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TITE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, 8EPTEM PER 12. 1884.
THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER.
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“Help us! Cash us! or we sink.” Yours
earnestly.—Sieve Elkins.
Senator Anthony left $200,OCO. All
pow Republican Congressmen die young.
England can brag as much as she
pleases about her navy, but ours cost the
most. •
Now is the time to mark for the present
cotton crop. The last was under six mil
lion bales.
Bruce does not get the Secretaryship of
the Treasury. Arthur Will not have any
Coon in bis.
Queen Victoria gets $3,000,000 a year
salary, and yet she threatens to strike for
higher wages.
George Bliss has come out in defense of
Blaine. The political field, however, Is as
murky as ever.
1 have this thought to comfort me. The
pockets of my lost pants will never be
searched.—Billy Chandler.
Queen Victoria’s maids of honor receive
$1,500 per year each, and yet they borrow
chewing gum just like other girls.
“Blaine will bring peace to a divided
"Union,” shouts the campaign orator.
That’s sv, Blaine once before made the
Union Pacific.
There never yet was a time so propitious
(or a campaign song. And yet the dust
on Mr. Schurz’s naturalized piano is an
inch and a quarter deep.
And now the Irreverent paragrapher re
fers to the bouncing and beautiful Belva
Lockwood, the coming presidentess, as
“Old Belve.” 8hoot him on the spot.
Mr. Dana thinks Ben Butler will infuse
new ideas into this section. If Butler in
fuses any Ideas at all into this section they
will undoubtedly be new to it. The peo
ple and Butler are yet very far apart.
The headgear of the woman’s Presiden
tial ticket is all right. But there’s a hitch
MM to the polonaise. Atlanta, of course,
•will rush to the front for a place. How
would Granny Norcross or Col. Marcellus
E. Thornton do as a flouncer?
George C. Goriiam is out of a job and
has been dickering with Cleveland. This
gives rise to the rumor that be will support
Cleveland. The Democratic managers
should see to it that this additional handi
capping Is not put on a candidate that has
not been in the lead so far in the race.
The vision of a sportive dolphin dragging
Secretary Chandler’s summer breeches
hilariously through the coral eaves is
enouah to make the sea nyraplis blush
and grim Neptune hold his aching side.
Uncle 8am would enjoy it, also. If Mr.
Chandler had remained with Ids breeches.
The New York Herald is a very uncer
tain paper politically, but it heats “Old
Frobs” on the weather. It predicted a
change on the tenth and as we write we
enjoy the premonitory symptoms of an
equinoctial gale. We use the word enjoy,
(or any change must be preferable to the
blistering heat of the past several weeks.
The Herald as a political prophet Is with
out honor. All honor to it as a weather
•agur. .
Rape and Lynch Law.
Recently ft negro fiend in Troup
county was hanged by indignant citi
zens for violating a white woman.
This was but one of many similar oc
currences daily happening in every
portion of the South.
An unfortunate schism in the Demo
cratic part)' of Troup , county has in*
ipired the negroes of that county with
a hope that they may succeed in gain
ing political control.
At a recent meeting of the negroes at
LaGrange the following among other
resolutions were adopted:
’Whereas. Lynch law has become so preva
lent, and as it is a direct violation of the Di
vine law and the common law of both state
and Mtion; and,
Whereas, 8uch a law la so exceedingly un
safe and inhuman, because Justice is left to
the dictation of a mob. which, as a rule, Is
Is made up of that class of men who have no
regard for human rights and are, at the same
time, in a heat of passion which overrules all
serse of cool deliberation, and thereby the in
nocent may suffer forithe guilty; and,
Whereas, This inhuman and ungodly prac
tice does not tend to lessen crime, but on the
ether baud, its tendency ia to Inflame and atir
indignation between the two races, and
thereby augment lawlessness;
Whereas, By this law, in ninety cases In a
hundred, all things being equal, the negro is
ictira; for these and many other rea
sons;
Resolved, therefore, That we support no
candidate forofilce, Whether municipal, coun
ty, State or national,who, in any way known to
, has taken part in or advocated the lynch
law.
Resolved, further, That if any one is put in
prison for any alleged crime whatever, and if
there be any indication on the part of any
party or the public to take the liw into their
hands, or if the civil authorities do not
interfere to prevent such violence, we pledge
ourselves in honor bound as law-abiding citi
zens, to protect such defeudaut at all hazards.
All right thinking and iaw-respecting
people deprecate the fearful necessity
of lynch law. It is a desperate reme
dy, hut in some cases is rendered nec
essary by the frequency and brutality
of crime, for the protection of society.
Many years ago the citizens of Vicks
burg, Miss., were compelled to hang a
number of desperate characters who
had endangered the public peace and
defied tile Ian-. This same remedy was
repeated in the city of San Francisco,
some time subsequently.
Crimes against white females by ne
gro brutes have been common for years
at the South. We regret to add that,
notwithstanding the swift and severe
punishment that has followed, they
grow rather than diminish. But hang
ing will check it after a while. It will
at least put an end to the brutes.
These resolutions were evidently-
aimed at the case referred to in the be
ginning of this artieie. Strange to say,
they contain no denunciation of that
particular crime, or any other that ne
groes have freely indulged in. They
make no mention of the breaking of the
law by brutes who have ravished weak
and unprotected women and children.
But they do contain a threat. Now
the negroes may as well understand
this tiling sooner or later. Every one
who is guilty of that crime or an at
tempt at it on a white woman will he
killed. It may lie that an indignant
populace, frenzied by the details of the
crime, will take the responsibility of
making way with the perpetrator.
Some relative njay relieve them of this
duty, or the course of the law will be
waited for. In any event deatli will ho
the penalty, and ought to be.
More than twenty years have passed
since by a lawless war negroes were
tinfranchiscd and given the ballot. Re
ceiving their earliest lessons of tho re
sponsibilities of citizenship from the
camp followers and scam of tlie North,
they are still arrsyed against the people
upon whom they arc dependent, and
still have dreams of political power and
social recognition. They have steadily
progressed in crimes of all kinds, as
the record of the jails and chain-gangs
will attest.
Ttyo crime of rape among them is
growing. The opportunities for Us
commission in thinly scattered sections
are many, and the chances for escape
yean, and nearly six millions of that in the
next two yon, It la ,not going to be an easy
lash In the Legislature to steer clear between
present oppression and future burdens tor the
people.
Among the measures likely to assume prom
inence aaa remedy .for the heavy drafts on
the State treasury will be the sate of the State
road. In 1872, when this road was leased to
ex-Gov. Brown and associates, It was one of the
best paying roads in the country, and
politiclas felt confident that its sale
would at auy time balance the eutlre
State debt. Since that time, however,
the State gave a charter to the Hast
Tennessee road, which ruus parallel with the
State rood much ot tho way, the two tracts
being In light of each other. The State road
Is not now worth more than half Its valu.tion
In 1872. and the prospect la that It will steadily
decrease. The conviction and fact that the
people will not submit to a heavier rate ot
taxation thau at present, will force the I-egls-
lature to sell the road to meet the demands
falling due.' The existing rate ot taxation Is
Insufficient to carry on the State government,
and the Governor was compelled, last June,
to borrow 8180,000 to meet the deficit.
Tlie sender ot this dispatch is one of
tho editors of the Atlanta Constitution.
This gives it a significance that it
could not otherwise claim.
The initiatory movement is to be
made in the present campaign, and in
tlie coming Legislature. As there is
no contest sgve in a very few counties
and many of the primaries have been
Held, tlie manipulators of this scheme,
may feel confident of their men.
But the election is yet to be held,and
tlie people have the power still in their
hands to protect themselves. Candid
ates can be compelled to avow them
selves. If they do not make a clear
and satisfactory showing they can be
defeated.
The issue is a highly important one,
involving many millions of a property
that belongs to the whole people. One
of the railroads belonging to the people
has already been sacrificed. It may be
in contemplation, perhaps is, to sacri-
the last and remaining one.
In view of these facts, perhaps it will
occur to thoughtful men, with a stake
in the community, as it has to us, that
perhaps it would bo wise if the editors
of sundry country weeklies be enjoined
from the immediate destruction of tho
Telegraph and Messenger.
It is in position to do service in be
half of the people, and it has never yet
failed to stand between them and men
who are actuated and controlled by
selfish purposes. It behooves the peo
ple of the entire Stato to give this mat
ter prompt and serious consideration.
fill these people witli mean whisky and
then turn them loose as so many wild
beasts upon helpless women and chil
dren, who arc^tlirough isolation placed
beyond tho protection of law.
The rough-edged cross-road bar
rooms have been trading posts in hun
dreds of communities in this State,
whero stolen farm products have been
bartered away for drink.
This basis of settlement is tlie only
sensible one that suggests itself to our
mind. Wc have more faitli in its effi
cacy than in nny system of prohibition
that 90 per cent, of the people who fa
vor it are willing to have enforced so
far as every one else is, concerned, but
who expect and intend to violate tlie
law whenever it is made applicable to
themselves.
If the prohibition and liquor ele
ments are not competent to adjust this
question, then it is the duty of an intel
ligent public to take hold of it, in
advance of that dire contingency when
through this medium the control of the
State chall pass into tlie hands of the
rabble.
do less than house, clothe and equip
the men in her service and bear their
expenses, while under arms. Time
enough to economize in this direction
when a call is not responded to, or
when the military falters in the hour
of danger.
A tTgAKEoat has teen shipped to Oregon
from England on an ocean steamer and
will be carried over the mountains on the
backs of tbe natives for use in the waters ot I large,
a lake. Here is a hint for tbe government. The white men of tills country know
Why cannot the United States war shlps be tj ie ir duty in this particular, and will
moved up end down our coasts on the
backs of the native*, and shipped ecrosn
tbe ocean on the steamer* when it is nec
essary to cross 7. Every possible safeguard
ought to be thrown aronnd tho navy.
Tin Sew York Herald interlerdt Ita ed-
ortal page with this paragraph
We are now Informed by Mr. Grtmke, editor
ot the Hub, Judge L. Ruffin, J. C. Chappells,
Lewis Haydea. J. H. Wolf aadJ.J. Smith-
all leading colored cltlxena ot the “Athena ot
America"—that the colored vole ol Boston ia
■olid tor B’alne.
Well! what la the Berald going to do
about it? A large meeting in Boston in
dicated that the negro vote ot Massnchn-
setts would go Republican. It has always
done so in Massachusetts and other North
ern States, and there la no reason why it
should not do so again. The negro vote of
several Northern State* makes them safe
and solid for the Republican party.
not hesitate to perform it though it bo
a bloody one. This crime must he
stamped out if it shall cost tlie life of
every negro man capable of its commis
sion. We take it that tlie people ot
LaGrange are alive to the matter, and
are fully capable of looking after these
fellows whenever they shall seek to
carry their threata into execution.
Maln«a
Yesterday a State election occurred
in Maine, tlie home of Mr. Blaine. By
this time to-morrow we shall have tbe
approximate reauit. The canvass even
in Maine, lias been quite a* aplritli
as elsewhere, and we have no prognos
tications concerning it.
Maine, for several years, has been a
close and dt lubtful State. In the off
year of 1877, when a light vote was
polled, the hitherto reliable Republi
can majority sank to 5,All votes, and
tlie year following, daring the “green
back” flurry, the State gave 12,757 ma
jority against the Republicans. In
187* tlie Republicans again lost the
State, and every one remembers the
alarm tlie State gave tlie Republicans
in l'-O by going Democratic at the
election corresponding to the present
one. “As Maine so goes the Union,”
ah'Mitedths Democrats in high glee;
but tlie Republicans recovered from
tbe shock, and by a big effort carried
tbs Sla‘e for Garfield by 8,84! majority,
Two years later, in 1882, tlie Republi
can majority fell off again to 0,880.
The Coming Issue In Ceorata Polities.
To every observant man In Georgia
it bos been plain that the next great
issue calculated to convulse the State, is
the sale of the State road. Commenc
ing with the late Cole charter which
was intended tocripple this great prop
erty and to depreciate its value, the
movement has been qnietly but surely
maturing. We did not expect that it
would so soon acquire strength enough
in the judgment of the manipulators,
to be presented to the public. But it
lias come, and the people may as well
prepare themselves to meet it.
The Louisville Courier-Journal of the
8th instant contains this special dis
patch from Atlanta:
Atlaxtx, September ".—There U (rest la-
tereat ceaterint In tbe election ct the next
Georfta Leililature, which take* place la Oc
tober. It will have to arrange for tbe pejment
ot 8SJBSJSM ot tbe State's debt, and will bare
to Inaugurate ra< h legislation ai will meet
other draft ol 15.000 (og which falls due before
tbe succeeding Left.tat nr* can handle It. Tbe
debt thus lobe met 1» as follows: In lH&VSt,
8200,000 each year of the 1 *! and '78 bonds,
making 8400.080; In two, 81.(00,010 of State road
bonds ol 1M>. To this add the 8150,0s) bor
rowed In July last to meet a deficit in tbe
finances caused by an oversight In the last Leg
tsUtnre: gjn.ooo eactt year (or tbe butldlmr ot
tbe new capltoL Then about 8»0,u)0 each year
foe current Interest, and there ts the enormous
amount ot SV.VO.OOO to be provided for by
tbe coming Legislature, In addition to the
utual appropriation for carrying on tbe gov
ernment. Farther than this, tn 1"'* *2,299, *-79
more of debt falls due. meant for meeting
which should betaken by the next Legiila-
turt; then In USg83,00^000. So that with over
tea mlUtoae of Money to provide foe ia five
Democracy and Prohibition.
Tlie fierce conflicts that have marked
the progress of prohibition in Georgia
are causing thoughtful men to look
with serious apprehonsion to future re
sults, if temporate counsels do not pre
vail in the ultimate struggle over the
whisky question.
In Pike county tho Democracy are
divided, and already the w^iisky and
prohibition factions have placed candi
dates in tlie field to represent the coun
ty in the next Legislature. Tlie results
that may follow in this parti:ular coun
ty from this unfortunate division, are
of little consequence outside the per
sonal passions and personal interests
of tho contestants and their partisans.
We have a broader purpose than tlie
treatment of this local development of
an evil that is wide spread, and which
threatens serious divisions among tho
people. Tlie question is on, and it is
neither wise to ignore it,nor seek to de
lay its settlement.
Men of extreme views, upon both
sides are damaging the prospects of the
temperance cause as well as tlie whis
ky Interest. People who are conserv
ative, and who are opposed to drankt
enness on the one hand and to sumptu
ary laws on the other, are at best left
but a choice of evils as between the
warring elements of fanaticism, and
vested and Involved interest.
It must be plain under this condi
tion of affairs that a settlement of this
question that promises permanency in
tlie way ot relormation in relercnce to
drunkenness or tlie whisky trade, must
be mode by the great body of tlie peo
ple who as yet have not become blind
ed by partisanship on either side.
looks as if both had griev
ances and in a measure can justly
complain. Both are strengthened with
conscious reliance upon principle
The prohibitionist consulting con
science and public judgment believes
that both approve tlie moral and social
quality of his struggle. On the other
hand a cautious (ear of fanaticism and
its influence upon public affairs,at well
as a judicious opposition to all laws
affecting the private rights of tlie cit-
isen, make men who desire to see a
pro[fer settlement of this question hes
itate.
We submit that so far no remedy has
been mggested that commands confi
dence in its efficiency to eradicate
drunkenness. Prohibition does not
prohibit it in instances where, under
our observation, it has been tried.
Drunkenness cannot be suppressed by
taxes or by laws that are not sanc
tioned by public sentiment. If this l>s
true, tbe question of remedy is an im
portant one. To our mind it is simple,
and it is strange that it bos never been
applied. Moral suasion mutt prepare
public conscience for the performance
fearlessly and faithfully of public duty,
and penal justice thns enforced under
laws making drunkenness a crime, will
eradicate tbe evil, if it can be done at
all.
It is no objection to this plan to say
such alaw cannot be inforced. This is
answered in tbe plain statement of a
universally developed troth that prohi
bition laws cannot be inforced.
Those who are seeking to take care
of the whisky trade should consent at
once that the retailing of liquor shall
lie confined to towns snd cities main-
Bulld Up the Country.
Louisiana has led off again in an ef
fort to secure settlers for her unoccu
pied domain. An agent of the Immi
gration Society has been to Antwerp
and has secured a colony of two hun
dred and fifty people, who will come
provided with money to purchase land,
and a determination to make them
selves independent citizens. Georgia
needs a larger population of this de
scription. Money spent to secure tax
payers and producers is money well
spent.
There is a way, however, to secure
such a population without going to
Europe for it, and it lies within the
power and province of the railroads
to do it, not as public benefactors
or on the score of patriotism, but
purely as a business investment. Along
the lines and within ten miles of Geor
gia railroads may be found thousands
of acres of land that can be purchased
for from $1 to $5 per acre; fertile,
healthy, well watered lands. These
could tie purchased by the railroad
companies, divided into fifty or a hun
dred acre farms, supplied with com
fort&ble dwellings and sold upon terms
that would enable any industrious fam
ily to purchase. The railroads would
not only regain their original expendi
tures witli a profit, but would build up
a passenger and freight business that,
W£re the original investment lost, repay
them a thousand fold. If tlie want of
funds proves an obstacle to this enter
prise on tbe partof the rood, and doubt
less it does, an outside investment and
improvement company, with n pledge
of co-operation from the railroad com
panies, might be formed, bonds issued
upon a real estate basis, and a thriving
business be built up.
Cotton and Cotton Manufacturing.
The New York Journal of Commerce
publishes a list of cotton mills wholly
idle at present or running reduced
time, representing 4,927,200 spindles
and 121,982 looms.
As stated in tho article from which
we gather the above, with other impor
tant facts, only such mills were includ
ed in the memorandum as could be
vouched for.
In addition to the foregoing large ag
gregate of idle machinery there are
many mills in tlie South not included,
which have been running reduced
time for months past, and some that
have been idle altogether.
The fact that many mills have re
duced time or have suspended opera
tions and have failed or refused to re
port the fact is deplored, for the reasou
that the extent to which production is
actually reduced, is important as bear-
ngupon stock and future prices
If this stoppage of machinery repre
sents an average of half time and each
spindle one half pound of cotton a day
for consumption when running full
time, then the reduced demand for cot
ton on account of idlo machinery of say
pound per spindle on 4,927,200
spindles leaves a vacuum in the cotton
market for over 2,500 bales of cotton a
day.
If this state of things is to continne
for one year tho falling off in home de
mand for cotton would aggregate 750,-
000 bales.
The cotton manufacturing business
has reached a crisis. It is evident that
there is an over-production of goods.
This can be met by reduced produc
tion, increased homo demand, increas
ed foreign demand or bankruptcy
of the mills.
Home demand cannot bo increased
so long as labor is idle and the business
of the country is depleted on this ac
count. The foreign demand cannot be
met except upon scales of wages for
mill operatives in this country that are
paid in Europe: The mills cannot and
will not continuo to run fall time when
they are losing money, and when there
is no prospect of a change for the bet
ter.
Tlie solution of this question, it
seems to us, must come from reduced
time, and hence this must affect tlie
the demand for and the price of cotton.
What is true of overproduction in
cotton goods in tlie United States is
true of most other brandies o manu
facture. These conditions extend alike
to ait the manufacturing nat the
world.
Men may speculate as they ple.se in
reference to trade. Its unsatisfactory
condition may bo attributed to high
tariff or free trade, according as tlie
locations of different theorists may
supply them witli opportunity to favor
or condemn the one policy or the other.
There are other conditions that not
only contribute to the general result,
but control it; and this is made appa
rent by the waning prosperity of tlie
A Few Figures.
Mr. Mulliall, a member of the British
Association, has been giving the report
ers some interesting figures concerning
tlie world's debt. This gentleman,
many years ago, constituted himself
general bookkeeper for the terrestrial
orb, and has published several books
upon his department. lie may be con
sidered authority when he states
that the total debt of tlie world
lias increased from $(195,000,000
in 1713 to $27,155,000,000 ill
1884. From tlie treaty of Utrecht
till tlie Freeh revolution, a period
of eighty years, tlie debts of nations in
creased at tho rate of $30,000,000 per
year. The rate of increase for the next
twenty-two years was at tho rate of
$200,000,000 per year; and since the
battle of Waterloo down to this
year tho increase has been ot the
rate of $300,000,000. In 1900, thinks
Mr. Mulhall, tho nations will owe $35,-
000,000,000, not including local debts.
Sixty per cent, of this represents war
debts.
Tlieso figures are certainly large
enough to alarm the economical, but
really there is no reason for alarm.
The world, fortunately, has no outside
creditors, and the debts are inter
changeable. One dollar suffered to
travel constantly would in timo pay off
most of the debts. Moreover, in Eu
rope public wealth increases far more
rapidly than public debt*, and in Amer
ica public debt decreases rapidly, while
public wealth increases beyond .ill
precedent. The posterity that comes
of age during the next sixteen
years will have to help pay
off the obligations of its ancestry, but
at the same time it will enjoy blessings
and wealth,such os no devisers ever yet
left to lie administered upon. In
1909 the estate will in all likelihood be
free and nniocnmbered, and tlie young
sters arriving thereafter will have com
paratively an easy time. How Uncle
Sam’s debts stand in relation to his as
sets may bo seen from Mr. Mullmll’s
summary;
The debt ratio to weslth per cent., at the
preient time, Is a. follows: United Kingdom,
8.4 percent; France. II.9;Gcnstny, 5.2: Russia
12.7; Austria, 12.8: Italy, 18.5: Basin, O.fi; Por
tugal, 28,5r Holland, 9.4; Belgium, 9.4; Den
mark, 3.0; Sweden and Norway, 2.0; Greece,
8.5; Europe, 10 8: United- States, 2.9; Canada,
5.6; Australia. 183: Argentine Republic, 7.9
Uruguay, 14.8. total, 9:9, Here we see that
there only eight countries In which the debt
rstlo Is up to 10 per cent, ot the naMonal
wealth. The national debt of the United
States, when eompsred to tho wealth ol the
country, is ooly2.o per cent.—lower than that
of any country included tn my inquiry.
i would,
A Chans* of Front.
Tlie most remarkable movement ol
this most remarkable campaign is now
in process.
Mr. Cleveland was nominated upon
the assurance that ho-oould carry New
York, tlie pivotal State, and that New
Jersoy, Connecticut and Indiana, tho
doubtful States, could be secured for
tho Democracy, Tho fight was opened
in tlie East and the New York IForfd, I manufacturing interests of both free
tlie organ of Mr. Cleveland in that sec- I traile nnil protective countries.
tion, announced that Mfl. Cleveland
himself would constrao the Chicago
platform as against the interpretation
of Messrs. Carlisle, Hhnl and Morrison..
Since the late speech of Mr. Hendrick*
it is proposed to abandon tlie East ami
to concentrate on tho West. Tbe Phil
adelphia Timet and Courier-Journal are
prominent anil pertinacious in tlie now
movement. The Courier-Journal fern
islies tho shibboleth of the new cam
paign in these lines.;
Revenue reform ti the balt’e cry for the
Weat; not a reform which will ootlify Mr. Bar-
bum, Mr. Randall or Mr. Convene, hut a real
radical revenue reform such. as meets the
rlcwa of Mr. Carllsc, Hr. Hurd and Mr. Mor
rison.
Tills means tlie abandonment of the
national committee, in whoso bonds
the campaign lias been placed. We
don't know anything about tills new
movement, or its prospect of success,
but everybody lias heard of the “houra
divided against itself” and tlie homely
adage about “swapping jack-knives
when crossing a stream.” The ntfi
tional committee has called a session.
Perhaps this flank movement is to be
considered In a council of war.
Stand by the .Military.
The organization of military posts
throughout the State to secure legisla
tion favorable to the existence and
prosperity of the State militia cannot
be too highly recommended. The
TiLxoRApn has for years appealed to
tlie people and to the Legislature to
sustain and foster the militia. It
the State's bulwarks, exerting an enor
mous silent influence in favor of order,
and standing between the people and
violence when peaceful methods
of preserving it have failed,
But for the existence
local military organisation with
ready arms, Georgia could not have
survived the fifteen years that followed
Appomattox, without wading through
a sea of blood; but for them, the next
ten years might be full of anarchy
they now are of uncertainty. Stand
by the milita-y. '.It has illustrated and
defended Georgia.
It is a burning'shame that the State’s
military organization* have under the
rule and direction of cheap politicians
and demagogue* been reduced to mere
skeletons, whom only the glory and
memory of a former greatness
hold together; that her soldiery
hive been compelled ^year after
uining regular police systems. It will; year for nearly a generation to defray
appear to any man of reasonable pur- tlie expenses of a precarious existence,
poses and principle* that with the Urge rely upon the general government for
class of reckless and brutal consumers; meagre (applies of arms and at the
scattered over the country, it jeopard* same time sene tbe whole people when
personal safety and private rights to called upon. Georgia cannot honorably
The cause is to be found in over-pro
duction. It were folly to say that the
milisol this country, or tlie labor em
ployed intlieiroperation, could find re
lief from stagnant and unprofitable
trade by a large influx of foreign goods.
Tlie idle machinery and labor of Eng
land, if put into operation and employ
ment to supply our demand, woqld
supplant ourown machinery and labor.
If it were possible for us to compete
with Europe for the trade of Central
and South America, China, Japan,
Africa nndlndia, upon American seal**
of wages, just to tlie extent that tve
employed our surplns capacity in this
trade, just to that extent would idle
ness come to tlie machinery and labor
now employed in Europe for this pur
pose,
Manufacturing has outgrown con
sumption. The nations of Europe real
ize this fact, and hence colonization
marks the policy of all the great pow
ers. England, leading all others in
manufacturing development, was the
first to realize the vital necessity for
outlets. As other nations developed
capacity to supply their own demands
and produco a surplus liesides, they
(ell upon her colonial policy, and are
looking with jealous interest now upon
her vast trade conquered by the sword,
In every quarter of the earth their
aimles and navies are stationed to pro
tect advantages already gained and for
the purpose of securing# others as op
portunity affords them,
There are ominous growls and strange
alliances among European cabinets
These indicate a new policy, in which
the balance of power, so-called, will in
reality be tlie balance ot trade.
■The greatest ability of European
statesmen and the highest arts of her
diplomatists are displayed in the strug
gle for manufacturing supremacy, for
the employment of her labor, and for
commercial advantages to distribute its
products to the world. England ex
cepted, protection is tho rale. They
jealously guard ss their own oil home
demand, and are entering into a su
preme straggle for the privilege of sup
plying that outside.
For privileges that England and ail
Europe are ready to go to war with
barbarians to acquire, the free trade
element in this country is seeking to
place within her grasp without any
compensation whatever.
Butler's Candidacy
Mr. Dana is, os a rule, astute, but
lie never wrote a sillier assertion
than that “Gen. Butler is destined
to break the crust of the solid
South and infuse a new set of ideas
into that portion of the Union.’' Ben
Butler’s name alone is enough to make
the South as solid as the silver he stole
from her helpless women. When But
ler succeeds in gaining favor with
tlie people whom he robbed, tradneed,
insulted and oppressed with tho heart
lessness of a Nero and tho malignity of
a Caligula, tho standard of public mor
als will have become too low for re
demption-
Tiiroughout tbo South people respect
the bravo men who fought them face to
face, who took and gave haul blows
and observed tho rales of civilized war
fare. But for Ben lib tier, tlie robber,
and W. T. Sherman, the incendiary,
the Attlia and Alaric of tho nineteenth
century,thoy have an infinite contempt
and an unchanging hatred. To assert
that either of these men can ever find
favor witli tlie Southern people is an
insult to every man and woman who
breathes Southern air. The roan who
supposes otherwise must be short of
‘memory and wanting in sense. The
spirit which ai.imatsd tlie dm ol this
section to engage for four years in the
most heroic straggle of the age, which
Inspired a womanly devotion each at no
age before has witnessed,has not grown
so-poor in twenty years as to slumber-
under every insult,
Peace reigns in the land, and the
bitterness ot ruined homes and broken
family circlet it, under tho inflnenceof
the fading years, gradually losing ita
sting. He is no friend of peace, no
lover of tlie Union, who would place
coals of fire npon tlie few raw places ot
the liody politic. This blear-eyed Mas
sachusetts thief is neither Democrat
nor Republican. His political history
is as splotched snd repulsive as his
morals. AU thingstoall men, a dema
gogue of the coarsest instincts, a crea
ture of the most brutal passions, with
out a party, without a people, without
principle, leave him to oblivion and
the mercy of his Creator. Do not test
too severely that of his fellow-men
CLIPPINCS.
THE END Or Till II MVZK.
P , She;
BUl wt.h7.'&w“ y ° U kn ° W ' U
They tell me if* lively In town
'iISt/° fir-good-bye: th.nk ,„ u
Forread/ng me all those nice hooks “
' bUudl, P ; ,OP0 ” <! ' ' U, “ U “ IU >■«
He's not such a tool as ho looks.)
HO;
‘Oh, yes, it Is true; I am colnz to-mo,,—
Good nlsbtandiood-by?. Mi„uS w:
And there salways abane tor the world'ofsor-
In thinking of yonr lair lacs.
Ah ' m son! Ut the,? P"” 10 ** “ re **4 beyond res-
Don't lauah-U Isn't a tear."
1 “ son- U1 C ° mc to thu P'*« next sta
rve had a close shave this year.) •
—W. J. Henderson, In Puck,
Tub wheat crop is estimated all the
way from 504,000,000 to 630,000.000 bush.
The issue of silver dollars for ths
week ending September 0, was $348407.
corresponding period of last year, $512,qji;
An East Indian demands justice
front the English government. Re sold
three of his wives and the buyer baa fallii
to pay him. He might su/oit a writ '
goods 11 ' bUt hC prefera the money to the
A very unpleasant sect to disagree,
with is a new religious body whose 5?
encehas within a few months come to
light in tbo Crimea. Members deem It
tbcir duty to kill on tho earliest opporii^
nity those who differ with them. 1
Tub Chinese troops are uniformed in
the hues of the rainbow, besides black snd
whits. Imagine 100 laundrymen in scar
let blouses and royal purple trousers drawn
up in line, adjoining them a company in
pure white, then a company In bn,,t
green, then one In light blue, and you have
a Chinese regiment. When they march
they lift up their feet like cats in the snow!
Mamma—“It is very wrong in you
Johnny, to qnarrel in this way." Johnny
(who has just bad a fight with his brother
Tom)—“Well, I got mad and had to do
something." Mamma-"But you should
not let your temper carry you away in that
manner. I will tell you a good iu!e: When
you are angry always count twenty berore
you strike. Tommy (tbe victor in the
recent unpleasantness)—"Yea, and he’d
better count forty liefore he strikes a fellow
that can lick him.”
A pAsssNGER in an Arizona railroad
train was arrested by a sheriff for a minor
offense a short timo ago. Seeing a judge
playing poker in the smoking car with a
brace of colonels, tbe sheriff prevailed upon
bint to stop the game tor a few minutes
and try the prisoner. The judge did so
fined the prisoner $10, and before an hour
had passed away had cleaned out every
colonel on the train. Then be played a lit
tle game with the late prisoner, who
promptly won a 1 the Judge’s pile, and set
up the drinks for tbe crowd.
A Methodist minister tried to-start
a church In a Western town, but from lack
of support had to (rive up the project.
This was the peroration of his farewell ser
mon: "At the last day the i-ord will sav
to Saint Peter, "Where Is vour flock?' nnil
Saint Peter will answer, 'Here, I.or.) f He
will sav to Catvin, “And where are yonr
sheep?’ and Calvin will reply, -Here,Lord; -
and eo ail ot the shepher.lt can answer.
But when he asks me. 'Where lire your
sheep?’ how will you feel when I am com.
IK-lled to reply. ‘Lord, I haven't any; mine
were ell hogs.' ”
Albany Kxprett: Tlie war in China
has visibly affected the tea market Re
cently 30,000 chests of black tea. inctndlng
Foo Chow. Among and l'ormo-a. were
sold here at an advance of three cents per
pound. In London tbe pries of tea has
gone up five cents. From the island of
Formosa this country receives annually
230,000 chests of tea, ami if the French,
who have already seized K« Lung, an im
portant tea exporting point, should close
up Tamsul, broken say there will be a big
advance in the price of black teas. About
50,000 packages of teas annually bare
usually come to this country from Foo
Chow.
—tienerul Booth, of the Salvation
Army, has spoiled for s trade mark on al
design of which the principal features are
a eras snd entire snd tbe words "Blood 1
and Fire." Tlie trade-mark Is to be used
in cutlery snd edge tools, in furniture
upholstery, snd Anally in pr(
the teeth and hair ands
preparations for
Tiie great remedy for rattlesnake’*
bite at Long Eddy, N. Y.. eras learned
eighty years ago from a half-breed Indian
b !■•-•) 1 1 lb-,-. !!,-• I J-- tM ,T. Il 1- 11-
fullowa: Apply '0 the wound a poultice at
one-half each of common salt and indigo,
mixed with cold water, and renew every
two hours. Est freely of Ut* leaves, or
drink often of a tea mad* from them, of a
variety of blue violet, commotilv known a-
the arrow-leaved violet (V. Sagilialai. If
the bit* bs> upon a leg or nu arm hind the
leaves in a circle around it. nhovc ami ju«t
beyond the swelling. Moisten with cold
water as often as they get drv from the fe
ver created by the poi-on slid renew two
or three times a day.
Conkllnsln th* Pandlnst Presidential Cam*
salgn.
Washington, September 7.—Mr. Cook*
ling's position in a Presideiiiial canvass
is alwats a matter of great Interest. It hat
been announoed that be would support
Cleveland, and this has been followed by
reports that he has consented to make a
immberof speeches In favor of Blaine. But
the ex-Senator himself hsr taken and will
taka no part In the campaign, in conver
sation with your correapomlcnt within the
paat few day- Mr. t oakling said that
in- would never enter politics agsiu;
that ha would never accept an
other office; that he would never
make another political speech, but sh-iuld
devote himself entirely to his law practice,
which demandsalibisUtne That bedocs
not favor the election ot Cleveland can be
emphatically stated, for he has no respect
tor or confidence in the man. Mr. Conk-
ling DOW has a very largo and profitable
law practice, which compels him to em
ploy elxassistants, anil until la-t week,
when ho went to Utica for n few days'
reel, has not bail a day of b-i-ure for more
than a year. Ho hat received a gnat
many Invitations to msk- not only politi
cal but other addrer-es. hut has declined
tbemaO.
A Subject for Judge Lynch.
Our Atlanta correspondent notes
the fact that on Peachtree street, in tlie
very heart of the city ol Atlanta, the
privacy of a seminary for girls was in
vaded st night by a black brute, ar.d
that he escaped fortunately before he
had attempted his hellish purpose,
and unfortunately before the police
could lay bands upon him.
We allude to tbe subject in this way
for two purposes. First to call atten
tion to the diabolism with which
negroes seek to assail white fe
males, of which tills is
most marked case, and secondly to
remind tbe people of Georgia, that this
outrage occurred in a city where a col
lege for negroes receives eight thorn
dollars per annum from the State,
in which social equality is taught by
precept and practice. The (act that tlie
college is there and is thns supported
in part, attracts a Urge negro popula
tion. The criminal statistics of At
lanta show it to be a vicious one. The
fact npon which we comment will
■hock tbe whole people of the State
and tend to accelerate the bloody as*
sizes presided over by Judge Lynch.
Cablegram
London. September 7.—Tbe ability of a
human being to exist for a long period
without natural food
monstrated in a recur
beta inratigated *
th«* Amtri »rt doctors
lost her way in a Rob
unable to return to
derad many mile-,
been
le
an fo
at and i
home. She wan-
I at I. mrth sank
down exhausted, and was uncon*ckms and
unable to respond when her neighbors went
tbroti'.'li the for.-tH linking and < alimg f«*r
her. 1‘nrtiM of villager* continmd t-*
search for her in vain, ami at tho end of a
month ull hope of finding her alive was
abandoned. On the fortv*5ixth day after"
she had been lost she wat discovered by
accldt-fit. The poor woman wni “till alive,
but wai in a moat pitiable condition. Sw
hud Mii,- -vd entirely hy miekini: dew
from the leave-* ami by eating grass.
When found shewn' -urroundeti by a num
ber of half famished f
tag the death of tlu
.1 prey.
—Dom Pedro, Emperorof Ilr;
a-ked and obtained lenve of ab
two years to visit Japan ami Chin
An old phj
tice having li
an East Indi;
of a simple v
speedy and
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