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'■ ' ' ..^V" V' - v " - • * ’ - mmm ' JHE EIMES-RECORUEP DAILY AND WEEKLY, Entered at the poetofflce at Amerl- j’jaa aa second-clasa mall matter. THE AMERICUS RECORDER. , Established 1879. THE AMERICUS TIMES, i Established 1890. Consolidated April 1891. ITHOB. GAMBLE, Editor and Manager :i. W. FURLOW City Editor w. L. DUPREE, Asst. Business Dept. Official orgau of the City of Amerlcus. Official organ of Sumter County. (Official organ of Webster County. (Official organ of Railroad Commle- .oIob of Georgia for Third Congres sional District. Official organ U. S. Court, Southerm .District of Georgia. Editorial Hoorn, Telephone 99, Amerlcus, (in* July 14, Ml®. THE INCOME TAX. The passage throughout the coun try by ail of the cities of Importance of ordinances for the purpose of safe guarding their milk and butter sup plies and at the same time to increase and foster interest in the larger and better production of these household necessities, shows the general inter est that Is being taken in the dairying industry. The importance of liberal and wholesome dairy supplies to any ci y can hardly be over-estimated. It is for this reason that competitive tes-s in exhibits of butter, cream and milk have been inaugurated by many cities in order to further stimulate interest in the supplying- of pure dairy pro ducts. Not only Is there room for the improvement of tide health of any com munity by the improvement of its milk supply, but also it is true tha. more money will be realized by those who engage in dairying. The encouragement of dairying on the part of the farmers of Sumter can not fail to give them a broader field cf industry and at the same time secure for the citizens of Amerlcus dairy sup plies that are unexcelled and adequate on all occaslohs. The information By the passage of tide income tax given in the last year book of the . amendment Mil, which has been | United States Department cf Agricul- warmly discussed in both houses of ture is of the greatest interest to too the general assembly far some time, j farmers of this section in this regard, the legislature has set itself rigid; and) The number of milch cows In the has ratified in this particular the work United States, according to this source r>t Congress. of information, is 21,720,000, the value There was nothing else for the Geor- of which is estimated at $702,945,000. ,, ia lawmakers to do. To have re- The value of tide annual products "t jtoted the bill would have been to fly these cows is estimated at about $ 1,- in the face of all careful and approved ! 000,000,000.00. From this estimated precedent. In ratifying tide work of worth of the nation's dairy product the national law-makers the general It is claimed that there is no other assembly has preserved sound Dem;- branch of diversified agriculture so cratic policies, for the passage of the important to the progress of a corn- bill simply means that the people of munity. It is the realization of the Georgia, through tktelr legislators, truth, of this statement-which will do give their assent for the passage of more to encourage the farmers of this ■-■the income tax if the people want it. section to take up dairying work than The principle involved is one for almost any other Inducement, which the Democratic party has stood ( The perpetuity of the country's always. It is strange that tide mem- greatness depends upon increasing the teres of the legislature hesitated so production of farm products from year long to take the step. The legislature to year, a result which not only furn- has never been called on to say ishes our people with food but main, whether the income tax shall become tains the prosperity of our farming n law. They were called upon to say communities increase in production simply whether the United States ' can only come through improved metb- eball have the power to pass an ln-‘ods of agriculture and soil improve- oorne tax if the people want it. The j ment and farming prosperity, tier legislature has dimply voted that the importance is best understood, and In people shall have the power to ex-' terest in her should not be confined to - press their will on the subject. Noth- ( her owner. She is an Important fac ing un-Democratic about that. 'tor In the development and prosper!:.' The tariff and the Internal revenue of our country, taxes are the only ways in which the general government can raise funds for its support. The funds derived from the revenue tax is said to be in considerable, while the tariff has AC RE VOIR, EDITORS. -- — { The weekly editors of Georgia have grown more and more oppressive. The left Amerlcus with happy hearts, for logical intent and purpose of the in- they had a jolly good time while they come tax Is to tax wealth and not pov- were here. Never has the reputation ,ertj- With the growth of Immense 0 f 0 ur city for lavish hospitality been private fortunes in tbi3 country, there more splendidly upheld, is no more rational plan of taxation i it was with regret that our citizens than the income tax, which can be do-j told the members of tha Georgia n-dsefl. There is na other way in which, weekly Press Association goodbye, : the millionaires can be called upon to f or it was’the most representative as- pay their just part of the expenses of sembly of Georgia editors that has the national government. The Income CV er come together at an annual con- lax should reach them more effective- vention. (Augusta Chronicle.) But if you want still another right good reason why Gov. Brown didn t grab those 87 acres of "bottom" land for the state of Georgia is this: He was able to secure -an option on a far better terminal site, confin ing 234 acres for $58,500, or $ljLo00 less tlian was asked for the 87 acres. Why. this saving alone Itj more than enough to pay the "commission" on the sale of that Chattanooga 1^’-- tom—if so be there was a "commis sion" involved in the transaction. Inasmuch, therefore, as the state of Georgia Is engaged in owning a rail road and buying lands, etc., let's be fair enough to look further into toe matter, In a common sense, business like way, and see whether or not the Legislature was about to make a bad trade for us and whether or not Gov. Brown hasn't found us a beter prop osition. Here is what a railroad ex pert and civil engineer says about the 234 acres, which we can buy for $10.- 500 less than we would have had 'o pay for the S7 acres: "I have the honor to report that I have carefully examined the Evans tract of land lying along and on the Western and Atlantic railroad, begin ning at a point 4,500 feet east or south of the depot at Boyce's Station, and extending along said W. & A. rail road and on both sides thereof, for a distance of one and one-quarter miles. Said tract contains 234 1-2 acres according to the survey. (Here fol lows a detailed description of th* property and suggestions as to - -ie comparatively light ant) inexpensive work necessary to convert it into a terminal.) I beg to say that In my .judgment that this tract is by far the best that has been offered, and is well adapted to the uses Intended. In fact, I do not know of any other tract that is nearly so desirable, and in my opinion the state will make r.o mistake in acquiring the property.” Not only “the best that has been offered"—but more of it, and far cheaper. Just 147 acres more terminal for $10,500 less money. Well, It looks to us like Governor Brown ha3 been doing some pretty go;d "trading” for the state; first. In refusing to close that other trade, and, then, in securing for us an option on better property and more of it for less money. Surely, the legislature will not fall to give him a vote of thanks for hl3 foresight and wisdom in this matter. What a good thing for the state of Georgia that sfie had a governor who happened to know more about this particular transaction than a legisla tive committee and a lot of legislators who knew nothing about it. B^t, we suppose, the railroad “ex perts” In the legislature, and scat tered throughout tho state—some of whom have never seen Chattanooga and wouldn't know a railroad terminal from a coupling pin—will continue to give it as their view that a serious mistake was made when Gov. Brown refused to let the state of Georgia fall into this trap. (rfenry Gearge, Jr., New York Korid On Sugar Go Into a retail grocers' and ask the price of sugar and he will tell you perhaps 5 1-2 cents for granulated. Ask him how much profit he is mak ing and he will tell you little or none. And that is the truth In New A'ork. The retail grocer makes a sort of “bar gain counter" attraction of his sugar to draw customers. At any rate ae gets little or nothing out of it. But that Is not to say -that the beet- sugar and cane-sugar combinations which control the growing and refin ing cf sugar in this country sell to him at cost. They do nothing of the kind. They seli at a tremendous profl.. indeed, the beet-sugar people :<ive publicly accuse; tlk? cane-sugar com bination of getting $3G,000,000 a year ear profit out of the American public, and the cane-sugar people have ac cused the beet-sugar combination of getting a similar prof): out of the Am erican public, and when the trusts go to fighting each other the truth) be gins to shine out. All the circum- stnees go to show that the people of the United States probably pay to the two big sugar combinations every year in the high P»*c of sugar about $70,- 000 000 that it would not have to pay if the trusts were not protected For the best raw 'sugar can be bought in the tropics, wholesale, for two gents a pound orAess. It can be refined here for a third of a cent and distributed over this country for one- tenth to one-halt a cent. Certainly if New York retail grocers were to sell their sugar at the wholesale price, as now, the housewife here would b? pay ing only two and a half to three cents a pound instead of double that prico. And this is not the only exaction the American people must pay to the sugar lords. Look at the price in rot ten politics! Have not tha sugar lords h uaE yv haqo ruled Congress for many years and ruled It against the manifest demands of the public? When the popular man date was for lower sugar duties, did not Congress keep the duties up and even put them higher? Or when the House put sugar down, as in the Wil son bill, did not the'Senate keep It up? At whose behe3t? Plainly not at the public's, but In defiance of its ex plicit demands. It has been a game of robbery and it hias bred lobbies corruptioh funds. And the larger corruption has bred the smaller tribe of corrupt dealings, as witness the systematic cheating of the Government for years in the weighing of raw sugar that the Cane Sugar Trust has been importing through the port of New York. Let these things be remembered with every lump of sugar. religious tyranny cannot prevail. In the end Spain will win Its' fight with the Vatican and a greater meas ure of religious liberty will be estab lished in that country. The time has passed when such a contention as that of the Bishop - of- Madrid l that the church must control, and that the laws of the church are the laws'of the state, will prevail. Humanity has set its face steadfastly toward freedom of thought, and no church, in no country, can forever stem the tide of humanity’s onward march. Spain's condition shows the danger ally country is in in permitting an alli ance between the church and the state. Eventually the church will domAate, seek to effectually utilize the state for -Its own advancement, and a check will be put on public speech and individual thought. That Is one lesson abpve all that history teaches. In Spain to-day, controlled by the Catholic church, there Is practlca.Iy no such thing as religious liberty. Dissenters from that church are for bidden to display any notice on^ the places where they meet that they are houses of worship and every possible barrier Is thrown in their way. It has not been many years since worsh'ip outside of the Catholic church was prohibited except in the embassies and a few other places where foreigners might meet for that purpose. It can not be denied that where in control tha Catholic church has assumed this attitude. But the greater measure of freedom in Italy, the course of events In France, and the awakening against restrictions of this character in Aus tria, all indicate that the time is at hand when In no country will relig ious freedom be shackled. In some respects Spain has condi tions that approach those at -the time of the great reformation. The merchants complain that the religious orders are monopolizing various lines of business, escaping taxation and competing with them under the enjoy ment of many great advantages. The liberal elements In polftlcs .assert that the country Is overrun with 1 the vari ous orders, doing nothing for the up building of the land, but drawing heavily on Its sustenance, that the church is absorbing the wealth of the ARTIST TO P4|nj primitive m Only One Tribe Remaining. | New York, Juyl 13._ To ■ Ize ttie last tribe of unta °' Itive Indians who fl ed (ro n some authority 0 f the vh; , 1 1862, Edwin W. Doming, t l ( | artist who has just ootr,Pioiie of decorations for the Harrl. slon at Arden is preparing for the northern woods of ( " yond the fart isos izatlon. M. Deming will he t j, e j of Dr. Charles A. Eastman, man, who himself is an iJ famous etymologist who his life to the preservatlJ traditions of the red man. lag has spent thi ■ greater j last fort., years living wl*b| ing various tribes of Amerin from the borders of Med Hudson bay country. He I ed as a tribal member l ting Bull and other famonil Iwhom he has immortalize! j and painting. North of IVin'nlp Some time ago Dr. Basa through Indian relatives i branqh of the Sioux livij itive Btyle on the borders n Saskatchewan far to thj Winnipeg. This tribe, ] was informed, consists oiij dred Sioux, descendants i 'fled across the border : sacre at New Ulm, Minn, soldiers were unable to ( and it had always been i they perished. According to Dr. En vices, they made their wil ttarmost reaches of Prl:f land. There they thelr native pursuits oil trapping and have cornel with the paleface only oi| trips to some lonely tn the great Hudson Bay eg bartering their furs in r forest. <ly than any other system of taxation. A LIVE MESSAGE. That was an Inspiring and enthus- Mastic message that was delivered to It is a source of genuine satisfaction to the pedple of Amerlcus that the largest and moot representative at tendance ever known in the history of the association was present at tha re cent convention. It was a genuine in ispiration to see the brilliant assembly the members of the Georgia Weekl) , wa3 g0 charmingly entertained Press Association a; Tuesday night ",; bj . tbe j^a d | e3 Hospital Association at banquet by Hon. Samuel C. Dunlap, TueS( j a} . evening’s banquet. State Commissioner of Industries and ^he fact that Amerlcus entertained "immigration. The gist of it was that| tbe conveat | on 0 f tha Georgia Weekly Georgia needs to advertise, and that 13 jp re93 Association that broke all ree ls sound admonition. | or( i s attendance, will mean much In develofiing tha trend of thought (o th<j c[ty , n the ,, ra ctlcal results relative to the njoesslty that Georgia a . wl)] bg obta | ne( i from what the has for Its country newspapers, Mr.' ekIy e q; t0 rs will have to say when Dunlap made reference to the rlch | thp y return to their homes. No better tiatural resources of the state. He | advertisement could be given to Am- emphasized the fact that Georgia is| er j Cua a nd Sumter county than to en- Bxoepti-onaliy well endowed by nature te[ ,. aln th | g i arge a ud representative body of newspaper men. Every / feature of. the entertainment of the visiting editors was carried out with care and success. It is a tri umph for our citizens to have enter tained their guests with such) admir able hospitality throughout their stay here no less than it will prove one of the most aggressive movements ever instituted by the city In the helpful publicity and advertising that will re sult from the visit to Amerlcus of the members of the Georgia Weekly Press Association. but that the main need of tha state now Is to let those without her bord- - ers know what she has to Interest them. That is the great secret of progress in general, and, of course. It applies aptly to tha Empire State of the South. ' The weekly press of the state has a vital work to do in this particular, and It can accomplish this work for the Htate as no other power can. The mes- ; sage of the Commissioner of Indus tries and Immigration did not fall on vdeaf ears, for he hald closely the a:- •tention of those who heard him. Let the members of the Georgia t Press Association remember the wise -words spoken to them by Mr. Dunlap, vocho knows how muchi Georgia has uoeen advertised and how much adver tising the state still needs. HIS REVENGE. little Boy—“I want a dose of cas tor oil." Druggist.—“Do you want the kind .you can’t taste?” Little Boy (anxious to get even)— Ho; it’s for mother."—San Jese Cltl- s*en. Where She Found Comfort * (Upplncott’a.) At a prayer meeting held In the backwoods of Rhode Island testimon ies were requested, and a very o'd woman tottered to her feet. “I want ter tell this blessed com pany,” her voice quavered, “that I have rheumatiz In my back, and rheu- matiz In my shoulders, and rheumatix in my legs, and rheumatix in my arm3, but I hev been upheld and comforted by the beautiful Bible verse, ‘Grin and bear it.’ " THE AGGRESSIVE SCHOOLMA’M. The aggressive schoolma’ms at their recent session of the National Educa tional Association at Boston stole a march on the mere men present at that meeting, If the news reports are true. For tho first time in the history of tha organization a woman was elected to the position of president. That or Itself is not so startling, but the man ner in which it ws done furnishes the amusing elements. Mrs. Ella F. Young was not the only candidate for the position, be it un derstood, for one Zachariah Snyder, of the male persuasion, was an opposi tion candidate to tha woman, who was recently elected superintendent of the schools of Chicago before she was made president of the National Education Association. Having packed the convention full of schoolma’ms, who were given exact orders as to how to vote, the feminine leaders raised the sex Issue against Zachariah) Snyder and knocked his aspirations for tho presidency Into a cocked hat. How’s that for subtlety and shrowdnoss on the part of the feminine element. It seems that the men were beaten at their own game. The number of school teachars In the United States Is given as 496,612, of which only 104,673 are men and 391,939 women. The wonder Is that the schoolma’ms haven't revolted long ago! With a majority of about 300,- 000 women teachers to draw from, they should make things exceedingly interesting for the masculine division. It is laughable to consider the fact that there were two women" for every man at the convention when the sex issue against poor Snyder was raised. That was a master stroke of political aggressiveness to bring out so large a majority of women and then to stir up the sex Issue to keep them all togethar when'they voted. It was a case of where the schoolmasters were cleverly mastered. . A COMMENDABLE ENTERPRISE. The methods adopted by the South ern Railway of/unnlng agricultural trains over Its lines in some of the states that are penetrated by the lines of the company, furnishes an excellent example of commendable enterprise. The recent tours made by these trains through) sections of Virginia and Western Tennessee have been attend ed with marked enthusiasm' on* the part of the farmers in these states aud have been the cause Of much im provement in agricultural mthods. In Virginia, the train was in charge of Hon.' G. W. Koiner, commissioner of agriculture for Virginia, with whom were associated a corps of experts. ‘ One of the most encouraging feat ures of the movement is the number of letters of Inquiry that have been sent to the railroad's land and industrial department by farmers who are Inter ested In the work of tha agricultural trains and asked that Information be sent them. Names of all who could be obtained were also taken along th tours by those in charge of the trains, so that in this way the influence of the trains will be made permanent. Soli Improvement, crop diversifica tion, more attention to live stock, and Improved methods of culture were stressed by the experts and will un doubtedly produce especially good results as regards these importanj el ements in modern successful farming. .— -wherewithal to supply nation and contributing little to tha necessities, they plunge expenses of government that weigh - so hea\lly upon the people. Condi tions like these cannot continue In definitely. It may take almost a civil war to reform them, but there Is no question that before many years con ditions more in accordance with the times in which' we live will be estab lished in Spain and Portugal. Church domination of civil government is out of keeping with modern times, the shackling of thought is a survival of the fourteeuth century, and tha re striction of religious and intellectual freedom must give Way t,o a broader comprehension of • man's inherent rights. RURAL FREE Dill RECEIVES HI Claims it the Service! HACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES. Raleigh, N. C., July lj lu great detail the lefA attending the develops! ral free delivery gertletj try. P. V. DeGraw. postmaster general, ly that "from the vlevpo that service was far in a otiie^ - of the clvi! serri PISCATORIAL. (New York World.) With'in two or three days just pass- . -- - ed, Mayor Gaynor has spoken and i statistics to she" written thase words among others: I of 41.900 carrier* Ours is a government of laws and dismissed for cause not of men. Mr DeGraw s ad I am not the czar of New York, and b'Fore the North I can only enforce the laws as they I ven'.Ui’ of rural ca exist. A’ou may he absolutely certain that I shall not take the law into my own hands. The growing exercise of arbitrary power l» this country by those put In office would be far more dangerous and Is far more to be dreaded than certain other vices that we all wish to minimize or get rl<T of. Golden words, and spoken at a time wljen government has become one of the most lawless Institutions In Amer ica. Of all the admirable things that Mayor Gaynor hat done, none is more admirable than his rugged Insistence! . ..^.lectio)*-i that arbitrary power has no place In ■ Bldate for ^ a republic, and that personal govern- ®"® r ( r ‘ n , 0( . ra ic P ri ®p ment must not he substituted for a to thl , .irtinn government of laws, however great | ponrcelat" ^ the Immediate advantages may sepm. th* P ast 31 \„ i No other high public official Is doing so much to bring the country back to first principles. here. He appeared ud live of the postnmsMf “There are np» ' throughout the L rural routes, served *| curriers," he said, ed the tuesl Un'led Slai'S r«vel a year It sc««w inc P | beyond 111 fl - FOR I tnreby anb«M£* Webster the future. « self to the hone* J charge of the dui J When the split bamboo Is vanished and 'the fly hook's filled with files. When the east winds have quit blow ing and no clouds arc lu the skies, When the rubber boots are mended and there’s something In tta flask. In the language of Ike Walton, what what remains for man to ask? When the troutlet In the streamlet sees the booklet floating by. And the manlet'a nose is blistered the hot sun mounts on Nigh, When the lunches o'er a cllfflct quite by accident la loit, Think ye not that hopes of triumph are behind tbe angler tossed? Still those hopes will spring trium phant neath the fisher’s rain- soaked vest, Tltongh he turns home empty-handed whan the sun dies In the west, Still he decorates the hushes with his choicest brand,lf files. For th# fishing ifllcrobe'* in him, and It bides there till be dies. LATHAM, ALEXANDER’S DAILY MARKET LETTER New York, July 13.—Urgent cover ing of July was tta feature of the cot ton market today and carried prices up generally. Weather reports were slightly unfavorable. Spot sales one hundred bales at thirty points advance over yesterday. . ■ v . Latham, Alexander & Co. CASTOR IA Tor Infants nnd OUUtob* Tin Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature o'f I (Special to Tl® Atlanta, Ga. July j today voted « ^ of Tuesday ln P ,j| •tor Morn 3 /;**, tus of bank <*<*' the future, and voted to abide* , ion of the spec* L tee In regard ' a the constitut e J Jorlty creasing the »» justices and t compensation 0 , abolishing tW the state.