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About The Cherokee advance. (Canton, Ga.) 1880-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1881)
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All communications intended for pub lication must bear the name oft lie writer, not necessary for publication, but as u guarantee of good faith. 11Y A. 11 RICHMOND* Old Booty K. and Ins good wife m! iiv» A o^etherin ,h§ bonds ot Wc shall not In any way be responsible for the opinions of contributors. No communication will be admitted into our coluinus having for its end ot defamation of private character, or in say othef way of a scurrilous import a public good. Correeponduace solicited ou all points • f general iniportuuco—but let them be briefly to the point. All communications, letters of busi neas, oV f* -iWsjf - n+m/l tun cos, to* : v <r prompt attention, must be addressed to ItOBT. P. MAKTYN. GVNTON, 0a. r— THIS PAPER may T>* fonnd on flln at «KO. P. | p ■ ■ w ■ m mm >' ltOWKU, A COM Newspaper Adverttolnif Bureau (l# Spruo* StrroO. wliere ailvor- UM|| IMIM tiainp:eoutne tsmay BID fUni. he maun Xn‘ it in RfeV ■ WBBOBB (Central BivtcUnu. cuvncMms. II. E. CiiugcH, South—Rev. S. K. Akin, l’astor. Preaching every fe 1 Sunday ‘ho pastor. Preaching on the 3<l Sunday by Rev B K Ledbetter, prayer Meeting every WeUnesdaj night. Sunday School at 'J a . M. lieu. P. Payne, Superintendent. Baptist Cnuncn —Rev. J. A, HcMur- vf, Pastor. Preaching every second and fourth Sunday, and Saturday before 8nd Sunday. Sabbath-school at <3 P. m., M. B. higgle, Superintendent. oh6ems. F. A. M.— Meets every first and third Monday’s at b r. m., in Masonic Hall. Jabkz Galt, W. M. J. M. McAvbk Scct’y. K. of II.—Meets ev.ry 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 7 1-2 p. m., in Masonic Hall. W. A . Teasley, Dictator. Jabez Galt, Reporter. co jvpt h - ov# gt 'Eas. O. W.PUTNAH, Ordinary. JABEZ GAl.T, Clerk S. Court. E. G. GRAM LING, Sheriff. JOS. 1). DOBBS. Treasurer. A. L. KSNNETT, Tax Collector. J, L. JORDAN, Tax Receiver. Wm. T. KIRK. Coroner. W. W. U '.WKINS, Surveyor. C. M. McOliPRB, County S. Coin. Dll. J- H SPE1R, ) County M. A. KBI1IT, i Board Rev. M. PUCKET, j- A. T. SCOT l*. J. B. RICHARDS, Education. ATLANTA, GEORGIA ALABAMA STREET, J. L. KEIIH, Proprietor oiatruror? I >r lV*rty years, and while tl is ;>i\ vciuml tluit the course of true luv did run smoothly, it u •specially me that the b ream ol coniurb ; ul fe l:c. y dots not uhvuy* llow calmly and uninterrupted by rock or ripple. While they agreed to the mam, yet there were some slight differences of opinion betwieu them, which some times cast their shadows ^ver the matrimonial pathway, m clouds Hit ting Across the sky cast their shad ows over the landscape. The differ 4 i nc-8 w. re lew. and Henry thought immaterial. For instance: The old lady was a warm advocate of temper- ance and tola! abstinence, while Hen r y was not. The old lady was a pi ous and cxamplary Christian, Henry was not. The old lady was frugal and industrious, and here again they differed. Furthermore the old lauy believed it u doty to work six days in the week, and rest on the seventh, while lleury believed that if he rest. od hard all the six days oil the week, there was no harm in going a-fishitig the seventh. With the •xeeptian of these unini portant difference*, they agreed as vtu/l a^ ylie average Matrimonial couple who are bound together by the ties »f past love and present lan H*nry was an arden politician, and look great interest in see in »that prop or men Were elected to office. If a town constable was to be chosen, lUmy was tn active canvasser, and on election day, if his favorite can didate was the fortunate man, Henry was so elated, he generally ceiebrut ed his victory so enthusiastically that late at night h* was so tired Ire had to be led home by his brother politicians; while, on the other hand, if his man was deleated, Henry was wont to drown his disappointment in the flowing bowl. 'Hi* old lady had borne this, her great sorrow, for two score years, un til at last forebearance in her mind ceased to be a virtue. So, one cold November night, when Henry was brought home in a more than usual ly sorrowful condition, and laid up on his bed, she procured a ciotiies line, and with it bound him as tight and fast as ever a victim was bound to the stake. She then put out the fire in the stove, that he might not get up in his elepp and set the house on fire; opened the windows in the roouij that he might not die of suffo cation, locked the door, and retired to her lonely couch. During the night it stormed so said his “rheuuiatiz” prevented the liit*. and hio insulted mauhcod the Dab Bo, thinking that in the end he would abandon the suit, and to ippease h'ui for the time beiug,,! 8L ed lus petition. 4. Time passed ^on. There was uo ot)> ot peace; the day of t*tul utfnie, amt the twelve intelligent jurors bought the ground for a divoi'Cv suf floe ut, and so said by their ver^ic*. Old lien fly left the court appur;j*»tly as happy as on his bridal umi'u. About six wt-eks after, the old tnun emu* into my odlc* again, looking very much crestfallen. I had heard what had happened ad inlerimi and was prepared tor what was coining. “Squire/ said Henry at la«', ‘I want you to get me another diviflW •Another divoice?’ said I: ‘why, ire you marr ed again after you; ”;i£t ex peril t.Ce ?* ‘Yes, Su mre.’ said he, ‘I named the old woman over agin' ‘You did ?’ said I; ‘why, hiotv in im* world did that hnppt n, and,with so short, a coartship ?’ ‘’Twa’n’t no courting at' ul4* said the old man. ‘1*11 t*ll ye Imw it hap pened. Squire. One evening the old woman sent me word tlmt. she had got a letter from our son Sain irt.Kal iforny, and invited me to comp down and she would read it to me. I frent down. She had a good supper for me. You se*, Squire, I’ve been keep- in’ t uohTer’g null sin' we parted. Welf, Attsrp Tratl *tyfe*rf*h* litter, atul got my old pipe and gin it to me, and we sit and talked lor some time, when T looked up in the Cupboard and I saw the old woman's bos,<.>i tansy bitters. She saw no* n uking at it, and went and tiik it down and sot it on the table, and told me to take some, it woukl be good for my rheumatiz. J took a drink—there wasn’t aa much tansy in it. as a he used to put in, fer she used to make it so bitter I couldn’t drink it. Wall, it tasted kind o’good, and tl cold woman was pleasant -and I took another drink, and by me by another, and arter a while Squir Hobbs and his wife corned in, and wc talkidur.d talked about Sam and old times, and I don’t jest remember how it was done, but she married me over ag’iti, But it was the whis key that done it Squire, aud I believe it was a sot up job, an’ 1 Won’t stand it.’ I informed him that he could uot get. another divorce until some new cause arose. I told him to try and get along, let whiskey alone, drop politics, and I thought the old wo man would not freeze him to death *o. 5t. ftutigous ol' Immitfratiou -. *5 long :*4 the America • p. oole are tools * nonjh to hid high for such rubbish? The people so helped, swear never to return. Why should to the United th*v? Banishment States is not half so bad :.* aj dt, t We devote space this w»ek to the ielter ch M r. Hyers, on lmmig ation, btcause we have always believed that immigration as at priseut cour'ed by Georgia and othc states would prove almost an unmitigated cu*‘Pe, T’welve years ag>* bv a short article in one of the then leading weeklies o! Georgia, we filed our protest against it, bused upon onlyone ground of ob jectinn. Time and again since that, wt* would have-renewed it, bus tl up ou a number ol objections, bin for the reasons we Were not known among the Iradera of public opinion, and thought that surely* some one who assumed the roU* ot statesmen would see ere long that the immigra tion policy of the day was u mlmake. T'he argument hits all beeh ou one side until very recently ; but sonn have waked up at last. in addition to whtit Mr. Byers says, we commend to the viaiouary i..;mi gruLionists, a wet ks travel through Georgia, with oons'aat and cl »se ob- rt.-rvat.ion and ii quay as to the m crease in the number ol farm houses, multiplication of farms, character of lands upon which uu*n are paying rent; rbo number ol people in towns and cities out of employment, Hu* cha gesof investments that might be made to the profit of capitalists a*, home and laborers inn, that he may consider in the* face of what lie learns by tins process, whether or not wc so much need or are likely to need, any other population than our. natural increase, properly cared for. We are threatened by no clanking chains or resounding arms that i r- bid a pause on this line. Let us pans* and consider well! and possibly not a mau of them c aid '•1'. n,. r oeli^Ve, ff’.- fTTtTV'^vMMimT' I*r.'t *vr v, i .ii> hn>4.T5fyj ***''' - “That e’en a child could understand The de'il bad business on the ’.and.” In the morning, poor old Ilenry was almost frozen so death, but ou 9 his making a faithful promise to let politics alone in the future, His wife released him. The rheumatism, how ever, had taken so deep a Bi^t in his bones, that he was unable to walk for many a day. As soon as he could get to town, he came to me to tell me a most pitiful tale of his WD 'gs, and employ me to get a di vorce. I tried to persuade _.*u old man to forget and forgiv-, but he woik house, or an asylum for idiot*. It is conferiug nu-rcy’ and mut<-rinl g 'oil, and cons der.-ible honor on such subjects to get -rid of them in ting way; especially when oi*e tvfl c - t hu| in a very*lew years these jaiis-bifd*, paupers, idiots, and what tj») . will bloom out in full glory of Arm-nctU citizMisn ip. One little canton of S^tz rfani spent in a short series pt yeais. not less than ota and a half million of francs in a depurate attempt t.. dis pose of its poor to other conotr es; and the greatest regret wag that soma go'd citizens left with the worthies*. Within u month, another t»wn has publickly vou-d forty dollars a head to all who will emigrate. America, is a c.itaper poorhouee than any to lie had at heiue, say t,heat ecoubmists, • and it is also the cheapest jail. I if no uncommon thing ou the conti nent lor villages uud clubs to make U common purge to defray the ex pense of halt a dozen loafers aoi* 1 '** the sea, ou the one condition ‘that they never return. Alun s: every mouth of late years nun br M ugW dit« ficultie* and aiigry ebrn spo-id nc« boi.w-.-en hniui oflieials tu Europe and our consuls and diplomatic repr j eu» tatiyes as- ti* shiping of wonfldeSi subjects io our shores. But a fevf moutiia ago, e ven hundred Italians, wretched, pout and liny, were snip ped off in n body to the United 8< atei T’hey wete all ignorant, and of ! >w- «st classes. They w«re all Uoutaa Oatholics ol the most bigoted ktad, again. A number of months after, I met o.'d lienrv looking bright and hap py. ‘Well, my old friend,’ said I, ‘how do you get along?’ ‘Oh \ lust rate, Squire! fust rate. You see the old woman can’t foo) me on any more lanng lea. I’ve quit drinking, Squir*, i-igned the pledge, and my second wife and I get along fu-t rate, betti-r than I did with thofu-t one, a darned sigh:. Sum’s cowo home, and, Squire, 1’trf oiost awful glad I took tluu tuiisy.’ I hope Ll» women wdl see no rea- uon in the- f negoing anecdote to les- •vu their e-Hurts in the cause of tun* p ranee, for while drunkenness has been in my p met ice the prolific cause ol divorce, I never before knew a happy marriage like old IL nry’a to result from it. Whether tee tansy had anything to do with the result is a matter beyond my knowledge. I have looked in the dispensatory, but don’t find that “a disposition to many’’ !3 one of the medicinal prop erties attributed to the plant. of neatly all our consuls and diph; mafic representatives abroad that an alarming proportion ot these people who emigrate to the United States nre m positive injury, an citizens, to H»ry country. I will try to show that, though there an* good people who indulge the supreme nonseme that every immigrant landing is worih seven or eight hundred dollars io us, there are many communities in En rope willing to give u handsome sum to be well rid oflhousand* and thou sand whom we so heartily welcome. I do not refer to occasional society or community that may subscribe mon ey to aid good citizens to cross tho ocean, but to those moie numerous c-uimunit;e3 *and local governtn nts that pay money to get rid of people vtfliom they know to be bad citizens and of no good use anywhere. Ol the (■migrants so sent to us, a major part have been utter failures at home—un fortunate and unlucky men, so-call ed, who would never prosper any where. No small part uremdventur ers, seeking fortunes, political and otherwise, in a country where tney have good reason to beJeive the most wortl 't ss may rise U> position. Most ularmin’g of all are the thousands of paupers paid for coming amt the jail birds flying from justice. Haully a ship lauds that does not bring a doz en of them. Of course the Socialists, Communists, Mormons, Nihilists, and the generally disorderly of what ever mum* or class, flock to our shores as a congenial harbor. Here they hope to om*cute plans in freedom for which they would have been impris on re at home, A rc-cent wutes has pointed out; the fact jjFt.t wFhave in the United States already more than two milliohs belonging to these die orderly classes. Thai hundreds and thousand ol paupers, crip! led persons, criminals, and even idiolte, are being sent to us by communities and iocal go verity menfs in Europe ia now beyond a doubt. It is proven officially, and in a hundred im ances. It is ustonish- ii g and barbaious that certain town councils and village authorities vote money out of the town purse to corn pel their criminals and paupers to emigrate to the United Sta-.-.-s; and yet who can are so much harm in it, 1 i few years some country court w U swear these people all in u* ctnzt- .* of t!io United Btat.es, and their v.^# will balance the vote* of *ev*n n- dred of the m<>.*t intelligent a - . oa* triotic citizen * of the country. <Jao tlure be any question io, to win-tlier tills importation (and there are muuy like it) Wes un injury to the United States? Is it. on the other hand, uot clear that making citizens of them i* an outrage on Americans? Half of the people in Massachu setts are not able to pay more than a poil tax now. Does MasHactiusvtt* wish several thotiau*d more penoi less citizens, who are ignorant ag well ? Does any other State or terri. tory ? 11 so, there are O sevon hun« died aye, seventy times seven huu» dred more penniless Italians ready to come. Let usconsider fora moment what the effect of nil this is to be on the huetofore consented and industrious working classes of America. Labor lias been honorable among us. Will it continue t-o, when the laboring classes are thoroughly mixed with thelovest offscourmg ot European towns and wtnu foreign Communists Socialssts, paupers, and jml-b rds shall form h.111 the working class, and enforce their vice by tin aid of their votet? What is the position of a workingman in the State of Cali fornia to day compared with tnat of a workingman in those States where the worst foreign elements have not yet i. r ot a foothold ? What, ton, is to be the social effec o i the moral and Ciir.stain woiklng classes of Amer ica, of degrading them to a level with the dissolute ami infidel scum that we are- importing? Art not, Uf short, our free immi gration and naturaliz moo laws bringing a wretched curse bpon the working classes of the United States? What cun be more certain tnun that in a few years a wid.- gulf will exist between the working and the non- working clases of Atm-ricu? We are preparing ^he way to degrade the la borer, by compelling him to work side by side with men vasDy h s in feriors in intellect, in moral worth, in every nng that has, in cm coun try, untii i ow dignified labor.—{$. H. M. Byers, n N. Y Tribune.
