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The T'oceoa JNews
J. H. STMTT, Prop’r and Business Manager.
E. J. CHESTY, Editor.
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H<*n. A. G. McCurrv, of the coun-
ty o: Hart, is coming to the front
in Georgia politics. He will
pr-Uhly a member of .ho next
,,..„ato,„„,: in that even, will have
H strong following for the presi-
i’ency of that body.—Carnesville
Tribr.no.
Tie New York Tribune reports
tion a Kansas Populist is at work
10,011 a new scheme to increase
Ptun < if human happiness. He is
trying to cross the milkweed with
the strawberry, so that people ean
raise strawberries and cream toge-
ther.
According to a statement in the
Cherokee Advance, Col. S. C. Tate,
of Pickens county, last week killed
a hog which “tipped the beam” at
074 pounds. That is the “outweigh-
ingest” swine of which wo have
heard in a good while. Now, let
some Habersham county man beat
that the present year,
Hon. Joe Blackbu.n, of Kentuc¬
ky, was re-nominated for United
Ratos Senator last Friday night by
the pomocratic caucus in the Le¬
gislature of that State. He may
fail to be elected, however, as the
Legislature is about equally divided
between the Democrats and Repub¬
licans.
The many friends of Mr. Remsen
Crawford, assistant city editor of
the Atlanta Constitution, will re¬
joice to hear of his appointment as
press agent of the Plant system of
railroads, steamships and hotels.
His headquarters will bo at Tampa,
Fla. Mr. Crawford has been con¬
nected with the Constitution for
several years, and is a good news¬
paper man and quite an entertain¬
ing writer.
G E R M ANY AND ENG LAN 1).
11 is hard *.o believe that England
w ill go to war with Germany about
the Transvaal matter, and yet
stranger things have happened.
With her navy and merchant
vessels England would have tho
advantage. She could land over¬
whelming forces in Africa before
Germany made a start.
At first it goes without saying
that the British would win. Ger¬
many’s hope would bo that France
and Russia would oppose Great
Britain, and that some of her colo¬
nies would strike for independence.
Then, it is also possible that tho
Venezuelan matter would bring the
United States to tho front.
Yet. when tho British lion is fully
aroused he is a terrible antagonist.
Possibly if England has a tussle
with Germany the colonies will
show an unexpected spirit of loy¬
alty. Canada and Australia may
rush to the support of the mother
country, and it may be that Ireland
will give her no trouble. If the
British utilize their resources to
the utmost they will be able to hold
their own against Germany alone.
The German Emperor has throw n
dow n a challenge w hich can hardly
bo ignored. In recognizing Presi¬
dent. Kruger as the head of an in¬
ch pendent government ho has ig¬
nored the treaty of 1884, and in
effect he declares that the Germans
will protect the Boer republic.
The difficulty dates back some
years. When Great Britain and
Belgium made an agreement about
the Congo state the German Empe-
r >r broke it up. Later he interfer-
ts 1 when England attempted to cede
certain territory in West Africa to
the French. The British govern-
ment made an effort to prevent the
war between Japan and China, but
the Kaiser again interfered.
In recognizing President Kruger
the Emperor has offered a great
suit to England. If we should ig-
nore the British government and
address a communication direct to
a disaffected Canadian province,
recognizing its Governor as the
head of an independent state or if
sweat ot the ^ Cuban 1-vUiona! republic in Pre- that
way. there would be a row, as a
matter of course. This is just what
the Gorman Emperor has done, and
it is natural that John Bull should
resent it.
lt there is to 5*e a conflict Ger-
many's big army will do very little
good. It w ill be chiefly a matter
of water transportation, and Eng-
land is still mistress of the seas,
But it is hard to believe that there
will be a war. The sober, second
thought of both countries should
be against it.—Atlanta Constitn-
Ujj.
PROTECTION VS FREE TRADE
--
\\ e print in anotiier column an
article from the New York Press on
the “Growth of Southern Industry,”
in which , ,, the editor l t of r tha. pfl 1
tttk** 8 the* ground that the people o
the South are and have been mU"
represented in Congress by 1710,1
who are aV0 wed freetraders. He
thwi mak(J8 the abortion that the
n(J !s , 10t far distant when
people of the South will see
their true interest lies in
mg these men and electing in their
stead men who will favor a protec¬
tive tariff. He holds that North-
Republicans in Congress have
always had to fight the battles of
the Southern people against the
very men who were sent there by
Southern votes.
This is quite an ingenious argu¬
ment on the part of the New York
paper to induce the Southern peo-
pie to go into the Republican party.
But it won’t hold water. In the
first place, there are very few peo¬
ple in tho South who favor froe
trade. We of the South have al-
ways been taught to believe that
“extremes are dangerous,” espe¬
cially in politics. We hold that
free trade is just as far wrong on
one side as protection is on the oth¬
er. There is a happy medium be¬
tween the two which wo hold to be
the true doctrine. In other words,
we believe in the grand old Demo*
cratic doctrine of a tariff for reve¬
nue only, just sufficient to raise
enough money to meet tho expenses
of government when economically
administered, and so laid as to give
incidental protection to American
products and manufactures. B3-
lieving thus, wo are sure that it will
bo late when the Southern people
embrace either the Republican doc¬
trine of a protective tariff on the
one extreme, or the equally dan¬
gerous one of free trade on the
other.
ALL COTTON.
How many farmers aro there in
this county, hsks the Elberton Star,
who will play the fool and plant a
large crop of cotton this year? They
have, during the depression in the
price of cotton, become well nigh
independent. Will they continue
their independence, by raising all
of their supplies at homo and de¬
voting tho balance of their ener¬
gies to the production of the fleecy
staple, or will they plant an over¬
whelming cotton crop, neglect “hog
and hominy”andgo back to the bon¬
dage of debt and poverty? Let the
idos of April answer this important
inquiry. Editors and newspaper
men may bo ignorant of the science
of agriculture—may be utterly in¬
competent of advising our farmers
—but the cross-eyed observation of
a town bred w hite pine wliittler can
tell the difference between the con¬
dition of our farmers now, under
tho happy rule of “hog and homi¬
ny,” and that of four years ago,
under the autocratic rule of King
Cotton. Why will you persist in
raising so much cotton, when you
know that the end thereof is debt
and bondage? If you persist in
eating the bread of dependence ra¬
ther than become rich and inde¬
pendent, we shall be forced to the
conclusion that all of the fools do
not live in the towns.
ANNEXING THE STARS.
Dating from noon last Saturday,
tho official flag of the United States
will contain 45 stars, the Territory
°f Ttah having been admitted into
the Union at that hour,
hast fall a Governor and Legis¬
la ture were elected by the Repub-
licans by 2,500 majority, and the
new State will be represented by
two Republicans in the United
States Senate. With these that
body will stand : 44 Republicans,
$0 Democrats and 6 Populists,
There is a vacancy in Delaware
which will be filled by a Republi-
can -
The population of Utah is con-
siderably over 200,000. It has 84,-
000 square miles, ranks second
a producer of silver, is rich in
.»a„v other minerals and has great
areas ot fine agricultural lands,
The Mormons are greatly in the
majority.—Gainesville Eagle,
THE TRUE WIFE.
What do voh think the beautiful
word “wife” comes from? asks Kus-
kin. The great value of the Saxon
words is that they mean something,
Wife means “weaver.” You must
either be housewives or housomoths
—remember that. In the deep
sense, you must either weave men's
fortunes and embroider them, or
feed upon and bring them to decay.
Wherever a true wife comes, home
is always around her. The stars
may be over her head, the glow-
\yoj*p} the night's cold grass mav
be the fire at her feet . but home f s
wher9 9 SDe „ he ia 1 ’ anQ an( ] for 101 a 3 nODle noble wo- "°
man it stretches all around her,
than honses ceiled with ce-
j a r, shedding its tjuiet life for those
who else are homele«s This I br*
,• Vp • woman G true nlnco and
———-
‘ • Brew ..ter has di. posed of
0 Banks County Gazette to Mr.
S ‘ L - Cox > who » DOW its editor and
publisher. We wish him much
success in the journalistic field.
Growth of Southern Industry.
The Southern newspapers note, with
expressions of exultation, that manu¬
facturing industry in the South made
advance last year, in spite of the de-
pression of the business of the country,
For example, not only was the output
of coal and iron larger than in any pre¬
ceding year, but one million new cot¬
ton spindles were started, with a pro¬
mise that the number will oe largely-
increased during the present year. The
South has begun in earnest to do a
share of the work of supplying the de¬
mand of the Nation for manufactures,
by engaging in those industries of
which it can furnish in abundance the
raw materials.
No true American can fail to regard
the movement, with satisfaction. It
offers demonstration that the Southern
people are abandoning the ancient the¬
ory, tenaciously held, that the way to
prosperity for them lay in producing
raw materials for other communities to
manufacture. The cotton planter of
forty years ago cotisidered that the re¬
quirements of sound economy were
fully met if he could have his fibre spun
in Lancashire, with the privilege of
buying it back again without the in¬
terposition of a tariff duty. He knows
now that when the cotton mill stands
close by the plantation he can sell his
product to better advantage and pur¬
chase his supplies at smaller cost. It
is clear enough to the most perverse
and hardened Free Trader that the
South is richer if the Alabama iron fur¬
nace uses Alabama ore than if the ore
be sent far to the North, to return in
the shape of plowshares and hardware.
Whenever the factory and the field are
together ill the same neighborhood, lost
motion is avoided; and lost motion,
representing an unnecessary expendi¬
ture of time and energy, stands for lost
money.
i^Tlie South has only started upon its
career as a manufacturing community.
The people, having had a taste of the
benefit of industrial diversification, will
surely proceed further to multiply their
industries and to utilize material re¬
sources which remain almost unexplo¬
red. For the promotion of this purpose
one of the first things they should do
is to infuse a little of the industrial
spirit into their politics. They ought
to realize that politics and business are
in many particulars one and the same
thing. When they shall thoroughly
grasp this fact, no doubt they will re¬
tire from active service the politicians
who have so long misrepresented their
interests in Congress. Republican Pro¬
tectionists will stand by the Southern
industries in the future, as they have
always done in the past; but it is hard¬
ly lair that Northern Republicans
should be compelled to fight for South¬
ern interests against men sent to Wash¬
ington by Southern votes. It is dis¬
creditable, for example, that the great
always manufacturing State of Georgia should
elect a delegation largely com¬
posed of Free Traders, while depending
upon the North to secure just treat¬
ment for its most important business.
Sooner or later there will be a change
in this particular. Possibly it awaits
I he larger growth of Southern industry,
with consequently larger power. And
this is one of the most hopeful things
about the development of Southern
manufactures. There is, apparently, a
promise of the coming of the time when
most of the Southern delegations in
Congress will standfast tor protection
to home industry. In that day the
Free Trader cause in this country will
have lost all of its vitality.—New York
Press.
Hog, Hominy and Hay.
The hay campaign started by Editor
McIntosh at Albany bids fair to spread
all over Georgia, and if our farmers
make it embrace the additional features
of hog and hominy, Georgia will take
a long leap forward.
Last year Sumter and one or two 0 th*
er counties had meat to sell to outsid-
ers. This is the policy that will win.
When we raise our meat, corn and hay
at home, it will keep millions of dollars
in our pockets every year, and if we
reduce our cotton acreage judiciously
we can bring the crop up to 12 cents a
pound.
The other day a leading fanner of
Pntnara county passed through Atlar.-
ta, on his way home with a car load of
pure blooded pigs, purchased in Ken-
tuckv. * He is introducing this new
, breed . order . „ avoid the evil
in to of hog
ehelera, which seems to have gained a
foothold among the native stock in his
If 100 of these pigs live there will be
there but for this venture.
When the farmers in every county
in the State goto work on this line,
raising their own hogs, corn and
it requires no prophet to predict better
times in the near future. In the course
of a few years our people, instead of
sending all their spare cash to the West
for tbese lbree important articles, will
have them to sell. With the cash for
our cotton we may count on
money in circulation in the
districts all the year round, ami the
farmers will have mouey to lend , as was
the case in the » ood old da J' s before the
war.
Let us all go into the hog, hominy
and bay campaign !—Atlanta Cousti-
tution.
Congressional Contests.
Congressman Black spent his brief
holidny with his family and returned
tl > Washington in time to be in his seat
TV- looking ^ in Ho,,se fine health. reconvcnes Washington * He is
agrees with him, and it is to be hoped
he may long serve his people there, lt
is P robab!e that the Republicans will
enterat once u PO« lhe contest cases °n
the reassen,bl,n S ° f Congress. They
have d.vWeO the Elec.ioua CouHnit.oe
tiously, and it is probable that we shall
see what we shall see without much de-
lay.
There are twenty-nine contests to be
acted upon. In all there were thirry-
two contests, but three of the contest-
ants have withdrawn. Congressman
Amos Cummings in reviewing the
twenty-nitie contests states that in
nine of them the average Democratic,
plurality is 4,772, and in fourteen cases
the Democratic pluralities are more
than 1,500. In these contests, number¬
ing twenty-three, it will only be neces¬
sary to find out what is the shrewd
political thing to do, and act accord¬
ingly. This reduces the number of
contests in Which there is some pos¬
sible merit to six. ‘Ttwill thus be seen,”
says the Pittsburg Post,“that, although
there are an unusually large number
of contests, the meiubers of the triple¬
headed committee will have plenty of
time for odd chores. The last Reed
Congress turned out nine Democrats,
and every one of them was re-elected
by increased majority. This in the
nature of warning.”
In the gathering of evidence for the
contest Mr. Watson has been able to
show irregularities at some of the polls,
but none of sufficient flagrance or nu¬
merous enough to change the result of
the election. There is no reason to be¬
lieve that on the evidence that will be
submitted the seat of Congressman
Black will be in jeopardism. The
last election was held under the new
registration law, and so far a? Major
Black and the managers of his cam¬
paign were concerned, there was an
earnest effort to have the law complied
with. So far as we have been inform¬
ed Mr. Watson has not a whit better
chance to be seated than he had before.
It is not probable that the Republicans
will be anjr more anxious than the
Democrats to seat Mr. Watson, Und
there is no reason why they should go
out of their way to displace a good
man like Major Black whose worth
and conservative wisdom have been
proved. We have no idea that Mr.
Watson’s effort to dislodge Congress¬
man Black will avail him anything
—except perhaps the contest appro¬
priation.—Augusta Chronicle.
Negro Christians.
The negro lias a strong religious na-
ture. There are more negroes than
whites in this country in proportion to
population , Who , belong ,
to the . church.” .
The New York Independent lias
s° _____. n ” Bie . trouble ,, of , collecting ,, stilt- , ,
istics on this subject and finds that
there are in the United States 33,770
negro churches, valued at $26,020,000.
Their total membership 1 is said to be
2,617,000, of which 1,403,559 are Baptists, .
1,190,638 Methoeists, 30,000 lYesbyte-
rians and , 1«,»;>7 ___ Disoiples T „. . , of Christ, fa-
iniliarly known as Campbellites.
rnu„.„ J eat „„„ many ne^ro ____ Catholics r , .
in
Baltimore, Washington and New Or-
leans, but comparatively few' in the
country. In several of our cities tiiere
are negro Episoopalgchurches.
The largest negro church in tlie world
is probably that ministered to by- the
distinguished-astronomer, John Jasper,
who still contends that the “suu do
move.”
Over 6,000 negroes receive their
spiritual and astronomical counsel
from him. He is a worthy citizen and
enjoys the respect of the entire com*
m unity*
We have in Atlanta two negro
churches which have a membership
of more than 2,000 each. The leading
negro churches pay their pastors well,
and expend a good sum of money every
year in charitable work. In many of
them very strict discipline is maintain-
ed and the brother or sister who does
not keep in the middle of the gospel
road is severely dealt with.
The conservative and elevating pow¬
er of the church among the negroes is
very great and the tone of the negro
churches is distinctly rising.—Jour¬
nal.
The invitation by the little Populist
papers for the Democrats to quit their
party and join them, because of the re¬
cent Republican victories, is decidedly
funny, in view of tl>e fact that there
was not enough of their crowd left in
the States where these elections were
held to raise an umbrella, much less a
fuss. Democracy has gone down before
lt& enem,es ll Pou many a hard fought
but always rises again with re-
nev ' e< ^ power. lor thirty years it was
P°werle^ in the councils of the nation,
but the eternal and never-dying ? prin-
ciples upon whieh it is groui de d never
slept placed a moment, Returning reason
it again in control of the gov-
eminent, and history will repeat itself
in this instance.—Lawrenceville New r s.
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A Steady (irowthi
In discussing the industrial situaton
the Macon Telegrap says ;
“The Manufacturers’ Record notes
that the South is making amazing pro¬
gress in its industrial upbuilding, and
the attention which this is attracting
may lead some to think that there must
soon come a limit to this growth.
Should this idea occur to any reach r
of the Manufacturers’ Record it might
be well for him to study the matter a
little and he will see how unlimited
is the field for expansion, lie might
remember, as the Manufacturers’ Re¬
cord has often said, that Pensylvania
alone has more mamufaCturing than
the whole South; that the South, not¬
withstanding its rapid Cotton mill
building, consumes only due-eighth to
one-ninth of its own cotton crop; that
the South, despite its coal and iron ore
resources,-produces of the only about one-fifth
pig iron output of the country,
and that its entire manufacturing pro¬
duct is but 10 per cent of the total of
the country. Thus the South may
double and quadruple its entire manu¬
facturing interests before it attains to
tne volume of manufacturing interests
of the ceuntry, ami while the South is
doing this other sections will, with
equal vigor, be pressing forward their
industrial advancement. This country
cannot stand still. It is moving for¬
ward with tremendous momentum and
no one need fear that there will not be
room growth enough for all the industrial
which the South can make,
even should the growth be on a far
greater scale than we have seen in the
past.
A Mechanical Horror.
Machinery, a monthly journal pub¬
lished at Johannesberg, South Africa,
gives an account of a most wonderful
clock belonging to a Hindoo prince,
which the editor thinks the strangest
piece of machinery in India. Near the
dial of an ordinary looking clock is a
large gong hung on poles, while under¬
neath, scattered on the ground, is a pile
of artificial human skulls, ribs, legs and
arms, the whole number of bones in the
pile being equal to the number of bones
in twelve human skeletons. When the
bauds ot the clock indicate the hour of
1, the number of bones needed to form
a complete human skeleton come toge¬
ther with a snap, by some electrical
contrivance the skeleton springs up,
seizes a mallet, and walking up to the
gong, strikes one blow. This finished,
it pieces. returns to the pile and again falls to
When 2 o'clock, two skeletons
get up and strike, while at the hours of
noon and midnight the entire heap
springs up in the shape each of twelve skel¬
etons, and strike, one after the
other a blow on the gong, and then fall
to pieces, as before.
Let Us Create Prosperity.
The Biiltimorc Manufacturers’ Record gives
our people the following excellent advice:
All through the South there are towns hav¬
ing which excellent natural advantages—towns in
money is lying practically idle, bring¬
ing liitle O' - no profit to its owner? if and doing
no good to the community, every such
. j town in the South could be inspired w tli some
of the hustling qualities whfh have made
««d which are to-day bringing to the
1 rout Rome, (in., now one ot the most eon-
spumous places in the South, because of its
success in capturing great co 1 ton mills, hun-
dreds ot towns throughout the South would
South quickly spring the in‘o life and activity. The
has ability and tbs money to build
^
ils people ought to itiiiie and through active
co-operation gather into manufacturing cn
terprises its depend now unutihz d capita , and thus
cease to upon outside men and o it
side money. Thereds scarcely a town of 1,000
tHfople in the South which could not raise
$25,000 or $50,000 or $100,000 of local money
for the purpose of starting imlu-triai enter-
prises; piriland hut there is to> much lac * of public:
S broad-minded energy in many
these towns,
This is precisely what the Constitution has
said time and airain. We cannot expect to
sit down Svitli folded hafids and see outside
capitalists rush in and by permission to util¬
ize our natural advantages. Capitalists are
cautious and suspicious. They will ask why
we do not back our faith with our money.
They will say that if factories pay big divi¬
dends in the South our people shot: Id club to¬
gether and build them.
Fortunately, the Southern people are b-_
ginning to carry out this policy. In North
Carolina fnany factories have been built upon
the co-operative plan, and South Carolina is
keeping pace with her sister State. North
Carolina’s mills have home capital to the ex¬
tent of 93 per cent invested in them.
If we keep up this showing in our industries
it will not be necessary for us to offer outside
capital extraordinary inducements. It will
drift here ns naturally as water seeks its leve..
Thc thing fur us to do is to pull together, make
the mostof our resource =' a “ d create pros-
perity. Then, every other desirable
will follow.—Atlanta Constitution.
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