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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
srhen 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.
Th? people of Georgia arc a liberty loving people, and they
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 commonwealth.
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 state’s ULTIMATE RIGHT OF SELF
DEFENSE, and the machinery for putting it in operation- in
GeoYgrs 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
’(’HE 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 ho ASIIAJ4ED 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 back a man who
does his duty fearlessly and honorably, without regard to political
factions or line-ups.
’Phe 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
law and the preservation of the rights of life and property to the
people.
Th? next county in Georgia that calls for state troops be
fore its every effort has been exhausted and its authority par
alysed wall be A DISGRACED COUNTY— a county that is lack
ing in seif-respect and a decent regard for the majesty and sanc
£ity 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 be damaged by such accidents as that which took place Ihc
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 agn, that if the Spaniards at Manila had possessed a cou
pie of submarine boats nf th? modern sort, he never could have
held his place in front of that, city, and that with two such ves
seis at Galveston or other American ports, he could beat oft' the
“navies of the world.’'
Submarines of the Holland tvpc. in the fourteen years of
their existence, have never lost a life or suffered a serious ac
cident of any kind.
Not Bryan, But W ilson
Governor Wilson goes to Ihe 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 and his cause that drew the crowd and
evoked the enthusiasm. Nebraska hits too often and too recent
repudiated the Brvau leadership. 11 >at dowu hard on the
w-vailed Commoner in the presidential primaries. Nor is it like
that Nebraska has soon forgotten how insolently Bryan
repudiated her instructions al Baltimore and arrogated to him
| • windom cod virtqt aupei 01 to the stah Nebraska evi
" dences to Governor Wilson loyally that she boars him no grudge
loi i.r'Hii s insolent treason; hill th tzovernor must not contiise
f bri-l-.-< hearty atnl deserved tribute i<> him with servility
" r * i>i*nw,’ «n Hie part of a brave and independent
people
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AN ANIMAL THAT BUILDS A NEST; A SQUIRREL liS ITS NATIVE HAUNTS.
The -.quirrels Hint may be fern hopping about in the park/ are very sophisticated, and no doubt thev enjoy !
; theii semi-rural surroundings. But what the squirrel reif|y'ike» is a wood in the country, where he van climb I
> any number or 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 I
> wakes up and cuts a dash. He provides for such occasions by laying by a store of provisions before he turns'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
* I’l'lW days ago a man. on the n
/A 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
cverj wish.
And this happened in New York,
not in Turkey with its harems,
nor darkest Africa witli its female
slaves, but right in little old New '
York that we are 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
ho^i ry. antiquated notions as has
this prospective bridegroom? To be
sure, he is an old bachelor, but
even old bachelors arc seldom in
the Rip Van W inkle class nowa
days.
Our heartiest congratulations to
the xoung lady who escaped getting
this "it of husband. Her guar
dian aiige; jurclx was working
overtime in her behalf Io snat< h
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 w'hat it would be with a
grinding tyrant who would take the
won! •‘obey’’ in the marriage serv
ice in a literal instead of a Pick
wickian sense, one trembles to
think Certainly the worm of the
dust would have nothing on such
a wife when it came to being tram
pled upon.
Ought To Be Help,"
X.s a niultei of fad. the difficulty
about the obeying business in mat
ihn<>n\ should nt\er occur, fo*
th«*ie should be a revision of the
marriage that would sub-
siltui< "help" for it Certainly
there is no lugtiflable rftafton for
making a woman p» , rjii’p herself at
the altui b\ HWtaring to obex her
husband m hen In km»v * xiw h?!HVt
H < i intention of doing i».
ir»r| ♦» dor *\ • ryoodv Cl' C, tht I
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1912.
■> Nor does the husband, if he is •
the right sort of a man, desire his .
wife to obey him. Jle recognizes
her rights as an individual; ho 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. 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, w hen
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 for her to do.
And why should she obey, pray?
Whv s 'ould some great big. strong,
intelligent woman obey Rome little
shrimp of a man. ju I because she
happens to be his wife? There arc
plenty of women w ho are far bet
ter educated than their husbands,
better born, who have had greater
advantages; there afe 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
wreck the'family fortune—because
their husbands tell them to, and
they must mind’.’ The 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 and fifty years too late to
find her. Women have minds of
their own now. and they use them,
and ’o well rei ogniz.ed is this
among the fr<<masonry of wive,
th«* when one lady .i»l(, another
Il,dy to do a i erl dn tiling »n>l ihe
nr»t lad, aver* ifaai «Ue can t dr*
'• it until she asks her husband's
pfrmission, the other lady smiles
w isely, 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
she hates him. and recognizes him
for the petty household tyrant he
is.
There should he no obedience as
between husbands and wives. If a
woman hasn’t enough gray matter
in her head to decide tilings for
herself, she isn’t lit to be a man’s
wife. \nd in matters affecting iier
so|f surely a grown, mature, sensi
ble woman is more lilted 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 arc 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 wives who
are their companions and partners
to obey them, it is only the man
w ith a sou! the size of a pin point
that demands that his wife shall
be an obedient slave to him, There
can bi- no better (test of whether
a tnan will make a good husband
than his position on the obedience
question, ami every girl should put
il up tn h't swecthiart. If hr's
*ironc for « 'oh« c, wh**
111 dn mM| tn h i him nv<ri\ *<>mc
woman.
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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 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
il ought to be reduced scientifically,
it President Taft's conclusions are
correct there is no alternative for a
philanthropic and patriotic citizen
but to vole 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 *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»scientiflc 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 coratent and approval during
his term.
Scientific reduction of the tariff
consists rather in judiciously and
discriminatingly modifying the tar
iff in away carefully calculated to
benefit ail 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 all
old stock free-trade arguments
based upon fallacies and upon ex
ploded theories and tffion promises
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 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 Englund, a free
trade country, is notably gicater
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 hi protected United States or
at least as low as in protected Ger
many ’.’
As a matter of fact, even the
most radical tariff reduel ion does
not materially reduca 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 throwing a superabundance
of labor upon the market does re
duce the price of labor, which is
wages.
In England tlie wages paid In
most lines of labor are so low as
absolutely to shock the American
sense of justice and of regard for
the g'-nerul welfare. In every in
dustri that I hate had occasion to
luv< .-1 igate 4 have found wage- 40
Io Ml pci (in: lower In England
than In Ameriia
At thi linn of tlv iriiut tail
«»y sink* in Great Britain, I in
vestigated th' wag* of the rngi-
neerg and trainmen. I founu i t
the highest salaries paid any i„ ;.
way engineers in Great Britain
were less than fifteen dollai <.
week, and that these so-called h. ,
wages were paid to only a t | o; n
men who ’tvere the star engine,
on fast trains meeting the Atlant,
liners.
The average engineer ir, , ,. d
less than nine dollars and a I f
week, firemen averaged les> tl-o
six dollars a week, and the average
guard, who corresponds to our con
ductor, received six dollars
thirty-six cents a week.
There would be a revolution •
America, and a justtfiablc one. t
such wages as these were paid
our competent railway emplo , tr .
Yet with such wages working n P
in free trade England are exp.
to meet a cost of living as high •
or higher than ours.
No wonder there are indu-;
disturbances in England and ri
and Yiots and men shot down by hip
soldiery. No-wonder there arc po
litical and economical discontent
and an emigration so great that p
steamship lines can not carry all I
those who desire to leave England
The false statement that living m
England is cheaper than in Ameri
ca has been made so often thai it i
believed by those who have not
taken the trouble to learn the fim.
Diving is not cheaper in England
than in America, If anything, it i
dearer. Pood is much dearci in
England than In America. Luxunet
like fruit and many vegetables arc
entirely beyond the reach of the av
erage individual.
Rent is cheaper in England t ian
in many places in America, bm
taxes are immeasurably greater
raising the actual cost of rem. fmm
30 to 35 per cent.
Custom-made clothing is clic.ik
in England than in America, hut
nowhere in the world is ivaiii -
made clothing as remarkable in i it
and quality and cheapness as in the
United States. Shoes are beitcr
and cheaper in the United State
than in any other place in tht
world.
Traveling and transportation in
the United States are about ha f
what they are in England. Mea:
though high in the United State",
are higher in England, and a good
part of the beef in England is im
ported from the United States an 3
Australia. Newspaper men whom
I have sent to England as residen'
correspondents have often asked to
be allowed to return to the l.’nited
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 ’
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 trad*
arguments and frankly admit that »
certain amount of judicious protec
tion is a beneficial thing for our
country and our people. Then let u»
seek to apply protection discrimt
nately to develop and maintain val
uable industries which require pro
tection, and which through the jirt
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 ptivilege has invaded our
tariff system as it has invaded "tir
railway system and our public land
system, our judicial system andon
governmental system, but the rem -
edy lies not in abolishing govern •
ment or the proper functions "f
government, but in taking the go}-
ernment out of the hands of sp- .
privilege and /lacing the gov ,: '
ment and all its proper function’
more directly in the control of the
whole people.
There should, therefore, bt n"
governmental encouragement
oppressive trusts, no governm. : t '>
fostering of special privilege it! l '
through undue and undcservc
tection or otherwise, bul stir ' i,r '
important and essential sum-t
an adequate and impartial c
ment in this business ag l
proper encouragement and I
lion of .ill legitimate indo ’■
business activity.
Let us then modify th
and purify the tariff, togctli.
all the acts and operations
ernment, to meet the requiri
of the times, but let us mod '
tariff in away which will 1
our own nation at least as i u
it will benefit competing nati •’
Let us adopt a general v '
reciprocity which will comi”
markets of other nations to I"
to our products w henever . o 1 ’
kets are open to their prodm
us repeat the old and m
Democratic declaration in
preferential duties which w
pel Importations to be
American ships, which will 0
the American flag to tin
which will revive the Am*
merchant marine to the - ,
prosperity of our people in
peace and the bet'.e* prof
our country in time of v.a
These policies are both
and patriotic. They will en
Democratic party not on '
this election against a dh ;
publican party, hut to w"
oloctlona against a united I
llean party and to remali
nently In power, hulw tri
Imttrom d b? the apl'f"'
grateful Hppi' < union of •"
American people, -
WILLIA.M RAN DU LT 11 HI