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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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The Man in Congress Who
Votes For the Dillingham
i Immigration Bill Is a F 00l
or a Knave—in Any Case
■ Unfit to Live in This
Country.
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That Bill Would Have Excluded the Mother of Abraham Lin
coln From Our Ports. It Is Un-American, Undemocratic,
Brutal and Offensive to Common Decency. And We Are
Inclined to Think It Would Be Highly Pleasing to Russia,
Keeping at Home and at the Czar's Mercy the Jewish
Revolutionists and Enemies of Autocracy.
The members of congress are considering a bill known as the
“Dillingham measure. "
It is a bill neatly worded, smoothly disguised, which PRE
TENDS to protect American workers from the competition of for
eigners.
It is really a bill drawn to oblige the Russian government.
It contains an amendment known as “the Root amendment'’
prepared by a “gentleman" who probably includes Russia among
his sources of income This amendment provides that any alien
“who conspires with others for the violent overthrow of a foreign
government shall be liable to deportation. "
Every intelligent American knows what that means.
It means that the vicious and cruel government of Russia, anx
ious to get hold of those that work for freedom in behalf of the
Russian people, has introduced a bill into the I'nited States con
gress that would send back to Russia those that Russia wants—
those that would be sent to Siberia, or a quicker death, especially
the Jewish revolutionists.
How disgraceful for any congressman to introduce a measure
or vote for a measure that would send back to Russia or Turkey
or any foreign country a man guilty only of the effort to do FOR
HIS OWN NATIVE LAND WHAT THE AMERICANS OF 1776
DID FOR THIS LAND !
The population of the United States, the government of the
United States, the prosperity of the United States, everything that
we possess worth while, is the result of “the violent overthrow of
a foreign government."
We are what we are because we overthrew violently the gov
ernment of Great Britain, which taxed us and oppressed us.
Mr. Dillingham, with his bill, and Mr. Root with his amend
ment. are sponsors for the hill that should have had a knave for
its originator—A WELL-PAID KNAVE—and a fool for its gulli
ble sponsor.
The Dillingham bill would enable obliging gentlemen like JVfr.
Root—properly “RETAINED" and seeing no difference between
an honest dollar and any other kind of a dollar- to send back to
Russia any Jewish or other Russian immigrant whose death or im
prisonment might be desired by lhe czar. <
This bill would enable the Russian government, with a little
judicious bribery of the right individual, to reach across the ocean
and pluck from ♦his land of safety and freedom any revolutionist,
any man GUILTY OF DOING WHAT EVERY AMERICAN DID
WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS ESTABLISHED.
One feature of the bill, which is supposed to make it accept
able hut which is almost as offensive as the Root amendment intro
duced by Russia, is the so-called educational test
This is a test which would have kept the mother of Abraham
Lincoln out of the United States if she had come to our shores and
found such a bill as the Dillingham bill in existence.
It is a bill that would keep out of our country millions of hon
est. earnest, sincere men and women that the country needs.
Fortunately, this bill will not pass. Even if enough money
were spent to pass it in congress, it would not become law. For
President Taft couldn't, without stultifying himself, sign a bill that
would give Russia a chance to take back to Siberia immigrants ac
cused of no crime except patriotism.
The only question is. WHO ARE THE KNAVES AND THE
FOOLS THAT WILL VOTE FOR THIS BILL’
Who are they whose fathers and mothers or grandfathers ami
grandmothers more or less removed would have been kept out of
America by such a bill, and who will now vote to build up a wall
against those that have a right to come here and that the country
needs ?
It ought not to he necessary to say one word against a bill as
vile, cowardly and unworthy as this one.
Everyone knows that a “Root amendment" MEANS MONEY
SPENT BY SOMEBODY, and everybody knows that a Root amend
ment such as that which Russia has put into this bill means that
there is plenty of money where the original money came from.
Therefore, it is necessary to point out the ‘act that the man
who shall vote for this Dillingham bill will prove himself a fool
who knows no better, or a knave who has part of the ' amendment
moaFviu his pocket ■*
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The Atlanta Georgian
WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A SUFFRAGETTE?
By T. E. POWERS.
Copyright. 1912. by International News Service.
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SMOOTHING _THE SEA -
Boats Have Been Saved From Destruction by Use of Oil on the Waves
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THE growing use of motor
boats has given renewed in
terest to the question of the
usefulness of the method, which
has been known from remote an
tiquity, of smoothing the waves by
means of oil spread upon them. It
is a matter of common observation
that a thin Aim of oil resting upon
a surface of water prevents the lat
ter front rippling under the action
of a brisk wind. The popular ex
planation is that the oil holds the
water down. Rut this is not the
true explanation, for the oil is
lighter than the water —if it were
not it would float on the surface.
The action of tYie oil is due to the
fad that its surface tension is less
than that of the water. In conse
quence of this difference the oil
spreads rapidly over the water, and
wherever it spreads it presents a
surface whose tension is less than
that of water anil which has a less
tendency to break into combing
crests. It protects the water be
neath from the combing force of
the wind driving across the sum
mits of the waves.
Oily Film Prevents Breaking
Os Upper Edge of Waves.
In a series of letters published in
the May number of the magazine
MOTOR BOATING the experiences
of navigators with the use of oil on
stormy waves are interestingly*
summed up. The oil can not "hold
the sea down.” The waves con
tinue to rise and fall, whether thev
are covered with oil or not. but the
oily film prevents the. breaking of
the Upper edges of the waves,
which is the great source of danger
to ships and boats. If waves do
not "break" the boat will simply
ride smoothlv upon them, running
over the - rest, and down through
the hollows tik- a bird rising and
dipping in the air
It h i been suggested that the
• u.c o! cti m tiiiz wa> -vas first
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1912.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
called to the attention of naviga
tors by observation of the "slick"
which forms In the wake of a
whale. It may also have been sug
gested by the effect of oil accident
ally spread upon the surface of
wind-driven water. At any rate, it
was known as long ago as the time
of the early Phoenician navigators,
and yet it is only in'modern times
that Its use has become general.
Even now there are seamen who ex
press little confidence In it—prob
ably because in their experience it
had been improperly applied, or be
cause in great storms it has not
proved effective. When a ship is
driving through a heavy sea the ap
plication of the oil must be, con
tinuous in order to afford any pro
tection. Means must be found, if
practicable, to make the oil spread
to windward in order that the
crests of the waves may be smooth
ed at the moment when they rush
upon the.ship.
Undoubted!? the effect.of the oil
is more pronounced in the case of a
small boat than in that of a large
vessel. The impact of the waves
against the bow or side of the latter
is sufficient to cause them to break
toser and rightly judging the prop
boat offers less resistance, and if
the surface of the waves is suffi
ciently smoothed to prevent the
wind from combing them the boat
rides triumphantly over the stormy
water. Still, there are many cases
on record where large vessels, in the
opinion of the navigators, have been
saved from damage, if not from de
struction. by the free use of oil.
The effect has sometimes been de
scribed as almost miraculous, and
there is, 1 believe, a rule prescribed
by the conditions of marine insur
ance requiring the use of oil at sea,
and this rule insures the use of oil
even by sea captains who. person
ally. have 6ut little faith in it. One
of them is quoted as saying "I
use oil according to prescribed
rules, because I have valuable Ilves
and cargo in charge. Suppose my
vessel should be lost and the in
vestigation disclosed that 1 didn't
use oil? I'd be censured, probably
lose my certificate, and have a
deuce of a wait before getting an
other command.”
But this same old salt, who ap
parently personally prefers to fight
it out with old Neptune with bare
fists, makes this statement, con
taining a significant confession:
"One big sea generally does the
damage in hurricanes, a sea as big
as a mountain, that may not have
another anywhere as large in 24
hours. Oil might smooth that par
ticular sea enough to enable a boat
to live, provided that you hadn't
wasted all your'oil before it hap
pened along."
In other words, it is a question
either of having enough oil to out
last a storm or of husbanding- the
store and rightly judging the prop
er moment to use it.
Any Kind of Oil
May Be Utilized.
X’arious kinds of oil ma?’ be em
ployed. Fish oil appears to be a
favorite with many: others prefer
lard oil or some kind of vegetable
oil: still others cylinder oil or min
eral oils. In fact, an? kind of oil
is effective, although not all are
equall.v so. The general method of
application is to put the oil in
loose!?' woven bags, such as gunny
sacks or specially prepared canvas
bags, together with oakum, and
then to pierce the sacks w ith holes
through which, the oil ma?’ slow)?-
escape. When at anochor the bags
ma?’ be bent to the cable ahead of
the boat. From a ship running be
fore a gale the oil ma?’ be dropped
from the quarters. The bags may
also be suspended over the bow or
along the quarters, or fastened to
the forward catheads, or allowed to
drip through the forward water
closets.
Whatever the manner of applica
tion. the chief Essential i. that thc
o'.l shall as far as possible, be made
to spread over the surface t n the
direction from which the waves ad
vance
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
° n .
Who Is the Liar, Roose- L.
velt or Taft?
—and—
A Considerate Word for I
Astor
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
THE controversy between the
two Republican candidates for
the presidency has reached an
stase whnh is disappointing
humiliating and damaging.
So long as a campaign is utilized
to the threshing- out of political
principles we can afford to be grat
ified by the intensity with which it
is maintained, for the more sharply
antagonistic views are set over
against each other the morNinter
eeting and instructive the process
becomes.
But nothing of the kind can be
said of the scrimmage at the point
at which it has now arrived.
It is no longer a matter of pro
gressivism against converatism or
of conservatism against progressiv
ism.
It is simply a question of who is
the liav, Roosevelt or Taft?
It has reduced to a wrangle of
personalities, and develops the un
comely passions of the two leaders
in the first instance and of their
respective followers in the second
instance.
It makes a bad spectacle before
the world abroad and impairs our
political dignity at home.
When two boys commence call
ing each other names the best
treatment to give them Is to sep
arate them and send them home;
and what shall be said of the two
most conspicuous grown-ups in the
country., one a president and the
other an ex-president, engaged in
verbal fisticuffs, with a hundred
million people gathered about the
ring hounding them on?
Whole Scene Enacted
Is Disgraceful.
The whole scene is sad and de
basing, Whether it be man-fight
or dog-fight, the effect in either ,
case is debasing.
As there is little probability that
either of the two will become pres
ident, and as the man eventually
to be elected to the office will in all
likelihood be one who has not been
so heavily dusted by the sand of the
arena, we can tolerate the discred
itable broil with more composure;
but. even so, to witness two men—
whom at one time the entire nation
has regarded with mingled respect
and reverence —each associated with
the highest position of authority,
either in this country or any other,
seeking to crush his antagonist and
t<> deliver to him his death blow, is
a situation both distressing and
mortifying.
Without seeking to apportion the
responsibility, the situation remains
what it is and w'ill have neither of
the two belligerents occupying the
same position in national regard
that they occupied before.
I shall righteously resent being
called a liar and a fraud, but I
shall damage myself more than !
shall my vicious calumniator by re
torting upon him that he is another.
♦ ♦ •
IN the midst of the concert of re
proaches that is now being hum
med around the deaf ears of the
dead Astor, there is one consid
erate word that ought to be spoken
in his behalf.
“An Over-Production of
Gold”
By JAMES W. M'GEE.
"Some eminent authorities attribute the high cost of living to an over
production of goId.”—NEWS ITEM,
T T THEN on pa? day you go to the market to buy
\/V The supplies for a familv pf five.
And you gaze on the prices you'll heave a deep sigh
For the poor who are barely alive;
In a jiffy you've spent what took six days to earn.
So you walk home, dead broke, in the cold,
And the reason you're broke, your amazed wife will learn.
Is the overproduction of gold.
Do you know why the eggs that in storage grow stale
Are dumped on the market in spring.
And the newly laid crop leaves a price-raising trail
When to cold storage vaults it takes wing?
Do you know w hy the same eggs cost six cents apiece
When theyrust Lets them out to be sold?
No, it's not through cpld storage that prices increase
It's the overproduction of gold.
The Coal Trust philanthropists, humane and good,.
"Whom God in His wisdom ordained,”
With those of the Beef Trust, who furnish our food, —-
By pt esent conditions are pained.
The Ice Trust and Milk Trust are champions of righL
Bright halos their features enfold;
What folly to blame these poor trusts for our plight
Blame the overproduction of gold.
We don't find an overproduction of bills.
Os quarters or nickels or dimes;
The wages the' pa? in the stores and mills
Are barely enough far. the times." _ • -
Perhaps when the eggs are srdollar a pair. -■ : —' 1.
And when two-dollar butter is sold,
The?- 1 call tn ’he silver and give us a share
Os the overproduction of gold.
Sad as a man may be. he'is lievet'
quite so bad as he might be; and-It
is-always the part of charity to
pick the nuf-.tt from the dross and
hold it out where the light can shire
on it. and the people have a look
at it.
Allowance Left Girl-Wife
Is Rather Meager.
Considering his immense wealth,
the allowance left to his girl-wife
was certainly rather meager, and
her hold even upon that is some
what stinted: but even so. there
was one fiard condition that he did
not impose upon her, which he
• would have imposed had he been
a Hindu of the olden type, and
that was that she should practice
suttee and incinerate herself upon
the tomb of her departed lord.
The conjugal regard thus evinced
for her comfort of body and peace
of mind ought to count on the
other side of the balance sheet and
to that extent soften the asperities
of adverse criticism.
With that exception there is not
very much to say of a pleasant
kind about his testamentary treat
ment of tide yoOltg comf>ant<sh of
his bosom.
Perhap that was more his busi
ness than it is hers.
It probably was, but so. long as
people are bound tn the ties of
communal life they are bound to
have opinions, and if they hold
those opinions with any intensity
of conviction will be likely to ex
press them, and it is to the gen
eral advantage that they, should, for
opinions are for general consump
tion. not for storage.
For a husband to deal in meager
fashion with his wife while he is
still living is a sad blot.on connu
bial devotion.- but there is not the
venality in that that there is when
the same paltry impulse is so
stretched to the other side of the
grave that the pinch-of it remains
upon his wife after he is translated.
■ His attempt to discipline her
into post-mortem devotion will very
likely result in her making,.a sec
ond matrimonial experiment, out of
spite, if for no other reason, es
pecially if an arrangement can be
made such as will indemnify her
for the sacrifice of her first hus
band's conditional beneficence.
Foolish to Hire Women to
Be True to First Love.
It is said that the attempt to
hire women to be true to their first
love is not usually a success.
Love and money belong respec
tively to different orders qf com
modity. Love is, in fact,, almost
the only article in general use that
can not he computed' in terms of
dollars’ and cents.
And yet. as” a finishing remark,
it deserves to be said that a wom
an who abides by her widow'hood
out of VOLUNTARY loyalty'to her
deceased husband evinces a quality
no so likely to be found jn one
Whose old love can be dissolved in
the flames of a new.