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WAVE IS EAST RECEDING
Southern States Legally “Dry”
Are Very “Moist.”
SALE OF BEER HAS INCREASED
Vigilance Committee of the Brewers Report
That Illicit Distilling Has Increased
Throughout the South.
Washington, D. C.—The vigilance
committee of the United States Brew
ers' Association, who held their an
mial convention here, believes that
the year just ended, marked the
height and the beginning of the re
cession of the _ wave of prohibition,
and so reported.
In Alabama’s repudiation of a pro
hibition amendment to the state's
constitution the brewers see great
hope of the license principle being ap
plied in territories now totally dry
and the committee views with satis
faction the districts which have
swuug out of the dry columns.
A resume of conditions through the
states, presented to the convention by
the committee, charges in effect that
prohibition in many states prohibited
nothing at all.
For Georgia, the committee report
ed: ‘ This state is legally dry but ac
tually as moist as the needs of the
people require.” Under prohibition
illicit distilling has trebled in the
state and the moonshiner now gets
five dollars a gallon for the stuff he
used to sell for a dollar.
In Oklahoma, the committee declar
ed, there were three times as many
arrests and violations since the state
had gone dry as there were when it
was licensed territory.
“Kentucky,” the committee report
ed, “gives unmistakable signs that it
has no use for statewide prohibition,
while Maine, the parent of prohibi
tion, is still going on in the old way,
giving forth no fruits of repentance.’
A condition which the committee de
scribed as alarming was reported as
existing in South Carolina. “Never
has illicit whisky distilling there been
so popular as in the last year,” said
the committee. “Revenue officers'
records show more than 200 illicit dis
tilleries destroyed and more than 200,-
000 gallons of whisky and low wines,
including ‘white licker’ confiscated. In
Greenville county in a month, 31 stills
were confiscated, the report asserts.
While the prohibition movement has
ridden at high tide, the sale of beer
has increased 90,000,000 gallons. In
these ninety million gallons of beer
were nearly 4,000,000 gallons of pure
alcohol.
SUGAR TRUST MEM GUILTY.
Heike and Gerbracht Convicted of
Defrauding the Government.
New York City.—Charles R. Heike,
the white-haired secretary of the
American Sugar Refining Company,
was convicted on one count of an
indictment charging conspiracy to de
fraud the government of customs du
ties on sugar.
Ernest W. Gerbracht, former super
intendent of the Williamsburg (Brook
lyn) refinery, was convicted on all
six counts.
For James F. Bendernagel, former
cashier of the refinery, the jury stood
7 to 5 for acquittal. He will be tried
again.
This ends the government’s second
attempt to imprison the group of men
responsible for the vast under-weigh
ing frauds, to which the so-called trust
has virtually confessed by the restitu
tion of more than $2,000,000 in duty.
Heike is the highest official of the
company upon whom blame has been
fixed and he now faces a possible
sentence of two years in the federal
penitentiary and a fine of $10,000.
POSTAL BANK BILL PASSED.
Government Will Accept Deposits at
Postoffice in Future.
Washington, D. C By the over
whelming vote of one hundred and
ninety-five to one hundred and one
the house passed the postal savings
bank bill. Twenty-four democrats
joined the republicans in voting for
the final passage of the bill.
The measure has already passed
the senate, having been introduced
'here by Senator Carter of Montana.
Agreement between the two houses
in conference will not be difficult.
This legislation is expected to
place in the hands of the government
tor safe keeping or investment in
government bonds several billions of
dollars. As an incident to the safe
keeping of this vast sum it is predict
ed that a central bank will inevitably
be organized; in fact, that one will
be almost imperative.
PRESIDENT SNUBS HARRISON.
Taft Refused to See Democratic Representa
tive From New York.
* “UNFORTUNATE * •
FOR PRESIDENT.” *
* It is of no concern to me that *
* I am not welcome at the white *
* house, but it is of concern to *
* every Amerrcan citizen that a *
* statement of the truth about »
* the president may render it im- *
* possible for a representative to *
* discharge his duties. *
* It Is unfortunate for the pres- *
* ideut that he cannot stand crit- *
* icism; it 1b unfortunate for the *
* country that he cannot stand the *
* truth.—^Representative Harrison. *
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Washington, D. C—President Taft
declined to receive Representative
Francis Burton Harrison, democrat,
of New York who called at the white
HARRISON, OF NEW YORK
He Was Snubbed by the President.
house in company with two other rep
resentatives to introduce a number
of Jewish rabbis who took up with
the president the question of the ex
pulsion of Jews from Russia.
The president received the delega
tion and chatted with its various
members for fifteen minutes or more.
Representative Goldlogle of New
York, acted as spokesman for the
party, •
Mr. Taft based his refusal to see
Mr. Harrison on statements attributed
by newspapers to the representative
in connection woth his resolution in
the house calling upon Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham for full information
as to the connection of his office with
with Bellinger-Pinchot episode. Mi.
Harrison, according to the white
house version of the matter, charged
the president and the attorney gener
al with having wilfully attempted to
mislead congress in the back-datiing
of the attorney general’s summary of
the Glavis charges agaiinst the secre
tary of the interior.
Founder of Tit-Bits Dead.
London, England. — Sir George
Newnes, the founder of the Westmin
ster Gazette, Tit Bits and the Strand
Magazine and the donor of the inter
national chess trophy bearing his
name, died at his home here. Sir
George wa shorn March 13, 1351, aud
as formerly a liberal member of
parliament representing Swansea
Town. He was the son of a Derby
shire clergyman.
Chinese Stop American Boycott.
San Francisco, Cal.—Pending the
result of a final appeal to the federal
authorities for the removal of the
immigration station detention sheds
from Angel Island to this city, the
Chinese, it is said, have decided to
call off the proposed boycott on Amer
ican goods.
Yellow Fever in Ecudor.
Washington, D. C. — Yellow fever
has broken out among the troops of
the Ecuadorean army at Macliala, a
town on the Ecuadorean coast, ac
cording to advices to the state' de
partment from Minister Fox. Ninety-
two cases were reported. They have
been guarding the Ecuadorean-Peru-
vian frontier and were withdrawn in
compliance with the mediation offer
of the United States and Argentina,
to bring about a settlement of the dif
ferences between Peru and Ecuador.
STORM INJURED CROPS.
Wmd ar.dl Riin Storm Played Havoc
With Young Crops in South.
Memphis, Tenn.—Thai crops have
suffered serious injury and property
‘tamaged in the aggregate to the ex
tent of many thousands of dollars, is
indicated as communication is being
gradually restored through the state
of Arkansas and to points in north
ern Mississippi and northern Tennes
see, swept by the most severe storm
recorded in several years. So far two
fatalities have been report.
in Mississippi and Tennessee the
damage was confined mainly to the
beating down of the younger crops
and tiie disarranging of wires. Rail-
toad traffic was greatly hampered
_
Newsy Paragraphs.
The democratic substitute for the
bill of the majority was rejected, one
hundred and thirteen to one hunclreu
and ninety-six. This action followed
an entire session devoted to a debate
upon the subject of postal savings
bank legislation.
George P. Codd, member of the
board of regents of the University
of Michigan is in England for the
purpose of asking Theodore Roose
velt to accept the presidency of the
University of Michigan. It is known
that the university regents have been
split for months over the question ol
a president.
A part of the census bureau’s re
port, now in press, gives the total of
members of all Christian denomina
tions in the United States for 190(1
as 32 936,455, of which Protestant
bodies reported 20,287,742, and the
Catholic church 12,679,142, Of the
Protestants 80 per cent were found
to be outside the principal cities, but
in both city and country the report
shows numerical strength.
DAHLONKGA. GA., FRIDAY, JUNE
1910.
W. B. TOWNSEND, Editor & Proprietor
10 ADHE GEORGIA
Trades Boards Join in Move to
Boost This State.
GREAT MEETING IN ATLANTA
Hall a Hundred Georgia Towns Were Repre
sented at Organization Meeting—Plans
Outlined and Officers Elected.
Atlanta, Ga.—Thoroughly aroused
to tiie fact that the south and par
ticularly Georgia is not receiving the
notice throughout the country to
which her natural resources, her cli
mate and her natural development en
title her, more than 100 men repre
senting more than half a hundred
Georgia towns, met in Atlanta and
inaugurated a movement by which it
is planned to exploit throughout tiie
widtli and breadth of the country the
almost matchless opportunities and
unrivaled attractions which the state
offers, botli to homeseekers and capi
talists.
Preliminary plans for the organiza
tion of a federation of the -commer
cial bodies of Georgia were made, a
president and vice presidents elected,
and provisions made for the appoint
ment of an executive committee which
will, in the immediate future, begin
the work of perfecting tiie permanent
organization. As soon as the organ
ization cau be completed an active
advertising campaign, embracing in
its scope practically every part of the
country, will be inaugurated, with a
view of making known to 4lie world
what Georgia has to offer to the pros
pective home-seeker or capitalist.
The meeting was marked by un
bounded enthusiasm. Many of those
present had traveled a considerable
distance to attend the meeting, and
it was plain that they were thorough
ly in earnest about the matters for
the discussion of which the meeting
had been called. Many of them ban
already had opportunities to see the
vast benefits to be derived from even
a most limited advertising campaign
and, as a result, were eager for more.
Those from towns which have not up
until this time taken any steps look
ing to tiie exploitation of the particu
lar advantages which their own sec
tions offer, seemed also to have
caught the enthusiasm and apparent
ly were seeking to know only the
best method of getting into line.
VV. C. Vereen, president of the Moul
trie Chamber of Commerce, was elect
ed president by a unnanimous vote.
One vice president from each of the
judicial circuits of the state was
elected.
A motion carrying with it the en
dorsement of the body of the bill of
H. A. Alexander of Pulton, which pro
vides that a city or town may spend
any part of its funds for advertising,
was passed. This hill will come up
for its third reading and final action
at the next meeting of the legisla
ture.
Another motion endorsing the work
now being done by the Southern Com
mercial Congress at Washington, D.
C., was adopted, as was one instruct
ing the executive committee to at
tempt to secure from the legislature
permission to carry to Cincinnati the
state mineral exhibit to be used there
during the coming Ohio Valley expo
sition.
The convention also passed a reso
lution to the effect that the members
of the association use their best, ef
forts in behalf of securing for New
Orleans the Panama Exposition in
1915. The work now being done by
the Georgia Conservation Association
was also promised support in a reso
lution adopted.
A number of short talks along the
line of the benefits to be derived from
advertising Georgia’s advantages,
were listened to.
Mayor Maddox of Atlanta made a
talk which was one of the features
of the meeting. He stated that he
recently made a tour through the
northwest and was told that within
the past four years more than 250,-
000 residents of the United States
had moved into Canada because the
farming lands in that portion of the
United States had become so high
that farming was no longer profitable.
Hundreds of these, the speaker said,
might have been brought to Georgia
had the state been advertised as it
might.
Roll call showed that 105 members,
representing 51 Georgia towns and
cities and every section of the state,
were present at the meeting.
MUCH BAD COHN.
Inspector Methvin Condemned 22,000
Bushels in Month of May.
Atlanta, Ga No less than 22,000
bushels of corn were condemned dur
ing the month of May by State Pure
Food Inspector P. A. Methvin, be
cause it was found to he unfit for the
market, and had not been labeled,
“Corn for hogs only,” in accordance
with the pure food law.
This is an indication, states Mr.
Methvin, of the vast amount of corn
being shipped into the state in vio
lation of the law, despite the vigi
lance of the Inspectors. He finds that
frequent attempts are made to evade
and violate the law by “spiking” corn,
which merely is to mix a little good
corn with much bad corn.
At present Mr, Methvin is at work
on a case at Savannah, ad the vio
lators will be prosecuted as soon as
possible. Stock raisers and dairy
men throughout the state are aban
doning corn as a food, it is stated,
on account of the frequent violations.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
The Massachusetts senate refused
by a roll call vote of sixteen to six
teen to pass the bill for a general
tax on all incomes over $2,000, which
had previously passed the house.
I lie latest census of Japan shows
that the population in 1908 numbered
49(681,928. In 1398 the total was
43,763,855. There lias thus been an
increase in the decade of close on
6,000,000.
Governor Noel and other Mississip
pi state officials were much surprised
when no bids were offered on the
$600,000 state bond issue authorized
by the legislature at its session and
which were to have been disposed of
to the highest bidder.
Following an excess in offerings
of stock in all sorts of insurance com
panies tiie Alabama department of
insurance ruled that no company will
he allowed to sell stock in Alabama
until after it is licensed as an insur
ance company; nor will any company
be permitted to do business in Ala
bama until licensed by the insurance
department of its own state.
For the British Radium corporation
a London concern lias constructed a
safe that will be not only burglar
proof, but which is designated to pre
vent the escape of tiie immensely val
uable particles of the rare element,
redium. Emanations from radium
pass readily through the thickest and
hardest steel, hence the Inner coffer
was made of lead three inches thicK
and this is incased in a burglar-
proof steel shell.
A dispatcli received here by the
foreign office says that Mohammed
Abdullah, the Mad Mullah, whose
cruelties have resulted in terrible out
rages in Africa and the sending of
several expeditions against him by
Italy and England, lias been captured
and shot by natives friendly to the
whites. According to tiie dispatch
ho was captured in a light at llardo-
ga, and after his execution his fol
lowers disbanded and are now in
flight pursued by their foes.
It is reported that Commander Rob
ert E. Peary was served on his re
cent visit to Berlin, Germany, with a
writ in a suit for $10,000 brought by
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the rival
claimant to polar honors, on a
charge that Peary appropriated sup
plies belonging to Cook in the arctic
worth that amount. It is said that
Cook intends to bring the action in
the German courts.
Initiation as a sub-port of entry
was given Baton Rouge, ]>a., and the
Mississippi river above New Orleans
became another pathway for ocean
going vessels when the Standard Oil
steamer A. F. Lucas from New York
entered the mouth of the Mississippi
and steamed by Baton Rougo on Its
way up the river. An ocean-going
steamer’s passing by Now Orleans
was an unusual event, but it markeu
the beginning of an era according to
a large delegation of business men
from points up tiie river, who came
to welcome the steamer and its crew.
Washington News.
Speaker Cannon's job is safe for tho
present. The insurgent republicans
in the house practically decided rath
er than try to unseat him they will
use him as a campaign issue next
fall.
The house hill authorizing tiie dis
posal of the surface of coal landB for
agricultural purposes was passed by
the senate. The measure, which is
considered very important, now re
quires only the signature of the pres
ident to make it a law.
The “Culebra slide,” which has
been the cause of much apprehension
on the part of the constructing engin
eers on the Jstlnnus of Panama, has
become more serious than was at
first feared.
All tiie railroads which are affected
by safety appliance laws passed by
congress during the lust year or so
are preparing to ask for extensions
of time in which to comply with the
new regulations.
President Taft nominated William
D. Crum of South Carolina to he min
ister-resident and consul general at
Monrovia, Liberia. Crum is the ne
gro whose appointment by Mr. Roose
velt as collector of the port at Char
leston, S. C., raised such a storm of
protest in the south.
In a comparatively insignificant re
paration case, the interstate com
merce commission made a ruling of
the highest importance to interstate
railways and shippers. It held that
a connecting line receiving a ship
ment without instructions may de
mand instructions from the initial
carrier, but if, instead of pursuing
that course, it assumes responsibility
of routing, it must accent the result
ing liability for any increased charges
that may follow a mistake in selecting
the wrong route. More difficulty Is
experienced by the commission and
by shippers with the misrouting of
freight than with any other com
plaints with, which the commission
has to deal.
The turret mechanism of the new
battleships will be a decided advance
over the turrets hitherto installed on
battleships. Tho naval ordinance of
ficers will shortly arrange for the ac
quisition of the twenty guns of the
new fourteen-inch type which will
form the main batteries of the two
battleships to be authorized at this
session of congress. It has not been
decided how many of these guns will
be built under contract, but it Is prob
able that most of them will be con
structed at the Washington gun fac
tory. With the reduction in the rap
idity of fire in heavy guns, especially
under conditions of the present tar
get practice, it is possible to do away
with some of the mechanical gear.
This means greater security.
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