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. 1 1 V ftl m ritK fit r V, j % mss* # if •v . ' * j % • ✓ . i- •v •a / \ jfc'S, . -f* -i h 4 ^4 m J T V 4 .■* a*. v /»" 1 ■Si wm C-A t n ■ -~\r ■>. •;<> » I £ V. 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 * NO.