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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
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Be Grateful to the Power
That “Pulls” You Along
» r r
A Man Believes That He Is Pulling a Big Load, When He Is Sim
ply Part of the Harness, and Another and a Bigger Power Is
Pulling Him
Draw thr- picture in your mind
A wagon is heavily load'd with twenty or mote human br
ings Tract-* arc bound Io Hr- front axle of the load'-d wagon and
are fastened to th'- arms of a young man That man WI TH ON
LY HIS OWN STRENGTH could not possibly pull the load, ll
could not move it.
But in front of the young man -lands a big. carefully trained
elephant. For that elephant, able to pull three freight <-ars. the
load is nothing
The elephant is- and the frac' - lasteni-d Io his pow
erfril shoulders arc united in a soft, ear' fully cushioned pad at the
hark of thr performer s neck
When all is ready the partner"! llv- man hitch'd to the wag
on gives the order to the elephant If the big animal should
move 100 rapidly, if he should fail Io tart slowly and gently he
might possibly break the performer’s neek
Rut. intelligent as well as powerful, th'- big beast leans slowly
forward until he has set tlm wheels of flu- wagon rolling, then
•/'>'. a long a I i -Io v. v a 11- I' 11,1,1 Ni. Illi. ,\| AN. who in Ills
turn pulls th" wagon
Il may seem almost unbelievable licit a man could stand this
strain upon the back of his neck, and that w ith the muscles of his
arms he could pull this heavily loaded wagon, even with th'- He
pliant pulling HIM
But there is no difficulty about it. Any young man of ordi
nary strength could perform this feat the principal thing was to
have th'- IDEA and to realize how fascinating it would In- to the
public Io watch the elephant pulling the man by the neck, and the
man pulling a wagon and twenty human beings with his arms
If at play in a lug of war you have pulled against a number
of other men. you know that I'm- muscles of the body are capa
hl< of WITHSTANDING a strain much greater than that which
they are capable of EX ERTi NG.
l-’or instance, if you have in your nerves ami muscles ami in
the leverage of vour body power enough Io pull one thousand
pounds, you could easily pull, ns this man does, several limes as
much if there were a power ahead of you dragging you on
I In- only thing necessary is to have the elephant hitched up
in front TO ItoTH EIT LI .1 N< t
Tak< away ih<- elephant and the harness back of th'- man s
nr-ek. ami you would see. apparently, a marvellous thing You
would see one slightly built young man pulling twenty If you
saw this without seeing the elephant if the elephant ami his
harness were made invisible, and you saw this young man walk
ing around drawing such a load you would believe in miracles
or believe that the man had some force above humanity
Many a man gets the credit for pulling a load that he is not
pulling al all
Many a man seems to he doing oim-lhing very wonderful
when in reality another man ANOTHER MINI), not visible in
the work, but actually at the work does the heavy pulling
You may sec the salesman, the editor, the floor walker, the on
gineer, the architect any kind of a man engaged in any kind of
Work apparently doing something very wonderful
Yr-t lie is not doing it all Au unseen power another man,
another brain, perhaps some little man with a small body and a
big head, who keeps out of sight is doing th" i-«*;t! work
Many of us have H-plants big. strong, but unseen pulling
us We ought at least to be grateful Io the elephant give him
a fair chance since he does the hardest work and do our part,
big or little, in the general performance
It would be a good thing if many young men working in all
departments of activity in A mem-,i should occasionally feel g'ml
itud< toward the big elephant, Ihe big MAN, the one whose power
and experience pull them along ami do what they can to em-our
age him, to des r < hi*- hi Ip ami the hem-tit that they get from his
pulling
Eveiy mm ol us WITHOI I' EX< EI'TION is ITLLED along
or |’l SHED ahead by some for., unseen
B may bn the man in the inside ntlici- usually invisible
II may be the woman a’ liotm setting a good example, giv
nig to Hu- man al work flu- inspiration ami the power that no
<>ne else could give
It may be paternal affection, f-nabliiu,- a man Io do for a
weak child what he could iml possibly do for himself
\ cry often the power s one that has long disappeared f rom
the earth, a father or a mothei whose energv and inspiration
persist and do in the life of the son at work what the elephant
does in this picture
We arc all ot us pushed or pulled, all of n> indebted to a
power above our ovv n and bey ond our own.
Ami we should at least be grateful, from the small clerk
who is made secure, protected in Ins daily living by a man work
mg himself to death at the head of the firm, to the man of ge
nius. so called, who owes the power that tin- world admires to a
mother unseen and iinrcmembered
Don’t forget th, elephant that pulls von BE HRATEh'I I.
In this way you can add so your own fori < and perhaps in time
become tin power that shall pull olhi •
/
The Atlanta Georgian
TUESDAY. JUNE 11. 1912
(FROM HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE)
New Standard Oil Letters and Their Lessons
L’nit&d States Senate ~ yU?— / L-C'' 7
VBuiIUHUT'ON O , < J , / '
I' v f y // / . M "Uo
Mr ■ .
These Are Only a
Further Light on the Meth
ods by Which the Oil
Trust Bought and Paid
for Legislation and Leg
islators Which It Needed.
The following article here given
jin part from Hearst's Magazine
for June further illustrates the
secret correspondence between
Mark Hanna and the oil mono
poly. It is only one-of many ar
ticles in the magazine equally in
teresting and instructive:
MARK HANNA died early in
1904. fighting bravely to
Ihe end for the mistaken
cause of She divine right of trusts
to rule. If we would understand
that system of mutual assistance
between lug business interests and
i e.ofiipliant politicians, a system
j which still lives and still menaces
lour republican institutions, we
have to treat frankly of the career
of tin Napoleon of that system, a
I Napoleon who never met his Wa
! I erloo.
I’he nation had never witnessed
beiori two such political cam
paigns as those of 1896 and 1900
Mark Hanna, in whose hands the
fortunes of the Republican party
were intrusted, reduced politics to
an exact science.
W ith a cold business air. Hanna
had figured out just what doubtful
states must be carried in order to
win. just how mm-h money was
necessary to carry each one of
those states: then he added the
sums together and proceeded
to assess the ‘'interests” for that
amount
Ila certain bank or corporation
made an inadequate contribution,
the coni rilnitmu was returned w ith
a cool demand for the amount cx
jpected. Mark Hanna raised and
spent l lie two greatest campaign
j funds in history and he won
How could ‘‘the nation s credit
be improved by depreciating the
nation’s virtue How could the.
nation's financial interest or any
true interest of the nation be ail
vanced by destroying the nation
‘itself, by debauching the electorate
which politically constitutes the
nation
Source of Hanna's Vast Funds.
We can not indorse any utter
ance which seeks to justify Han
na's orgy of political corruption.
We intend to expose and explain
Hanna's purpose and Hanna's
methods of maintaining 'sound
principle'' through the purchase
of votes for “cash in hand. We
intend to east a searching light
upon the source of some ot those
'vast sums at < hnirman Hanna's
disposal more especially in the
If'O.l campaign where ''frightful
commercialism in politics rose to
Few of the “Archbold Letters” in HEARST’S MAGAZINE For June, Which
Contains Many Other Features of Notable Interest
Other articles of compelling interest in Hearst’s Maga
zine for June, which is now on sale at the news stands,
include: “Modern Ships Unsafe?” by Charles P. Brewer;
“How to Insure Safety at Sea,” by J. Bernard Walker;
“How Shall We Solve the Divorce Problem?” a sympo
sium; including President Taft, Bishop Doane, Winston
Churchill, Hall Caine, Frederick Townsend Martin, Prof.
E. A. Ross, Thomas Hardy and others; “Shuster’s Own
Story,” by W. Morgan Shuster; “America Is One Big
Cash Register,” by Harry Furniss; “The inside of the
Cup,” by Winston Churchill: “The Story of George
Helm,” by David Graham Phillips:” “Captain Kidd in
Wall Street,” by George Randolph Chester, the creator
of “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,” and reviews of art,
books and science bv the best writers.
its final pitch of-vulgar effront
ery .
In the fall of 1903 Hanna was
facing what threatened to be his
Waterloo. His domination of Ohio
polities and of the legislature
which was to re-elect him to the
I nited States senate was in dis
pute.
In order to obtain the Hood of
money w ith which Hanna won his
victories, the stale tight was made
to take on a national aspect anil
the issue of government by the
people or by the corporations was
raised.
Hanna hud found that a Hood ol
money could drown a moral pro
test. could submerge the wishes of
a majority of the people, could,
through corruption, carry any cor
poration cause to success.
If money could buy victory jn
the nation, why could it not buy
victory in the state? The same
methods, therefore, that had com
pelled success nationally in 1896
and in 19M were applied locally in
1903.
Standard Oil Willing To Pay.
No company was more willing
unselfishly to contribute a few
hundred thousand dollars toward
saving the country- if only it were
allowed to own the country it had
saved
No other corporation was more
interested in good government, if
onlv the government were good
to iT.
All that the Standard Oil Com
pany wanted was the election of
the right kind of judges and the
right kind of legislators and the
right kind of attorney general and
the right kind of Vnited States
senators.
Demands "Simply Awful."
Hanna wrote to Archbold from
( leveland, Ohio, upon the paper of
the I nited States senate, a gov
eminent institution, which Hanna
and Archbold w"re united in de
siring to "save" -for future use.
Hanna 's stationery- was. therefore,
economical and appropriate He
Avrote as follows :
UNITED STATES SENATE.
September 15, 1903.
Cleveland, Ohio.
My Dear Archbold:
I am in receipt of yours of the 14th
inst. and wish to thank you for your
assistance.
Your prediction that I will have a
“walkover’' does not seem likely. As
to she governor, it is true, but the con
test for the legislature will be the hot
test we have known for fifty years.
Johnson is straining everything to that
end. We have 30 close counties out
of 88. many of which we carried two
years ago by NARROW margins. Os
course, Johnson is making every effort
and using money in those counties. Now
I am the target, for my defeat means
more to J. than anything else he hopes
of accomplish. If you lose Cuyahoga
county with its 14 members, it is a
close proposition. Daly can help up
here and in Toledo, and I want your
people to help our state committee lib
erally. The demands on me are simply
awful. Truly yours.
M. A. MANNA.
While m> definite amount of
money- was mentioned in the above
otter, the immense extent to which
corruption funds were being used
can be divined from the statement
of a callous old stager lik/> Hanna
that the demands upon him were
"simply awful."
If the extent of the use of mon
ey in this campaign seemed "sim
ply awful" to Hanna, how much
more awful would it have seemed
to the public .’
In the following letter he ac
knowledges the receipt of a letter
written by Archbold on Septem
ber 15. The rapid-fire correspond
ence is mainly on the subject of
njoney. Hanna w rites, as usual,
on the stationery of the I'nited
States senate, possibly with his
authoritative position and poten
tial usefulness in that body.
The appeal for a "liberal sub
scription" is made again, and is
THE HOME PAPER
now put not so much upon a per
sonal as upon a eoiqioration basis.
The argument that corporation
rule was threatened, which hail
proved so effective in national
campaigns, is brought forward
again to influence corporation con
tributions in 1 his state campaign.
It will he noted that all these
letters of Hanna's are written
• throughout in his own hand. With
all his bluntness and occasionally
brutal frankness. Hanna was far
too cautious Io dictate a letter of
this sort to a stcimgrtipher:
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Cleveland, Ohio,
September 16. 1903.
My Dear John:
I am in receipt of yours of the 15th
inst. and reply that I can not go East,
as I can not leave this situation for a
day,
I know you will do the fair thing
and I want the State Republican com
mittee to get a liberal subscription
from you this time. Although the fight
is all directed against me. I don't want
j them to think I am selfish in taking
subscriptions from my friends to use
in the legislative fight, nor do I fed like
bearing the whole burden, as there is
more than ME interested in the result.
There is no haste about it, ohly we
must Cut our garments to our cloth.
Sincerely yours,
M. A. HANNA.
(Personal)
p. s.—Your people can be of great
help in Allen county. Hancock and
Wood counties, which if successful will
secure the election of THREE mem
bers. The whole fight is against cor
porations and me as their champion.
M. A. H.
"We must cut our garments to
our eloth," says Hanna, and. as
the monster of corruption grew,
more and more "cloth was
needed to cover its hideous nak
edness.
"There is more than me inter
ested in the result.” says Hanna,
ungrammatically hut tritthfully.
"This whole tight is against (In
corporations and me as their
champion '
Misuse es the Power of Wealth.
As a matter of fact, there were
"many more than Hanna inter
Frequent Letters From
Archbold to Hanna Show
the Corruption That Was
Practiced to Attain the
Ends Wanted by the Mo
nopoly.
esled in the result. The fight was
between the people on the one side,
battling For the greatest good for
the greatest number, struggling
for the realization of a govern
ment of the people, by the people
and for the people, and the cor
porations on the other side, striv
ing to control the government in
their own selfish interests, endeav
oring to continue the existing sys
tem with its special privileges and
its profitable plunder.
"This whole tight is against the
corporations and me as their
champion." says Hanna, but the
fight is not and never has been a
fight by the people against the
legitimate interests of the corpora
tions. It is and always has been a.
fight by the corporations against,
the legitimate interests of the peo
ple.
$2,000 in Oregon Matter.
As Senator Foraker received his
certificates of deposit, so Senator
Hanna received his certificates of
deposit. The sum mentioned
($2,000 is a small one compared
with the cert ificates of deposit for
sl-‘>,ooo and larger sums that have
been disclosed by the Standard Oil
letters.
Being a small sum. it was prob
ably for a small purpose, or for 1 hr
purchase of some small man with
a cheap price. But whatever the
purpose of the purchase was, it
was not an honest one or the
amount would not have been smif
in this underhanded and eoncealei
way. The letter and the certifi
cate ol deposit are sent from
Standard (til headquarters bv Mr
Archbold.
26 Broadway. New York.
May 31, 1393.
My Dear Senator;
Responding to your favor of the 28th
it gives me pleasure to enclose you
herewith certificate of deposit to your
favor for $2,000 to aid in the Oregor
matter.
Trusting the desired 4nd will be ac
complished. I am, with kinc. regards.
Very truly yours.
JNO D. ARCHBOLD.
Hon. M A. Hanna.
Senate Chamber.
Washington. D. C.
From tho above letter, address
ed to Hanna in the United State?
senate, and from a similar letter
addressed to Foraker in the Unit
ed States senate, we observe th a
the Standard (til ('ompanv kepi
in close and constant communica
tion with buth <d' its (thio senators
mH only when they were engager
in (thio state politics, hut whei
they were engaged in perforinim
t heir dui i- s as United Stales Sen