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INDISTINCT copy tih nun til A Fei Plain Words Witt »»J! 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 AiHiiNSFuUM'u hv aixDmachine \UM$ Alliens, Georgia, 1 GEORGIA SEED COMPANY. MACON, GEORGIA. (SUCCESSORS TO SOUTHERN SEED COMl’AKV(, Wholesale & Retail Farm & Garden Seet «#!i ‘&° f x£?. tt0 ?, and Clovers, German Miilrt,SranSA Cm i eas. ciiu .is, I -Oifl J' e **a. Mill,) Maize, kclhr Cim.Peail Millet, etc. A'n. I artViu Swi u f nwtVfc °S 1011 ®1 C ‘ Writa f,r priee list. Special bargain of 20 ikttge- :*i v vnri 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 STEAM 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 fer great pain. A month ago I commenced taking the B. B. B. and was able to walk a half mile before I had taken two bottles. The cancer is healing up nicely, and 1 think the use of this remedy will cure me. UD K.U. smith. MANUFACTURER OF MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES aND STATUaRTI Enclosures, Capingsa>.il Likene.v-es Guaranteed of Statues and Tl i-1-. IMTOUTER WBECTm XATI: X OH FOEEIGX GR KITE OR M RULE. . Contractor for Building fR.-no of all kinds Floor and Hearth Tile and Wain c■*{ .-gintfor the Ba t ( ENCIi CoMR .NT in the M ivlil. , „ The mo t complete -election i f de-i<. s in the .routli. nrig’nal de.-igr.s fund M. I* 1 ’’ silence solicited. Brices to suit ihe Times. AUGUSTA. GA. poi 620 ml 531, BRQ AD STREET. Sanitary Plumpers and Steam Heaters, Atlanta, 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- . "i V : - ^" . ■'• ' ,S ’