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THOMASVELLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 17, <88f)
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Open Letter.
We have heard
people wonder why
it is that at Lohn
stein’s you can al
ways find more
customers than at
any other place in
town.
This question we
can easily answer:
The people like to
trade at Lohnsteiris
store,
1st. Because they
receive every possi
ble attention and
consideration from
the proprietor, as
well as from the
salesmen.
2nd. Because
they find a better
selection of goods
at Lohnstein’s than
at any other place
in town, and
Last, but not
least, because a dol
lar goes farther and
reaches deeper at
Lohnstein’s than
anywhere else.
Politeness,square
honorable dealing,
excellence and
great variety of
stock, small mar
gins and quick
sales; These are the
cardinal reasons for
our flattering and
unprecedented suc
cess. And the good
work still goes on.
Come and see us
this week. We
will divide profits
with you.
Dry goods, cloth
ing, shoes, hats,
complete in every
department. Bar
gains in every line.
They are waiting
for you. Come and
pluck them. It
will pay you.
The Great Leader and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
Among tiie pines.
Softly fall, yc nutumn leaves, and cover in
your falling
All tbe brown, bare spots of earth, as ye
drift upon your way,
For the bareness and the dreariness start
iuto thoughts appalling,
And win sadness from the gladness that
shines out upon the day.
I would rest awhile in silence where the
waving pines are sighing,
And forget the hard-browed world, with
its law of love o’er thrown ;
I would look with fresher eyes on the year,
that, slowly dying,
Seems borne onward by the spirits of
some undiscovered zone.
I seem to sec and hear them trooping
through the dewy wildwood,
First through sun-gleams, then through
shadows, with the burden of the year,
And their feet, all ifmbef-sandaled, are stir
ring thoughts of childhood, -
As they rustle in the dead leaves that have
covered many a tear.
0! the cherished, unforgotten, who are
sleeping, calmly sleeping,
With folded hands and quiet breast
beneath the drifting leaves,
How their peaceful ref t speaks comfort to a
heart grown old with keeping
The midnight vigil lonely, with the
visions memory weaves.
0! peace, so longed-for, unattained, 0!
victory ungiven—
Yc stand beyond the clasping of my toil
ing, eager hands!
0! «oul, that in thy restfulness, thus wait
ing, all unshriven,
Shall spirits guide thee homeward when
Death cuts away thy bands ?
Gently fall, angeiit footsteps, and cover in
your falling,
The barren, dreary spots that lie upon my
burdened life;
In the autumn of my pilgrimage send ten
der voices calling
’ My weary soul to rest, from th*. aching
and the strife.
Thkrksb M. Setlky.
Viueville, Oct. 1, ’89.
Pure Democracy-
The democrats of Massachusetts
met in state convention the other day.
The platform adopted rings out clear
and cheering in itsevery line. There
is no buck down on any of the great
undying principles of the party of the
people. Here is the document:
Meeting for the first time since the
defeat of last year we declare our
continued and.hcarty support of the
cause of tarifl reform for which we
contented; and our firm conviction
of its success in the near future. We
rejjjlirm cur demand for free raw
materials and lower duties ou the
necessaries of life. We believe that
free wool, as provided for in the bill
passed by the democratic majority of
the last House of the Representatives,
is essential to the prosperity of the
woolen industry upon which that of
the wool grower is dependent while it
will afford relief to all consumers of
wools. We call the particular notice
of the farmers of this state who have
borne the heavy burden of high tariff
taxation without anything promised
them ; to the relief they will receive
through a reduction of the customs
taxes upon the article which they uso
or consume.
by Secretary Whitney, in the last
administration, to the end that we
ihay be provided at the earliest pos
sible date with a navy able to defend
our seaboard and uphold the dignity
of our flag.
CLOSE RELATIONS WANTED WITH CA
NADA.
We give our earnest support to the
demand of our manifold business
interests for such "removal of trade
restriction as will bring closer com
mercial relations between the United
States and Canada, which was favor
ed by the Democratic party of this
state in its platform of 12 years ago,
and we express oOr conviction that
the practicable and immediate method
of securing such closer relations is
through treaty on partial or entire
reciprocity of trade between the coun
tries, the machinery for the negotia
tions of which is now in republican
hands. We also favor close commer
cial relations with Mexico and con
demn the arbitrary action of the
treasury department in respect to the
importation of Mexican ores, which
has already led to retaliatory meas
ures disastrous to important American
interests in Mexico.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE WITH ELEC
TIONS CONDEMNED.
While condemning fraud in elec
tions wherever practiced, we are op
posed to the scheme of a national
election law placing the local election
machinery of all the states under the
control of congress. We believe such
a measure is sprung from motives of
narrow and unscrupulous partisan
ship, and it will be an unjustifiable
extension of the functions of the gen
eral government, opposed to the spirit
of the constitution and dangerous to
the liberties of the several states.
We condemn the present adminis
tration for its narrow partisanship and
low standard of public duty, standing
in conspicuous contrast to the charac
ter of the recent democractic admin
istration under President Cleveland.
HARRISON 8 SURRENDER
DOSSES.
FREE COAL AND IRON ORE.
We give our hearty support to the
petition of the present republican
governor of this state and other lead
ing iron and steel manufacturers of
both political parties addressed to the
New England members of congress
asking for free coal and iron ore and
lower duties on pig iron, and join
them in their efforls to have this im
portant industry benefitted if possi
ble.
We believe thnt Js T ew England rail
roads should be restrained, by law if
necessary, from entering into any
traffic arrangements which secure to
the manufacturers of other states
arbitrary and unfair advantages over
our town manufacturers in transpor
tion rates. We demand that all ma
terials for ship building, whether wood
or metal, be relieved from the heavy
taxes now imposed.,
We heartily favor the continuance
of the sound arid progressive policy in
the administration of naval affairs,
established with such eminent success
We condemn it for its surrender
to the dictation of unscrupulous poli
ticians, such at Mahome, Quay and
Platt, representing the worst elements
of the Republican party, for its utter
betrayal of the cause of civil service
reform outside of the classified service
in violatiou of the solemu pledges of
the party at the last national election
and of the President for their position
in regard to pensions and its machin
ery for distributing the nation’s boun
ty, for its unwarrantable acts in in
creasing duties through the treasury
in usurpation of the'legislative power
of congress and for the purpose of
paying political debts by increasing
the burdens of the people; for
its sale of high political office for the
large contributions of money by which
it was placed in power and for its
shameple8s nepotism clearly indicative
of a conception of public office not as
a public trust, but as a private per
quisite.
F.AIR PENSION LEG I I.S AT ION FAVORED*
Pension legislation for the benefit
of the invalid sailors and soldiers who
fought for this country should be just
am) liberal, and should be adminis
tered in a spirit of fairness and in ac
cordance with the laws of congress,
but not iu the interest of greedy claim
agents, nor with the object of empty
ing the treasury ; nor should the pur
pose of this legislation be perverted
by unjust discrimination, making
favored cases special, nor by the
granting of thousands of dollars of
arrears through rerating of officers of
the pension bureau, or to a United
States senator, while needy applicants 4
without political influence are kept
waiting for their just dues.
one of tanner’s outrages.
We condemn the ruling by which
this administration in revocation of
former decisions has thrown open the
pension list to persons dishonorably
discharged as an outrage on common
sense, a degradation of what should
be a roll of honor and an insult to
every true soldier.
The balance of the platform is de
voted to state issues. Upon theliquor
question it says :
We believe that the present policy
of this state in making the sale of
liquor a matter of local option to be
decided by a vote of the people of
each city and town, works satisfactory
and should be maintained.
FOR A l-URE I1ALI.0T.
Upon matters aflecting the fran
chise it says :
We recognize the growing power
of wealth in politics as one of the
greatest dangers of the times, nud we
demand the passage of suitable legis
lation such as other countries have
already enacted and successfully ap
plied, for securing tho limitation of
campaign expenses and for prevent
ing corrupt political practices. We
heartily indorse the principle of secret
voting and we bespeak for the ballot
get embodying this principle, which
goes into effect this year, a fair trial.
COTTON TO OUTDO ITSELF.
The Georgia Crop will Probably be the
Largest Ever Produced.
Reports from the upland cotton
crop continue encouraging, and it is
now believed [that the crQp will be
the largest that was ever raised in
Georgia. Picking has been very
general and has been aided by the
splendid weather.
There are some complaints of a
scarcity of labor in a few sections,
where pickers are demanding more
pay per hundred pounds than they
have been getting, but this is only
the case in One or two places in upper
Georgia.
It is now believed thnt an early
frost can hardly hurt the crop, now
that it is so well advanced. On the
contrary, a dry frost would materially
help tho crop by opening the well
matured bolls of the top crop, except
in a few spots where tho bolls are
green, and iu that case they would he
killed.
The picking will more than -likely
be over by the middle of November,
'inhere is, however, considerable cotton
yet iu tbe fields to be picked and
ginned.—Evening News, Macon.
DREAD DIPHTHERIA.
Fifty Families Made Childless in a Month.
Pittsrurg, Pa., Oct. 14.—A
special from Gallitzer, Pa., says:
“Diphtheria, in its worst from, is
playing havoc witli the lives of our
little ones in this place. During the
pnst two weeks the average number
of deaths was three or four per day,
aud doctors report at least fifty eases
down with the disease in town. Four
families, with six or seven little
ones each one month ago, now are
childless from the sweeping fang
that fastened its death-dealing sub
stance upon their offspring. At the
instance of a meeting of the borough
council which was called by the bur
gess, Tom Burns, for the. purpose, a
committee was appointed to investi
gate all cellars and inspect the drain
age in order to prevent further rav-
The Americas Recorder makes
some strong points in the following:
“Whenever^ community complains
of a poor paper, the community is to
blame. The paper is what the people
make it. If they stand by it, give it
their cordial support, subscribe for it,
and advertise in it, the paper will
boom as well as the town. The pros
perity of one will reflect on the other.
The paper will be proud of its patrons
and the people will be proud of their
paper. Support your home paper.
No newspaper asks charity. It only
asks that its daily and increasing ef
forts in behalf of the community in
which it is published be appreciated
by the community.”
Utah Must Stay Out.
The Morihons have for some years
been trying hard to secure the admis
sion of Utah as a state into the union.
As long as it remains a territory they
are subjected to the federal laws.
Congress can adopt and enforce any
measuro it may think necessary to
break down the close ecclesiastical
corporation which has so long held
power in the territory and to prevent
the practice of polygamy. The system
of government by the church which
has obtained is as objectionable to our
American theory of popular govern
ment as polygamy is to our Christian
civilization. When congress passed
the Edmunds bill it entered upon a
serious attempt to abolish these evils,
and thereby fit the people of .Utah
for participation on equal terms with
that of other states in American life
and government. Tho effect of the
law has been marked. Polygamy is
not openly practiced. Many men of
prominence in the Mormon church
have been imprisoned and fined,
and tbe conclusion forced on the
church authorities that, as long as
making and execution of the laws
are in the hands of the federal gov
ernment, the power of the hierarchy
will be closely limited and the growth
of the church on the original lines
prevented. This was why a constitu
tion was adopted by a convention of
Mormons which gave every guarantee
that could be asked in such an instru
ment against the practice of polyga
my and the control of the state by the
church. ‘Congress refused to admit
Utah, in spite of tho fair prorrises of
the proposed constitution, because
there could be uo guarantee that the
Mormons would adopt laws to carry
out its provisions, or.enforce them if
adopted*- Indeed, it-woold-be a very
remarkable thing if they did. It was
plain that at the bottom of the desire
for statehood lay the longing for ex
emption from the stringent federal
laws against their cherished institu
tion enforced by the unsympathetic
federal courts. It can safely be said
that every succeeding coDgrcss will
make the same reply to Utah’s plea
for admission until polygnmy ceases
to be ati article of the Mormon relig
ious creed or the gentile population
becomes the ruling clement of the
population.
The insincerity of Mormon profes-
ions in the proposed constitution mid
the false pretense of the leaders in
presenting that instrument to con
gress as evidence that Utah should bo
admitted as a self-governing state, are
shown in the proceedings of the an
nual conference of the Mormon
Church now in session. With the
Mormons the church is the state, and
the leaders of- the church speak as the
heads of the state also. At tho open
ing of the conference President Tay
lor, the head of the church, declared
that polygamy was a divine revela
tion, a saviug ordinance, and must bo
adhered to in spite of all perils and
persecutions it might bring upon the
faithful. After this declaration from
the honest fanatic at the head of the
hierarchy, it will no longer be useful
for men in lower place to declare that
polygamy is not a part of Mormonism.
Pretense must be dropped and the
fight made to a finish between the
low oriental type of civilization which
Mormonism represents and the higher
aud free civilization which lias made
our country great. The issue cannot
be doubtful, but it may be long de
layed. In the meantime, U tah, how
ever rich and populous, must remain
a territory.—Telegraph.
Never send a dollar away from
home, a contemporary says, when the
article that the dollar will purchase
can be obtained at home. Money is
our financial blood. Its circulation
keeps the body alive. Bleed that
body by sending that money away
from it and soon trade will put ou a
look of lethargy and iunctlvity.
Always trade at home. It is doubly
useful. It helps the persons patro
nized aud finds its way to you again.
Now Going on
AT
LEVY’S
Our Mr. Levy-
having* closed out,
while in N ew York,
large lots of
Walking Jackets,
New Markets,
Mjeskas,
ALSO A LARGE LOT OF
Misses’ and Childrens’
Cloaks & Reefers,
direct from the
manufacturers, we
feel confident in as
serting that bur
Prises
on them are
FAR BELOW
the cost of manu
facture.
Call early before
the choice ones are
picked over.
Levy’s
Mitcliell House Block.