The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1904-04-21

Jefferson upon that SUBJECT. u
democrats believe that no cOmmunit
has right to govern another CON
munity across the seas in accordanc,
with the uniformed dictates of it
own sweet will? Mr.. Jefferson wa'
the pen of the revolution who wrot,
that doctrine large.
DO democrats believe III amicabl,
and reciprocal trade relations will
the other nations of the world? Mr.
Jefferson negotiated the first reci
procitv treaties. Do democrats be.
lieve in Monroe doctrine, its proper
assertion and its proper limitations
Mr.. Jefferson expressed the idea be.
fore Monroe, after consultation with
him, who included it in a state paper.
Do democrats believe militarism to
be a curse, and that the farmer or
mechanic ought not to be compelled
to bear upon his stopped shoulders a
helmeted soldiery; that the military
power ought always to be subordinate,
not in words nor in law alone, but in
spirit as we'll, to the civil authority? p?
Mr.. Jefferson was their forerunnsr
there, too.
DO democrats think that in our
relations with foreign countries we
ought to be true world power by
setting glorious example Of liberty,
home development, industry, prosper
ity and sweet-winged peace? 1t was
Mr.. Jefferson who said: I frankly ad-
nit that my passion is peace Do
democrats believe, however, in proper
resentment of international wrong in
brave confrontment of positions of
peril? 1t was Mr.. Jefferson who put
down the Algerine pirates, when En-
gland, the mistress of the sea- was
paying them tribute. 1t was Mr..
Jefferson who gave notice to the
great Corsican himself, when the
world was trembling at his nod, that
the one power in all the world which
could not be our friend and necessar-
lily must be an enemy was a strong
European government in control of
the Mississippi valley and its outlets.
There were no trusts in Mr.. JEFF
ferson's day, but we may we'll under
stand what his doctrine would have
been concerning them, if will but re-
read what he said about the menace
to the peoples liberties and happiness
which the undue amassment of great
wealth in the hands of few people
would occasion. He not only fore
saw it, and did what he could to pre-
vent it, giving up his place in the
Continental Congress in order to go
home to Virginia and pull up, by the
roots, primogeniture the two sources
whence the evil seemed to grow in
his day. He went further and fur
ther than we are prepared to 60, even
now, at this day-when he said, that
the time would come when the 'statu-
tory privilege Of bequest and devise
would have to be limited in the inter
est Of the well-being of society," in
whose interest it had been granted
and that the amount which could be
left by bequest or devise to any one
person or for any one purpose should
be demarked.
Intelligent, subtle and far-seeing;
character, broad and and all-loving; a
moral courage superb, consideration
for the foibles and prejudices of
Others, exquisite courtesy, indiffer-
ence to personal enrichment; all these
marked him gentleman, and, as
such, an embodiment of the highest
ideals Of the English speaking race.
81 am, with every expression of
regard, very truly yours,
Johu Nharp Wil1;op,,v