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Newspaper Page Text■ ■ 9 r THE MACON TELEGEAFfi: MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1897. THE MACON TELEGRAPH'. Retied erery morning and weekly by the 11A CON* TKt.EC BA PH PUBLISHING CO., MO Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga. The D«lly Telegraph l> furnlebed to tub- tcrlbsrt «t 00 rente per month: 11.7b for three monthe; *3.50 for all montbii 17 for ouo year, peyable In advance. The Weekly TVleyrapb la leaned Thu re deye end mailed to auberrlbera at 11 a year, or CO ceuu for lie monthe, payable In ad- rance. Adrartlaemente will be Ineerted In eflber. the. nelly or Weekly Telegraph' at 11 per Inch for the drat Ineertlon and CO rente per Inch for aobsefiurnt rooeecatlTO Ineerllone. Adrertleemente In Want Cotnmne under the beade of Wanted, for Bale, For Item, boat, Found, kllerellaneoue, ate., 1 rent a word earb Ineertlon, hut no notice will be counted leu lhan fifteen words. fyora! notlrea IS rente p*r line for each Ineertlon. fteten worda uiako a line. All rommonleatlone altonld tie nddreeard, knd alt money orders, rliecka, ate., made payable to *7= Why Georgia Farma Pay. The wonderful variety of eominerclal eropa grown In neorgla niters * simple eaplanatlon of the tetnurkable allowing made of the relative profits In agricul ture In thin Htnto and r-Uevfherc In The Telegraph yeelerday. In no other aerllon of the country pave the South ran the produrta pe culiar to the tropica and llioae of the northern temperate gone be grown profitably rldo by aide. Ily reaeon of the mild climate there la hardly an acre of arable land In Georgia which will not grow at leant two aalahle crops within twelve monlha, and much of It doe*. Tho land put In watermelons, for Inatanee. grows a heavy crop of hay after the melona havo-becn mar keted and la then ready for oats. When these are cut It la available for com and field peas, which In turn make way. for turnips or some other •winter growing crop, so that from tho same land alx harvests may lie gathered within twenty-four months. What other aectlon can make a like showing? An Idea may be gained of the wide range of Georgia;* farm products from there figures, which give the quantity of the various ataplea named, rained In the state for the year 1893: Wheat. 3,731,000 bushels; corn, 33,687,000 bushels; oata. 7.817,087 bushels; rye. 111.194 bush- els; Irish potatoes, 483.886 bushels; hay, 334,117 tons; peanuts, 634,528 bushels; cotton. 1,101,846 bales; wool. 831,141 pounds; butter. 14B.483.a33 pounds; honey, 1,056,034 pounds; lieeswax, 48.93B pounds; exgs, 11,523,788 dozen; rice, 14,- 1,66,432 pounds; tobacco, 263,753 pounds. To these inusi lie added olher figures from the census reports, wlileh show that In 1880 (Irorgla 'made 1.307,625 pounds of sugar, 4,660.997 gallons of molasses, and 0.616,317 bushels of sweet potatoes. No figures are at hand show- lug the amount of garden stuff shipped from the state, but It la very consider able snd comprises nearly every va riety of vegetable known to the needs- man. In olher things It must he borne in mind, loo. that tleorgla bus a. prac tical monopoly of the watermelon trade; that she easily leads the country In quantity and quality of her peaches and plums; that In small fruits she produces and satis everything save cur rants. gooseberries ami cranberries, while It Is by no means sure (hat she cannot grow these; that her pear or chards are a auurco of very considera ble profit; that her vineyards proiluee nmaalng quantities of the finest kinds of grapes; that the pecan Is already counted In her Hat of commercial crops, and that the English walnut, the n|. mond, the fillicrt and the fig flourish here, and groves of these trees have already been planted In the state, and that she Is brglnnltvT In ship hogs and beef and cattlo to the greater markets. Hardly a season passes without the addition of another paying crop to Georgia's already long Hat. And tho land which gives these re sults can ho bought for less than tho valuo of tho timber which la on It In many Instance*. Senatorial Obstruction. The New York Financial Chronicle says; on Ibis subject of senatorial obstruction arn tn tie tski-o In the nature of -warning, or as a simple suetretlou of I thought which Is uppermnai In the nilnrla statement - by svtryonr; fiirt in aid yon. as far ns *1 assy, hi ail reasonable expedition of the business of ihe aerate, and. I may be ;»■ null ted to express the belief that such expedition Is the hope of the O'uutrv. All the Interests of «vul government snd the advancement toward o higher snd better condition of things cF.I for mumt end posltlvt legislation al your handa. To idiatrurl the regular course or wise and prudent legislative uclloo afirr tlte fullest and freest discussion Is neither consistent wlih true .material eonricsy. jswtduelva tu the .welfare of the people, nor In compliance with their Just expectation*." }Ve a ill add.one sentence to the above. If Vie* I resident Hobart should by bln rsHnn tie able to pm an end to the to- s-illed "courtesy'' In the senate, which per- ndts o sms'll minority to defeat all legists tlon. • he will merit and receive the swot turn,latum of the large majority of tha people of the United fttates. whal la wanted la oetten that will change the ► iste from on obstructive body to n teg. lalatlve body. Thin Is the view of a Journal tn the closest ponalble touch with nil the busi ness Intfteslo of Ihe country end It la directly In line wait the popular view. Thn people expect the senate tn be de liberate but they expect It to vote upon questions courageously. The body. In event yean, has become an niecntbly of ntero filibustering obstructionists end it Is responsible for much of Ihe distress which commerce and Industry have had t| endure. A c-'dc of tub e . su it permits a mlnoflty to prcv.nl vole upon any important (Jpuptsnltio though it be made up of only half doicn members, la an outrage lip, popular right*. Senator Hoar recently said It was never contemplated that cue senator should be able to stop leg islation, hut that Is the very thing which la done almost ever)* day In the ■snste. The general arbitration treaty should have been voted upon by the eennte it the tut session of congress, but Mr. Sherman, In charge of the measure, gave It up because he knew that he could not control the length of the speeches of It* opponents. A mess, urw of such Importance, submitted as It was by the two greatest governments in the world, ought to have been voted upon. XVhat the senatorial filibusters accomplished In the Fifty-fourth con gress they are able to accomplish in the Fifty-fifth, under the existing rule*. Hut If the senate shall not pr vide some method of cloture w hereby votes tnsy tv reached, the people will surety Til, IS If Slurb danger today McKinley adtninistraitvn, as Cleveland's was. will be blocked by a few senators witling to resort to the practice of holding the floor for weeks and months at times, and Mr. Hobart, coming as he did frerh from the peo ple and aware of (he public sentiment, did right In protesting against ob structive tactics, Tho reformation of the senate's methods of doing business Is one of the moat Important questions now before tho country, and It will as sume a burning character unless the senate, anticipating the popular wrath, shall reform Its ways voluntarily. llurenurrary In Government. It Is purposed that a chair be cst.vb- Ibfied In Harvard University for tha purpose of giving Instruction In rail- rsllroatjig, embracing a four yuan' course, and the project Is said to 1m* th'- annotion of many prominent rail* rajd officials. Col. It. Cl. Prout of St. Mule, In dlsciMsin'g the matter, days: "The teaching of railroad sociology In tbe colleges today Is as often bid as good, perhaps ofteuer. The young Men who lect* n this lople are ordinarily men who taken a po.t graduate course tn' the on unlrersltlc. or who bote been deeply ag.vled Ity rite writings of the Ger man sociologists. They come to their work In Amcrtrau .-ullce.t, snongly affected by slate socialism. They is,me with an ex- aggcroled notion-of what can be accom plished 1>y slate control of railroads, q’hey com- to work with -almost no actual knowl edge of American railroads and America railroad men. They proceed lftcref.ro to protect front wltMn 1 In-mael re. a set of raurnad officers snd a set of railroad con ditions, us they cutwelve these officers ami renditions lo cxlel, end llten undertake to Improve them on German principles. The result Is n rapid srowTh In nur country of perubCous notion of extending Ihe pow- . and duties of government Into Indus, trial enlerprises; the rapid growth c,f the theory that railroad officers are all corrupt nnd self sacking, and are public enemies Just as far as llwy dare lo lie. There no tional Will tlouldlosa correct themselves In lime. I aim have enough falilt In the fundamental good sense of Ihe American people lo believe dial: but heaven only knows whal harm tit ay be dooo before juslcr Indiana prevail." We Uhlnk Col. I'rout'n point well ta ken. The fjcrtnin 'Idea of dtate social ism - la making altogether too much headway 1n our American colleges. The present method of educating railroad men Iby wotual employment In the op erations of Kite road, by study In en gineering sehdyse, and by actual per sonal dealing with tlheiprablemnof com petition 1a quite sufficient, we think, for developing licit only practical Akill In transportation but also threadth pf view as to economical qucatlona and those which bear upon Idle relations of the railroad 1o norlety at large. The method has brought Into the service men of among Individual force, who have been among tlhe most potential In advancing the country -upon all fines of commercial and Industrial progress?, and who have IWIlftattid 1t* settlement and aH-elcrated 1tn igrowth far more sudcrskfully than would have been done by men whose education In -the science of trsniportatlon was wholly acadenffe. When our college* .begin lro (uni out professional railroad men wo will find an appeal from them for governmental posscaulon of itho transportation lines, ami the country will '!» menaced thy bhe danger of the Intrusion of the bu- reaur.-rslk.- system In our scheme of na- tlonal government. Them la iidtiting ho Irritating to an Amerhwn citizen who travels abroad than bln contact with bureaumem l-tc retgutation*. The lea v we have of tt In this free land the bit'.- ter. We do ndl want the "government" to he i -onatantly In evidence, whenever a -man huya a Taltmvd Hoiket or a cigar, or anything else, ltureaucracy belongs lo monarchies rather Uhun to reptihllca. it Is better for ua limit our -railroads should be vqterated by etcolts, IVadleya, Vandefihllts, Jewetts and Plains lhan by a governmental 'bureau, w|;ih its it-- Unite division* of petty authority. It Is hotter dh»t we Should Ote free to avail ourselvm of the daring and pluck at enterprising men. who, regardless vjf goventmentapprov.il, run lines through wilderness na, risking fmf.unes upon the speculative chance, than to' relegate the question of extension and maintenance to a governmental .bureau. The ener gies of Ihe American people are not to b* fettered with red taper especially at thla time, when a thousand wilder- ndues -yet remain to be conquered. wise men are considering these tilings Ihe country should hare the benefit of a positive assertion 1,y congress tbit there la to l>e no eurli thing as the free, uu- llinlted and independent coinage of sil ver at the ratio of IS to 1, This ahnuhl he made e> that She people may pro ceed In fufl confidence that whatever may bo done for the rehabilitation of our currency system and In behalf of silver, there ia to he no dallying with the 16 lo 1 theory of finance. It ia true Hiat -Mr. McKinley baa announced that be will not countenance any movement In that direction, but congress should do likewise so that the public mind may be rellered of all apprehension on that score.. Must Make a Start. It is within the power of any com munity to force prosperity so far aa it is concerned and to compel healthy de- telopment. Ail that Is needed is * full determination, to use to tbs very best possible advantage 4be instruments at band. Mscon for example esneasily swell her population by the addition of thous ands of weU paid, skilled mechanics, add ing lo iter manufacturing capltol hun dreds of Ibotisauds of dollars and keeping at home vast sums of money which are now annually sent away for the pur- clnsc of goods which Could Just as well he made here. We may talk until dooms-day about the desirability of attracting foreign capital for Investment with ns, nnd be no I tetter off atthe end than at the be ginning. Aa a matter of fact, foreign capital Is not what we need. There Is plenty of capital right here at homo to establish a hundred Indbstries for the manufacture of articles of common con- sumption, and no more profitable career la open lo the young men of the city Just commencing life than is offered along tills line. It Is a mistake 4o Imag ine that n large amount of money ia necessary to make a beginning. A large proportion of the great Industrial insti tutions of tbe country at tbe start counted their wealth by dollars, and not by thousands of dollars. Examples may be found right here in Macon of tbe truth of this. It is not necessary to give a detailed list of the articles which might be prof itably made here In Macon, In the manu facture of which a start could be made on a capital of a few -hundred dollars together with a capacity for a whole lot of hard, Intetilgeot work in the be ginning. Many of them aro potent to any one who will take the trouble to look. ' A start once made even In the hum blest way, and the fact demonstrated by actual result* that the business has rea sonable possibilities of projlt and all necessary capital, either home or for eign . will lie forthcoming. And it nray be put down as certain 't1i.it such capital will not lie In oveldence until a more al luring bait thin pretty talk is held out. A noted statesman once said when spcakflig of specie resumption: 'The way to resumo is lo resume." This epi gram expresses the great economic truth Involved In this article which Is lo siy "tho way to develop manufacturing in a elly is to start at it with what you've got." Afraid of 4'levelattil. The ungenerous vindictive and alto gether rabid attacks-made upon Mr. Cleveland since he has retired from of fice hy newspapers which have steadily fought him from (he beginning of his administration suggest an unusual mo tive. A little thought, however, will make it clear that hla opponents who have descended to this business enter tain a positive rear t'.iat he may bo a candidate for president again and that they have entered Into an agreement to aeandallie him. In order tu render him tkt odious that he may never ap pear again as a factor In American polltlci. lit other words, they would destroy him because they are afraid of him- They forget that he has as staunch friends as he has Implacable enemies and that the former are rather more potential In potltlci than the lat ter. It Is not probable that Mr. Cleve land has today the slightest Idea of ever appearing brrore the American people again as a candidate for their suffrage*, but hla detainers, In the prosecution of their villainous work, are taking the surest means to bring him out again. The American people are fond of fair play, and aa a large majority of them admire Mr. Cleveland tor his courage !n holding to his poll, cles In the face of these very detractors. It Is Junt possible that they might call him Into service again to vindicate themselves. The wiser course for those who hste him to pursue would be to refrain from any attempt to do him wrong or to abuse him. It It not good politics to trifle with what Is known as the "Cleveland element." Since 1881 It ha* been th> commanding factor In the four campaigns and It has no rea son today tn think that It may not have considerable Inllurnce in the fu ture. The attack* upon him to which tre have referred would not have been made If Mr. Clereland did not have a good many years of Me before him, according to tho natural expectancy. If. like Jackson, he had retired at 73. instead or at 60. there nvuld have been no such Wasting of columns In male diction. They ate "sheered of hint." Declaration of Tolley Needed. The new congress should pass a res olution to the effect that the maintenance or all the currency Issues of the goreru- nent at a purity with gold win be it* pol icy, even, "if under an iuternatieaal bi metallic agreement gold and silver should show • disposition to separate. We are to hero tn International con ference for the purpose of considering the fraalhlllty of adopting a satiefactory ratio of coinage and we arc also to hare a h'me commission 4» consider how further a*.lacks upon the gold reserve way be aeeUcvl, lice--tbe bank system may be hrNer a.tjtw:etl and h„« tin cur rvn<) in XT I,, made lo un-el t|,e n. c.U of tbe people *t all tittle*. While the The Atlanta Constitution charges, In a headline over a Waxhlngton letter, that Mr. Cleveland was mere puny In the hand* of Mr. Olticy. The letter It self In a calumniating screed against tho cx-prc*ldcnt. The Constitution has p inted an much matter of the kind that the people regard Its spiteful de liverances merely as a tale "Told by an Idiot, full of sound and fary, Hlgnlfylug unlhlng." , Tho only thing It fully succeedi In accomplishing Is to write Itself down LIVE TOPICS lllHCUSSEL). The papers of those sections of the North which are being abandoned for the Hnuth make efforts to prevent the migration southward hy misrepresent ing the conditions of Ufe there. Even the New York Evening Post Joins In this misrepresentation, inventing hor rors that do not exist to frighten the Ignorant. It Is. however. It, tho (ler- man-Anierlcait papers of tho frosty Northwest that the perversion of the truth It oftenest seen. Thu Milwaukee Heebote, for example, says: "It would. Indeed, be very difficult to overrate the natural advantages of the Southern states. The South I* the spoiled child of nature nnd the North a verltablo Cinderella In comparison. But where there Is much light there Is also much shadow, and the shadow Is so deep and sombro In the South that It prevails over the light. It la Insecurity of life end limb and of property that keeps the emigrant from the South." 8tudy of the last census would have shown the, Setbote that the South it more free from crime than the North. There are fewer criminals and fewer Crimea Now and then there 1* on offense or a sensational kind which ob tains wide publication', but the propor tions of crimes to population Is smaller In the South than In Ihe North or Northwest At a matter of fact the Immigrant is perfectly ears and shows hts sense of security by writing to hit former neighbors In the North to ad vise them to come South also. The way the Seobote works up Its ce*e i» shown by the following extract; "The tame moll by which we receive enticing circular* regarding the South bring* some criminal statistics. Take Ueor- gla. for. Instance. Governor Nor- then praises her a* ‘the empire state of the South,' but tbe Savannah News, which prints hi* speech, gives In an other column xomc statistics of the crimes committed during the Christ mas week—twenty murders and case* of manslaughter. • • • In other states of the South the same condition provalla It I* of no ur.e to talk of the '8uttny South' If the sun It made to throw its rays upen to many deed* of crime. The average man will continue to prefer living In » lew congenial cli mate to being murdered In the South ern paradin'. A* long as the South can not guarantee greater security the Cin derella of the North end Northwest will be preferred by emigrants." Noth ing could be more misleading and un just. U Ignores the census fact* al ready referred to. The truth 1*. that If emigrant* were Influenced hy matlstic* of crime they would have to avoid the North, and above all thing* keep out of New England. "The South” l» a vague expression to the average North ern mind. It la a vast empire, vast in etea and population. The Northerner thinks of Its crime* es If they were concentrate! tn one or two counties.— Baltimore Sun. In no previous senate during tb* pest forty yean hts the membership of s third party been so large. In propertton to the total membership, as Is the case with the Flfty-flftlj senate, over which Vice-President Hobart will preside. In the Forty-seventh senate the division of the two political parties was to dose that Senator Davis of Illinois, elected as an independent, could make It a He by voting with the Republican; tand In the Forty-eighth senate the two Re- .i.ltii'tt rs 1: m V —!r,i.i . .uM -n-,;,. !; a tu- by voting with tho Democrats. The Ftfiy-flllh senate, with one va cancy to be filled, by the election of a Democrat, will con-let of 41 Republi cans, 34 Democrats, 7 Fopullst* and 6 KHrer Republican''. Upon the six honest-money Democrat* the Republi cans must depend against ail rente or Populist assault: and on other ques tion* than the currency the complete senate will consist of 48 Republicans. 33 Democrats and 7 Populists.—New York Sun. But in the capacity of private citi zen, and more especially In Ihe home- life phase of It, Mr. Cleveland has not only been above reproach, he has been enviable. The partner of his Joys and hi* sorrows, as the cx-Presldent would no doubt be the first and proudest to admit, has been a wonderful factor In the achievement of this result. There hts never been a chief executive more delightfully mated. Mrs. Cleveland, as everybody knows, was transferred al most directly from the IrreaMMlbts simplicity of a boarding school to be mistress of Ihe White Jloue. One might caelly have expected that the occa sional gaucherle of the school girl would crop out In her performance of those difficult and exacting social func tions In which all of a sudden at her early years she had to take the lead ing part, that casual flaws In her d* meanor would reveal themselves lo tSe cold, censorious eye In the blue of that fierce light that 'beats upon the man sion of the chief executive of this great nation. But there was not Ihe trace of gau cherle In her manner, the most captious scrutiny faUed to detect a flaw in her demeanor. Gracious as graceful, from the day she stepped—a mere slip of a girl—Into the White House, Mrs. Cleve land has carried out her role of "first lady of the land" with as much cour tesy and as much dignity as If she had been born In a palace, and had been trained lo court duties from the day of her birth. Criticism fled abashed from her presence; a whole people threw Instantly nt her feet the tribute of their admiration and their loyal respect. And of that admiration and that loyalty, extraordinary to say, not one iota has been forfeited In all these years. Her husband had experience of varying moods and sentiments from tho people; he has been lauded and de nounced, praised and berated, warmly applauded and furiously assailed. But the great heart of the American peo ple has 4>een' as constant and as true to Mrs. Cleveland as she has been true lo herself. For her their admiration and loyalty have never once wavered: today she Is to them the same lovely and charming woman aa when ten or eleven years ago she first led their af fections captive.—New Orleans Tlmes- Democrat. John J. Ingalls of Kansas lest his Job n little over six years ago. Ho hoped to get. It back last November, but he failed. Ho Is sore and sour. Had he been able to break Into tho senate ngaln his criticism of cx-Frealdent Cleveland's administration, printed In yesterday's Tribune would not have been as virulent and exaggerated. If political prosperity had shone on In galls he would not have said of Cleve land that ■The failure of his administration In every . department stands confessed. • • * HI* financial measures have re stored neither confidence nor prosper ity. Upon the pretext of replenishing Ihe gold reserve the national debt has been Increased and 'bonds sold to fa vored syndicates Jo meet deficiencies In the ordinary expense* of Ihe gov ernment." Cleveland's financial measures were twofold. One was thn sale of bojjds tor gold. The "ther was the repeal of the so-called Sherman law of 1890. Under the law of 1878 the government was buying two million dollars' worth of silver per month. That did not sat isfy the silver mine owner*. They wanted the free coinage of silver. It they could n»t gel that they wanted the government lo buy more silver. So when the tariff bill of 1890 got to the senate Jones of Nevada, Teller and other representatives of tho mining camps notified the other Republicans that no tariff bill could pass unless "something was done for sliver." The result of their bulldozing was the en actment of the so-called Sherman law, which ordered tho secretary of the treasury to buy 4,500.000 ounces of silver per month, or llfty-four million ounces yearly, and to pay therefor In treasury notes. , . This law put money in the pockets of tome of the senators, who knew It was going to pass. They formed a silver pool. They bought sliver when 41 waa about 105 cents tin ounce and then un loaded at about 130 cents, which was the speculative price of silver reached before the time the law went Into effect. . . Had that speculative price been maintained the purchase of fifty-four million ounces would have forced into circulation yearly treasury notes to tho amount of sixty-live million dollars, with nothing behind them but silver bars stored In tho vaults of tho trea sury or the mint. The law made those notes redeema ble in gold as well as silver, and de clared that tt wns "the established policy of Ihe United States to maintain The gold withdrawals continued. So he sold bonds on 'fouroccasions to get gold to replenish the reserve. It was not a pretext. B: bad to ibe done tor "the par ity of the two metals” -would not nave been preserved. The majority of his own party reviled him for these dales. It was alleged that he was adting Illegally-That be was Lite -tool of a syndicate. Bus he kept on selling bonds. Had be not done so the credit of the government would have been impaired and President Mc Kinley -would 'have been paid his first mon th’s salary in a heavily depreciated currency. There has been no Democratic presi dent since Jackson ovho would have had the courage to stand up against his parky and the South as Cleveland did. Every one of them would have yielded to the violent demands of hi* political associates, even when be knew those demands were -wrong, and have let Tbe toountry "go darkling down the torrent Of Its •fate.”, iLtnooln, confronted Iby a (Real; mili tary emergnay, showed himself equal to the occasion and saved dhe Union. Cleveland, confronted try a perilous financial emergency, displayed equal courage and firmness. He never her,- the two metals on a parity with each other." But no provision was made to enable tho executive department to keep those metals on a parity. So when the shrewd business men of the East saw when the Fiftieth con gress had dona they began to reflect. It 4>ccame clear to them -that with this Increased Inflow of silver, on which no time limit was set, the silver pond, al ready filled nearly to overflowing, •would burst its banks and sweep every thing before If. Month after month went by. The gold reserve dwindled and the volume of the Sherman notes Increased. The feeling of alarm spread and Fas Inau guration of Cleveland with a flourish of free trade drums did not restore pub lic confidence. Then she psnlo came. Hundreds of national, stale, and private bxnka sus pended payment;. Manufactories were closed. The stores and railroads had tittle business to do. The currency in flation t*w of 1590 had worked out Us Inevitable results. Then Cleveland called an exlra ses sion of congress to repeal rite Sherman law That law was repealed «> far aa the stiver pumhasex were concerned, and a Slop ova* put do the Inflation of the currency. Mr. Cleveland was not Obliged lo call an extra session snd ndk for she repeal of this law. If he had abstained from • dtflng so his party would have sus tained him. Had he kept still and let matters take their course he would have violate! no statute. He could have waited till December for congress to meet, leaving the Sheraton note mill In active operation. Had he done so there Is no room for doubt m to tvhst would have happen ed. AH the gold would have been swept out «* the treasury. The green backs snd STermsa notes, becoming ir redeemable in goM. would have depre ciated B0 or 40 per cent. 6a weald the silver money. Odd would have been out of circulation, sad at a premium. The panic of ah* carter part of the year would hive returned wish tenfold vio lence. 6o great would hare been the distress and so violent the denund* of the peo ple Tor relief that the Democratic con gress. ted 4>y Bland, would have passed a free silver Ull, and It would have become n taw. Had that happened The people of the United States would at this rime 4>* endeavoring .To readjust themselves to the new -conditions. Bat Cleveland did nn: wait. He got 'tlx.'* bad Sherman law off the sutrile books. Then he discovered that that was not enough to undo the mlrchlef tatsd. He took no .backward step. He maintained, undaunted -by dbloquy and calumny, the honor and credit of the nation. St!'. Tor,him tlhe wages of la/bor would have only baK the purchasing power they now have. The savings of the poor and the 'bank deposits of fho well- to-do would have been cut In two. The value of life and fire insurance policies would have shrunk 60 per cent. The Tribune lhas never bad any bias In 'Mr. Cleveland’s favor, ft has often criticised him Obanply. But truth and Justice demand that the good he has done—good which will live afler him—. the speeches of celebrated men. and then he called for music. The phono graph responded with the then popu lar "Where Did You Get That Hat?" Prince George then .'talked Into -the re ceiver, saying In Greek: "Hall, Edison, Greatest of Inventors. George. Prince of Greece, salutea t-hee.” Prince George •was traveling Incognito when he vls- ftted this country, and therefore no of ficial receptions greeted him. Those Woo had The -privilege of meeting him here were very much Impressed nvitit his -modest bearing and his genuine in terest in everything that he *saw. He was the build of a young viking. He la over six feet tall. Is broad-shouldered, and has light hair. His head 1s wril set on a strong neck. Ho welghsmoro .than 300 pounds. Tne prince's manner was that of a diffident man unused tu ceremony. His rescue of the czaretrttch from a crazy Japanese who attacked him twas AT that time of recent occur rence, and it was generally ibeKeved that tho white wood cane that the prince carried was the itlck that saved the Russian heir. Several attempts were made to get the prince to tell of that experience: but he evaded them with perfect good nature, but in a,way that Indicated that he did not want tto discuss the subject. should toe recognized. It will [be. Jaundiced critic* like In- gall.i and Bryan will have their any. But as the years go by all people will come to understand fully front What Cleveland saved them. They will for get his occasional obstinate adherence to wrong views and will see In him only the man who brought Ithe nation safely through one of the most dacretr- ous crises It has ever 'known.—Chicago Tribune (Rep.). •RETRIBUTION. Ones a ends boy with a bow snd arrow Espied two thrushes in a thorny hedge; Hit heart bent wsywardslde, and they. Were frigiitened to their 4iome-tree't outer edge. As Is well known, Mrs. McKinley Is physically unable to take much Inter est in the management of household affairs, and the White House will be practically In charge of her aunt. Mrs, Saxon, a lady of great force of char acter. This estimable woman, accord ing to Editor Reaves of the Hardeman Free Press, In a special telegram to his paper frm Washington, was much dis turbed nnd Irritated over the condition In which Mrs. Cleveland left the White House. The executive mansion was In a turmoil. The salt cellar was broken, the soda was out, the towels were threadbare and there were holes In Ihe meal sifter big enough to let a rat througji. The only piece of soap on tho place was loft to melt In the wash pan and the muffin rings were a sight to behold. Three of the steel forks were reduced to ono tine each, and th* knives had not been scoured In weeks. Mrs. Saxon, good woman, found dis order and waste everywhere. The. gourd of chitterlings was overturned, the flour barrel was left uncovered and the red ants had taken possession of the sugar bowl. One hinge was miss ing from the smoke house door, the bone rings and figure 7's from the pres idential beefsteaks were thrown in tho ash hopper, and the well sweep was splintered. The cook Rove had lost an eye, a bake kettle was minus an ear. the table had a broken leg, the pot had lost a foot nnd the face of the clock wa* grimy To a thrifty -housekeeper like Mrs. Saxon the sight of tho jowl and greens being left fo soak in the pot-llkker wss unbearable, Just as though no one would ever want to eat a bite. Some one had emptied Ihe coal cinders on Ihe asparagus bed, left the morning's milk on the same shelf with the dish of mackerel and poured hair oil In one of the vinegar cruets. Tho house was in a end mess. We have long supported Mrs. Cleveland as the first lady of the land. In war and pcaco and In the hearts of her countrymen, but we must agree with our esteemed contemporary, the Free Press, In thn opinion that It wan well- a change was made In the White Hlusc, or there would not have been a skillet left In which to cook a handful of partridge eggs.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. At the meeting of the New York Chamber of Commence on Thursday last President Orr paid a Tribute to ex-Pres- ident Cleveland, who, he justly declared, "retired from hi* high office with a conscience void of offense to nil men.” It had been the purpose of the Cham ber of Commerce to publicly testify Its appreciation of Mr. Cleveland's services to tile country by a formal dinner, and the projeot was taken up with an earn estness which wouM have given the af fair high value nor merely to the faith ful servant thus honored, bdt to tho public spirit which wouhl nave honored Itself In the net of emphasizing hi* work. Mr. Cleveland, however, has modestly declined The dinner for the fol lowing reasons: "All that I hove done or attempted to do lu the direction of the general welfare deserves no special manifestation of ap- { iroval such an you suggest, since nil this s within the scope of the service I owe my fellow-countrymen who have trusted me." While It is true In a general sente that rhe publie official who has done the duty which he was sworn to do can claim no epedal nteed of applause there for, It 1s equally true that tbe desire to applaud duty done Is instinctive; and the Instinct i* so wholesome, so salutary and so simulating to the whole civil service that its exercise ou publie ground* is always to toe commended. Mr. Cleve land's fame i* secure. 8b far a* he I* concerned he needs neither ovation nor laudation. He does not even need to trust lo history for the Justification and approril of his coarse; for if any vindi cation In this regard be requisite It Is to lie found In the inaugural address of hi* successor, which In its Indorsement of arbitration, in its appeal for economy. In Its deprecation of trusts and Its ap proval of civil service reform—in fact. In almost every essential issue save that of the tariff—plant* tbe new ad ministration squarely upon ground which the old administration had surveyed and ■fMBtoll * cleared. Rut though Ihe dinner I* not to he given, tlte country will not forget Ihe service which prompted It* tender, and Will not forget to honor fidelity to duty upm all poMlble occasion*. That Presi dent McKinley on hi* retirement from office miy cavily merit the grateful approval of tbe great commercial bodies of the country, and lu equal measure of the country Itself, all he the tsttrtn wish of all his countrymen without regard to jtarly; nor van any amoant of partisan snapping at the ex-president's heel* avail to diminish this exalted feeling toward hi* successor, who may yet need the support of the patriotic men of all parties a* against the more rapacious and i-fln-h men of bis own party.—Phils- dclpbla Record. Prince George *nd tho Phonograph. Front the New York Son. There is a. phonograph cylinder In Edison's laboratory that Is Just now of tdtercst in view of the fact that Prince George of Greece has becom - a central figure Tn tho European war cloud. It contains the prince's address to Mr. Edison on the ocnxlon of hla visit to this country In 1591. The prince dis played & thirst for scientific knowledge that surprised his hosts here, and he Xiasec-d part of one day In Mr. Edison'* laboratory. The phonograph interested him Immensely, lie heard It grind out And with a fatal aim dhe bow he drew— Released tbe shaft, snd to the frightened heart . ., Of one poor bird Too sure hit arrow flew. That night the other, a ttoor, lonely male. Bereft of her who erewhlle was hfi mtte. Sang thro' the night, and with tolt plalu- Filled the lung hours 'vltb grief discon. relate. If. •tt In ynnth wherein onrcaionlog hopes Abound • I nought and won earth’* fairest for a And made ft nest where dowers deck the ground— Where springtime oil her heentles do^h create. Then Came an Archer and a shaft ho sped Envenomed with disease, and touched her heart! Small use to call her, Xor naught wakes tbe dead, Nor wooing can charm out- the poisoned dart. That ever It* accusing memory brings. Bereft of lic-r that was both love and light —Hannibal Garth. 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The Macon telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 188?-1905, March 08, 1897, Image 4