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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES. - Editor.
OFFICE-NO. 887 BROAD STREET, UP
STAIRS. TELEPHONE 73.
Souvenir
, and . *
Trade Edition
OF
The Rome Tribune
Will be issued in
OCTOBER.
y. This issue of The Tribune
j 'A will be one of the best yet
printed; will be handsomely
J KI illustrated and will contain
the choicest specially written
! articles (in addition to all the
news f can b e P re P
The superiority of Rome as
a trade center, its prosperity,
past history and the present
attractions and advantages
of Rome, Floyd County and
North Georgia will be set
forth,
Descriptive, Statistical.
Industrial and Biographical,
Watch for it. No labor will
be spared to make the
Souvenir and Trade Edition
of The Tribune the finest
ever issued here and a credit
to Rome and North Georgia.
Advertisers should endeavor to get
copy in as early as possible to get
their advertisements artistically set
and properly placed
12 PAGES.
The weather has taken a fall.
Harrison talks for Tracy for mayor.
The Dalton gang should be fully pros
and brought to justice at all cost.
Another comet has been discovered.
It is a real bird, not an Andre pigeon.
Cotton continues acting the fool.
It went down eight points yesterday.
One of those fascinating Japanese
girls caught Sir Edwin Arnold after
all. _
In spite of Gen. Tracy’s piteous
song, “Mr. Tom Cat, turn me loose. ”
Platt remains obdurate.
The Shoo Fly editions of the Ma
con News continue to be the popular
paper with middle Georgia trading
people.
Says the LaGrange Reporter: “Co
education is not necessary and we do
not believe it would be successful in
Georgia.”
The government armor board is in
Birmingham. We hope they will be
convinced that it is the best place for
Uncle Sam's big plant.
Acworth is making a strong effort
to build a cotton mill. We hope the
enterprising town will succeed. It is
the best investment they can make.
The death of Chas. A. Dana, of the
New York Sun, removes the last of
the great editors. He ranked with
Horace Greeley and the Elder Ben
nett.
Some of the Georgia papers are
again advocating a board of pardons.
What is needed is more carrying out
of convictions. —Brunswick Advertis
er. This is a most just comment.
Not a man'engaged in the mob mur
der at Urbana, 0., has been indicted.
Notone of the criminal who lynched
several men, chiefly on suspicion of
being burglars, near Versailles, Ind.,
has been arrested. Those towns are
not in the south.
A Kentucky orator sums up the
financial question in the following
poetical stvle:
God inad * bees,
And bees made honey,
God made man
And man made money.
That ought to settle this great
national disturbance. —Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
The Tribune observes that Colum
bus has not answered yet. No, Col.
ambus has no desire to “make Rome
howl.’’—Columbus Ledger. Alright.
We will continue to claim that Rome
ranks fifth commercially among the
cities of Georgia. Columbus is afraid
to make a show down.
Strange Ideas of a Great Novel,
The public library of Columbus, 0.,
is the latest institution to put “Les
Mi-ierables” under the ban. The li
brarian states that, hereafter he would
only let the work out to persons of
mature age. He does not thing it im
proper, or too realistic, but considers
that its character justifies caution.
Commenting on the cruisade against
this great novel the Macon Telegraph
says:
Almost any movement which tends
to keep out of our public libraries
books which have the taint of lubricity
is to becommended. There is s great
deal of literature, now placed within
the reach of the young which ought
|o be extirpated. The minds of our
boys and girls are in constant danger
of contamination and every considera
tion of good morals demands that they
be protected by the exclusion of fouj
works not only from the public libra
ries, but from the book stalls every
where. But while all this is true, we
do not see why the line should be
drawn against /‘Les Miserables,” the
master work of a master mind. While
it is a novel, it is also a history and a
philosophy. It preaches charity. It
reads to all society the lesson of its
own shortcomings. It shows the faults
as well as the virtues of human law.
It speaks of man’s inhumanity to man.
It proclaims the gospel of the rights
'of man. All sorts and conditions of
men. from the greatest to the hum
blest, are in their true and living col
ors. The book is the work of one who
had a clear insight into the hearts of
his fellow mortals and who saw in the
epochal events of the world the oper
ation of the Divine hand. It is true
that among the multitude of charac
ters who are made to appear in the
course of the narrative, are some who
represent the degraded elemehts of
society, but we do not see why this
fact should be regarded as affording
reason for shutting out the book from
any library. The truth is that “Les
Miserables’’ is not within the com
prehension nor does it appeal to the
taste of the very young. It is rarelj’
ever read until the reader is able to
lay hold of and to appreciate its
philosophy and its moral. Shakes
peare is far more objectionable than
Hugo, from the point of view taken
by the librarians who are throwing
“Les Miserables” out of their lists. It
is rather the duty of parents and
teachers to direct the reading of their
children and pupils and to see that it
is regulated according to years and
their ability to understand. But to
eliminate Hugo or Shakespeare or
Eliot from a library would be alto
gether an error, and to put those
great names under ban is to do the
child an actual injury.
Business in The South,
The Philadelphia Ledger, in com
menting on the revival of business in
the South, says: “There are many
reasons for believing that the south
ern states are destined to form one
of the most flourishing sections of
the country. In salubrity of climate,
fertility of soil, natural mineral re
sources, contiguity to market and
facility of transportation, they possess
positive advantages. The depression
which settled upon the Southern
people at the termination of the war
has been dissipated, and with the aid
of northern capital and the assistance
of skilled immigration from the more
populous states the south faces the fu
with courage and confidence. Those
of pessimistic mind who have been
inclined to question the revival of
business and the dawn of an era of
new prosperity will obtain a clearer
insight of the industrial situation by
reading the interesting and valuable
communication ‘in another column
from onr well-informed Washington
correspondentjConcerning the revival
of trade in the South. Railroad offi
cials admittedly are in a position to
judge with accuracy of trade condi
tions. The movement ot freight, the
interchange of commodities, passes
directly beneath their notice, and any
quickening of industry or stagnation
in business is instantly felt by the
common carriers of the country, who
may be described, in effect, as the
visible clearing bouse of commerce.’’
The south is on the broad road to
prosperity and while it has been aided
in developmental processes by north
ern capital and skilled immigration,
th. piereti; and advance
ment is more the result of the energy
and push of she southern people than
otherwise.
Use of Money in Elections,
In his address at the Brooklyn day
exercises at the Nashville exposition
Mr. St. Clair McKelway, speaking of
the immense sums used in manipu
lating election contests, said:
“They surely were not small and
probably were stupendous. A year
has passed, and no disclosure' of
amounts or of methods has been
made on either side. Such disclosure
has been asked for many a time and
has been promised more' than once.
The promise, however, has been
ignored or forgotten. I do not charge,
TAB ROME TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1». 1897.
for I cannot prove, that all the ex
penditures were not wholly legitimate.
But we all know that the volume of
expenditures attributed to each side,
and believed by the people at large to
be attributed, amounted tb a disas
trous and deplorable and dangerous
factor <n ous moral life. Elections
should not be auctions. Campaigns
should be collisions of ideas alone.
They should not be contests between
cash-boxes or matching of check
books or battles of exchequ rs. ”
In commenting on this the Chicago
Record says: Mr. McKelway hits upon
an evil which is growing steadily with
every election. The occasional clamor
for a .publication of the party books
for a disclosure us to sums collected
and disbursed always proves unavail
ing. Thepublic is asked to take it for
granted that the moneys are given be
cause of a disinterested loyalty to
party and are paid out “legitimately.”
Yet there are constant charges and
counter-charges that levies are made
on certain interested monopolies and
that these monopolies contribute
freely. Why do they contribute?
Why. unless with the distinct under
standing that for every dollar paid
out they are to receive a dollar’s
worth of benefit in return? And how
is this benefit to be received save in
the manipulation of law and govern
ment for the special benefit of these
monopolies? The inference that the
law and the administration of it be
come matters of barter a»d sale is log
leal and just.
It is time that urgent steps betaken
to correct and abuse which threatens
to make politics the leverage through
which moneyed interests secure legis
lation favorably to themselves, re
gardless of how it affects the people.
Sooner or later the great parties will
find the people rebelling at this oli
garchical control and demanding
after each election that the parties
using campaign funds make a full and
honest accounting as to the source
from which the money is derived and
the ways In which it is used. As yet
no party is courageous enough to in.
corporate such a plank in its platform
or to endeavor to secure laws which
will make illegitimate campaign finan
ciering impossible.
But how long will it be before the
■people began to ask that elections be
freed from the suspicion of being very
largely a contest of moneyed inter
ests, in which the public, if it votes
at all, can only play into the hands of
one or the other?
GOV. ATKINSON'S PLAN,
What the Newspapers of the State are
Saying on the Convict Question,
(Augusta Herald)
Governor Atkinson has given out ad
vance sheets of that portion of his mes
sage dealing with the convict question.
The matter is of sufficient importance
to lend peculiar interest to the plan
which the governor will recommend,
and he treats the subject in a careful
straightforward manner.
This advance statement of the gover
nor’s plan is one of the most important
matters that have come before the pub
lic in some time.
Conservative Views
(Valdosta Tiruea)
The views which the governor expres
ses in this document show that he has
not been caught in the trap which
was set for him. Instead of revolutionary
action, such as was urged upon him, he
puts himself very well in line with the
ideas that have been advanced by the
Times and other papers that have stood
opposed to the wild, if not insane, theor :
ies of the sentimentalists.
The conservative spirit with which
the governor meets the convict question
may be judged by in regard to working
the convicts upon the public roads.
Will Have Much Weight,
(LaGrange Reporter)
The able menner in which he handles
the question clearly demonstrates that
he has given much time and study to
this important measuure and his mes
sage to the legislature will no doubt have
much weight with that body in the
final disposition of the convicts.
The Unsettled Question,
(Brunswick Advertiser)
With all the plans that have been sag.
gested, followed, by consistent .objec
tions, with reference to the penitentiary,
system, the State of Georgia is now
about as far from a conclusion as when
the question was first sprung. Even
those who have been disposed to urge
the employment of convicts on public
farms and public roads, are just as easily
persuaded to doubt the practicability of
their favored schemes.
Paramount argument is advanced
against every system that has been ad
vanced, until those who are best posted,
have given up in despair, and propose a
postponement of the consideration of a
permanent plan. •
Under these circumstances it seems
proper that other ideas may be advanced,
and in doing so, .all sentimentality
should be ignored.
This will necessitate a state peniten
tiary, and its probable operation as
a mauufactu-ing Enterprise, under cor
porate or private investment. The con
victs of Tennessee make wagons and
agricultural implements, harness, etc.
The Massachusetts convicts compose the
operatives of the Bay State Shoe Com
pany. Other states do like wise The
Overcoats, a. ; Hals, Shirts,
Men's Suits, Underwear,
Boys Suits, Hosiery,
Children's Suits _ Neckwear.
We Divide
Perhaps you think that’s a flight of artistic imagination! It isn’t. The artist is right
as far as he goes, but he doesn’t go quite far enough. When you split a thing
in two it doesn’t always happen that you cut it exactly in the center, and we
are not dividing our profits in the middle. On the contrary the division is
overwhelmingly in favor of the purchaser. Our entire stock of
Mens, Boys and Childrens Soils, Overcoats-
Underwear, Shirts and Hosiery.
For the fall and winter was purchased before the advance in prices, and w$ are going;
to sell it cheaper than it can be bought anywhere in Rome.
HEitSL Hats,
We own the biggest stock of Hats of any retail store in North Georgia. This is a big;
assertion, nevertheless it is true. Full line of Knox stiff Hats and Stetson
soft Hats. Our stock of
FURNISHING GOODS.
Is the newest and best selected in the city. Every article new, fresh and up-to-date.
Big line of Shirts, Neckwear, Underwear, Hosiery. Cloves, Suspenders. E. &
"W. Collars and ctffs, Manhattan Shirts; Eclipse Shirts and Shaw knit hosiery.
Come to see us, your call will be appreciated and we will save you some money.
J, B, WATTERS <£ SON,
Leaders of Low Prices.
242 and 244 BROAD ST. - - ROME, GA.
products of these are largely sold in
Georgia. Why should not Georgia
enter competition with them. This
would dispose of a large class of convicts
of different grades. On the same prem
ises, but isolated, the females could be
employed, making clothes for the con
victs. Another institution, as a de
formatory for youthful convicts, with a
farm department. could be operated with
a view to growing products for the state
charities, or for the penitentiary. In
this department could be included the
aged and infirm, also isolated.
This is a plan least encumbered with
objection, and affording the state the
ultimate of control. It is the best su
gestio 1 for the tax payers.
Let Her Come-
(Atlanta Commercial)
Now that Chattanooga has purified
herself from the slime of republicanism
and takes her rightful place among the
proud sisterhood of democratic cities,
we withdraw our objections against the
readjustment of the state line that might
possible throw her in Georgia. We are
now prepared to welcome -her with a
glad heart and open arms.
The'Mad Wind Blows,
The mad wind blows a little space,
Then sinks into a breath and dies;
In meadows where its path we trace.
And 'mid the corn the poppies rise.
A little space the sunbeam falls,
And warms and brig-htens ere the night;
And apples glow on orchard walls.
And roses bloom where it was light.
So wheu we pass into the dark.
And think to leave no record here.
Some friend unknown, perchance, may mark
The blank, and hold out memory dear—
Someone may bear with radiant face
The so«g we sang a little space.
—Nimmo Christis.
Still they Gome
AT LESTER’S
New Goods.
Calibrnia L’ma Beano,
N. N. State Marrow Beans.
California Seeded Raisins.
Malaga Cluster Raisins.
Cleaned Currants
CRACKERS.
I have just received fine lot of
crackers, cakes and wafers,
B, S. LESTER,
Old Postoffice cor. /ROME, GA
O’Neill Manufacturing Co.
MANUFACTURERS OF
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ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK.
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we sell everything needed in house-build
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Shingles and Laths, Glass, Builders’ Pauer
and Material-
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We take contracts for all kinds of build
ings, large or small.
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