions and arrangements existing
between the allies and Turkey before
commencement or tne war to t>e reestablished.
GERMANY'S TAX BUDGET.
Consternation spread widely among
the propety-owning clashes of Germany
as the news became known that Emperor
William has announced that this
year's taxation will bo the heaviest ever
demanded in times of peace and has
warned his subjects that this will be a
"year of sacrifice" in Germany like that
Just a century ago?the year 1S13. It
is now given out that $150,000,000 will
be the sum demanded this year for the
projected increase of Germany's army
and for new fortifications which it is
especially planned to build on the Russian
frontier. Indeed, there threatens
to be something in the nature of an exodus
among old people who are living
on incomes derived from small capital
accumulated after years of toil and
thrift. Many will leave Germany and
take up residences in Switzerland.
Every person having a capital of more
than $5,000 will be compelled to pay
from one-half to one per cent, of the
value of their possessions. This nro
posed levy Is roundly denounced as
smacking more of confiscation than
taxation. The only consolation is the
small one that the emperor himself
and all the petty German sovereigns
and princes must also meet the tax. The
program contemplates adding 100,000
fresh troops to the German army within
two years.
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