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

IHe% should put aside sentiment
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 fool win stick TO one after it
| ceases to carry him in the direction he
should go. The man who is always
| 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 Barneses,
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 game of bill
lizards; the bosses, acting for Criminal
privilege, knock them about and count
off them.
Against Petrfied Politics.
Politics stagnant and without a cur
rent is disastrous for the individual.
own your party; don't let your party
own you. healthful uncertainty.
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 petrl-
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 | 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 inpute 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 a crowd
the infinitesimal 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 a 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 littleness.
their lack of height and weight and
strength which gave them their nomi-
nations
Roosevelt Defies Environment.
AS mere producer an elder
gay was better day than this AS
lately even as 80 years ago, there were
pears and panthers in the political hills
Ihose bears and panthers of politics
nave passed away. CommerciaIism
and the press and crowd of popuIation
provided for their disappearance
Commercialism fears the hears
avoids the panthers; population refuses
them 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
uenahce of an environment After
taShlon he is a throwback of nolitice
and would have better matched a lack
son day than this.
Mr. Roosevelt would fit into the
Whlte house day like a picture into
nane. 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 finan-
cialIy strong from beating the fnar-
cially weak? The law sbo,,,d bo -,
q"aiI pot IN the hand of every man, so
that when one dips up more than the
justice of nature intended. the unfair
excess will instantly overflow and re-
turn to the common store
of the three named, Mr.. Roosevelt.
Is the only one whose force and cour-
age are equal to the white house
work ahead. Also, he knows the nao-
pie, knows where they and thair i,,4o.
'S''7 IA TIE procession of pnyar,,
neht' And he is equal to SAYING mo-"
whenever negative would make for
popular right.
T. r. Strong and Bold
moreover, Mr. Roosevelt is not roo
neNously fine The white house l.
IKE unto a stone quarry 1t is a nIaca
Tor drills and giant powder. Notbipo |
Is honestly done there save by beavI=
numbering Woodwork for the crovha,,
not ior the lancet, All is as rudeIv
coarse as any canebrake bear. # 10
no place for Wool-foot weaklfngs or ar
tlSts OF the back stairs
Your great president will be one
whose nature is not too sensitiyeIv
drawn. He will possess qualities of the /
buhalo-bull kind. In the white house !
quantity is often greater than quality
and momentum counts for more than |
being quick.
For myself, give me men of the
Roosevelt type They always fight and |