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The 11 of The Philippines.
Valdosta Times.
Have our people any real concep
tion of the magnitude of the acqui
sition involved in the $20,000,000
purchase of the Philippine Islands
Iroca Spain? It is true, in the pur
chase of the Louisiana territory, or
the acquisition of New Mexico, Ari
zona, California and Alaska, a wider
•area may have been involved, but in
point of area, combined with popu
lation, productiveness, actual and
possible, and far-reaching political
problems, these earlier territorial ac
quisitions were child’s play compar
ed to the appropriation of the Phil
ippines.
Take* for example the territorial
-■area. Confined to a dozen or two
cnly of the larger and more habita
ble islauds, they present a surface of
eome 150,000 square miles, equal in
-extent to all our states south of the
Mason and Dixon line and east to
lho Mississippi except the Virginias,
Florida and Louisiana, while the
^population is about the same. Think
-of such an addition at one Bwoop of
■adjacent domain to onr great repub
lic. All Canada, or even Mexico,
•would pale in comparison. Take for
example the island of Mindanoa, by
•no means the largest, and one of the
.'least developed of the larger islands.
.About as large as the state of Ohio,
its entire soil is as rioh as that of
•Java. The land onoe cleared, the
limber paying a large profit on the
■work, it )B open for sugar and other
•plantations that will more than ten-
.fold inorense the present productions
-of the island.
The magnitude of the interest
may be estimated froifi the fact that
...there in the islands still over fifty
million acres of virgin timber, upon
which only the first inroads have
been made—the timber including
(trees two hundred feet high and of-
t ten four feet in diameter, consisting
* df mahogony, sandal wood, eto.,
> noarly all of the most valued tier ber
r an the world. In their present state
the .islands support in luxurious ease
rta population of some 10,000,000,
What, will they not do when yield-
' ing to' the immense temptation they
oner to American and other foreign
• capital to develop them up* to some-
i thing like their easy possibilities?
In less than half a century fifty mil
lions, instead of their present ten,
ought to be a moderate estimate of
.their population.
Well may imagination stagger in
■ view of our national responsibilities
involved in the management of such
•a “colony.” Yet the burden is upon
us, and there are grave doubts
whether any one seriously believes
,dt will ever be laid down.
England’s Heavy Expenses.
" King Edward’s government finds
■itself facing a defioit of more than
•'4225,000,<300 in the budgett for
i.t902^1003. To meet this it is pro-
vposed to increase the bitter burden
cftaxation by imposing an import
■duty on wheat and flour and by a
. loan of $150,000,000.
r *This desire to tax wheat is alone
r sufficient to enrage the oommon
people, who,pay the war taxes, but,
otaa iff to (increase -their anger over the
■ startling cost of the Boer conflict, as
•■'given by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,
chancellor of the exchequer, there
.■v«ame simultaneously newB. of fresh
■^battles in South Afrioa, with heavy
losses to the British, and in one case
m disaster. Sir Michael presented
tfhe budget statement in the house
<*f commons and gave the sources of
. revenue as well as the objects of ex
penditures.
He said the Boer war in the last
^three years had cost $825,170,000.
He estimated the grand total of ex
penditures for the coming year at
$965,545,000. On the present basis
■of taxation there was no way to
raise more than $745,000,000, hence
the absolute necessity of taxon the
jneemaries of life.—Exchange.
No JLoss of Time.
“A Nigger State.”
Macoa Telegraph
From the standpoint of the impe
rialist, a world-wide empire is a
great and inspiring thing, but from
the standpoint of the inhabitants of
a distant province, who see their lo
cal interests subordinated to the
general interest, it may be more glo
rious than convenient to be part of
such an empire A majority of the
people of the great island Continent
wanted a “white Australia,” but the
imperial interests of Great Britain
ruled otherwise. Hence these angry
tears of the Sidney Bulletin:
“The alliance with Japan marks a
further move in the process of con
vincing the British empire into a
nigger state. Somewhere about nine-
tenths of the empire’s population is
already black, brown or yellow. It
has already threatened, in Disraeli’s
time, to bring au avalancho of black
soldiers down on white Europe. Its
interests are becoming every day
less white and mbre black, brown
and yellow. And this is where fur
ther trouble for white Australia
looms ahead. To Britain it doesn’t
matter a straw if Australia is over
run by Asiatics, and turns black or
brown.”
The loyalty to the empire on the
part of the average British colonial
has been proven in innumerable
ways, but the clashing of imperial
and provincial interests seems des
tined to lead to dismemberment and
the independence of such parts at
loast as Australia, New Zealand and
Canada, countries inhabited almost
entirely by white men of the Anglo-
Saxon race, and not, as in other in
stances, by a few hundred English
men and millions of the “dark, sul
len peoples” inclosed by Britain’s
“far-flung battle line.”
The War Tax Reductions.
I have sold Chamberlain’s Colic,
^Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
years, and would rather be
-•ssxt nf coffee and sugar than it. I
a-ssid five bottles of it yesterday to
tffereshers that could go no far-
rtber, and they are at work again
t^iis morning—-H. R. Phelps,
.Plymouth, Oklahoma. As will be
l by the above the threshers
s .able to keep on with their
’'. without losing a single day’s
. You should keep a bottle
jp Remedy in your home'
For sale by all dealers’ in Perry
r.vr-.. IU T tAirit:
Warren & Lowe; Byron.
Henry A. Rucker, collector of in
ternal revenue for the northern dis
trict of Georgia, has received from
Washington instructions calling his
attention to the recent aot of con
gress -epealing the war revenue «/•(.
Under the terms of the new mil
the tax on everything which was
levied ; at the outbreak of the Won
ish-Amerioan war is taken of! witu
the exception of that on mixed flour.
Taxes which are reduced by the bill
are merely made what they were be
fore the passage of the war revenue
aet.
Under the repealing act the spe
cial taxes on brokers, bankers, pro
prietors of theators, circuses, public
exhibitions, bowling alloys and bil
liard rooms, dealers in leaf tobacco,
manufactured tobacco and cigars are
taken off. The stamp taxes on in
struments, papers, documents of de
livery or transfers of stock and sales
and agreements of sale, or agree
ments to sell stock, products or mer
chandise included in schedule A are
taken off. The taxes on wines under
sohedule B are taken off. The stamp
tax on seats in parlor and palace
oars is taden off.
The tax on fermented liquors is
reduced to $1 per barrel, the tax on
snuff and tobacco to 6 cents per
pound and the tax on- cigarettes
weighing more than 3 pounds per
thousand is reduced to $3 per thou
sand.
A drawback will be allowed on all
unbroken packages of stroking and
manufactured tobacco and snuff in
the hands of manufacturers and
dealers July 1, when the act be
comes effective.
How to Fight the Trusts,
Dangerous If Neglected.
Burns, cuts and other wounds
often fail to heal properly if neg-
leoted and become troublesome
sores. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve prevents such consequences.
Even where delay has aggrevated
the injury DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Siilve effeots a cure. “I had a
running sore on my leg thirty
years,” says H. C. Hartly, Yan-
keotown, Ind. “After using many
remedies, I tried DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve. A few boxes healed
the sore.” Cures all skin diseas-
Piles yield to it at once. Be-
Atlanta Constitution,
The recent antics of some of
the trusts, notably the beef trust,
in raising the prices of meats,
foods and other necessaries of life,
are ereating almost universal in
dignation against those master
pieces of republican creation.
Even the grave and reverend sen
ators and agile representatives
who formed the phalanx of pro
tection around the American cow
and freed her from the competi
tion of the oleomargarine mills,
are now kicking like tick-bitten
steers at the size of their sure-
thing-butter bills 1
In many of the newspapers and
in many localities folks are busy
devising schemes to beat the
trusts. Some communities have
resolved to “eat no flesh while the
world standeth,” unless the trust
falls back to reasonable prices.
Others advise the boycott policy
against all articles controlled and
enhanced in prices by the trusts.
But we fear that species of repris
al will not work all right.
If meat is too high we can of
course do without our steak and
substitute fi9h, fowl and eggs. If
butter is too costly, we can fall
back on machine butter without
X-i.
<3D,
GROOERJES AMD COTCJN’X'R.’Y PRODUCE.
Cor, Second and Poplar Sts., MACON, QA,
es
ware of counterfeits. Iioltzclaw’s
being finnicky and asking it to
wear a mask. Or we can resort to
gravy and sopl Possibly we could,
now that the weather is warmer
and the frost out of the ground,
buck the leather trust by going
barefooted. But what about the
clothing trust? Ah, there’s the
rub 1
Seriously, however, there is but
one effectual way known unto men
by which the trusts can be dealt
with properly and successfully.
That way is ready to the hand of
every anti-trust citizen in the na
tion. Let him vote for the dem
ocratic party, whose creed is eter
nal enmity to the trusts, monopo
lies and grafts of every order.
Elect a democratic president and
congress to break up the tariff
bounties that create and fatten
the trusts and let a free people
have competition and the iiving
prices that follow l The triumph
of democracy will be the downfall
of trusts 1
Won’t Follow Advice Alter Pay
ing For It.
In a recent article a prominent
physician says, “It is next, to im
possible for the physician to get.
his patients to carry out any pre-
snribed course of hygiene or diet
to the smallest extent; he has but
one resort left, namely, the drug
treatment/.’ When medicines are
used for chronic constipation, the
most mild and gentle obtainable,
such as Chamberlain’s Stomach &
Liver Tablets, should be employ
ed. Their use is not followed by
constipation, us they leave the
bowels in a natural and healthy
condition. For sale by all dealers
in Perry, Warren & Lowe, Byron.
A GOOD PLACE.
Notice is, hereby given to ladies and
gentlemen who visit Macon that Mrs.
W. H. Houser is now runuing a first-
elass Boarding House at 755> Cherry St.
which, is very near the business center
of the oity, and she will be pleased to
serve them meals at 25c. each.
GEORGIA—Houston County. ’
L. L. Barker, administrator of estate
of W. M. Barker, deceased, has applied
for dismission from said trust.
This i s therefore to oite alii persons con*
oerne.1 to appear at the May term,
1902, of the court of Ordinary of said
oounty, and show-cause,if any they have,
who said application should not be
granted.
Witness mv official signature this
February 3, 1902.
SA.M. T. HURST, Ordinary.
AGENCY FOR THa
ALffi
BTEBK
wmomsE
cot mutilate, but
does efficiently turn
cattle, horses, 2
hogs .and pigs.
Made of large, strong wires, heavily galvanized.
Amply provides for expansion and contrac
tion. Only Best Bessemer steel wires
used, always of uniform quality.
Never goes throng no matter
how great a strain
is put on it. Does
E^ERY ROD OF AMER8CAN FENCE! GUARANTEED
by the manufacturers.
Call and wee it. Can show you*ho^vT lLwillTeave you money and fence
your fields so they will stay ffenced.
All TOT
WOT US!
WE SELL
Harvesting Machinery,
Disc Plows,
Harrows,
Hay Presses,
Buggies,
Wagons,
Harness,
. Whips,
Laprobes, &c.
We ian quote you some
mighty low prices now.
A big lot Second-Hand Buggies
at your own price.
THE WILLIAMS BUGGY COMPANY,
MACON, GEORGIA.
GEORGIA— Houston Count*.
C. O. Duncan, Exeoutor estate of Mrs.
A. A.' Havis, deceased, has applied for
dismission from said trust.
Drugstore.
There is no question that the sur
est and sanest influence that can
come into the life of man or woman
is that which is brought therein by
a child.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
Stops the Cougli and Works of £
the Cold. ;
Laxative Brouio Quinine Tablets
cures a cold in one day. No cure,
No pay. Brice, 25 cents.
This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned to appear at the May term,
1902, of the court of Ordinary of said
county and show cause, if any they
have, why said application should not
be granted.
Witness my official signature this
April 7,1902.
BAM. T. HURST, Ordinary.
GEORGIA. Houston County.
Notice is hereby (given that I have
filed my application with the Ordinary
of said oounty for an order for distribu
tion in kind of the residue of the estate
of W. S. King now remaining in the
hands of Mrs. Fannie King, as executrix,
and W. A. King, as executor; and that
said application will be heard at the reg
ular term pf the court of Ordinary for
nft-I ATI fVtO Ilf
C. H UHN,
DEALER IN
SPORTING GOODS,
Bicycles, Baseball Goods., Fishir.g Tackle, Guns, Ristols, etc. Hand
some Specialties, Pocket and Table Cutlery, Mechanics’ Tools.
Repairing of Guns, Bicycles, Etc.
520 MULBERRY ST. • - MACON, GEORGIA
Xwtfe ftetltati wbB MHBi
At $1.50, $1.75 $2 and $3 j.er Gallon,
DIRECT TO COflbUMER, SAYESG MIDDLEMENS 5 PROFITS.
All Express Charges paid by me on all packages of
TWO GALLONS or more. Terms, cash with oriJeb.
Semi your order and write for ©escriplive Circular off Wines
and Brandies, i References, the Commecial Agesscics, or any
Merchant Here,
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j. H. WOOLLEY, Cherryville. N, C.