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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 18. 1893
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turn vo'iehcra to bo pild from "(he j blmetatlfhm l« correct In theory and
idle money ,'n the United Stat'i-s treft- j principle. Prof. Fox well declares that
sury." When these “dlaolpUnetl :tr- whoever return s to admit that a hxed
Senator John Sherman has said on
more than one occasion that the law
which bears his name was passed be
cause in no other way conld the pas
sage of a free coinage bill be prevented.
He tells this story in the face of tne
fact that a free coinage bill had al
ready been rejected by the house by a
large majority and the further fact
that President Harrison stood ready
to veto a free coinage bill if one should
be sent to him. The story Is utterly
improbable and has never been accept
ed as true by anybody who has taken
the trouble to hunt up the record of
the Heed congress. While rejecting
thought of the matter have explained
the passage of the foolish and danger
ous "makeshift” by the necessity
which the Republican party found it
self under of disguising Its position on
the silver question. The veto op a free
coinage bill by a Republican president
would have cost the party dearly m
the Western states—would have made
it hopeless. In fact' to attempt to elect
a Republican president In succession
to Mr. Harrison.
But it seems that this explanation,
while partly true, did not cover the
whole ground. There.was anotherrea.
son why the Sherman bill was passed,
and this reason Senator Jones of Ne
vada has recently explained. It will
be remembered that that bill was re
ported to both houses by a conference
committee, and It is with the proceed
ings of that committee that Senator
Jones' explanation deals. “They were
nil sitting around the conference
room,” he 1* credited with saying,
"when I came In with my ultimatum,
which was 4,500.000 ounces a mouth.
•Ofi. if that Is all,' said Mr. Walker of
Massachusetts, who was one of the
conferees on the part of the hoiise, 'we
might ns well go. That ends ,t. It is
all over.' Mr. Walker started toward
the door, but before he had gone far 1
said to him; 'Perhaps you Republi
cans, nnd you. Mr. Walker, will he in
terested, and I guess all of you will.’
With that Mr. Walker came back, but
did Dot take a choir. I contluned:
•Now, I want to tell you, gentlemen,
that the McKinley bill will be over In
the senate in a very tiiort time, llyou
reject our ultimatum on the silver
proposition the silver men in the sen
ate will move the free coinage bill us
un amendment to the McKinley hi
and there are enough Democrat* who
will vote with u* to carry It. Now.
after that amendment Is adopted
tho senate, all the Democrats will vote
against the McKinley bill liecuuse
1* n protective measure, and tho East
ern protectionists in the senate w.U
vote against It because it contains free
sliver. The free allver Republicans in
the senate will be the only men who
will vote for it. and, being protection-
1ms, they will be the only cona'stent
men in the senate, being for protec
tion and for free coinage of silver.'
When I got through -they were all lis
tening to me, and before the confer
ence broke up the silver purchase law,
known ss the Sherman net, was agreed
to.”
It is very much easier to believe Sen
ator Jones' story than Senator Sher
man's. It Is reasonable. It explains
what is otherwise inexplicable, nnd
we do not donbt will be generally ac
cepted. It shows that both the Mc-
Klnteyism and the Shcrmanlsm from
which the country has suffered for
three years were the result of a trade—
that one was the price paid for the
other, neither having the support of a
majority in congress on Us own tncrits.
Profoundly affecting the welfare of
the country and diverting hundreds of
millions of dollars from the pockets ot
the men who earned them to the
pockets of persona favored by the gov
ernroont, they were yet passed by the
same tactic* that are successful In get
ting appropriations for Possum creek
nnd Raccoon river In a river %nd har
bor bllL They were log-rolled through
congress. This was s specimen
■'business” in politics-that will hardly
commend itself to old-fashioned people
who still believe that legislation should
be basc-d on a patriotic regard for the
Interests of the whole people and not
on a combination of the special Inter
ests of certain localities.
mica” arrive at the national capital,
they are to drive away ‘Congress and
the administration and then, “having
cleaned the Augean stable, let them
take possession of the government pro
perty in the name of the real owner,
the people; let them stand guard over
the same, only voting nud using so
much of tho accumulated plunder as
will be necessary to run a provisional
government until a constitutional con
vention of all the states can be called,
which, profiting by experience, the
mistakes of the last 100 years, will re
organize the government.”
This kind of talk sounds quite nat
ural out in Kansas, -where some men
have gained great popularity, good of
fices aud better salaries than they ever
knew before by indulging In it. That
it is taken seriously by the Kansas
people nnd has given these men power
Instead of making thorn objects of rid
icule or hatred by their follow citizens
is the severest possible commentary on
our free Institutions and on American
IntAlU-wnoa
The truth is that men who deliberate
ly print such ndvicc i;s that we have
quoted and those who read it .approv
ingly have not the faintest conception
of the principles of representative gov
ernment. no knowledge of the present
financial condition of the government,
and are ignornt of all the lessons of
history. The treasury is so nearly
bankrupt that the government Is now
devising means to increase its income,
ratio ean be established nnd main
tained between silver and gold oy in
ternational agreement understands
very little about political economy.
Tho bimetallists of England are n
powerful minority that may u- con
verted Into a majority In n very short
time by circumstances favorable to
their cause.
THE COUNTY TAX RATE.
money” in it enough to support, “dis
ciplined armies” Indefinitely while a
new form of government is being es
tablished, after the expenses of n suc
cessful campaign have first been paid.
He expects these "disciplined armies"
to vote to themselves for expenses only
a small part of the captured wealth
and to stand guard around the balance.
These "disciplined armies,” too, arc to
assume that they represent the people
and drive away the men selected by
the people at the ballot box to sit ns
their representatives in congress. Then
these "disciplined armies" of the p'oor
and destitute, after supplying their
needs from the treasury, are to camp
around the capital while a convent'on
called by their authority plans a new
form of government. Of course, the
"disciplined armies" would see to It
that the new government was In form
ngreeohle to thorn. Would -they not be
acting all through on the assumption
that they were the people? If the
delegates to the convention differed iu
opinion with; them, that would only he
proof that the delegates were the tools
of Wall street and traitors to the peo
ple who sent them to Washington.
It ought to be impossible for a news
paper to give such advice to Its read
ers—not because -the law Interfered to
prevent it, but because It would at
tract attention only to the extent 'ot
raising a question ns to the editor's
sanity. That It Is given by men who
arc eagerly decking success In politics
and In the newspaper business as the
best in eons to their end Is one of the
most serious signs of tho limes.
Have not the county commissioners
of Bibb made a mistake? Their finan
ciering may be sound and very safe,
but they might have found soma way
to save this county from the lraposlt-on
of an extremely high rate of taxation
just nt this time.' It 1s never too late
to mend, and perhaps after more ma
ture consideration of the question and
after n conference with the large tax
payers of -the county the commissioners
might be Induced to change their
scheme of finance for the coming year.
The Telegraph will not undertake to
outline n plan. More than one can be
found under which the tax rate might
be left unchanged and the legitimate
expenses of the county paid iu full,
and we understand that the chalrmau
of the board of county commiss,oners
has expressed himself as being anxious
to avoid such a high rate of taxation
for tills year nnd willing to favor any
good plan by which this can be done.
The tax rate of 2.55 on the hundred ex
ceeds any other combined state, county
and city tax levied in the state ot
H Georgia, nnd therefore becomes a hard-
lul ” ship npoh our people at a time when
would doubtless have preferred to fell
a different story. In the story as told,
however, -we see only that the 1 ladies
of the board conducted themselves
about as a lot of inexperienced men
would have done who had taken their
lessons In the management of public
affairs from newspaper accounts or
the proceedings of legislatures end
city councils. They are not to be
greatly blamed If each looked after
her own private Interrats and sought
to get all the profit possible out of thn
government. Do not the men who are
professional politicians generally ,1o
the same thing?
THINKS RENT A FINE.
Tho organ of the Farmers’ Alllauco
In Georgia says that "In the United
States there are 200,000 Individuals
who own the houses which shelter
0,100,000 families, and exact ii fine. In
the shape of rent, from these nine mil
lions amounting to $2,THO,000 annu
ally.”
This is a somewhat remarkable
statement. A little figuring will show,
If it be accepted ns true, that t.ie
0,100,000 families pay for house rent
only about thirty cents a year apiece,
and that the 260,000 house owners re
ceive only $10.50 each annually.
Thirty cents a year is certainly little
enough for a family to give for a
year's use of a house, nnd the land
lord, who only gets an aggregate rent
of $10.50 a year from thirty-five tenant
families is not apt to develop Into a
plutocrat. The taxes, Insurance, cost
of repairs, etc., will be pretty sure to
subtract from that sum enough, to keep
him down to n decent level of nnvertv
norant and vlcloms, and the persons
who should be held responsible lj’.fle
themselves iu the night.
Civilization is mado possible Dy gen
eral respect for life and property. If
that respect disappears we will have
anarchy. The burning of ginneries by
the order of a secret society, in an at
tempt to regulate market prices, shows
that in one Mississippi community tins
safeguard of civilization Is disappear
ing. It ought to ho re-establlshCd <>y
the most vigorous enforcement ot the
law.
LIBERIA AND FltANCE.
But, moderate as his own figures
busluess has suffered from prolonged j show the receipts of the house owner
-Apenses of the iiouse-
BIMETALLISM IN ENGLAND.
A cablegram reports Sir William
A KANSAS IDEA..
Ideas ate plentiful in Kansas, and
some of them are startling in their
boldness and originality. A Kansas
editor has caught one of this kind, sod
gives it to bis rradcis. The unem
ployed and destitute people of the
i-ountry, be says, should march on
Washington, “not ss unEacipIlned
mobs, but as disciplined armies,” mak
ing forced levies of necessity supplies
while on the much, and giving in re-
Veraon Harcourt as saying that Eng
land will not abandou the single gold
standard. He Is s man of great Influ
ence—possibly destined to be the lead
er of the Liberal party nfter Mr. Glad
stone passes away—and doubtless he
speaks the truth, as he sees it. „ut bis
opinion is not conclusive. He represents
ouc school of thought ou this question
—the school which Is now in control ot
tho British mind—but there Is uuotner
school which is not 'insignificant m tne
number or character of Its followers,
and which may In its turn gain as-
cedeory.
It will be remembered that several
-months ago the -board of trade of Man
chester passed resolutions In favor of
bimetallism. In doing so It was moved
by selfish considers!,ons. Manchester
is the center of the cotton manufactur
ing Industry and is losing Its trade
with those countries in which, the sil
ver standard is used. Its losses have
already been enormous. The same In
fluence, if brought to bear generally.
Will have -the same effect.
That English belief Is not confined to
the ranks of the Manchester cotton
manufacturers is shown by n list ot
avowed advocates ot that policy
among the most distinguished men in
England, cited by the New Orleans
Democrat.
Mr. Balfour occupies s higher posi
tion in the Conservative party than Sir
William Vernon Hareourt does m tne
Libera L He Is the accepted leader ot
the party in- the House of Commons.
In a speech often quoted of late be
took advanced ground in favor of tho
equal use of the two metals, giving tile
same reasons (bat are urged by those
in this country who agree with him.
The remarkable letter of Mr. Grenfell,
n-mri«uir nt <h« Hank of England
published by the Telegraph only a few
days ago, shows that he goes quite ns
far os Mr. Balfonr In favoring the use
of stiver. Alfred -Marshall, the profes
sor of practical economy at Cambridge,
and n. Sedgwick, at the same univer
sity, are bimetallists, and the students
of Csinbridge are being taught that bi
metallism Is the liest for England and
the work!. U. 8. Koxwell, protestor
of political economy of the University
of Loudon, is also a bimetallist, nn.
the graduates of (bat institution
they llsu-n to his lectures, will be yf
the same way of thinking as he. Jo
seph 8. Nicholson, professor of politi
cal economy nt the University of Hd.n-
burgh. Is president of the bl metafile
league. E. C. K. Conner, professor of
political economy at the Liverpool Uni-
riod when nn extra effort should be
made to induce investors to visit Ma
con with n view to increasing our tax
able values. The county commission
ers have taken a step that will have
the effect of scaring the Investor a way.
With a rate of $25.50 combined tax on
the $1,000 the Investor who finds in
Macon evcrj-thLng else that Is n' tract
ive is very likely -to seek other fields
when he finds what the tax on Ills in
vestment will be, and when oth.r
places, where the advantages let us say
are equal, call for a much lower rate.
If the county of Bibb or the city of
Macon within the last twelve eionths
had completed or commenced any great
work of public Improvement Involving
greatly increased expenditure and In
creasing the value of property for Its
holder proporaonnteiy per capita, there
could be no cause for grumbling or ob
jection on the part of those who must
pay tho -tax now or of those who may
be called upon to pay that tax. It
would have been different, but this Is
not so, nor can we point to any In
crease in values on account of in
creased expenditure; on thn contrary,
there has been a decrease in '• values
with an Increased expenditure and nn
Increase of -tax that must necessarily
still further-reduce those valucjf.
We have said that the,, county tom-
mlssloncts are wise In that they are on
the safe side, but they ore too safe for
the good of the county. This Is a time
when in the race for prosperity it Is
not always tho wisest, though pernaps
the safest, course to keep rigid In the
middle of the .track or on the outside,
when by keeping close to the Inside
fence we can get around all right and
be n little ahead when the wire 's
reached. It Is not too' late and the
county commissioners might avoid
very serious calamity if they would
take s little more time for reconsider
ation nud conference.
DC >1X1(1 1UC
holder, the editor of the organ Is not
satisfied. Otherwise he would not
describe the family rent of thirty
cents a year ns a “fine” exacted by the
house owner. To fine Is to punish and
it is generally understood that private
citizens have not the right to usurp the
power of -the courts and punish for
their owq profit other private citizens.
In fact, this kind of usurpation would
be regarded as a very serious cri me
ns robbery by an abuse of power.
Is it possible that the Alliance in
Georgia has come to regard the exac
tion of rent as a crime? That seems to
be the idea of the editor of the organ.
He cannot complain of the amount of
the average rent he names and there
fore his only cause for complaint must
be the fact that rent Is paid at all. It
Is the habit of Socialists and Ana rrfiisis
to speak or private owenm,p or prop
erty as a crime against the people, but
wo had not supposed that Allianccnipn
in Georga had been educated up to
that point. We must still Itelleve that
they have not, nnd that the editor of
their paper Is "a Utile too prev.otu.”
He should be disciplined or displaced
favor of a man whose views are
more' nearly In accord with those of
the Alliance.
The settlement of American negroes
In Liberia extends a few miles hack
from the coastthough their government
pretends to some kind of authority over
a very considerable territory and a
number of native tribes. The boundary
lines have never been marked out and
exist only on paper. The authority
claimed by the ^Iberian government
has never been effectually asserted,
and never can be, as the government
has neither military or naval forces
worthy of the name. Nothing but force
counts in Africa.
The truth is that tho colonization
scheme Is a dismal failure, and our
government will make a mlstnko if K
proceed on the theory that there is any
thing in Lfberia worth fighting for or
spending money for. It is not likely
that the French will show nny disposi
tion to interfere in the territory netu-
ally under the control of the Liberian
government. If they choose to absorb
the outlying territory which that gov
ernment claims, but which It Impotent
even to explore, much less govern, why
should the people of the United States
care? It will remoln twelesj to hu
manity, however great Its resources,
until some strong government opens it
up to industry by making life and pro
perty safe. Why should we object If the
French undertake this-task? It will
never he performed by negroes, wlioth-
American or African.
NO PARDON FOR
ALICE 1
Governor Northen Has Reached,
termination in the Case of
the Girl Convict
LONG LIST OF PARDON PAPE
Gate City Guard Flndi ItMlrtn >
Fix After Being Dlehaiideil Hy,
State-Revenge ot a JI 01m .
tain Moonshiner.
Atlanta, Sept. U.-«po c lal.)- 0ov
Northen today refused ,ho p^H„n
pardon of Alice White, the s v?
girl, who recently came in for
her ehar#of notoriety on account ,,
.crape with other wum,n ™, n l
Mattox CAmj» in 0"h:thi 1
THE WOMAN'S SHOW.
Mrs. John A. Logan, who 1* a mem
ber of the "board of lady managers"
of the World’s Fair, Is not proud of
the achievements qf the board,
fact, she thinks the undertaking
which the board bad charge—tho effort
to give a separate and creditable rep
resentation to woman's work—Is a fail
ure. The woman's building, In the
first place, Is not an architectural sue-
and Is 111 adapted for the pur
poses for which It was intended,
ornamentation, particularly the most
pretentious of the decorations In tne
central ball, “are the worst things ever
done by American artists.” Many of
the articles on exhibition were given a
place solely because they were
work of women. On their merits they
could not have gained sccom to an
other building on the grounds. "The
whole Imlldlng, Inside and out, It more
of a failure than a success.”
This is severe enough, one wool-
think, but Mrs. Logan seems not t
think so. When She comes to ilea
with the management she is aln ->-
tierce. It wax, die thinks, a marvel o!
ineompetency anil self-seeking. T
executive committee was proven
front doing its work even os well
the members knew how to do It
the selfishness of many member*
the board. “I never before," said Mrs.
I*>g3u, “witnessed such un undignified
scramble for places which they sup
posed the board could create for them
selves.” Of (be last meeting of the
board, so prolific in sensation*. she says
that ”had not a communication been
sent to lbs. Palmer by the antnoritlea
of the treasury department ndvDin
her that they would not pay the per
diem voucher* If the session was fur
titer prolonged, there la no tellln;
when an adjournment would
Is-en reached. The moment
feared they must pay their own ex
penses they fled precipitately. They
had accomplished their wtahw, hart;
been in sraslon for more than a month,
and hid really done nothing that cool
not have been done In (be five days a
THE DEjlAY IN THE SENATE.
The rumors of compromise on the
stiver question current In Washington
few days ago seem to have been
.without foundation. If negotiations
are in progress, they cannot be very
promising of success to the silver men,
whose plan of campaign seems to be
the simple one outlined by 'senator
Pugh. They will simply “talk till they
drop." This Is not a very dlguliied
course of procedure. The spectacle
of grave and reverend senator* rcad'ng
dry reportp and converting them Into
pretended speeches on the silver ques
tion by a little random talk, before a
cotaple of dozen auditors kept In the
hall by the sergeaut-at-srms, cannot
be very Inspiring after It has gone on
for a few weeks. We doubt whether
the country can be Induced to regard
these senators as heroes, no matter
how tired their tongues may beoone.
It la more apt to sympathize with the
lctlms, held on the rack by the ser
geant-at-arms.
Tho discussion has now been going
on for a month. In the senate nearly
all the speaking has been on one side.
Everything that can possibly enlighten
has been said, and there Is not the
least probability that another month
of talk will change a vote. This fact
Is no doubt recognized by the gentle
men who are talking against time, nud
they are probably more Intent upon
making it record” than anything else.
That they know they are In a minority
Is shown by the course they have
adapted. Otherwise they would not
talk themselves and the country half
to death rather than allow the senate
to come to a vote.
The senate lias a right to aot In this
matter which it Is sure to assert final
ly. We can only hope that in the
meantime the country will not lone Its
confidence that its action, however
long delayed, will be right when at last
taken.
While the business world wags on
business men and women will buy
where they can get the best value for
their money. But many people seem
forget that they can get ns full value
for their dollars right here In Macoa
as they can get elsewhere, and as a ton-
sequence entirely too little encourage
ment Is given to home industries. Our
retail -merchants keep abreast of the
times and our home manufactories are
ns well equipped to supply the de
mand as are those In any other city.
Notwithstanding thlA fact wc are dally
given ample proof that our people over
look It and send their money away to
purchase elsewhere wlmt they can get
Just as cheaply at home, keep toe
money In circulation in their own cir
clet nnd help Macon td grow. Let us
patronize home Industries, home mer
chants and home folks whenever It Is
possible, and when anything Is needed
ln“the household. In the store, in the
shop or In public works, let us first
find out If what Is needed can be sup
plied by our home people. Many
tlwHtsauds of dollars that nomr, tlnu
their way Into other marts uni never
come back might tints )>e kept Iu cir
culation among thn home people. Ev-
ry little helps, and what looks Ilka a
very small thing to one person w.ll
help materially to swell the volume at
the end of the year.
A DANGEROUS SYMPTOM.
1 lowed by the comm
H I* not to b<- suppose.) that Mrs.
Logan is on unfriendly witnes*' Rw
A dispatch yesterday reported the
burning of a ginnery in Mleeteatpp:
because Its proprietor had disregarded
the order of a secret society that
should not 1 e-gln operations until the
selling price of cotton rose to 10 eenra.
This is a bad exhibition of a very dan
gerous spirit, which bus been growing
among Ignorant people of late. This
secret society has heretofore under
taken to regulate the morals ot the
o immunity without any success,
course, but that undertaking was n>t
so Impossible ss the regulation of the
market of the world.
It Is a serious state of affairs when
mu It n crime is pomttdc. The tyranny
of s king or of any legally constituted
authority is bad enough; the tyranny
of s secret mob la intolerable. The
tyranny of the king, however mistaken.
In the Georgia jienfienttury
years of age. From an account, gj
a hard case. In his refusal ot ,1
ration for clemency, lh e governor 1
he 1. unwilling to set her at I
view of her behavior since her conrl
tnent at the Mattox farm. Some timet
ter her escape Alice claimed ih.it i
had determined .6 reform, but
from the ramp authorities do r
that she was serious when sl,« --
that declaration. In fact, though a 1
and a white one at that-it is not J?
quently necessnry to use the lash to k
HOME INDUSTRIES.
The crime of which the woman .
convicted was abduction. Alice lived
Savannah and was ,, n -vcccjir; -; 1
character. One day she gave v'J
girl hi the neighborhood a dollar to
a note for her. as she said, to h-r „
maker. When the girt delivered the
to the address named she was d t Ui
there and ruined before her family t,.,
recovered her some days afterword
The governor denied another
for pardon today. Also, that ot w
Lindsey, sentenced in IMS, for imnstm
•ir la Dooly eounty.
Probably no governor who ever ocl
pied the office—Alexander Stephens
excepted—has such a record for dispo,.
of pardon cases as Governor Noriij
Since his first Induction Into office he
worked incessantly to dispose ot alt
coses on file, and has now gotten
number down tower than It n« bee;
the recollection of anybody conne,
with the department. When Gove
Gordon retired from office ho let' to
f.F I,or .J? ort,1 ' n - 11,11 successor, k,i
like 30C appll rations for parlun
to be disposed of. It was an imir,
It did not appall the man I:
Hancock. He has devote! every I
that he could snatch from his other
turn. day and in rcJlic'.'.;-
mouse pile of documents',~itobi( Vh'r.c
every point in each case with that -
and conscientiousness which hat -inn
terlzed his administration in all
particulars, unUl now he aas net
than twenty-seven cases yet to vfT
posed of. From now antll IhchvsU
meets he will work harder than nu
clear the files entirely of the pan
cases, and hopes to accomplish the i,
by that time, which will love him «
parotlvely clear sailing through the :
WREAKING llltl REVENGE.
.. peculiar easo comes from Lent
Some time ago tne revenue agent, rih
the Illicit still or J. F. Veal In Got
county. Veal thought some ot til, (
tomera bad’ Informed >u him, and n
revenged bos sworn out about titty >
rants for everybody he can think ct
whom he void the mountain dev;, It.
tense being tho removal of whloky a
an UflcU distillery. As tv comtei'ie
Veal baa been run out ot the nctM
hood, and is now In Dalton, sing
leave for fear lie will be Kind. lin
witness In every case where he m
out a warrant, nnd gets 130 for Mu
viva aa such.
WILL NOT GET A RATE.
Commissioner tltahlman today
irhl Into t Hu oL/a II,,. • ••
OF COURHE SHE'LL GROW.
Shall Macon continue to grow? it n
question In which every man, wo-uan
and child In this good city la vitally In
terested.
A correspondent luui s few sugges
tions to make, and (be Telegraph gives
his communication prominence because
the more exptctalcm of opinion on the
subject (here la (bo more likely we arc
to succeed In whatever line we may
undertake. It I* very proper that the
Imard of trade os an org-mlzed Itody
timuld take some action In (his matter
and if there are means by which the
welfare of the city we live In la to be
promoted, tbe Imard of trade can set
the wheels in motion. Let the board
of trade call s meeting, not only of iu
own members, but of all citizens Inter
ested In the future of Macon, and <rbo
may be ready to do -their share. This
will give an opportunity for those who
have plans to submit them to the board
and the appointment of tbe proper
oommlttee might work wonders,
course Macon will continue to grow,
whether the Irani of trade or any
other organization takes action, but we
want Macon to grow as quickly as any
other place, and If she It to do .'hi*
her people must follow the example
aot by other cities.
THEY ASK TOO MUCH.
Hie steel manufacturer* tvbo ap
peared before the way* and means
committee protested against a change
in the tariff on the ground that
changes were the wont thing m the
world for business.”
There is a great deal of truth
In their statement. Btulncs* hav
ing adjusted Itself to certain
conditions, always suffers tom
when those conditions are changed.
Rn>. these gentlemen should realize at
promptly as possible (hat changes are
always posalble and probable so long
ss tbe tariff Is used for tbeir advan
tage against the Interests of the people
who buy tbeir products. They can
nevet secure the permanency of condi
tions which (bey desire so long aa they
are favorites of the government. They
most consent that duties be laid In tbe
general Interest—that fat to say, for rev
enue only—before agitation of the tar
iff question will erase.
rlgnt into tbe ranks u( the Gati a
Guurd and ulnut j-handtU put IV vs
command to night, so to speax.
trouble oetween the commlraioutr i
the Guard is that the
fuses to recognise that the ompei- Ii
S Hilary organisation since the oni«
•bandment 'ssued by the goterner )
terday, and will not uliow in- m-rov
to en)oy the low military rate to
World's Fair. The Guard had Brute
arrangements for taking In me IsJ
uniform, counting own the lulllierr >
named by the commlwounvr, but It is s
doubtful If ;he trip will he corru i
In view of the ruling of the commixun
today, when tbs • governor’s action >i
brought to his attention. The uulib:
rate Is only for comminute In the m
tar stnto service.
BAM SMALL WANTS A JOK
Rev. Sam 8mall, the evangelist, i
clan, and all-around hustler lor (hi
appears before ‘.he public today m ■
other role. He Is no applicant for Uuf
slUon of official court etenogrspna
the Atlanta circuit. The nppoinuwu ‘
the court stenographer la In the tuna'
the Judge of the superior court. sM n
retirement of Judge Marshall J. <
makes It equivalent to creating a <
cy In the otftce, which pays qulti'
Judge J. H. Lumpkin wilt aeeurae the *
Uc» of office on vatimtay. the IM. *
will either reappoint the present_!*■
bent or name a new |iteno*r»[«*r 1
once. Bam 8mall was court »icnor»ps
yearn ago. It -aa one ot hi* h'«
anil hi: now -rants to return to I.
are. however, never*! other applies""
the place, beside* titeuognipher A
Coo ledge, and the Rev. Bam by no r
has a lead pipe cinch un the job.
EVEN THE GENTLEMEN QL
RELED.
—i the Sin Francisco Chronic!
Tho recent lively fight artviM
memoers of the women', board ■*
World's Fair has b.en a godsend to
newspaper paragrttphi-rs during u
deadly dull midsummer day* J
have had a great deal of (un <* ’
contest, but if one looks bid: ‘ lv *'__
record ot meetings ot the ma-j w
of the control ot rhe fair he will jjj»
spangled with similar Incident* tnu
voted the historical meeting
monkey and the parrot.
seem to cut much of a figure »Sen
Die agree to disagree.
WRECK ON THE CENTRAL
Freight Train Thrown Front the Trli
By a Spike.
iloutgrrmcrr. Alt., Svp*- *5^.^
cal to the Advertiser, from -W .
a fn-lgbt train on tbe (.raw » „
of Georgia was wrecked il*' ,
that town by a
near - .
the track. Fireman Graf*. ^
was killed. Ilia body wa*
on-- of the driving whecls ami^
with coal. Engineer Ledbed"
hurt by jumping, bat not •ra
ils rea|
I tyrann
He
sks his neck. Vie
mot, 1* blindly i«-
The farmer In Japan who has
than un aero ot land Is looked u;
s monopolist
GREAT SNAKES!
I r-.'i, 'Ii- 'i:
Tax Receiver Josbua
a man whose veracity l*nra ff ”'j
tloot'd, and on his M" 1 '
Call yesterday that
fifty-four snakes s few day*
old on,-> sn-1 fifty-two r ^ y
measuring from six to t*.£ .
ns snakes' killed were of
t-.-lli variety of BWccasJt n “ ,,
poisonous tribe. Wo
record of snake kllLngln ^
and ;li- truth of it
I , r v Mr il ' mu-•!••!• '