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m :■ rrc X 1 v •*V .. . '• ■ V, i ,. l ■*> •K-’g' j JFC W illia m* V* a 1 I tHr'tf ]-■ t 1/ » - - r m l ' • #» ♦ * SB® m '- VOL. XVI. PUBLISHER’S NOTICE. Monday, the 16th instant, we will be prepared to issue our Garden Seed Premium to the Journal’s subscribers. For 1888 we are going to publish the best and most readable paper we have ever published One Dollar, and give in addition, free to every sub scriber, a dozen papers of fresh garden seed. Come in and get them. EDITORIAL NOTES. The infant Industries is a genuine baby. Without govern ment support they say it must die. i 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. — .11.. I. ■ ——— II - — 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 1 afford to pay tax than articles of food or clothing. m 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. ---- 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.