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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 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 SBIX 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 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
hmcmfit 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
that case, it can be no long time until you will be called upon to
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 ac
tion, but we are also well aware that this IS AN UNPRE.
CEDENTED SITUATION.
In every other war we have waged with foreign powers, the
approach to that war has found the vast majority of the nation
in hearty accord as to the justice and imperativeness of war.
Now, for the first time in our history, we are being hurried
toward & war in regard to the justice and imperativeness of
which the people are not only not unanimous, but are wholly di.
vided, with every evidence that a very large and preponderant
majority Are strongly of the conviction that war is neither neo.
eseary nor desirable. .
Senators and Representatives, if the President and his ad.
- Wisers do sever diplomatic relations, they will then have ex.
m the constitutional powers of the executive, and you will
~have o take up the burden of your constitutional duty
“ dn the last great and decisive act of declaring war, no ad.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
ministration would dare undertake to interfere with your final
power in that regard.
You, and you alome, MUST register the will of the nation,
whether it then shall be peace or war.
Now, sinc'e 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
ajt all by the regular, customary process of ascertaining that will
at the ballot box,
The theory of the chief Constitution, 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, I;ronounced 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 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
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
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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 ighting
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 lfi;hml
Our peaceful people have had bitter wrongs from Germany
and bitter wrongs from England, and we have not failed to feel
a 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 whith 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, msmun‘lyflmuuinofthovihmy
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.
HAT is the matter with us,
W that we begin to decay
¢ as 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-
Wways. 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 life
course of these people, wiil re
veal that they did not greatly
abuse the alimentary canal.
Sydney Smith wrote: “The
longer 1 live, the more 1 am con
vinced that haif the unhappiness
of mankind arises from little
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 Jed to suicide. Un
pleasant feelings of the body pro
duce corresponding sgusations of
the mind, and a great scene of
wretchedness Is often sketched
out by a morsel of indigestible
and misguided food."
Not one in a thousand pos
sosses a body that is faithfully
recording and transmitting the
mental impuises. The brain and
the nervous system constitute the
keyboard upon which the real man
plays. He may have the genius
of a Newton, the vourage of a
Bruno, but if his instrumont be
‘out of tune, It it is deadened by
the presence of rust, corrosion
and forelgn substances, it can not
respond to the vibrations of the
great, over-brooding consclous
ness.
On account of the wonderful
power of adaptation that appears
to exist in the human body, a
higher degree of eficiency Is
sometimes gained from the abused
machine than would seem possi
ble. We who read this will prob.
ably average 60 per cent of phy
sleal efficiency. Our Instruments
are 9 per cemt out of tune. If
for a moment we glimpaed what
our full measure 'of perfection
implled. we would realize how
sodden and feellle we are even in
our most vital moments.—Ex
change.
HIS is the time of year when
I - 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.
Trying to make people believe 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 to be constantly Larassed by collectors
whom we are unable to pay.
It is a foolish idea of living which prompts us to spend more than we
make.
It may be that you have nevér been thrown out of employment when
you did not have a few dollars ahead.
If not, and you are making o preparation to meet such a contingency,
the sooner you get some experience along that line the better.
The earlier in life you learn the lesson which it teaches, the more
profitable it will be to you, and the effect may not be so disastrous as In
later years,
Other men with just as firm hold as you bave lost their jobs, and it s
foollsh for you to think that you bhave 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 you spend or do not spend.
Be sure, anyway, you are not fooling them much, for the foolish spender
is always casy to detect.
Only very cheap people seek to
belittle olhot:. .o
The best way to live down a
scandal is to.llu‘gh.u it
You can also judge a man by
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Marriage will easily remove the
cataracts that cause love blind.
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woman to run an aute than a
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By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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 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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to look at it when those street
crossing moving pictures spring
in view,
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his wife of her age without gliv.
ing a handsome birthday pres
ent.
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Married women who Agres too
readily with evervthing hubby
SaYS usually have something up
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The winds are sometimes tem -
pered to the shorn lamb, but the
&irl with warped limbs stands no
Chance in modern skirts
By. Jimmy Swinnerton
Iy than do the “civilized” clu.u-r_
It is seldom that any animal
save pampered house pets, 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, if
you are lacking in physical pow
er, in mental alertness, in ambi
tion and vitality, reduce th«
amount of food you constime o
half. Increase tfe amount of wa
ter you drink one-half.
Drop al things made of*refined,
white flour from your dlet; the
coarse flour and the bran only are
nutritious. Give up your highlv
6piced condiments, give up greasy
foods, give up your conglomers
tion of many kinds of viands st
one meal, and take your simple,
nutritious and easlly digested diet
twice i 24 hours,
If hunger assails you at other
times, take the juice of fruit, a
Klass of water or a glass of m!lk.
Exercise all your lung cells by
deep breathing. Take at leagt
100 deep, all-pervading breaths &
day. Resolve to talk to no one
about your aches and pains
If you are going to “enjov !l
health,” enjoy it by. yourseif
alone. Remember, it Is 4 reflec
tion upon your own good sense
your own good behavior and
Your power of self-contrel, {f
you are not well. You will prob
ably declare your illness due 1o
overwork; on the contrary, it i*
due to overeating and lack of
proper exercise of the muscies
and of the lungs. Take yourse.!
in hand and be well, and if you
are not well, do not talk aboul
Talk health. The dreary, never
ending tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and
stale;
You can not charm or Interest or
Pleasa .
By harping on that minor che: .
dincases,
Bay you are well, or all ts we'!
with you,
And God shall hear your woania
“nd make tham trus, o