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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GrA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913.
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THE INAUGURAL BALL.
The decision was a wise one, when the
congress committee decided to omit tho
inaugural ball on March 4 next. I was
in Washington City when the’Hayes and
Garfield inaugural balls came off and
I attended neither of them, because l
understood it was a gay, rollicking
crowd who had no possible interest in
the government, and the expense was'
enormous. It* had literally nothing in
connection with making the new presi
dent acquainted with the people of the
United States—anw after a most fati
guing day, the hew president risks his
health and maybe his life by fatigue
and exposure to the usually «hard weath
er.
The night after the Hayes inaugural
the streets were packed tight with
restless, dissatisfied people—a crisis in
our national affairs, that we may al
ways be thankful passed off peacefully.
i sat at a window of the National ho
tel. looking up and down Pennsylvania
avenue, that night, and lifted my feeble
prayers that the night might pass with
out bloodshed and riot. As far as I
could glimpse the street, the crowds
were dense and I knew the feeling was
tense.
There was no feelings of mirth in the
hearts of the people 1 talked with, and
the congressmen that I was acquainted
with were exceedingly solicitous as to
what might happen—before the dawn of
day. - ,
There were plenty of gay butterflies
ready to dance, of course, but the sane
and sensible people of the city were not
dancers, by a good deal.
I remember well the night of the Gar
field inaugural ball. I did not go, al
though I had a ticket. Those who did
go, said the strain was great on the
new president, and a strain o.n everybody
but the butterfly contingent.
If the unfortunate president could
have looked ahead four months and had
been given a vision of the dangers that
attend chief executives, that ball would
have been a more distasteful affair to
him.
1 think President-elect Wilson was
wise in putting aside the anaugural ball
experience. It was both sane and sen
sible. I har^lV expected to see him
do it, precedents count so big, espec
ially in Washington, but the fact is the
United States has emerged from in
augural balls of the .usual promiscous
variety.
The country has outrown them.
They reprqsdnt^ an era of wassail and
revelry, and tfie time was ripe for
something better and more becoming
to a people who desire Christian civil
ization and healthy commercial prog
ress.
I very much hope that the Wilsons
will omit some more of the fripperies
and follies that have been for a long
time attached to Washington society.
In my opinion, there is more snobbery
to the square foot in Washington
than any capital in the w'orld.
At least half the congressmen who
get there w;ould* hesitate to tell how
they made the trip, and they and their
families are generally the folks who
spread over more ground than belongs
to them, by Hght .of birth or breeding.
Money has played the game—too often
the boss money that wanted votes for
selfish schemes; and when one has been
made acquainted with their beginnings
it is easy to see why they became
sticklers for precedence abroad. It
makes one smile to hear of their great
ness and their clamor for the first
places, etc.
It was a sensible beginning for the
coming president. The geese will
cackle and hiss, but the truth will pre
vail, without a doubt.
SUICIDES AND DRINK DRIPT TO"
9 GETHER.
While all suicides are not intemper
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hundredths of them are under the influ
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sotted with champagne and lust.
Both were said to belong to respect
able families, but they madly threw
their lives away, after a drunken ca
rouse in Jacksonville, Fla.
It was also reported in the papers
that the parents of the woman were
tearless, although grief stricken to the
core.
The end of such people can be fore
told to a certainty. Their paths lead
to ruin and downward to some terrible
ending sooner or later.
I heard a temperance lecturer say
that the lewd houses of the land are
only fortified on strong drink. The in
mates had declared ahat they could not
bear the life without the excitement’ of
intoxicants.
Therefore these fallen women are
short lived. They burn out their di
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Conditions Current in Cuba
By Bishop
W. A. Candler
must drift to coarser dens of vice when
they get sick.
The parents of this murdered woman
can now go to sleep at night and know
where that misguided child is sleeping.
Before she run the pace to the end she
was a burden on their hearts. They
could not sleep because they were too
grief-striqken to forget her. She killed
sleep for those who loved her and agon
ized over her downfall. Now they know
she has been done for, they do not
strain mind and heart in trying to
keep up with her. It is that much bet
ter in knowing the truth and also know
ing where she lies in her grave.
Ohl the wretched madness of these
sin-cursed souls! And it is the liquor
demon that helps to work the ruin!
MR.
RODDENBERY AND MIXED
MARRIAGES.
I earnestly believe that we have n
genuine and patriotic congressional rep—
sentative in Hon. Mr. Roddenbery, of
Georgia. I certainly approve of his
persevering attacks on pension frauds.
They raise a stench to high heaven;
they are so heinous in their inception
and so damaging to the taxpayers of
this union. The idea or paying a man
$16 a month because he was a disabled
Federal veteran and then giving him
$5,000 because he is a pension commis
sioner in Washington City. He is eith-
ed disabled or he is a fraud on the tax
payers. He* should drop one or the
other.
Mr. Roddenbery’s attack on the so-call-
el pieacher of the gospel who carried :i
weak minded white girl to a negro for
ty fix years old, was exactly what ne
should have done. She was a child in
her mental condition and he was a brute
in lust. As the story goes, the poor,
wretched girl is ruined for life in- her
health, and she has no father to avenge
her.
Unless there is some limit to aggres
sions of this sort, we will wake up
some day to find a race war has broken
out all over these United States.
Mr. Roddenbery is eminently correct.
The law of the land shouud separate
the races, foi the peace and safety of
the community. I am more than glad
to know we have such a valiant con
gressman. He is eminently right in de
nouncing pension frauds, and the evils
of race miscegeation.
Seventeen times I have visited Cuba
since the close of the Spanish-American
war.’
Whatever misconceptions that may
have affected my> first impressions of
the Island and its people have been cor
rected by repeated observations of them,
and the allusions of novelty no longer
mislead me. I have seen every part of
this fair land, and I am prepared to
say there is no more attractive spot
on the planet called Earth.
While Cuba is very near to us (it be
ing only about ninety miles from Key
West to Havana), most or our people
have very incorrect ideas about the
Island.
Some imagine that it is most un
healthy, whereas it is one of the most
healthy countries In the world. The
death rate is lower than that of any
other land except Australia, being only
about 12.6 per thousand of the inhabi
tants annually, while the mortality rate
in the United States is 16.2 per thou*
sand.
Others think the Cuban population is
of a mixed race with a considerable
African strain in the blood. This is a
most astounding misconception. The
whites and Negroes in Cuba ar§ just
about in the same proportion as tney
are found in the state of Louisiana, tne
Negroes being about one third of tne
people and the unmixed whites being
about two thirds. These were the ngures
given in the census made by the Ameri
can authorities during the days of in
tervention. It is quite possible that
the number of whites has increased since
chat census was taken more rapidly than
has the number of Negroes; for there
has been a considerable immigration to
the Island since then, and most all of
the immigrants have been whites.
And it should be remembered that
Cuba’s population is increasing rapid
ly. The total population in 1899 was
no more than 1,572,797 souls; by 1907
the number had risen to 2,048,980, and
now it can not be far below 2,500,000.
This increase has been scattered pretty
well over the entire Island, although
the greatest increase has been in the
Santa Clara, Havana, and Santiago prov
inces. If the same rate of increase con
tinues, by the year 1920 Cuba will have
more than 3,000,000 of people; and the
Island can sustain a far greater popu
lation than that. At the present time
not one tenth' of the tillable land of
Cuba is under cultivation, and the value
of its products runs up into the hun
dreds of millions annually, the sugar’
crop alone for 1912 being worth above
$110,000,000.
The trade of Cuba per capita is greater ■
than that of any country in North or
South America except the Argentine Re
public. The following are the figures ap
proximately:
Argentine Republic—Total foreign
commerce $1 OS per capita.,
Cuba—Total foreign commerce $400
per capita.
Canada—Total foreign commerce $97
per capita.
Chile—Total foreign commerce $65 per
capita.
United States of America—Total for
eign commerce $33 per capita.
Brazil—Total foreign commerce $23
per capita.
Mexico—Total foreign commerce $17
per capita.
With the opening ot the Panama Ca
nal both the trade and the population
of Cuba will increase more rapidly than
over before. Both people and products
from the West Coast of South America
will flow to it in tidal waves. It must
be so; for where natural resources are
so abundant and material conditions so
attractive people will go in great num
bers. “Where the carcass is the eagles
will gather”.
If Cuba had been well and wisely
governed its progress and prosperity
would have been even greater than they
have been. But few countries have been
worse ruled in all Christendom. Taxa
tion under the rule of Spain was very
heavy, and it has not been less un
der the present administration, which
closes in May next. Such burdens
would not be borne by the people of any
state in our country.
But a new administration comes into
power, with General Menocal as presi
dent on May 20. Wise men on the
Island, both Cubans and Americans,
speak hopefully of the new administra
tion, and there are evidences that their
hopes are well founded.
Already some of the local officials
of the new order have entered upon
their duties; and in most cases they
have begun well. In Havana, for ex
ample, the new mayor, General Freyre
Andrade, has been Inducted Into office,
and he has begun his work in a firm and
business-like way. When the Secretary
of the Interior demanded of him a
lump sum for the payment of the police
of the city, he declined to furnish the
money in the absence of the pay rolls
duly attested. This perfectly proper
course has made no small stir among
the politicians, but the new * mayor
seems inflexible in his purpose to pre
vent graft.
Another incident that does credit to
General Andrade is his imprisonment of
the seconds of a certain Colonel Aranda
who sought a duel with him. It seems
that Col. Aranda asked for some of
tiis friends appointments to office* under
the new mayor, who declined to make
the appointments and in doing so gave
some sort of offense to the colonel;
Whereupon Aranda challenged Andrade,,
but instead of accepting the challenge
the mayor put in jail the seconds who
bore it, and declares he is determinea
to enforce the law against dueling re
gardless of consequences.
Havana seems to have a mayor who
is fit for the office, and if any consid
erable proportion of the new officials
throughout the cities and provinces or
the Island do as well as he has be
gun, there are better times at hana
for Cuba.
It is a pity that no party in Cuoa
seems disposed to overthrow tne na
tional lottery. It is a curse to tne
people of Cuba. What revenue it yields
is blood-money. It drains the common
people of their money while it debases
their morals. It diverts the earnings
SUFFRAGETTES CHOSE
. PALACES TO CLOSE
In Girlhood
Womanhood
Four Royal Palaces Ordered
Closed to Prevent Dam
age by Women .
fBy Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 1.—Owing to the fact
that the militant suffragettes have de
clared that they will wreck public prop
erty until their demands are granted,
the royal palaces of Kensington, Hamp
ton court, Kew and Holyrood have been
closed to the public.
of the labourer from his own legitimate
uses into the pockets of extravagant
politicians for illegitimate ends. Per
haps the new administration may he
brought to see the folly of the thing
as an economic measure and the wrong
of it morally; and it may be abolished
i Let us hope so.
Repeats have been spread throughout
the United States that another revolu
tion will soon occur in Cuba. These
press dispatches have exaggerated the
conditions, and the general opinion
among sober-minded people is that no
revolution is imminent. £
The leaders of the party which was
defeated at the polls do not know how
to submit gracefully to the will of the
people; and they have been a bit rioisy.
But they will not try a revolution as a
remedy for their disappointment.
The HAVANA POST voices the gen
eral opinion of the people in the follow
ing paragraphs which I take from its
issue of January 25:
“To those timid persons who see
trouble looming on the horizon on
accouift of the revolutionary talk
now going on in Havana, let it be
said there is no cause for alarm. For
so long that no one can probably re
member, it has been said that ‘a
barking dog never bites.’ In Cuba
it can be said that ‘a talking revolu
tionist never revolutes.’
“It is not when they talk revolu
tion openly that there is reason to
fear, it is when they all protest at
such a thing and most earnestly
deny having such intentions. Then
is the time for the secret service
agents to get busy. Then will be
a good time also for the vigilance
committee of the veterans tc carry
out its mission.”
Tt is safe to predict there will be no
revolution in Cuba this year. A fear
of American intervention in case of
revolutien unites most of the people in
pron Minced opposition to such methods.
It is to be hoped that Cuba will re
main peaceful and independent. All pa
triotic people in the United Statesi
should frown on- the intrigues of Ameri
can speculators to bring about annexa
tion. Adventurers of this sort, and a|
group of heavy, but hidden, financiers
are creating distrust of the United
States throughout Latin-America. For
dirty dollars they would not hesitate]
to foment Insurrections in Cuba or else
where, and draw our country into" em
barrassing complications, or even in
volve us in war. It would be interest
ing to know exactly what part such
men are playing in Mexico just now.
The sorry dogs stop at nothing! In
their eyes neither human life nor hu
man liberty has any sacredness. What
to them is the sacrificing of American
soldiers and sailors? What do they
care for killing men of our own or other
lands? What concern have they for our
national honor, or for the maintenance
of cordial relations with our Latin-
American neighbors?
They care for nothing but money. In
comparison with them Judas Iscariot
vas a saint.
.Havana, Cuba, January 25, 1913. .
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Man Proposes to
Anna Shaw as She
Pleads Suffrage
(By Associated Press.)
DANIELSON. Conn.. Feb. 1.—Six
hundred persons, most of whom were
suffragists, who were listening to an ad
dress by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, pres
ident of the National Suffrage associa
tion, in the Danielson theater last
night, were thrown into confusion when
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DESERTER SLAIN AFTER
RUNNING AMUCK
(By Associated Press.)
KIEV, Russia, Feb. 1.—A deserter
from a Russian artillery battery today
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three other officers, Including the com
mander of the battery, Captain Kritsky.
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