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4 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 November, >22 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-