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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Reciprocity Must Go With
’ Tariff Revision
Governor Wilson’s eyes fell upon a striking object-lesson in
reciprocity, as he stood on the dock at Hamilton, Bermuda, the
other day and watched the landing of that cargo of Argentine
cattle that reduced the cost of living on the island.
The lesson should be applied in this country. Not only in
the little British island, but in the whole United States also, the
market prices of the necessaries of life can be cut to the basis of
reason by freer commerce with countries that have the things we
want to eat and wear, and that want the things we hare to sell.
This is the way of the Democratic party to continued .power
and popularity, and the opposite way leads to discredit and de
feat. Chairman Underwood’s initial conference lacks force and
directness along this line. The principle of reciprocity should be
the guiding principle of tariff revision.
It is not necessary for the Democratic congress to wait for
the incoming majority of March 4. The majority in the house is
ample for the work, and as a broad national policy, the reci
procity principle has been indorsed by every Republican national
convention for the last twenty years, and by McKinley. Roosevelt
and Taft.
Republican presidents and congresses have never done much
toward putting the principle into practical effect. But the lead
ers of the party have always recognized the fact that the mass of
Republican voters, like the mass of Democratic voters, believe in
the kind of tariff laws THAT WILL EXPAND OUR MARKETS
WITHOUT DIMINISHING OUR POWER TO PRODUCE AND
DELIVER THE GOODS.
THAT IS R'ECPROCITY.
Rightly considered, it is not a party question at all. It
should be lifted out of the ruts of party controversy.
The gist of reciprocity is to make trade free, so far as free
trade is profitable to us, and to maintain protection to American
industries, so far as they need protection.
The Americans are a practical sort of people, with a practi
cal eye for realities and results. We are not easily carried
away by any theory of closet philosophers. We are tired of the
word-wars between rampant protectionists and raving free-trad
ers.
Every sensible American understands that in order to have a
great volume of commerce going out to the ends of the world,
we must produce goods on a large scale. They know that if we
should make trade absolutely free, it would ruin many of our in
dustries and destroy much of our productive power. They know,
on the other hand, that if we should maintain an impassable wall
of protection, it would restrict our foreign commerce to the nar
rowest limits and destroy much of our commercial power.
It is absurd to expand our commerce by methods that de
stroy our industries. It is equally absurd to build up world
supplying industries by methods that destroy foreign commerce.
Thus it is clear to all but rapt visionaries and the muddle
headed that, reciprocity is the only reasonable tariff policy. IT
COMBINES WHAT IS SOUND IN PROTECTION WITH WHAT
IS SANE IN FREE TRADE.
Every nation in Continental Europe has lived under a
consistent system of reciprocity for the last half century. The
United States has been struggling to establish such a system for
more than thirty years. We have been balked and thwarted in
thia struggle by the rival fanaticism of tariff doctrinaires and by
a solid phalanx of selfish vested interests.
It was Senator Aldrich who knocked the life out of the
reciprocity plans made by James G. Blaine under the McKinley
hill of 1900. Aldrich and the sinister interests which he repre
sented were the chief enemies of every other reciprocity plan for
twenty years.
These powers of obstruction have now lost their footing in
the United States senate. And the time has come to do, and do
thoroughly, what the nation has so long striven to accomplish.
Now is the time to plan for a vast expansion of foreign
trade through the establishment, of an orderly and consistent sys
tem of reciprocity.
The Commonplace Adventurers
By BERTON BRALEY
I '' I ’'HE tang of seas is in them, the power and the might,
< A They bring a thrill of tempests and breakers foaming white;
> Their faces spell Adventure and in their darting glance
There burns the quenchless glamour of those who love Romance.
> Yet, though they brave destruction and ever play with death
i And danger is their comrade whenever they draw breath.
t: The wonder of their toiling is quite beyond their ken—
’ It s only daily labor for Deep Sea Fishermen 1
£ The lacking out of harbor past every rock and shoal,
’ The lift and sag and shudder when heaving combers roll,
s Fhe rush of deep sea breezes, the sting of deep sea sprav
5 Are only common items in a common working day,
' 1 hesc tried ami true adventurers are dreaming not at all,
S They speak of wind and weather and the chances of a haul,
- And when your hours tor sleeping are less than one in ten
• Vou 11 do as little dreaming as Deep Sea Fishermen !
< Ihe tog may bring disaster—-a liner, looming high
; (Can twenty thousand tonners look out for smaller fry?l
S And when it s ” Dories over"—and gray clouds turn to black,
> Aon gamble with your Maker that you’ll he coming back;
J 1' s work and sweat and peril from bait to dressing down,
fcißAnd all Io feed the Hungry who crowd the busy town.
puts hack to Glouc'-ster and widows wail agtnii.
; so our fish is paid fur by Deep Sea Fishermen .'
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The Rights of Daughters
F FREQUENTLY I get letters
from girls complaining that
their parents will not permit
them to have any friends, of either
sex visit them in their homes, and
that no jailer could be more cruel
or more tyrannical to them than
their fathers and mothers.
I confess that 1 have given scant
credence to these charges, for it
did not seem possible to me that in
this enlightened day any father or
mother could have little enough
sense, to say nothing of little
enough affection, to do the one
thing that was surest to drive a
young girl away from home, and
into the very dangers that beset
youth and beauty in a great city.
I thought that the narrow, igno
rant, selfish, opinionated, mean lit
tle despof of the home existed only
in melodrama on Fourteenth street,
where the stern parent still sur
vives, and turns his daughter out of
house and home. But it seems that
I was mistaken, as the following
letter shows. And it's a real, gen
uine. bona tide letter written by a
woman wko signs herself “One in
Trouble."
She writes: “I am tile mother of
two daughters who are both work
ing, but 1 think 1 have the rigrtit to
control their actions in every way
and expect their implicit obedience.
I have no trouble with my younger
daughter, who is delicate, and al
ways obeys me in everything, but
the older girl, who is 28 years old
and a mlllinet gives me great an
noyance.
The Worst Enemies.
“I think a girl's place is at home
after her day's work is over. But
my daughter wants to go out. She
prefers other people's company to
ours, and likes to go out to the the
ater. I do not give her permission
to go. nor does she go. as she knows
her father would disown her if she
did, and she gets very mbpy, and
this is disagreeable for us.
"We do not object to her getting
married to a good man. but where
is one who will be to her what we
have been? I am constantly telling
her this, but slib rebels and says
that she would like to have young
men i all at the house Now, my
husband has gotjt ami we can not
be annoyed with men culling. Be
side>. we all retire at 10 o’clock
every < vening. and no one comes or
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX
goes from our house after that hour.
We are highly respectable and al
low no nonsense in our home.
"1 have just found out that my
daughter is keeping company with
some man. I can not tell how, or
where, as she is always home before
10. I do not know how to keep her
from him. She used to tell me
everything, but as I put a stop to
all of her other men acquaintances,
she is hiding this from me, and I
am much worried. I do not even
know If the man is a married man
or not. and I do not believe any re
spectable man would have anything
to do with a girl who can not open
ly receive him in her own home.
Please tell me how to gain my
daughter’s confidence, and also how
to stop this affair before it has
gone too far."
Doesn't ft seem incredible that
there could be two human beings
in the world with little enough
knowledge of life and youth to act
as this father and mother are do
ing? Undoubtedly they love their
daughter, and desire her good, and
ypt the most malevolent enemy in
the world couldn’t have devised any
better plan for ruining her life.
To begin with, they are so in
credibly selfish that to prevent
tlfemselves from being disturbed
and their provincial little pleas
ures broken Into, they cut their
daughters out of all of the joys
and pleasures of their girlhood.
Youth has a right to laugh, to have
company, to dance, to make merry
and to go to theaters and places
of amusement, and for a girl’s par
ents to keep her from enjoying
these innocent pleasures is to de
fraud her out of her birthright.
The home, according to the moth
er's own statement of it. is worse
than any jail, and that the girl
doesn't run away and leave it, as
she would be perfectly justified tn
doing at 28 years of age, shows that
She is a young woman with an ex
traordinarily high sense of duty,
if she had been of a more pleasure
loving disposition and a weak fibre,
she would have skipped out long
ago and joined the ranks of the
chorus—or worse. Many a girl is
driven into the primrose path by
her parents making her own home
so dreary and unattractive that it.
seemed better to take any risk than
to stay in it.
As for refusing to let a girl have
• a beau at home, are there any par
ents so dull as not to be able to fig
ure out what the result of that is
bound to be? If the girl is very
homely, and the father and mother
lucky, it adorns her to be an old
maid. If the girl is good looking
and attractive, it means that she
will meet men on the street and
i pick up chance acquaintances, and
that some day she will elope with
some stranger of whom her people
never heard, and who is more
likely than not to be just the man
I she shouldn’t have married.
To What They Doom Her.
Instead of driving young men
away from their home, every father
and mother of daughters should not
only welcome their daughter’s male
acquaintances, but should use every
means to get personally acquainted
with the young men and find out
everything possible about them, for
only in that way can they guard
their daughters and prevent them
from making disastrous marriages.
This mother complains that her
daughter doesn't confide in her.
Why should she? How could the
mother expect it when she puts her
foot down on every plan the girl
has and forbids her every pleasure?
I Such a woman is not a mother.
She's nothing but a grinding ty
rant, and she had as well realize
that her daughter looks upon her
as a despot and not a sympathetic
friend.
The mother asks my advice. It is
this: Turn over a new leaf. Wake
up to the fact that a girl of 28 isn't
a baby. She is a woman grown,
with a woman’s rights. Give her
some pleasure at home if you want
her to stay there. Let her invite in
ail of her friends, and make as
many parties as she wants to. Sus
pend your 10 o’clock rule, for it's
a lot better that you and your gouty
husband should lose a little sleep
than it Is for your daughter to be
meeting strange men on the street.
Just remember if you want to
keep your children at home you've
got to make your home an agree
able place to stay in. If you want
your children's love, you must be
lovable, and if you desire your
daughter s confidence, you must lis
ten t<* her with understanding, sym
pathy and helpfulness. Nobody,
npt even a daughter, loves a jailer,
1 or confides in ;■ wet blanket.
THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Automobile
It Will Probably Prove To Be
the Greatest Step in Locomo
tion —One Million Cars Regis
tered in the United States, or
Nearly One for Every Ninety
Human Beings.
Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS.
■* ,r AN’S greatest invention is
IVI the wheel. It solved the
problem of swift and easy
locomotion for him and rendered all
his engines possible. In the wheel
human ingenuity has departed fur
thest from nature’s models.
The wheel is a circular leg with
an endless foot. It was one of the
earliest products of pure brain
work.
We tnay imagine that on a flat
surfaced planet, such as Mars ap
pears to be, nature may possibly
have furnished animals with
wheels. Rut here man had to think
of that improvement for himself.
Nature gave him only spokes; he
added the rim, and locomotion was
revolutionized. When you walk
you bring the ends of the spokes
one after the other upon the ground
with a great loss of time, effort and
speed. The endless foot only be
comes effective on an even surface,
and man, almost at the beginning
of his career, had the good sense to
provide himself, first with smooth
roads, and then with rimmed legs,
or wheels.
His progress at first was slow,
but it has now become rapid. He
had the bullock cart for thousands
of years before he invented the lo
comotive engine and the railroad
car.
Was First Improvement.
But, after that, a few generations
sufficed to bring in the automo
bile. which needs no rails to run
on. This will probably prove to be
th« greatest step in locomotion that
lias been taken since the invention
of the wheel—greater in many ways
than the locomotive engine itself.
It has certainly had the swiftest
progress, for half a generation has
seen its almost complete develop
ment.
Glancing over the colored photo
graphs in the current number of
the monthly magazine called Mo-
ToR (a quaint specimen of typog
raphy which is full of symbolism),
one obtains an astonishing sense
of the ’ mastery that is in the
motor car. It must be a revelation
to many who use such cars in a
half-timid way, not really compre
hending the power that they pos
sess. Look at the picture of a pow
erful automobile easily plowing its
way through a snow-choked road,
in which a horse-drawn vehicle
would be hopelessly moored fast.
And then turn to the photographs
of automobiles winding round
mountain roads, skirting profound
chasms, and, without loss of breath,
carrying their passengers to eleva
tions and viewpoints that could not
otherwise be attained without great
exertions on the part of horse and
man, and at the cost of immense
Cholera Scourges of Other Times
ryMIE terrible ravages cholera Is
| making at the present time
in Turkey remind one of
many previous occasions when epi
demics have carried off thousands
at a time.
As early as 767 B. C. we read of
a plague, and again in 453 B. C.
Rome suffered terribly. Athens
was attacked by a pestilence In 430
B. C., which was believed to have
been caused by their enemies poi
soning the water supplies.
As mans - as 10,000 people a day
fell victims to the plague at Rome
in A. D. 80. So mans' people were
killed during the epidemic which
occurred in Britain during the fifth
century that there were hardly suf
ficient persons left to burs' the
dead. In 772 Chichester lost 34,000
people, and in 954 Scotland lost
40,000. London was visited in the
tenth and eleventh centuries, and
Ireland suffered severely in 1204,
The Oriental plague occurred be
tween 1348 and 1382. It was known
as the ‘'Black Plague,” on account
of the black spots which appeared
on the skin at death. It started in
China in 1333, and the deaths num
bered 13,000,000, and 24.000.000 suc
cumbed in the rest of Asia. It ap
peared in Norway and Sweden in
1349 and 1382. About 2.000,000 fell
victims to the Black Plague In Eng
land. of which 52,000 occurred in
London alone.
The sweating sickness appeared
in England four times during the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
the first time in 1485, and lasted
one month, in which 20.000 people
died in London alone. It also vis-
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F loss of time. The huge dragon eyes
of the auto stare at you from the
mouths of canyons, and its broad,
padded wheels take safe hold on the
edges of precipices where even the
sure-footed broncho would not in
spire confidence.
The statistics of the automobile
are amazingly interesting reading.
If you neglect to inform yourself
about them you miss one of the
most significant things of our era.
At the last census we had about
90,000,000 inhabitants in this coun
try. On October 1 last there were
almost 1,000,000 motor cars regis
tered in the United States—nearly
one for 90 human beings.
A Prerogative of the Rich.
California has one for everj- JS
of its inhabitants; New York fc.r
every 75.
Os course, many of. these cs s
are used for business purposes ami
for public conveyance, and think
how vastly they have promoted ef
ficiency and rapidity in the carry
ing of goods and passengers. The
possession of private cars is still a
prerogative of comparative wealth.
But the cost will inevitably come
down. The time is surely coming
when any man who could formerly
afford to own a horse and buggy
can have an automobile for
family and for the transaction of
his affairs. At present many man
ufacturers cater only to the riel,
but in a little while they wilt
cater to the whole people.
The time when the sight of a:,
automobile awakens feelings of
envy and prejudice is fast passing.
The world can not afford to stand
in its own light. To do so Is to
hold back the era of mind. All these
things are the product of brain.
and man’s only hope for the future
on this planet is in his brain.
Every invention has met with op
position at the outset. They stoned
railway cars when they were first
introduced in England.
Have Opposed Progress.
Foolish workmen have smashed,
or tried to smash, at the beginning,
almost every new machine designed
to do better and more quickly the
work of human hands, but in the
end they have always found that
those same machines were the
means of their own emancipation.
The automobile has quickened
the pulses of the planet. It has
given us a clearer idea of the value
of time. It has freed the horse
from slavery and us from depend
ence upon enslaved muscles. It is
showing us how far behind we have
been lingering in the development
of speed and comfort, and it fore
tells a yet brighter era when the
world will move still faster, and. in
. moving faster, will live more.
f ited Holland, Germany. Denmark,
Sweden, Poland and Russia be
tween 1525 and 1530.
In the seventeenth century a
pestilence broke out in London anti
carried off 30,000 people. In Ly
ons 60,000 died during 1632
through a scourge which swept
over France. Italy lost 400,000 in
six months in 1656.
In the seventeenth century Hol
land was visited by a plague; in
Leyden 13,000 died of it, and the
following year 13,287 died in Am
sterdam. It was brought to London
in bales of cotton by some Dutch
merchants. This was the plague of
London, and, as every one knows,
about 100,000 persons died in one
year.
Persia lost 80,000 from a pesti
lence in 1773, and Egypt 800,000
.during 1790. Epidemics of cholera
appeared in France several times
during the nineteenth century, in
which 18,000 people died In Paris
between March and August. 1832.
It appeared in England In 1848 and
1849, carrying off 13,161 person ,
and 5,000 persons were carried oft
in London in 1866 in fifteen week 1
During recent years India has
been heavily visited by plagues —In
Bombay, Northwest Presidency and
Punjab and in a less degree in
Burma and other parts of India.
In January, 1905, there was a week
ly mortality of 20,000 reaching by
steady increase a total of
702. By April 1 it had dropneu
to 4,000 weekly, but again reached
5,000 by the end of June. Tw<
years after the number of victims
amounted to as many as 1,310.000