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THEIII ECONOMIST Official County Organ. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER.. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GEORGIA. ( Pending refereudnm vote. ) FUBLIBHKD KVKHV THURSDAY EVENIN'! JEFFERSON OFFICE: With the Ordinary in the Court House P. W. will represent the fap.r and take subscriptions. SubscriDtion Hates. One Yfab, - - SI.OO All subscribers outside of Jackson eounty will remit through the Nation al Taper club, Atlanta. Ga. See club advertisement in another column A. G. Lamar, Editor. 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.