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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-05-01
STRIKE REAL
PEACE MOVE
TWO OF oERMANY's THREE
GREAT CLASSES TIRED
OF WAR.

London, April %. Count Hert.
ling, premier Of Bavaria, says dis
patch from Munich by way Of
Amsterdam to the Central News,
10 going to Vienna to confer with
the Austro-Hungarian cabinet min
listers regarding peace prospects.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-05-01
BRAZIL READY TO DECLARE

Rio Janeiro, April 2S.-The decision
as to whether Brazil will follow up her
breach of relations with Germany by
declaration of war will be made by
the Brazilian congress when it con-
venes Thursday May 8.
Congress will be asked to declare
that a state of war has been created by
the act of Germany. II this action is
taken it will be followed by the
seizure Of German ships In Brazilian
ports, the opening of these ports to
the warships of the allies and other
measures Of military character.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-05-01
GERMANS LEAVE BRAZIL.

Rio Janeiro, April 2s,-Adolf PAUL.,
German minister to Brazil, left Rio
Janeiro last night with his staff for
Uruguay. The Dutch minister took
over the charge of German interests in
Brazil
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-23
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

to fuse the militia with the Regular Army
and order it beyond seas for service in for
eign lands?
Has Congress the power to disintegrate the
States by aboishng the essential principles
of the States Bills of Right, thus depriving
the States of the sovereign power to protect
their citizens in the exercise of immemoral
rights?
If the Constitution itself forbids State
to deprive the citizen of liberty, save as a
punishment for crime, and if the State is
forbidden by it's own Bill of Rights to 10
this, from what source does Congress draw
the power to do it?
If Congress can assume any one power
which was never delegated, but which was,
on the contrary, expressly ar5thhe1d, what
would become of Constitutional government?
If Congress can legally make such law
as Section 6 of the Act of May IS, 1917,
which places every State oficer-from Gov
crnor down to Constable-under the orders
Of the President, with no definite limits to
The Presidents control of those State officers,
and with a penal threat suspended like the
sword of Damocles over the heads of those
state officers, what becomes of State rights,
sovereignty, and independent authority?
Under Section 6, of the Act, the entire civil
administration of the State is subjected to
military control and placed under the COM
Inands of the President: how can it be con-
tended that such an innovation does not eff
Eect a revolution, reversing the relative posi-
ton of the civil and military power, and over
throwing the States control of its own in
ternal civil administration?
These questions are respectfully suggested
IN the case at bar; and there is no other
tribunal which can authoritatively answer
them.
In the very nature of things, Power is
. grasping It's innate tendency is, to grow.
The Constitutional monarch humanity in
clines to personal absolutism. Every town
council is tempted to become a local Gar.
Our sage forefathers, knowing the weakness
and the vices of human nature, fixed the
bounds Of the habitation Of the Federal Gov
eminent and Of the States; and to each system
the Constitution says, in a spirit of paternal
admonition, "Be content acith the orbit as
signed y0U!"
But because no person can be trusted to
act as Judge in his own case, and no estab-
lished authority can be allowed to define its
own limits, our fOrefathers created the Ju-
dietary.
Holding office for life, removed from the
accidents of politics, elevated above the
cIamor Of the hour, the Federal Judge is put
on guard to protect the Constitutional rights
of aIl-the Federal Government, the States,
and the humblest citizen who comes in the
hour of his extremity and lays his hand upon
the sacred altar of the Law.
In this case, your Honor, two poor negroes
are the applicants for protection; and in their
behalf we say, that Congress has adopted a
method of raising armies which not only vio-
1o+o IF tbo 10
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-23
THE %JEFFERSONIAN
Thursday, August %, 1917

In general way, we all understand that
Anglo-Saxon liberties and institutions origi-
mated before there were such things as writ-
ten Charters and Constitutions. We all I'M
derstand that our Colonial forefathers
claimed these immemorial rights, as portion
of their heritage. We are all more or less
familiar with the historic tragedy which
caused the Brltish-Saxon laws to be oveIlaid
and smothered by the feuda tyrannes Of
the Norman Conquest; and we yet drink in
SEPARATION from the glorious revolt of 1915,
which re-asserted the ancient liberties of the
realm
It is, or has been, our boast and pride, that
these immemorial rights of free men came
down to ourselves, unimpaired, inalienable,
imperlshabe.
Addressing a District Judge Of the United
States Court in Atlanta in 1873, the late mag
nificent lawyer and orator, Benz III. Hill, re-
ferred reverently to 1.-The sacred civil Jewels,
-. from an English ancestry, hallowed by
the blood Of thousand struggles"
Said Mr. Hill
at is infdelity to forget them It is sac
rllege to disregard them. 1t is despotism to
trample upon them
[ congratulate myself and the country that
my appeal for the Constitution is addressed
to one who learned law III part from the great
Georgia Senator, and who, like the Federal
Judge whom he addressed in 1873. amid the
turbulence and passions of Reconstruction,
possesses the ability to discern, and the cour-
age to declare the Tar, AS IT IS.
What are those sacred civil Jewels" to
which Mr.. Hill referred, and which are treat
ed with such profound respect by English his
torians, advocates, Judges, and standard au-
thorltles on Constitutional Law?
w.,
They are the Holy Scripture of Patriotism.
No intelligent person denies that these ele-
mentary principles embrace Life, liberty,
and property = carrying protection as we'll
as security to ones person, to ones free
choice OF VOCATION to ones freedom from re-
stralnt, to ones requirement and enjoyment
of property and the fruits Of ones toll, unless
deprived thereof III some manner prescribed
by the established law of the land
Necessarily incident to personal security, is
the sanctity of ones home, which IS inviolate,
unless warrant be sworn out against it:
Fair trial by jury, in the vicinity of ones
residence, when accused OF crime, is also an
immemorial right:
Freedom to speak ones opinions, and to
publish them to the world, with view to
winning to their support the opinions of ones
Ow-citizenS
Freedom of religious belief and worship:
Freedom to keep and bear arms, for the pro-
lection of ones life or property:
The right to representation in the laying
Of taxes, and the making of laws
Underneath the whole elaborate, and pow
erful structure of our system of government
lies the principle which is the exact opposite
and irreconcilable enemy of the ancient royal
dogma of Absolutism, or the Divine Right
of Kings
That fundamental democratic republican
principle is, that the People are sovereign;
the PEOPLE are the source of honor, privilege,
oll
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-23

t1Onal scheme OF mixed ederal and National
government.
We will not now discuss-for it is unneces-
sary-the various methods by which Congress
might legally raise armies, whether by boun-
tles by employment of mercenaries, by offer
ing Inducements to volunteers by recourse
upon the States for the full number of their
militia, or other mode: the sole issue here is,
Did Congress, IN Nay, 1917, adopt q method
QChlcb the Constitution qCGU not tolerate
The compliments in this case would
have no standing in court, were it not for
fact that our system of government is differ
ent from any other, and that such questions
as are raised in this application for relief,
hinge upon those rery peculiaJ5ties and COM
pzerities achich distinguish or Republic front
any hitherto h420aon.
Our illustrious statesmen have exhausted
the resources of language in describing this
novel, this marvellous, this intricately com
pick systematic One composed of Many, the
wheels within wheels, the indissoluble union
of mdestructible States
At the very outset of the discussion, we
must endeavor to realize fully the controlling
power of the fact, that no reasoning based
upon analogy, parallel, or precedent will be
worth the breath which gives it utterance,
if that reasoning does not conform to the Con
stitution of the United States
Nothing that any other nation has DONE in
ancient times or modern, authorizes our Gov
eminent to adopt the policy Of imitation, if
this adopted policy conflicts with our Su-
preme Law, and with the perfect integrity of
the peculiar system Of nired Federal and
National sovereignty, created by the Consti-
tuition.
The bare fact of this case being here, illus
trates the distinctive nature of our Govern
ment.
The vital fact that your Honor has taken
jurisdiction, to weigh and determine the va
lidity of an Act of Congress approved by
the Chief Executive, advertises the tremen-
dous fact, that our Federal Union not only
depends upon the separate existence of the
three sovereign attributes of government, but
that the life-tenure Judiciary is the final ar
bitter, in cases where the citizen alleges that
Congress and the President have encroached
upon his Constitutional rights.
In no other country does one department
of the government thus check and balance the
others.
In this country, there is no such doctrine
as Parliamentary omnipotence. In our Re
public, the desires, the ambitions, the preiu-
dices, the passions Of the ma ority-no mat
ter how numerous, rich, and powerful-can
never overbear and override the minority, de-
priving it Of time-honored privileges, i'm
munities and rights, unless the judiciary
prove recreant to its high and sacred trust
Your Honor! The place you fill today
towers in noble importance above that occu-
pied by any monarch on this troubled sphere
You are humbly asked to uphold and pre-
serve the Ark of the Covenant of our
Fathers We come reverently to the Tables
of the Law, and seek to have you tell rs what
is there written.
No greater issue of life or death, of Con-
stitutional liberty or legalized servitude, has
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-23
PAGE TWO 8

will The u. S. Judiciary Permit,
and the People Ratify, the
Congressional Overthrow
of Our Constitutional
System of Govern
Ement?
Mr. WatsOn's Argument Against the
Consumption Acts
Before Judge Emory Speer, at Mt.
Airy, AuSuSt 49, 1912
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
HAWAIrs PART-To GROW SUGAR
From the Maui News)

(From the Maui News)
The decision of the war department not to mobi
lie Hawaii's national guard would seem to be an
indication that the administration very clearly ap
preciates Hawais position as an economic factor in
connection with the war. Next to wheat sugar is
probably the most important food product of the
world and Hawaii's 6O0,0 900 tons year now as,
sumes an importance it never before held. in the
great draft soon to be made farmers are to be as
class exempt and there is nothing strange that here
in the islands, where agricultural workers form the
bulk of the national guard, the guard should ae;
cordingIy be excepted from mobilizing. For the
same reason II Ii not likely that the draft soon to be
made in the islands viii bear at all heavily.
One thing may be accepted as very certain, and
that is that Hawaifs local interests were consider
ed not at all in making the decision 1t was solely
question Of national expediency. In the minds
Of the powers that be in Washington, Hawaii can
best do her part in the present great crisis by do
ing just what she has been doing-only more so.
Besides, unless the war ends sooner than now
seems likely, other drafts are to be expected which
will naturally sweep cleaner than the present one
and Hawaii may yet get her chance to be represent
ed on the bloody fields Of Europe
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
FERN P'AYSFOR
FINANCE AUDIT,
DECLARES FIELD

Mayor Joseph j. Fern and several
Of his friends are financing the in
vestigation of the city's finances, as
handled by the last board Of supervf-
sors, now being conducted by H.
Gooding Field, expert statistic1an.
This statement, made today by Mr..
Field, is contrary to former reports
from political circles that the Demo
cratic party had launched the inves-
tigation and was to put up the money
for IL. - -
IT was retained by the mayor and
several of his friends" says Mr.. Field,
-and will receive my compensation
from them and not from the Demo
cratic party as wha1e." '~@'~''|z
Mr.. Field says he win have his final
figures ready about the end of this
month, and is now marking time un,
til the city. auditor brings the city's
accounts up to June 80, 1917. The
city auditor Is now working on post,
ings and expects to have his figures
ready for Mr.. Fields examination
within the next two weeks.
Any conclusions Field may have
reached as to the condition Of the
city's finances, he declines to dis
close. -,
Much depends upon the financial
transactions of the city between the
end of the fiscal year 1915 and June
80, 1917" he says, ito enable me to
ascertain the exact status Of the var
ious funds at the time the last board
of supervisors went out Of office"
Mr.. Field has been at work on the
city's books for the last three weeks.
II have received every courtesy
from the auditor and deputy auditor"
says Mr.. Field, "who have placed all
financial statements at my disposal. I
am experiencing absolutely no oppo-
sition from any quarter. The general
sentiment Is that my findings are be-
ing looked forward to with interest. !"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
GIL 'SCOMPLAINT
IS NOT upheld
BY GOVERNMENT

At the request Of Brig. Gen. Charles
G. Treat, acting commander Of the
Hawaiian Department, y. s. A., tia
local U. s. attorneys office has COM
pleted a full investigation Of an article
recently appearing In q morning paper
in which it was declared that German
officers Of the gunboat Geier, who are
now confined at Schofield Barracks.
violated their parole. IS !. !.
The original complaint regarding the
article reached General Treat through
L. G. Gil, consul for Spain and local
representative Of Germany, who re-
sented the publication of the articles
on the ground Il was unfair and un-
true. General Treat then took up the
matter with the u. 8. attorneys office.
Assistant U. 8. Attorney j. J. Banks
said today he had had q conversation
, with q representative Of the morning
scented the publication Of the article
published was true and that the Ger
man prisoners had actually violated
their parole.
1T appears to me-" says Judge
Banks, that 1t was the intention OF
the Spanish consul to have this office
protest to the morning paper against
the publication Of articles Of that kind.
But since was informed that the
facts set forth were true, there was
no further action for this office to
take" d.. =. --s. f. +. ---.z,,-.s. ri =: r. :
Judge Banks says the matter is clos
ed so far as the U. s. attorneys office
Is concerned. F -. 49,:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12

German Good Eaith"

Speaking Of the pledged word of Germany and
Ct German agents" here is how the United States
officially characterizes German good faith" The
quotation is taken from the official statement issued
by the Committee on Public Information on
June 10:
with fanatical faith in the destiny Of German
kultur as the system that must rule the world, the
Imperial Governments actions have through years
of Boosting, doubledealing and deceit tended to
ward aggressions upon the rights of others.
It's agents have conspred against the peace of neu
trail nations everywhere, sowing the seeds of dis
sension ceaselessy endeayorng by tortuous methods
Of deceit, bribery, of false promises, and intmi
dation to stir up brother nations one against the
other. Evidence of the bad faith of the i'm
perial German government piled up on every hand. "
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
The Carnival Of 1913

HaEaii,s patriotism in wartime viii be proved
not by the number Of days cut Of the MldPaclnic
Carnival program, but by Hawaii's response to the
war-needs Of the nation.
ii Il of much more Importance to subscribe our
quota of Liberty Bonds, raise generous sum for
the Red Cross, and do our duty in registration and
in active warseryice than to eliminate holidays and
consciously try to take some Of the JOY out OF life
Let us hope that we are big enough and broad
enough 10 realize the seriousness Of war; and meet
It's demands for men, money, service, devotion, sac
rice and suffering, without losing our capacity for
and insstenee on relaxation which helps to counter
balance depression. p
That was brave French mother who said: III
smile because must not weep"
That the 1918 Carnival should be a great patri'
otic demonstration 10 the natural and ht6ns
thought. - H..
from the tourist standpoint, the average visitor
would as soon see great bazaar Of Allied nations,
the proceeds Of the fair and the entertainment pro-
rram devoted to the American Red Cross, as Mardi
Gras night. A patriotic pageant il much more at,
fractiye than q directors ball. The splendid mill.
tary parades are quite as fitting In war time as in
peace time
very many visitors last February felt that the
program given by the schools was quite the finest
thing Of an unusually good series Of Carnival
events That program Ii entirely appropriate for
1918. and with added patriotic touches would be
even more striking.
The point Is that there are plenty of features
stimulating to the patriotic spirit to al two days
Friday and Eaturday-and the nation does not de-
nnnd and Win not demand-so far as human fore
.'nht now goes-that Hawaii or any other part Of
tie country entirely forego wholesome entertain.
hent
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
NO REASON 10 ABANDON SPORT.

American sailors at their naval base in the British
,t|es and American soldiers il France are playing
tssebal not only as an exercise but as sport The
tern business Of war il put aside for an hour or 20
daily while these young men engage in jovial and
mimic battle on the diamond When fall comes on
|tex WIN take to football and in the winter, when
81 duty, they will md hsls &c basketball and 9th
8 Indoor Sports
The frainingcamps in the United States will
have their SPORTS One Of the greatest football
coaches in the country, Amos A. Stagg Of the Uni
.ersty Of Chicago has been invited to take charge
n physica instruction at Fort Sheridan, Illinois,
and plans plenty Of outdoor sport for the men Of
ne camp.
Il i not improper that Hawaii should continue
,fr swimming tournaments, or that Hawaii should
.tace tennis tournament next February. Nor ID
Il improper that in connection with the Mid Pacific
Carnival there should be program Of clean and
manly sport.
when Uncle Sam entered the war, number OF
colleges called OF their intercollegiate competitions.
Very shortly afterward many Of them recognized
hat they had made mistake They recognized
that the American undergraduate i stimulated and
hei,ed to physical tnees BY athletic competition;
that character b moulded on the gridiron and the
diamond; and that intercollegiate sport could be
caieied on without interfering with the new Amer
lean business Of war. Since that time number Of
these institutions have renewed their dates for
games and meets
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
MAYOR SANCTIONS EXTRA
HELP At CITY HOSPITAL

Because he considers the emer-
gency hospital an absolute necessity,
Mayor j. j. Fern In letter to the
board Of supervisors today recon-
mended that 1t make provision for
the employment Of an additional first
aid man In order TO have someone
In attendance at all hours at the
hospital day and night.
Mayor Fern pointed out that there
was one man there now but because
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
WIFE OF TASMANIA'S
NEW GOVERNOR TN CITY
EN- ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA

Lady Newdegate, the wife Of Sir
Francis Newdegate who was recently
appointed governor Of Tasmania, was
aboard q British liner arriving in
port today. With her three daugh-
tiers she is going to Tasmania to join
her husband. 2. .@.e.. Il
= II have never been to- Australia"
said Lady Newdegate this morning,
"but ! will now probably make my
home there since my husband has re-
ceived this appointment"
She and her family heretofore have
lived in England.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
ON PICKET FENCE

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Impaled on the
picket of an iron fence, the body Of
Mrs. Lewis Stone, 50, wife Of an actor,
now a student officer at Plattsburg,
was found beneath the window Of her
Riverside Drive apartment. She either
had leaped or fallen from the eighth
story.
Mrs. Stone, who was Miss Margaret
Langham, an actress, was the mother
Of two children Virginia, aged s
years, and Margaret, aged months.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
SHARK MANoLEs SON
OF SAVANNAH MAYOR

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Wallace ]. Pier
pont, Jr, son Of the mayor of Sa-
vannah. was attacked and mangled by
. shark while out boating with his
wife and children recently. Mrs.
Pierpont with rare pres nee Of mind
hauled her husband into the boat.
bound up his dangling arm. and
drove their motor boat thirty-fifs
miles to shore in an hour and thirty
five minutes to reach hospital.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12

Great Britain continues to be the leading Gus
TONER Of the United States her purchases averag.
ing, at the present time, more than $50OO00O0 a
week. In one day recently, single contract for
$4,000 900 was placed with an American firm in
her behalf. All she borrows in the United States,
and great deal in addition is spent where she finds
accommodation. That Is to say, Great Britain is a
lift, not load. Christian Science Monitor.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12

The saloons might, indeed, take warning from
an incident in English politics which arose out Of
an effort by the publican to gain an air Of respect
ability by supporting the church at the polls. An
unregenerated radical summed up the new spiritual
policy Of the brewers in the caustic phrase @Beer
and Bibler and the breweries have been trying to
forget it ever since Christian Science Monitor
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12

Young men Of sreal American stuff" are wanted
BY the marine corps says the secretary Of the navy
BY the records Of lao years the marines have always
been composed of that kind of stuff, and the corps
has never had room for anything else.-Providence
journal
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12
PATRIoTIsM-A SHAM.

This Illuminating comment is from the Christian
Science Monitor; IS 81 sssS4 81
with the hope Of curfying popular favor for their
declining industry the distiilers brewers are
nstucting saloonkeepers Of the United States
hang the stars and Stripes behind their bars. liquor
shop however is not appropriate place for the
tonal flag and the practise should be condemned In
every community where It II followed. The saloon,
wherever It ID stn tolerated, 10 an enemy Of every
thing which the Stars and Stripes represents, and
should be treated - such.
In Honolulu the saloonkeepers made patriotic
rush to close their places at o'clock-after they
saw the danger that otherwise the places would b
closed all the time. --s -
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-12

JAMES YOUNG of Young Brothers
Ltd, expects to be able to return r
his office by tomorrow. He was oper
ated on last Friday for appendicitis
his appendix having been giving hin
trouble for the last year.