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IA Tariff Policy That Suits
Americans
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They Do Not Propose to Poll Down Their Fences. They Do
Intend to Protect American Labor and Industry. And
They Are Fairly Well Satisfied With Results Thus Far.
We ask our readers to read again with special attention
some paragraphs from an interview given by W. R. Hearst to
The London Dailv Express.
The English are in a hopeful mood just now.
They hope that we will let them manage what we built.
They hope that we will accept seriously Professor Wilson’s
program and make this a free trade country—which would bo
very pleasant for free trade England.
In a previous statement Mr. Hearst had pointed out the
fad that the Americans propose to manage the American canal
without English supervision.
And in the statement quoted below he makes it quite clear
that the people of this country remember the story of the fox
that lost his tail and advised the other foxes to cut their tails
off. as it is much nicer not to have any tail.
The I’nited States finds the bushy tail of protection for in
dustrv and labor quite useful and comfortable, and does not pro
pose to chop it off simply because England is mutilated:
We invite special attention of our readers again to some par
agraphs in .Mr. Hearst’s latest statement—these paragraphs ex
press clearly ami in condensed form the opinions of at least nine
tenths of the citizens of this country. And it is well to have
the English learn, and have politicians in this country learn, that
the Americans will mH experiment with the free trade of Eng
land. a free trade forced upon Great Britain by the fact that
her own territory was incapable of feeding her own population.
Mr. Hearst says:
"There are some abuses in the tariff which need correction, but for my
part I believe in a proper tariff for protection, ap<l 1 believe that the growth
of the unexampled prosperity of America has been largely stimulated by the
principle of ; •lection, in spite of certain abuses in the system."
“Mr. Wilson s:i>» that «• have grown to such a point of production that
we overflow our own market- and that we must extend our markets and open
up foreign markets to our produce
•This is quite true; but one reason that we fill and overflow our own
markets is because legitimate protection has prevented the product of foreign
manufacturer.- and foreign cheap labor from invading our markets and
crowding our own manufacturers and our own laborers ollt of business.”
"If we have had such splendidly prosperous business conditions at home,
it would not be well or wise to alter too rapidly or too radically the system
under which these splendidly prosperous business conditions have been de
veloped Furthermore. we can not secure the markets of foreign nations
merely by reducing out own tariff wall. We must reduce the tai iff wall of
foreign nations.
"By demolishing our own tariff fence we may get out of our own pas
ture, but we can not get into the pasture of foreign nations until we have
demolished their tariff fences. <
"If we sacrifice our protective policy we sacrifice our one opportunity to
lower the tariff bars of foreign countries. It Is only by reciprocity that the
tai iff liars of foreign countries can be low ered.
"If we maintain our piotectivc fence we can say to foreign countries:
’We will lower our bars Io your products if you will lower your bars to our
products.' Hut if w. have no tai Iff fence? we can make no such beneficial
bargain.
Air. W ilson also di. approve s of American business men, and considers
them 'ignorant' and 'provincial.' I un almost disposed irritably to contra
dict this statement of Mr. Wilson.
“American business men are the greatest business men in the world and
have made \uurh.i tin greatest business nation in the world. They are ac
cumu! t ng in America the wealth of the world, and they are employing
their wealth In i wav which excites the admiration of the world.
Some of our business men. like Rockefeller, ate endowing universities
forth’ .uh atniineiit of learning and supporting institutions of medical and
surgi il experini'nt fol the benefit of our ow n people and of all mankind.
Others ..f out business men. like Carnegie, are endowing libraries for
th* dis imin itiop of universal know ledge anil maintaining observatories and
other scientific establishments for the extension of scientific research and
the development of scientific pursuits.
"Others again, like Morgan, are assembling in America the art and li
brary treasures of tin world for the development of our tastes and percep
tion- mil tor tin higher cultur, of our people In the refinements and intellec
tual enjoyments of life
'Our business men have been able to do all this without Mr. Wilson's
guidance, and in spite of his poor opinion of them it is Just possible that
under the guidance of college professors these 'lgnorant' and 'provincial’
business men of ours might not have accomplished as much for them
selves and their country as they did when loft to their own resources.
.Mr Wilson's dogmatic and didactic declarations have all the positive
ness "f the pedagogue who has theories on everything and experience in
nothing. 11l - is tin- custom.ir\ attitude of the college professor who knows
everything, having read it in books, w here it was written down by other col
lege professois wit". * qirdlx infallible know ledge based on equally universal
inexperience.
"It is an Intel, ting thing t.. sei a college professor lecturing practical
business men on , btems of business from the musty rooms of
orte of tin college which thi practical success of these business men had
enabled them to , rdow.
I do not vondi'i that Eng! -hinen are interested in this phase of Ameri
can polities, but I think that tin sound -ense of American citizens will pre
vent any for ign country being unduly benefited at our expense by the hasty
apple 'Hi''ii et 1 undig -ted th* ories of some of our well-meaning, but in
exj"Tiem eii. state smell. '
The above exti.iels from Mr Hearst's statement to the
newspaper, following the statement ol this country's determi
nation to manage the canal that we built, express well the
opinions of ih' niaj'i'il.. of the citizens of this country, ('an
didates to; olliee who can not make themselves ao|- t q< with this
analysts of the situation wal find it difficult to make voters agree
with them.
Ihis country proposes to protect thp I'nited States, its
workers and its mamitact urm s ami that without permitting
' ' 'mMiiiei mo| i.iritis tor the benefit and protection of trusts
I' ■ tlict would k'i tl" tariff absolutely m order, as they
’ ''' ’*"* ’''lists, simply play the part of the tame
111 d his HlHktf i - head with a rock m order to kill
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world is better supplied
| with tilings that tempt us
to Spend money than with
•suggestions to save money.
Temptations to spend are right
in front of us all the time, on both
stiles of us, and, if we turn around,
we find them behind us.
And the price is always marked
in plain figures.
The suggestion to save money is
not much advertised. It is a mat
ter of reason rather than of temp
tation, and most of us are less
given to entertaining our Reason
(which is supposed to be of divine
origin) than we are to keeping
company with those unnecessary
things that put up the cost of liv
ing.
Here Are Four Machines.
American schools arc a great In
stitution. You get an education in
them that is a good invesement.
Well, with the education you have
received figure out this problem:
Here are four metal machines,
all deaf, dumb and blind. The
central point of each machine is a
slot WHERE YOU CAN PUSH
YOUR OWN MONEY OUT OF
SIGHT AND REAIJH
No. 1 belches out a piece of
chocolate.
No. 2 a stick of gum.
No. 3 perfumes your handker
chief, plays a little tune (Good
bye. my penny, good-bye) and tells
you how much you weigh.
No. I pushes out n printed slip
which gives you credit at the Way
farers Savings bank for one cent,
and advises you that when you get
ten such tickets that you may come
in and get a book with a total
credit of one dime.
Problem:
Which machine will catch the
fewest pennies"
Note The fourth machine is
imaginary.
No savings bank president in ex
istence ever hud the idea ent r
bls bend that S'IMF. pennies could
be caught In this wav Hut he
mm wake up some day and try to
make saving ns great u tempta
tion .i» spending
II
y good many sc ring bunks will
glv ii <lf|M>slti>< ii -mull metal bank
with slots In II Thi- Is (o lie kept
ill livliu und tilled by domestic
Smashing the Straw Hat
Bv HAL COFFMAN.
Reducing the Living Cost
Rank Suggestions
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912.
By THOM AS TAPPER.
economy. The banker keeps the
key, and when the machine is full
you take it in and get credit for
the,amount it contains.
This is a good scheme. But it
has one fault—perhaps more than
one.
1. It is not advertised enough.
2. Hence the machines are not
common enough
Letters From the
People
SUPERSTITION.
Editor The Georgian:
I read your editorial. "How to
Have Good EuCk.” with a great
deal of interest, and I would like,
In the inteiest of truth, to see
some editorial writer go deeper
Into the underlying causes of su
perstition. Are -the educated
classes less superstitious than the
uneducated masses'! Or-do the ed
ucated classes seek to spread dark
ness and sufH-i'stition when "fairy
tales" too numerous to describe
are dished out as mental food to
small children'.'
Superstition is an effect and edu
cation the cause. We do not ob
tain all onr education in the class
room, by any means. Education, in
a* general sense, is the result of
contact, association, and I con
tend that the grownup will be .ab
solutely free from superstition if
the child could be guarded from
contact with .-upertitious litera
ture and tenehi •s. both in and out
of the class room. Superstition is
mental smallpox and the germs
are absorbed by contact: then, at
a futui'e date, wa have breaking
nut of the'diseasc with more or less
violerce in proportion to mental
caliber. W. V JONES.
Madison. G i
CLIPS ARTICLES FOR REFERENCE
Editor 'flu Georgian
1 fiM'l that 1 must compliment
you on having Miss Hix on your
editorial staff i only wish we had
iiMiia broad-min<h'd women like
her She is doing a great work in
.1 field that has been neglected. I
clip all of in r articles from the
pap. r and file away for future ref
■r<tn ■ - - I think they me worth
It W ALTON < LI I TUN
3.. Most people when they get
home at night are too tired to
save money.
The time to catch them is dur
ing the day when they feel rich,
and the pennies are running
through their fingers, yelling, Push
me into something.
Time to Catch Them.
Then is the moment when the
Wayfarer's Savings Bank slot ma
chine w ijl catch its harvest. Better
have three.i slots in your machine—
one for pennies, one for nickels and
one for dimes. You get credit at
the bank for the printed slip.
You can afford to put up a nice
• machine —one constructed to squirt
fine perfume on the depositor, or to
play tunes.
HI.
Any device that checks the chan
nels of waste, particularly little
wastes, reduces the cost of living,
by cutting out the cost of un
necessary things. This does not
exculpate the trusts for running up
the price of meat, but it helps a
man momentarily by prpsvrA’ing his
resources.
Few men are so foolish as to
carry their money in a pocket with
a hole in it. But let some other
man make the hole surround it
with printed directions, and there
is si.iri’ely any' one too poor not to
be tickled to death to try how it
works.
All of which means this:
Money should not make us
thoughtless, but thoughtful
Money Equals Labor.
Money is the equivalent of la
bor, and it deserves the same re
spect.
Money that is wasted today
would provide an old age pension
in years to come.
Money can tie spent to make div
idends and benefits for you, or for
the other man. Take your choice.
The cost of Living is high, but.
the cost of Foolishness is higher.
An education ought to teach a
man to guard his own earnings and
to protect himself and his famllv in
lb' f’ltur. Ta, ~f ~u r
school books is legs than Twenty
fivi Millions of Dollars |„. r annum,
but the cost of wines, liquors, to
bacco and cigars In' one y ear is
about Eight Hiyidnd Millions
\\v are certainly gnat spenders.
THE HOME PAPE R
W. R. Hearst on Free Trade
Americans Won’t Permit It
Wilson’s Views Theoretical
LONDON, Sept. 16.—The London Daily Express, which pub
lished the views of William R. Hearst on the Panama canal con
troversy, prints the following:
To the Editor of The Express:
Sir—You ask me how the views
of the various presidential candi
dates in America on the Panama
ipatter and other matters will af
fect England's interests.
I do not think there is any great
difference of opinion entertained
by the three leading candidates in
regard to this canal question. I
think I can say that the American
people are practically a unit in
support of President Taft’s attitude
on this question.
The newspapers which took a
position in opposition to President
Taft and in support of foreign
claims and home corporations have
been whipped into line with Presi
dent Taft's attitude by the force of
popular opinion.
I do not think that either Mr.
Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt would
jeopardize his election by taking
a position in opposition to Presi
dent Taft's attitude.
Abuses Need Correction.
You people in England are ardent
admirers of Mr. Wilson because of
his free trade views and because
they think that the policy of free
trade on the part of the United
States will benefit England. I do
not think that a policy of free trade
will be permitted by the American
people.
I am supporting the Democracy’
in this campaign, but politics in
the United States is in such a
transitional period that the word
Democrat or Republican does not
definitely fix any particular princi
ples, and I reserve the right of my
own opinion as to what consti
tutes true Democratic tenets and
proper progressive principles.
I do not approve qfc Mr. Wilson’s
.policy of a tariff for revenue only,
nor do I think that he Improves his
position when he declares in sup
port of gradual reduction of the
tariff. A gradual reduction of the
tariff means a continual reduction
of the tariff and the continual dis
turbance of the tariff means con
tinual disturbance of business.
It would be much better for the
Democrats to adopt a very definite
tariff program, and then, if elect
ed, carry out exactly that tariff
program, and thereafter allow
business to proceed in confidence
and security and with a thorough
know ledge of established condi
tions.
There are some abuses in the
tariff which need correction, but
for my part I believe in a proper
tariff for protection, and I believe
that the growth of the unexam
pled prosperity of America has
been largely stimulated b$- the
principle of protection in spite of
certain abuses in the system.
Mr. ViMlson /lays that we have
grown to such a point of produc
tion that we overflow our own mar
kets and that we must extend our
markets and open up foreign mar
kets to our produce.
This Is quite true; but one reason
that we fill and overflow our own
markets is because legitimate pro
tection has prevented the product
of foreign manufacturers and for
eign cheap labor from invading our
markets and crowding our own
manufacturers and our own labor
ers out of business.
If we have had such splendidly
prosperous business conditions at
home, it would not be well or wise
to alter too rapidly or too radical
ly the system undyr
splendidly prosperous business con
ditions have been developed. Fur
thermore, we can not secure the
markets of foreign nations merely
by reducing our own tariff wall.
We must reduce the tariff wall of
foreign nations.
Greatest In the World.
Ry demolishing our own ta iff
fence we may get out of our own
pasture, but we van not get into the
pasture of foreign nations until w.
have demolished their tariff fences.
If we .'III rltiei' mil pl'otei tiv,' pol
le\ vi- sai • Hi. • oui one opportun
ity to lower the tu iff bars of for
eign countries. It is only by reel
proelty that the tariff burs us for
eign countries can be lowered
If wi nuiitita n mil pr uei'tivi
fvnvc wv cun say to foreign coun-
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
tries: "We will lower our bars to
your products if you will lower
your bars to our products.” But if
we have no tariff fences, we can
make no such beneficial bargain
Mr. Wilson must not be like the
dog in Aesop’s fables who let go
the bone that he actually had in
order to grasp at the reflection in
the water. If we sacrifice any ad
vantage that we actually have w s
must be sure that we are going to
get a corresponding advantage t n
return, and if we should sacrifice
injudiciously our protective policy,
we should find our markets open t»
the products of all the nations of
the world and their markets still
closed to the products of our own
nation.
Mr. R ilson also disapproves of
American business men and consM
ers them "ignorant” and "provfn
cial.” I am almost disposed irrita
bly to contradict this statement of
Mr. Wilson.
American business men are the
greatest business men in the world
and have made America the great
est business nation in the world.
They are accumulating In America
the wealth of the world, and they
are employing their wealth In a
way which excites the admiration
of the world.
Some of our business men. like
Rockefeller, are endowing universi
ties for the advancement of learn
ing and supporting institutions of
medical and surgical experiment
for the benefit of onr own people
and of all mankind.
Others of our business men. like
• arnegie, are endowing libraries for
the dissemination of unlv»rsai
knowledge and maintaining observ
atories and other scientific estab,
lishments for the extension of sci
entific research and the develop
ment of scientific pursuits.
Others again, like Morgan, are
assembling in America the art and
library treasures of the world for
the development of our tastes and
perceptions and for the higher cul
ture of our people in the refine
ments and intellectual enjovmenta
of life.
Lecturing Business Men.
Our business men have been able
to do all this without Mr. Wilson s
guidance, and in spite of his poor
opinion of them it is just possible
that under the guidance of college
professors these "ignorant” and
piovincial” business men of ours
might not have accomplished as
much for themselves and their
country as they did when left to
their own resources.
Mr. Wilson's dogmatic and di
dactic declarations have all the
positiveness of the pedagogue who
has theories on every thing and ex
perience in nothing. His is the cus
tomary attitude of the college pro
fessor who knows everything, hav
ing read it in books, where it was
written down by other college pro
fessors with equally infallible
knowledge based on equally uni
versal inexperience. '
It is an interesting thing to see a
college professor lecturing practi
cal business men on the practical
problems of business from the
musty rooms of one of the colleges
which the practical success of the-'
business men had enabled them to
endow.
It must also be an interes ir"
thing to Englishmen to note that
America is considering the advis
ability of embarking on a free tr.i'i 1
policy, which England is l onsiil'r
ing the advisability of abandoning
This paradoxical situation is due
to the fact that England has had ’ ’
her sorrow some experience with a
free trade policy, while American
statesmen are educated in the books
of theoretical English economists
which were written before the free
trade theory had opportunity of
practical experiment and refuta
tion.
1 do not wonder that Englis'
men are interested in this phi-
American polities, but I think n 1
the sound sense of American
zens will prevent any foreign <o' lll '
try being unduly benefited at '
exp- nse by the hasty applieatum
the undigested theories of sum
oui well meaning but Inexprrirn
statesmen.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARS*-
