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SENATOR PKOCTOK SAYS
It Is Not Peftcc, Neither Is It
WAR IN CUBA.
Senator Proctor has recently been
on a visit to tlio island of Culia, an<l
the results of his observations w 1 1 ift*
there have been given to thi coun
try in a speech which lie delivered in
the Senate last Thursday. It is in
part as follows:
More importance seems to be at
tached by others to my recent visit
to .Cuba than I have given it. It
has been suggested that I make a
public statement of what I saw and
how the situation impressed me.
This ldo on account of the public
interest in all that concerns Cuba,
ami to correct any inaccuracies tint
Jme not unnaturally appeared in
some of the reported interviews with
me. My trip was entirely unofficial,
and of my own notion; not suggested
by any one. The only mention I
made of it to the President was to
say to him that I contemplated such
a trip, and to ask him if there was
any objection to it, to which lie re
plied that lie could see none. No
one but myself, therefore, is responsi
ble for anything in this statement-*
Judge Day gave me a brief note O
introduction to (Jen. Lee, and 1 hadf
haters of introduction from business
fiicnds at the Nortn .to bankers and
other business men at Havana, and
they in turn gave me letters to their
correspondents in other cities. These
letters to business men were very
useful, as one principal purpose ot
my visit was to ascertair ihe views
of practical men of allairs upon the
situation. •>
Havana, the great city anil capita,
of the island, is, iu the eyes of the
Spaniards and many Cubans, all Cu
ba, as much as l’aris is France- But
having visited it in inoro peaceful
times and seen its sights, the tomb of
Columbus, toe forts, Cabana, ana
Moro Castle, etc., I did not care to
repeat this, preferring trips in the
country. Everything seems to go on
iinuch as usual in Havana. Quiet
prevails, and except for the frequent
squads of soldiers marching to guard
and police and their abounding pies
f nee in all public places, one secs
little signs of war.
Outside Havana all is changed
Jt is not peace, nor is it war. It is
desolation and distiess, misery anil
starvation Every town and village
is surrounded by a troeba (trench), a
•sort of rifle pit,b it constructed on a
new plan to me, the dirt being thrown
up on the inside ami a barbed wire
feme on the outer side of the trench.
These trochns have at every comer
and at frequent intervals along the
sides what are there called forts, but
wlneh are really small blockhouses,
many of them more like a large sen
try box loopholetl for musketry, and
and with a guard of from two to ten
soldiers in each- The purpose o
these trochams to keep the it con
centmdos in as well as to keep the
insurgents out. From all the sur
rounding country llie people have
been driven into these fortified towns
and held there to subsist as they can-
They arc virtually prison yards, and
Mot unlike one in general appearance,
axeept the walls are not so high and
strong, but they suffice, where point
is in range of o soldier's rifle, to keep
iti the poor reconceutrado women
ami children. Every railroad station
is within one of these trochas, ami
has an armed guard.
Every train has an armored freight
car, loop holed for musketry, and ■
Win
hue fen fhnuvand
tunta that it is almost infalliblo
FOR WfiMAfTS
PECULIAR
, WEAKNESSES.
Irregularities and derangements.
It baa become the leading remedy
for this class of troubles. It exerts
a wonderfully healing, strengthen
ing and soothing influence upon
the menstrual organs. It cures
“whites” and falling of the womb.
It stops flooding and relieves .
iST|J|Lii r^s^si
gg&ußi.
rrrssod and palnfnl menstruation.
For Change of Life It is the best
incdieino made. It i3 beneficial
during . pregnancy, and helps to
bring children into homes barren
for years. It invigorates, Btimu
latoa, strengthens the whole sys
tem. This great remedy i* offered
to all afflicted women. Why will
any woman suffer -mother minute
with certain relief within reach?
Wine of C'ardui only costa >I.OO per
bottle at} our diuig store.
for fnl' <rr, in r<.vg rtpvirivy ftp f firt tjtr".
littru. ‘j'Jiln*?, qjpivg &yntp*nrn.i f V • l.nilii '
A In P’triitn v. *." Thr t "nultunoogu Mai
unit Vo., Chat taw *\a, ’ft Ml.
Rev. 1. W. SMITH. Tar.-den. 3. C . ?iy:
"My v.lf3 used Wine of Cardy* St Korns
for falling of toe wo.wU and It entirely
cured
filled with soldiers and wiJi, as 1
observed usually and was informed is
always the case., a pilot engine a mile
or so in advance. There are fre
quent blockhouses inclosed by a
Iroclia and >. itli a guard along the
railroad tiaek With this exception
there is no human lite r habitation
between these fortified towns oud
villages ami throughout the whole of
the four western provinces, except to
a very limited extent among the hills
where the Spaniards have not been
able to go and drive the people to
the towns and burn their dwellings,
I saw no house or hut in I lie 400
miles of railroad ride from Dinar del
Kio province in the west across the
full width ot Havana and Malamws
provinces, and to Sagua la Grande or.
the north shore and to Cienfuegos
on the south shore ot Santa Clara,
except within the Spanish troehas.
Tere are no domestic animals or crops
on the rich fields and pastures, except
such as arc under guard in the inline
diate vicinity of the towns. In other
words, the Spaniards hold in these
four westsrn provinces just what
their army sits on- Every man, worn
an, and child, mid evety domestic
animal, wherever their columns have
reached, is under guard and within
their so culled fortifications. To
describe one place is to describe all.
To repeat, it is neither peace nor
war: it is concentration and desola
tion. This is the “pacified'’ condition ,
of the tour western provinces.
All the country people in the four
western provinces, about 400, (00 in
number, remaining outside the forti -
fied towns when Weyler’s order was,
made, were driven into these towns,
and these are the reconcentrados.
They were the peasanry, many of
them fanners, some land owners,
others renting lands and owning more
or less stock, others working on cs
tates find cultivating small patches;
and even a small patch in that fruit
ful dime will support a family. It
is but fail- to say that the normal
condition of these people was very
different from that which prevails in
this country. Their standard of
comfort and prosperity was not very
high, measured by our own. Bu
according to tlieir standards and re-*
qiiireinsnts their conditions of life
were satisfactory.
They lived mostly in cabins made
of palm or in w ooden houses. Some
of them had houses of stone, the
blackened walls of which arc all that
remain to show that the country was
ever inhabited. The first clause of
Weyles’s order, with “I order and
command,” in large ivpe, reads as
follows:
I ORDER AXD COMMIT/.
First, all the inhabitants of the
country or outside of the line of forti
fications of the towns shall, within the
period of eight days, concentrate them
selves in the town so occupied by the
troops. Any individual who, after ths
expiration of this period, is found in
the uninhabited parts, will be consid
ered a rebel anil tried aa such.
ihe other threes e tu. forbid the,
transportation of provisions from ona
town to another without permission
,of the military authority, direct the
owners of cattle to bring them into
the towns, prescribe that the eight J
days bhall be couuteij from the publi
cation of the proclamation to the
head town of the municipal districts,
and state that it news furnished of
the enemy winch pan be made use ot
it will serve as a ‘‘recommendation.’
Many doubtless did not learn of
this order Others (tiled to grasp- its
terrible meaning. Its elocution was
fid ft largely to tlie guerrillas to drive
in ail that had not obeyed, and I was
informed that in many cases a torch
applied to their homos with no notice,
and the inmates fled with such cloth
ing as they might have on, then
stock and other belongings being ap
propria ted by the When
they reached the towns they were
allowed to build lints ol pa'in leaves'
m the suburbs and vacant places'
within t.he Irocha, and left to live, i ;
, (Lev coul.l. Their huts arc ahum
| ton by fifteen feet in size, and for
want of space arc usually crowded
together very c’oseiy- They have no
floor but the ground and no furniture,
and after a year’s wear hut little
I clothing, except such stray sulrsti
j lutes as they can extemporize. With
; large faiuilits, with more than one,
j ‘ii this little space, the coiiimorts'
sanitary provisions are impossible.
Conditions are untnenlionab’e in this
' respect Torn fiom their homes,
with foul earth, foul air, foul water,
and foul food, or none, what wonder
lliat one-half have died, and that one
one quarter of the living are so dis
eased that they cannot tie saved. A
form ot dropsy is a t-omnion disorder
resulting from these comli.ji.ms. Lit-!
tie children are still walking about |
with arms and chests tern lily enact- !
ated, eyes swollen, and aLdotuen
, NUCIAR TCA cure Dys pry-ala. '
Constipation and ladigcstioa !
itciril-ttoe tfco Ulver. Price.2E. j
bloated to three times the natural
size. The physicians say these cases
are hopeless. __
Deaths in the street have not been
uncommon. I was told by one of
our consuls that they hftvo been
found dead about the markets in tne
tnornirg, wheTe they had crawled
hoping to get some stray hits ot food
from the early hucksters, and that
there had been cases where tlic-y had
dropped dead inside the market sur
rounded by food. Those people*
were independent and self supporting
before Wevler's oroerj They are
not beggars even now. There are
plenty of professional beggars' m
every town among the regular resi
dents, but these country country peo
ple, the rceoncentralos, have not
learned the art. Hardy is a hand
held cut to you for aims when going
among their huts, hut the sight ot
them makes an appeal stronger than
words-
I could non believe tlmt out of a
population'of 1. <3OO, 000 200,0t)0 had
.lied within these Spanish forts, prac
tically prison walls, within a few
months past front actual starvation
| and diseases caused by insufficient
and improper food. My inquiries
were entirely outside of sensations]
sources. They were made of our
medical officers, of our consuls, of
city alcaldes (mayors), of relief corn'
mittens, of leading merchants and
hankers, physicians and lawyers -
Several of my informants were Span
ish horn, but every time the answer
was that the case had not been over
stated. What I saw I cannot tell so
.that oth rs can see if It must he
seen with one’s own eyes to bo real
ized -
If our people could see a snu.l
fraction of the need they would pour
more ‘‘freely from their liberal store ’
than ever before for any cause-
When will the need for this help
end? Not until peace comes and the
reconcentrados can go back to their
country, rebuild their homes, reclaim
their tillage plots, which quickly run
up to brush in that wordeiful soil
and dime, and until they can be free
from danger of molestation in so
doing. Until tin n the Ameii an
people must in the main earo for
I them- It is true that the alcaldes,
other local authorities and relief com
initlees are now trying to do some
thing and I believe, to do the best
they can. Hut the problem is beyond
their in -ans and capacity, “ami the
work is one to which they are not
accustomed.
1 have endeavored to state in not
intemperate mood what 1 saw and
heard, and to make no argument
thereon, but leave every one to draw
hi own conclusions. To me the
strongest appeal is not the barbarity
practiced by We' ler nor the loss of
the Maine, if our worse fears suould
prove true, terrible as are both of
these incidents, but the spectacle of
a million and a half people, the entire
native population of Cuba, strug
gling ip* freedom aid deliverance
from the worst’niisgovernmout of
which I ever had knowledge.
It is not my purpose at this tui.c*
nor do I consider it my province to
suggest any plan. I merely speak os
the symptoms as I saw rliun, but d<>
pot undertake 'o prescribe :.u<-h reme
dial steps as may be required, which
may safely bo left to an American
President and the American people,
—Silver Knight-Wat eh man.
On the morning of Feb. 20. 180a,
wn sick with rheumatism, and lay in
bed until May 21st, when 1 got a bottle
ot Ohambfirhiin’s Fain Balm. The
first application of it relieved me al
most i-ntirriv from the pain and the
second afforded complete relief. In
short time I wus able to be up and
about again'—A. T. Mu remix, J.uver .e.
Minn.
Sold by E. T Thompson,,
Homer, tie.
' Senator Stewart has given notice
of an amendment he will offer to the
naval appropriation bill, providing
lor the construction of eighteen coast
defense monitors of type of Puritan,
Monterey, and Terror, and appropri
ating £l, 800- 000 with which to be
gin the work'
An Ilxeliungo <f Coinp inients.
We cltpjthe following from the
\tlaiita Commercial of last Sunday:
The gubernatorial situation re'
mains unchanged.
Hon. Bob Bcrrter came to town
yesterday and left last night.
Ml" Bcrnet called on Col. Candler
and they had qu ti- and inteiesti g
listle word sparring contest.
Mr. Burner said- “Colonel, when I
came in to see you last I thought it
was to shake hands with the ncxi
governor of Georgia; now I come to
let you shake hands with him.”
Col. Candler assured Mr. Berner
that first impressions wen; always tits
lies!,
Ihe scene was amusing to those
who witnessed if
“for W.is and
mroaf Trebles
©ult repalar standard medicine 4*
! Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral”
J. HEY\VOOD, A. M.,
of Mathematics, Ottorboln
versity, Westerville, 0.
HALP-SIZB BOTTLES, S<*N
HON. HOWARD TAO.mVsON,
During the week Col. Howard
Thompson, candidate for Congress,
has been here mixing and mingling
and getting acquainted with Gwin
nett people.
Oil Tuesday at the noon hour of
court he spoke ton large audience in
tlie court house and made a most fav
orable impression. He is an affable,
genial, whole-souled gentleman and
is fast making friends, and will give
iiir- competitor a lively iace for the
nomination.
Gwinnett is conceded to be “mis
sionary ground,” and neither oue of
the candidates have as yet anything
like a “dead cinch’, on the vote of
this county, so the "‘wise heads” say.
Quito a strong pressure is being
made to induce Col. Tyler M. l*te
plesto en ter the race, and in e lse lie
yields, his. friends say he w ill, of
course, get the solid support of this
county, and muddy the waters in
Jackson 'ml Milton.
As ttie race is not yet fairly begun,
other entries may be made,—Law -
rence i ilae News.
If you wish to keep up w ; th the
financial questions of the day, you
should subscribe for the Silver Knight
Watchman, of Washington D. C,
It is one of the best edited papers in
the U. Sand gives splendid news
from headquarters on all questions
of national importance, nnd espu
daily on the money questions
Banks County Journal and the Sil
ver Knight-Watchman one year for
only sl. GO*
The Supreme Court has reversed
Judge Kimsey iu the injunction case
as tram mg the tax collector, from col
lee-ting the court house tax. There
fore walk up to the captain’s office,
hoys,-und settle. Here is.the decis
ion as handed down:
CASK 281.
Board of Commissioner!-of Itoads and
Revenues of Habersham County et al
v. Porter Mfg- Cos. Before Judge
Kinney. Habersham superb r'court 1 •
Cobb, J.—l: The limitation placed
by the constitution ( \i t. 7, sec. 7. pai
1) upon the power of municipal coa
porations ami counlies of this State
to incur debts does not operate in any
way os a limii.ation upon the taxing
power of such corporations and coun
ties.
2. The authorities who have in’-
charge the county affairs of the sever
al counties of this State are author,
ized, with out the recoiiiinendotion ot
the grand jury, to levy an extra tax
for the purpose of erecting or keeping
in repair the necessary public build
iiigs of tin- county.
o. The decision in the ease i f
Lewis Y. Lofloy (92 Ga. SOU) upon
a review is adhere* to ane rtafiimi, .1
4. The levy Ly the county aurth
oritios of a tax, “to pay other lawfu 1
charges against tho county” is not so
indefinite that its collections should be
enjoined.
Judgement reversed. All concur
ring. 11. II Perry, (I P.Erwin aim
J, 15- Junes, for plaintiff m error.
\'P. McClatchy, C- L B iss and
J. J. Bowden, contra
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CANDLER'S OiTOJWfNT’S
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ft liar. Icakyd out that the oppo
nents of Col* Candler srh resolved
upon the adoption of- two aileron
tives. One is that if neither oue of
the opposing candidates can be nomi
natod, they will combine then-strength
block the convention and prevent the
notnir.otion tf Col. Candler.
Wo do not accuse tiiise gentlemen
of this—we have simply heard it ns a
minor. This has been done before
in Georgia, and from what we know
of Col- Candles, lie is opposed to just
uch methods. Up is really running
in opposition to just such crookedness.
The pronounced expression of Col.
Candler against the methods which
have Jong been in vogue, has arjayeU
a certain element, or we would rather
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Banks County Journal
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OUR PRICE THE LOWEST • ■"-/wllnjiij.
Parry MfcJS' Indianapolis,^'
say, certain elements, against him.
The ultimate [dan seems to be that
neither the one nor the other cull be
n'omina.ed, then a “dark horse’* must
be trotted into ihe ring There are
said to be several of that kind brows
ing idly around.
We arc 1101 diposed to take too
much for granted cither way, bur
meanwhile wo shall admonish every
Candler man to go promptly to the
polls and cast his ba’lot lor the man
who is being combined ..against be
cause he calls for clean methods iu
politics. We cannot believe that
Georgians will commit a blunder in
uonunatiug and in electing Coi. Can
djer, %nd our policy is to procure Ills
nomination by pure and honest moth
ods.—Echo—Gazette*
. Coro
responds readily to proper fer
tilization. .
Larger crops, fuller ears and
1> . t. ’*' r are to result
1 ’ rai use of fertilizers
i- -g at least 7% actual
Potash
t
v’lt cookl nre free to farmer*.
GERMAN KAI.I WORKS,
£3 Nassau St., New Yaril
ssi- ‘ :!K\VA: / 'll 6*o : o.
...
If it ,-<>sts t o T .xp-i evs of Hanks
Cou v tv Gkouui a $184.00 to employ
tKI if.'-d-to c representative men
-ok id.;- and report to the Snpen
-01 Qcti;-: oi, Jll. aict- na through
0 "if’s Clerk;ccnJi-i not the pub
li.T -.ff drs o* ok- said county, to every
perioit wh-j. niay.be interested in such
afl-tn ~—enough ro go to the records or
to the county clerk’s office to ascertain
what the report is—. What is it worth
to have those men’s reports printed
tolded and sent in a neat and business
like manner to about 10.000' persons
or citizens who pay *Li r pro rata of
the investigating ex pen ;s, i-.*-t paid.
A reward of live dollars ( $5. 00)
will be ptii to .he person sending us
the most businesslike answer, or the
solution of ilie above problem, which
is worthy of the consideration of every
public spiaited eitizen-of Banks coun
ty, together with SI.OO to pay for oho
year’s subscription to the
BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL,
between now (March 24th 1898.) and
thwlDtlTdaj of September 1808.
All answers to this question ( or
problem ) must be submitted to us in
writing, so that we may SHOW
on the day upon which the Superior
Court convenes, that the people of the
county of Banks are willing to pay for
all. Work that may be necessary for
the welfare of,the people, and to print
and circulate a whole lot of very com
pun pluiientary assertions In behalf of
•s uu- Judges, Solicitors General and
a Foreman tor their very philanthrop
ic, kind and just 6ervii-esin reduceing
the price of an already terribly low
priced class ot work ( that of jetting
| type, print, tig and paying postage or,
a 1■ it of complimentary letters,) which
are signed a.ni 0r.!,-red r corded ( at
the oXf.ens o , tax rs j ail’d Or
C' ~.j :-i ..- me whom tha
m- • • . .... remarks art. in -
: b 1 -aking these hundreds
If--, -m, .nui-ntary letters de.iver
miri. less titan Postal Card
! if -. ilyet nearly all of the wo.tk
rh tis ruijuireil to self advertise and
seif i- snphmeui some is expected of
the smallest and poorest paid laborer
of almost any community— the hard
constant working printer and oditor.
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