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a recent speech at Lowell, Mass
President Taft suggested to Ins
audience that the constitution
should be amended so as to give
the president a single term of six or
eight years An almost identical opin
ion was expressed by President Jack
son in his first message to congress.
In that paper, dated Dec. 8, 1829, "Old
Hickory" wrote, "It would seem ad
visable to limit the service of the chief
magistrate to a single term of either
four or six years Not content with
this, he repeated the recommendation,
in conjunction with one for an amend
ment providing for the election of the
president by popular vote, in his next
five annual messages.
Three months after his initial recom
mendation he received a letter from
one of his "kitchen cabinet" begging
him to run for re-election and signed
by sixty-eight members of the Penn
sylvania legislature. To this demand
he gave his tacit consent, but that did
not interfere with his series of mes
sages against the practice.
President Taft's pronouncement re
sulted in the introduction by Repre
sentative Clayton of Alabama, chair
man of the judiciary committee of the
house, of a joint resolution providing for
a constitutional amendment fixing the
length of the presidential term at six
years and making the chief executive
ineligible for a second term, consecu
tive or not. Here again history is re
peating itself, with, however, a differ
ence, for following the stormy Hayes
Tilden contest Representative Spring
er of Illinois proposed a presidential
term of six years, the president not to
be immediately re-eligible As in the
case of Jackson's reiterated recommen
dation, nothing came of this proposal
Senate Drafts Amendment.
At the other end of the capitol a sub
committee of the senate judiciary com
mittee, headed by Senator Root, has
favorably reported the Works resolu
tion, providing for the submission to
the states of a constitutional amend
ment upon the subject. The resolution
originally made the vice president also
ineligible for a second term, but the
subcommittee struck out this part of
it Should it be adopted by congress
and ratified by the requisite number
of states paragraph 17, secton 1, of ar
tide 27 of the constitution would be al
tered to read in part as follows
The executive power shall be vested in
a president of the United States of Amer
ica shall hold his office during the
term of six years and be ineligible for re
election thereto
The question of whether the presi
dent ought to be eligible for a second
term did not originate with Jackson
It has existed from the very beginning
of the government. At the meeting of
the constitutional convention of 1787
in Philadelphia Edmund Randolph of
Virginia proposed fifteen resolutions,
the seventh being part as follows
Resolved, That a national executive be
instituted to be chosen by the national
legislature for the term of and
to be ineligible a second time
Randolph was almost immediately
followed by Charles Pinckney of South
Carolina, who laid before the conven
tion a draft of a federal constitution
which he had prepared The first para
graph of aiticle 3 of this draft was
in these words
The executive power of the United
States shall be vested in a president of
the United States of America, which shall
be his stjle and his title shall be his ex
cellency He shall be elected for
years and shall be re-eligible
Action by Later Conventions.
Thus early and pointedly were the
two ideas iegarding eligibility for a
second term opposed to each other
There seems to have been no further
agitation of the question of ineligibility
for a second term until Jackson wrote
his messages His example in not
only excepting re-election, but in nam-
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FUTURE AMERICANS.
How Ail Could Be Made Perfect In
Face, Form and Intellect.
A race of godlike Americans, perfect
in face and form and intellect, is
proposed in a book just got out by
Professor Scott Nearkig of the Whar
ton school of the University of Penn
sylvania
"Supermen" is the name he would
give to the cr^ itures of his ideal race
wonderful beings like those from whom
the ancient Greeks of the classical age
loved to trace their descent.
Three things, according to the pro
fessor, are necessary in order to pro
duce supermen and a superrace.
FirstEugenics, the science of race
culture.
Second.Social adjustment, the sci
ence of molding institutions
Third.Education, the science of in
dividual development
A mathematician, he asserts, should
not taiarrv a woman who lacks a math
ematical ancestor or has no taste her
self for figures. The professor urges
th.it some of the $400,000,000 yearly
spent in America in teaching children
to read, bew and diaw be expended in
framing them in the laws of biolog\
and heredity to msurp %lse choice in
man iage
Limiting the President
O the U. S. to On Term
Taft's Recent Proposal of In
eligibility Revived a Very
Old Problem.
Originated With Constitutional
Convention of 1787.
Later Sentiment.
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Latest Demands.
The latest repetition of the demand
for one term was that made by the
People's party in its convention of
1892. Subjoined to its platform of
that year was a series of resolutions
which, it was explained, were to be
regarded not as a part of the platform,
but as expressive of the opinion of the
party. The humor this distinction
seems to have escaped its makers
The eighth of these "opinions" read
Resolved, That we favor a constitution
al provision limiting the office of president
and vice president to one term
And, finally, Mr. Bryan announced
that if elected he would serve but one
term. The question does not seem to
have arisen in connection with the ill
fated attempt to nominate ex-President
Grant for a third term in 1880 In
that struggle, however, the point was
of eligibility not for a second term, but
a third. There was apparently more
opposition to a second term in the
Philadelphia convention than there has
been since The feeling expressed
against it in the party platforms of
1844, 1864, 1872 and 1892 was in some
of these cases at least evidently the
offspring of a violent desire to sup
plant the party in control and cannot
be regarded as representative of a
widespread and unpartisan conviction
Even President Taft was obviously
provoked by a most extraordinary and
indeed unprecedented situation
The arguments upon the question
leave one in the air. On the one hand,
a single term is declared to invite the
most selfish use of it in order to secure
its benefits before they fade forever.
On the other hand, it is replied that a
single term takes away the temptation
to misuse the office in order to obtain
re-election to it
SPAIN TO TEACH VISITORS.
Offers Holiday Course In Spanish Lit
erature and Art.
The Spanish minister at Washington
has called attention to a "holiday
course for foreigners" which has re
cently been organized by the depart
ment of public instruction, with the
object of affording to foreigners an op
portunity to acquaint themselves with
the fundamental ideas of Spanish liter
ature and the beauties of the court mu
seums and the monuments of art in
Toledo, the Escorial, Avila and Se
govia.
An explanatory pamphlet issued by
the board for the promotion of studies
and scientific research states: "The pri
mary aim of the course, which is to be
held in Madrid from June 15 to July
24 ofthe present year, is to offer for
eigners interested in the study of Spain
and its language and especially to pro
fessors and teachers the opportunity
of attending lectures and of being in
troduced to some of the leading works
and masterpieces of Spanish literature.
Facilities will also be given for be
coming acquainted with the country
through lectures, excursions and visits
to museums. Prospective students
should note that some knowledge of
the language is expected."
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tag his successor, can hardly be said
to have had the effect that might have
been expected in strengthening the
feeling in favor of the ineligibility for
which he pleaded. But in 1844 a na
tional convention put into its platform
a resolution advocating "a single term
for the presidency." This was the con
vention that nominated Henry Clay It
was the forerunner of a similar action
in four subsequent conventions
The first of these was held just twen
ty years later, the convention of radi
cal opponents of Lincoln that met at
Cleveland in 1864 and nominated Fre
mont for president by acclamation. The
tenth plank of its brief platform read
as follows:
That the one term policy for the presi
dency adopted by the people 13 strength
ened by the force of the existing crisis
and should be maintained by constitution
al amendments
In Two Party Platforms.
Eight years later the idea found ex
pression in the platforms of two par
ties. The Labor Reformers, meeting at
Columbus, resolved.
That as both history and experience
teach us that power ever seeks to perpet
uate itself by every and all means and
that its prolonged possession in the hands
of one person is always dangerous to the
Interests of a free people, and, believing
that the spirit of our organic laws and
the stability and safety of our free insti
tutions are best obeyed on the one hand
and secured on the other by a regular
constitutional change in the chief of the
country at each election, therefore we are
in favor of limiting the occupancy of the
presidential chair to one term
The Greeley convention of the same
year had a long plank upon the sub
ject, alleging the "scandal and re
proach upon free institutions" that the
civil service had become under the ad
ministration of Grant and declaring
that to the end that "the offices of the
government cease to be a matter of
arbitrary favoritism and patronage
it is imperatively required
that no president shall be a candidate
for re election." Greeley himself pre
pared a historical review and argu
ment on the subject, called the "Prin
ciple of the Single Term
DENMARK'S KING
WAS BELOVED
1 Late Frederick VIII. Took Hearty
Interest in His People.
ON THE THRONE SIX YEARS.
His Democratic Bearing Won the Na-
tionWas Related to Many Royal
Families of Europe Eldest Son,
Christian, His Successor.
I The reign of King Frederick VIII. oi
Denmark, who died recently, was too
short and the part his country played
of late in history too small to make
him a very noteworthy character. He
succeeded his father. King Christian,
in January, 1906, when he was already
sixty-two years old, and thenceforth
played his part as a constitutional mon
arch with 'an ability and high purpose
that won for him the admiration of
those who were most opposed in prin
ciple to all his office stands for.
King Frederick was born June 3,
1843, and was married on July 28,1869,
to the Princess Louise of Sweden and
Norway. During his father's long reign
he was in the Danish army, entering
the guards at an early age and serving
through ali ranks till he became inspec
tor general of the army.
As king he was noted for his absence
of anything like show. He was a busy
man, for with his wife he was inter
ested in all that made for the welfare
of the community. He was chancel
lor of the Danish National university
and grand master of the Freemasons
of Denmark and discharged with real
industry the duties appertaining to
these offices
Was Easy to Approach.
He was always the most approach
able of men In Copenhagen or near
the summer palace at Hvidore the
king was a familiar figure, strolling
through crowded streets or secluded
country lanes, sometimes absolutely
unattended and with seldom any more
efficient guard than one of the gentle
men of his court. He knew personally
many of his neighbors and was fond
of dropping to chat with them over
their family affairs
It is told of him that once when a
party of Americans had found their
way into the gardens of one of his
summer palaces he showed them
around and only revealed his identity
as he shook hands at parting and re
marked
"If you want to see the stables just
say you have the king's permission
Had N Divine Right Theories.
A Danish monarch less democratic
might have found his official duties
difficult to perform. Socialism is ram
pant Denmark, and the king must
submit to many things that would be
intolerable to one obsessed with divine
right theories King Frederick, how
ever, won absolute praise by his strict
regard for the limits of constitutional
authority. He realized that it was his
to use, not to abuse those with whom
he disagreed, and he could admire the
ability of even those most opposed to
him.
So. whatever the economic views of
the most radical of his subjects, not a
word was ever breathed against King
Frederick, Queen Louise or the rest
of the royal house They were rec
ognized as fulfilling the duties pre
scribed for them by the constitution
with conscientious exactitude and as
always acting for what they believed
the best interests of their people
His Royal Connections.
King Frederick was related to many
royal families of Europe. Of his three
sisters one is Alexandra, queen mother
of England another is Marie Dagmar,
dowager empress of Russia, and a
third, Thyra. is the Dnchess of Cum
berland, whose husband claims the
throne of Hanover. One of his broth
ers is King George I. of Greece and
tHe other Waldemar, who married
Princess Marie of Orleans and refused
the crown of Bulgaria in 1886.
He is succeeded by his eldest son.
Christian, who married in 1898 the
Duchess Alexandrina of Mecklenburg
and is now forty-one years old. He
has two children, the Crown Prince
Frederick and Prince Knud.
Another of King Frederick's sons is
King Haakon VII. of Norway, who
married the Princess Maud of Wales,
King Geqrge's youngest sister, while
Ingeborg, the eldest daughter of the
late king, married in 1897 Prince
Charles of Sweden.
GENERAL YOUNG ELECTED.
Confederates' Commander Has Never
Sworn, Lied or Drunk Whisky.
General Bennett H. Young of Louis
ville, Ky., commander of the Army of
Tennessee, was elected commander in
chief of the United Confederate Vet
erans at the encampment at Ma
con. Ga
General Young served in the civil
war under General John H. Morgan
As a youth of eighteen he left college
to become a Confederate trooper. As
a lieutenant he led a band of Confed
erate raiders across the border from
Canada to St. Albans, Vt, raiding sev
eral banks and then escaping back to
Canada.
General Young makes these four
boasts:
"I never swore an oath."
"I never told a lie."
"I never drank whisky."
Ml never touched a card.**
|y|rmrBSDAT, MAY 23,1912.
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Cyclonelosses paid Losses on crops in the
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VINELAND.
Church services were held at the M.
E. church last Sunday. There will
be preaching every two weeks after
this.
State examinations will be given at
the Spring Brook school tbe latter
part of tbe term.
Mr. Sullivan of Midland was trans
acting business at this place last
week.
It would be interesting to know who
made the application for fish fry so
as to stop commercial fishing in Mille
Lacs lake. It certainly cannot be
any one living anywhere near tbe
lake, and knowing of tbe immense
quantity of fish there is in tbe lake
and^the dead fish along the shores
during the summer months. The
oldest settlers here all claim there is
more fish now than there were 15 or
20 years ago. It doesn't seem that a
few game wardens and other outside
parties would have the right to pre
vent all the people in the lake
country from making a few dollars.
It will cause a hardship for several
families who have bought land at
different places around the lake and
who could make a few dollars in the
spring before their farm work com
menced. We understand that about
$1,200 has been paid out for fish to
people living between this place and
Midland this year.
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Loans Made
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M. M. Stroeter will conduct farm auctions either
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Foreign and Domestic Ex
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J. F. PETTERSON, Cashier.
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