Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-28
AY-AS-WE-GO' REGIME
PROMISED BY HARD WICK

state shall be administered along
strictly business lines. Income and
out-go must be carefully and accur-
ately balanced against each other;
rigid and real economy must be not
only preached but practiced. How
ever worthy the appropriation it can
not and must not be made unless we
have the money to spend. I am de-
voted to the common schools of the
state. The education Of the masses
spells to me the continued freedom
of the people, the continual vindica-
ton of popular government, and yet.
I would not appropriate even to the
common schools of the state, a sim
gle penny that we cannot raise and
pay by just taxation. was born
and raised in an atmosphere that ex-
hailed devotion to the south, to it's
ideals, to it's memories,--and yet, I
would not appropriate to the Con-
federate veterans, who followed Lee
and Gordon, and Longstreet, a sim
just taxation and that We cannot
promptly pay.
"'Pay as we go must be our mot
to, and we must live up to it. We
must not forget that, while 1t is
both pleasant and easy to appropri-
ate money for worthy objects, it is
hard to levy taxes and still harder
for people to pay them in times like
these.
"In the reconstruction that is in
cldent to great war, a certain
and unescapable. During the war
period spirit of hysteria, a spirit
of over-regulation is equally inevi-
table, and growing out Of this spirit,
created by both state and federal
legislation, boards, bureaus and
commissions infest the land: they
constitute another Egyptian plague;
activity of life. They undertake to
remedy the shortcomings of human
nature with the sophistry Of cranks.
They constitute a menace to our
continued freedom and to our con-
tlnued solvency. For both of these
reasons, most of these boards must
go, although 1t is not our purpose
er line of the states duties or re-
sponsibilities. / would not impair
useful service; I would not weaken
the performance of any necessary or
useful function Of the government,
but with this single qualification, I
unhesitatingly declare that the in
$ ID paternaliom and the unbear,,
commissions unite in condemning
them, and it is my purpose. if I
may have the cooperation Of the
general assembly, to sweep this
state clean of them. 1t is my pur-
pose to hew to the line, in this mat
ter, wherever the chips may fall, and
unhesitatingly urge abolition of
every useless board, of every I'M
namentaf office holder. Let us
purge Georgia's payroll Of them all.
49, Regulated to Death"
In this country. particularly dur
Ing the excitement of the war period,
death, regulated until we have been
almost strangulated, regulated until
liberty is impaired; it is time to
stop it. Thomas Jefferson never ut
tered wiser sentiment than when
he said: The less governed people
are the best governed people, and I
wish to call a halt on over-regula-
ton and over-legislatio I summon
the peoplc of Georgia back to first
principles, and at the bar of public
opinion 1 challenge and indict this
spirit of so-called Drogressivenes
that under the misused name of prog
ress impairs the rights and liberties
of the people. I urge a return to
principles of the fathers, to real de-
mocracy, to the ancient faith. Lee
us abolish every useless office, every
ornamental board, every sinecure.
1.-THE fiscal affairs of the state are
such as to demand the sweep OF a
new, clean broom; the people of the
state have commissioned both the
members of the general assembly
and the governor to use that broom,
and it is my purpose, with the help
of the general assembly, to do so.
THE World War has ended; in it's
wake come the usual and unescap-
able problems of readjustment and
reconstruction Those .nrnh1n1pS
not only legislative, but they are
those of practical business, and af-
feet most powerfully the business
affairs of every man, woman and
child in this country. Economy in
the administration of all government,
federal, state and local, will do much
to help us at this juncture. A return
to the fundamental principles of both
democracy and Americanism will do
more; but, with it all, we cannot
escape the sorrow and travail of this
new Gethsemane.
Capital and labor, with interests
apparently hopelessly divergent,
own thought is that in the gradual
and joint ownership, by both capital
and labor, of the plants of industry,
the so-called labor problem will final
ly be solved, but pending it's solu-
ton natural and unacceptable friction
d0N ClOpSl. LlldI IIllS IrlCIlOn
may be decreased throughout the
country by an honest and earnest
effort on the part of the leaders of
beth these mighty forces to do right
by each other, is my earnest hope
and my constant prayer. In Georgia
we have been blessed on the VIII lie.
by wise and conservative leadership
of both of these great forces. and
from that fact. we can draw both in
spiration and hope: hope that the
owners of capital in this state may
not forget the rights Of men in their
dealings with their fellows; hope
that the leaders Of the great forces
Of labor, in their dealings with cap
ital, may not forget the rights of
property and their own proper rela-
ton to 1t; hope that wise and con-
sentative leadership in this state
may be of some inspiration to the
balance of the country, and may help
to point to the path of justice and
right dealing on this great subject.
Importance of Agriculture
II trust 1 may be pardoned Just