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THE CONSTITUTION.
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'•nail matter, November 11,1873.
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ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 15, 1887.
The < otton Movement.
The New York Financial Chronicle In its
weekly review of the cotton market, says
that for the week ending last Friday night,
the total receipts have reached 301,600
bales against 289,174 bales last week, 294,-
034 bales the previous week and 271,799
bales three weeks since, making the total
receipts since the first of September, 1887,
•> bswL. .>, H bnlco /ox
the same period of 1886; showing an in
crease since September 1, 1887, of 451,329
bales.
The exports for the week reach a total of
192.660 bales, of which 91,249 were to
Great Britain, 30,569 to France, and 70,848
to the rest of the continent. The total -sales
for forward delivery for the week are 1,195,-
(»O0 bales. For immediate delivery the total
•ales foot up this week 1.739 bales, includ
ing 9<K> for export, 83S for consumption,—
for speculation and—in transit. Os the
above 900 bales were to arrive.
The imports into continental ports this
week have been 05,000 bales. There has
been an increase in the < otton in sight to
night of 293,780 bales as compared with the
•ame date of 18>6, an increase of 867,840
bales as compared with the corresponding
date of 1885, and an increase of 207,430
bales as compared with 1884,
The above totals show that the old inte
rior stocks have increased during the week
•8,273 bales, and are tonight 24,050 bales
more than at tl e same period last year. The
rec< ipts at the same towns have been 10,794
bales more than tin- same week last year,
and since September 1 the receipts at all
the towns are 217.9p.t bales more than for
the same time in 1886.
The total receipts from the plantations
•luce September 1. 1887. arc 2,66:.,527 bales;
In 18MI were 2,158.653 hub s; in 1883 were
$,159,017 bales. Although the receipts at
the outports the past We.-k w ere 301,600
bales, the actual movement from planta
tions was 346,6<il bales, the balance going
to increase the stocks at the interior towns.
I.a-t year the receipts from the plantations
for tin >ame we.-k win 111,5'1 bales and
(or 1--5 they w. rt .' ' ' bales.
The increase in amount in sight, as com
pared m ith last year, is 597,753 bales, the in !
Crease as eompund with 1885 is 581,319
bah s, and the im rease over 18-4 is 661,478
b«!< s.
The Chronicle -ays that thr’past week has I
Vein one of mi. h excitement on the New i
1 oik cotton ■ xe; ,; r . ih» 'peeidation in
Cotton for future delivery at this market
Was of the most animated character, and at
tended by a '■harp advance in prici s. The
rumor regarding a reduced crop estimate
from N< w ((cleans, referred to in cur last,
was confirmed on Saturday morning by i:s
publication, putting the total yield al no
wore than 6,225,0UU balca. Some •pecula
tlte short mtere-t which had been made,
mainly on Memphis account, under the
lucre favorable reports forward'd from
that point. was quickly covered, and active
boy inc for the rise took place, carrying prices
sip 30 points from the lowest figures of
Friday last.
There was some further adv st. « . r. Mon
day, In response to a sharp adv&u ■ In Liv
erpool. The teduccd crop • stlmats was n
erally discredited, but it had the > fleet at
least to unsettle confidences for the time
being in long crop estimates, and the bull
party gained fresh courage when Liverpool
reporteda further and important advance on
Wednesday. Thursday the market ojn'iied
weak, but on the reading of the bureau re
port, estimating the erop at 6,300,000 bales,
there was tbs greatest excitement, and a
quick advauca of 50 and 60 points, a small
part of which was subsequently lost.
I Friday the report was viewed with so
much distrust that although Liverpool re
borted a gnat advance. S(W York mar-
XJ declined materially, UL ,f M t 0 real .
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15,J887.
I !ze, some parties putting out short contracts
' w ith great freedom. Cotton on the spot has
I been generally quiet, but on Monday was
> more active for export at 3-16 c. advance,
' and yesterday there was a further improve-
I ment of 7-ICc. Friday the market was
j dull and weak at 10 7-lGc. for middling up
j lands.
The Chronicle's crop reports from the
| south denote that the weather has contin
' ued quite favorable for crop gathering, and
that cotton is being picked and marketed
rapidly.
Farming In Ohio and In Georgia.
We print this week the first of a series of
letters on the comparative profits of farming
in Ohio and Georgia. These letters will be
five in number arid will be worth their
weight in gold. They are written by Mr.
W. Glessner, of Americus, Ga., who for
merly lived in Ohio. He is able therefore
to write intelligently of the farming system
of both states.
I Every farmer, north and south, should
| read tin se letters. We pledge our word that
they will be worth a year's subscription to
any one who has a patch of ground and who
wants to make money on the farm!
Country Rained Men.
A writer in the New York Mail and Ex
press, in mentioning the success that Bill
Nye has achieved in the metropolis, calls
attention to the fact that New York, in all
departments of business, is practically man
aged by men who are not New Yo.ikers or,
to put it more broadly, by men who were
not raised in a city.
The truth of the matter is, New York is
no exception that holds good in all parts of
the republic. The American farmer is the
great recruiting ground of the cities, and
the most successful men in New York, as
in all other cities, are the men who have
been bred in the country.
The writer in the Mail and Express de
scribes New York as a countryman's para
dise, and says that Greenwood cemetery is
the only place where the original New
Yorkers find peace and rest. He remarks,
also, that the native of New York city is a
very weak vessel. It is not the New Yorker's
fault at all, but the fault of the conditions
by which he is surrounded.
The man who succeeds In this life must
be blessed with tolerable health, and he
must have that indescribable experience
which can only be acquired in the country,
or <n a country town. New York has no
advantage over other cities in this respect,
flic country raised boy will be found to be
invariably on top.
. . ..
Why I'arsoiiß Joined the Anarchists.
From first to last Parsons has been the
most interesting figure in the whole gang of
Chicago anarchists.
He is the only southerner, the only Amer
ican among them. lie is equally ready with
his tongue and his pen, and, unlike many
revolutionary speakers and writers, he has
shown himself to be full of pluck and de
termination.
People have been at a loss to account for
this young man's connection with the an
archists, and various explanations have
been suggested. It is thought by many that
Parsons’s choice of a wife is at the bottom of
his troubles. Before he left Texas he mar
ried a <luiL-r.>n«<l woman of mixed blood.
This marriage shocked the better <>>«.«.. <a
society, and the pair found it necessary to
seek a home in the northwest. In Chicago
Parsons ami his wife found that they could
not never hope to rise in the social scale.
Mrs. Parsons felt this keenly, and her hus
band sympathized with her. In their des
peration they turned to the anarchists.
Among these daring spirits there was at.
least social equality. Color, rank and pre
vious condition of servitude did not count.
Spies, Fielden and the others did not mind
the black current in Mrs. Parsons's veins,
and tin y did not sneer at her husband for
marrying her.
The result is know n to everybody. The two
outcasts felt grateful to their new friends,
and entered heartily into their schemes.
They saw in anarchy the only means of over
turning society and sweeping away the prej
udices of caste. They gave themselves up
to the work of bringing about a new order
of things, an ideal commune, a socialistic re
public composed of a universal brotherhood.
This dream ended in a disastrous crash,
the two misguided reformers went down in
the wreck. Two more fiery souls never
staked their all upon the hazard of a single
cast. Tin y are worthy of each other. If
Parsons has played the role of a tiger at bay,
his brown-skinned wife has shown herself a
tigress. No matter how w icked and foolish
they may have been, they have certainly
displayed a courage worthy of a better
cause.
Beflneiuent to Metropolitan Jonenallem.
The St. Louis editor who, with his pi-to'
as a paper weight, and a bowie knife to ,
point his ]•• neil, ha«, with the profession
generally of the remote west, achieved the !
distinction of being a ] ai'.iamentary ic kless |
and murderous sort of a cuss, has no longer
cause to complain of haish treatment al the !
hands ot bls mure civilized brethren of the
east.
Western journalism is a tiling of rare
sweetness and delightful harmony when '
compared to a species of editorial black- \
guardism, and profanity that is now exhlb ;
Hing itself in New Yoik, in connection 1
with the local polite ai campaign which Las
just closed there. The World, the Sun and
the Star, forms the three < erm red combina
tion win h has distinguishi d itself by
its dirty work, In wide 11 lb<- aide cvnsU Ila
lion of journalistic luminaries hat darkened
the whole system of which they arc a part.
| Be It said to the credit of the other New
i York pap< rs that th< y stood aloof fiom tire
' disgusting methods of the planetary combi
j nation, and conducted the campaign on its
i merits, *x it should have been comlu led.
I To give an idea of the personality of their
I abuv , a few « xtra> Is will be of service to
- M'i • gfa ■ <! :• f,' • ll.'Mid IU-
llvafion attained by the papers of America's
gn at metropolis.
| The Sun calls the editor of lha Worid:
Julas PuUuer. i»au*h;.i oovk," “fide'er
. ofptriale vi;t b *1 r 4 u of XurtiaHwu."
' Vaiortnj Ina-, kii'.i..': of cn ’ .my god ixu .-
• reucc.” "Obr ene Tartar fCaveu«er bird," ' Bowes
; the Junk Journal,' lluugrr J<-." 'Brooding
Bid lLa, Howling Uniat. Ath e Mu. ta.a.
I Ihxal,"
To this the World rrplk**:
“( ultiil C. Atlantan lMn«. Iha TUlcrci’ Own,”
•TgW old Ananni‘, ' “ iiAxchcron’i, in r«’e-
’ iinry AbMkhfciu. •‘Cowtud Ananixui Imha, “Falie,
th**'herrnw. vcf ftl oM r» protj^U“The Cow-
I ard $ l -ul. it«', , ‘ m } ai, 1 1. n ..ar cf America/*
“liana’s l a!!y .KnanUu “Malignant niMiigncr,”
. “Idivtid Mt a\ e,“ ‘J«< tai Iw a ‘Talltical
inthe gntMf.'' “Sand*. 1 o ! i.- traitor.**
The Stir Pm this to say:
‘ .KLSrurud ofjudaa J • ~*ar!ol rulitrer,”
“I.Xpert I far.'’ ''Moral Sirftblinvix ofthe World,"
I ' Itirs ug -:.a!:c of party t:< a. her,." f-inflated
i toad of p-irzonal rLgrai.tU-eir.eii'.," ■ Ilyenii nevvs
l ■•.-iiGuirig I'uui i'lv "Urjux of a iasslna
' ti n. ’
1 lie \t orl'l further says of the Sun:
, II <v. lonr; hiix it i,,xvi since ,yu nia-s laina —the
i newiy-estaMlslio<| tie r. Cralic oi'riu grinder Jiara
ded on t; ic editorial jeige ofthe Sim adc~ ripiiou nf
Mr. Cleveland as • that d-d oid bindq alter <4
beef In the White Mouse?" Sot very long, and
some denvocruis still remember the epis 'de.
* >ne o: us ' is the brand placed upon John K. Fel
lows by it editor ofthe Thieve- Own. the man who
bolted the democratic nomination in this statein
IS.Ii, wbo tried to Ktehl *79,Out) from Samuel .1. Til
den, who was driven out of the t'nited statesdls
trict attorney s oftic.s because of his rascalities, and
whois now the venal agent ofC. I‘. Huntington
and Jacob Sharp in the polities of New York. Yes,
he is one of ''UB."
Jo which the Sun retorts:
W ith what infamy of falsehood, what ultra-Pulit
zciian recoup < of slander and foul abuse th i dem
ocratin candid ite for district at'orney has t>eeii as
!ulied io order that a few less Worlds may go the
way of the World to the ragman and the junkman,
is known to everybody; and everybody except
I ulitzer is disgusteil and sickened thereby. Even
Nicoll is ashamed of his patron. Even the
Kid's young rh-tuis are nauseated by the ravenings
of that obscene Tartar scavenger bird.
What a shining example this is for the
press ami people of the country. Never
should a New York editor in future indulge
in raillery at the expense of his uncultured
and untutored brother of the west.
—•
“The Dangerous Classes."
Some very able writers fall into a grave
error when they discuss the social problems
of the day. They take it for granted that
“the dangerous classes” embrace only the
poor and criminal element.
This is all wrong. The poor die and
make no sign. The criminals drift to the
penitentiary. In the long run they do so
ciety very little harm.
Our real dangerous classes are composed
of the bad and misguided men whose wealth,
position and methods enable them to con
trol the legislation and shape the morals of
the country. The men who secure class
legislation, encourage monopoly, abridge
the rights of citizens, and play the hypo
crite, are our worst public enemies.
It is difficult to attack the dangerous
classes when they are rich and respectable,
and pose as moral reformers. They manage
to elevate hypocrisy, oppression and whole
sale robbery into a system having the sem
blance of morality and good government,
and their victims do not know how to de
fend themselves.
Anarchy is a very poor remedy for this
evil. The only sensible remedy is for men
to know their rights and maintain them. In
a country like ours the citizens who arc de
termined to preserve their rights under the
constitution arc not compelled to inaugu
rate internecine wars. They do not have
to rally around the red flag. They have
only to stand up to their convictions at the
ballot box and all will be well. Naturally
this suggests the thought that the enemies
of the people make it their business to cor
rupt the ballot. This, in itself, is one of
the greatest evils that we have to contend
with, but we have overcome it in the past,
and we can do it again when the popular
conscience is aroused.
The prospect is not altogether gloomy.
One of these days a vital question will bring
the people to the front. Unpurchasable
men will cover the earth with a snowstorm
of freemen's ballots, and the dangerous
classes w ill be sent, to the rear. It is not
necessary to shoot these enemies of the
people. Ballots are worth more than bul
lets, but they must be intelligent and honest
ballots. This idea is worth all the thought
that can be given to it, because it is tile cor
ner stone of genuine democracy.
—. • ——_
The New Phonograph anti Other Things.
Recently, in his hours of ease, Mr.
Thomas Edison, who has been for
many years engaged in paying the patent
office and the patent lawyers large sums of
money, has taken a turn on his phonograph,
the wonderful speaking machine.
When Edison accidentally discovered the
phonograph some years ago, it was regarded
as nothing more than a toy. It was a curi
osity, but a clumsy one. It was carried
from town to town as a sort of show. One
of them came to Atlanta in charge of a con
sumptive fretn the north, and made some
remarks in a squeaking tin voice about an
old woman that had •‘chestnuts in her i
1-a-p-p!” It was a queer concern altogether,
and made old people feel like some of their
children were speaking to them through tlie
red mouth of a sausage-stuffer.
Mr. Edt -on says that the operation of his
commercial phonograph is simplicity itself
ami can not fail, and he expects it to be
part of the equipment in every business
office. According to the inventor, the mer
chant or clerk who wishes tofsend a litter
l.as only to set the machine in motion, talk
in his natural voice and at the usual rate of
sp‘"-I into the receiver. When lie fin
ished the sheet or “phonogram,” it is ready
to send through the mails, where his cor
r« spondent places it in a jihonograph and
griudsout the message much mure distinctly
and accurately than messages can be sent
over the telephone.
Mr. Edison says that one tremendous ad
vantage is that the message may be repeated
a thousand times if m-. ssary. Moreover,
print' rs may -t up Copy from the phono
grSpb, and j>< "pii: may enjoy concerts by
means of the same Invention, and what is
on< c siizid is prio ri'ally in<b struetible.
The Wizard of M> nlois apparently as in
ventive as <.< r. In addition tu his j hono
graph, he is working on a cotton-picker,
and we <■ rtalnly ui»h him Wi i with this.
... . ..’
' I’ inter U»« < < a|4i<»n i-fiucbody slgll-
■ frg himself • ‘Verhu*/’ writx fs from Evans
viih*. Indhthii; to the < Coumier
» cial <»az<*tte, aa followu :
) 'Ki «*«ui jour lift* <.n out TLh( (Jcnerid
I ‘b Hifilc ‘.iUi’ t '.f'J'.ifh (Ji.lv UIU U* frll-U<.»
log • la**'* « U Wi'.h
! tara|o*f vbiu man mn-rußby mid v k «liy
! t•. ru jm/im.’-uu. ■ ( v v( it Ajmui
h I 11. own .asno . Mit.'j s».«w Uslde H ik mu-t
a a.!, u u, a . si. i i.ri.l no in, f f.,j t., k<«p
' lXrly M’td t/ix* (Err like tie if )»!_■ wvfiltl
fkmiiaMririj Mother«hMM> 1..r hia
Till* fellow, who signs ldnc.lt •'Veritas”
, because lie !• a liar, hardly deserves a leply,
’ It is a well known fto t that the ». nth is tin
' poor man'• country. We have nu great
, miiiiotiairi a, no bloated tuunojiolists, no
I grasping syndicates of capitalist*. In this
i favored land even the unskilled laborer and
the lazy man find it possible to live, and
, do very little work. Starting less than a
I quarter us acentury ago, with our property
absolutely swept away, tl.e rise and progress
of this section, and the increase in the value
es its diversifiedprvdu,ta, Lave excited the
wonder and admiration of the world. L 15
! only recently that the federal government
j was so much impressed with the rapid ■ •
' velopment of the south that it issued a spe
j cial volume of statistics devoted to the ma
! tcrial interests of this region. ,
“Veritas” thinks that Governor Gordon
| while traveling through Ohio was struck
i with “the Well-to-do and prosperous white
laboring classes as compared with the dog
poor white laboring classes of Georgia
if our governor kept his eyes open he saw
something else. lie saw capitalists and !a
boicrs ready to cut each other’s throats;
discontented workmen held in check by
Pinkerton’s hirelings; the red rag of an
archy floating in the breeze; a strike every
day in the year, and evictions more violent
and brutal than any that have occurred in
j Ireland.
The traveler in Ohio sees all these things,
' but no man has ever seen them in Georgia.
Here the honest and industrious poor man
is sure of a livelihood, sure of a homo, and ;
sure of a voice in tlie government under
which he lives.
■ ♦
Bleak and Blizzardy.
Professor Mansill and several other
weather prophets are responsible for the
announcement that November will be an
unusually stormy month.
In the north and w est cold waves and
snow storms will run through the greater
part of the month.
The disturbing dates are fixed at from tlie
7th to the 11th, tlie 13th to the 20th, the
25th and 26th, and the 29th and 30th.
For the country at large we are told that
the temperature will show great extremes,
varying from moist, warm winds and heavy
rains to cutting blasts, sharp floats and deep
snow fails.
There will be no mild Indian summer
foolishness about this month. With the
exception us a few days, it will be rough
and bleak.
But there is one ray of hope. The
weather prophets are a shabby lot of pre
tenders. About half of their guess-work
always fails to pan out. Perhaps they will
be mistaken this time. We may have a
few cold days, but a month of very severe
weather just now in this region is too much
out of tlie ordinary course of things to be
expected.
Why Some People Arc Poor.
It. is useless for the anarchists, commu
nists ami other so-called reformers to com
plain of the unequal distribution of the
world’s wealth.
The good things of life are necessarily
limited, and an equal division of them
among the inhabitants of the earth would
leave everybody in a very uncomfortable fix.
A recent article on the subject in the Forum
puts the case as follows:
To come down, however, from generalities to
statements a little more definite, we may observe
that Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a gentleman
who has devoted some years to the study of indus
trial ‘t.itistics, and whose familiarity with facts en
titles his opinion to the highest considciation, has
tarnished us with an estimate which throws, for
own country at least, a very vivid light upon the
point in question. As the result of bi- i tquiries, he
concludes that the annual production of all the in
dustries of the I'nited States cannot exceed KOI per
head of the whole population, which would give a
total of ?12,C0'1.000,000. An equal distribution oi this
product would give to each family of five persons,
in a population of sixty millions, or twelve million
families, a distributive share ot 81,000 per annum.
Now, suppose that one-third of these families, or
groups of five, manage to secure an average share of
82,000 per annum, the remaing two-thirds would be
reduced to an average of SSOO only. Suppose one
half of this third to be fortunate enough or skillful
enough to increase their average to §3,000, the re
maining half continuing at 52.0J0, the average share
of the two-thirds would fall to §250, or #SO only per
head per annum.
Such a division is not worth fighting for,
and our communists are not in earnest when
they advocate it. Tlie real purpose of the
anarchists is to get hold of other people’s
property, and if they succeeded in obtaining
it the stronger and bolder leaders would at
once proceed to take the lion's share, leav
ing their dupes to make the best of it. Out
of such anarchy it would be impossible for
a socialistic republic to arise, but in its
place there would be a military despotism.
In a state of anarchy, under a despotism
or under a free government, poverty must
exist, and it must be the lot of a large num
ber of people for all time to come. Tlie
explanation given by the writer in the
Forum disposes of the whole business.
Some people must always be poor, simply
because the world's product is not enough
when distributed to make everybody rich,
or even comfortable.
—<_
3lr. Joseph Klngsherry on Colts.
“A colt can bo raised to two and a half
years,” said Mr. Joseph Kingsberry, "for 850
and will sell for SIOO to $125. I have raised
colts for less, that did bring $200.”
“What would it cost the average fanner?”
“Not over 850. By working a brood mare
instead of a mule he can get a colt every year
with tlie loss of a mouth of the mare’s work.
By making a meadow out of wasted low laud
and vutling in a little rye his colt will cost
him almost nothing. When the farmer has
two or three colts he will put grass in the odd
comers of his farm, thing you know
I he has a good stock farm. Every tenant in
Georgia ought to raise a colt every year, and
■ certainly every farmer ought. The colt shows
' in Georgia do as much good as fairs. Fino stal
lions. st >ut mares and droves of colts mean
prosperity and independence.”
Kicking Against Fate.
The Hon. John C. New, of Indiana, is
recognized as one of tlie foremost of repub
lican national leaders. As chairman of the
republican state committee of Indiana, and
as one of the shrewdest republican managers
in the last two national republican conven
tion*. he has achieved a prominence in party
ranks which entitles his opinion in party
•Hairs to consideration.
An InfamouM Traffic.
It Is a waste of time to moralize over the
■ti.ii ' '.t..iy of London and Paris while New
Yoi k continues to outstrip them in wick-
A year or to ago it was found that a man
(...med II- Leon was engaged in the work
of exporting young women to Panama. His
hod was to adt<Tti»e for chambermaid*,
I ;")veincs>et, liumekeepers, uni other
'.i."i .s of workers. He offered them easy
' j' ritlont anti good salaries in Panama, but
tl.' victims found up 'it their arrival at their
new home that they were prisoners held for
the tib st p.trjios'.s. In a strange land, sur
!■ undid l y thirty thousand of De Lcssep's
. laborers, they wore helpless, and few were
i fortunate enough to escape.
Occasionally a determined girl secured
1 her liberty and returned home, and in this
way DeL« ou's infamy came to light. The
villian was tried, convicted and sent to
prison.
This, however, has not broken up the
business. Only the other day Mrs. Annie
Heller returned and had Adolph Silverstein ;
arrested on the charge of enticing her to I
Panama, where she was at once placed in a
house of bad repute. _
There is nothing worse than this tn any
of the Pall Mail Gazette revelations of the
traffic in young girls in London. There is
nothing worse in Zola’s realistic stories of ;
Parisian depravity. Now that some of the i
facts have been made public it is to be hoped
that New York will suppress her DeLeons
and Silvcr.steins. Such monsters are not fit
to live. _
Sonic Forgotten Orplionfl*
The children of the Chicago anarchists
occupy the greater share of public attention
just now. Their pictures are running
through tlie newspapers. People are send
ing them presents, and there is a disposition
everywhere to cry over them because they
are about to be made orphans.
It is a sad business all the way through,
and these innocent children deserve our
pity; but we are in danger of forgetting
other sorrowing children who have known
the woes of orphanage for some time.
When the exploded their bomb in
the Haymarket, sixty dead and wounded
men were thrown to the ground in one red
heap. Nothing is said about the orphans
of these victims. Many of them are in the
depths of poverty. They are helpless and
hopeless.
What have these little sufferers done to
deserve this neglect? They have the very
highest claim upon popular sympathy, but
they shiver and go hungry, while the brats
of the anarchists are overwhelmed with
kind attentions.
There is something wrong somewhere.
There may be something very picturesque
and attractive about the children of a gang
of murderers, but those who have been
rendered fatherless by (he Haymarket bomb
should not be forgotten.
Send Them Both Down.
The southerners invasion of Ohio, headed by
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, is to be reinforced by
Governor “Bob" Taylor of Tennessee. That’s all
right. Next year wc may send Governor Beaver,
of Pennsylvania, and ex-Governor Hawley, of Con
necticut, down south, whore they have once before
done good service.—Philadelphia News.
By all means let the two distinguished
republican leaders come down. They will
not have opportunity for effective work in
Georgia until a year hence, but at that time
they can indulge their forensic inclination
to any extent they desire.
Georgia will vote for a governor and also
on a national ticket next fall, and in order
to give the two prominent leaders an idea
of the work that it is proposed to cut out
for them this way, we will state that Geor
gia’s democratic majority is about 100,000
votes in quiet elections, but when any ex
traordinary pressuie is brought to bear that
majority readily increases to much larger
figures.
Indeed it has never been found out ex
actly what is the democratic strength of
Georgia and in order to arrive at a definite
conclusion about it, we hope Messrs. Beaver
and Hawley will come this way next fall.
It is quite an easy matter to bring out our
usual majority of a hundred thousand, but
with popular sentiment so much one way,
and witli the disadvantage of being forced
to contend against republican inactivity, it
is rather difficult to get beyond these dis
tressingly small figures.
No doubt the democratic committee of
the state will be glad to co-operate with the
managers of the Beaver-Hawley combination
to get these two well known leaders to turn
their faces southward. We should like to
arrive at a proper estimate of our true
strength and their coming would enable us
to do so. There is no reason why our 100,000
majority should not show its real strength
of 150,000, and this can be easily obtained
if the republicans can be induced to carry
out the above proposition.
The Cotton Crop.
In our special telegrams yesterday, a dis
tinguished firm of London cotton men cabled
to their correspondents in New York that
the estimates of the cotton crop put forth
by tiie agricultural bureau, and the Cotton
World of New Orleans, are ridiculous. We
should think that such a cablegram, cover
ing matters of which the London firm know
about as much as they do of the cotton crop
in the moon, would cause a considerable
ripple of humor in this country, but itseems
to have been received quite seriously in New
York, and our correspondents there send it
to us with a degree of solemnity that is quite
impressive.
Nevertheless, the figures on which the
American estimates are based, arc quite as
accurate as it. is possible for such figures to
be. 'I hey are not guesses, They are made
up from returns, which, in one way and an
other, cover the entire cotton-growing re
gion; and they arc so accurate t hat those
which arc gathered by the Lotton World
have come to bo accepted as authoritative.
It hen, therefore, a London firm, which
knows not hing, whatever, of the crop condi
tions in I Ids country, is moved to cable its
correspondents that the estimates are ridicu
lous, we may fairly take advantage of the
occasion to smile a few smiles. The Ameri
can estimates appear Io have carried some
degree of conviction with them, for no
sooner were they made public than the price
of cotton went up very rapidly. This fact
shows a very sensitive louditlon of the
market.
There is another fa< I Io im taken Into
consideration. Ihe receipts up to this time
have been very heavy, and these heavy re
ceipts have materially lowered prices. There
are nearly four million bales of cotton still
■ in the hands of producers in all probability.
I As the New Orleans I’lciiynnfl ■ n i, an ad
I vance of one cent a pound Is equivalent t,,,,
* gain of the dollars a bah 1 . Tills being so,
■ the recent advance In prh’i s must menu a
| gain of more than fifteen million dollars to
I southern holdem.
We observe that tin' New 1 m k I'lmim lai
I Chronicle is inclined to dispute the i l|
1 mates of the agricultural bun nil and the
Cotton orld. Ihe t hronh h L iilven mi i< a
sons for it« position, but is 'it to assume
; that it is influenced by till- bumoimis l<l>
grams from London and l.fvi ipmd.
•
A tiling of .lutin lli.iliiis.
Among the i nderM pii'.uis to flu.
Chicago anarchhts, a day m trio luxhipi
their execution, vias a mini u ho slgm<d film
self John Blown, Jr.
Like mniiy of Ids fellow rillr.ns, li.hu
i Brown embiaerd ti e I I .inion t lt ~, ,
sentiments of a cranky and • omliml i list
Keter. lb' b< a.led llmt l.i v . flu non i,f
the liar| I r's liny ihoaiq.mi plofisriil
i sympathy for the anarchists and theijj
I cause.
John Brown is evidently his father’s son.
! In his way old John Brown was an anarchist.’
j If he had succeeded in stirring up an insur-J
rcction among the southern slaves the result!
would have been anarchy of the worst kind.*
From their own standpoint the present?
brood of anarchists are a gang of Jolm
; Browns. They want to destroy the existing
I order of things, and put the bottom rail on
top. Their programme agrees with that of
their Harper’s Ferry hero. It embraces
murder, arson and robbery.
It is admitted by all good people that Vir
ginia did exactly right in hanging the first;
John Brown, and the same class of people!
will applaud the action of Illinois in hang-;
ing the latter crop of John Browns. f
Just here a startling question presents it
self. Will the executions at Chicago
strengthen the anarchists, as the executioik
at Charleston strengthened the followers of
John Brown? We think not. The case is>
different. Our American workingmen take
no stock in a theory which holds them to
be slaves. Every American workingman is
a sovereign. He makes and unmakes hiss
rulers. lie is a part of the government.'
lie owns his home and can own it when ho
takes a notion. Such men constitute a.
standing army when there is any danger of
anarchy, and they will always be able to out'
vote and out fight the disturbers of our
peace and the enemies of our institutions.
But our feeling of security should not'
make us err on the side of toleration. The
precedent established at Charleston and fol
lowed at Chicago must be our rule of ac
tion. We must smite anarchy whenever it
shows its head, and hang its followers when
ever they commit a capital crime. A little
severity now will save us no end of trouble
in the future.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
The republicans will sing their swan song
next year.
Herr Most will most likely be the next
anarchist candidate for the gallows.
John L. Sullivan was met by a special
tug on his arrival at Liverpool, and was given
a grand reception by his admirers in tlie city.
Solicitor General Jenks, in an interview
with a Pittsburg reporter, says that tlie presi
dent has determined to appoint Secretary La
mar to succeed Hie late Justice Woods, and
that Postmaster General Vilas will then b©
appointed as secretary of the interior.
Carter Harrison went through Tokio, ;
Japan, a city of a million inhabitants, without
seeing a single drunken man. He asked a
bishop lor an explanation of such phenomenal
sobriety, and was told that whenever a Japan
ese got drunk lie at cnee went to sleep.
The Right Honorable Joseph Chamber
lain, England’s commissioner on the fisheries!
question, is dismaying the dudes of New A'ork
by the brilliancy and faultlessness of his dress,
lie is said to be the best dressed man in New
York, and as lie walks down Broadway with
his blooming bontennierre and swell costume,
ho is said to fairly dazzle even the dudes. Pret-’
ty good for a man oi fifty-one years.
All the papers have different portraits ot
the Chicago anarchists. If each one is a like
ness, then tlie anarchists are very versatile as
to the make-up of their features.
The great want of the country is a good;
literary weekly at one dollar a year, and the
New Yorker, just started by Barhelles & Co.,
in New York, promises to fill tlie bill.
The Epoch objects to the smoking of five,
cent cigars in the presence of ladies. Doubtless
the offenders would be willing to smoke ten
cent cigars if somebody would furnish them.
An off hand editorial utterance in these
columns to the effect that “it takes men to
make a city,” appears to strike some of ourj
contemporaries as a brand-new idea. But
they are indorsing it, all the same.
Mrs. Cleveland watched with the great
est interest tlie result of the recent New York
election. She did not return to Oak Y’iew, her
country home, during the day, but remained
at the white house to get the news, and re
tired when she was satisfied of the success of
the democracy. No wonder she should have
been interested; it meant four years more in
tlie white house for herself and Grover.
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