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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postofflce at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1379. Subscription Price—Delivered by earlier. 10 cents a week. By mall. 35 00 a year. Payable in advance. Martial Law in Georgia M M » 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 vW' .« \\ \ \ x ' jjQBIF < \ Tv JRI Tx ~ K V M ■ . ?m. A/ .jlbnwbk? . .. A\ -. • . * SSL 11/ x \ll ’ OJII / \ 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 its no- 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 it 11. LI AM RAM'i'LI’H ID- *' ’ F ’