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THE BASHER Artu itih t ‘UTE TRUST.
How Our Paper has
Stood by the
Farmer,
AND WAS FIRST TO EXPOSE THF
■SCHEMES OF SPECULATORS.
THE PEOPLE'S SENTINEL ON THE WATCHTOWER
d* not <le*ire to climb into temporary
populmity hy pandering to the whims
of prejudice* of any man or sot of men,
or by disguising facts.
W« say to Allinncemen and any one
vise, that it is the mission of Thu Bax-
*hk to give the news, ami keep its rea-
lers informed as to their best interests.
We do not propose to cover up the
truth. If your interests or that of the
•ouutry are threatened we shall sound
ibe note of warning, it matters not
what he the consequences, or who is
offended.
(No Apologies to Make or Regrets
To Offer.
An Alliancfu......—a >,arm friend to
Tnx Baxxkk editor—came to us the
o her day and vtated that we had pnb-
Jisbed several a. tide* about cetton bag-
^cing that niigt.t injure our paper with
r> * Alliance. We appreciated the
kindness of this gentleman, but can
vouvince any reasonable man that sofar
i.nm inese aitiules offending the Al-
i entitled to their grati
tude for watching over their iaterestx
and giving this organization warning
about a threatened ■''’tiger.
Near’v two niomus ago, when cotton
Ift • t '>*osn to open, we announced to
tke farmers that we had information
tint tne cnii rvascs on tne seaboard in-
teaded to recover their cotton with
jute, anli; would be well for the Al
liance le tiers to keep themselves in-
forioed tin* matter. Ssre enough
our prediction was fulfilled, and it is
now a well-known fact that t lousmds
of bales packed in cotton by the pro
ducer hav; been recovered with new
jute by Jhe buyer. Is puoIi information
as this calculated to harm to the Alli
ance ? Tub Baxxhr was the first paper
in the South to sound the alarm, and
ave would have been false to the cotton
$p! anters had we neglected to do so.
A few weeks ago we discovered that
the compresses even in the up-country
were lecoveriug with jnteevcrv bale re
ceived in the Sinley Mill* or Augusta
tagging, and when a farmer used this
flinocy rtuff he had just as well take the
costrof same anti kindle his fir e with the
money. Again was Thk Banner the
first paper in the South to warn our
cotton planters against usiag this worth
less bagging, and thus preventing them
Orem being undo the innocent victims
of a farcical tigh - . Was there anything
to condemn in this expose? Let the
farmer visit anv compress in Georgia or
the South, and he will see that every
bale he sells, that is covered with this
class of bagging, is re-wrapped with
jute. *
A few days since we read a confes
sion from cotton buyers in Augusta
where they acknowledged that they re
covered with jute hot only the Sibley
Mills bagging, but alio all cotton cov
ered bales. We hail also positive infor
ms ttion that the practice was general in
atil rl.e large cities. A gentleman who
visited these < empresses informed us
that every w’.::e hale received was at
•once wrapped in jute, and the buyer j
spockete;; il.eil.ff-r»i.i e. that should have J
gone to the farmer. We at onea ex- j
posed the game, and advised the Ail:-.j
-nice to take j r irnpt steps to put a atop '
to this. « r bt the farmer use secout -
Sutndjuta bags ng an-’ thus keep him- j
>elf the protit mat these speculators i
sir* making.
It is right and proper that the masses
>f our farmer* should be intormed as to
the true state of affairs. In this day
and generation intelligent men should
think and act for themselves, and .not
trust everything in the hands of a few
leaders. A paternal government will
never do for Americans. Tub Banner
nt?nds to speak direct to the people,
snd trust its support in their hands .
If they desire to know the true state of
affairs, we will tell it to them—if they
desire to blindly follow the guidance of
other men—who will do all .heir think
ing and guide them as a nurse would
s little helpless ehild—then we advise
them by all means not to lead Thk
Bakker. •
***
If it was not for this paper, in all
probability farmers would today be still
using this flimsy Augusta bagging,and
imagine that they are thu^ defeating
the jute trust. But since our exposure
of the game of the cotton speculators,
the Alliances are aroused, and are now
taking steps to protect their members.
This is what w6 sought to accomplish,
and our work is already beariug good
fruit.
***
The Baxxbr is the people’s sentinel
>n the watch tower. We intend to spare
neither pains nor expense
in keeping them posted
about all that is transpiring in
cotton circles, and will tell efur readers
just how the land lies. There are In
every association men who seek to
leliieve fame and honor by accomplish-
,n » great ends. It is of course a morti
fication to them to be frustrated or dis
appointed. But is it not better to know
ihe tactics of the enemy in time to cir
cumvent him, than to wait and fall into
in ambush ?
***
Thk Banner is, and liaa ever been,
a true and loyal friend to the farner,
and may the right hand of its editor
wither anil refuse to wield a pen if he
ever knowingly and wilfully writes a
line that will injure this noble calling!
We have proven our devotion to tlii*
class by our works, and believe that we
have too many warm and loyal friends
among the agriculturists of our land to
ever have our interests jeopardized.
The Stock Show.
KACH DAY BRIN GS NEARER THE
OCCASION TO REJOICE.
We’ll Raise the Roof with a Rouad of Rev
elry—Rich and Rare Races will be Ren
Round the Rlnc—Folks will Flock *o
the Fair For Frolic and Fun
This is a year of P’airs.
The Peidmeut Exposition opened
yesterday and will continue for tbr
next few weeks. Then the State Fair
will open in Macon and the people of
Central and Southern Georgia will
revel in the greatest show Macon ever
There is no disputing the fact that
H trv w«r i w e hav.' penned is the truth, !
an I iioxv a y «cnsit»h* and right-iiiiuk- j
l ig num can torture the expose into in- j
jury t<> tne Alliance ts hev<>n«l our com- j
j r-hvi.si* u. Vj:d t hkBanni r. not been
:i friend toThe voir■•n planter, and bad j
hi' interest md welfare near at heart, •
wo would have dnjr* like many other *
—sail nothing about it, and thus!
1 t fin* farmer continue to lose hi> dollar j
or more on every bale that he .-nils, and
the speculator in t lie cities add that
sum to his gains.
We are with the cotton planters in
their tight against the iniquitous jute
trust, and will stand shoulder to shoul
der with them to the end. Their cause
is a righteous one, and they will even
tually'triumph. Already—from a con
fession by a jute bagging man—the far
mers, through the use of sec
ond-hand jute and cotton covering,
have reduced the demand for jute by
one-third. Thi* is a splendid start, and
«.cure confident that n*ixt year the
enemy will be routed horse, foot and
dragoon. Lome was not built in a day
neither were many great and revolu
tionizing movements achieved without
a long and hard struggle.
This plan would have probably been
policy—it would have kept the A11i-
ancen an in a pleasant humor, under
the impression that he was whipping
the fight with the cotton bagging, and
would have also made the cotton bag
ging men, the speculators ani the com
press m»*n our friends, as they could
have continued to “pull the wool over
the eyes of the farmers” and swell their
gains. As it is, some of the Alliance-
men are reported to be angered with
The Banner, and denounce it as
* a trust paper,” while the.
parties who maunfa< Mire cotton drilling
for bagging and buy and repack the,
staple in jute are as “mad as March
1 area” because vie unearthed and ex
posed their little game.
■J*- -’A •
*
We are not disturbed in the slightest
degree, for we feel that we did what is
right, ami an investigation of our state
ments will vindicate us. As to Thh
Banner working in the interest of any
trust—or any other combination antag
onistic to the interests of the people—
the charge is too ridiculous for denial.
We have devoted till of our life to bat
tling for the people, for good govern
ment and democracy, and if our pa»t
record will not sustain us, than vve
lire willing to go down. We defy any
man to show where The Banner editor
ever received one dime' for advocating
any man or measure. He has doubtless
made mitakes in his life, but they were
from the head and not the heart.
The B anner is not the organ of any
an, clique, association, or combina-
on. It is the people’s paper, and is
no master but the best in
welfare of our peonh
the man-
mocracy. We
Xo cotton planter who has the in-
crests of his sect ion and his neighbors
at heart should use a yard of new jute—
for such a course is only furnishing am
munition to the enemy. Buy .second
hand bagging, or if you use cotton, sell
such bales direct to our home mills and
watch them until they are In the hands
of the consumer. It is the height of
folly for a cotton planter to lose one
dollar or more a bale by this substitute,
when the buyer deliberately goes to
work and strips the anti-trust covering
off and substitutes aew jute bought di
rect from the trust. This is what The
Banner has exposed, and it will con
tinue to expose the practice just so long
as it is kept up, it matters not who is
Offended . Oar’s was the first paper in
the South to expose this shrewd scheme,
ami we shall continue to write about it
until the practice i* discontinued.
M e are in a position to keep informed
as to what is going on in the cotton
world. We receive papers tvery day
from all oven the South, and when*neces-
sary will visit in person the cotton cen
tres and see with our own eyes just
what the buyers are doing. To-morrow
we shall s:art on atrip through Georgia
and Florida, and write back to .our
readers each day what d s roveries we
have made. It we find any new move
ment to defeat the farmers we shall
unhesitatingly Expose it.
***
We have no apologies to make for any
article that we have ever written in The
Banner. If any man is offer.ded, we
cannot help it. Already we see our
warnings fulfilled, and know that in a
very short time The Banner will be
overwhelmingly vindicated with every
oleor-brained man,who intends to think
and act for himself.
And next will come the Athens Fair,
a fit snding for the gay beginning—a
climax to Fair season in Georgia.
Our Fair will be the most enjoyable
of them all. We feel safe in making
this prediction, for it will he different
to them all and to the common run of
Fairs, which have grown to be such
tiresome and wearisome chestnuts in
the South of late years.
It will rot be a great display of ag-
licultural andfmne al products, of corn
cotton, peas, potatoes and the like, for
that is nothing more than seen every
day at home.
It will be something of more inter
est than these. It will be a gay scene
of pleasure—incessant pleasure night
and day.
The people have labored hard all the
year with their crops, at their desks,
their counters and machine shops, and
Providence has blessed them with abun
dant fruits of their labor. The farmers
will have harvested the most bounteous
crops they ever stored away while the
business men of every profession in
this section of the South will have seen
the most presperous;year e\ er kuown.to
this part ot the moral vinyard. They
will all, therefore, be in a mood for
merry-making aud want nothing else
but sight seeing and fun, an occasion to
show their thaukflulness and glee over
the bountiis of the year.
This occasion will be the Athens Fair.
The directors With a full recognition of
the desires of the people and with a
realization of the right way to make
the Fair a success in every sense of the
term have arranged a program profuse
with fun and frolic and replete with
everything calculated to cause merri
ment and profit te every clas .
It will be a gay seasou—four days
of unalloyed bliss. Races and gaums
will go on during the day without in
termission to the inspring notes of a
splendid brass band, and when night
comes on the .‘cene will be transferred
from the shrine of Olpmpius to that of
Terpsichore,and the youngfolks will be
led through the dizzy dance by the ly
ric strains of a.suberb orchestra. The
festivity will thus be kept up night and
day, and ihe people will join in the
greatest ocession of gladsome mirth
aud merriment ever seen in Classic
Athens.
Day after day will bring new attrac
tions l'or the multitudes. One day the
magic eloquence of Henry W. Grady
will hold spell bound the thousand* of
visitor*.
The next will bring renewed pleas
ure* and delights including races, base
ball and the like, the next balloon as
cension, other races and games and so
on during the Fair.
Everybody will come to the Athens
Fair, for it is everybody ’s show and
everybedy will enjoy it.
AGAIN KICII
Al-
Veronee Comes to the Front for the
liance.
Come this way, said Veronee, the
great patent writer, to the Banker
tramp yesterday, I have struck it rich
and there are more than “millions in it.”
You have often said that I would strike
a paying place and now I have it. At
this point Veronee produced a little
wallet made out of a few rags of twine,
and the wallet thus looked exactly like
a big pocket book after a night in the
city. This said Veronee is where I ex
pect to stand or fall, and whether I
drive a pair of hol.tailed horses or live
in a brown stoiie front on Millege ave
nue or not, the Fanner’s Aliianceuicu
will rise tip and call me blessed.
Second hand stoves and sewing ma
chines mended at shortest notice. Shop
on Clayton street; please note place.
But to the point—There has been a
big fuss about the cotton bagging
standing the test oftlie hoek. I have
overcome it all, and if you will put two
telegraph wires aroimd the ends of the
bale, then I defy all the hooks in
Georgia to break it. This invention
is not second handed nor was it ever
thought of by any one else; and if I
can only get the Allinncemen to put it
on their cotton the jute trust is dead
and delivered.
Col: Mulberry Sellers in his wildest
dreams of fortune will not" be built as
toll as I will be.
A Reported Sale.
It is reported that the Lilly land has
been privately sold to a company, but
a public sale will be made to perfect
titles. The price paid is said to be
$10,000. * We do not know the truth in
this report.
Hoi to Whip the
giiig Trust.
LET THE FARMERS BALSHCE THE TARE
WITH IROH TI53.
A Scheme That the Alliance Should
Adopt.
THE TROUBLE CAN BE ADJUSTED.
Try BLACK-DRAUGHT tea for Dyspepsia.
At last a plan has been discovered by
which the cotton planters can keep even
with the exchanges and the jute bag
ging men, and if it is generally adopted
the farwer can bid defiance to all his
enemies and still keep even with the
buyer.
This plan was proposed by a well-
known cotton man of Athens, .who has
been a friend to tiie cotton planter since
the inauguration of his fight against the
jute trust.
Here is the plan :
Let the farmer, instead of putting six
ties upon his bales, as is customary, use
nine ties. With the buckles and cot
ton bagging they will weigh 24 pounds
—the amount of tare deducted from
.each bale. He «an then let the com
presses substitute jute if they want to,
for it will not be his funeral.
No buyer can object to this, as th
planter is made to lose 24 {pounds tare
on each bale he sells, and they dare not
take qff or make deduction for a single
tie.
• • 4
This is a way to beat the jute trust
and at the same time keep even with the
eotton exchanges. It is fair and honest,
and will win the day.
These Alliancemen who accused The
Banner of being “a trust organ” will
now see their mistake, for while it was
the first paper in the South to tell them
the lose they were sustaining hy using
cotton bagging, it is now the first to let
them know the only sure way that they
can defeat the jute trust and at the same
time not loss a pound by tare.
Let the Alliances meet at once and
adopt this suggestion. They will
then hold the winning hand.
LREE’S W1 HZ Qr CARDUI for Weak Nerves.
PRICE BAKING
'» ■ ■ 1,1 l,fci r‘iwr»nnrf r-y
Athens
-AND-
^ound,
wokrs,
Manufacturers of Iron audj
Castings, Mill an( i Mad
Shafting, Pulleys, H a nger3|
Baxes, Cotton Presses,
Mills and Evaporators,
Seed Crushers and Circular 5
Mills.
j^iTYVe sell the Atlas Steam Engines, Injector?, Jethmti
Valves, Piping and Steam Packings, Water Wheels
Belting Cloth. We have competent mill-rights and f
send them out and erect mills anywhere in the count
can f’urdish estimates.
" r a C 4 3 LI M c an |V e ’' iVif' f aUJt I h - ng y0M need about your Grin Mill or Gin.] a
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Golden Seed and »- 4 lb. best Geo.gia-rane>l WatcinieloH Seed, fios-t igc paid, f. r ;1. HttKiijI
The Dotting season now drawing to
a dose has proved the most successful
ever known in this country. The stake*
have bien larger, the entries more mi- j
rnerous, the contests more interesting, i
ami the enthusiasm greater than ever
before. That is a cause l'or general con
gratulation. The trotter is the typical
American roadster and whatever con
tribution to his development and im
provement enlarges the class of superior
driving h«rses.—New York Herald.
McElrce’»WINE OF CARDUI for female diseases.
THEO. MARK WALTER’S
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Marble and Granite Works!
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT.
When physicians fail to give relief in cases oi
chronic ailments, resulting from poison blood, ho*
gratifying to the sufferer to obtain at last the right
remedy. Where every other ireatmi miserably
fails to cure, Botanic Blood Balm invariably gains
a victory.
San Saba, Texas, February 9,1S32.
Our little daughter became effected .with some
form of scalp disease, supposed to be ringworm or
eczema. It first began in white scabs or dandruff
and then formed in small sores all over the front'
part of her head with rough patches on
SORES l* er forehead and face, and then run ar
ugly eating sore on her head which ccm
tinued to spread until a neighbor insisted on me
trying B. B. B. After using a bottle and a half the
sore is healing nicely and the child’s health much
improved and she is getting fat. I believe B. B. B
to be an excellent blood purifier and very quick in
its action. M rs. Bettie Graves.
Willow City, Texas, April 9,1888.
Blood Balm Co. :• 1 xvas taken with paralysis, the
doctors said caused by a tumor
TUMORS that is attached to the bowels,
and had a bad case of dyspepsia'
B. B. B. has done me more good than all the doc
tors.. Wm. Shelton.
Barsworth, Chambers Co., Ala., .
February 6,1888. }
For the last six years 1 have been a great suffer
er from blood poison ; coaid not get anything that
•would do me any geod. The doctors thought 1
would die. Two years ago 1 was stricken down
with cat cer of the lower extremities
CANCER andwa. »ot able to walk out of my
room, the cancer causing me to suf
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Sanitary Plumpers and Steam Heaters,
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Georg^l
_ BAND sale.
^ who areof full acre
anil for rile piTrj.o.-e of division* the underpinned
agent j, will roll to the highest bidder for car,li
at the court liou- e door in Athens, v. ithui ;lie
legal hours of Mile, on the first Tuesday in No
vember ISS9. the two tracts of land in Clarke
county, one on the Middle Oconee river, adjoin
ing .ands of J. N. Weir and Mrs. Mar / C. Benton
aud containing two hundred and thirty acres
or less the other the one joins above
Mxiry C. Benton, and
t . r ‘', 11 *' s South on the load leading from
Athens, across Mitchell’s Biidge and
containing one hundred aiul the r.cres
more or less. Both these tracts lie about five
miles from Athens and are valuable lands
mi tlym cultivation and pa: tlyin original forest.
Improvements suitable for tenants. The ”con-
11 act of sale and the lands may he seen on ap
plication to undersigned. Tiie owners reserve
the right to iMjlhat private; ale before the-date
above and the right to allow any tne owner to
buy at the «ale.
John W. Weir
Habvey Archer.
Nor-Htl
3*
H owei.l co ,; b t t * l vs.
eastern Railroad T
Danville lUilroad * o., the F lc L l “K M)l jf (
Boi t Terminal Knilwny aB( * ye* V
><ndthe Centra 1 Trust < QB® 8 . 11 , 1 .... ai3,# 1
Petition f«r relief amt c .nWhmo"
bonds. Ola ke Superb r Cou t- she j
It appearing to the court rlytw H ... j
not servtd the Kichir oiul and
minai and v- art-house c omp*i<V ’v, ar ties dek
Trust 1 bm auies of New York,
ant in the above stated case, ^
not reside inClarke county or
gia, orhaveag-nts rroflieu 8 “ Jt L t o.’«
that they reside out. oftlu-St-tte^ B) ,
hy the court that service be ^
cation upon said partiesi“ jpe
nek for at least two months e Vo „.)«
Monday -
make deft use. . \y e3 ;cra <
judge of Sir erior C. u t
A true extract from th. U V P , U1
j Clerk C-
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