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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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does It print wnlsky or nujr liquor ads.
i for Atlanta's owning Ite own gas
sun electric light plants, as It now
owns Its water work*. neper cities do
this and set gas as tow ns 60 cents,
with n profit to the city. This should
Ite done nt once. The Georgian be
lieves that If street railways can be
Apeniteri successfully by European
tit lee, ns they are. there is no good
ten son tvby they cannot no ao operated
face In Hint direction NOW.
The Art Exhibition.
Atlanta Is to be congratulated ui>on
’the excellence of the art exhibition
now being conducted under the aus
pices of the. Atlanta Art Association;
and the Art Association, In Its turn, Is
to he congratulated upon having se
cured the corporation of a man who
Is so identified with the best Inter
ests of American art at Is James B.
Townsend, of Now York. The exhibi
tion reaches the highest standard of
excellence, and deserves- upon Its own
merits the liberal patronage of the
public.
The Importance of advancing the
art Interests of tmr city cannot be
overestimated. Tho vital relation of
beautiful pictures, drives, pnrkB, build
ings and statuea to civic progress and
social welfare la an established fltct,
and scientific thought is dally accord
ing these a more dominant Infiuenco
upon tho moral Bnd economic condi
tions of the state. So. whether our
people are mep and womcirot culture;
whether they see with discerning
eyes; whether they listen with cars
that catch tho fuller and finer mean
ing; and above all, whether the; en
rich human, life with the emotion
that cornea from an Intelligent appre
ciation of the beautiful, can never
be matters of Indifference to us.
The Atlanta Art Association Is
striving toward ends which must
broaden and elevate, not only tho
standards of onr civic life, but t|ie
standards of education and culture
throughout our state.
It la taken for granted that Its exhi
bition will meet with the patronage of
the colleges In Atlanta and through
out the state, whose students will not
meet another such opportunity outside
of New York, nnd that people from all
parts of Georgia will taka advantage
of the reduced rates offered by the
railroads during the exhibition.
THE CHRISTIAN LEAGUE.
Those thoughtful, earnest, practical Christians who make up the
Atlanta Business Men's Gospel Union here assued a statement, appear
ing elsewhere on this page, which should be read by every one In the
South, Irrespective of rsce or creed.
This statement'is 'the result of weeks of serious, prayerful study by
such men as px-Governor W. J. Northen, D. I. Carson, E. 8. Gay, W. H.
Patterson, Dr. J. D. Turner, Marion M. Jackson, John A. Brice, J. \ ’. Pat
terson, W. D, Manley,'Dr. Marlon McH. Hull, John J. Eagan, U. C.* Calla
way, Asa G. Candler. A. W. Parlinger, Frank M. fnman. H. C. Leonard and
W. 8. William, r/f tho ways of meeting tfie rao problem. At the end, It
was decided to form a Christian League, composed of whites and blacks.
They hava decided that fidelity to the tenets of Christianity IS the
only solution. In their appeal to the public, they quote tbe\words of an
Atlarita minister as their working basis;
“The Christian religion Is a working force, the function of which
Is to fashion men after the likeness of the joving God in whose Im
ago they'were created. If In this or that section of human population
It falls to perform Its God-ordalned function, then the only legitimate
Inference Is, Its power !b arrested or perverted by the hate of those'
who refuse to be dominated by Its energy. While the Christian reli
gion Is a universal .working power. Its sphere Is among, persons who
can reject or pervert or misdirect- Its provisions, or come Into com
plete harmony with them.
“What Is on trial at this time in Georgia and.nt the 8011th Is not
the Christian religion, but those of us who profess It. We are on
trial before the onlooktng. world. We have been trying to solve the
negro problem without calling to our aid |t|ie ppwer of the Christian
religion.*' • - ' ’
And so the Business Men's Gospel Union calls to our aid the power
of the Christian religion.’ •
This step Is the most important ever made toward the solution of
our problem, of problems., Although the movement is as yet amorphous,
and merely a beginning, it is born of a prayerful determination, and it la
bound to accomplish good.
The conditions are delicate but the plan as reached will commend
Itself to the thinking people of tho community and of the South.
As Governor Northen says; ,
‘‘We’ cannot afford to continue the conditions under which we
now live, and we have not been able to find any better remedy than
Christian sympathy and Christian co-operation on the part of good
white iieople and good negroes for the adjustment of the relations of
the races."
The Georgian urges the extension of the Christian League to every
city and community In Georgia and in the South.
Tariff the Iuue?
nominating over the recent general
elections. The New York Evening
Post draws the conclusion, which Is t; u > historical perspective It will fur-
majority In the Sixtieth congress
much lower."
At the same time there Is coming,
from a non-partisan source, a cam
palgn of education. It la a historical
series by Ida M. Tqrbell on the sub
ject of the tariff. The first article ap
pears In the American Magaslne for
December. Without prejudice or pas
sion she goes*“straight to the telling
of a great stoty— ; a story which sho
herself evidently sees looming.hjg-
story which from the earnest Indica
tions seems likely to prove far more
Important than the History of Stand
ard OU_
The iiew history begins whore "The
Tariff In Our Times” began—at tho
opening of the civil war. Here was
our country, with a depleted treasury
and an expensive war on hand,
nn Income of $G4,000,000 a year,
were spending yt,000,000 a day. As a
country, we were getting beyond our
depth—financially.
So, In distress, our government met
the sudden replrcments of an emer
gency by departing from a low tariff
policy, on which the minds of the peo
ple were settled, nnd raising duties on
Imported goods. But these high tariff
laws were not all passed at . once;
neither were they passed without com
bat and cxcltemont. There were great
congressional battles. In which legis
lative generals were developed. There
was Salmon P. Chase, the secretary
of tho treasury—face to fnee with the
awful necessity of raising money, und
of raising It quickly. There was Lin
coln—too absorbed In other things to
give attention to the details of tariff
legislation. There were John Sher
man, Justlp, S. Morrill, Thadduus
Stevens and William Pitt Fessenden
—congressmen and senators who wore
leaders In the various lights to get
the bills through congress.
There were men who took advan
tage of their country's prcdlcument
to further their own Interests by se
curing higher and higher duties In or
der that they might charge more and
more for their goods. Several impor
tant men are, In this first article, dis
covered In unexpected and unfavorable
lights. But there were men conspic
uous for their devotion to the public
good at the expense of their private
Interests. Not the least Important
thing about the serial, therefore. Is
case was marked by the same ear
nestness and zeal of hla confreres.
The unfortunate omission of Mr.
McClelland's name might be con
strued by some as an Intentional
slight, hence this statement.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
held by many of the leaders of the
Democratic party, that the tariff re
mains the most salient point on which
Democracy can successfully attack the
Republican party. The Post says:
"Three prominent standpatters
were defeated, the liest-known be
ing Met'leary, of Minnesota, whose
plurality of 9.059 in 1904, was this
year turned Into a plurality of
1,500 for his Democratic opponent
after n campaign In which the
tariff was almost the only subject
discussed. Lacey, of Iowa, one of
the readiest protectionist debate's
In the house, and a staunch Shaw
partisan- was beaten by about 2 -
200 votes in a district which gave
him 9.373 plitrallfy in 1904. and
even thin year was carried by
Cummins for governor.* In luili-;
ana. a plurality of 8,185 III 1984 for
Frederick l-atutls, who Is known'
as a high tariff orator, became a
plurality of 1,000 for his opponent.
Several Reimbltcan members of
the ways and means committee
bad a rough road to travel. Chair
man Payne and John Dalzell had
their 1904 pluralities more than
cut In half, while Watson, of In
diana, and Curtis, of Kansas, man
aged to retain their seats by hare
pluralities only.
“On the other hand, two Demo
cratic members—Champ Clark,
of Missouri, and Granger, of
Rhode Island—more than doubled
their pluralities of two years ago.
In Massachusetts. Samuel W. Mc
Call, an avowed Republican revis
ionist, carried Ills district by a
greater vote than that given to
Roosevelt In 1904, and ran over
3,000 ahead of Governor Guild.
"Considering these figures, tt
may safety bo said that a bold
and energetic tariff revision cam
paign throughout the country
would have cut the Republican
nlsh—the perspective that equips the
everyday merican better to understand
the men and movements of the present
time.
Preceded by a heavy fall of rain, 1.14
Inches, within threo hours, a snow gale
with a velocity of 58 miles an hour
swept over Chicago and Its suburbs,
destroying much property yesterday
A chimney of a building at 128 Clark
street was sent rrnshtng through a sky
light of a restaurant and several per
sons were bruised.
Charged with the murder of Mrs,
Georgians Ullano, whose charred body
was found In the woods, Theodore Ul
lano, her husband, and John, their
son, have been arrested at New Provi
dence, N. J. A revolver and blunt In
strument was found In the home. The
woman owned property, while the hus
band and son were spendthrifts.
Clay Pierce, of St. Louis and
New York, president of tile Waters-
fleree Oil Company, has been Indicted
by the grand Jury at Austin, Tex., for
un alleged false affidavit, made to the
secretary of state of Texas saying that
the Standard Oil Company did not otvn
or control stock In Waters-Plerce Com-
puny.
Fishermen at Coney Island are using
electric lights nt the wnters' edge to
nttract the fish. Many of them carry
their own electric plugs, globes and
wires and lit the plugs to the sockets
ot lamps on the Dreamlund pier. The
lights attract fish In large numbers.
When Patrick Mullen, of Issabelt
nvenne and Evergreen afreet, Bayonne,
N. J., cut open the head of a dressed
piK h*' f'ninil In It a large pearl. It was
round Just back of the pig's snout. Mul
len refused 8100 for the stone.
Two special grand juries will be
called In December by District Attorney
Krlwln W. Sims to Investigate the bank
wrecking methods of John B. Walsh,
of Chicago, who Is said to have appro
priated 13,000,000 from three banks to
his own scheme.
LIBERALLY TO FUND
FOR NEW TEMPLE
Dinner and Good Fellowship
In Followed by Sub
scription.
A combinatiou of til? Atlanta spirit with
tho Masonic spirit worked wonder* at nu
enthusiastic meeting held Wednesday night*
and made the new mammoth Masonic Tem
ple a certainty.
Of the $175,000 necessary for the construc
tion of tbO temple,-nearly $96,009 wan sub
scribed, which, together with that, pre
viously subscribed, leave* a balance of
only $40,000 to be raised. And that this
amount will be forthcoming there ia lit
tle doubt.
Probably not ** many Mason* were ever
gathered together iiefore In any meeting in
Atlanta than Wednesday night. Between
BOO and 700 were present inj the temple nt
East Mitchell and Booth Forsyth streets,
and there was absolutely no lack of
‘MAJORITY MUST RULE;”
DR. LEN G. BROUGHTON
MAKES STRONG REPLY
Answers Dr. White’s
Card on Election For
Prohibition.
tbustssra.
Following a delirious repust, a business
meeting was held In the assembly room,
with J. K. Orr presiding, and not until
that meeting whi called to order did most
of those present know that money for the
new temple was-to !»e raised.
And the news enme ns an ngrecnbl
prise. Judging from the alacrity with which
the subscriptions were made.
Chnlrmun Orr Introduced J. WUIe Pope
and Juine* I,. Mnyson. who made stirring
s|M*»*ehcN In behalf of the movement, ami
these were followed by Captain James W.
English, Harry Htackdell and John It. Wil
kinson. who spoke In a similar strnln, nnd
aroused the greatest enthusiasm.
Not only did members of loflgea In At
lanta respond liberally, but mem tiers from
odges In the suburbs were equally as unx-
loua to have tbelr names placed upon the
I list. |
l AtMIIPMIliPMHVIPIIPVIH
from Atlanta nnd the surrounding tern
Every
scrl tiers
being given
Still-
- .. not
ay. but luvesteil, and flint
President Bird 8. Coler. of the bor-
•ugh of Brooklyn, yesterday appoint
ed o’Donovan Rossa, the Irish patriot,
ns a corporation Inspector at a salary
of $4 a day.
ago Mr. Rnssa was
choseif by the county council of Cork,
Ireland, as Its secretary and got a big
send-off In Brooklyn before his de
parture. He found the place unsatis
factory and soon returned to this coun
The crusade against the trusts has J try. much to the surprise of hts friends,
to a considerable extent obfuscated' . ..
, , , , . , . A rare phenomenon was witnessed
the popular vision toward the means! by the people on the steamship El
by which nearly nil the trusts have ] Nona, which has just arrived In New
grown to Gargantuan size ami atrength ! .T'T'l,,fie n ‘-^“- Purln,t
—a criminal tariff.
Bishop John J. Tigcrt.
In the death of Bishop John J. Ti
ger t the Southern Methodist church j
loses one of its ablest members.
He was a man of splendid scholar-j
heavy fog nt night the ship ran
through •a phosphorescent sea. .which
lighted up the ship so that Captain
Htpner could read a newspaper on the
bridge. It was as if the ship was sail
ing through the milky way.
Jennie Yeaimms, the actress. Is sup
posed to he dying at the Hotel Gerrord,
123 West Forty-fourth street. New
York, of consumption. The doctors say
all of It would Tome Imek.
Prominent Masons present at the meeting
•ere highly dated nt the outennie, nnd
(pressed the belief that the luilnnee of the
money would he subscribed within a
short lime, when plans will Is* made for
starting work on the new structure.
List of Subscriptions.
The contributions were ns follows: Ike
Hchoen. Piedmont lodge, $250; E. Oberdor*
fer. Piedmont lodge, $100; .1. II. ■ Frost,
’nlcstlue lodge, $125; II. A. Baker, Pales*
Ine lodge, $25; I,. L. Solomons. Fulton
slge, $10; David Htrauss, Fulton lodge,
$25; 1>. P. Wall. Piedmont lodge. $100: t.\
Pnrubnm, piedmont lodge. $50; Alex
thon. Gate City bulge, $10; John Al-
drick, Gate Pity bulge, $75; John I*. Sim
mons, Gate Pity lodge, $.w»; II. P. Mal
lory. Gate Pity lodge, $25; Dr. W. I,.
Phaiuplou, Palestine bulge, $25rt; P. M.
Payne, Gate Pity bulge, $25; E. M. Gibson,
Gate Pity bulge, $50; Harry M. Htrauss,
late Pity lodge. $100; II. \V. Dent. Gato
Ity lodge, $125; W. E. Pampbell, Gat#
Tty lodge. $500; G. V. Gross, Gate Pity
lodge, $100; H. Buff. Gale City, lodge. $10;
John G. Waltt. Gale Pltv lodge, $50; T.
A. Alter. Gate Pity bulge. $75; P. C. Kiser.
!80; Jack P. Brantley. $50; J. |. Hendricks,
M. P. Sharp, Gate Pity lodge, $100;
W. Chapman. Gate City lodge. $125;
V. Wingfield, Gate City lodge, $100; W.
. Fniu, Gate City lodge, $200; Edgar
Latham. $100; Clarence May, Gate City
lodge, $50: W. B. Stovall, Gate City lodge,
$125: Lewis Starr, Gate City lotlge, $50; J.
" BhHslworth, Gate City lodge. $o0: A.
... Carlson, Gate City lodge, $100; I’hllo
Holcomb, Georgia lodge, $25; George Kelu-
tox, Georgia lodge, $100: D. E. Ashy, Geor
gia lodge, $50; M. Z. Crist, Georgia lodge,
i 1100: John l„. Moon* & Sons. Gate City
lodge. $250; J. D. Dunwoody, Georgia bulge.
$60; W. A. Martin, Gate City lodge, $50;
James E. Belcher, Gate City lodge, $50;
A. U Cuesta. Atlanta Irtdge, $1,000; Iioke
Smith. Georgia lodge, $1,000; W. B. Hamby.
Atlanta lodge, $1,000; F. E. Purse. Solo
mon lodge. Savannah. $1,000; John It. Wil
kinson, $1,000; J. Will*' l’opt*, W. D. Ltteklc
lodge, $1,000; |**e Barnes, Palestine lodge,
$1,000; J. M. McEnchern. W. D. Luekle
lodge, $1,000; W. I\ Dodson. Gate Pity
lodge, $250; Josh II. Cniford. Atlanta lodge,
: l.tfW; W. J. Davis, $500; P. It. Howard.
1500; Elmo Mnssengale. $500; R. E. Pierce,
i t.OoO: P. L. Malone. $500; .1. L. Muysou,
$500; Hugh McKee. $600; S. E. Smith. Gate
Ity lodge. $500; B. A. Moore, $250; II. I..
older. $250; J. B. C. Wright. $250; M. E.
Turner, $25o; Jisck Itldley, $£i0; Julius
Brown. $5oo; C. Wright. $25o; J. B. Uoberts,
11500; II. M. Ashe, $250; George Ibiginnu,
$250; Ilenry Miles, $500; Talley Graves, $250;
Joe Ely, $250; J. N. Ragsdale, $250; If. L.
Walker, $250; Thomas Evans. $250; L. J.
Harris, $250; T. L. Malone. $250; F. Miles,
$125; M. Lichtenstein. $125; E. C. Braun,
It. N. Fltchett, $60;. A. D. Howard, $125;
Henry Garrett, $125; J. S. Arnold, $125; A.
P. Harrington, $125; 8. A. ami B. H. Don
Ship and Indomitable real, a man whoj^\. a ‘ T U.f Turagluer Tnn..
eurnerl enough money to pay for his j YeBmans, me veteran player. The pair
schooling by driving a wagon.
Although he hail been n member of
the college of bishops only a few j tencc th the Kentucky penitentiary for
months, he had for years been one of complicity In the assassination of Hon-
! have been In vaudeville lately.
Henry Youtsey, serving a life sen-
the most distinguished figures In the
church, and his place will
caBtly filled.
ator William tioebcl, during the lut-
j ters contest for the governorship of
not Ire ■ Kentucky In lSrttf, has asked Governor
: J. C. Beckham for pardon
Stephen S. Sullivan, a Western Union
_ ... . i telegraph operator, in a hotel In Fall
In Justice to Mr. McClelland. I Rtver, Shot himself in the hend early
Thursday on the upper deck of the
It has been called to the attention < steamship Puritan, of the Fall River
of The Georgian that iu the editorial, nnd died before the boat reached
“I-esauti of Joe Glenn and Two Law- j * *" ot '
yers,” which was published last week,] Miss Katherine Van Slyke, aged 22,
the name of Mr. J. E. McClelland was 'lea.I Tluisdny by her father.
« . , , . . , E. \\. \an Plyke, a , Binghampton,
omitted tnroueh an ovorsleht. I v v architect and contractor. She
omitted tnrough an oversight.
Elsewhere In this issue appea
had saturated the pillow with chioro-
letter front Mr. Luther Z. Rosser. In; f,,rm burying her face In It.
which he pays to Mr. McClelland the!
tribute bts services deserved,
Owing to the Ini reused strain on the
Brooklyn bridge all conductors of trol-
i ley ears that are being operated by
lei. <18; T. Fleming, $IJ5; Ivnnlmc Phllt.
8125; W. T. t-oombs, 8125; T. \V. Baxter.
8125; — Mmiens, 8125; (ienrge II. Itc-k, 8125;
Charles P. King, SICS: J. A. Kvnn*. Mich
igan. 8125; W. II. Wllmerdlng. 8125; \V. Bal-
lnnl. 1125; S. W. Foster. I12S: Z. fasti
ry. 1125; .1. C. Znber, 1125; W. P, Howard,
8i25; J. A. ltossl«>r, 8125; F. Buchanan, 8125;
J. W. Fielder, 8125; Wells, 8125: John
Terrell, 8t25: S. W. Day. 8125; Tom Day
8125; S. G. Turner, 8123; T. I,. Irvin, the
K. B. I.luihnugh, 8D»0; W. II. Terrell. 810>
It. J. 1‘rltrhnrVI, 8H»: It. K. Willis. 8IO); .1,
Adolphus, 8100; Ike l.lpstclu, 81on; U. F,
Jester, 8100; X. A. Kaplan, 8M0; J. W
Duncan, Bate City lodge, one share; S.
J. Prltgeu, 81011; 'V‘. W. Traeey. 81’P; Torn
Thompson, 8100; It. I.. Chrlsteuberry, 8125;
W. B. Carnes. 8123; W. II. Kitchens, 8100;
II. II. Smith. 8100; II. o. Turner. 8100;
Ilenry Sehnul. 830!; Barry storkdeU. agent,
81.000; C. W, Seales, 825; D. E. l'rtee,
Georgia lodge, 8t25; I*. F. Brinkley. 8123;
F. A. Ilurgln. 830; Sam Wilkes, gits); W.
II. Thomas. 850; f. W. Merawllilor. 8150;
Milt Saul, 8100; Calhoun, 826; J. M. Woods,
<5o; E. I 1 . Aserhns'k. 850: W. S. Yente
830; ti. i!. French, 830: N. s. Culpeper
825; S. Hoorsti n, 8100; J. A. Chapman, 85
W. .1. Stoddard, 8100; A. II. Machard. 8WO;
W. C. Harper. 830; E. II. Webb, 823; W.
B. Stevens. $50; s. B. Cochran, 825; Sam
Znhan. gviu F. Cowherd. $25: T. J. Shep
herd, IS; rle Ptnherg, $25.
IN dustrTesorgai'uzed
DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Special to The Georgian.
Columbus. On., Nov. 22.—The Geor
gia and Alabama Industrial Index soya
In Its regular weekly Issue:
“Substantial evidence nt the Increas
ing Industrial development of Georgia
and Alabama and of the upbuilding of
cities nnd towns of the two states Is
given In advance reports to The Index
for the past seven days. A 81,000,000
cement company—all of the stock
taken—has been organized at Selma.
Ala., and will build un $800,000 plant.
A Birmingham company contemplates
building a 81,300.000 power plant; a
10,000-splndle yarn mill will be built
at Columbus, Ga.; a 8100,000 company
has I wren organized at Birmingham.
Ala., to deal in milt and mine supplies:
at Thornasyllle, Ga., » tKijitaon timber
land deal hga been consummated; Au
gusta, Go.. Is. to have a $100,000 fer
tilizer factory: a $50,000 coal mining
company has been organized at Birm
ingham. Ala., and another company
has been organized at the same place
to develop coal lands purchased at
Dr. I-en G. Broughton, pastor of the
Baptist tabernacle, evangelist and prin
cipal worker for the prohibition cause
In Atlanta, has Issued a card In answer
to the communication of Dr. John F.
White, pastor of the Second Baptist
church, published In The Georgian of
last Tuesday.
The card was received by The Geor
glan too late for complete publication
on Wednesday. In It Dr. Broughton
takes the position that Dr. White rep
resents but a small minority of the
Antl-Haloon League, and that his In
formation regarding the proposed elec,
tlon was not gained from a represen
tative proportion of citizens. His card.
In full, follows;
Dr. Broughton’s Csrd.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Inasmuch as you publish a state
ment from my friend and brother, Dr.
John E. White, setting forth hta rea
sons for trying to prevent a prohibition
election In Atlanta this spring, and In
asmuch as his reasons are quite suffi
cient to you and other prominent citi
zens of our city, and yet not satisfac
tory to many others equally as good. If
not as prominent, I write this card to
set forth, If I may, the reasons why
some of the rest of us are pushing for
the election In the spring as per peti
tions now being circulated.
To begin with. Dr. White Is a mem
ber of the board of directors of the
Anti-Saloon League, and the majority
of his brother directors In the city are
In favor of bringing on the election.
The principal of democracy to which
we all subscribe In this country Is for
the majority to rule. It seems to me
that It Is assuming a good deal to say
that all the wisdom la rested In the
minority In the case. Again, under the
auspices of this Bame league, of which
Dr. White Is a director, two mass meet,
tags of citizens were held, and the
whole thing gone over, and, finally. It
was resolved to’hold nn election In the
spring, and a committee was appointed
to name an executive committee and
otherwise arrange for the election.
They were not appointed to test sent!
ment. The mass meetings of 300 to
500 citizens had done that. They were
appointed to namo the sxscutivs com
mittee and arrange for the election.
Dr. White was a party to this action,
or else he was with the minority.
“What Was Dons?”
But what was done by this commit
tee, or rather what was not done? They
simply went out nnd saw a few leading
men, ns they said, and “sounded" them,
and finding that they were noi In fa
vor of the election which had been
ordered by the mass meeting, the com-
mlttee did nothing.
The league then called another meet
ing—called It .on the quiet. No general
announcement was made of It. They
wanted to carry out the Instructions of
the two great mass meetings, that was
all. Dr. White then proceeded with
his now famous Interview of 260 of the
“leadIn?; men" from certain churches,
with The result as published, and pub
lished very thoroughly for reasons that
nre obvious. One hundred nnd forty-
five were opposed to the election. In
the meantime another petition was cir
culated among the voters, nnd out of
about 30ft people 90 per cent of them
said: “C’nll the election as soon as pos
sible." There were twice as many In
the other petition who said “as soon ns
possible." And this number was got
ten In less than half the time that* It
took to get Dr. White’s list. Here,
again. DiT White was In the minority,
and yet he talks of “pugilistic, zeal,
etc.," on the part of those who favor
the call. We submit to Dr. White thut
we are In favor of the principles of
democracy In this anil all matters of
public concern. We deny the right of
any minority, however ‘'leading," re
spectable and nice, to dictate the poli
cy, much less the conscience, of the
majority, and especially do we draw the
line when It comes to efforts to make
believe that we are hot-heads and pu
gilistic for sticking to this American
principle of majority rule.
Was it Majority.
Once again, take the much-talked
about nineteen who carried the prop,
osltlon. I want to aek Dr, White If
again this famous nineteen was not a
majority? The opposition would have
the public believe that a great crowd
left, and only nineteen remained, and
carried It, whereas not over five had
Jeft, and they, with one or two excep
tions, were In favor of It, and said so.
The fact Is every meeting has gone for
the election In the spring by a great
majority vote, and Dr. White knows It,
and yet he persists In fighting with
the minority, and trying to make be
lieve that we are unsafe and unsound.
I ask him to point out one time when
the Anti-Saloon League has culled a
meeting that the majority has not been
In favor of the election to be held as
early as the spring. And yet, now that
the League does what It Is bound to
do, listen to the majority, it Is abused
and criticized as hot-heads and cranks.
Take even his petitions: The peti
tions the Anti-Saloon League obtained
outnumber his two to one; that Is, for
every one he found opposed, the
League's petition found two In favor of
It. These facts were before that meet
ing last Friday. What was the league
going to do other than what it did,
unless It was to shut Its eyes to the
majority, abd go* with the minority.
Just because Dr. White said so? We
are not noted for that kind of thing
public matters in Atlanta. Let Dr.
White answer these questions now be
fore he goes further In attempting ti
defeat the will of these who are push
tag the fight.
•‘People To Be Heard.”
We say the people are to be heard
and one man's wants Is worth as much
as another's, and these petitions are
going to be circulated and signed, and
then we will see. I have been in thjs
city nine years fighting just as hard
as anybody else. I know the masses,
and I know that never since I hat-
been here has there been such a de
termination to get rid of whlzky as
notv. Last night 500 voters stood up In
my church pledging to help put It out
In the coming election. All tve want '
fair play. If Dr. White wants to go
the face of his majorities and lend his
strength to defeat the cause of prohi
bition, he has a perfect right to do It,
but we do feel like we are entitled to
fair play, and this we are not getting.
Even the newspapers, some of them,
are so afraid to let us be heard that
they refuse to publish even a card of
explanations, still they can write ed
itorials nnd urge us to listen to their
counsel. Now let me say It real strong.
We will listen to nobody, no time, nnd
nowhere who Is so unfair as to refuse
us the same chance that Is given the
other side. This may well be under
stood. We have been loyal citizens
and spend our lives, some of us, for
Atlanta's unfortunates. Our time and
our money has gone that way. and now
we resent the refusal of newspapers In
Atlanta to let us be heard even In n
card of explanation, nnd to point out
our position. It Is unralr and unust,
and yet tt Is the way the cause of pro
hlbitton has always been treated. The
petitions hre going. Let every mftft
pray before he refuses to sign.
LEN G, BROUGHTON-
1 GOSSIP
Paul E. Wilkes.
I*nul E. Wilkes, who hns l»eeu oily ed
itor of The Mncon, News for the past three
years, has resigned his position, and tomor
row morning will Join the reportorlal stafT
of The Atlanta Georgian in Atliintn. This
nonouneoment will lie received with great
regret Ity the hundreds of Mr. Wilkes'
friends in Maeon. Since coming to the
city he has made many friends nmuug the
people In all walks of life, and every one
of them will be sorry to know that he Is
changing Uls residence.
The News sincerely regrets to glv
his services. He hns done splendh! work
for the paper since his connection with It,
nnd we predict for him u very brilliant
future In the newspaper world. He hns
t.11 the tnlents necessary to the success
fill newspaper mail, and we feel sure that
his ninny Mncon friends will have cuus4>
to 1m» even prouder of him thsn ever.
The Georgian gains a very vnlttnblc man
to its stnflr. while The News loses c
Mncon New*.
BUSINESS MEN'S UNION
FORMS CHRISTIAN LEAGUE
TO SOL VE RA CE PROBLEM
cost of $800,000; Wrightsville. Oa.,
to have a $40,000 cotton oil mlllf Dir
Mr. McClelland was appointed, along j ^ Bn..,k,vn Hapl.i T^nGrcompanJ
with Messrs. Luther 7.. Rosser and! have been Instructed, commencing
Charles T. Hopkins, by the court to * Thursday night, not to permit their I Ga., chair factory and Ensley, Ala.,
defend Jou Glenu. His conduct in the “ the,an<5 Andalusia. Ala, each a machine
Is
. Birm
ingham. Ala., 840,001) bottling plant;
Athens. Ga.. broom factory; Covington.
■hop and foundry Dlunt."
The executive committee and general
officers of the Business Men's Gospel
Union, In consultation nnd co-operation
with the ministers of the city, have
undertaken the readjustment of the re
lations of the races at the South,
through the formation of a Christian
league, to which shall be eligible ap
proved members of both races who
will agree to promote, under the di
rection of the Gospel Union, the high
est type of citizenship, maintain all
existing laws and promote peace and
good will.
The Christian League as such Bhall
not be an organization, but its mem
bers shall consist of those who wilt
agree to hold themselves subject to
the call of the Business Mens Gospel
Union and who will ugree to co-operate
with It In its work as outlined in Its
constitution.
With this Christian league effected,
Its members, both white and colored,
will constitute themselves a sort of
Southern legion of honor, hoping to
be more powerful In preserving patrl-
tlsm and high morality than all laws
or law officers elected to enforce them.
When this proposition was present
ed to a representative body of colored
ministers and colored laymen, assem
bled In the hall of the colored Y. M. C.
A., It was accepted In full appreciation
of the spirit In which It was offered
und in good faith nnd with reciprocal
good will.
It was proper that the Initiative In
Is movement, looking to the readjust
ment of the relations of the races at
the South, should be undertaken by the
white people, uoz only because of their
greater numbers and superior wealth
and Intelligence, but for the reason
that they constitute the ruling class
and are. therefore, chlelly responsible
for our present social. Industrial, moral
and political conditions. The negro can
not act without invitation from the
white man without the risk of Incur
ring criticism and censure and probable
rebuff.
Believing that the readjustment we
« r “ !• a* found in the Drtn-1
clples and the preaching of the gospel,
pfayer services will be held each Tues
day evening itt 8 o’clock In the hnll of
tho colored Y. M. <’. A., No. 182 Au
burn avenue, to which the Christian
people of both races are Invited.
It has been further arranged that
every minister In the city, both white
and colored, shall preach a sermon the
second .Sunday In December on obedi
ence to law, upholding, In the presence
of their respective congregations, the
majesty of the law and pleading that
criminals shall be punished to the ex
tent of the law, and at the same time
insisting that all punishment shall be
administered under due process and by
the authority of the law.
A prominent minister In the city,
speaking of our race trouble), has pub
licly said:
“The Christian religion Is a work
ing force, the function of which Is to
fashion men after the likeness of the
loving God, In whose Image they were
created. If in this or that section of
human population It falls to perform
Its God-ordained function, then the
only legitimate Inference Is, its power
Is arrested or perverted by the hate
of those who refuse to be dominated
by Its energy. While the Christian re
ligion Is a universal working power,
Its sphere Is among persons who can
reject or pervert or misdirect Its pro
visions, or come Into complete harmony
with them.
“What Is on trial at this time In
Georgia and at the South Is not the
Christian religion, but those of us who
profess It. We are on trial before the
onlooklng world. We have been trying
to solve the negro problem without
calling to our aid the power of the
Christian religion."
That our people may no longer be
put to shame, we are now usklng the
hearty and active co-operution of every
Christian man In the community.
Those who will Join us In thla move
ment will please give their names to
Mr. Marlon M. Jackson, secretary. No
215 Equitable building.
We hope to see the purpose and Uie
plan of our effort or something simi
lar thereto put Into organized form for
action in ever)- community In tfie state
and at the South.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSI
NESS MEN'S GOSPEL UNION.
By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER.,
New York. .Vov. 22.-5John Gibbon,
a young publisher of Philadelphia fen
In love several years ago with sn„
Lellu M. Brown, a blue-eyed little
an of Quaker ancestry. Her nmtiiei
and father were residents of Franc,
and. while she was there with thcni ,
French count paid court to her *
The story goes that her parents fa
vored the count. She lied from Frame
returned to Philadelphia and was n «
by Gibbons. They were married in '
hurnr and on August last they ei ,lie a
for Havre. The bridegroom ami brId2
were the only cabin passengers aboir t
the vessel. 1
Captain Jonlcs w-as delighted to have
the couple on board, and summoned
the twenty-four cabin stewards and
told them to please look out for th,
young Americans.
The couple sampled ail the state
rooms, Including the chamber de i„v e
In which they spent moat of their time
while the bride was not out oil deelr'
caressing Marthe, her pet horse, which
was shipped with the couple, or pi av .
tag the piano for the captain and the
ship's officers.
A flurry of Interest stirred Lake-
wood society when the announcement
was made that Irving T. Bush, multi-
millionaire head ot the Bush Terminal
Company, of Brooklyn, member of ti le
Union League, and other clubs, anti
owner of one of tbe finest cottage,
at Lakewood, had been sued for dlvone
on statutory grounds.
More than a year ago the Dttshe,
separated, Mrs. Bush leaving Lakew ood
with her two little girls, Beatrice and
Eleanor, aged 10 and 6 year.,. Sint,
then, It Is said, she has been living at
Los Angeles.
Lord Curzon, while stopping at the
Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, said he had
received no intimation of hi, being
considered for the post of ambassador
to the United States. He said he had
merely stopped for a day, and was
about to go on to Chicago.
Mias Catharine Rldgley, daughter of
the controller of the currenoj-. and
Mrs. William B. Rldgley, entertained a
theater party of twenty-four In Wash
ington, In honor of Mlaa Esther Denny
the debutanto daughter of Colonel and
Mrs. Frank L. Denny, and her gues;
Mlsa OrndorIT, of Springfield. III. The
guests Included Miss Katherine wn-
Mams, of Chicago.
Mrs. 'Theodore Slionts, wife of the
chairman of the Panama canal com-
mission, and the Misses Shnnts, sailed
yesterday from Panama. They win g„
directly to Washington and open their
new home. Mrs. Slionts will Introduce
her two daughters, Miss Marguerite
Shonts and Miss Theodosia Shorn,, to
Washington society on December 13.
London cable says that George
Bernard Shaw’s new play, “The Doc
tor’s Dilemma," which has just been
produced, Is bound to arouse the med
ical world und the pulpit. The plot la
briefly this:
A famous consulting physician can.
If he will, save the life of a brilliant
young decadent artist. The doctor
knows the youth to bo bad to the core.
He also knows that some day the ar
tist's tutoring Wife will ■ find him nut.
So, partly because the doctor want,
to save the pain and ahume-ot dlwiiv-
erlng that her husband Is.a. wretch
and partly because the doctor himself
loves her. ho transfer*.Die patient to
a crlmlnnlly Incompetent but fashions,
ble physician nnd lets hlin be murdered.
The chief problem which the play
offers for discussion Is: Wn, the doc
tor right?
The first act Is an amusing satire on
doctors. (
An Atlantic City, N. J.. girl lui,
evolved the Idea of avenging the treat)
ment of Countess de Castellano by
venting her spite on Count Bonl with
un Illustrated post card, nnd hus start-
ed a fad that promises to swamp the
count with tokens of Amerlcun disap
proval
Starting with the one card on which
Bonl la reminded that he Is now a
■dead one,” dealers along the board
walk assert that hundreds of cards ary
being purchased by smiling maid, ana
mutrons to be mailed to the spendthrift
nobleman.
Beside the "dead one" card, which is
the most popular, others call the atten
tion of the count to his financial state
with “You’re all right but youtr
broke," "When father goes to work
nnd other similar reminders.
YOUR THANKSGIVING
BREAKFAST SERIAL
THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME.
By W«x Jones.
The air was bitter cold.
No wonder; it had no clothes <*n.
The snow was cold.
The Ice was cold. ,
Everything was cold but the heart «i
Hiram HlKln-'Ign. That bubbled "'* r
with human kindness. Hiram wn* ex
tracting maple syrup from a can *’i
molasses and sulphuric acid. He hum
med to himself the old sugaring
Dig the maple tree a dig;
Get the Jolly juice.
Dig the mttple tree a dig;
Leave alone the spruce.
Maple Sugar!
Maple Syrup!
Yum, yum, yum!
Maple Syrup!
Maple Sugar!
Away with chewing gum!
As Hiram raised his axe, a *"*"
blow on the back of the head atn
him senseless!
(To be continued.)
uhctl
GEORGIANS IN GOTII
New York. Nov. j£.—Here ore
ip vIkUoi'h in New York today:
ATLANTA—c. It. Boyd. tt. I- eras
Aliil’KTA—A. S. Iinnlair. Ml** 111
. Mulherin. Jr.
MACON—C. It. Lewis.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
NOVEMBER 22.
'41— IMot perfected for the coup '
I'.lir.ilifth of Russia.
'4—ltolH»rt, Lord (’live, hero of I <
eoiumittcd •ulciile. florti 1725.
U54—‘Thouiiis I’yia I’ope, who e*tn!'
first Hup of pni
f*ojm\ who cstohjij
.wtefcet* between i
I Liverpool, died. H»»n
1567—Jefferson Itatis returned to ItHmi-
Vo.
1871—StPiimliojit City of Loudon burned i
Norwich, t'oou.; Berenices H' , *‘ '.
1892— International uiouetsry roufer**u»»*
tn RniNsel*. . .,.
1W&-President Kruger Uu.icl at Mar»*M.«
nail wn* given finthasfciHtie recei'HOH
1902-Frederick A. Krtij.p, great «er