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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 18'9. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. 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 (AM G ■ • > Mbru® . ® W Wl w■ ■. ri a II®hlO" t ■■■■A BfiQnt >> :-s iO StMA- >D.. . H \ ■ ’ ' ■'£ A; A.; A'/;-- v 'AV# ... •f ri-riT y • ''■A- tax --SOa.,:.'-' A r •?- ,t 'SfT. 7 -* f' ?t ~— • * Zfe <js- L- 'Sij,-.' ■ > r 4 W raw - - •' Ki jwOßfagsJ LAV/. , .. !.??■ ri a. 1, J- 1 ' J. .. S' U "S' " * /# A •'U Ta al .'W ' -1 fit® ; ;A'cA - ''-£V f ri-.JI tuqgpMr « 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.