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THE ATLANTIA N
gists make up a large and influential body. In the near
future they will number in the hundreds, and it is high time
they were coming together for their own and the public’s
welfare. Competition is not the life of trade, as is so often
said, for the real wholesome life of trade grows out of co
operation on the part of all, and the future welfare of man
kind lies in co-operation, but we will only get general co
operation, and in time all men will be educated to the great
truth that we can all do better by working together than
against each other. Therefore, w T e welcome this movement
of the Druggists and wish for them a great measure of
success.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK
Two years ago the American people in a fit of reaction
gave an overwhelming majority to the Republican party.
Verily, they have had their reward. That party, born
of the righteous principle that human slavery should not
exist in this Republic, has been doing its infernal utmost
for forty years to reduce American labor to the level of
wage slaves.
The American farmers and industrial laborers who pack
all of us on their backs, and make it possible for all of us
to live, have mighty little political sense, or they would long
ago have made political mincemeat of the gang which,
parading as the Grand Old Party, has thrown on the dust
heap the ideals of such men as Lincoln and Seward and
Phillips and Holmes and has become the subservient tool of
the shrewd and exploiting parasites who would risk the
eternal salvation of this nation to put unearned millions in
to their always capacious pockets.
All of us are now paying through the nose for having
turned affairs over to the gang which, like the leopard,
never changes its spots, though it does occasionally apply
a coat of whitewash and for the moment deceive the soft
heads.
There are some signs of an awakening.
There are some good men allied with the Republican
party, and they are trying to reform the party from with-
1 in; they are wasting their time; it cannot be done; a rotten
egg cannot be reformed either from without or within; the
only remedy is the garbage can.
But these good men in the wrong place are doing some
good by helping a stupid public to get the right slant on the
situation.
It begins to look as if there will not be so many Repub
licans in the next Congress, and it is quite as certain as
anything in the future can be that the Republican gang will
have the fight of a century in the Presidential election two
years hence.
To those of us who try to think straight the Democratic
party is not altogether a thing of beauty, but the great and
pregnant truth is that whereas the controlling forces of
the Republican party believe in a government conducted
for the enrichment of the few, on the other hand a large
majority, both of the leaders and the rank and file of the
Democratic party, believe in a government for the benefit
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of all the people—therein is a tremendous difference— id
therein lies the future hope of the country.
M c AD00 FOR PRESIDENT; WILL BE
LABOR’S CHOICE
McAdoo will undoubtedly be the Democratic nominee
for President in 1924.
It is understood that the near future will see the for
mation of McAdoo clubs over the country.
This means that the Republicans have made a ghastly
failure since the present administration took over the gov
ernment and the Democratic leaders believe that the peo
ple will throw out the Republicans in 1924.
The chances now are, that if the Republicans can re
tain control of both houses of Congress we shall see some
of the most strenuous camouflaging of our history. They
are good at that, but if the American people again allow
themselves to be deceived by the propaganda of the ex
ploiters party they are entitled to what they will receive—
and it will be a plenty and then some.
McAdoo, Cox and Pomerene, both of Ohio, and Davis,
of West Virginia, are mentioned as Democratic material.
Davis is making no effort and does not appear to be seek
ing place. Cox and Pomerene are both from Ohio, which
seems to have a perennial crop of candidates, and which
for the country’s good has been too often successful. The
Republican output of Ohio Presidents has not encouraged
us to want to venture much in that direction.
McAdoo is the outstanding national figure among the
Democrats. What about him?
Long, lean, lank, homely, he reminds us somewhat of
Lincoln in his physical make-up.
He is of democratic temperament, and of ability second
to no man in the country. He is distinctly of Presidential
calibre.
The case can be briefly stated as to his qualifications.
An unknown lawyer, Georgia born, without money or in
fluence, in New York. A great work, the Hudson tunnels,
imperatively needed. Big business did not seem equal to
the task. Outlook most unpromising. Mr. McAdoo, pos
sessed of the imagination of an Edison, and the tenacity of
a bulldog, threw himself into this apparently hopeless case,
and after a heart-breaking battle won out to brilliant suc
cess and Manhattan ceased to be an island. Mark this! He
did not come out a multi-millionaire. He belongs to that
rare type which puts the work to be done first, and personal
gain second. That achievement proved that he had first-
class, constructive ability, coupled with persistence, pa
tience, courage, persuasiveness, and a determination to do
or die.
The second chapter finds him a member of the cabinet
in Washington—Secretary of the Treasury. A world war
l aging America compelled by the logic of the facts to en
ter the contest—billions of money necessary. The Secre
tary of the Treasury had not made a great fortune for him-