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Answers a Pertinent Inquiry of
“Broad Street.”
Ed. Times-Enterprise: I am glad
to sec that “Broad Street” is an honest
seeker after tiuth. Such persons are
always good subjects of conversion,
and I am satisfied that he will yet be
found among the active friends of the
park
He says in his article of Aug. 29th :
“I can understand what will be done
with the $750; that will go to pay the
interest.
“But what is to be done with the
§500 raised annually to provide for the
payment of the principal?"
Now, I am glad Broad Street asked
that question, for it furnishes me op :
portunity to show what a small matter
the purchase of this valuable piece of
property will be to rich and poor.
I am not authorized to speak, but
I have not the slightest doubt but that
either one or both of our banks would
take this money and pay the same
interest that the town will pay, namely:
five per cent, per annum.
Here is the way the thing will work:
The first year the town will raise §750
for inierest and $500 for principal.
The second year the $500 loaned at
five per,cent would bring $25, and if
this should be applied to the payment
of interest the town would only have
to raise $725 for this purpose The
third year $700, the fourth §675, the
fifth $650, the sixth $625, the seventh
$600, the eighth $575, the ninth $550,
and the tenth year $525.
Now the bonds to be issued arc
subject to payment at the end of ten
years, and at the end of this period
$5,000 would be in hand for this pur
pose, and of course would be applied
to the payment of the bonds. This
would leave a bonded debt of $10,000
to meet, which the town would still
Prohibition at Asbury Park.
For several years Asbury Park,
a great summer resort on the New
Jersey coast, has been a stronghold
of prohibition. It is so no longer.
The founder of the place, and the
owner of a large part of it, Mr. Brad
ley, admits that it lias failed there.
When he founded the town his inten
tion was to make it noted for temper
ance and morality. Tt has always
been a very moral place, but he has
not succeeded in keeping, whisky and
beer out of it. People cannot enter
the surf there on .Sundays, nor are
the railway trains .permitted to stop
there on those days, j®t notwithstand
ing the law and alLqf- Mr. Bradley’s
efforts, they can get intoxicating
liquors there. How they get it Mr.
Bradley cannot discover. They get
it, however, and in sufficient quanti
ties to get intoxicated. The deeds of
all the lots that have been sold in the
^own contain a provision prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors on the
premises, and there are regulations
prohibiting the bringing of any intox
icating liquors within the limits of
the place. Whisky and wine rand
beer arc there, however, and in such
quantities as to rimkc the prohibition
ists feel somewhat hopeless about-tlie
ultimate success of the prohibition
cause. -
Mr. Bradley, who is still the ruling
spirit of Asbury Park, in a published
communication, admits that he re
gards it ns impossible to enforce-pro-
hibition there, and announces his con
version to high license. He says that
although high license is a compromise
it would be wise to adopt it, because
it is bettor to have intoxicating
liquors sold openly, under.proper res
trictions, than surreptitiously, 1
both tlio community; and individual;
Cities and Farms in Georgia.
Hon. S. G. McLendon,-6f Thomas
county, addresses himself -to Mr.
Stephens’ statement that the farmers
of Georgia are growing poorer every
year. He says this wag true when
Mr. Stephens and Gen. Toombs said
so, but is not Irue now. Mr. McLen
don selects one hundred farmers in
Thomas county and compares their
tax returns for 1879 and 1889. He
finds that only eleven farmers out of
this lot Bhowojtia falling off and the
decrease wits very small. The other
eighty-nine had . Very considerably
added to their possessions, besides
paying off olfl .debts and educating
their children. These farmers are
cultivating practically the same lahd
in ' Thomae county that they
cultivated ten years ago. Mr. .Mc
Lendon concludes that while it, is true
that the rich are growing richer, the
poor nre also growing richer. Mr.
McLendon ‘takes two lots of fifty
farmers each. In the first section
only seven 11011 fallen behind in their
returns from 1879. Their decrease
was, all told, 83,159. The other forty-
three-showed an increase of 864,581,
amounting to eight per cent, annum,
Tlio average individual - wealth of
th£so forty-three in 1379 was - 81871
and ifc ,1889 it is 83372. Another
lot. of small .farmers returned in 1879,
830,690 worth of property, and in
138D,$64,233vor their average indi-
vidual wealth in J8I9. was- $612180,
? lj284.66. Oily
ill behind, their
_79’being-?J474v|
j» a decreS
who ad vi
A Matter of Only A Few Millions.
Corp. Tanner, on his way to Mil
waukee, said to a reporter that he
was debating in his mind whether ho
would ask for 8110,000,000 or 8115,-
000,000 for distribution next year.
This is another illustation of the fact
that the Corp. never knows when to
keep his mouth shut. Common pru
dence demanded that he should consult
with those under whose authority he
acts before announcing how much he
wilj divide among the hoys next year,
and they were hastening to Milwau
kee to meet them. They mny not
think the increase over last year’s
appropriation which ho proposes
enough though it must he admitted
that 830,000,000 or 835,000,000 is a
great deal of money to add to the pen
sion payments in one year, and then
the*commissioner would he forced to
make public acknowledgment of a
disposition to he niggardly toward the
hoys.—Telegraph.
I flf*l “»-w« siiffer less injury.
cipal.and only $500 a year for interest.
By lending the $500 sinking fund each
year this interest would go on decreas
ing, as I have shown it would do, for
the first ten years.
As I said in my first communication,
the man who owns $1,000 worth cf
property would pay 62A cents a year,
in order to raise $1,250 per annum
The figures I now give show that this
tax small as it is,would decrease every
year until the debt would be wiped
out.
1 need not enlarge upon the value
which our ten thousand visitors attach
to the pines in Yankee Paradise. I
need not speak of the large and widely
diffused benefits which have come to
Thomasvillc by reason ol the presence
ot our visitors. - Leaving out tile ques
tion of the enhanced value of our real
estate, let me ask if these good people
who annually visit us have not done
some things to please us. Did they not
contribute something towards building
the Methodist church ? the Pres
byterian chuich ? the Episcopal
church ? the Catholic church ?
Do they not, every year, contribute to
the support of these churches, and is
there a man in Thomasvillc who
doubts but that they will liberally help
the Baptists in the erection ot a new
house ot worship? It was the wisest
ruler that history tells us of who said
that “a man that hath friends must
shew himself friendly.”
When Broad Street and those who
agree with him, and I think there are
not many, consider this question in
all of its bearings, I candidly believe
that they will be surprised that they
thought of opposing the purchase of
the park.
As I said in my former communica
tion, we do owe something to our vis
itors, and we owe something to our
own people, who have their money up
as a hostage to fortune, in hotels and
boarding houses.
A candid and fair discussion of this
important subject will bring our people
to a perfect agreement. All the argu
ment is on the side of those who favoi
the park, or at least, I cannot see any
good argument on the other side.
Park.
Shall it be Northen or Livingston?
Prohibition has never yet been suc
cessfully enforced in nny'commuuity
where the majority of the people
were not in favor of it. It is there
fore a mistake to attempt to force it
upon communities in which public
sentiment is against it. No doubt
that for eight months of the year pro
hibition is enforced at Asbury Park,
because during that period public sen
timent favors it, hut when the town
is crowded with thousands of summer
residents public sentiment is the other
way, and intoxicating liquors arc
quite freely sold. The probabilities
are that Asbury Park can never he
made a strictly prohibition town. It
certainly cannot as long as the great
majority of its summer residents nre
not in favor of prohibition.
The prohibitionists should draw
a lesson from the experience of As
bury Park. Instead of aiming at
constitutional prohibition in the dif
ferent states they should favor local
option laws and devote their energies
to educating the people in temper
ance. In that way they enn make
prohibition successful. When the
majority of the people of a county
are converted to temperance they will
adopt prohibition, and one county
after another in a state can lie won to
prohibition, until finally the whole
state will have adopted it. It is im
possible to enforce prohibition where
the people are against it. This
admitted by practical men. Only
theorists, or those who have axes to
grind, pretend to think otherwise.
Morning News.
- ttesl:*
growing as fast as the towns and cities.
The tax digest now being made lip is
cited by the Constitution to show that
the state increase of 825,000,000
largely made up this year by the
couuties which have large cities. The
Constitution admits that the farmers
are improving, but shows that they
are not moving forward as rapidly
tliejcitics.—Augusta Chronicle.
lliii xswicK, Ga., Aug. 26.—I.
Colville, of New York, is here for the
purpose of establishing an agency Ou
tlie Clyde line of steamships. He is
non-committal on the subject, but
enough has been said to authorize the
statement. The establishment of this
agency will give Brunswick two lines
of steamships to New York, the Mal
lory and the Clyde. The result will
he a much lower rate of freight. The
business of the Mallory line has in
creased to such proportions that they
have found it necessary to put on two
•steamers weekly, commencing Sept.
1st
A Bold Scientist.
■Somewhere out in Texas there is
certain Prof. Tracy, who lias jus
come to the front with a theory which
lie thinks will revolutionize the world
The professor believes that through
the agency of electricity he will bo
able to produce rain at will even in
the dryest deserts. He says that all
rain clouds are generated by electri
cal forces and that by dischargin
electrical currents through the air by
suitable appliances, producing deto
nations similar to thunder, lie will lie
able to precipitate the latent moisture
in the form of rain.
The scheme sounds like a crazy one
hut a few years ago almost any pre
diction of some of the now accomp
lished facts of electricity would have
been regarded as equally crazy. Still,
very few will be prepared to believe
that any human device can control
the weather, and it is safe to say that
the Texas professor will he disap
pointed.
However, the matter is interesting
as serving to ijjiow the increasing pop
ular interest in electricity, and the
general disposition on the part of even
scientific men to believe in the almost
unbounded potentialities of this mys
terious force.—Constitution.
* The Return Increased.
The commission appointed by Gov
ernor Gordon to appraise tlio ■Savan
nah, Florida and Western road,
which was composed of Colonel It. B.
Nisbct, Mr. It. P. Wofford and Mr. R,
F. Watts, made their report yester
day. They found that tlio road had
assessed their property $1,140,000 less
than it was really worth. If tlio road
secs fit they may now apply for nrbi-
trntion. There is little probability of
their doing this as their hooks show
that tlio net earnings of the road for
the. past year was 8645,000. Allow-
the road to be worth only the
,- Tpiir ipillion on that they assess it at
tneytfDuld be receiving ovor sixteen
-.v per cent;, interest.—Constitution.
‘ WHI He Stick?
Ah • Affiance ihaii, in an interview
with the Macon Telegraph, in refer
ence to the candidacy of Col. Living
ston, fur governor, says :
“Do you know,” lie said, “that Col.
Livingston's announcement gave
grave concern to the thinking mem
bers of the order. Just at present it
is a serious matter and may lead to
some complications. Col. Living
ston has certainly placed the alliance
in a false position. Of course the
alliance has not indorsed him, but
tlio time and manner of hi* announc
ing himself and his subsequent speech
before the carpenters’ association,
which was strongly apolitical one,
would seem to authorize outsiders to
think so. You remember the case of
ex-Prcsidcnt Jackson, who was sum
madly dealt with for attempting to
use the order to further his candida
cy for congress in the fourth district.
It is quite probable that Col. Living
ston will be called upon to withdraw
from the race ..for governor or resign
the office of president of the alliance.”
Private letters received in London
from Rome state that the pope’s
health is wretched. According to
them lie cannot walk without the aid
of assistants, his voice at times leaves
him entirely, and although he lias no
disease lie is in a state of general de
bility. The pope is 80 years old ; he
has been a hard worker, and it cannot
be reasonably expected that lie will
live much longer. Among those who
are mentioned as his possible success
or arc Cardinal Rampollo, Mgr. l’er-
rochi and Mgr. San Felice.—Ex.
To the Front,
AS ALWAYS,
Ilricrly, Mrs. Maybrick’s fever, ex
pects to Infv cotton in the southern
fates for Liverpool firms, who have
entrusted him with commissions. Hi:
business in Liverpool was ruined by
the Mayln-ick affair. He will lie
something ot a curiosity in this coun
try, for a time at least, Mrs. May-
brick, for the next nine months, will
be kept in solitary confinement in
some county jail. She will not be
permitted to send or receive a letter,
or to have any communication with
the outside world. After that period
she will he sent to some one of the
convict prisons, mid if her conduct
lms been exemplary she will he al
lowed one visitor and 011c letter a
year. It is safe to predict that she
ill not survive that sort of life very
long.—News.
A Massachusett sect has announced
lat the world will conic to an end on
the 6th of October. Why should
Massachusetts he favored with this
revelation, while the balance of the
orld is left in dense ignorance of the
great event?
Brown-Sequard’s elixir of life ap
pears to have fallen into disfavor.
- (Mitchell House Block.).- |§S*ei
Has just opened up
to the young- and old
gents the handsomest
line of shoes ever of
fered in our city, in
all styles, from the
narrowest to the wid
est lasts. Patent
leather shoes, hand
some line of gents’
toilet slippers and
full line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
shoes.
Mitchell House Block.