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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 and about the questions involved in taritl discussion.
The people are robbed through the tariff in the I'nited States,
of course. In the I'nited Slates the people are robbed LN EVERY
CONCEIVABLE WAY
They are robbed by corporations that fix prices and thus levy
taxes.
They are robbed In political bosses and political machines.
They ;u-e 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.
11 is important for Ihe people of 1 his country to understand that
file tariff, 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 and business AND
GREATLY LNJI'RE THIS (OI'NTRY.
Here is a statement from the newspaper in question. It is a
MISST \TEMENT of frets:
"Eleven yards of fancy wn«h fabric In this dr< ss cost to manufac
ture in the i'nited St ites $1.06. .and in England sl.ll. The eleven
raids retail in England fur s!>,. and in th" I nited States for $2.75.
WHY B.ituse the J’a rm-Aid ri< h tariff lax amounts to 66 cents.
I'nd* i th" Hinglex lav. It n is 45 cents."
Tit is sounds eon vineing if you don't happen to know anything
about conditions in England and in America.
In 1 his count ry we can MA Nt FA< TI'RE 11 yards of a certain
goods for $] .<><».
In England, assuming the statement quoted Io be accurate, ii
costs $1 11 to manufacture 11 yards of goods
In England the 11 yards are sold at retail foi $1.87. a profit
above the manufactui'iiig < ost of only 76 cents, and in America the
same goods are sold at retail lor s2.7’>, a prolit above the cost of
nianufflettiring of $1.69
The newspaper which prints these so-called facts and figures
absolutely misrepresents conditions. but. of course, without know
ing Th' trouble with many of our teachers is that they don't
understand that which they undertake to teach.
It is true that good'- are very often sold at retail in this conn
try fora profit twice as great as the profit charged in England or in
other count l ies.
We shall proceed to explain Io our foolish newspaper friend
some causes of the difference in profit.
In the 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 w here the retailer in Eng
land does not spend fifty thousand dollars, and prolmbl.v not twenty
thousand dollars
Therefore, to begin with, a very nice slice of the extra profit
which you blame on the tar.if really 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, fixed charges infinitely greater than the same
charges borne In the English retailer. This means that American
mechanics have put into their pockets for the building of a tine,
new store a larg< pail of she money involved.
All clerks are paid too little in all eases 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 gits part of that larger profit which you are pleased to
charge exclusively to the tariff.
The American merchant is not content to yvork all his life for
very little. He 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.
It is true that if we had no tariff the retail merchant would
be compelled to accept a very much smaller profit, and he yvould
he compelled to cut his advertising space in the newspaper that
criticises him. ami that newspaper would be compelled to cut its
advertising rate.
Without a tariff the merchants would not be able to make
their fortunes quickly ami build the great new stores yvhich dot
this country.
Without the tariff the English could send their goods, man
ufactured ni 1 unmanufactured, into this country freely, and our
men would have to go out of business or cut the wages of their
employees u two.
It is true that if we had no tariff many interesting things
might happen.
I he Scotch could send shiploads of potatoes to this counlrv
and sell litem at very low prices that yvould be agreeable for
the himts tn the . it< AND BI T THE FARMERS OCT OF
Bl'SI N ESS
Ami the clothing makers m Germany and Austria and Eng
land and China 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 Am riea, but yvhich would put tens of thousands
of American workers in the city out of business.
II we had no taritl the !• renchim it. the Germans, the
Greeks could semi their champagnes and their other wines in
I free of duty, yvhich yvould be pleas,tiit for our saloon keepers and
I restaurant i.erpet s. but would put llm California and other Amer
i ican vineyards out of business.
And so on. dear, ignorant newspaper editor, all down the list.
If you had free trad" you would have FREE COMPETITION
IN LABOR, and the manufacturer and employer able to grind his
employees uown to the lowest wages would get the markets.
Americans, big and lit de. 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 am) extortion. But we must do to the tariff what
we would do to a 'iek friend—cure it. not kill it.
Tin *at iff compels Americans T< • Bl'Y OF AMERICANS
The tariff ■ <>mpe|s th' shirtwaist make, p th, ctix to buy no
tato's of the AMERIt \N farmer.
Continued in L *s'. Column
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The Atl,anta Georgian
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1912.
Let Bill Do It By George McManus
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How to Build a Fortune
A/?. The Saving Habit
By THOMAS TAPPEB.
I.
I T is both interesting and enter
taining to lead what com
pound interest will .to when
it gets to work on a smalt amount
of money, one Dollar, at four per
cent compound interest, if left 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 Pour Hundred
and Fifty Dollars in ten years.
And so on. The more illustra
tions of tins kind one reads the
quicker one seems to got rich.
But—
It Takes Moral Strength
To Put Money Aside.
Have you ever thought of the
moral strength required to put Ten
Cents aside, not once, hut throe
! rZThe B^l-> j
By ELLA WHE ELER WILCOX
Copyright. 1912. by Ameriean-.fournal-Examiner.
A HARSH and homely monosyllable.
■s*. Abrupt and inusicless, and at its best
ii An inartistic object to the eye; <
i Yet in this brief ami troubled life of man
How full of majestv the part it plays!
It is the cradle which receives the soul.
Naked and wailing, from the Maker's hand.
It is the throne of Love's enlightenment: s
And when death offers back to Hod again ;
The borrowed spirit, this the Hol) shrine
; From which the hills delectable are seen.
Through all the anxious journev to that goal
S .... . . ' . <
j 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 ami darkness change to hope and light.
It is the common ground between two spheres
Where men and angels meet and converse hold.
It is the confidant of hidden woe
Masked from the world beneath a smiling brow.
ilnto its silent breast young wakeful joy
Whispers its secret through the starlit hours.
And. like a white-robed priestess, oft it hears
The w Hd confession of a crime-stained soul
That looks unflinching in the eyes of men.
A common word, a thing unbeautiful.
Vet in this brief, eventful life of imm
How large ami varied is the part it pla's'
I . ...
thousand six hundred and fifty
times, and npver 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
north 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 many 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
tnea ns.
To go fifty-two times a year for
twenty years to the savings hank,
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 anti 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 triixa 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
your hat and coat and actually
reach the bank
But if time is pr’rious and
money scarce, and the best you can
do is to carry Twenty-five Dollars
to the bank every six months, your
total credit, if you never miss a
trip, tn twenty years, four per cent
compound interest, will be about
One Thousand. Five Hundred and
Fifty Dollars
Os this amount. One Thousand
Dollars will be principal, and Five
Hundred and Fifty Dollars inte’-
esl As the operation involves 40
trips (two a year fbt twenty years,,
your bonus for the trouble of mak
ing up your mind to reach the
bank with the money, will be about
Fourteen Dollars pe trit..
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 meant
1. Industry, or work by which
you earn money.
2. Simple living to pre-e ve
health so that you do not stop
earning money every now and then.
3. Determination to set a certain
sum aside. »
t 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 the bank Otherwise, the motor
in the compound lnt>- est engine
will quit working
S. <'ru eful regulation of your af
fairs so that you can pay the sav
ings hank as if it were a bill to be
met promptly
In order, therefore, ’hat the sav
ing habit shall do its utmost for
you. sou must in turn In as tcgula
| In doing ymir part c Hock is in
in king oft the »e< oii'i-.
THE HOME PAPER
The Voter and His Backbone
r » r
He Has Killed the Old Machines—Now It's His Duty to Keep Them
Dead.
The state of Georgia has seen the dayvn 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 he
pieced together.
The good that existed in both of them will live. The narrow
ness ami 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, (dean, 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 slate 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 toYtny 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 be 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 Ihe voters to preserve this sensible order of
things. A little independent thinking and sincere balloting will
smash any ring that ever was formed.
riterc 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 you had a family of ninety millions of boys and girls von
would say to them, "I want you boys ami girls to live together
like brothers. I want you to buy your goods OF EACH OTHER
whenever vou can. even if von have to pav a little more - I \V \NT
YOF TO KEEP THE MONEY IN THE FAMILY AND MAKE
THE FAMILY PROSPEROI'S.”
The government of the I'nited 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 sons ami daughters. "I
want you to buy of each other even at a sacrifice. I want vou 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 th? 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 eountrv in the
world. BE< AI'SE WE HAVE TRADED AMONG QI RSELVES
LIKE BROTHERS AND HELPED EACH O THER LIKE BROTH
’ ERS. and have not simply tried to buy wherever we could at the
cheapest rate regardless of the wages paid.
Ihe New ork newspaper moans because goods are manu
factured for H)6 cents in the I'nited States I hat cost 111 cents to
manufacture in England.
Does our contemporary know why the I'nited 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 pay wages much higher than those paid bv England
BECAI'SE THE TARIFF HAS ENCOI'RAGED AND REWARD
ED INTENSELY BRILLIANT MA NI FAC’i'l RI NG IN THIS
COI'NTRY. The tariff has built prosperity, increased wages,
raised the standard of living, and the better conditions have
hrouglt the most intelligent, most brilliant men of Europe to our
country. Ami 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 twentv mil.
lions of dollars, and he died a young man. comparative!' \
He earm’d and deserved every cent that he got. ami manv
millions more. He rendered services to this eountrv.
The country rewarded him well BECAI'SE OF THE TAR.
IFF. because when he came here he found himself in a country
where merchants and mechanics and all others, mciuuing news
paper owners, lived on a high plane of profit.
He had his share, ami a big share, of the prosperity that wise
protection brings. Let hi- successors strive eonservativelv and
cautiously to eliminate that which is unwise in protection ami
in the tariff. Let them not foolishly and igimrantlv seek to pull
down the ladder on which the.' with this nation have climbed l 0
prosperity.
<hir At dean motto should be. free trade from mean to
ocean and from north so smith in our country, and reciprocity
with those of our neighbors that want it.
Elimmation of protection when protection has bred motion
g|v.
But no fre. trade that m-.m- FREE CO\| I’ETITK »N ttF
LABOR no f,,m trmle that meat ... , (1 .
the world s markets by pa;. 1117 his Workmen j. n