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V / H THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1 1 LETTERS FROM GEORGIAN READERS ON TIMELY TOPICS RESTRICTIVE LIQUOR LAWS. To the Editor of The Georgian: It afford* me great pleasure to find myself in accord with The Georgian, and this pleasure I have nearly every evening. When I am compelled, there, fore, to disagree with you It Is all the more painful, alhelt such disagreement Is very Infrequent. The proposed restrictions which I understand the council is about to en act are a delusion and a snare. The effect on the minds of many people will be to lull them Into n sense of security and make them refuse to do anything to dislodge the liquor traffic. They argue that .the tralllc is under, such wholesome cohtrol that It need not be disturbed.',That argument-ha >••••«•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• TRADE EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH Bv M. P. HIGGINS, Worcester, Mass. The object of this article Is to set forth n most Important consideration In connection with the educational ad- vancement that Is going forward In Georgia and throughout tho South. After; considerable personal investiga tion the writer Is Impressed with the ub.oluie need of special Industrial edu cation for a grade of young men who ure not'able, or who do not care to go to college or u technical school. I have been much Impressed with tho earnest character and mechanical abll been prevalent th Atlanta for fifteen Ity of the young people of Georgia, and years, and has .staved olf* every effort' sm conftnned in att.opinion formed, sey- to abolish the traffic by local-option. and has arrayed Atlanta and Fulfon county against--every • effort that has been made to.secure state prohibition. And,' I tell you ilow. If the Atlanta prohibitionists, allow that argument to turn them aside from their demand for county prohibition this time, and thbsc restrictive measures are made, ordinances of the city, the liquor men will hold the City for twenty, years to come, unless state prohibition.should drive it out before the twenty years have passed. . . But the proposed legislation Is a de lusion for the reason that ho promise made by the present council to re strict tlie-number at barrooms will bind nny future, dbuncll. .The present hotly dies with this' year; the hew council ran rspeal that ordinance within for ty days. If they-go-to the legislature and hare the charter amended and put’ It In the charter, It will bind nobody. The next legislature can strike It out of the charter. The proposed- regu lation has nothing In II, except- that It Is hoped by It to stand off the pend ing local option eleotlou. The proposed restrictions are bad anyway. If the city thinks that It Is bound to provide a well-policed system, by which Its people may buy Intoxicat ing drinks. It ought to so gauge thnt system ns to make its burdens fall as lightly ns possible on the wives and children of -poor fnen. The liquor Is , too high for thorn now. Pure liquor costs so much that cheaper stuff has to lie supplied and, we are told, of all sorts of mixtures and decoctions thnt - are handed out as strong drink. If the *3,000 license Is required, the price of drinks will go up add the quullty of liquor will go doWn. And yet the temptation to drink will be hnnglng out across the sidewalk In from of every saloon in, town. And men who now siwnd one-third of thdlr earnings In drink will find tncjnselves obliged to spend twO-thlrds to sirtlsfy, their crav ings. Such exorbitant taxation Is op pressive. Besides that, the evil of the traffic will still he on us unabnted. Young men with the drink appetite nnd small salaries vflll And In the higher price for drinks a nsw temptation to dis honesty. Add withal tho quantity of liquor sold w ill not ho greatly lessened. The necessity for strong police force and the constant menace of riot and bloodshed will heTiere Just us they are now. Besides that, the teinptntlon to run blind tlgevs Is always greatest In places of high license, unless tho license Is so high us to bo prohibitive. If.there were . no license to he paid for at nil there tOoiflrf be no blind tigers, of course. As the cost of license Inrrcasos the number of blind tigers Increases. A saloon man who pays *3,000 for the privilege of selling liquor In a given plare can enally maintain half a dozen or more other places where his agmiis can dispense drinks on the sly. He can thus greatly Increase Ills sates with out Increasing Ilia contribution to the city treasury. If men are found drunk who obtained their liquor from theso blind tigers It Is always easy to sup pose that they got It In a licensed saloon. And that supposition protects the blind llgsr from suspicion. In . places where prohibition prevails the blind tigers have no such protection. ; When people are found getting drunk • everybody Is put on the trail of tho . tiger at once. But, my dear Air. Editor, why should the city feel Itself compelled to provide strong drink for Its people? Is It good for the people? Is II right to put thy bottle to thy neighbor's lips nnd make j him drink also? Is It right, by high eral years ago. when, ns one of the faculty of the Georgia School of Tech nology, the opportunity was open to me to Jtlflgo of the Southern boy In regnrd to hi* natural ability and inclination lor ntechunjcal skill and productive In dustry. There can be nothing more promising ,for. these young people and for the South than •» school softablo for boys to Irprp mechanical trades. There la no ionger n question n* to whether or not such boys should have an educa tion, but It la n vltsl question ns to what kind of education It shall be. There are two phases of Industrial education which should he empha sized. First, the practical utility of in education of skill In- mechanical work In preparing for the llrat duty In life, viz., self-support', and, second, a newer phase, vis., mechanical work as the best mean* of Individual culture nnd discipline. When 1 speak'nf, manual Work as a line of education I mean much more than la carried In the term manual training, Hloyd, nature study, etc., etc., all of which are good; but none of them strike deep enough Into the life of the boy to convey the best Iden of manual work aa A channel of self-sup port, education nnd culture. In the first place, 1 believe mechani cal work may profitably occupy, not merely a fragment of tho school tlms, hut fully one-half of the school hours of the pupil every week: Hnd Hint the work element may be mode so scientif ic, exalted and Interesting that all ob jections that momentarily arise from the thought of drudgery, fatigue, etc., will vanish entirely. In consideration, first, of the question of utility aa an Immediate means of trlnl school, located, gay at Atlanta, or anywhere else In the South. The first requirement for such school Is earnest hoys with desire and natural capacity for mechanical indus trial training. After years of observa tion nnd experience with the young men of Georgia, 1 believe, ns a class, they are, particularly adapted to Indus trial lives, requiring skill, devotion and comprehension of mechanical princi ples. This Is especially true of the Oeorgln country boys. It wns always a surprise to find so much Inventive In terest nnd mechanical skill among n people who have had but little to de velop mechanical ability. The next requirement for such school is the material and home-field for the mechanical Industries to he taught In the school. Lot us see what Georgia offers In this respect. When the following statements are made In regard to the possibilities, the conclu sions are based largely upon an expe rience of twenty-eight years of teach ing young men and boys to do mechan ical work, and directing such work nt tho Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where the product of the school shops was profitably sold In the open market for the self-support of the school, and where hoys hnd the best possible ad vantages for learning, not only the me chanical trades, but the scientific prin ciples underlying all trades. Ths stu dents worked with employed mechanics of the highest skill and Intelligence, who acted as teachers, both by exam ple and precept. In these shops a large variety of high-grade machinery was produced nnd sold In the market upon Its merit. I think that the location for the succesaful operation of such school shops In Georgia Is bqtter In many re spects than In Massachusetts, and the opportunities to develop local Indus tries sre very superior. To Illustrate briefly what Is meant by opportunities to develop local Industries where boys could be taught profitable mechnnlcal skill: I.f't us not look above common things. For Instance, lake Georgia clay as a material. It Is abundant unil excellent. Well-mudc, su perior bricks are always In demand, an staple In the mnrkot us almost any product, almost ns good property as metal or money. This product requires knowledge, skill, labor, fuel and clay. self-support .while In school, nnd of | In the South we should have knowledge llnanctnl success nfter leaving school, 1 and skill In an great nbundinca bb In let us think of a real, practical Indus- I bor and raw materials. From the same material why not make roof tiling? There Is no better roof, there Is no other roof so pleasing and artistic. It has stood the test of centuries. There Is no limit to the demand If the tiles are of superior quality and produced at low cost Stone nnd brick walls, well laid, are most valuable and desirable In any community. They are essential In good building, but It requires knowledge and skill such as can be taught In a special trade school to produce them. The value of the trade school In many communities consists largely of the Items of labor and skill. Unskilled labor. Georgia already has In abun dance. The necessary skill will come from schooling of the right kind, be cause her sons nnd daughters are nat urally skilful and would take the train ing readily. In Georgia there nre thousands of acres of timber, lands to be had for a few dollars per acre. These lands are covered with the best kinds of timber and woods, suitable for useful articles, suitable for nil the furniture ahd farm Implements that can be made of wood that Is strong and beautiful. These hard woods would he obtained so near the school shops that large freight bills would not be Incufred. This timber Is most suitable for chairs, tables, chests, farm Implements; such as wheel-bar rows, plow handles, shovel handles, wagons and carta, wheels many of which are needed In the neighborhood, nnd others nre readly marketed. Every homo In the vicinity could he furnished with useful things made In the school •hops. Hcliooi furniture, Including modern desks and seats, should be a most Important product of the South. At present Iron very near at hand la shipped to some distant city In the North or West, whore lumber Is scarce and high-priced and Where labor costs double what one would have to pay for the same In Georgia. And the South seems content to buy back these school desks at a high cost plus a largo profit. Southern boys In school shops and foundries could, while nttendlng ecnool, lenrn n trade and make all the school furniture for the entire South. A school foundry Is not an untried exiieriment. It Is simple- to organize nnd to operaty, nitd no field l« more promising, not only to'(he pupils who learn the trade, but Cbo H la promising nhd safe for the school shop's financial success If properly undertaken. Fur thermore, the foundry business Is a most promising Industry for nny Southern community that will develop It wisely. These are but a few of the things that should be taught to hoys who have natural mechanical ability. Such boys nre Justly entitled to such train ing, and the stats needs young men with Just such mechanical skill. The question of Industrial education and mechanical skill for girls Is Just as Important as It Is for boys. Domes tic skill and Science Open a Held wide and attractive. Industrial schools and trade schools for girls cannot be dls- cused here, because I wish to touch upon an element of great vital impor tance In the consideration of the suc cessful Introduction of industrial edu cation. I mean the clement of so-called culture. This consideration In the fam lly North or South will never be left out when the schooling of a child Is to be determined. Industrial training nnd sclcntlflc manual work as a means of Imparting culture to a pupil has not yet had full or fair consideration by educa tors. It Is rather a new claim in tho sense I now wish to present It. I ain sure that much already has been Just ly claimed for manual training, so- called, and It is not dlfflcut to see that the moral and mental character of cer tain pupils Is greatly Improved by this training. But the newer and broader view is this: Tho study of the sciences and me chanical Industry Is aa likely to de velop character and culture In the pu pil aa. Is the study of language and literature, and a life devoted to pro ductive Industry Is in Itself better suit, ed to produce a character balanced with culture, efficiency and refinement than any other life, provided other things and other conditions of life are equal ly favorable. In order to come Into a correct view of Just why this claim Is made, one must remember that although universi ty men ore generally, and have always been, the cultured men of a community. It la not by any means because they are university men or In consequence of the kind of work they do. They usu ally come from homes of refinement, and nil they gain In this respect In college -Is not so much what they learn from the university studies ns from their contact with superior teachers and their association with classmates of equal or superior culture. "Because we find two things together. It does not follow that one Is the cause of the other." It Is of great slgnflcance to recognize that no power In man Is or can bo greater or more exalting than the cre ative faculty, and that from the nature of things there Is no employment In life so calculated to > develop the oreatlve power ns designing and making Useful things. This work of creating Is the daily occupation of the Inventor and designer of machinery. He constantly evolves new combinations of motion and force, new application of methods and means so that with the mechanic and en gineer the workman himself Is wrought Into his work, and his heart goes with the love of his work. There Is no peo ple or land whero the possibilities of adding culture to skill, and enjoyment to affluent self-support, nre greater than among tho young men of the new South. Before Industrial education in any community can have a full opportunity for success, ths parents must come to realise that culture and character are Just as sure . through these lines ns THE SHIP SUBSIDY FACTS. through any other course of training. The time Is coming when It will bo recognized that (he apprentice to a me chanical trade, with all the advantages of the education that In the future must bo a part of his training, will stand in the first Tanks of cultured men. Ho cannot fail to gain great advantages over alt the scholars tyho are compelled to depend solely on the college curricu lum for mental training. It may bo a long time before the mechanic an! the arthtamwilltn all respects stand at the front as representatives of reflned cul ture, but, other things being equal, his chance* are superior simply from the exalted nature of his work. There are no people on earth who have a more genuine appreciation of true culture than the native Houth- oriler*, and the parent who sends his son or daughter to college feels that the course that will Impart the truest culture Is the one to take. So IF Is not so very strango that we find Greek, Latin and all that makes a crowded literary course most popular. But this Is also most pathetic when It Is so true that all they naturally yearn for In the unknown and vagtie realms of refine ment may ns surely be attained In tho studies and discipline of an Industrial school properly organised and taught. ATLANTA MORALS AND PROPOSED CAMPAIGN license, to extort money from the peo • pie at the rout of the bread and cloth- • In* and shelter and life Itaelf of the persecuted and oppressed wives and • suffering children, that the city may have money to build Itself up?fBJf i . unto him that bulldeth a town blood and estnblisheth a city by In iquity. They labor in vain that build Sr u The drink traffic Is wrong per *< . or It Is right per *e. Which Is It i If It Is right, then it should bo free. • The only ground upon which restrict- '• Ire legislation can bo rightfully applied • fb the drink traffic Is tlmt It Is an evil business. If It be nn evil business, tho restrictive legislation does not make It • good business. No amount of li cense tax, much or little, can purify ft. "It Is evil ami only evil and that continually." And when good men are persuaded to let It alone, because of the money It pays and the restraints that It endures, those good men are making a compromise with sin and nre betraying the Lord that bought them. The agitation of the liquor question •in Atlanta ha* aroused the state. The prosecution of the fight in Atlanta to a good finish will go far toward mak ing a state law uvallable. iiut If the Atlanta prohibitionists waver and give way. In tile next legislature Fult«»n county will be arrayed with quadru pled power against a state law, and Fulton county will largely shape the legislation and the prospect for state prohibition will be extremely remot**. X*et Atlanta prohibitionists stand firm. Call the election, make the light, carry the county If they can. and If they get defeated carry the fight into the legis lature and help to drive the trartio from the whole state. Don’t ask the prohibitionists to relax their efforts. Don’t talk about the enmities and hard feelings that a prohibition fight might engender. If you attend the police court for one single week you will witness more hard feelings, enmity anil deadly, destructive strife, produced In .even days by the sale of liquor, than will be engendered In the wholj city in the next four months by the pno- , .teed liquor election. There Is no more . f zurh Strife ID a liquor light thau there U In any other election. Nobody t„i„k- of calling off on election that hvt for Its purpose simply the changing .,f municipal officers, because In such , jerries friend* are estranged and feel ing- are hurt. It looks to me Ilk; Jty nr to contend that we should tol existing evil* to avoid the strife „f an election to mitigate or remove t "“" 3. L. D. HILLYER. I* k—If Atlanta prohibitionist* low In the pending contest, it will be be- , lit-, the negro vote will go for liquor. If that happens. It will make great stride* toward finishing the coffin that i- now well under way In which negro auftiege will be butl'-d.—J. L. 1>. IL T*» tho Kditor of Tilt* Oeorgion: Have Atlanta morula kept pace with the Atlanta nplrlt? An humble Atlanta exile, nnd one who In optlmlHtlc, would rejoice to think ho. Only <i abort distance removed from the dimt and din of her dally life, it Ih barely pnaslble thi^i one might nee With clearer vlnlon » and hear with keener ability to dlnttnguinh noumlH than when Immcrned In the midst of her t^emidg i^‘th*ltien. From the point t>f view of forty mile* dlntance your humble writer ha* been observing our proud capital city with the eyen and earn of a Jen bum iuvi a non regarding hin mother city. Neither In it alone through hin eyen and earn thnt ho cntchen the drift of the metropolis, but every wind wait* echoes of it; every outgoing train, every villager returning brings tidings of her,. Perhnps Romo never stamped her Impression mom indelibly upon the empire than Atlanta has done upon her surrounding towns, villages and humlots. As goes Atlanta,**o goes Geor gia. Has an ouUldcr untight to do with Atlanta? tfho Is our capital city, our pattern metropolis. What do these myriad voices nuy of her? First, In the realm of human kind ness, there seems to be a gradual clos ing of the lacteal ducts. This harden ing Is noticeable more than ever in th.> Inhumane treatment of domestic animals. Where could there he a more terri ble purgatory for dumb brutes than be tween Ihe shrift* of delivery, milk and lie wagons, backs and drays in At lanta? In the suburb*, where the roads nre heavy, distances great nnd time press ing, delivery homes suffer all the tor ments of the damned. In It mere sentimentalism? By means. It becomes a great welling up conviction to nil eye witness that some thing ought to be done, "A righteous man regardeth the life of hi* beast." The ilugellutlons administered half-sound nnd over-worked stock is heart sickening. Where I* the humane society? ought to have representative* In the suburbs. Such cruelty Is innate and would manifest itself toward any object where the fear of the "hangman's whip*’ did not "hold the wretch in order." It shows It* cloven hoof in greater ferocity than marks the cannibal, and Is ii menuce to life nnd honor of the people. Second, in the real of Ideals there Is a sud falling down. obscenity was never more open in Atluntu limn it was last week. Waiting for a car on iVachtree street the writer whs beguiled Into an ex hibition of slot machine*. It seemed al most Impossible to realize that this was Atlanta and within a block of the late nmd-cap riot. Nero’s dancing hall was no more indecent. This place wn* full of school chil- dtjen of both sexes. It Is needles* to say that such places, made attractive with music and sanc tioned by renj*ectable patronage art more dangerou* foe* to purity than haunt* of shame. If parent* would follow their children with their tun nies they would shudder with a great horror. This accustoms the eye of the young to vice; It Is Insidious; it is debasing. Where are the police authorities? Third, In the godless domain of the liquor power what do we see? The whisky business, octopus like. Is reaching out as never before for the "Jug trade.’’ It wa* never more ag gressive. Its flaming bills are seen in every town and It* circular* are sent in every mall into our defenseless dry counties, fattening the liquor dealer and swelling the revenue* of Atlanta with the btood of our boy*. "Woe to him that bulldeth a city with blood!” It is an old Htory, but never more itlckenlng than now. 'alk of remedies! If we could see Innta wo would have a nearly dry state. Atlanta is the distributing center for scoroM of alreudy dry counties. Have we no interest, then, in the At lanta campaign? Where 1* our chivalry, our valor, our Christian manhood? TheHc evil* grow dnlty, and unavoid ably nfroct every part of the city’s varied life. One can almost imagine there Is a lowering of tone in the best circles; more beys on tho streets; more "knowing" children; more open exhibitions of Indecency patronized by the respectable. Tho nowspapers are being swayed by material interest; finer sentiment* s«e- rlllced at the shrlno of mammon; the churches presenting a pathetic specta cle, llko Lot in Bodom, vexing their righteous soul* from day to day, but helpless and unable to meet the needs of tho hour, awed if not intlmldutcd by four of hopeless failure! In a state of siege—afraid to go out or eome In before the enemy! During the period of decadenco in the Kngllsh church prior to the Ameri can revolution, a favorite maxim of the clergy wa* • "non quleta moverr." I>o not disturb the things which are quiet. Capitulate before the enemy before tt\e battle. What a motto and how dls«»- lrous! I’ndcr It the church was al ready dying. Much less is it n suitable motto for a church In an aggressive age, when the enemy never sleeps. The enemy may be trembling now for fear tho lion will arouse himself. Is It not high time to awake our sleep, und, putting up one fervent, united prayer to-God, open the battle somewhere along the line, trust In Him and keep our powder dry? You can km all kinds of help to fight ihe campaign. We certainly are a large host who believe in the righteous ness of the cause against ho great and common nn enemy. RKV. RUGKNR It. PENDLETON, t’ovlngton, Oa. DRAWBACKS TO IMMIGRATION. A SILENT TOKEN. To Ihe Kflltor of The Georgian. I notice n profound pull is Indug made those days to Induce Immigrants to locate here. Now, to tny mind, there are two serious tlrnivlmck* to the success of the plan. The tlrst Is the cterunl prosecution* mid imitations over the peonage matter. This is fostered and made more liable to mtlmie to he a trophic in Georgia hy one of ths most drastic labor thnt ever blotted the stntnte Iniok* nny stnte. In fact. It is purely Ulmpiv slavery In lb* effect*, whatever the technicalities that will Iwnt around the con stitution of the t'nlted State* nnd declare the law valid. It Is a law that, followed ^^Its legitimate conclusion, will sooner r late vhlte . the frljrHte olorcd; ctlo It will nud should frighten, Min considers long tiefore placing Ills liberty In Its reach. Much could I** said about it. but ll 1* known too well to need an argument. Its (mmmI bill tie* are denouncers; studv them well. Next. In the rural communities where there are often five negroes to one white pernoii. then* may be an Inducement for the family raised to it having their all nt stake In the farm. I having no mean* tf “ “ g| Embossed with figures arabesque Wns that quaint old vase upon n»y desk. Out of which, with modest grace, A rose once looked Into tny fuce As If ’twofp eager to Impart Some secret hid within Its heart; And— Wondering If those tender lips That touched fhi* rose's petal-tip* Would e’ennore grant me tho bliss Of another lingering kiss— 1 frit my soul within u»e burning Amt my Mug thrill with yearning While tuy heart grew sick with pain Lost my thoughts nud hopes were vain, Thus— While tin human’s oyo was seeing. And the moments swift were fleeing— I tendered mnd with doubt *ft<t fear. And Jabbering voices at my. ear— Tim jeers of demons hovering nenV— I besought this tiiodest rose Her hidden secret to disclose; Hut her silence was unbroken Hy my words with passion spokeu. Though my face hml all the sccmim; of a lover sweetly dreaming o’er tin various ways of scheming To gain love’s hidden token. And still— nhredJng nil my dreaming nnd my sebetu- And the fervor of my passion, far exceed ing Tlmt of all prayers prayed liefore— So: otto word would Mis# Hose utter Ho 1 could not help hut mutter: "Oh, thou queen, I so adore. Do snv something. I Implore, Though that something fail lie nothing more Thun thnt awful word A youth once heard While hindering o’er Home forgotten lore On thnt unforgettable. Yet e’er regrettable. Dismal nnd tempestuous night of yore— That word so oft repeated by a rnveu. Vet never once entreated by a craven— Thnt uweiiisplrlug, tantalizing, agonizing Word—‘Nevermore? ” •uie stnr kissed fairyland. Must have touched that quaint old vase For the rose fell gently «ti my face; And Its tender pctnl Uns, Pressed In mildness ’gainst my Ups, Thrilled tny soul with eestney they fell crushed upon the flr*r: PA TR1CKHENR Y’S FIRST CA SE; WON OVER THE EVIDENCE I mac have .worn to honor evermore. —CALVIN V. CARLTON. THANKS FROM THE . COTTON GROWERS’ ASS’N To tlm Editor of Tho Goorglsn. . I bare Imbmi ntutont from homo tu nttrim* nnoo on onr nnntml I’onforento nt Mfllodffo- vlllo, ami find. In loohlna throush my flies, that I tavo ovorlpokod thanklnir you for your splendid nrtlrle rolntlvo 10 the cotton Grower.* AMHctatlon. 1 Join with yon In tin' hope Hist nt tho mooting In January .Ill'll pnllolo. will In- made ns will put III', life Into tho organization. With hlndO.t rognnls and boat wifbrs, I am Blur,rely your friend. Sparta, Gs. JOHN D. WALKER. „ „ . >nxngo In other fiti.fnos., fn remain, tint with the negro uonarf. with Hie four of the ninny, pr— -nt ditiigor. with tho rorapstltlon •hoap If iuferlori nogro hilmror work- t.rl.-k ton—in. .aw mill hand, oto., I, not tit" Induoomoiit for tho Inniit- grant that othor nootlon. afford. No M.'loty of tit. oln«» I. offorod. many times no nohi.it. near inountli for |H.ir children to roach, often no nolaht.ir. near enough for tho protection of hi. women when he goo. to town on lin.iue.a, who would lint licltnto liofuro halving a white cnmuinutty to nettle In n black Mr. This I. made two fold more .tnrtlltlg to one who doe. not know i-omtithiii. Iiy rea—m of the fact of riots. Mg headline. In the p*|ier» and .am- tinneif agitation, since white rolfc. he»f- tute to enter a black belt, what 1. to lie | room for the done to remedy cotidttfotia nud make a clung.- for the lielter. Frankly, the mat ter I. n puzzle. Hut H doe. tom that the thinning of Ihe Muck Mt will help to wive Ihe lamilltlon. nnd l.-tter tiling. Very grimi ly. lint Ii A Real Fog. Front The Detroit News. They were seated on the cracker bar rels and soap boxes In the village gto- ery In Oakland county town strapping yarns. •T saw a fog nn the Pacific coast,” said one, "which was so thick that you couldn't see a lantern six Inches away!" "Pshaw!" suhl a native. "HI Jinks, the carpenter, tells of goln* out to shin gle a house one foggy mornln' right In this town, an' shinglin’ four feet out on the bosom of the fog before he no ticed his mistake. Mario HI terrible angry to waste ajj hour rlppln’ olf nil them shingles! " To the Kdltor of The Georgian In the "Nooks and Corners of Amerl- can History," In The Georgian of last Wednesday, It Is stated that. In 1763, Patrick Henry "had Just passed his ex amination and been admitted to the bar." and “had not yet had a case" when he was retained as counsel for the defendants In the celebrated "Par sons' Tobacco C'qge." This is ah error. At that time Pat rick Henry hnd been In the -active practice of the law for nearly four years; and his fee book (still preserv ed) shows that he had appeared In 1,1 SR cases, besides having prepared many legal papers out of court. It is truo that, single handed and alone, he won for she defense In the "Pnrsons' Case," but It Is known to every Intelligent lawyer thnt he won It against the evidence and over tho plain provisions of the law, His tri umph Is usually attributed to his mar velous powers of eloquence, anti un doubtedly that had much to do with (t, but there was something behind It all which le not generally considered. It was the hostile character of the Jury toward the claims of the plaintiff. In other words, Mr. Henry had popu lar sentiment behind him. Let me briefly explain: Front the earliest period of tho Vir ginia colony, the ahurclt of England was established by law; and, like ev ery other Institution of government, It was supported by revenues derived from taxation. The local subdivisions were called parishes, and the local of ficers who managed tho business wero called vestrymen. Among the functions conferred upqp these vestrymen hy law was ths hir ing of the rector nnd fixing and paying his salary. Ever since the early days of the colony, the amount of salury had been stated, not In money, but In to- bacctz which was the staple of the colony. in 1?«R the colonial legislature passed an act directing that every parish clergyman should receive an annual salary of MOO pounds of tobacco, to he levied, assessed nnd paid by the ves try. This act was duly approved by the crown, and thus became n law which could not be repealed, suspended or altered without the npproval of tho king. Thus was established a valid contract for the annual payment of 1,600 pounds of tobacco, which, at the average market price gave the parish rector a salary or £400 sterling—then about 12,000 In our present currency. In 1T55, when the tobacco crop was short, nnd the price high in conse quence, the colonial legislature passed an act virtually suspending the law of 1748 for ten months, nnd requiring the clergy, at the option of the vestries, to receive their salaries for thnt year, not In tobacco, but In the depreciated paper currency of the colony nt the rate of 2 pence per pound of the to bacco due them. This act had never received the royal approval, and for that reason it wus unconstitutional nnd void. But, being shrewdly limited to ten months. It accomplished Its ob ject, slnco the time was too short for the royal Intervention against It to be of any direct avail. Tho clergy boro their losses, not without murmurlngs, but without any formal protest; Three years later. In 1758, the legis lature, with even less excuse, passed an act similar to that of lift, Its force being limited to twelve months. - Like the other. It never received approval of tho crown, and like the other, wns, of course, Invalid; but, like the other, It served its purpose. By this act ths clergy were forced to accopt the 2 pence per pound In depredated paper money of the colony, then worthless abroad, nnd with little purchasing power even at home, while the tobacco which wns due them was an Instant and advantageous medium of exchange everywhere, and especially In England. Tho clergy having been denied a hearing before tho legislature, appealed to tho government, but without avail. They next appealed to tho crown. After a full hearing, the privy council de cided thut the clergy hnd "their certain remedy at law," slnco “no court of Judicature could look upon the Into act (of 1758J except as ono of manifest Injustice." So their cases were cur ried before the law courts of the col ony. The first case to come up was that nt Rev. Alexander White, but the court. Instead of either sustaining or rejecting the disallowed act, shirked responsibility by refusing “to meddle in the matter," and Insisted upon leaving "the whole affair to the Jury!" And the Jury, thus freed from all Ju dicial control, rendered n verdict of "neat nnd comprehensive lawlessness" In favor of the defendants. (See Ber ry History of the Colonies, 1, 4D7.) This was the stage of affairs when tho celebrated case of Parson Maury came up In Hanover county. The court having before It the evldenco of the royal disallowance of the act of 175S "adjudged the act to be no law." (Ib. Id). The case was, therefore, a clear one. It only remained to summon a special Jury on writ of Inquiry to de termine the amount of damage sus tained by the parson, and aa this was a simple question of arithmetic, the counsel foF the defense expressed a de lire to withdraw from caee. Being thus assured by their counsel that any further struggle would he use less, the defendants turned In desper ation to Patrick Henry for help. He accepted their retainer, and by his shrewd management In the selection of a Jury, and by hie marvelous power of eloquence secured a verdict In favor of his clients, for In the very face of the most conclusive evidence, and contrary to the law In the case, the plaintiffs were awarded one penny damages." WILLIAM L. SCRUGGS, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 30, IS06. To the Editor of The Georgian: In reading the article In an Atlanta evening paper of December 1. entitled, "Ship Subsidy an Enormous Steal," I am somewhat surprised at the lack of knowledge there displayed. That seventy-five steamships of 16,- 000 tons measurement would cost 140.- 000,000 Is certainly much less than they could bo bought for In England, and at thnt price England would be no com petitor of ours tn the building of ships nnd free trade In ships no benefit. Sixteen thousand ton steahicrs would cost more than two million (12,000,000) of dollars each and seventy-five would represent an Investment of over 1150,- 000,00#, If we can Induce capitalists to Invest tlmt amount of .money In ma terial and labor to build ships In this country, and 90 percent of the cost of a ship Is paid to labor, we can ' well af ford as a nation to contribute 36,000,000 (though the bill before congress only calls for three and a half millions), us stated, which would only represent 4 per cent on the Investmen; or a less inducement than some of the towns and cities of this atate are now giving to cotton faetoriCK to be located In their midst, nnd the cities that thus obtain | the cotton factories find It a profitable Investment In their Increased trade and the enhancement of property values In their location. It Is no greater steitl for the govern ment to stimulate the building of ships by government aid than It is for a city to give a bonus In real estate or moqdv, free water and free lights and exemp tion from taxation for a term of years to a cotton factor)- or other Industrial enterprise. Instead of an appropriation of six or nine millions, as stated in the article I allude to, the present bill calls for an ipproprintlon of only three million dol ors, which, If assessed as a-per capita tax In this country, would amount to only 3 2-3 cents per head. And -the connections - these proposed steamers would give between the Southern ports and South America, Africa and the Orient would Increase the consumption of cotton fabrics so we could supply to them the forty-two million' bales or cotton which It is estimated the-world would consume If the goods could he delivered. two-mlllien-bale surplus In our cotton production has been known to depress the value of the staple 6 rente per pound or 330 jier bale on fourteen million hales, amounting to a lose to title section of our country of 3420,* 000,000, or 35 per capita for the people of the United States., Would It not be well to Invest In nn assessment'of 3 2-3 cents per capita rather than stand a loss of 35 per cap ita? But ns this loss falls entirety upon the people of the South. It would amount to eight times this per capita to the cotton producer. He who op poses the development of our merchant marine and the extension of our mar kets Is opposed to the development, wealth and prosperity of the South. With cotton »t good prices we pros per. We know what 4 or 5-cent cotton does for us. The Cotton Growers’ Association nnd the Formers' Union are both trying to reduce the acreage of cotton to prevent over-production because with our pres ent lines of transportation our markets are limited and a small surplus Is ruin ous, and yet, with all their united ef forts, tho only limit to production Is the scarcity of labor. The papers ore advocating foreign Immigration, which will necessarily In crease the labor on the farms and make nugatory the efforts of both these as sociations, for if they go Into the fuc- torlee or public works they will dis place labor there already employed nnd drive them to farming, thus Increasing production, making low prlcee for tin- farmers' products, and hard times will follow. Would It not be the better part of wisdom to first enlarge our markets by both steamship communication with the markets of consumption, thus providing against over-production, before open ing the door to foreign Immigration to Increase a product—cotton—which year by year la dangerously near the line of over-production, and a largo surplus means a loss to the Southern farmer? Another million bates added to the present crop would have dropped the price below tho cost of production. Let us have steamships direct to all the markets of the world and tho farm er will never again dread over-produc tion and loss In raising this great staple, of the South. 1 am not a "hired writer,” but simply n farmer. CHARLES L. WHITE. A CHRI8TMA9"SUGGESTION. To the Editor of The Oeorzlen: Will rou give me space for a Christians Let our Ini.y stores put up cards In every department, the same to beer e Fiend to this effect: nEMBMBEK THE ORPHANS While rod bur for rmir own little onet WELL DELIVER THE IIOOM*. If the stores will do thin, then let one IIEUI.AH It. 8TEVBNH. ste tu) hr ’-X mrnnro thnt frlfbrtns the wblt* settler nwny. Let them utvustom the other sec tions tn the pri'sent'e of the negro until Induce emigrant* U> leu re the suite w ithout henijr lltvnses. Itenonil the law. I set the |*4>fEli»g williams fellows cmiie nlotu. I set them enter the Mark l«*lts hT will tint ilrcA'l hlui so much here. Let them make n problem wherever they rau until the problem of the black belt will reuse to alarm the tntiorer who would rente. Let them u»*«'d out the ouo rlnnt (the lie- that there may lie r»xnu for the other (the whiten). If this would woirk a hardship during the crop growing Reason, make u ii open son sou; say, from Novemlier t to Jnnunry 1. tint, by all mean*, lower the bar* noino say that the one tuny go out trifffe tttr other rome* In. There fit not . . Iilte and the colored laliorer ble by side, rfbtno solatiou In the way f removing the overplus of the one Has* ill have to M> adopted before the other THE DISPENSARY VS. STATE PROHIBITION Why not put the fence up all the way . 'round? Then' 1. too many gap., too many ways found To DU up the cut), to fill up the can. Tempting the will of the wayfaring man. Through one of tbeae gape another Just fell. The ambulance below atari!ng atralgbt to ward hell: Many another aiauda on the.name brink, NEW YORKERS. By WILLIAM F. KIRK. “New Yorkers are corkers," Bald young Mr. Brown, As we sat In a well-known cafei Their hustle and bustle have matte this old town The greatest of cities today. "Bee that fellow dressed In black over near the checking rock? Well, that's Editor Maloney— Let It. tighten tho ropes around the precl- fame from Phoenix. Arlsony. the Iniquitous traffic swept out of At- free. Let them gradually th*'i oat it- tiara th.t therv may he room for the tide of Immigration, for It can not lie Induced to come under the present ninff- i,ihe.) danger, of negro labor rompetltloa. We will either bare to continue with the Ideeh lielH. or make them White belt, py giving whit,- l-tt.'r r*.im t« live. C. H. HKAZLEV Stretching around cliff*, valley* and nil. Let u. tighten the ropes nrooiut that which dethroned. Let us rail lo the *M of good brother Jone* To marshal the force emit hla genius rare Which sparkles like gems; there le uono to compare. As he turns on the light yon must dis cern Your welfare nt heart 1* hie concern.-. ot at s glance. need of the awhu- -A. D. RIDDEN. Not wilfully blind, you nee at s {glance. With the rope* light, — " to nee. Cause Followed Effect "Did yon notice that the ilesd man's phy- And his friend le Flayright Grim; K. A E. are after him. Quite the emoothezt chap I know— Came from Butte a year ago. Then there's Kane, the architect. Belt-made chap from base to dome— Han Francisco was bis home. That theatrical promoter Used to live let North Dokoter. "New Yorkers are corkers." Bald young Mr. Brown, As we sat in a well-known cafe; Their hustle end bustle have mode this old town The greatest of cities today." Hsr On* Retail Line. "What hast ness is Mias (laddie tn?" •'Oh. she's In everybody's Imalnese. "Ah! Wholesale, eh?" To the Editor of Tho Georgian. of the 36th Instant thst the Iwll trrerll' rondo 70 mile* advance towsrd the east this last avseon. And til eiperts ssy It Is Just ss sure to cover the whole cotton licit In e short while, nnd IU outran! march will b> renter and raster, the santa as tbe t ‘olorndo potato beetle rame Month, atari lug 25 tulles per year. Incrcn.lng It* apewl to 125 miles In the aeaaon, hut n remedy tvn. found. Although not stamping out the neai, we still go on growing crop, of poisloea. Juat so with Ihe cottou weevil. It I* lit the cotton Acids to stay, nnd none or Hie government egenrts has fonnd so avail able remedy. It In nn en.y matter when an Insect fee*!* eu lha leaf, bet when It de rives Its life by suction or boring Into a plant. It la another qne.tlon. t have solved that problem, however, end these Inst three seasons, during mr stay with the late Mem P. Jonea. my ezperlnt»nta are been aolely to get tho right propoi-. Ions to apply lo the plant, and am Walt- STa party to Job. .n P .ho -SW&jfc CirteravRIe. Oa., December 3, 1306. MY RECOMPENSE. . If love were riches, deer, a pauper 1 n-aold be. . . ... For ell my wealth of love I've given unto But yet!* deer love, tbe lose 1 would ile- For I’n'nd a recompense In the light wltbla yoer eyes. £ , mwn ^ HJonea—Why jbe grouch?" Panilth—My wife called me • root, lljoneo—t'heer up. It Ssy not be trite I'amlth-llut It le. *he proved IL »eut and deg up a bnneb of my old lore letters and read 'em to me.