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'HE ATLANTA GEORG
Published by THE G JIOIT A { IPANY
At st Alaban 111 e i, Ga
red as second class matier ut postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 8, 1373
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN ar { ILANTA GEORGIAN wi
majled to subserihers anvwhere in th nit 't Canada and Mexico
¢ month for s6u; three months for $1 t for $3.50 and one year
87.00 hange ! ress made as ofter § exired Foreign subscription
an app! tion
Be Sure That YOU Go to the
Polls May 5 and VOTE FOR
the Girady Hospital Bonds.
There js nothing, can be nothing, of more immediate or more
vital concern to the people of Atlanta than the proposed en
‘argement of Grady Hospital.
To fail on May 5 to vote the $750,000 of bonds necessary to
the consummation of this undertaking would be for Atlanta to
take a backward step—a step away from the pathway of true
progressiveness—and that would be, in every sense of the words,
a most amazing thing for Atlanta to do.
If Atlanta would keep pace with its sister cities of approxi
mately the same size, it MUST provide for a Greater Grady
Hospital, in such wise as the present proposed plans of enlarge
ment call for.
It is all but unthinkable that Atlanta ever will fail or neg
lect at least to keep up with the march of modern progress—as
a matter of fact, Atlanta’s way has been to keep well in advance
of it, as a rule.
It is true, however, that the success of the Greater Grady
project depends upon INDIVIDUAL ATLANTANS--depends
upon them because it is only through their individual efforts,
through their willingness to go to the ballot box and vote for the
bonds, that the work in hand surely may be forwarded!
Atlantans must remember, therefore—EACH AND EVERY
INDIVIDUAL AND SEVERAL ATLANTAN--that a failure
to vote for the bonds asked is, in effect, a vote against the bonds.
The stay-at-homes on election day will be as potential in
operation against the Greater Grady Hospital movement as
those who actually go to the ballot box and vote against the
bonds.
The danger is NOT that there will be a heavy vote
AGAINST the bonds—that is the remotest of probabilities—but
it is that the vote FOR the bonds, through indifference, forget
fulness or carelessness may fall short of the required propor
tion of the entire number qualified.
Individual Atlantans MUST keep well in mind the neces
sity of voting FOR these Greater Grady bonds.
A full VOTE is ABSOLUTELY essential to success!
Why Don't the Police Put a
Stop to the Open-Muifler
Nuisance?
Perhaps the very biggest nuisance in the city of Atlanta
to-day is the outlaw who persistently and deliberately CUTS
OUT HIS MUFFLER, upon the slightest and most unnecessary
provocation, in operating his automobile about town!
Arrests for speeding are not infrequent in Atlanta—and
that is right, for speeding is against the law, and it is, more
over, essentially unjust to pedestrians and dangerous; but when
have you heard of an arrest for cutting out a muffler, notwith.
standing the fact that it is JUST AS POSITIVELY AGAINST
THE LAW IN ATLANTA AS IS SPEEDING?
Residents in all parts of the city continuously complain
that they can not get relief from the selfish and mischievous
operations of automobilists who persist in violating this ordi
nance against cutting out theiy mufflers.
Instead of being a pleasure to live on some of the more prom
{nent streets, as it should be, and as the law contemplates it
SHALL be, it is coming more and more to be something to be
shunned and avolded.
Very late at night, when most honest folks are abed, and
very early in the morning, when few people are required to be
up and about, are the favorite times for the open-muffler fiend
to make his disturbing rounds.
What's the matter with Atlanta's brave and fearless police
department that it can not make even an OCCASIONAL case
against these nuisances?
A few arrests followed by fines—and by license cancella
tions, if necessary—would work speedily the reform indicated.
And there is plenty of LAW on the statute books—all that
is needed is some measure of ENFORCEMENT.
o AMBITION o
¢¢T D like to go
I To Mexico.”
Old Hiram Haskins said
td git my eye
yii that Villy guy
\nd il him full of lead.
“iut, dern it, I ain't got no dongh.
“o [ can't §o to Mexico.
My poor old dad .
Lost all he had.”
Oid Hiram said to me,
“A-tightin’ for
hat Civil War;
I'm jest as brave, hy gee!
Bt when a guy ain’t got no dongi
How can he go to Mexieo?
Them Greaser guys
Would rub their eyes!”
Naid Hiram with a frow
I'd show them how
' stop their row
Or how to hold a town.
ihut even so, it takes some dough,
So 1 can't go to Mexico,” i
THE ATLANTA (GEORGIAN
The Flag of True Liberty, of Progress and
Civilization Floats Over Mexican Soil.
May It Never Come Down!
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band cooks his own supper.. He
growls a lot about it, but what
good does it do him? You just
bet [ wouldn't tie MYSELF down
for any man,
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man would expect a woman to sit
home all day counting her fingers
and never going any place. May
be some do. but not for e 1
like a little speed and baving some
fun."
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see, the happiness of the ones
that ARE interested in their
homes, their children and in
helping their husbands to gei
shead. which eventually means
happiness for them all. The peo
ple that neglact their homes seem
happy for awhile - - but, sooner
or later, along comes the big
smash and then the lonesome
migery with nothing {eft but the
memories of what might have
been.
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suggrested going to a matinee, but
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it Then one of them suggested
going to call on @ woman friend
of theirs, whom, they said, had
lots of money, adding that they
alwayvs had a good time when
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went to ¢all on this friend
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(To Be Continuedd
Our Last War With Mexico
How It Started;: How It Was Fought; What It Cost 1n Lives
and Money, and What We Gained by It. '
(This concize history will be
completed in gie instalments, to
be published consecutively,)
CHAPTER II
N this chapter | will set forth
I the causes, occult and other
wise, that led up to the Mex
itan War of 1846-47. Like every
thing elee that happens in the
world, that momentous struggle
came about because of certain
other things that had happened
bhefore it, and without whidh It
wou!d never have taken place.
In the enumeration of the pro
=pelling causes of the war must
come, first of all, the fact of the
difference of vace, the irrepressi
ble opposition of breed, the un
compromising frictlon that has
alwayvs and evervwhere existed
between the independent, pro
gressive, seif-relant Saxon and
the docile, rehctienary Latin,
Occupying the same continent,
with nothing but an imaginary
line, or a narrow stream, be
tween them, it was inevitable
that there should be misunder
standings, disagreements, clash
ing convictions—in a word, all
sorts of trouble,
A Wicked, Unjust Neighbor.
Here, then, in this basic fact
of BREED, we have the primary
cause of the Mexican War, It
made trouble from the start, it is
making trouble to-day, and it
will Keep on making trouble un
til, in the “struggle for life” the
“fittest” holds the helm and
guides the ship.
Just now it was intimated that
among the other differences be
tween the Saxon and the Latin
was the MORAL one; and it was
in this difference that we are to
find another of the causes that
brought on our armed conflict
with Mexico.
The population of Mexico In
1846 was, approximately, 8,000,-
000, and of the 8,00,000 at least
85 per cent were peons and half
breeds of various descriptions,
without social standing or politi
cal influence, more human nonde
scripts, leaving the Government
and its policies to be shaped by
the million or so of pure Latins,
and what those policies were is
well known to all men.
Mexico had from the begin
ning proved itself to be an un
just and wicked neighbor. It
was such under the imperial gov
ernment of the mother country;
it was even worse under its own
so-called republican rule,
Always fighting among them
selves, they were always impov
erished, and they did not hesitate
to replenish their ever-depleted
treasury by plundering American
vessels in the Gulf of Mexico or
wherever else they could find
them, and by confiscating the
property of American merchants
within its borders.
Robberies were frequent., Bri
gandage was of common occur
rence. The murder of American
citizens living in the country, or
of Americansg journeying through
it, were a matter that provoked
slight comment by the authorities
or the people.
The United States Government
remonstrated, but remonstrated
in vain. The robbery, murder
LETTERS FROM READERS OF THE GEORGIAN
FROM A 365 DAY WORKER.
Editor The Georgian:
I am one of those seven-day a
week, 365 day a year, workers,
which B. (", Forbes referred to re
cently in his daily letter to The
Georgian. Having very little
chance to receive an education,
tbout #even vears ago I thought |
saw bright prospects in railway
signal work. I commenced at the
hottom. Now, after seven vears
of studying, hard work and expe
rience in almost every branch of
signal work, with a clear record,
I am employved as a signal main
tainer on a single track railroad.
I maintain seventeen miles of ter
ritory, am subject to call day and
night 365 dayvs a year, at $7O per
month, with no extra pay for
overtime or night ecalls. If 1
happen te be off a dav 1 lose the
time for that day. According to
Mr. Forbes letter, there is evi
dently something wrong. Whenl
think about the wages I draw and
the time I am required to put in,
it seams that my hopes of seven
years ago have been shattered.
Sometimes 1 feel that I have heen
a failure, although I can handle
and understand nearly every
branch of signal work. lam not
alone. There are thousands of
signalmen lfke myself. Does this
encourage or discourage organ
-Ized labor, and. as Mr. Forbes
sayvs. Socialism? Our laws are
strenuous regarding the installa
tion of safety devices on rail
roads, but no provision is made
as to how many men it takes to
properls maintain them.
SIGNALMAN
OPPOSES SUFFRAGISM.
Editor The Georgian:
I would hke to sayv just a few
words in regard to an article I
THE HOME PAPER
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REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.,
and confiscation went right on,
regardless of the protests of our
Government. In 1831 a treaty
was made between the two coun
trles, and promises of redress
were given, but the pledged faith
of Mexico was never fulfileld
By 1845 the aggregate value of
property belonging to Americans
that had been appropriated by
the Mexicans amounted to over
seven millions of dollars This
claim was still unsatisfied when
the annexation of Texas took
place in the above mentioned
vear
Texas In; Mexico Frantic.
The annexation of Texas! Here
we have one of the big causes of
the war with our southern neigh
hor When Texas joined the
Union, Mexico became franti
It is true Texas, driven to des
peration by Mexican Itrocities
and Mexican misrule in general,
had appealed to the arbitrament
of arms and in a fair fight had
won her independence, and along
ith it the right to remain inde
pendent or cast her lot with the
sisterhood of American States;
but Mexico did not seem to rea
ize the fact; and her action was
like that of a very bad and very
foolish child
Of course, events moved on
quite regardless of the Mexican
quibbling, and the Rio Grande
and not the Nueces was decided
to be the [.one Star State's west
ern boundary
Still like the bhad, foolish i
that she was, Mexico refused to
recognize either the independ
ence of Texas or ts annex: on
t the United States nd to
makKe matters still worse offered
a direct affron to our Govery
ment by refusing to receive the
envoy, Mr. Slidell Arriving 1y
the City of Mexico on the 6th of
saw printed about sqme voung
4:4(13' becoming a chauffeuse and
lemonstrator of autos, and ad
vising all other women to do
likewise and do away with chauf
feurs. That is only one of many
positions th a woman is trving
to throw a man out of. I think it
is awful, and know there are a
number of women who will agree
with me. I do not approve of
suffragism for the simple reason
that women do not know enough
about politics to be interested.
Then again, they want man to re
spect them. How in the world do
they expect to be respected when
they are trying to be a man's
equal? T hold a position as
stenographer, and If 1 was a lit
tle older would join or organize a
league cailed “Down With Wom
an Labor,” and in that way would
give all the men a chance. Do
not get the fmpression that I am
lazy, becanse 1 just love to work,
but would give up my position to
some man who needed it and
could fill it, if my father made
enough to support aur family,
which T know he could do if given
a chance. MISS R. C.
A STENOGRAPHER'S VIEWS.
Editor The Georgian:
The other day 1 read a letter
from one of vour men readers in
which he toek Atlanta women to
task for riding on the street cars
at the hour when a large number
of workingmen are returning
home. His complaint was that
he had to give up his seat when
he was tired after a day's hard
work. He seemed to think the
women to whom he extended this
courtesy were frivolous persons
who came down town late in the
afterncon to shop and see the
piclure alowa
December, 1845, Slidell wrote the
usual formal note to the Mexi
can Minister of Foreign Relations,
inclosing a copy of his creden
tials, and asking that a date
might be fixed at which he might
he received by the President.
To this very proper action on
the part of Slidell the sequel
came in the shape of a letter from
I the Minister which read as fol
| lows: “The Supreme Government
' is advised that the agreement
! which it entered into to admit a
| plenipotentiary of the United
States with special powers to
treat of the affairs of Texas does
I not compel it to receive an envoy
l extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary to reside near the
| Government, in which character
[ Mr. Slidell comes according to his
] credentials.”
| Asked for His Passports.
The actiop of the Mexican
Government in refusing to re
: ceive the American Minister end
| ed, of course, all further discus
l sjon: and, as there was nothing
else for Slidell to do, he asked for
I his passports, and returned home,
to meport to the President the
l supreme indignity that had been
| offered his nation.
The foregoing facts are suffi
cient of themselves to explain the
reason of our war with Mexico in
1846-47.
But there is another fact to bhe
taken into consideration—the fact
to which we have very properly
given the name of “MANIFEST
DESTINY."”
That self-preservation is the
first law of life holds for nations
even to a greater extent than it
does for individuals.
| Now, in 1846, this nation nesded
to expand. A law rigid as grav
ity and high above all the consid
erations of what may well be
called the minor moralities, was
urging the Amerifcan people to
grow. To the west of them and
| to the southwest lay a mighty re
. glon that was almost whoily
given up to silencc and solitude,
‘ the inaction and unproductivity
of the primeval wilderness. A
few =mall tribes of wild men, a
few missions, here and there a
scant settlement of Mexicans,
made up the human content of a
splendid region almost a third the
size of Europe.
Why should it not be turned to
the service of man? Why should
it not be made the {nstrument of
human elvilization and progress”?
The Government under whose
sovereignty it had been for gen
erations and ages was making no
use of it—why not let those have
it whn would make use of it?
Not only so, but the future—
the twentieth century, the twen
ty-fifth century—was calling to
us to provide for the PHYSICAT,
SOLIDARITY of the nation, to
make its boundary line coincide
with the dictates of reason and
necessity, as well as of the un
mistakable hints of nature {tself.
And so, the flat went forth, and
the deed was done. That it wasa
wicked deed, a deed that clashed
with the larger moralities, re
mains to be proven.
The third chapter, which wii!
appear in to-morrow's (}enrg]a“'
will deal with the opening of hos
tilitltes between the Unlted States
and Mexico.
Perhaps there are many women
guilty of his charge, but did it
ever occur to him that many of
those to whom gentlemen are
courteous are working giris who
have been on their feet all dav
and who are just as tired as he
ig? I am a working girl. T am a
stenographer, and while T am no!
on my feet very much, I am tired
when 1 start home from the of
fice. I am independent enough
not to expect men to get up and
give me a seat on a car. although
I am pleased to say that they al
ways seem glad to extend this
courtesy to me. They alwayvs re
ceive my heartfelt thanks.
; STENOGRAPHER.
STREET CAR COURTESIES.
Editor The Georgian:
I do not wigh to take {ssue with
l.ady Reader, but I think T am
voicing the sentiment of most of
us workingmen and a large num
ber of our most thoughtful wom
en when I say I can not see the
necessity of a mother going down
town shopping until 6 or 6:3»
o'clock, which usually is the time
the workingman is going home
However, 1 hardiy think ths
agitation started in megard 1o
crowding the street cars was in
tended to apply to working wom
en or those who have go much
domestic work and shopping !0
do. but to those who have a habit
of taking their afternoon "nap
in the morning and then visit '
“movies” in the afternoon an¢
evening
1 believe, as most men do,
showing a lady all due courtes
but T think we should be shovn
that it is appreciated by 'l9
women and not taken advantige®
of by them. = ;
A WORKINGMAN.