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ATLANTA. GEORGIA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1901.
ATLANTA BEATS WORLD’S RECORD.
Atlanta’s postal busmens exceeds that of any city in the world of like popula
tion as Atlanta.
Atlanta’s bank clearing* have increased more in the last five year* than those
of any city in the world of like population.
Atlanta he- more modern steel office buildings than any city in the world of
Kke population.
Atlanta’s office buildings are better filled than those of any city in the world
of Mke population.
Atlanta has more street railroad mileage than any city in the world of like
population.
Atlanta’s afternoon newspaper has a circulation greater than that of any pa
per in the world, morning or evening, published in a city of 150,000 population or
Atlanta's railroads are carrying more people to and from Atlanta than to any
city in the world of like population.
—and—
A Hants’s passenger depot is the poorest, vilest, filthiest and the most danger
ous of any passenger depot In any city in the world, without regard to population,
age. color, sex or previous condition of servitude.
SCHLEY’S VINDICATION.
As the investigation of the Schley case
draws toward Its conclusion It becomes
clearer that if the board bases Its finding
upon the evidence it will be compelled to
give the most complete vindication to the
man whom the country generally regards
as the real victor of the sea fight at San
tiago.
Not only has the previous popular esti
mate of Sehley s achievements and mtr ;
Its been sustained, but It has been raised
still higher by the great mass of incon
trovertible testimony of the beet possible
A few of the witnesses, it is true, have
made flings at Commodore Schley, but
these have been only the ebullitions of 111-
conceaied spite and prejudice and in no in
stance have they been coupled with or
supported by evidence.
Admiral Dewey ha* repeatedly declared,
as head of the investigating board “Give
us facts. We want only the facts.”
And the facts are shown to be all in
Schley’s favor. They are so clear as to
make the covert attacks of the few hoe
tile witnesses really react against those
wbo made them, as they were so clearly
suggestive of animus.
Admiral Schley’s straightforward state
ment yesterday added greatly to the ef
fect of the overwhelming testimony al
ready beard tn his behalf.
Anything but his complete vindication
would justly provoke the indignation of
the country.
BOOMING SOUTHERN TEA.
There are practical and well informed
men who predict that a few years hence
million* of pounds of excellent tea will
be produced annually tn the south Atlan
tic states.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago Mr.
Le Due. then federal commissioner of ag
riculture. endeavored to arouse interest in
the possibilities of tea culture in South
Carolina.
The proposition was ridiculed away
without being accorded anything. like a
fair trial.
But the idea it embodied was not crush
ed out, and the profitable production of
good tea in South Carolina Is now a dem
onstrated success. If Is certain also that
there are large areas in Georgia and other
southern states where tea of as fine qual
ity as that now sent to market from South
Carolina can be grown.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural de
partment. has almost unlimited faith in
this industry for the south. He is a
farmer who has made a great success on
bis own fields, and Is not to be carried
•way Into unreasonable experiments. He
believes in southern tea because he has
seen It growing, has seen it gathered in
large quantities and sold at prices that
paid the producer handsomely, and has
tasted It and found It good. .
Secretary Wilson to therefore using ev
ery means at his command to extend the
tea Industry that to already well estab
lished in South Carolina
At the cabinet meeting last Friday he
made an earnest and practical talk on
this subject, tn which he said:
“Good tea can undoubtedly be grown tn
that state, and perhaps elsewhere In this
wide and varied country; but can it be
produced as a commercial success, or
must we be prepared to listen to a series
•of tedious arguments for subsidising an
other unprofitable industry T*
The evidence that tea can be grown suc
easefully in a large part of South Carolina
and the reasonable assurance that like re
sults can be obtained in other regions of
the south will destroy every argument
that can be raised in favor of a bounty
on tea ratsing. Wherever it to believed
that this industry can succeed tn the
south experiments should be made to de
termine whether it can or not. Where the
conditions are favorable tea growing will
pay. and where they are fatal to the com
mercial success of the crop it should not
be attempted.
That there are many thousands of acre*
in South Carolina on which tea can be
grown profitably cannot be doubted, for
the thing is being done. A number of tea
planters have made money there for sev
eral years past, and are steadily enlarg
ing their production. A syndicate recently
bought LOW acres of land in the south
part of that state for the purpose
•f establishing a great tea plantation.
The market for South Carolina tea to
practically unlimited. One dollar and even
a dollar and a half a pound is readily paid
for the best grades of this tea, and some
farmers have sold their entire product for
two or three years ahead. There are great
prospects for tea culture in the south, and
we would like to see it tried Intelligently
in south Georgia.
THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS.
There are great hopes of the results to
be had from the Pan-American congress
which convened in the City of Mexico
last Tuesday. This is the second meet
ing of the kind and had the effect of
bringing the United States and the South
American republics into closer relations.
There to reason to believe that the pres
ent congress will be even more practical
and more effective.
The former congress was arranged by
James G. Blaine about ten years ago
while he was secretary of state. At that
meeting the whole subject of international
relations was considered and an arbitra
tion treaty was formulated which the
ministers of nine South American govern
ments signed, subject to the approval of
their separate governments. Chile re
fused to enter into that general agree
ment. protesting against compulsory arbi
tration and ha* given notice that she will
adhere to that policy in the present con
ference if an attempt should be made to
extend compulsory arbitration to old dis
putes or pending questions.
Chile’s reason for taking this position
is that she will under no circumstances
yield her claim in her famous Tacna-
dispute with Peru.
This dispute originated in 1879, when
Chile, being hard pressed for money,
seised the rich nitrate beds tn the Peru
vian provinces of Tacna and 'Arica under
the color of an alleged title dating a
Idng way back.
It was clearly a case of “might makes
right,” and war resulted. Chile found
Peru an easy victim. In 1883 a treaty of
peace was established by which it was
provided that the provinces of Tacna and
Arica should remain in Chile’s possession
for ten years, the Inhabitants then to de
cide their nationality by vote. It was
also decided that the country to which
the final possession of the disputed pro
vinces was awarded should pay the loser
$10,000,000. Chile, on one pretext and an
other, has evaded the settlement of the
question though that should have been
had eight years ago. This matter will
certainly be brought before the congress
in some form or other, but it is not prob
able that Chile will agree to abide by a
decision that she knows full well will be
against her. On other questions <9f even
more general importance the congress
will probably be able to agree. ,
Among these are uniform port and cus
toms regulations, development of better
methods of communication, the establish
ment of a permanent court of interna
tional claims and the reorganisation of
the International Bureau of American Re
publics.
Our country ought to be able to use
this great opportunity to increase her
South American commerce largely.
In the laat ten years our imports from
South America have decreased from sllß,-
000,000 a year to $110,000,000.
Though our exports to South America
have increased in that period $11,000,000
they still amount to only the compara
tively small sum of $44,000,000.
The trade of South America is increas
ing steadily with England and Germany.
Those countries sell many millions of
good to South American countries which
should be supplied by manufacturers in
this country.
The Dtngley tariff act crippled our trade
with South America terribly by taking
hides off the free list where they had
been for 30 years and imposing a 15 per
cent tariff on them. This change was
made at the behest and for the benefit of
the cattle trust which has contributed
enormous sums to the Campaign funds of
the Republican party.
Another blow at our South American
trade was made by the Dtngley act when
it laid heavily increased duties on wool.
This has not benefited the wool producer
at home who gets a much lower price for
his product than he received before the
Dingley tariff went on.
By cutting down our imports from
South America we have prevented the in
crease of our sales in that country, for
nations will not buy liberally where they
cannot also sell liberally.
Our delegates to the Pan-American con
gress will doubtless be profoundly im
pressed with the costly folly of our com-
I mercial policy toward South America.
THE FAVORED FOREIGNER.
The protected interests in this country
wherever a reduction of tariff duties to
threatened raise the howl that these du
ties are necessary’to enable them to com
pete with the pauper labor of Europe and
pay American labor good wages.
This fraud has been exposed so oftco
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THE SEMI-WfEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1901.
and so thoroughly that it requires as
tounding gall for most of the protected
interests to put It forward. We have
free trade in labor and the workingman
get* no benefit from the tariff upon lines
of production in which the majority of the
protected manufacturers of this country
are engaged. The price of labor is fixed
by supply and demand, while the trusts,
by choking out competition at home and
excluding that from abroad, are enabled
to convert tariff duties into bounties for
their fattening.
The action of the trusts themselves
shows that they stand in no need of pro
tective duties. The greatest of them sell
their products In foreign markets, where
they meet the • World’s competition, at
lower prices than they charge at home.
Congressman Babcock, who is making
the vain attempt to bring the Republican
party to support his tariff reform plans,
has charged that the billion dollar steel
trust has offered an unlimited supply of
its products in foreign markets for less
than the American purchaser can buy it
at the mills where it is made.
The trust can pay freight to the parts
across the seas and to the interior of dis
tant lands pell it at a profit there
at prices below what we have to pay in
the home market. The officials of this
great combine have testified before the
Industrial commission and failed to re
fute this statement. In fact, some of
them have admitted that in some in--'
stances it is true.
This prostitution of the protective tariff
is calculated to make the people of the
United States very tired, and it is doing
that very thing.
GERMANY’S BAD PLIGHT.
A Berlin letter to the New York Jour
nal of Commerce states that Germany is
going through “the saddest economic ex
perience since the empire was founded."
This indicates a deplorable state of af
fairs when we remember the terrible fi
nancial and economic conditions that Ger
many suffered in 1873.
The enormous war indemnity paid by
France inflated German values and pro
voked an epidemic of speculation which
resulted disastrously.
It appears that Germany Is now suffer
ing not from any spasmodic panic, but
from a steady shrinking of values which
began in April, 1900, and has brought an
increasing accumulation of business trou
bles.
It was believed and confidently as
serted by the financial authorities that
the worst was over soon after the first
slump, but there has been no recovery.
On the contrary, stocks have continued
to fall and the list of business failures has
grown to alarming proportions.
The correspondent of the Journal of
Commerce says that the trusts are at the
bottom of all this trouble, and they are
more numerous and more powerful in
Germany than in any other country ex
cept the United States.
When the general formation of trusts
began in Germany the banks encouraged
them and lent their money and confidence
with a recklessness that was often noth
ing short of criminal. The consequence
was over-capitalization and the formation
of many trusts that cool consideration
would have shown to be foredoomed to
failure.
The credits which were extended so
freely up to a year ago have been with
drawn and it now is hard to find takers
for the best commercial paper. The rate
of discount has gone ruinously high and
no relief of the situation is in sight.
But the worst feature of the case is not
the industrial depression, as the following
statement of the correspondent referred
to will indicate:
“Along with the numerous failures of
banks and other companies has come the
revelation of a state of moral rottenness
among Germany’s business men that no
body had suspected a year ago. The well
grounded pride with which German busi
ness men have . hitherto contemplated
their excellent reputation abroad for com
mercial honor has suffered a most se
vere blow, and German papers are them
selves saying that it will take years to
wipe away the stain which has been put
upon Germany’s business reputation by
its enormous crop of swindlers and em
bezzlers. The Frankfurter Zeitung ad
mits in a recent market review that in no
similar period of business depression in
Germany have so many cases of ‘disgrace
ful frauds and common swindling’ been
exposed. The case could be stated still
more strongly In the following form: No
great country has for a century had so
many directors of banks and joint stock
companies in prison at any one time
awaiting trial for dishonest financial
transactions as Germany has today; and
it is also perhaps true that no country
has ever had so many suicides owing to
business troubles and detected crimes in
so short a time as Germany has had dur
ing the past few months.”
BETTER ROADS IN THE SOUTH.
The work In the cause of good roads
which the Southern railway has under
taken will certainly result in great good
to this section.
The thoroughly equipped good roads
special will soon visit many Important
points in Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama.
The train, with its party of expert road
builders, will arrive in Atlanta November
25th and remain here four days. The other
points in its itinerary are Danville, Ashe
ville, Greenville, Mobile, Knoxville, Ral
eigh, Columbia, Birmingham, Montgome
ry and Chattanooga.
This program will enable the road build
ers to reach a large area of the south and
to extend far their helpful instruction and
influence.
They propose to give practical illustra
tions of the best methods of road building
in the various sections they are to visit
and to encourage the organization of pe«-
manent good roads associations wherever
they go.
Mr. W. H. Moore, president of the Na
tional Good Roads association, will be
with the good roads special.
He is one of the highest authorities on
road work in this country. He has made
a study of road conditions in the south,
and has observed that during several
months of every year it is almost impos
sible for the farmers to carry their crops
to market on account of the bad condi
tion of the roads.
If they were able to use the roads at all
seasons they could market their crops at
far less expense, and the regular dis-
tribution of them would be of great ad
vantage to both the railroads and the
shippers.
Mr. Moore estimates that 99 per cent of
all the products of the soil, valued now at
$3,060,000,060 a year, must first be hauled
over common roads before they reach
railroad or steamboat lines.
The loss that is incurred by farmers by
reason of uncertain and slow access to
markets amounts to many millions of dol
lars every year. The part of economy is
to invest money in the building of good
roads and keeping them In order.
A large part of the money expended in
road work is practically wasted in make
shift work that is washed away very
soon after it is done, and often leaves the
roads in worse shape than before.
Practical lessons in road building are
badly needed, and we are sure of getting
them from Mr. Moore and the other ex
perts who will come on the good roads
special of the Southern railway.
These experiments will be witnessed not
only by persons in the immediate locali
ties where the special will make stops,
but at those points many persons from
the surrounding counties who are interest
ed in the great work of road improve
ment will gather to get the benefit of the
instruction and suggestions thus afforded.
DOWNED~THE speculators.
It was formerly a crime in England to
speculate in food products. Those who
combined to corner wheat or ahy other
staple article of food were punished speed
ily and severely.
In this land where so many men make
it thefr business to prey upon the neces
sities of others and often succeed in rais
ing artificially the price of bread and
meat it would be a blessed thing if we
could have and enforce such a law.
The farmer very rarelytgets much bene
fit from these conspiracies to corner food
products. Usually they have passed out
of his hands before the speculators begin
to put up their prices and levy their taxes
on every household.
One consolation is that these schemers
so often overstep themselves and lose
what they had before they begun to try to
coin their heartless greed.
President Diaz, of Meffico, has recently
given a deserved dose to a gang of Mexi
can corn speculators.
Corn and beans are the chief food of the
masses and when the price of either is
forced up suffering among the people en
sues.
A corner in corn was recently planned
and carried to a great extent. It would
have gone further had not the bold and
powerful man at the head of the Mexican
government smashed it and left the spec
ulators several million dollars to the bad.
When they had caused a terrible rise
in the price of bread President Diaz de
termined to take a hand in the people's
fight. He induced the railroads to make a
sudden and sweeping reduction of the
freight on corn. , ' ,
He did not stop there, but through the
government officials and agents purchased
vast quantities oL-cyn in every part of
Mexico and it on the market at
hardly one-third the price the corn con
spirators had been charging.
The result was almost instantaneous.
Corn fell to the pride it had been selling
before it was cornered. The speculators
found themselves with many bushels on
hand for which they had paid much more
than the then ruling market price, and
had to give up their wicked scheme, not
however, before many of them were fi
nancially ruined and.all'Of them had lost
heavily.
Now President Diaz to a greater popu
lar hero than ever before and we shall
probably not see another corn corner at
tempted in Mexico.
anTmpre’&sive lesson.
An Indiana court has made an example
of a wealthy tax dodger who for years
had been defrauding the state by making
false returns of his property.
He was fined SI,OOO and compelled to pay
back taxes for seventeen years on prop
erty that he had succeeded in hiding out,
and of the existence of which his sworn
tax returns gave no hint.
He got off light enough, and his punish
ment is said to have caused a commotion
among the tax dodgers, who are numerous
in Indiana, as they are in every other
state.
The honest taxpayers of Indiana have
been paying inis rich deadbeat’s way for
many years, and it is only justice to make
him disgorge.
The Indianapolis newspapers say that
a campaign against men of his class has
been begun in earnest in their state, and
that some of them are coming up to pay
arrears of taxes which they know they
owe, and to increase their tax returns to
something like honest figures. This is a
reform that should be made to extend to
all the other states.
We see no good reason why it should
be called the white house any longer.
Well, at any rate, it has been proven
that Schley could swear like a true sailor.
Mrs. Editor Myrick is engaged in warn
ing the Hon. J. Pope Brown not to drop
the bone for the shadow.
While Captain Howell was about it he
might also have given the new president
some instructions about who to invite to
dinner.
After all, it appears that President
Roosevelt invites anybody to dine with
him who happens to be around about
meal time.
That proposition to send anarchists so
the leper islands is manifestly unjust.
Even lepers have some rights which
should not be Ignored.
According to the Baltimore Sun, the
court of Inquiry will cose Admiral Schley
not less than $20,000. But think of what
it has cost the country. And all brought
about by a $2.50 a day navy yard employe.
Mrs. Roosevelt to to introduce a new
factor, and It should prove a very helpful
one, in having a social secretary. This
office Miss Isabel Hagner. daughter of Dr.
Charles E. Hagner, of Washington, is to
fill. It is to be hoped she, too, is not
color blind.
Among the many gifts recently presented to
him Professor Virchow probably values none
more than the gold medal which came from
the Emperor William. Only three duplicates
of the medal are In existence and all are
in the possession of members of the philo
sophical faculty of the University of Berlin.
ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY IN COTTON MILLS,
SAYS GOVERNOR CANDLER TO LEGISLATURE
One of the most important recommen
dations made by Governor Candler his
message read to the general assembly of
Georgia Thursday, is in favor of the pas
sage of i child labor law.
Representative Houston, of Fulton,, has
a child labor bill for the consideration
of the present legislature, which will pro
hibit children under fourteen years of age
working in the cotton factories of this
state, and there is every reason to be
lieve that the bill will be passed at this
session, especially as the mill owners re
cently indorsed the movement to prevent
the working of children in the facto
ries.
On the subject of child labor Governor
Candler says:
“As cotton factories increase in our
state the necessity for wise legislation on
the subject of child labor becomes more
apparent and urgent. It is a delicate
question to handle, and yet present con
ditions suggest action. 1 That mill own
ers in Georgia have taken a broad, hu
mane view of this matter is evident from
the fact that nearly all of them have
agreed, as I am informed, on a rule that
seems to me to be wise and just. No
child under twelve years of age, except
ing the children of widowed mothers or
parents physically disabled and without
means of support, shall, under these
rules, be allowed to work in cotton mills
until it has shown a certificate that it has
attended school at least four months in
the year, and no child under twelve years
of age shall be allowed to work at night
under any circumstances.
“These regulations voluntarily adopted
by the mill owners in Georgia are on the
right line. While education is not a
panacea for all the evils of mankind, and
while higher education is not indispens
able in the ordinary walks of life, edu
cation in the elementary branches is nec
essary to the usefulness and happiness of
all classes of our people as well as the
operatives in the factory, as the mer
chant or the farmer, or the mechanic,
and to the extent indicated above it
should be compulsory. To broad-minded,
unselfish mill owners who, of their own
accord, have adopted such regulations as
the* above, no statute for the protection
of the children of the poor and unfor
tunate is necssary, but all mill men are
not broad and unselfish, nor are the pa
rents of all children who are employed
in the mills widows or unable to earn a
5 UGAR CANE AND CASS A VA, GREA TTWIN IND USTRIES
The following address by Colonel I. C.
Wade, agent of land and improvement de
partment of the Southern railway, de
livered at the Sugar Cane and Cassava
convention at Brunswick Tuesday, throws
additional light on the subject of seed
cane, and will prove interesting to those
who did not attend the meeting.
Among other things Colonel Wade said:
As one great object of this convention
is to bring to the forefront the profitable
net results of all the experience that can
be gathered and by these helps build up
these twin industries of cane and cassava
that some of*us think can revolutionize
this section, I herewith hand in my mite
for your consideration. It having been
demonstrated that we have the necessary
soil and climate and farmers that will
take hold if we can prove to them the
inherent value of these two great agricul
tural products. As the stock business
is the highest type of agriculture and the
thing most needed just now with us is to
cut off the vast amount of money going
north and west and save for home farm
ers this increment wealth, hence I say
cassava for stock and sugar, with its
strengthening power, to the human race.
It has often been demonstrated that a
soldier can march a day on one-half
pound of sugar when other food was
lacking.
Therefore every desideratum we can ac
cumulate to aid. in its successful growth
is of great value just now. I have noted
the frequent objections to the going into
the cane business more extensively Is the
lack of seed cane, hence I have been
quietly investigating and here are the re
sults after consulting with many of our
oldest and best planters that I have been
able to meet. I wish to offer the follow
ing suggestion as procedure in saving and
caring for the seed of cane.
First—Prepare the ground for your in
crease next year thoroughly and in the
best condition possible ready to receive
the seed at once.
(This will not only save you the labor
next spring, but insure prompt crop and
IS LOCAL OPTION A FAILURE!
£ by REV. A. M. WILLIAMS.
Editor Atlanta Journal—Your Macon
correspondent misrepresents the position
of my sermon of last Sunday* night on
prohibition. I ask In justice to myself and
the sermon, space to set the matter right.
I did not say that local option was a fail
ure. I believe it has accomplished a world
of good. There are many happier homes
in Georgia from its existence. My posi
tion was that its influence was curtailed
and hindered by the hypocritical local op
tion cry of the “wet” counties. That the
demon alcohol was barricaded behind local
option in the wet counties and was doing
all he could to defeat the will of the peo
ple in the dry. I showed how this was
done by agents of whisky houses travel
ing through dry counties to train and en
courage-blind tigers; by the breweries,
joining their efforts to defeat the ex
pressed will of these people, in labeling
their goods with deceptive names; by the
manner in which the devoted liquor papers
under professed love for local option were
advertising in the most attractive man
ner their wholesale whisky and jug
houses, specially inviting the trade of the
dry section. I showed how the blind tiger
in Georgia laid his tail over the dry coun-
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
DISCUSS THE SOLDIERS' HOME
(From the Southern Woman.)
Official organ of the Georgia Divlsiofi of
the Daughters of the Confederacy.
In the brilliant conception and mag
nificent execution of a beautiful patriotic
act the Atlanta Journal has placed its
name on the very pinnacle of fame, and
a grateful people and admiring press find
words inadequate to express the heartful
appreciation of the generosity of the
great dally in sheltering the homeless
veterans, and then liberally starting a
fund for rebuilding the beautiful home
before it was entirely reduced to ashes.
It was a deafening cheer that went up
from, the throats and grateful hearts of
the lonely old veterans as they passed
the Journal office that fateful night and
“three cheers more and a tiger” have
echoed and re-echoed until it has re
verberated from the mountains to the
sea. Subscriptions have poured in and
all. independent of line or section, have
aided in making the fund assume a nice
proportion. As in furnishing rooms, so
in rebuilding, the blue-coated veteran has
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GOVERNOR ALLEN D. CANDLER.
Who, in His Annual Message to the Legislature, Strongly Recom
*:• * mends the Passage of a Child Labor Law For Georgia.
support for themselves and families. Some
mill owners are cruel and grasping, will
ing to blight the life of a child and dwarf
its intellect for gain. and sometimes
shiftless, lazy, drunken parent* are
found who, to avoid work themselves and
secure the means to gratify their ap
petites. are willing to impose any hard-
early growth.
It is well known that the top of each
cane stalk previous to its receiving the
darker or sugar color contains no saccha
rine matter of any value, hence when the
cane Is stripped leave the top part undis
turbed down to where the color of the
cane shows it to heavily charged with
saccharine matter.
Now as your land to all prepared cut
off this top section, even two or three
inches it may be, into the riper part.
Then carefully wrap this top part with Its
leaves, which will keep the earth from
pressing too closely about the seed and
also help make humus and be of assist
ance as a fertilizer for aiding the new
plants.
Having your new ground furrowed out
you lay this seed in and cover as you do
the regular cane seed. This seed will,
by this process, further mature and start
eyes from each section. This will, you
see, save the trouble and expense of strip
ping and grinding a worthless piece of
cane, also saving the trouble of evaporat
ing a large quantity of merely water that
has little or no sweet In it. Thus you
save a large quantity of hitherto worth
less cane and make of it valuable seed.
Care should be observed to put this seed
under ground before hurt by frost. How
ever. with these suggestions indicated the
farmer can readily arrange to suit hto
condition.
By following out carefully the above
suggestions it will be found that the
planter can “keep hto cake and eat it.
too;” 1. e., grind his seed, yet keep his
seed, the opposite of this condition having
been the trouble heretofore because the
planter wished to realize as large a quan
tlty of syrup as possible.
Second, There seems to have been con
siderable trouble in the past in saving
the old roots for the seed. This can. in
a great degree, be obviated by cultivating
the ground between the rows after the
cane is cut off preparatory for the new
crop, the tops having been planted as
above and the cane taken to the crusher.
ties, but hid his head behind the barricade
“local option” in the liquor cities and that
in self protection the dry counties must
off his head with the sword of “state pro
hibition."
I believe infinite good has been done in
the counties that have adopted prohibi
tion. * Where jugs now go barrels used to
go. "Where a half barrel would be sold on
a Saturday afternoon In the country grog
erry now a few jugs a month is all that is
consumed. I had rather have blind tiger*
than seeing ones. I also believe in going
on unto perfection. I do not believe that
under the plea of local option a compar
atively few white people and a large num
ber of corrupted black votes should hin
der the beneficent effects of prohibition in
the large number of counties which have
voted whisky out. Whisky will be surrep
titiously used but I am opposed to a mi
nority selling it under the speciousness of
a high sounding legality.
As to “prohibition not prohibiting”
I showed how regulation failed to
regulate. How Sunday liquor sell
ing went on shown in the num
ber of drunks and disorderlies at
the Monday morning courts. How the
sale to minors went on by the local news
items appearing ever and anon. How the
regulation against women in barrooms
was violated, as shown in a man murdered
at the door of a Macon saloon Saturday
given generously for the comfort of the
homeless ones in grey. Fortunately the
insurance, $21,500, is a good nucleus too,
and hastens the day when the veterans
shall again gather in a home builded
once more as a testimony of the love
and gradtude Geygia bears toward the
faithful soldiers who served her so well
when war clouds lowered. The trustees
promptly met and discussed and arrang
ed for rebuilding. The cottage plan was
greatly favored, and President Calhoun
gave out this casual estimate: For
home supplied with all modern conven
iences, consisting of thirteen cottages,
mess hall, chapel, hospital, kitchen, laun
dry office, stables and waterworks, total
cost, $18,000; total cost of furnishing, $3,-
500.
In an appeal published and addressed
to the people of Georgia, the trustees of
the home, after thanking them for past
favors, solicits earnestly assistance and
co-operation in rebuilding. With insur
ance and amounts subscribed, the avail
able assets for this purpose reach about
$25,000, falling far short of the amount
which to estimated at $40,000. The board
ship upon their offspring. For all such
compulsory laws are necessary, as well
as for the good of society a* for the
sake of humanity, and in all such cases
the child should be put in school and
protected, and the vagrancy laws should
be vigorously enforced against the worth
less parent.”
leaving the roots, which are really the
best of seed ifproperly cared for.
Now. after the ground Is thontughly
cleaned, take a plow that will turn out a
deep furrow, turning over and under all
of the roots Into this first furrow. This
completely turns the old roots bottom side
up, the Importance of which is leaving
the sap to run out into the ground In
stead of running down into the roots and
fermenting, causing the root to rot and
spoil the seed, as is often the case, es
pecially if a warm season of weather
comes on at this time. The farmer often
objects to using any of the old seed on
account of this previous fermentation,
which renders it useless. But if the plant
is turned over the sap will run out and
still leave life enough in the root which
is covered up by the furrow sufficient to
start eyes in due season for the next
spring’s crop.
Third. A word about the syrup. The
way the matter now stands there are
only about 60 or 90 days that syrup can
be handled in the original form. It should
at once be refined by the refiners to the
necessary point that makes good syrup,
but not high enough to make it crystallze
and make sugar out of it Instead of syrup.
'Another point of the greatest import
ance to Syrup makers is, as this trade is
being built up in many new quarters to
insist upon a perfectly pure article, with
out a particle of glucose of foreign ma
terial in it. It is well known that the
temptation is great to put in cheap adul
terations. but it 1s a fraud, hende should
receive the severest condemnation, for if
the practice is followed up it will con
demn Georgia cane syrup in the best mar
kets we have. It is only by honesty in all
matters pertaining to ita refining that we
qan hope to reach the top and stay there
with one of the best syrups .there is in the
world. By placing samples of your syrup
in neat and attraci.vely labeled cans tn
the hands of great brokers tn our large
cities a steady and lucrative trade can be
built up to, I beliee, millions of gallons,
where it is thousands now.
night, October sth, while opening a back
door to let two women in to get drinks,
the same being reported ls» the issue of a
paper lamenting the failure of prohibition
to prohibit in Maine. t
My position was that the thing to do is
to put your liquor legislation as a state
on the proper grounds, which I believe to
be state prohibition. If the laws are vio
lated you are on the same plane as other
violated laws. There are laws against
stealing. Few persons have escaped loss
by stealing. Shall we repeal those laws
because they are violated? No sane moral
man would advocate such a policy. An
objector says, but stealing is so bad. Al
cohol steals the reasori from the brain,
natural affection from the heart, the fath
er from his child, the husband from his
wife, the God from the soul. Is not that
the greatest theft?
The sale of liquor is either right or
wrong. If it is right then a great mistake
is made when you discriminate against it
in your laws, regulations and other imped
iments. If it is wrong then its license is
abhorrent to sound morals under any cir
cumstances. You fail in your efforts to
regulate, then cease your half way treat
ment of the great evil. Put your laws
on the solid rock of sound morality and
if they are violated punish the violation.
Cease temporising with the greatest in
iquity of our day.
ot trustees appeal to the generosity of
all and ask prompt response to the eaU.
that the home may at once be replaced.
Several chapters of the U. D. C. have
sent in contributions ar.d others are In
creasing the amounts on hand before for
warding. A new chapter, not yet six
months old, with true generosity, for
wards a check.
The state president, immediately fol
lowing the destruction of the home, told
a reporter "the Journal can assure the
public that the daughters will give lib
erally and co-operate in any plan to
rebuild the home immediately. We will
ta-e official action at our meeting In
Columbus Odtober 30th. The daughters
of Georgia can be depended upon to do
their part for the new home.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
Good cooks make cheerful husbands.
The beet way for a man to get married is
to try not to.
When you speak of catching things men
think of fish, colds and scoldings; women of
husbands.
A woman can always be happy without *
man to rule her. but she can be happier wtth
one to do it..
One thing that take* away a good deal of
the pleasure for women in camping out where
you sleep on the ground is that there la n°
chance to look for a man under the bed.