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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 The soldiers of the United States, except a moderate legation guard at Pekin, have been withdrawn from China.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. 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