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TUMI MUST Official Organ Ordinary. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER PUBLISHED KVKItV THI’ItSDVY EVENIN'* I JjKFFaBSON >l kick: With the Ordinary in the Court House P. W. Quattlebaum will represent the paper and take subscriptions. Subscription Rates- One Year, - - SI.OO A. G. LAMAR, Editor and Publisher. THURSDAZ. MAY 4. 1899. Organize district clubs. Stick to the truth and fijht for prin ciples. The people need a lot of education yet on reform lines. £_ ti If you are not taking a reform paper you know very little on reform lines. Give year neighbor a copy of The Economist and ask him to read it. It is hard to got some men to realize j that the democratic pirty is a party of the past and that it can never again benefit the masses. The Government can make money out of paper as well as out of gold. If the people would recognize this fact their understandings on the money question would bo greatly enlighten ed. There is no doubt about the final tri - umph, of reform if reformers will keep thoroughly organiz *d. The people will not always bs deceived by the old par ties. Redeeming one kind of money with another indicates superior monoy sense seems to bo the opinion of some men, who for the want of much sense, advo cate such theories. Mr. Bryan is a groat man but his patriotism has not yet developed to that extent that will euablo him to rise above party. That is the difference between Mr. Bryan and Mr. Barker. K?ery precinct should form a club as soon as possible and thereby get thor oughly organized for-the great work of 190*. Is there a true reformer who will faulter and fall by the wayside? We do not believe there is, but that hundreds of recruits are ready to join us. Where do the big trusts go when they want permission to organize and rob the peop! ■. To the Deni icratic state of New Jersey. There’s wl ere they get all their charters. No wonder it almost tickles ona of these big trusts to death when they hear a good old honest Democrat claiming his party is against trusts. How fuuny. Get your neighbor, who is honest and willing to investigate to read your re. form papers. If he will not take any of them lend him yours. It requires a great deal of work and sacrifice in a movement that is working for the mass es against the classes. Be ready always to do your duty for what you believe is right. The man who has reached the point he is willing to submit to the rule of the few over the many and never opeu his mouth agaiust oppression, wrong and ooruption is a specimen of manhood that God has little respect for. Did you ever thiuk about this kind of a man and what little service lie is to the world? Neither old party has any thing tau gible to offer you and your intelligence ought to dictate to you your duty. The trouble with so many is their intelli gence is smothered out by party prejud ice. The bankers think bank paper money the best currency in the world. The bankers are looking after their own skillet When the business man and farmer thinks the government paper money is not best money in the world don t you reckon the bankers chuckle at their iguorauce and inability to look after their own skillet? We should' *ni!e (?) Cotton Factories. There are no manufacturing enter prises that are safer and pay larger div idens than cotton foctories. There is no danger of having too many o£ them iu the South and the town or section that overlooks this fact and fails to have one or more cotton mills is missing a great opportunity for devlopment and growth. Many counties in North Car olina realized the advantages that would accrue from mills several years ago and now iu some of those counties they have from ten to twenty iu opperation, all rf which are running on full time and pay ing handsome dividends to the stock holders. There are other things that are equally as important as the dividend feature to enlist every mm who possi bly can to help build cotton factories in the South. They give imploymaut at lair wages to hundreds of people which enables them to help make ab ttermur kit for produce of all kind* in the snr rounding country. There opperatives beep the merchants and the farmers from the fact of having to patronize both. Winder has many advantages over other places for a great manufact uring center anil if our people would only become aroused to a couciousness of this (act and pull together-show some liberity and a determination to forge to the front, we could iu a few years have severel largo mills in opperation. We can’t expect for outside capital to come lin and build these things without aud eifort on our part. Other towns are get ting these enterprises and reaping the benefit from them, that were not near so favored nor so able as Winder. We have men here who could do a grand work on this line for the development of our city and section if they would just determine to do so Greensb 'ro, Georgia has opened books for subscription to a cotton mill so wo see from the Herald Journal of that city. One of its leading citizens head ed the list with $2'),000,00 and further agreed to serve as President oi the com pany without compensation. Another good citizen of that city subscribed $15.- 000,00. Now this is the way to do things. Let the men who are able go to work and be liberal aud the little fel lows will do their part, There would be no trouble iu getting a cottou factory in Wiuder if our lead iug moneyed men would go to work and inspire confidence. In Bad Shape. The democratic party is in rather bad shape. The secretary of the National committee is in Alaska and will not re turn until next yesr and James K Jones, national chairman, has left for Europe to be gone indefinitely. A fellow up in Kansas, a state that only has about 30,000 democrats in it, has been placed in charge of affairs by chairman Jones. The little crowd over at Jefferson that have been subsisting on the rev enues of the county treasury for the past ten or twelve years are very much troubled in spirit because the ordinary had the backbone to exercise his prerog ative iu the matter and give the con tract for transcribing a lot of books in the clerk’s office to a populist instead of giving it to them. If the ordinary had given the work to one of them at twice the airouut he contracted with Mr. Chandler, there would not have been a word of criticism from these same fellows but they would all now be performing the holy dance and smoking the pipe of peace. Every intelligent man iu the county is aware of the fact that if there had been a democratic ordinary these same fellows would have gotten the pie and gotten a great deal more of it thau Mr. Chandler will get because ordinary Bradbury tries to economize iu all things that are to the interest of the county. The black slave was much better off than the man of the present day who rents land and buys goods on credit and has to couteud with tiusts and corpora tions. Really, my brother, can you think of a condition worse? Ihe national Refom Press Associa tion meets at Kansas city oa May 16th. Ihere is no better authority on all great national questions thau Mr. Bark er, the Peoples party candidate for president. He what the country needs, and if elected president would have the moral courage and nerve to see that we got it. That Is the kind of man that is needed now more than ever in the history of this government to be at the head of national affairs. Buzzes From Morgan’s Buzz-Saw. Harmonv in the Democratic party nieaus that William Jennings Bryan will be side tracked as a leader, there fore there will be no harmony aud no Democratic success. Col. Mary Ellen Lease helped to car ry the St Louis Populist convention for Bryan in 18%, and now Mary is yellin’ for Senator Gorman for president iu 1900! “Wmmiiu is fumfV things.” Gov. Piugree makes a fine plea for the R -publican party to be good, but he might as well plead with the devil. The Republican party thinks it is good now, aud it is—to the corporations and trusts. The Japanese language does not con tain a single cuss won. That is pretty good evidence that they have never vot ed fer a man like Cleveland, nor eaten canned army beef of American Manu facture. In The December, 1897 issue, Morg an’s Buzz-Saw said: “Fusion will go down in Ntbraska and Kansas next year. Just stick a pin here, aud don’t ferget it. ” You can take the pin up now. When you think of jiniu’ the Demo crats just think for a moment. It was they that gave us Grover Cleveland, and Grove gave us the panic, and the panic—well, it gives even the Democrats the bellyache every time they think of it. In Three, states—Califonia, Utah and Delaware, the legislatures w r ere unable to elect Uuitd States seuators. If there is auy reason wauling why the people should elect United States seuators by popular vote these states have furnished it. The Democratic party has been trj iug to commit sniside fot thirty years, but the money power won’t let it die. It is the prop that keeps the Republican par ty from falling to pieces. The pieces don’t want the Democratic paty to come into power. The R publican party is not a fraud. It wears the badge of its meanness on the outside. It is simply keeping up with the devil’s procession, and it does not deny it, while the Democratic party is trying to get ahead of the pro cession and all the time denying it. Some people are making a mighty big fuss about wanting the Filopinos to have all the rights of free citizms, and these same people would steeA a “nig ger’s vote here at home and thank the Lord for the opportunity. Some peo ple are built on a peculiar plan. It was the Democrats who put us up on the present gold standard system That was when they had a chance. Now they want another chance. They are makiug some more promises, and some people just chumps enough to believe that they will carry them out. William Jennings Bryan is no fool. He knows the record of the Democratic party. He knows that that party put us ou the present gold standard while it was iu full control. He knows that the money power controls‘it when it wants to. If he is sincere iu his professions for reform why don’t he get out of the old hulk? The poor dupes who go from one old party to another in the hope of better ing their condition are a- much to be pitied as the fellows who havu’t sense enough to let go. The politicians make monkeys of all them, and I feel like apologizing to the monkeys, for I don’t think you could fool a monkey so often with the same thing. Every trust corporated in New Jersey is equipped under laws passed by a Democratic legislature, and during the month of March there were more trusts incorporated iu that state thau iu any one month of its history. Tae aggre gate capital of these trusts amounted to 11,500,000,000. And the Democratic party is howling agaiust trusts. v The result of the election in Chicago is a very large straw. Mayor Harrison was Croker’s candidate. He had aided in the defeat of the free silver ticket in New York city. Altgeld was the candi date of the Bryan-free silver wing of the party, and received 46,000 votes to Harrison’s 146,000 . If this means any thing it is that Bryanism is waning in the Democratic party. Don’t Forget to Read It. The artice iu this issue from Prof. Orr on the Colorado Beetle will be read with much interest. The people of the South are just beginning to experience for the last year or two the terrible ravages of this bug. The Irish potatoes in this section are already being ruined by them and if something is not used at once to destroy them the potato crop will be a complete failure. Prof. Orr gives the remedy aud evory cne should go to work at once to exterminate them. THE NEW YORK WORLD, THRICE' A-’WEEK EDITION. Practically a Daily at the price of a Weekly. Tho striking and important events of the last year have established the over whelming value of The Thrice-a Week World to every reader. For an almost nominal sum it has kept its subscribers informed of the progress of all our wars and, moreover, has reported them as promptly and fully as if it were a daily. With our interests still extending throughout the world, with our troops operating in the Philippines, aud the great Presidential campaign, too, at hand, its value is further increased. Tdo motto of The Thrice-a Week World is improvement. It strives each year to be better than it was the year before, and public confidence in it is shown by the fact that it now circulates more than twice as many papers every week as auy other newspaper, not a daily, published in America. We offer this unequaled newspaper aud The Economist together one year for $1.50 The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.00 THE COLONEL’S TWO IDEAS. Snsgreatioiis Anent tlie Gift of tlie Government to Cnbnn Soldiers. The government has appropriated SIOO each to the Cuban soldiers. It js done in order to give them a start in life. It is a good idea. We approve it. We approve it notwithstanding the fact that not one of these 30,000 benefi ciaries ever did anything for the gov ernment of the United States; never paid a cent of taxes; never even avowed allegiance to the Utiited States. The government not only helped them to their indpendence, but it gives them something to start with. We repeat, it is a capital idea —not a capitalistic idea, hut a capital idea. Why not appropriate $300,000,000, good honest government greenbacks, full legal tender, and distribute them among 3,000,000 bard up, honest, desti tute, deserving, men in the United States and give them a start? They are at least just as deserving as the Cubans. They are at least American citizens. They are just as destitute and needy. They will make just as good use of the money. It will bo just as much of a help to them. It will enable them not only to take care of themselves, but it will enable them to add twice that much to the material wealth of the country. And they will certainly appreciate it 1 It will give most of them a good start toward getting a borne of their own. Why not do it ? Another good idea is that suggested by General Lee for the government to loan money to the Cubans to give them a start Not to the Cubans as a government, but to Cubans as individuals. Tlie only fault we Lave to find with the idea is that it is not extended to Americans. Can Mr. McKinley or General Lee give any good reason why this charity ehall not begin at home ? Rather, why it should not be extended to the Amer ican citizen, if begun in Cuba ?—Nor ton’s Monthly. The Street Railway Monopoly. The street car companies have joined in q national organization. They claim the right not only to form corporations, which are combinations of capital, but also to form a national combination of such corporations; yet they, or many of them, refuse their employees permis sion to form a union or any combination whatever, under penalty of dismissal During the autumn of 1897 the Chi cago City Railway company refused to allow its employees to join a union and discharged those who did join. A rail way vice president in discussing these questions, recently said to the writer “The people who own this country pro pose to run it. ” Asked if by “owners’ he meant the corporations and the wealthy class, he replied: “I mean those who oNVn the property. "—William J Strong In Arena. Say* the “Golden HnTe” Mayor The scientific fact that stands in the way of the theory that great good can be done with private fortunes is the fact that the money has been got through a dishonest system, and, "no matter how honest or hew good the in dividual may be into whose hands the money has come, as was said of the 30 pieces of silver for which Judas be trayed his Lord, “it is the price of blood,” so may it with equal truth be said of our private fortunes today—the possessors are in the main honest, but tbe private fortunes have been accumu lated in a dishonest social system that has made an army of tramps and mil lions of paupers and criminals of every degree This is the price that we have paid for our private fortunes. These wrecked and ruined lives are the result of social injustice, and from social injustice pro ceed the causes that produce and per petuate vice and crime. I claim that our private fortunes cost too much; the ruin and destruction of so many lives is too high a price. “It is the price of blood. ’ Let us have a system in which every man will have just what he earns and nothing more, a fair play, golden rule system, and 25 years of that sort of a system would relegate all of our prisons, jails and almshouses to the domain of relics of a hideous past.—Mayor Jones of Toledo. Old Principle** and New Lawn. A great republic was one day founded on a continent far removed from the wrangles and jangles of the discordant family of covetous nations, and it was grounded on the undying principles which underlie all truth and justice. The right of men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was guaran teed. And the great republic flourished as no other. Changes came in due time. Men who have known only liberty fail to realize the inestimable benefits of liberty. They yield to changes without knowing their meaning. Whereas there were for cen turies a few simple and direct laws for the protection of the rights of men and a few others to safeguard property, there have been placed on tho statute books of the great free republic and of the half a hundred several states, innu merable laws relating to property, pro tecting property as though it were something wholly helpless, magnifying the importance of wealth, providing against encroachments upon the as sumed inviolable rights of artificial per sonages and clothing these new crea tions of law with powers hitherto with held from individuals, bestowing upon fictitious persons portions of the origi nal sovereignty of tbe whole people, and in this manner, and in many ways, minimizing the importance and stand ing of men in the state. Do the old laws prevail or have they been repealed I —Sionx Falls (S. D.) Press. PERSONALITIES. Representative David F. Wilbur of New York is one of the largest hop growers in this country. Addison C. Harris, the new minister to Austria, is said' to be one of the best classical scholars: ever graduated from the Northwestern) University. Secretary wfo State Hay was brought, up a Presbyterian, and as a boy was a ' regular attendant at the Uresbyterian Sunday school at Warsaw, Ills. I Mr. Jamsetsji Tata has offered tlie Indian government $1,250,000 for the J establishment in India of a university for research on the model of Johns Hop kins. Unlike many public men, Governor Tanner of Illinois does not object to be ing caricatured, and even goes so far as to keep a large scrapbook of such drawings of himself. Since a recent statement that John P. Jones of Nevada was the wealthiest man in the senate ho has been over whelmed with begging letters asking in all something over $1,000,000. The emperor of Austria, the czar of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm and President Faure are averse to indiscriminate handshaking. Ring Humbert is arrayed on the other side of the question. { It is said that when Cornelius Bliss was a small schoolboy, his teacher asked , him if Jerusalem was a common or proper Doun. “Neither,” replied the little pupil; “it’s an ejaculation.” | Barnetrt Walker of Chicago, a nephew ( of President Polk, is the only man born in the White House. His was Polk’s private secretary and the . family lived in the executive mansion j Charlemagne Tower, embassador toj Russia, is the son of one of Charles Sumner’s college classmates and early friends. In Pierce’s “Life of Sumner’ are many intimate letters addressed to the elder Tower. Mile. Lucie Faure, daughter of the French president, is of a tall and com manding presence, knows Latin, Greek and English, has written a few books of travel and is a kind of unofficial sec retary to her father. Tom Watson, the Georgia Populist, ex-congressman and a candidate for the vice presidency in the last presidential election, has written a two volume his tory of France, which so competent an authority as George Cary Eggleston pronounces serious and scholarly thougl full of fault as well as attractions.