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MR. GRADY’S SPEECH
On the Effects of Prohibition in
Atlanta.
THE SPEECH IN ITS ENTIRETY.
Mr. H. W. Grady’s first speech on “Prohibi
tion in Atlanta,” was delivered in Atlanta,
Ga., Thursday evening, November 3d, 1887,
Cfore an immense audience assembled in the
■go warehouse of Kelly, Rosser & Co.
United States Senator A. H. Colquitt was
£e first speaker, and when he sat down the
dienco began to call for Mr. Grady, and he
fras escorted to the stand by Messrs. W. T.
Turnbull and Hooper Alexander amid deafen
ing applause. Just at that moment, by a happy
Inspiration, the band struck up the air of
••Dixie,” and the people were wild with de
light.
Mr. Grady spoke as follows:
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I
take it for granted that Atlanta is in earnest to
night. lam informed that there is a ten-cent cir
cus, a dog show, a drama, and two patent medicine
shows in the city, any one of which I would rather
be attending than here listening to myself talk.
giughter.] Your presence here convinces me that
t have determined to put aside pleasure tonight
business. [Applause.] Will you pardon me
now, one word of personal explanation? I alone
am responsible for what I say here tonight. I have
not attended a prohibition meeting and I am not
acquainted with the details or theory of a prohibi
tion campaign. My views on high license are well
undetstood. They prevented me from an active
participation in the last campaign, and made me
■low to reach an opinion in this, but I have reached
that opinion in sincerity, and you shall hat e it in
frankness. [Applause.] One word mere. I have
no personal ambition. I have no political ambi
tion, but were 1 consumed with it, and did I live to
cee Its swift and perfect fruition, I should still de
spise myself if I had put your generous enthusiasm
to its use tonight, or had shirked my duty that I
faight further it.
I speak with but one object. More concerned am
{that, having always iought with Atlanta united, I
Appear tonight to be with the faction. But my
heart is whole for her and I speak in love of her
Without enmity to one human being, as far as I
know, within her limits. [Applause.] I utter a
Conviction so profound and deliberate that to leave
Jt unexpressed were as cowardly as to deny it when
questioned on it.
Now i shall speak in perfect good humor, criticize
Ing no man's action and impugning no man's mo
tive. Atlanta has a serious problem to settle. If
•he reaches its conclusion in rancor and bitterness
she will suffer, and this cause will suffer, no matter
Which side may triumph. If she reaches it soberly,
thoughtfully and deliberately, her people, honest,
Intelligent and reunited in her service, will enfore
rour victory if you win it, and mitigate the evils
you fear if the opposition should win. [Applause.]
I have but two points to make tonight. I want to
Siake them with such coherence ss lean command,
and beg your patience and attention.
I believe that prohibition shou’d be tried for two
years longer,
first, because it has not had a full and fair trial,
second, because this trial, imperfect and brief as
It has been, is a demonstrable success. [Applause.]
In discussing these two points Ishallnot attempt
|o comprehend the general principles of prohibition
por indeed to commit myself to it. We are wisely
left under our local option law to settle this ques
tion tor ourselves. I speak tonight about Atlanta
to Atlantians, about an experiment that is given us,
It may be of God, to settle; and lam sure that if I
can show you it has not had a fair trial and that its
tpiP’rfect trial has proved successful, that even Mr.
Jefferson Davis —for he knows that personal liberty
ends where public injury begins—even would say,
•let this trial be extended for the good it has
■wrought among the people I love.” [Applause.]
The basic principle of government is, and lies been
gince the lowly Nazarine walked this earth, “the
greatest good to the greatest number.”
Now, has prohibition had a fair trial in Atlanta?
[Cries of no, no.] It was passed by a bare majority;
it was two months before that majority was legally
declared ; there were licenses extending about ten
taonths- nc trly one-half of its probation ; there was
Santeed resistance to its enforcement; every step
t was taken was experimental; there was not a
door closed nor a fine entered and collected except
by slow process of law. Every defense was ex
hausted and the cause had to fight with new ma
flhinery, with undisciplined forces, and with half
of its time consumed with unexpired licenses. I
have heard many men say—amtl-prohibitionists—
"l would give half I am worth if prohibition would
really prohibit.” Is there any fair-minded business
•pan who would commit himself to a business ven
ture involving half he was worth and wcu'.d aban
don that venture at the close of such a trial us pro
hibition has bad, and say “it won’t work?” Is
there any business man who would do that in his
twn business? Is there any business man
rho hears me tonight who believes, in the full
•ense demanded by the importance of the sub
iect. that prohibition,lias had a fair trial in Atlanta?
am satisfied that there is not one. It has barely be
gun its work. It has barely established the first
premise of the grand demonstration to which I be
lieve, in God’s mercy, it is committed. And yet you
talk about stopping it hero because it has been
proved that prohibition won’t prohibit. If it has
not had a fair trial, ought we not to give it a longer
trial? Was there ever a city charged with so tre
mendous a problem as this? Whether or not it is
better for men in large cities to live under prohibi
tion ; whether it is possible that men in large cities
may reap the undeniable advantages of the prohi
bition of the liquor traffic, it is not too much to say
America waits on the answer Atlanta shall give to
this question. [Applause.] It is not too much to
gay that if we abandon it tonight, cowardly aban
don it tonight, there will not be found an American
City brave enough to take it up where w e leave off.
But if we carry- it through two years longer and de
monstrate its success, think of the harvest that will
bo reaped by American cities under American cus
toms, and whose hearts beat true to American insti
tutions. I know there are cities where it is imprac
ticable, but I thank God Atlanta is not one of them.
jQhicago will lack seven heads of being as much
that way after the loth of this month. [Applause.]
In insisting that prohibition has not had a fair
trial, I do not mean to beg the second proposition I
laid down, namely, Hint it has been a demonstrable
eucctss. If there is a man here tonight who has not
the fairness and the unprt J idiced mind that will
lead him to give an important question a full trial—
|S there a man who will abandon this experiment
When it can be shown that working even imperfect
ly. It has worked unspeakable good?
1 commit myself to that word with petfect fear
lessness. I say "unspeakable” good. If I talk until
my tongue loses its power of articulation, I could
pot give you one half of the instances of good that
have been put in my hands by kind friends this
•veiling. I will hastily class a few, none of which
Will fall to prove significant.
When you go to get the effect of a new movement
for good or evil, where do you go? Not to the rich
•nd idle, because you may swell or diminish their
Income and yet not change their habits; you simply
diminish the hidden surplus. No to the middle
Class, because when you diminish their Income they
•Imply pinch theinselvoi and pinch so quietly that
their neighbors do not know It; or swell their In
comes and they loosen out Ja little and piss some
thing up to surplus. You cannot tell it there, but
go to th' poorer classes; the men who labor for their
flatly bread, and whose wages barely suffice to give
Jt to them, and those you find the first signs of a
good or evil movement. It is at once the truth and
reproach of our < ivillzatl on, that starvation follows
■oO isc on In'or that rm evil movement is detected
In the hollow cheek 1 of little children and the hag
gard fact sos women bi lore it is made manifest to
the higher classes.
Bctmcshow you some facts—my fads- they al ways
•omc out, remember that, [laughter] they have been
laushed at a good deal, but they always get there.
[Applause.] When you want to discover the effect
on the city you till :ut t t y u must go to the
poorer classes, because to pinch them means dis
tnjss; It means outcry; an 11 > help them means to
•Ulltl
Mr. George Adair rents house,, to 1,.500 tenants. He
Matos that ho lias Issued In the last year one distress
Warrant hr where 10-1 -ie l twenty two yiars ago.
[Applause.] 1 chi'm Io Io an lu'.elih.-lit man w.th
•ome courage • f co::v: lon, but I pled. y,u my
wor 1, If that one fact were established to my sntis
factlon, I would VOt for till-, thing II I never beard
another w.rd • t. s - Ha-■ you thought
what that mean a dlstn -i warrant? It means
•vlctloii.lt>. i very thing that Is Vxluy
kindling t. ■ ..lot’ll. w .l I for or Ireland. It
means evict, n' It n. i.ns turning women and her
JUUe children out ol the home that covers them,
•nd f which t’.-y I'.r :- i. Jtli 1 I w,-- astonished
•t Colonel Adair’s statement. Mr. Tally, who rents
fix or eight hundred houses, says: ”1 used to issue
two or three d.warrants—four or five—a
fnontb. I have not issued g tingle ons in eighteen
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months.” [Applause.] Now both of them arc pro
hibitionists. Let me try you with Harry Krouse.
He was an anti-prohibitionist. He said: “My dis
tress war: ants averaged thirty-six to the year, and
1 ~a ve not issucd one in twelvemonths. I said:
Then, my friend, I don't carry your conscience,
out how can you bean anti-prohibitionist.”
He said: “I ain’t. My knowledge of the thing,
cay by day, among people I used to pester and evict
has changed my convictions, and I am a red-hot
prohibitionist.”
I went down t 0 Mr. Pcott, who did not vote for
prohlbijon and asked him. He said: “I have
' 3 ?>. aS m . any as twenty-five distress warrants in a
mouth, and I have issued six iu the lust eighteen
inonths, and five were to get people out of houses
Decause they were obnoxious to the neighbors. I
ave issued one single distress warrant for failure
to pay rent.”
I said, “You didn’t vote for prohibition.”
He said, “I did not believe it was practicable.”
I asked, “What do you think now?”
He said, “I am going to vote, and vote for prohi
tion.” [Applause.]
Mr. Roberts was a prohibitionist. Helsa square
man and an intelligent man, and is running for
W Tr ich is a sood si " n ' [Laughter an i. ap
plause.] He says, “My testimony is the same. I
rormeriy issued two or three distress warrants every
month, and I have not issued one iu twelve
months.”
Gentlemen— and ladies, [laughter] especially
laaies: Is there any : possible answer to that? Is
there any industrial, any social,any economical r ev
olution that has been worked since this v, orld be
gan that would account for the diminution in this
most vicious and intolerable of legal enactments?
ave you thought about what a distress warrant is?
Have you ever thought about a woman being
turned out of her house—the little cottage that cov
ers her and (her children? Can you picture—you
who live m comfortable homes filled with light aud
warmth and books and joy—can you think of these
people human beings, our brothers aud sisters—the
poor mother, brave though her heart is breaking,
nuddling her little children about her—and the
father weak but loving, and loving all the deeper
because he knows his weakness has brought them
to this want and degradation—and ilittle children,
those of whom our Savior said, “Suffer them to come
unto me and forbid them not,” there asking;
•Mamma, where will we sleep tonight?” Can you
picture that aud then their taking themselves up
and the woman putting her hand with undying
love an .1 faith in the hand of the man she swore to
follow through good and evil report, and marching
up and down the street—this pitiable procession
through the unthinking streets, by laughing child
ren and shining windows, looking for a hole where,
like the foxes, they may hide their poor heads?
My friends, they talk to yon about personal lib
erty , that a man should have the right to go into a
grog shop and see this pitiful procession—now
stopped—parading up and down our streets again.
They talk to you about the shades of Washington,
Monroe and Jefferson. I would not give one happy,
rosy little woman, uplifted from that degradation
bar py again in her home, the cricket chirping on he r
hearthstone and her children about her knees, her
husband redeemed fr. m drink at her side—l would
not give one of them for all the shades of all the
men that ever contended since Cataline conspired
and Ca?sar fought.
[At the end of this sentence there was tremendous
cheering. Men and women waved their handker
kerchiefs, some of them standing up.]
Mr. Grady proceeded:
Now, my friends, we are told in opposition to
what I have said to you—and they are facts, they
are my facts, they always “get there”—that's the
variety I breed now entirely. We a;e told iu oppo
sition to that, aud Mr. Adair will testify, and sec
Mr. Tally—l see him tonight out there (he was cry
ing just now but he is smiling now) and I see Mr.
Roberts-their books are testimony. Go and look
at them. It means simply this, that where Mr.
Adair, renting to all sorts of people, issued twenty
distress warrants a year ago, he issues one now; it
means that out of every twenty families evicted
two years ago theie are nineteen happy in their
homes tonight. [Applause.] And yet wc are told
we must vote to restore the old order because it his
reduced Governor Brown’s rental column $5,000 a
year. [Applause.]
[At tl e end of this sentence the scene was almost
indescribable. Th usands of handkerchiefs waved
as before, men held up their hats aud walking sticks
and whirled them in the air. The cheering moj
almost deafening.]
Mr. Grady resumed speaking.
My friends, I don’t believe that statement, to I e
gin with. Ido not belie »o his rent Income is fairly
and permanently diminished live thousand dollars
a year—and if it is he is my friend, and I congratulate
both him and myself on the fact that he is able to
stand it. I say this in no spirit of sarcasm or criti
cism, but I do say if there is a law, if there is a gov
ernmental theory, if there is, map it please you, an
untried experiment that will shelter one honest
woman and two unconscious children in their
ho nes, it is our duty to vote that law and this gov
ernment’s duty to enforce it, though it should cut
it down $25,000. [Tremendous applause.] And the
reason for that it is not based in communism, but in
humanity. If the government owes any duty to the
individual it is that every man, woman and child
that leads an honest life is entitled to food and
shelter; and there is a difference to be found be
tween diminishing the luxury of the rich and pro
tecting the poor in their birthright; it is manliness,
and humanity, and good government to let the
rich Buffer. [Applause.]
THE HOMES OF THE PEOPLE.
lam going to stick to the home because it is the
type and center of our city, of our civilization.
Prosperous h< mes mean a prosperous city; cheerless
homes an un prosperous town. From the comforta
ble home, with its ruddy windows and its laughing
children, streams the light that illumes every de
partment of trade or industry, whether the light
comes from the cottage or a pa’a:e. From the
cheerless and desolate home comes the chill that
paralyzes every interest worth preserving.
When you go into a home, what is the first thing
you look after? It is the hearthstone, to sec if there
is a fire. The hearthstone is the heart of the home,
aud the fire glowing and sparkling, with the little
children gathered about it, ruddy faced and happy,
Is to the house what sunshine is to God’s flowers. Jt
is about the hearthstone thi.t the family gathers.
There you find the wife, the helpmate of the hus
band and his joy—who has shared his sorrow and
his trouble—you find the little ones cherished. The
old grandmother iu tie comer, smiling and peace
fill, her last, best days blessed and softened by filial
love and care. [Applause.]
Think about the pietvr j around the hearthstone
in an humbe home. Did you ever think about
grandmother ar da little child? Is there any love
on earih like it? Is there any love as sweet and
pathetic? See them, as they sit about the hearth
stone of the home. How they cling lo each other.'
How the little one clambers about her knees and
looks into her face. How the old heart is bathed
afresh in the rapture of the child, and how the old
withered lips are attuned and usr d to the childish
prattle! HowclcsJy they cling together! and yet
how diverse arc their ways! The old grandmother
with the lengthening shadows falling ou her ba< k
as she walks down the hill, her face turned towards
th© skies beyond the pearly gates of which she can
almost hear the singing of the hosts awaiting to bid
her welcome; the child turnel with arde it face to
the attractions and contentions of the world, with
the rising sun failing full ou its eyes. [Applause.]
At last the time for separation coraec. As each
takes ita God-given way, how ready to go, and yet
how loth to part! How they turn as they drift
away, looking one to the other, while the parting
words grow fainter and fainter and fainter, i.ii.j
they nil fall by the wayside and tue child’s voice is
lost In the rising clamor of the world, and her voice
melts away in the kindling music of the skies. [Ap
plause.] These- the ys t. about the hearthstone, the
grandmother and tne child, and between them the
wife, holding In her heart the • o ilJclove that binds
them together. [A; p!a-|
■Think of the master of rids hou«e—father, son and
husband in o 1 .- us r .-at Ids buxn bor wuiks,
whistling through tne i* y night all, happy in con
icivusness that his hr, eJ ones arc warm and snug,
and happy in their home. What would he take for
the consclousueMbthat of huddling comfort
leas about a chill bearistone, the fire Lur:.< brightly
for them’ What uo-ild *y ,ii take '> r fii-n •■( th »t
consclouMi cs-? Well, now keep thi.t picture In yue.r
rnind while 1 tell you uhatti.e dciderbof Atlan
ta say about their retail trade this winter.
Here Is their V stimony!
Do you Ferm mber how you :• •. to ,‘ce the w< men
with a quarter or fifty c .-nt ; i <e shiverii.ght the
coal yard.**, hu.ry;.. • to buy a handiulof c< al. that
they.might |g-1 t.on.e wh re th r little om s u. re
sufferin g? H.w yon r. - i tof.jj x; n hurrying
• • r
ann, knowing that at hon e the bo-ath fr< m their
lungs was ttlmo«t fr cz.’hg on the children •> Jlp> o
And the little hand-carts that wv 1, to fid jour
streeu, earn mg a handful of coal, bu e.y enotig . to
give ach .id a t&>: of hie’ And don t you kr.jv
the num! er of hou-w s there were Hat in jjite
of all this were cold and ciicerlcMi aid without
relief?
Where are the people who us d to buy a pinch of
Coal, and the Laud carte that used tv haul it? ILcy
arc gone! Mr. Wilson testifies: “There has been a
remrakable change in my business. Men that used
to buy fifty cents worth now’ buy a ton. I used to
have twenty little hand-carts to deliver coal .in;
now 1 use but one, and I have doubled my two
horse teams.” [Applause.]
Mr. Bridger testifies that he scarcely has a call
for coal on credit now. Mr. D’Alvlgny testifies that
he cannot get enough to supply the demand. Mr.
John Stocks saysthcre is twice as much sold as evbr
best re.
Every coal dealer testifies that there has been a
remarkable increase in his business. Instead of
buying it haphazard, in little quantities, when the
twenty-five cents that bought it was chanced be
tween the barkeeper and the coal dealer, they testify
without break, that the people have laid in twice
as much coal as ever before in a single fal’; that
they buy in large quantities aud on cash al
most entirely. Houses will be warmed this winter,
day and night, that scarcely know what fire was
lastwinfir. Ask the coal dealers, and if their testi
mony convinces you, ask if it isn’t worth something
to accomplish this.
Take the item of furniture. Mr. Snook says:
“There is a great change in my business. It has
increased in a retail way, especially among the
poorer classes. They buy a Better class of goods
and pay cash where formerly they asked credit.”
Mr. Neal testifies that he has done a three months’
business one month this year in furniture, and for
cash, selling better goods. Mr. Miller s xys he has
sold more than ever in his life, and of better ciass
gco ls, and to cash buyers. He says the poorer clas
ses buy three times as much as they ever bought,
and almost entirely for cash.
Mr. Rhodes testifies—and, by the way, lie has one
hundred thousand dollars iu houses, and not one
vacant, and he gets more rent than ever before out
of them—he says that the purchases this year are
almost three times as much as lie ever sold before,
and that he gets live times as much cash from the
classes he deals with. So of all the furniture deal
ers—ask them.
Walter Wood states that his Saturday night’s trade
in selling stoves and cooking utensils, which used
to be about 510 or sls, is now $75. A. P. Stewart
and Hunnicutt & Bellingrath confirm this. Ask
them!
I could weary you with testimony like that. I
have a score of notes from prosperous merchants,
ou this tabic, tolling how their trade has increased—
showing that in everything that makes home hap
py, that makes the women and children comforta
ble—in everything that profit the buyer and his
frieud, and the community ho lives in, that the
trade has increased, aud that this year’s increase
over last is simply phenomenal, and that is owing
to prohibition. [Applause.] •
Why, the East Tennessee road brought n inc mil
lion pounds of freight Into Atlanta in August, 1887,
over August, This was ono month. Nino
million pounds increase of freight brought to At
lanta over the same month in 1886. This is prosper
ity by the record.
See what the increase on the other roads has
been. Here are the figures, as shown by records in
the Railroad Commission office:
He was converted against his convictions.
Mr. Grady turned and caught sight of Jufige Hill
yer, whose face was beaming, and having occasion
to ask the judge a question, said:
“By the way, doesn’t the judge look happy to
night!” whereat the audience cheered heartily, and
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the judge laughed and looked happier than before.
Mr. Grady continued:
Mr. Riordan was an anti-prohibitionist in the last
race. He came into Colonel Maddox's office—by the
way, Colonel Maddox’s office seems to be a sort of a
place for them to come. Mr. Riordan says: “I was
an anti-prohibitionist on principle.” A personal
liberty man, I suppose—"but I work ftom 60 to 100
men, and I have seen a change that, as an honest
man, loving my fellow man, I dare not d sregard,
and I am for prohibition.”
Ladies and gentlemen, how can you answer such
as that? lam not a profound lawyer. I don’t know
how much personal liberty I have got; sometimes F
wish I had more [looking with a smile at Mrs. Grady,
who sat in the audience,] that is purely a personal
matter to which we need not allude further—l don’t
want any profound knowledge of law that clouds
my brain aud judgment when such facts appeal to
me.
Colonel Maddox did not vote in the last election
until the last moment. He believed prohibition was
impractlcablo and visionary. He might have had
the personal liberty touch. lie was not going to
vote, and his wife said—and the wife is nearly al
ways the best half of the two, and is in tills case.
His wife said: "My dear, you vote today; we have
a boy.”
He voted under protest, he did not believe in it--it
was new fangled. Six months afterwards he was
sorry he voted for it; looked like the town had gone
to ruin; but today he is a wise and intelligent
man, and he has looked about him and heard what
people say, and seen the town prosper and thrill
with a gio vth grander than she ever felt before, and
he is u dyed-in tlie-wood prohibitionist.
Mr. Rucker was the same way, and is ready to
work night and day for prohibition.
Do yo know J. C. Allen? Those who do not arc
behind. lie was an anti-prohibitionist; he was so
strong an anti-prohibitionis that lie would not let
his brother-in law—not his mother-in-law—talk to
him on the subject. He was rab d. He did not
want to discuss it. He had a little dry goods store
next to a saloon. Prohibition was voted in, and he
has prospered since in spite of himself, which re
minds me of a dlstinguisi e 1 Frenchman who was
kicked upstairs. The saloon was vacated owing to
circumstances over which the owner had no con
trol. Jt did not look well vacant, and Mr. Allen
rented it; and where the old red eye used to stand,
lie put up calico, and today he is doing a splendid
business, and people who used to go there to buy
their body's failing and their soul's damnation,
go there to buy ribbons and dresses for their wives
and little ones as good men ought to do.
"Beeing ail this,” I said, “how can you be an
a iti?” an 1 lie ssys:
"1 ain t; I have changed, and I am dry as a
powder horn.”
On Decatur street there were twenty-tbrea bar
rooms where there are now four wineroorus in
what you might call the last extremities. All ex
cept one are occupied by grocers, drygoods stores,
boot and shoe shopa, or by some sort of busincis
tbfft builds up a rnan in place of a traffic that tears
Lim down. Where is tho paralysis of Lu irie-/.'
Four saloons at d nineteen stores doing business in
place of twenty-three barrooms.
I have told you iu getting evidence ofimprove
ment or <leie(!r,o: al on in a city that you must go
to the working ebuse . E«*pe< ial)y is this true of
Atlanta, D; atwe this is the third city in the United
States In th- proportion of work* ri to p >pu!ation.
Di vrenep, Maw, L ads with 51 j< r cent, of her
population wage earners, Jzjwell follows with 49
per cent.,and Atlanta and Fall River tie Lot thill
p!u ©•dthHpor cent.
Now here is a of r-presentir.g In the
workers of our number forty- '. ven per cent. < f the
C’itirj. pulation. Add the women an 1 children
or - . (.nty per cent of our if 1
have shown that •! I m <1 sls t. r.cfitte 1 Jr. an un
speaka’/exnunntrby t.»c gu:.!.'! experiment of
I r aibltion, is It i.- t our duty t > coi.tlnuo this ex-
"Onc f-. i.ibte fur* .er, ’ said M Grady, looklrgat
l.fe •vjt?... < of- . on, goon.] “Jhere s ju‘t
on; l!mig fu.th r. W.fthaiub s it dot.e'. If ft
i.tts done bar. i, let us what. They said wc were
gulag t • that bat sn I o/.is w ild fly In
an J out, a .d the real estate men hare tLe renting
of nine o-1 of ten homes that are noted They u
tify w.thuut a brt-as, absolutely Mitimut a break,
that they have fewer hooter on theft L’s'.i than they
have ever had since they have been in business.
Two of them have ad ver’feed in the last few days
for one hundred houses, and today Mr. Tally told
mo that he actually left his office because he was
bored by people who wanted to get somewhere to
live in this town.
Mr. Scott told me that he could put tenants in 500
houses in thirty days from tomorrow. They tell us
we have lost in population. There are just os many
houses in Atlanta today, and more, aud they are all
full. Well, if the population has decreased, who
fills them? Perhaps they are occupied by shades Os
Lincoln and Jefferson and Monroe!
A distinguished friend of mine—and he Is my
friend, and worthy of your confidence always
printed yesterday some figures to show that there
were fewer street taxes this year than last. He was
correct as far as he went, but he did not get to the
forks of the creek.
He took his figures from the tax assessor’s books.
Now, the men who give in their taxes are rich men,
careful men, like Judge Hillyer and Major Campbell
Wallace—not like me and a few around me.
This is is important, because those figures looked
like something. He showed that the number of
persons who paid street tax in 1885 was 3,814. Ho
showed that the number who paid their tax at the
assessor’s office in 1886 was 3,501 That shows an ap
parent decrease lof 214 people. Well, I am seek
ing after truth, and that sorter staggered me.
“Is that a fact.” I asked. “Is that the end of it?” I
asked|Judge Hillyer, and he has been stuffing me
anyhow. “No. In addition to the men who gave
in at the tax assessor’s office iu 1885, there were 4,-
180 who were looked up”—made to] pay
with a little addition. That made a total of 7,994.
Next year there were 3,900 people who gave in.or 214
less then the year before, but theylfound out among
the hedges and byways 8,460. ono of whom I have
no doubt I was which.fTThat makes a total of 12,06-1
total taxes paid last year,.against 7,994 the year be
fore, showing a gain in this good old city of 4,070
poll taxes.
The figures for this year have not been ftimished.
To be perfectly frank, they have not got mo yet. I
think they will show an increase of three or four
thousand 3poll taxes in this city, two-thirds of
which, in my honest conviction, are due to prohibi
tion. These are the figures. They camo through
Judge Hillyer to inc, and 1 give them to you without
change. There are 829 more children in attendance
at the schools this year than last. How do you ac
count for that? [Laughter ] It has been two years
since prohibition was adopted, and there are 829
more children in the schools. That means one of
two things, and you can take cither horn of the di
lemma, either there aro more people here [or there
are more people able to send to school. Take the
fact of owning bouses, Artemus Ward saj s:
“A man may die for his home, but whoever heard
of a man dying for his boarding house?” I say to
you here, it is the poor man’s home, and the poor
man’s home alone that has stoo l time and again
between Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and the enraged
mob of American workingmen. It is the conserva
tism of the home-owning wage-worker that has kept
socialism out of the admirable labor organization.
In the last two years there have been 678 citizens
who have become home owners, against 153 in the
two years previous. Owing no man and owning no
man, as master, wearing the collar of no faction,
free born American citizens, not quibbling about
personal liberty, but standing with wife and little
ones, honest and independent, aoovo penury and
degradation. [Applause.]
There ore a great many things about prohibition
that people do not like. I think It was an outrage
to arrest those two young fellows on Marietta street,
and I don't hesitate to say so In this company. But
if you judge every cause by a single incident, what
Cause will hold Itself blameless? if you Judge pro
hibition by every act done by one of Its adherents,
where will you find anti-prohibition? [Great ap
plause.]
When I find an objection I turn to look for a good.
If it is more serious in my opinion than tho good, I
simply stand back, but if the good outweighs the
objection, there is simply one course for the man
who has got honest convictions—that is to waive
the objection. •
I doubt if our women—God bless them all—can
<lo their test work in the public turmoil of tills
campaign. 1 wish it was so we could take hold of
it with such manliness that every woman could go
back home- and rely on her prayers and our eflorts
to carry it through. Woman's best work Is gentle
ness. She should come as tl#. 1 dew comes, not in
tlie garish sunshine or the rushing storm, but when
the earth ia wrapped in night’s sober hush, falling
like a soft distillation of the stars on tire sleeping
flowers. [Tremendous applause.] Better work
there, but I honor her when she comes to the front
in an emergency like this, bringing her scarred
heart and tender nature and shining eyes to our
aid.
When I read in The Constitution tho report of
Mr. W. A. Pledger’s speech last night, in which he
said: “Don't tie misled by women ami preachers;
listen to me.”—Bill Pledger. “Don’t let Haw
thorne, or Dr. Barnett, or Mr. Gaines mislead you;
listen to me!”—Bill Pledger. “Don't let the goto!
women of tho city—the salt of the earth, wearing
heroism us a garment—don't let them mislead you;
listen to me!” When he said, talking about the
women In tills campaign, the mothers in Israel ami
the wives of the test man in this town, when they
left their homes and put away their womanly na
ture they forfeited their right to man’s homage, ami
that sentiment met with applause at the hands of
tliut audience. [Hisses and cries of simme.]
No matter wiiat my opinion may te, 1 will never
out my vote with a people that applaud tliat sen
timent.
[Tremendous cheering and cries ot “Amenl”
“That's right!” and “Go on; we will stay ail
night.”]
Mr. Grady—l want to catch the last street car.
“A voice: “We will hire a carriage for you."
Continuing. Mr. Grady said:
“My friend, Mr. Hooper Alexander, has sent me
a note in which lie says:
“I see you aro on statistics. If it Is worth noticing
I can add a few. I examined the city court crimi
nal docket this afternoon, and it shows a marked
and steady increase in misdemeanors from IM to
IHBS, a falling off of twenty per cent in 18W ; the rec
ordoflßß7sbow sBl3 indictments against 7C> in IMG
and 410 In lhßfi.” Mark tliat. An Increase to ISIS,
and in IStG there was a decrease from 075 cases to
440. That was with the <:x[s.riment only half tried.
The pretent docket exten Is from IWI to IW7. Crime
in less than half that of'Bs and less than any
year of the docket. There was scarcely a ease of
vagrancy for a year; a«t.
I assume to keep no man's conscience: f assume
to judge for no man; I do not assume that lam tet
ter than any man, tut that lam weaker, but I say
this to you. i iittve n boy as dear to me us the ruddy
drops tbat gather about Ids heart. I And niy hojxs
already centering In his little b idy, ::n'l I look to
him tonight to take to hln.s If t',e work that, strive
as I may, must full uubnislied nt last from my
hands. Now, I know- they say it is projx’r to e<la
< a'e a boy at home; tie.t if he is taught right at
homo he will not go wrong. That is a lie to tegin
with, but that don t matter. I have seen sons of
some as gocsl people ar. ev r Ji-.-j 1 turn out badly.
Iu e,;,tmy respon i'ali-y u,, a I ti.er. 'Jbut boy
may fall from tl.c right pel!, a< thin -. now e:.l '. If
he <1 I shall tear that sorrow w.th such resigna
tion as I may, but I tell you, if I were to vote to re
call barrooms to this city, when I know that it bus
prox|ier<:d In their übs.eiK e, und tliat I o/ shoal 1 fail
ti.rough their agency, I tell you—atul tills convic
tion iuu come to me In the still wub lies ofthe
nlgid—l co ild not, w<:aring the crowningsorrowr of
his disgra'-e and looking into the eyes of her whose
le it l.e iia: broken- 1 o ild no’, If I had vc.t, Ito
is call these barrooms, And answer for my consclc i.eo
orsujp.rt forremuree. [Applause.; J don’t know
how any other father fe< lx, but tliat Is the Way 1
fe-.-L, if God p-.rm-u me U> ultra the truth.
Now for a lust word, m> friends. I never spoke to
you from deeper conviction than I speak tonight. I
beg of you in the interest of peace and fairness to
give this experiment a fair trial. Noto what it has
done in a ycar of imperfect trial. Give it two years
more that it may demonstrate what It can do. Then
if it fails it will fall, if it is good it will stand. If
you are in doubt about what you should do give us
the benefit of the doubt. Give the doubt to the
churches of the city that stand unbroken in the
cause. Give the doubt to the 20.0C0 prayers that
ascend nightly for this cause ftom the women and
children in Atlanta, prayers uttered so silently that
you cannot catch their whispered utterance, but so
sincerely tl at they speed their soft entreaty through
the singing hosts of heaven into the heart of the
living God. If you are in doubt as to what your duty
is, turn for this once, to your oi l mother whoso
gray hairs shall plead with you tis nothing elso
should— remember how she has loved you all
her life and how her old heart yearns for you now.
Take her old hand in yours, look into her eyes
fearlessly as you did when you were a barefoot boy,
and say, “1 have run my politics all my life, and to
day lam going to give one vote for you. How shall
I cast it?” Watch the tears start from her shining
eyes, feel the lump rising in your throat, and tell
me it that is not better than “personal liberty.” If
you are in doubt, ask your wife—ask her who years
ago put her little hand in yours, and, adoring and
trusting, left the old homo nest and went out with
you into the unknown world—remember how she
has stood by you when all else forsook—how she has
lived only in your life, and carried your sorrows as
her own, and ask her how you shall vote. Ido not
believe that women should counsel men In polities,
but this question is deeper than politics.
Aoar wife need not tell you how you
vote on tariff, or on |cand.dates or on
anypo'itical is uo, but this is her clccttion as
we las y< urs. On this jeopardy is staked the home
you builded together, the happiness you have had
together, and the welfare of the little children, in
whose veins your blood and hers runs commingled.
Her stake a id theirs on this election is greater than
yours. Then ask her, if you have any doubt how
you shall vote on that day.
Now, a word to the goo I women here. You can
do great work quietly and gently in your homes for
this cause and for the good of your city. You cm do
this work in the home circle, where no man can say
you nay.
Mothers, go to your son on election morning, call
him back to tho time when he learned God’s name
at your knees, an I wake when he would in the
night, he would find your soft eyes above him and
your loving arms about him, aud say: “My son, find
your way this morning in memory to those days
when nothing stood between us, and when these old
hands sheltered and protected you.”
Wives, go to your husbands tl at morning. Not in
pique or criticism, but with a love and tenderness
that shall break through his pride and indifference,
lay his hand lovingly on the heads of the little ones,
tho pride of liis life and yours-oh, you who went
down into the very jaws of death that you might
give them to him!—and ray: “My husband, what
ever you do today, do it for tlu.sj little ones and fur
me!” [Applause.]
Now, my friends, I have done. What I have
spoken to you tonight I have spoken iu sober ear
nestness and truth. If what 1 have said has im
pressed you, I of you to let the impression
deepen rather than pass away, for I know and you
know that this issue goes deeper than words can go.
It involves hundreds of homes redeemed from want
and desolation; it involves thousands of hearts now
rejoicing that late were breaking; it involves tl»c
happiness of women and children, the most sacred
charges vouchsafed to our care, it involves the fate
of this tremendous experiment that Atlanta must
settle for the American people. Against it there is
nothing but the whim of personal liberty. Your
City has prospered under prohibition ns it has never
prospered .before. If you aro a merchant or a man
ufacturer, your books will tell yon this. You know
that you have prospered this year in your business,
ask your neighbor of his business. Look abroad
about you on these bustling streets, and on these
busy stores; on these shops and factories, in which
the fires scarcely ever die, and in which the work
men are never id’e, and then vote in the light of
reason and of conscience, and l ove ver you vole,
may God bless y< u, and tho city you love so well.
[Tremendous applause.]
Then looking over the vast audience, stilled to
hear the vo’CJ of the speaker. Mr. Grady bald with
great earnestness and eloquence:
“Th<a bent refenua of thia aurth coiua throuKh
waste and storm and doubt ttu 1 suspicion; th sun
itself when it rises ou each day wastes the radiance
of the moon and blots the starlight ftom the skies,
but to unlock the earth from the clasp of night
and plant the btars anew in tho opening flowers.
Behind that sun. as buhlnd this movement, we mav
b ■ sure there stan fe the Lord God Almighty, mus
ter and maker of this universe, from whose hand
the spheres are rolled to their orbits, and whose
voice has l>een the harmony of this world since the
morning st irs sang together. (Tremendous, loud
and long-continued applause,]
Card From Mr. Grady.
Mr. Grady on the morning after his speech print
ed the following card:
When everything else I have said or done is
forgotten,l want the words I have spoken for prohi
bition in Atlanta, to be r« m mil.erc l. I a n prouder
of my share in the campaign that has ended in its
defeat, than of my share in all other campaigns
that have ended in victory- I espoused itscau.se
deliberately, and J have worked for its success,
nftht and day, to the very best of my ability. My
only regret is that my ability was not greater. I
am firm in the conviction- and from this conviction
I shall never be shaken—that Atlanta lias prospered
under her two years of prohibition, ss she never
prospered before.aud that the experiment of “prohi
bition in a large city” succeeded in Atlanta as no
experiment under like obstructions ever succeeded
before. 1 write these words in behalf of a cause
that enlisted my heart and retaon and conscience
as no other cause did. and ftom which they can
never be estranged. It is to the honor ami strength
ot that cause that its defeat but deei*ens the devo
tion and loyalty of those who have fought ami suf
fer© 1 with it.
But it is defeated.
The people Lave decided that liquor shall again
be sold In Atlanlr* While the direct respondblllty
of that decision rests with there who secured it by
their influence or vote, it involves every citizen in
un obligation that lie cannot in manllne-s escape or
evade. Tin’s obligation every citizen should meet
in k uch manner as promises the be.-t results for At
tanta. To turn a deaf ear to reason, to fculk, or to
sit in stubbornness, is unworthy of any man who
stood for prohibition in this campaign. ’
The anti-nrobibitlofi loaders stan i pledged to
every possible mitigation of theadmitt<_<l evils of the
liquor trail c Some of them have declared forthc
wholesale ti.i ffic along, with no barrooms—others for
high license saloons, in refjtrht d territory an I un
der strict regulations-—all of them against the <o u
mon barroom and the n Ifecriinlnnte sale. There
can be no douLtof the sincerity of the<e dedara
tions. The nnme-i of the men iviioinake th» m is
the stamp of'tlndr integrity—Hon. John B. Good
win, Dr. ft. D. Bpaldfng, Captain Howell, my friend
and partner, who has my confidence and affec
tion, and others—these men are known of all At
lanta.
The ability of these leaders to make their pledges
gwd, depends largely, if not entirely, on the co op
©ration of the prohibit ionise. This co-operation
they should have—frankly, cordially, fuli-hamled.
As far as lam concerned, they shall have it. Con
stunt association for weeks with the prohibitionists
—in which I found them always rn oliish, devoted
and patriotic-Jmtffies mo in the belief that they
will come up to the full measure of their duty, as
they have always done; of the schemes offered,
those that promise the least liquor and closest
surveillance. Os the candidates otlerel, those
that arc* pledged to highest license and strictest
regulation, will, it is '■a e to say, receive the support
ortho prohibitionists. In everything that looics to
Atlanta's goxl, or the hapj»ln-*M and prosperity of
her people, none ahull precede them, as none have
ever preceded them.
Two years ago the prohibitionists went on record
in Atlanta, ami mad? th' ir record through constant
ami organized obstruction. This morning the unti
pr h /tionfets g» on record. 11 they establish a
system of laws under which our j< oplc can be p<*r
rnanently united in honor ami conscience, they will
deserve aud rc< * ive constant upp a t —ls they la I,
tLe prohibitionist will not iu<*k the courage to ugnin
appeal to the jx-oplc. It is earnestly Lore I they will
succeed, for b< yond thi’»<-f eclul is-suc there are deep
and deepening reasons why the conservative and in
tclH.u-nt men of this city should be brought Into
cordial compact. Henry W. Gkai>y.
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I'oil Taxes.
Editors Coxhth « tp».\ : Does each state iu
the union unpo.c u p>l i tux upon lt> voters.'
VOTi B.
No. Very few* states collect j»oil tuxes. This form
of taxation Is very unpopular a< a rule.
The Whisky Insurrection.
Editors ConsiitutiOn: What was the
* —.
cause of tho whisky insurrection In rennsylvaniaa
T. W. 1
An excise law. In those days the' Überty-loyinJ
people of the country would not submit to anything
in the nature of an internal revenue tax.
Not Worth Dividing;. ,
Editors Constitution : How much would
dlvis.on o’ the money in the federal treasury giv»
each person in the Uuited States? Financier.
About a dollar.
The Bottom Dog. \
Editors Constitution: Will you Dlcasal
give me the name of the author of the following
poem: J. IL "
THE UNDER DOG IN THE FIGHT.
I know that tho world—that the great big world—
brom the peasant to the king,
Has a different tale ftom the talo I tell,
And a different song to sing.
But for me, I care not a single fig
If t hey say I am wrong or I’m right;
I shall always go in for the weaker dog,
The under dog in the fight.
1 tliat tho world—that the great big world—
W ill never a moment stop
To see which dog may be in fault.
But will shout for tne dog on top.
But for me—l shall never pause to ask
Which dog may be in the right;
For my heart will beat while it beats at all.
For the under dog in tho fight.
Perchance what I’ve said were better not said,
Or ’twere better I said it Incog,
But with heart and with glass tilled chock to thdl
brim,
Here’s luck to tho bottom dog.
Th * poem has b en credited to various
rn I frequently ; u dished anonymously. Its authof
was David Barker, a lawyer of Penobscot county/
Mo., who gained considerable reputation in hi<
state by his poetical writ ngs. He was known
tie “Pard of Exeter,” from the town in which ha'
lived. He died in 1879.
Why New Jersey ia Called “.Spain.”
Editors Constitution ; Why is New Jersey
frequently called "Spain?” Sur crieer.
A ft- r tlie overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte, hiJ
brother Joseph, who had been king of Spain, ana
hi nephew, Prince Murat, son of the king of Italy.'
became refugees and fled to America. They brought
with them an unlimited amount. f wealth. Josepa
wished to purchase property and build a
fit for an ex-king, but the laws of this country were
then Mich that an alien could not hold real estate?
He did not wish to become a citizen of the United
States, aud he applied to the legislatures of several
states to pass a special act allowing him td
hold hind. They all refused to do thi<
until ho applied to the legislature of NeiV
Jersey; here ho was successful; the legislature
granting both him and Prince Murat the right to'
purchase and hold land. They purchased the Bori
dentown tract, and erected magnificent buildings/
furnished them with costly ftirniture from abroad/
witli rare painting and statuary. The grounds sur*
rumbling were laid out in magnificent style and
qufeito taste, and the i arks were filled with dedr?'
hare and other animals. Bonaparte had earnestlv
desired to buy hind and build iu Philadelphia, bui
the people of this city, and the legislature of Penn<
sylvnnia, had refused to permit him to do so. Thea
saw too late, to their mortification, that he had not
only had a vast hoard of money, but that he used
it to benefit business generally, and they used t<j
taunt Jeiseymen with having imported the king of
Spain to become their ruler, ami therefore culled
.1 r eyi nan Spaniards. Thus it was that New Jersey
came to be termed as "not in the United States.”
The Patrons of Husbandry. I
Catai la, Ga., December 9th, 1887.—Editor®
Constltmi. n; My n tentbm has been called to the in
justice done tho order of Patrons of Husbandry iiV
your issue of November 221. j
White many ofthe subordinate “granges” havd
disbanded, yet I am happy to r<i‘ort that thdj
"mangers” have not disorganized. We are stillurf
ganized, and in ti quiet way are trying to attend to’
our own business, without interfering with thepriVJ.
ileges or infringing upon the rights of any one else.
our memlwrsliip is eomix>sea of a conservative'
clement. V. e would take advantage of no man, (ICI
n<»t covet th.it w hich belongs to another, only
“w »rking for the greutent good to the largest num
ber." and n > man <an justly class our orgiinizatlon
with the socialist or any such.
Wc may Im* poor and depri ssed, but feel that wd
an? entitled to some respect as long as wc deni honjj
estly and act honorable, mid as we do not indorse
he pm*form set forth in tho article referred to, feel
that no one has the right to force us U(kjh ft. !\
Wc are ut vrwk iryrng honestly to improve the so
cial. moral, and int< lh*< t a! man, and would Lu !d
up the finoir ful condition of our agricultural p
pie. We feel this is legitimate and adopt none otht
cr but fair, honorable and legitimate means, anti
can but think the lei.ection ia unjust and ungen?
erous. (
If the merchants’ club, of Atlanta, docs wrong, IB
therj no other way of snowing up tho wr< n ', than
by condemning the club at Macon, or by denoundr
lug all other societies?
We admit that we have inode mistakes in the iastJ
but cannot see wherein we have said or done anyw
tidng that justifies the classing of the order as ni
article referred to.
1 lie greater portion of our membership are reodeni
of your paper, and I must say in justice to tholr ett
forts thi.t they ore entitled to some respect, end J
believe the day is i»ot far distant when they will nw
e<*i\e it from sources that would now reflect upon*
their integrity.
Wc only ask justice. Respectfully.
T. 11. Kimbrough,
M. Georgia State Grange*,
Tho Farmers’ Alliance.
Ackerman, Miss., November 30.—Editor!'
Constitution: Gentlemen—There is a sketch In Till ■
Constitution of the 22d Inst., relating to the Fas
m ?rs’ Alliance*, on which I wish to offer a few strict
ures. The article to which I refer will be found un
der the heading, “Through Dixie.” The spirit am
tone of the article, wo hope, aro not the sentiment ’
of The Constitution, for we feel assured that It!
editors are staunch friends of the toiling inawjcSJj
who feed all other classes. But wh ever the writeij
may be. ho evidently has no sympathy for organizaj
tion outside of his own and kindred professions;]
For lo! these many years, Hie poor care-worn am»
down-trodden farmer lias been casting arxjut folj
means of relief from his taxmoters, wlthoufl
any material I enei.t but wiseacres iffl
abundance, at a f-afe retreat from the burning mid*
summer sun, or tne cutting blasts of inid-wintenj
have volunteered to give him advice as to what o4j
should do. win © they themselves roll in the luxiuj
ries actually produced by their toiling neighbors
When the grange sp ang into being, relief was
sought In its so ds, but not having experience
enougii to make it a success, In the face of all
opposition brought to bear against it l»y tlo.se sums
wi>< acn h, tLousaiidj droppea out of it with a feelj
ing akin to despair. As the years roiled by, freight' t
with ever Increasing imrdens, m m of toil all oven
this Lroad land of ours, who dared to do their oWOf
thinking, and who paid between 80 and Q
P< i cent of all the taxes, by which tho treasuflj
of the general government teems with its inllliOQg
of absolutely surplus money lying idly in tua
vaults! These men. I repeat, saw that relief ffiusi
come, or In a few bri .t years very few of thtijJ
wculd own the >oil they cultivated. And hence, ax
if by magic, the various organizatioua, such os th®
• Relief, 'of MiMiisdppt; the “Wheel,” of Tcflnesseffl
The "Alliance,” of Texas, as well as other organlzdß
t!on e's.w here, sprang into being to accomplish,
concert ot action, what, singly and alone, the soul
of toll never could do. It is no strange thing iW
when a fi w hundred farmers meet in councils
there should be dfesention In the ranks. Notbipjß
I etter results from the highest counci®
of the nation. What then? Must they dfeorganfi®
because their meetings are not as harm >niousaW
could tsi desired, and invite oppression by their feffl
lution? Wo t.eileve tliat all men should pay thein
just debts, and live within their income, and t).y[
all cullings and professions should be sell sustain!
ing. ;
We hold It as our Inalienable rigid to buy wherf
we can eet the bed bargains, and sell where we cad
get the lull value of our produce. If half a dozenT
or more merchants in a town refuse to sell at llvjj
ing rates, have wc not a right to give our trad©
th ' iiiati who will do so? We do u> jnakj!
war on any man, or set of men. but Simply to exeffi
c!se our rights in buying and selllbg, tl at we maV
shar • the legitimate profits of trad© equally with thK
tmder. .
H all the merchants in a town would sell at of
reasonably low rates as the Alliance merehnntft
toere would be no necessity to select sm-h merchant!
our experience here is that In the pureh su of u few
dollars worth of merci andlse, we save enough td
qu'.diuj le all our expenses in the All.ante sos
double the time the same has been running herd/
But the matter of dollars and cents Is not all, no?
iiaif the ben’.•fiteaeemiiig from < ursocial gathering*:
ns by the inteicbange of thought, wc are taught tj
be better farmers, b- t er artisans, better citizen/,f
I etter m l/hlxirs, and altogether, to lift ourselvel
mid our isisterity to a higher sphere in life, and
this cud. our declaration of principles aro subeerw
A 1 other tjlass*s and professions may have
orc uiiz .tlons and MCrcl conclaves, out for thdj
fann'T to attempt such a thing a howl i > raised lu,
Miqu r • ! . :u •! m metliing like tho I * silo wing;
ut .u iiiin'dul • 1 in; “You clodhoppers, how dnr<>
•o i mt.! e any at < ip', at organization and cooptra
t. W pa n tak c tre of you as bltln-r Yes,
v ftii the Mime kind < t car - that a stock ruUertakex
< are of uis stock- for the h rvicc rendered. Labor/
in?, men are tired of lids kind of care, an-l we feel'
pn ; I that a gc n r.J awnk mlng to our interests 11
rupi liv t iking place, :nd to assert our nuitb
flood h V<: watchword. Professor Maury, Iff
hphysical ge</grap)iy, says: “Tho world pl
all times, is In afi w •• •eksof starvation,” and all.
n;< :> of any fHgacity keow that If the farming ijg:
t :> 't.s siionld fa i g » (rally, from any cause whan
ever, nil other Indmi ries would b© paralyzed. It 11
to the int' r« -t of all ( Lisses, that the mniier should'
i r</q er. and by the bl’.-. Ings of Heaven op oaf.
labors, we propose to take our interests In our own
hands, and conquer a t ace, that shall be a rlcq
bentage to our postenty. H. P. DoisoN,.
Secretary Mount Airy Alliance,
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