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FROM A MERCENARY VIEW.
Although the lynching of negroea la
do longer confined to the South, the
preea of the North continues to refer
to these lawless demonstrations as seo
tlonal occurrences. Here, now, comes
the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic
paper that is usually fair to the South,
saying:
The hurtling of negroc* st the stake certainly
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SATURDAY, SKPT. 7. lftOl.l
Who, now, is the Sonth Georgia can
didate for governor?
Saturday's (xlition of the Atlanta
Nows was a grout paper.
put. ths perpetrxtoni of such fiendish cruelty
on a level with tho most Isirhnrous peoples of
fho enrtli. Ah n inism of provuntlng crlmo
thorn, horrlrl lynching orgh-H .ro n demon-
Htrntt.1 failure. This fm-t negative* tho only
ItOHolhlo oxcuno. Tho problem for thu Mouth-
ern whiten to mn,t,-r in how tofrlndloato thotr
own civilisation. Whon negroca worn worth
money In tho day. ef slavery burning, at the
Htako were unheard of, nod there in little doubt
that lynching would now glvo place to lawful
m.-nliH of punishment If lynching Hlmuld Imi
made expensive ho tlint evory man', pookot
might Ih, touched who engaged in it.
The Herald docs not wish to ho un
derstood as justifying, or even apolo
gizing for, tho burning of nugroas at the
Btake. The heluoasness of the crime
Tho ontton crop is about throe weeks)
late lu Soathwost Georgia. I
Senator Mol.uurin Isn't nfrald, and
Tillman ovldently knows It,
The school teachers will have to wait
for tholr mono, again next year.
This time last year new arop cotton
money was circulating freely In Albany.
Several farmers around Albany are
trying the oorn stalk shreddor tills year.
Georgia gets $»7,814 of thu military
appropriation of tho national govern
ment.
JnoTerroll still lias the boys guessing
us to tho prohahalo ooutents of his egg
basket.
Georgia hue more progressive, up to-
datu daily nuwspapers than any other
Southorn state.
America is now progressing mure rap
idly than any other aoantry in the world
Od 01 ttorlal lion.
Unless all signs fail, llioro will be
some sensational developments iu thu
Sohley oourt of inquiry.
There are so many gubernatorial
booms in Georgia that there is a laok of
epontanity about nil of thorn.
Chronic growling is bad enough in lit-
dividnals, but. when a newspaper ac
quires the habit—horrors I
Mrs. Oarrlo Nation has about mil her
ootu-so. She line utterly failed to etir
np a sensasum In New York.
Tax OoUemor Sanford, of Floyd comi
ty, evidently has a card np his Blaove,
and his friends have not lost ooulideuoe
in him.
Marons A. Hanna can uevor measure
np to the high idealists as a president of
the United States, but ho is good enough
for the Republionn party.
The hog and hominy plau of fnt-ming
-will win in Georgia again this year,
wherever it has been adopted, regard
less of tho pnoo of oottoa.
Tho oyster season is supposed to have
opened with tho first of September, bat
the weather is still too warm for ship
ping the snccnlent bivalves into the in
terior.
How many Dougherty county farmers
will be found competing fur thut $109
premium for the best display at the Hay
Day Carnival and Street Fair iu No
vember?
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The Commissioner of Iuternal Rev-
vani! does not boliore that the reductions
made by Congress in war taxes will ag
gregate the estimated amount of $40,-
000,000 for the oorrent fiscal year, On
the basis of present receipts be estimates
a falling off ot about $57,000,000. The
error in estimate grew oat of a failure
ito take into aooonnt the Inducement to
greater production resulting from lower
' tax rates.
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whioh it it Intended to expiate is not a
justifying cause lu tho eyes of civlllza-
lioo.
But the Rooord does the people of the
Sonth an injustice In the comparison it
draws in the above between slavery
times, when the uogroes were worth
money, and tho present, whon thoy rep
resent in dollars and oonts uothiug to
uuybody.
It is true that the burning of negroos
at the stake was something unheard of
in the Sonth daring slavery times, hat
It is also true that thu crime of assaalt-
ing white women by negroes was
unheard of in those days. The provoca
tion whlob now so frequently arouses
the whites to barbarism was never given
while tho uogroes were iu slavery. It
is different now. The negroes are dif
ferent. The now generation, having
grown up without either the restraint or
moral training thut wore given to the
negroos in slavery, turns out a species
of brutes and fiends unknown under the
old regime.
Thu mistake that the Record makes
and the great injustice whioh it imputes
to the white people of the Sonth is in
Its broad intimation that tho value of
tho negro's life in dollars and oonts evsr
did ont any figure in this lynching bnsi-
uoss. Tho tirno never has been when a
negro or a white man either could have
lived lu tho South after committing tho
orime for whioh negroes are now fre
quently burned at the stake. ThingB of
this sort aro considered less from the
standpoint of dollurs and cents in
tho Sonth tbuu they are at tho North.
The mercenary view of the sitaation
takou by tho Philadelphia Record is
not warranted by tho facts.
THE B U8IXE8S OUTLOOK.
'With the advent of September the
ootton season opens thronghoat South
ern Georgia and what is known as the
fall business season begins. This year
the ootton crop is backward and the
usual business aotivity is consequently
delayed for from two to three weeks.
The comparative statement of this year’s
looal ootton receipts with those of lost
year, ap to September 1st, "published in
another column of today’s Herald, fur
nishes the best information that ean be
hod on this subject.
The ontlook for business this season
is all that the baslnoss men of Albany
coaid reasonable expeot. The crop pros
pects In this immediato section are, npon
the whole, as good as those in any other
part of the country, and tho prioe of
cotton promises to range around 8 cents
daring the first month of the market
season. While we would all lo glad to
boo the staple bring 1A cents, we are
obliged to admit, in the light of past ex
perience, that an 8 cents market is not
altogether an unprofitable one.
The merchants of Albany are in good
shape for tho season just oponlng, and
tho same may also be said of onr banks,
warehouses, cotton buyers and railroads.
Onr city has been singularly free from
business failures of all kinds this year,
and it may bo said that the city has
never boon better prepared to satisfac
torily handle an inoroasiug volnme of
basinesi than it is at the beginning of
the present fail soasuu.
The plow trust Is one of the latest
oombines to whioh the farmers are ex-
I peoted to pay tribute. Bat there must
be a limit to the exaotlons of this trnst.
, Plowshares oan be made at home. It
liaHn’tbeen so long bnt what most of ns
can remember when most of the plows
used on tho big plantations of tho South
were made at home. Every plantation
of any oonsidorable size bud its own
blaoksmith shop and blacksmith, and
tho plows used on tho farm were thns
■node and kept in goodjrepalr from year
to yonr. And then evory neighborhood
and village had its blaoksmith who aonld
forge from tho orade iron and steel the
very best of plows. Tho into Ool. B. G.
Lockett, one ot tho most extensive and
successful planters In Southwest Geor
gia for twenty years or more following
tho War Between the Suites, had all his
plows made at heme, and there are
blacksmiths still living in this oonnty
who served him at Ills forge.
The Ralolgh News and Observer calls
attention to the foot that one of the first
lynohlugs of a negro for an ussanlt upon
a white woman was by a regiment of
soldiers of Sherman’s army. Tho iuoi-
dent ooourrod lu Johusou oonnty, North
Carolina, lu the spring of ISAS. Tho sol
diers fouud the woman outraged,
wounded and suffering, and she told a
party of them her story. Tho brute she
described was only a few hundred yards
away, uud the soldiers, when thoy
oaughi him, shot him to death without
trial or tueroy. They thought that-
oither would hnvc boon ont of plaoe, and
it is thu survirul of this feeling thut is
responsible for lynohings today. It is
remarkable, however, that Northern
men should have set the fashion for
what Northern newspapers ore wont to
speak of as a distinctively Sontberu in
Btitntlon,—Savannah News.
A wealthy yanng New York woman,
says tho Baltimore Herald, sets an ex
ample that might well be followed in
every oity of the ooautry. Twice a
week she drives into the seotious occn-
plud by the very poor and takos a car
riage load of orippled children oat for a
long drive. There is no estimating tho
amount of happiness that she thus car
ries into the lives of the unfortunate
children, and whatever the cost to her
of the Inoonveuieuce of foregoing liack-
noyed social pleasnrs on her charity
drive days, she is more thau compen
sated by the know-ledge of the love that
is felt for her by hearts that aro s,lll
young enough to bo savod from perver
sion by her kindness. Bnt she has done
more than merely take tho ohildren for
drives. She lias unearthed an amount
of knowledge regarding the ancared for
cripples, old and yonng, that has ap
pealed to the hearts of many, and others
have been interested in the work she in
augurated, so that today a vast amount
of gentlest charity is being done by the
Chnroh Settlement Society along lines
first laid by the rich and gentle "district
viiitor.”
WHO BOLTED OR SULKED I ' I
Now and then we see it hinted in the
newspapers that not all the gentlemen
who are now eundidatps for guberna
torial honors vi>1 nrt the regular Demo
cratic tioket in 1S96. Here, now, comes
the Americus Times-Recorder:
Tie- Timcs-Hi-cordm- would film to know how
the numerous candidate* for governor voted In
the proHldentlnl election in 18W. bid thoy nil
vote for tho nominee of tho Democratic psrtj?
Tho people would liko to lie null (tilted on this
question.
It is a well kuown faot that we had a
good many goldbngs in Georgia who
oither voted for Palmer and Buoknor or
sulked and refused to vote at all, be
cause they were unwilling to vote for
Bryan, the Democratic nominee, in 1899,
bnt we have never heard either of the
gentlemen who are now seeking party
honors at the hands of the Democrats
of Georgia directly accused of beiug
among the bolters or sulkers. If either
of them failed to vote the regular Demo
cratic tioket in 189U the Herald, like its
esteemed Americus contemporary,would
liko to know it. But whioh of thorn is
suspected?—to which Bhall the direot
qnestion, "Did yon vote for Bryan in
189(1?" be put. If anybody knows any
thing in this connection that the Demo
crats of Georgia ought to know, now is
the time to “oough It up.”
The Ohioago Ohroniole says: "Sen
ator Depew is quoted us saying that the
worst thing nbout the persecution of
Admiral Sohley liy the Navy Depart
mont Is that it has brought contempt
and derision npon ns nbroad. This us
poet ol the case is had onongli, bnt, with
dne respect to the Now York senator, it
may bo said that it is not the worst
feature. The worst feature of the
Sohley case is tho contempt and derision
in which the little nest of bureaucrats iu
tho Navy Department hold their mas
ters, the American people."
John AlexanderDowie, the new or re
turned "Elijah" who has been creating
a sensation iu Chicago by preaching
snub rot as even the ignorant plantation
uogroes of the Sonth oonld not be fooled
with, is evidently doing a prosperous
business in the Windy Oity and vicinity.
His personal property assessment was
raised the other day from $16,000
to $.>00,009. Tho success of
this man Dowie is an in
dication that new religions are in de
mand at the North.
The uneasiness of Americans for tho
safety of the America’s cup has been
considerably increased since the arrival
of the challenger on this sido of tho
pond. Shamrock’s performances have
been of such character as to convince
yachting experts that she is a remarka
ble boat, and that her chances of out
sailing any- craft in Aiuericnu waters
are excellent. Many competent author
ities are forced to admit, though with
great reluctance, that Columbia seems
to be a better boat than Constitution,
and thnt she has fairly earned the right
to defend the cup a second time. At
any rate, the races are going to be the
most exciting in the history of interna
tional yaobting. If Sir Thomas Lipton
captures the cap, he will have a race on
his hands every year us long as it re
mains on British soil, for the millionaire
members of the New York Yacht Olnb
will fall over each other in their eager
ness to bnild a boat that can cross tho
Atlantic and wrest from British sailors
and ship-bnilders tho honor won after
so many years of persistent endeavor.
It is all well enough for Southern cot
ton growers to effect organizations for
thepnrposeof "regnalting” prices, bnt
there are bettor and surer ways of ac
complishing the sumo end. Every
farmer who is living at home, employ
ing Intelligent agricultural methods and
praotloing wise economy iu ail the de
partments of ids farm is making money.
As fast as he makes it, let him combine
his capital with that of other farmers or
progressive business men for the build
ing of ootton mills olose to the fields
where the staple is raised. Those mills
wjl 1 consume n large portion of the cot
ton raised in tin- South, and when prop
erly managed will turn handsome profits
into the pookets of their owners. With
Increased oonsnmption of the section’s
great staple at home will come si arper
demand from New England, Europe and
other quarters of the globe; and higher
prloes follow increased demand as surely
os night follows day. When the funner
becomes so independent that he oan
either soli his cotton, hold it indefinitely
or send it to a near-by mill in whioh he
la a stockholder to be manufactured into
doth, without inconvenience to himself,
then will he be able to say to the world's
spinners, "If yon want my cotton, pay
my prioe.”
The bright paragraphists of the Geor
gia press have fallen naturally into a
habit of oalling the Pnlaski statesman
"Farmer Brown.” It may safely bo as
sumed that Mr. Brown is jnBt tiokled to
death to be reoognized as the farmer
oandidate, for the votes of the horny
handed sons In Georgia are a power.
Governor Gaudier, kuown throughout
his politioal career as the "ooe-eyed
plowboy," has been invinoible. The
hayBeed trademark on candidates is a
political desideratum in Georgia.
For thirty long years William Wood
ruff has been a recluse in the Gouuecti-
ent woods, all on account of the perfidy
of a yonng woman who had promised to
marry him. Lest Saturday old memo
ries came over him and impelled him to
walk the seven miles from his lonely
oabin to Winsted for an apple pie.
There aie some fond affeotions which
will survive oven nn nnhnppy love af
fair, and in the case ot a New England
man the inherited fondness for pie is
one of them.—Philadelphia Record.
There need be no surprise at the in
crease in the tax rate in Georgia. The
rate, ns fixed by the Governor and
Comptroller General this week, is np to
the limit of the law, and still there will
bo a deficit. It is all due to the liberality
of the state to tho Confederate soldiers
and their widows and to appropriations
made for public schools. Georgia leads
tho Soutli in her liberality to the Con
federate veterans and the widows of sol
diers. With the single exception of
Texas, she also leads in appropriations
for pnblio schools.
The fellow who can tell you who is
going to be the next governor of Geor
gia and looks wise as he proceeds to ex
plain just why it will be so, really
knows no more abont it than the rest
of ns. He is only talking through his
hat.
BLACKS IK THE BOER WAR.
To the average Englishman or Ameri
can the suggestion looking to the em
ployment of Africans in the Boer war
Is sufficient to produce n shudder.
"There arc," says the Buffalo Express,
'three races whose interests are to be
cashiered iu connection with the em
ployment of natives iu the war in Sonth
Afrioa—the British, the Boers and the
negroes. The British doubtless will find
it to their immediate advantage to uBe
the blacks. Kitchener demonstrated iu
his Sondan campaign that African ne
groes under white officers oan be made
very serviceable troops. He had several
regiments of them at Omdnrman, and
they stood ap to the attack of the Kha
lifa’s foroes as well as their white com
rades. In Sonth Afrioa thoy have the
advantage of being familiar with the
country and acoastomed to the olimate.
Moreover, if the death rate among them
is high, it is no great consequence They
have no friends and no political iulltfence
iu Great Britain. They require little
pay, and can get along with mnoh
cheaper foodandlesshoBpital attendance
than white soldiers. Their use would
lessen considerably the cost of the war,
and it would not make so mncli differ
ence if the struggle iB prolonged in
definitely.
The same considerations whlob
make it advantageous to the British to
nse the natives make it of great import-
anoe to the Boers that they should not
be employed. And in the Boers’ case
there is the added danger that the blaoks
may be stirred np to make war in their
own savage fashion, murdering women
and ohildren and pillaging the country
of all that tho British have left in it. It
is not to be supposed that the British
wonld deliberately make nse of snoh a
terrible weapon. They contemplate
only the employment of blaoks in a reg
ular tashion, as the Indian troopB are
used. But it is easy to sod that with the
blacks onco involvod in the war they are
likely soon to get beyond British oontrol.
A negro detachment may be led into
battle, nud a score or more of yonng
men killed. Their tribe asks, "Who
lias done tills?” The answer is, "The
Beets.” The tribe rushes to arms to
take vengeance on the Boers, and the
horrors of berbarian warfare are let
loose on the country.”
Free silver will stay "dead,” except
in the imagination of a few fanatics, as
long as the supply of gold continues to
increase at the present rate.
ADMIRAL HOWISON’S LETTER.
Rear Admiral Henry L. Howison,
selected by the Navy Department as the
third member of the Sohley conrt of in
quiry, has written a personal letter to
Acting Secretary of the Navy Haokett
in whioh the oharge that the writer is
Dot competent to serve on the oonrt is
met and refuted. The letter was a per
sonal one, bnt at the request of the act
ing secretary, Admiral Howison con
sented to have it made pnblio. It was
given to the press yesterday.
The letter is manly and oalonlated to
favorably impress the pnblio. Admiral
Howison does not see fit to say anything
bard abont anybody, and it is evident
that’the criticisms of which he has been
the target have not caused him to smart
and grow resentful. He denies that he
gave ont the alleged Boston Interview
lu whioh a comparison between Rear
Admirals Sampson and Sohley was
made, and the oredit for the Santiago
naval viotory given t< the former. Ad
miral Howison declares that he is abso
lutely impartial in all matters apper
taining to the Sohley oase, and oan serve
as a member of the ooart wlthont taint
of prejudioe. The pnblio is glad to
hear from Admiral Howison. His state
ment makes the friends of Admiral
Sohley feel better.
This paragraph, from the Atlanta
Journal, is a gum: "I’m gwine tell
yuu what ’tie, Brndder Johnsun," said
a Georgia darky whose crops have suf
fered as much from the present wet
spell as they did from the recent dronth,
"dis thing they cnll providence, takin'
it up wan side en down de udder, do jeB
'bout mnoh harm es it do good.”
This is the w ay the Sohley Oonnty
Nows sizes up the early-bird gubernato
rial campaign: "The preachers for
Gnerry, the editors for Estill, the gold-
bags for Turner, the politicians for Ter
rell and the farmers for Brown.
Ootton is now beginning to move in
this section. The business men have
been nut a little impatient on acoount of
the lateness of the orop and the conse
quent delay in the opening of the
full trade, bnt now a general livening
np all along tho line is at hand.
Empress Frederick, according to the
Loudon Daily Chronicle, was'the cause
of the introduction of Christmas trees
into England. Her father, Prince Al
bert, insisted on having a German
Christmas tree with its lights and deco
rations for his baby danghter in 1840,
and the fashion spread rapidly.
Keep qniet, Panline; France and
Turkey are not going to fight. All this
fuss is mere bluffiug.
One of the proposed amendments to
the Virginia constitution reduces the
governor’s salary. The governor of
Virginia has a four-year term, and re
ceives $6,000 a year.
Ool. Dnpont Gnerry has announced
that he will not oontest the home coun
ties of the other gnbernatorial candi
dates nnless some of them make a fight
on him for his own county, Bibb.
Ool. Evan P. Howell has annonnoed
that he will be a oandidate for repre
sentative of the seventh ward on the
Atlanta oity council. It is probable
that he will hare no opposition, or that
is what his friends olaim.
The oontinned rains suppress the
fraganoe of fresh mown hay on many a
farm in Southwest Georgia.
Pope Brown is another oandidate
whom the newspaper reporters oan’t
make talk when he doesn't want to talk.
Joe Terrell is the most dlsoreet guber
natorial candidate of the lot.
Hon. Henry G. Turner and Attorney
General Terrell still 1 ang fire.
By all means, let ns have that ex
periment station iu South Georgia.
Tlie Herald stioks to the prediction
that Georgia will have some oil gushers.
The Saltan of Turkey needs a lesson
in morals, especially with reference to
business matters.
The other gubernatorial candidates
are going to fiud in Dnpont Gnerry a
hard fighter to the end. /'
Ootton is beginning to "shed” as a di
rect resul; of too mnoh rain.
Mrs. Nation is evidently afraid to
draw her hatchet in New York.
There are said to be ten thousand
Americans living in London.
There’s a touoh of fall in the air today.
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