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THE ROME TRIBUNE.
W. A. KNOWLES, General Manager.
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TWt,LVb I’fIGE.S
ROME, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 18, 18»4.
Vice-President .A. E. Stevenson is
stumping Illinois.
An Atlanta policeman slept him
self to death. Laudanum.
Dr. Felton’s supporters are mak
ing very httle noise in this part of
the Seventh.
The Southern Democrats will stick
to Hill in New York. Tney always
do their duty.
Li Hung Chang may be a great
Chinaman, but he is feeling rather
yellow just now.
Sorghum, corn, chestnuts and wa
termelons all at the same time.
Great is Georgia!
The Cave Spring Herald continues
to battle for a dummy line from
Borne to that place.
Atlanta is talking about making a
juvenile reformatory out of the Sol
diers' Home building.
Col. T. E. Shumate, of Dalton,
who has many friends in Rome, is
suggested to fill the Supreme Court
vacancy.
Honest John Reece is going to
make a considerable stir in the
Speakership race. 'Keep your eye
oa him.
Savannah has an interesting rate
war between rival street car lines.
The last cut is two rides for one
cent. The citizens never walk a
block now.
Free wool has caused the forma
tion at Kansas City of a company
with $1,000,000 capital to manufac
ture woolen goods. This will be sad
news to McKinleyite calamity howl
ers.—Dayton (O.) Times.
Poor old Dr. Felton. What a
pity he couldn’t spend his last days
in a respectable party. —Thomas-
ville Advertiser.
Don’t bother; he’ll be a Demo
crat and several other things before
he dies.
Capt. John J. Seay when a mem
ber of the Legislature introduced a
bill to tax bachelors over a certain
age. Australia proposes to tax cats.
Is that an indirect way of getting
maidens of uncertain age to help the
government?
The Birmingham Age-Herald, in
commenting upon Floyd’s proposed
bond issue, and the opinion of So
licitor Reeve, says : “If the above
opinion can be relied upon as being
exactly in accordance with law, it
will have a tendency to check for a
time further agitation of the state
bank tax law, for the counties may
proceed at once, under legislative
authority, and go into the money
making business. ‘More money’ is
a popular cry, and here seems to be
the opportunity. Let the stranded
counties of the country accept the
relief at their disposal, save the tax
payers the burden of the pushing
collectors and give them a rest, at
least for a season. Now that cotton
is low, why not let the counties is
sue these little bonds, bearing 4 per
cent, interest, and give the farmers
a year’s credit on their taxes? Why
not issue these bonds, build bridges,
make good roads and give the tax
payers a rest, at least for one year?
Legislators and county' authorities
need not doubt the popularity of
s ich a movement. It would take
like wild fire with the ‘common
masses of the common people.’ ”
WORK FOR MADDOX.
Judge Maddox is going to defeat
Dr. Felton on the 6th of November,
and it is believed by many conserv
ative men that his majority will be
over 5,000. The Tribune has no
fears about the result, but it wishes
to urge the people to be sure that
apathy and overconfidence do not
keep at home any votes. The Sev
enth district did not give a 2,000
majority for the State ticket; this
we think we have satisfactorily ex
plained, but, nevertheless, uneasy
glances have been cast at our dis
trict by people who either do not
understand the situation or pretend
not to understand it.
We can see absolutely no chance
for Dr. Felton, but we insist that no
( feeling of this kind prevent work for
j Judge Maddox as hard as if he were
in danger of defeat. It means ma
terial prosperity to us to bury Pop
ulism under the heaviest possible
majority. As one of Rome’s most
prominent citizens said yesterday:
“It would be a public calamity for
Dr. Felton’s vote to come anywhere
near Judge Maddox.”
Then it behooves all good Demo
crats, and all men who have the in
terests of this section at heart, to
put in their best licks for our pres
ent Congressman. Capital is not
coming to a Populist community or
one threatened with Populism.
MACON’S BIG FAIR.
The people of Macon certainly
deserve credit for the courage they
have displayed in undertaking a
grand exposition this year. A less
energetic and determined people
would have shrunk from such an
undertaking with the hue and cry of
“hard times,” but as in all other
cases of the kind they seem about to
reap the reward of success. Not
content with furnishing the most ex
tensive exposition of the resources
of most of the Southern States and
especially of the State of Georgia,
they have provided special attrac
tions for such as desire to be amused
rather than to be instructed. The
races will be better than were ever
seen on a Georgia track. There has
not been such a tempting list ot
stakes and purses offered to the
horsemen throughout this section as
is presented by the Dixie Interstate
Fair. The wisdom of this liberal
ity has been proven by the great
number of entries in all the races,
among which will be some of the
noted “flyers” of this season’s cam.
paign. When we add these features
to the Midway Plaisance, as pro
duced at the World’s Fair, and the
hundred other attractions, we still
have not said all. Many of people
have made their arrangements to be
with our Macon friends during the
continuance of the fair. The well
known hospitality of the Macon peo
pie will be tested to its fullest ex
tent but we have no fear of the re
sult. Remember the date, October
23d to November Btb, and uon’t fail
to see an exposition the like of which
you will not have an opportunity of
seeing for a long time.
The Boston Manufacturers’ Ga
zette, October 13, in its wool report
for the week, develops an interesting
phase of the trade in the exporta
tion and sale of a lot of Texas wool
in London. A lot of 12 months
growth fine Texas wool, 103,000
pounds, was recently shipped from
the port of Boston to London and
there sold for 6| pence a pound.
The Gazette declares that the price
obtained in the London market is
fully a cent a pound better than the
wool could have been sold for in
Boston. This will be a very satis
factory piece of news for Texas
wool-growers. It is alleged that for
several purposes American wool is
so much superior in its adaptation
to the wants of foreign manufac
turers that a steady demand for it
may be anticipated.
The farmers and ranchmen of Ne
braska are shipping their cattle to
market as rapidly as they can, be
cause the drought has destroyed the
pastures and them nothing to
feed with this winter. The com
that was blasted by the hot winds
of August has been cut and stacked
up for fodder and will last for a
while, but the steers are in better
condition now than they will be a
i month later. —Chicago Record.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1894.
THAT BOND DECISION.
Rome and Floyd county are in
evitably on the high road to great
ness.
In the summer of 1893, Mr. John
H. Reynolds brought fame to him
self and Rome by a timely sugges
tion that the county banks supply
the treasury with gold, which sug
gestion was quickly adopted and
met with high favor. Now Captain
Clark has made himself and Floyd
county famous by securing the cele
brated decision of Solicitor Reeve,
of Washington, that counties were
overlooked in passing the law re
garding the issue of currency. It
has suddenly dawned on the finan
cial mind of the United States that
counties, where permitted by the
State, can issue currency not sub
ject to tax.
Considerable speculation has
arisen as to the result of this. Will
counties take to it in large numbers
and flood the country with bonds?
Some declare that it will result in
the wildest of wild cat schemes, and
say the States must put restrictions
on the counties that will render the
issue absolutely safe. In another
column will be found interviews on
the subject with some prominent
lawyers, none of w horn thinks that
further restrictions will be neces
sary. The constitution of the State
limits any issue to 7 per cent, of
the taxable property, and also states
for what purposes they may alone
be issued.
Now, if further restrictions are
necessary, what are they?
Suppose every county in the State
should issue bonds to the maximum
amount allowed, which, of course,
would never occur, what would be
the result?
It seems to us that there is a
great deal of merit in Judge Bran
ham’s statement: “It will regulate
itself-” As he says, the people
want the best money, and to only a
certain extent can these bonds be
used as currency. A certain amount
of them will be, perhaps, used as
local currency, and will be readily
interchangeable with money. But
only to a certain extent. When it
passes a certain limit the bonds
will fall into the hands of investors.
No county will be foolish enough to
pass enough bonds to glut the
market. But suppose it should,
what would be the result? Would
it not simply result in not floating
the bonds at all, or the buying up of
them at a discount, it may be, as an
investment?
While a certain number of small
bonds might be used as a local cur
rency, beyond this the county would
simply have bonds that it could not
float. The fact that they are of
small denomination does not make
them money; they are still bonds.
Every county must make arrange
ments float its own flonds. If it
does so, the taxable property could
shrink 93 per cent, and the bonds
would still be good, even if the max
imum limit had been reached. But
it must first float the bonds. No
one can be forced to take them, and
we are inclin-d to believe that no
further restrictions are necessary,
In fact, they could not be made
without constitutional amendments,
and by that time every county in
the State could have passed bond
issues to the limit allowed by the
constitution.
Il must be remembered that these
bonds may be used as currency,
but they are bonds, and as such
will be regulated just as if they were
of large denomination and floated in
New York.
If Georgia would take the same
pains to tell the people of the wor d
her many advantages that Califor
nia has done, our waist pla'-es
would fill up so quickly with a well
-10 do, thrifty, hard working class
of emigrants, that it would surprise
us. Thousands of people in the Old
World and in the Northwest are
eagerly looking tor just what Geor
gia has to offer.
The vote of the populists this
year is about equal to the combined
vote of the pupulists and republicans
in 1892.
All roads lead to Rome, and they
bring us much trade and many peo
ple.
OUR VARIED RESOURCES.
The south will raise this year
over one-third of the entire corn
crop of the United States. It not
only raises one-third of the corn but
all the cotton, all the tobacco, all
the sugar from cane, and most of
the fruits and vegetables. To these
she has added a large part of the
coal, iron and timber products, to
gether with a considerable propor
tion of the manufactories. What is
her future? Could it very well be
anything but success? True her
cotton is low, yet the crop is large,
it furnishes much labor, and its pur
chasing power is great. Besides, if
her farmers do not care to raise cot
ton, they can raise anything else.
That is a great advantage—one the
balance of the country does not
practically possess. The West must
raise wheat or cattle, or be idle.
They can neither raise double crops
nor diversify. In most of their ter
ritory it is grain and cattle or noth
ing. They cannot raise corn nor
many of the crops of the south.
They already have so much wheat
that it is almost a drug on the mar
ket. Did you ever stop to think of
these things,; Most of the alance
of the country has neither ccal.iron
nor the hard woods, hence manufac
turing is practically shut off. If
their one crop is shut off, what is
their condition? See? Then, isn’t
it plain that the south is the great
and coming section of our country?
Now, a few words about Georgia,
the empire state of the south. She
easily leads all her sister states in
the inducements offered. She has
steadily grown in population, weal th
and agricultural pursuits, whilst the
increase in manufacturing produc
tions has been simply marvelous.
Our section of the state, especially,
offers peculiar and manifold induce
ments for the investment of capital
and the employment of labor. Rich
in the productions of her soil;
blessed by generous nature with an
admirable climate; with a growing
population; with endless mines and
minerals witing for development;
watered by streams themselves a
mighty power, growing anything
and everything that tends to give
hfe, health and happiness, North
Georgia throws open her doors and
invites an inspection. We have
room; we have the resources; we
have the soil and we wish more peo
pie that the lands may not lie idle
year in and year out, bearing noth
ing, but may glisten with grain,
blossom with fruit and add wealth
to our people. If you live in North
Georgia, stay. If you do not, come.
A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE.
In another column will be found
a communication from Hon. W. J.
Neel on the proposed issue of county
bonds.
Read it and act.
There is absolutely no chance of
carrying the question unless the
people who appreciate the import
ance go to work and see that a full
and favorable vote is polled. It
will not do to stand by and only
lend the assistance of your one
ballot.
It must be seen that the voters in
and out of Rome appreciate how
necessary is the issue, and that
they cast their ballots “for bonds.”
Mr. Neel’s card is opportune and
to the point, and the people will do
well to act upon his suggestion.
A QUESTION OF LEGALITY.
In this issue will be found a card
from Col. T. W. Alexander vailing
attention to certain amendments to
the constitution. He is an able and
learned lawyer and his pertinent
query as to the legality of these
amendments will attract all think
ing men.
If illegal, it means that many acts
of the legislature are void, and the
question raised is a most interest
ing one. Colonel Alexander is a
close student, and his words will
have effect.
Hon. Alexander Stephens was not
a man ordinarily to admit that any
political problem was too tough foi
his solution, but he confessed the
raceques'im was beyond his ken o
demonstration. It is growing more
and more exasperating, but wib
I robably, in the ln u future, solv*
itself in some unexpected way.
DEMOCRACY ALL RIGHT.
Some enemies of the Democratic
party are crying that the party is
dying. To all such we respectfully
refer the following from the Gaines
ville Eagle:
“The Democracy of Georgia dead!
Not much. Its principle will never
die. They are as ever-green as the
laurel and the ivy. They will grow
on any soil where a home and a fire
side will grow. They will grow in
any human heart where there is t he
sentiment of patriotism to give them
light and warmth. They will grow
in the sunshine, and in the tempest
and storm; and in every breast
where justice finds a home they will
be the guest of honor. In pros
perity they are vine and flower, in
adversity their heart is of the
rugged oak. The principles of De
mocracy are as indestructible as
the love of libertyor the de
sire for happiness. Their flavor
is of the plowman’s soil, and
their essence is of the sweat of the
toiling peasant.
“If you have any flowers to plant
on the grave of Democracy—keep
them. There will be mat>y other
funerals first.”
Does any one think a party that
can cause an editor to wax thus
eloqumt is anywhere near the
dying point.
COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE.
Mr. Dave H. Shelton is one of the
most progressive farmers in the
country. Time and again he has
won individual prizes for agricultu
ral exhibits at expositions and fairs,
and to him is due the credit of win
ning the prize for Floyd county on
several occasions.
At the Dixie Interstate Fair to be
held in Macon, Mr. Shelton will
make an exhibit, and if he doesn’t
get the first prize it will be the first
time he has attempted and lost?
There will be no Floyd county
exhibit there, but Mr. Shelton will
uphold our reputation. His indi
vidual exhibit will consist of ‘’our
car loads, and he expects to leave
with it Monday. Such enterprise
is commendable, and he deserves
the thanks of the people. Rome
and Floyd county will be advertised,
and it is no small matter for Floyd
county to continue getting all the
prizes tried for. It is a little ahead
of time to speak of getting this prize
for the best individual agricultural
display, but it has come to Floyd
with such unfailing regularity that
we can not think of defeat.
THE CANNING INDUSTRY.
An Englishman traveling in the
United States asked a young lady
what we did with all the vegetables
we raised. She wittily replied:
“We eat what we can and can what
we can’t.”
Why Floyd county doesn’t “can
what she can’t” is more than we
can answer. That we should, and
that an industry of the kind would
be profitable can not be doubted. A
single factory in Arkansas, at For
est City, recently closed down for
the season, after putting up 200,000
three-pound cans of tomatoes, or
twenty-two car loads. An average
of 100 hands were employed daily
in the factory for two months, and
the farmers received twenty-five
cents a bushel for the crop. It is
suggested that the steam power and
machinery of cotton oil mills could
be utilized for canning purposes
during the season when the mills
are idle. We should do better than
we are now doing in this industry,
and should at least can all the vege
tables and fruits needed for the
home demand.
In all cities where a newspaper is
published, every merchant should
advertise in it, even if nothing
more than a card stating his name
and the business he is engaged in.
It does not only pay the advertiser,
but it lets people at a distance know
that the town you reside in has a
prosperous community of business
men. As the seed is sown so the
fruit recompenses. Never pull down
your sign . while you expect to do
business, for it often indicates that
business is poor, and that you are
owing your grip, commercially
speaking. The judicious advertiser
will receive in return ten dollars for
every one invested in the columns
of a live newspaper, such as the
Rome Tribune. Try it.
Those amendments.
The Supreme court amendments
was defeated by a majority of nearly
2,000, and this can only be at
tributed to one cause. Many papers
openly fought it because they feared
it meant the election of Judge
Gober to one of the places. We
shall not be surprised to see some
papers swear that the financial
question caused it, for the reason of
the smallness of the Democratic ma
jority and the defeat of this amend
ment are close kin. e
That the number of Supreme
court judges should be increased is
certain, the rumored intention
of Judge Bleckley to resign is quick
evidence of the harm done by the
defeat of the amendment Hi?
resignation will cause great and real
regret over the entire State. f
Judge Bleckley is a brilliant gen
tleman, thoroughly versed in law«Mi
1 and his able decisions will be missed
should he carry out the rumored*
intention.
The pension amendment was
carried by a good majority, as it
should have been. It is probably a
good thing that the time of meeting
of the Legislature will not be
1 changed.
IS IT LEGAL?.
Can the legislature of Georgia meet
and lawfully organize on the fourth
Wednesday in October? Are
sessions constitutional?
Mr. Editor: The people of Georgia
are confronted with some very serious
I constitutional quastions which should
i cause them to halt and inquire, “Where
. they are at. 1 ’ i
The constitution of 1877 required the
legislature to meet on the first Wednes
day in November, biennially, beginning
with the year 1878.
It is subdivided into thirteen articles,
each treating upon a different subject
and the last one provides for • amend
ments, which can be made in no other M
manner.
Paragraph 7. section 4, article 3, is in T
the following words to-wit: , I
“No law shall pass which refers to |
more than one subject, or contains mat
ter different from what is expressed in
he title thereof. ’ ’ i
Paragraph ?, section 4, article 1, is in
the following words to-wit:
“Legislative acts in violation of this
constitution or the constitution of the
United States are void and the judiciary
shall so decl ire them.”
Now apply these two provisions of the
constitution to the proposed amendments
adopted by the two acts of October 21,
1891. (Acts of 1890-1 on pages 55 and
56),and see where we stand.
The title of the act on page 55 is in
the following words, to wit:
“An act to alter and amend article 2,
section 4,paragraph 3,0 f the constitution
of 1877 by striking out the word‘bien
nially in the third line after the word
‘and’ and before the word ‘thereafter’
and substituting the word‘annually’ ”
Nothing in this article is suggested in
reference to a change in the day of
meeting. “It is perfectl silent on this
subject and yet in the body of the ict
the time of meeting is changed fr< m 1
the first Wednesday in November to the j
fourth Wednesday in October. There is ■
therefore something in the body of the jH
act different from what is expressed in j
the title. This being so, does not the J
strict law of the constitution require the
judiciary to declare this provision void?
Decisions of oar supreme court are not ‘
wanting to sustain this view of the
question.
But this is not the only defect in the
act. There is another one perhaps more
fatal,and it is this.:
The title proposes to change paragraph
3 of section 4, article 2 of the constitu
tion. By reference to the article it will
be found tha‘ it relates it to the election
franchises and does not contain a word
about the legislature, and there [is no
paragraph 3 in the 4th section of .arti
cle 2. | \
Can a thing be amended which does <
not exist? It may and doubtless will be
said that this error is a mere mistake.
Grant for the sake of argument that this
is true. Are grave constitutional laws
to depend for their force upon a supposed
mistake?
A like error is to be found in another
act passed at thj same time. See act of
1980-1, page 56, providing for fifty days
session it stead of forty.
Can it be possible that a huge joke
has been perpetrated upon the people.
T. W. Alexander.
The Griffin News says the lesson
of the election is for all Democrats
to quit quarrelling and work for the
Congressional r ominees.
A fifteen to one shot won at Mor
ris’ Park Monday, and some of the
Bjorts bad the long green to burn.
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