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4 THE MACOH TELEGRAPH: FRIDAY MORHITTG, AUGUST 24, 1894. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR AND WEEKLY. Office 569 Mulberry Street. K«w York unit. loot;, Klrimilli Mr.»t THE DAILY TELEGItAVH-Dsllversd by . currier* In th* city, or mailed, postage | free, CO cent* it month; ll.7i for threo j month*; 33.50 for six month*; If for on* rent; every day except 8und*y. 34. THE THI-WEKKLYTBLEOHAHH-Sfon . days, Wednesday* and Friday*, or Tuea- | daya Thursdays and Saturday,. Three * month*. 11; *ix months. If; one year, H THE SUNDAY TELEaitAPH-Uy mall, on* year. K. SUBSCRIPTIONS—Payable In advance, flemlt by poatal order, check or regis tered letter. Currency by mall at rl»k of lender. COMMUNICATIONS—AH communication* should be addressed, and all order*, check*, drafts, etc., made payable to TIIE TELKCIIAPII. Macon. Oa^ ANY SUBSCRIBER to tho Dally Telegraph will confer a great favor on thto office by Informing us If tho Tel egraph fall* to arrive y bb Drat mail train leaving tho city after 4 o'clock «. m. each day. ADOITI.N'U REPUBLICAN MKTII ODH. A few years ago, about the time Mr. Ilarrlaon went into office, the white lie* puhllcuim of Alnlinmn tried to exeluilu the nihfrue* from active piirtle.pnthin hi tho party's nlfalra, the Idea bolng that If tints could lie ilium the pnrty could attract to Its supp&rt tho eonsld- cruble numlmr of whlto men In that niato who had adopted pruteetlvnlHl Uir:ff views. At tho tlmo tho mluoral resource* of tho slat* were attracting much attentfon and many pwimus as sumed that IIiimo resource* could not bo developed unices (ho Kovernmnnt continued to protect producer* of Iron. A* they wished to prrsluco Iron, or Itnd an Indirect interest In Its being pro duced, they wore unturully npposeil to the Democratic, tariff policy and just as naturally attracted to tho Itepuhll- can party. Nevertheless tho movement fulled, for the reason mainly that tho national HopuMlrmi party rai* born of the negro, lived on lilm for many years, and cannot now openly desert lilm without losing much of Its strength at tho North. A Southern Kepiihllenn ty, ostentatiously excluding tho negro, umld not reusounbly liopo for recogni tion by tho national party, but must remain a mere helpless faction. NevcrUieless the snmo movctneiit was started In Texas, where It failed, und tho telegrams hare liven telling during tho last few days of tho attempt of a ltepitblleun delegation from Davidson county. Twin., elected exclusively by white Republican votes, to gain nents In tho Hcpuhllrau stale convention. Tho result wns the same. Tho ronven- Uon expelled the whlto delegates and seated tho negroes, who tvero elected by negro votes. Tills, no doubt, puts Bin end to tho "Liljr Whlto" movement In Tennessee. Tho Republican pnrty lu tho South cannot shake off tho negro, though re alizing that flu Is a cnishlug weight. Just iih thto fact Is being Dually estab lished another pnrty is trying to take the negro up, apparently cunDdeut that It will be aide to use him mure success fully than tho Republicans have done— that It will be nlilo lo make of lilui n powerful ally, instead of a cnish'ng bunion. It must bo ndmllted that In this undertaking the Populists have certain advantages over tho Republi cans. They umy not bo nblo to Inspire tho blind, umiuesttonlng devotion, i,s tho latter were able to do at the time that the negroes wero released from slavery, but they hnro tho advantage of a greater whlto strength, with nil that tliat Implies of superior leadership, grenter courage nud keener Intelligence. Nevnrthclcss, them Is some nvMouco that tho Populists can think of nettling hotter than to adopt tho outworn Re publican methods of using tho negroes. In our exchanges wo havo scon from vnrious parts of the state reports that the Populists are organizing tho negroes into a secret society, on the model of tho "Loyal Longue." The Valdosta Times soys that this Is be^ig done In Lowndes county. "It to to lie exiiect- cd." tho Times says, "that oo Intelli- gent man, white or black, will allow whomera to mm such a net around tlietr liberties and take control of their bodies and tlielr consciences la surli u bold and ucfurtais fashion, but they are working It on tho more tgnoraut blacks and some of the whites as well. In ham Sica county. Tills to a fart well established.” Wo are suro this plan of controlling tho uegrocs must fail. Its adaption by any party suggests Irresistibly to all patriotic and Intelligent people a con spiracy by that party again*; tho p*n- cral public. They feel that In n free oountry n political party to bound to appeal openly for the support of voters on tho Iwst allow ing It enu moke of Its Intcutiaas if entrusted with power, and that whoa reeort to had to secret oaths, as a means of blndlug together the more ignorant and vicious of the com munity. the hitonllons of the party must t>e bad or tbat It despairs of ruin ing the supiwrt of the. intelligent and virtuous. tlon. In the face of declarations like llieso, nullifying each other, die real opinions and intention* of Mr. Delis ns to tho practical side of the labor ques tion seems somewhat Vague. Rut when ho conics to-deal with tho theoretical side of die question be Is clear enough. "1 believe iu the government ownership of tho railroads," he told the oommls- sloa; *1 ImiUovo in aliolisUlug the wage system; I believe hi a oo-opemtlvu com- iiKitzwealdi.’’ nris means dint Mr. Debs to n So cialist. As the head of a great-order of workingmen, the avowed purpose of which was to increase the wages of Its members, bo wns expected to further ■bat purpose to the lAit of hto ability, but ijow he deliberately declares that he to opposed to the whole wage.paying system. No mutter how high the wages involved by the members of the order of Which he to tho head, he would not lie satis tied. The wrong, us lie sees it would remain uncurad If the wages re ceived were the highest possible. It Is din system Itself to which he to op posed. It follows that nothing short of a n volulien dint would overthrow our system of government uud our system of product ton could lut-tofy Mr. Dobs. He to not a labor lender, lu any proper sense of dint term, but n revolutionist working through tho labor organiza tion* for dm occorapllsbinent of a po litical purpose—for tho establishment of n Socialistic state In the place of our freo republic. If tho workingmen of tho United States lmve become Socialists, then Mr. Delis Is a proper lender for diem. 11 they nro still believers In our system of government and In tho civilization which has raised men from savagery, they should rcpudlnto Mr. Debs nud nil llko him. A SYMPTOM. Tho Houston Home .Tourrinl says; "lout Monday about ten people came to Perry In answer to the call touted by Secretary W. L. Carr. Their purpose was to organ!** the Populist party of Hous ton county. Thers was no meeting other than a caucus In the sheriffs office, not more than aevrn being present, and no other action was taken. Directly after, noon Secretary Carr accosted this reporter with thto remarit; "Well, John, I have met a signal defeat, and have no apolo gies to offer for th* failure.' He further declared that absolutely nothing had been dono; and nothing further would be at tempted, by himself unless he received much more encouragement than had been given up io date. He said many had de clared privately that he was on the right line, 'but It seen, they are asnamed to publicly acknowledge their affiliation with th* movoment,' Mr. Carr had the order at buslnees mapped out for the, meeting, with a declaration of principles as a basis for the county campaign. The specific purpose desired to accomplish was to (ecur* a : minty organisation In order that representation on the boards of elec- tlon managers could be demanded. The numbers given above are not leas than those named by Mr. Carr." Tho Populists havo heretofore claimed very considerable strength In Houston. If they havo nny strength Whatever, why did not sonio of It ap pear at this Important meeting? I-'nrm work Is not pressing lit this time. We licllavo thto "signal defeat" la Houston is tint a symptom of what to going am in all parts of tlio state, ex cept, possibly, la tbo tenth district, where partisan feeling was aroused to fierceness during tho last campaign and hag not yet died out—n symptom of tho rapid decay of tho third party. Tho |woplo oro beginning to see plainly that Hint party ptomlses little which could lieuollt them, that It cannot reasonably bo expected to accomplish that little, and that It to drifting Into a thick nud tldu alliance with tho negroes that must in the end put It largely under the Influence of the Iguorant vote of the state. A SOCIALIST. Mr. Deb* said betoro the Labor com mission now sitting In rhkwgo that lie had always Uvu opposed to strike* ami wo* oppose! to th>, recent Pullman atr.ke. but that If he Und had power to do so he would have ordered It; that ho doea not U-t'vv* a cutulv.tutlon of *U labor unions could be whwwful against Uie court*. which he (Vctond to I* arrayed against mbir, but ho to trying to bring atrattt such a o u . ;j <,; lux . SENATORIAL DRIFT. The Graphic supports Rncon bcoauso wo bcllcvo him best qualified for tho position to which lie aspires. Our sup port Is abovo personalism.- • ton Image (implrte. MnJ. Uncon to a power on the stump. The followers of Populism go like clmlt In the tvlud before bis powerful ren son- lug of Demecratlo prjtelphw.—States boro Slur. * Every voter In Clay ought to have heard Ma], ltai oil's speech lost Wednes day.—Chty County Democrat Speaking of MaJ. Rncon's Arlington speech, the Calhuuu Couaty Courier i: "All isi all it was a most mag- Sweat mat eloquent speech—the most nvet aud effective presentation of Democratic principles that It has ever UMt the good fortuue of our pcoplo to ln\ir. Only one l*opullst h:ul tho hardi hood to ply him with quratlisis, and ho waa so badly u»d up by tho major’s ready replies that tlio audience went wild with enthusiasm. “If there wns any doulit nbout tho sculimcnU of our people belug in favor of MaJ Uncoil for tlio 1,'nlted Stall's sonnturship before, there Is none now, for they were so completely captlvateil by hto grand presentation of Lleni- oer.icy's cup that iliey say be Is pre eminently tho rogn of the hour, though he never uuco nientloiud his candidacy in his speech, though ho could well hare lava panl.Hicit (or doing so. "MaJ. llacon s|»-at the afternoon In Arihigt-ui and made many acqnulut- n mi's among our |«>tple, who found him a social. eompaaiuaaMa fMflNMi, aud left late lu the eveauig for 1'ort Games, when' he spoke to the people of Clay rounty on Wednesday. GLASS MANUFACTURERS. Anderson, lad., Aug. Si—Th* win dow gtas* manufacturer* of blunt met hero thl* afternoon to coaalder the wage scale of the next year. There were report* from thirty glass manu facturing towns, where 4,000 m,'n are emidcird. The Indiana ntinufactutvr* win demand a W per cent, reduction. The local gUssw-orkers *>y Out it will never be agreed to. They are demand- mg * te per cent, advance in some branches. The light promtoes to be a long one, and it ts not known when the factories will start. Or. Price's Cream Raking Powder Most Perfect Made. THE STROLLER. Mr. J. II. Hodges, the able editor of the Perry Home Journal, paid his friends in Macon a visit yesterday. He ■ays that die effort nt the third parly rally Inst Tuesday fell through with a dull thud and showed Hint there were not more than a dozen nr s > third par- tyltes in Houston county. The unler- rlfled Democracy uf Houston, he says, have nothing to fear from their friends, the political enemy. In speaking of the effect uf the continued mins upon the cotton crop, Mr. Hodges wild that it ho* been decidedly damaging. "You gee," said be, "tho coat nued rains on cotton, followed by periodical spells of hot sunshine, have produced rust, which puts a stop to the fruitfulness of the plant. Another thing, too, tbst Is working ruin to the min on tho young cotton blooms. When the bloom is In 11s llrst stag-, that to the whits bloom, to-rallied upon It drops from the plant. 'Hie bloom bus three dlstlnet colors awl condition*. It first opens white early hi the morning; by evening it becomes pink nnd nt upon next day red, when It drops off nt evening, leaving the young fruit on tho stalk. When rain enters the bloom In Its first condition It cnnnot'bcnr trad falls off. Th.s Is why you so often see n- Inek of trait on the top of cotton stalks. The blooms underneath the lonves tiro largely pro tected, uwl In n season like tho present one has been the planter wutebes with keen Interest bow much bis crop will bo cut sliort In this way. Thto Is not the only evil effect of too much rain during tho fruiting season. Italn nt that period causes too rapid growth nud tho substance of the plant goes goes Into the stalk, perishing out the fruit. Yc*,-the frequent showers have wrought iraiterinl dnnutge to cotton in thto section, I understand from my neighbors who cultivate tho fleecy sta- t-le." JUDCIE GILES REPLIES TO HON. CHESTER PEARCE. your Issue of the tilth I notice the reply of Hon. Chester Pearce to Chairman Houser's defense of tlhe action of the Democratic executive committee of Houston county in dismissing Mr. Pearoe’a contest. To obviate Che neces sity of a separate communication, Mr. Houser requests me to state for him that Mr. Pearce's Information that he ever contentphvted cohering the raoe as an 'Independent candidate for mayor of Fort Valley agalntfi Mr. SkeUe, the nominee, ts false, and, beyond thto, Mr. Hauser does not think H necessary to reply further io Mr. Pearco'e feeble attempt to overcome the unUagallable notion of Che committee. Mr, Pearce has, however, drugged me Into his con- .troveray with Chairman Houser, und, It seems to me, 1n a spirit wot becoming an organized Democrat, 51 years old, who desires the success of tfls party and Ms nominees, endeavor* to ques tion my standing as a Democrat and to Imperil my auocea* as the nominee of 'the party und to impair my useful ness as a representative of Houston county, by an unjustifiable and lrre>. vant mtuick upon my poUUoal In-teg n'ty, bused upon my oonduct twenty- two years ago. I stood in the ranks of the Democratic party in their fight nguinst reconstruction and the adop tion of «be fourteenth and fifteenth amendments of the constitution of the United States, wnd In the campaign of IMS voted for Gordon for governor und for Seymour tor president. In 1873 n' convention of disgruntled Republi cans met in Cincinnati and nominated ilively for presldviM, upon n platform Indorsing reconstruction, the aforesaid amendments, und In substance differing In no rc*peat upon the negro question from the paltform of the regular Re- K ubltoun party upon which Gen. Grant ad been nominated at Chicago. A shiWt time afterward ttie national Democratic convention met at Balti more and swallowed Greely nnd his platform.. Thus by th* machination* of disappointed office seekers, under Gram'# ftrot administration, nnd Now York Democrats also hungry lot office, thto unholy affiance was formed, nnd the white people of the South were oldly asked to vote for tho old and long-time enemy nnd to Indorse a plat form which ruthlessly sot at naught their convictions and fears upon the question of negro suffrage. Horace Groe;y bad been undoutedly the mo»t miKgnant and powerful en emy of the South and her people. As Hie editor of the New York Tribune he led the abolition crusade and con spired agafiut the peace, lives nnd property of our people. He nrmed Kansas Jayhswkers to kilt out South ern settlers In Kareus territory and aided and abetted John Brown In his Oi.tempt to Incite Insurrection und the murder of their white muter* amongst the slave* of Virginia, lie Justified the theft of our negro properly, rap i loose the dogs of war upon us and liMephi-mously Invoked the curse* of heaven upon our homes and firesides, lie urged a cruel und rrientle** prose cution of the civil iwtir within our bor der*. He traduced th* good name nnd tome of our noble manhood, und even th* gentle women of the South were not spired the filthy Abuse of hto slan derous pen. 8o Incendiary did his New York Tribune become that at the be ginning of the war its circulation tn Georgia had almost ceased under the Ud ministration of a section of our penal iode, punrishtng with death the drcula. tlon of Insurrectionary papers. lie had always been the enemy of the Democratic party, had never voted Its tick*! nod twd , urged unceakTntt and unsenipuloue war upon Its leaders and k* principles 1fi terms of bitterer.; de- nuncl.idort. Harassed Mr. Davto'bond It to true, but without doubt ft was for the purpose of commending himself to the suffrage of Southern Democrats In tto'.praal»nr4l -aspirations. It to not strange that I. and thou sands of tuber goad Democrats In the Son'll. refused to vote for Horace Greelv, the Democratic-Republican candidate. In 1873. Gen. Grant, the nominee pf the regular Republican party, had married ;t Southern Jtdy, and w.i* by fAstit*:t or aasociatton n gentleman. It to now an open secret chat -.1 comm -tree of prominent Repub licans waited upon him In the early part of ISM to requeot him to be the Republican candidate for preeMent tn the ensuing campaign. They did nos aak Min to renounce Ms Democratic principle*, but to enforce the laws If (looted. He agreed to run upon these conditions. It to also known that « com mittee of leafing Democrats subse quently were about to visit Grant to requ •>: him to accept th* Democratic n. >,n:n.Ytlan for pnoMent, but were turned twek by the Information tbit the Republican committee had already captured him. Gen. Grant, after the death of Uncohu a-te (he beat North ern friend the South nud. He had al ways been a Democrat, and not until oiler ha had retired from (he office of president dbl he ever vote any other than the Dentocmrie ticket. . He wes the msxnanimoue conqueror of Gen. Lee and the armies of the Con federate aisles and gave to them hon orable and Itheral term* of surrender. lie tucoee*Rfi|y defied Andrew John son and B. M Staunton when they threatened to orreot and prosecute for treason Oen. Lee and the higher offi cers of the Confederate States army, saying to them: "The parole I have given protects Gen. Lee and hto soldier* from prosecution, and I Intend to see tbat my pledge to them to not vlolited." lie did not ruthlessly destroy our prop erty and urged no war upon defense less women and children. In theAamou* scene at the surrender he treatMl Gen. Lee and hto staff with the moot careful conoid.-ration and re spect end forbade the tiring of a feu de Jot by a battery stationed near Ills icqt uosrsj s|q ss hu|ap) 'waeiacnbpuoq "a victory over our fellow citizens was not u matter for exultation." In hto “Memoir*" he nowhere call* uor people and soldier* rebels, but Con federates and treats us In terms of re spect due to honorable belligerents. IIto tost days wars glsddsned by sym- pithetlc visit* from prominent ex-Con- t(derate* and hto pall waa borne up by heroes of the lost cause. Hto last labor when disease bad destroyed his voles was to write messages of peace sad reconciliation between tho North and the South. These and many other fact* which made uo hto life have endeared him to the people bf the whole country, und In no section more than In the South Is bis memory honored with sentiments of the highest esteem. It to no matter of regret that I, to gether with thousands of good Demo crat*. preferred Grant to Greely in the campaign of 1873. I accepted the nomination for ordi nary on the Grant Republican ticket In the fall of 1873 with the understanding that no negro was to be placed on the ticket tbr county offleeret. The ticket was made up os follows: A. S. Giles, ordinary; John Smith, sheriff; D. H. Culler, clerk of superior court; Samuel Hunt, tax receiver: J. O. A. Houser, tax collector: Nicholas Marshburn, treasur er; T. H. Reddick, surveyor; J. C. Mc Coy. coroner. It wns understood that Sam Hunt. If elected, would appoint WllUsm J. An derson, Jr., of Fort Valley hto deputy and turn the office over to him—which he did. Samuel Hunt and J. C. McCoy were the only Republicans In the above list The bthers wero among the best white Democrats in the county. There were three other candidates for ordinary and a number of candidates for the various county offices In the field. One ticket olalmed to be the regular nominees of the Greely Democratic-Re publican party. Another ticket was a coalition be tween Greely Democratic-Republicans and Grant Republicans. The fourth ticket waa another combi nation to secure the negro vote, which at that time Outnumbered the white voters three to one In the county. In the election following I received a majority of 6 votes over the other three candidates for ordinary combined and according to reliable Information nearly as many Democratic white votes as any one of the candidate for ordi nary. and thto support came from the best and must prominent Democrats of Houston county. Since tbat campaign I have fought In every batth) with the Democratic party and havo done my full share In achiev ing its victories. I have never, by word or deed, advo cated anything else than the suprema cy of the white race and the success of Democratic principles. The additional faot that the aevsral bonds of the county officer® elected on my ticket In 1873 were signed as sure ties by the best and moat prominent Democrats of the county indicates that the movement which I successfully car ried out of resoulng our people from negro and caipet bag rule was at the time understood and appreciated by the Democrats bf 'Houston county. That they <Md not consider my con duct very defective and unpardonable to conclusively shown as follows: In tho next campaign In the fall of 1878. and again in 1880 I waa nominated by the Democratic p*Trty of Houston county for ordinary by handsome majorities, and both times over the gentleman who ran against me In 1873 as the regular nomi nee of the Greely Democratic-Republi can party, a gentleman' In- every way worthy ond popular as a Democrat. In the elections which followed I received the solid support of tho Democratic party. In 1880 I waa elected chairman of the Democratic ocunty committee and also ohalnman of the Democratic executive emmittee of the Fifth congreaslomtl dis trict. I was also a member of the Dmocratlo county committee* of 1882-83.and 1886-7, and a member of the state Democratic committee of 1888-9. It to needless to add that the Demo cratic party suffered oo defeat In any of these campaigns. At the October term (1884) of Houston superior court, near tho close of my ad ministration as ordinary, tho grand Jury composed of twenty-two of the leading nnd best white Democrats, paid this voluntary tribute io me us an offi- cer In their general presentments, which nre a part of the public records of the County: "In thto connection we beg leave to express our lfigh appreciation of Judge A. 8. Giles upon hto retirement from the office of ordinary. "Fur twelve years he has administered the office with signal ability and to the beat Interests of the people of this coun ty. nnd especially to tho best interests of the widows and orphans who»e es tates have been committed by law Into his hands. '•In behalf,of the people of Houston county we thank ond commend him for his faithful discharge of hto duties as a high judicial officer of our county." I rejoice that-Mr. Pearce can "stand" me and will "aupport me with all hto force when the day comes." The Dem ocratic party has been able anil willing to aland me three separate tlmea In tho raoea which t have made for nomina tion at their hands. In the several races which I have made since 1873 In Democratic primarie* I have received at bne time or other the aupport of nearly every prominent Dem ocrat In the county. Including Mr. Pearce himself, who voted for me for repreeentatlve In the Democratic prl- nury of 1SS3. He was not a Competitor for that of fice then, and there lias been no change In my relations to the Democratic party or to him since 1888 except that in the late primary he and I by the fortunes of politics were competitors far the sec ond place on the Democratic ticket for represent* firm. My aucc*« In obtaining the nomina tion by x dint vbte over him wlH. I trust, not permanently Impair the per sonal and poUtlea! friendship which hn« heretofore existed between us, Fort Valley. Aug, 23, irai.*' "CHURCH" SCHOOLS. To the Editor of the Telegraph: For two or three months there have ap peared article* from various sources, but of one Import In regard to the ore ganiaatflm of Methodist school* and the bringing of Methodist children Into them. In all of these articles la mani fest a spirit or hostility to "state'' schools. The "godless" state school ts everywhere heUI up a* a hobgoblin to terrify good Methodist* from the very thought of patronising such Institu tions. On the other hand the ptyty. high standard of morale, etc., of the church school Is Maced in «trang con trast and high relief. "Just ueet how good we are." One of there church men—Bishop Hsygocd—asserts tn the Wesleyan of last week <hat "the beet teaching tn the world to done in church schools in America. England and bn the continent." Will Bishop Haygood kind ly name the church schools In Kngland or on the continent wherein thto pre eminent teaching to done? Let him re member that we mean church schools In the American sense, L tichnoto supported by fees, regular contributions or endowment*—the voluntary offer ings ot church members; the Institu tion* being controlled 4n organisation and operation by the churches. Such Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE For eal* at wholesale by S. R. JAQU ES & TINSLEY and A. B. SMALL we hold to be church schools. We can- nut Include under thto head the great countries in which a state religion pre vail nn-i In which tho clergy are 'ap pointed and maintained by the civil government, and the university aupport cornea from the same quarter, uucli ore not church, but state schools in every proper sense. Will Bishop Hay- good tell In which of the great universi ties of the United Kingdom, of France, or'of the twenty odd renowned German universities can be classified as "church schools?" When the state controls di rectly or tilledtaflvely the whole sys tem of eehool organization and apj/dnt- ment. can the institutions be called ••ohureh schooler’ , , Again, what church to In control « Johns Hopkins or of the Universities of Mkthdgun, CallCornla. Virginia, etc.? Falling to answer, will Bishop Haygood promptly take hto place among the “ex treme Ignoramuses" whom he no pom pously berates? Perhaps n little more study of educational history nnd ailttle more talrnres In presenting the results would save n hang Buffering public from many of the diatribes ol Bishop Hay- good and lite confreres In thto cruaade. How.many of the most scholarly men In Embry’s faculty for the last dozen yearn received nt least tho finishing touches of their "schooling” cither in state or foreign universities, "godless though these schools may be? One might suppose after reading HaygObd's appeals and warnings that the Goths were come Just now tef the very gates of our Christendom. Listen: "This to a time to stand by our church schools os never before. The tendency among those who assume leadership In educational movements Is to absolutely secularize education.” Do tell! Why what has happened recently to so stir tbo epiecop.il bile? He goes on: "I fell in with an bid friend recently. He yielded to the whlnw of a society family and sent two children to a godlere schnbl. They nre both done for In faith und morals. Men will learn by and by." May this scribe present a companion picture? He once knew a noted Methodist preacher in Georgia who sent hto son through a Georgia Mothodlat college. This son has long been notorious as the "boss' drunkard, debsueber and all-round ras cal of the communities In which he has lived. Particulars Cbuld be given if need bo. Possibly that preacher will learn by and by? Unlikely. He pro ceeds: “A 'Methodist who prefers a state school to Ills own cares more for something else than he does his relig ion. Let him name that something to hlmsolf.” How terrible! Ho Is already |n the limbo of that hell of anathemas Which to ho he the portion of such re creants. The frightened Methodist starts back In horror, the oword of St. Peter to waving over him. How can he ever reach Paradise 4f he should pat ronize a “state school?" Yet when he looks around -him he sees the state pub lic schodle doing most of the elementary educational work in Georgia. He sees very many of these "godless" schools taught by students from Emory, Wes leyan and other Methodist Institutions nnd supported by “public money." He has seen the "godless" Orr and Brad- well successively superintending thto "godleas" system. (He sees the "god less" Hopkine, Lane und their coadju tors in charge of the “godless” Stale School of Technology. He sees the •Igodlesa" Chappell and hto nthetatio as sociates ruining the Girls’ Industrial state school at Mllledgeiille, etc., etc. But It would fatigue to enumerate all the "godless" crew who are nibbling at the provender in the state schbol man ger. Why has not Haygood hindered Emory’s sons from scrambling for these "godless" tld-btts of the state? “Secularize education? To be sure. Why, does not everybody know that geometry, astronomy and chemistry are aft theological lo essence? Aren't there Methodist righlt angles and tangents, Presbyterian planet* and parallels, Baptist oxygen and optics, Campbelllte political economy and’ history. Episco pal Greek end congregational Latin? Of course. What must bcoome of the boy who should fall to get she ortho dox doctrine of the equation of the hy perbola? Or of undistributed middle In logic? Or who should drink In heresy with the Greek verb? One trembles nt the thought. Unless arithmetic nnd al gebra are taught ecclcstastlcafty how can Protesuin'M tell the 'educational difference between & dance und a prayer meeting?"' Will hto grace allow an humble Meth odist to suggest the* some other influ ences Nave been vastly more potent than stake schools in producing "lax ity and scepticism.'' State schools have for their fools the plain admitted truths of Bclence, art Und SHorature. They Instil belfcf, not scepticism. Did Bishop Haygood ever meet a college graduate who denied that the hypathf- nuse ot th* right angle triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides? Did he ever find Methodist* nnd Baptists calling on* another numen over the doctrine thait oxygen nnd hy drogen are the constituents of water? No, no, Mr. Eplseopus, it la not from the work of zhe schools that Uie trouble has come, as you very well know. Where one bus been "done for In truth and mentis" by science a hundred have been "done for” through The curven und crookedness of theology. Is science or creed responsible for the crimes and bloodshed of Europe for the last six teen centuries? Ia H of such vast Im portance then that Methodists learn science through Methodist standards? Suppose tha't the citizen be actually lost tn the sectarian, and Hnygood's advice be literally taken. We see all Methodists withdrawing' from state schools of every grade. Baptists, Pres byterians and all other churchmen ditto. Then a Baptist system of edu cation adopted for Baptist children from the nursery to the university: the same course taken by Methodists, Epis copalians and others, and the stake system left—If anything should be left- in khe hands of outsiders. Does nny Intelligent patriot relish the spectacle? Would not every dlstlncUve sectarian difference be a hundred fold wnpha- fQood Blood You cannot hope to be* BLOOD IS IMPURE. I If you are troubled whh5 .BOILS, ULCERS o« j PIMPLES, SORES I iur blood is bad. A few bottles of S. S. S. wiff^ ™TM'gi,ly clrarv the system, remove all im-® 1 a and build you up. All manner of l' ~ CLEARED AWAY by it* uie. It U the be»t blond remedy on earth.# rboutaedfi who Ime used it say so. v LI -.1 »»v Lfidlji (KMMAC 1 Uit jru, which ft* m Wkwfeni'r »» xts-etur. nor-,*, (meat r*WotHr Treatise on Wood and ‘Win disease* mailed frt, SV. 1K1 SPECIFIC CiAtlanta.Ga. Uized and embittered. The lines in th* professions would be drawn as in dlf ferenco of race. The Methodtet doctrir.n rnuet treat the Methodist patient Che Presbyterian nu-rcMm must sell to hto own brethren, the Baptist dentist must "pull" the Baptist tootih—society si! odds, outs and sects, as in the old wir'd long ago. Politics .iakt-3 on s reii glous l?j catering. Isn't It even whls- pered'how that Methodists and Emorv men should vote for a Metthodlst ao.l an Emory than for office? Who* would it be In that day of fiery fine* and l ining chasms between? What hone v of conviction would ever control men when ecclesiastical parties and parti sans should be belted for tho political arena? Fnlnkly. haa not the Georiga political .triumwlnake long consisted of a Methodist, a Presbyterian and « Ban. tint? How Infinitely wane would R be in that suite of "armed truce" among r-- Xglotis (7). politicians and parties. May God forfend ua from that day of rt». outpouring ot the seven vbMa of hla wraith! Along step into mediaeval nlg.v would be taken when thto parochlui school system should get our eduranlon Into Us keeping, and when olerlc.ii bigotry should once more Inlterpret tho highest trutiw of science by the Mlddl" Age canons of the church. Whnt means this modem clerical Inroad into educ i. fkma'l work? The Wesleyan Advocate gives a Hat of thirteen Georg** Methodist'schools, hwelve of which are presided over hv preachers. La Grange alone to raved for the Wily, because .President Smith owns the college property aod so pro tects himself. Why do not kh'e clergy apply for the common schools also? Is this field of "faith nnd morals” not •north the working? Are they “oalleM" to colleges und institutes only? Are they our obi ret educators? What pro portion of our standard texts have they written? Do these "specialists" make the ministry n "specialty" or a sec ondary? Shall the clergy hush th» voice of knowledge or only allow It to warble In an ecclesiastical key. The "stare echool"—'Haygood to the contrary notwithstanding—huts been the chief handmaid of Democracy, the osslmitstor of feelings and of Ideas, tho leveller of clan and class dtotlnetiuns, the healer of bigotry's schisms and the unifier of the masses. If “godless" It to nevertheless officered and directed by churchmen. Its enemies are usually its rivals for public favor and patron age. Ia stands today the strongest so cial bulwark of the weak against tho Btrong, of freedom versus bigotry and intolerance and of truth against false hood. Iks defects we may cure, but let place we oan never supply through creeds however pretentious, nor by ec- oletslastlcal superintendence however ready, anxious aed—interested. A Georgia Methodist. LETTER FROM ROLAND ELLIS. Mr. J. A. Thomas. Jr., City—Dea* Sir: White appreciating the oompllmeist paid mo by my friends, who of their own accord and without solicitation of fered my name for the presidency ot the Young Men's Democratic Club. 11 Its meeklng on last night, and subae- quen tly unanimously elected me to th I position of vice president of that or- ganlration, I am compelled' to dectlnt the honor conferred. I sen duly scr. Si We of the compliment Intended, tho more so that tho action of not one of those friends was Induced by personal soBcWatlon' and electioneering, and were it-not for the filet that I have al ready for two years done official duty ns a member of the executive commit tee I would cheerfully undertake the task. Convey ko the club my resignation as such ofilcer with, the assurance that 1 shall always be found with the rank and file of that effl1cemt organisation in the furtherance of the party's weal. 1 am very truly yours, Roland Ellis. VITAL TO MANHOOD. rnlRla, neaducUe, N«rvnu* rroatratlon c«a»td bj alcohol or tobacco, WakrfuUws M«*ntul Dcpre-loii, Softening ot Brain, causing insanity, misery, decay, death, Irerunturo Old Age, UarreunfM, Lon ol -.jUgenee* 6 for |ft, by mail. With each order ford boxea, \rtUi W will eond written guarantee to refund If nol cured, Guarantiee iMued by agent. 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