Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-06


pass out They face the rising sun as
they go out of the door-then turn
their faces back to behold the inscrip-
ton, which propounds the query:
Which way-and for what?''
You who remember the Sorbonne
at Paris, recall that they have adopt-
ed this admonishing query, and on
heir east door is read:
"Qui via-pourQuoi?
So say to you: Who are you, and
Tor what came you here? What is
the purpose Of your Tomorrow d?
= Then, recalling the sacrifices made in
your dear homes, which enabled you
to be here, and those continued sac
rifices made by the faculty and teach
ers since you have been here, and
remembering that you are the sons Of
Georgia, that you are OF the noble
heritage of the SouSn. the answer to
the question must be that you are
here to construct a citizenship nobly
for God; to direct a government just
ly for man.
The Ills of Man.
All the ills of man are Of govern
ment-the government of man, Of
himself, within himself, or the gov
eminent Of man around himself. The
complain Of man is not of the thing,
but of the effects of things That
which he feels OF that which he fears
is to be is ever the melting cause of
his despair or his revolt. Since man
kind began the struggle for the su-
premacy Of man the problems Of gov
eminent among men have been about
the same-varying only in detail
1t is not true-as many of our pub
lie men and prominent publications
assert-that all is corruption in pub
lie life and all is defilement in private
home. 1t is not true that in America
honor has persisted among men, nor
that patriotism has died among Amer
leans. In the souls Of reunited citi-
zenship of the, republic is the glad
some Joy at the mention of Americas
achievements, and the heart throbs
with glory with the naming Of Lex
1ngton, Concord and Bunker Hill.
where our fathers sounded-through
the voice of Washington-the death
knell OF kings in America, and in
scribed by the hand OF Jefferson the
Declaration Of Independence, pro-
claiming the equality of man and the
kingship only of God.
The citizenship of America, from
the humblest TO the highest. from the
most powerful to the most lowly, ac-
claim their land as the supreme Of
earth and their people the noblest OF
mankind. Honor is yet the standard
Of men in their daily lives. and patri-
otism their ardent inspiration in the
defense Of the republic, anywhere. any
time, as against the world.
Declaration of People.
In matters of the declaration of the
people spoken of as their legislation,
we note the demand for the initiative
and referendum in America This
call BY the people, to the Legisla-
lures, both State and National, to
give up and surrender their privilege
to make laws as the representatives
OF the citizens, this demand OF the
people that they by their ballot, d.
rectly initiate their own legislation
and execute it by their direct action,
has been caused by a long suffering
in the betrayal of the peoples will
by the representative bodies desig-
nated-Legislatu
After this long endurance. coupled
with the experience of much disaster
to the interest of the people. and
Swallowed in the gloom of bribery,
pollution and corruption of Legisla-
lures by the instrumentalities which
have, for the last twenty years, par
ticularly engaged in these undertake
1ngs, the citizenship sought some
method by which it may remedy the
injustice upon the country and pre-
vent the betrayal of free government
and the wrongs to society committed
by these different branches of State
and National legislatures.
he duNOCdty VI IIlC lullldlANc anu
referendum was not projected by
Americans as a superior agency or a
! more complete one than that provided
by the fathers, modelled after the les
sons that the ancient governments of
the world had afforded-the initiative
and referendum was suddenly advo-
Gated because it was the immediate
remedy at hand and the immediate
protest against the systems which,
heretofore right in themselves, had
become perverted into wrong and OPP
preston.
The demands were protests against
the violations on the part of repre-
sentatives of their duty to their trust.
and as methods to take from these
false agents the opportunity of fur
Their continuing these infamies upon
free government Had the systems
provided by the fathers been obeyed
in the spirit, as was devised. there
would have been no need for thee
experiments.