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mm HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. • H. M. MoImtosh.i CDITOtt-IN-OIIUr.g i Except Hundny. 8 page*) Every Saturday. ngbt I OF BtmSORIPTlOM I I, one year ' *lx month*. throe month* page*, one year TUB HKRAl*D 18 THE* notal Organ of the City of Albany.1 Bcial Organ of Dougherty County. iOMO Organ of the Railroad JommUiion oorgla for the Second Oongreulonal of Qoorgia District. All subscription* payable in advance: no exception to this rule in favor of anybody. Advertising rates reasonable and made known on application. _ . „ Cards of thank*, resolution* of reipeot and obituary notlcos, other than those which he Editor himself may give a* a matter of news, will be charged for at the rate of five *°ftot!ce* n o{ chnroh and society and all other entertainment* from which a revenue Is to bo derived, beyond a brief nnuounoemeut, will becbargod for at the rate of five oent* i stair*, west sldo of Wash- otwcun Broad and Pino will bucbargt n line. gW*Ovnon nj ngton i street, TKLBPflOlfB Mo. 60. The Herald deals with .advertising -nt# by special contract only, and no crttslng agent or agenoy Is authorised nake contracts for advertisements to . to maL-. . t>e Inserted In this paper. . I If you see It in the Herald It’s so. If you advertise in the Herald it goes. 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- ‘^^ONCtTrINT •jHiMMaatBiLViSgAlwLi.