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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. MONDAY. OCTOBER *, IMS. i SOME LETTERS FROM GEORGIAN READERS ON VARIOUS TOPICS I organizations^* needed, - .h» Editor Of The Georgian: *The recent trouble In Atlanta hes . I Sit forth many suggestions as to ^ .Arty, all varying more or less In ' ■Y oVnions os to what the remedy tM r Vie all Other Important, questions !“ ,hieh we are all alike Interested, It n v each person from his or her " individual standpoint and the con- f 1 , ;® every one depends upon his, c her capacity for seeing the matter f Jn different phases, taking lnte 1, ’n. deration the causes thst hav« such effects, and the best pr 7K of correction. Not only what 1,1 ‘.sets out of life, but also what he Into life, hie usefulness as a cltl po1 oower for good, for aiding In S' * about those conditions that Insure the greatest degree of hap- and contentment to the people. Sinnmis upon hta ability to realize the d O, IS applied to such matters, his Ifor humanity and hta Judgment In !.“'*isin» means of correction. <>« imvc our Ideals, and the at. ..,nmen 'f the Ideal constitutes the ""'"fof life, life thus taking Its pyff-n.,he Ideal. While it must be ■Allied that the Ideal depends some- ad ' !' upon the Inherent qualities of The irdivlduar, It Is nevertheless true that U is largely molded and fashlon- 'T' narly training and environment, me mos" worthleaa and mischievous n hviik might have been fashioned £? " us/fuh respected, law-abiding dtisen by _ P'oper childhood. training during not believe there ts an ' “ to this. The good man has followed the bent of bis Incllna- linns but by perststent effort has con- ’ffrod his evil propensities, becoming quered, his e P e them do his himself runner, making them do his bidding rather than being a slave to them I once heard a gentfoman boas S., V. would never “be a drunkard,' [ha the very taste and smell of In Sating drinks were repulsive. An other replied. ‘'Then you deserve no credit for not being a drunkard I have an Insatiable thirst, and have Sever yet been under the Influence of Strung drink. If you and I could ex change natures, perhaps there might he "ne more drunkard In the world.’ What thou IS the logical deduction? Klmnlv that there Is but one place to which we can look with the hope of success for correction and prevention, !Sd that is the home. True this will lake tune, nnd during this time there must be some restraining Influence for protection against the evil that now exl a ts but this restraining Influence ran have no part whatever in this work of refinement. The law has never made a man one whit a better man; that Is not the purpose of law. Ant. vet our reformers of almost every class think, talk and act as If this reforma tion was the sole purpose of. law.. We have been endeavoring for hundreds of years, not only to make the world better morally, but also religiously, by the making and enforcement of laws. We may Imprison the criminal ao tnat he can commit no further crimes, but by so doing he Is not made one particle a better man. his conceptions of life arc not Improved or his Ideals elevated. To the man with correct Ideas, his life based upon truth and Justice, realizing the relations of man to man. It makes no difference so far aa his life Is con cerned whether there Is a written law against murder or any other crime. His life is not actuated by fear, but Is founded upon something better and more substantial. The only effect that the law has upon him who would vio late It Is restraint from fear of de tection and punishment, acting only as a protection to aoctety without In the least sense elevating the atandard of morality. . .. We must look to bur homes, to the early training of the children, to the molding of character, as the only hope. And now 1 aak In alt candor and kind ness, is it not a fact that this one all- important question !» today receiving far less attention than almost any other that might be mentioned? Per haps at first thought thla may seem harsh and untrue, but I believe that after proper Investigation and consid eration every sane man and woman will agree that such Is the ease. It Is true tve have good schools, and thoy are growing better every day; thou sands and thousands of dollars are be ing spent In equipping them, tn the se curing nnd training of the best teach ers in the best methods, but tt must be remembered that the ichool, how ever good, cannot do the work of the home. The purposes of the two are entirely dlfrcren*. The object of home training Is the making of character, While that of the school Is the equip ping ut the Individual with the means for the better accomplishment of the purposes of life and character. In every other department of life there are formed societies and organi sations of every name and description tor the purpose of devising plans for the accomplishment of some object. The fathers spend their evenings at their halls or at prayer meetings while their boys are running on the streets subjected to the degrading Influences of every evil the wicked one can devise. The mothers nre. at the council cham bers of the daughters of this, that and the other, their aid societies, etc., etc., looking after the Interests of every body else while their own little ones »re left to the care of colored nurses who have no more Idea of life than a goat has of psychology. we, the people, are responsible for •he undesirable conditions that exist, hot Intentionally, not because we wish t« have it so (I have great faith In humanity, I believe the world Is at hrart honest), but because of our In difference and our Incapacity to grasp fhe situation, to realize the truth, and [n many Instances our lack of "nerve" to apply ih e remedy. This Incapacity is not natural; itself has grown out of mlict,notations the fruit of laziness. More anon. J. E. LOVELESS. CUMBERLAND PRE3BY- TERIAN UNION To the Editor of The Georgian: Permit me to correct one statement In tho report concerning Judge Pendleton's decision In the Atlanta church case* This report affirms that this Is the first victory gained by the loyalists In many Thi^ r i. C0 <r« t w e, } ed W bpfore the courts. H 1 .!?J* from being correct. ca * e * n th° courts was a petl* tlon filed by the loyalists at Decatur. Ills., praying that the union majority of the gen- th2 JL , ,*£ mb L y b 5 en J° ,ue d from adopting the Joint report on organic union, anu from adjourning sine die. The court sustained a motion on demur- E?r, but passed on no question of proi rights, except so. far as the decision be construed either way. The decision did not, tn definite and prac tical effect, touch the real meHts of the ssues Involved. In Tennessee, the union- ‘•r® Bued oiit -a temporary injunction re straining the loyalists from performing cer- tain acts and setting up certain claims. This was granted temporarily without hear- lug. On the hearing two weeks ago, the Judge dismissed the bill outright at to tho main contentions, modified a third In permitting noth factions to alternately occupy the house pending definite decision as to tho rights of titles to property. Titles to prop erty is yet held in reserve by the court, but rulings on other poluts- assures *** to the loyalists. The Missouri case Is » what similar to the Tennessee case, temporary Injunction, involving AN EXAMPLE NEEDED. piece of property, has bee uot yet heard. The Texas to the Atlanta case, only by the unionists. It has nc The Atlanta case Is tho has been heard and definitely passed upon by a civil court. It Is a complete victory for the loyal eloment iu the Cumberland Presbyterian church. It may be of Interest to your readers generally to know that fully two-thirds or three-fourths of the cominuniaftnts of the Cumberland church are uncompromisingly able to carry the question by a small ma<. Jority In the ecclesiastical courts or as semblies. It ts proposed by the unionists to take over alf v the property, both con gregational and general, with them into the other church. This the loyal ministers nnd members of the Cumberland church are re sisting. There are two main unit ns to the logic or utility _ . organic union. The first Is doctrinal—a pro test on the part of the loyal Cumberland Presbyterians to the doctrines of the West minster confession. The second is one of polity, to-wlt: The Presbyterian church. United States of Amorlcn, admits to Its communion, synods and assemblies, the ne gro, on an equal basis or footiug with the white people. At the close of the civil war the Cumberland church adopted a pol ity of absolute organic segregation, which has been practiced nnd enforced by Oiem from that Ikntll the present time. The loyal element Insists that tho adoption of the polity of the northern church, especially In the South, will work barm to both races. T. A. HAVKON. Jasper, Tenn. Arms and the Millionaire. A story is going the rounds of the clubs of a Chicago millionaire who ordered a replica of the Venus of Milo f? be delivered at hla home. Wrien the case arrived and was opened the Millionaire discovered there were- no jrbw anu threatened to bring action :!^ lnal the railway company tor dam- fj* , T,1 e company sent an official to Into the»matter, found that the arms uere missing—and paid.—Kan- ** city Journal. Diamonds Stones, loose or mounted, of purest quality and finest color, are here in abundance your choosing. , The values are unusual f n ‘ l w ® cordially invite your Inspection of the stock and tue prices. Maier & Berkele. HOW TO FIND THE CRIMINALS. To the Editor of The Georgian: I may be a little late with a sugges tion for the safe-guarding of our lady folks against the brutal attacks of the negro, and (In graver cases) that of some white skin brute also. Your suggestion to the ministry, of both races, to preach continually against such crimes, Is a good one and one that will have weight with the ma jority of the black men, but there la a class of negroes, like some animals, that kindness to them will be labor thrown away. Nothing but fear of local or bodily punlehment will Influ ence them. .. Some suggest one thing and others something else. Now, let us see If we can't find a simple, lnexpenelve plan that will, If put Into effect, control the vicious element with that degree of fear that will eliminate from their minds even the thought of molesting our women of their own color either. At the last election we had registered In Fulton county about 18.000 voters. Now, Mr. Editor, suppoie' we request the good sheriff and his deputies to select from the registration books one-sixth, or about 2,000, of the beat registered men and swear them In as deputies at a salary of 12 per year; fix their bond at $100. The salary, %c It ever so small, will validate the bopd. Their badge of office will permit tnem to go armed and will also authorise them to stop any man, black or white, at any time or any place, and And who they are, where they are from, what they are doing, and where they are go ing. If they "prove up,” let them pass on, but In the meantime the good citi zen officer has had an opportunity or taking a mental picture of them, and If the fellow commits any crime In that neighborhood his Identification Is al most a certainty. .... This plan can be carried out at a cost of about $4,000 per year, the vi cious element driven from this part of the state at least, and Fulton county s women can walk (free from fear) upon our streets and highways and Fulton county will be one of the beat policed counties In the world. , Two thousand conservative citizens of this county will meet no trouble In making bond. If perchance any one abuses his authority, Are him and get a good man tn hla place. Let It be publicly known that Fulton county has 2,400 police and In SO days this county won't have a dangerous crttnlnal with in her borders. PAT QUINN. PRAISE FOR NEW8PAPER8. To the Editor of The Georgian; All praise to The Atlanta Constitu tion, The Journal and The Georgian for the stand taken In the recent trou ble. • Home very wise utterances have been In each. But I feel, slr.thatmore praise la due TheTIeorglan than either. The Georgian has done more to make the leading negroes come to the front and take a stand with the whites. That ts a great step forward, tn my opin ion. The leading negro preachers and educators MUST take a very decided stand against rape and other crimes of their race, and the must condemn mobs. And Atlanta Is going to close the dives! God grant It. But when she closes them all there will not be a single saloon left, for all saloon, are d >v« tpBETTBR . Arlington, Ga. A POEM TO HER. The retalolscent Indian simmer, With tuny sky end yellow leaf. Comes 0?> P r‘'Sn*^.^“w™love[ dreams. Ob, istag fair. bringing with it ssd. sweet mem'. rtsrjtfiWL Whole deep blue exes endrerenbelr^ Are vivid vlelons In my dream My old sweetheart was petting 1 fhe summer melts Into mild Tbe*summer SSgfc- 1 The one to whom theee words arepenued, T t, *sys , i« And’ohMbe'Toy thit’itirllle SJ» As quaffs of porwt win*, of mine. sr mu —,n GEORGE L KINO, JR- To tho Editor of Tho Georgian: In troublous times like these tho con servative people Instinctively turn to a strong, safe and sane lender, such as The Georgian has proven Itself to bo under any and all circumstances. For this reason tho poople know that you stand for law and order. We can not tolerate a spirit of lawlessness, which seems about to enthrall us at this time. The way, and the only way, to stop it Is to take prompt action through the courts of the land. Wo must appeal to them, and to them only, Just now. I notice that some two or three hundred arrests have been mode for crimes which, under our taws, amount to only a misdemeanor. Near ly all of those arrested are guilty of Inctting a riot, or carrying concealed weapons. These cases can be tried In the city court of Atlanta, the machin ery of which can be gotten In opera tion In a few houra. Were this court called In session and some steps taken to punish the guilty ones, the people, at least the law-abiding element, will be fully satisfied. The prompt and vigorous action of Judge Broyles In Imposing heavy sen tences on the mob of Saturday night had a wholesome effect. Now, If the city court would convene and remain In session until all the guilty were tried and punished, there would be no cry of the delay of the law, and the people have no excuse to resort to mob law. Our laws are adequate, and only need prompt and fearless enforcement. If the good citizens of this community knew that, all offenders would be pun ished as fast as arrested. It would have a salutary Influence In quieting the restless and uneasy feeling of the citi zens. I simply offer this suggestion for what It is worth. R. a SHROPSHIRE. 8HALL WE HIDE THE 0 NEGRO’S CRIMES? To the Editor of The Georgian: One reader and admirer of The Georgian has noted with regret for the past few weeks the falling off, and up until the last fow days, the almost total absence of comment on the negro problem In your splendid paper, and I am safe In saying that I am not alone In my views of this fact. This one feature of The Georgian, lta stand, or rather the stand Its editor has taken on this subject, has won for his paper a place In the hearts of the true Geor gian that will not be lost so long as the virtue and safety of our Southern women Is pleaded for In Its columns. In this morning's Constitution ap peared an editorial advocating the dis continuance of extras being published giving details ot assaults. While this policy may be a good one from one point, namely, the quelling of the pres ent etate of excitement and disturbance, wish to state that one person who, perhaps, has had this curse to come a little nearer home to him than the au thor of this special editorial, thinks It la a crying ahame that a crime of this volume of blackness and carrying with It the horror that It does, should be smothered, as It were, and kept In the quiet In order that a helpless law, with a few slow, Indifferent policemen to represent It. should have a chance to try and bring the negro to justice. God knows that I am a man who re spects our laws, but the law Is only the voice and will of the people. Ours Is law for the people, by the people, and those who make the law can now see occasion and place for revision of our laws, a revision that will allow .men, men of courage, men of character, men who love the purity and grace of our mothers and the daughters of our beautiful Southland more than they love their own lives, to avenge these crimes and put the beastly, loathsome demons to a speedy end. The press can—and will eventually— do more to put a stop to these crimes and restore our peopls to safety than any other medium, and at the present rate of Increase In the number of at tacks and assaults committed It will not be long ere the wife or daughter of some of tho editors (who are now of fering suggestions as to what shall be done to stop lynching and* protect the negro, you might as well say, aa thla is what It-amounts to) will fall a prey to the beast, then we ahall be given suggestions In another direction—pro vided he can leave the chase long enough to resume his work, and has the heart to do so. The present status of affairs Is not at all an unlooked-for thing among any one with half an eye to the future. Tl has been plainly In sight for months gone by, yes, for years. Further more, there Is only one remedy that will ever bring safety—complete rld- drance and an elimination of the cause. To obtain this the negro must go. This Is a problem so large that It Is dis missed almost aa soon as suggested In every conversation where It Is brought up for discussion. However, while the task Is growing greater all the- time, the absolute necessity and essentiality of this move Is being more clearly manifested each day by the conduct of the black brutes alt over the country. In your mind, Just for a moment, im agine the negro out of the United States, a country filled with people of your own blood, people whose hand you ran take as you would a brother's. Your wives and daughters at home when you are 4fway ot the duties of the day or night. They have no fears of being left alone, no fears that the crime, the thought or Intimation of which bowe the head and causea the flush of shame to appear, or death, which Is preferable, will be their lot while you are away even for an hour. Can a price too dear be named for the restoration of our land from the pres ent hell to a garden of such beauty as It would be? Would the entire treas ury of the United States, with an equal amount borrowed and expended to re move the negro and cotonfze him tn Africa or elsewhere, be too great a sum to pay for the freedom of our women? Nol A thousand tlmts -no. With the negro out of the way, many avenues and lines of labor would be offered the poorer class of while people In our cities and elsewhere, who are now In need of the work that Is only given to negro workmen and negro women. Mr. Editor, In behalf of my mother and sisters, whom God knows I would lay down my life to protect against this evil, and Jn behalf of every pure and Innocent woman and girl of this beau tiful land of (burs, I wish to enter my request that the crusade which you commenced prior to your trip to the East be resumed; that The Georgian resums and maintain tha admirable stand flrat taken In the Interest snd for the protection of our greatest pride. Southern womanhood, until at least w-> can sea there Is nothing to be gained from this source, which time may God forbid. ANGLO-SAXON. SAFETY DEVICE FOR STREET RAILWAY CAR8 To the Editor of The Georgian. lectoxod Hud application for membership In the Municipal Ownership League. The applicant Is and nlways has been a Arm believer In municipal owuershlp of public utilities whenever practicable, nud at this time, when municipal control of gas snd electric light plants Is being champion ed by Tbs Georgian, sml wauy cltlzeua of Atlanta, It becomes evident that so,tie are In favor of Including the street rail. w«v •vstem. time that strlugent measures adopted compelling tbe Georgia Hallway Company to properly equip their against many fatal accidents that occurred, ana are sure to be repeats ... Atlanta so long as these Juggernaut affairs without fenders go dashing through our streets. From personal experience. If the ques tion he asked the average citizen, "Are tbe street cars equipped with fenders? the general reply 1s '’Why. I suppose so!" when, lu fact, there Is not a car operated Itte Atlanta that 1s not a menace to the lives of the people. The heavy auburlinn cara are provided Ith a sharp wedge-shaped device lar to the locomotive "cow-catcher. What chance of life hat a person hit by such an Infernal construction? Msny of the Georgia Railway Company cart have not even the shore suggestion of protection, and a man, woman or child who la so unfortunate aa to be ran down Is drawn under the bumper or draw-head and crushed beneath tho cruel wheels. In New York end every Northern city In which the writer has been, street nre by law compelled to be so equl ns to protect ns far aa possible the of pedestrians,- nnd In the metropolis near, * ‘ — — ini *— Yorkers, 'at n rule, do not trsVsi in this fashion so long as there Is room on the roof. Th..— In construction, — .... saving device, gome ere built of flexible stripe of iron, with edges nnd corner; frame covered with rubber, to prevent much at poeelble Injury to vlctlmi. Thoee principally need by the Metropoll .jn Street Railway Compony are nothing mors nor less than s slender steel frame covered, with s hammock-shaped netting, tinder ordinary circumstances this fender runs a few Inches above tbe rails, and Is usually sufficient to save lives, lint, s; an extra precaution, the motormnn can, in a frneilon of a second, press with his foot n steel plug, by mesne of which the f- der Is dropped to the rails, rendering S radically Impossible for anything to rewn under the wheels. The fenders hook up or lot down from thar end of the csr.-snd were the Geor gia Hallway Company's rolling stock so equipped, how many lives now In dally end hourly danger might be reaiousbly pro tected, and how many might have been nnd can lie saved. , .. The cars as now ran are a menace to the ^Municipal control might remedy this great and unnecessary danger. ROBERT NELSON SILMMAN, Atlanta, Un„ October 1, 1906. STATE ROAD EXTENSION. To the Editor of The Georgian. Your kind editorial treatment of mo In connection wKh the subject of extending the Western nnd Atlantic railroad to our Georgia sen const, snd s recent editorial In which you honor me with being the "father of the suggestion tn extend the state road to the sea, prompts me to thnnk you. And s few words of a personal nature concern ing my connection with this movement may not be out of ''order.'' , . . All I can properly claim as nn originator ts that on September 6. 1901. I wrote end published In the DeKnlb New Era advo- entlng the Idea of outlining s plan to secure the labor, material snd money for the work, which then seemed to me most feasible. I note that Mr. Erwin bus wrttenjron that be made such suggestion In 1860-1M4. I did ‘‘LEST WE FORGET.'' matter Is that, while rcadlug Alexander Hamilton Stephens’ two railroad Utters to Professor William Rutherford 1189?). In Cleveland's Life if Stephens, my mlud was enlightened sa to the facts of the history of our state road, nod In tbe light of these facts, knowing that then (September, 1901) there were frequent newspaper suggestions to sell the road, and reflectin' tirnhahi* depreciation of the roe he end of the lease In 1920, and .Ini gestlon, I wroi ‘ "agin title gr— .. , .. hsve sought every opportunity could And by tongue nnd pen to spread the Idea abroad "like rain." 1 congratulate you for yonr prompt ac ceptance of the truth and wisdom of this proposition, which, from tbe moment It wns presented to you, and In alt the phases of its (IliCussfnu you have helped to for ward to general acceptance and approval by If the eutei leorgl am rip A FAIRLY GOOD 8UQGE8TION. Ing nrms-funt or pfttola-shall register same with tke county officers; also any amount to exceed ten rounds of csrtridgss, tax of tl on each gun or pistol per year Any one found with arms on their 'remises not Properly registered to be fined ,n the discretion of the officiate. I submit this for yonr ™« 1 ‘ 1 »TsUB8CRIB E R. _JV brought to consider this as n purely Ueorgla proposition, in Its own facts, separately nnd m any Ideas of "general itnte own ershlp,” "federal ownership nnd control." etc., which some may throw out os "rub bish" to Impede the movement, I have eon fidence that this "pises of new ground" will be cleared up and made productive. if authorised next sufitmer end pushed ... completion by or before 1920 wo might hope for s clear Income of at least $2,000,000 s year, and then— there grill be glory enough to go "ill the way ’round.” 1‘IROMIS B. BELL. , Decatur, Os. VIGOROUS MEA8URE8 ARE NECE88ARY, To the Editor of The Georgian: I have been taking The Georgian from the first lssuq and am delighted with tt. For some years I lived tn Col lege Park, Go., and may say a neigh bor to Colonel John Temple Graves. Thla may cause me to have a more kindly feeling tor the paper than otherwise might have had. Yet, I assert thst It stands the pier of any political paper, that I am ac quainted with. Ita high moral tone, Its pure social and political uttorances, Its championship for the protection' of our wives, mothers and daughters, calls forth my heartiest Indorsement. The enlargement of police forces and tho doing away with low-down negro dives on Decatur and Peters streets nnd oth er places In the city Is good, as far as It goes, but these measures stop short of what should be done. Decatur and Pgters streets have drog shops that are called decent. God pity the cn cnmlunt. Many times I have had bus iness that called me along these streets and I have seen low-dowrn white folks and negroes crowding the counters of these eo-called decent shops, like flies swarming around a putrid carcas. Here In these dens of Infamy brutal negroes All up on red liquor until they are fit ted for any meanness that thetr brutal paaalona may (Rotate. Let the great city of Atlanta close up these dives, os well as all others. I see but two courses to pursue with these lawless, brutal horde. One Is to put every Idler tbe they white or black) In the chain gang. The other Is, send them across the Mason and Dixon line. And when any one assault! a woman or girl (white or black), hang them a* soon a* the law of the land will permit. This Is a .white man's government, and the darky should have no voice In making the laws, either In the legis latures or at the polls. If he wishes to educate his children, let him work and make the money to pay their way through the negro schools and colleges, and let all of these schools and col leges come under the supervision ot tbe state commissioner and hla help- To the Editor of The Georgian: It seems, from the newspapers end from the city, county and state offi cials, that there Is only one question of Importance before them and the people fit this city nnd county at the present time, and that Is to And some one to punish for whnl several thou sand people did on the night ot the 22d instant: while the rebl criminals who had assaulted the wives nnd daughters ot our neighbors and held every unprotected white woman in a state of dread and terror hitherto un known In any clvllllfed community, go almost unnoticed. What Is the matter with our people? Do they forget In n day the great wrong our women have suffered? It may be said that something must be done to restore business confidence at the North and East; and. there fore, everything must be done and said that will have a tendency to placate those sections of our common country, ^ut I can not believe that ouj people are ready to measure the outrages that have been done our womanhood In dol lars and cents. I do not believe they are ready to rest our civilisation on a money basis. I see by the papers that the deaths resulting from the unfortunate out break are reported aa being thirteen. This Is deplorable, and I regret It more than words can express, but these are dead and a generous public ts making provision for the families of those who were slain, while on the other "band there are a. greater number ot refined, eemltve women In this county alone who have passed through a thousand deaths, and must continue to carry that terrible body of death with them until soma friendly disease shall appear to release them. And yet we Hear noth ing now of the detestable brutes who committed these awful outrages. No rewards hare bean offered by the city, county or state, so far ns I am aware, for many of them. No great public meetings of good citizens have been held and resolutions passed offering protection to the Innocent, helpless w-omen of our community, Mr. Editor, the white people ot this community are ns law-abiding and peaceable cltlsens as can be found In any of the states of this Union, and are only driven to occasional acts of lawlessness by attacks on the sanctity of their homes by negro brutes who stalk abroad In the land by day and by night It has always been held, by all enlightened people, to be the duty of every community to protect the homes. In fact, from time Immemorial the law has ever recognised thefl right of every man to defend his family and home against felonious assaults. . So, we have a situation where a large number of the most diabolical crimes In the nnnals of history have been committed by an order of criminals lower than brutes on the one aide and an unlawful outbreak on the part of outraged and frenzied citizens on the other, who so far forgot themselves, by reason of the great wrongs which had been done them and their helpless ones, that they rose up and In the heat of passion committed offenses which no sane man or law-abiding citizen can or will undertake to Justify, but can only deplore. Let us treat this matter ns It de serves. Let our authorities turn their at attention to the capture and punish ment of these dangerous brutes, and to the protection of our Innocent woman hood, and no expensive military force will be necessary to keep order. J. J. BARGE. Atlanta, Ga. DENTAL WORK AT GOST COLLEGE SEASON NOW OPEN A large number of parties can be waited on at reg ular college prices—"Cost of Materials." No green students are allowed to enter thla school, but dentists of several years’ experience come to learn the newest things In the business. In this place you get the bene fit of skilled work AT COST. No botch work by in experienced beginners. Gas, Air and Local Application for PAINLESS Extraction of Teeth FREE Remember the Place. ATLANTA POST-GRADUATE DENTAL SCHOOL, Tata Elevator. 2d Floor Sleiner-Emfry Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Dr. W. S. Conway, % Dr. Conway also will attend to hla private practice. $1.00 Starts an account with a LITTLE HOME BANK and book or with the book only In the I SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF THE NEAL BANK Interest allowed at the rate of THREE AND ONE«HALF PER CENT. PER ANNUM, compounded semi-annually. E. H. THORNTON, President W. F. MANRY, Cashier. H. C. CALDWELL, Asst. Cashier. PROHIBITION D0E8 NOT PROHIBIT To tho Editor of The Georgian. Tho post fifty years have been noted for the temperance crusade. It has been con« ducted on the line* of prohibition, high U- cense, dispensaries and any means that will tend to make drinking expensive. Tho best iHH)ple of tbe land have given their time and money freely In their efforts to benefit our *raee, and deserve the thanks of all good cltlsens. All who hove noted the results from time to time know how well these good people have succeeded. It has !»een learn ed that prohibition does not prohibit. High llceuse fins been tho cause of building up the moat powerful trusts knowu. with money nnd power to control our goveru< ment nnd make the poor nubile buy any article they chose to manufacture, and at price tnat Is out of nil reason, lty pert advertising, they have educated the . ihlic to drink, and are creating n drunk on nation. The strictly prohibition sections have de veloped Into the most druuken nud lawless of nil. A business man would not con era to try n change’. If prohibition could be made effective our country would be a paradise. No one can be blnided for advo cating It. Heinovlng the Atlantic ocean wodm be htbltlng t_ ___ ed spirit*. Auy Qg It. iiemoving me Auanuc ocean M be sn easy toss compared to, pro- Hug the muklug and drinking distill- plrlt*. Auy change that tend* tn hold To reverse the present debasing sys* Itemove all high licenses; ’destroy tbe trusts nnd take off the premiums now placed on a drink of whisky. Let any man sell who can furnish a rs spec table place. Direct all efforts toward conducting drinking: and, eating Places on the highest possible* plane, suitable for women and children. No gentleman or lady gentleman or Indy to purchase drinks In saloon properly conducted. The moral standards of our cities ore ac cording to the standard of the saloons. No city cun nfford to maintain any public eat ing or drinking place at a . standard that makes it unfit for Indies snd^ gentlemen. Ninety per cent of the ineu frequent sa loons. Their character Is formed for bet ter or for worse—accordlug to the stand ard of the saloon.. With saloons conduct ed on the lines of some foreign nations with the high license and trusts removed, with laws that moke saloons as clean and respectable as other public places, and a law- thst will send a man to the peniten tiary tfho Is caustic With » bottle of dls tilled spirits without a reputable doctor's ° r wi r th such laws enforced, the drunltard Would be compelled to be sober and a gen tleman or vacate. t . The nations that have tho best reputa tions for temperance ar« »bose who have used light domestic wines and bwrs for n beverage. The customs of Austria. Greece. Italy and Spain are examples of ehst w. oufht *o t. «|^o» E j»ll.t. EVIL OF OB8CENE PICTURE8, To the Editor of The Georgian: In your dispatch to the editor j? The New York World, published In your Issue of the 24th Inst., you failed to name what Is probably one of the most frequent causes of assaults on white women by negro men. You men tioned the Indecent pictures In the dives, but what of those that are car ried In the pocket? The writer has evi dence enough to convince him that from come source negro youths and young men have obtained photographs of nude white women which they carry with them. These they feaat their eye. upon rintll It ts likely their passions are aroused to the point that an oppor tunity of assaulting some white woman ROUND TRIP And Cheap One-way Rates -TO- CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWEST Round trip Summer Excursions from all points East to Pacific Coast and Northwest until September 18th, with special itopover privileges, good .returning to October 31st, 1908. CHEAP COLONIST ONE-WAY TICKETS TO CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWEST FROM AUGUST 27th TO OCTOBER 31sL Use the splendid through service of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC from New Orleans, or UNION PACIFIC from St. Louis or Chicago to destination with 8teamshlp Lines to Japan, China, etc. Round trip tickets account Baptist Convention, San Francisco and Los Angeles, on sale from Sept. 2d to 14th, final limit October 31st. WRITE ME FOR RATES AND INFORMATION. J. P. VAN RENSSELAER, General Agt., 124 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga. R. O. BEAN, T. P. A. RAILROAD SCHEDULES. I, Marions... ■ •33 Nashville..11:43 ■ 7* Marietta... 2:80 | • 1 Nashville.. ?;* | 72 M • 4 Nl Isshrllt,. 8:80 pm eiscuu.am Ksvannsh .... 4:16 pm lessen 1:00 pm Useon........ .12:01 am Haraansh 8 .0Q am Macon 4:00 pm BO. Arrive From— ■Sslms 11:43.m im.ry 8:20 J*Montg'm ry. 12:46 . •Helms 4:2-) pm LaGranps. ~ 6:80 pm •MoatfomsrT. 1:40 pm •Moota'm'rj.11:15 urn •Dally. All other trains dally except Sun- 2il trains of Atlanta and West Faint .lirasrt (Mnip.ny arrive *t snd depart Terminal station, corner of rrom Atlanta Mitchell street and Msdlaon svenne. Arrive' OKORdlA Arrive From— •Augusts 6:00 sm 6:46 r— a ,]:«' . ,J2:.*i f sdlson are AILHOAt). Covington •Augusta. I.lthonla... -Augusts,.. .. Dally. All other trains day. Uthonla 19:06 sm •Augusts 8:30 pm Conyers 6:00 pm Covington.... 6:10 pm May The Georgian long live. Yours truly, K. A. SEALE, Savasata, Fla. Is sought and found. To what extent the practice of carrying these pictures in the pocket prevails the writer knows not, but that It prevails to some ex tent In Atlanta ho does know. It might open the eyes of the citizens of Atlanta If they knew the extent :<> which It prevails. Devise nnd carry Into effect some rieuns by which these lascivious pictures ran be gathered In and further supply prevented and you will have pulled one tooth of the viper. GEORGIAN. Columbia, S. Sept. 27, 1B06. LYNCHING HI8TORY. To the Editor of The Georgian: Of all the frenzied writing In the last fifteen years on lynching but little has been sane and. the truth. We have been a "spectator" at nine teen lynchlngs,' lg Africans and one American; the American a railroad en gineer named Moore, being tha only Innocent one In the entire lot. The woman he was accused of Injuring proving to be a common prostitute and blackmailer. It was this awful mistake that saved the life of Tom Wolfolk to run for months through the courts. Tom was charged with having killed nine of his father’s family In one night with an ax, and the charge was true. The main reason for our haflng at tended as many lynching bees, as they used to be caleld, we were for 23 years connected with the Georgia press. Yes. we have seen 18 negroes lynch ed, everyone for the dastardly crime of rape, every one guilty. We have seen them lynched In every style from plain shooting to cutting In twain with a cross-cut saw. In fact, the very -first bee we atetnded, the victim went by tha .an- mania T If A t L’V SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Train* Leave Atlanta. New Terminal Station, corner Mitchell and Madison Avenue. W. B.—Folloiriiia •cfiedule figure* pal* Ilebed onlr as information uua are noi cnaranteea: 4:W a. No. 23, DAILY. Local to Blr. mtnjrham, making all etope; arriving n■ Itlriulngbam 10:1k a. n.. 1:10 A. M.-No. 13. DAILY. “CIUCAOO ANIJ CINCINNATI LIMITED.” A solid veetJbnieo train Atiaata to Cincinnati with- eat change, compoeed of veatihulinl day coacbt-a ami l'uUmao drawing room sleep* ! Ing care. Armes Home 7:30 a. m.; Chat- ! tanooga 9:46 a. m.; Cincinnati 7:3u p. m.| , Louisville 1:16 p. m.: Cbk-ngo 7:23 a. m. Cafe car service. All meals between At* i lanta and Cincinnati. 6:30 A. M.-No, so DAILY, fo Griffin ao* Columbus. Arrives Griffin 7:11 a. m.; Cn* ambus ir «:ik A. 1 iBruhswIck and Jacksonville. Makes all I stops . arriving Macon 9:13 a. m.; liruna* wick 4 p. id.; Jacksonville 7:40 p. m. 7:00 A. M.-No. 35, DAILY.—Pullman tn i Birmingham, . Memphis,. Kansas City and Colorado Bpiinn. Arrive* Memphis 9.-ud p. w.; Kansas City 1:46 a. in., and Colorado {Springs 3:16 a. tn. S*0 A. ' M.—No. 11. DAILY.—Local tn , Charlotte, Danvlll#, Richmond and Ashe*, I cars through without change, inning care K rve all meals en route. Arrives Wash* gto.i fc.ii a. m.; New lock 12:*3 p. m. 1:00 P. M.—No. 40. DAILY.-New York impress. Day coaches between Atlanta *nd Washington. 8leep*r» between Atlanta, Charlotte and WaMbinaton. Arrived Wash* >/ton 11:06 a. »• r«ew York 1 p. s. ri2:l» I». M.—No. 3, DAILY.—Local foe 4:10 P. 10. 1>AI1 4:23 P. DAILY.—’ullman ha w' "Arrives~ Birmingham * Memphis ?jt6^ m. 9:16 4:39 P. M.—No. II DAILY, except day. **Alr U.,e eeiti" to Toccoo. 4:30 P. M.-No. 22. DAILY.-Griffln Sun- - and Columbus. Pullman palace sicvpiug car and ii.iy coaches.* 4JI P. M.—No. 23. DAILY.—Local to Fay etteville and Fort »altey 4:50 P. M.-N ' drawing room ol. _ clnnatl and Memphis No. !*, DAILY.—Through and sleeping cara fo Cln- i .-Jtnphls nnd Chattanooga to iville. Arrives Rome 7:20 p. tn.; ifnltou m.: Chattanooga 9:55 p. m.; Memphis |:ai a. m.; Louisville 8:60 a. tn.; 8r. l,ouie « P. m.: Cincinnati «:W e. m. 4:10 K*. M.-No. 26. DAILY.—Makes all M-iAuoAitn air link railway. Arrive From— I Depart To— Washington... 8:30 amRIrmlngham.. 6:60 am Abbeville...... 0:15 mnlMonroe 7:23 mu Memphis 11:45 am New York....12:0) m New York 3:30 pm Ablievllle.... 4:00 pm Monroe 7:40 pmiMempbla 6:C-* pm Birmingham.. 7:45 pui Washington... 8:00 j m rives Jacksonville 9A0 *. m.; Brunswick 8 a. m.; BL Augustine 10 a. m. 11:80 P. M.-Se. W. DAILY.—Throort Pullman drawing room siraDIns <sr. At lanta to Shreveport. Loral ,-r Atlanta to Itirmlnatinm, Arrt.es Birtulnrhnm 5 S a. tn.: Meridian 11 a. m.: Jack»>u 2:25 u. a.: VlrXshurg, 4.-95 p. a.: Hhrereport 19.19 y.^ra. Hire pen open te rerett- puiengers 'ts Right—No. ». DiiLY.-rtmted states Fast Mail. Boild vestimneu^traln. «lccpln| cars to New ' ork. It Icltmond. Charlotte __ Asheville. Conches to Washington. Dining cart serve nil meals so route. Arrives Washington »:J0 D. m.: New York 6:23 a. ut. I-oeiil Atlnnta-Charlofte sleeper open to receive .passenger* at 9:00 p. m. Local Atlnntn-A*herlllc ale. per open 10:30 n. m Tick'** Office No. 1 Peachtr.*, on Vlada. the fAw route. J. N. HALEY. No. 2. on Tehnlual *-»cha’ng$i net. lOft» \ ce. 112 main; depot.