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“1 ATHENS BANNER > SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2# 1891 RAIL ROAD LEASES. The committee of the Senate aud House which has in hand the inves tigation of railroad leases ought to move with great caution and circum spection. Important interests hang npon their action and serious dam age may be done by a mistake on their part. They have a sworn duty to discharge and must go straight ahead in its path, but they ought to look carefully before taking each step. They have before them some guilty and some innocent corpora?, tions—the danger is that some of the innocent may be punished, and some of the guilty go free. For example the leases of the South Western,of the Georgia and of the Augusta and Savannah are valid I MEAN TO $M MY CU BEGINMING MONDAY. AUG. 31ST, At LEAST 25 CENTS on the DOLLAR, By making their purchases of- me. You can make a Five Dollar bill go as far as a Ten Dollar bill under ordinary circumstances. NO DECEPTION PRACTICED OR COUNTENANCED BY MAX JOSEPH The truth is my fair and square dealing is appreciated by my thousands of customers. I will sell all kinds of Dry Goods, Notio ns and Shoes, commencing Monday Alien f« at prices way below competition. Convince yourselves. Examine my goods. Get my prices. Note carefully $very item mentioned below. ’ sust THIS GIVES SOME IDEA OF WHAT I AM DOING I and lawful contracts which contra vene no mandate of the Constitution and are authorised by their charters. Besides, years of acquiesence have interposed the wholesome and pru dent objection of an estoppel. Pub lic opinion always did approve these contracts and it approves them now. As an evidence of this it will be re» xnembered that the value of the stock in the Sooth Western, the Angusta & Savannah and the Georgia ad» vanced immediately upon the publi cation of the fact and terms of their respective leases. But theref are some whose skirts are not clear—and they are before the Committee. For example, the lease of the Central to the Georgia Pacific. In order to show the uni versal distrust of investors, of this Central and its consequences it is only necessary to point to the sud den, rapid and con tin nous decline of Central stock. Some superficial ob servers, who are not well informed, attribute this decline to the action Your special attention is called to our elegant lot of new Corsets just received. Dr. Bridgman’s Electro Magnetic Corset for 1 00, worth 2 00, Best C. B. Corset 75 cents, worth 1 25. 2 1-2 cents a yard for rich designed Challies; 2 1-2 cents a yard for Polcadot Challies; 2 1-2 cents a yard for Plaid figured Lawns; 2 1-2 cents a yard for a lot Remnants. 25c. Tissues: 1 case Figured Muslin 10 yards for 15 cents- 5 cents per yard for 2 cases Bleaching, guaranteed equal to Fruit of the Loom, Limit,20 yards to each customer. DOWN GOES THE LACE CURTAINS. They have been falling little by little, and now they J i. _ _ 1_ _ H _ _ .. ^ J mam a a m m a A AL f/Mi Ww* I \ n r *■ rt Atr V V L/VVJU — y are down to the floor,and you can get them for what they COST J At 49c. a pair; very handsome, 6 cents a yard for Zephyr Gringham«; 12 l-2c. quality. 30 pieces yard wide Bleaching, best made, at 7 1-2 cents, Wamsutta is no equal. Limit, one bolt to each customer. 10 cents a yard for the 42 inch 25 cents Polca dot Swiss- 4 cents a yard for the 10 cent Check Nainsook; 3$ cents a yard for 10 and 12£ cents White Lawn; For 7^- cents you cau have choice of every piece of Whito 0^,1 • house. This includes 8£ cents to 35 cents quality. 8 !n 6 cents a yard, tor Imitation China Silk* from the bolt, anvlr..^. , sired, worth 30 cents. J -S 4 * 1 de- cents a yard Tor 25c. Llama Cloth, 40 inches wide, handsome < 7£ ients a yard for beat quality Chambree. ' n£r? - H cents a yard for 1 case Repps, just received. Best quality. 1 cent a piece for nice bordered Ladies’ Handkerchiefs. 11-2 cents apiece for large size Gent’s Handkerchiefs. 2 1-2 cents a yard for Black Check Lawn; remnants. A Hint for Merchants. 20 cents a dozen f#r turkey red handkerchiefs. 5 cents a yard for 7 1-2 cents Sea Island Sheeting. 45 cents a pair for 1 00 Ladies Kid Oxford Ties, sizes from 3 to 7; 1.00 a pair for Ladies Scalloped top India kid pump sole button Shoes; 2.60 Pure Linen Table Covers at Cost. 1 25 for a pure Irish Linen Damask Table covers, hankRomo „ u light blue border, knotted fringes, 3 50 quality. 01 10 cents a piece for a handsome tidy or colored Turkish towel, 25c. q ua | t quality; 1 00 for Ladies’ hand-sewed French kid Common Sense Oxford Ties No, your eyes don’t deceive you when you see advertised At 1 65 a pair for Gents patent leather Oxfords, best quality. 85c. a pair for Gent’s Plain Leather and Velvet embroidered Slippers; worth 2 00; 44 cents a pair for Lawn Tennis Shoes; 90 cents a pair for Gent’s white top Lawn Tennis Shoes; double sole, best quality. 1 25 for a lot of Gent’s 2 50 Bals or Congress; Here is something that will interest you, something you need, and some thing you will never buy as cheap again. 15 cents a pair for large lace Pillow Shams, very handsome an,i „... cost you 60 coats anywhere, ‘ u Nov Parosols and Umbrellas. Are what every oue needs to keep the hot sun from burning yon is your chance to get them. J 100 apiece for choice of the finest colored silk canopy top Parasols, 90 cents a piece for Gen's 32 inch black Gloria Silk Umbrella. 90 cents for Ladies’ black silk Gloria Silk Parasols. 85c a pa’r Cor Boy’s patent ! eather Oxfords, best quality; 75 ceuts a pair for l lot Boy’s patent eather Oxfoids, worth 1 25. 24 pair Men’s patent leather Lace and Congress Shoes will go f or *> flo worth 4 00. .. KEEP COOL! . «0 cents for 3 large size Satin finest Palmetto Fans. cool for a cent—1 lot Palmetto Fans for one cent apiece. Yours, Respectfully, of the legislature. Impossible. The lease is dated June 1. The stock was selling at the time of its announce ment to the public a few days before, at and about 120. Immediately up on the announcement of the lease the stook tumbled. It contin ued to decline;, and when the legis lature convened in July it had al ready dropped to 105. The Richmond Terminal as is wel} known dictated this contract. It moved these corporate bodies about on this railroad chess-board of con tracts just as easily, as arbitrarily and as silently as the player moves his pieces. It has made a great mis take. It has acted without author ity of law and has done a wrong to MAX JOSEPH. enemies and outlaws. Let them be regulated just as any other public highway is regulated. Set aside the illegal contract, restore the Central to its own officers and agents and the wrong will be effectually righted and the monopoly destroyed without harm to anybody or anything. For tunately for the people and for the railroads this matter is in the hands of a committee composed of able and conservative, and at the same time fearless and conscientious men. COL. JOHN T. GLENN. Georgia will probably have a dis the people. Let it be undone. Let 1 tingnished gentleman as a member the Central be restored to the posJ ofthe interstate Commerce Coin session of its own officers. Let com- mission. There is a place made va- petition awake and live again be- Lant by the death of General Bragg tween these Georgia communities Lf Alabama,and among those spoken which are served by both these roads. 1 0 f to 8UCC eed him, Colonel John T. It must be confessed that the Ter- Jn minal Company has heretofore been careful in its contracts in Georgia and has been supported by the law ail that have been made public :cept this last one, and therefore it oght not to be indiscriminately at tacked and condemned. But in this lease of the Centra) the law has been violated; and the Constitution set at naught. The remedy is simple and efficacious. Let the contract be set aside; let both parties be enjoined from enforcing it, and let Gen. Alex ander have charge of the Central Glenn, of Atlanta, stands out most conspicuously. The place must be filled by a dem ocrat, as the statute requires that the commission shall be made up of an equal number of democrats and republicans, and the vacancy is that of a democratic member. This is why Colonel Glenn is a candidate for the place. There conld be no better man for this position than Colonel Glenn. He is a jurist of ability, a man of many superior business qualifica tions, a scholar well versed in the against him. I believe Blount and Turner will come in line for him within a week or two, and I hope you will consider our talk aud de cide to something. Crisp is going to be elected, and I want you to be with him and get a committee place in Washington, where you can make a reputation for yourself and serve your constituents with success. I know this is what you want to do, and that is what you can do. Now consider this matter and write me out a short interview, in which you can simply state that of course you would prefer to support a Georgia man, and in the event you have mis understood Crisp’s record and that he is a tariff reformer and stands as nearly on the Alliance platform as any other candidate, you will sup. port him. Write me what you think of this plan. It woald benefit both Crisp and yourself. ;Youre, very truly. W. Barrett.” Where does the promise come in ? road aud run it according to its I business relations of this State, and charter. No surgeon’s knife onght I j 8 in every way competent to dis- ever to go any deeper than the ulcer, charge the duties of this high office. The remedy for this unlawful con- Colonel Glenn has signified his tract onght not to be any wider than willingneH ^pt th e position if the mischief. The people will be hereceive the appointment and he protected aud the Constitution vin- wlUf beyond the remotest shadow of dicated by setting aside the nnlawfnl a doubt> ^ tbe appointmeI1 t if meri t agreement and prohibiting the par* | the measure of award, ties from performing it. Extreme measures against railroads was talk ed of before the last legislature; fors ED. BARRETT8 LETTER. Ed. Barrett, the Washington cor fciting charters and reorganising I respondent of the Atlanta Constitu- companies by a minority of stock-1 tion has demanded that Mr. Watson holders was freely mentioned in pro- produce the alleged letter promising posed legislation. This remedy was bim (Watson) a chairmanship of a unwise, extreme and illegal then and Here is the letter that is so now. Besides, this overt act Mr Watson produces : had not then been committed. There «offi C e of Managing Editor Clark is no sense in talking about forfeit* Howell, the Constitution, Atlanta, . . | Ga.. May 20th, 1891. iog charters, because it 1b not neces- ,i HoK . Thomas E Watson : sary to resort to any such harsh and extreme measures, even if a forfeit ture had been incurred. These roads are public highways of this State. They are governmental affairs. They are servant# and convenience#, not “My Dear Sir—1 suppose yon saw my interview in this morning’s Constitution with Amos Cummings. He told me privately that he felt qnite certain of Crisp’s election, that the only thing injuring his chances now, was the impression in the north that you, Blount and Turner were THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION AND THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE- When the Atlanta Constitution condemned the Georgia Legislature for refusing to accept the Con fed erate Veteran’s Home, it did but lit tle more than every newspaper claims the right to do : expsess its views upon a question in which the public is deeply concerned. Every one can easily see that the Constitution has done nothing more than give utter ance to its convictions in this mat ter, joat as The Banner did, and juat as every newspaper in Georgia has done. Some papers endorsed the action of the legislature ; others con demned it jnst as the Constitution did, except, perhaps with less tem per and spirit. It was natural for the Atlanta Constitution to feel sore disappointed in the legislature’s actions, for losing sight of the question of doty in es tablishing this worthy institution, the Constitution felt a double inter, terest in it because it was the last hope and prayer of beloved Henry Grady. In the light of all these conditions and circumstances it was the most natural thing in the world for the legislature to ineurthe condemna tion of the Constitution. Who could have expected this paper of all other papers to pass the action of the House by as a small matter ? Who could deliberately get angered at the Constitution for such a course ? As to the merits of the issue, pro and cou, the facts are all familiar to the reading public. The Veteran’s Rome was first conceived in tb brain of Henry W. Grady, the man whose very name'will always be sy nonymous with Southern pride and Southern patriotism iu Southern vo« cabularies. The scheme was carried out, not by this, one man alone, but by thousands of Georgians and Southerners, whose contributions showered into one vast fund in rapid succession to build this Home. Blessed be the pride of Georgia, that home was built by loyal hearts and hands. Tbeu came the question would Georgia accept it. It was not a ques tion would Georgia build a home for her old soldiers, because then the matter of expedience could have ‘en tered. the discussion, and it might have been shown that it would be better to give the war-worn Georgia veteran a little money from year to year to enjoy at his own rnde home. But, the money was all in hand. It could not have been easily refunded. It was expended in the building and grounds and offered to Georgia. Even if the Home would be a slight source of expense to the State from time to time, who would stand up and say this expense was not folly warranted by the righteous cause in volved ? The case is plain. - It isn’t necessary to rant and go wild with patriotism to see clearly that the Georgia Legislature has knocked the bloom from Georgia chivalry in this wofnl error. In the light of cool deliberation the mistake is made clear. Georgia wants this Home, and Georgians will see to it that it will not be torn down jnst be cause the legislature says it must not be taken. Oh ! for a word from the lips of dead Grady, to say to the Georgia veterans : “ Be patient yet awhile ! Chide not your people for this deed, for it is not their own ! They have bnilt for yon a roofotree under which yonr camp cot may be spread, and there they will keep you in your de clining years until the last battle has been fought, and angels guide thee safe beyond the river, to muster with your comrades yet again.” v The Georgia Veteran’s Home will not be torn down. Start the movement to support the , ™.f?** State of Georgia, with her eterans Home at once; and let it bo “ nt * ful resources may not think her self able to take care of the men Who built a monument to her name when she was invaded by the armed foe; but as long as one of those heroes in gray Veterans grow and increase from day to day; let the fund be swelled from Georgia homes all the way from the mountains to the sea; aud let the Georgia legis lature knew ere it adjourns that its sanction is not needed in the matter of supporting and maintaining the home for Confederate Veterans. And when it comes down to that work, count Athens in. She gave over two thousand dollars to help build the Home, and with the help of other Georgians, her people will not see the heroes in gray suffer. remains alive upon Georgia soil, her citizens will bring forth the money to take care of him in the manner he ncnly deserves. It was best after all that the heart of the peerless Grady should have been stilled and bis manly form laid beneath the soil of Georgia, rather than living to have been the witness of the defeat of Confederate Veterans’ Home bill. Wedonot denounce the -legislature for its action; the members who voted against the bill may have been perfectly honest in their opinions; but we aim- ply say that it was a grave mistake for which the state will often sorrow. To have rejected the offer of the Home, even when coupled with an ap propriation. would have been bad enough; but to reject it when offered unconditionally and bringing with it absolutely no expense to the state was an action entirely without excuse. If the finger of scorn is to he pointed at Georgia; if Northern pens are to dis til vitriol and write in sarcastic terms that Georgia has cast out her old veter ans upon a cold world; if republican ism is to make capital out of the action of the house; let it all rest upon the shoulders of the ninety-fonr men who killed the bilL They say they are wil ling to take upon themselves all the re sponsibility for the defeat of the bill; then let it rest there, for God knows, the people of Georgia don’t think that way. Those legislators have made their records on this subject: let them stand by them. Georgia has given the old veterans the] Southern pride, cold shoulder, there is just plenty oL southern chivalry and manhood left in Georgia to cause them to go down into their pockets and bring out the neces sary money with which to support the home. Foster, the weather prophet, pre dicts that a storm wave will leave the Pacific coast about August 27, and reach the Atlantic coast about the 31st. He advises people to be prepared for an early winter. The Washington Star says: “A member of Tammany who is interested in the Speakership was in Washington today and says that the New York dele gation will be divided as follows: One for Mills, six for McMillan, and tho remaining twenty-three for Crisp. The unit rule will be followed, he says, and therefore Crisp will get the vote of the entire delegation, except the one for Mr. Mills. Mrt Tracey will vote for the Texan, regardless of wnat the rest will do.” “ What’s in a name? Whether it is Almy or Abbott it smells to heaven.— Boston Herald. And this man lived In Athens once. The Georgia Legislature has the op portunity now of makiug a ten-strike with the people by finishing up its im portant legislative business and ad journing sine die. And it will be the art of wisdom to do so.—Columbus on. Well, yes. No, give them time to re consider their action on the Veterans’ Home bill. Then, gentlemen, go home and make friends with your constitu ents aud your wives. It seems that Athens’ trouble about the different times upon which rail roads are operated is felt in Madison t>o. The Madisonian says: The trains are run -by what we call “i ail road time,” which is just twenty- two minutes slower than suu time. We state this fact for the benefit of some of our farmer friends, at the request of one of their number. While the memoryof the lamented Grady lives, Georgians will see to it that the grand institution reared through the influence of his magic pen and active mind shall be maintained in perfect style. Patriotism is not dead in Georgia. A Southern paper thus gasped out its foaling* duriug the hot spel: “Hot, hotter hottest;hotter,hocterur,hotferest; hottest, hottest; hotterstest; hoiteuto- tissimus, hottentot—we give it up.— Richmond Times. The biggest boro on earth, obsm» the Mocker, is the man who has jus had a tootli drawn He want* to tell the whoio story from the time tie tooth first began to at he to 'ho moment in which he heroically allowed it to be extracted. The Tribune-of-Koine continues to slash the third party movement most pitilessly. Editor Martin is a brick and a trump and the people of Kom* think better of him as the 'lribunoo! the people, every day. The Boston Herald say* very wisely: Field Marshal Halstkd says he wu brought up on Democratic newspapers, and is the son of a Democratic farmer His late career is what might be ealhtl going back on his pa, as well as on hi* pap. The Atlanta Constitution losta<ofld writer when the brilliant Rlackbi'M left the staff for the Herald. But the Constitution seems to have a factory somewhere which turns out roo! writers. It is never at a loss for thorn. Athens is growing strong and pow erful in this hour of prosperity Let her citizens march on, united in th* great work of building up their com mon city. Georgia Weeklies are brighter am! better uewspapers than those of any State in the Union. VVe challenge the comparison, and await a reply hoc* some of our ucighbor States. Mr Calhoun;i« a man of ability ar. keen cirsnmspection, but Mb. Calhoo* has made a mistake in taking away d‘* earnings of the Central railroad from Savannah. It goes without saying that this utter- anoe did not go foxth from an Athens paper. Our glorious climate permits of no such declension of the word hot. Will the veterans suffer? No, that they will not. The citizens of Georgia intend placing themselves on record in regard to this matter. They built the home from private subscription ,and now the Legislature of Dal company need preach no more of There are men and men. Some men have minds more doubting than that of Thomas the Doubter; others pursue with level headedness the dictations of reason, common sense and conscier.ee The people of Georgia oorae under the latter head and the West Point Termi- An editorial is an editorial, news item. In an editorial the reading public wants to hear something spo^n in a “catohy” way. They don’t condensed news on that page. Nobody wants to do the West P°J C ‘ Terminal Company an undeserved in jury. Every body ought to wan see the Constitution of Georgia * n forced. - itionslf There were some objectiouable regu lations and requirements in the Con federate Veterans’ Home bill,but every body must agree that the bloom of Georgia chivalry and patriotism has been knocked out of sight by a flat re fusal of the legislature to accept this worthy heritage of poor, dead Henby Grady.- Let the Legislature go cau about* the undoing of unwholeso combines of Southern railroads. Simp honsety and fairness will tell the * What is the remedy ? Now, that the West Point Terminal has leased com peting lines of railway, and perfected consolidations such as will put money into the pockets of Wall street capital ists at the expense of Southern devel opment, what is Georgia going to do ? The answer is clear.' Enforce the Con stitution. It is not only the rain that raineth every day, but the rain that pourctbftll day long. Ed. Barkbtt has said that t0 ^*' Watson which looks like war. is Mr. Watson going to do abou matter? Will he drop it? By actual statistics there are tw<|“tf three acres of land to every iuba of the globe. The West Point Terminal h f P’^!d the deuce with the South, but it its hand besides, and the game i» 11 The cotton crop needs hot J*% weather now to make tho bells The outlook is promising indeed. One of the best weeklies in will soon change hands—the » nian. jrof&V’' Too much rain brings too <m the 'Aggj