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SB?.' my m iSlMM PBIOE, $1.50 A YEAS, IN ADVANCE. Published Every Thursday Horning. j 10. M.! to DOBS, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, January 15. Rbpairs on the union passenger depot at AUauta will begin this week. Business men of Maoon are calcu lating for a fair at Central Oity Park next fall. Thb net earnings of the United States steel trust for 1902 aggregate $132,662,000. An elegant new hotel, the Pied mont Hotel, will open for business in Atlanta on January 16th. A new bank has been organized at Montezuma, the First National Bank of Montezuma, E. B. Lewis, presi dent. In the death of Superintendent B. O. Epporson the Central of Geor gia railroad lost an exceedingly able and valuable offioial. Thb Atlantia & Birmingham rail road crossed the Seaboard Air Lim track at Oordele last week,and trains will soon enter Montezuma. Argentina and Chile have agreed that their respective navies shall be equal in strongth and equipment. This aotibn seems to be a peace pre server. In Berrien and Worth counties, Ga., a severe wind storm last Sun day did considerable damage to property, especially to houses in sev eral tOWUB. In all stutes where anthracite coal is used for fuel muoh suffering from cold and disease prevails. Scarcity of coal consequent upon the strike last summer is the cause. Rev Andrew J. Beok of Clarks? toh, who waB once a school teacher at Perry, was last week elected gen eral manager of the Georgia Baptist Orphan's Horae at Hapoville. An increased acreage of cotton for the 1908 crop will cause a material qoduqtion of the price. Farmers will find their best interest in large food and provender crpps, and a cotton orop of moderate aoreage! Police management in Atlanta seems to have been crooked, and a committee of the city council is en gaged in an effort to straighten the twisted links. Some spicy evidence has been heard, and thore is more to follow. With a oapital stock ef $1,000,000 the Independent Ootton Oil Compa ny has been organized at Charleston, S. O. Six mills and a refinery, with a daily output of 700 barrels, have been purchased and merged under one management. A Poor man of New York lives in a house that cost him a million dol lars. His name is Henry W. Poor, and several days ago hi& N palace oaught fire and several millionaires toted water in buokets to oheok the burning until firemen arrived. Hon. W. D. Nottingham, late judge of the oity oourt of Muoon, has resumed the practice of law, and has an office in the Horne & Turpin building on Third Street, Macon, Ga. He is the peer of the foremost lawyers in the state, and suocess will surely attend his efforts. In several northwestern states last Sunday the temperature dropped be low zero. Throughout the north and east everything out of doors was fro: cozen, heavy Bnow storms in many states, and in all there was much suffering, especially among the poor, on account of the lack of coal for fuel. , i President Roosevelt has modi fied his views concerning the federal legislation necessary to keep the trusts within reasonable bounds. If he continues on that line, very soon he will be entirely satisfied that trusts are not in any degree hurtful to the general interests of the peo ple. Surely, our strenuous president is developing the. , fact that he is a man of fickle mind. Arbitration a Peace-Maker. mm msm People who love peace rather than war. whether it be commercial dr political, are pleased that the claims " G - ‘ of England, Germany and other na tiouB against Venezuela have been referred to The Hague tribunal for arbitration. If this incident be ac cepted as a precedent, a very strong war preventive will have been estab lished. Between nations, as between indi viduals, the right is rarely, if ever, entirely on one side of a controver sy. Certainly a claim of one country against another cannot be equitably settled by war. No matter where the preponderance of right may be, the result of war would be to the advantage of the most powerfur par ty, and might would make right in the conclusion reached by the con queror. In the case at issue war would not secure the payment of the debts claimed, unless by the conquerors acquiring Venezuelan territory. At any rate, there could be no equity, very little profit to the conquerors, but tremendous injustice and loss to the oonquered. How much better it would have been had the South African trouble been referred to arbitration. The same theory and practice is equally applicable to the settlement of business differences'between or ganizations or individuals. On this line there have been many instances illustrative of the value of arbitra tion. Nearly every year within the last quarter of a century differences between organized labor and organ ized capital have been followed by strikes that caused great loss of money to both sides at issue. No strike haB ever been settled without concessions from one side or the other, and the rnoBt satisfactory set tlements hit/ve been reached through Home method of arbitration. Just now the differences between operators of anthracite coal mines and the miners is in process of set tlement by a board of arbitrators named by President Roosevelt. It has already been demonstrated by testimony on both sides, that each side cf the controversy had just cause of grievance against the oth er, and that the demands of neither against the other would have given exact justice if secured entirely. As a forceful argument in favor of arbitration in this instance is found in the faot that the scarcity of coal caused by the continued strike last Bummer haB been the direct cause of muoh suffering throughout the re gion where anthracite ooal is the chief artible of fuel. Not only h<is the price increased beyond the abili ty of the poorer people to buy, but the quantity available at exorbitant prioes is inadequate to the absolute needs of the people in the larger oities. An equitable settlement of the coal strike difficulties will establish a precedent that will in large meas ure prevent such calamitous con flicts between capital and labor hereafter. > Certain it is whenever a difference between capital and labor, or of a business character between nations, affeots the general or special inter ests of any considerable number of other people, then there should be compulsory arbitration, if it be shown that an equitable settlement is not likely to be otherwise reached. Freely used, arbitration will prove a peace preserver and a money saver. Our strenuous president seems likely to forfeit the good opinion of just people throughout the country. He has talked nicely about being president of all tho people, without sectional bias, and some of his offi cial acts have been altogether com mendable, but recentaly it has be come apparent that he thinks over much of Mr. Roosevelt and the ex alted position he occupies by acci dent. Of recent incidents in this connec tion, our Washington Correspond ent says: “The President was subjected to what the French term ‘a bad quarter of an hour' at the Cabinet meeting on Friday, and a very bad quarter of an hour it was. Individually and collectively the members of the Cab inet reproaohed him for the blunders he has committed in attempting to carry into effect a wholly quixotic and speotacular Southern policy. The appointment of Dr. Crum, (a negro politician), to be Collector of of the Port at Charleston, S. 0., and the suspension of the postoffice at Indianola, Miss., were made the texts for the curtain lecture deliver ed hehind the closed doors of the Cabinet room. Reprasentative Bartlett of Georgia said to your correspondent, apropos of this sub ject: “•President Roosevelt is what you might call a spectacular statesman, fond of playing to the galleries. Like all other professional reformers, he has but one objeot in view and that is to better his own personal chances at the expense and discom fiture of others. He is after a ma jority of the delegates to the next Republican national convention and be has been making a grand stand play for the negro voles of the South because he knows that they control the conventions that create the delegates.’ ” “Representatives Johnson, How ard, Brantley, Cochran, Patterson, Lever, Senator-elect Lattimer and others expressed similar views.” Uoiv’h Tills? hen ey for the last Id years, and believe him porfeotly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tions mi do by their firm. Wkst & Tuuax,Wholesale Druggists,Toledo,0. Waldino, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O, Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally .acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of tee Bystem. Hrieo 7Gc. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials freo. Hall’s Family Fills are tne best. Security Bonds furnished. Under threat o;f an extra session, the Republican members of the Sen ate have consented to the passage of some “simple” and innoxuous anti-trust measures. These bills, they say, must be so simple as to provoke no lenghthy debate, and must veoeive the unanimous support of the republicans, which is tanta mount lo saying that they must be so drawn as to be incapable of thwarting the intentions or desires of the trusts. The lengthy and sweeping bill brought in with such spectacular advertising by Senator Hoar has subjected that venerable statesman to nothing but ridicule, and so upset has the old gentleman beoome that on Thursday he moved the passage of a bill which was en acted nearly a year ago and the Sen ate, following his lead, passed it.— Our Washington Correspondent. J. D. MARTIN, Sr., JEW BLEB, Perry, Ga. Watolies, Clocks and Jewelry Repaired. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Offioe in Masonic Building. C. z. McARTHXJrT DENTIST, PORT VALLEY, GEORGIA. Office over Slappey’s Drugstore. 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