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6 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. Subacriptlon Rateal One Tear six Mentha Three Montha One Month By Carrier, Per Week •ts 1.9 :: :fi rpsentatlre* for all territory outaT i (Margie. Chicago Office Tribune null ling New York Office Potter Balldlof If yon hare anr tronbla getting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and bare N It jjromptly remedied. Telephone*: male; Atlanta 440L It 1* definable that all communica tions Intended for publication In ^ GEORGIAN AND NEWS I * __ _ _j an evidence of good faith. Itejected manuecrlpta will 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. | k 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