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M\RS COUNTY GAEZTTE,
PVHLtatitO KVERT WEDNESDAY AT
HOMER, • • - GEORGIA.
JOSEPH 8. HAMEBI
SUBSCRIPTION:
One year - * - - SI.OO
Six months - - - .50
Entered at the Postoffice at Homer ,
Oa., at second-clast mail matter.
Communication* of any character,
whether on business or for publication,
should be addressed to
GAZETTE.
Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Jan. 20.
Ex-President Cleveland passed
through Atlanta Sunday night on his
way to New Orleans for a pleasure
trip. He could not carry the baby
and its mother, however,.
A Kinging Indictment.
It ought not to require more courage
to state the facts abot the liquor traffic
than to discuss the tariff or questions
of finance or business. We gave
exact figures to show that this drink
question is the greatest economic and
social problem before the people to
day. No man can deny that state
ment because it is true. Mon may
bonostly differ on other matters.
There are unquestionably honest men
who would be benefited by a lower
tariff or free trade, and there are those
who would be helped by a higher
tariff. There are honest men who
would reap an advantage from “free
silver” or paper money. But who will
defend the rum trade on the same
plea? The liquor business as a business
is utterly indefensible on any moral,
sound, political or economic ground.
It builds np no productive industry, it
does not foster the home or lead to
patriotism or love of country; it does
not stimulate honor, economy, in
dustry, or any other virtue under the
sun. It is thoroughly harmful, and
yet it is the greatest and most power
ful business that present oivilixation
knows of.
An Appeal to Voters.
The time is now approaching when
it becomes every man’s duty to ear
fully study the question of the day.
When he has fully determined by
cool, calm judgment what is the
truth and what are the host means to
uso to have that truth put in force,
let him move steadily forward, using
all his inliunce, all his power to at
tain that; and let him follow the truth
wherever it leads him. The time lias
pnssed when thinking men will sub
mit to party '‘bosses.” Measures not
men, principles not party, is the watch
word for the true American citizen to
day. That reform in the financial
system of the country is the crying
need of the hour none will attemp to
deny. How to obtain that reform is a
duestion that deserves the deepest
study.
One thing is certain that we will
get no financial relief so long as we
elect men to office, especially national
offices, who are the slaves, the willing
slaves to party. It has pcen proved
by sad experience that both the old
parties are controlled by the money
power, now so long as a party is uu
der the control of a few, that party
can only, will only obey the controllin
influence. Therefore there is no hope
for relief from parties controlled as
they are. We must get rid of this
controlling power; must get back to
origal principles. The government
must become once more a govern
ment for, by and of the people.
There is nothing wrong with demo
cracy nothing whatever that is
pure original Jeffison democaaey. But
there is a great deal wrong and rotten
with the present leaders of the party,
they have led tho party away from the
original principles at the bidding of
the money power. They are not
leaders of legitimate democracy, but
of an illegiinate democracy, the mon
grell effsping of Wall and Lombard
streets. In view of these facts every
voter should, by an intelligent use of
his ballot, relegate to private life every
man now holding office, be it county
state or national who swears fealty to
the money power and not to the peo
ple.
Voters whether belonging to the
Alliance or not, whether belonging to
the demcratic party or not, w hether
beloning to the republican, prohi
bition or any other party we beseech
study for yourselves question of the
day. Be no longer the slaves of “party
bosses.” Think for yourselves, act for
yourselves. Look at your wives and
childen, toiling for a mere sustenance
and sometimes unable to get that,
instead of finding the world bright,
beautiful and happy, as the creator
intended they should, they find noth
ing but toil, pain, weariness, and all
this is brought about, not by God's
will or intention but by “capital con
trol of labor”’ making your loved
ones white slaves
Tim men you send (at the bidding
of the party bosses) are ’.he ones to
blame for this. You vote as your
party dictates, the money power con
trols the man you vote for and the
result is legislation iu the interest of
the money power, your interest ig
nored, laughed at, your wives and
children slaves.
You yourself, the meanest of all
slaves, have allowed your minds to
be enslaved by party, have voted your
dear one’s interest away at the com
mand of party. Be warned, think,
study, read, ponder, find the truth;
then actas your conscience dictates,
be no longer slaves to party. Be men
vote for your dear ones’ best interest.
Fling party aside and vote tor
principle; fling men asido and vote
for measures. |Vote so as to scatter
to the four widns the bastard demo
cracy of to-day and raise in its stead
the pure democracy of Jefferson:
“Equal rights to all, special privileges
to none,” “the greatest good to the
greatest number.”
How many Alabama congressmen
are at work on any bill for the relief
of the people? How many will intro
duce a bill for that purpose? How
many care whether the people’s inter
ests go to the demnition bow-wows if
they can be returned to congress?
Watch and see if you can answer
these questions when congress will
have ajourned.—Alliance Herald.
Enlarging the Trade.
On December 15th, 1889, the De
partment of State, as is now well
known, sent out instructions to our
consuls in South America to procure
information that would be of value
to the brewers of America in extend
ing their business into the countries
of South America. “The motive of
this ciroula,” said the letter of instruc
tions signed “William F. Wharton,
assistant secretery,” “being the en
largement of the American trade.”
The results of this inquiry were pub
lished in a fifty page pamphlet, at
government expense, which is still
being gratuitously circulated among
“the trade,” though the edition is
always exhausted when a preacher
applies for a copy.
The first practical results that we
have noticed of this willingness to
holp the brewers into other markets
appeared some weeks ago in the fol
lowing special to The Press, a Repub
lican journal of New York city. The
special is as follows:
“Trenton, N. J , January 9.—Jersey
men are spending a lot of money in
the West Indies just now. They are
building a brewery at San Domingo,
the first brewery the West Indies
ever possessed. Beer is drank there
to a considerable extent by the for
eign element, but it is ail imported in
bottles from the United States or
Germany, and is uniformly sold at
twenty-five cents a bottle. * * *
“The arrangement by which the
brewery is introduced into San Do
mingo is a liberal one. The govern
ment gives the land free of tax for
thirty years, and agrees that no other
brewery shall be erected during that
time. Tho treaty with Hayti is such
that San Domingo beer will doubtless
be admitted to that market without
restriction.”
A Republican senate, in criminal
indifference, has for a year refrained
from giving assent to the Brussels
treaty for checking the debauchery of
Africa by the liquor trade, though
unanimous assent of all nations inter
ested was necessary and all the other
nations gave their assent. A Repub
lican administration, on a cordial
sympathy-for-temperance platform,
has been taxing the citizens of Ameri
ca in order to drum up trade in South
America for our brewers. A Repub
lican president has been in public
speeches singing the praises of the
wine-cup, and a Republican vice
president has established in the capi
tal of the nation the most gorgeous
drunkard-factory there.
The Democrats must hustle to
keep up with this pace. But they
are equal to the occasion. The com
position of Speaker Crisp’s commit
tees shows that he is alive to the situ
ation, and if the Republicans are not
out bid for the liquor dealers' favor it
will not be his fault.
And these are the two parties that
four million “Christian” voters (God
save the mark) are voting into power
every year, then devoting themselves
with renewed ardor to raising funds
to convert the heathen and passing
resolutions against the liquor traffic.
People who are not willing to claim
or consider the right to quit the pol
itical party they pelong to are merely
slaves. —Galveston News.
A Glance at for Horoscope for
1802.
We are not astrologers nor the son
of an astrologer, and we always prefer
to predict political events the day
after they have happened. One can
mantain his reputation for prophecy
so much better by waiting until after
wards, and then saying triumbhantly
“just as I expected." So we are not
going to make any prophecies but are
simply going to call attention to a few
indications of what might be done in
this year 1892.
There are three elements of consider
able importance that are no longer
bound by partisan ties to either of the
two old political parties. They are (1)
the prohibition party; (2) the people’s
party; (3) the independence or “mug
wumps.”
There are many signs that the pro
hibitionists and the people’s party are
coming graually, but surely nearer to
each other. On the one hand, the
prohipitionists in their papers and on
the platform are devoting considerable
attention to the financial and indus
trial question. On the other hand,
the State conventions of the people s
party are grappling in a more and
nvre determined manner with the
drink issue, several having adopted
planks for the suppression of toe
traffic in liquor, and nearly all express
ing more or less equivocally opposi
tion to the business. A number of the
organizations such as the Farmers’
Mutual Benefit Association of Illinois,
the Farmers’ Union of Ohio, and the
Farmers’ Alliance in many States,
have been outspoken in behalf of the
entire suppression of the drink traffic.
At the same time these two parties are
approaching each other on the finan
cial issue. The journals of the peo
ple's party are one after another re-
pudiating the Sub-Treasury scheme,
and the State couvention are refusing
to adopt it. The policy which “The
voice” has been urging for an increase
of the curienoy is meeting with more
and more favor both among brohibi
tionist and people’s party members.
The New York State Convention of
the brohibition (tarty adopted the prin
ciples of that policy, and one of the
first official acts of Senator Pcffer, the
people’s party leader, was to introduce
last week a bill proposing an increase
ot currency right along the line urged
by “The Voice." We note also that
the State Grange,Michigan has issued
a pamphlet urging the same policy.
If the people’s party, in their nation
al conference Fepruary 22, come up
to the plane of outright, upright, and
downright suppression of the business
of drunkard making (and there seems
to be increasing probability of it),
there will be two prohibition parties
in the Nation and no insuperable ob
stlacle to their coming together.
If eithor Harrison or Blaine is nom
inated by the Republicans (as seems
certain) and anybody but Cleveland
is nominated by the Democrat (as
seems increasingly probable) the Mug
wumps will be strongly disposed to
refrain from tho support of either old
party. Their journals are among the
most powerful in the land. They are
not advocates of prohibition, but they
have shown a growing antipathy to
the saloon. Tho Boston “Herald”
recommended is leaders to vote no
licence in the recent local option cam
paign in Massachusetts. The Chicago
“News” has come nearer to being a
champion of prohibition outright than
any other metropolitan daily in the
country. All the sympathies of “The
Ledger,” of Philadelphia, are with
our side of the fight. None of these
nor even “The Times” and “The
Evening Post would find it difficult to
give their support to an able and up
right candidate on a prohibition plat
form, basing their support on reasons
of political expediency.
Such a combination, or even a
combination of the prohibition and
people’s parties without the mug
wumps, would be likely to carry sev
eral States and might even, in a tri.
angular contest, sweep the country
and elect a president, especially if
one of the parties in the combination
secures in advance one million pledge
votes.
This is speculative politics. The
events on which everything depends
is whether ths people’s party is ready,
of its own volution, to stand for the
drunkard-factories. Until it is, the
prohibition party must refuse even to
treat with it as a party, except as it
treats with all other license partis.—
The Voice.
A Full-Fledged Life.
Speaking of a friend recently a wo
man said: “I have often wondered how
she kept her youthful looks and her
freshness of spirit. She had known
more anxiety and trouble than fall to
the lot of most people, and yet few
under the most favorable condition,
retain vivacity and mental freshness
as she has. I asked her one day for her
secret, and she answered, ‘I never let
a pleasure pass me; I arrange my work
and rearrange it, if necessary, to se
cure the smallest pleasure that will
not interfere with a duty, and I try
to avoid making the mistake of putting
the duty first if it would ansvrer just
as well to put it second in importance.
Indeedi I am not at all sure that plea
sure itself is not often a most imper
ative duty.”’
That woman had solved the secret
of successful! living. Her pleasure did
not mean social occasions only. It
meant books, picturs, music—all that
in her range of sympathies gave her
pleasure and ministered to her intel
lectual and spiriturl life.
Woman so often make a fetich < f
duty. They have the spirit of martyr
dom. To give up means the acma of
grace. It is tnis feeling that often
makes them give up a pleasure they
could have enjoyed by a little adjust
ment of time. Many women will
keep up the round of society becaus :
it seems to be the thing to do. Tney
lack the ability or are too weak to es
tablish and live up to their own stan
dard. Society does not minister to
their pleasure; it exhausts them. Yet
they have so lost their relations to so
ciety that the interest which minister
to their pleasure are forgotten or ig
nored.
Pleasure is as legimate as prayer; it
has in its place as great a function in
life; it is in its way as necessary to
true growth and devolopment. It is
a duty to command time for prayer;
and the prayer is a fuller expression
of man if pleasure as well as pain has
haq an influence on it.
A rounded life is one that has felt
the rightful plav of motion; not one
that has crippled itself by refusing
freedom to its whole nature. —Chris-
tian Union.
Rebpubliean political bosses are
being tossed about on a sea of
doubt and despair. Occasionally they
receive a little comfort from their
democratic friends; for misery loves
company. The principal set of the
trouples is that the ensanguined
garment usually called the “bloody
shirt” has lost its potency with the
people. For twenty-five years this
famous “shirt”did excellent service for
the boodle posses. A single wave of
it was enough to excite the people to
a mad pitch of frenzy. As the red
gore grew dim with age the bosses
grew mere expert, and waved it with
a grace and dexterity that baffled the
skill of the people to detect the change
But time rolled by and voters came on
the stage of action that knew not the
scenes of war. Some Northern man
went into “D.xie’s fair Land,” and
there discovered a people unexelled
in courtesy and generosity. Some
Southern man went North and there
found a people brave, magnaminous
and just. Then they began to talk
matters over. They met and exam
ined the bloody shirt and came to the
conclusion that it was only “an old
rag” anyhow, that ought to have
been buried when the war was over
and peace declared. Then they shook
hands and agreed to make a common
fight against a common enemy. This
is what is hurting the Republiern
bosses. This is what is hurting the
Democratic bosses. This is why they
are condoling each other. In the
meantime there is no “balm in Gilead”
for their sorrow.
Women are working for seven
cents per day in New York. This is
the legitimate result of our presenst
economic laws. But it is horrible.
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Hardware Hardware
Wo now have in a large supply of
Stoves ii(l Tinware,
Guns, Pistols mid .A.mmiitioii^
Ilnbber and Hclting 1 ,
Buggy and Wagon Material,
Sash, Doors and Blinds.
We also sell the
DAMASCUS CHILLED PLOW,
AVERY’S CHILLED and STEEL PLOWS always on hand. Prices
Cheap for cash.
HARDMAN HARDWARE CO.,
12-30 HARMONY GROVE, GEORGIA.
BRYANT & STRATTON Business Collet*
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Furnirure!
Do You Need Furniture?
if so
W. W. JORDAN, of Harmony Grove, Ca..
has a SPLENDID LINE of all kinds of FURNITURE,
and will sell you :ih cheap as the cheapest. lie has a large stock of Sewing
Machines at living prices, and on good terms. Trunks at cost to close out
that branch of business. Also large stoek of Baskets, Satchels, Valises
etc., cheap.
Remember he curries a large stock of Coffins and Caskets; also Robes,
Shoes, Gloves and Hoes for burial purposes. Hearse free with any coffin
worth #25 or more to any place within ten miles of Harmony Grove, and
reasonable charges for longer distances of cheaper coffins.
Colds,
FOR Coughs,
Consumption,
HOARSENESS and ALL AFFECTIONS of the THROAT and LUNGS,
TAYLOR’S CHEROKEE REMEDY OF
Sweet Gum and Mullen
JS THE BEST KNO IF2V REMEDY.
Ask your druggist or merchant for it, and take no Substitute.
H. & T. E. ATKINS,
BANKERS*
MAYSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Transacts a general Bankiug and Ex
change business. Sol'cil accounts of
business firms and individuals. Col
lecting on all points a specialty. We
are protected by one of Hall's Burglar
Proof Safes and infahable time lock.
Groceries.
W. B. MASON,
DEALER IN
STAPLE AM) FANCY
DRY GOODS
C R O CE R I E 8.
HOMER, - - - GEORGIA
G. W. Brown
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAYSVILLE,- - - GEORGIA
Will do a general practice. Collecting
and Divorce eases a specially.
A. C. MOSS,
Attorney at Law
HOMER, GEOBGIA.
Musical Instrument*.
PIANOS AND DUGANS.
5 Octave, 2 sets reeds, no slops,
Chapel or Parlor Organs 8 29
5 Octave, 4 sets reeds, 8 slops,
Parlor Organ - * 45
5 Octave, 4 sets reeds, 11 stops,
Chapel or Parlor Organ 65
Church and Parlor Organs, from
829 , 860, SBO, to - - 81,000
We pay freight, send on approval, in
clude stool and book.
125 Pianos, New and Second
hand. Largest Stock South.
Largest Ware-rooms South.
New 74 Octave Piano,Stool and Coy
er. Hook and Music, for 8225, 8250 and
8275 cash. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Second-hand Pianos, 850. 875, 8100 to
8200. Do uot buy until getting prices
from
Phillips & Crew,
ATLANTA, GA.
Established Quarter of a Century.
BIBLES, BOOKS,
ALBUMS, TOYS,
Games, Etc.,
in 6vfiry variety.
STATIONERY,
Blank Books, Paper Bags, Etc,,
Cheaner than anv House in Georgia.
D. W. M'GREGOR,
The BOOK STORE
ATHENS, GEORGIA.