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The American People Themselves
Should Decide the Issue of ‘
War or Peace
Senators 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
United States. They are printed simultaneously on the Atlant.;ic
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 distaniiy approach the facilities of the Hearst publications
for ascertaining the true state of public opinion, and as a result
of thoge facilities and their impartial and most energetic use at
this time, we affirm to you, upon knowledge 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
her enemies.
An enormous 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,
_either in prudence or in honor, to waste their wealth and their
lives to avenge the consequence of such foolhardiness and such
disregard for the nation's peace and prosperity.
Senators and Representatives, YOU are fresh from the peo
ple. YOU know your constituents, thousands of them by name.
YOU know what they are thinking and what they are saying by
their firesides. 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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contingency. :
For this reason, Senators and Representatives, we invite
your earnest consideration of the suggestion we have to make,
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 so
tion, but we are also well aware that this IS AN UNPRE.
CEDENTED SITUATION.
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Now, for the first time in our history, we are being hurried
toward a war in regard to the justice and imperativeness of
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visers do sever diplomatic relations, they will then have ex.
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THE ATLANTA (GEORGIAN
ministration would "dare undertake to interfere with your final
power in that regard. ;
Ym'x, and you alone, MUST register the will of the nation,
whether it then shall be 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 Constitution, and the actyal 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 imve your
instructions, pronounced and ratified by the majority at the
polls. The referendum has been held and the decision 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. - |
So 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 n;d 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. 4f we are to
80 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
@ 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
@ deep resentment against both the wrongs inflicted by Germany
and the wrongs inflicted by England. But these matters 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
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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.
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Many Human Ills Due to Intemperate Eating
Modern Man Could Easily Cut Amount df 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
a4s soon 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 are 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 Ii
course of these people, will r:
veal that they did not greatly
abuse the alimentary canal.
Sydney Smith wrote: “The
longer I live, the more 1 am con
vinced that half the unhappiness
of mankind arises from littie
stoppages—from a duct choked
up, from food pressing In the
wrong place, from a vexed duo
denum or an agitated pylorus.
Old friendships are destroyed by
toasted cheese, and hard sueted
meat has led to sulcide. Un
pleasant feelings of the body pro
duce corresponding sensations of
the mind, and a great scene of
wrelchedness s often sketched
out by a morse! of indigestible
and misguided food.”
Not one in a thousand pos
sesses a body that Is falthfully
recording and transmitting the
mental impulses. The brain and
the nervous system constitute the
keyboard upon which the real man
plays. He may have the genius
of a Newton, the courage of a
Bruno, but If his Instrument be
out of tune, If it is deadened by
the presence of rust, corrosion
and foreign substances, it can not
respond to the vibrations of the
Ereat. over-brooding conscious
ness,
On account of the wonderful
power of adaptation that appears
to exist in the human body, a
higher degree of efficiency is
sometimes gained from the abused
machine than would seem possi
ble. We who read this will prob.
Ably average 0 per cent of phy
sical efficiency. Our instruments
Are 40 per cent out of tune. It
for a moment we glimpsed what
our full measure of . perfection
implisd, we would realize how
sodden and feeble 'we ate sven in
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 listened, during the past
few months, to tales of the physi
cal aches and pains until the sub-
Ject is worn threadbare. And
yet the early spring will bring a
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LET THE OTHER FELLOW DO THE SPLURGING. i
Trying to make people belleve that we possess more than we really
do is what keeps most of us in debt.
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lelss lavishly than our neighbor, than to be constantly harassed by collectors
whom we are unable to pay. .
It is a foolish fdea of living which prompts us to spend more than we
make.
It may be that you have never been thrown out of employmen{ when
you did not have a few dollars ahead. :
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the sooner you get some experience along that line the better,
The earlier in life you learn the lesson which it teaches, the more
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later years,
Other men with just as firm bhold as you hvolonthelr)ob.,muu
foolish for you to think that you have a life interest in your place. Better
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mind what other folk think about the way you 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
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Marriage will easily remove the
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Picture in his wateh never thinks
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new recital of the same worn-out
narrative,
Sickness is the result of
wrong thinking regarding our
physical needs and necessities
and consequent wrong doing,
Not one civilized human being in
one fiundred eats and drinks ac
cording to the needs of nature.
Uncivilized beings and animalis
obey God's laws much more near-
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to look at it when those street
crossing moving pictures spring
in view,
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It is & mean man who reminds
his wife of her Age without giv-
In€ & handsome birthday pres.
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Married women whe Agres too
Teadily with everything hubbhy
Says usually have something up
their m. o
The winds are sometimes tem.-
pered to the shorn lamb, but the
BiF with warped limbs stands no
vhance in modern skirts,
By Jimmy Swinnerton
ly than do the “civilized” classes
It is seldorh that any animal,
save pampered house pets, whos
habits have been corrupted by
close association of human
beings, overeats or overdrinks.
Neither do they partake of ur
wholesome food, which is de
structive to the digestive orgar
That is left for man, made n
God's image, to do..
If you are not feeling well ¢
you are lacking in physical pow -
er, in mental alertness, in amb -
tion and vitality, reduce the
amount of food you consume o 1«
half. Increase the amount of wa
ter you drink one-half.
Drop all things made of refined.
white flour from your dlet; th»
coarse flour and the bran only ar»
nutritious. Give up your high '
spiced condiments, give up gres v
foods, give up your conglome:
Uon of many kinds of viands !
mufi:‘u" and take your simp s
nu and easily digested oot
twice in 24 hours. §
If hunger assails you at othas
times, take the juice of fruit a
Klass of water or a glass of milk
Exercise aMI your lung cells bv
deep breathing. Take at les<
100 deep, all-pervading breaths
day. Resolve to talk to no ons
about your aches and v:tn-
If you are going to “#njov
health,” enjoy it by yourse:
alone. Remember, 1t is o ref
tion upon your own good sen:e
your own good behavior =«
your power of self-control,
¥You are not well, You will pre
ably declare your illness due
overwork: on the contrary, 1!
due to overeating and lack '
proper efercise of the mus
and of the lungs. Take your
in hand and be well, and if
Are not well, do not talk whoo!
Talk health. The dreary. -
ending tale
Of mortal maladies ts worr #-°
sale;
You can not charm or Intere.
pleass
By harping on that minor '
~disease,
Say you are well, or all s ¢
with you,
And God shall hear your + .
and make them trua