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Is Wilson Another Jackson?
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!. Jtaloigh (N. C.) Nowb and
: .Olworvor: In his first formnl ad
dress uftor his return from Bermuda,
Govornor Wilson gavo timely warn
ing to any money kings who have
formed tho habit of threatening the
country with panics unless tho
people oloctod tholr candidates to
ofllco or If tho government at Wash
ington dared to legfslato contrary
to tholr doslros. Thoy have been in
tho habit of forcing tho treasury de
partment to doposlt monoy to protect
Wall street kiting and high finance
uudor tho throat of a financial
cataclysm. Thoy havo demanded
currency legislation that would give
thoni tho autocratic power to con
tract or expand tho volumo of monoy
in circulation to suit tholr speculative
affrfirs, and, falling to got tho Aid
rich act, drawn to deny government
tho Inherent power to control na
tional linancoB, thoy havo provontod
tho pasBago of any measure by which
tho govornmont could provont money
panics. When Roosovolt declared for
offectivo railroad rato regulation thoy
threatened tho defeat of any measure
doslrod by tho administration until
Roosovolt ylolded to tho Aldrlch
amondmonts, which cut tho hoart out
of tho nocessary rato regulation and
reduction. Thoy havo written every
tariff act enacted in a quarter of a
century oxcopt tho William L. Wil
son tariff as it passed tho houso in
1894, and they so omasculated it in
tho sonata as to causo Clcvoland to
withhold his signature and to pro
nounco tho law as pussod "party por-
fidy and party dishonor."
Phoro aro not wanting indications
that If thoy dared certain triiBt mag
natos would hold up curroncy, tariff
and monopoly legislation In tho In
terest of all tho pooplo by tho throat
of a panic nnd businoss stagnation.
You must bo 'safe and sano' " is tho
admonition of monopoly organs giv
ing ndvico to democrats, moaning by
"safo and sano" that tho promises
should not bo kept of scientific sur
gery that will disconnect tho unlaw
ful milk swillors from tho govern
ment cow. No doubt rumor of
threatened panics by tho big interests
that havo controlled practical legis
lation and bull-dossed ovon tho
strenuous Roosovolt reached tho
presldent-oleet at his quiet retreat lit
Bormuda, so that upon his return
homo ho gav6 his 'dofV to tho at
tompts to frighten hla administra
tion from its fixed purpose to destroy
prlvilogo and monopoly, and permit
a roturn to tho day of fair competi
tion. Thoro Is nothing of tho blus
toror or bulldozor about Governor
Wilson. Ho 1b tho mildest mannered
man who over strangled corrupt
agents of prlvilogo. But, while ho
noyor ongagos in bluff or threats to
carry out his policies looking to jus
tice, unmoved by threats of those
wlio, like Demetrius seo their craft
endangered by his righteous policies.
Hero was tho wiso and timely ad
monition uttered for tho benefit of
thpso who might be inclined to preci
pltato unnatural panics, tho "ma
chinery for which is In existenco by
which tho things can bo deliberately
(lone."
'Frankly, I don't think thoro is
"uny man living who dares uso tho
( machinery for that purpose. If he
Ylooa I promiso him, not for myself,
'but for my fellow-countrymen, a
--gibbet as high as Raman's."
,. Tho governor added that ho meant
no "literal gibbet," for "that is not
gainful," but ho said It would be a
r'igibbet of public 'dlsgraco which
Twould live "as long as the members
moE that man's family survive."
'.. "America with her eves onon is
;jsnot going to lot a panic happen,"
, "continued the governor, "but I speak
as it i expected itas if I feared it.
1 do not. 1 am afraid of nothing.
in tho courso of his address Mr.
Wilson s.ald such wlso tilings aa tho
following:
"It's all vory well to mako public
who owns tho journals of tho coun
try, but it also ought to bo mado
public who owns this or that idea,
if it can't bo produced by law, it can
bo produced by conversation. I havo
gono through a campaign in which
I endeavored to speak of things, not
of poisons, but you speak of persons
by Implication when you speak of
things and tho plainor you mako the
implication tho moro effective you
mako tho mark. Tho only way to
keep out of trouble In tho futuro is
to seo that your name Is connected
with tho right thing.
"1 say this not as a threat, but to
convey this intimation that men have
got to stand up and bo counted and
put their names down. 1 think that
so soon as thoy seo that this Is busi
ness, not amusomont, an enthusiasm
will ariso by which it will bo revealed
that honor and integrity of purpose
breed moro prosperity than any other
things In tho world. God knows tho
poor suffer enough. A man would
hesitate to take a single stop that
would involve any further suffering.
Wo must movo to tho emancipation
of tho poor.
"The task ahead of me so far- as
it is making appointments to office
is wholly hateful, but the task so far
as It iti leadership of tho United
States, is full of everything that Is
bright and touched with confidence,
becauso I know that all you havo to
do Is to appeal to tho people of the
United States on tho right ground
and put those who aro wrong out of
business. 1 am not a bravo man
because I don't know anything to be
afraid of. You can beat a man tem
porarily in politics, but if he is right
it isn't necessary that he should live
to wreak his vengeance."
"Some people say," ho assorted,
"that business Is going to be dis
turbed by tho changes which are go
ing to bo undertaken by tho demo
cratic party. I mean changes in
economic policy. Business can not
bo disturbed unless the minds of
thoso who conduct it are disturbed.
A panic, according to the dictionary,
is really a stato of mind. There is
just as much monoy in tho country
tho day after a panic as tho day be
foro, but it is distributed differently
as a result of tho panic." Here the
governor Issued his warning against
tho deliberate starting of panics.
Tho New York Herald has a signifi
cant editorial commenting on the
significant utterance of President
elect Wilson. It Is as follows:
A New Jackson?
"If a single drop of blood be shod
there in opposition to tho laws of
the United States I will hang the
first man I lay my hands on eneraErPd
in such treasonable conduct upon tho
first tree I can reach!" said Androw
Jackson to South Carolina "nulll
fiers." "Panic is merely a state of mind.
They say machinery is in existence
which can create a panic when cer
tain gentlemen desire to predict
trouble and then have it. I don't
believe there Is a man living who
would dare use the machinery. If
he does I'll hang him as high as Ha
inan!" said Woodrow Wilson at the
Southern society dinner.
"Becauso Mordecal 'bowed not
nor did him reverence,' Hainan the
Agagito, prime minister to King
Ahasuerus, plotted tho death of Mor
decal and all his people, tho Jews. He
built a lofty gallows for Mordecal's
speoial benefit. Esther revealed his
plot, and tho king ordered Haman
hanged on the gallows hG had made
of Mordecal, and on the same day
the 13th of Adar, which had been set
Mot Grove. Mo.
Throw Away
Your Eyeglasses
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At last tho good news can bo pub
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will bo. so scarce that thoy will bo re
garded aa curiosities.
Throughout tho civilized world there
has, for several years, been a recog
nized movement by educated medical
men, particularly eyo experts, toward
treating sore, weak or strained eyes
rationally. Tho old way was to fit a
pair of glasses as soon as tho eyes
were found to be strained. Thcso
glasses were nothing better than
crutches. They never overcamo tho
trouble, but merely gavo a little relief
while being worn, and they mado tho
eyes gradually weaker. Every wearer
of eyeglasses knows that he might as
well expect to cure rheumatism by
leaning upon a walking stick!
Tho great masses of sufferers from
eyo-straln and other curable optic dis
orders have been misled by thoso who
were making fortunes out of eye
glasses and spectacles.
by Haman for the SlaUgUter OI U"3', Grand prlr reconl.Extra Ufjre Mammoth Sroate .Turkey.
T' ta , hSatWaeilon Ruarantced.) Marion Schtotthauer, SpeckHat
"Have wo In President-elect Wil
son a new Jackson?
"His threat to hang 'as high as
Haman' any man or men who may bo
discovered plotting to causo a panic
has a familiar ring.
"Governor Wilson is wholly right
in his statement that 'honor and In-,
togrity breed prosperity.' His dic
tum that 'panic Is merely a stato of
mind' has found frequent, If not con
tinuous verification.
"There may bo no need of hanging
anybody, but it it is just as well to
havo the country know how squarely
Governor Wilson stands for pros
perity. "Also that he 'has his feet on the
ground.' "
Andrew Jackson defied Nicholas
Biddlo who was ready to destroy the
credit of tho country unless Jack
son would let tho national bank bo
bigger than the federal government.
If, when the New York bankers visit
ed Roosevelt and demanded the priv
ilege of violating tho anti-trust law
and destroying competition, on the
price of letting tho panic come to an
end if upon that morning Roose
velt had shown that he had the spirit
of Andrew Jackson, ho would havo
ordered these bankers under arrest
as public enemies, becauso they con
spired by threatening disaster which
they admitted they could prevent.
If Mr. Roosevelt Lad said: "By the
eternal, you shall not bo granted the
right to violate tho anti-trust law by
gobbling up your only competition,
and now that you admit you can stop
the panic if I give you the right to
violate the law, I defy you to carry
out your conspiracy. If you do so,
I will hang you on a gibbet as high
as that upon which Haman was
hanged. If Roosevelt had been an
Andrew Jackson at that critical
period, the panic would have ended'
and the steel trust would not have
swallowed the Tennessee Steel and
Iron company.
Why did Governor Wilson feel con
strained, in his first speech after his
vacation, to declare that he would
act courageously and effectively if
tho machinery in existenco should be
employed to precipitato an unneces
sary panic? Mr. Hornady, tho able
and experienced Washington cor
respondent of tho Indianapolis News,
thus discusses the "Answer to Panic
Threat," as he calls It:
"The democratic leaders here ex
plain President-elect Wilson's gibbet
threat by saying that he was -un
doubtedly received intimation from
reliable sources that if the demo
cratic administration displeases tho
beneficiaries of the high tariff rates
or makes too much trouble for tho
trusts that have their headquarters
In Wall street, a panic will be manu
factured. That threats of this kind
havo been made In a quiet way with
the hope that they might havo some
influence on the incoming president
and his advisers, is asserted to bo a
fact by influential democrats.
"Nothing that Mr. Wilson has said
since ho entered public life has
pleased the general run of democrats
moro than his emphatic declaration
that he will make trouble for any
'captain of finance' who enters into
the business of panic making. Public
men who have watched the career of
Mr. Wilson as governor of New Jer-
say assert that ho will undoubtedly
do precisely what he says ho will do
in dealing with a panic situation if
ono should arise. '
"Tn connection with this plain no
tice from the president-elect as to his
course in case any effort shall be
made to manufacture a panic after
he enters the White House, it may
bo said that a good many of the old
time republicans havo over since the
election been privately expressing the
hope that fiancial difficulties would
follow the entrance of a democrat
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facial beauty with goggles. They era
ployed certain methods which have re
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BAD EYES BRING BAD HEALTH
Dr. Corlsh goes further. He assorts
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