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i'HE ATLANTA GEORGIA y 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 i5 Wot Alabama 8t.. Atlanta. On. Subscription Bates: One War Sir Mouths f{? One Month s «y Carrier, Per Week -*• Telephones eonneetln* nil depsrt- ei’i te. Lone distance terminals. resenistlres for XSEt Office Tribune Bnlldln* Nfir York Office Potter Uulldlaz If you hare erjr trouble setting THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the dmilntlon department It promptly remerlled. T< Bell main; Atlanta 4401. It Is desirable that ell eommualea- tlons Intended for publication In TIlH GEORGIAN AND NEWS Ire limited to 200 words la length. It Is Imperative ihat they be .lined, as an srldsncs of rood lalth. Rejected mnnnncrlpts will not be retained unless atmmps art ssnt fur lbs purpose. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unri. au or objectionable sdrertls- Ug. Neither does It print whisky or any liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own- log Its own gas aud electric light plants, as It now owns Its water works. Other cities do this and get s ns low as W cents, with . profit -mK1 ,, TH& GEORGIAN A&D NEWS hetlerea that if street railways can bs operated successfully by European el ties, an they ore. there Is no good rcanon why they eon not be, so oper- sted here. But we do not betlere this ran be done now. and It may be some yenrs before we ere ready for so big an undertaking. Still s Rippling On Other Shores. Tho legislature of Ohio Is, accus tomed to hold & summer reunion at somo point in the state. It Is not a regular session, but a social reunion in which state affairs arc Informally discussed. This year the reunion was held at Cedar Point, a famous resort on the Lake Erie shore. The legislature of Ohio consists of 86 members, all of whom were pres ent at this reunion. At Its first In formal session, with the recent Geor gia election as a text, after earnest discussion, It developed that 72 out of 86 members of the legislature wore In favor of state prohibition as an ultimatum and of rigid county option as a preliminary measure. Under the present absurd conditions any pre cinct of a county or any street In city can organize and secure a liquor license If all the rest of the county and every other street In town bo rigidly opposed to the liquor traffic. In other words, If the entire city of Cincinnati were overwhelmingly In favor of prohibition, and on a single smaller street the majority of those Who lived or did business there would organize, they might, It they chose, flood the street with liquor saloons In splto of the will of all the othor citi zens In town. If a single small pre. clnct In Clermont county should or ganize for the purpose they might vote the unlimited use of liquor In that precinct If every other man, woman or child In the county were vigorously opposed to the liquor traffic. k So that Ohio at last has been In spired by Georgia's example to a vig orous reform of Its exceedingly loose liquor laws, the counties will be permitted as a preliminary to rote liquor'entirely out of their limits, either rural or municipal, and It Is prophesied by strong mon who know, that Ohio will ultimately follow Geor gia In a state prohibition law. We commend the management of tho Atlanta Ball Park for Its consid eration and wisdom In allowing Its patrons In the bleachers to pass under the shelter of the reserved seat sec tion during the rain of Thursday aft ernoon. The number of afternoons during the ball season when such oc casion arises Is not largo, and the loyalty and liberality of the Atlanta fan public deserve and will respond to such considerate treatment. The howl that went up from Rep resentative Nowell on the floor of the House Friday sounded like a discord ant medley from the "sixteen varie ties.” There must have been a lot of hurt behind It, and The Georgian Is deeply concerned -that It hit them too hard. POINTED PARAGRAPH^. . (From The Chleezo Newt} Msay u real complexion travels under faint colors. Is tbs man who Ojp way to a fold the lira Is to keep ont oT tfce frying pan. Erery Tillage his Its oldest Inhabitant, bnt ba la oarer a woman. Unfortunately tor the surveyor, ba la not monarrb of ell be surveys. Tomorrow fa the atone over which many a business man baa stumbled. A W.ft' -e?■» f * Unr * THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY VERSUS THE CITY OF ATLANTA. The Ice must be broken somo time, so It may as well be done now. The Bell Telephone Company, one of the greatest monopolies tho world knows, or ever will know, whose corporate head Is located In New England, whose money head Is tho well-known T. Jefferson Cool- edge, la now kneeling at the court of Atlanta fo? a moat gracious favor. The company's franchise expires next year. A new one Is needed. A new franchise Is required to do business In the Capital City. Where fore the company kneels for the nonce. Through the ordinance com mittee of council it has agreed to submit to a tax of one-half of one per cent of Its income for the first ten years and of one per cent for the remainder of a thirty-three years' franchise. Certain perquisites to the city such as twenty-live freo 'phones, a Uirct, cross arms, etc.. In the streets are also to be conceded by the company. We are informed that they do not lay claim to a perpetual franchise, as tome would do—that’s real modest of them. That they show their loyalty to Georgia by applying for a Georgia charter, and do not seek to operate under a Delaware or New Jersey charter—that’s right loyal of them. And because of all this, we are almost persuaded that they would like to have us ask for more money. Let's see if they should have the franchise as council .has passed upon It, but upon which the aldermanlc board has wisely postponed action, and let's consider If they should pay more money. Without being too rudimentary, we will endeavor to explain the con ditions a little to those who do not fully understand the meaning and condition of the tax. The telephone company Is to pay Atlanta for the privilege of Ita very existence in our city. It operates twelve thousand telephones over wires that reach out like huge spider webs to as many homes and stores, nearly all of them within the city. These wires are strung on public property, laid In the city's streets, and no money Is paid by the company for the purchase of such, property. The L. & N. Railroad runs Its tracks to Cincinnati. It must first go through the country and survey a line-then its agent goes through and pays real money for every foot of the hundreds of mlleB of territory traversed. He reaches Atlanta. A piece of property Is needed. The owner has seen the engineer driving his little stakes with blue figures on them. He jumps behind a shade tree and watches and laughs with glee. While the "C. E.” drives, the price of tho whole ten acres goes up, although the railroad only needs about one aero to accommodate Ita tracks. The man behind the tree steps out and looks his ground over, sees the boles the "C. E." has punctured In It, and almost Imagines that If he were to pull up one of the said stakes, he would find gold dust sticking to Its point, so valuable Is the clay bank. He sits and waltz. The company’s agent comes along and / negotiates for the prop erty. "Twenty thousand dollars?'' "Yes, sir.” ‘‘According to the courl records, you only paid five for It— how's 'that?" "Oh, well, that was some time ago." “Well; how long?" "Oh, three or four months—take It or leave It—condemn It,” etc. Not so with the telephone company. Its poles and wires run right through our principal streets. Men pay $2,000 a foot for the privilege of selling clothing on the edges of the streets. The telephone and the street car companies march triumphantly through the center of those streets, while we all stand with bared heads, and each year we watch them pass up the road with $400,000 of Atlanta's money, the elegant profit of which leaves our shores never to be seen again. The state of Georgia, through Its General Assembly, has nearly com pleted the passage of an Income tax of one per cent on the gross Income of all railroads In the state. These railroads paid millions upon millions for their rights of way, and then the equipment comes on top of that. The telephone company buys no rlghts-of-way and equips that which the city gives It with apparatus that Is Infinitesimal In Its cost as com pared with the railroads. , The merchant In our city pays actual money for every inch of ground h^ uses. HC pays the same rate of taxes for his physical property that the telephohe company does. Tho latter'pays only $5,322 In taxes, and the merchant may not even leave hts pocking cases along the sidewalk, nor may his customers allow their carriages to stand In front of his store on Whitehall street, but must drive down a side street. Not so with the telephone company. It may come along and plant as many poles on your sidewalk as It likes, and In addition to Occupying, tho streets at Its will, it practically monopolizes the sky-lino with a* myriad of wires that should be under the ground. Their proposition Is a very farce. See what It moans. Their gross Income Is givon 'in as $425,825. One-halt per cent of this would be ap proximately $2,000 (or Atlanta. Now Bhut your eyes, (or they propose that they be credited on thla amount wltb the sum of their present fran chise tax of $1,000, plus their registration fees, business license and other amounts that would reduce the amount left to Atlanta out of the pitiful little incomo tax to about $500 a year If the original and hypo thetical gross amount of $2,000 materializes. Wo submit to the good people of Atlanta the following-facts: First—The Georgia Railway and Electric Company paid 1 per cent on Its grosz receipts under tho consolidation ordinance for the first throe years; Is paying 2 per cent for twenty-two years thereafter, and will pay 3 per cent for tho remaining twenty-five years of the franchise. In addi tion to this, It paid about $50,000 lu cash down? and pays a large paving tax each year. For lustance, In a street like Whitehall, the cost of cloven feet of tho paving comes out of the street railway company, and It paya state, county and city taxes on million*, where tho Bell company pays on thousands. * Second—The Bell ■ company pays In a city like Richmond, not as large as Atlanta, hence not ss remunerative, 8 pc? cent Income tax; In Norfolk 2 per cent, and in Augusta 1 per cent. Is Atlanta to be decoyed Into accepting a mere sop under the guise P f a one-half per cent tax? Are we not entitled to as much as Rich- lond? Do we not pay as promptly, and ye not our ’phones taken out to other Southern political parties whose loyalty to Southern principles was never questioned, no matter how seriously one may have differed wltb them regarding certain planks in their platforms. Tho day has passed when the great Democratic party, state and na tional, can bo manipulated by a few men who-aspire to translate Demo cratic faith according to their own Individual ambitions. In this time of greater educational advantage and of almost universal newspaper read ing the masses are finding but little difficulty in meeting the'serious Is sues of the day and settling them according to the broad intelligence of this later period. The minds of the people are alert to the necessities of this time o? unrest and progress, which. Insistently knock at the door of public opinion. * And the people are prepared; yea, are anxious to grapple with what ever problem stands In the way of the material and Indu^rlal advance ment of the South. The recent legislation In several Southern etates Is a most signifi cant manifestation of this sentiment Questions which had been held In abeyance for many years and which had been temporized with In the hope of a conservative settlement became of such momentous Import to the people Individually and collectively, that like a tremendous storm. It finally burst, uprooting former firmly established business conditions and surprising the entire country by the thoroughness of the beneficent results, due to what the conservatives call “drastic measures." The people may always be depended upon to become advanced in the advocacy of public policies when previous conditions have proven Inadequate and unworthy. That faction of the Democratic party which was considered radical and unsafe by the other branch of Democracy Th the memorable campaign of 1906 Is now regarded as''entirely sane and conservative because of the adoption of so many of fvhat were then termed- ultra views by the party at large. Democracy has a tremendous mission to perform, and no one famil iar with the splendid history of the party ever doubts for a mpment that this mission will be carried out as becomes the magnificent aggrega tion of American manhood composing the organisation.* But Democracy muat and shall keep abreast of the times. -4 To the Editor of The Georgian: An Ideal Is tho moat practical thing In tho world, and an Idealist Is the most prac- tlcal fellow in the world. Often we hear tbo remark concerning some fine, Ideal fel low, “Oh. he Is a dreamer.” Bnt the dreamer, the Idealist. Is. nfter all, the real builder anti the world's greatest benefactor. Per haps many remember reading tho author- Teacher’s fine religious novel, “In His -teps, or What Would Jesus I)o?“ In bis charming way Mr. Sheldon gave us a fine conception of an Ideal dally newspaper. Just a little while ago who would dream such radical dreams as that a great dally could be successfully run that would exclude whisky and other objt»etlonnble advertise- ments? And to champion the cause of pro- and Interest Today In this glad year of A. D. 1907 be hold the realisation of the dream that a paper can bo run Independent of whisky In terest and corruption. The Inherent princi pleof right in man. that stands for purity, right and true manhood. Is ever calling for the best, for something higher. Man's nlgnei* nature Is ever striving to express itself, and Is making expression In various man hopes for, longs for, might find some sort of adequate expression In perhaps the greatest power of modern times, the dally press. Is It not nn unhappy reflection upon the Intelligence of our civilisation for our press to claim * that the people demand, must have sensationalism, whisky and things that go to degrade man, or would It not be a greater shame on the press to ad mit that Tt wns run for greed of gain? I believe today that the people are hungering for better, nobler things. The Atlanta Georgian has taken a _ elded stand for right. Will The Georgian ble place In the field of Journalistic en deavor. .. In the Journalistic and noble women know what It means for a It is today aft unclassified flower : lleld. Thousands o^ men uruiif annul n realization oi nil Kinni uewi paper? We trust they will. God bless Tb Georgian aud the noble men conducting tb enterprise. WILL C. STOKER. STRIKING OPERA TORS WRITE OF CONDITIONS Financing An Enterprise. In financing any enterprise the first requisite Is a certain amount of ready cash. The reason why many young men are compelled to struggle along on the salary plan when the engaging In some enterprise of their own would probably mean success, Is because they never.have the necessary cash to take advantage of the opportunities that con stantly come before them. The safest and surest way to equip one’s self for any financial undertaking la to have a bank account and deposit regularly a part of one's Income. This bank eapeclally Invites such accounts, and pays four per cent Interest on them In Its S.avings Department MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. 'resent Their Side of Disagree ment. as promptly If we do not pay? In a little over four years the Bell company has Increased the num ber of Its 'phones from 3,500 to 12,000. Atlanta haa increased the ex pense of operating Ita affairs as a city very largely during that time. Is the Bell company so great a benefactor that our etty comet In for no consideration? , City fathers, Is Atlanta Inferior to Richmond? Are you less wary or loyal than Richmond’s law-makers? Shall this corporation, of which At lanta probably owns not s dollar's worth of stock, be Immune, or practi cally so, while our good people worry along with the moet exasperating, most Inadequate telephone service a patient people ever lived under? Gentlemen of the aldermanlc board, you did well to halt the matter. Yon will do right to get < per cent for Atlanta for the entire thirty-three years, and you will do better still to sppolnt a board of telephone exam iners who shall have power to-see that decent senlcols given, or the company's franchise revoked. DEMOCRACY MEANS PROGRESS, NOT REPOSE. In this remarkable period of political reform perhaps the most note worthy feature la the criticisms being made by a few Democratic jour nals of Southern Democrats who represent the present dominant faction of party organization. The critical editors who profess to see only rocks and shoals ahead, who declare that the beacon lights of the past are ob scured by the mists and clouds of latter day theories, are Inclined to predict ruin and disintegration unless a halt Is called to those phases of political progress which have undeniably the approval and support ot the majority of voters. Rut wisely the people of the South, who have always stood loyally for the noble principles of Jeffenonlan Democracy, are now determined to meet with courage and conservatism Issues which can no longer be kept In the background. These laauea signify In some In stances .upheavals Involving the sacrifice of certain opinions tenaciously held In the past. \ But a change of conditions necessitates alterations of party plat forms which In no wise mean a sacrifice of Democratic principle. The South must keep pace with the progress of the world. What Is best for all classes of Its citizenship must be recognized and adopted by the dominant political party which claim* to stand for the best Interests of the people. The adoption In certain case* of hitherto untried politi cal tenets is rendered Imperative by the changed conditions which men ace the party at large. These conditions can not be talked or wrtten down. They are here to be met and settled by the best judgment' and the most loyal conservatism ot Southern Democrat!. It ia worse than folly to try to stem the tide of nniltleal change by taunting references The striking telegraph operators tn Atlanta have Issued a statement cov ering the cauees of the strike and their demand* upon the company, going ful ly Into paat and present conditions. In this statement, signed by the prere committee and Indorsed by Local No. 60, the strikers Btato that no local busi ness Is being handled by the telegraph companies and that the business which handled le subject to long and In definite delay'. The statement follows: With the reports which have been printed from day to day alnce the be ginning of the strike of the commer cial telegraphers, the public has been given certain Information, or rather mls-lnformatlon, as news matter, which should be corrected. In this way we believe that the public has been mis led regarding both the exlBtlng condi tions and the actual facte regarding and leading up to the strike. It le a matter of genuine regret that juat at thin time our friends, the public, are made to suffer hardships op any em barrassment*. It la for this reason that at a meeting of the union, held today It was decided thflv a more or Ice* full, conservative and accurate state ment be made at tht* time and that It be submitted to the newspapers of At lanta with the earnest request that It be published. While we appreciate the fact that the newspapers have been the great est sufferers from the strike, we also believe that they ere our friends and understand our position. Statement* of Officiate. > For several day* statements have been made by the official* and mana gers of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies as to the num ber of operators employed, the busi ness handled and the condition! In the offices. While the striking operator* have been content to simply deny these statements as exaggerations, we are now convinced that the time for glit tering generalities I* poet and that our friends among the public should be ac quainted with the actual facts, togeth er with such Information as they can easily confirm by personal investiga tion. . The telegraph companies, too, have misrepresented our claim* and griev ance* and we ask the Indulgence of the public for ju*t a word or two In this connection. First, at to the actual facts regard ing the present conditions, facts which remain notwithstanding the denials ot the officials of the telegraph companies to the contrary. More than this, a few minutes In the way of personal Investi gation will support our every state ment os true, sane and conservative. Wire Condition*. Since Sunday afternooa there has not been a local wire working out of or Into Atlanta. By local wire* Is meant telegraph lines .making possible serv ice from Atlanta to smaller towns and cities In Georgia and the southeastern states. Atlanta being a collecting and distributing point for this entire terri tory. A conservative estimate of the number of local messages received In the Western .Union office In Atlanta dally Is from 1,000 to 1,200. The num ber forwarded Is about the same. 1 or a total of 2,500. White the number ban- . m died by the Postal Telegraph Company the working of hardships upon the thou- heavy. As this is purely a local of fice so far as the Postal Company Is concerned, the number of relay mes- sages is comparatively small. As to the through business, meaning the business between Atlanta and New York, Chicago. New Orleans and St. Louis, according to the statement made by the officials, these conditions are "practically normal." As a matter of fact, every message filed Is with the stipulated "subject to Indefinite delay.' Certainly the most striking portion of this admission, as has been learned by every person attempting to send a message, Is the "Indefinite delay.' That the telegraph companies are able to handle this business at all Is due entirely to the fact that there Is absolutely no local business. That is, all of the towns and cities throughout Georgia. ;n1 the southeastern states are absolutely and entirely cut off from telegraphic communication with New York and other big centers because of the fact that these messages must first be sent In to Atlanta and from there "relayed” to destination. In thla way the telegraph companies, with every official who can be pressed Into serv ice as an operator, are handling this through business after a fashion "sub ject to Indefinite delay.” It la only fair to state that a large part. If not by far the greateat portion of thla "indefinite delay,” la due to mall service. Telegrams Mailed. Not only the strikers, but Atlantans receiving messages during the post day of two have realized that these "tele grams" havo been forwarded by regu lar mall trains with such acceleration as can be secured by the use of a spe cial delivery stamp. The sender of these messages, of course, pays the full, regular telegraphic toll* for the privilege of using the United States malls, with this one difference. In very many Instances telegrams are held for several hours by the tele graph companies In the hopes of wiring them to their destination. By this method It will be seen that very often one or more mall trains are missed and the telegraphic tolls are being actually paid for much delayed postal service. Not to longer tax the generosity of our friends among the public, who are themselves personally, pertinently and vitally Interested, we will not go Into further details, but simply enumerate a very few of the moet Important facts With all local business entirely ellml- nated and through business reduced to a service of "Indefinite delay" as be longs to a terribly crippled force of operators who are now telegraphing for the first time In years, and the use of mall trains, even the statement made by the officials of the companies that they are able to handle the buslnesa of the office means practically nothing. Cause of Strike. Now a word or two regarding the real facta leading up to this present strike. It has been erroneously report ed that the operators of Atlanta, and rartlcularly some of the lady operators are enjoying the present enforced Idle ness In the way of a vacation or social Jolllfiratlon Nothing could be further from the facta. Not a member of the union, so far as has been heard from, falls to appreciate the seriousness of this present situation. Many of them are heads of families and It must be remembered that every union operator depends upon hts or her work for sup- |K>rt. This Is not all. In every' meet ing, two of which are held dally, the public's side has been prS.-ented. If there was uny way possible by which »e could secure only tvhat we believe to be our Just dues, we certainly would not resort to any meant necessitating we dally do buslnesa. In (his connection It Is only Juat and right that the public should 'know that all other means and methods known were first practiced. Although we lost materially by this succession of delays covering a period of five years, wo made every endeavor to bring about a settlement such ne would result In Just nnd honest remuneration without sac rificing principle. v While the present strike Is due In part to recent conditions In San Fran cisco, the real grievances ante-date thp< period by several years. In fact wo believed that an amicable settlement had been reached In San Francisco re cently. Terms "'ere drawn up which were agreed to by both the operators and the telegraph companies. When the crisis came the telegraph companies re. fused to live up to their agreement not to discriminate against union opera tors. Discrimination. That this discrimination was not lo cal to San Francisco was proved In a few day's by similar action of petty of ficials throughout the West, That this would soon spread to every fiffice In the country was self-evident. -This, of course, necessitated concerted action on the part of all union operators or the surrender of their every contention for which they had honestly worked and prayed for years. Such Is the real significance of the strike In San Francisco and the spread. Ing of the strike that followed. Not only do we expect to win out, In fact are absolutely confident, and In this way better ourselves personally, but also a very Important result will be a tremendous Improvement of the service to the public. V That the public Is certain to benefit through the concession of the telegraph companies to our claims, must necessa rily follow for many reasons. That there haa been much complaint by the public because of Inefficient service during the past few months Is a statement which will not be gain said or denied. Good service, such as the public Is entitled, to, especially In view of the recent advance In tolls, was Impossible on account of existing con ditions In a very great majority If not all of the office*. Traffic was tre mendously congested. Facilities were Inadequate. Inefficient operators' were placed In charge of Important circuits and In this way destroyed the good work of the very beat operators along the line. Offices were ill lighted, poor ly ventilated, crowded and with bad sanitary arrangements made continual beat efforts of the operators almost Impossible. Another of the most eerloue draw backs to good service to the public haa been the working hours, not only det rimental to the operators' health, but to a degree which made the accurate sending and receiving of messages an Impossibility, Ask Eight-Hour Day. We ask for a day of' eight hours. There Is no more nerve-wearing, work than that of handling the telegraph key. Besides being both sedentary and confining, the constant strain Is one that wears upon the nervous ays tem; While the present day work Is nine hours; with no lunch recess, In the past conditions have been such as ne cessitated the working of many extra hours on the part of the operator to eke out sufficient wages to support a family, even one consisting of no more than hUBband and wife. The privilege of being a father has necessitated the working of many added extra hours, until It has become a common remark with tho arrival of every youngster that the proud daddy must burn the midnight electricity, or take an early morning trick, such as must mean the leaving of hla own fireside long before the little ones are awake. Not only Is the operator's work nerve- wearing, but the constant telegrapher must have an education far superior to the holder of the average clerical position. The wages paid by the com pany have been further curtailed by the requirement that every operator furnish his own. typewriting machine. To a man Just starting out In life this necessary capital of $100 Is one of real moment. As the average machine gives way to the heavy strain In two or three years, this requires a biennial or triennial outlay such as materially reduces the operators' wages. An this stipulation Is not required of stenogra phers or any other class of employees, we believe It to be unjust and exces sive. This expense Is often Increased by the operator acquiring tclegrapha’ paraly sis, the chief Impediment of which Is a "glass" or stiff arm. Such unfortu nates are compelled to purchase an au tomatic sender, varying in cost from $10 to $125. Publio Will Benefit! In thle way It will be seen that the public muet materially benefit by the winning of this strike. Incidentally, It may be better to say that the public will benefit, as success Is now assured As we have attempted to prove, nil of theee drawback* to good and efficient service will be corrected In the secur ing of those claims which we earnestly contend are only fair and Just. 'That living expenses have Increased very materially, and this le tremen dously true ne far as Atlanta Is con cerned, during, the past few years, as a result of whlcb wages have been gen-- erally. In fact, universally Increased to meet these growing demand*. Our very good friend, the Order of Railway Teleg. raphers, whose moral and financial support we have, .was among the latest tn secure recognition along these lines. It Is but very recently that Ita claim, after long arbitration, was satisfactor ily adjusted. Telegraph operator*, their wives, their children or their aged parents de pendent on them for support, enjoy no special perquisite, privileges or special concessions of any kind what ever. Their board bill has been raised simultaneously with all other classes of workers, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, demand uniform prices from these telegraphers, and while the telegraph companies but ro- llng of the business of these telegraph companies. Such Is the careful, conservative and accurate statement which we have to make regarding both the present ex isting conditions and our claim and grievances in this present contention. While we have not gone Into details the actual facts support our every statement. And with these facts we gladly leave our case with our friends the public, for such a verdict as they consider Just, honest and equitable Press Committee, _ Commercial Teleg raphers Union of America. MRS. E. 13. SMITH. B. F. MOORE, R. B. CHENEY. A TOO POPULAR FALLACY. "The world owes me a living." —Highway Tramp. Quite Wrong, Mr. Tramp. Where did von get this Idea'/ Certainly not from the more of the “Garden eastward In Eden " Wbeu did you earn that livlug "liy the sweat of your fnec?" The world owen you nothing, yon insy vagabond, that you do not work for and de serve. There arc too ninny Idlers, like votir- self, thnt flatter themselves with your fnl- larlnii. notion. The world would be better off Without your parasitic anil pestiferous set. The world furnishes an honest living to those who make nn honest record for work nnd worthiness: the ract that vou are without thle and In the beggar class proves that yon are a delinquent, and have not mode whateyou claim. Yon hove no right to even a prace lu the world, to say uothlug of n living. The men who repeats the too popular bnt . Illarions adage Is sn—— “ - - od criminal; beware i who utters It. He off, Mr. Tramp! You are a bad citl- sen, n urenaiui example. Get to work! In America nt least the Idler Is despised. It Is only the man who works who Is respected. The Jail birds are recruited from the Idle elass. even If rich. Only those who eon- tribute to tile good of the world deserve a living. Hawks nnd prowlers, sloths ami parasites were better baulshed. Get out! THE MATTER WITH THE MAILS. To the Editor of The Georgian: Your editorial of the 15th instant, "Wliat Is the Mutter With the Molls." can lor an swered lu one word, "nigger." Now you hnve been proloihly too busy getting out the best paper In the South to find out that this statement Is true. And who Is to Maine? The superintendent of this division? No! The chief clerks? Hut the existing civil service Inw, the negro colleges around this city. They are successful lu these examlnntlons. Just ns a pqrrot may be trained to talk or a dog Jnmp over n broom, and, after appoint- meat, almost totally Incompetent, ami yet there nro fe.v others to appoint.' Take ir look ut the civil service elass standing the railway mail service examina tion. nnd So per cent are found to be black. Why should It be necessary for n member of the civil service commission to make n tour of the .South to nroils,- Interest In those positions nmone the more competent class of the whit. a', -seause no self-re- ■ side oy elds In the ears (hot nights not excepted), wash In the same basin, nnd nn the night ruus (where possible to sleep some) almost sleep In the snme bed. Offlclnlly they are onr equnls. This rendition of nffalrs deters competent young white men from desiring to enter the service, and those already lu are seeking other fields nt fnst at opportunities ran lie had. These nre facts. Inmentnhle ones to those of ns who nre. for the present, tied, ns It were. In n business where our knowl- * (cnee, to say nothing o‘ iiffi nothin? in nnv nthpr and hungry'montint to feed. some of tin hnve to grin nnd bear It. The negro hns been declared nnflt for the nrmy. Why should he be so acceptable In the most Im portant branch of tho government service, service which. In the past. hnn been -- “dent nn lmp< ‘ ' * uk <atcs tho ver —i’» commercln Lot The Georglnn nnd other* take this mntter up nnd help nn to noire thin prob lem, or elne In ft very few year* It will bo spired for tin, nnd tho South will hnve n service composed nltogether of no-called clerk* better fitted for the plow. I do not sign thin, not becnunc I nm nDimmed of It. but nn I unfortunntely hnve to work with nome of these “nigger*.’ it would obrtouily be unwlne nnd possibly It mny be n technical violation of the "regum* ° nS ’ RAILWAY POSTAL CLERK. cently raised their tolls, making these same contentions, we see no reason why the rule does not work both ways. In fact, if there f* any -discrimination whatever In the price of living, com paratively speaking, it lias been ranch ure largely increased than ha* been ATTACKED BY NEGROES MEN DRIVEN FROM WORK. Rpeolnl to The Georglnn. ^ Columbus, Ga., Aug. 1«.—G. J. Mur ray, section foreman, and his brother was attacked by negroe track hands at Shntul, Ga., nine miles east of this city at a late hour last night an<T had to take to the woods. They came in this morning and reported the matter to JuetIce Cargill, who Issued war rants for the arrest of the negroes, and County Officers Ellison and Lay- field aro searching for them. DROUGHT IN GEORGIA. (From Collier's Weekly.) The state of Georgia hnn passed n pro hibitory law whlcb for thoroughness cant* thnt of Maine Into the shade. Not only does It close every saloon In the state, but k doe* not nllow liquor to be sold by anybod). even n druggist, for nny purpose whatever. Tropic who need stimulants for niedicai purposes may get what assistance they can from pure alcohol, on a physicians pre scription. Even thin may not Ik? furnished by the druggist except on the day the pre scription Is dated, nor lu quantities exceed* l«g n pint. Most stringent regulation* are provided for preventing violations of tn«? law. The burden of proof that alcohol 1* wanted for nu Innocent purpose Is thrown I. snhi to hare «vrf ImpoNsihlc of enforcement In the larger cities. The largest city in Maine ha* 6»,<> • Inhabitants. Hut Georgia has one city « r LtS.000 aud another of i6,000. She has a - nearly twice ns many negroes as the total imber of Inhabitant* in Maine. Hie ju re to keep liquor out of the hands of til’* part of the (M)pulatlon. so easily brutallzj*d by drink. Is icsnonntble tor much of tne spread «»f prohibition sentiment lu Georgia and In the other Southern states In wb.*n the s.-iloou ban received so luauy ■tuggerlu.-f blows. . #llrt There will l»e an opportunity now for [ho fairest test the nntHunteeu rule In tn* nrmy has ever received. If the law Is en* forced, the soldiers In the military post* 10 Georgia con no longer find liquor outsnie- Let their |>o*t exchange* be made tractive as they can lie without beer, an j let u* see wl»nt statistics show at the end of a year on the subject of drunkenness. FOR THE FOUNTAIN FUND. To the Editor of The Georgian: , Aerept the accompanying dollar {** • V denreof g#n><! faith In the movement latin' • «tl by The Gi*org!r$n, and when you tir 'J reaily, to -start the boU rolling' to er « • the “fountain at t!i»* cnpirol" n* > $mgg* *«' In your paper tonight, and let beautiful one. Atlanta nnd The Gt-orgw U lera.' the amaffnt bu.lne.. 1. V.r, sand, of our friend, for and wltTwhom it. LSSSS coated SjL&*|* SS&kSlflSL'* Oil