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THE Ml MIS? Official County Organ. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER. OFFI< lAL organ OK QKORGIa. ( Pending referendum vote ) PUBLISHED KVKUY THUKSDAY KVKNINU JK.FKKKSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court. House P. W. Cjuattlebiium will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription Rates. One Year. - - %1.00 Alt subscribers outside of Jackson county will lc init through the national PAPKK CLUB, Atlanta. Ga. bee club advertisement in another column A. G. Lamar, Editor, Geo. D. Bennett, Bus. Manager. 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. | | I 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