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THE COURANT.
l?u blifthed Every Thursday,
LARTLRSVILLF., GEORGIA.
THE COVE A ST is published every Thursday
morning and is delivered by carriers in the oity
or mailed, postage free, at ftl.SO a year: six
mgjsths, SO cents; three months, 60cents.
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/. IT. C V fill y, CartersTille, Oa.
/lutin'** Manager.
DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
MARCH 1 2 . 1886.
THE COURA XT IS FREE.
We are glad to tell our readers that the
unjust and unfair restrictions imposed
upon us by the Postoffice Department,
have been entirely removed. It only
ne ;ded an examination of the paper in that
ofliee and a true statement of facts to
make the injustice so apparent and the
unfairness so plain, as to do that work
for us. Our thanks are due Senator Col
quitt ior this kindness, lie took a copy
of the Coi rant to the General Postoffice
and made the rest easy for ua. The
Couhant now passes through the mails
as a newspaper, and the wrong has been
put right in all particulars. Senator
Colquitt attended to our request prompt
ly, kindly and satisfactorily, and we
thank him for it.
We desire to tell our readers that we
give them fresh, first-class work. We
do not patronize “patent outsides” or
insides either in the Cocrant. We un
derstand there is an advertising agency
up North which sets up columns mat
ter, pictures, reading and all, and even
continued stories, which they rent out to
newspapers at so mujh a column; and
this is passed off on the subscribers as
genuine work, set up in the different
offices; while in reality it is a sort of a
travelling panorama or “picture circus,”
which travels perhaps to a hundred
newspaper offices before they get too
stale for use. The picture of Senator
Colquitt has been used in some papers
and passed off as Senator Bayard’s. We
are familiar with several of these often
printed faces, and as a noted wag re
marked, whose face was similarly cari
catured, “For this and all other similar
misfortunes, we hope for grace to bear
with patience and resignation.” These
ttatesraen can make the same prayer.
We are so familiar with the “picture cir
cus” which has been over Georgia lately
that we can tell pretty accurately when
it will reach this part of the country,
and where it will halt for use, and when
it will next appear, on its journey.
Now,.as this is patronizing an adver
ting agency, pure and simple, and goes
through the mails as genuiue newspaper
work, we would like to inqurie the rea
son why the Cocrant was rudely
checked, which gives it readers fresh,
clean, genuiue work in every issue? As
we read in die spelling book a long time
ago, “It makes a difference whose ox is
gored.” We do not buy editorial or
ns*Ws matter hy the yard, or at so much
a c olumn, but those advertising sheets do
exactly that thing.
YES! LET HIM TROT!
Schuyler Crosby, First Assistant Post
master-General, hopes to be retained
under tills Administration upon the Civil
Service theory. He should be one of the
first to go. He was one of Arthur’s most
particular snob friends and has done more
to make the office of the First Assistant
ridiculous than anyone who has preced
ed He regarded his position simply
’ —from a social Standpoint. He thought his
social duties much more important than
his work at the Post-Office Department.
It is he who has insisted- pn being
addressed as General by his subordinates
in their communications to him.—New
York World.
Schuyler Crosby is the fellow w r ho
issued the order which shut out the
Couhant from newspaper rates, ne is
the official that should be mode to go. He
is unfit, whether he acted as the princi
pal or accomplice in the fraud attempted
on us.
The postal authorities will not allow
the Cartersvillo Courant to pass through
the mails as second class matter. They
claim that it is nothing but au advertising
sheet. Wonder if they know T what a
L newspaper is? it will soon be O. K. as
jpeu have charge now.—Acworth
and Farmer.
Itkeems they labored under a delusion
in tin* case of the Courant, but we are
glad that Senator Colquitt was
the man to convince them of their ill
natured intake. The Coo rant is free
and tfie conspiracy failed.
what cox or ess did axd what it
failed to do.
'I he late Congress has passed a Foreign
Contract Labor bill, some public building
appropriations, the usuai expenses of the
Government—comprehended under the
heading of appropriations, revoked some
land grants in the South—while allowing
the Pacific railroads to hold their unlaw
ful seizure of public lands—and then it
retired to oblivion.
Congress failed to pass the outrageous
River and Harbor bill, with its numerous
jobs. It failed to pass Morrison’s free
trade measure, or McPherson’s bill to
extend the authority of national banks,
and the Blair Educational Bill, (which
was as f all of buncombe as an egg is of
meat), it failed to pass the Hennepin Ca
nal scheme, and the Fitz-John Porter
bill, also the Mexican Pension bill, the
JEUBi*rnpfcyd)iH, the Polygamy bill, and
the bill relating to the inspection of
meats and adulterated articles to prohibit
the circulation of lottery circulars
through the mails, or a commission for
the liquor traffic.
On the whole they did precious little—
so little that our contemporary, the Con
stitution, takes comfort that in doing
nothing the country is to be cougratula
ted —“if they had passed more bills the
country might have fared worse.”
It Is a lovely state of affairs that such
an expensive machine should be regard
ed as a serious calamity—the smaller the
affliction the greater the relief —when it
is over.
We are glad they kept their hands off
from the silver dollar, but we are sorry
to see from the New York Sun that the
Pacific mail lobby vanquished at last both
House and Senate. Oh! Honesty, the
e lemy was too strong!
on: railroad commission.
We print on the first page of this pa
per, a just and truthful tribute to the
wisdom and honesty of Maj. Campbell
Wallace, the chief figure of our railroad
commission, taken from the Nashville
Banner. We have also just finished
reading an article in the Nashville Amer
ican, which is equally unjust and un
truthful in its criticisms upon this iin
ptm hasable and most efficient Georgia
official.
It was a wise and equitahle law which
originated our railroad commission. We
think hut few legislative acts have been
more productive of real and substantial
benefit to the people of this State. It is
impossible to estimate in figures the
amount of money it has saved directly to
our industries, by cheapening freights
and to our citizens hy reducing passenger
fires. By its intelligent and impartial
decisions it has commanded, and now re
tains, the confidence of Georgians. Asa
rule it is antagonized only in those quar
ters where we would most reasonably an
ticipate such opposition.
It is true some good and patriotic men
are its enemies. It is also true that some
disinterested men, imposed upon hy
plausible sophistries, are seeking its over
throw; hut almost universally the men
who are creating the wealth of Georgia
by honest labor are cordially pledged to
its support and defense.
- We would say to the Nashville Amer
ican that the citizens of Georgia are not
influenced in favor of this commission
hy any prejudice they entertain against
railroad property. • We would encourage
railroad construction in every county
where the investment promises a reason
able rate of interest. We hope and be
lieve they will multiply in exact ratio
with the demands of our increasing pop
ulation and wealth; arid that they will
continue to be, as heretofore, remunera
tive to the stockholders.
But our railroads have been chartered
by the State. They have had special
rights, privileges and immunities con
ferred upon them by State legislation.
Tlwey are common carriers, and have suc
ceeded in driving from the country all
other public carriers. They have a mo
nopoly of the carrying trade, and with
their immense aggregated wealth they
are indifferent to, or even conteritemptu
ous of, individual rights. This commis
sion is the only breakwater between the
people of Georgia and the unjust and un
equal exactions of these railroads.
Campbell Wallace has not “well-nigh
wrecked the railroads of Georgia”; he
has not “destroyed all hope of further
railway construction in this State.” A
newspaper which utters such unblushing
misrepresentations is either hopelessly
ignorant or the bribed organ of the rail
roads. One reason why no more rail
roads arc built in Georgia is that all our
trunk lines are members of syndicates
and the headquarters of some of these
syndicates are outside of Georgia—hav
ing no interest in the welfare of the
state and only concerned to extort the
last dollar from its citizens, and they will
not permit any railway construction if it
promises competition with their monopo
lized traffic. They can and do throttle
any enterprise of the kind if it threatens
an interference with their profits.
Moreover as an inducement for capi
talists to build railroads in Georgia we
can assure them that under the wise and
just management of our commission the
roads in this State have made more
money during the five years the commis
sion has been in existence than during
the five years preceding its organization.
It is asserted by competent witnesses that
the Western & Atlantic railroad is crowd
ed with freight cars to an extent unknown
In its history; and we have no doubt its
earnings, if properly itemized and return
ed to the State, which owns it, would be
found to have correspondingly increased,
with its augmented business.
The Central railroad has increased its
average net revenue per annum, since
the formation of the commission, over
eight per cent., “and if the same ratio of
increase should continue during the next
five years the percentage of the net earn
ings of that company w*ould approximate
twenty per cent, per annum upon its
capital stock of $7,500,000.” It has won
derfully increased in wealth, and it is
probable if all the “water” could be ex
pressed out of its stock, it would be as
remunerative to its owners as at any
period of its history. Does this look like
our railroad commission had “wrecked
the railroads of Georgia, and destroyed
all hope of further railway construction
in this State”? If the Nashville Ameri
can has a conscience it must have dis
turbed the author of such a fabrication.
But there is the Georgia railroad, now
a part of the Central system, and if fig
ures do not lie, paying a very handsome
per cent. to the Central railroad aftef- its
enormous rental per annum has been ful
ly discharged. Last year its net earn
ings paid about fourteen per cent, upon
its capital stock of $4,200,000, and we
find that the stock of the Georgia rail
road is worth in our money markets -one
hundred and fifty dollars per share.
Does this look like the commission had
“wrecked” the railroads of Georgia?
The stock of the Augusta and Savan
nah road is quoted at sllß per share.
The stock of the Southwestern road is
quoted at sll7 per share and the bonds of
the Central road command twelve per
cent, premium iu our markets. Did ever
“wreckage” sell for such prices as these?
Tne Atlanta and West Point railroad
has paid a handsome interest upon its
capital stock. Indeed, all the roads of
Georgia which have been managed pru
dently have increased their net earnings
since the establishment of the railroad
commission, and we would inquire if
these figures ami facts prove that “Geor
gia is to have no more railroads or else no
more commissions.” The truth is, all
this hue and ery against the commission
is prompted by the unbounded rapacity
of the railroad monopolists of this coun
try. Let their powers he increased. Let
them have authority to break up the in
iquitous pool system of this State, and
then our people and our railroads will
prosper beyond precedent. W. H. F.
CABINET MAKING.
President Cleveland has selected wise
and conservative counsellors. Bayard,
Lamar and Garland, were prominent
leaders in the Senate, from which they
retire to take prominent positions in the
Cabinet of the new Democratic Presi
dent.
The country has confidence in their
ability, honesty and patriotism. While
we do not endorse the record of Setwe’a
ries Bayard and Lamar on the “Silver
question,” and upon some other ques
tions, we have, however, great faith in
their devotion to country and democratic
principles. They are eminently con
servative and their selection is a securi
ty that rash and partisan measures will
not impair the strength and usefulness
of President’s Cleveland’3 administra
tion.
There are few public men in the United
States for whom we entertain more pro
found respect than for Attorney-General
Garland. When we describe him as a
gentleman, a scholar and a patriot, we
have conveyed an incomplete conception
of the quiet and unpretentious states
man w’hose learning in the law', whose
thorough mastery of every public ques
tion, whose incorruptible political and
personal character and whose stainless
official life, endear him to all honest men.
The other members of the Cabinet are
less know'll to the country, but stfcfar as
we know', altogether worthy of their
high and responsible positions. They
come before the American people with
“clean hands.” No jobbery or com
plicity, to the best of our knowledge and
belief, with schemes for public plunder,
stain their personal or political ante
cedents. We have not heard one of
them eulogized because he was a mil
lionaire. Not one of them has been
commended to public gratitude because
he commenced life poor and is now im
mensely rich.
Their limited pecuniary means prom
ises simplicity once more in the high
places of Government. More than that
their high character for honesty, prom
ises that subsidies and jobs of every
imaginable description, w’ill not thrive
under Cleveland’s administration. This
is the demand of the country. We want
an honest government. The people are
worn out —their patience exhausted with
the policy which makes official life the
opportnnity for official plunder, and the
occasion for the brazen display of such
ill-gotten wealth. Mr. Blaine’s large
accumulations in official life produced
such a revulsion in popular feeling,
as to make Mr. Cleveland’s election
a possibility.
* The honest Republicans of New York
3tate were not willing to make these
accumulations the basis of .political suc
cess, and to their honesty and patriotism
the country owes this victory. It would
be well for Mr. Cleveland's advisers to
set up a mental guide-board, pointing in
every direction, “that political honesty”
is the demand of the hour. The Ameri
can people will forgive mistakes, errors
in judgement, and even laxity in duty,
but they will not pardon a man w r ho
uses official position to fill his own
pockets, or who uses such wealth to
foist himself into office. The yielding to
such temptations has brought all the
scandals upon previous administrations
and we w-ould urge these new Cabinet
officers, not only to avoid evil, but the
appearance of evil in their official life.
This Cabinet of President Cleveland
is, however, defective in our opinion.
Its symmetry is not perfect—not because
of the presence of any one man—but for
the marked absence of one man.
When we are told to look up and ad
mire the constellation of Plieades, or the
“seven stars,” we are not so impressed
by the six beautiful stars, which salute
and rew r ard our gaze, as we are by the
reflection that one, maybe the brightest
of the group, is not visible. No demo
crat, no American citizen can look upon
the first Democratic cabinet which has
blessed the country within the last quar
ter of a century without exclaiming,
“where is the brightest, the truest, the
noblest of them all?”
We have heard ot the play of “Hamlet,
with Hamlet left out,” but if this cabinet
does not impress the country as the
“play of Democracy,” with the grandest
living American Democrat left out, we
are deceived as to public sentiment. No
excuse can justify his absence. No apol
ogy can reconcile the omission. Allan
G. Thurman still lives, and he is among
living men, “first in the hearts of his
countrymen.” A man without reproach.
How clean his record! How spotless
his character. How consecrated to par
ty, to truth, and to constitutional liber
ty ! We have seen him almost alone in
the Senate, w-hen beleaguered by wßy and
unscrupulous foes, with an ability and
purity of purpose unexcelled and une
qualled, scatter and bring to naught the
counsels of corruptionists. When it was
announced that Grover Cleveland had
been elected President of the United
States ninety-hundreths of the men who
made him President would have elected
Allan G. Thurman tde leading member
of his cabinet. >Vhy is he absent? Has
monopoly triumphed? There is no man
living that monopolists have so much
reason to fear and hate. Have the
Goulds and Huntingtons of the United
States at last succeeded in driving the
old man to the wall ? Is the Democratic
party of this country tired of hearing
him called “Aristides, the Just?” It
would be well io remember that the
Democratic party may find its Xerxes,
while Thurman is in banishment, and
only his recall may make the victory of
Saiamis a possibility for the party.
When we watched this noblest Roman
of them all, as he stood during the spring
of 1878, guarding the property of the tax
payers of the Union from the assaults of
a powerful lobby and a corrupt Senate,
we felt there was no honor in the gift of
the American people that could repay
Allan G Thurman for his devotion and
patriotism.
It is rumored that he will be banished,
sent on some foreign mission, at a time
when “Aristides the Just” should stand
near the helm of the ship of State, guid
ing it through the breakers by his ex
perience, his honesty and his patriotism.
W. H. F.
CABINET LADIES.
Mrs. Bayard is an invalid. She turned
over her social duties to her daughters
years ago, therefore it Is unlikely there
will be any rivalry of Messrs. Blaine’s
and Frelinghuysen’s gorgeous entertain
ments in the four years ahead of Mr.
Bayard in the Cabinet.
Mr. Lamar’s wife died a few months
since, and we feel grieved that the country
will miss iu Washington, the presence
and influence of one the noblest of
Southern women. When the writer was
a little girl, and Mrs. Lamar was in the
full bloom of maidenhood, she was our
beau-ideal of the true and lovely'. She
was a daughter of Judge Augustus Long
street (an eminent divine anu jurist in
Georgia, forty years ago.) She inher
ited from her father a winning nnmnner,
a native courtesy, and a charming ad
dress that won her friends in every sta
tion in life. Her lovely face and sweet
disposition added much to her husband’s
success. She would have illustrated
not only Mississippi, but Georgia and the
entire South as a Cabinet lady. Her
household being in mourning there will be
no prominence to their entertainments,
for a season at least.
Mr. Garland is a widower, and it is
understood he has never sought to re
place the beloved wife of his youth by a
later choice. His aged mother will no
doubt decline the engagements and an
noyances of Washington society. So it
happens that the South will not be sit
uated properly to give the North an idea
of our Southern ladies in official life.
The other members of the Cabinet,
from the North and West, are said to be
fortunately able to do all the honors of
the new administration. We feel anx
ious to see them “hr id their own” in the
metropolitan city of the Union, although
we trust there will be no effort to out
spend, out-dress, or out-shine the
nouvtaux right of shoddy aristocracy.
Nkw Jkrskv has a first-class sensation
at present. A respected citizen, who
held a large amount of trust funds, died
on the 18th of January. Before he died
he gave h ! s son the number of the com
bination look of his safe.
The safe was not opened until after his
death, and seventy thousand dollars are
gone. No one knows where; as yet dis
covered.
The deceased was a strict church mem
ber, had led a class, diofi a quiet resigned
death, and yet the fact is obvious that he
has either been a life-long hypocrite or
his safe was plundered by somebody very
near to him. His sons stand as high as
did their father, no one questions their
honesty, yet the money is gone. Widows,
orphan?, church officers and city funds
ali suffer together, and a dark cloud rests
on the dead man’s name.
A slight acquaintance with one of the
sons—an ex-Congressman from New
Jersey, makes us anxiously hope the thief
may not be found within the dead man’s
household, and that the father’s reputa
tion may be relieved from the stain that
now envelops it.
Dr. Felton is riding the prohibition
hobby-horse over the State. No one can
exactly see the significance or destina
tion of the ride.—Augusta Chroniole.
If the Chronicle circulates in Elbert
county, the citizens will be able to give
it all the information it seeks. Ditto in
Gordon. These counties comprise the ex
tent of the “hobby-horse ride,” and the
answer will give tio comfort to the bad
manners and unexplained ill-will of the
Chronicle. It would be difficult indeed
to measure philanthropy or Christianity
by its low standard of human endeavor,
but we can never hope to see it take po
sition on any subject until the “signifi
cance and destination,” lead up to its
oivn pecuniary benefit, or to the benefit
of its powerful patron. Its attitude in a
late affair of National importance leaves
no doubt as to the “significance and
destination” of the Chronicle. If its
boss should say, “Simon, thumbs up,”
on prohibition its little digits would rise
instanter —nor would the wig-wagging
cease—though Richmond county should
say “thumbs down,” to the end of the
chapter.
We print all the legal advertisements
of the county for our readers, so that
they may get the county news without
expense or trouble. The notice of the
sale of valuable property (printed this
week), will likely draw general attention
to the immense capabilities of Bartow
county as an agricultural and mineral
section. Anythtng that will build up
the interests of our people is a matter
of news interest to The Courant, and
we have taken some pains to give them
all the advantages in this matter that
they will need. We need immigration
to develop onr resources —and we need
capital to secure both labor and opportu
nity for such development, and The
Courant will devote its best energies to
building up this grand old county, which
so richly merits progress and enterprise.
Dear reader, did you ever watch the
progress of a strong mule team hitched*
to an immense turning plow in the spring
of the year? As we drove past Col.
Ford’s tidy farm a few days ago we felt
obliged to halt and gaze on the upturning
earth as it is steadily rolled over from the
mould-board of such a plow. The smell
of the fresh earth, the skill and elec
tion of the work, was more exhilarating
than any sprine tonic for editorial dull
ness, that we have found yet. No won
der the Spring poet gets abroad in such
an auspicious season. It would provoke
a sonnet from any mind less jeosaic than
our own.
PJtTTITS efts ME CLUB.
The farmers who live North of Carters
▼ille. Ga., on and near the above named
creek, have organized a club for mutual
instruction, entertainment and social
intercourse. Its inception and arrange
ment are due to the efforts of our worthy
neighbor, Mr. John S. Holliushead, who
is one of the most progressive farmers of
our county.
The club meets on the first Saturday’s
of the month, and each family enjoyg a
visit from the club during the twelve
months of the year. They met at Dr.
Benham’son the first Saturday in March,
and elected Mr. J. G. Lowry as president
and Mr. Holliushead, Secretary.
They will meet again at Capt. Brown’s
on the first Saturday in April. The
Courant will be glad to get a report
from the next meeting, as it promises to
be very interesting.
The citizens oomprising the club are as
follows: Dr. Benbam, Col. Robert
Rogers, Messrs. W. 11. and J. T. Lump
kin, Zimri Jackson and his energetic
sons, W. H. and George Jackson, J. H.
Gilreath, L. S. Munford, W. A. Wheeler,
W. H. Cotton, J. S. Hollinshead, Capt.
Brown and W. H. Felton, besides the
president.
In looking over the list we think we
find more than a “baker’s dozen,” but
the club will hold them all very nicely,
and canuot spare a single name.
TBS IT A RD WINTER
Has not only caused great suffering
among the people of the West, but the
cattle on the ranches have endured untold
distress—perishing by thousands.
With the weather away down below
zero—sleet and snow covering the plains
many feet deep, unprotected by timber
or other shelter, the poor brutes are rep
resented as going wild with thirst and
suffering. In places they crowded into
the villages, blocking the streets and
doorways of the houses, “bawling and
and surging with almost human cries of
suffering.” About half the herds are
reported as already perished, and the
mortality in the spring is always very
great after such a hard winter.
The streams freeze hard, and cattle
wno only lick snow will perish with
thirst and consequent weakness.
The Augusta Chronicle completes its
century of existence in this month,
being established in the year 1785. A
hale, hearty old age it has, with no sign
of decreasing vigor or activity. It will
issue a mammoth paper to celebrate its
centennial, which will be distributed
throughout'Georgia and other States, a
large number going'to the number going
to the New Orleans Centennial. It offers
extra inducements to advertisers, and we
wish it hearty success. When the
Courant marks its hundreth birth-day,
we shall be glad to wear our honors as
gracefully as does the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist,
Dr. Thos. P. Janes, ex-Commissioner
of Agriculture, of Greene county, died
very suddenly on the 10th. His death is
a great loss to the State, as he was one of
her foremost men. He was an uncle of
our city editor, Mr. Walter M. Ryals,
and a brother of Mrs. Jas. G. Ryals, of
Macon.
PERSONAL.
Mis. Akerinin, MoCandless and
Miss Bradley, gave us a call during the
week. Always glad to see our lady
friends in the sanctum.
Col. Stovall, of London, England, was
in the Courant office last week. He is
a son-in-law of our worthy countryman,
Hon. M. A. Cooper.
Thos. H. Kennedy, Esq., formerly of
Bartow, now of Atlanta, gave the editors
a call a few days since. His father, Mr.
John Kennedy, long ago deceased, was
one of the first citizens of this county
to greet 11s, more than thirty years ago;
and old Cass never claimed a better
neighbor or a more upright citizen.
Thos. H. is a worthy successor of a no
ble father.
Wrought Iron Range Company.
Our ranges are more cleanly and more
durable than any other cooking apparat
us offered for sale, and, in our opinion,
their equal never has, and never will be
made. We take this opportunity of re
ferring the public to the following gen
tlemen who have purchased our ranges:
* BARTOW COUNTY.
John A. Goodson,
W. F. Corbin,
C. E. Alexander,
J. A. Matthews,
D. J. Haney,
H. M. Dunahoo,
Mrs. Celestia Cunyus,
‘•J V. B. McGinnis,
J. W. Williams,
C. P. Sewell,
E. Harling,
W. H. Baker,
R. C. Harris,
T. R. Hammonds,
T. S. Hawkins,
Dr. J. S. Beazley,
R. F. Jolly,
J. T. Jolly,
Levy Jolly,
Clayton Erwin,
Fred Boston, Sr.
POLK COUNTy.
W. J. Finch,
J. N. Jones,
W. M. West,
W. M. Carlton,
G. P. Morgan,
J. M. Carlton,
' W. W. Carlton,
W. Echols,
R. W. Wingard,
W. G. Lee,
P. Glenn,
J. S. Davitte,
James Morris,
John Cantrell,
Welcome Duke,
Mrs. O. A. Winkles,
G. W. Waddle,
Jas. K. Baldwin.
COBB COUNTY.
H. A Butler,
'■ E. L. Mavs,
G. W. Hill.
• GORDON COUNTY.
M. L. Foster,
R. Baxter.
CHEROKEE COUNTY.
D. S. McCurley,
Dr. A. C. Harp,
John K. Moore,
‘n. Thos. J. White,
W. T. Knox.
Wm. Timmons,
John B. Puckett,
John Kinkade,
Martin Anderson.
We respectfully invite those who are
in ned of the best cooking apparatus
evei un<le, to examine our ranges.
Very truly,
Wrought Iron Range Company,
Headquarters at Cartersville.
March 12,1885.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S INAUGU
RAL ADDRESS.
Fellow Citizens —ln the presence of
this vast assemblage of my countrymen
1 am about to supplement and seal by the
oath which 1 shall take, the manifesta
tion of the will of a great and free peo
ple. In the exercise of their power and
right of self-government they have com
mitted to one of their fellow-citizens a
Supreme and sacred trust, and he here
consecrates himself to their service. This
impressive ceremony adds little to the
solemn sense of responsibility with which
I contemplate the duty I owe to all the
people of the land. Nothing can relieve
me from anxiety lest by any act of mine
their interests may suffer, and nothing is
Deeded to strengthen my resolution to
engage every faculty and effort in the
promotion of their welfare. Amid the
din of party strife the people’s cjioiee
was made, but its attendant circumstan
ces have demonstrated anew’ the strength
and safety of a government by the peo
ple. lo each succeeding year it more
clearly appears that our Democratic prin
ciples need no apology, and that in its
fearless and faithful application is to be
tiie surest guarantee of good government.
But the best results in the operation ot a
government, wherein every citizen has a
share, largely depend upon a proper
limitation of purely partisan zeal and
effort and a correct appreciation of the
time when the heat of the partisan
should be merged in the patriotism of
the citizen. To-day the executive branch
of government is transferred to anew
keeping, but this is still Lite government
of all the people, and it should be none
the less an object of their affectionate
solicitude. At this hour the animosities
of political strife, the bitterness of parti
san defeat and the exultation of partisan
triumph should be supplanted by an un
grudging acquiescence in the popular
will, and a sober, conscientious concern
for the general weal. Moreover, if from
this hour we cheerfully and honestly
abandon all sectional prejudice and dis
trust, and determine with manly confi
dence in one another to work out har
moniously the achievements of our na
tional destiny we shall deserve to realize
all the benefits which our happy form
of government can bestow. On this
auspicious occasion wo may well renew
the pledge of our devotion to the consti
tution, which, launched by the founders
of the republic, and consecrated by their
prayers and patriotic devotion, has, for
almost a century, borne the hopes and
the aspirations of a great people through
prosperity and peace, and through the
shock of foreign conflicts and perils of
domestic strife and vicissitudes.
By the Father of his Country, our con
stitution was commended for adoption as
“the result of a spirit of amity and mu
tual concession.” In that same spirit it
should be* administered in order to pro
mote the lasting welfare of the country,
and to secure the full measure of its
priceless benefits to us and to those who
will succeed to the blessings of our na
tional life. The large variety of diverse
and competing interests subject to Fed
eral control, persistently seeking the
recognition of their claims, need give us
no fear that “the greatest good to tiie
greatest number” will fail to be accom
plished if in the halls of national legisla
tion that spirit of amity and mutual con
cession shall prevail in which the con
stitution had its birth. If this involves
the surrender or postponement of private
interest, or the abandonment of local ad
vantages compensation will be found in
the assurance that thus the common in
terest is subserved and tiie general wel
fare advanced, in the discharge of my
official duty.
OBEY the constitution.
I shall endeavor to be guided by a just
and unstrained construction of the con
stitution, a careful observance of the dis
tinction between the powers granted to
the Federal Government and those re
served to the states, or to the people, and
by a cautious appreciation of those func
tions which, by the constitution and
laws, have been especially assigned to
the executive branch of tiie government.
But he who takes the oath to-day to pre
serve, protect and defend the constitu
tion of the United States only assumes
the solemn obligation which every pa
triotic citizen on the farm, in the work
shop, in the busy marts of trade, and
everywhere, should share with him.
The constitution which prescribes bis
oath, my countrymen, is yours, tiie Gov
ernment you have chosen for a time is
yours, the suffrage which executes the
will of freemen is yours, the laws and
the entire scheme of our civil Govern
ment—from the town meeting to the
State Capitals to the National Capital—
is yours. Your every voter, as surely as
your Chief Magistrate, under the same
high sanction, though in a different
sphere, exercises a public trust. Nor is
this all. Every citizen owes to the
country a vigilant watch and close scru
tiny of its public servants, and a fair and
reasonable estimate of their fidelity and
usefulness. Thus is the people’s will
impressed upon the whole frame work of
our civil polity—municipal, State and
Federal—and this is the price of our lib
erty and the inspiration of our faith in
the Republic.
the public monies.
It is the duty of those serving the peo
ple in public place to closely limit puU
lic expenditures to the actual needs of
the Government, economically adminis
tered, because this bounds the right of
the Government to exact tribute from
the earnings of labor, or the property of
the citizen, and because public extrava
gance begets extravagance among the
people. We should never be ashamed of
the simplicity and prudential economies
which are best suited to the operation of
a republican form of government and
most’compatible with the mission of the
American people. Those who are se
lected, for a limited time, to manage pub
lic affairs, are still of the people, and may
do much by their example to encourage,
consistently, with the dignity of their
official functions, that plain way of life
which, among their fellow citizens, adds
integrity and promotes thrift and pros
perity.
OUR foreign policy.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in the home life,
and the attention which is demanded for
the settlement and development of the
..resources of our va3t territory dictate the
scrupulous avoidance of any departure
from that foreign policy comnlended by
the history, tbe traditions and the pros
perity of our Republic. It is the policy
of independence, favored by our position
and defended by our known love of jus
tice, and by our power. It is the policy
of peace, suitable to our interests. It is
the policy of neutrality rejecting any
share in foreign broils and ambitions
upon other continents, and repelling
their intrusion here. It is the policy of
Monroe and of Washington and of
Jefferson —“peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.”
A due regard for the interests and
prosperity of all the people demand that
our finances shall be established upon
such a sound and sensible basis as shall
secure the safety and confidence of busi
ness interests and make the wages of
labor sure and steady, and that our sys
tem of revenue shall be so adjusted as to
relieve the people from unnecessary
taxation, having a due regard to the
interests of capital interested and work
ingmen employed in American indus
tries, and preventing the accumulation
of a surplus in the Treasury to tempt ex
travagance and waste.
Care for the property of the Nation
and tor tiie needs of future settlers
lequire that the public domain shall he
protected from purloining schemers and
unlawful occupation.
1 ho conscience ot the people demands
that the Indians within our boundaries
shall be fairly and honestly treated as
wards of tiie Government, and their
education and civilization promoted with
a view to their ultimate citizenship, and
that polygamy in the Territories, destruc
ti\e ot the family relations and offensive
to the moral sense of tiie civilized world,
shall be repressed.
I lie laws should be rigidlv enforced
which prohibit the immigration of a ser
vile class to compete with merican la
bor with no intention of acquiring citizen-
f hip, and bringing with them and retain
ing customs and habits repugnant *0 our
civilization.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The people demand reform in the ad
ministration of ttie Government, and the
application of business principles to pub
lic affairs. Asa means to this end, civil
service reform should he in good faith
enforced. The people have the right to
protection from the incompetency of
public employes who hold their places
solely as the reward of partisan service,
and from the corrupting influence of
those who promise and the vicious
methods of those who expect such re
wards. And those who worthily seik
public employment have site right to in
sist that merit and competency shall be
recognized instead of party subserviency
or the surrender of honest political be
lief.
THE COLORED MAN AND BROTHER.
In the administration of a Govern
ment pledged to do equal and exacting
tiee to all men there should be no pre
text for anxiety touching ilic protection
of the freed men iu their rights, or their
security in tiie enjoyment of the priv
ileges under the constitution and its
amendments. All discussion as to their
fitness for tiie place accorded them as
American people is idle and unprofita
ble, except as it suggests the necessity
for their improvement. The fact that
they are citizens entitles them to all the
rights due to that relation, and chuigca
them with all its duties, obligations and
responsibilities.
GOVERNMENT FOR THE I’EOPLK.
These topics and the constant and ever
varying wants of an active and enter
prising population may well receive the
attention and tha patriotic endeavor of
all who make and execute tiie Federal
law. Our duties are practical and call
for an industrious application, an intelli
gent perception of the claims of public
office, and above all, a firm determina
tion by united action to secure
to all the people of the land the full
benefits of the best form of Government
ever vouchsafed to man. And let 11s not
trust to human effort alone, but humbly
acknowledge the goodness and power of
Almighty God, who presides over the
destiny ot nations, anil who has at ail
times been revealed In our country’s his
tory; let us invoke His aid and blessing
upon our labors.
A CHILD!
My little son, now seven years old, broke out
when a babe three weeks old with what the doc
tors called eczema, beginning on the head and
gradually spreading over his whole body. He
was treated for live years or more by various
physicians without relief, and the little boy’*
health was completely broken down. About a
year ago I was induced to use on him Swift’s
Specific, and two bottles cured him sound and
well, and there lias been no sign of a return of
the disease. F. O. HOLMES.
Poisoned by a Nurse.
Some eight years ago’l was inooculated with
poison by a hiirse who infected my babe with
blood taint. The little child lingered along un
til it was about two years old, when its little life
was yielded up to the fearful poison. For six
long years I have suffered untold misery. I was
covered with sores and ulcers Irom head to foot,
and in my great extremity I prayed to die. No
language can express my feelings of woe during
those long six years. 1 had the best medical
treatment. Several physicians successively
treated me, butall to no purpose. The Mercury
and Potash seemed to add fuel to the awful
flame which was devouring nie. About three
months ago -gr-wy ciflc. W
1 was ad vis- did so, and I
ed to trv .iST 1 * 0 UT** JB*: felt hope re-
Swift’s Spe-®^“”"*^' r “‘ rt * rf “ fc-f “® s vive again
in my breast; but alas! alas! wo had spent so
much for medical treatment that we were too
poor to buy it. Oh! the agony of that moment!
Health and happiness within your reach, hut too
poor to grasp it. 1 applied, however, to those
who were able and willing to help me, and I
nave taken Swift’s Specific, and am now sound
and well once more. Swift’s Specific is the best
blood ‘ purifier in the world, anil the greatest
blessing of the age. MRS. T. W. LEE.
Greenville, Ala., Sept. 4.
A Druggist for 25 Years.
Auburn, Ala., Sept. 8, 184.—1 am an old
pharmacist,and have had t®do largely with blood
diseases for over twenty-five yearn. I have devl t
In all kinds of blood purifiers, and do not hesi
tate to say that Swift’s Specific is the best and
has given more general satisfaction than any
other I have ever handled. Swift’s Specific is
an excellent tonic, and as an antidote for ma
laria has no superior. Many ladies arc using it
as atonic for general debility, and find it the most
satisfactory one ever used. I have been dealing
in Swift’s Specific for five years or more, and am
satisfied that I do not place too high an estimate
upon its merits. U. W. DIXON.
Prescribed by Physicians.
I have prescribed Swift’s Specific in many
cases of Blood Poison and as a general tonic, and
it has made cures after all other-remedies had
failed. K. M. STRICKLAND, M. I>.,
Cave Spring, (4a.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
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