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HOMEII, GA.. JULY 123, 1896.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor
W. Y. ATKINSON.
For Secretary of State
ALLEN D. CANDLER.
For Attorney General
J. M. TERRELL.
For Comptroller General
W. A: WRIGHT.
For State Treasurer
W. J. SPEER.
For Commissioner of Agriculture
K. T. NESEITT.
For IT. S. Senator
C. F. CRISP.
For Congress, Ninth District
F. C. TATE.
For Senator 38rd district
JOHN E. REDWINE, of Hall.
For Representative
J. K. THOMPSON.
For Ordinary
T. F. HILL.
For Clark ot Supevior Court
LOGAN PERKINS.
For Sheriff
JOHN PARKS.
For Tax Collector
L. .1. RAGSDALE.
For Tax Receiver
J. C. ALLAN.
For Treasurer
W. M. ASH.
For Surveyor
K. C. ALEXANDER.
For Coroner
STOVALL POOL.
SILVER AND COTTON.
The demonctizaton of stiver has
bail more influence upon the
price of cotton in reaped to ita de
cline since 1873 than all other causes
put together. This is a fir 4 c pablo
of demonstration. Cotton is univer
sally an article of export from tlic
country which produces it. The
price of cotton, therefore, must l.e
fixed at some central point where all
the export cotton of the world meets
t# find a market. All persons in rny
way conversant with the subject know
that this central market is the Liver
pool market, and that the price which
we obtain for cotton in Liverpool
is the price which represents all the
cotton raised in the world. The
price of cotton therefore in the South
ern Sttites of America is the Liver
pool price less the cost of transpor
tation from the plantation to Liver
pool since the United States hive
had cable communication with Brit
tain the closing price of Liverpool
received here three hours earlier
(owing to difference in time) controls
the price of all ihe cotton that they
sold in the United States. It is a
fact, however, which ought always to
be kept in mind that exporters ot
commodities must be and always are
paid in the money o( their own coun
try. The looal currency of any
country is the only kind of money
which any man in any particular
country receives for what he sells,
and is the only kind of money which
he pays out for what iie buys. This
fact plays no part, provided the
money of one country is transferable
into the money of the other country
upon terms of exact equality; in other
words, that there is a par of exchange
between the two countries in the
matte: of money. This par of ex
change existed between Gold standard
countries and Silver-standard coun
tries always before and up to- 1873,
but was dislocated that year by the
demonetization of silver and is now
more disturbed than it ever was.
Speaking of this matter in his annual
report of 1880, Hon. Daniel Manning,
Secretary of the Treasury SAID: *lt
is a direct consequence of the monet
ary dislocation that wheat of India,
which then fetched 3 rupes per quin
tal fourteen years ago and then
fetched 8 rupcs per quintal to-day,
can he sold in London for ns little as
the gold price of 3 rupees to-day—a
fall off of 25 per cent.” Tl.is lowered
price of wheat in London has had
to be met by a lower price of the
American wheat in London. So that
the monetary dislocation has already
cost the farming population au almost
incomputable sum a loss of millions
upon millions of dollars every year.
Secretary Manning spoke of this dis
turbance in exchange in its relation
to wheat and it applies as well to all
other articles of export which have
to find a market abroad and to no
commodity more than to cotton.
This country exports more cotton in
proportion than any other crop. In
the years 1872 to 1894 inclusive the
smallest percentage f export was
04.08 in 1880 and the largest 71.28
in 1878 in 1894 it was 71.20 per
cent. So that more than two-thirds
of the crop is annually sold abroad—
sometimes nearlv three-fourtlis. In
this latter year the United States
exported 6,397,509 bales, weighing
2,683,282,325 pounds of which 2,028,
220,828 went to Europe and 1,485,
451,425 to Brittain. In this great
Liverpool market our cotton came
in direct competition with the cotton
of the world grown in East India,
West India, Egypt, Smyrna, Brazil
and elsewhere. When all this cotton
met in this open market the lowest
price at which any considerable part
of it could be sold, due alliance being
made for grade and class fixed 'he
price for the whole That price was
paid in the home money of the ship
per in gold, it he raised his cotton in
a gold-standard country, and in silver
if he sent his cotton from a silver
standard country. In 1873 the stand
ard coin of India was the silver rupee
equivalent at the legal ratio between
gold and silver to about 2 English
shillings or 48 cents. The average
price of cotton in Liverpool in 1873
was over !) pence a pound. This
cotton was sold in Liverpool for the
gold price of the silver rupee. Sil
ver being at that time a full money
metal upon terms of perfect equality
vvii.li gold. The American planter
sending cotton to Liverpool found
himself in competition with Indian
cotton at 16 cents a pound in gold.
In 1834 the Last Indian cotton j
grower had tin same grade of cotton
to sell at the very same price fur 1 (it,
must always be borne in mind that
prices in India have not duiuged),
tin same amount of silver ropes.
But when the Englishmen went to
tmy East Indian exchange, payable
at Calcutta m rupees, lie found tnat
lie could buy a rupee for the gold
puice of the silver bullion in the
rupee, which made his Fast India
exchange cost him 24 ceuts instead
of 48 cents a rupee. The American
exporter of cotton then entered the
Liverpool market and found the same
grade of East India cotton, which
sold in 1873 for It! cents a pound in
gold. While tho East India cotton
grower got the very same price in
silver in 1834 that lie received in
1873. The American planter had to
take one half for his cotton solely on
account of competition with silver
using countries which have never
felt silver demonitization and main
tain the same silver prices as they
did in and before 1873. Suppose
we should have the free coinage of
silver upon terms of perfect equality
with gold as was the fact before 1873.
What would be the effects at once?
The bullion price of silver the world
over would rise to the coining price
in the United States—that is $1.2929
an ounce. No better evidence of
this certain happening can be offered
than a reference to the price of silver
just after the passage of the bullion
purchase act of July 14th, 1890.
On July 15 the London price of sil
ver was 49| pence an ounce (equals
to $1.0*25), and the New York price
was SI.OB per fine ounce. On August
19th silver bullion was warth $1.21
per fine ounce in N < w York, ami on
Sept. 3rd it was wen th 54$ pence per
fine ounce in London (equivalent to
$1.1975.) As the coming price of
silver bullion is $1 2929 per ounce,
it is seen that the price of bullion
went up to within S cents of coinage
price simply because it was supposed
that the Harrison administration was
friendly to silver and that the Slier*
man act was to result eventually in
free coinage. As soon as it. was
learned that the administration was
opposed to silver coinage the gold
price of si ver bullion went down.
Free coinage ot silver by the United
States on equal terms with gold would
fetch the price up t* $1.2929 an
ounce. Now what would be the
effect on cotton? Our East Indian
competitor would go into the Liver
pool market with the same old grade
of cotton at the same old price—in
different as before to the gold price
of silver. All he wants is a rupee
for three pounds ot cotton. He gets
it just as he has gotten it since and
before 1873. But the Englishman
when he goes to his bank to biy his
exchange, finds that silver bullion is
wortn the coining price and that he
has to pay 48 cents in gold for even
rupee’s worth worth of exchange,
he sends to India. Right here comes
the American planter he, to, with the
same old grade of cotton and finds
that East India cotton is fetching 16
cents a pound in gold instead of 8
cents, at once he is able to obtain
about twice as much as lie otherwise
would. How can an actual fact in
common ever be demonstrated any
belter than I have shown the abso
lute connection bs tween the price of
cotton and bullion price of silver?
There can never he any permanent
ad /mice iu the price of cotton—any
lasting benefit to the American cot
ton plantei until silver is fully re
stored to its old position as a money
metal of full legal-tender power, and
a better supply of monev.
Gt:o. \V. Me Ginms.
Cripple
j The iron grasp of scrofula has no
I mercy upon its victims, 't his demon
| of the blood is often not satisfied with
j causing dreadful sores, but racks the
j body with the pains of rheumatism
until Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures.
“ Nearly four years ago 1 became af
flicted with acrofula and rheumatism.
Made
Running sores broke out on my thighs.
Pieces of bone came out and an operation
waa contemplated. I had rheumatism in
my legs, drawn up out of shape. I lost ap
petite, could not sleep. I was a perfect
wreck. I continued to grow worse and
Anally gave up the’doctor’a treatment to
Well
take Hood’s .Sarsaparilla. Soon appetite
came back; the sores commenced to heal.
My limbs straightened out and I threw
awav my crutches. I am uow stout and
hearty and am farming, whereas four
years ago 1 was a cripple. I gladly rec
ommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” URBAN
Hammond, Tablo Urove, Illinois.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
I lathe One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. sl.
| Prepared only by C. f. Hood & Cos., Rowell, Mass.
I_l |, . cure liver Ills, easy to
rlOOd S PtllS take, easy to operate. c.
DISEASES OP THE SKIN.
The intense itching and smarting inci
dent to eczema, tetter, salt-rheum, and other
diseases of the skin is instantly allayed by
applying Chamberlain’s Eye and Skin
Ointment Many very bad cases have been
permanently cured by it. It is equally
efficient for itching piles and a favorite rem
edy for sore nipples; chapped hands, chil
blains, frost bites, and chronic sore eyes.
For sale by druggists at 25 cents per box’.
Try Dr. Cady’s Condition Powders, they
arc just what a horse needs when in bad eondi
don. Ton if, blood purifier and vermifuge.
('hanceto M ko Money
I have berries, grapes ami peaches
a year old, fresh as when picked. I
use tee California Cold process, do
not heat or seal the fruit, just put it
up cold, keeps perfectly fiesh, and
costs almost nothing; can put up a
bushel in ten minutes. Last week I
sold directions to over 120 families;
anyone will pay a dollar directions.
when they see the beautiful sample of
fruit. As there are many people poor
like myselk, 1 consider it my duty to
give my experience to such, and feel
confident any one can make one or
two hundred dolllars round home in a
tew days. 1 wil* mail sample of fruit
and complete directions, to any of
your readers, for eighteen two cent
stamps, which is only the actual cost
of the samples, postage, etc., to me.
Francis Casrv,
St. Louis, Mo.
OLD DR. DRUMMOND.
0
Has an enduring monument in the
affection and esteem of thousands
who have been restored to health and
happiness by Dr. Drummond’s Ligth
ning Remedies for Rheumatism.
If your druggist has not got it, do
not take anything else. Write to tlia
Drummond Medicine Cos., New York
and they will send you full particula r
and testimonies fi m 2 2 states.
Agmts wanted. 7—2 t.
TEACHER’S COLUMN.
DEVOTED TO THE INTER
EST OF EDUCATION
Communications for this Column
Should l>e Addressed to
J. P. Dendy, Homer.
Principles in teaching Elementary
Branches.
Ist. Whatever knowledge is taught
a child should be so taught that the
act of acqairing it shall be of greater
value than the knowledge itself.
2nd. In the teaching of any school
art, clear and correct ideas should
inspire, and guide practice.
3d Knowledge can be presented
*o the mind by means of language
only when words used represent
KNOWN concepts and ideas.
4tli. Th primary concepts and
idi as in every branch of knowledge
must be taught objectively in all
grades of school
fill). The several power* of th.-
mind are developed and trained by
occasioning their natural and haruio
nieus activity.
6th. It is thus so calle 1 Comeuiau
maxim “We ; earnloy doing.’’ is even
when applied to outer doing, only a
half truth. Simple doing without the
guidance of knowledge, never made
an artist or an artisan. The poorest
teaching for example it often done by
teachers who have grown gray in the
school loom. What is needed to
transmnte experience into teaching
skill and power, is the mspirtion of
true ideals and the guidance of correct
principles Blind exprience is always
and everywhere a plodder.—Whites
Elements of Pedagogy.
SIXTEEN PEDAGOGIC FACTS.
Pkokessob J. N- P .vi kick, of
Streator, 111., has written for the
School News a number of “ pedagog
ic facts ” from which vre select the
following, to which we would add our
hearty endorsement:
I.Children cannot be properly
taught by one who cannot think.
A teacher cannot teach correctly
what he does not know thoroughly
3- The mere ability to peddle text
book facts does not represent teach
ing ability.
4 Correct teaching trains a pupil
to rely upon himself.
• r >..\ telling teacher trains pupils
for beggars.
fi Training which does not cud in
correct habits has little value.
7 teaching a pupil is training him
| to rely upon himself.
8. What a pupil can do is ihe only
l ruc measure of a teacher’s profess
lonal ability
0. W bat pupils really know, they
can use without regard to time or
place.
10. Routine reiteration of lext-book
does not develope mental power
-11. Common schools should teach
l he thing and leave the exceptions to
the pupil’s tiper years.
12. The strength of a habit depends
ii pon its age and the frequency of its
repetition.
13. Ten minutes spent in preparing
a lesson will save twenty minutes in
hea’ing it.
14. A teacher’s value depends
chieflcy upon lus ability to stimulate
mental activity in bis pupils.
15. Memory can recall onlv what
was once an experience.
IG. The lasting influence of a
i school is not the facts learned, but the
inspiration which accompanies correct
j methods of iustrucion.
Spoons Free To All.
I read in the Christian Standard
that Miss A. M. Fritz, Station A.
St. Louis, Mo., would give an elegant
plated hook spoon t* any one send
ing her ten 2 cent stamps I sent
for one and found it so useful that I
showed it to my friends, and made
sl3 in two hours, taking orders for
the spoon. The hook spoon is t:
household necessity. It cannot slip
into the dish or cooking vessel, being
held in place by a hook on the back
The spoon is something housekeepers
have needed ever since spoons first
invented. Any one can get a sample
spoon by sending ten 2 cent stamps
to Miss b r;tz. Ibis is a splendid
way to make money around home.
Very truly, Jeanette S.
QECULIAR mcombination, pro
■ portion and preparation of ingredi
ents,Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses gTeat
curative value. You should TRY IT.
Ileadnrhr stopp'd In 20 infinites by Dr.
Miles’ l’Ais Pilgs. "Once cent a Jose."
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K. K. HKAVES. State Agent. K. UerU"
Homer High School
IN ill open Ist day of January 1896. and will continue fora term of eight
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should contain a high percentage of Potash to
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