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WE HAN UT IN CLOTHING FOR 30 PAYS! -E GROCERIES. Oppo. Citizens Bank, « Waynesboro, Georgia. TUB MF, tliqJ What the President Says on Important Subjects. TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY How He Would Deal With These Problems. He Declares Publicity la at Present <Jie Only Sure Remedy Against Evils of Combinations—Wbile Op posing Any General TurlfT Change. He Upholds the Principle of Reci procity — Advocates Reduction of Duty on Cuban Imports Into Tills Country — Importance of Building the Isthmian Canal and tlie Pacific Cable Urged—Tlie Philippines and Other Insular Questions. not Ions'" ago gathered in open meeting j or corporate and individual to glorify the murder of King Hum- j have made them very potent factors in bert of Italy perpetrate a crime, and i international commercial competition, the law should insure their rigorous! Moreover, it cannot too often be punishment. They and those like them I pointed out that to strike with ignorant should be kept out of this country, and i violence at the interests of one set of Washington, Dec. 3.—The president in his annual message to congress says: The congress assembles this year un der the shadow of a great calamity. On tlie Cth of September President Me- j Kinley was shot by an anarchist while ; attending the Pan-American exposi tion at Buffalo and died in that city on the 1-lth of that month. j Of the last seven elected presidents j lie is the third who has been murdered, ; and the bare recital of this fact is sufficient to justify grave alarm among j all loyal American citizens. Moreover, j the circumstances of this, the third as sassination of an American president, have a peculiarly sinister significance. Both President Lincoln and President Garfield were killed by assassins of types unfortunately not uncommon in history. President Lincoln falling a victim to the terrible passions aroused by four years of civil war and Presi dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity of a disappointed office seeker. Presi- dent McKinley was killed by an utter- j ly depraved criminal belonging to that | body of criminals who object to all j governments, good and bad alike, who | ^ are against any form of popular lib- j erty if it is guaranteed by even the most just and liberal laws and who are as hostile to the upright exponent of a free people’s sober will as to tlie tyrannical and irresponsible despot. Anarchy and Anarchists. The president continues with a eulogy of Mr. McKinley, then turns to the subject of anarchy, denouncing its doctrines and preachers. He says: I earnestly recommend to tliecongress that in the exercise of its wise discre tion it should take into consideration the coming to this country of anarch ists or persons professing principles hostile to all government and justify ing the murder of those placed in au- thoriiy. Such individuals as those who if found here they should be promptly deported to the country whence they came, and farreaching provision should be made for the punishment of those who stay. No matter calls more urgently for the wisest thought of the congress. A Subject For Federal Courts. Tlie federal courts should be given jurisdiction over any man who kills or attempts to kill the president or any man who by the constitution or by law Is in line of succession for the presidency, while the punishment for an unsuccessful attempt should he pro- i portioned to the enormity of the of fense against our institutions. Anarchy is a crime against the whole human race, and all mankind should band against the anarchist. His crime should be made an offense against the law of nations, like piracy and that form of man stealing known as the slave trade. j The president next considers busi- ! ness conditions, which he finds highly ! satisfactory. He continues: The tremendous and highly complex industrial development which went on with ever accelerated rapidity during the latter half of the nineteenth cen tury brings'us face to face at the be ginning of the twentieth with very serious social problems. The old laws and the old customs which had almost the binding force of law were once quite sufficient to regulate the ac cumulation and distribution of wealth. Since the industrial changes which have so enormously increased the pro ductive power of mankind they are no longer sufficient. Trade Combinations. The growth of cities has gone on be- | yond comparison faster than the growth of the country, and the up- I building of the great industrial centers has meant a startling increase not | merely in the aggregate of wealth, but i in the number of very large individual I and especially of very large corporate j fortunes. The creation of these great j corporate fortunes has not been due I to the tariff nor to any other govern-j j mental action, but to natural causes j In the business world, operating in otb- j countries as they operate in our j own. The process has aroused much Itigonisra. a great part of wholly without warrant, that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer. On the con- men almost inevitably endangers the interests of all. The fundamental rule In our national life—the rule which un derlies all others—is that, on the whole and in the long run, we shall go up or down together. The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance. In dealing with business interests, for the government to undertake by crude and ill considered legislation to do what may turn out to be bad, would be to incur the risk of such farreach- ing national disaster that it. would be preferable to undertake nothing at all. The men wbo demand tlie impossible or the undesirable serve as the allies of the forces with which they are nom inally at war, for they hamper those who would endeavor to find out in ra tional fashion what tlie wrongs really are and to what extent and in what manner it is practicable to apply reme dies. How to Correct tlie Evil*. All this is true, and yet it is also true that there are real and grave evils, one of the chief being overcapitaliza tion because of its many baleful con sequences, and a resolute and practical effort must be made to correct these evils. It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to re quire that when men receive from gov ernment the privilege of doing busi ness under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility and enables them to call into their en terprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested. Corporations engaged in in terstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury. It should be as much the aim of those who seek for social betterment to rid the busi- | then ness world of crimes of cunning as to I should wealth ! course of administration. The first requisite is knowledge, full and com plete—knowledge which may be made public to the world. Artificial bodies, such as corporations and joint stock or other associations, depending upon any statutory law for their existence or privileges should be subject to proper governmental super vision, and full and accurate informa tion as to their operations should be made public regularly at reasonable intervals. The large corporations, commonly anarenists, but persons of a low moral tendency or of unsavory reputation and those who are below a certain standard of economic fitness to enter our industrial field as competitors with American labor. The Tariff and Reciprocity. The president declares that nothin could be more unwise than to disturb the business interests of the country by any general tariff change at this time. He adds: Yet it is not only possible, but emi nently desirable, to combine with the called trusts, though organized in one i stability of our economic system a sup state, always do business in many states, often doing very little business in the state where they are incorpo rated. There is utter lack of uniform ity ^n the state laws about them, and, as no state has any exclusive interest in or power over their acts, it has in practice proved impossible to get ade quate regulation through state action. Therefore, in the interest of the whole people, the nation should, without in terfering with the power of the states in the matter itself, also assume power of supervision and regulation over all corporations doing an interstate busi ness. Amend Constitution if Necessary. When the constitution was adopted, at the end of the eighteenth century, no human wisdom could foretell the sweeping changes, alike in industrial and political conditions, which vrfte to take place by the beginning of the twentieth century. At that time it was accepted as a matter of course that the several states were the proper authorities to regulate, so far as was then necessary, the comparatively in significant and strictly localized cor porate bodies of the day. The condi tions are now wholly different, and wholly different action is called for. I believe that a law can be framed which will enable the national govern ment to exercise control along the lines above indicated, profiting by the expe dience gained through the passage and administration of the interstate com merce act. If, however, the judgment of the congress is that it lacks the con stitutional power to pass such an act, constitutional amendment be submitted to confer the rid the entire body politic of crimes of { power. There should be created a cabinet of- Strikes A Kick Find. “I was troubled for several years with chronic indigestion and nervous debilitv.” writes S’. J. Green, of Lan caster,’N. H. “No remedy helped me an-1 until I began using Electric Bitters, which is I which did me more good than all the T* nnt mi p I medicines I ever used. They have also ! kept my wile in excellent health for years, bhe says Electric Bitters are just ! splendid for female troubles; that they trary, never before has the average : are a g ranc i tonic and iuvigorator tor man. the wageworker, the farmer, tho . W eak, run-down women. No o:her small trader, been so well off as in this medicine can take its place in our taui- . ’ , ^ I. *■ Tl-inro ilv ” TrY fhi country and at the present time. There , ily-” Try them. Onlv 50c. Saristae abuses I «■» guaranteed by H. B. McMasteb. accumulation of wealth, yet it remains that a fortune accumulated in have been OOOOOOCOOOOOOOCO Jewelry. If you want Something real fine and stylish in Jewelry, Sil- verw are, Cut Glass, Clocks, Diamonds, go to w-Minwo., J EWELERS, Augusta, : : Georgia. It Dazzles the World. No Discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the excitement that has been caused by Dr. km„3 New Discovery for Consumption. Its severest tests have been on hopeless victims of Consumption, ^“oma, Hemorrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchitis, thousands of whom it has restored tu verfect health. For Coughs, Colds, £ t hm.. Croup. Hay Fever Hoa» violence. Great corporations exist omy because they are created and safe guarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions. Publicity tlie First Essential. The first essential in determining how to deal with the great industrial ficer. to be known as secretary of commerce and industries, as provided In the bill introduced at the last ses sion of the congiiess. It should be his province to deal with commerce in its broadest sense, including among many other things whatever concerns labor and all matters affecting the great business corporations and our mer chant marine. Labor. The president declares that he re gards it necessary to re-enact the Chi nese exclusion law. In regard to labor he says that the government should provide in its contracts that all work should be done under “fair” conditions and that all night work should he for bidden for women and children as well as excessive overtime. He continues: Very great good has been and will be accomplished by associations or unions of wageworkers when managed with j plemeutary system of reciprocal bene- : fit iind obligation with other nations. Such reciprocity is an incident and re I suit of the firm establishment and < preservation of our present economic- policy. It was specially provided for 1 in the present tariff law. Reciprocity must he treated as the ! handmaiden of protection. Our first- duty is to see that the protection graut- 1 ed by the tariff in every case where it is needed is maintained, and that reci procity be sought for so far as it can safely be done without injury to our j home industries. Just how far this is | must be determined according to the j individual case, remembering always I that every application of our tariff pol- j Icy to meet our shifting national needs must be conditioned upon the cardinal fact that the duties must never be reduced below the point that will cover the difference between the labor cost j here and abroad. The well being of 1 the wageworker is a prime considera tion of our entire policy of economic legislation. Need For Wider Markets. Subject to this proviso of the proper protection necessary to our industrial well being at home, the principle of reciprocity must command our hearty support. The phenomenal growth of our export trade emphasizes the ur gency of the need for wider markets and for a liberal policy in dealing with m nation*. Whatever is merely Modern Surgery Surpass'd. “While suffering from a bad cast of piles I consulted a physician who advised me to try a box of DeWittV Witch Hazel Salve,” says G. F. Car ter. Atlanta. Ga. “I procured a box and was entirely cured. De Witt’s Witch Haze! Salve is a splendid cure for piles, giving relief instant ly, and I heartily recommend it to all sufferers” Surgery is unneces sary to cure piies. De Witt’s Witch HttzelSaive will cure any case. Cuts, burns, bruises, and all other wounds are also quickly cured by it Beware of counterfeits DQQQQQQQQQQQQOQQQQQOQOOOQO tuid Whooping Cough it is tne .quickest, STB. McmIstek! who guarantees sat isfaction or refund mouey Large bot- tles 50c and §1.00. Inal bottles free. legitimate business can be accumulat ed by the person specially benefited only on condition of conferring im mense incidental benefits upon oth ers Successful enterprise of the type which benefits all mankind can only exist if the conditions are such as to offer great prizes as the rewards of success. Reaxons For Caution. The president adds that there are many reasons for caution in dealing with corporations. He says. The same business conditions which have nrnrlneed the great aggregations Not a Dissenting Vote. A perfect laxative! That is the unanimous verdict of the people who Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep sin. 50c and $1 00 fuzes. Sold by H- b. McMaster, Wayues- boro, Ga. H. Q. Bell, Millen, Ga, . , , , „ .. forethought and when they combine m- eomb mat ous s knowledge of the facts ; a ... . , ... comm p : sistenee upon their own rights with —Dubl eitv. In the interest of the pub-1 .... . , ...... , f* ■ . , .. ' law abiding respect for the rights of lie the government should have the, ® 1 65 uc in . others. The display of these qualities right to inspect and examine the work-1 J J ings of the great corporations engaged in interstate business. Publicity is the only sure remedy which we can now j invoke. What further remedies are | ...... 1U> . , i ment in order to safeguard the rights needed in the way of governmental . „ „ T - j .. m : anu interests of all. Lnder onr eonsti- regulation or taxation can only be de- . .. , tution there is much more scope for teriniued after publicity has been ob- , . , . ,. 1 • such action by the state and the munic ipality than by the nation. But on in such bodies is a duty to the nation no less than to the associations them selves. Finally, there must also ir further remedies are j man y eases be action b * tbe & overn " toinoA hr nrncess of law and in the hjsician Testifies, ‘•I have taken Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and have never used anything in my life that did me the good that did,” says County Physician Geo W. Scroggs of Hail county,Ga , “Being a physician I have prescribed it and found it to give the best results.” If the food you eat remains undigest ed in your stomach it decays there and poisons the system. You can prevent this by dieting but that means starvation. Kodol Dyspep sia Cure digests what you eat. You need suffer from neither dyspepsia nor starvation. The worst cases quickly cured. Never fails. H. B. McMaster. points such as those touched on above the national government can act. He asserts that the immigration laws are unsatisfactory and ijat a law should be enacted to keep Girt not on3y Reliable and Gentle. “A pill’s a pill,” says the saw. But there are pills and pills. You want a pill which is certain, thorough and gentle. Mustn’t gripe. De Wilts’s Little Early Risers fill the bill,Pure ly vegetable. Do not force but as sist the bowels to act. Strengthen and invigorate. Small and easy to take. h. b. MCMaster. petty and vexatious in the way of trade restrictions should be avoided: The customers to whom we dispose of our surplus products in the long run, directly or indirectly, purchase those surplus products by giving us some thing in return. Their ability to pur chase our products should as far as possible he secured by so arranging our tariff as to enable us to take from them those products which we can use without harm to our own industries and labor or the use of which will be of marked benefit to us. It is most important that we should maintain the high level of our present prosperity. We have now reached the point in the development of our in terests where we are not only able to supply our own markets' but to pro duce a constantly growing surplus for which we must find markets abroad. To secure these markets we can util- 5 ~“ duties in any case where The Children's Friend. You’ll have a cold this winter. Maybe you have one now. Your children will suffer too. For coughs, croup, bronchitis, grip and other winter compliintsOneMinuteCough- Cure never fails. Acts promptly: It is very pleasant to the taste and perfectly harmless. C. B. George, Winchester, Ky., writes “Our little girl was attacked with croup late one night and was so hoarse she could hardly speak. vV’e gave her a few doses of One Minute Cough Cure. It relieved her immediately and she went to sleep. When she awaken next morning she had no signs of hoarseness or croup. H. B. MCMaster. ... We are sure of several things We are sure that we can serve you promptly, efficiently, carefully. We are sure that we can show yeu an assortment ot stock that is without a peer in magnitude and quality. We are sure Our mechanical facilities are so simple and complete that your special orders will get best attention here. Wt are sure that our prices are worthy of investigation. Doing a big business with big facilities, cuts down the cost. We are sure that you have not thought over that building question as it deserves. We are sure that we can satisfy you in every respect. ^iKjusta: Qa? CHAS. F. DEGEN, Manager. The Artistic Woodworkers. they are no longer needed for the pur pose of protection, or in any case where the article is not produced here and the duty is no longer necessary for revenue, as giving us something tc offer in exchange for what we ask. The cordial relations with other na tions which are so desirable will nat urally be promoted by the course thus required by our own interests. The natural line of development for a policy cf reciprocity will be in connec tion with those of our productions which no longer require all of the sup port once needed to establish them upon a sound basis and with those oth ers where either because of natural or of economic causes we are beyond the reach of successful competition. I ask the attention of the senate tc the reciprocity treaties laid before it bj iv nredecessor. Blown to Atoms. The old idea that the body sometimes needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill has been exploded; for Dr.’ King’s New Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless, gently stimulate liver and bowels to ex- peJ poisonous matter, cleanse the sys tem and absolutely cure Constipation and Sick Headache. Ouly 25c at Mc- Mastek’s drug store. The Merchant Marine. The condition of the American mer chant marine is such as to call for im mediate remedial action by the con gress. It is discreditable to us as s nation that our merchant marine should be utterly insignificant in com parison to that of other nations which we overtop in other forms of business, We should not longer submit to condi tions under which only a trifling por tion of our great commerce is carried In our own ships. To remedy this state cf tilings would not merely serve to build up our shipping interests, but it would also result in benefit to all who are interested in the permanent estab lishment of a wider market for Amer ican products and would provide an auxiliary force for the navy. Ships Personal Will the lady who fell in a swoon last Thursday, in front of the post- liiee, call at our store? She suffer,- from Biliiousness. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin will surely cure her. Sold oy h. B. MCMaster, Waynes boro; H.Q Bell, Millen. ork for their own countries just as railroads work for their terminal points. Shipping lines, if established to the principal countries with which we have dealings, would be of political as well as commercial benefit. From ev ery standpoint it is unwise for the United States to continue to rely upon the ships of competing nations for the distribution of our goods. It should be made advantageous to carry American sroods in American built ships. 8100 Reward 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to earn that there is at least < ne dreaded dis ease that science has been aoie to cure In all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hail’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a consti tutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system,, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving tlie patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in do ing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that it tails tocure. Send for list, of testimonials. Ad dress, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Bgs“- Sold by druggists 7oc. At present American shipping is un der certain great disadvantages when put in competition with tk-s shipping of foreign countries. Many of the fast foreign steamships, at a spend of four teen knots or above, are subsidized, and all our ships, sailing wssels and steamers alike, cargo carrier* of slow speed and mail carriers of elah speed, have to meet the fact that tee original cost of building American chips is greater than is the case al>ror.«I: that the wages paid American office/* and sea men are very much higher fium those paid tlie officers and seamen cf foreign competing countries, and that the standard of living on our riMps Is far superior to the standard cC fcving on the ships of our commercial rivals. Our government should take suCi> action as will remedy these inequalities. The American merchant marine should be restored to the ocean. Financial. The passage of the act establishing gold as the standard money fins, it is declared, been shown to be timely and judicious. The president adds: In many respects the nat.uar.1 hank ing law furnishes sufficient CSserty for the proper exercise of th-s banking function, but there seems 10 bo need of better safeguards against the de ranging influence of commercial crises and financial panics. Moreover, the currency of the country should be made responsive to the denmeds of our domestic trade and commerce. Economy in expenditure.- Is urged. Amendment of tlie interstate- commerce act is advised to insure tb* -mrdinal provisions of that act. The- work car ried on by the department r-s agricul ture is next considered and praised highly. The president then turns to forest preservation and irrigation of arid lands, saying that both highly necessary. lie would put aJ the work in connection with the forert “eserves in charge of the bureau of forestry. Irrigation. The president continues rrr tracing the connection between the »orest re serves and the water supply. He says; The forests are natural reservoirs. By restraining the streams-- *t» flood and replenishing them in drought they mou-o nnecihie the use of wniars other- Rpiirf In Six Honrs. Distressing Kidney and Bladdt- r**eease re lieved in six hours by New Gr—-t South- Ainerican Kidney Cure. It is a gtv=» -urprise on account of its exceeding prom i-tness in re lieving pain in bladder, kidneys &/■-' back. In male or female. Relieves reten'^-.- wafer almost immediately. Ifyouwaz. .nick re lief a d cure this is the remedy. **''■’d by H. 8 McMaster. Druggist Waynesooro Ga. wise wasted. They prove... the soil from washing and so protec-' the stor age reservoirs from filling op with silt. Forest conservation is, therefore, an essential condition of wtite? conser vation. The forests alone cannol, however, fully regulate and conserve the waters of the arid region. Great storage works are necessary to equalize Cio*> flow of streams and to save the flood waters. Their construction has been conclu sively shown to be an undertaking too vn~f for private effort. Nor can it be best accomplished by tho individual states acting alone. The gn-ernment should construct and maintain these reservoirs as it does other pu»fic works. Where their purpose Is to ragulate the flow of streams, the watei ehould be turned freely into the channels In the dry season to take the sams course under the same laws as the natural fiAW. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. I Choicest Offerings. 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