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THE CONSTITUTION.
Entered r.t the Atlanta postoffice as second class
Snail matter, November 11,J' 7.1.
The Weekly Constitution 51.2.1 per annum.
Clubs of five, *l-00 each; clubs of ton, 41.00 each
•nd a copy to gcttcr-up of club.
WH WANT YOU.
Tlie Constitution wants an agent nt every
portoffice In America. Agcnlsoulflt free ami
Rood terms. If you are not In a club, we wan
you to act as agent at your office. W rite us.
OUR “CHRISTMAS BOX’ OF
PRESENTS.
On January Ist wo will distribute $1,600
among our subscribers. From September Ist to
January Ist we put the name of every subscriber
received in a box. On the latter date we shake
up the box thoroughly, A hole is cut in it.
Ono of our weekly agents, in tho presence of
three others—draws out a name. That name
geto SOOO, the box is then shaken again, and
another name drawn. That name gets S2OO,
and soon through the list.
Now you ought to subscribe for the paper
without expecting to got one of the presents.
Pay for it, for itself, just as yon have always
done. From reading the paper yon get your
money’s worth, and more for your money
than any other paper gives you. Be satisfied
with that. Then it you got the SSOO, or the
S2OO or even one of the $1 presents, take it
with our bi t wishes and our Christmas greet
ings!
Os course we <Jo not protend that every sub
scriber will get a present. Not one in every
hundred v il! get one. But every subserilter
•will have an equal chance. The box will
have tbc name of < very subs ribei sent in be
fore January Ist and no other names. ’I l.t’ ”
agents from different states will shake the box
and will draw out a name while the others
hold it. You will have just exactly the same
chance every other subscriber has. Some per
sons will got every prize. It may just as well
be you as any one else,
We do claim this. Wo furnish you the big
Rest and best paper that Is printed We furnish
it Cheaper than any other paper. We give you
besides an equal chance with every other sub
•crilM'i in sl,oooiu gold distributed anprcsentß.
No other paper does this. 80, if yon like our
paper as well as any other, take it, for besides
the paper you have an interest in our ’’Christ
mas box," which no other paper gives you.
Hut if you do not like out paper as well a
some other paper, take that paper and drop
ours, for yon may not get ono of our presents
and thou you would be dissatisfied. Take the
paper solely fm the papers sake,and if you get
a present, you will be just that much hap
pier.
¥rEE “EXPOSITION” TICKETS.
Do yon want tt free ticket for yourself, wife
and children to the exposition?
Here in how to get them. Gela club of 5
subscriber; to Thu CoNSTiTtmoH at $1 each
and wo will give you a full ticket, (50 cents,)
a child’s ticket, (25 cento,) as a premium.
Get a club of ten subscribers at #1 each, and
wo will give you two w hole tickets ($1) and
two child’s tickets (7.0 cento) as a premium.
You of course have to buy your admission
tickets for one day when you buy your railroad
ticket. But if you stay two days you w ill need
tickets for tho second day. These will cost
you 7.(1 cents for yourself or wife am! 2.5 cents
each for your children. You can get one of '
each for nothing by bringing us live subscribers
and one of each for every dub of fire sub
Scribers.
If you are only going to stay one day, we
give you7s cento cash premium for every club
of five subs, libers, or 81..70 lor 10, or s:’> lot 20,
all at 81 each. We will only give those rates |
to subscribers who m tuallv bring them hole
and present them at our oilice in town or on
the grounds.
We do this for two reasons. We want to see
you ami know you. Wo w ant you to come to
the exposition, and we want tv help you puy
jrour way.
Now, get to work get the children to woik
ami von cun ea ilyget enough eash premiums
to pay for your tickets. Tell the children they
must iielp earn the money to pay their way.
JCvery five subscribers at SI each, pays you 75
cents in cash or n w hole and half ticket. 1 f you
want sample copies to work w ith write on n
postal card or letter "send me samples for ex
position club," and we will send them flee in
the meantime work with this copy. Kenewals
•f old subscribers will work just the same as
now ones. But w e positively cannot make this
offer good to anybody but iietual visitors to the
exposition, and the offer dowhen the ex
posiiion does.
ATLANT A. G A., OCTOBER 11, ISS7.
The Cotton Aloverneiit.
The New Vmk Financial Chronicle, in Us
weekly review of the cotton movement, says
flint for the week ending last Friday even
ing, the total receipt* have reached 251,160
bales, against 238.745 bales last week, 187.
740 bales the previous week and 126.(i1l
kales three works since, making the total
receipts since the Ist of September, 1887,
t»5,902 bales, against 580,4111 bales for the
tunic period of 1880, show ing an incretwi)
aince September 1, 1887, of 3111,471 bales.
The exports for the week reach a total of
170,439 bales, of which were to
Great Britain, 14.153 to France ami 52,757
t® the rest of the continent. The total sab s
for forward delivery for the week are 542,
BIB' bales. For immediate delivery the total
•ales foot up this week 2,221 bales, includ
ing ( for export and 2,158 for consumption.
<>l the above, 113 bales were to arrive.
The imports into continental ports have
been 12,600 bales.
Tin s, figures indicate an increase in the
Cotten in sight tonight of 3117,025 bales, as
compared with the same date of 1880, an in
cnas. of 414,146 bales aseompared with th. I
corresponding date ot 188.5 and an increase ■
•I 148,103 bales is compared with 1884.
The old intei i.,r str ,ks have Increased dur i
tng the w.i-k 2’.',504 ball's, and are tonight 35, I
UK! bales more than at the same period last I
year. I'he receipts at the same towns have
b»M n 25,086 bales more than the same week
last year, and since September 1 the receipts
•t all the towns ate 167.19.5 bales more than
for tin same ’ime In 188(1.
The total ree< ipts from the plantations
time Sept,-ml .r 1, I'M. are 1,0 )0,1.11 bales;
tn 1886 were t.'O.om. hales; in ls-,5 were
170 bales, ai;hough the receipts .it the
oulpoits the p:i<t w< ek were 251,186 bales.
K the actual movement from plantations was 1
V 260.221 bales, th.* balance going to increase
th. stocks at the iutei.or towns, J. art y<ar
Um Ncglpti from the plantation!) for the I
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11, 1887.
same week were 236,087 bales and for 1885
■ they were 210,010 bales.
> The inci ease in the amount in sight Fri-
I day night, as compared with last year, Is
402,952 bales, the increase as compared with
1885 Is 351,513 bales, and the increase over
1884 is 382,350 bales.
The weather reports of the Chronicle in
dicate that the weather has been dry and ex
ceedingly favorable to crop gathcringdnring
the week. Marketing is also making rapid
progress.
The Chronicle says that the speculation
in cotton for future delivery at this market
has shown much strength throughout most
of the week under review, the chief excep
tion being a decline of a few points on Sat
urday last. In the course of Monday to
Thursday, inclusive, there was a slight but
steady advance, on the belief that the “rush’’
of new cotton to market is about to cease
(at least in comparison with former years)
an I that prices were ou a safe basis for
operations for the. rise.
Hcduccd crop estimates from Texas and
adverse crop accounts from Memphis have
been published in the daily papers, with the
effect, of stimulating the demand to cover
contracts, and better reports from Liverpool
on Wednesday and Thursday also favored
the “bull’’ parly. The business was largely
for the winter months, and the close Thurs
day evening was 5a9 points above the prev
ious Friday.
Friday the market was very unsettled, but
made some further advance in the later
dealings. Colton on the spot met with only
a limited demand for home consumption,
and although stocks were still small, quota
tions Were reduced l-16c. on Monday. To
day the market was dull and weak at 9 7-1 Ge.
for middling uplands.
The Chronicle has an interesting review
of the cotton consumption and overland
movement for September. As is well
known, the present crop began to move to
the outpoi l , earlier ami in larger volume
than any preceding it, ami naturally, there
fore, the shipments by rail have also been
quite free. In fact, the gross movement
during the month greatly exceeds that for
September in either of the two previous
years, and is, moreover, heavier than for
the opening month of any other season in
cluded in our record. The total for the
month is -48,178 bales, an increase over 1886
'4 23,056 bales, while the gain in comparison
with 1885 teaches 19,872 bales. The
heaviest, movement in September of any
year previous to the present one was in
1881, when Ihe gross total readied 46,862
bales and the net .‘10,869 bales.
All the railroads, except those crossing
the Mississippi at Hannibal, have bcnelitted
by the larger cotton movement. The Cin
cinnati .Southern and the Louisville, Cincin
nati ami Lexington have, however, made
Hie most important gains. In th.' net move
ment there is also a decided excess over pre
ceding seasons, the total for September this
year being 39,162 bales, against 19,635 hales
last year and 22,910 bales in 1885.
Never before lias so much cotton reached
the outportßduring the first month of the
cotton season as during the present year.
Compared with last year the increase is
2971,1,7:; bales (about 87, per cent), in which
all the southern ports share, but, sti’angoto
say, Galveston to only a slight extent. This
would seem to indicate that a greater por
tion than in former years of Texas cotton
lias gone direct to New Orleans, Foreign
’ exports have been on a very liberal scale
during the month, exceeding those, for .Sep
tember a year ago by 97,284 bales, and re
cording a gain over the similar month of
1885 of 131,16 1 bales.
The amount of cotton marketed during
September, 18,57, is thus seen lobe 318,400
bales more than in 1886, and 291,686 bales
more than in 1885. Northern spinner ß
had up to October 1 taken 147,216 bales, an
increase over the correspond ing period in
188l> of 53,383 bales, and an increase over
the same time in 1885 of 11..">15 bales.
The movement during September of the
present year is 389,531 bales more Ilian in
ISStI, and 338,817 bales greater than in 1865.
The movement up to October 1 shows a de
crease in the average weight as compared
with the same period in the last two years,
the average this year being 493.48 lbs. per
hale, against 502.04 lbs. per bale for the
same time in 1886 ami 199.:. I lbs. in 1887?.
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I nU’itititmieut at the position.
The Piedmont exposition, it. appears,
must suffer,withall groat shows, from rumors
of extortion for entertainment.
Fortunately wo are able to scotch this
rumor definitely. Dr. Fox, at the head of
the committee on public comfort, h is regis
tered in his office over twenty two thousand
lodgings. These arc mainly in private resi
dences, the owners of which at repeated re
quests have consented to take boarders dur
ing t lie exposition. In only four houses is
two dollars and fifty cents u day charged.
In the other private houses the charge is
two dollars a day. In boarding houses a
dollar ami a half a day. In each case this
includes board and lodging. Lodging alone
is a dollar a night where one person takes a
whole room, or titty cents a night where two
or mote occupy a room. This is certainly
eh. ap enough, and of the twenty-two thous
and registered, none exceed this charge.
This tact is guaranteed by the exposition,
and will be vilified by application to the
committee ot public comfort, of whii-li Dr.
Fox is chainuun.
Some criticism is made because yayiuent
is demanded in advance. The justice of this
demand is clear. A lady agrees to give four
or five rooms to guests during the exposi
tion, and puts those rooms in the commit
tee's hands. she is notified that the rooms
are engaged for three special days of the ex
position. She accepts this as final and holds
the timnis, no matter how many applicants
: she may have.
To make her safe, or protect her. the
' committee requires the persons who engage
| these rooms to deposit payment in a.!
I vame, but with this condition, that it the
j parties vv ill notify the committee on or I < fore
I October 10,that they will not need the rooms,
I the money will be refunded without eo«t.
j 4Ve do not see how the committee ceuhl do
more. If they did not dem.iml an advance
I di posit, mischievous or irresponsible persons
! might engage rooms by the hundred ami
thus shut out real visitors am! di traudthe
: ladles who have given the use of their houses
to the < xpositiun. Any visitor in know by
i the tenth whether or not l.e is coiniiu totlie.
' exposition, and if he amwums s by that date
that he will not cotuc his money will he re
. funded, tl.e r. .. ms he has rented released, to
be OC« Upied by eflier people.
| The comiuittee has an office at 2? Wall
street, and will be on duty during the expo
sition night ami day ready to furnish infor
mation to gne: ts without any charge w hat
ever. This committee receives no commis
sion from any source,but is organized solely
for the comfort and protection of visitors.
Ami of the 22,060 lodgings registered on its
list, but four of them cost $2.50 a day, but
a few of them $2 a day, and the vast bulk
of them $1.50 a day for board and lodging;
or for lodging alone, $1 for an entire room,
or fifty cents where more than one occupy
the same room. These rates, wc repeat, are
not only not extortionate, but they are
cheaper than have ever been given to any
great exposition, and vve defy contradiction
of this fact.
The fact that Chicago is making pure leaf
lard out of genuine cotton seed oil shows
that wc are in the midst ot and contiguous
to a great people. Let the good work go on.
Itcllw Thun Genius
The late Governor Bartlett, of Califor
nin, was a remarkably successful man. He
did all that he ever attempted, either in bus
iness or politics. lie died the possessor of
a large, fortune, the governor of his adopted
state, loved by many, trusted and honored
by all who knew him.
If a young man should study the life ami
career of Washington Bartlett, he w ould
find that he did not possess sonic of the
qualities which are found in most of the
men who seem to succeed. Ills best friends
never considered him brilliant. He wasnot
an orator. lie did not pretend to be a states
man. He had none of the glittering gifts
which dazzle the common gaze and kindle
Hie admiration of the multitude. But he
had something bi t ter than all these things.
From his youth all through his career, and
down to his honored old ago, he was ever
honest and true. . His life was a long and
absolute devotion to duly. He always pre
ferred truth to suqi-i-ss in business or poli
tics. He had a heart running over v> itli
kindness. He built himself up by helping
others. His genial nature and his sterling
integrity won a firmer hold on the hearts of
the people than any degree of intellectual
power, or any grace of culture could have
gained. Men believed in him and trusted
him implicitly with great commercial and
political responsibilities. It was said of
him when he was nominated for governor
that lie bad never shirked a responsibility
or dodged a duty. The people knew that,
these w ords were not an idle tribute to a
party's candidate, but that tlmy were the
true record of a faithful life. Such arc th"
mi ii who give to society its stamina, to poli
tics their purity, and to government its
strength. They are the salt of the earth.
Coni-cvniiig CenietericH.
A paper read before tin- last meeting of
tlie British Medical association makes some
strong points against the present mode of
disposing of our dead. A reviewer in sum
marizing the article says:
Itr. Williamson ba 1 witnessed the removal of the
dead floin u qriiveyiml probably eighty years old.
Ito declared Unit iivie.iqe British burying places
were “masses of boxed iq> putridity," mid that the
dead in them could not lie regarded as hurled at all.
Some had been placed in rnetiil casket-*, some in
oak, mahogany, rosewood or oilier collins made out
of wood equally as durable under ground, mid that
would last just ns long almost as the casket’ them
selves. lairing alt this lime, years up >n year-, nox
ions gnsi's were eonstantly i ciqinr to poison tlie
air, while liquids were running out Unit were liable
to find their way into coutiinionsstreams and welts.
In opening graves that t’ndl evn closed for forty
year’n vteneti arose wlitcli drove away the work
men, and kept them away for a couple of days at a
time.
'1 be most dangerous graveyards of a’’, said T>r.
Jeffreys, were tlie graveyards where tlierii.fi were
buried. Here the eadiets most nbriii.il ■>!, or coffins
madi ot'wis'd epuaily as imt" li-teil'le. Not. uni’u
qiieidly a casket would be inelo cd in a box of ma
hogany, and this box wared up iu a vault of ma
hogany. No particle of eiuth was about it any
w lieu to tlie gases and liquids, for it v.as nut
burial at all. but simply tlie employment of much
skill in the arrest, of decomposition and decay.
Os course the remedy suggested was cre
mation. To this, however, there arc seri
ous objections. Some of the leading relig
ious denominations are against it, ami the
old-fashioned custom of burial appears to
be preferred by the masses everywhere. In
the course of time, when we begin to suffer
from the evils of overpopulation the matter
w ill assume a serious aspect, and it is more
tliiiu probable that tin’ authorities will take
hold of the question ami regulate it.
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A IT’hJh' ! Hemy.
There is no longer any doubt about the
evil tendencies, or topnt it more intelligibly,
tlie destructivcne-s of tlie English sparrow.
We have given this little foreigner a fair
trial in this country, and Canada has treated
him with equal kindness. From Cana<la
the complaint, comes that this restless bird
has destroyed twenty-live percent of tlie
fruit crop. Keports from every state in the
union make fully as disastrous a showing.
AVe have ha>l English sparrows since ISSO.
They have multiplied rapiilly and have
spread all over the country. When they
were first introduced it was the inipressioii
tiiat they were insectivorous birds, but this
was soon found to be a mistake. They are
tlie enemies of other birds of the same class
ami make war upon them. They destroy
grapes and other fruit, blossoms and buds,
ami the tender varieties of garden plants.
Einee their increase they have proved them
selves an unmitigated pest, and their annu
al damage to our farmers amounts to mil
lions of dollar-'. According to a recent gov
ernment report, there is only one thing that
tlie English -i.u row is fit for he is good to
eat, ami Hi" sooner we proceed to utilize
him in this way the better it will be for tto,
This is perhaps tlie only solution of the
problem, it vve cannot get rid of ottrenemy
in any other way. we cun eat him.
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MU|ihi'«*«l Sympathy.
The movement in behalf of the condemned
Chicago anarchists appears to be reaching
eon-id’" T' ■ t vol- tiott-’. Not only in this
country, but in Europe, an active effort is
being made to secure the commutation of
the sentences of the doomed men.
Feriiaps sympathy was never wasted upon
a viler let of mmderotto ent-throats.
The cold-bho.led te:< .ity of the
Hay mark’ma-’.'- iv > xcited a thrill
of hot'rer throughout the civilized
wet’d. I’he affair wasd ’liber.itely planned,
ami it tlie anarcliists had not t.i n cheeked
in their bloody career th- y would doubth --
I’.axe imuignrated a eartiiv.il of wheh-aii:
murder.
If these men h.‘d even the p.w.r . xev.«e ~f
hot blood or sudden iinpu)--' one might be
dtoiK>.-> <1 to pity them. Bt” tin . wi r< cold
and calculating in their nu thed-. as: 1 -| nt
months and y< .ns in biinging their plot to
its final outcome, bi their i.i-e the only
luetvy to to' thought of is the men y tlwrt is
due to scc ety. I'he instincts vs »< li-prese.--
vation tb’mand the execution of these dan
gerous public enemies. No greater mistake '
could be made than to extend clem< ncy to '
th"se men, and no patriotic and thoughtful
citizen w ill sign a petition in their behalf.
'l'he law should take its course, and the
sooner the hangman discharges his duty’, the
belter it will lie for the community.
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Not a Candidate on Wheels.
The esteemed New York Suu has a spark
ling editorial headed “Danger of a Candi
date on AVheels.” The Sun’s sparkling
editorial refers to Mr. Cleveland’s trip to
Atlanta, and we are of the opinion that
Editor Dana not only does injustice to the
distinguished tourist, but to himself, also.
It is a mistake, for instancy for Editor 1
Dana to suppose that Mr. Cleveland is
traveling as a candidate. He has no need
to do that; he knows, and everybody knows,
that he will be the candidate of the demo
cratic party whether he wants to be or not.
Mr. Cleveland is traveling as president of
the United States, and, as the president, he
is the guest of the whole country.
There is another fact that Editor Dana
ought to take into consideration, namely: i
that the president is merely engaged in pass- i
ing through the western towns on his way ;
to the great Piedmont exposition. But for
his engagement, made months ago with one
of the editors of Tub Constitution, he
would not now be placed in the attitude of j
a tourist; nor would the Sun have the su- i
preme satisfaction of discussing him as “a '
candidate on wheels.”
The history of Mr. Cleveland's tour be- '
gins with the announcement, of his promise
to visit Atlanta. As soon as the fact became :
known that he would visit the metropolis of :
the south, he was besieged by invitations J
from towns all over the country. St. Louis j
begged him, Chicago importuned, and the |
result is his present tour. If he had refused
the courteous and cordial invitations of these
and other municipalities, he would have
been voted a surly president—and he is
anything but that.
AVe think wc may assure the Sun, also, i
that he is not particularly troubled about !
speeches lie is called upon to make. Only !
a political fakir would be troubled about
sireh things as these. An honest man is sure I
of himself before any crowd, and he is sure of
the crowd also, for honesty and sincerity
>;U’ry with them their own stamps and trade
marks. They cannot be counterfeited, i
These are Mr. Cleveland’s strength—his
honestyq his s implicity and his sincerity.
Not all the cranks, nor all the Burchards
in the country could affect his candidacy
before the people.
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Signs and Symptoms.
It is curious how the mind wanders when
it is turned loose in tlie woods. The other
day something was said in these columns
about a mocking-bird toying with a flake of
golden-rod. This was undoubtedly the
product of a mind taking a half-holiday.
It is the dandelion that gives its dainty
plumes to Hie wind. But what is the differ
ence, after all? AVhen the midday sun,
shorn of the fiery glare that gives distinction
to Iho dog-days, begins to throw your sha
dow northward instead of dumping it in a
little heap at your feet —when the buzzards
fly high and the air is serene—nobody cares
whether the golden-rod has plumes or no,
A bare-footed boy, sunning himself in
the warm grass, and eating ehinquepins, is
about as good a sign of the season as the
wayfarer needs to have. It may not be an
invigorating sign, but it is an unfailing one.
The commonplace is terribly mixed up w ith
the poetical in this life. There is a robust
ness about that not even the most fanciful i
can afford to ignore. To see a ground
squirrel flitting to his burrow with an acorn
iu his mouth is a very pretty' symptom of
tlie change, from summer to fall, but it is
not a more certain symptom than the spec
tacle of a group of children waddling along
in the road with their faces and their frocks
smeared with ripe persimmons.
To our minds, the last symptom is much
thi’ jucier of the two, belonging as it does
to the mixed and multitudinous phenomena
that result from the amalgamation of art
h s mess and appetite. The symptoms of
change ot which vve have been speaking are
not to be seen in the city, to be sure. Brick
walls and paved streets are deaf and dumb.
The citizen knows it is summer when he
feels uncomfortable and sees the soda-water i
fountains in lull blast; he knows it is fall
when cold chills begin to run up his back
and the restaurants hang out their fly-blown
oyster signs; and he. knows it is winter
when the coal dealer’s collector begins to
pursue him.
But this is the extent of his knowledge.
Stove-pipes, grates, brick walls, rickety
pavements and the puffing of locomotives
are not very close to nature; but in Atlanta
they’ are closer than some people suspect,
for one has only’ to walk an hour in any
direction to find himself in the very heart
of nature, so to speak. Once there, the
blindest citizen can find all the signs for
himself, and he will be accounted a worthy ;
discoverer.
Tlie Itevival of an Old Business.
A century or so ago highwaymen flour
ished everywhere iu Europe and America.
The progress of civilization, the changed i
methods of traveling and various other I
things finally made it inconvenient and
unprofitable for the knights of tlie road to
pursue their calling, and they disappeared
from the stage, inttch to the satisfaction of 1
tourists and the public generally.
AVithiu the past year or two, however, a
new set of highwaymen have made their
appearance in some of the western and
southwestern states, and their boldness and
the extent of their operations make them i
worthy successors of the Duvals and Tur
pins of the olden time. In Texas it is no
very unusual thing for a train load of pas
sengers to be robbed by a few determined
men, and it seems to be a settled fact that i
i one stalw art desperado is more than a match
j for an ordinary stage. A few nights ago
i the Ballinger and B.«n Angelo stage was
halted in a lonely place by a solitary bandit,
who presented two revolvers to the driver’s
' f ,ee. The passengers w. re ordered out
' end compel!’d to stand in a iciv with their
l hands up. The robber furnished each of
| his victims with a cap. and ordered them to
;sill it down over tin ir eyes. It was then
the work of only a f“W minut s to go
' through the party and ritle the mail sacks.
’ After all was over the highwayman walked
; off. • ir.g six wrath’• 1 travi-b r- -tending
, iu the road afraid to move.
1’ may be that the pres tit mode of id- ,
I ministering justice in Texas has no terror*
■ tor the daring outlaws who have taken to ,
the road for a livelihood. In the old day’s, I
! when lynch law prevailed, horse thieves and 1
road agents knew what to expect, and they ■
did not care to take the risk. Os course
lynch law is a very bad thing, but if travel
in Texas cannot be made safe without re
sorting to the old-fashioned safeguards, it is
pretty certain that the return
to them for a time at least. If the high
wayman cannot be suppressed by ordinary
methods, then something extraordinary
hsould be tried.
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An Infamous law.
The Richmond Dispatch truly says that
the storm of opposition to the internal reve
nue system only lulls for the purpose of
1 gathering force, and then it proceeds to quote
from the Asheville Citizen, which says:
“There is something present, tangible, terrible,
offensive in the internal revenue system. It comes
home to every individual; it invades all promises:
it pries Into all business; it lays its hands on every
enterprise; it thrusts that hand into • very; o :ket; it j
walks abroad ae the familiar friend and discloses it
self as the treacherous and when its dis
guise is thrown off it vaunts itself as the insolent
bully and disports itself as the hatclul tyrant."
To which it adds;
"The system is not American; it is not manly; it
| is not tolerable. It does not belong to the da’s of
’ peace and liberty. It bears upin it tlie smell of
■ carnage and the hiteful brutulism of conquest. It
throws the chain of slavery upon the freeman and
1 o.vs in humiliation tlio head of him whose eye
should never blench before an equal.”
There is nothing to be added to this. The
i law is infamous because its operations are
I infamous.
o
A Helpless State.
Unless the people of lowa show the dis
position and the capacity to maintain some
; thing like local self-government it is more
than likely that an appeal will be made to
’ congress for help.
If we are to believe all that wc hear lowa
is in a bad way. Only a few weeks ago the
1 complaint was made that a gang of detec
tives had run rough-shod over the citizens,
and had searched private houses without a
warrant, at the same time murderously Beat
i ing the citizens who protested against such
ian invasion of their rights. This was bad
I enough, but now it is stated that a British
’ syndicate, in possession of a large tract of
I land in western lowa, has commenced
I evicting the original settlers because their
titles arc in dispute. A settler writes:
"Women of over sixty years of age, siek in bed,
have been taken by six men and carried out into
the driving storm. Delicate women have had their
hands tied with cords until their flesh was bruised,
and then dragged shrieking from their homes.
CliHdren have been born prematurely nt sight of (lie
band of evi-tors. Strong men have been run down
by ruffians on horseback and then handcuffed and
driven fom their little possessions. I might go on
and multiply Instances where tlie sheriff, with a
writ of ejectment in one hand an I a British con
tract iu the other, gave these poor people their
choice between these two evffs, which they would
take. Affidavits of the cruelties practiced are being
collected, says this writer, for use at AVashington
next winter, and will be read in both houses of con
gress. Tliey are expected to create a sensation when
tlie people of the east are brought fully to realize
what tlie native American pioneers are suffering at
tlie hands of the invaders.”
Iu view of this state of facts it would ap
pear that the liberty of the citizen is a mean
ingless phrase iu lowa. The un
fortunate citizens ofthat state seem
tohave no riglpts that anybody is
bound to respect, and worse than all,
they show a lamentable lack of independ
ence and courage. Perhaps the picture is
overdrawn. If it is not, it will soon be in
order for the general government to inter
fere and establish the republican form of
government guaranteed to each state by the
federal constitution.
_ _
Undaunted Ohio Republicans.
Until the last legislature of Ohio repealed
the law, the white and colored children of
Ohio attended separate schools. The col
ored schools were as good as the white, and
there was no sort of friction. In a great
many colored schools, the colored children
were taught by competent colored teachers.
Now all this is changed. The negro chil
dren have deserted their schools and are ap
plying for admission to the white schools.
We have already printed some of the
facts set forth in Editor Halstead’s republi
can newspaper, but incidents continue to
i arise. Thus, for instance, at Yellow
Springs, in (thio, which contains six
churches, a normal school and a college, and
which is in a county that easts 4,579 repub
lican votes to 2,252 democratic, there is a
ti’i’rible state of affairs. AA T e will let the
New York Evening Post, which is always
i accurate, tell the story:
t ii’ler the new statute tlie colored children are :
expressly given the right to attend the white
sehcols, but when t ic time for opening the schools
e. in; last month, (lie school tioard refused to aihiii
them. About fifty colored children presented them
selves for instruction on the opening day, but the
teachers would not receive them, mid in view of
tlie popular excitement, the school board closed tlie
schools temporarily. Meanwhile tlie colored citi
zens employed counsel, who a vincl them of the
well-understood fact that there was uo possible
doubt of their legal right to send their children to
the white schools. On Wednesday lad the schcols
icoi>encd, and the colored children again applied
for admission, and they were again iefu-e<l tlie
right to get au education, the school board sustain
ing the teachers in tins nullification of tlie law.
i The colored citizen- propose to 1 ring a suit and see
i if they cannot get their rights.
I Here is a very unhappy state of affairs in
deed. AA’liat does Editor Halstead propose I
to do about it ? 1 lie untamed Ohio repub-
lican appears to be about as hard to handle j
! and to hold as the vt tld southern ku-klux. ■
Atlanta's Illustrious Guvst.
| Today Atlanta will receive, and tomorrow*
will welcome as her guest, the American '
I statesman who stands in public estimation
; second only to President Cleveland—the
■ lion. Samuel J. Kandah, of Pennsylvania.
To the south, Mr. Randall is especially
dear. He has been her friend—watchful,
■ dauntless, iwwcrful —even when it meant
! political ostracism to speak a word in her
I behalf. Political history does not show the
, equal of the scene in the house when a niad
: dened majority sought to put the infamous
force bill en the south, and Mr. Randall
■ stood almost alone, fencing, battling, tight
, ing for us—through the day and through the
night, his marble face impassive and his
great heart unquailing—until the majority
was beaten, the bill abandoned and the
south saved from a worse fate than lr< land
is now threatened with. Never before
stood one man so bravely before a host—not
even when Horatio died upon the bridge.
Beyond this—but not better than this
Mr. Randall is the b- ’t type of the Ameri
can statesman. No man better compre
hends w».hin himself, the genius of this re- I
public. His very pov.qty honors hilu, and ’
stands proof of his Intern tty. Bis courage, i
his frankness, his dev-'tion—th< se are the j
I best qualities of the government his services
1 have honored. Dear to us especially, he is
dear to every’ man who honors America and
j American institutions!
Let Atlanta give him a royal welcome to-'
morrow when he starts the machinery of
our great exposition, and tells us of its sig
nificance and its possibilities.
The Visit of President and Mrs. Clevet and
The reception and entertainment of Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland, at Atlanta, during
the Piedmont exposition, will be a series of
events memorable forever to those who wit
ness them.
For the first time a democratic president!
will set foot on Georgia soil. Additional)
interest is given to this, by the fact that it ig
the man who led the democratic party Irons
twenty-five years of defeat into glorious
victory, and who restored the south to the con
fidence of the natiom and to their full rights
j and partnership in the union. .
President Cleveland does not pay us A
formal pop-call. He comes in the old-fashioned'
democratic way, bringing his wife and friends
with him, and staying with us three nights
and two days. He gives Atlanta more limo
than any’ city on his entire route, because he is
anxious to meet our people, study our re
sources, and know something from personal
observation of our folks and the wonderful
riches of our Piedmont region. Ho especially
wants to meet the people face to face and will'
be accessible the whole time of his visit. Every
visitor who wishes to do so can reasonably
count on shaking his hand and giving him a
word of welcome.
The scenes attending the president’s re
ception and entertainment will be superb and
splendid. The illumination of Kennesaw
mountain, with artillery on its heights, and S
flight of live thousand rockets from its crest by
electric match, will boa sight never seen be
fore. The sham battle, covering seventy aeres>
with four batteries of artillery, ten companies
of cavalry and thousands of foot soldiers, will
bo an incomparable spectacle.
The torchlight procession of ten thousand
young democrats iu line, with the whole city
illuminated, and the air full of color and
will.be nspiring. The exposition itself will bd'
an enormous show, full of interest and itstruc-'
tion.
Now let us make the president’s visit hero
the significant and overwhelming feature of
his entire tour. Let us show him the. south!
at her best, and let him know that the people
love him and honor him. It is because he
wants to know the south better that lie gives
Atlanta more time than any other city on
his route. AVhen ho stands up to speak to ns/
let him look into tlie faces of more southerners
than any man, living or dead, has ever seen
assembled.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Atlanta is now having a succession oi
decoration days.
Califounia’s boom is said io be collapsing.
Georgia is tlie California of the future.
A Trcx vs gboceb has been killed for pre
senting a bill to a man. This is, indeed, a ter
rible warning.
Sarah Bernhardt is still getting advertis
ing in guy Paree. It she was in Atlanta now>
she could be utilized as a transparency.
According to some Dakota papers, that
territory has a population of three-quarters of
a million. Ananias was the original Dakota,
editor.
Detroit Free Press : There may be some
question yet about the, ForaKer snub, but there
can bo mine as to ■ Im snub administered at St'.
Louis to Fairojiild and Tuttle.
Mobile Register : The tendency through
out the south is very strongly against whisky.
We have been setting our face against the
whisky flask many years and now we intend
to put whisky down.
Kansas City Times: A photographer has
succeeded iu taking an instantaneous picture
of the flight of a curved ball thrown by a §lO,-
000 pitcher. It is said to a procession
of inebriated cork-screws.
Providence Sunday Telegram: The talk
about race prejudice and race hatred in Geor-’
gia has been silenced by the worst cases of the
same sort of feeling and in tlio republican
states of Ohio and Kansas.
Phil A bmour pays a doctor §IO,OOO a year to.
feel of his pulse. Jay Gould gave a doctor'
$5,000 to rub his head. The rich have all the
luxuries.
Governor Hill has a finer house in Albany
than President Cleveland has in Washington?
Both of these gentlemen will continue to
occupy their present quarters for several years'
to come.
Kansas sent more troops to the union army
than any other state, according to its population,
There were several southern states contributed
to the confederate e.rmy a still larger per cent
i of their male population than Kansas gave to
the federal anny.
Bob Ingersoll grows maudlin over the
fate of the Chicago anarchists, and advertised
himself as tho most sympatlietic of men. It'
seems to us that the tender-hearted colonel
Would put his valuable sympathy to a better
use if he bestowed it < n the widows and chil
dren of tho brave policemen wiio were mur
dered by his poor dear anarchists.
One of the republican issues in the local
campaign in Ohio this year is the abolition of
the fee system of paying county officers. The
Cleveland Leader (rep.) explains that in the
county where it is published (Cuyahoga) mord
than §50,000 a year “would be saved to the
county by ttiis change, ami at tho same time
remove the temptation now offered to spend
large sums of money on elections.”
An lowa railroad engineer went mad in
his cab Wednesday night, and, had it not been
i for a quick-witted and courageous fireman,
i would probably have wrecked his train and
! killed many passengers. Occurrences of this
< nature serve to show how much depends upon
i a locomotive driver.
1 George Francis Train’s crankisin is not
objectionable while it continues to amuse the
great public. But now that it squints towards
anarchy it is a very different matter. Mr.
; Train has served one term in jail. Perhaps
1 another would make him a model citizen.
It was the marquis of Aylesbury’s britality
; as much as anything else that caused him to be
i ruled out of English society. The fellow WaS
carousing witli a party of drunken women
I when lie heard of his grandfather’s death,
Tinning to his companions, ho exclaimed;
. “Hurrah! Do von hear that, girls? I’m a
' bloody marquis:’’
Cmaha Bee: American consuls furnisl*
' much gratifying information regarding the
progress wliii h the manufactured pr lucts of
the I. uited States are making in foreign mar
: kets. Tills is esjiecially noticeable in thd
i manutactun’s of steel, which are everywhere
' entering into sttccessfu competition with tho
; Engli.li product. In Australia and Ne v Zea
land American hoc-and siioxeis and axes and.
■ other implements of the sort have almost en
tirely supplanted tho.-e ot English manufac
ture. Pittsburg steel |>a become so excellatitf
that it is being s night after in Europe.
I. ,-r Sunday Ki.v. Jo-eph Parker, o?
London, preached Iris first sermon in this
country during iris pre,, nt visit. He ... ’upiecl
Plymouth puipit and piv-.u-lied from tlio text
‘Hi isTpit hero, but it-» n.” His sermon was
j alm■ sp imen of ri.etoiic delivered with dra
mat;. force. Due of Iris most striking remarks
“77ie day will come when he will
be t- t. emed tin- gie a. st minister of Christ on
’.irtli. the greatest and truest preacher of the
• Christ .ii church wlio keeps us on‘bread and
I w.it.i. " A great congregation listened at
t ntivcly to Dr. I’a.r, but there was a gen
eral s. -e disappointment. “Not likff
l Itoeoh. tl.e p.-..p e .Jas they went home.-
i If th > Plymouth cnureli folks are looking for
preacher like BeecLur they might as well.
I stop.