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It Is a Good Piling For This
Country to Have at Least
One Man and One Set of
Newspapers Not Afraid
to Fell the Truth.
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The Archbold Standard Oil-Penrose-Foraker Revelations Made by
W. R. Hearst in Hearst’s Magazine Have Been Most Valuable
to the Citizens of This Country.
There is a good Italian saying “Give Light, and the People Will
Find the Way."
The light that the people need is information, FACTS, insight
into their government and especially into that which is hidden.
While facts are hidden, the people can not find their way. If
it were not for the newspapers that are truthful, and for a few men
•that do not fear the truth or those that hale it, there would be little
light for the people, and little hope of finding the path in the maze of
graft, corruption, monopoly, bribery and dishonest control of gov
ernment through which this nation is wandering.
Our readers certainly appreciate the value of publicity and the
value of truth telling. They have built up the Hearst, newspapers,
and the Hearst magazines—they constitute the millions of circula
tion, the gigantic family of readers from which W. R. Hearst gets
the power to scatter truth, and to frighten rascals.
The politics of this country and the prospect of good govern
ment owe a great debt to that revelation of Standard Oil activity,
bribery and shameless corruption, managed by John D. Archbold,
and shared by Penrose, Foraker, Sibley and others supposed to be
working for the people.
Foraker has been driven oul of public life. Penrose will soon
he out of public life. Archbold, when he understands what the
people think of him—either through criminal proceedings or other
wise-will cease his activities, his check distribution, his insolent
attempts to interfere with elections, his shameless corrupt ion of the
people’s officials.
Even the newspapers naturally dishonest—the socalled ‘‘con
servative newspapers"—that belong to Archbold, just as Foraker
and Penrose belong to him, have been compelled through very shame
to publish the facts with which Hearst has supplied them. As they
will be compelled to publish the further facts with which he has
supplied them
In his recent cable from Europe W. R. Hearst advised Penrose,
Archbold and the others to tell the whole truth—promising that HE
would do it if they did not.
Mr. Hearst has "given the people light." He has shown them
which of their officials were rotten and dishonest. He has pointed
out and convicted the Trust managers, guilty of wholesale bribery ;
he has rendered a great service to this country through his news
papers and his magazines, and the people know it.
Mr. Hearst’s work has been of especial value because his revela
tions have been absolutely non partisan. Democrat, Republican,
Progressive, or what not. has made no difference to him. The truth
as fast as possible has been given to the public. *
And through the Hearst publications the public has learned that
dishonesty in this country is no party, IT MANAGES AND BI'YS
EVERY PARTY.
Mr. Howe, in Vermont, reminding the people that railroads and
other corporations rule and cheat by paying in taxes less than half
w hat individual citizens pay, describes part of our system admirably
as follows:
Now. ladles and gentleman, Is that a square deal? Was that law
enacted by the Republican party" No, no. Was it enacted by the Dem
ocratic narty? No. no. Was It enacted by any political party? No.
no. Whom was it enacted by? It was enacted by the crooked politi
cians who are controlled by the corporations Was it enacted in the
daytime? Oh, no Was it enacted on cold water? Oh. no; they had
better stuff than that. How long have we been living under that law?
Twenty-six years.
That is a good description of the way things are managed in
this country. The graft, the dishonesty, and the monopoly are not
Democratic, they are not Republican—THEY ARE EXCLUSIVELY
ANT) ESSENTIALLY PLUTOCRATIC
Men like Archbold supply the money. Hie funds for corruption.
Men like Foraker. Penrose ami Sibley take this money and list 1 it
some of it being distributed "in the right places" ami some of it
being carefully kept.
Hundreds of thousands and millions have thus been distributed
by the corporations that rob the people through monopoly.
But there promises to come an end. or at least a moderation, in
this system —thanks to "the light" given by the publications that
W. R. Hearst controls.
There is not a mile of territory m the Cnited States that does
not know the name and the work of Hearst and his publications.
Tins causes envy among some editors. But it need cause no envv
They may have the same standing, and the same power for
good, if they will develop the ability to discover the truth AND TH E
HONESTY to tell it.
The Atlanta Georgian
THE CRUSHING BURDEN
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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A MAX who is a methodical,
careful, business-like person,
trained to business accuracy,
complains bitterly that he can not
make his wife keep books.
He makes he; a generous allow
ance. and he holds that it is his
right that she should make an ac
counting tq him showing where
every penny went, and because she
refuses to do this there is endless
bickering and quarrelling between
the two.
Theoretically, I agree with the
husband. Personally, I side with
the w ife. For myself, I had rather
do a day's washing than add up a
column of figures, and it has always
seemed to me that when money is
spent it is just as much gone
whether you bought ice cream soda
or corned beef and cabbage with it.
However. 1 am quite aware that
this Is no proper way to view the
subject, and 1 am sure that those
who look over their account books
where every item of expenditure is
rigorously set down, and sec how
thej wasted a quarter for cigars
here, and fifteen cents for drinks
there, and a nickel for chocolate
creams in another place, and a dol
lar and a half for a neck fixing
somewhere else, must get a day of
judgment jolt that is good for their
souls and makes for economy. Cer
tainly we never realize how much
money we fool away until our ex
travagances rise up from our little
account book and confronts®
It Makes For Thrift.
tndoubtedly the account book
makes for thrift and judicious man
agement. One of the first things
that they teach girls in the school
of domestic science is th< necessity
for having a household budget in
which the expenses of running a
family are proportioned and a cer
tain per cent of the income set
apart for rent, and food, and cloth
ing, and sickness, and amusements,
and so on.
It is easy to see how much better
and more Intelligently a woman can
manage a household who goes about
it in this systematic manner, and
whose accurately kept books show
her just where she stands, than
she van if she adopts the hit-or
miss style of fatnilj financiering,
w here it's always a feast or a fam
ine and the first of the month in
variably finds her appalled at the
size of the bills.
It is frequently -aid that if any
business man conducted his affairs
FRIDAY. AUGUST 30, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX
in as slap-dash a manner as his
wife does hers he would land in the
bankruptcy court inside of a year.
Doubtless this is true. It is one of
the greatest injustices done women
that girls are rarely trained to busi
ness methods or ever given any
money to handle, so that when they
come to spend thfcir husband's earn
ings they do not know how to do it
to the best advantage.
Nor do they take kindly to being
taught business methods when their
husbands try to instruct them, as in
the case of the man cited at the be
ginning of this article. On the con
trary, when a husband tries to in
duce his wife to keep books she is
apt to accuse him of penuriousness
in the matter of money.
The wife Is wrong in this. Inas
much as marriage Is a partnership
in which the husband supplies the
money for running the home, and
the woman docs the active work of
making the home. It is nothing
more than fair that the wife should
keep a. record of the funds that pass
through her hands and be able to
give an account of her stewardship.
He has a perfect right to kpow how
his money Is used and whether it
is wasted or not.
Partners in business who are
managing different ends of an en
terprise look over each other's ac
counts, and there is no reason why
a wife should feel miffed if her
husband wants to take a peek al
her expense book and find out how
she is conducting her department.
If every married woman would
k°ep an accurate account of every
cent that she spent on the family
and not only permit her husband
to see It, but force him to audit her
books every month, it would not
only be a good thing economically,
but it would be an eye opener to
the mtyi and stop the eternal growl
about woman's extravagance.
The average man always acts as
if his wife spent all the money on
herself. You would think, to hear
him talk, that she ate all the food
and monopolized all the light and
heat of the house, and it would put
a quietus on him if be was forced
to read, item by item, of pecks of
potatoes and pounds of coffee and
sugar, and dozens of eggs, and beef
steaks. and mutton chops, and tripe
and onions, and see with his own
eves that it was for these necessi
ties for the family and not on het-
own adornment that his money was
spent. |
While a husband has the right,
however, to demand an accounting
from his wife for the money she
spends on the household, it is an in
vasion of her personal liberty, and
an impertinent interference, for
him to even ask to know what she
did with her own allowance. That
is hers to do with as she pleases,
and he lacks something of being a
gentleman If he presumes to keep
any espionage over her in the mat
ter.
That most wives have no personal
allowance, and never a penny that
they may do with as they like, is
only too true, and it does more than
any other one thing to account for
the restlessness and discontent
among married women. To a grown
up woman it is as much gall and
wormwood to be financially depend
ent as It would be to a man. and it
is the smouldering bitterness en
gendered by this state of affairs
thai makes many a marriage a fail
ure.
Is Entitled to a Wage.
The woman who gives her whole
life to a man. who bears his chil
dren. who makes him a home, who
spends every ounce of her strength
and vitality in serving him and fur
thering his interests, and who gives
him a labor that he could not buy
formoney, feels that she is, at least,
entitled to such wages as a. cook
or nurse maid might get. and to
spend that much money without
giving any more account of it to
her husband than a cook or a nurse
maid to whom he pays an equal
amount would give him. But she
rarely gets even that paltry sum to
do with as she pleases, and this is
what makes the financial situation
so often acute between husband
and wife.
The man who insists upon his
wife keeping household accounts
is right. She will be a better and
a more careful manager for doing
it, and it is but just that he should
know how his partner is managing
her side of the business. But the
wife has a right to a private allow
ance of her own. to do with abso
lutely as she likes, and it is her
privilege to do with this as she sees
fit. Her husband has no more right
to demand an accounting of this
money than he has of any strange
woman's income. She has earned
it over and over again, and it is
hers.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
The Education of the Voter
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No. 16.-—The President Not an Individual
With Arbitrary Power, But the Representa
tive of the People by Whom He Is Paid.
YOU have read the reports of
the conventions.
The proceedings consisted
of prayers, excitement, hisses, yells
and the, buzz of the political ma
chine.
You might assume that a body of
men. representative of all the peo
ple. gathered together to nominate
a man capable of filling what is
doubtless the greatest office on
earth, would realize the responsi
bility that rests upon themselves.
You might expect a certain feeling •
of awe and solemnity. You might
expect that an act so fraught with
importance would be taken with the
guidance of prayer, hut without the
disturbance of excitement, hisses
and cat-calls.
You might.
What is a president called upon
to do?
To begin with, he is the repre
sentative of all the people—the
head of the nation.
President’s Power
Comes From People.
His power comes directly from
the people, and their welfare is as
sumed to be the prime object of his
consideration.
Only a natural-born citizen may
aspire to this office. He must be
at least 35 years of age and 14 years
a resident of the United States.
The president's term of office is
four years. He is eligible for re
election. So far as the constitu
tion is concerned, a president may
be re-elected once, or twice, or
many times. Up to date, no man
has ever filled the office for more
than two terms, and it seems quite
unlikely that this precedent will be
broken.
The president is commander-in
chief of the army and navy'of the
United States and of the states'
militia when called into federal
service.
He is empowered to grant re
prieves and pardons for offenses
committed against the United
States, but his power does not ex
tend to eases of Impeachment.
With a two-thirds vote of the
senate he may make treaties with
foreign powers, thus extending his
influence on behalf of the nation
to the world at large.
He appoints ambassadors to for
eign nations. In fact, there come
within his appointing power, with
confirmation of tbe senate, about
8,000 offices.
He may convene the houses of
congress in extra sessions, and he
may adjourn them to a date not
beyond the next regular session.
from members of his cabinet he
may require written opinions upon '
their departments. He receives am
bassadors and foreign ministers.
All bills passed by congress are
brought before him for his signa
ture or his veto.
First Foundling Asylum
By THE REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY
IT was 173 years ago—July, 1739
that the big-hearted old sea
captain, Thomas Coram, suc
ceeded in getting through the pa
pers for the incorporation of the
"Foundling Hospital of London.”
the first home for friendless little
children that was ever known
among the English speaking people
of the earth.
From the beginning of human
down to quite modern times the
lot of the little child, especially if
it happened to be a girl child with
out legal parentage, was a most
forlorn one. full of all that was cal
culated to touch the heart and call
forth the sorrow and pity of man
kind.
But it seems that the compas
sion was not forthcoming, and the
little unfortunates, friendless ami
neglected, had to get along as best
they could, saveW ; they were now
and then assisted by some private
individual.
For the idea of the sacredness of
childhood —a thought that is so
masterful in the present time—the
people of antiquity had but a trif
ling regard.
.Many of the greatest thinkers of
Greece and Rome, the foremost
moulders of the public opinion and
sentiment of their day, had no ten
derness in their souls for child
hood as such. Its innocence, its
helplessness, made but a weak ap
peal to their sympathy and love.
The child that was born into the
Bv THOMAS TAPPER.
These, the principal duties of the
president, are clearly set forth in
the constitution. The office makes
of him a world figure. He takes his
place beside kings and potentates
of whatever name.
He is not an individual with ar
bitrary power. He is the represen
tative of millions of individuals,
with powers that are especially de
signed and bestowed to secure for
every one whom he represents the
full blessings of citizenship.
You have only to picture this man
as a representative of one hundred
millions of people doing business
with congress, with the nine de
partments of our national activity,
through the members of his cabi
net, meeting the representatives of
every nation on earth, commanding
army and navy, allotting thousands
of positions to office-holders, ap
pointing proper representatives to
foreign nations, and without speci
fying further the activities of his
office you can appreciate the pro
priety of a convention opening with
prayer.
But it is doubtful if you efin see
the fitness of cat-calls, yells, hisses
and the rumble of any kind of a
roller, steam or otherwise.
For all that is demanded of him.
the president of the United States
receives a salary and he gets a
' reputation. The salary is fixed at.
seventy-five thousand dollars per
annum. The reputation is largely,
though not wholly, of his own mak
ing. Yet no position so open to pub
lic scrutiny can be so influenced by
conditions that the man himself
does not shine through. He may be
assisted in his endeavors or he may
be thwarted, but his stand on ques
tions, .great or small, allows him to
show the people, without doubt or
uncertainty, what sort of stuff he
is made of.
Just What You
Should Decide.
When the parties have hold their
conventions, and the two or three
or more nominees are submitted to
the people, you decide, or you should
decide, just this question: What
man. among them, best measures
up to the requirements?
Then you elect that man. or you
should elect him. In the course of
time he appears once again in pub
lic, on the 4tit of March, when the
chief justice of the United States
administers the oath of office, Which
says:
"I do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the office of
president of the Cnited States, and
will, to the best of my ability, pre
serve. protect and defend the con
stitution of the Cnited States."
The inauguration is a more soi
' emn occasion than the conventions.
The seriousness of the business to
be done stares the man in the face.
And a new period of our history,
four years later, stares you -is one
of its citizens, in the face.
world without a legal father and
mother, or that was born below a
certain mental and physical stand
aid, or that chanced to be a girl,
was in danger of being exposed
cast out into the fields to die of
hunger or to be devoured by the
wild beasts.
The men who built the Parthenon
and the Pantheon, who created civ
ilization and carried it to the utter
most parts of the then known
world, were at heart little better
than barbarians, as is evidenced by
their attitude of cold-blooded in
difference to the appeals of help
less childhood.
\\ ben the Carpenter's Son came
the little ones began to look up.
There was at last One to “bless"
them, to take pity on their weak- *
ness and to see in their purity, in
nocence and helplessness the sacred
obligation which was not to be ig
nored. Hence, the beautiful words,
Suffer the little ones to come unto
Me, and forbid them not.”
But the progress was slow, and it
was not until the fifteenth century
that the work of saving the little
children from destruction was fair
ly and systematically begun
In Italy. France. Belgium Aus
tria. the spirit of the new humanity
began to show itself in the shape
of the larger kindness to waifs, but
it was not until Captain Coram
founded his hospital for friendless
children that |hoy were taken in
hand m away that was at once
humane and selentifl..