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VOL. XVI.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Mr. Blaine says these trusts are
private matters. Perhaps they are,
but when a private trust affects a pub¬
lic “intrust,” then it becomes a pub¬
lic concern. The trusts must go.
Who wants some stock in the “Har¬
ris County White Oak Cotton Bag¬
ging Factory ? ” Applicants will be
let in on the ground floor—now. The
price of stock will advance when we
join the trust.
A lot of farmers in middle Georgia
are packing their cotton in wood. Bag¬
ging for a bale costs 75 cents, This
is twenty-five cents more than last
season. The boards necessary to
cover a bale will not cost over twenty
five cents and they will be worth
more where the cotton is sold than
they are here.
A party of negroes are digging for
gold in the lower part of Bibb county,
said to have been buried there by
John A. Murrell. The amount is
$75,000, as certified to the leader in
a dream, the hole is 38 feet deep deep
or was on Monday morning and the
diggers were still hopeful, although
they had been digging nearly two
weeks for the treasure. There is
plenty of gold in Georgia soil, but it
was not buried there by Murrell or
any of his gang and the best way to
get it out is with a turn plow or sweep
and a Georgia mule.
The Atlanta Constitution’s Wash
ing correspondent and Senator Joseph
E. Brow n do not see how the bagging
trust could be hurt by placing gagging
on the free list. They say if the du¬
ty is removed that the trust will sim¬
ply be enlarged to include the import¬
ers. But they fail to tell us w r hat is
to prevent any individual from im
porting all he needs or can sell. The
-farmers of Harris county want 100
000 yards of bagging. If there was
no duty they could send a man to
England to buy what they need and
bring it back with him and then save
money enough in the operation to pay
their state taxes for 1888. Let Sen-
JOSEPH L.DENNIS,
- PROPRIETOR.
ator Brown or any other protectionist
figure on this and see if we are not
right.
There is no more pernicious policy
than to do evil that good may come.
The man who does it or advocates the
doing of it loses rH • glit of
the purpose for which he was created.
It has been suggested that the best
way to break the bagging trust is for
the farmer to hold his cotton for thir
ty or sixty days. If this would affect
only the trust it would be good advice.
But the farmer who has obligations
to meet should meet them at all
ards. His credit is at stake and it is
more to his interest to sustain it than
it is to break a dozen trusts. “Be just
and fear not” is a good axim. The
merchant needs the money that he
may meet his o&igations and you do
him an injury to withhold it,although
the end you aim at may he laudable,
The best way to overcome evil is with
good. Let us devise a way to break
the trust if we can, but let us not do
so to our own hurt or to the injury of
those who have served us in our tim&
of need.
Censure is sometimes beneficial.
That person who praises everything
is weak. He is not a greatly better
citizen than the man growls at every¬
thing. The best plan is to have a
purpose in what you say—a laudable,
unselfish purpose—and let your talk
tend to accomplish that purpose. Idle
words are too often pernicious in their
tendency. To build up the commu
nity in which he lives, to get his
neighbors upon a more elevated plane
of life and to add to the material
wealth of all is a purpose that should
actuate every good citizen, The
speculator may seek to prosper by
pulling others dow r n and getting some¬
thing for nothing, but an enlightened
public opinion must consign him to a
level below that of the common gam
bier and slightly above that of the
highway robber. Is he who wantonly
pulls down much better than he who
does so for a selfish end ? Let us
guard our lips lest the habit of evil
speaking grow on us unawares. Pub-
HAMILTON, GA., AUGUST 24,1888.
lie enterprises that we cannot forward
9 substantial let for
m a more way us
ward with an approving word.
Dr. Henjy H. Carlton is the latest
Georgia congressman to be nominated
by acclamation, and this is likely to
be the fortune of the remainder of
them in whose districts conventions
have not yet been held. They all re¬
mained in Washington for the most
of the time while the canvass was go¬
ing on, except Mr. Norwood, who,
after a so i ourn of more than a month
in his district seeking a re-nomination,
had to g ive “P the % ht - 14 seems
to P a ^ bfetter ’ in a P olitical P oint of
view > to sta y in Washington and at
tend to the public business.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun. When the Jour
TTAii was on what our esteemed con
tem P orar y has been pleased to desig
nate at the wron S side ’ one of the
most ultra utteran, ' es H made was to
sn SS est tbat tbe advice given to Mr.
Grimes to come home and look after
his interests was the worst possible,
and to further suggest that his
technic display of patriotism in
clining the call, while it might have
been inspired by the highest motives,
at the same time mapped out a line
of action that was safest from a selfish
standpoint. It affords us pleasure to
see our esteemed brother, when sober
reason has resumed its sway,
back into the right channel.
BAGGING AND THE TRUST.
The combination formed for the
purpose of controlling the sale of cot¬
ton bagging made of jute, which
resulted in advancing the prices
that article about fifty per cent,
prices already remunerative, is likely
to result in good to the cotton grow¬
ers in the southern states. The
agers of the trust have waited before
making the advance until it is too
late for the cotton growler to devise a
remedy this season, but the fact that
they have him in a box has set him
to thinking and there seems to be no
reason now w T hy by another season
the use of jute bagging may not be
entirely discarded.
It is something to defeat a
ing monopolist, but aside from
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.
satisfaction there is in this and the
salutary lessons it would teach, there
are good reasons why other covering
should be used. Among other sub
stitutes a heavy cotton cloth has been
suggested. Small mills can make
this from the cheaper grades of cot¬
ton. These mills can be operated by
the cotton growers themselves. The
machinery once in operation to make
a coarse cloth, the manufacture of
finer grades would naturally follow.
This coarse cloth would be worth
more in New York, Boston or Liver¬
pool than it is here. Jute bagging in
these cities, where the bulk of the cot¬
ton crop is marketed, is fit only for
paper stock. • The discarded cotton
cloth would find a hundred uses. Cot¬
ton packed in it would be handled
with more care than cotton packed as
it is now. A painted house is not
subject to that abuse an unpainted
one is. Handling the cotton with
more care would insure a better sam¬
ple and a better price. Then cotton
bagging would, in finding another use
for our staple product, enhance the
price of it. When cotton was worth
15 cents a pound and upward, cotton
bagging was out of the question, but
when cotton to make it can be bought
at five or six cents per pound,it seems
to be a good substitute for jute.
A covering can be made of white
oak splits. The labor expended in
making a large cotton basket would
make white oak matting for covering
a bale. These baskets are sold in
Hamilton for twenty-five cents, and if
the matting c an be used it may be
made at a cost even less than this by
the use of machinery. Now why is
it not as good covering as jute bag¬
ging ? It is as strong, it weighs little
more, if any, and it can be substitut¬
ed at a saving of fifty cents a bale.
Its manufacture would employ much
labor that now is a waste,so that prac¬
tically it would be a net saving to the
south nearly equivalent to the entire
cost of jute bagging.
Let us think of these things and
investigate the subject. It is too late
to revolutionize things this season
and'any experiments upon a large
scalq may be too expensive, but we
can get practical information enough
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