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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1891)
^ THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE: “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL MEN AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. TOTED JX. Number 22, UiCK POMEROY Few Hints and Max A ms For Fabmeks. L produces all wealth, Id r something is labor suffers | bondholder is t he slave owner. Lty among the ignorance, toilers is the of the sin ot bonds p&iil lb0 P eople i government lias no right to s/and L pay interest on money it r ight to create. he farmers will only thinK they may work less and enjoy befit of their eurnings. fe creation of the United States L s the greatest act of treason perpetrated against the union, [interest of the United States elas comes from the producing L the benefit of usurers. Sties at the present time is the Lest kind ot business in which Ucrsmay be engaged, rertv forces men and women to ike worms when tbay are given epilations of God. premium on bonds are illegal, lionute treason of a Republican ■if govsrnment. ■erty lor and self-capability are not bestowed; they aie only fed through enfranchisement. Is a deplorable fact that there larcely fanners enough in Con [to littee. constitute an agricultural I issuing by the govement of the Id States bonds has divided the e into a titled aristocracy and a pf servile slaves. len the people are their own fersthen the entire wealth of the p will gravitate unto the peo ps cannot make the conditions [persons alike but they can and il give to every man and wo equal privileges and opportuni- pel labor money and transpor h are the corner stones upon p the people are to erect the pest political structure ever fed in any nation or any age. fed fanners or men who will fat ly represent you to your State national legislatures to repeal fed laws and replace them with fend equitable laws for the equal of all the people. pdkolders rica are the nobility 7 in who live in idleness pay jxes fe from and build up immense for the industry of the peo-> feus compelling labor to support pen the people are their own \ lers ihen the nation will cease ling up private fortunes and I son and daughter of toil mav P* fr °ra their home the black pf mortgage. e World-Herald says Harrison is advised by the Kan it} Times to call his forthcoming o£ s P ee ckes ‘My Little Jaunt otes and How I Got Them.’ V hley.o^.u Mind Wasted iiotb e entirely appro in the Wild ” e:i t is suggested as kteral and alliterative.” e colored millitary of the State a Mention July 3d to dis y N subject ot an encampment viu troops asked for an en toent last ear and again this - Ul ujSUcc essfuliy. They U and are sore will memorialize the Leg the matter. II /*< A ♦ J A k 0 ;? P -> ✓ . t T [Sir*! VV,| k LY m / / /ti / V y Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, June 27. 1891 A Finished Prayer. The sick room was very still; the night lamp burned low, and watchers made fantastic shadows on the wall but no one moved or spoke. The doc¬ tor said this was the turning point of the disease and there was nothing to do but to—wait. The boy slept and his father kept his eyes fixed upon the thin wasted features and watched for what he hoped would prove a new lease of life The mother had gone to lie down and rest. The nurse sat near and dozed At last the sick child suddenly opened his large bright eyes and said in a clear voice. “Papa.” “What dear boy!” answered the father softly. “Is it near morning?” ‘,Yes dear boy!” “And will I be well in th6 ruorn ing?” “I I hope so,” sobbed the poor fath¬ er faintly. There was a long silence then the sick child moved restlessly on his pil lows. “I want to say my prayers,” he murmered. The father beckoned to the nurse and she brought the mother who stole softly in and knelt on the other side of the bed. “Lift me up,” said the dying child in a full clear voice; “hold me, papa, while I say my prayers.” He clasped his little hands togeth¬ er and repeated like one who was dreaming: Our—Father—which art in Heaven —hallowed—be—Thy name Thy kingdom come—Thy kingdom come Papa I can’t remember! I cant remember. No matter dear boy you can finish in the morning. Again he lay among the pillows like a pale lily and his eyes were open wide I can’t see you papa,”, he murmer* ed. Wall it soon be morning? Yes dear boy. And will I be well then? The poor father could not answer. No one spoke and a faint light soon stole into the room that drowned the flickering rays of the night lamp and shone rosy on the wall. Then sudden ly a little voice filled the room. It was so sweet and clear that it sounded like a strain of music from celestial spheres. It was the dying boy finish¬ ing his prayer! W hen he came to the last clause he seemed groping in doubt. “Forever and ever—forever and ever—” and with the words his lips he drifted off to sleep again. The rising sun shone into the room and lighted up its dim obscurity. It lay iu golden bars on the white pil¬ lows and touched the little face with a mocking glow of health and strength Perhaps it wakened him, but in the valley of shadow of death he could not discern, and with wide open eyes that saw not, he murmared.plaintive ly: “It is nearly morning papa?’’ “It is morning now dear boy, ’ A smile tiembled on the closedlips theie was a flutter of breath that came and went as the child clasped his thin hands togeter: “For-ever and ever-Amen!” —Detroit Free Press. The Chicif&o Times of last Friday, enjoyed the distinction of being the biggest newspaper ever published in the United States. It consisted of 124 pages or 868 columns and each copy weighed atcufc-a pound. THE EVILS OF COURT DELAYS There is a growing undercurrent of complaint among the people of this country at the delay that attach¬ es to court proceedings. What this complaint will develope ultimately remains for the future to disclose. This delay is seen in the manage meut of both civil and criminal cas es carried before the courts tor ad judication, If it be not the business of courts to see that justice is done between the parties refering their causes to them and to see that the laws are promptly executed then the expensive psraphenalia of the courts is a farce and the courts are failures. It is a fact known to those observant of such things that often civil cases hang on the court dockets year after year, being kept from a hearing be cause, perchance, one of the parties litigant does not desire a final adju¬ dication. In this way justice is oft times defeated in that some one is deprived at least for the time, ot their just rights. Such eases at each recuriog term consume more or less time of the court and the court s time is a tax upon the people and therefore to this extent the people are thus made to bear an unnecessa T.V burden. Besides in such cases, oftentimes witnesses who have no personal interest in the cause at is sue are compelled to attend court from term to term thereby neglec¬ ting their own business and losing time that might otherwise be devo ted to their individual interest. Again there is observable a grow ing tendency towards this same de lay and diiatroy proceedings in the prosecution of those charged with grave and serious crimes. subterfu&e is resorted to that prom ises to stave off and put as far away as possible the day of punishment in such oases thus defeating that morally wholesome principle that punishment for crime should be prompt and speedy. Out of delays in such cases not unfrequently come jail breakings and the turning loose of criminals upon the public which tends to foster inslead ot cure incli nation to crime. "We would not have the couits, by hasty proceedings, violate the sacred rights of trial by jury which belongs to every American native or natural! zed. Nor would we have, hasty pun ishment visited upon the seemingly hut upon those whom the law and the evidence, under a fair and impartial investigation, condemn. That there are evils resulting from courts’ delays in handling crimnals, is a fact too patent to admit of denial. And right along on this line there is need of reform,—Monroe Adver¬ tiser. Tearing open a four-inch wound that had been stitched and dressed simply because Ibe wounded man could not pay $3 is the new method a brutal Chicago doctor has intro¬ duced to collect bills. So inhuman a person as this Dr. L. W. Whitney should be known all over the coun¬ try in order that he may be avoided by the people who don t wish to take the chances of being outchereu. The agent for a patent hair restorer received'this testimonial: “Dear Su: A few days ago I accidentally spilled some of your “hair hatcher on the corn husk bed at mv boardinghouse and when I returned home I found a hair mattress”— Philadelphia Recoid Ex-Mayor Feax-Corput of Macon hasjbeen elected president o tue a - liance warehouse at Rome. Price per Year, $1.00 When the Fight Began. Three or four youngsters were playing on the dock when a quarrel arose. “I alnt no kid,” exclaimed one, “and you shan’t call me that.” “You are, too,” urged the aggrea SOI'. “I aint: I’m as big os you are.” “You’re a kid just the same.” “I aint neither.” “You are.” “I aint." Yes you are for 1 heard my pap say your pap was a regular old goat that came home full every night. And what’s a young goat but a kid?” Then the light began —Detroit Free Press. STARULING FIGURES. The following facts which are taken from the columns of the Wash ington Post, show the condition of affairs in this republic. The Post says: “For the nexttwo years our gov eminent will spend annually more the $500,000,000 To pay one year’s expenses of the government it will take nearly the combined wheat and oat crop. “Our annual output of gold, silver, copper iron coal petroleum and lead will not foot our tax bill for twelve months. “Nor can we do it with a year’s product of cotton, wool, rye, barley, wine potatoes and tobacco. “The combined capitalization of our national banks is $599,000,000. One year’s taxes will nearly swallow it up * r Now all this is the Federal tax. We have also to pay city, county and State taxes. “We pretend to be a nation of plain people with no aristocracy no standing army or expensive frills and yet our taxes are more onerous than those of Austria Germany or Great Britain.” There are some patent medicines than are more marvelous than a dozen doctors’ prescriptions, but they’re not those that profess to cure everthing. Everybody, now and then feels“run down” “piayed out” they've the will, but no power to generate vitality. They’re not sick enough to call a docter, but just too sick to be well. That’s where the right kind of a patent medicine comes in, and does for a dollar w'lat the doctor wouldn’t, do for less than live of ten. We putin our claim for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery We claim it to bo an unequaled remedy to purify the blood and iuvi orate the liver, We claim it to be las ting in its effects creating an appetite purifying the blood and preventing Billions, Typhoid and Malarial fevers if taken in time. The time to take it is when you first feel the signs of weariness and weakness. The time to take it, on general principles, is now. “'Tis love that makes the world go round. Whiskey will also accom¬ plish the same result.—Life Men would be very wise if they could only learh as much as thier boys think they could teach them.—Ram’s Horn. Tommy—Did you ever see a real circus, Johnney?” J ohnney—“No, but I've heard rna when pa come late, lots times”—Washington Star. State Lecturer Copeland of the al¬ liance and Miss Alice Allen were married in Atlanta last week. FROM INDIAN TERRITORY. Vei,ma, I. T , June 16, 1891. Editor Solid South, My Dear friend, as I am in con¬ stant reciept of your valuable paper, I feel like I would be glad to give you a few dots from our wild western country, for I think the readers of The Solid South would appreciate a letter of this kind. In the first place it would be imposible for me to ex¬ plain to the people of of Georgia how the government of this country is managed, in fact, it is not understood very well by those who live here. In the first, place, the Indians have a government of ther own, which does not effect the white people who are sojournying here, then we have the Federal government for the pro¬ tection and benefit of ourselves; next we liave'a part of the statutes of the state of Arkansas extended over us. So you can readily see that it is rath er a complicated state of affairs to go on and enumerate the different laws and rules by which we, ‘ the non cit kens,” as we are called, are required to abide by in order to remain here would take more time than I have to spare, but one of the most impor taut and one that is creating more trouble than anything else at. present is the Permit law, which requires the non citizens to pay the sum of five dollrrs per year as Permit, which is the only tax that is required of him. There are a great many person who have refused to pay the permit and they are considered intruders, so the Indian government propose to remove them from their country and the United States’ government is going to assist them. I he opperation will commence on the 17th inst. What the trouble will amount to, I am not able to say. We Lave a good country here for the number of people that are here, though the country will not admit of being thickly settled, owing to the vast amount of untilable land We have a fine country for raising corn, cotton, wheat e!c., also a good ccuu try for stock. Crops are railin' backward on ac count of the vast amount of rain. Red river is on a big boom, higher than it. has been since 76 The peo pie in this country are, as a rule, prosperous and peaceable. M e have churches and schools, though we have no school laws nor neither do we have any legislature to appropriate any funds for school purposes. So you see we have to depend upon our own resources for schools though l find the advances iu education is at as high a ratio here as any country I nave ever lived in, considering the hagth of time the country Las been settled. The Indians have National schools though but few of them take advan tage of the schools. Tiro Indians here as a rule are peaceable and very friendly. They are generaly indolent and worthless with the exceptions of a few who are rich and prosperous. Those last mentioned have used some energy and economy. For fear I worry you I w ill" not write any more at. present but if I see this letter published in The Sol id South before long I will write you another and will try and keep you posted to some extent iu the affairs of the Indian country. Long live The Solid South. A Georgian. Win. Johnson who is sentenced to be hanged at Athens on July 12 w.ll not shuffle off the mental coil on that day as his lawyer has carried the case to the supreme court.
