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Too Much Protesting Will
Surely Lead to a New
Canal Treaty
Tn the chorus of protest that has arisen from British news
papers and their Tory echoes on this side of the water since the
passage of the Panama canal bill, there is far more fury than
reason.
The Georgian does not believe that anything in the Hay-
Panncefote treaty binds the 1 nited States to forbid American
ships free passage through the canal. Senator Lodge, a member
of the senate committee on foreign relations, admits that such
an idea never entered his head when the treaty was reported.
The Georgian does not believe that the term, “all na
tions,” used by the treaty in speaking of equal treatment for
vessels passing through the canal, meant American ships, any
more than the term, ‘‘all nations,” applies to American war
ships in the rule which forbids vessels of war of a belligerent
from revictualing nr taking any stores in the canal. Such an
interpretation of the term would render the canal utterly value
less to us in time of war.
But it seems tn be necessary to remind British newspapers,
AND NEWSPAPERS SERVING THE INTERESTS OF THE
AMERICAN RAILROADS DENIED A MONOPOLY OF THE
CANAL BY THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL, that since the
signing of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty great things have hap
pened.
Great Britain, the power with which the treaty was nego
tiated. is no longer, as it then was, the possessor of Hie majority
of territory nearest the canal. The United States is no longer,
as it then was, a power seeking a waterway through alien ter
ritory, and requiring the consent and co-operation of another
great nation to do so.
SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE
TREATY THE UNITED STATES HAS BOUGHT A STRIP OF
LAND ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. THIS STRIP IT
OWNS OUTRIGHT. IT NEEDS NO ALLY IN CANAL BUILD
ING OR CANAL OPERATING. IT NEED MAKE NO CON
CESSIONS TO A POWER WHICH CONTRIBUTED NOT ONE
PENNY TO THE BUILDING OF THE CANAL. AND CAN
BE OF NO AID TO THE UNITED STATES IN ITS CON
DUCT OR TN ITS DEFENSE.
The British press and its Tory allies in the United States
may very 7 easily protest too much for their own good in this
matter. Assuming that, in answer to the outcries against the
provisions of the hill, the case is taken to The Hague tribunal,
the extreme penalty, in the event of a decision adverse to the
United States, would be the return of the money collected from
vessels of foreign nations which had passed through the canal be
tween the date of its opening and the time the decision was
rendered.
And that would defeat the very object for which the British
newspapers and the American railroad organs are striving. FOR
IT WOULD INEVITABLY LEAD TO THE DENUNCIATION
AND TERMINATION OF THE TREATY.
The treaty terminated, an end w.ould be made of the conten
tion that we can not conduct our own canal for the benefit of
our own citizens, Great Britain’s enthusiasm as an ally of the
American railroads in fighting the canal bill would cease, and the
enemies of the anti-monopoly provisions of the bill would have
to come out and fight in the open—solely as the advocates of
greed.
GeorgeW. Perkins Will Write
For rhe Atlanta Georgian
in Favor of Roosevelt
At the beginning of the campaign this newspaper an
nounced that it would print the news of a.ll the parties, that
the Hearst newspapers would support Wilson and that represen
tatives of Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt would be invited to con
tribute to the paper as often as they choose and discuss their
side of the campaign.
It will interest, our readers to know that George W. Per
kins* a man very successful in large affairs, now very prominent
in the Roosevelt campaign, will discuss “the Bull Moose move
ment” with our readers and try to persuade them that they
sihonld vote for Roosevelt and the Bull Moose or Progressive
party.
Mr. Perkins has built up big industries and a big individual
fortune. He is interested now in building up a new party, and
our readers will be interested in his point of view and in his ar
guments.
The contention of Mr. Perkins and the others interested in
the Roosevelt-Progressive movement is that the people do not
govern themselves, but accept government from above.
Roosevelt may win and lie may lose; there is no doubt that
he is doing his share toward ripping up and tearing out old,
fossilized ideas of government by party.
There is no doubt that he and those associated with him are
appealing directly to the people AND RELYING ON THE
PEOPLE FOR SUCCESS.
In the old days a man like Perkins, with a very large for
tune and wide business connections, would have used his money
to buy or hire politicians, office holders and the lower class of
newspaper editors.
Now, instead of working behind closed doors in secret,
through the power of money, Mr. Perkins appeals directly to the
people, says what he thinks and signs his name to his opinions
—and. by the way. is able to get them printed in the Hearst
newspapers, circulating more than two millions of copies each
day and read by a* least six or eight millions of Americans.
The new method of publicity, of direct appeal to the people,
is certainly an improvement on old style polities.
And Mr. Perkins and the cause that he represents will at
least get a respectful hearing from our great army of readers.
We shill publish the important saying: of the various can
didates. And we shall give space to those that are authorized
to speak on their behalf—and our readers will make up their
minds and vote accordingly which is the right ami fin onh
way to run a republic.
“Give light and the people will find tin road. ”
The Atlanta Georgian
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Putting Up a Bluff &
By DOROTHY DIX.
AMAN asks these questions:
"Is it not a bluff when an
old maid says that she has
never envied a married woman,
and wouldn't trade places with
one, and that she is happier single
than she would be if she was mar
ried ?”
Probably every man in the world
would answer these questions in
the affirmative and say yes; that
every old maid w ho pretended that
she was a spinster from choice was
puttihg up a bluff that any man
would call, but a woman would
reply to the question by saying
both yes and no.
Undoubtedly the old maid who
scoffs at marriage and boasts of
her single blessedness is fibbing,
and putting a gay face on a sad
matter. Every human being
knows, every instinct teaches us,
that men and women are each in
complete without the other, and
that it takes both to round out the
full and perfect life.
What It Should Be.
Husband and wife, children and
home, are the materials out of
which real, lasting, soul satisfying
happiness is made, and no matter
what else one has. if one lacks
them, one has missed the best that
the gods have to bestow.
There is no other joy on earth so
exquisite as the companionship of
the man and woman who are mated
as well as married, who have every
thought in common, and who find
in each other an exhaustless well
of sympathy from which they may
draw at will. There is no other in
terest in life so intense and undy
ing as that which people have in .
their children: there can be no
happiness so sweet and serene as
that which comes from the feel of
little children's arms about one's
neck, ami the touch of baby's
hands within one's own.
There can be no occupation so
absorbing and so worth while as
the making of a beautiful home to
boa shrine for this lovely family
life.
This is what marriage should be.
It is the ideal that we all see in
our dreams. It is the will-o'-the
wisp that beckons millions into
matrimony, and it is foolish for any
man or woman to say that lie or
• the has not dreamed the dream,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912.
and longed to be one of the blessed
who dwell within some domestic
Eden.
We all know that a happy mar
riage is the happiest estate in the
world, but we also know that an
unhappy marriage is an earthly
purgatory. In matrimony there is
something that brings out the best
or the worst of people, and as
there is no other blessing equal to
a good husband or wife, so there
is no other curse that compares
with a bad one.
If all marriages w ere happy, and
if the dove of peace roosted on
every roof tree. then, indeed, old
bachelors and old maids would ex
pire of envy, and their boasts of
contentment with their hollow
lots would be hollow mockery.
Unfortunately, however, there is
nothing in the average marriage
that does anything but hold it up
as an awful warning to the unmar
ried, and it is only the triumph
of hope over other people’s experi
ences that leads any' young coupie
to dare attempt the holy estate.
The old bachelor, returning from
an evening spent in the bosom of
the family of his friend Benedict,
reflects that poor old Benedict gets
a mighty poor run for his money,
and that a fretful and nagging
wife, and spats and jars, and the
loss of* one's person's I liberty , is
hardly an adequate return for a
man having to work like a dray
horse to support a family. There
fore, the old bachelor sighs a sigh
of contentment, and says, "Not for
muh,” as he turns the key in his
comfortable apartment.
Nor does the old maid, w hen she
visits around among her married
sisters and friends, find anything
to shake her belief in the fact that
she chose the better part when she
decided to stay single. She ob
serves that her sister has to work
ten times as hard as she does, even
if she is a, working woman and
sister is one of the lucky ones
married to a man who “supports
her." And she takes note that
while she gets a pay envelope for
her work, and has money that no
body presumes to dictate what she
shall do with, sister has never a
penny of her own. and has to go
like a beggar to her husband for
every cent. Also she has to give
an account of what she did with
the quarter ho gave her week be
fore last. And nkewist husband
groans over how much it costs to
support a wife.
The spinster sees that she is bet
ter dressed than sister unless sister
happened to marry rich, and that
she looks about five years younger.
Moreover, the spinster observes
that in addition to everything else
that sister does, she has to spend
her time and energy in placating
husband, or else in quarreling with
him. and that, although it is polite
and complimentary to believe that
husband still loves sister, there's
no evidence upon which to base
this conclusion. Apparently' it does
not take more than three months
to rub the gilt off the ginger
bread matrimony, and after that if
a man feels any admiration, or
tenderness, for his w ife he doesn't
take the pains to show it.
Thinks She's Better Off.
So the spinster takes a good,
firm grip on her latchkey and her
pocketbook, and says that she’s
better off than sister, and that she
doesn't envy- any married woman.
And there's no bluff in that. She
is simply telling the truth, nine
times out of ten. when she makes
that assertion, for it is only too
sadly true that ideal marriages are
as scarce as hen’s teeth, and that
in the whole range of our ac
quaintances we scarcely know one
couple who have made a success
instead of a failure of matrimony.
In the past the old maid’s boast
that she didn’t marry because she
didn’t want to may have been a
bluff and not ''sincere, because in
former days every woman had to
marry in order to get a home of her
own. That is not the case now.
Any woman can support herself
as well as a husband is likely to
do it, and so matrimony has be
come a choice instead of a neces
sity. and it is because women see
so few good husbands that they'
are getting more and more afraid
of marriage, and to believe that it
is better to stick to the peace and
contentment they have than to risk
the danger of a heart-breaking
disappointment in matrimony.
But the single woman knows
that while she may have missed
misery, she has also missed the
highest happiness. She has but
the half loaf, and she goes to her
grave hungering for the love, and
the man. and the child, and the
home that should be every wom
ans portion.
THE HOME PAPER
I Elbert Hubbarcl
Writes on
College Degrees
“The Best Way to Prepare for
Life Is to Begin to Live. A
School Should Not Be a
Preparation; a School Should
Be Life.”
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International New r s Service
SO long as some men who are
not college bred take first
place on the roster of fame,
and other men who are college
bred, working alongside of them,
sink out of sight, most thinking
men are quite willing to admit the
so-called higher education is not
a necessity.
Os the college men who suc
ceed, who shall say they succeeded
by and through the aid the college
gave, or in spite of it?
Yet many men who win will wail,
“If I only had the advantage of
college training!“
If so, it might have ironed all the
individuality out of them.
Let All Go To School.
However. I would have every
man have a college education in
order that he might see how lit
tle the thing is really worth. I would
have every man rich that he might
know the worthlessness of riches.
To take a young man away from
work, say at eighteen years of age,
and keep him Trom useful labor, in
the name of education, for four
years, will some clay be regarded
as a most absurd proposition. It
is the most gigantic illusion of the
age. Set in motion by theologians,
the idea was that the young per
son should be drilled and versed in
“sacred” themes.
Hence, the dead languages and
the fixed thought that education
should be esoteric.
This separation from the prac
tical wotld for a number of years,
where no useful work was done,
and the whole attention fixed on
abstract themes and theories, often
tended to cripple the man so that
he could never go back to the
world of work and usefulness. He
w as no longer a producer, and had
to be supported by tithes and taxes.
And, of course, as he did not in
tend to go back to the world of
work and usefulness, it really didn’t
make any difference if he did sink
End of the Revolution
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
THE last battle of the Revolu
tionary war was fought at
Blue Lick. Kentucky, Au
gust 20. 1782.
England died hard, and in ways
that were far from being in strict
keeping with international law
tried to postpone the final surren
der as long as she could. It was
in consequence of such tactics that
the battle of Blue Lick was fought.
On the 16th of August, 1782. a
force of several hundred Canadians
and Wyandotte Indians laid siege
to Bryan's Station, some five miles
from the present city of Lexington,
the capital of the famous Blue
Grass region.
The next day a party of 180
frontiersmen, commanded by Dan
iel Boone. John Todd and Stephen
Trigg, hastened to the rescue, not
withstanding the fact that they'
were greatly outnumbered by the
enemy.
Upon reaching the near neigh
borhood of the station a council of
war was held to determine upon the
line of attack. Boone’s advice was
to march silently- up the river and
fall upon the rear of the enemy,
while, at the same time, the main
attack should be delivered in
front.
Unfortunately, this sensible ad
vice was spoiled by the rash action
of a major named McGary, who
dashed his horse into the river,
shouting: “Let all who are not
cowards follow me." Os course.
McGary’s action was madness, but
it was a madness that became in
stantly contagious, and soon most
into a pupa-like condition of nul
lity.
In the smaller colleges manv in
stances are found of student*
working their way through school.
My experience leads me to believe
that such students stand a very
much better chance in the world’s
race than those who are made . x
empt from practical affairs by hav
ing everything provided. The re
sponsibility of caring for himself 1s
a necessary factor in man’s evo
lution.
And the point of this preach
ment lies right here—that to make
a young man exempt from the
practical world, from eighteen to
twenty-two, is to run the risl- of
ruining him for life. Possibly you
have taken opportunity from him
and turned him into a memory ma
chine.
There are persons w'ho are al
ways talking about pieparing for
life. The best way to prepare for
life is to begin to live.
A school should not be a prepara
tion: a school should be life.
Isolation from the world in order
to prepare for the world's work is
folly. You might as well take a
boy out of the blacksmith shop in
order to teach him blacksmithins.
Is the Useful Man.
Any college that does not teach
its pupils to work at practical,
useful tasks, Is a make-believe, and
every college student knows it
From the age of six or seven and
upward the pupil should feel that
he is doing something useful, not
merely killing time; and so his
work and his instruction should
go right along hand in hand.
The educated man is the useful
man.
And no matter how many college
degrees a man has, if he can not do
something that the world want
done, he is an educated ignoramus,
and is one with the yesterday
doing pedagogic goose-step adown
the days to dusty death.
of the men were fording the stream
hard after the rash major.
Crossing without molestation,
they reached the top of the ridge,
when their troubles began in dead
earnest. From front and flank
they received a deadly- fire from
the Indians and their Canadian al
lies. They had been ambushed, ami
the invisible foe shot them down
like dogs.
Outnumbered three to one. and
presently quite surrounded, th' r
fought like the brave men they
were until they realized that to re
main longer was to be annihilated,
whereupon they broke through tie
fiery cordon and escaped as be-t
they could.
Sixty-seven Kentuckians wen
killed outfight and many of tin
wounded were afterward massa
cred. The loss of the Canadians
and Wyandottes was never known
as they- carried away their killed
and wounded.
But the rednten made no more
trouble for Kentucky- The treaty
of peace deprived them of their
British backing, and the United
States was left to deal with them
after its own way. The memory
of the brave tight that was put up
by the handful of frontiersmen lin
gered with them. and. with no Imp?
of help from England, they gave
the Kentuckians a grand letting
alone.
Such, in brief, is the story ot I’*
last battle of the war of the Roy
olution. Beginning away up in
Massachusetts, the great strugg!
ended at Blue Lick. Kentucky. "
region that was an unknown WU”
derness when the struggle began.
