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that degree, but the deduction, logi
cally to he drawii from his premises,
that republics have failed because
women have not exercised the right
of suffrage is fallacious. The reason
for the destruction of republics in
the past is that men were not' suffi
ciently developed, mentally and mor
ally, for self government. Civiliza
tion has, however, made rapid strides
during the past few centuries and
INGERSOLL’S ELOQUENCE.
ol Robert Ingersoll, who has
Je an unenviable reputation for
[self as an agnostic, if not an in-
is an orator of wonderful pow-
, m l pathos. The beautiful eulogy
Lvered over the dead body’of
[ Mary II. Fiske, published in
[erday’s Banner-W atchman,
Lhes" with human love and svm-
L. jt is strange that a man
L e soul utters such pure senti-
[t and true devotion for human
1 should, in another breath, de-
and mock the Author of Love,
Father of the race,
n tears the eloquent speaker con
ed the body of his dead friend to
grave in these beautiful, if irrev-
t words.
r\Ve pray thee, Mother Nature, to
|e this woman to thy breast and
[1 her there as tender-
„ ,]jy arms as she held that abau-
ed babe. We ask no more.” .
! Ie thus deifies Nature and attrib-
to her super-human powers. The
it of his lifeless friend had flown,
lit hut a cold form of clay
lined, yet his vivid imagination
l God in the man, sees that clay
usformed and immortalized by
er in Nature. But one step and
soul would burst in eloquent ad
lion of Nature’s God. He pro
es to believe only in things visi
such as his intellect can grasp,
human wisdom understand, but
eery words appeal to an unseen
rutible power which be does not
mrehond and yet invokes.
>ut for a pride of intellect, an in
(position to recognise an infinite
superior Being, Ingersoll would
in reverence and acknowledgi
God he mocks. Ilis beautiful
tearful tribute to tlie memory
s. Fiske does credit to his heart
;1 it is hoped that the eloqufent, hut
liming orator may yet see God
Nature, and feel ihat from
t God springs "7 the sym-
itliy of human love, 'the irn-
•tality of the soul of which he
ams.
Hon. Allan D
the movement looking to the pardon ' Democrat and was bought by Repub-
of persons charged with violation of lican Senators in as flagitious and
through the most oppressive tyranny I ti)e internal revenue laws - Collec- i corrupt a maurier as any Indiana
... , , tyranny c „ . ... i voter was ever bought by Dudley’s
of kings, and the general progress of fcor Crenshaw and Senator Colquitt j « workers » Then he became a states-
the race, men have been taught t 0 a *e aiding in this endeavor to induce man . Mosby, the daring guerilla,
control themselves and direct govern- P re8i dential clemency in behalf of an carried his black flag almost into the
ments. This power of a neoole to ur ' fortuuate 8efc of oor fellew citizens, city of Washington, and was called a
,, people to , v, , t> . ■ murderer, an assassin and an outlaw,
govern themselves, rather than be p ‘ * j He became a republican and was
driven iutoj subjection by a tyrant’s Cleveland will endear himselt to the . gj ven a f at office and is a welcome
lash lias been gloriously illustrated on pe0pl * ° f tl,e mountaius of North j visitor to Mr. tlarrison. Gen.Chal-
the free soil of America—our repub- Georgia V S rantin S a general par | mers used to go to Congress as a
He has tried and solved the problem *•*» “
them were merely employees at stills j ing prlsoneK ^ „ ar _ kieked out
and were working to make a hard liv- I G f Congress for obtaining liis election
ing. Severity has failed to break up
the stills in the mountains, let Presi
dent Cleveland use a little mercy and
clemency.
PIPIIP
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appropriation which would have re- Says the Nashville Republican:
veal el this bidden treasure and The really great men of the South,
. , x . . . , , according to the trst Republican
turned it over to-its rightful owner. opinion f n the North, are Bill Ma-
By all means let us have a geological i, on e, Jim Chalmers and John Mosly.
re all rebels and all were
and mineralogioal
gia.
survey of Geor- . They
‘ made especial objects of Republican
-- j vituperation until they became Re-
YES, PARDON THEM-' | publicans. Mabone was a dishonest
~ . . v demagogue and repudiator of honest
Candler is leading j deb £ U e went to the Senate as a
of freedom for the nations of the
earth.
That evils exist in our country
there is no doubt, but excesses are
followed by retribution, and the en-
ightened minds of the people of
America is sufficient guarantee of the
perpetuation of our free institutions
and the permanent abiding of local
self-government pn our soil. That
the women of our country -have done
much, and are to-day doing much for
the perpetuation of our freedom is be
yond doubt, but their influence is and
should be exerted, not at the ballot
box, but in the home circle—to act
as the great conservators of the na
tion. After all they nurture and
rear the nation, and il is the silent,
but all—powerful influence of tlie
mothers ot the nation that acts as the
great balance wheel of freedom and
right. It is the training, the instill
ing-of noble impulses, th it a mother
imparts to her son that preserves him,
and, in tlio aggregate, the . nation in
its integrity and purity. Hers is the
highest duty, the most sacred priv
ilegc*. To rob her of this place, and
put into her hand the ballot, would be
to take the governor from the engine,
the rudder from the ship.' Let her
retain her position as queen of the
fire side, and the nation-is safe.
A SOUTHERN EXPOSITION IN NEW
YORK
Efforts are being made to hold an
exposition of southern products a id
resources in one or more of the north
ern cities. This is the sort of an ex
position that will pay. A magnifi
cent exhibit of southern resources
by murder and fraud. He became a
Republican and i9 held up as a model
of virtue and patriotism, and the Re
publicans of the House will very prob
ably strain a point to puc him iu
Congress that they may enjoy his
pleasant society. These little facts
should be remembered while tlie Re
publican organs are talking so much
about frauds and violence in the
South. Northern Republicans are
ready to charge any villainy against
i a man who is a Southern Democrat;
! they will condone any crime when the
| criminal becomes a Republican. If
John M. Clayton
murderer of
could he made in New .York, and it j were known, and he should develop
would be viewed by hundreds of j into a Republican politician and be
thousands of people, and would he a j gin to abuse the South, there is not a
perfect revelation to such as know Radical organ' in the Union which
little about the South. An exposi
tion of this kind would be followed by
an unprecedented influx of capital and
immigration from the North. Let’s
hold a southern exposition in New
York, and -show the world what the
New South is.
Safe-breaking is the latest fad
would not land
were the most
the country.”
him as though he
unsullied patriot in
THE WOOLFOLK CASE.
[Tom W oolfolk has been granted a
|\v trial. Under the circumstances
Supreme Court couldohardly have
dined a new hearing for the perpe-
itor of, perhaps, tlie foulest deed
tlie annals of crime. That ther’e
Mihl have been an uproar in the
irt room during the trial is most
Ifortunate, and unquestionably en-
lles \\ oolfolk to a new hearing, and
|t nobody doubts liis guilt.
11 he very enormity of his crime is
Ipalling, and the State stands quies-
|nt to see the finale iu the case of this
arful human butcher. We are glad
Jat Woolfolk has been given a new
IU) t from any sympathy for him,
ft lor our respect for law and order
the court room. It should he
en d place, and no such shouts as
Ming him,” should he used to try and
|rce a judgement, even against the
>t abject villain. This effort to
rce justice defeats its object always
in this instance. Let the public
fcveafter leave the courts to decide
lestions of law and justice. As
flow being w’e deplore Woolfolk’s
ii'ilde crime and his impending
j>°ni, hut the mournful cry of a mnr-
r 1 e< ^ sister, the crushed skull of
ther and the bleeding wound of a
Mhor, though all now covered by
|e sod, still impel the demand for
Element by the murderer’s life,
f le an< I uncompromising justice can
fl} be satisfied by the hangman’:
fose around Woolfolk’s neck until
is dead. We would hesitate
tite this before his trial, hut the
Jrt’s decision has been rendered and
lives only on a technicality.
ANOTHER PRIZE DRAWING*
We have decided tb have another
grand prize drawing the 10th day of
July.
At that time we will give away a
fine phaeton, an elegant cook stove,
symphonia, the latest and most
melodious musical instrument, a
beautiful $10 family hihle and a fine
$15 Singer sewing machine. The
sewing machine will be a special
prize to our lady subscribers. Every
subscriber paying a year in advance
will have a chance at these^ elegant
prize*.
We have adopted this method of
extending our circulation, and it is
working admirably. The Banner?
Watchman is finding its place at the
fireside of every household in North
east Georgia. And why?
Because. It stands squarlly for
Democratic principles and the rights
of the people.
Because. It is always brim full of
the choicest and latest news and in
teresting matter of all kinds.
Because. It is a clean paper both
in print and sentiment.
Because. It divides profits with
its subscribers, by giving away hun
dreds of dollars in costly prizes every
year.
the stage. Professional burglars ap
pear on tlie scene and crack open a
burglar-proof safe like it was
a toy. Philadelphia was highly
de ighted with the ski 1 of
the vault-breakers, and the West
has gone wild over them. It
is to he hoped that the puh'ic exhibi-
The .Colorado Legislature lias a hill
on its Calendar which provides for
thepunisment and disbarment of any
lawyer found guilty of advertising his
readiness and ability to procure di-
( vorces. The object is to reach that
ou j class of alleged lawyers who fatten
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upon divorce cases, which many
times would be settled without a re
sort to the Courts were it not fo- the
alluring promises of secrecy in the
process of severing the marriage ties.
It is argued that such a law would
decrease the number of divorces.
The North German Gazette says a
tions of their methods will lead to some j gratifying change for the better has
equally expert device to thwart their
midnight devilment.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
Senator Blair, in his report in favor
f. lema * e suffrage, says: “Enfran-
nse woman, or this republic will
dually Advance to the same destruc-
>n, the same ignoble and tragic
astrophe, which has engulfed all
s male republics of history.”
H Senator Blair is prompted by
lantryin his championship of fe-
r° 8Q ff* a ge he is to be commended to
It is said that the freight receipts
of the Georgia road at Lithonia, the
shipping point for most of the gran
ite from Stone Mountain, is about
o le hundred thousand dollars a year.
The granite business has assumed
immense proportions.
Representative O’Farrell has
nounced his candidacy for guberna
torial honors in Virginia. He says
the issue is local.
lately occurred in the condition of Mr.
Pendleton, justifying the hope that
he will soon personally assume the
direction of affairs at the American
legation. Air. Pendleton retured to
Berlin new year’s day, and the-offi
cial American overtures regarding
Samoa, which were made at the for
eign office on January 7th, are at
tributed to his initiation.
Guano for 1889.
Dobbs’ Ammoniated Cotton Fertilizer, and
. Dobbs’ Chemicals for Composting;
The above well known brands of Fertilizers are
now ready for the trade. I shall sell my fertilizers as
low as any dealer can or will sell a Standard goods of
liKe quality.
It pays to buy the best, and all who have used my Guanos know them
to be of the very highest grade, as the analysis will show.
!S. O. lOolblbs.
The growing enormity of our pen
sion list is thus strikingly exhibited
by the New York World:
The cost of pensions in this coun
try for the current year will he over
$87,000,000.
This is $21,000,000 more than the
entire net ordinary expenses of the
Government in the year before thd
war. It is $60,000,000 more than
the cost of pensions thirteen years
after the close of the war, when,
under operation of natural laws, the
list would have begun • to decline.
The increase in pensions since the
close of the war is within $14,000,000
The sheriff of Berks county, Pa.,
on Saturday, sold ten fine farms in
that county, aggregating nearly one
an- thousand acres. During the present
winter season the sheriff has sold
some twenty other large farms, be
sides the farm stock of twenty other
farmers, all of whom had failed. This
condition of things is taken as an in
dication that farming no longer pays
as formerly, and a similar state of
affairs exists in other counties in that
section of the state.
. of the yearly diminution in the inter-
Because. It is a newspaper, mag- est upon t R e public debt , within that
azine, a story paper and an agricul- time; so that, as a charge upon tax-
tural journal all in one. Subscribe payers, the enormous war debt has
for the most part merely changed its
for the Bannek-Watchman.
OUR MINERAL WEALTH
The mineral wealth of North Geor
gia should he developed. Thousands
of hidden wealth lie buried in the
mountains and valleys of this section
of Georgia, which need only the hand
of an expert to develop and make
their possessors rich,
A partial geological and mmeralog-
ical survey of the State was made
some years ago, hut for lack of suffi
cient appropriation the work was
abandoned before half completed. The
result is that foreigners have come
form. As bonded, it. would all he
paid in 1907. As represented by
pensions, it will run on indefinite
ly.
The pension list for the United
States costs th ; s year within $3,000,-
000 as much as the annual cost of the
standing army of Great Brittain and
within $18,000,000 as much as the
enormous standing army of Germany.
And there will be no halt in piling it
on so long as the surplus holds out
and pension agents can make fortunes
and demagogues gain votes by the in
discriminate voting away of thepeo
pies’ money.
The cotton receipts up to date, are
set down by the National Agricultu
ral bureau, at Washington, as 5,752,
489 hales. This, says the statistician
of the department, is 84.3 of the
total crop, according to careful in
quiry. If these figures are correct,
and the estimate is carefully made up
to February 1st., the crop of 1888-9
cannot go over 6,825,000 bales.
My little son, three years of age, was
terribly afflicted with scrofula. His head
was entirely covered with scrofulous sor
es, and his body showed many marks of
the disease. A few bottles of Ayer’s Sar-
sapaiilla cured him.”—W. J. Beckett,
Hymera, lnd.
It Leads I Others Follow
THE LIGHT-RUNNING
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C 10PYIVG it in form and style as nearly as
) possible, hereby tacitly acknowledging it tlie
standard of excellence in sewing machines. So
matter what dealers may say of their machines;
see the “DOMESTIC” before purchasing; ex
amine its simple, yet splendid mechanism, ob
serve its wonderfully simple set of attachments
and notice the wide range of work, from tlie
simples 1 and most practical kind executed, to
the finest embroidery, as no other machine can
do it. •
Agents wanted in unoccupied territory,
Address.
Domestic Sewing Machine Company,
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Marbl# and Granite Works.
BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market, AUGUSTA, GA.
Garble Work, Domestic and Imported, at tew Prices
Georgia & South Carolina Granite Monuments made a Specialty.
A large selection of Marble and Granite Work always on hand, ready ter lettering and deliver
Parties Desiring Monuments or Work Apply to ANDREW ROSS
At Athens Cemetery.
BALDWINFEBTILIZER CO
A California man borrowed a dog
and went gunning. The dog frisked
into our State and appropriated many I a bout hither and thither, hut didn’t
of the rich mineral deposits' which find game, and didn’t seem to want to.
are to he found in almost every coun- 4* quite tired out, the sports-
, , , , , man sat on a log and reviled the dog,
ty. Before strangers and speculators ^ flee care but contin-
get possession of our peoples’ heri- ue( j to f r i 8 k and play. Presently he
tage we should have a geological sur- began digging in the ground in a
vey, and develop our wonderful mine-1 very enthusiastic way, and^finally un-
r*l resources. The marble fields of
North Georgia, now owned and being
most profitably worked by North
ern capital, stand a monument to the
short-sighted policy of cutting off an
earthed a dork object. The gunner
who had been watching him in sheer
disgust, sauntered over to see what
the fool had found. It was an old
leathern purse, and it was $300 in
gold and $1 in silver.
FACTORY-PORT ROYAL, S. C.
Kalnit.
OFFICE-SAVANNAH, GA-
Georgia State Grange Fe ttllzer. Bone and Potasli.
Are Old, Reliable and Standard A new excellent formula for com- The best preventive of rust or fir-
brands for Cotton, Corn and Grain, posting with home made Manure or ing.
Cotton Seed Meal, °
Shackelford & Hattaway, Agents.
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