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Official Organ of Oglethorpe County.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 N»3.
The cotton movement and market is
turning attention from Congress and
its actions. The first is not all gas.
Murder* and robberies have super
ceded outrage* and lynchings over the
country. Who is going to accuse Con¬
gress of the change ?
It is predicted that cotton will go to
ten cents. When it does all the kinks
in the Southern financial situation will
he as straight as shingles.
Tm: South’s sympathy goes out to
stricken Brunswick. Sympathy is very
good but material aid is what is most
needed by the unfortunate town.
ITT every dollar you can in circula¬
tion by paying your debts and we will
hear very little of the necessity for an
increase in the circulating medium.
The eye* of the people are opening
to the folly of trying to coin gold and
silver on a parity. What can’t be done
can’t be done, and there’s no use try
ing.
Kvi by bale of cotton marketed now
puls that much money in circulation
find goes a long ways towards relieving
the stringency, Don’t withhold this
relief.
]‘KOBE should meet their obligations
at all times, but just now it is more en¬
cumbent than usual that they do ho.
Few are in condition to extend obliga¬
tions.
To read the Georgia paper* a strang¬
er would think the gubernatorial race
was on in full force. There’ll doubt¬
less be a lull before the real campaign
opens.
With great persistency the anti
(’leveland editors warn the people
against following the suggestions of the
president, is it any safer to follow
they thun him.
“li money talks,” says an exchange,
“it should tell Congress to go on with
its rat killing and let it alone.” llut
how would they get their per diem if
they let it alone?
In duo time wo will anuounce our
candidate for Governor. We will wait
awhile so that lie will not ho bellowsed
like a horse when he enters upoh his
administrative duties.
Tins district is beginning to east
about for its next Congressman.
There is no lack of good timbers.
Greene or Oglelhorpe county will
furnish the next, however.
Let’s give all of our time and atten¬
tion to furthering the onmarch of bet¬
ter times and leave State, politics until
uext summer when financial matters
will not so materially interfere.
A mah rush was made for lots in the
Cherokee strip which was opened for
settlers last Saturday. It shows how
prone people arc to try to get something
for nothing though the cost be heavy.
The new White House baby has
been named Esther, which means in
bible lore “a star” and “good fortune.”
Will she be a star of good fortune to
the country, free silver or no free sil¬
ver.
“No speaking allowed" should ap¬
pear as conspicuously in the national
eapitol as does “keep off the grass" oil
the grounds surrounding it. And the
first should be more urgently enforced
for the public’s good.
It is said that the administration, a
majority of both houses of Congress
and the country generally favors the
repeal of the ten per cent tax on state
bank issue. Then why in the thunder
is not the repeal made.
It has taken almost heroic efforts up¬
on the part of merchants to gel sup¬
plies for their customers during the
summer. This the customers should
bear in miud aud make heroic effort*
to pay their accounts and ease the mer¬
chant*.
DORSEY & STERN,
WE AGAIN APPEAL.
We don’t Hunk any rational citizen
will deny that Tin: Echo is a factor in
the upbuilding of the material interest
of Oglethorpe county, ft at least, ad¬
vertises the county and its resources
and thereby is more or less beneficial
to every citizen in the county. Then
on top of this it is a county enterprise
—and a worthy one, we may fain say—
and it should he a matter of pride to
every citizen of the county to see it
succeed. The greater its success the
more credit to the citizen of the county
upon whom it depends for that suc¬
cess.
With these facts before its readers
has it not a right to make an appeal—
a demand might not be putting it too
strongly—for some favors that will add
greatly to its success and yet not cost
those who grant those favors one cent
or any undue trouble. That favor is
one we have often asked before that
the readers of Tiik Echo give its ad¬
vertising patrons the preference of
their trade. Having on several previ¬
ous occasions stated the different ways
in which such acts will greatly benefit
the paper and increase its patronage
and consequent income we do not
deem it necessary to state them again.
We feel that the citizens of the
county and the friends of the paper
have its welfare at heart, but they
forget too often this valuable service
they can do it. That is why we repeat
the appeal—to remind them of the
matter. We have cverv promise of a
liberal advertising patronage this fall.
Should the favor that we ask be gen¬
erally shown it will insure us a liberal
patronage again next season and for
some time to come. We therefore
urge our friends and readers to bear it
in mind and we and they shall see the
good fruits.
Besides doing what home pride and
patriotism demands, those whojgrant
our request will be benefitted, for by a
liberal advertising patronage are we
enabled to get out a (letter paper. Let
us have this encouragement and we as¬
sure the people of the county that The
Echo will continue to merit their
praises and be a pride to them as their
county paper.
DO YOUR PART.
We see it stated on eyery hand that
the stringency in money matters is
about over. We are gratified to be¬
lieve that this in a great measure is
true, but it is not entirely so. There is
every indication that the tightness of
the times is loosening its grasp but it
has not yet entirely let loose, and it
will tnke very little to cause it to again
contract its muscles and again squeeze
every business interest and every in¬
dividual. This will surely be the case
unloss everybody determines to do all
in their power to further the prospects
which are now evident of better times.
Especially does it behoove the debtor
class to make every possible effort in
this direction.
Since the farming class is the one
upon which all hopes are based of con¬
tinuing the brightening of the financial
horizon more responsibility rests upon
it perhaps than upon other debtors, and
the farmers, along with all other cred¬
itors, should make every possible en¬
deavor to do their part in the matter,
in fact they are the starters of the
movement, and whatever else is done
must ho based upon their action. We
therefore appeal to them to lose no
time iu meeting their obligations and
relieving their creditors.
It is universally known that it was
by almost superhuman efforts that the
merchants were enabled to get supplies
to furnish their customers during the
past spring and summer. Money mat¬
ters were in such shape that manufac¬
turers could do nothing else but de¬
mand cash for their wares. To get the
cash merchants had to make doubly se
cure obligations and these obligations
are now falling due. A majority of
them will have to he met on the first of
October and lirst of November. The
merchants’ dependence to meet them
is the customers to whom they furnish¬
ed the supplies which these obligations
enabled them to obtain, and unless
these customers come promptly to their
relief there is no telling what the re¬
sult will be. It is safe to say it will be
such as will convince the country that
the clearing away of the cloud of strin¬
gency is now more a matter of hope
than a matter of ultimate fact.
U is therefore highly important that
all creditors do their part. t i» nects
sar\ for the sa ety o t e country am
there own future welfare that they do
n >t hesitate m t le cas in n,e ® j n S
their obligations, ere >y enn
those they owe to avert serious
plications which are hanging over
them. If all will do this, bringing in
their produce as fast as they can get it
in marketable shape we will see the fl
nancial cloud that has beeu over
shadowing us eutirely dispell itself.
Fsneciallv will this be the case in the
*
which , has Stood , the , strain . .
South , SO
wet! thus far. But should the debtors
la, 1 ° ~«iW *h«ir arttt until
creditors have beeu forced to the wall
XjE-fftJDIKTa- 3FXJR3STITXJISE DEALERS
cf tlais Section of aecrg-ia.
there will be trouble in our now com¬
paratively prosperous and hopeful sec¬
tion.
We hope all will see the status of
affairs as we have in the above attempt¬
ed to depict them and that there will
be universal efforts made to avert what
may come, Let’s all do our part, los
insr no opportunity to help one another,
all putting our shoulders to the wheel
of commerce and setting it to rolling
once more freely, and then we can de¬
clare the stringency over. Such is nec¬
essary to mark such a declaration true.
PUTS IT PLAINLY.
The last issue of the Washington Ga¬
zette has this very plainly put editorial
upon the coinage of silver and gold up¬
on a parity;
A standard is a measure with which
we compare other things. We measure
prices of articles which we wish to ex¬
change by buyiDg aud selling, in
standard money. We measure them
bv other standards to ascertain, not
prices, but quantities. Yard measures,
peek measures, gallons, pounds, etc.,
are standard measures.
Now everybody knows yard we cannot of
have two standard measures
different lengths. We can have wood¬
en measures and tape measures but
they must he equal in the. matter of
length which is the thing we wish to
measure. In the same way we cannot
have two standards of value unless
they are exactly equal in value. To
measure prices with silver and gold
dollars when they are not equal in val¬
ue, would not work. It is unreasona¬
ble to think that silver and gold bull¬
ion will keep at just the same value.
The advocates of free silver coinage
tell us that measure would at the ratio
of 10 to 1, make silver dollars which
were a legal tender equal to gold dol¬
lars. But the world has had a large
experience of tins very thing and the
contrary is proved. In the first coin¬
age in i7!)4 up to 1873 there was free
coinage of silver at that ratio. The
dollars were not equal in value and we
had lirst a silver monometalism in
currency, then gold monometalism, as
the price varied. In France the same
thing was true during the century up
to 1873.
Can anyone deny the philosophy of
the Gazette or show that it does not
reason well? We cannot, and we are
ready to admit that, he the intentions
what they might, the Chicago platform
made a demand in its financial plank
that is absurd because of its impracti¬
cability if not impossibility. It seems
to us that to attempt to establish two
standards would destroy both and the
country would really be left without
any standard. There is no assurance
whatever but that the values of
the metals would lluctuate. To¬
day the gold and silver dollar might
both be worth one hundred cents. To¬
morrow the gold might go up to 1.02
and the silver down to .08, the next day
the relative values might be reversed.
Then where would we look for a stan¬
dard.
True, the government stamp might
make them both worth a dollar in the
commercial world, hut that is not the
question when it comes to establishing
a standard. The government stamp
makes a worthless piece of paper worth
a dollar also; then why use a commod¬
ity that costs as much as silver? Is it
not folly to pay fifty or sixty cents, as
the case is now, for a thing upon which
to place the government’s fiat that
makes it worth one hundred cents when
an article that answers the purpose
just as well can be obtained for virtu¬
ally nothing. There is no more assur¬
ance that gold and silver can be made
to maintain an equal intrinsic value
than that paper and gold can be kept
SO.
These ideas may seem strange in the
face of the demands of the Democratic
platform, but they are reasonable ones,
plain and easy to catch. Mr. Cleve¬
land doubtless had some such when his
last message was written. He is not
given to following high sounding (theo¬
ries no matter where they originate—
whether iu a party platform or not—
and it is therefore seuseless to charge
him with being false to the people be¬
cause he takes a common sense view of
a matter and words his messages ac¬
cordingly. The plain way in which
the Gazette looks at the matter is doubt
ess the way the President views it.
Can it well be viewed in any other way?
If the Democratic party is success¬
ful by a tight squeeze iu the coming
elections it will be chargeable to said
to-be members of the party who are so
diligently sowing seeds of discord in
the party. They should think of what
they are doing.
— *
Gkx Evans has succumbed to the
vt y orts of s j ate ma kers and virtual
jy announced his candidacy for guber- |
We afe gurpri8ed j
that the Gen. is not well enough up on
r nia tt ers t 0 know that he has
undertaken a risky campaign.
Arnold Bros. & Glenn, at Carl
ton , Ga., will save von money on
Bagging and Ties, bo not fail to i
SP o them. |
For s lame hack or for a pain in the sole or
chest, trv saturating a piece of flannel with
(7h*iuberl«in*s Pain Haiti) ami binding it ou
to the affected parts. This treatment will cure:
for sale by M. G. Latte. |
BROAD ST., ATHENS .
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