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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 been such as common sense and a due regard for
his oath of office imposes upon him.
It is to be hoped, nevertheless, that the day is far distant
when it again will be deemed necessary TO CALL OUT THE
STATE TROOPS OF GEORGIA FOR A HOSTILE PURPOSE.
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.
It should he 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.
It is not to be called out before ail civil efforts have been
exhausted and civil authority plainly is about to he paralyzed.
Martial law is the state's ULTIMATE RIGHT OF SELF
DEFENSE, and t.he machinery for putting it in operation in
Georgia when it is deemed necessary, is righteously ample. But
martial law should be invoked only in dire necessity.
The people of each county and town should understand that
the MAINTENANCE OF THE PEACE PRIMARILY IS THEIR
DUTY.
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 PROCEEDED FROM SHEER COWARDICE UPON
THE PART OF COUNTY OFFICIALS. And it makes no dif
ference that such cowardice sometimes may have heen political—
the fear of the mob’s vote, rather than its physical ability to do
harm—rather than personal. A county should be 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, arc LAW
ABIDING AND LAW-RESPECTING. They will hack a man who
does his duty fearlessly and honorably, without regard to political
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 polities, without anybody departing from that splendid com
munity of interest involved in the peaceful enforcement of the
law 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
alysed will be A DISGRACED COUNTY—a county that is lack
ing in self-respect and a decent regard for the majesty and sanc
tity of the law.
Safety of Crews in Subma
i rines
The credit of submarine torpedo boats as formidable fight
ing engines—and therefore grim compellers 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
* 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 is nearly, 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 cou
ple 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 other American ports, he 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 kind.
Not Bryan, But Wilson
Governor Wilson goes to the limit of political amenities
when he explains his remarkable ovation in Nebraska 1h the
fact that Bryan was with him.
The governor is mistaken It was himself not Bryan
his gilts, his graces and his cause that drew the crowd and
evoked the enthus>ia.sm. Nebraska ha* too often and too recent
!y repudiated the Bryan leadership. It sat down hard on the
so-called t'ommouer in the presidential primaries. Nor is it like
ly that Nebraska has so soon forgotten how insolently Bi-van
repudiated her instructions at Baltimore and arrogated to him
self a wisdom and virtue superior to the state. Nebraska evi
dences to Governor Wilson loyally that she bears him no grudge
or Brvans insolent treason, hut the governor must not confuse
'■'braskas heart) and degened tribute to him with servility
' h hurt memory on the part of a brave and independent
■ people
The Atlanta Georgian
The Squirrel’s Leap: A Remarkable Photograph
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AN ANIMAL THAT BUILDS A NEST; A SQUIRREL In ITS NATIVE HAUNTS. ’
The squirrels that may be seen hopping about in the parks are very sophisticated, and no doubt they enjoy
their semi-rural surroundings. Rut what the squirrel really likes is a wood in the country, There he can climb
any number of trees to his heart s content, and feast on nuts. bark, buds and seeds, also ar occasional egg or a
young bird, to his stomach’s content. The squirrel hibernates in winter, as a rule, but if the weather is mild, often
wakes up and cuts a dash. He provides for such occasions by laying by a store of provisions before tie turns’in for
tils winter sleep. Squirrels when mating build a nest, known as “drey.” The young ones usually appear in June
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To Obey By Dorothy Dix
* FEW day s ago a man. on the •
AX very night before the wed
ding. broke his engagement to
marry a girl because she refused to
promise to obey him. He said that
his first demand of his wife was
that she should implicitly obey his
every wish.
And this happened in New York,
not in Turkey with its harems,
nor darkest Africa with its female
slaves, but right in little old New
A’ork that we a'c accustomed to
think of as matching along toward
the head of the Progress Proces
sion. And it didn’t take place in
mediaeval times, but in this year
of grace, and of suffragettes, of
1912.
Can you believe it? Can you
realize that there is such a moss
grown man still living, with such
hoary, antiquated notions as has
this prospective bridegroom? To be
sure, he is an old bachelor, but
even old bachelors are seldom in
the Rip Van Winkle class nowa
days.
Our heartiest congratulations to
the young lady who escaped getting
this Sort of husband. Her guar
dian • angel surely was working
overtime in her behalf to snatch
her. even at the eleventh hour,
from a life of misery, and she should
be burning Joss sticks to the great
god Luck for her escape.
Marriage, even with a liberal
minded man. is not a perpetual pic
nic. and what it would be with a
grinding tyrant who would take the
word ’■obey"iin the marriage serv
ice in a literal instead of a Pick
wickian sense, one trembles to
think Certainly the worm of the
du-t would have nothing on sucli
a wife w hen it came to being tram
pled upon.
Ought To Be ‘ Help.’’
As a nattei if fact, the oirti, ulty
about tlie olieying business in mat
rimony should never occur, for
there <hould be a rtaislon of tlie
niair. g< en.iv that would sub
stitute “help' fm it Cqrtainiy
there is no justifiable reason for
making a woman perjure herself al
the altar by swearing to obey hot
husband when I'- know, -hoti'-ni
the slighii intention of domg It,
rnd tines everybody else, the
husbAmi Im tutted.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1912.
V Nor does the husband, if he is •
tlie right sort of a man, desire his
w ife to obey him. He recognizes
her tights as an individual: he re
spects her personal liberty of
thought and action. Moreover, he
hasn’t picked out for a w ife a child
who is to be dictated to at every ’
turn, nor a fool who must have
every act directed by a superior
intelligence.
The modern idea of marriage is
equality of both parties, not the
subservience of the woman to the
man. We are done with slavery,
even of the domestic brand, and
men don’t wish their wives to kneel
at their feet, but to sit beside them.
An Why Should She?
If a woman should promise, when
she takes the marriage vow, to help
her 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
she wanted to do and that her own
good sense and judgment told her
it was proper' tor her to do.
And why should she obey, pray?
Why should some great big. strong,
intelligent woman obey some little
shrimp of a man. just because she
happens to be his wife? There are
plenty of women who are far bet
ter educated than their husbands,
better born, who have had greater
advantages; there are plenty of
women who are broader minded
and saner, and who have better
judgment than their husbands;
there are plenty of women who are
better managers than their bus
bands Will anybody contend that
these women should obey their hus
bands. and do foolish and unwise
tilings- things that will peFhaps
wreck the family fortune—because
their husbands tell them to, and
they piust mind’.’ Tlie very idea
is idiotic.
At any rate, women don't obey,
and the man who is looking for a
perfectly obedient wife is about a
hundred anil fifty years too late to
find her Women have niinda of
tbMr own now. and they use them,
and so well recognized Is this
among the freemasonry of wives
that when one lady asks another
l.idy to do a < ertaln thing, and th«
I first lady avert that she can't do
•r 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? For 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’ bis permission
to do things, but he may be very
sure that in her heart of hearts
she hates him. and recognizes him
for the 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, she 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 the sit
uation. her daily experience, her
devotion, and the mother love that
even in a dull woman is almost
the inspiration of genius, fit her
to be the one to sit in the judg
ment seat, and give orders, if
there are to be any orders in the
family.
Men Recognize This.
To their credit the great major
ity us men recognize this and are
incapable of tlie meanness and
smallness of desitic.g the wives w ho
are their companions and partners
to obey them. It is only the man
with a soul tiie size of a pin point
tiiat demands that his wife shall
■ he an obedient slave to him There
■an be no better te«t of whether
ii man will make a good husband
tnan life position on the obedience
question, and every girl should put
It up to her sweetheart If he s
s’rong for, wifely obtriieme she
will do well to let him marry »'>m»
other woman
THE HOME PAPER
Hearst Makes Reply to Taft;
Suggests the True Policy
. For the Democratic Party
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 pi ess some ten days
ago. If the interview bad 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 ha c 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 are
correct 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
tlie high cost of living in America
and elsewhere by promptly reduc
ing the American protective tariff.
Obviously again, if it is tiie duty
of our considerate and conscien
tious citizens to reduce the tariff,
it is their plain duty not to vote for
Mr. Taft, who had four years' op
portunity to reduce the tariff and
did not 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 i'educe the
tariff if given an opportunity to
do it.
Obviously, furthermore and final
tv, a scientific reduction of the tar
iff does 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 content and approval during
his teim.
Scientific reduction of the tariff
consists rather in judiciously and
discriminatingly modifying thetar
iff in away carefully calculated to
benefit all the people of the United
States, be they employers or labor
ers. producers or consumers.
To secure and insure such scien
tific modification of the American
tariff I beg most respectfully to
suggest to Governor Wilson the
following course:
First, the abandonment of ail
old stock free-trade arguments
based upon fallacies and upon ex
ploded theories and upon premises
w hich 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 wilt 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 pot-.
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 in England,
a free trade country, is quite as
great as the cost of living in the
United States, a protective coun
try. Indeed, to make an even
more convincing comparison, the
cost of living in England, a free
trade country, is notably greater
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, why is not the cost
of living in free trade England
largely lower than the cost of liv
ing in protected United States or
at least as low as in protected Ger
many ?
As a matter of fact, even the
most radical tariff reduction does
not materially reduce the univer
sally in< leasing cost of living, but
it does materially reduce the
wherewithal to meet the increasing
cost of living
Radical tariff t edic t ion does
force manufacturers out of busi
ness and men out of employment,
and by thiowing a superabundance
of labor upon the market does re
duce the price of labor, which is
w ages.
In England the wages paid in
most lines of labor are so low as
absolutely to siioi k the American
sen/ ' of justice and of regard for
tltc general welfate In evert ln
rtustry that I hate had r>< a asion to
investigate I have found wage, in
tr> jn per inti |nw»i In England
than in America
ti the time of the »< nt rati
ng? strike tn Great Britain, I In
seatigated th* wage of the »ngt-
neers and trainmen. 1 found that
the highest salaries paid any iaj|.
way engineers in Great Britain
were less than fifteen dollars a
week, and that these so-called nigh
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 ,i
week, firemen averaged less than
six dollars a week, and the average
guard, who corresponds to oui con
ductor, received six dollars and
thirty-six cents a week.
There would be a revolution in
America, and a justifiable one, if
such tvages as these were paid to
our competent railway employees.
Yet with such wages working men
in free trade England are expected
to meet a cost of living as high as
or higher than ours.
. No wonder there are industrial
disturbances in England and strikes
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
believed by those who have not
taken the trouble to learn the facts.
Living 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 cheater
in England than in America, but
nowhere in the world is ready
made clothing as remarkable in cut
and quality and cheapness as in the
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 from 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 fact*
should be the basis of every argu
ment.
Governor Wilson, like every othe
good American citizen, is trying to
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 trads
arguments and frankly atimit that a
certain amount of judicious protec
tion is a beneficial thing for onr
country and our people. Then let m
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 de
serve protection.
Let us realize that the tariff
(even as unfair tariff) is not the
cause of special privilege, but mere
ly a symptom ot special privilege —
a useful institution partly corrupt
ed by special privilege.
Special privilege has invaded our
tariff system as it has invaded our
railway system and our public land
system, our judicial system and our
governmental system, but th' 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 special
privilege and placing the govern
ment and all its proper functions
more directly in the control of the
whole people.
There should, therefore, be no i
governmental encouragement
oppressive trusts, no governmental
fostering of special privilege, either
through undue and undeserved pro
tection or otherwise, but surely an
important and essential function of
an adequate and impartial govern
ment in this business age is the
proper encouragement and protec
tion of all legitimate industry and
business activity.
Let us then modify the ti n
and purify the tariff, together '
all the acts and operations of gov
ernment, to meet the requin u"' 111
of the times, but let us modify the
tariff tn away which will benoflt
our own nation at least as much
it will benefit competing nation-.
Let us adopt a general policy o
reciprocity which will compel tl
markets of other nations to be "i"' n |
lo our products whenever our m-’i
kets are open to their products. I-' 1
us repeal the old anil a< ei-pted
Democratic declaration in favoi '
preferential duties whiih willj " 1
pel Importations to be made
American ships, which will ir-i"
lhe American flag to the seas
which will revive the Anierii
merchant marine to the go'MfJ
prosperity of our people in time "
peace and the better protection 1,1
out- country in time of wat i
These policies ate both p
and patriotic. They will enai'' O
Democratic party not only '■ ■' 11
this election against a divid'd Re
publican party, but to win "
elections against a united IF.
lean parly and in remain I" ' ' ' ]
nr nt ly in pnw er. hill w i rk' '■
buttressed !»• tlv aprr*'' ’
grateful appreciation ot ti" '
American people j
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