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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1905.
TU Vw.jOSTA TIMES.
C. C. UKANTLEV, Editor.
E. L. TUrttlER, dullness Manager.
VALDOSTA. GA.. FBB. iB, 1*05.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, *1 A YEAR.
Entered at the Postoffice at Valdosta,
Ga., aa Second Claaa Mall Matter.
TWELVE PAGES.
Vegetarianism haa prospered under
the beef trust, but the organization
of a fruit trust In Baltimore reduces
the menu.
J. Pierpont Morgan has bought
street railway in Chicago. Mr. Mor
gan knows that great It* from little
nickels grew.
The peace rumors in the Orient aro
about aa hard to trace to a head as
It Is to Identify tho assassin of the
Grand Duke Sergius.
"Is polygamy dead?" asks a morn
ing paper. Not quite, but It has had
a severe blow In the Imprisonment of
the multi-married Iloch.
Senator Lodge says that the gov
ernment seeds aro a humbug. A good
many people who have planted them
aro of tho same opinion.
The Missouri supreme court say
a farmer Is not a hawker or peddler,
consequently needs no license to re
tall his produots In town.
They say that you can usually tell
a candidate for re-election by the
amount of weeping which he does
over the rapacity of the trusts.
If President Roosevelt were to make
a speech on tho Golden Rule, he
would wind up with an appeal for
great navy and a big standing army.
March 4th ends the holiday for
many congressmen, and they view
with regret tho opening of tho season
when they will have to go to work.
With FaVmors Brown and Smith In
tho gubernatorial race, Editors How
ell and Bsllll are going to have enough
work to do to keep them busy for tho
next year.
Five thousand fraudulent ballots
was one. of the fruits of Osbornelsm
In Savannah at the election last fall,
and yet he comes forward and seeks
to purify the politics of the state.
OoL Bstlll's campaign for
the governorship of Georgia, the
quicker tho Colonel repudiates him,
the hotter It will be for the Colonel.
Be not deceived, brethren. Cotton
goes up every year about this time
It Is a trick of the bears to make the
farmers Increase their acreage, and
many tberevbe who aro deceived
thereby.
If the spirit of~Deorge Washington
had been In hearing distance of Pres
ident Roosoyelt's Philadelphia speech
Wednesday night, the fluttering wings
of Its departure would have drowned
the speaker’s voice
We fool much kinder toward Col.
West since Billy Osborne cut entire
ly loose from him. As a frlond of the
Colonel, wo wero never very much
pleased with tho Savannah "boss’
alleged friendship to begin with.
Illinois otters to 1oab~Kansas *1,-
000,000 without interest to light "that
merciless octopus whoso tentatcles
now encircle ovory stato In tho
Union." This is tho Kansas way of
describing tho Standard Oil Company.
Tho "mercenaries" aro" those politi
cians who have obtained ofllces In the
state, and the "reformers" are those
who want' to obtain thorn. In other
worda, the "morcohr.rlea" are tho
"Ins” and tho "reformers" aro tho
"wanMo-get-lus."
The Panama canal commissioners
who admitted irregularity In drawing
salaries and payment from the rail
roads at ono time probably thought
confession was better than being
caught Gen. Bristow Is down there
on a tour of Ins portion.
The amount of blstwng - and pray
ing that has been done over the mur
dered Grand Duke Sarglqs, of Rus
sia, would Indicate that the religious
end of the government regarded him
ns n lit subject for post mortem cere
monies.
The Kansas legislature “proposes to
have Its convicts work the oil refin
eries la opposition to the Standard
Oil Company. According to Tom
Lawson, the competition will be be
tween mca who are In the peniten
tiary and those who ought to be.
haa
Governor Hoch, of
signed the bill giving separate schools
to' whites and blacks In that state.
The governor expresses sympathy tor
the negroes and for Roosevelt, bat he
cannot face the people of the stato
attar refusing to sign the measure,
last why he wasted to lug Roosevelt's
name Into It while the president was
on the “stool of repentance'' we do
not anMntaatf. .
A COTTON BEAR’S QUERY.
Theodore H. Price, the great cotton
bear, who some time ago had pictures
taken of the cotton fields throughout
the South and of street scenes where
cotton was piled high, to be used In
depressing the price of the staple. Is
lau|hlng at the talk which the farm-
era of the South are now Indulging In
about reducing the acreage of the star
pie. He tblnka the recent rise lu the
price settles the whole business, so
far as the next crop is concerned. In
recent letter to Mr. T. E. Massen
gale, of Norwood, Ga., he writes of
former efforts to reduce the acreage
in this style:
"Your assertion that the acreage de
voted to the royal plant will be cut 25
per cent., I should take ae gospel
truth did not my memory warn me to
be cautious. After you made the first
11,000,000 crop you assured the world
of a reduction in acreage of 2o per
cent. You got up an enthusl.st'c
meeting at Atlanta and went home to
carry out your resolutions. Of a na
ture innocent and confiding at I. then
wat, I spread the news all over the
world. Before me Ilea a marked let
ter published by my firm on March
10, 1898. On tho authority of 8outh
orn correspondents I said: 'Much of
the land In Georgia and South and
North Carolina usually devoted to the
culture of cotton has been planted in
grain. The acreage of tobacco In tho
Carolines will bs largely Increased at
the expense of cotton,
He then alleges that the farmers of
the South made the world believe that
there was a reduction of 20 to 25 per
cent. In acreage, with a decrease of
30 to 35 per cent. In fertilisers, until
nearly June of that year, when other
reports Indicated that the decrease
was not greater than 11.4 per cent.
This decrease dwindled down until It
became an Increase of 2ft per cent,
over the former yoar. "I give you
credit for honest Intentions," he says,
'and attribute the'lncrease In the cot.
ton acreage that year to an Increase
of about five-eighths of a cent a pound
for tho staple In February.” Then
comes this climax:
"An advance of flvo-olghtho of a
cant made you turn a proposed reduc
tion of twenty-five per cent. In the
aereaga into an actual Increase of 2>/ 2
per cent. .Query: What will the proa-
ant advanca of o'
This shows conclusively the game
which the cotton bears are playing.
They aro not buying much cotton and
can afford to let prlcea soar high In
the cotton quotations. They may need
;ittlo of tho staplo to fill In with,
but their main object Is to encourage
the farmers to do what they did In
—plant a larger crop of cotton
Instead of cutting down the acreage,
It Is a shrewd game they are play
ing. but wo hopo tho cotton growers
have read too much In the book of
experience to be caught in the trap.
to collect their debts In a leas agreea
ble way. That would mean that they
would appoint themselves as receiver,
which would give them claims prior
to any that we might hold, and would
also give them almost permanent oc
cupancy of the inland. I
When one considers the precedent:
which we would establish by assum-
lug responsibility to Dominican cred-l
Itors, or by acting as receiver tor that
republic, the danger of the president's
proposition can be realized. There
are a dozen or more governments to
the south of us that are In nearly the
same condition as Santo Domingo, and
when we start out to running their
affairs and settling with their credit
ors we will have considerably mor,
than our share of the “white man's
burden." The president's, last propo
sition Is a straight back-down from
the first which he made, and reatl)
,-l! for speaker. Potts wrote West
asking him to support Morris, but
West did not support Morris. He was
cbairiqan of Mitchell's committee and
put l(im In nomination before the
house/
The trouble with Mr.. Osborne is
that he has found out that Mr. West
Is aobody’s man Friday. That It all
of it.
West did not belong to Osborne In
the'flrat place, and he did not trade
off for any other owner In the second
place.
Notwithstanding Osborne’s attempt
ridicule the virtues which are
West's, the senator from the Sixth
district Is beyond the reach of the
Anger of suspicion which bis late
friend" now points at him.
The only discreditable thing about
the Potts letter is the public parade
Osborne made of it without the con-
sent of the writer, or of the person to
whom It was written. Certainly It Is
no reflection on the man to whom it
was written. West. If he trusted it
with Osborne two years and a half
divides authority between himself ag0 _ misjudged the character
i poUft'
and the senate, but that fact
relieve it of the dangerous
In which we put ourselves, after bar
lug once established such a precedent
as he seeks to put us In taking
charge of the tangled affairs of the
Dominican government.
THE UNITED 8TATE8 SENATE,
The differences that have aidant
up between the United States senate
and the president Imre directed aj ten
UNCLE SAM A8 RECEIVER.
The United States senate does not
seem to bo In very much hurry about
making Uncle Sam tho receiver and
sponsor for tho stranded republics to
the south of us. President Roosevelt
has laid before that body a newly-
drawn proposal with Santo Domingo,
and asks the senate to please ratify
immediately. The proposition
one by which the United States Is tq_
oxurclsc n sort of receivership ovor
Dominican affairs, chiefly financial,
but both domestic and foreign, until
tho country's obligations to various
foreign countries shall be stralghten-
out, and the republic of Santo Do
mingo gota la a position to take care
Itself. Tho plan Involvos a consid
erable stretch of the Monroe doctrine,
and If the senate should confirm It, It
may go down In history by the side
the Monroo Instrument as the
Roosovolt' proposal."
Tha prealdent believe* that we are
honor bound to take a position of this
sort as long as we rigidly enforce the
Monroe doctrine. He says In his re
cent note to the senate, "The justifi
cation tor the United States taking
this burden and incurring this respon
sibility Is to be found In the fact that
It Is incompatible with International
equity for tho United States to refuse
allow other powers to take the only
means at their disposal of satisfying
the claims of their creditors and yet
refuse itself to take any such steps."
The fact of the business is that cer
tain European nations have recently
been Intimating to our department of
state that unless the United States
took the Dominican affairs In hand
tlon to that body. Every schoolj boy
knows that It Is composed of two Sen
ators from every state In the llljled
States. Rhode Island and Nevada
each send two senators, and S'i
York does not send more than t
The senators are elected fox?
years, and they consequently
over two years longer than the
ident, and are eligible to re-elo|t|lon
as long as the state Is disposed
tlnue them In ofllce. Those who have
been long In office, like Allison, of
Iowa; Hale, of Maine; Platt, of. Ora-
nectlcut, and Platt, of New York,
have great Influence on account: of
their seniority. Others like Spooner,
I-odge and Aldrich are influential by
force of ability. There are others
like Depew, of New York, and Bevor-
lai will in* pres- ld « e ' ot
§ (Hill i nomqt tSflowa, jrbo hare abil
ity, but, lacking tbe prestige ot long
continued service, are without the in*
fluence to which their intellectual
weight entitles them. |
We have not mentioned certain
Southern and other senators’ ability
and reputation as orators and states-
men, because, being In the Demo
cratic minority, they are, of course,
always voted down. The senate Is
frequently out of accord with the sen
timent of the country. It should hare
passed the Olney-Pauncefote arbitra
tion treaty, and the only reason why
it did not do it was because it was
the measure of a Democratic admin
istration. It is now out of accord on
tbe subject of railroad rate legisla
tion.
There are among tho senators those
who represent not so much their
states as they do gigantic corporate
interests. They were able for a long
time to postpone the Panama canal
purchase, and they will possibly be
able to defeat or to modify the Each-
Townsend bill as to render It practi
cally nugatory.
of the man
Osborne’s attempt now is to prove
that he and West are related to each
other as pot and kettle. And when
it gets down to that the jig is up
with him. It Is all over. Of course
he can continue to talk, and doubt
less will, but little attention will be
paid to what he says. — Macon Tele-
graph.
The Nebraska senate has passed a
law that organ grinders’ monkeys
shall not be worked over eight hours
a day, on pain of fine and Imprison
ment of both the monkey and his
owner. That is a stride In the right
direction, though a better step would
make It a crime to work the little
wretches at all.
Colorado farmer writes: ' “We
are now raising mules, and one very
good thing about the business Is that
buyers come around after them and
pay the price we ask, so that we do
not have to hunt them up. If a farm
er is not. a very good rustler for a
customer this Is a .big object.”
There are but two doctors of medi
cine in the entire congress of the
United States, and both of these are
In the senate. Almost every other oc
cupation from log rolling to pugilism
Is represented In the lower'house.
The mschlnery of the Kansas legis
lature worked like a charm as soon I
as-Stsadsrd.Qlfwas,Introduced. I
When Your Doctor.
Writes a Prescription
He will not worry about it if you tell him that
the prescription is coming here to be filled.
From long experience with our prescription
work.the doctors of Valdosta have come to rqly
absolutely upon all medicine bearing our label.
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TURNED INFORMER.
The Telegraph did not print Mi|
Osborne's letter on Sunday last be
cause his press agent did not, as
usual, send us a copy. Perhaps our
readers were Just as well provided
with other Sunday reading.
Mr. Osborne abandoned his chase
after tho “mercenaries” and devoted
several columns to an assault upon
the man who respectfully and politely
declined to etand tor all that 'Mr. Os
borne had said to many columns of
printed matter. He abandoned the
part of the reformer and assumed the
graceless role of the Informer. He
was awkward sad disconnected In
the ono as he was to the other. The j
tale he tried to tell was discredited i
on its face It amounted to Innendo. {
That which was apparently straight-j
forward to no way damaged the good:
man he attacked. J
He claims to have been West's!
‘manager.” If we have been correct-,
ly informed. Mr. John Bennett, of I
Waycross, was chosen by Mr. West's’
friends as chairman of & committee to:
look after West'a Interests. j
By printing a private letter, which
by some chance fell Into his posses-'
lion. and which was not his property.
—a letter written by Mr. Frank Potts. I
of Atlanta, to Mr. West two years and {
half ago—Osborne seeks to put
West to a false position to regard to ;
that they would tie forced to prooeed the contest between Morris and Hitch-
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