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. HK ATLANTA (iWJKUl ANT AND NEWS. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN | (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. T. B. COODWIN, Gen'I Mgr. Published Everv Afternoon. (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At ZS West Alabama St.. Atlanta. Go. Subscription Ratest one Tear ; ..JU) six Months Throo Month* Lw Month £ n n IS 10 Hy Carrler. Ppr Work Telephones ronneetlni: alt depart* tnent* Lone distance terminals. Pmlth A Thompson, sdv«rtl*!n* rep~ entntives for ell Icrrltorj outeTde of Georgia. Chicago Office Tribune Bulldlnc Now York Office Brunswick Bldg. If yon bare any tronble getting TTTE GEORGIAN AND NEWS, telephone the circulation department and hero kiP 440t*" P the dste of expIrstloD; otherwise, It will bo continued tit the regular sub scription rates until notice to stop Is received. In ordering ■ ehaufe of address, please (Ire the old as well as tbs new address. It la desirable that til rcmmnnlrs. linns InterdcJ for publication In THE GEORGIAN ANI) NEWS be limited to MO words In length. It la Imperative that they be signed, is tn ertdenct of food (flu. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unlese stamps are tent for tbe purpose. TUB GEORGIAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable advertli* lor. Neither does It print wbltky or toy liquor ads. OUR PLATFORM: THE OEOROIAN 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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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.” WHY GO TO HAWKES’ FOR GLASSES? 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