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Not a Popular Proposition.
♦Savannah Yews.
The Atlanta Constitution apparently
does not find this proposition to repeal
the whiskey tax (|uite so popular as it
? . thought it would be. It has doubtless
discovered that the people of Georgia
H| are not so anxious to have free whiskey
as they are to have t he taxes on the nec
essaries of life reduced. It now says:
I®, By no means are we for free whiskey.
% Let the tax remain, hut let the State
| humanely collect it, and let it go to the
^ State for the benefit of its tax-payers.
J This is our position.
The Constitution is evidently trying
to capture Mr. Blaine’s thunder. Bong
ago Mr. Blaine said, “Let the revenue
from whiskey be divided among the
States,” and that is what the Constitu
tion, in effect, now says. Anyone who
will give the subject
sideration will reach
cess in the newspaper business is to be
achieved by fitful bursts of spasmodic
enterprise. It is quite questionable
whether these do not do as much harm
as good. They give the whole enter
prise a flashy character and seem to
imply—as they cannot possibly be kept
up—that the new paper has not come
to stay. They are like bursts of fire
works, which are very pretty to look at
while they last, but which are sure to
be succeeded by black darkness. When
a newspaper announces that it has es
tablished a balloon service to the moon,
long had the habit—and a very good
one it is—of saving up their coppers and
nickels and dimes? and, doubtless, many
of them are indebted to it for their
wealth, for there is much truth in the
old Scotch saying, “Take care of the
mickle, and the muckle will take care
of itself.”
A gentleman who tried the new craze
relates his experience with its work
ings. When he concluded to give it a
trial he had in his pocket four silver
dollars and a 25c. piece. With the 25c.
he paid for a morning paper, getting in
COLE MANUFACTURING CO.,
NEW NjA N, GEORGIA.
people clap their hands and applaud its ; change two dimes, which he put in his
enterprise, but it is remarked that, j vest pocket for safe-keeping. At noon
though they buy the paper for several | he bought a 30c. lunch and received in
days to see what the man in the moon | change a 50c. piece and
is doing, they do not subscribe. Tor
sublunary news they continue to rely
on their old favorites.
It is doubtful if these ever was an in
stance of a paper which was started for
a specific object becoming successful
two dimes.
Then, as was his custom, he indulged
in a nickel cigar, handing over the 50c.
and received back 25c. and two dimes.
Here were six dimes, or 00c., to go into
his savings bank at home, and by the
purchase of another cigar two more
until it abandoned that object. Sever-; went in his vest pocket before
al of the leading papers of to-day were j lie had spent 45c. during the day
moment’s con-! started to accomplish certain objects,
the conclusion, but ihe proprietors, being shrewd men,
ft
however, that if the tax is to be distrib
uted among the States Mr. Blaine’s
way of distributing it is much more
just and fair than the Constitution's is.
His way is to distribute it among the
States in proportion to their respective
populations after it has been collected
by the general government. In view
of the fact that the people of the States
in which the tax is collected do not pay
it—the tax being paid by the consum
ers of the whiskey who are distributed
throughout the whole, country—it
would hardly be right for the States in
which the whiskey is made to have the
entire benefit of it. .Indeed, it is doubt
ful if the Constitution would agree to
its own proposition if it had an oppor
tunity to do so. If the States collected
and retained the tax Georgia would get
less than $350,000 a year, while Illinois
would get $25,000,000 and Kentucky
about $12,000,000, assuming, of course,
t hat they would continue to collect the
same .proportion of the whole amount
collected as they do now. Illinois,
Kentucky, and some other States,
would become rich very quickly, and
Georgia would help to make them so.
If the tax is to go to the States, it must
be distributed as Mr. Blaine proposes
or not at all. Great care should be ta
ken in advising the adoption of Mr.
Blaine’s propositions, for fear that the
people might be led into admiring and
adopting Mr. Blaine.
The Constitution says, let the State
“humanely collect” the tax. Does it
think tjiat the State could or would
Lcollect the tax any more “humanely”
than the general government collects
it V Who are those who, in this State,
are enforcing the collection of the tax i
Are they Georgians, from the Judges
Of the courts to the clerks of the inter
nal revenue collectors, and are they not
all Democrats? If the State had the
collection of the tax would not Geor
gians be entrusted with the collection
of it, and if there was a disposition to
evade it, or refusal to pay it, would
not laws have to be made to compel its
payment? And if there were such laws,
would they not be enforced, even if the
■fax-resisters had to be sent to prison ?
What nonsense is it, then, to talk about
the State collecting the tax “humane
ly.” No one who deals honestly with
the general government realizes that
there is anything particularly harsh or
objectionable in the law to enforce its
collection. Only those who attempt to
evade it complain of it, and t. ey would
attempt to evade it if it were a State
law, and.would complain of it if it were
enforced. No thinking man will be led
away from the true issue by the posi
tion of the Constitution. The issue is
this: Shall whiskey be made free, or
shall the necessaries of life be made
cheaper?
soon discovered that the aecompli-h-
rnent of a reform was one thing and the
establishment of a newspaper as a bus
iness enterprise quite another, and they
dropped the former to devote them
selves to the latter. If they had not
their papers would have pied.
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Starting a Newspaper.
Augusta Evening News.
-ju It is easy enough to start a newspa-
? per, but very hard to establish one.
Any man with money can start one.
Presses are easily bought; type is for
*ale everywhere ; printers can easily be
hired; writers are like the sands on the
seashore; newsdealers are always ready
to fflace a new commodity on their
counters. But when all is said and
done, the element necessary for sue
cess—popalar support—is likely to be
wanting. Every newspaper reader
may be supjiosed to be in the habit of
reading some particular paper. He
reads it because he thinks it is a better
newspaper than others, or because it
agrees with his opinions, or because he
\ fJrelies on its honesty. Now comes a
new journal which appeals to him to
discard his old paper and take it in-
•f-stead. To be successful the appeal
must be made on very strong grounds,
indeed. It will not suffice to argue that
the old paper has for ouce adopted an
unpopular course. Papers constant!}
ieh
do not approve, yet, unless their
departure is outrageous, it is overlook-
led and they lose little or nothing.
1 Whereas the new candidate for public
The Coming Newspaper.
Millerigeville Union and Recorder.
When the .South was politically divi
ded by two great parties, Whig and
Democrat, the masses looked to the
leading organs of the press at the seat
of government of their respective States
for counsel and politics, both of princi
ple and organization. Then a column
leader, or even one much longer, in
such papers as those of father Ritchie
and Gales and Seaton at Washington
were read as attentively and sacredly
as the deacon in the church reads his
Sunday morning’s chapter in the Bible,
from begining to end, and often with
more lasting impression. The South
has but one party now, and long politi
cal leaders in the pressure read by few,
if any, of the masses who do the voting
at the polls. The ever-alert newspaper
organs recognized this change, and set
about to meet it. Then began immense
double and triple sheets, and a reduc
tion in price so striking as to captivate
tlie average subscriber, who jumped at
a chance to get a paper three times as
big for the same money lie had been
paying all bis life for the one published
at his county site. He thought he was
making a sharp trade when he stopped
taking his home paper, which he al
ways read from end to end, (and then
was hungry for more) and sent off to
some city, North or South, for a big
paper to get something cheap and with
more reading matter than his home pa
per contained. Well, he got the big
paper, and is not happy. He hasn’t
got time, he says, to read it, and if he
had, the type is so little it hurts his
eyes, and what he does find to read is
not what he understands or cares for.
He don’t see in it anything about home
affairs, or his neighbors, and finds
himself, when‘he comes to the county
town, so ignorant of what is going on
right under his nose, lie is ashamed of
himself, quits the big weekly away off
yonder, subscribes for his county paper,
which is only fifty cents a year more,
reads it, and his wife and children read
it, and get as mad as a wet hen if any
body takes it out of the office and reads
it before they do, and he swears if God
will only forgive him, he will never stop
his home paper again while he lives.
That is just the way of it.
But what the man wants now to read
in his paper is the news. He wants a
jiaper with hundreds of short para
graphs, disconnected, well selected, on
live subjects, so that he can pick it up
at odd times, read here and there and
lay it down without having to make a
mark at the line where he stopped
reading. That’s what he wants.
The big papers are now trying, be
sides the double sheets, to attract the
eye of readers with pictures of notable
people, which are about as correct like
nesses of the original as if pine knots
had been used to print their faces in
stead of wood and lead cuts. These
features of the present newspaper are
fatiguing the patience of readers, and
they are sick of them. Immense so-
called “Trade-Journals” are got out to
attract advertisers, who are foolish
enough to bite at such bait. No one
man, woman, or child, outside of a
citv, ever reads advertisements in a
“Trade-Journal” and the only use they
ar* put to in the country is to make
bustles, kindle fires and
chimneys.
laid by 80c, He began the habit be
cause it was the ruling craze, but the
dimes piled up so fast that it became
fascinating, and now he describes him-j
self as being a “miser with dimes.”
Southern people ought to become |
“misers with dimes.” No people under
the sun are so generous with their mon
ey, and none give so little attention to
small coins. Except in the larger cit
ies, coppers are not used. If an ac
count is, say, $10 48, it is settled with
810 50; if it is 810 47, it
$10 45. Either the buyi
ler loses 2e. in every bill of the kind.
AYe can get a useful hint in this matter
from our Northern friends, and one
that will save us, in the long run, con
siderable money and teach us economy.
The dime craze is the most sensible
one that has been started in many
years. It is traveling Southward, and
when it reaches this section it ought to
be welcomed and made popular.
Will 1888 be a Year of War?
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The present year is the fifth year of
modern times in which the aggregate
of the figures is twenty-five, and there
will be but five more years in which
such a combination is possible. But few
have ever heard of the old prophecy,
which runs as follows:
In every future year of our Lord,
When the sum of the figures is twenty-five,
Some warlike kingdom will draw the sword,
But peaceful nations in peace shall thrive.
Students of modern history will
readily recall how faithfully this proph
ecy has been fulfilled in the four previ
ous years to which it applied.
In 1699 Russia, Denmark and Poland
formed the coalition against Sweden
which inaugurated the great war that
ended in the disastrous defeat of
Charles XII. at Pultowa.
The year 1789 will ever be memora
ble on account of the breaking out of
the French revolution.
1798 witnessed the campaign of Bona
parte in Egypt and the formation of
the second European coalition against
France.
In 1879 war broke out between Eng
land and Afghanistan, followed by the
invasion of the latter country by British
troops.
In what manner the prediction is to
be verified in 1888 remains yet to be
seen, but the present condition of Eu
rope seems to promise an abundant ful-
lillmest of the prophecy.
STEAM ENGINES.
WE HAVE ON HAND SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN STEAM ENGINES. ALSO, SPECIAL GIN
NERY OUTFITS, WHICH WILL REPAY PROMPT INQUIRIES.
A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON HAND AT LOW PRICES.
R. E>. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEWNAN, GA.
J. H. Reynolds,
President.
Hamilton Yancey,
Secretary.
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Its directory composed of eminently suc
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B. A. Bartlett, of Randolf, in this
State, is a remarkable rifleman. In a
recent exhibition of his skill he is said
to have hit a common white bean at a
distance of twenty-five yards, holding
his rifle in various positions. He also hit
a postal card that was set up edgewise.
Using a thirty-two calibre ball he shot
through a thirty-two calibre pistol bar
rel, the bullet splitting on a knife-blade
on the further end of the revolver bar
rel and each half of the bullet breaking
an egg. He ignited a parlor match held
by a person at the target stand, knock
ed the ashes from cigars and concluded
by shooting a bean from the nose of a
friend who had sufficient confidence in
his skill to permit the attempt. All
these remarkable shots are vouched for
by reputable witnesses.—Chicago News.
Though the wages or remuneration in
glass-blowing are very high, the indus
try is not popular. Its unpopularity is
no more than natural, the labor being
severe and exhausting, the pain and
discomfort great, and the healthfulness
being unpleasantly small to those en
gaged. It has a characteristic disease—
the glass-blower’s cheek—just as the
white lead and quicksilver industries
clean lamp j have their specific ills. From long-con
tinued blowing, the cheeks, at first nms-
What the people—the country and i cular, grow thin and lose their elastici-
town readers want—and will have, is j ty; they then begin to hang down like
the newspajier that contains home and , inverted pockets and finally grow abso-
State and national news boiled down j lutely unusable. It is a matter of re-
UlipUpUliU wuicv. * - - i fo the smallest’possible space, aud j cord both here and in Europe that glass
adopt a course which their subscribers ; p j eHty of it Thev ^ on - t want an im-1 operatives have blown holes through
J unless their new mense blanket sheet, or two or three | their cheeks; but no living curiosity of
sheets pasted together, or loose and | this sort can be found at the present
hard 10 handle, but an average-sized j time.—Philadelphia Telegraph.
. , i sheet filled with the latest home and !
favor has got to establish affirmatively j fo . n news t tos;ether in such a | When you see a man on a moonlight
that it deserves public support and will! * and so arranged that, they can j night trying to convince his shadow that
continue to deserve it. This must al- j ^ r}(rht to the verv paise ami col-1 it is improper to follow a gentleman,
ways be a matter of time. Reput*- j what they want. That’s | you may be sure it is high time for him
tionsare not built up in a da> : the they want and they mean to have ;to i°in a temperance society.
nublic waits and watches; if after a se-1
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a character for sinceiit}, ju » • j j ministering opium, but soothe it with a
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r " But in the meantime the projee-; A new craze, which is said^ to be ex- j Syrup.
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