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A Tariff Policy That Suits
Americans
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They Do Not Propose to Pull 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 Daily 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 be
very pleasant for free trade England.
In a previous statement Mr. Hearst had pointed out the
fact 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 United States finds the bushy tail of protection for in
dustry 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 and 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 not 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:
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“Then are some abuses in the tariff which need correction, hut for my
part I belli v. in a proper tariff for protection, and I believe that the growth
of tie unexampled prosperity of America hits been largely stimulated by the
principle of protection, in spite of certain abuses in the system."
“Mr. Wilson says that we have grown to such a point of production that
we 'V flow >ur own markets and that we must extend our markets and open
up f • ign markets to our produce.
"This is quite true, but one reason that we fill and overflow our own
r : i i be. tuse legitimate protection has prevented the product of foreign
mmi .•.;‘ turers and foreign cheap labor from invading our markets and
( ou<iing oui own manufacturers and our own laborers out of business."
"If we h ive 1 ad such splendidly prosi>erous business conditions at home,
it would not be well or wise to alter too rapidly or too radically the system
under which th. s splendidly prosperous business conditions have been de-
V elojn d. Further more, we can not secure the markets of foreign nations
merely by reilucing our own tariff wall. We must reduce the tariff wall of
foreign nations.
"By demolishing our own tariff fence we may get out of our own pas
ture, hut w>- 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 tin tariff bars of foreign countries. It is only by reciprocity that the
tariff bars of foreign countries can be lowered.
"If w. maintain our protective fence we can say to foreign countries:
‘We will lower our bats to your products if you will lower your bars to our
produ. t But if we have no tariff fences we cun make no such beneficial
bargain.
"Mr. Wilson also disapproves of American business men, and considers
them ‘ignorant’ and ‘provincial.’ I am 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 America the greatest business nation in the world. They are ac
cumulating in America the wealth of the world, and they are employing
their wealth in away which excites the admiration of the world.
Some of our business men, like Rockefeller, are endowing universities
for the advancement of learning and supporting Institutions of medical and
surgical experiment for the benefit of our own people and of all mankind.
"Others of our business men, HRe Carnegie, are endowing libraries for
the dissemination of universal knowledge and maintaining observatories and
other scientific establishments for the extension of scientific research and
tne development of scientific pursuits.
"Others again. Ilk. Morgan, are assembling in America the art and li
brary treasures of the w.uld for the development of our tastes and percep
tions and for the higher culture 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 .lust 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 left to their own resources
"Mr. Wilson’s dogmatic and didactic declarations have all the positive
ness of the pedagogue who has theories on everything and experience in
nothing His is the customary attitude of the college professor who knows
everything, having read it in hooks, where It was written down by other col
leg. professors with equally infallible knowledge based on equally universal
inexperience.
It is in interesting tiling to see a college professor lecturing practical
busin. ■.n on the practical problems ~f business from the musty rooms of
one ot the colleges which lite practical success of these business men had
enabled them to endow.
"I do not wonder that Englishmen are interested in this phase of Ameri
can polities, but 1 think that the sound sense of American citizens w ill pre
vent any foreign country being unduly benefited at our expense by the hasty
application of th. undigested theories of some of our well-meaning, but in
exp. ri. nced. stat, smen.”
Tile above extracts from Mr. Hearst’s statement tn the
newspaper, following the statement of this country's determi
nation to manage the canal that we built, express well the
opinions of the majority of the citizens of this country, (’an
dfllates lor office who can not make themselves agree with this
analysis of the situation will find it difficult to make voters agree
with them.
1 his country proposes to protect the United States, its
" ’n r< and its manufacturers and that without permitting
■ or. 1 i u. i ,q qj tuciiis tor the benefit and protection of trusts.
' 'hat would kill the tariff absolutely, in order, as they
eh. ek th.- trusts, simply plat the part of the tame
■ ’ - ■ - head with a rock in order to kill
'nasi. • s nose.
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r-p’.IlS world is better supplied
I with things 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
sides 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 OP
SIGHT AND REACH.
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. 4 pushes out a printed slip
which gives you credit at the Way
farers Savings bank for one cent,
and advises you that w ben you get
ti n such tickets that you may come
in and get a book with a total
credit of one dime.
Problem:
Which machine will catch the
f< w< st pennies ?
Note: -The fourth machine is
Imaginary.
No savings bank president in ex
istence cut had the idea enter
his head that SOME pennies could
be eaught in this way. But he
max wake up some day and try to
maki saving as great a tempta
tion as spending.
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A good mini savings banks will
give a dep • situ: , stnall metal bank
will: (slots in It This is to be kept
at lie,in alld lllicd in duuii slii:
Smashing the Straw Hat
Bv HAL COFFMAN.
Reducing the Living Cost
Sav/ngs Bank Safest ions
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912.
By THOMAS 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 Luck," with a great
deal of interest, and I would like,
in the interest of truth, tq 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 superstition 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 our education in the class
room, by any means. Education, in
a general sense, is the result of
contact, association, and 1 con
tend that the grownup wifi be ab
solutely free from superstition if
the child could be guarded from
contact with supertitlous litera
ture and teachers, both in and out
of the class room. Superstition is
mental smallpox and the germs
tire absorbed by contact: then, at
a future date, we have breaking
out of the disease with more or less
violence in proportion to mental
caliber. W. A. JONES.
Madison. Ga.
CLIPS ARTICLES FOR REFERENCE
Editor The Georgian:
I feel that I must compliment
you on having Miss Dix on your
editorial staff I only wish we had
more broad-minded women like
hi t She is doing a great work In
a field that has been neglected I
elip all of her articles from the
paper and file away for future ref.
•■n ni es. as 1 think the.' are worth
it. \\ ALTON CI,II- Ton
Daw sun, Gu.
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 will catch its harvest. Better
have three 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.
111.
Any device that checks the chan
nels of waste, particularly little
wastes, reduces the cost o's 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 preserving his
resources.
Few men are so foolish as to
carry their money in a pocket with
a hole in it. But let some other
nian make the hole, surround it
with printed directions, and there
is scarcely 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 todav
would provide an old age pension
In years to come.
Money can be spent to make div
idends and benefits for you. or for
the other man. Take your choice.
The cost of Living l s high, but
the cost of Foolishness is higher.
An education ought to'teach a
man to guard his ow n earnings and
to protect himself and his family in
the future The cost of all our
school books Is less than Twenty
five Millions of Dollars per annum,
but the cost of wines, liquors, to
bacco and cigars in one year is
about Eight Hundred Millions
\\ e are iertulnl} great spenders.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
The New Way
How the Laundry Business in
the United States Has Grown
From Nothing to $125,000,000
a Year.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
THE other day in a Western
city I sent a bundle to the
laundry.
When the clothes came back
there came also a big, square sealed
envelope. I opened this envelope
and found in it three ten-dollar
bills, all nicely washed, starched,
ironed and ca:efully placed between
two pieces of cardboard and tied
up with a blue ribbon in a lover’s
knot
No explanation was made, but in
the bill I saw they had charged me
25 cents for laundering the ma
zuma.
Os course, I kicked, but what was
the use!
Asked for Explanation.
Just for the fun of the thing, in
order to get a line on that particu
lar wash house, I went around and
demanded an explanation.
The young woman in charge said
they had found the money in the
right-hand pocket of a left-hand
white vest which I bad sent in the
bundle. Then she explained, quite
incidentally; that whenever soiled
clothes came in every garment was
carefully inspected for valuables.
Every day they found money in
pockets, diamond studs in shirt
bosoms, valuable links In cuffs, and
collar buttons enough to roll under
all the bureaus in Christendom.
"It is a part of our business,"
said the young woman, "to protect
our customers against their otvn
carelessness.”
She saw I was interested, and
continued: “We never send gar
ments home with the buttons off."
I said: "Do you iron many but
tons off?”
"No, we do not: but when gar
ments come in with buttons off we
always sew them on, so as to re
turn the garments in good order,
ready to wear. Also, we do any lit
tle darning and mending that
should be done, and all this with
out charge. Our business is to
please our customers."
In looking over a volume of the
last United States industrial cen
sus, I find that they could not call
a laundry a factory, so they give it
a class all by itself. A laundry has
only one thing to sell and that is
service.
Better Than Human Hand.
The laundries of the United
States, outside of hotel, factory or
institution laundries, do a business
In America of about $125,000,000 a
year. This ranks the laundry in
dustry as eleventh in size in Amer
ica.
There was a time when washing
was all done in the home. Blue
Monday everybody ate a cold lunch,
walked softly and never talked
back. Washing by hand on a wash
board, wringing and hanging out
clothes, carrying them in, starch-
I he Poor Little Toe
u By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
HT AM all tired out, said the Mouth, with a pout.
1 “I am all tired out with talk.”
•lust wait, said the Knee, “till you’re lame as you ean b
And then have to walk—walk—waik.”
Mi work, said the Hand, “is the hardest in the land.”
“Nay, mine is harder yet.” said the Brain;
AVhen you toil, said the Eye, “as steadily as I,
OH, THEN you’ll have reason to complain.”
Then a voice, taint and low, of the poor Little Toe,
Spoke out in the dark with a wail.
It is seldom 1 complain, but you all will bear your pain
With more patience if you hearken to my tale.
I m the voungest of five, and the others live and thrive.
T hev are eared for. and considered, and admired.
I am overlooked and snubbed. I am pushed upon and rubbed
I ain always sick and ailing, sore and tired.
But I carry all the weight of the body, small or great,
Yet no one ever praises what I do;
I am always in the way. and ’tis I who have to pay
For the folly and the pride of all of you'.”
Then the Mouth and the Brain and the Hand said, ” ’Tis pD ’
I hough troubled be our lives with woe.
The hardest lot ot all does eertainlv befall
The poor little, humble little toe,
The snubbed little, rubbed little toe.”
ing and ironing, kept the house
wife busy several days a week
Commercial laundries are now to
be found in every first-class city of
America. They cleanse, w ring dry
iron and starch by machine: y .\,
business in the wo: Id has evolved
such delicate, sure and effective
machines as the laundry industry
It is now no special recommen
dation to say: “The goods are laun
dered by hand." Machines are
manufactured that can do the work
better than the human hand , , ln .
And, after all, the machine, you
must remember, is an invention of
the human brain. And when you
use a machine to take the place
of the dead lift and labor of human
muscles you pay a compliment to
the inventor.
The laundries in the United
Skates do by the aid of machinery,
with the help of one man, what ten
men or women were required to do
before. And with all this saving
in labor, yet the laundries of Amer
ica employ five times as many peo
ple as does the Standard Oil Com
pany, and twice as many as the
United States Steel Corporation.
Our populatiaon is, saji 100.00 c
. and we pay $1.25 a year per
capita for having our clothes
washed, and this does not count
all of the work done by housewives
who do their own washing.
The women who used to go out
washing were women who could do
nothing else. We often gave out
laundry work as a matter of char
ity.
Europe Still Lags Behind.
Laundrymen today are prosper
ous. Their w'ork comes with un
failing regularity. They can count
on their customers and their cus
tomers count on them. Next to
the supplying of food and clothing,
the laundry business is the most
stable in America.
The men engaged in the business
are men of intelligence, ability and
worth, who prize system, organiza
tion; and into their work they even
put a deal of art.
Some of these laundries are very
sumptuously fitted up with tile
floors and walls, spacious offices
with all modern appliances and val
uable automobile service for col
lecting and making deliveries.
No country in the worid has car
ried the laundry business to the
same degree of perfection that the
United States has. Europe still
lags behind, and in many first-class
European hotels the washerwoman
will come in person and solicit your
patronage, just as she used to do
in America, 25 or 30 years ago.
The thing that has brought the
change and put it on a firm finan
cial foundation is Yankee inven
tive genius. Ask George Westing
house and Thomas A. Edison if I
am right!