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Newspaper Page Text4 The Semi-Weekly Journal | Batsred at th. Atlanta Poztofflcs aa Mall Matter at the Second Clam The Journal ts pnbtteb- •d on Mondays and Thursday*, and mailed tn time for all the twice-a week etar rout. mail.. It contains the S news from all parts ofthe w<rid r brought over a special le*»ed wire Into fbe "Journal office. It haa a staff of contributes with strong K Agrtcult :rs!. Veterinary, Ju ven lie, Homa. Book and other depart meet a of ■metal slue to the home and farm. Agents wanted In every community tn the 8c tth L • lUSttance. may be made by poet eOce money order, express money or- I dev. registered letter or check. Persons who eend postage stamps tn » najrmant for eubecrtptloaa are request i edto send th.we of the »-cent denomt- I Amounts larger than W cemu F aeetoffi.-e order, express order, check er registered mall. Subscribers who wish thetr paper, chanced should give both the aid and the new poetoCßce addreea MCmtCK TO THE PUBLIC—The only traveling representative* of The Journal are C. J. O Farrell. J. A. i Bryan and Jaa. Callaway. Any who represents himself aa connected With The Journal aa a traveling agent la a fraud, and we win be only tor money paid to the above ■caned repreoea tattvea. MONDAY, APRIL XL M ; ■ The Awtrian Reicharath la again on the r . war path. There zeemz to ba something doing on the Brussels carpet. Thia la the last straw. A Chicago man haa secured a corner on whisky. Major Waller appears to have been ac gultted entirely on his past record. The David B. HUI presidential ground hog appears to have been able to see ita The trust pirates seem determined to r make the late Captain Kida look like an ■ amateur. * ’ 1 * I ‘ The real trouble In Belgium seems to be > due to the mistake of allowing the people ’ to think. No peace in South Africa will be secure ft the Boers are allowed to retain thetr last ditch. Z At any rate, the Boers still seem to be able to sit up and ask for pretty stiff ' peace terma It is very evident that the Filipinos are loginning to feel that they are out of the friars pan Into the fire. Nevertheless, it wUI be recalled that no . railroad "merger” was ever admitted to be a “merger"—at first. Perhaps Mr. Guerry would be tn favor of trying the "watercure" on J. Pierpont Morgan in order to make him confess. Recent developments in railroad circles 1 give Candidate Guerry an opportunity to add an anti-merger plank to his platform. Those rumors of a southern railroad t merges are calculated to maxe the Hon. ' Joe HID Hall unsheathe his “I told you so” At least, it would probably be safe to i aay that Jefferson would not be engineer ing a ship subsidy grab if he were alive today. If Mr. Carnegie is really in earnest £ about dying poor, why doesn’t he Just en aj dow a few butcher-shops while beef is at I the present price? ■ Wo are relying on our old friend the Hon. Joe Hill Hall to throw tne switch ‘ when that Boutbern.railway merger comes down the main line. After all. there is nothing strange about the fact that the man who travels a fast I gait reaches the undertaker's considerably r ahead of the other fellow. Maj. Waller seems to have been ac jqultted on the ground that his massacre of Filipinos was no worse than the things . British troops are guilty of. Lewis Nixon. Tammany’s new leader, has already dene what Dick Croker ’ couldn't do—ha has succeeded in harmon ixing'the warring factions in New York. Perhaps one of the reasons for delaying the admission of New Mexico as a state L ts the fact that Jerry Simpson la a candi date for congress as soon as it happena The Chicago Journal thinks the New Terk woman who has given birth to five girls tn a bunch is certainly entitled to a medal from the Society of Willing Work ers. If General Shafter adopts the hammock Style of campaigning in his race for the Carifornia Judgeship, as be did in Cuba, it to not likely that he will find victory so easy this time. : Cheer up. you people who have beef; things are never so bad that they might not be worse. In Lorenzo Marques ten derloin steak is quoted at a. a pound and porterhouse at $1 And it might simplify matters a good deal for the Hon. Chauncey Depew and other corporation senators if the election Os United States senators was left to a Vote of the railroads. There is quite an epidemic of smallpox among "Elijah” Dowie's faith curists out to Illinois. When it comes to fight tog smallpox prayer without vaccine virus to like faith without works. Henry Watterson refused to accept ap pointment as a member of the board of visitors to West Point, tendered him by the president. The colonel Is at least consistent in hto prejudices. Candidate Terrell is being introduced by preacher# here and there in Georgia. Can didate Guerry will have to turn up with a full choir If he hopes to beat his op ponent at this sort of tumg. President Roosevelt has Just placed his Signature to the bill which is soon to sweep away all of the remaining war rev enues. This will mean a cut of from F0.0C0.000 to $80,000,000. it is believed. David B. Hill and James M. Griggs have been whooping It up for Democracy at a New York banquet. And when you come to think of it. Hill and Griggs wouldn’t be a bad combination for 1904. f The Memphis Commercial-Appeal has . been giving its readers editorials on the “Passing of the Country Editor.” Well, hasn't the country editor a right to his passes; doesn't he publish the schedules for nothing? Things have come to a pretty pass with the railroads of this country when a gam bler like John W. Gates can scoop in a great system like the L. and N. in a day. i and then hand it over to anyone who is willing to pay him for sitting in the game. The great trouble with Governor Cand ler’s suggestion that the state road is in no danger from a giant railroad merger because the legislature can enact dras tic legislation against the combined roads is that the railroads don’t elect those sort of legislators. The plea of the beef trust, that there was no money in beef at the former price, does not look well in the face of the fact C that Philip Armour managed to leave J a personal estate valued at $15,000,000 all K ©f which he made before the recent in- I crease in price. SLAVERY UNDER OUR FLAG. Mr. Patterson, who represents the Mem phis district in congress, is a son of the redoubtable “Uncle Josiah,” who was a thorn to the side of the free silverites for years, and who is now engaged in the calm and profitable occupation of taking case of the National Park at Vicksburg. Young Patterson, like his father, is a man of force and has put the Republi cans of the house in a hole by introducing and urging a bill provldi -g that there shall be neither slavery nor Involuntary servitude in the Philippine Islands. It seems strange that after the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the federal constitution any such legislation should be necessary for any part of our territory, but strange things have happened since we engaged in the experiment of imper ialism. and our government is right in the slave business again. In 1899 a deal was made with the Sultan of Sulu which, it was thought, would aid us in carrying -out our scheme of Philip pine conquest. Gen. John C. Bates man aged this discreditable transaction for the United States. He agreed that the polyg amous old wretch who rules Sulu and sev eral other islands, should go ahead with his Infamous government under the pro tection of the flag and power of the United States if he would stick to us in our endeavor to subjugate and hold down the more decent Filipinos. The disgrace ful contract made with the sultan by Bates refers to him as "His Highness,” and concedes about all his royal excellen cy could have asxed. A contract to aid and abet crime is nev er binding, and this agreement to main tain the Sulu despot in his cruel religion and his traffic in human beings should be declared null and void at once. That is Just whaj the Patterson bill proposes to do. The doctrine that the Republican party can do no wrong is practically proclaimed by the henchmen of the present adminis tration. and those who oppose its Philip pine program are accused of treason, but this dirty deal with the Sultan of Sulu ■□ready smells te Heaven and will be made more odious still before the Demo crats to congress get through with IL Under the terms «f our nefarious trade with him we not only protect and encour age this old heathen in his miserable work, but actually give him a pension to enable him to increase the number of his slaves and to maintain his harem. The conservative old Philadelphia Ledg er, stoutly Republican as It is, declares that any member of congress who falls to vote for the Patterson bill will stand dis graced before the country, and such a sen timent is proclaimed by other leading newspapers which are generally to line with the administration and yet it is a foregone conclusion that the Republicans to both >ne senate and the house will vote almost to a man to stand by the corrupt and humiliating Bates-Sultan contract. It Is a dirty, disgraceful and revolting piece of business, but it is part of the program of imperialism and therefore sacred! Accursed be he who would dis turb it I MR. KNOX’S DIM VISION. Attorney General Knox takes a very serene view of the beef trust which has aroused the indignation of the public more than any other combination in re striction of trade ever did. He is gracious enough to say that he will proceed against the trust if any* body will show him any' reason why he should do so and will supply the neces sary evidence. * According to the views of some of us it is the business of the attorney general of the United States to be active and zealous for the enforcement of all the laws of our country, even those which are designed to interfere with the schemes of trusts, concerns with whose Interests and operations Mr. Knox was very fa miliar in hto legal practice before he be came attorney general. We submit that he does not occupy a creditable position when he sits back indifferently and asks to be told what he should do to the matter-of the beef trust and how he should do it. Mr. Knox to too good a lawyer to make anybody believe that he could not check the operations of this outrageous com bine if he heartily wished to do so. He should at least make a strenuous ef fort to that direction. If that should fail we would at least be enabled to discover whereto the law is defective and ineffect ual and might proceed to amend It or to enact a new one. It seems that the public can expect very little aid to its war upon trusts to general and the beef trust to particular from the very man who should be its special champion in this righteous contention. The retirement of Attorney General Knox to be succeeded by a real earnest and able anti-trust lawyer at the head of the department of Justice would be hailed with delight by the people of the United States. t K NOVEL MILL IDEA. Rev. Jesse Annon Baldwin, who lived in Charlotte, N. C., several years haa a novel plan for solving the problem of cot ton mill labor to the south. His scheme is set forth to an article which appears in Gunton's Magazine for April. It pro vides for a cotton mill to be run to con nection with a boarding school. The school he would divide into two classes of hands, one to go to school in the morn ing and the other In the afternoon. Those who worked in the mill to the morning would go to school to the afternoon and vice versa. This idea will not impress the average reader as being practical and we do not expect to see a boarding house cotton mill on the plan of the Rev. Jesse Annon Bald win. But his article contains some very suggestive thoughts upon child labor and other evils of our problem of cotton mill labor. Unfortunately there can be no Just denial of the statement of this writer that: "The men who projected and built cotton mills were public benefactors in that they gave poor people work. But much of the praise that would.otherwise be their due must be withheld because the conditions of labor have not been such in most ca “fees as to make the workers stronger and better.” Mr. Baldwin does not place all the blame for the evilte of child labor in mills upon employers but says that much of It must be borne by lazy and besotted fathers and mothers who are defective in the paren tal instinct. Employers will always be found who will get labor as cheaply as possible re ga-dless of moral considerations and un til the employment of children In mills is forbidden by law not very much can be accomplished by expatiating on lt« fearful effects upon the young bodies, minds and souls. Much has been said about the over drawn pictures of conditions of child la tter in southern cotton mills and some of the accounts have been exaggerated, but it is equally true that of some mills the whole of the terrible truth has not been toid. The extent to which they carry the greed that is Inflicting irreparable THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1902. physical and moral damage upon children is a reproach to our civilization and is arousing a degree of disgust and indig nation that will before long accomplish legislative reform in this direction. Mr. Baldwin says truly of the effect of employment In cotton mills of very young children: “Night work is much worse in the sum mer than in the winter. In the winter they can go to bed, cover up and sleep fcnundly. In summer it is difficult to sleep on account of light, heat, flies and noise. In summer, while they usually go to bed. it is a very familiar sight to see them ly ing across the bed with their work clothes on, or on a pallet In the passage, or on the porch. Their sleep is fitful and unsatisfy ing, and they never feel refreshed or strengthened by it.” Another inevitable effect of working children at too tender an age is thus de scribed by Mr. Baldwin, as follows: “Indigestion is said to be the most com mon American disease. It is worse at the mills than elsewhere. They get up early, eat a little breakfast, a hurried dinner and a very hearty supper, often of unsuit able food. Improperly, if not unpaJatably, cooked. Nearly everybody suffers more or less from indigestion.” The strictures of Mr. Baldwin are en tirely too sweeping and indiscriminate. While there are some cotton mill owners and managers who deserve all the hard things he says and worse, it is undoubted ly true that the ills and ruinous effects of overworking children have been mitigated very much in the last few years. This righteous and voluntary reform is advanc ing steadily. Cotton mill operatives are, on the whole, better paid, better housed and better cared for now than ever before. More consideration is paid to their chil dren. There are In our cotton mills fewer of what that eloquent young Engllshwo l man, Irene Ashby a year or two ago de scribed az “little gray shadows.’’ The principles of humanity have made a marked advance for the protection of the children of the poor and the result is due to an agitation to which good wo men have led. BRANTLEY OF GEORGIA. The New York Timos of Wednesday pub lishes an editorial entitled “Honor to Mr. Brantley, of Georgia,” which pays a high tribute to the brave and brainy represen tative of tne Eleventh Georgia district. The Times says: “We extend to Hon. William G. Brant ley, of Georgia, our sincere congratula tions. “His speech in the house of representa tives, on Monday, was worthy of the best period, of democracy, and of the best rep resentation of the party from the south. He plainly defined tne one principle as to which the Democratic party now haa any chance of being respected, the reform of the oppressive and repressive tariff. He declared his Intention of sup porting the Cuban reciprocity bill be cause It contained a cut in the tariff—a small cut, only 80 per cent, and for trade with only one not very large country, but a cut nevertheless. And he laid down the perfectly simple proposition that his par ty was bound to principle and by the high est expediency to uphold everything, no matter from what source it came, which tended to promote the end it has in view. “This it exactly the line adopted by our own representative, Mr. McClellan. It is the line that must be adopted by the party if it hopes to accomplish anything.” Mr. Brantley deserves this praise, every word of it. Before he went to congress and ever since he has been there he has shown that he is a man of convictions to which he will stand through thick and thin and which he Is ever ready to defend with ability of a high order. Georgia is proud of William G. Brantley. INFAMOUS GREED. Despicable as the trusts are tn almost every form they never take such infa mous shape or provoke the' righteous wrath of the people to such an extent as they do when they acquire and use the power to practice extortion in the nec essaries of Hfe. The most outrageous exhibition of this spirit of cold-blooded greed ever given in this country is now being given by the combination which fixes the price of meat. There is absolutely no reason or explan ation for it except the devilish avarice of the magnates of the trust that would eause misery to millions and starvation itself to many in order to increase the amount of filthy lucre that already bulg es their pockets. They are extorting blood money, if it was ever wrung from a suf fering people. They are a curse to the country and are trying the patience of the people as it has rarely ever been strained before. It is nothing Jo them that they have won the detestation of the honest pub lic and are generally regarded as robbers practicing their nefarious game under forms of law. For this they care nothing so long as they can wring larger gains from the masses of the people. They would gladly make mapt $5 a pound if *t would profit them to do so. Os course there is a point where their conscienceless greed would defeat its own object and they displaying well plot ted ingenuity in fixing and keeping prices so as to squeeze the greatest possible amount of blood from their victims. They have laid their grip on the very existence of the people, and are exacting a fearful penalty forth, privilege of living in this boasted land of the free. It seems that no defeat of their iniqui tous conspiracy can be achieved soon enough to prevent the infliction of untold suffering upon human beings. That some way will be found sooner or later to prevent the manipulation of the markets for the necessaries of Hfe is as sure as that this country will never toler ate a government that leaves it possible for the few to oppress the many. The beef trust is building up an indig nation against trusts in general that can not fail to provide some form of law to prevent the repetition of such shameful Impositions as this prostitution of power is now wreaking upon the millions. To say that no such protection can be assnmed is to declare that the govern ment is a failure and that the people are slaves. JEFFERSON’S SPIRIT. It was a significant coincidence that on the birthday of Thomas Jefferson occur red the strongest demonstrations in favor of popular suffrage ever known in Bel gium. A decided movement In that direc tion has been going on there for several years past, but it seems to have gained a decided impetus very recently, and there are predictions that a revolution will be inevitable unless the demand of the peo ple is granted. Belgium nominally has universal suf frage already, but the Socialists, who seem 'to be in the majority there, do not con sider that the plan comes up to its name. The principle for which they contend is "one man, one vote.” The present law was enacted in 1893. It confers the special priv ilege of more than one vote, sometimes more than two, upon some classes of cit izens. These favors are based upon prop erty and educational qualifications and family prestige. They destroy equality of participation in the affairs of the govern ment and many Belgians who, a few years ago, felt that they were fortunate in getting the franchise in any form, now feel that they are oppressed because they do not have it to so large an extent as some of their fellow-citizens. The industrial classes in Belgium are overwhelmingly against the government in the present issue, and the government can be maintained on the existing policy only by force. How far the army will prove loyal to King Leopold Is a matter of doubt, but the troops are being appeal ed to and flattered uy the conservatives and the agents of the king in away that shows how necessary to the stability of the government the military is considered. Thirty-five thousand soldiers, well equip ped and drilled to a good standard, are already under arms, and a decree placing all the larger centers of population under arms Is momentarily expected. The situation is undoubtedly very seri ous, and the cause of the people is un doubtedly becoming stronger. Its triumph sooner or later seems certain, and recent occurrences indicate that it cannot be de layed much longer. BELGIUM’S TROUBLES. A very large part of the Belgian people if not a majority of them are evidently ready for revolution. They are disgusted with King Leopold who is undoubtedly a very shabby sort of monarch and entirely unequal to the business of kingcraft. One of the most humiliating spectacles ever presented by a monarch was his flight through the streets of Brussels a few days ago before an infuriated mob. A cowardly king can never hold the respect of even those of bis subjects who believe in hto divine right to rule. Europe has seldom been as bad off 1“ kingly material as it is now. With the single exception of William of Germany there is not a that entire con tinent who can claim to greatness. Belgium’s case is particularly sad. That little country, though it now cuts a poor figure in European politics, has had an interesting and romantic history. It is famous for its arts and artists, for its love of liberty and progress and deserves a better government than it now has. Democratic ideas have progressed so rapidly in Belgium in the last few years that a revolution would probably occur there but for the restraining force of the great nations who will not permit any disturbance of the established European order. The Socialists may make the effort to overthrow the government in spite of the fact that they would fall. They are well organized and intensely Incensed. It Is known that they have been purchasing great quantities of arms and ammuni tion of late and the chief agitators among them exert a powerful influence to which the masses are becoming more and more subservient. The government is notoriously weak and has no hold upon the people. There may be very serious trouble if the So cialist tendencies spread to France, Aus tria and Italy to the extent that is pre dicted and the strong governments of Eu rope get their hands too full of trouble in tne case of those more important coun tries to pay much attention to little Bel gium. A GROWTH JUST BEGUN. The Boston Herald, like the Philadelphia Record, the New York World, the Chicago Tribune and many other northern and western newspapers, is convinced that the industrial development of the south, in stead of having reached its best stage, has just fairly begun, and that this sec tion has, of all parts of the union, the best prospects of an increase of wealth and importance to the next twenty-five years. The Boston Herald, in a glowing account of recent southern achievements and as sured southern prospects, says: "Along the entire line from Virginia to Georgia, through the states of North Car olina and South Carolina, there is now hardly a town of any size which does not possess one or more cotton factories.” After giving at length the reasons why it considers the growth of the south log ical and solid and predicting its continu ance at an even increasing rate. The Herald says: "These mills have been constructed in accordance with the latest Improvements in the line of mill construction. Their ma chinery is up-to-date, and in this respect can probably be favorably compared with the machinery of most of our New Eng land cotton factories. These mills have in most instances, as an accompaniment, well constructed buildings for the housing of the operatives. There is, perhaps, in this respect an absence of artistic planning which has been carried out in some of our northern manufacturing centers, lyit we dare say that improvements along these lines are likely to be made in the years that are to come. Certain it is that the company houses in these southern cotton manufacturing towns appear to be in most respects considerably better than the houses in which most of the working peo ple have lived. The south has evidently made the beginning in a great industrial change, a change which in a quarter of a century more will make of its states one of the most active industrial sections of our entire country.” The south has no longer to beg for finan cial aid from <ne north or any other quar ter. She has remonstrated that she has resources of wealth that will pay hand somely all who develop them, and the natural result Is following. Money is flow ing into the south from all parts t of the world in steadily Increasing quantities. A fact which is an even better cause of rejoicing is that the people of the south themselves have more money than ever before to invest in this great work which is both patriotic and profitable, and they are putting it by the million where it will do the most good. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Most divorce suits have a wedding fee in sight. Meditation after marriage la wisdom gone to Seed. Courtship is a trial court that often gets its verdict wrong. The woman with three divorces needs no wedding rehearsals. Those girls who love flowers with savage intensity have a lot to learn. w When the moth at the flame is a widow, it is not the moth that is In danger. Love triumphs when mosquito bites are ignor ed by the girl tn the lace waist. It is the undiscovered fool who has never found any one to share his money. The word romance is a kind expression for things that are hidden from view. The woman astride of a horse proves that fsshton sometimes follows impulse. Husbands for convenience would be perfect if there were no other women to tell. Civilization would have been perfect long ago if shaped by women, and men were not histo . rians. The girl who has broiled lobster with cham pagne sauce rarely marries the man who pays the bill. It always seems more vulgar to get- caught doing what you ought not to do than it is coarse to do it. Clear skies bring soft smiles, spring breezes waft tender fancies and mellow sunshine warms pretty lips for sweet kisses. A Kansas man who was injured in a railway wreck received a check for $2,000 from the company, and sent it back with the explanation that he did not believe he was entitled to it. And thus does Kansas continue to hold first place for the produc tion of freaks. ANDREW CARNEGIE WRITES A BOOK (From the Philadelphia North-American.) “The Empire of Business.” by Andrew Carnegie. This ought to be an authori tative work. Years from now we shall have, perhaps, various historical works such as “The Life and Letters of Carne gie I.” and “Memoirs of the Empire,” by the Duke of Schwab. For the present these essays and addresses by the genial monarch himself are of rare interest and value, as giving the straightforward views of a man who, beyond any doubt, knows what he is talking about. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, are the publish ers. It is gratifying to note that the first chapter contains just what the public wants to know-how to become a Carne gie. The title is “The Road to Business Success,” and these are the Carnegie signposts:, . Aim for the highest: do not touch liquor, or, if at all. only at meals; never speculate; never endorse beyond your surplus cash funds; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners, concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket; expendi ture always within revenue. Interests Identical. On "The Interests of Labor and Capi tal” Mr. Carnegie has a good deal to say, but it is strangely foreign to the subject. He was addressing his own workmen. The interests of labor and capital, he said, are identical, but, unfortunately, there is fre quent misunderstanding. On education he spoke much more freely: Men ha™ sent their sons to colleges to waste their energies upon obtaining a knowledge of such languages as Greek and Latin, which are of no more practical use to them than Choctaw. I have known few college graduates that knew Shakespeare or Milton. They might be able to tell you all about Ulysses or Agamemnon or Hector, but what are these compared to the characters that we find in our own classics? .... In my own experience I can say that I have known few young men who were not injured by a college education. Had they gone into active work during the years spent at col lage they would have been better educated men in every true sense of that term. .... Wha tls the young man to do who knows Greek with the young man that knows stenography or telegraphy, or bookkeeping or chemistry? Should Include Fiction. Mr. Carnegie emphasized the value of technical schools and the necessity for specialization. Yet he said scientific study should not exclude fiction reading; and this is of Interest as compared with his recent reported statement that all fic tion should be excluded from public li braries. Finally he got down to the la bor and capital question: The trouble between capital and labor is just in proportion to the ignorance of the employer and the Ignorance of the employed Capital is ignorant of the necessities and the just dues of labor, and labor is ignorant of the true origin of friction between them. There seems to be a good deal of hard, Carnegie sense in this, elementary as it is. He closes with an expression of gratifi cation that shorter hours and better wages are gradually being won by the workingmen. Chances for Young Men. On "Thrift as a Duty” Mr. Carnegie waxes severely philosophical, urging the excellence of the virtue, yet warning against falling a slave to it, and so pass ing to the horrible old age of the miserly millionaire. In "How io Win a Fortune” he continues his advice to youth. First, he attacks the suspicion that the poor young man has no chance, citing, of course, the Studebakers and Disstons and Pullmans of the Industrial world. He thinks this settles the matter, altogether ignoring the changed conditions of busi ness. A little farther on, however, he ad mits that it “is infinitely more difficult to start’ a new business of any kind today than it was.” But he maintains the dif ference is in form, not in substance; that the chances are even better for the young man to obtain an interest in established firms, real ability and perseverance be ing the only requisites. Os related inter est is his statemen* that the great Con cern of the future is to “divide its profits, not among hundreds of idle capitalists, but among hundreds of its idle employes.” Similar encouragement is extended in the chapter on “Wealth and its Uses,” it i» pointed out that any one with SSO or SIOO may become a stockholder in Industrial concerns. But the author ad vises real estate and mortgages as better investments. The Down*Trodden Millionaire. With the cry that wealth is being con centrated in few hands Mr. Carnegie takes direct issue. Today this is not true. Wealth is being more and more distributed among the many. The amount of the combined proflta of labor and capital which goes, to labor was never so great as today, the amount going to capital never so small. While the earnings of capital have fallen more than one-half, in many cases have POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News. Faint praise will not obstruct a flow of words. A diplomat is a man who knows how to hold his job. Os bad things, your own bad temper should head the list. Money may not talk, but it cheers a man up wonderfully. Many men believe honesty in moderation is the best policy. A genius is a man who knows when to keep his mouth shut. Wise la the man who knows when to make a long story short. Many a blessing in disguise effectually es capes detection. When a fool gets angry he opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. Common sense extracts more solid comfort from life than genius does. Fishermen, unlike doctors, never attempt to cure a sucker until after he is dead. Students of good form are usually found well up in front at a burlesque show. Women are naturally -tender-hearted. No woman ever deliberately stepped on a mouse. He is one man in a thousand who can drink or let it alone—especially if he lets it alone. A woman will forgive a man almost anything —except the fact that he beat her at her own game. Love doesn’t laugh at the locksmith often enough to enable him to pose as a profes sional humorist. Have the courage of your convictions—but don’t permit them to transform you into an aggressive chump. , It is far easier to keep the ordinary wolf from the door than it is to keep the “gray wolf” out of office. FO REI GN NOTES OF INTEREST. It has been decided to found an eye hospital and an asylum for the blind as Ceylon’s me morial to the late Queen Victoria. In memory of their royal mistress, SOO ser vants of the late Queen Victoria’s household have endowed a bed in Clewer Convalescent Hospital, London. Brussels and Marseilles, 760 miles apart, will shortly be in regular telephonic communication with each other. Antwerp is to be included in the service. < What Eton boys need is a drill-sergeant, de ciares a correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the slouching, round-shouldered, hands-in-the-pocket carriage which seems to be “Eton form.” A parliamentary return lately issued states that there are 1.306 miles of street tramway open for traffic In the United Kingdom. The total capital authorized is £41,877,040, and the total number of passengers carried last year was 1,198,226,758. Only the steel bullets of the Austrlal Mann licher rifle, it has been found, can pierce the bullet-proof coat of finely textured silk recent ly invented by M. Szcezepanlk. Against re volver bullets, as well as saber cuts and thrusts, the garment affords perfect protection. Among the peers who have inherited barren titles Is the young Earl of Seafleld, who at the age of 12 years succeeded to an earldom, two viscounties and two baronies without so much as a single acre of land to maintain his dig nities. Os the immigrants to this country during the last quarter of 1901, southern Italy supplied over 26 per cent., Germany 10 per cent, and Hebrews and Poles enough to make up more than half of the whole number. That the Italians head the list, as they have for some vears past, shows that the pressure of poverty is greater in Italy than In any other part of Europe. The legislature of Newfoundland has pro vided liberally for the Installation of a cold storage system for the fisheries of the colony.' All the fish now caught there are cured and salted for the market, found principally In the Mediterranean ports and Brazil, and it Is hoped to open up new markets for the cod fish. salmon and other fish and lobsters in a fresh state. ♦ BRIGHT EXCERPTS FROM ♦ ♦ CARNEGIE’S PHILOSOPHY ♦ ♦ ♦ A basketful of bonda is the heavi- ♦ * est basket a young man ever had to + + carry. I would almost as soon leave + + a young man a curse as burden him + «i» with the almighty dollar. ♦ * I attribute most of my success in + + life to the fact that trouble runs off ♦ my back like water from a duck. + + Men who in old age strive only to + * increase their already great hoards ♦ + are usually the slaves of the habit ♦ + of hoarding formed in their youth. + •> At first they own the money; later <• «fr in life the money owns them. ♦ 4» College graduates will usually be ♦ <» found under salaries, trusted subor- + <i» dinates. ♦ 4* It is not from the sons of the mil- ♦ 4* lionaire or the noble that the world 4* 4« receives its teachers, its martyrs, 4* 4» its inventors, its statesmen, its 4» + poets, or even its men of affairs. It 4* 4» is from the cottage of the poor that + 4> all these spring. ♦ 4> It will be a great mistake for the 4* 4> community' to shoot the million- 4* * aires, for they are the bees that ♦ 4> make the most honey, and contrl- ♦ 4> bute most to the hive after they ♦ 4* have gorged themselves full. ♦ 4» Money is left by millionaires to ♦ 4* public institutions when they must ♦ 4» relax their grasp upon it. There Is * * no grace, and can be no blessing, to + 4» giving what cannot be withheld. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦llli»<»♦♦♦ been entirely obliterated, •tstlrtics prove that the earnings of labor were never so high. If this does not arouse sympathy for the down-trodden and suffering capitalist, then words have lost their power. Per haps, then, this will serve: Whether the millionaire, wishes it or not, he cannot evade the law which under present con ditions compels him to use his milllona for the good of the people. All that he gets during the few years of his life is that he may live in a finer house, surround himself with finer furniture and work» of art which may be added. He can eat richer foods and drink richer’ wines, which only hurt him. But the truly modern millionaire is a man of very simple tastes and even miserly habits. He spend* little upon himself, and is the tolling bee laying up money in the industrial hive, which all the inmates of that hive, the community in general, will certainly enjoy. Use of Surplus Wealth. Who would be a millionaire? Besides all these things, there is the difficulty of getting rid of his wealth decently: The first and chief (distribution) is by willing it at death to the family. Now, beyond be queathing to those dependent upon one, the revenue needful for modest and Independent living, is such a use of wealth either right or ANDREW CARNEGIE'S VIEWS ON THE TRUST PROBLEM (From Mr. Carnegie’s Book, Empire of Business.) We must all have our toys; the child his rattle, the adult his hobby, the man of pleasure the fashion, the man of art his master; and mankind in its various divisions requires a change of toys at short intervals. The same rule holds good in the busl nes< world. We have had our age sis “consolidations” and “watered stocks.” Not long ago everything was a “syndi cate”; the word is already becoming ob solete and the fashion is for “trusts,” which will in turn no doubt give place to some new panacea, that is in turn to be displaced by another, and so on without en<.. The great laws of the economic world, like all laws affecting society, being the genuine outgrowth of human nature, alone remain unchanged through all these changes. Whenever consolidations, or watered stocks, or syndicates, or trusts endeavor to circumvent these, it always has been found thgt after the collision there is nothing left of the panaceas, while the great laws continue to grind out their irresistible consequences as before. The people of America can smile at the efforts of all her railway magnates and of all her manufacturers to defeat the economic laws by trusts or combinations, or pools, or “differentials,” or anything WITH THE STATE PRESS. Eatonton Messenger: The farm labor legisla tion enacted by the last legislature may be very good so far as It goes, but it does not reach the seat of the evil. There is only one solution of the negro farm labor question, and that is for the legislature to pass and the people to ratify a constitutional amendment under which a law can be enacted making it a misdemeanor for these laborers to violate a written or verbal contract, and st the same time for the legisla ture to enact a law making vagrancy easier of proof. Cities and towns can reach vagrancy through ordinances, but in the country the state law Is the only recourse, and it is too difficult to establish legal vagrancy.’ Campbell News: Four years ago the cam paign slogan was: “Stop the leaks and decrease the tax rate”; and the people have had the pleasure (?) of seeing the tax rate go to the highest notch it has ever reached in the history of the state. But such is politics. Barnum hit the nail on the head when he said: “The Amer ican people like to be fooled.” Thomasville Times-Enterprise: The proposi tion to drive the Southeastern Tariff association from the state, may not be feasible, but the suggestion that home companies be organized is on the right line. Georgia sends hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the state annually for Insurance which might be kept here. The exactions of the tariff association is getting onerous, and there should be some remedy. Waynesboro True Citizen: The Atlanta Jour nal's article in a late Issue advising the grow ing of wheat is most timely. The raising of wheat seems to be a kind of lost art with us here in Burke county, although wheat can be raised here as easilj- as in any other part of Georgia and of the very best quality. Five or ten acres properly cultivated by each farmer in this county every year would make an inmense difference in the provision crop, both for man and beast. Albany Herald: Political prophets and fore casters are suggesting that a dark horse may be trotted into the state convention and be nomi nated for governor, and that neither of the can didates now in the field will be able to win out. This prediction is based on statements to the effect that Mr. Guerry and Colonel Estill will receive votes **.ough to tie up the convention. LaGrange Graphic: When it comes to govern ors Georgia will have the best in the south during the next two years with Joe Terrell in the chair. He Is a broad gauged man and there is nothing narrow about him. Troup county will give him a rousing vote. Clarksville Advertiser: Never have the affairs of the agricultural department been in better condition and never has it accomplished so much for the state. Mr. Stevens’ publications both in book form and newspapers has develop ed and advertised the resources of the state as nothing else has done. Georgia needs O. B. Stevens at the head of her agricultural depart ment. When a man has made a good public servant the people should show their apprecia tion by re-electing him. Brunswick News: Brunswick is now expe riencing an era of Industrial development une qualed ifi her history. Her people are realizing more than ever the necessity for factories of every kind, and as an evidence of the fact that we are getting them it is only necessary to say that within the last 90 days Brunswick has had a cigar factory, a sash and door and blind fac tory, a pants factory,' an electric railway com pany, and an electric light company formed within her confines. The two first named are now in full operation. Contracts are now out for construction work on the electric light com pany, and sirqilar contracts will be let by the street railroad people very shortly. SILLY SALLIE. Said SilVy SaUie to Aunt Jane, As she was sitting knitting, "Oh. Auntie, don’t you sometimes feel Like all this knitting quitting?” “Oh. my no!” said Aunt Jane. “There’s nothing I like better Unless, perhaps, it is to get A nice long loving letter!” The fruit of the unganu tree ot South Africa yields a strong intoxicating drink for the natives. A traveler says elephants are also fond of It. and often become quite tipsy, stag gering .about, playing antics, screaming so as to be heard for miles and having tremendous fights. wise? Money is left by millionaires to publlo institutions when they must relax their grasp upon it. There Is no grace and no blessing in giving what cannot be withheld. It is no gift, because it is not cheerfully Siv®n, but only granted at the stem summons of death. Those men should be taken as models who distribute their surplus during life. But here is the whole matter: The only noble use of surplus wealth is this: , That it be regarded as a sacred trust, to be administered by its possessor, into whose hands It flows, for the highest good of the people. Therefore, as I have often said, and I now repeat; the day is coming, and already we see its dawn, in which the man who dies possessed > of millions of available wealth which was and in his hands ready to be distributed will die disgraced. I commend this idea. Such is the man whom the future is to honor, while he who dies in old age retired from business, possessed of millions of voidable wealth, is ta die unwept, unhonored and unsung. Trusts Their Own Remedy. “We must all have our toys,” says Mr. Carnegie, facetiously, Introducing his re marks on "The Bugaboo of Trusts.” Os course, he says it is only a bugaboo, a result of fevered public Imagination. He argues that trusts carry their own cure, for they positively cannot last. Evan the Standard Oil company, he aays, is doomed to disruption. The more successful the trust, the surer off shoots are to sprout. Every victory is a defeat. Every factory that the trust buys Is the sure creator of another, and so on ad infinitum, until the bubble bursts. It is true that a period may be required, during which the article af fected may be sold to the consumer at a higher rate than before existed. But for this the con sumer is amply recompensed in the years that follow, during which the struggle between the discordant and competitive factories vecomes severer than ever it was before and lasts till the great survival of the fittest vindicates it self. After a time the growth of demand en ables capital to receive an unusual profit. Thlp in turn attracts fresh caoital of the old struggle, the consumer reaping the benefit. Meat Trust an Example. For a concrete example of the workings of this law the reader is referred (not by Mr. Carnegie) to the Meat Trust He proceeds: The people of America can afford to smile at the efforts of all her railway magnates and manufacturers to defeat the economic laws by 'trusts and combinations, or pools, or differen tials. Only let them hold firmly to the doc trine of free competition. Keep the field openl There can be no permanent extortion of profits beyond the average, return from capital nor any monopoly, either in transportation or man ufacturing. The fashion of trusts has but a short season longer to run and then some other equally vain device may be expected to appear. “What Would I Do With the Tariff if I Were Czar?” is a fine text. Mr. Carnegie sums up thus: Duties should be collected chiefly from foreign luxuries, primarily for revenue; no income tax in time of peace; no violent changes affecting estab lished Industries; reciprocity to foreign trade < bounty on home-grown, sugar should be continued; such wool as cannot be produced at home should be free; art of all kinds >free; the tariff once settled, \ there should be tariff legislation only to the second year after each census. of like character. Only let them hold firmly to the doc trine of free competition. Keep the field open. Freedom for all to engage In rail road building when and where capital desires, subject to conditions open to all. Freedom for all to engage to any branch of manufacturing under like conditions. There can be no permanent extortion of profit beyond the average return from capital, .nor any monopoly; either in transportation or manufacuring. Any at tempt to maintain either must efid in fail ure, and failure ultimately disastrous Just in pr<M>ortion to the temporary success of the foolish effort. It is simply ridiculous for a party ot men to meet in a room and attempt by passing resolutions to change the great laws which govern human affairs in the business world, and this, whether they be railway presidents, bankers or manufac turers. The fashion of trusts has but a short season longer to run, and then some oth er equally vain device may be expected to appear when the next period of de pression arrives; but there is not the slightest danger that serious injury can result to the sound principles of business from any or all of these movements. The only people who have reason to fear trusts are those foolish enough to enter into them. The consumer and the trans porter, not the manufacturer, and the railway owner, are to reap the harvest. POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE. The duke of Newcaattle la at present a guest of the University Club of Boston. Mrs. Florence Hodgson Burnett Is rapidly recovering from her illness and la able to walk unassisted. William Boucher, of Baltimore, who made the first screwhead banjo, is still living. The instrument is in the National Museum. Henn* L. Wilson, United States minister to Chile, has just arrived In Washington, his first leave of absence in several years. ■Mlle. Adele Hugo, whose centenary has just been observed, is still living In Paris, but the place Is kept secret owing to the wishes of the family. Ckptain J. B. Coghlan. captain of the Brook lyn navy yard, is in Washington being ex amined for 'promotion to the rank or rear admiral. • General Horace W. Carpenter is the donor of SIO,OOO for the founding of two scholarships at Columbia college to be known as the "Class of 1848 Scholarships.” , ' Hannis Taylor, minister to Spain under Pres ident Cleveland and a writer on constitutional law. has accepted the degree of L.L. D. of fered by the L’nlversity of Dublin. Dr. Augustus F. Nightingale, long a prom inent figure in the educational life of Chicago, has been elected president of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a priest of the Society of Jesus, and a son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, is visiting Indianapolis and circulating literature of the Catholic Truth Society. A boy bom in Indianapolis. Ind., about the time the special train bearing Prince Henry of Prussia and suite reached that city has been named by his proud father Prince Henry Proeschell. President Asa Bird Gardiner, es the Rhode Island State Spclety of the Cincinnati, an nounces that the society will present a gold medal to the composer of a new tune for the national anthem "America.” The Rev. B. J. S. Kerby, vicar of Penn. England, is in Philadelphia to receive money for the restoration of the church of Penn, which was built in 1213 and which is identified with the family of William Penn. The Rev. Arthur Chilson, one of the promi nent ministers of the Friends denomination of lowa, has just started for East Africa, where he will establish a mission for the Friends’ Church of the state of lowa. Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, has one son at Princeton, another at Harvard, and a third at the University of Pennsylvania. These three brothers are constantly at war over th* merits of their respective institutions. Colonel Lorenzo Dodge, of the National Sol diers' Home. Dayton, Ohio, has succeeded in establishing his claim to a large estate dbar Caithness. Scotland, which includes Berrydale castle and the title of earl of Caithness. Rlstori says that the married life of herself and her late husband, the Marquis Del Grillo, was a "living contradiction of the saying that no marriage in the profession is happy unless both husband and wife belong to the ataxa - ” General Nelson Vial, the sole • survivor Ig Rhode Island of the Mexican war, is ♦eport** to be dying at the state institution in Crans ton. where he has been the warden of the state prison and jail for a long term of years. Rev. Dr. Wilson, es East Orange. N. X, has compiled a history of the home missionary work of the Presbyterian church for the past 100 years which will be issued at the centen nial celebration of the home board to be held month. Bishop Frederick Dan Huntington, of the Episcopal diocese of Central New York, is making a complete bibliography of all his writings, which is not an easy task, consider ing the fruitfulness of the bishop's pen and the wild range of subjects treated. Professor Rodolfo Lanciana has just receiv ed the greatest prize a literary man can hope for in Italy. The Academia Reale della Sclenca of Turin has awarded to him the triennial prize of 12,000 lire, called the Premio Bressa. from the name of its founder, for hi* recent scientific work.