Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-07
And Any Graft Sank They Sank With It. It Time for
the Lowly to Take Part in Government.
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Who drowned9
The strong the rich, the powerful.
Who in the boas2
The and children
Thank God for discipline; for the order and the law
that o their death and saved honor.
It is quite true that no considerable group people con
scientiousy aims to Cypress defraud the rest
1t is also the people, a whole, and especially
cunning resourceu and able think chiefly OF
themselves and little of others
Martin makes poor selection when he picks out the
the Titanic proof that the meek and oy should
gladly their denes the naughty and
the powerful.
Mr. Martin asks who drowned on Titanic and
"The strong the rich and powerful
But lie overlooks OTHERS
On the Titanic drowned batch five hundred
and thry-two men, chidrenpoor thrdcass pas
sengers-LOCKED BELOW THE DECKS, FORBIDDEN TO
COME UP, FORBIDDEN EVEN TO STRUGGLE TO SAVE
THEIR LIVES, BECAUSE THEY WERE POOR AND LoWLY.
What Martin and others who tell us that should
allow powerful the intelligent rule think of the eond
five hundred and thrwo
dered by distinction brutality board the tanc9
five hundred and thrywo had been rich
if they had had them able leader feared and respect
ed THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN LOCKED BELOW
THE DECKS
They would have had chance to their lives,
rich and cunning Mr. Ismay saved HIS life.
They look the iceberg
that killed them to look the sky above them and to to
their death they must decent human beings showing
their share of courage and devotion
But that too good for them
heros death all very we'll for he strong the rich,
the powerful
good a death for the steerage passengers.
They hundred thirty of them stay
below that drowned hold
ship.
Does not Mr. Martin do not others who like him really
syrnpahize with the poor feel that something wrong
civilization that talks much about the strong the rich the
powerful that die heroic deaths and little about the five hun
dred and thrywo 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 RATS2
The that the Titanic teaches lesson of
mission to wealth. intelligence and good intentions.
1t is lesson that has been taught TO the and the op
pressed all through the
The disaster the Titanic while it proves that there
good and unsefh brave the powerful and foru
proves above all that those that NOT powerful those
NOT fortunate need leaders and representatives
If had locked John Jacob Astor and the others
drowned that boat rich and powerful had been
drowned because they arbitrarily locked below the decks
some would suffer
But NO ONE WILL SUFFER FOR THE MURDER OF
THE FIVE HUNDRED AND TERRIFYING THIRDCLAss
PASSENGERS
They are only THIRD CLASS passengers
Of time
The cunning and INSCRIPTIONS get the top they
surviveke Taeyrand in the shpwreck of the French
tocracy, Ismay in shipwreck at
Occasionally the the rich the powerful 50 down
and die heroic deaths
But they treated heroes they remembered and
honored
The poor people whether the shore or the
at drown LIKE THE RATS nothing is said
about it. No herom Tor them In the ola days they
buchered will the later days they Napoleon
called flesh for civilized DAYS they
speculative atoms representing twenty i've dollars apeee
steamship companies drowned nike
The poor need leaders they need organization
They must have the German Socialist Democrat
dared their place in the sunlight
They the and the sky they
below decks the sinking ship locked forever below the
ground in the locked away from happiness
IN mills and factories all through the ages
They get their place in the and they WILL
And they will get by looking with folded hands
bent heads above them but by taking their place AND
GETTING THEIR SHARE.