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THE Ml MIS?
Official County Organ.
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TUURbDA/. JANUARY 19. 1899.
Legal Advertising.
All legal ads not settled for will be
dropped after second insertion. Parties
interested will take notice.
The Economist prides itself on
giving as much valuable and in
teresting reading matter this year
as any weekly and feels that it
deserves the patronage and support
of its friends.
People are taxed to support a sot
of useless parasites who live at the
expen.e of the people who work
and produce all the wealtn. The
people seem however, to delight in
doing this]
The subject of good roads is re
ceiving increasing attention in va
rious sections of the country but
from the condition of the roads in
tin* larger part of Georgia, and es
pecially Jackson county the sub
ject has been thought very little of
in this state.
Although our exports are greater
than our imports times do not get
nny better with the massess of the
people. We would like for some
Soloman in the two old parties
explain to us the reason why it
does not make times better.
What good does it do to de
nounce monopolies when it is the
fault of the working people that
nionpolies exhist. If they would
not allow themselves to be duped
and would vote for their own in
terest, there would be no mon
opolies.
The Experiment Station of North
Carolina has been investigating
food supplies in that state with a
view of as certainiug the extent to
which adulteration is practiced.
Twenty samples of coffee were ex
amined and seven were found
adulterated. There ought to be
stringent legislation enforced to
protect consumers from these im
positions.
—How can a man come liou
*stlv by a million dollars, when it
is considered that it would take
over eight hundred and thirty
three years with a salary of SIOO
per month to accumulate that
am ut, if not one cent were
epent for board, clothes, shelter or
luxuries? The average earning of
farm laborers in america is about
s2'2o per year; hence, without
spending any of it the laborer
would have to live and toil about
1500 years to acquire a million
dollars. Is it not plain that he who
has a million dollars must have
more than his own and has in
some way got possession of the
namings of many honest toilers?
Want More Liquor.
The board of county commiss
ioners of Clarke county think the
share for the county in the profits
of the Athens dispensary too litt’e
and Mayor Smith thinks that
Athens can spare no more of the
liquor. The law provides that
each year the dispensary oommiss
ioners make a report of the busi
ness of the preceding year to the
mayor and council of Athens, and
that as soon thereafter as practi
cable the profits for the year he
divided between the city and the
county according to an agreement
between the Mayor of Athens and
the Ordinary of Clarke county.
This year, the county having com
missioners, they and the mayor
will make the division, Hereto
fore the city has been receiving
fivo-sixtliß and the county one
sixth, and the commissioners seem
to think the Athens aristocracy
are not entitled to 5 drinks to 1
drink for those in the country.
Afraid of Public Sentiment
Truth is mighty, and the only
trouble is that people will not seek
and accept it. The world is filled
with cowards who have not the
nerve and moral courage to oppose
public sentiment, however false
and rotten and full of deceit pub
lic sentiment may be. How many
men who read this have the man
hood and moral courage to advo
cate any cause they believe just if,
a false and corrupt public senti
ment opposes it? This thought
suggests, :tswlf to our mind from
the following paragraph taken
from Progressive Thought
and Dawn of Equity, of Olathe,
Kansas:
To live here in America is a
hard row to hoe for a a progress
ive reformer. Most people are
afraid to associate with him or
help put into practice anv of his
ideas, for fear of public sentiment
It seems we are just civilized en
ough to ridicule facts which would
benefit us most if put into effect
ive operation. Most of us would
prefer to be m a crowu of fools
than to associate with a few sensi
ble folks. The presure of progress
is too hard to bar, and so we con
tinue in the old rut while civiliza
tion sleeps another generation be
fore the masses can get the benefit
of good ideas which the advance
thinkers might have introduced to
them long ago,
LET THE PEOPLE
SPEAK.
How nicely the initiative and re
ferendum would tit in now that
the question of imperialism is
about to be decided before the
people have an opportunity of
voting on the question. Very
truthfully does Harper’s Weekly
say:
“The right to judge and determ
ine upon a proposition to change
the very character of the republic
ought not to he denied to the peo
ple, if there is any significance or
any reality at all in popular gov
ernment.
“Moreoer, whether expansion
will be beneficial qr injurious to us,
it in volves a very wide departure
from the traditional principles of
I the republic and a change in our
! form of government, including
! radical amendments of the (Jonsti
| tutiou. Even the expansionists
I themselves frankly admit that the
uew colonies must he governed
outside of the Constitution, and
| that the restraints imposed upon
j Congress for t lie protection of the
rights and liberties of our citizens
i will not apply to the people of the
new colonies.
“A subject of this importance is
essentially one for the consideati on
and decision of the people, becauee
it is constitutional in its nature.
There are certain subjects on which
the politicians ought always to
seek the man date of the people,
and this is one of them.” Ex
riartin Institute
There are many pleasant recol
tections to us connectd with t K e
above institution, because these
recollections carry us back to our
young days when life to us was
filled more witu brightness and
less with disappointments. Under
the tutorship of Profs. Glenn and
Orr most of our school days were
spent at Martin Institute. Situated
in the quiet litte town of Jefferson,
with an endowment of $16,000, it
possesses many advantages over
most schools. It is always a
source of much pleasure to us to
know of its projperity, and below
we quote from the Herald some
thing of its bright prospects for
this year:
Bright Are Its Prospects.
The prospects of a large attendance
of pupils at Martin Institute are better
this year than they have been for sev
eral years.
Besides having a most excellent
corpse of teachers, a fine budding, etc.,
President Neal has issued * a pro
clamation that tuition for the spring
term will be free to all pupils pursuing
public school studies.
This free tuition is m ide possible by
the endowment fund of Martin Instit
ute. The trustees withdrew this fund
from the school last year, on account of
some of the bonds becoming due but
this year a part of the fund will be re
stored to the school and Prof. Neal is
thereby iuabled to make tuition free to
public school pupiis.
Free tuition ought to cause a large in
flux of children into the schocl at th 0
spring term. Very few schools are offer
mg the advantages of Martin Institute
and the people we believe will avail
themselves of these advantages
School opened Monday morning with
6 > pupils aid closed Friday afternoon
with , which shows that the people
are appreciating the opportunities off
erad at Martin Institute by sending in
their children the first week.
Prof. Neal has bae n untiring in his
efforts to build ap a large school at Mar
tin Institute. From the time he was first
e ected until now, he has not allowed
an occasion to pass to say a word for
Martin Institute but what be has done
so. He, has visited a large number of
other schools in the county, and has
been to the homes of in my a parent.
He has talked, has worked and prayed
for Martin Institute, and now to cap
the climax makes tuition free. Surely
he will meet with that encouragement
which he deserves. Confident are we
that his lab >rs will not be in vain, bat
that they wiil be crowned With the very
highest degree of success, and that
when commencement time comes the
whole surrounding county will applaud
the efforts of the present principle for
efficient work and for having the
largest attendance Martin Institute
ever enjoyed.
Duty and to day are ours; results
and futurity belong to God. — Hor
are Greeley.
A member of the Montana Leg
islature recently testified before
the investigating committee that
in the Senatorial contest between
Clark and Daly, he had been ap
proached by Clark’s managers and
that $30,00(1 to purchase votes was
placed in a sealed package. Iu
proof the package was placed on
the Speaker’s desk, and when open
ed was found to contain thirty
$1 000 bills.
Some very interesting changes
are taking place in the political
world. Carnegie, the plutocrat,
and l.)r. Parkhust, the puritan, are
together in opposition to imperial
ism; Mr, Bryan, the silver demo
crat and Mr. Cleveiaud, the gold
bug mugwump, are sleeping in the
same bed aud bitterly opposing
the expansion doctrine of Presi
dent McKinley and Gen. Wheeler.
The old saying that, “politics
make strange bedfellows” is being
verified to the satis faction of even
those who doubted its truthful
ness.
DeWitt’s Witch iJas-! EaSve
Cures Pilci, Scalds, Burns.
flarch on to Victory in
1900.
From our corespondent at Candler, Ga.
Th 9 nineteenth century will soon be
numbered with the past; then another
chapter will have been added to times
great volume.
When we contemplate the triumphs
and failures of the present century, we
are made to wonder what the close of
the twentieth will bring. Will the si
lence of its dying hours be broken by
thundering cannon and tne clamor of
the toiling millions, or will peace and
prosperity have spread their wings over
the world?
'’’he arts are the glory as well as the
making of onr civilization.
The achievements of the scientist be
wilders the learned; and-it seems that
he will be able to instill that God given
principle, life, into his productions.
The schuirrs of the present time a.a
searching for that which belongs only
to the infinite mind, and he scales the
ladder step by step; how far he is to
reach is unknown to mortal minds.
He has dug deep into mother earth
and brougat forth, ner hidden secrets;
he scales the firmament and brings to
us the theory of tne mecuauicism of the
Stella regions, and he may jet find out
in the far off regions of endless space
still greater sans than Siricuse, Rogu
lus etc. whose brilliancy drown our lit
tle sou as the dazzling light of day does
the smoldering blaze of some wandering
hunter,” such are his possibilities.
Many writers have won the wreath of
the world’s praise by giving to future
generations the productions of their ge
nius.
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The inventive skill of tile world has
filled the factory, field and shop with
labor saving m ichinery; that is detri
mental to the laborer in many respects.
Tnen surrounded with such condi
tions; with all that civilization affords,
viz: churches, schools, agricnltural and
commercial advantages, why should
these exist, in the United States, a
young nation with bouudless territory
and unlimited resources, with an indus
trious people, with splendid cities rumb
ling with the wneels of commerce, so
much confusion, ignorance, poverty and
crime?
It is known by all intelligent people
that a crisis is upon us and it does not
lie altogether in the Cuban nor the
Pnillippine question, but it is nearer
home.
Tho people of the United States are
sunounded by conditions more alarm
ing than at any time in their history.
True enough the nations of the world
recognize us as having a powerful navy.
True enough our soldiers were the
victors in the contest w’th Spain, and
some are marching home with flying
colors and victorious drum beat; but
does the prosperity aud happiness of
our people depend bpon the army and
jhe navy?
Sectional strife has been kept up be
tween the south and the other sections
for thirty years, and now the South and
West lie helplessly in th 9 grasp of con
ceutinted capital; save the ballot they
are entirely helpless, and thousands
through ignorance and prejudice cast
their ballots against home, country aud
themselves,
We should be proud of being of south
ern descendants, and proud of belong
iug to that section which was the south
ern confederacy for which southern he
roes fought, bled aud died so bravely;
aud glad to do honor to the memory of
the South’s noble dead; but let us have
no more of the bitter hatred that has
proven so detrimental to the South and
West one at the same time so advant
ageous to the politician. It yet remains
for these section to free themselves
from industrial slavery,
The monsters of centralized wealth
are sapping the life blood of our fair
south-land, where povery is not a crime
but under present conditions a necessity
There are crimes committed aud so
much corruption practiced that our in
stitutions are threatened with utter de
struction.
Truth aud houor are no longer looked
upon as an essential qualification of our
highest officials.
Crimes nave been committed iu Geor
gia iu the interest of scoundrels, that
snould cause everv honest man to blush
witu shame, and yet our leading church
members encourage these outrages.
Since men reap that wliicu they sow,
what will the harvest be?
Our present financial system is so ma
nipulated by the money power that the
laboring masses are being driven to iu
dustrial slavery.
Men who become extremely poor
soon lose their ambition, hope,' aud
many times their self-respect, thus they
drift further down the decline of hu
man disappointment, aud their children
grew up poor, iguoraut aud_ despised
and have no regard for church ni
It is not difficult to see that this
dition is rapidly increasing
farming class of people are
out by the loan companies. Tu
see the field of ignorance and sq-,
tion widen as the other opportm
vanish like the summer cloud
where is the hope for the Anw
people? In the purification 0
church and the reformation of
government.
Shall we look to either of the oil
ties for this reformation? No, f or
ty years they have robbed you 0 f
labor directly or indirectly. So j
main 9 for the Populist party t,
control of the government and j
onward to a higher and a grander*
izarion. If there is to be no chi
despotism will settle down upon a
the fall of night aud seal our eti
doom. Then shall the Populistsreti
the old parties? No! No! Never!
Make truth the guide aud it will
vail some time, though it may be
centuries after our republic has bet
lomoedwith the dead empires 0
past, then she will wander into j
ed temples, but still there’ll be 01
lift the veil. ''hen, like ike Fi
shepherd girl with adetermiuutioi
knows not defeat, march om
Though you fall out and pass iuto
uity there will be two to take cm
and march on to victory in niaj
hundred. J,
A Government Telegraph,
Congressman Corliss of Miehigi
introduced in the house a bill fi
laying of a telegraph cable from
point on the Pacific coast of the U
States to Hawaii and thence t
Philippines and Japan. Mr. Corl
is understood, has long favored aj
telegraph for onr own country
therefore this wise and busint
move on his part will be no surpri
As was pointed out in these col
months since a coterie of capitalis
obtained from the local Hawaiiai
eminent certain concessions for tb
ing of cables, subject to the apprc
the American secretary of state
hope that this approval has n<J
and will not be granted. The s
contemplates a sufficient subsidy
this government to maintain and
ate the line. No proposition of s
nature should be entertained at
time. The country has the bem
one experience of that kind all
The first telegraph line in the*
was built under a congressional u
priation. In less than three yearsi
surrendered to a private corpoi
The blunder was a most costly o
the people, for they have had to pi
an inferior service hundreds of mi
of dollars more than it would havi
if the telegraph had remained
public control, besides building a
of the most rapacious monopolif
country is cursed with.
For more than a third of aca
there lias been an incessant denial
a restoration of the telegraph t
postal service. Therefore this mo
Mr. Corliss is in the right directioi
we pledge him the support of onr
in making it a complete sued
Knights of Labor Journal.
(Combinations and Trusts.
If you inquire carefully you wJ
cover that you can scarcely inakei
chase in which the price is not did
by a combination over which the:
chant you deal with has no col
Nor does the process stop here,
very newspapers, upon whose indep
ence and honesty the people depet
their instruction on public affairs,
combined, primarily to cheapet
cost of collecting the news, intoagj
tic news trust, called the Asstf
Press, which, controlled by a fe ff
at Chicago, has been able to disW 1
truth in many prominent instant
to poison with such distortion the
fountain of popular information."
ernor Pingree.
Killed und Wounded.
The total killed in the army £
the late war was 280. The total
ed was 1,577. In the navy the*
killed was 18; wounded, 67.
More men were killed and v OS
in 30 minutes during the battle and
tysburg than were killed and
in both army and navy dnrin?
Spanish war.
And yet it furnished “glory" &
to make several governors, any Dl ?
of congressmen and a whole j°b
“generals” and “colonels,' M
nothing of replenishing the I 5 “.
tnite a number of contractors"
jn ’s Monthly.
The Ln-vv Must ne Upl* ,d '
When John D. Rockefeller was?
ed by the courts of Ohio to brim-' f
books of his company, he took
and built a bonfire of them (
not the courts). John is still
We are glad, however, t< elm >n l( j
fact that a girl bicyclist who wa !
guilty of “scorching” in that ■
fined $lO for same and sent
20 days because she had not ‘
to pay the fine. Outraged ; j
that act has been pacified.
Weekly. . j