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Let Us Have Progress Coupled
W ith Prosperity j
President Wilson says: There is but one cloud upon our
horizon,” and describes that cloud as our trouble with Mexico. '
Mr. Wilson evidently is not an expert in political meteor
ology.
There is, perhaps, only one cloud on the distant horizon, but
there are several very threatening clouds hanging immediately
overhead, and casting a very heavy shadow upon the business
interests of this country and upon the general prosperity of the
producing classes. This heavy shadow, with a prospect even of
a serious storm, is due to the President's exceedingly obstinate
attitude in regard to the modifications of the tariff.
The President is one of those men to whom success gives hal
lucinations.
He has the Presbyterian belief in predestination.
He is convinced that he is the direct representative of the
Almighty on earth, and that, being in more immediate contact
with mundane affairs, his knowledge of them is, perhaps, a little j
superior to that of the Almighty.
This conviction is not uncommon among men whose sudden
rise to power is as incomprehensible to them as it is to the rest
of the community. Not only politicians have this obsession, but
business men also who attain unusual success or important posi- '
tion too rapidly.
A conspicuous example of this hallucination was given by
George F. Baer, of the Reading Railroad, with his avowed inspi
ration and his arrogant action by “Divine right.”
Vanities of this kind would be harmless enough if they did
not so often lead men to become inaccessible to facts and im
pervious to reason, and if they did not so often persuade men
that their own fallible opinions were direct inspirations from on
High, not to be modified or ameliorated by the opinions of other
men or the actual conditions which confront them.
The clouds which now hang menacingly overhead and j
threaten the prosperity of the nation could have been dissipated j
if Mr. Wilson had taken a broader and more liberal view in his j
policies of tariff reduction.
He should have realized that tariff reduction, however
necessary for the benefit of the consumers, must fall more or less
heavily and disastrously upon the producers of the country.
He should have appreciated the necessity of compensating
these American producers for the markets which they would
Lose here at home by opening to them markets which he could
easily have secured for them abroad.
The reduction of our tariff barrier allows our markets to be
invaded by foreign products, and our producers to be deprived
of a greater or less proportion of our American markets.
If a policy of reciprocity had accompanied the policy of
tariff reduction the markets of foreign nations would have been
reciprocally opened to the products of our American manufac
turers and producers. The advantages gained in these foreign
markets would have compensated our producers, and, perhaps,
more than compensated, for the loss of part of their home j
markets.
Mr. Wilson should realize that the word ■ producers’' does
not mean only the big business men who conduct manufactories,
but the workingmen, who are the partners in this production, and
the fanners, who are the most important producers of all.
However desirable it might have been to benefit the consum
ers, it was certainly as desirable, or even more desirable, to ben
efit the producers in this country. THE GREATNESS OF THIS
COUNTRY AND THE WEALTH OF THIS COUNTRY ARE
DUE. NOT TO WHAT WE CONSUME, BUT TO WHAT WE
PRODUCE.
The increase in the creation of wealth depends in great meas
ure upon proper encouragement to production, and the distribu
tion of wealth in good prices to fanners and good wages to
workingmen is obviously dependent in the first instance upon the
creation of wealth through profitable production.
Profits on production depend largely on the extent and ex
cellence of available markets, and any sort of ordinary business
intelligence or political intelligence ought to have observed the
wisdom of increasing and improving the markets for American
products.
In fact, the only kind of mind that could not see the practical
and sentimental, the material and human advantage of such a
policy would be that type which believes itself to be the medium
for the direct transmission of Divine instructions.
It is certainly not incompatible with any moral obligations
to consider the material welfare of a country and the financial
prosperity of the individual citizens.
The material prosperity of the people is a matter worthy of
the attention and consideration of any Administration, but par
ticularly of a Democratic Administration, and Mr. Wilson's
policies, no matter how inspired he may believe them, should be
executed with due regard for the welfare of the nation and of
the citizens.
Indeed, it would be well if Mr. Wilson could realize that no
one man is doing God's work on earth, but that all men are
doing it, in the place and with the power that God has allotted j
to them; that vox populi vox Dei, that all men are entitled to be
heard, and that the moral and material interests of all are right
fully to be considered and conserved.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
THE CITY HORSES .<
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
P 'TIEN’T, plodding, bravely toiling.
Slipping on the Icy grade
Where the devil's pot Is boiling
In the city that he made;
Straining at the thoughtless urging
Of grim men as dumb as they.
Where the traffic's tide Is surging.
See them on their weary way.
Sick and sore, but uncomplaining
At their humble, dreary lot.
Wet and cold when It is raining.
Dizzy when the sun is hot:
Over pavements hard and endless.
See the city horses go.
Till removed, all still and friend'ess.
To the graves they welcome so.
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Copyright, 1S13. International News Service
lleving.’ We. your faithful sub
jects, are told wonderful things
about the powers of these new in
stniments and the marvels that
they reveal, but we are not permit
ted to see them ourselves. There
is a great longing in our souls to
partake, if but once in our lives, of
this high pleasure, which we feel
would do more to emancipate our
minds than all the Incomprehensl
ble preachments of tlje clique who
have taken exclusive possession of
the instruments of sight, and who
seem to find more interest in the.
technicalities invented by them
selves than In the plain lessons to
be derived from such discoveries.
King of the Moles Is
Moved by Appeal of
the Poor.
"We therefore beseech Tour
Majesty to command the construc
tion of an instrument which all
your humble susbjects may use to
satisfy their laudable curiosity."
The King of the Moles ' was
moved by this appeal, and. in an
swer to It, went deep into his royal
treasury and had an instrument of
unprecedented power constructed,
which, he commanded, should for
ever be at the disposal of his sub
jects who wished to take a glimpse
at the visible world, while a few
professors from the clique were
appointed to show the people how
to look.
The consequence was that a
beneficent mental revolution oc
curred in the kingdom of the moles,
and the clique found that they, too,
had benented by the change, be
cause now’ the popular mind under
stood better what they were about
and sympathetically supported
them In their abstruse researches.
1 have abstracted this short
chapter from the history of the
moles because of its bearing upon
a great question in human edu
cation. Not a week passes in
which I do not hear from some
man or woman thirsting for first
hand knowledge about the won
ders of the starry universe, and
begging to be informed where they
can obtain a single look through
a great telescope. I give them
letters of introduction here and
there, but the result is almost al
ways the same, "We are too busy."
There Should Be Big
Telescopes for the
People.
"Don’t bother us; this Is no place
for sight-seers"—such are virtually
the only replies that they get.
Of course the astronomers are
busy: I know that. But, equally
or course, there ought to be a great
telescope, and more than one great
telescope, devoted entirely to grat
ideation of the intellectual curi
osity of the vast public mind con
cerning the wonders around us. I
hope to see at least one such in
stltution established before I gn
elsewhere, and some generous mil
llonaire. desirous to benefit his
kind, could easily play the part of
the enlightened king of the moles
by supplying the needed Instru
ment of celestial vision.
University
raise $250,000 of the required
amount and it is pleasing - to note
that Griffin is co-operating hand
somely in this work of construe-
tion.
PUBLIC WANTS
TO STUDY
THE SKY
GARRETT P. SERVISS
SAYS:
There Should Be Great Telescopes
Where (he Vast Mind ot the
People Could Satisfy Its Intel
lectual Curiousity Concerning
the Wonders in the Heavens
About Us.
By Garrett P. Serviss
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TT^CAY,
M i'. McGay boro shows imp argument that will persuade our slumbering statesmen of the neces
sity for an adequate navy. Let us hope that a majority of them will wake up before this day comes.
Is Most ot Our Labor Joyless?
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM
I N “The Use of Leisure,” a re
markable book sent out by
B. VV. Huebsch, Mr. Temple
Scott lias put some of hisp keen
est work. From his chapter
“Wanted — Leisure” I cull a pas
sage:
“Burled in foul basements and
bereft of sunlight and air, hun
dreds of thousands of young mon
and young women are daily occu
pied In a deadly routine of em
ployment at tasks that concern
them only in Qo far as their ac
complishment brings them a
weekly wage.
“And they are doing these tasks
from early morn till dewy eve.
Out in the streets and in the
thou art in thy duty, be out of It
who may.'
“Watch the farmer at his work
and his family at their daily
tasks. The pageant of landscape
and of sky passes by the*.. unseen.
They ar© bowed and bent earth
ward. For a brief moment they
look up; but their eyes Hre blind.
For a short space they plod
homeward a weary way and leave
the world to darkness and them
selves to brutish sleep. He is his
own taskmaster, with the whip of
anxiety to spur him on to effort
after effort. Yet they are also
told that 'to labor is to pray.’
“£ee the employer at his office
desk, tricking, cajoling, swin
dling, haggling, directing, smirk
ing. juggling and doing the many
other worthy and unworthy acts
that he calls business. He also
is harnessed to the mortar-
wheel. He is the blind leading
the blind. He is the slave of his
enterprise, the creature of his
success. Listen to him. in his
hours of ease, at the restaurant,
in the theater, or at his own din
ing table, and he Is saying, ‘Dol
lars, dollars, dollars!’ If other
words faJl from his lips, they
have reference to dollars: If he
PUTTY: He Gets the Pup in Bad
talks ot art, it is in terms of dol
lars; if he descants of pleasure,
It is in the language of the mar
ket place; if he speaks of love, it
is with synonym* for money.
"He knows no god but the Gold
en Calf and no joy but the fever
of desire, And he is oppressed
with worry and depressed by
anxiety. If he makes thousand^
In a day, he loses them In a night.
He is the gambler offspring of
competition and the millitariat
system. He is Time’s slave; he
Is the chained driver of the com
petition car. doomed for life to
cross and recross the Bridge of
Sighs. And in his wake follow
the groans of the hungry and the
moans of the stricken. Yet he
can not help them because he
is himself stricken; be is the
T HERE was once great, excite
ment in the kingdom of the
moles over the discovery
of a peculiar instrument which
rendered It possible for them to
see something of the world about
them. Every one of those Wind
little animals wished to try the
powers of the strange instrument,
and the mere thought that, there was
a world around them, of whose ex
istence they had been unaware,
awoke their intelligence, widened
their minds and stimulated their
desire to see it for themselves.
But there were millions of moles
and only one instrument of vision.
Moreover, a little clique Immedi
ately took possession of the sin
gle Instrument and, on the pre
tense that they alone knew how to
use it, kept every other mole
away. In a short time this clique
developed Into a separate order,
speaking a language of their own,
which was mostly unintelligible to
their compatriots. They did, how
ever, occasionally talk in the ver
nacular a little about their discov
eries, and this was Just sufficient
to intensify the desire of the mill
ions to see something of these
wonders for themselves. But they
were kept away from the marvel
lous instrument more Imcharit-
ably than before.
At last an appeal was made to
the King of the Moles, and he de
creed that another Instrument
should be made for the purpose of
satisfying the public curiosity.
New Instruments Are
Seized by Clique of
Students.
Thetnaking of this instrumentwas
very costly and difficult, and only
the resources of the King were
competent for the undertaking.
There was great rejoicing at tne
news of the construction of the
new Instrument—but no sooner
was it completed than the same
clique seized upon It, and the public
saw no more than before. When
loud popular protests were heard,
representatives of the clique went
before the King and persuaded him
that they needed the exclusive use
of both the instruments for the
development of a wonderful new
science on wnich they were work
ing. The ignorant rabble, they de
clared, could not understand these
things.
“I don't understand them very
well myself," said the King, “but
I do understand the desire of my
people to experience this new sen
sation of seeing."
However, the King yielded to the
representations of the clique,
chiefly because their learned jar
gon daunted him, and so the pub
lic were still compelled to learn
what they could of the world of
eight at second hand.
The same thing was repeated
many times, but always the new
Instruments, constructed at the
King's expense, wore monopolized
by the technicians of the clique.
Finally a poor mole, gifted with
more than usual eloquence, sought
the King, and said:
"Sire, it Is an adage older than
your royal line that 'seeing is be-
Oglethorpe
(From The Griffin News.)
r PHE move to establish Ogl
thorpe University in A
lanta affects the South ,
a section and is the most impo
country the blue sky Is effulgent
In golden sunlight, and trees are
blossoming, lirds singing, clouds
sailing and gentle breezes blow
ing. But the tollers see nothing
and feel nothing of what is going
on without. They have not the
time: they arc too busy asserting
their God-given rights to ‘life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness ‘Blessed are the horny
hands of toil!'
“In stuffy little shops are thou
sands of others husbands and
wives and children smirking,
genuflexlng. tricking, flattering,
deceiving, cajoling customers into
buying the wares they are offer
ing for sale. From 7 or 8 o’clock
in the morning until 7, 8. 9 and
even 10 o’clock at night, they are
engaged in this degrading labor.
They have no time for anything
rise, for if they took the time
: eir neighbor shopkeeper might
take customers from therm .More-
uv t. they must, at any cost, make
good their inalienable rights to
’life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness?' 'Toil on, toil on.
slave of the system which com
pels him to do what he does.”
ln=Shoots
Good morning: have you pick
ed your all-America team yet?
• * *
Man asked that his electrocu
tion be put off until he had fin
ished reading a joke book. Dis
counting his doom.
* * *
Suffragettes will march seven
times around the White House.
Hope it’s better built than Jeri
cho was.
• * *
President Wilton has a cold.
Not stated whether he is taking
a cough cure or pursuing a policy
of watchful waiting.
* * *
Every time the Kaiser needs
more money he sells another cas
tle. The plain citizen has to slap
on another mortgage.
* * •
Man loses claim of $1,000,000
from Government for inventing
wax-page stamp hooks In other
words, he was stuck.
tant educational enterprise ever
attempted in the Southern States.
That Georgiafand Atlanta should
be the home of this great insti
tution is not remarkable—Geor
gia is one of he best States in
the Union and Atlanta has never
yet failed in an undertaking,
Oglethorpe will in many re
spects be as extensive and com
plete in its work as Harvard and
Yale and the people of the
South are loyal enough to support
it from the beginning.
Age and prestige are valuable
assets for any university, but
that they are not indispensable
to operation has been convinc
ingly illustrated by the Univer
sity of Chicago, which is attain
ing results that compare favor
ably with any of the older insti
tutions of learning. What has
been done in Chicago can be done
in Atlanta, and Oglethorpe will
be a lasting monument to the en
terprise and liberality of Geor
gia and piace it in the education
al history of the future.
Atlanta has undertaken to
All the eminent educators are
not employed by the older, uni
versities, nor is it impossible for
the South to succeed where oth
er sections have made good.
Backed by the unlimited capi
tal that will eventually material
ize, Oglethorpe will prove a glory
to the South and a credit to the
nation.
Stars and Stripes
Life i» just one divorce after
another—in some society circle^
• * *
Dewey wants 48 battleship*’
That’s the right sort of peace
talk.
• * •
No money bill, no holiday for
the President. Can’t have a
Christmas without bills.
• • *
Aviator’s motor stopped as h*
looped the loop. Hospital report
shows the airship went on.
r * *
Wall Street brokers oompla ir
their only active accounts now
are those relating to expenses.