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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. 18? S. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year Payable in advance. Martial Law in Georgia H M R It Is To Be Hoped That the Day Is Far Distant When It Will Be Necessary to Call Out State Troops Again. Citizens generally arc 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, hut 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 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. 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 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 common wealth. It 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 stale'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 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 (TON 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 AXD LAW-RESPECTING. Thc\ 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. hut. 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 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 even effort has been exhausted and its authority par alyzed will he A DISGRACED COI’NTY—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 rines The credit of submarine torpedo boats as formidable fight ing engines—and therefore grim compellers of peace—ought not to he 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 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 the’r existence, have never lost a life or suffered a serious ac cident of any kind. Not Bryan, But Wilson , Governor Wilson gm s to the limit of political amenities when he explains his remarkable ovation in Nebraska by the fact that Bryan was with him. The governor is mistaken. It was himself—not Bryan— his gifts, his graces ami h.s cause that drew the crowd and evuk<d th<- enthusiasm. Xebraska has too often and too recent 1> repudiated the Bryan leadership li sat down hard on the so-called Commoner in the presidentiiil primaries. Xor is it like 1) that Nebraska ha* ho soon forgotten how insolentlv Hrtan repudiated her instructions at Baltimore ami arrogated to linn s*-lf a wisdom and virtue superior Io the state. Nebraska evi denees to Governor Wilson loyally that she bears him no grudge sot Bryan s insolent fr<*agon: hut th< governor mu»t not eonfus< Hiraska * heart' <n<l deserved Iribtih to him with smiliK " ’’ ,H| it memot oo i ii< purl nt a l»rav» and tmj< pi iid< ni peoph The Atlanta Georgian The Squirrel’s Leap: A Remarkable Photograph : N. - ill t " z < I \\"> - \ if® NY ’ , ‘ J \ MB ' \ \ T i ! »• . ’ V. y( ; ; ■ isltH . i ■ - ‘ ? o ! IICOI; y wtww n£FIKV'I < MsfaailMllwmiMi II WMMi - «w st*- K" — A«%* — -i AN ANIMAL THAT BUILDS A NEST; A SQUIRREL lot ITS NATIVE HAUNTS. !1 ne it: iels that itiay be seen hopping about in the parks are very sophisticated, and no doubt they enjov ? thee seim-tural surroundings. Rut what the squirrel really likes is a wood in the country, where he can elitnb any number of trees to his heart's content, and feast on nuts, bark, buds and seeds, also ar occasional egg or a $ joung lord, to his stomach’s content. The squirrel hibernates in winter, as a i ule. but if the weather is mild, often $ y okes up ami cuts a dash, lie provides for such occasions by laying by a store of provisions before Im turn- in for 1 bis v. inter sleep. Squirrels when mating build a nest, known as "drey.” The young ones usually appear in June To Obey By Dorothy Dix * FEW days ago i mail, on the • Z-X cry night before the vved "*■ 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 dark. st Africa, with its female -laves, but right in little old New Yolk that we are accustomed to think of as marching along toward the head of th., Progress Proces sion. And it didn’t take place In mediaeval times, but in this year of grace, ami 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 notion- as has this prospective bridt groom'.' To In 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 Indy 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 he burning joss sticks to the great rod Luck for her escaue. Marriage, even witn 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" in the marriage serv ice in a literal Instead of i Pick wickian sense, one trembles to think Certainly the worm of the dust would have nothing on such a wife when it tame to being tram pled upon. Ought To Be Help." A .< matt.i oi tact, Ho difficulty about tile obey mg tu. -mi -- in mat rimony should m-yel occur, f< .1 theic sliotild b< a revision of (lie muiriiigi •eivi« that would sub stitule help' foi it Certainly there '► no luetlflabh' t<-«eop foi making a women |» rjuie herself ut the altat by swearing to obey lot huah'ltm a •<.n , |i< , !,’| •ml ■» lioi y m bmh . i the li <ll bund iio lum a, I MONDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1912. Nor does the husband, if he is • the right sort of a man. desire his wit< to obey him. He tecogniz.es her rights as an individual; he re spects her personal liberty of tnought and action. .Moreover, he hasn't picked out for a w ife a child wlm is to be dictated to at every turn, nor a fool who must have every act directed by. a supirior intelligence. The modern idea of marriage is equality of both parties, not the .subservience of the woman to the man. We arc done, with slavery, even of the domestic brand, and men don't wish their wives to kneel leir feet, hut 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 I- 1 ith. 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 for her to do. And why should she obey, pray? \\ hy should some great big, strong, intelligent woman obey some little shrimp of a man, just because she happens to be his wife? There are plent# of women who are far bet ter educated than their husbands, • ’ citer 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 hus bands Will anybody contend that these women should obey their hus bands, and do foolish and unwise things things that will perhaps wieck the family fortune because their husbands tell them to, and they mum mind '.’ The y cry idea is idiotic. At any rate, women don’t obey, and tin man who Is looking fol a perfectly obedient Wife is about a hundred and fifty years too late tn find het Women have minds of t <it own now. and they use them, Hid -o Wf 11 I . coglp cd i . t Ills mmg (hi flrioasonty of wives : " !>• ' <>».. oly irks anoiher In n i< I i.i.u • m. ami .he I first lad) etric that >m mi do * 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*lo 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 his permission to do things, but he may bo 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 liny 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 smallm -sos deslrifig th. wives who ar. th.il companions and partners to obey them. It is only the ian with a soul the size of ,i pin point that demands that his wife shall be an obedient lave to him There tan be no bettei teat of whether n man will inak. a Rood husband than his position on the obedience question, and every girl should put It up tn her sweetheart. If he's strong fol t frit tut. > 'it. . s|m > 'll do well to let him many irntne oth»r woman. THE HOME PAPER Hearst Makes Reply to Taft; Suggests the True Policy For the Democratic Party) — l_ Special Cable to Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, O'- 14. President Tait, after the accepted manner of po tentates, gave a third-person inter view io the pie-.? some ten days ago. If the interview bad in reality been given by ;i third pi rson it would probably have been contrived more cleverly for the president's political advantage. He advanced the most convincing argument for the election of Mi. Wilson that ha- yet been contrib uted to the campaign. Mr. Taft declared first that the tariff is responsible for the high cost of Jiving- second, that the tar iff ought to be ieduced: third, that it ought to be reduced scientifically. If President Taft's conclusions are collect there is no alternative for a philanth.opic and patriotic citizen but to vote for Mt. 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 ml to other friendly rations the huminitarian duty of relieving th, oppressive burden of the high cost of living in America and elsewher ■ by promptly reduc ing the Ametiean protective tariff. Obviously at a:n. if it is the duty’ of our considerate and conscien tious citizen- 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, w iio had seven years' opportunity to reduce the tariff and did not do it. but to vote for Mr. \\ ilson, 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 scientifif 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. 'aft's concent and approval during his term. Scientific reduction of the tariff < onsists ratlim in judiciously and discriminatingly modifying the tar iff in away carefully calculated to benefit ail the people of tlie United States, be the;.- employers or labor ers. producers <i. 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 which have been proven to be false by the practical and unprofitable experiences of free trade nations like England. Second, the recognition of flic 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 t/ite 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, anil 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 tlie nation and the general pros perity of tlie nation. They me pol icies which, through increased pro duction and increased commerce and transportation and increased employment and payment. w 111 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 Utan useless. It is senseless. The cost of living in England, a free trade country, is quite as great as tlie cost of living in tlie I'nited 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 tlie cost of living in Ger many. a protective country. if, therefore, free trade or radi cal tariff reduction can reduce the co/t <>f liting. why is not the cost of living n f'ee trade I'nglam’ 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 fait, 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 tlie increasing cost of living Radii al tariff reduction does force maunim tmei - out of busi ness and im n mil of vim loyment. and by throwing a superabundance of labor upon the market does io dm- the price of labor, which is In England tlie wages paid in most lines of labor ah- so low as absolute!' io iltoi k tin Am> ii< an si its. of Justii ■ and of regard fm Illi general wetful e In evet y ln dustrv that I hate had o< i aeiop to mtestig.it.- 1 have found w -• 4o t i ,>a pet cent lowet l>> England an tn xim 11- i \t th' linn of tin >. . .-I-I rail. »|v stilk* In ti-rat I’.rltiai, I tn» vet-gated th' " life of th- 'tig.- neers and trainmen. I found that the highest salaties/paid any mil way engineers in Great Britain were less than fifteen dollars a week, and that these so-< i!lcd h - ; wages were paid to only a doc n men who were the star engine, < on fast trains meeting the Atlantic liners. The average engineer n. ,i .j less than nine dollars and a I T week, firemen averaged less tlum six dollars a week, and the av r guard, who corresponds to <>m . ductor, received six dollars . ; thirty-six cents a week. There would be a revolution t America, and a justifiable one. such wages as these were pant o our competent railway employee Vet with such wages working i, in fiee tiade England are expi-ct, d to meet a cost of living as high or higher than ours. No wondei there are indust disturbances in England and .-tri: and riots and men shot down by tin soldiery. No wonder there ate pn. litical and economical discontent and an emigration so great that t steamship lines can not carry all of those who desire to leave England The false statement that living in England is cheaper than In Atm ea has been made so often that it i believed by those who have not taken the trouble to learn tin f.i, - Living is not cheaper in Englam than in America. If anything, it i dearer. Food is much dear. r , England than in America. Euxui io like fruit and many vegetables > , entirely beyond the reach of tin a\- erage individual. . Rent is cheaper in England th. n in many places in America, but taxes are immeasurably giiutc:. raising the actual cost of rents from 4JO to 35 per cent. Custom-made clothing is cltetii - in England than In America, hut now here in the world is reiur - made clothing as remarkable in ■ it and quality ami cheapness a> i't I nited States. Shoes arc net-, and cheaper in tlie I'nited St.,: than In any other place in tin world. Traveling and transportation the United States are .about F. : r what they are in England. .Mo. . though higli in the I'nited Stat are higher in England, and a good part of rhe beef in England is im ported from the United States ami Australia. Newspaper men whm I have sent to England as resides: 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 good American citizen, is trying benefit his country, but wo can n< - benefit our country by misleading our countrymen. Let all of us Democrats aband-m worn-out and worthless fi--e trade atguments and frankly admit that a eortain amount of judicious p:oic tion is a beneficial thing fm- oar country and our people. Then !•■: us seek to apply protection discrimi nateiy to develop and maintain val uable industries which require pro tection. and which through tit- ju-t and proper conduct of their busi ness dialings with the publie de serve protection. I.et us realize that the tariff (even as unfair tariff) is not the cause of special privilege, but met- - ly a symptom ot special privilea- - a useful institution, partly e irrupt ed by special privilege. Special piivilege lias invaded o s tariff system as it lias invaded o taiiway system ami our public land system, our judicial system ami o r governmental rystem. but ti e r edy lies not in abolishing go\ ment or the proper functions of government, but in taking tin - eminent out of tlie hands of sp- - privilege and placing the g > ment end all t's prop"" f-mi!ior moce di-eetly In -he e ; of • • whole people. Then should, therefore, b' n" governmental encouragement oppressive tnists, no governm'-n'i' fostering of special privilege, ' ill r through undue and undeserved p tection or other" i-e, but surely important and essential function of an adequate and impartial govern ment in tin's business age is the proper encouragement and proti - tion of all legitimate inilustrv and business activity. I.et us then modify the t it't and purify the tariff, together w''- all tlie acts and operations of gov ernment. to meet tlie requireniet’ ’ of the times, but let Us modify ' ’ tariff u. away 'vnich w ill b'-n'fh our ow n nation at least as much 1 it will benefit competing nation- Let us adopt a general poli, -of reciprocity which will compel t markets of other nations to b> 01 n to our products whenever out tn c kets are open to their products. I us repeat the old and accept- : Democratic •liecla t .ition in favor f preferential duties which will pel importations to be n nit American ships, which will te ■ - the American flag to the sea which will tevive the \lltel meiehunt murine to the gt- ,|r -' pr- sperity of out people in im pe-u-e and the better protection f om i-iiuntry in time of "at Tlle-e policies ate both pl • and patriotic 't hey will enabh ' I'-mocrittie patty not only to - •» this election against a dlvidti l: ptildii mt party. but to win •- i tv, non again t a united lb In an part. l amt to remain p* ■ m-ntly in iw»«tr, bulwarked butt • < '«'i| Io t It. appro' il -"I g - 't > fill ipi'fi il it ion o' i U ILLIA.M HAMM 'LFH IILAI '