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BittS ((ItMV liIOTTR, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT HOMER, - - - GEORGIA. lIY HAMES Sc HILL. SUBSCRIPTION: One year - - - SI.OO Si* month* - .50 Watered at the Poet office at Homer, 6a., ae *econd-c,laH* mail matter. Communication!) of any character, whether on business or for publication, should be adth cased to 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 Keep Your Blood Pure. :M£ A small quantity of prevention is worth many pounds of cure. If your blood is in good condition the liability to any disease is much reduced and the ability to resist its wasting influence is tenfold greater. Look then to your blood, by taking Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) every few months. It is harmless in its effects to the most delicate infant, yet it cleanses the blood of all poisons and builds up the general health. f *C O QJ cured me sound and well of contagious Blood Poison. As vJ * v ~' * * soon as I discovered I was afflicted with the disease 1 commenced taking Swift’s Specific <B. S. ft) snd in a few weeks X was perma nently cured.” George Stewart, Shelby, Ohio. Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Cos., Atlanta, Ga. 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*. _ Character Sketches THE GREATEST BOOK OF THE TIMES. The Fastest Seller: AND The Best Endorsed. WHAT THEY SAY: Rev J M Ilubbert, D. D., T.L.D., pas tor of the First Cumberland Pres byter inti Church, Nashville, Tenn., says: In “Character Sketches'’ the pic tures make us think of Bunvau’s alle gories, vLsop’s fables, and last’s cari catures. The * ook will please its thousands. J. R. Brooks, D. D., Presiding Elder of the Shelby District, of the West ern N. C. 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