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THE ATLANTIAN
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SUBVERTERS OF LIBERTY.
Many Influences Which Have
Aroused the Alarmists—The
Present Fear of the Judiciary—
The Ultimate Decision with the
People—The Quality of Citi
zenship Will Tell.
(From the New Bedford Standard.)
A good friend, who, in the columns of
this newspaper, has voiced his fear that
the judiciary may subvert the liberties
of the American people has this trait in
eommon with a great many other persons
—that he looks for the subverter is al
most any' other place than that from
which he is likely to come. In the course
of a somewhat extended observation of
the alarmists, we have heard similar
warnings declaimed with reference to a
great many other influences. For a few,
all the political parties of whose past
record our correspondent spoke favor
ably and the party to which he himself
belongs, the churches of all sects and
varieties, the Mormons, the liquor deal
ers, wholesale and retail, the legislatures
and congresses," the ward bosses, the
Standard Oil Company, the private
schools and the parochial schools, and
one assiduous agitator includes the public
schools, the Christian Scientists, the idle
rich, the idle poor, the automobiles, the
yellow newspapers, the conservative news
papers, the beef trust, the banks, the
foreign immigrants, the descendants of
the Mayflower Pilgrims, Wall Street,
municipal governments, the ten cent mag
azines, the dealers in puts and calls, the
anarchists, the extravagance of feminine
clothing, child labor, grain gamblers,
baseball, the colleges, the license of free
speech, the militia, the politicians, the
lawyers, the trade unions, the alleged de
cay of parental authority, divorces, the
woman suffrage government, the Prohibi
tionists, and the excessive consumption
of tobacco. If all these have not been
referred to at some time or other as
“sappers and miners” of the people’s
rights, our recollection is surely badly
at fault. Most of these are still in the
business; but there are some which have
been more than active in their day, and
have now passed into the shades. A few
of our readers may know of the anti-
Masonic movement, which rose to the
dignity of a political conflict, based on
the theory that the order of Freemasons
was especially dangerous to the liberties
of the people. After that were the Know
Nothings, who wanted to put none but
Americans on guard. This Common
wealth had the P. L. L’s. who ranked
themselves as particularly defenders of
the people’s rights against aggression,
and who in turn were regarded by their
antagonists as being among the people’s
deadliest foes. Of still more recent date
were the Greenbackers, and the silver-
ite, who had their turn and disappeared.
The survey is further a stimulus to a
cynical amusement over specialties in
liberty-destroyers.
If the liberties of the people of the
United States are ever destroyed, the
fault will be with the people themselves,
who can prevent such an untoward hap
pening if they choose. Any one of all the
list we have catalogued man be made an
agency of the people to accomplish that
destruction; and most of them can be
made agencies to prevent it. The courts
are no different in that respect from all
the rest. With them, as with everything
else, the ultimate decision as to whether
they shall conserve the welfare of the
people or attack that welfare rests with
the people themselves and nowhere else.
If the people are thoughtful, stable, con
siderate, balanced and faithful to the
obligations of citizenship, nobody need
worry lest the courts will subvert their
liberties. If, on the other hand, the peo
ple are flighty, hysterical, neglectful of
duty, then all the institutions pf society
will converge to hasten the breakdown of
liberty.
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF
BABES.
“How old is your grandpa, Harold!”
asked a visitor of a bright 5-year-old.
‘ ‘ ’Bout a thousand, I guess, ’ ’ was the
reply. “ He’s been around here ever
since I can ’member. ’ ’
‘ ‘ Mamina, is everybody made of
dust ? ’ ’
“So we are taught, dear.”
“Well, I was born in January, and
there ain’t no dust then.”
Willie’s mother had been telling his
father about the little boy’s misbehavior
during the day.
* ‘ Mamma, ’ ’ said Willie, ‘ 1 you have the
baddest memory I ever saw. ’ ’
“Why do you think so!” she asked.
“ ’Cause,” was the reply, “you al
ways remember the bad things I do.”
Lola, aged four, was present at dinner
one evening when a number of guests
were being entertained by her parents,
and during a lull in the conversation she
began to talk very earnestly.
“Why do you talk so much, Lola!”
asked her father.
“ ’Cause I’ve got something to say,”
was the innocent reply.
It’s difficult for the average man to
understand why some women we jealous
of their husbands.
Teacher: “Who discovered America!”
Bright Boy: “Columbus.”
Teacher: “That’s right. Now, how
did he come to do it!”
Bright Boy: “By water.”
Train Boy (going through car) : * ‘ Pe
cans! Filberts! English walnuts!”
Gruff Passenger: “Don’t want ’em.
Haven’t any teeth.”
Train Boy: “All right, sir. Here’s
some nice gum drops.”
Small Edgar was playing with some
boys in the street when his mother called
him and said: ‘ 1 Edgar, don’t you know
those are bad boys for you to play with!”
“Yes, mamma,” he replied, “but I
am a good boy for them to play with.”
1 ‘ I wish I were an orphan, ’ ’ said little
5-year-old Bessie to her mother, who pass
ed much of her time visiting charitable
institutions.
“Why, dear!” queried the mother.
“ ’Cause I’d see you oftener,” re
plied Bessie, “for you are all the time
going to orphan asylums.”
. NERVE.
“Jones’ mother-in-law is certainly a
nervy woman. ’ ’
“What has she dono!”
“She has threatened to sue him for
non-support. ’ ’
SARCASM BY THE WAY.
“Look out, or that dog will bite a
piece out of you! ’ ’
“Well, rememberin’ dat handout you
passed me last week, I wouldn’t blame de
pup fur goin’ in desperate fur a change
of food.”
THE DOMESTIC SNARL
FEST.
“Hodge has a snarly way about him.”
“The way to treat Hodge is to snarl
back at him. It does him good.”
“Does him good!”
‘ ‘ Sure, it makes him feel at home. ’ ’
VIRILITIES.
(From the Writing of Napoleon.)
A man never rises so high as when he
does not know where he is going.
A fool has one great advantage over
a man of intelligence. He is always
pleased with himself.
Generals who keep fresh troops for the
morrow of the battle are always beaten.
Abstractions wear out the heart far
more than the most brutal facts. Sol
diers are worth more than lawyers.
Courage is like love. It lives on hope.
Those who can no longer be rewarded
must be disgraced.
Republics are not made out of old
monarchies.
A revolution is an opinion supported
by bayonets.
MORE LIKE IT.
The Architect: Will your new church
be a skyscraper!”
The Preacher: “No; I rather hope it
will be a sky-reacher. ’ ’
THE ONLY WAY.
Quizzer: “Do you know of any good
way to keep trousers from bagging at
the knees!”
Whizzer: ‘ ‘ Sure, turn ’em around and
wear ’em backwards on alternate days.”
OF COURSE NOT.
First Critic: She’ll never make a suc
cess in grand opera.
Second Critic: Why not!
First Critic: You can understand every
word she sings.
ONE KIND OF A GAME
LOSER.
(From Detroit Free Press.)
“He’s a game loser, isn’t he!”
“I should say he is. He doesn’t seem
to care what his wife and children have
to go without.”
SHOWING SATAN’S
UBIQUITY.
(From the New Orleans Times-Democrat)
With so many other exciting diver
sions all about them, it is difficult to
understand how Volivia has succeeded in
getting the Dowieties wrought to fight
ing pitch over the tobacco habit.
It’s always the under dog that howls
for the peacemaker.
The man behind the hoe may dig up
many a dollar for the other fellow.