Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-17

tries: 1--WE will lower our bars n
your products if you will lover
your bars to our products" Bur =,
we have no tariff fences. we ran
make no such beneficial bargain
Mr.. Wilson must not be like the
dog In Aesops fables who let %
the bone that he actually had IN
order to grasp at the reflection n
the water If we sacrifice anv a.
vantage that we actually have wa
must be sure that we are going -
get a corresponding advantage IN
return. and If we should Sacrifice
injudiciously our protective policy
we should find our markets open IA
the products of all the nation, =.
the world and their markets s+ru
closed to the products of our own
nation.
Mr.. Wilson also disapproves ~
American business men and cons,,
ers them ignorant" and "prov,n.
cial." 1 am almost disposed irrits-
bly, to contradict this statement ~
Mr. Wilson.
American business men ar. ~.
greatest business men in the world
and have made America the great
est business nation in the world
Ihey are accommodating in America
the wealth of the world, and thev
are employing their wealth in
way which excites the admiration
of the world.
Some of our business men. Ike
Rockefeller, are endowing universi-
ties for the advancement Of learn.
ing and supporting institutions Of
medical and surgical exner,r,art
Tor the benefit of our own peons
and of all mankind.
Others Of our business men. like
carnegie, are endowing libraries for
the dissemination of universal,
knowledge and maintaining observ-
atories and other scientific estab.
Hshments for the extension OF SCI
entif1c research and the develop.
ment Of scientific pursuits.
Others again. like Morgan, ar.
assembling in America the art and
library treasures of the world for
the development of our tastes and
perceptions and for the higher cuI-
ture of our people in the refine
ments and intellectual enjoyments
of life.
Lecturing Business Men.
Our business men have been able
to do all this without Mr.. Wilson's
guidance, and in spite of his poor
opinion of them it is just possible
that under the guidance OF college
professors these Ignorant" and
provincial" business men of ours
might not have accomplished as
much for themselves and their
country as they did when left to
their own resources.
Mr.. Wilson's dogmatic and d.
dactic declarations have all the
positiveness Of the pedagogue who
has theories on everything and ex-
perience in nothing. His is the GUS
tomary attitude of the college pro-
fessor who knows everything. hav-
ing read it in books, where it was
written down by other college pro-
fessors with equally infalible
knowledge based on equally uni
versal ineXperience.
1t is an interesting thing to see a
college professor lecturing practi-
cal business men on the practical
problems of business from the
musty rooms of one of the colleges
which the practical success Of these
business men had enabled them to
endow.
1t must also be an Interesting
thing to Englshmen to note that
America is considering the advi9-
ability of embarking on a free trade
policy, which England is consider
ing the advisabiity of abandoning
This paradoXical situation Is due
to the fact that England has had 10
her sorrow some experience with
free trade policy. while American
statesmen are educated in the books
of theoretical English economists
which were written before the free
trade theory had opportunity Of
practical experiment and refu'a-
ton.
do not wonder that English
men are interested in this phas ot
American politics, but | think thai
the sound sense OF American ''H-
zens will prevent any foreign ,oun-