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■’IT1E AMLRJOU UJ^EKL' TIMES-REGOhOER: FRIDAY. AUGUST 21, 1891
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Americus, Ga., August 21, 1891.
Rev. Sam Smali. announces that lie
will again make Atlauta his home, and
will entertain the public through the
columns of The Herald.
The Virginia Kepubllcans wilt make
no nominations this rear. They've got
a bad case of that tired feeling which the
new ballot laws seem to have produced
ou Republicans the country over.
Some startling developments arc
promised by the N’orthcn faction of the
Alliance in the state convention, and it
will he interesting t
ceediugs if that portion of it is give
out.
A CONNEt rirr i woman who had been
four times a widow, although only, ill
years of age, took her fifth husband last
week. Tlie pres, is divided over the
question of which is the braver of the
t wo.
Kansas, it is said, has harvested 00,-
000,000 bushels of wheat and will gather
into its plethoric garners 250,000,000
bushels of coni. Aud for all of this grain
it will receive an unusually go..d ju ice.
Hapjiy Kansas!
ha
1’noE. Huxsti urr lias made money
farming In Georgia, lie jiaid 810 an
acre for land which lie now rents out at
$10 an acre. He says the more he ini-
proved his land aud the more lie spent
on it the greater li
MON El IN CIRC ELATION.
The Augusta Clirouicle, in a recent
issue, has the fullnwing com|>rehcnslve
summary of the financial situation, as
jiertains to the amount of money in clr-
culatlou:
We have no doubt that the country
needs more money per caj-lfa than tlie
amount in circulation, hut if we are to
believe the officials of the I'uited States
treasury, whose business it is to know
tlie actual circulation, an l who must
know better than the picayune jiolitl-
clan who mouths mischief among the
j>eo|de about the baneful effects of con
traction of tlie currency, the volume of
money in circulation is larger than it
lias been in the history of the govern
ment
A short time since a statement was
jiulilished from tlie treasury department
at Washington, covering the amount of
money in circulation for a period of
thirty-one years. We recur to It now
because of the numerous aud oft-rcjieatcu
assertions of jdace-lmuters and office
holders, who are running with and in
juring the farmers by their ignorant and
malicious tirades about the evils of
watch the ro I contraction, when as a matter of fact
w.i c i it pro | jj iere j );Ui j, een a steady iuciease and not
a decrease of tlie currency.
The statement of the treasury depart
meut gives tlie amounts of money lu cir
dilation on the first of July in tho years
In If I, 1805, Inn!) and 1891. Tho com
jiarisons given show that not only the
total volume but the amount per cajdta
have gone on increasing during tlie
|ieriod. It appears that the amount of
money in circulation in 1N(!0 was about
<14:15,000,000, and tlie amouut jier capita
was $15.85. in 1805 there was 872:1,000,000
in circulation, and the jier capita amount
was 820.82. Twenty years later tho cir
culation w as over <1,202,000,000, aud the
jier capita was 823.02, while on January
1 last the amount was 81,520,000,000,
■mgs.
The rainfall expedition that lias been
experimenting at Midland, Tex., claims
to have succeeded twice iu bringing
down rain. Ten hours after tlie explo
sinus clouds gathered and rain fell in
abundance, “the tivst good raiu in sev
eral months.”
Two aeronauts who jumped from bal
loons with parachutes were killed Sat
urday. One was a man named Johnson,
at Tacoma, Wash., the other a girl, An
nie Harkies, who fell near Cincinnati.
The only wonder is that such accideuts
arc not more frequent.
Ex-Czar Reed declares himself for
Mr. Mills, of Texas, in the speakership
race. No doubt lie sincerely liojies to
sec Mills, who would prove an utter fail
ure, as ills successor. Tlie contrast
would verily make a very great mau of
the cx-sjicaker.—Ilirmingliam Nows.
Because of his promise that lion. Pat
Calhoun shall be governor of Georgia
next term, Col. John Temple Graves is
being somowhat berated by tlie press of
the state. These rtbahl writers should
be careful. Col. Graves may lie little,
but he is loaded and set on a hair trig
ger. Ilis nom-de-guerre may yet lie
‘‘Your Uncle Warwick.”—“Old 81."
The Louisville Courier-Journal ex
presses the opinion that wlieu tlie ad
ministration conics to think of it steps
will be taken to discourage rain-making
by exploding dynamite iu tlie clouds,
because if the Democrats discover that
the tests arc successful,they will explode
several hundred pounds of dynamite in
each of the doubtful states on election
day and produce a down-pour of raiu
that will keep the Republican voters
away from the polls.
The sly Uerncr of Monroe was as quiet
as an antediluvian tombstone on the stay
law bill until the result of the Alliance
caucus on the subject was known; and
the next morning ‘‘the champion of the
down-trodden measure” introduced the
following resolution: "Resolved by the
house of representatives of Georgia,
That it is tbo sense of the house that the
passage of a stay law would be unwise
and would be detrimental to the best
interests of the state."
Thebe is every reason in the world
to look for lively times in the near fu
ture. Tho biggest wheat crop ever
grown In this country by probably 25,-
000,000 bushels, and the indications are
that it will be sold for the blggeat price
ever realized. Besides this, all other
crops are good, fine in fact, aud the
measure of our harvests promises to be
full, pressed down and running over.
Our exports will be immense. Money
galore is coming into the country, and
will bring good times with it. Look out
for tho boom!
with <24,10 as the per cajiita allowance,
tlie highest ill tlie history of the United
States. Owing to sliijoneiits of gold to
percentage of earn-1 foreign countries there lias been a dc-
1 cliue since January 1, 1891, not only in
tlie per cajiita amount, but the total cir
culation on tlie 1st inst., noUvitstnndlng
the overflow of gold, was about 81,300,-
000,000, and tho amount jier capita was
823.37. Tlie condition here referred to,
however, is not a permanent one, aud
the statistics of circulation at tlie end of
tlie year will doubtless show a contin
uance of tlie increase which lias been
temporarily checked.
It is true that the national hank circu
lation continues to decline, but the total
amount of all kinds of money in circula
tion continues to increase. We learn
from llradstrcet's that the twelve months
since August 1 of last year witnessed a
decline of about 817,000,000 in tho vol
ume of national bank notes. On the
other band, the total circulation was in
creased by over 808,000,000. Of this in
creased circulation over 832,500,000 con
sisted of gold coin. There was an in
crease of nearly $3,500,000 in subsidary
sil.-cr. There was a falling off in tho
volume of gold certificates amounting to
about 810,700,000. Silver ccrtlflcates,
on tho other hand, show an increase of
about 88,500,000. About 84:1,000,000 of
treasury notes were issued under the
act of July 14, 1$!X). Tlie total circula
tion of all kinds on August 1 amounted
to $1,500,023,812.
The amount of money in circulation
is 824 per capita with a total circulation
of $1,500,000,000. We see no reason
why the total should not lie $3,000,000,-
000, or a per capita circulation of <50,
but people who understand finance and
commerce tell us that it is not ctrcula
tion but credit that does the business of
the country. In other words, that 90
per cent of the business of the United
States is done on credit by means of
checks and exchango. So that it is not
more money In circulation that the peo
ple need, but more confidence and more
credit
But, as we have said, we have no
doubt that tlie country needs more
money, but how are we of the south to
obtain this money from the government?
What have we to give in return for it?
It la chimerical to think that the govern
ment will lend lta money on cotton, oorn,
wheat, oata, tobacco and land. The
idea is misleading and the hope la deln-
aive. As a matter of fact It is not more
money in circulation that the people
need, but more confldence and more
credit, more honesty and more private
and public faith.
The government must be restored to
first principles, and the people of the
South must stand like a stone wall
against all the innovations of socialism
and communism that would pervert it
into a paternal government, destroying
the liberty of the citizen and the rights of
the states. Tho government can bo best
administered and ttn prosperity of the
people soonest restored by the return to
jiowcr of the Democratic party.
SIIIIIE -BOODLE" WANTED.
Tlie complaint usual in the first weeks
of a camjiaign, that money is badly
needed and that it is coming in very
slowly, is now, heard from Ohio. Maj,
McKinley is rejiorted to be In great
need of money, and those expected to
furnish it are said not to be exhibiting
the proper measure of liberality.
There is, of course, more or less strat
egy in this. It is put out to stimulate
tlie liberality of the classes from whom
corruption funds must come. The fa
mous “fat-frying letter” of three years
ago was provoked by tlie slowness with
which contributions came in at the be
ginning of the campaign. It takes more
or less pressure to make the lienefici-
arles of class legislation give up a por
tion of their gains. It is well-known
that gratitude is a somewhat feeble in
centive to action; so much so that a sa
tirist has defined tliat moving force
which commonly jiasses for gratitude as
"a lively anticipation of favors to
come.”
j There is, indeed, a special reason this
year why tlie manufacturers should lie
somewhat slow in making contributions.
When flic McKinley bill was passed
they wero confidently assured that tlie
tariff question was settled for ten
years to come at the very least, because
it would not he possible within that
time to rejieal or material!)- to alter the
law. This was grateful intelligence to
the protected classes, who naturally ex
jiectcd that tlie exactions for jiarty ex
penses would thereafter bo less ouerous.
It was, indeed, suggested at tlie time by
tho Democratic press that these assur
ances were imprudent, and that they
would he rctractcdjwlicn tlie time for fat-
frying should come around again. This
jirediction is uow on tlie point of ful
filment.
It is necessary that the jirutectcd man
iifacturcrs shall be roused from the
security into which they wore lulled by
the assurance that the McKinley hill was
safe from rejieal before the close of the
contury. That this will be done admits
of no doubt, hut some time will be neces
sary to accomjdlsh it. The ndmissiou
will have to he made that tlie statement
that the tariff question was scttleU for
ten yenrs was too sanguine. Tills may
he a j.ainful thing to do, hut there seems
no way to avoid it. It will be
urged, of course, with a certain degree
of plausibility, that it was im|>ossiblo
to foresee thejtremeudous explosion of
jiojnilar wrath that followed the jiassage
of the great monopoly tariff act of 1S90,
and that tlie loss of the house and the
reduction of the Republican majority in
the senate have greatly changed the as
pect of political affairs. The manufac
turers will now ho assured that there Is
imminent danger that the wicked free
traders will sweep the country and cap
ture botli tlie presidency and the sonatc,
thus sweeping away at one fell swoop
all tlie rewards granted to the men who
furnished tlie money to buy the election
of 1888, The protected classes will now
be told that as “crowns bought with
blood must be by blood maintained,” so
elections carried by boodle must bo fol
lowed by the expenditure of more boodle
to preserve their fruits. Accordingly,
we may expect the monopolists to re
spond again to the call for money, and
to mako themselves whole, wherever it
is possible, by reducing the wages of
their emjiloyes, or Imjiorting cbeaji
workmen from abroad.
HOW TO SHORTEN THE SESSIONS.
The Savannah News, in discussing the
question of shortening the sessions of
the legislature in the future, handles
the subject in this manner:
The committee of the legislature, to
w*hich was referred the various bills for
shortening tlie sessions of that body, has
made a rejiort to the effect that none of
the plans projiosed iu tlie bills would ac
complish the object desired. The com
mittee says that the greater part of the
time of the legislature is takeu up with
special and local legislation, aud that the
only way to get rid of this kind of legis
lation is to amend the constitution.
The attention of the legislature time
and time again has been called to the
fact that the state was being put to great
expense for legislation that should lie
provided for by a few general laws.
There are hundreds of local bills intro
duced wldch deal with matters which
could he attended to much more intelli
gently and to much better advantage by
county commissioners and municipal
authorities.
Assuming that the committee, to
which tlie hills iu question were refer
red, lias given tlie matter thorough con
sideration, and has pointed out the one
way in which the legislature can lie re
lieved of its unnecessary burden, a hill
should be introduced and passed at once
providing for submitting to tlie jieojde
such a constitutional amendment as is
required. There is no excuse for de
lay. Tho jnesent legislature will
cost the jicojdc many thousands of dol
lars more tliau it ought to, aud there is
no good reason why the jieojde for years
to come should he subjected to a heavy
annual exjicnse that is wholly iinueces-
sary.
Now that it is known just what ought
to be done, let tlie legislature see that it
is dono jiromptly. The members owe it
to their constituents to introduce econo
my wherever it can be introduced with
out injury to the public interests.
It was said when this legislature was
elected, being an Alliance legislature,
that business would be attended to so
strictly that the session would be a short
one. It was even said that the legisla
ture would get to work before day and
would not adjourn until after dark. Of
course anybody having a reasonable
amount of common sense knew- that such
talk was nonsense. This legislature is
like its predecessors. It is neither bet
ter nor worse. It doesn't weary itself
with work, ami iu tlie matter of its cost
to tlie state it promises to break the
record.
This from the Chattanooga Times is The prompt action of the majority of
rather tougii ou tho memory of L. C. ' the Alliaucc members of the Legislature
Houk as well as tho fame of tlie sou who
aspires to succeed him in congress: “It
was hardly necessary to tell tlie jieojde
that the Repnblicans of tlie second con
gressional district of Tennessee 'do not
take to religious men'—that is, good
men, clean men. They at instinctively
dislike a gentleman in politics up there
as a Five Pointa tough detests s refined
man, who wears clean Unen, reputable
raiment and polished shoes. Psst history
demonstrates these fadto, and it wasn't
necessary to proclaim the troth to the
humiliation of our esteemed neighbors.”
in stamping out the iniquitous stay law
ere it was nurtured into living exist
ence, entities that jiatriotic body to the
ajqilause of the entire commonwealth of
Georgia. Now, one more act and the
good deed can be recorded. Let tho
Alliance see to it that their fire is not
stolen from them by the overburdened
Solons who are on the alert to get on
the winning side of every issue of the
hour. No, this is an Alliance victory,
planned by an Alliance caucus, and won
by an Alliance majority. The mug
wumps were not in it.
WHY COTTON IS LOW.
One explanation of tlie low prices for
cotton, in addition to that of tlie unex
pectedly large crop, is the depression in
those manufacturing sections of Europe
whicli use most of our cotton, caused by
the prohibition of imported goods to the
United States from these districts from
the operstion of tho McKinley bill.
The manufacturing districts of Ger
many, which use more cotton than any
continent;,! country, are now in a bad
way, and ruin stares them in the face,
because the McKinley bill virtually pro
hibit! the importation of thoir goods
into the United States. Hence they
can't buy our cotton because they are
cut off from this market for their pro
ducts.
The idea of the McKinley bill is to de
stroy these foreign manufacturers and
increase the building up of others in
this country to take their placet; a fine
theory, bat one that will rain the
civilized world before tho change is
made.
Experience in the past has shown us
that when imports from abroad are easy
our surplus crops are more easily and
profitably exported. When we block
our Imports it is only with the greatest
difficulty that we succeed in getting rid
of our surplus products.
The Individual who has settled down
to the belief that Yolapuk has become
one of the dead languages will have to
unsettle himself. The North American
Volapukists have just closed a success
ful meeting at Chautauqua, N. Y. The
executive session was entirely in Yola-
puk, and three Interesting lectures were
delivered In the satno lively lingo. The
climax of the occasion was reached, how
ever, when Madame Belle Cole, tlie Bos
ton prlnia donna, puckered up her pretty
mouth and sang a Yolapuk edition of
the “Star Spangled Banner" before
5,000 people in the great amphitheatre.
Yolapuk will continue to amuse more or
less idle people for awhile longer.
The Furiow Brothers,who have made
a brilliant success of the Madisonian,
offer that Journal for sale. It is one of
the beet weekly newspapers in the
state.
WHY PEOPLE GET MARRIED.
Though It is very common to reproach
old bachelors with their celibacy, and to
pity old maids as if single blessedness
were a misfortune, yot many married
people havo seen fit to offer ajiologies for
haring entered into what some profane
wag lias called the “holy bands of pad
lock.” One man says lie got married to
get a housekeeper, another to get rid of
bad company.
Many women declare they got married
for tbc sake of a home; few acknowledge
that their motive was to get a husband.
Goethe averred that he got married in
order to be “respectable.” John Wilkes
said he took a wife “to jilvase his
friend.” Wycherly, who csjiouseii his
housemaid, said lie did it to "spite his
relations.”
A widow who married a second hus
band said she wanted somebody to con
dole witli her for the loss of her first,
Another because she thought a wedding
would “amuse tlie children.” Another,
to get rid of Incessant importunity from
a crowd of suitors.
Old maids who get married invariably
assure their friends that they thought
they could bo “more useful" as wives
than as spinsters. Nevertheless Quilp
gives it as his opinion that nine-tenths
of all persons who marry, whether wid
ows or widowers, spinsters or bachelors,
do so for the sake of—gutting married.
TO REDUCE EXPENSES.
The Alliance people of Macon county
are strongly opposed to the oounty
court, and are making an effort to have
itabollahed. By investigation it has
been discovered that the court’s ex
penses amount to about $1,100 a year.
The people contend that the business
can be done in the superior court for
$500. Hence the more to abolish the
county court.
Mayob Hemphill was severely criti
cised by the pastors and prominent
church members of Atlanta,for allowing
street car work to be done on Sunday,
and eapecially severe was the mayor’s
own chnrch, Trinity Methodist, on his
unchristian like conduct,as they termed
It Tho mayor has always beon a
staunch Methodist,and has given most
liberally of his time, talents and moans
to the support of his church. Last Sun
day there was a vacant scat in Trinity.
Mayor Hemphill attended tlie First Baj>-
tist, Dr. Hawthorne's churcii.and found
comfort in this divine's kindly exjircs-
sions of him as a Christian gentleman
and city official. Would It not have
been better for Mayor Hemjibill'achurch
to have temporized. Some men can be
lead but not driven, Advere criticism
from one’s own cuts deep. And it msy
be that th-i Methodists will lose Mr.
Hemphill. To err 1s human, to forgive
divine.
A CIVIL PENSION LIST
There is a movement on foot In the de
partment at Washington which may re
sult in relieving the government of a
rather serious burden in au unexpected
manner, and, at the same time, dispose
of a jierjilexing question. The burden
consists of the large number of clerks
who are too aged to be of much practical
service, and who have been in the serv
ice so long that heads of dejiartments
are loth to discharge them. Thus tliey
have become in a measure civil pension
ers. Postmaster General Wanamaker
projiosed to congress that employes who
bad arrived at a certain age should be
retired with an allowance of one year’s
pay. But congress did not act on the
suggestion.
The plan which the clerks tLemselves
are agitating is that an assessment of one
per cent, on the salaries of all the clerks
shall be levied for the purpose of retir
ing those who have been iu service thir
ty years on three-quarters pay. It has
beeu ascertained that there are seventy-
five men in the public service who would
be retired under an act embodying this
jilan, which congress will be petitlcued
to jiass.
There is another projiosition to lie
added jvroviding for the retirement of
all clerks of a certain age—say 85 years.
This would swell the jiensiuu roll large
ly. There were fifty of that age iu the
jiostoffice department alone at tlie time
Mr. Wanamaker took charge of it. Oue
clerk iu that department died last year
who had been iu service seventy years.
Tlie only apparent objection to this
scheme is that it might prove the enter
ing wedge to tlie establishment in the
future of an extensive system of civil
jiensions. Lot the projiosed plan be
adopted and tlie government would in
fact be paying the department clerks 99
jier cent of their jircsent salaries and
jiensions to a considerable number of re
tired clerks. This aspect of the case
would become more ajqiareut after the
jnesent clerks and consenting jiarties to
the plan should have passed off' the
stage, and others who had had no voice
ill the matter should have taken'their
jilaces.
THE WHEAT FLURRY-
It would seem that tlie cxjiericnce of
tlie last tifteeu or sixteen months would
protect tlie people of this country against
any recurrence of the speculative fever.
The scarcity of money has been caused
chiefly by overmuch sjieculation, aud
the following collapse. The lesson has
been a severe oue, and it ought to lie
taken to heart, but it appears not to
have been by everybody.
For some days it has been evident that
the speculators were going to take
edarge of the wheat market, and con
duct things to please themselves. This
promise has been amply fulfilled.
Yesterday the excitement iu the Chica
go grain pit began.Prices advanced with
a rapidity sufficient to take away the
breath of slow and thoughtful meu. Ev-
erytliing favored the bulls, aud the bears
were gored to death.
At such a time the holders of wheat
should not forget their caution. All of
this flurry is due to the fact that Europe
is exjiected to take nearly, if not quite,
200,000,000 bushels of wheat from the
United States. But that was known a
week, two weeks, three, four weeks ago,
and there is no reason why jieople
should lose their beads now over it any
more than they did then. It is probable
that the wheat situation in Ameriea and
Europe will justify an advance, but it
should come gradually, and not in this
explosive manner.
ABOUT COTTON.
It is an interesting question, whether
the present low price of cotton is owing
to ovor-productlon or general stagnation
of trade. If the latter, there may be
hope for better prices before the new
crop is brought to market. But there
seem to be good reasons for believing
that the former Is the real cause.
Last year’s crop, which has not yet
all been marketed, will reach 8,750,000
bales, the largest ever raised, and the
growing crop, it Is estimated, will be
equally as great. It may be true that
the world needs all the cotton in sight,
but when the staple Is so abundant
the world can get It at iu own figures,
and proposes to do so.
At any rate, it would not be wise on
the part of the producer to hold the
new orop, anticipating a rise in prices.
Senator Butler In his able speech at
Prosperity, S. C., a few days ago, said:
“Another stop I would take to the settle
ment of the ‘unevenness’ Is this: Pat
ton sores of cotton to the mule for three
years. Let farmers do this and they
will have the world at their feet They
would bo then the most prosperous peo
ple od the globe." Of course his plan is
sensible and correct, and tho farmers by
concert of action could mako of it as
signal a success as they did of their
light against the jute trust.—Advortlscr,
The Republicans say the New York
Importers will send $500,000 to Ohio to
beat McKinley. - If they do, It will only
offset tbs corruption fund raised by tbs
manufacturers to elect him. Of such Is
American-politic*.
The continued hot spell is explained
ou the ground that Uncle Jerry Rusk
is taking holiday. He is at his farm in
Wisconsin ami has left the weather bu
reau to subordinates, who seem to have
let the thing get out of shape.
The threatened bread famine in
Europe will open up a market for many
bushels of American wheat despite the
McKinley blU.
Sixtt vacancies at West Point are
yawning for - ambitious youngsters who
want to cultivate the arts of war and
poker.
“AS GOOD AS GOLD."
In reply to the statement that j D
“the country was in a high state 0 ( **
perity, and money as good as
plenty," The Constitution very *“
nently asks: Why was the country^
perous at that time ? Because jj'*
dition to the proper development „< *
material resources, our fiuaucial tr
suited the wants of our people, aw* ""
adapted to the expanding business oftk
country. It was so localized that a j
men in Wall street could not get i ( "
der their control.
“Plenty of money as good as gold
The currency was not United'tat
treasury notes, nor national bank
—It was the issue of local banks ot
ized under state laws. This money *
expanded or contracted in obedience ts
the laws of demand and supply. Back a
by local wealth, It had local confident
answered local needs, and stood in iuck
good repute that the notes of some
the banks circulated at par, even,,
Canada, and at times, for convenience
commanded a premium over gold.
This currency, the best that the con t .
try ever had, was outlawed as a
measure iu-the interest of Wall
jilutocrats, who had the governmentby
tlie throat, aud from that day to this
financial system has beeu contracted u
a few men who have It in their power to
regulate values, make good times
hard times, and keep the entire country
at their mercy.
This Is too big a couutry to he con-
trolled iu its financial matters by Wall
street. We need a great many money
centers instead of only one. Tlie differ
ent sections and commercial and induv
jrial divisions of the country with their
diversified Interests,need their own local
or home currency.
It is well, occasionally, to turn hack to
the past for n lesson—a lamp of ex
perience that will guide our footsteps.
MISSISSIPPI’S NEW CONSTITUTION*
The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
lias the following concerning the opera
tion of the new constitution in Missis,
sippl:
It is Interesting to observe how- the polltax
rovlded for under the new constitution m
Mississippi works. Late •'-rnuuls ioj-oj;;
hat less thnu one-fourth the colored voter*
inve paid their poll taxes. In the connlie.
wli-re tlie colored population is largest, not
more Until a fifth, aud ill some or them not
more than u tenth, of tliecolored voters Lav,
reulstered, From the present state of tlie
registration, It seems that the white majori
ty this year Is likely to be l",ooo or 2),(0
greater than tlie entire number of colored
vote* registered. A small percentage of the
white voters will also tie disfranchised, but
the unwillingness or Inability of the negroei
to pay the poll tax will leave the whiles wilt
a majority greater than any one could have
anticipated.
This is the first reference to the Mis
sissippi constitution, or anything of x
political nature. In the south that has
ajipeared recently in the Chronicle-Tele
graph, not tinctured with prejudice, but
the facts given here doesn’t seem to
have offered any ground for the usual
animadverting on the practice of the
southern whites.
If the negro cares so little about voting
that he won’t take the trouble to regis
ter, it argues his incapacity as a citizen.
His refusal to pay poll tax is further
jiroof that he feels uo interest In the
public welfare.
Iu fact the workings of tlie new Miss
issippi constitution has turned on the
light and made an exhibition of the ne
gro as a citizen that his northern ad
mirers had not exjiected.
A NEW, FRESH JOKE.
One of the funniest jokes yet got off
by “Old SI,” the waggish editor of the
Atlanta Herald, la Uis defense of the
Democracy of Judge Sjieer, against the
statement of The Times-Recobder that
he was appointed by President Arthur
because he wae a “renegade Democrat."
Old SI should brush up on political
history, and conault with Senator Col
quitt, who fought Judge Sjieer’s con
firmation so vigorously, and which was
only accomplished by a scratch, the
Democrats voting against the' “rene
gade,” as they called him, almost solid
ly, with the exception of Senator Brown
and possibly one other; while a few Re
publicans couldn't swallow him on ac
count of the “freshness” of his conver
sion.
If Judge Speer was n Simon-pore
Democrat when appointed, bow is it
that he isnow a dyed-ln the-wool Re
publican? Did this conversion take
place from Democracy to Republicanism
os a consequence of tho appointment, or
was the appointment In consequence of
his previous conversion? or perhaps the
Herald still regards Judge Speer ss s
Democrat?
The political policy of The New York
Times will not be changed because of
the death of the late editor. Mr. Jones
son, who has long been an active worker
on the paper, has succeeded to the con
trol and will coutinue It an earnest ad
vocate of tariff reform.
With Cottrell, Burrow and Murray out
of the way, there is a good opening f° r
some other desperado who wishes to die
with his boots on.
‘Despise not the day of small things.
the tiny pill taken from a vial of Dl
l’ierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, •*“
to the 300-pound man, suffering fro B
Indigestion. As a gcntlo.thorougn mss’
tlve, there Pellet* resemble nature mors
closely In their action than anything Be
fore discovered. Business and profs*-
atonal men, whore habits are sedentary-
need something of this kind to ware os
tick headache, biliousness and dy»P*Pg*
but which will not strain and rack
digestive organ* a did the old-fsshlcn-
ed pills. 25 rents per,vi*l, at-*U dref