Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-09
.SENA TOR CLAY REVIEWS
HIS WORK IN CONGRESS

/ Democratic measure and was passed by
Democratic votes.
1--WE have a bill now pending to ccm-
pei the publication of the names of cer-
1 sons or corporations making conJrIDu-
tions to political campaigns The Demo-
Gratis are sOlidly for it, but we cannot get
enough Republican votes to pass it.
maintain that if the great insurance COM
panies of New York, the sugar trust, the
tobacco trust, the Standard Oil company
and others desire to contribute millions
! to elect a president and a congress the
people ought to know it.
mo man who aspires to high political
] office should accept financial aid from
/ any special interest to secure his election.
! No man is worthy to be senator or gov
; ernor OF Georgia who accepts and re-
ceives money from any special INTEREST 70
aid him in his campaign.
i "A United States senator should wear
! no mans collar. He should be In posi-
/ ton TO give the people of his s1ate and
the United States honest, faithful and in
J telligent service. No man is worthy TO go
; to the senate who is under obligations to
any special interest in this state, or the
! United States. ss&
1.-THE office of senator is the highest
honor the people can bestow upon one
tof their fellow citizens, and the supreme
ambition of a senator should be to give
every citizen of his state a just and
square deal.
/ DISCUSSES THE TARIFF.
The senator dwelt at length upon the
tariff question. He declared that both
f, of the great political parties had
pledged the people to revise the tariff
downward. He demonstrated that the
revision has, however, been upward,
/ thanks to the Republican party, where
/ any substantial changes have been
M, -. Svr1ce
directed attention to the sugar sched-
ule, and showed that the duty on this
commodity has cost the people of the
i United States sl36,00O,000, annually,
I while only s54.OOO0O0 of this has gone
to the treasury. The balance has gone
to enrich the criminal sugar trust, he
said, and the people have paid nearly
/ double as much for sugar on this ac-
count He scored the Republican party
for its failure to join the Democrats in
the effort to reduce the duty on sugar.
The cotton schedule, also, came In
for a share Of the senator's attention.
He pointed out that the rates have
been increased on the finer goods and
reduced on the coarser goods He
showed that all the mills making the
] finer grade of goods are located in New
England. He pointed to a group OF
| nineteen mills in New England that
/ have paid an average dividend or 20
per cent for many years, accommodating
at the same time a huge surplus. He
/ charged that these cotton duEies have
( been increased solely to beneft the
: New England industry, and that the
southern mills engaged in manufacture
Z ing the coarser goods will receive none
of the benefits. He was severe IN his
arraignment of the Republican party
= for sanctioning these increases and dis
I ordinations.
49, ~,
/ Gratis voted to place print paper and
! pulp wood on the free list, while the
I Republicans opposed it. He also showed
wherein the Democrats voted for re-
! duction in the duties on coarse wooden
/ goods, boots, shoes, leather and Tor
free hides, while the Republicans OPP
posed these efforts. He declared that
the Democrats stood for an income tax
| to apply to corporations and individuals
alike. The Republican majority. he said,
| antaRonized this measure, and only
adopted the corporation tax as sub
! terfuge to defeat the income tax He
declared that on all these Issues the
| Democrats were right and the Repub-
Ilicans wrong. He said he believed the
people of Georgia would support the
| Democratic party on these Issues.
/ The senator advised the people of the
south to study the tariff laws, and to
adapt themselves to the situation.
HIS ADVICE TO THE SOUTH.
/ I'VE must not sit down and be Idle be-
/ cause of unjust legislation" he declared
| IF the south would make ten million
/ bales Of cotton, instead of fourteen mill
I lion, and manufacture one-half Of the crop
| in the south, making the coarser and finer
grades of yarns, instead Of leaving to
New England the market of the United
| States for the finer grades, we would Do
come the richest and most powerful Sec
ton of the country. We could then say
to New England, You passed tariff law
| intended to give you the market OF the
United States for the finer grade Of goods
i but we will take part Of the market from
you by manufacturing the raw material
| we producer We have 1t in abundance.
| Our splendid water power and cheap
| labor enables us to compete with any
part of the world.
But we must teach the young men OF
| the south to utilize our natural advant-
ages to manufacture our raw material at
home and to keep our profits at home.
To do this we must have technologfohl
schools to equip our sons for this work
IT hope the legislature will make the
archaeological school at Atlanta the best
| in the country. 1 hope the people Of ev-
cry southern state will establish techno-
logical schools, where the young men will
be taught to handle the most complicated
machinery anu 10 HduuLdCluEe every
grade of cotton goods.
do not get the idea that em. encour-
aging the accumulation Of colossal for@
tunes, but wealth honestly earned and
properly distributed is a blessing. God
pity the state or community with a few
millionaires and many paupers!
'It has been said that the greatness Of
a nation does not consist in it's Golfers or
territory, but lies in the men and women
of the nation, their ideals and acts And
nation IS great as 1t clings to its ideals.
''The purpose of all worthy struggle
should be to establish morality as a basis
of individual and national life, to maka
justice reign, to spread beauty, wisdom
and peace. to widen opportunity. to in
crease good will, to foster industry and
thrift, culture and education, obedience
and reverence. purity and love, honesty
and sobriety and disinterested devotion to
the common good. This should be the
! aim of every good citizen. II we strive
for this purpose and work In this spirit
this blessed republic Of ours viii never
perish
Praises Ex-Governor Smith.
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