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THT’RSD AT. OCTOBER ». 19M
Thin to positively the last call on the
Panama hat.
General Alger to now willing to bury hto
embalmed beef paat.
President Baer persist* in giving the
public the coal shoulder.
Baer developed a disposition to kick
th* president on that sore leg.
When a man to In the wrong and knows
It. he to always afraid of arbitration.
Bill Devery marched his forces up the
Hill, and then marched down again.
The Bob Taylor senatorial boom appears
to tie having its regular fall opening.
A "Chicago woman sold her baby and
a canary for H That's cheap for a good
canary.
See here. President Baer. Louts XVI.
and his cohorts felt exactly the same
way about It.
There have certainly been some grave
developments tn that Indianapolis Medical
college affair.
The whole country to waiting to see At
lanta experiment with a total abstinence
administra t ion.
The world, according to the Jewish rec
ords, was 6.663 years old Wednesday. The
giddy old thing.
Mow that moral suasion has failed on
the coal barons, what’s the matter with
invoking the law?
A local bill collector has become a news
paper reporter. Who gays the world
isn't growing better? •
President Baer continues to talk just
||ke a man who still thinks he hasffhe con
fidence of Providence.
An tron and steel trust has been form
ed to operate in China. We thought that
indemnity was to be all.
Bet a dollar the president is almost In
the humor to use that game leg on those
“Trustees of Providence.”
A Polish giant named JabniskL 7 feet
high, to coming to this country. And per
simmon* almost ripe, too.
The physicians may decide that the
president's leg needs a little pulling before
they get through with him.
* Cdal fiai discovered in Lumpkin
county near Dahlonega. Some of the
Mggets are said to be very large.
* The edal barons seem to think it Is a
greater crime to intimidate a “scab" than
tt to to enslave an honest workingman.
Mow. If President Roosevelt will say to
the coal operators what he said to that
Pittsfield motorman. the public will for
give him.
The New Tork Democratic convention
developed the same kind of harmony that
we have been used to having for the past
several years.
We think we know what President
Roosevelt would like to have said Fri
day, if the doctors hadn’t told him to
keep perfectly quiet.
It seems that Spain also worked off an
cld worn out floating dry dock on us.
We may have whipped Spain, but she cer
tainly out-traded us.
The government can relieve a stringency
tn money for Wall street gamblers, but
to powerless to relieve a stringency in
coal for a suffering public.
The name of the crown prince of Slam
who to to visit this country to Showfa
Maha Vajariavudh. Otherwise he is said
to be a very nice young man.
Superior court judges who have watched
Judge Candler’s career ought to take more
kindly to the habit of holding court for
their brother Judges in future.
Some scientist has discovered that there
are germs In the telephone. Never could
account before for that irresistible desire
to cuss when using the telephone.
The cool barons may learn that inso
lence and arrogance when dealing with
their mine slaves to one thing, but quite
Another when dealing with the public.
Medill McCormick, a newspaper man, is
to marry Senator Hanna's daughter,
Ruth. Occasionally a fellow does strike
it rich tn the newspaper business.
The Savannah Press is still figuring on
the extension of the state road to Sa
vannah. We have written to Editor
Stovall to learn what brand he smokes.
It would begin to seem that about- the
only way a Macon man will ever be able
to get a state office to to slip up on one
while it isn’t looking, like Treasurer Park
did '
What's this? Here's The Augusta
Chronicle saying ’’Judge Candler had a
good run for his money in Richmond."
But. then. It always takes money to make
the candidate go in Richmond.
The Hon. Joe Hill Hall assures us that
he will drop the role of revengeful
Banshee at the next session of the legis
lature and aid and abet Mayor-elect How
ell in any honorable effort to secure a
new union depot for Atlanta—provided
the railroads will pay for It.
Says the Savannah Press: “The Atlanta
Journal publishes the picture of one of the
high school boys for Judge John 8. Can
dler. and yet the Brunswick News says
he to an 'aged Confederate veteran.* ** It
Is certainly not our fault that Judge Can
dler doesn't look the part ascribed to him
by the Brunswick News.
“Tour Uncle Allen D. Candler will not
retire from politics while he lives. He
may not seek office again, but he will be
found helping those friends who helped
him. He Is built that way." says the Au
gusta Chronicle. "Respectfully referred
to Editor Loylese. with leave to revise.”
comments the Griffin News. Don't make
us laugh; our lip to chapped. Pass it up
to Judge Gober.
THE INSOLENT AND BULLING COAL BARONB.
If the sympathies of ths public had not been already with the coal miners of
the anthracite region they would be driven in that direction by the statement of
President Baer at the conference of the conflicting organisations with the presi
dent Friday.
A more striking contrast than that presented by the attitudes of the coal
operators and the coal miners has never been seen In a disagreement between
capital and labor. t 1
President Baer practically takes iae -position that the strike can only be
settled on the terms dictated by him and his associates; President Mitchell pro
poses to leave the settlement of the issues In dispute to a tribunal to be appoin
ted by the president and agrees to accept the president’s “award upon all or any
of the questions. Involved."
President Baer misrepresents outrageously the position of the strikers, pre
sumes to lecture President Roosevelt as to his duty and the limitations of his au
thority, attempts to bully his way through, and says in substance, "The public
be d—d." as William H. Vanderbilt did on another famous occasion.
President Mitchell shows an earnest and honest desire to have the strike set
tled In justice to all concerned and adopts a tone of conciliation and concession.
President Baer denounces everybody who does not agree with him absolute
ly and declares tn effect that he intends to have all that he asks, whatever
President Roosevelt may think of the situation, or whatever remedy he may pro
pose.
President Roosevelt, having taken hold of this grave matter which affects the
whole country, must now either yield to the insolence of Baer, or do something
to assert whatever authority and influence his high office may afford him. Baer
has made it impossible for President Roosevelt to act on the fair and even lib
eral proposition of President Mitchell, by which the strike could have been set
tled in a very few days. It cannot be doubted that this result would have been
accomplished by a tribunal composed of honorable. Impartial and capable arbi
trators.
Now what can President Roosevelt do?
One course, at least, is open to him which might prove effective. It would
certainly indicate that the president Is determined to exhaust every possible
means of protecting the public from the bull-headed nile-or-ruln policy of Baer
and his rapacious gang.
President Roosevelt might issue today a call for congress to convene in ex
traordinary session at the earliest moment practicable for the purpose of tak
ing ths tariff off of coal of all kinds and giving us a chance to call upon all
outside countries for as great a supply of coal as they could send us.
To do this would be to serve notice on the coal trust and all other trusts
that whenever they use the tariff to protact their extortions, the tariff that
shields their wicked schemes must fall as flat as the walls of Jericho paat
Jordan.
It will require positive and possibly stern treatment to bring Baer and his
fellow conspirators to a sense of prudence; they seem to be utterly incapable
of a sense of justice. President Mitchell, by his admirable conduct and cool
headed course at the conference Friflsy strengthened hla cause immensely.
We feel confident that the Insolent and defiant coal barons will not be permitted
,o run rough-shod over the rights of the miners and the interests of the pub
„c in this free and fair-minded nation.
GEORGIA AND STATE RIGHTS.
It is announce that there will soon be
published a work with the above title
that will probably be a valuable contri
bution to the historic literature of Geor
gia and the United States.
The author is a scholar who has made
a special study of Georgia history, name
ly Professor Ulrich B. Phillips, A. If.,
Ph D,, of the University of Wisconsin.
The book is authorised by the Ameri
can Historical association and will be
published under Its direction. This work
will appear in the form of a monograph
dealing thoroughly with the relations of
Georgia with the United States govern
ment from colonial times down to 1861.
High expectations of its merit have been
awakened by the fact that the manuscript
has been awarded the Justin Winsor prise
offered by the American Historical asso
ciation for the best product of a writer
just Entering the field of American his
tory.
The committee of award, in its unani
mous decree, declared that this is “a
highly excellent work” of “Independent
and original Investigation," "a distinct
contribution to knowledge,” “showing on
the part of the writer powers of original
and suggestive interpretation."
The author is a Georgian by birth, who
has won high distinction in another state.
In this book he shows why and how Geor
gia became a member of the Union and
discusses the advantages she gained and
the sacrifices she rrffcde by this connec
tion. ’ \
He explains why Georgia fifd not go
into the secession movement of 1832. which
was so strong in New England, and why
she did secede In 1861.
Much light Is thrown upon the subject
of sectionalism within the state. One of
the most interesting portions of ths work,
it is said, is that which deals with the
economic, social and political differences
that once existed between the coast dis
trict, the wiregrass section, the cotton
belt and the mountain region of the state.
Among the great Georgians receiving
extensive attention are James Jackson,
Elijah Clarke, W. H. Crawford, G. M.
Troup, John Clarke, G. R. Gilmer, Wil
son Lumpkin, A. 8. Clayton. J.- M. Ber
rien, Robert Toombs, A. H. Stephens,
Howell Cobb, H. V. Johnson, C. j. Jen
kins, B. H. Hill and Joseph E. Brown.
The current of events in Georgia is
treated along with that in the country at
large so tfiat a comprehensive view is
given of the action and reaction Os inter
nal and external developments.
The book will have great Interest for
Georgians of this day and for all students
of American history.
THE STRIKE AND POLITICS.
There is no telltfig what effect the great
coal strike will have upon the congression
al elections this year and the future of
the two great political parties.
The party in power always claims the
credit for whatever good conditions the
country may be enjoying, and it is held
responsible to a large degree for what
ever troubles are being endured by the
public, or any considerable part of it.
Both this credit and this blame are, as
a rule, bestowed without sufficient rea
son, but the habit of connecting condi
tions with politics is so strong upon the
people that its effect is often very strik
ing.
In the case of the coal strike politics
properly come in for serious consideration,
because the coal trust, like nearly all
the other trusts, is fortified if not made
possible by the protective tariff.
There Is no reason fbr surprise, there
fore, that the Republican leaders are
very much alarmed at the possible ef
fect of the coal strike and its attendant
evils upon the elections which are only tt
month distant.
Senator Manna, the most potent leader
WHO ARE THE ANARCHISTS.
In answer to President Roosevelt’s plea for a settlement of the coal strike the
"trustees of Providence" come back with an Insolent and defiant demand for
the enforcement of law and order, asserting that anarchy prevails In the coal
region and that more than twenty murders have been committed by the striking
miners As deplorable and censurable as these things are, there are other forma
of anarchy than that which resorts to violence, and there are crimes committed
under the semblknce of law compared with which twenty murders are but a
misdemeanor. There is the "‘anarchy of wealth,” for instanoe, which denies and
defies the rights of humanity, and to whose Insatiate greed is chargeable the
hunger and starvation of thousands. '
President Baer seems to be oblivious to the fact that the strikers, the poor
despised strikers, stand in this contest distinctly as the force which insists upon
the enforcement of law and order and that the millionaire operators themselves,
by insisting upon their own construction of their rights and their interpretation
of the rights of their oppcgients in this fight, are really the only anarchists in
the situation.
We have an abiding /aith, however, that the right will triumph.
Bs«r and his fellow conspirators are strong, but they are not stronger than
the people of the United States. They are not stronger than the eternal prin
ciples of right which live in this world and must ultimately tnumpa in every
contest than can arise under a just government.
THE FEMI-WEEKLY JOEBNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1902.
of his party, has taken care to proclaim
his solicitude for the struggling miners.
He said a few days ago:
“Fully ninety per cent of the American
people sympathise with the strikers and
are against the operators in this fight.
If the strikers need more money than or
ganised labor can raise to carry on the
battle, the people at large are willing to
subscribe. I know of business men who
are willing to contribute large checks
rather than see the men starved Into sub
mission. They believe it would be a dis
grace to American manhood if Baer and
his associates were able to win the vic
tory through the brute force of capital
held In stubborn hands.”
So speaks Hanna and yet he would prob
ably make a hard fight against the prop
osition to reach the coal trust through
the tariff, though that would be the most
direct and effective method of relieving
the people from their grasp.
The Republican chiefs are clearly agi
tated over the situation and are undoubt
edly correct In the apprehension that they
will not be held blameless for the exist
ence of the conditions that have made
the anthracite monopoly possible.
ARE WE TO LO SE HIM ?
It Is stated by several newspapers which
are supposed to be very close to Admiral
Crowninshield that he will ask to be re
lieved of duty soon after his return to
the United States.
Crowninshield ha* a grievance; his
feelings have been hurt. As t* the exact
nature of his complaint there are various
reports. One is that he resents the crit
icisms that have been passed upon him
on account of the grounding of his ship
some weeks ago off the coast of Norway.
Another report has it that he does not
care to serve under Admiral Higginson,
with whom he has quarrelled.
According to still another theory Ad
miral Crowninshield feels that he is be
ing neglected by the navy department un
der Secretary Moody. While Governor
Long held the naval portfolio Crownln
shield was a favorite at the seat of pow
er almest without a peer. He has been
placed along with officers of his rank
since Secretary Moody took change.
The fact is he has been spoiled. As
chief of the bureau of navigation he was
really at the head of the navy depart
ment during the war with Spain and is,
more than any one else, responsible for
the unfortunate quarrels which disturbed
and injured the naval service in that
period.
Crownlnshield has received considera
tion and been accorded Importance far
beyond that due him because of
his ability, or his services. He is indig
nant at being relegated to his proper
level.
We do not know how much truth there
is in the rumor that he intends to quit,
but if he should do so we are confident
that the navy will not suffer a serious
misfortune.
We are inclined to believe, however,
that Crownlnshield win hold on to the
job he has.
THE PANAMA TITLE.
According to Mr. William Nelson Crom
well, counsel for the new Panama Canal
•ompany, the title of that company to the
franchises and property of the former
Panama Canal company is simply perfect,
fend there I*, therefore, no reason what
ever why the United States should not
proceed with the construction of the canal
tinder the title which it has purchased on
condition of its soundness.
Mr. Cromwell says he has submitted the
evidences of the title to the very best
lawyers in France, and that, without ex
ception, they have pronounced them com
plete. He also calls attention to a case
that has been trleu and adjudicated in the
courts of France since the question of sell
ing the canal to the United States came
up. A bondholder of the old Panama Ca
nal company sued the new Panama Canal
company for the purpose of having certain
questions settled In connection with the
liquidation of the old company. This suit
involved the t-le to the property, and the
court held that the title of the new com
pany to the canal and all the rights per
taining to Its was without a flaw.
Mr. Cromwell Is said to be an able law
yer and his views on this subject are reas
suring, but, of course, they will not be
accepted as conclusive by our government,
for Mr. Cromwell, being an attorney of
the company that proposes to sell to us,
cannot be considered a perfectly impartial
judge of the validity of the title.
Attorney General Knox has been to Par
is to Investigate the questions Involved in
the proposed purchase of the Panama
company’s property, and our government
will rely upon his opinion and advice In
the premises.
It seems very probable that a clear title
can be given by the company with which
we are dealing, but there should, and
doubtless will, be extreme caution In com
pleting a transaction that will require the
payment of >40,000,000 before we begin the
construction of the great canal.
If Mr. Cromwell has stated the case cor
rectly, all that remains for our govern
ment to do before beginning the work of
actual construction will be to obtain the
concessions which will probably be given
readily by Colombia, and pay the >40,000,000
to the Panama Canal company.
It appears that the difficulties in the
way of this gigantic project which once
seemed very complicated and serious are
being rapidly cleare- away.
GOOD FOR MISS GOULD!
The country must add one more to the
already long list of its obligations to that
noble woman. Miss Helen Gould.
She Js a member of the board of lady
managers of the St. Louis Exposition,
and takes a very active interest in all
that pertains to the part of that great
enterprise which women have specially
in charge.
It Is well for this great enterprise, which
is to surpass the grandest of all previous
expositions, that Miss Gould has a hand
In its management.
At the meeting recently of the board
to which she belongs Miss Gould Intro
duced a resolution declaring that the
Louisiana Purchase exposition would
favor a high moral tone throughout and
eliminate from the concessions any that
savors of the dances performed on the
Midway of the Chicago fair.
This resolution was happily adopted and,
it is said, will be rigidly enforced.
But for the fact that there is a board
of lady managers of the St. Louis ex
position and that the board has such a
heroic woman as Miss Helen Gould on It,
this magnificent enterprise would prob
ably have been disfigured and disgraced
by such vulgar and disgusting dances as
were seen at ths Chicago exposition and
every similar show In this country since
that time.
It is profoundly gratifying to know that
the sort of exhibitions upon which Miss
Helen Gould has stamped her righteous
condemnation are not to be a part of the
attractions at St. Louis.
Mrs. Marie Lduise Myrlck, of the Amer
icus Tlmes-Recorder, is actively support
ing the Hon. Emerson George for speak
er of the next house, while Miss Edna
Cain, the talented editress of The Quit
man Free Press, is for Hon. Fondren
Mitchell. Newt Morris doesn’t appear to
hsve been successful In establishing sis
terly relations with any of the Georgia
press. (
A to inform us that
the water in well smells ao badly that
it cannot be used; that even the stock will
not drink It, and he wants to know what
is the matter with it. We do not pro
fess to be an expert on water, but we
are Inclined to the opinion that it prob
ably needs boiling.
After reading tn The Brunswick News
that “Judge Candler is an aged Confeder
ate veteran who lost both legs in, the civil
war,” the people of Glynn county turned
in and gave his opponent, Judge Ross, a
majority of their votes. It is better to
tell the truth.
“We regret our inability to attend the! ir
rigation congress at Colorado Springs
next week, but we are holding ourselves
in reserve for the coming session of the
Georgia legislature.”—Dawson News.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New Tork Press.
Penny foolish, pound imbecile.
It is a cold sheet that only one person sleeps
under.
Blood will tell, but never age when it’s a
woman.
It is very hard for a modest girl to prove she
is not bow-legged.
It is not how fat a woman Is that tells, but
where she is fat.
Women never are taught what they know;
they are born with it. \
In these day* it costs more to run the fur
nace than it used to cost to run a battleship.
A woman can be awful big in spot* without
letting anybody know it when she is all dressed
up.
It is the careful wife who wakes a man out
of a deep sleep to ask him If there Is anything
she can do to make him sleep comfortably.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Daily News.
Never monkey with a buzz-saw when it 1*
busy.
Never judge picture* and horse* by their
frames.
Telephone girls never invite you to call
again.
Might may not make right, but it seldom
gets left.
A wise man always bets on the top dog and
the bottom facts.
If beauty is skin deep the rhinoceros 1*
entitled to first prize.
A* soon as the rick shoemaker 1* abl* to
work he is on the mend.
It take* a nervous woman to demonstrate
what nerve force really Is.
When a man resigns himself to fate hl* res
ignation is usually accepted.
One trouble with white lies is that they re
quire too much whitewashing.
People who are gifted with second sight are
seldom troubled with love at first sight.
If we could see ourselves as others see us
mirrors would be a drug on the market.
Some women are so modest that they won’t
even own up the size of their faults.
It there is such a thing as poetry of motion
the kangaroo must be in the spring-poem class.
Some men remain bachelors because they are
unable to choose between beauty and intellect.
The world has little use for a man who
does his best only when engaged in_ doing
others.
Many a man's haste to get ahead in the
world results only In his getting a headston*
before it is due.
Don’t worry if your associates push you to
the wall. You will find the wall handy as a
brace when you get ready to push back.
You may drive a horse to water but you can
not make him drink, and you may drive a man
to drink but you cannot make him take wate».
The devil gets in most of his fine work con
vincing people that it isn’t wrong for them
when in trouble to do what it would of course
be wrong for them to do if they weren't in
trouble.
Architect and Builder.
Father—l want you to learn to help your
•elf In this world. Every man should be the
architect of his own fortunes.
Son—Well, governor, I’m started along that
line. I've been building air castles ever since I
left college.
No Trust.
“I want a suit. If you've enough
Os this stuff It will do.”
“Yes. Mr. Bluff, I've got the stuff,”
The tailor said; “Have youT”
MR. DOOLEY ON NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY.
BY F. P. DUNNE.
Copyright, 1902, By Robert Howard Russell.
..w WW AS ye iver In th’ pa
\Y / pers?” asked Mr. Doo-
Vy ley
"Wanst,” said Mr.
Hennessy. “But it wasn’t me. It was
another Hlnnissy. Was you?”
“Manny times,” said Mr. Dooley.
"Whin I was prom’nent socyally, ye
cud hardly pick up a pa-aper without
seein’ me name in it an’ th’ amount
iv th’ fine. Ye must lade a very simple
life. Th’ newspaper Is wp.tchin’ most
iv us fr’m th’ cradle to th’ grave, an’
befure an’ afther. Whin I was a la-ad
thrippin' continted over th’ bogs iv
Roscommon, ne'er an Idltor knew iv
me existence, nor I iv his. Whin an
nything was wrote about a man ’twas
put this way: ‘We undhershtand on
good authority that M—l—chi H y,
Esquire, is on thrile before Judge G—
—n on an accusation iv I—rc—ny. But
we don’t think it’s true.’ Nowadays
th’ larceny is discovered be a newspa
aper. Th’ lead pipe is dug up in ye’er
back ytfrd be a rayporther who knew
It was there because he helped ye
bury it. A man knocks at ye’er dure
arly wan mornin’ an’ ye answer in
ye’er nighty, ’ln th' name iv th' law. I
arrist ye,’ says th' man, seizzin’ ye be
th’ throat. 'Who ar're ye?’ ye cry.
’l’m a rayporther f’r th’ Daily Slooth,’
says he. ‘Phottygrafter, do ye’er
jooty!’ Ye're hauled off In th’ clrcy
lation wagon to th’ newspaper office,
where a con-fission is ready f’r ye to
sign; ye’re thried be a jury iv th’
staff, sintinced be'th’ Iditor-in-chlef an’
at tin o’clock Friday th’ fatal thrap is
sprung b th’ fatal thrapper iv th’
fam'ly journal.
"Th’ newspaper does ivrythlng f’r us.
It runs th’ polls foorce an’ th’ banks,
commands th’ milishy, conthrols th’
legisiachure, baptizes th’ young, mar
ries the foolish, comforts the afflicted,
afflicts th’ comfortable, buries the dead
an’ roasts thim aftherward. They ain’t
annythlng it don't turn its hand to
fr’m explainin’ the’ doctrine iv thran
substantlatlon to composin’ saleratus
biskit. Ye can get anny kind iv in
formation ye want to in ye’er fav'rite
newspaper about ye’ersilf or annywan
else. What th’ Czar whispered to th’
Imp’ror Willum whin they were alone,
how to make a silk out Iv a wire mat
thress, how to settle th’ coal sthrlke,
who to marry, how to get on with ye'er
wife whin ye’er married, what to feed
th’ babies, what doctor to call whin
ye’ve fed thlm as directed—all iv that
ye’ll find in th’ pa-apers.
"They used to say a man’s life was a
closed book. So it is but it’s an open
newspaper. Th’ eye iv th’ press Is on
ye befure ye begin to take notice. Th’
iditor obsarves th’ stork hoverin’ over
th’ roof iv 2978 1-2 B Ar-rchey Road an’
th’ article he writes about it has a
DOES IT MEAN REVOLUTION I
OR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP?
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. i
THE NEWS comes to us that the
“Atlantic Coast Lone” (whatever
that name stands for in railroad
circles) has swallowed up the
Louisville and Nashville (and all that
the name comprehends in the breadth
and length of its former holdings)
and we are now to have two
great rivals, or systems, and a struggle
to the death, until the whale swallows
Jonah, or Jonah swallows the whale, and
a mpnopoly takes possession of every
thing in sight, because a big fish has
finally eaten up all the little ones, and
has then nothing to do but to laugh and
grow fat at the leisure of the mammoth
leviathan.
It is highly probable that your scribe
knows as little about what Is going on
under the surface, when gigantic corpora
tions wrestle with each other for the
mastery, as anybody living, but from
what I can see on the surface, I prophesy
that the day is coming (may not be far
distant) when the indignant populace will
rise up and strike and do big mischief, or
when the government, state and national,
will recall to itself the privileges that
were too often granted in haste and Ig
norance; and all public utilities will come
under the management and ownership of
the government as a measure of common
justice as well as a measure of public
safety to the country.
Stranger things have happened in the
physical and commercial world. The in
habitants of the island of Martinique
would have laughed your prophesy to
scorn, less than a year ago, if you had
foretold the sudden doom of St. Pierre
and the later destruction of the greater
PREACHERS, Put Pepper in Your Sermons if You
Want To Make the People Sneeze— Sam P. Jones
TIFTON, GA., Oct. 2. 190®.
To The Atlanta Journal:
HAVING finished my tour of the
Carolinas I am now circulat
ing through South Georgia. I
spent two hours in Savannah
Tuesday. They have a large, splendid
new union depot, or passenger station,
as they call them up in Yankee Doodle.
I thought of Atlanta when I looked on
this splendid structure. I thought «f
Joe Hill Hall, Allen G. Spencer and
Samuel Candler, of the coming session
of the Georgia legislature, and then L
thought of Joe Hill Hall again, then of
the long-suffering people ‘of Atlanta.
Atlanta is going through much tribula
tion, whether she is going up or not.
Out of the Carolinas into ~outh Geor
gia, the transition is easy, and while
the growing towns and Industry of
of those two states charmed me, I de
clare they are not one whit ahead of
Fitzgerald, Tifton, Cordele and Moul
trie. Valdosta and Waycross, etc.
These towns are growing in leaps and
bounds, and South Georgia seems to
have splendid crops, also.
The hotels of these towns are simply
good, most of them new and elegant,
and good hotels and nicely paved
streets, electric lights and water works
are the four aces that can’t be beat.
Towns that have been dead for years
have begun to build and equip them
selves with these four essentials, and
then everything else began to boom.
• One marvels at the network of rail
roads in South Georgia. The towns I
have named above are in the midst of a
network of railroads, and all the roads
are doing a land office business.
The Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf
railroad is a little gem, only 56 miles
in length, but it’s a hummer. This is
Harry Atkinson’s and Hightower’s
road, and it’s equipped for business,
and it’s getting the business, freight
and passenger, and I pay three cents
a mile for every mile I ride on it. So
don’t any old Pop. jump on me now
about a free pass, etc. The Georgia
Southern and Florida is a most splen
did road and under fine management,
and is most papular with its patrons.
When I walked down yesterday to
the depot to take the train here for
Moultrie, my old friend of by-gone
years. Bud Thrash, stepped up to me
with overalls on, and said, “Bro. Jones,
you have ridden with me often on the
Western and Atlantic when I pulled
wink In It. Son an’ heir arrives f’r th’
Hon’rable Malachi Hlnnissy.’ says th’
pa-aper befure ye’ve finished th’ drink
with th’ doctor. An' afther that th’
histury iv th’ offspring’s life Is found in
th’ press.
" ’lt is undhersthud that there is
much excitement in th’ Hlnnissy fam'-
ly over namin’ th' lates’ sign. Misther
Hlnnissy wishes it called Pathrick Mc-
Glue afther an uncle iv his, an' Mrs.
Hlnnissy is in favor iv namin’ it Al
fonsinita afther a Pullman car she
seen wan day. Th’ Avenin’ Fluff offers
a prize iv thirty dollars f’r th’ bes’
name f’r this, projeny. Malden ladies
will limit their letters to three hun
dherd wurruds.’
" ‘Above is a snap shot Iv young Al
fonsonlta McGlue Hinnlssy, taken on
his sicond birthday with his nurse. Miss
Angybel Bltm, th’ well known specyal
nurse iv th’ Avenin’ Fluff. At th’ time
th phottygraft was taken th’ infant
was about to bite Miss Blim, which ac
counts tr th’ agynlzed expression on
that gifted writer’s face. Th’ Avenin’
Fluff offers a prize tv four dollars to
th’ best answer to th' question. “What
does th" baby think iv Miss Blim?”
“ ‘Young Alf Hinnlssy was siven
years old yisterday. A rayporther iv th’
Fluff sought him out an' indeavored to
intherview him on th’ Nicaragooan ca
nal, th’ Roomanyan Jews, th’ tahriff
an’ th’ thrusts. Th’ cornin’ statesman
rayfused to be dhrawn on these ques
tions, his answer bein’ a ready, "Go
chase yersilf, ye big stiff!” Afther a
daylightful conversation th’ rayporther
left, bein’ followed to th’ gate be his
janial young host, who hit him smartly
in th’ back with a brick. He is a chip
iv th' old block.’
" ‘Groten, Conn., April 8. Ye’er ray
porther was privileged to see th’ oldest
son iv th’ Hon’rable Matachl Hlnnissy
started at this simlnary Ur th’ idjaca
tion Iv young Englishmen bor-rn in
America. Th’ heir iv th’ Hinnissys
was enthered at th* intlllechool ex
clusive school thirty years befure he
was born. Owin’ to th’ uncertlnty iv
his anchesthors he was also enthered
at Vassar. Th' young fellow took a
lively Intherest in th’ school. Th’ above
phottygraft riprisints him mathrlcu
latin'. Th’ figures at tn’ foot ar-re
Mtether an’ Mrs. Hinnlssy. Those at
th' head ar-re Prof. Peabody Plantag
enet, prlssldent Iv th' instlchoochien
an’ Officer Michael H. Rafferty. Young
Hlnnissy will remain here till he has a
good cukkin’ idjacatlon.*
“ ‘Exthry Red Speshul Midnight edi
tion. Mumps! Mumps! Mumps! Th’
heir iv th' Hinnissy’s sthricken with
th’ turr’ble scoorge. Panic on th’ stock
exchange. Bereaved father starts fr
th* plague spot to see his sthricken
son. Phottygrafts Iv young Hlnnissy
at wan, two, three, eight an’ tin.
part of the island; yet the Island is appa
rently forsaken of God and deserted by
man, within the last few months, because
of hidden but inside forces.
The nobollty of France never felt more
assured of the royal succession Ihan
when Maria Antoinette, the handsome
daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria,
came over as the bride of the young King
Louis XVI., and the court entered upon
an era of extravagance and general in
difference to the poverty and suffering of
the plebeian masses—that was common to
every new reign and new ruler in the
French kingdom during preceding centu
ries. There was nothing in sight to indi
cate a revulsion in this habitat of royal
prifie and assumacy. The mountain stood
strong, so far as human foresight went.
Even Lafayette, who came to us, to bat
tle for civil and religious liberty on this
side of the Atlantic, was not prepared to
expect or demand a republic in France at
that time, and because he was a “Doubt
ing Thomas,” he barely escaped the guil
lotine and lay in Olmutz prison for near
ly a decade after the revolution took
place, as an anti-republican.
The tea kettle may sing and simmer a
long time on the hearth, but when it be
gins to boll in good earnest the steam will
rush out at the spout and woe to the
hand that passes through the rushing
steam, incautiously!
(I have a sore wrist right now, because
I was not cautious with my stove kettle,
and the hot steam struck me).
When the symptoms look ominous,
there is danger about; when the clouds
boil up and the thunder mutters, a storm
is probably at hand. The long-protracted
coal strike means a disturbance sooner
the passenger trains with the U. 3.
Grant and Gov. James M. Smith. Now,
come out on the engine with me and
ride to Moultrie.”
I was glad to see him and accepted
his invitation, and spent an hour most
pleasantly with him, as with his hand
on the throttle he whirled down the
track on schedule time.
Bud Is an old Atlanta boy. and I am
glad to know that he was his old self
again, with a good job, and held in
high esteem by his employers.
My attachment for railroad men
deepens as I travel more and more
with them. They have done me a thou
sand favors and have done me no
“dirt.”
The boys on the old reliable W. & A.,
Conductors Turner, Hargis, Wylie,
Holcomb, Stallings, etc., and Engin
eers Welsh. Bell, Nance and Harris,
etc., why, we are all brothers. And
the brakemen and baggagemen, I feel
the same towards them. I hope to
meet them all with thousands of
other railroad men In heaven. That
part I will leave for them, for I am
going there myself, by God's grace.
Yesterday was election day, and
with some poor candidates I suppose
this is dejection day. I don’t know the
feeling of a fellow who got beat. I
never ran for an office, and was only
a candidate, "limited,” once.
Mayor Howell will make a good one.
He ought to have been elected, for At
lanta never had a better friend. He
has done more for Atlanta than he
ever did for himself.
The supreme bench has a first-class
associate justice in the person of
Judge John Candler. He Is worthy and
qualified and I don’t think he
drinks. I am almost "show” he don't.
Really I've got my doubts about the
advisability of any judge drinking
(too much), though it has been done,
I am pained to say.
It would do your soul good to see
how The Atlanta Journal is circulated
In the Carolinas and south Georgia.
No trouble to stumble upon an Atlanta
Journal in the radius of two or three
hundred miles of Atlanta.
I suppose the preachers had better
quit fighting the Sunday papers, for
Loyless said the Sunday Journal
jumped up three thousand last Sun
day in its circulation. The Chatta
nooga Times jumped on me about my
denunciation of the Sunday papers,
and said the "Sunday papers had done
Phottygrafts iv th’ house where his
father was born, his mother, his aunt,
his uncle, Profissor Plantagenet, Gro
ton school, th’ gov’nor Iv Connecticut,
Chansy Depoo, statue iv Liberty,’
Thomas Jefferson, Niagara Falls be
moonlight. Diagram iv jaw an’ head
showin’ th’ prb’ble coorse iv th’
Mumpococcus. Intherviews with J.
Pierpont Morgan, Terry McGovern,
Mary McLain, Jawn Mitchell, Lyman
J. Gage, th’ Prince iv Wales, Stnltor
Bivridge, th’ Earl Iv Roslyn, an’ Chief
Divry on Mumps. We offer a prize iv
thirty million dollars In advertisin'
space f’r s a cur f’r th’ mumps that will
save th’ nation's pride.—Later, it’s
croup.’ t
"An’ so it goes. We march through
life an' behind us marches th’ photty
grafter an’ th’ rayporther. There are
no such things as private citizens. No
matther how private a man may be,
no matther how secretly he steals,
some day his pitcher will be In th* pa
aper along with Mark Hanna, Stain
boul 2:011-2, Fitzsimmons* fightin’ face,
Douglas, Douglas, Tin dollar shoe. He
can’t get away fr’m It. An’ I’ll say this
f’r him, he don’t want to. He wants
to see what bad th’ neighbors are doin’
an’ he wants thlm to see what, good
he’s doin’. He gets 50 per cint iv his
wish; never more. A man keeps his
front window shade up so th* pa-apers
can come along an* make a pitcher iv
him settin’ in his illgant furnished
parlor readin’ th’ life iv Dwight L.
Moody to his fam’ly. An* th’ lad with
th’ photygraft happens along at th’
moment whin he is batin’ his wife, if
we wasn’t so anxious to see our names
among those prisint at th’ ball, we
wudden’t get into th* pa-apers so often
as among those that ought to be pris
int in th’ dock. A man takes his phot
tygraft to th* Idltor an’ says he: "Ma
attintion has been caled to th’ fact
that ye'd like to print this mug iv a
prom’nent philanthropist;’ an’ th’ edi
tor don’t use it till he’s robbed a bank.
Ivrybody is inthrested in what ivry
body else is doin' uiat’s wrong. That’s
what makes th’ newspapers. An* as
this is a dummycratlc counthry, where
ivrybody was bor-rn akel to ivrybody
else, aven if they soon outgrow it, an*
where wan man’s as good as another i
an* as bad, all tv us has a good chanst
to have his name get in at lasts wanst
a year. Some goes In at Mrs. Rasther’g
dinner an’ some as victims tv a throlley
car, but ibrybody lands at last. They'll
get ye afther awhile. Hinnlssy. They*U
print ye’er pitcher. But on’y wanst. A
newspaper is to intertaln, not to teach
a moral lesson.”
”D‘ye thing people likes th’ news
papers iv th* prisint time?” asked Mr. i
Hennessy.
"D’ye think they’re printed fr fua?*’ ,
said Mr. Dooley.
or later. The price of coal is soaring sky
wards, and when cold winter settles down
and
"The hoarse moaning of the wind
Is heard amid the snow,”
it will be a pleasant surprise to me, ifi
nothing but a strike "comes to pass.”
In the year 1877 a railroad strike tooki
place at Pittsburg, Pa. The torch ■was in
evidence. Some weeks later I went over,
the line and our train halted long enough)
to glimpse the wreck and ruin, and what'
was far worse to see, the sullen, dogged,
looks of the strikers, who were hanging
around the debris, as if waiting for an
other chance, like a hungry lion spring*
to its prey.
I have no desire or intention to draw a
lurid picture at this time; but I feel it Ini
my bones, that a crisis of some sort I*
approaching, and the conflict between la
bor and capital will be far-reaching if not
decisive in the end.
I have often thought that wisdom an®
prudence would have settled the quest non!
of human slavery in the south, if we had!
taken counsel in such directions, rathen
then with stubborn defiance and a deter-4
mition to fight it out. and leave results
to the arbitrament of the sword. These
coal strikes and these railroad merger* /
are becoming painfully frequent and gi
gantically ominous.
It might be the part of wisdom to sell
out to the government at a living price
and let Uncle Sam run the trains and own
the tracks as that dignitary carries the
mails and manages the postofflees. Who
will assert that it cannot be done, or point
out a better way 7
more to lift up the people than all the
sensational evangelists that ever
shouted at so much a shout.” Lift
up, indeed. If The Chattanooga Times
ever lifted up anything it was a dollar
that was thrown down onto its level
to purchase its columns.
Then again, I never denounced the
Sunday paper. I simply said to a re
porter who asked me what I had to
say of the Sunday paper, "that there
was no more harm in a Sunday paper
than there was in a Sunday dry
goods store, Sunday baseball and Sun
day concerts, etc.
The Ten Commandments settle the
question one way or the other, and
the publishers of Sunday newspapers
will have to settle at last by that
standard like the balance of us poor
fellows.
I can say this, however, that there
is no dirt in the Atlanta Sunday pa
pers. They are clean compared with
some of the New York Sunday papers.
Some people will have them. It’s the
demand for them that puts them on
the market, and so It goes.
I would say to the pastors, fight ev
erything God condemns, and cham
pion everything that’s right, and make
your sermons more interesting and
more sought after than any Sunday
paper can be, then you will have big
ger crowds With you on Sunday morn
ing and fewer of your population at
home and on the streets reading th*
Sunday papers.
The preacher has the llvest them*,
the most sensational facts, th* most
Interesting Issues to present to th*
people of any man or set of men on
earth. No Sunday paper was pre
ferred to Spurgeon, Moody, Talmage
or Beecher by the great crowds who
thronged their churches.
Put more pepper in your sermons,
gentlemen, and the world .will go to
sneezing for you.
Wall street on a rampage, “call
money" 35 per cent. Secretary Shaw
scotching for the boys. Wall street
is the Mt. Pelee that's going to de
stroy this country commercially, some
day. Trusty combines, mergers are
hatched out there and grow up amid
the feverish surroundings, of its con
ditions. Health, vigor and strength
are impossible amid such miasma.
Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
P. S.—Nobody now in Atlanta now
thinks that the Elks is a nasty gang.