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The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
JOHN OTTO WILL GET DIVORCE
FROM BRIDE He WE'D IN CANON
PRESIDENT WILSON
BACK ON JOB AGAIN
Associated Press.

hssoclateu PreSS.
Washington, ID. c.. Jan. 13.=Pres-
ident Wilson and family arrived from
Pass Christian, Miss, at 1880 this
morning. 1t was IS above zero
when they stepped from their private
car and walked briskly through the
station TO automobiles. Tho party
shivered with cold at the extreme
change from the warm climate of the
Gulf coast. The trip was unevent-
full. The President was greeted by
crowds everywhere. but made no
speeches. The President was the
picture of health when he got back
to his desk. He found work aplenty
including the appointment of fed
eral reserve board TO control the
new banking system; Il surgeon gem
eral for the army; oommandant of
the marine corps; the Mexican situ-
alton, his forthcoming message on
trust legislation. besides mass of
accumulated correspondence.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

can see a uniformed officer much
further away than a plain-clothed
citizen and for that reason l am 60
ing to insist on the police doffing
their uniforms during my admins
tration."
The mayor did not state when he
would issue the order, but 1t Is pre-
sumed that he will not be long in
asking the police to put their
uniforms on the shelf. At present
the uniformed men are Assistant
Chief W. c.. Hermann. Officer
Knoche and Patrolman Halligan.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
UNION MEN GOING TO
WORK IN MICHIGAN
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Houghton, Mich, Jan. 13.-Fur-
ther additions to the non-union
ranks are reported today from the
northern strike districts. The man
agement of the Wolverine mine said
fifty had turned in their membership
cards of the Western Federation of
Miners and gone to work. Officials
of the Ahmeek mine said a number
of experienced men had applied for
work.
Union leaders planned meetings
today at Ahmeek and Calumet to
hold the men in line for the strike.
The break in the union ranks at
Ahmeek is inconseQuential thus far.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

The Sakura-Jima has been quiet
more than u century. II occupies
the center of small island in the
Gulf OF Kagoshima, directly in front
OF the capital OF the province of
Satsuma. 1t was 1000 feet high.
Before the present eruption 1t had
two craters. The last general erup-
ton was in 1879. This occasion had
SO impressed itself on the people that
II was commemorated by n monthly
Festival. The surrounding coasts
and country are heavily populated,
there being hundreds of thousands
in the danger zone.
The fragmentary dispatches over
the wires were destroyed at several
points. but indicates that the loss of
life is heavy in kagoshima and take
a larger range wishAivices complete.
The city was the center of large
pottery of porcelain idustry. Much
of the soil of the island is rich and
sugar cane. fruit and vegetables are
extensively cultivated.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Workmen are busy today putting
in a new stairway from the fifth
floor of the Grand Valley bank build
ing to the roof. The stairs will be
used by the weather office. 1t was
necessary to tear a hole in the con-
crete roof to make way for the steps.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Word has been received from the
relatives OF T. P. Harris who died at
st. Mary's Sunday morning that he
should be buried here. The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon at
the funeral parlors of Yunker &
Callahan on Main street, with in
terment in the Orchard Mesa ceme-
terry. Harris home was in Sheldon,
Mo.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
FRUIT GROWERS
DECLARE DIVIDEND

The board of directors of the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers AS
sociation this afternoon declared a
dividend of 10 per cent. The state
ment of Manager Fletcher showed o
profit of sI0.590.55. There was an
undivided profit of Sll,9O0.23 re-
naming from last year. The divi-
dend was declared after making
heavy depreciations in all the prop
critics.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
WILLIAMS WILL
Be COMPTROLLER
OF THE CURRENCY
Associated Press.

ASSOCIATED Press.
Washington. ID. c.. Jan. l3.-The
President sent in the nomination of
John Shelton Williams of Virginia
for comptroller OF the currency, tc
the senate today. He will be ex-
officio member of the federal reserve
board.
Williams is now assistant secretary
of the treasury, in charge of the fis-
cal bureaus. This announcement
followed the conference between the
President and Secretary McAdoo.
who has been sounding the senators
relative to the confirmation
Secretary Houston said today that
he does not plan to resign from
the cabinet to become Il member of
of the federal reserve board.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
UNION LEADERS GO AHEAD
WITHOUT MOTHER" JONES
Associated Press.

AsSUCldteu lTesS.
Trinidad. Colo, Jan. 13.-Un-
daunted by the arrest of Mother"
Jones', union leaders continued prep
arations for n demonstration tonight
General Chase said that permission
to hold meeting will probably be
granted, but no speeches of an in
flammatory character will be al
lowed.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
FUNERAL OF MRS. SMITH
HELD THIS AFTERNOON

The funeral of Mrs. Frank REM
ington Smith was held at the home
of the deceased this afternoon at
1880. Rev. j. Il. Weir preached the
funeral sermon and paid many fine
tribute to the charater of the dead
woman. The body will be shipped to
Denver for burial ON No. 6.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
MRS. {. h. DAVIS DIES
AFTER A LONG ILLNESS

Mrs. e. II. Davis died at 3 o'clock
this afternoon at her home, 343 Chi
peta, after a long illness. She was
SO years Of age. The deceased is sur
vived by her husband, Rio Grande
engineer, and three sons.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Victoria. B. c., Jan. l3.-The en-
tire western part of the Island OF
Ambrym, New Hebrides, was devas-
tated by volcanic eruption. accord
ing to news brought by the liner
Makura.
This word was received at sgd
ney prior to the departure of the
Makura, Dec. G. Six new craters
we're observed in active eruption, and
the following day Mount Mime col
lapsed The inhabitants sought ref
uge in boats, which had hardly been
reached when two new craters
burst forth. overwhelming the coun-
tryside with lava.
No lives were reported lost among
the whites. The steamer France sue
ceeded in saving 500 natives.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Nagasaki, Japan. Jan. i3.-Indica-
tions are today that deaths from
earthquake and volcanic disturban-
ces will run into the thousands.
Authorities declare that an official
estimate as to the extent of the dis
aster will be impossible for a few
days.
Doctors and hospital attendants
were sent to the scene. but 1t was
difficult to reach the spot, as rail-
road communication is impeded by
the heap OF ashes, and the tracks
were dislocated by the quake.
Ashes from the Sakura-Jima, 80
miles away. are falling here today.
Burning rock and ashes set fire to
killed. Several villages at the foot
of the volcano were burid in Lava
yesterday.
The population of Kagoshima,
which was almost completely buried,
showed 10000 at the last census.
The population of the adjoining
island Sakura is given at $4,000.
On this island hundreds are reported
to have perished beneath the streams
of lava. Many more will undoubted-
ly drown in attempting to escape.
A refugee from Kagashima today
said: THE eruption started Sun
day night Hundreds of the inhab-
itants of the small island where
Sakura-Jima is situated rushed to
the beach and leaped aboard junks
and steamers which carried them to
Kagoshima.
There the heat was intense, con-
stantly increased with hail of glow
ing cinders. The people fled in dis
order along the highways north and
west of the city. They abandoned
everything in their flight and were
soon suffering from lack of food
and drink"
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Congress Will
Discuss State
Mine Strike
A ssnciated Press

Associated Press.
Washington, ID. c., Jan. 13.-The
rules committee of the house is called
to meet Saturday, to consider the
proposal of congressional investiga-
Michigan.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Prize Fighter
Who Killed His
Opponent Free
Associated Press.

Los Angeles. CAL. Jan. l3.-Jess
willard. the heavyweight, was ac-
quilted of the charge of prize fight
ing today. The trial was the out
growth of the death of John Young,
after a bout at Vernon with Willard
on Aug 90. The jury was out all
night.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
MCLEAN GUILTY; SUSPENDED

Associated Press.
New York, Jan. 13.-Arthur A.
Mclean, treasurer of the democratic
state committee, pleaded guilty to
receiving campaign contributions
from corporations. The court sus-
pended sentence.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Mrs. E. G. Hewlett and her three
children left this morning on No. 8
for Green River to visit Mr.. How
let's folks. They expect to stay for
three weeks before returning.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

The Knights OF Columbus hold
their regular semi-monthly meeting
tonight at Knights of Columbus hall.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Mrs. A. r. Gimple was removed to
the Nelson sanitarium from her home
near Clifton last evening.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

AESUCIuteU FTesS
Preside, Jan. l3.-The situation
here today is preparations for remov-
al of the defeated Mexican federals
to Fort Bliss at Ell Paso, under or
ders of the war department. Plans
are being worked out for march OF
67 miles to the railroad at Maria.
There are 900 women, 800 chill
dren and more than 5000 soldiers.
The march is expected to take four
days after the start.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

NJ. C. Ramsey expects to drive a
new six to Montrose Sunday If the
weather permits. He sold it on his
recent trip there.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
VILLA CONTINUES
VICTORIOUS MARCH
ON SOUTH MEXICO
Associated Press.

ASSOCIATED Press.
Chihuahua, Jan. l3.-General
Francisco Villa. now marching over
land with about five thousand SOL
diers and many field guns from
ojinaga and Victory. telegraphed to
have the bulk of the rebels of his
army here ready for campaign
southwark.
A small federal garrison at Tor
reon, railroad center, is expected
by Villa to offer feeble resistance.
Rebels are now in that vicinity and
occupy the adjacent towns of Co
mez, Palacio and Lerdo. 1t is said
that the railroads will be repaired.
so supplies can be sent from Juarez
to the scene of operations.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Alex Murphy of the Clifton section
is here today ON little business trip.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Fred R. RAIDER left this morning
for Helper expecting to return in a
few days.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

AssOclated Press.
Mexico City, Jan. 13.-The Mexi-
can government will default the
payment of the semi-annual inter
est on basis of internal and external
debts due this month. according to
decision reached at the cabinet
council, which lasted to midnight.
The principal international and ex-
ternal loans of Mexico for the most
part are held in the United States,
Great Britain, France and Germany.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

F. d. Brewer returned to his ranch
i'll Dragon this morning.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Benjamin Creason returned from
Palisade this morning.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Halifax, Jan. 13.-Wireless COM
munication with the steamer Cobe-
quaid has ceased and she cannot be
seen from the light house on Briar
Island, where she was reported
ashore. When last reported the for
ward hold was full of water. She is
said to have carried $50 passengers.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Washington, d. c., Jan. 13.-The
continued cold drove the mercury to
zero in many spots and to 26 below
in some, and still gripped the entire
north and central portions OF the
country today. causing suffering.
A rising temperature throughout
the west above the seasonable av-
erage is expected to move eastward
soon, ending the cold snap.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13

Walter Clifford of New York was
an arrival this morning.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
EAST AND SOUTH ARE
SWEPT BY COLO WAVE
A Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Albany, N. Y, Jan. 13.-Below
zero weather prevailed in many cit
les in the state. Minus temperatures
are reported as follows: Watertown.
2S; Amsterdam. 22; Syracuse, 81;
Utica, 20, Albany, Ia.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
BRITISH NAIL BOAT
GOES ASHORE ON REEF
Associated Press.

Associated PreSS.
St. Johns. N. B., Jan. .13.-The
Royal Mail steamer Cobequid. bound
from the West lndes to Halifax. with
passengers and cargo. went ashore
today off Briar island at the mouth
of the Bay of Fundy.
The marine department sent the
government steamer. Lansdowne and
two tugs to the assistance. and a
wireless says the steamers Kron
Prinzessin, Cecile and Lady I1aurier
are heading in the same direction.
Associated Press.
Montreal, Jan. 13.-Wireless ad-
vices received at noon said the res
cuing steamers were unable to reach
the Cobequid, on account of ter
rifle storm lashing the shore. The
ship carries a crew of about twenty.
Assistance was rushed from St.
John, Yarmouth and Halifax.
The daily sentinel., 1914-01-13
THE WEATHER.

Fair, but with much cloudiness
tonight and Wednesday,; not so
cold tonight.
"Details and Map Page Five.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01
"ELASTTC CURRENCY"

The cry for ''eIastic' currency is based
upon an incorrect idea of the function of
money itself. In any nation the supply of
real money should bear some proportion to
the population and to the volume of business
There being no such thing In nature as
money, and money itself being a mere crea-
ton brought into existence by legal decree
for the purpose Of efiecting exchanges in some
better way than that of bartering one COM
modify for another, it is a tool with which
people do certain work, and therefore this
tool of exchange should be proportional to
the work which it was intended to do.
Now, it ought to be apparent that if
we had an adequate supply of currency,
it would circulate as the adequate sup
ply of bleed circulates in a healthy human
of our blood, and when we are in health the
automatic action of the blood vessels does not
attract our attention. If a congestion occurs,
we know that something is wrong with the
circulation, and it is then that we try to re-
store that natural, healthy circulation which,
for some cause has been disturbed.
The thought which I want to express and
illustrate is that healthy currency system
circuates automatically, according to the law
Of supply and demand, just as our blood cir
culates when we are in health. We do not
need to have the arteries opened and an arti-
fetal supply of blood pumped in Such
performance is not elasticity in any true sense
of the word, and the bankers know it as we'll
as the people know it,
What they mean to do by their So
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01
A NATIONAL BANK DEsp0TIsHr,

This Aldrich bill puts all the power in the
hands OF few bankers and leaves none to the
Government; for while the bankers will have
the right to increase the currency at any time
bv S50O,00O,00O the Government will not have
the power to increase it five cents The bank
ers can compel the Government to allow them
to initiate the currency, but the Government
can not compel the bankers either to issue or
to retire single note The Government
might desire an increase of actual money, but
1t would be pOWerIess to take step in that
direction. The Government might think that
the emergency currency had been out long
enough to be called in, but it will have no
authority to issue any mandate to that effect.
Thus we have the astonishing spectacle of Our
great Republic deliberately surrendering it's
prerogatlVe to a handful of irresponsible
fnanciers and usurers who have shown that
they are willing to exploit both the Govern
ment and the people without scrupe and
without remOrse
Secretary McAdoo is moa0 begging the
banks to turn loose the money the Government
has just loaned them! Sept. "A, 1914)
Consider how this Aldrich bill would oDer-
ate In part, the emergency currency is to be
based on railroad bonds. We know it to be a
fact that the greater number of railroad Dresi-
dents are also IN control of national banks,
This is true OF Hartman. Gould. RYAN Bel
mont, and many others. BY the terms Of this
bill these railroad magnates can issue bonds
IN their railroad Offices and then take the-same
bonds to their national bank Offices and issue
notes which the unprivileged millions of the
country must accept as money Could there
be any greater perverson and degradation of
the powers of government? Could there be
any form of special privilege more odjnusf
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01

called 'elastic' feature of the currency
system is to always regulate the amount
of money available for circulation In such
way that interest will never be low. If our
currency system were in healthy condition
there would be times when there would be lit
tie demand for money, and therefore the in
terest rate would drop. At other times-for
instance, when the crops are moying-there
would be a greater demand for the money,
and the natural consequence of that greater
demand would be that interest would advance
What the bankers want to do by the AID
rich bill is to prevent what to them, would
be a dull season. Whenever by reason of Wall
Street gambling or otherwise there is a great
demand for money and interest scars sky
ward, as it did last fall, they would, under
this Aldrich bill take out emergency cur
rency" In order to reap the golden harvest Of
100 per cent or 200 per cent or 300 per cent,
as the case might be.
The moment the abnormal demand for
money passed away and business resumed
natural conditions, the interest rate sink
ing as the demand decreased. these specially
privileged bankers would call in the emer-
gency money, thereby decreasing the sup
ply, and the immediate effect would be that
the interest rate on the supply Of money
which was left would rise.
Thus, these favored bankers would initiate
or contract at will. Under the provisions
of this bill the power which would be
given to them over the markets is sim
ply incalculable. BY the inevitable law of
supply and demand the increase in the
volume Of currency would send the prices
of commodities upward. The sudden retire
ment of currency which this bill allows
the bankers to effect would, of course, send
values down; thus the markets Of 100000
people would be see-sawing up and down all
the time at the pleasure of handful of re-
morseless eXploiters of governmental pre-
rogative.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01
PAGE EIGHT
THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
MONEY TRUST.
PAGE EIGHT
What T. E. w. Wrote to Senator
A. S. Clay Six Years Ago.


TT your memory hasn't failed, you will recol-
lect that when tie Republican Panic of
1907 hit the people, President Roosevelt in
Vited me to the White House Ter consulta-
ton.
At that time, the New York banks had pos
session of the money of the country, and
refused to turn it loose.
DepositOrs, even when they were million
aires, like Senator Clarke of Montana, could
not draw their money out of the New York
banks, without paying premium of per
cent.
The Georgia Railroad Bank, for instance,
could not draw on it's New York deposit
without paying the premium
In other words, If you had a deposit of a
thousand dollars you had to pay for the use
OF YOu1" O1c7l nlOneY
SO unbearable became the strain, that
nearly every town of considerable size
grabbed bale of waste-paper, an ink pot
and an engraving machine, and began to
manufacture homemade money.
They called this stuff Clearing House Ger
tifcates, and the people took the Soap wrap
pers because there was nothing else to do
1t was an awful time.
You couldn't borrow hundred dollars on
a government bond, because nobody had the
500.
In Washington [ called President Roose-
velts attention to the fact that the Acts of
Congress authorizing Greenbacks had never
been repea led, and that the amount of L. S.
Treasury notes issued under the law were
about S105000,00O short of the full issue
authorized.
/ urged him to announce that he acouzd
immcdiotczy Begin to issue these Green6achs.
1t was clear to my mind that were such
statement made from the White House, the
New York banks would Immediately quit
boarding and would Immediately put their
idle accumulations to work, in loans, &c.
This, of course, would stop the Panic.
The English Government has stopped
panics, again and again, by issuing paper
currency (Exchequer bills) equivalent to our
i. S. Treasury notes.
I also urged Mr.. Cortelyou, Secretary Of
the Treasury, to not place all the Z. S. sur
plus in the Morgan Rockefeller banks Of
New York, but to divide it out among the
States.
However, my advice was wasted. Morgan
& Co. got about $25O0O0,0O0 of public money
free Of charge, to lend out to the needy at
such rates of interest as their necessities die
tated.
Three months later, the Aldrich bill was
being debated in Congress, and I wrote Sena-
tor 4. S. Clay letter which he published in
the Congressional Record
It's an old story. but as the Democrats sub
stantialIy adopted the Republican PROPOSE
ton. and the whole country is now feeling
the ruinous effects, I thought you might like
to see what was in my letter.
- In part, it reads
n
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THE eJEFFERSONIAN

eminent ever allowed that power to slip from
It's hands if it was possible to prevent it.
The Aldrlch bill proposes to give to the
national banks additional powers to expand
and contract the currency. This is a tremend-
Gus advantage, which should never be allowed
to private citizens or corporations. Just as it
is a sovereign right to declare war and make
peace, to maintain the Army and the Navy,
to regulate foreign commerce, to make trea-
ties with foreign nations. to make laws and
execute them, SO it is sovereign right to sup
ply the nation with its currency. We should
no more delegate to private individuals or
corporations the sovereign function of sup
plying the country with money, or with paper
to be used as money, than we should delegate
to private citizens or corporations the sove-
reign right to control the Army or to regulate
foreign commerce.
The historic position of the Democratic
party is that the Government alone should
exercise governmental functions, and to no
principle was the Democratic party prior to
the Civil War more emphatically committed
than to that of reserving to the Government
the exclusive right to supply the nation with
money.
When the Government issues it's own Treas
ury notes to supply the need of paper money,
every one Of those notes is based upon the
credit and the wealth of the entire nation. IF
the credit of the nation-represented in the
bonds issued by the Govelnment-affor
Ease foundation for b01oh paper money, notes
issued directly by the Government. would
equally be safe. Whatever it is that makes
the bond good, would make the note good
Another reason why direct issue Of Treas
ury notes by the Government is preferable to
notes issued by or through the banks is that
under such a system it would be practically
impossible for any clique of bankers to make
a corner on the nations supply Of currency,
as they did last fall. In other words, if the
Government were supplying the country with
its currency, 1t would be impossible for the
national banks to bring about panics as they
have done on three occasions since the Civil
War
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-01

Thomson, GA February 4, 1908.
Hon. 4. s. CLAY, Washington D. G.
My DEAR SENATOR: The reason why the
Aldrich bill and any similar bill should be
defeated is that it delegates function of
government to private individuals and cor
porations.
Never has there been any dispute of the
fact that the power to supply nation with
its currency is a sovereign power. No gov