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GAZETTE.
Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 19.
Anew hale of cotton sold in Cuth
)crt a few days ago for nine cents.
The drainage act for this county
lias passed the bouse of representa
tives.
Dr, Glover lias made (mother at
tempt to brake jail at Carnesville.
He would have made good his escape
but for a negro woman confined in
jail who gave the alarm.
The oldest edititor in the United
States has writton his last editorial on
earth. George Jones, of the New
York Tiwcs, died fit Poland Springs,
Maine, last Wednesday.
James Russell Lowell died at his
house in Cambridge, Mass., on the
12th instant. He was a brilliant
poet find historian, and minister to
Spain during the administration of
President Hayes.
A man by the name of S. E. Bick
ford from Michigan rented a hotel at
Middlesborough, Ky„ that had a pay
ing patronage, mid after getting in
debt for a couple of thousand dollars
and a months wages of all the serv
ants ho skipped. This is one way to
make money.
Mrs. James K. Polk, widow of the
tenth ptesident of the United States,
died at her home, Nashville, Tenn.,
August 14th, at the ripe old age of
nearly eighty-eight. She had been in
perfect health until last Wcdnerday
evening, when, on returning from a
short drive, she was taken suddenly
ill, from which sho never recovered.
The road congress will meet in
Atlanta on the 28th of October. This
comity is entitled to two delegates,
and they should attend as this is a
very important meeting. Its object
is to perfect some plan by which bet
ter inads can he had throughout thh
state, and how they ah: 1 .!! •> worked
We should be sure to elect delegates
in due time, and elect tuen who will
go-
The newspapers throughout the
country (not all uf them, however,)
are wonderfully alarmed about the
third party, and it looks as if they’ll
tear t heir shirts in spite of all that
can be said. Why such rashness?
You’ve battered your political wings
out beating the air in opposition to
tire Alliance, and now you arc deter
mined to butt your brains out against
the third party! The people have
some privileges. They’ve listened to
newspaper bowlings for a number of
years, hut they are going to think
just a little now for themselves.
Don’t Go Farmer.
bike the dropping of the leaves on
a doleful day, falls the plaint of old
paray bosses against the people going
into politics. From the first it has
Wen: “Don’t undertake to regulate
these throubles yourselves. If the
farmer will only trust us lawyers and
hankers and educated gentlemen we
will make just the laws you need.”
And we did trust' them and have
never got two per cent on the invest
ment in return. There never was a
more patient, trusting people in the
world than the farmers and laborers
of America have been. They have all
power at their control, but. have
hacked down and submitted till poli
tics have become a science in the
hands of a few, and common men
have almost felt it a gracious privi
lege to walk up in a line and vote a
straight party ticket just as directed.
They have been told that this would
bring relief, but relief has not come.
The plain man knows that ho is not
getting along as well as he ought to.
He socsthat the speculator, the banker
and the manufaetui or have the bene
fit of law to help them along, but
| when be ticks for laws it is “uncon
stitutional'' and he is called a “wild
eyed anarchist.’* Ae is the most pa
tient man in the world, aud if he
could only get relief he would stay
inside yartv lines till doomsday. But
he is tired of broken promises from
both republican and democrat alike.
And now he wants several things and
he wants them laid' His very long
suffering will make him terrible
when he does reach out after what he
wanta. And the plaintive wail goes
on: “Don't go, farmer, don’t go. We
will give you what you want.” A
page of history is worth avolume of
prophecy. An ounce of fact is bet
ter than a pound of promises. The
situation is easily stated. So far as
the Farmers Alliance is concerned it
has clear and emphatic demands
which can be accomplished only
through legislation. The Alliance is
not a distinct political party. Its
members can consider all party or
ganizations and get with the one most
likely to do the work they want to
have done. But they are in no mood
to be fooled with. The Alliance is a
compact and powerful organization
forpolitiral purposes. If it cannot
control existing parties it can make
one that agrees with its demands.—
National Economist.
The Banner has all along warned
the Alliance agaiost entering the
third pnrty, aud win continue to do
so, believing this to Im* for the good
of the Alliance.—Athens Banner.
Is it ]M)ssible?l ?I?
Men Must Stop Drinking.
Mrs. I.eavitt at lake Bluff, 111.:
Yesterday the summer city turned
out to henr a talk by Mrs. Mary
Clement Leavitt, who has just re
turned from her temjierance mission
ary tour around the world. Services
were held in the tabtrnacle, whieh
had anew carpet of bright straw and
was tastefully decorated with flags.
Mrs. Leavitt, attired In simple cos
tume of black, arose just in time to
cheek a growing ripple of applause.
She said the day and occasion would
not permit of such a demonstration,
although she appreciated the feelings
that prompted it. The text was the
familiar passage. ‘,Am I my brother’s
keeper?”
The speaker said it was a tendency
of the human family to shift a respon
sibility, and yet every Christian in
stinct (suggested that someone should
he a keeper for our weak brother. She
told how nation after nation that she
had visited were being weakened and
corrupted by the drink habit. Worst
of all, the present generation of drink
ers is bequeathing a weak will and an
unnatural craving to the coming gen
eration of men. Tin's© men will be
drunkards of necessity unless some
help is given them and temptation is
removed. In England the drinking
mothers make iuebriates of their in
fant children, while in India the Eug
lish residents ar_- regularly and con
staidly addicted to brandy and soda.
According to the best British medical
talent every steady drinker trans
mits his physical cravings to his
children.
“All children are alike,” said Mrs.
Leavitt. “For eight years I have
traveled over the earth and have seen
the children of every cililized and
savage notion and the difference be
tween them is of color on’v. All are
capable of development into Christian
life and it is the duty of Christians
everywhere to save them. No one can
escape responsibility by asking ‘Am
I my brother’s keeper?”
She said that foreign missionaries
were doing good work in the field of
temperance, but they needed assist,
anoe, and it was specially important
to protect the heathen countries from
the rum trade. In this connection
Mrs. Leavitt took occasion to severely
censure the the United States senate
for its action in the Congo affair,
and said it was an outrage that the
oowerful nations of the earth should
send cargoes of whisky to the igno
rant savages along the west African
cost. What the world needed was
the decisive example of a great pow
er like England ortho United States
taking a stand against the liqnor
traffic.—Demorest Times.
The American Hippodrome.
Campbell will lie renominated at
Cleveland and then the mock fight
begins to entertain and divide the
people. Campbell will challenge
McKinley to meet him in the arena
and discuss the tariff. If McKinley
accepts the circus will show in all the
towns of importance in the State, ad
mission free, with good music, torch
light processions and refreshments in
attendance. The pcint is to center
attention upon the combatants and
get the people to take sides and for
get the necessity of securing just laws
to control the corporations that com
mand the public highways and levy
upon the commerce of the nation at
will; that control the volume and
supply of money and thus hold the
prosjierity and property of the nation
at command; that on the sources of
employment of the masses and conse
quently their daily bread and their
lives; that control the legislation by
which they legalize and give sanction
to robbery and extortion, impose
taxes at will upon others while freeing
themselves, give bounties, make ap
propriations, fix salaries, create offi
ces for themselves and feast in luxury
from the public purse; that own or
have mortgages upon the lands and
homes of the people and extort from
them the labor of their lives for poor
food, scanty clothing and insufficient
shelter, that they may revel in luxury
and intoxicated with the possession of
power deride their helpless subjects
in their leprosy of want and despair,
that, in short, as a plutocracy rule
America as despotically as the Czar
of Russia does his helpless serfs.
Thousands will and attend the hippo
drome and witness the intellectual
contortions of these champions and
shout their plaudits as their favorite
scores a point, grow violently insane
in their ravings against the opposition
:ind perhaps even descend to the em
ployment of brute force to compel the
acceptance of their views by their
political opponents, and then, after it
is all over and the dust of the conflict
cleared away, they will find them
selves fooled, the pame condition of
despair surrounding them, the Same
problems unsolved, the same forces in
jiower, and the same derisive mock
ery at their pleading for justice and
relief. Will the farmers and laborers
again allow themselves to be made the
dupes of these old party monopolistic
tricks? Will they allow their atten
tion to be diverted from the question
of their future life, liberty and happi
ness, to indulge in a fight over a bone
from which the meat and marrow has
long since been extracted ? Will they
stop to attend a hippodrome in which
two champions contending for the
spoils of office are engaged in a false
fight to show their skill, and gain
popular favor, when the liberty of
mankind and the perpetuity of free
institutions are at stake? We think
not. They have been fooled too
often to lie caught again. The peo
ple are aroused, and will take charge
of the law making [tower, and amend
the laws to equity, and secure to
flionise!vea their just administration.
—Forum, Canton, Ohio.
Editor Crawford, of the Banner,
has a manner like unto a sledge ham
mer when he commences to fight.
The Third party is his “meat” just
now, and Alliance subsribers are
pouring in.—Atlanta Journal.
Why, then, does not the Journal
having realized that to fight against
the third party is to fight for the
Alliance, turn loose its gatling gun in
the same direction the Banner is so
earnestly firing its musketry? With
modest candor we acknowled that
the Journal could help us much in
this battle, and the Alliance would
thank the Journal for its assistance.
—Athens Banner.
Editor Crawford should not press
the Journal so closely. The Journal
will be all right after awhile.—Trili
une-of-Rome.
The Banner has no fear about the
Atlanta Journal. The Journal’s gal
lant editor is a general of as keen
circumspection as he is one of bravery
and ability and knows just when and
where to throw the blast of demo
cratic artillery. The Journal will be
heard from in good time.—Athens
Banner.
Next!
An Appointment to West Point.
The following letter from Hon.
Thomas E. Winn in regard to an
appointment to West Point from the
ninth district will explain itself. The
letter from the assistant adjutant
general gives all further information
necessary:
Lawrenceville, Georgia, August 10,
1890.—Editor Constitution: I have
had a number of applications from
my constituents in regard to the ap-
I>ointment of a cadet to the* United
States military academy for the ninth
district. I wrote to the secretary of
war, and have received the following
letter in answer to my inquiries, which
I request The Constitution to publish,
I will also thank the papers of the
ninth district if they will also publish
it for the information of all concerned.
Thomas E Winn.
[Copy.]
War Department, Adjutant Gen
eral’s Office, Washington, July 25,
1891.—Hon. Thomas E. Winn, M. C.,
Lawrenceville, Ga.—Sir: In answer
to your letter to the secretary of war
of 23d instant, I have the honor to
inform you that a vacancy will not
occur at the West Point academy for
the ninth district of Georgia before
June, 1594, unless the present cadet,
Clarence C. Williams, of Nacoochec,
should leave the institution before
graduating. Very respectfully.
R. Williams,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Government Loans at 2 Per Cent
Well, why not! For years bank
ers have been borrowing from the
goveenment at 1 per cent. Is it wise
to loan to capitalists and refuse to
loan to wealth producers upon equal
ly good security? It mny be remark
ed first that the proposition that the
government should .loan legal-tender
notes to individuals is not anew or
strange one. It has bten for years
the constant practice of government
to loan such notes freely upon the
security of bonds, which are certainly
not better security than real property.
These individuals are, however, called
hankers; and they borrow the money,
not for the purpose of productive in
dustry, hut for those of usury. The
government simply puts the indis
pcnsible tool of trade into their
hands and forces the wealth-producers
to pay them trivute. Just as tyrants
usod to farm out the public revenues,
so now our government farms out he
businesi of supplying money. This
custom hag the sanction of financiers.
By the whole hanking fraternity of
the nation the principle is pronounced
to be just and the practice wise. It
is sanctioned also by the two great
political parties. When all are agreed
as to a given practice, we may well
deem it wise, and esteem it a nettled
fact that the principle of government
loans to individuals at a low rate of
interest and on good security connot
be questioned. It only remains to be
determined what persons may borrow
and what security they may offtr.
Shall bankers alone enjoy the privi
lege, and bonds be the single form of
security that may be pledged? Why
is this limitation desirable or neces
sary? There can be but one answer,
which is, that money can be kept
scarce. Ii is, doubtless, safe to lend
money freely to bankers, for they
will not take more than they can prof
itably lend again. It would not be pol
itic for them to overstock the market
with their own particular wares. We
have waited in vain for the clear and
concise statement that will plainly
Bhow how, why, and in what manner
the mass of the people are benefitted
by a scarcity of money. Until this
statement is produced, we are justi
fied in the assumption that the re
verse of this is true—that the wealth
producers of the nation would be more
prosperous, be able to live better and
save more, with an abundance of
money in circulation than with the
present short supp y. That some
other class would be straightened by
this changed condition is possible;
but if this be a fact, it has yet to be
well and strongly stated, and made
reasonably probable before it can de
mand our notice. Now let us try to
look ahead a little and see, if we can,
what would probably follow the en
actment into law of the proposition we
have stated. The first effect of such
a law would lie to reduce the rate
of interest from 10, as at present, to
2 per cent per annum. Every fanner
who owed money, upon which he was
paying 10 or more per cent, would
propose to get a loan from the gov
ernment at 2, which would compel
holders of mortgages to reduce their
rates to the same figure, so that the
money wo dd soon make 2 per cent
the regular rate for all well-secured
loans. That such would be the cer
tain result can not be questioned.
Lenders would not allow their money
to lay idle and thus force the issue of
new money to an unnecessary extent.
It is always in the interest of money
lenders to have the supply short.
Here, then, we have one result which
would certainly follow the enactment
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of the proposed law. Would it be a
good result or a bad onet that is the
question. People will largely decide
ting according to their personal inter
eats. But one thing is certain, go
long qs a majority of the people are
borrowers and wealth-producers, the
majority of the people would be
blessed by the change. There ig no
avoiding that fact. The effect of an
ample volume of currency upon the
business and enterprise of the conn
try was illustrated by Colonel Inger
soli as follows:
“During these years every kind of
business was pressed to the sky line.
The productive power of the nation
was developed to the utmost. Every
wheel was in motion, and there wag
employment for every kind of labor.
There was a constantly rising market
and everybody worked for everybody.
On every hand fortunes were being
made and a title of wealth swept over
the country. Huts became bouses,
and houses became palaces. Tatters
were changed to garments, and gar
ments became robes. Walls were
covered with pictures, floors with
carpets, and for the first time in the
history of man, the laborer and the
artisan tasted of the luxuries of
wealth.”
But alas! This was too much for
the reigning authorities of the coun
try. They couldn’t endure such gen
cral prosjierity, and therefore a radi
cal and thorough change of policy
was resolved upon—an entire reversal
of the machinery of government. At
the dictation of the money power a
contraction of the currency was or
dained and decreed in order to double
and quadruple the value of. and pur
chasing power of invested money.
This constitutes the philosophy of the
whole movement. And how was it
to be effooted? By converting all
the government paper afloat into gov
ernment bonds bearing interest and
exempt from taxation. Accordingly
the necessary authority was granted
the secretary of the treasury, and the
work began and proceeded at such a
gait that the secretary in his report of
December 6, 1869, gives a “Recapitu
lation of all kinds of government
paper that was issued as money or
was ever in any way used as a circu
lating medium and that remained out
standing and unredeemed on the 30th
of June, 1859," and the amount was
475 millions. So the volume of money
had been reduced in four years about
a thousand millions of dollars, and
the bonded debt increased in propor
tion. Now as money is the very life
blood of business, as it fills and flows
through the veins of the body politic,
the effect of this depression of the
volume of the currency in the country
was terrible—altogether beyond the
power of our pen to describe. There
fore listen to Colonel Ingersoll again,
as he describes it:
“In 1862 came the crash, and no
language can describe the agonies
suffered by the American people from
that time till 1879. Thousands upon
thousands, who supposed that they
had enough for their declining years
and for wife anti family, suddenly
found themselves paupers and va
grants. Business was brought to an
end, men stopped digging ore, spin
dles ceases! to hum and the fires died
out in the furnaces. The men who
faced the glare of the forge were in
the gloom of despondency; for there
was no employment for them since
the employer couldn’t sell his pro
ducts. The factories were all closed,
the workmen demoralized and the
roads of the country filled with
tramps.”
Rather Alarming.
Teacher— Johnny, why is George
Brown absent!
Johnny —Why, George Brown says
his sister's got a cole. Bat dai ain’t
nothin’; one of investors is sot small
pox and t’other one de measles, bat I
oome all de same.—Exchange.
_ M*. _
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