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Rosebery’s Opposition to Amer
s
ican Unpreparedness
Addressing an audience at the University of London, Lord
Rosebery had this to say about the proposed strengthening of
our navy:
“I know nothing more disheartening than the an
nouncement recently made that the United States—the one
great country left in the world free from the hideous,
bloody burden of war—is about to embark on the building
of a huge armada destined to be equal or second to our own.
It means that the burden will continue on the other nations,
and be increased exactly in proportion to the fleet of the
United States. I confess that it is a disheartening pros
pect that the United States, so remote from the European
conflict, should voluntarily in these days take up the bur
den which after this war will be found to have broken,
or almost broken, our backs.”’
These words are thoroughly characteristic of the common
line of English thought—and the line of thought of some
Americans, too, we are sorry to say, who seemingly are more
European than American in their way of thinking.
The assumption of Lord Rosebery is that England is right
fully the dominant power on the sea, that she must remain the
dominant power on the sea, and that any action by the United
States which makes it more costly for England to remain the
dominant sea-power will lay a deplorable burden upon civiliza
tion.
It is all very simple. England is the rightful and natural
nation to exercise sovereignty over the seas. If other Powers
will refrain from building battleships, England can maintain
ber rightful sea dominion with fewer battleships of her own.
Thus the cost of navies would be cut down and everybody be
happier and better off. Yes, it is very simple.
Of course Lord Rosebery did not mean to be insulting or
even rude. But his assumption of rightful English sovereignty
of the seas is both rude and insulting to this country. Because
we have never conceded for one moment, prior to this humiliat
ing year, that any nation had rightful dominion of the seas.
Why should we?
This nation is richer than England. This nation has a
larger and, in the mass, much more intelligent and efficient
population than the British Isles. Our coasts front two oceans
for thousands of miles. The seas are the highways of our
commerce,
We have every reason to maintain the largest navy in the
world and we have the means to maintain the largest navy in
the world.
We ought to go to work to build just that very navy.
The reasonable reply to Lord Rosebery, of course, is that if
it is too much of a burden for England to maintain a navy
twice as large as our navy, if we persist in enlarging our navy,
England can easily rid itself of the burden by stopping the
policy of building two ships to our one.
The fact is that England herself compels all thinking Ameri
cans to demand an increase of our naval strength, for she not
only disregards our neutral rights on the seas every day now,
but even shows her displeasure at proposals to put our country
in a position of defense against future possible attack.
It ought to recur to Lord Rosebery that Americans are not
c:tom. and that any American fit to call himself by that name
urally puts his own country and the rights of his own coun
try and the future safety of his own country far above those of
any other nation—whether that nation be England or any other.
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Speeding Not the Only Cause
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of Auto Accidents
Whenever a list of automobile accidents is pflnted-—which
is all too often—it is evident that a very large proportion of the
casualties could have been prevented by a little care.
Of course, the greatest number of accidents are caused by
speeding—and ten miles under some circumstances may be
greater speeding than fifty or sixty miles under others. The
speeder is a proper mark for the law—and we are glad to know
: Atlanta’s Chief of Police is making relentless war upon
But beyond the speeder are many who neglect the ordinary
regulations of traffic and by such neglect endanger life. In the
city the sharp turning of a corner instead of making the wide
swing required by the traffic rules is one cause of many needless
collisions. Turning in the middle of the block is another easily
avoidable cause of accidents.
There are many automobilists who pay no attention to the
dimming of their lights. Glaring, blinding lights have caused
many a death. There is no an:g‘exmo for such lights in
cities—none whatever in a city narrow streets such as
Atlanta’s.
Thooutrymutndthohmrhnnumrpuutophy
in the campaign for safety as well as the automobilist. The
carrying of a simple, inexpensive lantern on horse-drawn vehi.
cles on country roads is merely a precaution of common sense.
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mobile. Both must share in the effort to prevent accident—
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When we learn to pay more attention to the reasonable
laws and regulations of and for traffic the lists of automobile
casualties will grow shorter and shorter with the years—and in
this it is to be hoped that Atlanta’s new traffic regu.
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Some Neighborhood Comment & e visic s
BLACKBURN FOR CONGRESS.
(Macon Telegraph.)
It might by no means be a bad
idea for “Hob" Blackburn to run
for Congress from the district
once so notably represented in the
person of the late Lon Livingston.
The little man from Fulton leaves
his mark on the present Legisla
ture, among the very few men
who will be able to claim that
distinction when it is all ever. He
it was who bore the brunt of the
parllamentary battle in the
House, which resulted in the
State being saved from the crime
of summary violence in the initia
tion of reformative legislation.
There were other able men who
participated on both sides, but
the name of Blackburn stands out
~~perhaps the most clearly etched
of the entire General Assembly.
That ability to stand on one's
feet and hold the floor of a par-
Hamentary body in the battle to
make the rights of the minority
at least respected by an over
whelming and hurrying majority
while skilled and angered men
drive tricky questions, raise sud
den and unexpected situations in
unremitting succession, especially
with a decidedly not unfriendly
Speaker in the chair to this same
majority, and still hold the floor
und force a compromise through
sheer quick thinking and parlia
mentary knowledge, betokens an
ability that is prized even on the
floor of the National House.
ONE THING NECESSARY,
(Macon Telegraph.)
The following from The Atlanta
Georgian expresses so much truth
that one can afford to contem
plate the lesson it teaches:
“In the numbers of our citizens,
in their intelligence, in thelr in
genuity, in their loyalty and their
devotion, we have everything but
the one thing necessary to the
impregnable defense of our dear
country against any foe or any
combination of foes that may as
sall her,
“That one thing is the neces«
Sary preparation of the naval and
military weapons with which our
men can defend our country and
without which all thelr numbers,
their intelligence, thelr loyalty
and their devoted courage will
only lead to thelr more appalling
butchery,
“While we give thanks to-day
for the peace and happiness of our
country, we should add most fer
vent petitions that the counsels
of folly may not prevail with our
“Yes, Yes, | Know”
lawmakers against the reasonable
preparation of means to defend
and to maintaln that peace and
happiness in the future.”
THIS IS TRUE.
(Savannah Press.)
Atlanta’s internal troubles are
bringing her into a great deal of
unpleasant and unprofitable noto
rlety. The fight for and against
Woodward is being waged with
such vigor and vehemence as to
do nobody any good. The sooner
they conclude up there to let the
good of the cl!y stand ahead of
the desire for politcal revenge on
the part of individuals the better
off they are going to be.
AND IT'S COMING.
(Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
Cloture may not be altogether
in harmony with the spirit of
American freedom of speech and
that sort of thing, but something
should be done to prevent filibus
ters and delays when important
business is to be transacted by
lawmakers, Patriotism would give
the relief, If it could have |ts
WAY.
A SUBLIME OPTIMIST,
(Rochelle New Era.)
We just feel it in our old bones
that the boys will walk right up
and hand us all of that delin
quent subscription money before
old Christmas gets around again,
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
_
Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal:
Move on, for the orbit is fixed for your soul
And though it may lead into darkness of night,
The torch of the Builder shall give It new light.
You were, and you will be, know this while you are:
Your spirit has traveled both long and afar.
It came from the Source, to the Source it returns;
The spark that was lighted eternally burns,
From body to body your spirit speeds on.
It seeks a new form when the old one Is gone,
And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought
On the loom of the mind, with the fiber of thought.
Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow,
Your iffe will reflect all the thoughts of your now.
The law is unerring: no blood can atone:
The structure you rear you must live in alone.
You are your own devil, you are your own god ;
You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod
And no one can save you from error or sin
Until you shall hark to the spirit within.
And because of our sublime faith
in the boys we are going to place
an advance order for a whole tur
key for our Christmas dinner.
Thanks (n advance, boys, and
thanks again when you fork over,
AS SOME JUNE BRIDES MAY
HAVE NOTICED.
(Americus Times-Recorder.)
Here's what a good friend of
ours told us was the sign that the
honeymoon 18 over: When he
kisses her with his hat on his
head, his eye on the clock and his
hand on the doorknob.
MAYBE SO.
(Jones County News.)
The time is coming when nearly
e’very church will have moving
pictures as a feature of the serv
ice, and it wouldn't be a bad stunt
at that. “lllustrated sermons”
would look good, sound better, be
best and get the people.
WHY, ERNEST!
(Griffin News.)
Ernest Camp, of The Walton
Tribune, rises to remark that the
recent harvest festival in Atlanta
was some slim-slam.
ONE POINT IN THE CIGA
RETTE'S FAVOR.
(Senola Gazette,)
If you are a habitual cigarette
smoker, you can't get a State job
in Kansas.
IN “GOD'S COUNTRY.”
(Tifton Gazette.)
Early in the year, not far from
Ty Ty, there was a field of lux
uriant wheat, and in B‘laln sight
of the wheat was an orange tree
covered with green fruit, and the
birds sang and the flowers
bloomed all about.
Where else but in this “most
delightful country of the uni
verse,” a country always famous
for the widely diversified charac
ter of its products, could such a
sight be found?
The wheat has been made into
excellent flour and the oranges
have ripened and been gathered.
And now the birds are singing
and the roses are blooming, while
next year's wheat crop is green
in another nearby field.
More than 300 years ago John
Ribault wrote of what is now
our part of the country, “The land
bringeth forth all things where
with the eternal God hath endued
it” What other land has He
endued with so much?
A STAGGERING STATEMENT.
(Dalton Citizen.)
The population of Georgia in
1910 was 2,609,121, one-third of
which was composed of people
over 21 years of age. Under the
new prohibition law only 1,739,
014 quarts of whisky can be
shipped into Georgia every month.
Georgia will hardly be jagless yet
a while,
CHRISTMAS IS COMING.
(Brunswick News.)
Without golng into actual de
talis, we simply wish to state that
if there ever was a time when
man had an excuse for contract
ing cross eyes, then this is the
time,
HOPE CONGRESS APPRECI.
ATES THIS.
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
It should be a source of con
gratulation, anyway, that Con
gress is not quite as bad as the
State Legislature,
OR THE GEORGIAN'S EMPTY
STOCKING FUND.
(Savannah Press.)
Buy five dollars’ worth of hap
piness for some poor family by
subscribing to The Press Christ
mas Fund.
BIFF 'EM BOTH.
(Moultrie Observer.)
You ean kill two birds with one
stone by cutting down the cotton
Acreage. RBITf Mr. 801 l Weevil
and Mr. Cotton Bear.
.
Rich or Poor, Women Never
.
Lose the Mother Instinct
They Were Created to Protect and Care for Others, and Without
; Something to Protect They Can Never be Happy.
In the news of yesterday was the story of a rich couple who,
lacking children of their own, had adopted two waifs to bring
up and care for.
Not very long ago another rich couple, Mr. and Mrs. Finley
J. Shepard, took two little boys into their home to rear as their
own children.
Because these people are widely known, as well as rich, what
they did has been talked about all over the country—talked
about, and very heartily approved.
All the world, according to the proverb, loves a lover. This
is not wholly true, but it is true that all the world loves a
mother.
The mother instinct in a woman, whether lavished on her
own children, upon children of her adoption, or upon anyone
who needs help and protection, is the most beautiful thing in
humanity.
The love of a mother for her children surpasses any love
known to man. It is supreme unselfishness and devotion. It pa
tiently endures poverty, hunger, suffering, even ingratitude.
Among a million mothers not one could be found who turned
against her children, no matter how worthless and ungrateful
her children proved to be.
Some time, when we have learned far more than we know
now, we shall pension all mothers, as we have already pensioned
widowed mothers.
Some day such will be the influence in the world of mother
love that there will be no ungrateful children, no son or daughter
who does not try to realize all the mother has dreamed for them.
It will be a better world then, and there will not be any wars
in it—big wars or little wars—nor any petty disputes and bick
erings, that usually lead to crimes and sometimes to murder.
It is a fine thing to teach the world to appreciate the beauty
and unselfishness of motherhood, to remind children who some
times take the devotion they receive as a matter of course what
their mothers have really done for them.
Lately, a song has been written—a song called ‘‘M-O-T-H-
E-R—A Word That Means the World To Me'’—which, sung
widely throughout the country, is always well received, because
it appeals to the best sentiments of those who hear it.
It is a love song—but not the usual love song. It is a song
about a mother love, and that has made it widely popular,
That this song should become instantly successful; that its
simple story should please everybody who hears it; that it should
bring tears wherever it is sung, is proof that even in the wild
scramble for money people are never lost to the deepest and best
sentiments. And as long as they can be deeply moved by a song
in praise of motherhood they can be depended on by their coun.
try—in peace or war,
In the Washington Spotligrt
ABE "IGTON. Dee A
W recent shift in the ros
ter of the United States
. army furnishes a practical ex
ample of the opportunity afforded
the American youth for a useful
career under our form of govern
ment.
A boy born in Nashvlille, Tenn.,
November 19, 1851, of parents in
moderate circumstances, hag just
been retired from the active list
as a major general. He is Wil
liam Harding Carter.
Another boy born in Lewisburg,
Pa., December 31, 1853, whose fa
ther was a school-teacher, has
been promoted to the rank of
major general and assigned as
assistant chief of the army staff.
He is Tasker Howard Bliss.
BRILLIANT RECORDS.
These two men came from
widely separated sections of the
country to enter the West Point
Military Academy in the early
Sevanties. They were not the
sons of rich men, but they were
educated by the Government.
Whether or not thelr parents
could have extended them a uni
versity tralning that would have
afforded other than an army ca
reer, they made the best of the
offer extended by Congress at
that time. Both the country and
themselves have been generously
rewarded,
When a lleutenant in 1881 young
Carter served in the Indian cam
paigns and won the Medal of
Honor, the highest tribute which
can be paid an American soldier.
In later years he devised the
general staff law, and has fear
lessly advocated wsuch national
safety measures as the country s
Old Wine in a New Bottle
News of Atlanta Ev; ;fid Ten Years Ago.
DECEMBER 6, 1910,
West slos dump made a city
park.
. .
Snow nrprlu-‘ fl:cvplu crowd,
DeKalb County franchise law
blocks Stone Mountain trolley
plans.
B% » o
Council chases saloons off of
Edgewood avenue,
» 9 9
Macon announces she will ex
tract State eepfl.ol .mln Atlanta,
Taft's message covers two
newspaper pages, small type.
By H. H. STANSBURY.
now demanding. The continental
army was appraised angd recom
mended in certain ways by Gen
eral Carter long before Secretary
Garrison thought of the subject.
The career of General Bliss
has been more Interesting than he
could have dreamed it would be
when he jest rural Pennsylvania
to become a cadet. In addition
to service In Porto Rico, Cuba,
and along the Mexican frontier,
he was the absolute ruler of the
Moro country in the southern sec
tion of the Philippines for several
years, with the Sultan of Suly as
his subject.
BIGGER OPPORTUNITIES NOw,
The improved opportunity for
an interesting and useful career
via West Point presented to the
American youth of to-day cam
pared with the advantages of a
military training which lured
Carter and Bliss forty-odd years
ago is alone an inspiration.
Speaker Champ Clark, of the
House of Repment-flvec. an
nounced only a few days ago he
would introduce a bill at the
coming session of Congress to
double the present student ca
pacity at West Point. Appoint
ment to this splendid school is
avallable allke to m’ poor man's
#on and the banker's son, as i:
has been always. The free insti
tutions of learning to be found in
€very community provide a
means of preliminary preparation
no less satisfactory than private
tutors.
It Is to applaud General Carter
and General Bliss to say a mili
tary tralning may hold forth
greater advantages to-day than it
did when they entered the service,
DECEMBER 6, 1908,
A. P. Coles, of Albany, electea
cashier new Candler bank.
¢ 9 9
Council insurgents try to take
from Mayor power to appoint
committess. Fall,
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Committee of 25 named to plan
* &reat 1910 exposition. Lakewood
boosted as wite.
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Miss Kloise Nelms weds Walter
N. Dennis. Miss Beatrice Nelms,
ber sister's bridesmald