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Martial Law in Georgia
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It Is To Be Hoped That the Day Is Far Distant When It Will
Be Necessary to Call Out State Troops Again.
Citizens generally are disposed to think that the Georgia
state troops have given a very good account of themselves of
late, not only in the trial of certain criminals in Forsyth county,
but in the more prolonged Augusta strike situation.
Moreover, the governor’s attitude in both of these crises
seems to have hern such as common sense and a due regard for
his oath of office unposes upon him.
Tt is to bo hoped, nevertheless, that the day is far distant,
when it again will be deemed necessary TO CALL OCT THE
STATE TROOPS OF GEORGIA FOR A HOSTILE PLRPOSE.
Martial law is disagreeable, distasteful and irksome, even
where it, does not actually work a hardship.
The people of Georgia are a liberty loving people, and they
do not relish unusual restraint, even when they admit its ne
cessity.
Tt should be borne in mind that the state’s military is held
in reserve as A LAST RESORT for the maintenance of peace and
good order inside the commonwealth.
Tt is not to be called out before all civil efforts have been
exhausted and civil authority plainly is about to be paralyzed.
Martial law is the state’s ULTIMATE RIGHT OF SELF
D’EFENSE, and the machinery- for putting it in operation in
Ge»orgm when it is deemed necessary, is •righteously ample. But
martial law should he invoked only in dire necessity.
The people of each county and town should understand that
the MAINTENANCE OF THE PEACE PRIMARILY IS THEIR
DUTT.
There should be no county in Georgia so lacking in pride
and self-respect as to call for state troops before all civil au
thority, including the right of the sheriffs to deputize, has been
exhausted honestly and fairly.
Troops have been called for in Georgia in neither of the
two instances hereinbefore cited, however- when the call was
puerile, AND PROf EEI )E D FRO M SHEER (() WA R DICE UPON
THE PART OF COUNTY OFFICIALS. And it makes no dif
ference that such cowardice sometimes may have been political
the fear of the mob’s vote, rather than its physical ability to do
harm—rather than personal. A county should he ASHAMED to
see its sheriff call for troops before that sheriff had done his best,
to preserve and uphold the law and the peace!
The people of Georgia, in their greater majority, are LAW
ABIDING AND LAW-RESPECTING. They will back a man who j
does his duty fearlessly and honorably, without regard to political i
factions or line-ups.
The sheriff who calls the mob’s hand will find himself A
MORE POPULAR SHERIFF THAN EVER HE WAS BEFORE,
if he chooses to figure it from that .standpoint. Some sheriffs
may doubt that, but. generally speaking, it is true.
There is enough to entertain the most strenuous in the game
of politics, without anybody departing from that splendid com
munity of interest involved in the peaceful enforcement of the
Jaw and the preservation of the rights of life and property to the
people,.
, The next county in Georgia that calls for state troops be
fore its every effort has been exhausted and its authority par
alyzed will be A DISGRACED COUNTY—a county that is lack
ing in self-respect and a decent regard for the majesty and sanc
tify of the law.
Safety of Crews in Subma
rines
The credit of submarine torpedo boats as formidable fight
ing engines—and therefore grim eompellers of peace—ought not
to be damaged by such accidents as that which took place the
other day in the English Channel.
The accident in question was a surface collision of a kind
that might have befallen a vessel of any pattern.
The toll of martyrs to the new art of submarine navigation
is short, in comparison with the list of those who have died in
the cause of aviation—though the making of machines that swim
like a fish ismeariy, if not quite, as difficult as the making of
machines that fly like a bird.
Admiral Dewey testified before a government commission, a
while ago. that if the Spaniards at Manila had possessed a eon
pie of submarine boats of the modern sort, he never could have
held his place in front of that city, and that with two such ves
sels at Galveston or ot.her American ports, hr could beat off the
‘‘navies of the world.”
Submarines of the Holland type, in the fourteen years of
their existence, have never lost a life or suffered a serious ac
cident of any ki«id.
Not Bryan, But Wilson
Governor Wilson gms to the limit of political amenities
yy hen he explains his remarkable ovation in Nebraska Ik the
fact that Bryan was with Inin.
governor is miurtakcn If was himself not Bryan
his gifts, his graces and pu> cause that dreyy the crowd and
evoked the enthusiasm, Nebraska ha- too often and ton recent
1y repudiated the Bfvm, leadership li sal down hard on the
so-called Commoner in the presidenti.d pi inarn • Nor is 11 like I
ly that Nebraska has so soon forgotten how m*-t|< utlv Brviui
repudiated her instruction* at Baltimore and arrogated to linn
self a wisdom and virtue superior to the slab Nebraska evi
ileneeg to Governor Wilson loyally that she bears him no grttdjp
tor Bryan's insolent treason but th governor must not c<»nfns<
Nebraska s h*.trt ,>tid .»,.«! n i<ut< >, |< <., «t ,
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AN ANIMAL THAT BUILDS A NEST; A SQUIRREL In ITS NATIVE HAUNTS.
Th. Mquirreh that may be seen hopping about in the parks arc very sophisticated, and no doubt they enjoy ?
; tlici semV-rura! urroundings. But what the squirrel really likes is a wood in the country, where he can climb ?
> any number of trees to his heart’s content, and feast op nqta. bark, buds and seeds, also ar occasional egg or a ?
/ young bird, to his stumach’s content. The squirrel hibernates in winter, as a • ule, but if the weather is mild, oft. n £
> wakes up and cuts a dash. He provides for such occasions by laying by a store of provisions before he turns in for 5
< his winter sleep. Squirrels when mating build a nest, known as “drey.” The young ones usually appear in June. >
IO Obey By Dorothy Dix
» I'l’XX day- ago a man. on the •
/-* .• ■ night before the wed
"*■ X ding, broke ids engagement to
marry a gil l because she refused to
promise to obey him. lie said‘that
bis Hr. t demand of his wife was
that she should implicitly obey Ins
every wish.
And this happened in New York,
not in Turkov with its harems, ‘
nor darkest Africa with it female
slaves, but right In little old New
York that we ate accustomed to
think of is matching along toward
the head of the Progress ProCes?
sion. ’And it didn't take place in
mediaeval times, hut in this year
of grace, and of suffragettes, of
1912,
Can you believe it? Can you
realize that thou- Is such moss
grown man still living, with such
hoary, antiquated notion- as has
this prospective brid*gro<9tn? To be
sure, he is in old bachelor, but
even old bachelors are seldom in
the Kip Xan XX inine class nowa
day s.
Our hearth st congratulations to
lhe y/ung lady who escaped getting
this -ort of husband: Her guar
dian angel -urcly wn« working
overtime in In r behalf to snat< it
her. even ai the eleventh hour,
from a life of misery, and she should
binning joss sticks to the great
god I ,U< k lor hei esi ape.
Mairiage. even with a liberal
minded m in is not a perpetual pic
nic. and what it would be with a
grinding tyrant who would take the
word "obey in (he marriage serv
ile m a literal instead of i Pick
wickian sop... ope tremblea to
think Certainly the worm of the
du t would ltnv< nothing on such
.1 w If. h< ii it i ame to b< ing i ram
bled upon
Ought To Re Help.’’
X a p itiei of fail, lhe difficult'
. bout lb< olh 9ng Im im - tn mat ■
i jimmy . ouhl in < r <>< <ut , foi
then should l>< a revision of the
ingiriagi ervin that would sub
tit ilti li< Ip foi it i ertaltil 1
Hire i» po juktlhubl*’ K icm for
making a woman p rjuie helm if al
III* all a I by -wiallng Io obey lot
I*i-*■ 't ■ - ■ it i | in,a . .* *. I'iii
lhe si ght> st itn.nio.ii of doing 11,
mrt << the < ver y body <|rr, I lit
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1912.
v Nor does the husband, if be is •
tlw right sort of a man. desire his
wife to obey him. He recognizes
her lights as an individual; he re
spects her personal liberty of
thought and action. Moreover, lie
hasn't picked out for a w ife a child
who is to be dictated io at every
turn, nor a fool who must have
every act directed by h superior
intelligence.
The modem idea of marriage is
equality of both parties, not the
subservience of the woman to the
man. XVe are dori<’*Mvith slavery,
even of the domestic brand, and
jnen don't wish their wives to kneel
at their feet, hut to sit beside them.
An Why Should She?
It a woman should promise, when
site takes the marriage vow, to help
Iter husband, it would mean some
thing. and she could take it in good
faith, but to obey—huh—she would
just like to see the man that she
would go toddling to. asking his
permission to go to a matinee, or
join a club, or do anything else
site wanted to do and that her own
good sense and judgment told her
it was proper for her to do. .
And why should she obey, pray ?
" by should some great big. strong,
intelligent woman obey some little
shrimp of a man. just because she
happens to be his wifi '.' There arc
plenty of women who are far bet
ter educated than their husbands,
better horn who have had g rater
advantages. there ate plenty of
women who are broader minded
and saner, and who have belter
judgment than their husbands;
there are plenty of women w iio are
better managers than their hus
bands Will any body contend that
th< sc women should obey their hu -
bands, and do foolish and unwise
things thing- that will perhaps
wreck the family fortune because
their husband- tell them to. and
they muM mind? The very idea
It Idlotiv
Ai any rate, women don't obey,
and the man who it looking for a
perfectly obedient wife it about a
hundred amt fifty year* too late to
lino In i XX otn.-n have mmda of
their own now, and lhev u»« them
ami so Well reiogHlK><i is title
among the fre. masont > of wives
th,i» a hen om ladv asks another
lady to do i» <-rialn thing «nd the
I firtl 'J> atilt lliji e||< ip i do
— |
v it until she asks her husband's
permission, the other lady smiles
wisely, and knows that the party
of the first part is simply using a
polite substitute to get out of do
ing something that she doesn't
want to do.
Why should a man want his wife
to obey him? Is it his desire to hu
miliate her'? Eor no matter how
much affection you may have for a
person there is a sting in obedi
ence because it is the outward trib
ute that we pay to our superiors.
This is so well recognized that even
employers put their commands in
the form of requests. It may soothe
a man's vanity to have his wife
continually visualize her depend
ence on him. and her humility be
fore him. by asking his permission
to do things, but he may be very
sure that in her heart of hearts
-lie hates him. and recognizes hint
for thr petty household tyrant he
is.
There should be no obedience as
between husbands and wives. If a
woman hasn't enough gray matter
in her head to decide things for
herself, -he isn't fit to be a man's
wife. And in matters affecting her
self surely a grown, mature, sensi
ble woman is more fitted to decide
them than even the most inspired
man could be. In household affairs
and things pertaining to the up
bringing of the children, the wom
an's technical knowledge of thr nil
nation, her daily experience, her
devotion, and the mother love that
even in a dull woman is almost
the inspiration of genius, tit her
to bo the one to sit In the Judg
ment -cat, and give orders, if
titer. arc to bo any order: in the
fa miiy.
Men Recognize This.
To their credit tho great major
ity of men recognize this and ate
im apabb- of the meanness and
smallness of desiring th. wives who
are their companions and partners
to obey them. It Is only the man
w ith a soul tile size of a pin point
that demands that his wife shall
be an obedient slave to him There
i all be no better test of whether
a man will make a good husband
than his | osition on Hu obedience
question <ml every girl should put
it up tn her •wretheari If he’s
strong fot' vy if. .. oio .. . m she
will do well to lei hint many some
•.tint woman
THE HOME PAPER
Hearst Makes Reply to Taft;
Suggests the True Policy
For the Democratic Partv
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Special Cable to Atlanta Georgian. •>
PARIS, Oct. 14. —President Taft,
after the accepted manner of po
tentates, gave a third-person inter
view to the press some ten days
ago. If the interview had in reality
been given by a third person it
would probably have been contrived
more cleverly for the president’s
political advantage.
He advanced the most convincing
argument for the election of Mr.
Wilson that has yet been contrib
uted to the campaign.
Mr. Taft declared first that the
tariff is responsible for the high
cost of living: second, that the tar
iff ought to be reduced; third, that
it ought to be reduced scientifically.
If President Taft’s conclusions arc
co re. I there is no alternative for a
philanthropic and patriotic citizen
but to vote for Mr. Wilson.
Obviously, if the American pro
tective tariff is responsible for the
high cost, of living which at present
prevails all over the world, then
undoubtedly our voters owe to their
own country and to other friendly
rations the humanitarian duty of
relieving the oppressive burden of
the high cost of living in America
and elsewhere by promptly reduc
ing ths American protective tariff.
Obviously again, if it is tlte duty
of our considerate and conscien
tious citizens to reduce the tariff,
it is their plain duty not to vote for
Mr. Taft, who bad four years’ op
portunity to reduce the tariff and
did pot do it, nor to vote for Mr
Roosevelt, who had seven years’
opportunity to reduce the tariff and
did not do it. but to vote for Mr.
Wilson, who wants to reduce the
tariff and positively’ will reduce the
tariff if given an opportunity to
do it.
Obviously, furthermore and final
ly. a scientific reduction of the tar
iff docs not consist in doing nothing
at all to the tariff, as was done
throughout Mr. Roosevelt’s two
terms, nor yet in dishonestly in
creasing the tariff in spite of party
pledges, as was done with Mr.
Taft’s eme-ent and approval during
his teim.
Scientific reduction of the tariff
I consists rather in judiciously and
J discriminatingly modifying the tar-
J iff in away carefully calculated to
‘l benefit all the people of the United
’ States, be they employers or labor
i! crs. producers or consumers.
To secure and insure such scien
i title modification of the American
! tariff T beg most respectfully to
[ suggest to Governor Wilson the
1 following course:
i First, the abandonment of all
i old stock free-trade arguments
, based upon fallacies and upon cx
! ploded theories and upon premises
J which have been proven to be- false
[ by the practical and unprofitable
>. experiences of free trade nations
like England.
Second, the recognition of the
principle of protection of Ameri
can industries and the wise and
just application of that principle
to those industries which require
and deserve protection.
Third, the modification of the
protective tariff on the one hand by
reciprocity, which will open the
markets of foreign nations to our
products in return for the opening
of our markets to their products,
and on the other hand by’ prefer
ential duties which will reduce the
tariff on goods imported into the
United States in American ships.
All of these policies are Demo
cratic and have the sanction of
Democratic precedent: but. more
essential than that, they are pa
triotic. They are policies which
will develop the manufactures of
the nation and the trade of the
nation and the merchant marine of
the nation and the general pros
perity of the nation. They are pol
icies which, through increased pro
duction and increased commerce
and transportation and increased
employment and payment, will ben
efit every Individual in the nation.
It is useless to talk of a pro
tective tariff properly applied being
mainly responsible for the in
creased cost of living. It is worse
than useless. It is senseless.
The cost of living tn England,
a free trade country, is quite as
great as tiie cost of living in the
United States, a protective coun
try. indeed, to make an even
more convincing comparison, the
c ost of living in England, a fre"
trade country, is notably gicatcr
than the cost of living in Ger
many. a protective country.
If. therefore, free trade or radi
cal tariff reduction can reduce the
cost of living, v hy is not the cost,
of lit ing in free trade England
largely lower than tile cost of liv
ing in protected United State s or
at least as low us in protected Ger
many ’.’
A< a matter of suet. even the
most rndie.il tariff teduction docs
not materially reduce the univer
alh increasing cost of lining but
ft clots materially' reduce the
wherewithal to meet the increasing
c c>-t of living
Radical tariff roduc time docs
sot-e manufacturer- out "f liusi
nc r. and men out of employment,
and by throwing a -uperaburidancc
of labor upon the market does re
duce the price of labor, which is
w ages.
In England the wage paid tn
lil'c.-l line- of l.ibOl are so low as
absolutely to shock the American
ns, us tuatlce and of regard for
tin general welfare In ey wry in
du*try that I have- hud oeeuaion to
Investigate I have found wage - hi
t<> 50 pel cant lowe-i iii England
’ nan in A merit a
\t th- time of tin ire chi ail.
et i< sirlke in Hivhi Britain, I in
v ligated the wiir- of the engi-
• neers and trainmen. I found that
the highest salaries paid any i a j|.
way engineers in Great Britain
were less than fifteen dollars a
week, and that these so-called high
wages were paid to only a dozen
men who were the star engineers
on fast trains meeting the Atlantic
liners.
The average engineer received
less than nine dollars and a half a
week, firemen averaged less than
six dollars a week, and the average
guard, who corresponds to out c on
ductor. received six dollars and
thirty-six cents a week.
There would be a revolution in
America, and a justifiable one. if
such wages as these were paid to
our competent railway employee’
Yet with such wages working m, n
in free trade England are cxpr-cted
to meet a cost of living as high fl
or higher than ours.
No wonder there are industrial
disturbances in England and strike,
and riots and men shot down by the
soldiery. No wonder there are po
litical and economical discontent
and an emigration so great that the
steamship lines can not carry all of
those who desire to leave England
The false statement that, living in
England is cheaper than in Ameri
ca has been made so often that it is
bdlievcd by those who have not
taken the trouble to learn the fact
Diving is not cheaper in England
than in America. If anything, it is
dearer. Food is much dearer in
England than in America. Luxuries
like fruit and many' vegetables are
entirely beyond the reach of the av
erage individual.
Rent is cheaper in England than
in many' places in America, but
taxes are immeasurably greater,
raising the actual cost of rents from
30 to 35 per cent.
Custom-made clothing is cheai<
in England than in America, but
nowhere in the world is ready
made clothing as remarkable in nit
and quality and cheapness as in thr
United States. Shoes are better
and cheaper in the United States
than in any other place in the
world.
Traveling and transportation in
the United States are about half
what they are in England. Meats,
though high in the United States,
are higher In England, and a good
part of the beef in England is im
ported fiom the United States and
Australia. Newspaper, men whom
I have sent to England as resident
correspondents have often asked to
be allowed to return to the United
States on account of the higher
cost of living in England.
These are the facts, and facts
should be the basis of every argu
ment.
Governor Wilson, like every othe 1
good American citizen, is trying t >
benefit his country', but we can not
benefit our country by misleading
our countrymen.
Let all of us Democrats abandon
worn-out and worthless free tradu
arguments and frankly admit that a
certain amount of judicious protec
tion is a beneficial thing for our
country and our people. Then let tn
seek to apply protection discrimi
nately to develop and maintain val
uable industries which require pro
tection. and which through the just
and proper conduct of their busi
ness dealings with the public dr
serve protection.
Let us realize that the tariff
(even as unfair tariff) is not the
cause of special l privilege, but mere
ly a symptom ot special privilege—
a useful institution partly corrupt
ed by special privilege.
Special p’ ivilege has invaded our
tariff system as it has invaded oic
railway system and our public land
system, our judicial system and our
governmental system, but the rem
edy lies not in abolishing govern
ment or the proper functions of
government, but in taking the gov
ernment out of the hands of specia
privilege and placing the gow n
ment and all its proper functions
more directly in the control of the
whole people.
There should, therefore, be no
governmental encouragement •■•
oppressive trusts, no governmental
fostering of special privilege, cithc
through undue and undeserved t ’
teetion or otherwise, but surely .<
important and essential function “f
an adequate and impartial govern
ment in this business age i- t
proper encouragement anil ri"'
lion of all legitimate industry
business activity.
i.et us then modify the to
and purify the tariff, togcthei
all the acts and operations of -'o''
criimcnt, to meet the requiri ue
of the times, hut let us modify
tariff tn away which will bejicfi'
our own nation at least as mii' lt fl
it will benefit coni|>eting nation
Let us adopt a general polio.'
reciprocity which will compel t
markets of other nations to i>'
to out product- whenevet our •
kets are open to their products 1
us repeat the <?l<i and accept l '
Democratic declaration in save”
preferential duties which will
pe] importations In be made
American ship.-, v hi' It will ri to ■
the American timer to tin
wht' h will revive the Atuc'.' l
merchant marine to tlte in at' ,
prosperity of out people in time •-
peace and the bette- proto, non
our country in time of wa>
These policies are both I '
and patriotic. They will enable t
11. mocratlc p.u t. not on > '
this elei tioit agaittsi a divided ’•
publican party, but to win ••
elections uxaliist a united lb ’
llcan party mid to remain I" 1,1
tu nll.v In power, bulw irk' "
biitli'SHed by th< ai>pr"’*l
gt iii ful .ii'pii' irttion of id 1
B ILLIAM RAND' 'LJ’H BEAK L i