Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
POLITICAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Stdte tndt the construction of the 40
mai VIII do more for the developmea.
OF trade, for the industries Of o'.
country, than any public enterprise
the history or our country as a. ma.
ton" ma
We are spending $500 OOo ooO
build it. The cost of maintainiro
and the responsibilities of its nrosoa u
ton rest upon us. / believe such ho,
efits as may be derived to our Coz.
wise shipping should be stimnistos
and fostered by free toll, II is o,,l
canal, we have built it, we have nail
for 1t. AS | understand it, no countr,.
mas ever by~ treaty relations forfeita1
its control over its coastwise trad,
1t will be just to ourselves and ins,
to other countries, and we will deriv.
more OF the great benefits that viii
flow from its construction.
Favors Good Roads.
favor good roads. The interes.
and enthusiasm manifested in tbo
construction of good roads througbo,,
the entire country is one of the mos,
marked evidences of progress and
civilization, and will relate direct,
to our material development.
The census of 1890 showed tina, 2s
per cent of our people lived in tba
cities; in 1900 there were 40 per cont
and 1910 46 per cent, an increase ~
10 per cent in city population as com.
pared with rural population in twen-
ty years | am frank to saw that in
my opinion this is an unhealthy CON.
dition but, on the other hand. il VIII
not stop until our roads are improved
and school and mail facilities are he
tered.
We have in the United States an
proximately 100000 miles of publc
roads. On grand scale of construc-
ton of interstate lines-and the ma
tional Government should become in
terested so that in the course of a few
decades all the States of this Union
will be connected by a system of puh-
lie roads which will become the Won
der of the world
Would Help Education.
/ am profoundly interested in fba
cause of elementary and higher edu-
cation. There has been much enthu-
siasm in Georgia along educational
lines for many years, and to-day our
institutions of higher learning and
our common school system are among
the best of any of the States of our
country. The cause Of education.
technical. classical and elementary
all forms Of education-will always
have friend in me.
A writer recently said; while we
are striving to utilize the material
resources Of the South, to turn all It's
coal and iron and timber and water
power into wealth creating factors it
is even more important that the vast
undeveloped, untitled resources o.
the unframed and uneducated boys
and girls of this section should DO
utilized, and by fitting them by edu-
cation and by the training of WORK,
and the education that fits them 70.
the responsibilities of life to become
greater factors in the worlds affairs
than all the coal and iron and timber
and cotton of this or any other Sec
ton"
Betterment of Humanity,
If elected TO the United States SEN
ate, l will pledge you my answering
support of all measures that look to
1.-The betterment of humanity l will
champion all measures that will tend
to improve the moral condition of our
people and promote the best interests
of society
A matter here in Georgia l am in
terested in, and that is the changing
of our laws and improvement of con-
ditions that surround our convicts.
Among these changes is the abandon
ment of the barbarous practice Of us
ing the lash. You and | can not con-
ceive hardly of human skin being
torn and human flesh lacerated by
the merciless hand of the irresponsl-
BILE whipping boss. Our civilization is
too far advanced to permit such con-
ditions.
If elected to the United States Sen
ate, ] viii always try to be just TO
both labor and capital. Capital con-
trolls the resources put here by the
Almighty. and largely receives the
benefits by their possession. Labor
utilities them and makes their pos
session of value. 1t is labor that
builds the railroads, tills our SOIL
constructs buildings and carries on
the thousand and one industrial en-,
terprises that produce our indusT'a
| life and our splendid civilization MY
ideas at times may be wrong, but my
purposes at all times will be to do
justice and right
The Homes the Thing.
But, gentlemen, back of our mate
rial resources and our industrial ad-
vancement. great as they are; back
of our strong navy and our large
arm; back Of all the moral forces
that drive in splendor the progress oil
hanback, of all these things, and the
| republic itself is the individual ms
/ daily life, the even tenor Of his way
| Just so pure and earnest is the NE
of the individual, just so clean anu
| forceful is the government and lts e.
| ficiency in the mission of its useful
ness. How beautiful is the language
and how true the thought taken from
one of Henry Grady's great speeches.,
Let us make our homes temples OF
| liberty, and teach our sons that an
! honest conscience. is every mans nrSl
! political law: that his sovereignty
rests beneath his hat. and that 20
| splendor can rob him and no ior'e
| justify the surrender of the simpess'
right of a free and Independent clll-
zen"
Ny friends. the people OF these
United States are the best people on
earth. We have the most sterilnH
manhood, brave, intelligent, ana uS
I ually righteous in their purposes VI
| fact the land that God has permit .
ted us to live in has a climate tnsl
produces a vigor of intellect and en-
el'gy of body without a parallel ot
/ /, nn 10 me-