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THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL. .fours’ H- HODGES, Proprietor. • mnr : = — DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROCRESS AND CULTURE. PRICE: TWO DOLLARS A Yonr. YOL. XX. PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY.* APRIL 10, 1890. NO. 15. 175Gi Edition Now Beady. A book of over 200 pages, giving more information ofjralne to advertisers I frhnn any other nublica- I tion ever issued. It gives I the name of every news paper published, hav ing a circulation rating in flic lmerican Newspaper Directory of more tha.. 23,000 copies each Isaac, with Uu> cost per hue ot advertising In them. A list of the best pa- - of local circnlrtion in every city and town of more than 5,000 population with prices by the Sch forono month. Speciai Bate of daily, conn- try. village and class papers. Bargain offers of value to small advertisers or those wishmg to ex periment judiciously with a small amonntof mon- cy. Shows conclusively “liow to get the most service for the money,” etc. Sent postpaid to any address for 30 cents. Address Geo. P. Boweix ;. c j„ Publishers and General Advertiaing Agents, 1J Spruce Street, New York City. The “Memo - .. rial Volmna” n now being pre pared by the Rev. J. Wm. Jones, with the approval of Mrs. Davis, will be authen tic, charmingly written, beautifully illus trated and bound—in every way worthy of the subject. Agents wanted- Complete outfit SI. Satisfaction guaranteed money refunded, Order now. First come, first served. Address B.F. JOHNSON &CO„ 1009 Main Street, Richmond, Va. THE OLIVE BILE. Mb. Editob: I recognize fully sworn, as legislators, to support the constitution, began to cast around to see if this were true, that the space which you can allow They found that five legislatures me is limited, and that I can only I had met since the constitution was Administrator’s Sale. Georgia—Houston County: By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary of said county, granted at the March term, 1890,1 will sell before the court house door in said county, on the 1st Tuesday in May next, between tho legal hours of sale, the entire real es tate belonging to the estate of Mrs. C.M. Felder, late of said comity, deceased, consisting of: . , .. That two-story store house and lot sit uated in the town of Perry, in said coun ty on the north side of the p ublic square, known as part of lot No. 2 in block J, flouting 57 feet on Carroll street, and ex tending back 105 feet- Ti-iat^ two-story, 7-room framed dwelling house and about twelve acres of land , situated also in said town of Ferry,, at the intersection of tho Perry and Hayneville and Perry and Houston Factory roads, being the family residence of the said Mrs. C. M. Felder in her life-time. Also, that 572J4 acres, more or less, m said county, lying on the Perry Branch of the Southwestern Eailroad, five mdes from Perry, Ga., known as the “Felder Plantation,” being lot No. 66, containing Sttff acres; 123% acres of the west end of lot No. 61,123 K acres of west end or lot No. 62, and 123^ acres of the west end of lot No. 63, in the 9th district of said county; save and except that 15 »-JU acres of lot No. 61 sold to J. R. Hancock. Terms cash. W. S. FELDER, Adm r. HOUSTON SHERIFF'S SALE.'" By virtue of a fi-fa issued at the October term, 18S9, of tbe Superior Court of Houston county, returnable to the Apnl term, 1890, of said court,in favor of the American Freehold Land and Mortgage Co., of London, Limited, vs. B. W. Hart ley,adm’r of Sam’!Arnold,dec d,I will sell beforothe court bouse door in Perry, Ga., botweon tho legal hours of sale on the 1st Tuesday in May next: Hie lands of Sam uel Arnold, dec’d, inthe hands of R. W. Hartley, adm’r, to be administered, to- wit: Tho oast halt of lot No. 65 and the north half of lot No. 67 in the 10th dis trict ot said county,and being 202J4 acres more or less. Levied on as_ the property of defendent in fi-fa- This April 1st, 1890. • M. L. COOPER, Sheriff. HOUSTON SHERIFF’S SALE. By virtue of a Justice Court fi-fa issued at the Justice court held in and for the ■ 528th district G.M. of Houston county, returnable to the January term 1890 of said court, in favor of Abe Glass vs. Charley Jesse, I will sell before the court house door in Perry, Ga., the following property, to-wit: One town lot in the town of Fort Valley, containing }& of an acre of land more or less; bounded on tlie north by lot of Larkin James,east by 2nd street, south by lot of Charlotte Marshall, west by lot formerly owned by Toney Ca- ter. Levied on as tho property of defend- ont in fi-fa and turned over to me for sale. This April 1st, 1890. M. L. COOPER, Sheriff. (Georgia—Houston County: Mrs. Luoy.A. Wimberly, guardian of Hattie A. Wimberly, minor, has applied for leave to sell the land belonging to said ward. ,, This is therefore to cite oU persons con cerned to appear at the May Term, 1890, of the Court of Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any they have, why said application should not be Winess my official signature this April 3rd.1S90 JH HOUSER, Ordinary. GEORGIA—Houston County: E. S. Wollons, administrator of the es tate of John Tharp, of said county, de- seabed, has aj^plied for dismission from his trust: This is therefore to* cite all persons con cerned to appear at tho May term, 1890,of the court of Ordinary of saidcomi- ty, and show cause, if, any they have, why laid application should not be granted. * Ordinary. Tho first and only one in the field. 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Sold by all Druggists. «COTT A BOWNE, Chemists, H.Y. outline my reasons for not sup porting that measure. At first my impression was in its favor. ■ My hearty sympathy with its object commended it strongly to my judg ment 1 was aware that t£e railroad commission had done a great deal toward equalizing the burdens and the benefits derived from railroads, but 1, like many others in Georgia, looked with alarm upon the recent deal by which the Bichmond. Ter minal Company had acquired con trol of the Central of Georgia, feared that this consolidation would be able to successfully dejy the commission, and bring back some of the evils that existed prior to the creation of the commission. With all the sincerity and earnest ness of which I was capable, I ad dressed myself to the stndy of this question, which seemed to me to be oE commanding importance. The Olive bill may be said to have originated in the Bichmond Terminal deal, the most stupen dous transaction in railroad prop erty that had ever taken place in our. state. As I carefully and sincerely look ed into tho matter then, I ask my candid reader to sincerely consider with me, the question now.,, What is the bill? As originally intro duced it embodied the following paragraph of the constitution of 1877: "The General Assembly shall have no power to authorise any cosporation to buy shares or stock In any other corporation, in this state or elsewhore, or to make any contract or agreement whatever with any such corporation, *hich may have tho ef fect, or be intended to have the effect to defeat or lessen competition in their respective.^business or to enooorage monopoly, and aU such contracts or agreements shall be illegal and void. Of course no one could object to voting for the constitution, if that were necessary. But the legisla ture did not need to vote merely to ratify the constitution, for that was already of much higher au thority than the legislature itself; so'that, so far, there was nothing in the bill calling for action by the legislature. But the bill, assum ing that this clause of the constitu tion was a command upon the leg islature to do something, now brings in its other provisions by which it proposed to punish the railroads for violating the provis ions of the constitution. It provided that whenever any corporation, in the past or in the future, had violated this clause of the constitution, or should hereaf ter violate it, the Attorney Gener al should institute proceedings against the corporation, and have its ' charter forfeited. In other words, according to the original Olive bill,every corporation,wheth er railroad, banking or manufactu ring, which might buy, or which may have already bought, stock in another corporation in violation of the Olive bill, was to be killed outright; for the forfeiture of a charter means the death of a cor poration. When conservative legislators came to consider these heroic rem edies for anticipated evils, when they saw that to cure the patient the bill sought to behead him, when they realized what an enor mous confiscation of the property of Georgians, as well as others holding railroad stock,was involved in this bili, and how inevitably it would cripple the railroads and bring great inconvenience and de lay to all people having dealings with railroads, and plunge all bus iness into a condition of utter chaos, can it be wondered that they paused to consider? They did consider, and patiently, and I believe with the utmost honesty. They considered the clause of the constitution I have quoted, and they listened to the arguments of the author of the bill and others of its advocates. To the objection that the bill would result in great damage to all business and in con fiscation of much property of wid ows and orphans interested in rail road stock, these Olive bill advo cates answered: “The constitution demands it, and you are hound to support the constitution.” To the objection that we should wait until the combinations should seek to oppress us, or until they put up prices, or should begin to give ns poor service, before we should condemn them to death, the same answer was given, “that the con stitution commanded the legisla ture to do this thing, to pass this law, and that if legislators were true to their oaths to support the constitution, they would have to support the Olive bill.” 1 Conservative men who adopted. They did not find that any one of these legislatures had construed the constitution to mean that an Olive bill, or a bill to for feit charters must be passed. They found that these five previous leg islatures had passed laws regula ting railroads, and they had passed laws to carry out what they under- stood to be the policy of the con stitution in regard to regulating railroads. These legislators, donbt- less, thought they were true to their oaths when they created the commission to regulate rates of railroads, when they passed laws against discriminations and re bates, and other injustice on the part of the roads against the peo ple. These previous legislatures acted under a clause of the consti tution telling what the legislature should do. I refer to paragraph 1 of the same section of the consti tution, as follows: The power and authority ot regulating railroad freight and paassenger tariff, preventing unjust discrimination and requiring reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariff, are hereby conferred upon the General Assembly, whose duty it .shall be to pass laws from time to time to regulate freight and pas senger tariff, to prohibit unjust discrimi nation on tho various railroads of the state, and to prohibit said roads from charging other than juBt and reasonable rates, and enforce tbe same by adequate penalties.” Now, if the reader will kindly compare the language of this paragraph with the other paragraph first quoted, he will find that the first quoted says nothing about what the legislature should do, or what would be its duty to do, but on the contrary what it should not do, what it should “have no power to” do, namely, “to authorize any corporation to buy shares, etc.” And yet this paragraph, which simply provided what the legislature should not do, was urged, and is constantly urged as a command upon the legislature to do something, to-wit: to pass a bill that wiH forfeit charters with all the disastrous consequences. It in true that this para graph says that “all such contracts er agreements shall be void” but it does not say that the legislature need do anything about it. The constitution itself is the very highest law, and it says itself that they are void, and any court will so con strue them when the case is made in court. The courts had before the consti tution of 1877 already declared that un less the legislature granted special authority to a corporation to buy shares in a competing corporation, such con tracts were void. See the case of Collins vs. Central rail- roadin 4Dth volume of reports of Supreme court of Georgia. In that case General Toombs represented Collins, and suc ceeded in having a contract of that sort set aside by the court because the Cen tral road had no authority granted in its charter to buy shares in a competing road, and General Toombs who was a member of the constitutional convention of 1877, had it put into the constitution that no such authority should ever go into any charter. And he did so in order to keep all charters of railroads in this respect like the Central charter. The penalty of making any such anti-compe tition contracts was to be—what? Not a forfeiture of charter, nor. a killing of the corporation, not confusion and anarchy, but simply that the contract should be void, and that any stockholder could go into the courts like Collins had done, and have the contract declared void as Toombs had done for Collins. Besides all this, there wrs this further fact: La this Bame convention that drafted this constitution of 1877, there was proprosed a measure that contained the principle of the Olive bill, and after full discussion it was over whelmingly voted down. This was a proposition made that “any one or more citizens of this state, is his or her name, or in the name of the state may institute proceedings to enquire into violations of the, charter of railroads or other corpora tions of this state and to forfeit the char ters of the same.” The full discussion and the action of the convention appears in the published proceedings of the con vention. The argument used against it in the convention, and which is published in its proceedings, is identical with the argument used against the practical wis dom of the Olive bill, that it would pro duce endless confusion, stimulate a spirit of blackmailing against the corporations, etc. The argument, then, that the constitu tion required the legislature to pass the Olive bill is met, fully met, by these con siderations: 1st, the language of the paragraph urged, does not say what the legislature shall do, but what it shall not do. 2nd, General Toombs, who was the strongest factor in aH this part of the this language to prevent the legislature from giving larger powers to railroads. 3rd, the convention that framed the con stitution itself considered the principle of the Olive hill and refused to adoptit. But it is urged, after the argument of a constitutional requirement is exhausted, that nevertheless, even if not required, there is nothing in the constitution pre venting the passage of the bilL On this point there is difference of opinion. Per sonally I bdieve the bill is unconstitu tional, and that it would be so declared by the highest courts, but I have no space for this argument, further than to say the bill takes property away from people, forfeits or confiscates property in a man ner contrary to the very fundamental principles of all constitutional govern- had mente. The original Olive hill, being met by plain common sense considerations such as I have sketched, was much modified, but it was never presented in a slipae that was^not subject to tbe same objections. If started out to forfeit charters, andit kept on forfeiting charters to the end. The last shape in which it was presented pro vided for a somewhat more lingering death for the railroad,but it had the death penalty in it, aH the same. It was also retroactive, to be applied to railroad and corporation contracts of the past as well as tiie future, and in addition it brought inthe new feature of aHowing any body, whether interested or not, in the road, whether he shipped over it, or propelled over it .or not, to start suits against the roads and gradually badger the life out of them, and finally complete the execu tion by a forfeiture of their charters. I regret, Mr. Editor, that so large a subject has to be discussed in as limited a space. It is at first a puzzling question, and, it involves intricate and profound questions of practical economy as well as of law j and it cannot properly be considered without patient investigation. A few general and sweeping views of the advan tages of competition and the tyrany of monopoly will not suffice to determine the wisdom of a radical and extreme measure such as the Olive bill is admitted to be by its-warmest supporters. It cannot be denied that railroads are one of the greatest factors of our wealth, and that to oripple the railroads would be a calamity to every industry in our fair country. It cannot be denied that every mile of railroad built in Georgia is that much permanent addition to its pro dnetive wealth. Now, can it be denied that in the main railroads are being con trolled. There may here and there crop ont irregularities or abuses, but that they are in the hands of the law, and that they can be and will be controlled cannot be doubted. But it would seem tbe part of wisdom to control them without taking their corporate life. Again, if the Olive bill should ever be a wise measure, it csrtainly is not wise to make it a law now. Although it was pre dicted that the Richmond Terminal deal would prevent future railroad building, see how many independent lines are now being built in Georgia. The Georgia Southern road through our county is being extended to Birmingham, the Co lumbus Southern, the Marietta and North Georgia extension and other important independent lines are being built, and built too, as every one knows, with for eign capital. Every one who has been to New York to negotiate for'money for railroads agrees that the Olive biH, if passed, would have largely stopped the lending of money for raiiroad building in Georgia, and that the very fact that such an extreme measure was pendng greatly embarrassed the procurement of money for constructing Georgia rail roads. If the Olive bill is to be a wise measure at any time it certainly will be better to wait until we-get aH the railroads we need. Now, Mr. Editor, I have been able within a reasonable space only to give a very brief synopsis of some of the consid erations that made this question a very difficult one, and that influenced us in the face of a very whirlwind of buHdozing by such newspapers as had espoused the Olive biH, and by men who claimed to be the only patriots in the legislature, to vote our honest convictions thatitwaB better “to bear the iHs we have than fly to those we know not of,” espedaHy when the latter seemed to ns even greater by far than the former. We were sure that it was wiser to try our new laws that we passed for enlarging the controlling pow ers of onr railroad commission, and see if thin would not he adequate to the needs of the times. We were assured by the venerable and honored chairman of the commission, Major CampbeU WaUace, who has been the bulwark of the people and the terror of railroads of Georgia, that the commission would control effect- uaUy if the enlarged powers were given, and we gladly gave the powers asked for. Major Wallace stated frankly and openly that there was no need for the OHve bUl, and that it would result in great disturbance and barm. No one doubted his honesty, and no weU posted man could question his experience and knowl edge of railroad matters. Whenever we could, Houston’s repre sentatives voted for competition among railroads, and for lnrger control of rail roads by the state-. We voted, on the state road lease matter, that the road should not he leased to any competing line, on the ground that if this road should be kept independent the state could never be botttled up, and out state commission could always control tbe whole situation. We fought earnestly on this line, because we thought it a practi cable way of fighting combinations, in which there was to be no forfeiting of charters and disturbance of aU the cur rents of business. Now, Mi- Editor, one word in conclu- mon. We were uninstrnctkd and without any expression of views by the alliance on this subject, and we followed our best judgement, which we etiH think was cor rect. I have no feeling against any man whose views differ from mine on this sub ject. 1 am glad to note since beginning ieis letter, however, that the executive committee of the state alliance in formu lating a policy with reference to railroad legislation, steer clear of the dangerous OHve bfll, and say that the constitution should be enforced by enlargingthe pow ers of the state and of the interstate rail road commission. See the report of the select committee consisting of L. F. Liv ingstone, A. F. Pope andA. C. Brown and its endorsement by the executive commit- tee, published in dafly papers April 2nd, 1890. With this platform my views aie in harmony, and onr votes wfll uniformly show that we were upon that side of the fight. H. A. Mathews. - The Cause of Depression. Cotton Mills in Cotton Fields. Atlanta Constitution- Greensboro Herald-Journal. The' lines of the tariff fight are. Judge A. A. Gunby, of Ouachita, becoming more and more com-1 Louisana, recently made a strong pact. Each day tliat passes illns-' plea for home manufactures before trates to the farmers and wage; the agricultural society of. his earners that the system of protect-; state. ive tariff is largely, if hot wholly, ! He called attention to the fact responsible for the depression of the agricultural interests of the country,- and for the equal de pression of wages. One of .the strongest arguments in favor of tariff reform came from Senate? Yoorhees, of Indiana, re cently* He showed that protect ive tariff had its origin in the war which gave license to avarice, fol lowed by a legislation which dou bled the public debt, and estab lished a high protective taxation. He detailed the low prices for farm produce at present prevail ing, and said the time would come when the farmer would look on the proposition to tax him and his wife and children for the protection of other people besides himself, as he would look on a law of congress to establish the army worm and wee vil in his wheat; to infect his cat tle with murrain and his hogs with cholera. Every pretense of a home'market for the farmer was fraud, and every pretense of taxing wheat and oats and potatoes for his benefit was a cheat and a sham, It was ajnotorious and self-evident truth that the tariff, as it now stood, increased the farmers ex pense account from 35 to 100 per cent, on every implement of indus try with which he toiled, and last year binding twine had been .en hanced to eighteen cents a pound by tbe tariff and twine trust. He did not believe that the hands of a farmer would touch a republican ticket at the next presidential elec tion. He quoted recent publications to show the remarkable decadence of agriculture in New England, and the decline of land values there and in the north and west, and the heavy mortgaging of real estate.” “He proposed as a remedy for these evils: Eirst, tariff reform; second, a full supply of legal ten der money; third, the free coinage of silver; fourth, the suppression, by law, of gambling in futures; fifth, a liberel policy of pensions.” Such facts as these, are convinc ing and they are increasing the number of adherents to the Demo cratic principles. The fight must be pushed upon these lines and an overwhelming Democratic victory is bound to follow. There have been only nine deaths in the town of Wadley since it was laid out in 1875. My wife for several years had been an invalid and slowly grew worse. I tried doctors, but their skill failed. A neighbor recom mended Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla and her health began to mend at once. She weighs fifteen pounds more than she did four months ago, and feels quite strong and vi ell—-G. W. Srain, Canton, O. They are telling in Vienna of a female member of the family of a diplomat who, at a recent gather ing, asked the papal, nuncio to let her look at the diamond cross he wore on his neck, and then placing it about her own neck went to see the effect in a mirror before she returned it. The jewel is regarded as a sacred emblem by all Catho lics, and they were horrified. that cotton manufacturing has .en riched a hundred mighty cities in Great Britain. England exports more than 100,000,000 yards of cot ton cloth a day. Over §500,000,000 are invested in the industry, and millions of people are supported by it Yet, most of of their ravr material has to be obtained from the distant South. It is al most incredible that it is possible for a country so far removed from our cotton fields to take the lead in manufacturing our products. This is folly that should be corrected. When the cotton factories of Man Chester, Leeds, Bradford, Notting ham, Glasgow and Paisley shall have been transferred to our own fields, then the South will be the industrial center of the world. The judge goes on to show how manufacturing benefits the farm ers by affording markets for all their products. Even the farmers of the west do not have to burn their corn when they live near dis tilleries. Manufacturing enter prises also afford occupation for the surplus labor of agricultural regions, thus preventing the occu pation of agriculture from becom ing over-crowded. They increase the demand for land and raise its value. They improve the roads, school houses and public institu tions, and make people more intel ligent and industrious. The speaker said: “In this connection I wish to call your particular attention to the report of the statisetiian in the lat ter part of the commissioner of ag riculture, for 1884 On page‘474 of that report you find a treatment of the subject that ‘other industries increase farm values,’ and a dia gram given which establishes this hypothesis: ‘Values in agriculture are enhanced by increase of non- agricultural popolation.’ This is shown to particularly apply to the price of farm lands, it being high est where the smallest per cent, of the population is engaged in farm ing, and lowest where where the largest per cent of the people are agriculturists.- The same law ap plies to the wages of farm labor ers. They are enhanced by the diversification of industries. It is so the world, over. Where agri culture is the only calling, as in Hindoostan, Cuba and some other countries, the laborer’s wages are least remunerative.” Judge Gunby told his hearers that it was only necessary to glance at Georgia’s progress in cotton manufacturing to see that it was in the power of every Southern state to revolutionize the old industrial policy. Where a .community is not able to build a factory north ern capital can be obtained, but ir point of fact, whenever there is an opening for manufacturing the home people are able to raise the needful money, if they will unite and go to work in earnest. It is to be hoped that Judge Gunby’s address will have a wide circulation in the southwest. It is on the right line. Postal Card Units. ■ . The New York Herald reminds its readers that there is an act congress making it a criminal of fense to mail a postal card con taining matter of-a “libelous, scur rilous, defamatory or threatening character, calculated and obvious ly intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another.” The penalty is a fine not exceeding §5,000, or imprison ment of not more than five years, or both fine and imprisonment. Several queer cases have oc curred under this statute. A St. Louis man sent this postal to customer: “Please call and settle account, which is long past due, and for which our collector has called sev eral times.” No reply was made, and m a few days the following postal card was sent: “Yoojowe us §1.80. We have called several times for same. If not paid at once we shall place same with our law agency far col lection.” The. merchant was indicted. When the case was tried the United States district court held that the first card was all right, but the sending of the second vio lated the law, because it contained a threat to sue, which was “both calculated and intended to humil iate and injure the person address ed in public estimation. Of the first card the judge said: “The language employed is not of a threatening character, and, in my opinion, no jury would be war ranted in finding, in view of its con tents, that it was obviously intend ed by tbe writer to reflect inju riously on the character or con duct of the person addressed, or to injure or degrade him in the eyes of the public. 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I shall ever praise the day the men who invented Blood Balm During the debate on the Mills bill Mr. McKinley displayed in the House of Representatives a suit of all-wool clothes made in this country which he said cost only This same suit of clothes be came famous in the presidential campaign as evidence that the tar iff has cheapened the price of clothing in the United States. Mr. Fred W. Smith has made a careful analysis of the production of Mr. McKinley’s §10 suit, and the result is published in the New York Evening Post Mr. Smith' proves that if we had free wool snch a suit could be made for §498, or less than half the price of which Mr.Kinley boasted as a proof of the tariff’s beneficence. The man who votes for a tax on wool votes to make the clothing of the masses dear. Attorney at Law, Judge of Houston County Court, Pebby, Geoegia. WiH practice in all the Courts of this Circuit except the County Court. J. L. Hardeman, W. D. Nottingham. HAEDEHAN & NOTTINGHAH, Attorneys at Law, Macon, ... Geoegia. Wfll practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office 306 Second Street. A proposition to aid young French authors by having an an nual state competition for the best works, to be submitted to a jury, aud io have these best works pub lished at the expense of the state, is exciting much criticism in France. About one-half of the popular authors are in favor of it, and a great many express them selves as decidedly against it The young" authors themselves do not appear to care for such state intervention. Z. SIMS, JD EIT TIST, PERRY, GEORGIA. EfOffice on Main street, lately occu- ; tied by Dr. W. M. Havis. . first-class work. Prices moderate. Pat- ronage solicited. ap!281y DENTIST , Perry, Georgia. Office on Main Street, King house. 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