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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13
Champ Clark VS.. Roosevelt
Rv JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES

worsted the redoubtable lowan on
his own ground
have heard a dozen leading Re-
publicans say that it was true. and
learned from one of these last
week that the debates were prema-
turely closed by Delivers friends
because of the apprehension that
the prestige of Clark's superb
work on the hustings would in
juriously affect Delivers chances
in the approaching senatorial cleo
ton.
Champ Clark knows far moro
about the tariff than Roosevelt
does and more than almost any
other man in the house or senate.
He has held the aisle in front OF
the speakers desk for ten years
against all corners in an annual
speech on the tariff, and has never
yet been worsted by Payne OF Dali
yell or Joe Cannon or Grosvenor
at their best.
Champ Clark has much better
voice than Roosevelt, far more
majestic and imposing presence,
fully as much fire and fervor as the
Oyster Bay man. and is better
posted upon the affairs of legisla-
ton for the quarter century in
which we live.
The massive, rugged. magnlh-
cent-looking speaker has been so
tied to leadership and routine leg
islation for a decade that many
men have forgotten the superb
swing and dash of the Missouri
giant when he is unlimbered for
battle before the people.
1t was Champ Clarks speech
nominating the staid and sober
Cockrell which created the widest
scene Of enthusiasm that the Dem
ocratic national convention Of 1904
knew at ST Louis
1t was Champ Clark's ovation at
the great Democratic jubilee at
Baltimore (Robert LaFollette be-
ing witness) which laid in the
shade the demonstrations over Bal
ley and Harmon and Bryan and
Wilson, as it did later at Cardinal
Gibbons fftieth jubilee. over
Roosevelt and Taft and every
other man on the program.
If the Rough Rider Of American
politics enters the presidential
campaign with the idea that he has
anything forensic or oratorlcal or
vote winning on the Lion of the
Tribe of Missouri he has a rude
awakening in store.
The presidential hastings will
find Champ Clark equal to its high
est demands. and to RooseveIt's
most impassioned assaults.
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TT Champ Clark should face The
odore Roosevelt in this presi-
Dental campaign, let no man
think that the Democratic speaker
of the house will be overmatched
by the ex- president.
The opposite will be true.
Champ Clark is one of the very
best an-around campaign speak
ers that the country has ever
known He has every equipment
for the magnificent figure which he
has always made upon the hust-
ings.
Let Us reduce a sweeping asser-
ton to illustration.
I think that no man who has
kept in touch with senatorial and
political oratory in this decade will
deny that Jonathan p. Dolliver,
when he died, was easily counted
the best debater upon the Republl-
can side Of the United States SEN
ate, and one Of the best. If not the
best, all-around campaign speak
ers on that side of the political
divide. He was everywhere in de-
mand.
In 1904 I was lecturing in the
middle West and wasin touch with
the movements Of men and ideas in
that great section between Pitts
burg and Omaha.
During this period the sensations
of the summer chautauQua plat
forms and of the political hustings
were the widely advertised %
champion debates between Champ
Clark and Jonathan P. Dolliver
upon the tariff These debates
reached high water mark in the
state Of Iowa, where Dolliver was
the idol, and in Champ Clark's
state Of Missouri.
On the morning after the great
clash of argument and eloquence in
Des Moines the morning newspa-
per. The Leader, Republican and of
Delivers faith. edited by Allen
Dawson, now editor of The New
York Globe, had an editorial which
in substance declared:
There are few people in Iowa
who are willing to believe that
there is any greater orator and de-
batter than Jonathan P, Dolliver.
But one more such ma sterful
speech as Champ Clark made at
the capitol yesterday viii reduce
Deliver to second place in his own
state of Iowa"
The sentiment was almost uni
versal throughout Republican Iowa
that Champ Clark, holding the I'M
popular side Of the argument, had
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that she will be killed in rail-
road accident, or the ship she goes
on will sink
No matter what the wife wants
to do, the husband disapproves of
it and objects to 1t until it takes
all of the SAVIOR out Of every pleas
ure.
And it's the same way with the
children. If Tom wants to go to
work, father insists on his going to
college If Tom wants to study
medicine. father objects to his
being anything but a grocer If
Mary wants to go to a party, faith
err thinks she's too gay, and if she
stays at home he hemoans that she
doesn't care for society. and when
She goes to get married he objects
to every single thing about the
man from the way he parts his
hair to the way he makes living
Just as often perhaps oftener-
the objector is wife and mother
she objects to the kind of a neck
tie her husband wears and the
way he tics it. She objects to his
reading the paper at breakfast and
his eating hot rolls instead Of
breakfast food She objects to his
steuographer, and his clerks. and
his friends. She objects 70 his
having a glass Of beer and every
single thing he does
And she frets at her children all
day about everything they do. and
leave undone. If Mary puts on a
pink dress. mother objects. If
Mary combs her hair certain way.
another objection from mother. If
Mary goes walking with one of the
girls. mother raises objections. If
she doesn't go walking. mother OBJ
iects to her not taking enough ex-
ercise. If one of the boys comes
to see her. mother objects to her
having bealx. II the boys don't
come, mother nags her because she
doesn't have any attention And
so it goes on until poor Mary quail
ities as a ttrst-class martyr
OF course, the Directors don't
realize what baleful creatures they
are, nor how they torture us. nor
what helpless victims we are in
their hands. since we may neither
strange them on their own obiec-
tons nor fly from them as much as
we would like to. If they did
perhaps they'd be more merciful
AT any rate, let us each examine
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By DOROTHY DIX.

you may achieve success. Their
motto Is that Whatever is. IS
wrong but they have never a
gimmer Of an idea of how 70 bet
ter conditions.
1t Is truism that hope Is, Of
Itself an inspiration and that the
limit of our achievement Is our be
lief in our own ability. Nobody
ever did anything worth while
that he or she went at faint-heart-
eddy and douhtfully. 70 doubt our
ability to do a thing is to pre-
cipitate failure. The Directors
know this. and vet they can not
forego the pleasure of their raven
croakngs.
The queer thing about the Oh
iector is that he or she never has
any real principle behind his or her
objections. and if you had hap
pened to do the other way he or
she would have been just as much
opposed to that line Of conduct.
Prooablv Ociectors don't even
know why they object themselves.
They are only animated by some
obscure and malevolent impulse
that makes them enjoy taking the
edge of Of your enjoyment or dull
ing your enthusiasm
TO my mind the sublime heroism
of which human nature is capable
is never more malvellously Illus
trated than in the forttude with
which we endure the 0biector. for
few indeed are they who escape
having to put up with one
Sometimes the Objector is a hus-
oand and father who visualizes to
his family an eternal No"
Does the wife cook "A good din
uer? Husband finds fault with the
seasoning, and wants to know why
she has had beef instead of NUT
ton and a pie instead of a cake.
Does the wife want a new dress?
Husband berates her for her ex-
travacance. Has the wife accept
ed an invitation for them for the
evening Husband quarrels about
going out Does wife want to stay
at home9 Husband insists on going
to the theater. Does wife want to
60 and see one play? Nothing viii
please husband but going to see
something else. Does wife want TO
60 on a little visit or a trip some
where Husband brings forward
ten thousand arguments against
her leaving home and prophesies
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. Worship of Brains q
By CHARLES FERGUSON.

grows out of the emotions. and that
the strongest intellects belong to
those who have the most ener-
getic feeling. Thus 1t appears that
men can go, in knowledge and I'M
derstanding, only to the limits Of
their sympathy or working inter-
est.
Thomas DeQulncy says some
where that the intellect is the
meanest of all human faculties" It
was literary skit, of course: but
the meaning was that the intellect
degenerates into trivial kind Of
cunning when it cuts itself loose
from the heart of life.
The man who said that Francis
Bacon was "the wisest, brightest.
meanest of mankind" was overload
of epigrams Wisdom and science
are in their very nature public. ex-
pansive. of universal service.
One is reminded of such things
by an editorial in The Globe news
paper which undertakes to explain
the qualities of Senator Root. The
editorial writer says that Mr.. Root
has the best brain among all
President Taft's advisers" but that
he is conservative by temper
ament and -interest-by the
kind of temperament which per
mits self-interest to tell his eve
what it shall see and what it shall
he blind to-"
Certainly, Francis Bacon-the IA
Their of inductive science-was not
like that. nor any other historic
man of intellectual weight and
scope in politics or religion. in art
or science
If the description Of Mr.. Root is
correct if Mr.. Root generally sees
things only through the binding
bias of his personal interest and
yet has the best brain among all
President Tafts advisers" is
certain that Mr. Taft is i'll advised
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13

Everybody sympahizes gentle redundant
goodness the lady the gentleman the society that
vivisection.
Unless scientifically conducted under conditions Of complete
Inconsistencies freedom from pain and for
the permanent Of mankind vivsecon horrible and
intolerable
But there kind of vvisecion in which absolutely
no pain vvisecon that sacrifices the lives of
few animals and saves Of millions of humans Vvisec
ton that gave to the knowledge of the dphtherc
for instance already saved the lives Of hundreds of thou
sands of young children.
Experiments with white mice little victims of
Ger arfciay pleasant think of But already
wonderful and encouraging to relate has actually dscov
cred cure for cancer in yet been tried
upon beings But there is little doubt that the expert
ments animals will eventually lead absolute
cure free the human from the horrible disease
which inHicts suffering much worse than death
1t is always painful discourage virtue lacking
occupation So attention Of the ndhearted
of vvscon to of the work that they really might do
WITHOUT INTERFERING WITH THE WONDERFUL PROG
RESS OF SCIENCE.
1t is painful to think there this
of suffering from The fact that the
probably suffer quite much mourning be
die and leave her children does make the u
ferng of the poor little mice any less important
tell the vvisectionsts that this particular moment
for every that being used in experiment for
every that being ueuy compelled by science to bear
it's share suffering contribute it's share of knowledge there
are of other animals tortured MERELY FOR FUN
Tens Of thousands Of boys and catching young frogs
and putting them, alive, fishing hooks.
The frog with hook mbedded in its flesh is thrown the
water the fisherman why he does not kill it. He says
that is necessary frog kick and squrm and squea
little the fish
other ways of catching fish without live frog
But the torture live frog of the easiest ways And
The frog is tortured
Massachusetts will not deny that frog with gentle green
legs least that almost human thing to be
ped suffers Would it not be well perhaps
million frogs agony thousand white
Ave hundred monkeys from suffering infinitely less
good vvisectionists your attention
upon frogs upon fish hooks and upon
those living with fish hooksH For surely
worm compared with mouse, is important
pared with of millions of annually
tured this way merely for sport Why make rule that
shall be killed kindly and swiftly be- and frogs
killed way, before being put upon the hook2
And also why spend part of the money which the anti
vvisectons generously collects opposing another kind of
vivisectionhe torture of children the mills of
gagged long Vvsecton vvsecon whether the living
tortured be fully conscious Of its suffering whether
thoroughly anaeshetized and investigated by as
We recommend the kicking squrmlng mpa
frog especially the anti vvection Sympathzers on
protect those frogs without fighting science and knowledge
Try it. though the resultant notoriety be less.
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The Household Pest Known as the Director
The Great Social Problem determination of this Creature

a MoNG household pests which
~ there should be some pain
less, but effective, way of ex-
terminating is the Obiector I'm
fortunately. az the law now stands,
II does not permit you to consign
to lethal chamber. or use In
sectlcide. or rough on rats on this
destroyer of your peace and COM
fort yet, compared with the OBJ
jector the bowling Of stray cats is
grand opera and cockroaches and
mice welcome visitors in your
home.
There are few families so fortu-
nate as not to have an Objector
in their midst, and the great So
cial problem is not how to stop
divorce, but how to get rid of this
ever present affliction. for we are
bound to 1t, as a general thing. by
ties that We lack the hardihood TO
break
The Objector is the damper on
enthusiasm, the throttle on ener-
gy. the extinguisher on ambition,
the wet blanket on pleasure. the
thing that takes All the snap and
ginger out Of us. and makes us sit
down in WEAKNESS and despair and
say, ooh. what's the use ?" II is
the Directors who are at the bot
tom Of most Of the failures in the
world, because by the time a tall
ented and gifted man and woman
have fought down the Directors on
their hearthstones they are So bat
tered and worn that they haven't
enough strength left to do any
thing else.
We are always marvelling at
some youth OF maiden who stopped
short at the heginnng Of prom
Using career. If we could know the
truth we would generally find that
he or she had an Objector in the
family that never rested until he
or she had thrown SO much cold
water ON whatever the youth 1r
maiden was trying GO do that the
poor discouraged. disheartencd vic
tim gave UP in despair
For DIRECTORS are always a de-
suuctive force They are never
constructive They throw a million
obstacles in the way Of the thing
YOU are trying TO do but they never
suggest anything better TO do.
They deuge YOU with dark blue
prophesies Of failure, but they never
have word of advice as to how
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-13

S 1t possible for man to have
both a powerful mind and a
mean soul?
If you say yes, beware lest you
disqualify yourself for any real I'M
Outstanding of the prophets and
wise men who tell us that the world
is bound to be ruled at length by
generosity and heart-power, and
that the meek shall inherit the
earth" For what sense is there in
saving that love makes the world
go round, and that truth makes
men free, If smart rascals and liars
are forever to sit in the high
places. and if faithfulness to the
truth has nothing to do with real
force?
Perhaps there Is no more sense
less superstition than the prevalent
worship of brains-mere cold cere-
bration. Moral chaos turks in the
notion that a man can acquire a
titanic intellectual ability without
having any character or conscience
about the way he uses it, If that
were really the case, the hope of
the rule of justice and beauty upon
the earth would be infinitely post
poned.
If it we're not established in the
ground plan of the world that
moral meanness is related to men
tai weakness. the "knaves and das-
tards" would never be arrested
OF course it is obvious enough
that intelligent scoundrels have
now and again flourished in power
for a season. But why he per
picked about that fact? Probably
they have hourished because the
mob Of brain worshipers have
raised them upon their shoulders.
Modern experimental psychology
should put an end to brain worship.
For research in this field is bring
ing us every day nearer to an eX-
act demonstration that the intellect
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THE WORLD
Bv ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright 1912, National News Association

MYTH noiseless steps good goes its way;
w The earth shakes under evil s tread.
We hear the uproar, and It's said,
The world grows wicked every day
j i rot true With quiet feet
In silence Virtue sows her seeds
The Sin goes shouting out his deeds,
And echoes listen and repeat
But surely as the old world moves,
And circles round the shining sun,
So surely does God purpose run,
And all the human race improves
Despite bold evil noise and stir
Truth golden harvests rpen fast;
The present far outshines the Past
Mems thoughts are higher than they were.
Who runs may read this truth. | say,
Sin travels IN rumbling ear
While Virtue scars on like star
The world grows better every day
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Nov Summers here,
~ Cast up your eye
And strike to death
The roaming fly,
Where'er you find
Him spare him not,
But Join the clans
That swat. swat, swat.
II twenty times
As big. he'd he
Wiped out as mans
Worst enemy
Because he's small.
We let him go
To fill our graves
Before we know.
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the work on his desk piled up.
The boss became suspicious gave Yum
call and let him 60 ahead again, but Yum
couldn play cards well and hold the job at
the same time
He was helped in every possible way by his
employer, yet Yum had to have his little fling
at pleasure Finally unable to run his bust
ness with a weak link such as Yum was, the
boss was obliged to let him go
Yum S mind was on games, and back to the
old corner saloon he strolled.
To Be Continued
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The boy who drove the butcher wagon in
the small town and later became big man in
a big town fixed Yum up right in his office
Yum given a little desk some new
clothes and regular Job. He kept at it rath-
er faithfully for month or so then became
acquainted with lads who took in the dances
Of an evening and had card parties. Yum was
right at home with the cards That was his
dish The trouble was that his job inter
fered with his pleasure, and he had an awful
time keeping awake at his desk Every aft
ernoon now Yum dropped off to sleep, while
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A Squealing Frog Alive on a
Fish Hook Suffers

It Suffers Quite Much Small White Mouse Afflicted With
Cancer The Frog Gives the Vvisections Chance To Be
Kind USEFULLY
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SECOND.

AS to the cost, | will say that the
chief factor in the cost of a road OF
any given material is the distance
that the material must be hauled to
put it on the road; hence it would be
impossible for me to give a close est.
mate on this without making a com.
plete survey, going over every mile
and seeing just where we could get
the clay and just how far we would
have to haul it. But | can say this
much in regard to the cost OF sand.
clay road construction: 1t is the
cheapest type of hard surfacing that
can be put on road. Its cost has
varied from $500 per mile for roads
on easy grades and where material
was close at hand, to $1,000, or even
$1,000 or $4,000 per mile, where much
cutting and filling was necessary to
obtain satisfactory grade, and where
good material was not close by These
figures include culverts and small
bridges.
Hence it will be seen that with the
issuance OF the 100000 in bonds as
proposed at the approaching election,
a sufficient mileage can be built to
reach every part of the county. OF
course, this does not mean that we
can put a good road in front of every
mans gate, nor even along one side of
his farm. No fair-minded man will ex-
pect or demand that. But it does mean
that every man will have a good road
in at least a few miles of his place,
and that will be a wonderful improve
met onver what we now have.
When we come to consider how we
can get the money for road improve
ment, two points at once confront us:
First, we must adopt a method that
will be fair and equal to everybody;
second, we must adopt a method that
will bring in a large enough sum of
money at one time to do the needed
work and make a workmanlike job
of it.
| think there can be no question
that the same tax levied on all prop
erty-city property, corporations AMI
railroads as well as country property
lis the fairest way of getting money
for good roads. 1t is not really fair
to go into large public improvement
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| you begin to look around at the vari.
Gus things that 60 to make up our
modern life and modern progress, you
will find that they are all affected by
the road question. Take your rural
mail routes-the bad roads are the
chief handicap. Take your schools and
your churches-every one Of them is
helped by good roads and is hindered
by bad roads. And so we might go on
through the list and we will find that
good roads are a powerful aid to
everything good in modern life, while
bad roads are almost complete pre-
ventive to progress.
But the one biggest thing of all is
the conditions OF life in the country.
The population of our cities has been
growing much faster than that of the
country and the matter has been very
disturbing to many Of our writer's and
public men. President Roosevelt was
so much interested in this change that
he appointed country life commits
sion" to look into the matter. l can
not tell you just what this commission
reported, but | think that / can tell
you the biggest factor in driving our
bright young men from the farms into
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our cities: it is the shameful condi-
tons of the country roads. Why should
young man bury himself in the back
woods, entirely away from everyone
else and out of touch with town and
neighbors, when he can get a Job In
the town or city and have these pleas
ant associations? But IL you will put
good roads in every community so that
all the people, especially the young
people, can have their share of the
pleasures Of life, then the country will
again come into its own, and our
bright young men will quit fiocking to
town, and will remain to develop and
build up the greatest occupation in the
world-that of the farmer.
There is not single church, there
is not a single school, there is not
single home, there is not single bust
ness enterprise in all this country that
is not affected for better or worse by
the condition of our public roads. So
let us rally to this important cause.
Not only every freebooter but every
personal property taxpayer Is entitled
to vote on this qeustion. Let every
man come out and register his vote
for progress.
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Remarkable Razorbacks Of East Texa

REMARKABLE Hazorpacks OF East exa1
Up in the Texarkana district dogs
have been outlawed and the women
and men make pets of razorback pigs
1t is claimed for the pigs that when
they are stolen and carried hundreds
of miles from home they are sure to
find the way back as soon as they
escape from their new masters. One
was stolen in Texarkana last week
and was blindfolded and carried on
the train to Houston, arriving there
at the end of the second day. Late in
the afternoon of the third day the pig
got back to Texarkana. His shape
and build fit the razorback for fast
travel Another thing peculiar about
the razorback is, he is never content
ed except on the range where he was
born. The Texarkana district, they
say, is the natural home for the razor
back hog.-Tyler Courier-Times.