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
! Democrat. like the man who is through
thick and thin 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 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. 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 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 a crowd
the intinitesimal 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 Gttleness 1t was their littleness.
their lack of height and weight and
strength which gave them tlfeir nomf
. nations
Roosevelt Defies Environment.
AS a mere man-producer an elder
gay was a better day than this. As
lately even as 80 years ago. there were
bears and panthers in the political hills
lhose bears and panthers of notifies
| nave passed away. Commercialism
ana the press and crowd of population
provided for their disa ppearance
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 Fatts. offending no one, threaten
! me nothing. Mr.. Roosevelt is bts in
| defiance of an environment After q
fashion he is a throwbacl of politics
and would have better matched lack
son day than this.
! Mr.. Roosevelt would fit into the
white house day like a picture into q
frame. The demand is for laws and o
Scheme Of courts to bring about an
equality of right We make laws to
| prevent the physically strong from
beating the physically weak. Shall W..
not make laws to prevent the apan-
clAljy strong from beating the fnan-
clally weak? The law should he ae %
quart pot in the hand of every man so
lhat when one dips up more than the
justice of nature intended the unfai,
excess VIII instantly overflow and re-
turn to the common store.
or the three named. Mr.. Roosevelt.
IS the only one whose force and c,,,,-
age are equal to the white hopsa
WORK ahead, Also, he knows tha nao-
pie knows whore they and their intor.
est belong in the procession of oo,.ar,
| 'IeHl AND he is equal to saving "No,".
whenever a negative would make fo,
! popular right.
T,>R. Strong and Bold.
Moreover, Mr., Roosevelt is not too
nerNousIy line, The white house fs
IKE unto a stone quarry. 1t is - mac
! Tor drills and giant powder. Notbfno
Is honestly done there save by heavy
numbering work-work for the croo.ha,
not for the lancet All is as rp1ery
coarse as any canebrake bear # j.,
/ no place for wolff foot wea lrines a.. ,r
/ lINtS of the back stairs.
| Your great president will he one
/ whose nature is not too sensitiyelv
drawn, He will possess qualities of tbe
ouHalo-bull kind. In the white hons.
quantity is often greater than aiali,
and momentum counts for more than
being quick
For myself give me men Of the
/ Roosevelt type. They always fight and
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