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THEIII ECONOMIST
Official County Organ.
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TIIURSDA /. FERUARY 2, 1899.
Legal Advertising.
All legal ads not settled for will be
dropped after second insertion. Parties
interested will take notice.
There are few people in the
world who are not controlled by
iheir prejudices,
The reform movement is taking
on now life all over the West and
Ihings are looking brighter.
There are a lot of very little
people scattered around over this
universe when yon find them out
i>y personal contact.
When one is successful in life,
it matters very little whether this
luccess is accomplished through
questionable means or not, he has
friends by the score.
Milton Park, of Texas, chair
man of the People’s Party Nation
si Organization Committee is pre
paring an address which will be
igeued in a short while.
One who went into the reform
movement because he believed it
right and for the good of human
ity, and has studied the great fun
damental principles of the move
ment, 6uch a man can never go
hack to either of the two old par
ties. It would be a matter of im
possibility for h m to do so unless
lhe old parties were completely
revolutionized and reorganized,
md there are few intelligent men
in the world who believe this will
<ver be done.
Remember the Economist.
During court at Jefferson next
ireek and the week following, we
trnst every friend and well wisher
f the Economist wmII say a kind
word to some friend who is not a
subscriber and induce him to take
at this year All those who are
behind with us will do a great fa
v?r by paying up and renewing.
We will try and get out a good
readable paper during the year
and beg our triends to stand by us
and help us to largely increase our
circulation.
Leonidas Livingston, the great
demagogue of Ceorgie, is laying
ihe wires for the U. S. senatorship.
Isn’t Clay bad enough, without
Georgia being humiliated by even
fuggestiug the possibility of Jiviug
ston being his colleague?—Tribune
Hard Times.
It is a very common thing to
hear the expression “hard times.”
It is an unthankful expression. In
this country we do not know what
it is to want. The seasons never
tail entirely and if they did
for one year there would
vet remain sufficient food in
the country to last until another
year. It is not so in other lands.
India has just passed through a
groat famine in which large num
bers ot people starved to death
China is now threatened with a
famine which will probably result
in the death of many thousands.
These people live so near death’s
door, the populations are so num
erous, the wages so small, that any
shortage of crops is likely to be the
death of multitudes. Would it
not be well, wheu we become dis
-atisfied with our lot for us to re
member how much better of! we
are as a people than almost any
other nation on the globe, and in
stead of complaining of hard
times, give God the glory that we
never suffer as others do. Con
tentment and thankfulness are
graces which need cultivation.
The above is taken from the
Southern Presbyterian, a leading
religions journal, and demonstrates
the ignorance of church as well as
secular papers as to the cause of
hard times and discontent so prev
alent among the masses, They all
fail to place the blame where it
rightly belongs.
The editor of the Southern
Presbyterian thinks we ought to
be satisfied because we are so much
better off than the people of India
and China, We presume there
are few in this land who are not
grateful for better conditions than
exist in the above heathen coun
tries.
We have a right, however, to
expect better, but the question
that is worrying so many is, that
if things continue to grow worse
as they have been gradually doing
for a number of years, this too,
will be a land of suffering and of
heathens the same as India and
China.
Our law makers are doing all in
their power to bring about this re
sult and are having the support of
the church instead of its condem
nation .
Party lines are stronger and
more binding than duties which
true religion teaches us we owe to
humanity. The brotherhood of
man is lost sight of if it comes
in conflict with party success in a
political contest. The religions
world is afraid to antagonize any
moneyed influence, even when it
sees that influence having legisla
tion enacted to impoverish the
many to increase their millions.
Such evils are in direct conflict
with the teachings of Jesus but are
indorsed by the church of today.
This, in our bumble opinion, is
the great cause of the unequal
distribution of wealth at the pres
ent time and is why an equal op
portunity in the struggle ofjlife is
not permitted. This is not writ
ten in any spirit of reverence
or disrepect to pure and undefiled
religion, which is the salvation to
nations as well as individuals and
the only thing that brings real
happiness.
Contentment and thankfulness
are graces which should be culti
vated, and those who honestly toil
and work should be contented and
thankful when they receive a just
remuneration for their labor, but
if by unjust discrimination and
unjust legislation, they do not get
this, we fail to see how they can
be contented and thankful and
give God the glory for evils
brought on them by the greed and
selfishness of their fellow meu.
The great error of the religious
world is in charging our misfort
unes and calamities to God in
stead of to the devil and our own
folly.
A man eats a quart of chestnuts
and dies with cramp colic. The
preacher who conducts the funeral
services, in all earnestness and
honesty of soul, sadly tells the be
reaved ones that God in his wise
providence has seen fit to call the
dear brother from this world of
sorrow to a brighter one above.
He loses sight of the fact that God
did not call him, but through his
own folly and imprudence the
chestnuts did the calling
A nation is being reduced to
serfdom and heathenism through
greed, averico and corrupt leaders.
The religious world tells those who
are being bio 1 todoath to be co i
tented with their lot as God in
His goodness and mercy is doing
it for their good. They fail to
grasp the truth that it is not the
God of mercy and love who is pro
ducing all this misery and want,
but that it is the agency of the
devil brought about by the wicked
ness and greed of those who con
trol.
The religious world must be
aroused to its duty in this matter
before its mission on earth is ever
accomplished.
Novel Way to Electioneer.
We presume there is scarcely
a man, woman or child in Oconee
county, but knows “ Tobe ” Grif
feth, the tax receiver of that coun
ty for the last twelve or more years.
Tobe is a jovial fellow, always in a
good humor, makes a fine officer,
and is ‘conceded to be the most
handsome man in the county.
But what we started to write
about was the novel way of elec
tioneering adopted by “ Tobe ”
in the last campaign. He took
along his horn-not the kind of horn
candidates generally carry—but a
regular blowing horn, and just as
he would reach a house he would
begin blowing his horn and ail
the inmates would soon be out so
that he could electioneer right at
once without losing any time,
Tobe’s horn and his good looks
carried the county overwhelming
ly for him,
The French population has not
shown the usual falling off for
1898, not because the births have
increased, but because the death
rate has been lower than ordinari
ly. It is well ihat the anticipated
revolution did not occur before the
census was taken. Otherwise the
resuts migbs have been different.—
Ex
DeWitt’s Witch fiazel Salve
Cures Piles. Scalds. Hums.
The question concerning eternal
life is not how little we can achieve:
or do, be aud yet enter in.—The
Occident.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
(he tumour little Dills.
UU SUPERIOR CUT
Issue Docket will be Taken
up Monday Morning and
Criminal Docket Thurs
day Morning,
All parties having business m
court at the February term either
as parties or witnesses, will take
notice that the issue docket will be
taken up Monday immediately af
ter organization of the court, and
cases upon that docket will be in
order until Thursday morning at
8 o’clock, when the criminal docket
will be taken up. Monday of the
second week the criminal docket
will be continued until disposed of
and then the issue docket Will be
concluded, The motion and ap
pearance dockets will be in order
Friday of the second week. Every
case on the issue and criminal
dockets will be set for trial on
Monday, February 6th, and par
ties interested, whether as attor-
ne ?, parties, or witnesses, are re
quired to be in attendance on the
court at promptly 10 o’clock a, m #
on that day,
R. B, Russell,
Judge Western Circuit.
Slavery in Hawaii.
In the face of the fact that the
constitution of the United States
declares that “neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime” “shall exist
within the United States, or any
place subject to their jurisdiction.”
there seems to be no doubt that
slavery does beneath the flag
of this republic in one of its new
possessions in the Pacific. Charles
L. Rhodes, one of the best known
of Chicago’s younger gonereation
of newspaper men, and one of the
most respected, is in Honolulu at
the present time.’ In a letter to
the Chicago Record he describes
the scenes enacted there when
some laborers who had escaped
from the plantations on which
they were employed, were compell
ed to return to their hated masters
and resume the work which had
become to them, under the circum
stances, little better than death
itself' .
Under the laws of the republic
of Hawaii, the contract labor sys
tem in force in the islands might
have been judicially sustained, but
when those islands passed under
the jurisdiction of the United
States aud became amenable to its
constitution, those laws thereby
were nullified. They should no
longer be permitted to exist, and
this government owes it to itself
to at once abrogate them.
Incidentally, it is of interest to
the American agriculturist- who is
just upon the grow
ing of sugarbeets and the manu
facture of beet sugar, to note how
his “competitors” are enabled to
make headway against him. Coolie
labor is bad enough in competi
tion with American labor, even
when free, but under the system
here described it must prove abso
lutely fatal to the hopes of the
American sugar grower.—Farm
ers Voice.
Convicts Work on a Farm.
Gustbrsvuxk, Ala., Jan. 31.—Cap
tain R. X. Bell has brought up 3o con
vict* from Montgomery to work on his
farm This is anew venture with this
class of labor for this section and will
be watched with considerable interest
by the farmer*.
SAYS IT IS A CRIME.
MAYOR JONES ON PRIVATE OWNER
SHIP OF PUBLIC FRANCHISES.
The Few Grow Rich, While the Han,
Softer—Social Sytifem Contrary to
the Spirit of Republican Inatlta.
tlono.
In hia address in Cooper Union,
York, Mayor Samnel M. Jones of To
ledo said:
Private ownership of public franchise*
is a high crime against democracy. It
is contrary to the spirit of republican
institutions. It is a city granting a
privilege to an individual to enrich
himself, usually at the expense of the
classes least able to bear it, the poor
peopla The hard earned nickel of the
washerwoman and the toiler go to
make up the profits of the street rail
way magnates. Let all those who share
this sort of profit understand the source
of their wealth. I want the ladies who
wear diamonds and the men who make
gifts of this kind of money to universi
ties, hospitals, missionary societies and
churches to be made aware of the
source of their revenue.
In granting, in giving or in selling a
franchise of that kind the city becomes
a party to the crime. The social dis
tress in our cities, our states and nation
today can be clearly traced to our dis
honest business methods. It is not cor
rupt politicians that have brought dis
aster so much as corrupt business men.
The methods of business have got
into our politics through every conceiv
able form of bribery and appeal to the
vilest and lowest passions of human
life, with the result that we have a
country in which a few people are
wealthy, a few are in what may be
called circumstances of reasonable com
fort, the masses are on the verge of pov
erty and millions are in absolute pau
perism.
The trust, the combine, the monopo
ly, are all legitimate products of the
same wrong system, and the futile and
abortive effort of our public officials to
get results from laws made to regulate,
restrain and control trusts is a striking
illustration of the folly of our method
of procedure.
We have built up a social system in
which we have assumed that it was pos
sible all might succeed, when the very
success of a few is dependent upon and
can only come from the failure of the
many, and it is because I see that a
suicidal policy of this kind can lead to
nothing but “confusion worse confound
ed’’ that I protest against it.
Through close personal contact with
biting poverty the gr eat mass of the
disinterested are coming to understand
the source of their misery, the cause of
their distress. They are coming to see
that our policy of granting special priv
ileges in the w r ay of public franchises,
contracts and unusual opportunities for
profit getting to a few is inevitably
making paupers of the many, and our
only salvation is to establish the purely
democratic policy in government of
considering the interest of all the peo
ple as always ahead of and superior to
the rights of any individual or set of
individuals.
In my short experience in public life
I have learned two valuable lessons.
One is that public officials are not as
corrupt as they are popularly supposed
to be; the second is that business is the
poison that comes into the life of the
public officials and seeks to corrupt it.
It is to somebody’s business interest
to get a contract; it is to somebody’s
business interest to get a franchise or
extension of one, and the methods of
business are too well known to call for
any comment at my hands.
I know no better way to study the
municipal problem than for us to ad
journ to the city hall, wffiere we will
come face to face with the municipal
problem as every city official in this
city and every large city of our country
sees it day after day. It is the problem
of the unemployed. Scores of hungry
looking men upon whose faces are plain
ly written the lines of hopeless despair.
And what special privilege or grant or
franchise do they ask ? Only the privi
lege that is the inherent right of every
man—the right to work.
When this right is once secured and
the place where man may work is as
easily found as the place where a man
may vote, our problems will be solved,
for this is our municipal problem. It is
our state problem. It is our national
problem.
The Real Reason.
The ratio is the whole silver question.
Why?
Because the bonds of the United
States are payable in “coin” of the
“weight and fineness” existing when
the bonds were issued —i. e., while the
ratio is “16 to 1.” If that ratio is
abandoned, if the ratio be increased or
decreased, then “gold coins” will be
the only “coins” of the “weight and
fineness” existing when the bonds were
issued, and therefore those bonds will
at once become “gold bonds” by virtue
of the fact of the disappearance of the
other coins of the prescribed “weight
and. fineness.”
Then will the gold standard be ac
complishd by indirection rather than
by direct legislation.
The abandonment of the ratio is the
abandonment of bimetallism. —Omaha
N onconf ormist.