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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNE8DAT, JUNE M. JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. =L Telephone Connections. Subscription Rates: One Year $4.50 Six Months 2.50 Three Months 1.25 By Carrier, per week 10c Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday by THE GEORGIAN CO. at 25 W. Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga. V Entered a* aecond-cla** Atlanta. Ot.. unde matter Uprl! 26. 1906, at the Poatofflct at act of congress of March t* 1379. !%! THE GEORGIAN COMES TO GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE % i clear conception of its moaning *■><! ft Appreciation of Its dangers and a keen sense of tbo duty which so great a people as ours owe not leas to Its past and Its present thain to Its great and homogeneous future. It Is the part of wisdom to spend little of your time upon the things that vex and anger you, and much of your time upon the things that bring you quietness and confidence and good cheer. —Henry Van Dyke. Will Our Natural Increase Render Im migration Unnecessary ? A few days ago In a carefully prepared and statis tical editorial The Georgian undertook to point out some of the dangers to be avoided In pressing the matter of Immigration upon the people of these Southern and Southwestern states. Prom the figures and statistics of the department at Washington we made It clear that there had been a gre at change In the nature, origin and quality of the tin migrants from the homogeneous and assimilable people •lioroi. It was demonstrated that conditions had changed materially within the past half-century, and that whereas we were once accustomed to draw our Im- mlg ants from the homogenous and assimilable people of England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany, that of Ihte years there has been a steady drift of Immigra tion away from these countries and that our source of supply has lately come almost exclusively from the coun- tries of southern Europe, Austria, Hungary, Roumanla, Poland and southern Russia. . It was moreover made manifest from the census (bat tin- -tatlstlcs of crime made by these Immigrants from r- ithern Europe show an immense difference In favor of the western Europeans, and that the criminal annals of n <■ country were being enormously recruited by the Isms iuhI revolutionary spirit of the southern European coun tries. ' , In stating these things we frankly expressed our eontdousness of the great necessity of this country for immigrants to supply our depleted fields of labor and to perform the ever-multiplying tasks of our advancing civ ilization In which the scarcity of help waa becoming more manifest and more and more menacing through the constant Increase of unthrift and the unreliability of the negro In bla exodus from the fields afid the farms to the Idleness and crime of the cities. We have been much Impressed and much gratified by the cordial and Intelligent reception which thla edito rial discussion baa received from the thoughtful and interested people of the Bonth. We have messages and telegrams of endorsement and congratulation, and earnest requests that we thould continue to agitate this vast and Altai question along these wholesotpe lines. We publish today on this page, and It la the purpose <V thla editorial to direct attention to It, a thoughtful and > luuprehenslve article from Mr. Ilernard Suttler, of this city, who has for many years given great thought and much Intelligent investigation to the theme. While all of Mr. Suttler's contributions are interesting In a high <!i-uree, there la a special significance ln-thefigurei which lie gives touching the material Increase in our own pop ulatlon. The argument of Mr. Suttler aeenla to center aronnd the proposition, first: That we do not need Immigrants, and 8eoond: That our own population Is growing so rap Idly that in a abort time we will have all and more of the numbers which we need to populate our Industrial districts and to Inhabit the waiting acre* of thla land. If Mr, Huttltr'a figures are correct, and we have every confidence In hla accuracy and conscientious diligence and ability, then they are profoundly worthy of the con sideration of thoughtful men, and It becomes a serious 0 i,-atIon whether our necessities are great enough at thla time to tempt ue to supply a present and not abso- 1 itely essential need by Importing Into our civilisation the aliens who are not aaalmllablo and who can scarcely be deemed dealrable and helpful to the civilisation of tbo 8outh. * Mr. Suttler's figures will richly repay the careful reading of any thoughtful man, whether he be Interested or not In the subject of Immigration, because they b.dlcate that the steady and constant increase of oar population la supplying all-the needs of this great people, and with the numerical basis of Increase con- ► •.antly enlarging the multiplication of people within the i.ext four decades will be limply enormous In numbers nnd In scope. Upon the statistics of Increase given by the census, Georgia will have In 1950 five and one-ba!( milllooa of peo ple; In 1970 nearly eight millions of poople and In 9000 nearly fourteen millions of people. These figures Indicate how little room there will he left tor foreigners In this gri-it country when we provide for the Increase of our own domestic population during the coming century. This la no light question which Mr. Suttler touches here. It.Is deeper than even the probe which he pushes into It We have the finest and purest population In the world In these Southern states. If we are going to bring any foreign people here to share It we should make It a iu iroua prerequisite that they shall be of the beat and ).iattest class of foreigners that can he brought to our American shores. U we can not get thla class ot peo ple we can richly afford to do without any. We art .getting rich fast enough and our fields and mines and : ictorles are growing apace. Our growth la steady 'qoough to satisfy the most exacting avarice ot any rea sonable imagination, and for our own part, looking Into the future lu which our children are to live and flourish, and to settle the problem of clvillxatlan which stretches beyond these (resent days, we are seriously opposed to any amalgamation ot these great Caucasian races In i to South with any people who will bring with them the Infernal Jargon of the foreign tongues which makes such discord and disturbance in the cities of Chicago, New York and other localities where these aliens of revolu tionary and lawless spirit live. We sincerely trust that no new-found seal on the part of the land agents or the railroads which foster Immigration and who have personal Interests at stake, win blind either themselves or this pedple to the conslder- atlon of thla great question of Immigration with anything The Defeat of “Gas” Addlcks. The election of Col. Henry A. Dupont at a senator from Delaware end* the long-drawn contest with "Oaa 1 Addlcks which has been going on for more than eleven years. Never In the history of American politic*. perhaps, has there been such a determined effort on the part of any man to overrlda the wishes of his people and thrust himself Into the upper house as the president of the Bay State Gaa Company has made. Hla optimism and perseverance alone command admiration In a char acter In which there la practically nothing else to admire. The chicanery practiced by Addlcka has made hla name a by word, and yet he had set hla heart so strongly on the aenatorahlp that nothing could cool hla ardor. In May. 1895, the vote In the Delaware legislature stood fifteen for Addlcka and fifteen for Dupont, but among the number who voted for Addlcks waa a former speaker of the house Who bad become governor of the state. The right of the ex-epeaker to vote In the elec tion waa contested. The committee reported against it, and In favor of the election of Col. Dupont, who, without the contested vote, would have a majority of one. By a strict party majority of one, the senate refused to seat him. In the following year the Addlcka and Dupont fac tions each sent a delegation to the national Republican convention. The Dupont delegation waa seated and was thenceforward known as the “regular" Republican party, while the Addlcks faction took the name of the Union Republican party. In 1899, when a new senator waa to be chosen to succeed Hon. George Gray, a deadlock ensued and the aenatorahlp remained vacant Again In 1900 each ot the two factions sent dele gates to the national Republican convention, and this time the Addlcks delegatea were seated, but thla stood the gas man In little stead, for In the following year he waa again defeated In hie ambition to represent hla state In tho senate.' On this occasion there were two senators to be chosen, so the adjournment of the legis lature without making a choice left the state without any representation whatever In the senate. Addlcka made another unaucessful attempt to secure election in 1901. Cot. Dupont, who haa finally been chosen, Is a man of distinguished ancestry and of high military achieve ments. He was graduated from West Point In the year which saw tho beginning of the civil war. He was twice brevetted for gallantry on the field and waa award ed a medal of honor by congress. He resigned from the army In 1874. and five years later became president ol the Wilmington and Nortben railroad, a position which he still holds. It will be a general relief to the country that thla long contest la over. Addlcks has made himself about as unpopular aa possible, and baa Ipcldentally learned that It sometimes requires something besides money to get Into the United States senate. He may now be al lowed to "sink to silence like a tavern brawl." and let poor little Delaware have her Juat representation In the senhte. “The Jungle” for Our Readers. The Georgian takes peculiar pleasure In announc ing that arrangements have been made for the serial publlcaUon In these column* of Upton Sinclair's epoch- making novel, "The Jungle,” which waa primarily re sponsible for the exposure of the packing house abuses In Chicago. Not within the past quarter of a century has there been auch deep and widespread Indignation on the part of the American people as ha* been arouaed over the revelaUons made by this great and vigorous novel, sub sequently confirmed by the InveeUgatlona of Presi dent Roosevelt's epeclal commissioners. It has stirred the civilised world and promises to be the direct means of bringing about one of the most Important reform* this country has ever known. In a Vague sort of way It was known all along that the methods of the beef barons were not aa clean and wholcaomo aa they should have been, but when they were-revealed In ell their appalling minuteness by Mr. Sinclair, who has devoted years to the study of the sub ject, the public was stunned and startled. The facts on which hla novel waa based have been given to the public in official form, and now there fa a general and Insistent demand for the book Itself. Arrangements have been perfected for giving this novel In sorlal form to our readore, and the publication of It will begin at once. The Installments will run dally until the publication la completed. Never In tha history of the country haa the book of the hour, a copyrighted novel designed for sale only In book form And not far syndicate publication, been given through a newspaper In serial form at the very height of Its popularity, but this The Georgian has been able to arrange for and we feel confident that our read ers will be gratified to find themselves the beneficiaries of this enterprise. "The Jungle” Is not merely a problem novel, how ever. While It exposes the corruption ot the beef trust methods and the disregard for human life entailed by this system, a charming love story runs through It and makes It one ot the most readable novels of the season outside of Its value aa an exposure of the Packlngtown horrors. The presses are running night and day to supply the demand for the work In book form, but In the meantime the readers of The Georgian will not have to wait. It will be brought to their doora In dally Installments, beginning Immediately. The Bookish Thcoric. We are told that, reading maketh a full mao, so let’s all read; Years ago dear old Tommy Moore, we believe It was, Insisted that. "My only bonks, were woman's looks, * And folly'* all they taught me;” Emily Dickinson, dear, dead recluse, declares, "There la no frigate like a book. To bear us league* away. Nor any courser like a pan Of prancing poetry;" Well there are poet*,' and there Is poetry. Some we bear, some bore us, and some lay bare greet truths; A book should be a friend, a counsellor, a companion; A good book le the beat of the man who wrote It; Hla thought and soul held In fond vellum, and we may turn the page and see. We love a beauteous noble book, and hold him In our heart; The Bible Is the best of books; Shakespeare one of the greatest books; Tennyaon one of the sweetest hooka; With these three a fellow can get along fairly well; Go get thee to a bookery. The Shame in Savannah. t dispatches In tho morning papers carry a truth- count of yesterday's election In Savannah, then [ pposed to conserve the liberty and the prosperity men. course, the toen who drifted Into these orgies of *"* ■ "*T?”. t *** ‘ I politics did ao thoughtlessly and without due consldera- we think the time has come when the decent forces of ’ , _ u _ „ . . ... , , a, I tion of the magnitude of their offense against the law and our Georgia civilization should rise In protest against the . „ * t . political conditions which make possible auch scene. and f« ““Zn such method. In an election In the etate. tlclpated In these.hamefulscene, of ycsWrday were men Tho city of Savannah Is one of the moat charming and I wbb and deserve the highest repute foeprobity beautiful In the South, the oldeat and most arialocrat.c T.ITL J2 city of this commonwealth. It has been for more than a Heard on the Comer hundred years the type of refinement, of culture, of dig nlty, and of social and commercial honor In the South. And yet, upon the sheer drift of factional politics, It has fallen Into methods which are not only disgraceful, but are criminal in their violation both of law and of mor als In the state. * Such an election aa that ot yesterday. In which money wna used not only freely but with the brazen Impudence of the streets, parading Its political bribe* nnder the very nose of the Insulted law, buying and selling aacred bal lots In the open mart as If they were bananas or red her- rings. Is enough to make the cheek of every Georgian mantle with the shame of the spectacle. One who stood upon the streets of Savannah during the scenes described In the dispatches of the daily papers, would have found no point of difference between the po litical orgies of this beautiful metropolis of the seaboard and the worst political picture made by any gang of ward heelers In the purlieus and precincts of New York or Chi- CfigO, No matter how high the spirit ot faction may have run In the elty of Savannah, no matter how keen the ambitions of candidates and their friends—even if the la- aues bad been absolutely vital and not' merely personal and factional, there could be no possible excuse for the shameful and disgraceful prostitution of the ballot In the hands of the voters of the city. There Is no combination of circumstances that could ever Justify such violation of the law and such prostitution of the suffrages which bare no doubt that these men would scorn to do In bust ness or In social life anything that waa beneath the high plane of the gentleman and the law-abiding citizen. And yet, they have drifted easily and naturally, un der a strange and perverted view of political exigencies and political necessities. Into a series of crimes against both the ballot and the law, which are calculated to un dermine every principle of morality, and Justice, and po litical honor, and ultimately the foundations of the state and of the republic. We do not hesitate to say that If Savannah does not Itaelf promptly react In protest and lu reform against the scenes of yesterday, then the state of Georgia, through Its Judicial oOcera, should take auch cognizance as may be necessary, and such methods aa may be possible to prevent a recurrence of these shameful demoralizations. When a beautiful, cultured city flings into the very teeth of a lofty and honorable civilization a ballot box drama that shocks and degrades the political morals of the state, It la high time that somebody on the outside should grasp the Iniquity by the throat,' if the true and the good men within 4ts walls are paralyzed by tear or be smirched by apathy and indifference. It 1* surely a timely and, a necessary appeal to the nezt legislature to pass with heartiness and enthusiasm the bill of the Hon. Boykin Wright, of Richmond, or some measure akin to it, that will stamp the condemnation of Georgia's representative assembly upon methods and practices that are growing to be more and more a stench In the nostrils ot decency and the state. (By a Non-Combatant.) Said Clark unto Hoke, ‘‘You’re a fake and a Joke, I know what you are. With your charity Bar, You're a aneak and a frog. And a base demagogue. It's a Populist trick, And yon need a swift kick.” Said Hoke unto Clark, ‘‘Your friend Hnmp la a lark. You’re a railroad gossoon, And you cling to the coon. You’re a swine in disguise, And I’ll black both your eyes. Just step out In the park,” Said Hoke unto Clark. Said both unto each, “You're a bird and a peach, A liar, a thief. And a cannibal chief,” And the pnbllc stands by, With a wink o' the eye, And wonders forsooth If they both tell the truth. DOES THE SOUTH NEED FOREIGN IMMIGRATION ? By BERNARD SUTTLER. J •fifi99#fifiM#9td#*9*fifi»9#fifififi In aniwer to tha question u*ed m a heading to thla article, I must aay that I think tha South does NOT need tha for eign Immigration she can gat Assuming tha negative, it falls upon ma to prove my case. I make ao apology for aalng figures to some extent, as they are noceasaty to the development of the argument. Let us taka Georgia ns the subject investigation, It befog • an absolutely fair example. In 1790 ray maternal grandfather was born. In that year Georgia contained 82,- MS people. In 1900 I, In the third genera tion, saw In Georgia a population of 2,216,- 331, or an Increase of, say 2,600 per cent In 110 yea re, or three generations! Let ns analyse the flguree a little eloeer. The Increase from 1790 to 1900 was 90,138, nearly 100 per cent, (evidently a heavy Im migration was coming In; UNO to lAiO In crease waa 99,760, about le per cent, still re ceiving Immigrants; 1810 to 1S30 Increase was 81,663, or about __ per cent, still getting some Immigration: 1X3) to 1930 Incrense was 1<*.- 834, or about 62 per cent; Immigration evl* * ‘ *o I860 tuerveev was rent, still getting Increase was Sty,- cressiiig™From l ~* was about 120 pe. the decade, a normal growth migration. Now, 1 find that the absolute gain from 1190 to 1*0 was 818,617. Let us assume that oae-balf of this was Immigration (and It liberal estimate) and we bare 109.918 Georgia, hence It la easily apparent that Georgia has contributed aa many people to other sections ns sbe^ has received from Ithout her borders. Let ns now take an ther step. The growth ot fifty years, practically doing the clamor? ntlder from whence comes all without - Immigration, was about 123 per “tie more then 24 cent to cent, or a Iltfi % the decade. Let us sasume that 30 per cent to the decade, or 3 per cent a year was the natural growth, or excess of births over deaths, and let ue see where tble nat ural growth of 2 per cent will lead us. In 14.C ■ leratlona, __ t us see what this means. In 1710 the density < square mile was 1.4, or . capita: In 1M0 the density per square mile was 37.6. or say 17 acres per capita; In 2000, with 14,000,000 people, the density per capita would be about 236 per square mile, or say 000. would Ik* much more densely populated than France now Is, as densely populated as Germany now In. and would have al»out ltt acres of actually tillable lend per cap- Alt this In three generations without any Immigration. Germany la the home of socialism. Why? Too many people. Germany ban sent ns several millions of emigrants. Why? Too many people. One of our consuls In a re cent report gives figures on the wages paid In his district, which are absolutely horri fying The wonder Is that people ran aue- tain life st alt on such pittances. Yet In three generations. In 96 yearn, Georgia will be Tu the poeitlon that Ger many It In today. There will be plenty of lalmr then. due to the Teutonic race. This Teutonic race, an Industrious, pushing, masterful people, may be said to be fairly represented by Germany, England. Mweden. Norway. Denmark, ftelglum. Holland. Hwtttertaiid land France (for France In Its origin was Teutonic and not loitlnl. All the Immigra tion from these countries has lieen readily Hungary. Three r us and < rwspi. ___ Far removed from ray*, knowing little of our Ideas iit ilerlal things of Ilf,, contributing nothing to tbo uplift --f tho ulhMl Ufo, Tint putting upon »* tho hrarr burden of trying to rsW our eland- nrtls with this additional dead wotght added i our load. * 1 do not hesitate to say that the welfare r the people of the I’ntted Htate* would t greatly advanced If another Immigrant did not cross oar borders In twenty years. In making each a statement K do not mean to reflect upon tho many good people who In tho past have cast their lot with us, bnt merely to state what I believe to be true under present conditions. Who Is raising the clamor? I-ot ns JM d|g ft Is noqueetfonaL-- steamship lines have promoted the move* ment from Europe by every means In their K wer for the gske of the money paid for uisportntlon, uor do they care anything about quality. A "fare la a fare." These concerns will beyond question maintain their foreign ageudea and do all they can , lea In certain lines, but every man Jack of them will on analy sis fall under one of the classifications of forth peril* or the South, ir this be true, why try to force matters? Why not let the normal progress more along for a time, without getting crasy to double up at once? The railroads are naturally eager for any additional Impetus that will make more business for them. They are corporations, without souls, and ffco managers take no cogulsauce of anything but the material side of things; they would not care If the fiouth became as a choice section of Gehenna, provided It doubled the traffic. They are not safe guides, and they lielong to both the careless and greedy classes. Then there are the manufacturers, who ere prospering greorly, and Invanse of that great prosperity are clamoring for more and cheaper labor In order to have n still ‘ cotton X they are* now’ eagerly building a second one or over 30,000 spin dles. Not that the country Is suffering for thla second mill, but merely to gratify the nrouocd avarice of a little bunch of stockholder*. The greedy class Is very much lu evidence In this cry for Immi grants. The uutlilnklng class Is repre sented by a large nun -* of men who. while competent in thelt sru pursuits, do no careful thinking about anything outride their owu special callings, and these men are caught by any scheme promulgated In the name of progress. Dividends. Progress. These sra the ihlb holeths with which we are to be conjured to our deadly Injury. Providence bestowed upou tV Inbabltnnta of the United Staten a natural bauk »f wonderful resources, and are-doing our best to see how quick .... have *had endure. If I aid lu, or consent to, dumping Into our fair counti de vi ‘ our fair country of a holt of people whose conceptions of good govern- __w — p^, ifyjjyf an , pffrhed fo a key many —, dtlsen. rope, all In order to Increase the orofita of the few. For that Is what It spe!' somewhat close observation ettendltn result unt so much In the diffusion of an Increased prosperity to the the enrichment of a few. our urnl resources Is being drawn upon qnlte fast enough. The naval stores Industry Is already decaying nud will soon be gone. I.uuiInt experts admit the exhaustion of the yellow pine forest* of the floutb lu twelve jear*. and oay that In twenty-five full rood building will also have a _ tlon to a great extent la n*» long time, and more lalior will he hunting plare. What other Interest Is really suffering for anything that ought to lie done? Our farmers can remedy their shortage at nnv time by simply better cultivation and In-Iter fertilization of fewer acre#. We had cottou acreage sufficient last year to have made 29,0u0,009 Iwles. with PJJJcr methods,-and we made 10JOO.OM. Gf" i x«a will «|U«wtl»n mr atstravnl. nw giro you an risuiplr: II. w. lUk.r ■ four srrr, of Unit ntlj - - - - .. R. C.. ao-l In IMS rent... more. Prom tbl> aU-srre farm hr aoM MIS worth of cotton. Itcoaa and aw ret potatoes. ralaaU to bwbela corn, kitted SOlfpounda I torn, an.l worked out enough to uoy for a one horre wagou and mole. Tkla sort of farming would pot eolre Ike labor nroMrtn po our farms, hot would make oar (armors I ad. pendent ot the negro, aad giro tkrtu a *"tn»e of crop* e-joa! to tktt now grown, aad SI mark Ten coat. Conclusion. The Sooth has noWy endured the storms of adversity, aad la now la aarlaas danger "! **■*«» wwc > Ike pleasant waters What my few retnalnlnr days may bo. bat Trus Independence. To the Editor of The Georgian I cannot help writing and congratu lating you on the definition you gave of the true basis of Independence polit ically. We common folks appreciate your Interest In our welfare, and rec ognise that The Georgian I, the only paper published In Atlanta that has the courage to champion the cause of tho people, and dare to differ from the politicians who are trying to run things In their own Interest and in the Interest of trusts and comines. You have the courage to give s man the right to exercise hls own Judgment without calling him a Jackass or darn ing him because he has the courage to stand by hls principles. , Long may you live and prosper, and I hope your Investment will not be long before you and all connected with the enterprls will be Independent financially. Your well wisher, G. A. JACKSON. Maxsy, Ga., June 9, 1909. CHRIST AND HELL. Editor of The Georgian: Much discussion has been provoked by the recent preaching of Evangelist Torrey In your midst on the subject of hell. The Unlvereallst, the Unitarian and the general coterie of doubters of God’s word havs been aroused and much mire and dirt have been stirred up In the gospel pond In Georgia. Well, the preaching of the truth will stir peo ple and the devil, too, and but little harm will accrue to the gospel cause where the truth Is boldly set forth. This whole doctrine of hell revolves upon the axle of faith In the words of the Son of God. Do tbs people believe what Jesus said? He had much to aay on this subject and Hla plain words are unmistakable. Here are some of Hla sayings: "If thy hand offend thee, cut It off: It Is better for thee to enter Into life maimed, than having two hands to go Into hell, Into the fire that never shall be quenched. If thy foot offend thee, cut It off; It la better for thee to enter Into life halt, than having two feet to be cast Into hell. Into the fire that never shall be quenched. If thine eye offend thee, pluck It out: It Is better for thee to enter Into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast In hell fire. (Mark lx:4S. 45. 47.) The Bon of Man shall send forth Hls angels, and they shall gather out of Hls kingdom all things that offend and them which do Iniquity: and shall cast them Into a furnace of fire: there shall be walling and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew xtll: 41, 41.) Te serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ve escape the damnation of hell? (Mat. xxlll:SI.) These shall go away Into exeriastlng punishment, but the right eous Into life eternal. (Mat. xxv:46.) In hell he lifted up hla eyes, being In torments, and said. Father Abraham, send Laxarus that he may dip the Up of hls finger In water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented In this flame. (Luke xvl:23, 24.)" The guns of the antis In this battle have been turned on Dr. Torrey. Why, the doctor la aa Innocent as a babe. Back or the evangelist Is Jesus Christ and the Bible, and he has said nothing that should have drawn the Are of the unbelievers to himself. Dr. Torrey haa been a plain teacher of the words of Jesus It Is not what the earnest preacher has said, but it in what Jesus has said, for the preacher has simply reiterated the words of the Son of God. Let the whole coterie of unbe lievers take their eyes off of Dr. Tor- ray and focus them upon Christ. Let the mighty (?) guns they are shooting he turned upon the Son of Ood. He Is the one who said It. These unbelievers In their rage are tearing down the word of God; they are digging out the foundations of the Scriptures. Jesus Christ and the Bible are responsible for the doctrine of hell and not Dr. Torrey. Those who light should not be as one who beats the air. It Is a question of belief or disbelief of the Bible. The Book says there Is a heaven. Everybody believes there Is except the blind Atheist. The Book says thsre Is a hell. Jesus Christ says there Is. Thousands say they do not believe there Is a hell. Thousands havs written volumes against the doc trine, but thsre It stands Imbedded In the very organic structure of Chris tianity. Men may say there la no hell of torment, but the assertion does not affect the fact. If there Is any fact In the Word of God hell Is one of them. It Is not a pleasant fact, but It Is a Now. Mr. Editor, If there Is no hell, there is.no haaven. You cannot blot out one without with tbo same fall swoop blot out the other. A man who does not believe there Is a hell does not believe the Word of God. The destruction of th* doctrine of bell de stroys heaven, destroys the Bible, doss away with God and lands us In utter anarchistic Atheism. W.- O. BUTLER Chlckamauga, Go. Buckman's Abolished 8ehools. Hon. Harr}- H. Bachman, of Jack snnvllle, who a.|drr»*M the bankers* C'-nventlon banquet on Monday nUh> on "The Lawyer Y., u Can Bank On- Is one of the foremost of Florida's lawyara. J—tnhoot a year ago, h™“ cupled the center of the political and educational field In the Slower Staff hls bill revolutionizing the sThool .y^ tem of the state having passed thl legislature. Until that tlmwtheVau was supporting seven Institutions, non! »»>«m receiving the patronogi that they should and none of then? do n. ‘he work that they ahould, on herein? of the Inadequacy of the education^! Hll*V h !iL,ii!h 1 • moa ^ “>em Hlg bill abollfthed the seven school* and provided for the eatabll.h™!!??, a college for females and a university for males, leaving their location In th. hands of a state board of control. Th! university was located by the board at Gainesville, and the college at Tall!, hassee, aftewone of the bitterest pom. leal fights the state has ever known. One year’s working under the new rule Floridans say, has demonstrated, how.’ ever, that Senator Buckman's conceit- tlon was a good one. Mr. Buckman Is a brother-in-law nt George E. Chapin, the local manager gf the Associated Press. ’ 1 8tevs Clsy’s Joke. Senator Steve Clay tells of a nerm who was elected a Justice of the peacs In Georgia, during reconstruction times says tits New York World. Hls first case was one where the defendant asked for a trial by jury. The negro Justice presided with great dignity while the witnesses were examined and te lawyers summed up. Then everybody waited for him to charge the Jury. He did not know what to do. Finally a friendly lawyer tennsd over the bench and said; "Charge tht . uryl This Is the time to charge the JU The Justice arose and looked at ths Jury. "Gentlemen ob de Jury," he said "dls yer's a mighty small case an' I’ll only charge you-all a dollar an' a halt apiece.” GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM. By Private Leased Wire. New York, June IS.—Here are some of the visitors tn New York today: ATLANTA—H. E. DeNIse, W. E. Gathrlght, C. Goodman, J. Levin, C. T, Mason, R. Rose and wife, B. A. Ryan, E. R. Dorsey, R. Q. Fuller, W. R Bean, H. Bleckley, G. P. Howard, J. C. John son, Miss K. Moyes, C. A. Smith. MACON—L. A. McAlister, S. L. Me- Williams. SAVANNAM—J. Hull, T. S. Smylle, Jr., J. T. Rogers, Dr. O. R. White. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. JUNE 13. 1530—Diet of Augsburg convened. 1633—Maryland charter granted. 1785—General Winfield Scott born; died May 29, 1848. 1794— Battle of Ghent. 1795— Dr. Thomas Arnold born. 1813—Battle of Hampton, Va. 1817—Dissolution of the Mahratta con federacy. 1858—Steamboat Pennsylvania burned on the Mississippi; 100 lives lost. 1867—Fugitive slave law repealed In ' the house. • 1867—Grldley Bryant, builder of first railroad In America, died. 1874—Compromise currency bill defeat ed In the United States senate. 1878—Meeting of the Berlin congress. 1880—James A. Bayard, ex-Unlted States senator from Delaware, died. 1894—Prendergaat, assassin of Mayor Carter Harrlaon, hanged In Chi cago. 1896— British government announced a protectorate for Uganda, Central Africa. 1897— Bomb exploded near carriage of President Fsure, of France. 1898— President McKInlsy signed war revenue bill. 1904—Nan Patterson Indicted for the murder of Caesar Young In New York. 1906—Premier Delyannls, of Greece, as sassinated. THAT DAY. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Obe hrairt of Ming, through *11 tho»o p**r* ff*ct d*jr», _ hothor of wbltg December* or gre^o Thorp run* n dnrk thought like n creeping Or like" a l>Uck thread, which, by mbI Life ha* utrung through the penrl* of thougUtT which* borders all my Joy* with tear*. flome day, aome day, or you, or 1. Mu*t look upou the aceoe* we two nma known! t Muit tread the oetf-rame path* we twe And cry In rain to one who I* with H**} To lean down from the ttlent Realm* love^yon," In the obi, familiar w*y. Rome day-and each day. !>eauteoua though Bring* cUwier that dread hour for you or leetfooted Joy. who burrte* time along, i« yet n secret foe who doe* n* tewjtg* Speeding us gayly, though be well d«rf» yonder pathway, where but one may *»• Ay. one will ga To go In tweet. 1jjjj Vet tlod iun*t needs lurent aome •|m*iai make* IIU Paradise seem wjjJg 1r h ^, oue who gw?* and leave* the ether n ■ever *oum ao bound t*T ■ any one but Uod would be a crlm* Yet Death will entertain Me ««• 1 ‘S!"?i -- one who eteye Life give, th« “ ... one* who etsjrs. or In* It lya "f 1 There wall, the Usnlen of I.eiboiinn*- T. dark. Inevitable nnd awful hen one of us must go and one meet *'“r EVEN THERE. Out on Iho loovl^TTha»*P?jrtrtd. Far out upon the desert. I?,"•$£*? "1228 There, where tho euu. unhindered, Bcrceiy I oat me down to ponder all alone. -Here l «m the Sret," I said: "I TV hat no other over saw: for Thla haa been rrservnl: bMomtodJ? Mortal man hat never peered Ihle *<!■ -Here the world le „ f!«l Sin haa not lotreded: oor haa fear. Nor haa love or hatred ever oaime'i , T , Ma* or malt! to tremble where ** paused." Long I eat In meOltatlou Ijms Fer.swajr the meres, red -tel Stretched from north to eoutb. from WohUMfuTenpotlone filled my breeet When I arose, st last, to *o I j Faltered to a stake tturh In thegroumi. While ami square aad flee from Wot ranf'on whtrh wee wrttteo •Lovete' U **:" —Chicago Record Herald.