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Ti n^r»AV. Amu. :. ivn. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 West Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rates one Tear «»t Months yg Threo Mentha.. J*£ nj Carrier. Per Week '(pftpbaaaa ccaarctlne alt department*. I.ong diatance terminals. . Smith k Thompson. eearntatlrea lor all terrllory oatalde or tfeorgla. Chicago attire..% Tribune BWg, New York office Potter BW If yon bate any tronhle settlor THB GPEOHOIAN ASP NEWS' telephono the Circulation Denartm-nt anu bare, u nrnmntly •emedled. Telephones. »«*» 4927 Main. Atlanta 4401. It la dealrable that all common W- tiona lnten.le.1 for THSWlcatlon In THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS be limited to SM words la length. It If Imperatlta that they be signed, aa an evidence of good faith. Rejected manuscript* will not be returned UQlets stamps are tent for tbo purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND N8WN •riots no naeioan or objectionable ad- eertlsinf. Neither does It print whisky •r nny llqoor ads. ODR TLATPORM.—The Georgian end v*irs «land* for Atlanta'* owning It* own gas and electric light plants, as It now own* It* waterworks. Other eltlee do this and get gaa as low as 6) rents, with a profit to the dty. This • hruM be done at once. Tbo OeffgllQ and New* believes that If etrcct rail* ways can be operated successfully by European cities, as they are, there la ■o good reason why they can net be so •oersted h*rc. But we do pot belle?* this can be done now, aod It may be come year* before we ere reedy for eo big an undertaking. Still Atlanta shonld eets Its face in thst direction NOW. The Bryan Forces Moving. There will be more than !,000 dele- cates to the next National Democratic convention and it will probably re quire 670 votei to nominate the candi date. Surely with auch a requirement, the man who la chosen should come very near to representing the majority sen timent of the party. The actual work of selecting dele gates will not begin until almost a year from no*', but tbe friends of Wll Ham J. Bryan are already organizing all over tbe country to promote his nomination as the candidate for presi dent They are organising under the name of tbe Commercial Travelers’ Anti-Trust League In all atates where local leaders,, or committees, are op posed to the nomination of Mr. Bryan, and the chief work of tbe league will be to capture delegates. The national officers of the league, with headquartors In New York city, have been bard at work for several months circulating Bryan literature and keeping his name before the pub lic. These officers admit that they And some opposition to Bryan and bla new platform, but tb.y express court donee in the ability of tbe league to rapture a majority of the delegates as thsy are elected. They say that the opposition Is scattered, unorganized and without a candidate. The latter statement has not been denied from any source. At tbe convention of 1904 the com mittee on credentials recommended thst tbe national committee, when railing the convention of 1908, allow each and every territory more dele gates. This recommendation was adopted by the convention, and If It Is carried out there will probably be as many as 1,029 delegates neat year. There Is no probability that any at tempt will be made to repeal tbe two- thirds rule, which has prevailed In Democratic National conventions since 1832. The opposition to tbe nomination of Mr. Hryan Is supposed to be directed from certain private offices In New York city, and the plan of campaign of this opposition, at least for the present, is said to be to get more can didates In the Aeld, to get a lot of fa- it,riie mm la Dm lining aa early aa raer hie for tbe Nebraskan to gu Into the convention with two-thirds of tbe dele- gsies pledged to bis support. There is a persistent report to the .(feet that the Jefferson Day dinner at Hie National Democratic Club in New York on tbe evening of April It It to l>e tbe occasion of the launching of several favorite son booms. Control of the dinner Is In tbe bands of the anti Bryan members of the club. The busy friends of the Nebraskan who are pushing tbe organization of hU anti-trust league and sending dele- sale hunters Into many states say that ihe opposition will lose ground all the sear unless It can be united on a can didate. Thera la no talk of nominat ing a Southern man and no New York Democrat has suggested another race for Alum B. Parker. At the present lime Ur. Bryan is the only candidate inn Ming for delegate*. So that takep altogether, tbe way of william Jennings Bryan appears be smooth—to the nomination. THE SPENCEX MEMORIAL—SHAFT OR HOSPITAL? The committees having In charge the erection of a monument to Samuel Spencer have been meeting wltb success. In their canvass of tbe employees of the system, and a notable monument now seems assured. The Georgian trusts that It may be pardoned for a suggestion In this connection which may or may not meet with favor among the friends of Samuel Spencer throughout the South. A atately shaft of granite erected In the plaza of the great terminal station of Atlanta may be pointed out from time to time to passersby with an explanation as to Its meaning, and thousands of travelers going and coming through that gateway to the city may be told that tbe shaft is a memorial to Samuel Spencer, late president of the Southern railway. And, bearing this, with casual thought they will go on their way wltb no other reoollectlou than that of the prominence and Importance of a man to whom this memorial was erected. But let us suppose that just opposite the great terminal station of Atlanta'or In some conspicuous spot adjoining It there should rear its bead a granite structure blazoned with the legend “The Samuel Spencer Memorial HospitalT" Inside of It, cool, airy chamber*, comfortable rooms, aklllfui attention, ample equipment, and upon ita walls written tbe record of hundreds and tbousandi A railroad people In the future whose wounds are to be treated, whose accidents are to be mended, whose brok en limbs are to be put together, and whose hours of suffering f-- ,v rail road wrecks and disasters are to lie softened and mitigated by tbe charity of a noble and beneficent Institution. llow much nobler tbe monumeut-of healing than tbe cold and voice less shaft of atone or granite! How much more appropriate tbe memorial to one whose brains and hands helped In tb* construction of a mighty rail road system that Jils memory ebould be perpetuated In beneficence and charity and healing and love! How many people who might pass wltb a casual thought beneath tbe shadow of tbe stately monument which bore Samuel Spencer’s name, -would look wltb a softened heart upon tbe memorial hospital set to the relief of employees and comrades of the great eyitem which be helped to build! ' And bow many who had enjoyed within that place tbe help and the healing, tbe bairn and beneficence of tbe Institution would carry out Into the great world of further struggle, something more than the recollection that In the plaza of tbe Atlanta Terminal Station was a tall shaft bearing the late president's name? How many of those who were beneficiaries of' this beautiful charity would go out Into tbe world's raqks with some of tbe most grateful mem ories of their lives linked to tbe name of the great constructive business force that built largely, powerfully, and durably In the Industrial devel opment of ble country, and In his passing Inspired a memorial net of pomp or of pride or of vanity, but of healing, of helpfulness and of mercy. Tbe "Samuel Spencer Memorial Hospital,” bearing tbe name of the late president In full, might be contributed to not only by tbe employees but by tbe official!, and even by the great corporation which he served. Jt would stand for a nobility equal to constructive genius and tbe name above Its portals would be remembered In warmtb and tenderness when tbe abaft and Ita legend Of praise would be forgotten or Ignored. There are those who knew the dead president of t'M Southern rail way better than we do, but If he' was the kind of man we think he was, or the type of man that hie friends bsve reputed him to be, we feel quite sure that he himself would rslhsr bs remembered In a Samuel Spencer Memorial Hospital for railroad men In trouble, than to have a Spencer shaft whose point might touch the skies. Army-Navy Orders MOVEMENT OF VESSELS. THE CIVILIZATION OF THE SOUTH , Washington, April 2.—The following THE TWO-OENT RATE NOW IN DEBATE. On tills Tuesday morning, April 2, begins tbe hearing before the state railway commission of the petition filed by tbe Farmers’ Union through Mr. Charles Barrett, president, and It. L. Duckworth, state president, for a two-cent rate for passenger travel In tbe state nf Georgia. President Barrett la hare to press the claims of the Union upon the .Judgment of the commission end tbe matter Is now fairly under way and open for discussion. It Is quite evident that the farmers mean business in this matter. Tbey have set tbelr hearts upon a two-cent passenger rate and upon be ing the Instruments through which this notable reduction Is to be con ceded to tbe people of Georgia. Tbe commission, we are sure. Is reasonable. Impartial and diligent In tbe prosecution of the arguments pro and con upon this Issue, and are sincerely anxious to do the right and proper thing to all concerned. Some years ago, In 1868, when Commissioner Joseph M. Brown was general freight and passenger agent of the Western and Atlantic railroad, there was established on the Una a graded system of passenger fares. Starting upon a basic rate of 2 1-2 cents a mile for the first SO tulles, tbe fare was reduced for every eucceedlng 50 miles from 2 1-2 cents to 2 1-8 cent* down to 2 cent* a mile. This system of rate* was based up on tbe principle that we buy things by wholesale cheaper than we do at retail, and as all commodities sell for a smaller price when bought In large quantities, so transportation, which Is a commodity, should follow the same economic law In this matter. Under the rate made by the Weetern and Atlantic railway, the fare from Atlanta to Chattanooga became )3.00 Instead of 14.20, aa it la un der the 3 centa a mile rate of today. The fare to Dalton was based upon the 21-4 and 21-8 cant* a mile rate and the system was very popular at that time. Upon the absorption of tbe Western and Atlantic by tbe Nashville and Chsltiuooga road, this system of rates was abolished, but according to a statement recently made by Commissioner Brown a comparative balance sheet of tbe railway’s receipts under the two regimes will Indicate that the Western and Atlantic road made as much or more money under the graded system established by Commissioner Brown then under the straight 3 cents a mile rate reinstated by President Thomas, of the Nash ville. Chattanooga and 8t. Louis. This graded system upon bur slate road was so much rommented upon that the Austrian government sent an official Inquiry Into It* meri- Its and tbe system wai afterwards adopted in Austria, and. we believe, la a satisfactory working system In that country today. It Is probable that tbla system, among other tbluga, will be offered as a substitute for the plea of tbe Farmers’ Union before the railway commission In this hearing. It la also probable, if not certain, that in combatting the plea of the Farm ers’ Union much will be said about the difference between tbe conditions of the through Hues and tb* short lines In the state of Georgia and tbe Injustice that may be worked to torn* of these smaller and lest prosperous roeda. * We take It for granted that tbe commission and the farmers are both hooeet and fair. We cannot believe that the farmers will dealre to establish any destructive policy It It should be shown them that this 2 cents rate would work genuine and serious Injury to tbe railroads doing business in tbe state. On the other hand, we cannot conceive that the railroad commission would be willing to refuse wbat tbe Farmers’ Union have asked If It can b* demooatrated from precedent and from experience In a similar territory and under similar conditions that this concession ot rates would not work a serious Injury to tbe properties Invested In rail roads In this state. At all events th* matter Is now before the commission for a fair hear ing. H’« shall know the facta, we shall have the argument pro and con. and we eball be better able to judge when these things are all before ua wbat la the wise end proffer thing to do. It gues without saying that on the mere statement of the proposi tion the people are unanimously behind the Farmers' Union In Ita plea for this lower rate ot transportation. But we feel sure with the presentation of the facta and the argu ment by able counsel upon either side, that nobody wiabe* anything to be don* that la not (air and just to either aids* ders have been issued: Army Orders. First Lieutenant Frank R. Lang, Ninth Infantry, from general hospital. Washington barracks, to Plattsburg barracks, for duty with company B Ninth Infantry: First Lieutenant Ed win K. Kllburn. assistant surgeon, from general hospital. Presidio, of Ban F cisco, to Fort Brady; ''aplain John McManus, retired, detailed member ex amlnlng board at general hospital, for servlet during examination of First Lieutenant Pressly K. Brice, artillery corps; First Lieutenant Starkey Britt, artillery corps, before board at Fort Monroe for examination for pro motion: First Lleutsnant Lanier Cra ven-. artillery corps, assums charge construction work at Fort Caswell, vice Captain William R. Harrison, retired: First Lieutenant Edward M. Talbott, assistant surgeon to Fort Oglethorpe, thence with second squadron. Twelfth Cavalry, to Jamestown ter-csntennlal exposition. Brigadier General Albert L. Myer. to New York city: Corporal William H. Lawson, general service Infantry, re uniting -tat ion. K.in-a- 'll.' d’s- rharged from the army; Private Harry D. Stratton, company G. Tenth Infan try. Fort St. Michael, transferred to signal corps, and report to officer In charge fourth section, military tele graph lines In Alaska: Privates Doug las X. Starr. William E. Hansel). Ml chaet Skorypa. and Charles A. Carl ton, military academy detachment of army service men: qi.anermSster’s de. parlment. West Point, to Jamestown ter-centennlal exposition. Norfolk, for duty In connection with war depart ment exhibit; captain Albert E. Wal dron. corps of engineers, from office chief of engineers, to Pittsburg and re port to Major Henry C. Newcomer, corps of engineers. Ordnance Sergeant Frederick Rock er. placed upon retired list; Sergeant Solomon Dobrlner, signal corps, placed upon retired list; First Class Private John Murray, company H. second bat talion engineer, discharged from the army In the Interest ot the United State*. Private John A. Griffin, troop I. Nlnlh Cavalry, discharged without honor from the army by commanding officer. Fort .Sheridan, on account of Imprisonment under sentence of a civil court; Sergeant James Treago. hos pital corps, placed upon retired list; Private James S. Poe. hospital corps, to army and navy general hospital, Hot Springs. Naval Orders. Captain W. A. Marshall, to navy yard, Boston; Commander C. F. Pond, detached, navy yard. Mare Island, to command Buffalo; Commander W. G. Cutler, to navy yard. Boston; Lieuten ant A. W. Marshall, to navy yard, New York; Lieutenant C. W. Cole, to Den- Lleutenent J. II. Comfort, to Cleveland: Lieutenant J. G. Church, detached, navy department, to navy yard. New York; Assistant Surgeon J. M. Mlnter. detached, naval medical school. Washington naval station. Guam; Assistant Surgeons I. F. Cohen, T. W. Raison. C. K. Winn. J. O. Dow ney and H. Butts, detached, naval med ical school. Washington, to Asiatic nation; Assistant Surgeon J. Flint, de tached. naval medical school, Washing ton. to naval hospital. Canacoa; Boat swain B. G. Oliffe and W. Spier, de-' tachcd. Constellation, to naval training station, Newport. Movements ef Vessels. ARRIVED—March SO, Mayflower, at Colon; Chicago, at Acojutla: Starch St, Rocket at Norfolk; Dolphin, at Charles ton. SAILED—March 30. Slrlnghnin. from Key Weal for Port Royal; Do Long, Blakely. Stockton and Wilkes, from Key West for St. Augustine: March 31, Galveston, from Kob# for Tokohaina: West Virginia, ftoin Kobe for Olon- gapo; Wilmington, from Nlngpo for Puchau. ARE SOUTHERNERS LOSING COURTESY. To the Editor of The Georgian. As an ardent Southerner, anti, by reaeon of which, a more ardent Ameri can. I want to express to you my humble but heartfelt thanks for your To the Editor of The Georgian: Knowing you to bs loyal to th* l„ dltlons and spirit of the South, and that you are In a position to remind the men of the present generation that It Is In cumbent upon them to be true sons of their fathers. I take the liberty of ac quainting you with some fact* that came to my attention a day or two since, aroused my Indignation tnd hurt my Southern pride. A young lady friend of one of ths boys In th* office told him of going home Tuesday last on a crowded West End car. where several ladles. Includ ing herself, were compelled to atend all th* way home, whlla the seats were oc cupied by able-bodied men. These men were not foreigners: some of them doubtless pride thsmselves on being Southern gentlemen. She further stated that when one of the seats was vacated a man almost ran over the oth er passengers In his determination to secure th* seat for hlmsslf. I have lived both In the West and In the North, and on many occasions have spoken of the courtesy of ths South that permits no lady to stand In a street car while abls-bodied men are occupy ing the seats. It will be a sad day for the South when one of her leading cities seta such an example of boorlsh- ness as the above Incident reveals. Very truly your*. J. T. A CONDITIONAL PARADOX. To th* Editor of The Georgian: Tour Issue of March 2* says; "The men who are moving In the Immigra tion matter are honest and patriotic.” How can anything be sweet and bit ter? But something may depend on the definitions of the words: If lionsat means fair In dealing with others, tnd patriotic means to be actuated by sin cere love for the welfare of country, then the paradox Is fixed! It Is a plain rase that the interests of railroad, steamships, land monopolists, and others who never Intend to earn their bread by the sweat of their own brow-. In cultivating the soil (clay, bog and sand I of Georgia, are up against the element upon which rests the foun dation or the country’s permanent peace and prosperity, represented by the one and two-horse white native farmers In home* of their own! * The fictitious price of land. In a state where over S15.000.0i)v produced by oppressed labor on the farms, to produce a single crop, has already run thousands of our best prospective loyal citizen* to the West, and worse! Our girls srs being left to the lusts of beer, gurgling, anarchistic, bomb-throwing adventurers! So w# will get “new blood” In Georgia! In some sense race suicide might be preferable! Real loy alty to country depends mainly on homes to defend and a government to protect the owners occupying them. The system of lords and serfs Is de structive to both. Th* siren song of "prosperity”,f* listing It* echo. According to rtprasen- tattve observers among the common people, there haa not been more strain ed conditions, present and Infallibly prospective. In the past generation itut- slde of a real panic. X. FARMER. loyal defense of the civilization of our beloved Southland in your recent arti cle In Tlie Atlanta Georgian concerning the obnoxious suggestion of Jacob Schurman, of Cornell University, rela tive to a purifying use of the Rockefel ler donation. Tou have; truly voiced the Indignation of the millions of the 8outh in this matter, and tbelr thanks are unreserv edly yours, From that dark day In April, 1845. when the Incomparable Lee. one of the noblest handiworks of God. laid down his arms at Appomattox to an over whelming foe. a few individuals, de fended and upheld by some of the pa pers of the North, have seen fit, through the columns of these newspapers and In public assemblies, to ljurl Insult aft er Insult upon the crushed South, and even since, like "truth when crushed to earth,” she has risen again, some men like this Jacob Schurman have continued, not openly but by conde- ecendlng suggestion, to offer Insult by Implication t» a people whose civiliza tion Is so broad and whose culture so deep that these pigmies can not meas ure nor fathom It. A few of these men who have allowed an "exaggerated ego” to drive them as missionaries of civilization to enlighten us of the be nighted (?) South, to teach men In whose veins has run th* red blood ot generations of battle-scarred heroes, of statesmen, of scientists, litterateurs and churchmen back to (he very In- clplency of Anglo-Saxon civilization, to teach the sons of the very founders of our national government "how to be good citizens,” on 'their arrival have been impelled by that sixth sense with which the good God has endowed foole to bare their heads to genuine culture, and. if they were honest men, have gone back home and told their children that south of Mason and Dixon line there dwell a people whose attainments they might profitably strive to reach, and whose virtues do well to emulate. If an obscure citizen might suggest— suppose th* Rockefeller millions, to re move their "taint," be used In a cru sade against Vice and for the moral en lightenment of some of our large North, era cities. For weeks the columns of not only the papers of our own land, but those of England and Europe have reeked with the revolting stories of the lives of Stanford White. Harry Thaw and of Evelyn Xesblt Thaw, stories of debauchery that would have accorded well with the times of the sensual and bloody Nero, and these people whose life stories are only a repetition of thousands nf others are products of that boasted civilization of the North, whose high priests are essaying to en lighten the laggard South with "taint ed" money. Is ths civilisation that Jacob Schur man would have Rockefeller’s millions give us a civilization (?) that would make such social conditions possible? Is It a civilization that would make of our young men libertines and debauches*, and our young women, the embryo mothers of our future presidents and statesmen, as well as the bone and brawn of ths nation, their playthings? If so, we do not want It, for beside Its rottenness and stench, Rockefeller’s “tainted” money Is as pure and bright as the golden pavement of the city ot John's Revelation. A trial lias just been concluded in the criminal court ot Virginia, In which two brothers, gentleman of the highest honor, were on trial for their lives for having shot to death the betrayer of their sister. These gentlemen, types of Southern civilisation, believed that as there was no statute on our law books providing the extreme penalty for the punishment of the perpetrators of such dastardly crimes, that they had the God-given right to punish with their own hands the besmlrcher of their escutcheon and destroyer nf the peace and happiness of their home, and twelve men of the grand Old Dominion sat In judgment on their act and rendered the verdict "Not guilty,” which was greet ed with applause. Compare the two casts, for the similarity Is great, the one now dragging It* weary nauseat ing length through the New York court and this one, Just terminated In Vir ginia—which type of civilisation Is preferable? No one believes that the great major ity of the thinking people of the North hold such an opinion of the South as Mr. Schurman'* suggestion would Im ply. nor do they approve of the news paper derense of ft, but auch insolence hts become intolerant to Southerners, and they will not brook it, The people of the South are the moat loyal supporters of our national gov ernment today, and long for the time to come—and strive to bring It about— when the whole world shall turn won dering eyes toward the American Union and render to her her Just meed ot praise as th* champion of all that Is best and purest within the grasp of man In his highest state ot civilization, and when the people of one part of our broad land will not and dealre not to speak In terms of patronizing conde scension of those of another, as If thsy were aliens, but will dwell together In harmony, like members ot one great family, whose common home bounds reach from the British possessions on the north lo Mexico, and from the At lantic to the Golden Gate. I am not presuming In this letter to slate one fact of which you are not already cognisant, but only desire to resslon to th* sentiment that Is In me—and primarily lo thank you for so strenuously resenting arty Implication against the civilization ot the fairest land on which the sun ever shore. With sincere admiration. I am, . A LOYAL SON OF THE SOUTH. Maybeury. W. Va„ March 14. 1907. STEAGALL DISCOURAGED. To the Editor of The Georgian: Alas! Mr. Editor, now we have It! Bryan and Morgan and Belmont and Wall street generally and plutocracy universally, have decided that Teddy Is to have a third term and that means he la to be president for life, an j that we are to have no canal and that Har- rlman & Co. are to have the trans continental traffic and th* rest of the traffic Is to be divided out among the other six. and that the candle of Amer ican independence has burned to the socket, and that the aun of religious liberty ha* set to rite no more forever on the American continent. Alas! Alas! Alas!. A. H. STEAGALL. DcLand. 57a. It will grow. It helps your credit. It stimulates your courage. It guards against extravagance. It protects vou against loss by robbery. It helps to hold you up while you are out of work. It creates business habits that will Increase your saving* It furnishes tbe best receipt for all the money you pay out. It makes you able to run your business, instead of your business run ning you. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. Mr. Harrison Returns. Deputy Clerk A. B. Harrison, uf Clerk Arnold Broyles' office. Is’ back from a week's vacation and as a result uf Ills trip his health Is greatly Im proved. Mr. Harrison spent his time In Savannah and In Bulloch coun:y shad fishing. I BRIEF COMMENT ON THE LOWRY LETTER. To the Editor of The Georgian: It Is a notable fact whenever the people goaded by the rapacity of the exploiters rise in rebellion, demanding equity, that all over the country prom inent and honorable men rise up plead ing for "moderation," "tolerance," "safe and sane methods." "go slow, etc.” In The Georgian of the 30th appears such a plea from Mr. Robert J. Lowry, president of the Lowry Bank. Mr. Lowry Is personally a man of ex cellent character and recognised finan clal ability, and Ills views are there fore likely' to carry weight with the unthinking or carders. Let me say right here that a finan cial cyclone that would wipe out halt the nominal value* In tnl* country would be better than longer submis sion to th* Iniquitous conditions that have obtained In late years. Mr. Lowry Is president of a Southern bank In a Southern city. There ex - 1st* In this country a tariff system which Is nothing on earth but legalized robbery, and which haa cost the South untold millions of dollars, but I do not tecall that Mr. Lowry has ever been heard In protest against this Iniquity, and I have even heard that he Is fa vorable to it. There exists In New York an Insti tution known as the New York Cotton Exchange, which Is the Inventor of a gambling scheme, which scheme has cost th* cotton producer* of the South five thousand millions of dollars In the last thirty years, yet when certain busi ness men In Atlanta were battling val oroiisly against this evil before the last legislature. Mr. Lowry was conspicu ous by his absence. There exists In New York a stock exchange which has a system of marginal dealings In stocks and this system has been pronounced t>y such authorities as Stuyvesant Fish and Andrew Carnegie to be straight- out gambling. That this system Is at the bottom of all financial disturb ances In the great center (New York) no Intelligent man can question. That this system la responsible for the sat urnalia of watered stock and rampant speculation no Intelligent man can question. That this system Is the sole reason for the constant relief demands on the United States treasury by the banks every man at all well Informed knows to be true. That this system is abetted by the New York banks (or many of them) Is a well known fact but In face of these things no pro test has beeti made by Mr. Lowry. Why has he (and others like him) kept silent all these years when the people were being plundered by bunco games? Why has he not been a vigorous pro- testant against such unsavory and hurtful practices? Possibly his defense would be that It was better for the people to be buncoed than to destroy “confidence.” The sacred shibboleth of all these prudent gentlemen Is "con fidence." and every abuse must be per mitted, every offense condoned lest confidence" be weakened. Let me say to Mr. Lowry that his words would carry more weight If he had been known as a stout assailant of these business Iniquities. Let me say to him that there Is something bigger And better and more valuable to the future welfare of this nation than pres ent confidence, and that something Is Justice. The people are aroused, seek ing only justice for all, desiring to do Injustice to none, and-before ithls con flict between the people and the ex ploiters ends there Is going In be « harking back to justice and equity, re gardless of the honorable and con servative gentlemen who are always so ready to plead for more time whenever the people want to abate a nuisance or abolish the exploiter*. BERNARD SUTTLER. GLASSES FITTED ••The representative retail optical bonee of the south.” A careful, cxlinuatlve out] complete examination of the c;e« and the latest stjles glasses fitted. Ask to see tbe new Tories and tbe senji-iovlel- I.!- IMfixnN. Thirty-five years as opti cians to the Southern peo ple—of much consequence to you wbeu you need glasses. A. K. Hawkes Co OPTICIANS. Two ) 14 Whitehall Street. Stores ) 125 Peachtree Street the question partake* uf tbe nature of a Joke ns It I* handed* around for solution. I don’t know that we ean reasoanblr «• licet the lawyer*—who constitute a lure part of the legislature*—to make thli change. Inasmuch as II might compel them to do their speset]-outking before n select number of Intelligent men. Instead of ad dressing tlielr rcnmrk* to a Jury of twelve, that Is very commonly composed of Indi viduals who have not the tucntnl acumen to differentiate between chaff nud whent when forced to listen, to the point of ■■BBBHBHffiHHBBM fiery demonstra tion from the tips of some learned Inn- yer, or perchance, some "learned district attorney” (with apologies to Mr. Delmnai I, made to appear ns n conglomerate mast calculated to confuse the mind* of man, —resulting finnly In n mistrial—"tot bom- Inc*, quot aitlmos.” Thla plat) would aave n good deal ol time, berause many members of the bur who heretofore have had no difficulty In working tricks that arc rain on a Jury of twelve wonld lie content to submit some nf their eases without argument—us did th, lawyer In tbe familiar atory. Very truly A SERIOUS EMBARRASSMENT. THE ALTERNATION OF CIRCUIT JUDGE8. To the Editor of The'Georgian: t want to commend tbe godo sense of a recent suggestion thst 1 env In Tlta Georgian relating to the plan ot alternation dim naturally will come from friendship and famlll trily with event* hearing upon u case under consideration or on* to lie con- aldered. Judge* and Infer* alike are hit- like or dislike that will sometime* I Justice and mercy at tbe bands of ■ “ easily call acquaints friends. I will gn even rut liter than your correspondent and Insist that It would he the letter part of wis dom to have three Judge* ‘ " HUM** ire) to preside In all eit. t-rllmluntlng tho Jnry uf twelve entirely. These tl ren tor fire) udges should tie required to bold court In Jlstrirt* as far na possible removed from tbelr home* or the places from which they weie i looted. To foretell the verdict of To the Editor of The Georgian: 1 don't know what I am to do. I am distressed to death. My scrap book Is already full of clippings taken from ths editorial page of your paper. Some times I have found It necessary to clip the whole editorial page, there were so many good things which I wanted to preserve to have to look over and read again In my old age. The latest thing clipped from your editorial page Is the "Abolition of Hell.” I wish they had not done It. TVe can't do without hell, and they ought not to have done away with It; but It Is al ready done now, and It's a great source of pleasure for a sinner that It Is ski- dooed. But what will we do will) all the mean people In tho world? If there Is no hell to send tho bad to, there Is no heaven for us good ones to go to. But It Is too late to kick now. The door ha* been closed, and King Plain and Mias Queen Proserpine are out ol a Job and have been compelled to get down off of their throne in bell. I don’t know what w* will do with the trusts —those entes of Iniquity—If hell Is not to be any more. But It la too late to raise a rucss over the matter now; you have Just let them abolish It through the columns of The Atlanta Georgian, and nobody has hesitated to stop to open their mouth or to "rise up In meetln'" against It. So I guess we w|ll Just have to let her go. This is why March Is so hot this year. Pluto and Proaperplne have had ths thing their own way a long time, and they have waged many a hard battle Ith the use of th» sword In order to maintain their power over hell, but their power Is all gone now and bell has been plunderated and'abolished. This Is only another Instance In history when the "pen Is mightier than the sword.” So mote It be. H. W. NALLEY. Dallas, Ga. Absolutely Pure A Cream of Tartar Powder free from alum or phos- phatic acid Makes Home Baking Essy