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THE MONROE ADVERTISER. VOL. XXXIII ATTENTION FARMERS! We make a specialty of your trade, and mto anxious to increase our trade in your county. Wo cordially invito you to call on us and arrange to do your future business With us. Wo keep in stock BAGGING AND TIES, BACON, LARD, CORN OATS, HAY,BRAN,FLOUR MEAL. TOBACCO, CIGARS, SYRUP, COFFEE, SUGAR, ETC. Wo soli on time to farmers cheaper than any house in Middle Georgia and besides our regular stock, wo soli on time Miles, Waps, Colli Planers, Dry Goofls, Boots, Sloes and in ftmt anything needed. We offer those extra inducements so as to make it con venient for you in trading. We have every facility for these outside items, and will •ell as cheap as any one. Wo have just received anew lot of Georgia liaised live, Georgia liaised Barley, Texas llust Proof Oats. FERTILIZERSTFERTILIZERS! We are agents in Middle Georgia for G KORGIA CHEMICAL WOHKS, of Augusta, Ga. JOHN Mhltll\ MAN A: CO., of Baltimore, Md. LISTER'S I’UJIE BONE FEKTILIZEKS, of Newark N J M AGON OIL AN D FEUTIL 1Z Eil CO., (OI the latter only Cotton >Sood meal.) We call special attention to our “SOLUBLE BONE DUST,” which is the highest grade Phosphate for composting ever offered. Wo pay highest price for Cotton Soed. ROGERS, WORSHAM & CO. 4-0 and 422 Third Street, MACON, GA AYCOCK Manufacturing Company, MA X U PACT U H ERS O F DOOR, SASH, BLINDS, Mantels, Moldings, Ballusters, Newels, WINDOW AND DOORFRAMES DEALERS IN LUMBER, SHINLFES, LATHS aNDBRICK. ALSO, CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. We now have our Factory in operation and will he glad to see all wanting Building Material and give prices. We feel confident we can please both in price and quality of our work. Call before making your purchases and get prices. Factory 13th S treat, Oppoite Cotton Factory. OFFICE PLANTERS’ WAREHOUSE, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. N- H. —Our Blinds are wired with Patent Clincher Machines, and will not break loose, thus preventing the unsightly appearance that most others do. SMITH & MALLARY, MACON, GEORGIA. STATE MANAGERS OF THE Watertown Steam Enaine Cos. AGKNTS FOR DEALERS IN BROWN’S COTTON GINS, LUMMUS COTTON GINS, ENGINES AND BOILERS, FINDLAY COTTON GINS, SAW MILLS. SCIENTIFIC MILLS, BELTING, LUBRICATING OILS, NOIIDYKE A MARMOX’S CELIA j IRON PIPE AND FITTINGS, BRATED GRIST MILLS. 1 BRASS FITTINGS. WE a-TTjALeTVTsTTSGI] THS WATERTOWN STEAM ENGINES To bo the Safest, Strongest, Most Reliable and Efficient Engines in the Market. Send for Circulars. ’HUNGER’S MUSIC HOUSE Masonic Temple, 96 Mulberry SL, Macon, Ga. Li.rgost Wareri’om and Most Complete and Elegant Stock of Pianos and Organs: No Low Grade or Shoddy Instruments. All Pianos scale, lull 7J octaves, genuine ivory keys, all modern improvements, e egant finish and fuilv warranted. All Organs in Solid W alnut Cases Elegant Designs, line Finish, Strictlv First-elas ai.d Fully Warranted. Special Catalogue of Sheet Music will be se*t Free t any address. If you \?ant anything m the Music Line, send in your orders and they will be promptly filled. All Sheet Music, Music Books & Small Instruments Pianos and Organs sold on long time with monthly, quarterly, semi-annual or yearly payments, without interest. The scale of uniform prices adopted by this bouse are th lowest ever otlered on superb, first class instruments that are cheap enough for every body and good enough for anybody. Address all Communications to M. L. HUNGER, 96 Mulberry Street, MACON, GA. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! W e advise all of those wanting Furniture of anv kind to go to JOHN NEAL & CO., Nos. 7 and 9 South Broad Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. As they keep a Full Line, which they are -elling at LOWER PRICES than can be elsewhere Sets from $17.5) up, etc. Don’t lor __et our address. FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 14 IBSS. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin, in reply ing to Senator Blair's report of the seriate select committee on woman suffrage, says: ‘•lf women vote they must also hold office and assume the working duties incident to politeal campaigns. It appears from the published record of your life that yon commenced your political career at about tlie age ot 30. For the next ten oi fif teen years you were actively in poli tics. Now, will you tell mo if you think it would have been convenient or agreeable during those years when you were laying the foundation of your political success to have been also engaged in bearing and rearing a family? Could you have done what you found it necessary to do politically, and at the same time have attended properly to your du ties as wife and mother? You will say that the very suggestion is in delicate, and 1 agree with you, but the fault is in the situation as pro posed by you. The duties and offices of motherhood are all sweet, and pure, and holy when kept within the sacred precincts of the home. Brought out into the garish light of publicity what do they become? “You say in your report that there arc many women who are not wives and mothers. Very true, and when women vote and hold office there will bo more of them. A true re gard for the best interests of society demands that their number shall be reduced by all natural and reasona ble means, but when political re wards are offered as the price of services in public life, do you not believe that many, and those not of the weak and ignorant, but ot the more gifted and intellectual, will be tempted to forego marriage and motherhood for the sake of winning them? Woe betide the land which thus offers its political trusts as premiums for childless women ! The morals of society are corrupt enough now. What do you suppose they will become when not to be married, not to be a mother, is the prerequisit for a woman’s success in a chosen and tempting career. I speak ad visedly and in the light of thirty years of profound and prayerful study of social problems, when I say that the direct tendency of woman suffrage would be to form a class of women such as held high court in Greece in the days preceding its downfall ; women brilimit- and intel lectual, but wholly wanting in that steadfast faith and abiding viitue whicli’charactemes the Anglo-Saxon ideal of womanhood, 1 may say the Christian ideal as well—the wife and mother. Are American men pre pared to relegate the wives and mothers of this republic to a secon dary and subservient place, and share the political leadership of this great and free country with an oligrancy of. Aspasias ? This is an eloquent presentation of an argument which is based upon indisputable factand invincible logic, and Granny Blair, who can neither bear children nor make laws, need never expect to answer it. ‘•You say that you have only pro posed the measure because women have asked you to do it,” says Mrs. Corbin ; “the same plea was made by your great progenitor in the Garden of Eden; but it did not avail him. Moreover, in the ease of Adam, it was true. In the present instance the plea contains but the minimum of truth. There are fifteen millions of women in this country (I quote your statistics) of voting age. Will you kindly inform us what proportion of that fifteen millions you have heard from. You say that these women are being governed without their consent. Is it possible that you can sincerely believe that fifteen millions of A mcr ican women could be governed with out their consent? Do 3*oll not rather feel assured that if a bare majority* of that number did not consent, tor what appear to them to bo good and sufficient reasons, to he governed b}* indirect rather than direct representation there would be a revolution within twenty-four hours? With ever}* right of agita tion at their command which man possesses —free speech,free assembly*, the right of petition, a press ever ready to disseminate their views, and many* privileges of courtesy besides that men lay* no claim to —what power could withstand the moral force of any demand which these 15,000,000 should unitedly* make? “With what show of reason do y*ou compare free born Americon women to be degraded and ignorant slaves on southern plantations, and speak of men as their masters ? Asa mat ter of fact the power ot men over women is not greater than that ot women over men. Nature lays the infant man a helpless creature in the lap of bis mother. He is in her power for life or for death, and for the first ten or fifteen years of his existence, and that during the forming and determining period of his career —a period too, in which he is answerable to no other law than that of his home—her power over him, physical, intellectual, and moral, is so nearly supreme that no ! power which he can arrogate over iier in later years can overbalance it. Under ordinary eiscumstances the faithful, intelligent mother may j make of her son. in all essentials of manners and morals, whatsoever she wiil. If A merican men were to-day* narrow-minded, tyrannical, vicious creatures they are charged with being by the woman suffragists, unfitted to be legislators lor the whole nation it could only be because their mothers had misunderstood or neglected the I opportunities which nature puts into ■ their hands. Such a charge is a tremendous indiement against the motherhood of the Nation, and if it could be sustained, ought of itself to bar woman from all legislative func tion until thex* can better fulfill that which nature demands of them in childbearing and rearing. More over, it is the function of slaves to labor; but it is this Nation’s pride and boast that in no other country that the sun shines on arb there so many homes supported by the loyal and untiring industry of icon, where women are kept in ease and comfort, in order that they may give their time to the higher duties ot rearing children and planniug and carrying on enterprises of charity, philan thropy and reform ; and the influ ence of these homes upon public sentiment is the one irresistible pow er in American social and political life. . * Extorsion Fostered by Protection. Even the protectionists arc be ginning to understand .that protec tion is calling into existence and sustaining more monopolies than the country can stand. What are these trusts which are being formed but huge monoplies, made possible by the prohibitory tariff taxes? The Philadelphia Times, a strong protection journal, said, the other day, ”lf the sincere friends of American industry wdftild protect protection they must promptly sep arate it from the extortion of trusts and monoplists. It cauj urvive the hostility of open, manlyjibes; it can not survive the suicidal blows of those who use protection only to abuse it by the arbitrary oppression of consumers that would not be tolerated in despotic Russia.” Who is there who is st> simple as to suppose that the monopolies will heed advice like this?- Have they not always sought to, ijpakc every cent out of protection- that they could? It is folly to think that they will voluntarily abandon a sin gle advantage which ilg&ves them. They prate about thelWeeessity of protection to labor. \\ fell did they ever willingly mak a cession to labor, and when did lb- y over miss an opportunity of sq’l king every cent possible out. of oor They would impoverish the country arid pauperize labor before they would miss a single chance to iucrease their wealth. Trusts arc only bigger and more grinding monopolies than those which already existed. There were steel monopolies before the steel trust was formed, but they were not quite so powerful as the trust is. Two years ago the steel rail manu factures combined and raised the price of steel rails from 827 to 840. They made a fair profit at 827 and an immense one at 840. When there is competition steel rails can be obtained at a fair price, but protection makes combination possible, and they prevent competi tion and take from the pockets of consumers immense sums beyond a fair profit. Is labor benefited by trusts and monopolies? The fre quent strikes show that it is not. The money extorted from the people goes only into the pockets of the monopolists. If a railroad pays 810 a ton more for steel rails than it ought to, it pays its employes less than it otherwise would and collects more from its patrons. The resolution of Mr. Bacon, chairman of committee on manufac tures, to investigate the subject of trusts, introduced into the house on Wednesday, is a wise one. If there is an investigation the people will be made aware of the way they are being robbed by the aid of the pro hibitory tariff taxes. Protectionists will not be able to hide the truth. The consequence will be that the demand for a reduction of the tariff will be more emphatic than it has ever been. There will boa clearer realization ot the truth of the presi dent’s message, and a better under standing of the misleading statement of the protection journals. —Morning News. It Fills the Bill. Pyhsicians,consumers, dealers and all proclaim Westmoreland’s Cali saya Tonic the best of all; Joxesville, S. C., Sept. 3.—West moreland Bros. —Gentlemen ; I have used your Calisaya Tonic in several forms of indigestion, and can recom mend to the Profession as a fine Tonic for digestive disorders. Respectfully, Wm. O. Southard, M. D. Messrs. Westmoreland Bros.— Gentlemen : I can heartily recom mend your Tonic for chills and fever. It cured me when all other remedies failed. Yours truly, T. O. Togo art, Baggage Master C. &. G. B. R. Messrs. Westmoreland Bros., Gentlemen—-Please ship by first freight another case of your incom parable Calisaya Tonic, it is the only preperation of the kind I have seen that fully* bears out the prom ises made by* the sellers. We guaran tee it. H. C. Edcmumds, Druggist and Physician. Take Dr. Dukes Anti Billious Wafer with Tonic if your liver is out order. GIVE IT JUSTICE. Under the above heading Col. Whitson G. Johnson, of Lexington, Ga., writing to the -Macon Telegraph, takes occasion to defend the state constitution. It is often charged that the constitution stands in the way of paying higher salaries,(which are too meager) to our governor! Supreme and Superior court judges, Ac. On this subject Col. Johnson says: “The constitution of 1877 does not make any mention whatever, in reference to tho chancellor of the State University; nor does it make any mention whatever of salary that shall be paid to tho chancellor or any of the faculty of the State Uni versity. All that the present con stitution has to do with the State University is that in paragraph 1, article 8, section G. Trustees of the State University are authorized to receive bequests and donations that may bo made to the University by anyone generous enough to make them. In the code of Georgia, of tho edition of 1882, paragraph 1,196, sub section 3, it will be seen that it is the duty of the trustees of the State University to fix the salaries of the chancellor and faculty, and this matter belongs exclusively to the board of trustees. Hence, your readers will see that the constitution of Georgia has nothing whatever to do with the salary of tho chancellor of the State University. The trus tees have the sole management of this thing, and they can fix the salary of the chancellor at any sum they please, and it is not forbidden by the constitution so to do. There is the very best reason for this ar rangement, and that is that the state cannot regulate the salaries of the chancellor and faculty of the State University, either in its organic or statute law, because these officers are not officials of the state, but are of ficials spoken into existence by the trustees, who have tho entire man agement of all the money to which the University is entitled, and it is with them to disburse this money, and not for the law making power of the state, either m framing a fundamental or statutory law, to interfere. “Thou canst not sav l did it!” can well be the reply of the constitution of Georgia. Now, as to the salaries of the gov ernor and judges of the Supreme and Superior courts. If tho people or the legislature wish to increase the salaries of these officers, it can be done without any amendment to the constitution. Such an amendment is not necessary, as you assert in your editorial. In article 5, section 1, paragraph 2 of the constitution of Georgia of 1877, it is provided “that the gov ernor shall have a salary* of $3,000 a year until otherwise provided by a law passed by r a two-thirds vote by* both branches of the general assem bly.” In article 6th, section 13th, para graph Ist of the same constitution it is provided—that the judges of the Supreme court shall each have 83,- 000 per annum ; and the judges of the Superior Court shall each have 82,000 per annum. In article 6th, section 13th and paragraph 2nd of the same constitu tion, it is provided, that, “the gener al assembly may at any time, by* a two-thirds’ vote of each branch, pre scribe other and different salaries for any, or all, of the above officers, but no such change shall affect the offi cers then in commission.” So, again the constitution is not at fault on the salary* question. Ex cept under the constitution of Geor gia of 1868, the salaries of these offi cers are as high or higher than they have ever been in Georgia. Geor gia's great, jurist, ornate scholar and honey-tongued orator, Hon. John M. Berrien, who was also a profound statesman, served on the Superior court bench at a salary of SI,BOO per annum. It is for the people to change these salaries at their own instance. How, it may be asked? The people have only* to elect a leg islature charged with notice of the duty that it is the will of that same people to increase the salaries ot the governor and judges of the Supreme and Superior courts. When the general assembly* shall have passed such a law by a two-thirds’ vote of both houses, the matter is ended, and the salaries are increased ; and such a law would not have to be referred back to the people for ratification, because, there is no constitutional amendment required to increase these salaries. The salaries of the attorney-general of the state, and the various solicitors-general of the different judicial circuits can be in creased in the same way, it the peo ple see fit to uo so. The constitution has, therefore, “been more sinned against than sinning,” for if these salaries be sins, the sinning is at the door of the peo ple and not at the door of the con stitution of the state. If it is really desired to change these salaries, it would be an easy mutter to take the voice of the peo ple on it, by* having the state demo cratic executive committee or the state democratic convention to for mulate some resolutions or sugges tions embodying such changes, ana request the people to pass on them at the election tor members of the general assembly.” Opposes Repeal of Internal Revenue. Deputy Collector, T. L. Gantt, re plying to “wide Awake” through tlte Constitution, on the repeal of the internal revenue, says:’ ••My reasons for opposing any re duction of the whisky tax are en tirely unselfish. I 'well know that to remove the tax from the unneces sary luxuries of whisky and tobacco means to foster it iti the necessaries of liftPjpcOn articles that are in daily use by ourxoiiing masses. This Imruen, while enriching a few and a %G>red class, has been for long years grinding into, poverty the farmers of bur htfui. From the time the husbandman rises in tho morning until he wearily sinks upon his conch at.night touches, tastes or handles anything but that lie pays to the manufacturer a tax in many in statt rides amounting to half the value of the article used. Is it a matter of surpriso, then, that while the manu facturer is aocummulating his thous ands and millions of wealth, that nine-tenths tho farmers of Georgia are to-day worse than bankrupts? The last dollar of their hard earned profits have gone into the pockets of the few men who are being bone fitted by this protective tariff. It is as clear as the noonday sun to me that all this war upon the internal revenue service has been gotten up by designing men solely with an eye and intent to deprive the general government of tho revenue it re ceives from tho whisky and tobacco taxes, so as to render any material reduction impossible on the hun dreds of articles necessary to sustain life that now bear such a burden some tax. Knowing, as I do, tho true in wardness of this bitter attack upon the internal revenue service, was it wrong or out of place in me to raise my feeble voice in warning to tho people of my state against the great imposition that was attempted to be practiced upon them? Free liquor means nigh priced iron, sugar, cloth ing, hats, shots, tinware, crockery, and in fact every article used by our farmers except the products grown upon their own lands. To show the in justice to which our southern planters are subjected I have only to refer to the fact that the price to be paid them for their great staple —cotton—is fixed in England, a free trade country, while they are forced, through our un just tariff laws, to purchase back the same cotton, when in a manufactured form, laden with a tariff of 50 per cent, on the value of the goods imported.” SOUTHERN MILLS. Increase in Cotton and Woolen Factories Since 1880— Cotton Consumption. Chattanooga, Tenn., January* 31. —The tradesman has compiled sta tistics from official reports showing the growth of the cotton industry in the Southern States in the past seven years. The increase in mills in the south during that period was 85, or 51 per cent.; of spindles, 654,025, or 116 per cent.; of looms, 157,343, or 79 per cent. The increase in each of the South ern States separately in the past seven years, as follows. In Alabama the mills increased 18 per cent. ; spindles, 81 per cent.; looms, 76 per cent. In Georgia, mills, 37 per cent.; spindles, 90 per cent.; looms, 81 per cent. In Mississippi, mills. 25 per cent; spindles, 155 per cent; looms, 109 per cent. In -Maryland, mills, 16 per cent! spindles, 35 per cent; looms, 14 per cent. In North Carolina, mills, IS per cent; spindles. 139 per cent; looms, 22 percent. In South Carolina, mills. 107 per cent, the largest percentage ot in crease ; spindles, 181 percent; looms, 195 per cent. In Tennessee, mills. 75 per cent; spindles, 188 per cent, the largest increase; looms 185 per cent. In Virginia, mills, 50 per cent! spindles, 35 per cent; looms, 17 per cent. North Carolina has 80 cotton mills against 49 in 1880; South Carolina 29 against 14 in 1880; Tencssee 28 against 16 in 1880; Georgia 55 against 40 in 1880; Virginia 12 against 8 in 1880; Alabama 19 against 14 in 1830. Arkansas has added one mill since 1880; New York one; Louisiana one ; Missisippi two, -Maryland three. The total number of mills in the south to-day is 249, and the con sumption of raw cotton in 1886 and ’B7 was 401,452 bales, against 316, 062 in 1886, ’BS. ♦ Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.—A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils. Salt Rheme and other affec tions caused by* impure blood. —Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. — For cure of Headache, Con sumption and Indigestion try* Elec tric Bitters —Entire satisfaction guaranteed; or money refunded.— Price 50 cents and 81.00 per bottle at Ponder A Hill s Drug Store. mm ; igp ■■■ kmmO Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies A marvel of purity, strength ninl wholesonieness. More ecumenical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. SuU/ only in catin . Royal Baking I’owdkh Cos., 100 Wall street. New York. Important School Notice. THE attention of patrons and teachers of public schools is called to the following points in the revised and amended school law, and to the instructions of the State School Commissioner in accordance there with. Ist, Schools must use the text books adopted by the County Board of Education. No pupil, who uses other books, will bo allow ed to receive the benefit of the public fund. The following are the text books adopted by the board last July for five years to-wit: Sander s School Primer, Swinton’s Spellers, readers, geographies and histories; Ameri can graded rcadcrs.Cathcarts liteary reader, Sanford’s or Itohinscn’s arithmetics. Well’s or Butler’s grammar, Webster’s school dictionaries. Smith’s physiology and hy giene, and Spencerian copy books. 2nd county boards are required to estab lish. one School, each, for white and colored children in every school district, as near as practicable to the center of the district “reference being had to any school house already erected and to population of said school distrit, and to the location of white ar.d colored schools witn regard to conti guity ; and no additional school can be established in the sub-district without tho enrollment therein cf not less than twenty live pupils. Under the present law there arc no dis trict trustees. Teachers must apply for schools to the Board through the County School Commissioner. 3rd. Teachers are examined only on the day appointed by- the. State School* com missioner ; find no teacher can he examined at any other time except on affidavit that he or she was providentially hindered from being present on the general examination day or days and has not seen or been in formed of the contents of the general question papers.” No teachers w ill he licensed whose stand ing is below sixty. Papers of unusual merit may be forwarded to the State School Commissioner with an endorsement by the county school commissioner of the authors good moral and profes.-siona! diameter. Upon these the State School Commissioner may issue a permanent license revocable for good and sufficient cause by him only. By order of the County Board of Education. THOMAS G. SCOTT, County School Commissioner. Forsyth, Feb. 3rd, 1888. “announcement r T HAVE this day sold my entire stock i of Furniture, Fixtures and good will to Messrs. Ponder & Ensign, who are live, active and good business men. Thanking the public for the liberal pa tronage bestowed on ui<*, I cheerfully commend Messrs. Ponder & Ensign to my fr.ends and patrons. Yours trul v, J‘. J. LEARY. Forsyth, Ga., Jan. 31, 1888. J. M. Ponder &C. \. Ensign compos ing the firm of Ponder A Ensign have this day boa rig the entire stock, fixtures and good will in the Furniture business from Mr. J. J Leary, and will continue the business at. bis old stand next door to J. 31. Ponder’s dry goods store. We propose to keep in s‘o:k every thing suited to the demand of the trade at prices as low as the same goods can be bought in Macon or Atlanta. In this, our new enterprise, we most respectfully solicit your patronage. Yours trill v, PONDER & ENSIGN. Forsyth, Ga., Jan. 31, 1888. - Or. HSM 3 ~ *£■ -y * -■/ ' *-A A- " ‘ -> jK- A. Poet fffs3flvß Combination. T;?* wp?l fcnowa Tn:*' cth! Nervine is pain in? great r**.* and .a > ;- t sire for lability. K3, and a’L:Ii(U s !fcorders. 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