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Burning of Cotton Is Foolish.
If bales of cotton were burned
•deliberately ut Fort Gaines by sun¬
dry p rsom, as has been reported,
with the view and hope of ruising
the price of the general supply of
the staple in this country, the pro¬
ceeding impresses us as having
been very foolish, And if the
action at Fort Gaines is followed
in numerous places, it will have
just, ns much effect on the price o‘
cotton as a straw has on the swell
and roar of the waves upon whose
crest it is riding.
From time to time we have ob¬
served, in different, newspapers,
the suggestion that the farmers
and warehousemen of the South
burn a large quantity ut the pres¬
ent crop of cotton in order to in¬
crease the price of what is left.
The proposition is extremely wild
and absurd.
Here is a sample of this ridicu¬
lous talk. It is from a letter
a South Carolina man, which was
published a few days ago in the
•Charleston News and Courier:
“Shall we sit still and see our
Southland covered with a mantle
of adversity when we have it. in
■our power to remedy matters. Let
the South rise up and on the 1st of
January, 1905, burn one million
bales of cotton. If that, don’t rem¬
edy matters, burn another million
bale*. The sacrifice will be groat,
I know. Citu’t we, as a people,
offer it as a salvation of our coun¬
try? The world is clamoring for
low-prioed cotton and we have a
large crop, and manufacturers be¬
lieve it will go on the market at
these low prices, which is affecting
every interest in the South. Lot
the whole South rise. Let those
who have no cotton help buy and
iburu. Every city and town ought
to help in* the great sacrifice."
In commenting on the proposi¬
tion of its correspondent, our con¬
temporary said that such, sugges¬
tions will not be taken seriously,
because the price of cotton cannot
be raised by burning the over-stock
now on hand, thus sacrificing the
value of the staple and the money
and labor expended in its produc¬
tion ; but, on the contrary, those
planters who are able to do so will
hold their cotton until next year
rather than soli at present prices.
Some years ago, when cotton was
selling as low as 5 cent* a pound,
nobody suggested t hat i t be burned,
.and it is safe to say that no one
will be in favor of burning it now,
when it is selling for more than
^ J cents a pound. badly
f Our contemporary was
rr mistaken in its belief that the sug¬
gestion i to burn cotton “will not
be taken seriously.’* We refer the
J News and Conner to the incident,
& j* at Fort Gaines, burning their
Iusteadot cotton
5 the farmers will be wiser and richer
• of they will heed the following
¥ advice given by the News and
? Courier:
% “One way, and a very effective
4' way, to regulate the price of th»
is to reduce the nervate dS-
HIE GUOHG4A EATERrHJbfc. OOVttfJIYKi, GA % «W*>A4T -MQNM«S r «.
vo'ed t is cultivation. Th“
present unsatisfactory condition
of the market is due to over-crop¬
ping this year. VVe could not ex¬
pect to sell twelve million bales of
cotton at as high a price a$ a crop
of nine of ten million bales might
be marketed. The lesson of the
present year is: Cut down the
cotton crop and devote the time
and energy and money required
for its cultivation to the raising
of provisions und other crops.
What we need in the South is a
greater diversification of our agri¬
cultural industries, We have found
out again that we cannot safely
put all our eggs in one basket.
The idea of horning the surplus
to raise the price of the stale will
not meet with any favor, we are
sure, anyway. • *
The views of our Charleston
contemporary are shared by the
New Orleans States, which de¬
clares that if the southern farmers
desire to enjoy the wealth and
comforts which 10 cent cotton
brings, they must, make up their
minds to produce ten million bales
crops for a few years to come, ° r
until such time as the world’s de
maud will justify a larger supply
with: ut any decrease of the price.
A cotton crop which is barely suf
ficient t<' meet the demands of the
world will command prices rang¬
ing from 10 to 12 cents, but ex
perience has demonstrated that
bumber crops mean low prices and
loss to the producers of cotton.
The way, therefore, to increase
the price of cotton to a figure that
will make the Southern farmers
prosperous is to reduce the acreage
next year, and therefore as the
News and Courier suggests, and
to use much of the land which has
been devottd to cotton to the pro¬
duction of corn, potatoes and
oth“f crops for which there is al¬
ways a market. For many years
the South was kept poor by the
fact that its people were buyers
instead of sellers; that they de¬
voted themselves exclusively to
the production of low-priccd cot¬
ton and bought their corn
meat from the West. They
s«en the utter folly of such a pol
icy. and every year the South is
becoming more and more a pro¬
ducer and a seller, with the result
that it is gradually growing rich,
but not as fust, us it would if there
were a greater diversification of
crops which would furnish all the
provisions needed and leave a sur¬
plus tor the market. By reducing
the acreage of cotton and produc¬
ing a crop that will command good
prices, leaving the farmers both
time and land that can be used
for raising corn and meat, the
prosperity of the South will in¬
crease by leaps aud bounds.
Lynching North and South.
In the current McClure’s Maga¬
zine, Ray Staunard Baker has an
article on “Lynching in the
South,” which is chiefly notable
on account of the author’s delib¬
erate conclusion, after thorough
investigation on the ground, that
“the South has no lesson to learn
from the north, in so far as the
lynching problem is concerned.”
Mr. Baker visited Statesboro,
Ga., and Huntsville, Ala., for his
material for the present article,
and in the next issue of the maga¬
zine we are promised a companion
article on t ( Lynching iu the
North.”
For the edification of some peo¬
ple who know no better than to
think that lynching is peculiarly
indigenous to the southern states,
it is to be hoped that Mr. Baker
will select as analogous as possible
lynching forms in the north—say
Springfield, Ohio, for one of them
Having doue this aud proceeding
to analyze local aonditions.he will
be able to convince his readers
that towns or communities north
and south are as like as peas in a
pod, so far as au outbreak of ntob
frenzy toward negro criminality
is concerned, with this difference
in extenuation of the southern
town, that in the sonth the negro
Is ntHHerona enough to oonstitate
a slaoding criminal menace of t-he
iaost alarming nature, whereai iu
the north he is n rut Sir xncousid
arable factor in the population.
Mob outbreaks agai I negro crnri
nais or negroes acc ! d I f crime
are in the south inspired by a
sense of Belf-protection against the
every-present cnminaf menace of
a large negro population ; in the
north the elemetit A f prejudice
against the negro because he is a
negro is much greater.
Mr. Baker should, show these
truths in their relation to relative
conditions south and north, as he
must do if he gets quite down to
the root of the lynching evil as a
national, not as a sectional, crime
agaiust law and order. While he
is •Untiling around in the north¬
ern lynching towns with bis note¬
book he should make some inves¬
tigation of court records touching
the measure of punishment meted
out to the lynchers in such eases
where true bilh were found by the
local grand jury. His discoveries
will be enlightening in exhibiting
the degree of difference, if any ex¬
ists, in human nature, south and
north, in the matter of punishing
mobs for their violence to orderly
judicial procedure,
It is tt ioug time since a ttegro
WM IyildieJ with the H5Ua i bar
barous trimmings in Springfield.
Ohio, but only the other day we
were reminded of the ancier.t trag¬
edy by noticing in the telegraphic
column a brief reference to the '
Springfield grand jury indicting
few ringleading lynchers for the
comparatively mild offense of riot¬
ing, and this after successive grand
juries bad failed to bring in a true
bill in the premises at all.
Commenting on the gentle man¬
ner in which the gra^d jurors of
this Ohio county performed their
sworn duty, after the crime was
half forgotten, The Chicago Udc
ord-Herald says:
Since the crime there has been
a continuing effort oti the part of
the various authorities to shuffle
off the blame on each other’s
shoulders, and at ti e same time
to avoid being unpleasantly active
iti punishing the rioters.
The grand jury met and scored the
| civic authorities, but did not in¬
i dict them. It also scored the lo¬
cal judg 1 ' of the • riminal court, J.
K. Mower, f ir past leniency to
criminals. Thmi it contented it¬
self with indicting fifteen mem¬
bers of the mob tor riot. Judge
Mower retorted by pointiug out
that the grand jury itsolf was ov¬
er-lenient when it indicted men
for riot, although the offense un¬
der the law was clearly murder.
Now one of the rioters has been
brought to trial, and the potit jury
has refused to convict him, al¬
though the testimony, against him
was such that Judge Mowsr in
dismissing the jury, 9atd: “The
evidence of the defendant's guilt
wss perfectly clear.”
Here we see the end of a pecul¬
iarly aggravated case of mob law
at the north—a cas*. that was m
spired by but a small part of the
provocation that generally goads
southern mobs to summary ven¬
geance. The grand jury tardily
indict* the man who killed tits
negro for riot, au offense but little
graver than a misdemeanor, aud
when the accused are put on trial
under that nominal charge, no
conviction is had at the hands of
a petit jury.
Behold what difference we see
twix the northern tweedledum and
the southern tweed ledee!
But please “show up.”—Atlanta
Constitution.
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KILL the COUCH
and CURE THE LUNGS
WITH Dr. King’s
New Discovery
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j
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pleasure tHat our Job Department
has recently been enlarged by the
purchase of over one hundred dol¬
lars worth of new type, rules and
border. We are now enabled to
do a very high class of vyork on
short notice—will give you a job the
equal of any city office at a much
less cost. Give us a call; we guar
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A gasoline engine has been in¬
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jobbers. You get the best coming
to you in the printing line at the
ENTERPRISE office. You get your
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So She tating 9 ublk
YY f e have opened a modern Restaurant in the
Shepherd building, two doors above the courthouse
and take this method of soliciting the patronage of
the public. All of the choicest viands the market
affords will be found on our tables at all times and
at prices reasonable as first-class service vill per¬
mit. Our place is nicely fitted up, everything is
clean and up-to-date.
Also Good furnished rooms to rent cheap.
We are headquarters for Fancy Groceries. Meat
market in"'connection.
Respectfully,
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Western & Atlantic Railroad
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad.
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General Direclo
CITY DIRECTORY. V
Mayor—H on. M. G. Turner, 'i
MayOR Pko Tem—J no. F. Hen<| I
Clerk Treasurer—G e .
and eo. T
Chief Pomck— s *
of Bradford Boh '
Deputy Police—U tV r . Clark
Deputy Police-P. W. SkeDon
Strfet Overseer—S. C. Rhebur. I
Councilmen J. F. Henderson H
Brooke, J. II. Echols, J. L g, e 1
J. I.- VVhitehfsi nnd C. A. Har we!|B
Council Meeting—F irst I e-a
in each month.
C- Finance c. Brooks. J. (J. F. A. Hendenon, Harwell chaij
Ele tric Lights & Public R,- riri ,I
—C. C. Brooks, chairman, J. F. 1]
deraoii, J. L. Whitehead. | _
Streets— J. H. Echols. chsi rmari
L. Stephenson, C. C. Brooks.
Taeks & Cemetery—J. L Stephen
chairman, J. F. Henderson,], [, Wll
bead.
chairman, Ordinance J. & Relief—j. L. White J „j
H. Echols, C. A. II
Sanitarv-C. ar J
A. Harwell, t | la] I
J L Stephenson, J. H. Echols.
City Sohool Board -Meets first «
day in each month. c. H. WiJ
Chairman, C.E Cook. J. 6. LeaterJ
S. Turner, N. Z Anderson and
Fowler. :h
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CHURCH DIRECTORY. ■ riait
Methodist Chui.ch— Preaching efM
Sunday ut 11 u. in. at 7:00 p. m .
School every Sunday afternoon ^ $
ducted by Col. Jamew G. Lester. Iian,
er meeting every Thursday evetnd
R C. Cleckler, pastor.
Baptist Church— Preaching lan
on feat
first and third Sunday at 11, a. in.
7:G0 p. m. Sunday school every s;®**
morning at 9:30, conducted bv ( brill
Cook. Prayer meeting .Wedntbas
evening. 1‘, R Pendleton, paator.sj^jj
the Presbyterian firs’, second Church—P rtachit^^ Sanding
and fourth
11 a. m. and . :00 j>. in Sunday
every Sunday morning at 9:45, eond°'
ed meeting by I) A. Thompson, Tuesday Jr. PfSj (
Hill every evening. M
house, pastor.
Midway M Preaching {I 1
e riiouisT—
Sunday at 11 a. in. and7:3op.m. 3a
er meeting every Thursday eve* At
Sunday School every Sunday inWear
conducted by Dr. C. \V. Pepper, gjjfti
7:00. worth Lea \V. true Yarbrough, every Sunday evenijjflt.
t>. pidor.
COUNTY DIRECTORY. tnd
Sheriff—s. M. Elay. >assc
Ordinary— II. B. Anderson. _ .
Clerk of Court— J no. B. DayiiH^
Treasurer-.!. VV. Steplielison. FP ‘
Tax Collector-VV. 8. Ramsey, ipe':
Tax Receiver—J. F. Lunsford Jriljt
Coroner—S i Johnson. orm
County Surveyor—W m. A. Ada :his
Superior Court -Third Morula,*
March and September. L. S.
Judge, Fairhurn, Ga., Col VVm. At!antf|*|
Howard, Solicitor-General,
County Court— First VVednesdwflBi
each month. Capers Dickson, -War
Oxford, Ga., J. F. Rogers, SofaK
Geueral, Covington. Ga. MoikImH
Ordinary Court— First
each month, H. B. Anderson,
nary. Covington, Ga. se;
Justice Court—S econd Monduow
each mouth. G. H. Cornwell,
of Peac*-, Covington. GA. D.
i
or, Not«ry Public, Covington, fg .
County Couhissignkbs -Third
day A. Perry in each month. T. J. T. C- SwunjOIlp CoijHn
and Speer,
eiontrs. Juris
Firat County Monday Bo*rd in each of EoucATios-j^B month. l^V f
Stone, president, Oxford, Ga. Stap!|§i j
Heard, D. J. Adams, L. F.
J. M. Mitcham, Covington, Ga< reeflte
Town Dist. 4«2—G. H. Corfi* ue I a
P„ A. 1). Meador, N, P., T. M.
Constable. Court second Mi
Newborn Dist. 1522—Capers
son, J. T., J. \V. Robertson. N.
Armstrong, Constable. Court 9t(
Mr. S
C. Hays Morgan, Dist. N.P., 477-F- J. M Dobbs, Hays. Con^B J-| r <| :r
R. ^
Coart third Tuesday.
Lkjuin Dist. 1513-G- W. Cogg ^~ he w
P.. A. H. Smith. N. P.. A. Willsolal u
stable. Court third Ssturday. oalh A
Brick Stork Dist. 420—W. H. Stl
J. P., W. T. Patrick, N. P.. W. H.® h
Constable. Court second SaturdfM ‘
Gaithers Dist. 546—A. M. GriM !)
P., R. r. Dick. N. P„ A. VV.
Constable. Oxford Court second Saturdi^B f
Dtsr. 1525—J. N. A. P'JjjB,
son, J. P„ J. w. Branham, N- ^
Blackstock, Constable. Court'
Saturday. Carroll.JBo
VYtattDist. 46?. J. II.
L. A. Yarbrough, Constable. Ciih«p
ond Thursday- i
Brewers Dist. 4644-1. F. Aiket^J
I. L. Parker, N. I*., «amp
stable. Court first Srftnrday
Stansells Dist. 46H-VV. H.
J. P.. P.G. Turner, P., J- lL K
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and A. G. Laue, o nsUbleS'|^H e
third Saturday.
Downs Dist. 547—®V. R.
P. W. Turner, N. P ,■ D.
•table. Conrt fourth® Sa'inlM m
Rocky Plains Dist ■ 3ti7—
J. P., S. H. Ayery, N.^p., D.O' el JBp
Constable. Court se ond Sat" r « 1
Gum Ck*ek Dtsr. I I49-I
f., JiHS. R. ftnrd, N. 1 .. c.»
•table. Come third®tnirJ.</ ;