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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 * Daily. TDailyYSxcept Sun. Nos. 403 and 402. “The Atlanta Special,” Solid Vestibuled Train of Pullman Sleepers and Coaches between Washington and Atlanta, also Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and Ches ter, S. C. Nos. 41 and 3a— “The S. A. L. Ex press,” Solid Train Coaches, aud Pull man Sleepers between Portsmouth and Atlanta. Company Sleepers between Columbia and Atlanta. 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Honey to Lend, We have made arrangements with brokers in New York City throngh whom we are able to place loans on improved farms for five years time, payable in installments. If you want cheap inouey come in and see ns at oncej Shackelford & Cos 100 Broad St., Athens, Ga. Lodge No 333, (Winder) Officers —N. J. Kelly, W. M.; J. 11. Jackson. S. W.; W. L, DeL iPerriore, J. W.; J H. Kil gore, Sec’ty. Meets every 2d Friday evening at 7 o’clock J. T. Strange, N.G.; C, M. Ferguson, V. G.; J. H. Smith, Treasurer; A. D. MoCurry, Secretary. Meets every Ist and 3d Monday nights. RUSSELL LODGE No. 99. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Meets every Ist. aud 3d. Thursday e vening in each month. W. H. Toole, C. C.; B. T. Camp, V. C.; W. K. Lyle. K. of R. and M. of F,; D. H. Hutchins, Prelate; L. C. Russell, M. of E.; A. D. MoCurry. M. A.; J. J. Smith, M. W.; O. L. Dabney, I. G ; R. A. Black, O. G. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets every 4th Monday night. J. T. Strange, R.; J. H, Sikes, V. R.; J. J Kilgore, Secretary. (COLORED). WINDER ENTERPRISE LODGE, No. 4282. G. U. 0.0f0.F. Meets every Ist aud 3d Friday night in each month. Dudley George, N. G.; G. W. Moore V. G.; L. H. Hinton, Secretary. Honey to Loan. We now have plenty of money to, loan on improved farm property in Jackson and Banks Terms and interest liberal. Call and see us. Dunlap & Pickkell, Gainesville, Ga. Sept 12th, 1898 Crichton . r 4 S “ lth ! . . The Complete Business Course, Total Oost, t$5.W. “AoCoai Mim from start to finish.” Most thorough fSSSSmSmSZim. >—!■. **=*■•*. Oat free-