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a> *^ >Ss 1 \JR3L —r=r—-_ WftvJlw Xwy 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 [N| a 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. ' WII R «bi® 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. * * * * * “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 (Continued on page four.) ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS A YEAR :: FIVE CENTS A COPY