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FRIDAY .HORNIN'!** .VIAHi ll 22 . 1 H 1 I 5 .
That new party seems really to
have died aborning, (t made but a
meteoric Hash across the political skies.
The President sprained his knee on
his recent duck hunt. And really some
of the anti-organs rejoiced over his
misfortune.
Nk\v railroads are being talked of
and projected all over the country
again, A sure sign this of brighter
t imes ahead.
The press of Alabama has tabooed
Kolb by agreeing to not make mention
of his antics. That will take all his
glory from him.
It is such men as that man Moore,
of Atlanta, who keeps sectional strife
alive. Without such as they it would
soon be forgotten.
Gov. Atkinson is making a record
for granting pardons. In this particu¬
lar he. is said to be very much like
Gov. Alex. Stephens.
The past is the best thing by which
we can judge the future. That is
enough to kill all hopes for better
times under Republican rule.
Still a traducer as lawyer Moore, of
Atlanta, only tends to slir up the
better class of foreigners in the South,
They will rise and refute his slanders.
I’orui.isT leaders look upon the for¬
mation of Hint fourth party as an at¬
tempt to disrupt their parly. We
don’t believe it will be able to do even
that.
Rt.i t licit an clubs are being formed
over the South, giving some show of
life to the old party. Just getting
ready for pulls at the government teat,
that’s all.
Me Kim.ey, of high tariff fame, now
Governor of Ohio, is iho guest of Geor¬
gia. lie grows painfully silent when
asked about the ensuing presidential
campaign.
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New Orleans has been adding to
her unenviable reputation as a city of
riots the past week. This time it is
between white and imported negro
wharf hands,
Spain is again engaged in whipping
Cuba back into subjection. Spain
ought to bind her unruly subject to the
United States and get rid of such a re¬
fractory child.
And now Uncle Sam hag about
three little .misunderstandings with
other nations on his hand. We hope
they will be settled in some oilier than
schoolboy style.
Wi: don’t think it would be a had
idea for this country to have, a small
size brush with some other uation. It
w’ould allay strife and dissections
among our own people.
. l r is rumored that Senator Gordon
will retire from public life at the expi¬
ration of his present term. If the peo¬
ple have anything to say in the matter
we shouldn’t wonder if he did.
Speculators are working that same
old game of running the price of cotton
up at this season to induce large crops.
It does seem that the farmers ought to
see the triggers in this snare by this
time.
We are for a protective tariff—on
those lords and dukes and titled dudes
who are coming over and capturing
our millionaire girls. They should be
made to pay something for their ac¬
quisitions.
A Spanish gunboat tired several
shots at an American mail packet on
the high seas one day last week.
Couldn't that be magnified into a big
enough breach of the peace to entitle us
to Cuba as a ransom for the diseourte
sy?
The anti-administrationists will
never succeed in creating sentimeut in
their favor by classing all who do not
denounce Cleveland as dishonest and
disreputable as goldbugs. In fact
Cleveland is not, strictly speaking, a
goldbug, He is nor is he a and silver-monometal- broad be
ist too wise to an
extremist of any kind.
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON, ( A.: FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895.
IT’S ALL A MYTH.
It is not an uncommon thing now to
hear thougbt-to-be good Democrats ex¬
pressing themselves as really gratified
that the Republican party is again
practically in power. Somehow these
Democrats have gotten the idea into
their heads that, with the return of Re¬
publican rule the financial stringency
that has existed for the past few years
will disappear and that we will re-enter
an epoch of prosperity and plenty such
as is but natural to the country.
Of course the Republicans are hold¬
ing out such a promise, but we believe
it to be all a myth aud we have no pa¬
tience with it. To us it is clear that
the stringency through which we are
passing is but the natural r< suit of Re¬
publican rule aud legislation of the
past. This stringency has been < jn:
on for a longer time t! an w« 1 a\< re a
felt it. Like the approa ,CE 01 a
brand, we did not notice it- wamch.
but when it touched our flesh we were
forced to wince from the stinging
burn. So it has been w ith the strin¬
gency. The fostering of the million¬
aire manufactures under protection
laws, the laying of heavy taxes upon
the few dollars worth of household and
kitchen furniture owned by the poor
man while the bondholder went free of
taxes; the immense amounts paid in
fraudulent pensions; the big govern¬
ment steals, and divers other such tac¬
tics upon the part of the Republican
party during its power previous to 1892,
were the causes of straits in financial
matters to which our people were forc¬
ed, though the really perceptible ef
ects did not come until after they had
been deprived of the power to contin¬
ue them.
It is, therefore, absurd to charge
these effects up to the Democratic par¬
ty and more absurd, in our humble
opinion, to expect an improvement to
follow the return of power of the Re¬
publicans. The hair of the dog may
be good for the bite in some things hut
not in political affairs, if the rule of
the Republicans brought dire distress,
as it did, to the masses of people, more
of that same rule cannot and will not
relieve that distress. It is against all
natural law that it should; it is pursu¬
ing a myth to entertain any. hope or
belief tlmt it will.
We do not say this to discourage any
body. We are not pessimistic, but
believe that we have passed through the
worse. We feel assured that times are
going to brighten, hut we are not will¬
ing that the Republican party shall have
the credit therefor. The masses of the
people have been taught salutary les¬
sons by the stringency and reached the
rightful conclusion that, though the
policy of this or that party may throw
obstacles in their way or remove them,
after all prosperity depends mainly up¬
on their own individul efforts and
practices. Having had this truth
throughly impressed upon them they
are showing more determination than
ever shown before to apply it and we
can only wait to see the result. Ail
we can ask of any political party is pro¬
tection of our rights and property; we
must do the rest. 'I'llis protection is
not guaranteed u* by a party commit¬
ted to the protection of the manufac¬
turer to the injustice of the consumer
of the products of his factory; by the
party which winks at the looting of the
public treasury by fraudulent pension¬
ers while heavy taxes are exacted from
the people to keep money in the treas¬
ury; by a party that lets the milfion
aire bondholder and property owner go
free of contributing to tlie support of
the government while tithes are forced
from the citizen whose only income is
the small earnings of his daily labor
and that barely enough to keep the
wolf away from his door.
That is the Republican party to
which many are popefully looking for
deliverance from the stringency now
upon us. All such hope is misplaced.
Better times are coining, but that par¬
ty will not bring them, nor will it hast¬
en them. If it does anything it will
retard their speedy bight towards us.
And those Democrats who talk as those
mentioned at the beginning of this ar¬
ticle are, by entertaining their mythi¬
cal ideas, only helping to do the re¬
tarding.
HE IS BUT ONE.
For the past ten days Atlanta, aud a
good part of the State, as for that mat¬
ter, have been considerably wrought
up by a letter written by one Mr.
Moore, a lawyer iu that city, who
came from the North, to oue of his
friends who was arranging to move to
the South, In that letter the writer
said some very hard thiugs about the
South aud her people, using terms cal¬
culated to arouse a great deal of indig¬
nation.
We don’t kuow that Mr. Moore—
never heard of him before his seurril
ou$ letter was made public—but we
will venture that we can make a pretty
j g00( i ^ guess as t0 w fi at mauner of
man j g- lie is but one of a few of
his kind who haye swooped down upon
the South from the North aud other
sections. Having been reared in the
, lap of prejudice . and self-conceit, , they
come with confidence that thev will
find in the South a nation of semi-bar¬
barian ignoramuses who will readily
recognize in them an eminently supe¬
rior being to whom they will readily
bend the suppliant knee. They expect
nothing but that servant-like homage
will be paid them at every turn and
that they will rule as lords and kinps
over those among whom they condes¬
cend to cast their lots.
Of course they are disappointed as
all such bigots and fools should be.
Piquancy follows disappointment and
they become angered at our people be¬
cause they misjudged them. This
puts them in an attitude to receive the
scorn and contempt of}our people, and
very justly so; and they at once begin
to make reports to their home people
in keeping with the treatment they
bring upon themselves.
A? have said, this man Moore is
evidently one of that class, of which
«e have been infested by but a few,
and \et we run upon them too often
and tolerate them too much. They by
no means find sympathizers among the
la-ge number of Northern aud Wes¬
tern people of seuse and discretion and
instincts of gentlemen who have set¬
tled in the South and have no regrets
whatever over their coming. These
are to be found in almost every com¬
munity (we have several iu this coun¬
ty) where they are looked upon as our
best citizens and where they are treated
with all consideration and deferent e
due from gentlefolks. They make no
complaint whatever at their treatment,
but on the other hand are ever ready
to sound the praises of our people for
their openhanded hospitality and kind¬
ness aud for their honesty aud upright¬
ness.
It is to these the people of the North
and West who are seeking for more
alvantagious locations should apply
for opinions of the South and her peo¬
ple. It is people of their class we in¬
vite to come and dwell among us, as¬
suring them that they will find their
surroundings so much more propitious
than in their native climes and our
people so nearly all they could ask for
as neighbors that they will deem it a
duty they owe those they have left be¬
hind to try to induce them to come and
share their good fate with them.
They, nor us, want any “Moore’s”
among us. Such as they would depict
paradise as a hades should they ever
get there. They know not the first
laws of appreciation or gratitude.
Such as they do only temporary hatm
—provided they don’t remain. This
they should he induced peremptorially
not to do. Communities North, South,
Last or West are far better off without
them. They would degrade a South
Sea island by their presence. But
as his like are few, it is not worth the
while to give him so much attention.
WILL THEY DO IT ?
During the past ten days or two
weeks there has been a big jump in
the price of cotton, making it sell now
for about, six cents a pound. This,
coupled with the offer of guano manu¬
facturers to take four hundred pounds
of cotton payable next fall per ton for
guano, is causing many to express se¬
rious doubts as to whether there will
be that decrease in acreage in the sta¬
ple which has been urged and which is
acknowledged by farmers and all is
necessary to make its production profit¬
able. The amount of guano that is be¬
ing hauled from market tends to in¬
crease this doubt, and though farmers
generally have declared their intention
of reducing the acreage they are gen¬
erally quite silent wheu the subject is
broached now.
We know it is irksome to the farm¬
ers to be forever warning and advising
them. It looks like meddling with their
business; but we will venture once again
to call their attention to the prediction,
of all experts, founded upon actual
known data that the prices next fall,
should anything like as large a crop be
made this year as last, will range at four
cents per pound. These experts are,
for the most part, not interested in the
price of cotton, and what they say
should be W’ell weighed. Every indi¬
cation points to low prices for this
crop, and if our farmers will go ahead
and raise it tvbeu the cost of produc¬
tion will be greater than the price they
have nobody to blame but themselves.
We shall see if they will do this.
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Commencing December 14tb, Augusta, Ga., December 23,1894.
1894, the following schedules will be operated. All trains run
by 90th meridian lime. The scedules are subject to change without notice to the public.
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TRAIN NIGHT DAY TRAIN ! ST A TIONS. TRAIN DAY NIGHT TRAIN
NO. 11 EX PR, MAIL NO. 27. | NO. 28. MAIL. EXIT. NO. 12.
4 40p 10 30d 11 30 p 7 15a Lv .......Augusta...... Ar 8 30p 1 OOp 5 15a -3
5 09p 10 58p 11 54p ........ Beiair....... 12 36p 4 48a -1
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5 2211 11 09p 12 04p 7 45a ......Grovetown.... 8 OOp 12 27p 4 37a -7
5 36p 11 21 p 12 16p .......Berzelia..... .....12 16p 4 25a «
5 45p 11 29p 12 24 p 8 00a .......Harlem...... 7 28p 12 09p 4 16a C
5 54p 11 38a 12 34p 8 06a .......Bearing..... 7 20p 12 OOp 4 07a C
0 12p 11 58a 12 52 p 8 19a ......Thomson..... 7 05p 11 44a 3 50a c
0 24p 12 08a 1 04p ........Mesena...... ...... 11 33a 3 38a o
G 32p 12 Ida 1 12p 8 35a ........Camak...... 6 50 p 11 26a 3 28a Cl
0 41p 12 25a 1 20 p 8 40a .......Norwood..... 6 41 p 11 19a 3 20a i.1
0 54p 12 42a 1 36[i 8 53a ........Barnett...... 6 28p| 11 05a 3 04a C7I
7 05p 12 56a 2 50p 9 01a Crawfordville... 6 17p 10 54a 2 48a CT
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7 25 pj 1 22a 2 30p 9 25a .....Union Point.... 5 55p 10 34a 2 21a Of
" ■ | \ 2 1 05a 38a 3 2 44 10p p 9 38a .....Greenesboro ... 5 42p| 10 00aj 21a! 2 Ola
. 10 00a ... .Buckhead..... 5 20p 10 1 37a
i O O On 3 23p 10 12a Madison...... 5 OOp 945a 1 20a
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• 2 56a 3 56p 10 40a .....Social Circle....... 4 38p 9 10a 12 45a
. 3 19a 4 20p 10 58a ......Covington...... 4 20p 8 46a 12 22a
. 3 41a 4 45p 11 15a .......Conyers....... 4 02p 8 25a! 12 OOn
. 3 54a 5 OOp 11 26a .......Lithonia...... 3 52 p 8 13a 11 45 p
4 15 a 5 21p 11 42a .. .Stone Mountain... 3 36p 7 54a! 11 24p
. 4 28a 5 34p 11 51a .Clarkston...... 3 28p 7 43a 11 Up
. 4 39a 5 45p 12 OOn .......Decatur....... 3 20p 7 34a 11 OOp
. 5 00a 6 00p[l2 15p Ar ......Atlanta....... Lv 3 05 p 7 15a (10 45p
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1 24p 8 47a .....Warren ton 6 43p 11 17a 12 03a
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io 56 p...... ......Culverton...... 6 16p 10 49a 11 18p
tw O'* 9 22a .......Sparia........ 6 08p 10 40a 11 02p
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Ci <?'* 9 43a ........Carrs........ 5 40p 10 18a
O? 10 00a ... .Milledgeville____ 5 29 p 10 00a
4 -* VZ ......Browns...... 5 14p 9 46a
ot CC 10 24a ......Haddocks..... 5 05 p 9 37a A
wt 53 10 32a ........James........ 4 57p 9 28a A
ct 11 00a Ar ........Macon........ Lv 4 25p 9 00a OO
. j 6 55plll 08a 2 OOp Lv Barnett Ar 1 32p 8 50 a wtOOC
• 7 05p 11 20a 2 12p...........Sharon....... 1 ICp 8 37a
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7 30a 6 32 p ^ Bairdstown......... O Or -7
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10 40a ... .jLv.....Union Point......Ar 2 05p
11 30a .. .Si loam.......... 1 42 p
11 50p Ar White Plains. Lv 1 20p
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All above trains daily, except 11 and 12, which do not run on Sunday. Sleeping
Cars beleen Atlanta and Charleston, Augusta and Atlanta. Augusta and Macon, on
Night leaving Express. Sleeping Cars between Macon and New Yotk on train 27, and train
Macon at 9 a.in.
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159^-1895. &
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Felt and Velvet. and Black Coque Feathers for trimming
Jetted Walking Birds. Hats. Jetted Black Quills and and Colored Wings, Ostrich Tips for Dress Every? Ilats?
Jet Head Stick Pius.
thing in shape of jet is very popular and I have a nice variety. Full
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