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ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER L MOL
„SOUTH CAROLINA TEA.
The Charleston News and Courier to
•ver ready to reaent any reflection upon
South Carolina.
When a Boeton trade Journal attacked
the tea industry in that state we were
quite sure that the News and Courier
would be heard from.
We are therefore not aurprised to find
that excellent newspaper declaring that
the Boston man doesn’t know what he is
talking about.
The News and Courier haa the authority
of Secretary Wttoon of the national bu
reau of education and the re
sults of its own observation to
put against the assertion of a critic
who never saw a South Carolina tea field,
and probabty has never given South Caro
lina tea a trial.
Secretary Wilson has stated ofDcially
several times that tea raising in the south
Is succeeding admirably. .
The tea planters tn South Carolina not
only find a ready market but they have
astd already all that they can produce
tn the next two years and at prices that
will pay a handsome profit.
Recently a company of New England
capitalists bought 4.000 acres of land near
Charleston and upon it will grow tea on a
large scale. They have already set out
7M.000 tea plants which within a year or
two win yield a very large er op.
South Carolina tea brings 00 cents a
pound and the best of it considerably
snore.
It has been abundantly demonstrated
♦her the soil and climate of a large part
of that state are admirably adapted to
the cultivation of tea of a high grade.
The industry to proving quite profitable
to those who are engaged tn it and is ex
panding steadily.
South Carolina has reason te indulge
high hopes of her tea industry.
THE ANTI-TAMMANY FUSION.
The attempt to unite the anti-Tammany
forces in New York city now seems more
hkely to succeed than it has seemed at
any previous time.
The opposition to Seth Low as the fu
sion candidate for mayor has weakened
reaaarkabiy within the last week. The
ticket submitted by the anti-Tammany
committee of eight was accepted by the
general conference committee Monday
night by a vote of 48 to 12. and it is an
nounced that those who voted against it
Win push their opposition no further.
The ticket, as a whole, is regarded as
wry strong, and will probably prove as
acceptable te the great mass of antl-Tam
manyites aa any that could be made up.
It to beaded by Seth Low. a Republican,
but a great majority of its other candi
. dates are Democrats. Including the comp
troller. ptasMem of rhe board of alder
men. president of Manhattan borough.
Judge of the city court, district attorney,
sheriff, register and tws of the three Jus
tices of the supreme court.
All the offices with the largest amount
of patronage are conceded to the Demo
crats. and. on the whole, they get decid
edly the beet of the apportionment.
Never befofe in many years has so gen
eral and well organised a movement
been arrayed against Tammany.
The leaders of that powerful organiza
tion, however, are not only confident, but
defiant.
Tammany has so seldom been defeated
tn New York city that it naturally consid
ers Itself almost invincible.
The prise to be contended for at the
election a few weeks henee is so rich a
one that both sides win put forth their
utmost efforts. It will be the warmest
campaign New York baa known in many
years and the result seems very doubtful.
WILL IT HOLD TOGETHER?
If President Roooevelt shall succeed In
keeping intact to the end of his term the
cabinet that he found on his accession
to ths presidency he will break the record.
He te not the only president who has
taken up an unfinished term and request
ed the cabinet of his predecessor to re
main.
On the death of William Henry Harri
son. John Tyler, who succeeded him, ask
ed the entire cabinet to continue in office
And every member of it agreed to do so.
But Tyler very soon adopted a policy
which made a reconstruction of his cabi
net necessary.
He was originally a Democrat, but was
nominated for vice president by the Whigs
both ti order to conciliate an element
that was dissatisfied with Harrison as a
candidate for president and also to at
tract the southern vote.
But Tyler’s Democracy still had a very
strong hold on him and soon asserted it
self
The Whigs were in control of both
bouses of congress and their favorite
measure was the national bank bill. Fear
ing that it might reawaken Tyler's former
antipathies, they modified very much the
original draft of the bill and passed it.
It was promptly vetoed by Tyler and the
Wrath of the Whigs knew no bounds. They
declared that Tyler had betrayed them
and the breach was never healed.
The national bank bill was passed again
in a stm milder form, but again President
Tyler vetoed It.
Every member of his cabinet, except
Daniel Webster, resigned immediately. A
little later Webster also left the cabinet,
as Tyler's administration had become dis
tinctly Democratic.
There was a cabinet revolution very soon
after the death of Preaident Taylor and
the accession of Fillmore, Thomas Ew-
Ing. of Ohio, being the only secretary to
remain.
Os the Lincoln cabinet only Seward, Mc-
Cullough and Wells remained with John
son to the and of his presidential term.
Stanton refused to resign and had to
be ejected from office by the president.
On assuming the presidency tn Septem
ber 1881. Arthur urged the Garfield cabinet
to remain at least until congress should
meet in the following December, but Wil
liam Windom, secretary of the treasury,
•nd Wayne McVeagh, attorney general,
resigned within a very short time, and on
the assembling of congress Mr. Blaine,
secretary of state, followed suit. Then in
quick succession Secretary Hunt of the
navy department and Secretary Kirkwood
of the interior department also left the
cabinet. Robert T. Lincoln, secretary of
war, was the only member of Garfield’s
cabinet who remained with President Ar
thur to the end of his administration.
It does not seem probable that any such
differences as have disturbed and dis
rupted the cabinets of former presidents
for unfinished terms will occur between
President Roosevelt and his counsellors.
The president has declared as clearly as
he could that he will continue the policy
of his predecessor and his official acts so
far indicate that he will consistently do
so.
There to no reason to doubt that Presi
dent Roosevelt meant what be said when
be asked the cabinet to remain and no
break in it seems likely to occur soon.
THESE WORDS WILITiVE.
In his last public speech, delivered be
fore he fell at the hands of the assassin,
President McKinley uttered sentiments
which will live in the hearts of the people
and have a saultary effect upon our na
tional policy.
The following aj*e among the golden
words he then uttered that are worthy
to be inscribed in letters of gold on his
monument and to have a still more im
perishable record in the mind and con
science of the country:
"Let us ever remember that our .in
terest is in concord, not conflict, and that
our real eminence rests tn thq victories
of peace, not those of war. We hope that
all who are represented here may be
moved to higher and nobler effort for
their own and the world's good, and that
out of this city may coms not only great
er commerce and trade for us all, but,
more essentlkl than these, relations of
mutual respect, confidence and friendship
which will deepen and endure."
These are words of true statesmanship
and pure patriotism.
A HAMPERED INDUSTRY.
The above term is used appropriately
by the Rome Tribune to describe the con
dition of the great Georgia marble busi
ness under the recent order of the South
eastern Freight association, which has
stopped all shipments of marble from
this state. The order has had this effect
because the freight rates to points out
side of Georgia have been increased very
heavily, in many instances being more
than doubled.
When we remember that the great bulk
of marble quarried in this state is shipped
into other states both in rough and fin
ished forms it will be seen what a severe
blow this is to one of our great home In
dustries.
Georgia marble te being used in con
stantly increasing quantities in the north
and west and has been sold largely right
under the nose of Vermont, a state that
was famous for its marble production
long before anybody knew that Georgia
had any marble to speak of.
The present extent and prospects of the
Georgia marble industry are appreciated
by few of our people. Not many of them
are aware, for instance, that in marble
production Georgia is now second only to
Vermont and is gaining upon Vermont so
fast that she will soon pass that state.
Not many Georgians are aware that in
developing this great resource of their
state more than 83.n00.000 has already*
been invested and that this amount is in
creasing steadily; that more than 820,000
to paid every month for labor at the mar
ble works in this state, and that more
than 8.000 people in Georgia are directly
dependent upon this industry for their
living.
These facts concern not alone the men
who have Invested their money in the
Georgia marble Industry and those who
are employed in it. but the state at large.
It would be a misfortune to Georgia to
have this Industry permanently hampered
by freight charges, and the adoption of
that policy by the railroads would have
a deterring effect upon the investment of
capital in other industries in this state.
The men who have put more than 83,-
000,000 into this business have done much
for the development of the state and will
do a great deal more if they are given a
fair showing, and that is all they ask.
METHODISTS AND WINE.
The Methodist church of the United
States, both north and south, has very
strict rules of conduct for its laymen and
still stricter ones for its clergy.
The English Methodism are much more
liberal tn this respect. Consequently
many American Methodist ministers who
attended the recent Ecumenical confer
ence In London were greatly surprised to
see English Methodist ministers and their
families use wine and beer at their tables.
They learned that this custom is preva
lent among British Methodists, both cler
gy and laity. The American Methodists
commented upon it to some extent while
they were abroad and their doing so has
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901
called forth retorts from some of their
British brethren. Rev. John Bond, secre
tary of the Ecumenical conference, said
in a newspaper interview:
"They have made remarks, though I do
not mean to say they have been unkindly
ones, on the matter. My answer is that
this is a free country. America is not.
We reserve the right to drink alcoholic
liquors in moderation, if we wish. The
American dictum would be ruled out by
Wesley, who drank wine to the end of
his life."
Some of the Methodist periodicals in
this country are rather severe in their
comments on the wine-drinking habits of
Methodists in England. A great majority
of Methodists in this country would lose
confidence in a minister of their church
who indulged habitually in wine or beer,
and he would probably be tried and dis
missed from the conference to which he
belonged. The smoking or chewing of to
bacco by one of their ministers is regard
ed with disfavor by most American Meth
odists. Though they hold the same ar
ticles of faith there is a decided difference
between American and British Methodists
on matters of church discipline.
NO FEDERAL INTERFERENCE.
The New York Evening Post says:
"There could be no happier augury for
the new administration than the firm con
viction that it stands for a national pol
icy, and that the decline of sectionalism
will be accelerated under Mr. Roosevelt.
Time and experience have at last con
vinced all candid men that the day for
sectional legislation is past. There are
grave problems still to be solved in the
south. The relations of the two races are
yet to be adjusted upon a satisfactory
basis. The question of negro suffrage, in
volving as it does proper restrictions upon
the voting- of the ignorant and proper
freedom for the Intelligent, has not yet
been rightly settled.
"But the nation has finally learned one
thing—that this whole problem must be
worked out in the south, xhe Federal
authorities can only make mischief by
interference. The supreme court has af
firmed the right of the southern states
to frame constitutions under which the
negro vote can be largely disfranchised,
and it is plainly Impracticable for con
gress to devise any system for cutting
down the representation of those states
in congress and the electoral college;
while agitation of the matter wou— only
embitter the relations between the two
races.” •
The prospect thus set forth has every
semblance of probability.
The north has long since realised that
the scheme of reconstruction was one of
the most complete failures on record; that
the Intelligence and property interests of
the south was an utter absurdity under
our form of government and that the
southern states can never be prevented by
the Federal power from conducting their
domestic affairs in their own way.
Besides, Roosevelt, both by his course
in the past and-the strong assurances he
has given since he became president,
stands pledged to non-sectlonallsm in its
broadest and best sense.
There will be no further Interference
or attempted interference with the rights
of the south. It will be left to work out
its own salvation as part of the Federal
union according to its own ideas and by
its own methods.
WEBSTER’S MEMORY.
The celebration by Dartmouth college of
the 100th anniversary of the gradu
ation of Daniel Webster is a deserved
honor to her most illustrious alumnus, her
most effective friend in the hour of her
greatest need and the greatest statesman
who ever went from New England to the
national legislature.
There is much tn the life of Webster to
Inspire the youth of this generation, es
pecially in his unswerving devotion to the
letter and spirit of the constitution on
which our federal government is founded.
For his fearless and unanswerable de
fense of the constiutlon he was denounced
by the radical elements in his own state
and section, which spat upon the consti
tution because it stood in the way of their
scheme.
The vapors of that wrath have long ago
disappeared, and Webster’s figure towers
clear and serene, becoming nobler in the
eyes of men as time passes.
To Dartmouth he endeared himself per
manently by his masterful ai)d victorious
fight for her very life, a battle in which
he won his first national fame.
As we go along in our national career it
is well to recur often to the wisdom of
the fathers, to consider gravely their coun
sel and to look to the landmarks by which
they steered so safely.
We can never become so greet and pow
erful that a far departure from their
course will be conducive to our best in
terests, for the principles on which they
stood involve the very essence of our sys
tem of government.
It is a good time for a Webster revival.
SECRETARY HAY’S AMBITION.
Very soon after President Roosevelt
made his request that all of the members
of President McKinley’s cabinet should
remain as his official advisers every one
of them except Secretary Hay consented
to do so. I
It is now stated definitely that he also
will continue in the office of secretary of
state and the announcement is received
with gratification by the public.
Secretary Hay is a man of exceptional
ability and large experience in affairs of
state and there Is a reason which makes
it especially desirable that he should re
main in charge of the state department.
He is in a better position than anybody
else could be to clear‘the way for the
construction of an isthmian canal. There
is good reason to belive that he can re
move the obstacles that have hitherto
prevented an agreement with Great Brit
ain that will enable our government to
have that control over the canal which
the people of this country insist it shall
have.
It will be remembered that at the last
session of congress the senate put an
amendment on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
which the British government refused to
accept. The prospects of the proposed
isthmian canal then seemed to be very
much beclouded, but Secretary Hay at
once set to work on the effort to nego
tiate another treaty that would be satis
factory to both parties.
He and Ambassador Patmcefote have
agreed upon the draft of a treaty that
will be submitted to the senate early at
its next session. The provisions of this
agreement have been kept scrupulously
secret, but it is known that Secretary Hay
is very hopeful of its acceptance by both
our government and Great Britain.
It is a worthy ambition to bring the
two great English-speaking nations to
gether on terms for the accomplishment
of an object that will be of such vast
benefit to the world and especially our
country.
But for his profound Interest tn this
matter Secretary Hay, it is said, would
have retired from the cabinet at an early
day.
The recent death of his gifted son has
affected him very deeply and his per
sonal inclination to Igave public life is
known to be very strong. The patriotic
motives which have induced him to re
main in office deserve the recognition
and regard of the country.
A VERY YOUNG VETERAN.
There is an apparently interminable
dispute as to who was the youngest sol
dier in each of the great armies in the
civil war.
Many claimants of this honor, both
north and south, have appeared and the
controversy, if it has not definitely set
tled the question, has at least proved
that many very young men wore both
the blue and the gray.
It is hardly probable that there will be
any such contention over the question as
to who was the youngest United States
soldier in the Philippine war.
The claim of Manly Lawton, of Lex
ington, Ky., to this distinction appears
to be undisputable.
He is a son of the heroic General H. W.
Lawton, who lost his life at San Mateo
through his insistence upon taking the
lead in a charge.
Blood will tell and young Lawton seems
to possess the irrepressible spirit of dar
ing that characterized his father.
He went to the Philippines with General
Lawton and when he was only eleven
years old had not only been in battle but
actually under fire on several occasions.
It is said that he was absolutely intrepid
and though a mere boy as cool as a bat
tle-scarred veteran.
He served with various commands and
was in many engagements.
Immediately on his arrival tn Manila
he went to the front with General Mac-
Arthur and a little later he was assigned
to the position of volunteer aid on his
father's staff with the rank of captain.
Soon after his father’s death young
JLawton returned to the United States.
He is now bugler of the first battalion
artillery, Kentucky State Guard and is
called "captain” by the entire command.
He is only thirteen years old and though
he has had hard military service and
proved himself as brave as a lion he is
said to be in appearance and manner as
youthful as boys at his age usually are.
A brilliant military career is predicted
for this game
TRUSTS IN TROUBLE.
Trusts sometimes have troubles of
their own. In the United States there
have been notably .instances of overcapi
talization and the purchase at high prices
of comparatively worthless plants in ord
er to prevent all competition.
The logical result has followed in the
collapse of such grasping combines. The
trusts in England are neither so numer
ous or so reckless aS they are in this
country, but some of them are having a
sad experience.
The hardest pressed of the big British
trusts at present is the English Cotton
company.
It absorbed almost all the manufacto
ries in its line in the United Kingdom,
paying for some of them who held out
prices far in excess of their real value.
The trust has loaded itself down so
heavily that in order to meet its last div
idend the company was compelled to bor
row 8250.000 from Its reserve.
The announcement that this had been
done caused a heavy fall in the securities
of the trust and It is threatened with
very serious complications. Within the
past year there has been a decline of
over 840,000,000 in the selling value of
the stock of six British trusts which for
merly sold at a premium.
The trusts that seem to have a sure
thing often overstep themselves and pay
the inevitable penalty.
CHARLESTON UP TO DATE.
Our Charleston friends seem to appre
ciate the drawing power of the modern
midway and are justly Indignant over a
report that has gone abroad to the effect
that this great attraction has been cut
out of the preparations for their great
exposition.
They want it understood that this enter
prise is designed to come up to the most
advanced exposition standard, that it will
be both grave and gay, according to where
you strike it.
The Charleston News and Courier expa
tiates upon the plans for the midway with
an enthusiastic volubility worthy of the
most accomplished "spieler.” Hear it:
"No midway, indeed! We will have the
genuine article with a variety of attrac
tion and a gorgeousness of ensemble that
will make all previous midways compara
ble to a punched nickel. While our mid
way will be deliciously warm and en
trancingly frisky, we can assure the pub
lic that it will offer nothing that will
offend the most fastidious taste. Twenty
one acres of the exposition grounds have
been reserved for this part of the show,
and nearly every foot of this large area
has already been taken. There will be
camels, elephants, and gondolas and wild
Indians and buffalo, and congresses of
oriental beauties and danping girls who
have taken medals at all the great expo
sitions. and restaurants and refreshments
without end.”
This is sufficient. Twenty-one acres of
midway will do# and we hereby promise
The News and Courier that we will all
come to the Charleston exposition.
It is generally conceded that Welling
ton’s explanation does not explain.
Uncle Sam warns the insurgents to keep
away from Colon. This is where the colon
stands for a full stop.
It looks like Colonel Hanna has con
cluded that it is his turn to "go away
back and sit down.”
And now the naval conspirators are
claiming an alibi for Admiral Sampson.
To which he is clearly entitled.
Mr. Croker probably doesn’t care if the
Reformers have Low so long as he holds
High. Jack and the Game.
| Cardinal Gibbons' Beautiful Tribute §
| To the Late President McKinley I
' BALTIMORE, Sept. 20.—Memorial services were almost universal yesterday
throughout this state, many congregations meeting and uniting in other than
the places of worship. Perhaps the most important and impressive were the ;
ceremonies at the Cathedral in this city at which Cardinal Gibbons delivered
the following eulogy:
It has been my melancholy experience in the course of my sacred ministry to
be startled by the assassination of three presidents of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1885. James A. Garfield was mortally wounded
He was struck down surrounded by a
whom who would have gladly risked hi
in 1881, and William McKinley received a
fatal wound on the 6th day of September.
Mr. Lincoln was shot in a theatre; Mr.
Garfield was shot while about to take a
train to enjoy a needed vacation, and our
late beloved president fell by the hand of
an assassin while lending the prestige of
his name and influence to the success of
a national exposition.
In the annals of crime it is difficult to
find an instance of murder so atrocious,
so wanton and meaningless as the assas
sination of Mr. McKinley. Some reason
or pretext has been usually assigned for
the sudden taking away of earthly rulers.
Baltassar. the impious king of Chaldea,
spent his last night in revelling and drun
kenness. He was struck dead by th*
hand of the Lord. How different was the
life of our chief magistrate. No court in
Europe or in the civilized world was more
conspicuous for moral rectitude and pu
rity; or more free from the breath of
scandal than the official home of Presi
de nt'McKinley. He would have adorned
any court in Christendom by his civic
virtues.
Brutus plunged his dagger Into the heart
of Caesar because of his overweening am
bition. Whatever may have been the er
rors of judgment on the part of our late
presi4ent, (and who Is free from them?)
no man can honestly charge him with
tyranny or official. corruption.
The Redeemer of mankind was betrayed
by the universal symbol of love. If I may
reverently make the comparison, the
president was betrayed by the universal
emblem of friendship. Christ said to
Judas Iscariot, "Friend betrayed thou
the Son of Man with a Kiss?”
Few presidents were better equipped than Mr. McKinley for the exalted po
sition which he filled. When a mere youth he entered the Union army as a pri
vate soldier during the civil war, and was promoted for gallant service on the
field of battle to the rank of major. He served his country for fourteen years
in the halls of congress and toward the close of his term he became one of tna
most conspicuous figures in that body. He afterwards served his state as gov
ernor.
As president he was thoroughly conversant with the duties of his office and
could enter into its most minute details. His characteristic virtues were cour
tesy and politeness, patience and forbearance, masterly self-control under
very trying circumstances. When unable to grant a favor he had the rare and
happy talent to disappoint the applicant without offending him.
The domestic virtues of Mr. McKinley’s were worthy of all praise He was
a model husband. Amid the pressing and engrossing duties of his official Hie
he would from time to time snatch a few moments to devote to rhe invalid and
loving partner of hie joys and sorrows. Oh, what a change has come over this
afflicted woman. Yesterday she was the first lady of the land. Today she is
a disconsolate and broken hearted widow. Let us beseech Him who comfort
ed the wiaow of Naim that he may console the lady in her hour of grief.
it Is a sad reflection that some fanatic or miscreant has it in his power to
take the life of the head of the nation and to throw the whole country into
mourning. It was no doubt this thought that inspired some writerg within the
» last few days to advise that the president shbuld henceforth abstain from
public receptions and hand-shaking and that greater protection should be given
to his person. You might have him surqgunded with cohorts for his defense
with bayonets and have him followed by argus-eyed friends and yet he will not
be proof against the stroke of the assassin. Are not the crowned heads of Europe
usually attended by military forces and yet how many of them have perished at
the -hand of some criminal. No. let the president continue to move among his
people and take them by the hand. The strongest shield of our chief magistrate
is that love and devotion of his fellow-citizens. The most effective way to stop
such crimes is to inspire the rising generation with greater reverence for the con
stituted authorities and a greater horror for any insult or injury to their per
son. All seditious .anguage should be suppressed. Incendiary speeches Is
often an incentive to criminal acts on the part of many to whom the transition
from words to deeds is easy. _
' We have prayed for the president’s life, but it did not please God to grant
our petition. Let no one infer from this that our prayers were In vain. No fer
vent prayer ascending to the throne of heaven remains unanswered. Let no one
sav what a lady remarked to me on the occasion of President Garfield s death:
"I have prayed.” she said, “for ttie president’s life. My family have prayed,
for him; our congregation prayed for him; the city prayed for him; the state .*
prayed for him; the nation prayed for him and yet he died. XS hat then is the
US °God Answers our petitions either directly or indirectly. If He does not grant ’
us what we ask He gives us something equivalent or better. If He has noti
saved the life of the president, He preserves the life of the nation, which is of.
more importance than the life of an Individual. He has infused into the hearts
of the American people a greater reverence for the head of the nation and a
greater abhorrence of assassination. He has intensified and energized our love
of country and our devotion to our political institutions. What a beautiful
spectacle to behold prayers ascending from tensj of thousands of temples
throughout the land to the throne of mercy. Is not this universal uplifting of
minds and hearts to God a sublime profession of our faith and trust in Him.
Is not this national appeal to heaven a most eloquent recognition of God ■ »uper
intendlng providence over us? And such earnest and united prayer will not fail
to draw down upon us the b.essing of the Almighty.
WHlllam McKinley has passed away, honored and mourned by the nation
Theodore Roosevelt succeeds to the title, the honors and the responsibili
ties of tne presidential office. Let his fellow citizens rally around “im Let
them uphold and sustain him in bearing the formidable burden
thrust upon him. May he be equal to the emergency and fulflU h*» duties wl.n
credit to himself, and may his administration redound to the peace and pros
perity of the American people.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON.
Whether it is because his mother was
married at Roswell, a north Georgia town
that I am tenderly attached to and made
her home there as a blithesome young
Georgia girl or because he is a manly
man. able to express his own wishes, ride
his own horse and stand erect in his own
place, I am not yet able to decide, but I
do like him and feel as if we have a
typical American in the white house —one
not afraid to walk the streets without de
tectives close at his heels or to open his
mouth when he has a mind to say some
thing and who can go to war if necessity
calls for it as commander-ln-chief of the
American army and navy.
There is in every true woman’s heart an
admiration for heroism and manly cour
age. It is born there.
I was a small tot when I first remember
hearing the fife and drum at a general
muster, which all the old people of this
country can recall at some time in their
young livss.
My father was a major and dressed in
a major’s uniform with a magnificent
plume floating from his military hat.
When my young mother pointed him out
to me in the procession as he rode a
pranc’r.g charger (and people rode fine
horses in those days) I could hardly keep
my proud little feet to the grouna, my
filial exultation was so overwhelming. I
couldn't tell where my love tor my father
left off and my love of country began,
but it was put in me to stay, for according
to the lights before me, I have been as
true to my native land as opportunity
and ability permitted to a plain Georgia
woman.
It may sound like a silly reason for ap
preciating the new president, but I do
admire a manly man, one who is not
afraid to fight bears and tigers and also
warlike Spaniards, when he has a mind
to perform a necessary feat of this kind.
"The bravest are the tenderest;
The loving are the daring.”
I expect I am going to differ with him in
some of his conclusions as chief magis
trate, for 1 am not expecting a great deal
toward the south with his present envi
ronment, but I do trust he will rise to the
hight of the situation and indulge in pride
®f race as well as loyalty to party. This
is a white man's country because white
men won it from the savage and defeated
British tyranny.
It Is going to remain a white man's
country after the present fitful fever la
past.
Some of our late presidents were im
pressed with this fact, but the tide of
sectionalism set too strongly to try to
stem the current and make a landing on
solid ground.
But I feel in my heart that President
Roosevelt had a strong attachment to
his Georgia mother, who, like the well
born lady she was, had a strong attach
ment for her Georgia forbears, and deep
down in his soul he will keep a tender
place for the traditions, the sympathy,
the memories and attachments of that
Georgia mother.
This nation is a combination of states,
divided into counties, neighborhoods and
families, so on down to individual units.
Every individual is a sensible part of
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the nation, just as units make up the sum
total in a count.
This being a white man's country—the
inheritance which was left to white men's
children and grandehildren—l take it the
new president, as a father of several chil
dren himself, would like to see this in
heritance transmitted to his own grand
children down to the remotest genera
tion.
There is an Immense difference when a
subject is viewed through spectacles of
expediency and also without glasses in
the clear light of responsibility to one's
own—those whom God has given to us
for our own weal and woe.
Great mistakes have been made in pan
dering to sectional hate and partisan fury
in the past. These mistakes have been
injurious to both races in this country.
There has arisen more prejudice against
the blacks In the north, east and west
within the last decafle than in the south,
according to numbers.
A casual observer can draw conclusions
and every student of history knows that
there must be a sharp reversal of condi
tions or the black and white races must
be forcibly separated In the next half
century.
Where is the Moses to come from who
will lead the owners of this inehritance
out of bondage to the debasing influences
of sectional revenge and partisan poli
tics?
The best friends of the negro are today
clamoring for a separation. Bishop Tur-
Uncle P. Pod—" Age entitles its owner to respect.”
Summer Boarder—" Then there's many a joke that shouldn't be laughed at.”
ner, one of th© wisest of his race, pleads
for It with the eloquenca of a Demos
thenes and the earnestness of a father.
He sees the inevitable hand of fate In a
future division and separation of inter-
In God’s own way He brought the Afri
can to America to learn the blessings of
civilization. In His own way He is able
to provide for their future progress and
prosperity, but when the Almighty Maker
demanded that His chosen people of
Israel should not Intermingle or marry
into heathen tribes about them He Him
self endorsed the separation and de
nounced miscegenation and mixed races of
people as a policy to be condemned. 4
So long as the negro is encouraged to
believe that he is entitled to rulersMp
over white men, that long will the na
tional cancer of violence, lynch law and
rapine extend and disease the body
politic There have been a thousand aets
■of such violence to every ten befora acted
during the last five years.
XVill the new president rise above the
mists of party demands and view the sit
uation in the clear atmosphere of reason,
common sense and patriotism?
For one, I am willing to trust his na
tive goodness and patriotism, never for
getting that his Georgia mother loved and
raised him to be a gentleman and a pa
triot. - ■ ,
HIS WIFE IS OUT OF TOWN.
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We see a man with tinderlip that has a down
ward droop,
Upon his face a scowl as if he’d fallen in
the soup! ...
He roams about the busy streets in an umasy
And puts' a surly accent on the things he baa
to say.
He goes into a restaurant and drops Into a
And wonders why they’ve » thing fit for
a dog to eat.
And if you care to seek the cause that makes
him feel so brown.
You’ll not have very far to look; his wife la
out of town.
We see another man, dressed up unusually
He wears a smile of gladness and a button
hole bouquet;
He Joins the cruising parties where the white
topped schooners sail.
And goo-gooe all the pretty girto who chanee
to cross his trail.
At striking of the midnight hour he yet is
on the street.
Is strenuous in his efforts to control his wab
bling feet; ,
He wears his hat tipped sideways on bls
beer-befuddled crown;
The mousey knows the cat’s away; his wife
is out of town.
—James Barton Adams In Denver Post.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New. York Press.
One thing that money cannot buy to a clear
conscience.
An old man fallen into love is an old man
fallen into folly.
Some men are never old enough to know
better than to go and get married again.
The way for a man to get a proper estimate
of his importance in his own house to to
bring a baby into it.
You can. teach a woman how to forgive the
sins of another woman, but you can never
teaeh her how to forgive another for wearing
better clothes than she does.
A General Pioneer’s Reunion.
To the Editor of The Journal:
In conversation with several of the older
citizens of Atlanta recently I find a gen
eral desire to have a pioneers' reunion
some time during the fair. It is thought
this would be the best time to hold it, as
some who do not live here would be more
apt to attend a reunion, taking advantage
of the low railroad rates. No more pleas
ant occasion could be thought of than a
meeting of the older citizens, together
with their children, some of whom have
not met in years. It might he that thia
reunion could he held at the fair, and no
doubt Secretary* Martin would do ail in
hi? power to help the pioneers and friends
have a big day. ‘Will not others speak up
•nd let the people know what they think
of it? L. L. P.
Ths Wail «f Envy.
Chattanooga News.
It will be observed that those newspa
pers which have no news service etfi at
tempting to make capital out of the pre
mature announcement by the Associated
Press of President McKinley’s death. The
fact remains, however, that the Associat
ed Press is the best news-gat haring agen
cy known to the civilized world, and the
newspaper that does not get the service
makes poor headway.
Living Like a Savage.
Baltimore American..
Civilized people will be shocked at the
advice of an English physician to a weal
thy patient to live like a savage to be
cured. Savages, it may be recalled, do not
belong to clubs, have no stock exchanges,
know nothing of trust and trade combina
tions. run no political campaigns and so
reserve soma vitality and nerve force for
purely living purposes.
Accounted For.
First Suburbanite—l see Jones has
bought.a cow.
Second Suburbanite—Yes; he’s got to get
ria of the vegetables he raises some way.—
Punch.
The Real Thing.
Detroit Free Pre®*.
"Uncle Tom. what is charity?”
• Charity, Tommy, i® finding good excuse®
for the faults of people we don't llks.”
Ths over-exercise of a critical faculty
is always dangerous, and by too much
Judging of port Benjamin ruined his ca
reer.—The Seal of Silence. z
THE SUMMER GIRL’S GOODBY.
By Vicor A. Hermann.
It seems as though the morn to hushed.
A sombre halo hangs above; •
A dozen throbbing hearts are crushed,
A dozen silly men in love!
And all because her trunks are there, *
Her golfing bags and telescopes;
The grinning "Boots.” die coach and pair.
All seem to mock their once f*Mjd hope®.
She cornea at last, they star©—the men—
A dozen bosoms rise and sigh;
She climbs aboard, anhelped. and than— .
A smile, a handshake and goodby!
They stand and gaze far down the road.
The little nd and lovelorn crowd; -
Until the coach and preciou® load
Are but a distant, dusty cloud.
Untouched are line and rod and reel, i _
Deserted are the fishing bights;
The gong sounds forth the noonday meal.
But twelve have Joat their appetites. -
Oh, cheer up. chaps, forget her soon. *
Let not her absence cause you pain.
For she'll be back again next June
To whetrte on your hearts again.