Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-07


The and children.
Thank God for dscplne for the order and the law
that to their death and saved honor
quite considerable of our people con
scientiously aims to Cypress or defraud the rest
It also that the people whole and especially
that cunning resourceu and able think chiefly OF
themselves and little Of others
makes poor selection when he picks out the
disaster Titanic proof that the meek and owy should
gladly and their denes the naughty and
the powerful
Mr. Martin asks who drowned Titanic, and
"The strong, the rich and powerful
But he overlooks OTHERS
On the Titanic were drowned batch five hundred
and thrtvo men women and chdren-poor thrdcass pas
sengers-LoCKED BELOW THE DECKS, FORBIDDEN TO
COME UP, FORBIDDEN EVEN TO STRUGGLE TO SAVE
THEIR LIVES BECAUSE THEY WERE POOR AND LoWL1
What do and others who tell us that should
allow the powerful intelligent rule think of the cond
ton hundred and thwo steerage
dred by class distinction brutality board the Titanic?
hundred and thywo had been rich passengers
they had had them able leader feared and respect
ed THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN LOCKED BELOW
THE DECKS
They too would have had chance their lives
rich cunning Mr.. Ismay saved HIS life.
They would at least have had chance to look at the iceberg
that killed them look the sky above them, and
their death if they decent human beings showing
their share of courage and devotion
But that good for them.
hero death all very we'll for the strong the rich
the powerful
1t was too good death for the seerage passengers
They five hundred and thrywo of them must stay locked
below and drown with the rats that drowned the hold of the
snip
Does not Mr. Martin others like him really
sympathize with the poor feel that something in
civilization talks about the strong the rich
powerful die heroic deaths and little abon the FIVE hun
dred and thry-two MURDERED BECAUSE THEY WERE
POOR. BECAUSE THEY WERE WEAK BECAUSE 1T WAS
RIGHT IN OUR CIVILIZATION TO LOCK THEM BELOW
AND DROWN THEM WITH THE RATS?
A. vofe
mission wealth, intelligence and good intentions.
that has been taught the poor and the OPP
pressed all through the ages.
The proves that there
good and unsefsh brave the powerful and ortu
above all that those that NOT powerful those
that are NOT fortunate need leaders and representatives
If any had locked John Jacob and the Others
drowned that boat if rich powerful had been
drowned because they arbitrarily locked below the decks
would suffer
But NO ONE WILL SUFFER FOR THE MURDER OF
THE FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO THIBDCLAsS
They are only THIRD CLASS passengers
As it the Titanic it has been from the beginning
of time
The most cunning and INSCRIPTIONS get top they
survivelik Talleyrand the shpwreok Of the French
tocracy, snay in shipwreck at
Occasionally the strong rich the powerful go
and die heroic deaths
But they heroes they remembered and
honored
The poor people whether in wrecks on shore or the
wrecks drown LIKE THE RATS and nothing is said
about it herosm for them In the old DAYS they were slaves
be butchered viii in the later days they Napoleon
called them flesh for cannon and these civilized days they
are speculative representing twenty dollars apiece to
the steamship companies and drowned like the the cargo
The poor need leaders, they need organization.
They have the Socialist de-
cared their place IN the sunlight
They the the Sky. they be locked
onnd in the mines or locked away from hanpi6e and real lie
in mills and factories all through the
They get their place the and they WILL get
they will get by looking with folded hands and
heads those above them but by taking their place AND
GETTING THEIR SHARE