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Established 1866.
VOL XXXI.
DEPLOY' CONFESSION.
TRUSTS ARE BUILT UP BY DIS¬
CRIMINATION.
Ho#* Motmpo Jrtt Dfpfiw's A ro,
of (’cnirge, (tight* Hut 111# (.‘ontfltkMoii#
A re liitilly Thy Populist Solution of
(lie Question,
ChauHcey M. Vanderbilt Depew, general man
agrr of the railroad
tots. in dire- Ming the recent Supreme
Court decision against railroad pools.
freely admits Hint the trusts which
control the markets and factories
this country owe I heir power to Hie
gal discriminations in fre.ght rules
for the bene It of large concerns and
against theii small competitors. lie
mala-:- the a! surd claim that this die
ermunuttem would be done away with
if ail of the railroads of the country
were allowed to enter a pool or trust,
with one general management. But
hear Mr. Depew:
"The smaller shippers am! the ship
ners s who nr - confined to the other
rlago <it Ite-lr tram,'. Th, r.-»nu Is Hut
the big shippers on the weak line have
an advantage of a discriminating
freight rate in their favor under the
law. The rate makes them stronger,
and I have known it to give to one
concern tlie whole of the business in
that product. In other words, the
freight rate has made a trust.
"I will give an instance. When tin _
interstate commerce law went into ef¬
fect wo forme l this association for tin
purpose of carrying iuto effect the in¬
terstate commerce law, which said that
there should le equal uniform rates to
everybody ant reasonable ones. Now.
there never has been anv complaint by
shippers against the rates in the Joint
Traffic Association since it was formed.
"Whenever we have presented a pool
»«U at Washington.......we presented one
three years a ro there is a cur.ous .
partnership to fight it. The partner¬
ship is between the manager of the
trust, and the yopulist.
"The Populist fights it because he
doesn't know anything about the
t ransportatlon business The manage! \
of the trust fig its it because he know,
all about transportation.
“The populist comes to me and says
‘Mr. Depew, I am going to fight, you
because you are. trying to form a great,
l ail way pool, which is a great railroad
trust,’ and ho honestly believes it.
“The manager of the great trust
however, says to me, ‘Depe-w, I am
going to beat your pool bill because if
>eu get a pool bill then you railroads
v t.l agiee u ill one another, so that
everybody who starts in this business
■’hicii 1 now control can get the same
rates I do, and that will break us up af
tar a while That is our strong point,
We can get rates, because we ship
heavily, that ti e general public can’t
&ot.
'When we ftmied this association
Die rates were agreed upon that should
be charged on west-bound freight from
New \ ork. That means high- class
goods to inercha its. One of the great
merchants of the west promptly .said
I newt have paid within 25 cents a
hundred of tariff rates, and won't do
it now.’ IDs business was on what we
call one of the weak lines He took it
off that lint arc, put -it on one of the
strongest lines ■ That left the weak
„ line without . ,
any west-bound business.
If there had been a pool we could
have transferred to that line enough
west-bound business to om pen sate it,
or we could have given it money
enough to make up the lot? 4 ! ’’
It. is (loubUetvs true that the trusts,
as well as all oth er Interests extent raff! the
railroad intcrestf, are opposed to
road pooling; but that does not ur vo
Mr. uliats. Depew’s contention that the* pop
in opposing » railroad trust ere
working in the interest of other trusts
The great trusts jf the country will a l
ways have a sufficient hold upon tilt
railroads to obtain for themselves :-p; -
rial rates; but. if the railroads were all
under one management that
meat would extort more from compel/ Yi/ h-v
trusts, more from their small ’ Vk,->
tors and more from everybody
than at present. Thus the trusts would
be hampered in business and would
make less money, but their small com
pet i tor a would be still worse hampered
and the trusts would remain as fullv In
’ ‘
control of tho markets as over
'
Mr. Depew , , is nn able , , con fuser Of *
fact and falsehooc. but he will have to
bn more adroit t tan this if he la to
muddle the popul fits.
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.
During the presidential compaign a
Chicago firm invested irt a lot of Mexi
can dollars as an object lesson on the
evils of Silver coinage. Last Saturday
that same firm failed for a heavy sum.
This is another object. - Twentieth
Century.
When the Mary and Steel Company
*• ^
works, which have been shut down for
nearly three yrors, are the 2,000 em~
pl0yos " «» nk 0,8 advance agent of
prosperity tor naung been elected, or
"m steel tni., for having “been hurt
e( “; V * Tni ! ( Re ' or dor -
_. I he admission Abner 1
'»« McKinley
to the New V ork bur, coinddently with
the admission of his brother to the
whlte hmme leads the man up a tree
to ask a net In r the poitcy of a New
York hustmv h ccnnection with the
white house is to be adopted bv tht<
administration also.—Cleveland l p« ue
corder.
Tim people of th> state have realized
more in the way of freight rate redne
tion from th- legislature Renuhlican of RwThV, \M
it lute of an, pivv «us
IteatUH, hut still they expected , nor
than they r. clvetl, and therefore \ v
■'>“«« .................- «-
“WE APPLAUD THE RIGHT AND CONDEMN THE WRONG.”
of 1895s they will weed out the weak
point and elect a People’s party legis¬
lature that will he as far above the leg¬
islative body of 1897 as that body was
above its Republican predecessors.—
Tacoma Sun.
It is an unwritten law of the polltl
cat economists that they shall ever
| conch their statements in very learned
I phrases, to the end, apparently, that
they may nor. be too readily under
stood. - New York Union Printer,
j in Wall waiting street mood, is reported And what to be is still the
a
infernal thing waiting for nQ'W ?
; Haven’t we elected McKinley .for
them, and are not the silver anarch
j&ts keeping quiet, and isn’t the Lead
viffe strike settled? Can it be that
Wail street depends upon the rest of
the country’-Denver Times.
YVh\ is Mexico more prosperous than
ever before while the United States is
suffering greater depression in. business
than at any other Umf . in Us history?
Because the mints of Mexico are op< '1
o he , free „ and unlimited coinage
Url if, ,? a^ctewd ar « close « “against agalnsl
•.
x Town” a pelltl,.,, rmfsiute a,«I
dtronic office seeker uv aunreciate
th( , , 0 f the Remihlican natty when
Town left them, but the unifications
will not bring him back into their
ranks. We have known Mr. Town for
a great; many years and know him to
be an honest, conscientious man, one
who at all times can be depended on
to work for the good of humanity. He
only left that party when that party
proved traitorous to its country’s
good,—West' Coast Populist.
A bin is now before congress look
log to the eonsumation of the, money
. „ « instructs the
8 f ° tmu5Wry to reUre from
< '"‘ CH,atl0 , ” a!i :p K al tenders, <reasury
notes ami stiver certificates, and to
set! all the silver bullion now owned
by the government at its market value,
B 0n( ja bearing 2Vs per cent interest
:iro to hr substituted for the retired
paper money Another bill relievos
national banks from having to deposit
bonds to secure their circulation and
obligates the government to issue notes
t0 Them to the amount of their paid up
capital. Just think of the insolence of
these bloated monopolists Just as
well pass a taw giving them a warran
<!<wi to ihe. whole nation with ah
* oIulc Bower to do as they please with
Dm people as to pass such bills as
'*«*• The situation is growing des
Perate.-lowa Farmers’ Tribune.
S3n * Authority,
A certain man who Journeyed along
il v - a . v vailed. Life tied a party label to
8 rour lapel and merrily trolled a
barty roundelay
“Whither are you going?" asked
ot,fi w ko met him on the way,
" To (} ie mountains of High Achieve
n^ent* yonder/*
3'our present course runs par
a,,el ? with the mountains.’
" l hl,0V(r * 1 know; hut I go the way
i ,;ir ‘- v tells me to go. My party
know s best.”
Alter a little while the one who had
before hailed the traveler again hailed
him.
h are m gcins U0w " hc
asked
To tho mountains of High Achieve¬
ment. yonder."
'But you are going in precisely the
opposite direction from that, which you
traveled,"
1 know, but I go as my party tells
toe, and it knows best."
Again in a little time, the same man
balled the traveler, and again lie
asked•
-•u-i “ r * T‘ SO,ng D0V, T
* “ 0U ? t8,ns of «‘eh En
\ , ! „ . . ‘* 8 aiu ’ at!y hav toW
« you
V .-i-T,* fro ”
: m<mntains , . are Ilow a: ?®w
-
“Oh, yes, I know, but I go as my
Party tells me. You may be sure that
it. knows best.”
Am1 one w? -° h »d the three
<ll “' suo,5i< an<1 the thr '-° responses said
t0 V 1 * nm,i " 1,0 1,:h! h;iiied the other:
*.,// '.!/ "' R / k r ’ r ,f 0 p, fiwir ‘ ed:
, 8 , say? You must
'
JU •, <‘ge t t>>r yonr.-elt.' ...
‘, ut ///T t, ' av ' ei<?r ’3 name?”
is Uigid 1 artisan.
,, ! m Ul ° trave, * Btiil G going
r to
and iro, to and fro,- A. J U’ate-rbnntso »v avcinoubc,
t’oxey’s Army Wot So Bad.
.Many of the American people were
deeply disgusted over the invasion of
t’oxey’s army. There is now in
Washington a more disgraceful and a
n * or< ’ dangerous army than that of
<,en ' Coxey ’ ' Vl,en th ‘* Philosopher of
fllU,r ® ( ome s to treat of the eondi
, a fair8 of lhis tlme he vill
>abIy . ., T ftn
pr ° ® m the Commonweal
r -suit o , the habitual ^ . invasion* r ° ,y that a
!,p'o ° f the natIon have ,n '
thau haif a cent ,* m% till find reason! the
delJiami . a of army more
able and less audacious than the de
mand8 of so-called patriots who have
gathered in Washington to receive pay
for questionable or rankly malodorous
l campaign services and even for their
vote*,—Galveston News.
j ___________ Wrong.
s„,„ f .«hi,. K s„„i y
-
u f ‘ , lb .. Wl 1 . ... 1 hompson, .. attorney for
' '
I *'reat Northern railroad says, 1 , ■ :
I Ia ‘ !ft lhe roa(l * u lhls ®tetc can be
bul j t for j css (! , an why t1o
the county asKpfiS<,r8 Place so small a
valuation on it when levying taxes,
^ 1Ul \ hWhy t>on,pe ‘ tho al,ead y dur
' d “ ucU * lTt>a ' u T '* |j:<y ‘“*« 8 ««»»<• a
’'‘"T-oretiou should settle for.’ it is
tax dodgers were
•
JESUP, GA., THURSDAY, VPR1L 15, 1897.
COLDBUC COOD TIMES,
The Louisville. Ky., Chair Cora pa •?
has assigned with 160,000 liabilities
and assets much larger.
Judgment tor ¥6.200 has been taker
against Luke D. Ralph, dealer in Cloth
ing, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. He has beet:
j n business thirty years*
The estimated liabilities of Martin
wise & Fitzhugh. cotton buyers, who
failed Inst, Monday at Paris, Tex., is
$800,000, largely in Liverpool,
A deed of trust, covering the dothina
store of O. O. Connor lias Paris, Texas
amounting to $32,100 been filed,
r. p. Monaghan, general store at
Sheriff Sumpter, S. C. has been closed by the
on judgments for $4,048. H.
has been in business many years,
Th „ Parmer8 , Mw . halli , a » Bank d
p arig Te has nia ,j e assignment,
A yi, for a receiver of the Christo
fiber Columbus building and loan as
sociation was filed in Chicago oh
Monday by the president of the asso in
tion ,
8 Ymms & Sf, »' * rotP1 ' al
Castle, . Pa., have made an assignment.
Th ? j -« »t»» t*»i«
Qull,cy- l, “ *’ M “
„
„ ^eeden, , 1 alley & Co., dealers in dry
S ° 0d * * R4chmw>d Va„ have made an
.
assignment.
A statement by the assignees of the
suspended Commercial bank at Selma.
Ala., places the liabilities at ¥1,000,0(m;
assets, $32,266; subject to «r reduction
of $25,000 deposited during the three
days prior to the closing of the bank.
The books show deposits to be $174,
000, almost double the amount here¬
tofore estimated. The depositors will
not realize over 20 per cent.
Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh, cotton
buyers, with offices at New Orleans,
Galveston, Houston, Dallas, New York,
Liverpool and Havre, made individual
deeds of trust at Paris. Tex.. Monday
afternoon, this being the firm’s head
quarters; preferred creditors, ¥90,000;
liabilities, $1,000,000. No official state¬
ment yet made.
The firm of Knowles & Poole, shoe
manufacturers, of Pittsfield, N, 1L, who
informed their employes that bnsines
would be suspended if Bryan was elect¬
ed, made an assignment for the benefit
of creditors on the I6th. instant for $75,
OOffi
Kx-Governor Tuttle, manufacturer of
...,- " Thi ^ tnrn h B 2 reduction fi ° • 1 “ In 8 wages ,, ’ „ a dur- "
g ,f t ^ 6 ^* 8 “ft *** ^ ^ ^
Anna 11 Heffeman, engaged in the
millinery business at 926 Ninth street,
has made an assignment to Rosa F.
Downing, placing the liabilities at. $.1
486.96 and assets at ¥557.33.
Adams, Jewett & Co., paper bag man¬
ufacturers at 29 to 33 Academy street,
Cleveland, Ohio, has tiled chattel and
real estate mortgages in the recorder’s
court for about $130,000.
When Has a < oiuury Money Enough?
When general prices are substantial¬
ly stable there is money enough and
not too much. All the money which
circulates and all the property for sale
are reciprocally the supply and demand
for fertch other. When the volume of
money increases faster than' business,
general prices rise; and when the vol¬
ume of money decreases general prices
fall. General prices furnish the gauge
or measure of the quantity of money
required for legitimate business. The
value of each dollar, or unit of money,
depends upon the number of dollars, or
units. Money measures the value Of alt
property by volume, while a yard stick
measure?, by length. There must he
more than one point to measure dis¬
tance, and there must be more than one
object to create value, Value ia csti
mation of the relative utility of differ¬
ent objects. The value of a dollar is
what it will buy, and what it will
buy is the value of a dollar, Pari i>
between different kinds of money will
take care of itself, and is too trifling
for consideration. The only parity re
qnired by monetary science, and by ju.i
tice and fair dealing, is parity between
money and property. The preservation
of parity between money and property,
that justice may be done, is the end
and aim of all monetary science.—SH
ver Knight-Watchman,
Municipal Ownership of street Knilwiiys
The question whether such public
services as lighting, by gas or electri
city, and passenger transportation In
the streets, should be intrusted to cor
porations or performed directly by the
municipality, is • one which is giving
rise to a great deal of discussion in
this country, and the sentiment in fav
or of municipal ownership i s unques
tlonr.b’y growing. The fact that fran
0 hises and locations in the streets hav.»
so universally given ,o private
corporalton » in our great cities and
that an enormous amount of capital
...........
any att,> T to lu «'tourate the
B,,ropean pracUc< " of P'*Wic owner
shlp ’ with op f at,on directly by
th e city or under a lease from it,exeeed
‘"8* <» mcuU Hut ««We from tho
< >»* st5on of dealing fairly with vested
interests, there seems to me to be no
reason why an American city should
not take up any service of this charac
ter whU ' h may ** commended by
business and financial consiileratioiiK
_*rena
The llcantj- ttf Thrai.
She (at the iireV~Horrors! hOOk
there! A man is trapped on the top
floor of the burning building. He- .
What In thunder Is he excited about!
The fire won’t teach him for several
years yet. That’s the beautr or thee,,
-““c
North A.nn;rlean.
POPULISTSAxNl) TARIF
MANIFESTO ISSUED BY THE
CAUCUS.
They JUwe No Faith in the .Oingly IUII
»s ?* Step Toward Prosperity It la
Designed by the Xlepwblkans to t 'reale
a Tariff Agitation.
A joint caucus of the Populist mem -
here of the Senate and House was held
to discuss the course of that party to¬
ward the tariff bill. As a result the
following address was issued:
“The tariff has been the batUedoor
ami shuttlecock of politics for more
than one hundred years, and its final
settlement is more distant than when
the controversy began.
‘During- this period the country has
experienced at different times both
prosperity ami hard times, not only
under a high tariff, but also under a
low tariff: but it has always expert
« m * lX ,,anl UfBPs wh « Q ***** was a
contraction' of the money volume, no
matter yhether the tariff was high or
low-.
“When the Cleveland-Republican
combination repealed the purchasing
clause of the Sherman act, and stopped
the issue of new money, the crash
came; notwithstanding, the McKinley
tariff remained in force for a year and
a half thereafter, and when the. Dem¬
ocratic Wilson hill became a law the
evils of contraction were not mitigated
but J im ^ 1‘avecon uued to grow
i'An Republican S n-" ,S or haVO a Democratic r n ° “ larlif e ?* as P a a
remedy for the evils of the gold stand
ard and monoply rule.
We recognize the , fact that . , ail ,, for- .
mer tariff legislation, as well as the
proposed measure tas many nninat
dlscrlminations, and works hardships
ly a StnCS ^ U *'
fo S : t«s Tho°chief th
Republican complaint
against the Wilson bill, however, „
that it dors not produce sufficient rev
■nuo for the support of the govern
merit. This Imkof revenue is not the
result of defects to the bill it was
passed by Congress, but resulted from
a decision of the Supreme Court,which
declared tha income tax unconstitu-
1 ional. There are many ways to supply
the deficiency without renewing tariff
agitation. The most direct and effec¬
tive method would be to restore silver
arid Increase the circulating medium
so as to restore the level of prices
which existed prior to the demonetiza
tion of that metal, if that could be
done, the present tariff law, with the
money derived from the other sources
would create a surplus and not a deft
cleney. If the money powers are
strong enough to postpone relief in
that, way, ample revenue could be tie
r ved from % tax on a few articles
which would produce revenue; or what
might he still better, a reduction of
needless expenditures, such as extrav
ugant appropriations of money for riv
era and harbors, not required by the¬
n-reds of commerce, and the like.
“We do not regard the Dingley bill
as a revemie measure. It is extremely
doubtful if ft will produce as much
revenue as the Wilson bill. Nor is
it tariff for protection in any just
sense, it is emphatically a tariff for
agitation. The discrimination and in¬
equality of the bill will create a great
dissatisfaction. It seems to us de
•signed y the Republican party to
create such a tariff agitation as will
divert, the attention of the people from
the misery they suffer from a contras
Don of the money and the rule of mo
nopolles. Tariff agitators, who are
j usually either ignorantly or knowingly
the tools of monopolists and the.money
trusts, have succeeded for tho last
twenty years in deluding many voters
into the belief that the misery they
endure results wholly from the- wick¬
edness of the tariff proposed or passed
by the opposite party. The sole ob¬
ject of tho gold Republicans seems to
be to engage the Democratic party in
the old chronic tariff war, and there¬
by sidetrack all other questions or
issues which they fear to meet, and
which alone can bring general pros¬
perity. These and other Ilka consider¬
ations have induced the Populists in
the two houses of congress to decline
to recognize the tariff issue as a prop¬
er subject to divide parties until the
main issue of the money question and
the rule of monoplics is settled. They
refuse to countenance any scheme
which will keep up the chronic tight
over the tariff to enable the money
trust to avoid a decision on the real
and vital issues between the people
and concentrated wealth.
“While the Populists will do all in
their power in both houses of con¬
gress to remedy the manifest defects
lit the Wilson lull and to secure to
farmers and laborers such protection
aa shall correspond with the protec¬
tion in both the McKinley and the
Wilson bill of finished products, to
equalize the burden of taxation neces¬
sary to raise sufficient revenue, and
to aiso equitably distribute the bene
fits resulting from such a tariff, yet
if they refrain from voting for or
against the Dingley bill on its final
passage, it will be to avoid even the
appearance of promoting the eontinu
ante of the tariff agitation to side
track the vital and overshadowing
questions of financial and monopoly
reforms and also to avoid giving coun¬
tenance to the contention that any
tariff legislation, however wise and
just, could remove existing cviU and
| bring general prosperity.”
Tip address is signed by all the Pop
? | ulist senators and representatives.
Kaay SllUlng Curtain Htugs.
Certain rings for heavy curtains are
Mow hung’ ok hall bearings, the null,
'•torn^ pet in a casing in the upper in
sit!,, portion of he ring, so that it
sttrtH easily on th-. pole
Subscription $1.00 Per Year.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
The Loud postal bill Is a measure
designed to further the plutocratic
| monopolization of the newspaper busi
ness.'- It has passed the house, and
when it makes Its next appearance in
j the senate, genuine public sentiment
j possibly should make stand against it. All
pressure should be brought to
bear upon each individual senator to
induce him to vote “no” when the roll
(Sail comes,
Senator.Hanna has established an ed¬
itorial bureau at Washington, from
which high priced writers will send out
to the subsidized press during the next,
four-years articles' explaining the non
arrival of the- prosperity'.wave,
I Under the guise of an anti-trust law.
a measure, has been introduced in the
Massachusetts legislature which would
make any labor union a conspiracy,
both as to civil- and criminal action,
in case of its supporting a strike. This
is the kind of legislation workingmen,
who cast a large majority of the votes
polled In Massachusetts, will get as
long as they vote tickets nominated
by allied monopolists. What else can
be expected?
Senator Wolcott, who has been repn
dinted by all parties in his own state,
is the sponsor in the senate of the in¬
famous Loud bill, the design of which
is to prevent competition in the news¬
paper business and the transmission of
cheap postage rates of reform litera¬
ture.
Those KbQ p , ead that npemlinR vast
8unis upon fancy flrpSB i >a!iSj B uch as
,hat given recently by Mrs. Bmdlty
^^ t ' ‘ff ? tollomng from
‘-he great John Ruskin:
« J)0 IKJt cheat e}[ imo thhlMni ,
that a „ (he fia u ca „ wear ia so
much Jmt , ;i(to thp h , mgTy nioulba of
tho8e borieath It is not K0 , it ls
>' 01 ' >ou.selves, whether you will
0 L, n * & ° me time luatittctivcly
f ^ b f..... if wli0
sh,vcrlr ; t!le ct8 lwmm
a h,lP to watch f in K,r, voil ' ’ °' n oi *
-
-«>»r carriage-know it to be. loose
hne f eflSOS ,l ° not mAan thut so Jn!lcb
has been imt h)U > thcir mout H- but
6,0 br,s been i- abcn out of
inout -hs.
It, is a very simply question Who
produces the wealth expended and de¬
stroyed in a fancy dress ball? Evi
dcully not the Bradley Martin class,
because they do no productive work
whatever. And is it not. clear that
Die producers of that wealth would
have been better off if it had been loft
their possession,
"When it. is said that the percent
age of wealth gain in the new states of
tho west has been greater than that of
the old states of the East and that
therefore our gain has been greater
than theirs, it is equivalent to saying
that, when John buys a jack-knife for
j 5 cents and sells for 30 cents, gaining
i 100 per cent, he has gained more than
j James, who bought a knife for ¥1. and
sold it for ¥1.10, thereby gaining only
10 per cent. The Western states have
gained from 50 per cent, to more than
100- per cent in material wealth dur
ing the last 15 years, While the -Eastern
states have gained about 40 to 45 per
cent during the same time; yet the gain
of the old states has been vastly more
than, that of the new. Massachusetts,
for example, gained four and a Half
times as much wealth in the ten years
from 1880 to 1890 as Kansas did.though
our percentage of gain was more than
} : twice that of the little New England
i taic.”.....-Topeka Advocate.
> Jt m , IM he remembered, that
too, thf
large increase in taxable values in
western states has been caused largely
by the increase in land values,duo sim¬
ply to'the settling of the country. And
the lands, improvements and chattels
of the West are mortgaged for sums
which it will be practically impossible
to pay under a gold standard policy.
Ketrentshmeat -«r K nin ?
The day of retrenchment, or the day
of ruin, for this government is awaii
tng the people of the United States
in the not remote future. We BhaU
soon step from the nineteenth into the
twentieth century. We shall carry
with us either the germs of dissolution
and of decay or of life and conserved
energy.. To avoid the former and se¬
cure the latter the American people
should begin at once in the household,
in the 'actory, in the counting room
in the management of great lines of
transportation and in ail other incor¬
porations of capital to practice some¬
thing of the economy and frugality
which characterized our New England
ancestors. The cost of local govern¬
ments must be lessened. Admiaistra
tion of county and city and village af¬
fairs must be. made more and more
businesslike and economical. In short
the fixed charges of American citizen¬
ship must be cut down—J. Sterling
Morton in the Forum.
1,lc KtU,bi, ’ s '•"*
Fhose . that
v» so insist the stiver
question is not as much importance
88 :ire some qm Ron- and want
fo let go ol it lor that reason should
I think about what u.tppeneq the .to.bait
! hunter. He reached into a hollow log
and caught the rabbit by the foot anti
could have pulled him .out, hut to said
the leg was of she h small..consequence
If he could not catch it by the, middle
j of the body at one full swoop the
blamed thing might stay (hero even if
j his family had to starve tor the want
j of it. Consequently he did not get the
i rabbit. Had be pulled on the leg the
halaheo would have followed and the
babies would not have gone hungry.
The silver question may be only u hind
! leg hut it is the most available hand
s hold and chose who let cu *u it at rites
ctago of the game ore helping to take
bread from their children a mo ulus.
.-Vo ’ -Iowa !• armcru rribune.
NEWS OF MOVEMENT.
Considet able interest has been
aroused throughout the covin try among
people of all parties- by the fact that
since the Populist treasurer took
charge Jan. 1, Nebraska.state warrants
have risen in value from 95 to 97
cents on the dollar, notwithstanding
thf) publication of the fact that the
outgoing Republican treasurer was
short over half a million dollars.
The first c-ity election held in Du¬
luth, Minn., since McKinley's over¬
whelming victory there last fait re¬
sulted in very nearly a Populist, clean
sweep. Evidently plutocracy, though
intrenched in power Is in greater dan¬
ger than ever before.
Jesse R. Grant, the youngest, son of
Hie greatest general, is to be the Pop
tdist candidate for mayor of the city
of San Diego, California, at the coin¬
ing election.
All of the silver Republicans in the
house ami all but four of the Populists
hi the body united in declining to vote
on the Dingley tariff bill. This.course
was in pursuance of the policy out¬
lined in the Populist manifesto re¬
cently Issued, and was also in ac otd
anee with an agreement which was
reached by the silver Rcpulicans.
I he Minnesota federation of labor
charges Labor Commissioner Powers
with non-enforcement, of the factory
net, publishing a Republican gold
campaign document at the state’s ex
peuse, not publishing labor statistics,
garbling mortgage statistics for gold
buggery, employing office force on
private work, taking vacations and en¬
gaging in private enterprises on the
state’s time, Wben the Minnesota
b'deration of labor unites with the
farmers of the state in opposing the
election of governors who are disposed
to appoint such labor commissioners,
there will ho a change,
'The New York World thus confesses
that at least one excellent measure
has been passed by the Populist legis¬
lature of Nebraska:
“Candidate Bryan’s home state of
Nebraska is largely Populistic in every
department of its government, but in
passing the bill prohibiting corpora¬
tions from making contributions to the
campaign fund of any political party
U has rendered a service to the cause
of political morality which might well
be followed by states with a better
political record. -A corporation which
is wholly the creature of law has no
natural right to do anything that is
not specified in the law by which it is
created. And we believe that no cor¬
poration has ever avowed that the
contributing to campaign funds was
among the purposes for which it was
established. It has no moral right to
make such a contribution, because it is
not a moral being. As a corporation
it can have no interest in politics ex¬
cept a mercenary one. It the Ne¬
braska law should be adopted in every
state and enforced in every campaign,
a great, many of the difficulties would
disappear.”
Good Xlge.
The story of a dog who is wiser than
his master comes from a Texas town
by way of a dispatch to the Philadel¬
phia Times. The dog is yellow and of
mixed breed, but the readers will riot
he likely to lay such things up against
him. The master of the dog is a ranch¬
er, so called, who one day recently
went into town with a bale of cotton.
This he sold, and then, like a'good-for
nothing fellow, went to work to drink
up the proceeds. Long before night
both he and his money were pretty far
gone. Toward evening he climbed in¬
to Ills rickety wagon, unhitched his
fjbaggy ponies, who had been standing
all day without food or drink, and
started homeward. Very soon, over¬
come with liquor, he fell on the floor of
the wagon and went to sleep. Tho
pontes, having no driver, began grazing
by the wayside, and by and by climbed
a low railroad embankment, still look¬
ing for a wisp of green. Before long
a north bound train swung round the
curve, and bore down upon the team.
A man in the distance, seeing the dnu
the wagon could not hear him, and the
ponies thought nothing. Not so the
ger, set up a shout, hut the occupant of
dog. He was wide awake to iris mas¬
ter’s peril, and began biting and bark¬
ing furiously at the ponies’ -heels. They,
foolish creatures, kicked and backed,
and just in the niclt of time cleared the
track. Whiz went the train, just miss¬
ing the wheels. The man was saved.
His name ia withheld, but the dog’s
name is Tige.
Beefsteak Comics Illgh »u Alaska.
The first beefsteak that ever reached
Circle City, Alaska, sold for ?48 per
pound a few weeks ago. The steak
coablated of a ten-pound piece of beef
that was slaughtered at Forty Mile
-reek and was carried from that place
to Circle City, a distance of 250 miles,
by Thomas O'Brien, When O'Brien
reached camp the miners turned out
en masse to see the srtc-nk. It was
placed on exhibition and attracted
much attention. The prices offered
were such as would have resulted ir.
•v mining camp quarrel or bloodshed if
it had not been decided to raffle the
-peak for the benefit of a hospital which
Bishop Rowe is trying to establish for
the miners at. Circle City. At first on¬
ly $5 per pound was offered for tt sifea
of the steak, but. bidding became brisk¬
er ns the meat was sliced and as high
as $.15 a pound was offered. Finally
in order to avoid complication, it. watt
derided cttr-tiea to' to sell -u tickets at from 50' cents
tp $2.50 for the privilege of drawing a
slice. After $480 worth of rickets had
been sold the drawing began and was
ended peacefully.- Tacoma (Wash.)
correspondent of tto DnUe-ton \ v
:
TUb IC«n-i«tent Vflfsloii.
'the. fin de »irt;S« lover puts it Uhis. :
■ 1 love the very g mud M. i-tlnom
_
t.- bikes over." - Trifles !
NO. 16.
Tiiimra? Georgia.
Another ice and beer war l.as been
inaugurated in Savannah, and it prern
)ses to be a icpeLrion of that of two
years apo, when ice went to 5 cents
and beer to 75 cents a keg,
( to vernor A tl;insoii' has received nu¬
merous invitations to deliver addresses
at various places, the last being H i ( -
quest from the Union League Club at
New York to be present at its annual
meeting on April 27th. The invita¬
tion i,v < i,ached in the most urgent
!ern>- tor tu-s accept ttiioe ui.l includes
a request ton - the names of the mem¬
bers of his staff, so that they may be
personally included in dite invitations.
t’he city t iv assessors'of Macbu have
submitted - to the-council their report
lor the present year of all taxable
property in the city- as follows: Real
esviHe y8,y](>,12U; personal property
$5,282,Old; total SU.l-ffil.Om Hu's
f-hows a loss from last war of §201,475
divided us follows: On real estate
,f.l US, 158; on personal property $8H<
•'1.17. Considering the general depres¬
sion that 'lias prevailed over the en¬
tire country, the lues is small.
tooft-.-.' W S. \cates, Mate geolo¬
gist has just received a colored dia¬
gram marhie showing the arrangement of the
the Georgia display in hi- department of
exhibit at the Tennessee
Centennial. '1 be 'professor deserves
the credit, for having gotten together
the handsomest display of marble,
building .stone and minerals ever sent
out.from tlu> state, and there will be
v o exhibit that will, equal it from any
-tide in the Union a? the great expo¬
sition.
Commencing Tuesday night, .April
14, and continuing tiiree days, the
Georgia- State Sunday School associa¬
tion will hold it* twenty-fourth annual
convention at Ne'wrufn.* This conveu
ibm has been appropriately termed the
’’ Mow convention, in view of the va¬
rious discussions to take place relative
to how Sunday school Work should he
conducted. The speakers--who will ad¬
dress the convention, upon these par-'
tinulur "boy. ” Mibjccrs ,nc the most
mtlnnitial men in Sunday school work
in the country, arul it is pmlio ed that
There will not be a dull moment dur¬
ing the sess ion.
Ibnlcss the law or the governor pre¬
vents in some way, Mrs. Elizabeth
Nobles will hang April 23d. Rut she
will uot-die on liie-scaffold'if the wo¬
men of Georgia: can prevent. An ap¬
peal to'the public lute been issued, call¬
ing upon those who are interested in
the fate of Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles,beg¬
ging them to sa ve Georgia the shame
and disgrace of her hanging and to
contribute one dollar or such other
smni, as a fund to havejher case carried
up. The signers of the appeal are
highly esteemed ladles of Macon and
have done much in behalf of suffering
humanity. The case of Mrs.. .'.Nobles
will probably reach the supreme court
of the United-States.
At: a meeting of the directors of the
Atlanta 4'oustnution Publishing Com¬
pany Mr. Clark Howell was elected as
editor am! put in full control of the
policy and the news features of the
paper—Mr. W. A. Hemphill being
c lev led president and business -man¬
ager of the company. The change
was brought about by the withdrawal
of Captain Evan P, Howell, who sold
his oue-Rmrtk interest in the company
to Mr. Hugh T. Inman, of Atlnnta, and
who retires for rest, after having been
far -twenty years editor of the paper
and president of the company. Mr.
Clark Howell, who succeeds Captain
Rowell h« editor of tile \ a per, since
the death ol the late Henry W. Grady,
v.lioni he Mieet edt 1 seven year** ago,
has been ntanugiur editor of the pa¬
per. There will be no change in the
policy of the mattagernejit.
The legislature of 189(5 made mi im¬
portant change in the tax laws regard¬
ing bank; and banking institutions
chartered bv the state. It. is Said on
good authority, that the same change
applies to national banks ns well. The
act of 1804. providing for the levying
of the bank tax for .the years 1895 and
I.S'Ji’i, stated clearly and specifically
that nothing in the act should be con¬
strued to relieve the hanking compa¬
nies from paying tax cm the realty and
personal property owned by tho insti¬
tution. The act of 189(1, pr ovid trig for
the taxing of such institutions for 1S97
and JHfly, jart plainly and specific¬
ally states that nothing in the act shall
be -construed to the levying of a tax on
any realty and personal property of rep¬ the
resented in the market value
bank stock. Thus the banks may get
out of paying taxes on its • real estate,
though the property may be worth
many thousands of dollars.
The appoint men» of Harry Hill to
the position of ' supervisor of the
Northeastern railroad was in the na
. . inilt<a<i ... . . l
tine of a -’n prist "> *u. -.
To none was tt more off a surprise than
to Mr. Martin H IWy. genera! map
was nger of Jim
Richards anti Tames 1*. Harrison, tim
lessees, M. Dm It si.gr.ifA *ht !-».•!
for the faithfnf performtinee of their
duty ou the part of the lessees
at the same time a con 1
trite* v -';v- H u ‘': n ,. r „
-Richards ami j ;; "
Dooly the position of } .<cncr.u nmuapo
id .' the road H;rim the existence of
. first
their tww'sfl Icssoes. One of tho
things do«e I } Mr. D’.-.Jy as genera!
v. i*s tfit* < t ihv
iurtrof sUJWlrt el “ ntoilrttrt* in <‘X
pedienev aitd (-ecmoixty. be conKidefing
the office of .supervisor <>.- :.upertluoua offir-w!
lsU ,i assuteieg (he dut ies off that
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