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Lawmakers Adjourn Sine Die
1 at 1:13 A. M—Getaway Ses
sion Given Over to Play. .
The Georgia legislature adjourned
sine die at 1:13 o’clock this morning.
'Officially, it adjourned exactly at mid
night. but the clock was set back, after
the manner of an old-fashioned Action,
and the hands were not permitted to |
indicate the midnight hour until a few
seconds after the speaker's gavel had
fallen for the last time.
B hen the house met there was a mass i
of business on hand to be disposed of j
* before adjournment. The members !
were more in a mood to play than to I
work, and throughout the night's pro
ceedings a spirit of levity and hilarity,
with an occasional dash of hysteria,
prevailed.
The one big fight of the night session
came over a relatively inconsequential
matter —the appointment of senate
pages for the first -session of the next
legislature. The biggest matter corning
to the house's attention on its Anal day
» was disposed of with a mere wave of
the hand—the hanking bill.
The house and senate were in dis
agreement about few items, compared
with the usual situation on the closing
day. Then- was some difference of
opinion with respect to the insurance
hill and several items of the appropria
tion bills.
Fight Over Pages in Senate.
None of thesj differences was partic
ularly violent, however, and they were
quickly adjusted and the bills passed.
The fiercest conflict of the entire
night was the Aght to take the appoint
ment of the senate pages out of the
hands of Messenger Hargett and place
them directly in the hands of the pres
ident of the senate, just as they are
in the hands of the speaker of the
house.
M Hargett had rallied the senate
strong!?, to his cause—largely, it was
charged, through distribution of pat
ronage to relatives of senators—and all
efforts to reconcile the two houses on a
non-Hargett platform were unavailing.'
F inally the matter was straighten, c !
out b? dividing the appointments be- |
tween the president of the senate and
the messenger—a solution far from sat- 1
S] to a majority of the member
ship, but apparently the best that might !
b> a-■ i'>ve<: at the moment.
Women Lawyer Bill Dies.
Among tin bills that went to their j
death lm-i night were the lieutenant J
gove’-nor bill, tin general banking bill j
and th woiiinr lawyer bill.
I -it- • pprop, iation bills, properly ad- j
.I’.st'i wir crowded through at the!
' sl m'n "• ami while the member-!
i 'con ,| "i ■ < >l,l Tim, Religion." the,
I m ' au.ioc. ned.
Imil. n hist night's session the two
•oj.-'s had a love feast over the gen
-1 ■' tram, hill, forced into confer
ence because of the mass of amend
ments submitted. The real Aght came
over the appropriations bill.
Ihe senate was determined to do
nothing except squabble over the ap
pointment of its pages, its rules com
mittee refused twice to Ax the child
labor bill as a special order and twice
the vote sustained the committee’s de
cision. The child labor bill never
reached a hearing, although its adher
t ents claimed to have pledged a major
ity in the upper house.
The surprise of the session came late
yesterday afternoon when the senate in
a 30-minute executive session con
firmed Hoke Smith's appointments to
the state board of education over which
subterranean politics has been playing
the entire session.
Senate Sets a Precedent.
The situation furnished by the sen
ate's action is unique in Georgia’s leg
islative annals. The senators, in face,
have announced with satisfaction that
they have set a precedent.
The Smith apopintments on the board
—Dr. Jere M. Pound, T. J. Wooster. J.
C. Langston and the late Judge E. G.
Lawson —were made September 8. 1911.
and have never been sent tn the sen
ate. Governor Frown sent in appoint
ments this session, superseding Pound
and Langston by G. R. Glenn and Judge
A. T. Moon. Walter E. Steed had been
appointed in the spring to All the place
made vacant by the death of Judge
Lawson.
The senate grumbled over the Brown
appointments and became involved in a
legal squabble arising over the fact
that Smith's appointments were made
under a new act creating the present
board of education.
Governor Brown then withdrew his
nominations.
It had happened that Governor
Brown had furnished the senate with
the minutes of the executive office of
September 8, as fuel for the controversy.
The governor told the senate plainly
that the minutes were sent In merely as
Information and the names were not to
be considered as nominations.
The senate thought otherwise. From
the minutes of the executive office it
was concluded that Hoke Smith must
have made the above appointments.
They were confirmed forthwith.
The action of the upper house means
s court fight. Governor Brown, it is
understood, will hold that the senate
has confirmed no appointment and
name men of his own choosing. In this
event quo warranto proceedings from
one side or the other will lesult, giving
the supreme court a opportunity to
hand- dow n a ruling as companion of
. Sha ekieford deci si on.
'Far Away From Hotels in Nature's Dell s'
POPHAMS FIND REAL "EDEN"
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'Tis Wonderful. ’Tis Nice. This!
■ Floridian Paradise—Pastor-
Poet and Bride Say So.
Rev. William Lee Popham. poet and
lover, who recently was detained in du
rance vile by the unsympathetic police
force of Atlanta because of certain dis
crepancies in signing his and his bride’s
names to a hotel register, and who.
therefore, was forced to bare the ro
mance of his life to the world, the flesh i
and the devil, has at last found tin i
proper environment for his untram- j
meled "soul" with all its ramifications j
Rev. Popham married a Kentucky
girl, but it was not until their afreSt
in Atlanta that the fact of their mar
riage. together with several of his
choicest poems, came to light.
In a lengthy communication, received
today by The Georgian, he tells of
having found a perfect place for the
"making, of a lovers’ paradise." This
new Eden is on the Alfire river, just
ten miles from Tampa. Fla., Here will
he live wit h his wife.
Pretty Alfired Nice.
‘The building site," he says, "is by a
mammoth spring of crystal water,
which flows undisturbed from the bos
om of Mother Earth and gently slopes
its round banks into a beautiful flower
bedecked brook, and this brook winds
its timid way through clusters of dog
wood and magnolias to the Alfire river."
Going further, he tells of the many
delights of the woodland bower —of its
many advantages, celestial, floral, fan
nal. exotic, neurotic and tommyrotit-.
In phrases laden with the honey dew
of poesy, he tells of-his future plans.
The Rev. Mr. Popham is now on a lec
ture tour through Georgia, but shortly
will abandon this and give his time ex
clusively to romance.
Yes, Yes, Go On!
"My wife is a mermaid." he confided
in his letter —and then, speaking for
himself, "and we like the water, for al!
the world loves a lover, and a lover
loves all the world, and three-fourths
of the earth is water. Then why should
we not have chosen such environments,
here in this dream-kissed spot among
the birds and flowers?
Indeed, why not?
"Away from the smoke of the city,
hut easily in boating distance, we have
chosen to build our nightingale nest for
two; and in the beautiful Solitude of
the woodland and beneath the spread
ing shade of magnolias we will glm»
with the brook and float with the tide;
and in the moonlight and starlight and
summer afternoons our boat will rock
us to slumber, and our dreams will be
written in both story and rhyme; and
our heart beats will be felt in the
worlds literature and our love will be
the fairy magic inspiration of every
poem and every dream.
Hear Things m the Gloaming.
At evening w< will retire, -hut in
from" the burdens and cares of th® da
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912.
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William Lee I’opham ami his
bride who have found “Para
dise” on the hanks of the Alfire
river in Florida.
at morning, awaken to feel the power
of life and love and the perfume of a
kiss—which only lovers arc capable to
bestow. In this earthly paradise our
soul will revel in the sunshine of heav
en and in the gleam of stars. Many a
sweet voice we hear in the gloaming,
which gives us new inspiration to write
the messages of our heart. We hear
the voices of the night where we lie in
meditation—the law n for our beds and
the sky for our blankets."
Transmogrification evidently is t
very small trick for Rev. Popham. First
fish, then fowl, then woodland sprites,
he and his mate will change form every
time the humor strikes them down in
this Floridian Eden.
“We like to travel as birds In th'
air," he writes, "and as fishes under
the water, and arm in arm we are
climbing life’s hill together."
It would hardly be supposed that
such a pair- as this could think in mun
dane numbers, but he naively con
fesses that he actually ale with his
mouth in good, old-fashion sixty
chews-to-the-minute style. Ami it was
candy, too.
What the Waves Are Saying.
"While writing this." he admits, “we
are sitting together by an open box of
candy, by the blue ocean, and while
kisses a e sweeter and certainly more
lasting than candy, the latter is not
unwelcome." Then, continuing lyrical
ly, pat egyrically. "In a poet’s Eden
we ramble, where every tree is bloom
ing its flowers of lovf- —and even the
flowers bend to kiss in celebration of
our happiness and the waves roll over
each other in glee and frolic and seem
glad because of ou: gladness. The sea
gulls. the emblems of peace and con
tentment. linger near upon the blu
bosom of the locking waves, and they
seem to know that even they will bt i
pan of th' love story which we a o
"tiling by the sea." !
If the original Eve han a.ul thP i- I
vantage of Rev. Pop,a..m< adv ic. I- 1
human race today would probably be
rambling in wooded glades instead of
toiling in the money mil] and grinding
■it the gris-ly grill. H< makes .he fol
lowing caustic comm'ntary of Adam's
methods of im t• actions:
"If Evi 's appetite for airpies had been
cultivated for kisses Evi would have
forgotten her desire for the apples at
tiie gentle pressure o/ man’s lips and
today we would be rambling in the
original courts of Eden."
In conclusion. Rev. Popham breaks •
nay, crashes into veise. In this metri
cal conclusion he pays respects to the
police who attested him, to the re
porters who brought to light the fact
of his marriage and to such other per
sons and institution'-- as at'- necessary
to complete the rhyme.
Here it goes:
"The hot retreats from Atlanta’s streets
Hold no charm for me.
Nor is there peace with the police
For lovers such as we.
From city wall:- ami reporters’ calls
And the eager ertmeut's gl ams
The waves seclude in solitude
The safety of our dream.
True romance will find tom® folks tin
kind,
Tho’ the world doth love a lover,
Rut what care we by the rolling sea.
Where in the dunes we hover?
Away from hotels in Nature's dells
Lovers find their heaven.
For in the tent of sweet content
\\ e retire at six or eleven."
LEITERS IN A PALACE
GO"BACK TO NATURE”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Mrs. Jo
seph I.lite-, wife of the millionaire and
former wheat king, has eschewed the
pleasures of Bat Harbor and Newport
for the delights of her mlllion-dollar
glass palace in the woods on the Vir
ginia hills.
Th Leiter count! v home overlooking
Washington has recently been com
pleted. Thete Mr. and Mrs. Leiter
are living a happy, back-to-nature ex
istence. While the mansion is in the
woods, it is luxurious and has been
name! the glass palace because many
of the outside rooms ate inclosed i’<
glass.
TO DELVE INTO MINDS OF
CONVICTS TO STOP CRIME
JEFFERSONVILLE. IND.. Aug. 15.
Psychological study of state convicts,
aimed to cure mental deficiencies that
led men and women Into ways of crim®,
will be attempted in the Indiana re
formatory. according to an announce
ment made by Superintendent David
Peyton. t laboratory will be estab
lished in the reformatory, where tests
of -aeh prisoner's mentality may be
| made, astir wnich < ur- s w ill he at
|: a-' .d, av' ding to th- patent's
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IMS BRIDE
Girl Who Thought She Had
Been Deserted Leaves City
With "‘Her Love.”
( onwat' Hutcheson, the want ad
wooer, and his country girl bride, whose
romantic courtship of one day termi
nated in an elopement to Atlanta and
then the sudden disappearance of the
bridegroom, today are reunited and are
on board a train speeding through the
country somewhere to some place—
destination unknown.
Following the publication of the
story that the want ad bride, formerly
Miss Mary MeEachin, of Denton. Ga..
was in Atlanta at the end of a four
days honeymoon seanhing for her lost
husband, she received a telegram yes
terday from the missing bridegroom
asking her to meet him at the depot
last evening'. The message came from
Milledgeville.
The "country girl" was almost over
come with joy when she read this mes
sage, and at once packed her grip, in
forming her sister-in-law. Mrs. Horman
MeEachin. of 97 Lovejoy street, with
whom she has been stopping, that the
idea that her husband had left her was
all an hallucination and that she would
soon be "on her way." Without wait
ing for her sister-in-law to get ready
to accompany het. Mrs Hutcheson hur
ried away to the depot, where she met
the bridegroom and where an affection
ate and dramatic scene took place.
The? then boarded another train and
left the city.
"I have tjo idea where they have
gone." said Mrs. MeEachin. "My sis
ter-in-law never told me a word ex
cept that, she would go w herever her
'love' wished (hat she go.”
SEABROOKE’S FAT EEL
WAS A WATER SNAKE;
GUESTS FEEL WIGGLY
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Thomas Q,
Scabrooke, actor, is a fine chef, but a
bad judge of eels. Any one of the four
persons who dined with the actor-chef
yesterday will go on record as to the
correctness of this statement.
Mr. Seabrooke is the possessor of a
bungalow at South Beach, S. I. While
• fishing he caught what he supposed
I .as an eel. Being particularly fond of
i cels, the actor took it home, skinned
■ ind fried it. Then he called in his
'ne ighbors and Mrs. Seabrooke to par
-1 '.!<e. They ate liberally and remarked
j h it the actor was a gieat cook as well
- an excellent fisherman.
All were smacking their lips when
Dr. Hall, a friend, called. He listened
to the story and examined the head of
ihe supposed eel.
"Thomas, you have eaten a water
snake —a regular water snake. I don't
know what you will do," said the doc
tor.
Every one felt wiggly and turned
pale.
“I prescribe whisky," announced the
physician, and the fried snake received
a liberal bath in the alcoholic beverage.
SOME REAL CROOKS IN
MINNEAPOLIS: &-ROOM
HOUSE THIEF’S LOOT
M INNEA P< iLIS, Aug. 15. —The police
and detective forces of the twin cities
today have been asked to keep a sharp
look out for an eight-room house that
has been stolen. The house was the
property of Mrs. Frank N. Edmonds.
It stood at Fourth avenue. North, and
Fourtli street.
One day Mrs. Edmonds got notice
from the health department to clean
up the property. She sent her hus
band, a real estate dealer, to investi
gate. The lot needed cleaning. The
house had been moved away and a lit
ter of materials was left on the
grounds.
The police admit the case has them
puzzled.
TWO LIFE TERM CONVICTS
ESCAPE IN MONROE CO.
FORSYTH. GA.. Aug. 15.—Sheriff T.
S. Holland has just returned from an
unsuccessful hunt for two white con
victs serving life sentences, who made
their getaway from the guards at the
Monroe county convict camp.
<'housing a time w hen tile superin
tendent was at home sick, one of the
guards was having a good time at In
dian Springs and a third guard was ab.
sent w ith another body of convicts, Jim
Harrison and Jeff Turner, sent up from
Spalding county, asked permission tn
rest in the shade of some bushes by the
roadside and escaped into the woods.
Enable to leave the large band of con
victs. it was impo sible for the guards
to give immediate chase. Although the
sheriff and the commissioners, with the
aid of the county’s dogs, have been
scouring the surrounding country, no
trace of the escapes has been found.
GRAND JURY PUTS SUNDAY
LID ON TIGHT IN GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN, GA.. Aug. 15. —The grand
jury of Spalding superior court, which
has been in session during the past two
weeks, has called the druggists and
soft drink dealers before it and given
warning that no Sunday selling w ill be
tolerated. So the Sunday lid goes on
In Griftin. The drug stores and soft
drink stands have sold cigars, tobacco
and < <dd drinks on Sunday, just as an?
other day. Many of the citizens ap
prove of he action of the grand jury Ir
-topplim Hit Sunday sal''S.
PUBLIC CAN ADVANCE
ONLY WITH ROOSEVELT,
SAYS ALFRED H, LEWIS
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
NEW YORK. Aug. 15— In a recent
editorial, one of our dailies,
speaking for the trusts and for
criminal privilege—those thumbs and
fingers of Satan!—taunts the public
with its political idleness, and in pass
ing calls It a "a Pharisee." The public
—says the condemnatory daily—com
plains of criminal privilege and accuses
It of coercion, corruption and bribery.
The daily points out how the trusts are
frequently the victims, not the crimi
nals. and—threatened by the public's
own elected officers—pay not bribes,
but blackmail. The public, crying for
protection, should—by word of the dai
ly—in its turn protect. It should save
the trusts from extortioners in office
before assailing them as extortioners,
bleeding the public.
This charge is not new. It was made
four years ago by Mr. Archbold. You
know Mr. Archbold. He sits all day at
No. 26 Broadway, inclosing certificates
of deposit for $1,0(10 and $2,000 and
$5,000 and $50,000 to "My Dear Gen
era! Grosvenor" and "Dear Sibley" and
"My Dear Senator Foraker" and "Dear
Mr. Penrose." meanwhile urging per
incident that this measure be killed or
that measure pressed, or tins man be
made a judge or that man prevented
from becoming an attorney general;
and all and singular with a view to ex
tending a corruption which in the be
ginning produced him (Mr. Archbold)
and has ever since continued to pleas
antly foster and fatten him.
Public Should Reform Itself.
Mr. Archbold and the metropolitan
daily have some reasonable right on
their side. Good can come out of Naz
areth. truth proceed from a metropoli
tan daily or an Archbold. It may even
be echoed by a Chancellor Day. And
because of a woolsack aphorism which
insists that he who comes into equity
must come with clean hands, a convict
ed public, complaining of trust extor
tions and the encroachments of crimi
nal privilege, should turn honestly ac
tive in an effort to reform itself.
As declared by Mr. Archbold and re
declared by that metropolitan daily—
defending criminal privilege with red
faced zeal—the public too often and
too carelessly has maintained a band of
wolves at its Capitols as part and parcel
of what it calls congresses and legis
latures.
Failing of its plain duty, the public,
in tlie business of its office-filling, has
allowed itself to be ruled by bosses
ruled by money. These bosses were
mere wolf-masters. They picked out
and controlled the public wolf-packs.
. The big parties were botli to blame.
There was the Republican part of the
I pack, which corresponded with the
I black timber wolves of our Northwest
ern woods. There was the Democrat
fragment of the puck which-—dingy ami
brindled as to moral hue —found their
prototypes in the big gray wolves of
the plains.
Being gathered together. gaunt,
hurgry-eyed. famished of flank, the
wolf-pack, letting its glance rove about
I the plains of business, describes a fat
trust —felonious, but fat. It is now the
chase begins. The fat company is be
set by some bill or some resolution, cal
culated for its injury or destruction.
Price Must Be Forthcoming.
At this crisis, enter the ill-odorcd
folk of the lobby, w hose province is the
unclean province of the go-between.
The threatened trust is told the price of
peace and safety. Unless the price be
forthcoming the injurious bill or de
structive resolution will be voted
through
The harassed company pays the
price. With that the wolf-pack fall
upon that blackmail —after the bosses
and minor wolf-masters have torn off
their shares —and rend it to pieces.
Who is responsible for this special
and particular corruption? Is it the
trusts, hunted by the wolf-pack? Or is
it the public, lazily indifferent both to
its ballot duty and its political respon
sibility?
The above, however, doesn't mark in
full the boundaries of a public culpa
bility, and Mr. Archbold and the metro
politan daily stopped talking too soon.
In its laxities of polities the public is
not only to blame for wolves of black
mail in legislatures and congresses, hut
also for the leg freedom wrongfully
enjoyed by a multitude of trust organs
and felons of criminal privilege. Os
these Mr. Archbold and the excited daily
say suspiciously nothing.
Consider those beef acquittals in
I’hicago and those sugar dismissals
through the interposition of a conven
ient statute of limitations in New
York. Consider the score or more of
similar waterhauls in anti-trust litiga
tions—those farcical dissolutions by the
supreme court of Tobacco and Stand
ard Oil. Forget not, too, those one
hundred and one “investigations" of
steel and sugar and railroads and in
surance.
Those trials and investigations in
their results gave the world a long and
ebon roll call of self-confessed male
factors. These letters were self-ad
mitted criminals, by both letter ami
spirit of the law. They had committed
crimes of rebate and perjury and lar
ceny and forgery. Than they no Paul
Kelly, by their own admissions, was
more the proper candidate for stripes.
But the law was not enforced.
There came no convictions, no sen
tences, no stone walls. As to these rich
and trust-bulwarked rogues, the pub
lic's attorneys heard as little, saw a
little. forgot as much of what should
militate against them, or go to prove
their mean iniquities, as they might.
Trust Rogues Rich.
The reason?
Those trust rogues were rich and
therefore "respectable." and "respecta
bility," as a phrase, had been twisted
and turned and improved upon until it
operated as an indulgence. It so oper
ates today. He who is "respectable”
may commit bribery and perjury and
larceny and embezzlement and pecula
tion—by means of robber commissions
and salaries never earned —and still live
safe from the law lash.
"Respectability!"
It is the modern benefit of clergy.
Today the thief has but to plead his
"respectability” and courts, juries, the
very law itself, grovel before him. No
officer lays hand upon his shoulder. No
prosecutor presents, no grand jury in
diets, no court convicts, no chains clank,
no bolts shoot home. For, io, he is
"respectable!"
While the public is correcting those
blackmail evils of legislatures and con
gresses. against which Mr. Archbold
and the metropolitan daily have so
w'ailingly— and honestly—protested. "*ll
should also demand the RECALL,
wherewith to twist the recusan tails of
trust-owned judges and money-ruled
district attorneys.
in his "Confession of Faith” Mr.
Roosevelt sets forth "The right of the
people to rule." No one will challenge
this claim. And yet, co-related to that
"right to rule" is the responsibility of
not only ruling but ruling rightly. As
a picture of popular power and the pub
lic’s ability to command its own offi
cers. Mr. Roosevelt also uses these
words:
"V\ hatever I did as' president I
was able to do only because I had
the backing of the people. When
on any point I did not have that
backing, when on any point I dif
fered from the people, it mattered
not whether I was right or whether
I was wrong, my power vanished.”
Law Never Suppresses Crime.
This last suggests a thought some
what aside from politics. The thought
is not novel, yet no less important. The
public has imposed upon It not only a
political duty, but a duty of sentiment.
Crime is never Suppressed by effort of
mere law. Men fear prisons less than
they fear infamy and loss of name and
friends And it is these last great pen
alties. as much as any failure of action
by judges and district attorneys, which
are peculiarly wanting in the cases of
our rich and "respectable" scoundrels.
Take the men who at these trials and
"investigations” confessed— creatures of
mire-born avarice and a morality of
mud! There followed, as stated, no jail
sentence. But what was their social or
commercial punishment? Did they lose
place, or fall behind? Were they thrust
aside? Did they become outcasts as the
’ result of their discovered and admit
ted guilt?
t Perish the thought! Nothing of dis
aster. whether of church, club, draw
ing room or bourse, arose to overtake
; their evil heels. The same friends
grasped their hands and dragged them
home to dinner. They dealt with the
t same banks, and their accounts were as
( welcome and their money-potent signa
tures as deeply rejoiced over as of yore.
f At night they repaired to the same
clubs, to encounter receptions as warm,
drink highballs as comforting, and play
bridge for old-time thousands with the
same old "respectable" gamblers and
sots with whom they had guzzled and
gambled for years.
“Respectable” Till-Tappers.
"Virtue is its own reward," says the
moralist, and Lord Byron adds in his
journal. And truly the poor jade
ought to be damned well paid for her
trouble.” Virtue is its own reward!
That may be as it may. The fact re
mains, however, that our "respectable”
till-tappers of politics and money
know so little of virtue that they will
do naught, fail of naught, for (is pale
and tasteless sake.
I he Eskimo, of dull, perverted palate,
if offered his arctic choice between a
cluster of grapes and a dripping morsel
of whale's blubber, will seize the blub
ber. And so with our "respectable”
crime-saturated rogues of trade and
polities. As between virtue for virtue’s
dollarless sake and those rotund if rot
ten millions, they will never hesitate.
They will take the rancid millions,
finding for them and for themselves
thereafter as wide and as ready an
acceptance as for whiter characters
and money much more clean.
Recurring to the political angle, and
Jetting the moral-sentimental go adrift,
it is safe to say that publics are never
saved from the shore. They save or
sink themselves. Whether it were a
blackmailer in a legislature, or a trust
tamed district attorney, not an evil has
been mentioned which the RECALL
wouldn't cure.
Hope Lies in Roosevelt,
How are you to get it? Mr. Taft is
against the RECALL. Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Roosevelt profess to favor it. Who
is the surer man in that recall con
nection—Mr. Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt?
Mr. Taft, by his own -word, is out of the
question. He Is for the god of things
as they agree. To vote for him is but
to confirm present conditions or retreat
to worse. Os the other two on whom
would you sooner rely to put through
a RECALI.—the man of action or the
man of alcoves? Frederick the Great
once .-aid: "If I wanted to punish a
province. I'd have it governed by a phi
losopher.” Mr. Wilson is a philoso
pher.
With a last word, it's all in the lap
of the public. The public can advance
with Mr. Roosevelt; it can stand still
with Mr. Wilson; it can go backward
with Mr. Taft. The public is its own
architect and builds for itself. For
whatever happens publicly the public
has no one save itself to thank.
It can not be too often repeated that
government is ever the just expression
■ of its people like a flower of its stalk.
For good or bad, or black or white, it
is unflaggingly a match for the popular
desert. In the eternal fitness of things,
i men will get man-government, dogs
will get dog-got etnment. And why
l not'.’ Why waste a man-government
on a dog-public? Would you pelt pigs
with pearls? A dog-public should have
dog-government—a kick, a kennel, a
collar, a bone to gnaw, a chain to
I ' clank.
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