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MONDAY, DECEMBER 23. IWL
Don't forget to leave the door open.
This Is where the thermometer gets the
drop on us.
Thia aert of weather is a lead pipe cinch
for the plumber.
Really, the way Prince Henry is cutting
up does beat the Dutch. ,
Happy is the man who has the balance
of Christmas presents in his favor.
Captain Hobson may learn to take a
reeelpt for his engagement ring in fu
ture.
The Dreyfus case seems to have become
decidedly passe so far as Paris ia con
cerned.
All reports seem to agree that this Is
another one of those “coldest Decembers
on record."
And still tt does not appear that Sec
retary Gage has as yet heard of bis res
ignation. »
This Is the season of th© year when even
the. bad boy pretends to like to go to
Sunday school.
/ Senator McLaurin seems to have suc
ceeded in getting his Democracy on
straight at last.
The people of this country persist in
considering Admiral Dewey a majority of
the court of inquiry.*
A good many people are made skeptical
by the fact that Inventor Marconi means
to turn that 9 into 8. t-
It seems to be much easier to denounce
anarchy than it is to devise any national
legislation against tt.
It Is beginning to look like the Republi
cans are merely flirting with the “hand
maiden of protection."
There are said to be between 8,000 and
W.OOO lawyers in Chicago. Now you know
why it is called the Windy City.
Os course it was a Boston woman who
guessed that there were 1.081 beans in a
jar when there were really 1091 H.
Next year's wheat crop promisee to
break the record- Western farmers are
signing pledges to reduce the acreage.
The name of the governor of Pennsyl
vania is Stone, but Mr. Quay thinks he
can make it mud before long.
The present prices of corn, oats and
Tough feed ought to give a decided im
petus to the automobile market.
It is barely possible that those three
split infinitives in. the president's mes
sage caused Boston to go Democratic.
King Chulalunkorn. of Siam, is prepar
ing to attend the St. Louis exposition. As
a Midway attraction, probably.
Considering the number of times he has
been reported dead. Tolstoi's health is
probably as good as could be expected.
And the worst feature of that Schley
verdict is that it gives the New York Sun
an opportunity to feel Itself vindicated.
Science has discovered that alcohol is
a food. But the trouble with some peo
ple is they consider it both food and rai
ment.
Some people are disposed to look upon
that proposed _JW.OOO.OOO gift of Mr. Carne
gie g to the government as “conscience
money."
The Schley verdict goes to show that
for once the enterprising correspondents
were very temperate in their prognostica
tions.
. Mrs. Leslie Carter s new play is said
to be more intense than "Zaxa." If this
is true, it is almost time to turn in the
alarm.
If Senator Tillman displayed as much
moderation in everything else as he does
in carrying out his threat to resign he
would be all right.
The newspapers of the country continue
to denounce Croker. This idea of speak
ing only good of dead ones seems to be
rapidly dying out
A western town has a law against the
barking of dogs. And there are those
who still hold that you can't legislate
morals into people.
A cargo of 9.000 barrels of crude petro
leum has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico.
That ought to calm that turbulent body
of water for a time, at least.
A Pittsburg physician claims that he has
discovered a cure for lock-jaw. But what
is really needed, while congress Is in ses
sion. is a cure for limber-jaw.
Hon. Jerry Simpson is a grandfather
and the Kansas City Journal Intimates
that the youngster showed a strong her
edltary trait in being born sockless.
Sir Robert Ball, the famous British as
tronomer. declares that a day will be 48
hours long €0.(00.000 years hence. Thia is
a sad blow for the eight-hour movement.
A Pennsylvanian has just received 83.000
from a man whom he once saved from
hunger and cold. A clear case of whese
bread cast on the waters came back
Case.
In three Chicago factories 25 per cent
of the children employed have been found
to be under fourteen years of age. Illi
nois has evidently been leaving it to the
manufacturers to solve the child labor
problem tn their own humane way.
After due consideration we are con
vinced that the wife who buys her hus
band a nice pair es lace curtains for a
Christmas present la no meaner than .the
husband who gives his wife a new smok
ing jacket. '
He was not given a place on the depot
commission, but we are still convinced
that when the actual work of construction
begins our old friend the Hon. Joo HIV
Han io just the man for the position of
fnad keeper of the kaaMN>
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WHY NOT IN GEORGIA?
As Georgia has oome to be known as the
banner peach growing state of the south,
so Virginia has become the banner apple
state of the entire oountry, the laurels
once held by New York, then by Missouri
and later by Arkansas, having easily
ps seed to the Old Dominion within the
past few years.
It la estimated that the value of this
year's apple crop in the Shenandoah
Valley, the great apple growing section of
Virginia, is fully a million and a half dol
lars. and individual fortunes are being
made in this highly profitable Industry.
While apples have been grown in Vir
ginia from tho earliest days of the com
monwealth. just as peaches were grown
in Georgia for generations without any
attempt at making peach culture an in
dustry. tt was scarcely fifteen years ago
that some far-sighted Virginians went in
to apple culture on a large scale.
Like the experience of the Georgia peach
growers, results more than repaid their
confidence and enterprise. When it is
stated that every tree will yield from $4
to 88 each season and that there are usual
ly from 90 to 40 trees to the acre, a fair
Idea of the enormous profits of the busi
ness may be secured. Especially when
one takes Into consideration the fact that
the main expense of the apple industry
Is in packing and marketing tho fruit.
A prominent Virginia grower, telling of
tho development of the industry in that
state declares that on an orchard of about
eight acres one of his neighbors raised
800 trees, which thia year yielded 1.100
barrels of flrst-class merchantable fruit.
It sold for 82.50 per barrel in the orchard,
the buyer furnishing the barrels and de
fraying the expenses of packing.
A 1.000 tree orchard on an adjoining
farm cleared 85.800 one year and 86.000 two
years later. This is an average of 86 a
tree, so that it will be readily seen that
a good crop is a very lucrative investment.
Trply an attractive and profitable in
dustry, one which if given the proper at
tention In Georgia would develop as rapid
ly as the great peach industry which has
made this state famous throughout the
union. Like everything else, the peach
Industry has its limitations, and there are
those who seriously question if it will not
soon be overdone in Georgia. At any rate,
tt is well for our farmers in sections which
are peculiarly adopted to the purpose, to
turn their attention, if possible, to other
things; and, certainly, no one will dispute
that apple growing is as attractive as
anything in the entire field of horticulture.
What Virginia has done, Georgia can
do; at least it can be done in the fertile
valleys of north and northeast Georgia.
Practically the same soil and climatic
conditions as exist in the famous Shen
andoah Valley exist in the glorious Na
coochee and the other valleys of north
Georgia, and there is scarcely a farm
house in those sections whose family ap
ple tree does not bear witness to the fact
that the apple thrive as well in that
soil and climate as anywhere on earth.
In view of these facts, facts known to
everyone, even the casual observer, and
urged by our agricultural department
after a thorough study of the subject,
does it not seem strange that no more
attention is paid to the development of
this industry in Georgia. Some day we
may wake up to the importance of peach
growing on a large scale, and then Geor
gia may rival Virginia as an apple grow
ing state and another million year may
be added to the value of Georgia's annual
products. •
OUR PHILIPPINE MONEY..
The government of 10,000.000 people ten
thousand miles from our capital involves
many problems that will necessarily tax
the statesmanship and try the patience of
the United States.
Where we consider that these people
have been brought under our, control by
force and must be held subject by force
for an indefinite time to come; that they
differ from us radically tn race, religion,
ideas and traditions, that they have in
stincts and habits that are very difficult
of assimilation to our civilisation, the dif
ficulties of the proposition will be seen
to multiply and become mor< complex.
The question of a currency ror the Phil
ippines is presented in *the recent report
of the secretary of war by Mr. Charles
A. Conant, an expert in finance who was
sent to those islands as a special com
missioner to inquire and report what sort
of banking and currency would be best
adapted to those islands.
Mr. Consult recommends the provision
of a special silver coin for use in the Phil
ippines which will be legal tender for 50
cents in the gold money of the United
States.
The quantity of this money will be regu
lated by the government of the islands
that we have established. This coin, to be
known as the peso, will be coined at
Manila and will be divided into 100 parts
to be known as centavos. All this, of
course, provided the Conant plan be
adopted.
This system is based upon the very prac
tical idea that the Filipinos should be
provided with a currency similar to that
with which they are already familiar, and
at the same time bearing a simple rela
tion to the currency of the United States.
All coins provided especially for the
Philippines will be maintained at parity
with gold so that the gold standard shall
prevail in our insular possessions as well
as in the United States proper.
Mr. Conant recommends that national
banks be established in the islands as they
may be needed, and have the privilege of
establishing branch banks both in the
Philippines and the United States. These
will be authorised to supply paper cur
rency, properly protected, but their main
uses would be in the facilitation of ex
change.
The plan is said to be viewed with favor
by the treasury department and members
of congress who have given it special
consideration.
THE PRESIDENT IN EARNEST.
A very large proportion, if not a ma
jority of his fellow citizens, differ decided
ly with President Roosevelt on some of
the most important public issues, but there
la one subject on which his views and
evident intentions are heartily approved
by the people generally, regardless of
party lines or affiliations.
We refer to the civil service. President
Roosevelt Is an honest, ardent and con
sistent advocate of the principles of civil
service reform. In his former public ser
vice he has done much to defend and pro
mote those principles and there is every
rason to believe that as president he will
make every possible endeavor to make
the letter and the spirit of the civil ser
vice law effective,
In fact, he has already taken a very im
portant step in this direction by issuing a
rule that will increase greatly the diffi
culty and danger of violating either the
civil service law er the orders of the civil
service commission that are designed to
enforce It.
Unless it has beck of It a president
who le really a friend es the lair and is
determined to see its previsions carried
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1901.
out the civil service commission is prac
tically helpless. Its rulings may be disre
garded with impunity and the law itself
made a farce. But when the provisions
of the law or the rulings of the commis
sion are Ignored the president may step
in and assert his authority.
This is just what President Roosevelt
intends to da whenever the occasion for
such interference may arise. As it is
clearly impossible for him to supervise
> the working of the civil service system in
every instance, he has laid down a general
plan for the conduct of subordinate offi
cials that will make them very careful
to follow the civil service law and the de
crees of the commission.
Hereafter when any person is appointed
to an office in the classified service, except
in strict compliance with law and with
due regard to merit and qualification for
the plaec as provided in the examinations
under the commission a very simple and
direct way is open for the removal of
such appointee.
Whenever such an instance is brought
to the attention of the commission it
must notify at once the head of the de
partment in which the violation of the
rules has occurred.
That official must then take steps to re
move the person who has got into office
contrary to the provisions of the civil ser
vice law. It the removal is not made
within thirty days the commission shall
notify the dis bursting officer of the divis
ion that has been imposed upon to stop
the salary of the interloping appointee.
This is the most practical plan for se
curing a thorough enforcement of the civil
service law that has yet been devised and
will prove effectual in defeating the
schemes of spoilsmen to slip favorites
Into office through the civil service bars
that have too often been purposely left
open. It will protect meritorious office
holders who would be thrown out to make
places for applicants with superior polit
ical pull and it will serve notice upon many
officials who have been playing into the
hands of the spoilmen that they must
quit that vicious practice.
This rule of President Roosevelt will
doubtless raise a howl from politicians
who have been running rough shod over
the civil service commission, but the coun
try will commend it,and the public service
will be immensely benefitted by it.
CHILI AND ARGENTINA.
The trouble between Chill and Argentina
which has threatened war several times
is almost as old as the existenoe of the
two nations. When they became inde
pendent of Spain it was understood that
the boundary line between them should be
the old provincial line that had formerly
separated them. This was ill-deflned line
that followed the ridge of the Andes and
disputes over it soon arose.
The first arose over the extension of the
line through Patagonia which was deman
ded by Argentina, Chill claiming that the
whole of Patagonia belonged to her. A
settlement was reached by which Chili
agreed to extend the Andes watershed
line down to the fifty-second paralied and
to extend her boundary arbitrarily thence
to the east and the south. Later another
dispute arose over the question whether
the boundary line should follow the high
est peaks, as Argentina claimed, or should
follow the actual watershed, as Chili in
sisted.
The establishment of the latter line
would give Chill vast tracts that would
belond to Argentina under the mountain
peak line.
For many years prior to 1879 diplomatic
relations between the two countries were
suspended and It seemed that they were
constantly on the verge of conflict.
Our government interposed its friendly
offices, however, and in 1881 a treaty
was agreed upon by which these differ
ences wer© supposed to be settled, under
which the Strait of Magellan was neu
tralised. But the treaty had little effect,
as every effort to mark the line provided
by it proved futile.
Chill and Argentina continued their
quarrel as to whether th© boundary be
tween them should follow the watershed
of the highest peaks or the watershed of
streams.
The difficulty was complicated by a dis
pute over the location of a landmark at
San Francisco and the ownership of a
large and fertile plateau at Atcama that
Chili had seised in her war with Bolivia,
but which Argentina claimed.
In April, 1896, smother protocol was con
cluded which submitted the questions of
the landmark and the Atcama plateau to
arbitration.
Another supplemental agreement was
made later in 1896 and still another in 1898.
Under this last tt was agreed that all
disputes concerning the northern part of
the line were to be left to the United
States and all concerning the central and
southern portions to Great Britain.
The recent troubles which reached an
acute stage a few days ago arose over
the construction of military roads in low
er Patagonia. Both governments are
very stubborn in contending for what they
claim to be their rights in the premises.
They seem to be equally reluctant to sub
mit to arbitration and bind themselves to
abide by its decision.
They are the two strongest and most
progressive of the South American repub
lics and a war between them would be
a very serious matter.
Argentina has about 4,600,000 population
and a standing army of 30,000 men. In
addition it has an organised national
guard, or militia force, including 467,000
men. The Argentine navy consists of 45
vessels, some of which are of a high class
modern type.
Chill, on paper, is much weaker than Ar
gentina, but has better fighting material
and has been made very confident, not to
say Insolvent, by her military and naval
successes.
The population of Chill is 3,200,000. Her
standing army numbers only 10,000, but is
thoroughly organised. Her militia is very
small, compared to that of Argentina,
amounting to only 32,b00.
The Chilian navy of 44 vessels is much
stronger than the navy of Argentina with
45 vessels. Argentina, in case of war,
would be almost sure to have the aid of
Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Peru,
while Chill could not expeot any ally
except, possibly, Ecuador, Those who are
best acquainted with tho situation, how
ever, do not believe that thero will bo
war.
There are strong Influences at work to
prevent tt and the Pan-Amerloan con
gress now in session in the city es Mexico
is a strong factor for peace,
A Boston woman announces the demise
of her favorite terrier to her friends in a
mourning letter, heavily bordered with
black. Those who send her letters of con
dolence in return might even up a bit by
expressing the hops that tt is now a sky
terrier,
A delegation of bartenders attended
church in Cleveland last Bunday in a
body. It was certainly vary commendable
|n them to close thsif place, of business
long enough to attend divine services,
♦ WITH THE EXCHANGES. ♦
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Bainbridge Searchlight: Delinquent sub
scribers are reminded that wo are In proper
trim for Christmas turaey, and during the
coming week we hope to see him roll around.
Augusta Herald: The first week of con
gress was devotea to introducing bills; the rest
of the session will be consumed in killing
these.
Dahlonega Nugget: Hereafter let the Geor
?la legislature give Atlanta anything she asks
or at the start, for she will come out suc
cessful in the wind up. It will be much
cheaper.
Cordele News: Governor Candler Is being
abused and praised for vetoing the dispensary
bill. Can’t please everybody.
Macon County Citizen: The street fair ag
gregation inflicting themselves upon Georgia
towns had better look to their laurels, now
that the monkey and hand organ season is
at hand.
Sylvania Telephone: We’ll venture the gov
ernment statistician hksn’t overshot it many
bales in his estimate of the cotton crop. Liv
erpool will find It out to her sorrow, later on.
Americus Tlmes-Recorder: Maclay’s case
shows us what genius can do. He has made
fully as great an ass of himself as Sampson
did of himself; and Sampson had tho benefit
of years of pink teas, too.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Agulnaldo has not
been compared to Washington In some time,
which shows that somebody ie not attending
to his job properly.
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
The Philippine Incubus.
St. Louis Republic.
Takln all in all, the Philippine outlook is
discouraging. We cannot bold the islands save
as dependent and subject colonies. The native
races will always be hostile and Insurgent.
American homeseekers find the climate too
deadly for endurance beyond a term of one or
two years. Little revenue will be derived from
the Islands. Their forcible government will
cost the people of the states yearly millions
and the sacrifice of countless. American lives.
Immigrants of Low Grade.
Cleveland Leader.
There is no doubt that the character of the
foreign population is changing for the worse
with the change In volume of immigration
from countrlee of eastern and southern Eu
rope, and If these people from foreign lands
are to be successfully assimilated and made
over into American cltisens an educational
test must be applied. There seems to be no
better time to take up and dispose of the
?,uestion than the present Congress should not
all to act.
What Alls the Churches.
Philadelphia Times.
It ia really not very hard to get people to
S>t to church, not so hard as many think.
Ive them able, eloquent sermons and .the
pews will be full. Os course, the Ideal condi
tion is when they attend from a sense of re
ligious duty, but that we fear ts not always to
be expected. The same lack of interest that
keeps citizens away from important public
meetings when they know the speeches will
be dull makes them stay at home on Sundays
when there la no eloquence to attract them.
Not ss Felicitous.
Washington Times.
What the governor of North Carolina said
to the governor of South Carolina was ex
tremely felicitous, but what the senator from
South Carolina ia saying to the senator from
South Carolina, and vice versa, is scarcely
calculated to cement friendly relations.
Leaving Roosevelt Out.
Syracuse Telegram.
It ia of significance to find conspicuous re
publican leaders planning already to secure
the presidential nomination just as if Roose
yelt was already sidetracked for 1901.
Glass Roofs in Massachusetts.
Washington Post.
How would it do for some of the Massachu
setts congressmen to let the south alone and
endeavor to Improve the morals of some of
the mill towns of the state they represent?
According to the official and inofficial re
ports vice exists in those communities to an
alarming extent, and the blame does not He
wholly upon the lower classes.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
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A bill for a railroad across Alaska. 850 miles
long, haa been Introduced in congress.
Two eastern shoe manufacturing firms are
to establish immense shoe factories in Ire
land.
It is estimated that the bank clearances In
tho United States this year will reach the
total of 8117.000.000,000, by far the largest ag
gregate ever reported:
A Russian woman who died recently In St.
Petersburg left a library of eighteen thousand
volumes. In one way this library is unique.
Os all its works not a single one Is by a
male author.
Texas proposes to make a great show of
her resources at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Governor Sayers has appointed a commission
of fifty-one members to raise, and they are
talking of raising $500,000 for the exhibit.
That 1s not a half-bad story coming from
Texas that last week the manager ot an
"Uncle Tom Cabin’’ company loaned the
town officials three bloodhounds to run down
some criminals who had escaped jail, and
that the bad men captured the dogs and
have started an “Uncle Tom’* show of their
own.
The statehood fight down In Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma is growing Interesting.
The Oklahoma people want the two terri
tories merged into a single state, pointing
out that they would make one compact and
populous commonwealth. The other folks,
however, do not desire to lose their identity,
fearing that Oklahoma would get the name
and the credit of the statehood.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
English papers generally give credence to the
report that, in recognition of his position as
husband ot the princess royal, the duke of
Fife will be created duke of Inverness.
James La Barre, a Kentucky veteran of the
civil war, of Louisville, will start his long
walk to Washington in a few days. It will be
remembered that he walked this distance of
over 600 miles last winter.
Professor F. Lamson Scribner, agrostologist
in the department of agriculture, will go to
the Philippines in February to establish a
bureau of agriculture in that country, mod
eled, as far as possible, after the department
in this country.
Ex-Senator Peffer, of Kansas, has hit upon
a new scheme for getting money out of con
gress. He has prepared a topical index of all
the debates in congress up to 1861 and proposes
to make the work complete to the present
time. Now he wants to sell the result of his
labors. ,
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Lend money and you borrow trouble.
The surest way to get rich is to quit being
poor.
Force of habit has a good deal to do with
the way some people go on loving each other.
When a lucky man gets it into his head that
he is a great man he is due to lose hie
luck.
It’s worse to bleach your hair than to wear
a wig, but you could offer a million dollars'
reward for a woman with hair on her head
who would agree with you and you would
never find her.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.
Greatness magnifies a man’s mistakes.
If silence is golden, what kind ot money
talks?
Many a man loves himself for the enemies
he has made.
An income of BM.OOO a year enables some men
to keep in debt. _ _
Some men are like boats—they have to be
balled out frequently.
A girl admires extravagance in the young
men she isn't going to marry.
In the game of life the Chinaman doesn't find
It necessary to chalk his cue.
The man who marries a widow is sometimes
reminded that a dead man isn’t soon forgot
ten.
When people begin to tell a woman how
young she looks It is a sure sign that she
is growing old.
For each day some folks labor In the Lord’s
Vineyard they expect the Lord to work two
days in theirs,
This would be a gloomy old world if it had
to depend upon the moods of some people for
its euppotr of sunshine,
flpeaker Henderson tells his colleagues
that the large surplus in the treasury is a
real danger. But the way the members
are going after Jt would not indicate that
any of them are afraid ot it.
When Julian Ralph said, “The White
Houpe is no longer a gentleman’s home,”
did he have any recent dinner parties in
mind, or merely th® of th ® house?
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Here is an authentic case es where it
turned, A New Jersey man named Wurm
has been granted an absolute divorce from
his wife.
♦ THINGS SEEN AND HEARD. ♦
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♦ By Thos. W. Loyless. ♦
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If Brown Resigns Northen Goes In.
The question of who will be made rail
road commissioner to succeed the Hon.
Pope Brown in case the latter resigns to
make the race for governor is still agi
tating the politicians.
But, strange to say, there are very few
who really believe there is going to be
any vacancy in that quarter. In the
first place, Mr. Brown has not definitely
announced his candidacy for the govern
orship, and although It was understood
that he would resign the railroad com
missionership as soon as he formally en
tered the race, the opinion is now forming,
and is expressed by some of Mr. Brown’s
friends, that he will not find it necessary .
to resign the comtnlssionership.
“One of Mr. Brown’s Pulaski county
neighbors told me positively that he
would not resign his place as railroad
commissioner," said a prominent Stew
art county politician in th© arcade, “and,
sq far qs I am concerned, I consider the
matter settled.”
But the most important statement yet
mad© in connection with the railroad
commissionership is to the effect that
Governor Cafidler will appoint ex-Govern
or Northen to the first vacancy that oc
curs in the commission.
This prediction is positively made by a
number of well posted politicians, and it
is even said that one of the most promi
nent applicants for the position was so
informed and forthwith retired from the
race.
Russian Colonists for Georgia.
The Washington Times of Monday has
the following interesting interview with
the Hon. Edwin Brobston, of Brunswick:
“I am just from a business trip to New
York, and am elated And happy over the
magnificent promise of development that
seems in store in the immediate future
for the southern section of my state,"
said Mr. Edwin Brobston, of Brunswick,
Ga., at the Riggs.
“Ours is a region that has been greatly
overlooked, but its rich natural resources
could not be forever ignored, and we are
about to get the first installment ot colo
nists from southern Russia. This is an
enterprise in which the Southern railway
has taken the leading part. The coast
country of Georgia is magnificently adap
ted to growing early fruits and vegetables
for the large markets of the north. We
are from fourteen to twenty-one days
ahead of Norfolk in the production of ber
ries, melons, tomatoes, potatoes, and the
like, and our products come in right after
the first shipments of like things from
Florida.
Our Russian immigrants will go to
work along this line of truck farming, and
150,000 acres of land contlglous and tribu
tary to Brunswick have been purchased in
their Interest. Another great project
from which we hope much is the line of
steamships that will ply between Euro
pean portfi and Brunswick and Savannah.
This line is for the purpose of carrying
across the Atlantic in cold storage all
kinds of food supplies that the farmers of
the coast region raise. Sir Thomas Lipton
is one of the promoters and is heavily In
terested. The Intention Is to establish de
pots and refrigerating plants near the
seaboard towns and to invite producers of
a big adjacent territory to bring in every
thing they make on their farms, for which
liberal prices will be given by the agents
of the company. Not a dollar of Ameri
can money is wanted, and all the funds
necessary to operate the business have
been subscribed by foreign capitalists.”
Wants More Money for Convicts.
The Journal announced a few'days ago
that Representative Gress, of Wilcox, was
of the opinion that the convicts could be
re-leased at the expiration of the present
contract at a profit of 8175,000 per year
over what the state is now getting, and
would-probably lead a fight to secure bet
ter terms when the present lease expires,
in case it is desired to continue the pres
ent system.
Colonel Steve Postell, the Atlanta corre
spondent of The Macon Telegraph, fol
lows this up with some interesting figures
on the present lease.
A gentleman closely identified with the
convict system of Georgia, and thoroughly
conversant with its working, says it is
not necessary to formulate any ingenious
plan to insufe the state an additional 8175,-
000 per year for her convicts after the ex
piration of the present contract.
Were the contract to terminate next
month the state could get 8280*000 more for
the hire of these convicts than she now
gets, for the reason that the supply and
demand regulates the prlee.
Four years ago there was not as large
a demand for them as now by 50 per cent,
and convicts contracted for then at 8100
per year are being, And have been, sub-let
for 8200 per year, or just double what the
state gets. In some cases they have been
sub-let at 820 per month, or 8240 per year.
This gentleman avers that, taking 8200 as
a fair average, which the state could get
tomorrow if the present lease expired,
that would mean a bringing into the state
treasury of 8400,000 per year for convict
hire, as the state now hires out on an av
erage of 2,000 able-bodied convicts at 8100
per year, or 8200,00. The expenses of run
ning the department is 8120,000 per year,
or a net gain now of 880,000 annually, and
with the Increased demand and consequent
higher price for this labor, the 8400,000 that
they would flow bring would mean, de
ducting the <120,000 yearly expense, 8280,000
clear profit each year to the state. The
sum of 8280,000 income per year is a good
deal more than 8175,000 per year, and it
doesn’t require any brain-racking to ac
complish that result.
Who Will Be McLaurin's Successor?
Who will wear the senatorial toga of
McLaurin? is the question often asked by
persons interested in the political situa
tion In South Carolina.
“That McLaurin will never succeed him
self is now admitted even by bis friends,"
said a prominent South Carolinian in ths
arcade last night.
“Those who looked with favor upon com
mercial Democracy, and there were some
well known citizens among them, have
beten driven away by the prospects of be
ing shut out from Democratic allegiance,
for Senator McLaurin’s enemies hold the
reins of the voting laws; and will see to
it that those who vote for ‘commercial
Democracy’ will lay up for themselves all
kinds of trouble in the future. Again,
McLaurin has carried the commercial
idea too far and has disgusted many who
favored his views and objected to those
who are in the movement for whatever
spoils can be secured.
“Some have said that Senator Tillman
has lost strength during the last five
years, but with such persons the wish
is father to the thought. Senator Tillman
Is today stronger than ever, for he as
sumes the role of the defeder of Democ
racy agaist then inroads of Republican
ism under the name of ‘commercial De
mocracy.’
“Who then 'is the next strongest man
and the one who will likely share an
equally Important seat In public office,
you ask? Clearly the man who is most
like him. Congressman Latimer has been
accused of being Tillmanlike in manner
and methods. This allegation he takes no
occasion to deny. Latimer is strong in the
upper sections of the state and will, it is
thought, be junior Senator from this state.
But he will be compelled to defeat two
brilliant men, viz.: Henderson and John
son, both of whom are strong politically,
and admired for their eloquence. Ex-
Congressman Hemphill is a lawyer of
much prominence in Washington circles
and will make a hard effort to return to
Washington with the obligations of the
people of South Carolina upon him.
“Ex-Governor Evans will, also, be in
the race and he is very popular as he has
already served at the head of the execu
tive department for two terms and has
no apparent reason to fear to entrust his
ambition to the people.
GENERAL JOE WHEELER
ON THE NEGRO PROBLEM
J 1
General Joe Wheeler discusses in Sun
day’s Now York Journal the subject of
how education will solve the negro prob
lem, and in doing so he lays down four
propositions:
First—That it is idle to consider whether
the presence of th* negro In this oountry Is
to its advantage or disadvantage. Ha Is plant
ed in this land and he will remain.
Second—That we cannot allow a mass of
human beings in this oountry to remain in
.ignorance. To do so leaves them the tools of
bad. designing and Intriguing men, who for
personal advantage work upon their supersti
tions, prejudices and the worst elements of
their nature.
Third—That there is much good in the gen
eral make-up of the negro, and that efforts
should be directed to give him that kind of
education which will cultivate and develop the
good, and correct and repress that which is
vicious and bad.
Fourth —That all efforts to enforce or encour
age social equality are detrimental to the ne
gro, but that it is incumbent upon the superior
race to scrupulously protect him In every legal
right
General Wheeler then calls attention to
the fact that the south has been most
liberal in providing for the negro’s edu
cation.
The conviction of the people of the
south, he says, as to the Importance of
educating the negro is shown by the fact
that in many localities the law makes no
discrimination whatever in appropriations
for white and colored schools, giving to
the colored every advantage which is ac
corded to the white.
The people of Alabama, be shows, in
framing their laws have been especially
scrupulous in giving the colored race
these advantages, and during the last
thirty years the southern states have ex
pended 8115,954,288 for negro education.
It has been my hope that this liberal
ity to the colored people by the whites
of the south would be appreciated by phi
lanthropists of the north, and that in any
donations of money for educational pur
poses in that section of our land the gen
erous donors would show at least as much
interest in providing means for the edu
cation of the poorer whites as they do for
the colored race.
General Wheeler then brings out the fact
that slavery and, afterwards, the eman
cipation of the negro under ill-advised
conditions, forced upon the south a prob
lem with which It has been difficult to
cope.
That many of the south's great states
men of early times doubted that negroes
being held as property would be an ad
vantage to that section is abundantly
proven.
The first settlers under Oglethorpe in
Georgia prohibited slavery for a period
of twenty years, and the repeal of the
law was secured by the influence of ship
owners, who desired to extend the mar
ket for the sale of slaves which they
brought from Africa.
Thomas Jefferson and other great
statesmen were very emphatic in their
opposition to the permanence of the in
stitution.
The constitutional convention which
framed the fundamental law under which
we live was largely dominated by south
ern men. Its president was George Wash
ington, of Virginia, and the most promi
nent ana influential member was Thomas
Madison, of the same state.
In all discussions upon the slavery ques
tion the tendency of the southern states
The Results of “Good Roads” Train.
Railroad Gazette, Dec. 6, 1901.
As the reader will remember, the Illi
nois Central, some months ago, ran a
“good roads” train through a considera
ble part of the territory which It serves,
and the Southern railway is now carrying
on a similar enterprise. A few weeks ago
we asked for Information as to the ob
served results of the Illinois Central train,
and Mr. Harahan, second vice president,
sends the following account:
The benefits resulting from the good
roads train run by the Illinois Central
railroad recently, in connection with the
National Good Roads association,
through several states, are being felt in
a different manner, owing to the different
conditions prevailing in the different
states.
In the state of Kentucky, where several
stops were made, the turnpike roads in
the interior having been model roads for
nearly 75 years, or perhaps longer. Ken
tucky having been the pioneer state in the
building of such roads, and the national
government having encouraged such
work, the improvement to be effected is
not so great as that la other states. Part
of the Great National road, that was de
signed to extend from Washington to
New Orleans, was built in Kentucky from
Maysville to Paris, and is still kept up in
splendid condition by the state, not by
the United States government, the work
of internal improvement by the United
States having received a quietus under
Andrew Jackson. There has, however,
been organized the Kentucky Good Roads
association, which has taken hold of the
matter with considerable spirit with the
intention of improving roads in sections
of the state where they ar© not up to the
standard.
In Tennessee, following the convention
held in Jackson, Tenn., on Thursday,
Jue 20, 1901, the Tennessee Good Roads as
sociation was formed and subsequent to
the trip of the train through the state of
Tennessee a convention was held at Nash
ville, which was fairly well attended by
people from different portions of the
state. Recommendations were made to
the legislature to be presented at its next
session to be held in Nashville in Janu
ary, 1902, and while no active progress
has been made in regard to county ac
tion upon this matter, the interest in the
matter of good roads will be continually
agitated, and will undoubtedly produce
good results.
In Mississippi at a recent meeting of the
state convention of supervisors at Jack
son, Miss., the good roads train and its
fine work was frequently mentioned, and
the statement was made that some 20
counties of Mississippi had already passed
from the old method of working public
roads to the contract system. The exec
utive committee created by the state con
vention •of supervisors of roads was
charged with memorializing the leglaie
ture for more progressive lessons along
the lines of building and maintaining
public highways, as people throughd'wt
the state were alive to the importance
and necessity of thia matter. The good
roads convention held in Jackson, Miss.,
as a culmination bf the good roads coun
ty conventions of some months since,
started this matter in Mississippi aad the
Good Roads association organised as a
result of that convention, will also memor
ialize the legislature with the intention of
having a conference held between the
representatives of that organisation and
of the state convention of supervisors, so
that an agreement may be reached to
work in harmony to the d*slred end. The
impression seems to prevail that the Illi
nois Central good reads train did lasting
good in this state; that tt craated a flat
sentiment in favor of the ot
was to oppose the importation of slaves,
and upon the question of permitting the
Importation of slave*, which meant the
continuation and extension of slavery, the
tendency of the shipping interests of the
northern states was to favor it, while the
southern states wore generally against it.
Continuing General Wheeler says:
Since the negro has been free I believe
the people ot the north and the people of >
the south have boon equally desirous to
protect him in every right, and do all in
their power to elevate his condition.
Unfortunately, there was too much in
the bearing of the people of the north to
Impress the negro that he was in all re
spects equal to the whites, and there
fore entitled to every privilege which they
enjoyed. Many people from the northern ‘
states, actuated by mistaken phllanthro- -
py, encouraged this idea, while in other
cases unscrupulous white men sought to
Increase their Influence over these delu
ded beings by encouraging them in the
belief of his absolute equality, if not su
periority, to the whites.
To these evil teachings we can trace
nearly all the turmoils, strifes and suffer
ings of the southern negro.
These mischief makers, some inmoently
and seme intentionally, have committed
this error.
Instead of teaching the negro that he
must elevate himself and better his con
dition by personal effort—by the acquisi
tion of knowledge and py hard labor; in
other words, advancing his condition the
same as has been done by the white race
much of the teaching has been to impress
the negro that he is already equal to the
whites in every respect, and it is his duty
to himself to assert this equality.
Many persons in considering the subject
seem to have overlooked the fact that ne
groes differ very widely in Intelligence. I
have seen vast numbers of negroes in the
rice plantations of South Caro’i-.e. and I
Georgia that are as far below the negro
who has been raised on the upper planta
tions as the lowest white is below the
most cultured and b® Bt educated people.
It is probable that those writers who
contend that the negro is incapable of ed
ucation have this class in their minds, but
these negroes are comparatively few in
number. But even this low order of being
would be much Improved by proper moral
and intellectual training, and Instruction
in the line of their calling would make
them better and more valuable laborers,
and every one who has lived in a negro
country will realise that it is the intense
ignorance of the negro masses which en
ables a few unscrupulous men to lead
them Into acts of violence and crime.
Then, again, there are writers who go
to the other extreme and contend that the
negro mind is susceptible of the highest
culture. They most probably have seen
few of tho race, and they seem to have in
their minds such negroes as Booker T,
Washington, William H. Council and
Frederick Douglass.
Os course these are exceptional cases,
and no discussion concerning the negro
question would in any way apply to them.
Experience has shown that the negro
lacks initiative and the power to lead, but
he Is imitative and can be taught to skill
fully perform certain lines of work, and,
under the direction and control of the
more intelligent white man, he becomes a
valuable laborer, and certainly all white
men who employ laborers desire them to
be intelligent and skillful.
It is an insult to the Caucasian race to
say that the negroes must be kept in ig
norance to prevent their becoming supe
rior or even equal to white men.
It the white men are simply given an
equal or even less than an equal chance
with the blacks, their superior character
istics and intelligence will always keep
them the leaders, managers and employ
ers.
I am not as familiar with the laws of
other states as I am with those of my
own, but I am certain that legislation
throughout the south has been very kind
and fair to the negro, and I can confident
ly assert that no people in. any state or
country have done more for the real ad
vancement of the negro than the Demo
crats of Alabama.
public highways and fostered among the
people the determination to do better by
themselves in the future by the enact
ment of laws that will compel the count
ties to spend some money on public roada.
Governor Longino, of Mississippi, took
high ground In his inaugural and other
addresses in pointing out the absolute
necessity for better public highways and
has enlisted the services of the best men
of the state in 1 the agitation for good
roads. The executive committee of the
Mississippi Good Roads association will
meet at Jackson, Miss., on December 4 of
this year for the purpose of framing a
good roads law to be presented to the
next session of the legislature for pass
age.
In Louisiana there is an active move
ment for the formation of local good roads
associations, the president of each of
which local association is to be ex-officio
member of the State Good Roads asso
ciation. This complete organization should
be effected within the next 60 days. It is
then the purpose to call a meeting of
these delegates in New Orleans for the
promotion of good roads work before the
meeting of their legislature, which io bi
ennial and next occurs in May, 1902. There
is a decided improvement in ihe good
roads sentiment throughout the various
parishes of the state as the state has
already given a great deal of leeway in
the matter of taxes for public roads and
as'the good roads sentiment improve!
these taxes are being levied. It takes
some time to do this, but the work is go
ing on and tt is believed that within six
months much good work will be done.
In Illinois there are but two stops made
and. owing largely to the extreme heat
and dry and dusty character of the roads
to bn worked oven the experiment was
not as successful as tt would have bee»
under more favorable conditions.
Taking as a whole the information from
the different states through which this
good roads train passed, it is fair to as
sume that the movement is well started
looking toward the improvement of the
roads and the more intelligent aad con
sistent method of road building. Thia
work is largely for the future, and tt will
take some time before practical result*
can be produced that would demonstrate
whether the trip of the good roads train
over the Illinois Central railroad was a
conspicuous success or not. At the pres
ent writing tt would seem to have been
a success.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. •
Ths newly created portion of stag*
manager to the Paris Comedle Francalss
has been filled by the appointment of M.
Lucien Guitry, until recently of the Va
rietss theatre. <
General Funston will sail for the Uni
ted States today on the transport Warren.
The doctors have ordered a change of cli
mate, and the general is coming horns Mi
sick leave.
A. Hamilton Rice, grandson of the lata
Governor ttlce, of Massachusetts, ha*
been mode a fellow of the Royal Geo
graphical Society. Last summer he ex
plored th® Naps river, a tributary of th«
Amazon, and then crossed the Amasoß
in a canoe to Paaa on the eastern ooast,
Mgr. flcalabrfni, of Flaoenea, Italy, wbq
may be the suoceaeor of Cardinal Mar
tinelli aa papal delegate to the Unftsß
States, is regarded as one of the ablest
ecclesiastics of the .Church of Italy* and
for a number o? yean haa been in charge
ot his presajj Ooosm Ia Flacexum.