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Governor Wilson on Trade
Expansion
It is said that two-thirds of tho half-thousand business men who
heard Governor Wilson's speech before the Omaha Commercial duh
last Saturday came to protest, but remained to applaud. The speak
er converted the mass of his Republican bearers into enthusiastic
champions of trade expansion, through commercial reciprocity, and
the revival of the American merchant marine.
There ran through Governor Wilson’s Omaha speech the thrill
of that prophecy which was voiced so memorably by President Mc-
Kinley in his admonition.
Mr. McKinley said at Buffalo on that September day, 1901 :
We have a vast and Intricate business, built up through years of toil
and struggle, in which every part of the country has had its stake —which
will not permit either of neglect or of undue selfishness. No narrow, sordid
policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the part of the
manufacturers and producers will be required to hold and increase it.
Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our prod
uct* have so multiplied, that the problem of more markets requires our
urgent and Immediate attention. • » » Only a broad and enlightened
policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more. * • *
We must not repose in fancied security on the assumption that we
can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. » ♦ »
THE PERIOD OF EXCLUSIVENESS IS PAST THE EXPANSION
OF OUR TRADE AND COMMERCE IS THE PRESSING PROBLEM.
Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly
trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in har
mony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. » * »
We must encourage our merchant marine. WE MUST HAVE MORE
SHIPS THEY MUST BE UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG—BUILT
AND MANNED AND OWNED BY AMERICANS.
There is no sentence of this unforgettable farewell deliverance
of a great Republican president that was not paralleled by the
Democratic presidential candidate at Omaha < n Saturday.
But Mr. McKinley did not have his party behind him.
There is no doubt, on the other hand, that. Governor Wilson
speaks, not only for a united Democracy, but. also for that new and
improved commercial intelligence of the country which broke into
repentant Republican cheers at Omaha, and which is above ail party
names.
* ———
What’s the Matter With the
Turk?
Once more Europe is ablaze with indignation against the
Turk. It seems very likely that now at last doomsday is really
coming to the nation which for half a thousand years has been
in Europe, but never has been European.
It was iu the middle of the fifteenth century that the Mo
hammedan power captured Constantinople—the key of the com
merce and civilization of the Near East; and ever since that
time, in intermittent spasms, at shortening intervals. Europe
lias groaned and travailed to east the intruder out.
The whole world today is insurgent against old habits./The
uprising against the Turk is a phase of the general movement
of radicals against reactionaries. The final trouble with the
Turk is that he is a fatalist, and will not. move. He stands
pat.
There was high hope two or three years ago that the Young
Trrrk would conquer the Old Turk—the “Sick Man,’’ the “Un
speakable.” But that hope seems now to have faded. The
revolutionary movement, in Turkey has spent itself in political
intrigues. It has tried to cement and subjugate the outlying
provinces. It has been incapable of internal reforms.
In all European I’urkey there are said to be no more than
a million people of pure Turkish blood. This ruling caste has
inherited a great tradition—much tine art, some science and a
language that is the joy and admiration of all philologists. Its
religion is, in theory, humane and liberal. The Turk was toler
ant of dissenters at a time when Christians put their heretics to
the rack and thumbscrew.
Yet the soil of Turkey is soaked with the blood of massa
cre. And no permanent truce is possible between the Turk and
Europe.
The final reason of this irreducible antagonism is the fact
that the Turks hate progress.
The Turkish view of the meaning of life is that of a stand
pat senator of the United States or a beneficiary of Schedule K.
Perhaps a little more so.
The Turk turns with a pious loathing from the idea that
human conditions can be improved by agitation or organized
effort. He would let well enough or ill enough alone. He is
placable if left to smoke in peace. But he rises like a fury to
avenge himself upon those who disturb his rest.
He is the paladin of vested interests, the perfect champion
of privilege, the arch reactionary.
I hat is why modern Europe can not endure him.
That is why he must be driven back into Asia.
Perhaps the hour of his exit is at hand.
“Collier’s” and Standard Oil
Many persons profess surprise that Collier’s Weekly took up
the cudgels in behalf of the Standard Oil Company in the matter of
the famous letters. It is not quite clear why Collier's should un
dertake to answer when the writers of the letters, and the recipients
• --.<• "rttrrs. did not try to answer but simply confessed.
Some of the letters already published, and we are informed
several other letters among the two or three hundred that yet re
main to be published, show that the Standard Oil Company was
extremely generous with cheeks, subscribing in bulk for periodicals
and weeklies that were willing either to defend the Standard Oil
Company or to attack the enemies of tin- Standard Oil Company.
We know, of course, that Collier’s Weekly is sadly in need of
subscribers, since very few people are willing to take it except as a
gift when thrown in with other publications But we have believed
hitherto that Collier s could not be bought
It anyone in the Standard Oil Company did arrange the “at
tack or “defense wliatexer it may be called in the current
issue, it is obvious that it was done in tin absence ~f Mr Archbold
in Europe, because, while Mr Wehbold's eotupiyiy has been convict
ed of all sorts of crimes, In- has m ver l>. m aeciiscil of stupidity
And the Colliei s article. < ith< r as an attack <>i as a defense, was
exceedingly st upid.
II the Slanditrd <hl < biupanv did procure if it is one of the
very rule .-nwhere the Stumliird Oil I ompauy paid for some
lliiug and got nothing ,
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The Atlanta Georgian
The Great Political Show
By HERSHFIELD.
. L Xlllk 1
I
There was an Old Man who when little
Fell casually into a kettle;
But, growing too stout, he could never get out,
So he passed all his life in that kettle.
i —From Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense.
:: How to Build a Fortune ::
Capitalizing Yourself
I.
A NEWS item stated recently
that the officials of a West
ern railway had sent a letter
to each of its employees, asking
him to incorporate himself at a
capital equivalent to his earning
capacity.
A man earning SSOO per year is
worth to himself, his family and
his employer SIO,OOO on a five per
cent basis.
Compare -a man capitalized at
SIO,OOO with a business building
worth the same amount. The build
ing is worth less every day of Its
existence, and so much is written
off its value at the end of the year
for depreciation. In a few years it
must come down and give place to
a new structure.
Now. take the man who Is worth
SIO,OOO as a worker, receiving five
per tent of the amount annually
(or $500) in wages. Instead of be
ing worth less every year he can, if
i
he wishes it. be wo th more. He
can last longer than a SIO,OOO
building. He does not need to de
preciate in value.
He Can Get to Work.
He can get to work w ith his head
and his hands ami so improve him
self that his wages begin to rise,
win ti he has made himself worth
SI,OOO a year his capitalization lias
mounted to $20,000. And he does
not need to stop at this point if he
desires to keep on.
II
"The world." says a philosopher,
"belongs to the energetic.” No
man has truly solved the problem of
building a fortune who merely puts
money In il • mink He must kia p
on getting more out of himself,
n. c. thought, more plans, more
woik, nun • desire more ambition
When we lead that a -livings
b ink i ostt of x • nti < ii Cent- a
I tit. "1111 to <im Thousand
f-
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1912.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
•• Eight Hundred and Thirty-two -•
Dollars and Eighty-four Cents in
twenty years, at four per cent com
pound interest, we feel convinced
that it is easy- to get money to
gether. But. it is a better form of
fortune building to try to increase
one’s self at the same rate.
Don’t Build Air Castles.
This can not be done by building
air castles. Wishing is the dream
of the idle. Working and thinking
are the power of the industrious.
ihe otWy way to increase your
capitalized value is by thinking
about it. You must contract the
The Sterilized Boy
By PERCY SHAW.
1 like t 0 breathe some
That wasn't so refined;
And have a chance to run and hop
With no one near to mind.
And eat an apple 'fore it's peeled,
And own some dirty toys.
And be too poor to have a nurse
And play like other boys.
Why. every time that Columbine
Comes off the street with me
She has to change her clothes and
mine
For fear of germs, you see
And if I grab a stone or touch
A post along the walk.
You'd think it was a crocodile
To hear her line of talk.
And kissing—l can’t kiss a soul
Without an awful row.
And Mother saying: "Well, for sure.
He'll get the measles now."
I can't pet cats dogs, and when
A stranger pats my head
I get It washed witli smelly stuff.
Just as tite doctor said.
So if you know a real bad germ
Too strong to sterilize.
That you can catch and send around
As sort of a surprise.
I might get sick and hate -onie fun.
And maybe then they'd see
It wasn't any use to make
1
• study habit. Study vour work and
improve it. Study your chances and
improve them.
Every hour you loaf, when you
do not need to, is so much less
mental and financial fortune.
The greatest tragedy of the day
is not the bad man or the bad
woman. They’ have always been,
and probably always will be. But
it is the half-trained men and
women, the person who can do
nothing well enough to make the
work a valuable service.
But the moment one can do any
thing up to the top notch, then the
service is worth something, and
people are willing to pay for it.
HI.
The secret of fortune building is
not to give the thought wholly to
money. A man who is everlasting
ly trying to improve himself will
get a fortune, or as much fortune
as he wants.
The Cry of the Half-Trained.
The social disturbance that
comes from half-trained people
grumbling because life is so hard is
useless and detrimental.
Don’t wish. Get to work.
Don’t criticise others. Build up
yourself.
Don't listen to the equal distribu
tion of wealth talk. Go out and
earn w tyitever hare of wealth you’
want.
Don't kt your capitalized value
depreciate. Keep it up, and keep it
going up. A business with Ten
Thousand this year and Twenty
Thousand two or three years from
now is in.-piring. You can do the
same for yourself.
But it docs not come from wish
ing. It comes from perspiration
from the sweat of the brow/
Don't lox. the money. I.me the
industry and Inst'ration licit let
you i.irti motley
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
Agreeability
I
It Is a Wonderful Asset and Its
First Requisite Is Glowing
Physical Health; Its'Second
Ingredient Is Honesty and Its
Third Is Good Will.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
GEORGE PEABODY, the great A
American banker, had one
thing which will make any
man or woman rich. It is some
thing ao sweetly beneficent that
well can we call it the gift of the
gods.
The asset to which I refer is
Agreeability.
Its first requisite is glowing
physical health. The second In
gredient is honesty. Its third is
1 good will.
Nothing taints the breath like a
; lie. The old parental plan of wash
ing the boy’s mouth out with soft
| soap had a scientific basis.
Must Have Good Memories.
; Liars must possess good merno-
I Ties. They are fettered and gyved
’ by what they have said and done.
The honest man is free —his acts
; require neither explanation nor
I apology. He is in possession of all
! his armament.
If I were president of a college,
; I would have a chair devoted to
| Agreeability. Ponderosity, pro
, fundity and insipidity may have
> their place, but the agreeable man
1 keeps his capital active. His soul
[ is fluid.
I have never been in possession
1 of this Social Radium, so as to
> analyze It, but I know it has the
• power of dissolving opposition and
; melting human hearts. But so del-
J icate and illusive is it that when
J used for a purely sordid purpose
> it evaporates into thin air, and the
> erstwhile possessor is left with only
i the mask of beauty and the husk
? of personality.
George Peabody had Agreeability
from his nineteenth year to the
, day of his death. Colonel Forney
crossed the Atlantic with him when
Peabody was in his seventy-first
year, and here is what Forney
says:
"I sat on one side of the cabin
and he on the other. He was read
• ing from a book, which he finally
merely held in his hands, as he sat
idly dreaming. I was melted into
tears by the sight of his Jove-like
head framed against the window.
His face and features beamed with
high and noble intellect, and his
eyes looked forth In divine love. If
ever soul revealed itself in the face, 4
:: Birth of the Navy ::
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
______________ 1
IT was 137 years ago that the old ■
continental congress author
ized the equipment of a couple
of cruisers, mounting, respectively,
ten and fourteen guns—and it was
in that very modest bill that the
American navy had its birth.
At first the growth of the navy
was distressingly alow. There was
a doleful lack of efficient material
at home, and our agents were un
able to enlist the active sympathies
of foreign nations. There was, of
course, a good reason for this—
those nations did not want ns to
have a navy. They had a sort of
premonition that the embryonic re
public might make trouble for them
if it should succeed in getting its
guns on the brine.
But in the midst of our troubles
something happened that put a new
face on the situation at once. Paul
Jones won his brilliant victory off
Elamborough Head, and the Yan
kee navy experienced the “boom"
that is felt to this day. The exulta
tion born of that victory went
through the nascent nation with a
thrill and a buzz, and it was al
ready written down that America
was sooner or later to become a
sea power.
Tite little navy provided by the
continental congress was about
used up in the struggle with King
George, and from 1780 to 1755 we
were practically without a war
fleet But when tin Barbary States
began to insult us, congress “got
busy" again and ordered the con
'■ ruction of six or eight frigates,
which gave a splendid account of
thenp. iv< s tn t| l( ,
and othvf w atet s.
THE HOME PAPER
At the breaking out of the war
of 1812 our navy consisted of sev
enteen seagoing ships, nine of them
being below the frigate class:, and
a few gunboats designed for coast
defense. Yet, as all the world
knows, this little navy behaved
splendidly in its contest with the
greatest sea power In the world
and at the close of the war the
“greatest sea pneyr in the world”
had for our navy abounding re
spect.
After we had settled our dispute
with Great Britain upon the high
seas, our navy, having nothing in
particular to do. went into decline,
where it remained until the broth
ers’ war of ’6l-’65. At the begin
ning of that war the United Stat s
navy consisted of but 76 vessel*
of all kinds, with a roll of enlisted
men of some 22,000, while at the
close of the struggle there were
over 600 vessels, with over 57,' 1 "'!
officers and men.
The Civil war revolutionized not
only our own navy, but those of all
other nations as well. Prom the
day on which the battle between
the Monitor and Merrimac « 15
fought the old navies of the world
were not worth a rush, and all 1
naval boards began to govern them
selves accordingly.
The present war fleet of L'n r ’
Sam numbers somewhere a.»< '
craft, cla.esified as follows 1 >r ;
class battleships. 24; second-'
9; first-class cruisers 15;
class, 3; third-class, If. gm 1’ 1
21; monitors. 10; destroyei
torpedo bouts. 35; submarin ■'
| w/ie personnel, otlb era and ‘ if.
'’Nit?
• it was here. He was the very King
of Men, and I did not wonder that
in the past people had worked the
apotheosis of such.”
Cultivate This Asset.
To the clerk who would succeed,
I say cultivate Agreeability. Cour
teous manners in little things are
an asset worth requiring. You
rise when a customer approaches:
you offer a chair; you step aside
and let the store's guest pass first
into the elevator; these are little
things, but they make your work
and yourself finer.
To guy visitors or to give short,
flippant answers even to stupid or
impudent people is a great mis
take. Meet rudeness with unfail
ing patience and politeness and see
how much better you feel.
If your business is to wait on
customers, be careful of your dress
and appearance. Do your manicur
ing before you reach the store.
Dental floss is a good investment.
A salesman with a bad breath is
dear at any price. Let your dress
be quiet, neat and not too fashion
able. To have a. good appearance
helps you inwardly and helps the
business.
Give each customer your whole
attention—and just as considerate
attention to a little buyer as a big
one. If asked for information, be
sure you have it before you give It.
Do not assume that the location or
fact is so now because you once
knew it so. Don’t misdirect. Make
your directions so clear that they
will be a real help.
The Greater Your Reward.
The less you require looking aft
er, the more able you are to stand
alone and complete your tasks, the
greater your reward. Then if you
can not only do your work, but
also intelligently and effectively di
rect the efforts of others, your re
ward is In an exact ratio; and the
more people you direct, and the
higher the Intelligence you can
rightly lend, the more valuable is
your life.
The most precious possession in
life is good health. Eat moderate
ly, breathe deeply, exercise out-of
doors and get eight hours sleep.
And cultivate Agreeability as a
1- business proposition.