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The South
The President Sees in a Change at Washington a Greater and
a Fuller Opportunity For This Section of the Nation.
That was an altogether graceful and patriotic utterance of
President Taft, when, in welcoming the Daughters of the Con
federacy to Washington Tuesday, he expressed the opinion that
the coming to the national capital of a Democratic administra
tion will bring the South into a fuller and more desirable part
nership in the nation’s affairs.
The South, at least, will accept the president's words in
good faith, and give him credit for a large measure of sincer
ity in saying them when and where he did.
It must not be forgotten, and particularly must the South
not forget it, that Mr. Taft, as president, has shown by substan
tial deeds his professed friendship toward this immediate section.
He went to Louisiana to find a chief justice of the supreme court
of the United States—he went to Tennessee and to Georgia to
find two associate justices. He has spent much of his time in the
South—he has loved to mingle with Southern people, and he has
said so. time and again, frankly and freely. His most inti
mate personal military aide, the lamented Archie Butt, was a
Southerner.
The South, in rejoicing that Wilson is to be the president
following Mr. Taft, should not be —and will not be—unmindful
of the fact that President Taft, whatever his political blunders
and misconceptions, and conceding to all men a wide freedom
of thought as to that, has been always an executive of honesty
of purpose and integrity of action. He may not rank with
some others in the matter of political sagacity; the charge that
he has been a “kind hearted gentleman, surrounded hy men who
knew exactly what they wanted’’—may be more or less true—
but it will not be denied that Mr. Taft has been catholic and
broadminded in his ideals, and has desired to be a president of
all the people.
The South, while rejoicing that a change is to come in the
conduct of the national government, inclines not to gloat that
political misfortune has overtaken the president, nor yet to sus
pect aught of guile or unworthiness within the loyal heart of
him.
The South never will feel that Mr. Taft has intended to be
other than friendly to it. however much it may realize, as he
says, that his hands have been in a degree tie«l and his high
purposes and desires thwarted time and again by circumstances
over which he had no control.
Real Democracy Is Good
Business
The president-elect broke his post-election silence to say one
thing, to wit: That honest business has nothing to fear from a gen
uine Democratic administration.
Under the existing circumstances this assurance was well con
ceived, and it was timely enough. But the day will come when such
an assurance will be superfluous under any circumstances.
The day will come when every schoolboy will understand that
sound democracy and sound business are interchangahle terms—
that the principles of legitimate and prosperous commerce and in
dustry are simply a transcript of the fundamental ideas of the
democratic order.
In illustration of this truth, consider the following propositions:
DEMOCRACY CAN NOT EXPAND AND FLOURISH UN
LEKS THERE IS A FREE CAREER FOR TALENT—NEITHER
CAN THE WORLD OF BUSINESS.
Whenever the pathways to personal power are clogged bv
privileges and prerogatives and are thus closed to men of original
and creative enterprise, democracy languishes. And so does busi
ness.
Democracy, in flinging wide the gates of opportunity and offer
ing an equal chance to every man. does not mean to offer prizes to
limber egotism or long-winded grved It means to clear the way
for a rivalry in good works—a race in which the servant of the
people shall be the winner of the laurel crown. Where the same
rule does not obtain in the industrial order, enterprise degenerates
into sodden monopoly. And monopoly paralyzes business.
REAL DEMOCRACY IS BASED UPON FREE CONTR ACT
AND MUTUAL INTEREST. IT IS THE SAME WITH SOUND
BUSINESS.
When political advantages are wrung from the majority bv
fraud, the energy of free government is diminished. And when
economic advantages are wrested from the people by commercial
duress, the volume of business runs thin. Meu are not free when
they are in need: and there can be no fair bargaining between hun
gry men and those who are well fed The prosperity of any rests
upon the freedom of all.
REAL DEMOCRAC Y AND SOUND BUSINESS LIVE BY
DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS NEITHER CAN LIVE IN \
STATE OF REPOSE AND ROUTINE
The freedom of free government requires that the mass of the
people shall have effective economic power—i. e., the power to
change and improve their occupations. Where political servitude
and commercial stagnation exist, they are both due to a low voltage
of social motion. The political problem and the economic problem
both arise from the fact that there are more job seekers than jobs.
The solution of both problems lies in the releasing of creative
forces and the increasing of the momentum of enterprise. Wher
ever there are more opportunities of advancement than there are
men knocking at the gates, the antagonism between labor and cap
ital vanishes. The antagonism between the majority and the minor
ity vanishes also.
Thus one might go on indefinite!} multiplying the likenes-.-g
between real democracy ami sound business A book or-a whole
library might be written on the subb-et
But the point is'miwd until Hie lesson s Br.» izm n,
. ... » . uom< Illal
me iiKeness m> more than a likeness Ii »n identity The two
grand idealisms of the modern world the enthusiasm ~t lm>im ss
and the passion for demm-rarj ar* at bottom «»ih- and ’»<
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[ • About Books * By ELBERT; HUBBARD.
Copyright. .1912, International News Service.
|| I
ay dTAN’S nr»L great invention
was the scheme whereby a
vocal sound stands for a .<;»■-
elfic thought. Then language was
born.
The second great invention, and
. the greatest one in the world yet.
I was making an arbitrary mark
stand for a vocal sound.
ITM- was the secret of ('admus.
the Phoenician, who invented the
j alphabet
Twenty-»ix little crooked marks
I* tailed letters, ami seven punctua-
tion marks - this Is the equipment
I of a writer, rtf course. It must be
taken for granted that the man has
thought- But what thought is, no
ore yet has ever attempted to say.
A Ixx»k I- the utilization of the
« adrso-ari invention. A« we glow
( in spirit end tr.-n’alily we want
f-w«-r issfkr and belter Itooks.
I iPs.Hs at- r t- . r.tuch to tear hus
t" s.sgg. ,r> i;.»k< ns thing for
U db.g -t .Mlatl-m V-q
OWII ,i.rote i< In the teerfc y*»u
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1912.
T To gain a foothold orj the sands.
And shows the world his empty hands.
We see but once Dame Fortune’s smile.
And if we tarry but awhile
We are the men outside the pane
Whose chance will never come again.
-I- —Frederic A. Wilson.
more mind reads much and delves
and dives into bookish depths.
Small boys think It a great ac
complishment to be able to see un
der water. The real achievement is
to see in the open air, out in the
sunshine, in God’s great out-of
doors.
Do not dive too deep into books,
otherwise you will get "metaphysi
cal mud in your glimmers, and
memorize, not think.
Do nut worship a book. You
would never worship the author if
you knew him. Treat a book with
dignity. Stand shoulder to shoulder
with n . iithor. Love his book, but
don’t mum It it.
Good books are companions. It
is beautiful to live neighbor to
Ralph Waldo Emerson and call to
him over the back fence or help
your-. If in his Garden of Allah.
Tills b what Ah-ott did Alcott
had a great crop of girls, but was
siK'il op beets, carrots and onions,
be< atiM- Alcott would not pull pig
wr -d mid make war on purslan,- -
•nt it ' ptis»le» “ If you prefer.
A book is tile garden of the
riinu! Th»-r la no u-< wallowing
l» it hut o Ik iW<«« I to eont' lu
plate. And the curious thing is, r
the more posies you pick from one
of these gardens of the mind the
more there are left.
Be on good terms with the great ;
touch fingertips with Robert Louis;
greet Tammtis. the Techy Titan,
with a smile, even if he only re
turns it with a grunt; laugh with
Rousseau; learn with Hugo, the
master of the short sentence; sigh i
with old Ort»ir and of them all.
blessed by your own divinity, your • >
own insight, your own apprecia- f
tion, you will be able to sit at the 5
speaker’s table tn Valhalla with <
Plato, Pericles, Aristotle, Copemi- !
cus, while Dante the solemn passes <
the brown bread.
A book is the record of a life. I
It Is what the grain of the tree is $
to tliv wood; it is a history of a <
struggle for existence.
hi a book you get the best that ;
a man ha., ever thought or done or
said. The dross, the lees tin- com- t
moiiplaci the transient all me >
omitted. |
Any l»i.il» that lives twenty-five i
years Illis Seen a m>tt‘ ration die I
and him belli apprucl.ited by two H
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THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
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Writes on
“Super-
dreadnoughts” |r
Will They Prove Themselves To Be Dinosaurs
<>f the Sea:' (tvergrowth Desiro} ed the Arm-
< il Monst-rs of Jura-isie Times and Armored
Knights of Middle Ages—America Will Be \>BBn /.
Ready To Meet Situation When Big Battle- v
ships Cease To Be Valuable.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
I STOOD close beside the mighty
battleship New York as she
rushed, with an anthem of vic
tory that shook the air, down the
ringing grooves which led from her
huge cradle to the salt tide waters
that are to be her home.
Never have I heard another such
diapason played by any instrument
made with human hands. The
ground trembled, the atmosphere
was turned into a gigantic lute,
with every string in accordant vi
bration. The strange birth-song of
the rushing ship, blending with the
roar of a thousand welcoming whis
tles and the cheers from fifty thou
sand throats, made a concert of
triumphant melodies that will al
ways ring in my ears.
The overwhelming effect was
partly the result of surprise; I had
not expected that the great battle
ship would go singing to the sea.
Her voice was one to make every
patriotic heart beat quicker. There
was in it no tone of doubt or fear.
It was the anticipatory chant of
battle and of victory.
How Great Will They Grow?
But as I looked upon her huge
steel hulk I could not but ask my
self: How many more of these war
monsters must we build before the
reign of peace shall come? How
much greater must they grow be
fore they disappear entirely?
Biologists tell us that the armed
monsters of Jurassic times grew
so vast, so heavy, so unwieldly, that
their kind perished through over
growth. Will it be the same with
these steel monsters of man’s mak
ing? Do they not resemble the ar
mored knights of the Middle Ages,
who at length could hardly carry
themselves upright on their over
burdened horses? The invention of
gunpowder and of bullets that fly
2,000 feet in a second put an end to
armor for soldiers. In maritime
warfare armor has been the latest
instead of the earliest development,
but can it continue to be effective
when guns are made which, at a
distance of *rive miles, send their
shells through the thickest belts of
steel? On the sea as on the land
will not armor be abandoned and
the fate of battles be decided by
TheSanjak of Novi Bazar
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE,
TN the land where the Turk was accustomed to lurk,
1 Snug and safe in his lowly thatched harem.
There were glad golden days for the Pashas and Beys,
Ere the Bulgars came down there to scare 'em.
Leading sextuple lives with a half dozen wives, T
And never a family jar.
! hey were in pretty rich, were these Turks, among which
Was the Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
Then the rough, rural folk in the Balkans awoke.
And with expletive Turkish “By Hecks.”
Swore the heel of the Turk had come sorely to irk
The supplian scruff of their necks.
Which saying, they shot up the Pashas a lot.
And soon they had fleeing afar
All the once haughty Beys, but a head a long wavs
Was the Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
So now there’s a throne that is left all alone >
In a coutry where din and dissension
Are so often the case that one might think the place ’
Mas a prolonged Chicago convention.
And the Novi Jambeek has an ad in this week,
Reading: WANTED—A man who's a star.
And who'll hustle right in to a fight he can't win—
To be Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
1 haven't the pelf for the journey myself.
Ami that may be possibly why
For this excellent chance for a life of romance
1 do not rush out and apply.
But Bryan has still got his future to fill. <
Ami as for our old friend T. R , i
One woud certainly think, since he can't be a Kink,
Hr 'd lie Sanjak of Novi Bazar.
• swiftness of movement and length
of reach?
The New York is called a “super
dreadnought,” and she looks it!
Her cost Is $6,000,000. Possibly we
shall soon see super-super dread
noughts, costing double the money,
but we can not go on forever in
that way. These dinosaurs of the
' sea must ultimately give place to
other forms less unwieldly, more
active, quicker in movement, bet
ter fitted to survive amidst the
change of environment that is now
rapidly corning over the whois
world.
Conquest Will Alter War.
The conquest of the air and that
of the submarine depths will soon
alter the conditions of warfais.
Mar’s activities are no longer con
fined to the surface of the earth
and the sea; he soars above the one
and dives beneath the other, and,
still filled with the spirit of battle,
he carries his Instruments of de
struction with him wherever is
goes. ~~
When it will an end, who ees
tell ? The way to universal peace Is
not the way of disarmament A»
long as other nations continue to
build super-dreadnoughts we must
build them, and build them better
than anybody else. Their abolition
will not come through the preach
ing of any theory, but through ths
teachings of the next great war.
We were the first, taught by the
experiences of war, to build a'
mored ships; perhaps we shall also
be the first to show that’something
better can be made.
Is Result of experience
No advance was ever achieved
upon the earth that wa# mot the
result of experience. The teaching’
i of one experience endure and mus*
be utilized until the next comes in
its turn, and those who triumph
are those who the most promptly
meet the new conditions as they
arise. The New York, with her
battle song upon her steel lips, is
the mighty mistress of the seas : -
day; tomorrow her hour may bi
passed. But of one thing we may
feel sure, whatever the detpands
of the morrow- may be America
•r will know how to meet them.