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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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What Do You Think About
the Recall of Judges Now?
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Yon Have Seen Something of the Record of One Judge Named
Archbald. Don t You Think It Would Be a Pretty Good
Thing For the People to Have Power to Recall Such
Judges. Without Waiting For them to Prove Themselves
Rascals of the Lowest Kind?
This newspaper supports the idea that if the public is snffi
eiently intelligenl to HIRE judges. IT IS ALSO SI FFIUIEN’TIA
INTELLIGENT TO DISCHARGE THEM
This idea is opposed energetically JtY LAWA ERS.
Al) the lawyers of all the cities hate the idea.
And Mr. Taft, who is a lawyer or a judge when he doesn't hap
pen to be a president, also hates the idea.
That is natural enough. AH the dog catchers would object to
the idea that dog catchers could be put out of office.
And all the rat catchers would say that only rat catchers were
capable of judging any question involving rat catching.
Every man thinks that he is at the top in his own business, and
that others are until to judge him.
Bui isn't it Hie fact that the people ought to be at the top in
ALL things.
And in connection with this recall of the judges, have you
noticed the case of Judge Archbald, the gentleman, who is just -go
ing to be kicked off the bench because he has gone a little bit
TOO far"
This Judge Archbald, who is now silting in the Chamber of
Commerce Court, is found to have done vatu is obliging things for
a certain railroad, while his partner was buying, for a very small
part of its value, the culm bank belonging to that railroad.
•‘Sell me your culm bank for nothing, ami I 'll give you judicial
decisions at lhe same price.”
Thai one particular little deal would have been worth about
forty thousand dollars to this judge and. of course, in going into
that deal he proved himself a criminal.
He did it in a bald, stupid, dull way. THAT IS \V II \ HE IS
CAUGHT.
How many other judges have heen doing things of the same
kind we don 't know. BET THEY—OR MOST OF THEM WON *T
BE CAUGHT.
It need not have been necessary to wait for this disgraceful
revelation in regard to the railroad deal to let the people know what
kind of a man Archbald was or to put Archbald out of office.
He has been revealing himself in his court decisions
This Archbald is the man who dismissed, without punishment, a
million-dollar smuggler and sent a small, poor smuggler to jail. He
was brought Io Now York especially to do that dirty job, and
others like it.
This is the Judge Archbald who let off with very small and
laughable fines the big offenders in the Wire Trust. THEY were
rich, and as his railroad deal shows ho needed money.
This is the judge who was denounced by Attorney General
Wickersham for fading to send to jail a criminal, whom he fined
“less than one-third of the year's profit from his dishonest and
criminal practice.'’
Year after year this Archbald was proving to the people that
he was until for his office He was sending poor men to jail and
freeing rich men
YET THE PE’H’LF. ( < H LD DO NOTHING TO HIM THEY
COULDN TGET RID OF HIM BECAUSE THEY HADN'T “THE
RECALL ” At last, the man exposed himself TOO outrageously.
He enters into a perfectly shameless open and plain scheme to make
the railroads give him a certain number of thousands of dollars
whiff' be is giving them the judgments that they want.
And this is revealed largely by accident. And so this partit’ll
larly dishonest judge is to be kicked out of his place and somebody
else put in.
But SHIELD IT BE NECESSARY TO WAIT I NTIL A
JUDGE ABSOLUTELY PROYES HIMSELF \ THIEF AND A
RASCAL'’ Shmildn t it he possible for the people when they see a
judge rendering decisions such as those that Archbald has rendered
to put that man off the bench and say. “We are done with you?”
When you see as the people of New York have seen, a certain
Federal judge acting for years as the agent of the Street ('ar Trust
that put him on the bench, don't you think Hie people ijught to have
the power to remove that man from the bench that he disgraces?
Without the recall he will stay there and die there, probably.
For he is more cunning than Judge Archbald.
When you see shameless decisions rendered against poor men
at the request of rich men. and when lhe people decide that such de
cisions are corrupt and shameful, should not the people be allowed
to get rid of the judge that renders them .'
This wasn't a country established to secure general acquies
cence in the holiness and superiority of judges, but a country estab
lished Io secure the power and rub- o f the people
The recall of judges, the recall of every public official that the
people may name, is lhe program Hial alone will give the people
the power Io which they are entitled
And the recall of judges is coming, and will be here soon
Judge Archbald. the judicial i.-im ii!. will help the good work
along
Even a dishonest judge may be useful—as fertilizer of an idea.
The Atlanta Georgian
TIS A HARD LIFE
Bv HAL COFFMAN.
JI II MI'IW I < !j H.L r!{ I.Mui u! H J j / .4 v•,
. | Im jli
Fhe Oldest Puzzle in the World
Ah American Professor I las Discovered the Secret of the Sphinx, But
There Are Other Mysteries Behind It ‘
f-x rtOFESSOR G A KEIS.YF.It.
of Harvard university, tolls
in The Cosmopolitan Maga
zine for .lune, the strange story of
how he uncovered the immemorial
secret of the date and meaning of
the groat Sphinx of Egypt. It is a
f ascinating no ii at i\ o. which eaq
not oven be outlined hero, hut there
are certain tilings suggested by it
which possess an interest no less
Intense.
In following the story of the final
unveiling of the riddle of the
Sphinx wo are led brick, through the
bioken halls of time, to a pet iod
nearly three times as far on the
other side of the starting point of
tin Christian era as wo ate mi this
side of it. Millenniums take the
place of centuries when wo go to
these depths in history, as the .as
tronomer substitutes light years for
shorter standards of moasurement
when he deals with lhe distances of
the stars. And yet, arrived at that
remote epoch when Iheoarlx Egvp
tians began to develop their won
derful civilization, we find the mind
of man as fully awake, in many
wn\ s, as it I 1 - today..
W ithin fifteen eenturh s .after
their advent as apparently half
sntage tribes in the valley of the
Nile, the Egvptlans hel invented
society, government, art. architec
ture, sculpture, painting, hiero-.
glyphic wilting, mechanical science
and had liegun the construction of
builuings which have ranked among
the marvels of the world ever sine. .
Egyptians Have Left
Unefi'aceable Marks.
' They left marks mi the face of
lhe planet which will never be ob
literated. One, at least, of their
great temples .mains today the
mightiest structure of human hands.
Their pyramids stand unique among
the products of lhe builders art.
impressing the beholder with. sum. -
■■ .ng of the awe which mmmiaiti.-
inspire
Th. . t Ih, s. |.\ hi mil. >.> "v -
■icily in the nivriutan that the most
FRIDAY. MAY 17. I!H2.
Bv GARR UTT P. SFRYISS.
curate inslrumrnts of modern
scipnce can det oct scarce] ,v a per
ceptible departure from the true
cardinal points, and learned men
have demanded, with wonder, "How
were llu v able to do it?” All their
proportions were true. t|| their
.insles (’xto’t. When they leveled
the base for on» j of these extraordi
ii;ii\ structures they did it with so
much pre» ision that today the
sock’ ts for th< mighty t .omm
stones are found to lie at exactlv
lib' same <devotion.
One Marble Hall Like
Gigantic Telescope.
Through the heart of the greatest
of their pyramids they ran Immense
piissnges. lined with marble, one of
which points, like a gigantic tolc
scojir, to the spot in the heavens
whore the pole star "f t.h"ir day
nightly ru'uiinatml.
If their astronomy was based
upon superstitious observances and
beliefs, at least it was accurate in
its measurements.
Win a. King I’hephren had the
great Sphinx carved out of the
solid ruck in his image, he per
form.q a work which has never
been equaled in its kind from that
.lav to this. W'e may smile at the
superstition vvliich persuaded him
that this mighty guardian, stand
ing before his own pyramid tomb,
w ould serv. as a protection to him
after Ills death, yet we can not but
f. el amazed at the magnificence of
the work, as a token of the artistic
and mechanical power of his peo
ple.
i’ntii : <■ re. ent discoveries de
tailed by t’rofvssor Reisner this gi
gantic figure, w ith its lion body and
its human head, remained a puzzle
to tlie passing ages. Great empires
grew up around Egypt and overran,
conquered and ruled her; other em
pires succeeded them; and still,
through it all, the vast, inscrutable
fa< ■■ of the Sphinx, staring over the
iics.-rt, kept its unguessed secret.
Nf'iihct the Persian nor the
..tick nor the Roman nor the Mo
i'.il'ue.'d ia nor the Christian could
I • m • c. ;he ir .sk and the Egyp
tians thenisclves forgot tiie mean-
ing hidden behind it. in the confus
ing rush of tlie ages rolling by.
How many works as enduring as
that are we producing today?
Hero we get a glimpse of a riddle
mor eaneient and more puzzling
than that of the Sphinx-. It Is the
riddle of man's beginning. If so
many thousands of years ago he
was capable of producing such
masterpieces, how far hack must
we go In order to find man in his
cradle? AA'e flatter ourselves with
the splendors of our civilization,
but our peacock illumes are lowered
when we see the men of 5,000 years
ago exhibiting many of the very
qualities of mind which we are'apt
to regard as marks of our own sup
posed superiority.
Even 10.000 years ago. as tlie re
cent discoveries in Crete give rea
son for believing, man already
allowed a capacity for civilization
comparable, as far as tlie innate
qualities of the mind arc .onccrncd,
vv itU ours.
Shows Immeasurable Time
Man Has Existed.
This does not imply that man is
not the product ot a gradual evolu
tion. It onlv shows the almost im
measurable length of the time dur
ing which lie lias existed on the
earth The thoughts of Job arc the
thoughts of men today; the things
that bewildereii him in his search
for truth, and the origin of right
eousness. bewilder us still. Then
Job and the patriarchs were, meas
urably. hardly nearer to the begin
ning of man on the earth than are
we. Geology shows us some proofs
that a lower race of man did once
exist, but e'en geology has not
yet got Ic'iX to the beginning of
the human mind, for all agree that
the brain is the physical index of
mind, and the earliest human skulls
that have been discovered in the
strata of the globe show that they
possessed a capacity far above that
of tlie brute
This is the riddle of riddles.
When man h< - 'Hiu.d ihe iruth
about his own beginning Im will
have laid, at ..si, tiie true founda
tions of historjl
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on /■
Lady Florence Dixie’s Sfajfg
Views on Sport BS "-w
—and™
The Tragedy of Killing
Dumb Animals
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by Ameriean-Journal-Examiner.
PORT” is horrible. I say it
advisedly. I speak with the
matured knowledge of one
who has seen and taken part in
numberless forms of sport in many
and varied parts of the world.
“I can handle gun and rifle as
wejl and efficiently as most 'sport
ing folk.’ and few women, and not
many men, have had experience of
a tithe of the shooting and hunt
ing in which I have been engaged,
both at home and during travels
and expeditions in far-away lands.
"It is not, therefore, as a novice
that I take up my pen to record
why I, whom some have called a
'female Nimrod,’ regard with abso
lute loathing and detestation any
sort or kind or form of sport which
in any way 1s produced by the suf
fering of animals.
“It is a remnant of barbarism in
man’s nature, that he should take
pleasure in displaying his skill on
living animals. Deer stalking is,
no doubt, a healthy and exhilarat
ing exercise, requiring endurance,
stamina, a clear sight and a steady
hand. Yet, the last act in a suc
cessful stglk is, if we come to think
about it, disgusting and horrible.
In close proximitj’ to us we see a
lordly animal—happy, peaceful and
enjoying fully lhe gift of life. We
draw a trigger, and if we do not
miss we wound or kill. Happy, in
deed. if It be the latter. More often
than not it is the former, and then,
if limbs are not broken, a fierce
tracking ensues, resulting some
times in the death of the victim,
sometimes in Its loss. and. as a
consequence, many an hour of tor
ture ere death closes its sufferings.
Paean of Animal Woe
Unheard by Man.
“Yet thousands are spent yearly
on deer forests, and the paean of
animal woe that goes up therefrom
throughout the stalking season ex
pands i'sclf year after year un
heard. unfelt, unthought of amidst
the throng of men.
“What more aggravated form of
torture is to be found than cours
ing with greyhounds, the awful ter
ror of the hare depicting itself in
the laid-back ears, convulsive dou
bles. and wild, starting eyes, which
seem almost to hurst from their
sockets in the agony of tension
which that piteous struggle for life
entails?
“And what sadder sight is there
to be found in the records of the
hunted than that of a dead-beat
fox. worn out, with lolling tongue,
heaving sides, bedraggled brush,
with the baying of the nearing
pack growing every moment more
distinct, struggling on in search of
safety for his doomed life, dodging
now here, now there, surrounded
by a hostile field, the fiendish tally
ho sounding in his ears, the crack
ing of whips which warns him
against any further attempt to es
cape? Then the hounds rush in.
For one brief moment he turns at
bay. Citi bone? The next nil is
worry, worry, worry, as the poor,
weary but gallant fox is torn limb
from limb, disembowelled and re
duced to a shapeless mass of bloody,
bedraggled fur. A titling death it
Is. indeed, following as a sequel on
the hunted torture which the poor
The Voice of Spring
Bx JACOB J. LIEBSON.
OLD Winter s packed his duds and
gone.
Beshrew his wry old face!
And sweet, seductive, smiling Spring
Has come to take his place.
A. spirit from its silent sleep
Now w akes in bush and tree.
While in the naked maple wood
The sap is flowing free.
A breeze from smiling, sunny climes
Now frolics is it sings.
There seems to he a joyful -tir
About the roots of things.
creature has suffered from find to
flnlßh.
“I have ridden to hounds over
many a hard-fought field, yet ever
as I did so reproach knocked at
my heart, and I have asked my
self. ‘Can not we. have sport with
out cruelty?’
Result Is Indifference
to Suffering.
“Assuredly we can. Well-laid
drags, tracked by experts, would
test the mettle both of hounds and
riders to hounds, but then a terri
fied, palpitating, fleeing life would
not be struggling ahead, and so
the idea is not pleasing to those
who And pleasure 1n blood. Much
of this barbarous taste and cal
lous indifference to the sufferings
of animals is bred with our child
hood and upbringing. Youth, es
pecially of the male sex, is taught
to regard shooting and hunting as
manly accomplishments. Women,
myself Included, are ip many in
stances brought up to indulge in
sporting amusements, and it fol
lows. as a natural sequence, that
in the large majority of cases
where this is so a CAL.LOUS IN
DIFFERENCE TO THE AGONY
AND MISERY CAUSED TO THE
VICTIMS IS IMPERCEPTIBLY
E N GEN DERE D.”—Lad y Florence
Dixie.
These strong. earnest words,
written by a woman of title,' will
do more to arouse the women of
Arnerii'a. to a sense of their re
sponsibility toward our dumb kin
than a long course of lectures
given by any reformer of our own
land could do. America has aped
Europe In its ideas of sport, and
few. if any, American women of
this generation are given to the
cruel sport of the hunt, save those
who have lived abroad or who have
been educated along foreign lines.
In the early days of our Newj
England foremothers women knew
how to handle a gun. and knew
how to kill wild animals for self
protection and for food.
But that necessity passed with
the onward march of progress, and
the woman who kills animals to
day kills in a wanton love of cru
elty, even as Lady Dixie has said,
"ami with a callous indifference to
the agony she causes.”
No woman who can fjnd enjoy
ment In such sport has a right to
be a mother.
one unfortunate youth, who was
a criminal almost from the cradle,
killing insects and animals, and
finally human beings, from mere
love of seeing things die. was the
victim of an ignorant mother, the
wife of a butcher who watched her
husband kill animals before th«
birth of her child.
Women ‘ First at. Death”
Unfit To Be Mothers.
The woman who is filled witl
keen delight in being first at ths
death of a fox or deer, the woman
who can enjoy seeing a beast or
a bird die and find pleasure in the
1 renutation of a svoo »rnn' when
living creatures are the niaFA’ gv
which she aims, that woman Is
morally unfit to be a mother.
Lady Dixie's latter shows the
change m public sentiment which
is coming over the world in these
matters.
I I hear the calling of the road
That leads to Land-of-Ease.
And winds its magic way among
Its colonnades of trees.
I heal a most alluring voice
That makes my being burn
To leave the sordid city, and
To nature's haunts 'eturn.
I hear ai.i.-I 'Tis not a all
Where nature's I'lea-ui .-s lurk;
It's just the boss in angrv tones:
“Hey, you, get back to work!"