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ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER IX 1901.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT.
For the third time thia country has been shocked by assaults upon the life
of its chief executive, two of which accomplished their devilish purpose.
It bow seems that a kind Providencce will save the intended Victim of the
teat It seems passing strange to law-abiding citizens of the United States that
thought of asaaASinatine its president should ever enter the mind of even
most depraved creature, as liberty is so large here and all the rights of
every person so fu»f guaranteed and completely protected.
And yet within the life-time of one generation, within a little more than
thirty-live years, we have seen three presidents struck down by assassins. Dur
ing that period France has had a president slain, Russia a czar, Italy a king,
Austria a queen consort and Persia a shah. But this free government, the
greatest republic in aU history, this refuge of the oppressed of all nations,
shows a record unmatched in recent history of murderous designs against the
head of the government whom the people's free choice has placed in power.
This does not indicate the character of our people. Far from it.
Nowhere are toe chief officers of the government held in higher popular re
gard or more general affection. The indignation and wrath that were evident
last night In every part of this vast country Indicate the feeling with which
the masses of our people regard their president. They cannot be characterised
hy the acts of madmen, or the delegated agents of anarchist organisations. We
flung our gates wide open when the republic was established and Invited all
, to enter.
Among the multitudes of the good who have come there have been some who
were devilish and Infamous. The warning given long ago that we should scru
tinise those who would associate themselves with us and take part in our af
fairs has been too laxly heeded.
The dastard's deed at Buffalo yesterday will arouse us to a better sense of
duty and necessary precaution.
Another thing must be done.
The propaganda of murder and anarchy which has been carried on in the
United States, which flamed forth in the Hay market riots, instigated and ar
ranged the attempt upon President McKinley's life, and has caused many other
crimes -nust be throttled to its deserved extermination.
The words of George Washington, uttered in the hour of supreme danger to
©or struggle for independence: "Put none but Americans on guard!” should be
adapted to our present conditions and perils. We do not mean that all citizens
who were not born tn the United States should be excluded from participation
In the government or rtiare tn its responsibilities and honors, but that there
should be the best possible precautions against those who are incapable of ap
preciating and taking in the spirit of our institutions.
This last desperate stroke of anarchy at our government is the more revolt
ing and hideous because it was directed against one Who embodies and illus
trates the noblest and loveliest traits of American manhood, whose life is so
clean that it may be held up as an example and Inspiration to the youth of the
land. >
Our presidents have, without exception, been men of high and noble charac
ter, but not one of them has been more universally beloved than William Me
ytnley. No sectional lines bound the extent of the affection in wnich he is held.
The dearest purpose of his heart has been to soothe the last lingering soreness
tbs* was left by our civil strife, and his hand has laid upon it the balm of heal
ing as no other hand ever did.
And as be lies on the bed of pain and peril a whole nation sends up its
prayers to God that he may be spared to continue this blessed work, that he may
be restored to the country which has long held him so close to its heart and
feels such a lofty pride in his virtues.
And with these prayers for the sake of the nation and the sufferer, ascend
others srith equal earnestness, and even more tenderness, that he may soon be
fully restored to her to whom the tenderest sympathies of millions go out in
thia hour of her bitter trial.
May God spare the president!
May God save our country from all that can disturb its peace or threaten
its agfatr.
EXPEL WELLINGTON FROM fHE SENATE.
It is the misfortune of Maryland that she has George L. Wellington for one
of her United States senators.
Ob the evening when President McKinley was shot down and while It was sup
posed that his death was near at hand Wellington said to a nc-wspaper re
porter
' and I are enemies. I have nothing good to say about hkn. and
trader the circumstances do not care to say anything bad. I am Indifferent to
the whole tmtter.”
jt was so Incredible that any man reputed to be decent and who had been the
associate of respectable persons, not to say one who occupies the exalted office
of Unite* State* senator from one of the oldest and most famous states of the
union, rould have been guilty of such a brutal expression, that the public pre
ferred to believe that Senator Wellington had been grossly misrepresented.
But when ths interview was read over to him hours after It first appeared
he refused to deny it. ,
In such a ease silence can only be construed as affirmation.
Ns man would omit an opportunity to repudiate such words If he had not
spoken them, or did not approve them.
George L. Wellington has placed himself in the category and company of the
rufltons who stood about the bulletin boards in several cities last Friday even
tag and rejoiced over a deed that shocked the moral sense of civilised mankind.
He to less excusable than these comparatively insignificant blackguards every one
of whom was knocked down or kicked by those who heard his fiendish chuckle.
Ho has branded himself as the apologist of anarchy and assassination.
While the nation was plunged into grief and deep apprehension over the at
toespt to slay the president, over an assault upon our system of government
Itself, this senator of the United States had the hardihood to proclaim. "I am
Indifferent to the whole matter.” because “McKinley and I are enemies.”
jt to bard to comprehend how one who has had Wellington's opportunities and
advantages could still possess a soul so smalt and cherish a spite so unspeak
ably contemptible that his views on the attempted assassination of a president
and all that It signified could be controlled by personal enmity against the man
who bad been struck down. A private cltisen who had been dangerously and,
gosalMj' totally, wounded by an unprovoked assailant would merit and receive
tbe condemnation of all who heard his cruel remark. How, then, can we char
acterise such conduct on the part of a United States senator toward the presi
dent of the United States, who is so beloved for his nobility of nature and the
purity of his life?
Is the man who could utter the words which Wellington does not deny a fit
person to sit tn the highest council of the nation? Is he worthy to be trusted
with affairs that involve the honor and welfare of the country? We think not.
What does the United States senate think about It?
The senate is the sole judge of the qualifications of Its members. Moral dis
qualifications should be as fatal as statutory provisions to a claim or a title to
a seat in the senate. No gentleman in the senate can now respect Wellington: no
patriot there or elsewhere can trust him; no man with a right mind and an hon
est heart can fail to reprobate his meanness.
The senate should purge itself of Wellington. We hope to see a resolution
for his expulsion offered on the first day of the senate’s very next session, ordi
nary or extraordinary, and we trust that it will receive the vote of every senator
who is qualified to pass upon It.
George L. Wellington is a reproach to the state of Maryland and a disgrace
to the United States senate. Put him out!
WHICH IS CORRECT?
There has occurred in the Ecumenical
Methodiet conference, now In seeslon In
London. a clash of opinion as to the na
ture and purpose of the South African
war.
Sir Charles Skelton, former mayor of
Sheffield In welcoming the American dele
gates denounced the war and declared
that ’Mell is let loose in South Africa.”
He urged the members of the conference
to go forth to denounce such wars and
make them Impossible in the future.
On the day after this Impassioned
speech was delivered the conference was
treated to one which was about as red
hat on the other side of* the question.
a Dr. Leonard, of New York, thanked
God for what Great Britain Is doing in
South Africa and stated that it was car
luring out God's design In that part of the
earth.
Now the question arises as to whether
ex-Mayor Skelton or Dr. Leonard has
read aright the lesson and divine purpose
of the South African war.
ft would bo interesting to know which
of these gentlemen Is the more familiar
with the plans of the Almighty and best
qualified to explain them.
We often hear men who are not es
teemed especially wise In human affairs
explain to us all the plans of the omnis
cient and omnipotent ruler of the uni
verse.
We hear one man attribute certain
events to the power of a benevolent deity
and another declare that the same events
are the rsult of the machinations of the
devil.
Ordinary mortals who have no means of
ascertaining the intentions and operations
of the powers of good and the powers of
evil In this world are perplexed by these
conflicting reports.
The revelations of the Bible seem to give
no authority for the belief that the Brit
ish were chosen by God to subjugate
the Boers because they have done so, or
that the Boers are the persecuted right
eous because they have suffered so se
verely.
A Biblical precedent against the former
theory is furnished in the story of the
capture and enslavement of God’s chosen
people by the Egyptians and equal Bib
lical authority against the latter supposi
tion is supplied by the fate of the foes
of Israel who were put to the sword.
It is possible that the «nan who de
clared that "hell la let loose in South
Africa" la as intelligent as the good doc
tor who can see nothing In the' blood and
slaughter that has been going on there
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901.
except the fulfillment of a benevolent de
sign.
The fact that the Boers worship the
same God as the British raises another
difficulty.
The annals of history bring forth ten
thousand more.
There has seldom been a conflict be
tween two nations who looked up to the
same supreme power in which each of the
combatants did not have as strong a
faith in the righteousness of its cause
and its claims upon the Almighty as Its
adversary. ,
The doctrine that the right always suc
ceeds in war is the enthronement of phys
ical might as the moral principle of the
universe.
Napoleon’s cynical observation led hkn
to declare that Providence fights on the
side of the heaviest artillery, but expe
rience has proved a hundred times that
a greater lie has seldom been uttered.
The faith that there is a power above
the machinations and struggles of men
lives among the masses of men but it of
ten requires a long stretch of time to re
veal the line which this overruling power
follows in working its will.
The old hymn tells us that
"God moves In a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.”.
We do not suppose that the convictions
of any reasoning person as to
the relative righteousness of either the
British or the Boer cause will be changed
by the assurance of any other person
that he knows what God is taking In the
South African war and why he is taking
it.
THE CORN CROP. «
There are so many conflicting state
ments about the corn crop as to make
it probaole that the shortage has been
exaggerated.
The New York Journal of Commerce
calls attention to the incongruous state
ments concerning the crop that have been
given out by some statisticians. The
editor of the American Agriculturist, for
instance, says the crop on September 1
showed a decline of five and a half points
and yet raised his former estimate of the
crop from 1,100,000.000 to 1,200,000,000 bush
els. Both of these statements cannot be
true.
Another thing which some of the sta-,
tlsticiens have failed to take Into account
is the fact that the drouth of 1894 was
quite as general and of much longer du
ration than the drouth of the present
year upon which the lowest estimate of
the corn production is mainly based.
The drouth of 1894 continued beyond
the middle of August, The drouth of
this year was broken during the first
week of August and since then abundant
rains have fallen and the condition of
the corn crop has improved very much.
In spite of the great drouth of 1894 the
corn yield was about 1,200,000,000, an av
erage of 19.4 bushels per acre.
As the acreage of the present crop is
nearly one-third greater than the acre
age in 1894 and the conditions at least
quite as good as they were then it is
reasonable to expect a com crop far in
excess of 1,900,000 000 bushels. Unless it
should be cut off by an unusually early
frost the crop will probably reach 1,500,-
000,000 bushels.
There are many reasons for the belief
that most of the estimates which have
been circulated so industriously have
been far too low.
Speculators have had a large hand in
this business. The corn crop will un
doubtedly be short, but by no means as
short as many estimates have indicated.
A UNITED COUNTRY.
As the leap of Curtius into the gulf
that yawned in Rome restored the unity
of the imperial city, so the blood of the
stricken president has helped to cement
the union of the lately severed sections
of our country.
There has been no distinction between
north and south in the feelings aroused
by the deed of the would-be assassin.
In each section the dastardly assault has
been equally deplored and condemned with
equal indignation and wrath. The sympa
thy of the south has gone out to the
president and his devoted wife in equal
measure with that of the north. Public
men and private citizens in both sections
have felt and voiced the common senti
ment. From the people of every state,
every city and every hamlet prayers bear
ing the same pleadings have gone up to
God.
Veterans of the Confederacy have
spoken out their condemnation of the
cruel and infamous act of the anarchist
In terms as strong as those that have
come from Grand army posts. The south
ern press and the press of the north
have at last come into perfect unison.
Political predilections hava been ignored
and party lines obliterated.
The people of all sections, all parties
and all classes have -come together in
common cause against anarchy, in com
mon devotion to the government and com
mon concern and yearning for the re
covery of the president. One touch of na
ture, one thrill of patriotism has revealed
the kinship and drawn closer the tie that
binds the whole country together.
In the dispensation of providence this
sad event may have been sent for the
purpose of linking the hearts of our peo
ple more firmly together, leading them to
kindlier consideration of each other, a
better comprehension of their common
interests and indivisible destiny.
HESTER’S COTTON REPORT.
The annual reports of Secretary Hester,
of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, are
always awaited with great interest. Mr.
Hester has established a reputation for
reliability, as well as enterprise, which
gives his reports high value in public es
timation.
Last night he Issued his report for the
cotton year of 1900-01 in which he puts the
crop raised last year at 10,383,422 bales, an
Increase of 947,006 over the crop
of 1899-1900. The crop was largely
underestimated by most cotton dealers,
and many of them refused up to a few
months ago to concede that it would go
over 10,000,000 bales. This is the old story
and it will probably be repeated in the
average estimates of the crop now pmtur-
ing, though it is certain that this crop
has suffered very severely from unfavor
able seasons. Most of the estimates of
the last crop by the national agricultural
bureau have been much more correct than
they were generally believed to be when
issued. This is especially true of the
earlier bureau's estimates.
According to Mr. Hester’s figures the
crop of Texas, including Indian Territory,
increased 1,218,000 bales as compared with
last year. /
The crop in the group of states consist
ing of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah and Kansas
decreased 179,000 bales, while there was a
decrease of 92,000 bales in the group of
states consisting of Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Kentucky and Virginia.
The average commercial value of the
crop is put by Mr. Hester at $47.63 per
bale, considerably more than any aver
age in many years.
The immense increase in the value of
the crop is shown by comparison with
the two previous crops, the figures being
$494,567,549, against $363,784,820 for last year
and $282,722,987 for year before last.
The cotton crop of 1900-01 was by many
millions of dollars the most valuable ever
produced.
One of the most Interesting parts of Mr.
Hester's report is that which refers to the
great advance of the south in the manu
facture of cotton.
The total number of spindles in the
south on September 1, 1901, was 6,531,694,
an increase since September 1, 1900, of
264,731.
During the year 25 cotton mills were
built in the south, making the total num
ber 6&.
The consumption by southern mills was
divided as follows:
Alabama, 164,357 bales; an increase of 16,-
435. Arkansas, 1,729; a decrease of 651.
Georgia, 354,499; an Increase of 15,389. Ken
tucky, 23,985; a decrease of X 564; Louis
iana, 16,527; an increase of 107. Missis
sippi, 24,303; an increase of 1,753. Mis
souri, 4,931; an increase of 783. North
Carolina, 434,978; a decrease of 708. South
Carolina, 510,486; an increase of 13,340.
Tennessee, 35,407; a decrease of 2,340.
Texas, 12,985; a decrease of 5,062. Virginia,
36,744; a decrease of 11,683. Total con
sumption of cotton in the south, 1,620,931;
an increase over last year of 23,819, and
over year before last of 221,532.
It will be seen that while South Caro
lina still leads in the quantity of cotton
consumed by southern mills, Georgia
shows a greater Increase of consumption
than any other state.
In North Carolina, which is the second
southern state in cotton manufacturing,
Georgia being third, there was a decrease
in consumption of 788 bales, while Geor
gia's increase of consumption increased
15,389 bales.
This is a fine showing for Georgia and
indicates that she is gaining substantially
on the Carolinas in the manufacture of
cotton. During the last 12 months there
has been a comparative depression in mill
circles, owing mainly to Chinese difficul
ties and competition between northern
and southern mills.
This feeling has been strongest in
northern mills, but has had its effect in
the south also. ,
The outlook has brightened during the
last 60 days.
The consumption of American cotton by
northern mills during the year Mr. Hes
ter puts at 2,050,000 bales, a decrease of
250,000, while the consumption of southern
mills Increased 23,819 bales.
Mr. Hester takes a very hopeful view
of southern cotton mill prospects. He
says that had all the mills run as they
did last year, including the new concerns
in operation, their consumption would
have reached 1,725,000 bales.
He claims that with anything like fair
trade the latter amount ‘should be ex
ceeded during the coming season.
He shows that Including those which
commenced building last year there are
now 42 new mills in course of construc
tion in the south with 846,214 spindles,
showing that the work of building up
the industry is still going on at a rapid
rate,'though the conditions do not stand
comparison with last year’s phenomenal
results.
The world's consumption of American
cotton for the year covered by his report
was 10,161,000 bales, against 10,996,000 for
1899-1900 and 10,759,000 for 1898-99.
The total visible and invisible supply
of American cotton in the world on Sep
tember 1, 1901, 1,431,000 bales, against 1,-
125,000 last year, an Increase of 306,000, and
the total visible and invisible supply of
all kinds of cotton in the world Septem
ber 1, 1901, 2,185,000, against 1,738,000 last
year, an increase of 447,000.
He gives the receipts of new cotton of
the crop of 1901-1902 at delivery ports at
bales, against 22,620 last year.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Bankrupts are broken, but idiots are only
cracked.
Better do a few things well than attempt to
do many.
When some people are unable to do a thing
they boast of It.
Many a woman studies her glass to the
neglect of her heart.
If a girl has teeth like pearls she’s never as
dumb as an oyster.
All women are born equal, but some spoil it
by getting married.
Nothing aggravates a girl so much as her
inability to make a man angry.
It some men would work more and hope less
they would get along better.
The bachelor guests at a wedding are com
pelled to contemplate matrimony.
A genial man is one who enjoys fun and
comfort at the expense of other men.
Love Is responsible for a good many frosts
in summer and for a few hot waves in winter.
Never enter into a partnership with a man
whose wife is president of a woman-suffrage
club.
Howison Should Withdraw.
Albany Argus.
It Is difficult for any impartial man to re
sist the conclusion that where there has been
so much smoke there must be some fire. It
may be that Admiral Howison is capable of
rendering a fair and impartial decision, but he
Is so generally suspected of bias against Schley
that he ought to relieve the court of his mem
bership therein, and he should do so without
other prompting than his own sense of honor
and propriety.
WOMAN SAVIORS.
BY REV. WALKER LEWIS.
New York city has a great many
women of rare gifts and graces, of
exquisite culture and attraction; but
on none of these ought the eyes of
the metropolis, and indeed of the
whole country, to rest more grate
fully and admiringly than upon Miss
Frances R. Miller. Full-dressed and
hatted though she was, this brave,
soulful girl leaped from the deck of
a yacht, whose male passengers dared
not do it, and swam into Pelham bay
August 25 to save a drowning boy!
And she succeeded.
She was not known to him.
Neither he nor his friends had any
claim upon her for tnat risk of life.
She ought have shrunk from the im
perious call that her heart felt at the
boy’s peril to go to his relief and hid
den in the weakness of her sex and in
the duty her male attendants knew
to be theirs and not hers. She might
have impatiently recoiled from taking
up the neglected work of others by
nature better fitted to battle with the
elements than was she, and let the boy
sink while she wept over his drown
ing. But she did nothing of the kind,
and giving life to risk she snatched
the drowning lad from a watery de
struction. It was a great deed. It
was equal to Schley’s heroism upon
the deck of the Brooklyn off Santiago
or to Wheeler’s before Santiago’s
trenches and armed Spaniards. AU
honor to Miss Frances R. Miller!
There were two qualities the girl must
have had to execute this attempt. She
had a heart to feel. Without this deep
instinct of sympathy she never would
have plunged into the brine for that
unknown boy. Others, many of them,
would have felt a passing sensation
of horror at his danger, and cared
more for their dress than for "his life.
But this woman has a great heart, and
all things but helping are forgotten in
the peril of another by the great
hearted.
Still there was another thing with
out which her true heart would have
been powerless to execute its piteous
resolve. She must have been mistress
of the waves. That she was. The ca
pacity of help she had acquired by
practice in the sport and exercise of
swimming. Where heart and' hand
went together, rescue followed the
movement.
Boys and men are in the sea by the
thousands. Their own parents have not
succeeded in keeping them in the boat
or in rescuing them when overboard.
Evil habits have drawn them into the
flood, and they are drowning every
day. The gay crowds sail by and gaze
upon them as they sink, but it would
spoil their sport and their suits to leap
into the billows after them. “Why
don’t some one throw out the lifeline?”
is often asked by thousands who
neither throw it nor go after it. The
cigarette, liquor, licentiousness are
breaking like the Johnstown horror
over the unsuspecting, and in their
muddy and remorseless byjows
boys and men are getting drowned.
The social evil runs six feet deep
through the streets of our cities, and
Instead of ditching against it or trying
to filter the flood. It is let alone to
drown all it can. Intemperance in
drink or in the cigarette use is adding
tens of thousands every year to the
lists of the destroyed. Nevertheless,
for merchandise's sake, these perils
are condoned, tolerated and sometimes
defended!
Then, woman, it is time for you to
begin the work of rescuing men. Res
cue work for women is Christ-like. It
is well to recognize man’s need of res
cue likewise, and leap into the flood
after him. Oh, for more women of the
Miller heart and hand! It would lessen
drowning everywhere.
The crowded cars on a late trip
Politics Corrupt in This State.
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 5.
Editor Journal.
After a tour of nine weeks’ constant
work I am back home again shaking
hands with friends and enjoying their
greetings. I am glad to note the
wide-spread and profound interest in
the coming Tabernacle meetings.
We shall have the largest corps of
efficient preachers this year that we
have ever had, and I believe the peo
ple not only feel the need of great
religious awakening, but that they
are earnestly praying for it.
Personally, I want to see and feel
the greatest religious awakening
North Georgia has ever experienced.
This shall not be a rellgio-pollttco cam
paign. It shall be conducted along the
lines of repentance towards God and
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, for wfi
may say what we will about reform
ation but the only permanent reform
ation that can come to the human
race will be through the personal re
generation of each individual soul.
In this dearth of religious Interest
and enthusiasm which the church has
been passing through humanity can
realize that man does not live by bread
alone. McKinley and prosperity may
fill the pocket and then leave an empty
soul. We old people and middle aged
people need more religion, and the time
never was in the history of the United
States when the young people needed
the grace of God and the restraining
power of religion more than they need
it today. The boys are going to the
devil in groups and squads. The girls
are going into fashion and fondness
for dress, and disinclination to en
gage in those pursuits which strength
en the body, ennoble the mind and
beautify character. Our boys are dev
ilish and our girls are silly, and I
don’t know which is more hurtful to
character, devilishness or silliness.
You may talk about a girl having a
pretty mouth or a pretty eye or a pret
ty foot or beautiful hair. To the dogs
with all these things, a beautiful
character is so far above and beyond
all such things that they ought not to
be mentioned in a week of each other.
The average young man seems to im
agine that he must drink whisky and
cuss to be a gentleman, but I rather
be a dog than a gentleman if that’s the
qualifications of a gentleman. Re
ligion teaches the boys to “first seek
the kingdom of God and his righteous
ness and all other v...ngs will be add
ed unto them.”
We want everybody to feel that they
are invited to come and enjoy the
meetings with us. We will feed them
as long as we have got a crust of
bread and pray that God may feed
them also upon heavenly bread and
water of life.
In glancing over our home papers to
day I find that there is a growing in
terest in candidates and political issues
in Georgia.
There is one criticism pretty gener
ally used, and that is: Why begin to
agitate so early? Twelve months ahead
of primaries, fifteen months ahead of
elections. Os course this cry is not
raised by the friends ot prohibition, but
ft is the clamor of the saloon gang.
To begin early means organization, and
organization means everything. Here
tofore we have let matters go along;
courthouse rings and district enques
have gotten in their work through their
little machines and made it Impossible
tor the God-fearing, good citizens of
this state to do anything, but we pro
pose to begin and lift the calf over the
gap when he is young and lift him
every day until we will be used to lift
ing him when he is a full grown steer.
The difference between a pile of scrap
iron and a locomotive engine is the
fact that the engine is organized iron
and the scrap iron is not organized.
The courthouse cliques and rings and
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caused me to share my seat with a
young man. He impressed me at once
with his ability and gentlemanliness,
and conversation drifted Into matters
touching the sin and cure of drunk
enness. He had been an awful drinker.
One day a lovely girl he knew went
after him in the sea.
•‘John, why don’t you try the Keely
cure and quit drinking?” He hadn’t
the money, and freely said as much,
saying further that he would not ask
help of his father. The next night her
pin money savings for years were in
a check for $l5O, and this she would
have pressed Into his hands. Declin
ing her gift, his soul was so moved by
her interest in him, he resolved to go.
He diu, was cured, and is today a
splendid business ran and her hus
band. Was it Keely cure that saved
him? No; that was the lifeline which
her fair hands threw him as he was
sinking, and with that she drew him
to land and life.
Women of the church, follow the
northern and the southern girl Into
the life-saving service! It is certainly
a noble outlay of service you can ren
der your Lord, for he is every drown
ing man’s brother, and motherhood as
well, for every drowning boy Is some
mother’s son. What young man have
you, fair readers, sought and asked
and entreated to give up intemper
ance and gambling? Are your hands
too soft, is your heart to hard to let
you throw them one line for escape
from the roaring billows? Join the life
saving service! Somebody’s husband,
or brother, or boy, if not yours, will
then find help in the hour of despair.
Whatever Greek saved a life was
crowned by his country with a chaplet
of distinction, and our government
medals the heroes of the stormy surf
beat. Let our women become greater
and ascend to higher distinction for
life-saving serv’?e in the billowy sea
of tempation. Miss Miller richly de
serves a statue for her noble daring
and unselfishness. But service of the
girl who saved her lover from drunk
enness, and other like acts of best
women, deserve notice in higher re
gions of reward, and are destined to
get it from the lips of the King, who
sees and remembers.
You can’t help save them! Then, for
heaven's sake, don’t push them out
of the boat or over the rail into the
sea. If your voice and hand cannot be
enlisted to save, let them not be used
to destroy. Heaven save our drowning
boys and brothers and fathers, and lift
them out of brine into blessedness by
the ministry of wide awake women!
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political gangs have b*en the locomo
tive in former campaigns, and the good
people who pay the taxes and stay by
the stuff have been the pile of scrap
iron lying out to one side motionless
and powerless. If this campaign
shapes up right I propose to take a
hand. Not as the champion so much
of a man or men but as the champion
of measures. If there is anything I ad
mire more than another this side of
heaven it is a manly man. I love wo
manhood and admire manhood. If the
cause of prohibition and the anti-sa
loon element of this state shall organ
ize within the next six months then
I doubt not but that very candidate
for governor will be as pronounced as
the Hon. Dupont Guerry. When it
comes to opposition to saloons and
whisky I yield the palm to no man;
when it comes to paid lobbyists and
lobbyism with their corruption fund
and vicious influences, I am as unalter
able and pronounced against that as
any candidate can be, but I have my
views along some lines. The railroads
of this state and of all the states are
the great arteries of commerce and
business. I never will join in the hue
and cry against corporations simply
because they are corporations. I be
lieve in equal taxation upon all classes
alike, but I don’t believe in putting
railroads and saloons In a bunch and
jumping on both together as If they
were both a common enemy united to
wreck and ruin this country, and neith
er does Dupont Guerry. I have mixed
and mingled with every class of rail
road men. I know railroad men from
top to bottom. I am the friend of rail
road men and I am glad to know they
are my friends, and I wjll not join In
any attack that is made upon railroads
because they are corporations. If there
is a deficit in the revenue of the state
don’t squeeze and, coerce the money
out of railroads to pay that deficit, but
do like honest people ought to do, live
within their income, reduce expenses
rather thai> increase values and tax
those increased values by Inqulsitorious
methods. A dishonest sentiment ma
terializes into a dishonest law and a
dishonest law makes dishonest men.
When a hungry set of politicians and
demagogues in the legislature begin to
jump on railroads and corporations
who can blame railroads then for meet
ing such a spirit with paid lobbyists
and corrupt influences, so-called?
All I ask the railroads of Georgia
to do is to stay out of this fight.
If incontestable proof is given that
they have locked arms with the whis
ky crowd to defeat the will of the
people in the coming election, then we
may carry the war Into Africa. I
know that it has been charged that
rhe railroads pool issues lr legislative
fights not because they are any kin
or have any fellowship otherwise, but
because it costs each one just half the ■
money to do the work. Be that as it
may, I have never yet fought a rail
road because it was a railroad or a
corporation, and I never will. I have
a hundred friends among railroad men,
where I have one in politics, and if
I have one friend among the liquor
gang I don’t knpw w*ho he is. Cut
down your pension roll and your school
tax and you will be getting down at
the root of all our trouble. I have
no sympathy with your pension busi
ness, gentlemen. Our old soldiers and
their widows were getting along bet
ter without pensions than they are
getting along now with them in my
honest judgment, and I am
tious and honest when I say that
whenever a father can’t feed and
clothe and educate his own kids, the •
best thing he can do for his coun
try is to go out of the "kid” busi
ness. The old log-school bouses, to
which our fathers subscribed a scholar
or a scholar and a half or twe schol
ars and paid the tuition, turned out
more grand men in the United States
every twelve months than all the col
leges and public schools of America
turn out now. I am in favor of edu
cation and not a year tor twenty
years but what I have had poor boys
and girls at school educating them.
Nothing truer than the following coup
let: ■ . .
"How empty learning Is and how
vain is art - w
But as it mends the’ life and guides
the heart.”
I am in favor of anything and every
thing that fosters manhood and Cher
ishes independence and begets ambi
tion. I am against everything that
minifies or dwarfs either of them.
With Increased taxation and increased
school facilities and ever increasing
■ number of officials and pap-suckers,
the morals nor the manners of the peo
ple are improved, nor the manhood of
our country conserved. Nearly every
Interest in this country Is In the hands
of small politicians from governor
down, and needs a Moses to lead them
out of the wilderness. South Carolina
with her pitchfork politicians never
needed John C. Calhoun like she needs
him now; Texas in the hands of her
small politicians never needed old
Bam Houston like she needs him now;
Kentucky with her blood and thunder
gang in charge, never needed old Hen
ry Clay like she needs him today; old
Georgia never needed Herchel V. John
son and Alex Stephens like needs
them now.
IF THE PROPRIETOR OF A BIG
BONANZA SALOON HAD BEEN
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA FOB TEN
YEARS. AND HIS WHITE
APRONED CLERKS HAD BEEN
STATE OFFICIALS. THE SALOONS
OF GEORGIA COULD NOT HAVE
HAD AN EASIER TIME OR MORE
UNDISPUTED SWAY, and I for one
am tired of it, and a majority of the
fathers of Georgia are tired of suefli a
regime, and we are going to clean
them up, too, watch us if we don’t
Yours, BAM P. JONES.
P. B.—l believe every newspaper man
in Atlanta has a place In my heart and
affections. Gentlemen, come up and
enjoy our meetings with us, and to tell
you the plain truth I believe you need
religion. If you have got all you need,
come up and help us get all we need.
Come to my house; come to any house
in town. The latch string is on the in
side. SAM P. JONES.
N. B.—l see the press has me down
among campaigners. They may be
more of a prophet than they think. I
may give out a list of “appointments”
some of these days that will stir th<
red-nose rascals very deep.-
8. P. J.
Gubernatorial Situation
As By State Press,
Must There Be a Ring?
Dawson News.
Mr. Guerry to after “the rlnx” with a sharp
stick. If Mr. Guerry gets in how long will it
b« before there will be another ring?
A Snag For the Bandwagon.
Macon News.
The Quitman Free Press says: It seems
♦het Mr. Terrell is the one to incur* ( the Con
stitution’s support. ‘lncur is good.
x The Peacemaker.
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
Editor Perham kindly offers the u« of his
sanctum to Messrs. Turner and Estill to meet
in to settle their differences and suggests that
they meet there on the 7th of September and
talk th* situation over. Blessed is the peace
maker.
Guess Who.
Covington Enterprise.
The man who has not yet announced will
moat likely be the next governor of Georgia.
He sits serenely In his office at the capttol
dally and more is written about him thar any
of those who have announced.
Turner’s Burchard.
Valdosta Times.
It is amusing to see some of the small-bores
in the upper part of the state trying to read
Hon. Henry G. Turner out of the Democratic
party. They do not take the position that he
was’ wrong in advocating sound money four
years ago, but they are mad because he was
not as idiotic as they were about that time.
The Fight Is On.
Albany Herald.
It is now very evident that we are to have
a clean-cut well defined prohibition fight in
Georgia next year. Indeed, the prohibition
ists are already lining up for it, and the
.fight will be made in the Democratic pn-
DuPont Guerry having been the first
gubernatorial candidate to make an unquali
fied declaration in favor of state prohibition,
and to enter the race subject to the Demo
cratic primaries, ft seems a foregone conclu
sion that the prohibitionists will take him for
their candidate. Mr. Guerry has already en
tered upon an active canvass and has fully
verified the prediction made by the Herald
when his candidacy was first announced—that
he would prove an aggressive campaigner and
hard fighter. .. . . .
The Herald candidly confesses that ft dreads
this prohibition campaign. It is not the re
sult, so far as the sale of liquor is concerned,
but the strife and bitterness that the cam
paign will engender, that we dread. It arouses
two classes of fanatics In the community and
arrays them against each other —the one who
believes that his business or his individual
liberty, as the case may be. is being interfered
with, and the other a sort of moral or relig
ious Pharisee who feels that he is called upon
to reform the world and believes that ft can be
done by legislation. Neither can be reasoned
with, and between the two there is no middle
ground—no peace, no rest for the conservative
cltisen, whether he be pious and temperate
or not.
MADE IN GERMANY.
Fair Gretchen keeps a toy shop
Os woolly lambs and things.
That roll about or wildly pop
Forth on their agile springs.
And when she chooses to display
Her well-made store to me,
She says in quite a haughty way,
“Yah! made in Germany.”
She thinks that I might like a doll.
Have I a little girl?
“See dot sweet leetle pet: look, all
H*r hair vas real”—A curl
Has strayed forth from sweet Gretchen’s
The one real curl to me.
What are the other curls that hap
To come from Germany?
A wooden horse, all painted brown,
Just like Von Waldersee’s,
Quite meekly in this China town
Supports some dolls Chinese.
I’d quickly buy this charger fine.
If Gretchen would but be
A fallow-traveler of mine.
And flee to Germany.
Ah! rosy Gretchen, can’t you see
’Tie not your wares I seek?
What though they be from Germany,
They cannot love or speak.
’Tis your sweet self, for love has laid
His fairy wand on PHi. .
I want the maiden who was made
In wise old Germany.
—Annulet Andrews In Ufa,
A Little Fishy.
Montgomery County Monitor.
Who said that North Georgia would stand
aside and let us name the next governor!
The idea Is a little fishy.