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PBIGE, 31.50 A YEAS, M ADVANCE.
Jubllahod Every Thursday Morning.
Jins. H. IEODQ-E8, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, February 6.
February seems to be trying to
exeel December.
At this junoture the fruit prospect
ih Georgia is tip-top for a plentiful
crop.
Kerosene oil that will not make a
dear light is not worth the inspec
tion fee.
A mime explosion at Hondo, Mexi
co, killed 106 miners and several
mules IaBt,Saturday.
Georgia farmers just now are more
interested in their crop preparations
than in candidates for office.
Intensive in acreage and exten
sive in production should be the
motto of every Georgia farmer.
Announcements of candidates for
state offices will not be published in
the Home Journal unless paid for.
Georgia farmers will surely make
a “sufficient pleuty” of oorn this
year, if their efforts count at par
value.
Fire destroyed $8,000,000 worth
of property in the business seotion
of Watorbury, Conn., last Sunday
night.
The government of Holland is
trying to arrange peace between
England and the Boers of South
Africa.
Add one word to the surname ini
tials of the candidates for governor,
and you have their earnest purpose,
“GET votes.”
At Chester, Pa., a negro who had
killed a policeman last Friday night,
escaped lynching on Sunday only by
the determined opposition of a plat-
opn of policemen.
It is indeed sorrowful that ar
rangements oannot be made for
Prince Henry of Prussia to visit At
lanta while displaying himself in the
United States.
During the two weeks ending last
Saturday, Stale Treasurer Park
paid out about one million - dollars
to the pensioners and publio school
teacbprs of Georgia.
In conducting his campaign for
the governorship of Georgia, Ool.
Guerry should not fail to remember
that neither of his opponents is on
trial for any offense whatever.
The union of the Latin-American
countries south of the United States
is urged by a Mexioan newspaper,
“in order that they may present a
strong and compact front to their
great neighbor, the United States.”
On February 1st and 2nd severe
winter storms prevailed on two con
tinents. Many villages were wreck
ed and other property destroyed in
Europe, while throughout the Uni
ted States the weather was exceed
ingly cold and windy.
It is rumored that the Macon,
Dublin & Savannah Railway will
connect with the Southern Railway
at Macon for passenger traffics-above
that city. The Maoorif Dublin &
Savannah will be running into Sa
vannah early in March.
Dr. W. W. Landrum, of Atlanta,
president of the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist Con
vention, has recently been in Cuba
on mission business. He says that
“American vice in Cuba is worse
than the bull fight,” and .that [this
country has no divine right to Amer
icanize Cuba.
During the month of January the
building record of Atlanta exoeeded
in value that of any other month
within me history of the city. The
permits to build houses aggregated
179 for the month, with an estima-
teijl .value of $118,865. During Jan
uary, 1901, there were 180 permits,
but the aggregate value of the
buildings was; $30,000 less than for
last month. Atlanta people are ex
pansionists right.
Pope Brown is Not a Candidate.
In a letter addressed to the editor
of the Macon Telegraph, and pub
lished in that paper last Saturday,
Hon. J. Pope Brown declares that
he will not be a candidate for gov
ernor of Georgia.
He says that his ambition and in
clination prompt him to enter the
race, but his business interests impel
him to a contrary course. To his
friends who have offered support, he
expresses cordial thanks. The chief
cause of his withdrawal is expressed
in the following sentence.
“I am called upon to decide be
tween business and politics, and as
I ride over the fields that have been
the best friends to me and my fath
ers before me, X feel that I will make
a mistake in turning my back upon
them to seek even the highest posi
tion within the gift of the people.”
There are many men throughout
Georgia who will regret that Mr.
Brown will not make the race, and
doubtless the other candidates for
governor and their partisan friends
are glad.
What Mr. Brown’s chances of suc
cess were at the time of his with
drawal need not now be discussed.
He is no longer a factor in the gub
ernatorial campaign, further .than he
may exercise his personal influence
in behalf of one of the other candi
dates. Mr. Brown is such a man for
whom Georgians could well afford
to vote, and his worth and the high
esteem in which he is deservedly
held is in no degree affected ad
versely by this decision.
This editor was prepared to sup
port Mr. Brown as a candidate for
governor, but we think he has acted
right in deolining to enter the cam
paign when business interests de
manded a contrary course.
His decision but adds to his repu
tation us a man of sound business
judgment. It is laudable for a ca
pable and worthy man to aspire to
political distinction, but judgment
is at fault when business interests
are sacrificed on tbo altar pf politi
cal ambition. In deciding to sacri
fice ambition upon the altar of busi
ness duty, Mr. Brown has increased
his own honor and added to his
claim upon the confidence and es
teem of his friends.
Georgia needs one good governor}
the agricultural business of the state
needs thousands of good farmers,
such as Mr. Brown has proven him
self to be,
Commissioner Stevens, of the state
department of agriculture, started
out last week to investigate the
wide-spread complaint that the ker
osene oil sold in Georgia was not
affording sufficient light. Eight or
ten years ago the Home Journal ed
itorially contended that the oil test
as applied was of no value to the
people. It guaranteed that the oil
would not explode, but had no ref
erence whatever to the illuminating
qualities of the oil. The conditions
are the same now, and Commission
er Stevens will discover that the test
as now applied is a delusion, and
that a test to determine the illumin
ating quality of the oil is what the
people desire. More light and bet
ter light is the demand.
With a surplus revenue in the
United States treasury amounting
fo $140,000,000, the republican
managers in congress have at last
decided that the war revenue taxes
can be abolished. A bill to that ef
fect has been prepared, and begin
ning with next July there will be a
reduction in the annual revenue tax
list of about $77,000,000. It is es
timated that the income this year
will be about equal to the expenses,
and that at the beginning of next
year there will still be about $140,-
000,000 in the treasury, exclusive of
the reserve fund.
Hon. Boykin Wright assumed the
office of attorney general of Georgia
last Saturday, and Hon. J. M. Ter
rell was free from all offioial obliga
tion, an untrameled candidate for
governor of Georgia. His campaign
headquarters are. at the Kimball
House, Atlanta, Ga., rooms 114 and
116. These rooms were used by
Hon. Steve Olay when he was elect
ed U. S. senator, and by Gov. Cand
ler in the campaign of 1898, and
have been headquarters of the state
democratic executive committee dur
ing two successive campaigns.
The accumulation of wealth is
commendable, but the concentration
^thereof"is abominable, to the fellows
j who don’t concentrate.
To Benefit Farmers.
Hon. E. B. Lewis has introduced
in the national House of Represen
tatives a bill that is intended to be
of great convenience and benefit to
farmers throughout the country.
The measure is to amend the na
tional bank law bo that national
banks will be authorized to loan 60
per cent of their capital and surplus
on real estate security, on the basis
of pne-half of the marketable value
of the real estate, exclusive of all
buildings and improvements.
Under the existing law national
banks oannot lend money on real es
tate at all.
This is certainly an important
measure, and should be enaoted into
law. Real estate is the basis of all
values, and there can be no better
security. The banks will not only
be Bafe in lending money on real es
tate under the provisions of this
measure, but their profits would be
materially increased thereby. Owfl
ora of real estate would certainly
find it easier to secure'the money
they are obliged to borrow.
In this measure, as in all other of
ficial acts, Mr. Lewis seeks to serve
the material interests of his constit
uents.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says,
concerning business affairs of that
oity: “We are informed that two
more large wholesale houses will be
opened up here in time for the fall
business, and that two new steamers
will soon be built to ply the Ocmul-
gee. This begins to sound like bus
iness, and shows that Hawkinsville
is moving right oa to the front.”
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The Semi-Weekly Journal, Atlan
ta, Ga., has inaugurated an agents’
contest for the months of January
and Februajy, 1902. They are go
ing' to divide among their agents
$160 in cash to be paid on the first
of March, j!50 "being the first prize.
In December they gave $100 to fif
teen agents. For terms and infor
mation address The' Semi-Weekly
Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
The Pan-American conference at
Mexico City adjourned sine die last
Friday. It is doubtful if any mate
rial good was accomplished.
Excursion Rates to Charleston, S. O.,
via Central of Georgia Railway.
The Central of Georgia Railway will
sell low rate excursion tiokets to the
South Carolina Interstate and West
Indian Exposition at Charleston, S.
O., anil return from all coupon tick
et stations on its lineB from Decem
ber 1st, 1901, to May 31st, 1902,
Superior schedules, sleeping and
parlor car service are offered via Sa
vannah and Plant System.
For full particulars apply to your
nearest agent or representalive of
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