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ATHENS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 4 1890.
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A NEGRO S BRAVADO.
How Brown Washington Acted
at His Trial.
GRIEF OF TOMMIE’S MOTHER.
Viewed and Touched Her Dead Body
Without a Quiver—It he Illenous
Manner In Which Ho Commit*
tod the Crime—How His
Parents Took His
Lynching.
Our article yesterday left little Tom
mie West with the negro boy’s hand
stretched around her throat. After an
nouncing his determination to kill her.
the brute pushed tiie child to one side
of the road, and then and there made
the a»•sr.it upon her person. In his
oonfessiei: tire negro says he did not
succeed in his hellish designs, but the
ladies who si.rouded the corpse say he
did. Among the leaves we saw where
the struggle occurred and also the trail
where he curried her further into the
bushes, about IK) steps from the road
side, where the murder was committed.
The negro confessed that, he pick, d the
child up after iris assault on her person,
and carried her into the woods, pur. the
broken bushes anti upturned leaves
look a» if Tommie had been pushed or
draggedfalon*.
The place selected ferthe murder was
a well-ehoaen one, and waa the only
spot near where he would nor, have been
in rio‘ af some field or house. The
l.itic girl was nearly cnokou to dcaut
when she was killed, and the negro
confessed that she was gasping as if to
catch her breath. The fiend in human
form then started at his work with a
delightful and cohl-bloodcd brutality,
lie had a one-bladed bailow pocket
knife that cost only 10 cents, and it was
dull at that. He just cut one sine of
the girl’s throat, and than the other,
hacking a gash from the middle. It was
a perfect butchery, and when
lie completed his work iiis
v -Mm’s head was nearly severed from
ihsbo’y.
This iiorrid sight did as much to en
rage the men as the spectacle of the
murdered girl. It is only a neighbor
hood road that passes the scene of the
double crime, and is on the land of Mr*.
Almond. From this elevation you can
see the new ly-covered roef of i i>. s. bool-
house that Tommie attended, the iieu;e
of the Washington family, and but for
a bunch of pines Mr. Horton's house
would also be in view l wo negro
families live in eight of rhe scene of
murder, while but a short distance up
the road resides ilr. Henry Aliud ! uid
h s mother. Ilad tiie cliihl bc.nper-
tnittc I to scre*m she would lir.v* been
heard by both blacks and wtiite^rdW
this is a thickly settled neighborhood.
The train on the C. M. road i- al«n in
plain view, but a couple of miles dis
tant.
The girl, when found, was lyh" with
her head down lull and her dress polled
up above the knees. Although a heavy
rain had fallen, the blood-soaked leaves
were still seen. The ajHit was pi arked
by Commodore Dexter by notching the
trees around i>.
After committing the murder, the
negro waa frightened—as shown by his
tracks—and started back home in a run,
his steps being wide apart. He took
the precaution, however, to cut off his
shirt-sleeves—that were stained with
th^ life blood of i ommie West—as also
tos.-cur the knife with which he com
mitted the crime. He also removed the
old shoes he wore and put on a better
pair. Tho boy then resumed hi< plow
ing as if nothing unusual had occurred.
The mnrder was committed about eight
o’clock in the morning, and until about
night-fall the b fly of the little girl lay
in that clump of bushes within hearing
of her home and in sight of the school
house. Mrs. West thought Tommie
was at school,while the teacher presort
ed she had remained at home that
day.
Late in the evening some school chil
dren on returning home found little
Tommie’s books and her little red hood
in the middle of the road, which they
carried to Mr. II P. Almond’s. That
gentleman at once knew there was’some-
tliing wrong and going to Mrs. West’s
told her the discovery his children had
made. Mrs. West began, t* scream
and declared she knew some on>
had murdered her little girl. Frantic
with grief the destrncted mother started
out on the path her little girl travelled
in attending school, Messrs. Almond
and Horton in advance. Other neigh
bors joined in the search, and every
spot where it was thought possible the
child oould be concealed was investiga
ted.
A t last Messrs Alexander and Horton
noticed among the leaves on the ro.id-
slde, a magazine and napkin that Tom
mie lied with her when she left home.
An invistigation was made, and si n of
the struggle discovered. The trail
through the hushes were followed, and
the murdered ehild discovered just as
the negro had left her. The body was
tenderly taken up and carried to the
roadside and the mother notified of the
terrible discovery. Her grief was
l«ud and deep. Throwing herself upon
the bloody body of her little girl, writh
ed in her agony of miud, and b?gged
vengeance on tho murderer. She said
that she knew it was Brown Washing
ton that killed her child, and she want
ed him burned alive. By this time, a
number of determined men bad collect
ed and search waa made for the perpe
trator of the double crime. The coro
ner was notified and next morning
whea he arrived an inquest was held.
Brown Washington and two other ne-
aroes were arreeted, but they were
hnid in protesting their Innocense.
Washington, who was afterwards dis
covered to be the murderer, was the
•oolest person among the ne-
Rres arrested. He ridiaaled the idea
of his killing little Tommie and said he
would have fought for her if necessary.
One of the jurors proposed the old test
making the prisoners place their
hand on tho corpse ef the dead girl
te »e« if her wound would bleed afresh.
Brawn instantly stepped forward, and
without the tremor of a nerve, laid his
hand on the corpse. He then remarked
to the Jury, “Yeu see it don’t make any
difference in the bleod, which ahews
that I am innocent.”
In (act, this negro was so cool and
free from any apparent fear or excite
ment, that he waa released. At last,
howaver, the shoes that he had worn
were found, and they exactly fitted the
tracks leading te and from the scene of
murder. The parents and sister of the
sceussd negro all testified to his inno
cence, and bis mother herself swore
of lies, xt ww not until the negro
had been carried to Madison and -down
the blood on his hat and shoe, ‘hat he
confessed the crime.
Tire Banneu reporter carrion the
news to the Washington fain” - of the
lynching of Brown. The fathci, who
is reported to be a good, hard-wc; king
negro, seemed indiiierent, an.l •n'l his
son deserved hi6 fate. The mother,
however, seemed greatly distressed, but
said she didn’t blame the white: ’i for
killing her sort. That while she. dis
tressed at his violent death, she knew
the feelings of Mrs. lYe of were as Veen
as her own. This family, liv ; on Mr.
Joe Harrison’s place. The pj.-ents
wanted the body turned over to them
for burial, but said they had nothing to
pay for the coffin with.
The body of the lynched negro bung
by the road-side unti 1 about four o'clock,
when it was cut down by the coroner
and a jury summoned, who rendered a
verdict that “The deceased came to his
death at the hands of unknown par
ties.”
NO COON IN THEITN.
A Negro Bjrcird front the Commercial
Hotel La*t Night.
Last night between ten and eleven
o’clock, a mulatto entered the pool
room of the Commercial Hotel, seem
ingly slightly intoxicated, and speak
ing very freely to one of the young
/men, proposed to another to join him
in a game < f pool.
This gentleman, insulted at the ne
gro’s manner, indignantly ordered him
from the room, and he, showing som-
re.istance, was promptly knocked down
and ejected by the crowd,he all the time
uttering threats. When he reached
the pavement outside the doo>-, lie re
marked, “Come on. G—dd—n you. I
am in the street now, and dare any one
to touch me.”
The crowd very promptly started to-
waids him, and again knocked him
down, but at last accounts he wa6 vie-
ing witli the winds down the street,
with the boys at his heels.
Such impudence is doubtless the work
of Eli Perkius, and his crowd ofrace-
equalix-rs, and should the negro again
enter the hotel he will receive a warm!
er reception than that given him iust
night.
The people of Athens always treat
this race fairly and kindly when they
know their places, but thank Goci they
have yet manhood enough left to Weep
“black heels off white necks,” the ugh
Matt Davis and hisernwd usurped every
Federal office in the district ;and woe
to the day when their paiiencc ia ex
hausted and they are driven to despera
tion by such acts.
WHO ARE CANDIDATES?
TUB CONSTITUTION’S BALLOT PLZCR8
KORTHKKN IN THE LEAD FOR GOV
ERNOR.
Atlanta, Ga., March 1st, 1890.—
[Special,]--The Constitution of to-mor
row will contain ail editorial and nine
column artiele, that will create quite a
sensation among Gubernatorial candi
dates throughout the State. According
to answers received from correspond
ent from every town in the State, who
nere instructed to make an impartial
canvass for Governor among twelve
prominent citizens in each place, Col
Northern has a decided advantage on
the start. Over fifteen hundred citizens
are thus interviewed, whose names sre
published ami tiie result puts Col.
Northern doubly ahead of the highest
competitor. The same holds good with
the Alliance orders throughout the
State. Col. Northern is also second
choice and is followed by DuBignon.
MR- MAX JOSEPH.
voLLvm m i3
ATLANTA LETTER.
WHO WILL THE NEXT GOVERN
OR BE?
lit ii Henri and s,.nl with Athens la
Her Good Fight.
As we predicted, Mr. Max Joseph is
too true a Democrat to antagonize the
representative people of Athens In their
battles f..r their rights and good officers,
and he is enlisted with us heart and
hand. Mr. Joseph yesterday remarked
to the Banner editor that he never
bought but one glass of soda-water from
Wanamaker in his life, and would here
after oonfiue himself to beer, or even
water, before patronizing suchainan;
that not a dollar’s worth ofWanamak-
er’s goods had ever entered his store or
would ever be permitted to do so. This
is all that any fair and patriotic man
can ask of Mr. Joseph, for we Know that
had he publicly understood that pe.i-
tion, he would have been one of the first
merchants in Athens to sign it. We
know that Max Joseph has always been
a loyal and true Democrat, and voted
the straight ticket in days that tried
men’s souls.
. The dry goods merchants are now sol
id in their boycott of Wanamaker, and
regret that as clever a merchant as Max
Joseph was placed even in a temporary
embarrassing position. We felt thru it
would be all right as soon as be under
stood the situation.
We ask our patrons to carefully read
Mr. Joseph’s advertisement this morn
ing, and in buying goods from him,
they can rest assured they will get no
Wanamaker stock.
WILL GET WELL.
MR. TAOLBEE IS NOT FATALI.T HURT,
Washington, March 1.—[Special.]—
Ex-Representative Taulbee, who was
seriously shot on yesterday by Charles
Kincaid, is not fatally wounded.
Taulbee is at the hospital and is
hardly worse off than his assailant who
is in one of the citv stations.
Judge Crisp said to-day that he had
heard nothing more of the Dudley ap
pointment. The presumption is that
the department people are awaiting the
report of the special agent sent down to
make infinities about Dudley. He will
call Monday to see if the report is in
Senator Colquitt has succeeded in
saving the Meriden postoffice in»Burke
county for Mr. Jones, the aged incum-
bent. Wanamaker notified him yes
terday that Jones would not be disturb
ed. ’
Prompt relief in > aick headache, dirtiness,
nausea, constipation, pain in the ride, guar
anteed to those using Carter’s Little Lt-ei
Pill*. One a dote. Small pnoe. Small dose,
gfflall pill.
HOW THE SENTIMENT IS RUNNING OHIO
MEN ON GEORGIA SOIL—GOSSIP FROM
THE STATE CAPITOL.
Atlanta, Ga.,{March 1.—[Special]—
For Governor of Georgia—who ?
In all parts of the State that qestion
is being asked, but here in Atlanta the
discussion of the gnbernatorial possi
bilities is doubtless more general than
anywhere else in Georgia.
At the capitol, in the hotel carridors,
on the streets whereon you cross a
group of politicions or public men, you
may be certain they are talking over
the ini rits of (some would-be govern r
and his chances of “getting there.”
For the woods , you know, are liter
ally full of gentlemen who are willing
to sacrifice their personal comfort for
the country’s good—provided their
friends persuade the public that the
emergency demands their election.
The si tate makers are at sea. and all
on account of the Alliance. The Alli
ance is a new quantity in State electious,
but that it is a very great quantity ev
erybody admits. Will the members of
the organization support Gol. Livings
ton for governor; will they support
Col. Nothern; or will they divide their
support among all the candidates? It is
too early to think of answering these
questions,and he is a wise man who es
chews prophecy. But moving straws
are pretty good indications of the pres
ence of a breeze. In the Sunday edition,
the Constitution will devote eight or
ten columns to the returns from a pos
tal card vote for governor, In which
nearly fifteen hundred ballots have
been cast, and which may undoubtedly
be taken as a very fair indication of the
prevaling sentiment in all parts of the
State. The result of this ballot is go
ing to surprise very many people.
The plan by which these expressions
of sentiment were obtained was this:
In every town and city the C’onstitu-
tin’s correspondent, was instructed to
make a perfectly impartial selection of
representative citizens from whom to
obtain their first choice for governor.
Then to get the country sentiment:, a
request of a similar nature was sent to
the secretary of each county Alliance.
In this way both town and country is
represented.
The result points to Col. Northen as
being by far the strongest of all the
candidates. He is strongest in both
towns and country—strongest as first
choice, and a very strong second choice
of many who express a first preference
for a local candidate. Col. Livingston
is quite far down in the list, such men
as Hardeman, Blount, Black, DuBig
non, Candler,and others, showing up as
strong factors. Probably the most no
ticeable features of the Constitution’s
tablesjare,first, Mr.JNorthem’s strength;
and, second, Mr. Livington’s lack of it,
especially in tho Alliance returns.
But the race isn’t always to the one
who shows his head first at the start,
and some-of the darker horses arebeing
nssidisonsly governed by their friends.
Two of these who are being very much
discussed first men. are General Clem
ent Evans and Judge Tom Simmons.
Strong men, you say. Well, rather.
“I came up from Milledgeville to
day,” said Senator Bob Whitfield a
few days ago, “and in that short ride, 1
ran into no fewer than five different
parties of railroad men, each with some
scheme for a new road.”
That is onlv an indication of tho great
amount of building which will de done
in this State this year. But of all the
schemes and plans, that of the Louis
ville <fc Nashville will be most impor
tant. A promim nt official of the road
told me only the other , day that his
people undoubtedly own a majority of
the stock of the Rome and Decatur and
that it will not be long before they
come into Atlanta by some one of the
routes at their disposal.
“And when they do.” he added,]“yon
will see the L. & N. tapping the Cen
tral at every prominent point in Geor
gia. Mark my words.”
He ought to know.
While on the subject of railroads
Will there be any bidder for the State
road leese ?
That is another question which the
people about the capitol are asking,
and so are many others.
Just now the prospects of a leese at
the terms of the leese act are not re
garded as especially probable.
The Central, by the way, is doing a
few things for this State in inaugura
ting these excussions to and from the
West. I had a talk on Wednesday with
Hon. N. R. Albough, formerly speaker
of the Ohio Home of Representatives,
who is with this last party. Mr. Al
bough is the head of the great nurse
ries and has come south with a view to
investing in Georgia dirt.
“I ascertain” he said, “that we will
invest in lands here for the purpose of
establishing extensive nurseries. We
believe that the field is a good one, and
above all, we like the peope.”
That from a red-hot Foraker Republi
can might betaken as an indication of
tte efficacy of this intercourse between
the Empire. State of the West and the
Empire State of the South. Foraker
will disown him.
Frank Colley, of Wilkes, who went
with Mr. Glessner after this party,
wrote back to his paper glowing ac
counts of the Miorai Valley county
which he visited. Some Washingtoni
ans weredisemsing the Utters. Well,
we may not succeed in inducing those
Ohio fellows to come here was Judge
Sam Hardeman’s comment, “but I’m
devilish certain John will get ns all up
there if he keeps; on writing tho.e let
ters.”
This Hawes business has been a nine
days wonder, and more.
What, i wonder, will Rirmingliam do
now that she has no Hawes?.
How slow the courts are in meting out
justice to our big criminals Your little
fellows are punished promptly enough,
but what about Tom Woolfolk ?
Haweswasvery anxious to get to
heaven. He tr ed almost every route-
priest, ministers of different denomina
tions, rabbi, etc., etc.
Joe Brown—Senator Joe—is still con
fined to his home, but he hopes to get
to Washington by the end of March.
Job Ohl.
SHILOH’S COUGB aud Consumption
Cure is sold by ns on a guarantee. It cures
Consumption. For sale by J<-bn Crawford
4Qo.
CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT.
granIdala^surprise?^'
Who Is this .comes knocking—
Knocking at my door?
Surely such a visitor •
I never had before. 9
“Come to call on grandma,”
Did I hear you say?
J live here, my little man—
Guess you’ve missed your way.
Coming in? I wonder
Who my guest can be. '
Navy pants and buttons,
Com- to call on me!
Now I know a boy, sir,
A baby boy, named Fred,
He wears dresses, to be sure,
And curls upon his head.
He’s my darling, but of course,
Not such a man as you.
Why, you could face the world
In that brave suit of blue!
And pockets, too! Well well 1
What would my Freddie say,
If he were here to see
This gentleman to-day ?
Laughing? What’s the matter?
Your name Freddie, toot
Come a little closer,
Let me look at you!
Brown eyes, laughing gaily,
Full of fun and joy—
Let me put my specks on—
Surely it's my boy I
-[Scrap-book.
A GENTLEMAN.
It was a warm Sunday morning in
early spring: and!—a stranger in a
strange city bad drifted into a fast fill
ing chrucb, where as it happened, a
noted divine was to preach that day.
As 1 sat, idly watching the richly
dressed crowd of men and women
thronging the aisles, 1 caught snatches
of conversation near by. “What an
attractive luce that u«her standing near
the door has,” said a lady iu front of
me.
“Yes,” replied her companion, "I
know him well; he is attractive anil, iu
the strictest sense of the word, a gen
tleman.”
1 looked at the young man as he pass
ed up the aisle with some feeling of in
terest; tie was faultlessly attired—but
so were the other ushers, who were so
busily seating the congregation; he had
a refined, well bred ease of manner, but
so had the others. He hail a bright in
telligent face, but take hue altogether,
1 rather wondered, that one, who was
evidently a judge of such matters
should have spokeu of him so emxihatic-
ally as “a gentleman,”
Just then, i noticed a ripple of
amusement on some of the faces near
me; 1 turned to the door aud there stood
a poor old wouiau. Where she had
drifted from, 1 do not know—but there
she stood. Her trembling hands pushed
back her calico sun bonnet, as she ea
gerly scanned the building for a seat;
ser calico dress, from the same patern
as her bonuet, aud enow-wliite apron,
formed an almost ludicrous cou trust
to the rich costumes of velvet and silks,
which swept by her and were quickly
and politely seated.
l’oor old soul! She s*ood there f#r
some moments alone and neglected, not
daring \o advance* yet unwilling i« re
treat. 1 wonder it. at A the door <>f the
“church triumphant,” the reversal of
t’>e order of things will uot surprise ns
all. At last the young man, whom 1
had been watching, hurried down the
aisle.
1 beg your pardon, ma ani,” he said,
courteously, *‘i was engaged, and did
not uotice that you were standiug.
there are a few nice seats, still, neat
the front; shall 1 shew you to use?”
and as the first sweet tones of the organ
swept throtutii the church the calico
dress waigiwited up the aisle, and the
wearer was seated where she could hear
every word that fell from the speaker’s
lips.
“Bless the boy!” I thought, with a
sudden warmth stealing through my
heart, “he is in the strictest Beuse of the
word a gentleman, after all.
Cousin Betty.
ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
GEORGE T. MORRELL. Editor.
AN UNKNOWN HERO.
“FARMING WILL PAY.”
In presenting a few suggestions on
this line I do not propose to indulge in
fanciful theory, but rather in practical
thought, with a little experience inter
woven here and there as we pass along.
The propositions I may be able to set
forth will be more in accord with my
present purposes and future determina
tions than with my past experience.
Like most of the human family my
bind-sight is more reliable to calculate
on than my foresight.
B is easier to call attention to the de
fects in a system than it is to make suit
able suggestions to counteract evil in
fluences and set forth substantial reme
dies. When a school-boy works a sum
and the answer obtained does not cor
respond with the one laid down in the
book, the boy at once concludes that a
uiis-calcalation has effected the result
A mistake has been made, that is plain,
but just where and how is not so plain.
A great many farmers are learning
valuable lessons in economy. Not a
few of them are practicing self-denial
as they have never done before. They
buy less goods and at lower figures than
has been their habit is days agone.
They are diligently calculating and fig
uring on costs, freights and commis
sions Alliance principles and Alliance
instructions are taking root and grow-
iug beautifully within them.
Nothing but alliance work could have
wrought so wonderful a change in so
short a time. The farmers have been
slumbering over their rights and best
interests for so many years that it real
ly seemed the awakening would never
come. It is not wonderful, however,
that it did come at last, for human pa
tience like human endurance can only
sustain a certain amount of pressure.
Reaction has set in at last, and better
times for the farmer, better times for
the honest men D just in sight.
The beacon star of hope with his wel
come light is brightening the hilltops
just above us and the dawn of a bright
er day is appearing in the east—look
up, brother farmer, and let us together
thauk God.
The farmer’s success depends more
upon renumerative prices for his pro
duce, than upon the abundanee of a
crop year. Cheap corn, cheap bacon
and cheap cotton will ruin any man
that depends upon the production of
either for a living.
A great many wise logicians about
town tell us, “You fellows ought to
make money,if cottun is at low figures,
corn is cheaper thau you can raise it.
Bacon tiie same.” How would that
sound in theearof the corn and pork
raisers North-west? A few figures
will explain the loss we sustain by such
nonsense:
A makes 10 bales, sells for 10c.. .$500.00
Buys 50 bus. of corn at 50c 25.00
“ 300 pounds of bacon 5c 15.00
Deep down in a mine Wardley Col
liery, Newcastle, England, there is a
brave boy who deserves to be called a
hero. In a situation of sudden peril be
used precautions which prevented a
dreadful explosion, simply by behaving
with courage and presence of mind.
He noticed that a lamp flared up, a
sure sign of the presence of dangerons
<as. Had he hastily rushed away, his
light might have burst through the
wire gauze which, surrounded the
miner’s lamp, and setting fire to the
gass, causing a heart-rending accident.
The lad did nothing so silly. When
questioned by the superintendent as to
how be had found out that there was
gas in the neighborhood where he was
at work, he replied, “because my lamp
flared.”
‘And what did you do then?” asked
the gentleman.
“1 took my pioker and pulled down
the wick, but the lamp still flared.”
“Well, my boy, how did you manage
then?”
‘\Vhy, I put the lamp inside my
jacket, and covered it up tight, and
the light went out.”
Of course the lamp could not burn
without air. To think of the right
thing-to do, and then promptly do it,
boys, that is what makes the difference
between a common man and a hero
This little fellow whose name is not
mentioned—Mike, or Ted, or Jack—has
in him the makiug of a grand, man,
cool, resolute, and clever.
Fortunately there was an overseer
near him, who, when he heard from the
lad about his lamp, 'went bravely
through the gas, in total darkness and
set open a door, the closing of which
had forced the gas into the mainways
of the mine.
All honor to them both.—Harper’s
Youug People.
PUNISHED.
In 1779 a law was passed in England
that all women, without distinction of
age or rank, who should deceive the
male subjects and mislead them into
marriage by means of paint, -beauty-
water, false teeth, false hair, Spanish
wool corsets, or padded hips, should be
punished by declaring the marriage
null and void. Nothing was said about
the wearing of Skiff, the jeweler’s dia
mond spectacles or jewelry.
T* IVerroo*. Oea.
If yon will eend us your address, wo will
send yoa Hr. Dye's Celebrated Voltaic Belt
• ml i nsillanOAa fin • trial Thow n.!l)
Corn and bacon together $4'’.00
Has left $400.00
Now we will add oil half the price of
cotton at 10 cents, and make it 15 cents
per pound, and double the price of corn
and bacon and see how|it will work.
Asciis 10 bales at luc $750.00
Buys 50 bus. corn at $1... .$50.00.
Buys HOOlbs: bacon at 10c.. 30.00.
$80.00.
A lias left $670.00
In this little transaction—
The corn producer is benefited $50 00
“ pork “ “ “ 15.00
“ cotton “ “ “ $210.00
Any man can afford to pay double the
price of the few things lie - buys if he
can obtain a proportionate increase in
the price of the many things he sells.
Yes; but you say this would hurt the
town folks who have to buy bread and
meat all the time. This cannot be
strictly true; if it should be it would
cheek the tide of emigration boom from
country to the towns and cities and
bring out a houst of good, hearty, able-
oodied men to join the bread makers in
the rural districts. There are already
too many bread eaters and too few
bread makers. The towns are support
ed by tiie farmers. Money and pros
perity in the city. Town wages will
increase and everybody ;will be happy.
Now without going iuto any more cal
culations, let me say give us higher
prices foi everything.the farmer sells
and he will gladly give higher figures
for everything he buys.
It would be much better for the cot
ton planter if he could raise his corn
and meat cheaper than be could buy
them—infinitely better for the corn and
bacon producers. Oh! but some say if
you cotton raisers were to raise your
own corn and pork you would lessen the
demand and ruin the Northwestern far
mers. These articles would go down to
nothing. What do you call nothing.
Don’t be uneasy about the law fif sup
ply and demand. That law is thrown
out of gear and refuses to work when
it comes in contact with farm products.
Now let us go back a little and draw
some comparisons.
The civil war left the agriculturists
depleted and discouraged The best
shift that could be made under circum
stances so unfavorable was to try to
build up the waste places about the
farm and to make it self-sustaining.
There was no help at baud and little en
couragement abroach The strong right
arm and the brave manly heart, backed
by indomitable will power, were the
only available forces employed in the
work of building up desolated homes
and stricken firesides. With govern
ment troups among us and reconstruc
tion taskmasters over us,and with recent
verses in our arms and the completely
verthrow of uational hopes. It was a
very natural that submission to the
conqnerers will, should in a measure
take the place of independence of
thought and freedom of action and yet
with all these draw backs, I do not hes
itate to sav that the dark days of ’66
add ’67 bad piore'of hope in them than
the years of’86 and ’87, why ? because
there was something to work up to—
there was promise ahead. All farm
products brought renumerative prices.
We had mauy misfortunes and disap
pointments but cheap corn, cheap ba
con and cheap cotton were not among
the many curses put upon us. The
fine prices of corn, meat, wheat and
oats, furnished an incentive to the
farmer to raise them. Strange as it
may at first seem, there was more inde
pendence among the farmers in those
days than in ’88 and ’87, and much
more when we consider the great dif
ference in the general surroundings
THE PRICE OF COTTON.
of the current crop year. When the
staple was held firmly by the producers
during the early months, there was a
strong pressure exert-d by Wall and
Lointmrd streets, with the evident inten
tion of hastening collections in the
South and forcing cotton to market at
less than its commercial value. The
raid was so successful lhat the producers
lost some millions of dollars, and the
complete accomplishment of its purpose
was prevented only by that fellow-fell
ing among the speculative interests
whieh is commonly recognized as “hon
or among—■” Just how far the priee
of cotton might have been forced down
is impossible to estimate, but had the
weaker long been abls to withstand the
pressure there is reason to believe that
cotton would have been sold at a price
corresponding to that of wheat, and the
Southern farmers would havo lost by
depreciation of their industry more
than the vast sum represented by the
year’s crop, just as the Western farmers
have seen themselves become poorer by
more thau the value of their year’s
product.
A most intricate problem is involved
in reckoning the real consequence to
the farmers by the manipulation of the
cotton croDs. The loss is not mcrelyfthe
difference iu the price of the crop sold
at the two extreme prices. The differ
ence of price may be the entire profit to
the farmer, or, as in corn in the West
the present year, it may be sufficient to
cause a despotive loss on the year’s op
erations. In all transactions invest
ment is recognized as briuginga legiti
mate return. In the case of a farmer
producing more than what may be esti
mated as fair wages for labor and nec
essary expenses, that excess is profit.
If it be$100, at 5 per cent it would place
a values of $2,000 upon his investment,
and a like ratio would legitimately fixed
the value of his estate, if we accept 5 per
cent as legitimate profit. It then be
comes a matter of simple arithmetic to
tell just how much a farmer has lost
by depreciation when there is a decline
of 1 cent in the priee of cotton. If rais
ing ten bales of cotton be would lose
$50 on the selling price of cotton, but
his unseen loss by depreciation of his
farm would be $1,000. If he have no
means of recouping by wrong to his la
bor, this loss is permanent in any per
manent decline in prices.
When early in the season the Ameri
can firm representing the English hank
ers gave notice that they hail been dra'wn
on for $3,000,000 gold, it was notice that
the price of cotton (just then coming to
market, and the natural tendency of
which was to make the flow of gold to
ward, and not from, America) was
higher than England would' pay, and
therefore exportation must case. No
man familiar with the condition of
trade but knew such an assumption to
be falsej but Wail street joined Lom
bard street, and if the condition tempo
rarily imposed had been made perma
nent the cotton producers would have
lost not only the $60,000,000 bales, im
plied in a 2-ccnt decline in cotton, affec
ting only 6,000,000 bales, but $1,200,-
000, 000 in actual depreciation of their
estates.
The manipulation of the volume of
currency is the means by which such
wrongs to the producers are made pos
sible. By calling in loans on which
farming operations arc based at critical
times, it is in the power of syndicates
controling the mortgages and liens
against farmers to effect just such corn
ers in the money market. Whenever
the discounts at banks are increased
there is at once a congestion in the cir
culation, and those who have purposely
produced it profit thereby. Just as the
cotton raisers have suffered this year,
they suffer every year. The fact that
they are beginning to understand the
method of the wrong promises relief.
The statistical position of cotton is
better thau for several years, and de
spite adverse manipulation, those who
have held their crop are promised a fair
price.
Taking the statement of Bradstreet and
other statisticians of recognized author
ity, it is evident that the merchant! are
mere collecting agents in the hands of
the combinations, pools and trusts.
Wo have seen that a scarcity of money
increases its purchasing power, and
that labor’s product brings less than a
sufficient amount to properly compen
sate the labor required in production,
and os a consequence, debt must in
crease *and the authority I have before
used, places the total debt of the people
of the United States at not less than $35,-
000,000. This with a population of 60,-
000,000, people would place a debt of $2.-
725 on each family of five persons, and it
drawing interest at the rate of 8 per cent
will show in part the evils of scarce
mone^. This scarcity compels not on
ly individuals, cut municipalities to go
further into debt and procure money at
any rate of interest, and, as a conse
quence, our cities ate bonded for all the
law will allow, and the u.oney sharks
are, through interest and taxation, sap
ping the life’s blood from the tax-pay
ers, and with cheap product and a con
sequent greater amount of them being
required to pay these obligations, the
merchant is also affected. 1 need hard
ly say that the interest on the operating
capital and debt of nearly all of our
merchants, aud the losses which these
same conditions entail, have uot been
considered, but are factors in their bus
iness which leave no margin when a
balance is struck.
As predicted by The Economist, the
price of cotton has again risen, and
quotations are row at the highest point
At the present writing it looks as
though “the best banking system the
world ever saw” had forgotten some
thing when it lets one man burst up
three-national banks, as it did in New
York one day last week. The loss was
only $750,000, which in these million
aire times don’t munt for much. Such
little incidents, however, will hardly
pass as commending the continuance of
an institution that has already cost the
producers more than $5,000,000,000. It
is very indiscreet to have them ocour
ust now, when other matters ars coni
ng forward to make a bother.
pooled, he goes to to the wholesale deal
ers and they are likewise cembinerl,
when as a last resoit he goes to the
mines direct and here he finds the mines
are owned and operated by a syndicate,
in such cases there is much work to be
done, but it can and wil] be done.
Marion County Farmers Allianc (Bue
na Vista, Ga). This is the kind of goods
that wears:
The object of the Fanners Alliance
and Industrial Union, according to our
understanding, is higher and grander
than is generally considered by the ma
jority .Our guns are not loaded for small
game. We see nojustiee in the action of
onr Government, lending its aid to na
tional banks and wealthy corporations,
when the Kansas farmer is burning
corn for fuel, while men,women and
children are starving in the coal miues
of lilihois'and Pennsylvania. There is
something radically wrong in this state
of affairs and we propose to farret it out
even il|it:takes two winters and the
best of a summer. When a debating
society meets and the question is up,
“Does Farming Pay I” and the spread
eagle orator on the affirmative side has
eloqaeuce and logic to bear to prove his
premises, we de not intend he shall be
answered and annihilated by his oppon
ent rising and taking a shovel full of
corn and throwing it into the stove
without uttering a word.” Neither do
we intend that the same grade of cotton
which sells on the street of Buena Vista
for 10i£centa per{ pound, in January,
shall sell in the same market for 8J£,9l£
ahd9J£cents per pound in September,
October, and November. This applies
with equal force to the Americas and
Savannah markets.
The.Weekly Crisis (Ghillicothe, Mo.,)
says:
The dispatches inform us that the
Virginia legislature passed a resolution
requesting Congress to provide for the
loaning of money to the people at 2 per
cent. This is the first gun that has been
fired by a legislative body for govern
ment loans. Let other legislatures act.
More money is the great need. To save
the people from bankruptcy it must bo
put in circulation immediately, and the
only way to do this is to loan' it to the
people.
The Arkansas Economist (Searcy,
Ark.,) says truly:
Abolish land monopoly, inflate the
currency andfcontrol transportation are ,
the political ends sought by the several
united industrial organization of the
oounty. All other demands are but sub
ordinate, and closely related to one of
these economic principles. The effort to
abolish the banking system is only one
of its control by the proper authority.
The Authony (Kansas.,) Republican
says:
Petitions have been|eirculnted through
out the Stale asking the railroads to
make an “emergency rate” on grain.
With the Government owning ami op
erating the railroads of the country
there would be no need of begging for
emergency rates—the regular rates
would be so low that even a railroad
emergency rate would be a mountain in
comparison. If the Farmers Alliance of
the county will move in a solid Jcolumn
on Congress in favor of the Government
buying up and operating the railroads
millionaires for crumbs. When they al
low Jiin Crow newspapers to induce
them to petition and beg for what, in
justice,they have a right to demand.*
they humiliate themselves in the ex
treme. The country does not want'an
emergency rate—it wants perpetual re
lief.
FIRST COTTON BAGGING.
The Coffee County News (Elba Ala.,)
makes the following statement, which
proves President Harrison’s remark
about “universal prosperity among our
people :**
The mortgage business is fast increas
ing, and there will be more recorded at
probate’s office this season than last.
How is this for good times? Look out
for next fall. The cry is “Lord revive
us,” but we fear it will be in the fall,
“Show pity oh Lord, forgive.”
The Clark County Clipper(Ashland,
Ala.,) hold8 that with the more investi
gation comes the more knowledge:
As the.Alliance proceeds with the
prosecution of its business principles
through the exchange it become very
apparent how far-reaching and deep
seating is this combine business. Take
the huying of coal for an instance. The
buvnwi 9tuU the retail Healers
WAS MANUFACTURED IN GKKKNB COUNTY,
GEORGIA, IN 1862.
If the world felt as much interest in
trying to get to heaven as it does to ob
tain honor, distinction ami riches there
would be more thau one sinner there
to rejoice over. Let me make a brief
statement for the benefit of our Alliance
friends about the first eotton bagging
which they may wish to use as history
or tradition te pass down to posterity.
There has been at different times many
parties claiming the honor of having
made the first suggestions and making
the article in question. But if there is
any honor in the matter render unto
“Caesar the things that are Caesar’s”
and give it to Greene esunty. The first
cotton bagging made for the covering
of cotton was made at Fontenoy Mills,
(Scull Shoals factory) Greene county,
Georgia, 1862, by Dr. T. N. Poullain,
Ii was the best article I ever saw of the
kind and weighed within a fraction of
two pounds per merchantable yard, and
I commended at.d recommended it to
my planting friends for the baling of
their eotton because of its domestic
manufacture and reducing the crop and
the receipts at the ports and giving us
home protection.
The Alliance should never use other.
It is the hope and salvation of the couu-
try; go hack on it and your ship of for
tune will sink to rise no more; stand
to it and diq by it. It is the Illiad of
your fortunes and the Alladdins lamp
of your future prosperity.
The first iron hoops used for the bal
ing of cottON were made by John Webb,
of Newton county, Ga., 1838. He first
made wooden hoops and locked them
like barrel hoops and shipped the cot
ton to Thomas Dawson & Son, Augusta,
Ga., and if there was any patent office
then in existence I do not now recollect
bnt be this as may, if John Webb had
known what a fortune he had in his
hand, he would have utilized it and
never have troubled about.manufact
ures, merchandise and bis plantation.—
Greensboro Herald.
How’s This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any ease of Catarrh that can not be enred by
taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney A Co., Props, Toledo. O.
Wo the undersigned, hare known F. J.,Chen-
ey for the last 15 years, and bel eve him per
fectly honorable in all business transactions,
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tions made by their firm.
West A Traax, Wholesale Druggist, Tolado, O
Waiding, Kinnan Marvin, Wholesale Druggist,
Toledo! Ohio
E. H. Yon Hoe sen, Cashier Toledo National
Ba k, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Core ia taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mneons sur
faces of the system. Price 76o* per bottle, Sold
by all Druggists.
A woman’s^Discovery ^ |
‘•Another wonderful discovery has been made
and that too by a lady in this county. Deseasc
fastened its clutches upon her nod for seven
years she with sood its severest tests, but her
vital organ were undermined and death seemed
imminent For three months she coughed in
cessantly and could not sleep. She bought
of ns a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for
Consnmpti >n and was much relieved taking
first dose that she slept all night and with ono
bottle has been miraculously cured. Her name
is Mrs Luther Lutz.” Thus write to W. C.
Hamrick Co., of Shelby, N. 0.-0E| free trial
bottleat John Crawford Co., or L. D. Sledgu
Co., Wholesale and Retail Durggists.