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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Funday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga Entered as secxmd-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1373 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 1.0 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable In advance. 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. / n imlj JTUI S' > S' jTALL ■ j Yy ’ O'.-. cA ' u /h M4L /r ' i a i . / , —_ » ITS NM clooM'l OCEAH , . / XW SMUI»A \ •« , < buy mom —*t L 7 ' LlooM ihToit I G * \ < ' V \ /mu CletustakTaA - ■ V'- - ' tttj»,_W-" . I WALK OMER. TO ;■ ‘hothi*, GN , kobbed y ffvyj II ' ""■> as imf f a J , > pOVERT” , • y - 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>- »-m| On- Si *■ X 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.