The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07
WILSON LIKE JEFFERSON
Destruction of Lobby, "The
Lion In The PATH" Cleared
Way For New Freedom For
American People, Navy Chief
Says In University of Va.
independence Day Speech
tEy the Assoc ateti resi-

tGy The Associated rcss)
Charlottesville, Va, July 4..-The
administrations tarI .relty q d
antitrust measures are the three dec
iarationS OF independence that will
unfetter American business life and
make possible an era of ~unprecedcnt-
ed prosperity, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels declared in an Independence
Day address here today.
The Secretary, speaking before the
University Of Virginia summe school.
said Congress had listened to the peo-
pies mandate AM the writing of the
three declarations had been the on
crete result.
When Congress began writing its
"declarat.on of independence agair.st
unjust tariff taxation of the many for
the benefit of the favored few, and it's
declaration against the money trust.
there was a lion in the path the
Secretary said, that lion was a per-
nicious and invisible lobby. Before
any reforms could be accomplished
before any pledges could be kept, the
lobby had to be destroyed. Woodrow
Wilson has done nothing hat i'll
free legislative bodies from the mi
asma that affects them equal to his
victory over the lobby. Tha fight
not only destroyed the evil Of the
lobby, but ended the ability of selfish
~ " Inv Va
other declarations Of independence
jefferson Original Progressive.
characteriziDg Thomas Jefferson as
the original progressive Secretary
Daniels said President Wilson, with
the exception Of Madison and Monroe,
was more like Jefferson han any
other mar who occupied the White
House.
Jefferson. the Secretary aid. was
the father of the University of Vir.
Einia, and if he had no other title
TO fame, his conception of what &
state university should be, and hi,
carrying it out in the university e
founded. would give him a title thai
could not he i~nvalidated."
Secretary Daniels began his speech
by saving that while every city an<
hamlet in America today would b.
celebrating the 13Sth anniversary O
the signing of the Declaration of In
dependence, there were two place.
above all others which peculiarly hat
the right to claim to be the birth
place of that immortal document
independence Hall at Philadelphia
where today the President of tn
United States is voicing the nationa
thought, and Charlottesville, wher'
the Declaration matured in the min
If jefferson before, at the behest o
t'f
which has given him more deserve'
fame han any other act of his won
derful career.
jefferson a Born Pioneer.
MI. Daniels called Jefferson a borl
pioneer, who first carried the learn
ing of the law-lands to the hill sec
ton of Virginia, the pioneer Opponen
of the union of church and State, an
Of primCSeniture and the other the
deemed evolutionary measures wh1c
made him the original Progressive
that his voice today exercises a MOI
controlling influence, wherever me
are looking for a larger share of lit
crty than the voice Of any other ma
who has lived in America. He de
clared that long before any other MAJ
Jefferson outlined the education;
policy which has been adopted, ate
study. by every State and TerrltoT
In the United States. But create
than his service in founding his mob
university upon truly democrat
ideals, was his comprehensive an
mastery outline of what a State edi
cational system should be. "PreacI
my dear sir, "a crusade against lgnol
ance, and establish and improve TT
law fer educating the common pei
pie" was the cru Of all his work
an educational pioneer and evanSe
Devoted as he was to University ed'
cation he deemed it of secondary In
Dortance to primary instruction, ar
emphasized this idea in these word
Were it necessary TO give up eith'
the primaries or the universities,
would rather abandon the last, b
cause it is safer to have Il whole pc
pie respectfully enlightened than
lew in high state of science and II
many in ignorance"
Successive Declaration Needed.
Secretary Daniels declared eat
generation must write it's own deciar
ION of ndenondanno The frOnhl3