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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GrA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913. . ^OUAITRY rJOME Corpocted trims, tjh.jllto/1. GROWS BEAUTIFUL, LONG, HEAVY HAIR, WE CAN PROVE IT-25 CENT “DANDER!” TIMELY TOPICS 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 ate as to strong drink, perhaps ninety hundredths of them are under the influ ence of intoxicants when they become self murderers. I have just been read ing of the man and woman who went the pistol route a day or two ago be 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 gestive organs and disease their brains with liquor drinking. Their course is obliged to be downward as soon \as health gives way. 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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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