Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13
BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.

selzed upon by Money. 1t is instinc-
tive in Money to make slaves of men.
Money. in Republican control. used and
still uses the party to drive the people
to the Shearing beds Of criminal priv
! ilege. The Democrats protested and
still protest against this in their plat
! form and from Their stumps
| But the Democrats are no more to
be trusted than the Republicans. They
promise, they protest. But when. from
1898 to 1897, they had not only the
white house, but both houses Of con-
gresS they most carefully did nothing.
They have shown that as whole party
they are as much beneath the Callous,
calculating thumb of Money as are or
ever were the Republicans Where
Tore, for one at least my preference
goes in this campaign to the new third
party and to Mr. Roosevelt
Government is business: president
picking is business The country is bat
a corporation, company: the citizens
arc the shareholders. An election is
the shareholders meeting. The com
pany, the country, is intended to pro-
duce in favor of the sha rehoder-ci ti-
zen protection to life, limb, liberty and
property.
Questions For The Citizen.
Upon plain business principle of
the most and best for the least. the
citizen shareholder in casting his bal
lot should consider government from
the standpoint of what ne pays and
what he gets what i; costs and what il
shareholder is getting in this year Of
political ungraCe-1912-yo may form
your own conclusions by reviewing the
conditions-the higher cost Of living.
for eXample-whch surround YOU. BY
casting wary eye about you can set
tie, in that matter of government,
questions of quantity and quality to-
yourself
Am | not right in comparing the
country to a corporation? What is it,
indeed, but merest stock company in
which each and all Of us hold equal
shares? And a president. what is he
but the country's business manager
when all is in? Also. the post of bust
ness manager is of all positions that
one where an iron courage and
lswerveless honesty should most abide
A feeble or dishonest congressman
should mean no more than just rat
aboard a liner. feeble or dishonest
president might well become the leak
that sinks the ship.
Here lies the trouble: The every- day
American is politically lazy. 1t grows
each year more and move difficult 10
make him work at his politics in per-
son. His public idleness arises doubt e.
less from the fact that with the
mounting census Of the country, ne
feels Of less and less account His self
Importance gets swamped in popula-
ton of 96,000,000. He owns not one
twentieth the weight that was his a
century ago.
The IdIer in Politics.
Our duty Sinking idler OF politics is
right so far as he seeks to measure his
own shrinking Importance to govern
ment And yet he should remember
that while his Importance TO govern
ment has diminished not a splinter has
been Whitfield from the Importance Of
government to him. The citizen. with
96,O00000 for the countrys population,
should feel as much concern in select
ing right president as was felt by
those who voted for Nj Madison 100
years ago.
AS practiced and taught by the par
! ties. politics becomes the art Of arous-
ing the ignorance Of mankind In this
| ignorant particular | shall not follow
the parties.
For. myself. | am glad that Mi
Roosevelt was robbed at Chicago. It
compelled him to create a third party,
a party Of progress. which is what the
age demands. True, there are Demo-
Gratis who will hesitate to abandon
their old party standards. just as there
are Republicans who win find it hard
to break their own old party ties. They
should not hesitate for that
They should put aside a sentiment
which is costing them their liberty
Who would fail to pun down bastAc
lest he kill the ivy on the walls?
Parties are like street cars: no one
not fool viii stick to one after it
ceases to carry him in the direction he
should go The man who is always a
Democrat. like the man Who is through
thick and thin a Republican, is the
! sheet anchor of the scheming trick
turning. managing politician-of the
Boss Murphys and the Boss Barneses.
who in their evil turn are but the
! merest paCltmasters of criminal privi-
| lCge. Also, these cnangeless folks Of
party have the same place i'm politics
| thai the halls have in % o.r,a ,F hill