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Mr. Bryce and England Are.
Counting Chickens
Unhatched
They Are Mistaking Bryan's Ignorant, Half-Baked Tariff Ideas
For the Opinions of the Democratic Party.
The distinguished Mr. Bryce, who has so admirably stated
the American system of government in his great hook, seems to
lack present-day information as to American ideas, American po
litical intentions and the future of American industries. In a speech
which has aroused interest throughout Great Britain and the rest
of the world, Mr. Bryce informs his fellow countrymen that the
tariff plank in the Democratic, platform will become the law of the
land; that there will be sweeping and revolutionary reductions in
our American tariff, and that England will be able to find wealth
and prosperity by flooding our American markets with English,
goods.
Needless to say, Mr. Bryce finds a very sympathetic feeling in
England for the Democratic tariff plank as it now stands. He fore
sees a day when the end of our tariff system will give American
markets and American money to England, or any other country
that cares to flood this country with goods manufactured by cheap
labor.
On behalf of a million readers, of many millions of Democrats,
and of American common sense generally, we beg to inform Mr.
Bryce that he is holding out false hopes to his fellow’ citizens of
Great Britain, painting for them a beautiful mirage that will never
become reality. Mr. Bryce needs to be told that the tariff plank in
the Democratic platform does not represent either the people of
America or the whole Democratic party of this country. That plank
comes from the brain of William J. Bryan, an individual devoted
exclusively to his own advancement and enrichment through poli
tics, w’ho plays with national issues and great questions of political
economy as joyously and as ignorantly as a child building a block
house. The child does not hesitate to use the roof in building the
cellar, to put the doors where the window’s ought to be, or to build
a house without any doors or windows at all. And just so Bryan,
as ignorant of public affairs as any child, as ignorant of American
business needs as any Chinese coolie, a man who has never created
a dollar's worth of real value or earned a dollar, except by exhib
iting himself as an oratorical freak.
BRYAN HAS BEEN PERMITTED TO EXPRESS HIS IG
NORANT RECKLESSNESS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM TARIFF PLANK AND HOLD OCT TO FOREIGNERS
EAGER TO SEIZE OUR MARKETS AND SEE OUR PROSPER
ITY DIMINISHED HOPES THAT WILL NEVER BE REAL
IZED.
We assure Mr. Bryce and English manufacturers eager to sell
us goods made by underpaid labor that the opinions of Mr. Bryan
on the tariff, as expressed in the Democratic platform tariff plank,
and the opinions of the American people are not at all the same.
This country is by no means ready to throw’ away the protective
theory and practice that have built up our industries and our
w’ealth. It is the intention of this country to make such changes in
the tariff as may be necessary to combat trust evils and extortion at
home. But this country will not make tariff changes that will upset
business and industry, bring American workmen in direct competi
tion of wages with workmen paid half as much in other countries —
or one-tenth as much in Asia. We remind Mr. Bryce that as Bryan,
ignorantly and without information,talks of a tariff upheaval today,
so Bryan, ignorantly and without information, talked of a financial
upheaval sixteen years ago. Mr. Bryan was not able, sixteen years
ago, to destroy the financial system and the national credit of this
country. And Mr. Bryan, in spite of his Democratic platform tariff
plank and his childish willingness to play with great questions as
an ignorant child plays with matches, will not be permitted to de
stroy the industrial and business system of this country.
Reclaiming a Man
HMM
W S. Dozier's Way To Do It Is To Beat a Woman.
Because W. S. Dozier was a dutiful father he beat a woman.
While a negro held a light for him he horsewhipped her the
other night until she tell in a street in Dawson. Ga.
Dozier’s explanation of his courageous act was extremely rea
sonable. He had a wayward son who was infatuated with a way
ward woman. He believed the best way to reclaim the man was to
beat the woman, and he did it.
He was grimly in earnest. The woman was nearly dead
when Dozier felt he had done what he could to reclaim his son. and
stopped beating her.
In Dozier's modest account of lhe affair he neglected to sav
how many times he hit the woman with the hope of reedaiming her—
the lashes she received were for lhe moral aid of the man. Fol
lowing the same system, an equal number of lashes on the son
might have proved of equal moral aid to the woman.
But Dozier had a different idea. His beating ended when the
woman lay near death. He had done his duty as a gentleman
should.
All that was left for him to do was to gather the reclaimed man
to his bosom and lay flattering unction to himself that a son of
k his was too good for the creature at his feet.
The Atlanta Georgian
What Are You Going To Do About It?
Attitude of Police Official in New York’s Gambler-Slaying Scandal.
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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« YOUTH AND AGE *
A WOMAN, who was a great
toast and belle in her youth,
and who at middle age is
still fascinating beyond compare,
told me this little story the other
day.
“When I was a girl, down in Vir
ginia,” she said, “I had a boy friend
who was, I think, the handsomest
youth I ever saw. He was like a
Greefc god—a young Apollo, tall
and slender, with starry eyes and
ambrosial locks—wonderful to look
upon.
“Our families had been friends for
generations, and Tom and I played
together, and laughed together, and
danced, and rode, and frollicked to
gether, and everywhere we went
people spoke about our looks, for
1 had my claims to beauty then, too.*
"In the course of time Tom got
an appointment as a cadet to An
napolis. I married and went to the
middle West to live, drifting about
from city to city as my husband’s
business required until finally he
landed here in New York. I heard
of Tom now and then, always as an
able and gallant officer, who went
up ami up in the service, until now
he is the commander of a battle
ship. But in all the 30 years since
we were boy and girl together I
never once saw him.
"The other morning the telephone
rang, and when I answered it a
voice'came over the wire, saying:
" 1 am Tom Blank, and my ship
is in port here and I want to come
and see you
’’’Oh!’ 1 gasped. 'How delighted
I shall be to see you again!'
" 'Before I come 1 want to ask
you one question.’ went on the
voice. '1 want to ask you. Alary, if
you are as young and beautiful as
when I saw you last’.”
"'No.' I answered; '1 am old, and
fat. and gray-headed.' Then 1 said:
'1 want to ask you a question.
Tom. Are xon as hands, me as you
Were when J saw you last'.”
"'No.' b-.- replied; 1 am skinny
add screw nx , and bald-headed. and
,t grandfather.’ And then," added
th, woman pensively, "we both
laughed a Httl", and it came to mo
that our laughter was the oldest
thing about o. it had so much of
th- know leugi and experience of
FRIDAY. JULY 26, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX.
life in it and so little of the reck
less joy of youth.”
"If you had been French,” I said,
“you would not have let him come
to see you. He would not have
come if you had permitted hitn.
Each of you would have been too
afraid of spoiling the ideal that you
cherished of the other —the picture
that you had carried in your mem
ory, through all the years, of beau
ty, and high spirits, and all that
goes to make up the wonder and
the glory of youth.”
"But we are both Americans,”
the woman smiled.
"Yes," I said, lather resentfully,
“and you let him come to see you.
We Americans are so unsentiment
al. and we always have the courage
of our curiosity.”
“Yes, he came,” she said.
"And how did you find him?” 1
asked. “Was he so terribly chang
ed ?"
“I saw nothing but his soul," she
answered. “He had grown so fine
and beautiful in character, so broad
and intelligent, that it did not mat
ter how he looked. If he had been
the living skeleton 1 should not
have known it."
“And if he was that kind of a
man." I commented. “1 know what
he thought of you. He thought that
you were a thousand times more
fascinating than you were in the
■most beautiful day of your girl
hood. He thought how crude youth
seemed beside you, and that if you
had not found the fountain of per
petual youth, you had discovered
the spring of perpetual charm."
"1 can’t claim all that." replied
the woman modestly, "but 1 hive
tried to make an art of grow ing old.
Say vx hat we will, a woman faces
the tragedy of her life when she
realizes that her cheeks are losing
their roses, her complexion its
freshness, her hair its luster, and
her figure its suppleness. She has
been accustomed to being admired,
to being fed on compliments, and
then, some day. she wakes up to
the bitter fact that nobody turns
to look at her as she passes by,
and nobody pays her any compli
ments. And the worst of the situ-
ation is that she hasn't lost her
sweet tooth. She loves the bon
bons of flattery just as well as ever.
“That is the time when a woman
goes to a beauty doctor and says:
’Take all that I have anil give me
back my looks,' and she acquires
nervous prostration trying to at
tain the waist measure of sixteen.
It is in vain. The clock never
turns back for us. What is gone
is gone, but we may get something
in place of it. Life isn’t quite a
robber. It always offers something
in exchange, if we’ve only intelli
gence enough to take it.
"And for our youth and beauty it
gives us experience, and sympathy,
and tact, and a selfishness that no
young person ever has. There is no
other creature on earth so egotis
tical as a pretty young girl. She
thinks of nothing but herself. She
considers nobody but herself. She
is interested in nobody but herself.
She wants to talk of nothing but
her own affairs.
“Men are also egotistical; they
are never really interested in what
a woman thinks, or knows. They
want to talk about themselves, and
that is why you so often sge men
leaving debutantes to flock around
a middle-aged woman. Believe
me. my dear, if when a Neman's
youth begins to wane she spent
more time and effort massaging the
wrinkles out of her mind, and less
in massaging the wrinkles out of
her face, she would find it more
prolita ble."
"What did you talk to your naval
hero about?" I asked with sudden
suspicion.
' 1 didn't talk. I listened," she
answered with twinkling eyes.
"You make me think of some
thing that the great French ac
tress Rhea once -aid to me," I
said. "1 was sent to interview her.
and I asked her what was the
secret of the way she retained her
youth and beauty, to which she
replied with superb effrontery:
"'As for my beauty. I do not see
it. As for my youth, It will go
" In n it w ill go, but. young or old,
beautiful or figlx. I shall always
b< fascinating. 1 shall always be
Rhea ’ ”
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
Americans Lacking
in Respect EgM
Things of an Earlier
Day
Written For The Georgian
Bv the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
WE Americans are lacking in
respect for old things. Per
haps it is because we are a
new people, and, therefore, pos
sessed of a lively consciousness of
the future.
It is not necessary to worship the
past, but we should be safer if we
had a warmer appreciation of his
toric values.
It is a symptom of the times that
children govern their parents.
Family government continues,
but is vested in the offspring.
Men today are believers in the
new theology, the new morality, the
new nationalism, the new thought.
Progress!veism lias become a kind
of mania. Th ? old is discarded be
cause it is old, not because it is
outworn. Distinction should be
made between different kinds ot
conservatism.
There Is Also a
Live Conservatism.
There is, on the one hand, the
conservatism of dry rot, but there
is also a live conservatism, one
which cherishes what has been at
the same time that it is reaching
carefully forward to what is going
to be —something as a mountain
climber keeps one foot firmly
placed on the rock which he has
reached, at the same moment that
he is getting ready to put his other
foot on the rock above.
Whether we realize it or not, in
all our building we construct on the
basis of the past. We are heirs of
the previous centuries. Most of
what we know; very nearly all of
what we know, is what has b£en
thought out by our ancestors going
clear back to the beginning of his
tory. If we can see farther than
they, it is only because we stand
on the platform which by their
thinking and acting they have
greeted for us.
All the new discoveries that a e
being so numerously made in these
times are the culmination merely
of investigations that have been in
progress for thousands of years.
XVe are no brighter than our an
cestors. We see for the most part
by the inherited results of ances
tral intelligence and research.
To think lightly of what has been
done and to ignore those who have
done it, is to dishonor and dis
grace ourselves by our attitude of
contempt for those from whom we
have received so many and such
magnificent bequests.
Principle Applies to
All Kinds of Results.
People who fly off on sudden tan
gents from the lines of belief that
have been loyally and affection
ately pursued for years and cen
turies are guilty of the same child
ish flippancy as any little boy who
scorns the counsel of his father
and wilfully builds up his experi
ence out of his own puerile experi
mentings.
When a father said to his boy.
"My son. I wouldn't do that. I
have learned by exporience that it
is an unwise thing to do.” To this
I he Panama Engineers
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
HAVE cleft " ur "ay through mountains,
VV Where the Spaniard sought the Fountains
t>f Eternal Youth; we’ve watched ourselves grow old.
I nderneath the grim Equator.
We have done what the Creator
-Might Himself have done so easy, without gold.
M ith the Congress and mosquito
From the States to Chagresito
We have had a ten-year fight and thought we’d won.
\\ e were careful, hut the fever,
< >r, perhaps, a flying lever.
Told us daily that another’s job was done.
Where the high silts vomit
We've done better than Mahomet,
For we’ve made Culebra's mountain come to us,
And we’ve put it up, more useful,
Down at Gatun, while abuseful
t ritics look at Lake Shore Driveway from a 'bus.
Where our beds with night blasts quiver
We can lift a dirty river <
And put it in the place it ought to be;
Bossing thirty thousand niggers ’
With.our fingers on our triggers
We have helped Columbus find his China Sea.
They admit, with pompous thunder,
That the thing is quite a wonder;
That we’re serving all Mankind. Well, so WE say.
But they've surely got things twisted
If they think that we’re enlisted
1 nder Johnny Bull’s red pantalettes and pay. ' -
W e are “merely engineering,”
They explain beyond our hearing.
No, were not! We’re lighting men; that’s what we're for.
It s ONE uniform we’re wearing,
And we're not down here preparing
Just a chance for waiting Japs to start to war. f
We have fashioned towns -and killed them’
Torn up railroads—to rebuild them:
Done Earth's biggest job the best that we knew how.
Twas for I’nele Sam we labored!
Ami as S'H.DIERS though unsabered!
Shall they give our finished work to foemen NOW?
the boy replied: "But. father I
want to learn it by experience,
too.”
The race would be a great way
further forward than it is if it had
been willing to walk by the guid
ance of the lessons ancestrally
learned.
The principle for which we are
contending applies to all kinds of
results wrought out by previous
thinking, whether along lines of
science, religion or politics.
A religion such as that which was
laid at the foundation of Ameri
can life and institutions max- not
be in all respects the perfect thing.
But it has served us well, its
principles have been a light ilium
inating not alone our own national
pathway, but the pathway of afl
the peoples that stand in the front
rank of current civilization, and
he is not only false to the past,
but sails out wildly upon an un
charted sea who bluntly breaks
his connection with those views of
life, character and action by which
for centuries the favored nations
of the earth have been guided
A candid mind will always be
willing to replace a present opin
ion by a different one that has
been carefully proved to be better.
But the brusque abandonment of
anybody or anything that has been
tried and found faithful and help
ful betrays a mind that is slovenly
in its thinking and childishly and
stupidly willful in its planning and
purposing. .Likewise in matters of
political faith.
Innovations Proposed
May Be Sound.
An article by Henry Cabot Lodge
in the July issue of a magazine is
worth reading in this connection.
Perhaps the innovations proposed
by the progressives rnay be sound
and expedient.
It may be that the policy of the
initiative, referendum and recall
may be a wise one for us to adopt
nationally, but the innovation is a
broad one, and there is a great deal
involved in it—more than one man
out of a hundred has as yet care
fully estimated probably—and it is
not to Jie adopted till there is a
studiously attained conviction and
a pretty unanimous conviction that
a change will prove to the better
ment of our condition; not until
there has been secured a well con
sidered appreciation of the success
that has been achieved by traveling
the century old road of represen
tative government; not until there
has been a careful weighing of the
statesmanly character of the men
by whom the constitution was pro
duced; not until the public- mind
has been made familiar with the
processes of argument and debate
which led up to the framing of the
constitution in its existing form,
and not until it has been distinctly
satisfactorily • indicated that
present national conditions so far
differ from what they were in I'B7
as to render a remodeling of the
constitution necessary or expedient.