Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-14
Hearst Makes Reply to Taft;
Suggests the True Policy
For the Democratic Party

week, and that these so-callcd high
wages were paid to only dozen
men who were the star engineers
on fast trains meeting the Atlantic
liners.
The average engineer received
less than nine dollars and half "a
week, fremen averaged less than
six dollars a week. and the AVERAGE
guard. who corresponds to Qua co,.-
ductor. received six dollars and
thirty-siX cents a week.
There would be a revolution in
America, and justifiable one. fl
such wages as these were paid TO
our competent railway employee.
Yet with such wages working msu
in free trade England are expected
to meet cost of living as high as
or higher than ours
No wonder there are indusuf.f
disturbances in England and strikes
and riots and men shot down bv the
soldiery. No wonder there are 30
litical and economical discontent
and an emigration so great that the
steamship lines can not carry all oi
those who desire to leave England
The false statement that living in
England is cheaper than IN Amor-
ca has been made so often tina. Il is
believed by those who have moi
taken the trouble to learn the facts
&c ali -,
than III America. If anything. it is
dearer. Food is much dearcr r
England than in America. LuNuIjc.
like fruit and many vegetables are
entirely beyond the reach Of the ay-
erage individual
Rent is cheaper in England than
III many places in America, but
taxes are immeasurably greater
raising the actual cost of rents from
so to 35 per cent.
Custom made clothing is cheaper
in England than in America bot
nowhere in the world is ready
made clothing as remarkable in cut
and quality and chcapness as in the
United States. Shoes arc bcttc~
and cheaper in the United Stats
than in any other place in the
world.
travelling and transportation i'm
the United States are about half
what they arc in England Meats.
though high in the United Stat
are higher in England, and a good
part of the beef in England is i'm
ported from the United States and
Australia. Newspaper men whom
! have sent to England as residcnt
correspondents have often asked to
be allowed to return to the United
States on account of the higher
cost of living in England
These are the facts. and facts
should be the basis of every argu-
ment.
Governor Wilson. like every otho.
good American citizen, is trying Oo
benefit his country, but we can not
benefit our country by misleading
our countIymen.
Let all of us Democrats abandon
WORKOUT and worthless free trade
arguments and frankly admit thata
certain amount of judicious pgotec-
non IS beneficial thing for our
country and our people. Then let Us
seek to apply protection discrimi-
nateIv to deveIon and nnairtai7. wall
liable industries which require pro
lection and which through the just
ana proper conduct Of their bust
ness dealings with the public de-
serve protection
LET nc ,oali.., +bo4 49, ,,,.see
,
% UNFAIR 'aiIiI) Is MOI ''F
cause OF SPECIAL privilege. but mere
ly symptom OF sueCial privilege
a useful institution. partly corrupt
ed by special privilege
Special privilege has invaded our
tariff system as il has invaded our
railway system and our public land
system. our judicial system ana our
governmental system, but the ron-
tdN lies not in dbOlishiUg govern
ment or the proper functions or
government, but in taking the gov
eminent out of The han0S of srrc.a
privilege and Fiac1ns the g"Ne u
m9nt @Ed all rs prop"" ,HuCii'N-
more directly Ia ihc c5a-rri of i.'
"aoIe people.
nero should, therefore. DE H.
governmental encouragement "1
oppressive trusts, no sovernmnIll7'
fostering OF special privilege, tllh.t
and