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EDI’TORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year Payable in advance." It Is Easy to Talk Free Trade Nonsense A newspaper announces that it “will make tariff robbery plain to readers.’’ Following this glittering promise, the newspaper pro ceeds to demonstrate the fact that it knows very little about the tariff anti about the questions involved in tariff discussion. The people are robbed through the tariff in the United States, of course. In the I’nited States the people are robbed IX EVERY CONCEIVABLE WAY. They are robbed by corporations that fix prices and thus levy taxes. They are robbed by political bosses and political machines. They are robbed by railroads, street car lines, express com panies. They are robbed by the various trusts—beef, sugar, coal and the others. They are robbed by the tariff merely among many forms of robbery. It is important for the people of this country to understand that thetariff, which has been dishonestly manipulated, which has pro tected trusts and made monopoly possible in some lines, HAS ALSO A GREAT DEAL TO DO WITH THE PROSPERITY OF THIS ENTIRE NATION. The well-meaning but ignorant newspaper, if it could arouse ignorant prejudice against all tariff, would endanger stability in every line of labor, manufacturing ami business AND GREATLY LN.II RE THIS COUNTRY. Here is a statement from the newspaper in question. It is a MISSTATEMENT of facts: "Eleven yards of fancy wash fabric In tills dress cost to manufac ture in the I’nited St ites sl.ofi, and in England sl.ll. The eleven yards retail in England for $1.87. and in the United States for $2.75. WHY. Because the Payne-Aldrich tariff tax amounts to Bfi cents. Under the Dingley law it was 45 cents." This sounds convincingif you don’t happen to know anything about conditions in England and in America. In this country we can MANUFACTURE 11 yards of a certain goods for $1.06. In England, assuming the statement quoted to be accurate, it cosis sl.ll to manufacture 11 yards of goods. In England the 11 yards are sold at retail for SI.S7, a profit above the manufacturing cost of only 76 cents, and in America the same goods are sold at retail for $2.75, a profit above the cost of manufacturing of $1.69. The newspaper which prints those so-called facts and figures absolutely misrepresents conditions, but. of course, without know ing. 'file trouble with many of our teachers is that they don’t understand that which they undertake to teach. It is true that goods are very often sold at retail in this coun try for a profit twice as great as the profit charged in England or in other countries. We shall proceed to explain to our foolish newspaper friend some causes of the difference in profit. In lhe first place, Mr. Editor, the American retail merchant advertises in your newspaper and others, and spends each year at a low estimate a hundred thousand dollars where the retailer in Eng land doesnot spend fifty thousand dollars, and probably not twenty thousand dollars. Therefore, to begin with, a very nice slice of the extra profit which you blame on the tariff reall.v goes into your pocket. Think about that for a little while. In the second place, the retailer in America, if he is a suc cessful. up-to-date man, has a store that represents an investment and, therefore, tixed charges infinitely greater than the same charges borne b\ the English retailer. This means that American mechanics have put into their pockets for the building of a fine, new store a large part of the money involved. All clerks are paid too little in all cases- there is no doubt about that. But the American retailer pays those that work in his store, at the lowest estimate, twice as much as the English retailer pays to his clerks. Therefore, the American clerk in the dry goods store gets part of that larger profit which yon are pleased to pharge exclusively to the tariff. The American merchant is not content to work all his life for very little, lie may become a bankrupt in the keen competition. If not. he gets rich and his fortune quickly made represents part of that larger price which you attribute entirely to the tariff. Ii is true that if we had no tariff the retail merchant would be compelled to accept a very much smaller profit, and he would be compelled to cut his advertising space in the newspaper that criticises him, and that newspaper would be compelled to ent its advertising rale. Without a tariff the merchants would not be able to make their fortunes quickly and build the great new stores which dot this country. Without the tariff the English could send their goods, man ufactured and unmanufactured, into this country freely, and our men would have to go out of business or cut the wages of their employees in two. It is true that if we had no tariff many interesting things might happen. The Scotch could send shiploads of potatoes to this country and sell them at very low prices—that would be agreeable for the boxers in the citv AND PUT THE FARMERS OUT OF BUSINESS. And the clothing makers in Germany and Austria and Eng land and (’hina could send their ready-made clothing to this coun try and sell the clothing for half, which would be very nice for the farmers of America, but which would put tens of thousands of American workers in the city out of business. If we had no tariff the Frenchmen, the Germans, the Greeks could send their champagnes and their other wines in free of duty, which would be pleasant for our saloon keepers and restaurant keepers, but would put the California and other Amer ican vineyards out of business. And so on. dear, ignorant newspaper editor, all down the list. If you had free trade you would have EREE COMPETITION IN LABOR, and the manufacturer and employer able to grind his employees down to the lowest wages would get the markets. Americans, big and little, are in a hurry. They live in a hurry, they travel in a hurry, make money in a hurry, die in a hurry, get rich in a hurry. The tariff helps along the hurry and makes the pace faster. The tariff, like everything else in our country, is full of vices, mistakes and extortion. But we must do to the tariff’ what we would do to a sick friend—cure it. not kill it. The tariff compels Americans TO BUY OF AMERICANS The tariff compels the shirtwaist maker m the city to buy po tatoes of the AMERICAN farmer. K Continued in L ast Column The Atlanta Georgian Let Bill Do It By George McManus I ’1 ~ Th s'~ 1 _ ~~ np 'AI '" ‘•S tCofei! vwxjlont <o 1 f I D LIKE Ta L zs L . WANTIN' TO A CHANCE IN p OVE A ANO b C TIME I TELL THEM i pipe I i~l fl |N_L z ~• 'i~ — y " 1-1 y —— / I T M F X ) I _____ n -- i ! * ■ J-- —nW meeting 1 fyt’ s O' r" ~ /Gj 1a ® i ! IF THE PF A A MAN T7 \ <EF- ’ THEY FT" in the crowd that uc. I < • I \ • l Z 734 A REASON why RHI I— Jjn, ”■ > 1 WOMEN SHOULDN'T - , 722 , 4 Y _____ ( Ngp VOTE - STEP UP [DOIT! g . a 0 Ji -4-' 5 '■ lT ?/A give it; ji —_y 'J 7 .;- ; <5- ; f ■ 4 UnW Mal U /Vur \ M Vy.U -M ' * * cTyy : AND BILL DID I i I How to Build a Fortune No. 4 The Saving Habit 1. I T is both interesting and enter taining to read what com pound interest will do when it gets to work on a small amount of money. One Dollar, at four per cent compound interest, if in a savings bank for twenty years,’will amount to Two Dollars and Nine teen Cents. But One Dollar, depos ited annually in the same savings bank for twenty years, will amount to nearly Thirty-one Dollars. So, Ten Cents daily, with com pound interest working on it, amounts to nearly four Hundred and Fifty Dollars In ten years. And so on. The more illustra tions of this kind one reads the quicker one seems to get rich. But— It Takes Moral Strength To Put Money Aside. Have you ever thought of the moral strength required to put Ten t'ents aside, not once, but three j FZ The Bed TH | By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1912. by Anierican-Journal-Examiner. A HARSH and homely monosyllable. -Fl. Abrupt and musicless, and at its best An inartistic object to the eye; Yet in this brief and troubled life of man How full of majesty the part it plays! s’ It is the cradle which receives the soul. Naked and wailing, from the Maker's hand. I It is the throne of Love's enlightenment: And when death offers back to God again The borrowed spirit, this the Holy shrine s From which the hills delectable are seen. Through all the anxious journey to that goal It is man’s friend, physician, comforter; When labour wearies, and when pleasure palls. And the tired heart lets faith slip from its grasp, 'Tis here new courage and new strength are found. While doubt and darkness change to hope and light. It is the common ground between two spheres • i Where men and angels meet and converse hold. It is the confidant of hidden woe I Masked from the world beneath a smiling brow. Into its silent breast young wakeful joy Whispers its secret through the starlit hours. And, like a white-robed priestess, oft it hears The wild confession of a erime-stained soul That looks untlinehing in the eyes of men. A common word, a thing uubeautiful. Yet in this brief, eventful life of man How large and varied is the part it plays! THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1912. By THOMAS TAPPER. thousand six hundred and fifty times, and never miss it once? This is one of the most severe tests to which human nature can be put. For human nature rebels against this regularity of self-de nial, failing to see that a dime's worth of self-denial is a little for tune for the future. The saving habit, to amount to anything, must be regular. What ever plan you adopt, KEEP IT GO ING. If you can some day in crease the amount you put aside weekly or monthly, do so, but make any sacrifice to keep the original plan in operation. It inspires man;, people to know that Five Dollars per week placed in the savings bank with unfailing' regularity will amount to Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Fif ty-five Dollars in twenty years. But before you let this proposi tion fill you with enthusiasm, stop for a moment to consider what this means. To go fifty-two times a year for twenty years to the savings bank, each time with a Five-Dollar bill, is ten hundred and forty trips there and ten hundred and forty trips back. With all that, is included making up your mind, getting on your hat and coat and starting out ten hundred and forty times. This is quite a strain. But It Is Worth Striving to Win. And yet. Five Dollars a week, at four per cent compound interest semi-annually, amounts in twenty years to Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-two Dollars. Os this sum, Five Thousand Two Hundred Dollars is principal, and Two Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-five Dollars is interest. If you make one trip a week, car rying Five Dollars to the bank each time, you will receive at the end of the twenty years a bonus of Two Dollars and Fifty Cents for each and every time you put on I your hat and coat and actually I reach the bank | But if time is precious and ! money scarce, and the best you can I do is to carry Twenty-five Dollars to the bank every six months, you: total credit if you never miss a trip, in twenty years, four per cent compound interest, will be about One Thousand. Five Hundred and [ Fifty Dollars. Os this amount. One Thousand i Dollars will be principal, and Five I Hundred and Fifty Dollars inter ; est. As the operation involves 40 | trips ( two a year for twenty years), ’ your bonus for the trouble of mak- > ing up your mind to reach the i bank with the money, will be about > Fourteen Dollars per trip. Some Inspiring Figures That Test Human Nature. These are inspiring figures, but | they test human nature more se [ verely than the Spanish war did. ' What do they mean? 1. Industry, or work by which , you earn money. 2. Simple living to preserve ' health so that you do not stop [ earning money every now and then. 3. Determination to set a certain > sum aside. 4. You may increase this sum. > But if you want to get what the > compound interest table shows you > must never decrease it. 5. Regularity in making the trip > to lhe bank. Otherwise, the motor ; in the compound interest engine J will quit working. 6. Careful regulation of your af fairs so that you can pay the sav- i ings bank a- If it were a bill to be > met promptly. In order, therefore, that the sav ing habit shall do its utmost for > you. \<>u must in turn be as ngula' [ In doing your part as a clock Is In THE HOME PAPER The Voter and His Backbone r r k He Has Killed the Old Machines—Now It’s His Duty to Keep Them Dead. The state of Georgia has seen the dawn of a new political day. The old order has changed. Yesterday’s voting, which came as a climax to the most de cently conducted political campaign in recent years, marked the end of the insane partizan strife which has been for nearly a decade a disgrace to the state. Both of the old political machines have gone to wreck and ruin, and the two hundred thousand voters of the state of Georgia should join in a fervent prayer that never again may either be pieced together. The good that existed in both of them will live. The narrow ness and the bitterness engendered by the rivalry between them has died, finally and none too soon. John M. Slaton was elected governor, not because he was a Joe Brown man. He was elected governor because his public ca reer had been clean, intelligent, faithful; because he made a de cent, quiet, sensible and yet energetic canvass for the office. Thomas S. Felder, Judge George Hillyer and others of the suc cessful state house office candidates were elected not because they belonged to one faction or another, but because they convinced the .electorate that they were able to serve their state well. That seems to have been the test in yesterday’s primary. It is the only test a free people should apply to any candidate. It means the end of bossism, the end of partizan strife, the end of political insanity. Georgia has had enough of this insanity. Its business and social interests, its prestige and its promise have suffered heavily from it. But a better day has dawned, and none should he more happy at the end of the old and the beginning of the new than those dis tinguished men who were the head and front of the two parties now dead. It is the duty of the voters to preserve this sensible order of things. A little independent thinking and sincere balloting will smash any ring that ever was formed. There is precious little chance for a boss where the people know how to think and have the backbone to register their thoughts at the polls. It Is Easy to Talk Free Trade Nonsense Continued from First Column. The tariff compels the American farmer to buy his wife’s shirtwaist of the AMERICAN shirtwaist maker. If yon had a family of ninety millions of boys and girls vou would say to them, “1 want you boys and girls to live together like brothers. I want you to buy your goods OF EACH o’l HER whenever vou can. even if vou have to pay a little more - I WANT YOU TO KEEP THE MONEY IN THE*FAMILY AND MAKE THE FAMILY PROSPEROUS.” The government of the United States is a father with a fam ily of ninety millions of sons and daughters. And that govern ment father says to the great nation of sous and daughters, “I want you to buy of each other even at a sacrifice. I want yon to help your brother build up his business, buying more while it is weak. And I want yon to keep him honest and make him deal fairly by you when he becomes strong.” This is the greatest free trade country in the world, for we have free trade from ocean to ocean and from Canada to Mexico. And it is the greatest and most prosperous country in the world. BECAUSE WE HAYE TRADED AMONG OURSELVES LIKE BROTHERS AND HELPED EACH OTHER LIKE BROTH ERS. and have not simply tried to buy wherever we could at the cheapest rate regardless of the wages paid. The New York newspaper moans because goods are ma-nu factured for 106 cents in the I'nited States that cost 111 cents to manufacture in England. Does our contemporary know why the United States is able to manufacture eleven yards of goods for five cents less than England can manufacture the same goods? America can manufacture more cheaply than England and at the same time par wages much higher than those paid bv England BECAUSE THE TARIFF HAS ENCOURAGED AND REWARD ED INTENSELY BRILLIANT MANUFACTURING IN THIS COUNTRY. The tariff has built prosperity, increased wages, raised the standard of living, and the better conditions have brought the most intelligent, most brilliant men of Europe to our country. And thus the more intelligent men with higher wages protected by the tariff have been able to manufacture more cheaply than Europe can manufacture. The owner of the news paper which we criticise accumulated before he died twenty mil lions of dollars, and he died a young man, comparatively. He earned and deserved every cent that he got, and manv millions more. He rendered services to this country. The country rewarded him well BECAUSE OF THE TAR IFF. because when he came here he found himself in a country where merchants and mechanics and all others, including news paper owners, lived on a high plane of profit. He had his share, and a big share, of the prosperity that wise protection brings. Let his successors strive conservatively and cautiously to eliminate that which is unwise in protection and in the tariff. Let them not foolishly and ignorantlv seek to pull down the ladder on which they with this nation have climbed to prosperity. Our American motto should be. free trade from ocean to ocean and from north to south in our country, and reciprocity with -those of our neighbors that want it. Elimination of protection where protection has bred monop- But no free trade that means EREE COMPETITION OF LABOR no free trad; “> ■’ ii.. ins sueeess for the man who gets tlic world s nnirk’M.s by 4 workman