Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-07
[0U HAVE A DUTY
| TOWARD WILSON
bverting to Stop and Consider
1 what the People Owe Presi-
j dent, Says Forbes.
BY q. c. FORBES.

What is YOUR outy toWaru fresI-
fent wilson?
,ro will hearts SO much of President
&-1son's duty toward the people that
Il NAV be diverting and not wholly
suless to consider the duty of the
Reople toward him.
4 erosident Wilson's inaugural adj
- fuldlls the forecast that it would
modern Sermon on the Mount.
H. ideals are so high, his enthusiasm
aeriine and his force of character
i%nreIIine that he has excited higher
] ones m that he can possibly fulfill. 1t
Eos heen wittily said that certain
riters do not allow themselves to be
u ononared by facts; President Wilson,
Il ovnressing confidence that the coun-
~. can he virtually remade morally,
ooronicslly, financially, industrlally,
Il &ySienically and agriculturally has not
49, hampered by mature knowledge
%oined in the hard school of expert
80 in the mart and factory, the
nnpting house and the exchange. His
q #,ptin,ism his sublime faith in the
! E,pyar of his own personality and the
#otancv of government, are in one
zenea admirable; but they have sown
go of expectation that can not be
*rnctifed into realization in four-or
#ven eight-short years.
What can be done on paper can not
always be done in practice.
The people. therefore, must be pre-
Mared to cultivate great forbearance,
%reat liberation, great moderation, not
Snlv in their attitude toward President
MEiison but toward one another. I'M
Batience, intolerance, high -handedness,
hot headedness may wreck the ship of
State
Il The relations between capital and
Aabor are to come up for readJustment.
In recent years the struggle has been
mainly between corporations and con-
&umers.
d CAPITAL has been advised in op-
Ibosing the creation of a full fiedged
hepartment of labor, with a cabinet
bficer at it's head. Labor is abun-
Bantly justified in demanding direct
Representation in the cabinet. It's im-
sportance more than warrants such pro-
Vision for its recognition. Only short
$ightedness could have caused capital
Ao object A department of labor
Should aid, not retard, the process of
Establishment that is inevitable and
#mminent. Labor is entitled to insist
#lpon its full rights. Coincidentally, it
must be prepared to accept its full
responsibilities.
Would q secretary of labor. man
bf sober judgment, of judicial tempera-
@hent, not blind partisan, come for
ward and tell his colleagues in the
cabinet, ard the public. that he OBJ
$ected to labor being treated on eS-
Rctly the same basis as capital under
#he Sherman law? Would any man of
Rational reputation, any aspirant for
Hhe high honors of craftsmanship, de-
nounce a legislative measure simply
Because it treated all classes alike, be-
PAUSE 1t refused to call a certain action
= crime when perpetrated by one class
Put did cell the same action crime
When committed by another class? BY
granting Ii Dor direct representation in
4ne cabinet, labor's sense of RESPONSE
#'"'F "ou4" pe IhSi easca.
Certain sets Of capitalists must
Rlso Go little fresh thinking if they
Pope to avert swift reprisals.
The Anthracite Coal Trust is an in
glorious specimen of capitalistic
Fliques that deserve to be brought up
FFlth short rein. The latest exhibition
n effrontery, Of f'aunting their arro-
gance in the face of an impotent public,
gustly aroused indignation. Because
Nages were slightly increased, the
public must needs be saddled not only
Fith this additional burden, but with
i tar heavier one. Instead of accept
Rhg their share of the increase in the
Eost Of doirg business-as they could
Feli afford to do--the coal barons
Selzec the incident as a pretext for
snulcting the public of millions of un-
warranted dollars.
Patlence is extremely necessary for
snooth, orderly government. But pa
sience does not-should not-mean in
plHerence to wrongs 1t must not
pegenerate into serf-like acquiescence
4 Heh nagrant abuses are persisted in.
hdii iy-I peleVe majority-of our
Sbnanclers are ready to cooperate with
resident Wilson in evolving equitable
',.Iahclal and industrial conditions
t1hlong our leading men of affairs
knere Is today scant sympathy with
fruel child labor. with virtual slavery
P"lohg Workmen or the starving of
Working women. The Steel Trust has
pshered in many reforms, and it's ex-
rulpIe has hnan of inRnitn Nal11e