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FRIDAY .HORNING, .MARCH HI), !»»•>.
It’s all war news from Washington
now. And there is where we expect
all the battles to be fought.
Suppose we send Coxey and his ar¬
my over t» wreak vengeance on Spain
for that little breach of sea etiquette.
Truly there are wars and rumors of
wars from every quarter now. Don’t
everybody speak for quartermaster’s
places.
Simt. we come to think of it the
supply of generals, majors and colonels
is running rather low. Turn loose the
dogs of war.
It would seem that a country that
hasn’t a war or two on its hands now
is decidedly behind the times. < M
course 1'ncle Sam takes the lead and
has four or live on his string.
Wiiat has become of Bayne's bright
paragraphs on the editorial page ol the
Augusta Chronicle? Somehow the
('hronicle loses agreat deal of its in¬
terest when they are missing.
Cotton has about settled back to
the five-cent, notch. Maybe the specu¬
lators forgot that the seasons are about
a month late this spring. We will
probably hear from them again.
1 e we were in Cleveland’s place we
would rather like to get up a pretty
lively spat with some other nation. It
would givo the anti-administrations
something else to think and write
about.
Tit k Governor says he will consult
the interests of the people and not the
politicians and not call on the cam¬
paign in the Tenth until the busy crop
time is over. The Governor is indeed
thoughtful.
Tut I'nited Stales Supreme, court
has now sat down upon South Caroli¬
na's dispensary business. It would
seem that our friends across the river
will be forced to drink their liquor
straight yet.
Doubtless farmers get tired of
reading newspaper editorials on the
reductions of the acreage. Hut then
newspapers are mighty tired *f farm¬
ers not bring able to patronize them
as they should.
Thk Constitution has been trying
mighty hard to make something out of
Gov. McKinley’s visit to the South.
Hut the conservative element of the
Democratic party will hardly ho routed
by a peu and ink scarecrow.
Georgia is attracting capital in
more than ane way. It, is rumored
that the Republican national commit¬
tee will spend £50,000 in re-orgauizing
that party in the State. We suppose
they will be as good dollars as any.
Let them come.
Last week is reported to have been
the liveliest week iu cotton for nearly
three years. If the prospects of a de¬
creased acreage can bring about such
great thiugs ought it not encourage
our farmers to see what au actual re¬
duction will do. By all means, let's
try it and see.
Thk Northern Circuit seems to in¬
spire political ambition among its ofli
cers. Last year Judge Hamp Mc
W hot ter was a candidate for Congress
against Judge Lawson, and now it is
stated that Solicitor General Hill How¬
ard is going to take a whack at the Seu
a le .—Auguata Chmatch.
To closely read the columns of some
Democratic papers (so claimed), and
some of them in Georgia, one would be
led to think that the presidential cam¬
paign is upon us. However, they
make it appear as if there is only one
party that will have standard bearers
iu the campaign—the Uepublicau.
Gov. Atkinson has started a move
ment to find out what insurance com
panies are returning a part of the
miuffis paid them by investments in
Georgia, his object being to iet the
people know what is becoming of their
money. For practicability in adminis
lering the affairs of the State commend
us to the said Governor.
THK OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON, GA.:?FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1895.
LET’S HAVE A WAR.
We need it. We believe the time
has arrived when there must he aru/lie
created in the even tenor of our na¬
tion’s affairs. Everybody admits there
must be radical changes in the policies
and practices of the government and
those who hold the reins oyer it. It
is. we dare say, equally as important
that there be some yery marked
changes in the sentiments and actions
of the subjects of the government.
How can we expect these changes to
come about unless there is some very
great and very universal cause for a
sudden switching about of the whole
governmental machinery. It can nev¬
er come as long as we depend upon
the conviction of the entire people to
one way of thinking by the now preva¬
lent way of abusing the thoughts and
principles of those whom we oppose;
we can never hope even to induce, by
the very soundest of argument or the
most persuasive of oratory, all the
people to get in one mind and lend
their efforts to do just one thing—that
is, “transmograpby”j the whole ma¬
chinery of the government—reverse
every impelling lever and turn on a
full bead of steam to the reverse mo¬
tion.
I5ut that is what a great many of our
great and good men who have mag¬
nanimously taken upon their shoulders
the weight of the people’s woes are
striving to do, and we expect really
hope to do. They Will fail. There
must be sonic very great and necessa¬
rily disastrous upheaval before that
can be accomplished. The people
must suffer together and for one uni¬
versal cause before they can he made
to fully sympathize. A war, yes, a
war, is about the only thing that can
bring about this State of affairs. It
alone can wipe out all sectional lines;
can make labor and eapitol forget for a
time their alleged animosities; can
bring the manufacturer and consumer
together on a common plane; can do
away with all charges of autocrat and
demagogue; can so mix and mingle all
social sects and political parties and
sectional admirers tint! haters that all
will lose their identity and forget their
prejudices and animosities towards
each other.
Then there will necessarily come
about a reconstruction of all social,
political and industrial fabrics, and, in
bringingjordcr out of chaos, there will
be some, chance for those great and
magnanimous minds now
themselves out in a hopeless cause to
form and fashion things just as
would have them and just as they
promise will overflow the entire
try with peace, plenty and
to the fullest measure of the capacity
of the people to enjoy them.
Then by all means let’s have a war.
The destruction of life and property
will bring are but a feather in the
ance when weighed with the
results. The sacrifice will he small
comparison with the blessing it
bring. What! An entirely new
gime governmentally, socially and
dustrially. Everything
Everything now wrong made
Can we possibly wait another day.
Should we not immediately raise
warhoop and join in a cry of to
to arms! and roll up our sleeves,
upon our hands and wade into
one of the offending nations?
Well, if we would listen to the plat¬
ings that come from certain
those would be our antics. I!ut in
as in other matters, these praters
not safe advisers but dangerous
ois. They would lead the people
anything in order that they might ride
upon the wave of political preferment
or personal prosperity. We join them
in the cry for war, but were we given
the command of the batteries we would
turn the muzzles instead of the buts
of the guns in their direction. We are
already having too much war with
them on one side and the conservative
safe-thinking people on the other. So
aggressive are they making themselves
that the time may come when the safe
defenders of the people’s rights and
the couutry'8 prosperity will arise iu
their might and charge upon their
ranks: and extermination will be com¬
plete.
Then we will have had such a war
as the country needs; such a one as
will prove a blessing to all; such a one
as will be followed by political peace,
social quietude and industrial rest.
We are ready to join in the cry of “to
arms” for such a conflict.
SHOULD TEND TO LESSEN.
The uuusuat activity reported in the
cotton market the past two weeks and
the corresponding rise iu prices should,
we hold, be more encouraging to farmers
to stick to their resolutions to decrease
the acreage in the staple rather than to
cause them to plant another big crop,
It is not surprising that there should
be some such freaks of the market just
at the planting time. It is so every
year, but never has the activity been
so great and so sudden as this spring,
The cause is admitted by all experts to
be the indications of a smaller
and yet there are only indications
which can be changed very readily. If
such indications can produce such
i startling and marked results how much
more could he expected of an actual
and unchangeable decrease in the acre¬
age? We can only imagine.
Thus viewing the matter we can see
how any farmer who looks ahead and
who does some thinking along with bis
manual labo r can he influenced by the
temporary rise in prices to forsake his
determination to plant Ipsa. It can
hut be clear to him that less cotton will,
beyond a doubt, make far better prices.
That in raising less he will not de¬
crease his gross income from the crop,
while he can decrease very materially
the expenses of producing it as well as
the amount of supplies he will have to
buy for the following year.
There is no theorizing or speculation
in this. We already have it actually
and plainly demonstrated that a less
acreage will bring higher prices, and
from the rise that has been made dur¬
ing the Hurry caused by the probability
of a smaller crop we can come at some
idea of what effect an actual decrease
will have upon prices. The prices
have already gone up about twenty-five
per cent. Should the farmers stick to
their determination to plant one-fourth
less we can safely say, judging from
the present status of the market, that
there will be still further improvement
until the price reaches at least a third
more than the prices at which th.e last
crop was sold if not fifty per cent,
more.
This is a safe deduction to draw
from the present situation and it should
so encourage our farmers that they
will stick more steadfastly to the prom¬
ised reduction rather than becoming
excited and abandoning the idea of
planting less.
— — •
CONGRESS BELIED.
The charge has been persistently
made by members of all parties, es¬
pecially that sore-head faction of the
Dcmocarlic party opposed to the ad¬
ministration, that the last was a more
than billion dollar Congress and one ®f
the most extravagant ever held. Of
course these charges are made for ef¬
fect, and they are not true as is fully
shown by the old reliable Augusta
Chronicle in the following article:
“There are not many to defend the last
Congress for its sins of omission, hut one of its
last incidents was the speech of Representa¬
tive Dockery, of Mississippi, refuting the
charge that it had in its turn passed the bill¬
ion dollar mark, and had cost the country as
much as the Reed billion dollar Congress of
unsavory memory. Mr. Dotkery admitted
that the taxpayers have been burdened with
an appropriation of $5,238,000 for the benefit
of the sugar producers; but with the exception
of this unwarranted gratuity, and a few oth¬
ers winch aggregate hut a small amount, he
claimed that this Congress, so far as practica¬
ble under existing laws, has reduced appro¬
priations In the necessities of an efficient, eco¬
nomical administration. We have substan¬
tially reached, skill he, the limit of reduction
except bv repealing statutes authorizing ex¬
penditures The fixed appropriations already
nude make it impracticable to reduce the ex
p mditures as Democrats would like to reduce
them, but the figures for the last three Con¬
gresses show that the appropriations of the
Inst Congress present a greater reduction over
those immediately preceding it than has
been accomplished by any other Congress
since the war.
The fifty-first Congress was the Reed billion
dollar Congress, and the fifty-first, fifty-sec¬
ond and fifty third Congresses cover the fiscal
years from 1891 to ISOti. The record shows
that the appropriations of the fifty-first Con
gress were $1,035,680,109.9-4: of the fifty-sec¬
ond Congress, $1,027,104,547.92 ; and the ap¬
propriations of the present Congress, $990,-
338,691.04. In other words, this Congress
has reduced the appropriations under
of the fifty-first Congress $45,341,418.90, and
below those of the late Cougress, $30,765,-
856.$8. The memorable forty-fourth Con¬
gress reduced appropriations $30,000,000 and
received the plaudits ot the people. This
Congress makes ample provision for every
branch of the public service and reduces the
burdens of taxation $30,765,856.88.
We are glad to be set right on this
question. The sins of omission by the
last Congress were enough to weight it
down. Even the sorest of sore-heads
should have compassion enough not to
belie it and make it appear to the peo¬
ple as having committed such a big
sin of commission as that which the
Chronicle shows it did not commit.
Well, in does look as if everybody
wants to go to war. And yet astrono¬
mers haven’t had anything about the
dog star being in a warlike position.
A warded
Highest Honors—World’s Fail
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JO YEARS THE STANDARD-
SEEING IS BELIEVING!
Then See and You’ll Best Believe!
That is why we simply invite the good people of Oglethorpe County
fro see our tremendous line of seasonable
Dress Goods and Notions,
Novelties and Fancy Goods 5
Trimmings, Laces, Embroidery
Knowing that when they have done so they will be thoroughly convinced that no¬
where can a larger variety or more choice selection ol these goods be found upon
which lower prices are named. Come, see for yourselves and be convinced.
We have a tremendous line of New Carpets, Matting, Shades and Curtains that
we bought way yonder below former prices and will sell accordingly. Good, heavy
Jointless Matting from $5.00 per roll up.
We are showing the handsomest line of Gent’s Neckwear to be found in the city,
at prices that will astonish.
It would take too much space to name all we have and the bargains we offer.
Seeing is believing and we therefore only ask that you inspect our large and com¬
plete stock before buying.
M. MYERS & CO. Srfi
College Avenue, ATHENS, GA.
J, W. Brown & Sons' House Furnishing Depot
227 Broad Street, -^-tirerrs, G-n.
We carry the largest and best selected stock of
CROCKERY. GLASSWARE. LAMPS
CHINA DINNER AND TEA SETS
And Fancy China in great Variety.
=Sj e arc the largest jobbers in the City,
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WILL CARTER, I
IF’a.sliiciia'ble ZBarToer
College Avenue, Athens, (»a.
4 CORDIAL invitation is extended our Ogle
tliorpe friends to visit us. We will givb
them the best of work and the most polite at*
ten lion. Shaving reduced to 10 cents.
The Hungry Fed!
11 AYE opened a Restaurant at 105 Jackson
street, in rear of Michael Pros.* store.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
Will be glad to receive the patronage of my
Oglethorpe friends and the public generally.
COBB Dii.VIS,
Jackson Street, ATHENS CA.
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