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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1885.—TWELVE PAGES.
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Ma.
u Ga.
nde pays
, Tito Whisky Question.
The people of Fulton county are now on-'
gftged in a heated nud what proumeH to be- ;
come a bitter contest over the whisky quea-
tiou. This is the first fruit of the general
local option law recently pasted by the Leg
islature. We believed that the law was
wise, tli-ht because its provision* were just,
and secondly that in this way only could
this question he kept out of the State can
vass next year.
If this issue is to be forced at any point
it seems best that it should he done at
once, in order that long ami wearing dis
cussion may he avoided.
It is certain that little if any good can
come out of such discussions. Partisans
on both sides are indulging in tin* wildest
spirit of exaggeration as to the principles
nud purposes of their opponents, and the
tendencies and effects that must follow the
success or failure of prohibition.
The temperance party is composed
of three elements, and the state
ment of the case will sufficiently
indicate the nature of the struggle which
exp.a
ed when
the
ontes
The adjournment oratory of the Legisla
ture was not so tawdry ns usual. Galvanized
gold-beaded sticks do not call for the loftiest
flights. Nothing short of free lunch can
wake the average Legislator to true elo
quence.
Jack Henuebson', agricultural commis
sioner, complains that an opinion of the
Attorney-General prevents him from di
playing sundry big pumpkins at the State
fjiir. A slight dock of the extraordinary
fat wages of the “tagtotei*” might raise
money sufficient to pay the freight on the
pumpkins to this point.
Wk desire to enter a protest against the .
monthly advertising of the Baltimore Man
ufacturing and Mining Record by the As
sociated Press. We once took occasion to
expose the absurdity of the figures of that
journal in regard t** Macon. and we have !
no confidence in those so industriously
•wired, and we do not desire to have them ,
•charged in our telegraphic service.
Bill Chandleb, without authority of;
law, built a ship, on which an enormous
sum of money has been expended, and yet j
the best she could do was to steam nt nine
and a half knots, and that only for a short
time, without breaking down. The report
-of Commander Day is a record of nccumu- j
In ted disaster which ought to paint witlf
shame the cheeks of all who are in any way
responsible for the ship's performance.
Says the Boston Herald: “The Presbyte
rian Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. i
C., which guin.-d an unenviable notoriety
gome year or more ago from the expulsion !
of Dr. Woodrow from its faculty by a hoard j
of trustees because he explained the doctrine
of evolution to its students, 1ms now only!
two professors remaining on duty, and one;
of these has tendered his resignation; and
the sooner the other does the same, and the
institution is disbanded, the better will it he
for the Presbyterian church and for the
cause which it represents. Its trustees arc
no benighted that there is no hope that
they will ever be enlightened.”
Says the New York Star: “For a start
ling novelty in advertising and an utter vio
lation of good taste, we direct our readers
to the new signboards of an up-town wax-
works show, displayed on the elevated road
stations. Such a jumble of things, human
nud divine, is seldom seen except in a com
munity which is either too pagan or too
simple to know better. Jesus Christ, Sir
Moses Montefiore, General Hancock and 1
Captain Jack are announced as the latest
attractions. I\ after the manner of the ,
Bowery shows, the symbolic Big 4 had been
attached, the sensibilities of good people
•could not be more painfully shocked.”
Says the Boston Herald: “The State of
Georgia is to have a school of technology,
both houses of the Legislature having pass*
«*1 a bill to establish aud nmintuiu such an
institution. In hiking this step, Georgia
lends in the development of the‘new edu
cation. ’ The State is liercpftcr to recog
nize that its children have other faculties
than the memory to cultivate —other mem
bers than the brain to educate. Even in
Massachusetts the primary training of the
eye, the hand, the muscle and the judg
ment is left to private enbrprise, and can
be had, in connection with other prelimina
ry education, only ut an expense that places
it beyond the reach of ninety children out
«-f a hundred. In providing for a more
uymmctrical and practical education of its
children, Georgia has taken a long step in
advance of older and richer States.”
■hall not cut or drink, so long os he
pays for it. We are opposed to drunk-
etine.-g, aud if public sentiment will
earnestly resolve upon its suppression
and honestly enforce necessary laws for its
punishment ns a crime, which we think it
ought to he made, then it will be an intlni-
tessimal evil, or will altogether cease. Un
til this is done, the policy of every com
munity should be to restrict the retail of
whisky to responsible and reputable men,
subject at least to rigid scrutiny.
in once fairly inaugurated.
First; the farmers who have been exposed
to the cross-road bar-rooms where their
stolen produce has been nightly bartered
tor drink. 8ecoiul, the conservative senti
ment of the State, embracing the business,
mechanical and agricultural,medical- and to
some extent the legal professions, teachers
and others, who are temperate in sentiment j
aud habit, but who are disgusted with the
results of organization on the part of liquor
dealers, in attending and dominating most
or all the county meetings where the ap
pointment of delegates to conventions and
the nomination of candidates for office are
made. Third, the large number of men
and women whd, on general principles, are
opposed to whisky in day shape or on any
terms, and who are influenced by sen
timent or conscience or higher law, or what
ever else it may he termed, that induces
pc* .pie at times aud in nil communities to un
dertake, first «»n one line and then upon an
other. the settlement of questions by force
of statute that all experience proves are
better left to individual judgmeut and ac
tion, influenced by moral suasion.
What the two former may lack in zeal will
be supplied by the latter, and where the
latter umv need good judgment and the
practical management necessary to success
the others will not be found wanting iu
these qualities.
The strength and character of this com
bination can neither be ignored nor denied.
It will also appear that there are some
powerful incentives through which the ut
most effort will he put forth to secure suc
cess. Where the issue has been forced iu
counties dominated by the agricultural vote
the result, with few exceptions, has been to
drive
t the
The New York Star takes this view of
The Ohio election: “Ohio is a Republican
JJtnte. Now and then the Democrats have
carried it, but never in a year when the fate
of the Republican party uppenred to be
Mtaked on the result. The Republican ma
jority has been steadily diminished from 1
.year to year since the war, and the continu
ation of this process will inevitably take
Ohio out of the list of Republican States.
But that result 1ms not yet l>een reached.
The Prohibitionists, the Greenbackers and
other minor parties have, in off years,
drawn enough voters temporarily from one
or the other of the two principal parties
to affect the result, and, as tho mujority
party usually suffers most from such side
issues the Democrats have secured a plu
rality at several State elections. Once or
twice, thanks to Republican apathy, the
Democrats have carried the State by a clear
minority of all the votes cast. Yet the fact
remains that at no time during the past
twenty years could there have l»een n doubt
as to the ntiKwcr a mujority of the people
of Ohio would have made to the question:
Do you prefer tho Republican party to the
Democratic party? The people would have
■voted “Aye” on that question by a far
larger majority than they have of late years
given to any candidate their party has
presented to them.”
In the counties where our larger cities
are situated we doubt the success of the
prohibitionists. We are confident of their
defeat when* wise and temperate conusels
prevail. If they are not driven to extremes
by an unwise policy on the part of the
liquor trade, they will not l.e able to con
trol the liberal and conservative vote neces
sary to success. A wise recognition of this
fact, and a prudent adjustment of a poliev
to correspond, would, we think, have
spared Atlanta the tierce struggle in which
she is engaged, and which we desire to see
averted in Macon and Bibb county.
The country bar-rooiu is a thing of the
past in many counties iu Georgia. It hns
lmt a frail and brief tenure in most of the
others. The low dives nud gin mills in the
cities and towns where dealers dispense
miserable compounds at low prices, thus
spreading the worst form of
drunkenness, and carrying des
olation nud ruin to the homes
of the people, are destined to follow the
cross-roads bar-rooms. If the whisky trade
will not consent for them to go, under some
system that would yet permit the better
class of establishments to remain, we be
lieve it is only a question of time when a
very large number of men who ale opposed
to prohibition will vote for it in order to
rid themselves uud their communities of
this evil.
We ore at a loss to understand who: pi-.
to | taste or judgment could be ot! .
in their support or defense. Upon th.
point it seems that an agreement might l.e
reached, and that a system of high license
is th** last method at present of dealing
with the whole question.
We sincerely hope that in this county it
will be tried, and that we shall
escape o contest fraught with
passion, ami out of which
no permanent good can come. To those of
our temperance friends who are influenced,
as they believe, by moral and religious duty,
to insist upon absolute prohibition, we de
sire to suggest tlmt at hist it may not be
a religious or moral duty at nil. People of
like convictions, who were so wrapped up
iu the Confederate cause thnt they could
not entertain the idea that failure was
remotely possible, told US that it was God’s
own cause. Some of the clergy of this
State actually committed Providence to the
duty and purpose of its success. But it
did not succeed. Men are blind who pro
pose to formulate civil poliey on moral sen
timent, while they ignore the teachings of
experience and common sense. Prohibition
wherever tried 1ms failed to cure the evil of
iutemperunee. It will fail here. If there
were a reasonable probability of its huccoam,
if that was assured, why say to the thousands
of temperate men who from moderate indul
gence in alcoholic drink derive pleasure, if
not positive benefit, thut they shall he de
prived the use because the few drink to ex
cess? As reasonably, as justly, might the
commerce of the sexes be forbidden because
of the brutal passions that end in rape, or
the lcose moral convictions that promote
adulteiy.
We are opposed to prohibition because it
does not probibit, an l bccuuse we do not
believe in any law defiuing what a man
Five years ago, and the Railroad Com
mission was organized under a law, which
received the doubting indorsement of some
of the best minds of the State, and the
grudging consent of others.
So soon as the railroad corporations felt
the hard execution of a law at the hands of
three men unwisely clothed with arbitra
ry power, they appealed to the courts for
justice.
Au imported partisan acting as judge
denied their appeal and referred them to
the Legislature, the source from which the
oppression complained of came. From thnt
day to w ithin a few days past, the contest be
tween the commission and the railroad cor
porations lias been waged inthe public press
and the halls of the Legislature. Surely
though slowly, by the argument of irrefraga
ble facts, the corporations have made their
cause good, and have won converts and
friends, until the Legislature just adjourned,
bv a majority in both branches, declared
that the present law should he modified.
This is the unmistakable sentiment of the
majority of the people of the State, and that
it is not embraced in a legal enactment
was due to the unfair spirit of
the opposition. We do not write
in a spirit of complaint, but take occasion
to say a few words of wisdom and warning,
now thnt the heat of debate is over and the
voice of the partisan is stilled. It is not
becoming iu the Representatives of a State
that claims the title of Empire, a claim that
goes unchallenged, to have met this issue
in tiie spirit which belongs to mere ephem
eral and party contests. Ever}' citizen of
Georgia, the people of all degrees, were in
terested in the result, aud the Georgian
who can look back now ami read these
words from a spectator of the occasion, the
editor of the Tlionmsville Enterprise—
••While the vote was being recorded some very re
markable tlunc* occurred on the floor of the House.
One man, who opposed tho bill stood by the desk of
another man who favored it. and with clenched list
in close proximity to the face of the man who fa-
▼ond the bill, threatened to denounce him a* a
scoundrel if he dared to follow his convictions.
And so witli the aid of demagogues, political
chameleons, threats and such means, the bill was
defeated. The scene on tho floor of the House when
the result of the vote was auuoiineed would lie hard
to describe. Many of the un-iuliem had provided
themselves with club*, aud they pouuded the desks
and floor* aud yelled like Comanche Indiana"—
must have parted with the sense of shame
and the capacity to blush.
The contest referred to closed with a sub
stantial victory for the oppressed corpora
tions, hut it was followed by mufierings of
threats to revive it in the arena of politics.
There is not ft man in Georgia, in his solid
senses, whether interested or connected di
rectly with railroads or not, who does not
desire to avert such a calamity.
But seventy millions of dollars, imper
iled by hostile legislation enforced in an un
friendly spirit, will not hesitate to seek
every means for relief and protection.
Merchants, hankers, manufacturers or fann
ers similarly situated would not fail to
wield any weapon calculated to defern
interests from destruction.
In plain English, if the Railroad Commis
sion shall pursue the same course in tho
future ns has marked it in the past,
the issue will become immediately promi
nent in the politics of the State. And who
can doubt the result? If one road, he*
longing to the State, has controlled to a
great degree the politics of the State for the
past twenty years, and has made one man
a political autocrat, it may easily he under
stood that the combined roads could hold
Georgia nt their mercy. They could make j
A .Mischievous Law,
During the last days of the recent session
of the Legislature a bill was passed making
it illegal for any citizen of Georgia to buy
or sell future contracts for cotton, meat,
grain or other produce.
It is to be hoped that this measure was
the result of ignorance on the part of the
Legislature. If it were known to what an
extent it would, if enforced, interfere with
legitimate business, then its enactment was
a enu 1 and wautou crime against the trade
of the State.
In every Legislature which has assem
bled iu the past ten years some ig
noramus lias proposed a similar mens-
We have
oral
hamlet to hamlet, Iu its ranks are gaily-1
dressed maidens, gallant cavaliers, banners ;
of the State and the Union, wreaths of flow- 1
ers and tho bright instruments of many •
bands. Thousands flock to the wayside to |
see this army pass, armed only with the !
ballot and the consciousnass of right. !
But there are men iu this country, and
they have their organs, who see in this ar
ray the fires of another war, the evidence
of hate and the promise of bloodshed. The !
gallant cavaliers to their distorted imogina- j
tious seemed armed with sword and with '
rifle, and the banners are the emblems of ,
revolution. The devil knows upon what ;
background to cast his picture.
pointed out the importance of the world’s
great exchanges, and the necessity for fu
ture transactions in 9 modern methods of
handling produce. The- first effect of this
system of business has been a large reduc
tion in the difference of prices between tlu*
original markets for produce and points of
final consumption. If the Potiplinr Pea-
greens of the recent Legislature will take
the trouble to investigate this matter they
will find that the difference in the charges
for handling cotton between Savannah
and Liverpool, outside of freights,
are less than half of what they
were prior to the introduction of business
in future contracts. Prior to this time an
English spinner would send his orders to I
Savannah for the purchase of cotton. The
buyer placed cost and all expenses in his
invoice and added 4 per cent, commission
for purchasing. When the order was se
cured to a Savannah buyer through a Liv
erpool house the spinner had also to pay
this house a commission. All these charges
came out of the producers of cotton.
At present, a large portion of the crop is
moved on sales of contracts on the Liver
pool Exchange. These are either made in
advance of purchases of cotton or the cotton
is bought with knowledge of prices at which
it can thus lie sold, and the result is that
the profits of the exporting business now,
done as it is on purchases and sales through
the exchanges, will not average 1 per cent,
profit, as against 4 per cent, commissions
formerly paid. In this there is a reduction
of 3 per cent, in the margin between Savan
nah aud Liverpool, and a consequent saving
of this amount to the farmers of Georgia.
Of the man on horseback the New* York |
Sun says: “We doubt if any nmnevt-r had ,
a better opportunity to show the finer quul- •
ities of horsemanship to a numerous and j
appreciative audience than (Jen. Fitz Hugh i
Lee, while he is riding about making his i
ciiuvnss in Virginia. Ho rides every day !
except Sunday, and never twice on the
same horse, but on whatever animal, old,
young, quiet, hot headed, aud of whatever !
gait, it may lie. When the inhabitants of :
a district accompany him in u long nml en
thusiastic cavalcade, they furnish a horse I
all saddled for Gen. Lee to ride, and the j
different varieties of animals which he lie- j
strides must he as numerous as the coun-1
f Virginia. This is the greatest test
of true horsemanship, and iu the charming
and picturesque accounts of Gen. Lee’s
progress which appear iu the Sim, it is
shown that the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Virginia is a horseman of the
first class. We trust he is riding to vic
tory.”
The Boston Herald says: “With the
chronic habit of ’ the organ to claim what
ever is good in government for its own
party, and to attribute whatever is had to
A* to tho merito of thin question, it mxy 1>e safely
affirmed that the State should not interfere with
the freedom of private contract* except upou clear
and uuiuistakalilo around* of public policy. A con
tract which is not contrary to good moral*, aud which
hu* been voluntarily entered into by person* legally
capable of contracting, should not bo net aside
upon any doubtful or equivocal reason*. To nay
the least of it, the policy of usury law* 1* involved
in very great doubt. They hare lnug ago been
abolished in England nud ia many of the State* of
thi* Union, and I believe are generally coudamued
by writer* on political economy.
TV. G. Smith.
Agent* Wanted.
• We want an agent fur the Weekly Tele-
orach iu every community iu the South.
We will make such arrangements as will
enable nnv one to make money canvassing
for us. Write for terms to agents. w-tf
A Watch Free!
We will mail a Nickel-silver Waterbary Watch of
ed ill the
lielo*
who will aend u» a club of ten new subscribers to
The Weekly TeleouaI’H at one dollar each. Thi*
wjffeuable each subscriber to secure the paper at
the lowest club rate, nud at the same time coiupen-
Hate the club agent for hi* trouble.
Only neiv arnacRIBCB*—that I*. those whose
name* are not uow aud have m>t beeu within six
month* previous to the receipt of tue order on our
1 looks, WILL BE COUNTED.
The
vict-abli
aud tie
keeper*. They are simple, dura-
le case* always wear bright. Tens
Hand* of them are carried by people of all
throughout the United State*.
“The Waierbury.”
the
opposition, the State attempts to
combat our assertion that good home rule
at the South by the Democratic party has
contributed both to tho prosperity of that
section and to the well-being of the negroes.
It maintains that ‘the prosperity of the
South in these later years is due in a large
measure to that era of general activity and
business revival which hns marked the
channels of trade throughout the entire
country, and which 1ms been the result of
Yarn spinners South who supply North- J thes financial policy of the Republican par
ent manufacturers with goods are compelled ty in power during those years.’ This
to make large sales for forward delivery or is news indeed. The ‘era of general
this trade. It is their’custon to make activity and business revival” began shortly
and unmake laws and
1 disrobe Senntoi
and they might not stop with the proposition
>( (’ immissiouer Barnett to go into the
• v... eping and tax laying and collecting
sines*, but th cy would absolutely con
trol L« gislatnres and legislation, and dic
ta te the policy of the State.
The picture is not overdrawn, aud it
should furnish food for serious thought to
••very Georgian. Enforce this corn mission
law but another year in the same spirit of
the last, and the issue is upou us. In view
of this fact, cold and solid, a grave respon
sibility rests upon the Rnilroad
Commission. The proof is ctmulntive
that it has been unjust nnd unwise in its
action, nml unfortnnate in the temper with
which it has sought to defend an indefensi
ble position. Georgia does not wish to de
stroy her railroads. She docs not even de
sire to cripple their power or ukefulness.
The constitution demands that Kites shall
be made “just and reasonable." The com
mission can do this nnd receive the applause
and support of the people. It can still
struggle to make n wrong appear a right,
and by so doing involve themselves and the
Ktato in a common catastrophe.
Wo of the South are a common people,
hound together by a community of senti
ment and interest.
South Carolina 1ms modified her cornmis
hion law, Alabama removed the members of
lu-rs w ho grasped ut increased power, Otlu-r
States, affrighted at our example, are hold
ing a commission nt liny.
The politics of Tennessee is dangerously
complicated by this very question, and the
Georgia Railroad Commission holds iu its
hands tho power to make a dead a or living
State.
The Weekly Telegraph Free,
We will send tho Weekly Telegraph
one year to any one who will get up n club
of five new-jrabscribers to it at one dollar
each. w-tf
these sales nml protect themselves on the
price of cotton by buying contracts on the
New York Exchange. If this law is en
forced, it will seriously interfere with this
business, and may force Georgia spinners
to nbnudon n trade that in these dull times
is essential to the running of their ma
chinery.
Will tho legislators of Georgia ever
learn that it is dangerous to tamper with
trade of which they are utterly ignorant ?
The State Fair.
The Florida Times-Union aavs of the ap
proaching State fair.
Tin* Georgia State fair i* to tie held at Macon, lie-
ginning «»n the ’JfitU iu*L uud coutiuuing a week.
Tiie premium list oiler* gIMNJO iu cash premium*.
The management have arranged with the variuu*
railroad* of the Htate running into Macou for re
duced ral***, and the attendance, a!wav* lame, i*
expected thi* year to be lamer than ever. There i*
only oue thin* thnt make* u* lii-*itale to advise
Florida fanner* to attend and that is the fearful ar
ray of military men who have tiie management of
the a Lair. The president i* a colonel the treasurer
i* a captain, the vice-president* are all colonel*,
captain* nml major*, while the executive committee
of thirty i* composed of tea captains, nine colonels,
four major*,three doctor* aud four nou-profe**iom l
gentlemen. It must be that the Scriptural idea of
heating sword* into plowshares ha* obtained ill
Georgia. TVe hope so, ut least.
Tho presence of all these ex-military
men should not deter the Florida farmers.
Florida has as many majors nnd colonels in
proportion to her populations Georgia, nnd
the £<>th instant 'vill furnish au excellent
opportunity for all the veterans to get to
gether. Perhaps the Florida colonels can
sell the Georgia colonel* some land, and
take stock—live stock—in exchange.
This fair offers especial inducements to
'lumiHsions, and j Floridians. There will be gathered here
Once in power j the finest display of cattle,* bogs and
poultry ever seen in Georgia. If there is any
thing thnt the Land of Flowers needs just
now to make it nil earthly paradise, it is
plenty of fine cows, hogs nnd poultry. It is
a popular idea beyond the boundaries of
thut State thnt milk cows will not tlourish
therein; that grasses do not grow there in
abundance nor to perfection. It is a well-
known fact that except in a few favored
neighborhoods the razor hack hog has full
sway, and that chickens and eggs are be
yond the reach of a poor man's pocket-hook.
It has been demonstrated time nnd again
that Bermuda grass grows well in every
section of the State where it lias been
tried, nnd that cows can be kept as fat and
productive ns here; thut hogs attended to
are just ns flourishing and profitable as in
Georgia. Poultry can be successfully raised
anywhere.
The favorite cow nowadays is the Jersey.
It is imiHissible to outline the exhibi
tion of this strain now being gathered
for this fair. It will certainly exceed any
similar collection ever secured in any South
ern State. No better opportunity for in
vestment will ever be offered to Florida fnr-
Nor is this nil. Florida to most Middle
Georgians is on term ineotjnita, although
many have interests therein. \Ve do not know
of a better opportunity for Florida exhibitors
nn-l land-owner* than will he offered on the
2ffth that. The small Florida exhibit last
year attracted widespread attention. The
people of any community in our sister State
will find it profitable to spread before the
thousands who will flock to this fair evi
dences of the fertility of the soil aud its
adapt'bilitv.
Two IMettires.
It nil depends upon the way you look at
things. The liberal luqiers of the country
see in the Fitzhugh Lee campaign a peaceful
army journeying from post to post, from
after the resumption of specie payments in
187'J, and ended with the shooting of Gar-
Held in 1881. For the six years preceding
1879, nnd for the four years following 1881,
up to June last, industries were depressed,
trade was paralyzed and business in general
stagnant. But the condition of the South
during all this period has been relatively
better than that of any other portion of the
>n, for the reason that its crops have
been large and have commanded a ready
market, and because new railroads have
been built nnd the great natural re
sources of that section in iron, coal, lum
ber and fertilizers have been opened up.
Good local government, peaceful and
helpful relations between the two race*,
aud greater attention to business and less
politics, were essential to this develop
ment; nnd this the Democratic home rule
has assured to the people. The Federal
government lias done nothing directly to
aid iu this development; and if tho “flmin-
ial policy of the Bcpublican party” has
promoted Southern prosperity, why has it
not helped tho North ? Ten years out of
the last twelve have been years of dullness
and depression. During this time the
South has greatly improved its former con
dition when both the Federal and State
governments were Republican. The infer
ence is clear that the end bf the carpetbag
reign was u blessing to the South."
The Usury IjiwT
Editor* Telegraph: A few day* ago, a* appear*
from this pres* report*, a hill wa* Introduced into
t'.ie Legislature to repeal the usury law* now of
force in thi* State, leaving the rate of iutcrcMt iu
every transaction to be fixed by the parties to the
contract. Iu the di*ctt**iou provoked by thi* bill,
our Mr. Bartlett advocated with hi* accustomed ve
hemence the right hut unsuccessful side. Ill* most
prominent opponent seeiu* to have been Mr. Aru-
heiiu, who nail passage* from tiie Dilde condemn
ing the taking of tuuiry. and appealed to the Legis
late to stand by the touching* of the hook of hooka.
1 refer to thi* incident uot for the purpose of dis
cussing the poliey of usury laws, but because it
furtii*he* a curious illustration of the sort of opjio-
sitiou which impArtaut im asure* must encounter.
The bill referred to wo* lost. Whether It* defeat
wa* in-ought about by Mr. Aruheim's biblical argu
ment canuot uow bo ktiowu. That hi* argument
wo* based upou a grossly perverted atul mistaken
use of Mcripture i* very generally known. The
Uihle wa* never intended to he an authority ui>on
question* of political economy. To cite it In the
discussion of such question* is to degrade It aud
bring it into contempt. The common sense of nu-n
revolt* at the idea of uiaklug the commercial regu
lations and usage* of Georgia to-day conform to tho
peculiar institution* of the Jew* more than three
thousand year* ago. 1 would lie very far from
*!M-aking lightly of any mao'* regard for the Bible.
On the contrary, I believe that, other thing* beiug
equal, that legislator who moat thoroughly under-
huud* aud most deeply reverences the sacred Book
is lu-st equipped for the duties of hi* other. But
for thu moral sentiment which the Bible create*, the
enactments of legislature* would have but little
force. Tbe operation of uary law* themRelve*
furnishes a striking illustration of thi* proposition.
They are everywhere habitually ignored and evaded
by the most law-abiding ami conscientious (Msqdc of
tiie laud. Periodically, the most »traight-laei-d hank
ofheial* in the State publish curiously-worded
affidavit* in which they solemnly swear thut they
have not violated the usury law* of the State, un
less a violation of these law* should be construed
to lie a violation of them. At least that 1* the mean
ing and substance of the affidavit.
Now, till* daily violation of tow would not occur
if the mass of the (ample agreed with Mr. Amhcim
iu his application of tiie teaching* of the Bible.
Even the Mosaic law Itself to which Mr. Arnbcitu
appealed doe* tut sustain the position taken by
him. That law merely prohibited a Jew from tak
ing usury from another Jew, hut left him free to
exact any rate of Interest from all people who were
not Jews. Furthermore, the word usury a* em
ployed in the Bible meant any charge whatever for
the use of money. In the Bible sense, any rate of
interest i* usury—interest and twury beiug syuony-
niou* term*. If Mr. Arnheim would be consistent,
be must advocate a law prohibiting the diking of
any interest whatever and requiring all loans to be
entirely gratuitous.
we will send The Weekly Teleobaph oue year
aud one of the above described watches to any ad
dress. Till* propostiun is open to our subscriber*
as well as those who are not.
.A_ct Promptly.
The above propositions will 1m* kept ojM?n for a
limited time oul.v and parties who wish to^^,f ad-
vntitage of either should do so at once, /
AJ-Unlcss otherwise directed we wifi send th»
watches by mail, packed hi o stout pasteboard Imix.
and our responsibility for them will citf w lu-n they
are deposited in the pout-office. They, ran be regis
tered for ten cent* and parties who wt»h this done
should inclose this amount, or we will Heud them
by express, the charge* to bo paid when they aru
delivered. Address TUE TELEGRAPH.
Macou, JJenrgta.
Make
iey orders, check*, et-.. payable f
U. C. HANSON.
Administrator's nml Distributees Sale of
Jones Count}' Lands,
GEORGIA, JUNES COUNTY.—By virtue of ft n or
es Court of Ordinary will be sold u t tho
door iu Clinton, on the first Tu**.|ay
inNo-
. nil t
itdivide.l iut
t of t
• >f Benjamin Beck, Jr., deceased, in the him-
ed nnd five (3o.fi acres of land, more or less, in
nc* county, known a* the Stephen Bivins old
Al*«
NEWTON ETHRIDGE, Admii
t the
ml phic«
the joint owner* for general thstribi’i
Is near the railroad: fair Is
water and timber thereon:
cash. II.
il attorney iu fact of Mrs. Aru
Walker,
octC-wiw
JAMES BECK.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA..JONES COUNTY.—By virtue of i
1>efot
Will 1m- sold
Witbll
t Onlina
irt House door iu Clint
legal hour* of snl*. on the first Tut-*-
•ntiie plantation of John
day iu Ni
Jarrel, *r.. tleeeased. containing seven hundred atm
sixtv-six acre* of laud, more or less. Including the
remainder Inti rest after the termination or the
widow’* dower therein. The laud l* situate on
Falling creek, in Jones county, convenient to rail-
road, in a good m-ighhorluMMl. adjoin* I>r. Holland.
Glover and others, fair average land with improve
ment* thereon. Mold for distribution. Term* cash.
September IU. 1*73.
octu-law-lw JAMES T. JAMES, Administrator.
Crawford County Sheriff Sale.
GEORGIA. CiiAwvonn Covnty.—Will be void be-
fon- the court lton*e door in Knoxville, Ga., within
»legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday iu No-
eight in tiie seventh district of *uid county, and o
hundred and ninety acre*, more or less, of lot or
laud number one hundred and forty-four (141) in thu
second district of said county, containing ia the ag
gregate three hundred and ninety-two acre*, more or
le**, lying east of Knoxville and known a* the Ilick*
place, the same being the place where J. L. Horne
now resides. Levied on a* the property of William
Carter to satisfy two fi. fa*., one ins lied from the Su-
perior Court of said county in favor of H. c. Harrp.
VS. William Cart, rand 4. W. Jack, administrator of
the estate of James E. Hutchins. The other issued
from the County Court of sahl count}* in favoi
plalntitTs attorney. Tern"
In po*-
out by
I, Hw,
M. P. RIVIERE. Sheriff.
.Notice,
GEORGIA. CnvwEol
» Cocnty.—By virtue of the
t mortgage in fav or of Cole-
ed bv Berry Fluker,
, and recorded in the
■'IM* - •■. ■■■‘H - *.i l**Mlk “Ii, luge Inu, MH
April 7th. I will, on the first Tuesday iu No-
vember (*1) next, before the court house door. In
the town of Knoxville, within the legal hours of
sale, ex|H>se for sab; at public outcry to tho highest
bidder, for cash, the following lauds, tc-wit:
One hundred acre* (100), more or less, of lot No.
forty-seven (47) in the First District of originally
Houston, now Ciawfont county, being the half of
said lot on which tho said Berry Fluker reside*.
Paid laud* sold to (lay oir the debt with iuten-st se
cured by said mortgage, together with ail cost* aud
expense*. Title iu fee simple will lie made to the
purchaser a» specified in said mortgage. .Said Berry
irtgoge.
Fluker haviug defaulted iu pa.ving said
said lauds w ill Imj sold for the benefit of Cole
Newsom, the beueficiarie* in said mortgage. Octo-
In-r -I. INV. R<>BERT COLEMAN.
Huruvor of the late firm or Coleman & Newsom,
octfl lawlw
ORDINARY’S OFFICE, JONES COUNTY, QEOB-
OIA, September 'Jd, lKW.-To all whom it may con
cern: A. It. Tinsley, administrator de tool is non of
B. F. lto**. deceased, ho* in due form applied to
me for leave to sell all the land* to longing to estate
of said deceased and a special order for sale of the
real estate in Rild> county to be sold iu Bibb coun
ty. Said application will be heard on the flr»t
Monday in November next. Witno** my hand offi
cially. r. t. Boss, Ordinary.
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