Newspaper Page Text
Tam
FS1CE, $1.60 A YEAS, IN ADVANCE.
Published Every Thursday Morning.
Principle, or Policy.
Jno.H.HODGES. Editor and Publiaher
Perry, Thursday, May BO.
Copies of this paper may be found on
file at the office of our Washington cor
respondent, E. G. Siggers, 918 F. Street,
N. W., Washington, D. C.
Politics for 1902 may now be said
to be in the formation stage.
A company to develop oil lands in
Alabama has been organized at Mo
bile.
*-•-*
Georgia is bearing well her part
in establishing and promoting. in
dustrial enterprises.
A mew cotton mill at Huntsville,
Ala., gives employment to 200 hands,
with a weekly pay roll of $500.
The soldiers of the United States,
except a moderate legation guard at
Pekin, have been withdrawn from
China.
fiwy RRAT, companies of the, second
regiment of Georgia militia will go
into encampment at Warm Springs
on iune 15th.
Mbs. McKinley has so far recov
ered her health that the president
and his party started from San
Francisco for Washington City last
Saturday.
In Georgia the farmers know that
their continued success depends up
on the adoption of progressive meth
ods. Labor-saving implements and
machinery must be used.
The five cadets dismissed from
West Point Military Academy for,
hazing and insubordination are from
the states of Alabama, Nebraska,
Michigan, Texas and New York.
A cbatb of new peaches was ship
ped from Coleman, near Cuthberfc,
on Wednesday of last week—the
first of the season. Shipments from
Cutbert are being made this week.
Thbee vessels were destroyed on
Lake Michigan last Friday by a ter
rific wiDd storm. Thirteen persons
on the steamer Baltimore, including
the captain and his wife, were
drowned.
The Southern Industrial Conven
tion will be in session : at • Philadel
phia from June 11th to 14th. It is
expected that nearly all the cities
and prominent industrial enterprises
of the south will be represented.
The United States Supreme court
has decided| in effect that Porto Ri
ca is not an integral part of the
United States, and can be governed
'by congress without reference to
our constitution.
The proposed European fight
against the foreign commerce of the
United States, so far as it competes
with European, countries, should im
press our people with the fact that
nearly all the goods we need can be
produced in this country.
In the United Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly at DesMoines, Iowa,
last Friday, the Masonic and Odd
Fellows orders were severely con
demned, and one delegate went so
far as to say he believed no member
of a secret society could ever reach
heaven.
Since the conclusion of the last
presidential campaign there has
been much political discussion tire
some to those who rate principle
above policy.
Those who forsook democracy and
gave aid to republicanism, and those
who gave their votes to democracy
under loud protest frequently ex
pressed, have evidently striven earn
estly to make policy a substitute for
principle in political affairs.
The two words cannot by the
most persistent method of stretch
ing or squeezing be made to convey
anything like a synonymous mean
ing. x The one is the expression o1 !
honesty and truth in the determina
tion to do right, the other merely
an adopted method to accomplish a
purpose.
Principles of Democracy are:
a strict observance of constitutional
law; constant demand for equal jus
tice to all and special privileges for
none; steadfast objection to pater
nalism, and positive contention for
the fullest measure of individual lib
erty, with the rights of states to
control their own concerns in all
affairs not reserved by the constitu
tion as special functions of the fed
eral government. The method by
which these principles are to be en
forced is policy. The principles are
unchangable; the policy may change
as circumstances warrant, or condi
tions change.
The democratic objection to a tar
iff for protection, the demand for a
specific money system, the objection
to colonial possessions, are but the
expressions of party policy to en
force party principle.
Commercial politicians prefer suc
cessful policy to correct principle
that fails to win the support of the
majority. But the true patriot would
prefer defeat a thousand times in
defense of principle, to constant vic
tory in conjunction with a policy
that has its basic force ip the ac
quirement of dollars.
In upholding principle against
commercialism in politics, it is the
acme of patriotism to contend
against the desires and purposes of
republicanism. That southern white
men have been and are democrats
mostly, is because as a rule southern
men believe that the federal consti
tution is a sacred expression of cor
rect principle—they are patriots
rather than commercial politicians.
To say that southern men have been
democrats because they feared ne
gro domination, is to discredit
southern manhood and southern in
tegrity, to place policy above prin
ciple.
The declaration is a slander.
Just exactly what the politicians
mean by imperialism, -the peop
. generally do not know, but a great
majority of them know that it is
contrary to the fundamental princi
ples of democracy for a .republic to
own and govern any territory or
people under such- form of colonial
government as is practiced by Eng
land and other European nations,
Our- Washington correspondent
quotes a Georgia congressman on
this line, as follows:
“Representative Livingston, of
Georgia, one of. the oldest demo
crats in the House, set forth very
clearly, while on a visit to this city,
the attitude of the south toward im
perialism. He says: ‘Some of our
people believe that the possession o::
the Philippines means a gateway to
the oriental trade, and cotton manu
facturers and cotton planters want a
market for their products and look
in that direction for development. .
think a majority of our people have
no objection to the retention of the
Philippines under a territorial foim
of government. They do not want
a territory held under a colonia
form of government* outside the
constitution, and they do not want
any of these islands—the Philip
pines, Porto Rico nor Cuba—admit
ted to .statehood under existing con
ditions, but they have no objection
to the islands we have acquired be
ing held as territories, just as other
territory has been held for forty or
fifty years. They would be satisfied
to have independent republics ere
ated with the establishment of trade
relations of mutual benefit, or to
have territories made of the islands
under the constitution.’ ”
Some of the marvelous changes
wrought by time in the appearance
of four of the earliest settlements on
our Atlantic coast are strikingly il
lustrated in - a series of views which
will shortly appear in The Ladies’
Home Journal. The places are St.
Augustine, Jamestown, I lymouth
and New York. The forlorn indica
tions of Jamestown’s decay and
death as a settlement offer a most
interesting contrast to the varied ev
idences, of the general development
of St. Augustine and Plymouth, and
of the gigantic growth of modem
New. York.
In the opening speech to the con
stitutional convention of Alabama,
at Montgomery on Wadnesday of
last. week,. President J. B. Knox
spoke of the possibility of negro
domination, and said the problem
affects the south peculiarly, and “we
should be left to deal with our own
sehse of responsibility and recog
nized relations in the conduct of our
home government.”
The political situation in South
Carolina has become sensational. At
Gaffney last Saturday there was a
spirited debate between Senators
Tillman and McLaurin. f Their dif
ferences as to democratic duty were
so divergent that both have resign
ed; and both will offer for re-election
threiugh a joint canvass and demo
cratic primary. Tillman says the re
sult will be either two democratic
Farmers of Georgia have been
very much disturbed by the instruc
tions given tax receivers by Comp
troller General Wright that com
mercial fertilizers in the hands of
farmers on March 15th must be re
turned for taxation. The farmers
claim that the tax should be paid
by the manufacturers on all the fer
tilizers they make, and that the re
quirement that the holders on the
tax date should pay the tax is a
hardship to the farmers, an extra
burden* A formal protest has been
made in Laurens county, and a test
case will be made in the courts. As
we see it, it makes ho difference who
pays the c tax primarily. If the man
ufacturers pay, that much will be
added to the price of the fertilizers
required of the farmers.
While the Irish potato is easily
grown in Georgia as a spring crop,
there has been some difficulty in
producing a fall crop. For various
reasons the spring crop has not been
available for profitable sale on the
general market, but it is believed a
fall crop could be profitably sold. It
is also believed seed for the crop of
the next spring could be kept from
-this fall crop. There is a method
whereby this has been done. The
publication throughout the stale of
that method within the next several
weeks would be greatly beneficial to
Georgia agriculture.
: ;
A captain and a lieutenant in the
quartermaster and commissary de
partments of Uie U, S. army at Ma
nila have been convicted of embez-
zelment, dishonorably discharged
from the service, and sentenced to 5
years and 1 year imprisonment re
spectively.
— *~m~4
It is reported from Jaekson, Miss.,
that the cotton seed oil mills of that
E. C. Pbixotto’s article, “Paris
Types,” in the May Cosmopolitan,
charmingly illustrated by the au
thor, will interest those whose wish
to see "Paris has never been grati
fied, and at the same, time arouse
the pleasant recollections of former
visitors. The fiction includes stories
of love, adventure and humor by
such well-known writers as Julian
Hawthorne, Hayden Carruth, Eger
ton Castle and H. G. Wells.
A Chinaman of New Orleans, ar
rested for embezzling funds of the
mercantile firm of which he was a
member, entered the curious plea
that a partner cannot embezzle funds
of his own company. The plea was
denied.
Notice To White Teachers.
weekly Institute
Barnsville, begin-
fare
state made no money during the fis
cal year just closed. . The high price
senators or two republican senators, of cotton seed is given as the cause.
The aunual
will be held at
ning July 1st.
Reduced rates for railroad
and board will be given.’
Those who desire to attend
elsewhere may do so.
Teachers who attend Normal
schools may have this substituted
for the Institute work.
Geo. W. Smith, C. S. C.
Notice to Colored Teachers.
There will be a Peabody Insti
tute in Cordele, beginning June
17th.
The railroads will give reduced
rates.
Teachers who do not intend go-.
ing there must meet at Perry
Monday, June 3rd, for purpose of
Institute work.
Geo. W. Smith, C. S. C.
—Mr. Josiah Bass, one of Hous
ton’s prominent citizens, writes
as follows; “After trying various
remedies, without obtaining any
benefit, I was cured sound and well
by Mucalee Cliill Stop. It is the
best remedy in existence.for chills,
fever and malaria.’! Every bottle
guaranteed. It costs you nothing
if it fails to cure. Sold ’ by drug
gists at 50'cts. Manufactured by
H. J. Lamar & Sons, Macon, Ga
FASHIONABLE CLOTHING
F0R MEM AND B0YS.
SPRING 1901.:
We are ready with our complete stock of
Clothing for Spring. Suits from
$7.50 to $25.00.
Orders by mail carefully filled and
satisfaction'guaranteed.
Jno. C. Eads <fe Co.,
MACON, GA.
It’s Foolish
to take chances with an un
certainty. It’s wise to inves
tigate where everything is in
your favor. Our store pro-
uides she best clothing you
can have, at the best prices
you could find. There is ev
ery reason why you should in
vestigate and be safe in the
inspection.
BURNETT & GOODMAN,
Third Street, Macon, Ga.
CALDEB B. WILLINGHAM, JB. f
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Crockery, 8toves, Lamps AND House-
Furnishing Goods.
A COMPLETE LINE OF CHINAWARE
TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GA.
lifting the Nail on the Head
Is what you do every time
you buy your
Lumber, Sash,
Doors,
Mouldings,
Blinds,
Trimmings
and al l kinds of mill work and builders supples from our
superior stock. Builders and contractors will find that
they get a superior grade of lumber and workmanship in
their line at lower prices than they can get elsewhere.
331- Hi. IS <3c GO.,
Phone 187. FORT VALLEY, OA.
Sash and Door Co.
-DEALERS IN-
Mantels, Paint, Lumber,
Lime, Cement,
Builders’
Hardware, Etc
No. 457 Third Street Macon, Ga.