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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 mould be
very pleasant for free trade England. I
In a previous statement Mr. Hearst had pointed lout 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 T'nited 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:
“There are some abuses In the tariff which need correction, but for my
part I bcllevi' in a proper tariff for protection, and I believe that the growth
of th- unexampled prosperity of America has been largely stimulated by the
principle of protection, tn spite of certain abuses In the system."
"Mr. Wilson says that we have grown to such a point of production that
wc om rtlow our own markets and that we must extend our markets and open
foreign markets to our produce.
" This is quite true; but one reason that we fill and overflow our own
-irket Is be ruse legitimate protection has prevented the product of foreign
manufacturers and foreign cheap labor from Invading our markets and
crowding our own manufacturers and our own laborers 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 radically the system
under which th. e splendidly prosperous business conditions have been de
veloped. Furthermore, 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.
"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
tariff bars of foreign countries can be lowered.
"If we maintain our protective fence we can say to foreign countries;
‘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 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 greateat 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. like Carnegie, are endowing libraries for
the dissemination of universal knowledge and 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 the world 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 Just possible that
under the guidance of college professors these ’ignorant’ 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 books, where It was written down by other col
lege professors with equally infallible knowledge based on equally universal
inexperience.
It is an interesting thing to see a college professor lecturing practical
busin. > men on the practical problems of business from the musty rooms of
one of the colleges which the practical success of these business men had
enabled them to endow.
"I <lo not wonder that Englishmen are interested In this phas. of Ameri
can politics, but I think that the sound sense of American citizens will pre
vent any foreign country being unduly benefited at our expense by the b.istv
application of the undigested theories of some of our well-meaning, but in
experienced. stab sinen.”
Vhe above extracts from Mr. Hearst’s statement to the
ucwsi.ape!’. followin'.' the statement of this country's determi
nation to manage the canal that \ve built, express well the
opinions of the majority of the citizens of this country, (’an
(lidales tor office who can not make themselves agree with this
analysis of the situation will find it difficult to make voters agree
v itli them.
i is country proposes io protect the I’nited States, its
"" : 1111,1 'G manufacturers and that without permitting
1! " " ’’ "" "• tariffs for the benefit and protection of trusts
"oiihl kill the tarifi absolutely, m order, as they
B the trusts, simply play the part of the tame
llis tn. siii > head with a rock m order to kill
,| " tlv on his master’s nose.
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riAHIS world is better supplied
| with things that tempt ua
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 are a great in
stitution. You get an education tn
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 ami blind. The
centra! point of each machine is a
slot WHERE Yiir CAN PI'SH
VOIR OWN MONEY OCT OE
SIGHT ANO 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 when you get
ten such tickets that yon may come
in and get a book with a total
credit of one dime.
Problem:
Which maehltii will catch the
fewest pennies"
Note The fourth machine is
Imaginary.
No savings bank president in ex
istence ever had tile idea enter
his head that S(>ME pennies could
be caught'ln this way Rm he
into wake up some dav and try to
makt saving as gr< it .r tempta
tion as spending.
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V good many saving, bank- will
give a depcsltot a small natal bath,
with slot- in ft. Till- - to be kept
at iietiu wild tid'd by domestic
Smashing the Straw Hat
Bv HAL COFFMAN.
Reducing the Living Cost
Savings Kank Suggestions
TI’ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912.
Bv 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
lias one fault —perhaps more than
one.
1 It is not advertised enough.
2 Homa' 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, 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 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. Edm .ition. 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 supertitious litera
ture and teachers, both in and out
<»f the class room. Superstition is
mental smallpox and the germs
■ ire absorbed by contact; then, at
ii future date, we have breaking
out of the disease with more or less
xio er.ee in proportion n> mental
caliber. W. A. JONES.
Madison. Ga.
CLIPS ARTICLES FOR REFERENCE
Editor The Georgian:
1 feel that I must compliment
. you on having Miss Dix on your
• dltortal staff. I only wish we had
more broad-minded women like
her She is doing a great work in
a Held that Ims been neglected. I
■ lip all of her articles from the
r iper and til,, away far future ref
er, nt •> as | think they ,e. worth i
ii W, \l.T<>.\ I’LIFTOX
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.
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 preserving his
resources.
Eew 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 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 today
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 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 family in
th- future The cost of all our
school books is less than Twenty -
five Millions of Hollars per annum
but the cost of wines, liquors, to
bacco and cigars tn one year la
about Eight Hundred Millions
" • “le certain!) 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 carefully 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 tna
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
w hite vest w'hich I had 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 own
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 every body 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
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
AM all tired out. said the Mouth, with a pout.
A “I am all tired out with talk.”
•lust wait, said the Knee, “till you're lame as you can 1
And then have to walk—walk—walk.”
M\ work, said the Hand, ‘‘is the hardest in the land.”
“Nay, mine is harder yet,” said the Brain;
When \ou toil, said the Eye, “as steadily as I,
OH. I HEN you II have reason to complain.”
Then a voice, faint and low. of the poor Lit lie Toe,
Spoke out in the dark with a wail.
“It is seldom I complain, hut you all will bear your pein
With more patience if you hearken to my tale
I in the joitngest of five, and the others live and thrive.
They are cared for. and -considered, and admired.
I am overlooked and snubbed. I am pushed upon and rubbed.
1 am always sick and ailing, sore and tired.
“But I carry all the weight of the body, small or great,
Yet n<> one ever praises what 1 do;
I am always in the way. and ’tis [ 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 plai
I hough troubled be our lives with woe.
Ihe hardest lot of all does certainh befall
rile poor little, humble little toe.
The snubbed little, rubbed little toe.”
K- 1
ing and ironing, kept the home
wife busy several days a week.
Commercial laundries are now t
be found in every first-class city • ;
America. They' cleanse, wring in
iron and starch by machine!' y
business in the world has evna.,-
such delicate, sure and effective
machines as the laundry inclustr-
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 can.
And, after all, the machine, you
must remember, is an invention of
the human brain. And when y’all
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
States 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, say, lOfi.ono,.
000, 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 work 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 w’ork they even
put a deal of art.
Some of these laurtdries 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 world 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!