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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March S. 187*. Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. >5 00 a year. *•' —able in advance. ' _ _ “ ~ " | Martial Law in Georgia » » r It Is To Be Hoped That the Day Is Ear Distant When It Will Be Necessary to Call Out State Troops Again. Citizens generally arc disposed Io 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 nath of office imposes upon him. Tt is to be 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 PURPOSE. Martial law is disagreeable, distasteful and irksome, even where it does not actually work a hardship. f The people of Georgia arc a liberty loving people, and they 4n not relish unusual restraint, even when they admit its ne o«Bsity. It should be borne in mind that the state’s military is hold in reserve as A LAST RESORT for the maintenance of peace aud good order inside the commonwealth. Tt is not to be called out before all civil efforts have been oxhanirted and civil authority plainly is about to be paralyzed. Martial law is the state’s ULTIMATE RIGHT OF SELF DEFENSE. and the 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 nm There should he no county in Georgia so lacking in pride and self-reapect 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 m Georgia—in neither of th? two instances hereinbefore cited, however—when the call was puerile, AND PROCEEDED FROM SFIEER COWARDICE UPON THE PART OF COUNTY OFFICIALS. And it makes no dis- ' 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 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, are LAW ABIDING AND LAW-RESPECTING. They will back a man who docs his duty fearlessly and honorably, without regard to political factions or line-ups. r Phe sheriff - who calls the moh’s hand will find himself A MORE POPULAR SHERIFF THAN EVER HE WAS BEFORE, if he chooses to figure it from that standpoint. Sonic 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 mmnity 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 alyzed will be A DISGRACED COUNTY—a county that is lack nag in self-respect and a decent regard for the majesty and sanc tity of the law < fr- 1 ' 1111 ■■■—- ...... —■ „ Safety of Crews in Subma rines 'Hm 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 martinis 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 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 bis place in front of that city, and that with two such ves seis at Galveston or other American ports, he could heat ofl - 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. v Not Bryan, But Wilson | Governor Wilson goes to the limit of political amenities when he explains his remarkable mat ion in Nebraska In Ihe fact that Brian was with him. The governor is mtsfaken. It was himself not Bryan— his gifts, h's graces and rtis cause that drew the crowd and evoked the enthusiasm. Nebraska has tod often and too recent 1) repudiated the Brvau leadership. It sat down hard on the so-called Commoner in the presidential primaries. Nor is it like li that Nebraska has so soon forgotten how insobmtli Brian repudiated her instructions at Baltimore and arrogated to him self a wisdom and virtue superior to the slate Nebraska evi dences to Governor Wilson loyalli that she bears him no grudge tot Brian s insolent iriasoti, hut ih governor must not confuse iebraaka s hrarli and deserved tribute i<> him with servilili f 11 no iiiori tin the pars of a brale and independent The Atlanta Georgian i The Squirrel’s Leap: A Remarkable Photograph ; " ' .i ; <2 dflF f ~ 7 ; jtTl' f ' Z ' ‘i|K— •.. ■ zwß * 7 v* *- wlgS*- 1 / \ "x ’i \ \ s J \\\ / G \ • -gjgy \. y \ \A* x \\ ; *' \ X. * X K X > 'A tX 1B • IO \ i JHK - -M- A'! J X > \’,J| - / N\ JKSf I ■ ' 'wWf Mm... ’ ■ $ AN ANIMAL THAT BUILDS A NEST: A SQUIRREL li\ ITS NATIVE HAUNTS. ri e squil : t‘ls i hat may be seen hopping about in the parks are very sophlaticated, and no doqbt thev enjoy I thei semi-rural ■ nrronmlingr But what the stiuirrel' realty likes is a wood in the countrj. where ho 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 i 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 ruts a dash. Ho provides for such occasions by laying by a store of provisions before he turn® in for <! his winter sleep. Squirrels when mating build a nest, known as "drey.” The young ones usually appear in .June. To Obey By Dorothy Dix « FICW days ago a man. on the • /-X 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 w ith its female slaves. but right in little old New York that we ate accustomed to think of as marching along toward the head of the Progress Proces sion. Ami 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 W inkle class nowa days. Our heaiiiest congra t ula lions .to the voting lads who escaped getting this sort of husband. Her guar dian angel -eurely was working overtime in het behalf to snatch her. even at the eleventh hour, from a life of misery. ami she should be burning joss sticks to the great god Lm k for her escape. Marriage, even with a liberal minded man. is not a. perpetuaLpic nic, ami what it would be with a grinding tyrant who would lake the word "obi y ” in the marriage serv ice in a literal instead of a Pick wickian 'ire, one trembles to think Certainly the worm of the dust would have nothing on such a wifi- when it came to being tram pled upon Ought To Be Help.” As a m ittei of fact, the ditfaulty about the obey ing business in mai i imony should nevei occur, for there should be a revision of the ma’ring, rv ici that w ould sub stitute help” for it Certainly there is no justifiable if- mon lor making a woman perjure herself nt the altii* by swearing to obey tier husband vhrn m knows she hr*n't ili<- light'si intention of doing it. imi n doe f-verylooh <■!•»•, the tr.ish.fild Included MONDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1912. Nor does the husband, if he is • the right sort of a man desire his wife to obey him. He recognizes her rights as an individual; he re spects her personal liberty of thought and action. Moreover, he hasn't picked out for a wife 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. lie 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, bm 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 dub. or do anything else she wanted to do and tiiat het own goiYci sense and judgment told her ‘ it was proper for her to do. And why should she obey, pray? IVhy should some great big. strong, intelligent woman obey some little shrimp of a man. ju.yl 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, anti who have better judgment than their husbands; there are plenty of women who are better managers than their hus bands. Will anybody contend that those women should obey their hus bands. and do foolish and unwise things things that will perhaps wreck the family fortune —because their husbands tell them to. and they mum mind? The very idea is idiotic. * Xi any rate, women don't obey, and the man who is looking for a perfectly obedient wife is about a hundred and fifty years too late to find her Women have mi tide- of theft own now, and they use them, and so well recognized is this .mong the fre-masnniy of wh.-s ilia: when one lady ask* .mother ltd) tn do i certain thing, and ths nr»t lady aver* >haf she cant rtn 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 dol 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 oven employers put their commands in the form of requests, ft 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 she hates him. and recognizes him t, 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 ans 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, tit her to be the one to sit in the judg ment seat, and give orders, if there art- to be any orders in the family. Men Recognize This. To their credit the great major ity of men recognize this and are incapable of the meanness and smallness of desiring the w ives who are their companions and partners 1 to obey them. It is only the man with a soul tile si*i of a pin point that demands that his wife shall be an obedient slave to him. There <an be no bettei test of whether i a man will make a good husband than his position on the obedience question, ami every girl should put it up to her sweetheart. If he's strong for wlfel obedience she will du wall to let him many snmr other woman. 'THE HOME PAPER Hearst Makes Reply to Taft; Suggests the True Policy For the Democratic Partv 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 hat e been contrived more cleverly for the president’s political advantage. He advanced the most convincing argument for the election of Mr. Wilson that lias 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 coireet 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 the American protective tariff. Obviously again, if it is the 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 ft. but to vote for Mr. Wilson, who wants to reduce die 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 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 coiwent and approval during his term. Scientific reduction of the tariff consists lather in judiciously and discriminatingly modifying the tar 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: s First, the abandonment of all old stock free-trade arguments based upon fallacies and upon ex ploded theories and upon premises which have been proven to be false by the practical and unprofitable experiences of free trade nations like England. Second, the recognition of she principle of protection of Ameri can industries and the wise and just application of that principle to those industries which require and deseiwe 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 in England, a free trade country, is quite as great a-s the cost of living in the United States, i 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 tn Ger many. a protective country. If. therefore, free trade or radi cal tariff reduction ran reduce the cost of living, why is not the cost of living in free trade England largely low er than tile cost of liv ing iii protected United States or at least’as low as in protected Ger many? 1 a mutter of fact, even the most radical tariff reduction does not materially reduce the univer sally increasing cost of living, but it does materially reduce the wherewithal to meet the increasing cost of living. Radical tariff reduction does force manufacturers out of busi ness and men out of employment, and by throw ing*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 shock the American sense of jualict and of itgarii for tin general welfare, in every in dustry that I have had occasion to investigate I have found wages 40 to .10 pei <ent lower lit England than tn America. It fh< tmiv of the ircent rall «<■» strike in Gna' Britain, I in iestimated the, wage o f th. engi- fieevs and trainmen. I found , the highest salaries paid am i , . way engineers in Great Bi t were less than fifteen dollar 4 week, and that these so-called wages were paid to only a men who were the star engii .. » on fast trains meeting the At 1 ,,; . liners. The average engineer rcr. ~, less than nine dollars and a r. week, firemen averaged hr six dollars a week, and the average guard, who corresponds to our ,ii ductor, received six dollars thirty-six cents a week. There would be a revolution „ America, and a justifiable or if such wages as these were pa . our tompetent railway emplo Yet with such wages working in free trade England are eij ■ j to meet a cost of living as hie t or higher than ours. No wonder there are indu. disturbances in England and and riots and men shot down by iHe soldiery. No wonder there arc |,O - and economical disconicnt and an emigration so great that re steamship lines can not carry a? nf those who desire to leave England. The false statement that living in England is cheaper than in Ani.n - ca has been made so often that , believed by those who have not taken the trouble to learn tin f t Giving is not cheaper in England than in America. If anything, i: ■ dearer. Food is' much dearc. in England than in America. Luxuries like fruit and many vegetables are entirely beyond the reach of Hr av erage individual. Rent is cheaper in England than in many places in America, hut taxes are immeasurably greater, raising the actual cost of rent - from 30 to 35 per cent. Custom-made clothing is clir.iiv in England than in America, but nowhere in the world is vijy niado clothing as remarkable in and quality and cheapness a 1 in i United States. Shoes are !>. ..■ x and cheeper in the United State than .in any other place in the world. Traveling and transportation in the United States are about h ' what they are in England. Meat though high 1n the United State.c 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 1 have sent to England as resident . correspondents have often asked to be allowed to return to the Cntted States on account of the higher cost of living in England. These are the facts, and fa l ’! should be the basis of every argu ment. Governor Wilson, like every othe: good American citizen, is try ing t" benefit his country, but we can nol benefit our country by misleading our countrymen. Let all of us Democrats abandon worn-out and worthless free tradi arguments and frankly admit that a certain amount of judicious protec tion is a beneficial thing for our country and our people. Then let ul seek to apply protection discrimi nately to develop and maintain val uable industries which require pro tection. and which through the ju-t 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 mir railway system and our public and 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 co' ernment out of the hands of st" privilege and placing the g ' ’’ ment and all its proper sum iion l more directly in the control of the whole people. There should, therefore. b< n ” governmental encouragement oppressive trusts, no governments fostering of special privilege. ■ through undue and ttndeservr tcetion or otherwise, but sur an important and essential sum ti' an adequate and impartial c ' i men! In this business ag proper encouragement and i tion of all legitimate indu i ' nusincss activity. Let us then modify the and purify the tariff, togotif nil the acts and operations "i ernment. to meet the reqtiu of the times, but let us mod 1 tariff in away which will 1 our own nation at least as > u ■ it will benefit competing nar. Let us adopt a general l 1 " reciprocity which will coi markets of other nations to l> to our products w henever our kets are open to their prodm us repeat the old and ■ Democratic declaration in t preferential duties which " pel Importations to be American ships, wuich will ’ ‘ the American hag to the . which will revive the A merchant marine to the ’ , 1 prosperity of our people in peace and the better protei our country in time of w- These policies are both I and patriotic. They will rim Democratic party not only 1111-1 election against a di' pubHcan party, but to w elections against a united • llcan party and to remain , I nontly In power, bulwark buttressed by the appr"' Ei.Refill appreciation of American people. _ ’ 11 ILLIA.M RANDOLPH H*