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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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' THE BOMB TRIBUNE,
Rqmb, Ga-P?
The Rome Tribune
The Official Organ of
The City of Rome,
The Sheriff,
The Ordinary,
The County Commissioners,
and publishes regularly all legal
advertisements emanating from
these officials.
Rome ranks commercially higher
than it does in population.
Dr. Guiteras pronounces his name
as if it were spelled “Weeterah”
Why did the Atlanta Constitution
leave Rome out of its car record?
Rome is movipg up in the state’s
commercial league. It now ranks fifth.
There are at present four news
papers in Georgia edited by women.
Will the city council see that the
sewers are daily flushed this dry
weather?
The Tribune is for Rome first, last
and all the time, and is above all a
newspaper.
Great encouragement is being received
by The Tribne in advertisements fo r
its trade and souvenir edition.
Rome receive'd 904 car loads in
August. Columbus’ record was 803
cars, or 101 less than Rome,
Few men look their best with their
hate on, but most women do. It de
pends on the floral display on the hat.
We would like to see with no undue
influence used a vote taken on co-ed
ucation by the Woman’s club of
Rome.
Some statistician says: "Atlanta
has 3,000 business firms, 22 banks and
169 lunch houses." Do they lunch all
the time?
We are enjQying Indian Summer
the best thing the red man ever left
behind him in any country, says the
Macon News.
“A diaphanous fabric, a sesamoid and
unnumbered strands.of gold;” might be
used to express Rudyard Kipling’s
phrase luetgertically.
The Tribune’s protest against the
misuse of the title "colonel” has been
republished with approving comments
by the Augusta Herald and the At
lanta Journal.
“The Lady or the Soap Grease?”
would be an appropriate title for the
story of the trial of Luetgert, if it
should ever be put in book form,
says an exchange.
The Macon papers seem to have had
fewer ideas than the sub-committee did
originally in the settlement of the con
vict problem. It is the same way with
the Columbus papers.
What did the Buzzard
Say to the Crow,
’Taint a goin’
To rain no more. *
Seems to be applicable to North
Georgia.
Wonder if the crazy editor of the
Charleston News and Courier handles
the New Orleans Picayune and Atlan
ta Constitution with tongs? How does
he dare to open one in his delirium
tremens of lunacy?
“This seems to be a great year for
Georgia mayors to be talked of for
Georgia governors,” says an exchange
The Tribune ha° entered Mayor King
and stands by him.
General Gordon has had to cancel
his engagement to lecture at Bain
bridge on Oct. 22. He has been in
colsultation with specialists in New
York and he wires to the lyceum bu
reau: “Make no more engagements.
My health is so broken that I will
probably have to cancel all October
and November engagements. Have
lest over 40 pounds of flesh. Strength
gone from overwork.”
Rome's Commercial Supremacy.
The Tribune publishes elsewhere a
striking official statement showing
Rome's commercial supremacy.
The test given is the best index to
show the actual business of a com
munity.
Rome according to the number of
solid ears of freight received outranks
Coluipbus, while that city has the
larger population. The number of
carloads of freight received by Rome
during the month of August accord
ing to the official reports of the
Southeastern car service association
compiled for The Tribune by Mr.
Benjy 8. Barker was 904 while Colum
bus had 803 and poor little Athens
357.
Rome now ranks fifth among thecities
of the State of Georgia and is just be
hind Augusta. This shows what a
magnificent trade is attracted by
Rome’s wide awake merchants.
Our shipments of freight also make
a splendid showing. Our twenty
manufactories with aggregated capi
tal of over three million are ship
ping goods to all sections of this coun
try and to some foreign lands.
Rome is the commercial queen of a
rich section, and to its size is the
best and most prosperous city in all
the land. 1
Pick The Cotten,
The cotton fields of North Georgia
are opulent in their mimic snow.
Along the lines of the railway sys
tems from Atlanta to Chattanooga
and from Carrollton to the state line
the fields are white. It seems to us
that the dry and sunshiny fall weather
has caused the cotton to open very
rapidly—faster than it could be picked.
But we would urge the farmers of
North Georgia to gather their cotton
as fast as possible. They need not
market it until aiter Christmas, or
until they get ready. But pick it out.
The quality of the staple marketed
so far is of a very high grade. If the
cotton is allowed to remain in the
fields until the autumn rains fall it is
liable to become stained and bring
several dollars less per bale.
We have never seen the cotton
fields of North Georgia whiter, and it
behooves our farmers to bend every
energy toward getting it picked out.
Don’t delay. It will mean thousands
of dollars to this section to gather the
cotton before it is damaged.
The Labor Vote,
The labor vote carries nearly all the
elections in this country. Some people
are inclined to sneer and depreciate
its importance, but what we state is a
fact.
While business, or professional men
are so engaged as to care little about
politics the workingman always casts
his ballot. Whenever there is an
election you will find all the laboring
men at the polls. Others may stay
away but the workingmen is always
there, and hence his great influence in
national and state politics.
Those people in Georgia who are
counting on the settlement ol the con
vict problem without consulting the
wishes of the laboring vote are doing
that class an injustice. They have a
right to be heard upon this subject.
They will demand that the convicts
be employed at some occupation that
comes least into conflict with free labor.
Resolutions might be adopted by them
as follows:
"Whereas, the labor vote is recog
nized as a great power in our state as
well as in our national elections; and
"Whereas, the State of Georgia is
planning to dispose of the convict
question to the best interest; therefore,
be it
“ResolVed (1) That we request ot>r
legislators to take care and caution in
deciding upon the several plans before
them, and that we -demand that they
adopt the one coming least in conflict
with free labor.,
“Resolved (2) That we request our
legislators to adopt such p'ans as will
work as many felony convicts as pos
sible on our roads, and that the re
mainder be placed a t farm work, rais
ing such products as sea island cotton
etc., as will come least in conflict with
the honest and industrious farmer and
laborer, and settling the convict
problem for the happiness of human
ity and glory of Georgia.”
It is very certain „bat in the con
vict problem the wishes of the labor
vote is going to be considered by our
wise legislators. In yesterday’s At
lanta Constitution appears the follow
ing:
“With organized labor on the one
side fighting to keep the convicts in
idleness and the taxpayers on the
other fighting to be relieved of the
burden of supporting the criminal
classes, the question has always been,
and still is. one which persistently
defies satisfactory settlement. It is
not to be wondered at, therefore, that
the Georgia legislature, after twenty
years’ relief from the embarrassment
of dealing with her convicts, is now
torn up with the conflicting views of
’ a score of members, each possessed of
the best plan to remedy the existing
evil. “
We do not believe that organized
THE ROME TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1897.
labor in Georgia will make any fight
to keep the convicts i.n idleness, but
that they will ask that the criminal
classes be employed at some work
whieb cofues least in competition with
free labor.
Hemming in The Fever, • -
The United States government is
wisely taking every precaution to hem
in the yellow fever and keep it from
spreading.
The government quarantine at the
line between Georgia and Alabama
was established sometime ago. The
Tennessee and Arkansas authorities
took it upon themselves to prohibit
anybody from the infected districts
coming into their domain The latest
move of the United States government
is take charge of the quarantines at
these points, and appoint its own in
spectors of trains. In -this way the
government keeps track of al) travel
lers from the infected regions. On
each passenger train entering and
departing from Chattanooga one of
the government inspectors asks each
passenger to show his, or her health
certificate and stamps it with a little
rubber stamp be carries in his pocket.
If a traveller has no certificate he
must give evidence that he has not
been in the infected region within the
limit which is twenty days.
While the fever keeps spreading in
New Orleans, Mobile, Edwards and
other infected points there is not
much danger of its getting out through
the rigid quarantine of the govern
ment.
GEORGIA'S GREAT PROBLEM/
What the Editors of the Newspapers
are Saying About it
' (Augusta Chronicle)
The penitentiary question continues
to fill space in the newspapers, and will
doubtless be the most important question
before the next legislature.
No Fever on Islands,
(Dr. T, S. Hopkins in Thomasville Times)
The island always has been and is
still one of the healthiest on the entire
southern coast. Malaria, that great oc
topus whose arms are ever open to em
brace <he northern man and the up-coun
try Georgian, is a bugaboo. A case of
yellow fever has never been known on
the island. I assert without fear of sue
cesssful contradiction that for every
death from malarial fever on Sapelo.
they have in upper Georgia one hundred
from typhoid fever. From this island
escape without boats is impossible. Four
or five mounted men to patrol the west
shoie would prevent the procunmce of
boats and render escape impossible. One
general hospital centrally located would
be all sufficient, and the chief physician,
instead of monthly visits to many hospi
tals, could do the work every day and
better understands the condition of the
sick, and the principal keeper, like the
chief physician, could make the daily
instead of monthly inspections of tjie
camp" Financially, in my judgment as
an old coast planter, the purchase of
Sapelo by the state as a convict farm
would prove a paying investment.
Every convict able to work, at the low
est calculation, would make 2 bales of
sea island cotton of 300 pounds each.
Suppose we had 1,500 convicts at work.
This would give the state 3,000 bales of
sea island cotton, which at the estimate
of 12c per pound, would be $72 per bale,
would pay into the state treasury an
nually SIOB,OOO exclusive of the syrup,
corn, potatoes and vegetables raised for
the support of the convicts Objections
have been made to the water. The
same objection exists to the water on
all of our islands. This objection can be
removed by artesian wells. On Sapelo,
and anywhere else on the coast, artesian
wells can be made from 450 to 500 feet
deep, furnishing a bountiful flow of
pure water, for $350. Our brave gover
nor, in spite of opposition tinctured with
mercenary rather than merciable mo- I
tives, has determined that the lease sys
tem shall cease. If farming is substitu
ted, I know of no section or locality
where for the convict and benefit of the
work could be more successfully done
than on Sapelo island.
This Scheme Died Aborning.
(Savannah News)
The probabilities are that the legisla
tu-e would make short work of any
proposition looking to the acquisition by
the state of the Dade county coal mines
for the penitentiary establishment. If
private owners working the convicts un
der lease, could not make anything out
of the property, it is extremely difficult
to undestand how the state could make
the property pay working the convicts
upon it. It is proposed that the convicts
shall'be treated more mercifully under
state management than they were under
I ho j esseos.
Insanity as a Defense,
Insanity in these degenerate days is
so often brought forward as a defense
for murder that it no longer excites com
ment or attracts attention. As a rule it
is appealed to as the last resort of an
attorney who sees no other way to save
his client’s neck.
Os late the insanitv plea, however,
has been introduced into other criminal
trials, often with success. If a man
may commit murder while insane, why
may he not steal embezzle or abscond
under the same conditions? In Eau Claire
the other day a jury acquitted a prisoner
charged with embezzlement on the
, grounds that at the time he committed
the crime he was insane and not re-
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bought so low. Our entire stock was purchased before the ad- I
vance in prices and we pr< pose to sell I
Clothing, Hals, Underwear. Shirts and Hosiery ’
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sults, therefore we prefer not to.advertise rather than advertise fakes.
Our Entire Stock Was Never in Better Shape.
Counters and shelves loaded down with new, fresh, clean desirable
goodsi bought right and priced right- NO OUT THROAT BUSINESS
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makes. Boys’ and Childrens’ school and dress suits in Double-brested [
suits, vestee suits and Junior suits.
BIGGEST STOCK OF HATS IN NORTH GEORGIA I
On one side of our store the shelving is filled with nothing but 1
Hats and Caps from front to back. Full Tine of Knox and Stexson hats
Our stock of Furnishing goods is the biggest and best selected in the
city. Big line of Shirts Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Sus
penders, £ & W. Collarsand Cuffs, Manhattan Shirtsand Shaw Knit
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you money.
J, B. WATTERS 4 SON,
The Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
sponsible for his actions, although he
recovered immediately afterward.
Such an acquittal as this imposes a
severe strain upon public credulity. It
is not without precedent, ’however,
both in fiction and in fact. The author
of “The Breadwinners” saves one of his
characters by such a verdict, and a Chi
cago jury a few years ago acquitted a
woman indicted for murderous assault
on the “temporary insanity” plea.
During the Guiteau trial medical ex
perts testified that almoet every man is
insane in some degree on certain topics.
Sanity or insanity, according to that
view, is merely a matter of degree. If a
man’s aberration be slight he is con
sidered sane; if it be noticeable he is
called a crank; if it becomes pronounced
he is classed as a lunatic. The Guiteau
experts also asserted that a man may be
insane upon a certain topic and sane
upon all others, and also that he may be
insane one'day and sane the next.
It will be seen at a glance that this
furnishes a fine field for the jug
gler. If the Eau Claire case may be re
garded as an idication of the present
trend of criminal prosecutions may we
not expect to see the pickpocket of the
future escape conviction on the ground
that the sight of his victim’s purse
threw him into a fit of temporary in
sanity?—Chicago Times-Herald.
A Nashville man wants a national
quarantine to keep yellow fever out of
the country.
Ruskin,
Painter in words, on whose resplendent page
Caught from the palette of .the'sevenhued
bow
The colors of our English Turner glow,
Silver of silent stars, the storm’s red rage.
The spray of mountain streams, rock* gray
with age.
Gold of Athena, white of Alpine snow.
Cool green of forests, blue of lakes below,
And sunset-crimsoned skies—O seer and
sage,
Crowned with wild olive, fine of sense and
sight.
In they prophetic voice, through work, trade*
strife.
The stoues cry out: ‘ Byjtruth the nations
live,
And by injustice die. “Be thy weights right,
Thy measures true. These be the lamps that
givi
The way of beauty and the path of life,”
—R. R. Bowker, in the Century.
C. B Goetchius has moved his of/
ficefrotn the King Building to the
Western Union Telegraph office in
the Armstrong Hotel. See him for
Life Fire or Accident Insurance. His
companies are among the best,
'Phone No. 169.
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