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NEWS NOTFS.
The German elections, so far as
results are known, indicate a victory
for the people as against the absurd
young autocrat who is trying to play
Louis XIV here in the nineteenth
centurv,
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A great drouth prevails in Eng
land, France and some other portions
of the continent. In France, cattle
are dying for want of forage, grape
vines are destroyed and the hope of
an adequate food crop is well nigh
gone. Farmers are selling oft their
cattle for any price they can get, be
cause of the want of feed.
At the same time, cholera is
raging in Southern France, carrying
off hundrds of people.
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The Irish Home Rule Bill makes
little progress in the British Parlia
ment.
Gladstone is accepting too many
amendments to suit the Irish leaders.
The Irish leaders themselves are
divided into factional bands, and the
English aristocrats are resorting to
the same dilatory tactics to defeat
the measure, which they used to
denounce so severely when exercised
by the Irish.
We believe the Bill will fail, and
that Gladstone’s Cabinet will soon
collapse.
* * *
The Irish in America have been
made to believe that our politicians
favored Home Rule.
This is untrue. The Irish voter
will learn, some of these days, that
the friendship of the average poli
tician for Ireland is just about as
sincere as the attachment of the
average city boss for the “farmer,”
or the love of the average protec
tionist for the “laborer.” -
Our ruling classes sympathise
with English methods, English pur
poses and English caste.
They constantly tfy to ape Eng
land in social, military, naval and
legislative systems.
Warrenton, Ga., June 19.
Capt, I). N. Sanders, Business Man
ager People’s Party Paper:
Dear Sir—The People’s Party
Paper should have a circulation of
at least 50,000 in Georgia. Knowing
that you cannot afford to keep trav
eling solicitors in the field to canvass
from house to house, I have conclud
ed to attend each of Mr. Watson’s
appointments this summer, where I
can meet the people en masse, for
the purpose of receiving new sub
scribers to our paper and renewals of
old subscribers.
Silver dollars will be received at
full face value from Clevelandites as
well as common people.
C. V. McGregor.
We heartily appreciate Major
McGregor’s deep interest in The
People’s Party Paper and hope
the contagion will spread until a
thousand earnest Georgians shall
realize that the People’s Party
Paper is their paper—battling for
their rights and interests, and will
emulate the zeal and enthusiasm of
friend McGregor in extending its cir
culation until it is found in the home
of every man who honestly wins his
bread by the sweat of his face.
D. N. S.
ANOTHER NEW WARSHIP.
The Battleship Massachusetts Succes
fully Launched at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 10.—The
big battleship Massachusetts was suc
cessfully launched from the shipyard
of the Cramps this morning in the
presence, of Secretary of the Navy
Herbert, Attorney General Olney
(the latter representing the State of
Massachusetts), a number of distin
guished naval and army officers and
a multitude of 15,000. Miss Leila
Herbert, daughter of the head of the
Naval Department, christened the
vessel with the customary and pret
tilv decorated bottle of champagne.
The Massachusetts, the second of
the three coast line battleships to be
launched, is built of steel. The hull
is protected by belts of heavy armor
74 feet wide, 3 feet of which is above
water. This protection runs along
both sides of the vessel for a distance
of 148 feet amidships, at the extrem
ities of which the armour turns to
wards the center line at an angle of
45 degrees for a longitudinal distance
of 24 feet, affording a total broadside
protection of 196 feet and passing
around and supporting the armor of
the 13 inch gun turrets. On top of
this side armor is placed a steel deck
2j inches thick, under which are the
magazines and machinery. Above
this belt of side armor and extend
ing from reboubt to redoubt the sides
are 5 inches thick, with a backing of
10 feet of coal.
There is a powerful ram below.
The armored conning tower is of 10
inch plates. The millitary mast has
two tops for rapid lire machine guns,
the ammunition for which is sent to
them inside the mast. Many water
tight compartments aid the defensive
strength of the vessel. Admirable
as is the protective strength of the
Massachusetts, even more striking, if
possible, is her aggressive power.
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPER. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. JUNE 23. 1893.
She can throw at a single discharge
6,924 pounds of projectiles.
The armament will consist of four
13-inch, eight 8-inch and four 6-inch
breech loading rilles, 20 six-pounders
and four one-pound rifles, four Gat
tling guns and six torpedo tubes.
The 12-inch guns are to be mounted
in pairs in two turrets, one forward
and one aft. The turrets are at such
a height that the guns are 17 feet 8
inches above the lead -water line and
6 feet above the deck, over which
they fire. The guns can be loaded
in any position or horizontal train,
which advantage is possessed by few,
if any, foreign battleships, the largest
guns of -which can be loaded in one
position only. The 8-inch guns are
to be mounted in pairs in t rmored
turrets. They are to be 24 feet 6
inches above the water and can fire
over the turrets on the deck below.
The 6-inch guns are to be mounted
14 feet 10 inches above the water,
on the main deck, without any super
structure.
As to speed, the contract require
ment is a sustained average, though
the trial, of 15 knots. The engines
of the Massachusetts, which are to
develop 9,000 horse power at the
maxium, are of the twin-screw, ver
tical, triple-expansion, direct-acting,
inverted-cylinder type, in water-tight
compartments, separated by bulk
heads. The diameters of the cylin
ders are : High pressure, 344 inches;
intermediate, 48 inches. There are
four double-ended and two single
ended auxiliary steel boilers of the
horizontal return-fire tube type, all
constructed for a working pressure
of 160 pounds per square inch.
The Massachusetts has a length of
348 feet, a breadth of 69| and a
mean draught of 24, giving her a dis
placement of 10,200 tons. Her
draught is suited for some of the
shallow harbors, and yet she can take
the sea in all weather.
The Cramps secured the contract
for the warship October 1, 1890, on
a bid of $3,020,000.
hungerTconquereb him.
And So Alphonse Miller, a Homeless
Man, Stole Milk.
New York World.
Locked up in the Yorksville prison,
with common thieves, wife-beaters
and drunkards, is a poor fellow who
stole because he was hungray.
He was taken to the Yorkville
court yesterday morning for stealing
two bottles of milk from an areaway.
His name is Alphonse Miller, and as
he is a Swiss and has only been here
five months, he could not say very
much for himself and hardly under
stood what was said to him. His
face was so honest, and his clothes,
though very poor and threadbare,
were so neat that a I Vorld reporter
went to his cell after he was locked
up and heard his story. He is
twenty-four years old, and was born
in Canton Basel, Switzerland, where
he learned the trade of machinist
thoroughly. Five months ago the
glowing stories of the wealth of this
country led him to emigrate. He
had saved some money, and at first
managed to get along, although he
found that it was not easy for a
stranger to secure employment. Still
he managed to get odd jobs here
and there. He had a room at No.
403 East Thirty-fifth street, and paid
his rent till about three weeks ago.
Then he could not get work, and
since then he has been that pitiable
creature, a homeless man. He slept
where he could and ate what he<
could, and it was little enough. He
managed to keep alive somehow, as
poor men do, and with hunger gnaw
ing at him he walked the streets,
looking vainly for work.
Ou Friday morning he was faint
with exhaustion. All that day he
had nothing to eat. Night fell, and
he slept under the open sky. When
the dawn of yesterday came he be
gan to “move on” again. He was
very hungry. On Eighty-fifth street,
between Ninth and Tenth avenues,
a wagon of the Smith Dairy Com
pany passed him. The rosy-cheeked,
well-fed driver was whistling cheer
fully and did not observe the man
who was watching the full milk bot
tles so greedily. The man turned
away twice, but he could not resist
the temptation. He followed the
wagon. Near Ninth avenue the
driver left two bottles in the area
way of one of the houses. The
starving man crept down the base
ment steps, seized the bottles and
started to go. But a night watch
man, Philip Pipper, of No. 232 East
One Hundred and Eighth street,
saw him. Pipper is not more hard
hearted than other people, probably.
But he had had his morning mea],
and here was a man stealing, and
stealing is a crime. So he called
Policeman Hazleton, of the West
Sixty-eighth street station, and they
caught this criminal red-handed. He
was a thief, and the murmured
words, “Ich war so hungrig,” had
nothing to do with the case. He
pleaded guilty and was held in court
for examination in default of 8300
bail.
The reporter found Miller in a lit
tle dark cell with about six others.
His blue eyes were moist with tears
while he told his story, and he said
helplessly: “If I could only get
work. I have tried hard, so very
hard, and it is terrible to be locked
up as a thief. But I was so hungry.”
The prison keepers, who could not
understand the poor fellow's broken
English, when they were told of his
case, promised to give him a cell by
himself and to make it as easy for
him as their orders would permit.
He will have the freedom of the
tiers. A man who became interested
in his case informed the Swiss Con
sul about it.
The Georgia IV. C. T. U. and Woman’s
Suffrage.
Wesleyan Advocate.
When the Woman’s Christian Tem
perance Union was brought into re
cent prominence by the refusal of the
North Georgia Conference to indorse
it, “ because of its connection with
the National Union and the Woman’s
Suffrage question,” I felt impelled,
as representative of the organization
in Georgia, to come to its defense,
correct certain impressions in regard
to the matter, and define its position.
But while meditating as to whether
it might not be better to bear in si
lence, let the record of its work speak
for itself and pursue the even tenor
of our way, the controversy began
between those two brilliant lights and
friends of the temperance cause, Mrs.
Felton and Dr. Candler, and w r as
waged so fiercely that I felt to enter
the arena then would mean annihila
tion for one of modest pretensions.
And as both sides of the argument
had been brought forcibly to light, 1
concluded to wait and let the W, C.
T. U. in convention assembled decide
the question.
But the oftener I have considered
the matter, the more I have felt that
I failed in duty; particularly since
Dr. Candler’s repeated onslaughts and
denunciations against us, and advice
to the Methodist cnurch to close its
doors against us. For as an organi
zation, we now stand before the pub
lic arraigned, judged, condemned as
unworthy, and rejected by the grand
religious body that has been our
staunchest friend in all the trying
years of our temperance warfare, and
whose churches have been a refuge
and shelter for us in the hours of our
need. Its disaffection means no light
thing for us. We realize this, and
deeply deplore it. We shall miss its
kindly aid and protection, and cannot
let it go without expressions of the
highest appreciation and gratefulness
for all the kindnesses of the past.
But while we feel this, and believe
in the concsientiousness of its present
attitude toward us, we must, in justice
to ourselves, correct the impression
that may have prevailed in the con
ference and abroad, that the Georgia
W. C. T. U. -were supplicants for
“endorsement.” The organization
had nothing to do with the appeal;
did not know that it was to be made,
and was surprised that it had been
made.
The good minister who offered the
resolution to endorse the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union in its
war against the liquor traffic, did it,
perhaps, out of the kindness of his
heart, to “ help those women ” who
were laboring faithfully for the res
cuing of the perishing and the saving
of souls. We are grateful for his
kindly desire to encourage us, and
shall ever bear it in the kindest re
membrance. But let it be remem
bered the appeal did not come from
the W._ C. T. U.
The day has passed when we have
to sue for recognition and indorse- ’
ment. With humanity’s pressing
needs and heaven’s indorsement for
our work, and a constant looking
up for divine help and guidance, and
onward, with careful observation,
study and experience as to the best
way of pursuing it, we feel that we
need neither be ashamed nor afraid
io press onward.
Our work has ever been open to
the public, and if its record of eleven
years of brave, noble, self-sacrificing
effort to uplift humanity and remove
the great stumbling block to morality
and religion does not commend it for
“indorsement,” then it had better be
ignored. Its conventions have been
held in all the large cities of the State,
and the value of its work recognized
by the people and the pulpit and the
press—even by those not in sympathy
with all its plans and methods. The
Rome Tribune (Hon. John Temple
Graves then editor), in bidding us
adieu, after our session there, said
of us :
“ It may be briefly said that the no
ble women of this convention have
made a profound impression for them
selves, and for their cause upon this
community. Whatever the sentiment
of those who have been spectators
and auditors of the even, orderly and
consecrated session of this body, no
man with a soul in him can stand un
concerned in the presence of the
splendid and heroic spirits who have
wrought with matchless patience
through crowding difficulties, against
prejudice and overwhelming odds,
and with undiminished loyalty and
unbroken ranks kept faith with God
and with each other in the great cause
to which they have dedicated life and
energy and love. In the annals of
noble effort there is no record of
greater consecration than in the wo
men of this Union. The Tribune in
reverence and unstinted respect sa
lutes them in parting and wishes them
God-speed everywhere.”
This is but a sample of the many
public indorsements we have had in
addition to the long friendship, help
and encouragement of the very
church that is now advised to “close
its doors against us.” And all this,
too, when it has been well known of
our connection with the National
Union and its adoption of woman’s
suffrage.
As to our once staunch friend and
helper, Dr. Candler, who is so dis
tressed and exercised against us be
cause of our connection wuth the
National W. C. T. U., and its “wo
man’s suffrage,” and the “individual
sentiments of the Georgia Union; we
regret the withdrawal of his valuable
friendship and appreciate his past
kindnes, but his course toward us
now amounts simply to persecution;
for, as the Georgia Union has never
adopted woman suffrage nor discuss
ed it in the work ot thtir conventions
he is condemning and ostracizing the
whole body for the sake of an offend
ing few, w r ho have never yet obtrud
ed their opinions upon the organiza
tion ’
And if they had, where is the sin ?
And if not a sin, and it seems to
bear, and does bear, vitally upon the
Christian work they are engaged in,
why should they.be forbidden to dis
cuss or adopt it? There are, and
have always been, many minds as to
methods and measures of all reforms.
Does the good brother forget the
storms of opposition, persecution and
martyrdom in the pioneer days of
Christianity,Protestantism and Meth
odism, and that, too, from the church?
Does he not remember that “the
more they were persecuted the more
they grew?” He, too, may learn
later that he is hastening on the very
measure he is trying to defeat, in
forcing us to discuss the question
that we have hitherto so persistently
shunned, and only tolerated in
thought as a final and desperate alter
native.
We call him and the public to wit
ness that he, not ive, introduced this
-Trojan horse” question (as he choos
es to call it) for discussion, not only
into the North Georgia Conference
(where it already has many sympa
thizers) to “create division,” but into
the Georgia W. C. T. U. to perhaps
disturb its harmony.
As the question has never been
discussed by us I do not know the
sentiment of the Union throughout
the State. If there are a dozen “suf
fragists” in the Union.l do not know
of them. I cannot foretell the result
of the discussion at the convention
(for the question has been forced
upon us), but this I do know, that
the body of consecrated Chistian
women will make it a subject of ear
nest prayer; and as they would not
willingly or knowingly dare to take
a step in the wrong direction, neither
will they be deterred from taking
steps in the right direction, when
once convinced that it is right and
for the best as God gives them light
to see.
There are those who were not de
clared suffragists who have been
made so by the extreme actions
against us There are those who
look to it now from having been
among those women and children
that knelt at the polls and pleaded
in vain for redemption from the
liquor curse, while men, fathers and
‘Christian men,” walked by them,
and deliberately deposited in the bal
lot box the vote to perpetuate the
curse upon them, and ■while this was
going on on one side of the court
house the money-bags of the liquor
dealers were being openly shaken
into the faces of the voters to buy
the liquor votes !
Is it any wonder that women see
that the great battle for the redemp
tion of the home is to be fought at
the ballot-box. And that in theii
desperation they are willing to wade
through deeper depths than any
they have known, and to suffer
all, dare all and do all in their hope
of overcoming the traffic?
When God tailed women from
their homes to “be up and doing”
against the liquor cause, they came
from all parts of the land. They
met together in counsel. They knelt
together in prayer, and consecrating
themselves to the service of God and
home and humanity, they enlisted
“for the war” against the traffic.
They have fought it step by step ;
though often defeated they have
never turned their backs, lowered
their flag or polluted it by a com
promise, till at last they stand with
it face to face at its most formidable
stronghold, the ballot-box. Do you
think they’ll give up the struggle
when once convinced that the victory
depends upon them there ? God
forbid!
For the honor and glory of man
hood they have been hoping and
waiting and praying that they might
not be driven to such an extremity.
But hope deferred and man’s indif
ference is driving them to despera
tion. While they are waiting, the
liquor traffic is sending down thou
sands into the nit of despair, and
woes and tears and agonizing cries
for help are multiplying, and there is
no evil at the ballot box that can
equal the horrors of the liquor curse.
Why should there be any evil and
trouble in depositing a piece of white
paper in behalf of the home? And
suppose there should be, men have
looked indifferently upon women in
their shame, degradation and suffer
ing in the drunkard’s home. Why
should they be more zealous to shield
them from the ballot box ? The
church of God has sent them to face
the horrors of heathendom with its
cannibalism, and hundreds of dan
gers for the sake of the church. And
if the Savior did not rebuke them as
they stood about the cross with the
bloodthirsty rabble, then let them
alone as they take the final stand be
tween the liquor curse and its vic
tims.
Our Brother Candler some day
may haply find that, like Paul, in his
mistaken zeal he has been “fighting
against God.”
Surely he has not been well in
formed when he states that “woman
suffrage has been a failure in Wyom
ing.” Since its legislature, only a
few months ago, passed strongest
resolutions of “indorsement of woman
suffrage and the marvelous benefit in
every way it had been to the State,
urging all the governments of the
world to adopt it for their good, and
asking the press throughout the world
to extensively publish the resolu
tion.” Respectfully,
Mrs. W. C. Sibley,
State President W. C. T. U., Ga.
Longest Railway in the World.
The proposed trans-Siberian rail
way, which will be the longest in the
world, is fully described in the En
gineering Magazine, by Frederic Ho
bart. who has used freely materials
furnished by the Russian engineers
employed on the work.
As to the commercial importance
of the Siberian railway, he -writes,
there may be different opinions. The
steppes of Western Siberia are sus
ceptible of settlement and cultivation,
and may add a considerable area to
the wheat fields which compete with
those of America. The river valleys
of the Amour region are also capable
of cultivation, and may in time sup
port a large population, while the
Oussouri country is known to be rich
in coal and iron. The long stretch
of over 1,500 miles from Tomsk to
the headwaters of Amour, however,
can never have much local traffic.
The climate and soil alike forbid set
tlement, and a small business in cattle
and horses from the nomad herds,
and in lumber from the forests of the
Irish and the western trans-Baikal,
with the supply of the mining region
on the slope of the Jablonnovoi, will
be the most that can be expected.
Through commercial traffic to the
Pacific cannot be large, though the
Chinese trade will be an item of con
siderable importance on the western
half of the line, and is a traffic capa
ble of development with the facilities
which could be furnished by the pro
posed railroad. With all allowance
for growth, however, it is safe to say
that, if the road is regarded simply
as an investment for capital, its com
mercial prospects would not warrant
its construction for many years to
come.
The main purpose of the line is not
commercial, howexer, but military
and political. The trans-Caspian rail
way has consolidated and made per
manent the Russian power in Central
Asia, and its extension to Khokand
and Tashkent!, now well under way,
will make an excellent supply line for
an army invading China from the
west. The Siberian line on the other
side will be a base line for operations
from the north and east, and the an
cient empire -will be placed at a seri
ous disadvantage. The shrewdest of
the Chinese statesmen are aware of
this, and their efforts to strengthen
their frontier are in contrast to the
supineness of the English who seem
now, as usual, to rely altogether on
their naval force to check the designs
of their greatest rival in the East.
It is undoubtedly a perception of
these possibilities which has made
the project a favorable one in the im
perial circle, and brought about the
conditions necessary to secure its
early execution. The official order
calls for the completion of the entire
road in 1904, and while it seems
hardly possible that the work can be
completed in ten years -with the
means at hand, there is little doubt
that the opening decade of the twen
tieth century will see the completion
o« the first trans-Asiatic railroad.
Though lovely woman has essayed .
To show us that she can
Compete in commerce, art or trade
With cruel tyrant man,
Yet let us give our earnest thanks,
In deeply grateful tones,
That 'mongst her quips and cranks and
pranks
There is no she Sam Jones.
lndianapolis .Journal.
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