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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
C~onfederacy Formed.


Not satisfied with the ruin they had
wrought, the dominant and controlling
wing of the Democratic party. identi-
cally the same wing that dominates
and controls 1t today. seeded and
formed the Confederacy in the inter
est of slavery and free trade; for the
declaration of Mississippi on seeding.
undoubtedly written by Jefferson Da-
Wis, contained these words:
Our position Is thoroughly identified
with the institution of slavery, the great
est material interest in the world.
To complete the declaration of their
purpose and object in their attempt to
establish the C~onfederacy we must go
to the constitution adopted by them,
which made few other changes, but
contained this drastic prohibition OF
all protective tariff law:
No bounty shall be granted from the
treasury and no duties or taxes on i'm
portations from foreign nations shall be
laid to promote or foster any branch of
industry.
This is the first time and the only
place In American history where You
can find a constitutional provision that
justifies the declaration that a pro
tective tariff is unconstitutional. for
the chief reason for the adoption of
the federal constitution was to set
this nation industrially free, to make 1t
industrially independent as it was al
ready politically Independent.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
The Recall of Wilson.

On the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, 1916. the Amer
lean people will recall what the presi-
dent said at Washington park Aug. Is.
1912, in speaking of public officials:
They know the American people are now
taking notice in a way in which they
never took notice before. and gentlemen
who talk one way and vote another are
going to be retired to very quiet and pri-
vate retreats.
The American people will recall that
Mr.. Wilson, contrary to his pledge. has
compelled American coastwise ships
to pay tolls when passing through the
canal. They will remember that he
promised to reduce the high cost of
living and failed; that he promised to
protect the civil service. but that he
has done practically everything in his
power to destroy it; that he promised
to lower appropriations, but that he
has increased them nearly 100000
600 a year.; that he promised to reduce
taxes. but has increased them in al
most every possible way; that he prom
ised not TO be a candidate and is one:
that the Wilson-Underwood tariff bill
should never have been passed; that
his bank act should never have been
passed: that his Clayton bill should
never have been passed; that his ship
purchase bill should never have been
thought of. especially under the most
extraordinary conditions existing to-
day, and they will say to him:
You have done those things which you
ought not to have done, and you nave
left undone those things which you ought
to nave done, and there is no good left
in you.
And upon the four walls of the heav-
ems which look down rpon his glutton-
they will hang in letters of living fire
the single word that decorated the
walls of Belshazzar's feast, 'Tekel" In
the north. "Tekel' in the south. tie
KEEL" In the east, ''Tekel" in the west
Thou art weighed in the balances
and art found wanting"
The Republican party will return to
power, and it is one of the most re
markable facts of all history that it
will be called upon to do precisely the
same great fundamental, constructive
work that our ~forefathers had to do
in 1889 and for identically the same
reasons. But it will have to be work
ed out again and applied to the condi-
tons of today after 125 years of ma
tional existence under the constitution.
The Republican president will imme
diately call congress together to mass
a protective tariff measure precisely as
Washington did in 1889, to establish
an American merchant marine as
Washington did in 1889 and to organize
an American banking system as Wash
ington did In 1871.
And that congress should not ad-
journ until this great work is achieved.
because this government today needs
above all else a complete economic
system that VIII make 1t not only pos
sible, but certain, that we shall do our
own work. Let our %shibboleth then
be American markets for American
wOrkingmen;" let our password to
American markets be MADE In Amer
lea" Let our merchant marine again
cover the seven seas. Let our ship
yards. as they once were, again be-
come the market of all the ship buyers
of the world. Let the bills Of ex-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Popular Government In the South.

Is it not a fact that the president
had no more right to interfere in Mex
leo because go per cent of the people
of Mexico never have a look-in yin de
termining who should be their COVER
nors or what their government should
be" than he has to interfere in Russia
because of its form of government or
in China because no one has a look-in
there except Yuan Chi or than Eng
land has to interfere in Mississippi
because the colored people have no
look-in in determining who should be
their governor or what their govern
ment should be-"
The colored people of Mississippi are
as completely eliminated from a par
ticipation In their government as the
Indians In Mexico: indeed, more so.
1t took only 36.S90 votes to elect eight
congressman in Mississippi in 1914
but it took 2sl .O92 votes TO elect the
congressman from the first eight dis
tricts of New Jersey, or nearly eight
times as many votes to elect a con
gresham in New Jersey as in Missis
sippi.
The president says in his Indianapo
lis speech:
Now there is one thing that I have a
great deal of enthusiasm about. ! might
almost say a reckless enthusiasm, and
that is human liberty.
While this raging passion. this 'reck
less enthusiasm" for human liberty"
is rushing through the presidents soul.
why does he not do something to give
political liberty to the colored voters
of Mississippi and the other southern
states? Why does he not at least give
some vent to this boiling. seething sen
timent for human liberty" lest there
be such an explosion of his passion for
human liberty" as to deprive the
Democratic party of a candidate in
1916?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Mexico.

Is it not a fact that when an Ameri-
can citizen living In Mexico appealed
to Secretary Bryan for protection the
secretary of state rebuffed him with
this contemplate interrogatory: "Whv
did you leave your own country any
way?"
Is it not a fact that when complaint
was made to Secretary Bryan with re-
gard to abominable outrages commit
ted upon women by the followers of
Carranza and Villa the secretary of
state only replied by retorting that he
had information that "the followers of
Huerta had committed similar out
RACES on two American women from
Iowa?"
How long, o Lord, how long, shall
such things be permitted to continue
in the name of peace?
Dreadful as war is, terrible as war
Is. horrible MS war is, awful as war is.
there are some things worse ever thar
wari And one of the things that is
worse than war is a contemplate. a
dishonorable, an ignoble peace at any
price. The war of the Revolution. the
wal of the rebellion, great as was the
sacrifice, precious as was the price.
were worth more, incomparably more.
Infinitely more, than all they cost. The
very best. the very richest part, the
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

lection. and their labor was all slave
labor. Their politicians clearly foresaw
that the protective policy would de.
velop Industries in the north and great
ly increase the wealth and population
of the northern section to the political
disadvantage of the south because 1t
would ultimately mean the end of slav-
cry.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
HOSPITAL.

For Injured, sick, manned, halt
loose joint, rattle kneed, pouty, houA
maid knee, and rundown Watches arN
Clocks, SIS North Main Street. Phon
129X, or posal will bring Ambulanc,
and Surgeon. C. A. Beitel, Watch.
maker and Jeweler. -ad
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
President Is Out of Touch
With Peoples Needs.
FOWLER PRESCRIBES CURE.
Brighter Days Will Dawn For America
When Republican Replaces Wilson
In White House In March, 1917.
Washington Seeks to Blame Its Own
Faults or the War, Ex-Congressman
Says. :

There are some few people in the
country, at least one person, who il
saying that business is looking up. and
in a sense this is true, for business
Is so fiat On its back that it can't look
any other way than up.
In a similar sense, the danger to the
country is nov so great and the con.
dition of millions of our fellow citizens
is so serious that every patriotic man
is compelled to think soberly of his
country and most solicitously about his
c~Ountrymen.
In what I shall say l hope l shall be
able to impart to you in some slight
degree at least the deep and abiding
conviction feel that the true author.
the real source of our ultimate nation
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

change that ARE lks
every trading pert u
the impress of fhe Are
stead of the impress of
the unicorn.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. 4
restore digestion, normal weignx
good health and purify the blood, use
Burdock Blood Bitters. Sold at all
drug stores. Price, $1.00.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Why the Democrats Win Once In a
Generation.

During four or five presidential
terms generation after generation of
young men come upon the scene who
are pregnant with long exploded theo-
ries and the vainest possible sort of
ambition. men who have never eaten
the ashes of a free trade confiagra-
ton. men who want to start some
thing, men who want a change Just
for a changes sake. They have forgot
ten those telling, those graphic words
of James Russell Lowell which so fit.
tingly describe our experience with
Democratic administrations. He said
A change tust for a changes sake is
like living at a hotel where they shuttle
the plates and live on smells.
1t is not strange. therefore, that IT
seems to take the American people
just twenty years to forget what the
Democratic party did to them. Nor Is
it at all strange that 1t takes the peo-
pie only two years to remember what
the Republican party did for them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Business Confidence.

Now the mills and shops sre silent
As in Grover Cleveland days.
Business Confidence.
President Wilson says that he e
that
The oxygen that the lungs of modern
business takes in Is the oxygen of the
public confidence, and If you have not
got that your business is essentially par
alyzed and a~sphyxiated.
Was business ever more completely
paralyzed and completely asphyxiated
than now?
This is a right vision, but a wrong
time. There has been no oxygen
public ~confidence-in this country since
the president turned on the gas March
4, 1913. Business is in a state of
coma. and resuscitation will come
when a Republican president turns off
the gas March 4, 1917.
The New York Times said editorially:
With money so easy and accessible how
is it possible that industry is so prostrat-
ed? Why are dollars even more idle
than men when there Is such a surplus
OF both, each under urgent need to earn
a living?
The explanation is very simple in
deed. There is absolutely no Oxygen
in the country, no public confidence
because the conditions are such as to
preclude the possibility of confidence
in any prudent man.
The New York Evening Post said
editorially:
But mere ~speechifying Will not make
the wheels turn or the tall chimneys
smoke.
hat is true; We must have some
thing more than the coruscation of a
mentality intoxicated with theories. In
ebriated with sentiment, tortured with
ambition. and drunk with a power that
is purely the product of sixteen years
of "watchful waiting" and hungry
longing-sixteen years of wandering in
the wilderness of political want. six
teen years of ~hungering and thirstlng
for official pap and pottage, places of
profit, the purchase price of patriotism.
Do you think this language too
harsh, too severe? Read the presidents
threats uttered on Jan. s, 1915, at In
diananolis. and answer me:
If any group of men should dare to
break the solidarity of the Democratic
team for any purpose or from any mo-
tive theirs will be a most undesirable no.
toriety and a responsibility that will bring
deep bitterness to them.
Fol amy purpose or from ANY
motive" Mark his wordsl When was
such a malediction ever uttered by any
a.1I;1--% - A. -
any king or %potentate within a hundre,.
years. He would rule us, though more
than 93 per cent of our people can
read. as DiaZ ruled Mexico. where 90
per cent of the people cannot read.
And he says that he would have ruled
Mexico, if ruled at all, as we had been
ruled until he assembled the throne.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

Doan's Regulets are recommended
by many who say they operate easily,
without gripping and without bad aftei
effects. 25c at all drug stores.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
e want of food and a physicians

the want of food and a physicians
care!
But has not this wonder working
man eyes to see the tragic scenes all
around him? Has he not ears to hear
the ~siekening tale Of the impoverished
homes of the American workingmeni
Is 1t possible that he sees prosperity
everywhere-that the world Is all sun
shine for everybody
THE BREAD LINE BACK AGAIN.
See the bread lines in the city
Growing longer day by day:
Not with tramps. not with panhandlers.
But with men who earned good pay.
Men despairing. wan and weary,
With a hopeless look they gaze
At each others careworn faces
As In Grover Cleveland days.
See the strong men seeking shelter
From the icy blasts at night.
Where the city gives free lodging
And a crust or so to bite.
They are toilers up against it,"
Who earned bread by hsnest toll;
Now the mills and shops sre silent
As in Grover Cleveland days.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

For any pain, burn, scald or bruise.
apply DIR. Thomas Eclectic Oil-the
household remedy. Two sizes Csc and
soc at all drug stores.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Effect of War.

Effect of War.
The var is their temporary refuge
and sure ddfeiSe, for 1t is calling for
unheard OF exports and giving Ameri-
can industries in certain lines which
would otherwise be completely de
stroyed something to do. When these
extraordinary circumstances are re-
moved the fell consequences of the
Wilson administration. with all their
accumulated force, will come upon the
land, and hardly one stone will be left
upon another in our industrial struc-
ture, for all the European nations will
return to their factories too poor to
buy much from themselves for daily
consumption and less from US, except
raw material.
To make up for lost time every wheel
will be turned day and night, and we
will be the dumping ground of the
products Of their enforced poverty.
More extraordinary taxes will be i'm
posed or the national debt will be
greatly increased to make up the loss
es and deficits ir the treasury grow
ing out of the extravaganza. waste and
folly of the most impractical and
chimerical administration that has ever
held the reins of government. Wood
row Wilson is living in a world of
mirages. His steady, sole and only
diet must be dreams, dreams. nothing
but dreams; his sole and only drink
must be m%oonshine, for he sees moth
ing as it really Is. He sees everything
upside down, if he sees them at all.
Some things he does not see at all, and
he sees some things that do not exist
at all. Out on the vast desert of waste
and want, which he has himself Gre
ated, he sees cool fresh water lakes
embroidered with fruits and flowers
and along their never ending shores
well stored hostelries, innumerable. to
which all the world is invited to an
everlasting feast at the expense of his
countrymen. This is the new free
DOM"
With n wave of his wand of power.
the magic mace of political appoint
ment, he invites congress. both house
and senate. to gaze into the crystal
where he feeds his own fancy and
asks them If they do not behold the
things he describes from time to time
his tariff bill. his banking bill. his
ship purchase bill-and they all with
one accord see identically the same
things he says he sees. This he calls
common COUNSEL" for you know they
are all honorable men.
He is our Louis XVI; 81 am the
state"
He is our king; "the king can do no
wrong"
He sees that enterprise has been
checked in this country almost twenty
years during a revolutionary progress
without a parallel in the history of the
world.
He sees the Republican party with
out a new idea in thirty years. though
the legislative achievements of those
thirty years mark every step of ad-
vancement in the march of human wei
fare, from the old regime through the
transition period to the new time.
President Wilson says that he sees
that we are on the eve of a new era
of enterprise and prosperity" Yes. on
the eve. but we shall have the night
before we have the morning. The
might will last until election day In
November, 1916, and the dawn will
last until March 4, 1917. Then We
shall have the morning. God hasten
the dayl
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20

About one year ago the president
was kind enough to inform us that
business was all right. that the situa-
ton was purely psychological" and
only the other day at indianapolis he
reiterated the same statement when
he gave us the pleasing information.
the glad news that "there is nothing
the matter with American business ex.
cept a state of mind"
Think of that miracle working
phrase, n psychological state of
mind" How 1t clothes the naked!
How it fills the stomachs of the starv-
ing! How it warns those who are
freezing for want of coal! How it sat
isles the anxious mother who is watch
ing over her child, who is dying for
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-02-20
Bases of Prosperity Established.

Bases of Prosperity Established.
With manufactures 1ourishing on
every hand, with a merchant marine
the envy of the world, and a banking
system challenging any on the globe
for the soundest of its principles and
the efficiency of its operation, the
Democratic party made its malevolent
appearance in the history of this re-
public.
Origin of Free Trade.
The dominating influence in the
Democratic party at that time, per.
cisely as now. was in the southern
states. Then the southern states were
relatively Luch stronger and more i'm
portant than now. The products of
these southern states were chief, cot
ton and tobacco. which needed no pro-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-09
GOOD ADVICE IN
KIDNEY TROUBLE

have been, troubled with my kid.
neys for many years. One day I
could hardly move, and someone told
me to get a bottle of Dr.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, which | did, and in a
few days I was alright, About seven
years ago l was in such a condition
that my children had to lift me out
of bed. l wanted Swamp.Root, but
they got a doctor. l sent for Swamp
Root and didn't take the doctors med
icine; Swamp-Root Old the work.
Swamp-Root is the remedy, if the kid
neys are yer out of order again.
Yours very truly,
A. KIRCHHOFF,
1872 Yyckoff Ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Personally appeared before me this
4th day of February, 1914, A. Kirch-
hoff, who subscribed the above state
ment and made oath that the same is
in substance and in fact.
GEORGE KNAUT,
Commissioner of Deeds.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-09
RED TRAIL BOOSTERS
ARE VERY ACTIVE
Continued from Page One.)

Continued from Page One.) 2
inson, president; J.. P. Hardy Of Far.
go, first vice-presidant; Grant Cali Of
bismarck, second vice.president
John Orchard of Dickinson, treasur-
or. II Fred J.. Conklin of Bismarck,
secretary. The names of these men
also appear on the articles of incor-
poration.
Boost North Dakota.
Since the organization of the Red,
trail movement in the interest of
North Dakota a month ago, the bene-
hts to be derived by the cities along
the route have already brought forth
hearty cooperation from every agen-
cy that can be brought to bear in as
slstlng in the work. These agencies
are represented in the various cham
bers OF commerce, commercial clubs,
automobile clubs, good roads associa-
tons n all other boosting organiza.
tons that are quick to see the advan-
tage in showing the way for the tour
lists through this state. The move.
ment is considered one of the biggest
and best ever launched in the inter.
ests Of North Dakota. Hundreds of
thousands of dollars will be expended
by the tourists in their travels
through the state. The immigration
value of the work is far reaching.
Much Of the travel to the coast will
reach here in the summer time while
the return of the tourists will largely
take place in fall. The true condi-
tions and advantages offered by North
Dakota will therefore be revealed to
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-09

Philadelphia, Pa, March S.-(Spe.
clall--J. Franklin Baker, the Mary
land home run manufacturer" will
again be ceen guarding third base for
the Athletics. He will be the Mack
custodian of the "hot" corner, as he
has been for the past six years. In
cldentally the American league cham.
plons will not be without his services
very long. Baker may not put in his
appearance at the Jacksonville train
ing camp. He may not even break in
to the opening American league con
test here on April IA with the Boston
Red Sox, but he will be back before
the pennant ace has grown more
than two weeks old. This new light
was thrown on the Baker situation by
one close in the councils of Connie
Mack. :,
The authority for this said that
Connie Mack "crossed' Baker when
he announced that the Home Run
King had retired. He pointed out
that Baker had quit in past years,
but Mack showed more patience and
coaxed him back without making any
announcement, but this time Connie
made the situation public.