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12 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.