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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Publish**! by TUP) GEORGIAN COMPA.VT At 20 I'.u h t A la barn h St Atlanta, Oa Entered as necoml-rlaHa matter at poatofflca ut Atlanta, under a< t of March 1. 1173 HKARKT’H 81'NHAY AMKRICAN und THK ATLANTA QEOKOIAN will be mailed to • ubMorlbwrM anywhere In th« United Staten, Canada arid Mexico, one month_for $ HO, three months for fl 7fi, change of address made as often as ppilcatlon What Will the Much Praised, New Fancied Tariff Do? Watch It and See—Especially You Who Are Workingmen ip*,. The Atlanta Georgian the: home: paper “ITS A SAD STORY, MATES! f * Copyright, 191». laUraauooai Ne«r* Service. 1 & • I i\V' An intelligent man, creator and manager of several big busi nesses. talked about the tariff. HE KNOWS about the tariff, for he is a big importer, a man who deals annually in millions of dol lars' worth of goods that pay tariff What he had to say interests many Americans. "The new tariff," said he, "is advertised as a great boon for the common people "It depends upon what you call the common people. ‘ It will not prove to be a great boon for those that work for a living—and they will find it out. '' The new tariff means that manufacturers in this country must compete more closely with the manufacturers in Europe. And that means, of course, that WORKINGMEN in this coun try must oompete more directly with workingmen in Europe. "I know something about the making and selling of cloth, from the mill and as a finished product. , “And here are three facts: "The new tariff will save some money for those that are prosperous—that buy their things in Europe—or buy exclusive ly imported European products "The new tariff will not save a dollar in the cost of living or dressing for the masses of workingmen and the little people of modest incomes. ' ‘ And the tariff will deprive of work many thousands of those that woTk for a living in THIS country. "Thousands of men whose work has been done in America and sold in Amerioa will lose their present employment, for the reason that the work that they have been doing will be DONE IN EUROPE and sold in America. ' ‘ Just watch the importations of woolen goods, for instance, into this country. “The new tariff means that one-third of all the looms in the United States will be shut down. "That means that one-third of all the human beings earn ing a living at the looms will have to find some other way of earning a living. "It is not gay for them and cheerful for those who realize that the welfare of a country depends absolutely upon the wel fare of the mass of the population. "You know that when workers in this country are brought into direct competition with workers in another country they must accept the pay of the foreign workers or give up the work. “You know, also, that an employer can not successfully REDUCE WAGES You can not maintain your business in this country and carry on your enterprise with a lot of dissatisfied men whose pay has been reduced. ‘ ‘ Therefore, the only thing that a manufacturer can do when he finds it necessary to cut down wages in order to meet foreign competition IS TO CLOSE HIS MILL OR HIS FACTORY AB SOLUTELY. "Then, after a while, he can reopen with a lot of new men on a new basis. ' ‘ And that is what a good many will have to do. "This country is a big enterprise, a BUSINESS enterprise, a MANUFACTURING enterprise built up slowly on a certain basis. "Many of those who work for a living and many manufac turers who have tried to build up industries in this country are going to realize that experimenting with settled conditions is dangerous." Shall We Obliterate Panama? |\ /AMJT 5 ORt A-P) To 0E A FREE AMERICAN'. jMt* Tut , oniYcolNTry/ WHERE A PRwATC , CtTrZSNM XlGMTT ARE! l5RKTtl>:J GERMAN 500 TO PRISON ■Fof. Look,Mb AT a *Ex, J Jar rii< K ^ ion ■ 1 ./ i Set out op 'The way,Vou 9oo»\ , po You WART / \T© PE K»U_EJ>T -'vsSSm / GEt.Pltl. MT5 getunc, ! So You CANT kUN A 0LOCIK WITHOUT UlTTiHfc Some bonxueao \y /RIGHT' \\ > ( To Tu* M/Rl. tl.vm;, N — , Tnin. .VIniMU \J ,^"tfUTTokvi|A9CUJB OZty automobile , , gwnmur iPEPEyrRiAR’ Marriage Brings Out Strongest Qualities By DOROTHY DIX M arriage d **sn’t change people. It simply brings out whatever is the strongest quality In them, wheth er that quality is good or bad. It intensifies virtues and mag nifies faults. Of course, marriage is really the big gamble. All do not know what they are getting in a husband or a wife until they have taken the package they drew in the lottery home and examined it, but observation hands us a good many tips on a man's or woman’s character that enable us to give some pretty shrewd guesses A girl, for instance, has been tipped off that If she marries *the man who never takes her any where. or gives her any pleasure, she will get a husband who will be miserly, selfish and a stick-in- the-mud. The girl who marries a man who comes to see her smelling of liquor and maudlin with drink has been warned in time that if she marries him she will have a drunken husband, for whom she’ll have to get up and open the door in the middle of the night. The girl who marries a young man who has never been able to keep a situation, or to make a living for himself, has been given a tip, big enough to knock a house down with, that she will acquire a loafing, no account husband that she will have to support. When a man in his courting days is grouchy and surly, and Ill-tempered, and a girl has to be always jollying him into a good humor, she has received her tip that if she marries him she will spend a miserable life walking on eggs for fear that she will say or do something that will explode his infernal machine of a dispo sition. - If a couple quarrel before mar riage they will quarrel ten times worse after marriage, and they should have enough sense to break away before they have to call in the divorce court to help them. If a girl observes that a man is fussy about his eating, and likes to make his own salad dressing at the table, she has been tipped off that his wife will need to be a good cook. If she notices that he's always the hero of hl» own stories, and that he likes to talk about himself she’s got a tip that any wife who holds him will have to be an A No. 1 flatterer. By listening to the things that a man laughs at you can get a good working model of the kind of a husband he will make. If he laughs at cruel speeches that stab like a knife, he will make his wife the butt of his sarcasm. . If he laughs? at coarse, vulgar stories, he will make the kind of a husband who has no delicate appreciation of a woman's na ture. If the sight of other people's misfortunes fill him with mirth, there’s nothing on earth that he will sympathize with except him self; but if he has the kindly hu mor that can gild every' misfor tune in life, and if his smile at others’ weaknesses is full of ten- derne»?i and understanding, then he’s a man to tie up with, no matter whether he’s rich or poor, or of high or low estate. He’ll make the kind of a husband that’ll keep a woman on her knees thanking God she’s got him. Oh, men furnish plenty of tips about the kind of husbands they will make If only girls had the sense and the courage to refuse to play the bad ones. The man quoted above is typical of the energetic, success ful, aggressive business man and constructive citizen. What he has to say should have the attention of statesmen who are so enthusiastically experimenting with things in general. t r t Colombia, still aggrieved by the part played by the United States in the revolution which created the republic of Pan ama, makes the cool proposi tion that the United States should force the Panamanians to re turn to their old position as a Colombian province. There is an old saying that revolutions never go backward. The Panama affair was not much of a revolution, but it solved a problem which had disquieted the Isthmus for half a century and bade fair to block the construction of a Panama Canal for years to come. That the United States was a party to the revolution can not be denied, in the face of the historic facts and of Roosevelt's boast, "I took Panama and let Congress debate about it after ward." That the United States owes Colombia some reparation is possible—a matter of proper diplomatic discussion. But that such reparation should take the form of forcing the Panamanians back into a subjection which forty-seven times in fifty years they had endeavored to throw off by armed revo lution is unbelievable. Even so shifty a public man as the present Secretary of State can hardly take into serious consideration so fiat a con travention of his favorite dogma. All governments derive their lust powers from the consent of the governed A Child of the Nations By REV. C. F. AKED, D.D., LL. D. \ GREAT man is In our h\ midst. Driven out of Al bania by the Servians, re called to duty by the provisional government, and then asked by the President of Albania to rep resent this new nation to the people of the United States, Charles Telford Erickson has a story to tell w'hich the world ought to hear. He knows his storm-tossed Albania as few men do. In prison and In exile and amid the blood-red horrors of war Erickson has drawn near to the heart of the Albanian people. He has been present at meetings of the Cabinet. He knows the minds of the new- rulers of the land. It may be that the Albanians represent the oldest stock in Eu rope, from whose loins sprang both Greece and Rome When The Turk broke into Europe and conquered the Balkan peninsula, the Albanian held out against him. For more than half a cen tury. behind his mountain ram parts, he defied the Mohammedan conqueror He crossed the Adri atic and pleaded with the princes of the church for aid It was in vain. Albania was doomed. Four centuries of Turkish mis rule have done their work. The land has fallen back into desert. Their spirit is as untamable as ever. In the war, husband, wife and little child fought side by side. The father took the ritte. The mother armed herself with the sword. Children died point ing the bayonet at their murder ers. Men. women and children alike had their reward. Thou sands of men were tied back to back and mowed down by mu - chine guns. A cordon of troops would he drawn round a village pi town The house:? were fired As women and children rushed from beneath the blazing roof they were received on the points of bayonets and tiling back to die in the flames. The Turk has been driven out of Albania. The Powers have guaranteed its independence. A Prince has been found for the throne, a German Prince seated there by the nations of Europe. Nominally a Mohammedan peo ple, the Albanians petitioned the Powers for a Protestant Prince to rule Qver them. Toleration o{ re ligions has been guaranteed by the new Government. Herein lies the significance to the word of the re-birth of Albania. With three-fifths of the population supposed to be Moslem, Albania, by t hevoice of Us accredited Government, pleads with the Christian nations for their Christianity. Plight of the Huguenots By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. T WO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT year* ago the royal order revok ing the Edict of Nantes went into, force, and the beginning of the end of the prosperity of France was at hand. The order threw' Franc© into a whirlpool of clashing hates. The “Reign of Terror,” a hundred years in the future, was to be no worse. The “September Massa cres” of the revolution of 1789 were but to repeat the work of the dragonades turned loose by Louis the Fourteenth upon the Huguenots. The result of the King’s mad ness was just such as might have been expected, just such as he might easily have foreseen had his judgment been equal to his fanaticism. Harried to death by the royal edict, the Huguenots began the emigration which, be fore it was finished, deprived dt FOG d d By CONSTANCE CLARKE. A SHADOWY something drifting soft. Gemmed thick with paling stars aloft; The softened blur of apple tress. That, sw'aying. whisper in the breeze. And scatter storms of rose and white In blinding sweetness through the night. And then—a thickening of the mist. The silver blurred to amethyst. And on me creeps the fog. And through the depth® of frosty w hite Come memories of another night. The scent of apple blossoms blown. I'M* mist—your mouth upon my own. And you, afrsid to give so much. Game to me. trembling at my touch Then - mist again, and memories go Like phantoms shall 1 never know Waal lies be'.ond ths fog! France of more than a million of her fairest people. The perse cuted Huguenots, seeking the lib erty that was so dear to them, tied to Holland. Germany, Eng land, Switzerland and the Ameri can Colonies, giving to those countries the benefit of their superior skill, intelligence and moral worth. If Louis had deliberately willed to ruin his country, h could not have gone about it in a better way. His foolish decree drove away from his kingdom its finest brain, its most robust energy, its most valuable handicraft. Its no blest men and women; and what France lost the other countries gained. We hear much these days about the “Decline of France,” but we do not always stop to think that the decline began with the infer nal foolishness that led Louis the Fourteenth to revoke the Edict of Nantes, thus completely undoing all the good work that had been so wisely begun by Henry the Fourth. If Louis had had sense enough to have eiven the Hugue nots the liberties that belonged to them, the history of FTance would have been altogether dif ferent. The Huguenots would probably have rendered the bloody revolution of ’89 quite unnecessa ry, and it is more than likely that they would have rhade impossible the deep humiliation of 1870. In=Shoots Those who live in glass houses had better bath© after dark. # e * A lot of us find that virtue is very modest in rewarding her self. * * * The men really fit to hold of fice are generally holding down aume other good job. Garrett P. Serviss Writes on Highways in the Air ‘Enthusiastic aviators are talking of the establishment of great world roads through the air: it is the boldest experiment in aerial navigation that has yet been faced, a really grand enterprise that must com mand the admiration of the whole world," he says. By GARRETT P. SERVISS T \HE first great world roads were on the land, and they made rich and powerful such cities as Palmyra. Damas cus, Cairo. Bagdad, Samarcand, situated at the beginning or the end, or at important intersections, of long and difficult routes over vast deserts and tangled moun tains. Then came the great sea routes, first on the Mediterranean, and then round the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, and even tually across the oceans, which made, in succession, the fortunes of Alexandria. Tyre, Carthage. Venice, Antwerp, London. New York, San Francisco. Now' enthusiastic aviators are talking of the establishment of great world roads in the air, and it remains for the future to de cide whether they, in their turn, will lay the foundations of com mercial capitals as yet undreamed of. The atmosphere, too, has its natural routes, determined part ly by the lay of the land, partly by the existence of great centers of population, partly by the inac cessibility of points otherwise de sirable for the development of hu man industry, and partly by the peculiarities of winds and air cur rents. * Three such routes through the air are being considered for ex ploration by French aviators. One of them lies across the des ert of Sahara, from Algeria, southward, to Timbuctoo and the River Niger. Three years ago French military authorities sent squadrons of aeroplanes to Biskra and Dakar with orders to attack the great desert. Explorations were made, but nothing of seri ous importance was accomplished, because, as is now alleged, there was not sufficient initiative shown by those in charge of the work. Take the airships to Co- lomb-Beehar, says an experienced | aviator, and the problem will i>© solved, and the transit of the des ert, which now requires fou? month9 by caravan, will be mad© easily in two days. Next year it is expected this will be done under the lead of M, Etienne. Within a few r months past two other great air routes have been proposed, and preparations are now under way to attempt their opening One of these goes from Paris to Cairo, and the other from Paris to Bagdad. The first, as laid out, passe* across Europe to Constantinople, thence to Konia in Asia Minor, then to Aleppo. Jerusalem, Gaza, Port Said and Cairo. The stop ping points and places for revic* tualment have all been marked out. M. Daucourt, accompanied by M. Roux as passenger, are to attempt this passage as soon a? their preparations can be com pleted. Part of their supplies have already gone forward to Smyrna and Beirut. The stages of the second route, also starting from Paris, are Con stantinople. Aleppo, Meskine-Ed. east of Palestine, Deir, Aneh, Hit, Felloudja, Bagdad-Bassora. The difficulties of both these routes are foreseen. As one writer puts it, “The way from Belgrade to Constantinople is a hard one." But there is worse ahead. Ar rived in Asia Minor, the aviator* will have to conduct their ma chines over the Taurus Moun tains, w'hich attain an elevation of 13.000 feet. In this region no aid can be expected. The explorers will have to depend upon their own re sources and the excellence of their apparatus. It is the bold est experiment in aerial naviga tion that has yet been faced, a really grand enterprise w'hich must command the admiration and best wishes of the whole world! Elsie C. Parsons on Woman’s Rights, Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM. (i'T' 1 l HE OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN,” issued by G. P. Putnam's Sons, and written by Elsie Clews Par sons. Ph. D., is a mine of curious lore about the status of woman, past and present. Here are a few' scattered statements from the book. * ‘Women's rights to property, either in tribal groups or in early civilizations, are rarely equal with men’s. Until 1882 an Eng lishman controlled his wife’s earnings. In most of the United States a married woman is not .permitted to enter into a busi ness partnership exclusive of her husband’s interests, and in gen eral the courts do not favor a woman’s acquiring earnings for her separate use without the husband’s consent. In Sweden a husband still owns whatever his wife buys with her earnings. “Since children, like women, are usually considered a form of property, a mother has sel dom the same rights as a father. Both the Babylonian and the Ro man fathers could sell their chil dren with maternal consent. (The Babylonian could sell the mother of his children, too.) A French mother has no legal authority at all over her chil dren during their father’s life time. and after his death she has to share her control with his kindred. “In our common law a moth er is not entitled, like a father, to the services and earnings of minors, and in some States a father can still will away the guardianship of his child from its mother. In all States the fa ther has the paramount right oC custody. “We allow women to serve as witnesses, or to stand for trial like a man, although the courts still disincline to permit a per sonal judgment against a mar ried woman. “As late as 1884 it was agreed that ‘to attend medical clinics in company with men, women must lay aside their modesty.’ About this time the president of the British Medical Association, in referring to medicine as a pro fession for women, said publicly that he shuddered to hear of what the ladies were attempting to do. ‘One can but blush and feel that modesty, once inherent in the fairest of God’s creation, is fast fading away.’ “Of this same period must have been the lady who had learned to swim—to the horror of her clergyman. But,’ she said, sup pose I was drowning?’ ‘In that case,’ he replied, ‘you ought to wait until a man comes along and saves you.’ ” Questions Answered ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. F. C. T.—That the ancient Egyptians w'ere not negroes is certain, and it Is equally certain that they did not belong to the Semite, or Jewish race. Said the late Professor Huxley: “I am not aware that there are any living people w'ho resemble them, ex cept the Oravidian tribes of Cen tral India, and the Australians; And I have long been inclined to think that the latter are the low est, and ihe Egyptians the high est, members of a race of man kind of great antiquity, distinct alike from Aryan and Turanian on the one side, and from negro and negrite on the other.” In a word, nobody can say, with any degree of assurance, what breed of men the builders of ihe Pyra mids were. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGES D. R. C.—There is no “Amer ican” language. The language spoken by the people of the United States is the English lan guage, the richest, most virile and most powerful of all the lan- gauges now* to be found among men. The men who conceived and made good this nation wer* Englishmen, and, of course, they spoke the only language they knew anything about, the lar- guage of their ancestor, th* English language. The great Dr. Dollinger said of this langTia#*©. that “to it is assigned in the coming age the intellectual •»- premacy that in ancient times be longed to The Greeks and after ward to the Romans.” In 170* English was the language of 9.000.000 peoifle. To-dav if fp language of 17f>.00O.Ofiff; ard irr tho rnd of the century ft wfr b* the 'anriese of oecple.