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Newspaper Page Text6 'ftECbHSTJTUnoH (’I.AItK IIOWF.EI Editor W. A. HEMI’HH.I. Bneineee .Manuger Entered at the Atlanta postoffice as second-class mail matter November 11,1873 The Weekly Constitution SI.OO Per Annum. Clubs of fl ve, f 1.00 each; clubs of ten JI.OO each and a copy to jetter-up of club V 5 F WANT YOU. The Constitution wnnts an a» ©very poetoffice In America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms. If you are not in a club we want you to act as agent at your office. Write us. < ’htin? e Addre©©. orrirhag address of your paper changed vays give tlio old as well as the new address. Always give postofllce, county and state, xf your paper Is not received regularly, notify us. ZXZ-. , ' J f you scurf us an order for new subscribers please allow us a week to get tbo names on t.b« list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much crowded now Do not forget to make your renewals In time. atch your direction tag and see when your subscription expires. The next six months will bs full u( Interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The < on* Btftucion. Send your orders at leoat n week in ad vance to make sure. Jt may nd take a week In e\©ry Instance; will get them on as soon as possible. A Bad Time for Tomahawks! The gold organs in Georgia, not. sat isfied with the lesson in party discipline taught them two years ago, have recently joint'd in a. concerted attack on the na tlonal platform of the parly, evideutl.' with tlie view of continuing tb<‘ir agi tation against party harmony until the campaign of 1900. The Macon Telegraph, which has dis tinguished itself for its abuse of the dem ocratic platform, and for its persistent attacks on party leaders, has its kail'' out again, and. strange to sav, 1 he 1 ol ograph and the other gold standard swashbucklers which join it in its crusade against the democratic plat form, have waited until the opening of the state campaign to begin their work of undermining and discrediting the or ganization of the parly. It is especially noticeable that the gold organs which were most conspicuous in their efforts to commit the party to the Cleveland poli< y two years ago, are the ones which are now most actively en gaged in < -caking about the patty plat form and whining about free coinage. While the other demo> ratio newspapeis throughout the state tire talking about a 100.00 U majority this fall, urging the populists to return to Hie democratic party where tin' belong, these critics of the party are sounding the te.in-toms of diss.-i: isi'a. Hoti. and discouraging the return to the patty of those who are pre pared to unite with it in giving the democratic nominee the biggest majority polled in Georgia since the war. A few days ago Colonel Candler spoke In Alllledgeville. The "Macon Telegraph published its version of his reference to the c'irreney question, in which it was made to appear. In substance, that the topic was treated lightly, almost indifferently , 1 y the di moeiatic nomi nee. The Savannah News, in commenting upon the report of The 'reelgraph says Our report of the speech does not touch upon \\!iat Com. nel Candler said on the sdlvei question, but Tile <’onstl: u: ion, which purports to glv-- tile fu.l text of the eps. ■ ... has quite a dill’ rent report of what he said on that que. lion We do not nnd.-r- .. . . T< - raph’s or , t report ... tin < oireet one. As far us The Constitution's report of the event is concerned, it is only nec essary to s.i' that the speech of Colonel Candler, delivered at Milhxlgeville, was furnished this paper by Colonel Candler himself b<-‘'or. he. left Atlanta, for Mil ledgeville. The Nows will, therefore, understand that The Constitution's re p.'-t was correct, and The ’Telegraph's incorrect. So much for this. In that, speech Colonel Candler stated and Wo quote from the words written by him for publication: I I, : ~ - the <!• ■ ar.itlons <.f the 1 ist national democratic platform, including that on th. much moot'd qip-stlon of coin age. I b-lleve tli.it tlie establishment of the Bln mlard in out • oinage was a mistake which has caused a ruinous shrinkage tn value-, tirr--. 1.-d enterprise, lowered the pr.ee of labor and of tlie prod uets of labor and has brought upon the debtor e'.a s, which constitutes a large ma jority of our citizens, much unnecessary .r ■ . . H 1 min favor ot the resto ration of the unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at all our mints, without d .-. rimination against either, as was the case for three-quarters of a century; nnd I do not believe that we will ever enjoy trial full measure of prosperity enjoyed in ante-bellum days until the old coinage laws are practically restored. Foreign wars may fop ,i time obscure the coinage quest! n. ■rent' .liteisions and raise new issues, out like Banquo’s ghost, the silver question will not down until the white metal is fully restored to its old place in the coinage. The News should know The Constitu tion well enough to know that it. never misrepresented a public speaker, nnd that the accuracy of its reports can al ways be relied upon. It is apparent that the bushwhack ers are at it again, and the work begun by them two years ago is to be, continued until the next presidential campaign. Those who are as earnest now in behalf of currency reform as they were then, and who are now more than ever im pressed with the wisdom of the position taken by the party at Chicago, are pre pared to meet, the issue if it is to be raised again within the ranks of the party. In the meantime, however, we suggest that if so-called democratic newspapers i;i Georgia are really sincere in their expressed desire for (in overwhelming majority in the state this fall, it would be well for them to lay aside their toma hawks and let up in their protests ngainst free coinage and the democratic, platform, at least until the fifth day of October. Joe Bailey's Victory. Ail democrats must rejoice upon the victory of 11 on. Joseph Bailey, of Texas, In securing a renomination for congress. The question which has made itself most prominent in Texas politics is that of territorial expansion. The state con vention took one view, which was used to crush out Mr. Bailey, who had taken another. The result is that. Mr. Bai ley's district has stood by him fully, nnd that, he will again take his place in the federal congress. The. question of territorial expansion ip inchoate and new; in fact, it can hard- ly be said to have yet any definite shape. This was recognized by the state dem ocratic convention of Georgia, which committed it to the future, when the whole matter may be intelligently dis cussed. Until discussion assumes that importance which will call for national action on the part of the party, it must be considered an open one, working its way through the formative period until it can be decided upon. When that time comes, and when a democratic national convention shall have taken one side or the other, then it will be time for all democrats to stand together as one man. Until that time, discussion should be free and un trammeled. In the meantime, The Constitution congratulates Hon. Joe Bailey upon his return to congress. A Warning from. North Carolina. The Constitution presents to its read ers this morning a comprehensive re view of the political and social condi tions in North Carolina prepared by one of its staff correspondents, Mr. Frank 'Weldon, who spent several days there studying the situation So deplorable is tbo state of affairs there that we devote to the subject an unusually large amount of space. North Carolina has had ti glorious past. From Mecklenburg to A\orth Bagley her people have been justly proud of their heritage. True, they have seen evil days like their friends in sis ter commonwealths, but more than twenty years ago, under the leadership of their beloved Vance, they rose in their strength and redeemed their gov ernment from the disgraceful domina tion which they had suffered through the fortunes of war. Four years ago, that same Incompe tent, conscienceless crew again vaulted into power through coalition with an honest but deceived element who cer tainly never dreamed what, terrible re sults would follow. For the past two years the administration of state, coun ty ami municipal affairs has been al most entirely in the hands of fusion pol iticians who have scandalized and out raged all decent people. Republicans, populists and democrats who respect or der, honesty, purity and law have been humiliated and insulted by the shame less regime under which they lived. 'Things went from bad to worse with startling rapidity nnd at last the re epeetahle people, regardless of party lines, and in many instances of color lines, are rallying under one banner ami are found battling for the restoration of Anglo-Saxon supremacy and a dean government. 1 Just as the people of the Old North State are preparing to throw off this yoke, designing politicians in Georgia are scheming to bring about a similar fusion here. To all who love their state and their homes, we commend for study the bitter object lesson presented to them in North Carolina. Beware of the schemers who pro pose fusion ami offer a division of the spoils. Not only must the populist who lis tens to the whisperings of the tempter go counter to his convictions mid prin ciples, but ho should pause to reflect that he is forging chains which will soon bind him. his family ami friends in gall ing bonds. The War and Congress. President McKinley’s deeia.rat.ion to Senator Bacon that this “is the war of no party and no section” will rise to plague those republican politicians who are endeavoring to capture the next con gress by claiming the credit for all the good that, lias come from this war. The republican politicians who run the af fairs of party have decreed tfhat the coming campaign shall be run as far as possible upon the war as an issue, and to that end the literature for use in the dose districts ignores national issues and prates almost entirely upon the rec ord of the administration in the conflict from which wo are just emerging. 'The mistake whl-ch these people make is that they claim for tlhe republican party that which belongs to the country as a whole regardless of section or par ty. Grosvenor sounded the keynote and the lesser lights have been harping on the same string. The war has been successful, and therefore the republican party must be given t’lie offices—-that is the substance of their logic. The trouble with that sort, of thing is that the people are sure to see through it. The republican politicians should study the recent experience of Roar Ad miral Sampson, for there is in that a lesson which tlhey may well heed. It was Sampson’s effort to take to himself credit which belonged to another that disgusted the people with him, and this effort, of the republicans to take ajl the credit for the war to themselves is sure to redound to their undoing. The people know (that it was, to a largo extent, a republican clique headed by Hanna, Elkins, Hale and others, that, played into Spain's hands just, as long as it could, and that the crowd closest to the president kept him from taking pos itive steps just as long as they could. It is perfectly true that the president and those who wore closest to him had, in a sense ai least, to be driven into this war. So long as tlhe republicans refrained from discussing the subject, we were not inclined to hold this against them, but when they begin to pose as the only original war party, it is time to refer thus briefly to the facts. Throughout this war the president has done, his full duty. He certainly could not have been expected to do any less, and '.he certainly has done no more. He has had the loyal support of every American citizen, and if there has been in it all a suggestion of party we have failed to see it. Os course there has been nothing of the sort The president knows It, and when he declares that this has been a war of no section and of no party, he administers a deserved rebuke to fhfa party managers who are trying to fool the people by a lot. of fool claims. While just at present the war Is over shadowing everything else in news in terest, that condition of affairs is not THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANT A, GA., MONDAY", AUGUST 29,189 U going to obtain much longer; for the war is over and the people have the time to think and to discuss political issues. There are real issues between the two parties, and these issues are going to be debated and discussed. But the repub lican politicians are going to find it a very difficult task to lift themselves into office on the strength of President Mc- Kinley’s conduct of the war. As it looks to us, the republican pro gramme is sure to fail. The elections this fall might have gone by default i-f the war had continued to be the one all-absorbing topic of discussion, but there is to be a congressional campaign, and there is no reason for the democrats to feel at all discouraged at the outlook. They had the best of it all over the country -when this war broke out; there Is no evidence that the war or anything else has redounded to the benefit of the republicans sufficiently to offset that early'- advantage. The effort to commit the party to a. contracted policy on the territorial question has failed, and the position of tflie party' of the people on all questions is clearly understood. Ag gressive work in the close districts ought to secure the next house to the democrats. Better Times Ahead. Some of our esteemed gold standard contemporaries are laying the flattering unction to their souls that The Consti tution's prediction of better times for this winter is an indication of weakness on our part in the belief that prosperity, in its fullest measure, will not be restored until the currency' is reformed and rest ed on a basis of both gold and silver. The Troy, N. Y., 'Times, for instance, in bidding adieu to the calamity howler, whose occupation, it says, will be gone with the advent of better times, says: The Constitution is a shining example of tills change of opinion. A rabid advo cate of free silver, this most prominent southern newspaper saw nothing but nils fortune tn -tore, as the result of the deteat or Bi van, but now if sings a different tun--. Tlie Constitution is quite as mu. h right th s year as it was wrong a year ago." 'l'lie (.'onatituion was right last fear, nnd It is right this year! We predicted then that, the fullness of prosperity would never be reached under the single gold standard, and we are as earnest in this belief now as we were a year ago. But The Constitution was not then, is not now, and never will be a calamity howler. It has al ways lived in the sunshine never 1-n the shade. It has had f.iitlh all along that, however adverse may be the leg islative conditions surrounding the peo ple, the energy and the determination inspired by American grit would trzumph in the end and enforce success even against such conditions. 'The misfor tune we predicted in democratic defeat a year ago was in the comparative pre diction that, in whatever degree pros perity might lie restored under a repub ■ , ... admin ratio i, better results would have been attained with demo cratic success, and with the currency' re formed to the basis of the democratic demand. 'The Constitution has not. doubted since the country entered the long per iod of business depression and financial unrest a few yeans ago, that, its dura tion was self-limited. To have predicted that, conditions as they existed in the darkest days of ithe recent period of panic had come to stay', would hate been an abandonment of the belief that, the recuperative power of American energy could not lose Its vitality, and admission that the republic had entered ujmhi the period of its darkest eia. But. our peo ple, .however unfortunate they may be, can adjust themselves to any condition, and even if thrown back to the primi tive method of barter and trade, and settlement In kind, they would have over come and betteredtliecondition in which they found themselves after the panic of '93. Prosperity Is a. comparative term. Commercial activity may be revived, business generally may be better, indus trial enterprise may awaken from its long slumber, giving employment to the unemployed and opening up the avenues which have been closed by tflie long period of depression, and yet the degree of prosperity' enjoyed may not lie what the people have a right to expect !-f the unlimited natural resources of their country' wore given unhampered oppor tunity for development. The Constitution predicts a splendid business winter. Conditions are ripe for a change, and if. as a result of the close of a successful war, witii tlhe coun try' reunited, with our fields groaning under Ihe burden of the most, bountiful harvests Ithis country' has known in twenty' years in itself enough to bring prosperity; if, after the peculiar combi nation of all these, circumstances, which it. looks as if the Lord God Almighty had wrought as a special dispensation for our people, to lead them fro.a ti.ie darkness of financial depression—if still there should bo no material improve ment, it. would seem indeed as if there were but little hope for relief and little encouragement for Hao future. But there are hotter times ahead, and from all sides come testimonials of the awakening impulse of trade revival. The farmer sees it in his overburdened store houses and overrunning granaries; the merchants and the factories feel it in the increased demand for their goods and when once trade revival has been started, It will not stop until it has gone the full length of the line. It will ac complish its mission even in spite of an adverse currency .system, which is pull ing down while it should b e building up; a system which makes the rich richer ami t'.ie poor poorer, and which even in better times laughs in mockery' al the realization of what it could do in open ing up the fullness of prosperity to the enjoyment, of all, if it were engaged in the broader business of bettering the public generally rather than in the. ex clusive function of serving only a favor ed few. —« An Injudicious Comparison. General Shafter, who is now upon tbo high seas bound for Montauk Point, is credited with an interview made upon the dock at Santiago, just before taking ship. In that interview the general commits the indecorous offense of forming com parisons between the regulars and the volunteers, to the disparagement of the latter. As the comparison is wholesale, it is supposed to cover the regular offi cers as against the volunteer officers, and to help out the case of Shafter as against the case of Wheeler. There is no doubt but that the volun teers fully' maintained themselves in the advance upon Santiago, and that the ranking volunteer major general much more than sustained himself. Even this much might have been left unsaid, if General Shafter had given proper credit to the army as a whole, without seeking to elevate one branch at the expense of another. Such comparisons are hardly’ in the interest of good discipline, or of good comradeship. But since the general has seen fit to make it, there is no harm In recalling the fact that while General Shafter was writing lugubrious dis natches to Washington that he could not hold his own, it was gallant General Wheeler who actually’ held the fort, and made it possible for the army' to keep the ground it had won, instead of sur rendering it by retreat. A Right and. a Wrong Contemporary. 'We dip the following from our es teemed contemporary, The Montgomery Advertiser, which, we fear, does not feel as kindly toward The Constitution as it should, on account of tlie tremen dous circulation of this paper in Ala bama- overtopping, as It dees, the com bined subscription lists of any three newspapers in Alabama. The Adver tiser In commenting upon a compliment ary reference to The Constitution by the IxiFayette Sun, says: "Atlanta, Ga., Is a mightv fine town. It has the most enterprising newspapers of any' place In (he south," remarks The I.:i Fa.vet to Sun. Our < initeriip irary evi dently dees not get all the leading dailies in tlie south as exchanges. The New Or 1< ana dallies spend twice :t? much a week for special news as The <’onstitution. The Metnphi.s Commercial-Appeal, duriiag tlie war, has spent mueli mot" 'l’lie Constitu tion did not take Tlie Ni .v York lieraid’s service, as did a number of sir.ng pipets all over the land, because, doubtb ss, that servile cost several hundred dollars per va ek. It makes a great claim to enter prise, but does not pan out in costly news. Our esteemed Montgomeiy contempo rary Is wrong, and The I aFayette Sun is right. In the fi;st place. The Ad vertiser is mistaken in the statement that Hie New Orleans dallies spend twice as much a week for special news as 'i'he Constitution. There is not a newspaper in tfm south that spends more for its special service than Tlie Consti tution, and ft costs this paper more to ge one day ’ retui i of a . ute elec tion in Georgia than any southern news paper pays for its special service for a fortnight. Whenever 'l’he Constitu tion has any' big news event, to cover, if does so regardless of expense, and to the complete satisfaetio i of its readers. As to Tho Constitution’s war service, The Advertiser thinks that because Tlie Mem ph is Commercial-Appeal -subscribed for Tlie New York Herald’s spe cial service, it. exhibited more enterprise than 'l’lio Const iiution, wiiic.lt did not take it. 'l'he Advertiser makes an in judicious comparison. Tflie Constitu tion recognized fully the value of The Herald’s special servici , which was of fered it at the beginnln l of the war. We thought, however, that the same amount of money could lie more wisely expended by sending a special c. rr< spomleut of our own to tfie scene o' action. Ar rangeni<uits were acco-dinsrly made, and i'he Constitution’:- . . cial .it.ifi' cor respondent was among the first to join tlie fleet on its vov-ige to 111.. West in dies, ami among file last to leave after the tinal surrender of Santiago. Os the largo number of special staff corre spondents front the great newspapers who were with Hie army and navy, but seven remained to witness tlie hoisting of the stars and stripes over the gov ernor’s palace nt Santiago, nnd The Con stitution’s special representative was one of fihem. No southern newspaper has attempted to publish as full reports from the seat of war as have been presented by The < 'onst itution. 'l'he trul.ii of Hie matter is, Cuba and Porto Rico being almost within the ter ritory <>f 'l'lie Constitution’s daily roach, and almost within the scope of The Con stitution's local field, tiie people will ex pect. us to cover news f om both of these places just, as they' expect us to cover the news from \labama, and when Cu ba and Porto Rico becune Americanized it will not bo long before 'i'lie Constitu tion lias more subscribers in both islands than an.v paper published there, just as it lias vastly more subscribers in \la bama than an.v newspaper published in that state. _ - The Currency as an Issue. Ono after another democratic state and district conventions in all parts of tlie country are indorsing the last na tional democratic platform, and in al most every' instance, spe ial stress is laid upon tlhe currency plank of that platform. Tiie Ohio deuhicrafle convention, after reaffirming the Chicago platform last Wednesday, thus particularizes in ref erence to the currency platform: VVe particularly' Indorse tlie finanoial plank therein declaring ter tlie free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at tin- ratio of 16 to 1, independent of any and all other nations. Not a single state which declared in favor of the free coinage of both gold and silver two years ago, has failed to take similar action this year, and it is especially noticeable that several states whose conventions declared against sil ver two years ago, will indorse, the na tional platform of the party this year. As witlh the slate, so it ?s with the dis trict conventions. Democrats through out the country are being renominated on platforms specifically indorsing the currency plank of the national plat form. Over t - n Alabama Hon. Henry I>. Clayton. has been nominated by the third senatorial district conven tion on a platform “affirming our faith mid devotion to the platform of ’96,” and calli-ng attention to the fact that "two sessions of congress have been held since the inauguration of William Mc- Kinley as president, and yet the repub licans have failed to enact any' wise or good legislation looking to the reform of our financial system, which is con fessedly bad, and wthich has been con demned by all the great political parties. We believe that the only- settlement of this great question, consistent with tlie prosperity of all, is on the line laid down in the democrativ platform adopt ed at Chicago in '96.” And so it goes. Yet there are those who insist that, the currency' question is no longer an issue, that the gobi standard is a fixture, ami that we will hoar nothing more of free silver as a political issue. If any one thing is morecertain than another, it is that the democratic nation- al convention to be held two years hence, will reaffirm the currency dec laration of the platform of ’96. If Where was a reason for the demand for free coinage two years ago, there is none the less for it today, and events have fully' justified the wisdom of tlhe posi tion taken by the democratic national convention at Chicago. » Democrats may divide on comparative ly unimportant issues, but thex are get ting together on tlhe money question, and many of those who left the party two years ago are how admitting Hie er ror of their course by accepting the platform and supporting the organiza tion. • The republicans may have a tempor ary' triumph in the fall elections this year as the result of the war, but the democrats will enter the congressional campaign of 1900 witlh better prospects of success than they have had in tlie past eight years, and whatever may be the result of the approaching elections, the democratic demand for the reform of the current y wi-11 redeem congress two years hence. Admiral Cervera’s Tetter. Admiral Cervera go<'s back to Spain to complete tiie work which the present war has already commenced of opening the eves of the people of that country to the true nobility' of the American char acter. In replying to a recent correspondent Admiral Cervera thus expressed himself in regard to the treatment which he re ceived in this country' while a prisoner of war: My Drnr Sir: Tn answer to your letter asking me what I think of my' treatment by tlie Arnerivati people, a subject upon which T converse,! with you before, and about rile probability of It being known to my countrymen through tlie press of Spain, 1 am Inclined to think that tlie inhabitants of my native country have <-ii.mged their minds about the barbarity of tlie Ameri cans, as Iris lien always told 11s, and I’ur th. r licit I have a,, doubt tli.it once peace is declared the Spaniards will recognize t'he gentlemanly treatment of their breth ren now prisoners in America. It may be possible that some ignorant persons of my native country, personally blinded by the .sensational utter,in".s of the. Spanish papers, have given < xpi- scons of hate regarding America, mil 1 do not believe any person of social c landing and education, after what America h. ■■ <7 ne for us, will continue to hate tne people ar.d tlie government which now holds us pris oners. On the contrary, 1 believe such ha tred as may have been engender, d v ill pass away as it did betW"cn l':anec and Russia. Russia onr-e defeated tiie glory cf France, but today they are t'ae 1 ■ <-.L of friends and allies. I ha.Ve not words enough to exm-c s tho thanks and gratitude I bold t >r .A’i trka and her I-oi.i’., who took into considera tion what I never considere,! more than a duty in rceognition of the bravery of the soldier and the whole obligation of a gen tleman. I refer to what. I have •ao.ie lor Lieutenant Hobson, whi. It was so quickly tali' n hold of by the \m. ri.-ati people and which h.-is brought and is bringing me ova tions, verbal and written thanks, deluged me witii preseuis, and caused my instant recognition wherever t have visited, and further may have influenced tlie royal treatment ot my <>fl!< ers. men and. myself by the United Slates government. I can take nothing but tlie kindest, rcniernbraia es of such a people with me to Spain, v. i hh 1 think will uiso be grateful for such kind treatment, 1 am yours very truly, r'ASt'i'AE i.'EltVEltA. Entertaining such sentiments as the foregoing letter expresses, Admiral i'er vertt’s influence is bound to be produc tive of much good not only in reconcil ing the two countries, but in bringing Spaniards to appreciate the lottj spir it of Americans. Our Heritage; Not Spain's. There is sonteiiting p-tHi<-lie in Hie claims which several of the leading? Spanish newspapers arc m iking witii re spect to tlie casket which contains tlie treasured dust of Columbus. They cltiini that Hie Spanish government is lawfully entitled to tin's sacred keepsake, and that Americans should be willing to sur render it without controversy. We ap preciate tiie grief which those organs naturally feel tinder Hie circumstances; but we contend that Hie mortal remains of the great discoverer of the western hemisphere should continue to repose in Hie soil which lie gave to civilization. We quote Hie following paragraph from El Provincial, one of tiie leading newspapers of Madrid. So liitter is its language that we might easily take offense at the strictures which it makes upon us were it not for tlie fact that we can well afford to lie magnanimous. Says tit is newspaper: The Americans must not tou.-h that tomb, for who knows that they might not turn • . , th< ' Havana into a theater or museum and put turnstiles at the doors, xvberi-, for money, the public would be per mitted to see the tomb of Columbus. Who knows that an American Barnum might not purchase the ashes of tlie Immortal navigator and start on a. tour through tho different American towns exhibiting the remains while tHo band played “Yankee Doodle?" In this same bitter strain is the fol lowing-paragraph which comes from El Globo, another influential newspaper of Madrid. El Globo says: Wc cannot leave his ashes 1n tho bands of tlie yankees or in the bands of traitors and heretics. They belong to Spain, and ought to I>* returned to Spain in the folds of tlie flag of our country in mourning. Still another one of the leading .Mad rid newspapers, El Imparcial, speaks of the matter thus: Let us leave tlie house; let us leave tho city; let us leave tlie country. All that we can do; but we cannot leave without bring ing with us our Lares. The Lares of tho Latin race in America are the bones of Christopher Columbus in his leaden coflin la Havana. In discussing the claims of these Mad rid newspapers 'l'he New York Sun re vives some interesting facts in regard to tlie post mortem vicissitudes witch tho discoverer of the new world has been compelled to undergo. 'Phis authority informs us that Columbus died at .Seville in 1506, and that he was interred at that place, although it was bis expressed de sire to be interred at San Domingo. Sev eral years elapsed before this wish was gratified. Eventually in 1536 his son obtained possession of his body and transported it to San Domingo, where it reposed for more than two hundred years in tlie cathedral at that place. In 1795 San Domingo was lost to the Span ish government, but the governor gen eral of the island took possession of the sarcophagus which contained the dust of the great discoverer and carried it to Havana, where it has since remained in one of the principal cathedrals of that ca pital. There are two considerations upon which wo might properly refuse to sur render the dust of Columbus to the Spanish government, first, the right of conquest which entitles us to tho island of Cuba, and second, the expressed de sire of Columbus to sleep in tlie soil of Hie western hemisphere. Unless we change our minds radically upon this subject, we are not apt to surrender tho dust of Columbus merely to please the Spanish government. That government permitted the great explorer to die in ignominy and in prison, and conse quently it is witii scant grace that it now lays claim to tho casket which contains his mortal remains. The Flag at Manila. Let go tlie Philippines—but how? Many people in 'this country believe that it wi-11 be best for this gov ernment to restore the Philippines to Spain and wash our hands of the whole business out there in the Pacific. Many others have a sort of indefinite idea that we should hold Manila and let go the rest. Others fig ure it out that the best thing that can happen to this country is to hold the island of Luzon and let go ail the rest. All of these talk glibly of "letting go” as if we have but to say the word and that till will be serene. It must be ap parent to any one who stops for a. min ute to think that this is vastly easier to say than to do. The London Times touches upon the trouble when it. says: If America, is prepared to undertake Hie responsibility of the government of the w'hole Philippine group, It is hard to see how any other power could legit innately Interfere. If the Fnited States repudiates such responsibility, a very perilous state of things might ensue, because it would not bo easy to dispute tlie right of other powers to terminate tiie state of anari-liy. Therefore many difficulties will be avoided by American annexation. The one thing certain about tiie Phil ippine problem is that it is a great big one, not one to be dismissed by any ready-made off-hand solution such as “let go.” We aro up to our eyes in it. Either way we turn, we are confronted by difficulties. Is il easier to let go tiaan to hold on, and is it better? It seems to us that tlie advocates of the lei go policy are due to be heard from. Is the flag which the hands of a gal hint Georgian rais'd over Maurla to come down? We believe that few peo ple will advocate such a policy. That flag stands for American supremacy at Manila. Does it, or does it not, stand for more? Tiie sentiment of the country is un questionably against taking down the flag where it has on<-<> been offi<-ially raised. This sentiment would doubt less lie satisfied if tlie flag is to stay there as Hie emblem of sovereignly over tlie city, forts ami harbor of Ma nila. and as much territory as may b<‘ necessary to make American occupation effective. But tills, which is the mini muni, presents difficulties. First, how much territory must be re tained to make the occupation safe and effective? A few square miles, or tlie entire island of Luzon? Second, if lint little is retained, what sort of neighbors are we to ciave and how is the rest of Hie island to be governed? Then, third, could we put through such a programme even if we desired a programme which would give us ail that, is good in the archipelago and b- i-.e the remainder to Spain, or to lie fought over by Hie nations of Europe? And ought we do that if we could? Those are all practical questions. Tlien there is tlie question of how great our moral responsibility to tlie people whom We have wrested from Spanish control. Have we the mo al right to put them back tinder that Spanish dom ination which we have denounced so bit torly, and whidh seems to have b*en even more glaringly incompetent and cruel in the I’hilippi-nes than in ('uba? Nations have responsibilities as well as individuals, and here is one of the prob lems and responsibilities that we must face. 'l'he president and in's pence commis sioners have no easy task before them. These problems must be solved, and solved in ti way that will meet not only the expectations of the country, but of the nations of the world We mu%t not shirk responsibilities which our own acts have brought upon us. It. looks as if either to let go entirely or to hold on to everything, wlrle tlm extremes, would furnish the easiest solution. 'l'he sen timent of the country is strongly against the one and is l>j r no means certain as to Hie ot'lier. Some middle course will probably lie adopted. But what? LIFE IN GEORGIA. From The Fitzgt raid. Ga., Citlzon. As evidence of what can lie accomplish ed in tlie line of securing a. home in this particular locality of tlie south, we snail reelto briefly and in plain te'-tns th'- . x pcriences of one mtn, and tills is in no sense an isolated cnse. but in common witii many others which <-an be cit'd without difficulty. Mr. .1. 11. X .inArnam e.ime to th" cdony In the fall of from Glendale. Lewis county. New York. When starting Mr. VrinAimim was so nimh an invalid that .ho hud to be assisted into bls wagon, and ■was comparatively helpless. Ho com menced to improv.- in b. ilrh front the date of his departure from New York, and short ly after arrival in tlie colony, tn Dec miter, was able to ehoro around some, ami wiHiin a few months -was able to do .a fair day’s •Work. He at once secured two lots on Wist Orange street, which are now in tlie finest state ot cultivation, and upon which Tie has built a commodious two-story resi dence, a good barn and outbuildings, and planted a large number of fruit trees ami grape vines, some of which are already In bearing, some of the finest peaches wo ever saw being picked from one of his trees which w is bending- under its luscious burden. Besides his city lots, Mr. Van- Arn.-nn and members of his familj have a five-acre lot partially improved adjoining tllie city, and six ten-acre lots all adjoining a few miles from tho city. Most of this land is cured and in cultivation, and has growing crops upon It, nearly till being the result of Mr. VanArnam's personal labors. He lias single-handed built more than a mile of fence, plowed and planted fifteen acres of land and twenty one town lots this spring, besides in great part earning a living- for himself and family by working for others, which may be considered a fair record for a former “New York invalid,” as he styles hims. If. An orchard of 6UO trees and many hundred mere soon to be planted, is one of Hie improvements to which Mr. VanArnam is confidently look ing forward for sub.-1 a ntlal profits. Despite the fact, tli.it. Mr. VanArnam expects to clear mor., money by the et-.d of his Herd year in Georgia than lie made in New York in thirty-thr.-c years, his pecuniary gains are completely "clips. ,1 by his gain in health, as from a helpless invalid he has developed into a perf.-ctlj sound man. com pel, nt. as li. di-.-l.ind to the writer, to the government physic-al examination for military service. I’luek and intelligence properly applied to the opportunities pre sented right here in tlie colony make possi ble to any one tlie attainment of results equal to the above. “Songs of the Soil” By FRANK L. STANTON. The Boys Who Fought. I recon Hie, boys are tired of flghtln': It ain’t, no fun— As a feller knows who tackled It In the days o’ ’sixty-one! I reckon tlie boys are tired—fer fightin’ ain't what they say; An' we’ll all bo glad to welcome ’em homo Whenever they march that way! I reckon tlie boys aro tired—fer the boya that has lit an’ fout Like all o’ us did some years ago, are glad to bo mustered out! it ain’t m> tun, 1 kin tell you—don’t keer w-hat tlie captains say! An’ won't wo welcome the brave boys (home whenever they march that way! Talkin’ ’Bout Money. You got to have the money EC you’re livin’ here, my honey— You got to have the money ever’ day; For all the Lord is givin', It’s t'he money makes the livin’, An’ Hie best o' all the roses o’ the May. You got to have the money— 'l'hat's what they say, mj honey— An' sometimes it’s a-makin’ of me s.gh; Fer w'hatever there is In it, It is only here a minute — It only says, "Good mornin’." an’ "Goodby!” Oh, Hie shiny, shiny dollar! When we hear that eagle holler, An’ we see him slip an' sail aroun' the sky. It's tli'-ti—it's then, my bon-y. That 1 wi.-'li f.-r weather sunny, An' wings < nougii to foil'-r him an' fiy! Sayin’ Goodby. When yoii'f - sayin’ goodby, \\ ’ .-il c"i i■ sac tn' goodby. And the a die >s at tin hoar! . trill and tin- mist is in Hi" <-y.-, Tue world t'orai-. s a fellow for tlie tear and for Hi- sigh Win n 1" s sayin’ goodby Goodby' W'-i n yoii'f- savin’ goodby. Win n you'i.. sayin’ goodby, Anil (."• sun -in lost its brightness and no star is in the sky. ■l’lie world ,"i.;iv " fellow then for bit- ter t' .r aml sig'll M li- ti In 's . . . In- goodby— Goodby! A World Song. I World's a m.gntv win" om ros.-s every Stars lor every midnight- sun for every day; i And tih'-re ain't a storm that darkens but lias a rainbow’s ray, And Hope s in Hie hearts of all forever! World's a mighty wide one—but heaven ain't so high But some of us will reach It when 'the clouds break, by and by; And tin- song'll be the sweeter Tor the memory of Hie sigh, And Hoi,'-’.-: in tlie In-arts of all forever! In Time o’ War. In time o' w..r a fvller’U say; "No use to bring that bill today, Kase, (liar's my revenue to pay.” An' sad collectors slink away— In time o’ war. Fact Is, no matter which side wins. Or how the old war dollar spins— Nor when war ends, nor when begin.*. We cover multitudes o’ sins In time o’ war! Hope in the World. There is hope in tin- world—there Is, For all the work o' tho years; Hearts that love us, and lips that kiss From weeping eyes Hie tears. There Is hope in the world—there Is: The song coinc-s after tho sigh. Let us ni'-.-t th., years with a morning kiss And .-.mire wh.-n they say "Goodby!” A Thought of Rest. In the w attc- mansions o' our G ..I Are the pl. asures sw.-et ami fair; No soul that bows beneath Hie rod li it.ii .-ver sorrowing there. Each gab? hr. vth.-s balm,” and ill the loa No mor... no more ar.- tc-mpe.-t toss.-d. In the white mansions of our God Vt e miss the soul's despair; Lilies that wither on earth's sod i Bloom in rare beauty there. And pleasant there, to all our feet, Are patas that lead to waters sweet. In the white mansions of our God Ate lights that steadiast b* a.m. Weary of all the way wc-'vo trod We'll lay us down to dream. Io dreun .bar dt.ant of peace and rest Like children on a mot Iter's breast. ♦ • * • » A Rural Problem. Dunno wii.it wuz the lig-htin’ for, But glad that the whole thing's done. (Had two legs wh.-n he went to the war, An’ now hobbles round on one!; Dunno what wuz the flghtln’ for— Can’t tell, undur the suiil (Had two legs when ho -went to the war, An now he hobbles round on one!) The Flag She Made. Hippie her out. my darlin’, where the winds blow wild an’ free;— l or tiie flag she made for the regiment In tiie dearest flag to mo! l or 1 knou the tears from your eyes of blue fell fast where the stars I see. An’ tho flag you made for the regiment Is the dearest flag to me! Ripple h.-r out, my darlin', to the welcomin’ winds afar; — A woman’s love an* a woman’s tears shall hallow each stripe an* star. A woman’s lov.-, an’ prayers, an’ tears, shall hallow etteh star to be. An tlhe flag you made for the regiment shall be dearer than all to me! The Country’s Call. When you h.-ard the country callin’—an’ she wasn’t callin’ soft— Thar warn't no man a-hidin’ in tthe old time fodder loft; Thar wuz patriots by the dozens— Al. ye r brothers an' ye'r cousins, But twuz hard work giftin’ jq the army! They were crowdin’ for recruitin’ from all corners of the states; They were jumpin’ of tlhe fences—they were climbin’ of the gates! But. with privates by Hie million And with colonels by the billion It was hard work glttin’ in tho army!

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, August 29, 1898, Page 6, Image 6