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THE CLAYTON
fUNE. CLAYTON, GEORGIA.
WATCHFUL WAITING IS MEU POLICY
President Wilson Says Huerta’s Prestige Is Fast Crumbling-
Message Asks Legislation for Facilitating Credits Needed by
Farmers—Urges Presidential Primaries.
Washington, Deo. 2.—The president
today delivered the following message
to congress:
In pursuance of my constitutional
duty to "give to the congress Informa
tion of the state of the Union,” I take
the liberty of addressing ryou on sev
eral matters which ought, as It seems
to me, particularly to engage the at
tention of your honorable bodies, as
of all who study the welfare of the
nation.
I shall ask your Indulgence If I yen-
ture to depart In some degree from
the usual custom of setting before you
In formal review the many matters
which have engaged the attention and
called for the action of the several
departments of the government or
which look to them for early treat
ment In the future, because the list
Is long, very long, and would suffer
In the abbreviation to which I should
have to subject It. I shall submit to
you reports of the heads of the
several departments, In which these
subjects are set forth In careful de
tail, and beg that they may receive the
thoughtful attention of your commit
tees and of all members of the con
gress who may have the leisure to
study them. Their obvious Importance,
as constituting the very substance of
the business of the government, makes
comment and emphasis 6a my part un
necessary.
Country Is at Peace.
The country, I am thankful to say,
la at peace with all the world, and
many happy manifestations multiply
about us of a growing cordiality and
sense of community of Interest among
the nations, foreshadowing an age of
settled peace and good will.
There Is only one possible standard
by which to determine controversies
between the United States and other
nations, and that Is compounded of
these two elements: Our own honor
and our obligations to the peace of
the world. A test so compounded
ought easily to be made to govern both
the establishment of new treaty obli
gations and the Interpretation of those
already assumed.
Huerta Must Let Go.
There Is but one cloud upon our ho
rizon. That‘has shown itself to the
south of us, and hangs over Mexico.
There can be no certain prospect of
peace In Arfierlca until General Huerta
baa surrendered his usurped authority
In Mexico; until It Is understood on
all hands, indeed, that such pretended
governments will not ho ■enuntonanced
or dealt with by the government of
the United States. We are the
friends of constitutional government
In America; we are more than its
friends, we are Its champions; because
In no other way can our neighbors, to
whom we would wish In every way to
make proof of our friendship, work
out their own development In peace
and liberty. Mexico -has no govern
ment. The attempt to maintain one
at the City of Mexico has broken
down, and a mere military despotism
has been set up which has hardly more
than the semblance of national author
ity. It originated In the usurpation
of Victorlano Huerta, who, after a
brief attempt to play the part of con
stitutional president, has at last cast
aside even the pretense of legal right
and declared himself dictator. As a
consequence, a condition of affairs
now exists In Mexico which has made
It doubtful whether even the most
elementary and fundamental rights
either of her own people or of the
citizens of other countries resident
within her territory can long be suc
cessfully safeguarded, and which
threatens, If long continued, to im
peril the Interests of peace, order and
tolerable life In the lands Immedi
ately to the south of us. Even If the
usurper had succeeded In his purposes,
In despite of the constitution of the
republic and the rights of its people,
he would have set up nothing but a
precarious and hateful power, which
could have lasted but a little while,
and whose eventful downfall would
have left the country In a more de
plorable condition than ever. But he
has not succeeded. He has forfeited
the respect and the moral support
even of those who were at one time
willing to see him succeed. Little by
little he has been completely Isolated.
By a little every day his power uud
prestige are crumbling and the col
lapse Is not far away. We shall not,
I believe, be obliged to alter our pol
icy of watchful waiting. And then,
when the end comes, we shall hope to
see constitutional order restored in
distressed Mexico by the concert and
energy of such of her leaders as pre
fer the liberty of their people to their
own ambitions.
Currency Reform.
t turn to matters of domestic con
cern. You already have under con
sideration a bill fer the reform of our
system of banking and currency, for
which the country waits with linpati-
ence, as for something fundamental
to its whole business life and neces
sary to set credit free from arbitrary
and artificial restraints. I need not say
how earnestly I hope for Its early en
actment Into law.
I present to you, In addition, the
urgent necessity that special provision
be made also for facilitating the cred
its needed by the farmers of the coun
try. The pending currency bill does
the farmers a great service. It puts
them upon an equal footing with oth
er business men and masters of en
terprise, as it should; and upon Its
passage they will find themselves quit
of many of the difficulties which now
hamper them In the field of credit.
The farmers, of course, ask and
should be given no special privilege,
such as extending to them the credit
of the government Itself. What they
need and should obtain Is legislation
which will make their own abundant
and substantial credit resources avail
able as a foundation for joint, con
certed local action In their own be
half In getting the capital they must
use. It Is to this we should now ad
dress ourselves.
Allowed to Lag.
It has, singularly enough, come to
pass that we have allowed the Indus
try of our fafms to lag behind the
other activities of the country In Its
development. I need not stop to tell
you how fundamental to the life of
the Nation Is the production of Its
food. Our thoughts may ordinarily
be concentrated upon the cities and
the hives of Industry, upon the cries
of the crowded market place and the
clangor of the factory, but It is from
the quiet Interspaces of the open val
leys and the free hillsides that we
draw the sources of life and of pros
perity, from the farm and the ranch,
from the forest and the mine. With
out these every street would be si
lent, every office deserted, every fac
tory fallen Into disrepair. And yet
the farmer does not stand upon the
same footing with the forester and the
miner in the market of credit. He is
the servant of the seasons. Nature
determines how long he must wait for
his crops, and will not be hurried In
her processes. He may^lve his note,
but the season of its maturity depends
upon the Beason when his crop ma
tures, lies at the gates of the market
where his products are sold. And the
security he gives Is of a character not
known In the broker’s office or as fa
miliarly as it might be on the counter
of the banker.
Efficiency In Farming.
The agricultural department of the
government is seeking to assist as
never before to make farming an effi
cient business, of wide co-operative ef
fort. In quick touch with the markets
tor foodstuffs. The farmers and the
government will henceforth work to
gether as real partners In this field,
where we now begin to see our way
very clearly and where many Intelli
gent planB are already being put Into
execution. The treasury of the Uni
ted States has, by a timely and well-
considered distribution of llts depos
its, facilitated the moving of the crops
in the present season and prevented
the scarcity of available funds too oft
en experienced at such times. But
we must not allow ourselves to de
pend upon extraordinary expedients.
We muBt add the means by which the
farmer may make his credit constant
ly and easily available and command
when he will the capital by which to
support and expand his business. We
lag behind many other great countries
of the modern world In attempting to
do this. Systems of rural credit have
been studied and developed on the
other side of the water while we left
our farmers to shift for themselves In
the ordinary money market You
have but to look about you In any
rural dlstrtot to see the result, the
handicap and qpabarrasament which
have been put upon those who pro
duce our food.
Study Rural Credit.
Conscious of this backwardness and
neglect on our part, the congress re
cently authorized the creation of a
special commission to study the vari
ous systems of rural credit which
have been put Into operation In Ear
ope, and this commission is already
prepared to report Its report ought
to make It easier for us to determine
what methods will be best suited to
our own farmers.
Let Sherman Law Stand.
• Turn from the farm to the world of
business which centers In the city and
in the factory, and I think that all
thoughtful observers will agree that
the Immediate service we owe the
business communities of the country
is to prevent private monopoly more
effectually than It has yet been pre
vented. I think It will be easily agreedT
that we should let the Sherman anti
trust law stand, unaltered, as it is,
with its debatable ground about It, t
but that we should as much as possi
ble reduce the area of that debatable
ground by further and more explicit
legislation; and should also .supple
ment that great act by legislation
which will not only clarify It but also
facilitate its administration and make
it fairer to all concerned. No doubt
we shall all wish, and the country will
expect, this to be the central subject
of our deliberations during the pres
ent session; but It Is a subject so
many-sided and so deserving of care
ful and discriminating discussion that
I shall take the liberty of addressing
you upon It In a special message at a
later date than this. It Is of capital
Importance that the business men of
this country should be relieved of all
uncertainties of law with regard to
their enterprises and Investments and
a clear path Indicated which they can
travel without anxiety. It Is as Im
portant that they should be relieved
of embarrassment and set free to
prosper as that private monopoly
should be destroyed. The ways of
action should be thrown wide open.
I turn to a subject which I hope
can be handled promptly and with
out serious controversy of any kind.
I mean the method of selecting nomi
nees for the presidency of the United
States. I feel confident that 1
do not misinterpret the wishes
or the expectations of the
country when I urge the prompt
enactment of legislation which will
provide for primary elections through
out the country at which the voters of
the several parties may choose their
nominees for the presidency without
the Intervention of nominating con
ventions.
Independence for Philippine*.
These are all matters of vital do
mestic concern, and besides them, out
side the charmed circle of our own
national life in which our affections
command us, as well as our con
sciences, there stand out our obliga
tions toward our territories over sea.
Here we are trustees. Porto Rico,
Hawaii, the Philippines, are ours, once
regarded as mere possessions, are no
longer to be selfishly exploited; they
are part of the domain of public con
science and of serviceable and enlight
ened statesmanship. We must admin
ister them for the people who live In
them and with the same sense of re
sponsibility!^ them as toward our
own people In our domestic affairs. No
doubt we shall successfully enough
bind Porto Rico and the Hawaiian is
lands to ourselves by ties of justce
and affection, but the performance of
our duty toward the Philippines is a
more difficult and debatable matter.
We can satisfy the obligations of gen
erous Justice toward the people 6f
Porto Rico by giving them the ample
and familiar rights and privileges ac
corded our own citizens In our own
territory and our obligations toward
the people of Hawaii by perfecting the
provisions of self government already
granted them, but In the Philippines
we must go further. We must hold
steadily in view their ultimate Inde
pendence, and we mast move toward
the time of that independence as
steadily as the way can be cleared and
the foundations thoughtfully and per
manently laid.
Double Duty Toward Alaska.
A duty faces us with regard to Alas
ka which seeifis to me very pressing
and very Imperative; perhaps I should
say a double duty, for it coucerus both
the political and the material develop
ment of the territory. The people of
Alaska should be given the full terri
torial form of government, and Alas
ka, as a storehouse, should be un
locked. One key to It Is a system of
railways. These the government
should Itself build and administer, and
the ports and terminals It should Itself
control In the Interest of all who wish
to use them for the service and de
velopment of the country and Its peo
ple.
Specially Important.
Three or four matters of special Im
portance and significance I beg that
you will permit me to mention In clos
ing.
Our bureau of mines ought to be
equipped and empowered to render
even more effectual service than It
renders now In Improving the condi
tions of mine labor and making the
mines more economically productive
as well as more dafe. This Is an all-
important part or the work' of con
servation; and the conservation of
human life and energy lies even near
er to our integftH than the preserva
tion from was of our material re
sources.
We owe it, fijyjmere justice to the
railway employe 1 of the country, to
' a fgj r ind effective
. |y aet; and a law
a, si by in this matter
erf’ *o the advantage of
provide for th«/
employers’ ?le|
that we can
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expresses
GINNING IN GEORGIA
CENSUS BUREAU GIVES NUMBER
OF BALES GINNED UP TO
NOVEMBER 14.
—Atlanta.
The preliminary total for the state
of Georgia wa3 made public by the
bureau of census. The corrected to
tal and the amounts for the different
counties for the crops of 1913 and
1912 are furnished for publication.
Crop-
ter the railroads of
to the advantage of
mploy. The experi-
imber of the (states
that.
evote ourselves to
meeting pressl demands of plain
earnestly as to
of political and
Social Justice
the machinery for
'is vital only as it
lea it
COUNTY.
1913.
1912.
Appling
. 6,051
3,204
Baker
. 6,794
5,980
Baldwin
. 8,985
8,669
Banka
. 8,216
5,846
Bartow
. 19,209
13,938
Ben Hill
. 8,222
6,568
Berrien
. 13,680
8,606
Bibb
. 7,858
6,955
Bleckley .......
. 10,727
6,843
Brooks
. 12,497
8,171
Bryan . . . . „ .
. 2,795
1,837
Bulloch
. 33,067
15,344
Burke
. 41,87#
27,837
Butts
. 11,195
9,111
Calhoun
. 15,236
11,750
Campbell
. 11,007
6,908
Carroll
. 30,645
20,615
Chattahoochee . .
, 30,645
20,615
Chattooga ....
. 10,628
7,486
Cherokee ....
. 9,297
6,320
Clarke
. 9,624
8,357
Clay
. 11,516
8,177
Clayton ....
. 8,694
6,851
Cobb
. 14,773
10,340
Coffee
.15,469
8,583
Colquitt ; . . . .
. 19,099
13,939
Columbia
. 12,805
7,910
Coweta ......
. 22,268
20,772
Crawford
. 4,858
444
Crisp
. 21,418
14,563
Decatur
. 12,292
8,854
DeKalb
. 8,859
5,677
Dodge
. 28,467
18,559
Dooly
. 33,019
23,186
Dougherty ....
. 14,129
12,264
Douglas
. 8,330
5,126
Early
. 16,379
13,169
Echols
89
150
Efflnhom ....
. 3,456
2,086
Elbert
. 17,239
11,812
Emanuel
. 30,261.
17,700
Fayette
. 9,457
8,655
Floyd
. 17,123
12,683
Forsyth
. 7,212
4,731
Franklin ....
. 17,457
13,935
Fulton
. 1,587
860
Glascock ....
. 2,882
2,232
Gordon
. 12,002
9,673
Grady
, 6,197
4,766
Greene
. 14,235
10,659
Gwinnett ....
. 21,230
13,583
Hall
. 11,053
7,320
Hancock
. 14,235
11,859
Haralson
. 9,686
6,321
Harris
. 18,032
17,237
Hart
. 17,238
10,926
Heard .....
. 10,444
8,997
Henry
. 20,385
15,351
Houston
.18,044
12,848
Irwin
. 15,532
10,751
Jackson
. 31,246
23,967
Jasper
. 19,749
16,525
Jeff Davis
. 3,544
2,433
Jefferson . . . . .
. 22,834
16,852
Jenkins
. 16,798
9,770
Johhnson ."....
. 16.440
11,113
Jones
. 10,352
9,905
Laurens
. 42,736
29,398
Lee
. 14,570
10,008
Lincoln ......
. 7,053
5,527
Lowndes
. 8,996
4,474
Lumpkin ......
. 421
314
McDuffie
. 7,793
5,408
Macon
14,595
11,423
MadfBon ......
. 20,096
14,535
Marion
. 7,824
6,394
Meriwether
. 24,915
23,579
Miller
. 5.174
3,836
Milton
. 5,872
4,354
Mltcaell
. 28,640
20,341
Monroe
. 18,385
16,446
Montgomery . .
. 12,418
8,244
Morgan
. 20,540
17,600
Murray
. 3,123
2,385
Muscogee
. 5,793
5,754
Newton
. 18,586
14,726
Oconee
. 13,455
9,667
Oglethorpe ....
. 18,956
14,823
Paulding ....
. 9,600
6.203
Pickens
. 2,146
1,555
Pierce
. 3.491
1,280
Pike
. 17,819
16,803
Polk
. 13,933
9,175
Pulaski
. 14,152
9,872
Putnam
. 10,959
8.068
Quitman
. 4,416
3.975
Randolph ....
,. 24,194
19,851
Richmond
. 8,605
5,141
Rockdale ......
. 8,136
4,688
Schley
. 5,233
5,031
Screven ......
. 25,743
15,981
Spalding
. 12,596
12,564
Stephens
. 4,765
3,233
Stewart
. 12,195
10,836
Sumter
. 31,238
26,234
Talbot
. 8,283
8,262
Taliaferro . . .
. 7,972
5,119
Tattnall
. 15,936
6,244
Taylor . . . . 1. 1 .
„ 10,153
8,096
Telfair
. 12,550
8,925
Terrell
. 33,137
28,324
Thomas
. 19,602
13,545
Tift
. 13,853
7,769
Toombs .....
. 9,915
5,290
Troup
. 19,107
18,502
Turner ......
. 19,115
13,598
Twiggs . „ . . .
. 9,672
6,882
. 11,235
9,996
Walker
. 6,486
4,260
Walton
. 35.677
24,476
Ware
. 1,207
496
Warren
. .9,540
5,890
Washington . . . .
. 22,886
17,557
Wayne
. 3,781
1..093
Webster
. 4,232
3,281
Wheeler
. 6,400
4,304
Whitfield
. 5,306
3,476
. 22,447
14,065
Wilkes ....*..
. 19,294
15,612
Wilkinson ....
. 6,614
4,705
Worth
. 24,709
17,477
All other'. . . J .
. . 5,351
2,828
Totals * . . .
1,823,739
1,331,709
One Man Fights State Militia.
Joe Cochran, the fighting head of
Atlanta's park board, who is never
happy unless he Is In a scrap, and
who was the beaten but undaunted
hero of Atlanta’s last and greatest
artillery battle, has joined the reve
nue officers and henceforth is going
to devote his warlike instincts to the
moonshining raids.
Mr. Cochran has been appointed a
deputy under Col. Bud Blalock, and
in the future will have headquarters
up around Jasper, where he will proba
bly get all the excitement his nature
raves.
Don’t get the wrong idea of Mr.
When he was head of the park
'Cochran replied that he was not
Eventually the governor issued an
Which_ they eventually did.
One man couldn’t fight the whole
The “baby of the Georgia legisla-
ty, is only 23 years of age, and if
United States.
For some years past South Carolina
Mr. Edmondson, however; is not
inning on the strength of his youth.
He has other and more serious claims,
which he will put forth against the
Incumbent from the Eleventh district,
Hon. J. Randall Walker.
Colonel Edmondson was the author
two years ago of the movement for a
constitutional convention, and his ad
vocacy of a new constitution for Geor
gia has attracted state-wide atten
tion.
For some time past lie has been
prominent also as an advocate of
cheaper school books for tlie children
of Georgia, and recently published an
illuminating article on that subject.
He claimed that Georgia lawyers were
already the beneficiaries of state pub
lications, in connection with the law
books, and that the plan which has
worked so handsomely for the Geor
gia lawyers, should now be enlarged
bo as to protect the eight hundred
thousand school children from the op
pression of the “school book trust.”
It Is understood that there are sev
eral other aspirants to congressional
honors in the Eleventh.
Cause of Thanksgiving Accidents.
An interesting theory has been put
forward here as to why so many hun
ters get shot and killed accidentally
in Georgia at the Thanksgiving period.
It is said as a matter of fact that hun
dreds of people go hunting on Thanks
giving Day, who do not touch a gun
the whole rest of the year around, and
that they have neither the knowledge
or the experience to use the weapon,
and consequently are in continual
danger of either shooting themselves
or some companion or "innocent by
stander.”
Most of the accidents this year in
Georgia, and there were many, were
traceable. It is said, to hunters who
were not experienced and who were
not familiar with the guns they were
using.
Especially with young boys, it seems
to be a regular annual pastime for
Thanksgiving to get hold of any beg
ged or borrowed gun, and acquired a
bird dog of hound for the day by
the same means, and then go hunt
ing.
Free Boll Weevil Book.
Georgia farmers should be well pre
pared to fight the Mexican boll weevil
which Is expected to Invade the state
next year. They have had ample
notice of the coming of this scourge
of the cotton fields, and U they are
not ready It will be their own fault.
Both the state officials and the gov
ernment officials In Washington have
been doing their utmost to impress
on the cotton growers the tremendous
loss which they will sustain if the
weevil brings the usual devastation.
Those who wish to study the boll wee
vil can obtain an Interesting illustrat.
ed book on the subject by writing to
Senator Hoke Smith in Washington.