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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN I’ubh-- e*! K- fry A f terror .■ jnday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Eaxt Alabama . Atlanta, Ga Entered ait .t*< ond •■ lata matter »♦ poatoff. l *• t Atlanta. under a'J of March *, hub*' rif * >f>r. 1: ■ f I )r i■. f t cd I : »a r: j*f, 10 < f r» ■ ■■• u<• r k B; mail. EM a yed.' Payable hi a'i’.an-' 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