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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1891)
es VITAL AND LABOR, The war between labor and capitol must be settled; that is, each must have its rights as near as possible, and then continue in a state of armed neu trality to protect each other from encroachments. Capital has been the dictator for many long years, in con sequence of which it has leaped a rich harvest of wealth. Labor has turned now, with the desperation of long continued spoliation, and unless given at least a portion of its just dues may soon break loose and no one can tell the destruction that may follow. There is at the present time u most bitter hatred existing among the poor classes of our people toward the law pampered aristocrat and mil lonaire. This hatred will find vent ut no distant day if not prevented by just counsels and fair legislation. Our laws are oppresive towards the poor, and generally operate in favor of capital. There can be no denial of the fact; and until they are changed it is useless to theorize upon the matter. We have had a dear dollar and a cheap day's work long enough. The people are getting tired of it. They demand a cheaper dollar and a dearer day s work. Who can blame them, and why should their demand be de¬ nied after having given 'the contrac¬ tion and ‘ hard pan” policies of the government a fair trial? When the services of a skillful phvsician are required lie first makes careful diagnosis of the case in order that he may loerte the disease. He compares the patient in health with his present condition. The difference be¬ tween the two conditions is the mala day. Now, if he should locate the disorder in the head, would She pre^ scribe for the feet? or if in the lungs, would he give remedies for the brain? Under such treatment the patient would die, and the physician would be discharged. The true practice would be a thorough treatment of the parts afflicted, to the end that they might be restored to the normal con dition, iu which they could, with the other members of the body, porform the usual functions necessary to health and life Iu applying the same rule to our body politics, we find, iu 1SG6, health and vigor iu every part of the system. Business was good, wages was high, and money plenty. People were out cf debt and all were contented, prosperous and happy. Iu 1 . 8 P 0 , twenty-four years after, we find the debts of all binds in the nation equal to 90 per cent of the equnized valua - liou. We find all business nearly at a standstill; low prices and no work; our country full of tramps; our jails oud poorhouses filled with those uua bio to find labor. We see want and distress on every baud. The body jiolitic of our nation is sick. It is stricken with lingering disease. Where is it located, and what is nature? The blessings of Deity—sunshine nnd rain, day and night, summer and winter, seed time ami harvest, health and energy—sure granted us now ns they were twenty years ago. Our people are as industrious, intelligent aud economical now as then. The earth yields as rich harvests; the herds aud flocks are as prolific. All other bounties of nature are as abundant as evt*r before. The re¬ ward of labor in gross production never was greater than at present. We may search iu vain through cur whole eootnotuic or social system and we can find but oue factor in the eu tire different at this time from tweuty years ago. Taeu the people had 52 per capita to do business with, while to day, at the outside, they ie.ve but $ 8 . This is the root of the disease, Uie ou' great factor jn all tins pi t sent disorder. For twenty years cou* 1 actions has cursed oi r 1 »ed until it hi-i gra la illy dried up the founJarim of our prosperity. .Tue trail o? tins seq.iefb can be clear¬ Iv tra c'd tie* b 'd b lues of its baukcop* vt -tirus— 1 G i,Jdv» iu tweuly one years. Gau the. misery and des- I pair of these unfortunates be measur¬ ed in money? * Mr. "William Jacob, F. R. S., cf England, in hi 3 profound examination into the quantity of money in use by man at various periods of history, states the quantity probably in use at the time of the Roman Augustus, and gives a table showing its decrease from that lime forward. Mr. Jacobs says further; If we take a view of Europe dur¬ ing the existence of the Saxon hep¬ tarchy in England, we shall probably find the scavtity of money and the depression of prices to have reach ecjj their lowest point. The Romans, in abandoning Britian, Gaul, and the other western portions of the domin¬ ion over which their power had once extended, had carried with them all that was portable and valuable. I can only give room to the follow¬ ing quotation of prices mad 9 by Mr. Jacob: £ s d Price of a slave or man... 2 16 8 Price of a horse 1 15 2 Price of a mule or ass..... 0 14 1 Price of an ox..... 0 7 2 Price of a cow..... .0 G 2 Price of a swine .0 1 10 Price of a sheep... • • • • • .0 12 Price of a goat.... .0 0 4 N. A. DlTNNING. The Quitman Sun is a home-made paper. The editor says: The me chanical work on the Sun is done en tirely by a homo raised pair of prinnt ers, aged respetively eleven and four'* teen years, with a little assistance from yours truly. Oar weekly pay roll isO. Now is the time to subacaibe advertise and hand in job work. Sumter county has let the contract for a new jail to cost $28,000. Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, has vetoed the resolution of the city coun cil increasing their pay. He says the office should be one of honor, Indian Spriugs will celebrate the centenial of its discovery next year, The party who discovered will ^ |be on hand hale and hearty, The Farmers Banking Company of Griffin, was opened for business Sats ur day, with W. E. H. Searcy, presi¬ dent; R H. Johnson, cashier, and J. F. Stillwell, secretary. It is an Alii ance enterprise. Colonel L. F. Livingston goes to Louisiana October 20th to deliver several alliance addresses in that state. Millegeville shipped 100 bales of cotton direct to Bremen, via Savan¬ nah, last week. The trade was dosed by cable. Not Like His Mother’s. There’s a young man recently married, that is to say, a year or so ago, living on St. Antoine street, who ought to be in the diplomatic service. His wife had pie for dmn r tl e other day. and he went into it with a vim. His wife watched him with pecu¬ liar pleasure. “How do you liki?” she asked a! 1 ** ter the first bite. “Urn—well,” he said, with his mouth foil, “you d< n't make pie like tny mother used t r >. Her tace reddened and the tears started faintly on her eyelashes. She had made thatp'e herself and she had told him so. » No," he cotinued after waiting a minute for her to say something; “no Fannie, you rilon’r. My mother couldn’t make a pie fit to eat, and this is simply g’o'ious. rte , Tc c .. b ,,, rt v . k8«wa y, .... Fl \ y > i nrrxcqrioti ■ ClcVelo 10 ' u* i' - " ■ 3 - ohio - __. rye 1 % i —.S. v \ > ^ . 1 ^ Ai v. } * -X* - t BOILED DOWN The News of the World Con¬ densed in Paragraphs to Suit the Busy People. The ecuminical council of the Methodist church at Washington was presided over Monday by a colored bishop. Ireland is in mourning because of Parnell. He indeed rests “beneath a wilderness of flowers.” There seems little hope of the Irish factions uniting even now that Par¬ nell is dead. A young lady in Birmingham com¬ mitted suicide because her lover broke the engagement. Napa, California, was badly dam¬ aged by earthquake shocks Monday night. There seems to be blood on the moon between two lawyers in Carnes ville over the recent trial of ^Dr. Glo— ver. King and Trible are their names. Last Sunday, Tom W. Bearden, of Gainsville severely co whirled P. P. Jennings of the same place for some improper remark Jennings had made to Bearding’s wife. On Tuesday Jennings disclaimed any intention of insulting Mrs. Bearding whereupon her husband made due apoligy to Jennings and all is peace again. Next Wednesday the statue of Henry W. Grady will be uuveiled in Atlanta. Judge Crisp has gone to take part in the Ohio campaign for Capmbell.. Lexinton Baptist church ",has called Rev. R. E L. Harris, of Crawfordville, for another year. The old citizens of Atlanta have or¬ ganized the “Pioneer citizens Society composed of the famous “first set¬ tlers.” Dr. Wayman H. Potter died at Austell last Monday. Timothy Burke died in Atlanta Tuesday. He was connected with the Daily Enquirer, the first daily paper ever published in Atlanta. The town of Keysville belongs to one man. The man had just about as well own a newspaper. The negroes have drawn the color line out in Oklahoma. Ltng ston, a town of 300 inhabitants, has no Caucasian inhabitants, and the black property owners have entered into a contract to sell no foot of lsnd to the whites. The adjacent territory is also controlled by negroes. Howell, who was tried for the kill¬ ing of MaGrath in Warrentou, will have to face another jury. The last one made a mistrial. The legislature couldn’t give up the free pass system—yet nobody would thiuk that this influenced the senate in its action on the Berner bill. Diversified farming is all right, both practically aud theoretically, but it does not mean that a farmer must be coutinuaily trying a limitless num¬ ber of things Too great a .diversifi¬ cation of labor and interest will gen¬ erally result in making at tne best only a half success of anything, and there is no profit in that It is well to have one or two main crops. Then diversify enough to provide every¬ thing that can be needed for home consumption, and have, if posible, some fruit or garden or other special crop to fall back upon aud to provide a little money for running expenses ia case the main crop should prove a failure. Diversity enough so that all your eggs shall not be iu oae basket, but uo so much as to compel you to be (or try to be) a master of all agri¬ cultural trades, for that is an end that cannot be attained w ithin any ordinary lifetime. 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