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ATLANTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER M. 1901
EDUCATION IN ETHICB.
It io announced that a professorship of
•thlca Is to be founded and maintained in
tha University of Chicago by labor or
ganisations.
The object of thia professorship will bo
to extend knowledge as to the true rela
tions of capital and labor to each other.
There ran be no doubt that moot of the
strikes and other labor troubles that have
afflicted the country and caused great loss
to both parties could have been averted
if there had been a fairer and more intelli
gent understanding of the rights and real
Interests of employer and employee.
The sort of education that is proposed at
Chicago university is very much needed
tn this country, but everything will de
pend upon the way in which the professor
ship of ethics is conducted. It may be
come the source of mischief instead of a
public benefit if it should be placed In
control of incompetent or unfair instruc
tors.
We are justified in presuming, however,
that at no well regulated a university eth
ics will be taught intelligently and impar
tially and we expect good results from the
workingman's professorship.
THE SCHLEY COURT.
At last the ffchley court of Inquiry is
down to work, and it seems probable that
it will be able to proceed with its busi
ness to the end without further interrup
tion. The proceedings yesterday Indicate
that the court will be perfectly Impartial,
as everybody who knew tbe high charac
ter of its members was sure it would be.
It also became evident that Judge Ad
vocate Lemley is determined to bring out
all the evidence unfavorable to Schley that
ho possibly can. as. perhaps, his duty re
quires.
But tt Is equally plain that Admiral
Schley has very able and astute counsel,
who will let no point pass, and are able
to put their case very strongly.
BvMently. a great mass of testimony
will bo adduced on both sides, and the
inquiry will continue for many weeks.
Admiral Schley has his reputation at
•take, and that is dearer to him than
life.
The faith of his fellow-countrymen tn
his complete vindication has never wav
ered. and be must be strengthened and
comforted in this momentous period by the
consciousness that public sympathy is so
overwhelmingly with him.
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There has Been a considerable amount
of maudlin talk over some of the propos
ed methods of treatment for anarrchista.
It has been said that we must be care
ful not to run roughshod over our tradi
tions and our principles of very liberal
toleration, and that the present period of
excited public feeling is not the time for
arise action on the subject of anarchism.
There has never lived a man who was
more scrupulous in defense of all the Just
rights of the people, or more ready to
welcome to our country all citizens of for
eign governments who were fit to live
among us. than was Thomas Jefferson.
But Jefferson was a firm believer in the
right and duty of the government to
* purge Itself of vicious and dangerous ele
ments.
Tn a letter to William H. Crawford he
said:
"Every society has a right to fix the
fundamental principles of its association,
anl to say to all individuals that, if they
contemplate pursuits beyond the limits
of these principles and involving dangers
which the society choose to avoid, they
must go somewhere else for their exer
cise; that we want no citizens. and still
less ephemeral and peeudo-cltlsens, on
such terms. We may exclude them from
our territory as we do persons infected
with disease ”
There is full warrant for saying that
if Jefferson were with us now he would
commend the most effective methods of
dealing with the anarchists, however se
vere they might be. There is no danger
that in our efforts to rid the country of
this virus we shall go too far.
CUBA’S GOVERNMENT.
The constitutional convention that was
elected by the people of Cuba has adopt
ed a form of government and under it an
•lection will be held in December.
The popular' opposition to those parts
of the constitution which give the Unit
ed State* practical guardianship over Cu
ba was. a few months ago. very strong;
tn fact, so strong as to threaten trouble,
but ft has subsided very largely.
Governor General Wood, who has recent
ly been In Washington, is confident that
the masses of the Cubans will cheerfully
accept tbe government that has been pre
pared for them, and give it loyal support.
He does not apprehend any demonstra
tions of discontent. The election, he
thinks.- will pass off quietly, and he pre
dicts that by next spring the government
of Cuba may be safely turned over to the
people of that island.
Ti.e constitution divides Cuba into six
provinces, which, in a general way. corre
spond to our states. They range In size
from Puerto Principe, with a population
of 95.234. to Havana, with a population of
C4.3M.
Each of these provinces has four sena
tors. who are to compose an upper house,
like our senate, and twenty-four members
of a lower house, like our national house
of representatives. The senators are to be
elected by direct vote of the people In
stead of by local legislatures. as in the
United States.
In addition tn the twenty-four members
of the lower house, which each province
has. sixty-one other scats in that body
are distributed among them in proportion
to population.
The 122 presidential electors are also ap
portioned on the basis of population.
There are several political parties in
Cuba, representing a variety of policies
from that of the extremists on the one
hand, who favor annexation to the United
States, to that of the extremists on the
other hand, who demand the absolute and
unconditional independence of Cuba.
Whether these conflicting elements will
ever live peacefully together remains to
be seen.
THE SOUTH AND M’KINLEY.
It is not remarkable that from newspa
pers and citizens of all classes in every
part of the south there have come and are
still coming so many expressions of sor
row at his death and of profound appre
ciation of his broad patriotism.
Out of this feeling which pervades the
south has sprung the hearty approbation
of the movement to build a monument to
the lamented president in Atlanta.
In discussing this exhibition of affection
on the part of the people of the south for
the late president the New Orleans Pica
yune says truly;
"It is not a mere transient senti
ment galvanized into existence by
tbe sad and sudden fate which
overcame him; but it is the grief with
which friendship and affection accept the
loss of a beloved object, joined to the
sense of indignation and outrage at the
atrocious crime by which this loss was in
flicted.
“If it is asked why the people of the
south should have held in such regard a
chief magistrate who was a northern man
and the standard bearer of a political par
ty to which the people of there states hive
been constantly opposed, the answer is not
difficult. It was because that northern
man loved the south, and used his high
office as much as he could to heal its
wounds and right the wrongs under which
its people had suffered.
"It was through political sectionalism
that the greatest wrongs and the heaviest
losses had been inflicted on the people of
these southern states, and it was under
McKinley's administration that the chasm
which had so long been open, like an im
passable gulf of hate, between the north
and the south, was most nearly closed,
and it was through his special exertions
and desire that this noble work of justice
and righteousness had been accomplish
ed.”
President McKinley in many of his pub
lic addresses proclaimed his heart-felt de
sire that the people of the south and those
of the north should oe reunited in heart
and patriotic purpose, as well as in name,
and it is not going too far to say that he
did more than any other man to accom
plish this glorious result.
At the peace jubljee in Atlanta In De
cember. 1898, his speech at the capitol was
not the only occasion on which President
McKinley spoke sentiments which sans
deep into the hearts of our people.
To a multitude gathered at Exposition
Park he uttered these patriotic and elo
quent words:
"Four years have gone since I last met
the people of Georgia in public assembly.
Much has happened in the intervening
time. The nation has been at war, not
within its own shores, but with a foreign
power—a war waged, not for aggrandize
ment. but for our oppressed neighbors, for
freedom and amelioration. It was short
but decisive. It gave i\ew honors to
American arms. It has brought new
problems to the republic. whose solu
tion will tax the genius of our people.
United we will meet and solve them with
honor to ourselves and to the lasting
benefit a H concerned. The war brought
us together, its settlement will keep us
together. Reunited! Glorious realization!
It expresses the thought of my mind and
the long-deferred consummation of my
heart's desire as I stand in this presence.
It interprets the hearty demonstration
here witnessed, and is the patriotic re
frain of all sections and of all lovers of
the republic.
"Reunited—one country again and one
country forever! Proclaim it from the
press and pulpit: teach it in the schools;
write it across the skies! The world sees
and feels it; it cheers every heart North
and South, and brightens the life of every
American home. Let nothing ever strain
it again! At peace with all the world
and with one another, what can stand
in the pathway of our progress and pros
perity?”
If the people of the south did not love
and honor the memory of William Mc-
Kinley they would be ungrateful, and they
have never been that nor have they ever
failed to respond to every tender of gen
erosity, or to grasp every profound hand
of friendship with a cordiality equal to
that in which it was extended.
ROOSEVELT’S ADVANTAGES.
Unlike nearly all the other presidents of
the United States since the first six, Theo
dore Roosevelt was born well off in this
world's goods, and had exceptionally fine
opportunities in his youth. He inherited
a considerable fortune from his father,
and had exceptionally good educational
advantages.
After a university training at Harvard,
he enjoyed for several years the invalua
ble benefits of travel and leisure for in
tellectual culture. He came of a family of
which had for generations held high so
cial position and exerted large Influence.
Not one of our presidents had a more
auspicious start in life.
Os course, these favoring conditions did
not make Roosevelt the man he is. but he
appreciated and used them in away that
helped him mightily to rise in the world
with almost unprecedented rapidity.
Theodore Roosevelt rs the onry president
of the United States who has not had
any profession, business, trade or other
regular occupation. Much of his time
since he reached the age of manhood has
been devoted to literature, and a great
part of it to politics.
The first six presidents, Washington,
Adams. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
John Quincy Adams, had good starts in
life and many circumstances to help them
onward, but there has hardly been one
between John Quincy Adams and Theo
dore Roosevelt who did not have to con
tend with adverse conditions in his youth.
Auflttw Jeskauu was buru pwurzr than
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any of them. He was the son of an Irish
immigrant, who came to this country on
ly a short time before Andrew was born.
The family was actually poverty-strick
en—which cannot be raid of the family of*
any other president.
Van Buren was the son of a small farm
er. and worked in the field during his
youth.
William Henry Harrison. John Tyler and
James K. Polk had parents who were in
humble circumstances, but they managed
Jo give the three future presidents good
college educations.
Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore and
Franklin Pierce were all boys on small
farms, but the latter received a college
education.
Buchanan’s family was.in comparative
ly good circumstances and he enjoyed a
full course of Dickinson college.
Both Lincoln and Johnson were actually
poor in their youth, and made a friend of
toil. Grant was the son of a hard-working
frontiersman, but had the advantage of an
education at West Point,
The Hayes family, when Rutherford was
born, were very comfortable. He received
college training both at Kenyon and Har
vard.
Garfield was poor, but worked his way
through Williams college.
Chester A. Arthur’s father was a cler
gyman who never received much for his
services.
Grover Cleveland's father was a Presby
terian preacher, who acquired neither
fame nor money.
Benjamin Harrison had to work on a
farm until he wan 18 years old, but then
went Miami university and was graduated
there.
The father and the paternal grandfather
of William McKinley were iron workers
and manufacturers on a very small scale.
A great majority of our presidents had
hard struggles In youth.
President Roosevelt has the double dis
tinction of being the youngest man who
ever reached the presidency and ths one
who had the best aavantages in his youth.
He has proved, however, that he has the
native ability and the strong character
that would have enabled him to conquer
adversity and become illustrious under a
much less propitious beginning in life.
TENNESSEE’S GOOD POLICY.
The public roads are usually taken by
intelligent observers as about the best
indices of the character and prosperity
of the people in the region through which
they* pass. The neglect of their roads is
justly considered evidence of poor busi
ness sense and lack of thrift on the part
of the population which is most dependent
upon them.
One of the most hopeful signs of the
south's progress is the increased atten
tion to roads and their steadily improv
ing condition. The general condition of
roads in the south is so much better now
than ft was ten years ago that the trans
portation of crops in this section to mar
ket or to railway lines costs now many
millions of dollars less than It did before
these improvements were made.
Every good road is an object lesslon
that causes the building of others and
where real road improvement once be
gins it is almost sure to continue. Ten
nessee has done much in road building
during the past three years and is enter
ing upon a well organized campaign of
general road improvement.
The Good Roads Association in that
state has a large membership of repre
sentative and practical men in every part
of the state, representing all lines of busi
ness.
The first convention of this association
will be held at Nashville, beginning Oc
tober Bth.
Nearly every county in the state will be
represented and the cause of good roads
will probably be substantially promoted.
Road building experts from the agricul
tural department at Washington will at
tend the convention. There will be ad
dresses on the cost and merits of various
methods of road construction. The discus
sions and Interchange of views that will
be had at the convention will surely re
sult in much good.
We hope to see soon in Georgia such a
good roads revival as is going on in Ten
nessee.
WELLINGTON’S STATEMENT.
Senator George L. Wellington w-rites a
letter from Cumberland, Md., under date
of September 13 to a friend in this city,
in which he says:
"I gave no interview, but refused again
and again to give any expression for pub
lication for the reason that Mr. McKinley
had done me such injury I would never
forgive him, and I felt that it would be
beter to say nothing at this time.”
The interview that brought down upon
Senator Wellington a storm of wrath
from all parts of the country originally
appeared in the Baltimore Morning Her
ald, on the morning after President Me-
Kinley was shot, and was as follows:
"McKinley and I are enemies/’ said the
senator. “He has been guilty of an un
pardonable offense toward me. I cannot
say anything good for him, and I do not
think it just the time to say anything
bad. I despise the man. I have no use
for him. and there is no reason for my
saying anything. I am totally indifferent
in the matter.”
Many leading newspapers, being un
willing to believe that one who was a
United States senator and claimed to be
a gentleman could have used such brutal
words, either wired directly or sent their
Baltimore correspondents to Senator Wel
lington to ask whether he had been cor
rectly quoted in the Morning Herald.
He refused to say a word on the sub
ject.
The reporter who wrote the interview
has affirmed that he reported Senator
Wellington's remarks verbatim. The
newspapers of his own city and many in
other cities all over the land characterized
the interview In the severest terms possi
ble, and still no word of denial or pro
test came from the senator.
The conclusion was therefore inevita
ble that he said what had been attributed
to him, for no man who had not used such
words would have remained silent.
The Journal's editorial in favor of the
expulsion of Wellington from the senate,
which was quoted and endorsed by’ news
papers in every section, was written on
the Monday after the Friday evening
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when, as was alleged, he had spoken to a
reporter the disgraceful words we have
quoted above.
A few days later Senator Wellington
was given a chance by the Union League
club, of Baltimore, of which he was a
member, to deny the correctness of the
interview. He did not do so, and was ex
pelled from the club by a unanimous
vote.
It will be observed that in the letter
to his Atlanta friend he dees not deny
using the words contained in the Her
ald's publication, but only says "1 gave
no interview, but refused again and again
to give any expression for pubkeatioh.”
Does anybody believe that if he had not
said what he was reported as saying he
would have contented himself with such
an evasive reply?
If he had never used the expressions
with which his name had been coupled
would he have refused to go before his
club and repudiate them?
Would he have remained dumb undA
the torrent of denunciation that had for
days been pouring upon him?
It is absurd to ask an Intelligent public
to believe any such thing. And a whole
week after he was accused of the out
rageous utterance he contents himself
with a palpably evasive statement, if
he had said “I never gave an interview,
nor did I ever speak to anybody, either
for publication or otherwise, the words
charged to me relative to the shooting of
the president,” he would have made a flat
and emphatic denial. But he has never
done that, so far as the public knows,
and there is no reason to doubt that he
did make the utterances that have caused
him to become so odious.
He does not even now affirm or deny
that he did utter them.
A LARGE GEORGIA INTEREST.
We observe that many Georgia newspa
pers are expressing their surprise and re
gret that the freight rates on Georgia
marble to points outside the state have
been increased sb greatly as to cause the
producers to stop all shipments.
The Journal referred to this matter some
days ago and expressed the hope that
the railroads would relax the rates which
those who are developing one of the rich
est and most promising natural resources
of the state are confident will prove fatal
to this industry if persisted in.
The Savannah Morning News in a lead
ing editorial says:
“It has become almost a proverb that
there is one railroad in Georgia that has
a marble road bed through a great part
of its length.
"The store of marble in Georgia is be
lieved to be larger than that in any other
state. There is every reason, therefore,
why the marble industry -should flourish
and expand; and every effort should be
made by all those who are Interested in
the state's progress and prosperity to aid
in the development and expansion of the
industry.
“It seems, however, that the prospects of
the marble business have been seriously
interfered with by a very large, if not
extraordinary, increase in the freight
rates to points outside the state. The in
crease has been ondered by the Southeast
ern Tariff Association, which fixes the
freight rates on Georgia products going
into other states.. The new rate, it ap
pears, is more than double the old one.
which obtained for a long time, and under
which Georgia mtWble was in a position
to enter into competition with other mar
bles. The Increase in rates has. it is said,
practically stopped all shipments out of
the state, except those under contract.
The producers hold that the rates are un
reasonably high; Indeed are extortionate
and prohibitive.
“This should not be.
"As a matter of self-interest, they can
invfstigate the matter and take such steps
as will aid in the development of the
marble industry.
"The railroads owe It to themselves to
not be parties to the strangling of a grow
ing business that gives them freights.
“It Is hoped and believed that the South
eastern Tariff Association can be pre
vailed upon to review its action with re
spect to rates on Georgia marble."
The great and rapidly growing marble
industry in this state has contributed a
very large amount of business to the rail
roads, and it is hard to see why the
freight rates on it which were satisfac
tory to the railroads when the business
was small should not be so.now that it
has increased so greatly and has the clear
prospect of growing to even far larger
proportions if treated fairly by the trans
portation lines.
After seeing the published pictures of
Senator Wellington one does not feel so
surprised at it.
By depriving Herr Most of his beer the
authorities have managed to punish him
a good deal already.
The original Roosevelt man Is begin
ning to make his appearance in various
parts of the country.
The latest method of testing butter is
by photography. We have known butter
that could stand for it.
The country has confidence in President
Roosevelt because he has ever shown
himself to be a man of his word.
Here it goes again; one more idol shat
tered. The author of “Just One Girl” is
being sued for breach of promise.
The British authorities in South Africa
are trying to beat the record of General
Otis in “the war is over” proclamations.
The Georgia gubernatorial campaign
will now probably try to pull Itself to
gether and start over again where it left
off.
Strange, Isn't it, the contempt people
Teel who have managed to work their
way into society for those who are still
trying?
The Washington Post expresses the
hope that the Filipinos will be generous
enough not to judge us by some of the
congressmen that we have been sending
over.
Editor Rainey announces that that
Dawson Horseswappers’ convention is to
be conducted on the square. By which
we suppose he means the courthouse
square.
The humorist who alluded So two physi
cians as a “paradox” and put the key to
the joke (pair o’, docs) in parenthesis at
least showed a commendable spirit in in
terpreting his own joke.
In order to quell a row at a socialist
meeting In Chicago a few nights ago the
orchestra played “rag time” music and
thereby restored harmony. It acted as a
sort of counter-irritant, as it were.
An Omission in the Book.
Baltimore American.
Exit Howlson. It is a pity that the prompt
book does not so on to say: "Rxeutn Hack
ett, Crowlnshield, Maclay, st al.”
[ROOSEVELT PROUD OF SOUTHERN RELATIVES
AND WRITES OF SOLDIERS FROM SOUTH
No better indication of the feeling that President Theodore Roosevelt has for the south could be found than that
• contained In a letter written by the president to Mr. James R. Nutting, ot Atlanta. The letter was written last June.
• President Roosevelt, who was then the vice president of the United States, announces that he is proud of his soutMpl
• ancestry. v
He also states that the time has come when the American people can admire the valor of the soldier on both sides
• during the civil war. '
This paragraph is particularly significant at thia time, because it is directly in line with the views of President
J McKinley, and President Roosevelt has promised to continue the policy of the government as outlined by President Mc-
• Kinley during the first six months of his term of office. X
Tho “Cromwell,” to which President Roosevelt makes reference In his letter, is his own work. “The Life of Oliver
• Cromwell.” Mr. Nutting, who Is the warm friend of President Roosevelt, sent him the volume to have him dignify it
« with his autograph-
• A sac simile of the letter follows: ,
THE VICE-PRESIDENTS CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
b • i ....... r
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 14th, 1901.
j MR. J. R. Nutting, *
:• Atlanta, Ga.
•: My dear Mr. Nut ting
•: I am In receipt of your letter of
•: ult. It gave me real pleasure, and just as soon as the Crom
:• well comes I shall put in the inscription and send it to you.
; How did you address the book? I am out here at Oyster Bay,
: N. Y. , now.
I am extrememely proud of the fact that one of my
: uncles was an admiral in the Confederate navy, and that another
• fired the last gun fired aboard the Alabama. I think the time
: has now come when we can all of us be proud of the valor shown
: on both sides/in the civil war. In my regiment I had more
: men whose fathers fought in the Confederacy than I had men
I ’■* \
: whose fathers fought for the Union.
I am anxious to visit Roswell, and if I get the chance
: I am going to stop at Atlanta some time next fall. Then I
j shall hope to have the chance of seeing you. I also want to
I
: see Joel Chandler Harris.
Faithfully yours, 4
Sam Rories Roasts "The Yellows”
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 20. 1901.
The assassination and death of Pres
ident McKinley stirred the civilized
world perhaps as no event in this coun
try or any other country, in a hundred
years. He was a great president, a
good mail and a faithful officer. I have
no doubt that anarchy is responsible
for his death. The spirit of anarchy
must be fed and fostered to maintain
its place in any country, and I believe
that the great grist mill from whicn
the bread ot anarchy comes is the par
tisan press ot this country. The car
icatures and criticisms, the sarcasm
and grotesque representations of publie
men is the power that turns the wheel
that grinds the corn that makes the
bread on which anarchy can feast.
1 believe that in the field of caricature
and criticism there is usefulness and
may be rightedness. A perjured offi
cial, a demagogue in office, a dirty ras
cal that is out for the stuff and play
ing to the galleries without a speck
fit love for his country or appreciation
’for the right of the people, let him
be pictured in caricature and ridiculed
in word and grotesquely represented as
much as you will, but when these
things are turned loose upon a good
and true official, then they are harmful
and only harmful, and however much
fun and fancy there may be in these
things, they bring only evil to the peo
ple and teed and foster the enemies of
government and dwarf the spirit of
patriotism In the people. The series of
pictures in The New York Journal in
which Hannah and Teddy and Willie
have been the end men in the minstrels
have been laughed at and thought
over and taken in by the vicious and
unpatriotic, as well as the partisan
politicians of this country, and I am
one American citizen who long ago has
grown tired of the misrepresentations
and the ridiculous attitude in
this series of pictures have misrepre
sented faithful officials. A great presi
dent, administering the affairs of gov
ernment and beloved by all the people
as President McKinley was. true to
every trust ever committed to him. to
be placed before the public day after
day as The New York Journal's pic
tures placed him was an outrage that
I hope will never occur again. 1 wonder
how Opper and Hearst feel now. when
if today they were to reproduce one of
these pictures perhaps an organized
mob would lynch the whole gang? It is
well enough to put up men of straw
and ridicule and caricature them: It
is well enough, perhaps, like Daven
port. to represent the trust as a great
malignant giant throttling and murder
ing the people, but when you place be
fore the public eye the president, vice
president and United States senator,
whose character is above reproach,
then it is carrying the thing too tar.
Rabid partyism is no doubt responsible
for the whole thing. If anybody can
make pictures Hearst has got the
money to pay them to do It, and no
pictures are too grotesque for him to
publish if it hurts his political enemy
or fattens his spirit of partisan politics.
The New York Journal and The New
Yqrk World and that class of papers is
simply wild-fired journalism gone to
seed.
After all, the sober, conservative
spirit must dominate, not only the
press of the country, but all classes of
people. Partyism can be carried too far.
Conscious must take its place in jour
nalism as well as in other things, and
we must be just and truthful and hon
est in our representation of public offi
cials. It may be said that I have criti
cised officials severely, which I have,
but I never criticised a faithful official
in my life. 1 have never said anything
of any official that was not true. It
is as loyal and patriotic to denounce
demagoguism and unfaithfulness as it
is to praise the faithful in office.
This country may well mourn for the
noble president we buried yesterday,
and yet How fortunate that a man
like Roosevelt is ready to step into his
shoes. I ’am a believer in Roosevelt.
1 do not believe that a truer, braver,
brainer man has occupied the white
house in a hundred years. He is a
Christian man. He cannot be managed
by demagogues nor bossed by hungry
officials. He is too true and brave and
brainy to have said when he took the
oath of office as president “that it
was his supreme desire to carry out the
principles and policies of President
McKinley.” if he had not known first
that Mr. McKinley was right and con
sequently that he couid be true to him
self and carry out those policies and
principles.
Amid the fearful shock of the
death of President McKinley our com
mercial and financial interests are mov
ing on scarcely without a noticeable
ripple, and it is because the' great in
terests of this country know that they
can repose the broadest confidence in
President Roosevelt.
Let the newspapers give us the news,
let them deal fairly with all men and
all parties, and let them see that all
criticism and representations and car
icatures of good men is feeding the
THE SOUTH IN MOURNING
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4, Detrlot Free Press.
<• Among the emotional outbreaks incident to the national tragedy is the
•fr special mention by some of our exchanges of the fact that the people of
♦ the south are in deep sorrow over the death of the president and the
4> manner in which It came about. The tone taken by these editorial com
+ mentators is one of gratified sumrise and the impression created is that/
4> the nation should count among its compensations the complete restoration
+ of national sympathy and loyalty in the section referred to. We credit this
to force of habit rather than political mendacity, and yet it is a form of
♦ a too prevalent hysteria that cannot be permitted to pass without con
+ demnation.
+ The south has done preclselj’ what was expected of her and It would
+ have been a shocking surprise had she done otherwise. She would have
deplored and resented the assassination of a president of the United
«|> States, however obnoxious his political views and policies may have been
<• to the majority or her people, and for McKinley they certainly had a great
-4> er admiration than for any president named by the dominant party since
the war. He was with them when he first declared for reciprocity, his
♦ speech at Buffalo being an elaboration of his brief address at Memphis.
4> The bravery which so appeals to them was shown by the president tn our
+ difference with Spain and the manner in which he opened wide the way
+ for the south to show the national patriotism which the craftiness of po
q> ittfcal antagonism had kept in dispute, caused a gratitude that warmed
to an affection which rose above party differences.
The expressions of grief from the south are profound and sincere. It
+ is not from her people that we have heard the exceptional declaration
of brutal satisfaction over the work of an assassin. For a full quarter of
+ a century they have been in the Union, heart and soul, and at the first op
{i portunity to demonstrate the fact by deeds of patriotism the response
+ was such as to silence all but thoughtless or malignant criticism. It is
high time that expressions of doubt and insulting manifestations of sur
•fr prise when the south does what good American citizens should do, cease.
4> Even the political charlatans who have made so much capital out of an
Incident long since closed should be made to feel that farther speculation
in that direction is disastrous.
' spirit of anarchy and fattening the
vice of the land on thing* that vicious
men love to eat. As Saint Pau! put
it: -‘Use not your Jiberty, gentlemen. (7
to fulfill the desires of the fiesh.”
I have been at home just two weeks.
Last Sunday night we closed the
greatest tabernacle meeting I think we
ever held in Cartersville. It has left a
blessed influence and a fragrance even
in the very atmosphere of the town.
My mail brings me many petitions
and requests from various counties to
know when I am going to begin my
campaign in Georgia. I have this .o say
to the public, that no man Will have
my championship who Is not a pro*
nounced prohibitionist. lam leaning
more and more every day to Dupont
Guerry. I believe he is the man for
governor. No cliques can rule him; no
rings can boss him. and no gangs can '
control him. Tours truly.
SAM P. JONES.
• REFLECTION OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
The stony path is a slippery path. ;
A merry life means a sorry death.
What age is to wine youth Is to women.
Ministers marry people and lawyers unmarry
them.
The trump card of matrimony is a gentle
tongue.
Homesickness Is sentiment; loveeickneas is .
sentimentality.
The cure for a slight attack of love ie a
very heavy attack.
The really clever man never takes It for
granted that all other people are fools.
Mighty few women are so warm-hearted
that they enjoy seeing some on* give some
thing outside of the family.
Generally a woman thinks buying a rail
road ticket requires as much experience and
Investigation as buying tallroad stocks and
bonds. ' •'
K Born Musical Genius.
Columbus (Ohio) State Journal.
Joshua Straw —Our boy Sila* is goln' t* be a
musiehun. er 1 miss my guess.
Mrs. Straw—Dew tell.
Joshua Straw—Tea. str ee! You jes' ort f
see him prick up his ears when he hesrs you
blow th* dinner horn.
Drew a Long Breath.
Philadelphia Ledger.
It is entirely probable that Minister Conger-a
peace of mind was promoted by Commissioner
Rockhill's depsrture for home.
Chance for a Trade,
Detroit Free Pr»ss.
Persons having plenty of government bonds,
but no coal, have an opportunity "to dicker
with Secretary Gage again.