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I -* . EDITORIAL __ ' 1 RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Knttrert at* aerom Subscription Prlc under act of March 3,1873 ek. By mail, $5.00 a year. 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. • • * >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. • • • 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 / / 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 w 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.