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Th‘e' American People Themselves
Should Decide the Issue of
War or Peace -
Senutors and Representatives, we again address you direct
ly, in this most serious hour, because we feel it to be our duty to
voice, for your encouragement, and perhaps for your better in
‘formation. the undoubted will and sentiment of the majority of
the American people.
The great series of public journals, of which this newspa
per is a part, extends their network of organization all over the
Unihq Siates. They are printed simultaneously on the Atlantic
Coast, the Pacific Coast, in States of the South and in that great
and populous region of which Chicago is the metropolis.
These journals are read by and reflect the opinions of more
than SIX MILLIONS OF ADULT AMERICAN CITIZENS.
Senators and Representatives, there is no news-collecting
and news-disseminating organization in this country which can
even distantly approach the facilities of the Hearst publications
for ascertaining the true state of public opinion, and as a result
of those facilities un(i their impartial and most energetic use at
this time, we affirm to you, upon knowlo&ge and with a full sense
of our high obligation to the nation to be scrupulously truthful,
that an enormous majority of the whole American people are de
cidedly opposed to this country going to war over the conduct
by Germany of her submarine warfare upon the commerce of
e
An emormous majority of the American people sincerely be
lieve that those American citizens who voyage to Europe in such
times as these, should voyage on American ships, and that they
show neither patriotism nor any regard for their country’s peace
and welfare, nor even ordinary good sense, in traveling upon
belligerent ships, and that their countrymen are not called upon,
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lives to avenge the consequence of such foolhardiness and such
‘dhn(lrd for the nation’s peace and prosperity.
Senators and Representatives, YOU are fresh from the peo
ple. YOU Jnow your constituents, thousands of them by name.
YOU know what they are thinking and what they are saying by
their l\tfidn; And we know right well that a great majority
of you are as certain as we that the American people are strong
ly opposed to this war propaganda, fostered and spread by pow
erful financial and social interests and influences in New York,
in Boston, in Providence and other cities of note, by every means
that unlimited money can command.
~ Now, Senators and Representatives, it is quite likely that a
rupture of diplomatic relations with Germany may occur. In
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say whether you will declare war upon the same grounds upon
which diplomatic relations were broken off, and it is the part
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consideration of what action you will take in that very probable
contingency.
_ For this reason, Senators and Representatives, we invite
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which is that you REFER THE DECISION OF THIS MOMEN.
TOUS AND TREMENDOUS QUESTION TO A VOTE OF THE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. :
We are well aware that this would be an unprecedented ac
tion, but we are also well aware that this IS AN UNPRE.
CEDENTED SITUATION.
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in hlfly nnfll as 1o the justice and imperativeness of war.
Now, for the first time in our history, we are being hurried
foward a war in regard to the justice and imperativeness of
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¥ided, with every evidence that a very large and preponderant
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. Benators and Representatives, if the President and his ad.
Mhmw relations, they will then have ex.
‘hausted the constitutional powers of the executive, and you will
~ bave 1o take up the burden of yofir constitutional duty.
c In the last great and decisive act of declaring war, no ad
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
ministration would dare undertake to interfere with your ¥inal
power in that regard.
You, and you alone, MUST register the will of the nation,
whether it then shall Se peace or war,
Now, since in that supreme hour, so big with destiny, it is
the will of the people, and nothing but the will of the people,
which should be uttered in your final decision, we hold that the
true will of the people should be ascertained beyond any doubt
at all by the regular, customary process of ascertaining that will
at the ballot box.
The theory of the chief O)nstitution, and the actual result in
ordinary times, is that you, coming fresh from election by the
people, have the mandate of the majority for your vote upon the
questions and issues of the time. In other words, you have your
instructions,. pronounced and ratified by the majority at the
polls. The referendum has been held and the decifion of the ma.
jority ascertained. : :
But not one of you was elected upon this grave issue which
has suddenly arisen since the people last went to the polls. No
body certainly knows the will of the majority, because the peo
ple have had not means to speak in a definite way, by actual vote
and count.
8o that, do what you will, you must be in some shadow of
doubt as to the popular will, if called upon to decide the fateful
question of war or peace, without a referendum to the nation and
a definite expression of the nation's will.
Senators and Representatives, we common folks must do
the fighting.
You can depend upon it that the excited gentry who are
screaming for war down on Wall Street, and in New York and
Boston and Providence journals, will be conspicuous in the
trenches by their practically unanimous absence.
It is the plain, common folks whose savings will be wasted
and whose blood will run in rivers if we go to war, and in this
free country of ours it is the right of the common people to say
whether they want war,
If they say yes, well and good. We will all then fight with
good courage. If they say no, let it be. For with what heart
will any people fight against their will and their convictions?
There will be plenty of time for a referendum.’ If we are to
g 0 to war, there is no emergency calling for feverish haste.
The countries upon which we shall declare war, if we do de
clare war, are walled about with millions of armed enemies and
blockaded by sea as well as by land. They can not at present
strike back, so we can take all the time we want to add our rein.
forcements to the superior numbers they have been so many
months beating back. A little delay would also give the three
million British troops the chance they have so long—and no
doubt impatiently—waited for to lend the hard-pressed French
a hand in the terrible battles they have been so gallantly fighting
for two dreadful months.
Senators and Representatives, you will observe that we
make no argument either for or against the conduct of this
hideous war by Germany or England.
Our peaceful people have had bitter wrongs from Germany
and bitter wrongs from England, and we have not failed to feel
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and the wrongs inflicted by England. But these mattels have
nothing to do with the discussion of the suggestion which we
have submitted for your patriotic consideration.
The question we put to you is whether or not you should, in
your own judgment, ascertain the will of your people before
you are called upon to pronounce that will.
Senators and Representatives, we can conceive of no act
more emphatically American, more becoming to the representa
tives of a free people, more strikingly illustrative of the vitality
and power of our liberties and our political institutions, than
would be this referendum of the issue of war or peace to the
suffrage of the whole body of American citizens.
It would be.an exhibit of the power and the value and the
splendid practical usefulness of our free institutions and dem.
ocratic liberties that would stand for many generations as the
most helpful inspiration to other nations which any people have
ever given to instruct, to amaze, and to delight mankind.
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Many Human Ills Due to Intemperate Eating
Modern Man Could Easily Cut Amount of Daily Food in Half Without Suffering. Simple,
Nutritious Diet Would Save Much Sickness.
T is the matter with us,
Uv that we begin to decay
as soofi as we stop grow
ing?
The truth may not be denied:
Food destroys us!
The alimentary canal is the
most outraged of all human high
ways. There age over 5,000 men
and women living in the United
States today who are more than
106 years old. Statistics, care
fully gathered from the life
course of these people, will re
veal that they did not greatly
‘abuse the alimentary canal.
Sydney Smith wrote: “The
longer 1 live, the more I am con
vinced that half the unhappiness
of arises from littie
-to-::fm a duct choked
up, from food pressing in the
wrong place, from a vexed duo
depum or an agitated pylorus.
Old friendships are destroyed by
toasted cheese, and hard sueted
meat has led to suicide, ‘}'n'
pleasant feelings of the body pro
duce corresponding sensations of
the mind, and a great scene of
wretchedness (s often sketched
out by a morsel of indigestible
and misguided food " .
Not one in a thousand pos-
Sesses 4 body that is falthtully
recording anW transmitting the
mental impulses. The brain and
the nervous system constitute the
Keyboard upon which the real man
pinys. He may have the genius
of & Newton, the courage of a
Bruno, but if his instroment be
out of tune if it is deadened by
the presence of rust, ecorrosion
and foreign substances. it can nod
respond to the vibrations of the
Kreat, over.-brooding consclous
ness.
On account of the wonderful
power of adaptation that appears
to exist in the human body, »
higher degree of eMclency is
sometimes gained from the abused
machine than would seem possi
ble. We,whyg read this will prob
ably average 60 per cent of phy
sleal efficiancy. Our instrumenis
Are 4% per cemt out of tune. I
for & moment we glimpsed what
our full mbnsure of perfection
impiled. we would realize haw
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By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
our most vital moments.—Ex
change.
HIS is the time of year when
T our friends entertain us
with their ailments. We
have all Jistened, during the past
few months, 4o tales of the phy-d
--cal aches and pains until the sub-
Ject is worn threadbare. And
yvet the early spring will bring a
ONCE-OVERS
LET THE OTHER FELLOW DO THE SPLUKGING.
Trylng to make people belleve that we possess more than we really
do is what keeps most of us in debt. :
It is far better to have a less pretentious home, and even to entertain
less lavishly than our neighbor, than 1o be constantly harassed by collectors
whom we are unable to pay.
It is a foolish idea of living which prompts us to spend more than we
It may be that you have never been thrown out of employment when
you did not have a few dollars ahead. £
If not, and you are making no preparation to meet such®a contingency,
the sooner you get some experience along that line the better
The earlier in life you lesrn the lesson which it teaches. the more
profitable it will be to you, and the effect may not be so disastrous as in
later yvears.
Other men with just ag firm hold as vou have lost their Jobs, and it s
foolish for you to think tlu\ You have a life interest in your place. Better
be prepared for the changes which are sure to come to most of us, and never
mind what other folk think about the way vou spend or do not spend.
Be sure, anyway, you are not fooling them much, for the foolish spender
is always easy to detect. €
Only very cheap people seek to
belittle others.
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The best way to live down a
scandal ix to laugh at it
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You cun aiso judge A man by
his MD :t«:ua.
Marriage will sasily removs the
oßiAracts that cause love blind.
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Picture in his watch never thinks
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new recital of the same worn-out
narrative, .
Sickness is the resuit of
wrong thinking regarding our
physical needs and necessities
and consequent wrong doing.
Not one civilized human being in
one hundred eats and drinks ac
cording to the needs of nature,
Uncivilized beings and animais
obey God’s laws much more near-
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10 ook at it when those street
crossing moving pictures spring
in view,
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It ix & mean man who reminds
his wife of her age without giv
ing & hahdsome birthday pres
ent,
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Married women who agres ton
readily with everything hubby
savs usually have something up
their wiesves,
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The winds are sometimes tem
pered ta the shorn lamb, hut the
vl with warped limbs stands no
chance A+ “Nern shista v
By Jimmy Swinnerton
1y than do the “civilized” classes.
It is seldom that any animal,
Save pampered house pels, whose
habits have been corrupted by
close association of human
beings, overeats or overdrinks.
Neither do they partake of un
wholesome food, which is de
structive to the digestive organs.
That is left for man, made in
God's Image, to do.
If you are rot feeling well, f
you are lacking in physical pow
er, in mental alertness, in ambi
tion and vitality, reduce the
amount of food you consume one -
half. Increase the amount of wa
ter you drink one-half.
Drop all things made of refined,
white flour from your diet; the
coarse flour and the bran only are
nutritious, Give up your highlv
#piced condiments, give up greasy
foods, give up vour conglomers-
Uo’ of many kinds of viands at
one meal, and take your simple,
nutritious and easily digested diet
twice in 24 hours.
If hunger assails you at other
limes, take the juice of fruit, a
lhaofnmntlhudpmx.
Exercise all your lung cells by
deep breathing. Take et least
100 deep, all-pervading breaths &
day., Resolve to talk to no one
about your aches and pains.
If you are going to “enjoy 11l
health” enjoy it by yourself
sione. Remember, 1t is a reflec.
tion upon your own good sense,
your own good bdehavior and
your powsr of self-contrel, It
you are not well. You will prob
ably deciare your iliness due to
overwork: on the contrary, It Is
due to overeating and lack of
proper exercise of the muscles
and of the lungs. Take vourseif
in band and be well, and if you
are not well, do not talk about It
Talk health. The dreary, never.
ending tale
OFf mortal maindias Is worn and
stale;
You can not charm or Interest or
please
By harping on that miner ahard,
Aiveans.
Bay you are well, or all Is wel
with you,
Apd God whall hear your words