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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-29

in the kingdom of grace that We find In the kingdom of nature? Does not the same King rule over both realms2 We see that God rewards and punishes men here; why should We not believe that He will reward and punish them hereafter? We see that, under the moral government of God, in this life. there is evidence enough to prove the fact of "substitution," or of "vicarious sufferlng;' why should we ac- cept this. and reject the atonement, be- cause of it's Vlcarious feature? '1t can not be true" says the Deist. that Jesus suffered for us, for this would be wrong; and the Judge of all the earth must do right" But is it not true that, under the ruling of the same Judge, the mother suffers-nay. often dies-in bringing child into the world?
 But the Deist may take refuge in his ignorance, and say: 'I don't pretend to know how it Is right that the mother should suffer and die for her child. I simply accept the fact, and gay that as God planned It. 1t must be right" Then the analogical reasoner follows the Deist into his retreat and says: "Neither do we know how 1t is right that Christ suffered, tho just for the unjust. The Bible does not tell us how God can be just and yet justify the sinner who ac- cepts Christ as an atoning sacrifice; the Bible simply tells us that 1t Is so; that 1t is Gods arrangement; and as we believe that the Judge of all the earth must do right we must believe that, God does this, then this cannot be wrong
 In a word: Reasoning from what God does In His moral government of the world around us, Butler reaches the con
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WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN

| suit, and the toga went to old Father Gear, whose greatest exploit in the Senate was an oratlon picking apart the politics of Senator Allen, the gentleman who held the floor for fifteen hours, ''hand-run- min " on a fearfully hot afternoon, and the entire night of an August day in continuous Illumination against the re- peal of the purchasing clause of the Shei i- man silver law. As the sun rose in the eastern horizon, he ceased, not that he was in the slightest fatgued. but that tho subject was too far gone in exhaus- ton to continue on the road longer. That very day, as l now recall, the vote was taken, and plutocracy fetched forth the crown of thorns and cross of gold and the cIuci1xion proceeded.
 By and by Father Gear was gathered to his fathers, and again 1t was hoped that Hepburn would get the place he was born for; but the toga went to young MT. Deliver, who ran a tilt against Mr. Joseph Benson ForalSer nearly as disas- trous as Gears dissection of Aliens poll ties In his earlier career Hepburn had made a free trade speech on the lumber schedule of the tariff of 1883, that aboml- nation that was a revision up of tariff so monstrous that even the republi- can party was ashamed of 1t and ran away from 1t, and now Hepburn refused to follow the lead of Tom Reed and vote for repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law. So did that other eminent "goldbug'-Joseph G. Can non But Hepburn has got bravely over both his free tradeism and his free silver ism. Cannon never had the free trade distemper; but he had an awful ease of free silver.
 In this same Fifty-third Congress the democratic majority in both houses turned populist, deposed Cleveland, set up Teller as leader in the Senate and Bland in the House and from that day to this the American people have not pro-
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BYF. I. MONKS

when disasters fell upon nation the people held the king accountable. and many king has lost not only his crown but his head if the blame was fixed upon him; but with trusts as rulers there is no such thing as fixing responsibility; there Is no head to decapltate.
 Republication is based upon the con- sent Of the governed. No government. ex- cept a despotlsm. can long exist unless 1t enjoys not only the consent but the support of it's people. A republican form of government Is the strongest so long as it has the support of the masses, but it Is the weakest If the masses turn against 1t. Powerful political parties are inimical to republican government be- cause the party out of power, being naturally strong, will always attract to it's ranks the dissatisfied and disap- pointed History shows that republic are short-llved compared with empires or kingdoms. but it also shows the causes which brought about their downfall. 1n- stead of booming and boosting this coun- try the time has come for contraction and the consultation of its people. Re publicanism is not favorably regarded by crowned heads and its success for so far in the United States has not served to re- move the prejudice.
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What a hobo dream And every hobo at once began to have a dream of his exag- gerated Ego, and to think the time had arrived when all the wealth and brains in the United States will be commanded lo throw off their clean linen and adopt his patched habliments. There will never come the day when the man with the patch on his pants will rule America, be- cause as l have shown in fhe foregoing it is an inevitable certainty that the l9b- oring man of the United States will be more proud than eyer that he is abund- anty provided with all he wants, can maintain his family as he desires, and can maintain his family as he desires, and can save up his surplus for surplus he will haYel from the progress Of this na- tion which nothing can stay! The world outside of the United States would De delighted to see the day when tho man with the patch on his pants swaSed Amer ica; but the conception Is as absurd as the utterance, trite epigram, devoid of sub stance.
 cannot leave the topic of cotton any more chan the American people can leave it if they would or should if they could, because it is inseparably identified with the advancement which this nation ls to mabe. an advancement entirely beyond the power of any man 10 portray in
 
 hacked the southern belt was q neglected, ,nalf-scorued and abused specimen or vegetation, until the people of the United States began 10 hear the civilized world shoui aeross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, send us cotton! Send us cot tom [.
 Then we began to take some notice or that scrawny plant, and began 10 appre- ciate that 1t bore for us a significance that was to be written in the future In such revenues that no man dared measure their volumel And we don't begin to measure the import of what cotton actually means to the United States yet We haven't any conception of the millions of acres that are today seemingly sterile which in . few years will luXuriate in snowy tufts of that precious product directly resppn- sive to the demands of the world. Of course, we are a people wondrously en- ergetic as it is, but we haven't our en- ergies even yet stimulated as they will become civilization cannot advance without the help of American cotton. They must use it, And it rests with us if they must not also use our wheat America is depopulating Europe by taking it's brain and muscle. and the day IS almost above the horizon when the best human capacity the world contains, and by far the best material wealth the earth knows anywhere, will make the United States sway the globe.
 It should be very anlfest, therefore. to every thoughtful individual that, with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-29
BY DANIEL J. SULLY

our territorial extent, with the tiIlable magnitude of our continent with it's vast acreage possible for cotton where with to clothe the world, and It's addl- tonal vast acreage possible for wheat WnereWith to feed the world, and all the financial wealth that our incomparable brain capacities require for the consum- nation of our ambition. and the best skilled labor that human handicraft has ever known. the United States are not in any immediate danger of calamity of any type that even the vivid imaginings of egos and phantom-chasers can invent
 More than this. We have a generation of young men growing up. How about that generation? Shall 1t be the factory or the stock exchange3 Shall 1t be the farm or the counting house2 Shall 1t be the arts or the professions? Who can say save the young man himself7 Where on the top of Gods green earth has he such scope for his gifts? Whither could he turn and hope 10 find such rewards of fame and wealth open before him he sees all about? I wouldn't presume to advise more than to beseech him to listen to none of the far cries of alarm as to the fate of his country, but toss back his head. set his jaws, and emulate that blunt but glorious admonltion to so shape his life that he can look any man in the face squarely and honestly
 There Is no country on earth where he can do this but the United States. He ought 10 thank his Maker that 1t Is sol 1 do, for there is in that spirit the best re- buke to every form of hysteria, to every arrogant Ego to every fear and scare of himsy phantomsl If the young genera ton feels and acts thus 1t will the day when the United States wheat will feed the world and United States cotton will clothe the world! In that day every Ego will be absorbed in the common veal, every tendency to hystera will havo been eliminated. every fear and doubt and phantom relative to the surety of this country will have become too disgraceful to be entertained.
 Nothing is needed, therefore. but to say to the timid: Have no fear. The finances of the American people are en- tirely beyond any possibility of peril There is nothing now at any time. to be frightened over. If hysteria becomes rampant try and overlook 1t as a terror infused into the weak. But never doubt the power and strength of your country to surmount any obstacle,'
 Just word in behalf of agriculture as our chief commercial asset. If the tiller will pnt his brawn against the brain of the commercial lizer of his product the United States can, at this moment, dicate to the world. There Is no doubt about this. It may sound broad and compre- hensive; but it Is reality.
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duced a single democrat that appeared in public drunk on victory. If political in.f..aitN NeIe a beverage the democratic party could establish fifteen years record for total abstinence They lost the art of acquiring vltory with the ostrac- ism of Cleveland, Carlisle, Olney Villas, Turner, Morrison, Lindsay, Wilson and men of that ll1 and that caliber The republicans have gained three successive presidential elections. They have had majorites in both houses for seven sue cessVe congresses. They are confident of carrying the country In 1908. and If the democratic party doesn't mend It's man ners, and keep them mended, 1t will quaff the bitter cup of defeat to the dregs again some fifteen months hence.
 Even before Thomas E. Reed left the speakers chair Hepburn had the audac- fly to denounce the rules of tho House that lodges In the chair all the legisla- tive power of that body. He has several times demanded that the right of delib- eration be restored to the representatives of the people, He frets over the domin- ion of the committee on rules, which is dominated by the speaker. He declares that the House ought to have the right to enact what the majority favors; but he talked to deaf ears. The oligarchy Is in the saddle. What the speaker says goes What the majority says does not go unless the speaker approves. l think 1t worth trying-the suggestion of the Hon. J. Ham Lewis, that the House take it's speaker from without It's member ship. The majority would never consent to a surrender of its rights to stranger and an alien to its roll
 But the republican party has only one princple-the majority the day of cleo ton. Hence it is no reformer. It would drift forever if 1t did not impair it's popularity. Under the present rules no unloaded pistols can be fired, no unsteady
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NO HARD TIMES COMING TO US

nothing of passing moment could undo America any more than passing things can create her. Like great, massive bus~ 'warks the huge commercial interests Of the United States have been examples of undaunted optimism in the ndestruc- tibe fortification they have presented of the stability of American finance. The American people realize and appreciate this very optimism. Our agriculture and the brains and labor of our people can never be doWned. You have heard other wise have been told narrowing stories of , what might happen; have been Jed to be- Heyo ttat certain self-ordained beings were rOnE To save the nation
 That is all arrant rot. No single indi- vldual could save this nation any more than he could create it. The American people are too great, too powerful, too world-respectcd. too stately to be the smooth stone plucked from the brook by any modern David and whrled about his head straight for the forehead of a visionary spectral Goliath. The quicker our people get that notion in their heads the sooner and better in their heads the sooner and better will they grasp the grandeur of their nation and the greatness of their land.
 And speaking of the land" doubtless | will be regarded as speaking of one product of our land with some degree or authority, and that Is relative to cotton. T recall that my prediction in 1903, that within five years fifteen million bales or cotton would be used, was considered very optimistic.
 I'll venture right here to make some other predictions.
 Within twenty-five years the southern states will spin 50 per cent of their own cotton, hereas now they export 6D per cent of it.
 Within twenty years 50 per cent of the spinning industry of England will be situ- ated in the southern states of America.
 My prediction in 1903 is very close to ful1llment, and l predict that this coming years the consumption of cotton by the world will reach fourteen million bales of it can be obtained) a better prices than ever before. And this will bring back into this country enormous quanti- ties of gold instead of our exporting big quantities of 1t. to such an extent that from October, 1907, to July, 1908, the re- ceipt of gold into the United States VIII exceed by 50 per cent any import of gold ever known by the American people.
 Does that look as If there is anything the matter with American finance? Does that look as if Wall street. or Egos, or hysterican phantom Shasers can ruin this country? Does that look as if we were in danger of war? Does that look as if there is any reason why this is the day fo: the man with (the patch on his pants!
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The Romans were the most war-like people the world has ever known; their military prowess won for them vast territory Conquest brought wealth, and wealth brought luxury. From luxury, as naturally as weeds spring from compost. sprung vice quickly fol- lowed by decay and death. The cycle was complete. Emperors came and the sun of Roman liberty set for ever. With it's republication went it's purity, with it's wealth came weakness.
 The United States of America is re- public, and the form of government Is republican as distinguished from regal or imperial The word republican" Is not used in a political party sense, but in the sense that International interpretation gives it. The republic of the United States of America laid Its foundation on the constitution adopted by it's founders and that foundation stands today q s one of the most perfect and solid bases upon which nation was ever built. That foun- dation has not shifted nor has it been extended, but later additions have been made in the shape of amendments by yir- tue of which the contour of the super structure has been changed.
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trusts and relies upon brain and brawn to provide this world a liyng
 And then there is a loud protest against speculation. As matter of fact, every thing Is speculation from our cradles. We speculate as to whether we will be able to learn to walk Everything we do from the moment we arise in the morning un- til we go to bed at night is speculation. Call 1t gambling if you like. Literally, 1t isn't gambling, nor is 1t speculation; but it is risk, and risk Is ambition, and every thing we do that has ambition in 1t is risk Were 1t not for risks taken on the Stock Exchange the industries of the United States could not be successful Neither would any man outside of Wall street be successful in his business if he did not incur risks, make the gamble with his ambition and indulge in the spec ulation his business thrift inculcates.
 It Is both wrong and foolish to create such false notions. They are what engen- der scares and construct phantoms that alarm people. Take for example the more recent terror sent through the land like d shudder at the prospect of sending our naval fleet to the other side of the world. The true version is a commercial one. The naval propaganda may have something of the diplomatic whip about 1t, but the direct fruit is commercial in developing In the fnlluS or IOTelBll Hd- ti6hs some estimation of the great under lying strength of the American people. But to imagine for an instant that any nation could, or would, regard such a naval demonstration as cause to seek trouble with us Is beyond belief. if you stop a moment and remember that we have 1t in cur power to cut off their means of living at the first intimation of any declaration of war!
 Present European depression Is due to the fact that they cannot realize to the full their own products because of Amer ican competition; and are hoping and wishing that something will happen to America because We are eating their com mercial life out. They are putting up walls and barriers to say the inroads of American commerce. But 1t cannot and will not be Stayed.
 As for a war with Japan, she is too wise to think of 1t for moment. Japan is depending upon America. not only to get her products into the countries of the east, but all over the world Japan has an immense population on a small area They are thriving because they must work for each and every one of their people. They cannot advance by agriculture because they have not the land. China and the east want the pro ducts of either Japan, England or Amer lea. It Is race for the swiftest. Japan got what she wanted in her last war, and now she is very busy competing with
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valid Ego has left the money market su- perior to the latest, silliest alarms that have been uttered about iti
 There has been a great amount of ad- vice rendered the American people rela- tive to their finances by very eminent men, Such advice Is wholly unnecessary. American finances are entirely beyond the need for admonitory counsel, and such advice savers plainly of selflshness. We are not in any dangerl We haven't been in any danger American brains and brawn will never allow the United States financially or o:herwise-to be in dan ger! That is impossible And what the people ought to do Is to pin their trust in that, in their national character ere ated by the brains, brawn, activity and progression of the people, and pay no heed whatever to Egos that become in Hated by hysterical self-love and self glory, and then perforce, collapse, evap- crate and expire!
 The financial condition of the United States is beyond the reach of anybody or any power
 Wall street Is not dictator It is noth- ing but the barometer of the American peoples success! The American brain realizes it's own strength, and shows It by passing through every condition pre- dicted as freighted with dire calamities, emerging to discover them to be only fakes and phantomsl That Is what the people have discovered in this latest fright of the Exaggerated Ego! Like all the others, 1t has proven to be nothing but a vapid phantom.
 As proof of the impregnable security of American finance, it won't be month be- fore the pendulum will swing back with greater force than before, and in less than a year what has occurred will be remembered no more wildly than if 1t happened in the eighteenth century.
 Hence I say there Is no such thing as financial epoch In this country; and there is no such thing as American finance being in any peril at any time, or through any cause. There is no such thing as Wall street controlling American finance; and there is no need for any fulsome advice as to what should be done to ensure safety to American finance and there is no reason or excuse for tsese spells" of fright and terror if those who have an abnormal ego to fatter abstain from assuming to hold the destiny of the American people in the hollow of their hands
 You hear a terrible outcriy about trusts. There are only two trusts in ex- fstence, One is the Trust of Brains!" The other is the Trust of Brawn! Thsy are the only trusts in the world, And the Amer ican people. deep down in their hearts. know 1t and feel 1t and believe 1t. Whenever the word 'trnst'' is other wise used 1t nkind
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by the representatives of a people that was evolved of the polity of the bar barIan tribes who overthrow the Roman empire and overran Western Europe from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. From them came the Cortez of Spain, the States General of France, the Parliamen of England. the Diet of Germany, and the Congress of America. This thing of gov ernment by representatives chosen by the people exists in highest perfection in the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, where the House of Commons Is the ruler. In theory We have 1t In the United states; but it has degenerated until Theodore Roosevelt Is as much the ruler of the American people Henry VII was of the English, or Henry " was of the French.
 If our fathers had not feared the peo- pie they would have established 1t that the Presidents cabinet should formulate the policy of the administration. and that cabinet. with tenure of two years should be selected from the majority side off the House of Representatives That would have given us representative gov ernment. What we have got Is executive government. A seat in the House of Rep resentatves ought to be the highest of flee in the land The President of the United States ought to be IS much of a figurehead as the King of England. As it is our President Is the most powerful and irresponsible ruler In Christendom.
 George Gilbert of Kentucky thought Hepburn the foremost man in Congress, and declared that the next generation would regard him as we do the giants of thirty years ago-Blaine, Beck, Gar field, Lamar, Randall. Carlisle, Ben Hill, Reed, Kasson and others of that day
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His reelection was a confirmation of the wisdom of the selection.
 Wars followed wars against the for eigner and. later, civil war. Out of the wreck and ruin of these disasters re- publicanism sprung triumphant. The people still ruled. The United States was willing to honor and reward its heroes. but not to depart from its first prlnciples-that of allowing its people to say who shall rule. and for how long. Thus 1t was that the great republic was preserved.
 But times change and men change with them" Is the republic of today the republic founded by the men of 1776? Are the conditions which ex- ist today conformable with the laws and rules which governed conditions a century ago? Is a population of S0,- 900 0o0, extending over forty-five states embracing all sorts and conditions of cline and country, as pure and as patriotic in its principles as A nation of 100000 which had won its inde- pendence at the cost of the blood and life of It's people? Let the American answer