Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-14

| "nlCh 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 fool win 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 harnesses
who in their evil turn are but the
merest packmasters of criminal priv
lege. Also, these changeless folks OF
| party have the same place in politics
that the balls have in a game of bill
lizards; 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 hcalthful 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. Mr.. 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. l 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 intinitesimal finds its opportunity.
TO herd men stunts men. Big trees re-
quire room. and what plant subsists
itself upon foot of earth will never
kiss the clouds 1t may do for fish
ing rod; it will never furnish timber
for a bridge. Not that Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Wilson should find fault with their
own bitterness. 1t was their lttleness.
their lack Of height and weight and
strength which gave them their nomi-
nations.
roosevelt Defes Environment.
AS mere man. producer an elder
DAY was a better day than this. AS
lateIy even as so years ago, there were
bears and panthers in the political hills
Ihose bears and panthers of politics
nave passed away Commercialism,
'llu tne press and crowd of population
provided for their disappearance.
Conmercialism fears the bears
avoids the panthers; population refuses
then room They go, and in their stead
come rabbits and Wilson's, red SQUIRRELS
ana Iatts, offending no one, threaten
ing nothing. Mr.. Roosevelt is big in
defiance off an environment. After =
I7Shlon he is a throwback of politics.
ana would have better matched a Jack
son day than this.
MI Roosevelt would fit into the
white house day like a picture into =
frame. The demand is for laws and =
scheme of courts to bring about an
equality of right. We make laws TO
prevent the physically strong from
beating the physically weak. Shall we
not make laws to prevent the fnan-
'IaIIy strong from beating the finan-
clali| weak? The law should be as y
quart pot in the hand of every man 50
tnat when one dips up more than tbe
justice of nature intended the unfair
excess viii instantly overflow and re-
turn to the common store.
or the three named. Mr.. RoosevaI.
Is the only one whose force and co,,r-
age are equal to the white house
work ahead. Also, he knows the neo-
pie knows where they and their inter.
est belong in the procession of govern
ment And he is equal to saving "NoIo
whenever negative would mako for
popular right
T. r. Strong and Bold,
moreover Mr.. Roosevelt is not foo
herNously nne. The white borsa is
IKE unto stone quarry. 1t is a DIaco
Tor drills and giant powder. Notbing
is honestly done there save BY heavy
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