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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1891)
1 / I I / V K/ M / f ■x 1? '4; I m I 11 f 4: liS / b 71 mm 3 ' jj? m IX. I Number 42 jiflHE CAPITOL the Political Center i from to Interest tat Occurs Washington. foil at DOgterous as it may sound yertbeless true that some B0S t unscrupulous re are actually seriously ans of stealing the idea iu the Senate to which Calvin S. Brice was elect¬ ee legislature of Ohio, t this movement is confin jounding republican Sena | ascertain if they will vote tt Senator Brice on the Is that he is not a citizen [ Those engaged in this Lp [ret, work suppose that it and if upon a count L they find that they [control barefaced enough votes theft, to I in the lot be openly attempted. Itely I the republican ma the Senate a small one ■eof the republu-an 8 on a ■ honorable enouy 1 and li nt enough to do what lieve to be right, even to Int of defying a repub lacus. It is these men | prevent this political jif prevented. It is not what Mr. Harrison i this thing, but it is thatSecreiary Foster is [of it. and that lie is 1 sounding the Senators Irive here. It is difficult 3 that the republicans enate, much as they :e to add one more vote ■apidly waning majori psort Still, to such a method it. one mu st have memory who will predict to a certainty P fiction not be done. But may be safely |t if it is done the hon of this country will is followed by the 1 ’ '" v tb i'-o \v! tain Partisanship may circumstances be riit dishonesty never. ‘ ® r,ce bas not a clear f e has. 110 member of ! Uaulkner, who is a f this e aDfi to level headed say on the a outlook: “I think legation from his !tot Be national con r ant him nominated, and wifi be the nomi n factional diff erences P& shall make it evi ti0 citizen of that secure unanimous e chances are that ^'hJBesonght absolute! else el J neces U man nominated to carry New Y k or tativ e Mill’s head Jr the Bpeakorc) - * camber of r ^ 0n - N*ithtK }et SmaU 1 Llt ‘ arrival “EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.” Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, Nov. J 14. 1891 of every train. The headquar¬ ters of Messrs Crisp, McMillan and Springer will be opened this week. As it is just four weeks today to the opening of Congress the candidates for Speaker null have to hustle for all they are worth from now on. The sud deu death of the son of Repre¬ sentative Crisp cast a momen¬ tary gloom over that gentle¬ man’s prospects, but the activi¬ ty of his friends will prevent his temporary absence from the scene of action resulting in any harm to him. Among the republicans who are in hot chase after some of the fat official plums soon to be distributed by Mr Harrison, is ex-Speaker Keifer of unsa¬ vory memory, who is now in Washington to urge his own claims for something. It is said that he isn’t overparticular as to what office shall be given him, just so there is a good, healthy salary attached to it. His chance for an ofiiceis not regar¬ ded as very good. The admin¬ istration already has about all it can carry of his kind. Mr Blame is very much dis turbed, so his friends say, over the news from Brazil, which he fears may overturn the recipro¬ city agreement with that count¬ ry. If the meager news we have had be true there is ample cause for his alarm, as it is cer¬ tain that foreign influences in Brazil shall turn out to be pow¬ erful enought to destroy the re¬ public, they will be strong enough to break up any arrang ment that a tendency to divert trade which Europe has here to fore controlled, to the United States. There is trepidation among the high officials of the Govern¬ ment service, because of the be¬ lief that a Shake-up is contem¬ plated by Mr. Harrison, who thinks it will he beneficial to himself to replace some of them with better politicians and bet¬ ter Harrison men: McKinley’s friends here are indignant at the idea advanced by some of the Blaine men, that the Ohio men would be willing to play second fiddle to Mr. Bla¬ ine, or to anyone else. They say that McKinley’s name will be presented to the national convention as a candidate for President, and that he will ac¬ cept nothing else. Gov. Boies is much talked of by democrats here, and one hears the prediction on all sides that he will be heard of when the democratic National * Con¬ vention meets. Senator Palmer of Illinois is one of his chief eulogists. Chili is fairly spoiling for a fight. She will be spoiled if she it. - tx ^ oi with the vi.tor- 3 oe 1° US ’ Sym P athlZe Wlth the de " feated, and are ready for thanksgiving.— Buffalo Couri er. THINGS TO DISCUSS. What a Farmer Thinks About The Reason Given by the Politicians. There are things which we should discuss and understand. Do you indeed realize the awful truth that we are in a most de¬ plorable condition, desperately ill, with no physician who un¬ derstands our case and is wil¬ ling to give us the benefit of his skill to cure us of our illness? No, our physicians are dead or else have deserted us. We must take the case in our own hands, study the cause of our evils, seek our own remedies and apply them. What if we should not at first hit the fittest remedies, we are growing worse rapidly worse, and to delay the remedy, some remedy, is surely fatal. Our would-be leaders tell us we are dying of an exu¬ berance of health, starving in consequence of unprecedented plenty; ragged because we have too many clothes; barefooted because shoes are too abundant; in short, that the results of our industry and economy are be¬ ing our ruin. Strange doctrine, that, and rendered yet more strange when a few minutes later, in answer to our complaints we can get no money to pay our debts, we are, with the same confidence, informed that it is because we are idle and lazy and not econ¬ omical. In short, they tell us almost in a breath, that we have been too industrious and too extravagant. My fellow-sufferers, we must cease to listen to such stuff and think for ourselves. Whether we have been industrious or not is not the thing. We had a right to work and we had a right to rest. The thing is what has become of the money? Has our currency been contracted, or has it not? If it has, hear what our old physicians, when we had good public doctors and statetmen, say of it: Wm. H. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury in 1821, says: A11 intelligent writers on currency agree that when it is decreasing in amount poverty and misery must pre¬ vail. Says Henry Clay: The proposed substitution of an exclusive metallic currency to the mined medium with which we have been so long familiar, is forbidden by the principles of eternal justice. All property would be reduced in value to one-third its present nominal amount, and every debtor would have to pay in effect three times as much as it is, while the six hundred millions which is about the sum probably due to tlie ban k s b y our people, would be multiplied into eighteen hundred millions. Have gentlemen reflected upon the consequence of this system ol depk4ion , , already stated that the country is borne down by a weight of debt. If our currency is greatly diminished as beyond all ex ample it has been, how is this debt to Price per Year, §1.00 be extinguished; property, the resour¬ ce on which the debtor relied for his payment, will decline in value and it may happen that a man who honestly contracted debt on the faith of pro perty, and which had a value at the time fully adequate to warrant the debt, will find himself stripped of, all his property and the debt remain un extinguished. A man, for example, owning pro¬ perty to the amount af $5,000 con¬ tracts a debt of $5,000. By the re duction of one-half the currency of the counp-y his pi’bperty, in effect, be¬ comes reduced 'to the value of $2,500. But the debt undergoes no corresp¬ onding reduction. He gives up all his property and remains still in debt $2,500. Thus this measure wiil operate upon the debtor class of the country always the weaker class, and which for that reason most needs the protection of government. But if the effects of this policy upon the debtor class be injurious it is still more dis astrous, if possible upon the laboring class Says Judge John Barnard Biles, one of England’s greatest jurists: Sudden and great alteration in the amount of value of the circulating me dium are at best transferers of prop¬ erty, gigantic robberies—they involve wanton distraction of immense proper¬ ty and stoppage of industry. Thos. Jefferson, Thos. H Ben¬ ton, Alexander Hamilton, An¬ drew Jackson Abraham Lincoln and I may say every statesman agree that to lessen the circula¬ ting medium doubles every debt adding immensely wealth to the wealthy, and poverty to the poor. But space does not allow me to quote further. Now let us see how our cur¬ rency stands in comparison to the quantity we formerly had in circulation: In I860 we had in circulation $1,863,409,210, or $52.02 per capita; in 1876 we had $620,316,970, or $13,40 per capita; in 1886 we had $470,- 574,361, o^ $7.65 per capita; in 1890 we had $306,999,982, or $4,90 per capita. Now these figures are not too small, even the Secretary of the Treasury after several efforts to prove them so was not successful. If anything they are too large, for vast sums are reported missing by high financial authorities . since this calculation was made. Now is not this contraction sufficient, if our old statesmen knew anything of political econ¬ omy. to account for our deplora¬ ble condition? Have not our debts been doubled, thribled, quadrupled, yea even i worse than that? Had they have allowed our profits to remain, our debts might have doubled, and we could have payed them at last, but all of our profits have been destroyed by this system of contraction, and we are made to produce at a loss. Now, fellow-sufferers, shall this state of things continue? To whom shall wo look for re Who brought h then, upon 1 ■ u '• ’ j deed, our wives am 1 e ones marched out half dead to meet the winter’s storms robbed of the labor of our lives? Is it honest? Is it just? Should we bear it? No, the currency must be increased, and we the people must see to it that it is, if every politician in tho whole United States has to be retired to pri¬ vacy, and every party demolish ed. B, B. Tuenek, Broad Run Station, Va. If you want to know what real flan is, get enormously rich, make your will, and three months after death comes back and see how many kinds of an old fool your heirs will prove you to be in any court in this country.—Lewiston (Me.) Jour¬ nal. Weak as is the navy of the United States, it is about six times stronger than the Chilian navy. There is not much ma¬ terial iu these comparisons to feed a war fever on in the United States, or to fan exite ment in the breast of any but a bully.___| A cotemporary figures out the cost of raising a boy till he is 21 years old at 4,150. The trouble with that expense, is that i nfl uences entirely outside of the expenditure determine whether when the boy is raised he is worth the money or would be highly valued at the odd $50. Balloon bridals seem to he very popular this year. There is something firmamental, if not exactly heavenly about a mar¬ riage in midair. And then again, it comes high right at the start, which, after all, is the conclusion that many people arrive at sooner or later about matrimony. The liberated convicts of Ten¬ nessee are dying from cold in the mountains. Patrick Henry wanted either liberty or death, but some of the Tennesseans are getting both. A forgotten doctor says that osculation is a prolific factor of disease. A mental portrait of this doctor shows him ■> be weazened, bald-headed, ancient red-nosed and with a cost in his eye. Consequently, his ihabili ty to spread disease in this way leads him to croak over sour grapes. ’* Now that a revolution is un¬ der way in Brazil it b in order for the administration to send there Pat Egan with special in . stuetions to create among those people a hatred for America ns. The only colirse by winch a man may know that what he wishes done is done, seems to he for him to fulfill his benevo¬ lent purposes in his lifetime. He will then have the satisfac¬ tion of knovvirig^that iip o ■ ness or indifference on the part Of his heirs can thwart him.— Chicago Globe.
