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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GEORGIA.. OCTOBER 7 1893
—PUBLISHED BY—
THE SUMY SOUTH PUB. CO.
CLARK HOWELL, -
0. O. NICHOLS, - -
JAB. B. HOLLIDAY,
President.
Business Manager
Beo. A Tress.
Business Office, Booms 11 A II Con
stitution Building.
TERMS;
One Yser 12.00
Six Months 1.00
West and Lucius Lamar. The regular
debate was followed by fife minute
speeches of Eugene Mitchell, L. M.
Terrell and others.
The officers in part are as follows:
Mr. Dixon, President; J. H. John
son, Secretary; and Robert C. Alston,
Treasurer.
The club by the discussion of liv
ing issues promises usefulness to the
public as well as the membership.
Address all letters and make all bills pay-
able to THS BUNNY SOUTH,
Atlanta, Ga.
ALUMINUM.
As it se ems the world has only one
Edison we regret to learn that this
unrivalled inventor is about to devote
his genius to the development of me
tallurgy and mineralogy. We had
hoped that his next special effort
would be made in the interest of
serial navigation. So many brainy
investigators have expressed belief in
the possibilities of air-ships that we
long for the consummation, and have
a fancy that if anybody can achieve it
Edison is the man.
But it is stated that he will con
centrate his energies on the aluminum
problem. This beautiful metal which
is said to be stronger than steel,as mal
leable as gold, and more beautiful
than silver, is the most widely dis
tributed of all known minerals. It is
not found in lumps or veins, nor con
fined to any district or districts of
oountry. It is everywhere, but as in
visible to the eye as the living crea
tures that we consume with the best
water that we drink. All of that class
of earth call the clays is charged with
it. We tread upon it in worn out
lands, and look upon it in railway cuts
and old road banks. It exists in in
exhaustible supplies and waits only
for the discovery of cheap methods of
fusing and separating it from the
earth. Extraordinary progress has
been made in this direction during
recent years. If we are not mistaken
the cost of producing a pound of alumi
num not a great while ago was $20
but now the statement is made that it
can be done for fifty cents. This is an
amazing reduction and the possibili
ties which it suggests have as above
stated attracted the attention and fu
ture efforts of Thomas A. Edison, the
magician of Menlo Park, who has
wrought unspeakable wonders in pho
nography, telegraphy and eleotrio
lighting. Not only Edison, but many
other capable scientists are working
at the same problem, and if they shall
succeed in reducing the cost of pro
duction to a very low figure many
people now living may yet live in
houses and travel in cars and on ships
constructed of aluminum.
SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB.
“ON TIME.”
President Washington, of the Tus-
kegee Industrial Institute, said to the
colored congress at Chicago: “North
ern Dasiness men object to paying
more than six per cent for the use of
money, and yet the negroes in the
southern states are obliged to pay
from 25 to 50 per cent interest on arti
oles of necessity, on which the mer
chant also makes a profit of from 25 to
50 per cent. Suppose A secures a
promise of an advance of $200 on his
crop. He gets $50 taken in trade in
February, $50 in May, $50 in August,
and $50 in October. His crop is mar
keted early in November, and yet be
is charged interest on the entire $200
for twelve months, although he had
none of the money over eight months,
and some of it only two months.” If
this is true of the colored farmers it is
also true of their*white neighbors.
Southern farmers have to pay a big
interest when they buy supplies on
time.
The foregoing is clipped from the
Constitution for the purpose of re
marking that the way of dealing with
the workers therein described is one
of the modern modes of slaying the
goose which lays golden eggs. Twenty
years ago we heard a prosperous mer
chant-planter declare that he did not
want his tenants and croppers to be
come self-supporting. He wanted
them to raise cotton only, because
that was the best thing for his per
sonal interest. It would be intensely
Interesting to know to what extent
if any that policy was the fore-run
ner and progenitor of the wbitecapism
and other lawlessness so prevalent in
the South now.
A group of aspiring and intellectual
young men have founded and are con
ducting with marked success a liter
ary and debating Society called The
Saturday Night Club. Its weekly
meetings are held in that elegant lit
tle place of worship in Atlanta called
the House of Our Father, situated on
Church street near Broad.
We bad the pleasure of witnessing
the proceedings of its meeting of the
30th ult, and besides being instructed
and entertained were much impressed
with the dignity and decorum of the
body.
After business the first feature of
the evening was a polished and elo
quent address on “Woman” by Mr
Lucien Knight, followed by the dis
cussion of the live and important
question:
“Resolved, That the convict lease
system of Georgia should be abolish
ed;” the atlirraative of which was sup
ported by James W. Austin and an'
other whose name is not recalled. The era must know, is one of the House-
negative was advocated by Prof. E. E. | bold correspondents.
A news item stated not long sinoe
that fifteen million dollars worth of
gold bullion had been lying in one of
the government’s vaults at Philadel
phia for fifteen years, and in our mind
arose the question, why sbonld this
vast and precious treasure be permit
ted to remain inactive and unproduc
tive? If the government has not pow
er, why should it not have to use all
the gold and silver bullion that comes
into its hands in some way for the
benefit of the American people? If the
government had coined the bullion
referred to and floated it in loans
at the low rate of four per cent per
annum the product by this time would
have been not less than nine million
dollars! This vast pile could have
been applied to government expenses
or debts and the principal would be
intact for continued loans,
A business man who would hoard
his gold in this way would be looked
upon as a lunatic or an enemy to so
ciety, and we would like to know why
the people’s agent called the govern
ment should be exompt from the same
sort of criticism. Such funds, if no
better way of reaching the people
could be found, should be loaned di
rect to the banks in districts of county
where money is scarce. The govern
ment would have no difficulty in find
ing satisfactory security, and the
banks could float the money for busi
ness enterprises. And if this plan
would give the bankers too much ad
vantage as middle men, then, why
should not the government devise
means to lend it’s surplus funds in
some way, at low rates, directly to
good men, who need it so badly in
business and for the payment of
debts?
A debtor people need cheap money.
That is, money at low rates of interest.
They will never get it from private
lenders. And they will never get out
of debt or do prosperous business with
money that costs from eight to twelve
and a ball per cent, per annum. They
must look to government or do with
out.
We suspect thatCundurango’s smile
has broadened into a shaking laugh
by this time. Cundurango, our read-
CoL J. Armoy Knox, Mr. Carter's
new associate in the publication of
the Atlanta Herald, is an Irishman by
birth, and is full of the humor gene
rous impulses and versatility of tal
ents whioh have distinguished the in
tellectual men of that race for centu
ries. But he came to the United
States when quite young and soon be
came Americanized in the best sense
of that term.
Knox, being a youth of dash and ad
venturous spirit, naturally drifted to
the West. Looking out from an old
country with old cities and ways, he
yearned for the newest portion of the
new land that attracted him across
the Atlantic. And he doubtless found
our eastern shores too old and prosy
to satisfy the anticipations which he
had formed. Hence nis settlement in
Texas, where he embarked success
fully in business pursuits, and
ultimately, in association with
Alex E. Sweet, the well known
humorist, established the paper,
Texas Siftings at Austin. By
means of the humorous writings of
the two founders Siftings soon
achieved a national reputation, and
Knox and Sweet encouraged by the
remarkably warm welcome extended
to their unique journal by the Ameri
can public, removed the paper to New
York oity where it is still successfully
published by Col. Sweet.
Col. Knox, however, withdrew from
it several years ago, and now returns
to his first American love, the South.
In selecting Atlanta for his future
home and field of work he has dis
played his characteristic foresight.
For this city,according to all the signs
is built on foundations that will endure,
Col Knox is a splendid business man
is well as an able editor and versatile
writer. As a playwright and author
he has had considerable success. In
those lines be is known mostly in the
North. His ounous and funny book
“A Devil of a Trip” had quite a run
there some years back.
We give a warm welcome to the
new-oomer upon the stage of Southern
journalism.
The tides of our times seem to set
irresistably toward the increase of
government powers. To oite only one
of many examples that could be ad
duced, the State of Tennessee has re
cently purchased 9,000 acres of coal
lands with the design presumably of
operating the mines with convict la
bor. As it is not probable that the
State can consume the product, the
question of disposing of the surplus
will necessarily arise, and the State
will thus be forced into the coal busi
ness on some sort of basis.
That convicts should be a burden on
the tax-payers from the time of arrest
until the end of their terms of im
prisonment, as has frequently hap
pened, is among the worst of criti
cisms that could be pronounced upon
Amerioan rulers.
On more than one occasion we have
expressed the view that they should
be made to earn their own support on
farms, and in ooal-mining States there
is no reason why they should not do
the same by digging coal.
MRS. BRYAN.
Oub editorial rooms were favored
by a visit from Mrs. Mary E. Bryan re
cently, and that reminds us to say
that her Sunny South serials are very
popular as shown by our correspond
ence. “Send back numbers contain
ing ‘The Cavern Queen,’ ” are words
frequently seen in letters of new sub
scribers.
Mrs. Bryan’s call was a bright light
to the sanctum, and her captivating
ways, and magnetic, fluent talk are a
source of unfailing entertainment.
We enjoyed the pleasure of listening
to one of Rev. Dr. Scott’s learned lect
ures on the Holy Land at the First
Methodist Church recently. The Rev
erend gentleman’s style, it goes with
out saying, was in a high degree fin
ished, classical and strong, and the
lecture displayed profound and broad
acquaintance with the topic treated.
At the conclusion we felt as though
we were looking upon a map of the
country made furever sacred and
memorable by the work, and wander
ings and sufferings of Jesus.
Edward Bellamy has influenced the
political opinions of mankind more
than any siDgle human being that has
ever lived.
• * e
He is the originator of the theory of
economic equality, which he thus in
terprets.
“As political equality is the remedy
for political tyranny, so is economic
equality the only way of putting an
end to the economic tyranny exercised
by the few over the many through
superior wealth. The industrial sys
tern of a nation, like its political sys
tern, should be a government of the
people, by the people, for the people.
» * •
The Declaration of Independence
of 1776 was tne most radical depar
ture from old methods that the world
had known up to its time; but the
theory of political equality is insig
nificant in comparison with that of
economic equality. It is as a twink
ling star to the blazing sun. If Bel
lamy’s conception of economic equal
ity should be realized, he would out
rank Thomas Jefferson as Michael
Angelo did the artist of the trowel in
the building of St. Peter’s, Rome.
* * *
Bellamy is the pregenetor of that
new form of proposed socialism called
Nationalism, which has changed the
socialism of che old world and may
be heard boring away industriously
everywhere in the old countries like
sawyers iD a dead pine forest.
* * *
He is the domesticator of so
cialism on American soil and
has injected new and stimulating
principles into its sluggish blood.
Without so intending, state govern
ments and county and oity councils
enact ^is doctrines into laws. The
tap-roots of the dispensary laws of
Georgia and South Carolina are to be
found imbedded in “Looking Back
ward.” They suck their life from s
thing so unsubstantial as “a dream.”
* *
An associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States talks ap
provingly of nationalism—that is, of
the American socialism before that
enormously influential body, the
American bar association. And the
pulpit, even, is slowly yielding to the
new spirit, and the press of every
section shows the effects of the leaven.
* *
Whatever is new or good in the
Ocala,or St. Louis,or Omaha platforms
comes from the new socialism—Na
tionalism. Separate nationalism from
any populist platform adopted since
the great Ocala meeting of the farm
ers, and it would be as lifeless as a
sugar cane stalk after passing through
the mill. Bellamy is the father of the
People’s Party.
<* *
Once grant the theories of national
ism and the entire face of society
would be matamorphosed. Men and
women would realize for the first time
the significance of the word change.
To illustrate: how many of the wo
men readers of this paper know that
under Bellamy’s system of govern
ment no woman would be tempted to
marry simply for a home, or protec
tion? That each woman would be
guaranteed protection and support
for her offspring and herself, and that
consequently she would be free as a
bird to mate for love, or not at all?
The liar ye have with ye always.
Governor Northern’s timely letter
to the President last week created a
sensation in political circles that was
felt all the way across the Atlantic.
The Governor it seems urged Mr.
Cleveland to speak out on the silver
question, as his silence and the squab
ble and delay in the Senate are hav
ing a damaging effect on tne party in
the South. It is more than probable
that Mr. Northern informed the pres
ident that a number of Democratic
counties in Georgia bad recently been
carried by the populists, and that the
general feeling of uncertainty as to
the real position of the Chief Execu
tive on the silver problem was
strengtenhing the independents. Mr.
Cleveland did speak out and with his
usual bluntness. But in declaring his
opposition to free coinage except by
international agreement it seems
probable that be has given increased
mpetus to People’s Party organiza
tion.
Virtue In the Lower Animal,,
In a recently published essay „„
limits of animal intelligence pi '
eor Lloyd Morgan asserts that me t
of their knowledge is gained f rom '
penence, but denies them re.,„„
the ground that, “they are inr«n ^
of moral judgment.” J lt i 8 ha pabe
imagine how any unprejudiced 8 tJ°
dent of the morals and manners of tit'
higher niiadrnnnrto 11 " . ^6
higher quadrupeds, especially 0 f do^
and horses, should have reached a <2
elusion which does them so much iS'
justice. A moral judgment is the m
of discriminating between right anJ
wrong; between what the experience
or the intuition of the race has shown
to be convenient or inconvenient for
the individual and helpful or hurtful
to the race. The highest sense of
morality can do notbmg more than
induce the individual to sacrifice his
own convenience to the good of bis
kind or of some other individual for
whom he feels an affection.
A well educated dog is just as capa
ble of such sacrifices as a well educat-
ed man. Not long ago the newspapers
published an authenticated caee ot the
Heroism of a dog which lost his life in
trying to save a little girl from drown
ing. There is no reason whatever to
doubt that this animal fully appreci
ated the risk, and was as much attach
ed to it’s life as if it had been human.
In fact, we know that the instinct of
self-preservation is as strong in dogs
as it is in men. As dogs like the fool
ish pride which prompts men to face
danger unnecessarily, a dog will fre
quently run away from a danger on
nis own account which he will face to
the last extremity on account of some
one to whom he is attached When
all has been said that can be saiJ,
capacity for self-sacrifice is the final
test of the possession of moral sense,
and dogs will often show that they
have it as a governing mo
tive where men fall snort of
it. The dog which is swim
ming in the water, far from shore,
holding a child in his teeth, appre
ciates the danger to the child ami to
itself as fully as a man could. Were
the life of the child not at stake the
dog would direct all its energy toward
self-preservation. But when it freely
sacrifices a life to which it is strongly
attached; when it overcomes by its
moral sense the strongest of all ani
mal instincts, that of self-preserva
tion, and when it voluntarily dies
rather than abandon some one to
whom it is bound by love and a sense
of duty, it is at once ungrateful and
stupid in the highest degree to say
that such action, as sublime as any
we are capable of conceiving, is mere
ly mechanical. Our theories of na
tural history need revision. We need
a broader and higher view of the lives
of other animals. We need to learn
that though no other animal oan at all
compare in intellect with man, there
are many animals which are in some
one mental or moral quality ihe equals
or even the superiors oi tne average
man.—St. Louis Republic.
Miss Florence E. Bligh has begun
her winter wanderings in the interest
of the subscription department of The
Sunny South. Her winning ways
have enabled her to obtain and main
tain a warm place in tne esteem of
our patrons for some years past, and
we bespeak for her a continuance of
the ir courteous treatment.
The latest from Mr. Van Alen is
that he has written a letter to Wash
ington expressing his willingness to
have his name withdrawn from the
Senate as a candidate for the Italian
mission. And the latest from Rich
ard Watson Gilder is that he has gone
in his hole to escape the cork-screw
like questionings of interviews about
the $50 000 transaction. ~
Abort und Sweet
But his letter is to the point. We
do not claim that our machine is bet
ter than all the other machines in the
world, but do claim it to be “good as
the best” no matter what price is paid
for the other machine.
Jane 8 th 1893.
8trsirv Sooth S. M. Co. j . .
1 nave baa tne machine tested and find it sat
isfactory so far. Seems to be as good as the
best. Very truly,
Novasota, Texas. J. H. Muldrow.
Grimes Co.
It has been showD by analysis that
young person weighing 154 pounds
is composed of ninety-six pounds of
water, tnree pounds of white of eggs,a
little less than one pound of pure glue,
34>£ pounds of fat, pounds of phos
phate of lime, one pound of carbonate
of lime, three ounces of sugar and
starch, seven [ounces of fluroide of
calcium, six ounces of phosphate of
magnesia, and a little ordinary table
salt. Think of it, young man! That
beautiful young lady whom you wor
ship as a pillar of unadulterated
sweetness doesn't contain three
ounces of sugar.
An English journal notes that a
Bristol firm has been using a hand
saw forty-seven
the deepest cut
through oak.
feet long, since
being seven
1S70,
feet,