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THE ROME TRIBUNE,
Roh a. Ga.
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ ot
The Qty of Rome*
The Sheriff.
The Ordinary,
The ‘County Commissioners,
and publishes eegularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials,
Rome's builders are busy.
The SuNOAff T«kbune will be a
hummer.
The pearl searchers continue to find
beautiful gems in the North Georgia
streams.
Jack Frost came very near Wednes
day night getting his icy touch on
North Georgia.
Why has not Secretary of State
Sherman resigned? He was scheduled
to do so months ago.
The Macon News aeks why doesn’t
Mr. MeKinley.let the price of cotton
go up a cent or two?
“The usual fall trade” says the
Augusta Herald “is to swap a yellow
straw hat for a bad cold. ”
The New Orleans Picayune says
that shotgun quarantines are born of
fear, selfishness and brutality.
The Brunswick Times thinks that
‘‘Selling an island to the state bids
fair to be a popular occupation.”
The Sunday Teibune is the great
est advertising medium in North
Georgia. Wise advertisers patronize
it.
The most sensible thing the Mc-
Kinley administration has done is the
retention of Fitzhugh Lee as Consul
General at Havana.
Columbus people think that Atlanta
is trying to use all the water in the
Chattahoochee river in their water-
• works. They are alarmed about it.
But the Americus Times-Recorder
dodges the question as to whether it
wishes to see the lease system perpetu
ated. We have the highest respect for
its opinions.
The Chicago News says: “We do
not wish to create alarm, but the
bell-boy ought to go up to Tom Wat
son’s room and see if the gas is
turned on.”
Harry Edward’s story, “The Mar
beau Cousins,” has begun as a serial
in the Chicago Record. It will never
attract the attention that “Sons and
Fathers” did.
If there are in the neighborhood cJ
100 applicants for the positions of state
librarian and assistants the governor
will not have an easy task unless he
has already decided on some one.
An interesting feature of The Sun
day Tribune will be a discussion of
the question of co-education by Mr.
Alfred Harper. He brings out some
new points, and clever arguments.
McKinley’s negro appointments in
the south are made to pay politioal
debts contracted by Mark Hanna in
the race for the presidential nomina
tion. And they make the south solid
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The Savannah Press puts Hon. H.
H. Cabaniss, of the Atlanta Journal,
president of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation, in nomination for governor.
The chairman pauses to hear further
nominations.
A Modern Use—Pease.—Well there’s
the churchbell. Castleton will be
around in a minute. Hubbard—What
are you going to church? Pease—Oh,
no! but that was to be the signal fir
our century run.—Puck.
For the month of September the
city sexton of Rome reports only four
interments. One was a white man,
one an aged negro and two small
negro children. Can any city in the
world with 15,000 inhabitants equal
this record?
Hall Caine's Wonderful Story.
We have just laid down a copy of
the September Munsey, after reading
the last Installment of Hall Caine’s
wonderful story ‘‘The Christian. ”
We believe that many others have
had their emotion stirred in a similar
manner to ours by the skillful hand of
the writer. Let the critics say what
they will “The Christian” is to our
mind the greatest—the truest of Caine’s
works. It breathes of humanity, it
paints people, it portrays life, it—oh,
well ft is wonderful. Perhaps, it is
overdrawn a little in places, but it
appeals; it stirs; it plays upon the
nerves. We do not see how it can end
“happily.” If Glory is the girl we take
her to be, if the author has presented
the picture truly, she can find no hap
piness dn being the wife of John
Storm. Her lack of deep and con
tinued feeling except where her own
pleasures and vanity are concerned,
her incapability of being true to any
one or anything—these things will, or
should grow clearer as the story pro
gresses, or else we retract what we
have said, and declare that Caine
spoiled a great story. It would not
be Caine to let her quietly marry
Storm and “live happily ever after."”
He must let her drift on following her
natural bent, and in the end win the
contempt and perhaps pity of the
reader. This may be quite at variance
with other .people’s notions, but we
can’t see it otherwise, and we shall
be disappointed if it turns out other
wise.
Isn’t it wonderful how Caine en
tangles one’s nerves? As a Rome en
thusiast remarked the other day;
“After reading an installment of The
Christian I feel as if some one bad
thrust a etick among my nerves and
twisted it until they were stretched
to concert pitch, and were played upon
by each passing zephyr of imagination
or breath of memory. ”
A Sensible View.
Rev. Dr. Gilbert, of Washington
City, writes the following sensible
article on the subject of lynchings in
the south to the Washington Post:
Having traveled for many years in
all parts of the South, and become
acquainted with the people, I feel
called to write concerning the lynch
ings of negroes in that section, be
lieving that justice has not been done
to the subject. A series of orderly
statements will suffice:
1. The southern people, with great
unanimity, bold that any man, black
or white, who outrages any woman,
black or white, deserves to die. In
this they are doubtless right, as any
man must admit who considers that
his own wife, daughter, or sister may
be the next victim. This crime is the
greatest possible offense against so
ciety, greater even than homicide.
He who commits it is unfit for any
place in a civilized community,
2. The better and larger part of the
southern people believe that the pen
alty should be inflicted upon such
criminals by due process of law, and
in most of the states statutes have
been enacted making the act a capital
offense. Here, again, the people are
right. One of the highest functions
of government is to protect woman,
and that government is on a low
plane if it deals lightly with the man
who forcibly takes from woman what
is to her dearer than life.
8. There are those in the South
who contend that this class of crimi
nals should be treated as outlaws;
that they have forfeited all claim to
manly regard; that they have de_
scended to the level of the brute, and
that swift justice should be meted
out to them by the indignant com
munity. These are certainly wrong,
but if, in their utter detestation of
the revolting crime, they overlook
the claims of civil law, they must not
be reproached as barbarians.
4. In some cases the courts have
been slow and the ends of justice have
been defeated, and in all cases the
wronged woman has been obliged to
appear as a witness, suffering in this
way a mortification and shock but
little less than that inflicted at the
first. As a consequence some south
ern men, men of high character,
have consented to the acts of violence
by which the other class mentioned
has taken the law into their own
hands and executed the miscreant.
5. No man living in the district of
Columbia, after the disgraceful events
connected with the Carr case, ought
to make thrusts at the South. Within
half a mile of the white house a young
man in broad daylight violated the
person of a little girl, whom be forced
into his room. Some in the neigh
borhood sympathized with him and
half concealed him. The police, know
ing the facts, were sluggish. Arrested
after three days by a citizen and
turned over to the authorities, this
young man was indicted, and a judge
postponed his trial to October. He
lies now in jail, supported at
public expense. If convicted he will
be boarded by the government for ten
or thirty years in the penitentiary.
Then, released, he will be suffered to
pollute society wherever he touches it.
THE ROME IKBUNE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1897.
his presence an insult to all. This
nauseating story might well bring the
blush to every manly cheek.
Let us cease this criticism of our
southern brethren. While we deplore
their method, we must admire their
purpose to avenge the wrongs of wo
men Lynching must never be ap
proved. but it is better than apathetic
Indifference to the revolting crimes
that are reported daily in the public
press. The time hae come for heroic
measures in all the states of the union.
New statutes are needed. Perhaps
the hangman’s rope ehould give place
to the surgeon’s knife, amputation
rather than death. Certainly arrest,
trial, conviction, .punishment ought
to follow rapidly, and the outraged
woman ought not to be exposed be
fore a vulgar and curious crowd.
GEORGIA'S GREAT PROBLEM.
Whit the Editors of ithe Newspapers
are Saying About it
(Americas Herald)
Anent the convict problem, which is
stall far from a settled question,
let our legislators give their thoughts to
a reformatory for the younger criminals.
This is one of the greatest needs of
Georgia and one which we should bat e
within the year.
Crazy Mr, Morrison,
(Brunswick Times)
One of the prize fools of Georgia has
suddenly developed in the person of W.
M. Morrison, a representative from
DeKalb county, who expresses himself
at great length in Monday's Constitu
tion on the penal island plan.
Any uninformed person reading Mor
rison’s ridiculous statements would
imagine that the sea island section of
Georgia is a combination of the beat of
Death Valley, the unproductiveness of
Stone mountain, the sterility of Sahara
and the hellish horrors of Guiana,
If Morrison is expressing his honest
opinion he has evidently never been
down this way. He has never in the
gay summertime gathered up a few
spare dollar and excurted to the delight
ful Georgia beaches, where the summer
girl and the surf are twin attractions
that charm the soul. His “jaundiced
eye” has never fatten notice of the fact
that the islands off this coast are fully
as attractive in winter as in summer,
in December as in June—that while St.
Simon and Cumberland are crowded
and popular in warm weather, JeKyl
just across the sound, entertains wealthy
visitors when the winter comes.
But to show the absolnte folly of Mor
rison’s criticisms, it is only necessary to
repeat them. Every sane man who
has been on a Georgia sea island will
have a hearty laugh over them. They
are so extreme that they are amusing.
Instead of harming the sea island penal
plan, Morrison has helped it wonder
fully by showing that he knows nothing
about it. Georgia would be in a bad
fix if'the majority of the members of
her legislature were so densely ignorant
as the gentleman from DeKalk. Here
are some of his crazy utterances: <
“I fear that the freight would consist
mainly of the fish, game, oysters and
crabs, so graphically described by Uncle
Joe Mansfield in his speech before the
committee, and of ice to prevent the
convicts from sweltering to death. Water,
too, perhaps, because Uncle Joe, who
lives near Sapelo, did not seem to know
whether any of that article fit to drink,
could be had on the island. Again,
would not the convicts from northern
and middle Georgia be in constant dan
ger of malarial and other fevers? And
just to think of the gnats, sandflies and
mosquitoes as they sing seductive songs
to imprisoned men, women and children
while emptying their veins of the purple
current of life.. Georgia wants no sea
island cotton to be purchased with sea
island graves of unfortunate and de
senseless convicts of any color, age or
sex. no matter what revenue could be
realized from it. But the idea of these
convicts producing anything more than
they would consume among the marshes
and swamps and bogs and in the burn
ing sands of such a place is extremely
preposterous. What could Mr. Hall ex
pect the commission to ship back to the
other institutions of the state? Only an
annual crop of lunatics to Milledgeville,
of blind persons to Macon, ot dead
bodies to the medical colleges and per
sons who become dumb from horror to
Cave Spring!”
Mr. Morrison need not give himself
any unnecessary trouble about the con
dition of the people who live on the sea
islands. They are the healthiest people
in the state; they have ah the fresh
water they need, plenty of pure, healthy
blood, regardless of the gnats, sandflies,
etc., and they contribute fewer lunatics,
invalids, and corpses to the annual crop
than any section of the state.
Has Mr. Morrison an idea of what he
is talking about? Has he any ideas at
all? In view of bis absurd statement,
quoted above, would he not bean accep
table contribution to Milledgeville?
Convict Problem Grows Bigger the
More you Study it.
(Americus Herald)
While the Herald is in favor of the
penal island colony plan and has so ex
pressed itself, would it not be better to
sift the matter a little more thoioughly
before coming to any definite lines npon
which to make a fight for it? The Geor
gia penitentiary, usually contains about
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2,000 convicts and these are the ones
who mast be primarily provided for and
after these the misdemeanor convicts
must be looked after. Now to etablish
B convict farm, and a farm is about the
only place where convicts can be worked
satisfactorily, for these 2.000 men will
require about 50,000 acres, and the ques
tion arises as to where such a place can
be obtained. Ossabaw and Sapelo
islands have been suggested, but each
of these contains only about 20,000 acres
and it is fair to assume that only a small
per cent of this is suitable for cultiva
tion It is trie that much of it could be
put in arable condition, but a certain
amount would never be fit for any thing,
and at the present status of affairs the
farm would be run on a basis of about
one man to ten acres or less. That
would hardly be profitable. It has been
said that an island farm would be the
proper thing, but an island colony has
been boomed on account of the cheap
ness of guarding the convicts and this
argument cannot apply to one otherwise
located. A farm of 50,000 acres of land
fit for cultivation would cost half a mil
lion dollars and in addition to this must
be added the cost of equipping such an
enormous place. All of these things
must be taken into consideration
and it is to be feared that some of us
have leaped before looking. Something
must be done with the Georgia convicts,
but their disposition is going to be a
harder problem than anyone has yet
thought.
Penal Island Plan.
(Thomasville Tims-Enterprise)
The more the penal island question is
aired, the comments grow more favora
ble. Joe Mansfield struck a popular
key-note.;
Three women members of the Lin
coln, Neb., city council are attending
the convention of mayors and ooun
cilmen at Colambus, O. They are
attracting much attention.
Sonnet.
A rose in blossom blushed a crimson red,
Grown side by side with one of purest white;
Therein, the sunshine and morning light
Were gifts of Nature front ita God o’er-head
To each alike; the sparkling dew-drops shed
The same sweet kisses on each petal there—
Yet one was blushing red. the other fair.
On swiftly flying wiug my thought had oped
To souls that had been twin in life and years,
The shafts of Fortune and the wheels of Time
Had sent them royal gifts, had brought thenr
tears;
One face grew sad and cold, the other blight
With beauty ot the heart that ie sublime;
For life within makes blossom red or white.
—Many E. M’clurb
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