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Official Organ Ordinary.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WINDER.
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THURSDA I SEPTEMBER 20.1900. 4
People’s Party Ticket.
For'President —
WHARTON BARKER.
For Vice-President—
lON ATIUS DONNELLY.
POPULIST STATE TICKET.
For Governor —J. H. TRAYLOR, .of
Troup.
For Secretary of State—Dr. L. L.
CLEMENTS, of Milton.
For Attorney General —F. H. SAF
FOLD, of Emanuel.
For Comptroller General —J. T. HOL
BROOK, of Franklin.
For State Treasurer—J. W. PARK,
of Meriwether.
For Commissioner of Agriculture A.
H. TALLY, of Cobb.j
For State School Commissioner—W.
T. FLINT, of Taliaferro.
For Prison Comissioners — T ’.i J.
DICKEY, of Upson, and S. C. McCAN
DLEBS, of Butts.
For State Senator,
M. D. IRWIN.
For Representatives,
Dr. L C. ALLEN,
J. H. BOGGS.
For Ordinary,
G. D. BENNETT.
For Clerk and Treasurer,
A. G. LAMAR.
For Sheriff,
•R M. PATRICK.
Deputy‘sheriff. W. C. PITTMAN.
For Tax Collector,
C. F. HOLLIDAY.
For Tax Receiver,
J. M ROSS.
For Surveyor,
S. W. JACKSON, Jr.
For Coroner,
T. N. HIGHFELL.
Every man should vote as a free mau
and not put his vote-up for sale.
Col. M. D. Irwin will c.rry Banks
county by large majority as Senator
from this district. He will carry Jack
son county the same way. He will
make one of the be9t and most useful
senators in the next Georgia legisla
ture.
We hope this campaign will close
without ary false reports being circu
lated on any of the candidates. If you
have any charge to bring against any
one running, be manly enough to circu
late it openly and in time for him to
meet it Don’t slip around in the dark
and try to defeat a candidate by unfair
means or falsly misrepresenting him.
Such means are contemptible to all de
cent people.
An Interesting Table.
The following table show? very clear
ly and the point what the men w T ho
produce the wealth get and what the
other fellow gets who does not produce
it’ Read and think over it seriously.
It is worth the consideration of every
true man as well as all statesmen:
Table showing how the wealth of the
possessing class increases as the work
ers get less of what they produce:
Per cent of Per cent of
wealth produced wealth produced
paid as wages. taken as profits.
1850 6214 87*4
1860 43% "66,14
1870 82% 67%
1880 24 76
1890 17 83
Winder’s Trade.
There ia no place in Georgia that has
grown more rapidly as a business cen
ter than Winder. Every line of busi
ness has prospered here and it has be
come noted as one of the beat cotton
markets in all this sectton of Georgia.
The farmers have patronized the mer
chants and cotton men and have shown
& friendly spirit to every enterprise
that has been inaugurated here by
their patronage and cubsoribing liberal
ly to help make these enterprises a suc
cess. A large majority of these farm
ers have been in acoord with the policy
of Thk Economist, and its warm sup-
porters.
We, therefore, feel that we have been
partially instrumental in the upbuild
ing and prosperity of our .own and sec
tion through the aid and support of our
friends and patrons. The subscribers
to The Economist have all thought .veil
of Winder and felt an interest in its
growth because the business men here
have shown a liberal spirit toward us
and respected men who honestly dif
fered with them. They have not driv
en these farmers away from Winder by
being extremely partisan.
The best of feeling exists here be
tween Popnlists and Democrats, and
we number some of the leading busi
ness men of Winder among our warm
supporters in the coming campaign.
We are proud of this fact because we
feel a deep interest in the devalopment
and prosperity of onr town and county,
and we know eiery iran who is a can
didate of our party feels the same way.
We want above all things to see an hon
orable oontest in Jackson county.
There is no need of bitterness and
strife. We all are friends and can be of
mutual benefit to one another. There
is no necessity of going to extreems and
stooping to means that are little and
unmanly.
No good citizens will sell his vote.
The election comes off on Wednesday,
8d day of October. Tell your neighbors
about it and don’t forget the date. Every
man should go out and vote.
When the trusts gets perfected, and
chey are rapidly being perfected, they
will einoloy all the people who get em
ployment and will sell to all people any
hing they can buy. It will resolve itself
into something like this: One man em
ploys all the people; the people oan buy
only from their employer and only the
amount he pays them injwages, He can
get from them only the money he pays
them in wages—no.more, for they wi’l
have nothing more. He can charge them
what he pleases for the goods they make
and pay them what he pleases for wages,
That will be ideal freedom, for yon! It
matters not whether the employer be one
person or thousand, the effect on the
workers will be the same. Are you go
ing to wait until this condition has ar
rived and the chains of industrial slav
ery shall have been solidly rivited before
you will think of some remedy?—Appeal
to Reason.
At Cleveland Ohio, was married a
man and woman on the 7th of last
month The gifts from the man to the
woman in diamonds, pearls and other
childish gewgaws cost half a million.
The pay for these tinsels, these things
of ostentation and ignorance, was
squeezed out of working people in the
shape of profits. Would the world not
be brighter aud happier if the sacrifices
of the workers were put to some useful
purpose—something that the workers
could enjoy? Now miud I am not wrathy
at the man and woman—they were only
using in their ignorant, childish way
what the workers willingly permit
themselves to be squeezed out of. The
fanlt lies with deeper ignorance of the
workers who fail to see the injustice
when they are the victims of the system
of private ownership of capital. That
those who profit by the system do not
study the right or wrong of it is not to
be wondered at, but men and women
who suffer by it—they should at least
be expected to study the reasons the
workers are always poor while those
who do not perform any useful labor are
wealthy. But when someone with a
fiuer sense of justice appeals to the
workers to read and think, the workers
at once look upon him as an enemy and
make life a struggle and a bane to him.
—Appeal to Reason.
Where Are We Drifting.
"The Standard Oil company secured
the appointment of one of its men,
Charles Miller, as major general of
the Pennsylvania National Gnard, over
the heads of officers of higher rank.
It is the policy of the Standard Oi
company to control the militia of
the United States to protect Its un
lawful enterprise," said George Rice,
an oil refiner driven out of business
by the Standard Oil company, in an
interview in the New York Journal,
Ang. 29.
Fat oity men, reading this in their
big arm chairs, will grimace and say,
‘pooh," throwing this paper on the
floor. It was done by fat city men in
France only five years before the head
of stolid Lords fell leaden to the ground
amidst the demoniac shouts of the
French peasantry.
They had been telling the workers in
the fields and factories, year iu and year
out, that opportunity was to the man
of mind and will to Beiza it; that men,
by birth and fortune, always would be
unequal; that some must be poor and
some must be rich, just as nature had
built the mountain peak and the lowly
hillock.
The peasant believed it until he
walked, his stomach grinding against
each other like millstones, by the win
dow of the king and saw him wash
down the rich, slow bolus with golden
wine.
"Bread!" cried the man at the win
dow.
The king’s man lifted the sash and
tossed out a bright riband saying, "A
present from the king."
The peasant snatched the thing np.
A legend was embossed in gold, say
ing:
"The king can do no wrong.”
So the priest and philosopher had
written it always. It had been wrought
out of the wisdom of ages. It must
be so.
"But there he is eating," said the
peasant, "and here I am starving. No
more philosophy for me. I am going
to eat."
In a few years all the peasants in
France were eating—but the king was
dead.
This is the proposition you aro thus
made ready to hear.
“Those seeking to distroy freedom’s
army.”
Caesar wished no honor save to com
mand his soldiers. He aided the repub
lic of Rome. Napoleon was not emper
or until he had been general-in-chief.
The emperor of Germany today would
surrender all title, honor and property,
in the name of liberty or any other n ame
rather than give up the chiefship of the
Prussian legions.
Hardly credible is the truth that the
stauding army of the United States—
-100,000 strong—could decide the fate of
this republic. Daesar crossed the Rubi
con with fewer 'j.en. Sixty thousand
Europeans have chased the empress of
400,000,000 Chinamen off her throne.
Nations wager their liberties on the
turn of a battle and 100,000 men make a
terrible contest. How few fighting men
have changed the destines of the world.
—Populist Journal.
Oak Trees;
Care of Forests.
li'By Mrs. W. H. Felton.
In Atlanta Journal.
There has been immense waste of
fine timber in this southern country—
perhaps equally as great in‘ the north
and west when the land was first cleared
—but. I oan myself recollect when land
was being cleared and the wood was
then all burned, the great oaks and
smaller ones in what was called “log
heaps,” A “log-rolling” was as com
mon as a “corn shucking” or a “house
raising.”
In later years the waste of pine tim
ber in lower Georgia sickens one to
see and remember. It looks like van
dalism. Where small slim pines have
been tapped for turpentine there is al
ways enough rosin left on the tree to be
easily ignited when the dry grass catch
a fire.
Then these trees burn so nearly in two
that they fall on the earth and rot if not
entirely burned up.
On our journey to the State Agricul
tural society at Dublin, we saw dozens
of immense timbers, long and perfect,
laid near the line of railroad. They had
been roughly hewn out and I was told
they were rafted to Brunswick; or, per
haps, carried by rail, where they were
shipped to foreign countries to make
masts for vessels.
I looked regretfully at these giants of
the forest thus laid low, aud I knew they
1 would never be replaced ou the soil where
Winder Foundry
and
Hachine Works
Is One Of The New Enterprises Of The
Growing City Of Winder.
This isone of the best equipped Machine and
Foundry Works in the state and is prepared to do all
kinds of work, such as building and repairing of
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW and SYRUP
MILLS, GINS and ail kinds of Mackinery.
Orders will be attended to promptly and all work
guaranteed,
Send your work to us and we will give you satis
faction.
Winder Foundry
AND
Machine Works.
they had been growing sinoe primeval
earth had begun to apront acorns or
young pines.
Bat it is especially sad to see an
oak which has been growing in the
home place for time unknown—maybe
hundreds of years—cut down and dis
tryed wantonly in this era of onr his
tory. The old song, "Woodman, Spare
That Tree." has alway been a touch
ing appeal to the human heart wherever
read.
There is silent dignity and majesty
in the noble oak which looks down
on the pigmy at its base and bears its
own death and mutilation without com
plaint.
This silent witness of storms, raging
elements, earthquakes, wars, downfalls
of nations, upheaval oi kings and king
doms, death and decay, has stood unmov
ed and watched the remorseless stream
of time carry whole generations to the
tomb.
Spreading its giant limbs on every
side of the countless birds of the
air made safe homes in the leafy
brunches.
The little blossoms at its base
were sheltered from the strong sun
light and the frailest fern spread
its tiniest fond in tender beauty and
grace.
In all its noble life the mammoth
tree had been a benefactor to the
great and small of animate life
within its reach. Not a single note
of evil ever distorted its whisper
ing.-, in breez9 or gale; never in storm
or shade had it failed to welcome the
passer- by.
Overlooking the earth in majestic
strength, it only nodded its head in sym
pathy with its comrades of hill and dale
as the winter winds swept through its
branches with domoniac fury and cased
each limb with an icy shield of sleet and
frost.
As the springtime came, with soft airs
and gentle showers, these monarchs of
the forest hastened to bud and leaf in
gracious rivalry with the smaller shrub
and bush. i
Content to stand in its place of
strength with grandeur and dignity, the
giant oak continued to send its root
lets deeper and deeper into mother
earth and its veins were thrilled with
annual springtime eagerness as the sap
started on its way to every twig and
nascent bud of its vast anatomy. Pa
tient, beautiful, noble in purpose and
effort, this grand old oak falls before
the axe, aud perhaps the owner of the
axe gives not a single thought of this
continous growth of centuries, the
beautiful symmetry of trunk and limb,
the delicacy of bud and leaf, the marvel
ous precision of wood and fiber, and the
monarch of the forest soon lies prone
upon the earth, bereft of life aud liber*
ty, doomed to death aud decay forever
more.
“Oh! woodman, spare that tree!”
Eugene Torres is a section hand at
Redlands, Cal., living in a shanty not
fit for a rich man’s dog, close to the
tracts, of course, in the lowest, cheap
est part of any city. His chiid was
killed by a train. He was denied the
right to sue the company, or even try
the case to see if the company had neen
negligent, because he had not $5 with
which to pay his share of the fees of the
court stenographer! And justice is free
to all in liberty-loving man’s country!
Let’s all yell for expanding the benefi
cent laws over other people!—Ex.
National Platform.
The People’s Party of the United
States, assembled in national conven
tion this tenth day of May, 1800, affirm
ing onr unshokon belief in the cardinal
tenets oj the People’s Party, as setforth
in Omaha platform, and pledging our
selves anew to continued advocacy of
those grand principles of human liberty
until right shall triumph over might
and love over greed, do adopt and pro
claim this declaration of faith:
First—We demand the initiative and
referendum and the imperative man
date for such changes of existing fun
damental and statute law as will ena
able the people in their sovereign ca
pacity to propose and compel the enact
ment of such laws as they desire; to re
ject such as they deem injurious to their
interests and to recall unfaithful publio
servants.
Second—We demand the public own*
ership and operation of those means of
communication, transportation and pro
duction which the people may elect,
such as railroads, telegraph and tele
phone lines, coal mines, eto.
Third—The land, including all natur
all sources of wealth, is heritage of the
people, and should not be monopolized
for speculative purposes, and alien own
ership of land should be prohibited. All
land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of their actual
needs, and all lands now owned by
aliens should be reclaimed by the Gov
ernment. and held for actual settlers
only.
Fourth—A scientific and absolute pa
per money, based upon the entire
wealth and population of the nation not
redeemable in any specific commodity,
but made a full legal tender for all debts
and receivable for all taxes and publio
dues and issued by the Government
only without the intervention of banks,
and in sufficient quantity to meet the
demand of commerce, is the best cur
rency that oan be devised; but until
such a financial system is secured,
which we shall press for adoption, we
favor the and unlimited coinage of
both silver and gold at the legal ratio of
16 to 1.
Fifth—We demand the levy and col
lection of a graduated tax on incomes
and inheritances and a constitutional
amendment to secure the same, if nec
essary.
Sixth—We demand the election of
President, Vice President, Federal
judges and United States senators by
direct vote of the people.
Seventh—We are opposed to trusts
and declare the contention between the
old parties on the monopoly question is
a sham battle and that no solution of
this mighty problem is possible without
the adoption of the principles of publio
ownership of public utilities.
QUESTION ANSWERED.
Ye3, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the civ
ilized world, Your mothers’ and grand
mothers’ never thought of using any
thing else for Indigestion or Biliousness.
Doctors were scarce, and they seldom
heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Prostra
tion or Heart failure, etc. They used
August Flower to clean oat the system
and stop fermentation of undigested
food, regulate the action of the liver,
stimulate the nervous and organic ac
tion of the system, and that is all they
took when feeling dull aud bd with
headaches and other aches. You only
need a few doses of Green’s August
Flower, in lignid form, to make you
satisfied there is nothing serious the
matter with you. Sample bottles at
Winder Drug Cos.