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Vol. XXIII—No. 1181. ^2c/ ATLANTA, GA„ SATURD^
fleoj Territopy
Comparative Population and Area of
Porto Rico, Cuba and The Philip
pines With States of the
Union—Keep Away
at Present.
The Islands Overcrowded
* ‘ While It is undoubtedly true that an enormous amount of de
velopment of one sort and another is possible in every one of
the Island colonies which yesterday were Spain s, but today
are ours, if anybody's, it is also true that there is much 'mis
apprehension regarding them.
For Instance, there has been a great deal of talk, about
. the undeveloped agricultural resources of Porto Rico, and
more than one ordinarily level-headed American has dream
ed dreams of fortunes 40 be made by raising certain crops.
"Put these dreams are generally regarded as delusive by the
well informed, for Porto Rico is already overcultivated. If
anything. Certainly lr^r soil Is far more assiduously tended
then that of any state in this Union. There may be some
stations in a few of the older states that have reached a
gTgde of agricultural development approaching that of Porto
Rico, hut they are few and small. And there is no compari
son whatever between the high state of cultivation attained
> there and the agricultural development of the greater part of
the available farming land in this country.
This statement Is made, primarily on the evidence of trav
elers in Porto Rico, who speak with wonder of the thorough
subjugation of the soil there, but it need not rest on their
evidence alone. It is fully borne out by figures, which some
times lie, but are perfectly trustworthy In this instance. Porto
* ,tieo. with an area of only 3,559 square miles, less than one-
iMrteenth the area of thejstata, p£. New Turk, has i. popula-
snts..»m,' or 223 .to~ the Viqlmre mife?"Sfid fnds’t of
this population Is agricultural at that. The United States,
with an area of 3,699.990 square miles, has a population of
about 75,500,000. or only 21 to the square mile, a much larger
proportion living in cities and {owns thap is the case in Porto
Rico.
There are, in truth, only two states in our Union that sup
port a iarger population to the square mile than Porto Rieo.
They are Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Massachusetts,
with an area of 8,313 square miles, has a population of 2,238,-
943, or 259 to the square mile. Little Rhode Island, with 1.230
square miles, has 345.506. qr 276 to the square mile. But neither
of these states is chiefly agricultural—in fact, the bulk of
tne population in both is supported by the mills and factories
in the cities and towns. The farms of neither Massachusetts
nor Rhode Island are cultivated with anything like the care
bestowed upon the Porto Rico acres, nor will they be until
the United States is desperately crowded, much more desper
ately, perhaps, than it will be in the lifetime of any one who
reads this article.
No state besides these two approaches Porto Rico in densi
ty of population. New Jersey, largely a manufacturing and
suburban community, supports 184 persons to the square mile,
Connecticut, chiefly by manufactures, supports 149 to the
square mile: New York supports 132, vastly more than half
by commercial and manufacturing enterprises, and Pennsyl
vania, with the third largest city in the Union, and her myr
iads of miners, 116.
These figures are enough to show that the enterprising
American, desirous of winning wealth by agricultural pursuits,
would find far more room for his ambitions in some of the
most thickly populated states of the Union than in Porto
Rico, to say nothing of California, with its vast territory, em
bracing 15S.360 square miles, whereon dwell about 1,300,000 souls,
or eight to the square mile: or Texas, extending over 265,780,
with 2,236.000 inhabitants and about the same density. There
is. in fact, a better chance for agricultural expansion in
Michigan or Missouri, or Illinois or Indiana, or in any other
state in the country except those which are too arid or too
mountainous to cultivate profitably.
it is a little different with Cuba, and yet the population of
that fair island, though not to be compared as to density
with that of Rhode Island. Massachusetts, New York, New
Jersey or Connecticut, is still denser than that of the United
States as a whole. Before the beginning of the insurrection,
followed by the S panish-American war, Cuba had a pop-
HON. JAMES G. WOODWARD, MAYOR-ELECT OF ATLANTA.
A PRINTER’S RISE TO MAYOR’S CHAIR
Born Amid Humble Surroundings, Hr. Woodward by His Ability and Indomitable
Energy Has Reached the High Position Which the Spirit of True Dem
ocracy Makes Possible Under a Republican Government.
(Continued on Page Twelve.)
CHANLER
The campaign just closed in Georgia which elected as governor one of the Stanchest men In the state also slated for
rn.avor of Atlanta another of equal probity of character, and whose career during his term of office will be watched by
organized labor with much interest.
A printer by trade, and by choice, for many years a trusted employe of the Atlanta Daily Journal, a lifelong member
of the International Typographical Union, for eight or ten years in the common council and on the board of aldermen, serv
ing with eminent distinction on committees from those bodies, keeping close watch over the city's interests, with the result
that many abuses and irregularities have been corrected at his instigation, a wise counsellor to his fellow-craftsmen in
the hour of their need: never hasty, never unjust in controversies between employer and employes. James G. Woodward
— j stands forth as an exemplar of the heights to which a man of the people may at-
j tain under this republican form of government.
“Jim” Woodward, as he is familiarly called by his printer friends, with the
aid of organized labor, the several city departments and those people at large
who prefer to keep church and state separate, and not the least by help of a host
of disinterested friends, who admire him for his every-day, plain, unassuming
manner, whipped to a standstill all the combinations of money and power coupled
with invective and inuendo which it was possible to bring against him.
It is certain that the great problems affecting the laboring classes will find no
mean champion in him. The mayor's chair is but a stepping stone to higher
things, and he will be heard from on the great questions of child labor, proper care
of incorrigible children by the state and the vicious system which permits common
felons to be worked on public roads in plain view of the coming generation of
American citizenship.
Just in his prime at the age of 50. he brings to the exalted position a ripe ex
perience and a name untarnished by anything savoring of jobbery. We present
him to our readers as a specimen of splendid American manhood and as an augur
of an era in which the government of municipalities will be more and more in
the hands of the great common class, who are the sail of the earth, and in whom
the safety and stability of this government rests.
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
to the front asTfe'73ftF s aj < “tSed55Wliig"'"fiWnmh‘nder-in-'
he quietly sneaked out of cSfnp and left for home, although
he had enlisted for two years.
Of course he thought his'mother ould be overjoyed to see
him, but he didn't know the stuff of which she was made.
"What.” she cried, "my son a deserter? Back to camp at
once, and make peace' with your commanding officer." But
John didn't want to go. He had had enough of war.and prefer
red the comforts of a home to the hardships and hardtack of
a camp, and he announced his resolution of remaining where
he was. Then it was that Mrs. Maroney showed the kind of
a patriot that she was. She gave John the worst thrashing
of his life, and taking him by the collar marched him down to
the police station and telephoned his captain she had a de
serter. .
"Why, it's his mother who caught him," cried the saston-
ished officer.
"Right you are,” replied Mrs. Maroney. "and no son of mine
is wever going to desert his flag while his mother is alive."
The war has given all of us a good many lessons in patriot
ism, urselfiishness and courage, but I doubt if there’s been
anything better worth the prayerful attention -and .mitation
of other women than the example of this simple sister, who
when her son had undertaken an obligation, made him fulfill
it. and held him right square up to doing his duty. It is a
form of woman's influence of which me don't hear much, but
it is the very best brand in the market, and if we had more
Mrs. Maroneys we should have precious little need for that
other woman's influence that expects to work by means of
tears and tracts, and supine pleadings.
We have all known plenty of cases like this, but I recall one
in special. - The mot-er belonged to a fine, aristocratic old
family, was poor as the traditional church mouse.but had a
promising young son. whose fate she was constantly bemoan
ing. He had to go to work as soon as he graduated at the
public school for one thing, and couldn't go to college. He
was fortunate enough, however, to obtain a position .with a
man who stood at the head of his profession, but who had
sprung from humble beginnings. One would have thought
that any boy could have had no better inspiration than the
example of such a man. but the unwise mother was forever
lamenting that Tom had to work at all, and if he did, that he
wasn't somewhere else. “To think of my little gentleipan
having to fetch and carry for a man whose father blacked
my father's shoes,” she would wail, and when Tom returned
home she received him with the tearful reverence one would
pay a martyr.
(Continued on Page Twelve.)
MILLIONAIRES FOR CONGRESS.
New Fork’s rich men are taking considerable interest in the game of polities this
year. Here is a group of millionaires who aspire to represent their districts in con
gress. Sonic are Democrats and some are Republicans, but each one is rich enough to
stand a campaign even if defeated.
Page 1.—New Territory—A Printer’s Rise
to Mayor’s Chair—Mother’s Care.
Page 2.—A Cottage by the Volga, serial.
Page 3.—The Great South: News Notes—
Southern Cotton Mills—Southern Pines—
Dairy and Creamy Department—The
Southern's New Line—The Best Soil for
Peanuts—Miscellany.
Page 4.—The Woman's Kingdom: Au
tumn—Ballade of the Beggars—Our Let
ter B^c—Sunday School Lesson—“Aunt
RacheL”
Page 5.—Kingdom Continued: The Times
Change—"To Err is Human, To For
give Divine"—Women Mail Carriers—
’■Shat I Wish.
Page 6<—Editorial: If Peace Negotiations
Fail?—Jewish Movement to Palestine—
About Mr. Gladstone—Praise Without
Measure—A New American Aristocracy
—Our .Account with the Turk—A Wo
man's Courage—Most Women Misshapen
Arp is Reminiscent—Timely Anniversa
ries.
Page 7.—The' Day of Temptation—A Van
derbilt Gift—Soldier Rides with his King.
PAGE 8.—Books and Writers: Some .Lit
erary Notes—The Philippine Problem-
Commercial Cornmeal—Our Poets' Cor
ner—The Printer's Slip—Smallest Things
in the World.
Page 9.—Our Boys and Girl«: The Puz
zler—Joe and Polly—Chaplain—To a
Young Physician.
Page 10.—Confederate Vets: Kruppized
Armor—Confederate Necrology—Justice
in the Army.
Page 11.—Good Handed Down. Dr. Tal-
mage’s Sermon—Extracts from Ser
mons.
Page 12.—Shatter and His Army, being a
continued narrative to run 15 weeks,
which is authentic and timely.and which
gives the eompletest history of the war
yet written.
TO STRENGTHEN ADMIRAL DEWEY,
When the Oregon and the Iowa join the ships of Admiral Dewey at Manila, they,
■with the accompanying cruiser Buffalo and the supply ship* and colliers, -will make our
fleet in the Philippines one of the strongest ever assembled by the United States.