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Lawmakers Adjourn Sine Die
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 fiction,
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.
When the house met there was mass
of business on hand to be disposed of
before adjournment. The members
were more in a mood to play than to
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 coming
to the house’s attention on its final day
was disposed of with a mere wave of
the hand—the banking bill.
The house and senate were in dis
agreement about few items, compared
with the usual situation on the closing
day. There was some difference of
opinion with respect to the insurance
bill and several iterng of the appropria
tion bills.
Fight Over Pages in Senate.
None of these differences was partic
ularly violent, however, and they were
quickly adjusted and the bills passed.
The fiercest conflict of the entire
night was the fight 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.
Mr. Hargett had rallied the senate
strongly 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 I
non-Hargett platform were unavailing.
Finally the matter was straightened
out by dividing the appointments be
tween the president of the senate and
the messenger—a solution far from sat
isfactory to a majority of the member
ship, but apparently the best that might
be achieved at the moment.
Woman Lawyer Bill Dies.
Among the bills that went to their
death last night were the lieutenant
'• governor bill, the general banking bill
e and the woman lawyer bill.
- The appropriation bills, properly ad
| justed, were crowded through at the
last minute, and while the members
chorused "The Old Time Religion," the
house adjourned.
Early in last night’s session the two
houses had a love feast over the gen
eral insurance bill, forced into confer
ence because of the mass of amend
ments submitted. The real fight came
over the appropriations bill.
The senate was determined to do
nothing except squabble over the ap
pointment of its pages: Its rules com
mittee refused twice to fix 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
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. .1. Wooster, J.
C Langston rind the late Judge E. G.
Lawson —were made September 8, 1911.
and have never been sent to the sen
ate. GovemoS- Brown 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 fill the place
made vacant by the death of Judge
Lawson.
The senat- 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 I
board of education.
Governor Brown then withdrew his I
nominations
It had happened that Governor!
Brown had furnished the senate with
the minutes of the executive office of 1
September 8. as fuel for the controversy. I
The governor told the senate plainly i
that the minutes were sent in merely as
information and the names were not to I
be considered as nominations.
The senate thought otherwise. From |
the minutes of the « xecutive office it 1
was concluded that Hoke Smith must 1
have made the above appointments.
Th< ' were confirmed forthwit :.
Th- action of the upper house means
a court fight. Governor Brown, it is I
undtistood. "ill hold that the senate I
has confirmed no appointmen’ and 1
name men of his own choosing In this
ev- nt quo warranto proceedings from j
one side or the other " ill result" giving
the supreme court a opportunity to |
hand <:■•»• 1.1 tiling as companion of
t n W< st-Shaekleford decision.
'Far Away From Hotels in Nature'sDells'
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’Tis Wonderful. ’Tis Nice. This
Floridian Paradise—Pastor-
Poet and Bride Say So.
Rev Willi in Lee i’opharn, poet and
lover, who recently was detained in du
rance vile by the unsympathetic police
force of Atlanta because of certain dis
crepancy ■< 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
and the devil, has at last found the
proper environment for his untram
meled "soul" with all its ramifications.
Rev. Popham married a Kentuckj
girl, but it was not until their arrest
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, ho tells of
having found a perfect place for the
"making of a lovers’ paradise." This
new Eden is on the Alflre river, just
ten miles from Tampa, Fla., Here will
he live with his wife.
Pretty Alfirfd Nice.
‘The building site,” he says, "is by a
mammoth spring of crystal water,
which flows undisturbed from the bos-
I 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 Alflre river."
Going further, he tells of the many
delights of the woodland bow’er —of its
many advantages, celestial, floral, fau
nal, exotic, neurotic ifrnd tommyrotic.
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 all
| ihe world loves a lover, and a lover
I loves all the world, and three-fourths
| of the earth is water. Then why should
1 we not have chosen such environments,
i here in this dream-kissed spot among
I the birds and flowers?
Indeed, why not?
‘ Away from the smoke of the city,
I but easily in boating distance, we have
! chosen to build our nightingale nest for
| two; and in the beautiful solitude of
i the woodland and beneath the spread
■ ing shade of magnolias we will glide
, with the brook and float with the tide;
and in the moonlight and starlight and
i summer afternoons our boat will rock
I us to slumber; and our dreams will be
| written in both story and rhyme; and
i our heart beats will be felt in the
world's literature and our love will be
I the fairy magic inspiration of every
poem and every dream.
Hear Things in the Gloaming.
“At ' \ ning we "ill retire, shut in
from the burdens and cates of the day;
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
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William Lee Popham and his
bride who have found “Para
dise” on the banks of the Alflre
river in Florida.
at morning, awakeh to feel the power
of life and love and the perfume of a
kiss—which only lovers are 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 lawn for our beds and
the sky for our blankets.”
Transmogrification evidently is a
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 lilft? to travel as birds in the
air,” he writes, “and as fishes under
the water, and arm in arm we arc
climbing life’s hill together.”
It would hardly supposed that
such a pair as this could think tn mun
dane numbers, but he naively con
fesses that he actually ate with his
mouth in good old-fashion sixty
chews-to-the-minute style. And it was
candy, too.
What the Waves Are Saying.
“While writing this,” he admits, “we
ire sitting together by an open box of
candy, by the blue ocean, and while
kisses are sweeter and certainly more
lasting than candy, the latter is not
unwelcome.” Then, continuing lyrical
ly, paregyrically, “In a poet's Eden
we ramble, where every tree is bloom
ing its flowers of love—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 our gladness. The sea
gulls, the emblems of peace and Con
tentment. linger near upon the blui
bosom of the rocking waves, and they
sewn to know that even they will be a
part of the love story which we are
writing by the sea."
If the original Eve had had the ad
vantage of Rev. Pophams advice the
human race today would probably be
rambling in wooded glades instead of
toiling in the money mill ami grinding
on the grisslv grill H< makes the fol
lowing caustic commentary of Adam’s
methods of instructions:
"If Eve's appetite for apples had been
cultivated for kisses Eve have
forgotten her desire for the apples at
the gentle pressure of man's lips and
today we would be rambling in the
original courts of Eden.”
In conclusion, Rev. Popham breaks—•
nay, crashes into verse. In this metri
cal conclusion he pays respects to the
police who arrested him, to the re
porters who brought to light the fact
of his marriage and to such other per
■sons and Institutions as are 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 walls and reporters’ calls
And the eager camera’s gleams
The waves seclude in solitude
The safety of our dream.
True romance will find some folks un
kind,
Tho’ the world doth love a lover,
But what care we by the rolling sea,
Where in the dunes we hover?
Away from hotels in Nature's dells
Lexers find their heax'en,
For in the tent of sweet content
We retire at six or eleven."
LEITERS IN A PALACE
GO“BACK TO NATURE”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. -Mrs. Jo
seph Leiter, wife of the millionaire and
former wheat king, has eschewed the
pleasures of Bar Harbor and Newport
for the delights of her million-dollar
glass palace in the woo'ls on the Vir
ginia hills.
The Leiter country home overlooking
Washington has recently been com
pleted. There 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
named the glass palace because many
,of the outside rooms are inclosed in
glass.
TO DELVE INTO MINDS OF
CONVICTS TO STOP CRIME
JEFFERSONVILLE, INI)., Aug. 15.
Psychological study of state convicts,
aimed to cure mental deficiencies that
led men and women into ways of crime,
will be attempted in the Indiana re
formatory, according to an announce
ment made by Superintendent David C.
Peyton. A laboratory will be estab- I
lished in the reformatory, "here tests
of each prisoner’s mentality may he
made, after which cures will be at
tempted, according to the patient's
needs.
WANT AD WOOER
RECLAIMS BRIDE
Girl Who Thought She Had
Been Deserted Leaves City
With "Her Love.”
Conway 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 McEachin, of Denton, Ga.,
was in Atlanta at the end of a four
days honeymoon searching 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. Herman
McEachin, 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 her, Mrs. Hutcheson hur
ried away to the depot, where she met
the bridegroom and where an affection
ate and dramatic scene took place.
They then boarded another train and
left the city.
"I have no idea where they have
gone,” said Mrs. McEachin. "My sis
ter-in-law never told me a word ex
cept that she would go wherever her
love’ wished that she go.”
SEABROOKE’S FAT EEL
WAS A WATER SNAKE;
GUESTS FEEL WIGGLY
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Thomas Q.
Seabrooke, 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
was an eel. Being particularly fond of
eels, the actor took it home, skinned
and fried it. Then he called in his
neighbors and Mrs. Seabrooke to par
take. They ate liberally and remarked
1 that the actor was a great cook as well
ias an excellent fisherman.
All were smacking their lips when
Dr. Hall, a friend, called. He listened
io the story and examined the head of
the supposed eel.
"Thomas, you have eaten a water
snake —a regular water snake. I don’t
I know what you will do,” said the doc
! t or.
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; 8-ROOM
HOUSE THIEF’S LOOT
MINNEAPOLIS, 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
Fourth street.
One day Mrs. Edmonds got notice
from the health department to clean
up /he 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 front the guards at the
Monroe county convict camp.
Choosing a time when the 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 with another body of convicts, Jim
Harrison and Jeff Turner, sent up from
Spalding county, asked permission to
r< st in the shade of some bushes by the
roadside and escaped into the woods.
Unable to leave the large band of con
victs, it was itnpo. 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 will be
tolerated. So the Sunday lid goes on
In Griffin. The drug stores and. soft
drink stands have sold cigars, tobacco
and cold drinks on Sunday, just as any
other day. Many of the citizens ap
prove of the action of the grand jury in
stopping the Sunday sales.
PUBLIC CAN ADVANCE
ONLYWITH ROOSEVELT,
SAYS ALFRED H. LEWIS
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. —In a recent
editorial, one of our dallies,
speaking for the trusts and for
criminaj. 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 dal
ly—|n 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 tor SI,OOO and $2,000 and
$5,000 and $50,000 to ’’My Dear Gen
eral 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 this man be
made a judge or that man prevented
from becoming an attorney general;
and all and singular with a view to fr
iending 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 dally—
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 the 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 both to blame
There was the Republican part of the
pack, which corresponded with the
black timber wolves of our Northwest
ern woods. There was the Democrat
fragment of the pack which —dingy and
brindled as to moral hue—found their
prototypes in the big gray wolves of
the plains.
Being gathered together, gaunt,
huegry-eyed, famished of flank, the
wolf-pack, letting its glance rove about
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 111-odnred
folk of the lobby, whose 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 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 politics 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
Chicago 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 and
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 cancTtdate 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 as
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 layv 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. 10. he is
"respectable!”
W hile the public is correcting those
blackmail evils of legislatures and con
gresses. against which Mr. Archbold
and the metropolitan daily have so
_ wailingly—and honestly—protested, it
should also dertfand the RECALL,
wherewith to twist the recusan tails of
trust-owned judges and money-ruled
p district attorneys.
t 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
lie's ability to command its own offi
oers. Mr. Roosevelt also uses these
words:
1
\\ 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
1 was wrong, my power vanished.”
Law Never Suppresses Crime.
1 This last suggests a thought some-
- what aside from politics. The thought
is not novel, yet no less important. The
1 public has imposed upon it not only a
! political duty, but a dutj' of sentiment.
1 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
f 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 dte
a aster, whether of church, club, draw
? ing room or bourse, arose to overtake
” their evil heels. The same friends
p grasped their hands and dragged them
home to dinner. They dealt with the
t same banks, and their accounts were as
d welcome and their money-potent signa'-
r Hires as deeply rejoiced over as of yore.
f At. night they repaired to the same
clubs, to encounter receptions as warm
dr Ink highballs as comforting, and play
p bridge for old-time thousands with the
t same old "respectable” gamblers and
t sots with whom they had guzzled and
[4 gßmblpd for ypars.
"Respectable” Till-Tappers.
"Virtue Is its own reward,” says the
moralist, and Lord Byron adds in his
journal: w "And truly the poor jade J
} ought to be damned well paid for her I
, trouble." Virtue is Its own reward! J
I hat may b- as it may. The feet re- ~
f malns . howler, that our
? till-tappers of politics and money
. know' so little of virtue that they will
1 do naught, fail of naught, for its pale
and tasteless sake.
, Ih? Eskimo, of dull, perverted palate,
I if Offered his arctic choice between a
. cluster of grapes and a dripping morsel
r of whale’s blubber, will seize the blub
ber. And so with our "respectable’’
! crime-saturated rogues of trade and
, politics. 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
I thereafter as wide and as ready an
acceptance as for whiter characters
. and money much more clean.
Recurring to the political angle, and
letting 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 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 RECALL— the man of action or the
man of alcoves? Frederick the Great
once said: "If I wanted to punish a
province, I’d have it governed bv 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 w'hite, 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-government. And why
I 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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