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| EDITORIAL PACE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday B> 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 rr.afl, $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 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 1 The Atl,anta Georgian THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1912. Let Bill Do It By George McManus Tfl 7 Y7 -,* L* an tl <!> [ U T% <0 I f COULEE LIKE To U ZX '''L, WWia'TO A CHANCE IN b OPERAND W -N. F I TE LL Them /_kfl VOTE' , AN ARCUEMENTr’ Kt© them « WAR I I THtN<, 1 11 -M - / n .■ • . Netb " - S “ < ( IF f-’ERF'SA-AN ' [ / \ in the crcwd that ' L.E.T . | \ • -sUCA" CVE A KLAXON VVHY IRIIi - !.•»<, - ' rnd .doiti y . -p? . o I. y,-° I U&tOh i AND BILL DID! i I. WWW 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