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Banks County Gazette.
YOL 2.—NO. 18.
Maysville.
If you will give space in your valu
able paper I will endeavor to give
some of the happenings in and around
this flourishing little city.
Professor Brock has a flourishing
school at this place and is giving sat
isfaction to his patrons. He is the
right man in the l ight place.
The work on the new Baptist
church is progressing finely and it will
be the best church in town when com
pleted.
We now have through passenger
trains on the Northeast.rn, running
from Lula to Macon.
Our town is rapidly building up.
Mr. B. M. Watkins has his house on
railroad street completed and has
moved into it and quit boarding.
Mr. L. Sturkey is having a
neat cottage on Homer street erected
which will add much to our town
when completed.
We attended the Holly Springs
Sunday school celebration on Friday
August 28th. The people came from
every direction, and by ten o’clock
there was a large congregation on the
ground. The celebration was opened
by a song of welcome by the Holly
Springs school, and prayer by the
chaplain. The welcome address was
delivered by the Rev. D. C. P. Carter
after which the school mingled there
voices together in the sweet songs of
r.ion led by Mr. D. F. Wallace. In
the afternoon there were several
speeches by the young men of the
different schools, also essays by the
young ladies. They all performed
their part well and the day seemed
to be enjoyed by all present. At about
four o’clock the programme was com
pleted and all united in singing, “God
be with you till we meet again,” and
adjourned.
Cost.
Crops in this community look well
at present.
Mrs. Davie Caudell has been quite
sick.
We have a fine school at Mt. Olivet.
Mr. R. E. Strange in the teacher.
Where is the Urena correspond
ent, or Jonah the whale? We would
bo glad to hear from him again.
Mr. J. M. Garrison has sold his saw
mill business and has gone to farming.
The farmers in this section pro
pose to save their fodder this year
and not buy so much hay.
Marion Coker is the happiest man
in this country. He has a girl at his
house.
Mr. D. 11. P. Garrison went to At
lanta week before last on business.
Piedmont.
From Whence the Opposition?
From whence comes this opposition
to an expansion of the volume of
money? From men in Wall street
and from the corporations running
great daily newspapers in which these
men in Wall street own controlling
interests. The men in Wall street
are agents of the great capitalists in
Lombard street, London, who buy all
the surplus food products of the
world. These men in Lombard street
own our farm mortgages, our bank,
railroad, telegraph, mining and man-'
ufactnring stocks, and they desire
that the interest and dividends upon
these investments, running into the
hundred of millions every year, shall
be paid in cheap corn, cheap wheat,
cheap pork and cheap beef. So they
put their agents in Wall street “on.”
And in turn the agents in Wall street
put our great ntwspapers “on.”
Then the newspapers begin their pip
ing against silver coinage, against
the sub-treasury plan, the land loan
scheme. The entire conspiracy ema
nates from the holders of the world’s
securities and its constant purpose is
to buy the labor and products of the
world for as low a figure as possible.
This can be done by the use of a con
tracted volume of money. The Lon
don Jews found this out several years
in advance of the fanners and have
been taking advantage of their knowl
edge for nearly two hundred years.
We escaped their rapacity during the
war, temporarily, but as soon as the
war was over they began planning for
the control of our finances, which
they easily accomplished by the most
villainous pieces of legislation ever
placed upon the statutes of a civilized
nation. The only question which
now confronts the producers of this
country is this: Will you pay your
debts to the Jews in Lombard street
with $7 pork, $6 beef, 50 cent corn,
and #1 wheat, or will you pay them
in $3 pork, $2.50 beef, 15 cent corn
and 50 cent wheat ? That is the only
question there is to be settled. That
is always the question every year and
always will lie the question so long as
these foreign bankers have invest
ments in this country, and certainly
so long as they continue to own a
controlling interest, ns at present in
all our great banking, transportation
and manufacturing enterprises. The
picture is perfectly plain. The com
monest man ought to he able to see
it. A narrow and constantly narrow
ing volume of money baaed ou gold
which is controlled entirely by a few
men in London is bound to give the
farmers of this country low prices for
their produce. By the adoption of
the sub treasury plan farmers would
not be compelled to sell the crops
just when the buyers get ready to
buy. The active volume of money
would be increased and with it the
price of all produce would take a rise.
But the face value of the stocks,
bonds and mortgages owned by the
foreign bankers could not go up. They
could not be made higher to compare
with the rise in the value of the pro
duce in which they are paid. The
result would be t..at instead of paying
our obligations in large quantities of
the fruits of our toil we would be
able to pay them in a small amount.
Of course the rest would he ours.
And that would represent the profit
on our earnings. Of course if the
farmer desires to contribute the lion’s
share of all he raises on his farm to
the foreign owners of American rail
road, bank and manufacturing stocks
and American farm mortgages he
wants to keep right on believing what
is told him in (lie corporation news
papers, vote the straight republican
or democratic ticket and seal his eyes
and open his pocket forever. If the
farmer is not a silly ass he can be
made to see the difference between
giving all to pay his debts and giving
only what it i.- just and right that he
should give. Will he see it? We
think he must and wi I.—Plain Talk.
The Sub-Treasury.
The sub-treasury craze was taken
up as a species of class legislation and
prodigal waste, unparalled in tue
history of the world.—Courier
The above is but a sample of the
stuff that has gone forth from nearly
every democratic and republican
printing office in the country since
the sud-treasury plan was first advo
cated two years ago. The plan or
scheme is neither a democratic or re
publican scheme, and the leaders of
both parties, with one accord, fight
it and denounce it as unconstitutional
and extravagant, and of course their
little subordinates all over the country
soon “catch on” and fall into line.
The sub-treasury plan never originat
ed with national hankers. It never
originated with railroad kings. It
never originated with capitalists. It
never originated with any of our con
gressmen or law makers. No, the
present sub-treasury plan that is ag
itating the people and opening their
eyes, never originated with the plu
tocracy, but the principle of the whole
plan has been enacted into law years
and years a.'O in favor of a few. There
are at present about 4,000 registered
distilleries in full blast in the United
States, manufacturing an article that
damns men and destroys the peace
and happiness of their homes. The
government guards with tender care
the interest of these whisky manufac
turers. Government warehouses are
provided for this whisky ring, in
which to store their whisky. Store
keepers are employed by the govern
ment, their salaries paid by the gov
ernment, to guard this whisky for the
space of three years. This is done
absolutely without expense to the
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1891.
owners—they not even paying the
revenue until the expiration of three
years, if they see proper to hold their
whisky that length of time before sell
ing it. This is not all. These whisky
barons get certificates of deposit, take
them to the banks where they are con
verted into money. Thus the whisky
manufacturer has his produce stored
in a government warehouse without
costing him a cent, at the same time
drawing money on the article. Pre
cisely the same thing the farmers and
other laborers are asking for; only
they don't ask the government to do
as much for them as it is doing for
those whisky millionaires.
By this system the government is
placing millions of money into the
pockets of a class of speculators whose
business it is to see that no law is en
acted that will injure them. The
millions of dollars annually spent in
the interest of this favored few is not
class legislation, neither is it extrava
gance. But it is extravagance and
class legislation for farmers and other
laborers, who compose fonr-fiftlis of
our population, to ask for an increase
of the circulating medium—money
sufficient to transact the legitimate
business of the country. Let the
farmers ask for relief, the subsidized
press will raise a howl; let the gov
ernment open its treasury to the
whisky ring, tluse papers remain as
silent as the grave.—Pike County
Sentinel.
“Tetotnlism is Dread and But
ter.”
A gentleman was once speaking at
a children’s meeting. Suddenly he
asked, “What is teetotalism ?” and
waited for an answer. Presently
one little fellow held up his hand, and
the gentleman said, “Well my boy,
what is teetotalism?” And the bo)
answered, “Please, sir, teetotalism is
bread and butter.”
Then all the children present
laughed right out at such a reply, and
the speaker smilingly sa : d, “What do
you mean by calling teetotalism bread
aiul butter?”
The little fellow replied, “When
father is a teetotaler I get bread and
butter before I go to school, when he
is not, I have to go without my break
fast.”—E xcl 1a n ge.
A Federal Income Tax.
It is well known that the republican
organs are fond of the millionaires,
lmt when they take the ground, as
The New York Tribune recently did,
that a federal income tax would be
class legislation, they commit them
selves to the advocacy of the veriest
bosh and nonsense. If au income
tax is class legislation, then a tax on
real estate and personal property is
class legislation.
It is true that an incame tax has
objections, hut is a matter in which
the ends may be said to justify the
means. Valid objections could be
raised against any system of taxation
that has yet been conceived. Yet the
necessity of the government which
the people have erected justifies even
the imperfect system. Money must
be raised by some scheme of taxation,
and it must be clear to any person,
whose mind is in working order, that
a scheme which takes from the earn
ings of the poorer classes, while per
mitting the millionaires to escape the
payment of their proportion of gov
ernment expenses, is essentially
unjust.
Yet this is the scheme which is in
operation to day. The rich escape
the burdens of taxation. They enjoy
all the protection that a stable gov
ernment can give them and they fail
to contribute their due proportion of
the necessary expenses. A graded
income tax proceeds on the principle
that the millionaire should pay more
in support of the government than
the poor man. This is the principle
of justice and equity, and it appeals
to the common sense of the country.
The objection to a federal income
tax, on the ground that it would in
stitute too close relation between the
general government and individual
citizens of the states, would be valid
enough if the country had not prac-
t.cally endorsed the excise system,
which is, in effect, an attack on the
liberty and rights of the poorer
classes. Republican organs, we have
observed, are not sensitive where
the rights of the poor are concerned,
but they whincc terribly when a rich
man is asked to contribute to the ex
penses of the government in propor
to his wealth.
The excise system is an infamous
affair, but, if the country can afford
to gather a part of its revenue under
the Russian plan, surely it can com
pel its millionaires to shoulder a part
of the expenses of government.
Moreover, the principle behind an
income tax is democratic to the core.
—Atlanta Constitution.
Better Roads.
There arc many farmers who do
not have faith in the possioility of
better roads. They have never known
any better, nor did their fathers and
grandfathers. When such men are
told of the roads in France and Eng
land they do not half believe what
they hear. But the most serious con
tributing cause to the farmers’ indif
ference to the subject is the fear that
if any system of general roadway im
provement were inaugurated the
agricultural people would have to
pay entirely for them. The support
of the agricultural people of any
measures in this direction can never
he obtained until it is made perfectly
clear that the general public will pay
the charges. The most comprehen
sive system of roadways is that in
France, and there, too, perhaps, are
found the best roads in the world.
The French minister of public works
has charge of all roads, and these are
administered by a special department
and a council of which the minister is
president. There is a staff of six
hundred engineers and inspectors and
two thousand inferior officials. The
department also has a schoo. of roads
and bridges for the education of engi
neers. The road i are national, de
partmental, military and vicinal. The
national roads are maintained entirely
by the national treasury. There are
twenty-five thousand miles of these.
The vicinal or cross roads are main
tained chiefly at the cost of the com
munes, but under a national adminis
tration. On these roads tin re are
constantly employed fifty- thousand
workmen and three thousand over
seers. W hat a contrast this is to our
happy-go-lucky method of working
out taxes on the roads?—Rural
World.
Tlie Cross-Examined Fiend.
The schollarly address delivered
by Alfred Russell, a leader of the
Detroit bar, before the American liar
Association on “Avoidable Causes
of Delay and Uncertainty in Our
Courts,” was a masterly presentation
of the subject from the standpoint of
the able lawyer; and if all the able
lawyers of the land would unite in an
effort to cure the abuses pointed out
the cause of justice would be greatly
futhered and the effcioncy of the
courts largely increased. There is
one, however, of the avoidable causes
of delay in the courts to which the
speaker gave no heed, but which has
often suggested itself to the layman.
That cause is the w aste of time in
what is called cross-examination.
To the cross-examination of wit
nesses on a trial no intelligent person
objects. It is the best known method
of testing the veracity of a witness
or the accuracy or extent of his
knowledge and recollection. Rightly
used it serves a very useful purpose,
if not always to the cross-examiner
and bis client, to the court and the
cause of justice. It is so much often
er abused, however, than rightly used
that the lay mind has come to regard
it very generally as an intolerale nu
issance, while it stands but little
higher in the esteem of the better
class of lawyers. The picture which
is brought before the mind of the
laymen, when one speaks of cross
examination or when he reads an
account of a trial in progress, is one
in which the principle figures are a
self-satisfied attorney who regards
himself as “smart,” and a persecut
ed individual on the witness stand
whom the lawyer is tormenting to
show his smartness. Asa rule there
is a third figure in the picture—a
judge who permits the lawyer to do
this indecent thing, instead of com
pelling him, as he should, to treat
the witness with courtesy.
In the case of a dishonest witness
or a prejudiced one everybody rejoices
to see the skillful cross examiner in
volve him in contradictions and de
nials with tho result of exposing
thoroughly the worthlessness of his
testimony. The trouble is that the
professional cross-examiner who has
established, or he thinks lie has, a
reputation as such is not content to
exercise his art in the case of wit
nesses suspected of dishonesty or
prejudice. To him all witnesses are
alike. They are all targets for what
he regards ns wit and shrewdness
when as a matter of fact it is only
braggadocio and bluster. The timid
witness, the nervous witness are at
tacted in the same way and with the
same weapons as the witness who has
evidently gone on the stand to swear
the case through for the party that
calls him. The result is not only that
trials are unreasonably delayed in
order that these nuissances may dis
play their smartness but, honest, in
telligent witnesses are humiliated and
outraged and testimony which ought
to be fairly considered in a case is
weakened or discredited to the injury
of those who are entitled to have it
considered and of the cause of
justice.
The evil complained of would be
effectually remedied if the reforms
advocated in the address at Boston
were carried out. If the right to
practice in our courts were limited,
as it should be, to such “a body of
practitioners of a high moral stand
ard and of adequate learning” as was
spoken of in the address tho “smart”
cross-examiner would find himself on
the outside. His avocation would be
almost gone if the other reform were
adopted—the abolition of trial by
jury in civil cases. But as neither of
these reforms is even dimly fore
shadowed something should be done
to protect the honest witness against
the indecent attacks of the class re
ferred to, and to prevent the long
and wearisome dragging out of trials
for which such attacks are respon
sible.
Even under existing conditions the
judges can do a great deal to dimin
ish the evil if not to do away with it
altogether; and it is to the judges
the people look for reform in
the matter. Some of them, to their
credit, have already inaugurated it
so far as their own courts are con
cerned. There are judges in this
city and and state before whom the
“smart” cross examiner would no
more dare badger a witness of appar
ently honest intent than he would
dare to assault him physically. There
are others, unfortunately, who seem
to enjoy such indecent performances
and to approve of bullyragging if
done in a way to make the audience
laugh or the witness squirm. If
these could understand that enlight
ened public opinion condemns such
trifling with the machinery of justice
and ranks the judges guilty of it with
the professional buffoons they encour
age they might perhaps mend their
ways and help the good case along.—
Detroit Free Press.
Man as a Helpmeet.
The education of man as woman's
“helpmeet” has hitherto been griev
ously neglected. Asa consequence,
the male sexvis fast going to the bad.
Boys swear, fight, gamble, smoke,
chew, drink, make eyes at the girls,
play base ball, frequent theaters and
variety shows, and waste their time
and money on a thousand foolish dis
sipations. Let them learn, instead,
like the young women, to sew and
knit, cook and sweep, wash and iron,
pickle and preserve, play and sing.
The welfare of families will be vastly
promoted in after life by their pos
session of these accomplishments.
SINGLE COW THREE CENTS,
They will then bolter appreciate the
value of labor thus applied.
This will be in the order of evolu
tion. Every step upward from bar
barism towards civilization makes
males more efficient industrially, and
widens the circle of masculine occu
pations. The savage man only hunts,
lights, and loals. Agriculture and the
mechanic arts lie despises. Among
barbarians work is for women only.
Savage women plant and reap, make
clothing, prepare food, build and re
move habitations. May it not be that
in the highest civilization, which will
no longer hunt and fight, the sexes
will unite even in house work, co
operating in the kitchen and the
laundry, and even in the sewing on
buttons and the darning of stockings?
So much lias been said and written
about “Woman’s sphere,” and her
duty and mission as man’s “help
meet,” that it lias become slightly
monotonous. Give us a rest! Turn
the tables. Has not man also a sphere
and a duty and a mission as woman’s
helpmeet, and is it not about time
that ho should seriously consult r
these? Since it is evidently nature’s
intention that a majority of women
shall he wives and mothers, it follows
that a majority of men must become
husbands and fathers. Why, then,
are not men specially trained and
educated to fulfil the requirements of
these responsible positions? Evi
dently the first business of every man
should he to make some woman
happy. His first duty in life should ho
to make himself useful and agreeable
to her. For instance, few women
drink liquor or use tobacco; the taste
and smell of those things are disa
greeable to most women; therefore
men should carefully abstain from
both. Women like order, cleanliness,
politeness, graceful manners, kind
attentions, unselfish habits; hoys,
therefore, should be taught these
amenities. How often wo are told
that happiness in marriage is promot
ed by a wife’s cheerful deference to
the tastes and wishes of her husband !
Very true. Would not happiness in
marriage he equally promoted 1> v a
similar deference of the husband to
the tastes and wishes of his wife?
Certainly no equal suffragist will
object to the most extreme and con
servative view' of the propriety of
educating women to he agreeable and
helpful to men, if, also, the corres
ponding duty be inculcated in the ed
ucation of the opposite sex. Hut this
is precisely what the opponents- of
woman's emancipation never propose.
One would suppose that the world
was created solely for men, whereas it
is made equally for women. It would
he just as reasonable, and no more so,
to regard men’s interests as secondary
to those of women. Milton, the old
fogy, contrasted Adam and Eve as,
Hu for God only: she for God in him.
Jn the revised version it will also
read:
She for Ciod only ; he for God in her.
But, as two wrongs do not make a
right, the final version will he
both for God only; God in one another.
Says the Birmingham Newsr “The
Third party advocates, the sub
treasury and land loan heresies, and
ravenous office-seekers, are destined
yet to kill the Alliance. It’s a pity,
too, for it's a noble institution as first
organized.”
Doesn’t any reasonable mind know
that the batch of deception in shape
of human form who originated the
above paragraph was anything but
sincere? The fraud endeavors to
make the impression that he is in
sympathy with the Alliance, and yet
doing all in his power to create dis
sention by attacking the sub-treasury
plan. It is strange that people can
not see their inconsistency. The
Alliance is solid on the Ocala plat
form, sub-treasury not excepted, and
the assertions from sore-headed oppo
nents of reform will not change the
matter, only to make the people stick
more closely together. And suppose
he did accomplish his hellish purpose
in disorganizing the people and defeat
the reform measures that are being
agitated by the Farmers’ Alliance,
and every one else who wish to live
in a free government, what has he
done more than cut off his own nose?