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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. A DYERTISI NO HA TES depend on locution in the paper, and trill be furnished on applica tion. COE R E SPON D E \’C E containing important nests solicited from all parts of the county. A DDR ESS all letters, communications and tel egrams, and make all drafts or checks payable to THE COURANT, /. 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 free . THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ml2-lm Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga. A Perfect Light! THE CELKBRATKIJ I 13 I> O I L. The Monarch of Illnminating: Gils. Beautiful! Safe! Reliable! OVER 150 DEGREES FIRE TEST. PERFECTLY PURE! WILL NOT EXPLODE! Made of the Best Selected Crude Petro leum, Expressly for Family Use. Can be Entrusted to the Use of any Mem ber of the Household Without Fear of an Accident. Can he Used in any Kerosene Lamp. Being of Highest Specific Gravity It Burns with a. Pure Wlute and Bril liant Flame, and Does not Smell nor Smoke, nor Crust the Wick. 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