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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JULY 27 1886
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~~ ATLANTA, OA., T011DAY, JULY T7, U*.
Oomlitm I'nriiiom and Free Trade.
The Courier-Journal, which is tho chief
uewepuper organ of 8 talesman Morrison and
the whisky ring, prints a list of the names of
those democratic congressmen who voted
against the Morrison scheme, and demands
their defeat at the hands of their democratic
constituents. Tho Courier-Journal bos an
editor in london, and is a very powerful
)>aper indeed, but onr opinion is that in this
instance it has bitten olf a much bigger
chunk than it can chew comfortably.
To begin with, a majority of tho demo
cratic congreesmcn who voted against the
Morrison scheme are from New York state,
and in that state the democrats are in favor
of protection. Like other democrat!, they
would not objert to such rensonablo revision
of the present tarlfl as wonld leave the in-
ilnstriee of the country with no fear of 'de
struction at the bands of competitive foreign
industries, that have never contributed and
nevrr will contribute in any ahapo or Ibrni
to the progress and prosperity ot this conn-
try.
The agricultural classes of New York state
are protrctlontsts, and they have good reaeon
to be, for under the policy of protection, the
hamlets of the state liave become towns, tho
towns have grown into cities and the cities
have spread and grown to an enormous ex
trnt. Population boa been increaaed, and
industrial enterprises that would never have
hren dreamed of nndcr a free trade policy,
hove sprang up in every part of tire state.
The growth of Ureeo things hare enabled Uie
fanners to make money in a thousand differ
ent ways; aiui to eucb to extent has tho pol
icy of protection changed the face ot things
that the rougher and tougher methods of
fanning (such as our William Arpoomrtimcs
writes abonlt ate almost wholly unknown in
that region.
With permanent and profitable markets
right at their doors, the farroera ot Now
York state have been relieved of the neces
sity of engaging in that hopeless drudgery
which means hard work nil the year with
nothing to (how for it at tho end. They are
enabled to diverslfy-thelr crops and improve
their forma. They have near and profitable
market* for their poultry, their eggs, their
cream and their butter. They nre enabled
to go into all the lighter forms of agriculture.
They have their dairies, their truck gnrdons
and their hay Helds; and for the products of
three there is an unvarying demand, lint
far protection and its malts, there would
have been few industries and few home mar
kets, and the condition of the farmers of
New York would be today no better than
that of the Ihrmers of the aonth. Perhaps
not to good, for a kind Providence lias given
our tkrmcra the boon of cotton, and bat for
this it is likely they vrould have long ago
perished from the face of the earth.
YVo have braid a great many complainta
since the war hecaaoe the son thorn farmers
persist in planting large crops of cotton.
Home ot the complaints have been mode in
these columns; bat without cotton, which is
a sore money crop, what would have been
tho condition of the Carmen? Hut few farms,
and only those within roach ot market,
wonld be self sustaining. We have also
heard in a thousand different stays that the
farmer* of the north and east are thriftier
and more indnatrloas than those ot the south,
and their prosperity Is pointed to aa a proof
of the assertion. No greater mistake could
he made. The thrift of tho northern flttm-
era Is the result of favorable conditions; bnt
there is no more industrious class on earth
tlian the farmers of the aonth. .Surrounded
by the most unfavorable conditions, touched
at every turn by the most unfavorable cir
cumstances, they are compelled to work hard
from one yesr's end to another in order to
dig a ban living out ot the ground. We
hava observed that when a northern farmer
comet down here to show oar people how
things should Ire managed, he tpeedily dis
covers that things are not what they teemed.
He either adjusts himself to the oonditiasts
as they exist, and which are as inexorable aa
fate itself, or he retires as gracefully as pooh-
hie. frequently with an imaginary grievance
•gainst the clinute, the soil and the people.
The lack of tho whole aonth is manufoc-
tsaj^pg industries; the lack of southern form-
tie condition of the farmers and trying to
manipulate legislation so as to keep the un
fortunate agricultural class and its posterity
in the clutches of poverty. There is but one
remedy for the condition of tho southern
farmer and that lies in the
direction of building up homo
markets. Every mill, every factory, every
new indnstriai enterprise that is pat In oper
ation is a step in that direction. Thera new
enterprises are increasing every year in the
eontb, and their inflaenoe is already begin
ning to make itself felt. Bat Mr. Morrison
and his following, in an attempt to mala the
infamous excise laws a permanent inatito.
tion in this country, are anxious to cripple
these industries and to leave the eon th and
southern funner* Use victims of tho old dis
tressing conditions.
The Courier-Journal, whose editor was ran
olf the floor of tho bouse of representatives
while lobbying for the notorious wblsky ring
swindle, declares that “Tit* Constitution
and Joe Brown" ore running the Georgia
machine and the Atlanta ring, and makes
considerable fuss in favor of free trade. It
is welcome to do this; it is welcome torujulrm
and w riggle and sweat. Bnt Tiik Consti
tution will not permit it to deceive the peo
ple of the sontb with its whisky ring ideas
and its school hoy arguments. Free trade
would Ire filial to tire further development of
the south; fatal to its progress, and fatal to
its prosperity. Under the operationsof each
a policy, the forming interests of the sontb
would decline, even though the government
were to lnrnish each former Iris implements
and bis clothes.
Dime Novels unit Murilcr.
A good old preacher said in onr hearing
the other day: "Onr boye are tempted into
evil ways by whnt they read.”
It looks very much like it. A trial now
in progress at Erie, Kansas, shows the inti
mate connection Iretween dimu novels and
crime. One morning Willie Hells, a sixteen-
yftir-oid boy, went to a neighbor's liouso and
excitedly stated that a strange man had
broken into his home and killed bis fattier.
The neighbor went to the house, and saw a
horrible spectacle. The newspaper account
toys:
Upon bearing this story Mr. Mcndall sccompsn-
ltd M illie home. When they arrived tiro boy re*
mtlncd outside. Mr. Mendatl entered, procured a
light, and w as confronted with tho most horrible
spectacle that can be lmiglned. The floor was
covered with blood, in which ho fairly had to
wade. The celling was spattered and the walla
•tallied. The old mau Bella waa lying on tne floor
with the whole bock part of hla head crushed In
and bis throat outto deep that his hetd was al
most severed Irour his body. Near him, alio on
the floor, was the body of Mrs. Hells, with hor skull
crushed aud her throat cut lu tho same manuer.
A lew feet away, in a bed lu a corner, lay the
body of Mlsalua Sella w ith her skull crushed and
her throat cut tram car to ear, and In tho adjoin
ing room In the same bed In which Willie had
been sleeping was tho body at Watte Sells, with a
large gash lu hla forehead, one of hli eyes chopped
out sud Ids throat cut similar to the others.
A luitcbet unit butcher knife covered with
blood were found in the house, and in the
kitchen there was a basin of bloody water in
which (lie murderer hid washed Iris bands.
It was discovered that Willie had washed
his bands, bnt above hla wrists blood waa
found on his nrms. There woe blood under
his finger naile and hi* underclothing was
•talncd. The boy told several contradictory
etorlee about the rtflnlr, and there was noth
ing to do lint to' lock him up. Ho will
doubtless bo convicted, although be stoutly
asserts his innocense.
Willie Hells has nover been considered |
vicious. He has always been an inveterate
reader of ilimo novels of the worst class, and
has frequently expreeecd his desire to be
come a frontier hero, a "Wild Bill," "Slip
pery Ham" or something of the sort. Those
who know him are satisfied that his murder
ous craze is due entirely to the reading of
blood and thunder literatare. If this cose
does not set some of onr parents to think
ing, it will ho because their intellects arc
too weak to bear the strain.
To tilt* Credit of lire Hmitli.
Messrs. Bruce A Cook, importers of metals
in New York, did a large business in the
aonth before the wnr. In a cnsrnd conversa
tion with Mr. Itobert H. Martin, formerly of
Houtli Carolina, now in business in New
Y’ork, Mr. Cook, of tbie firm, told Mr. Mar
tin how the southern people rallied after the
war, nud paid their debts. Mr. Martin, who
la always watclrftil of the south’s interests,
as many of the thousands of southern men in
Now York ure, asked him to make the state
ment in writing, that ho might have tho
benefit of it for onr people. Mr. ^Urtin
sends ns II10 letter, which we print below:
Nr.iv YeBK, July 16, 1nV>—Mr, K. H. Martin—
PearHlr-lnaiiiwcrtoyour request I here repeat
the inn merit made to you at the lunch tebte.
In beginning of eur civil wer. et closing of mall
Ihcillilce, my Arm had nearly seventy thou,grid
dollars os lug to us from trleruls soiitli.ell of ivliloh
we considered lust. Alter lire clour of the war.
without suit or pressure,nearly slxty.flvo thousand
dollars of this amount waa paid to in by our
drbton—a result so satisfactory to us. and ao hon
orable to them and tho section of country from
which they eerue. that t am alwayagladtospoak
of th Itespecviutty, Jour “ ‘
Intriiipprnnce tn the North.
There hr a reason for the bitterness of the
northern prohibition crusaders. We have
intemperance in the south, but it ia mild
nnd eporndic. In the north it has grown
tines the war into a monster evil. It per-
meates all classes of society, especially in
the cities and towns.
Joe Howard, the veteran New York cor
respondent, pictures the metropolis as the
wetteet place on earth. According to his
statement* the avenge New Yorker begins
the morning with a cocktail. He takes
enndry lifers before lnneh time, and then
drinke n milk punch or two. Daring tho
afternoon one or more brandy smashes are
in older. At dinner the champagne come*
in, and before bed time something stronger
Is called for.
Now, all this ocenra among moderate
drinkers. But there are men who are not
satisfied with this programme. Howard
speaks of the late millionaire, Tracey, the
former husband of Agnes Ethel, the actress.
Tracey, it seems, drank a quart of cham
pagne before breakfast At night he
swigged u quart of brandy. How he
worried through the day, or what hedrank
hetweecn time*, is not stated. Ot* course
his habits killed him.
But tlieee smart men atiout town tie not
all drink liquor. Home of them never touch
a drop. They burn out their stomachs with
Sl id phosphate half a dozen times a day.
They drink Music. They swallow bitter*
and patent medicine*. They dose them-
•elves with quinine and other things. Some
elrink ice water twenty times a day, a prac
and they crave stimulants or nervine].
While this is the case, the northern poop's
still regard the sontb as the Intemperate
section, and they point to the prohibition
excitement down this way as positive proof
that the evil boa reached a point where for
bearance ceases to be a virtue. It wonld
surprise them to learn that in every part of
the south drinking hoe steadily decreased
during the past twenty years. Pablic opin
ion is at the bottom of this reform, and it
bos accomplished as much outside of tho lo
cal option districts as it has in them. Pab
lic opinion is itself a law, and it cannot bo
defied encccaelnlly.
Mr. Cleveland's Order.
President Cleveland's order, Informing
officials who bold places under the govern
ment that they will not be permitted to
make a display of offensive partisanship In
elections, or in the matter of controlling
delegatee to nominating conventions, is a
very timely one. Asa matter of course,
democrats who believe in gennine civil
service reform are very for from indorsing
the republican system of reform which is
now in vogne, hat, as matters stand, the re
publican system is a very good thing, since
hot few democrats hive been permitted to
feel the justice or injustice of its operations.
An Mr. Cleveland’s order will, in the very
nature of things, mainly effect republican
officials, who have heretofore been in the
habit of making themselves very active
political heeler*, even the democrats who
do not believe in Mr. Dorman U. Etton'a
republican machine, can afford to say that
it ia very proporand timely. A majority of
the offices of tho country are filled by repub
lican teuton and heelen, and this order
gives them to underotand that the tactics
they have been panning under a republi
can administration will not bo tolerated by
n democratic administration which permits
them to retain their places.
This fact shows that Mr. Cleveland has
a pretty stiff upper lip when it comes to en
forcing the law. Ii he will not remove the
republican tonters and place honest and re
spectable democrats in their places, he will
at least see that tho republican officials
conform to the law. As faros it goos, this
is reform.
The Vagrant Iiaw.
We desire to commend the stand to bo
taken by Captain Connolly, chief of police,
announced in yesterday’s paper, in regard to
vagrants anil idlers in general. The pres
ent ctirso in all our villages and towns
and cities is a class of idle persons who make
no effort to live, and who arc living on the
people who have to work for a living. This
data of people Irecomc vicious, because it is
the natural tendency. A man msy be idle
because he cannot get work. Itisthodnty
of every good citizen to help these people to
get employment, kilt the class that can get
work and won’t work ought to bo made to
work. Idle men get lonesome in the coun
try, nnd they drift to the villages, towns and
cities, where they can find entertainment in
their idleness, nnd where they have the op
portunity to pick up enough to live upon
without a legitimate effort to labor, and
there they stay until they are caught in
some crime that leads to tho chalngang. We
trust there will be no abatement on the pfirt
of onr police authorities in the determined
enforcement of tho vagrant laws.
The Crops and lira I-'armcra.
We have just received from tho Atlanta
office of B. O. Dun & Co.’s commercial
agency the fullest and most interesting crop
and business report of tho season. The re
port gives in brief the crop and business
situation tbronghont Georgia nnd portions of
Alabama and Booth Carolina.
The report is so symmetrical anil well con
densed that it Is impossible to summarise it.
Ths following introductory remarks will
give onr rendeis a bird's-eye view of the sit
uation:
The unfavorable condition of ths elements dur
ing the mouths of May and June, worked what sp-
posted very serious demote to the crops, fresh
ets, storms and heavy rains prevailed tn all direc
tions. Bottom lands were reported washed oat
end crepe almost a total ruto. The rains were rot-
lowed by tress (fetlcioosly termed Oenerat Qreon),
causing still further damage. These circumstance!
naturally produced much depression amons farm
ers and merchants. Notwithstanding these ac
cumulative misfortunes, the situation Is by no
means desperate or even serious. Since the tint
of July thero has been a decided Improvement tn
thewesiher. The reason Is now propitious. With
combined favorable conditions the toes to crops
may he very largely dlscouoted.and a fair average
yield may be secured In good time. A gratifying
nature of the situation Is tho contrartlon of cred
its. Far mere have Incurred less ludchtcdness than
S revlous years, hence a
not be to disastrous.
ssuv-b-———mwi o, win*,. tice uhout aa injurious aa half the number of
err* it home markets. And yet the free trade I toddies wonld be. There it eomething in
agents of the whisky ring in the newspaper* I the life of our eastern dtiee that throws
acd ia ccagroa art going about bewailing J men's systems into a disordered condition,
An liilUimnis Swindle.
More than one correspondent has recently
written to inquire why Tiik Constitution
persists in identifying Statesman Morrison
with the whiaky ring, and some ol them
have asked about the whiaky ring. Tug
Constitution had good reason to suppose
that every newspaper in the country knows
eomething of the nature and extent of tire
whiaky ring, bnt os there really seems to be
some Ignorance in regard to it, and
in regard to its operations, we take
pleasure in giving, in brief shape, each in
formation aa will enable any Intelligent per
son to understand the pnrposeiof the whisky
ring.
To begin with, the whisky ring is an asso
ciation of distillers in the western states
formed far the purpose of evading the law.
It is a very powerful association. It bos
plenty ot money, nnd it hoa been able to
buy congremmen of both parties. For a
long time it had complete control of the
commissioner of internal revenae, and dar
ing the last administration, it had the United
States attorney general and the secretary of
the interior in ita pay.
The government, under the law, impose*
a tax on every gallon ot whiaky mairafac-
tnrod by the distillers. In the very nature
ot things, this tax most come out of tho
pockets ot thooe who bay the whisky from
the distiller*, bnt the latter have been for
year* trying to avoid payiog to the govern
ment the money that they can at any
tjure collect from their customers. Toey
have bad various schemes before and behind
congress to enohlc them to evade ths law.
The most of these were exposed and kitted
by Mr. liandail. Bnt the whisky ring is as
lively aa ever. It doesn't want the nr re
moved—as witness Morrison's wild nprnii-
tion to the liandail Urtfl' bill— tor that area'll
open np the whisky business toe imp it! tion;
and it doesn’t went to pry a tax to the gov
ernment which has long been overdue.
The people, speaking through a majority
of their representative* in congress, have de
clared that the distiller*ahonid be compelled
to pay their taxes likeotber citizens; bat the
ring is so powerfal that it has succeeded in
avoiding payment to date. It went so far as
to export a great amount oi whisky, and
Attorney-general Garland, whose reputation
is already ruined with Pan-Electric, has per
mitted it (the aforesaid ring) to import the
same whiaky withont demanding the pay
ment of taxes.
This is a pretty mess, to be sure, bnt worse
remains to be told. The whieky ring now
owes to the government—that ia, to the peo
ple—taxes that amount to $15,000,000. In
stead of insisting on the payment of these
taxes, Free Trader Morrison, through his
ways and means committee, has presented a
bill to remove the present limitations in the
case, and permit the members of the riog to
evade taxation os long os they please. Mr.
liandail, who is watchful of the interests of
the people, will, no doubt, see that this in
famous bill is not allowed to pass. We at
lade to it here only to explain why we al
lude to Free Trader Morrison as an agent of
the whiaky ring.
Other people ore compelled to pay their
taxes, and there is no reason why the whisky
distillers should not pay theirs. The attempt
to single them oat for favors is in the nature
of class legislation, and is an infamous swin
dle from beginning to end. The lonely
wretch who attempts to make a gallon of
spirits from his own corn or bis own peaches
withont paying a tax is shot down like a dog
by the officer* of the law, bnt the whisky
ring, with millions of money at its command
and an influential lobby working in its
interest*, can prevail on sack men as Free
Trader Morrison and his ways and means
committee to propose a bill (the most in
famous piece of jobbery) to perrui t it to evade
the law with impunity. Tire honest people
of this country are growing very tired of the
efforts of the whisky ring to swindle them,
and democrats who have their hands stained
by it will not fore well with their coostlta-
ents. The wblsky ring must go.
The First Hale.
Your Uncle Primus Jones, who made him
self famous early in tho season by sending a
sixty-five pound watermelon to Tin Con
stitution—a melon which promptly disap
peared in the hole provided for such things
in the business office—your Uncle I’rimas
Jones, we any, has just come to the front
with his usual first bale of Georgia cotton
Ho for as this first Irate is concerned, Mr.
Jones seems to be determined to compel
history to repeat itself, and he has succeeded
to snch an extent that the repetition has be
come exceedingly painful to those who, for
one reason anil another, have thought proper
to compete with him.
For several years Texas has been making
an effort to rush the first hale to market,
and one season it was thought that the state
bad succeeded in beating Georgia; bnt it
was afterwards discovered that Mr. Jones's
bale bad reached market ahead of the Texas
hale, but the associated press failed to re
ceive information of the fact
There was an effort made in Savannah a
year or two ago to show that Mr. Jones's
hale was not all new cotton; bnt the effort
was not sncceesful. The cotton was picked,
ginned and packed in h hnrry, and it was
probably a little damp; bnt there can bo no
donbt that it was new. Mr. Jones’s neigh
bors, who were on the epot, testified to this,
and nothing more was thought of the mat
ter.
Later on the Savannah cotton samplers
essayed to teach the people of tho state
eomething about the silver question, and
this remarkable effort was also in the
nature of a vindication of Mr. Jonea, for if
the cotton samplers knew no more about
new cotton than they did about the silver
question, their decision was worth little.
Bnt no matter about that. Georgia and
yonr Unci# Primns Jones continue to lead
the world in tho early production of cotton
and in the perfect production of watermel
ons. Snch a state cannot be trampled on
with Impunity by foreign powers.
Free Technical Training.
The yonng men of this section who are
anxions to receive the benefits to be derived
from a comae of training in the mechanical
aria have now an opportunity which they
■houhl hasten to take advantage of.
Homo yean ago, the professor of mechani
cal engineering at Vanderbilt university,
Nashville, orranged for a series of free lec
tures on technical and mechanical training,
with limited shop facilities. The late Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, on hearing of this, do
nated one hundred thousand dollars for the
purpose of making this department a per
manent feature of the university. This do
nation has enabled Professor Lanireth to
enlarge the department, nnd to provide it
with proper instructors and machinery.
This department, with Profoisar Landretb
at dean, will be in active operation at the
beginning of the university year in .Septem
ber, and will be ready to receive those who
desire to take advantage of the course. The
course cover* two years, nnd unites class in
struction and shop work, so that the bands of
the student will be trained eo ss to bear di
rect relation to the training of bis mind.
There is no charge made for instruction.
It is freely given to aU who apply, and those
who take advantage oi it have no obliga
tions of any sort to discharge except to ob
serve the rules. It is the purpose of those
who hare charge of the find to apply it free
ly for the benefit of the yonng men of the
south who desire to receive a technical train
ing.
A Ton of Good Advice.
An esteemed subscriber in Alabama writes
to u* as follows:
1 hare ailiteen rear old son who display* con
siderable literary talent Be believes that novel-
Wtltlnt is his forte. Wonld yon advise me toen-
coursgc him in bts aspirations? What would bn
tho hast education Iter such a hoy ?
Onr subscriber's hopeful son is evidently
a yonngster of dangerous tendencies, and it
ia impossible to contemplate his future with
out sal forebodings. Still, thero is achance
for snch a boy, when ho is c-tright yonng,
and properly embed and directed. It is a
mistake to suppose that when a young-iter
shows a liUrary bent he i* past refinmatiou.
Tire First 'Napoleon, in his college days, had
the scribbling fever. He went ss far as to
write a tragedy or a romance, and it is even
recorded r!...i he acted as a hook agent for a
aboil tirre. Fortunately, however, he was
rescued before it was too late. Hrs love of
literature reduced hint to starvation. When
lie got dow n to oue plate of soup for bis
dsy's ration*, end bad to decline an ap
pointment because lie had no hoots tit to
travel in, he had the good sense to throw
down his pen and born his manuscript*.
Thus he escaped poverty and obscurity,
and made himself the foremost man
of all this world. Take another
case In point. When he was a raw
yonth of twenty, Jay Gould yielded to
temptation and wrote a book. It waa a
perilous crisis in his life, bnt he tided over
it He took a survey of the sitnstion,
turned his back on literature, and mode
himself the Napoleon of finance.
From these examples it will be seen that
the yonng Alabamian is not irredeemably
loat. If be ia brought back into the right
track he may ire saved. Concerning the
education to he recommended, onr corres
pondent should be able to see his way clear.
He cannot bo blind to the mar velous strides
which his state is now making in Indus
trial development. He cannot he insensible
to the progress of the new south. If he
pauses to think a moment he will see that
the yonng sontlrerner who has his baud as
well as his head practically equipped for
the work of the hour, has a bright destiny
before him. With such an education he will
be irresistibly drawn into a career of action,
He may not write about the thoughts and
deeds of real anil imaginary beings, bnt his
life will be so vigorous and creative that
men will find it necessary to write a history
of the wonders in which he will he taking
an active part.
With this pointer onr Alabama friend
should know how to net. He mnst Ire the
judge of the methods to be adopted. The
barrel stave is sometimes an efficient agent.
‘Industrial schools, workshops and form
work, all have their advantages. A word
to tho wise, etc.
The Dcllnnl Mexicans.
The situation at Paso del Norte is not en
tirely satisfactory. The stubborn way in
which the Mexiran authorities hold on to
Editor Cutting shows that our government
is not much dreaded in that quarter.
As the matter stands, the action of Secre
tary Bayard in demanding the unconditional
release of Catting has been treated with con
tempt. The concentration of troops at Paso
del Norte indicates the readiness of the
Mexicans to resist any attempt that may be
made from tho American side to release the
prisoner, and reports from that locality say
that a back-down on the part of the United
States is expected.
There is somothiog irritating in nil this.
Under similar circumstances England wonld
enforce her demand by a prompt resort to
warlike methods. Onr usual policy is to let
matters run their natural conrse. It re
mains to he seen whether the greasers will
bulldoze ns in this instance as they have re
peatedly done in the post.
Mischief in Mississippi.
It is to be hoped that the lawlessness re
ported to exist in Newton county, Missis
sippi, is somewhat exaggerated.
In n time of profound peace, with nothing
more exciting than an occasional prohibition
election, wc do not seo what excuse the
Missieeippians can hare for organizing bands
ot regulators, and terrorizing the country
around them. Tho gnilt of these yonng men
is for from being wiped ontbythe state
ment that they at first commenced their
regulating bnsiness in a spirit of fun. Wo
all know what such frolics lead to. There
arc blacks as weir as whites who do not
relish a practical joke when it interferes
with their rights, and they will resist when
they ore imposed upon beyond a certain
point. The regulators are not justified then
in shooting down those who stand in their
way. Having placed themselves in the
wrong at tho start, they have no bnsiness
with the shotgun.
The disposition of the authorities at Jack-
son to bant down the regulators and bring
them to justice, cannot be too highly com
mended. The only way to preserve our
reputation as n law and order section is to
stamp ont lawleas violence whenever nnd
wherever it makes its appearance.
Cotton Facts.
The figures given by the New Y’ork Finan
cial Chronicle show for the week ending last
Friday night total receipts amonntiag to
11,471 bales against 12,90-1 bales the week
before, IB,510 bales the previous week, and
14,363 bales three weeks since, making the
total receipts since the first of September,
1885, 5,282,868 bales against 4,719,131 bales
for the same period of 1884-85, showing an
increase since September 1, 1885, of 503,7:17
bales.
The week’s exports reach a total of 30,00!)
bales, of which 27,003 were to Great
Britain, 1,524 to France, and 7,482 to other
parts of the continent.
The total sales lor forward delivery far the
week ‘were 459,090 bales. For immediate
delivery the total .qilcs for the week loot up
,305 bales, including 2,825 for export and
4,480 for consumption.
Old interior stocks have decreased daring
tbs week 7,797 bales, anil Friday night were
40,414 bales more than at the same period
last year. The receipts at the same towns
have been 3,207 bales more than the same
week last year, and sines September 1 the
receipts at all the towns were 724,017 bales
more than for the same time in 1884-85.
From the plantations it appears that the
total receipto sines September 1, 1885, are
5,335,245 bales, against 4,725,507 bales in
1884-85, and 4,777,772 bale* in 1883-84. Al
though the receipts at tbeontporta last week
were 0,471 hole*, the actual movement from
the plantations was only thirty seven bales,
tbs balance being token from the stocks nt
interior towns. From tho same plantations
last year the figures of the receipts are not
given for the week, bnt in 1884 they were
113 belts;
The total cotton in sight, Jnly IS, is
8,451,803 bales against 5,592,073 for 1884-85,
0,643,377 for 1883-84, nnd 6,028,646 for
1882-83. The increase is 859,730 bales as
compared with lest year, and 808,426 bales
compared with 1883-84, and the decease
from 1882-83 is 476,823 bales.
Funicular Prohibitionist*.
The prohibitionists of Ksnso* hava marie
a break in a nev direction. They have re-
lused to nominu'e for governor a min with
irreproachable prohibition record, sim
ply became the tact came out tlut he had
loaned money at two per cent a montb.
As the prohibitionists are allowing a dis
position to take an active hand in state and
national politics (be precedent eua'ilished
in Kanea* it significant. AVe cm easily nn-
dinnind that in Kaunas, as in other states,
there ia a strong feeling against a money
shark. A curbstone broker, a man on the
Hbyloek order, wonld not etand a ghost of a
chance before tbe masses. Bnt bon far do
iky pglitica! prohibitionist* propose to go? ,
What requisites will they demand in their
candidates? We know, now, that they are
against tbe nearer as well as the men who
looks upon the wine when it is red, bnt will
they stop here? Will they let in a man
who trees tobacco? Will they tolerate an
agnostic or an evolutionist? Will they in
sist npon personal parity in a candidate?
Will they require an educational, religions
or property qualification?
The list of questions might be extended,
hut these will do. If the prohibitionists
of the country propose to apply their prohi
bition methods to everything that is dis
tasteful to them the pablic ought to know
it. It is, perhaps, useless to tell the prohi
bitionists, north and south, who are organ
izing themselves into a political parly, that
they are blindly rnshing on to rain. They
mnst find it ont /or themselves. The local
optioniats in Georgia have had the wisdom to
avoid the dangers that lark in the treacher
ous depths of politics. If they ever allow
themselves to be lest astray by cranks and
demagogues they will see ail their work un
done and their canse itself will be utterly
lost. "Make haste slowly” is a good max
im for those who would build wisely and
well.
As to Democratic Authority.
The Conrier-Jonrnn! continues to make
itself very unhappy over affairs in tbe sontb.
In its latest issue we find ths following,
which is perhaps worth a little comment and
a little correction :
What Is reported at “the democratic county com
mittee” of Chatham county, Ga„ ia said to have
passed this resolution : ,
"Wheresa, We hold that a protective tariff to
foster American industry and the maintenance of
the silver coinage conduce most to the prosperity
of the country.
“Besolved, That wc will support no candldxto
for congress who does not pledge himself, if elect
ed. to vote for these measures."
W hen end how does It come about that a county
committee bts authority to declare the principles
of the democratic party 7
Whence does snch a committee derive tie power
to forestall tbe messes or tire party In declaring
their own will In convention?
If this resolution was passed at all, it was
passed by ths congressional nominating con
vention of the district. It was introduced
in that convention. AA’hether it was acted on
or not, it was intended to be in the nature of
a hint to Mr. Norwood that there is at least
some of his constituents who do not admire
the Morrison free-trade programme, and be
will probably accept it as such.
In regard to tbe so-called county com
mittee, which the Conrier-Jonrnnl under
takes to lecture, wc will say this: that any
county committee, even an imaginary one,
has as much right to formulate democratic
policies as Mr. Morrison aud those demo
crats who make themselves conspicuous by
trotting around after him. Congressmen
nre elected to transact the legislative busi
ness of the country. Moreover, the attempt
of tho Conrier-Joninal and the agents of the
whisky ring to make Mr. Morrison's free-
trade schemes tbe test of democracy, is
ridicnlons to the point of imbecility.
Where there is one out-and-ont free trader
in the south, there are a hundred men who
desire to see the yonng and growing indus
tries of the sontb fostered, and who are anx
ions to see new indnstriai enterprises organ
ized and built np. Hucb an issue, however,
cannot and will not bo made in the sontb,
and when tbe Courier-Journal advises snob
a thing, it shows that that paper is anxions
to see a break-up that would result in negro
rule, or that it is ignorant of the situation
in this section.
Hon. N. J. Hammond.
It is das Colonel Hammond to state that
tbe vote ho polled Tuesday in this comity
wns a tribute to his ability by man he bos
been intimately connected with, and bos
strvrd for year*. His opponent was a
ortby man who bad strong family connec
tions and Inflnential friends, and tire ma
jority secured by Colonel Hammoud was
given in no spirit of dissatisfaction at Colo
nel Mynstt, but because tho friends of Colo
nel Hammond were proud of the stand taken
by onr immedietc representative on the
committees and in tbe balls of congress.
It the enemies of Colonel Hamuiond will
take tho pains to inquire from members of
congress bow he stands, they will find that
with both parties he is considered the ablest
lawyer in the borne, a conservative thinker
and a laborious member; and no district in
tbe union bas a representative more incor
ruptible and held in higher esteem.
Colonel Blynntt Withdraws from trio luce.
Editojis Constitution:—Because of the
great discriminations made by common carriers
•galnit Atlanta, and because of my connection
with certain efforts to obtain relief, some e-ttmtblo
gentlemen of Atlanta were triad enough to unite
In a request to me to bceomc a candidate for con
gress. In all my dlanmlon* before tbe people I
presented tbe results of these unjust discrimina
tions, not only to Atlauta but to all tbo pcoplo ot
north Ucortla. according to tbe facta as I under
stand them. These facts make questions of Inter
state commerce. In tho recent primary election
tbe people ol Fulton county did not >eo ill to sus
tain me In my positions on tnls subject, bur rather
lo rest the results or rbe election on tbe other and
very different Issue*. Without farther reference
to these issues 1 detire to say tlut it 1*
true, as alleged again, t ma,
tzatlou, discriminations and other abuses. From
these proceed wrongs, not only to the employe!
•ud patrons of railroads, but to tbs legitimate
stockholders as welt. No Intelligent gentleman
who took the palm to bear me wilt say that 1 at
tempted to prejudice one clase of our people
against another.
8!nce 1 have fktted In Fulton couu'.y, the
oriitn ormy candidacy.I do not desire to make tho
questions of my canvass (briber. W'Un sincere
thanks to those who hare supported ma, and with
the vary kindest reeling* toward those who kaTO
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