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George \V. Perkins and the
Roosevelt Progressive
Party
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He Has Set an Example That Other Prosperous Men Might Fol
low. The Country Needs Able Men to Take an Interest in
Politics and Government.
The Republican party spent $90,000 on its Chicago convention.
The Progressive party, managed by Perkins, pent $17,000 foi < y.o-tlv the
same kind of a convention —and came buck from t’hftag" $2,000 to tie good.
Think about that!
While Roosevelt was speaking to 30.000 men ami women in Bos
ton. some one in the crowd yelled. “Tell us about Perkin-,!"
Roosevelt replied, “I'm jzla<l yon asked that question/’ and
then answered it
He Said that Perkins, although a rich man. had joined the Pro
preserve party ami interested himself m politics p,|j \ I SL 111
HAS CHILDREN AND FELT THAT IT WAS HIS DI n TO 1)0
WHAT HE COULD TO MAKE CONDITIONS BETTI!!; IN THE
COUNTRY IN WHICH THE CHILDREN WOULD LIVE AFTER*
THEIR FATHER'S DEPARTURE.
Mr. Roosevelt also said that Mr. Perkins had made all th<*
money he wanted, and now wanted to do something really useful
and worth while for the country at large.
This country is glad to see men of ability come out in the open,
work politically in the open, use their influence and intelligence in
the open—instead of working in the old fashioned “rich man's
way" behind closed doors using cash to buy those in office, or pro
mote Ibgislation.
This country needs men id' ABILITY in public affairs Gov
ernmenl means something more than getting offices and dividing
them up. something more than collecting taxes and spending them
extravagantly.
This country needs all of the ability of its abl< st men.
It should have such men as .1, .1 Hill working for the nation,
instead of working, however usefully, as railroad builders for
themselves.
The big rewards in this world attract the big and the able !
men. And the small rewards, outside of periods of great national
excitement, attract the small and the feeble men
Our government has been offering small rewards to its em
ployees, while industry, railroad building, great corporations and i
organizations of all kinds, have been offering great rewards.
Therefore, men of unusual power and ability have been dratted :
into the industrial field and away from the field of politics and of
government.
It is a good sign when a man like Perkins, as able as any of the
big organizers ami managers, decides that it is more worth while to
shai in government than to make additional monev.
Agassiz, the great seient ist. preached a whole sermon when he
said. "I am 100 busy to make money."
It would be an excellent thing for America if more of the
ablest men should lire of the money making game, as Perkins seems
to have tired of it. ami should find themselves “too busv to con
tinue money making," too much interested in puldie !in il important
affairs to continue working for private protit.
The articles in the Hearst Magazine show us our collection of
senators and other public officials acting as toadies, -eyvants and
handy men for the big geniuses of the industrial world.
It is humiliating to see the represi ntativ. s of the people ami of
the government accepting the pa.v of industrial organi ■ rs and act
ing as the lackeys of those organizers.
The country needs the work of such men as E || Harriman,
powerful and strong enough to (mild thousands upon I hmisam's of
miles of railroad in a life that ended j 1)() soon The country needs
the imagination and power of such a man as Pierpont Morgan,
wasting his energies now in the aceiimulatinn of mom v that does
him no good, and spending the money in the accumulation of eol
lections that will do him no good although thev m.iv lie useful to
the country in future
A man like Morgan, if he w. re interested in the l idted States,
instead of being interested ill -I P Morgan and Gitiiptiiiv. would
give this country the canals, roads ami other facilities that it needs,
and very soon give it the beginning of gov ernnirnt ow nership that
it needs
The country has been served 100 long and too often bv men
who went into politics and got places in government BEl\| .<!•'
THEV WERE FIT FOR NOTHING ELSE IN PARTK I LAR. or
because of a hysterical, halt' baked ambition that h d them nowhere
One tirsl-class BIG man of tho tv pe that this count rv produces
in its industries ami its railroad building would keep half a do;.on
legislatures honest
One such man as George Perkins, giving to the business o'' the
people the energy and eapaeitv that he has given io private Imsi
ness undertakings, would be good, new thing in polities, and a
useful man in government \nd the peoph are bound, until thev
have proof to the eontrary. to assume that Perkins is sincere in his
advocacy of ihe new p.-u-lv which has antagom/ed and is de
noum-ed bv most of the men rich and 'iilnential ~s Perkins is
A proof ot the value of Perkins in a political organization was
given at the Roosevelt convention in t'liieato
Air. Perkins direels the financial and practical managem nt of
ihe Roos< volt parti I.lt Ivll.Y F< >R Tl IE-PA RTY
The Roos'ev.lt convention hired the hall occupied previously
by the Republican convention It I .id |>,> same hands; ii printed
tile same finely eilgr.iV d tickets
And tin Roosevelt convention cost all together u Chi'.co
+ 17.1'lltt. whereas th r< mlar Republican convention, ucn.-icd i \
NINETY TH<»I S \ND DOLL\Rs
In otln r words mid.a old I shcm. <1 political management. -t
Republican convention i-osl about set. pit live tluui'-umi dollars or
500 per cent, more than exactly the same kind of a convention
managed by a man used to biisim-s .mderla. ui"'
It would be interesting to know who got th. $7A.000 difference
in ihe cost of ihe I><■ pn>>l i--.-111 convention. ,
The fact nre. also • nieiit; 1 .<1 that the R< -s-wit . mvention
noi onl.v cos; o dy >li.ono as coiupar d with miteit-odd Ihom ind
.forth.- Republican convention, hut die Roos,.veil m nv.niliou sold
tickets of admis- .on. took in sP’.HOO in cash from th. public whinh
was r. ally interested in the birth ot the new
'ml ■ ■ ■ Oliva >0 111 s ovei
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Continued in Last Column.
The Atlanta Georgian
IHE ARTILLERY OF THE SKY j
It Can Shoot Ten Miles, Hut It Cannot Destroy a City
By GARRETT P. S£RVISS.
I
I < night with his camera the pic
ture which we here of a great
uin <>f thumb : and lightning rat
ing over the ciiy of Paris <sn the
i i ht of July 27 last. This picture
shows graphically, and by an ac
tual example, what J tried to tell in
words in The Georgian a few
months ago—viz., that a great
city is far more secure against the
d» >•» ruet iv» < ff« cis of lightning than
i the open country.
’fhe view was taken from the
heights of Montmartre, looking in a
southerly direction ov« r Paris.
Away off th ai the horizon ijs the
loftx dome of the Pamhcon, to the
left of the • •‘•nt» r appears the huge
bulk of the Grand Opera House.
Look at the three vicious strokes.
desc< nding simultaneously upon the
< ity. The < entral one s‘oms to
strik* ch. < to the ancient < athedrai
of Xotr<* I) im» This, remember,
| v.,r th< \\<»rk of an instant. Dur
ing th* 1 continuance of the storm,
hundreds < f bolts may have be<-n
| -hoi frmri th* .-k\ upon Pari<. but
I ’ 1 ■ • ' ■ the
|»<o i iii \ <.id <1 tld m <■' >n< cn-
trai'd mi ’hl have Io d*u
mol h t building.
u is e\ ■ II possible that a grcutei
nuiniioi of llgiitncm ,-ti 'k<* b<-
(worn lite . irlli iml the etmnls <> -
< iir when .i -.to' n >: p - -ou ov ci <i
I" ' 1 1 Ci I V t llttn \< 'll it Oil! Oil I',
the ttnobstriict'<l lounlr.v h. tenth
ii At it .', is bristling wit Ii ijoirus
church spii ■ toueis. io II ehimnej s. .
■te. fmd there is nothing which
••'lr.tw lightning like a pointi .1 oh
jeet. espe, |;i||; if if jv . <m, p, ,<■(., |
ot metti*!. A .-pirni may exhaust all
its atmnnnilion.
Hui tn I lii \ er\ eii < nuistnm eri -
silb -plie S' eurit.v of the eltv . fl is
so filled v, ith nu t illi. ohj , : .hi ~f
II ■ i »ffi ring i ■ nth put h for lie I . -
mng. that ihe latter i< weakened hy
di;-- ipat ion. A grJm p,,|t j s i t , S | lin .
laneo'isiy ili\ii|ei| into a vast num
ber of hram hes ami the forte is
lost. The inhabitants of th' city
wiio kt ep aw i\ from parks and
open place in. almost a s .‘-mine
against lighlnlm; as they would he
,| ill lu'.v w i ii' tint up in., hi,. a in 1:; ,
box i 0.np0.-ed of an iron grating
I 'm in Hu- roimtry it is difft iem
anil tli< need of properly adjusted
lightning rods i jr• itci thine.
Greatly Dreaded.
Lightning is greatly dreaded in
I'Tanc , and no Wonder, since sta
tistics show that I'l,oo'l people were
killed by lightning in that e rnntry
'luring tfie rtincli' nth ■. entury .
Ne.irlt all of Illes.' peri died through
neglect of the most ordinary pre
cautions They m.i' lie said to
have invited dea 111 by placing I In m -
sofV e.s in I lie way of ii s dai Is.
■ V remarkable example occurred
' a.rly this summer, w hen a light
ning holt instantly killed one of the
■•■ii' st noblemen of I 'ram . . the
( Your Best Manners and Impulses
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
» Copyright 1912. by Amercan-Journal-Examiner.
il'" you .1 r< ■ '.I .. ;w , y w I h \ ''Hi
friends <»r \oui family for a
v,h alien t a k<- \ <rjr \ e i \ b«*st
manners, your \t i \ kindest and
s\\ cotest impulse- wit h y m
The’c is no benefit in a rlianuo ol
scene or itspiic riom 'ahar if ill
i ■ mpcr, ne’ \ ousncss, - rritahilit \
• an< ta i; ' - lindin.; rule ;In im olal
doma in
AI! benefit which > cm- s o us
nai-a . .mi,, front WITHIN
Tlu uoin ii) v. ho >tays at home m
■ happy, cheerful state of mind, de
lUJ* d with small plcasuris and
H* ut n making ev» i \ hodx abmft
h< b, ;t, i he companionship,
will iiaiii more benefit from her
\ '.alien than one who goc- tour
ing in mm* ears. ailing m \ ichts
oi sfi.jou' nlng in gi e ; hotels, all
ihe i imo complaining of her : in
round:; • - ml he jis.mm latih ,m,
(imiing fault with people and
thing
A man may far better refuse !o
g.« awa\ mi a .burnvx than to go
am! c.i't a p.i': of ga>mn over his
i oaipu’iimis b\ indulging his most
unamiable and disag! eea blv habits.
A change • ‘ •• ne and thought i
to e r« . oinnn nded to evri \ hum n
h ag who - in pe-sibl\ .m uae
such a n < ' • in
Take Two Vacations.
X I. : tWU . I \ • ! .
• \ k b - > ' > i; ; ,
nem i domain of bur
get aw ay ini > n» w -nt ounc. a:<
nd aimmg mw p« op <> alone
'■ '. h Na t ore
Tie \ e h
Pile t: ack W • s ■ |
m • kit of thought w ruts m
W ■ i -I. ■ hm- \ . .mot '. pi ■ >,
d \• ' -iotis. . nd v o
i i o.
)X!).\Y. SEPTEMBER 2, 1912.
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A Storm Retting Over Paris.
.'Luqiiis of Montebello. In defiance
many warnings he ventured out
in a so-n-o thunder storm, passing
«'D foot through open flphU and a
woodland. His body was found,
half sttippid of its clothing, mar
> iru trees. He '-ar'iod an um
brella. with a slcl point, which
may have divirted the stroke from
.9 ti'-c to him. <>nl\ a work he* >rc
this t iigedy, a gendarme, in a lit
tle count: \ village near me, was
Lilled by lightning when he w- nt
into his garden during a thunder
-torm.
The i.at h <«f lightning is some-
I'dd - , ppalli'ig. It may go a mile,
• < n go ’l EN MI LES and
I’-ach its victim. It can not be
.L'dged even when it comes from
. for it trawls with almost the
•petal of light. Some 'lisuiets are
a lie'jla'ly dangerous b< oaiise of
the 4‘xistence of deposits of iron
beneath Iht' surface of the earth.
'l'lie n ighboihood of a body of
walvi or a stream is always dan
gerous during a thunder sto ni.
Even subterranean water may "at
tract" lightning,
lt ; i rai' that lightning ••liters a
room. if it strikes a house the
damage is usually confined to the
• ■<l rim-, the -roof <» tru- ciiimiieys.
During a violent storm the safest
|)lace is the center of a room,
wheie there is no open communica
tion, such as a fi epi a«-e, with the
in ntal food and dwell on , nionot
om ai> . \ of un< hanging vim. s.
I '• •to . . va< ation and iii tlc
.i "urne\ - ami visits and trips are to
be r commended as beauty treal
iii' nt- ami old-age preventives as
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
"<-1! ill >s for mental and physi-
< a ' mat..dli s
x
\ml titey .lit- helps lo sin i i 's in
• tux limos endeavor, since they
ig the vision and iner< is< th,
r
l-'.ii c.. n. ..; ih, benefits result
from \.nations if the mind is tilled
with dis, -..m, nt. ill temper and
i.uping il'ithi-m.
Should Have Stayed Home.
\ man w.is urged b\ his wife lo
t w i k's x ion x\ ith he:
The nan \vant, d to go into the
> o iitrx . the \\ if. tn g,.! t lie sea -
shi e. and the man \ . hied,
went xvith his wife but ex j
in n. x .x as <l< x oted to
: was spent in
' I 11- el not . |...-
•
itt= .itv kind
exterior. If you are very fearful,
G>u may insulate you: self by sit
ting in a chai) with its logs rest
ing in glass tumblers or. as some
<h». by lying upon a feather bed.
N.itura’ly you would not choose an
iron bed.
Seme Warning's.
But ilie-e are extreme precau
, anil few would think it with
yvhil' io adopt them. You are
I ractaeilly saft if you stay indoors,
closing windows and other open
ings, and keeping away from
stoves, stovepipes and fireplaces.
If you find yourself perforce out
of doors during a thunder storm,
avoid tlie neighborhood of tall, iso
lated trees, and do nht follow a
stream or the border of a lake.
Keep away, also, from wire fences.
Most of the destruction of cattle
by lightning, tn recent years, occurs
where they have huddled close to a
metallic barrier. Don't carry an
umbrella in a thunder storm. The
Maiquis of Montebello's fate is a
sufficient warning on that score.
Submit to be soaked with rain
rath " than take shelter under a
tree. and. for your comfort, remem
ber that, in almost any case, you
have many chances in your favor to
one against you, ami that death by
lightning is probably the most
painless to which a living being can
lie subjected, it is quicker than the
nt r\ es.
would hupp. n. not realizing that his
state of mind was one which would
ultra, t tml produce misfortune.
I’ar kinder would it have been
b id lie remained at home or quietly
insisted upon going to the country.
To yield a point to another is not
a courtesy or a kindness unless it is
Xi' lded graciously, amiably and
v ith every effort to make the sit
uation agreeable and pleasant.
Txvo people may leave a. palatial
and luxurious home and go into the
i discomforts of a small hotel room
"i a farm house, and .vet they may
tiiul delight and benefits untold of
in tin change if they ire good com
rades. real friends 01 tender lovers.
Tile delights and benefits are all
results of mental conditions—an un
seltish desir, to please x'mif asso
ciates. happiness in s.-eing otlters
eii.iov lite, satisfaction in getting
..nd giving tile best of life in every
situation.
These ar. the qualities which
make every vacation a success,
ex vry journey one of benefit, every
,'hang. a p! -asure and the return
home to work a new delight.
Husbands and wives, parents and
children jog along in the home for
months y\ ithout really seeing one
another as they ar,-.
How to Get Benefits.
bat in th- tlose intimacy which
trax el and boarding house or hotel
lite nec s-it ties the prominent
traits and characteristics stand
forth prominently revealed.
Therefore before you go away on
youi V. ation it is well to brush up
y our manneis to take a fresh hold
'•n your will powet and to fertilize
your affectionate nature so that
your family and youi friends and
tin strangers you xx ill meet may be
I" petit.-,l by your companionship.
'nd in doing this you will re.
• I' l I'.tl ben. fit xoprself from
'"lf and .turn letrsh.-d and
li i'io nd s-. h - , s|w'. tmg a hen the
(•lit 1BL! ok
Elbert Hubbard
» Writes on
The Assassins
In the Days of O]d the “Assas
sins” Devoted Their Lives
to Truth, Justice, Purity,
Right, and Their Business
Was to Give Everybody a
Square Deal.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1012. by International News Service
THE wortl "assassin" was once
eminently respectable. it
was first used in the twelfth
Century in Persia.. It signified a
member of a- Mohammedan relig
ious order. Those assassins devot
ed their lives to truth. justice,
purity, right, and their business
was to give everybody a square
deal.
They took their name from the
leader, Hassan, and were cajled
Hassanites. or
some enemy of tile order called
them Hashassins or hashish eaters.
These men weie fired by religious
zeal until they ran amuck, killing
every one w ho tried to oppose them.
I People thought they were intoxi
cated by hashish, or the juice of
the hemp plant. This may have
been so, but a man intoxicated by
religious zeal, or drunk on success
ami his own oratory, is quite as
dangerous as an individual who is
simply plain drunk on dope and
drugs.
The word "assassin" was taken
up by the French and circulated,
first as a slang word, and then it
got fixed in the dictionary, and
when the English adopted it, It be
came legitimate
Proud of the Name.
These Assassins of Islam were
proud of the name and gloried in<
it. The secret Order of Assassins
existed from the twelfth century
down practically to our own time,
and members of the order still en
dure.
They were fatalists, and were
taught that if they died in the pai
ti'-ular worlj to which they were
assigned, their souls would imme
diately gravitate to Paradise.
For 200 years the Order of Assas
sins -held all Asia Minor in terror,
ami instituted some very Dark
Ages.
The Assassins struck in the dark,
and the government was powerless
to locate the murderers; in fact, of
ficers of the government themselves
were often members of this Order
of Assassins. The whole thing was
very much like the Camorra of
Italy, or the cheerful White Caps,
of which America has had quite a
taste.
The world should beware of men
who come in the name of reforma
tion. demanding that the world
shtAild be made over according to
itlegl plans which they themselves
hate formulated. Any man who is
better (or who thinks he is better)
than the common run of humanity
is apt to be a dangerous individual
and may easily gravitate into the
sacred Order of ?- ss-assins.
Ihe Mahdis that have appeared
from time to tint' in the Orient, es
pecially in Asia Minor, Persia and
Turkey, have belonged to this Or
der of Assassins. The word "Mah
di" means one w ho leads us out of
captivity.
Each of the dozen or so Mahdis
George W. Perkins and the Roose
velt Progressive Party
Continued from First Column.
had when the convention opened—something quite new, as politi
cians will admit.
I he country needs to get rid of political hacks and professional
candidates. It wants to interest in polities and in government the
ablest men that the country possesses. Wherever big work has been
• lone in a country, it has been done by men Os power—and usually
b\ men I hat have proved successfid in something else besides
politics.
treorge Washington was a good soldier—and about the richest
man in the country, when he did his great work for this republic.
Nobody suggests that he ought to have kept out of politics because
he happened to be rich.
•Jacques ( oeur was the richest man in Europe when his power
ot organization and his great capital were put at the service of
I-ram-e in a crisis brought on by incompeteney in government.
Disraeli, who did so much for England—more than any other
man. pel haps,* except Pitt—was a man of great power, and would
have been a man of vast wealth if he had thought it worth while to
make money, lie made millions for England in his purchase of the
Suez canal bonds, and hundreds of millions in other ways.
If other men. having proved their ability in the big industrial
work ot the country, will follow the example' of Perkins and take a
share in government and a place in polities, they will do much to in
crease efficiency in government affairs.
And they need not abandon their big undertakings—if those
undertakings are legitimate.
A man should be a builder as well as a talker And a lawmaker.
Hie ablest men in government have been unusually able in
practical affairs.
The wonderful fight that Voltaire made against oppression and
'de injustice did not prevent his building up a prosperous com*
inunity and making himself a very rich man Neeker was a great
business man. as well as a great statesman.
< olojjel Koose\e|| should not seem to apologize for having
Perkins with him. On the contrary, he should be proud of havinc
started a progressive movement that can attract successful men. ami
m>t merely attract the hacks and the failures of other political
| parties
THE HOME PAPER
that Mohammedanism has pro
duced has called himself "The
Mahdi."
There was one particular Mahdi
that turned the Soudan into a trail
of danger and death about the year
1880. This Mat! Mullah's business
was to restore the Soudan, and
eventually the entire world, to a
condition of peace, equity, justice
and prosperity through destruction
of the forces that he said were
strangling the plain people.
He Took to the Desert.
fills man took to the desert with
a few hundred followers. At first
they were unarmed. They lived on
the contributions of the Faithful.
A little later, when contributions
were not forthcoming, they made
raids into the towns and villages,
and collected their own. Soon they
were transformed into a formidable
mass of cavalry. riding stolen
horses. The restless, the worthless,
the uneasy, all those who had noth
ing to lose, quit work and followed
the Mahdi.
Ideal communities were to be or
ganized. A new distribution of
goods was to be the rule. The rich
and the governing classes w pre to
be eliminated. *The rule of the
people was to be supreme.
The revolt grew so great that the-
Khedive abandoned the Soudan.
General Gordon, known as “Chi
nese Gordon," was sent out by the
English government to treat with
the Mahdi, and. if necessary, to de
stroy him.
Gordon arrived at Khartoum in
1884. He issued a request to the
hostile Soudanese to lay down their
arms, and return to their homes
and go to work, promising them
Immunity from punishment for
their offenses.
The reply of t,he Assassins was
to cut off Gordon's communication
with Cairo. Gordon did not have
any idea of the number of men he
had to deal with, and nobody yet
knows how this disorganized, un
organized mass of humanity, that
fed off the land like grasshoppers,
shut Gordon up with his 10,000 sol
diers In Khartoum.
Held Him a Captive.
The besieging hordes held him
captive for ten months.
Finally, Great Britain dispatched
an army to the relief of Gordon,
under General Wolseley, who ar
rived within two days march of
Khartoum. But through the treach
ery of certain people in Khartoum
—for whom General Gordon was
fighting—the gates were thrown
open and the hordes came tum
bling through, and Gordon went
down to his death.
Only the death of Gordon aroused
the British nation to the danger of
this rule of the mob. Kitchener was
sent to the Soudan with an army,
and it took him txvelve years to
put down the rebellion started by
these religious progressives who
thought to make the world over.
