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VOL. XV.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Columbus Enquirer is very
much improved under its new man
agement. It is one of the most
readable and reliable journals in the
state and is doing a great good for
Columbus.
Mr. John King, of Columbus, a
gentleman well known to our readers
died very suddenly at Birmingham
Tuesday while on a visit to relatives
in that city. He was a public spirit
ed man, generous and kind, and his
death is greatly regretted by a wide
circle of friends.
The safe ot Mr. Tom Williams
was burglarized Wednesday night
at Greenville %nd about $1,500 in
cash : and several watches taken from
t The Vindicator says that opin
ions differ as to whether it was the
work of experts or not, Hamil
ton’s experience last night will prob¬
ably settle the doubt.
The South Georgia Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
meets on the 14th at Sandcrsville. It
will be a very interesting session as
many changes will hav; to be r made
in the present appointment of preach¬
ers under the rule of the conference
that forbids the return of a pastor to
a church after a service of four years.
Speaker Carlisle in his address to
the house last Monday, upon assu
romg the speakership, outlined the
present demands of the country very
clearly. The present congress may
by acting promptly upon his suggest¬
ions save the country from impend¬
ing trouble and insure the success of
the democratic ticket next fall. Let
us hope that legislation looking to a
reduction of the present protective
tariff will meet with no opposition
from democratic ranks.
The Macon Telegraph has discov
ered the gui t of Tom Woolfolk in
the nervousness of his finger tips.
This is a very little thing to convict
one of murder on, but the Telegraph
some time since pronounced Tom
guilty and it seems bent now on do-
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
; ing all in its power to assist the state’s
attorney in proving him so. The
I Telegraph is far too good a paper to
cater to public clamor in such style,
A P ut,l ic gazette should be as free
from bias . as the judge upon the
bench, if it would achieve the lnfla
ence to which it is entitled and main¬
tain that dignity which an unbiased
public requires of it.
Until farmers make their farms
self supporting; until they can raise a
crop without the yea or nay of the
banker or the merchant, they may
band togerher and form all sorts of
alliances, but they will find when
these have vanished like the mist be¬
fore the morning sun that they are
no better off than they were before.
If you cannot produce corn, oats,
wheat, hay, pork and a dozen other
farm products for less money than
you can buy them you have missed
your calling, or you need to join
some organization to teach you. Any
organization that offers to teach more
than this in the primary department
is to be avoided.
The message of President Cleveland
seems to have struck a tender spot
somewhere in the anatomy of the At¬
lanta Constitution. That journal has
not one word of praise for the very
able document and would evidently
review it in no. complimentary terms
if there was a possibility of approval
^ rom ils mal1 )' readers. But there s
the rub. Its readers generally are
democrats and the message is true
democratic doctrine, so that it now
realizes what a lonesome business it
is to preach republican doctrine to
an honest lot of democrats. We as¬
sure the Constitution of our esteem
ed consideration and beg to assure it
that the front gate is not even latch¬
ed, and a cordial welcome and a front
seajt await it upon its return to the
fold it has forsaken. This last met
aphor is a little mixed, but our es
teemed contemporary knows how
easy it is to get things mixed some
times and it is allowed to go in as a
sort of assurance that the first fellow
to step on our erring brother’s corn
when he gets back will not be one
that has never strayed off himself.
HAMILTON, GA„ DECEMBER 9,1887.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE,
The message of President Cleve
land laid before congress last Tues
day is short, but able and pointed.
He has an honest way always#f go¬
ing directly to the subject in hand
and as he thinks the condition of the
federal treasury deserving of serious
and early consideration, he devotes
his message to that end.
The revenues of the government
are largely in excess of all demands
upon it. The surplus in the treasury
by the end of the present fiscal year
will be upwards of $i 5 o,ooo,ooofrom
the present sources of revenue and
such an amount withdrawn from the
channels of commerce and hoarded
uselessly in the treasury vaults would
bring serious financial trouble if not
disaster to our whole people.
He suggests the two ways of over¬
coming such a calamity. The first
by increasing the annual appropria¬
tions he deems fraught with much
danger. Already the expenses of the
government are too heavy for the
welfare of the people and to increase
them would be to tax the common
people too heavily.
The reduction of the government
revenues is the other and the safer
way to overcome the impending
trouble. One source of revenue is
from internal taxes. T 1 ese are upon
articles of general consumption, it is
true, but upon articles that cannot be
classed as necessities. To remove
the tax from these articles would in
no way improve the condition of the
great masses of the people. The
better way will be to reduce the im¬
port tax upon articles that enter into
every day needs of the people. This
reduction should be made in such a
way as to do as little harm to the
home manufacturer as possible, but
it should be made at once to relieve
a people overburdened with taxes.
The message elaborates these points
and must challenge the admiration of
every one who is opposed to monop¬
olies that build up the rich and op¬
press the poor.
AS YOU LIKE IT.
The way to build up a town is to
talk it up and the way to pull it down
is to talk it down. You can do eith-
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
er just as you please. The recent
whiskey fight in Atlanta shows noth
ing more clearly than that the man
who is disposed to talk up his city or
run it down can find plenty of mate¬
rial at hand to suit his purpofe. The
speeches made during the Atlanta
campaign on one side showed the
city very prosperous; those made up¬
on the other just as clearly establish¬
ed the fact that it was not prospering
as it should.
So it is with every place. The
chronic growler will alwas und plenty
of cause to keep him always growl
ing, while the hopeful citizen will a:
ways tiptoe till he gets a glimpse of
the silver lining to the darkest cloud.
It is for you to determine which po¬
sition is the most profitable. There
are in every community but these
two classes—those who would build
up and those who pull down. The
former predominating, the communi¬
ty improves; the latter getting the
more powerful a retrogade movement
is inevitable.
It’s not going to pay you to growl
about hard times unless you want
more property than you have now in
Hamilton and we doubt its paying
you even then.
For the Hamilton Journal.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Rev. Dr. Martin, of Columbia, S.
C., in a letter to Re*. G. G. Smith,
published in the Wesleyan Christian
Advocate, relating to the Broad Riv¬
er circuit, in 1828, has this to say of
Sunday Schools :
And now, my dear George, can
you believe it! that in all this large
circuit of 875 members there was not
one Sunday-school, nor do I remem¬
ber to have heard the subject of S. S.
mentioned during the year, In fact,
up to that time I had never seen a
S. S. The first I ever saw, I, aided
by a Presbyterian layman, organized
in the court house at Hamilton, Har¬
ris county, Georgia, in 1829.
It is gratifying that Harris county
action in the great Sunday
work at such an early date
has maintained her position to
day.
The failure of Messrs Forbes &
NO. 78.