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MISIIET Official Organ Ordinary. CTfVk'ial '-Kuan or winder! Pl HI ISHP.I> KV’KKY THI’KSDAY EVKNINM JEVTKBSON OFFICE: With the OidiDkij in ti e Court Hous P. W. Quattlebaum will represent the paper An i take subscriptions. Subscription Fwates- Year, - - - SI.OO A ~G. LAMAR, Editor ar.d Publisher. THU RSI A i NOVEMBER 15. 1900. Lives of some men oft remind ns If we had but half their Rail, We could loaf, too, and behind us "-Leave Dot any tracks at all.—Ex. A solid north is too big a thing to tackle. Kentucky went democratic and Ne braska republican. The newly elected governor, of Ala bama, is critically ill. Broker is not us big a man among democrats as he was two weei-s ago. Symposiums on ‘'The Future of the Democratic Party” are now in order by its defunct leaders. The widow of Jesse James, the noted south western bandit, died at her home in Kansas City this week. Gainesville has a population of only 4,882. By the next oensus Winder will be a larger city than the above place. The Standard Oil share* are worth S7OO each. No wonder the Georgia leg islator thought it was time to blow 7 out the gas=. Instead of taking the Constitution’s advice to plant turnips, the farmer should Ls certain to plant wheat enough to have biscuits anotner year. Pam Jones hits the legislature some hard licks, especially those members who went to the Valdosta fair and took on too much and had a big row ou the train. Col. PhillG. Byrd has resigned as Ad jutant General of Georgia and Govern or Candler has appointed Col. James W. Robinson, of Cobb county to suc ceed him. The democratic leaders are terribly dislocated on the result of the election. They don’t know whether it is best to REORGANIZE or to remain DISOR GANIZED. From the result on the flth, James K. Jones ought to be able to tell them what is inevitable. Capt. Robert. J. Lowry, one of the bankers of Atlanta, says in an inter view with the “New York Tribune,” that the only thing that keeps Georgia democratic is the race question. He says that if this fear is removed, the solid south will beoome but a memory. The ante-elect iou predictions of Chair man Jameskay Jones are enough to bring the tears from any devoted fol lower of disorganized democracy who was so considerate as to file them away for future reading and edification. Two votes were cast here for the National Prohibition ticket. Both gen tlemen were prominent business nun and consistent prohibitionists. We thought there were a goodly number < t prohibitionists in Winder until the bal lots were eouuted, but the result told the tale and it was revealed *o the world that there were only two. IBIIDINMAIM It is the World’s Experiment Station in Progress. MR. HENRY D. LLOYD, THE WELL KNOWN AUTHOR, RECENTLY RETURNED From that Free Country and Writes in Glowing English of its Systems. Henry D. Lloyd in Medical World. Mr. Henry D. Lloyd, who has recent ly returned from New Zealand and is ow writing a book about, it. calls it the world’s experiment station in social science. The Liberals of New Zealand, who have for several years controlled the government, have acted ou the fun damental principles: hirst, that ail legislation shou’d be in the interest of the people as a whole, and not in the interest of any class us against the whoh ; and. second, that large amount!' of property in few hands are contrary to the public interest. They have made it a definite purpose that there shou and be no millionaires and no paupers in the country. And thev have sucoeeded so well that the movement towards concentration ol wealth, which was in full swing a few years ago, has ceased to exist as a factor in national life, and the tide has been turned toward wealth distribution audthe ei richment of ttie entire community. The means by which this remarkable evolution his been accomplished are as follows: 1. Aboat twenty years ago a large part of the public lauds were withdrawn from sale and reserved for perpetual lease by the state ou rentals tube read justed every twenty-one years on the value ol the land, exciusire of improve ments made by oenauts, 2. It was enacted that no one should buy or lease public laud unless he were prepared to settle ou the land and cul livate it. • :T 3. No purchases, person or company is allowed to acquire more than 320 acres with his pnor possessions. -i. To stop laud speculation by taking the profit all out o: it, the law nine years ago adopted John Stuart Mill’s plan of taking ironi land holaers, in the form of taxes, all future increase of laud values (which o course does not include improvements made by ten ants ) 5. To break up large estates a.ready iu existence two measures were adopted: (a) A special tax was put on. large holdings. The ordinary land tax is one penny in the pound. The graduated begius with 5,000 pounds at one-eighth in the pound and rises by eighths of a penny, till it is two pence iu the pound fcr an owner whose land has unim proved value of $21(,000 or more, so that the total land tax of a holding of $210,000 or more would be three pence in the pound, or three times the ordi nary tax for holdings below $5,000 Large estates were reliable to resump tion by the State, ou application of per sons ready to lease the laud from the government at rentals amounting to 5 per cent ou the price at which it should be assessed by the Compensation court. The state issues bonds at 3 per cent, and the 5 per cent rentals pay off the interest and the principal. Some thirty estates have been ‘ resumed” under the law. On© of the largest recently taken was worth $1,500,0(0 and is now d(yid ed.amoug resident farmers, who, with their families, number about 1,000 peo pie. A special absentee tax w%s also enacted to make it unpleasant for for eigners, or persons living ic foreign countries, to hold New Zealand lands This tax amounts to an addition of 20 per cent upon the graduated tax levied as above stated, and is applmd wher ever the owner has not resided iu New Zealand for three years. 7. To prevent mortgage slavery the government makes loans to farmers cn easy terms, as Gladstone did in Ireland. Millions of dollars have been borrowed by the farmers to pay off pre existing private mortgages, calling for interest higher than that required by the gov ernment. 8 Old age pensions were establish* and in 1898. All persons over sixty-five yejrs old, long resident in the country, and of good character, are entitled to a pension of S9O a year if they need it. 9 State life insurance has been in operation since 1869. The insurance is safe and cheap. It is on the mutual plan, all profits being divided among the assessed. 10. Natianal ownership and operation of railroads has been in full swing in New Zealand for twenty years. There are no rebites, discriminations or fa vors with persons with, “pull.” The government of the day can neither pro cure the appointment nor the dismissal of a railway employe of any grade" The whole body of employes is under civil servicore gulatious which are thoroughly enforced. There has consequently been no trouble with patronage. New Zea land pays no dividends ou watered stock and no excessive interest on bonds. She has no railroad millionaires or lobbies. The profits go to the public treasury and tbe roads are run *o serve the peo ple. The have been built and equipped for $39,000 a mils, tho’ it is a mountainous country, and wages and materials are both vory high. Work on the railro ids is carried ou by co-opera tive troops of workmen who take a sec tion together and divide the contract payments (which are liberal) equally among the members of the group. 11. The telegraph and telephone also belong to the state. The cost of send ing a message in Now Zealand is less than half what it i< with us A mess age can be sent 1,000 miles lor 12 cents. Excluding the Indians, about one six teenth o; the while, the people send four messages each per year, or four times as many per head as onr people send. Every telegraph operator over there is a pub.ic officer, unremovable except for cause, sworn to secrecy, and subject to punishment as felon should he divulge the contents of a message. Each message is numbered when re ceived and dispatched, the exact time is noted upon it, and no onv, no matter from or to whom sent, can obtain pre cedence over an earlier one. 12. A progressive income tax is estab lished* Ou any sxcess above the first taxable 1,000 pounds the tax is one shill ing in the pound. 13. To establish and maintain a liv ing wage, and to secure just settlement of disputes between employers and em ployes, compulsory arbitration was adopted several years ago and has work ed so well that even the employers are now lorgely favorable to it, because it gives them certainty, peace and pro tection against the cutting of wages by unscrupulous rivals. There have been no strikes or lockouts in New Zealand since this law went into effect five years ago. 14. Public employment agencies have been established iu recognition of the right to work, 15. The eight hour day has been made the legal working day there. 16. There are no spoils of office. The civil service rules include all officials except members of the cabinet and judges o. the higher c -ur s 17. Nominations are made by the people directly through petitions signed by the requisite number voters in the district, and between the time of nomi nation- and elections the candidates go about the district, meeting groups of voters face to face and answering ques tions that are freely and earnestly put to them The result of this system and the civil service rules is, that partisan ship has far less hold in New 7 Zealand than in America, and that political •‘riDgs” and ‘bosses” are unknown. Iu that Republic, the common people are more truly represented in the govern ment than is the case of most of our Stares. 17. Iu 1883 New Zealand gave wo men tii e right to vote on the same terms as men, and Mr. Lloyd says the women do vote in larger proportions than the men The results have been the diffus ion of wealth, education of labor, puri fication of government, substantial free dom form the evils of p. ivate monopoly wonderful prosperit , and tne turning of the tide of population rroin city to the country. Iu fact it’s a government that legislates for man and not the dol lar; that judges ihc desirability of laws by their effect ou the great body of the people rather than by their effect on cap ital, There is a government of the peo ple and for the people, which we have been trying to pound into the heads of the partisan bound, orders taking, boss loving, band wagon admirers of Ameri- ca for years and years. Read this over, until you get it clear thro’ your politi cally befuddled, man worshiping brain, then ask yourselves where you have been for the last 25 years, to allow the dollar to become greats than the man, in a country which thor tell us is the most intellectual, highest civilized country in the world, and supporting the most barbarous systems of gov ernment of any civilized country on earth. Money to Loan. We negotiate loans on improved farms, payable in five years in an nual installments. Interest 7 per cent. Call and see us at Athens, Ga. Shackelford & Cos. A WINNING COMBINATION! New Goods! ♦ Best Material! Moderate Prices! give usTcalil Here in our New riillinery Store are plenty 0 beautiful creations in New Fall and Winter Millinery Hats are now arriving such as would warm the heart of every woman, and win admiration. DRESS GOODS! ~~ Those who have inspected this line, declare them to be Strictly Xev in color, which is the key-note to their ready sale. Our line o Meltons, Venetians, Broadcloth, Homespun, Polka Dot, Heuriet tas, and many other styles that are not surpassed anywhere. JACKETS. A beautiful new line just received TO-DAY. In all the new cuti and colors —those Jackets trimmed in applique—the very thing yoi want. Shoes, Clothing, Hats, Overcoats, And. in fact, anything you want, can be found at our New Store. A1 we ask is a call, and we know 7 you w 7 ill say with the others, that J. G. PUETT & CO.’S Is the place to Trade, Yours respectfully, A. D. HcCURRY, Manager. Winder Foundry and Machine Works Is One Of The New Enterprises Of The Growing City Of Winder. This is one 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 r B 3YRUP MILLS, GINS and ail kinds„of Machinery. Orders will be attended to promptlyjjand all work guaranteed, Send your work to us and we will |give you satis faction. Winder Foundry AND Machine Works. New Millinery Store. We take pleasure in announcing to our friends and the public gen erally that we have opened, at the stand formerly occupied by the Bank of Winder, a CHOICE SELECTION of Up=to=date Millinery Goods, Embracing all the latest styles and nobbiest novelties of the season. Call, examine our stock, and you can be suited iu goods, while our prices cannot be beat. JEWELRY- We are adding to our Jewelry Department, aud in Watchs, Clocks, Silverware n Etc., can show you a choice Selection, at the very Lowest Prices Give us a call. J. GARRISON