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IKT PR.ICES
A.t J. H. HUGK3T]SrS» 9
The Cheapest Wholesale and Retail
GLASSWARE & CROCKERY
In IVortlieast Georgia.
SEE THE PRICES! CGME AND SEE THE GOODS!
Tumblers, Cups and Saucers, 25 cents a sett; Large P’ates, nice goods, 25 cts a sett.; large beautiful
20 cents a sett. J. II. mtiUiEXS. Athens.
Beautiful Glass Setts, 4 pieces, Butter Dish, Sugar Dish, Cream Pitcher, Spoon HoIdA*,
all for 30c. D'd you ever hear of such prices ? See, again, at J. II. Muggins’.
Beautiful Library Lamps, $2.50 each. Beautiful Tea Setts. 44 pieces, $3.50 each. Beau¬
tiful Decorated Chamber Setts, $3.50 each. Beautiful Decorated Tin Setts, 3 pieces, $1.50
each. Lamps from 15 cents to $15.00. J, II, IIU
THE CHEAPEST HOUSE-FURNISHING HOUSE IN N,-E. GEORGIA.
Remember, these prices are only good for a few days, and terms cash. Now is your op¬
portunity to supply yourself cheap. Some of goods in stock-others to arrive in few days.
J. H. HUGCiNS, ATHENS, C*.
H. McWHOHTER,
■A.ttorney-s-a.t-s -1 ,aw
i.EXMva ro „v, ft.-?.
/AFFICE in okl Bank Building, next to hotel,
v f Wil practice in civil and criminal courts^
W. M. HOWARD,
Attorney-:-at-:-Law,
Z/JX/.Vft Tfl.V, ft-#.
/OFFICE in tlie new Arnold Building, next to
Y* postoffice. Will attend all courts.
W. H. REYNOLDS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Lexington, Ga ,
/XFFERS ’ of'Lexington his professional services to the pro
promptly / pie attended mid vicinity. W. Nil Smith's
to. Glliee at UU
store.
DAVIS, HARRIS & BRYDSE,
TOM3CBAL ARTISTS
1 TA VING recently moved into tlieir large and
? i nicelv arranged shop o» Broad invite street, near citi
University of Bank, respectfully them when the they
zens Oglethorpe to cail stylish on hair-cut.
want a clean shave or a
BARBER SHOP REMOVED
W E have removed our Palace Barber Shop to
the stand on Broad street, formerly oeeu
pledby Lowe A Co., as a saloon, and are now
better prepared than ever to wait upon our old
customers, and as many new ones as will pat
ionize us. We have the handsomest and best
equipped barber shop in Athens, and only the
most skilled tonsorial artists are employed. Give
us a trial. MCQUEEN & 1>UJ IMAM.
R O A a N £ H 0 U £ E
I,EX!SGT«X. GA.
'? X fAVING I taken charge of the above House, polite 1
shall do my best to give good fare,
attention and satisfaction in bed and board.
Rates 82.00 per day; single meals, 50 cents,
I shall be p leased to have any citizen of the
comity stop with me dui ing Courts, and I will
give them reduced rates,
l shall be prepared togive feed and attention
to horses at reasonable rates.
mis. 15. 32. ROA XE,
1JL\k'3• ¥ 113 Q! HP 4 A lb A is* W
A • jl5L* w jjl
T>EGS |) to inform h<*r friends aivV former pat-
10 iis in 1 U'Dithorpe and adjoining Fashionable counties Milli
that this season her stock of
nery is as full and com pie as ever and prices as
low as the lowest, old she invites an door inspection Univer- of
her goods at her stand, next to octio-2m
hilv Bank, Athens, Ga.
GLOBE HOTEL,
Under New Management.
T HE undersigned rcspecifnlly informs tl c
public that he has secured the control of the
old and popular GLOBE HOTEL, of Augusta,
and it will be kept open and run in the same ac
commodating manner and as formerly. will E be /ery specially atten¬
tion paid to guests the table
looked after. Families accommodated with
pleasant rooihs at moderate rates.
I#, i:. DOOUTYLF*.
Also Proprietor Augusta Hotel.
feTONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Georgia Railroad Company.
OFFICE GEN ERA 1, MA N A GER,
AUGUSTA, GA., Sept. 18,1880.
OMMENCING SUNDAY, 19th hint., the
Trains ran by 90th meridian time.
FAST LINK
NO. 27, WEST DAILY. NO. 28, EAST DAILY.
Ly. Augusta.....7:45 am I.v. Atlanta.. ..2:45 p m
“ Washington..7:20am “ Athens......2:50 pm
Ar. “ .10:40 am \r Winterville.3.11 pm
Lv. Athens......7:45 am “ Lexington. ..3.42 pm
Ar. Winterville..8:04am; :33 “ “ Maxeys......4.16 Antioch.....4.06 pm
“ Antioch.....8:55 Lexington...f am “ Woo .vide. .,4.40 pm
am pm
“ Maxeys.....9:04 am! “ Union Point.4 55 pm
“ WoodVille...9:26 anr “ Washington.7.35pm
“ Union Point.9:40 am Lv. “ .4.20 pm
Ar. Atlan’a......i :00pm \r. Augusta....8:15 pm
Lv Union Point. 10:35am Lv Union Point.5.50 pm
Ar Woodville... 10:48 ; m| Ar WoodviJle. .6.02 pm
“ Maxeys......11:12 am “ Maxeys......6.23 pm
«* Antioch.....11.22 am “ Antioch.....6.32 pm
“ Lexington. .11:44 12:14*pm! am “ Lexington...7.47 pm
“ Winterville. “ Winterville..ft52 pra
Ar Athens......12:35 pm “ Athens......7:40 pm
Nos. 27 & 28 stop at Grovetown, Harlem, Hearing,
Thompson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawford ville,
Union I'omt, Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge,
Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, and all Lithonia,
Stone Mountain ami Decatur, stations
named on Athens Branch.
TRAINS NO. 22 AND 2.
LEAVE Athens...... . 9.00 a m
Leave NY interville.... . 9.31 “
Leave Lexington..... 10.16 “
Leave Antioch........ .10 49 “
Leave Maxeys........ 11.12 “
Leave Wood ville...... .11.42 “
ARRIVE Union Point .11.55 “
Arrive Atlanta....... . 5.45 p m
Arrive Washington— . 2.20 “
Arrive MUledgcville.. . 4.20 “
Arrive Macon......... . 6.15 “
Arrive Augusta....... . 3.35 “
TRAINS 1 AND 19
LEAVE Augusta.... .10.50 am
Leave Macon ........ . 7.10 “
Leave Milletbreville. 9.19 “
.
Leave Washington.. 11.20 ‘
Leave Atlanta...... 8.00 “
Leave Union P-*int.. . 2.20 j’m
LEAVE Woodville. 2.39 “
.
L< ave Maxeys....... 3.18 “
.
Leave Autioch...... . 3.36 “
Leaye Lexington.... 4.13 “
.
Leave Winterville... . 4.59 “
* Arrive Athens...... . 5.30 “
Trains ran daily. Close connection to or from
Washington on Srinlays. Athens Double Washington daily connec by
lions to and from and
fast mail. E. fi DOE>U Y, (ien’l Pas’n’r Agt,
JOHN W. GREEN, .Superintendent,
JOE W. WHITE, Gen. Trav. Pass. Augusta, Agent. Ga.
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VOL. XIII.-NO. (i.
Have Them Cleaned!
TT 1 is useless to throw away your old clothes
because they may be soiled or stained or fad¬
ed. Larry them to Miies Johnson's Steam Dying
and Cleaning house, Athens, Ga , and lor a few
dollars they will tie made to look like new'
clot tics. 11 is shop is opposite the Clinard House.
Money saved by patronizing him.
LEXINGTON GIN!
Lesington, Ga.
T I T 1 AVIXG had our Ginnery all newly before repaired
and put in better order than ever we
solicit the patronage of the public, guaranteeing
satisfaction and as good turn outs as condition any gin.
Our corn and saw mill is also in good
and will be run constantly. We have Mr. J. S.
for Cheney, the an efficiency superintendent, engaged
season.
SMITH & MAXWELL,
1*1*0 pi*ietox*s,
4
5
Supper or Breakfast
At Jest’s Restaurant
Broad Street, Athens, < a.,
w
the day. Fresh game, Tables fish, fowls and oysters all
during the season. refurnished and l his Linen. fall
with new Crockery, Silverware
Neatness and dispatch my motto.
W. A. Jj££T&£l,
Dupre Block, Athens, Ga.
joi-nsrsoisr’s
CHILL & FEVER TONIC.
TS a wonderful medicine. So confident is the
1 proprietor of its merits that, every bottle is
sold under a strict guarantee, “Nocure, no pay.”
One bottle is guaranteed to cure any old chronic
case of Chill and Fever. It is one of the best
Tonics, building refunded up the broken if satisfied, down ay stem.
Money promptly M. not Crawford,
For sale y l)r. Lexington. G. Little, and
G. W. Brooks, Price 50 cents,
//. Girardeau, end Savannah, Ga.: of Johnson’s
dear Sir:—S us one gross
Chill and Fever Tonic at once, we find a ready
sale for it. WHITEHEAD A CO.,
Waynesboro, (ia.
Johnson’s Tonic is sold under a positive guar
antee, “No cure, no pay.” One bottle will cure
anv o Id chronic case where quinine and cvery
thing else has failed. For sale by Dr. M, (i. Lit
-is. e, Crawford, 5G and G. W. Brooks, Lexington, Ga. i
rice cents.
We will mafce~&R
to the interest
Merebants and Citizens
generally of Oglethorpe Co.-tS^
jZ&V’to call qd us when in Athen^.*^^
Orders by mail will receive
prompt attention. .Ino."@*3k
/S£*CbAwford Wholesale & and Co.,^'%
* jji’&r Retai 1 Drug
gists, and Seeds
men, At hens, Georgia.
FURNITURE
At Your Door I
Having brought on this season selected one
of the largest and best
stocks of Furniture that lias
ever Lexington, been brought ask to
I
the people of
this and adjoin¬
ing counties to give me
a call, believing that trouble I can
save them money, and
time. Coffins, Caskets, Burial Cases
J. R. BOGGS,
LEXINGTON. GA. i
LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1886.
COBEIVfAlIHTOl!
Grand Central
1
OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA!
©RAHD ©FUMING
Of the largest anrl most fashionable stock of New Fall Goods, consisting
of Dress Goods, Clothing, Carpets, Cassimeres, Domestiets, Sta¬
ples atirl Notions. Also, a very large and most desirable
stock in great variety Pasamautries, of Dress Trimmings, Buttons, Vel¬
vets, Plushes,
NOVELTIES OF ALL KINDS!
Our Stock of New Markets, Wraps, Jackets and Jersey Jackets, surpass in
quantity and quality any other house in the section. Among our
GRE A RG AIN S!
Offered to commence the season arc:
500 yards all-.wool Camel’s Hair, at 25 cents; worth 40c.
100 'Combination Suits, real German Goods, in the latest styles, at
$5.00; worth $7.00. '
50 pieces Screen for Curtains, at 121 cents; worth double 20 cents. and
100 dozen children's regular made ribbed Hose, heel dou¬
ble knee, in all the most desirable fall and winter colors, in all sizes, from
5 to 8-j-, at 25 cents; worth 40 cents.
50 Crochet all-wool Benclay Quilts, slightly Jackets, damped, iti sizes at to 50c. suit a Misses piecs; and worth Ladies, 75c. in all
50
colors, at $3.50; worth $5.00.
100 all wool fur back French Diagonal Now Markets, Beautifully
trimmed in Astriean, at $7.50; worth 19.00.
500 Now Market, Short Wraps a id Dress Jackets, in all the newest
materials and latest styles,
PUCES THAT BEFY COMPETITION.
50 pieces of Tapestry Carpets at G5c,, 75c., and 85c. a yard.
20 pieces Buddy Brussels Carpets at $1.10, tind $1.15 below a yard. value.
30 pieces all wool English super Carpets, at Also prices full line of Igrains,
20 pieces C. C. English super Carpets. in a State.
Hemps and Napeers, as low in price as titty house the
All sizes Smyrna, Tapestry Velvets and Mnquette Rugs, Shades, Poles
and Lace Curtains. Also Tapestry and Cretons in many qualities.
The largest and most complete stock of
[MS’ mmi GLOVES 10 OIMOCMEFS.
In all the latest patterns and qualities, which can only he appreciated by
looking at them. 500 Boys’ suits, from $2.50 to $i0.00 a suit. Spe¬
cial bargains offered in this lot of goods, and thousands of No¬
tions and Novelties. Also Table Linens, Towels, Marseilles,
and Crochet Quilts, worsted Jute and Tapestry, Table
Cloths, and many other new things looking that the them. ladies
can appreciate, by calling and at
JTJIXE COHEN,
Deupre Block, Athens, Georgia.
New Ms! New Fin! New Prices!
E. I. SMITH & CO.,
BOOTS & SHOES,
ATHENS, GEORG IA.
Having just opened a full stock of Boots and Shoes in the Store formerly
occupied by W. A. Till mad ge, Jeweler, corner Clayton street and
College avenue, invite an inspection from tlieir Ogle¬
thorpe friends. Brices to suit the times
E. I. SMITH & CO.. ATHENS, GA.
NORTH GEORGIA MUSIC HOUSE
And Sewing Machine Emporium,
TOOMER & IIASELTON, BROPR’TS,
No. *»v>, Clayton St., Afliunw, Ga.
PIANOS.
Behr Bros.
Christie A Son.
Wheelrek,
Emerson,
And Others.
From $180 to $800.
MACHINES.
ssrat,
£ I'.
ORGANS.
Sterling,
Kimball,
Pe loti bet,
Dyer & Hughes,
Bridgeport.
E«tey, From $400
$22 to
EVERYTHING SOLD FULLY GUARANTEED,
WE PAY ALL FREIGHT.
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WE DEFY COMPETETION.
And will um lw umlcrwld. We vmulny \m cmwussurs
in your wwimx. llu-rl‘fnn‘ we can sol! you 3:an fully ll)
lo ‘20 pm com luwvr than any hmm‘ Nnrlll or South.
“‘We are (he only \h‘flh‘l‘s in \M'lh \lwrgm llml pur
chase direclly from tho munufmtuu‘rs.
$ l .00 A A EAR.
COUNTY CURRENCY.
! MERE ME XT] OX OF MANY DIF¬
FERENT MATTERS.
•o
I Casual Comments Made by the Echo's Lazy
Man Concerning Things that are Barely
Noticeable. A Column or so to be Head
Dnring Your Leisure Hou-s.
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A PROSPEROUS people always build
churches, school houses and such things
for the public's good. Cast your eye
over Oglethorpe county and told draw your
iuferatice. It need not be you.
I.s our Sunny South becoming Yankee
ized? We hope it is in that our people
are learning to turn to some good ac
| count many Fortunes tilings have they been used thus to destroy¬ throw
away. be
ed, which can only in this way re¬
trieved.
The A. & C. is at last a certainty, and
mark our predictions that the sparely
settled territory both in this and adjoin¬
ing counties, through five which it will run,
; will in the next years be the most
ed populous in this section. Nature intend
this territory to sustain a dense pop
latiou.
■o
If the predominance of boy babies
means approaching wars, as the super
stitous would have us believe, this sec
lieu will be ready in another decade to
face the balance of creation upon the bat¬
tle-field. We know ngt of a wee one of
the fair sex, while fine boys come to al¬
most every family.
Iir is confidently predicted that in a
few more years traveling gins will take
the place of stat ionary ones arid a farm¬
er’* cotton will be ginned ns bis grain is
now threshed. There is no reason why
such should not be the case, lor such a
move means less trouble and time lost to
the planter.
It docs not speak well of Oglethorpe
in say that at. none of the recent fairs,
was her name connected with but few if
any of the exhibits. We have plenty of
things worthy to be shown, and nothing
speaks better for a community than to
show that it exhibits what it can worthy
of exhibition. Advertising pays in all
things.
It would seem that railroad builders
have centered their attention upon Ogle¬
thorpe county, for at present there are
four important talked ol lines that will,
if they arc built, pass over her. soil. No¬
body wilt raise any objections, for we
have gotten over the idea of our fore¬
fathers that, railroads were a curse to a
country. We’ll take all that comes.
Has it been biit a few years since up¬
on every hand the cry of old, wornnut
Jands went up? We think not—a very
few—but we hear of no such now. It is
a term stricken from the farmer’s dic¬
tionary, because he has learned to im¬
prove land instead of wealing it out by
tilling it. It is a lesson that comes by
degrees, but a good one when once learn*
od.
Often are wo humorously assailed for
so often saying that there is “no greener
spot on God’s green earth” than Ogle¬
thorpe county, but we have planted our¬
selves on that assertion and there we in¬
tend to stay, not from any loval senti¬
mentality, but. because we know it is true.
Soil, climate, water, minerals and pro
duets go to make it so, and it is so just
because it is not otherwise.
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The good of railroads is not altogether
centered in the advantages they afford
to bring in and carry out imports and
exports. This whistle and rumble of
passing trains , . puts life in . those , who , bear ,
litem, making a slow-going people quick
stepped and more bu*inp«8 like. J hey
wake up (be sleepy arid inspire the sloth¬
ful to move faster. Are there not parts
of our county that need such changes
made t
Strange how our people like to be
humbugged. It i« estimated that ten
thotiHtitid dollar* have been taken out of
this county thin fail by a foreign bu»L
news concern, whose wares could ha'e
been bought at borne or very near borne
at half the prices it exacted of our pen
pie for their wares. When we learn that
in patronizing home industries we
ronize ourselves, we have learned a lesson
of great value to us.
If the present talked of enterprises in
our county assume the shape of realities,
as it seems highly probable they will, we
will have a much denser population, and
a denser population will bring about
smaller farms, and no one denies that
smaller farms means a more tbrilty farm¬
ing class, and a thrifty farming cla-s in¬
creases and encourages every branch of
business. Then should we not do all we :
can to aid the enterprises ? j 1
Tf the almost univerw^l determination
to pay debts so marked among the farm- j
ing classes this season is only encouraged >
as it should be, those good old days of
long ago will be brought back when ev
good for his obligation* and ‘
erv man was
litigation was of rare occurrence. Those
who have not been able to fully liquid
ate their debts have shown a witlingm *s
to do so, and "wbercyei there is a will
there is a wav” was taughtall of us in j
our school days.
“Are the smaller and town* I
younger
going to outstrip the larger and older
ones in this county ?” was asked us the
other day. To us it looks that way. Hut
i i youth there is vigor, and it may !e
these Youthful towns are only going
ahead because they are in tlieir youthful
ages. Their lethargic age will come
about the time the older towns return to
tlieir second childhood ana there will be
a reversion of things. Just now they are
won’t to say, “Go slow, young towns ; go
slow.”
Now that unforseen circumstances, not
altogether brought about by citizens of
Oglethorpe, have come forth to give the
cobntv a boom, every citizen should deem
it bis bounded duty to increase tbc boom
as much as bo is capable. Talk about,
write about and praise up tbc advantages
of nur soil and climate, our railroad and
mail facilities; and in fact every advan¬
tage that will tend to bring in good im¬
migrants. We have room for more res¬
idents and tiic mere we have the better
it will be for those already here.
If as it has always boon said, nothing
speaks better fora county than her pub¬
lic buildings, we would just like to find
the county that better can be saidoftban
Oglethorpe when her handsome new tem¬
ple of justice is finished. A citizen will
always be made to feel proud -.v hen visit¬
ing and have a stranger to say, “Oh, yes;
you arc from the county that has the
prettiest and most convenient court¬
house in the State, and one of the most
artistic and secure touched jails.” in Touch tender a man’s
pride and he is a spot.
The recent exciting and unusual gu¬
bernatorial campaign in Tennessee litis
caused much to be said about parties
who were compelled to leave that state
directly after tbc “recent unpleasantness”
because of their allegiance to the confed¬
eracy. If every section to which these
refugees fled were as lucky as Oglethorpe
county in securing uh go-ahead, clever
citizens, congratulated surely they like Oglethorpe, are
to be for their gain at Ten¬
nessee’s loss. We’ll take all such as the
Tennessee bush-whackers of ’GO and ’GG
sent us.
Is it because our people have so little
to levy on, or because our creditors are
more lenient than others, or because our
Sheriffs do not like to make levys, or is
it because our debtors are shrewder than
other debtors and succeed in evading
them that so few Sheriff's sales arc made
in this county. For the past year the
F.CHO has had not more than ten adver¬
tisements of Sheriff's sale, and most of
those it has had have begn stopped by
settlement or otherwise before the, sale
was made. Maybe it might be that the
homestead law has been resorted to in
this county more than in others.
A Consfailt llain.
A wonderful and most extraordinary
phenomenon Mr. M. I*. Hoyle, may who lie seen resides at the only homo few ^1
a
hundred yards beyond the corporate iirn
its of Dawson, in a uotthwesterly direc¬
tion. It is a constant fall of rain from a
cloudless sky, the area in Mr. Moyle’*
yard that is covered by the shower being
about twenty or twenty-five feet square,
Many of our best citizens have been out
to see this remarkable freak of nature,
if such it may be termed, and all unite
in testifying that there ia a genuine and
almost ceaseless fall of rain drops. At
times the supply of water seems greater
than at others. Mr. Hoyle states that
lie first observed this unusual sight about
three weeks and ago. bo lie cordially cannot invites explain his
the mystery,
friCmlM out to mci* I lie si range occurrence
I or themselves.— Daw.vm Journal.
“English as She is Spoke.”
When you read in the papers that a
P P,H0 " (J, i'd “universally regretted,”
It means
'I bat lie died very rich.
When you hear that a wealthy man is
wor t|| „o and so many millions,
It means
That he may possibly be worth a quar
a bait as miieb
When von are told that a theatre has
been having crowded houses and scant
sUn di„g room nightly,
Jt, meaoH
„, 1 hut you can safely r , ask , for , passes for -
your entire (am,ly.
When a bank prescient ts reported to
have gone to Canada for the benefit
tils heal i,
,n, ’' lllR
,,,, Ihut you should remove your deposits
to another bank, if you can get them to
remove.
Honest Scientists.
"J'be Charleston earthquake has caused
the leading scientistsol Europe to give
the world the full benefit of their studies
in It seismology, be of interest summarize the
will to
views of these experts. The scientist*
aeree on the following points :
First. The cause* of earthquakes are
not known.
Keeond. No accurate prediction and can be
made of their time, place duration.
Third. No connection ha* been traced
between the weather and earthquakes.
Volcanoes and earthquakes are both
due to the same general causes. The
globe passes through periods of spebial
volcanic activity, and these period*
range in duration from two to twenty
years. We are passing through such
period now, arid it lias already lasted si
yenm. believed
ft i* that there is an earth
*plit under Charleston, and the earth in
1 ia 01 a 1 ^ 1r,# ‘ r, ,n s f}W in ! i ,0 n or
. .
7erany severe 6 co^uuTon, Tc'
e
C ur.
Perhaps the moat threatening Bpot in
the country is in Wyoming territory.
The geysers there will probably develop
into active vo.canoes, but tlie change is
not likely to take place for some bun
dreds of years to come.
Our friends, the scientists, have not
added to our stock of earthquake lore,but
they deserve our thanks all the same. It
is something in these days to find men
honest enough to admit that they know
nothing.
The Oglethorpe Echo
SUBSCRIPTION:
ONE YU A It....... SLOfli
-IX MONTHS----
THREE MONTHS, as
Terms.—'C ash in advance. No paper sent untii
money received.
renewed. All papers stopped at expiration of time, unless
No club rates; but will any receive one sending the us ten
names and ten dollars paper one
year free of charge. remitted by
Morey can be .postoffice money dr¬
ier or registered letter at our risk.
Entered at the post office in Lexington, Georgia, as
second-class mail matter.
AGAINST MONOPOLIES.
T IIE DEPRESSION OF TIIE TIMES;
IIS CALbE , AAV ... REMElJi.
A Series of Articles From a Gentleman Who
has Given the Matter Thorough Study:
Some Startling Facts and Figures.
ARTICLE i.
Editor Oglethorpe Echo:
After some consideration, I have con¬
cluded, at some sacrifice, to accept vour
invitation, and contribute a serr&s of ar¬
ticles to your paper on “The Depression
of die Times ; the Cause and Remedy.”
Nothing lias contributed more largely in
persuading me to do so than the fact
that you knldftaiu what I conceive to be
correct ideas of journalism, that a public
journal should be the menus of distribu¬
ting information among its readers. Not
simply the personal opinions of its edit
ors, which are alter crude or biased and
always molded largely by their associa¬
tions and interests, the former sometime
leading them to he clanish, the latter ,
often making them more or less selfish,
earning them to attempt to mould the
public in tlieir interest, regardless of the
rights or interests of that public, but any
and all kinds of information which may
be claimed to be for the welfare of the
public, whether it is in accordance with
the preconceived Opinions of its editor
or not. Your position has been so en¬
tirely difi’erent from some of your cotem*
poraries in an adjoining county, as to
make it notable. Largely for the rea¬
son above, I gladly accept your offer,
hoping you will open your columns as
freely to any one who may differ with me
us you have done to me, that the truth
may be known. My theme shall be
THE DEPRESSION OF THE TIMES; ITS
CAUSE A Nil REMEDY.
In the inquiries ns U> the cause of the
present depression of all tbc industrial
interests, it might bo well to inquire
whether there is really any substantial
cause for complaint. If it should turn
out that nil of the complaining comes
from a few dissatisfied idlers, selfish dem¬
agogues or chronic grumblers, who are'
dissatisfied becatiHc the country docs not
How with milk and honey, t'tnft} t*ho, if it
did, would want a free spoon furnished
to eat it with, then we need not pursue
tliis question further. Hot if, on the con¬
trary, we find a legitimate cause for com¬
plaint; first the industries of the coun¬
try, wholly prices or even partially all useful paralyzed, produc¬
with low lor
tions of toil, tarot products of especially,
selling at less than the cost produc¬
tion, wages low, and labor discontented,
while the gigantic corporations of the
country tiro declaring enormous divi¬
dends, then it niay prove not only inter¬
esting but instructive to pursue this
question to its legitimate conclusion.
Firstly, then, let us look at the condi¬
tion of tbc industrial classes and Hee if
they have cause for complaint, and if so,
let os »ee if we can find an adequate will
remedy. Now, no informed person
Deny that such a state of universal utl
rest and dissatisfaction ever existed in
this country before. Nor is the dissat
isfaction confined to this country. Thera
N hardly a civilized nation in the whole
world in which the workers are notstrug*
iffing fiercely for existence Iiut what
qf (,ur own land “this land of plenty
h ,r *'l 1 and to spare.” A million or more
of people out of employment and beg¬
ging for work in our cities. Strikes and
lockouts the order of the day, instead of
the ex(eption. Merchant* and business
men
farmers producing io-s, breadstuff, meats and
cotton at a clear while paying their
laborers just enough to procure a bare
animal existence. The great mass oftbO
people in the cities fast becoming home¬
less, while in the country, the land i*
swiftly drifting from the farmers into the
bands of merchants, and money-loaning
corporations, while the children that
ought to i t- at school are drudging in the
, cotton patch, earning money to pay in
terest on mortgages, only to drudge out
their young J, davs and then settle down
„ , HnU tlleir fathers a - renters,
for cotton at eight cents don’t pay mort
tion f On the one hand this co.tdf
; on th. other we find gigantic cor
|, orll | jona accumulating immense fort
tines in a few years bv ’ keeping \v enormous
bllrdcll< on |„. e find the
wk „, jrkillM -. non producer*. “who toil
not, neither do they spin," fa-t becoming
, oiitliwnnireM by methods that if they were
of lea* magnitude would be punished as
crimes. We see the wealth of the musses
drilling into the hands of the non-pro
dncitig lew -bankers, corporations, law
yers and various firms of syndicate*. We
seethe great commercial centers—the
cities gathering in the surplus wealth of
the country, while the farms are wearing
out and the farmers becoming poorer
year by year. We, in short, are fast be
coming a nation of millionaires on one
band and serfs on the other. We do not
think the picture is over-drawn. If not,
there i* good cause for complaint. If it
j., whv this unrest among the people?
Why this organizing for protection by
the Knights of Labor, Knights of Indus
try, Orange Farmers, Alliance. Wheel,
Greenbaeker* and Anti-Monopolists?
Are the people mistaken as to tlieir con
dition? We think not. H. N. C.
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