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SATURDAY. DEO. 21, 1901.
Atlanta alono haa can«o to feel grate
ful to the late loglslatnre.
Wo will donbtloss have lome warm
■politics In Georgia neat year.
A drnnken man and a pistol make a
dangerous combination. '
v The legislature la dead. Wo haven't
heard of anybody going In mourning.
Dewey Is all right, and he says that
A Sell ley Is tho real liuro of Santiago.
■ * Georgia experienced her llrst taste of
snro enough winter weather Saturday
night.
When Atlanta starts iu to pnll the
Vooorgta leglslatnre’s leg sho generally
does It. __
How about the man In this oonntry
who never goes, to ohuroh i Isn’t he a
heathen? ‘
Nobody ueod be borrowing any tronblo
about the anrplus. OougrosH will dis
pose ol It. j_
The Augnita Ohronlole allndos to the
reoent state aggregation at Atlanta as
the “depot-ature.”
The Boer war is oostlog Eugluud a
million dollars a day, and England Is
beginning to fool It.
Thepeoplo of Georgia have booome
. too Indifferent in tbo mattor of electing
men to represent them in the leglsla-
j tore. j__ .
Admiral Sohloy oau well afford to let
the verdict of tho court of inquiry stand
as it Is. Tho oonntry is satisfied and h >
ought to he.
The blizzard didu’t reach Southwest
Georgia, but it blow itH oold breath this
way, and wo have been given a touch
of roal.wlnter.
The average oonntry odttor is now iu
• a frame of mind that will enable the
■ delinquent subscriber to find lilm will-
lng to aooept a load of wood on account.
■ 7 Tho press ot tho oonntry is well uigli
unanimous in Indorsing Admiral
Dewey’s minority report or disseutiug
opinion, In tho Sohloy court of Inquiry,
I Although tho Sohloy oonrt of inquiry
' ’ ii"s roudored its report, it is still teohui
cally in RCssiou and will remain so until
R; ' dissolved by tbo Secretary of tho Navy,
,.J$ The cotton market ought, to settle
flown to business now. There’s no Ion-
. ■ f er any rootr. to doubt that tho frost
nud loobiii-'f. have flnv.hed their deadly
work .
Tho distribution o( the prize money
i to the naval force engaged In tbo battle
ot Santiago has given rieu to a demand
HI j, tor the abolition of the whole prize
[money system-
Tho city con noil of Atlanta has been
holding mootings and inviting the peo
ple to appear before the body to discuss
the franchise quesiiou In connection
with the propos'd consolidation of the
street railway systems of that city, and
the^olnt debate pucipitat'.u
82£6B 3pioy.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
Government by Injnnotlon has re
cently experienced one of the motion-
ary movements whloh often oome in
this oonntry when the people rise in
their wrath and emlte those who go too
far in a oonrte of defiance of the estab-
llehed prlnolplce of oar repnbUcan form
of government.
The radioal enforcement of govern
ment by injnnotlon in the oity of
Antonia, Oonneotiont, haa home fruit
whloh it Menu it hot to the taste of
those who advocate that kind of govern
ment. The workingmen ot Ansonla en
gaged in a strike and a large number of
them were sent to jail (or contempt on
the ground that they had violsted' an
Injnnotlon of oonrt, and this faot had 1
Its effect on the mnnloipal election
The working people pnt op Ur. Oharterle,
the strike leader, for mayor and eleoted
him, together with the other oity of
ficials nominated by them. The new
mayor took ohtrge of his offloe a few
days ago and at once annonneed his ap
pointments. Be hss made fifty-one ap
pointments and all of them except fonr
have gone to members of labor nnions,
while the fonr non-nnion men are
known to be unionists in sympathy.
The offloes, however, have been dis
tributed with fine impartiality among
Republicans and Democrats and the
mayor intends to have a non-partisan
adminetrntlon so far as politics Is con
cerned. One of the appointees is an Epis
copal olergyman, another la a lawyer,
another a merohant, another a clerk,
bat the bulk are mechanics and arti
sans, Tho salary of the Mayor is only
(600 a year, and ho works at his trade
between times. Bolievlng that he was
not eleoted os a Republican or a Demo
orat, but as the leader of union work
men on a strike he has made hts admin
istration unionist to the core.
Tho speolal interest that the ontside
world has in the election of Mayor Char-
terls cantors In tho faot that a whole
oity In Oonnectiontarosoin its wrath,and
in the most omphatla way open to It de
nonnoed the modern Bystem of govern
ment by injnnotlon.
Mr. James J. Neville has stirred np
strife and contention by the publication
of a book in which Mr, Cleveland is
credited with nalng the expression,
am a Democrat," oxuotly twelve years
before Mr. Hill gained fame by Incorpor
ating it In a speech at Brooklyn. “It is
very mean of Mr. Neville to rob Mr.
Hill of his ohief olaim to fame," re
marks the Baltimore Herald, "bnt the
wonder Is that ho paused at a period
only a dozen years previous to that ot
Mr. Hill’s Brooklyn speooh to find the
origin of the. remarkable plagarism,
Certainly a searoh of ransty reoords
most reveal the foot that there have
been DomornU before either Mr. H1U or
Mr. Cleveland attained prominence, and
somo of them may have hit upon the
method of oonveying to othei-B the
knowledge o their party affiliation by
stnting.tlie fact in the plain and simple
lnngnnge Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Hill
nsud. Let Mr. Neville exerolse a little
more energy and he will probably re
lievo Mr. Hill’s friends of the jealousy
tha* haa been aroused by depriving Mr.
Cleveland also of the credit of oharmlng
originality and folloity in expression iu
this instance. By all means, let ns
kuow who first said *1 am a Democrat,
and then It might be interesting to pur-
sue an investigation as.to the identity
of the first writer of party platforms
who undo uso of thepbrasos ‘point with
pride’ and ’view with alarm.’ ” Fol
lowing this, tho Now Orleans States
suggests that “it might be well for Mr.
Neville to nlso address himself to tbo
task oi establishing tho identity of the
mysterious individual who struck Billy
Patterson."
MADE TO ORDER.
We are to have another lawsuit over
the fund in the state treasury arising
from the sale of pnblio property, and the
oase it one that has been made to order
by the legislature, the governor, the at
torney general and the treasurer. The
plans have all been laid and the oase is
to be brought with as little delay
as possible, and If thb supreme
oonrt will carry ont Its part of
the program and decide the oase so that
part of tho pnblio property fond can be
uled for the purpose of paying the In
terest on the public debt which falls
due In 1003, all will be well; otherwise,
the state will be unable to meet all iu
obligations and the pnblio aohool
teachers oannot be paid their salaries
and the indigent Confederate veterans
will have to go without their pensions,
The late legislature, at the very heel
of the session, passed the resolution in.
trodaoed by Sentor Howell dirooting the
state treasurer to transfer (836,800 from
the pnblio property fnnd to the interest
aooount and to pay it ont ont as interest
on the bonded debt for 1003, This, it is
agreed and understood, the treasurer
will refnae to do, and then the'attorney
general, by direction of the governor,
will file a mandamus salt in the supe
rior oonrt of Fulton county asking that
the treasurer be ordered to do as the
Howell resolution direots. No matter
owthe question is deolded in the au
perlor court, it Is to be appealed to the
supreme court at onoe. The supreme
oonrt, it seoms, is expected to “get a
move on” and render a quick decision,
Mnoh depends on the way this offi
cially made-to-order law easels deolded,
and the outcome will be looked 'for
with Interest.
“Platt’s Passing is a Sad Story” is the
heading given to an urtiolo in Sunday
Atlanta Constitution ivhloh tells about
how Koosovelt, Odell and Low aro
camping on the New York Republican
boss’ trail for the purpose - ‘ f “doing
him. But Boss Platt hasu’t passed yet
and the probabilities aro that he will
yet euchre the triumvirate. Platt
used to that sort of tliiug.
After all, Admiral Dewoy is a bigger
man than Admirals Beuham and Ram
say together, and his opinion is worth
more in a naval affair. If Admiral
Schley ,-onld have hud his choice ho
would no douut have prefer;-a. tho In
dorsement or uewoy than to have bad
that of both the other members of the
oourt of inquiry.
AS TO RECIPROCITY.:
In his Buffalo speech, his last publio
utteranoe, the late Preoident McKinley,
a life-long protectionist, declared for'a
polloy of reciprocity in our commercial,
relations with the other oountries of the
world, and argued that we oould no
longer expeotto sell our produots and
manufaotnres countries from whloh we
bought nothing or whose produouand
manufaotnres were exoluded from our
own markets by a prohibitive tariff.
His speech was Interpreted to be a decla
ration for the inauguration of a policy
of reciprocity by tbo Republican party,
and we heard no protests.
But Blnoe Congress has met it has be
come evident tq, those who are watching
the trend ol events that the Republican
polloy is not only no reciprocity, bnt no
tariff revision—nothing, in faot, that
oan have the effect of making the
•lightest breaoh in the protective tariff
wall. This Is clearly outlined in Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s message, in Secretary
Root’s report and in the discussion of
the Philippine tariff bill in the ways and
means committee.
In President Roosevelt’s message
there is a most glaring inconsistency in
his advocacy of reciprocity with Cuba,
a oonntry not belonging to tho Ujited
States, while nrRing the Dingley tariff
against the Philippines, whloh the Su
preme Court has declared to bo a part
of onr territory.
Bat neither oonslstenoy nor the decis
ions of the Snpreme Court ont any fig-
are in the calculations of the protec
tlonists.
Sister Myriok, of the Araerions Times-
Reoorder, Is still roasting Governor
Candler for vetoing the Wright dispen
sary bill. Tho Hebald asked, the other
day, who conld figure out the effeot that
the veto ‘would have on the guberna
torial campaign, and the Timos-Recorder
reprodnoos tho paragraph and answers
the question as sollows: “Why, Gov
ernor Candler thinks he knows It all,
and the Tlmes-Reootder respeotfully re-
fors Editor McIntosh tof the "Chiof
Exeontioner" for tho desired informa
tion. Governor Candler figured long
on this Identical point, and his veto of
the Wright bill wnB for no other pur
pose than to muddle the political situa
tion in 1003 bo that he and some of his
henohmen might profit thereby.”
A class of divinity students at the
Chicago University Is to journey to
Palestine this winter to study the his
torical geography of the country on the
spot. The party will bo In ohargo of
Professor Sailer Mathews, and will sail
from New York on Saturday next. And
when they get back home the Inst one
of those yonng divines will have a lec
ture on.the Holy Land to work off on
their helpless congregations. We may
oxpeot to hear lectures on the Holy
Land and Napoleon, without hearing
anything new about oither, during the
balance of our lives.'
It appears that the fame of the Amer
ican catfish hss gone abroad and a
Freuoh society has made arrangements
to stook the Seine with these ugly
speoimouB of the finny tribe. It oornes
to us by way of the New Orleans States
that a Paris newspaper has been in,
formed by the secretary of the society
that “tho catfish is of peaoefnl habits,
lives on worms and is easily tamed.
When it lackes oxygen it rises to the
surfaco of the water, whore it remains
in a perpeudioular position with its head
oat of tho water and ntters a metallic
ory,"
The Philadelphia Record says it iB
easy to defluo tbo difference betweou
the Democrats and the Kopnblioans
Tho Democrats everywhere are in fa
vor of abolishing tho treasury surplus
by moderato reduction of taxos, nnd,
above all, of the excessive duties on im
ports. The Republicans aro iu favor of
expending tho surplus and maintaining
the taxes.”
AN EPIDEMIC OF FIRES.
Albany has been experiencing what
may bo termed an epldemlo of fires re
cently, and some of the fires have been
costly ones.
Within a short space of time we have
had fire losses that will amonnt to con-,
slderably over (100,000. The Mnse &
Co. warehouse fire alone licked up prop
erty valued at nearly (100,000, and the
fire at the plant of tho Virglula-Ooro-
liua Ohomical Company on Wednesday
nnd tho one whloh destroyed 8. Farkas’s
stables yesterday add at least (10,000
more to the destructive work of the
flames.
All tho property that lias b en de
stroyed by these fires, except one or two
lots of ootton held by individuals in
Mnso & Oo.’s warehouse, was iusurod,
and tho gr ator part qf the losses falls
upon tho insurance companies, bnt the
losses sustained by tbo property owners
have not been lnoonsiderablo.
We have heard it stated, though we
oonfess to have had some donbt about
the correctness of it, that tho iusnraeoe
companies have paid moro money for
losseB In Albany during the last twerty
years than the premiums they have col
lected would amonnt to in the aggre
gate for the samo length of time. If
this statement wob correct, the insur
ance business In Albany must now be
considerably “to tho bad" for the In
surance companies.
Flames which gutted Leroy Payne’ 6
livery stable, in Chicago on Wednesday,
detroyed the famous carriage in which
President McKiuley rode during tho ju
bilee celebration in 1808, nnd whloh also
occupied a conspicuous plaoe iu the Mc
Kinley memorial parado in September.
Payne hnd been offered (1,000 by pri
vate parties, for tbo vehicle who hoped
to preserve it aB a relto.
Admiral Dewey has a backbone that
not oven tho powerful anti-Schley clique
In tho navy department could bend.
Ho is a grand old man, and stands today
os high in tho affection and esteem of
the American people as he did three
years ago, when ho rotarned from the
East to bo crowned, with the laurel
wreaths of an enthusiastic poople.
THE FINDING OF THE SCHLEY
COURT.
The reporjt of the Sohley oourt of in
quiry has at last been made pnblio. A
summary of the verdtot is published
elsewhere in today’s Hebald.
To say that the result of the court’s
investigation is a complete surprise is
sx) raising tho oase mildly. Few per
sons who followed the testimony ad-
dnoed during the seven weeks covered
by the investigation dotfbted that the
finding would bring oomplete exonera
tion of Admiral Sahley. The presenta
tion to hie side of the oase was even more
gratifying to his friends and admirers
in every seotion of the oonntry than
they had dared rope for.
The report of Admirals Benham and
Ramsey sustains the contentions of that
element In the narat establishment
popularly designated as the "anti-Sohley
faction,” with the alngle exception that
the oharge of oowardloe is dismissed.
The applicant is fou^d guilty of being
“dilatory, vaoillatlng and inaoonrate,”
and lq a general way inoapable of
measuring np to the standard of an
Amerioan naval commander.
The minority report of Admiral
Dewey will be greeted by the sincere
applause of unqualified approval from
ocean to ocean. His opinion, filed in
tho form of a minority report, deolares
that Admiral Sohley was in fall com
mand at Santiago, that he [measured np
fully to the responsibilities of his posi
tion, and that he is entitled to the oredit
for the glorious viotory whloh resulted
in the destrnotlon of the Spanish fleet.
The ontooms of the inquiry convinees
the pnblio—if anything more were
neoded to ourry oonviotlon—that there
is a ollque in the navy whioh works to
gether for the advancement of its own
Interests. That oliqne plotted (the ruin
of Admirial Schley and the making of a
hero ont of one of its own pets. The
people believe now and will always be
lieve that tho finding of the oonrt of in
quiry was shaped by luflnenoes of far
greater weight than was oarried by the
evidence brought out in the investiga
tion. There was nothing In the evl
dense submitted to justify the majority
finding.
Admiral Dewey again measures up to
the expectation of his countrymen,
His sturdy honesty is untarnished by
tho powerlul influences that surround
him, and his report proves him to be all
that the people believed him to be. His
finding is the one that will be accepted
and applauded by nine tenths of the
American people.
About the meanest- man we have
heard of lately has recently died in
West Virginia. Ho was worth in prop
erty (10,000. He had a wife and nino
children, to whom lie bequeuthed $1
each, directing that the remainder be
expended in rigging him up a water
tight vault for his body ;Aid for a monu
ment to his memory,
The Hebald doesn’t take any stock
in the report that Mark Hanna has lost
his grip on tho Republican party in
Ohio. Ho is more feared by tho politi
cians than any man iu tho Republican
-.firry in lay, not only in Dhio, but all
oyer the country,
Since Enoker Washington’s expert
ence iu being ejected Irom a Worcester
hotel, tho Washington Post says he has
SAKE OLD rOLlCY OF “FREEZE
OUT.”,
The house oommittee on Ways and
Means yesterday voted to report favor
ably the Philippine tariff bill, the pro
visions ot whloh are on theUnea recom
mended by Seoretary Root and have
already been made pnblio.
This bill, as we interpret its provisions,
it in dlreot conformity with the old pro
tective tariff polloy and is intended to
fortify the oonntry against the prodnote
of the greatest of onr new appnrte-
nanoes. The bill, briefly summarized—
Validates the tariff oi}. Imports into
the Philippines fixed by the Philippine
Commission;
Imposes the Dingley bill rates upon
goods bronght into the United States
from the Philippines;
Provides for a rebate of internal rev
enue taxes oolleoted in the United States
on goods sent to the Philippines.
What a moe thing for a gang of oar-
petboggers to do revenue service in the
Philippines 1
The Hebald pointed ont In an edito
rial yesterday the inoouBistenoy of the
repnblioan program, as outlined in
President Roosevelt's message, in ad
vocating reciprocity with Cuba, a conn-
try not belonging to the United States,
while urging the Dingley tariff against
the Philippines, whloh the snpreme
oonrt has deolared to bo a part of onr,
territory. The same inoonslstenoy 1b
glaring in the bill reported yesterday by
the majority of the Ways and Means
committee.
Nothing is now looking to make the
foot manifest that the same polioy of
'freeze out” whioh has played into the
hands of other countries, notably Ger
many and England, building up the
trade of their exporters to the Philip-
piues and Cuba since the Spanish war ^
Is to be continued by the )Unlted States
government so long as the repnblioan
party remains in powor.
The polioy is one that inevitably will
have the effeot of commercially isolating,
the Philippines [instead [of cultivating
such trade relations as would be natural
and mutually profitable under normal
conditions.
Now that the legislature has ad
journed, we would like to get Governor
Candler off to himself long enough to
draw him out and look him in the face
while he squinted his Confederate eye
and expressed his opinion of the aggre
gation.
The oost of the Nioaragna oanal was
first estimated at (00,000,000, next at
(100,000,000, and then it rose to (160,-
000,000. Now the lowest estimate is
(300,000,000. Bnt aB we are hound to
have it, it looks like tho sooner we olose
the bargain the better.
Southern newspnpers will, of courso, do n
deal of shouting in regard to |the alleged tip
courtesy to Booker T. Washington by the hotel
keepers at Springfield, Mshh.—Milwaukee Wis
consin.
They might shont, bnt they prefer to
larf”—it's so devilish funny.
The cominuons performance in South
Africa growB monotonous, but there
seoms to be no prospect of nn early
change of programme.
The rumor that Secretary Gage is
soon to retire from the cabinet and
accept the presidency of a iftfr York
bank has been revived.
If the Roosevelt message gave tho
trusts any uneasiness it has all been dis-
polled by. the way their faithful servants
have lined up during the first two weeks
of the session of congress.
The Demoorats of the country can't
hope to get together nud make a win
ning fight for tariff revision so long os
there are a lot of Demooratia congress
men who Btand for protection.
It oan more truly be said of Admiral
Dewey than of any Amerioan since the
days ot Washington that he is “first in
peace, first in war and first in the hearts
of his countrymen.”
Fitzgerald la to have a oarnival this
week, and they oall It the "Indian Sam-
mer Carnival.” The name, it is hardly
necessary to add, was given to the en
terprise before the present oold Bnap.
The knowing ones about the state
oapitol are predicting that when At
torney General Terrell resigns his offloe
to enter tho raoe for the governorship
Governor Candler will appoint Judge
N. L. Hutchins, of Gwinnett county,
to succeed him.
If Sampson and the anti-Sohley ring
in the navy department read the news
papers, they will hove a whole lot of
difficulty in extracting any SatiBfaotion
out of the outcome of the Sohley in
quiry.
With the Bilver question practically
out of the way as a boue of contention,
the Demoorats in the United States
Senate ore now pretty well united on
the policy to be pursued on all import
ant issues.
The groat heart ot the American peo
ple has again warmed np to Goorge
Dewey for his bravo stand in behalf of
Admiral Sohley. He is moro secure
than ever iu tho love of his countrymen.
Crokor has reached the point of say
ing that he is - lie job of bossing
Tammany. Tammany will probably be
heard from later.
Now that Miss Stono has set in to
convert tho brigands to Christianity, sho
may eventually work her own release
from captivity.
The latest British budget shows a
deficit of 82GG.000.000, while the next
au excellent reason for feeling, that the on-
Massachusetts I. ,r,cruet.' of rhqfe 1 t;no
White House dinner was of a perfunct
ory uuiuro.
Benham and
The offloiol inquiry into the alleged
jag Of Captain Tilley, U. S. N., has
oost the country $57,180.
Anyhow, Admirals
Ramsay had to admit that Sohley fought
the Spanish alliright and won tho vio
tory at Santiago. And that was what
Sohley was there for.
f tie United States is expected to
.1 surplm. vmu.UOU.OOO,
It lias been discovered that a Chicago
detective has been in oollusitm with a
gang [of safe blowers.
Lord Kitchener is calling tor more
troops in South Afrioa. If roanv ism.,
er” sent tho British army will have to
be recruited in some way and from some
source.
The last day of Abe present Georgia
legislature.
The legislature has adjournsd. Whioh
reminds us that Thanksgiving Dav
oame about three weeks too early this
year. _________
The people of Georgia want to see to '
it that fewer cheap politicians and moro
broad-gauge business men are elected
to the legislature next year.
The approach of Christmas is gradu
ally reducing the family man’s surplus-
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