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EDITORIAL- PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THK HKOIUJIAN (¥)MPANT At 20 Fast Alabama Atlanta, «•’« Entered sir «**rnnrt-< !a^s matter a: r»- tofti- * ,it Atlanta, under art of March 3, 1*"3 HE A RST’K SlNUA V AM KHH AN ar« ’I HE ATLANTA CKOUl.IIAN will > n# siil • Mel one month for $ HO. three months for $17" . hange f addremade as often as desired. Foreign subscription rates on application 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. he Atlanta Georgian the: home rarer RmSrirW>'t'' r ' Mifolj 1 ItKjry! rij |f, 1 MOVE ThAT |'| &UILD MORE j ! SAULE 3HIP3! J 1 SECOND THE MOTION ' A MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED THAT WE BUILD MpRE BATTLE 5HIP3.-, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. SOME DAY! 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 :Mh A' / -v ^ 'Pys V/|N£0R_ 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.