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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS. tOESDAY. juke u. 1W7. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Evsry Afternoon, /Except Hunday> By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 25 W M t AtnbnniM gt.. Atlanta. Oa. Subacrlptlon Rates; Trar ft.W Month* i IW Thrr# Month* I.» By Carrier. Prr HWt 1® Enr^rM at th* Atlanta Toatofnca as •eronrt rl«RA rnatl matter. } r'-rontntlvM for all territory outside of | *7eorg f« If y«n fcnre any tremble jrrttlnr THE fJKORtJIAN ASH NEWS telephone the rlrrnlatloe ilfparttnent nnd bare It proraptl.v remedied. Telepbouea: pelf 4!>?7 main. Atlanta 44W. npOnOlAX AND NEWS he limited to Fid nonlft in length If Is Imneraflre that they l*e «lxned. n« an evidence of *ond ffcltli Rejected tianufterlpt* will not li* returned unless a tamps are sent for fae pu more TIIR (HUMOUR AMD NBW8 prints no nnrl**nn or objectionable ia- rerfl»lng. Neither does It pHbt Wblfchjr or any liquor tuit. "rttTiT PLATFORM: The Oeor*1an end News atunde for Atlanta's owning Its own gas nnd electric light plants, ea It now owns Its water works. Other cities do this nnd set gaa at low as *1 cents, with n pmlTt to the city. This fhnotd lw» done at once. The Oeorglnn and News iHdleces that If street rail* waja enn ho operated auccesafully hr Europen it ci.’/ea. aa they are, there la po good renaon why they can not he to operated hero But we do not bellere this inn lie done now, and It may ha some yours f*oforo we are twidy for eo Mg an uudortaklng. Rtlll Atlanta should set its fcc« in that Ulrcctlou Now. Persons leaving tbo city can have The Georgian and News mailed to them regularly by send' ing their order to The Georgian office. Changes of address will be raado as often as desired. Surely The Rome Tribune cannot Understand the patience with which Thu Georgian has borno with a cer tain Texas Journal, or it would not scold this paper tor abandoning It tl the place set aside for the wicked or worae, Tczat. New Jersey forges to tho front with a scientist who says kissing Is all right If you atop and gargle on every fifth one. Imagine d man loosening n strangle-hold on a kissable pro poet tlon long enough to do such a thing! The utter hopelessness of The Houston Post may well bo Judged by the fact that The Washington Herald has Joined with The Oeorglam In aban doning that depraved Juggler with veracity to its own fate. Whatever aspersions The Georgian may have cast upon Summer for her procrastination In arriving, are fully and humbly withdrawn. The fair lady has been a bit caloric In her reply. A Pennsylvania seer avers that there will be no summer because bees are killing the drones, a process of elimination they usually adopt In the fall. About now he hak another guess coming. Augusta money sharks have shown untisual magnanimity in charging ne gro customera only 12,000 per cent, when they could have Just as easily made It 15,000. Texas shipped a carload of cucum bers to Chicago last week. If there** a town In the country that can stand for that detectable Texae vegetable it Is ihe Windy City. Jamestown will look upon no more resplendent and dazzling a picture than that presented by the Georgia colonels, arrayed In the glittering re galia of their high rnnk. Death and the new ninety-day rule are depleting tho federal pension role at the rate of 200 per day. Congress will rectify this next winter, however, by creating e new clan or two. tt behooves the Elberta to go slow If It wants to get to a famishing world at reduced freight rates. The reduc tion does not become effective until July 15th. The onion wee en object of worship with the Egyptians 1,040 years ago. It brings tears to the eye* of many of us even yet. 8tev* Adams, although he might be eaid to have definite eelf-lntereats at ■take, has nominated Harry Orchard Cor membership in the Ananias Club. Pkclflc coett and Pennsylvania capl- tol grafters make the rest of thtm took like the cheapest of pikers. Ban Krauclaco may not he able to keep the Sunday lid on. but they have succeeded In ripping the Ruef off. Moulton** effort* to doff 1U Sunday A •*“A m fiftijo. KINDLY WORDS FOR THE SOUTH AND FOR SOUTHERNERS. The recent unveiling of the splendid monuments erected at Richmond to the memory of President Jefferson Davis nnd to General J. E. B. Stuart, with the ceremonies Incident thereto, have called forth a variety of edito rial expression In every part of the country. Perhaps nothing of late occurrence so thoroughly demonstrates tho softening Influences of lime and the healing touch of the passing years as the kindly editorials which have appeared In many of tho leading daily Journals of the North. A generous comprejienalon of the spirit actuating the people of the South Is noticeable to a marked degree in the comment* of the editors of Northern dallies and weeklies whose Influence Is far-reaching and be neficent In bringing about klndfler and more satisfactory relations between the people of the various sections of the country. That sentiment which dominates all classes of Southerners, namely, the jierpctuatlon of tbo dauntless heroism and magnificent courage of the then of '61-65, has begun to find sympathetic comprehension with the men .of the North, who realize that all heroism and all courage, no matter on which side of the great conflict manifested, stand to the eternal cred it of men who first and foremost were and are Americans. Men on both sides of the conflict are now able to discuss dispassionately the struggle, which only a comparatively abort time, ago brought unspeaka- able suffering and hardships In Its wake, and devastated as with the burning breath of the God of War the fairest land under the blue heavens. That this condition of quiet, unprejudiced consideration of events of such portentous magnitude has become general Is one of the most en couraging Indications for the future of the South and of the nation. Among the trtost satisfactory and brilliant editorials upon the Uno just referred to Is one which appeared within the past few days In The Philadelphia North American, and deserves to be widely read In every por tion of the republic. In discussing at much length the South and Its manifold problems, The American says, In part: “Surely It Is a good thing that tho rolling years cover and smother and extinguish the hatreds which once flamed with fierceness. The time was when Englishmen disinterred Oliver Cromwell's body and subjected It to Indignity, but tho Englishmen of our time have set up his statue at Westminster, within gun shot of the place where Charles I was beheaded. "We are, perhaps, much too near to our own civil war to per mit us with perfect clearness to perceive the full proportions of the virtues of the foremost Southerners; but, when the Southern people put up at Richmond a statue of Jefferson Davis, or of Gen eral Stunrt, sb Just now they have done, we may at least consent to respect the sentiment that moves them. "This will be the hardest for the people who lived In the war time—soldiers and civilians. The Impressions of youth are likely to be lasting, and the hatreds of the war were furrowed deep Into the men of that generation by frightful suffering. “There was a time not forty years ago when the very name of Jefferson Davis was regarded by Northern peoplo with almost fe rocious bitterness. Rightly or wrongly, but probably for the sole reason that he was the foremost figure In the rebellion, he waa held to a peculiar responsibility for that movement and, In deed, waa supposed to embody the very spirit of It. "But now, when the Bouthern people confer especial honor upon him, nobody In this part of the land cares, excepting, per haps, to feel respect for, If not absolutely to approve, the feelings thus manifested. « • * • * *• • • * * "But tho questions around which the war raged have been settled and settled forever. They have passed out of the realm of contention aa completely as the issues between the loyalists and the patriots of the revolution. “This being the Indisputable fact, It la Inevitable that the modern man In tho North should begin to discern and to appro- - elate the high qualities exhibited by the valorous men of the South during the strife. • «••• •• • * • * "To ndmlt the marvelous skill of the generals and the amazing bravery of the soldiers of the South la to honor, not at all to dis honor, ourtelves. A great American, Bpeaklng in England during th* war to a hostile British mob, was asked. 'Why didn’t you sup- E reas the rebellion In ninety days?’ Ills answer was, ‘We would ave done It If we had been fighting anybody but Americans,' and there may have been warrant for the assertion. • • » • • • • • « * • "Tho Southorn people have a right to -he proud of their he roes ns we are proud of ours, and 1* they should fall to honor them they would be unworthy to claim kinship with tho brave - and mighty men who stood for the cause and fout'ht for It and lost It. • *••• • • » » » • "It Is, however, required that the North atould give to the South something more substantial than sympathy. Through four decades that region has paid In poverty a heavy debt of suffering for Its secesilon movement. T he time Is at hand when it should have a larger chance to taste tho high prosperity that has coma to the rcat ot the land. "The enrlchmont of the South Is not n Southern, but an American question. Tho full development there of all the possi bilities of wealth means almost as mucH to the North and (Vo West as It does to tho Southern people themselves. "While tho South la still far behind the North In wealth and Industrial achievement, there la really no causa tor discour agement. Forty yeors, after all, la not a long time In which to work out recovery from the devastations of one of the most ter-. rifle wars that ever scourged the human race. "We arc confident that the time will come when the possi bilities of the South will attract both n)»n and money, when polit ical thought will bo as free there aa It Is In the North, and when tho negro. Instead of being often nq Incubus, will be transform ed Into a serviceable Industrial Instrument. "Tho young men of the South, like the young men of the North, turn their faces to the future. For them, also, the war Is a dead laauc. No harm will come to them or tb us If, while they puah thelc.reglon f<|wnrd to better things, they atop once la a while to' remember and to honor their mighty dead." MERELY ANOTHER NATURE FAKE CONTAGION OF THE PRESIDENT'S POWER. In shaking of President Roosevelt's effort to supersede state aov- erolgnty by federal power, Collier's for June 15 says; Several statesmen, by a coincidence which ahowi how com pletely our minds are focused on this one thing, chose, for tbelr Memorial Day messages to the people, the same subject—the changing boundary line between the little old state capital, Ban gor, Frankfort, or Little Rock, and that bulging dome at Wash ington. Prealdent Rooievelt laid down a policy of future exten sion of the Fedora) power, at the expense of state power, which Is called, by a newspaper not given to hysterical overstate ment, "the moat revolutionary proposition evor put forward by a chief executive of tho nation." Mr. Bryan at Norfolk, Sena tor Forakcr at Steubenville, and a powerful Republican, Chair man Tnwney, ot the appropriations committee, all cried out. In different keys and with varying notes, warning and protest against that extension of the Federal power which has already taken place. Of all these, this much may be said of that one who has the widest audience; his guess at what will be beat for all the iienplc a hundred year* from now la a little more sure to lie suggested by a complete and unconscious sincerity. He at no reason to practice Insincerity. IBs grip upon the hearts of this nation la aueh now, that (the, on any occasion, had said the opposite of what ho did say he would not have diminished by a single unit the latitude and longitude of hit popularity. He Is not. like Mr. Bryan, under the necessity of hunting for flaws, of creating opposition, of refusing to ndmlt approbation, it he should feel It. for the policies of the party In power. And the prealdent la completely free from the suspicion which attaches to Mr. For- aker—may we do him no wrong In uttering It—that the Ohio senator Is not so much a disinterested statesman, with eyes fixed upon n hundred years hence, as an advocate for Interests more concerned tn Here nnd Now. Moreover. Prealdent Roose velt's ethical Impulses In tho past have been such as to create confidence In them now. On the whole, hla guest at what must be for all an Intellectual speculation, at what will be best for the fourth generation, has a big advantage over all others by reason of his sure disinterestedness and hit freedom from shack ling conventions ot thought. Novelty need not terrify. The mighty prominence of tho source of this new Idea wilt focus upon It the thought of the na tion. and discussion of It will furnish Interest In the fabric of our government, and Intellectual stimulation, high and low. AU this Is well, and as s practical matter there Is no occasion for hysterica. The president's dictum does not become law by hla say-so; even though congress. If they arc penuaded It Is good, should make It a law. yet after that the snpreme court can un make It Only they, the Nine that alt In Judgment, can sanction change* In thla government eo vital as the prealdent propose!. Lacking the stamp of their deliberation and approval, this sug gestion has no more potency than hla recommendation to Coh- ncllsvllle folk to be good to their wives, to the Michigan farm ers to ratio large families, and to the nature-writer* to be truth ful. Better Indeed than law or fiat, more effective for Individual happiness and right living than any change he may effect In the constitution, are these homely conntelt, the bolding up of ilmplo virtues, the energetic admonitions to better living, of which the president, from rear platforms and In public communications, 1b the perennial source. His position gives him the power, and he has tho Impulse, to make the Ten Commandments fashions- ablo, and of simple honesty, courage and clean living, a vogue. In the eyes of youths, hla very position, together with the mar tini and the huntsman legend, make him a hero; and parents, in setting up Ideals, have this powerful help. Men who never saw him are, as public officials or simple citizens; stimulated by the the mere contagion of bis example and the energy of his pre cepts. ‘ 5 In stating that ho la proud of his Dixie blood, President Roosevelt made It almost unanimous. Ray Statinard Baker's "Following the Color Line" la somewhat.off color. EXPOSING A FAKER. (From The Washington Herald.) To The Atlanta Georgian we extend sincere assurance! of our moat distin guished consideration. It has exposed, righteously and Completely, the diabol ical and utterly aDnndoned methods of that prince of all newspaper fakers, the esteemed and vainglorious Houston Post. For many moons The Post haa brow beaten and bulldozed Its contempora ries with Impossible raving anent tho greatness of that section of the wild and untamed southwest yclept Texas. Black bass that fatten on jack rabblte; watermelons that weigh 120 pounds each; strawberries that grow In the streets; hens that lay sufficient eggs to pay th* freight on their shipment to far distant points—these, and scores of other equally Interesting happenings, have been chronicled In The Post, and for no other reason than to humiliate and needlessly embarrass helpless and ortrcreduloua Americans without the Lone Siar State, who. not being able to swear 'to a contrary outlay of facts, must need* keep silent and hold their peace. Says The Georgian: Recently Houston battened down together with personally Sunday* Journeying* to Galveston, where the ltd was off. But that did hot avail, and now The Pott Is writing long and eloquent panegyrics on Hous ton water!" There, gentle reader, you have th* full measure of The Houeton Pott'* rank UepVavtty laid bare In all of Its hideous meanness. There Is no sin cerity tn the paper'* exalted eulogies of Texas water. It never tasted water, likely enough, until driven to do to, and then In sheer self-defenee. Never theless and notwithstanding, it come* to the bar of public opinion and bra zenly. not to *ay unbluehtngty, a»- sumeB a virtue It knows not, and seek* to lend people outside of Texas to think that It assimilates water with eome degree of satlefactlon and content. More In sorrow than In nnger wa take our stand beside the truth-loving and conscientious newspapers of the land, anil abandon The Post to un trammeled treading of the primrose path of persistent prevarication. As a natural-bom. blue-enameled, copper, riveted. Iron-Jawed, fartlle-bralned, unparalleleld nnd unrivaled perverter of facts and distofttr of truth. It I* In a class by Itself. Age can not wither nor custom state, Its Infinite variety. Beside It. Ananias was n mere piker, and Sapphlra a lady-tike but hopeless amateur. We stood for the black bass atory. I and our Incredulity aa to tome of the others was at least polite; but when The Post undertakes to warble paeans of praise to water—of all thing*, water —we leave that paper to Its deserved fate, and retire to company perhaps more mnllycoddllsh but. nevertheless, more respectable. AN ERROR IN DATE. Ital from Mllledgevllle to Atlanta. The colonel la in error, I think. The voting occurred several years later. At the time of election between Governor Gordon and R. B. Bullock, I was too young to vote, and was living In Thom son, and at the time the capital -was voted to Atlanta I was living In Nor wood and voted for Mllledgevllle. T. E. MA8SENOALE. ARKANSAS IS FLOURISHING ON 2-CENT PASSENGER RATE. To the Editor* of The Georgian: Having Just returned from a two weeks’ trip In Arkansas, where thore Is a 2-cent flat passenger rat* now In force, I want to say a word concerning the proposed reduction In railway pas senger fares In Georgia. What we want In Georgia Is a fiat 2-cent rate, open to everybody, and anything less than this Is not worth considering. If there Is any loss In revenue to the railroads In Arkansas, It It not apparent In their crowded train*. Neither Is there any let-up In construction work. There are more railroads being built In Arkansas than In Georgia at this time. If you compare these two states you wilt find that Georgia has more population nnd more wealth; so that the argument fre quently made, with reference to Ohio, nils to the ground when Arkansas la considered. Missouri has a 2-cent rate to take effect June 16. Illinois' 2-ceht rate goes Into effect July 1. Is Geor gia to turn and compromise, and be the last to give Its citizens a 2-cent zate for a 2-cent zervtce? Yours very truly. ■ i ! ' S. D. SILER. Atlanta, Go. PROTEST AGAINST CONDITIONS IN LOCAL WHI8KY TRADE. To tho Editor of The Georgian: - With your permission, X would like to ask If the people of the great city of Atlanta know there la within their midst a whisky trust? You can ask *0 per cent of the saloon men whom they lease their property from nnd they tell you at once that they are leased from B. •* B. Now, how le this done? This great octopus goes around here and leasee every piece of property that It can lease, where there is a likelihood of there being a saloon, and then when a poor human being wishes to start a saloon, what la the first thing he does? He has to sub-lease from B. A B. and Is forced to buy hla whiskies from them or he can not do business. Why doesn't the city council pro ceed with the enforcement of that law that was passed here last year, which compelled tht tenant and the man who gets a license from the city to exhibit a bona fide lease of the prop erty he wishes to use, not from-B. A 8., but from the landlord? They may eay B. A B. only guarantees the payment. Foreign Exchange Lettere of Credit Circular Notes Payable in all parts of the world. Information gladly fur nished those who con template a trip abroad. 4% On Your Savings Compounded Twice a Year. MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO. Alabama and Broad Streets. To the Editor of The Georgian: tn an article published In your paper of June 7 by Colonel Robert L. Rodg er*. he save that In tho election of Governor Bullock. In IMS. th* voting occurred which changed the stale cap- A GOOD NAME W. J. LAMPTON, In “Fame." Sam Brown he kept a great big store, And advertised his goods, Till in a dozen years or more He wash't in the woods. Not nch was Sam. He had a wad Of comfortable size, As do the great majority. Of men who advertise. Now, when a man has made his wad, He buys a horse or two, Or three or four, and tries them out , To see what they can do. Sam had a dozen, but on one He set his heart and pile, And trained him for the County Race To do the fastest mile. Sam called him “Advertising,” and His friends all asked why he Shnuld givo a horse a name like that, And Sam said they would see. They laughed at him nnd at his horse, And they guyed the name he had, But Sam. he never said n word, Though sometimes he looked'sad. Well, by nnd by the race came off. And Sam’s horse won, hands down, And what Sam gathered in on bets Almoet broke np the town. “You see, dear friends, ” Sam grinned at them, While emptying out their skins, “I called him ‘Advertising,’ for » I know that always wins.” ARMY=NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, June 11.—Following changes In ordnance department are ordered: Lieutenant Colonel Frank E. Hobbs from Watertown arsenal, to command Rock Jsland arsenal, relieving Colonel Stanhope E. Blount, who will proceed to command Springfield armory. Captain William A. Phillips, from Sandy Hook, proving ground to Springfield armory. Captain Fred H. Gallup, from Rock Island arsenal to Watertown arsenal. Captain Henning F. Coley, from Frankford arsenal to Watertown araenal. Captain Lucian B Moody, from Watervllet arsenal. July 1 to Manila ordnance depot. Phm D - plne*. Captain James B. Dillard, from San dy Hook proving grounds to Watertown arsenal. Captain David Seagrave. from Sandy Hook proving grounds to powder depot, Dover. Captain James S. Young, Jr.. Tenth Infantry, to general recruiting service. Columbus barracks, relieving Captain Robert B. Powers, Seventh cavalry, who win report to commanding general, de partment of the Missouri, for assign ment to duty and station pending re turn of Seventh cavalry. Captain Edward A. Shuttleworth. from unaaslgned list to First Infantrv. Captain Lewis S. Sorley. Fourteenth In. fantry. detailed professor military science, Louisiana state University and Agricultural and Mechanical Csfllege, Baton Rouge, vice Captain Alvan C. Read, Twelfth Infantry, who will then proceed to his regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Walter L. Finley, Thirteenth cavalry, from Fort Riley, when first squadron Thirteenth cavalry leaves post to squadron Thirteenth cav alry at Fort Sheridan. Lieutenant Col onel Frank Baker, ordnance depart ment, from Washington,’ to proper sta tion. • . >, Following transfer of captains.-coast artillery, are made: William R. Doores. from Twenty-third to One Hundred and Fourth company: William H. Mon roe. frhm One Hundred and Fourth to Twenty-third company. . Colonel John P. Wlsser. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick S. Strong, Major Delamere Skerrett and Captain Henry R. Catey, to Twenty-seventh company, coast artillery corps. Captain Hugh D. Wise. Ninth Infantry, relieved as major Eighth battalion, Philippines scouts. Nava) Orders. Rear Admiral F. Rodgers, retired, detailed senior member nnd lieutenant commander, A. P. Nlblnck, member of board, to convene navy department on June 12, to report on land boundaries and privileges at Honolulu. Rear Admiral A. Walker, to duty as president naval retiring board, Wash ington. Commander W. 8. Benson, de. tached Sixth llghthousfc district, to bu reau of navigation, navy department. Lieutenant Commander S. E. W. Klt- telle, detached general board, Washing ton, to Philadelphia, connection with fitting out Mississippi. Lieutenant Commander W, K. Oise. Lieutenants C. W. Early and F. C. Martin and Lieu tenants (junior) W. J. Moses, O. Darst and R. R. Adams, commissioned. Paymaster W. L. Wilson, from medi cal school hospital, Washington, to home and placed on furlough. Phar macist J. H. McGulgan, to naval hos pital. New York. Medical Director R. A. Marmlon, retired, died at Washing ton June S. Movement* of Vessels. ARRIVED—June 8, Yorktown at La Union, Tecumseh at Hampton Roads. Engle at Norfolk. Chicago St Puget Sound; June 8. Olympia, Arkansas. Ne vada, Florida, Dolphin, Strlngham, Shubrlck, Blakely, DeLong and Stock- ton at Hamilton Roads; Concord at C’hcfoo. SAILED—June T, Yorktown front Aeajutla for La Union; June 8, Callao from Hongkong for Shemeen, Tecum- sed from Norfolk for Hampton Roads, Sterling from Boston for Portsmouth, N. H.; Potomac from navy yard. New York, for Hampton Roads; Wasp from Key West for Jacksonville, Sylvia from Newport for navy yard, New York; Olympia, Arkansas, Nevada and Flori da from Annapolis for Hampton Roads; Dolphin from Washington for Hampton Roads; June 0. Mayflower from Wash ington for Hampton.Roads; Strlngham, Shubrlck, Blakely, DeLong and Stock- Ion from Norfolk for Hampton Road*; Rainbow from Hongkong for Olon- gapo; June 10. West Virginia and Colo- rado from Kobe fot* Chetoo. but that Is a mistake. I know of what I S|>ealb There are men In Atlanta whs are absolutely In the hands of this trust. That Is the simplest name that can be used that would be appropriate. This matter Is nothing but a whip in the hands of this firm to drive these people to their rum shop to buy Just whatever stuff they wish to put on them. They are not allowed to see* or buy from any other place what they sell there. . It Is up to you. Mr. Councilman, ana Pe hop* that you will do your duty. * for one am a prohibitionist, but I aa not like to see this crowd running things In any such manner. If we *r* going to have whisky, put the trams tn It Into the hands or all, and not in the hand* of this firm. Investigate If the police committee wl»h to get this Information on oath, let swear almost any of these men— Jacob or any of th* rest. Right u right, nnd every man should be treat” rlsht In every respect. Give these met Cn square deal and release them iron B. & B.. and make them get the l«»» from the property owner and not iron thla firm. Your* truly. J. A. ANDERSON