Evening star., 1914-07-05
DANIELS GIVES POINTS
IN NEW DECLARATION
Secretary Says Tariff, Currency and
Antitrust Laws Insure
Independence.

CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July A.
The administrations tariff, currency and
antitrust measures are the three decla-
American business life and make posi-
BILE an era of unprecedented prosperity,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels declared
in an Independence day address here to-
day. The Secretary. speaking before the
University Of Virginia summer school.
said Congress had. during the past year.
listened to the peoples mandate. and the
writing of the three declarations had
been the concrete result.
Finds Lion in Its Path.
When Congress began writing its dec
laration of independence against unjust
tariff taxation of the many for the bene-
fit of the favored few. and its declara-
a lion in the path" the Secretary said.
That lion was a pernicious and invisi-
Bile lobby. Before any reforms could be
accomplished, before any pledges could
be kept. the lobby had to be uncovered
and destroyed. Woodrow Wilson has
done nothing that will free legislative
bodies from the miasma that affects
tHeHl equal 10 ms victory over the lobby,
won in the first days of his administra-
ton. That fight not only destroyed the
evil of the lobby. but ended the ability of
selfish interests to prevent the enactment
Of other declarations OF independence"
Jefferson "original Progressive"
Characterizing Thomas Jefferson as the
original progressive Secretary Daniels
said President Wilson, with the excep-
ton Of Madison and Monroe. was more
like Jefferson than any other man who
had occupied the White House. The Sec
retary declared that, long before any
other man, Jefferson had outlined the ed
ucational policy which has been adopted
throughout the country
Jefferson, said the Secretary, was well
known as the father of the University
of Virginia, land If he had no other title
to fame his conception of what a state
university should be. and his carrying 1t
out in the university he founded, would
give him a title that could not be fnyaIi-
dated"
Pays Visit to Monticello.
Secretary Daniels while here visited
Monticello" Thomas Jefferson's old
home as a guest of Representative
Levy of New York. its present owner.
He read the Declaration Of Independ-
ence standing in the reception room of
the mansion and later placed a wreath
on Thomas Jefferson'S tomb.
Virginia delayed long in establishing a
system of education upon Jefferson's
ideals. said the Secretary, and he deemed
that due quite as much to the fact that
population in Virginia was widely scat
tered as to the fact that Large numbers
of influential leaders did not have the
vision to see that the prosperity of the
whole people was dependent upon the
education OF the whole people,
virginia's Lost Opportunity.
THE aristocratic element In Virginia
initiated against Jefferson's idea. and the
industrial conditions of an agricultural
state also initiated against it, said Mr..
Daniels. IF Virginia had had the wis
dom. in spite of its sparse settlements, to
have adopted Jefferson's system in the
full when he promulgated it, believe the
Old Dominion would have been one hun
dredfold richer in wealth and would
have added to the primacy she enjoyea
in the early days of the republic