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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
ATLANTA, GAt TUESDAY JULY 6 1886
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' ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY. JU1.V 6. US8.
The Beginning of Prohibition.
Thursday the prohibition law went into ef
fect in Fnlton connty. Tlie law was adopted
afler a campaign in which every argument
on both eide* was exhausted. It was in
many reaped*, a heated campaign. Every
citizen had on opportunity to decile the mat
ter for himself so far aa bia ballot was con
cerned. The popularity of the measure was
put to the supreme test, and prohibition was
carried by a majority sufficiently large to
show that the public aenlimeutof the county
was overwhelmingly in ita favor.
The conditions that rendered the adoption
ef the law possible, have not changed. A
large majority of onr people are in still in
favor of carrying out the strict letter, aa well
astbespiritoftbelaw. The predictions and
citations that have been made in regard to the
injury that has been and will lie done to the
business and properly interests of Atlanta
have had so effect The public sentiment or
the city and of the county has concluded,
it see ms, that whatever sac rl lice is necessary
to be made for the suppression of the liquor
traffic, will be more than myd* up, morally
and materially, by the results to be derived
from a rigid enforcement of the law.
Those who oppose prohibition ought to be
convinced that the majority in lavor of the
law is not to be reversed by either argument
or prediction, and It seems to ns, therefore,
that, under all the drcuni'tonces, it is to
the interest of the whole community loses
that the law is enforced.
The "Baine John B. Gordon." “
The Savannah Times of a late date con
talced the following.
(isnerel Cordon tbsn may be nominated for
governor, and It nominated will lie elected.
He will never agelu, In their eatlmstlon, be the
John B. (Jordon of the post.
This is unfortunately trne. To such a
pitch has political discuislon descended in
this state, that it would have been trne of
any other man, who stood In Gonlon’o shoes.
Thrro was a time tn Georgia when an hon
orable gentleman might icek honorable pre
ferment In the ranks of his own party and
among his own jieople, without the certainly
at being besmirched from head to foot with
abase and vilification. Bat that time has
peered. Within the past fow years
then has arisen in this state, a small
party of violent people, who, sslf-right-
cons and dogmatic, intolerant of nil
virtue* sava those assumed by them-
•elves, foil with savage and senseless fury on
cvciy man who dares to oppose their aolllah
schemes.
It Is this gang of malcontents that has
vilified Gordon. It will not do to say that
they have been Justified In their assaults.
Wa may admit that Genital Gordon u a
public man has made mistakes—that in pri
vate buslneee aflaira he has been unfortunate.
Bull then is nothing in his career or his
character that admits tha possibility of his
being either a liar, a coward, a thief, a
bribetaker, a perjurer, and yet ha has been
charged directly or by potitlvo implication
with being all these combined.
Nor will it do to say that General Gordon
himself is responsible for these amaults
being made on him. It Is the intolerant
aplrit ef this gang that strikes all men and
spates none, that is responsible. The his-
(oiy of tbs past ftw years affords plentiful
proof of this. It is the same spirit that
charged the immortal Ben Hill with having
sold his senatorial in licence, and led one of
Its apostles to say that be was so filled with
"shams and disgust” at Benator Hill’s
conns that ha would have denied his birth
place if questioned, became Mr. Hill was
also a Georgian. It was the same spirit
that so vilified Benator Hill that he said in
his amazed indignation that the “vilest pro
duct of tha carpet-bag slums” bad never
aqtitlsd its mendacity or venom. It la the
annas spirit that clouded tbs last days of
Alex Stephens with reproach and abuse and
denounced him aa on imbecile and a traitor
te bia party. It is the same spirit that now
denounces Governor Smith aa dishonest and
unscrupulous and cowardly, where It foe*
muty praised him as ail that was admira
ble. Itie the seme spirit that charged
Jodge Bimmone with "selling justice from
the bench" in furtherance of Ida own
octroi re, when a month afterwards the
united Ur of Moron, with enthusiasm aud
without division, geve him ouch testimonials
of uprightness and ebilify as no Georgia
Judge hat bed before or eince. It is the
eame spirit tUt, when Judge John T.
Clarke accepted an invitation to be present
at a meeting of e Gordon clob, eekl that
this foi l proved him to be utleily unfit and
unworthy of s seat on the supreme bench.
It it the same spirit that denounces the
gentlemen who have taken the stomp tor
Central Gordon as “paid emiasaries’’
and "wretched hirelings.” It is
the lame spirit that denounces Gov
ernor McDaniel without ceasing end
characterises tha past twelve years, cm-
baring the administrations of Smith, Col-
quilt, Stephen*, Boynton aud McDaniel, ae
"twelve yean of robbery ami misrule." It
ia the same spirit that struck Governor
Boynton down from e place he had not
Bought, hot which he was entitled in all
courtesy sad tsireeoa to hold. It is the same
spirit that charges that even voting for Gen
eral Gordon ia "a crime," and that the
honest thousands wlro support him am die.
haaret te abort, It ia tb aama spirit tUt
dmits no honest difference of opinion, tie-
jnanda that CTtry man shall truckle to ita
hand and considers every man a scoundrel
who dares stsnd up in opposition.
General Cordon, we tear, will never lie
“the same General Gordon” to some of onr
people. In spite of his amaxing and over,
whelming victory, there will be some who
will listen to the chargee pat upon him. To
such be will not U the "same General Gor
den;” bnt to tens of thousands ot others he
will be the better beloved because of this—
because of tbe heroic comradeship of this
terrible conflict that have hound them to
him stronger than with bands of steel; and
by all good men be will be honored became
he boa been strong enough In tbe love ami
confidence of his people to pat down the
hosts of slander and viliflcatlon and gal
lastly lead his frlenda to victory from tho
midst of a straggle that in bitterness, reck-
lestness and rancor stands without parallel
or precedent. He has taught in this earn,
paign that a good character in this old com
monwealth is proof against the amaults of
slander, and that a reoord of twenty-five
yean of honorable and stainlom service can
not be dimmed in a day’s passion or ob
scured by a month oi mud-slinging. This
lemon ia vastly more important than his
personal victory, and we have the best rea
son for saying that he himself considers it so.
Mains anil Crops.
The recent heavy rains throughout Georgia
have been very damaging to the agricultural
interests of tbe state. The small grain crops
have been materially injured. Wheat has
been flattened out, so to speak, and oats have
been rained. Corn is a great absorber of
moisture, bnt the recent storms have been
too much for it In many sections it has a
yellow, sickly appearance, due to the fact
that it has been drowned out.
It is supposed that cotton has also beefein-
jured, bnt cotton is one of those mysterious
plants that flourish in spite of the weather.
A few days of sunshine will relieve and rc-
diem cotton from almost any trouble. For
many years now we have seen tbe cotton
crop ruined, but somehow tbs number of
bales continues to increase. It may be said,
therefore, that while other crops have been
injured by the heavy rains, the injury to
colton will mainly came from the Aagast
drouth, which we are sure to have.
The rainy weather, however, has been
accompanied in many sections by violent
winds, nnd the damago baa in tills way been
extended beyond tbe orops. In some parts
of the state the rains have taken the shape
of freshets. The streams have overflowed
their hanks, and the crops on the bottom
lands hove been washed away. The form
ers, all things considered, havo lieen having
n very bard time. But thoy keep np their
spirite, in epite of rain and storme. Indeed
we know of no clam that accepts misfortune
with more equanimity—no matter whether
it is tbe misfortune of low prices or the mis
fortune of damaged crops.
Wa tiust the damage from the recent rains
is not ns large as it now aeems to lie. if any
class deserves tbe smiles of Providence, it is
the farming cIssb; nnd it is to be hoped that
sunebine and heautlfol weather may be the
mesne of laving the crops. As for the grass,
which ii known in Georgia as General Green,
Providence baa very little to do with that.
In order to overcome General Green, the
formers will be compelled to meet him on
bia own ground. They are used to this,
however. They can kill General Green and
vole for General Gordon, and that is about
as much aa any farmer is expected to do.
A Plain Matter of Fact.
Certain of the Bacon organs in their rage
end mortification at the overwhelming victo
ries won by Gordon, go very much out of
their way to find an explanation. Their
first suggestion is that money is being used
to corrupt the people.
This charge is false, utterly, absolutely and
wickedly Adae. In yesterday’s Chronicle it
is charged that the "eagle bird” won the
fight for Gordon in Lincoln connty. We as.
■ert mast positively that not one dollar of
money, not ono cent, was lent Into Lincoln
county. General Gordon’s campaign in Lin
coln was headed by Messrs. Colley, Hollins
heed, Barksdale, Hell end others, end more
honorable gentlemen, or upright democrats,
do not live. The charge that the "eagle
bird" won In Lincoln ie a alamlor on them.
It waa charged in tho Athena Banner that
money wsa need to buy the votes of Oconee.
Mr. Gantt, the editor of that paper, boa tn a
manly way apologised for certain paragraph!
touching Oconee, which were inserted in his
absence. We presume tliat bis reparation
coven the charge that money woe corruptly
used. U it docs not, w o repeat here that
not ono dollar was aont into Oconee couuty.
Not one single cent was spent by Mr. Cal
houn or any other friend of General Gor
don’s, except Mr. Calhoun’a legitimate trav
eling expenses through tbe county. We uu-
dcntnnd it was charged in Uwiunctt that
money waa being need to buy tbe votes of
that county. We amort that not one dollar
has been sent into that county for tbe pur
pose of buying votes or for any other pur
pose. The above denials we have made ex
plicit and plain. We challenge contradic
tion of one of them and defy proof to the
contrary.
In general terms wo assert that notone
dollar boa been expended in this campaign
by the friends of General Gordon for the
pnirhan of a single vote, as for aa our knowl
edge extends. The charge that the eoaotiee,
In which white democrats alone hove voted,
have been corrupted by money, Is a slander
on the people ns well as on the friends of
General Gordon, and the men who make the
charges know that they are bin when they
write them. There has been money ex
pended on both sides of this campaign The
Macon Telegraph, in an article which was
eloquent with an intonation for more, pub
licly thanked tbe people of Savannah for
having contributed one thousand dollars to
the Beam campaign tend. This ie doable
n much as any city, or any corporation, or
any perron whatever ba* contributed to the
Gordon thud. As n matter of ronree, the one
thousand dollars sent op by Bevonnah waa
supplemented by Urge tuuouuts sent in by
other cities for the llacon nmpaign fond.
And this amount has been used to promoting
Major Bacon's inti rest. We presume it has
been used to a leg' limato manner. We hare
ro evidence that it has been used otherwise.
Wa uaett plainly ned positively that there
bee cot here an illegitimate dollar apent in
the interest ef General Gordon, with the
knowledge or consent of any Ode charged
with the rondnet of his campaign, end wo
defy proof to tbeeoolrary. We admit, even
et the riek of inclining the eternal comity
ef Statesman Walsh, that some little moery-
has keen invested inbress hands This, how
ever, wsa done before the statesman had sig
nified hjs deadly aversion to martial music.
The charge that money had been used to buy
up the democratic primaries of Georgia is
absurd an ita face, wicked in it* purpose and
folse all through and throngb. It is the cry
of fellows who have been beaten throngb
their own blunders, and who are ashamed to
stand np like men and acknowledge it.
In addition to thia charge there is another
qnito as vague, and quite as false. It is
charged that General Gordon’i victories hare
lieen won throngb some sort of “pressure”
or "delusion” of the masses by which the
people were driven or misled Into doing what
they did not intend to do. This is a misera
ble reflection on the intelligence, and
staunchness of the democrats of Georgia.
Where does the "pressure” come from? From
the press? Let us see about that. The
Constitution is the only daily paper in
Georgia that supports General Gordon.
The Angnafo Chronicle, Angosta News,
Macon Telegraph, tbe Macon News, the
Athens Banner, tbe Borne Courier, the Al
bany News, the Coweta Advertiser, and the
Bavannab Times, have fonght him openly.
The Savannah News is opproed to both Ba
con and Gordon, and the Columbus Enquirer
is neutral. Here we have the daily press
of the state on one aide and Tag Constitu
tion on tbe other. Do the Bacon organs
contend that Tiie Constitution alone has
been able to mislead the people when every
county in tbe state has been sown ton-deep
with their sheets? But ia it tbe politiciaas?
Let us see aboat that. Every man of intel
ligence knows that eight ont of ten of the
politicians oi Georgia, that is of tbe men
who usually control in county and state
afl'aiiH, are for Bacon, and are against Gor
don. There is no denying this. Do the
Bacon organs contend that tha few politi-
dsna who favor tbe Gordon men, have mis
led the people over the protest of the many
who favor Baron?
The truth is, General Gordon has succeed
ed very largely through tho blnnders, tho
stupid and senselesa blunders, of tho man
wliusupport Major Bacon, and eapectallyof
newspapers that rapport him. This fact is
notations, and its assertion is on the Ups of
two men out of every three that yon meet,
whether for Bacon or for Gordon. General
Gordon's marvellous strength with tbe
people—the earnestness, and enthusiasm
of his supporters—tha vigor nnd
frankness and capodty with which
his friends in the various counties
have managed bis campaign—the justice of
his cause—aud hie stainless and illustrious
record for twenty-five years—all these hod
made np e canso for Gordon that was well
nigh resistlcis; bnt a very important contri
bution to his success has been the wretched
and persistent blundering of the men who
have managed Major Bacon’s campaign, nnd
especially of the newspaper statesmen who
have taken the job of running the affairs of
this state. The chagrin of these men at the
miscarriage of their schemes—mortification
which comes to them when they find that
friend nnd foe have placed upon them tbe
responsibility of their blunders—nnd the
rage which foUows crashing defeat. All
these have conspired to make them hunt for
a scape-goat on which they can tumble their
own shortcomings. Hence we have charges
that the democratic voters of this groat state
—as staunch nnd incorruptible demoemte as
there are in this republic—have been bought
nnd corrupted by gold. And that the intel
ligent people of Georgia—aa intaUigent vot
ers as there are in thia ropnblio—have been
huddled like abaepor misled like fools into
doing wbat they ought not to do and what
they really did net intend to da. Both
chaiget are false, and both chargee are
absurd, end the men who print nndciroalato
them, know that they are both false and
absurd when they send them ont. The peo
ple of Georgia honor John B. Gordon became
they love him, and because they have confi
dence in him, nnd because they feel that he
haa been wickedly nnd wantonly nnd nn-
justly slandered, and tbe senseless rage and
blundering* of those who try to beat him
down, has made the way easy for the people
to honor him.
■Willing to Obey tho Law.
Binee the prohibition election in December
about one handled saloons and liquor stores
have closed np. The owners of theas estab
lishments were opposed to prohibition. They
fonght it, but to their credit it must be raid
that they did not go beyond the methods
usually employed in a political campaign.
When the fight went ngainat them they
tawed glare fully to the will of the majority,
and accepted the situation. .
When it is recollected that theas men had,
lome of them, large interests at stake, while
others bad their all thus invested, it will be
seen that they did not yield without making
a sacrifice. Yet, through the oontlict, and
down to the hour when they closed their
doors, they conducted themselves with the
moderation end tropeet for taw which are
Uio distinguishing characteristics of good
citizens. They did no more. They an
nounced their intention of giving prohibition
e fair trial, end to a man, so far aa heard
from, agreed to do their part in securing the
enforcement of the lew.
Under all the circumstances the spirit in
which these who were engaged in the liqnor
traffic have accepted the remit ie worthy of
all respect and deserves high praise. It
speaks well for tbe good citizenship mid
good fellowship of onr people. It is another
proof that onn is eminently a law and order
community, where men arbitrate their dif
ferences et the ballot box, and then pull to
gether, shoulder to ebonider, for the common
good of ail. After aU, the notable thing
about Atlanta ia the unity of her people.
Sometimes the lights and shadows of diver
sity play over it, bnt it is unity ell the
tame. ,
Sonic Points of the Campaign.
The Bacon organs having failed to defeat
General Gordon, art now trying to becloud
the splendor of his victory. They charge
that his friends have bull dozed and mialod
the people. That his vote is the result of
Uickeiy end wire-pnllieg. That it is the
work of a “ring." That it haa been
achieved by disreputable methods. Mr.
Welth, ef tbe Augusta Chronicle, goes so
fori*toroy Ural "anothersuch victory will
disrupt ike party.”
We eie ready for a detailed discussion of
the iacucn involved in this campaign, and
tb* methods by which it waa wan, when
ever it is necearary. lathe meantime we
submit t Jew paints that are simply unas
sailable. We ask a calm and reasonable
censideralioa of them by all fair minded
pccple:
1st. General Garden entered the cam
paign jnst six weeks ago. Major Bacon
had been quietly canvassing for about two
years and bad nn organization in every
connty in the state.
2nd. The very firat step token by Gen
eral Gordon waa to declare for “primary”
diet ions and ask Major Bacon to join him
in requesting the state committee to order
primaries in every county. Everywhere
end ell the time General Gordon has advo
cated primaries. Bo has The Constitu
tion. If, in two or three cue* his friends
have voted for mam-meeUage, they have
done to against his expressed views.
3rd. More primaries lmve been held in
this campaign, ten times over, than in any
campaign ever known in Georgia, and Gen
eral Gordon has loot bnt three counties in
which primaries were held—Macon, Han
cock and Chattooga.
4tb. Tbe vote in the primaries nnd mass-
meetings of this campaign have been an-
prcccdentiy large. In many counties the
largest democratic rote ever polled has been
cast—and In many more tbe vote has nearly
equaled tbe white registration of the coun
ty. The interest haa been general nnd the
turnout has been much heavier than'ever
known.
fitli. General Gordon has carried a larg
er percentage of counties since he entered
the race than any candidate who ran with
opposition, within onr memory. On the
important votiog days it has been 7 conn
ties ont oi 0, and 0 ont of 11, and 10 ont of
IP—1 to 0, and on yesterday 5 to las for as
heatd from.
0th. General Gordon’s majorities bars
been overwhelming, while the majorities in
those counties he lost have been smell, and
where tbe vote is largest his majorities havo
been surest.
We recall these points in no spirit of
boasting. We present them merely to
show the falsity of the charge that General
Gordon has won by thimble-rigging or
trickery. He has won through the people
and by the people. He has won by a singu
larly frank and manly canvass, no has ap
pealed to tbs people and the people have
stood liy him with unprecedented enthusi
asm and emphasis. The facts show this,
and they cannot be controverted.
Southern Industries.
Pittsburg la in a flatter at last Several
of the large iron mills there are now rising
pig iron from Alabama and Tennessee. Thia
iron sells fifty cents per ton leas than the
price of the Pcnnsylnania iron. Naturally
the Pittsburg furnace men are alarmed.
Their fight against southern iron has been
nnenccessful.
It needs no prophet to foretell the result.
The monster iron pleats of Pennsylvania do
not propose to compete with their sonthern
rivals. They will pull np and move south.
Within the past few weeks two huge plants
have been moved to Alabama, and others
wiU follow.
Aa it is with the iron mills, it will be with
the cotton mills, tanneries, wood-working
industries and others, for which the sonth
opens n profitable field. We ore now see
ing only the beginning of the mighty move
ment. It is coming, and it will be here be
fore we are ready lor it.
One thing ia incompnheniibls. Jnst as
onr borne industries are showing signs of
vigorous life and prosperity, some of our
southern congressmen are bestirring them
selves in the interests of tha free-trade folly.
They would let in tbe cheap product* of Eu-
rope, and force our straggling formers end
mills to close doom. We ell have too much
at stoke to permit any mischievous tinker
ing with the tariff. Oar farmers are os
deeply interested in this business aa any
body else. The building np of our own in
dustries means more people, more towns,
bigger towns, in a word home markets.
Tho Tldo or Immigration.
The south is tho only genuine American
section. In tbe northern and western states
the tremendous foreign immigration of the
pert two generations has transformed tho
character of the people, affected their lan
guage, literature and religion, and left its
impress upon politics, legislation and public
policy.
In seeking the explanation of this state of
affairs, the 8L Louis iiepnblican holds ths
negro responsible. The tide of foreign immi
gration enters New England, rutu through
the middle states and across tho broad prat-
rieaoftho west. It tarns aside from the
■onth because the n-.-gro is there. Our eon-
temperary rails attention to the following
itatiatlcs:
In the lut two generation!, from two down to
tbe present day, other lends have poured Into ours
12.GOO.OOO louli, who, with their immediate dm-
ceudanla, now number 80,000,000. But against this
great tide of ever-moving people, deluging nil the
northern half of the oountry. the nagroaeof the
south have lucccaafuily mood ilka a black ram
part, taming it aside from that region more effect
ually than a hundred anti-immigration statutes
could havo done. The lUUaUee which exhibit
this are surprising, rive yean ago, tn uoo, there
waa 1 foreign-born person to 2 native-born In Cali
fornia. to Illinois there was 1 foreign-born person
to about 1 native-born. In lows the proportion
waalloS; In Kansas l to 8: in Maine, ltol0;ln
Massachusetts, 1 to *; In Michigan, 1 to 8Xi In
Minnesota, 1 to 2: In Nevada, 2 to 3; tn New York,
1 to I; tn Pennsylvania, 1 to SJ4: In Rhode Island,
I to 8; tn Vermont, t to 7; In Wisconsin, 1 to 2J4; 111
Dakota, S to 8.
Now turn to the sonthern states nnd observe how
small the proportions become t In Alabama, 1 to
128; In Arkansas, l to 80; tn Delaware, 1 to 18; in
Florida, I to 26; In Georgia. 1 to 153; In Kentucky,
t to 27; In Louisiana, 1 to 10; In Maryland, 1 to 10;
In Mlsatmlppl, I to 118; In Nocth Carolina, 1 to glO;
tn Poulh Carolina, 1 to 118; In Ttammsi, 1 to SO;
tn Virginia, 1 to 100; In West Virginia, 1 to 88. Tha
two former Slava statos that show tha largest pro
portion or foreign'born to naUro-bom are Mlaaourl
and Texas—t login tha former and 1 to 13 lathe
The compariaon may ha more sharply presented
by placing a northern and n southern state of
nearly equal population aid* by aid*, thus: Ala-
ham* had only 9,734 foreign-born Inhabitant!,
whllo California had 292,874. Delaware had 9,408,
while Rhode Island had 73,983. Florida had 10,000,
while Vermont had 41.000. Georgia had 10J64,
while Michigan had 388,000. Kentucky had 80,000,
while Iowa had 261,000. Louisiana had M.000,
while Minneeou had 201,000; Maiytand had 84-
000, while Wisconsin bad 406.COO. Mlaaiwtppl and
North Carolina toxether had only 13,000, while
Massachusetts had <43 000. Virginia, South Caro
lina and Tennessee together had only 39,000, while
New York had 1,211,000.
This i-» stilling view of an interesting
Milijcct, anil the points are strongly prawn t-
«L But some very important facts have
teen belli hack. The lines of ocean travel
from the European parts ended at northern
port*. The last railway facilities led tbe
immigrants westward. The public lands
were in that diiw-i ion. Nor wav thia ail.
The weaiern eta'ts and the rail way liars, en
riched by enormous eorrrnmeat iaad grants,
bad their immigration agent* ait over
Europe. They flooded the old world With
pamphlets and circular) in which the north-
rm part of th* unless wo* pictured aaa pars-
dic* for tbe poor man. Even the map* cir
culated by three agent* were fraudulent.
They represented the sonth in a black
shadow, with the statement that it was “low
and marshy, inhabited by negroes.” Then
the popular rrritera -of the north, whose
work* were read in Europe, contributed to
swell the general fond of misinformation.
They described the sonth aa a lawless, semi
barbarous country, whose people were illit
erate and mnrderon*.
Naturally, these methods influenced pub
lic opinion abroad. Immigrants avoided
the south, bnt it cannot ba laid that it war
■imply on account of the negro.
The fact!*, no race prejudice has ever
kept people out of a country, when ita cli
mate, rail and money-nmking opportunities
invited immigration, Europeans seek Mex
ico, Central America end South America in
large numbers, They forco their way info
India, China and Japan. Ia all of theie
lands they have to contend with mixed
races. In some countries they have to com
pete with slave labor and in others with free
negro labor. Bat perhaps the crowning an
swer to onr contemporary is to be found in
the favor with which all ichemes for the
colonization of Afirioa are regarded in Europe.
If the negro ia an inenrmountable bar in the
way of white immigration, he ongbt to be
able to hold his own in Africa.
Foreign immigration will come this way
before we are ready for it Tbe public lauds
in the weat will soon he disposed of, and a
rush will then be made for onr cheap lands.
In the meantime, a tide of domestic immi
gration is beginning to come in. Florida is
a notable example, and so is Texas, but
these two states have been belter advertised
abroad than any of their sisters. As soon os
they adopted the methods of securing immi
grants *o long punned by the north and
west, they had do difficulty in securing their
full ibnre of settlers.
Tbe Baltimore Manufacturer's Record is
an authority where southern intereeta are
concerned. In a recent issue it rays:
To any one who will study Util matter, either by
penonxt investigation in the north, or among
northern tettlera In the south, there will come
somewhat of x revelation In a ding how wide
spread li the "southern fere.-.'' The commlarioocr
ol immigration in one eouthera state alone now
has the names of some 9,000 or 10,000 people who
have writun to him In regard to Killing ia that
stale. The tide of Immigration hu turned ■oath-
ward, and It behooves lonthern people to be ener
getic end enterprising In making the attractions
of their country known.
Where In til the world can be found n country
■urpsselDg In beauty, In climate, la natural wealth,
the country that extends along the mountain ran
ges through Virginia, the Carollnts, Georgia and
Alabama? There will be found every variety of
toll, cepable of yielding In nbnndxnoe the widest
range of agricultural products. The wheat aud
com grower end the live stack raiser need no bet
ter land In which to cast their lot than tho world-
fsmed Shenandoah volley, nnd all nloag down
through the Piedmont section, through much or
Tenneseec nnd Kentueky, the some excellent sou,
well watered by the purest of mountain stream),
It found. Tnc hortlcnltnriit will look In vain for
n better frnlt country than he can find in the some
section. Of the mineral wealth of that country,
Birmingham, Chattanooga, Rouoke, rocohontas.
Anniston and many other manufacturing nnd
mining centers will give some Idea, bnt oven they
have only berely touched the hidden riches,
which an destined to make that country the
scene of the greatest industrial activity ever wit
nessed In America, if not in the world.
We have good reason to be satisfied with
the outlook. Let the American rattlers
coma fink They will assimilate with our
people. They will add to our development
and prosperity, and nothing wUl then be
needed in the way of advertising. Prosper
ity apeak* for itself. It draws the crowd.
In a few yean tbe south will reach n point
where European immigration will not lie
considered at all. Of course capital and en
terprise wUl be welcomed from any quarter
of the globe, bnt it will never be onr policy
to encourage th* immigration of the oft
scotirings of Europe, each immigrant! as are
now threatening the social and governmental
fabric of tbe northwestern states. Alto
gether, we are very happily situated, and
w* need feel no anxiety about the foture.
An Inlquittous System.
There are some very queet 'deas about the
tariff afloat in oome of the papers edited by
so-called revenue reformers. Here ie a bright
paragraph from the Savannah News:
Theprotsetlon papers that acknowledge any
sort of fealty tothe tartfi reform plank In tat na
tional democratlo platform all arise In arms, ns it
were, In opposition to any tariff revision that does
not begin with abolition or the Internal revenue
on spirits end tobacco. They well know that to
abolish the Internal revenue would render any re
daction of the tariff Impracticable for many years
to com*, tvbat the people want Is not free to
bacco, but agradtttl relief from a system of taxa
tion maintained for the beneStlof monopolists and
extortioners. Tho internal rcveuuo, now that It Is
honestly collected nnd disposed of, Is not felt to be
x burden anywhere, and nobody asks to have It
abolished except those whosro Interested la main
taining Ihe present robber tariff
And hera is another almost ns bright from
that great inteUeetnsl concern, the Cincin
nati Enquirer;
fa the fiscal year of18848 we neeelred from the
regular Internal revenue tax upon tobacco *28,06.',•
4(0. In addition to this there were penalties
•mounting to 1289,144, nuking a grand aggregate
ot receipts from the tobtcoo tax of 126,881,811. If
tala la got rid of, and If the pension atealx are kept
up, and Ifsraexpend tbamonev that we (ought to
opon onr coaat defenses and onr navy, then tha
tariff mnat he cestllnuod aa It la. That Is the great
aim of the ultra protectionists.
We must confess that we do not under
stand inch logic a* thia. These ao-calied
revenue reformers are never tired of an
nouncing that the tariff, on it stands, ia a
high tariff; tom* ef them isy it ia a prohib
iting tariff. They denounce it asiucb, nnd
cry out for a tariff for revenue only. That
they are insincere in regard to their own
view*, unless they are ignorant, is shown
by such paragraphs aa we have quoted.
They ought to understand that if tbe op
pressive excise laws are repealed, as they
should he, the government would be com
pelled to depend on the tariff for its revenue.
According to the logic of the paragraphs we
have qnoted, this would necessitate the
peipetnation of the preeent high tariff; bnt
bow could this be? te order to secure suffi
cient revenue to carry on the government,
the tariff would have to Ire reduced to tbe
revenue point, and this would bring aboat a
systematic and thorough revision. This the
free-traders claim to he in favor oi, bnt when
they are brought face t> face with the Lome,
they btat it in the illogical manner set forth
in tbe extract* we have made.
They cry ont about war taxes, and yet
there never war a more iniqnitiotu system
of war taxes than that which flourishes
nearly a quarter of n century after the war
and which is known as tbe internal revenue
system. It is a fraud upon the people—a
lailerons and miquitiona system, and yst,
wherever yon find a democrat ready to crip
ple tbe Industrie* of th* country and to d«-
•troy the prospect* of tbe sooth, there yon
will find a democrat anxious to perpetuate
tbe iniqniteoa seven nc system.
It is a system that was wen enough dare
ing Ihe wsr, bnt, in a time of profound
peace, it has been made the exenae of mur
der and bloodshed; it haa been employed to
oppress innocent men and women, and to
pamper greedy officials. And yet tbe free-
traders and the peendo tariff reformers aay it
eball Ire perpetuated.
Tbe Planets and the Prophets.
The conjunction of Jupiter and Mars took
place lost Monday morning. For several
nighte past people bare been gazing at these
two planets, evidently regarding their eon-
junction na a pretty spectacle.
In old times such an event wonh] Jure
caused general consternation, and even in
these days the predictions of the astrologers
have their believers. Of the present gitaa-
tion nf Jupiter and Mara Zadkiel, the Lon
don seer, says in iris almanac;
‘-This conjunction cannot fall to cause aerirtis
evil for the British empire In the shape of earth
quakes xnd epidemic diseases. There la therefore
resaon to apprehend on invasion ot cholera. For
the United'Btatea, shocks of earthquake on the
77th degree of west longitude, tn New York nnd
Pennsylvania, may be looked for. Great thunder
storms nnd waves or Interne beet will paw over
taeatates. There will be great excitement lu
America, xnd a religions movement of nn enthu
siastic nature.”
An all these remarkable occurrences are
booked for the next few weeks it will not
take long to make up our judgment about
Mr. Zadkiel. While we are on the subject
it may be of Interest to see what an Ameri
can prophet has to aay about it. Mr. Strain-
ski, of New York, lays bis London rival in
the shade. He says that the moon is nearer
to the earth than it lias been in thousuds ot
years. This afieets everything. The human
brain feels it. We may expect to see insan
ity and hydrophobia on the increase. Wars
will come and only tbe strong will survive.
Queen Victoiia will lore her life within the
next twelve months. Next year a great
comet will come close to the earth. It will
produce cyclones. The weather disturbances
of this year ore due to the procimity of this
comet.
This is had enough, bnt Mr. Stroinski has
still more to eay. In 1603 New York and
Long Island will be submerged as the result
of a great earthquake. After that year
things will improve, and there wiU be peace
and plenty.
The foct that inch cranks as Zadkiel and
Sfroinski ore able to make money ont of
their ravings, and find followers, is a curious
commentary on onr civilization. It would
appear that men, even in the most civilized
state, are always awed by gigantic and mys
terious national phenomena. They gaze,
and wonder, and revert to the superstitions
of childhood and ravage life. The failure of
oil theas predictions will have no affect In
the next generation other prophets will
spring up, searing old women and tearing
np the nervous system* of timid people.
There is no getting rid of the evil. Wo
must grin ana bear it.
A New Industry,
It ia possible that be*tie farming ia des
tined to become one of the profitable indus
tries of ths future.
A word of explanation will doubtless be
demanded by onr readers. We are not
speaking of beetles in general, bnt of a cer
tain species. The discovery has been made
that a beetle, common in eonihem Europe,
is a never-foiling antidote in cases of hydro
phobia. In Russia it is widely known os
tbe only efficient remedy for rabies. When
a person is bitten by a mad dog, he takes ■
slice of breed and one of these beetles, •
cetonia aunts, it it called, makes a sort of
sandwich and cats 1L Then he goes along
qnittly about his buainaat, satisfied that he
is proof against hydrophobia.
As the Revue Sclentifique Indortas the
cetonia aurata in the highest terms, it will
he scan that thia novel antidote deserves onr
consideration. It is expensive to send pa
tients over to Pasteur. Madstones are not
to be found everywhere, and there it little
faith in the ordinary resource* of medicine.
Every neighborhood should havo its beetle
farm. Beetles should be kept on sale in the
drug stores, and, in fiict, there is no reason
why prudent men .ahould not carry their
pockets foil of three bags. There it no
hsim in abundant caution. We have onr
doubts about the mode of administering the
remedy, bat that can be arranged. For per
sons of delicate stomachs who object to bug
sandwiches, an extract or tincture could he
prepared, or something in tbe shape of a
highly spiced beetle catxup. The presibili-
tice involved in tho thing cover such a wide
range that we cannot do justice to th* sub
ject within th* limits of this brief article.
Onr scientists and patent medicine men are
respectfully recommended to give tbe matter
their attention. .
Apparently “Wet,” But Really "Dry.”
As a rale when we meet a man with un
steady gait, congested face and neck, vacant
eyes with drooping lids, nnd with spirituous
breath, we have no hesitation in pronouncing
him intoxicated*
It is hard to bell* vs that these symptoms
may aU exUt and be consistent with perfect
sobriety, and yet such is thstact. The Lon
don Lancet, a high medical authority, says
that it is very easy to he mistaken in esses of
this kind. It refers tothe French colonel,
Herbinger, who was tried for drunkenness
while on duty. This officer was (bond to he
the victim of cerebial amentia. Frequently
he wss giddy and could scarcely sit on his
hone. The Lancet rays:
Not only will samite of the bnln, however in
duced, cams gtddiasMbul certain forms of defect-
ivciarrimitation WIU brio* aboat th* Maw results,
together with symptoms Hill more decretive. Wo
need to Rudy men clomly ta* efiecta of an acorns
of oxalic acta In tha blood, of accumulated uric
•eld, ov urate of ammonium, of neetooe, eta.
Something haa betndooo in tats direction; bnt, so
for aa wa arc awars. the prtcla* cause of n pecu
liarly offensive odor of Ibe breath expelled from
the mouth, seemingly dietlnctly alcoholic.hsgnot
good clinical observers with a fair knowledge! o
ibe chemlitry of digestion and elimination ban
undertaken to ■olre the problem. It would be
ittefbl to Investigate toe subject further urns* light
is desirable nnd evennecemerr.
We do not feel inclined to eigne the ques
tion. In fact we ogre* with onr learned
contemporary that more light ie desirable
and even' necessary. Of course we ere wil
ling to admit that the apparently “wet"
men who occasionally disturbed the serenity
of very “dry” communities, are in reality
not "net," bqtthodiyostoftbe “dry,” but
we want a tent that will enable ns to distin
guish Ihe counterfeit article from the gen-
uize. Until medical science maker) farther
pro grata in thia direction, we mast take J
man’s own word for it. We may hare good
reason to believe him to be aa drunk os the
treditioual “biled owl.” but if be piernfo
mebts) nmrsria, oxalic acid, and all that
sort ef tiring, we must yield; and if be lives
in • "dry” town it would r.how obstinate
prejudice to doubt his explanation.