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NEGROES UTTER THREATS.
ItrgulMra t Lyllf I * Handle the
Klithih Immune Volunteers.
Atlanta, March ft Sheriff Henry of
Walker county wired Governor Gaudier
that ho wanted some militia to help
preserve order at Lvtle. The Lighth
immunes, which is composed of negroes
from Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin, is
being mustered out and are threatening
to burn the town. The sheriff became
alarmed.
The governor sent Colonel O’Bear, a
member of his staff, to Lvtle to investi
gate the reports and ordered the four
Atlanta companies of militia to be ready
to move. Meanwhile, as a precaution
ary measure. Governor Candler wired
President McKinley regarding the
trouble and asked him to send a com
pany of regulars to the scene. He re
ceived a reply that one company would
be sent .I'rom Huntsville at once.
Company K of the Sixteenth infantry
arrived at Ohickuuianga at 7 o’clock
Saturday night, and upon hearing this
and receiving word from Colonel O’Bear
thnt the situation had been greatly ex
aggerated, the governor decided not to
send the militia from Atlanta, although
he will hold them under orders to be m
readiness for two days more. *
The Eighth was the only regiment at
Chickauiauga and the one company of
the Sixteenth will probably lie held
there only a short time, as the regiment
is under orders to proceed to Manila.
M’KINLEY AT FITZGERALD.
President to Visit III" Grand Army
Colony on Ills Trip South.
Fitzgerald, Ga., March 6.—Presi
dent McKinley will include this place
in the itinerary of his visit to Senator
Hanna’s home at Thomasville. A tele
gram from the president to this effect
has just been received. Fitzgerald was
established some years ago by union
veterans, members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, from Indiana and Ohio.
It is now a flourishing city of approxi
mately 10,000 population, with electric
lights and waterworks. Many of the
residents are from the president’s home
county and Rervcd with him during the
civil war, hence the occasion of hifc visit
will part ke of something of the nature
of a reunion.
Immediately upon receipt of the noti
fication that the president would visit
Fitzgerald the three local Grand Army
posts, the Confederate Veterans’ camp,
the city council and citizens went to
work to arrange for a rousing reception.
FURNITURE WORKS BURNED.
West Huntsville Factory Destroyed
by un Incendiary.
Huntsville, Ala., March 6. The
West Huntsville furniture factory, 2
miles west of the city, has been entirely
destroyed by lire. The loss is $25,000;
insurance about SIO,OOO. There is no
doubt that the tire was of incendiary
origin, and some sensational develop
ments are expected.
Two weeks ago an attempt was made
to burn the building, but the watchman
extinguished the fire before any dam
age was done. James Coons of Hunts
ville is president of the West Huntsville
Furniture company.
The company suffered severely by an
incendiary tiro two years ago, and when
the factory was rebuilt, it was greatly
improved, and its capacity considerably
increased. The factory gave employ
ment to 160 men.
Graduate Tax on Theaters.
Charlotte, N. 0., March (s.—Theat
rical managers and the people in the
larger towns are protesting against the
graduate tax on theaters, which will
practically close every theater in North
Carolina. Tho state and county tax in
towns of 10,000 and over will amount to
SIOO. besides municipal tax. Circuses
are taxed S2OO a performance and SSO
for each side show, which will exclude
them from the state. Tho bill has
passed the house, and will probably
pass the senate.
Cyclone lilts Georgia Towns.
Toccoa, Ga., March O.—A cyclone of
unprecedented fierceness visited Toccoa
and vicinity, damaging quite a number
of houses, demolishing several and kill
ing Mrs. Miller, mother of Mr. C. K.
Miller, a prominent merchant of this
place. Gainesville, Cartersville, Win
der, Marietta, Elbortou and other Geor
gia towns also suffered as a result of
the storm.
Gold Smelter For Atlanta.
’ Atlanta, March 6. —Mr. McCoy, a
wealthy manufacturer of Colorado, who
has been attending a meeting of gold
miners in this city, announces that a
smelter will be erected on the Southern
railway, 8 miles west of Atlanta, near
the Chattahoochee river. Work is to
commence in 50 days. The smelter will
cost about $75,000 and will have a ca
pacity of 200 tons of ore a day.
Charleston Factory Sold.
Charleston, March 6.—The Charles
ton mill was sold at receiver’s auction
this morning for SIOO,OOO. There was
was only one bidder, John H. Mont
gomery of Spartanburg, a well known
cottou maufacturer. He will open the
mill with negro labor. The mill was
sold at the upset price set by the court.
It covers outstanding indebtedness.
No Drinks at Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala., March a— For the
flyst time in mouths it was almost next
to an impossibility to get a drink in this
city yesterday. This is said to be an
outcome of the general fight which the
church people are making on the whisky
business.
PROOFS OF PROSPERITY.
The Kind Furnished by ChloadT®
Capitalistic Papers.
The capitalistic newspapers of Chi
cago were caught off their guard last
week. Theso Republican mouthpieces
of corporate greed, conscienceless
brawlers for imperialism ; these shame
less declaimers of prosperity and free
dom, who have persistently rung the
changes on McKinley’s contribution to
the inflated impudence of the time that
“employment is seeking labor, ” printed
the following proof of the falsity of
their claims the day after Christmas:
“Between 11 o’clock in the morning
and 9 o’clock at night 10,000 men and
boys and about 100 women ate plate
fuls of turkey and potatoes and drank
cup after cup of steaming hot coffee in
the old Waverly theater. This is what
they ate and drank: Four thousand
live hundred pounds of meat, chiefly
turkey; 125 bushels of potatoes, 4,000
loaves of brand, 1 barrel of gravy, 2
barrels of cranberry sauce, 150 gallons
of pickles. 500 gallons of milk, and 150
pounds of good coffee.
“lii tlie whole crowd of 10,000 for
lorn. hungry people the police failed to
discover a single professional crook.
After the first 700, who were mostly
from cheap lodging and barrel houses,
had been fed the crowd was made up
chiefly of mechanics and laboring men
who were hungry and out of work. ”
Of the 10,000 9,5300 were mechanics
and laborers who were hungry and out
of work! That is quite a different story
from what the same daily newspapers, in
their servility to wealth and power,
have been trying to have the people be
lieve. They didn’t intend to give the
lie to their untrue and bombastic claims.
They were just caught off their guard,
and may be expected to prostitute their
calling more recklessly than ever to
make up for it. —Social Democratic
Herald.
Federal Ownership of Teles rnplm.
The situation in Porto Rico promises
to force on this government, for a time
at least, the experiment of federal own
ership of telegraph and telephone lines.
The war department now controls all
lines in Porto Rico and in the evacuat
ed sections of Cuba. The latter, how
ever, is looked upon as merely transient.
In both places the lines are being re
paired and the government is handling
commercial messages after government
matter. The signal service in charge of
this work says it is too soon to draw
conclusions as to tho expense of the
service, as the cost for maintenance and
long delay*! repairs is just now more
than the income from the lines. But in
six months from the Ist of January the
signal service expects to be able to fur
nish some interesting data as to the
profit in the insular wire service.
The military occupation of the lines
will naturally continue till the estab
lishment of a civil government, and
considerable interest is expressed as to
how tho management of the lines will
be disposed of eventually or whether it
will bo permanently retained by tho
government. This enforced object lesson
in federal management is naturally ex
pected to have considerable influence
pro or con in the agitation for like con
trol in this country.—Washington Post.
As They I)o In Switzerland.
How much better it would be for us
to vote directly upon measures instead
of groping in the dark. In Switzerland
the people vote directly upon measures,
and as a consequence it is the best gov
erned country in the world. After an
election there they know what it means
without guessing. By means of the in
itiative and referendum they have spoil
ed all the petty little games of the pol
iticians. Tho people there have demon
strated tlieir ability to deal directly
with their problems without the aid of
the politicians, who, finding their occu
pation gone, have gone into useful oc
cupations. Why can’t we do as well as
the little republic among the Alps ? We
should make a beginning by working
for the introduction of this system,
which is called direct legislation, first
in our local affairs, then in state affairs,
and after thus becoming accustomed to
its use we can hope to make national
use of it. The one definite result of the
recent elections which we can all re
joice over is the adoption by direct vote
of the people of South Dakota of a con
stitutional amendment establishing di
rect legislation in that state. Let ns all
work for this system in onr respective
states. The legislatures of nearly all the
states meet this winter. So now is the
time to strike.—Medical World.
Schooner Charmer Wrecked.
Raleigh, March 6.—A special from
Hatteras, N. C., says: The schooner
Charmer, Captain Oslen, loaded with
coal, from Philadelphia to Savannah,
stranded on Onancock beach, 16 miles
south of here. There was a heavy fog
at the time. The crew of eight were
saved, but the vessel and cargo are
probably a total loss.
“Freemen” and “Slave*.
When the working poor are paid in
return for their labor only as much
money as will buy them the necessaries
of life, their condition is identical with
that ot the slave who receives \hose first
necessaries at first hand. Th*> former
we call “freemen, ” the latter Islaves, ”
but the difference is imaginary only.—
John Adams.
WATSON UPHOLDS JOHN LAW
In Hl* Story or France He DUcomsi
the Currency Question.
It is the history of France, written
from the point of view and with the
polemic purpose of Populism. Mr.
Thomas E. Watson believes in John
Law’s theories of money.
He thus ironically writes of the re
ception at first given to that idea;
“He was an expert mathematician
and an enthusiast on financial subjects,
believing, as many other well meaning
enthusiasts have done, that he had
penetrated the mystery of the money
question. His theory was that the cir
culation should be increased and that
the true basis of money was the credit
of the nation. He formulated his plan
of a bank and bored people by talking
about it, becoming almost as great a
nuisance as Columbus did when h® went
wandering about Europe begging kings
to lend him money with which to find
anew world. The inventors of new
things are terribly tiresome creatures.
Had Napoleon been able to listen more
patiently to Robert Fulton, he might
have realized that the idea of the steam
boat, properly applied, would have
swept the wooden sailing ships of Eng
land off the seas and sent the British
empire to rack and ruin.
“What was the famous ‘system’ of
John Law? In a nutshell it was this:
To increase the money supply of the
nation so that circulation would be
quickened, business encouraged, enter
prise stimulated, labor employed, prod
ucts multiplied, prices raised and debts
more easily paid.
“This shrewd Scotchman saw that
the world was chained down by silver
and gold. He saw that commerce tried
in vain to spread her wings for a bolder
fight. He realized that the world’s stock
of the precious metal was too small to
supply the needs of mankind for money
Therefore he proposed that in addition
to the metallic money coined the state
should issue a paper currency based
upon the public credit.
“When this suggestion was first made,
it was laughed out of court. Even now
there are well meaning people the world
over who have a superstitious reverence
for the old orthodox doctrines about
money. John Law, having a pair of
eyes, dared to use them, having a mind,
ventured to think for himself. ’'
After very interestingly recounting
the facts of Law’s stupendous specula
tions Mr. Watson finds cause for blam
ing him only in the fact that he permit
ted himself to be somewhat diverted
from his original scheme.
He sees nothing unsound in the
“Mississippi Bubble,’’ but on the con
trary cites the present wealth of the
great American states which have been
since created out of Law’s grant, as
showing conclusively that his enormous
stock issues, based upon what was then
a wilderness, were not excessive. He
writes:
Had not a wild craze for speculation
suddenly broken out and carried all be
fore it Jphn Law's company would
probably have added as much to the
(grandeur and riches of France as the
East India company brought to Great
Britain.
There was nothing chimerical in hop
ing that dividends could be paid upon
such a sum.
The more the system of Law is studied
the less extravagant it will appear. His
bank was organized upon precisely the
same principles which bring prosperity
to the banks of our own time.
Mr. Watson says that while “paper
money is a good thing, as rain is, it is
possible to have too much paper money,
just as it is possible to get a calamitous
overplus of rain. ” But he declines to
sluire the fears of those who believe that
the plan of issuing government fiat
money would lead in our day to any
such excess. He says:
“It may belaid that where the gov
ernment exercises the power of creating
money it will always create too much.
This is equivalent to saying that gov
ernments are not fit to govern. If the
government is to be intrusted with the
power to decide how many soldiers shall
compose the army, how many vessels
shall constitute the navy, how many
harbors, forts, custom houses, postof
fices, signal lighthouses and
dockyards there shall be, why can it
not be intrusted with the power of de
ciding how much money there shall be ?
Asa matter of fact John Law’s theory
of credit money has been the salvation
of the very nations which revile his
name. ’’
Do Away With the Necessity.
The New York Herald boasts that
New Yorkers spent $25,000,000 in char
ity during 1898. Laying aside the ques
tion of why such a tremendous outlay
was necessary in the midst of such
boasted prosperity, we come to the ques
tion, When will some great city boast
that it did not find it necessary to spend
a dollar for charity, its people being
employed at living wages? While we
are congratulating ourselves that char
ity is provided in abundance let us not
forget that it is our duty to strive for
fiat condition when charity will not be
I 'eded. Omaha World-Herald.
Steel Billets Going Upward.
Pittsburg, March B.—Steel billeti
took another jump upward today and
sold at $24.00 a ton, the highest price
since 1890. Several large sales were
made at that price.
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* Railroads.
All railroad charters should be re
pealed, and the roads valued and paid
for to the now owners and then operated
by the government as the rail and wa
ter carrying department —the same as
any other department—with a cabinet
officer.
Allowing the owners now to retain
five-eighths of their value as an invest
ment.
Paying them out of the earnings 3
per cent per annum till final liquida
tion and full ownership by the people.
The roads to be run at cost of operat
ing.
That is, schedule of prices to be paid
by the people for the use they require.
Sufficient in amount to pay the in
terest while needed. Sinking fund and
running expenses.—Jesse Harper.
Direct Legl*ln t ion.
Direct legislation by the method
known as the initiative and referendum
is simply making a broad application of
the same democratic principle as the
New England town meeting. By the
initiative and referendum a majority of
the voters really ratify every law, for
under it 5 per cent of the voters can
bring any law to a vote of the people
by petition, and if they do not do that
it is equivalent to ratifying it. Under
this system it would be useless to bribe
legislatures, for the people could undo
the mischievous work of a legislature.
Yet there are men who call themselves
American patriots who oppose this just
and democratic principle.—Groveport
(O ) Commonwealth.
One of Life's Truyredies.
A story was told by London Truth
not long since and its correctness
vouched for, which shows the folly of
acting hastily and impulsively in im
portant concerns in life.
The son of a very wealthy man at his
father’s death found himself free to in
dulge every whim. He had yachts,
horses, an island on which he played
king at his pleasure. He was not an
immoral man, but idle and foolish.
One day while using a long distance
telephone he was charmed by the voice
of the operator at the other end of the
line. He managed to discover that it
was of a woman, young, single
and pretty. In the course of a few days
he convinced himself that the owner
of the voice was the one human being
who should be liis wife and that life
would be empty and desolate without
her.
The girl was pooii and listened to his
proposals. He cabled her money to buy
her trousseau and to secure a chaperon
to accompany her to the town where he
resided.
In due time she arrived. Her looks
were as attractive as her voice. He
married her and a few days later was
found dead by his own hand in his
room. He left no explunation beyond
the words, “I have made a mistake,"
scrawled on a sheet of paper left on the
table.
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A Memorial to Uiigiey.
Annapolis, Jan.' 23. —The memorial
tablet placed in the naval academy
chapel in memory of Ensign Worth
Bagley, killed on the Winslow off Car
denas In the late war, was nnveiled in
the presence of a large number of naval
officers and others. Lieutenant John
B. Bernadon, who commanded the
Winslow, raised the veiling. Mrs. Bag
ley, mother of Ensign Bagley, and his
sisters were present.
Captured After Five Years.
Starke, Fla., Jan. 23.— Edward Al
varez, a young white man of Bradford
county, has been incarcerated in the
county jail here. He was captured at
Marion, S. C., by the sheriff of Leon
county after being a fugitive from jus
tice for about five years for killing &
Mr. Hilliard.
Free Rural Mall Delivery.
Athens, Ga., Jan. 23.—Through the
efforts of Congressman William M-
Howard, a free rural mail delivery is w
be started in Clarke county on Feb. 1-
This will be the second rural delivery
started in Georgia, the other being nsi*
Quitman.
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