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AND NEWS Stands for Atlnntt’t own
ing Its own gas and electric light
plants, at It now owns Its water
to tbs city. This sheSd be done at
■MV THE OEOROU.4 AND NEWS
believes that If street railways ran he
erated successfully by European
cities, as they ere. there It no good
reason why they can not tie ao oper
ated bore. But we Jo not believe this
ran be done now, and It may be. eome
years before we are ready for to big
an undertaking. Still Atlanta should
ret Its fact In that direction NOW.
The State Fair la a winner.
A horse! a horse! My kingdom (or
a horse! —Richard III.
Mr. Wataon at last accounts was
still standing firm (or an extra ses
sion.
The wish Is father to tho thought of.
those who think that reaction will de
stroy Reform.
We trust that our esteemed friend
Secretary Loch will not come back
without tbe boaat, "Me and Roosevelt
killed a bear.*'
Hns there ever been in Dlxlo a
more beautiful and prosperoui year
than 1907? And what a glory In Its
early fall!
Is the Fair slighting the boom of
Colonel Chanter, of New York, or
merely postponing It until after Bryan
Day?
The commission and the governor,
as wo see them. Major Hanson, are-
six souls with but a single thought—
the poople.
Well, a elty legislator Is a represen
tative of sufficient Importance
bring our municipal utilities before
the judgment of (he state commis
sion.
There are no slgna of a break In
the forces of reform. The noise and
clamor are mostly from the fellowe
who have always fought against the
people.
The horses at the Coliseum tonight
will recall the earlier and the better
time when men were willing to go a
little slower, and the world was no
little safer than In this auto day.
The agricultural exhibits at tjie
State Fair proclaim' the fact that
while Cotton 1t king there Is about
him a royal family of products sprung
from tho soil of Georgia.
Bryan says It is mighty poor taste
to abuse the Populists after we have
taken back the gold Democrats who
bolted under Palmer and Buckner In
1996. And Bryan Is right
In Otis Skinner a greater than
Mansfield Is here. There Is lacking
the stage carpenter, but there la not
lacking the magnetism that floods the
stage as soon as he treads It. And
this Mansfield never had.
If Adam bad lived until today and
saved ten dollars a day every day In
cluding Sunday, he could not have
paid the Landis fine on Standard OU.
But Rockefeller can pay It out of his
pocket money. Rockefeller It a
thriftier financier than Adam wa*.
Let the railroad commission stand
like the Rock of Gibraltar for Re
form. Tbe bombardment of tramp
ships, and the guerrilla warfare of the
partisan does not alter the victorious
message of the August primaries of
1906.
ana
tb .
The Western circuit bat a candidate
for solicitor In Colonel J. A. Perry, of
I-awrencevllle. The Georgian Is not
taking sides In an undeveloped field,
but we know J. A. Perry for a brave
and gallant gentleman, true to his
friends, loyal to bis state, and honest
with his hands and In.his heart. The
Western circuit Is full of good men,
and Colonel Perry la sorely one of
them.
THE CP.ISI8 OF REFORM.
The citizen who lives and thinks and votes in this Important era Is
saddled with a serious 'burden of responsibilities. •
The conditions surrounding political and economic affairs In the
South are peculiar and momentous. After some fifteen or twenty years
of agitation, attended by a slow awakening, the people have come to a
realization of their power, and in the might of great majorities have
elected governors, legislators and commissions for tho purpose of re
form.
The greatest of the reform movements in execution has scarcely
been existent for six months and In some states for only three. It
might have been expected by any reasonable man of moderate informa-
Gon that the desirable reforms.could not be executed in haste and Imper
fection, and that among statesmen and patriots the movement should
proceed with dignity and with exceeding care along stately avenues of
reform. The spirit of the reformer has not been violent, and the expres
sion of his policies has not so far, In a single Instance, been destructive
to property or dangerous to the peace and the welfare of the cities and
the states.
For all this, the great corporation agencies of the country, through
their wealth, through their clamor, through their representatives In the
press, at the bar and In all phases of public life, have been suddenly and
powerfully concocting the reaction against refarm and the re-establlsh-
ment of their own privileges and advantages by a campaign of retreat and
of permanent conservatism.
The leaders of the reform movement and the leaders of the corpora
tion reaction could hardly have been expected to harmonize or agree.
The battle between these men Is scarcely one that could have been ex
pected to proceed In harmony or to be compromised In peace.
The great body of the people, beyond the corporations and beyond
the leadors of the people, make up tbe real party at Interest In these re
forms. The great mesa, the greatest number, find today their Interests
trembling tn the balance of reaction. The cry goes up. partly honest and
partly Inspired, that reform has gone too far—that it Is time for reaction
to aet In. Tho friend of the partisan and the friend of the corporation
Is making himself heard throughout the land. They have found public
voices by which to express their pleas, and publ!'! Journals have Joined
with polltlclani In crying halt to the greatest rel srm movement of the
century.
Tho noise Is growing so loud, the clamor so Insistent that the friends
of reform are likely to cover tho roar of the poople with reverberations
of the corporate politicians. Thoughtful mon everywhere are looking
with gravest apprehension upon the |>osslblllty, not the probability, that
this great reform movement may bo stayed.
Here, then, Is an emergency In which the sane and resolute citizen
ought to play his part The voice of patriotism and of conservatism
ought to unite In Joint protest against the abandonment of reform and
against the radicalism of the reformers. Men whose opinions have weight
and whose positions lend them dignity should Join resolutely and clearly
In the discussion of these public measures, and all the vigor of Individ
ual statesmanship should be brought to stiffen the backbone of the re
former and to restrain him from excesses In thlB day of power.
But whatever Is done, this great reform movement—the greatest
that our generation of America has ever known—should not be allowed
to subside until Its remedial legislation has been placed upon the statute
books of the state.
If, after this great fight, if, after this great victory, the leaders and
the followers of reform should permit themselves to bo deafened by
clamor or to be persuaded by sophistry Into giving up the Imperial heights
which they have jvon, then for the future this country will Indeed be a
less desirable home for the-indlvldual outside the corporations.
The very clamor of tho times Is an appeal for the higher conserva
tism which considers but does not retreat. The only thing which strong
men and true men and good men learn from It today Is tho duty of seek
ing truth about the corporations and the higher duty of conserving the
Joint Interests of tho corporations and the people.
Let no man retreat. Lot no reformer grow discouraged, let no vic
tor Jn the battle of tbe ballots surrender the glory he has won and the
opportunity that has been brought him, and while we stand with eyes
wide open and ears Intent to seo tho right way and to hoar a Just appeal,
let us maintain as well the stout aud resolute heart that refuses to sur
render tbe pepplo'e cause which has been won by their ballots and
whose vindication rest* In their own honest hands.
What a tragedy, ctvlc and economic, it would bo If the great, victo
rious movement should die In the apathy of those who led and won It!
It would be a crime against government and a crime against the
people.
We have faltb In tbe Intelligence and ateadfaatnesi of Its advocates
and In Its triumphant conclusion.
A POLITICAL PLATFORM FOR 1908.
Tdm Watson In The Weekly Jeffersonian lays down tho following
as his political creed for the next campaign. What do you think of It?
If you don't like It, you don't have to take It But It gives a basis
of discussion to begin on.
Here It Is:
1. Direct legislation; election of all officers by the people; the
right of recall.
2. The necessaries of life on the free list. Ports of entry In Interior
towns to be abolished. Custom houses where outgo exceeds Income to
be closed. Import duties to be laid upon luxuries, aud for revenue, only.
S. The Income and Inheritance tax, to Increase progressively as tbe
income and Inheritance Increase.
4. Repeal by congress of all laws creating Federal courts, except
ing the supreme court, whose apiiellate Jurisdiction shall bo abolished.
In this manner, the Federal Judiciary can be practically wiped off
the face of the earth, and tbe corporations compelled to obey state courts.
5. Public utilities to be owned and operated by the public for the
public benefit.
6. All money to be created by the government; the public debt to
be paid off; no more bond« i to be Issued or Indorsed by the government;
the act re-chartering national banks to be repealed; the finnnoial system
of the country to be that established by the constitution and practiced by
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Lincoln.
7. Tho prodigal extravagance of the national government to be
checked; the Increaae In military and naval expenditures stopped; the
Colonial Empire nonsense abandoned; the Philippines to be granted self-
government.
8. No ship subsidy or mall subsidy. The compulsory use of steel
cars for the railway mat! service. Postal savings bank; the parcels
post; tbe abolition of the franking privilege; the continued extension of
the rural free delivery system.
Is uot that a sound creed? Can not the people, whether Democrats,
Republicans, Populists, Prohibitionists. Single-Taxers or Socialists, unite
on that platform until that much Is done for the people?
Why spoil the born by trying to make too big a spoon?
Why cut off more than we can chew? If the people will pull, all to
gether, for these reforms, until we get them, It will be time enongh to
strike tent and march onward.
In the effort to do everything at once, we do nothing.
Shall we never learn?
The speed of the fleet Is that of the slowest ship; the strength of
the chain that of the weakest link—why do we always forget that?
While we shout to the Ignorant or timid or sluggish cltlxen, "Come
forward." let us shout to the advance guard, "Walt!”
Battles are tost by the rash, as often as by the cowards.
Let us cultivate tbe spirit of co-operation. Excluding extremes, let
ut try to strike some general average upon which all reformers can har
monize for that campaign.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian here records each tiny
some economic fact In reference to
tbe onward progress of tbe Houtb.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY
Albany Is making preparation for extensive municipal Improvements during 1908,
funds for which willbs considerably In excess of $100,<X;).
Judge W. N. Spence of Dougherty auperior court has completed the validation
of an Issue of 875,000 of municipal Improvement loads, which will be turned Into
cash Immediately. The city council. In addition, baa nready appropriated 115.000
from the generaf fund to be added to that portion of tbe bond money to be aet
tetn what It should be, 830,009 to $35,000 will be spent.
In addition to this. Broad street will be paved with vitrified brick from Wash*
Ington street to Jackson. A new thoroughfare, to be known ns Davis street, will be
opened up nloug the entire western front of the city. The waterworks ayatem
will be extended Into tb? newly annexed section, which embraces Arcadia, and the
present city ball building will Iw remodeled and enlarged. Another story, in which
will lie a spacious armory for the local military, will be added. On the ground floor
will be Are department headquarter* and a new barracks, and on tbe second floor
police court quarters, public assembly ball and firemen's sleeping quarters.
The Junction City Land Company of Braxton, G*„ composed of W. It. Frier,
president; C. F. Reynold*, vice-president, and T. M. Cheatham, secretary and tress*
urer. are making great preparation for the opening of their new town. Junction
City, in Tallwt connty. with over thirty men on tho road, they have sold the lots
faster than their expectations, and expect to have all aold not Inter than January
Junction City Is a new manufacturing town at the junction of the A., B. and A.
railroad and Talbotfon railroad. A movement la on foot to pnt In a $200,003 cotton
mill at this point. A «MUk Is already,projected, and many other enterprise* that
will give the city rank with many Georgia cities.
THE COTTON CONFERENCE
(From The Union News.)
The cotton conference, which con
vened In Atlanta last week, wa s of more
Importance to the Farmer*’ Union than
wa* anticipated by many of our lead
ing members.
The Information secured will be of
untold value to our membership. The
open convention meetings were of but
little connequence. A number of ques
tions were discussed, of course, but the
real good to our membership was ob
tained by private conferences with the
spinners. This Information will be
handed out to our membership secretly.
The suspicions of the Farmers' Un
ion that WalLstreet had gone Into an
unprecedented well-planned scheme to
force the Southern farmers’ cotton on
the market wa* verified.
We warn the New York financiers
and gamblers that they had better be
careful. The Farmer*’ Union has the
Information, and they also have the
plan by which to leave Wall street and
her little schemes entirely out of our
business, and if the Wall street finan
ciers do not arrange to turn the’ money
loose that they have been hoarding up
for the sole purpose of forcing the
Southern cotton on the market, there
is something a-going to “drap,” and It
will not be the price of cotton.
Gentlemen, we are not bragging, we
are not blowing, we are not telling
you our plans, we are not going to tell
them to you, and If you think that we
are bluffing, just sit still and see the
destruction of your little schemes to
your own financial hurt.
The farmer has been made desperate.
He walked over frozen ground with
bloody feet once, he went hungry, his
family almost starved. He ivas then
flghtlng for political freedom. His des
peration has reached the point where
he Is willing to undergo any privation
for financial freedom. If he ha* to do
without to conquer he will * c<$ quer.
It he ha* to go hungry to conquer he
will conquer. Let It coat what it may,
he is determined to have relief, and that
relief must come now. Can the New
York financiers realize the situation?
Can they understand, or will we have
to show them? If we do, woe be unto
them! t ‘
This Is not written from Imagina
tion, nor produced In a fit of enthu
siasm, but the above suggested plan Is
the result of three years of careful In
vestigation on the part of the Farmers'
Union, and three years of careful
planning to enact such remedies gs
might be found necessary.
Our men are posted and prepared to
deliver our crop at the ports. We have
sent our representatives to Europe.
You ask what are we going to do. My
brother, the world will be told about It
after It is done.
ABOUT FACE!
To the Editor of The Georgian:
W® have had enough of flvo railroad
commissioners, with three lawyers to
help them—and most of the commis
sioners lawyers—when one commis
sioner can carry out the few law's, with
the' help of tho state attorney, much
easier than a superior court judge can
do his duties. It Is wrong to fight the
railroads for taxes, and then pay so
mych to commissioners and lawyers.
We have had three commissioner* and
their principal business has been to
draw their salaries anad keep people
fr6m building railroads. Until recent
ly the railroads have done much to
build up towms and cities. Atlanta
spent money to build railroads and they
helped to make her. A man needs a
guardian If he buys stock In a rail
road or helps build one in Georgia
now. The owners and managers of
railroads—many of them—are Geor
gians, and as good people as those who
are fighting them, and have done a
noble work in building them and need
protection and Income from their prop
erty Instead of having It depreciated. It
Is painful to them to have to turn off
laborers and cut off their family sup
plies, but they are not afraid to go
out at night. Many Georgians, to my
knowledge, have lost millions In build
ing railroads whjich could not make
money enough to pay the Interest on
th* Ir bonds—and w'ere sold by receiv
ers. and this was not watered stock.
It looks now* ns if the same and other
roads, with the fight on them, will be
In the hands of receivers soon. This
1* all right, so we get Into office by
crying down the railroads. It Is a long
lane that never turns. What we want
Is railroads at every cross roads In
the state, so that every citizen, or near,
ly no, may be within five miles of a
railroad station. Appoint one railroad
commissioner, with the help of the at
torney general, und pass laws to have
every railroad now built properly val
ued. Let this commissioner see to it
that they and all new roads to be built
shall make at least seven or eight per
cent on their value and the Investment,
above all expenses, and see that they
pay their employees good wages. The
more you allow them to make the more
new roads we will have. These new
roads will double the value of city,
town and especially country lands,
where they are built, thereby reducing
the taxes of every citizen and doubling
tho wealth of many. Then Georgia will
be the greatest railroad state In tho
Union and tho most prosperous and the
least taxed people.
The present commissioners could
adopt this plan, especially as to t.^
building of !Jew roads, and continue
to "chaw” on the old ones, if they did
not wish them to come under It.
Three lawyers employed to help the
commissioners—one for hls ability, an
other because Is akin to a commis
sioner, the other because somebody
who was a good trader bought the en
tire Populist party far this small em
ployment!
In future, vote only for men on this
line and you will have a peaceful and
prosperous state. After reading this
the man w*ho fight* railroads Is a ras
cal or a fool. If was a "cusaln” man
I would put "darn* to It. I own no In
terest in railroads.
JOHN H. JAMES.
WHAT IS A PROHIBITIONI8T?
To the Editor of The Georgian:
There tn no much good and truth In the
Inclosed clipping that I would like to have
it appear In your paper, where, I believe, It
would accomplish good results. I clipped It
from a Mouth Carolina paper. It's a good
thing, runs It along.
“A GEORGIAN FRIEND.”
Atlanta. Gn.. Oct. 10, 1907.
• “Pittsburg. Pn., Oct. l.—M. II. Stevenson,
of this city, candidate for treasurer of
Pennsylvania on the prohibition ticket. In
nn address at West Bridgewater, Pa., lost
night said:
“ 1 "fts surprised the other day when a
man twitted me because he heard of a pro
hibitionist who sometimes took n drink, and
of another who got drunk occasionally.
Some people think It la necessary to Join
the church, algu the pledge and become a
total abstainer to be a prohibitionist. A
prohibitionist Is one who votes the prohibi
tionist ticket. The prohibition party Is not
a church nor a total abstinence society, but
a political party. Many fall to note this
distinction. We have hundreds of drunk
ards In the rlilted States who vote the
prohibition ticket. Why? Because they are
slaves to drink and wotiid like to see tho
temptntlon removed. The Inconsistent fel
low Is the Judge, perhaps nn elder in a
church, who grunts licenses? and tho Sun
day school Mupcrlntcndent who votes for u
license party amt yet does not drink. To
ho consistent they sbo- go nt least once
'k to tbe saloon th . tote for aud get
drunk.*
FINANCIAL PROSPERITY.
(From tho October Bohemian.)
Once upon a time a young man aud a girl
loved each other foudly. He was poor, but
bright, energetic nnd persevering. She was
pretty, cheerful and amiable. They mar
ried. Their friends thought they might
have waited until their prospects were bet
ter, but they laughed prudence to scorn.
Two years after the marriage the wife
met one of her friends.
“How are you gettlug along?” asked the
said tho wife, beaming.
My ItuMmnd is so good und I have such „
»ve!y baby. And, Just think, wo have a
thousand dollars In th* lank nnd we don’t
ive a cent to anybody.”
Five years later the friend diet her again.
I hear you are doing very well,
said. "Some one told me your husband had
ten thousand dollars Invested In renl es
tate.'
“Why, yes," said the wife, “hut if's such
a worry. There are repairs and taxes and
Interest on mortgages and one of tbe ten
ants has Just moved out owing us a whole
said.
"Ye-es, but I’m anxious about the stock
market. My husband has fifty thousand
dollars In stocks and he think* they’re go
ing up. but I’m not so sure about It. In
deed, I didn’t slet-p a wink last night.
Five year* later. Another meeting.
"From what I hear your husband will
soon 1m* a millionaire.”
”Oh, I don’t know,” said the wife,
hasn’t more than half n million yet. And
l Just wish
‘ i go' —
have to worry.
«.•>••><(11 i iiuu; iw mi“j. But of course the
Income from half a mlfilon in government
bonds wouldn't be enough to make both
ends meet. And yet, do you know, some
people have such absurd notions atwut the
amount of money we have? One crank
has even sent s letter to my husband
threatening to shoot him just because he Is
rich. I declare, sometimes I’m so worried
I don’t know what to do."
It would be pleasant to give this story a
This Indy's wealth continued to In
crease as long as she lived, and she never
censed to be uneasy except In those brief
Intervals when she forgot all about It.
Japs Control Works.
The Wakamnuu Iron and Steel
wonts, under Japanese Imperial con
trol, are nearing completion, at a total
cost of $20,000,000. As ah evidence of
Japanese economy the official salaries
are noticeable. The president rets
82,000 a year, the chief expert 81,500,
the two managers $1,000 each, eight
expens averaging $800 each and 30
clerks and 40 assistants have an aver-(the Ideal
age monthly wage of $15. All the prln- worry from tho homes of the poor. It
clpal machinery appears to be English,. , . hat ? rorr J r , *• ou f demo*
I ^ wHh flf^^rtWtyf bJt the ™ue
cal cranes, which are American made,; rearing nnd cankering form of worry.
WORRY, CAUSE OF POVERTY.
It so happens that worry, which Dr. W.
O. Mfllcchy, 111 hls l*ook, ’'Worry, The Dis
ease of the Age,” looks upon as a cause of
disease. Is also one of the characteristic
symptoms of poverty. Partly through Its
effect on health partly through Its effect
on personal habits, and partly through Its
direct effect on the making nnd carrying
one of the direct anti all-pervading causes
of economic dependence. It follows that
“ * Isltor is one who can banish
also Is a fair share of the minor j that which anting* from anxiety al>out the
machinery. The worka and workers’) actual neeewsitle* of life. for wife and chit-
houses cover 350 acres. j dreu, for oneself lu disease nnd In old ago.
and about the possibility of finding or
bolding that employment which ts tho
means of livelihood—this Is reserved for
U , ui»*nni or 11veimipoo—*uj* is reserves for
__ „ , . , * act p r ,. n \*t el 7?X n . I poverty and for those whom poverty stares
Holland, which cute and polishes 400,- fa the fnce.-Edwnrd T. Devine, In the Sep-
There is
„ hich cute and polishes 400,-»
000 diamonds annually. About 20 wo-l temper Charities and The Commons,
men do most of the actual cutting of
the stones. ! Kx-President Morales of Santo Do-
Pennsylvanla Is the greatest build- J mlngo. who was virtually forced out
Ing and loan association state In this!of power last year by Cacetes, is now
country. It has 1.257 organizations at I a homeless wanderer, and in leaving
last reports and over $29,852 members. I New York for Puerto Rico was Ir.ier-
Ohio comes sr*>n<l with 647 ossocla- | csted to learn the sccond-clais passage
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Aa the means to a desired end. thej
peace conference at The Hague seems
to stand against some odds in the
minds of thoughtful observers. In
deed, there are grave Incongruities
that make the very utterance of the)
words ‘‘universal peace” a delusion and
a mockery.
. At mention of the name, Andrew
Carnegie, who would add still another
achievement to hls .various philan
thropies, one Is forced to remember
Homestead as an almost present fact.
And the meeting of Russian ministers
and Hebrew ZionUts suggests a ghost
that has not downed since it raised Its
ghastly visage In the horrors of Klsh-
ineff.
Almost within cannon-roar of Casa
Blanca, while the smoke from Korean
battlefields has scarcely cleared away,
and the clarion call of Nordau for the
smaller principalities of Europe to de
fend themselves against the onslaughts
of the greater ones, well may one won
der If the nations do not Indeed medi
tate a vain thing, and If the cry of
peace, peace, will not be raised when
there Is no peace! ,
While one must sympathize with
each effort put forth by the several
powers to bring about a settlement of
International difficulties by arbitration,
he must not be oblivious to the fact
that an armed peace is but potential
warfare, and for every resolution pass
ed by the envoys of each government,
somewhere there is likely to be a larger
battleship launched, somewhere a high
er explosive tested, and throughout the
wide domain of Christendom and heath
endom In various fortified strongholds
are skilled tacticians endeavoring to
make more absolute the barbaric sci
ence of warfare.
However, It Is so arranged In this
world that given a necessity, its an
swer must be forthcoming, though often
long deferred.
The conference at The'Hague will
not bring about universal peace be
cause the powers represented are In
themselves aggressive. “The divine
right of kings” to rule and to conquer
new dominion does not want for ex
emplars in German emperor, czar or
mikado.
Yet even these might prefer that new
territory be added or old ones retained
by peaceable means If possible. But
how to bring this about Is a question
whose answer is obscure.
If we would but scan the dome of
human history from horizon to horizon,
perhaps it would be apparent that the
centuries In themselves are the block
upon block of a peace tribunal reared
upon a corner stone that was laid when
Shorn drove hls first tent-pin, and hls
nomadic nephew, the Hammltic Cush
ite, started abroad to tell the good news
to all the nations; what great things
Jehovah would do for all the peoples,
Its monotheism crept Into the books of
history—Ptah Hotep—of the Egyp
tians; It left its impress In the books
of history—-Shoo-klng—of the Chinese;
It crossed the seas and left traditions
among the aborigines of an unknown
continent; It entered as a warm gull
stream the currents of the great Indo-
Germanic migrations, becoming only o
memory In the legendary lore of Slav
and Celt, or as an ethical illumining
in Greek culture and Roman law, and
then In the blackness of a moral night,
Its rays converged upon an Inscription
above a cross that stood without the
walls of the city of Jerusalem.
But away back In the centuries, tho
husbandman, Shorn, reared hls family,
herded hls flocks, planted hls vineyards
and learned the arts of peace—and
along the llpe, of- hls posterity, in the
eleventh generation, one Abraham -re
ceived title to a country lying to the
southward, with its transfer to himself
and hls posterity as an everlasting pos.
session, sealed with an oath from the
grantor, Jehovah. And along the same
line of family came one Israel, found
ing a great nation.
Then a strange thing happened.
There was told to certain members of
this nation something about a law that
should govern this peoplo and that out
of Zion should go forth this law, and
later on all people would be subject to
It. and that a house called the Lord’s
House should stand In this country,
and that all people should be glad to
como unto It. ,
This Is but sacred history. Is It whol
ly spiritual? Is there no literal mean
ing of Israel as a world power, Implied?
Is there no slghlficance In the fact
that Palestine stands near th* geo
graphical center of land distribution
of the entire globe, and, as Hie natural
gateway between tho East nnd the
West, Is in position to maintain the
arbiter of nations by divine appoint
ment, the Zionist himself?
The ;ew Is not aggressive. Hls en
durance of injustice and oppression,
yet possessing hls Identity throughout
the centuries, have marked him as su
perior and unique. And this preserva
tion as a race makes hls return to Pal
estine simple. Besides he Is already
there today in greater numbers than
were returned after tho Babylonian
captivity.
He cares not to conquer new territo
ry, and the boundary lines of hls home
are already marked off.
The need of a court of arbitration Is
immediate, but only the/peaceable and
peace-loving should preside. None
other should dare to apply. Given the
necessity for universal peace, which
Is os old as the Adamic curse—given
the promise qf the serpent-bruised,
carried across the flood by Noah—giv*
en a chosen country, a chosen law, a
chosen people, scattered abroad only
by disobedience—the Ingathering of
this people back to Palestine, back to
the law—lost to the world, to the na
tions who have forgotten God—It Is
the logic of history, the necessity of
the present.
And Dr. Max Nordau, representing
the Zionist congress, reads upon the
wait of present outlook the “meno,
mene, tekel upharsln” of some of tho
principalities of Europe. Does not this
same Daniel know that ere many a
Cyrus might creep under his neigh
bor’s river-gates to himself and the
cause for which he stands Is given the
power and authority to prevent. If only
the powers that are will recognise this
world power to be?
KATHARINE MATCHETT VAUGHN,
Augusta, Ga.
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ARMY=NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS
Army Order,.
Washington, Oct. 14.—Captain Kirby WaL
Iter, Fourteenth cavalry, detailed In qusr-
termaater'a department; Captain Lawrence
J. Fleming from Flrat to Fourteenth cav
alry; Cbptnln Herbert J. Breen, to Flrat
cavalry; Captain Harry C. Btrnen, eoest
artillery corpn, to general hospital, Wash
ington harrnckn; First Lieutenant Leo F.
2 ulnn. Fourth field artillery, from Battery
to nnaialgned lint; Firnt Lieutenant Wil
liam 8. Woodn, Fourth Field artillery, from
Battery D to A; First Lieutenant Leroy
P. Colllne. Fourth Field artillery, now untn-
aud an president board for I
nou. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Gresham,
Fourteenth cavalry, nnd Major Bugeno T.
Wilson, const artillery corps, from army
war college to proper stations.
Navy Orders.
Rear Admiral A. It. Condon, additional
duty ns president Joint army and nary
board, to consider present specifications for
for army nnd navy. Lieutenant W. M. F«D
coner, detached Illlnola to navy yard, Wash
ington.
Midshipmen F. B. Gross, detached Illi
nois, home to awn It orders. Resignation
accepted to take effect November 16.
Movement* of Vssssls.
Arrived—October 11. Dei Moines it Bos
ton; Hannibal at Portamonth, N. H.; Ma*
rletta and Yankton nt navy yard. New
York; Yorktown at Mire Inland.
Hnlled—October H, Lebanon and Newport
from Portsmouth, N, for navy yard.
New York; Mnrcellus from t’npo Cod hay
for Portsmouth, N'. H.: Minnesota from ;
New London for nary yard. Now
Yorktown from San Francisco for Mare In<
land. October 12, Justin from Cavite fof
York;
A RHYME IN PANAMETER.
A native's called a Panaman /
Near our new-bought canal;
A Panama hls mother le;
Hls dog a Panlmal.-- ■ _' --- f- ,
Philosopher, at Darien
(Perhaps I’m eulogistic i.
And yet ’tla accurate) are called ’
Most truly Fanamystlc.
This leads me on once more to guese
That I am right In this.
That every girl In Colon found
Ie called a Panamlee, > "
Now, should a son of Erin’s Islo
Go down to swing a pick,
TIs ten to one that all the while
He’d be a Panamick.
Or If on railroads he Is bent.
Whene’er he drives a spike.
The section boss will shout at hltnt
’Lay on, you Panamlke.”
And rea-onlng thus, we see ‘tie true
(Of names there le no lack),
That Hootchrnan, when on Isthmos
found,
Would be a Panamac,
One deaf and dumb In that hot clime
A Panamute Is hlght;
While every dwarf, deformed and email,
Ie known a Panamlto.
When Bogota, with eye to "graft,"
Kicked up an awful fues,
The other chape In Colon town
Just raised a Panamuss,
When Wallace, longing to get rich,
For home became a starter.
He felt when Taft had Jumped on him.
Just like a Panamartyr.
And now I’ll stop, for my lute strings
Need tuning. They’re too slack;
f could keep on, but then you’d call
Me Panamanian
—From the October Bohemian.
Many Visitors Expected.
The London Dally Mall In an article
on the prospect, for a great Influx of
American visitors In the coming sum
mer say, that 260,000 are expected.
The real rush will begin this month.
"American holiday-makers spend as a
rule from three daye to a fortnight In
London," says The Mall. ’Tn that time
they contrive not only to see moet of
the famous show places, ranging from
Westminster Abbey to tho Cheslre
Cheese, but also to do a great deal of
shopping. For some reason Americans
are fond of London purchases. The
West End shopkeepers are filled with
happy anticipation, of American cus
tomers, and are making preparations
accordingly, Among those chiefly con
cerned are jewelers, tailors and bric-
a-brac dealers.”
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