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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1893)
J ?• 'At i n k - r S, . .4 /man N ■> fh r n r bA^’’ s “I TM t 9 s / ! L- If I SP I y ^. - y B. Proprietor IIIU, ON SILVER, Tiv r- Sun is satisfied that the ■ p!, • .■-g a. in line with the nfii I i); of the country, are get- 5 U 0 „ r: v he. silver question' when L h( . v n 1 that ir <• silver meant llilMtl l ., many of them joined in the r ■ a :s they gra uaitv began to lea t;,c more money that it piom isi„! \\ s cii ap money' that it WH- a *!t'h •» currency that w; s to he palmed nffo. ia' ; eopl<« in exchange for their labor mid their products, they began to ]OllSt ami reflect * and in addition to tills when toy found that iti the free coinage of silver the mine owner was to Kct n.c difference in tlx* market value ,,f the silver dollar coined for him at ,1„. United Slates mints, they began to re[Hi<ii.de tin* whole scheme. They are i.iftt discovei uig that the free coinage of silver at the present ratio or any oilier rati" that will not maintain the parity <;f the silver and gold dollar, is not only a blow at -<>und and stable currency but it is a loblrtrrv of the people in the inter est cl the silver mine owners. It is to be regretted that the great State of Georgia has not no"' in Con glVAS eillier the Senate or House. » statesman with sagacity enough to under .stand the situation and with courage to xtiuid in the reach. If the late Benjamin H. Hill the pearless orator and the fear !*ks slab sman were alive, and in his puce in the Senate, he would stand by bis famous spee< It in the Senate on this question in lr*78 and place Gsorgia ino van of the advaocate of relief for tae people and for a sound currency, I„ that famous speech Mr liiJI met such leaders as J. G. Biahte Senator Allison and others, who interupied him at every pant and were worsted at every inler uption, Mr, Hill took advanced ground in 1878 but what he said then was true and it is true today. There were people in Geor gia then w ho believed in cheap silver mid they laised a howl against tSenaior Hill; when lie came home lrom Washington they called him to account. He met them vim he convinced them that lie w as right. The writer heard ii iu in his de lense of his course before one great meet ing in middle Georgia, made up of busi ness men and fauueis from many coun ties, many of whom were bitter critics. When lie finished, after clear logical statements of facts and principles for which he was famous, and gifted as few men are’ there was a revulsion of public sentiment, and the people ejected and crowded around the brave and witching orator and told him lie was right. Among the wise f iling Mr. Hill said about si.ver in this great speech were the following: Never in the history of the world, in any country Pagan or Christian detqiotic of republic in either while revolution was raging or subsiding while islands were rising or sinkiug, while empires wero prospering or crumbling, did silver and gold ever keep company* with each other except upon the inflexible mlc of equal ity in velue. The moment O' e metal be comes depreciated the other metal flies away and the moment a depreciated pa per currency comes in sight both metals hurry to their hiding places. Silver bullion is not at a premium. Silver bullion is at a very great discount, Silver bullion is 10 per cent below* par; silver bullion will rush for coinage as >oon as you make the law, because of Hat fact. It needs no encouragement from the Government to be coined. There "'ill i>e a tendency in the rush of silver fo displace the coinage of gold and to ab sorb the power of your mint. The holder °f gold bullion does not derive the profit from the coinage of gold that the holder of silver bullion would derive from the free coinage of silver. Now. when gen tlemen tell me that silver ought to lie Put upon the same conditions of coinage " Hi. gold, then I say you must first put -live, ujKin the sanm co.mhion of of position before th-coumr/* Other 'Msc ihe argument tails, Then- can Is* .*.*, w for this Oov. z under «},.* p.eteu.w. f »«-rin* • t ■ n ,, opl 4 *■ .leni coinage Vf.- I'I" II 4 N? > ns **f do ;*»» »" • •* H 1. » .. !«• uebvidimV, •"’VI j /. iv sk'll and the t -n <• Kt ti e Unite 1 * l.icli v. tj\ei it. „ bul. oh i »* i O v. i* ■"i lii re i DEVOTKB TO (ilVl.MJ THE NEWS. KNC0VRAUM1 Till; I'ROORlw IM» lllllVi. THE PROSPERITY OK SCHLEY COUNTY. ELLAVILLE, GA. THURSDAY Vug. 31 1893 no reason why *iie holder of bullion should pf"t n!! Hio benefit of this skill and l ih. r and <xi em»e employed bv the G■.'eminent. There is no reason why he l should have an n ore than the* market , value of his bull! n. Such a remarka I ble |ir 'vision has . ever been made in any 1 oounliy tlint I know of under like cir cumstaneesr I do not believe that the remonitira tion of silver with unlimited legal tendor power will make it Worth a dollar. 1/ 1 believed it I would vote with you, Coin ing a silver dollar equal to a gold pollar cannot harm^nvhody. That is what my triend wants and what we all want. We wid all vote for a silver that is equal toa gold dollar. Wh at are we quairelit g ;,l >out when all agree that nobody can be harmed bv that? France has stopped the coinage, and she ke< ps silver at i»ar» She closes down In r mints and why does she keep her mints closed? Because, as tny friend must admit, the French people know if they do what you propose to do bv tins bill, reopenjthe mints or restore the un imited free coinage of silver, her -ilver wont go down in twenty four hours, and it would drive the other metal, gold, away which is the same thing. When ever you depreciate one metal you drive the other away. That is an established fact. France stopped the coinage of sil ver to prevent that effect, and retain her gold. I ain willing for you to have silver; I am a silver man. I protest here and now against the constantly repeated argu ments on this floor that those of us who cannot snpport this bill wan fto destroy all the silver in the county. We want to regulate silver so as to keep it equal with gold and thus keep both in the country. Sir, there is but one patriotic course for men to pursue in the high position of this country.* Call hack, if yon can. the people to aii honest renewed recognition of the obligations, fidelity to constitu tional obligations and fidelity to con tract obligation though all trials and at any cost, is the purest religion, the wis est statesmanship, and the highest ba iriotisni. Sherman Act Repealed After a strong fight on the silver ques — tiou a vote was taken in the house Mon— day which resulted in a victory for the unconditional repeal of the Sherman pur chasing act. The final vote was 130 in favor of repeal. In an editoria the EuquirerSun says; "The decisive vote in the House must lie regarded as a signal triumph for the dministration, and a vindication of President Cleveland. Any other result we believe, would hare been disastrous to the party snd a calamity to the couns try. Tli-refusal of the House to repeal the Sherman act would not ouiy have been a slapinthe faceufthe Administration but would have been a qeliberate violation of one important pledge made by the Chi cago platform. It would inevitably have created distrust in Hie public as to the sin eraty of the Democratic party,and doubt, whether any of the pledges wer ob*.in good faith, redeemed Bnt the doubt lias been dispellep in significant and momentous victory whose wholesome effect! will lie far reaching. Only the delay co*i sequent ups onthe action the Senate willpre • •'it an in taut finantial revival nliowr the coun— try, hut it will he the dawn of a ne v era of confidence and prosperity, which will brighten into a splendid noontide its the Senate moves forwaid totli* dwcliargc of ts responsible duty.’’ Elner Kiak utterudu grand truth when site wrote this Lit of advice: The first tiling to understand in the search after faith or any of the graces of "l»>rit’i*.tliat everything ...... » possible to „ the P*™>" * '^m.inen to he an ind. *»■«*. self governed, and everything wj.ich menus comfort and h'M-and rest •»"' pr- r.ty is impossible ° m ' W *" H , *‘ n, " x ’ ° r Wing to lean .on nth ir. **tdU>g ,«• ftrfl> - » A.hufi* nu<>*A «? sLitie* :iiT : *f* ►**!»»" i* pfostsi'' JP( », ’n' • Uv«r rrii CtompUUua >1 *!f*/r- , jf–vi idle* Good Times. t Front the Meriwmthe r Vindicator. How much better the times when spin ning cotton was saved from the year’s crop was carded at home’ spun on the old spinning wheel at home’ woven into cloth at home, dyed in copperas or na tive barks at home, cut and made into clothing at home, often without paying out a cent of money, Wool was sheared from the flock that pastured m tie* old fields, washed, carded, spun and woven into the very nicest jeam^ according to the taste and skill of the good housewife and made into nicely fitted suits Then home raistd corn fifed the b'g dih stacks of fodder, oats, hay and straw abounded near the horse lot. No bacon was bought, bul the smoke house wa hung to the very roof with the choices home raised, home cured hams, shoulder® and middlings. The big gourd, jars and barrels Were full of the whitest, pur st and best lard. The wheat houses were heaped high w ith bushels upon bushels of the golden grain from w-lience was oh tained the best flour ever seen in the land and shorts, seconds and bnn were all produced at home. The statelr hine kept th° dairy supplied with the richest milk and outtar and “kidney kivered’ beef with juice«t steak and roast was to bo bad whenever Hie home butch er desired it, Fresh mutton could be slaughtered every week while the pen ever contained the fatted j ig. Peaches apples, plums pears, potatoes, beans eabbage and turnips without stint flour ished in their season, Bees were raised at almost every home and milk and hon ey brought back to memory the Biblical renown of ancient Canaan. Oh, ours was thei a goodly heritage Peaces prosperity and plenty blessed the land, and we were as happy as mortals on this mundane sphere can ever he. The and is still here, tlx - cli mate but slightly changed. Providence still sends the ear ly and latter rains and nothing is needed but a return to old time prosperity and contentment* Old Polo. In “The Arabian Nights” we read of a wise sage who cured a great king by a decoction with which he anointed the handle of a stick with which the king was in the habit of playing a game at ball, to the end that when the royal hand perspired in the vigor of the play the open pores might receive the medica ment. The translator speaks of this stick as a "golfstick” (sic), bnt it is plain from the c#ntext that the game was played on horseback. It was. in fact. polo. In deed the illustrations of the very same edition show the said king playing the game on horseback.—Blackwood’s Maga zine. Hu Won’t lie Expelled. Mouldy Mike—By all th’ saints, has yer lost ver mind? Wot you carryin that saw for? Ragged Robert—It’s all right. I stop at houses an offer to saw wood fer me dinner. “You’ll be expelled from the Travelin Gentlemen’s union.” “No, I won't. After dinner I tell ’em I can’t work till I file me saw. They lend me a file an tell me to go way off where they won’t hear me film. Most any saloon will give a drink for a good file.”—New Yolk Weekly. Strong* Ooil* of Ignorant r««pl*. There is a sect in Orissa, in the Bengal presidency, who worship Queen Victoria as their chief divinity. Colonel Graham discovered that her majesty was also an object »t worship in the temple of the Phodonga-Lama, at Turn long, in Thiliet. A sect in the Punjab worshiped a deity whom they called Nikkal Sen. This Nikkal Sen was no other than the re* doubted General Nicholson, ami nothing that the general could do or say damped the enthusiasm of his adorers. M. du ChaiBu tells that some of the African savages looked upon liim ns a superior being, and the South Sea islanders wor shiped Captain Cook ns a deity. Even when they had killed him and cut him into small pieces the inhabitants of Owhy bee fully expected him to reappear and frequently asked what he wonld do to them on his return. Lander, in his Niger expedition, i-oys that in most African towns and t-dUrr*** fie w*« ♦re**ted as a A* * -•.(*«! T.'it'd John Lie: •-•••' w*- '•••* •«-<','*••• .•Mcl.s in no.'Viwest Sam A. B. Williamson, Manager Notice Notice is hereby given that tlm under signed sold and transfered his holding of stock in ihe Planters Bank of Ellaville Ga, last January. H. It. Johnson July 26-93 Bm meeting* Big Meeting begins Thursday night be fare Third Sun .lay in Aug. At 8t. Mark Church. Taylor Co. AM invited. Full has ket, SCHLEY COUNTY TEACHERS j INSTITUTE. -p, Tins . T Insti ... ute . will begin Monday Sept, _ 4th. at 100’clock and continue all the week. ALL PERSONS HOLDING PUSLIC SOHoOL tevchehs license are required to be PRESENT. Chas. Lane will conduct the Institute. C. H. Smith, C. S. C. . For Schley county. All comunication for publication must he sent in not later than Wednesday a 10 oclock. T A Collins, J B Williamson Collins «■> Williamson CLEAN SWEEP SALE OF 1893 Is an opportunity for the purchase of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Hardware* Tinware, Stoves, Harness, Brick, etc., etc* AT -YOUR OWN PRICE Meat and lard will be sold for cssh only OOTTJSTT-Rrsr PEODITCE Taken in exchange and highest market price allowed for same, Call and be convinced. IT IS WORTH WHILE TO TRY To g< t the )>e«t qualify and most goods for the least money is the aim of ever prudcr.t purchaser and the idea that this can be done only in the larger cities is be mg evi ry day dispelled. DIZON BROs. IVho keep on band a complete Stock of fami’y and Heavy. groceries, A general of Plantation supplies Including S*ta,-ple D ry GrOocL AND Ready made suits We are determined to make it to the interest of every citizen of Schley count |,uv their supplies at home, This firm buys go-id* in large quantities, from the mannf -cturers apd largest lender*. |Kiis rash «tid ge - the hi* >i rde-. Hieirfotv fi *) Can and will *eli tb* q lalit;*-l jpKels for !e**t* moi *y. fui cu b. tiiali any iity retail sti.ier, who l ip hi^'i refits, high in-ii • M>d logh < i*r t.ix. i-.il afford fo. H you h tr-dii n eisevrUeie give rh<*«n s trial, make out a list of what .oft i. tsA- it. * : th l.» itsIi. to DIXOTSt ERGTHERB ^ wt.i umpee v«*u vu v’ j -*a – WYI-S. Just received a new shipment of bug ’' s rt,so Mowin « Call' ear if Cheap. A ■ J. Hill. This paper resen es the right to reject revise, and correct any all manuscript handed in for publication* Cheap Medicines—Save .Money. All buy medicines, and you want them cheap — at retail at wholsale rates. Jacobs’ Pharmacy, the largest southern “cutter" of prices, has an advertisment m to-day's paper containing a few jprices. ilar All other articles No are sold at sim low rates. matter what you Want that is usually kept in a large drug (spire send to them. They will sell it at astonishing low rates. Express charges for packages under five pounds, twa utvs five cents. Watch these advertisements and prices. Send for a number of things a t, once. Isa word to the wise sufficient SHSkUia NO til . GW0H9 esn‘uoiq.6a§Tpui ajq -noax aaAUi ‘vt j. JOjj •s>Trjref<Tt? jho.\ pnoS 'iw£ v rApJ pnn 'MAif .wuurqj amo nTM IT ’gnsiiU.r*( soni M.vrmwa ,1 .(.i i>oo3 i, .tinjqnp Aijiwj i"j.uro k{ .[ ‘llu; »qjoaji*( ino ujo.s pti aau nir ji_> *v ./ii j r yjorti iijjos nr
