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RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER
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The Railroads Can Rob the
People IF*--
They Can Arrange to Keq> American Ships from Free Use
of the Panama Canal.
ml days ago our artist showed the
t ips held back by American loco-
In a cartoon printed sevei
Panama Canal with American
motives.
That was a picture of fa
know it.
All the solemn talk about treaty obligations" about our
duty to England, our national honor, is merely so much ‘‘rail
road talk, ’' a good deal of it well paid for by the railroads.
although many citizens do not
We are told that it i dishonorable, unfair, treacherous, etc.,
to permit American SHIPS to use an American CANAL, unless
we also let English ships u • the canal, without charge.
, And the so-called friend.; of national honor—who are in
reality gentlemen and m ; ; subsidized or controlled by
railroads—have actually managed to compel all but coastwise
American ships to pay toll, like foreign vessels.
The railroads want no free use of the canal by American
coastwise ships, and they fight such use through the politicians
and newspapers that they own, for a simple reason.
The railroads make r
tic to the Paoiflc. And
they can MAKE. Hithf
York to San Francisco
Therefore, the railroads
miles across the confine,
f c arrying freight from the Atlan-
tore they can CHARGE the more
Lrs carrying freight from New
to go all around South America,
could charge for freight carried 3,000
it a, much as it would cost to send a
to
id
ship all around the continent. And, in addition, the railroad
could add a charge for quick freight as against necessarily slow
ocean freight.
Now ships will go from New York to the Pacific Coast
through the canal, and the cost of water freight will be very
small—UNLESS THE RAILROADS CAN MANAGE TO
FASTEN A TOLL ON AMERICAN FREIGHT USING AN
AMERICAN CANAL. This the railroads are trying to do, in
the high-sounding name of n itional honor, treaty rights, etc.
For, don t you see, every dollar that railroad influence can
lay as a tax on American shipping in the canal IS A DOLLAR
THAT THE RAILROAD CAN ADD TO ITS FREIGHT
CHARGES
Let our Government charge American ships $2 a ton for
using the canal, and the railroads can at once add $2 a ton to
their freight rate.
Quite simple and clear, is it not?
Remember that when you hear the pitiful sobbing talk
about protecting poor Orest Britain against such an ‘‘outrage’’
as letting Americans, who built the canal and paid for it, give
free use of it to American ships.
England, as a matter of fact, is very little interested in the
matter, except that England s rich men own the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad, and they, like our railroad owners, are working
to fasten a tax on American . >s IN ORDER TO ADD THAT
TAX TO AMERICAN FREIGHT SHIPPERS.
Fortunately the matter is pretty well understood.
This country will iet ah American ships use the canal with
out charge very soon. And our coastwise shipping will be free
at once.
The Congress in this instance will not be used as*a rail
road freight collector. One Senator the other day introduced a
resolution to set aside iha • listing treaty with England en
tirely—a thing we have a right to do at any time. There is no
doubt that whatever may be necessary will be done to make
and keep the American Canal FREE TO AMERICAN SHIPS.
Even the railroads, after they lose their foolish fight, wall
find it a good thing FOE THE! to help the general American
prosperity.
Free use of Urn and low freight rates wall bring lum
ber to the Atlantic Coast Jrorn the Far Northwest and bring
fruit to the East from California and other Pacific States.
Eastern product: will go at low freight rates through the
canal to the Pacific. Business will grow, enterprise will find en-
couragcment. labor. , ma irv AND the railroads will share in
the benefit cf a canal UNITING THE COUNTRY MORE
CLOSELY AND MORE C APLY.
For every carload o, cheu- freight going through the canal
and taken, apparently FROM the railroads, there will be two
extra carloads of li. n priced freight. FOR the roads. Profitable
long hauls will in -
And within
the Panama Canai
ity such as they ha .
ise and profitable short hauls as well.
. 1 lulligi >u r, : lro:vi men wall thank
,d free use oi Auer is for prosper
: never seen.
MEANWHILE. IT IS >i ?OIK r ANT TO REALIZE THAT
THE RAILROADS A ■' j FIR MANAGERS, NEAR-SIGHT
ED AS USUAL. ARE THE REAL POWER FIGHTING TO
SHUT AMERICAN SHIPS OUT OF AN AMERICAN CANAL
m the name of our ho) duty to England.
ERT1NENT PARAGRAPHS
It if* diftii ult to k
from those who have
ship.
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>n > hr inns man a
>• * u.s more anx-
vond chance.
borne men never ,
tion that is not acci
kick.
character can often be
n a man's face by shav-
mustaehe.
Speaking of P‘ r
cle of fame is the mo:
of all.
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Matrimony will not
form a man, but it wi!
more cautious.
— our women folk who
’ *• d in moving are
'A ‘Kit the front window at
\\ neighbor's furniture.
When a
rown-up man meets
irt of his youth he
r» why some one did
’s passion with i
The Modern Gulliver •*
By WINSOR M’CAY
The Lilliputian hosts of child labor wear their lives away piling up dollars for the heartless Gulliver
who employs them.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
A GREAT DOCTOR once said:
‘Successful practice re
quires one-third science
and two-thirds savoir faiie”
(knowing how to do it).
By that he meant impressing
the imagination of the patient,
and impressing it the right way.
Any doctor can affect his patient’s
imagination, but many send Us
mercurial spirit dropping down
ward like a jhermoneter in a cold
wave. If doctors ever really do
kill their patients it is through
what they administer to the
tnlnd.
We are only just beginning to
learn something of the extent of
the mind's control over health
and disease. Many persons are
willing to admit that the mind
influences nervous affections, and
that the imagination may either
bring them on or drive them
:iway; but they refuse to believe
(hat mental influences which pro
duce ’’lessons"—i e., physical in
juries to certain parts of the
body.
Inspires With Confidence.
But they are wrong in their
skepticism. The imagination can
produce lessons* as well as
heal them. There never hus been
a great epidemic in which a
large percentage of the mortality
uhs ijot the result of mental up
set .0 Mere fear kills like a light-
uiiJS stroke by paralysing ilie
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nervous system, whereupon the
bodily machinery tears itself to
pieces through loss of the central
control.
1 do not suppose that the imag
ination ever broke a bone or set
one. but 1 am sure that it has
either saved or lost the life of
many a sick person, according to
the way in which it happened to
be directed, either by the will of
the patient hirnself or by the
guiding influence of a doctor or
a nurse.
The successful doctor is the
man who enters the sick room
with his face full of cheer and of
masterful confidence, and not
with hiv pockets full of pills. The
good nurse is worth her pay be
cause she keeps her patient cheer
ful and confident When you
choose a doctor for your family,
select one whose look makes you
feel stronger. His presence will
be like that of Napoleon on the
battlefield
It is not sympathy that heals,
too much sympathy sometimes
kills. It is* confidence that does
the good work. Away with your
morose-looking doctor—unless it
happens that behind the grave
face there is an appearance of
power, for that is worth more
than all else in breeding con
fidence in the patient.
It has been suggested that “per
sonal magnetisrti" is an actual,
dynamic unovihi' force pro
ceeding from one person to an
other.
There is much to support that
view. When Caesar in his scarlet
cloak, with his bald head bared,
rode through the lines of his sol
diers at Alesia, something passed
from him to them which enabled
them to hurl back the assault of
the three hundred thousand Gaul*.
It was the personal magnetism of
Caesar that saved the day. It put
courage into despairing hearts
and energy into tired muscles.
But the best way to combat
disease is to meet it with your
own will. The patient who gives
up can rarely be saved. Believe
w ith all your might in your pow
ers of resistance. Think of re
covery'. not of death.
Exerting Will Power
A hot summer is before us, and
it will bring Its lassitude and Its
sicknesses, real or imaginary.
Prepare yourself beforehand to
meet these conditions by culti
vating confidence, cheerfulness
and will power. Joke about the
thermometer when it goes up to
ninety or a hundred in the shade,
and don’t draw a long face before
it. If an epidemic breaks out. treat
it as the Roman emperor treated
the comet w'hich terrified his
friends. “Oh,” he said, ’’that hai
ry star is after the king of the
Persians, who has got whiskers.
It won’t trouble me."
And if you ore doubtful about
the power of the imagination to
influence your body, read the
stories of the “Stigmata” which
appeared on some of t
of old. when they concentrated
their minds for days and nights
together on the wounds of the
Savior.
All Could See Them.
St. Francis, it is recorded, had
all the marks of the Crucifixion
upon him, though not produced
by any hand or weapon.
Everybody could see them. St.
Hieronvma Carvaglio had the
spear mark in her side, which
bled every Friday. St. Cathar
ine, of Raconisco, had the marks
of the Crown of Thorns on her
head. All of these things, and
many like them, are said to have
been produced solely by pious
meditations. You may smile at
that, or you may not. according
to your standards of belief, but
you can hardly refuse to believe
other things as wonderful that
have been recorded on medical
authority.
Whether you call it Christian
Science, or mind healing, or blind
faith, or anything else you may
Choose, there is no doubt that you
have it in your power to influe ru
by mental concentration
health and well-being of \
body. Cultivate that power. ■
you will be the better for
You will save, or shorten, ma
doctors’ bills—but don't negj
tne doctor, gtiber, help mm.
the
our
ind
It.
DOROTHY DIX 1
Writes on
The Suffrage Pa
rade—It Was a
History Making
Spectacle and
Marks the Exit of
the Doll Baby
Woman From the
Stage of Life.
W HAT did people see as they
watched the Suffrage Pa
rade In New York last
Saturday?
They saw the first real democ
racy of woman.
They saw Judy O’Grady and
the Colonel’s Lady marching
shoulder to shoulder. They saw
the petted darling of the draw
ing room walking side by side
with the girl of the sweat shop.
In that procession were mill
ionairesses keeping step with
scrubwomen; college professors
with the pupils of night schools;
Fifth Avenue hostesses with
waitresses from cheap lunch
rooms; old women with withered
cheeks and gray hair with girls
in the first flush and bloom of
youth and beauty. All lines of
uealthf and class and social
distinction were wiped out by
the great cause that touches
every woman high and low, and
that has brought them together
in one great sisterhood.
What did the people see when
they watched the Suffrage Pa
rade?
They saw one of the spectacles
that make history. They saw the
passing of the old order of
things and the entrance of the
new.
Exit of Doll Baby Woman.
They saw the exit from the
stage of life of the doll baby
woman of the past, of the wom
an who could find the whole of
life in adorning herself, whose in
terests were no wider than her
own home, and who saw no
shame in getting what she
wanted out of some man by ca
jolery. or flattery, or lying, or
whatever other means was neces
sary.
Dull, indeed, were the eyes
that did not see in those thou
sands and thousands of earneat
faced women the type of the new
womanhood that is marching
onward to a place beside man.
no more to be his toy and play
thing. but his equal and his part
ner in doing the work of the
world and reaping its rewards.
What did the people see as
they watched the Cuff rage Pa
rade?
They saw the spectre of injus
tice marching in every woman's
shadow. The crowds through
which those ten thousand white-
clad women tramped were most
ly silent, as well they might be
with shame i? they had eyes to
see and a heart to comprehend
the significance of the scene.
Own Millions; Can’t Vote.
They saw women who owned
millions of dollars' worth of
property, but who were denied
the right to slay what taxes
should be levied upon their prop
erty. They saw the representa
tives of six million working wom
en, but who have no power in
By DOROTHY DIX.
ehaplng the legislation that af
fected them.
They saw mothers whose little
children’s lives were crushed out
of them in factories; housewives
who must sweat every nickel to
make It go a little farther when
trusts put up prices; women
who represented one half of the
population, and who were af
fected by its every law, but who
had ne voice in making them.
They saw highly educated women,
brilliant professional women,
noble women philanthropists,
saintly church women, women
who represented all that is finest
and best in humanity, but who
were denied the prevlleges that
the most illiterate, the most de
based, man enjoys.
What did the people see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw one of the most
pathetic sights the world has
ever witnessed. They saw woman
hood humbling itself before man
to ask as a boon the privilege
that it should demand as a right.
They saw the wife who has
grown gray and old in service
to her husband, and who has
given him the best years of her
life, asking to be made his equal
They saw the mother who has
borne his eon In her arms going
before him as a suppliant.
They saw the rich woman ask
ing a dole of her butler and her
footman.
They saw the woman college
professor begging the ignorant*
and Illiterate foreigner to share
with her the right of govern
ment that he has and she has
not. It was a silent, sad appeal
to man to right the injustice he
has done woman—to strike her
political shackles from her.
Made Even the Doll Think.
No one except those who took
part 1n It know what courage,
what sacrifice of personal In
clination, it took for quite, digni
fied, reserved women to tramp
the streets, and make themselve?
a public spectacle for hundreds
of thousands of curious eyes, and
to be ths butt of cheap wits and
village cut-ups.
To most of the women every
step of the way was the way of
the cross, but they trod It un
falteringly, because there was
no other means that could so
effectually carry the message
they had to give to the public.
It was a spectacle that made
even the dullest think.
What did they see as they
watched the Suffrage Parade?
They saw victory marching on
to its crowning. Every woman's
face wore the uplifted look of a
martyr, of one who would strug
gle on undismayed by defeat un
til she finally conquered. No
one who witnessed that parade
mill a L . 7
will ever jest and scoff again at
woman's suffrage. He will know
that it is a fact to be reckoned
with, and that it is Just as sure
to come as is to-morrow.
THE LAST TOWN
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By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
lore is the Town at the end of the Line,
With its lure for the great and the small?
How shall we fare when we come to the sign
That was painted and hung for us all?
I ding is the track and we can not go back
To wait for a faltering friend;
Through meadow and mart we are whirled from the start
To the wonderful Town at the end.
Some reach it in youth on a flying express
That passes the stations of strife,
-ind others grow gray while pursuing their way
‘hi the laboring locals of life.
Some curse the Conductor and pray for the end.
And some think the paee is too fast;
A hatever the pace, we are nearing the place
Where we all leave the train at the last.
Tis a mystical Town that no mortal has seen
Till the end of his long earthly ride;
But after the trip there is Knowledge to glean
About pomp and possessions and pride.
And perhaps we shall gain when we swing from the train
All the things we were forced to resign.
For the Agent is there, with each passenger’s share,
In the Town at the end of the Line.