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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PAPER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN By THE « At Sf# jCcuG Entered a* second - c!i« •» matin h Subscription Price- Delivered b> MPA NY Sunday The Modern Gulliver By WINSOR M’CAY under art of March 3,1873 ok By mall, $5.00 a year. The Railroads Can Rob the People IF-»- They Can Arrange to Keep American Ships from Free Use of the Panama Canal. PERTINENT PAR A GRAPHS It la difficult to keep s.■« r. from those who have your frit l ship. • • • Home men never heed a BUggt Tlon that is not accompanied bj kick. ♦ • • Speaking: of perches, the plm; ime ie the most uneert; of but n matrimony brings man a iL'iihie he seems more anx- to take a second chance. • • • ."t of character can often be 1' a man's face by shav- rf his mustache. our women folk w ho ' '' 1 moving are the front window at fhbor's furniture. n-up tian meets '' of his youth he \ why some one Aid i» passion with a In a cartoon printed several days ago our artist showed the Panama Canal with American ships held back by American loco motives, That was a picture of fact, although many citizens do not 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. We are told that it is dishonorable, unfair, treacherous, etc., to permit American SHIPS to use an American CANAL, unless we also let English ships use the canal, without charge. . And the so-called friends of national honor—who are in reality gentlemen a’nd newspapers 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 ths canal by American coastwise ships, and they fight such use through the politicians and newspapers that they own, for a simple reason. The railroads mako money carrying freight from the Atlan tic to the Paoiflc. And the more they can CHARGE the more they can MAKE. Hitherto ships carrying freight from New York to San Francisco had to go all around South America. Therefore, the railroads could charge for freight carried 3,000 miles across the continent as much as it would cost to send a 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 national 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 Great 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 ships IN ORDER TO ADD THAT TAX TO AMERICAN FREIGHT SHIPPERS. Fortunately the matter is pretty well understood. This country will let all 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 the existing 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, will find it a good thing FOR THEM to help the general American prosperity. Free use of the canal and low freight rates will bring lum ber to the Atlantic Coast Irom the Far Northwest and bring fruit to the East from California and other Pacific States. Eastern products will go at low freight rates through the canal to the Pacific. Business will grow, enterprise will find en couragement. labor, industry AND the railroads will share in the benefit of a canal UNITING THE COUNTRY MORE CLOSELY AND MORE CHEAPLY. For every carload of cheap freight going through the canal and taken, apparently FROM the railroads, there will be two extra carloads of high priced freight FOR the roads. Profitable long ha< r will increase and profitable short hauls as well. And within ten years intelligent railroad men rill thank the Panama Oanal and free use of it by Anie, •. is for prosper ity such as they have never seen. MEANWHILE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGERS, NEAR SIGHT ED AS USUAL, ARE THE REAL POWER FIGHTING TO SHUT AMERICAN EHIFS OUT OF AN AMERICAN CANAL in the name of our holy duty to England. The Lilliputian hosts of child labor wear their lives away piling up dollars for the heartless Gulliver who employs them. How Your Mind Can Aid Health By GARRETT P. SERVISS A GREAT DOCTOR ant e saifi; ‘Successful practice re - quires one-third science and two-thirds savoir faire” (knowing how to do it). By that he meant impressing the imagination of the patient, and impressing it ths right way. Any doctor can affect his patient's imagination, but many send its mercurial spirit dropping down ward like a thermoneter in a cold wave if doctors ever really do kill their patients it is through what they administer to the mind. We are only just beginning to learn eomathiug 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 ijiay either tiring them on or drive them i'.vvay; but they refuse to believe that mental influences which pro duce “lessons”—i. e., physical in juries to certain purls of the body. Inspires With Confidence. But they are wrong In thair scepticism. The imagination can produce lesson a as well as heal them. There never has been a great epidemic in which a large percentage of the mortality was not the result of mental up- >et. Mere fear kills like a light ning stroke by i**mlyiung Uie nervous system, whereupon the bodil) marhlncry tears Itself to plei*es through loss of the central control. i do not auppowe that the imag ination ever broke a bone or set one. but 1 am sure that it has either saved or lo9t the life of many a siek person, according to the way in which it happened to be directed, either by the will of the patient himself or by the guiulng 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 hie pockets full of pills. The good nu#se is worth her pay be cause she keeps her patient cheer ful and confident. When you chouse a doctor for your family, select one whose look makes >ou fee! stronger. His presence will be like that of Napoleon on the battlefield. It is not sympathy that hauls: too much sympathy sometimes kills. It 19 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 ail else in breeding con fidence in the patient. it has been suggested that ‘ per sonal magnetism" is an actual, dynamic (moving) 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 Gauls. 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 with AH 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 which terrified his friends. “Ob,” he said. rt that hai ry st$r is after the king of the Persians, who has got whiskers It won’t trouble me." And if you are doubtful about the power Qf the imagination to influence your body, read the stories of the “Stigmata” which appeared on some of f 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. Hieronyma Carvaglio had the spear mark in her side. which bled every Friday. St. Cathar ine, of Raconisco, had the marks of the Crown of Thorne 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 <;all 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 influence by mental concentration the health and well-being of your body. Cultivate that power, and you You doctors nuts -jut Uon' m il t will be the better f will save, or shorten, ors’ bilhs—but don’t n DOROTHY DIX 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. By DOROTHY DIX. W HAT did people see as they watched the Suffrage Pa rade in New York laat Saturday? They saw the first f#al flembf- racy of woman. They saw Judy O'GraAg and the Colonel’s Lady marching shoulder to shouldtr. They saw' the petted darling of the draw ing room walking side by side with the girl of the sweat shop. In that procesiioti 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 g"sy hair with girl* in the first jsh and bloom of youth and beauty. AH lines of wealth 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 $ee 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 flatten’, 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 earnest- 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 Ouffragre 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 if 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 say 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 shaping the legislation that af fected them > They SS# Mdthire whose little CMldrefi's lives wsre crushed out of them tn factories; housewives who muet eweat 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 no voice in making them. They saw higniy educated women, brilliant professional women, noble women philanthropists, eaintly church women, women who represented all that is finest and best In humanity, but who were denied the previleges that the most illiterate, the most de based, man enjoys. Whet did the people see as they watched the Suffrage Parade? They saw ana of the most patTiatlr 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 4s 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 hrr life, asking to be made hie equah They saw the mother who has borne his son 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 eaw the woman college professor begging the ignorant , and illiterate foreigner to chare with her the right of govern ment that he has and ehe hae not. It wae 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 in it know what courage, what Bacrifice of personal in clination, it took for quite, digni fied, reserved women to tramp the streets, and make themselves a public spectacle for hundreds of thousands of curious eyes, and to be the 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 effectuaiiy 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 wouid strug gle on undismayed by defeat un til she finally conquered. No one who witnessed that paradf will ever jest and ecoft again at ' woman's suffrage. He will know that it is a fact to be reckoned with, and that it i9 just ae aura to come as is to-morrow. the .doctor, eilfeer, help aim. THE LAST TOWN By WILLIAM F. KIRK. ) Where is the Town at th# end of the Lina, 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? Long 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 tha end. Some reach it in youth on a flying express That passes ihe stations of strife, Ami others grow gray while pursuing their way On the laboring locals of life. Some curse the Conductor and pray for the end. And some think the pace is too fast; M 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; Hut after ihe trip there is Knowledge to giean About pomp aud possessions and pride. ' And perhaps we shall gain wheii 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.