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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, i»91. THE TIMES-RECORDER. I>« 11 >• and Weekly. The A meric its Bkcordf.r Established 1879 The Americus Times Established 1S90. Consolidated, April, 18U1. SUBSCRIPTION: ailt, One Year, Daily, One Month, 5 IYeekly, One Yeah, * 10 Weekly, Six Months, * For advertising rates address Bascom Myrick. Editor and Manager. THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY, Americus, Oa. Aracricus, Ga., October. 1, 1801. TO OIK SUBSCRIBERS. Money matters have been very tight and we have not asked you for money in several months. Our creditors have indulged us and we have indulged you. But our creditors are now pressing us. They will take excuses no longer. We are therefore obliged to call on you. One dollar isn’t much and you can spare it. We have a thousand dollars due us in these one dollar debts. You can spare one dollar: we cannot spare the thousand dollars. Please call at our office and settle y«»ar subscriptions or remit by registeied letter, postal note or money order. Don't put this olT. but attend to it at Shocks of earthquake were felt throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, Indi ana, Illinois and Iowa Saturday night. The street railway must be operated. Do you own any real estate ? If so you will add twenty-five to one hundred per cent, to its value by helping start the pars. Have you any interest in the pros perity of Americus? If so help start the street cars. Help the committee by soliciting subscriptions, or else subscribe yourself. The Columbus Ledger of Sunday came out in a trade issue ot twenty pages handsomely illustrated, showing up the leading industries, business houses and most progressive citizens of that sub stantial city. The Times-Recorder has plenty of company in its approval of the govern or’s use of the veto. The Dawson Jour nal says: “Governor Northen does not seem afraid to use the veto power. He has already applied it to several unwise •and unconstitutional measures ” The Boston Herald says that If Presi dent Harrison appoints a negro to one of the new judgeships he will bo guilty of mixing the wool with the ermine. It is hardly probable that the President will make such an appointment. lie will dangle the prize before the greedy op tics of negroes like Langston, but when he lets it drop it will fall into the hands of a white Republican. It is said that Roswell P. Flower many years ago asked his brother-in-law, Mr. Keep, what sort of a man was Daniel Drew. “Is he honest?” inquired Mr. Flower. Mr. Keep closed his eyes and his lips for ten minutes. Finally he opened his eyes, and, looking at Flower, said: “He is as honest a man as there is in the state of New York, but for fear somebody else will*cheat him lie always begins first.” Some years ago it was reported that “Old Grimes” was dead; but the an nouncement seems to have been prema ture. At least, the Savannah News now states it as a fact of very recent occur rence. It says: “John Grimes died at bis homo in Bulloch county yesterday at the advanced age of 91 years. The deceased was well and favorably known in this section, ami at the time of his death was the oldest citizen of Bulloch county.” Railway wrecks are coming to be such a common occurrence of late tbas a tele graphic anuodneementof a smash-up in volving the loss of from a score to ouc thousand lives creates little surprise. Therefore It is pertinent to inquire what railway commissions are for anyhow? They don’t seem to avert any accidents nor oven find anybody at fault when a traiuload of people are killed. Some of these commissions need a lively shaking up themselves.—Savannah News. £E Gukrry says It is most too discuss the next congressional d, but it is generally understood is a candidate. Judge C. B. on. of Leary, was here last Satur day and hq talked very much like he would be in the raco. Tom McIntyre, of Thomasville, also has aspirations, and it is said that Dr. Hand, of Baker, will try to enter with the Alliance support. The present indications are that we will Lave a lively campaign in this district.— Dawson Journal. People who have not visited that por tion of the state can form no adequate idea of tho extent of the drainage oper ations continually being pushed forward by the Disston companies in tho over flowed regions in Osceola and other counties adjoining. Tho sugar industry ii being rapidly developed there, and scores of settlers are being induced to tako up the reclaimed land, solely for the cultivation of cane. That part of the state is being revolutionized rapidly and the effects of the change are making themselves felt all over the peninsula. SOUTHERN PROSPERITY. Mr. John Gill, president of the Mer cantile Trust and Deposit Company, aud Mr. Fiank S. nambleton, of Ilambleton A Co., returned to Baltimore yesterday from a trip to the south. They speak glow ingly of the brightening business prospects of that section, and say that the indications for increased prosperity are apparent in every state through which they passed. Mr Gill aud Mr. Ilambleton .left Bal timore last Thursday with Mr. Richard M. Venable, Mr. Hawkins, of Americus, Ga., and Mr. Charles Watkins, of Rich mond, to attend a meeting of the South Bound Railroad Company, held in Sa vannah on Friday. A number of Balti more capitalists are interested in the affairs of the South Bound, and It was to look after these interests that Messrs. Gill, Ilambleton and Venable attended the meeting. The South Bound road Is about completed between Savannah, Ga., aud Columbia, S. C., and will afford the most direct route from points on lines verging from the north to Colum bia and all southern points, particu larly Savannah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla. Tiie Baltimore parly passed over the >uth Bound road on Friday, and found its construction tirst-class. “In fact,” said Mr. Gill, “when Inspected a few days before by the railroad commission ers of South Carolina, it was pronounced by them to be one of the best construct ed roads in the state.” Continuing lie said : “Our attention while in Savannah was called to the great activity in the gen eral business of that city. Although the receipts of cotton for the past sea son were unprecedented in Savannah, reaching to more than a million of bales, the receipts from the present crop are now some *2,BOO bales in excess of that of the corresponding period of last year. The crop is moving rapidly, aud if the receipts indicate anything, it would bo significant of a very large crop. This may be qualified somewhat by the fact that the picking season during the past two weeks has becu favorable, aud may account in some degree for the unusually early and large receipts. The quality of the new cotton averages about mid dling, and it is being freely taken by home aud foreign buyers. I noticed a large uumber of English and continental buyers in the market. From Savannah, by invitation of Colonel Hawkins, presi dent of the Savannah, Americus ^Mont gomery railroad, we went over that line. The road connects at Lyons, In Georgia, with the Savannah and Western Rail road, sovonty-tivo miles west of Savan nah, and ruus in a due westerly course to Montgomery, Ala. Although this property is comparatively new’, and the eutiro road will not bo opened until the middle of next month, the volume of business already developed along its fin ished l?ne was surprising to all of us. “The combination of business formed by the immense virgin timber lands ad jacent to the road, largo supplies of naval storos and tho immense movement of cotton along the route, form tho basis, in my judgment, of a most prosperous future for this property. There is no other railroad in close proximity to the Held occupied by It, aud it fully meets the requirements of tho pooplo in that section of the state. While only about two-thirds of tho road has been in opera tion during the past tw’elvo months, the net earnings bavo been sufficient to pay the interest on the bonded debt of $12,000 a mile from Lyons to Mont gomery, a distance of about 275 miles. We returned late on Saturday night to Americus and remained there until Sun day evening, when we took tho train for Macon and Atlanta on our way to Balti more. “I was greatly hnpressod with the out look of affairs iu tho south. It is emerg ing from the depression of tho past twelve months, ready to take fresh bold, meeting her maturing obligations, and i destined again to participate in the general improvement of the whole coun try. The only thing that tho south needs is additional capital and less legis lation. If some of the legislatures would simply adjourn and leave tho pooplo to work out their own problems, no coun try, in my judgment, in the course of few years w’ould present a stronger tiuauclal outlook.”“Baltlmore Sun. QUESTIONS FOR MR. CRISP. Under the above heading, the Dawson Journal calls for Judge Crisp’s view s on two banking matters, which is repro duced below, together with the Jour nal’s comments on the hearing of these issues. Everything that Judge Crisp may have to say on any subject, polit ical, economic or financial, will com mand the close attention of the people of Georgia; and The Times-Recorder would be glad to present bis views on this subject: The Journal fs in favor of Mr. Crisp for speaker of the next|house of congress. It is uot only state pride but a personal pleasure for us to support him. How ever, there are two questions which we w’ould like to hear Mr. Crisp answer: First, we would like to know if he is in favor of the repeal of the ten per cent tax on the issue of state banks? And, second,is lie in favor of state banks being allowed to issue bills? These are important questions and the matter of a larger volume of currency to do the business of the country is at tracting more attention than the tariff issue. What the people are demanding and are going to have is more money. They are getting tired of Wall street controlling the finances of the entire country. There must be a change iu the ordsr of things, and if our national legislators will not read the handwriting on the wall, they will he wiped from the face of the political world. If Mr. Crisp is not in sympathy with tho people upon these Issnes he might and would bo able as speaker of the House largely to inliu- enco legislation in at? undesirable direc tion. We are inclined to think that he will servo tho best interests of his con stituents, but we would like to hear from him upon the above questions. We do not regard a modification of the McKinley bill as a panacea for ail the ills from which tho people are suffering, and Mr. Crisp might spare a little time in his public speeches to give his views upon the questions of a fuller and more tangible circulating medium, one that will not bo entirely under the manipu lation of Wall street, as it is at present. THE McKINLKY BILL. Last year the McKinley stumpers and newspapers delared that they “despised cheapness ” They accepted the Presi dent’s pet phrase that “a cheap coat means a cheap man.” They proclaimed that tax-sustained dearness was necessa ry to the payment of high wages to American workmen. And the American people sat down on them with the weight of over 1,000,000 majority. Ibis year, with McKinley himself at tlieir head, they have changed their tune. They point to cheap sugar—made cheap by taking off the tariff tax—as their groat achievement. And they pa rade a carefully selected list of other articles which they claim aro cheaper than formerly. If taxes cheapen articles, why did they stop at 00 per cent ? Why not make a tariff of 100 per cent, or higher ? Do they expect the American voter to believe that, while untaxing sugar has made it cheaper, taxing still higher clothing, food, fuel, glass, crockery and other necessaries has likewise made them cheaper ? Tho American voter is not such a fool as the McKinloyites take him to be. If iu any case of increased duty the price of the article has not advanced, then the law has failed of its purpose. If tho object of protection bo not to compel importers and to enable homo manufacturers to charge a higher price than they would without it, then it has no object. Tho “worsc-than-war tariff” must go. —New York World. THE SOUTH MUST RAISE FOODSTUFFS In an editorial published last winter upon the importance of the South rais ing a large corn crop this year, the Man ufacturers’ Record stated that the grain crops of 1890 were fo small that even if the yield of 1891 should be up to the highest mark, there would he a full de mand for all the corn produced to coun terbalance the deficiency in last year’s crop. This was based simply upon the normal consumptive requirements of this country and Europe, and no account was taken of any unusual demand from Europe. The failure of European crops assures a demand at good prices for every bushel of wheat and corn that we can spare, and we will enter the crop year of 1892 with very low stocks of grain. Even should 1892 duplicate the enormous yield of cereals in 181*1 and Europe have fair crops, prices must in evitably be well maintained, for in July, 1892, our stocks of wheat and corn will be very nearly, if not quite, as low as July, 1891. Moreover, the opening of the German and other markets to Ameri can pork will materially help to increase the price of bacon and corn. Fortunately the farmers of the south have this year raised from 75,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels of grain more than in 1890, and the south is made richer by at least $75,000,000 by it. But next year must show a still greater increase in wheat, corn and oats in the south, and also in the raising of provisions. It may be accepted without question thatgraiu and provisions will continue high for at least two years, even if 1892 gives us tho largest crops over produced, and if tho crops of that year should be small the southern farmer who has to buy his foodstuffs will have a bad time of it. Tiie Manufacturers’ Record believes that every paper in the south and every branch of the Farmers’ Alliance should press this matter upon the attention of southern farmers. It cannot be done too often nor too vigorously. We are In an era of high prices for breadstuff's and in all probability there will be no change for at least two years. The prosperity of southern farmers depends upon rais ing an abundant supply of wheat, oats, corn, provisions and other foodstuffs, whether cotton advances in price or not. Will the press of the south Lake up the matter at once and urge it without ceas ing upon the farmers ?—Manufacturers’ Record. The editors aro after the legislators. It is understood that the Alliance folks promised short sessions of the legisla ture and an economical expenditure of public money. Tho first pledge has been forfeited, and likewise the second. The expenses of government have been greatly Increased, until in order to raise the revenues necessary to meet these ox penscs the tax levy is made higher than it has been for years. Besides these dis appointments of promises, tho legisla tion proposed in many cases has been radical, disturbing the state, disquieting confidence and making uncertain and hesitating great investments of capital. Some legislation has done positive and great damage, causing a withdrawal of capital from loan and other investments iu the state. Of course some good mea*-1 it. Judok Crisp will leave after a short while for a campaigning tour in Massa chusetts, to be followed by a two weeks canvass of Ohio just before the Novem ber election. The Ohio committee asked Judge Crisp to arrange to give them tho benefit of his presence on the last round, believing that the Judge’s eloquence aud logic would be just the trump card to play on the final throw. Georgia will watch with great interest and no little pride the record of her favorite son in the Ohio canvass, the most momentous and exciting of the present decade. A man of sound judgment, looking from an outside standpoint, cau see things in nearer the proper light than can those ou the iuside whoso interests are at stake; and as an indication of how .Southwest Georgia looks to a Baltimore banker, The Times-Recorder gives an interview from the Baltimore Sun, held with Mr. John Gill, one of the most prominent financiers of that city. So book old It. It. It. Burchard, Blaine’s destroyer, is no more. Three words spoken by him turned several thousand Irish votes from Blaine to Cleveland in New York in 1884, and rob bed the “Plumed Knight” of the ooveted prize that waa in his grasp. Ex-Conokessman Norwood of Geor gia, who lias exhibited a morbid desire to return to the United States senate, and lias thought that endorsing the Al liance demand# would bo the surest and quickest route by which to reach the goal of ambition, has concocted a now sub-treasury bill, which ho proposes to submit to the farmers as the something better for the old bill. lie claims to have met all the objections urged against the old plan and that his measure will stand the closest constitutional test that may bo applied to it. But he has not yet made the details of his ideas public, and is said to have gone to Washington to submft it to Polk and Macuno. He had such bad luck in his raco with the Allianco ag dnst General Gordon that we had hoped he could subside for awhile at least.—Montgomery Adver tiser. The “KingSo’omon” business at the Piedmont Exposition is too realistic, and shows up too plainly the fact that .Solomon, with his “300 wives and 700 other lady friends,” was the great origi nal Mormon, to suit tho advanced stan dard of Christian morality of the pres ent day; and so the church papers aud the ministers aro kicking pretty high about Its presentation by Sandy C’olien, a lineal descendant, may be, of that much married Hebrew monarch. But Sandy is in clover; he wants liberal ad vertising, and he is getting it free of ex pense. ures have been adopted by the legisla ture, but perhaps no legislature has ever assembled in Georgia causing more ap prehension and anxiety to conservative people. It can not be mentioned as a body whoso collective wisdom and pru dence are commensurate with tho needs of the state and tho exigencies of tho tunes. The legislators are them selves good men, but they aro men un- dor the inJluenco of unsound political theories and immature political ideas.— Brunswick Times. STAND UP TO HIM The Times-Recorder calls special attention to the card of Mr. J. F. Ross elsewhere, for the purpose of urging the people of Sumter county, whether in the country or the city, to co-operate with Mr. Ross in seeing that Sumter county makes such a display at the Piedmont Exposition as will make her easily the banner county of the State. Year after year, Mr. Ross has worked like a Trojan to illustrate this county In the state fair contests; and he has won premiums under circumstances that would have discouraged most men. He has not had anything like the help from the people that he was entitled to, in view of the public spirit lie manifest ed, and The Timf.s-Rkcorder hopes all the county alliances will pass resolutions of commendation of his past zeal and prospective efforts, and urge the farm ers to 8well the exhibit he proposes to make. The people of Americus should do all they can to encourage Mr. Ross; be cause it is by the efforts of such men that a county gains that reputation that invites immigration of the high stamp that is needed and wanted in the South. Help Mr. Ross to make an exhibit to which every Sumter county man can point with pride in the Piedmont Expo sition halls, and say, “I’m from that county.” SUNDAY AT TIIE WORLD'S FAIR. There is just now a great stir in re ligious circles about keeping the World’s Fair open ou Sunday. Southern people generally, and some few people elsewhere iu the country are strict constructionists ou the Sabbath question and are protesting strorgly against Sunday exhibition; but the sen timent of the northwest, and of Chicago in particular, is widely different from that prevalent in tho south, and it is safe to predict that the fair will boom on Sunday in spite of church opposition. Tho sacredness of the Sabbath is a thing of tho past in the west, if it ever was known there at all, and being re garded purely as a day of recreation and rest from work, there is a strong senti ment there for Sunday opening. The Times Recorder welcomes the Ishmaelito to its table of exchanges, be cause the geuial Sid Lewis always has something spicy to say; is always “shelling out” somebody or something, and is most entertaining at all times. Just now lie is jumping on the Ocala platform with both feet, (there is a marked difference between “jumping on” and “standing on” when it comes to a practical platform) and here is what he says about that interesting piece of architecture: “Tho Alliance Legisla ture will be long and affectionately re membered by the people—particularly Alliancemen—for its largo increase of state taxes. Who cares for expenses! Isn’t tho government going to lend money, world without end, to everybody that wants it, ou the security of shucks, sawdust and weevil-eaten peas ? What the farmers need i.* not to be able to bor row money but be able to lend it. Tho sub-treasury plan proposes to enable them to ruin themselves by borrowing To borrow money, to keep up the . , Anew man can bo made, out of ono that', “used-up,” bilious and dyspeptic It’s done by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. 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This school is intended for the benefit of those pupils who may have finished in the public schools of the city, or oth ers of the city and county, who may wish to avail themselves of this oppor tunity of acquiring a more extensive ed ucation than is afforded at present in our midst A short course of theology for the young men wishing to enter the ministry Those from abroad can obtain board among our best families at from $0 00 to $7.00 per month Teachers: Revs S A McNEAL, Brin. A S. STALEY, Ass’t. Is the strongest Home-indorsed Medicine in the world. I.mUM . period Tiie Atlanta Herald in authority for the statement that a vory determined effort to boycott tho Piedmont Exposi tion on account of tho King Solomon show, is being made by the Wesleyan Christian Advocate and numerous min isters. Wliiio tho intentions of these ministers arc tho host, tho fact is that tlioy aro merely playing into the hand of tho cute Sandy Cohen, who wouldn’t ho better suited if he had the columns of the Christian Advocate placed at his dis posal to advertise tho exposition, King Solomon and his ballot. The more Sandy's show, made up of his old Mor mon ancestor’s ldgh-kicklng ballet is denounced, tho bigger the rush will be to see it. Goveu.noii Campbell showed that while the price of Ohio wools had under gone an average decline of two and a half cents a pound, the price of foreign wools bad experienced an nuance of fourcentaa pound. This shows the dif ference between the McKinley tariff and free trade. It used to bo that New England was the birthplace of all tho “isms,” but now Kansas claims that distinction. The latest from that center Is the or ganization of a “Womans' Alliance” that will co-operate with tho Farmers’ Alliance. The object of the association is to establish a bureau for the better education of women on economic, social and political questions and to make and develop a better state mentally and financially with a full and unconditional use of the ballot. false system of farming to which their distresses, in large measure, aro due, would simply ho piling Pclion of bank ruptcy on Ossa of misfortune. Tho plan which the Ishmaelitc lias urged thorn for twelve years to adopt would cnablo them to lend money: liaiso your farm sup plies and mako cotton a surplus crop. All wiso farmers know that tho Ishmacl- ite’s plan is the best.” C'iiattanoooa gives .out the sensa tional rumor to tho effect that tho great Louisville & Nashville roailroad is to be consolidated with the East Tennessee. If this rumur is correct, the Louisville & Nashville will become a part of the great Inman systom. What authority there Is for the story is not known. Tueiik have been more ridiculous and outrageous scones during tho present session of the legislature, than have characterized tho proceeding* of any of lta predecessors. The people of Georgia have a right to complain of this waste of- the people’s money.—Atlanta Herald. Thu Chicago Horald remarks: “In the case of It. M. King, tho Tenncsseo seventh day adventist, convicted of .Sab bath breaking, the United States su premo court will have to decide what day is Sunday.” That is about the only way to fix tho matter, as tho frequont revisions of tho calendar from Julius Cicsar s time on down to tho present have jumped up days so much that thero is little certainty just what day is ac tually Sunday. Then too, the sacreil day of the Jews was Saturday, there being no divine authority for tho ob servance of tiie first day of tho week. Tho supremo court will have to call i general church council to help them out, as this is more of an ecclesiastical than legal question. 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