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Vol. Vinis-No. 6.
WOODROW WILSON PREACHES SOUND PROHIBITION DOCTRINE
A aOVBMMBNT THAT LOOKS
OW that the noise of the inauguration
festivities has died away (not quite so
much “noise” as usual by the way),
the various departments of government
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Bre getting down to business, and those of us
who really want to be “patriotic, forward
looking men” are having
Not Mentioned
By Name In His
Masterful
Inaugural
But Taught In
Fundamentals.
pared to look at the humanitarian side of our
government as our President stands-—as we all
stand with him before our great national sor
row. with uncovered head and outstretched
hands to those who are suffering from storms
and flood and death.
If asked to name the one ringing, regnant
note in President Woodrow Wilson’s notable
inaugural address we think every careful stu
dent would answer: HUMANITARIANISM.
The writer of history, the preceptor of young
collegians, and the teacher of practical aca
demics and wholesome philosophy found it
neither possible nor desirable to divorce his
first message as President of the nation from
the creed of a life-time. From Alpha to Ome
ga it rang true to the heart of Woodrow Wil
son, the frierit of humanity, quite as much as
to the head of President Wilson, the command
ing statesman, with the eyes of the world upon
him.
And those of us who are fighting toward
Washington with the mightiest moral, civic
and financial question that confronts America
today, are glad to read and interpret the fol
lowing declaration of governmental fundamen
tals in our new President’s inaugural address:
“We have studied as perhaps no other nation
has, the most effective means of production,
but we have not studied cost of economy as we
should, either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen, or as individuals.
“Nor have we studied and perfected the
means by which government may be put at
the service of humanity, in safeguarding the
health of the nation, the health of its men and
its women and its children, as well as theii
INSPIRING VACATION WORK FOR PLUCKY STUDENTS—WRITE THE GOLDEN AGE.
time to think some —weigh-
ing and interpreting the pur
poses of the new administra
tion in the light of inaugural
utterances and the personal
principles of the President.
We are all the better pre-
ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 3, 1913
By William D. Upshaw, Editor.
rights in the struggle for existence. This is
no sentimental duty. The firm basis of gov
ernment is justice, not pity, These are mat
ters of justice. There can be no equality or
opportunity —the first essential of justice in
the body politic, if men and women and chil
dren be not shielded in their lives and their
vitality from the consequences cf great indus
trial and social processes which they cannot
alter, control or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself crush or
weaken or damage its own constituent parts.
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The first duty of law is to keep sound the so
ciety it serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of labor which
individuals are powerless to determine for
themselves are intimate parts of the very busi
ness of justice and legal efficiency.
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“This is the high enterprise of the new day;
to lift everything that concerns our life as a
nation to the light that shines from the
hearthfire of every man’s conscience and vis
ion of the right. It is inconceivable that we
should do this as partisans, 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 be if we had a clean sheet of
paper to write upon; and step by step we
sha‘l make it what it should be, in the spirit
of those who question their own wisdom and
seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self
satisfaction or the excitement of excursions
whither they cannot tell. Justice, and only
justice, shall always be our motto.”
“We shall restore, not destroy.” And justice
demands that our government shall not be
in league with the “great destroyer.”
Woodrow Wilson was so large a man before
he became president —so much larger and more
patriotic than many men who have been pres
ident, that we feel constrained to just keep
on calling him plain, straight Woodrow Wil
son, and we do this without any disparagement
of the high office to which he has been elected.
This said, we proceed to say this other thing:
Woodrow Wilson is too wise a statesman not
to see, and too great a patriot not to act at
the proper time, on the self-evident proposi
tion that that governmental justice which safe
guards the health of its citizens from the
spread of epidemics ami by the enforcement of
pure food laws, will demand governmental at
tention likewise to the poison and death
wrought by the liquor business. With the su
perior court of the United States already de
claring that a saloon is a nuisance and has
“no common law right to exist; with an
annual drink bill of this depleting and incit
ing poison amounting to practically two bil
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