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THE CONSTITUTION.
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1 he Road to Prosperity.
Reliable advices from New England
make it certain that within the next
twelve months several large companies
Th that se'*tlon will build cotton mills in
the Carolinas and in Georgia. The
southern mill owners have lx*en con
templating a change of b:?se for some
time. They complain that with their
expensive labor system. Ligh priced
fuel. frequ* nt strikes, remoteness from
the locality where the raw material is
produced, ami otin r disadvantages, that
they can no longer compete profitably
with the southern mills.
1 hiring a financial depression of two
years it is a w -li known fact, conceded
by all. that the south has weathered
the storm better than any other sec
tion. It is also well known that the
cotton mill industry more than held its
own during the hard times, and that
the southern mills have yielded better
dividend*, than the north« rn mills can
b «ast of. even in j«yos|M r.»us times.
Moreover, it is a fact that in spite of
hard times wo have gone right ahead
end built numerous new mills in half a
dosen s. nt hern states.
Eastern capitalists are quick to recog
nize the p xsibllities of such a promising
situation, ami with their usual business
judgment they have come to the con
clusion that the south is the great fut
ure field of cot ion manufacturing, and
they have made up their minds to take
advantage of it.
It is to 1h- ho[>ed that our people will
lose in. time in waking up to the real
rignilie luce of this movement. If they
will grasp it and m ike, the in**-’ of it
•i «< w.ll emancipate t| u ||( aple
-from tile thraldom or Liverpool and
Manehe-ier and be aide to control its
price for all time to come.
I.iveFjMHd and M tnch«“>ter fix the price
of our cotton because they manufacture
a large |M-rcentage of our output ami
especially in the markers of Asia. While
►ell their fabrics ail over the world and
they coiitr d so many markets, ami pur
clui.se our raw’ material, they will, of
course. resort to every possible device
to keep the price of cotton down. The
way to reverse this state of affairs is
t«» manufacture our entire cotton pro
dm? here at !v :ue in sight of die fields
wh'Te she >iapie is produced. That we
can do it siMf:*ssfidly is already proved
by the profitable op»*rall**ns of our mills
ia tl. • l«>ng.-t am! greatest financial dm
pross’un of the century. When we man
ufacture every |* und of our cotton Eng
land will have to buy our fabrics and
the gnat markets in China. Japan and
India, which are now under her control,
will have to !•* supplied direct from this
country.
Under such conditions it will lie ut
terly impx- -ible for outsiders to fix
th- pri«-v of American cotton. Liverjiool
will have n«» more control over our staple
than New York has over the coffee crop
of Brazil.
It is no longer in order to ask whether
It is practicable for the south to un
dertake to manufacture her entire cot
ton output. That question is settled.
The tacreasing numlM*r of southern
I: ills, and their successful rivalry with
the northern mills, together with the
Southward movement of the eastern
mills, should convin«*e even the most
doubtful tiial the building up of this
industry will Im? the material salvation
of the south.
We can get all the capital that will
|m> needed. Millions of dollars will Ih»
Invested here by outsiders in the next
few months, and if we go almut it in
the right way we ran raise enough home
capital to build a mill iu every cotton
growing county in the south that enjoys
Fesixs-sab’e tran-portation facilities. Mr.
D. A. Tempkins, of t'harlottc, has shown
fiow the building and loan idea may Im*
utilised in organizing companies and
raising funds to start cotton factories.
It is possible in every community to or
ganize a company on this plan, with
stockholders who will pay in from $1
n week upward. Farmers, merchants
and wage earners will all lie able to
fake stock in such enterprise, and the
general mloption of the plan wiil in a
few years build a sufficient number «»f
mills io uonsunte our whole pnnual
product.
When we do this-tln- south will Im* the
mistress of the situation. She will then
take from England her markets in Asia,
and sell her fabrics to millions of cus
tomers tn that quarter of the globe, as
well as to the Europeans. Whea that
day comes it will Im* beyond the power
of any outside combination to affect
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 5,1394.
the price of American cotton. li will
be regulated by the natural laws of
trade—supply and demand.
For nearly a century the southern peo
ple have pursued the indefensible policy
of shipping their raw material to
Massachusetts and England to be man
ufactured. ami then they have purchased
the goods and in that shape their cotton
has been shipped back to them. Such
a policy could not do otherwise than
im|M>verish cur s<*ction. We must turn
over a new leaf. All tin* cotton produced
within a radius of a certain number of
miles from Atlanta should be manu
factured here, and this is true of every
other southern town. V*'- have the raw
material, cheap fuel, iuethattstible wa
ter power, satisfactory labor, and good
transportation facilities. Now, what
stands in our way? Nothing, absolutely
nothing!
Cleveland and Hill.
Some of the editorial brethren who
have heretofore made an Industrious ef
fort to show that Mr. Cleveland is some
thing more titan a man, something more
than his party, ami. therefore, beyond
the reach of criticism, are now begin
ning to exhibit irritation over the ]»resi
dent’s failure to extend any aid or sym
pa thy to his struggling party in New
York state.
Npexiking cor fident ially. “between us
gals.” as Editor Watterson would re
mark—and with the expectation that it
will go no farther—we think the irrita
tion grows out of the fact that the
brethren in question ran find no sort of
excuse for Mr. Cleveland’s conduct —no
precedent for it. no sort of explanation
for it. If it eouiil Im* found these kneel
ing brethren would find it. They would
go dowu in tiie ground, they would
climb a high tree, they would take a
long ami painful journey by land and
sen in search of it; and if they could
find it. they would put on their ceremo
nial rota's again and relight their cen
sers.
The trouble with these brethren is that
their irritation is not »*aus<*d by Mr.
Cleveland’s attitude toward his party
in Nev. - York, but grows out of the fact
that they can find no possible excuse for
it. The <i>ntrast lx*tw<*«*n the sweet
nines of adulation that these bearded
choristers of the inner political temple
have bt*en singing and their harsh notes
of condemnatimi is not a humorous one.
It is not in the way of nature to laugh
at those who find that the they
have been worshiping is comtnou clay
after all.
We regret most sin< - er«'ly that The
Constitution Is unable to comfort these
disappointed brethren. There can be
no dis-ent excuse found for Mr. Cleve
land’s conduct with respect to the strug
gle of his party in New York state. It
cannot be explained on any ground that
will satisfy those who sincerely bel’ -v**
in democratic principles. If th? cam
paign in New York were a mere |ier
sonal contrat between Hill and bis
friends on one side and his enemies <:n
the other, •lien* would boa reasonable
excuse for im’if’er- nee on the part of
democrats having uo interest in affair?
in that state; but there would Im* no
<*x< - nse. even then for Mr. Cleveland’s
indifference. He is under obligations
to tin* party represenhsl by Hill that he
can never repay. That party took b : m
out of the obscurity of the sheriff's
o!!ice in Erie county and made him gov
ernor; it took him out of the governor’s
chair ami made him prraident. For al!
that he was and is he is under direct ob
ligations to the organization represented
by Mr. Hill.
But the contest in New York Is not a
jM*rsonal one betwe<*n Hill and h’s cm*
mles. It is a contest between the two
great parties, and on the result in New
York will largely depend the result of
the national contest between the two
parties in ISfitl. It involves the sm*<*ess
of those principle of dem<»era<\v Is >me
of which the president is said to fav >r>
that lie al the foundation of go<wl gov
ernment. and some to maintain ami pre
serve the rights and lilwriies of the
p<*ople.
How does the attitude of Mr. Cleve
land <*omp.»rt with the dignity of his
high oilhe and the dutira that devolve
up >n him ::s the head of the party?
Measured by these the bitterness of his
conduct can hardly he described in
terms at once fitting amt r;-s;»«*etfii!.
Such a sacrili”.* <>f duties and obligations
to animosities, so narrow, so petty ami
so niran has never Im fore been sta ll in
this country. Mr. Cleveland has per
mitted some of his personal friends in
New York to organize active op|H»sltlon
to the parly that lifted him out of his
obscurity and conferred the highest hen
ors ii|»on him. He has not only not
lifted his hand or his voice to prevent
this attack on the party, but he has
apparently :><ithoriz< d the hauler of tlx*
attacking force to announce far and
wide that if the pr< sidenfc votes in New
Y’ork state at all he will vote for the
candidate that is trying I • destroy the
party.
AU the consolation that the democrats
In New York and in the country at large
have r<*ceivi*d from She official leader
of the par;y in this m'lergency is tins:
that the pr<*sident cannot vote in tin*
election! Som<* unknown man has dis
covered an unknown law whose opera
tions will prevent the president from ex
ercising the most im?*ortant function of
American citizenship. Mr. Everett
Wheeler, the leader of th” Cleveland
men in New York who are opposing the
partv. has declared up and down that
ho would receive the vote of the presi
dent if the vote was east. And now
democrats are gravely informed that
the president’s vote will not Ih* cast at
all. How immensely reassuring to the
party in New York.
We have seen what the attitude of
Mr. Clevelaml is to the party that made
him. We have seen that he has refused
to lift a hand or open his mouth in favor
of the New York democracy until it is
i now too late for his voice to either help
ior hurt the party. Th” damage that his
! silence has done cannot be undone. So
far as the democrats of the country
know, he is willing that the people of
New York should repudiate liis adminis
tration If they at the samp time repudi
ate Mr. Hill.
Let us now. byway of contrast, turn
our atieutluu to the attitude of the
leader of the state democracy in New
York. He has lM*<>n called a “peanut
politician” ami he lias been pretty wide
ly advertised as a man of narrow views
and sinister designs. We have no sort,
of doubt, that he despises Mr. Cleveland
as heartily as Mr. Cleveland despises
him, hut what is his attitude at this
crisis in the affairs of his party? Does
he permit his spites and his prejudice's
to control his conduct? Let the records
show! Ungrudgingly and unhesitating
ly, he lias thrown aside all spite and
animosity, all personal feeling, and is
engagc'd in defending the administra
tion of Mr. Cleveland. The whole tem
per of the man seems to have under
gem* such a change—a change brought
about by a party emergency—that his
enemies and his former critics unite in
paying tributes to his broad-minded and
patriotic attitude.
We regret that the matter has to be
left here. We regret that Mr. Cleve
laml has not shown himself to be fully
as loyal to his party and his party’s in
terests as David B. Hill. We art* not
praising Mr. Hill, lie has done and is
doing no mon* than his duty; but he is
doing that excellently well.
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Thn Senatorial Nominees.
The nomination of Mr. Walsh for the
short senatorial term and Mr. Bacon for
the long term is very generally ap
proved by the democrats of Georgia.
Their ability and faithfulness have been
tesu>d, ami they will reflect credit upon
their constituents.
Mr. Bacon’s nomination is very grati
fying to thousands of democrats who
have been his devoted friends from the
beginning of his public career. The
steadfast loyalty of these friends is in
itself a high tribute to the coming sen
ator. To command such devotion a
man must be brilliant and magnetic,
faithful and true, witli the courage of
ids convictions, ami lie must moreover
be on the side of the people.
Mr. Bacon is iieartily iu tiecord with
tin* democratic masses upon all the im
portant issues of tiie day. His financial
views are those of (he great majority of
our people, and his able advoca< - y of
free silver and state banks lias made a
profound impression upon the state at
large. His nomination was not in
iltiem-ed by either sectional or factional
considerations. Tin* deimwrats who
voted for him represent every part of
ihe stat<*, from tiie mountains to the
sealioard. ami it cannot be said of him
that lie is tiie candidate of either north
Georgia, middle Georgia or south Geor
gia. His following is very generally
distributed all over the commonwealth.
Nor is he in any sense the candidate of
a faction. He is support 'd by tiie
regular straightout democrats who de
mand th>* redemption of the financial
pledges of tin* Chicago platform.
The nomination of Senator W!alsli
for the short term is a proper endorse
ment of his appointment by Governor
' r.h ii. The senator’s big brain and
big heart have* made him one of the
most popular men in Georgia, and we
cannot now recall any man who ever
made a better record in the senate in
so short a time.
Senator Walsh has favorably im
pressed the entire country, and his dis
inviii-lied xerviees cannot be too high
ly appreciated by his party and his
state. Hi* is a leader in every., move
ment that is calculated to aid our ma
terial development, and as an apostle
of industrial progress he deserves to
rank with our greatest public benefac
tors.
He Is a democrat of the best type, a
man id’ the people, and his financial
policy, like Mr. Bacon’s, is just what
<>ur people have demanded ever since
they ratified the Chicago platform. No
man was ever truer to his party and
his people, and few mon in Georgia
have served the s ale with his ability
and public spirit.
While the state was being canvassed
ho was at his post in the senate. He
on!d not come home to take Hit* stump
ami talk to the people, and when con
gress adjourned the senatorial issue
had been decided in so many counties
that it was too late for him to enter
the race with any chance of success.
A Republiciin Postmaster.
Tlx* demand for The Constitution is
of such a character that we art* eon
tinmill.v called on to devise means for
placing it within easy reach of tile peo
ple. To that end we, like uianj’ other
i:ew?pap ts. sometimes offer postmas
ters a commission to act as agents of
the p iper. Where these officials art* too
busy io take the matter in hand, they
uotally turn rhe matter over to some
irustworthy person who is willing to
earn the commission.
A few weeks ago we sent out to a
Jarae number of postmasters the new
prospi'eitis of The Weekly Constitution.
A nong tiie re-ponses, which have been
unusually |-rompt and favorable, we find
the following queer letter from Edgar,
Fla., written under date of October
2Mh:
Dear Firs—Yours of September, '94, to
hau l and cent -nts noted. Being a repub
lican, I cannot handle your paper. You
democrats have hurt business enough as it
is.
Hoping that th** next presidential elec
t'oii will change things a little, I am yours
very truly, POSTMASTER.
v, e io.uK the postmaster at Edgar,
Fla., is ungrateful, to say the least.
Having held office for two years under
a democratic administration ami enjoy
ed tiie profits thereof as serenely as if
he hail been a democratic warhorse who
had earned (he place by serving tiie par
ty, it ill becomes him to write a letter
io a democratic newspaper denouncing
the democratic administration. Having
enjoyed in his own person the fruits
of democratic success for two years, he
should not now complain that demo
crats have hurt business.
It. is worthy of n ite that however
much he may despise the democratic
party, the republican postmaster at Ed
gar diM'sn’t despise a democratic office.
It is queer that a democratic adminis
ira.ion should retain a republican post
master in office, but it is queerer still
that after the administration has kept
the republican postmaster in office for
two years, he should turn and denounce
what it has done. It seems to us that
Ills criticisms would be in better taste
if he h id refused to hold office under
an administration which lie condemns
and despises.
An interesting question is suggested
by the letter of this republican post
master. How many republicans in the
south and elsewhere are holding office
at this time of day? How many have
been so hedged in by custom, precedent,
consideration and combination as to de
fy the democratic headsman, and re
tain offices that ought to have fallen
to the portion of those who have worked
faithfully in behalf of democratic prin
ciples?
We are surprised and grieved to see
that any democratic congressman from
Florida has permitted a republican post
master to hold office in his district and
thus crowd out some honest and deserv
ing democrat. It will hardly do to put
the blame for this sort of Thing on the
administration. The administration
cannot be expected to go nosing around
through the congressional districts to
see whether all the federal offices are
filled by democrats.
That is part of a congressman’s duty.
He is supposed to know what is going
on in his district, and is supposed to be
interested in the proper distribution and
apportionment of the federal offices
among the party workers.
What, then, is the Florida congress
man, in whose district Edgar lies, think
ing about when lie permits the postoffiee
to be filled by a republican who is ram
pant enough to attack the democratic
administration and wish tie* country rid
of it? If we are to have genuine re
form let it begin by a sweeping reform
in the civil service, purging it of those
oxen sconces left over from republican
administrations
The Passing of the Czar.
The greatest ruler in Europ-? has been
summoned 1 • another world by a still
greater ruler —the all-wise and all-power
ful King of Kings.
It is not the proper time to pass judg
ment upon ihe third Alexander. His
deeds ami motives will have to be sift
ed and weighed, and it may lie a gen
eration before the full effect of some of
his measures will be felt. At a later
day impartial history will render its
verdict.
The czar was more enlightened and
humane than many of the Romanoffs,
but his persecution of tiie Jews and of
I lie Catholics was cruel and indefensi
ble.
Aside from these crimes against the
helpless and innocent, Alexander has
made one of the best rulers that Russia
has ever had. He has maintained the
peace of Europe, and if he has held the
people down he has frequently mani
fested his love for them. In the great
cholera epidemic he visited the hospitals,
exposed himself to the plague, and en
couraged ihe sick and the living. Dur
ing the famine In* gave tiie stifferers
$1,500,000 out <d‘ his private purse.
If he ha<l great faults he had some
great virtues. Il may be said iu his b•?-
half that if lie was a despot, he inherit
I 1 *! his policy from a long line of tyrants.
If In* distrust'd ihe people it must b<*
recollected that Im was in constant dan
ger of assassination, and the attempts
upe>* his life naturally made him bitter
and revengeful.
A.' 'her his death will change flie Eu
ropean status an 1 bring on a general
war In the near future is doubtful. His
successor may find that pe.-me promises
him more than war. But, be this as
it may, it is not likely that the new em
peror will be in a hurry to inaugurate a
warlike policy.
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A Puzzled Emperor,
The emperor of China is in a state
of great mental worry over the frequent
reverses sustained by his armies.
He has summoned his highest officials
to a council, and he proposes to ask
them why a small nation like the Japan
ese cannot be exterminated.
It is evident, that the Chinese ruler has
a very inquiring mind, and iu this in
stance liis investigation is taking tiie
right direction. If there is a broad
minded statesman among his advisers,
the question asked by the emperor will
bring out some very interesting facts.
IVny cannot fiio.iMMi.oou Chinese ex
terminate •lojHHtJMMi Japanese?
Here is tin* answer: Because the
Chinese are not so well disciplin<*d and
so well equipped as their foes; because
they are led by corrupt officers who have
sold their guns und most of *hier ammu
nition; beetiiise their soldiers have been
so brutally treated tli.it they serve only
for pay and not from patriotic motives;
Ix'cause the Chinese have more faith in
their war god and their green dragon
than they have in powder ami lead; be
cause th<* Japanese have adopted the
civilization and the methods of the most
progressive nations. The Japanese civil
ization trains up men with brains and
courage, wbiie the Chinese sysfem re
duces men to tiie level of children.
These are the reasons why the Chi
nese. although ten times more num
erous tb *n tiie Japanese, are unable to
cope with them.
But it is not likely that any general,
governor or mandarin will tell his em
peror these unpleasant facts. Such
frankness would probably cause the per
son so offending to lose his head.
Suicide of the Chinese Empress.
If tin* Chinese emperor lias any sym
pathizers in civilized countries they will
not be found among the women.
Our dispatches announce the death of
the young empress of China under cir
cumstances <>f peculiar brutality. It
scorns that her royal husband allowed
his temper to get the best of him the
other day. He scolded the empress and
wound up by slapping her fare.
The empress was proud and sensitive.
She felt that she could not endure such
disgrace, ami after retiring to her pri
vate apartments she committed suicide
by taking poison.
Tiie emperor is virtually the murderer
of this unfortunate woman. He de
graded her as he would a slave by
striking her and drove her to her death.
The brutality and folly of this tyrant
are characteristic of his whole people.
They are only bold .and strong when
they tire oppressing the weak. When
they have to face brave and Intelligent
foes like the Japanese they yield to
their natural cowardice and act like a
crowd of frightened children.
China is doomed. From the ruler
down to tin* lowest strata of society
the most utter demoralization prevails.
The nation is unable to defend itself
against outside enemies, and it is doubt-
ful whether it can hold together under
out* government much longer. Soonet
or later the empire will be divided and
parceled out among other nations.
Preparing for More Bonds?
Tiie gold brokers on Wall street are
talking about another issue of bonds.
They do not go off into a corner to do
their talking. They stand out in the
open, as it were, and gossip as glibly
about saddling another hundred millions
of debt on the people as if it were a
picnic.
The financial editor of The New ora
Herald mentioned the other day (as a
sort of joke that was too good to keep)
that, iu addition to the regular specula
tion in bills of exchange, an element
on the street was holding tiie sixty-day
bills and using them as collateral, in
stead of sending them to London w»ieie
the discount is merely nominal—a mere
fraction of 1 per cent. These bills, thus
locked up, will be In the nature of sight
orders for gold at their maturity.
Tiie Herald suggests that, if there
were any ilesire to force gold exports,
this would be a very cheap method. A
desire for gold exports could only grow
out of a purpose to force a new bond
issue.
The Herald also called attention to
another curious sact —namely, that the
gold brokers in Wall street attract at
tention occasionally by buying “calls ’
on a million of gold.
We judge from all this that the specu
lative element in Wall street is begin
ning to discover the power that it has
in manipulating bills of exchange, and
in taking advantage of Mr. Carlisle’s
fatal policy of redeeming silver in gold
and gold alone.
The speculative playfulness mentioned
by The Herald means another issue of
bonds in tiie near future, ami Wall
street is preparing the way for it.
Negroes Wanted in Pennsylvania.
Tin* Pittsburg Dispatch strongly fa
vors the importation of negro labor from
tlx* souih. it says that thousands of
them are coming into the coke region
and taking the place of the Huns, and
in the main they have given satisfac
tion.
The objection to the Huns is their
lawlessness. Periodically they strike,
and break out into ilosperate violence.
’l'll** Dispatch says that Ihe negroes re
spect authority, and as they can lie ob
tained in large numbers it is no longer
necessary to import the worst class of
aliens.
It. is claimed that the negroes can
earn xvagex in PennK'dvania
than they can make in the south, and
this inducement, it is thought, will
draw them to that st.ite, as soon as
they find out that they are wanted
there.
We are not so sure that our southern
negroes will be satisfied with tin* con
ditions existing in tiie Pennsylvania
coke region. If they go there they will
have hard taskmasters, and the severe
winters will kill a good many of them.
If they can stand it. they may make
more money, but they will find them
selves looking back longingly to their
easy ami < - omf*iii:’bic lives on tiie old
southern plantations. But if Huy want
to try this new field of work, let them
go. If they would distribute themselves
all over the countrj’ it would be a good
thing.
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Bear This in Mind!
The present, cotton crop of Georgia
will yield oar farmers only s_’s.(>oo,ooo.
If we manufactured this cotton at
home it, would yield $105.000.000 —more
than four times what we get for the
raw material!
We are not running our affairs upon
business principles. What sense is there
in letting outsiders manufacture our
great staple and reap all th** profits.
Tin* same reasons that carry the fur
naces to the iron and coal fields should
bring ihe cotton mills down here into
the cotton belt.
We have the raw material, cheap fuel
and water power, satisfactory labor,
go<»*l transportation facilities, ami we
can get the cajiital. Everv pound of
our cotton should be manufactured here
at home. .
This policy is the south’s royal road
to fortune. Our present policy is the
straight road to poverty!
It is suggested that Ham ought to fee!
elated over the success of Bacon.
Tli** * mperor of China seems to be alive—
but that is all.
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Every democrat in the fifth district should
vote for Livingston.
If the surface signs are worth anj’thlng
Hill is a sure winner.
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It will be observed that Georgia is still for
the free coinage of silver.
Tile czar died in spite of the fact that he
had J 50.000.000 in gold in his treasury.
Wall street seems to be striving fora bond
issue. Weil, Wail street knows how to
get it. .
Don’t throw away your vote. Don’t vote
in the air. Vote for the democratic candi
dates for congress.
John Sherman is probably not cast down
by results. He is too old a coon to expect
goldbuggery to succeed in Georgia.
Mr. Cleveland should have borne tn mind
the great North American rallying cry,
"Register where you pay your tuxes.”
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It is fortunate that Air. Hill is not com
pvi'ed to sing in public the campaign songs
that have been composed in his honor.
Mr. J. Sterling Morton, having demoral
ized the democratic party in Nebraska,
says it i s useless for him to go home mid
vote.
No doubt Sire crackers wiil be higher next
month than usual. The Chinese have ex
hausted the supply trying to frighten the
Japs away.
It is said that the cabinet officers will not
vote ii» the state elections this year. Mr.
Cleveland has taken the field for Colonel
Robert White.
It is thought that The Washington Post
has a scheme in hand to take the place
of the free coinage of silver. Dr. Merrick
is hatching it out.
It will be observed that attacks on The
Constitution hurt nobody but the attacking
party. This has been the case ever since the
paper unfolded it s beautiful wings.
Mr. Turner roads The Constitution every
day in the year. The rich toast it spreads
for all st ems to hav • peculiar fascinations
tor south Georgia's talented statesman. Our
subscription price remains t*i > same a
merely nominal suin.
Wc understand Editor Merrick, of The
Washington Post, to maintain that the
disease from which we are all sufferers
is too much money. Dr. Merrick may di-
agnose his own case successfully, but the
•‘muchness”—the "bearing down feeling of
the pocket”—is entirely lacking in this part
of\the country.
EbllOlllAL COMMENT,
At the age of twenty-three John Wana
maker had saved only JlW>.
In China a man may divorce his wife for
talking too much.
A cold wave in this region will probably
follow the snow storm out west.
The women in Maine aro growing taller.
Many of them are six feet high.
fine woman in Chicago has been charged
with drunkenness 53S times betore the same
judge.
Caprivi probably resigned because the Em
peror William wanted to read his poetry
to him.
Trotting horses are dirt cheap in New
York. At a recent auction a blooded trotter
sold for $lO.
The recent earthquake in the Argentine
Republic killed over 2,000 people and swal
lowed several towns.
Senator Hill continues to declare that he
is a Cleveland man. As for Mr. Cleveland,
he is busy shooting partridges.
The Chinese have a war god that has 3,uOC
names. The Japs have no war god at al*,
but they get there just the same.
The Boston papers are saying many com
plimentary things about Bishop Nelson, of
Georgia, Who was in that city last week.
Ladies who fancy bob-tailed cats with
purple eyes will be glad to learn that they
can be purchased in Siam for a trifle.
How is it that some of our able states
men manage to speak to an audience of
2,500 people in a hall which holds only 500?
The prince of Wales Is still very inti
mate with Lady Warwick, who was the
beautiful Lady Brooke who figured in the
baccarat scandal.
The czar’s funeral will be an imposing
affair, but the new czar will not enjoy
it much as the nihilists are already getting
ready to blow him up.
The Minnesota supreme court has decided
that bicyclists have the same rights as
horsemen on the streets. Now, let us have
a decision giving pedestrians some rights.
At the recent Michigan charities conven
tion a lady demanded legislation to pre
vent poor people from having large families.
The convention agreed with her, but took
no action.
The Chicago Herald says that if the
methods of the Chicago schools do not
improve the pupils will never get lar
enough advanced to be able to read tiie
newspapers.
It is predicted by scientists that in 300
years the earth will flop and cause the
north and south poles to change places,
an*l that in 30,000.000 years from now the s un
will become extinct.
Our annual egg crop is worth $103,000,000,
while the chickens are worth $142,000,00*).
In 1592 the total output of our gold and
silver mines was only $107,000,U00, or about
two-thirds the value of our eggs.
Christian Conrad, of Manchester. la, is
one hundred and fifteen years old. He heard
Gereral Washington speak in Philadelphia.
His habits are very simple. He has used
w hisky and tobacco over 100 years.
A society called the Institute of Journal
ists is being organized in England for the
purpose of raising the standard of adm.s
sion to their profession. The plan is to
have two sets of examinations, one for
pupil associates or apprentices, and the
other for members. For the first class the
examination includes English history and
literature, arithmetic and geography, com
position, skill in condensing and "general
knowledge.” The candidate for the ad
vanced degree is examined in these sub
jects and also political and general history,
natural science or mathematics, political
economy, the law of newspaper libel and
copyright, verbatim reporting, descriptive
writing and the conduct of legal and public
business.
A project is now on foot to build a tun
nel under New York bay from Jersey City
to Brooklyn. It is to connect the Pennsyl
vania railroad with the Long Island rail
road. and form a link from this country ta
Europe by a new steamship line from tha
eastern end of Long island to England.
The Brooklyn council has been asked for
a franchise to tunnel from the shores of
the East river to Flatbush and Atlantic
avenues. The tunnel is to be not less than
fifty feet below the surface, so that build
ings will be undisturbed. There are a
good many important buildings along th*-
line of the proposed subway. The Hotel
St. George, the city hall, the courthouse
and hall of records, and ail the Fulton street
big dry goods houses stand partly over the
proposed route.
London is always having a cat show.
Year by year the popularity of the feline
race increases and its intelligence m propor
tion, for the more notice man takes of
an animal the more it improves in those
qualities for which it is esteemed tnd
loved. Everybody who has studied cats, ac
cording to the president of the National
Cat Club, knows what an "intense” animal
it is, how fully charged with electricity,
but few people are aware that it is se
riously contended that rubbing the fur on
a cut’s back has 3 beneficial effect on
persons in bad health, and the stronger the
cat the better influence for good which can
be derived from the gentle friction. It is
belied, says the reliable source, that the
presence of white in the coloring of a cut,
except in the case of a pure white, is a
sign of weakness. At the show now cn in
London this is evidently thought to be true,
for the club encourages the production of
whole or “self-colored” cats, and *he pres
ent entries are many of them exceptionally
lovely specimens. The cat show numbered
650 "idols of the family,” and the rank and
fashion of the town went to this exhibition.
FOR THANKSGIVING DAY.
Governor Atkinsnn Issue** the Formal
Proclamation.
State of Georgia, Executive Office, At
lanta.—A Proclamation—ln grateful recog
nition of the good providence of Almighty
God, which in the passing year has sig
nally blessed this people with health and
peace and plenty, and in accordance with
tiie recommendation of the president of the
United States, 1 hereby designate and ap
point Thursday, the 29th day of November,
instant, as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer.
Let all the people on that day abstain
from needless secular employment, and
around their family altars and in their
places of public worship, join in grateful
acknowledgement of the abounding ’Per
cies of our In avenly Father, vouch., ed
to them in the past, and in supplication for
a continuance of His favor and guidance in
the years to come.
Given under my hand and the seal of the
executive department, at the capital, in
the city of Atlanta, this the 2d day of
November, l&M.
\V. Y. ATKINSON, Governor.
By the governor.
J. W. WARREN.
Secretary Executive Department
Forewarned is Forearmed.
From The Hartwell Sun.
From present appearances times are
going to be extremely distressing this fall.
M my a man’s honesty is going to be proven
and no little rascality shown up.
A GoldlniK H*‘l>cke.
From The Americus Times-Recorder.
The rebuke of goldbuggery in Georgia
that took place in the democratnc caucus
is a bigger thing than the election of even
so distinguished and orthodox a democrat
as Major Bacon.
