March S, 1911.
THE EL ON COL LEGE WEEKLY.
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THE WEEKLY DIRECTORY.
Burlington (N. C.) Business Houses.
Buy Dry troods from B. A. Sellars & Sons.
See Burlington Hardware Co. for Plumb
ing.
Get your Photographs at Anglin’s Studio.
B. A. Sellars & Sons for Clothing and
Gents’ Furnibliings.
See Dr. Morrow when in need of Dental
Work.
Heal Estate, Insurance and Loans, Ala
mance Insurance & Real Estate Co.
Barber Shop, Branuock & Matkins.
Dr. J. H. Brooks, Dental Surgeon.
See Freeman Drug Co. for Drugs.
Elon College, N C.
For an Education go to Elon College.
Gibsoaville, N. C.
Dr. G. E. Jordan, M. D.
Hi£h Point, N. C.
People’s House Furnishing Co
Greensboro, N. C.
Pierce Stamp Works for stamps.
Hotel Huffine.
Burtner Furniture Co., for furniture.
Augustin have for the fifth and the “Con
fessions” of RousstaH for the eigh
teenth.” Theodore Roosevelt says,
“Cromwell, Milton, Bunyan,—what can
Puritan England, of their day, show to
match these . three names?” Edmuud
Gosse, in “A History of Eighteenth Cen
tury Literature,” says, “Pilgrim’s Pro
gress is an allegory, successful above all
allegories in literature.”
Bunyan often left Bedford to preach
in neighboring towns, to comfort the af
flicted and to settle foolish disputes. In
the summer of 1688, he rode to London
through a driving lain to preach, and
caught a severe cold. He managed to
get through the service on Sunday, Au
gust 19, but on Tuesday he fell seriously
ill and a few days later, August 31, died.
He was buried in Bnnhill Fields cem
etery.
Bunyan was tall of stature, strong-bon
ed, though not corpulent; somewhat of
a ruddy face, with sparkling eyes, wear
ing mustache on his upper lip after the
old British fashion. His hair was red
dish, his nose well set, but not declining
or bending. His month was moderately
large, his forehead somewhat high, and
his dress always plain and modest.
Pearle Fogleman.
NEW NATIONALISM.
When the Ameiican nation awoke this
morning, it had in mind one idea, that
of the celebration of the day on which
one of the greatest Americans first saw
the light. It has been revealed to yon
today the history of Washington, his
patriotism, his fidelity to principles, his
unswerving honesty, his determination, his
Christian forbearance, and his magnifi
cent statesmanship. The adventures and
successes of his eventful career today
have been repeated. When we think what
this one man accomplished for America,
how he led his ragged and barefooted
soldiers over the snow and frozen ground
across icy rivers to the glorious goal of
liberty and independence; and when this
"oal was reached how he took in hands
the reigns of the government and helped
to foi-m one well organized democracy
from thirteen separate and jealous col
onies, We almost wished to have lived in
the lifetime of this grand American. Un
der this man was established the right to
have a state. The right to have a supreme
court in each state. The right that each
state should have a legislature. The right
that each state should have a government
separate and distinct from the Federal
government. Also the right that one man
sliould hold the office of President for
eight years and no longer.
But recently there lias arisen another
great American, who it seems has threat
ened to take these rights from us.
Colonel Roosevelt, while on an extend
ed tour of Euiope, visited many of the
most progressive empires of that country,
and got from them his idea of an ideal
government. And when he came back
to American advocated that his scheme
should be put into practice. But not so
the old proverb that when in Rome do as
Rome does: holds good here also. Colonel
Roosevelt ideas might have done for some
of the Empiies of Europe but they will
not be tolerated by the free liberty loving
American.
We yielded once to his intentions, de
spite the quality of his methods. We hail
ed him as the original savior of our coun
try, although while president he demand
ed the privileges of regarding all offi
cers of file army and navy as in a class
with his household servants and subject
to dishonorable dischaige without neces-
sarj'" cause or trial.
All recognize the indisputable fact that
changing conditions require adjustment of
jurisdiction'. The question confronting the
American people of today is not a matter
of states rights only, but whether or not
the constitution represents our liberties
or a mere catch in polities, tossed back
and forth by a new autocracy, itself surely
doomed, in time to be swallowed up by
anarchy. Not only have I said state
rights art on trial but the rights of the
republic.
Colonel R(H)sevelt biings us the follow
ing methods of running a government and
calls it New Nationalism, whereas in reali
ty it is a mere form of monarchy.
“First, New Nationalism is impatient
of the utter confusions that result from
state legislatures attempting to treat na
tional issues as local issues.”
What does this mean? It means that
New Nationalism wants to deprive the
states of some of the powers they now
have and transfer those powers to Wash
ington. One of the things desired is the
national incorporation of railroads. Col-
Roosevelt has recommended it in one of
his messages, and one of the reasons he
gave that it would relieve railroads of
annoyance of local legislatures. The At
torney General is now preparing a bill
that piovides for the national incorpora
tion of corporations engaged in interstate
commerce; and why? Because these re
strictions are objected to by these great
corporations. The first step toward New’
Nationalism is to concentrate powet in
Washington, or to increase the propor
tional power of the federal government
and to decrease the proportional im
portance of the state. It means
that when you want to deal with a rail
road or any other big corporation that
may come into your state, instead of do
ing so through your state legislature, you
must wait until Washington acts. And
remember that when you wait on Wash
ington you wait on the Senate as well as
the House; and that the senate has so
many representatives of predatory inter
est, that it is the bulwark of the exploit
ing interest of the country. Are you will
ing to surrender the power that you now
have and place your government farther
from you? The principles of the states
is add fedeial remedies to state remedies,
not substituted for state remedies. The
states say; let the state exercise the pow
er it has and then let the nation exer
cise the power it has; when both state and
nation have acted, you will not have any
mor« regulation than you need. Let me
illustrate this. The home, the church and
the school join in developing the charac
ter of boys. What mother would strike
down either and leave it to the other two?
Yet the advocates of New Nationalism
would diminish the* power of the people
of the state to protect their own rights,
and make it more difficult to secure re
dress by removing the seat of power to
Washington. That is the first step in
New Nationalism, the concentration of
power in Washington. And the second:
“The New Nationalism is still more im
patient of the impotence that springs
from the over division of government
powers. ’'
It is not only to concentrate power iii
Washington, but to consolidate the pow
ers of the government. Instead of having
a division of powers as oup forefathers
thought necessary for the protection of
libeity we are to have a rising executive
and a diminishing court and legislature.
That is step No. 2 and what is the thiid
step? It naturally follows.
“Third, New Nationalism regards the
executive power as a steward of public
welfare.”
There you have it. First, put everything
in Washington, second put everything in
the hands of the President. And then he
is to stand as sort of an earthly father
and take caie of us. How do we like New
Nationalif.m when we find out what it is?
This is the doctrine from which the world
has been moving. It has cost the lives of
millions of patriots to get away from this
doctrine. God forbid that we should go
back to it.
It is doubtful if there is another man
in the United States that would exercise
the power that Col. Roosevelt wants to
vest in the hands of the President. We
do not believe there is another; and even
if you are willing to tiust him with this
power, I beg you to remember that he is
only human and may die: you must trust
another man to exercise it when he is dead.
You cannot judge a monarchy by a good
king; there have been good kings,
there never was a good monarchy.
The doctrine is bad and never since
the days of Alexander Hamilton has
such a doctrine been advanced by a prom
inent man as is now advanced in the name
of New Nationalism.
If this doctrine is brought about, what
about the rights of newspapers to criti
cise an administration? Is it a part of
New Nationalism to commence libel suits
in Washington and drag editors across
the country to defend themselves? Is
this to be considered a part of New Na
tionalism ? If we are to increase the im
portance of the Fedeial Government by
concentrating all power there: if we are
to increase the powers of the Pres
ident’s office by consolidating all pow
er there, and then be required to reverence
it as a stewaid and guardian of the peo
ple—if this is to be the doctrine then you
need not be surprised if you are told that
you must not frown when you look to
wards the source of power and that if you
do frown you must not speak; that if you
do speak they can take you from your
home and make you defend yourself at
such a distance that even victory will
mean bankruptcy to you and your child
ren.
To deny that the Colonel is one of the
most popular men of today would be idle
talk. To deny that he really has the wel
fare of the nation at heart would be use
less. But to fail to see that if he had
gotten his Governor in office in New Y'ork,
last fall, that he would have at once be
come a menace to the safety of our Gov
ernment institutions in their present form
as established by the modesty and forti
tude of Washington and preserved by the
ability of Lincoln, is to neglect a high
duty that we all regardless of party, owe
to a common country.
We have now for President a man of
ability. His appointment of men on the Su
preme bench showed judgment, and was
la'ified by the senate. This man as you
well know is the commander-in-chief of
the people at large and when Roosevelt
came back from Africa, his work looked
pale before such a man. For the first
time in the history of the American na
tion, we are confionted with the unseem-
ingly and unAmerican sight of a private
cilizen dwarfing into insignificance the
works of the President of the United
States.
Why is it that he keeps meddling in
politics and trying to be the dictator of
America ? Why doesn’t he step aside as
did Washington and his successors? If
he had gotten his Governor in office, this
would have given him the complete dicta
torship for just sixteen years, and pros
pects for more. But the people saw this
and there was no est'ape for it.
The people simply told the Colonel on
Nov. 8th in no uncertain terms that it is
not good for our country that our ex-
Presidents should make themselves the
political dictators of the nation, after they
had turned the reins of the Government
aloose.
Since the time of Julius Caesar the
lust for office has ever grown with the
gratification of it. The people told the
Colonel, once for all, that it is really un
necessary for any body’s happiness, but
his own, that he should be continually
going about this country like an itiner
ant pieacher seeking to save the nation
from itself. They told him also that
America got along well while he was in
Africa; that our President was not a
dwarf in ability.
The people of the United States are
well able to govern themselves, and thrice
happy be the day when the Colonel shall
step out of the lime light, once for all,
and let American Citizens manage their
own affairs.
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