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Tub -Iojub Jovsmm PRICE, 11.60 A TEAS, IN ADVANCE. Pttbll»h«d Every Thursday Horning. Jno.H’. HODGES, Editor and Publisher Perry, Thursday, June 25. The Georgia Teachers’ Associa tion is in convention on Cumberland Island. There will be a “whole lot” of people who will need corn next w in ter and Bpring. v The cotton mills recently destroy ed by a storm at Gainesville will soon be rebuilt. Georgia, farmers will do well to increase their corn crops if they have any- lands not already planted. The government reports the con dition of the o. tton crop on May 26bh as nearly 18 per cent below the average of the last ten years. It now appears that the frauds being uncovered in the postoffioe department &fiect the official con duct of the republican administra tion as a whole. An Atlanta man, says the Consti tution, has gome to Colombia, South Amerisa, to “lend the Atlanta spir it,” and the Panama canal project is at last surely fixed. Up to last Saturday night 116 carloads of Georgia peaches and plums had passed through Macon, via the Central railroad. On Satur day there were 18 cars. After a loss of $1,800,000 in wag es, the strike of the textile workers at Lowell, Mass., has cpme to an end, without gaining the inorease in wages contended for. From Belgrade it is reported that King Peter has promoted several of the officers who participated in the recent assassination of King Alex ander andl Queen Draga of Servia: —— Several carloads of peaohes will be shipped from this oountry to London this season, for which re frigerated space has been engaged on one of the large trans-Atlantio steamers. Ex-Lieut. Gov. James H. Tillman of South Carolina was placed on tri al at Columbia last Monday for the murder of Editor Gonzales lasjb Jan uary. The defense asked for a ohange of venue. The annual re-union of Dooly county Confederate veterans will be at Unadilla this year, on Saturday, July 4th. C. O. Duncan, formerly of Perry, is ohairman of the barbe- oue oommittee. Whatever the price of ootton may be next winter and spring, it will not be sufficient to buy western oorn for southern farmers and leave any profit in the pockets of the afare- said southern farmers. In offering premiums to ihe amount of $20,000, the managers of the Georgia state fair will oause to be made the most comprehensive agricultural and industrial exposi tion ever seen in the state. A Japanese expert, who has been ongaged in experimental rice farm ing in Texap, has decided to organ ize a colony of 100 Japanese rioe farmers along the line of the South ern Pacific railroad in that state. In a recent interview Senator Hanna declared that he would not be a candidate for the vice presiden cy, and that he would not aocept the nomination should it be offered him by the republican national conven tion. ' * The commissioners of Bibb coun ty have endorsed the bill of Repre sentative Felder, introduced at the last session of the legislature, pro of felony vi’ding for the working I v convicts upon public roads and works. In a sermon last Sunday Rev. L. G. Broughton severely critioised the morality of faoulty and students of the Georgia School of Technology. In reply ^President Hall and several of the professors declare with em phasis that the charges are without foundation. rot Unlawful Peonage. Recently more than one hundred indiotments have been returned to the U. S. District court of Alabama against persons alleged to have been guilty of peonage. The offense is that of illegally re straining the liberty of any person through force, threats or any other unlawful means. In the district court at Macon last week three white men of a middle Georgia county were indicted for the same offense, The circumstances of the Georgia case were, briefly, as follows; The negro held had been convicted in state oourt of a misdemeanor, and his fine had been paid by one of the farmers in question. Later th6 ne gro violated the oontraot and quit working for the farmer who had paid his fine. He was pursued, cap tured and forced to return to the farm of the man with whom he had contracted to work. Just how far-reading this decis ion to enforce the law on this line will be cannot be told now, but it will certainly exercise considerable influence in the practice of paying the fines of misdemeanor convicts. Throughout this section of the state comparati\ely few negro men oonvioted of misdemeanor offenses ever go to the ohuingang, their fines being paid by farmers or other bus iness men who need their services. Our people do not wish to violate law, but they think they should be in Borne degree protected when they pay the fines and make labor con tracts with convicts, relieving them of ohaingang sentence. The fine paid amounts to the payment of wages in advance, and the contract should not bo legally construed one sided! in favor of the “paid-out” criminal. Just how muoh a farmer may do to hold a hired convict under oon traot does not appear, but Judge Speer has declared that liberty must not be restrained by foroe or fear, nor a man under contract so forced or constrained to work against hia will. It appears that there is no proteb- tion for those who hire and pay in advance other than the integrity of the hireling, or his financial respon sibility. Both elements beings alto gether lacking, the risk iB great. Perhaps there will be material de crease in the number of convict fines paid hereafter. If it is peonage for an individual to restrain the liberty of a hired oonviot, wby U it not also peonage for a corporation to do the same thing by means of an organized con- vict camp?i To us it Seems that the question is exceedingly, broad, and that the state nor a county can enforce the labor of convicts in lieu of fines ex cept through their legally appointed officials. If an individual who pays the fine of a convict cannot force the payment of that fine in labor, under oontraot, then it would seem illegal for the state or county to delegate that power to any corpora tion or firm. Perhaps there is something for the legislature to do along this line. The Republican Protective Tariff League is vigorously conducting a “campaign of education.” In fact there has been no “let up” in their efforts to convince the voters that a protective tariff is a good thing. The latest proposition is a request for names of young men who will be voters for the first time in 1904. It is the purpose of the league to place in the hands of the young men re ferred to such literature $s ipay in fluence them to vote for the repub lican nominee for president next year. As with all promoters of re publicanism, this tariff league is anx ious to Becure republican votes, rath er than to promote any principle or policy for the benefit of the people. Republican votes is what they are after, with the knqwledge that re publican success will mean a contin uation of the enormous profits that come to monopolist manufacturers through a high protective tariff. “Grafting” is the new name for a species of official fraud that seems to have been popular with postoffice officials at Washington who made contracts for mail bags, boxes, looks and other, articles used by the de partment These officials contracted at large prices and received a con siderable percentage of the amount paid. Verily, it seems that the re publican party contains a large per cent of grafters. MANY DE8IRE TO ATTEND THE 8T. LOUIS WORLD’S FAIR AS THE QUESTS OF THE .< JH JOURNAL. Do you want to attend the ‘World’s fair? From the Immense number of estimates being received each day to The Journal's contest, one would naturally conclude that the answer of eyery Individual wpuld be In the affirmative. All are nat urally very anxious to go, but some are unable. The Journal has come to their rescue. Forty people are going to the groat exposition as Its guests. © Will you be one of the forty? In accordance with Its past spirit of liberality, on May 10th, The Journal an nounced for the first time that 40 free trips to the St. Louis World’s fair, each consisting of a first-class -ticket from At lanta to St. Louis and return and $50 for expenses, would be given to this number of Its subscribers, 20 of these tftps to Its subscribers In Atlanta and Fulton county and 20 outside of Fulton county. It is not necessary to pay in advance to be entitled to estimate in this contest, Bach subscriber who has paid In advance Is entitled to as many estimates as the length of time subscription is paid In ad vance from May 10th. The first 40 near est correct estimates will receive these free trlpB. It Is therefore important that you send In your estimate at once. Be sure you have the carrier sign the cou pon each time you pay him 10 or 12 cents, If the paper is delivered by carrier, or if the paper Is received by mall, fhd you send In your renewal don’t forget to send In estimates. The contest closes at midnight April 1, 1904, and the gates will open May 1st While the estimates received last may be the successful ones, it Is better to send In estimates at once, and keep sending, as the first 40 nearest correct estimates will rocclve the trips. It costs absolutely nothing to enter, the contest. Bstimates cannot be bought for any prlce^and as no one will know the number of ^admissions to the St. Louis World's fair until after the opening day, every one has an equal chance. Excursion Rates to Various Points Via Central of Ga, Railway. Account occasions specified bilow, excursions tickets will be sold to points named at the low rates shown: \ Annual Meeting, Georgia Bar As sociation, Tallulah Falls, July 3-4, 1903. Rate one fare, plus 25 cents, round trip, from all ticket stations in Georgia. Tickets on sale July 1 and 2, final return limit July 6,1903. Monteagle Bible School, Moitea- gle, Tenn., July 1 to Aug. 30, 1903. Rate one fare, plus 25 cents, round trip, from all ticket stations on Cen tral of, Georgia Railway. Tickets on sale June 30 to July 2, inclusive, al so July 22, 23, 25, final return limit Aug. 31, with privilege of extension of fiual limit to Oct. 21, 1903. National Educational Association, Boston, Mass , July 6 to 10, 1903. Very low rates for this occasion from all ticket stations on Central of Ga. Railway via all rail, also via Savan nah and Steamship lines. Meals and berth are furnished without charge aboard ships on tickets reading via Savannah and Steamship lines. A sea trip is very enjoyable and bene ficial at this season of the year. Representative J. Adam Bede of Minnesota has just been in Wash ington and, like every Minnesotian, has brought with him cause for un rest on the part of the republicans. He sayp “the people of Minnesota are seriously thinking of the great benefit they would derive from re ciprocity with Canada. The busi ness interests of the state have or ganized a league with that end in view. Minnesota is turning’to di versified farming. The Canadian farmers are wheat growers. We can sell them their butter, eggs, cheese, fruits and various other products.” Mr. Bede’s announcement caused a bad quarter of an hour to the Presi dent. He too favors reciprocity, but his experience with the Cuban treaty has taught him a lesson, and he will make no more attempts to seoure the ratification of a republi can oongress for a reciprocity treaty. —Oqp Washington Correspondence. as State of Ohio, Oity of Toledo ) Lucas County. j Frank J. henet makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DODLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be oured by the use of Hall’s CatarbhOure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . x. W. Gleason, | SEAL. | Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Address. F. J.CHENS & CO., Toledo, O. SoldbyDruggists, 75. 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