Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-19
70 tbe faltor o. tbe nyenlns star

TO the Editor OF the Evening Star.
A FTER carefully reading Woodrow
~ Wilson's bombastlc campaign
statements and recent calumny-
mongering TRADES, trying to ascertain
his real purposes, I am forced TO the
following conclusions:
That Woodrow Wilson's "muek-rake'
diatribe of Saturday evening, January
a.. 1911, uttered In the Now Auditor
iurn, Newark, maliciously slanderine
James Smith, jr., a captain OF indus
try and statesman OF demonstrated
practical knowledge and ability, and
b%razenly and ostentatiously proclaim
ing his own predetermined purpose,
when inaugurated governor of New
Jersey, to ignore and repudiate thc
fundamental laws of republican de-
mocrRcy, and the i~nalienable rights of
the American people Of New Jersey TO
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness; TO usurp unconstitutional func-
items. and to compromise and nullify
in the State of New Jersey the COW
enanted mandates and benefits incor-
porated In the national constitution of
tho government, of the American peo-
pie. by the American people, for the
American peoples protection. was
manifestly, from beginning to end, the
demagogio plea OF a college-hred
theorist.
oliver Cromwell once said:
THAT man who does not know where
he is going starts on a long Journey"
Abraham Lincoln once said:
This country, with its institutions,
belongs 10 the people who inhabit 1t.
. " The chief magistrate derives
all his authority from the people. His
duty Ia to administer the present gov
eminent as 1t came to his hands, and
to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to
his successor. = " " My countrymen.
one and all, think calmly and we'll
upon this whole subject. Nothing
valuable can be lost by taking time.
If there be an object to hurry any of
you. in hot haste, to a step which you
would never take deliberately that OBJ
ject will be frustrated by taking time:
but no good object can be frustrated
by II.
"No Oath 10 Destroy Government"
You have no oath registered in
heaven to destroy the government.
while l shall have the most solemn one
to preserve, protect and defend it."
George Washington. in his farewell
address. said:
ut is important. likewise. hat the
habits of thinking in a free country
should inspire caution I'm those entrust-
ed with ITS administration; to confine
themselves within their respective con
stitutional spheres, avoiding in the eX-
ercise Of the powers of one department
TO encroaeh upon another. .
'The spirit of epcroachment tends 10
consolidate the powers of all the de-
psrtments in one, and thus to create,
the form OF government, a
real despotism.
"A just estimate of that love Of
power. and proneness to abuse 1t, which
predominates in the human heart, is
sufficient to satisfy us OF the truth Of
his position. >
"The necessity of reciprocal checks
I'm the exercise of political pow w by
dividing and distributing IT into differ
emit depositOries, and constituting each
the guardian OF the public veal against
" VIZ - ar Mh6 DCNa hAstC4
by experiments, ancient and modern,
some of them in our country, md under
our own eyes.
preserve them must be as neces-
ssry ms 70 institute them.
'Tf, in the opinion of the people, the
distribution or modification of the cOn-
stitutionnI powers be an any particular
wrong, let II he corrected by an arnend-
meDt in the way I'm which the constitu-
change by usurpation, for though this
In one instance may be the Instrument
of good, II Is the customary wenpon by
which free governments are destroyed.
The precedent must always greatly
o~Verbainncc In permanent evil any par
tinl or transient benefit which the use
can at any time yield.
Tn offering to you. my countrymen.
these %counsels of an old affectionate
friend, l dare not hope that they Will
make the strong and lasting impression
I could wish-that they will control the
usual current of the passions. or pre-
vent our nation from running the
course which has hitherto marked the
destiny of nations. But II I may ven
flatter myself that they may be produc-
tive of some partial benefit, some occa-
sional ~good-that they may now and
then recur to moderate the fury Of
party spirit, to warn against the mis-
chiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard
against the impostures of pretended
patriotism-this hope will be a full rec
ompense for the solicitude for your well
fare by which they have been die
tnted."
Quotes the Bible, Too.
The Bible. st. Matthew. vii, i, 2, 8.
4. 3, 10, says: Judge not. that ye be not
judged, for with what judgment We
judge we shall be judged, and with
what measure we mete 1t shall be meas
ured to you again; and why beholdest
thou the mote that is In thy brothers
eye but considerest not the beam that
II IN thine own eye? Or how wilt thou
say to thy brother, Let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye. and, behold, a
beam Is in thine own eye? Thou
hypocrite, first cast II the beam out
of thine own eye; and then shalt thou
see clearly to cast out the mote out OF
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