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TV ar With Furspa Wontd Coat Loaa than
Al.*soiat« Inrreader to England's
Financial lletnanda.
Cornelia, Habersham County, Ga„ Octo
ber 3. IRM.—Editor Constitution: in the re.
cent state election there was no serious lo
cal issue involve,!, no tine of state policy
proposed, on the adoption or rejection of
■which an issue couid l>e made, hence the
result of th* election was influenced more
1-y the consideration of national questions
than by local interest or prejudices.
it is very evident front the result of our
atste election that the people of Georgia
■re doing a considerable amount o; inJe
pendent thinking, and giv-mr far more
thought to economic questions thnu ">
washeu-out political theories. • »»r people
ar« learning that states, like i.idlviduais,
cannot prosper or develop on sentiment, aud
that the considerations of practical political
■ueetions tne material interest of
a pe.-ple is far more impomnt than party
theories or the sentiment cf party pride.
They are consintrinq fat Is and conditions,
y.ot hypoth‘.s“s. and fianwstly study tea
problems of relief, and arc fully impressed
■with the idea that “the administration and
management of our govenunent depend
upon popular will." and sincerely believe
that “federal power is the instrument et
that wi:l— not its master.’’
The state election is over, and v.e are now
•ntcring upon the congtesslorai campaign
■n: the issues will necessarily «*«• pure!)
rational and the questions to be discussed
those only with which federal power can
d-al. It cannot lie reasouaoly doubted that
tn Georgia and. possibly, throughout the
south and west, the most absorbing of ovr
national issues is the silver problem, cou
pled with that of state bunks, and the two
questions united, if not settled f- ouer, v. ill
thrust themselves Car to the front in the
presidential campaign of Ixjo. I;, riff tin
kering may continue, but to a satisfactory
settlement of the financial question the o
p’e are looking; with anxious and absorbing
interest. It is a qu« stion involving Ute wel
fare of the whole people, and, as Colonel
Hammond remarked In hi,-, opera house
speech, should be settled irrespective of
political parii“s or platfo.ms; and i’ will
be. though the settle meat disrupts parties
and destroys plali-uins.
In aii c f the very notabl- spec* h's which
were made in .’•J.inta during the late stale
campaign by certain dtsiingui. l»ed Geor
gains on the political is*-i.e« of th** day. the
silver problem had due consideration. Each
of the speakers. Measr*. Turner. Crisp.
Smith, Hammond and Walsh. <■«.-• la«*d in
favor of bimetallism—lhe use of both gold
and silver —. a money of final payment,
slid all. seenilngly, agree that the r-st •*-*-
lien of silver to the posit !on it occupied
y evtous to ’<73 will -Mve at least some of
the various financial ■ robk-ms with winch
We are ccnfr-nte<i. Hut, !*• seen s**m* «f
these tit-nuish< d ..entlemen there i* a
wide difference of opin’orv as to the method
by which the desired re.’ult should or can
be reached. Some de- lare that the mints
should lx- opened to the coinage of sliver
without any discrimination against the
white metal, at the ratio new fixed by law
of la to L Others favor a change of rstio,
so that the commercial ratio and money
tatio which gold and silver i<ear to each
other shall be the same; while others con
tend that the United States cannot alone
sustain a double standard, and that by in
tet national agreement only can a ratio b>
fixed for the use of both gold and silver a i
money of final payment. S.> it appears, that
the wheie contention centers on latlo.
In the “Report of the Mieco-r of the Mint
for MBS” Will be found a table giving the
•■•-emnierctal ratio cf silver to gold each
y.ar s.t. !'». 1883; In luslti Thti
table develop, the fn t ih.tt the commercial
ratio < rto - In • fell t<« our cote
age tai.». *«. t > I. but three tirar.’ tietween
MW and 1871. a Bern of one hundred and
etgbtv-reveis years. In In* this commercial
ratio »cs IG.< in 1«U 16.11 and VII I<dS 11 1.
The highest . ••■ » ever reached during the
hm.de wi and elghty-s* .er. years was 14.14.
in IX>. and the lowest. 1325 to 1. In 1813.
Since the Vulted Slates began the coinage
of silver : nd gold in IT3S. to 1573, when the
mints were ctosed to the free coinage of
riiver. a period of cighty-oue year.*, the
lowest ratio reached was lw2a io 1. in laU,
and the highest, 14.62 io 1. in ISM; the nver
e e for the eighty-cne years being l*..j9S to
1. or «.»l above o;tr present coinage ratio.
In PTS the ratio was i->.BB to 1. and in 1574
it fell to 16.17. and he® steadily’ f-’ill< n year
by year until it reached in ISS3 3X77 to I;
t■■ average for the twenty-one y ”irs being
to 1. which is 4 .<* 3 lower than the av
erage of tile t v-. • elchty-one years,
during whi -h time ihe mints were op a to
free coinage.
Again. t:.he the prices of silver per fine
cunce adjust M in ou~ mo:;ey to eales in
i. .'I from i-. : to «e j faciushm, the
follow ing inter - nag facts are developed:
The lowert pri<-.» p.-r ounce of silv< r front
ISSJ to 1573 was 81497. in 183 T, and ihv high
est price was fl.Mti, in :»•.!. while the nv»r
price to: the forty years t.--
i‘73 was $1,343 i»t oui.-.'. tn 1573 the aver
age price for the yiar * si—-s, a fra. tion
e -oi • what it whs in IK3. it declined in
IV?i, and .onttntied to decline from year to
y-ar until it v ■ nt 1-. ow JI j.cr ounce, in
’,v. ,-d «on.‘nil • in price until
)•••», whrn the v. in, sram went :> fra.-tiun
:.i v« F p-'r « . .. :»i. h ad'.nnee in value
was tost • i l-Oi. a id t-ie pric» war s-t.-adi’.y
decjlt'e.l, itrttH, for nine month of 1893 the
r
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Air. VTnUer £e!l
Wonderful Good
ai Small Expense
Rheumatism Perfcot’y Cured.
"C. I. Hood & Co., Low.-11, Sta*.:
-i>..*’-I da -nt kauv. ho* to express
tli* grstito’e that I •• ’• towards Hood's b’ar
■Mpsuilla, wMeh L. «cared *.v at vary small cost
I Have Kot Slept
•r. my left sHe for four years; suffering with
rheuinittuoa with constant severe pain* and t*-
1.-cMWtetetr:rundown. Mit nomad is changed
a I I *..5..r g- Ml h« ‘ ill. J • X|n'r.cace swi-vt
*s>?p.Urr :• g'«o«l am*tite. am. my
!>e rt..-y K»■ •ieh Improved. In I:.■" lam a*tm.-
><r*t at il«’ ■■haj;*.'. I A p’rfuru wy
daily work with case. I had almost
Civen Up All Hopes
n * <.<-»» •r.]nvli>*r f I’. • s.'- ~n. an* by the
t- • •• Heed's Sarsajv.r . * vh his sa.ed my
r. > J ?»-« m»w in rwfcct N •h. thanks to
H od'r." W _•!?.« • r: x-<;-*!*« m-’F. I«'xa:.
aS ' ■ ' n. Teana.
'Hood's PHis.art - v,:h. yet promptly ar.d
on '-U'- Uver w» iivat J.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA. GA. MONDAY. OCTOBER 22.1894.
average price per fine ounce was >0.803,
making the average price for the ttventy
cne years irom 1873 to 18S3 inclusive. $1,082
p>r fine ounce, or about Si cents per ounce
less than the average price for the forty
years preceding 1873.
Now. the all-important question is this
decrease in the commercial ratio or value
between sliver and gold due to over-produe
tion of silver or to the financial policy of
England, which she, through the agency of
commerce, is attempting to force upon the
world?
According to the “Report of the Director
of the Mint for 1K»3," the “production of
gold and silver of the world" from 1792
to 1592 inclusive bnr been as follows:
Gold. 85.«53.21«. f W; silver, 85,077.539.<xm;
total. $10.710.7V»,00'X of which amount gold
is 52.73 per cent and silver. 47.27 per cent.
Os this vast sum the United States pro
duced 31.22 per cent of geld and 22.58 per
cent of silver.
The production of gold and silver in the
United States from 1792 to 1892. inclusive,
has be«n as follows: Gold. $1,937,881,769; sil
ver, sl.l W.S‘t9,'dO, showing the production
o' silver to be $791.<'12.7'K> less than that of
gold; or. in other words, the tote I produc
tion of gold and silver in the United
States has been for the hundred years
ending with 1892, the sum of $3,0M.7W,7©. of
which amount gold Is 62.82 per cent, and
silver only 27.18 per cent. With these fig
ures in view Is it not rath“r risky for the
mononiotallist to prognosticate a* silver
flood from over production? It has re
cently been urged by some who should be
better informed that the cost of producing
silver in comparison wi’h the cost of pro
ducing gold is so little as io make silver
tv»o cheap for a money metal with full
legal tender prerogative. This objection is
made in the face, not only of an experience
of a hundre I ai d eighty years, as is shown
by the commercial ratios which have been
given, but, «><" u report made by the
senatorial committe* on mines and mining,
on February IS, 1393, in obedience to n res
olution of lhe senate authorizing and di
rnr'iirg the committee to investigate and
“report the cost of Tin production cf gold
a.id silver bullion in the United States."
The report made clo.-cs c ith the following
language: “We repeat our conclusion that
all the evident e tak n together establishes
b?yond controversy the main fact, that
the cost oC | both gold an<l silver
has, during sill ages, and does at the pres
ent time, exceed the coinage value of
these metals.”
The facts and figures given are taken
from the official d<»<-uin-.*nts oi tne United
States treasury department, and clearly
show that the ratio between sliver and
gold, or the parity iw-twet>n the two metals
—if you pleas.* to use a term used generally
only to muddle—or fb. ■ <ieer<'ased value of
silver has not been lowered, lessened or
brought about by either over production
or cost of production of the white raetal.
hence Dm reasonable conclusion is that the
results are due to the selfish financial pol
icy of England, backed up by unwise legis
lation on the part of.the United States.
S :iator Walsh, In bis stHn-di of Septem
ber 21st, is reported to have said that Eng
land was the creditor nation, “a nation to
which other rations owed Jlfi.WC.OMi.tfW,
hence it is to England’s Interest to have
the single gold basis.” This statement is
generally coi.e-'dcd to be correef. It has
been shown that the t»tai production of
g.dd in the world h”..< been the hundred
years ending with 1K92, $b,663.9'it!,000, an
amount which is only a fraction over 5G
per cent of whr.t other nations owe Eng
land. and hen-c with silver demonetized
internal tonally, gold has gr-atly increased
in purchasing power, and England become
tne financial dictator of the world.
If the figures given be cm rent uno the
prediction of Secretary Carlisle ns to the
disasters which would follow Mie absolute
demonetisation of silver as money of final
payment Ih* true, THEN WAR WITH
KNGI.ANI* RATHER THAN SUBMIS
SION TO HER Fl NAN 71 Al, IMI.IUY
WOi'I.D EE BY FAR THE J.ESSER OF
TWO GItEAT EVII.S. “Self pres< rv.ition,
the first law of nature.” is applicable i.ot
only to individuals hut to nations.
Another factor brought into the silver
problem by recent discussion Is the asser
tion that there is m w in circulation a
sufficient amount of silver or its tepre
s- ■tatire, th ■ ,-d ■ri -• at Uw e
capita of circulation Is at present lar in
ex.-e.ss of whut it has ever before been,
in this connection conrideration should be
given to th- fact that the business of the
world is now far greater than ever ex
perienced and is Increasing year!}. As
an illustration, take the business of this
country for the past thirty-live years. It.
I<|, tile year immediately preceding the
civil war, the total exports and imports,
including specie, of tlio I ilitcd States w’as
the sum of $G95,K7,592. while in 1893 the
total exports ami imports, exclusive of
specie, was $1.714.1166,116, and to this sum
should ba added the enermc as increase in
our interstate commerce, which increase
is almost incalculable, and a. great in
crease per capita in our r.»on< y < irculation
net at ail wonderful. Again, a veiy
much greater per capita of money in cir
culation is inquired now than formerly by
an in.creere in the wants of lhe masses;
ti.e demands of what is at present regard
ed as but a comfortable living have great
ly increased during the p-ist thirty years,
and to our population of freemen has been
added sin< •• n class—some 4,t8<i,000 in
number—which formerly, as slaves, needed
no money f<>r support or trade, but which
now demands its per capita share of
money in circulation.
pnvi-iua u i''’ l ’’ 1 those who could '■mint
their wealth at from Kt-.W t > $t- : ” wer •
cx< options, even in the south, w.iieii was
then the w»<dlhi.'-’t sei’t.oti at the union,
how fortunes are count* <1 by Hie <pi,..”ter,
lull., tiiroe-eun! t'-r, ami v.h 1< millions,
which means a p'lrsibillty oi a coirr.‘stion
of cuirem yin pi ejsirtioa to the <ii;i aecs
in individual wealth. These j,r«at di.T-r
--enees of <• auditions are clearly recognised
by the recently adopt'd i ic.ime tax law.
which exen’pts al! incomes oi $4,000 and un
der, pi r annum, from the operations of
that law, for an income of $4,0t10 i ‘T annum,
char of taxes ami insurance, means an
investm. m of ss>.'*«i yielding a net interest
of per cent p. r annum.
Oae of the distinguished gentiomen allud
ed to used in his speecii of Sept mber 17th
the foll-jv. ine language: “I want to call
y, ur attention to how much silver there
was that had boon coined in the United
States prior to ISTJ which cou’d lw used to
pay debts, only ?8.231.<*0i in eighty, years
ri'd $7.’.”..<’9i.00 in gold dollars has be. n
coined." Here is stuteir.ent cf what pur
ports to be a faet. evidently Inten led to
c.-.-atr lhe iim.rr r.-lon that «.ur legal debt
paying currency pri-.r to 1573 was gold w .th
th- . xceptlan •>< SB,23i.f<h of silver. Now,
according to the n port o.‘ the director of
the mint for 1393, “Ail the silver coins of
the United Plates were full kvi.l tender
from 179.’ until the pnrsag.. of the act of
February 21. by v. 1.. h the fra< tioual
parts cf the dollar were made ruhsi.llary,
;.nd t’:e v> I; his of the coins redu. e«!.” If
we turn to th.- tables to lie found io. the
seme rep.-rt .n d tak • the trouble to add
t '.•••thcr tb • rnno int of .-liver <•<>!■-. <1 at the
different mints : • ■>. li organis •tr>n up
to January 1. 1853. the total coinage of “alt
s-lver coins of Hi • United States." whi -h
were “a full legal tender” for ell debts,
will be found to Im* the sum of $79,239.5M,
Here is a diffe,-*ne*? .if 871,019,591 in’tween
the assertion ot the orator and he official
statement of the ulrector of the mint ag
“to how much sliver there was that bud
been coined in the United States prior to
1873 which <-ot:ld ’ c use.! to pay debts.” <>r
the 8.231.’i’8 silvt r dallarr coined up to 7873
?-*»,223.71*, or over 63 per cent was coined be
tween January I. It. I. and Janiiaiy I, 1x7!!.
Now, to the $79,;.*i..7d of silver coin which
nas a full legal tender up to February 21,
must b<- added ali the foreign silver
coin Which was hi circulation In th United
St it".-’ that, : e 'rdint; to the dirt ‘for < r th<>
mint, “continued to pass current tn ,; le
United State- at certain rates ertablishe |
Ri -s of com.res- until February ?! 1337,”
only' three years before the war, whi< h pro
duced a ra ilcnl chnng- in our whole finan
cial system r.r.d saddlod upon us a domestic
financial policy .bit inakea congestion of
carcvuvy pvtwlbie, and places a seetivn of
the country, or a class ot the [s-ople. at
the financial mercy or will and pleasure of
another section or class.
When our mint was established in 1792
the silver dollar was the unit of value and
so continued until 1873, when, by' the act
of February 12th of that year, the gold dol
lar v.ns made the unit of value. The coin
age of the gold dollar was not authorized
until February, J 853, aud Its coinage v. as
discontinued in Seotember. 1890, and tne
total coined was not “795,091,000 gold dol-
Icrs," but only $19,499,337. Previous to 18'4,
when the fractional parts of the dollar
were made subsidiary, and up to 1857, when
foreign silver was deprived of legal debt
paying power, our currency of domestic
commerce was not nnly gold and silver coin,
but consisted largely’ of state btnk issues
based on specie—gold and silver coin—as
the basis of a three to one issue. In dis
cussing this IniiKirtant question let us tell
the people not only th, truth, hut the whole
truth. “You cannot fool all the people all
the time.”
Mr. Editor, while I fully agree with thus ■
wlio desire and are working for reform
in our financi.’il system or policy by open
ing the mints to the free coinage of sliver
produced in the United States. with no
change in ratio, and the repeal of the 10 p t
eent tax on st:,te bank issues, Ido not b•-
lie ve that adoption cf either or bo*h o
these met'sures would prove a “King Cure
nil” for the financial and cuminerci il Ills
of lhe n’“sent. No iicubt either ii/twsnre
would bring some, and possibly’ much, re
lief, and, in my humble opinion, to Geor-
State banks of Issue, guarded by strlr.tr n’.
laws rigidly nf Treed, would prove a finan
cial blcvsinc. bin general pror-p’rily would
not io ■es: ’triiy’ follow in the wake of these
reforms, for thoiwh resourccy., t) ■• founda
tion of prosperity, may he unlimited: ntvl
inouey. the og-iit for the development of
resources, free and nimtlf’.il os wot'..-, there
• an lie no indlvld’inl. state or national pros
p°!it.v wlthe’it energy. Industry, economy
an! thrift coupled with intelligence. Li
every huslner-. inffivld':::’, corporate, state
or notional, then- Is an account cHI' l “ex
pense account.” which exerts a subtle and
often astonishing Influence over the pros
■ perity nf :i business, for this account is a
prime factor in the equation of “loss and
gain ” and should, horefore, be often scru
tinised. It. would »o interesting and In
structive in ronnectlon with th-* financial
question to Investigate our “expense a•-
.'■Gtint” as n people anti a government for
1533, but such .n invcsilgation would mak*
this article unreasonably long; so with your
permission, Mr. Editor, a review of the
“expense account" of the people and the
government for 1823 will be reserve 1 for a
communication in the near future.
JAMES W. ROBEF.TSON.
Presj jent Cleveland’s suggestion, of arbi
tration i.f labor disputes give.? '.’.enera! satis
faction. According to the white house chef
he also appreciates the n-sults of cooking
with Dr. Price’s Crc.'un Baking Powder.
THIY LVNt HIM.
A Mob of Masked Men lu Maryland iiruig
a Negro.
I';>p o r Marlboro, Md., October 20. —Ste-
ph-, n Wfiii.tn: <, the negro who assaulted
Mr«. Hardesty oa YVednesday night and
coi-fos -tu, was taken from the county jail
this morning and hanged.
The nej.ro w. a captured shortly after
tlu- assault Wednesday night and identified
by Mrs. Hardesty, lie had a jh rliniinary
bearing Wednesday inaide the jail. Mrs.
Hardesty testified that idle and her adopt l I
daughter, tlcsle Rldg. r ay, had r-Hrcd on
Wednesday night, leaving the door unlock
ed, awaiting the return of iter husband,
who was al the store, a few hundred yards
away.
lietwf-n 9 and 10 o’clock rhe heard the
door open and saw the negro, who Inquired
for Mr. Hardesty, saying he had a mesaage
for him. Mrs. liardeety said her hu. itand
was down at the stable. The man there
upon .- aiu: “1 know where Mr. Hard-sly r ■
It is not Mr. Hardesty I want. It is you."
She ordered him away, hut he caught hold
<d her < nd dragged h i' into t!i ■ I. :,
adjoining. The house dog iulerferre i and
she suce ed< U in getting away. ?'.t~ . I.x r
deity ran out cf the house followed by Wil
!i.She succeeded in getting under a
Wife fence ami made her v. ay acros.i a Held
of briars in h>T bare feel. She was over
taken by her husband, who had been at
tracted by the eri< s of lhe daughter.
Sheriff George S. Dove was notified and
caught the man. The prisoner, when put
u;>on the stand, admitted the charge in
full, saying. "1 am the right man. but would
not have attempted such a thing had I not
be« n under the influence of liquor.”
Juttie Harris committed Williams to
jail without ball to await the action of the
court next. April.
A lit;it after midnight, several horsemen
rode up to the jail keeper’s house and de
manded the keys. Keeper t';>ieer said he
would not surjcnder the ). Then the report
oi a pi-r.ol was h< ard and it was announced
that the jail had been broken into. It took
an hour to batter down the doors before
Williams was found cn lhe second ti.-r.
He cried, "Murd t!” and la-gijcd piteously
for hi.-> life ag he struggie 1 with the masked
men. A rope was quickly thrown over his
head and the crowd of lynchers started
down stairs. Williams made no further re
sistance but ran along with his captors to
an iron bridge near the jail. Here he was
strung t'!> w it!; a n**w ion ■ and f v.r.il shots
were fired at his body.
A I’.rge crowd of citizens, awakened by
the pistol shots and other unusual nol.-as,
appeared lui were w.iiti'-d away. The tody
cut down and a jury of inquest render
ed a verdict of death by violence al the
hands of unknown partie.-;.
'I !:c lie.■ •' - ■•a;iit upon MT.'. Hardesty
v.-.s committed witnin ;> <i::cler ot' a mile
< .' where a n- gro u:.’;i< d Alh a v.a;> hung d
for a similar i l itne. only llv ■ mouths ago.
The Poorest llnti tn the World
Can write to me and receive by return mail,
in u plain envelope, sealed, free, a prescrip
tion with full dire-tion.s for a speeuy, per
manent and private home cure for Tx>st
Manhood, Nervous Debility, Atrophy, Night
Losses, Varicocele, etc. I will furnish the
medicine, if desired, cheaper than it would
b<* put up at a drug store. Address G. B.
Wrlyht, Boz No. 182 K. Marshall, Mleh.
Ho Mas Strung i p.
Columbia, S. C., October 2*).—(Special.)—
News reached here today of tin attempted
rape and subreqm nt lynching which oc
curred In Oconee county, in Hie mountain
region of this state.
N>; r the station of Tugr.loo, on the Pied
mu’.t Air-Line railroad, lives a man, named
Ho.iea. with his family. One day recently
fie and all of his family, except a fifteen
year-old daughter and an infant, were
away front lu>nie. During tneir absence
a burly negro entered the house and was
half way a< ross the front room before lie
was seen by the young girl, who was
churning.
In reply to his question as to whether
there was anybody else at home, she re
plied, no one, except h. rtelf and tin baby.
He the" s.:i<l: "I am going to buckle you
down ;’.nd kill you.” He went outside of
the house to get a cord, which, he said,
was in a valise. As soon as he went out
side of the house the girl seized her infant
brother and fled out the back door. She
made good her escape to the place where
her father had gone, and reported the case
to him.
Imnviiately a posse was formed to seach
for the villain. While the search was
going on another body of men were met,
who were searching for a negro answering
to the same description. The parties scat
tered over the whole country round about.
In a short while the report was given out
that t.ie nep.ro could not b<* found, but
there is evi l mce that he was found, hang
ed. and hia body sunk in the Tugaioo river.
CltrlstninM Money.
Too early to grett our friends with
“<’!nistm..s Gitts,” hut net too earls to
ss.ite for terms and territory on my beau
tiful set of Xmas books. Active' agents
wanted in every' town and county’ in the
south, no exp rlenee re.- ssn-,. Sn -clal
inducements to those beginning early. Ad
dress i>. H. Luther, publisher. 63 and 68
Whitehall fit., Atlanta, Ga, Mention this
paper
SARGE PLUNKETT.
THE OLD MAX AXTICJEATES THE
JITBTIXa OF THE J.EGJSI.ATVHE.
The Corporations AVill Take Care of Them
zelvea »» They Ever tlnvo Untie, but.
the I’eoplo Need Belief,
For The Constitution.
The legislature of Georgia will soon be
convened, and already, 1 venture, there
hf s betn many things “cut and dried” for
them to aet upon.
Who Shall look after the people’s in
terests?
There will be the lobbyiest on hand and
plans ere already formulated to carry
through schemes of the corporations, but
not a single concert of action has been
agreed upon by any number of men book
ing io the matters of the whole people.
Tiie matter of electing a United States
t- i.atov will absorb its full share of atten
tion. Already tactions are turning heaven
and earth t> ek-et their man. Combina
tions will be entered into, trades made,
money spent, perhaps, in the interest of
this mtn and the other man, and through
it all lhe interest of the people will be
:>uch a small portion of the incentive that
one might well conclude that the “people ’
art* “not in it." The same will apply to
J-.tdg-s, to the establishing of courts—to
any other matter where personal gaAi
comes in, there is already factions at
v.otk upon ii, and it Is doubtful whether
any will win upon merit.
If it c uld be determined just what Is
needed by the greatest number of people
la Georgia, there i. no one hut a lawyer
who < oiiid put it in shape to become a law.'
The question of “constitutionality,” this
technicality’ and another te' linicallty, woul I
stare the common citizen in the face were
he to undertake to draw a bill and have it
passed. Law and lawyers have the “peo
ple” tied hand and foot, lost in the im
mensity of complications, bewildered in
the maze of learning. There is too much
learning, too much law, too many lawyers,
but what are you going to do about it?
Brown says wipe every lav.’ book from the
sac-r of the earth and start anew, with Moses
fir our guide in lhe matter of brevity. We
know that this will not be clone, for it is
not in the interest vs the profession. The
best thing that I can think of is for “the
people” to fall in with the lawyers and
out-Caesar Caesar—they’ve got us. I
listened, to Brown and one of our neighbors
talk last night about the situation:
“Cotton’s mighty cheap?”
"Yes.”
"Money’s mighty dear?”
“Yes.”
"People in debt?”
"Yes.”
“Crops short?”
"Yes.”
“Legislature soon meets?”
“Yes.”
“Good many of ’em ‘the people?’ "
“Yes."
“Let ’em pass a ’stay’ law?”
“Constitutional?”
“See a lawyer.”
* See a lawyer,” that ended it, and so
everything else will end. One little old
weasly lawyer from the county of Rich
mond, or Fulton, or Bibb, or from the tenth
district even, would sway the legislature
If every other member was matted with
cuckleburs and had a ton of hayseed to
spare. Anyhow Brown and our neighbor
have decided that a "stay” law should be
passed at once by the legislature to be of
effect till "confidence is restored,” and they
are going to start tomorrow to find a law
yer to draw up a bill for them, and then
they are going to loom up in the capitol
as blooming lobbyists for the “people.”
The "people” surely do need something
li . y have not. The lawyer makes law to
suit his case. The preacher makes theo
logy to suit his environmnets. The cri
lerlons of cur morals are larp, or small
just as the result of the latest elcctioii:' give
them prestige with the police powers of
corporations. We have rot exactly arrived
at the point yet, but if the i>end;dum keeps
on .-winging in that direction there will be
no home rights, moral standards will be as
different as they are numerous police clubs
will force the discipline which the parent
is enjoined to fore* by the “rod” of holy
writ and lhe old daddy is a “back number.”
I lead in a newspaper yesterday where
the grand jury of Brooklyn, N. Y., called
attention to the conduct of /cang girls in
that city. The presentments placed these
from the ages of seven to eighteen years
and deplored the fact tlgn tneir flirtations
with the clerks and men upon the streets
iii'.d grown io be unendurable —criminal, in
fact. Thei-e girls are not lhe dress of bo
cie’.y or they would never have been no
ticed l y a grand Jury tn tills way. They
a- iill • girls whose parents are not sltvng
eiiougi. to control them nad whose ideas ot
prop) i» ly have pui llu-m in such :• dangerous
position as lo alarm n grand jury of the
gi >rlous city of Brooklyn. The parents of
i hese girls aro ma le helpless by environ
ments, amt tn«y never plunged right into
this dangerous stage at one-. They gradu
ally gr< w into it. No doubt the first time
these girls sipped soda water ,fro:n a
rushlomibb- fount on the street they turned
crimson. J’ernaps some of tlx nt might have
got their cheeks a little hardened by run
ning round collecting donations lor some
great Brooklyn churen. Anyhow au intel
ligent grand jury -sound: - , a note of warn
ing and protests. Thinking men,
business men, successful men, are
these grand jurymen. and, as it
wet?, they arise Hi their places
ami cry to the people to halt! Turn back!
Teo I'a.r, too far have we departed! Get
ba -k to old ways, t’all in your daughters.
Stop this thing. Tliis ma.? save Brooklyn.
This may sta;i the pendulum swinging back
tdl it swings to its normal condition, and.
may be, the whole country will ue profited
by tin* cry.
Brooklyn is not the only city in these
I nited states that should be alarmed, nor
should the thing apply alone to young girls,
k applies to boys as well, but tne whole
thing shows there is something wrong with
our system. The root of the evil should be
found and men should be brave enough to
correct it. If it be th? most popular thing
in all our system of government is should
be chopped oft'. Os course there would be
a diversity of opinion us to what is the
matter, but ail can agree that things are
not what i hey used to be. Brown says that
“progn ss” is not progress, but lands us
back into heathenism on the road we are
going. Sometime ago I met a young man
whom I knew to be an enthusiastic Young
Men’s Christian Association member, and
>?•■ sounded him on the times. He fold us
things about young men cf Atlanta which
sf:< w a deplorable condition in their tastes
and habits, lie said that his association
organized a plan 'o ascertain how the
j oung men of Atlanta spent the’r »v nlngs.
They made details to visit every barioom
iti lhe city upon a certain night and keep
account of the men who sixmt th* hours
there during which prayer meetings were
held in ail the churches. Just a few. in
comp- risen attend prayer meetings. The
great difference in the numbeis in favor
of barroom.-; is appalling to thoiiglitfv.l peo
ple. There Is a cause for this, and it should
br* sought out. Me ami Brown have sai l
time and again that the i hureh has “suc
cored” out too much and that these “suc
cors” are sapping tin- life out of the church.
Succoring may not be a good word wilh
town folks, but all country people know
what it means, and whenever the farmer’;?
corn succors out the whole family turns out
that no one but some old crank—that’s
to pull the succors off. It has xot to v. liere
v hat they cal! me—can tackle this subject
of the church's succors. A preacher told
me that ho kn-?w many of his members who
were more Bealoua about their “societies**
than about church affairs, but that he does
not dare to say anything. It would make
bint unpopular with his congregation. Hang
the r-'O'tila 1 it.' ! The preachers should cry
out like th’* jury of Brooklyn. The news
papers should cry out. V! people shott’d
er< out. If it be ih” jrmlt'tude of societies
say so. I* it be p :biic schools say so, if it
be lhe reversing of nature the potting of
girls to work and making idlers out of men
s.i; so. Whatever It !>** it should he howled
down. I’m scared: Browri i- scared, and
he is a r raid that the world will just settle
upon the old hobby of •’whisk; ” as lhe
cause and look no further nor nowhere
els?* for the evil. Drunkards are abomina
ble • nd the finest temperance lecture to
th* young is to have them look upon a
drunkard and despise whisky. The youth
ful ara not apt to launch full
fledged into sinful ways with
so vile a person as a drunkard, more
than is a young girl to f“ un S®
the midst of I: IFa women without the ln
te-rmediate training. Crimes an i
are hideous to the innocent when they y
it without its sugar coating—without Its
cloak. I am in favor of every one going t
work, seeking causes and effects tuia get
th* lawyers to help us—we cant uo any
thing without a lawyer. . _. av
The action of this Brooklyn jury may
put the people to thinking. As for me an-
Brown we have been thinking for smne
time, and we have mike 1 a right smart,
but the most of i>eop)e call us harsh o d ro
gies or crarks and this has lessened our
usefulness in our owu households. Brown
has seme smart children and he has man
aged to keep thorn at home and get ihem
up to n pretty g*'od size, all of th in, but
in these latter days there is a plenty <>i peo
ple who think they could have managed
the thing much better than he h?z done
ar.d they are generally impudent
enough to’ come out and say so. homo
would have them join this society ami oth
ers would have them join another, homo
think one line of work the most suitable,
w'hile others think just the reverse. This
sort ot thing don't bother Brown much,
for he is plenty strong enough to do just
as he sees proper, hut it Is bad on th*- chil
dren. It sows seed of discontent, in the
household—it is a mistaken kindness. In
the goodness of jh*oi»l*’s hearts 1h»-y will
offer oj-p n’t unities wldch, if accepted, dis
fits the child to ever till an humb'.e sphere,
and if it is net accepted the chil l is al
ways brooding over what it might have
been. When you get. it into a little boy’s
head that In* was cut out for a “big man."
you have spoiled i g od plowboy. - lor lit
tle fellows are losing their self-dependence
through mistaken kindn>*ss than iay othea
way. What boy, what girl, should be flat
tered that thee are sin irt ami pretty, and
then by some insinuation, maybe an offer
cf help kindly meai*t. brought to be
lieve that iheir home life is irksome, void
of opportunity? Let the rich k< *p their
pity, er at least be car* ful how they toll it
cut to <l.!ldi ;i who have n ver thought
hut. what their hnnu* was the best home,
their folks th * l>est folks, their opi’ortu i;ty
in their health and chart) ter and strength
--never dreaming otherwise till seeds uro
sewn to the contrary. ,
But there would be a gr<-at diversity of
opinion as to v.t at has brought the Brook
lyn young gir's to such an abandoned can
(iltion as to attract the attention and cm: •
the alarr.i of a grand jury. One thing w’»*
know, that this action of the grand jury
is without a f-r. col* i t in this ••oun.r.v-l
lean* that su» b ju Hcn h-’s been tal on b -
sere in the older countries. Another thing
w< know. We know that in old times these
girls would have been at lh'*ir >i >ni’.s spin
ning and eariHng and weaving. »■ hen
there was nothing else to do they cr,,l -'£
knit. Tfiiis was .-mpioyn;'nt. and p>-9> le
who have something to do at horn ■ nan
no craving io "gad.” We know this
of keeping children employed worked xati
in the clden times and w.iat aas
w’oriced well once may be made :o
do so again. There will I"* trouble tn get
ting back to the <>ld-un*c way;. But we ea..
get there, if it takes gen. -ation to do it.
Brown saw.* that he eonid haw all his chi’-
dr a back a! spuming end canting and
we-vtng and kn-'ting in le>.-\ ■;
if it were not that these mistaken friomis
would come wilu < ’•••i p* y. vuh ir
statements of < hr::p ' 1 n . .
in rhe stores and o! how loohsn *• i*>
work so hard to produce men Ininas when
thev can be bought so cheap. 1 know >t
seems slow “pi< gross” to knit in these
times, or to spin or weave. But .1 .t**» I
to be done, in many instances’
Pio were able to llv- with ut it, just lor
the - ak'- >f ■ mploymert. I< i**m - * is ...
gerous, pity Is out oi' ;d.-me with the strong
and heiuUiy and tn- sowing ot t eus to tne
contrary is infamous. xr-.v’c
Brown and i slopped
factory on our w:ij out irom Atla. . .
terd-iy It happened to be the -Lnner nour
and we could loo), upon the young i * -J" •
in th- cnff yniei't of an hour s so. i n.'i. .
1 have never seen a more appropriat'-.y
dr-s.-.'d crowd ot' young men and yoim>;
girls. Not a slou-h <hd I r*t*e, an.i yet .di
their <i.-* siT:g w; s jila-i am. '‘heap, lb -
was such »n atom? lance ol leanline s tna.v
freshness tilled th- v.diole atm—;h.*re. N.rn
~ flowers : •>- ■■ bi'ic -r i..-
nmnne the girls. Fcetty ribbons tied th-;.’
hSir and Howers, the last of summer, deli
cately rested on their bosoms. It .s not m
means and covet not. They
ters cf good mothers v. no !> !L 'e - ' .
ble enough to P. p their < l'.i-dren m-' l ’’ l
their own
Ing to ano-ix'r me dev u>m-'J •• ‘
qualhie:. almost go-lb- and as
fcin.lv unity is t—<-s*ar>. ao i-m ’.’HI he
craze*' bv keeping up a stye .>*-><>n<i hi-
CS j (il ** ,-bi in sun i.. •on O’..nt m
nensible vrtiio'.'- ••.’ora. -if . a* ‘
sees at Elsas .1- M’ty's 1 v.'mld lik- !■ mu n
b. t< r £1 a t 1 * face r. . be run
■
Georgia's streams, invite, lu-t when . * *••
fl'e inlc imi’ s • pre f-tn-* L hc<’ tr ■
flinpnnt girls fl ■‘l' g -’bout town am’ on
the’«H'C’et -«rs. i lif' >•>>' -mt t” s ;< h tn. n ,-s
Elsas & May ar.” p.v.v that God will mess
and keep those al>-ut them.
In a country’s pure women He the jewels
of man:
In man's pure sell lies tne strength ol his
Iran''?: . „ ... .
In the old times of Georgia—simple and
pure— .
Could we lind such virtue as w<- v. b to
endure? SAHGE I’l.l NKETT.
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i Distributed among the
CONSTITUTIGN'S subscribers,
BETWEEN NOW AND MAY Ist,
Bv the following p!i:n : We have placed in a .--ukd eavelojie in the keeping of
the TrciHiii’er of the State of Georgia, and b-cke.l in the great vaults of lhe State,
a levai tender note, which like all federal pa]>er currency is nund»ere<l, each note
of every denomination issued by the govcrnnient having its own number. The
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the two thousand dollars in prizes ofiered.
Th. following figures com- ) g
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nearest doing so.
5250 1; ' c ASH to the person who conies secontl nearest.
SIOO IX CASH to the person who comes third
to the person who comes fourth nearest,
S3O CASfI l: ’ , '" l ' >n v ‘ l " 6011,68 nearert.
Sts > X _ CA SH to the person '.ho comes sixth marert.
SIO i CASH to the person who coiu< - seventh neared.
S 3 * C.V'H to the person coining eighth nearest.
L’ASH to the person coming ninth nearest.
SS JN CASH to lite person coming tenth nearest.
85 ‘ s CASH to the person coi • eventh nem est.
* CASH to th< per <.. coming twelfth nean
85 CASH to the person coming thirteenth nearest.
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35 CAS - : b> !i ’'' person coming sixteenth nearest.
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Each guvs.-, must necomp.-tny a cash subscription to the Wkkkly Constitution. (2nd)
Should there l>e tmy ties in‘the guesses, the prizes will be divided. (3d) Every new or
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