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—New York Herzald.
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HECKLESS ARD UNSAFE
Roosevelt’s Policy as Outlined
In His Cuban Letter.
QONTRARY TO COMMON SENSE.
John Sharp Willisms Says Jingoism
Is Too Weak a Word to Describe
the President)s Utterances — Hys
terin Beitter Expresses Them,
John Sharp Williams, Democratie
leader of the house, commenting in the
New York World on DPresident Roose
velt's jingo letter to the Cuban inde
pendence celebration, says among other
things: .
“The most absolutely indefensible
thing which the president says is this:
‘lf a nation pays its obligations, then it
need fear no interference from the
United States.” The necessary infer
ence is that if a nation does not pay
its obligations then it mugt ‘fear in
terference from the United %tfltes.’
“This is the most absolutely reckless,
unsafe, and I had almost said insane,
utterance that has ever been atiribut
ed tp a president of the United States.
1 cannot believe that the president said
it. You must have misquoted him.
“As far as individuals are concerned
criminal procedure for the collection
of debts has been abolished in all clv
ilized countries. Dickens made the
people of England and of the world
ashamed of imprisonment for debt.
Now comes along the president of the
most enlightened nation of the world
and intimates that it is the duty of
that nation to resort to interference
whenever a nation in the western hem
isphere refuses to pay its obligations.
“What would the interference be?
Why, if serious and if resisted it would
result in bombardment of citles, land
ing of troops and killing of men, be
sides rendering women and children
houseless. ‘lmagination of poet, mad
man or lover never went further than
the imagination of the acting president
when he says, if he does say, that it is
the duty of the United States to make
of itself a universal national collecting
agency; if he meant the same simply
to apply to people of the western hem
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL,
Leesburg, Georgia, Friday, July, 15 1_904.
isphere, then an American hemispheric
collecting agency.
“The truth is that commercialism
ought to be taught a valuable lesson—
to wit, that if it chooses to do busi
ness in unsafe countries without sta
ble institutions and among semibar
barous peopies it dces it with its eyes
open, it t:ulkes its own risk, and the
armies and unnvies of the world, espe
clally these of the United States, main
tained by taxing the peoble, cannot
be used as constables without warrant
or other process for debt collection pur:
poses.
“If 1 choose to buy Dominican or
Venezuelan securities or perinit Haiti
or either of fhe other countries to run
in debt to me it may be that T am a
fool from @ business standpoint, but
my folly dces not entitle me to have
my debts collected by the navy and
army cof the United States, and the
government of the United States ought
not only not to piace itself in that attl
tude. but it ought to go further and an
nounce to the world that, so far as the
hemisphere of America is concerned,
at any rate, collection of money ob
ligations by bombardment must cease.
If a privote individual killed another
- beeause that other had fraudulently
jncurred a debt which he refused to
pay we would hang the individual who
did the killing.
“You ask me if the president’s policy
as outlined in the quotation by you
l ‘increases expenditures for the army
and navy’ and whether this letter to
ex-Secretary Root, read upon the oc
casion referred,to, ‘would leave a per
petual sword of war hanging over Cen
tral and South America and ourselves.’
“Of course it does and would, or else
} the . ‘erance in the letter is mere im
} potence—and ‘impotence,” by the way,
| ‘which results to a certain degree in a
general loosening of the ties of civi
ized society.’ The utterance is of
course not ‘within constitutional limi
tations,’ except so long as it remains
‘merely an utterance and no overt act
looking toward realizing it I 8 resorted
to.
“Luckily, I presume, however, no
body will take the utterance of the
president seriously, and the ‘mad world
will wag’ its own way, largely undis
turbed by mere verblage. Words are
but breath as long as they remain mere
words, but if the government of the
United States were to proceed to act
upon the suggestive utterances fulmi-
“nated in the quotation which you sent
- me from the president's letter to ex
i Secretary Root then there would in
- 'deed be a ‘general loosening of the tles
of civilized society.’
' “Our first overt act looking toward
the realization in deeds of the policies
and tendencies oxpressed in the presi
dent’s words would be ‘an assumption
of authority contrary’ net only ‘to all
international usage,” but contrary te
the laws of common sense.
© “You ask me if ‘it would not be a
flagrant exhibition of Jingoism.” Jingo
ism is a word too weak. Madness
would come nearver to it. Hysteria
would come still nearer. But as a mat
ter ¢f faet the word has not yet been
invented sywbolizing the thing: of
which that sort of verbiage would be a
y flagrant exhibition!
| “By the way, If other nations are to
apply to us the doctrine which the
president is auoted as having laid down
a 8 our gnide in our relations with:
ihiem. then there might be some of
them who might say that we are not
acting with ‘decency in industrial mat
ters’ and that until we do act with
lflp(‘-ency in industrial matters we are
.subject at least »to the risk of ‘inter
ference’ on their part.
“But the last uiterance which you
quote from the president is the most
remarkable—to wit: ‘All that we ask
is that they govern themselves well
and be prosperous and orderly. Where
this is the case they will find helpful
ness from us.' The inference is that
if they conduct themselves in any oth
cer way they will find unhelpfulness
from us. Whether this unielpfulness
is to be merely pussive or active, af
firmative and aggressive is not stated.
“At any rate, it would be curious to
consider this pew discovery in the
realm of international relations from
the standpoint cof the condition of the
United States in 1877, when both panic
and Molly McGuires were in evidence,
and also about 1803, when panie, Chi
cago- strikes and varlous other things
were in evidence. I think it could
hardly be said that we were ‘prosper
ous or orderly’ at either of these two
periods or at several others in the his
tory of our country, and yet had the
nations of the world turned this acting
presidential doctrine around about on
us I think we conLd have replied that,
although we were nelther ‘prosperous
nor orderly,” we were at least, like the
dancing girl in the western show, ‘do
ing the best we could’ and because of
that had a right to beg ‘not to be shot
at" "
Political 3Machines.
The strenuots young governor of Ili
nois, who has just been defeated for
renomination, has alregdy commenced
to punish those of his appointees who
did not suppert lim to the last ditch.
He has demanded the resignation of
twenty-six prominent Republican offi
cials, and hundreds more are to be de
.capitated. “Death to all traitors!” is
the motto of Governor Yates, and it
is said that Mr. Deneen, the nominee
for governor, agrees with him and will
if successful exclude from participa
tion in the patronage distribution all
the partisans of Senators Cullom and
Hopkins and the other members of the
congressional delegation that opposed
the winning side. This strenuous ex
hibition of lack of brotherly love be
tween the Illinols Republicans shows
the mercenary machine that rules
them, which was alded and strength
| ened by President Roosevelt when he
appointed the notorious Doc Jameson
a naval officer. Such is Republican
politics everywhere—a machine over
thrown, another takes Its place, all
based on patronage and p!ymder.
Near the Supply.
| The Republicar congresslonal cam
! paign committee will have its head
' quarters in New York. The wise fat
. frier naturally wishes to have his
plant as near as possible to the supply
of raw material.—New York World.
STAT MENT OF THE CONDI
TION OF THE BANK OF SMITH
VILLE. ,
Located at Smithville, Ga., at
Close of Business June 13th 1904
RESOQURCES.
Loans dnd discounts ... . . 55,292 49
Overdralts. « 0 el 14 50
Bonds and stocks owned by the
BBnE el L A 150 00
Banking house . . . ; 1,614 55
Furniiure and fixtures .. . 1,519 I 1
Other real estate. . ... 4,818 71
Due from banks and bankers
int the state. « .. GRS G
Due from bankse and bankers
imotherstaten. ... . 0 8169
BEYENCY | 4 1,164 00
GO L Y s " 5500
Silver nicles and “pennies . . 734 04
Checks and cash items . . .. 51 50
Jotel . v o 5 v oy Ui 80l 86
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paidin. « . . 16, 400 00
Undivided profits, less current
expenses and taxes paid, ... 10,73 62
Due to banks and bankers
mthismate . v o iiaiae 600 00
Individual deposits sub
jectfocheck . .oy & - 2051084
Time certificates . +» . . . . 2,894 20
ChEßlers chieclk + . v o e 10 8o
Notes and bills:Rediscounted 30,500 €O
Tokal .«. 0N e e
STATE OF GEORGIA,LEE COUNTY.
Before me came] C, McClain,Cashier of
Bank of Smithville, who being duly
sworn says that the above and foregoing
statement is a true cendition of said bank
as shown by the bcoks of file in said bank,
J.C. McCLAIN, Cashier
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this Istday of July 1904.
+]. BW. MORGA.y, Deputy
Clerk Superior Court Lee County Ga.
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