Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-07
F0U HAVE A DUTY
| TOWARD WILSON
|bverting to Stop and Consider
| what the People Owe Presi-
dent. Says Forbes.
Bv 8. c. FORBES.

Bv 8. c. FORBES.
,,.. .- YOUR duty toward Presi-
mt wilson"
- hear so much of President
.,-r.or.s duty toward the people that
..s, he diverting and not wholly
81 ,.s,ss. .o consider the duty of the
s,2l toward him.
prosideu, Wilson'S inaugural adj
n..fl,s the forecast that it would
..aaern sermon on the Mount.
.ta..s are so high, his enthusiasm
-,,..r, and his force of character
Il !,,rau.n. that he has excited higher
IA no. ,hat he can possibly fulfill. 1t
basn Witty. said that certain
...s-s H., not allow themselves to be
4 .n,nsrad by facts; President Wilson,
Il eyor4.sng confidence that the coun-
n .,.. Fan be- virtually remade morally,
a Economically, financially. lndustnally,
4 .oiani.alIv and agriculturally has not
- lamrered by mature knowledge
&naire1 in the hard school of expert
ago in the mart and factory, the
II,
4 o+in5iem his sublime faith in the
q ,,Sa.e' of his own personality and the
d I+s1,y of government. are in one
a l,Sss admirable: but they have sown
seeds of expectation that can not be
,rprtifed into realization in four-or
deyen eight-short years
What can be done on paper can not
rr,.avs br done in practice
The reople. therefore, must be pre-
rared to cultivate great forbearance,
great liberation. great moderation, not
a onIy in their attitude toward President
Wilson. but toward one another. I'M
nstienco. Intolerance, high handedness.
II hot headedness may wreck the ship of
state
The relations between capital and
sbor are to come up for readjustment.
IN recent years the struggle has been
mainly between corporations and con-
SJmerS.
Capita' has been ill-advised in OPP
posing the creation of a full tledged
DEPARTMENT Of labor, with a cabinet
E" q
dainty justified in demanding direct
4 representation in the cabinet. Its i'm
potance more than warrants such pro-
vision for its recognition. Only short
i sighteduess could have caused capital
20 object. A department of Labor
hould aid. not retard, the process of
Il eadiustment that is inevitable and
i imminent Labor is entitled to insist
upon its full rights Coincidentally. it
must be prepared to accept its full
responsibilities.
Would secretary of labor. a man
Of sober Judgment. of judicial tempera-
ment not a blind partisan, come for
ward and tell his colleagues in the
cabinet ard the public, that he OBJ
iected to labor being treated on eX-
actly the same basis as capital under
the Sherman law? Would any man of
national reputation, any aspirant for
the high hOnors of craftsmanship, de-
nounce r legislative measure simply
because it treated all classes alike, be-
cause il refused to call a certain action
a crime when perpetrated by one class
but did cell the same action a crime
when committed by another class? BY
granting Il Dor direct representation in
the cabinet labor's sense of RESPONSE
bl5ty would be increased.
Certain sets Of capitalists must
also 90 little fresh thinking if they
nope to avert swift reprisals.
The Anthracite Coal Trust Is an in
glorious specimen of capitalistic
ciQues that deserve to be brought up
WIN A snort rein. The latest exhibition
OF ehrontcry. of Haunting their arrO-
sance i'm tie face of an impotent public,
Justly aroused Indignation. Because
wages We're slightly increased, the
puone must needs he saddled not only
WIN this additional burden, but with
lar heavier one Instead OF accept
os their share of the increase in the
cost of don g business-as they could
wen afford TO dO--the coal barons
SelzeC the incident as a pretext for
ilui'ung the public of millions of I'M
warranted dollars.
Patience is extremely necessary for
smooth. orGerly government. But pa
uence does not-should not-mean in
inference to wrongs. 1t must not
degenerate into serf-like acquiescence
"Atn iiagrant abuses are persisted in.
g. Many believe a majority-of our
Io5ndnciers are ready to cooperate with
el,SIaenl Wilson in evolving equitable
,,.anclaI and industrial conditions.
r,'loHE our leading men of affairs
mere Is today scant sympathy with
.l'i 'hiId labor with virtual slavery
."lvuE Wotkmen or the starving OF
PINlns women. The Steel Trust has
-s.'i'd IN many reforms, and its eX-
%tI'p.' has been of infinite value.