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Lot oo s T, | ¥ O SoW P 3 W o RNy 30 e g2B NP AN T Sl o NOR ) P DD, SO APHAIL oSS Vg TR (R, B oTS R s | X 2 oI Mit ——~———" e — . - B e R = - i o T ey >, s —J———‘————-—_—-—\*—u————‘-‘-—_———____. “Room for ali it they’re careful.” . —New York Herzald. e : ; i 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. 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