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Party and Principles.
The Richmond Dispatch, one of the
leading dailies of the old commonwealth,
regards the recent congressional primary
in Fulton county as a very significant
event, and in its comments on the re
sult says:
Mr. Livingston's triumph was rendered
“full, round and complete” by the fact
that he was arraigned for having voted
against the repeal of the Sherman silver
law and also for having voted for the
seigniorage bill. * * * The answer of the
people to this contention was a majority or
about 1,000.
Atlanta is, as we have said, in Fulton
county, and that the result of the battle
royal might not be misrepresented nor mis
understood the democrats of that county
went into the light on the following plat
form: . .. ,
••Confiding in the wisdom, patriotism am
courag of President Cleveland * ’ we
unqualifiedly endorse the dcnioi iat 1 P
form, in J call upon the administration to
materialize its pledges into laws.
The ambiguity of the Chicago platform on
the subject of free sliver was corrected on
the stump, and altogether it must be re
corded in history that the triumph of the
Fulton democracy last Wednesday was like
that of which old Caspar said:
“It was a famous victory.”
Henceforth Georgia may be regarded as
an anti-Cleveland state.
Our famous Virginia contemporary is
correct in its general summary of the
result, but we hope it is wrong in its
surmise that “henceforth Georgia maj
be regarded as an anti-Cleveland state."
Georgia dot's not wish to be so regarded.
On the other hand, it would be a source
of infinite gratification to the democrats
of the state to bo able to loci that they
could unhesitatingly endorse and ap
prove every act of their president and
of the democratic administration. For
many years the democratic party has
been contending for certain well defined
ends. In no state in the union has dem
ocratic organization, democratic faith,
ami democratic strength been as
serted. V? greater advantage, for the
united, linn and resolute. National ad
itions have come and national
administrations have gone -men have
passed from the stage of public life, and
new leaders have followed to take their
places -the party has more than once
gone down in defeat only to rise and
compter on its contention for the prin
ciples on which it is founded—and in
ali this time the democracy of Georgia
lias presented a solid and unbroken
front ami by its positive stand has in
fused strength and enthusiasm into
the ranks of the democracy of sister
states and has given constant encour
agement to the hosts of the national de
mocracy.
The democracy of Georgia stands to
day where it has stood for thirty years
it is lighting for the same principles,
longing for the consummation of the
pledges of relief which have so often
inspired it, and asking nothing more
than that those in control of national
affairs deal as honestly by it as it dealt
generously ami confidingly with them
in the election which put them in power.
In contending with the same fervor
which has always characterized its
course, for the redemption of party
pledges and the materialization of party
principles into law, Georgia does not
wish to be regarded as “tin anti-Cleve
land stau If the president stands in
the way of the redemption of any of
these pledges, it is a matter of regret,
of course, but instead of shaking the
faith of democrats it should have the op
posite effect and make the party more
determined than ever to do what it has
promised the people it would do, and to
win in spite of opposition. We may not
succeed now, for the obstacles now con
fronting the party may be insurmounta
ble, but principles live always and what
is worth lighting for today will be worth
lighting for tomorrow.
Rut. one danger confronts the party
ami that is the possibility of the sac
rifice of any of the great princi
ples for which it has contended
lor so many years, and on
which the great victory of two years
ago was won. The lash of the protec
tion monopolist is being vigorously ap
plied to drive the party away from its
time-honored principle of a tariff for
revenue only. The cunning of the
money shark and the Shylock, and the
pressure of the organized money power
of Europe, is being exerted to make the
party of the people’s ftioney— the gold
and silver money of the constitution—
the sponsor of the single gold standard,
the champion of a contracted currency,
and the party of low prices and reduced
valuations.
If the party surrenders it is done for!
If it. becomes the defender or apologist
for that against which it has been light
ing since its organization it voluntarily
forfeits the confidence by which it has
won every victory of its existence.
It is a dastardly adviser who would
now have the party sacrifice a single
principle, or trim to catch the capricious I
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA.GA, MONDAY. JULY 30.1894.
wind of the monopolist or money power
which only seeks to use it for a selfish
purpose.
If the party is true to itself and true
to its principles the people wijl be true
to it. __
The Exposition and the Appropriation.
It is settled!
The Cotton States and International
exposition gets the appropriation!
Our advices from Washington state
that on Thursday the subcommittee of
the general committee on sundry civil
appropriations reported in favor of an
appropriation of $21)0,000 for a govern
ment building and exhibit at our great
exposition.
This goes far toward settling the
whole business. The general commit
tee, the senate and the house will, of
course, accept the subcommittees
recommendation, ami the appropriation
will go through, without a hitch, and
what is best, Speaker Crisp says it. ill
probably be a law by next week.
It is gjorious news, although it. is just
what we expected. It is the signal lor
immediate and enthusiastic work all
along the line. Government aid and
the stamp of the government’s approval
gives our exposition the national char
acter which its importance demands,
and gives it the standing which it should
have with other nations. We have had
several great and successful expositions
in this country, but tins one is of pe
culiar international significance. It is
in no sense local or sectional. It is de
signed to bring about a. better under
standing and a better acquaintance be
tween the United States and the Span
ish-American countries with a view to
promoting more intimate and extensive
trade relations. The countries south of
us favor the reunion, and the commer
cial bodies of nearly every state have
endorsed it. Whether we have good
times or hard times next year,
the exposition is needed. V e
want the $1,000,000,000 Spanish-
America sends every year to Europe for
products that our markets are prepared
to furnish. This trade will benefit not
only our southern pm'ts and markets
but the manufacturers ami producers
of every state in the north and west.
There never was an enterprise which
promised so much national benefit.
With this bright outlook, the backing
of the government and other auspicious
influences, it goes without saying that
Atlanta will now continue the exposition
work with a degree of enthusiasm ami
energy, and a single-hearted purpose
surpassing anything that was ever
known in our history.
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Muddled and Muzzled.
Our esteemed contemporary, The
cial question.
This is all the more to tie regret o d
because Toe Courier Journal circulates
in a region overwhelmingly democratic,
and its readers are stanch supporters of
the Chicago platform. The paper's
course is undoubtedly a groat disap
pointment to thousands of its sub
scribers, but there seems to be m> hope
of a change in its policy at present.
Despite its failure to support the
financial relief planks of the platform
we cannot help feeling very kindly to
wards our contemporary. In the past -
: in the days of reconstruction it backed
. Beck and Carlisle in their splendid
light against centralization ami bayonet
rule, and it would be on the side of the
people today in their struggle against
the gold sharks and monopolists but for
certain conditions, which unfortunately
too often affect our newspapers and in
terfere with their usefulness.
The trouble is that the business office
has gradually encroached upon the edi
torial department of The Courier-Jour
nal until it is now the controlling pow
er. Editor Watterson is the same im
petuous, dashing journalist as of yore,
and we can easily imagine how he
chafes and frets under the unwelcome
restraints thrown around him. Finding
that he cannot express himself freely
in the editorial columns of his paper, he
spends more time on the platform than
ever. If his pen is hampered his tongue
is not, and he gives that member lull
play.
But we sympathize with the readers
of The Courier-Journal, all the same.
'They want their home paper to make a
vigorous warfare against the currency
contractionists, but since it has tied
itself to Nir. Carlisle in his new role,
this is an impossibility. The business
office controls the situation, and the edi
torial department, against its better
judgment, finds itself compelled to fol
low the load of the gold standard ad
vocates.
The Courier-Journal has missed a
great opportunity. It would have nobly
rounded out its past record as a demo
cratic newspaper if it had remained
loyal to the platform, ami had sided
with the people in their efforts to ob
tain financial relief. But this was not
to be. Editor Watterson gradually be
comes a diminishing factor, ami the
business office looms up and overshad
ows everything with its potential in
fluence. Other newspapers have been
afflicted in the same way, and they have
finally suffered a loss of influence and
patronage. The people have a prejudice
against business office journalism.
A Word of Cheer.
Politics may go wrong, the times may
be out of joint, and greedy Shylocks
may corner the money of the country,
but they have not been able to corner
.Cod's sunshine and dew, and gentle
summer rain.
The speculators have found one thing
that they canot control—the weather
that has come like a benediction and a
promise. .The hard conditions forced
upon us by grasping men will now lose
their potency. From all quarters of the
south 'come reports of abundant crops.
We shall have enough io feed us all.
with plenty Io spare. Cotton and corn
and all that is needed for man and beast
will be ours iu the greatest abundance,
with a big surplus that will bring the
ready cash.
It is true that the indications point
to low prices. Under the single gold
standard we cannot expect anything
else, but our immense harvests will
put a large volume of money into circu
lation, even at low prices, and all classes
of our people will be relieved from the
pressure of hard times during the com
ing fall and winter.
'This brighter outlook is not in any
sense due to wise legislation or to the
policy of our statesmen. It is God’s
blessed work of relief, and it comes just
when the people needed it most. Peace
fully and patiently we have learned to
labor and to wait, and our reward is
now in sight.
This is the bright side of the situation
ami it is a pleasure to contemplate it.
In spite of the schemes of the money
sharks and the blunders of our states
men there will be peace ami plenty and
joy at our firesides this winter. With
this inspiration and divine encourage
ment let us turn our faces to the light
ami move forward. We are working
out the solution of our problems, and
this interposition of a benign Provi
dence in our favor should cause even
the faint-hearted to rejoice and look
forward with new hope and confidence.
—9
Another Free Silver Party.
With the democrats and the populists
for free silver, and the almost certain
prospect of another powerful champion
in the shape of the republican party, it
is not easy to see how bimetallism in
this country can be delayed much longer.
Speaking of the significant drift of
republican sentiment, The Washington
Post says:
The increasing friendliness of republican
leaders to silver —as shown in the proposition
of Senator Lodge and ex-Speaker Reed,
that the United States should discriminate
against England in tariff laws until the
latter country is willing to join in an inter
national arrangement to restore silver —is
producing some effect on both sides of the
-Atlantic. The London correspondent of The
New York Sun says that a letter has ap
peared in a Manchester newspaper on this
subject which has excited great interest.
The writer of the letter shows alarm at the
threat of a diminished market for British
manufactures, and urges that his country
should recede from its position on the sil
ver issue if it is likely to interfere with its
trade.
The tone of republican organs is gradually
undergoing a change. While there are few
that go so far as to meet the views of the
most advanced silver advocates, there are
fewer still that indulge in harsh or denun
ciatory comments on those who insist on un
limited free coinage without a change of
ratio. The leaders of the party have
adopted a policy of coiieiliation, and are
looking for a basis on which a practical
union of republican, forces can be effected.
The change here spoken of is so
marked that it. has caused comment on
both sides of the sea. Over in Eng
land the goldbugs cannot conceal their
j apprehension. They believe that, no
i matter which party wins, the United
States will restore bimetallism in the
course of the next two or three years.
'The Kansas City Journal, a leading
republican daily in Missouri, editorially
said the other day:
We will not vote for any man or knowing
ly suppoyt any man for any office that
is’ ir; who : not til:'Ttr--1:t 1 : Vvlirrsent i
silver to its position as a money metal
: pi .or to the act of 1873.
l itis is going about as far as the most
extreme silver advocate’would go, and
when republican newspapers like The
- and The Recorder, of New York,
ami Uhe Kaunas City Journal begin to
talk in this fashion, with such leaders
as Lodge and Reed in full sympathy
’ with them, il is easy io see how Sir
■ Moreton i’l'-wcu gels the impression
; that the republicans propose to win
m xi limo < a proteclion and free silver,
tiie latter being adopted to counteract
the doubt fid popularity of the former.
But there is one thing that stands in
the way of this programme. The dem
ocratic party is the oldest and truest
friend of bimetallism in this country,
it is now pledged in its platform to
restore free silver. Suppose it shows in
the next congress that it. proposes to
redeem this pledge—what then? The
fulfillment of our platform promise will
head off and effectually bar the repub
l cans, and their conversion to the silver
cause will go for nothing.
Under all the circumstances, the only
triii 1 democratic policy is to lose no time
in redeeming our free silver pledge.
-—■ — •
A Rich Alan’s Way.
Mr. Russell Sage, the New York mil
lionaire, is anxiously wailing for a
mark down in the price of .summer
clothing.
For a week past lie has been watching
a $.12 suit, in a window near his office,
expecting to see the price reduced, and
tiie oilier day he called at the store and
offered $lO for the suit.
The clerk demanded the marked price,
sl2.
“Ten and a half?’’ suggested Sage.
“Not a cent less than $12.”
Eleven dollars and then $11.50 were
offered, but the clerk was firm. The
millionaire looked sadly nt the suit and
then said that lie thought he could do
without it as the warm weather proba
bly would not last much longer.
Mr. Sage is not a victim of hard times.
This is his way of living and trading.
He cuts his personal expenses down to
the lowest notch, and when he buys any
thing he makes it a point to beat the
merchant down if be can. If he can
save half a dollar in this way he feels
happy.
There are other rich men whose
methods are just the same. Doubtless
this explains how they made their mon
ey and how they keep it. Such a policy
systematically followed will enable al
most any man to accumulate a mod
erate fortune, or at least a competency.
Not Wanted Here.
It is to be hoped that the commis
sioners of immigration in New York
will stick to their determination to send
Mowbray, the anarchist, back to Eng
land.
Mowbray landed in New York a few
days ago and applied for naturalization,
but the same week he made a speech
in favor of anarchy. To be naturalized
he must take an oath to support the
constitution and laws, and yet he pub
licly declares his inlent ion to overturn
our government, if he can.
'This would justify the authorities in
sending the rascal to jail, but as the
fact has come out that Mowbray is an
English ex convict it may be that the
better plan is to return him to his own
country.
'There will always be room here for
upright, industrious foreigners, but there
should never be any room for chronic
paupers, criminals and public enemies
who desire to wage war against our in
stitutions.
Send Mowbray home, and give Herr
Most another term in prison.
China and Japan.
If the conflict between China and
Japan over the Corean question is pro
longed the former country will doubt
less gain the victory, unless tiie Euro
pean powers intervene.
The causes of the trouble are well un
derstood. Under a treaty China and
Japan have the right to send troops to
Corea to preserve order. This was done
during the Corean rebellion, and re
cently Corea has denied the right of
the Japanese to remain on the island.
'There have been violent outbreaks in
which the Japanese have been roughly
handled, and now China sides with
Corea and is attempting to force the
Japanese to withdraw.
'Uhe Chinese and Japanese navies are
about equal in the number of vessels,
but the Chinese have somewhat the ad
vantage. Japan perhaps could place
two million men in the field, but < hina
can send double that number to war and
not. feel it. 'The navies and armies of
the two countries have been for some
years under the discipline of experienced
European officers, and they are well
equipped for Avar.
Naturally, our sympathies are with
Japan. Iler people are progressive, ami
th ll government lias voluntarily undet
taken to establish representative insti
tutions under a constitutional monaiehj.
A recent writer says:
In 1889 the hereditary despotism submitted
t > essential change, subjecting the crown
to the restraints of an elective house. A
member of this house is elected for every
128,000 of the population. The number of
members is 300. Elementary education is
compulsory and there are more than three
million children in school.
The upper house consists of 300 mem
bers, including male members of the im
perial family above twenty years of age,
peers elected for life, princes above twenty
five. persons nominated by the emperor for
their exceptional learning or other public
merit, peers elected for seven years, lowfr
nobility to the number of one-nfth of each
order, chosen by tiie order, and heavy tax
payers chosen by the taxpayers of large
proportional contributions to the state.
The diet, as the legislature is called, has
proved tumultuous ami wayward, its mem
bers reveling in their novel power as law
makers. One of the most important reforms
upon which the legislature ami the ministry
have agreed is enlargement and improve
ment of the navy. The emperor gives $300,-
000 a year lor six years out of his personal
revenue to inaugurate a naval fund, and to
tliis is added for the same term 10 per cent
of all public salaries. The naval college at
Tokio was pronounced by General Grant
one of the finest in the world. The instruc
tors are chiefly American and German offi
cers of experience.
<'hina, on the other baud, is a despotic,
non progressive country. If she can
have her way she will use her strength
unmercifully and cripple Japan for a
generation.
But it -is certain that the European
powers will interfere. It is reported that
i,. ... r-H 1..,| troous Oil
i naval station, and this will force. En
g■ land to either drive the Russians out. or
i seize some of the Corean territory.
I Possibly the long-talked of European
I war will start in Corea bid ween Eng
i land and Russia. At present, however,
the situation is not clearly defined
enough to justify a prediction. Even at
the eleventh hour European arbitration
may restore peace.
The Future of Cotton.
It is possible that in the near future
southern cotton planters will have very
formidable competition.
Cotton is produced in South America,
Mexico. China, India, Egypt and in some
of the Russian territories. In Egypt it
is cultivated along the Nile and in the
delta in the richest soil in the tvorld.
The yield is constantly increasing and
the cotton commands a ready market
at 2 cents a pound more than American
cotton. It is of such line quality that
the New England manufacturers import
a good deal of it. Consul General Pen
field, at Cairo, furnishes the following
table showing the increase of the Egyp
tian cotton crop during the past, ten
years and the growth of exportations
io the United States:
Bales Bales Shipped
Season. Produced. United States.
1881-85 500,090 4,553
1885- 406,000 3.515
1886- 417,000 4.700
1887- 411,000 5,972
1888- 389,000 8,130
ISB9-90 427,168 10,470
1890- 538,008 23 790
1891- 612,025 27,739
1X92-93 680,085 ■ 42,475
1893-94 631,000 *40,000
*The commercial depression, causes a
temporary falling off in shipments, but this
number is estimated by good judges.
All interesting fact in this connection
is slated by Mr. I). A. Tompkins, a
prominent cotton manufacturer of Char
lotte, N. C. Tie says that the improve
ment in the cotton production in Egypt
is largely due to the efforts of the ex
confederate officers who took military
commands under the khedive. These
officers imported into Egypt a quantity
of our sea island cotton seed and the
result was shown in the produetion of
the line staple now exported from that
country.
Last year 2 per cent of the cotton con
sumed in the United States was im
ported from Egypt. Perhaps the staple
will be improved and the yield increased
in other countries, and in that event
our foreign competition will be a serious
matter. It is Mr. Tompkins’s idea that
if the south is to continue to hold the
markets silie must make better and
cheaper cotton and put it up in the best
possible shape, lie says that our cot
ton before the war was a better article,
because the seed cotton was stored and
picked and ginned at leisure, whereas
it is now ginned immediately after it is
picked. Ou this point he says:
It is believed that storing before ginning
gave time for the fiber to absorb just a lit
tle oil from the seed, which gave it some
of that brown color and silky luster pecu
liar now to the Egyptian cotton. Prior to
the war. too, cotton was ginned by mule
power, a much slower process than that
now in use, so that the fiber was less cut
than it now is by the steam gins.
The color and luster gained by the fiber
from the oil in the seed while in storage
are not the only advantages gained. The
dry and cut cotton as it is now ginned easi
ly generates electricity, thus charging each
fiber so that it tends to stand on end. This
tendency in some cotton has been found to
be so great as almost to prevent its use
for spinning. The Egyptian cotton is said
to be better in this respect, and it is thought
a great improvement could be made in tn
American staple by holding the seed cot
ton in storage from one to three
months and then ginning it carefully, it is
probable that by these means our improved
upland staples can be made to serve a
purposes as well is the Egyptian cotton,
and thus the south may get back some val
uable trade lost in the markets both of tins
country and abroad.
We nre in no danger, whatever if we
will look after our interests in time.
We must improve our staple and our
methods, and manufacture our cotton
right here in sight of tile fields. But
if .we are negligent it is more than like
ly that the foreign article will soon be
a dangerous competitor.
An Inevitable Result.
Last week a further decline in cotton
ton and wheat surprised people who
thought that those staples had touched
bottom and could not go any lower.
Cotton went lower than it has been
this season at any time, and wheat drop
ped to the lowest, price ever known in
our history.
This result might have been expected,
and it was expected by all who are
familiar with the operation of the sin
gle gold standard. We have no right to
look for any change in the workings of
monometallism when the experiment is
fully tested in this country. We are
traveling the same road that England
had to travel when she adopted the gold
standard, and the same evils that fol
lowed it in that country will oppress us
’here, and we are having a taste of
them now.
At the close of the Napoleonic wars
England had a paper currency, and
was in very much the same situation
that we were in after our civil war. Her
statesmen forced the resumption of
specie payments and adopted the single*
gold standard. Numerous historians
have recorded the disastrous results.
The very rich and the creditor classes
grew still richer, but the debtor classes
were ruined, the poor were plunged
into the mire of abject poverty and the
middle classes were beggared. The
change left well-to-do people bankrupt
in cases where they had purchased land
on time. They contracted these
debts when they had good reason to be
lieve that they could meet their pay
ments, but money became scarcer every
year, land, labor and labor’s products
declined in value, and thousands of
men who had paid half the purchase
money for their estates lost their land
and still owed debts which they could
not: possibly pay. Year alter year prices
continued to decline, the wretched poor
starved or went to prison, and thou
sands who had tin 1 means to pay their
passage sought homes in foreign lands.
Tliis blight of the gold standard is
making itvi'lf felt here. We have fol
lowed in England's footsteps and we are
reaping a similar harvest <>f inisfortnni 1 .
There need be no surprise when wheat
and cotton and other staples fall in
price. If we are going to stick to Eng
land's financial policy we must accept
our share of the disasters that go with
it. Thi> only thing that makes labor
and property worth even their approx
puiffire-vArr Ufnrffj ; A llh'i AW‘A‘“ii l uHV a’t'iVi
cause the dominant party to redeem
th<’ financial relief pledges of the Chi
cago platform. If wo arc dtsajipointi'il
in this hope, then our farmers will see
f<> what lower levels ’heir products can
fall. Real estate, railroads, factories,
mines and forests will be sold for a.
song and the eastern and British capi
talists will become their owners. Our
eomn'erce and industry will be par
alyzed ami the land will be filled with
idle workingmen demanding work or
bread.
Downward and still downward will
go the value of land, labor and products
so long as the currency continues to
contract under the fatal policy of Lom
bard street and Wall street. The only
remedy is to convince the powers that
bo that they must carry out the prom
ises of our platform. M’e must have
more money, whether it comes in tho
shape of free silver, state banks or
both. It is useless to attempt to dis
guise the real facts of tho situation.
They cannot be misunderstood whim
they are viewed in the light of present
and past experience.
EDITOR/A LOOM KENT.
Football was a crime in England during
the reign of Henry VIII.
Theaters, concerts and orchestras are
supported from the public treasury in
Spanish-American countries.
Criminals in Buenos Ayres, who are
sentenced to long terms of penal servitude,
are frequently released on parole for cer
tain hours each day, so that their private
buiness will not suffer.
Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary, in the current
number of The Nashville Christian Advo
cate, has an able article entitled: “The
Things That Are Caesar’s.” It is a strong
plea for the purification of our politics.
According to Mrs. Oberholtzer, there are
now 340 school savings banks in this coun
try. Pennsylvania takes the lead, but
some very flourishing banks of this kind
have been established in Colorado, Kansas
and North Dakota.
An Arkansas administrator made the fol
lowing endorsement on the back of a doc
tor’s bill: “This claim is not verified by
affidavit as the statute requires, but the
death of the deceased is satisfactory evi
dence to my mind that the doctor did the
work. W- S —-, Adm.”
“The Order of Chivalry” is a new chil
dren's organization that is making great
progress in England. It was established
by Lord Winchelsea with the idea of re
viving old-fashioned gallantry among the
rising generation. It has now some 7,000
members.
Dr. Cathel, in The Maryland Medical
Journal, advances the opinion that fasting
during the long interval between supper
and breakfast, and especially the complete
emptiness of the stomach during sleep,
adds greatly to the amount of emaciation,
sleeplessness and general weakness so often
met.
General Howard was recently chosen
president of the National Temperance So
ciety. He explained how a public man
could attend banquets, and, without drink
ing anything, be considered a good fellow.
He arranges for the filling of his wine
glasses with water before the occasion.
When a toast is called for he drinks what
looks like wine, but is in reality water.
Ottawa. Ont., has a human monster, who
rivals in blood thirsty malice Jesse Pome
roy, the. boy murderer of Boston. His name
is Blanchard, and he is but thirteen years
old. A few days ago he induced a little
companion, eight years old, to go wading
in a stream with him. Getting his victim
into water deep enough to suit his murder
ous purpose, he threw him down and stood
nn him with his knees, holding him on the
bottom till life was extinct. When he felt
sure that the other was dead he ran away.
He has been arrested and will be put on
trial for murder. No possible motive for
the crime is known, save the mere desire to
kill- j '
When her husband became governor of
cnlorado Mrs. Waite deliberately snubbed
Xler »oety. n. w.re .1 th. r.Urn.g
Executive tendered her an elaborate recep
tion Most of the guests afterward called
tnon her and her card basket was tilled
“S Invitations to s o'clock teas. She
never returned the calls, nor has she ever
en tertained.
Wp publish elsewhere in this issue a com
municatlon from Hon. R. A. Broyles, yard
master of the Central railroad, concerning
the relations between capital and labor.
Mr Broyles is one of Atlanta’s most pop
ular prominent and conservative working.
, ten’ who thoroughly understands the rela
tions between capital and labor s and whose
auvice, if heeded, would go far toward set
tling whatever differences there may oe
between employer and employe. Atlanta is
proud of her workingmen. They are conserv
ative, honest an 1 just, and it is a rare thing
that they lean to the side of extremism.
Speaking of President Cleveland’s letter to
Mr Wilson on the tariff, The Hartford
Courant says: “This is an absolutely new
tiling in Hie official intercourse between the
nresidnt and the congress of the United
states it is as unprecedented as it is
amazing. To find any distant approach to a
n veeuent you nave to go back to 1834. Sixty
' ano Andrew Jackson, angered by the
resolution declaring that he had
arrogated to himself authority not conferr
ed by the constitution and laws, sent to
that body-n<d to any individual member of
it-a paper which he described as a ‘mes
sage and protest.’ The senate refused, 27
to 16, to receive this paper, Calhoun Clay
and Webster voting with the majority. He
has undertaken,’ said Calhoun in the de
bate ‘to interpose between tiie senate and
theK constituents, and virtually to pro
nounce upon the validity of the votes of
Pts members, on the ground that they do
not Tcnform with the will of their constit
uents.’ ”
•‘No Other Was Mentioned.’*
From The Sparta Ishmaelite.
Free conage at the ratio of 16 to 1 was
the free coinage advocated by the demo
cratic speakers in 1892. No other ratio was
mentioned. Coinage at an increased ratio
vvas au afterthought of cuckooism.
LEITERS FROM THE PEOPLE,
Coinincrciii 1 si nd Leirnl Ratio.
Editor Constitution—As between gold and
silver dollars there is no parity save the
legal ratio of 16 to 1. Each silver dollar,
like each gold dollar, stands by itself and
for itself. If the commercial ratio varies
at any time from the legal ratio it will ba
found, nine out of ten times, that in com
parison with commodities it is one of the
metals that has risen in value and not the
other which has fallen in value, and the
work of final redemption and payment will
fall, as it ought to fall, upon the metal
closest to commodities, though for the time
being apparently the least valuable.
BIMETALLIST.
Found on tiie Battlefield.
Editor Constitution: At the battle of Ben
tonville, N. C., in the spring of 1865, a
confederate soldier vvas killed, who, in fall
ing, partly exposed a testament in his
pocket. I was near him and took the testa
ment from his pocket, and have kept it
ever since. It < oniains some marked pas
. sages, was well worn, and on the llvleaf
j was written “John 1.. Martin, Company C,
i 28th Georgia, Volunteers, Colquitt’s brigade,
September 8, 1864.” Should the dead soldier
have any friends who would like to have
the book as a memento, it will cheerfully
be sent without charge to them, if you can
find them. I have long contemplated writ
ing this to The Constltutiori.
C L. SPIELMAN, I’.landin ville, Ills.
• ——
Great Spoons!
SI-KT.a
for '1 he WceKJj < onstliution at once
xiEifi in tin* push. Thousand a
of them will go this month. Send in
your orders at once and avoid the de
lays whit’h may crowd uimn us later.
> m£ k WORD.
THe present sentence will run foaf
two montlis instead of one, sts here
tofore, - ’
To Sept, ist
An Interesting; Contest in Which Et«
ery body Han the Same Chance.
The Missing Word competition craze is the
latest fad in England. It is exciting the
whole country, and hundreds of thousands
of people are racking their brains lor miss
ing words.
Several London weeklies have started
what they call “missing word competi
tions,” and the craze has affected all Eng
land to such an extent as to block the
money ord t office, and embarrass the
whole postal service. The scheme is this:
A sentence is printed every week from
winch 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 mqmey sent in 'is divided
among the guessers who name the correct
word. A few weeks ago one caper distrib
uted $35,000 among forty-three correct guess
j ers. each man receiving over SBOO for h!s
i shilling. The money order blanks have al!
! been used up nt many nostofficos, the malls
are clogged and clubs have been organized
j to go into the guessing business.
I'o (OXSTITLTION
: READERS.
! The Constitution makes this proposition:
i Among those who supply the missing word
in the following sentence between now and
i the Ist of 8 ‘ptember, 1894, we will divide one
; fourth of the subscription receipts of all
those who send guesses with their subscrip
tions.
This leaves us the bare and actual cost
of furnishing the paper to subscribers for
the year.
THE SENTENCE.
“He crept to this place and waited a fa
vorable opportunity. It came at once, for
the keen ears of the guard heard some un
usual sound as Thurabi crouched behind
the "
Supply the missing word in the above
sentence and il 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 managing editor, who has placed it in a
sealed envelope and which will be opened
on Sept. Ist. We pledge our hon.tr that the
division will be made and published just
as outlined.
■IHE PROSPECT.
Suppose 5,000 guesses were made. This
would leave $1,250 as one-fourth of the
subscription receipts, far so many names
to be divided among the successful guess
ers. Supposing ten persons guessed the
word, this would give them $125 each- if
twenty, $52.50, etc. Suppose there are 16 COO
guesses—which is not improbable—this mar
give from SIOO to SSOO each to the su.eess
fdl guessers. < b°cl-s will be matlei imme
diately after September Ist.
CONDITIONS AND
INDI CEMENTS.
The terms of the contest are few and sim
ple:
1. Every guess must be accompanied by
one year’s subscription to Th.- Weekly com
stitution, sent to any address at $1
2. The sender of a club of five at''Xl each
for one year, is entitled to a free naoJ
one year and also ague-s. 11
3. With every subs-riptinn the missin'
word should be written plainly, with ths
name and address of the g'i’sser. It is ntt
necessary to rewrite the sentence—simjA*
write the word and label it “the missln?
word for September Ist.” "
4. Renewal subscriptions are entitledko
guesses just, r-s new subscribers.
Remember that you get the greatest snd
r-est of all American ’"eoklv new.-pape’-sTor
every guess. You cannot do without The
Constitution for ISOS. address pl] comnftni
cations to _ THE CCNST’Ti 'TION
1 Atlanta, *a.
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