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VOL. XVI.
PUBLISHER’S NOTICE.
Monday, the 16th instant,
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1888 we are going to publish
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The infant Industries is a genuine
baby. Without govern
ment support they say it must die.
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The speech of Senator Brown on
the 'internal revenue tariff treads
very closely upon the heels of Hon.
>A. O. Bacon’s letter on the same
[subject.
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Mr. Greeley, dear sir: A blizzard
4ft Montana doesn’t necessarily imply
fa cold wave in Georgia. An east
'wind is not easy to set back, when
At humps itself.
H Vick’s Floral Guide is one of the
handsomest annuals published, and
the number for 1888 is up to the
highest standard. It should be in
hands of all who cultivate flow
>ers.
The Philadelphia & Reading rail¬
according to the annual state
nt of the New York stock ex¬
change, was bought and sold twent)
over last year. This looks
speculation run mad.
Congressman Randall has a new
C^tndbaby, his first. A tax ridden |
hopes it will supplant the in
industries in the affections of its
grandpa and thus restore to
country a united democracy.
Woman is the suggestive title of a
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
PROPRIETOR.
new illustrated magazine published
in New York city. The January
number is on our table, and from a
glance at its table of contents, it is
a valuable acquisition to the maga¬
zine family.
Dr. J. C. C. Blackburn, one of the
worthiest products of Harris county,
has resumed the editorial manage¬
ment of the Madison Madisonian.
He is one of the most versatile and
gifted writers on the weekly press,
and we are glad to see him again in
harness.
The Buena Vista Patriot reached
us this week so greatly improved that
we hardly recognised it. It is now,
by long odds, the handsomest weekly
that reaches this office. It is edited
with commendable zeal and ability,
and its good looks are in keeping
with its general contents.
The Atlanta Constitution in op¬
posing President Cleveland's propo¬
sition to reform the tariff, asserts that
clothing is cheaper in Atlanta than
it is in London. If so, why not re¬
duce the tariff on clothing ? The
effect, if we understand the reason¬
ing of the Constitution, would be to
raise the price, which, of course,
would benefit American labor, which
is the highest aim of the Constitu¬
tion.
The government or the monopo¬
lists derive revenue from a tariii on
upwards of 4,000 articles. Many of
these articles, such as salt, sugar and
wool, enter into the every day needs
of the people, and to place them on
the free list would be to help the
poor, while curtailing a surplus rev
enue embarrassing to every interest
We agree with President Cleveland
that tobacco and whiskey can better
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afford to pay tax than articles of
food or clothing.
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Joel Chandler Harris has never
been the same man he was since the
time he nursed a carbuncle while he
took in the beauties of Boston four
or five years ago. His letters at the
time showed him to be a country
rais;d boy in town, and he was so
awed by what he saw and the car-
HAMILTON, GA., JANUARY 13,1888.
buncle was so unnerving, that as he
stood in the shadow of Trinity church
had it said “boo!” he would certainly
have fainted. But while he has been
a little more etherialized, as Jit were?
ever since, he is just as loyal to the
south as ever. The critics who inti¬
mate anything to the contrary are
envious of his growing fame or are
actuated by some base motive.
Secretary Lamar is considered one
of the ablest and most liberal of the
statesmen of the south, and the bit¬
ter fight waged by the republicans
against his confirmation as supreme
court justice is almost inexplicable.
It would be entirely so, if we did
not believe it a deep laid scheme to
revive the war issue in order to pre
vent an issue on the tariff. So long
as the protected class is as largely in
the minority as it now is, it will not
do to submit the question to the
people simply upon its merits. War
animosities and sectional hate must
prevent such an issue, Hence the
bitter fight against Secretary Lamar.
He will be confirmed, but the fight
will not end with his confirmation.
Captain Stanford relates an anec¬
dote illustrating the practical work¬
ing of the protective tariff, that we
would commend to the protectionists
of this section, if there were any.
But as there is none, we give it for
the edification of our tariff reform
readers. It runs thus : In the ante
^ e ^ urn ^ a y s > w ^en the whigs and
democrats were divided u P on lhe
tarlff < l“ esl,on * the P ro P ri «° r ° f a
Harris county m,U had l *° to11 d
large the h,gh . tar,ff
es - one ,or pat '
rons and the other smal1 ,0 to11 the
corn t *' e ^ ree ,raders ' " r ' ien a
high tariff patron asked for an expla
nation > the miller exp!alned ,hat the
toil he took was but a tariff for ma
king com into meal, and according
to the high tariff theortsts, the higher
the tariff the cheaper the goods; so,
following out the same theory, the
deeper the corn is tolled, the more
meal it must make.
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The papeis of south Georgia ar&
all agreed that the year just closed
has been one of great prosperity to
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
that seetion of the state, while the
papers from other parts of the state
say the year has been a hard one.
The larger cities have prospered, for
they have reached the point where
their prosperity is not dependent up
on the success of the agricultural
element immediately adjacent. There
was a time when the trade of Macon,
Atlanta and Columbus was almost
entirely derived from the territory
within a radius of from fifty to seven¬
ty miles. To day they could give up
entirely the trade of this same tern
tory and their prosperity would not
be seriously affected. They have
manufacturing industries, some cf
w |,ich have the civilized world for :i
field. These enterprises employ la
borer9 in supplying whose wants, other
local trades and interests are built
up. South Georgia and the cities
are piosperous because they have a
diversity of interests and industries.
Middle and upper Georgia must Lam
the lesson here taught and they will
become prosperous. The farmer de¬
pendent upon a single interest can
not prosper, nor can the community
dependent solely upon the farmer’s
trade prosper. The farmer to attain
the acme of success must have some
product of his farm at all seasons on
the market, and the community that
prospers must have more than one
money season a year.
The present year is to be one of
much moment, especially to the
people of the south. It will deter¬
mine whether we are to have anoth
er four years of prosperity under a
democratic administration, or wheth¬
er we must fight for prosperity with
those in power whose highest aim is
to defeat our attempts to regain the
commercial ascendency which we
held before the war.
The administration of President
Cleveland has been entirely satisfac
tory to the great mas? of those who
put him in office, and has won the
conservative business men who were
tired of the republican party, but vo
ted for its candidate fearing a change
of administration in its effects upon
property values. He has done so
well that bis unaninous nomination
as the democratic standard bearer is
NO. 2.