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President by the people and for a term
of seven years with Ineligibility for re
ROOSEVELT IN DIXIE.
measures everything by a money wage
election. He opposed the requirement
—a totally false and deceptive stand
of a property qualification for voters
President Speaks to the Followers
ard of measurement of the best thing
riSC/WJ HOME OF THE FAMOUS and also opposed the plan to make LIKELIHOOD OF CREA TION OF DE
that human life affords.
of Lee.
slaves equal to freemen for purposes of
In the United States two hundred
GEORGE MASON PURCHASED
GARDEN FAR MS THE FOUNDA
representation in Congress. He re- PARTMENT OF INSULA R AFFAIRS.
and fifty thousand of our people are
President Roosevelt’s recent tour
TION OF NIPPON'S POWER.
BY TOM WATSON.
fused to sign the Constitution as
being annually destroyed by the great
white plague, tuberculosis.
adopted, and fought against its ratifi Field Covered by Secretary of War through the South was one continuous
In Japan the disease is practically
Considered Too Wide — President ovation from the people of Dixie, in 30,000,000 People Sustained in Com
I American History Made Beneatn Its cation by Virginia.
fort
on
Only
19,000
Square
Mile*
unknown.
In the Virginia convention to ratify May Suggest Change to Congress. fact his visit has been heralded as be of Cultivated Land.
I Bro*“ Verandas- Has Been Heator-
Why?
the Constitution Mason led the opposi
ing as triumphant as the return of
I td to its Original Beauty.
Because the Japanese breathe fresh
tion and standing with him were Pat
Slnce the war with Spain, the enor any Roman emperor. Dixie was cap- (From “Chicago,” Tlie lUreat Central Market air.
I Tom Watson, of Georgia, author of rick Henry, James Monroe, Benjamin
July, 1SU6).
by the Hough Rider President
What would the Japanese think If
I. "Life of Thomas Jefferson," is re- Harrison and William Grayson. The mous growth of the business of the ured
At Richmond, the old Confederate
War Department has given rise to an
“A hundred years hence, leaving they were told that their people could
I sorted to have bought Gunston Hall, leaders for ratification were John oft
Capital,
the
greeting
extended
to
him
not
have fresh air because they did
expressed
opinion
in
high
govern
I virriiiia. 15 miles from Washington, Marshall, Edmund Randolph, Richard ment circles that the time is fully ripe was unusually cordial. After much China out of the question, there will not have
more money?
11nd"which was fiom 1750 to 1792 the Henry Lee, George Washington and for the creation of another executive parading and speech-making, tbe Pres be two colossal powers in the world,
Or could not have exercise because
huhie of George Mason, friend and ad James Madison, yet so great was Ma department to handle the control of ident was taken for a drive through beside which Germany, England, they could not afford to belong to
viser of Thomas Jefferson, George son’s Influence that In 168 votes, the the island affairs of tbe government. the residence section. In the center of France, and Italy will be as pygmies— athletic dubs?
>1
Washington, James Madison and Pat majority for ratification was only ten It is predicted that the President will this section is the great equestrian
Or must go without food because
rick Henry. The house is preserved and this majority was obtained only make some such suggestion in bis statue of General Robert E. Lee. At the United States and Russia.”
they lacked money to buy It at a
If
any
one
had
told
Emile
de
La-
and a few rods from it is the grave of after the required number of States forthcoming message to Congress.
butcher or a grocery store, when
Uiis point occurred a scene of the Pres
Mason. The pyramidal piece of gran had already adopted the Constitution.
Following the Spanish War, the War ident's visit which will probably be veleye, when he made this prophecy, every Japanese gardener has the land
from which he knows how with Ills
some
years
ago,
that
within
a
few
ite shown in the picture stands above
Department naturally took control of remembered when all others nave
Of a Famous Family.
years the power of Russia on the sea own labor to get all the food he needs
the island possessions that came to the faded into oblivion.
Ins grave and is inscribed:
The first American Mason was George United States as a result of that con Surrounding the Lee monument is would be annihilated, and her laud for the abundant nourishment for
GEOIIGE MASON,
flict. These islands, Cuba. Porto Rico an iron fence, inclosing a circle of forces defeated again and again by tbe himself and family.
Aitkor of the Bill of Hight« and Mason, great-grandfather of Mason of
Gunston. He was a commander of a and the Phlllippines, fell to the care of lawn. The crowd was thick:1' grouped pygmy nation of Japan, would he
The Garden Farm.
pint Con.tltutlon at Virginia.
troop of horse at the battle of Wor tbe War Department as long as they around this circle. Inside,' standing j have believed it?
, 1720-1702.
No, neither he nor any one else, at
Of the 46,000,000 population of
cester, where he fought in the Stuart were under military rule, but when upon the base of the monument and
Japan 30,000,000 are farmers, or nor«
Gunston Hall is on a ridge command cause, as did Colonel John Washington, civil government took tlie place of wandering about upon the lawn were that time, would hi.ve credited It
The Incredible, the unbelievable, has correctly speaking, gardeners. The
ing a fine view of the Potomac river, a a near relative of John and Lawrence martial law they were still left with sevent.v-tive broken, tottering old men.
the War Department.
clad in gray and carry’ g small Con- actually happened. There Is no result Japanese farm Is a garden. Irrigated
ederate flags. Many hobbled upon without a cause. What is the underly and fertilized, aud BClentittcally and
Kept From State Department.
crutches, and nearly all leaned upon ing cause of this marvelous strength Intensively tilled.
It would seem natural for them to canes. Here and there an arm or a of Japan?
And a recent writer, describing the
belong to the Department of State, but leg was missing. The voices of the old
It is not in battle ships or siege guns life of the Japanese farmer, says:—
they have been purposely kept from men were low, and they paid no bee I not In torpedo boats or field artillery
“Measured In money, he is not rich.
the province of that department in or to the crowd around theta. They —not In arms or armor—not in muni But he dwells In a comfortable and In
Gunston
der that foreign powers might not I were waiting for the President of tlie tions of war or equipment for battles viting home, purged of every taint of
Hall
have a chance to say anything about United States, he was to drive past on land or sea. Russia bad all these, dirt and dust. The transparent paper
them. The bureau of insular affairs the monument. From time to time a and yet she has suffered crushing, hu walls of Ills house, made of bark from
was created to attend to questions little, old man climbed epon a pedi miliating, and overwhelming defeat his mitRuinata shrubs, flood his dwell
affecting our island possessions, but ment and stood, like the -ery incar What, then, is the secret of Japan’s ing with light and keep out the wind.
this bureau has been under the imme nation of the Lost Pause, shading Ills strength?
He enjoys good food served in dainty,
diate control of the Secretary of War, eyes and gazing toward the coming
but inexpensive dishes made of native
Elficiency of the Unit.
woods. Even In the homes of the
and out of reach of foreign represent of the great, the powerful, the world-
atives.
It is In just one thing, and that 1 b poorest, there are no visible signs of
renowned successor of Lincoln and
poverty. There Is no squalor In agri
With the turning of Cuba over to Grant.
men!
the Cubans and the passing of Porto
It is In the efficiency of the unit cultural Japan. The humblest peas
It was such a sight as this which
ant
farmer Is,clean, Industrious and
Rico to tlie State Department and greeted the President when Ills car
It Is In the physical and mental pow
Guam and Tutuilla to the Navy De riage dashed up to the monument. er—in the health, strength, and intelli comfortable. The area of Jfenro corners
1»O$M
partment, matters became even more Before the old men realized it. the gence of the .lapniiese people as a abandoned on many Ainericau Itu'ius
involved.
President was facing them and shout whole, and as a consequence, of every to wild mustard. fi'inn'I..Mrt Pig weed,
would furnish eomt'oi tahl« living to a
NO
ing. “Come closer.” With confused ex-j individual soldier and sailor.
Burden Too Great.
ST
and mental effi- whole family In rural Japan,
the old men hobbled for- I And
___ this , physical
.
Almost of greater importance, at clamatlons
cosfW
■vll
------------
------ ■fcjtl
witli BU1U11
small piVlCUHC
pretense Ul
of llllliuu-
march- VIVUVJ'
ciency Ul
of <iu
an vumv
entire people -----
—of
ui the
vixxx ca»"
en- idea of the trifling
present, than the Philippines, is tlie ward, I, Willi
forgotten
the tire citizenship
nation agricultural Japan was given TtJ
‘
-........................................
_ of * the
" Japanese
' _
canal zone. Secretary Taft tried to iug. They had almost
an American who has _«pent fifteen
shunt this burden to the shoulders of
years In the Empire. Frequently he
Secretary Root, but failed in his at
takes a vacation In the farming re
tempt. lie is now preparing to make
gions. He has good food, sleeps on
a visit to the isthmus to see how the
clea n and comfortablequilts In ltnpec-
work on the big ditch is progressing.
cable houses is carried about in coun-
Mr. Root declared that the bureau of
try carts,and at the end of two weeks
insular affairs was lietter equipped
finds flint Ills total BXMMBS h»1» not
to handle canal affairs than any other
Grave of
exceeded ten yen, or five dollars.”
department of the government
And from the garden farms—the
However, when Secretary Taft
George
Home Acres—of agricultural Japan
left for the Phlllippines and It was
have come the soldiers who hove
?
understood that Mr. Root would be
Mason
dentil to drive the ItiiMlans from Man
come Secretary of Slate, it was said
cimii.-i .mil ie:i|i.il mto eternity In se
905
to
be
Secretary
Taft
s
wish
that
the
ll, r th.it tio-y mi^iit wipe the mbnace
*■-
canal matter be transferred to Mr. Root
of tin- Russian vy from the seas that
rrive.
wash the shores of tMr WflW'Y.ffiW.'
and there has been much speculation
during the summer and fall as to who
■ji
0 a.m.
N Nation of Home Acres.
I mile distant It Is about Ave miles be- Washington, English Royalists and the would eventually oversee this big job.
0 p.m.
■ low Mount Vernon and three miles be- original Washington immigrants.
On one hand it has been realized that
It is an old say Jug mt a man will
not tight for ,-i l ardln
| low the ruins of Belvoir, the home of | The Mason family was originally of Secretary Taft, has had a great deal
rrive.
it
Japanese have iwVfl
I the first Fairfax In Virginia. Gunston Warwaiekshire and there are many more than his proportionate share of
tight like demoiiN to <
a Hall was probably without equal in Mason memorials in the Church of the government work and responsibility,
tut
Ions
of
a
nntldn
of
Trinity
at Stratford-on-Avon. and again it was understood that one
I that part of Virginia at the time of Holy —
‘
We Instinctively tW
___
I its building, and is as well preserved Colonel George Mason, the first, was, of the arguments used by the President
rles of Japan as the victories of her
I as any other colonial house in Virginia I however, not a Warwaiekshire man, to Induce Mr. Root to re enter the Cab
leaders.
I It is eighty feet long and forty feet I but was born in Staffordshire. One of inet was the President’s personal de
We are naturally hero-worshippers.
I wide and is built of bricks twice the his fellovz Royalist refugees to Amer- sire that he should undertake the di
But there, again, we are superficial.
rrive.
rection
of
the
can
work.
,
His
accept
1
ica
was
Gerard
Fowke,
of
Gunston,
a
I size of those made now. To the right
Our military men were loud In their
I
kithe nortl1 entrance is the room ' hamlet in Staffordshire. The old Eng ance of the trust would have enabled
praises of the masterly way in which
Op.m.
I which was occupied by Jefferson on hla lish Gunston Hall was standing a few Secretary Taft to devote more of his
Kuropatkin played the game of war.
I frequent visits to Mason. On the river years ago, and was owned by the Gif time to important Philippine govern
And Rojestvensky must have the
rriie.
credit due lilm for sailing bls fleet four
I portico is where Mason and Washlng- fords, descendants of the same Giffords ment questions and the business of the
army
generally.
It
seems
to
have
been
thousand miles and planning so . .11
who were Royalists with Fowke and
I ton played at draughts by the hour.
decided, however, that Mr. Taft is to
5 a.m
clently to provide It with coal and pro
o®?Tera' Years after the war Gunston Mason, ana who owned Boscobel, near continue permanently as the Panama
visions.
Hall in dilapidation was acquired by Gunston, where Charles II. lay In con canal builder, this decision having been
0 a.m
But Oyama and Togo had the men,
I tolonel Edward Daniels, a Northern cealment after the battle of Worcester. reached at a recent Cabinet meeting.
and every Japanese soldier and sailor
msn. The place was partially restored i The commonwealth commander at
rrive
These questions, togi-thcr witlijiues-
Is not only a hero but a leader. If
fy him. Colonel Daniels In the days of Worcester was General Fairfax, and it tions relating to tlie general staff, the
every officer In the Japanese army and
was a strange fate that made a depli reorganiznion of the army, and other
reconstruction was the editor of the ant
0 p.m
navy alsive the rank of Captain were
of
this
man
a
neighbor
to
the
Wash
Juchinond Journal and was once a can ingtons of Mount Vernon and the internal affairs, have made the Secre
stricken dead tomorrow, their plna*
didate for the House of Representa
would be Ailed and Japan would cMg
tary by far tlie hardest worked man
A-
rirt
Masons
of
Gunston
Hall.
Belvoir,
the
tinue to prosecute the war to final
tives, but was defeated. He was a
In the Cabinet.
Fairfax
estate,
lay
immediately
be
tory.
The secret of her power lle^M
™se friend of President Grant, and
5 am.
Taft Travels Far.
Gunston and Mount Vernon
the fact that In Intelligence, in mei^H
t^niels really controlled the patronag» tween
The
first
American
Mason
and
Is proved, if in no other way.
and physical strength, in In^Wld^H
Op.m.
« i?* State of Virginia. A spry oid Fowke settled in the northern neck of bv This
the immense a mount of traveling
initiative In patriotism, In gU that .'CM
gentleman who has personally known Virginia,
dine by Secretary Taft in the- past yent
to make up :l liyliluiy Unit, «AMF
but
Fowke
later
removed
to
a hundred celebrities of other genera- Maryland. George Mason, the a®“«"“- He has been to Panama, to the I liillp-
Japanese soldier a lid
alior 1B
h,e lives on land adjoining Gune-
Oyma or a Togo in ernbryth
'*4'”
Mary Fowke, daughter of Ger
ton Hall and which was a part of the married
You might destroy ever! ebl* fly
ard Fowke, and they built a home In
“tate. Gunston Hall passed to Joseph Maryland,
Japan
possesses,
destroy
nil
aB|
which they called Gunston
“Pecht, of St. Louis, and by him was Hall, in memory
ami munitions of war, take ,-iWR/ gflBt
of the English Guns
iiOnlP^tely re8tor®d and beautiAed. He ton
tile clothes on their backs ,nn4 Mflb
These people were grandparents
Ion via
“iea three years ago and the place con of George Mason, the fourth, or George
port every soldier In her ariVy S*
I O.K
every
sailor In her navy back
tinued in possession of his heir« and
Mason, one of the
shores of Japan as naked as the iia|K|i
tn charge of a colored overseer.
)
In
1750
this
man
married
Anne
Eilbeck
were Istrn, and leave tbe nation wq*
. A.
8TATUE OF GENERAL l.EE AT RICHMOND.
Ealry Opposed to Slavery.
of Mattawoman, Maryland, and 8°°”
own devices, and In a few years «HP
Group of Confederate Veteran« Walting to Hee the Preetdent
George Mason was the Sage of Guns- after his marriage began the ey®®11®”
would completely reproduce trelr
«n. it was he who after conference of Gunston Hall, Virgin!“, wh ch h»
old marching orders In their confusion. — Is a plain and distinct result of their naval and military power and be
stronger than ever.
They simply huddled forward to the mode of life.
ana correspondence with Washington named after his grandparents place In
The Japanese [>eoplc are strong be
But destroy the men of Japan and
»
fence. The line was not reformed.
ew up the non-lmportatlon resolu Maryland and the ancestral home of
Then the President spoke to the South, cause they live na the human animal substitute for them the dull-witted
tions offered by Washington and the Fowkes In Staffordshire.
must
live
to
tie
mentally
and
physi
peasantry
of Russia or the enaemlc
ignoring the crowd lieliind him. He
Mason was one of the vestrynlP '’
dopted by the Virginia House of Bur-
factory operatives of England, and
spoke only to the wearers of the gray. cally strong—next to nature.
wsses in 1769. One of these resolu- Pohlck Church, four
They breathe the fresh air.
you have destroyed Japan.
He spoke as the President of a re
t ons pledged the signers to buy no ton. Washington and William Fairfax
They eat plain food.
united country. His voice seemed as
■laves imported after November 1, 1769. were also vestrymen there.
Men Before Battleships.
They neither atarve
starve nor g' JB.
the voice of a nation speaking to the
Mason was the author of a tract
They are mentally and physically
True to hie warlike Impulses and In-
followers
of
Lee.
UNCLE
JOE
CANNON'S
ADVICE.
■tyied Extracts from Virginia Char
stlncts, President Roosevelt catches up
The veterans devonred every vigor active.
ts and Some Remarks upon Them,"
They are an "out of door" people. the echo from the great tia.ya.1 baUl*
ous
syllable of the President's address.
i.J)^?rtin8 the contention that the Brlt- NeVewra?»eefeHatb*
Al'
They tiDGprflfand
nnt.erstand tbe law»
laws of health, which inis pi-t )>•«■ fought, and call«
They returned his earnest gaze with
a « p?rliatnent had no right to tax the
on tie- «Hli.try f.,r more bettie «htag.
looks of unmistakable good will and and obey them.
"nerican colonies. This tract had a
i!o|.--f. .-I, i -. h id battle ship«. Ha
Their
children
draw
their strength
loving
friendship.
Somewhat
abruptly
caKncieX
0
"
’
toffitae
“® vogue in pre-revolutionary times.
from tbe Itosom of mother earth.
had more of th.m than Tom. Bat ba
the
President
stopped,
waved
his
hat.
Mason and Washington attended the ,tor8y one day when he wl.hed ta enb
And above and beyond all, they are didn't have tlie melPW^^^^^flnTanT
It was to them like the balm of Gilead,
them. Russian Institutions could
ena’ meeting at Fairfax Court phasize the necessity for tel0
COL. CLARENCE R. edw 'ARD?’ b ^.
and shouted, “Good-by, and good a nation of homes and home owners. get
Chief
of
Bureau
of
Insular
A
ffairn
and
P06
"
“use, ’ Virginia,
in July, 1774. Wash-
in«
Vlr8inia, In
wasn- - whole
. truth
truth, an
and d farther ; now
how • ma
Each family Is In a home and sech not produce them.
CIU
sible New Cabinet Officar.
luck.
”
Now,
would it not be wise for the
Jton was moderator of the meeting. "
aece’lved by
half-truth: innk
_ ,
1» in a garden where health and
house but aft.
after . -----
look nines to Hawaii, to China and Japan. “Good-by, good-by.” they shouted, home
MasOn presented twenty-four resolu- may “ leceivea
rented a uj
house,
strength are gained by the labor of people of thia country to wake up to
and
a
moment
later
President
Roose
w?n? .1“ adT0C»ry of non-intercourse
ft went back to the real estate He has Just left Washington for his velt was out of sight
cultivating that garden for a living, the fact that tbe foundation of our
"Zon“trip to the Isthmus. Through
as a nation la not In an army
oin.< the toother country. These res-
. with a complaint.
And In these garden homes the peo strength
a navy, but In our citizenship.
.d"1 °na wer® adopted, and were also ‘ g„Y
profess to have told me th,® his connection with the affairs of the
pie of Japan have far more of real or And
also
wake up to the appalling
Philippines,
he
has
become
Involved
WmtBed by ““ Virginia convention at
„ £ Btormed. “but you haven t
Expert Naval Testimony.
pleasure and happiness snd the genu fact, powerfully
portrayed by Robert
in August,
August, 111*.
1774. at
It was
“he whole truth. There« that h! questions wholly outside the regular
ine
enjoyments
of
life
than
the
aver
. 7
When
Dick
Thompson,
of
Indiana,
Hunter in "Poverty,” hla recent book
me —
line of the War Department.
age wage worker In our country.
«at body which elected Peyton Ran- told
that we are delllwrnteiv bill..wing In
These are some of the reasons which was called to the Cabinet as Secretary
“°'Ph, Richard Henry Lee, George la“Reafny ‘“¿“proteted th® «ent, "I lead
the footateps of England and degener
the President and bls ■dyhwrs to of the Navy It Is said that he had
Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard diatlnctly remember d^r\blD^
The White Plague Unknown.
ating our citizenship by crowding our
consider the creation of another de never even been on a large vessel. One
"'and, Benjamin Harrison and Edmund la^h aydes " went Ä kicker*"You partment to take
working people Into cities where
^7 h°J
We hare fallen into a smug and they live in an unhealthful environ
J'endleton delegates to the First Con-
&a„^n
°^W»t ta ihi^ the of his earliest visits was made to an self-complacent
and
wretchedly
super-
.„n1®"taI Congress, and that Congress
informal inspection on a large man flelnl habit of thought which loses ment and are weakened by poor food
and Inadequate nourishment.
lutlonst,,*.y a<,0'ted th® Mason reso
of war, lying at the Navy Yard. He sight of the life that a people lead and
The lesson to lie learned by this na-
thif
climbed
up
on
the
deck,
was
escorted
rtTanVes are that, within a
Favored Election of Presidents by
Best
around
the
vessel,
admired
and
com
time the War Department will be re
siri Answer me that.
__
BULLpoqSUSPENDERS
pliment« 1 the beauty and cleanliness of
the People.
re*
lieved of some of lte heavy burden«.
M«<i« in l.lVM and
WeJgtot«, for Man «n<l îowth
fair« )< itffttM.
it all and Anally peered down the hold.
aft*r once declining election,
u
live Stock Matters.
Mm* i/rtr« With mors «laatic, warranted noa-ruMinf nwtal parta «ad
He looked back at the officer, took off
a »Molate Ir «nbreafcabl«. -NI, pliable Hull !»<>< leather end*, ibay «re
■nd once refusing to serve after elec-
There
I*
no
pie
or
potato«,
father,
FOaiTlVBLY
TMt
IUIMNDIR
MAOK.
hli fit—*, wiped them, looked down
-°bsaid the
u .J° th® Conti cental Congress, sat
Tfyou dealer aaaot *
>I
, we will, p—A paid, for M».e.,ts
b
HEWKIA pQT-ft» 1-rreHHuHMnd.r.ndH.rtM.Mr.
“^a‘ Pretty Uttte CaW' ^"‘uton'tbe'blieksmlth-. toil-worn again and then Anally turned to the
* Constitutional Convention of
commander and exclaimed. “Why the
bapc. U, ST UVCOL* Vf . BOMW, MAM, "
_
Co.
,
in that great body he opposed
ValtMkM« B IUM, •* Pr«M »*4
l»0", ftMM
,
thing's hollow!"
kpn TDfl’am.** said BtaTprinted • childish klan.
,, ’J7- saying it was a source of “na lots.
L.
A NEW CABINET OFFICE.
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