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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1913. k THE SEMI-WEEEY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75o Six months 400 Three months The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments special value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted ot every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R* BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre* sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a rout® please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address alA orders and notices ^ for -this de partment* to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta. Ga. For Agricultural Progress. "The 'only enduring conquests,” said a French philosopher, “are conquests made with the plough.” Certain it is that the progress of a State like Geor gia is very largely the progress of its agricultura' interests. Successful farming means buoyant com merce, thriving industries and all those values that make a prosperous commonwealth and a contented people. Any agency or institution, therefore, which makes for the betterment of farming methods and farm conditions in Georgia deserves the heartiest good will' and support of every citizen whether of the town or the country. Such an institution is the State College of Agriculture at Athens. The important changes which the past five years have witnessed in the agricultural status of Georgia —the adoption of scientific and economic methods of cultivation, the tendency toward diversified crops and toward a larger production of food supplies— are due chiefly, we believe, to the efficient and far- reaching work of this institution. It has been well sdid that the opportunity for such work lay in the willingness of the Georgia farmer to grow other crops than cotton, to raise live stock and foodstuffs and to assert the measure of independence within his grasp. But in order that this receptive spirit might be turned to practical account, it was neces sary that it be given due encouragement in the rig-t direction; and therein has lain the wonderful usefulness of the State College of Agriculture. Statistics show that during the past year more than one hundred and twenty thousand Georgia farmers attended the lectures and demonstrations given by representatives of the College on new ways and better ways of farming—a fact which proves that this institution is not only instructing and in spiring the young men of its immediate student body but is also bearing the light and the power of educa tion directly to the masses of farmers in every cor ner of the State. Equally significant of its work and purpose are the Boys’ Corn clubs, the Girls’ Canning clubs, and the farm demonstration agencies through which thousands of people are reached and organized for their own benefit and for the cause of agricul tural progress. In addition to all these lines of public endeavor, the College is continually issuing bulletins on sub jects of timely interest and is answ-ering inquiries for specific information on all manner of farm problems. In this field alone the value of its service is beyond reckoning. What the College is doing for its enrolled ’ stu dents is indicated in the fact that its attendance has increased from a mere handful five years ago to three hundred and fifty students In the scholastic year now ending. It has, indeed, established for this State a new ideal of agricultural education and has exemplified the truth that farming demands of the young men who would follow it as high a degree of culture and equipment as does medicine, the law, en gineering or any other profession. The State cannot deal too generously with an in stitution that is doing work so splendid and so prac tical as this. The Legislature should bear In mind tne fact that every dollar appropriated to the College of Agriculture yields a vital return to all the people of Georgia and that an institution which is growing so rapidly as this one and which is meeting so wic}£ a range of demands naturally requirgp increased faciliiies and increased financial means. The lobby investigation may sway the work of, congress but'incidentally the lobby itself will come in for considerable swaying. A Question for the Legislature. “If the people of Georgia pay $1.75 for school hooks for which the people of Canada pay only 79 cents', what do the Canadians pay for books that cost Georgians $1,000,000f This interesting problem which was propounded several weeks ago by Representative McCrory in a communication to The Journal has aroused State wide interest and brought scores of answers. While our arithmeticians differ slightly in their 'results, they agree that Georgians are paying considerably, over half a million dollars mpre than Canadians pay for the same number and the same grade of school books. Hence arises another question far more in teresting and vital 'than one of arithmetic: Why do the people of Georgia have to pay this more than half million dollar excessf This is a matter that directly concerns every patron, every teacher and every pupil of our com mon schools. It is a matter which the incoming Legislature should investigate in all its hearings, es pecially in view of the fact that the State Board of Education will soon award text book contracts ex tending over a long period of years and involving millions of dollars. Is. this great sum of money being extorted from our people for the profit of special interests? The public is entitled to a clear-cut answer and evidently it is entitled to more reasonable prices on its school books. Let the Legislature turn on the light! The Steady Growth of A National Idea. It is a significant fact that within the past year or two forty-eight bills proposing federal aid for highway development have been introduced in Con gress. Of these six have originated in the Senate and the remainder in the House. Among their au thors every section of the Union has been repre sented. From the North, the East and the West as well as from the South have come insistent de mands that the national government lend its sup port to the States in the great work of extending and maintaining good roads. • What surer omen could there be that the American people as a whole have awakened to the importance of roadway im provement and are ready to apply their united en ergies and resources to the promotion of this enter prise? It is an equally significant fact, however, that none of these bills has become a law. That may be explained largely on the ground that as yet Congress has been unable to agree on any definite, inclusive plan for committing the federal government to such » an undertaking; and it is well that such a plan should be devised before any considerable fund for this purpose is appropriated. With that end in view there was appointed at the summer session of the sixty-second Congress a joint committee of the Senate and the House "to make inquiry into the subject of federal aid in the construction of post roads and report at the earliest practicable date.” This committee has been studying all the legislation thus far proposed and also the road building sys tems of foreign countries. It has accumulated a vast amount of suggestive material from which no doubt some satisfactory plan to be applied in -the United States will be evolved.. The gratifying circumstance is that we are at length getting down to practical details. The senti ment of the country is unmistakably in favor of na tional aid for highways; it remains only to "perfect some method of procedure that will be consistent &ith national needs and that will guarantee a good ly return from whatever amount of money is appro priated. That accomplished, we may be reasonably sure that Congress will take definite and favorable action on this important matter. All of the noteworthy plans thus far suggested propose State and natloaal co-operation In road building. Of this character is the bill Introduced last January by Senator Swanson, of Virginia„a mem ber of the joint committee referred to. His measure would provide an appropriation of twenty-five mil lion dollars “to be apportioned among the various States, one-half on the.basis of population and one- half on the basis of rural delivery routes and star routes, the conditions being that each of the States should provide an amount equal to that it received, and providing further that no State should receive less than one hundred thousand dollars.” Still another interesting plan has been proposed by formqr Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon. His suggestion contemplates the ultimate expend iture of three billion dollars by the federal govern ment, this money to be raised through bonds and borrowed by the various States under an easy-pay- ment system. The Important and cheering fact to be noted is that there is no longer any debate over the right or wisdom of the national government in aiding the States in the improvement of public roads; the question now is simply one of the most expedient course to pursue in rendering such aid. And that will undoubtedly he determined In the near future. Smooth Sailing for the Tariff Bill. The tariff bill has apparently weathered its seri ous storms and will henceforth find smooth sailing. Contrary to the omens of a few weeks ago, Demo cratic opinion has grown more and more cohesive in favor of the measure as it originally came from the House. Senators wbo at first were 'disposed to ques tion the wisdom of certain rates have become con vinced upon maturer reflection that the rates are just and should stand. Republicans who hoped to win over wavering Democrats have found that they were pulling against mighty Influences in the oppo site direction—the Influence of watchful public sen timent and a vigorous President sure of his ground. The tariff lobby has been thrown into consternation, and sent limping from the capitol. The progress of “calm debate” can now proceed without interrup tion from special interests. Particularly significant of what ultimate action on the bill will be- is the recent course of the Senate subcommittee with reference to meats, flour and oatmeal. It seems that the original purpose of the committee was to remove- these food products from the free list where they had been put by the House and to subject them to a small duty “to accord with that placed by the House bill on the corresponding raw materials, cattle, wheat and oats.” The Presi dent evidently expressed his opinion, and . bather strongly, as to the unwisdom of taxing these neces saries of life. The result was, as stated by the New York Evening Post, “that the sub-committee decided to equalize downward instead of upward—to cancel the tax on cattle, wheat and oats, instead of placing a tax on meat, flour and oatmeal.” The Sooner, the Better. A delegation of clothing manufacturers from Cin cinnati and Cleveland are quoted in the New York World as saying that they “did not give a rap for the tariff; they could make men’s and women’s cloth ing in competition with any country on earth; and that all they desired was a definite announcement in advance as to when the measure would take effect. They could then regulate their contracts and avert anything like detrimental consequences.” This statement reflects the attitude of the great rank and file of manufacturers who have given calm thought to the tariff question. Those who know the value of efficient methods and recognize the justice of normal competition have no misgiving as to the reasonable reductions that are to be made in import duties. They have accepted with entire equanimity the nation’s verdict on this issue. They realize that public judgment demands a downward revision of the tariff. Such revision has long been anticipated and already has been largely discounted. What the manufacturers desire most earnestly is that the work of revision be completed without delay in order that they may know precisely where they stand and make such timely adjustments as may oe required. The only possible source of business ap prehension lies in undue delay on this vital matter. The sooner the Senate enacts the tariff bill, the bet ter will it be for the country’s industrial interests. Social Surveys and- Rural Progress. The present day movement for the enrichment of rural life has found one of its most practical aids in what is known as the social survey, that is to say a detailed and systematic inquiry into those facts and conditions which pertain to the human in terests of a country district and which may be changed or utilized for the community’s progress. We have seen the value of soil surveys to agricul ture, of geological surveys to industry and more keenly, perhaps, than in any other age do we realize the importance of patient research and accurate in formation in every field of endeavor. We value sta tistics and scientific data of all kinds because they show us what needs to be done, what can be done and how to proceed. It is doubtful that the average citizen in most counties, has any very definite idea concerning the conditions, good or had, of his immediate environ ment. He scarcely is prepared to think clearly or to act efficiently with his neighbors in efforts for social betterment. As a result we have many well- intentioned theories but relatively few practical achievements. How different would this be, if cit izens knew precisely wherein their community fell short of its opportunities and precisely where to be gin and how to move in bettering it. A social survey gathers complete and authentic information on schools, churches, uighways, health, means of transportation, markets and on all condi tions that concern the people’s common life. Such a survey would show among other things the prod ucts* of a particular county; it would show the growth or decline of agricultural interests, whether the trend of population was away from the farm and, if so, the reasons therefor; it would show what crops could be grown most profitably, what opportu nities were being neglected, what tendencies should be encouraged and what should he checked. The Ohio Board of Agriculture has recently done some very effective work in this direction as £as also the University of Wisconsin; but no efforts of the kind are more interesting than those undertaken a few seasons ago by what is known as “the Georgia Club” of the State Normal School at Athens. This club, composed of members of the student body and the faculty with associate members in various parts of the State, applied itself to the study of economic and social conditions in particular counties and, to make the work as specific as possible, each student, or group of students, was assigned his home county for investigation. He would gather as many posi tive facts as he could, classify them and interpret them. Then all this information was published in a report and distributed among leading Citizens of the county under review. An important feature of this research was that the students kept in close touch with the best informed people of their re spective counties so that their findings were well balanced and carried a direct local appeal. It is a matter of record that these reports have frequently served to awaken a county to needs or opportunities which had long been neglected. That is an admirable undertaking for any school. Its educational value to the students themselves is beyond reckoning and its public value is* strikingly manifest. The social or rural survey io as essential in its sphere as is a soil survey to the farmer or a chemical analysis to the manufacturer. It furnishes the starting point and guidance to true progress. .1! Problems of the Anti-Jap Law. The knotty and far-reaching questions which, it was predicted, would grow out'of California’s ill-con sidered Anti-Alien land act are materializing. A problem that was relatively simple in the outset, that was limited to one group of facts and that might have been diplomatically solved without pro voking other and complex issues has become mani fold and profoundly disquieting. The Japanese government is now disposed to challenge not only the California law which denies its subjects the right of land ownership in that State, but also the interpretation of the federal im migration act under which Japanese have been ex cluded from American citizenship. The contention at Tokyo is that Japanese are not really Mongolians but are of Aryan extraction and, therefore, as mem bers of a race which is ethnologically “white” are eligible to citizenship in the United States. Com pared to the problems which such an Issue, if hotly contested, might engender, the question of the Jap anese ownership of a few thousand acres of land in California is of small consequence. By its hasty and ill-timed agitation of a small Jap problem, California has exposed itself and the remainder of the country to a problem that might become grave indeed. Recent dispatches state, furthermore, that now Japan also invokes the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution in its protest against the Cal ifornia law. Presumably, reference is made to that clause of the amendment which declares that no State shall “deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Tokyo government has previously protested against the California statute on the ground that it violates the American-Japanese treaty of 1911. Thus if litigation is begun, the courts will be called upon to decide three serious questions—the violation of an international treaty, the violation of the federal constitution and the right of Japanese to American citizenship—all of which would never perhaps have been provoked had the Legislature and the Governor of California heeded the wise counsel of the national administration and left the original question of land ownership to diplomatic settlement. That these issues- will be determined peacefully and justly to all interests concerned, there is every reason to hope. But how much better would it have been, had the California politicians restrained them selves and permitted the national administration to take up this question in its early and simple form. Pointed Paragraphs Busy hands can find their own mischief to do. His Satanic majesty offers women diamond tiaras instead of halos. Sometimes a man is so shiftless that he isn’t even a successful liar. The under dog wants no sympathy; what he wants is assistance. HUMAN NATURE BY Z>R. FRANK CRANE. (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.) Poor human nature seems to be the goat. If anything is the matter with your scheme, blame it on human nature. Your ideas, plans, institutions, theories and conspiracies are, of course, all right; they break down because they have only faulty human nature to deal with. For a thousand years or so theologians insisted that human nature is as full of meanness as drug store ice cream is full of bacilli. It is still considered a self-evident platitude that man is by nature low-down and hankering to plunge into crime. All that holds him back seems to be Mrs. Grundy, policemen, fear and hell fire. All of which I do not in the least believe. On the contrary, human nature is a deal better than any in stitution or theory it has ever produced. Human nature is better than any laws made to govern it. It is better than all governments that un dertake to regulate it. It has more inborn goodness than all the reformers who are trying to improve it. It was “human nature that made life tolerable un der the tyranny of ancient Rome, and livable during the filth and darkness of mediaevalism. It is human nature that antidotes the crazy nar rowness of the fanatic, alleviates the merciless pro cesses of business, and tempers the cold arrogance of science. Human nature sprouts up eternally, as the wild flowers in the woo|s, and not all the barren excel lences of civilization can kill it. It is not law nor gospel, it is human nature, that makes mothers love their little babies, husbands and wives cling together for better or for worse, strong people care for the weak and aged; that makes chil dren happy grown, folks industrious, and old persons content; that keeps rich people charitable and poor people brave. t “Your millennial schemes are good enough,” it is said, “if it were not for human nature. It is th£.t which •prevents your having the ideal school, ideal state, ideal church and ideal society.” This is not true. For it is precisely hflman nature which, if we would but believe in it and give it free course, would speed ily make the ideal real. It is conventions, customs, institutions and all such fearsome ghost-powers of the past which thwart the wholesome impulses of living men and women. - All systems built upon a contempt of human na ture go down. That is why criminal laws that are in human are futile, and that is why prisons increase crime. That is why bloodthirsty creeds have been driven away. That is why tyrannies perish in revo lution. * Whoever despises common. human nature becomes cynical, and often vici<ms and perverted. Whoever believes in human nature is on the way to become normal, kind and wise. Monarchies, aristocracies and all things built upon the belief that men are essentially bad and ignorant, by and by perish. . Democracy is eternal, ever green and perpetually young, because it is based upon confidence in Human nature. That the people are not to be trusted, and need guides of strong hand and leaders and superior folk to prevent them from folly, is the delusion of the short sighted. What the people need is *tu be let alone, to be loved and to be trusted. God does not live in throne rooms, universities and pirlpits; He lives among the throng. Abraham Lincoln is the greatest American because he most utterly believed in the people. Jesus Christ’s spiritual leadership holds, because He trusted human nature and appealed to "the com mon people,” who "heard him gladly.” Certain jingoes must regret sometimes that they cheered so lustily for the Japs during the Russian war. Good Roads in Georgia The grape juice manufacturers have stocked Col onel Bryanjs cellar. It is rumored now that Senator Root also will retire. Well, membership in the down and out club is contagious. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) The good roads problem is one of many phases and it is an acute issue in almost every state, regard less, of the progress that has been made in road build ing. The state of Georgia, for instance, has forged to the front rapidly in good roads mileage in recent years and now has 22,000 miles of improved highways. Geor gia is not far behind Indiana, which leads all the states. When the convict lease system was abolished Georgia began to use her convicts on the public roads. Many counties have built roads under this arrange ment, as the convicts are at the disposal of the coun ties, but Georgia has no state highway department and the roads are not built under state supervision. The Atlanta Journal is advocating the establish ment of a state highway commission. The Journal rightly says that with efficient state supervision more rapid progress would be made and more lasting re sults attained. It points out that in this way the bes^- engineering skill would be obtainable at a nominal price; the convicts could be worked more economically; road material and machinefy could be purchased more intelligently, and "all the counties could work co-op eratively toward the development of a state system of roads.” The money that is being expended, in Georgia—and it is a large amount—would be spent to better effect, no doubt, under state guidance. The counties should have the benefit of the counsel, advice and assistance of the state to the end that there might be some uni formity of methods and that every new section of im proved road might be a link in a state system of high ways and fit in harmoniously with the general scheme. The situation in Georgia is Just the reverse of that in Kentucky. Georgia is building roads, but has no highway department. Kentucky has a highway de partment, but virtually is building no roads. The Kentucky legislature has created the department, but has provided no other means of encouraging road con struction. Thus two phases of the good roads problem are exemplified in two states. ''The old problem of the summer vacation will be solved, as usual, by a number of people spending it in Atlanta. 7 he Ragtime Muse BALLADE OF THE OFFICE SEEKER. Now that you’ve risen where You’re highest in the land, I don’t precisely care For what you take your stand Nor what the course you’ve planned Upon the tariff tax; I’ll leave that in your hand— Come, Woodrow, use your axe! I know you’ll do what’s fair In making trusts disband, So I won’t prompt you there, I trust you fully, and I think you’ll leave unscanned No place where law is lax; Your cure’s my fav.orite brand— Come, Woodrow, use your axe! You’ll give a deal that’s square When aliens seek our strand; The army you’ll repair; The navy you’ll have manned—* You rule a nation grand; Cut rival party quacks, Nor heed their voices bland— Come, Woodrow, use your axe! ENVOI. Hark, chief, your fires I fanned; I ftllowed in your tracks— But why the theme .expand? Come, Woodrow, use your axe! THE INCOME TAX X.—THE LAW OF 1894. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. When the Democrats undertook the work of revis ing the tariff after the second election of •Grover Cleveland, very many of them felt that the proper course to pursue was to take » off many duties that had been f bringing in revenue and to raise f an amount equivalent to the lost revenu e by the impositi»n of an income tax. The first suggestion in favor of such a tax came from President Cleve land, in his annual message. He said he was satisfied that the proposed new tariff, in th e near future, would produce enough revenue to take care of the ex penditures, but that there might be. a deficit for the time being. He stated that "the commit tee” had decided to provide against any temporary deficien cies in revenue by adding a few internal revenue taxes, Includ ing a small tax upon incomes derived from certain corporate investments. He added that tfiey had the double mer it of being absolutely just nd easily borne and of be ing easy to remit without disturbing business just as s'Oon as they were no longer needed. • • • It is presumed that “the committee’’ to which Mr Cleveland referred was the ways and means committee of th e house, although Senator David B. Hill declared afterward that neither the committee' nor the Demo- crats who were members of it had agreed upon any income tax or other internal taxes. Th e probabilities are Mr. Cleveland had consulted with William L. Wil son and a few other members of the committee, and did not mean what his message seelned to imply. » • . . When tne house received the tariff bill from the ways and means committee there was no reference in it to an income tax. The tariff bill was debated for several weeks, and as late as February 22, 1894 Chair man Wilson declared that no income tax amendment had yet been received by him. Seven days later Repre sentative Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, introduced an income tax amendment. It did not set any date for the termination of the proposed law, however, and it provided not only a tax on net Incomes, but on all dividends in scrip or money, and on all interest paid on indebtedness for iyMch bon ds had been lBsued There was very little debate upon the income tax amendment, and three days after its introduction it was passed as a part of the tariff bill. • * m The bill went to the senate the next day, and re mained with the finance committee for some six weeks. When the senate took up the consideration of the tar iff act it considered it paragraph by paragraph, and it was not until the latter part-of June that the income tax provision was reached. Senator Peffer, of Kan sas, Populist, offered some amendments providing for the exemption ofi mutual life insurance companies, building and loan associations and other institutions of like character. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, of fered an amendment excluding the salaries of federal judges, and Senator Peffer also offered an amendment providing that the income tax should be graduated In proportion to Income. Senator Hill, of New York, at tacked the amendment, and he was joined by several other senators, but this opposition was easily brushed aside. The first amendment adopted was one limiting the collection of the tax to th e 1st of January, 1909. Many amendments were offered designed to nullify the rigor of the tax upon corporations and to render less inquisitorial the methods of collection of the tax and some of them were accepted. • • > | After that the income tax provision traveled along with the tariff law through the tortuous channels of .conferences pn the disagreeing votes of the two houses. It finally passed, and along with the other parts of the bill became the law without the signature of President Cleveland, although he warmly favored that part of the measure. • • • The law was a comprehensive one, made, it was thought, to conform to the decisions of the courts from the beginning of the government down to the time of its enactment. It provided a flat rate of 2 per cent upon the Incomes of all citizens and of every other person residing in the United States, where such in comes exceeded $4,000 a year; and the tax was to be levied only on the portion of the income in excess of $4,000. Foreigners residing abroad and having prop erty interests in th e United States were required to pay taxes upon their incomes from such property. • • • There was explicit provision in the law as to how incomes should be estimated. United States bonds wer e not to be considered which provided by the law of their issuance that both principal and interest should be exempt from federal taxation, but all other interest was. But when it is considered that the tax was only 2 per cent, it amounted to less than one-eighth of 1 per cent on the principal value of a 6 per cent Invest ment. In estimating Income the profits derived from the sale of lands bought within two years previous had to be reckoned. The profits of all sales of live stock, wheat, hay and other products of the farm had to be counted as income, but as the farmer who makes $4,000 a year net income is the exception he would hardly have felt th e Imposition of the tax. It also amounted to an inheritance tax, for the law reckoned' Inheritance as a matter of income. • • • The tax was intended to be a net income tax so far as businesses, professions and vocations were con cerned, and practically so in the case of the farmer. The law recited that in computing incomes thfc neces sary expenses actually incurred in carrying on a busi ness, profession or occupation, should be deducted. Thus, a lawyer was entitled to deduct the 'cost of maintaining his law practice, the doctor the cost of keeping his office, his carriages and the like. A man who received $10,000 income and had to pay out $7,000 of it in interest had no income tax to pay. • • • All persons having an income of more than'$5,500 a year were required to render to the proper authori ties a list or return of the items making it up. Neg lect to make this list or return gave the tax collector or his assistant the rig!it to fix the Income from the best information available and to add 50 per cent to the amount of the tax as a penalty for the failure. This penalty was also prescribed for those who failed truthfully to state their Incojnes. • • • Such portions of incomes as were derived from div idends of corporations, joint stock companies, and other similar organizations, which had paid income taxes upon their net earnings were exempted from inclusion in taxable incomes, in order to prevent double taxa tion. Building and loan associations, savings banks, charitable, religious and educational organizations, mu tual insurance companies, and states, counties and mu nicipalities were exempted from the tax. In the case (ft government officials the tax was to be collected at its source—that is, deducted from the pay envelopes before they were passed to the officials whose names they bore. Keep Hoke Smith in the Senate From the Nashville (Ga.) Herald. The Nashville Herald has been watching; Hoke Smith’s careei in the United States senate, and we are moved to say that he deserves re-election, and for the first time we expect to support him. We have always lined up just as strongly as we knew how with the Joe Brown faction in Georgia, and we have* no fight to make on our crowd now, but Justice and fairness prompts us to "acknowledge the corn” and come out for Hoke for re-election to the senate.