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CAPITALISTIC anarchists.
They Openly ami Brazenly Defy the
Courts and tlie Law.
In the argument of the case of the
ttate of Ohio versus the Standard Oil
company, before the Ohio supreme
court recently. Virgil P. Kline, the at
torney for the defendants, openly defied
the court and brazenly refused to com
ply with the court’s order to produce
certain account books of the company.
Commenting upon this matter The
Advance Guard of Findlay, 0., very
forcibly and pointedly says: Thus has
the rash, red hand of corporate anarchy
removed the mask fi'om its own face
and stands, with expanded chest and
gleaming eye, a mighty gladiator of
gluttonous greed, defying the state, its
Kipreme court, its attorney general and
its people.
And what are you going to do about
it. dear people ?
This giant of w r ealtli, w hom the peo
ple have fostered and fed and foisted in
the past by special privileges; to whose
c r ow’tli the unthinking and unwary
have pointed—aye, even with pride, as
though upon its success depended one
of tlie greatest industries of our state ;
wluse agents and paid attorneys the
people have elected to the general as
sembly and other high offices of the
state; this once “infant industry’’ that
was petted, pampered and permitted
until it has become a veritable Her
cules, now burls defiance in the teeth
of the highest tribunal of the state,
proclaims itself greater than the people
who have permitted themselves to be
robbed to add to its greatness and pow.-
er, sets its foot hard down and pro
claims to the world that it is an anar
chist and an outlaw.
There is a limit to endurance, even
to the endurance of the mentally blind
who suffer, but see not, and that limit
has been reached in the case of this
monster of money.
The time for action can no longer be
delayed unless the people are willing to
lie down and quietly permit themselves
to become mere vassals to intrenched
wealth power and the last semblance of
liberty, law and order to disappear for
ever from the state.
The capitalistic anarchists are the
only anarchists in this country whom
the people need be in dread of, and they
must be summarily and severely dealt
with.
For years reformers have pointed
with alarm to this power that has been
stealthily, unconsciously bnt surely
fastening itself upon our republic like a
barnacle to a ship’s bottom, and those of
ns who have dared to raise our voice
against it have ourselves been declared
the anarchists by the thoughtless clack
ers who allow 7 the editors of the subsi
dized press—the tools of these wealth
anarchists—to do their thinking for
them. But at last the jig is up. The
real anarchists, emboldened by years of
unchecked success, feeling secure be
hind tlieir barbicans of gold, have bold
ly shown their hand and declared their
true character.
They have thrown dcw 7 n the gauntlet
to the supreme court. If that court
shows any disposition to timidity in
taking it up, let public sentiment assert
itself on the side of the enforcement of
law and order and demand the uncere
monious arrest of the officers of the
Standard Oil company for contempt of
court and defiance of law 7 .
Let escape no anarchist.
Let him be clothed in rags or broad
cloth.
Be his name Herr Most or John D.
Rockefeller.
Await the Issue.
We have seldom found ourselves in
agreement with The Sun on any ques
tion, but we heartily concur in and ap
plaud its statement that “the gold
standard is established as firmly as it
ever possibly can he among people liv
ing under a republican government.”
II the goldbugs and their allies suc
ceed m forcing the Republican party
into legislating out of existence the
greenback, every lover of bis country
&nd Lind, re-enforced by all who sup
ported the Chicago platform of 1896,
'Lll gladly await the issue thus pre
sided to the people with supreme con
fidence in the verdict that will surely
be rendered.—Knights of Labor Jour
nal.
The Income Tax.
The special war taxes are still
with us—aud the small man fiuan
!ially pays them all. Some of
•heeedays an income tax will be
through congress again, And
the supreme court won’t go to sleep
[JIi rt and dream that it is uncou*
Litutional. Had just one justice
1 changed the focus of his great
“ lid during the interval of a night,
1 I the expenses of this war would
!, ' ve been provided for by a just
u >d Suitable income tax and the
1 *en would have rested where it
ihould be borne, instead of falling
IpOD the shoulders of those who
WBT * lea9 * able to bear it.—Star
lrj a Kansan.
USEFUL EDUCATION.
LET OUR CHILDREN BE INSTRUCTED
IN CITIZENSHIP.
Thla Muat Be Done If We Are Eve*
<o Have a People’s Government.
Evils That Can Be Removed If They
Are Fully Comprehended.
The work of this century has been
chiefly the subjugation and utilization
of the physical forces and the produc
tion of material wealth. In this re
spect, however, it has surpassed the
W’ildest dreams of Aladdin and eclipsed
the wonders of his magic lamp. But
material wealth is not always the great
est good—certainly it is not the only
good. Under some circumstances it may
be a curse. The wild dissipation and
debauchery during the latter days of
Rome were made possible by the con
centration of great wealth in few
hands, while the Icelander is frugal, in
dustrious and virtuous in his poverty.
Great material wealth may be a bless
ing or a curse according to its distribu
tion, yet this is seldom referred to by
our writers or speakers. The tremen
dous increase in our national wealth is
glowingly portrayed by the grandilo
quent style cf oratory, but never a
word about distribution. The fact that
1 per cent of our population own 99 per
cent of the wealth of the United States
does not seem to disturb or concern
these shallow orators. Every SIOO earned
in this country is distributed among
800 people as follows: One man gets
S7O, the remaining S3O being divided
among the remaining 299 persons—a
fraction over 10 cents each if equally
divided. This startling fact seems to be
entirely lost sight of by the editorial
writers on our great dailies.
The extension of popular education
has been one of the most distinguished
achievements of the nineteenth century,
particularly in this country. Regarding
this I wish to say a few words. The
three r’s, “readin, ritin and rith
metic, ” were formerly considered the
essentials of an education, and they
were considered quite sufficient for the
average man. But we now very plainly
see that what were considered essentials
are not an education, but the means by
which an education may be acquired.
One who can read, but does not read, is
scarcely better off than one who cannot
read. Our educators have been very en
terprising and progressive (as they have
thought) and have led their pupils—
children of the masses, in our public
schools —into fields of study heretofore
entered only by specialists. Geology,
botany, zoology, psychology, mythology,
etc., are a few of the many burdens
prematurely loaded on our innocent and
misguided youth, while the actual world
of industry going on around us constant
ly is untouched. The study of nature is
always interesting and ennobling, and I
would not decry it in the least; but the
question of relative importance is what
I wish to call attention to. To make my
meaning clear, suppose we take two
classes. We will designate them as A
and B.
Class A begins the study of geology
(one of the most interesting and delight
ful of the sciences) and receives didac
tic instruction until the early spring
days will permit expeditions over the
hills and through ravines, hammer in
hand. Every stratum that crops out on
a hillside is examined and placed in its
proper place in the wonderful scheme of
earth building which has been going on
for so many ages.
Class B begins on the same day to
study what man has put beneath the
surface of the earth in and about Phila
delphia instead of what nature put
there ages ago. First, the drainage sys
tem is ta-ught didactically, and the im
portance of proper and successful drain
age on the health and well being of the
community. Then they are taken to
wherever any part of the sewer system
can be seen, and also where new sewers
are in process of construction, and all
is explained to them. Then the water
system is taken up for study. The reser
voirs, the engines and pumps, the dis
tributing system to the traps and waste
pipes, all are studied from books and
diagrams, then by visits to and actual
examination of the various parts as far
as possible. Then the gasworks and dis
tributing system are taken up, tracing
the process from the retort to the hold
er, then to the burning jet in the aver
age home. Next the electric systems for
both lighting and power are taken up in
the same way, and thoroughly studied
and understood. What could be more
interesting than a course like this?
Now, to which class would you rath
er have your son belong, Aor B? Which
class would produce the best men and
best citizens? Civic life is necessarily
more complicated in large cities than in
small towns and in rural districts. But
if the conveniences of large cities were
more properly studied and understood,
ways could easily be found to apply
many of them economically to even the
smallest places. Classes in small places
where there is none of the above men
tioned local public services to study
could take up the telegraph system of
the country, the postal system, the
transportation system, etc., and study
these things with great edification and
profit.
Every boy will be a citizen (aud in
some states the girls also), but every
boy will not be a scientist or a pro
fessor of dead languages or the higher
mathematics. Then islt not rational to
educate every boy for citizenship rather
than to give him a smattering of many
things that he will never use ?
In the days when even the most ad
vanced nations w 7 ere ruled by “the di
vine right of kings” the object of the
one or at most a few master minds who
really governed was to keep the nobility
amused and the masses enslaved. In
this country “education” has run riot
among impracticable things and left
citizenship, our most precious jewel,
our “possession beyond compare,” our
greatest duty and responsibility, to take
care of itself.
The above is an arraignment not only
of our educators, but of ourselves as
well. Our educators do what we want
them to do, and we are responsible for
the above mentioned state of things.
When will we know better and insist
upon our youth being educated for citi
zenship.
A rejoinder might be made by in
stancing our numerous and rapidly
multiplying manual training schools.
Yes, this is good, practical work, but
there is no citizenship in it. That pre
pares them only for private pursuits.
In this country of government “of, by
and for the people” there are large and
ever growing dirties which the average
citizen never makes any preparation for,
ever growing because government is no
longer limited to police duties, hut it
serves the people in an ever increasing
number of ways. For example, the tele
graph must soon become a public service
in this country as it is in all other civil
ized countries except Honduras and
Bolivia. So with many other public
utilities that we are now allowing to be
conducted by private parties for private
profit.
It seems that there is a “forbidden”
nook in our scheme of education as now
pursued, or is it indifference on the part
of all—pupils,- teachers and people? It
is the matter of costs and profits. Tho
cost of carrying a street car passenger
in any of our large cities is a little less
than 2 cents, yet the people go along
paying 6 cent fares as though it was
right. To make matters look right the
street car companies water their stock
in proportion, and there is no protest
from the indifferent and thoughtless
public. The same is true regarding the
cost of telegraph service, telephone
service, railroad service, etc. If our
youth were educated in these things,
citizenship would mean much more
than it now does, and our country
would be vastly improved as a conse
quence. —Medical World.
New Era of Prosperity.
Men, women and children have died
of starvation and cold during the past
week, and the bitter cries of distress
come from all the cities in the land.
Wherever aid is given to the wretched
victims of barbarous capitalism hun
dreds of starving, shivering mortals
stand in line waiting for the driblets
from public treasury or private purse.
The Chicago papers tell of families of
five living on $1.25 a week, earned by
the mother, the father being unable
find work. Fifteen hundred men
lodged and fed in the jails in one night.
The police and charity people are busy
day and night trying to relieve the dis
tress of the people. At St. Louis 407
homeless men were given shelter and
food in the jails Monday night, and the
calls for relief are unprecedented. These
are only a few straws showing the
awful condition of the social outcasts.
The poor, the poor, the poor, they stand
Wedgod by the pressing of time's hand
Against an inward opening door!
In addition thousands of families in
Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston,
New York, everywhere where the blight
of greed and the heartless trumpery of
a “new era of prosperity” hold direful
sway, are living from hand to month or
plunged in despair in contemplating
tho menacing woes of want because of
the uncertainty of making a living.—■
Social Democratic Herald.
Talk of a Farmers’ Party.
A dispatch from Avon, Ills., says:
The conference of delegates from tha
farmers’ organisation in Fulton, War
ren and McDono.igh counties has de
clared for the holding of a national con
vention to ferm the National Farmers’
party. A committee was appointed to
begin preparations. Representatives
will be appointed all throngh the Unit
ed States. It is planned to hold the con
vention not later than the first week in
March, Chicago being favored as tbs
convention place.
Eldon W. Bradbury, who has been
engaged in the work of organization,
read this declaration of principles,
which was adopted without dissent:
We hold that all men are created equal and
are endowed by their Creator with certain in
alienable rights; that it is to preserve these
rights that governments are instituted among
men, deriving their Just powers from the con
sent of the governed, and that whenever a
government becomes destructive of these ends
it is the duty of the people to alter or to abol
ish it and to adopt such measures as will in
jure their rights.
We hold that the rule of minority classes it
contrary to the spirit of our institutions and
destructive to our rights.
Prepared.
“Aren’t you afraid with so many
highwaymen abont, Mr. Softleigh, that
somebody will demand yonr money or
your brains?”
“I —I am always quite prepared, Miss
Maud, don’t you knew. I nevah carry
l anything of the slightest value with
me.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
—To —
ATLANTA, CHARLOTTE, AU
GUSTA, ATHENS, WILMING
TON, NEW ORLEANS,
CHATTANOOGA, (NASHVILLE
AND
NEW YORK, BOSTON,
PHILADELPHIA,
RICHMOND, WASHINGTON,
Norfolk, Portsmouth.
Schedule in Effect Dec. n, 1898.
SOUTHBOUND.
No. 403. No. 41.
Lv. Now York *ll 00am *9 00pm
“ Washington 4 40pm 4 30am
' * Richmond 9 00pm 9 05am
“ Porrsmoutk *8 45pm *9 20aur
Ar. Weldon 11 10pm 1150.un
Ar. Hander sou *l2 57 am *1 60pm
Ar. Raleigh *2 16am *3 34pm
“ Southern Pines 4 23am 5 58pm
“ Hamlett 5 07am 6 53pm
“ Wilmington *l2 05 pm
“Monroe, 6 43am 9 12pm
Ar. Charlotte *7 50atn *lO 25pm
Ar. Chester *8 08am *lO 60pm
“ Greenwood 10 35am 1 07am
“ Athens 1 13pm 343 am
Lv. Winder 2 08pm 4 28am
Ar Atlanta (C. TANARUS.) 3 dOpm 6 20am
SOUTHBOUND.
0.35.
Ar. Athens • 8 o 5 am
Lv. Winder 8 46 am
Ar. Atlanta 10 40 am
NORTHBOUND.”
No. 403. No. 38
Lv. Atlanta (C. TANARUS.) *1 OUprn *8 50pm
“Winder 2 36pm 10 40pm
Ar. Athens 316 pm 11 19pm
“ Greenwood 5 41pm 2 03am
“Chester 7 53pm 4 25am
Ar. Monroe 9 30pm 5 soam
Ar Charlotte *lO 25pm *7 50am
Hamlet *ll Ispin *7 45ain
Ar. Wilmington, *l2 05pm
Ar. Soutnern Pines 13 08am *9 00am
“ Raleigh 2 10am 11 18am
Ar. Henderson, 328 am 12 50pm
Ar. Weldon 4 55am 2 50pm
Ar. Portsmouth 7 25am 5 20pm
Richmond *8 45am 7 12pm
“ Wash’ton P.R. R. 12 31pm 11 10pm
“ NewYork “ 6 23pm 6 53am
NORTHBOUND.
No. 34.
Lv. Atlanta 5 30 pm
Lv. Winder 7 *5 pm
Ar. Athens 8 05 pm
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L C. RUSSELL. K. C. ARMISTKAD,
RUSSELL & ARMISTEAD,
Attorneys at Law.
Winder, Ga. Jefferson. Ga.
W. H. QUARTERMAN,
;Attornkyat Law,
Winder, Ga
Prompt attention given to I*l legal
matters. Insurance and .Real Estate
igent.
JOHN H. SIKES,
(Attorney at Law.
Winder, Ga.
Office over Harness factory.
J. A. B. MAHAFFEY,
Attorney at Law,
Jefferson, Ga
Silman’s old office.
Winder Furniture Cos.
UNDERTAKERS AND—
—FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
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WINDER, GEORGIA.
A. HAMILTON,
Undertaker and Funeral
Director,
Winder,
EMBALMING
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and attendance free. Ware rooms, cor
ner Broad & Candler sts.
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DENTAL PARLORS,
In the J. C- DeLaPerriere building,
over Winder Furniture Cos. Call and
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whom we are able to place loans on
improved farms for five years time,
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cheap inouey come in and see ns at
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100 Broad St., Athens, Ga.
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V. G.; J. H. Smith, Treasurer; A. D.
MoCurry, Secretary. Meets every Ist
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