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PuMlihed Every Thursday Morning.
no.H. HODGES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, October 16.
A burning question the coal strike
has beoome.
The Georgia legislature will con
vene next Wednesday.
Congressmen will be elected Nov.
4th—the first Wednesday.
At Valdosta the Georgia state
fair will open on October 29th,- one
week from next Monday.
At Atlanta the interstate fair has
been in successful progress since
Wednesday of last week.
Every Georgia farmer Bliould sell
each year beef cattle in proportion
to the acres he cultivates.
Broad as the needs of humanity
is the mind of man, and as expan
sive as the necessities of the uni
verse.
Georgia farms make prosperous
farmers when they supply in full,
and more, the produots needed on
these farbs.
The farmers in the national con
gress at Macon last week adopted a
resolution in opposition to the ship
subsidy scheme.
The National Farmers* Congress
at Macon last week was one of the
most beneficial, meetings held in
Georgia this year.
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Editor W. R. Hearst, of the New
York Journal, is the democratic
nominee for oongress in the ninth
distriot of New York,
It is not the volume of farm prod
uots that makes prosperous farmers,
but the exoess in value of produots
over expenses of production.
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A convention of Georgia mayors
assembled in Atlanta last Tuesday
1 >rning, Mayor Bridges Smith of
Alncon was elected president of the
0 invention.
At Maoon last week the agricul
tural display was a revelation to the
farmers from the north, east and
vest who attended the Farmers’
National Congress.
In Atlanta there is a preacher,
itev. John F, Bahler, who claims
hat a new pair of eyes are growing
n the sockets from which his first
eyes were removed several years ago,
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During the Confederate veterans’
'•minion at Columbus on October
:JSch and 29th there will be special
brigade reunions—Anderson’s, Ben
dings’, Cook’s, Colquitt’s, Evans’
and Semms’, and all veterans of
>,hese brigades are urged to be pres
ent.
At the conclusion of the Farmers’
National Congress in Macon last
veek, the premiums for agricultural
ixhibits were awarded as follows:
1st to Jones county,.. $400; 2nd to
Bibb county, $200; 3rd to Laurens
•.•Vanty, $400. Lumsden’s hay pal-
>1 o was a marvel to all visitors.
Counterfeit silver dollars are be
ing circulated in China and the
Philippine Islands. This money is
> i silver and of standard weightjand
f he profit is nearly 100 per cent, the
difference between the bullion and
chf coin value. It is believed many
of these dollars were made in San
Francisco.
The United States senate already
.intrso many railroad magnates that
it has been impossible to secure the
passage of a law giving the inter
state commerce comission power to
protect the public from extortionate
rates and gross discriminations. We
<lo not need any senators of that
kind.—The Commoner.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa says
trusts are not hurtful to individual
enterprise, and that “evidence is ac
cumulating from which the doom of
trusts can be foretold.” It may be
th at trusts will in time fall by rea
son of their own top-heavy weight,
but the people now feel their hurt
ful influence and would escape it.
The Friend of Our Enemy.
“You cannot be a friend of that
man, and be my friend at the same
time.”
This declaration was made to the
writer by a friend with reference to
another friend, between whom and
the speaker there was personal en
mity.
Our reply convinced him that he
was in error, and he withdrew the
assertion.
In social affairs, with personal ap
plication, such a position is untena
ble, else each distinct community
throughout the world would con
tinually embrace ah active feud, and
the citizens would be divided into
factions, each at positive enmity
against the other.
In religion, morality and politics,
however, it is a fact that the friend
of our enemy cannot be our friend.
In religious affairs, he who would
serve the Master cannot be a boon
companion of the irreligious, or an
associate in the doings of him who
scoffs at religion, and repudiates the
teachings of the Book that is the
guide of all who acknowledge the
supremacy of the Creator, and be
lieve there is an eternal life in the
great hereafter.
In morality, he who wpuld estab
lish and maintain a character above
reproach, cannot be on terms of in
timate friendship with one whose
life is in antagonism to all that is
true and virtuous.
In politics he cannot be our friend
(in an impersonal sense) who is seek
ing to accomplish that which is un-
juBt, incorreot or impolitic.
Our form of government has de
veloped the fact that the best medi
um through which to secure best re
sults is that of political, parties. Now,
the chief contention of the two dom
inant parties are in positive antago
nism. At this juncture the demo
cratic party contends that trusts are
extremely hurtful to the general inv
terests of the country, and that their
power for evil should be destroyed.
In this connection, it is claimed that,
a revision of the tariff duties pin'-''
on imports will in a large meas i
afford the relief desired.
By leaders of the republican jyr.
ty it is declared that we have
reasonable complaint against the
“so-called” trusts, and that there
should be no revision of the tariff.
Recently President Roosevelt has
declared in public speeches that
there may be need to check the
growing power of trusts.
In this connection it is declared
that J. Pierpout Morgan, the great
est exemplar of trust power, iB dis
pleased with the attitude af Presi
dent Roosevelt, and has said that he
must not be elected president in
1904. It is further said that if the
nomination of Mr. Roosevelt by the
republicans cannot be prevented,
then his (Morgan’s) friends, mean
ing friends of the trusts, must help
the democrats to nominate and elect
“a safe man like Cleveland;”
Here comes the illustration. If
Mr. Cleveland is a friend of the
corporate power represented by J'.
Pierpout Morgan and his associate
trust magnates, he cannot be a
friend of democracy.
Verily, in this connection, tl*e po-
lilical friend of our political enemy
cannot be our political friend.
If Mr. Cleveland is acceptable to
Mr. Morgan, he canflfot be a true
democrat.
He who would serve democracy,
cannot be a political friend of corpo
rate power and greed.
Several hundred thousand tons
of coal have recently been bought
in England, Scotland, Wales, Ger
many and other European countries
for use in the Uiiited States, to sup
ply the shortage caused by the
strike in the anthracite region.
Much of this purchase is coal that
was shipped from this country to
Europe before the strike began, and
while there was a surplus ready for
the market.
It was reported last week that J.
Pierpout Morgan- had purchased
50,000 tons of coal in England for
the poor people in New York city.
A later report says the coal will not
be given to the poor, but sold prac
tically at cost, after ocean freight
has been paid. The ships bringing
the coal belong to Morgan’s combine.
Rev. W. J. Holtzolaw,;,pastor of
the Perry Baptist church two years
ago, is conducting revival services
at Jones Avenue Baptist church,
Atlanta, Ga., of whioh church he is
how pastor.
Cotton Census.
Mr. Herman L. Harris, of Fort
Valley; has been appointed a local
special agent of the census office to
collect cotton ginring statistics for
Houston county, and we join the
government in urging, the ginners
to give Mr. Harris their hearty sup
port and co-operacion, thus enabling
him to mnke prompt and accurate
returns. We would impress upon
the ginners the fact that this agent
is a sworn officer of the government,
and that their reports are forwarded
as given to him directly to the cen
sus office, at Washington, without
passing through the hands of any
middlemen. The information given
is held as strictly confidential, and
the operations of individual ginners
are not divulged. Upon the joint
co-operation of the cotton growers,
ginners and local agent must de
pend the success of the census office
in this inquiry, and its ability to
render this great service to the
southern people and to all interest
ed in the cotton staple.
The census office has demonstra
ted in three annual reports the fact
that the ginners are the only relia
ble source of information as to the
volume of the annual cotton crop.
This is very complimentary to the
ginners, who, no doubt, will feel a
pride in sustaining the reputation
earned.
In recognition of this interest
shown by the ginners, and of a gen
eral demand for more frequent re
ports through this source, congress,
in the act creating a permanent cen
sus office; provided for the collec
tion and publication of these statis
tics at intervals during the ginning
season. For the crop of 1902 the
office will issue three reports: the
first two will cover the quantity of
cotton ginned up to and including
Ootober 18 and December 13, re
spectively; and the final report will
cover the total quantity ginned from
the growth of 1902.
The statistics for the October re
port will be collected during the
voek beginning with Monday, Oo-
r 20, and ginners should keep
- u h records as will enable them to
’• • ush promptly the required infor
mation. These returns will be tab
ulated, and the result published
within one week from their receipt
at Washington.
Ootton statistics collected through
the commercial system, however ac
curately compiled, fall short of the
demand of the producer and manu
facturer—first, in that as they cover
the quantity of cotton marketed be
tween September 1 of one year and
August 31 of the following, they are
not statistics of a crop grown in any
one year; and second, in the liability
to error involved in statistics so
compiled. Nothing short of official
reports, made sufficiently early 4o
form a basis of prices, will entirely
satisfy the cotton grower or manu
facturer. It is gratifying to know
that the south has the assistance
and co-operation of the government
in bringing about the result they
desire—an undertaking the success
of which now depends upon the cot
ton growers and ginners themselves.
The crown prince of Siam, Chow-
pa Maha Vajiravudk, is in the Uni
ted States. At a dinner given in his
honor at Washington by the Sia
mese minister last Sunday evening,
several members of the president’s
cabinet and other U. S. officials were
present.
People of Perry and vicinity can’t
go to Macon by rail and return the
same day, except \ia the G. S. & F.
road. By this route they must go
six miles,, more or less, by private
conveyance.
There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all-other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctors pro
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed local
remedies,and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
3cience has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease, and therefore requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manu
factured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is
the only constitutional cure on the market It
is taken internally in doses from 10 drops toja
teaspoonful. It acts directly on the, blood and
mucus suriaces of the system. They offer one
huudred dollars for any casj itfales to cure.
Semi for circulars and testimonials.
Address. F. J. CHENY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Loans negotiated on improved
market rates, and on
Business of fifteen years standing.
Kore than three million dollars in
loans nqes&iated. Facilities unsur
passed. HOWARD M. SMITH,
Ho. 814 >e<—St.. Macon, Gja.
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