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THE CONSTITUTION.
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erd-class _na;l matter. November 11. 1873
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Leaping Forward!
The stockholders of the Cotton States
and International Exposition met Mon
day morning, and effected a permanent
organization. They elected a board of
directors, and lite board met in the af
ternoon.
The proceedings of both meetings will
be found on another page. The most grati
fying enthusiasm was manifested, and
the exposition was placed under the man- ]
agomeiii of leading citizens whose abil- ,
Ity, pulilic spirit and liberal ideas make ■
its success assured.
Our great exposition is now on its feet. ■
It began its legal existence on 16th inst.
From now on its career will be one of ’
active work, and as soon as the archi- ■
teers draw their plans ami the directors ]
accept them, the exposition buildings i .
and grounds will be the busiest place m j
the < oimtt y.
Our W' . kingmen will obtain employ- .
nietiT, ami their weekly wages v ill .
i progress
of tiie work will be heralded all over '
the world, and the eyes of capitalists |
mid men of enterprise will be turned
in this diret don.
So far. ever;, thing has moved along
smoothly, and Atlanta has made a
niagniiicent showing in her minimum
fm: 1 e nearh s2_‘( ».'•'•(), which will prob
ably be increased to sgtMi.ouo in a very
gh .•• time by snliscriptions from the
railroads and other big corporations and
business institutions.
. < it ide world will
Join us in o’.tr gr t industrial ami com- :
nier ial reiini n. and the countries south
of us will be with us and do their level
best.
Nothing that tins been done by the ex
position < oi'ip. ey gives such broad sig
nitii am e to the v;: 4 scope of the move
ment as the :n-'i>ti of the beard ol di
n . to.-s nt cx’aieishing as a prerequisite
h> th ■ cho; o of the most responsible
oflie, :-s <f th- organize ti-m the willing
n- ss of sti it oflh-ers to give their entire
time from n >v until the exposition, to
th- great r- nsibilit-es of their respect-
'1’1: is a world of n. -.tning in this ac-
tion. fir when ever tl of Atlanta’s most
em •_ d • and p--A men are asked
to give up their individual business for
u year and a half and to devote their i
entire time to the great work of the ex- I
positior. ‘be magniitid-' of the movement 1
beernu s at on e apparent.
I’ermaueut o'm-ers of the company were i
chosen at Thursday’s meeting oi the I
board cf Jii . ,-tors. Naturally Colonel W. i
A. II- aphid, who has been president >
of the temporary organization, would j
have be<-n select'd as its permanent ;
h- 1 '. but the pressure of his private ,
bu.'-im-- .p. f icttlaiiy since the recent !
con. 'dilation of the two hanks of which ;
Im is the chief officer, was such as to ;
ret it r it i .p ossible for him to give his t
undivided time to the work from now ;
until the close of the exposition. The se- i
It . lion of lion. (‘Earles A. Collier as
appt val, ,
st , I in a i:iigi,:g speech to the board of ‘
d r ’ : ; y. “’•■lay Colonel Hemphill ’
wtig-.i til: e-4 tii -tn on the progress of i
tin- tin:-, -itn ut. and pledged his continued :
n in b hr.if of its sueie s. The fact ;
tlx.-, m n ' ■' si' li energy, experience and '
r . . - IT- -id'-nt Collier and Idirec-
tor G : -I rainier, the two directing
heads ; th'- organization. agree to de
vote the.r full time to the movement is,
in its, if, a guarantee of the scope of
Mr < ’oilier is one of
Ail nia -. iia i ■ . -rprising citizens, and
lias been very closely identified with [
fora. ;• e.\] i sii >n movements. He is a |
a ...n "i i luiim. . d executive ability, and
of sj ’eiidid business judgment, and this
Bel, ,-tion puts at the president’s desk of
th-- ( "Hon States and International Ex
poshi.m < uuip.iny. for tin- next year ami
a half, a man wito is in every way
worthy io till the position. The same can
be - iid of ihri tor General I’ahner. who
v. Il work in double harm-ss with I’resi- 1
th ;.t Collier. He is one of Atlanta’s
m ist progr<-ss?, c citiz ’is. and through
his energy and enterprise millions of
dollars of outside capital have been
brought to Atlanta for investment.
The other ofiu-ors of the association
were seleeied with special view to their
business ability, and to their special lit
lo -;s for the r sponsible trusts assigned
to them.
Taken as a whole the now officers |
m ike a sploulid combination, and tindi-r i
their direction the exposition will now
begin its great work in earnest.
An Unwise Policy.
Our advices from the western cities
continue to report the eastward move
ment of tiie industrial armies.
T1 ■- mayors ami railroad authorities in
the far west combine together and pro
vide free transport at ion for these excur
sionists. These idlers are fed and com
fortably boused, ami sent rejoicing on j
their way to Washington.
This policy is against the interests of i
THE WEEKT/Y CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, GA., M.ONOAY, AF.KLL
peace and order and industry. If Cox
ey’s followers can pay their way they
have a right, to go where they please,
so long as they behave themselves, but
when they try to live without working,
and with no means of their own to sup
port them, no community should en
courage them.
If a town in the far west has a right
to ship these tramps to Washington it
will be the proper thing for Washing
ton to ship them back again. We have
had too much of this sort of thing. Many
southern cities give their paupers tree
transportation to Atlanta, ami our au
thorities pass them on to other towns.
The practice is a bad one. W hen the
authorities of a town find a destitute per
son they should deal with the ease
themselves instead of throwing the bur
den upon strangers. They are working
against the best interests of the
and it is time to call a halt.
ahe saphoads say that those who stand
on the democratic platform .ire ('soreheads.
Consequently “soreheadism” is the rage.
Senator Morgan's Speech.
We prinl in another place an ,elaborate
report of the speech delivered in Opelika
yesterday by Senator John 'l'. Morgan,
of Alabama. The senator had as an
audience a thousand democrats of that
section, and his speech was peculiaily
eloquent and impressive.
His effort throughout was devoted to
urging democratic harmony and unity,
with the democratic platform as the me
dium, in the face of the great emergency
that confronts the party, ami be warned
tin* people that the effort to complicate
the political situation in Alabama was a
movement calculated to betray the state
into the hands of the republicans. He
compared it to the Mahon.- movement in
Virginia, and urged the democratic
voters to stand by their party and their
party's principles.
The speaker earnestly and eloquently
advised the people to have the courage
of their convictions and to reasseri once
more the spirit and principles of local
self government. lie suggested that
there was a disposition aiming men who
had thoroughly tested the strength and
value of democratic principles to lay too
much stress on vi"ws expressed al ’A a>h
ington, and to acquiesce in them too
readily.
Senator Morgan touched on an im
portant subject when he said that there
ought to be more independence of
thought at home and less subserviency
to the views of public men at Washing
ton. In Alabama, in Georgia, in every
part of the south and in every state of
the union there is today a tendency
among men who know what democratic
principles are to shave and trim theii
opinions and convictions to suit the ru
mors and whimsicalities that Hutter
forth from Washington. The people of
the south—the humblest as well as the,
highest have suffered enough in the
cause of democracy to have their con
victions grounded in the very marrow ol
their bones. They n fused to surrender
These convictions to the bayonets of re
publicans. Shall they now surrender
them to the emissaries of the republican
plutocrats of the east who are masquer
ading in congress and out of it as demo
crats?
Senator M >rg:m said that the demo
crats of Alabama shoul I be united on
the repeal of the l*> per cent tax on
state banks and for the adoption of an
iti'-ome tax. He declared lot the tiee
coinage of silver, and prayed for the era
of democracy to be restored.
With respect to tin- attempt to stir tip
an administration light in Alabama the
senator said be could see no reason why
the state convention should indorse the
administration in a contest, which was
purely local. The reason for the sena
tor’s advice is manifest. There are dem
ocrats in Alabama—thousands of them—
who do not endorse Mr. t leveland s
financial views. There are other demo
crats who, for reasons best known to
themselves, do endorse tliein. In view
of this situation, it is the policy ol wis
dom for the convention to refrain from
injecting such a bone of contention into
its proceedings.
The speech w'as a powerful one from
first to last and.made a deep impression
on those who heard it.
While the cuckoos are abusing 11 d! for
to vol for the income tax, they
®bc'jid remember Mr. de-velarid s veto of
the seigniorage bill We condemn both.
Hill in the South.
The Richmond Tinies, quite unnecessa
rily we think, is discussing “why Mr.
David l’>. Hill bas played out at the
south.” The Times is of the opinion that
it is because the senator “has been found
out to be a machine politician and noth
ing more.”
The (‘oustitution is of the opinion, how
ever. that tiie democratic people of the
south, who have found party organiza
tion to bo so necessary to their saiety
and success, would be the last to ob
ject to a “machine politician.” The term
is supposed io be a contemptuous one,
and ii is so employed by tiie mugwumps
of tiie east who have aided in the be
trayal of the democratic party, and by
their imitators elsewhere. Rut we see
nothing objectiiinalile in “a machine
politicitin.” ami if that was the only ob
jection to Senator Hill, he would have
lost no supporters in the south.
-A machine politician.” in the mug
wump vernacular, is simply a man whose
convictions are strong enough to bind
him to his party organization, and who
believes it to he a patriotic duty to put
in operation the principles and purposes
that tiind it together. A man who st.-iiids
by liis party is, in tiie eyes of ihe east
ern mugwumps and tlu-ir southern imi
tators, a villain indeed; but if The Rich
mond Times thinks that Senator Hili lias
“played out” in tiie south because lie is
a good party man. it takes but a sitper
fieial view of things
Tiie trouble with Mr. Hill goes deeper
than that. His former friends liere have
dropped him because to all intents and
purposes lie lias taken his stand with
those who are willing to repudiate the
democratic platform because in the face
of a great emergency he iias shown that
he is as willing to sacrifice the interests
of the people to ihe sectional demands
of the east as Mr. Cleveland himself,
lie is tarred with the eastern stick. Tiie
very newspapers ilia! have been loudest
in their applause of Mr. Cleveland's at
titude, are loudest in their praise of
Senator Hill. The senator had the op
| | ortunity of choosing between the career
of a statesman devoted to the true in
! terosts of ‘lie whole country, and that of
a sectionalism devoted to' the exclusive
interests of tne money power.
He unhesitatingly chose the latter.
Just as unlK’siifitingl.v his friends in the
south, wito th6uglit they saw in his
career tiie possibilities of statesmanship,
turned their back's on him.
We do not think the opportunity will
ever come to him again. If it does we
feel Confident that he will avoid it as
promptly and as decisively as he did the
oilier day. At the same time we should
be sorry to believe that any southern
democrat objects to Senator Hill be
cause. in the dialect of the mugwumps,
lie is a machine politician.
Perhaps Carl Schurz is a humble camp
follower of the Coxey army.
Counting a Quorum.
The democratic house has at last set
tled down to business.
Tiie evils of absenteeism and filibus
tering wiil now be dealt with in a vigor
ous manner that will suppress them.
It is natural that many democrats
should oppose the new rule, but there is
a growing belief that the question has
two sides. Two years ago the democrats
in tiie house fought Tom Reed’s method
of counting a quorum and opposed it,
on the ground that it was practically an
arbitrary usurpation of authority. The
fight was one of the most memorable
struggles in our parliamentary annals.
But the democratic congressmen have
changed, or at least modified their views.
Tiie house bas spent, month after month
doing nothing. The democrats have been
unable to redeem the pledges of their
platform and carry out the routine of
legislation because the absent members
of their own party, tiie non-voting mem
bers and the filibustering tactics of the
republicans have placed the house at the
mercy of the minority. Something had
to be done or the legislation of this
session would i>e completely blocked.
So the democrats have adopted a rule
which authorizes the speaker to appoint
tellers representing each side of a pend
ing question, who shall count the non
voting members present, and add them to
those who respond in order to make a
quorum. This obtains the result of Reed s
rule by fairer methods.
The democrats favoring the new rule
say that they were forced to it by the
conduct of democratic absentees and the
insolent republican minority. ’1 he ad
vocates of the new rule claim that it
was a case of necessity, and they had
to d«» something or waste tiie session and
go home without attending to the busi
ness of the people.
Mr. Reed may think that he has been
vindicated, but he will find that the re
publicans will no longer be able to ob
struct business and the house will go
right ahead with its work. His vindica
tion will cost him and his party more
than it is worth.
Whether the new rule is right or
wrong we do not pretend to say. It must
be admitted, however, that the demo
crats voting for it had strong provoca
tion. There is another interesting matter
in this connection. The democrats with
about 10<) majority, would be forever dis
graced if they remained idle and dis
appointed their constituents simply be
cause the minority stood in their way.
The democrats wito went into a caucus
to eon.-Alt ’• the new rule and then bolted
occupy a peculiar condition. They hold
that they are not bound by a caucus,
lint if this be true how can concert of
action lie secured on any great issue,
and how can Hie party be held together?
In view of the fact that the tariff bill is
in danger in the senate it. was well for
tiie democrats in tiie house to hold a cau
cus and emphasize their earnestness by
taking steps to secure a quorum in
future. The bolters from the caucus
who hold that they are not bound by its
action may possibly give plausible rea
sons for their course, but old-fashioned
democrats fear that we are entering a
period of political anarchy in which ihe
disintegration of the party may be
brought about by the rule or ruin policy
of a stubborn minority. The situation
bristles with doubtful and perilous
features.
Senator Hill can now shine as a civil ser
vice reformei - if he
The South’s Foreign Trade.
While we are talking about, direct trade
between our southern ports and those of
for, ign countries we should take notice
of the steady progress of the movement.
The western and southern products
whicli formerly found a foreign outlet
through the north Atlantic ports now
seek the south Atlantic and gulf ports.
Shipments Io New Dirk and New Eng
land are no longer made by Hie all-rail
haul. It lias been found that it is cheaper
to send them via the southern ports.
Th" Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record
quotes as follows from a government
report giving the value of foreign ex
ports for the eight months ending Feb
ruarv, IS'.)-!, as compared witii the cor
responding period 1593:
From i 1894- ' 1893.
Fla. . .1? iß97«oj>
Beaufort, S. C 2,5£7,ffiJ2 ' i 8,213
I ■ 2u>,bt>9
Brun w ck. Ga . . . . 2.915,719 4,435,043
C’harlest.'.i, S. < A . . .1
Corpus Christi, lex, .| 2,023,523 4,/16,b2(>
Fernandina. Fla. . • 935,393 837, /W 2
n I, ■I 82,102,496 83,2 ) 88
c,eor:.it"wn, s. C. . ,| 20,2'J9 ’i.S'7
K... ' V. < -t. Fla. . .1 349 <Bb,W4
Mobile. Alai 2,107,709 2,t ,016
\',.w nrl'.nc I.i. . •! 63.0''7.:t|0 51. H 15.70 S
. Va. . . 9,663,688 5,499,351
Ni -folk aid I'tsnih, Va.l 8,170,9541 &,701.!'.?9
ignnli'i’, I
|el T< x. i 1,616,673] 5 b,865
Pearl Rivr. Miss. . .| 478,350| 520,614
j'eii.-.ieuij i'ta i --Jr 'J 11 •J-'.-.m:;
Richmond. Va I B,i.lJiiX' 2,415,A9
St Audi line. I'la. . . .( 3.1) 395
. . 67,9551 41,521
pt. Marl. -, Flal 3.800
St Mary’s, Ga. . . .1 12,39/1 43,863
T. •| 1,109,773 2.308,742
Savannah, Gal 21.055,196 16,141,618
T impa, I 'LI I 46i.gi.l] 389,.'13
T--I:e. I.:'. ... 1.057
Wilmington, N. C. . .| 6,155,152 6,445,444
T0ta15230,203,701 $202,914,760
The increase for tiie whole country is
.$.'2.1 mtUit 10. and for the south it is $27,-
,•',00.000. more Ilian one-half of the total
gttin. Baltimore gains about $(1,000,000,
t’harJeston $3.500.000, New Orleans
$5,700,000. Newport. News $4,200,000,
Norfolk $2.-100,000, Richmond $1,300,000,
and Savannah $ 1,000,0(X).
Direct trade for the south is now an
accompli .lied fact, ami the European
freight and passenger steamship lines re
cently i st-ibiished between Port Royal
and Europe indicate the rapid increase
of our foreign trade. When Atlanta's
great exposition brings u- in touch with
th.' countries south of us our southern
seaports will be among Hie most impor
tant commercial centers on the conti
nent. Dir.>ct trade will aid our manu-
facturing interes's instead of injuring
them by letting in foreign competition.
Ender our coming low tariff system our
manufacturers will reach out for new
markets, and the south will be en
couraged to manufacture most of her
raw material ami ship the surplus
abroad.
Undoubtedly, we are entering the most
important commercial and industrial
era in our history.
In twelve months the organized money
power will be fighting greenbackism. They
will be willing to open the mints to the
free coinage of silver before the financial
campaign is over.
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Fret) Coinage in the Platform.
The Brooklyn Standard-l’nion, edited
by Mr. Murat Halstead, one of the most
conspicuous republican partisans in the
country, rebukes The Constitution for
remarking that a majorit.v of the demo
crats in congress were elected on free
coinage platforms and that till had
heartily united in endorsing the Chicago
! platform. Mr. Halstead’s rebuke takes
I the sliape of a sharp reminder that the
I word “free” is not in the platform, and
that an effort to have the word inserted
was defeated by the convention.
We have heard something like this
nearer home. Mr. Halstead’s rebuke is
beautifully supplemental to the charge
The Constitution has made that the re
ptibliean and the cuckoo and patron
age organs belong to the same conibi
i nation which has for its purpose the
' substitution of John Sherman’s tinan
| cial views for the pledge of the demo
[ era tie platform.
The cuckoo organ here at home wants
! to know, you know, why “free coinage”
is not in the platform, and John Sher
man and Murat Halstead, and all the
administration forces want to know’ the
same thing. Well, free coinage is not
in the platform simply because it is there
as large as life and more natural than if
the word “free” had been put in. It
will appear to any thoughtful person
who reads the platform with any atten
tion that the word “free” could not have
been inserted without injuring the sim
ple strength of tiie declaration. Let us
see what that declaration is:
We denounce the republican legislation
known as the Sherman act of 1890, as
a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possi
bilities of danger in the future, which should
make all of its supporters, as well as its
author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We
hold to tiie use of both gold and silver as
the standard money of the country, and to
the coinage of both gold and silver without
discrimination against either metal, or
charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of
coinage of both metals must be of equal
Intrinsic and exchangeable value or be ad
justed through international agreement, or
by such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance of the parity of
the two metals and the equal power of
every dollar at all times in the markets
and in payments of debts; and we demand
that all paper currency shall be kept at
par with and redeemable in such coin. We
insist upon this policy as especially neces
sary for the protection of the farmers and
laboring classes, the first and most defense
less victims of unstable money and a fluctu
ating currency.
Now, if our mints tire at present open
to the free coinage of gold, then the plat
! form demands that they shall be open to
1 tin? free coinage of silver, for the pledge
I is that there shall be no discrimination
i at the mints against either gold or sil
j ver, or charge for mintage. What could
! plainer than this? Why. then, are
i ri: > cuckoo organs, wito pretend to lie
| democrats, and who keep this pledge
I standing at the head of their editorial
columns, nnwilling to see it carried out?
Why do they dodge its plain terms? Why
do they endorse tiie single gold standard
and approve John Sherman’s financial
views?
The platform declares that both silver
and gold shall be the standard money
of the country, that there shall bo no
discrimination in coinage against either
metal, and no charge for mintage. This
is not only a declaration but a pledge;
why not carry it out?
We believe the cuckoos dodge this by
indulging in a lot of jargon and chatter
about, “parity” and an “international
agreement.” But the platform declares
that both gold and silver 4 shall be the
standard money of the country by coin
ing silver on the same terms with gold,
and then, when that is done, it. provides
that “ihe dollar unit, of both metals must
lie- of equal intrinsic ami exchangeable
value or be adjusted through interna
tional agreement, or by such safeguards
"f legislation as shall insure the main
tenance of the parity of the two metals,
and the equal power of every dollar at
ail times in the markets and in the
payment of debts.”
Now, nothing could be clearer or more
satisfactory than this. Read it again,
and then tell us what is to be adjusted
by international agreement or by safe
guards of legislation. Is the coinage
of both, gold and silver to be so adjust
ed? Is “international agreement” to
“adjust” the question whether both gold
ami silver shall be the money standard
of the country?
We challenge the cuckoo organs and
their greatest leader, John Sherman, to
I point to a single line, or word, or hint,
, in ihe democratic platform that justifies
i their malicious effort to twist the mean
j ing of the financial pledge. Il is the
i ratio—the parity—that is to be adjust
. cd by International agreement. But sup
’ pose there is no international agreement?
What then? Is tiie democratiu pledge
1 to fall to tiie ground on that account?
i By no means. The platform provides
for sih li an emergency. If there can be
i no international agreement, gold and
! silver are to be made (lie standard mon
, ey of tiie country just tl.m same; the
mints tire to’be opened to both metals
i on tiie same terms just tiie same: and
: then tiie ratio is to be adjusted by su< h
: safeguards of legislation «;s will insure
’lie parity of tiie dollar unit of both
met: Is in tiie markets and in tiie pay
’ meat of debts.
Tiio patronage heelers wil< haraiy have
elbow room when the people begin to
move.
A Satisfactory Appointment.
Tiie appointment of ex-Governor
Thomas J. Jarvis to the senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sena
tor Vance will be acceptable to the whole
south. Senator Jarvis is a man of the
people, ami a true representative of the
democratic sentiment of North Carolina
and of the whole south. He is said to
be a man of great personal magnetism,
of splendid judgment and lie lias the full
confidence of Ihe democracy of his state.
He rose from the plow handles, and his
wonderful success pays a tribute to the
genius of the map. Having had the ad-
vantage of nothing more than a rudf
mentary education, and being forced to
earn his own living between the plow
handles until after he had attained full
manhood, he persistently applied his
natural gifts with such success as to
force his way into Hie very front rank
of the gretyt men of his state.
In the last state campaign in North
Carolina he carried the chief burden of
the democratic party and made able
speeches throughout the state. As a
statesman he is wise ami far-seeing, and
is a man of intense practicability. As
an advocate of the free coinage of sil
ver and tariff reform, he made one of the
most remarkable successes ever made
in a democratic campaign in North Caro
lina. completely routing the opposition
and strengthening the party at a time
when it was thought that it would show
great losses in the states.
Fifteen millions for the relief or U»e
poor in New York city in one year! Ana
the end is not yet!
Ohio and Texas.
In the matter of lynching, under cer
tain similar conditions, Ohio and i exas
are very much alike.
Wlien a negro in Texas feloniously
assaults a white woman tiie people of
the vicinage lynch him. This practice
is severely condemned in Ohio, but when
the people of that state have the same
provocation they adopt the 1 exas
method.
'fhe other night a negro who had as
saulted a lady in Logan county, Ohio,
was sent to jail. A military company
was ordered out to protect him, but. the
mol) induced the soldiers to retire and
then hung the prisoner to a convenient
tree.
Our southern lynchers are not so law
less. They have never yet driven off
the militia, and as a rule when the au
thority of the state makes itself heard
they submit. H<e in Georgia, ami also
in Mississippi, there have been times
when Hie governors of those states have
dispersed lynchers without calling on
the military.
But we have many times called atten
tion to the fact that human nature is
about the same everywhere. Lynch law
in Texas is deplorable, but Mai/ie will
resort to it the moment that the people
find that their women are outraged by
brutes.
We have peculiar conditions, varying
witli our different sections. Tiie east can
no more lay down the law for the south
than the south can prescribe a law for
the east. We must all attend to our
affairs in our own way.
We believe the democratic voters of the
south are about as far from accepting John
Sherman’s financial views as they e y i ' r
were—in round numbers, more than a mill
ion political miles.
A Revolution in Cotton.
The Rockefellers of Standard Oil
fame, are said to be interested in a new
device for baling cotton.
Tim other day one of these bales ar
rived in Galveston and at once became
the center of admiring observation. It
was a cylir er, five feet, eight inches
long, by twenty-one inches in diameter,
fastened witii carpet tacks, ami weigh
ing 55(> pounds. It is claimed that this
now baling process will wipe out the
middle men, and make every ginm r his
own compressor. There will be no mote
bagging and ties and compresses, and
cotton jamming will be~i lost art. 1 lie
Galveston Nows says:
Four gins tailed to a common center in
which is a steel frame costing $1,500.
Through this frame run four mandrils. The
power which runs the gins runs the man
drils in the frame. A boy comes along,
grabs tiie end of a bat as it comes from
a gin and gives it a turn around the nearest
mandril, which immediately commences
winding it up like a roll of wail paper. An
iron roller runs against the cotton on the
mandril, compressing the white cylinder
to a density of about twenty-seven pounds
per cubic foot. Tiie people who have this
wonderful scheme in hand say that they
can put the cotton down to forty pounds.
There are other Richmonds in the field—not
the cotton field, where die staple is grown,
but in tiie cotton field where nothing grows
but the other man’s bank account. Ihe
Kembert cotton roller lias been greatly per
fected and can, it is claimed, put cotton
down to forty pounds a cubic foot if neces
sary. The Rembert bales are twi nty-two
indies square by about five feet eig.it
inches in 'length. Some of this cotton will
be exhibited here this week.
The cylindrical bale in the cotton ex
change was shipped from Waco by Mr.
Warren Batterson. Cotton men here are
speptieal regarding the many claims made
for this cylindrical bale, but some believe
that it will so revolutionize cotton growing
that, along with improved cultivators, har
vesters, Huns and Slavs, 2 cents a pound
will be profitable figures to tiie farmer.
Under the new regime there will be no
nigger in the cotton patch, no man in the
box\ no cotton jammers, no commission
merchants, samplers or inspectors--simply
a cotton harvester, a gin stand with
compress attached, a railroad wharf, a
steamship and the Manchester ship canal.
Perhaps these claims are too extrava
gant. The fact, however, that tiie Rock
efellers are interested in the new process
would indicate that it will be pushed,
and it may lead to a revolution in the
cotton world.
EUZ touial comment.
The late David Dudley Field said that a
good constitution, hard work and plenty
of exercise were necessary to long life.
Many men expect the first to make up for
a lack of the other two requisites.
"Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will make her
future home in Washington, D. ( ~ where
she has decided to purchase a residence in
the northwestern fashionable section of the
capital. Her mother, Mrs. Grant, who is at
present ut San Diego, Cal., expects soon to
go to Washington. Both Indies are wealthy.
Mrs. Sartoris has an income $:m,000 a year
from property left her by her father-in-law.
She has lived in England since the death
of her husband, where her eldest son is a
student at Oxford university. After his
graduation he will return to America. Mrs.
Grant and Mrs. Sartoris will be among the
few intimate friends at the Blaine-Beale
wedding, April 30th.
The first ambition of every Chinaman is
to have a splendid coflin. A poor man will
starve himself for years to have one. It is
always received with great ceremony on its
arrival at the house, and is regur.led as the
most valuable piece of furniture in the es
tablishment. It is kept in the place of honor.
No one is ever buried until there is ready
money' enough in the house to do so with
out the family running into debt. There are
many strange customs connected with the
funeral rites, one of these is the burning
at the tomb of paper horses, idols, umbrel
las and clothe". These are supposed to be
necessary and useful to the man when he
gets to heaven. By being burned they un
dergo some material resurrection and meet
him there.
Thus sings the poet of The Waycross
Herald:
“The corkscrew sprouts in a modest way,
The bait gourd starts to climb
The tree by the hole on the grassy lea,
'Twill soon be fishing time.”
NEARING A PECIPICE.
Oeraocrntic Alsijoi-ity lit Congress In
vitiiiK Ruin by Tariff Delay.
From The New York Herald.
In the repudiation of the currency plank
of the democratic platform, as the result
of the extra session of congress, the ad
ministration sowed the wind from which it
is now reaping the whirlwind. Since that
shameless denial of tiie party’s platform
there has been nothing but confusion, dis
order, factional discontent and party strife
in tiie ranks of tiie democrats not only in
congress, but throughout the country.
The precedent esfablisJieii by the admin
istration, assisted by a handful of demo
crats in congress, of courting republican
combination to defeat the wifi of tiie over
whelming majority of the party in order to
establish the smgle gold standard is evi
dently to be followed in the consideration
of the tariff bill.
The bill was bad enough as it left the
house but it was better than nothing, and
infinitely less damaging than the policy
of delay and inaction. What tiie house
failed to do in recognition of the principle
on which tiie McKinley law was built the
senate promptly did, and the bill now be
fore the consideration of that body much
more nearly harmonizes with the tariff,
plank of the republican platform than that
on which the democrats went before the
country.
In other words, the bill is, in principle,
republican and not democratic, but it nat
urally meets with republican opposition
since, while being founded on the principle
of the McKinley law, it does not go to the
same extreme. Not only that, but It is not
surprising that the republicans should take
the position that if republican policy is to
be enacted into law it must come through
a republican congress.
But the bill, even in the shape in which
the senatorial bushwhackers have put it,
is better than no bill at all—that is, it
would be if there were any reasonable ex
pectation of immediate action. What the
people now want above all things is to get
the tariff out of the way, to put it on a
definite basis, to let the business interests
of the country understand just on what
they are to base their calculations. The re
enactment of the McKinley law a year ago
would not have created the havoc which
has been caused by the inane policy that
has characterized every movement in the
consideration of the tariff bill from the day
it was introduced until now, when we find
it in the throes oi' strangulation in the
senate.
Every day emphasizes the indignation ol
the people. Democratic strongholds an
polling tremendous republican majorities in
the advance election being held all over
the country. Rhode Island, which a few
years ago gave strong hope of becoming a
fixed democratic state, has turned its face
again to the republican sun. Municipal
elections in New York. New Jersey, Ohio,
California, and elsewhere reflect the senti
ment of democratic disapproval and dis
content at the policy or repudiation, which
seems to have control of the course of
legislation in Washington.
The party yet has time to strengthen it
self and to regain v.hat it has lost in the
estimation of the people. Prompt and effec
tive return to the platform will satisfy the
people. Will congr ss tak< the st< p? Un
less it answers soon its response will be
too late to save the party from the impend/
Ing disaster which threatens it.
CLARK HOWELL.
Atlanta, Ga., April 15, 1894.
Only a. Coincidence.
Washington, April 21.--Brlgadier General
Ordway, commanding the district national
guard, has issued general order No. a, di
recting the annual muster and in
spection of the guard. Perhaps ft
is only a coincidence, but all six
battalions were called out for duty con
secutively on dates commencing with the
arrival of Coxey’s mob on May Ist, ex
tending tp Wednesday, May 16th, wiien
the light artillery and the ambulance corps
will close out the inspection and muster.
No patronage heeler ein be a Moses.
Moses was not on hand when tiie worship
of the golden calf began.
-Ji
/O MISSING
k iliW WOHD
To Alny l&t.
An Interesting Contest in Which Every
body has the Same
The Missing Word competition craze is the latest
fad in Engmud. it is exciting the whole country,
and hundieds of thousands oi people are racking
their brains for missing words.
i-everai i..mdoii weeklies have started what they
call “missing word competitions.” and the craze
has affected all England to sr,eh an extent as to
block the money order olhee 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 fora shilling. The money sent in
is divided among the guessers who name tiie
correct, word. A few weeks ago one paper dis-rib
uted $15,000 among forty-three, correct guessers,
each man receiving over SBOO forh.s shilling. The
money order blanks have all been used up at manj
postoihees, the mails are clogged, and elnbs hav<
been organized to go into the guessing business.
TO CONSTITUTION
HEADERS.
The Constitution makes this proposition:
Among those who supply the missing word in the
following sentence, between now and the Ist of
May, 1891, we will divide one-fourth of the sub
scription receipts of all those who send guessei
with their subscriptions.
This leaves us the bare and actual cost of fur
nishing tin; paper to subscribers for the year.
TEE SENTENCE.
The Moments were numbered;
the strife was finished; the vision
closed. In the twinkling of an eye
our flying horses had carried us to
the termination of the
eisle At right angles we wheeled
into our former direction. The turn
of the road carried the scene out of
myeyes in an instant and swept it
into my dreams forever.
Supply the missing word in the above sentence
and if you guess the correct word you will share
with the others who are as fortunate one fourth of
the receipts from the subscriptions of all those who
guess.
THE GUARANTEE.
No one knows the word missing except the man
aging editor, who iias placed it in a sealed envel
ope end which will be opened on May Ist. Wo
pledge our honor that ihe division will be mads
and published just as outlined.
THE PROSPECT.
Supposes,ooo guesses were J»fcde. This would
leave si, 250 as oue-feurth of ice subscription re
ceipts, for so many names, to be divided among
the successful guessers. Supposing ten persons
guessed the word, this won d give (hem $125 each,
if twenty. $32. k>, etc. Suppose there are 10,000
gues-es- whicli is not impiobable—this may give
from SIOO to SSOO each to tiie successful guessers.
Cheeks will be mailed immediately after May Ist.
CONDITIONS AND
INDUCEMENTS.
The terms of the contest are few and simple:
1. Every guess must he accompanied by one
year’s subscription to the Weekly Constitution, sent
to any address at sl.
2. The sender of a club of five at $1 each, for one
year, is entitled to a free paper one year and also
a guess.
3. With every subscription, the missing word
should be written plainly, with the name and ad
dress of tiie guessci. Il is not necessary to rewrite
the sentence—simply wile tiie word and label it
“ t'Uc massing word for May Ist.”
4. Renewal subscriptions are entitled to guesses
lust as new subscribers.
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