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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA-, iTUESDAYi AUGUST IQ 1886
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ATLANTA, OA., AUGUST 10. IMS.
Tho Mexican Mudillc.
Mexico hu at last answered .Secretary
yard's frequent demands for the release
of Catting, by sending a detachment of
its army to the Rio Grande and leveling Its
gam in command of Fort Uclntoah. With
this point covered it is reasonable to pro-
tame that other vantage grounds along’ the
river will soon be held, and that Mexico
will ere long bo In command of tho lllo
Grande,
Catting, Die three demands for tvbose
release have been dledainftdly ignored, boa
9 been sentenced to pay sbenvy line and serve
t yen st hard labor, and It was reported
that he would be rnohed to tho peniten
tiary dost night to guard against pMsibio
interference.
It is said that the stouder which Cutting
published in Texas, was circulated by him
in person in Mexico, end that In so doing
he laid himself amenable to the Mexican
law. It is farther said that Catting is •
worthless,vindictive,and rascally blackguard
who does not merit protection and should
not be thus enoonraged in hie effort to on-
gender strife. Be this as it may, tbo fact
remains that Secretary Bayard has three
timet larmally demanded Us release, which
demand in each Instance has been Ignored.
In refusing to aomply with Secretary Bay-
nrd’s peremptory demand Mexico tends n
detachment of troops to the lUo Grande and
levels her guns on Fort Uelntaeb.
It now behooves the administration in
Washington to do one of two things—with
draw the demand far Cutting’s releas
enforce it by sacb measures as may become
necesrary, The question has arisen above
tbe personality of Cntting anil has asnuned
am b proportions as iuvolvoa tbo Intnre pro
tection of American citizens by foreign
powers.
It may lie that the administration is satis-
lied that it has erred in its demand far the
nlease of Cutting; il so, its only counts is
to st onto u< knowledge it and withdraw tbe
order, More Mexico grows unbecomingly
exnltant in iti thrice-repeated defiance of
American authority.
The newspaper* of tho country are
by so means solid ou tho question
of our Mexican reltUons. It is amus
ing to read tome of the arguments ad
Touted in favor of Uro peace at auy
price polity. We ought not to protect Cut
ting, it is said, became he it a worthless citi
zen. We mast not raise t row over tbe
murder of Rsmazee because he we* charged
with being a bone thief IVe mast tkiuk of
our commercial interests. There is neither
glory or profit in a war with Mexico. What
is the rue of fighting when wo con claim
damsgvs tor tbo murder of oar citizens?
Why ihoald we fight Mexico when we have
allowed Canada to mire our ships and peree-
rute onr fishermen without even retaliating?
Fortunately these arguments do not have
mnch weight. The attitude of Secretary
Bayard and Governor Ireland leads ns to
hope that tbe Mexican government will be
handled without gloves in this matter, and
farced not only to nuke ample amends for
its past rondaet, hut to give satisfactory
pledget of good behavior in the future. A
beck-down on onr own part will only bring
w* more trouble. _
The lute Kaiinicl J. Tllden.
In tbe death oi Samuel Jouee Tilil.n tbe
conntry lores one of its greatest lawyers and
most eminent statesmen.
With tbs leading events of Mr. Tildcn'e
life onr readers are familiar, ilia public
carter extended through forty years, and
dering that period his lofty purposes, public
spirit led statesmanship stamped their ire-
press epon the legislation and policy ot tbo
betierdays of the republic. Scorning the
small policies of small men, he nevertheless
held in his comprehensive intellectual grasp
everything that concerned good government,
law and order and the welfare of hnmanity.
Early in his career be identified himself
with tbe cause of reform. But ha was never
misled by tire sham article. Bis reforms
were genuine and practicable, and be never
failed to CM17 them through. Hie crashing
onslaught upon the canal rings had tin ef
fect of breaking down a gigantic system of
corruption, end shaping the canal policy of
the state. His magnificent ernsede against
Tw eedism resulted, for a time, In the com
plete purification of New York politlci. As
the ‘reform governor,” he mode n record
that will never be forgotten.
Elected president of the United States in
1670, the rule or ruin policy of the republl-
cane threatened another civil war, and In
the interests of poses Mr. Tiiden allowed
his claims to the chief magistracy to be de
termined by the fraudulent returning boards
whose action resulted in seatiog Rutherford
B. Hayes.
Bu t tbe subject of this sketch did not need
political honors to make him one of tbe first
citizens of tlie republic. As n lawyer, he
condncted sncccasfaUy many of thogreatcit
and most celebrated litigations of two gen
erations, cases involving many millions of
dollars and tbe moat intricate legal ques
tions. in tho midst of his labors he fonnd
time for tbe enjoyment of literature and
art, and the esthetics ofiife. His many
letters and addresses, and notably tbe com
munication to tbe national democratic con
vcntlon of 1680, declining to again become a
candidate for the presidency, will always
command tbe admiration of tboso who ap
preciate pure, vigorous and dignified ■ Eng
lish.
Although he lived and died unwedded,
the Bags of Gnystone was never indifferent
to the pleasures and interests of tbo men
and women aronnd him. Nothing delighted
him more than to .tarn aside from law and
public affairs to engage in tbe recreations
a Horded try literature, society and rural life.
A'great and good man has gone to hit
final reword. 'When this is said what more
need be said? There will Ire flags at half
mast and demonstrations of mourning nil
over tbe land, bat theso are only tho out
ward signs of the nation’s grief. Deep down
in every American heart there is n feeling
that "passetb show,” and it cannot bo ade
quately voiced in any of tire Hooting tributes
of the day. Wo mast look to tbo eulogist
and the historian for tbe fitting commemora
tion of tbe virtnes ot out great leader.
at some point of their history; and Atlanta ! the point that we adopt it as our own. The
_ . ■ . . ,nt. 1 > »**.„ mill Asnnait (heir
is not singular in this respect. Tbe same
may be said of every town and city in the
United States. Wherever the conspicuously
successful man is to ire fonnd, itmeybe
taken for granted that ho to country bred.
Therefore, we advise the country tods who
are fretting and pining to take heart. Their
time will rarely come. They will find their
opiortnnity.
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Be was cast in an antique mould. Among
Me ceitcmponriee he loomed up as a etates-
aunwhc htd come down to them from the
The Conntry I,ads.
A recent number of a northern periodical,
under tbe head of ‘‘Country Life for Chil
dren,” has tbe following suggestive para
graph:
II fits repeatedly been noticed that tho city ahlld
hoi very obtuse Ideas of property ri*bn, a fact that
ti«ianttwhun we note that In oilte* the arm of
too law Is above and around all property In a con
spicuous way. Country vltlscw, where improve
ment has done swey with front fence*, have earn*
need of their roetoretlon to netreln too trceptx-sH
of the city children who come oat for cummer llv-
Inc, The country child le * belter respecter of
property right* end ofpenoatl rtchte. Hole let*
tn Intruder: he le far leee dlepoecd to Intuit thoee
who tie petting elong toe Meet or road; he It mote
liberty lorlof, and decidedly more democratic,
then too city child. The beet blood lu city bull-
note end proportional Ufa cornea from oountry bred
children. Tho thought end tot feeling! that llo
beneath appearance* end toe tarfece of thing* ere
weak tn the city child. The phlloeoptien. lb*
potti. (he brainy men of e neUon, meetly potted
their youth In toe oountry. Wo take I ram country
children toe men who manege our railway*, who
conduct our great eateiprltci end who renew end
Incretee toe vital cnvrglee that develop our Indut-
trtaliim.
Thera to one etatomeut in (he foregoing
that ought to partirnlarly impress young
men who are growlug up in the country,
namely, the best blood, lire highest success
and the most conspicuous energy corns bout
the conntry—that in to say, bom regions
away bom tbr cities and towns. By some
process of selection, which is os mysterious
ss it is inevitable, all the energies which go
to make Dio republic great, tud prosperous,
aud conspicuous, uro recruited from tbecoan-
toy. Civilization itself, tbo arts, the sciences
nmt letters, arc fed from tbissoarec.
There me throughout the south today
Uioueands of boys, energetic and ambitions,
who arc anxious to kuoiv wlist opportunities
they will have to risa in the world—how
they rhnll receive the bcuclits of a higher
cducnliou nnd a wider culture. With uoex.
patience of life, they feci that (heir lot to a
narrow iuhI unhappy one. They fool the
loneliness, the isolation of their condition,
and they are inclined (o be restless and im
patient. Tin: Constitution, in response to
lettrrs asking its advice, bss often talked
with these young men throngb its columns,
and it bos never failed to tell them that their
lot, ss compared with the lot of the avenge
ity bred boy, to an enviable one, indeed,
lloyt raised in the city no doubt eqjoy
their surroundings. They have s great many
so-called “advantages,’’ and yet, nerersince
tire world began has the city bred youth bad
any advantage over the boy raised in the
country. In all tbe profeerions; in every de
partment of life, the country hoy has a tre-
mendona advantage. There are many rest-
eons wby this should be so, but the principal
reason to that tbe country boy acquiree nnd
retains au individuality tbgt to oi imurenso
servlet to him in niter Ufa. He noqulrss and
retains an tedependsneo that to bettor than
any modern busineae training. Beyond the
discipline of home he haa no matter. Uo
falls into no routine methods. Ho remains
himtrlf. His mind is loft to form itself re
gardless of all limitations, lie to taught tho
value, the honesty and tire nscemity of la
bor, but he is uot made a slave of, and hie
condition is in every respect different from
that of the city boy who is compelled to
corn his own living. If the latter is to en
gage iu hllilm**, be brgiu* by selecting
»utui thing that 'Wlety" considers respe.
ble. He starts as a each boy: become* *
rtotk, and this, in nine case* out ot ten, is
the hietury of bit career, lie is driven and
burned; he i. in terror of kiing hi*
and if he keep* his pla.c he lu-.- hi* in u-
vidnslity, and a more serious to-* uo boy e(nr
eaftr.
It is s great pity that the census d «•> not
deal with this important question, foe
meat razreesfal men in Atlanta are those
•ho were country bud—men who bxve
touched that great training school, the ions,
A Deplorable State of Affairs.
The local option campaign in Missimippi
grows wanner as it proreeds. In some coun
ties the feeling on both sides is as bitter et
it woe in the most stirring period of recon
struction.
Unfortunately,three seems to be a disposi
tion to ebnt off * fair discussion of tbe banes
involved, and to carry tbe elections by ball-
dosing and methods little short oi actual vi
olence.
At a recent meeting of the Hinds county
prohibitionists, resolutions were adopted
charging tho liquor nun with massing the
biseks against tbe whites. The resolution
eeys:
That looking alone to the Intereit of our coun
try and both race* Inhabiting It we do In eolemn
end terrible earnestness, rcaolvc to carry said elec
tion for toe erase of prohibition.
We hereby announce that we will never eland
Idly by and see whisky voted on tola county by
the few whites who have espouwd too ctun of
whisky end tho meetce of misguided colored vote*
of «*id county.
We hereby call upon overy man In Iflnd* county
who he* a drop of Caucasian blood In his veins
*nd toe beti class of colored people to stand by ns
In this great evil.
We appeal to all classes or our citizens and of
both rexes to nse every means in toelr power to
arry sold election.
On the other hand, the antis allege tbit
they have been very unfairly treated by tbe
prohibitionists. An anti-prohibition meet
ing at Forrest Hill was visited by
crowd of armed prohibitionists, who de
manded a division of time, bnt were refuted.
Tbe intruders then began interrupting the
speakers to each an extent that the/broke
up the meeting. Among these annul prohi
bitionists, were e preacher, a depntysheriff
end a justice of the peace. They fired some
fifty or more pistol shots as they rode off,
with a view to frightening the negroes.
Now, it goes witbontsaying that tho peace
oi the state is in danger when a campaign is
carried on in this style. Unless more moderate
counsels prevail it to to bo feared that there
will be bloody collision* between the “wet”
and “dry” men before tbo elections are over.
All this to wlcktd and foolish. Arguments
and ballots will settle almost any question
more satisfactorily titan gunpowder. Fraud
and force settle nothing.
Aa to Savings Banka.
Onr esteemed contemporary, the Colum
bus Enqnirer-Sun, referring to Tun G'onsti-
Tinos’s suggestion that tbe legislature
ought to adopt laws similar to tboso under
which tbe savings institutions of the north
and east are operated, says:
The shove Is entirely misleading, as the Infer
ence Is that under the lews of Georgia savings
banks cannot be established. This is by no means
too case. It Is true tost there Is no general stale
law authorising toe establishing of savings banks,
but whets there Is a surplus of money no difficulty
will be experienced In obtaining to* necessary au.
tooilty for toe establishing s bank es safe end
secure aa any that can be found existing under
too laws or Kalno end Meisachusctts. A charter
can rosily be obtained on applying to the legisla
ture, os tot code provides far this It Is the look
of means and not toe want ol taws which operate)
against savings banks.
Wo had supposed that ovory render of
Trig Constitution was familiar with tho
facto which tho Enqnirer-Sun oats forth in
the foregoing, namely: that savings banks
can be established in Georgia. There are
savings banks in nearly every city of the
state, aud they are reasonably safe. Bat
tbe point to wbicb wo desired to cal] atten
tion, nnd wbicb we beg oar contemporary to
bear in mind, to tho fact that tbe public laws
of the northern and New England states re
lating to savings banks, are in tho nature oi
special laws. They it ami os insurmountable
barriers between tbe public and any posdbla
It to not necessary iu Maine, for in
stance, for any depositor to have confidence
iu tiro honesty of those who manage the sw
ings institutions. Tbe woiueat ho becomes
a depositor, tho state steps in to guard his
savings. lie is not atrahl of dishonest man
agement, nor of speculation, uor of panics,
for be kuows that his funds are safe. Tne
state not only gnards tin- management ot the
savings banks and trust companies, Imt pre
scribes the character of lire investments to
be made, so that there shall uot be n shadow
of doubt as to the safely of the foods. The
law is not left to take care of itself, but
there is a state-honk examiner, whose duty
it to to see that tbe terms of the law are
complied with. The savings banks and trust
companies arc compelled to make annual
rcpoits to tbo bank examiner and those re
ports ere in tbe natnre oi au Realized state
ment of the amount of deposits, tbe charac
ter of the securities in whioh funds have
been invested, nnd the amount of dividtnds
(Inland. Wo have before us the twenty-
ninth annual report of the condition of the
savings banks and trust companies of the
state of Maine, a bulky pamphlet of Sod
pages. It is a pamphlet well worth exam
ination, for it shows better than anything
could the wise operations of tho
laws which Maine, in common with
other New England states, has placed on its
statute hook.
It will be observed that the Columbus
Enquirer-Sun, in the paragraph which we
hove quoted, says that “it is the lack of
means and not the went of laws which oper
ates against savings banks.” Whereupon,
our contemporary proceeds to refute its own
statement in the coolest manner imaginable
It (eye:
The savin** bulk of too Bogle ant Phenix man
ufacturing company, of this city, is a refutation ot
tbs statement tool Georgia cannot found insLtn-
lions that will enlist toe confidence 01 her working
people, and encourage a thrift tike unto tost of
Massachusetts. The Institution was org suited
under special charter from the state ot Georgia,
ted on the lint day of January of tbs present year
tire amt. were MjdOMir.iSJ, white the undivided
profits were tCiO,232d7 In exact flguree. Tbeob-
iecttnctstlbhlugtht* savings bank wu tow*.
ercraic ihecttployesof tho m-ll. and othrrv In llkn
e(i> umrtosce*. ro pra, (loo habit* of ocouomy sod
thrill hy vfford'.ngar-'aee where tbeireirpl-i.ee.-a-
n oudabilictHcu i.tofitaalvtad securely invert*.).
The l-sr.k 1-\ >1 v per .vai lmere,!* and thl*. .la
st tf-T *!-h ill- alciln-c •ectr.fry 10 h-padior*.
hs- a-nt-e-d sc, era'. OHe-cfar
vaiarf Georg)*.
Precise y so. The ec.ijj'-ri c*
bare entire confidence in ih *v
the beuk. anil there line ilicv d
to deposit their saringa in it*
cry or she
IM' f be IU IE
sir* ci ,u.le
an- hesittte
Bit
the relations between the employes >nd the
maazgvr* of the bank are pc-u iir. Tory
ore confidential end paternal, aud cannot he
duplicated by an ordinary wring* bask,
(hr contemporary's citation to so much to
employes of the Columbus mill deposit their
savings in the bank because they have un
limited confidence in the managers. There
to no lack of means to prevent them
from doing this. Neither is there any lack
oi means among the working people and
others in other portions of the state; but
there is a lack of confidence. There will no
longer be t lack of confidence when tbo
state, anxious to promote thrift and econo
my among its people, adopts laws that will
stand between the public and any possible
lore.
Buzx-Snus and Civil Service Reform
Occasionally we hear some very strange
arguments in favor of tbo republican methoda
of civil service reform now iu vogue, ifere
is one which is quite original. It is from
the Charles too News and Conner
Senator Brown is reported to be la favor of-the
eatireOeorgit delegation calling In s body on the
piestdent and demanding the removal of to* Sa
vannah officials.'' There la no law against s sen.
star monkeying with the civil service buss-saw,
If be la (o minded, but it would uot be In a*
cordance with Senates Brown's reputation for
Judgment for him to amuse himself In that
way.
We presume that our Charleston contem
porary admires the civil service reform hitvi-
nesa as it now stands because of the buzz-
saw attachment. If so, it is welcome to it*
admiration. The Constitution', os much
in favor of real civil service reform os the
News and Courier, or as the president him
self, has no admiration for our so-called re-
farm that keeps in office men who are ob
noxious to the people. Undoabtedly the
shorn reform wbicb is now iu operation, has
a buzz-saw attachment. It is au affair that
appeals to have been fatal to a great many
good democrats, and ft will be fatal to a
great many more.
There are in tbe federal offices in Savan
nah republicans who have, for years, dis
played the most offensive partisanship—they
have made themselves obnoxious to the
people of tbo community—and yet, when it
to hinted that .Senator Brown to anxlons to
see them removed in order that honest and
efficient democrats may be put in their
places, the Charleston News nnd Courier, n
democratic paper, declares that tho Georgia
senator has more judgment than to monkey
with the civil sen ice buzz-saw. Mr. Vilas,
when approached about the matter, de
clared that the obnoxious officials were kept
in place by (be administration becauso it is
necessary to "placate the north.”
We have recently had another example of
the beauties of the so-called civil service
reform uow in vogue. Miss Esther A. Mer-
kleham, thc'grent-granddaughter of Thomas
Jefferson, was summarily dismissed from
tbe patent office last Saturday. Investiga
tion of tbe matter shows that tbo dismissal
of Miss Merklebam was tbe work of repub
licans who have not only been kept in office
by tbe present administration, bnt have
been entrusted with tbe practical manage
ment of affairs. Thus, when it was found
necessary, under tho provisions of the new
legislative bill, to reduce tho force in the
: latent office, tho selection of the persons to
ire dismissed was placed in tbo bends of a
board composed entirely of republicans.
This fact came out when a stir was made
about Miss Merklobam’s dismissal. Wo have
learned that tho young lady has boon rein
stated, bnt her rrinstatement will not alter
tho fact as to the method of her dtomiaal.
Now, if the retention of tbo republican
officials in .Savannah, and the con
trol of ailaini in the department by ropabli-
cans arc the results of civil service reform,
The Constitution desires to announce
here, with some degree of emphasis, that it
takes no stock in such a sliam.
The Lumber Interest.
Our timber lauds have never been appre
ciated nt their true value by their owners.
Strangers and capitalists have been gobbling
them up ever since the war, and oar forests
are being rapidly destroyed.
Lumber plays on important part in all the
affairs of life, from the cradle to the coffin.
The timber supplying tbe ties and sleepers
of our railroad systems cansnmei the growth
oi thirty years. It takes 18)0,000 trees to
make our telegraph and telephone poles,and
it lakes 400,000 trees every year to keep
them in repair. Onr luclfer matches exhaust
300,000 cubic feet of tbe finest pine wood
every year. Shoe pegs require 10,000 cords
of wood annually. Every year 500,000
cords ot maple, beech and birch are tamed
into last*, boot trees, tools, etc. We spend
annually $15,000,000 for packing boxes and
$100,IKK) lor wagons,agricultural implements,
etc. We ulso export millions ofdalien’ worth
of lumber to foreign countries.
Our lorestsaic too valuable lobe sold for n
song, rr wasted. Wo must look after our
timber interests.
A Lively Tilt.
A spirited correspondence has just taken
place between liev. Sam Jones and Hou. J.
T. Henderson, Georgia’s commissioner ot ag
riculture. Tho letter of Colonel Hendtr-
con, and the reply of Mr. Jones can be found
elsewhere in today’s Constitution.
The tilt grew out oi a statement made re
cently by Ur. Jones at Mary vUle, Missouri.
In a sermon, he spoke ns follows:
The grandest, proudest and highest spot that
God Almighty ha* located to America,Is tola coun
ty and tots town. I have never »**n such a coun
try,and after God has blessed you with the moot faro
til* aoll and to* grandest bieulngi in tola world,
you cannot rest without nsaplng It In liquor and
debauching younelvts, soul and body. God pity
you. (Applause 1 Now, if you Uved down on to*
bar* hills of Uaorgla where wo eau't make more
toon tores or four bushels of corn to toe acre, aud
when we can’t make hut two bushel* of wheat to
toe acre, I eouid understand bow you would need
a little liquor to help you snap up.
'Laogbter" fallowed Mr. Jones’s refer-
erenee to tho sterile character of the “bore
hills oi Georgia.” Commissioner Henderson
wrote him a caustic letter, saying the state
ment made by the evangelist was not found
ed in tact. To that Mr. Jouoi replies that
the commissioner “kicked before he w.u
spurred,'' and mil* attention to tbe fact that
the tefcicnce was to tho '-bare hills” of
f-aergix.
E\»vy ore wilt reject that .. euvitwrlf
haanri-sul»*twct-K )(*« - (tz-R-* -('’'l the
tics tbe
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leave* me bn.'set of ft ■ < se '' cove- ni
cest of p:»ntii'.g. to.- ■ of b .-s-iutf -mt
tbe vest of threshing, to- -.v gutbiognf profit*.
That sort of fhro'tag to absurd sod .mo’ at
tempted in Georgia. The real yield of wo-xt
far the state ks xvtraged far tbe lave ten
years seven aud a hall bushels per acre. Some
Georgia land producte over sixty bushels
per acre. Mr. Jones credits the bare bills
with prodneing three or four bushels of corn.
The avenge far ten yean has been eleven
bushels, and three years ago tbe average was
fourteen* Some Georgia land has produced
this year os much os 173 bushels ot oats per
acre, and more than seventeen hundred
pounds—four bales—of lint cotton per aero.
Commissioner Henderson has just retnrned
from a visit to southern Georgia, where he
inspected a rice plantation of nine hundred
acres. The yield will be forty bushels per
acre, or 30,000 bushels of rice os the product
of one plantation. Tbe annual crop ot
cereals in the state is fifty million bushels,
while the cotton crop amounts to 800,000
bales. This cotton crop reaches in value
over thirty million dollars. In other words
the farmers of Georgia receive that amount
in cosh every year for a single product of the
“bare hills”—and the other territory which
Mr. Jones neglected to mention.
Crops fn the Northwest.
For live or six weeks a terrible drouth has
existed in the northwest. In certain local
ities in Kansas, Iowa and IVisconsin, a few
drops of rain have fallen, bnt there has been
no general rain in the corn belt.
Onr advices report tbe sitnation as not
only critical bnt filled with the promise of
disaster. No amount of rain now can make
any perceptible difference in the final out
come. The present drouth is said to be even
more severe than that of 1881. One corre
spondent says that there arc thousands of
acres of corn In Kansas nnd Nebraska that
will not yield more than two bushels to tbo
acre. The most discouraging reports also
came from Illinois, Wisconsin and Mimouri.
Wheat is yielding fairly well, bnt there are
localities on tbe Northern Pacific where not
more than fire bushels to tbe acre will be
made.
Our southcra farmers have not been with
out gloomy apprehensions during the season,
bnt they are coming ont better tban the
grain-growers of the northwest.
Texas mid Mexico.
Tbe liold and positive tone of Governor,
Ireland’s letter to Secretary Bayard has
created a genuine sensation. While the
Texan’s communication was rather brnaqae
and irregular, it must be admitted thst he
bad great provocation.
Onr people have not been sufficiently im
pressed witb tbe fact that Texas beam the
brnnt of noariy oil the Mexican outrage*.
Nine times ont of ten when an American
citizen is murdered or jailed on the other
side of tbe border he is a Texan. When tbe
Mexicans raid our territory and steal hones
and cattle, Texans are-the people who suf
fer.
Governor Ireland seems to be snpported
in his manly stand by the press nnd people
of his state. It is alleged that the Texans
have submitted to Mexican injustice until
matters have reached a point where forbear
ance ceases to be a virtne. Bnt can the citi
zens of the Lone Star state help them
selves? They do not hesitate to answer this
question in the affirmative. They say that
Texas, by herself, whipped Mexioo once,
nnd can do it again. The point to mode that
while the federal constitution provides that
the United States shall protect eaeh state
against invasion, it also provides that n state,
without the consent of congress, may engage
in war to protect itself, if "actually in
vaded.” The Texans claim that there to no
more galling kind of invasion than n system
of forage, kidnnpings and murders, and they
propose to pat nn end to tho whole basins**,
alone and unaided, if the federal govern
ment cannot be induced to toko prompt nnd
eil'ec-tive action. Under the elrcnmstanoeo,
plucky Texas will have the sympathy of tho
entire country,
Why Is It ?
Public attention bos jnat been called to
tbe fact that many of tbe bloodiest crime* of
the season have occurred on the Sabbath
day.
In this connection the New Orleans Fica-
yone says:
Almost every Sunday far toe past two months
tho police have been called ou to arrest a wife
murderer, ora man far attemptlnc to mnrdsrhls
with or sous woman. The fact tost Sunday ap
pears to bo tho favorite day with women murderers
upon which to slay their victim* has caused con
siderable nupriro on the part of those whose duty
comi-els them to Investigate lliese cases, and they
have now coma to expect a murder of this xlud
every Sunday.
This to a horrible showing far a city of tho
size of New Orleans. Monday’s Picayune
has an article headed, “The Usual Sunday
Wife Mnrder.” What is tbo matter? Has
our civilization played oat? Perhaps
rigorous Sunday law to nrnled in our
Urge cities. Imx laws are largely responsi
ble for crime.
A Wretched Little State.
The New York Sun strives to bring tbe
state of Rhode Island to its senses by colling
it an oligarchy. This, all things considered,
a very mild description of nstata in which
genuine republicanism has been buried too
Oag ago to talk abont. The Constitution
has frequently described tbe sitnation of
affairs in that little state.
Let the reader imagine a county abont tbe
size Of Dooly pocked with a population of
303.000 persons. Out of this number only
10.000 or* qualified voters, and less than half
of these voted for governor on tbe first of
April, 1883. In this beautiful (tats titers
are nearly 13,000 native born males over 31
yean of age who tre not allowed to vote. ’
This shows that Rhode Island to a Tory fins
state. It is owned by a few capitalists, and
the tawi are mads to suit them. If man
hood suffrage were allowed, as it to in the
couth, the state would bo democratic, bat
there to n property qualification, and the re
sult to that Rhode Island is the only state in
this country in which the right of anffi-ogs to
denied to tiie citizen.
Still, tbe lsws of Rhode Island afiord s
good example of the right ot a state to con-
tiot suffrage. BbouM it ever become neces-
•t-q.uh to erect s property qnmUfi-
* u > bare reason to than* Rhode
• .J u tn the doctrine of state
II- SIiui-OuT.
1 - -i bt-twreo (be mill-
. u t . lo.'-r is v.ryserious.
• :..ctsl.. - Ikcu set furih by ou
.-patch*-, s-uictiine ago, the op-
- is. tbe ArcWMx factory concluded
at tb*:r wage- were not aulfi -lent, and
k*s Minsk fur uu advance. This strike
bos been going oo far nsase time, and
threatened to axtesd to to* other mills.
Vcfoitcsstely far toe operatives, tbe
strike occurred when nano of the mills
were making more than expenses, and the
result fans been that nil the mills in the
neighborhood of Augusta have combined
for protection. The first result of this com
bination to a determination to shut down if
the employes of the Augusta factory do not
return to work tomorrow morning. At the
strikers are determined, being convinced
that, through organization, they hold the
key to tbe sitnation, the probability to that
the lockout will bo complete and irrevoca
ble until tbe mills con secure operatives
who can afford to work at present prices.
It is stated by those who know, that fat
more l ban two years, the AngnsU factory,
in which the strike occurred, has been
losing money, but notwithstanding these
losses, the president agreed to advance the
wages of operatives before paying a divi
dend. Thfa ought to, and would have been
satisfactory in any establishment where la
bor is really organized, bnt it was not sat
isfactory in this instance, nnd the opera
tives went ont on n strike. The demand
was for an advance of wages, which the mill
was not able to pay.
Owing to the attitude theoi operatives,
all the mills have concluded to shut down
until they can do better, and the result to
that there will not only be loss of money,
but considerable suffering in all directions;
Tiie question to one that concerns the whole
community, and it is to be regretted that
tho spiritol arbitration, which it supposed
to control the Knights ot Labor, was not
permitted to adjnst this difficulty before it
became serious.
Cotton Facto.
Tbe New York EinnnciaP Chronicle's ad
vices for the weekevdiag Jnly 30 show the
total receipts of cotton to be. 0,000 bales,
against 6,744 bales the weet before, 9,471
bales the previous week and 13,064 bales
three weeks since, making the total receipts
since September 1, 1885, 5,208,673 bales,
against 4,733,013 bales (or the same period
of 1884-86, on increase since September 1,
1865, of 674,750 bales.
The exports for tbe week amounted to 32,-
333 bales, of which 18,072 were to Groat
Britain, 001 to France, and 3,549 to the rest
of the continent.
Speculation in futures during the week
was quite fitful, prices being feverishly van-
riable nnd very irregular. Crop accounts
have hefn fairly favorable,.but excessive heat
in Texas gave rise to discouraging reports,
and the renewal ot rains in the Atlantic
states was unfavorable.
Tbe visible snpplyof cotton is 1,438,025
bales, against 1,477,477 for 16e5, 1,837,902
for 1884, and 1,008,360 for 1883, a decrease
of 30,463 boles as compared witb tbo some
date of 1885, a decrease of 389,877 bales os
compared with 1884, and a decrease of 560,«
331 bales as compared with 1883.
At tho interior towns the receipts are
7,659 bales, a decrease of 5,684 bales daring
tbe week of the old interior stocks, bnt 34,-
040 bales more than at the same period hut
year. The total receipts from tbe planta
tions not Including overland reoeipts and
southern consumption, nn 6,340,448 hales
since September 1,1885, against 4,737,276
boles in ’64-85, and 4,773,018bnlesin ’83-8-1,
Tbe total cotton in sight is 6,457,000 boles,
again*! 5,503,842 bales in ’84-85, 5,644,533
in '33 84 and 0,037,653 in ’82-83. This is on
increase of 863,161 bales as compared with
last jest, 812,483 compared witb '83-84 and
a decreaic of 480,647 from ’83-83.
Our Little War at Home.
While we are discussing the possibility of
war wtih Mexico, it ohonld not be forgot
ten that wo already have onr share of bellig
erent disturbance* on our own soil.
Only a few days ago tut anti-prohibition
leader waa shot and killed in Missiwippi by
the opposite party. Such outrages naturally
provoke others; and it will surprise no one
to learn that the Mississippi affair was follow
ed iu Iowa by the killing oi a Methodist
preacher, who had token an active part in
the prosecution of saloon cases.
This is n pretty state of affairs. Wo are
inclined to berate tbo Mexicans because they
are lawlem and regard less of the righto of
others, bat whither are we drifting? When
honest differences of opinion on a question of
moral reform lead to assassination, it is
abont time to place every reformer and anti-
reformer underbonds to keep the peace. A
free ballot is bettor then n free fight, and in
country like onretbere is no exc ise lor a
resort to Mexican methods.
The Anti-Tobacco Craze.
The St. Louis Christian Advocate thinks
that the anti-tobacco movement is designed
to divert attention from religions and moral
reforms by exciting prejudice against some
ol tbo leading reformers who ore addicted ta
tbe use of that watt), It says:
Well, the o*e of tobscccRnajbe a very bad thing.
Doubtlcn it I*. In the cttlmatlon of man j, yet there
were Btibop* Boole, lleddlni. Morrit, Andrew.
Paine, Caper*, Bescoai. Pierce, Wightman, Marvin
and other* of the dead that rafaht he named, Uro
tether with inch echplen a* A. T. Bledeoe end sach
morel and political heme* a* Lovlct l-lerc* and
Andrew Jackson. None of whom oould he retard
ed ** drunkard*, nor week minded, nor ImbecUat, -
nor tilth j, nor lu-mtnneied, not of bed morals*
Yet that they ill toed tobeeoowt know, and that
they wen retarded*! food and (teat men w* alia ■
know. Bull they may not have enjoyed the lfaht
that Illumine) thee* tatterday saints, yet ta
compare those mint* with them, would he •
like comperfaf the Pocky mountain- tn a aetoi.
mole hill*, or the proud bird at, Jove m a' Oy-op>
the-erwk."
This is just abont the aize of it. 0-.tr two
Bams may rest easy. They are in good am*
pooy-
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