The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-02-06

( IN CraWfordSVllle, MISS, November
6, 1861, is one of those Democrats
to "the manner born" who have
been taught to revere the memory
of the late Thomas Jefferson al
most to the point of idolatry.
BY virtue of this title to the af.
fections of other Democrats, SINH.
larly to the manner born, including
Hon. John Sharp Williams. United
States Senator from Mississippi
Thomas Watt Gregory is now ad.
mired and reVered as Attorney
General of the United States-thc
mortal foe of all whom in moments
of sublimity Hon. John Sharp Will.
Jams describes as fool pacifists."
On the recommendation of Attor.
ney General Gregory there was in.
PRODUCED simultaneously in the
House and Senate yesterday bill
amending section l of the Act OF
July 6, 1898, so as to include wo-
men aliens who may be "appre.
hended. restrained, secured and re-
moved" from this country.
In the Year 1898, Thomas Jefferson
and a number OF others who called
themselves Republicans" were de-
nounced as Jacobins. and by all
other terms Of contempt and detesta-
ton which were then available in
politics. II the Federalists had
known how to call them fool paci-
fists" they might have called them
that also. But the Jeffersonian
Democrats" did not stop. They were
denouncing the alien and sedition
acts Of the Adams administration
including the above act, now re-
stored to full Democratic standing
They were threatened with jail. They
only talked the louder. When act
ually put in Jail. at least one Of them
ran for Congress from his cell-and
was elected. Thomas Jefferson was
also elected on the same issue in
1900. without actually going to Jail
He and his fellow "Jacobins," bias
phemers," 'iDfldels," foes of re
ligion." enemies Of law and order.
and so forth. wiped the earth with
the Federalist party and put ii out
Of business" SO completely that il
was not thought necessary to repeal
its dead letter legislation against
the rights and liberties OF mankind.
And that is supposed TO have beer
the beginning of the Democracy for
which Mississippi and Texas are
supposed to be exceedingly safe in
1850 safe, that the revival and
amendment of all the alien and sedi-
, ton laws Of the Adams administra-
ton might not result in the loss OF a
hundred Democratic votes in Texas
History is the most interesting
study in the world-for those who
are making it., before they know
what it is all about. Mostly we arc
all in that class. We may learn
later what it means. In some re-
spects it is pity we so seldom know
what we are doing while we arc
doing it.
History in the making was clIci-
dated with great weight and clio.
quence in open Senate by Hon. James
Wadsworth, jr., of New York. He
attacked the Wilson Administration
as a member of the Military Affairs
Committee. 1--WE have had before
u.s." he said as a member Of the
committee, "some Of the exceedingly
able civilians who were summoned
to Washington soon after our On.
trance into the war" He dFplorcd
the fact that they had only advisory
powers. "All their suggestions are
in the same direction-toward the
proper Capitalization Of authority
These exceedingly able civilians
could not centralize authority prop
erly, because the yhad no ComPul-
sorry power over inexperienced Oft
Gals who, especially if they were
graduates of West Point, unfamil-
lar with negotiating contracts with
"big business" did not know how 70
bring about the best results in the
shortest possible time Hence the
two bills for the compulsory control
of the United States Government
by experts in Big Business.
The record tends to show, how
ever, that as the way TO bring about
the best results in the shortest pos