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No, Mr. Bryce, the Demo
crats Won’t Abolish
Protection
James Bryoe the British ambassador to the I nited Slates,
who is visiting in Australia.’has stirred the British Empire m
.'•igh hopes of gain hj predietine. in a speech, that Democratic
success next November will result in great reductions in the
American tariff.
The people of England and her • olonics will widely err.
however, if they anticipate the early overthrow of the American
protective system.
According to a special eahb io Pho Georgian. Ihe London
Times 'juotes the Melbourne speech to thf following effect:
W’ Bryce said that America was increasing her manufactures, hut he:
efty population was also increasing so fast that her whole product would
soon be required sot home consumption, and she would cease to be an ex
porting nation. He said that a potlion of the American trad, should fall to
Australia especially so since there exists at this time a greater prospect
thpn.ever before of substantial ■ reductions in the Amo; lean tariff.
Mr. Bryce's speech though couched in cautious terms and by
no means saying all the things that have been inferred from it -
■will occasion some surprise in America, where Mr Bryce is cred
ited with a high degree of diplomatic discretion. Ihe honored
author of ' The American Commonwealth’' should be too well
informed in American allairs to furnish such ground lor misun
derstanding as this Melbourne speech is likely to entail.
The speech will recall too vividly the over-zealous support oi
the Democratic party that was offered by a former British min
ister. It will he remembered that Mr Sackville-West in lhe
Cleveland campaign of ]BBR counselled one Charles F . Murchison,
of Pomona, <'al. a naturalized American of English oirth to
vote the Democratic ticket, for the reason that the English would
profit b\ Democratic success. Il will also be remembered that
Mr. Cleveland did not succeed in that campaign; and that the
high British hopes of Mr. Cleveland's success made much more
certain his defeat.
Every friend of genuine tariff reform in America will wish
that Mr. Bryce had not made his Melbourne speech, or having
made it. that he and his compatriots may he quickly and emphat
ically assured that the free trade plank in the Democratic nation
al platform does not represent universal Democratic sentiment in
the United States.
That plank was written by William -I. Bryan, yy ho is a vio
lent extremist on most public questions, and. upon Ihe tariff
question in particular, a dangerous and unprincipled demagogue.
He possesses neither knowledge of the tariff, nor business expe
rience. nor political principles of any kind on the great American
question. He ardently advocated as a member of congress a
tariff for revenue only, and within two years thereafter, as a can
didate for president in 1896, suppressed ail references to the
tariff, posing as a protectionist, in the hope of winning the votes
of free silver Republicans all of whom were ardent protectionists.
The Democratic national platform was adopted without dis
cussion at the end of seven days and nights of unparallelled
stress ami strain. The fre ■ trade plank purports to stand for the
sentiment of the platform committee; but that committee sub
mitted absolutely to the dictation of Mr. Bryan.
The free trade plank is Bryan’s plank. It represents, there
fore. no settled policy or conviction at all. The majority of thought
ful Americans are not ready wholly to abandon the protective pol
icy in favor of a tariff for revenue only. And even if they were,
the need of national revenue is so urgent that tariff reform" must
necessarily look to lightening the monstrous load that is now laid
upon the necessaries of life—rather than to the abolishment of
all tarifi’ tinties.
It is certainly true in this sense that the program of the Dem
ocratic party does in good faith contemplate some very sweeping
reductions. England is naturally sympathetic with any program
that promises an extended market for her manufactures. She does
not object to securing new American free trade, even though she
showed herself last year violently opposed to giving the I nited
States corresponding benefits through reciprocity with Canada.
But America will settle its tariff question, not to please Eng
land. but to please itself and to promote the welfare of its own
people.
The welfare of the American people requires that the Coolie
labor of China and the underpaid labor of other alien peoples shall
not be put in competition with American labor—save in those in
dustries where the perfection of American industrial organization
and the incomparable efficiency of American workmen enable them
to maintain the American standard of living in spite of all for
eign competition.
The Democratic partv has suffered long enough from the nn
scrupulous egotism and the unbridled fanaticism of Mr Bryan
Mr. Bryan's free trade plank declares that protection does not
tend to increase the wages of American yvorkmen. hut that those
wages are determined by the competitive system. If. however, a
protective tariff, properly ley ied, tends to develop new industries
and in that way to give employment to a greater number of men.
it is impossible to maintain that a protective tariff does not in
crease the demand for labor, and so tend Io raise wages.
If any considerable number of American industries would he
eliminated by reducing the tariff to a bare revenue basis, then it is
absurd to say that the men who would thus be throyvu out of em
ployment would not tend to glut the labor markets, and so to lower
the general level of wag' ■ —through tile operation of that very sys
tem of competition which Mr. Bryan invokes.
The proposition of the extreme free traders can not be estab
lished, because it is a matter of history ami experience that protec
tion can be made to increase the numbej- and scope of industries in
this country, and so broaden the field of labor and Increase the
wages of wage-earners.
Governor Wilson yvill. if he is as able and sagacious as we hope
he is. make it clear, both to the American electorate and to all over
expectant onlookers in foreign lands, that the Democratic party
will go on with the work of intelligent reasonable tariff reform in
the spirit that has actuated the present Democratic house of repre
sentatives. And not in the spirit of destruction and fanaticism
which Bryan vainly fried to impose upon Speaker t laik and leader
1 nderwood They resisted Bryan s counsel of folly ami -o " 'll
B&(overnor \\ il-on. we hope and helm.'
The Atlanta Georgian
GLOOMY OLD JOHN
Champion Kicker of the Universe
Copyright, 1912, Internationa! News Service.
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THOMAS TAPPER WRITES
—ON—
How to Build a Fortune
No. I—The Beginning.
MOST people think that to
build a fortune requires one
to begin with the mon- y in
the pocket
It does rot.
It requires one to begin with the
thoughts in the head.
And the reasotj foi this is that in
building a fortune one must save
up two kinds of capital:
1 Mental resources, that life may
be enjoyable ami full of interest to
the last da.\.
2. lust enough money not to in
terfere with solid happiness.
Manx people have been seriously
handicapped all through life by too
much money. Eo>- unwjse men a
lot of money spells temptation and
ultimate ruin for a wise man it
spells care and responsibility.
How Much Money
Makes a Fortune?
How much money maker. -i for
tune?
There is no answer to this ques
tion. But the neatest approach to
an answer is probable found in the
word- of the hanker, wh", -aid;
lie is well-to-do who. without
vices, lives comfortable afte the
dictates of a mind that i- alive to
the call of the cultured world about
him Ho can live in this world,
happily and without great price.
He can bo Interested in many
things. He can help himself for
ward from dae to day. and if hi/
days of labor have given him wis
dom he can help others. A man
of simple tastes and habits can
thus be well-to-do on a surpris
ingly small sum of money."
How does one begin to build a
lot tune ?
As there are two kinds of capital
1.. lie set aside, so there are two
definite rules or. rather, sets of
rules. The first has to do with
investing in mental resources.
l 1 >on * live a life of cons ro t ion
a- the j' at; ue bj. Lit e out in 'h-
FRIDAY. JULY 19. 1912.
Bv THOMAS TAPPER.
open, whe (> men are working apd
i h Inking.
2. Keep abreast of the times. t
There is enough in a daily iiews
pn pej- to give a careful reader a
liberal edueation.
2. I,earn about the past; what
men did, how they succeeded, what
('ifftcultles they overcame. A love
for history, biography—in short,
lor the best books —is in itself a
gua antee of pleasure and interest
that yvill last a man a lifetime.
Do Something Else
Besides Your Own Work.
4. Have a hobby. Love to do
something besides you own work.
Psychologists tell us that we pos
' sc-s brain < "Ils. Sup-
BII.L AFFECTING
SOI.ICI FORS
Editor Tlie Georgian:
The I’eople of Georgia who are
interested in reducing tile exi>en es
of our state government, at the
same time Increasing the efficiency
of out officers, should register their
disapproval of a mu now before the
legislature.
This measure proposes to abolish
the office of solicitor general and
create in its place the office of
county attorney—a lawyer on a lib
eral salary in each county to act as
prosecuting attorney for that coun
ty only. For instance, the county
of Jackson, under the provisions of
this bill, yvould get a salary almost
equal to that of the judge of the
Western circuit for acting as prose
cuting attorney In only two sessions
of the superior court.
The people of Georgia want the
fc, system abolished, but there is
no reason, however, tor the county
attorney plan, and Ute people wifi
not stand for such outrageous waste
of the public's money. yVhat the
people demand is that the solici
tor's office remain as it Is. but with
the officer on a salac and not a
f PC basis. yy'LL LANItzR.
Statham, Ga.
pose you owned a mansion with
1.100.000.000 rooms, would you
choose to live in the basement?
'Veil, most of us live in the base
ment of the mind, and never once
Ihink of'going upstairs to see what v
kind of a house we own.
•5. Remember that men never
move toward the devil in’ work
hours, but in leisure hours. If you
have a hobby, or an interest in life
aside from your work, you will not
move toward the devil at any time.
The second set of rules concerns
money. There is just one principle
to follow:
1. Spend less than you earn.
This may be expressed in 10,000
different ways, hut when you an
alyze them thev al! mean: Don't
spend It all. ,
But this advice is easy »to give
and often difficult to follow. It re
quires— as we shall see later on —
much thought, study and Adjust
ment. Every one of us has to
learn how to live on a definite •
financial schedule.
It may take you months to de
termine that schedule and to get it
in working order. When you have
done so, you have begun to build a
fortune, even if your margin is
• only a nickel a day.
The Real Beginning
Os Getting Wealth.
To have made a schedule by
which you can live and save will
be not only the beginning of your
fortune. It will make you alive to
the valtfe of the greatest asset you
have—namely, Spare Time. You
will begin to think in that spare
time, to get a better and a firmer
grip on things, to prepare for a
better Job—to increase, in a word.
.' out earning capacity. Then your
nickel a day moves to a dime, then
to tw o dimes, and if you. keep at it.
thinking >nd planning and working
wiscl' rnrp margin will tn
in'. !'<»:« beyond your tutpeetation.
THE HOME PAPER
Now For Some Action
Captain Clayton, who is in charge of the construction and re
pair of Atlanta’s streets and sewers, is back in the city after a
well-deserved rest.
F’or a great many years Captain Clayton has been a faithful
and efficient public servant.
Captain Clayton's honesty never hps been and mwer will be
questioned. There is no doubt that he will acknowledge that the
streets and sewers of Atlanta, are a disgrace to the city.
If he does not receive the co-operation he thinks is necessary
from council. Captain Clayton should say so.
If his money appropriation is too small. Captain Clayton
should say so.
Jf his staff of subordinates is too small or incompetent. Cap
tain Clayton should say so.
If he feels that he is no longer able to handle a department
of such size yvith credit to himself and to the city. Captain Clay
ton should -ay so.
If he rhinks there should be a division of his department.
Captain Clayton should say so.
During Captain Clayton's absence council, through courtesy,
has failed to do anything to relieve the condition -of the streets
and sewers. Now that he is here, there is no excuse for am
official failing to do everything in his power toward ridding the
city <>f its shalne.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
The Important Business
of Marriage
---and—
How Divorce Might Be
Avoided
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by Ante rican-Journal-Examiner.
MARRIAGE is the most im
portant business in the
/ yvorld.
No large corporation, with of
fices in every city in the land,
means so much to the human race
as one happy, clean, loving home,
where there is one standard of
morale for husband and wife, and
where there are mutual affection,
mutual trust and confidence, and a
constant effort to be reasonable,
agreeable, sensible and consider
ate. Such a home is HEAVEN.
"But Heaven is not reached by a
single bound;
“We mount to the summit round
by round.”
•
However two people love when
they marry, domestic happiness
must, to continue, be gained by
daily practice of the old-fashioned
virtues. Because the lover bride
groom calls his yvife an angel she
must not imagine she has nothing
to do to retain het perfection in his
eyes. Instead she must feel a great
responsibility put upon her. to pro
duce a materialization of his ideal.
Husband Must
Use Common Sense.
The husband who has won his
prize must, not Imagine he can
keep the i espect and loyalty and
love of his wife without using self
control and common sense reason
ably.
Why do men and women ignore
these plain facts?
Why do they understand that
every object in life which they set
forth to seek must be continually
toiled for and made a subject of
study and patient effort, and yet
ignore all these rules when they
set forth to attain domestic happi
ness?
And without that, what is life
worth?
We all dep’ote the prevalency of
divorce in the land.
Divorce Is so common that it is
vulgar.
It is no longer tragic.
Yet. there are situations which
are so distressing one is amazed
at Nte spiritual courage of the
husband or the wtfe who endures a
continuance of life.
There Is a inan who works every
alternate night.
On the night when he does not
work he never appears at his home
until 2 or 3 in the morning.
And then he refuses to state
where he has been.
There is a daughter of sixteen;
and she is curious to know why
he father is away front his home.
There are neighbors who hear
him return, and the unhappy wife
must not only suffer with loneli
ness and sorrow, but she must bear
the humiliation of gossip and car>-
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On- Si
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She has been married eighteen
years, and she has no way of tak
ing care of herself and her family.
Still Loves Him
Despite Disloyalty.
Besides, she married for love;
and the flame burns still in her
heart, despite the husband's self
ishness and disloyalty.
What possible pleasure or hap
piness can a man And in his dis
sipation or his gambling or his
amours which can compensate him
for the loss of his self-respect and
the knowledge that he has spoiled
the life of the woman he chose so
his life companion; the keeper of
his home and the mother of his
child?
Married life can be made s"
beautiful with the humblest sur
roundings and in the midst of the
hardest toil if the two contracting
parties will hold the ideal of a per
fect partnership, which is to result
in complete success Just as two
men in business do.
When anything causes a differ
ence of opinion, the two business
associates always sit down and
quietly talk the matte, over.
. Each has his own special duties
and obligations to make the part
nership a success; and if one neg
lects or shirks his responsibilities
the other has a right to complain
Precisely the same method
should be used in the matriage
business. This man under dis
cussion promised to love, suppo t
and cherish the woman he married,
and he is breaking his obligations
by neglecting her and making her
unhappy by his questionable hab
its.
At the same time it is possible
that the wife has not made an at
tractive home for the husband.
She may be a nagging woman:
she may be a careless housekeeper.
She may have allowed herself to
grow frowsy and unnecessarily old
and uninteresting, and she may
think of nothing better to talk
about when her husband is at home
than her ailments, aches and pains.
Marriage as Business
To Avoid Divorce.
The mere fact of a marriage '!•
does not keep a man contented and
nappy In the companionship of a
woman of this description.
But instead of rushing away
from her to seek distraction else
where, the masculine member of
the marriage business concern
should talk with the woman part
ner and tell her Just where she is
failing, and ask her to try and
keep up her part of the contract.
The wife should do the same
when the male partner begins to
be lax in ids obligations. Many
divo'cea < ould be avoided if hus
bands and wives regard'd mar
riage a; an important busineef af
fair.
