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HOW THE FIGHT GOES.
HR. JOEL CHASDIEH EARBIS LOOKS
DOWN UPON TltE SCENE.
PUNGENT COMMENT ON THE CONTEST.
Ko Time Like the Present for Saving the Par
ty of the People—Bimetallsin is Merely a
Cloak Behind Which the Advocates of
a Single Standard are Hiding.
Washington, September B.—(Correspond
ence from the Gallery.)—lt is a dml mo
ment here. Legislation is leaning back in
its big rocking chair fanning itself heartily.
Possibly something important is about to
happen, but there is no expectation on the
face of legislation, nor on the faces of those
vho must be used to these moments when
our great men sit ami smile at each other.
Taking advantage of this brief intermission
my mind runs back to the negro porter on
the Pullman ear. He is by all odds one of
the most accomplished and progressive col
ored gentlemen I have ever known. He
found me out in some way, and he literally
overwhelmed me with attention. He had
been employed by Henry Grad.', and he
hail lived in Atlanta. These were the links
that bound him to me. He was full of infor
mation and good will- 1 discovered that
he was born at Ocala, Thomasville, .Jones
boro and Ifittle Rock. He is a married
man. too, having a wife at New Orleans,
at Montgomery and at Macon; and next
week he is to be married in .Jersey City.
The Lord knows 1 wish him well. He is
a modern illustration of the Zulu prov
erb that, “true love has a long arm and a
bad breath-” When he talked of Henry
Grady his eyes tilled with tears and when
a living man, black or white, tearlttll.'
remembers one who has been dead set entl
years, 1 think he should be allowed great
latitude in the matter of birth and mat
nage. r
I am not here to send you the news.
That feature is in more sk.llful and more
capable hands. 1 am here merely as an
observer to whom these fields are Iresh—
fresh, but not fascinating. They do not
need to be fascinating. (Ibsen at tons that
are just—that run to interpretation —
need to be cold-blooded. That which
is on the surface you will get
plenty of in the ordinary course
of your news service- I shall look for that
which lies below, giving, if possible, such
hints as will enable your readers to discov
er for themsctlves what, is between the
lines of the news that goes forth from here
over the wires.
The correspondents here are too busy to
take it to pieces. They have too much to
do. It is feat enough for them if they can
got all that is going and get it. off betimes
so that the irritable managing editors of
the land shall have no cause of complaint-
If a correspondent. here were to undertake
to interpret the news —to add to it what
he really knows—his chief sources of infor
mation would be instantly closed to him.
and his only resource would be to become
a p litieinn I will not go so far as to say
an office-seeker.
In a sense, too, I am in the bonds, but
I shall not undertake to protect any poli
tician’s hank or rear.
1,1
Hie trouble here now—the contention
that is today going on in the senate—is
over class legislation o f the most violent
sort.. It is a naked attempt to legislate in
behalf ot the money power that has its res
idence in the east, and against the prosperi
ty of the people, and in this contest the
people are feebly represented, indeed, so
far as numbers are concerned.
Not, very long ago, when the finance com
mittee was organized, as was supposed and
believed, on the lines ot the democratic plat
form. there was a great outcry at the east .
'Hie papers of that section dei'lnreii tiutt for
thirty years the senate finance committee
had been organized in defense of the pro
tected and moneyed interests of that section,
and they warned those interests that the
time ami come to bes:tr themselves. Just
how active the east has been may be seen
in the present complexion of the senate
finance commit I ce. When organized it was
for the free coinage of silver in accordance
with the desires of the democratic voters
of the country and the pledges of the
democratic platform. At present, the
finance committee is in favor of—well, for
the sake of politeness, I will call it bimetal
lic goldlmggery. Ami John Sherman, the
agent and mouthpiece of the east, is as
mm h the mainspring of legislation as he
ever was. Those who stand for democrat
ic principles and demo, ratio pledges are as
largely in the minority in congress today
tis they were in Is'.kt when an effort was
made to fasten the force bill on the country
in IS'.ML
IV.
Ami this reminds me, when the force
bill was pending in the senate after it had
passed the house, the democratic minority
''Ms J° st /<nd against it to the hist’.
Why? Bcaiise it was a menace to the peo
ples rights and interests: because it was
the attempt of a political organization to
perpetuate its power by means of class
legislation. If any democrat among the
minority had flickered for a moment, or
even given it as his opinion that the major
ity. being reponsible for legislation, ought
to have the opportunity to earrv out its
designs, he would have 1..,- his standing in
the party. He would have been tabooed.
Aid vet the force bid, as any well-in formed
person wu| toll you. was a mere political
bugaboo, inherently futile, and. in the na
ture and essem of thing-, inoperative.
Senator Joseph IL Brown iiemon->t rated this
in a letter to The <'oust it ut ion when ex
citement in regard to the force bill rati
high. He showed in his jihttn. comnion-
Heiisc way that such a pohtie.-d measure as
the Davenport bill defeated its own end.
Rut hen- is a measure of infinitely more
importance than the force bi.! a measure
that will effectually demonetize silver by
reviving the Sherman law of 1.873 a
practical confiscation of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in the value of property
and in the prices of products and yet the
democratic minority are told t hat it will be
disgraceful to tillibuster against a measure
of repeal tiutt promises no relief to the
people in any shape or form, and that is
framed for the sole purpose <>f earrving
out the demands of the banking and money
lending interests of the east.
In my opinion, if the democratic party is
worth saving at all, it is worth saving now.
If the interests of the people stand for
anything whatever, as against the interests
of the monied men of the east, they are
worth standing for here and now in opposi
tion to this ruinous measure that contem
plates the re-peal of the Sherman law ami
nothing else. I am aware that The Con
stitution is not opposed to unconditional
repeal in order to clear rhe decks and place
the question of bimetallism on its merits.
I am, therefore, speaking for myself only
when I say that it was never more neces
sary—not even when the force bill was
pending —for the democratic minority in
the senate to stand firm against the de
mands of the goldbugs and pretended bi-
©Hatient sutterin gO
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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1893.
metallists. Only those who are permitted
to talk in an intimate way with senators
can have any idea of the amount of pres
sure and the extent and character ot the
influence that have been brought to bear on
the representatives of the people here to
induce them to vote for unconditional re
peal. This fact of itself ought to be a suf
ficient warning to those who can see in
unconditional repeal nothing more than
a. step in the direction of bimetallism. It
unconditional repeal were not an attack on
the prosperity of the people, it it did not
lead directly and inevitably to the utter de
monetization of silver —we should not see
allied in Ms behalf the bank syndicate the
money-lending interests, and tiie republican
party led by John Sherman and 1 homas
B. Reed. ,
“Bimetallism!” I am sick of the won..
Under cover of it the whole combination
of bankers, money lenders and Mall street
speculators are urging unconditional repeal.
They will make no compromise; they have
no other programme. “Just give us uncon
ditional repeal and go homo. Ihose who
are standing up for the people have no
influence at court. They do not have
the ear of the a '.ministration. Ihe benefits
of patronage are not for them, nor tor those
of their constituents who too heartily en
dorse their position. .
Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, is I im
agine, a type of the true .bimet.ii.iist. I
am told he announces he is m favor ot
bimetallism because he believes bimetal
lism to be an impossibiht.'. It may be
that, his brother congressmen do not quote
him correctly. But. it seems to be a tact
that all who favor the demonetization of
silver, whether they are from Kentucky
or Maine, call themselves bimetallists
One great trouble is that those who are
in favor of the free coinage of silver are
always in favor of some sort of compromise
in both legislation and argument.. Hence,
we had the Bland bill and now the Sher
man law, with a prospect of a revival of
the law of 1873. So in argument. M hen
a goldbug declares that the free coinage of
silver will drive out gold and establish the
silver standard, the free coinage man is
inclined to hum and haw and make pre
dictions. The answer is that the single sil
ver standard is better a thousand tunes
for the prosperity of the people and the
industrial progress of the country than the
single gold standard. As between the two,
the single silver standard is infinitely pre
ferable As Mr. Balfour and all scientific
bimetallists say. a depreciating standard is
far better than a standard of values that
is constantly appreciating. Iherefote, if
we are to have but one standard, by all
means let it. be silver, so that the people may
eniov the fruits of their labor and the
m'.fitis of their industry. 1 am only
into argument in order to get my s<lf tint d
to the situation here, which is full of re
sounding arguments.
As tn the atmosphere boro, it has been
powerfully i'mpresscd upon me by a little
impromptu talk made at tile railway sta
tion Hast night by a negro man somewhat
past middle age. He was talking to a white
man whom he had known in happier days
and his remarks were delivered in a tone
high enough to attract a little crowd. He
was almost weeping.
"Yasser," he said, “when I live down
dar in F'erginny. dey wern’t no better man
dsn me- I preached—l preached so dat de
police come tell me da t I jarred folks in der
bed. Yasser, 1 jarred ’uni. 1 could go
out in der bushes and pray, and my prars
come true, kaze they wern’t no better man
dan me. But, suh, I come up here an’ I
fallen. Yasser. I faClen. Time I struck dis
town I fallen-"
How many mon who are not preachers
could duplicate this old negro’s experience?
If there is a moral in it, tiie reader is wel
come to find it out.
VI.
Ami yet there are signs of compromise
in the uir—whispers, rumors, suggestions
all possessing more or less significance with
those who circulate them. Yet I am told
by those who certainly ought to know
that there has been a good deul of uneasi
ness in administration circles during the
past few days over developments in the
senate that have not yet become visible to
tiie naked eye of the casual observer. There
is a hitch somewhere in the programme.
Whetl/er the troiKy is off, or a fuse burnt
out, it is impossible to say, but the ear has
stopped on a curve, and the current is oil’,
it is said now that Mr. Carlisle is extreme
ly anxious to preserve the solidity of the
democratic party' and the suggestion is
made that his views are to be found in the
suggestion of compromise offered in the
speech of Senator Faulkner, of West Vir
ginia, yesterday,
Hut the puzzling thing is, why' should Mr.
Carlisle have any more interest in the unity
of tiie democratic party than any other part
of tiie democratic administration - than Mr.
Cleveland, for instance? A western sena
tor said in my' hearing yesterday, that it
was preposterous to suppose that Mr. Car
lisle was running down to the capitol on
his own errands. The geritlenmn to whom
lie was talking acquiesced in this, and said
that there was but one member of the
cabinet above obsequiousness. He named
Graham as the exception. The idea is
strong here that Mr. Cleveland is his own
party, his own cabinet and his own congress.
The fact that the senate is about to go to
sleep on the bosom of a compromise shows
that the back gate has been inadvertently
left open.
The compromise that has been, cutting a
figure in newspaper hints and private con
versation was briefly outlined in the speech
delivered by Senator Faulkner yesterday.
The fact that he read the speech showed
that it had been carefully prepared, but
it did not attract much attention. A few
senators listened, but the majority of them
seemed to be in a comatose condition. John
Sherman's long, bony lingers thrummed on
his desk what seemed to be an accompani
ment to "Johnny Gel Your Gun.’’ Mr.
Hoar, who has the aspect of a presiding
elder, east bis eyes heavenward and seem
ed to be in a slate of ecstatic stupefac
tion. Mr. Voorhees strolled out into the
cloakroom, but got back to his seat in time
to congratulate Senator Faulkner as heart
ily as if he had heard every word of the
speech.
I presume your special correspondents
here have out lined the suggestions of com
promise contained in the concluding para
graphs of Senator Faulkner’s speech. The
senator wants silver dollars coined at the
rate of $3,000,000 a month, until our stock
of that coin reaches the amount fff $860,-
060,000, which is $100,009,000 more than
France has. The opinion here is that the
compromise suggested by Senator Faulkner
finds favor with Secretary Garlisie. as well
as with the free coinage leaders who see
no other way' to carry out their views. By
the time our stock of standard silver dol
lars has reached $800,000,000, or even be
fore, the people may have it in their power
to resume control of rheir govermental af
fairs, legislative and financial.
VII.
The banks are still cutting up their cap
ers. Great surprise is expressed in New
York because Senator Voohees has not
answered a letter asking him to visit New
Yot-k and consult wnh Wall street bankers.
The letter, asking him to consult with the
representative financial men of the east
was sent on Friday of last week. A tele
gram says that the indignation of the
bankers is somewhat modified by the re
flection that rhe senator feels that he is
not in a position to contend with these
mighty men. 'The same dispatch says that
the senator is also aware of the fact that
the bankers "have it in for him" because
he has not urged tlfc repeal bill with suf
ficient vehemence, lie is criticised on ac
count on fiis indieision. The dispatch con
cludes by saying that the bankers will lake
measures to urge Mr. Voorhees forward.
All this niust be exceedingly humiliating
to the Indiana senator, who is a nervous
and high-strung man. 1 have watched him
closely everyday, and 1 have never seen a
person whose position I envied less, lie
is restless and uneasy. IJ.is face is hag
gard, and he has under his eyes what old
time Georgians used to call“trouble blub
bers.” I pity him from the Imttom of my
heart. He may not deserve it; he may not
need it; but he seems to be tortured by the
dragging hours.
J had a t-a-lk. unsought by me, with a
bank official of New York. Fie wanted an
autograph, and lie readily conlinucij the <<l
itorial statements of 'file Constitution to
the effect that the banks of that oiy, while
refusing either to loan mono)’ to business
men or to cash the checks of depositors.,
had made a pretty little sum by selling cur
rency at a premium through their brokers.
Aly informant thought it was a pretty neat
stroke of business, and he was so jolly and
communicative that 1 was glad to give him
the autograph he asked for, and to add an
extra flourish byway of good measure.
The trouble with the banks at this mo
ment is that they tire crazy to get the re
peal bill through the senate before the re
acton, which is setting in, takes possession
of the public mind to the exclusion of the
Sherman law bugaboo. The argument now
is that prices are going up and business
getting on a boom in expectation of the
repeal of the Sherman, law; but it would
be as reasonable to say that gold imports
were the result of the expectation that the
Sherman law would be repealed. Il ought
to be an easy matter for a person with
some imagination to put himself in the place
of the eastern bankers. Should business
begin to boom and prices to go up, with
the Sherman law hanging fire between the
silver men and the goldbugs. the "eminent
bankers" would be in a very bad fix indeed.
They would never forgive Mr. Voorhees,
and Mr. Carlisle himself would come in
for a share of their scorn.
And the test will be made unless the
scheme of compromise, ouilined by Mr.
Faulkner, intervenes. The talk about a
closure rule is nonsense. If such a propo
sition came up it would displace the repeal
lull, and it could be debated for weeks,
perhaps months. Tin* silver men are fully
prepared for it. They are also prepared to
resist unconditional repeal. They are as
full of resources as their opponents..
1 think it would be safe to say that the
reaction in business circles and in prices is
the result of a feeling that tin 1 democrats
in the senate who are standing squarely on
the democratic platform, would be able to
preserve the integrity of tiie party by in
sisting on a compromise in which silver will
cut a definite figure. The great question
now is (as r rhe Washington Post puts it)
"will Mr. Cleveland permit such a compro
mise? It is not likely tl at Mr. Carlisle
would act on his own motion in endorsing
the compromise outlined by Senator Faulk
ner, and it is not likely that the newspapers
would have its ears buzzing with the mat
ter if something of the kind were not afoot.
Jottm Chandler Harris.
[Continued f rom Third Column First Page.]
MISS VILLIERS, OF NEW YORK,
rested. Perhaps they have already sur
rounded'the house.’ 1 walked to the win
dow ami peered out into the shrubbery and
pretended to smile at her fears. ‘This
must not be,’ 1 told her. ‘There is away
to save you. You can leave with me for
New York tonight. You must come; 1 en
treat you to do it.’ In my eagerness 1
think 1 took her hand. 11m' face bright
ened, but the next instant she shook tier
head sadly. ‘They would get both-of us,’
she said; ‘go alone; you shall not be
draggl'd into trouble on my account.’ I
persisted, but she remained firm.
" ‘Then, what will you do?' I asked her.
‘You must not be arrested. Is there any
thing 1 can do?' ‘Nothing, ’ she said, de
cisively; 'nothing but leave me. I will go
with the soldiers; I have no weapon.’ For
an instant 1 hesitated with my hand oil
the door. ‘lf you will not come with me,’
1 said, ‘then take this,’ and I offered her
my pistol. She took it in her loft hand,
while she held out her right to me. I
grasped it with both of mine. For a mo
ment we looked into each others eyes; hers
did not, flinch; 1 looked at the floor. Both
of us felt that it was the last time we
should ever meet..
“Just then she took from the folds of her
dress a letter and handed it to me. I
grasped it ami started to tear it open.
‘Not until you reach America.' she said. I
placed it in my pocket. ‘Goodby,’ she
repeated: ‘goodby.’ She drew lirr hand
awav. It seemed cowardly to leave her
J I I
vWi
“ANI> I OFFERED HER MY PISTOL."
there alone; once 1 started to turn back,
but her looks forbade me. ‘Goodby, Miss
Villiers,’ 1 said ititd hurriedly' left the room.
"At the end of the avenue I was stopped
by an officer and four soldiers and placed
under arrest. Before 1 could realize what
had happened they were going through my
pockets. They found nothing of impor
tance, besides my credentials and pass
port, until one man discovered the envel
ope banded me by Miss \ illiers. He tore
it open and a miniature fell to the ground.
This seemed to satisfy him and he ordered
my release. I did not leave, however, as
1 was anxious to learn Miss \ illiers s fate.
I followisl the officers to the house and
went with them through room after room
searching for her. Finally they entered
the parlor where 1 had left her fifteen min
utes before. She was there still. She
had not left the spot where she was stand
ing when 1 said goodby. She had fallen
to the floor. Iler right arm lay out
stretched. grasping the pistol 1 had given
her. A narrow, crimson stream, yet fresh
and warm had coursed half across the car
pet and formed a poo) just where the light
fell, full upon it. The soldiers gathered
about her in a curious group and the cap
tain's voice broke the silence. ‘She was
[ducky enough,’ he said. I walked away
as fast as I could."
Harding paused, and a silence lasting for
a full half minute had passed before his
hearers realized that the story was done.
“And the miniature?” asked Blake Ilor
nady, who was not a man to overlook de
tails.
“I had forgotten, said the newspaper
man. He took a small, ovabshaped ob
ject from bis pocket, and placing it care
fully on the table, walked over to the fire
place. The others crowded around the
table.
“She was devilish pretty,” said Major
Nesbitt.
“Ami the pistol,” commented bamniy
Smythe; “I would have been afraid to give
it to her if I had been you, Harding.”
Tiie newspaper man was gazing into the
fire.
Lieutenant Cardgrove gave _ Harding a
keen look, and turning to Major Nesbitt,
said: “Major, are you going my way?”
f MALARIA CURE
Which Does Not Injure the System, but
Never Falls to Cure Malaria,
Acute and Chronic.
A person taking a course of treatment
with Pe-ru-mi for any malarial affection
will find not only that he will be relieved
quicker than with quinine, lint that his sys
tem is not deranged in the slightest par
ticular by tiie drug. I‘e-ru-na gently stim
ulates the nervous system to resist the ma
larial poison, and at the same timb gradu
ally eliminates the poison itself from the
system, which quinine or similar prepara
tions cannot do. In old cases of malaria,
where the victim has gone the round of
all kinds of treatment, has hopefully swal
lowed everything recommended for chills,
ami still continues to have them at the
slightest, exposure to cold, wet or fatigue,
Fc ru-na fiemonstrates its superiority over
all oilier medicines by permanently curing
all such cases.
A treatise on malaria will he sent free to
any address by The Fe-ru-na Drug ?»lanu
lacturiiig Company, of Columbus, Ohio.
Mother and Son in Jail,
Marietta, Ga , September 6.—(Special. i—The
coroner’s jury which Investigated the killing
of Rob Collins, In this comiiy, hist nigm,
held Jennie Tyers and her son, Owen, respon
sible. Both are in ja.l. The worn in knocked
Collins down with a stick. He shot at her
with a pistol. Her son then shot and killed
Collins.
ARP ON “FUTURES.”
IIP DOES NOT AGREE WITH ItISHOP
KEENER AN tUBT PAKTICCI.AR.
Dealing in Futures is Gambling but Be Does
Not Think it Affects the People to the
Degree tiie Bishop Asserts it Does.
Let us tote fair with the figures. , Bishop
Keener says in The Nashville Christian
Advocate that “the mercantile world m
the south is now contended by the whole
sale gambling and massive frauds of coil'd
iutuics; that the centers oi New York,
Liverpool and New Ormans have yielded to
this colossal scheme of hazzard until lac
production of the staple has no effect upon
its market value.’’
He says that “during the past three
months there have been sold in New ioia
and elsewhere 06,000,000 bales of cotton.
This would be 224,000,000 bales lor the
year's crop. All of ibis, he says, "is [>urc
iy imaginary value except tiie 8,000,000
bales unit were raised ami this ideal cot
ton that was not made would yield $1,840,-
000,000, and this is the figuring against
wiiieli! the planter lias to make headway.
All tin 1 gambling dens in this country and
in the Badeu-Badens of I'jurope are ciuld s
jday compared with this huge monster tivat
envelopes in its coils tile fortunes and even
the lives of myriads." _ ,
Gambling in futures in a sin. Letting
on anything is a sin, for it is a mode ot
getting something for nothing. It de
moralizing in the extreme and resu.ts in
rigit to tnousandsi (of those who engage m
it, but 1 cannot see how dealing in iuturcs
affects the price of cotton, lor in its anal.'-
sis it is betting whether it will go up or
down. There were no SG,OOt),(MX> bales
bought or sold, neither real nor ideal, the
speculator says to the bucket ph'JP- (
bet you that cotton will go up within thir
ty davs and 1 will put up a margin on
256 bales." "All right;,” saysi the bucket
shop, “put up s<sl>6 ami >l'll take tine bet.
Cotton drops Instead of rising and the
goes up Itiie spou't and the speculator is a
sadder but not. a wiser man. Another spec
ulator bet tiie other way, perhaps, and
won, ami of course he tries it again. Ihe
shop will bet either way, ami like the dealer
in a faro bank, always comes out. ahead
in the end. The shop has no interns; to
bu.l or bear Hie coll on. The simp knows
its consuiiivis and the average ot ittl the
liets, and can hedge to suit it.
Now that is the way 1 understam' it.
It is no getting ip a earner oil cotton.
It is simply backing a _man s imlgment
with his money. That $;>()•) was the slake,
ami while it represented 2.»0 bales, ii was
really the value of only fifteen bales. Ibis
eoiliiiion vd >u!ld yeduce the Bishop s ligm es
from 5G.000.0U1> biles to 3.400.000 tales
as the amount lost or won in three months.
What lit luih to do with fixing the juice l
cannot, see. Liverpool still fixes the price
and has the India crop t > .help fix it and
it seems to be unifi.mi.y fixed eve'., tv..i
in proportion. It is the farmers really who
fix the price when they lix ilie ti -age to
the crop. England-America agents still ix
nmine .•arefullv and cautiously into the crop
condition of every comiry in 'he .-ou ii.
England knows the coa.etm 1 and
of the croji in Bartow county bettn tot.aj
t han any farmer D, !<>’. sae m '•* t t
relv upon one source of information but on
sever'il There >s not ... bt:y-r or dealer
in Georgia who does not rely upon the last
reports sent him from .-.>111..' great mmse
in New' York that is connected with Eng
lish or Newl England mills.. I cannot see
where the bucket shops come m ->r hmw In 9
can influence the price. Mill! 1..
[ike the Inmans put, large moitej«
in cotton every year and make
nl onev, for it. is thetr business am
they understand it. but they run no bucket
sho'ps. imr do they make eolossm fortunes
by speculation. They back their jutli_nu nt
with their money ami are able to bold then
purchases until there is a profit. 1
ber a. Charleston coffee merchant l» the
name of Samuel Farrar who made m t.hiitv
tears a million dollars by dealing m coffee.
He had a large map in his private otlice,
and it was checked off in years and months
and davs, ami the price of coffee tor every
day wi’is marked, ami a green line marked
the utis and downs, the rise and. full, ami it
was 1 very crooked line. Then there was
a straight'red line that split the difference
and showed the average price for the year.
Brazil was the market where he bought.
If the crop was short he made allowances
for it. ami raised Hie red line according to
bis best judgment, and his most reliable in
formation. “1 buy," said he, "w-hen. the
price is below that line. 1 Sell when it is
above." Just so it is with shrewd men
everywhere. .
1 believe there is too much odium heaped
upon rich men. Loo much malignant abuse
of monev kings and millionaires. I reckon
we would all get rich if we could—even tiie
preachers. It grieves me to hear some of
these politicians trying to array the poor
against the rich and to stir up strife and
bitterness among the people. It did not:
use to be that way. Men who prospere.i
were respected in my young days—re
spected by everybody. Riches were not
considered a sin. The scriptures speak
approvinglv <>f Abraham and »Joh and Sol
omon and’trll us of their great wealth, and
how the Lord blessed them. 1 believe that
there are good men now who are rich aud
they do good with their money. If they
did'not 1 don’t know what would become
of the poor and suffering when pestilence
or famine or storms afflict them.
But there seems to be a feeling of unrest
anil bitterness among certain clashes all
over the country. Somebody is making tiie
working people believe that they are im
posed upon by the rich ami by the govern
ment. 1 see in a Rome paper that tlwy
have organized in Chillis district, in Floyd
county, "a bread brigade,” and have 4i><>
members and they have signs and grips ami
passwords, and have sworn that they "will
have 10 cents a pound for their cotton,
debt or no debt, and they will hold it at
the muzzle of a Winchester. Surely that
can’t be so. Is it jiossibk* that the spirit
of anarchy and communism is taking hold
of our people? Bread brigade! Why,
there is not a farmer in Floyd county who
is suffering for bread. I’here is none in
this county. Corn is abundant everywhere.
It used to roll in here from the west by
the carload, but it don’t come now. There
are hundreds of farmers in Barlow who
will have corn and fodder and meat to sell.
Our farmers are better off today than any
other class in the community. They come
and go when th«y please. They have
health' and strength and good water and are
never visited by storms or pestilence, such
as have lately come upon our seacoast.
They have cattle and hogs and
chickens and eggs and "garden sass"
and the schoolhouse and the church are
not far away—what: a pity they cannot for
n little while look in upon the poor of Eu
rope and have their hearts touched with
gratitude that they live in this blessed
land. Labor is too hard upon capital—too
threatening—too exacting. These may
seem strange words forme to use, but they
are true. 1 am as hostile to monopolies
and trusts and combines as anybody, but
when 1 read of these great strikes in a
time like this, it shocks my sympathy.
What are these organizations anyhow, bur
monopolies. The watchword of most of
them is “if you don’t pay so much, wo will
quit and when we quit, nobody else shall
take our [daces. That (lid not use to be
the law and how' ii comes to be the law
now. I cannot understand.
But we are gratified to. see such kind
relations between Mr. Thomas and his em
ployees on our road from Atlanta to Nash
ville. That is all right and we hope it will
continue. The mystery is howl a railroad
can [iay its men at all while our whole fi
nancial system is paralyzed. There is
hardly enough freight business now to pay
for the axle grease. One day last week
tiiere were only seven loaded ears going
north over this great road, so I was told.
Below Atlanta there is nothing to load and
yet the lease of the Western and Atlantic
costs $l2O a day. Railroads ami factories
have (heir troubles, and but few make a
fair rate of interest on their <-ost. The
wonder is that any sane man will invest in
them where strikes and violanee prevail.
Now, I do not wish to be misunderstood.
I have respect for .ill these organizations
where they resjiect the rights of other peo
say to their employers you
shall not carry any freight
pie, but when those employed on one road
that comes over another road where there
is a strike, their demand shocks the judg
ment and the common sense of mankind.
V hen the strikers assault and intimidate
o ters who would gladly work, or when they
all >w violence to be done and the track torn
un and the locomotives disabled, it is sim
plj an outrage upon the law of the land
and if persisted in, will surely bring this
government into a monarchy like those
of Europe, where it takes a standing army
of half a million soldiers to protect citizens
and their property. The very class who
are now importunate for the government
ownership of railroads should remember
that strikes are not tolerated among gov
ernment employes, neither in the army or
naval or public works or the railway mail
service. Strikers do not dare now to stop
the locomotive ami the car that carries the
United States mail.
M'cll, of course, these brotherhoods have
an answer to a.l tins, and 1 have read it
all- I’apers and periodicals come to me week
ly that breathe out enmity to capital
and are tainted with communistic principles
and in my opinion these publications are
doing a world of harm. Tney are educat
ing the working people to the idea that
there should be a division—a division. In
the awful days of the French revolution
three communists went into the Lank of
ill lSn““ ,uM 1,.;
fhn.'.v ilir,... rnmi's »'» '".’"."V L i'...;'-
go tell the rest to come on and git thtl ,
“'b!,!'";..,. i,«v ?
whether emplojeis oi ta-D ■ • . )J|e
somible ami tolerant. :""l , s ! s() q,,.
rights of others and teach -bus
DIRECT TRADE tVJTII EVROFI -
The First SteamihiP of *•><’
Ohio Sails This " ovk.
x- x..v< Vi September 9.—A.
N ‘i U l,O tr'>ii*i from cincinmiti, conveying
hundred guests of the Cl-sapeake
?S.v K i’biX < >m
tha° rea.-hed Newport News this morning
tor'the purpose of witnessing tnei'iaiigilia
tom of the <Tiesape. l k.' ;tod Ohio Sieam.h.p
Company. The first steamtoq. ototins me,
the Rappahannock. Captain I •■>" ’. iiow
lies nt the wharf at. Newport and
will make its first sailing tn" {"’!•' 'nhrfv
of next week- This is to followed r< gill.nl'
by weekly sailings to ami from Liverpool
and London. . ~ .
This steamship line will comprise a 1 y
of six steamers, three of ■\vhiHi were mint
bv Furness Witliev A Co., of Most Hartle
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A Son. Lentlioiise. Glasgow. The steamers
are 376 feet in length ami forty-four in
breadth, wi'h a cargo capacity of 6.7.80 tons
and contains fittings for 770 head <*f cattle.
Additional trucks, piers, etc., have recently
been added to the Chesapeake and Ohio
plant at this point. The visitors were tak
en out 'to the cape ami back to Jlygiea
hotel, to a banquet presided over by Mr.
M. E. Ingalls, president of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad.
Governor McKinney, I'itzhugh Lee. of
Virginia, ami Governor McCorkle, of West
Virginia, were present ami made ches.
The city of Cincinnati was rcspomhal to by
Mr. Brent Arnold .president of rhe Cham
ber of Commerce of that city, and Virginia
by Mayor Ellison, of Richmond.
President Ingalls in his remarks, said:
“We believe that the opening of this line
is an event, in the commerce of this country
wliieh fully justifies the trouble and time
that is given to celebrate it. It is the com
pletion of one of the links in the chain of
commerce that has been more than I<M»
years in forging. The meats ami grain and
cotton and t ibncco of the Ohio and Missis
sippi valleys can now bo carried out. through
this port r-g ’ by this steamship line of
ours to all ,>.<rt.s of Europe cheaper ami
quicker than through any other port on the
continent. The opening of this line of
steamships makes a now era in the com
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Cincinnati. St- T.ouis ami Chicagocan today
have his through bill of lading for goods
for London or Liverpool ‘given to him
direct by this line, and he can make his
own importations through this port ”
Rev. Win. Harmon,
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PEAKY HEARD FROM.
He Is at Bowdoin Bay, West Greenland.
Scarcity of Dogs.
St. Johns, N- F., September 5--—The
steamer Falcon returned to this port this
afternoon from Bowdoin bay, west, Green
land, having successfully accomplished the
landAig of the Peary expedition at that
place. The Falcon left here July 15th
Itvuwd for Labrador 'to ijyirvhuse dogs
necessary for the success of the expedition.
She arrived al Bailie harbor on the 17th,
cruised along tiie Labrador coast, meeting
with but indifferent success in the pur
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the Greenland coast on the 27th. Four
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ed of exposure. The Falcon sailed along
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seven' dogs. At Cape York, i’eary got
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Falcon arrived at her destination on Au
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August 2<)t'u, leaving Peary’s party com
fortably ensconced in the house they took
witii them. It was found that the house
used by the last expedition had been torn
down and used for various purposes by
the natives. A whole colony living ou
Englefield gulf moved near I’eary to remain
with him during his stay.
The Falcon made a good passage, and
arrived here without injury. The north
ward passage was unaccompanied by any
special incident. All the party were well
ami in good spirits at the time she left
Falcon harbor. Exhaustive inquiries con
cerning Berhoeff, who was supposed to
have been killed last year by falling into
a crevasse, were made by tiie parly, but
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A J.x k< v Kilin,l.
Gloucester, N. J., September 8. —While ex
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