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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
MONDAY, JUDY 8, 1S97.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
Published Every Afternoon.
(Except Sunday)
By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY.
At S Writ Alabama Kt., Atlanta, Oa.
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not be returned nnleaa atompa are tent
for the purpose.
THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints
i no unclean or objectionable advertis
ing. Neither does It print whisky or
v iu|, .TBiiucr uo
| any liquor ads.
' mg its own gas ana eiecmo light
{ plants, as it now owns Its water
i work*. Other cities do this and get
I
Phare! Bat V* do not ballava Tkii
1 <looa now, and It may bo aoma
can ha dona now, and It may bo
fee# In that direction NO
Rebuild the Mt. Airy Hotel.
Tbo burning of the Monterey hotel
at Mount Airy !■ a calamity to the
summer reporters of Atlanta and the
Btate.
There can be no doubt of tho fact
that thin Monterey hotel wai the best
place to keep codl In Georgia. What
ever It may have lacked In the way
of amusement* and of something to
do, it was beyond all doubt or ques
tion the coolest, airiest, most salubri
ous single spot In the state of Geor
gia.
Tbo best sir la tho commonwealth
flowed through the one hundred wide
rooms of that hotel day and night, giv
ing ozone and Inspiration In their
broath.
We learn that the hotel was nover
a very great financial success to Its
owners. We con find no other expla
nation of this than the fact that there
was so little to amuso and entertain Us
guests. But for a place to rest, to
grow strong tod to be physically com
fortable, with excellent tare, there Is
no place qnlte like It In the state of
Georgia.
We hear that oa account of Its
small dividends, the Monterey hotel
Is not likely to be rebuilt by Its pres
ent owners.
We trust that this Is not true.
It however, it should be true, we
earnestly urge upon the railroad run
ning by It or upon some other capi
talists to take up this most eligible
spot la Georgia and to build there as
soon as possible a hotel that will
furnish the opportunity of health and
in vigors tlon to the people of the state
and to join with It those accessories
of sport and fun and amusement
which will make _ It eufflcteatly at
tractive to remunerate the parties who
build there.
Under no circumstance can Geor
gia afford not to have an ample, hotel
upon the finest hill In the state for
coughs and colds and hay fevers and
depleted nerves.
Persona leaving the city can
lure Tho Georgian and Hews
mailed to them regularly by send
ing their order to Tho Georgian
offleo. Changes of address will bo |
made os often as desired.
BI8HOP CANDLER MISQUOTED.
The following communication haa I
been submitted te The Georgian by I
Rev. M. J. Cofer, of The Wesleyan
Christian Advocate:
The Savannah and Columbua paper*
have reported Blahop Candler aa
aralntt alate prohibition. The follow,
lug letter, written from Asheville. N.
C.. July 5. settles Ike question of Blahop
Candler’s position. No on* well ac-
LET US SETTLE IT AND HAVE PEACE.
In tho name of peace and harmony and co-operation let us sottlo
this question of prohibition speedily, and have done with 1L
The lamentable thing In every prohibition election Is the strife and
division and bitterness that grow out of Its consideration.
Brother against brother, friend against friend according to their sev
eral Interests and convictions, are ranged In factions that grow jn In
tensity as the discussion proceeds and the Anal ballot too often falls upon
wounds that heal slowly and leave behind them scars that endure.
It Is so wherever moral questions are ranged against things material
and aelflsh and suffrage never finds a fiercer battle field than when li
cense Is set In array against prohibition.
It Is upon Issues like these that there Is to be fought at last that fate
ful Armageddon which comes before the millennium.
But In the memory of post campaigns w-» plead that this one shall
be brief. We do not require time nor temporizing for the Issue that Is
upon us.
This Is no new question In Georgia. It Is old as the generation and as
familiar as the faces of our friends and enemies, ft requires little threshing
over. The arguments pro and con are familiar even to the children of
this time. Moreover, each man knows now what ho Is going to do, and
each man Is persuaded In bis own honest mind just what tho people would
have him do.
' There Is no doubt on earth of the people's will and wish In this great
matter. From Rabun to Waycroaa the voice of tho people Is dear, and
Cartersville and Voldoita have only given articulation to the thunder that
(a In the people’s ballots when they come to fall upon the Issue for which
Bam Jones fought, and for which Ilonry Grady pleaded In tho speech that
he asked to be remembered when everything else he bad said ahould be
forgotten.
So now let us taks hold of this thing promptly and settle It. Whether
by the legislature or by the people, let us bavo It over at once so
that ths people can get back together and go to work.
Every day from now until after the legislative ballot will be a day
of friction, a day of division and a day of more or less bitterness.
This Is not a question which men discuss calmly or on which they de
cide with reason and tranquillity.
Tbo sooner It Is over the fewer the wounds, the swifter the reunion
end the co-operation In other things.
Ths legislature now In session—senate and house—are
know the wishes of their constituents, and tho will of tho people here.
There can be no doubt of It
Then don't deity. Bring the matter to a vote at once. Pass upon It,
and let us have peace.
Every consideration for the unity of this people, every regard for
the untrammeled consideration of the other great measures now pressing
for solution would suggest that this disquieting, disrupting Issue should
be speedily considered and speedily brought to a conclusion. The bills In
tho senate and the house aro, we believe, Identical. Let them proceed, U
possible, pari passu, so that when they pass one houso the other may be
ready to send It back agreed to without delay.
It Is absolutely certain that as long as this question Is up. It will be
every day more dlfllcult to agree upon other public questions, and that
personal divisions here will becloud and hinder personal agreements upon
Its hands.
With earnest and serious purpose to right ends, we urge upon the leg
islature a speedy and definite decision of the prohibition measures now In
their hands.
THE MEETING AT THE PIEDMONT AND MR. SEELY.
Because a number of friends have asked how It Is that I Indorsed the
resolutions passed against stats prohibition at a meeting of some business
men at the Piedmont hotel on Thursday last, I take this occasion to say
that such reports as were printed In the papers misrepresented me and
misled the readers. ;
At the earnest request of some of the committee, a visit from one
who was delegated to see me, a telephone message from another and oth
er means used to move me, I attended the,meeting. I did not vote for
the resolution, nor did I vote on anything that was done.
I was called upon to apeak and stated that l had come to listen and
asked the gentlemen If any one could answer the arguments that were
being used In favor of prohibition. The only answer was that plaintive
but poetic echo, "The grass will grow In our streets.” Then I gave them
aome facta and figure* from states lu which prohibition has been fairly
and successfully tried, and these were not controverted by any present at
the meeting. j
I thought It only fair and right, aa an open-minded man, to accept the
Invitation and hear what waa said. I am atlll of tnat opinion, and the posi
tion The Georgian now holds la all tho stronger because It has fairly and
patiently heard both sides.
My own course, sod that of The Georgian, In this matter, has been
entirely consistent from the beginning. The Georgian has never printed
a whisky advertisement, nor received any support from the business It Is
now trying to have wiped out. F. L. SEELY.
eve for a moment what waa published '
►
published for the benefit of thoee who
are not well acquainted with him. But
few men. If any. in Georgia have done
more for the temperance cause In the I
last thirty year* than Blehop Candler.
His letter follower
Blltmore, N. C.. July 6, 1*07.
My Dear Brother Cofer: It It not!
true that I am oppneed to the bill* for
prohibition now before the legislature
I am not acquainted with their provi
sion*. but with the temperance people
united on elota prohibition, I stand with
them. A few oountlea In Georgia. In
which open saloon* atlll enlat, have
hindered prohibition and defeated the
via of the people long enough. By the
'jug trade.” dry countlea have been
Interfered with for year*. Now let the
wet counties come to order. They have!
forced elate prohibition by their "Jug
trade.'' and ahould not now whine.
W. A. CANDLER. |
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WHAT BECAME OF HENRY GRADY'S PROHIBITION
SPEECH?
Certainly no man ever loved Atlanta better than Henry Grady did.
Among all the militant forces that Inspired and dlreoted the recupera
tive era In which Atlanta grew out of the ashes of war Into, the splendid
prosperity of development and peaoe, no man with a memory will deny
to the young evangel of our New South either a clear head or a loyal heart.
It Is good to go back In this hour grown grossly material, to that be
loved Georgian who was not less true to Atlanta's material prosperity be
cause ho was so unfailingly loyal to Its loftier Interests and Its nobler sen
timents.
And that he studied both sides and knew both sides of the life of tho
city and the state Is equally of record and In evidence.
Keenly and closely he studied the effect of prohibition upon the city
and the state. Keenly from the figures and the faets, by personal Inter
views and by personal observation, hs reached the conclusion that re
moved the apparent conflict between righteousness and prosperity, and
his testimony In reason and In sentiment Is as standard today as It waa
In the campaigns of 1887.
It Is not at all strange the eager diligence with which tho liquor
men and their friends have sought to conceal and suppress the speeches
of Henry Orady.
And with all their might and main they have sought to do this. Thsy
even suceeded In carefully eliminating from the book which records his
life snd his speeches, that great temperance utterance which he himself
plead should be remembered when all his othsr speeches had been for
gotten. Have you ever noted the conspicuous absence from Henry Grady's
life of this great temperance speech of 1887? Have you ever wondered
why In View of the extract which The Georgian published on Saturday
—why the one single, earnest wish of the dead man In respect to bis his
tory and record, was boldly aad ntterly Ignored, and the one speech
which be moot desired to be preserved was tho one speech which was
studiously excluded from his biography?
And have you ever doubted for a moment the Influences that were
brought to bear to suppress this eloquent and convincing oration upon tho
great moral question of his time?
Did you ever think that the value of Henry Grady's testimony on pro
hibition jra» measured by the tremendous efforts of Its enemies to keep
It from (ne public eye and ear? ,
Why, it was with difficulty of no small degree that The Georgian was
enabled to procure the extract which we published on Saturday. Every
possible obstacle waa thrown In’ the way.
Where Is the original speech? If there Is a copy of It extant It rests
In the scrap book of some faithful prohibitionist
H such a man with such a copy will bring It forth and give us leave.
The Georgian will endeavor even yet to repair the neglect of Henry
Grady's last wishes and to preserve to the generation that which be wish,
ed to bo remembered when all else was forgotten.
THE LEGISLATURE AND THE ISSUE.
A strenuous effort la being made to persuade the present legislature
that It has no right to pass upon the prohibition Issue embodied In the
bills now under consideration.
The argument Is made that prohibition was not an Issue In the recent
gubernatorial campaign and that therefore the legislators aro not under
any Instructions from their constituents bow to vote In the matter.
Further than this the opponents of the prohibition measure argue that
It Is tbo duty of the legislature to let tlje whole people vote upon state
prohibition Instead of settling It by legislative action. .
Tho argumont appears upon Us face and with any serious considera
tion to be entirely fallacious. There are a hundred other matters which
will bo passed upon by this legislature which wero not Issues nor even
thought of In the state gubernatorial campaign.
The rural police, the regulation of the speed of automobiles on
the public highways, tho rotation of judges, tho registration of profession
al nurses and a hundred other Issues which will bo pressed upon this leg-
Islature were not suggested even If they wero thought of In the state
campaign.
How foolish would be the argument that this legislature could not
dispose of them because they had not been previously discussed before
the people.
Follow, this foolish argument to Its only natural conclusion and It
’ would bs the duty of this legislature to disfranchise the negro, regulate
the railroads and go homo. a
Tho legislature I* elected to repreaent the people, to legislate for tho
people In all Important matters which concern their moral and material
welfare, and the legislature Is not only given fdll power but Is clothed
with responsibility and fully expected to stand for tho people and make
laws for them upon all Important matters without waiting for specific In
structions upon every issue from their several constituents.
What each member of this legislature needs to ask himself Is simply
this:
Do tho people whom I represent want state prohibition or not?
Do the people who sent me hero wish liquor to be driven entirely out
of tho state or notT
Do the people who sent me hero wish to keep Atlanta and Savannah
and Macon and Augusta with liquor that can come In jugs to destroy the
verdict of my people upon this question, or do they want liquor blotted en
tirely out of the state?
These are the questions which each Individual member of the legis
lature should ask himself, and this Is the question which each Individual
legislator can easily and satisfactorily answer.
He knows how the people stand In this election. He knows how his
people would have him vote In this election.
He knows whether his county wishes liquor left In Atlanta, Macon,
Augusta and Savanuah or whether they want It driven entirely out of
Georgia, and If ho knows anything of the sentlmont of his poople, ho Is
not only fully entitled to vote upon It, but It Is his highest duty to vote
the sentiments of his people or to resign and let some one else represent
their wishes upon this great question of the hour.
There Is not a man In the Georgia legislature today who does not be
lieve In his heart that from fifty to a hundred thousand majority of tho
voter* of the etato would like to eee thle a prohibition state and
would so vote upon it If they had an opportunity.
Moreover, It Is not only the privilege of each legislator to vote the
sentiments of bis peoplo upon this question, but It Is his solemn and sacred
duty to do so when the matter Is presented to him at the ballot. He can
not excuse himself by saying "I prefer to leave this to the vote of tho
people" when he knows how bis own people stand and when he cannot fall
to believe that the vast majority of the people of the stato stand this
way.
Of course If a man's whole convictions are against this matter It Is
his privilege either to misrepresent "his people, or to resign his commis
sion and allow them to elect a representative according to their will.
But no reason and no common sense con justify tho argument that
this Is not a matter for the legislature because it was not the Issue In tho
last gubernatorial campaign. That argument Is childish and unworthy
of any one of the strong rfen who have been elected- to represent tho
147 Intelligent counties of Georgia.
And beyond this there Is a great big public reason why the legisla
ture ahould pasa upon this matter. Let the legislature shirk this question
and let o state election be called to consider It, and Georgia, which la
now practically harmonious and united In great causes, would be drifted
Into a perfect maelstrom of division and strife and bitterness In which
our peoplo would be at war with one- another In public matters as they
have not been for years—In which harsh words would be spoken and
harsh feelings aroused and antagonisms created that would endure be
yond the Issue Itself, and the state which Is now so nearly ono In reform
spirit and purpose would be split and angry and divided.
Let the legislature do Its duty and spare the state the fierceness,
the fury and the bitterness and the division of a state election on this
great question.
Condensed Statement of Condition June 29, 1907,
made by
MADDOX-RUCKER. BANKING CO.
In Response to Call by the State Treasurer of
Georgia.
ASSETS.
Loans and Discounts i
Bonds and Stocks
Furniture and Fixtures
$2,416,078.95
155,280.00
, 4,200.00
. None
Cask in Vaults and Due from Banks..
.. 642,423.36
/
$3,217,982.31
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits (Earned)
Due Depositors
Bills Payable a....
$ 200,000.00
632,059.22
2,385,923.09
None
$3,217,982.31
The Accounts of Firms, Corporations and Individ
uals Invited.
Four Per Cent Paid on Savings Accounts.
FACTS FROM THE RECORD
OF A TLANTA ’S EXPERIENCE
CONDITIONS LEADING UP
TO PENDING LEGISLATION.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Ths prohibition question seems to bs
uppermost In mind of nearly all Geor
gians Just now, especially It) the wet
centers, and much la being said for and
against It.
I wish to submit a few feeble re
marks myself, and ae I have had a lit
tle something to do with bringing on
this great fight. I guess I won't have
an apology to offer for no doing.
I hope the elghty-odd thousand page*
of anti-saloon league and other temper
ance literature, and the ten thousand
letters aent out from our office the past
ytar have had somewhat to do with the
present state of affair* In Georgia.
There seem* to be tome people who
do not understand Just what they wish.
An effort wa* made some months ago
to call a prohibition election In Fulton
county, but a number of prominent
business men and tome editor* aald:
'•It Isn't an opportune time now: don't
think we could win out It le true the
saloon la an awful bad thing and ought
to be run out of town, but It will have
to be done In a state wide movement,
ir you will make a state fight of It 1
will go Into M and help nil I can, for
we can enforce state wide prohibition."
Well, the pressure was strong and
the Fulton county fight waa for the
time being abandoned and all the force*
put behind the state league.
A strong and persistent effort haa
been made for state prohibition. The
state waa nearly covered with litera
ture and apeakere, and when the gen
eral assembly met, we were first to be
heard from, and through that noble
Christltn gentleman and patriot. Sena
tor L. G. Hardman, we had the pleas
ure of having Introduced the flnt bill
of the session, a straight out prohibi
tion bill. The same bill was alto In
troduced In ths house by two more
noble Christian gentlemen, snd at once
the Hsrdman-Covlngton-Neel bill be
came famous. W# began to hunt up
tome of our erstwhile "statewide pro
hibition friends” and we find about a
half-dozen of them In the camps of the
enemy crying out ’It won't do: prohibi
tion won't prohibit; It will kill busi
ness: you can't enforce the law If It
pose**,” and ao on ad Infinitum.
How shall we consider the argu
ments of men who will allow commer-
Clallam to outweigh an Immortal soul?
The H«y Bible, which many of these
men claim to honor, and to teach, says:
"No drunkard shall enter the kingdom
of heaven," and "Wo# unto him that
bulldeth a town with blood, and etab-
llsheth a city by Iniquity.”
I* the man who drinks to drunken
ness, endangering his own soul, nearer
hell than the mtn who put* the dam-
price of his blood? Ie the man who
Indorsee the saloon, or gets In the way
of those who seek to legislate It out of
existence, less culpable?
What about the business acumen of
a set of men who will employ a bun
dred and sixty saloons, or tax gath
erers, At a cost to the city of one mil
lion six hundred and eighty-five thou
eand dollars, while they get In return a
license fee of lees than one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars? Beautiful sys
tem. Great financial scheming. Where
in le the financial advantage of the li
quor business to any city? Who Is the
city? Where does the money come
from to support this vast horde of non
producing liquor men? How can any
man so far forget himself and the God
who made him, ae to get behind a busi
ness that not only takes a man's mon
ey end given him nothing In return,
but steal* from him that which he can
not give, hie manhood—his character.
Oh! but you (ay we can't keep men
from drinking and we Just as well have
the revenue. It helps to make business.
It pa)’*. Revenue! Revenue!
Let's hava your figure*, gentlemen 1 ,
show your hand In this great financial
scheme. ,
If you wish to make the present leg
islature believe that the liquor business
can be regulated, or made decent, or
•how up a good financial record, you
will have to get down to some mighty
nice figuring.
W* have some facta and figurea our
selves, and they are *11 made from ex
perience of hundreds of places which
have made prohibition a success by
men getting behind It and helping to
make It succeed.
The Constitution gave out an edl
tortal June 21, 1187, setting forth what
a great benefit prohibition wa* to At
lanta. W# have more than twenty
thousand copies of this editorial In our
office, <02 Lowndes building, and you
can get one of theie any day from 10 to
12 a. m.. or 2 to 4 p. m.
Thl* Introductory will be followed
up ever)’ day with facta and figures
from other sections of this great South
land of ours, which I* so gallantly
leading the rest of the world In prohlbl.
tlon, education, legislation and law en
forcement.
Youre to serve,
J. B. RICHARDS.
LESSER SALOONS OF
LESSER ATLANTA.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I saw In your paper a few days ago
a atatement headed as follows: "City
Extension and Prohibition Won't Oo
Together.” Now, I want to say this,
and I believe that I am expressing the
wishes of a large majority of our sub
urb, Edge wood:
If It take* the revenue from the ss-
nsble stuff In hie way end pockets the loons of Atlanta to extend the limits
To the Editor of The Georgian: „ . '
The question of prohibition Is now paramount In our city. The defend
ers of the ealoon and liquor traffic are claiming that the city would be
ruined If prohibition should be Introduced. Not a few have referred to the
time when Atlanta had prohibition for two years, about twenty years ago.
and point to the resulte then as an evidence of what there will be If we try
It now.
I was not a resident of this city at that time, so must go to the record
that I may form an Intelligent opinion of what waa accomplished by a dry
town for two years. Knowing that there are many others who would
like to know the facts, and just what woe the result, I have made an exam.
Inatlon of the files of The Constitution for a few days In November, HIT,
and submit them to your readers.
I quote from a card of Henry Grady. Written November 27. 1887, the day
after the election, when he knew that the barrooms had won:
"When everything else 1 have eatd or« done Is forgotten. I want the
words I have spoken for prohibition In Atlanta to bs remembered. I am firm
In the convlcltion, and from this conviction I shall never be shaken, that
Atlanta has prospered under her two years of prohibition as she never
prospered before, and the experiment of prohibition In a large city suc
ceeded In Atlanta aa no experiment under like obstructions ever succeeded
before.”
In a speech mad* November 25, 1287, Grady aald.
‘Our tnx books show an Increase of 4,070 street taxpayers and an in-
S ense of 2,100 voters. We show that there are fewer vacant houses In At-
n
.anta than ever before. A decrease of failures: that 210,000,000 cash capital
has been put Into manufactories, In Fulton county. In the post two years
—a record never equaled In her history. We show that 21.800,000 has
been added to the capital and surplus of your banks, a record never equaled.
We show a decrease of 2,525 civil cases and 421 criminal cases In your Jus
tice of the peaco courts, and a great decrease on the dockets of the city
and recorder's courts. We show pauperism almost obliterated, the stores
month Into homes and savings that two years ago they spent for something
else. •
"On Decatur street there were 22 aaloons. Seventeen have been turned
Into grocery stores. Not only have we (topped 22 saloons, but the 244 busi
ness licenses In 1885 are now 477, a net gain of 183."
In a speech made November 20. 1887, Mr. Orady quotes from Inter
views with some of the business men. I quote those of the clothing trade
and tho lumber and building material dealers, the ones that would first be
affected, with the following resulte
Anderson Clothing—Bustnexs Increased tn one year 840,000.
George Muse—Business increased 830,000.
D. Woodward—Increased so-that he was putting In lights so he could
run day and night.
W. 8. Bell—Could not fill hi* order*.
J. C. Peck—Full of buetness.
Traynham—Fully 33 1-3 per cent gain.
Parkins & Holliday—331-3 per cent gain.
West—Came to Atlanta because It woe a prohibition town and was
well satisfied.
Harris—Business doubled.
' F. W. Hart—Much better than last year.
Ogletree A Robinson—Biggest business ever dona
Fifty men at random «ay their wages have been Increased from 15 to 50
per cent.
Hon. B. H. Hill, In a card written to Tbe Constitution November 22,
•aye:
"It ha* demonstrated that every business has Improved. Grander pub
lic enterprises, such at Piedmont Fair and Technological School, have been
successfully undertaken and accomplished. Three streets, Marietta, De
catur and Peters, redeemed, and business houses on them nearly doubled.
In short, every bualnesa except the bailiff, the sheriff, the Justice of the
peace and the criminal lawyers are prospering and growing.”
Mr. Grant Wilkins made a statement which wa* published In The Con
stitution November 20, 1887, aa follows:
‘The good effects on the 275 men in our employ la so marked and as
tonishing that I can not vote gainst It again, and I will not do It. Whet
I have seen with my eye* and heard with my ear* hat convinced me that
prohibition ha* done wonderful good, and I feel It my duty to aay *p."
Colonel t>. W. Adair reports that his real estate agency sold/In 1838
1868,000 worth bf real eatate more than in 1885, and 2600,000 more In 1837
than In 1185.
. Thl* article Is long enough, and I will leave the rest for another chap
ter, but these facta should convince men that there Is nothing In the cry
of ruining Atlanta If prohibition Is brought In. M. A. HALE.
and help to make greater Atlanta, we
don't favor extenelon. We prefer less-
er Atlanta and leaser saloons. We do
favor extension and we do favor pro
hibition, and when you take In Edge-
wood you will strengthen the prohibi
tion forces, and by the help of the
Father who has all power In HU hands,
we expect to have a clean city and we
will not etop until Qod calls u* home
or till we rid the stale of the cursed
Infiuenco of strong drink.
C. A. LONDON.
Atlanta, Oa.
THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER. •
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The state of Georgia, In the matter
of pensions and the Soldiers' Home, Is
striving lo reward the ex-Confeder-
nte soldiers for their eervicei In the
Civil War.
In doing thU the state Is not en
deavortng to reform their habits and
Ideas, If even such should need attorn
tlon In the cose of eome.
These men are too old now to graft
any change, so that the question of
their ways and doings Is not the U
sue.
AU made the same sacrifice, and
staked their lives In defense of South
ern honor and Bouthem right* alike;
both saint and sinner made the same
and equal sacrifice.
Therefore none should be excluded
from penilons or the benefit of the
home, who come within the purview of
the law.
It Is admitted that some of them try
the patience of Job, but we will try and
act ae Job did. Keep our temper* and
humor them as far os possible. A
reward U more than the usual thing,
consequently in assisting them wo
should give them better treatment than
they are accustomed to In their pov
erty.
The badge of poverty should be re
moved from their personal appearance,
and they ahould, at least, be as well
dressed and fed as Is tbe average cttl-
xen. To do this will require money.
Is true, but the money spent on these
men U more quickly returned and more
widespread than any money paid out
by the state, among the tax payers.
Those of them who are poor are not
capable of earning a livelihood by hard
Ubor, and especially U thU so at this
time.
dlere In Georgia off the pension rolls
end out of the home than there are
on the pension rolls or I* the home.
Thus the state la not doing anything
for more than half of the old soldiers,
and the prospects are that this will al
ways be the case.
The great bulk of the ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers are trying to subsist by
their own effort*, and the criticism on
those receiving state aid la a reflection
on all.
I receive no state aid, for one, and
have no desire to, owing to the at
tacks made on state aid for these men.
I am sure that we need no charity, for
we never fought for charity, but for
rights, so that If we are to have any
thing, give us rights and not charity.
Stato aid, being based on poverty.
I( charity, and le also partial. Those
who are too self-respecting to ask
charity, but who are endeavoring to die
as poor as possible without It, are too
numerous to mention.
The home needs more money than It
gets, at least wc think so.
W. A. JOHNSON.
Co. D, Second S. C. V.
Atlanta, Ga.
WILL ISSUE BONDS
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Special to The Georgian.
Stlllmore, Ga., July 8.—With public
•entlment as due encouragement the
town council, composed of Dr. John R.
Warren, John R. Sutton, Georgf "•
Brinson and E. A. Edenfleld. presided
over by Mayor E. H. Heath, met Sat
urday and voted for the leeuanre of
816,000 In bonds for the erection of t«o
dormitories and for the purpose of pur
chasing, remodeling and painting of the
school building, now owned and leased
by George SI. Brinson.
There are more poor Confederate sol. stove.
THINK FIRE WAS CAUSED
BY OIL STOVE EXPLO8I0N.
Special to The Georgian.
Royston, Ga., July 8.—Saturday aft
ernoon shortly after 6 o'clock the resi
dence of E. H. Stansell caught fire and
had made euch headway before being
discovered that It wa* soon destroyed,
only a portion of the household effects
being saved. The lose wa* covered by
Insurance. Two nearby dwelling* were
saved only by the heroic work of tn*
Royston bucket brigade and the cm-
The fir* Is supposed to have been
caused by :bt explosion of aa