The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-13
BY ON DOLAN

legged animals, it IS enough to make one won
der it they have real brains, or only putty
denied in the semblance of cerebral convolu-
TONS
Quit it, good people. Business men, there
is nothing SO sound, so conservative, SO shrewd
as to make your little business safe from
panic precipitated by few Wall Street ma
nlpulators Don't spend all your time seeing
If you can't make one Of your clerks do the
work Of two, and saving paltry salary at
the expense of poor fellow don't throw all
your eloqqence into advertising, but turn
some of it loose on your Congressional repre-
sentative. Good ladies, don't let Church and
society and clubs and bridge-whist consume
your entire energies. You know what it costs
to run the household-do you realize that that
excessive cost goes into the pocket of a few
rich men and women who wouldn't let the
dust of their automobiles associate with q0u?
Arouse yourselves. Beat down the tariff wall,
and demand Constitutional money! You can
get anything you want, if you quit your in
ertia, timidity and frivolity
So Mr.. Taft has ANONYMOUSLY ''fred" Gift
ford Plnchot! His friends-his real friends,
not the bunch of reactionares
TAFT AND scheming for their own ends
PINCHoT. could have seen him do few
LL1uSS Win more regret, and MS
enemies could have been no more gratifed
AS for the country at large, who accepted him
because they just naturally had to, and in
purely non partisan way hoped that his ad-
ministration would be beneficial to the inter
ests of all the people, it feels amaze, commin-
gled with a kind of CONSERVATION It can not
be viewed, even by the most generous estimate,
as the act OF strong man asserting authority
over an ObstreperOus subordinate official, but
as an undeniabe cline up'' on the side of pure
prejudice. Mr. Pinchot's record seems to
have been above reproach and his expert
enced devoted service to the people, regard
less of party, has stamped him as man of
strong, real craftsmanship. What Mr. Pin
chot IS, bases itself firmly upon what he has
done. Service, not preference has character
lied his aim throughout many years. That
he has lost the Sob" for which he has not
only been peculiarly fit, but which he really
created by the irresistible force of his own
conviction and devotion, because he unspar-
ingly criticized the upstairs of the Taft re-
gime, hurts, not Mr.. Pinchot, but Mr. Taft
and the malodOrous cabinet with which he
chose to surround himself
So, Clifford Pinchot's usefulness has been
destroyed" has it? We will see about that.
Mr.. Taft did not hesitate to defend Ballinger
on his Western tour without looking into the
evidence, fully. He himself admitted it. He
now discharges Mr. Pinchot summarily, and
rudely, while making the damning confession
that he wants an investigation, and if ''there
is anything in the situation he does not know,
he wants it to come out" Pending this in
formation, it would have better become Mr.
Taft as Judge if he had dealt with CLAWS
and Pinchot in different manner Getting
rid Of them officially by no means slences
their charges, and the public is fully per-
suaded that they know what they are talking