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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-20
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Every form Of government is a matter OF
custom, or of agreement, or Of force; that IS
to say, governments are man-made, like dol
lars, farms, and cities.
Therefore, we say that the social and the
governmental organizations are conventional,
meaning that Nature did not make them as
they are.
Nature gives each of us the right to live,
the right to be free, the right to work and
pursue our own happiness in our own way,
SO long as we respect the equal rights OF
others.
Nature does not give me the right to enter
into any particular form of government, or
of society.
am born with my natural rights, bat
am born into q conventional system where
my political status was fixed before my
birth.
Thus, in England the plain common people
had no voting privilege 100 years ago.
The French had none prior to 1889
Throughout Germany, including Austria
and Hungary, the mobility" exercised all the
political franchises and power, until near the
middle of the 10Th century.
Even now, the men of property in Belgium
and Prussia, enjoy the right to cast several
votes according to wealth, while the COM
moners can vote but once.
In Russia, the political privileges of voting
and of sending delegates to national legis-
lature was granted by the Car, just few
years ago.
Several of the States in this Republic used
to have property qualification for the voter,
and my impression is that Rhode Island has
it yet.
In glorious old Massachusetts, the Puritan
theocracy denied the franchise to all who
were not members of that church.
If the capacity to hold office and to vote
were natural rights-like life, liberty and
prOperty-the natural instinct and demand
for them would be as universal as the instinct
and demand for life, liberty and property
have ever been, throughout creation.
Nature gives us the passion for life, for
freedom, and for the holding of what prop
erty is ours; but Nature does not tell us
thing about political systems. If it did, they
would all be much alike.
Natural rights are the same everywhere,
and when repressed, the natural instinct is
always striving to assert itself.
But political systems, like social systems,
differ all over the globe; and those which
suit one people do not suit another
A good doctor will tell you that the whole
physical body of typical woman is built
with reference to having baby, and nur-
turing it.
Man is made on the opposite plan, and 10
is has, to work, to fight, and to govern. -
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-20
Was There Never a Maria
- Monk Case +?

NOW, WI. EulCOf, II you Will cOuTteOuSly
allow me to have a friendly chat with the
readers of The Jeffersonian, as [ desire to
present a few facts relating to the above, and
being from personal knowledge and obser-
walton, ought to settle the question as to the
facts in the above case.
When a young man of eighteen, travelled
through nearly every city and village from
Quebec to Ottawa as Daguerrean artist for
over three years, and have taken pictures of
dead nuns in their converts.
In 1850 / resided for six months in vii
lage opposite Montreal, where Maria Monk
was born, and where her family lived, and I
made special inquiry of an old Catholic who
had known her from childhood, if Maria
Monk had told the truth In her book His
answer was: There is no doubt about it."
| learned also that when the sewers of the
Hotel Dleu'' nunnery were cleaned out, that
scores of infant skulls and bones were discoy-
cred.
Not only that, but learned that there was
change made in all of the rooms of the nun
merry, in the attempt to disprove the descrip-
ton she had given in her book.
Now, gentle reader, have no hesitation in
claiming that, if this Jesuit Walsh asserts
that the Maria Monk case was a fabrica-
ton" he IS either an ignoramus or liar, as
l know from personal knowledge from Cath
olcs not long after, and during the year
1850, that she did not misrepresent the facts
claimed in her book
Allow me to state further that Mhen in
Montreal at one time [ witnessed long string
of "Peticts' marching through the street, and
because | failed to doff my hat, and bow nv
head when they passed, Catholic police
scoundrel raped me on my head with his
billy. That's Catholicism. How would YOU
have liked such treatment?
In order for the readers of The Jeffer-
sonlan to learn what reliance they may have
as to my reliability, allow me to state with
usual modesty, that, although a Northern
man, [ spent over three years in the employ
of Uncle Sam, and five years as resident of
Decatur, Alabama. / purchased the first
plantation sold to a Northern man after the
war, in 1865, and raised cotton for three years.
l know the Southern people well, and thew
were among my best friends
While there I wrote articles for the Georgia
Cultivator on the history and management of
the honey bee. And, more than that, in No
vember, 1777, my grandfather, Thomas Taber,
married Hanna Davis, who resided in Yer
mont with her brother, Timothy Davis, and
their cousin, Jefferson Davis, often visited
them when young man. This I know to be
true, as my oldest brother knew them we'll.
Is it any wonder that we admire the pat
riotism of the Hon. Thomas E. Watson al
though prosecuted and prosecuted because he
has the moral courage to publish facts that
none but traitors to Americanism can refute {?
Pardon me, Mr.. Editor, for my long article,
for l realize that the efforts, in many re-
spects, of the last three Presidents for DO
litical purposes, have catered to class who
are tools to an old ''Petticoat" who dares not
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-20

The Ballot a Political Privilege
Not a Natural Right.
Atlanta, Ga, April 6. 1916.

Dear Sir: Some weeks ago read your article
in The Jeffersonan in opposition to female suf-
frage. 1 struck with your statement that
the elective franchise is a privilege and not a
right. / do not understand, however how, if a
fact, this is valid argument against female suf-
frage. Kindly explain this to me. Please ex-
plain also what you mean in this connection by
privilege" as distinguished from right and
explain fully how, and from what source, man
got this privilege. Who conferred it man and
denied it to woman.
If you think worth while kindly publish this
letter and your reply.
Respectfully,
J. L. ANDERSON.
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

Probably all of Us will be glad when these elections are passed and gone Elections the first place bring out too much hatancy There seems to be too much desire to talk even when one has little to say Attacks of thought less kind very often defeat their ends Even outside in connection with the national election there too much ot the lQgo or BiIingsgate. The whole thing looks cjd. and childish. man of the standing of Senator
 Lodge at the last moment comes out with the accusation that President Wilson deceiying the country and former assistant secretary of war the word "Scound rel In the first place Lodge should never have spoken like that unless he was prepared to give positive proof At the very best all he could say that Breckenridge told BaIy so and Bailly told him. I know man that was told by another man that such and such man said such and such thing Is there of that would pay
 much attention to statement like that and is likely that an assistant secretary for war would spout on
 train statement that was fraught with fatal consequent ccs to whole government? Lodge has either got to prove that statement or lose his standing and prestige The pity is that all who use reckless statements are not made to lose something. Unfortunately, reckleSSneSS is the weapon of the Irresponsible usually
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:- That on the Eth day of November, 1916, in the Territory of Alaska, an election will be held in Seward, Al aska, to elect one DELEGATE TO CONGRESS, from said Territory and one Territorial Senator and fom members of the lower house of the legislature of said Territory of Alas ka from each division thereof: The Town of Seward is one voting district of said Territory and comprizes one voting precinct, the boundaries of which comprize the corporate limits of the town of Sewald, Alaska: The polling place of said precinct is on the ground floor of the Fire Hall of said Town of Seward: The polls will be open for voting rom elShI Q CLOCK A NJ. to seven o'clock r. NJ, of said day By order of the Common Council O the town of Seward, Alaska, made anc entered th;s the 9th day of October 1916.
 c. A. MYERS,
 Mayor. Attest: o. II. POEHLMANN,
 Municipal Clerk. (SEAD
 First publication Get. l9, 1916. Last publication Nov [, 1916.
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31
SEWARD. ALASKA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3l, 1916,

The forecast of the election result by Colonel Harvey must be taken with grain of salt PearSonS Magazine in it's last issue says that President Wilson refused the support of Harvey and if there is anything better caucu lated than another aundice man view ltlSto be toIu to keep his friendship Harvey IS probably very mad ana the wish is very much father to the thought regarug tuure election results It would be impossible for one small head to carry all the political knowledge that Colonel Havey id claim to yesterday, An ordinary human being would d it hard to forete the result in the state he nv ed m but Harvey deals with the results in most ot the states as though the souls ot all the people were ald pare before him. It would be frghttu calamity for Harvey ii wilson got elected alter haymg declined the Harvey as SlSlauCe.
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

Seward will be in peculiar position if it holds a straw election and ballots for the presidential candidates There will be people who might forget party allegiance in a ease like that and pay compliment to the adminStra- railroad On the other hand Seward might make a mis- take and vote against the who will be the next pres dent It may be better after a to cut out that straw ballottng.
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

California Home Assorted Pickles. fifteen cents per can. BROWN * HAWKINS, "Qua'ity First"
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

New assortment of wool shirts, S2 10 S6. Brown X Hawkins, Quality First"
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

Heinz's Fresh BAKED BEANS. fifteen cents per can. BROWN & HAWKINS, Quality First"
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

old papers for sale at the Gate way"
The Seward gateway., 1916-10-31

Big line of Brighton Sleeping Wear for men, women, boys and girls. Brown < Hawkins, Quality First
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21

PASO March 20Via and his bandits, such of them
- main with their commander believed have been
driven into trap by the swift Cavalry
hold three sides Of the square enclosing obber chief
men, and the Americans rapidly closing In the gap left the
fourth side
Much depends upon Carranza
the by the Washington administration asking for the
right make Of Mexican railways for The shipment supplies
the pursuing column That reply is awaited anxiousy and still
anouSy is the question Of CaTanzaS ability to hold the
lines he has, asked by the military authorities here.
May Be On Hearst Ranch
All OF reports the whereabouts of Villa floating
in the air here but the that backing
and is said have been contained in official advces
a GaVit Caranza commandant uarez puts TBS fugitive and
his band on the great Hearst ranch ~.
Other reports say that alarmed by the approach of Colonel Can
with column of Carranzsa soldiers Villa has fed westward
General Bertan, the Caranza commander CasaS Cant
reached Juarez last night for conference with General Gva tie
reported that General Pershing has found it expet split his
force and that part Of the American column ranc
and part at Galena
Americans Barred From Towns
eran says that the Americans meeting possible
tance from the Carranza authorities but permitted
buy whatever they wish way forage for their
for themselves.
After his Berani
statement in which he said;
81 have the fainest doubt Of the Of the
that seeking capture Villa The thrown by
and Mexican troops is closing up the bandit fast.
Villa Reaches Mountain Fastness
eVla has however thing his favor He has been able
reach rocky, mountainous country which the hiding places
and where he has friends The favorable
to him in his attempt to and most difficult for
ihs may delay the outcome, but cannot change it,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
KUH0 WHARF NAY Be
SITE OF HAWAII FAIR
Many Exhibits and Large Crowd
Expected Are Reason

HilO proposes to have its county fair
on I.uhiO wharf, if arrangements can
be made with the harbor commission.
ers. This change Of location from the
Hilo aEmorya is thought to be neces.
sary on account of the greater number
OF exhibits promised in the prelimi-
nary talks and on account Of the lar
ger crowd anticipated as result Of
the fair and civic convention both talk,
ing place at the same time. ,.,. 4 p.
V. l.. Stevenson has been made pub
hcity agent of the fair and, with Il.
G. Alien, secretary, viii give theneces-
sary information TO the public from
time to time that it may, be advised
of the Progress of things.
" II is proposed to hold the fair on
September % and 90 and efforts are
being made to have the last day de-
clared holiday by the plantation
managers of the Big Island.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
Attacks BY German Infantry and
Big Guns On Verdun Front Are
Dying Out Fast Says thei &C.
port From the French Capital
VERMELLES ONCE AGAIN
: sSeeHE oFtHot ASSAULT
Russians Declared To Have Re-
Sun3d Their Activity On the
Eastern Front But Berlin
Claims To Have Beaten Attack
,Asooct,,ed Pres, BY Federal wtrelsss1

tAsgoci7ted Press by Federal Wireless.)
~ ARTS, March 2O.-The battle of
Verdun. is over for the time be
- ing, and save for two unsuccess.
full assaults by German infantry against
the French lines north of Fort de Vaux
and DamlOup yesterday there was lit
tie TO report from that sector of the
western battle front. Even the artil
lcry FIRE which ragged Internationally for
uaAs after the first and second battles,
Is Row. dying DOWN
Berlin claims to have surcrssfull, at
tucked the British forces protecting the
lines to the northeast of the little town
of Nermelles, and to have recaptured
the trenches lost to them by the Brit
ish assault two weeks and more ago
This section has been the scene Of many
bloody fights since the German rush to
Paris was checked and General Won
Kluk driven hack to the Aisne.
Attack Expected
Some such attack as the Germans now
claim to have made has been expected
in that vicinity for several days, If on
ly to prevent the British from further
extending their lines and thus allowing
the French to send fresh troops, to the
relief of their comrades defending
Verdun.
French aviatOrs are again reported
as active. Five of them started out
yesterday to attack the fortified city
of Metz, one of the German border
strong holds. Arriving above the city
they dropped a number of bombs upon
the ammunition depOts situated at the
Chateau Salins and the aerodrome at
Dieuze. -.
Romb Aviation Camp
An aerial squadron sailed forth yes.
terday and flew over the Alsaee Dor
der. There were twenty three OF
them and they report having success
fully attacked The German aviation
camp at Habsheim and rained bombs
upon the railroad station and freight
houses at MulhauseR. An aerial battle
followed when German air men rose
to meet the invaders. and both sides
were forced to report losses of machines
and operators. .,I,.,
On the eastern front, for the first
tine in weeks, there are reports of re-
newed Russian activity. Berlin re-
ports that the Slavs in the lake Nor.
Ocz region launched an infantry attack
yesterday, but that it failed under the
ieutOn guns, and retired leaving 927
dead on the field.
London announces that the Prince
of Wales, who has been serving with
the army in Elan ders, has reached
Egypt. where he has been given an ap-
pointment as staff Captain on the staff
Of the commander of the Mediterrane-
an cxpeditionary forces.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
FIGHT PUNCTURES
BIG SAKE SOCIAL |.
rrucuIent Member of United
Guild of Japanese Clothes .p
Cleaners Gets Beating 1''i


rnere were ructIons last night at
a sake socia! given by a number Of
Japanese, near Hotel and Punchbowl
streets. and as a result X. Takiyama
was rather badly done up and had TO
he taken to the emergency hospital
for repairs.
The fault lay with, Pakyama. Tho
United Guild OF, Japanese Clothes
uleaners were having q big banzai
Celebration and sake was flowing free
ly. Once when the festive bowl was
being passed round, Takiyama, in the
exuberance Of his spirits, smashed the
bottle and proceeded to sprinkle those
At the table with sake.
Now the honorable clothes cleaners
had no objection to absorbing sake
through the regular channels but they
did object to its external application,
so they jumped Takiyama, Kicked him.
cuffcd him, hit him over the head
with the remainder of the bottle, and
biffed him in the eye. u
Takiyama said last night that four
men were responsible for his evil case
and declared that he would deal with
them at convenient time.
AS a number of garments which had
been cleaned and delivery of which
had been promised for this morning,
suffered somewhat in the ARRAY the
sake social resolved itself into q bust.
ness session of the guild, and not until
every speck and heek of blood had
been removed from the garments, was
festiVity allowed to resume sway.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
IDDR|EFaUGGED /
'''ANbAENR0BBED
Chicago Physician, Knocked IN
eensCieus, Loses Diamond Ring,
VS. Gold watch and Money

Shortly after nine clock laat night
Or. A, Lehman, a visitor from Chi
cago, was sandbagged and robbed near
the Honolulu Iron Works. A diamond
ring, valued at 5000, a gold watch ana
a considerable sum Of money were
taken from Lehman 3 perso1 after
he had been knocked unconscious. h
Doctor Lehman, who arrived here
February 10, and who Is stopping in
Beretania street, had spent the after
noon Mt the beach. He remembers re-.
tnrning 70 town ,.on the ear hut his
mind Is a blank as TO what happened
after then. 49, -
Picked Up Unconscious ~ ~.
He was picked up unconscious by a
soldier who told him, when he came
70, that he had seen two other soldiers
with red cord bands on their bats, run
ming away when he came upl
The doctor had bruise at the base
of his neck which looked as IL 1t
might have been caused by q blow
with sandbaR. He also received al
awful wallop in the jaw, the force Of
which cut his upper lip against his
Attacked From Behind v
Lehman is positive that he was at
tackled from behind, though how he
came to be in the vicinity Of the iron
works he has no idea. f. -.
4 The diamond ring aud watch were
presents from the DOCTORS dead wife,
and on thfs account he feels his lost
Very keenly. 20 IA. 3D.. d q.
We been beaten and robbed"
were the .wpds he, uttered as he stag
gered into the police station.
4 Doctor Lehman had planned TO re-
turn to the States next Wednesday.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
TITADEL OF VERDUN
. GATEWAY TO PARIS

Nerdun, the great fortress on the
Mouse River, about which one of the
greatest battles Of the war has been
raging is known as the Gateway Ia
Paris. - 1t is one of a chain of for.
tresses lying across Eastern France
the others being at BelfOrt, TOul and
Epinal. The fort at Maubeuge, which
was the northern most link, was cap,
"tured by the Germans earl, in the war
Before the war Yerdun had a popu,
latiOn Of 1000. 1t is split by the
Mouse River AMI also by a canal which
flows into the Meuse from the West.
The city il girdlel by twenty one
tnrtS, all of modern construction and
protected with the heaviest ordnance
IN the French army
Two, Trunk Railways
Two railway lines pass through Yer
dun, one from the East and West, the
other from the North and South. In
addition. eight important highways cen.
ter there. One of these runs south
along the Meuse to -. Mihiel. where
the Germans hold salient or the west
hank Of thr rI,rr; another i,a,is ,a~l
Wurd Of - N"ueeu II taI .u,u.,r,
with the famous Oid Ruran rn,d az
Gtbrr leads thr~lgh the Nr4unrr t. tn,
northwest, while others l,1s, INTO a
network of highways which lie in the
WnoNre district.
Nerdun has been within cannon shot
of the battIelines since the German
drive on Paris was halted and the
Crown Prince = army entrenched itself
moth of the city. 1t has been sheIled
by long range German mortars and also
by German aircraft, but has suffered
title from this fire.
Has Military Importance
4 Thes military IMPORTANCE of VerIun
lies chiefly in the fact that it is one
az the few good crossing places on the
Mouse. II lies on n range Of hills, and
tile guns of the forts not only control
the Mouse and its bridges, but also the
raIroads aud important highways lead
ing to the West. In order to advance
through such country as that surround
ing Verduh, highways are absolutely
essential, and if Verdun could be taken
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
DEMANDS TOO
BLOODY FOR EMPEROR M
Ask Yuan To Give Up Throne and
.. " Decapitate Friends
Especial ,cAhlsgEam 70 Nippu Jin.)

TOXIC, March 20.--Details of the
preliminaries that led up to the decIara
ton of independence by Kwangsi prov
ince have been received here. 1t ap-
pears that the goVernor,generaI of the
province sent to the YrTn Shih ka.
government at Peking series of de
mands. Picking railed to reply.
The terms, of the demand made by
the provincial officials were, briefly,
that Yuan Shin ;kai resign all preten
lions to the throne, that he retire from
the presidential chair and that all the
ProPagandists for an imperial form of
government be instantly executed.
The Yuan Shih-kai government failed
to give any reply to this demand and
the secession of the province followed.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
FRENCHDESTROYER SUNK
BY IEUToN|c SUBMARINE
Three Officers and Forty-Four of
Crew Perish
(Assooiated Press by Federal

Associated Press by Federal wiroless1
PARIS, March 2O.--The French min
istry Of marine announced last night
that the torpedo boat destroyer Renau.
din, patroling in the Kdriatic, has been
sunk by az submarine, and that three
Of her officers and forty four members
of her crew have been drowned.
The ReRaulin belonged TO the Bison
class of dsstroyers and was launched
IN 1913, She was faster than the RESI-
of he' class, having made 3g.2 knots on
her trial trip.
She hid been ENGAGED in patrol ant
other duty in the Mediterranean and
Adriatic since the outbreak of the war
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
SHIP ELEKTRA
SUNK BY ADR|AHC DIVER
....e ~ . II a.
Only Three Lives Lost and Diver
Recognized As Turbanta
tAssOciatsd Press by Federal wireless. ,

(Associated Presa BY Federal Wtreless.)
BERLIN, Mach ,2O-Despatches to
the German admiralty last night an
nounced that the Austro- Hungarian
hospital ship Elektra, has been at
tackled by a EuLmarine of the Entente
Allies and sunk in the AdrIatlc.
In sTfte OF the,'red cross signs the
EIcktra carried, and Of the fact that
il was cleat Mt the time Of the attack
the torpedo was launched aud the ship
wen: down. One OF the sailors of the
ship was droSned and, two red cross
nurses were seriously injured by the
exl 'lOsiOn
The German admiralty issued for
mai statvnlent Hast night declaring
that it is impo. s,ble to believe that
the Elektra was sent down by mine,
as il rs known that the subma inc con-
eerned was the g Tubanta.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
RAMS THREE SUBMARINES

While entering Honolulu hal Dor Sep
TENDER s, enrOute from Guam TO Brem
erton navy. yard, the Supply, com
manded by Lieut.. Robert b. Hender.
son, rammed three F-class sui marines.
She is one Of the oldest vessels in the
navy. She is a single-serew vessel
Her engines were in bad order when
she was here.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-03-21
TOXIC PAN-PkCiFlC ..
EXPOSITION IS OPEN

Especial cablegram to Hawaii shinpo.)
TOXIC, March 20--A grand sxhibi-
ton of the varied productions of the
Pacific coast countries has been OPEN
ed at Uyenp Park. Prominent Ameri-
cans, Canadians and Australians and
many prominent japanese made ad
dresses. ~