Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-17
Turns Hot Fire on Mellon
Plan Backers, Urging Sane
Consideration on Tax Cut
Program
BY ,JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's
Cabinet

GaDinGf)
RALEIGH, n. c., Jan. 12.-
"There's a new face at the door, my
friend. Y 1t is a new claimant for
the throne.
We have new Kind Of govern
ment in Washington. 1t is govern
ment by stampede.
Every generation treats Us to a
new kind of government, and this
New Year is no exception. This
age tires of old ways, no matter
whether they are good or bad 1t
demands a sensation, a thrill. What
was approved last year has lost its
novelty. Therefore it must go. This
is seen in demanding more and more
red pepper and hot tamale for the
appetite and new kind of music
for the new kind of dance. This
running after some t'strange thing,
something new, is seen even more
in fashions, as seen in the New Year
celebrations where many women ap
peared with legs bare, the manu-
facturers Of skin-colored hose having
been unable to meet the increased
demand. People are ready nough
necessities of life, but never upon
the new-fangled luXuries. They just
must have them to live the life!
This desire for something new in
Washington was emphasized by the
New Year reception at the White
House. 1t isn't stunning enough. or
something, for only 1891 persons
shook President COoldge's hand as
against 5000 who gathered to greet
President Harding on his New Year
reception. Hiram Johnson's support
ers would probably say it shows the
people do not warm up to Coolidge
The real explanation is that the PEG
pie had rather see a stunt than see
the chief executive and his wife
IL it had been advertised that Calvin
at the end OF the reception, would
have climbed creased pole, there
would have been fifty thousand peo
pie there.
Troops Preserve Feudal System
Government by force has Ions
been a favorite method of military
men. 1t has not been absent even
in this republic, where a growing
belief that a large standing army
to preserve domestic tranquility
and state constabularies and gen
darmes are maintained as much to
give control by the interests as by
resolve to preserve the peace.
The unwarranted employment OF
federal troops at the behest OF the
lords Of American vassalage in West
IN; ie Z
government by force. We boast of
American freedom and yet maintain
a dark age feudal system in some
coal mining and other districts.
A few years ago the big issue was
whether we should have government
by injunction, where the one Judge
assumed the functions of judge, jury,
the executive and the police power
In many cases this proceeding, first
a hand-aid of equity, became the
agency of dictation and domination.
Nothing is quite so dangerous as
one-man government and it can new
er be quite so offensive as when ex.
ercised by judge who assumes that
the court is the inheritor of the di-
vine right. This was recently sharp
ly called to the attention of the
whole country in the sentence Of a
high official in New York to iail
because he had dared to criticize a
man wearing the ermine, Dressed
in little brief authority" one judge
who refuses jury trial can do more
to cause loss of respect for the bench
than hundred just judges can
undo.
The Propaganda Pandora's Box
The latest fad until government
by stampede was government by
propa ganda. They are first cousins
if not nearer related. Indeed, it may
be claimed that government by STAN
pede is lineal descendant of gov
eminent by propaganda This meth
cd of usurping the constitutional
method Of government was in flow
er-(or rather I should say in weed,
and nOXiOuS weed)-in the early DAYS
preceding Americas entrance into
the World war. It flourished most
in hyphenated communities and its
high priests were officers of hyph =
mated societies.
For the time being many people,
ooi III lLS warning countries Tor
got they received their bread d
meat from America and owed it for
protection and opportunity, and gave
themselves over to undivided l.
lesianCe to a land overseas. Gov
eminent by propaganda sought TO
control every avenue Of information
and public opinion, and either k }
America out of the war or rush it
into the war. But in both instances
wholly regardless of what was best
for America.
The only concern was what was
best for the country of the nativity
or antecedents of the propa gandi -.
| fear there remains something of
this spirit in these quieter days, and
men favor or oppose international
Do.--.eS more from how they think
-hey VII affect Germany or France
or England than how they will hon
or the United States Of America
Som mes when have sean the