JUNE 21, 1912
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since that time tlio annual cash dividends paid
the stockholders have averaged over 26 per cent
annually, besides largo suras bolng placed to
the reserve account, new mills inaugurated, etc.
They not only have factories in England, but
make a regular policy of installing branch fac
tories in every high tariff country." Think of
putting a tariff on thread in the face of these
known facts!
Another practically prohibitive tariff is laid
upon the cotton table cloths, another house
hold necessity. The tariff rate is 40 per cent,
and the importations amount to but a small
sum yearly. This rate is twice the actual labor
cost in American mills. Damask includes, be
sides table cloths, napkins, doilies and other
table accessories. The process of weaving is
not particularly complicated, and the consump
tion is very large. The imports in recent years
have been decreasing, due to the fact that the
American mills are more and more supplying the
demand. When a cotton table cloth is brought
in through the customs house the price at which
it must be sold is increased 40 per cent by reason
of the tariff. The price of the American made
damask is increased practically in -the same way,
since to hold the market against the foreigner
he need but be undersold slightly. C. Q. "D.
MRS. LITTLETON'S RESPONSE
The Commoner has printed the addresses of
several of the ladies who responded to toasts at
the "Dolly Madison Dinner." -This issue it
presents the address delivered by Mrs. Little
ton, the scholarly vife of Hon. Martin Littleton,
democratic member of congress. Mrs. Little
ton's address was as follows:
A man with as many sides to his character as
Thomas Jefferson, presents at once an easy and
hard subject. Easy because of the rich ma
terial on which one can freely draw, and hard,
because no discussion of it can amount to much
more than a hint of his real greatness.
He said, "All governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed," and
in this simple sentence he set forth in striking
fashion the very essence of political liberty.
Many men of much learning have tried to im
prove upon this statement; statesmen have in
vented new phrases; students have worked out
new definitions; orators have fashioned sharp
epigrams and smooth periods, but no one has
expressed with such beauty and dignity the true
doctrine of democracy. This single utterance
fell upon the ears of the old world as a fore
runner of world-wide political liberty. It was
just a pebble thrown into the sea, but the waves
never rested until they had carried the message
to every shore.
Mr, Jefferson pulled apart the state and
church in Virginia and established religious
liberty. He knew that the state would destroy
the church, or the church would destroy the
state. He knew that man had a natural right
to worship according to the dictates of his own
conscience. He knew that the state was
organized for the government of men's lives,
liberty and property; but that it could never
bo the keeper of his conscience. Having given
to the world tho true principles of political
and religious liberty, Mr. Jefferson established
the University of Virginia, and these are the
things for which he asked to be remembered.
If you will look for a moment into the real
meaning of these three great achievements, you
will see with what order and wisdom he proceed
ed. Political liberty without education is danger
ous, not only to the country, but to the individual
enjoying it. The right to have a .say in how the
affairs of the country shall be run, is simply a
right to make a liash of the whole thing, unless
persons who have the right get enough informa
tion in their headB to help them say and do tho
right thing. The right to vote is of no use to
any one or to the country, unless there goes
with it a real desire to vote right and sense
enough to know what is right. A democracy at
a low ebb is not much better than any other
sort of a government. When people lose in
terest in their country and get in, and stay in,
a state of Ignorance of its affairs, then democ
racy is at a low ebb and the worst there is in it
shows itself.
If all the people put their minds on the sub
ject and really desire to reach a sound conclu
. sion, then you have democracy at floodtide, and
the floodtide would mean the best impulses, the
best Intelligence, and hence the best service. So
you see that political liberty and education are
absolutely necessary to each other and the
question finally comes down to this: What is it
that will open the minds of men and women
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R. G. Wilson, Mo., G.
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Peter Baker, III., 10.
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Jacob Pontz, Pa., C.
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M. J. Brown, Ariz., 7.
H. B. Brown, Ind., 7.
It. E. Snyder. O.. 7.
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Goo. Braucht, 111., 8,
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A. Oswald, Tex., 10.
G. E. Ontcrhout,
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and let the light in so that they may judge
justly; and what is it that will open up tho
souls of men and women and let in a deep, fer
vent passion for the good of their country? For
without these, political liberty will simply come
to be political license and religious liberty
simply religious license.
The common school system is doing much to
let the light into .the minds of the children;
the newspapers and magazines are doing much
to furnish current information to the busy
workingmen and women; the universities are do
ing much toward a higher training and a greater
fitness for the duties of life. All of these
agencies, and more, must be kept at work day
and night, in season and out of season, work
ing tirelessly to make popular government a
success.
And it was after all the crowning work of
Mr. Jefferson's life that he built the beautiful
University of Virginia as a lasting memorial to
his wisdom in uniting freedom with education.
But even with all of this it will still not bo
enough. How shall we plant in tho souls of
men and women a love for tho service of their
country? How shall we make them constantly
wish and yearn for the welfare of their nation?
Ethical culture will do much, moral enlighten
ment will do much, but, according to tho his
tory of our race, we have never been successful
except there was a deep, abiding righteousness
resting upon a stern faith in the guidance and
goodness of .God. We have our religious liberty,
but we must unite with it religious enthusiasm,
religious culture and religious stimulus. And
still further, it comes down to the point, we
must take care of tho heads and hearts of our
men and women; and to begin at tho beginning,
we must take care of the heads and hearts of
our girls and boys, and teach them of Christ
crucified.
It seems to mo tliat tho three great achieve
ments of Mr. Jefferson's life furnish a sugges
tion to tho women of today as to how they can
most effectively and helpfully employ their time
and talents, for I think we may say without im
modesty, that women are the Idealists of tho
country, they cling more closely and faithfully
to tho high standards, and, having become in
large measure free from tho burdens and
drudgery of housework, there is a great host of
them who could become the teachers and in
structors to the heads and hearts of the coun
try. As it was their God-given mission to
perpetuate the race in all its physical vigor, may
not the freedom which has come to them in
later years give them an equally important mis
sion of perpetuating their ideals in the minds
and hearts of their generation?
This is th6 lesson that we draw from the lifo
of Mr. Jefferson.
Jefferson's body passed away, but his spirit
Is reigning in the, hearts of hundreds of mil
lions of people. Wherever there is a battle for
freedom, Jefferson is still In the thick of tho
fight; wherever men gather around the council
table for liberty Jefferson's voice still can be
heard. From northermest Norway to southern
most Spain, through the red disorder of France,
in tho advancing democracy of England, in tho
shattering empire of China and the building
upon its ruins of a republic, in all these things
we can see the pen, hear the voice, and feel tho
burning love of Thomas Jefferson working under
the inspiration of these three great ideals,
which he asked to have inscribed upon his
tomb: Political Liberty, Religious Freedom,
and Universal Education.
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