Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-29
ARMAGEDDON,S MONEY BAGS
CANNOT BUY THIS. STATE

Certain northern Interests financing the Roose
welt campaign have begun to shake their money bags
at Georgia. Such dismal fasco was the coIoneljs
personal visit to the South that they realize the
need Of exerting themselves to the utmost II their
candidate is to receive even fragmentary vote in
November. After deal of worry and doubt over the
most strategic course to pursue, they seem to have
decided that ''mammon wins his way where seraphs
might despair and upon that one hope they are now
proceeding. re = -
What an exalted estimate do these Interests place
on Georgias electorate!
In the outset of the Roosevelt campaign it was
bOasted by some of the chief neutenants that his
candidacy would be uhderwritten for as many mil
lion dollars as might be necessary; and. if we re-
member Alright they paid Georgia the singular compi
ment Of intimating that they prepared spend
an unlimited amount in seeking to pry this State
from the ranks Of the Solid South
Far be 1t from us to intrude upon the warriors of
Armageddon with any advice as to how they should
spend their millions in battling for the Lord Since
they have money to burn, let them kindle the sac
fee to their own liking Since they evidently re-
gard the voters of Georgia as mere chat
tells to be trahicked for mans insatiate am
bition. let them draw such cheer as they may from
the delusion while it lasts.
But who that lives in Georgia can refrain from
smiling at the wondrous methods through which
the Roosevelt hnanciers now employing their
check books?
For one thing, they are flooding the rural coun-
ties with costly advertisements il which they urge
people to vote for the Third-Term candidate be-
cause. forsooth he stands for pepetuation of the
high Republican tarin.
We are amazed they have net pitched their ap-
peal to Southern voters Mr.. Roosevelt's negro
record or upon these slanderous pages of his books
in which he maligned Southern heroes.
Such a ground would have been just as reason
able as that they ave actually taken in asking the
people of Georgia to support candidate who is
committed to a system of extortionate tariff
If there is vital reform upon which the
farmers and the consumers in this State insist most
earnestly it is tariff reform. Cur farmers know
that the Democratic House of Representatives re-
Gently passed bin which removed the tariff tax
from agricultural implements, measure that would
have saved them and the people as a whole nearly
four hundred million dollars a year, had it not been
vetoed by a Republican President. They know th.t
if Woodrow Wilson is elected this bill and others
of equal value to the public will be passed. but that
If Theodore Roosevelt is elected, their last hope Of
honest tariff revision will be swept away.
interestingly enough, Mr.. Roosevets financial
mainstay in this campaign is George w. Perkins,
organizer Of the Harvester trust which is directly
responsible for the exorbitant prices the farmers of
the South and Of all other sections are now com
PEELED to pay for their farm tools and machinery.
The truth is Mr. Roosevelt stands cheek by jowl
with the very Interests that have so long taxed the
Southern farmer and virtually robbed him of is
rightful earnings The election of Roosevelt would
be a blow to every part of the country, but none
would feel it so keenly would the South, whose
agricultural welfare demands that the present sys-
tenn of trust-made tariff be revised.
Artists rave about the beauty Of the sunset, per-
haps because they never see the sun rise.