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THE CONSTITUTION.
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cnd-class mail matter. November 11.1873
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No Democratic Division.
lion. Seaborn Wright, of Rome, has
written a letter to The Rome Iribure
tn which lie makes an indignant protest
against the efforts of a taction in the
east to force the democratic party to re
pudiate the solemn pledges of irs plat
form. Elsewhere we give some extracts
from Mr. Wright’s letter for the purp -se
of reassuring him as to the a'.titii.' of
the democratic party.
We do not object to the indignation
ho displays. It is shared in by the peo
ple of this whole section, and it is a
healthy sign. But the democratic party
u ill not dissolve ne- disband. In. the
south and west Rif? party will stand to
gether on its ulntforin, and compel the
r present at ives it has sent to congress
to carry out its views.
There can be no division of the party
at this time that will not be suicidal —
that will not give the money power the
opportunity it has longed for. There
can be no division of the party here j
that will 'tot prove to bo more disastrous
1.» the reform and relief the people are
demanding, than the attitude of the mon
ey ! tower.
Let it be admitted that the attitude
Ct the combined interests of the pro
tected money monopolists will momenta
r.ly retard the reform ami relief pledged.
Will it help matters for voters in the
south and west to desert their party,
and tints place it in the power of the
eastern faction, by combining with its
natural ally, the republican party, to ,
control legislation?
No; the people of the south are ruled
by common sense. They may grow in
dignant. ami properly so, when they see
the pledges of their platform spurned
and repudiated, but the least observant
of them are able to perceive that the
true remedy does not lie in the direction
of disorganization. Th' people of the
south have their own special interests to
look after, and these cannot be forward
ed by a dissolution of the democratic
organization. They still have the na
tional reforms in finances and the tariff
to urge upon the country, and those will
bo postponed indefinitely whenever any
large number democrats desert their
party becaus„ ,ue instruments they have
selected to carry out their purposes
prove to be disappointing.
Congress is still to act, and wo think
that Mr. Wright and other indignant
voters will find that the democratic rep
resentatives are true t > the interests of
the party and the people.
The republicans and their democratic al
lies from the east tye making a tremendous
effort to repudiate the democratic pledges.
Before the season is over the democratic
party will have to repudiate the eastern
dem"<-rats who have allied themselves with
the money power.
. Opinions That Illuminate.
We print in another column the opin
ions of various Georgia editors on the
situation as it exists today. These opin
ions, it will be observed, come from
mon who have labored day in and day
<>••• f<>r the success of the party, and it
was due to their efforts, as much as to
any other cause, that the great organi
z tion was enabled to roll up such a
1 amisome majority in Georgia in 1892.
The opinions which we print were
called out by the president’s message,
and they refer to tho effort which has
been and is to be made to take the dem
o-ratie representatives in congress off
the Chicago platform and place them
squarely in line with tho financial views
of John Sherman and the republican
par:;.. Tim burden of these opinions : s
this- and it is worth noting by those
v. L > • ready to advise and endorse an
abandonment of a fundamental Ictno
craiic principle and the repudiation of
a >■ lomn party pledge;
Shall the wishes and desires of the
p iple prevail? Shall the pledge of the
democratic party, ratified by the voters,
b ■ r'de mied. or shall the demand of the
gold trust be complied with?
ft cammt be denied that the opinions
of Georgia editors which we have col
lected together possess extraordinary
In;, rest at this time. We com
mend them not only to the at
tention of our readers here at home,
but to the attention of southern con
gressmen. The .attitude of ‘.lie people
in every southern state may be ma sored
by that of the people of Georgia. Th< re
are di-setitients. it is true. Thera ar*
men here .and there who for one reason
or another, or for various reasons, per
sonal to themselves, are willing to get
off tho platform, but the great body of
tho democratic party in the south, on
:tn issue so important as this, will refuse
to .accept a repudiation of the platform
from .any source.
It is to be observed that there is no
criticism of Mr. Cleveland's motives. Ills
Integrity, his courage, and his fidelity to
his own convictions are conceded. But
rhe people have their convictions and
the courage of them. Their wishes and
desires have been recognized by the par
ty and embodied in a platform w'.i’ch is
the measure and gauge of ( very man's
democracy. For these desires thus em
bodied in the platform they .efr.se to
substitute the opinions of any individ
ual.
Thus, Editor Brown, of Tie Newnan
Herald, and Advertiser, who w<=> re
cently made postmaster of his town, un
der the present administration, while
having unbounded admiration for Mr.
Cleveland and the highest respect for
his integtiiy and ability, declares that
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the solidarity of the south must be pre
served. “To do so,” he says, “there
seems no other alternative than that the
democratic majority in congress shall
part company with the administration
on tho money question.”
There is indeed no other alternative.
Tho issue is too plain and too important
to admit of any compromise.
On the one hand is the democratic
platform, based on the demands of the
people, declaring that silver, along with
gold, shall be the money standard of
the country. On the other is Wall street
and the east, declaring that gold must
be the sole monetary standard.
The democratic party of tho south
must be held together, but it cannot be
held together if the democratic majority
in congress, or any respectable part of
it joins with the republicans in repudiat
ing tho democratic platform.
Tho perfidy and treachery of the eastern
democrats cannot be laid at the door of
the party that made the Chicago platform.
“Fixing” as a Fine Art.
The comments and predictions as to
the attitude that Senator John B. Gor
don would occupy when congress met —
the position he would take on the finan
cial question—and the various rumors
connecting his attitude with the sup-
I used influence to be exerted by certain
cabinet officials—have no doubt, been
read with interest by those of our read
. ers who have had access to the prints in
■ which they appeared.
The outcome of all this chatter about
General Gordon's position reminds us of
a little incident that occurred during one
of our prohibition campaigns. Among
the ardent prohibitionists was a young
man who gave a good deal of his time
and attention to the work of organiza
tion. He was a zealous member of one
of the clubs formed for the purpose of
I forwarding the work.
At. one of the meetings it was regret-
■ fully announced that the young man's
I older brother had taken a prominent
: position on th<* other side, and there
I was some consultation as to what should
| bo done about it. Tho young man arose.
and asked that tho whole matter be left
in his hands. “I'll go out to his house,”
ho said, “and fix him.”
The campaign went on, but it wus
found that the ardent young man at
tended no more meetings of the club—
that his voice was no longer heard on
tho hustings. Shortly after the contest
had been settled at the polls, some of
I the young man's colleagues met him on
1 tho street. “Wo thought,” said one.
j “that you intended to fix your brother.”
I “Yes.” replied tho young man, “that
: was what I intended to do. T sot out
i to fix him, but, by George, he fixed mo!”
| We do not know that the develop
' ments in General Gordon's case have
i gone this far. Wo do not know that he
has “fixed" tho secretary of the interior,
who was relied upon to fix him, but wo
do know that, according to all late in
formation. the gallant general has not
been “fixed” by those who set out to
accomplish that result. He seems to be
standing squarely on the democratic
I platform, anil it is to bo hoped that ho
j win lift his would-be fixers to the same
I high place.
' During the ton years previous to 1890
* the increase of wealth in Massachusetts
j increased six million dollars more than the
: wealth of nine apparently prosperous states.
! No wonder the money power is in fighting
i trim.
—.— —•
A Significant Change.
The Recorder, a prominent republican
daily of New York city, a newspaper
bearing all the marks of prosperity, pub
\ lishes a double-column, double-leaded
| editorial article demanding the free coin
| age of silver.
Tito publication of this article is a
i significant event. It means that the
; masses of the people in the east who
I are opposed to the single gold standard
I will hereafter have a powerful organ
j through tho columns of which their
■ wishes and desires may find a voice.
I Heretofore, with the exception of The
I New York Herald, they have had no
I really influential newspaper to represent
them. While The Herald is earnestly
opposed to free coinage, it is independ
ent enough to allow the presentation of
both sides in its columns. In other words
it is a newspaper above all things. 'Die
editors of most of the other great metro
politan journals have bowed humbly to
the mandates of the money power and
have advocated and are advocating by a
system of suppression a financial policy
which, by reducing prices and destroying
property values, will cripple every busi
ness interest that has strength enough
to survive.
The money power controls the eastern
banks, the banks impress their views
on the business men that are constantly
seeking financial accommodations, .and
tho business men impress the newspa
pers that the country will go to the devil
if Wall street is not allowed to run it.
I On the ears of these powerful interests
j the ringing declarations of The Recorder
j must have fallen like tho explosion of
a bombshell. But this kind of concus
sion clarifies the atmosphere. Let us
hope that henceforth that large voting
power which, in New York city as In all
other parts of the northeast, is as earn
estly opposed to the schemes of the
money power of this country and
Europe as the people of any other sec
tion of the country, will have an organ
to represent their views and to stand
for their interests.
We print some extracts from The
Recorder’s article. Our readers will
find the arguments and facts stated with
refreshing boldness and bluntness.
— _<
The Bank of England is putting a premium
I on gold to check ito importation to this ootin
! try. This increases the value of gold
: and tends to knock prices down still lower.
Great is the single gold standard!
Action Wanted—Not Talk.
The proposed fourteen days' discus
sion of the silver question in congress is
entirely unnecessary. It is simply a
waste of time.
Our senators and representatives un
derstand the business before them Just
as thoroughly today as they will on the
28th of this month. Their speeches will
contain nothing new. They will merely
rehash the old statistics and arguments
familiar to them all, and they will not
change a single vote. The members of
both houses should economize time. They
can hold night sessions, or they can ob
tain leave to have theifr speeches printed
in Tho Congressional Record, and the
result, will be fully as satisfactory.
The people of all parties and sections
clamor for action—immediate action.
They recognize the utter uselessness of
devoting two weeks to set speeches on
the silver problem, and they want their
senators and representatives to bring
the matter to a vote as early as possible.
Tho country people are getting ready
to move their crops, and the city people
want to get ready for the winter busi
ness and start their factories and mills.
Two weeks is a long time to wait. Cut
the debate short and end the prevailing
anxiety and uncertainty by voting one
way or the other. It we are to have
any relief we want it now. If we are
going to redeem the pledges of our plat
form let the country know it. Ts we
are to be disappointed let us eud the
suspense.
Congress has given tho country silver
talk enough. Action is what is needed
now.
The only thing to prevent the passage of
a free coinage bill in the house is tor the
anti-democratic minority to combine with
the republicans. _
An Object Lesson.
We hear of no financial depression in
France. All tho reports from that coun
try indicate unbroken prosperity.
But tho French people have a circula
tion of $43 per capita, and the Bank of
France reserves the right. •to pay out
gold or silver, or both, without being
controlled by individuals or syndicates
or foreign nations.
We have only about one-half of the
per capita circulation of France, and yet
the requirements of business in our vast
territory, with its diversified interests,
would seem to demand a much larger
sum. Many of our statesmen and finan
cial writers ignore this object lesson, and
declare that we have too much money
in circulation. This startling proposi
tion is advanced at a time when cities
in the north, west and south are forced
by tho currency famine to adopt certi
fied checks and factory scrip as a substi
tute for currency.
It is useless to argue tho question.
Look at France with her prosperous peo
ple. all at work and saving money, and
then look at this country for the past
two years staggering from one depres
sion to another. Such an object lesson
should set people to thinking, and when
a few plutocrats tell the masses that we
have too much money and should wipe
out about half of it by demonetizing sil
ver, there should bo bo an emphatic and
a startling response.
"When England and the eastern states com
bine to knock down the price of wheat
and cotton the day of* sectional politics
cannot be said to be over. The south ami
west must stand together against the gold
bug and tory element.
«. ——
The Florida Ship Canal.
Tho ship canal across the Florida
peninsula, which was suggested and ad
vocated so actively about a dozen years
ago, is again prominently before the
public.
Tho western and southern congress
men are strongly in favor of the enter 1
prise, and a final survey will soon
made. Tho effnal will be aljou*
hundred feet wide amd
dred and fifty miles in length. Ic>-
shorten tho distance from New Orleans
to Liverpool 1.000 miles, and vessels
will save the dangerous voyage around
the Florida keys and Bahamas, with
the high insurance rates now exacted.
The canal will link the west and south,
enabling the products of the former sec
tion to be shipped direct to Europe with
out the expensive railway transportation
across the continent. A now company,
with millions of capital will push the
scheme. The president is Judge James
T. Spencer, of New York, and Senator
Jones, of Nevada, Mr. 11. M. I' lagler,
and other prominent men are interested
in the enterprise.
This great work would, of course,
create a demand for labor, and make it
necessary to increase the circulating me
dium. This is an additional reason for
free silver coinage, and the western con
gressmen see that it. would advance the
interests of their section. The naviga
tion of the Mississippi will have to bo
improved to meet the requirements of
the ease, and the harbor of St. Augus
tine, the eastern terminus of the canal,
will have to bo deepened. Tho canal
will cost about $50,000,000. There will
be a. cut of seventeen miles from St.
Augustine to the Si. John's river, which
will be followed several miles. Then a
cut will bo made to Orange lake, in a
heavily timbered yellow pine district,
where it is proposed to establish a ship
repair and navy yard. The canal then
will go through Alachua county io the
gulf. Everything is in readiness to
proceed if a free silver coinage bill pass
es congress and if the government will
improve the navigation of the Missis
sippi-
The mere statement, of those leading
facts will cause the canal to receive tho
solid backing of the south and west.
It brings the representatives of those
sections into closer relations and will
have an important bearing upon the
silver legislation now ponding in con
gress. When a rough estimate is made
of tho enormous saving in time, labor
and money that will result, it will be
seen that $50,000,000 could hardly be
invested to bettor advantage.
The republican party, which is steering
the movement against free coinage, may
as well be prepared to go out of business.
What Democrats Desire.
There is but one way for the demo
cratic congress to satisfy the people and
prevent dangerous divisions of tho peo
ple and that way is the simplest and
most direct of all. Redeem the pledges
of the platform. Make both gold and
silver tho standard money of the coun
try. This can only be done by opening
the mints to the free coinage of silver,
making that, metal, along with gold, the
money of final payment, and investing
it with tho legal tender quality and with
the potential money power that only tho
law can impart.
This cannot be done by repealing the
Sherman law and leaving matters in
that shape. That will not carry out the
pledge of the platform nor meet the ex
pectations of the people. Such action
would simply substitute the Sherman
law of 1.873 for the Sherman law of 1890.
and there is no authority in the platform
for that. The people are tired of Sher
inanism In our financial affairs. Sher-
manism is republican goldbugisin of the
rankest, kind. It has brought, untold
miseries on the country and robbed the
people of untold millions by reducing the
price of their great staple products, cot
ton and wheat.
That congressman is blind indeed who
makes any mistake as to the attitude of
tho people at this time.
Democrats who are anxious to please
their constituents should bear in mind
that the Sherman law of 1873 is a thou
sand times worse than the Sherman law of
1890. Carry out the democratic platform.
A Talk About Economy.
A Texas country paper is on the popu
lar side when it. says:
It does not set well on a man to bo told
to economize and work harder, when ho has
precious few luxuries and works 365 days in
a year. It is very easy to give such advice
when sitting in an easy office chair, but it
Is very hard to take when following behind
the plow handles in the heat and gnats, or
seeing crop prospects perishing during a
drought. A poor man can appreciate the good
tilings for himself and family as well as
any man and they work three times as hard
for what they get as any other class of peo
ple. No man with any justice or reason in
1 him can look around and say the burden of
keeping up the world falls equally on all.
It. is evident that the writer lias a very
vague idea of economy. A farmer is not
necessarily economical when ho works
hard and denies himself the comforts of
life. The economical farmer puts judg
ment into his work. lie has the saving
habit, without being penny-wise and
pound foolish. Instead of making up
his mind to do without some things, he
produces them, when it is possible, at
home. Ho tries to prevent any waste of
the products of the forest and field and
utilizes them to the best advantage. Ho
knows that it is true economy to keep
his buildings, wagons and implements in
good repair. He takes periodicals and
newspapers and studios tho markets,
running his farm in a business-like way.
He enjoys more of the comforts and lux
uries of life than his neighbor who de
i nil's himself almost everything, and yet
ho is the more economical of the two.
Genuine economy docs not moan hard
living. In fact, it prevents it. It means
judicious work, saving the surplus and
tin* utilization of everything within reach.
It; does nor mean the niggardly policy
that would force a man to live like a
savage or a brute.
Doos the east want to pay fair prices for
cotton and wheat? Does England? Here
is the whole secret of the combination that
is seeking to set up the single gold standard.
Living at Home.
Economy and diversified crops have
enabled the south to escape the worst
evils of the present financial depression.
This suggest’ a profitable fine of
thought. The southern people during
tho four years of the civil war demon
strated their ability to produce every
thing that was needed to make them
self-supporting. Four-fifths of their
able-bodied white men were in the army
but. the people who remained at home
raised big crops and manufactured hun
dreds of useful articles which they had
j formerly purchased in the north. If
"e were able to do so much under the
•nri.'st. adverse circumstances we ought to
•■it. easy 'with our open ports in a
• -‘ live at homo and have
urai amt inontif.'ie
.Ci's s iu send .abroad. If we
producing just what wo need to
" ur wants, as in confederate
times, and keeping our money at. home,
the financial flurry in the north and west
would hardly be felt in this section.
Fortunately, we have again made a
fair beginning in the matter of diversi
fied industries, and it is to be imped that
tho present hard times will make us all
the more determined to stick to that
policy.
Wo are not advocating sectionalism,
nor would we place any obstacles in tho
wv.y of goner* commerce. 'l’lio great
truth we would impress upon tho minds
of our readers is the fact that the peo
ple who live at home, produce what they
want, patronize home industries, keep
their money at home and cultivate the
; virtue of thrift, will suffer very little
from ordinary financial panics in other
sections of the country. Let us make
this idea the central one in our southern
political economy.
A few goldbug editors in disguise can't
whip out. the democratic party in Geor
gia.
' 11 —• '
On the Old Plantation.
While it is true that the most success
ful men in cities and towns came from
rhe country, it is also true that ninety
nine out of a hundred who leave the
rural districts to seek their fortunes in
the City make a serious mistake.
The economical and progressive farm
er who shuns debt, diversifies iiis»crops
and studies scientific methods, conduct
ing his business with an eye on the
markets, gets along very comfortably
in even the hardest, times. He is not
forced to “shut down," and his hands
are not in danger of being thrown out
of work. When money is scarce he has
his savings to help him out, and his
fields yield him bread. He raises his
own hogs, and lie is not obliged to rush
liis cotton to market.
Thousands of men in the south who
have stuck to the old plantation, and di
vided it into farms for their sons, hardly
fe 1 the present financial depression. If
they had followed the example of some
of their former neighbors in moving to
town, they might now be walking the
streets out of a job and wondering where
they would find food and shelter the
next day.
The drudgery of farm work drives
many young men to the city. The
chances are that they will find all work
hard and unpleasant everywhere. They
will enjoy more freedom and independ
ence in the country, and it is in their
power to make life on tin' plantation
fust as sweet and bright, as it is else
where.
The farmer must educate his children,
and see that his house is supplied with
books, newspapers and music. Cultured
and congeni.'t tie 1 dibors will form close
friendships, and their united action will
bring good ’oads and many of the eon-
of town life. Free rural mail
delivery must, conn' before' long, and it.
will bring the farms into closer rela
tions witli the towns. Sooner or later
there will be telephone stations in every
small country community, and it is more
than likely that rhe electric railway sys
tem will be extended until every locality
will enjoy satisfactory transportation
facilities.
Os course young men will always drift
from the country to tho town, but they
should know where they are going, and
they should know that there are good
positions waiting for them which their
capacity will enable them to fill. An in
discriminate rush of inexperienced
youngsters to the big cities simply to
try their luck is a very unwise move
nient. We need a large number of
brainy, educated young mon who are
willing to do their level best on our
plantations and farms. Their chances
there will be far belter than in our great
business centers. Their work NN ill be
no harder, and they will get more out
of life. The light and easy jobs are
nearly all filled, and plenty of city men
st,and readv to step into the first xacant
place. The independent and thrifty
farmer in the long run can accumulate
a more valuable ('state than a hundred
of his friends who have made a blind
rush for the big towns.
Senator Vest is criticisoil by the goldlmgs
because he refuses to surrender his convic
tions. The senator lias been for free eo.ti
nge for many years and his convictions on
that subject are those of every intelligent
man who has fairly investigated the sub
ject. This is a large saying, but it is a
true one.
Below tlie Belt.
Tho Louisville Courier-Journal has
this to say in denial of the general inti
mation that tho present financial situa
tion is the result, of a conspiracy to de
monetize silver:
God of the universe, that quacks and cranks
should rant about the money monarchs of
Europe and rave about political conspiracy
in congress, born of their own ignorance and
imagination, at a time like this!
Hon. .John G. Carlisle, seerettiry of
tlm treasury. Litt' L'nited States senator
from Kentmdty, and for many years the
democratic leader of the house of repre
sentatives, had this to say on the sub
ject whi'n a member of the house:
According to my view of tho subject the
eon .piracy which seents to have been formed
here and in Europe to destroy by legislation
and otherwise from three-sevenths to one
half of tho metallic money of the world is
the most gigantic crime? of this or any other
t in' Courier-Journal should make haste
to apologize to Secretary Carlisle. Its
attack is below the belt, so to speak.
EDI TOll]A L COMMENT.
The Richmond Dispatch advocates an Issue
of “baby bonds” of $5 each by the city.
They would do for currency.
The extensive caving In of the river banks
above and below New Orleans threatens
serious danger To that city in the future.
Many Germans are leaving Kansas ami set
tling in Maryland. The great west has been
over-boomed and thousands of people want to
get away.
At the recent session of the American Le
gion of Honor at Milwaukee the reports
showed that one-half of the deaths in the
order are suicides.
A mass meeting in Columbus has endorsed
the cotton mill certificates, and in Richmond
the merchants and manufacturers who have
pay rolls are thinking of issuing engraved
scrip that will lake tile place of currency.
The Chicago Times charges A. Goodrich,
of that city, witli forging divorce decrees.
He is a disbarred lawyer, and does a large
misiness manufacturing bogus divorce de
crees for people all over tin: country.
“Dixie" prints letters from seve.rai south
erii railway managers to tne eft,'Ct that our
railways have alt the tie. essary organization
and equipment for enabling the south to
draw immigrants from the northwest.
Lucile Adams, the actress who died in pov
erty rhe other day at a New York hospital,
was the widow of an EugTlsh lord and was
once worth $1 .onO.OOO. She invested her
money in a western mine and lost it all
The postal clerks of the United States will
ask congress for better compensation. In
tin.' railway malt service they risk and lose
their lives, and they should be well paid
for their work. They have had no change in
their wages since 1876.
Congressman Breckinridge has heretofore
been the idol of Ills party in Kentucky. He
is one of the most eloquent men in the coun
try and his tine moral sentiments have de
lighted many ehaiitauquas and religious as
semblies. His influence over young men was
remarkable.
John L. Sullivan met an old enemy in
New York the other day and knocked him
down. The victim tired t shot t Sullivan and
tlie big fellow skipped out, took a hack and
drove away. Sullivan is strongly prejudiced
against pistols.
I). W. Hughes, of Vandalia, Mo., asserts
that Abraham Lincoln, when a young man,
borrowed half a dollar of him and never re
turned it. Mr. Hughes seems to have a
pretty good memory, at any rale.
The Chicago Herald is satisfied that we
have money enough and only need confidence.
The Herald should ask congress to pass a
law making it a criminal offense for any
citizen to show a lack of confidence in ills
neighbors.
The Kansas women who serve as police Jus
tices deal with the tramp question in their
own way. One tramp was sentenced to two
baths a day for ten days and hard labor on
the stone idle, with the order that lie was
to be fed if he worked and starve if he
shirked.
Ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, Is shown lit
tle mercy by his creditors. They visit his
bouse and demand money, believing tiiat he
has a large sum concealed, one young man
who had lost everything he had in Fos
ter's bank called on him and at the point of
a pistol forceiT him to give up several hun
dred dollars. People who meet Foster on
the street shake their lists in his face aud
denounce him as a thief.
It is reported that a discovery of gold has
been made at Cripple Creek, Col., which sur
passes anything on record. It is in one of
the mines of the Pueblo Consolidated Gold
Mining Company. The lead has been struck
at the depth of ten feet, and very careful,
conservative tests, it is said make it run at
,522,5011 to the ton of ore. It is remarkable to
not the extraordinary number of rich gold
discoveries just now. it’ they continue it
will not be long till gold is a greater drug
than silver. And it is even more remarkable
that the most of these discoveries occur in a
territory where hitherto silver has been su
preme.
After the war street car tickets wore in
general use in Atlanta as a substitute for
small change, aud everybody took them nt
par. During the same period counterfeit
l’nited tSates fractional currency was rarely
ever refused, although it could be seen at a
glance that it was not genuine. A year or
two later the dollar and two dollar notes
issued by the Brunswick and Albany railroad
circulated very generally throughout Georgia.
Almost anything will serve as a substitute
for money when the people are hopeful and
confident. These extreme examples show hovV
easy It would be to make a local currency
popular by establishing it uj>on a reasonably
safe basis.
It is said that, a large colony of working
men left Sydney, Australia, the other day.
to seek their fortunes in Paraguay. All
the members of the colony are said to be ro
bust and energetic men, and the married ones
are accompanied by their families. Their
object in the move is not so much that they
arc not able to make a living where they are,
but they see no chance to make tuoro than
a bare living. They say that capitalists have
taken so entire possession of everything in
Australia that there is not the remotest pos
sibility for anybody who has no capital but
his hands and brains, to get beyond the po
sition of a lijred employe. In fact, money
has crowded them out of AjisSt’alia.
The town of Barnwell, S. reports a
ne-ro boy, twelve years old, with a wonderful
memory He read the book of Genesis once
the other dav taking three hours to do it,
and it is asserted, then repeated it, forgetting
oitlv some half dozen words. lie appears to
be lai'kinix t in intelligence, ana re-
neat's in 'a parrot-like way. The published
storv about him goes on to say that in the
i,i-esenee of reliable witnesses lie gave word
for word, with all the minister s gestures, a
sermon he heard over two vears ago in Rich
mond, even paused to cough where, on the
original occasion, a bad throat aflec.ton or
the clergyman had forced him to do so.
The famous horse Ormonde, the bighest
prieed anima! in the world, has been landed
in New York, and will be taken to tho Cal
ifornia ranch of IV. O. Macdonough, Ins new
owner. Ormonde is ten years old. He was
bred l>y the duke of Westminster aud is a
grandson of Doncaster, except himself the
greatest of English race horses. Hinn he
was two years old he won three lug race-.
When three years old he was winner seven
times, including the derby, not losing a race.
His purses as a two and three-yeac-old
amounted to SIOB,OOO. He was so trit.' and
certain on the track that the books bet seven
to one on him derby day. Unfortunately,
the spleudid horse was a “roarer, * though
it never affected bis speed or endurance.
In 1890 he was sold for .$60,000 to Senor Jose
Boeau. of Buenos Ayres, South America, who
believed that the elimnte would restore his
bronchial an<J pulmonary organs. Last year
Senor Boeau sold him to his California
owner for $150,000, a greater sum than any
other horse ever brought in a market.
Chicago people ought to have a chance to
see the phenomenal stallion on his way to
the coast.
The Deadly Files.
From The Chattanooga News.
The Constitution has knocked the prop out
from under The Journal by pulling the tiles
of 1892 upon it. There is no more deadly
weapon in existence than the files of a paper
when it' makes itself conspicuous on a ques
tion that it formerly held different views
upon. The Journal has not changed its edi
torial head, but the editorial head seems to
have made a considerable of a flop on the
silver question, but great minds are like the
physical elements of humanity—they are each
liable to catch a contagious disease—and as dif
ferent colored glasses bring to tho eye varied
scenes, so (to ('vents color and shape tin 1
minds of men. The Journal certainly has ff
right 10 change its views, but in reviewing
j t s past rd it would seem that an apolo-
gy is due its readers for doing so.
midsummer series
HNDTHE TO
MISSING **
WD!_i_ Ist.
AN INTERESTING CONTEST IN WHICH EVERY
BODY HAS THE SAME CHANCE.
The Missing Word competition craze is
the latest fad in England. It is exciting the
whole country, and hundreds ofthousands ot
people are racking their brains for missing
words.
Several London weeklies have started
what they call “missing word competitions,'
and the craze has affected all England to
such tn extent as to block the money order
office and embarrass the whole postal service
The scheme is this : A sentence is printed
every week from which one word is omitted;
for instance, “Smith is a and people
are invited to send in their guess with a
money order for a shilling. The money
sent in is divided among the guessers who
name the correct word. A few weeks ago
one paper distributed §35.000 among forty
three correct guessers, each man receiving
over §BOO for his shilling. The money order
blanks have all been used up at many post
offices, the mails are clogged, and clubs have
been organized to go into the guessing busi
nesss.
To Constitution Readers.
The Constitution makes this proposi
tion: Among those who supply the missing
word in the following sentence, between now
and the Ist, of Sept. 18C3, we will divide
ONE-FOURTH of the subscription receipts
of all those who send guesses with their
subscriptions.
This leaves us the bare and actual cost of
furnishing the paper to subscribers for the
year.
The Sentence.
The season as a whole
has been rather a busy
one speak-
ing.
The Plan.
Supply the missing word in the above
sentence, and if you guess the correct
word /ou will share with the others who
are as fortunate ONE-FOURTH of the
receipts from the subscriptions of all
those who guess.
The Guarantee.
Noone knows the word missing except
the managing editor, who has placed it in a
sealed envelope and which will be opened on
Sept. Ist. We pledge our honor that the
division will be made and published just as
outlined.
The Prospect.
Suppose 5,000 guesses were made. Thia
would leave $1,250 as one-fourth of the sub*
scription receipts, ter so many names, to be
divided among the successfulguessers. Sup
pose ten persons guessed the word, this
would give them $125 each: if twenty,
§62.50, etc. Suppose there are 10,000 guesses
—which is not improbable—this may givs
from SIOO to SSOO each to the successful
guessers. Checks will be mailed immedi
ately after Sept. Ist
Conditions & Inducements.
The terms of the contest are few as*?
simple:
| Every guess must be accompanied by
one year’s subscription to the Weekly
Constitution, sent to any address at SI.OO,
The sender of a club of live at ($1.0(1
each, for one year, is entitled to a free papei
one year, and also a guess.
3 With every subscription the missing
word should be written plainly, with the name
and address of the guesser. It is not nec
essary to re-write the sentence—sit ply write
the word and label it “the missing word for
Sept. Ist.”
4 Renewal subscriptions are entitled to
guesses just as new subscribers.
TRY YOUR HAND!
IT MAY PROFIT YOU!
Remember that you get the greatest and
best of all American weekly newspapers for
every guess. You cannot do without th
Constitution for 1893.
Address all communications to
The Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.