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The Gospel of Peace.
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pen and the glut of the ‘labor mar*
ket is relieved. Instead of labor
leaving the country and going to
town to find emplopment, the re
verso would be true. lake the
surplus laborers away roni the cit
and manufacturing centers, and
wages for that remained would rise
—for only a given amount of labor
will be used, no matter if there be
half a dozvii application for each
place. Let five of them loavj and
the remaining one can then force
his employer to pay him living
wages. His better pay enables him
to purchase more things to satisfy
the wants of himself and family.
When he purchases these things
the farmer will be the seller, and
be benefited in turn.
“No one will be wronged and no
one w ill suffer, except the one who
has lost his privilege of robbing
his fellow man.
“Thus can conditions be so
changed that labor may live in con
tentment and peaco, reaping where
it sows, and dwelling beneath its
own self provided shelter in the
full enjoyment of the sweets of in
dependence.
Brother Gasche, in (he forego
ing, tells us how far land reforn
will go toward solving the present
industrial evils.
We all know how injurious to the
well beingof the nation is the rule
of the trust, is the money
trust.
Rockefeller makes $3,000,000 in
one day on one transaction on wall
street. To do so, he mortgage in
advance the labor of 3,000,000 men
for one day. Three million men
must work one dav for nothing
that Rockefeller may be the gainer
thereby by $3,000,000. And
whence is Mr. Rockerfeller’s pow
er to do this derived? Through th i
ownership of the natural monop
oly ; and it is the mission of the
People’s party to undermine Mr.
Rockerfoller’s power to extortion
by distroying his monopoly.
Is the game worth the effort?
if you believe it is, you will pro
ceed at once to organize your forces
for the coming great strug
gle.
On tho outcome of that strug
gle depends the future of ihe
race.
The signs are muliiplying that it
will be a struggle to death. The
rule of a despotism is as relentless
as it is ruthless and unscrupulous,
and tho foe we must meet is a des
potism of privileged wealth.
Nor will the struggle be confined
to one section of the country
alone. From the four quarters of
the earth come the rumblings of
discontent. Nearer and nearer
tb.ey come, and mingled with the
sound is heard the heavy tramp,
tramp of the army of the oppress
ed on its way to Btorm the citadel
of wealth.
But many of that army will fa'l
before the fire of the enemy ere it
reaches its goal, while the rest will
march over the bodies of the hire
lings of wealth to plant again the
banner of liberty on the battle
ments of the oppressor.
It is ever thus with revolutions;
and wealth and privilege were ever
blind to logic and rea
son.
If the greater danger which
threatens the peace of the world
can be overturned and the struggle
made a bloodless cup, the Mercury
will hail the change with delight,
and its prayer will be: So be
it.
But there is a limit in the endur
ance of great goveumental abuses
as there is to the power of oppress
ion when pitted against the
strength of an outraged peo
pie.
Let the watchword be Onward;
And let it repeat from post to post,
untill the cry has circled the earth,
and peace—peace for the masses—
has once more been declared at
Warsaw.
The Law of Selfish
ness.
The greater part of the “cussed
ness” in this world of ours has
grown up from the fruitfull soil
of selfishness. The germ might
have been in the heart of the first
man, but it has grown to be an eu
o rmous tree that casts its shadow
into every nook and corner of our
lives. Selfishness is the worst sin
of the human heart. Every one of
the ten commandments is a dart
cast at the sin of selfishness, its
creed is the “survival erf the fittest”
and in its mad race for self-ag
grandizement it shrieks to these in
the rear, “The devil takes the hind
most.” With the tentacles of An
octopus it possesses the spirit of
the devil and the heart of a miser.
It is the parent of our competitive
svstem, which distroys more wo
men and children than the famous
Juggernaut. The law of selfish
ness, upon which is founded our
competitive system, is all right for
the strong but it strangles the
weak. In the settlement of all econ
omic questions the law of selfish
ness, a spirit which has been fos
tered during all tne rolling centur
ies of the past, is the factoa which
pr esents the greatest obstacle to
progress.
We sometimes think the pro
gress toward a higher aud better
civilization is slow, but you
cau uo more have immediate
change than you can at once pro
duce 6uch changes iu the human
heart. I believe that the world is
getting better. The shackles of
political and religious superstition
which have bound the people to
systems that ground out their
lives are being rent asunder. We
no longer burn witohes, nor people
0 illed “heretics” We have repudiat
ed the theory of the divine right of
kings. We have shot to death
chattel slavery, aud the day is
coming when every from of human
slavery will be wiped from the face
of the earth. The spirit of inde
pendence is growing in the hearts
of men. False systems, smong an
intelligent people, will fall of their
owu weight. Popular intelligence
means popular liberty, and
it is the silver lining on the cloud
that now hanges bo darkly over the
horizon
Mistaken Idea.
*' 1
Seme people say Populists want an
unlimited amount of paper money and
to ridicule the position of Populists ask
why collect any taxes, why not issue
money year after year to run the gov
ernment. Populists never advocated
an unlimited issue of money, unless
their demand for free coinage of gold
and silver may so be construed. The
goldbngs might as properly be called
advocates of an unlimited amount of
money, for they want to coin all the
gold that may be mined and they don’t
know but the fabled mountain of gold
may be discovered. Populists always
have favored a limitation of the amount
of mouey. They know its value de
pends upon its volume. And by the
way. no one knows that the value
fixes the value better than the contrac
tionists —they know that every turn
of the contraction screw squeezes more
value, and therelore more labor and
property into the dollar. About the
year 1856. Germany, knowing the in
fluence of volume on the value of mon
ey, demonetized gold, not because gold
money alone was depreciating, but be
cause all money. by reason of a great
increase in gold production and coinage
was depreciating in purchasingpowen-
Ih at is to say prices were advancing,
and the man with a fixed income, such
as the money lender,-saw the purchas
ing power of his income decreased day
by day, and feared from the wild re
ports of the amounts of gold taken from
the ground in California, that the pur
chasing power of his income as well as
of his capital would dwindle to a small
fraction of what it had been. No, the
Populists do not and never did advocate
an unlimited issue of paper money.
They favor the increase of the money
volume to an amount that will bring
that prosperity which the masses so
justly deserve, and which has been
denied to them by those who know so
well the means of regulating the gen
eral level of prices. The demand of
the Peoples party is that the money
volume shall bo speedily increased to
not less than fifty dollars per capita
Had this demand been granted twenty
five years ago it would have been well
nigh justice, but now, after twenty-five
years of paying anuualiv double the
products on interesj, taxes and trans
portation charges that justice required,
to demand only fifty dollars per capita
is practically a relinquishment of a
large portion ofthe equitable claim of
the people against plutocracy.—Mis
sours World.
MaII li i .ic u .
Question. —We are torui-ng a Hub <>
farmers wild a View to lmuiuiaciunia
our guanos instead of bunny rcui tue
dealers. P.ease give us all mformation
you call about the various materials
used in the manufacture, where we can
buy the same, wnat they ai-e worth and
how to mix.
Answf.k.—ln reply to your inquiry as
to the price of fertilizer materials, eta,
will recommend that you refer to brok
ers in these goods. Even the largest
fertilizer companies find it to their ad
vantage to buy from the brokers, who
make it their business to keep con
stantly informed by wire of all the vari
ations of prices of the various materials
used iu the manufacture of commercial
fertilizers. I recommend that you
write A. A. Smith, Temple Court, At
lanta, Ga., H M. Tuckw &Cos., Charles
ton, S. 0., and J. M. Lang So G*., Sa
vannah, Ga. My latest iqquiries show
that acid phosphate can be bought iu
Charleston, S. C., at $6.00 per ton (2,000
pounds) in large lots, guaranteed
per cent of available phosphoric acid.
Dry blood is wortfc SI.BO per unit of
ammonia, delivered iu Atlanta. Iu
other words, if it shows 18 per cent of
ammonia, it is worth $38.80 per ton,
delivered in Atlanta. Tankage is worth
$2 per unit of ammonia, iu Atlanta, and
10 cents per unit of bone phosphate.
Murate of potash containing 50 per cent
of potash is worth SI.BO per 100 ponnda.
Kamit is worth $9.50 per ton, and u is
about 12 per cent potash. Both rtie lat
ter prices are at Charleston ex vessel.
Mr. A. A. Smith is a reliable broker,
and can sometimes even sell you cheaper
than you can buy in Charleston, freight
added. Freight to Atlanta from Charles
ton on most fertilizer materials is $2.57
per ton.
In buying for home mixture, I would
advise that you stipulate the acid phee
phate be dry aud screened free from
lumps. Also, the kainit yen buy be
fresh. Old kainit often turns into hard
lumps.
I would advise against the purchase
of tankage unless it be fine ground, as
it would be impossible to pulverize th
ordinary sort without special machinery.
By following out the direefictM, put
ting your materials down in layers, one
upon the other in proper proportions,
then cutting down with hoes and spades
and passing through a screen and then
mixing thoroughly again, yon ought
not to have much trouble in muking
np a good fertilizer.
In case you buy and need further in
formation, will be glad to supply any 1
cau.—Chemical Department.
Growing Irish Potatoes.
Question. —Can two good crops of
Irish potatoes be grown in a year? If
so, how can it be done successfully?
Answer. —Take good, sound early po
tatoes, cut into single eyes and plant as
early as the ground cau be worked in
February or early in March. With or
dinarily favorable weather, the new
crop of tubers will ripen in eight tit ten
weeks. As soou as the potatoes are
ripe, dig them and allow them to dry a
day or two in the shade, then ent t© a
single eye as before. Place the pieces
in pans or boxes containing dry sand.
This takes up the moisture which might
check the growth, or destroy the sets.
Allow them to remain in the sand for,
say 10 or 12 days, or until eyes begin
to start, when they are ready to plant as
before. I would advise the second
planting to be covered or mulched with
straw, leaves or pine needles not less
than 6 inches deep. The mdlohing
should be done after a good season if
possible.
I have iu the above manner grown
very successfully two crops of potatoes
yearly. In fact, I regard the second
crop the more valuable.—State Agri
cultural Department.
Convict Inspectors Named.
Montgomery, Ala., March I.—Gov
ernor Johnston has reappointed the old
board of convict inspectors to serve the
ensuing two years. It is composed of
the following gentlemen: President, S.
B. Trapp: Captaiu E. W. Booker and
Dr. W. H. Blake.
Gainesville, Jefferson & Southern Railroad.
SAMUEL C. DUNLAP, Receiver.
Time table No. 12, taking effect 5. 50 a. m., Jan. 6, 1899
Mill's LINE
NORTH BOUND. Between Social Circle jSOUTH BOUND
Read Downward and Gainesvil | e R flad Upwarj
First Class. First Class.
i tt\ —-
93 9' *5 83181 STATIONS. 82 84 86 92 p 4
. S "£, ' y l“" y ! ' -r e *r sa-
only only Sun J Sun Sun] Sun Sun B ifn only 7 $
2 a m a m p m Lv. Ar. am pm a m r'
§ HOG 11 00 450 SOCIAL?CIRCLE 915 3 30 S 20 ?
2 11 15 11 20 505 GRESHAM 855 310 905 0
ST. 1130 1140 526 MONROE. 835 2 50 8 50 =
g 1145 11 Sn lit CAMPTON 815 2 30 835 jj
p 1158 h Join l.- BETHLEHEM 800 215 822 2,
5M n 1456 30 740 130 £ 94
~ 1230 s 1576 48 MULBERRY 7201 19 p JH 88
- 2177 03 HOfeCHTON 710 55 S'
ex- 108 § 2407 23 HICKORY TREK. 645{ 30 ‘ l9
Sun p- jL
640 1 15 255 730 BELLMONT 640 10 25 J
645 KLONDIKE' 635 10 20 J J® *
650 120 740 CANDLER 63010 15 7 1
710 145 . 3808 00 GAINESVILLE. 6109 55 640 1?
am Pm P “ pm| A r. Lv. a m am a W
87 9 85 | 83] 81 j jß2j 84 Bft 102 8>
No. 82 will run to Social Circle regardless of No, 83.
No. 84 will run to Social Circle regardless of No. 81,
No. 83 will run to Winder regardless of No. 84.
No. 84 will run to Winder regardless of No, 83.
No. 92 will run to Social Circle regardles of No. 91.
JEFFERSON BRANCH.
Time Table No. 12, taking effect 5.50 am., Jan. 6, 1899.
NORTH BOUND Between Jefferson and SOUTH BOUND
Read Downward Bellmont. Read Upward.
First Class. First Class.
89 87 STATIONS. qq
Daily Daily Tjaily Lawy
except except except ex ept
Sun Sun Sun *-un j
P. M. AM. Lv! M. A~m7 "
11 35 650 JEFFERSONI 810 11 10
12 00 615 PENVERGRASS 748 10 43
12 25 640 BELLMONT 730 10 25
PM - *A.M. Ar. ___ v.P- M. A. M.
89 I 87 | iBBT9<H
•V
No. 90 will run to Jefferson regardless of No. 89.
Palmer’s Cream Liniment
—ls the best Liniment on earth for r '^'
Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Stings, of Pois*
onus Insects, Stiff Joints, Toothach, etc. Cures
the pains of Burns immediately and gives in
stant relief in Headache.
For Sprain?, Swelling 01 the Joints, Saddle or Collar Galls on Homs,
m er’s Cream Liniment can not be equaled. It is put up iu 4 ounce bottles, (the
ns al 600 size) and retails for 25c. Prepared only by -
H. R. PALHER & SONS,
(Successors to Palmer & Kinnebrew.)
DRUGGIST’S AND FEEDSMEN, 105 CLAYTON ST., ATHENS, GA.
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This splendid three piere stt'C mahogany finish'frcmep, upholstered in *J De
silk figured damask fir sl2 50. Wo carry the largest stock of Furniture, Car
pets, Rugs, Mattings, ana Draperies in Atlanta and guarantee lowest prices.
P. S. CRUTCHER FURNITURE CO..
53 and 55 Peachtree 3t.. Atlanta Ga.
Worth Wnltlngr For.
During a performance at at the Tyne
mouth Aquarium, a couple from Old
Hartley were among the audience.
When half time arrived, an attendant
placed on the stage a board inscribed
with the word “Interval."
‘‘W’at’s that, Geordie?” asked the
wife. Geordie spelled the word.
“I-n, in; t-e-r, inter;v-a-l, interval."
"But w'at is’t?"
"Aa diwent knaa, lass. The foaks
is aall gannin oot; bnt we’ll stop to see
it!" —San Francisco Wave.
Many Fires In Xew Orleans.
New Orleans, Feb. 28. — Fires oc
curred in 35 of the swell residences of
this city. Two buildings were destroyed,
and the losses are heavy. The cause of
the fires was the crossing of primary
and secondary electric light,wires.
Remarkable Whist
F. H. Johnson, W. W, Beckwith, *
A. Weller, Mr. Tracy and Mr. f ai ""
were playing whist at Holihan’d inn
Derby the other night when.a deal **
made in which each player received
full suit of cards. It is said that
hands have been reported only tnf
times, twice fn London and on#
New York.—Hartford Courant.
In 1660 the great fire in
burned over 436 acres, destroying
least $35,000,000 worth of property
1872 the Boston fire burned over
acres, at a loss of $1,000,000 ana
If the same fire occurred today,
would cost, at the very lowest stillia ' w
$100,000,000. In 1893 the loss £
acres burned over was overt®
000,000.