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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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The elections for justices of the
peace occur Saturday.
The New Year will find us fully
equipped and ready for business.
Today is the last day of 1896 Swear
ing off will be in order after midnight.
It is a strong resolution that can
stand the wear and tear of the month
of January.
Now that the holidays are about
over, we can turn our attention to The
Dauntless again.
The Congressional Record should
issue a colored supplement when the
republicans come into power.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
and wring the neck of the fellow who
keeps harping on his resolutions.
Leap year will make its last leap to
night and still there are tens of thous
ands of old maids in Massachusetts.
Fitzgerald has been visited by an
other disastrous fire. The eitizene
will have to organize a fire depart
ment.
The fertilizer contest has aroused
much interest. The best thing for
the farmer to do is to stick to the com
post heaps.
A move of railroad accidents seems
to have swept over the country and
wreck after wreck has been crowded
into the last few days.
The most vexatious problem that
will now confront us has nothing to
do with the tariff, free silver nor in
come tax. It is to accustom ourselves
to writing it 1897.
Sam Jones said, the other night,
that dishonesty might be tolerated
when it is only in our by-laws, but
when found in our constitution, the
case is well nigh hopeless.
The Cahaba river horror emphasizes
the fact that the train wrecked should
be dealt with in the most most salu
tary manner. There is no punishment
too great for such miscreants.
The confering of the commandery
degrees on Rev. Sam P. Jones has
given an additional impetus to Ma
sonry in Rome and our city is getting
to be one of the greatest Masonic cen
ters in the state.
Romans were proud to pay honor to
such a distinguished guest as Hon.
WHlioin H. Fleming, of Augusta, con
gressman elect from the Tenth district.
No man has made his way to the front
more rapidly than Bill Fleming.
So far the holiday weather lias sur
passed all previous years for its agree
ability. More than half the tradi
tional “Twelve Days’’ have passed
without any bad weather which
rhould be, according to the old fash
ioned war of believing a happy au
gury for a prosperous year.
RATES ON FERTILIZERS,
There are two sides to every ques
tion and this fact is especially true of
the recent decision of the Georgia
Railroad commission cutting the rates
On commercial fertilizers twenty per
cent. The various companies opera
ting in Georgia are making a strong
fight to have the rates restored to their
former position and al) the railroads
are falling into line so as to present,
as strong a front as possible. The
commission is made up of honest and
intelligent men who will do their duty.
The fact should be taken into con
sideration that our railroads are just
emerging from a cloud of adverse
circumstances, nearly all of the vari
ous lines having recently been releast d
from the hands of receivers, and any
unjust discrimination that would
tend to cripple their efforts to rein
state themselves, would be not only
a grievous wrong, but wonld prove
calamitous to the public welfare.
In the first place the railroads are
essentially necessary to the prosperity
and development of the country. A
town without railroad facilities stands
but little show in these days of pro
gress. The more profitable their bus
iness the better the service they are
able to render. We want frequent
schedules, clean cars and men em
ployed to run the trains who will not,
through ignorance or inexperience,
jeopardize the lives of the passengers.
Then there is a great army of la
borers in various capacities dependent
upon the railroads for support. Eugi
nees, conductors, firemen, flagmen,
mechanics in the shops, section hands
and all will be made to suffer if the
income of the railroad company em
ploying them is insufficient to pay
them living wages. That is a side of
the question that too few people ever
take into consideration.
On the other hand the farmers
have had a hard time of it for many
years. They have had a long strug
gle and have been compelled to ob
serve the most rigid economy to keep
their heads above water. They should
be shown every favor consistent with
right and justice. Fertilizers are too
expensive, any way, and if the roads
can stand the reduction it will be of
vast benefit to the consumers provided
they are Hot cheated out of it.
The great trouble lies at the
root of the matter. Farmers should
learn to use more home made
fertilizers and thus do away with ex
cessive drain on their resources in the
matter of commercial fertilizers. That
is the best solution of the whole mat
ter. We feel assured that the men
composing the Georgia Railroad com
mission are honest and conscientious
and that they will do what is right
and just in the promises.
THE SINGLE CROP POLICY,
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For many years we have urged
upon the cotton planters the import
ance of diversifying their crops. They
are gradually accepting this advice,
and in proportion as they have ac
cepted it their prosperity has in
creased. Mr. William E. Smythe, in
an article entitled. “Our Great Pacific
Commonwealth,” in the December
Century, makes a statement in respect
to the single crop policy that is well
worth reproducing.
“He says: “Wherever the policy of
single crops is pursued, whether it be
wheat, corn or cotton, raisins, prunes,
or oranges, there are occasional
years of well nigh riotous prosperity.
But such years are frequently more
disastrous in their results than sober
periods of depression. They feed the
flame of speculation and raise false
industrial ideas. Under the spell of
such times, the people depart still
further from': the safe patn of self
sufficient agriculture, buying more
land to devote to the favorite crop,
expanding their living expenses, and
running into debt.
“When this spirit begins the breath
of industry no human laws can avert
disaster. A true industrial system is
like a noble river fed by eternal snows.
It never floods its banks with an ex
crssive flow, and never sinks below its
normal stage. It ebbs and flows with
the regular tides of the great commer
cial ocean to which it is tributary; but
alike at high water and low it bears
the ships of men upon its tranquil
bosom.’’
The foregoing is a correct yiew of
the single crop policy, says the Savan
nah News. In California those who
have depended wholly upon wheat or
oranges or raisins have met with dis
aster. For a time they were prosper
ous, but their prosperity did not con
tinue. It has been said that the des
traction of the orange groves of Flori
da was a blessing to that state. We
are not prepared to endorsa that state
ment.
But while thousands were ruined
by the destruction ot' the grove Flor
ida was taught a lesson which is prov
ing to be very helpful tv her. Her
people iiave discovered that many
other things besides oranges can tie
grown profitably within her limits,
and in the course of time Florida will
have not only her orange crop, but
THE KOMB TRIBUNE. TtiUUSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1896.
also other crops which will sustain her
people if the '-ratre crop should fail.
When rhe S.uth depended almost
wholly ou <■<>< ton a failure of the cot
ten crop mud- her condition deplora
ble, because she had very little with
which to buy supplies for stock and
the household. As a general thing
cotton planters are now producing
grain and hay and bacon, and the
money received for cotton remains at
home instead of going to the West for
those articles. The further the South
gets away from the one crop system
the more prosperous she will become.
SONGS AND SCENES.
K-qulercat.
They laid his shrouded from to rest
Hard by that wine red Southern river,
And high above that silent breast
The solemn pine trees sigh and shiver.
None shall disturb bis slumbers now,
In that lone graveyard where they laid him.
Eternal peace sits on that brow,
The cares of earth no more upbraid him
Spring’s earliest rays shall light that tomb
Laved by the tears of those that love him,
Spring’s tenderest violets shall b:oom
In simple faithfulness above him.
For him no more the blasts shall blow,
Nor break the withering storm ot sorrow
Life’s sad regret' he left below
To greet God’s glad and glorious morrow.
He was an honest man and true
To live aright his life’s endeavor.
And his good deeds descend like dew
To cheer and comfort us forever!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Sir Knight SamkJonU
The confering of the degrees of the
exalted order of Knights Templar upon
Rev. Sam P. Jones was an event in
Rome Masonry.
The high standing of the candidate
and bis world wide reputation attracted
attention everywhere throughout the
country.
I was impressed with that fact as I
sat in the Western Union Telegraph
office and received requests from Chi
cago, St. Louis and elsewhere for parti
culars of the great.event.
Few men iu the state would have
attracted so much attention from the
bright officials to the humblest citizens.
And yet, as I looked on him sitting
there at the banquet board, clad in sim
ple attire and a mau yf ordinary phy
sique and nothing particularly striking
about his personal appearance, it set me
thinking.
Wherein lies this man’s power to
command the attention of people from
one end of the continent to the other?
The answer is that he has proven one
of the most valiant soldiers of the cross
that ever uttered a word of protest
against the errors of humanity. He has
assumed a position that few would have
the tenacity to occupy.
In his plain and outspoken way, with
out any palliation or apology, he has
attacked sin in its most formidable
strongholds.
&Ht> has challenged’men in high places
as * well as chastising the lowly and
he has followed the to cry
aloud and spare not.
Like a modern Elijah he has descended
from his native hills and has gone
abroad reproving the Ahabs and Jeze
bels to be found in the gilded palaces of
sin and iniquity.
He has shown men up in their true
light and has told them of their sins and
hypocrisies to their teeth.
They who have not learned to love
him have been taught to fear and to ro
sy eot him. He points the way to God
through the teachings of the Nazarene.
It seemed to me peculiarly appropri
ate that he who had so long borne aloft
the banner of the cross should be raised
from the position of a leader of the yeo
menry, to the lofty degree of a knight
of the cross.
He, of all men, could best appreciate
the grandeur and glory of the teachings
of that great order. •
His speech at the banquet was one o f
the most beautiful and touching that I
have heard in a long time. It was a
singular speech, filled with odd expres
sions characteristic of the man.
He claimed that no no man should
live under a double standard of morals.
He said that a man should measure the
standard ot his own words by those of
his mother aud his wife.
He drew a beautiful picture of an an
gel who had strayed from Eden earth'
ward on an exploring tour. The celes*
tial visitor wished to bear home to
heaven with him some of the beautie ß
of earth to preserve as souvenirs of his
visit and to show to his companions.
He found a rose garden and hovered
above it inbaling with delight the frag,
rance of the newly blown roses.
He said that he had seen nothing more
beautiful in all bis wanderings over
earth so be plucked a garland of the
dewy blossoms.
Then he observed a new born babe
smiling up into the face of its mother
and be thought that ho had seen noth
ing more beautiful than that so he said
he would take those smiles with him to
heaven.
Then he beheld a mother bending
over the tiny cradle looking down upon
her first born, and he saw the love gush
ing forth from her heart for her little
one
That was the most perfectly beauti
ful thing that he bad found during his
long journey and he said that he would
take that too
So he winged his flight heavenward
and alighted, just outside the walls to
examine his souvenirs.
He found that the roses had withered
and he cast them aside The smiles of
the babe had faded and he cast them
aside.
But there was that mother’s love in
all its purity and beauty as radiantas
when first he beheld it.
And bearing it inside he exclaimed,
“Behold, 1 bring you a mother’s love.
It is the most beautiful thing that I
found in all the earth and the only thing
fit to adorn the courts of heaven!’’
M M F.
Charles M. Seay, a Rome boy, who
has been at a school of acting in New
York for a year past, will make his
professional debut in that city with
Frohman’s “Under the Red Rose”
Company on December 28. Seay has
brilliant talent Lr comedy work, and
eminent success is predicted for him.
—Augusta Herald.
The New Year’s callers will mostly
bear cards with long rows of figures
on them that will strike terror to the
hearts of the extravagant patrons of
Santa Claus.
Let us all resolve to do our best for
Rome during the next twelve months.
Tbcsd Chris* mie Bills.
(With apologies to Thomas Moore )
Those Christmas bills! Those Christinas bills ’
How many a heart with sadness fills,
As youth, and home, and that sad time,
When last we Spent that lonely dime.
That iad, sad hour has passed away
And many a heart that fore was gay,
With despondent thoughts, now rapidly fills,
And prays to be rid of those Christmas bills.
And so ’twill be when we are gone,
Their ceaseless dun they’ll still keep on
While other nartyrs walk these hills,
And sigh at the sight of the Christmas bills.
—E. H. W. Jr
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Wedding invitations and visiting cards handsomely engraved on short notice.-
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