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VOL I.
CANTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1881.
NO. 2t
Cl)t €l)ttolut Menace.
PUBLISHED EV1BT SATURDAY
-:1Y:-
N. N. EDGE,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
Ofic» UfHmir, earner Mg** J - J. W . J ARY IS,
Dm-
vNlIrMM Btrtei
Jf. McClurt
OtHeimt Oryssse Chtroke* County
TERMSi
•tegle copy, 1 y®w. - "
•• “ tlx month*, •
•« •• three month*,
HR.
.65.
.86
PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS
CARDS.
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON — — — GEORGIA
Will five prompt etteqtlpn to allbuii-
bcu intrusted to them. Will P!i ac . tic ®. l “
nil th* court* of the county, and in the
Superior court* of the Blue Ridge cir
cuit j*n7«ly.
ROB’T. B. CASON
dentist.
Will he m Omnton Every Sale D*y to
remain balance of th* week. Come for
ward promptly and make }Onr engage-
menu" novl»-ly.
B. F. Paths. P. P. DuPbke
Payne A DuPre,
ATTORNEYS.AT.LAW,
CANTON, - - GEORGIA•
L. J. OARTRELL,
AOBNEY AT-LAW,
%% WHITEHALL BT. ATLANTA, GA
- Will practice in the U. S. Circuit and
District Courts at Atlanta, “J 1 th ® ® u
preme and Superior CourU of the State,
may 6, ly-
H. W. Newmah. J*o- D. Attawat.
NEWMAN & ATTAWAT,
attorneys-at-law.
CAN7 ON, - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in th* Superior Court of
Cherokee and adjoining countie*
Prompt attention given to all huslneM
placed in their hand*. Office in tht
Court House.
Apr. 2» tf.
BIN. I. FIERI*
Local Aoent
FIRE & LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Office in Stora
J. M. McApke.
fhb4 ly.
JEWELER A PHOTOGRAPHER
CANTON, GA.
Cnn be found nt hi* Gallery at any
time where he is alwaya ready to do good
worn at a low price.
July 16—tf.
J.J.MULLAN
14 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
MONUMENTS,
TOMBS AND HEAD*
STONES.
Call or write to
B. F. OziileB*
CANTON, GA
For Design* and Prices,
novlO- 81-ly.
JOHNH.BELL
Carpenter.
Haring permanently located in Can
ton—He i* now prepared to do all kings
of carpenter’* work.
Building ft epalrlng
Promptly done at satistaciory price*.
Parties contemplating building, will
find it to their Interest to get my prices
before closing contracts with other work
men, J H Boll
jan21-82-ly.
J. M. HARDIN
HOUSE, SIGN,
CARRIAGE and
ORNAMENTAL
PAINTER.
FRESCO and SCENIC ARTIST
CANTON, GEORGIA
Jan. 1» ly.
Contracting.
mad* by a carpenter.
ALL DONE
Promptly, Best Style, and at the Lowes
Price*. BrWiUGOe&jti.faction.
janl4'82-6m. Canton, 0*.
Medical Card.
DR. N. SEWELL returns thanks to
the citizens of CaDton and /icinity, for
* '^Beinj^permanently^located, will con-
tinue to practice medicine, surgery and
* Hoping by industry, energy strict
application to business, to aa 10 ~
ereased patronage and confidence.
Office in Dr W, A. Green..Drug{.torn.
Residence adjoining W. H- waruen.
norlMy
BLACK8MIHING
AND
lD2t©©N — h)©R*t,
BY
Wallick&Bro
Will do all kinda of work in our line
at short notice. _
We WARRANT Satisfaction. Re
pairing made a specialty.
All Utensil* for farmer*’ u»e, of wood
or iron or steel, made or mended.
Call and see u*. WARLICK & BRO.
janl4-tf. Canton, Ga.
suit hid sum
SPEECH OF
HON. J. C. CLEMENTS.
ON BILL TO REDUCE INTER-
NAL TAXATION.
Mr. Chairman: It ia notbacauao
I would advocate perpetuation of
the public debt that I oppoee the
preaeat system of internal-revenue
taxation. 1 am not one of those
who believe in the doctrine thet a
national debt it a nation’s blessing,
but, upon the contrary, I believe
that a public debt ie a public onrse
to any people. Especially do I be-
Jieve it dangerous to our democra
tic form ot government, because it
ie necessarily onerous and harden-
some on the people, breeding dis
content and unhappioesa among
them, gradually crushing eat their
love for the, government end their
confidence in it. It is generally
regarded as the best policy for an
individual to pay as Uo goes and to
keep out of debt as nearly os pos
sible.
The- same reasons that apply to
an individual in regard to this
policy also apply to governments,
with this additional reason appli
cable to the latter, that public
money ie not usually guarded and
applied to necessary and proper
purposes with the same degree of
frugality and economy with which
individuals ordinarily apply their
money. Consequently when there
is a necessity or excuse for collec
ting large revenues for the gov
ernment there is and will always
be a large per cent, of it that is
the leaks are apt to
Therefore I favor a rapid discharge
of tha public debt by its payment
but while this is true,I believe the
time has come when this system of
internal taxation, an outgrowth
and nsceasity of war, is no longer
necessary to suable the govern
ment to discharge its obligations.
If this is true, why should wo
hesitate to relieve the people from
its oppressions ? Why halt, and
merely tinker with it? Why not by
one uct obliterate it from the pages
et our statute-books, and at last
Congress will exceed by many
millions of dollnrs the appropria
tions made by any previous Con
gress ia the history of the gov
ernment, except in time of wnr.
An overflowing treasury lsadti to
extravagance, waste, atid corrup
tion, therefore no more taxes ought
to be collected than are absolutely
necessary to an honest aud sco-
nomic administration of the gov
ernment.
Our interest-bearing debt now is
•bout $1,500,000,000; $511,000,000
of this is now payable; $250,000,-
000 more will tall due in 1891, and
the balance in the year 1907, So
that from this time until 1907,
twenty-six yoarye, $701,000,000 is
all of the principal of the debt will
be 'due und payable. We cannot
pay any of (lie balance before that
time without buying in our bonds
at a premium, because they are not
due until then. It would not be
good economy to pay a premium
on theta iu order to get to pay them
before maturity. It it should be
thought best to equalize the amount
of principal to bo paid each year
We would only have to discharge
about $30,000,000 a year for the
next twenty-six years to pay all ot
ths dobt that will bs payable with
in that time. We are now paying
at the rate of more tbun $150,000,-
000 n year.
Thus it will bo seen that wheth
er wisely or unwisely previous
legislation has placed a large part
of the public debt beyond our
reacii for ths next twenty-six years,
whether we have the money to
net economically gtd properly ap- pav it or not, unless we go into
plied. Where the fond is large r»u.. market and nav a urem'ium on
be large.
the market and pay a premium on
our bonds before due, and this we
cannot afford to do. Therefore l
say we can dispense with this en
tire system, practice economy, and
pay the public debt within a rea
son able time* If it is desiruble to
pay the bonds now redeemable
und those becoming so within the
next lew years et a more rapid
rate than that above indicated, this
can be done aud yet dispense with
this system.
I am not here to say that every
man who has been a revenue officer
— under this government is a bad
free the people who hove for many man . j gm no t here to denounce
i ..... ....ti.ntl. Bart natrinli. ’ . . , i ,i •
H. H. McEntyre,
Brick, r*mtertnc and
STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
I AM FULLY PREPARED TO DO
... kind of Masonry or Plastering, at toe
LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES.
And solicit the patronage of thote de*ir-
iag work ia my Bn* McENTYBE<
Jaa. 18 IT-
GW. EVANS.
Gainbsvillx St., - Canton, G
Near the R. R. Depot.
Horae* and Buggie* ar reasonable
prices.
Carriages and Home* always ready.
Will send to any part of the country,
with careful drivers and gentle teams.
All kiucs of stock fed and well cared
for.
HAULING AND DBAYIG
done at low rate*.
Customers will be politely waited en
at all hours, day or night.
G. W. EVAS,
nov26-1881tf. Proprietor.
3 M BSHSZ
Attorney and Counselor
AT LAW.
. CANTON, GA.
Office in the Court House.
mar25 82 ly
I WE will send the Cam no
53 kke Advance snd the STAn
Spangled Banner one year for One
Dollar and Thirty cents ($1,80) in ad
vance. This offer is madr to old, as well
•s new subscribers. Those who have
paid one year in ad/ance for our paper,
by adding 80 cents will receive the ban-
neb one /car. See ^Otb Year” in anoth
«r place iu thto pipe 1 1 - -
long years patiently and patrioti
cally borne its hardships aud op
pressions? But we are told by
some that the government cannot
spare the income of revenue from
this source; that it is needed for
the prompt payment of the public
debt and for the current expenses
of the government. This we are
told in the face of the fact that
there is to-day a surplus of ntarly
$150,000,000 in the treasury. This,
it is true, might aud ought to be
applied to the payment of the
bonds of th# government that are
now redeemable as far as it would
go; but this is not done, nor do I
know that it will be doue ; for an
overflowing surplus iu the treasury
for which there is no pressing de-
maud is a temptation to extrava
gance.
It is an invitation to lobbyists
and schemers to swarm around
the Capitol with their evil jobs and
schemes to make spoil of the mag
nificent surplus, wantonly and un>
necessarily wrung from the earn-
ings of and industry of the people,
for “where the carcass is there will
the eagles be gathered together.’!
This spirit of extravagance so pro
duced is already manifest when it
• s now admitted on all hands that
the appropriations by the present
every man who has had any thing
to do with the execution el this
law. The system has been recog
nized as a necessity. The people
have borne it patiently and patri
otically as a necessity demanded
by the condition of the country.
But, now they realize and know
tnat it may be dispensed with,
there is no necessity for this dual
machinsry for the collection of the
public revenue. There is no need
for having on the one hand the
tariff system with its custom-houses
aud customs officers, and en the
other hand the internal-revenue
system with its vast ai my of offieers.
There is no need for perpetuating
noth these systems. 1 say the
time has come when we should re
move this temptation to extrava
gant appropriations, this invitation
to gather round an overflowing
Tieasury aud max# spoil of it.
It is claimed by thoso who de
fend the system that the taxes col
lected under it are collected with
less cost to the government than
other revenues, but while it may
appear by the figures to be collec
ted cheaply, it is not true. It is
collected at great cost to the peo
ple, for, in estimating the cost to
the people, we must not only con-
consider tha salaries snd expenses
of the host of officers and em
ployees engaged in the execution
of thoee laws, but we must also con
aider th# court aud jail expenses
borae by the people in the ou force-
moot of tbase laws, at well m the
great expenses of individual de
fendants and witnesses in prose
cutions for alleged violations of
the law. Again, the system
unjust and uaequal in its opera
tions.
I, apprehend that no patriot ot
any party or any section desires to
oppress any portion of thi» coun
try uunecessarily and wantonly.
In that part of the country where
tobacco is grown, you dcclaro un
der your proseut laws to the m&u
who carries on u farm, however
small, that ho shall not by his own
industry cultivate upon it that
wlucii he can make most profitable.
Uo is nut allowed to r.dso his
crop of tobacco in any quantity
which may he within his means,
because bo not allowed to sell
it unless lie carries it to the manu
facturer, who is often fitly or one
hundred miles distant. This sys
tem places it witbiu the power oi
manufacturers to combine and fix
the price, so that the producer is
at their mercy and is not allowed
to soli to the best advantage that
which he has produced by the
sweat ot4is own face upon bis own
land.
But it is said tobacco ia a luxury,
and should therefor# be taxed.
While it may be regarded as a lux
ury to him whq uses it, yet ita pro
duction, if free to the farmers of
that section of tho country where
it can be grown, would be the
means of supplying many house
holds with the prime necessities of
life where want now prevails
Many who are struggling in their
poverty to support their faxulies
and educate their children would
be greatly relievod if permitted to
grow this plant and sell the pro.
duct of their labor fieely us their
other crops.
Again, experience and observation
under these laws show that no less
liquor is made or consumed than
would otherwise be. Therefore they
are no aid to temperance. They
have been th* cause of strife, violence
aud bloodshed from their inception;
they have been endured patiently as
necessity uutil they aro no
longer necessary. Tbs whole system
with its officers, spies, and informers
otteu invading the peaceful and scar
ed homes of the innocent, ,carrying
them far away, to linger for weeks
and months in jail under some petty
charge to await trial in a Federal
court, is contrary to the genius
aud spirit of our Government and
against the traditions of our fathers.
Diet.
On motion elected four delegates
to the Gsbernatonal Convention.
Viz—J. J. Maddox, Joshua Roberts*
M. A. Kieth snd Jubez Galt. The
election was mnde unanimous, by a
rising vote. Uuauimously elected
to Dalton Convention—J. It. Me-
Kinney, Ben. F. Perry, B. F. Payne
and W. H. PerKinson. All the
111 delegates iu structed in favor of the
majority tule
The delegates to the Gubernator
ial Convention expressed their decld
ed preferenca for A. 11 Stephens for
Governor and Judge J. It. Brown
for Congressman al large, provided
Judge Brown would accept a nomin
ation.
Ths delegates to the Congression
al Convention, expressed in etni
pliatio terms their preferences for
Ron Jndson C Clements
On motion, four coratnitteemon
were appointed to act in concert
with the chairman, W II Perkinson
constituting the county Democratic
Executive 6’ommitte; whereupon the
Chairman appointed J It McKinney
M A Keith, Joshua Roberts and
ThoB Hutcherson. Cherokee Ad
vance requested to publish the
pioceeding*. Adjourned, subject
to the call ot the chairman.
W H Perkinson, ouim
B F Perry
HUMOROUS.
Too much sugar for a sceat,”
marked the youth as kissed the
who had been eating onions
re
girl
democratic meeting.
The Democratic County Conven
tion met ia court bouse at 12a. L’nes
day 4th to elect delegates to th G u-
bernatorial aad Congressional Con •
ventions.On motion of CaptJ.J. Mad
dox,the Chairman of the county Ex
Committee, W. JL Perkinson, was
called to the chair and B. F. Perry,
elected Sec. Representatives from
411 parts of the county preseat.
The Chairman stated the object
of the meeting to be to elect dele
gates to th* Gebernatorial and
Congressional conventions, which
meet the 19th last in Atlanta and
9th ot Aug in Dalton.
The former to nominate candidates
for Governor, Congressman for the
State at large and State House Of
ficers.—l'he latter to nominate a
candidate for congressman for 7th
' Misery may like company,” said
a colored philosopher; but I’d rather
liab de rhumatiz iu one leg dtn to
hab it iu bof.
‘Til make you dance,” cried an
irate mother, pursuing her erring
son, slipper in hand. “Then,” re
marked the juvenile, “we shall have
a bawl.”
The overage society young muu is
not unwilling to marry; but he must
have a wife who can support him ia
us good style us he Iimb been accus
tomed to while living on his mother.
As he took his seat in the barber’s
chair he asked the barber if he nad
the same razor be hAd used on him
two days before. Being answered
affirmatively, the patient man suit':
“Theu give me chloraform.” ]
•Violet, dearest, do you play that
tune often?" asked Hugh Jfontresscr
of his affianced. “Yes, pet, and
when we are married I’ll play it ell
the time.” 1'Uen Hugh went out
and shuddered himself to death.
Conversation overheard between
two children playing in the sand:
The small boy said to the lit:le
girl: “l)o you wiah to be my lit*.Ie
wife?” The little girl, afttr reflect
ing: “Yes.” Tho small boy: “Then
taxe off my boots."
$ij>ooT7“
How io Got It
THE ENAND WOMEN'S MU
TUAL RELIEF FUND ASSO
CIATION, OF ATLAN
TA, GEORGIA.
Pays certificates ol’ endowment for
81 000 or 82,000 at time of marriage, ac
cording to class. TUo money is made up
by uiu.ual contribution. Thu best in
stitution ever organized to give young
people a start in the world.
Local Agents wanted everywhere
Writo for b) uk application, and Con
stitutiou and By laws. For agencies
address, M. F. AMOROUS. For blank
applications,address, W. M. STOCKTON
Secretary, Atlanta, Ga. noviO iy.