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?ubllahod Svory Thursday Morning.
J no ,OE. IEODGHB, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, August 14.
; County fairs promote progress.
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Four thousand public cotton gin
nerfcs are operated in Georgia.
Edward VII was crowned King of
England last Saturday at 12:39 p. m.
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Sumter county will vote for or
against the sale of liquor on the 21st
of August.
Political harmony will not come
through harsh personal criticism of'
former leaders.
Georgia mayors will meet in an
nual convention in Atlanta on Octo
ber 14th and 15th.
Bibb county’s tax returns this year
show an increase of $387,392 over
the value of the 1901 returns.
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A syndicate is being formed in
.the United States for the cultivation
of cotton in Cuba on an extensive
scale.
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For the first time in more than
ten years, the full democratic ticket
was elected in Kuox county, Ten
nessee, last week.
Manual training in the schools
at Athens, Augusta, Columbus and
elsewhere in Georgia is giving very
satisfactory results. f
The perfectly educated man is he
whose facile hand follows obedient
ly the clear and ready promptings of
a well-developed brain.—President
Jas. McAlister.
The heavy weight of the negro
educational convention in Atlanta
last week is a preacher of Washing
ton, D. C. He weighs 315 pounds,
the Rev. D. 0. Lee.
Bio preparations are being made
for the horse show to be given at
Atlanta four evenings during the in
terstate fair next October, from the
14th the 18th inclusive.
The fertilizer law enacted by the
last Georgia legislature, whioh raises
the standard of fertilizers that may
be sold in this state, will go into op
eration on the 1st of October next.
In Savannah last week a man at
tempted suioide in a most peouliar
way. He tried to cut his throat
with the jagged edge of a tin can,
and then swallowed a pocket cork
screw.
By purchase and construction it iB
said to be the purpose of the Gen-
gia Railway authorities to extend
that system to the Gulf of Mexico,
Pensacola Fla., being the objective
point,
Gen, Joseph Wheeler of the
United States shared with' Earl
Roberts, oommander-in-chief of the
English array, the honors of a club
banquet in London last Thursday
evening.
It is announced that on and after
August 15th the Macon, Dublin &
Savannah railroad will operate
through passenger trains from Ma
con to Savannah, connecting at Ma
con with the Southern trains from
Atlanta.
During the 29 years since the
Methodist Orphans’ Home was es
tablished at Macon, 1,200 orphans
have been received and nurtured.
Of the total number, 1,100 have
been furnished homes in private
families.
No sensible objection can be rais
ed to proposed constitutional amend
ment to increase the terms of all
county officers in Georgia to four
years. However, the lengthening
of the terms would cut in half the
political revenue of the editors of
weekly papers.
Georgia fruit culture received able
and extensive consideration at Ma
con last Wednesday and Thursday
during the annual meeting of the
State Horticultural Society. Every
fruit growing section of the state
was well represented, and the dis
play of Georgia fruits was extensive
and beautiful.
Democracy Must Avoid Division,
It is gratifying to know that the
men who have proven their willing
ness to devote their time and talents
to the success of democracy are not
now using any of their political am
munition in “shooting” other than
republican game.
Whatever difference of opinion
there may be concerning correct
democratic policy, there cannot be
any change of the party platform
until authorized by the next nation
al convention. There may be shades
of interpretation, and various opin
ions as to expediency, conditions
and 'environment, bnt there can be
no doubt that the great principle of
“equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none,” is the foundation
rook of democratic faith, and that
earnest and persistent opposition to
republicanism is tip-top democracy.
Whatever objection there may be
to the leading polioy of the last cam
paign, personal criticism of those
who tried earnestly to win under it
will not strengthen the party for the
next campaign. Certain it is, also,
that no man just now has the right
to assume the authority of leader
ship.
Whatever the errors of democrat
ic polioy may have been, the main
purspose now should be to find the
weak places in republican policy. It
is republicanism, and hot democrats,
that we should strive earnetly to
discredit. It is not so necessary
that past errors be discussed, but
that we occupy the strongest posi
tion possible in antagonism to the
extravagance, favoriteism and un
faithfulness of republicanism.
The republican party represents
commercialism run riot, imperialism
rampant, and an utter disregard of
duty all along the line. All that the
republican party stands for is con
trary to democratic principle, and if
we succeed in uniting the opposi
tion to republican methods, the next
president will surely be a democrat.
Logically, democracy is tbe party
of the masses,while the opulent clas
ses command speoial privilges from
those who control the republic)’
party.
United, we win; divided, we 1
Through personal oritioism of
erats we can never induce union.
We need every democrat, and all
who will fight to defeat republican
ism can be legitimately classed as
democrats.
By force of patronage ihe’republi-
can party has grown strong and ar
rogant. By the force of right and
iustice, and harmony within the
lines, must demooracy gain the pow
er that belongs to truth and virtue.
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Agricultural Conditions.
Unless there be changes, there
will be no progress.
This is true of everything with
whioh man is concerned.
Just now, in this seotion of the
state, of all material things man is
most concerned about the condi
tions of agriculture as a business.
It has long been acknowledged as
a fact that agriculture cannot attain
its highest profitable development
under the plantation-tenant system.
That system may result in ttye en
richment of the plantation owners,
but the impoverishment of all others
around about in the country, with
very exceptions, is as sure as that
death will eventually claim us all.
As the combination of aggregated
copital into trust corporations, con
trolling manufactured articles, sti
fles individual enterprise alpng these
lines, so does the plantation-tenant
system of agriculture prove a bar to
agricultural progress by. individual
industry, to a considerable extent.
Outside of this proposition. A
thousand acres of land owned and
controlled by one man is worth less
than half to the county and to the
world than would be the same acres
owned and cultivated by ten men as
ten separate farms.
Owners of thousands of acres
must sell to energetic young men,
else there will be an insurmountable
bar to agricultural progres, and the
ublack belt” will broaden to the dis
advantage of all commonwealth in
terests.
Elsewhere the labor phase of this
problem is forcefully discussed by
a young farmer of Houston county.
The article deserves careful consid
eration.
Latest reports from Texas indi
cate that there will be a “bumper”
crop of cotton harvested there, even
though the boll worm and weevil
are doing considerable
some sections of the state.
Northern Testimony.
Last week Dr. J. H. Reynolds, of
Adrian, Michigan, secretary of the
Farmers’ National Congress, was in
Macon.
He expressed himself as well
pleased, and said at least 600 north
ern farmers will attend the conven
tion at Macon next October, and
many of them will bring their wives
and daughters.
He says that farmers in hiB sec
tion plant considerably more than
half their land in corn, and the av
erage crop is 100 bushels per acre,
and yet, he says, they “don’t figure
any money value on their crop.”
Nearly all this great corn crop is
used to fatten cows, hogs, etc., and
from these products their money is
derived.
Everywhere, he says, there is a
scarcity of farm labor, and that the
question of wages does not seem to
have any effect upon this evident
repugnance to labor on the farm.
In speaking of the negro as a la
borer, he Baid that out of 90 negro
families in Adrian only five are self-
supporting, all the others depending
more or less upon charity. In con
clusion, he said:
“He will always promise, but he
ne\er remembers his promise. We
have reached the conclusion that
the negro has the vioes of all the
races. He is absolutely worthless
to us as a citizen.”
A most notable gathering was the
Negro Young People’s Eduoational
Congress in Atlanta last week, con
taining as it did delegates from
nearly all the states, and the most
highly educated negroes in the
Union. One of the most notable
addresses was that by Booker Wash
ington, and if the advice of the ora
tors given in public will be observed
by their hearers in private life, their
race will be wonderfully elevated
along moral and industrial lines.
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noftt liberal terms.
Business of fifteen Tears standing,
than three million dollars m
K'-m« ne—tiated. Facilities unsur-
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view to making the income from the latter large.
State fully length of experience, name and num
ber of books sold, time engaged, etc. None but
canvassers of successful experience and capac
ity for training and handling men need apply.
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GEORGIA, Houston County:
E. B. Baldwin, administrator of the
estate of Mrs. V. Irene Murph, has ap
plied for leave to sell lands of said estate.
' This is therefore to cite all persons
concerned to appear at the September
term, 19021,'bf the court of Ordinary of
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not
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