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Frost, Texas, Nov. 23, 1897.
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Dictated by B. H, J.
Has winter weather really set in?
The press of Georgia strongly favors
the Australian ballot system.
“A Texas editorial greeting: “Good
Scorning, have you been shot at?”
The newspapers are rapping the leg
islature for not acting on the convict
question.
What is the matter with the Bruns
wick Times? It only comes to us semi
occasionally.
The Macon News and the Birming
ham News observed thanksgiving day
by taking holiday.
‘‘The day of tbankgiving is over,but
we have much to be thankful for al]
the year,” says the Augusta Herald.
Representative Slaton’s commission
will decide that? Chattanooga is in
Georgia. But can they get the goods?
The Dalton Citizen wants congress
to prohibit the sending of ten cent
novels through the mails as second
class matter.
The trade edition of the Ghatta
nooga News contained twenty eight
pages, and was filled with interesting
contributions.
The Shorter college girls have set
tled the question of co education by
their debate, of course. Their de
cision is against it.
Mrs. Kate E. Johnson, of Norton,
Kan., has been elected county treas
urer on the republican ticket. She
owns two good farms, and manages
them profitably.
The Thomasville Times sensibly
philosophizes that “Georgia wants
fewer, simpler, and plainer laws,
without so many surplus whereases,
' wherefores, and therefores.’’
The Little Rock News, commenting
on an item about a New York girl
kneading bread with her gloves on,
says: “We need bread with onr pants
on; we need bread with our boots on,
and if our subscribers in arrears don’t
pay up pretty soon we shall need
bread without anything on.”
One of our exchanges the other day
said that a one cent daily paper could
not succeed in the south. The Bir
mingham Ledger is a refutation of
'this. It is a bright, ably edited and
newsy paper with 3,535 subscribers, j*
is better than a majority of the five
cent papers.
Only two newspapers in the south
oppose the national quarantine on the
grounds that state’s rights would be
infringed, and even these are probably
protesting simply for the purpose of
attracting attention. Practically the
entire south, and, so tar as we know,
the entire nation is in favor of the
proposed measure.
The October railroad earnings of 120
railroads, operating 100,000 miles of
road, were $5,000,000 better than those
of September, and nearly 10 per cent
greater than those of October of last
year. The September railroad earn
ings were 14 per eent better than those
of September of last year, and the
August 12 1-2 per cent better than
.those of the corresponding month of
1896.
Our Pearls and Pearl Buttons.
The pearl discoveries of North Geor
gia and this section have attracted a
great deal of attention. A number
of the pearls have been set in pins and
are being worn with pride by Roman
ladies and gentlemen. They make
beautiful pieces of jewelry, and would
make pretty souvenirs to be sold to
visitors to our eity.
Another use to which the brilliant
hued mother of pearl mussel shells
may be used is in making pearl but
tons. A Chattanooga paper says:
“ WANT PEARL SHELLS—Secretary
Goulding, of the Chamber of Com
merce, has received an inquiry from a
manufacturer of pearl buttons in
Amsterdam. N. Y., about pearl shells
along the Tennessee river. The com
pany is [desirous of obtaining a num
ber of shells from this section.”
If some of our pearl hunters should
write te some of the pearl button man
ufacturers of Anderson, N. ¥., or else
where they might find a good market
for profitable use of shells. There is
no doubt, but that the mussel shell a
found in the streams of North Geor
gia would make a high grade of pearl
buttons.) ■
For Orderly Elections,
A very strong demand is being made
by the newspapers.of Georgia for the
adoption of the Australian,ballot sys
tem in Georgia. The bill now before
the legislature can be amended if all
its provisions are not what our legis
lators think Georgia needs. But let
us adopt a plan of ballot reform. The
secret ballot system wouldjnot‘be ob
jected to by any man favorable to
honest elections after he saw its work
ing. The Americus Herald states the
case well when it says:
“If the Georgia law makers could
spend an election day in any city where
the Australian ballot system prevails
it would not be thirty days before the
system would be in effect in this state.
As it is now all is push, pull, crowd
around the polls, tabs kept as far as
possible on each vote cast, the whole
thing done in no less than a disorderly
manner. How different it is in other
states. No one, except voters and the
managers allowed within fifty yards
of the booth. The voter goes into the
booth, quietly makes up his ticket and
deposits it. No crowd, no push, no
confusion, and hence no pulling a pur
chased ballot up and personally su
perintending the depositing of it. If
this state wants to purify the ballot
it can only be done by the Australian
system or one similar to it.’’
We hope to see the Georgia legisla
ture take action on this matter at this
session. For several years the ques
tion has been agitated in Georgia and
the people want it.
Boycotts and Blacklisting,
Recently the United States court of
appeals at St. Louis held that a boy
cott by labor against capital is a crim
inal conspiracy. A few days ago an
Illinois state court decided that
“blacklisting” by capital against labor
is unlawful, and awarded a blacklisted
railroad conductor $12,666.33 damages.
Noting these decisions the New York
World says: “If the boycott were
sound in law, then the blacklist wonld
also be soon 1. But these courts, deal
ing out even justice, have declared
the truth that blacklist and boycott
are equally odious, equally hostile to
democratic institutions and ideas. It
is fortunate that these two decisions
came so closely together. The object
lesson they present will not be lost
upon either labor or capital.” It will
be noted that the decision against the
boycott comes from the federal court
and the decision against blacklisting
from a state court.
Solving the Convict Problem,
The convict problem in Georgia is
of so much interest now that the fol
lowing from the Chicago Times-Herald
is to the point:
If New York has not solved the
convict labor problem it has certainly
come nearer to it than any state in the
union. The state of New York fur
nished this country the first practical
solution of the problem of caring for
the insane when in 1890 it passed the
“state care bill,” providing state care
for all the dependent insane, taking
them entirely out of the bands of
county officials and placing the hos
pitals under the control of the state
commission of lunacy, thereby re
moving them safely beyond the range
of politics and politicians. It may be
that the distinction of providing the
only practical solution of the convict
labor problem is also reserved for New
York.
The new law forbiding the prison
authorities to sell the products of the
state prison convicts went into effect
last January. Three thousand Jeon
victs were suddenly made idle at Sing
Sing, at Auburn and at Dannemora.
Before this law went into effect the
convicts had been kept at healthful
employment in the manufacture of
goods which were sold in competition
with the products of free and
thus the state prisons were partly self
sustaining.
The naw law not only declared that
THE ROME TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1897.
no article manufactured by a con
vict should be sold, but it placed
upon the prison authorities the obli
gation to keep the convicts from go
ing insane by giving them some
thing to do. The section was not io
be construed so as to prevent the
legislature from providing that con
victs might work for the state and
that the produets of their labor might
be disposed of to the state.
The commission of prisons met the
crisis promply and wisely. They
found >20,000 persons in the hospitals
tor the insane who needed shoes,
clothing and bedding. There were
also 12,000 members of the national
guard who required new uniforms
annually; in the minor charitable in
stitutions of the state they also found
8,000 persons who needed shoes, cloth
ing and bedding. The 3,000 convicts
were set to work making these articles
for the state. Ab a result, there has
been a great transformation in the
penal institutions of the state. Sing
Sing resembles a vast industrial es.
tablishmeni, with sboeshops, tailor
shops and furniture factories for the
manufacture of desks for the public
schools of the state.
In addition to this work art classes
were formed, limestone cutters were
put to work on stones for state build
ings, and a big brush factory was
started for making scrubbrushes and
brooms for the state institutions.
The experiment has been an ac
knowledged success. The state say g
the product of the toil of convicts
must not be sold; humanity says the
convicts must not be idle. If the
prison commission of New York has
devised a scheme for enabling the
state to reap the fruits of their pro
ductive energy without menacing or
jeopardizing the interests of free labor
it has made a long stride in humane
and progressive penology which other
states will do well to follow.
WHIPS ARE CRACKING.
And now they say it will take an
extra session of the legislature to settle
the convict question. Our law makers
have got to solve the problem, and they
might as well quit dodging it and get
down to business at once.—Valdosta
Times.
The legislature is wrangling over
the convict question. It is given out
from Atlanta that in case the body ad
adjourns without adopting plate, with
a view to an extra session, j the gover
nor may refuse to call the extra session.
He thinks the work can and should be
done at the present session-—Thomas
ville Times.
An extra session could be i VOld.'d if
the members would consent to drop
their purely local bills until the convict
question was disposed of. It is the most
important matter by far before the leg
islature, and ought to take precedence
of everything else. If the local bills
were put off until the- latter part of the
session, the determination to have a
prompt settlement of the convict ques
tion would be much greater. Instead of
practically losing Mondays and Satur
days because of the difficulty in getting
a quorum on those days, work would be
carried on vigorously every day in the
week—Savannah News.
“You do not, then, believe an extra
session will be necessary?” I asked Gov
ernor Atkinson .
“I certainly do not. It will all be
settled witbin the next few days. If the
present general assembly cannot* decide
the matter within the'fifty days allotted,
it would hardly be worth while to call
an extra session, but it would be better
to leave the question to the people for a
new deal altogether.”
These remarks of the governor throw
more upon the situation. He . evi
dently believs that the whole problem
will be solved within the next week or
so, and that the new law will conform
in all important particulars to the
recommedations of his message. He
spoke with entire confidence.—lnter
view with Governor Atkinson in Macon
Telegraph. *
Ode to Autumn,
1 saw old autumn in the misty morn
Stand like silence, listening
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing
Into his hollow ears from woods forlorn,
Nor lowly hedge, nor solitary thorn;
Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright,
With tangled gossamer that feel by night,
Pearling his coronet oi golden corn.
Where is the pride of summer—the green
prime—
The many, many leaves all twinkling?
Three
On the moss’d elm; three on the naked lime
Trembling—and one upon the old oak tree!
Where is the Dryad’s immortality?
Gone Into mouraful cypress and dark yew,
Or wearing the long g oomy winter tarough
In lhe smooth holly’s green eternity.
—Thomas Hood.
Alfred Harper's Letters,
(Madison Madisonian)
Alfred S. Harper, cue of the brightest
young newspapermen of the state press,
is now making love to the black-eyed
Seuoritas of the far West. He is testing
the healthgiving properties of that salu
brious dime, and byway of parenthe
ses is contributing some charming let
ters to his home paper, The Rome
Tribune. He is now in Santa Fe.
MISS CAIN'S CANDIDACY,
Miss Edna Cain, of Chattooga county,
is an applicant for thfe position of assis
tant state librarian, and if appointed,
would doubtless fill the plaee with
universal satisfaction. —Cartersville
Courant American.
It affords The Tinies much pleasure
to give its indorsement to the candidacy
of Miss Edna Cain for the position of
assistant state librarian. She is one of
the most competent and deserving
young ladies in Georgia. She would
make a most excellent official and her
appointment would be most acceptable
to the people of the whole state. —Cal
houn Times.
Miss Edna Gain, of the Summerville
News, is an applicant for the position
of assistant state librarian, and she
has the hearty and earnest support of
the North Georgia press. Miss Cain
is a charming and accomplished young
lady, and no better selection could be
made by Mr. Brown than this worthy
and deserving young woman.—Cedar
town Standard.
Miss Edna Cain, of Chattooga county,
is a candidate for assistant state libra
rian. and we doubt not she will make a
most formidable competitor. Our rea
son is, because she is a most beautiful
and charming young lady who is highly
accomplished, and we think it wonld
take a hard-hearted member of the
legislature, either married or single, as
well as the crusty old bachelor, to re
sist her bewitching appeals and cast
their vote against her. Miss Edna is a
talented young newspaper writer and
we trust she may be successful in get
ting the position she seeks. She is a
most deserving young lady who is
worthy and is well qualified in every re
peat to make an excellent assistant.
Vote for Miss Edna, boys.—Acworth
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