Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-13

which is costing them their liberty
Who would fail to pull down a bastile
lest he kill the ivy on the walls?
Parties are like street cars; no one
not a fool will 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 poIitician-of the
| Boss Murphys and the Boss Barneses,
who in their evil turn are but the
merest packmasters of criminal privi-
! lege. Also, these changeless folks Of
! party have the same place in politics
| that the balls have in a game Of bill
| liards; the bosses. acting for criminal
| privilege, knock them about and count
off them
Against Petrified Politics.
Politics stagnant and without a cur
rent IS disastrous for the individual
own your party; don't let your party
! own you. A healthful uncertainty. a
hopeful ability to abandon a party
going wrong or decline a candidate who
| lacks fitness, should work for good
good for the public-good for the indi-
vidual In politics, as in commerce, no
one buys his own, but sells it. Where
fore if you would be listened to and
not ignored, enriched and not stripped
become uncertain. Cease to think that
progress consists in standing still or
your politics is better for being petri-
fed
Because | feel that Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Taft are too small for the white
house, | am opposed to them. They
aren't in my opinion, white house size
Mr. Taft has been weighed and found
wanting, MI Wilson has not been
weighed; but, judging by what he has
written and what he has said by his
shifts of principle and corkscrew twists
of feeling / should say that. considered
from the standpoint of a white house,
mankind would find him only inches
where he should be feet, ounces where
he should be pounds.
Not that l impute to Mr.. Wilson and
Mr. Taft their innate smallness as a
moral fault Rather, it should be
charged to the thronged conditions into
which they were born. Big populations
bear fruit in small men. In crowd
the infnitesima finds its opportunity.
To herd men stunts men. Big trees re
quire room. and what plant subsists
itself upon a foot of earth will never
kiss the clouds. 1t may do for fish
ing rod; it will never furnish timber
for bridge Not that Mr.. Taft and
Mr. Wilson should find fault with their
| own littleness. 1t was their bitterness
their lack of height and weight and
strength which gave them their nomi
, nations
Roosevelt Defies Environment
! AS mere producer an elder
day was better day than this. AS
lately even as so years ago, there were
bears and panthers in the political hills
ihoSe bears and panthers of politics
| nave passed away COmmercialfsm
ana the press and crowd of population
provided for their disappearance,
CoIhnerctalism fears the bears
avoids the panthers; population refuses
| them room. They go, and in their stead
come rabbits and Wilson's. red squirrels
ana IaitS' offending no one, threaten
ing nothing. Mr. Roosevelt is big in
defiance of an environment After a
fashion he is a throwback of politfcs
ana would have better matched lack
son day than this.
AIR. Roosevelt would fiji into the
white house day like picture into q
| frame, The demand is for laws and =
scheme Of courts to bring about an
equality of right. we make laws fol
prevent the physically strong from
| beating the physically weak Shall wei
not make laws to prevent the fnan-
claIIy strong from beating the fnan-
claIIE weak The law should be AZ ..
quart pot in the hand of every man So
! mat when one dips up more than tho
justice of nature intended. the unfair
excess will instantly overflow and re
! turn to the common store
! or the three named. Mr. Roosa,a1.
Is the only one whose force and conn
ase are equal to the white honso
work ahead. Also. he knows the poo-
pie knows where they and their intor.
est belong in the procession of eover,
neht And he is equal to saving ..No',
whenever negative would max. f,r
| popular right. io'
I. 4. Strong and Bold.
Moreover Mr. Roosevelt is NOT too
ne'NousIy tine The white bo,so -.
axe unto d stone quarry. 1t is p,aco
Tor drills and giant powder Nothino
! Is honestly done there save bv ba,,,,.
numbering Work-work for the rrou.ha,
not tor the lancet. All is as r,1aI,,
! coarse any ''