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AMW,dUS. GA„ SEPT. 28 1907.
KOT -OTEBESTED IN CONSUMERS
The Atlanta Constitution wants to
Know it the freight rate on a stove to ,
a. givnn point, from the Atlanta Stove i
worky, of course, was $1.50 and the
state railroad commission knocked off
fifty cv-nts, where is the benefit to the
con sower when he is asked to pay
$2.50 .vnrjre for the stove than before |
the rate was lowered by the eom
missioa.
The Constitution overlooks the 100 j
per cant, a year dividend the stove
work s make.
Ad) then, what has the commission
got to do with the consumers, any
how: 7 Has it not been shown that
the manufacturers and jobbers get
the benefit of the reduction.
Is there any farmer or retail mer
chant in Sumter, or any other county,
paying less freight hills today than
he did a year ago?
Batiy tor Teddy. Despite all the
tepo? ». from Washington—and doubt
less f.'tesspite much party advice to
the c-ofltrary—he announces that he
will -ipprove .the state constitution of
Ofela?. nina. The means two more De
mocrats in the next United States
senat r
MUST WORK TO SUCCEED ANY
WHERE.
They are going to Start a colony in
gautfcran California “where the negro
will. feme an opportunity to work un
der Sr.vorable conditions.”
EFas- the negro any more favorable
®mli2wnr -to work under there than
fa South Georgia? And does he work
lucre? JXnd will he work any harder
sm his farm there than he does here?
Well, Sh&rdly.
A red without hard, determined, zeal
®us work he can accomplish no more
in. CaiTToriiia than in Georgia.
1 It is fcs> be hoped that when the
©nbar census is taken especial pre
cautions will be taken to find out
exaeMy how many “generals" there ,
are on the island. Their proportion
to the rest of the population would ;
le stß -unusually interesting fact.
YTWSTH HAYING. WORTH ASKING
FOR.
C( . Anderson and Obear, it is now
stared, were not responsible for the
efforts to secure votes for them.
Ton zealous champions of these offi
cers are understood to have sent out
letters requesting support for them.
After all, if a brigadier generalship
is wiwrtk having it is worth going af
ter. So where’s the harm if Ander
son and Obear did really endeavor
ha eziust support for themselves?
______________________________ t
Three Cuban generals have been ar
westr*} charged with conspiracy to
fncit*- a revolt. The Cuban “general”
eut oi a job is a mighty lonesome
creature. Uncle Sam will probably
sniff out the revolt if one is started.
SOLDMON KNEW A THING OR TWO
ISi'tjy authorities are convinced
that moral suasion has been a failure
inti e New York schools.
The- best persuader known to the
pedc p/gue or parent is generally the
old time birch rod.
Bishop Candler might have added
«5 hi- recent remarks that namby
feanl ism is injuring the schools as
well as the churches.
Aii agent of the Standard Oil Co.,
Trai heem arrested in Ohio for attempt
ing to influence a juror. Is this not
another encroachment on the rights
o£ that corporation?
T!if thrilling information is tele
jgwph’-a all over the country that
Wrs- Harry Thaw has a cold. What
tb£ lor a press association to send
■sat.
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1907.
TRUSTS OR SOCIALISM? WHICH!
Hon. Charles Emory Smith, editor
of the Philadelphia Press, formerly
Post-master-General and minister to
Russia, addressed the bankers at the
Atlantic City convention on the trusts.
He declared that they must he brought
to an end. If it is not done rampant
socialism and social explosion will
be the consequences of neglect. There
is a wide and deep public sensitive
ness on this point, that is swiftly
swelling into a flood that canot be
checked. Said Mr. Smith:
“Men criticise movements for the
sanitation of business life, but the
time has come when a choice must
be made between checking the evils
with which our distended and inflated
organizations are growing more and
more menacing, and leaving them to
run unchecked under the wild ex
cesses of purblind magnates, until
there shall be a popular explosion
and the portents of a lawless social
ism. The time has come to call a
halt, and the President of the United
States, who had the courage to sound
a warning and put on the brakes,
has rendered the highest public ser
vice, not merely to the people, hut to
capital and to the corporations them
selves.”
Public utilities are evidently going
to cut considerable figure in the Ma
con municipal campaign. We will be
surprised, too, if that sleeping car
direct from Macon to Washington does
not also cut a figure. If not we will
feel sure that the Evening News has
finally fallen asleep at its post of
duty.
WHAT WILL HOUSEKEEPERS DO,
THEN?
Housekeepers think of it. Fifty
cent butter is predicted, and along
with it, of course, will come forty
cents a dozen eggs. Where will you
be then?
The butter trust is getting in its
deadly work, and the signs of an ad
vancing market under its maneuvers
are to be seen. The summer has been
a bad one for the cows, the trust
says, and the consumers must pay
the penalty. The egg trust has gath
ered up its millions of eggs, the sum
mer has been a poor one for the hens,
and the consumer must be mulcted.
It has been a bad season, it would
seem, for everything and everybody
but the trusts.
The Washington Post says that
behind the movement that put the kill
ing tax on olemargarine was not
so much the farmers as the magnates
who control the butter supply and
markets. They bluffed congressmen
into believing otherwise. Now they
have the situation in their hands.
Oleomargarine was not unpalatable,
was not unhealthful, and it helped to
kepe the trust from ruuning butter
up to fifty cents a pound.
This is a great country—for every
body but the consumers of necessi
ties.
Winter is again drawing near. This
will afford the Georgian an excellent
opportunity to donate to the orphan
ages of Atlanta those numerous tons
of coal that were not delivered last
year.
The Standard Oil Company is giving
away a pamphlet with every gallon of
oil. The pamphlet gives its side of
the present trouble. This is the first
thing the Standard lias ever given to
a consumer without pay in the whole
of its long career.
CLAIM IS SETTLED
WITHOUT A SUIT
——
Damages Paid For Death of
Chas. Fulford.
It is understood that the Seaboard
Railway has already made full set
tlement in the case of Charles Ful
ford of Americus, who died here
two or three weeks ago as the result
of injuries received while in the em
ploy of the railway company. Mr.
Fulford was fireman aboard a swith
engine in the freight yards here, and
as the result cf his engine colliding
with a car left standing too near
the main line he was so badly scald
ed that death resulted soon thereaf
ter. It is said the sum of SSOOO
was the amount agreed upon in set
tlement of the case.
CHURCH IS GIVEN A
NEW COAT OF PAINT
St. Paul’s Church is Greatly Im
proved.
Painters and decorators have been
at work upon St. Paul’s church, East
Americus, recently, and the general
appearance of the building is vastly
improved with its new roof and new
dress of paint. The interior likewise
has been overhauled and repainted,
j and electric lights put in. The mem
| hers of this congregation and citizens
generally are greatly pleased with
i the improved appearance of their
church edifice.
WHAT OF THE
BUSINESS FUTURE?
Address By Ingalls To The
Bankers.
ECONOMIES MUST BE A RULE
Cincinnati Financier Inclined To Be
Optimistic, But holds That The
Duty of Bankers Is Not To En
courage New Enterprises
or Speculations.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 27.
(Special)—The principal features of
this city, the concluding day of the
American Bankers’ Association were
addresses by Melville E. Ingalls, of
Cincinnati, and John T. P. Knight,
secretary of the Canadian Bankers’
Association. Mr. Ingalls spoke on
“Our Present and Future Prosperity,”
and the subject of Mr. Knight's ad
dress was “Some Evergreen Topics.”
What of the Future?
Said Mr. Ingalls, in part:
“The real question that troubles us
is, what of the future? And here I
am inclined to be optimistic; not
that 1 think for an instant that the
rate of increase for the past five years
can go on for the next five; neither
should we wish it. The railroads
would be swamped with business, the
factories would be forced to work
overtime, and the banks could not
take care of their demands, but there
is a vast difference between this wild,
xcited state of ever-increasing busi
ness and a steady continued progres
sion where each and every one has
what his facilities enable him to do
comfortably, where labor is well em
ployed, and yet not so crowded but
what it can give good service and
fair results. Let us look at some of
the things that have happened late
ly which would lend strength to this
conclusion. First of all we might
consider the sale of New York City
bonds as the turning point in our
finances. It is true that they sold at
a high rate of interest. Every one
knows that with the demands that
are on the capital of this country such
a large sale, even with the credit of
a city as good as New York, would de
mand high interest. One of the good
' tilings about the high rate of interest
I for city bonds which will spread all
| over the country, Is that it will tend
to make our city officers more care
ful in their expenditures. The people
will watch and criticize the same
more, and thereby the extravagance
of municipal expenditure** will lie
checked, and it is time they were
checked, for they have outrun all
reason.
Economies Must Do the Work.
“Then we must put in force econ
omies that wil enable the people to
save and invest their surplus so as
to absorb the large amount of short
term notes that have been put out.
The Financial Editor of the New York
Evening Post answers my inquiry by
saying that between the first of Jan
uary and the first of July, 1907, the
railroads have issued of short-term
notes $580,000,000 —industrial corpora
tions $133,000,000. Here are over
Work while others rest.
Win through shear energy.
The greatest energy-pro
ducing food made from
wheat is
Uneeds Biscuit
the perfect soda cracker.
MSf* _ In moish:: • and
dust proof packages,
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
$700,000,000 that must be provided
l'or; but if the people will make up
their minds that we have passed the
crisis the Savings Banks, Insurance
and Trust Companies and investors
wil soon absorb this large amount and
relieve our banks and individuals so
that they can take care of the cur
rent business of the country with
their funds. We must remember that
they have all been sold. It is only a
question of placing them in the form
of a permanent investment and not
providing new funds.
“It has also been somewhat of a
question hitherto as to what the out
come of our crops would be; now it
is pretty well settled that while they
may not be equal to the bumper crops
of last year they are still above the
average, and with the enormous
amounts carried over there is a great
er surplus than ever before, and
prices for them are so high that it
makes the farmers very rich. Think
of it. Corn at their door bringing 50
cents per bushel, and fair crop from
this year and a large amount from
last year to sell. The result is the
mortgages are being paid off, new
investments are being made, and alto
gether the agricultural community,
which is the real foundation of our
wealth and prosperity, is in * such a
fine condition that it would be almost
impossible to have a long-continued
depression in business in this coun
try.
“Furthermore, you must remember
there is about $1,000,000 per day of
gold going into currency of the world,
of which we get our share, and this is
like cheering the sick man by giving
Mm stimulating and healthv food
that fye needs.
Duty of the Bankers..
“Now what is the duty of the Bank
ers today?
“To furnish readily, and itli cour
age, the currency necessary to move
these crops, to transport them to the
foreign countries, and thus enable
our merchants to pay tlieir debts, and
turn the exchange'in favor of this
country, charging thereafter, a reas
onable rate so that money may at
least have its chance, it had no
chance when rates were going at 3
per cent, and 4 per cent, but with the
standard rate of 6 per cent, all over
the country the banks ought l<> make
a fair return to their stockholders,
and at the same time such, a rate is
not oppressive to business. Six per
cent, money in this Country does not
mean bad business, but good busi
ness. No money ought to be furnish
ed for the enlargement of plants in
the shape of current loans; all ex
tensions should wait until the capital
of the country, seeking pern-ament
investments, could be used. Jhe
banks of this country should set their
face against loans for speculation or
for promotion of enterprises. Let
the new developments wait a little, let
the business people learn that the
extravagance and wild speculation of
the last year or two must stop and
economy must be the rule. I was
once told i nmy younger days by an
older banker, who had been Aerj
successful in the West, that there was
but one way for an individual or
corporation to get rich, and that was
‘by doing without things they want
ed.’ Let the people of this country
apply this rule and they will see how
little time it takes to change busi
ness conditions from their despond
ent and hopeless condition to those of
energy and promise.”
GRAND OPENING
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,
The Big Moving Picture Show at Glover's Opera House will be formally
launched on the above date. We have selected for the initial week the Highest
Class Subjects obtainable, and we are sure they will please the Amusement
Lovers of Americus. “He who runs may Read:”
Are Y r ou an Elk. Inexperienced Chaffeur.
Golden Beetle. Moving Day,
True Unto Death. Nocturnal Five.
Boss Away, Choppers Play. Hobo Hero.
Charlie Paints. How to Cure a Cold.
California Redwmods. Misunderstanding.
Saved by a Melon, Haunted Hotel.
ILLUSTRATED SONQS
Nearly Everybody loves good music and we are offering you the best as
well as the most popular topics of the day. Here they are:
Cheer up Mary. Bonnie Gene.
The Old Cross Roads. Brother Noah.
Good Bye Mamie. and the
SOUTHERN GIRL.
The entertainment w r e offer cannot fail to please.
It is a killer of Dull Care; it is educational and its moral tone is of the
highest quality. Y r ou are cordially invited to visit Glover’s and judge for
yourself
The Hub & Comedy Theatre Co., New York,
MR. HARRY K. LUCAS, Local Manager.
“Bearsfoot”
For all Blood Taints.
PRICESI OR 3FOR $2.50
Made only by
Davenport Drug Co.
Americus, Ga.
NOTHING BUT LONG
STAPLE IS GROWN
Troy Holder Plaits it to Exclu
sion of Others.
Mr. Troy Holder, one of the repres
entative citizens of Stewart county
and large planter, was among the
visitors in Americas yesterday. Speak
ing of crop conditions in his prosper
out county, Mr. Holder said that not
a few farmers were turning attention
to long staple cotton. He has plant
ed it for several years, and so well
pleased is he with results that the en
tire cotton crop on his plantation
this year is long staple varieties, and
the crop is a good one too. Mr. Hold
er sells his long staple cotton for
fifty per cent, greater price than
the short staple brings, and as the
yield is as much per acre the wisdom
of his plan of planting is quite appar
ent. Today short staple cotton of
best variety is worth 11 1-8 cents,
while the long staple brings 18 to
19 cents.
HUNDREDS ADMIRED
HANDSOME DISPLAY
The attraction of greatest interest
yesterday were the display windows
of the Pinkston Co., dressed for the
first time in the fashionable fabrics
of the season. The windows, sixty
feet in length, were indeed gorgeous
in newest fall creations artistically
arranged by Mr. Viquesney and under
numerous electric lights were most
effective. Even last night, despite the
inclement weather, many ladies came
down to -admire the wiridows.