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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

promise, known as the Omnibus
Bill" of 1850. But the ghost
would not down, and In 1854
Stephen A. Douglas pulled
through the Kansas Nebraska
act. which was a virtual repudia-
ton of the Missouri Compromise,
since it established the right of
the inhabitants of each Territory
to decide for themselves whether
the State should come into the
Union free or slave.
Immediately after the passage
of the Kansas Nebraska bill. the
political cauldron began to bub-
BILE and boil, Kansas became the
storm center OF the conflict of
border ruffianism and free
soilsm; propaganda FLASHED with
propaganda in actual battle. pro-
slavery being in the ascendant
one day and anti-slavery the
next. until finally the ants won
out and bleeding Kansas" took
her place in the Union as a free
State. The admission of Kansas
was the close OF the long contro-
versy, preliminary to the mighty
appeal 10 arms upon the battle
field.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
BLEEDING Kansas Part in War
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

TT HE admission of Kansas 10
the Sisterhood OF States,
bS years ago. was the main
act of the drama which, beginning
with the Missouri Compromise"
of 1890, and extending through
the exciting campaign for the
Kansas Nebras ska act Of 1884. was
to have its final denouemcnt in
the booming of guns at sumter
and the gathering of the hosts for
battle.
Clay's we'll meant measure, the
Missouri Compromise, admitted
Missouri as a slave State, but
prohibited slavery in all other
territories west of the Mississippi
and north of parallel $3.50;
measure that would almost Ger
tainly have worked like a charm
but for the invention of the Yam
kee schoolmaster, Eli whitney
A little more than twenty years
before the great Kentuckian got
his famous compromise through
Congress, Whitney invented the
cotton gin, a machine that is al
most equal TO Watts steam en-
CINE In its influence upon history
But for Whitney's invention the
question of slavery would never
have become a menace to the
country At first slavery existed
in the Northern as well as the
Southern States. but owing To its
unprotttableness it soon practical
ly died out north of the Mason
and Dixon line. and but for the
cotton gin would unquestionably
have had the same fate in the
South
Thirty years after tho enact-
ment Of the Missouri Compromise
bill Ca very brief period in the life
OF a nation), the trouble began Co
brew. and a short armistice was
provided for in Guys other COM
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
o Stars and Stripes

Africa, Evidently he wasn't a
fast enough movie
British battleships 10 be rubber
plated. Idea, perhaps. is that en-
emy's shot will bounce back and
kill EN-.
child weighing As pounds sent
by parcel post II anyone gave II
a few apples on the way. the
parcel would have been over
weight
Young New Yorker tells OF
committing murder for S.. In
View OF the safety OF murderers
IN New York, the price seems al
most eXorbitant,
The ghost OF Matt Vassar.
founder OF the justly celebrated
womeu's college, is reported ac-
tive iu Poughkeepsie, Tango is
stirring up al the old boys.
Alabama has sent Secretary
Bryan % bigger radish than Cal
ifornla gave him Being unfa-
miliar with the language of flow
ers, We don't know what these
StateE are limiting.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
u. S. Should Not Be a
Workshop or a Re
formatory.,

Each one of these qualities may
be determinative within certain
limits, but without answering the
full requirement.
Still less ought our country to
be regarded by us or the rest of
the world as a hospital for the
sick, a poorhouse for the impecu-
NOUS. a workshop for the unem-
ployed, a retreat for the oppress-
ed, an asylum for the fugitive or
a reformatory for the depraved.
Unwise altruism is as deplora-
Bile as sagacious selfishness.
No man should be received
from abroad who is physically, in
tellectuaily or morally below the
average tone of the country.
Every such one lowers the tone
of the nation and to that degree
disdualifies it for fulfilling it's
mission to the world.
So the principle we are con
tending for is not urged from
motives of self-aggrandizement,
but in the interest Of a wider and
more efficient beneficence.
1t is this principle that is in
sisted upon in every wisely adj
ministered household.
The private house has its doors,
which are kept shut and locked.
No one is allowed to cross the
threshold from outside without
careful personal inspection
And still more is no one al
lowed to become more than
transient occupant of the home
if of a character to depress the
quality of the home or infect in
any way any of its members.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

MAN AND MONKEY.

P. c. F.-You are mistaken in
maintaining that Darwin taught
the doctrine that man sprang
from the monkey tribe. Darwin
nowhere says any such thing.
His teachings, while resting upon
the development" or evolution"
theory nowhere assert that
mankind sprang from the simian
breed, except in a way that need
give us no alarm. The consan-
guinity is so remote that no blush
need come to our faces in think
ing upon the subject Ii is high
time that the great English think
er was cleared OF the vulgar in
situation that has for so long
been thrown out against him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
We Should Do Proper
Thing Without Be
ing Made.

The commandments ordained
in Scripture and in one form or
another re-enacted by Legisla-
ture constitute the cages in
which. like so many wild beasts
In menagerie, we are severally
Gagged. Every time that a man
refrains from doing what he
would do were there no restraint
put upon him by the laws of God
or of the State or of his own
conscience.
He is simply in the situation Of
a captive lion pacing up and
down before the iron grating in a
geological garden and peenns
through the stats half hungrily
and half resentfully.
He may not voice his impa-
thence and resentment in howls,
as undomesticated hyenas do. but
in spirit he bowls, even if he has
too much respect for himself and
for society to make his tribula-
tons audible,
Till we take so much pleasure
in doing right that no legal or
moral restraint becomes neces-
sary we are still in the ZOO"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
Questions Answered

ion that the moon is always
turning the same side to us. This
is proven by the fact that She
always presents to us the same
markings. From this fact, again
il is proven that with respect 70
the earth the moon revolves on an
axis, and that her turn Of rotation
is exactly equal to her time Of
revolution around the earth.
THE PRESIDENTS CABINET
H. L. M.-The Presidents Cabi-
net is not a part of the Executive
strictly speaking. The members
of the Cabinet can not, in strict
ness. even be said to be the
Presidents advisers. He does as
a matter of fact, consult them
and very often, in all probability
their advice has weight with the
President; but they possess no
constitutional power. That zee
sides. so far as the Executive par
Of the Government goes, so.sA
with the President After near
ing the views and opinions n me
members of his Cabinet the re-
ident can, il he chooses, disrekat'
them all He is the EAscuI'~'
and the whole OF IL.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

A man OF Villas business ca
pacity ought 10 be on the Chau-.
tauqua circuit
Woman goes to movies and
spots missing husband as cow
boy hero. He's now doing the
low comedy in a real court scene,
il is said that Mr. Bryan never
asks the price when he goes
shopping He asks a very good
one when he goes iecturing. how
ever.
Chicago surgeons. TO avoid
sewing up sponges in patients on
whom they operate, Will tie a
large silver check 20 each sponge
What's 20 prevent 'em forgetting
the check as well?
Professor Taft. the only living
eX President with thirty-tiyc
pairs ~ trousers. Is giving Cana
"a q iot OF valuable advice about
dealing with corporations. He
must have thought il up since
leaving office
Movie man olawed by lion in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

Brady, Chamberlain, Chiffon,
Lewis. Pomerene, Kern, Lane,
Martin, MARITIME. Myers. New
iands, Norris, Mclean, Robinson.
Shafroth, Sheppard, Swanson,
Thomas, Thompson. Vardaman
and most probably O'Gorman,
Hollis. Root, Sterling and Walsh.
1t will be a great fight. 1t will
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

egotism and intermlnable loquac-
ity is a national shame. There
should be an end to it-now.
Twenty seven strong and pro-
gresslve Senators have answered
yes on the poll, and from the be-
ginning sustained the vigorous
statesman from Oklahoma in his
fight. Among these are Senators
James, Kenyon. .Shively, Ashurst,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
THE MOON.

T. G. F.-You are way off"
in your guess as 10 the superficial
area Of the moon. The moons
surface contains approximately
146S5,oo0 square miles, or nearly
four times the area of the CONT
nent Of Europe. You need be no
longer Skeptical about the "opin-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
:. In-Shoots :.

or course. time is money when
a fellow can pawn his watch
As rule, the bowling mob is
content To take il out in bowling.
The man who can think when
ne Is down and out viii generally
come back
The fellows who object to the
building Of battleships never ex-
poet 20 ride ON one
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

to see the old guard of garrulity
die hard. The time will come
when men will marvel that any
man was ever allowed to speak
for three days in the American
Senate the time will come when
citizens will hear it as fairy tale
that there was time when a
single Senator could hold up the
business of the American people
for ten days or more.
An Anticipated Rule.
The antiquated rule of unlimlt-
ed parliamentary debate has rest
ed for long while on the argu-
ment OF precedent. The prece-
dents of the world now, intellec-
tual and parliamentary, are all
against the folly and injustice of
1t. The presidents in each of the
New England States, in every
Atlantic State, in every Gulf
State. in every Pacific State. in
every Rocky Mountain State, in
every Mississippi Valley State.
and in every State bordering on
Carada are against unlimited de-
bate or the minority veto. What
Senator from any of these States
will venture to say that the prece-
dents of his State are unsound,
unwise and clamoring for repeal?
The precedent of every munich
pal government, big and little in
the United States is against the
right of minority veto by inter-
minable debate.
The House OF Representatives
is against 1t.
The rule OF the majority is the
rule of all English-speaking par
liaments. Gladstone was its adj
vocate in England.
In France the cloture is moved
by one or more members crying
La cloture!" from the floor. In
Germany the majority rules, and
30 members can order the clo-
ture. In Austria Hungary mo-
tons for the close of the debate
are put to vote at once, without
question, by the president Il is
the same N Belgium, Denmark,
the Netherlands, Switzerland and
Spain.
We are behind all nations in
The power given our Senate to
ohstruct Let the people Join
Robert owen in his great fight
to remove this abused and dis
credited power.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
By DR.. CHARLES H. PARKHURST.

TIME idea has been earnestly
cherished by a great many
of our people that the Unit
ed States exists for a world
wide purpose; that our destiny
will not be accomplished by
merely becoming a great nation
ourselves. except as that great
ness becomes an influence and an
inspiration telling upon all the
rest of the nations.
This ambition, which is GER
tainly a laudable one, stands in
very distinct relation to the ques-
ton Of immigration. and to the
policy which, as a nation, we
ought to adopt relative to the in
PRODUCTION or the exclusion of the
foreign element
Professor Fairchild, of Yale
University, has recently discuss
ed this question in a fashion that
is broad and statesmanly. Immi-
grafton Is one of our great ma
tional problems that need to be
solved in the light of considera-
tons that are CORRESPONDENCE
great.
The doors of admission to our
country ought not to be opened to
an applicant on the basis merely
of the money which ne can show,
nor of his physical or intellectual
productiveness, nor of his ability
to meet the industrial demands of
any section of the country. Not
even his personal integrity and
adequate passport.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
Is National Character Be.
ing Lowered by the
Open Door?

Even our own hands we can
not cleanse by the use of soiled
water. 1t is, then, to the critic
rion of that principle that our
policy of immigration requires to
be brought.
Are we, or are we not, lowering
the tone of our national eharac-
ter by keeping so widely open to.
the foreigner our doors of admis-
sion? If we are, we are by so
much incapacitating ourselves
for comforting upon the world the
blessing that we have all along
been taught that it Is our ma
tional privilege and function to
render.
are such as are not allowed
to run free and are put be-
hind bars in order to protect So
ciety. That answers as a fair
description of a very considerable
majority of human animals, only
in the latter case the method of
confinement is different and the
bars, instead of being iron and
steel, are composed of laws and
ordinances.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
People With Owens.

People With Owens.
Senator owens presented a
comprehensive resolution in the
last session Il will be vigorously
pressed In this Congress. II will
be fieroely fought from every
fastness and fortress OF the old
fashioned bourbon and bombastic
battlements that survive in the
Senate Senator Owens should
win, because he is right. and the
people Of the country are with
him
The waste Of the public time.
the sQuandering Of the peoples
money and the delay OF the pub
lie business through unrestrained
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03
Cloture Vital in the Senate

IT is not. within our American
| House of Lords, a popular.
but II is an essentially vital
reform that finds its sponsor and
spokesman In Robert l.. Owens,
the dauntless Senator from Ok
lahoma.
For the last FIVE years-since
the beginning Of the Taft Ad-
ministration-there has been
gathering among the people an
increasing protest against the
enormous waste or the peoples
time and the criminal delay OF the
peoples business through the
present rules. customs and prece-
dents of the American Senate
This silent protest is ready now
TO align itself definitely and pow
erfully behind a public movement.
And Senator Owens has
preached III tne senate n brave
and timely sermon from the text.
THE MINORITY VETO IN THE
SENATE MUST END. THE OBJ
STRUCTION OF THE PuB-
Lie BUSINESS MUST CEASE.
THE POWER OF A SENATOR
TO BLACKMAIL THE SENATE
MUST BE TERMINATED"
The text tersely summarizes a
great national evil. The three
abuses have had frequent and la
mentahle demonstration. Senators
consuming three days in single
speech. single Senators under the
rule Of courtesy or privilege hold
ing for days and weeks the vital
business of the country in abey-
anec. and fractional hlibusters OF
the minority thwarting or defeat
ing popular legislation altogether.
1t is, indeed, time to cali halt
10 such disastrous rules and such
unsanctited traditions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-03

That policy is not pursued al
the impulse of a mean exclu.
siveness.
The more concernedly there is
being reared in the home a fam
lily of children with the intention
of making them the eventual
means of benefiting and blessing
society outside and the world at
large, the more scrupulous will
be the care taken to prevent the
intrusion into the home of any in
fiuence calculated to faint its
quality and thus impair its anne
liorating efficiency.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
COCKTAILS AT WHITE HOUSE
President and Canal Zone Governor
Review Permanent Organization
PIans-Opening in July.

Washington Wilson re-
ceived from Col. George w. Goethals
a complete review of plans for the or
ganization of a permanent govern
ment in the Panama Canal Zone which
comes into existence April 1, with
Colonel Goethals as first governor.
The meeting of the two officials in the
White House was the first since Colo
mel Cocktails appointment as COVER
nor. Because of that fact and the
presidents keen interest in all matters
pertaining to the canal, the confer
ence was extended considerably be-
yond the time allowed for the average
White House conferences.
Problems touching upon the organi-
zation of the zone government which
have not yet been solved and details
of the preparations being rushed for
the opening of the canal were re-
viewed at length. The president was
given to understand that the canal
would be ready for commerce by July.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
SOUTH ENJOYS SNOW STORM
Business Was Suspended When From
Three to Six Inches Fell in Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana.

New Orleans--Attracted by the
strange sight of heavy SHOWS, many
persons in various places in Missis-
slppi and Louisiana rose early and
stayed away from business in order
to enjoy the novelty. The heaviest
fall was at Laurel, Miss, where the
ground was covered six inches deep
with more falling. At Meridian there
was a fall of three inches. The
weather was much colder on the gulf
coast and sleet fell, but no snow
Savannah, Ga.-For the first time
in something like twenty years Sa-
vannah experienced a snowfall. About
two inches fell
At Columbus, Ga, two inches of
snow fell, the first snow of conse-
quence in fifteen years
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
KILLERS MAY BLEACH FLOUR
Federal Supreme Court Decides That
AIsop Process is Not Prohibited
BY Pure Food law.

hington.-Western flour millers
won a victory over the government
when the supreme court decided that
bleaching flour by the Alsop electric
process is not an adulteration and not
prohibited by the Pure Food Law, af-
firming the ruling of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in the fed
eral suit against the Lexington Mall
and Elevator Company of Kansas City.
The case was sent back to the dis
trict court for a new trial.
The government won its case against
the millers of the Southwest in the
United Staes District Court here. The
mil1ers, appealed to the United states
Circuit Court of Appeals, where tie
ruling of the lower court prohibiting
bleaching was reversed The federal
attorney then took the case to the SUI
preme court where they lost
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
TRY TO ROB IOWA TREASURY
Four Masked Bandits Overpower Two
Guards But Fail to Crack
State Safe.

Des Moines, Ia.-Four masked rob-
bers overpowered two guards in the
office of State Treasurer Brown, at
the Capitol at L O'Clock in the morning
and worked for hree hours n the big
safe to obtain s7,500,l but failed to
of nitroglycerin
The robbers took SIS from the cash
drawer. They escaped, leaving NJ. V.
Carpenter and ]. NJ Russell, two night
watchmen, both Civil War veterans,
bound and gagged on the floor and
the police were not notified for an
hour when the watchmen succeeded
in loosening their bonds
Two holes were drilled in the door
and two charges exploded, but the
door withstood the shock.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Federal Supreme Courts De-
cIsion in BIeached Flour
Case Upsets Plans.
BURDEN OF PROOF ON STATE
Government Chemist AIsbers Admits
That Ruling Badly CrippIes Eff
forts of His Department
State Laws Affected.

Washington, D. C--Senators and
representatives interested in the sue
cessful administration of pure food
laws already are considering some
amendment to the Food and Drugs
Act that viii meet the decision rem
dered by the supreme court in the
''bleached flour case,' which, it is
considered, cripples the federal gov
ernment's agencies for administering
the law
The court held in the bleached flour
case that before the government can
maintain an action for libel and con-
demnation of shipments of foodstuffs
or drugs under the act, it must es-
tablish affirmatively and by prepon-
derance of evidence that the goods
not only contain poisonous and dele
FERROUS substances" the addition of
which is forbidden by the act, but
that these added substances are pres
ent in such quantities as will injure
health.
The court says that the act was
passed solely to conserve the public
health and unless it can be shown that
any article contains substance that is
harmful to health, the government
cannot condemn it.
State laws will be affected by the
decision, because whenever the stSc
authorities attempt to apply the law
to outside corporations, these will
carry the case into the federal courts,
which will be guided by the supreme
court decision.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
W0MENvOTERs BEATBOssEs
In Chicago Primary Ten Democratic
Machine Candidates Go Down
to Defeat.

Chicago.-Although only 30 per cent
of the women whose names were on
the poll books, voted in the primaries,
it was seen that a sledge hammer
had been hurled into the machinery
of organized and predatory politics of
Chicago.
The 47,529 women who voted were
instrumental in busting ten Demo
cratic candidates for aldermen, who
sought reelection Seven of these
were on the Hearst-Harrisoa faction,
two were followers of Roger Sullivan
and one was an independent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

Madame Poincare, wife of the pres
ident of the French republic, does
not admire the practice of the courts
of Europe, when they pay marked So
cial honors to the wives of kings, but
ignore her very existence as wife of
a president. When the president was
invited to be the guest of King George
in England and when he was enter
tanned by King Alfonso in Madrid.
Madame Poincare was not in evidence
and was not asked to be. The prac-
tice of ignoring the wife of the French
ruler in international courtesies is
said to have originated at the time
of the empire, when the Empress
Eugene undertook to play a promi-
nent part in the politics of, Europe.
Madame Poincare is of Italian origin
and was an actress before her mar
rage, but she is described as a
bright and interesting personality,
and the Duchess of Rohan and other
representatives of French royalist So
ciety have accepted her without a
question.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
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