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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
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The legislators will adjourn about
Dec. 18.
Judge Joel Branham is the ‘‘sphinx
of Georgia. ‘
Will the flirting girls and praying
women prevail?
“The Augusta Beer Campaign” is
what the Macon News calls it.
Evidently there was political trickery
in the reporting of the Savannah poser
players-
Beoause Neal Dow left an estate worth
$450,000 the Savannah Press thinks it
pays to keep sober.
Let Floyd county’s representatives
in the legislature go on record as de
manding the special order —the con
vict bill—every day.
The symposium of citizens of Car
tersville on co-education prepared for
the Courant-American by Miss Marian
Smith was very readable.
All the newspaper men of Georgia
desire to know the full particulars of
the new afternoon million dollar paper
to be started in Atlanta, and Judge
Branham will not say a word.
“What is tile use of paying $1,500 a
day for legislators if they can’t attend
to the questions demanded by the
people, who have to produce the said
dollars?” asks the Americus Herald.
“The convict lease proposition, and
all other phases of,the convict question,
seems to be the mountain that will
not come to the Georgia legislature.
Will they go to the mountain?” asks
the Macon Telegraph.
We suppose many of tbeyoung ladies
now favoring co-education at the
University of Georgia will not favor
it so strongly if they get married be
tween now and the time the legisla
ture passes the bill.
Judge Branham’s friends who have
admired his eloqnence as an orator
will regret to learn that he is dumb
but only on the subject of the new
afternoon paper for Atlanta. Two
mogul locomotives cannot draw him
out.
The Savannah boys who were arrested
in Atlanta for poker playing were un
luckler than they were guilty. Forty
other poker games were going on at the
same time in the Kimball house and at
other places. None of them were caught
up with.
One of the Shorter college girls in
the debate on co education stated
that it would prevail because certain
women were praying for it. Have
these women tired of bossing “poor,
helpless men,’’ and do they seek, to in
fluence a Greater Power? .
Gov- Atkinson'* Position,
The Tribune has held all along
that the legislature should act on the
disposition of the convicts —should
adopt a modified lease system —and
that Gov. Atkinson would not veto
such a measure.
We note that the last issue of the
Newnan Herald and Advertiser, the
home paper of Gov. Atkinson, which
is edited by.Librarian Brown, and the
utterances of which may be taken as
official, says:
.“It is rumored that if the peniten
tiary bill is not disposed of at the pres
ent sitting the governor will call the
legislature together in extra session;
We do not credit this rumor. Gov.
Atkinson has made bis recommenda
tions to the General Assembly, and
pointed out need of some sort of legis
lation on this question. If his recom
mendations are ignored he will proba
bly allow the question to go over until
the next meeting of the legislature,
and thus put the responsibility for in
action where it belongs. ’’
This clearly intimates that Gov. At
kinson 'will not veto any measure the
legislature may enact. He considers
that he has done his duty and will
place the responsibility on the legis
lature where it belongs.
Only about seventeen working days
remain, and the legislature unless it
gets down to work quickly and steadily
on this question will fail to dispose of it.
Every member who fails to give his
support to the settlement of the prob
lem at this session should be consigned
by bis constituents to his political
grave. ■
Best and Cheapest in the World,
The Mills hotel, No 1, in New York
about which The Tribune has spoken
before seems to be a great success.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger writes of it as
follows:
While the social, political and mer
cantile elite were eating the S2O din
ner prepared for them amid Delmon
ico’s palatial environment by the
chamber of commerce, your corres
pondent called at the Mills hotel No.
1, in Bleecker street, to find out how
that enterprise has fared during the
two weeks it has been opened for pub
lie patronage. Dinner here is served
for 15 cents. Tonight it consisted ol
soup, your choice of six meats, two
vegetables, desert and tea or coffee
Personal inspection showed the food
to be of excellent quality, well cooked
and served. The portions are gener
ous! The legerdemain that evolves six
‘‘quarters’ ’ out of a pie does not obtain
here You get a genuine quarter for
your 5 cents The star guest of the
house, “Citizen” George Francis, was
"dining” on one of his 5-cent non
animal food meals when I had finished
my repast, and volunteered to escort
your correspondent through the build
ing, .recalling as he did so many
pleasant personal memories of names
revered in the Ledger office. As has
already been stated in this corres
pondence, rooms in the Mills hotel
cost 20 cents each a night. There are
1500 hundred of them, and for the
past week not only has every one been
taken, but many applicants have
been turned away. The rooms are
small, but neat and inviting. As Mr.
Train said, as be sat on his com
fortable couch in the eighth story,
"You get as good a bed as they have
in the Waldorf, and you don’t have
any charity or philanthropy stuffed
down your throat with it.” Mr. Mills
frankly said he expected to make 4
per cent on his investment and had
gone into the scheme as a purely bus
iness venture. The present outlook is
that be will not be disappointed. The
good-looking character of those to be
seen about the hotel is excellent evi
dence that such an abiding place
must be a very godsend to the man of
decent tastes, but narrow means.
For New Industries,
Mr. Felder of Fulton, introduced
an important measure in the bouse
recently. It was for the purpose of
attracting industrial enterprise to
Georgia andjprovides that all factories
investing $50,000 shall be exempted
from taxation for ten years.
Speaking of the measure, Mr. Felder
said: “Many large cotton factories at
the north are removing root and
branch to the south, The state of
Alabama has exempted those coming
that state from taxation while the
state of North Carolina and other
southern states have passed legisla
tion favorable to them. The result is
that the majority of these enterprise!
are being planted in those states. We
must take every step to induce them
to come here or we will be left in the
lurch in industrial development. I
have;therefore introduced this con
stitutional amendment so that all cot
ton or other factories investing the
sum of fifty thousand dollars in our
state shall be exempt from taxation for
ten years. This applies also to addi
tions to factories already here costing
fifty thousand dollars.”
This measure is one that it seems
should be adopted by Georgia if it is
to keep up with North Carolina and
i Alabama in industrial progress.
i fHE BOMB t'KIBUNE. TOEsJDAY, NOVAMBER 30, 1897.
Postal Savings Banks Needed.
The following letter on the benefits
of postal savings banksis from’Thom
as Burke, a trade unionist in Belfast,
Ireland:
“Os all the reforms now needed in
America, the postal savings bank
should come first. Such an institution
gives absolutely security to the masses
in depositing their savings; it encour
ages thrift; it also gives a permanent
lesson in political- economy: further
more, it creates that true'spirit of in‘
dependence and self respect which it
is impossible to find among a people
under the present system of savings
banks and loan associations. In speak
ing with some of the labor men here
on the subject they have expressed
surprise that you have no postal
banks in America. The., wonder that
such an energetic people should be
without safe places to deposit their
savings. They further said: “Give
the American working people govern
ment security for their deposits and
they will outstrip the world as regards
the amount of their savings.” In this
country nearly every child has an ac
count in the postal banks. This is
taught them in the schools. They buy
stamps with their pennies and place
these stamps on a card. When they
have twelve stamps—that is, 1 shilling
—they open an account in the ‘bank’
and keep their money there until they
are able to work, and it is surprising
to note the amount of their accounts.
For instance, I know of one young
man about 24 years old who has been
saving since childhood. His account
amounts to £I,OOO or $5,000. He is a
compositor. - I could fill a volume on
the benefits of postal savings banks.”
AFTER LEGISLATORS, '
What the State Papers are Saying
About Our Solons,
(Brunswick Advertiser)
It is now manifest that the Georgia
legislature of 1897 has ' found itself
totally unable to deal with a great prob
lem. influenced by political ambition
and fear.
The latest information is.’jo the effect
that a temporary system will be adopted,
leaving the final settlement ’to a more
intelligent or less cowardly body,
It is perhaps well that the matter is
to take this course. There can be no
proper reform of the system without a
central penitentiary, established with a
view to punishment and self sustenance,
through its industrial features, and
where crime, regardless of social and
financial influence, shall be treated
alike.
In the meantime, a . penal farm, for
youthful and decrepit convic*, will be
some advancement.
Settle it This Session,
(Macon Telegraph)
The Telegraph thinks that it is wise
and proper for the members of. the leg
islature to take their time about the con
vict bill. Do not be in too great a hurry,
gentlemen, but do not consider the
propriety, for a moment, of shoving the
matter over to the next legislature. It
would be an unnecessary and disturbing
factor in next year's campaign. Besides
that, the new legislature would convene
only a short time before the present
lease expires, and that fact would bring,
possibly, new complications.
In addition to these considerations,
we hear it hinted on all sides that the
great question of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 lis
t • be fought out, and probably settled
in Georgia next year, in the state, leg
islative and county primaries. It would
be too bad to have an annoying state
issue thus injected Into a local national
fight which is to settle a cause so great.
On account of these things, the mem
bers of the general assembly should
clear the decks so far as possible of all
local issues. What time have we for
Georgia affairs when nations wait upon
the outcome in this state of the greater
issue?
But, seriously, the legislature should
buckle to the question before it, and
solve it.
This is a Roast.
(Lumpkind Advertiser)
The present legislature, is something
Georgia should certainly feel proud
of, “When it adjourns.” They have
done more talking and accomplished
less than any session since 1890. The
convict question, and the State Univer
sity have claimed their attention for
some time a~d no nearer a settlement’
“except in days” than when the house
and senate convened.
God hasten the day, when our leg
islature and senate will be composed of
business men, men who will go there to
work for the best interest of the state
at large, and not with the hope of get
ting in touch with politicians from every
county in the state, who would help
them to become solicitors general, judges
governors and congressmen. There are
men there good and true, but not enough
of them at this time.
Official Law Breakers.
(Macon New?)
Yesterday’s Savannah Morning News
published a decided sensation in the
shape of an Atlanta special telling of
the arrest of certain prominent Savan-‘
nah politicians and office-holders at the
Kimball House, and their subsequent
commitment on the charge of gambling.
Curiously enough the first name given
is that of Hon. W. W. Osborne, the
present solicitor general of the Eastern
circuit. The next name is that of Harry
Willink, commissioner of public works
of the city of Savannah. The third
name is that of H. M. Loften, superin
tendent of the water works. The fourth
man is A. A. Lawrence, attorney for
the Citizens Club. The fifth man is J.
S. .Collin ß , clerk of the city court.
As will be readily seen, it would have
been bard for the Atlanta police, or
even the sleuths of the Forest City, to
have made a haul that would have
contained so many big fish, from a
political point of view. It is the star
quintette of the Citizens Club, one of
the leading political organizations of
Savannah, and these, its representatives,
were in Atlanta lobbying against cer
tain legislation that seeks to protect the
the city of Savannah against public
leeches.
The arrest of these Savannah politi
cians and office-holders is a matter that
deserves more than passing attention.
At least one of their nnmber should be
impeached, as an object lesson for others
of bis kind who prosecute and even per
secute others for the same violation of
law that they are themselves almost
nightly gnilty of.
It is often the case that a solicitor
general whose own morals are not
above reproach becomes the most active
in the prosecution of others no worse,
nor even so guilty as himself. The pub
lic has long winked at this sort of thing,
and it has seldom been a matter for pub
lic comment, but now that a case in
point is up it may be just as well to
warn others of the Bill Osborne type
that the public eye is upon them and
that they may yet be held accountable
to the law and to public opinion.
My Orison,
Thank God for health, for work, for love!
With these, through all the stress of life
We win onr way to heights above,
Serene, tho* knowing much of strife.
Thank God for health, that day by day
We rise lefreshed from slumber sweet,
To strive anew ’till twilight gray
Once more arrests our hurrying feet.
Thank God for w ork ! for duties pressed
Upon our hands by other lives,
Though oft at times dismayed, distressed,
We halt, when duty onward drives.
Thank God for love! Ah! who can tell
The sustenance that frum it flows,
The tenderness we know so well,
The countless blessings it bestows.
Spirits of dawn, bear ye above
My thanks for health, for work and love.
—New Orleans States.
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