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THE ATLANTIAN
ESTABLISHED 1861
THE
Lowry National Bank
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $2,000,000
A HALF of a century record with practically
unlimited capital and resources affords this
bank every advantage.
Its unexcelled facilities assures its depositors
every accommodation consistent with sound bank
ing principles.
Depositors are also protected by the stringent
regulations which govern national banks.
A cordial welcome is extended to you by the
officers and directors to open a new account or to
establish additional banking relations.
form of amendment can be devised;
or perhaps, without amendment, some
plan of license can be Invented at
least for dangerous trades such as
those which were declared void. In
any event we pin our faith in the long
run to morals, economics, and phil
osophy. We believe that eventually
the constitution and courts, even our
own State courts and constitution,
will get Into line with them. The
tragedy of it is that in the meantime
the financial burden of deaths and in
juries in industry in this State, and
in any other State which follows our
decision, will continue to fail upon
the families whose bread-winners are
killed or injured instead of falling up
on those in whose interest the work
ers are employed, viz., the consum
ers of the products of their industry.”
“A POLICY OF PATRON
AGE.”
Governor Wilson, in Minneapolis..
Deprecates the Decline of Fair
and Scientific Tariff-Making.
He Thinks Affairs Are Taking
a Turn for the Better.
Governor Woodrow Wilson address
ed the Publicity Club of this city at
luncheon today. He devoted most of
his address to a discussion of the
connections between business and leg
islation, speaking particularly about
the business interference with legis
lation which has created some of the
worst influences in our recent politics.
He said in part:
"The tariff has been the most prolific
source of the corrupt interference of
business with politics that the experi
ence of the country has afforded. Al
most every kind of business is affect
ed directly or indirectly by the tariff
laws and it has in recent years be
come notorious that the schedules of
C. G. DOBBS,
Member of Lodge 302, B. of R. T., i
and Committee on Labor Day. ,
the tariff were arranged by the Ways i
and Means Committee of the House of ;
Representatives and the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate with a very ten
der regard for particular business in
terests. Everybody will agree that if
the tariff policy is indeed to be pro
tective and to seek the objects which
W. C. LAWRENCE,
Manager West View Floral Co.,
and a True Friend to Organ
ized Labor.
i( has always pretended to seek, it is
perfectly legitimate that it should
have to pay a very careful regard to
the business interests of the country
taken as a whole. But that is a very
different matter from paying regard
to the individual interests of particu
lar undertakings and of particular
groups of men. The long and short
of the whole experience, as we now
see it, is that our whole tariff legisla
tion has degenerated from a policy of
protection into a policy of patronage.
The party which has stood most con
sistently for the so-called system of
protection has derived not a little of
its power from t^e support of the
great business interests of the coun
try. I do not mean the moral support
merely. I mean that it has been sup
plied with immense sums of money
for the conduct of its campaigns and
the maintenance of its organization
and that, whether consciously or un
consciously, it has established a part
nership with the manufacturing inter
ests of the country which has deprived
it. of its liberty of action in all mat
ters touching the tariff. It is bound
by obligations, tacit and explicit, to
see that those interests are not dam
aged which have been its most stal
wart backers and supporters.
“The will dominant in the Finance
Committee of the Senate has for many
decades together been subservient to
the dictates and to the interests of
particular groups of men. Their in
terests have been served constantly
and often in defiance of the well-
known opinions and purposes not only
of the national administration but of
the members of the houses as well
who for reason struggled in vain
against the dictates of the omnipo
tent leaders of the Senate. Here dis
played in its grossest form was the
intimate power of business over poli
tics. The country has definitely made
up its mind that it will get at the root
of this matter and of all other matters
like it, and that it will break up this
alliance. Leading business men are
now becoming great factors in the
emancipation of the country from a
system which was leading from bad
to worse.
“It is a refreshing and reassuring
thing to remind ourselves at every'
turn of how safe it is to depend upon
public opinion in America when pub
lic opinion is well informed. There
is no revolution in the air except as
against iniquity and secret confer
ences against the public interest. The
American mind is well poised and
wholesome and inclined to justice, and
the task that lies ahead of us is at
every turn the task of putting that
opinion into the saddle again so that
affairs may go forward by a common
impulse—that great impulse of right
eous law, that eager impulse for the
attainment of better and better things
which we are proud to regard as char
acteristic of the country we love.”
THE DIFFERENCE.
Sydney Rosenfeld once wrote a com
edy entitled "The Optimist," which
achieved success after the production,
says Harper’s Weekly, but was a long
time reaching the State. Manager aft
er manager refused the manuscript,
and one day Mr. Rosenfeld, whose pa
tience was exhausted, blurted out to
his sole auditor.
“Of course, you don’t appreciate the
play! You don’t even know the mean
ing of its name.”
Yes, I do,” protested the impresarip.
“Well,” insisted Mr. Rosenfeld,
“what’s the difference between a opti
mist and a pessimist?”
The Manager barely hesitated.
“An optimist is an eye doctor,” he
said: “a pessimist is a foot doctor.”
T. C. WATERS,
Prominent Labor Man, Who is
Being prominently Mentioned
as a Prospective Candidate for
Labor Commissioner.