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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postofTice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. Bi mail. |5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Be Grateful to the Power I'hat “Pulls” You Along 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. Di.hw Ihis picture in your mind: A wagon is heavily loaded with twenty or more human liv ings. Traves are bound to the front axle of the loaded wagon and are fastened to Um arms of a young man. That man WITH ON IA' HIS <>\VX STRENGTH could not possibly pull the load. He could not move it. But in front of the young man stands a big. carefully trained elephant. Eor lhal elephant, able to pull three freight cars, the load is not liing. I’he elephant is harnessed, and the traces fastened to his pow erful shoulders aie united in a soft, carefully cushioned pad at the back of the performer’s neck. When all is ready the partner of tin- man hitched Io the wag on gives the order to the elephant 1 . If the big animal should move too rapidly, if he should fail to start slowly and gently, he might possibly break the performer s neck. But, intelligent as well as powerful, the big beast leans slowly forward until he has set the wheels of the wagon rolling, then goes along ala .low walk. I’l LUNG THE MAN. who in HIS turn pulls I Im wagon. Il ma} seem almost lift belie va ble that a man could stand Ihis strain upon the back of his neck, and that with the muscles of his arms Im could pull this heavily loaded wagon, even with tip- ele phant pulling HIM But there is no difficulty about it. Any young man of ordi nary strength could perform this teat the principal thing was to have tlm IDEA, and to realize how fascinating it would be to the public to watch the elephant pulling the man by tlm neck, and the man pulling a wagon and twenty human beings with his arms. If al play in a tug-of-war you have pulled against a number of other nmii. yon know that the muscles of tlm body are capa ble of WITHSTANDING a strain much greater than that which they are capable of EXERTING. Eor instance, if you have in your nerves and muscles and in the leverage of your body power enough to pull one thousand pounds, you could easily pull, as this man does, several limes as much if there were a power ahead of you dragging you on Tlm old} thing necessary is to have the elephant hitched up in front T< > I ► THE I’l LUNG Take uwu} the elephant and tlm harness buck of tlm man’s neck, and you would see. apparentl} . a marvellous thing You would see one slightly built young man pulling twenty. If you saw this without seeing the elephant if the elephant and his harness were made invisible, and you saw this young man walk ing around draw ing stu h a load - you would believe in miracles or believe that the man had some force above humanity. Man}' a man gels tlm credit for pulling a load that he is not pulling at all Man}’ a man seems to be doing something very wonderful when in realit} aiioilmr man ANOTHER MIND, not visible in the work, but actually at the work does the heavy pulling. You ma} see the salesman, the editor, the floor walker, the en gineer. the architect any kind of a man engaged in any kind of work apparentl}' doing something very wonderful Yet Im is not doing it all An unseen power—another man. another brain, perhaps some little man with a small bod}' and a big Imad. who keeps out of sight is doing the real work Mau} of ns have -I ■plmiits big, st rong. but unseen pulling us We ought ai least to im grateful to the elephant give him a fair chance since he does Hie hardest work and do our part, big or little, in the general performance. It would he a good thing if man} young nmn working in all departments of activity in America should occasionally feel g>'al itude toward tlm big elephant. Im big MAN, throne whose power and experience pull them along, and do what thev can to encour age him. to . T-s r -■ hB hi Ip mid the benefit that they get from his pulling Ever} on us WITHOI’T EXCEPTION is PL LI.ED along or IT SHED ahead by some force unseen. IT may be the man m the inside office. usually invisible. It may be the woman at home setting a good example, giv 'ing to the man at work the inspiration and the power that no one else could give. It may be paternal affection, enabling a man to do for a weak child what he eould not possibly do for himself. \ ery often the power is one that has long disappeared from the earth, a father or a mother whose energy and inspiration persist and do in tlm life of the sou at work what the elephant does in this picture. We are all of us pushed or pulled, ail of us indebted to a power above our own and be} ond our own. And we should at least be grateful, from the small clerk who is made secure, protected n his daily living by a man work ing himself to death at tlm head of the firm, to tlm man of ge nius, so called, who owes the power that the world, admires to a «>oiimr unseen and uiiremenilmred. ion t e.-g '. tilt- •depiiau: that pubs }<m. BE GKATEFI’L In this wa} }on can add to your own force, ami perhaps in time become the power that shall pull others. The Atlanta Georgian TUESDAY. JUNE 11. 1912. (FROM HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR JUNE) New Standard Oil Letters and Their Lessons United States Senate, -Id auv czz/,/-z y — G /A_-» Ax/- z A J / S L // 7 Aft z— ft- J T a ' Lu*,, ZE» 1, i A y * ' ’* r IrTu* These Are Only a Few of the “Archbold Letters'’ in HEARST’S MAGAZINE For June, Which Contains Many Other Features of Notable interest 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 in 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 i tides in the magazine equally in teresting and instructive: MARK HANNA died early in 1904. fighting bravely to the end lor the mistaken cause of the divine right of trusts to rule. If we would understand that system of mutual assistance between big business interests ami compliant politicians, a system which still lives and still menaces our republican institutions, we have to treat frankly of the career of the Napoleon of that system, a Napoleon who never met his W'a t erloo. The nation had never witnessed before 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 polities m an exact science With a cold business air. Hanna I | had figured out just what doubtful! stales must be carried in order to I win, just how much money was necessary to carry each one of; those states; then he added the sums together and proceeded ; to assess the "interests" for that I amount li a certain bank or corporation made ati inadequate contribution, the coni ribut ion was ret tuned wit h a cool demand for the amount ex peeled Mark Hanna raised and spent the two greatest campaign funds in history—and Im 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 ad 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 ami Hanna's methods of maintaining "sound principle'' through the purchase I of votes for "cash in hand." Wei intend to cast a searching light ’ upon the source of some of those ' "\ast sums at <'hairman Hanim's 1 disposal more especially in the. 1903 campaign where "frightful commercialism in polities rose to i 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 W e Solve the Divorce Problem?” a sympo sium; including President Taft, Bishop Doane, W inston Churchill, Hail 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 W inston Churchill; “The Story of -George Helm,” by David Graham Phillips;” “Captain Kidd in Wall Street,” by Geoi 'ge Randolph Chester, the creator of “Get-Rich-Quick W allingford,” and reviews of art, books and science by 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 'politics and of llm legislature 'which was to reelect him to the l iiited States senate was in dis-: j pute. In order to obtain the flood ol I money w ith which Hanna won his I victories, the state fight w as made :to take on a national aspect ami i the issue z of government by the! i people or by the corporations was: ■ raised 1 lamia had found t hat a flood ol | : money could drown a moral pro test. void d submet ge the wis lies of ia majority of dm people, could, through corruption, carry any cor poration cause to success. If money could buy victory in j 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 1900 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 sit ved. No other corporation was more interested in good government, if onlv the government were good to IT Ail tlull tlm Standard < >il < oni pany wauled was the election of the right kind of judges and- the I right kind of legislators and the I right kind of attorney general and the right kind of I'nited States ! senators. Demands "Simply Awful ” Hanna wrote I<> Archbold from; 1 lev land. Ohio, upon the paper of j I the I idled Slates senate, a gov-' eminent institution, which Hanna and Archbold were united in de siring to ' save"— for future use. Hanna s sialionerv was. therefore, economical and appropria 1 e He wrote 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 the 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 *3O 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 I here and in Toledo, and I want your people to help our state committee lib erally. The demands on me are simply awful. i ruly yours. M. A. HANNA. While no definite amount of money whs mentioned in the above elder, the immense extent to which corruption funds were being used can be divined from the statement of a eallqus old stager like Hanna that the demands upon him were "simply awful." It 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 moqey. Hanna writes, as usual, on the stationery of the Fr.iteii [States senate, possibly with his j i aulhoritative position and poten ’ tial usefulness in that body i The appeal for a "liberal sub-1 I script ion ’ is made again, and is ’THE HOME PAPER i now put not so much upon a per - sonal as upon a corporation'basis. ■ The argument that corporation . rule was threatened, which had ■ proved' so effective in national campaigns, is brought forward again to influence corporation con tributions in this slate campaign. It will he noted that all these 11 letters of Hanna's are written throughout in his own hand. With , all his bluntness and occasionally i brutal frankness. Hanna was far too cautious to dictate a letter of . this sort Io a stenographer: UNITED STATES SENATE. Cleveland, Ohio,’ September 16„ 1903. I My Dear John; i 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 them to think I am selfish in taking subscriptions from my friends to use in the legislative fight, nor do I feel like bearing the whole burden, as there is more than ME interested in the result. There is no haste about it, only we must cut our garments to our cloth. Sincerely yours, M. A. HANNA. ' (Personal) i P. S. —Your people can be of great help in Allen county, Hancock and Wood counties, which if successful will secire 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 cloth," says Hanna, and. as; the monster of corruption grew. I more and more "(doth” was; needed to cover its hideous oak-’ edness. "There is more than me inter-; ested in the result." says Hanna, ungrammatically Iml truthfully., "This whole fight is against the I | corporations and me as their j | champion/‘ Misuse of the Power of Wealth. , As a matter of feet, there were "many more than Hanna" inler- Frequent Letters From Archbold to Hanna Show the Corruption That Was Practiced to Attain the Ends Wanted by the Mo nopoly. ested in the result. The tight was between 1 he people on t he 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 Io 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 I the legitimate interests of the peo | pl* 1 - $2,000 in Oregon Matter. i As Senator Foraker received his I certificates of deposit, so Senator Hanna received his certificates of deposit. I'he sum mentioned ($2,000) is a small one compared with the certificates of deposit for [ sls.(Mill and larger sums 1 hat have been disclosed by the Standard Oil letters. Being a small sum. it was prob aldy for a small purpose, or for the purchase ol 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 sent in this underhanded and concealed way. The letter and the certiti eate of deposit are sent from Standard Oil headquarters bv Mr Archbold. 26 Broadway. New York „ „ r. Ma i' 31 > 18 98. My Der Senator: l Responding to your favor of the 28th, [it gives me pleasure to enclose you i herewith Certificate of deposit to your favor for $2,000 to aid in the Oregon matter. Trusting the desired end will be ac complished, I am, with kind regards, Very truly yours. L a o JNO ' D ' ARCHBOLD. Hon. M. A. Hanna, Senate Chamber, , Washington. D. C. I From the above ft-ttor. address fl to Hanna in the I nitcd States [smiate. and iroin a similar letter [addressed Io Foraker in the I’nit ied States senate, yve observe ♦!>•»<. [the Standard Oil Company k>" iin close and constant eommuniim tmn with both of its Ohio senators. [ not only v ben they were engaged I m Ohio slate politics, bui wiien II hey w .'re engaged j n p,., | <» rin j n>i r their duties as I nited Stales sen ators.