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The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30
SnoOfake Local NelDs BY REGULAR CORRESPONDENT

Rogers went to St. Joseph Sat- urday as Home Missionaries.
 Geo. Brewer of Pinedale came down for load of supplies for. James Scott's ranch Saturday.
 John R. Hulet came up from HoIbrook Wednesday to attend board meeting of the A. c. M. 1.
 Will Goodman and family from Pinedale came to Snowflake on a business trip Thursday. April p.
 John k. HuIet. of A. c. M. I. Holbrook. came up to visit with his family for two days last week.
 Wallace H.. Larson was a yisi- tor in town and returned to his ranch on the reservation, Tues day.
 Will Freeman, Chas H. Ballard and John Murray went to Linden Sunday morning on a missionary trip.
 Fay Gardner, county assessor. was in town on business and re- turned to his home in Woodruff Tuesday.
 Miss Fife Smith of Holbrook came up Tuesday to spend a few days with her grandma. Mrs. Augusta Smith.
 w. A. Thomas, wool grower from Pinedale, was in town get ting supplies at the stores for his sheep camps Tuesday.
 Jos. c. Hansen of St. Joseph came up to attend a board meet ing of the A. c. M. 1. to be held in Snowflake Wednesday,
 Bishop John Hunt and family went to Hunt Monday to attend the funeral of his daughter, Mrs. Ida Udall. who died Sunday. ] Prof. Ernest Bramwell enter tained the Stake Presidency and Academy Faculty in the Aca- demy building Friday, April g. at 5 p. m.
 Davis s. Rogers returned Mon day from Linden. where he had been helping his son Reuben to blow his land and plant his crops for the past week.
 Mrs. w. A. Thomas, who has been spending the winter at Mesa. returned to her home in Her son came to to meet her Tuesday.
 Sam. Rogers, Noble Rogers, Thos. w. Tanner and Chas Bal lard Jr. returned Friday from the black canyon. where they had been shearing sheep tor Owens Brothers.
 Dr. Brown from Winslow came up to Snowflake Saturday to visit Mrs. Minnie Willis, who has been very sick for some time. It is reported she is much better. Dr. Brown returned to Holbrook in Thos. w. Tanners auto.
 Agriculture Boys and Girls clubs were organized at Snow flake, Sunday, April b25. Can hing club. Poultry club. Corn club. Pig club. Frank Me Law President; Henry A. Smith, Vice President; John Murray, Secretary; Wickliff Smith. Trea- surer.
 uC COlu1lClCCi1CuS SAOA O-7OS of the Snowflake Stake Academy will be held in the Academy building Tuesday morning. May 1, at 10 o'clock. Following is the program of exercise:
 Commencement Song''. Aca-1 iemy Choir.
 Invocation, Bishop N. B. Brim- nall.
 Come Where the Lilies 8loom", School Male Quartette.
 The Will and the Way; or. Our Purposes and Achievements, Prof. Ernest Bramwell.
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Buy fresh bread. pies and cakes of the Holbrook bakery.
 Phone in your special orders; we will try to please you. 4-16tf
The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30

J. Rufus CrandeII.
 Valedictory. Ellen Hatch.
 "As in Days of Yore''. Ladies Quartette.
 Address to the Graduates, Dr. R. H. H. BIome.
 Awarding of Diplomas. Pres. Sam'l F. Smith.
 Music, School Orchestra.
 Presentation of Alumni Gift. Benediction. Pres. James M. Flake.
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Just received a car load of Mandt wagons and buggies at H. H. Scorse's. Call and take a look at them. je12tf
The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30

Try Wetzler's for your fresh roasted coffee. and new importa- tion of teas.
The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30

Some chairsI at WetzIer's. Investigate.
The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30

Quality first at Wetzler's.
The Holbrook news., 1915-04-30

Buy yonr months supply of fresh groceries at Wetziefs and save money. Try it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-25
IN THE PRESIDENTS HANDS

The Great Republic Is a
Great Autocracy Now When
1t Faces the Outer World.
The Presidents of the United
States, Welding More Power
than Crowned Monarchs,
Have Fixed the Destiny of the
Nation in All Great Exigen-
cies, Making War and Peace
and More than Trebling the
National Area - Woodrow
Wilson S Heavy Burden in the
Crisis of the European War.
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I with Mexico he exacted the cessiol
| of more than 100000 square miles o.
earth. And when the Senate was call
ed upon to ratify that treaty of Quad
alupe Hidalgo. which a State Depart
| ment chief clerk had made. the Presi
| dent as commandments. alread,
had hoisted the flag over California
| Nevada. Utah. Arizona and what ar,
now parts of Colorado. Wyoming anC
New Mexico.
President Mckinley just fifty year!
| afterward did the same thing. Wher
the Spanish war began the members
of the Senate or House hardly knew
as Mr.. Dooley said. whether the Phil.
ippines were islands or canned goods
But when Congress reassembled II
found the Stars and Stripes hoisted in
Asia. 1000 miles from the American
shore.
Many revolted in horror to see Uncle
Sans feet planted in paths he ever
before had refused to tread. and they
bitterly denounced the new departure
Texas Senator. however, ruminatet
awhile and then announced to his asso.
ciates, We've done expanded" And
Congress accepted that view of the
situation. So hard is 1t to undo what
has been done.
No Napoleon in the White House.
James Bryce, in his American Com
monwealth, truly said that while a
President can be prevented from set
Ting anything. nothing can keep him
from unsettling everything Happily
no one of the twenty-seven Presidents
has been disposed to unsettle every.
thing. or anything. All alike have been
innocent Of military and foreign ambi.
tions.
Rutherford B. Hayes said that IL a
Napoleon ever got into the White
House he could make the place what
ever he wished II to be. But perhaps
the reason no Napoleon ever has been
able to gain admission to II is be-
cause the people SO well know what
tremendous power il lodged there by
the Constitution and all the more care
fully guard the door.
The French revolution, on the con-
trary. had feared to trust any one.
not even the people. for elections were
made a. indirect n possible. Instead
of one President. there were hve Presi-
dents, or directors as they were call
ed. and over them was the Corps Leg
islstif. As 4 consequence. there was
no power anywhere and that 10 always
an invitation to a usurper.
For there must be power somewhere.
even II u mas 10 De ueurped- the
revolution really had created a vacuum.
and Napoleon rushed into II. because
nations abhor a vacuum even more
than they abhor q despotism.
The men of the American revolution
did not make the mistake Of their
French brethren. They gave the Presi-
dent SO much lawful power that there
has arisen no occasion or excuse. even
in the stress Of civil war, for any
President to usurp unlawful power.
And they weighted him down with
such 4 heavy responsibility that no
President has cared to make II heav-
Ter.
when. at the command Of . Presi-
dent, by the way. Commodore Perry
opened up to the wondering eyes Of
Japan the strange world Of the west,
q native oflctal insvltsd one Of the
American naval ofncers. The govern.
msnt Of the Shotgun vas anxious to
ASCERTAIN the rank Of TIE o6eadsd
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ling smaller with time. the PRESIDENT
is not.
The trainers of the Constitution
| modelled the American Executive OF
the lines of the British King But Par
Lament has grasped all the royal pow
er and the latest heir Of George III i:
only the gilded manikin of the treas
ury bench in the House of Commons
The feeblest President could not b
sunk into the subserviency which ar
unwritten constitution imposes upor
| George V
! The President. on the other hand
has not grasped his great power. II
was conferred upon him by the Con
stitution when. in a few sentences. II
directed that he should commission al
the executive. judicial and military Of
| fCials of the government: receive for
eign ambassadors and negotiate treat
| les: take care that the laws be faith
fully executed and pledge himself by
| solemn oath at the threshold of his
term to preserve. protect and defend
the Constitution"
Thus the President was made the
fountain of honor and promotion: the
, sole representative of the republic be.
fore foreign nations. subject only tc
mere veto by the Senate in the mat.
ter of treaties. and the guardian OF
the Constitution and the laws.
But when war comes he is restrain
ed by neither the Constitution nor the
laws For who is there to say what
the Chief of the army
and navy may or may not do?
Presidents who Have Changed the
Map.
Whenever we have a masterful man
IN the White House we hear much Of
the expanding authority of the Presi-
dency. But no President has gone
farther than Washington and Jeffer-
son in times of peace or than Lincoln
in time of war. When the first Presi
dent suppressed the whisky Rebel
lion" in 1892, he exemplified the pow
er of the office at home. and when he
States in 1893. he demonstrated its
power abroad.
Jefferson amazed even himself by
the Louisiana purchase, when he was
as autocratic in buying as Napoleon
was in selling that vast domain. BY
that real estate transaction between
two men a President doubled the area
OF the country and became for a time
the almost absolute ruler Of an en-
pire larger in extent than all the
States together.
Al HISt inc apostle OF JenSf8Ont0n
democracy was AFFLICTED with Qualms
and called for a Constitutional amend
ment specially sanctioning his de-
spotic act But finally he succumbed
with the reflection that the least said
about II. the better" Plainly the pur-
chase Of Louisiana ought to be made
And. since II II were done, 'twere
well il were done quickly. there was
no one but the President to do IL with
the dispatch that Napoleon imperative
ly required.
Only a few years later President
Monroe, without any misGivings as to
his authority. bought Florida from
Spain as Jefferson had bought Lou.
isiana from France. Congress could not
have done either Of those highly USE
fui tAinSs. II was President, there
fore. who furled 1t New Orleans the
last French nag waving above the soil
Of the North American continent and
1t was President who fuflsd 1t g.
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I the President to recommend q declara
| ton of war.
/ Next il was discovered in 1886 thai
| the President not only was empowered
TO wage war but also to start a war
There being a strip of land in dis
pute between the United States ant
Mexico. Polk brought on a confiic
with the neighboring republic merely
by ordering troops to occupy the ter
ritory which he claimed for the State
/ of Texas. Thereupon he said that wal
exists by act of Mexico" And Congress:
found that It had nothing else to dc
| than to appropriate the money fol
] carrying on the war.
An anti-war Congress was elected
but it dared not refuse support to the
army and the flag in the presence OF
an alien enemy. The anti-war mai or
| ity, therefore. could only put forth
harmless speeches and resolution,
! against the war while voting every
dollar the President asked for the
| army.
One of the most outspoken oppo.
nents in Congress of that President.
made Mexican war was Abraham Lin
, coin. But after a dozen years. he him.
| self started a far greater war with
out a declaration by Congress.
The problem had hrst confronted
lFIcsiocHt Dut thdt ~ SuSSSo-
sor Of Lincoln fiinched from putting
forth the tyrant power of the Presi-
dency. Yet he had before him the
shining example of Jackson. who had
resolutely struck down secession.
When South Carolina raised the stand
ard of notification. Old Hickory pro-
claimed that the Union must and
| shall be preserved" and the dark ru-
NOR spread that he had threatened to
hang John c. Calhoun as high as Ha-
man. Possibly II there had been u
Jackson or a Buchanan in the White
House in 1860 the civil war might have
been averted.
After Lincoln had been President a
few days he made the supreme deci-
sion. even against the advice of most
of his Cabinet. not to abandon Fort
Sumter. BY that decision he challenged
and virtually declared war upon Sc
cession. And before converting Con-
gress he had raised two armies. JIM
augurated a new navy, suspended the
writ of habeas corpus and gathered
into his hands all the functions Of
government except that of paying the
bills.
Throughout the war Congress re-
manned no more than a brigade under
the Presidents command. 1t had fits
of insubordination. but they were only
fits. When one OF the mutineers. SEN
ator Ben Wade Of Ohio. clustered and
roared to the Comma nder-in- Chief.
You are on the road to He'll, sir, and
you are not a mile of this minute"
Lincoln smiled. Lets see." he replied.
"ain't that about the distance from
here to the Capitol?'
Presidential Peace Making.
After he had made war for four
years II remained for the President
to make peace. Although Congress re-
belled for ten years and more against
Lincoln's magnanimous terms to the
South. they prevailed when another
President. Hayes, regardless OF the
outcry Of Senators and Representatives.
withdrew the Federal troops from the
carpet bag States.
The duty OF making peace Ii amons
the most important Of the Prssidsn-
tial powsSs when Polk made peace
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/ Augustine the last Spanish nag tc
| float above the mainland of that New
World which Spain had claimed by
the right Of Columbus discovery.
1t remained for a President to bring
the imperial domain of Texas within
the Union. President Tyler first made
treaty for its annexation. Notwith-
standing the treaty failed to command
| in the Senate the two-thirds vote nee
ed to a joint resolution of annexation
which required only majority vote
in each House, and thus he put
through his project.
In President Johnsons administra-
! ton. Secretary Seward. as quickly and
secretly as any private real estate deal
ever was accomplished, made mid
night bargain with the Russian envoy
for the transfer Of the half-million
heard not a word about it until the
Senate suddenly was called upon to
ratify the treaty of purchase.
To be sure, the Senate could have
defeated the transaction. 1t did, in
deed. reject Stewards purchase of the
, West Indian island Of St. Thomas from
Denmark. as II afterward did Presi-
dent Grants arrangement, for the an
nexation Of neighboring Santo Do
mingo But those minor exceptions are
the only ones where Presidential land
deals ever have been defeated.
The effort of a later President. Har-
rison, to annex another island was
thwarted only for a time. when his
successor. Cleveland. withdrew the Ha-
waiian treaty. Cleveland hauled down
the American flag which had been
raised at Honolulu by his predecessor.
but the annexation of Hawaii ultimate
ly was accomplished in the Mckinley
administration by a joint resolution.
as in the case Of Texas.
President Roosevelt's very precipi-
tate acquisition of the canal strip was
the latest and one Of the smallest. but
by no means the least important. Of
all Presidential annexations- 1t added
only 436 square miles to the national
territory, but II secured a right Of way
for the great canal
This much questioned addition
serves to illustrate the power the
President derives from the brief
clause in the Constitution which says
other public ministers." BY virtue Of
that simple provision President Wilson
has been enabled to pull the Presiden-
tial chair of Mexico from under Huerta
and to continue to ban all the factions
that are seeking violently to usurp
power in that country. And when PAN
ANA seeded from Colombia, II was
this clause which enabled President
Roosevelt to recognise the revolted
State as q treaty-making power.
Thereupon he proceeded to obtain from
the obliGing new republic the canal
route and canal some with such swift
ness that the heads Of the judicious
have not yet ceased to swim
Presidents In War.
At one point the Constitution sought
to draw q sharp line on the Presi-
dency It gave Congress alone the pow
or to declare war. But whom. In 1917,
Congress exploded for war. II made
the surprising discovery that the
Pre- sident alone could make war. Obvi-
ously II would be futile to declare war
unless the Commandsr.in-C were
ready to make var wherefore then
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A One-Man Government.

A One-Man Government.
In the United States. on the other
hand. all responsibility for meeting
each crisis in the course of the war
has devolved upon a single person. In
stinctively the American people have
said. Leave it to the President" 1t
never entered their heads to turn to
Congress and convoke in extra session
the assembled wisdom of the nation.
Far from it. The people have hushed
with frown of impotence any lead
er. however, eminent. in or out Of
Congress, who ventured to obtrude his
opinions upon the President and to
break the self-imposed silence of the
country.
| And as the foreign world watched
| the nation il saw only one man and
| heard only one voice. 1t saw him Sc
clude himself from his Cabinet and
| from unofficial advisers to wrestle
| alone with the grave problems and
duties confronting the foremost neu-
| trail power and anxiously waited for
decision for peace or war.
AS it is now, so it has been in every
exigency that has risen in American
history. The country has left it to
the President and looked to him for
action.
What line of monarchs in the past
century and a quarter have taken
iv,,n
shaped the destinies of their nations
than the Presidents of the United
States? Most of the great decisions at
fecting the course Of the country have
rested with them. They have initiated
every foreign war and made every
soil the country has gained. more than
trebling the territorial area Of the re-
public.
In the gravest of all emergencies. 1t
was for a President to decide whether
the Union should be dissolved or pre-
served. And by a stroke Of his pen a
President broke the shackles of 4.oo0,-
900 bondmen. whom no act Of Con-
gress. no popular election, could have
freed.
A ConstitutioaaI Despot.
"of all the great nations in the
world" a learned Constitutional law
yer said a few years ago. two only
in our time represent the principle Of
political absolutism and enforce IL by
one mans hand. They are Russia ana
the United States"
That IL perhaps an extravagaut
statement. The csar has power above
the law. while the President has not.
But while the Cars authority is grow.
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officer in order that the punishment
of the offender should fit the crime
II was explained to the ENJOYS that
in the United States a commodore is
above a captain. that the Secretary of
the Navy is above a commodore and
that the President is above the sec
rotary. But the perplexed Japanese
asked. Who is above the President"
And, of course, the Americans answer
ed. The people" But the report Of the
interview tells US that of this they
could make nothing"
"stand BY the President.-
The American people are the ulti-
mate despot. as We all know, though
it may puzzle some foreign observers
now even as IL puzzled the japanese
three score and more years ago The
President is only the peoples delegate
for four years. Without their con-
fdence he cannot go far. even within
that limited term. Withdraw from him
the support and strength of the peo-
pie and he Is left as helpless an An
drew Johnson was. But when the
Presidency is stripped of its power. as
it was in Johnson's administration.
chaos rules.
The people are aware of this. Hence
IN critical times the popular watch
word generally is. Stand by the Presi-
dent" Or. as John Quincy Adams in
Jefferson's administration said to the
mended this measure on his high re-
sponsibility. would not consider.
would not deliberate; l would act"
Once when Cleveland was threatened
with the loss of the support Of Ger
tain Senators in his own party. he
replied with the old story Of the fish
erman who risked mis- life to save a
drowning boy. The deed being praised
as an act of heroic devotion. the can
did fisherman protested that he had
gone to the rescue only because tho
boy had the bait in his pocket From
which Cleveland reasoned that. hav-
ing the patronage bait in his pocket.
the Democratic Senators would not
abandon him. Since President has tho
country in his hands. the people nat
uraIly uphold those hands as long A.
they are faithful to the trust
L. the Hands of the President.
The country never was more in the,
hands of a President than in these
hazardous days. Seldom has the bur-
den been as heavy as that which
Woodrow Wilson has borne since nrst'
he took II UP on the steps Of the Cap,
itol two years ago last March.
In simple and tranquil times he,
could set IT down now and then. or
ease his load by sharing IL with
others. When, on the other hand. great
perils Turk in the path he can trust
no foot but his own and must tread
1t alone. For he cannot divide with,
any one the grave. unending conse-
quences Of q single misstep.
Yet Mr.. Wilson II not alone. Behind
him are the American people. who. as
Lowell said Of them when Lincoln led
the way.
could choose but trust
In that surs footed minds unfaiferins akill.
There are others who would lead.
the country along other paths. Some,
times the people themselves would like
to cut across or 60 Q little faster: but,
they never doubt that the President 10.
facing the right way nor fear that hs
will fAlter.
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spot. France has presented much the
same spectacle of divided authority.
and in Italy the King and Ministry
have shared the decision.
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There are others who would lead.
the country along other paths. Some,
times the people themselves would like
to cut across or 60 . little faster: but,
Trey never doubt that the President To-
facing the right way nor fear that ho
will fAlter.
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