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Published Ertry Thursday Morning;
Jr*. H. HODQES, Editor and Publisher
Perry, Thursday, February 12.
The fruit orop in this state is now
in a critical stage. Warm weather
now and a freeze later may prove
disastrous.
A transfer station for the Ma
con street railway will be construct
ed at the intersection of Ootton Av
enue and First street.
Sbnor Morohan has been accept
ed at Madrid as the Cuban minister
to Sfiain, and the flag of the new re
public has been unfurled at the cap
ital of the former sovereign of Cuba.
Senator Hanna is now regarded
as a candidate for the republican
nomination for the presidency,' and
his bill to pension the ex slaves, is
accepted as a bid for the negro vote.
A steamship reaching San Fran
cisco last Sunday brought the dowb
that a great tiual wave killed one
thousand people and devastated
eighty islands of the Sooiety group
in the Southern sea on January 15th.
Bolivia and Brazil have deoided
to submit to arbitration their con
flicting claims to sovereignty to a
aootion of territory called Aore. War
between the two republics has been
threatened.
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A local option law concerning the
sale of liquor was passed by the.
Tennessee house of representatives
last Friday, and it is said the faot
, startled the liquor interests through
out the state.
The blockading of Venezuelan
ports by the European allies is at
par with the old English law under
whioh debtors were imprisoned—
placing the debtor where he oannot
earn anything with whioh to pay
the debt.
Editor Hearst of New York is
now regarded as the labor oandidate
ior the demooratio nomination for
the presidency, and systematic ef
forts are being , made throughout
the country to create and strength-
N on political Bentiment in his favor,
ihitsr
In the United States there are
About 5,000,000 -‘farms, of which 3,-
.000,000 produce corn. It is oalou-
lated that the average coBt of culti
vating and hijirveptiug an aore of
corn is $5.73, making the total cost
of corn oulture in the United States
$17,190,000.
At a meeting of Maoon business
men last Friday night it was deci
ded that there will be an agricultu
ral and industrial fair at the Central
City next autumn. Further, there
will be an effort to induce the Agri-
eultural Sooiety to join the Maoon
people in making this the Georgia
state fair of 1903. \
A new fruit farm .of several hun
dred aores is bBing established in
Taylor county near Butler by
Messrs. J. H. Baird of Fort Valley
Valley, B. H. Watson of Macon and
JesBd H. Hall, superintendent of the
Southwestern railroad. The f.u t o. -
chords in Georgia will be increased
by several thousand acres this year.
RopiNo, the Italian anarchist who
attempted to assassinate King Leo
pold last November, was placed on
trial at Brussels last week. He de
clared that modern, sooiety wab the
•cause of all evil, and that the King
was selected beoause he was the
.highest representative of sooiety.
Rubino also .declared that he had
planned to kill several other mon-
arohs, inoluding Ring Edward of
JSngland.
In introducing a bill in the senate
to pension ex slaves, Senator Hanna
is guilty of decidedly shady politics.
With Senate Hanna polities is a Bus
iness affair, and his policy seems to
be that anything worth having is
worth buying. Also, that it is cor
rect for others to do the paying,
For many years the eleotion of re
publican presidents and republican
majorities in AongreBs has been prac
tically bought by men an<| corpora
tions who control much money, and
the buyers .have been re-imbursed
through class legislation in aocord
with their Monopolistic desires, thus
making them willing to repeat the
vote-buying process.
Seeing that Roosevelt was gaining
favor with the negro politicians, with
whom the balance of power in repub
lican conventions has often rested,
Hanna makes a bid for negro influ
ence with this bill.
Just now we will not discuss the
demerits of the measure, feeling cer
tain it will never beoome a law, but
merely give.below what our Wash
ington correspondent say about the
the bill and its author's motive:
“Senator Mark Hanna has intro
duced in the Senate a bill whioh, be
cause of its barefaced purpose of
catohing be negro vote and offsett
ing the negro appointments of Pres
ident Roosevelt, would be ludicrous
were it Dot capable of being made
the means of defrauding thousands
of ignorant and trusting people. The
bill proposes to pension every ex
slave, and the relatives of such ex
slaves as have elder members of
thejr families dependent on them.
The pensions are to vary from $4
per month for Blaves under 50 to
$15 per month for slaves 70 and
over. Moreover, bounties are to be
paid to such as prove eligible for
pensions, ranging from $100 for
those agi d 50' to $500 for those 70
and over. As soon as the bill was
introduced, Mr. Hanna waB seen by
your correspondent and frankly ad
mitted that he had no intention of
urging the measure and never ex
pected it to beoome a law. When
asked why he had introduced it, he
said he had done so at the request
of a^ftiend and merely wished to be
accommodating. Asked if his friend
was going to be his campaign man
ager in 1904, Mr. Hanna refused to
answer. Commissioner Ware when
seen the next day, said that the
Hanna bill would almost bankrupt
the government if it were to beoome
a law. Evidence as to who were
and who were not ex-slaves would
be practically impossible to prooure,
and the law would be made the ex
ouse for voting thousands of private
pensions to negroes by legislators
anxious to secure the negro vote.
“While Senator Hanna’s pension
bill is obviously a bid for negrojsup-
port in the next national convention,
its worst feature is the end to which
it will be put by unscrupulous per
sons. Senator Mason introduced a
similar measure some years ago, and
it is estimated that certain “educa
ted negroes” who formed the “Ex-
slaves Federation” collected from
the negroes in the Bouth ud wards of
$200,000 for registry, representing
that registry by the association
would insure to them the benefits of
the proposed pensions as soon as the
law passed. The bill, as do all meas
ures introduced in oongress, bore
the legend, “Read twioe and refer
red to the oommittee,” etc., and it
was represented to the negroes that
having been read twice, it would re
quire but one more reading, and
they must lose no time in becoming
enrolled. The “Federation” was fi
nally barred from the use of the
mails,”
It is reported' from Columbia, S.
G., that the dispensary system of
that state is about to be the cause
os a political scandal. It is said
ihat a large distillery at Columbia is
practically owned by managers of
the dispensary system, and that a
proposed law would reduce the prof
its of the distillery while increasing
the profits of the local dispensaries.
One legislator declared that he had
been approached with a proposition
intended as a bribe to influence his
vote in opposition to the proposed
legislation. The bill was defeated.
Roosevelt has again declined ,to
act as arbitrator of the Venezuelan
muddle. In this decision the presi
dent has acted wisely, in that it
would be emphatically improper for
him to decide a question in whioh
this country is interested, directly
or indirectly. The claims of the
European allies against Venezuela
should ^arbitrated by an absolute
ly impartial'tribunal. In the mean
time the blockade of Venezuelan
ports should be lifted, in order that
the government of that republic
may collect funds with which to pay
the debts claimed,
J While striving earnestly to make
the Home Journal a welcome visitor
to the home of every subscriber, oc-
jcasional commendation is a positive
incentive to greater effort on thiB
line.
Last Monday the following note
was received from a subscriber—for
merly of Houston—residing in sm
other section of the state:
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paper. Kindly mail me this copy.
When the Home Journal fails to
come, I feel as though I had lost
something very important.”
We gratefully appreciate such
commendation, and will strive con
tinually to deserve it. With us it is
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Via Central of Oa. Railway. (
Account meeting of Greater Geor
gia Association to be held at Atlanta
February 17,, 1903, Central of Geor
gia Railway will sell excursion tick
ets from all ticket stations in Geor
gia for all trains leaving starting
points after noon of February 16th,
and for all trains of February 17th,
final limit February 19th, 1903, at
rate one fare for round trip pluB
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The pamphlet “Stassfurt Indus
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teresting description of the famous
potash mines in Germany, from
which all the potash imported into
this country and used for manuring
is derived. The chapter about the
use of potash iu agriculture as , one
of the important ingredients of a
complete fertilizer, adds largely to
the value of the book, and among
the many fine illustrations those
showing the experiments at South
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terest to practical farmers. Oopies
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Importers of
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An anti-trust bill, the publicity
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The democrats offered several
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they all voted for it. The vote was
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Special attention given to*, causes in
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Farmers in Houston county say
there will not be an increase in the
acreage devoted to the cotton crop
this year. To our mind the. proper
change would be a decrease in the
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a moment,
While we tell you about our immense stock of Shoes,
that is now brim full of good things. ’I would pay
you to investigate a few of the Specials for this week.
One item, for instance: Men’s High-grade Enameled
Bals worth $6.00, as long as they last 01 Ijr
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