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A -Plain Duty"—Hiw To Perforin It
When the performance of a "plain
duty" is gpckcn of as something diffi
cult of performance, it is helpful to
find examples of how to proceed about
doing it in an emergency.
From an article which appears else
where. it will Im found that fnited
States Senator Vest found himae’f con
fronted by a p’aln duty. th® perform
ance of which was embarrassing, but
not painful. It was in the settlement
of the case of Mr. Quay, seeking ad
mission into the senate upon the cer
tificate of the governor of Pennsylva
nia. For twenty years Mr. Quay had
been the coll«agKe of Mr. Vent. Their
relations were those of intimate com
ra-b—hi;’. which had be. n cemented by ;
broken brand and interchanged confi
. ‘ Qa s’ a republican, i
but ■ nee tbe st ndard filMMlfi fraudu
-I®r.t v sos Philadelphia had decreed
that P nnsylvania remain a
rcpubl.cnn state, why not Mr. Quay as
the best man. especially as he was pos- j
sesi-ed of other qualities which tied
men to him? Mr. Quay had met a
str ik of hard luck, line republican
fa.’ii-n cros -d hi< path and rendered
his reflection t-» the senate impossible. I
In th« recess th® governor gave him
the ad ini»' r m appoint m> nt. and he .
st 'cd awaiting the action of his former
colleagues. I’'hind him stool the re- ,
publican majority of the senate, re-en
forred by several democrats, whose in- I
sight of opinion outclassed their num- j
hers. Where John T. Morgan, faithful
d- mocrat and matchless constitutional
lawyer, conld co. any democrat might
saxly follow.
Here it was that Mr. Vest was eon- !
fronted with the qu®sfci<>n of plain
duty. The man at the bar was his
friend; and Senator Vest is not the ‘
man to go back upon the claims of
that relation. Democrats ranging by
him were of tried party fealty and ac
knowledged mental sterngth. But the
constitution, as Mr. Vest read it. for
bade the seating ot Mr. Quay. Mr. Vest
would break anything save his honor
to save him; he would even go fishing
with hitn again—but there was the
plain duty! Should ft be shirked or
overcome? No. It must h® performed,
and Mr. Vest’s vote, which would have
seated Mr. Quay, was cast against
him! There have been mon in the past
who. seeing a plain duty, have taken
a circuitous way around it. There
will be m<n hereafter confronted by
such conditions, and who will seek
light. Izt them read what Mr. Vest has
to say and tread the straight path
which will meet the approval of after
years. The interests of others and per- ;
ecnal ob igntions must disappear lie
fer® the demands of duty, which are ns
imperative in public life as in private. .
Republican and Republicanism.
The discovery by Secretary Dick of
the rottenness of the republican ma
chines in the states of the south may
be novel to him. but it Is old news to
the people of this section, who have,
fn m the first, discounted the whole
combination.
Secretary Dick’s discovery relates
<»nly to men. however. He finds that his
party is a matter of barter and trade
in the south; that ft exists simply for
the offices which it can control, and
that it is void of all Initiative for good.
Every convention is a scramble for of
fice between men with little or no
credit at home. But even if the ma
chinery of the party could be placed In
other hands, as indicated by Mr. Dick,
it would bo productive of no good. The
leeent disclosures in Alabama. Texas
and Tennessee were of the most dis
graceful character, leading The Nash
ville American to say:
The rep loilc.in- ar? making spectacle
•if themselves. They an- snar’-ng .out
ffghttnc an! ca”in." • n-*h •-‘her nam,-s. and
ilDcrusting the public by ’heir pr <-®e,lings.
And what is It all .ib-Mt? s,m one may
ask What an- thev fighting for? What
ts »• stake? Whv have they ri-t' The
answer i-. tn deem® who shall distribute
the ramp-Crn fund in Tetue-see this sum
mer ant fail, and later on the pHtrenage.
should M‘ Ki"’ey Is- re-elected. Th u is
nil there Is tu it. and that men should
wrangle am) spout and talk uu I ulmsi
••trh other and drag the negroes into it.
too. 'or such an •:-d! It is enough to
turn one ag..in-t repuhlh-nntsm in T«-n
--f.esse**. even if one had a mind to be a
republican.
This leads The Philadelphia Press to
acknowledge:
This is undoubtedly a correct diagnosis
• > the situation. How long mint it n
tintte. Hii'l what stens are needed to bring
I: to .-n •nd” are •|ie«t ->n.~ uht-n • n-r»-
republican should ask him«.-!t. Mo i»irty
«.in grow utaler such venditions. It can
not win the public coni lenr-c which is
nersMs-'iT t al! I'-irty «>rgan ration. If
the rep'abMrnn party Is tn lie built up in
the south a radical change is needed nn.l
n pr tnpt end made to this «|t>irre!inc :«n«l
rignting- Th- ne .Hi.nl c- nv. nt! -n shouid
take the matter in hand and -iraj with ft
vigorously N r--'igni'ion. or patronage,
. r ram?-d<n funds should !>e granted to
the repuhl.cans of nny southern state un
less they lompose tnelr dHTcrenei-s and
pkiew the good of the party above th«-ir
»wn selfish interest*. When it was pro
posed a few month* ago to U<~e renre
sentatlon In republican national c -r.vn
ttons on the vote cast It stead of on the
number of ccngrvwmen a vigorous pri
1-<t cane- up foini the «->uth. The south-
•rn republicans demanded that the old
niethnd be adhered to. They were 1-t-n
--cd to and a ctr-ng.- noetixino' Rut no
*o.?ner wem they rwe that their old
representation would not bn cut down
than th-y began to quarrel and squabble
worse t hai- ever.
This confession of party imbecility
should come to the republicans of the
northwest as a revelation, showing un
der what slavery they are to an irre
sponsibU and unscrupulous electorate,
which is openly and notoriously for
sale. Ever sine® that republican con-
vention which treated Flannagan’s
question of “what are we here for?”
as its guide of action, republican pollcj’
has been dictated by loaves and fishes.
Acknowledging the patriotism of the
republican states, wherever It comes
to a national convention for the nomi
nation of president, they must ground
their colors to the man who can con
trol the purchasable delegations from
th® south. They have controlled since
the days of Grant, and they will con
tinue to do so. The only escape which
the people of the north have from this
incubus is through democratic success,
which will bring to the front the virtue
and the patriotism of all th® states.
Plainly The Press sees the need for
reform when it says:
It is time that this disgrace is ended.
Il has lieconie a uativtiai as well as a
party ditqirac®. Tbe knife should be *j>-
plioi to tills running sore no matter what
temporary inconvenience may follow. The
present Is a propitious time for building
up the reyublicau parly in tbe south.
Manufaceirlng is lucre'sing at an iu
creilible rat.- in that section. Old preju
dices ire fading away and a new spirit Is
<■< mins lnt-i life. Advantage should
taken «f this situation, if tho factions
in the -liitercnt southern slat-s will not
h.irni-miz-• the naiio.i U committee should
step in and. thrusting aside all factions,
reorganise the party on a new basis. And
all re<-«gniti-»n and patronage should las
aftirwar-is refused to those who will not
srcept the new conditions. There are
tho-is ends of lhe I--st men in the south
ready tn enter the rei üblican party, but
they are unwilling to identify themselves
with the p.-rtv as m.w c-onlroilad there.
Xo he te- time for a reorganisation in
the south will come than now. The na
tional republican authorities should insist
up m a radical departure in tlvit sc.-tion
and so place the party «»n a basis where it
will be of use in the future.
No matter how radical may be the
steps taken by th® national convention,
tho evil will still remain, for with an
improvement of tho personnel of the
party, republicanism itself will remain
an unhealthy exotic which can never
be acclimated. Its politics have always
been offensive, and at war with the or
ganic law of the land. Its belief in po
litical expeiliency renders It a source
of danger useful in the hands of in
triguers and special interests. It has
no conception of jMipular rights nor of
national development, and therefore it
will remain equally objectionable,
whether presented in the man or in the
system, in tho republican or In republi
canism .
Democracy and the Canal.
Tit® confidence of United States Sen
ator John T. Morgan that he can secure
tho passage of the Nicaraguan canal
bill during the present session should
be seconded by every democrat in both
1 ouscs.
Tho establishment of this canal
would make tho ocean and gulf coasts
of the southern states the waterfront
of the world; hence every southern
congressman, regardless of party,
should favor it. It would bring the
cis-Rocky mountain country, which is
drained by tho rivers emptying into
the Mississippi into the position of
ocean front states. It would make
available the one fleet for service in
either ocean, as demanded. It would
make the United States the < nter of
tho world's industrial civilization.
The objection which many democrats
make to the canal bill because of the
accompanying treaty, should not be
permitted to defeat this great inter
oceanic work. The treaty, in denying
tho right of fortification, deserves all
the censure which democrats have giv
en it. but that should not permit us to
stand in the way of a much greater
question, which is involved in the
building of the canal itself. Th-- Nica
ragua canal is a neecessity, whether
with or without the treaty, and It
should be built at all haz::rds. In the
meantime th® treaty itself can be han
dled njKin Its own merits, amended if
possible, or adopted if necessary to the
accomplishment of the main design.
The right ot fortifications is one
which should belong to the United
States, and which certainly never will
lielong to any other power. But these
extraneous Issues must not confuse the
canal project itself, which stands pre
eminent as a world-wide necessity, and
the completion of which would be the
culmination of American commercial
enterprise. As to the future we can
very safely await what it has to dis
close. satisfied that in all contingencies
we will be aldo to take care of our own
interests.
In the discussion of this purely com
mercial enterprise, Americans should
not lose th® canal by antagonizing each
other on secondary issues. It is not
always necessary that treaties should
b® laden with specific provisions about
matters which providence and geogra
phy settle more effectively than can
any paper agreement. Now’ that all
th® preliminaries have been swept out
of the way and that th® scheme has
assumed full shape and proportions,
our duty is plain, and wo should not
!>e turned aside from it by foreign is
sue’. which are often intended to em
barrass rather than to assist.
A ‘’Segregation” Problem.
Tho fact that there is shortly to be
held in Montgomery a conference for
the dtecussion of “th® race problem”
gives Th® New York S»un opportunity
to remark that there is no race prob
lem. properly so called, for the reason
that whatever there may bo proble
matical aliout it will be solved and ad
justed in duo time by the process of
growth and development.
But our contemporary contends that
I ther® Is a "really great southern prob
lem.” and proceeds to indicate it. This
i ’’really great southern problem" is the
“solid south," and Tho Sun thus com
ments on it: “So long, therefore, as
we have what is called the ’solid south,’
or a group of states which vote solid
ly on one side, whatever the issue, so
that practically there is no political
discussion in them, the group segre
gates itself from the nation with re
sults injurious to itself and dangerous
to th® rest.”
Will, there are some big words in
the foregoing, but big words do not
make a "really great southern prob
lem." We think the segregation, the in
jury and the danger are all in the edi
tor’s eye or mind, and therefore have
no concrete existence. Behind The
Sun’s statement of its invented prob
lem them is, of course, the desire that
the people of th® south should turn
about and vot® the republican ticket,
no matter what tho issue. If the segre
gation took that shape. It would not be
dangerous or injurious, but on the con
trary, would be very arise and beauti
, ful.
Th® Sun at least admits that there is
no unusual methods brought to bear
to produce this solidarity which has
been an eyesore to every republican
partisan sine® the days of poor Thad
Stevens. There must be some very
powerful necessity which causes the
peop'e of a group of states to act al
most as on® mind and to mov® by a
common impulse, ft has been no long
time sine® the north was as solidly re-
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONS ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1900.
publican as the south has been and
still is democratic. Nobody then applied
to tho north to change its views be
cause of the danger of segregation.
Democratic principles were left to
work out their own revival and justifi
cation. and they have made considera
ble headway in tho north. On the oth
er hand, republican principles have not
made the slightest advance in the
south and for the very good reason
that they do not commend themselves
to the thinking people of this section.
Ther® is just as much political inde
pendence in tho south as in the north,
and this fact would make itself felt in
a very marked manner should the par
tv to which the people have become at
tached show any disposition to betray
or repudiate democratic principles.
The Vacation Boarding Business.
Tho return of spring and the proxim
ity of warm days, suggests once more
th® growing importance of the vacation
boarding business.
Tho first state to take official notice
of the existence of this pursuit Is New
Hampshire, which covers the subject
through its bureau of labor. This bu
reau has secured returns from every
town in tho state with regard to the
number of citj’ iieople who come to it
in th® summer the prices paid by them
for hoard, and suggestions for increas
ing the income of tho state by encour
aging new boarders to come to it. The
report shows that there is Invested in
that eno New Ung and state over s!<•,-
0 0,000 in accommodations for summer
guests, and the belief is expressed that
If tho rural sections of the state “make
tho most of their opportunities’’ the
annual income realized will be from
fifteen to twenty million dollars.
A business which can yield such re
turns is one inviting enough to attract
the attention of the people, and sug
gests what a bonanza is ahead of north
Georgia if it was hut worked up. The
lino of development is not in th® erec
tion of high-priced hotels where the
rate would bo from *3 to $5 a day. but
of comfortable,cleanly accommodations
which could be furnished for that much
a w< ek. The Boston newspapers, for in
stance, are filled with advertisements
from farmers all over the state, re
counting what they have to offer, in
reply to which they hear from people
wanting just such places.
Suppose for instance. Farmer Jones,
of Gilmer county, having accommoda
tions for two, thn 1 ® or more persons,
for the months of June, July and Au
gust, should make that fact known
through The Constitution. h<» would be
certain to hear from some one. and
would be that much ahead in his year's
business. This could he multiplied in
definitely. advertisers stating attrac
tions or features which might com
mand attention. There is. for instance,
a mother with two children who de
sires to spend three months in the
country. Sb® does not want to go to an
expensive hotel, she does not know to
whom to apply for accommodations,
for which she would he willing to pay
a reasonable sum. Ts there not some
farmer in Cherokee county, with an
extra room and more milk and butter
than h® can consume? Why not make
himself known, so that the city mother
may find hiri? Five to ten thousand
Atlanta people alone will summer it
somewhere. They might just as well
scatter through the mountains of Geor
gia if the people living there will but
take hold of tho business.
Ten million dollars a year thrown
into an agricultural section is a large
amount of money, and the attractions
of north Georgia are certainly equal to
those of New’ Hampshire, only the j>eo
pl.i concerned do not seem to know it.
■ ■ —♦ —
A Declaration and Its Answer.
Among the interesting events which
have marked the sessions of the ecu
menical missionary conference now go
ing on in New’ York, was one in which
Bishop Thoburn rather ran afoul of the
prevailing sentiment.
The bishop was discussing the pend
ing criticism of Biblical literature,
when he said:
i’.Thap* at no time tn th® century lia*
there been so much questioning among
the Bib'.e student.-, s® many misgivings
nn.l «!nut>ts as in the last year. It would
seem as if a new rallying point were
needed. Perhaps t<>o much tint® has been
devoted t > the Bible. The true foundation
Is Jesus Chris*. The Revealer ts o f much
greater linpurtanco than th® revealed.
At first tho full meaning of these
words was not fully comprehended.
When it becaniq plain that the sugges
tion leant to tho theory of abandoning
thn Ixxik in an appeal to the author,
dissent was manifested through Dr.
Arthur T. Pierson, who declared that
th® conference must make no mistake
in declaring for tho integrity of the
Bible. He said that Bishop Thoburn’s
paper might bo misunderstood easily,
and pointed out that It was impossible
to impair the integrity of tlio written
Word without impairing the living
Word, and concluded:
Whatever hurts th- lefallt-blltty nr In
tegrity of the Word hurts the integrity
and inipa rs the character of Jesus
Christ.
The conference <lid well in sustaining
tho position of Mr. Pierson. To have
dono less would h.YVo been to abandon
the most important outpost of reveahsl
religion.
Concerning the Sultan.
Tho refusal of tho sultan to be stam
peded by tho demand for indemnity
for outrages committed in his empire
is having the effect of bringing out
setne very rar® opinions.
The sultan has b®en looked upon as
a cruel despot. His people have been
ref -rred to as th® "unspeakable Turks’’
ami the condition prevailing through
out th® Ottoman empire has been de
scribed as one of dens® ignorance and
persecution. The utterance of such
views as have come from General Lew
Wallace and lion. A. W. Terrell, for
mer ministers to Constantinople, are
certainly new and instructive. If true,
it is a pity that these gentlemen should
have been so long silent about a mat
ter concerning which tho people need
ed information. Mcording to General
Wallaco the sultan is a high-minded,
intelligent gentleman with thoroughly
Christian principles growing out o' his
education In Europe. Mr. Terrel! de
clares that tho sultan is r.n honest man,
and that he wn= tho most intellectual
man he mot while in Europe. Those
views, so in ••ontradiction with our
preconceived ideas, make necessary a
reconsideration of the whole Turkish
question. Have we been doing injus
tice to a largo portion of the human
race which believes in the doctrine of
Mahomet? We are under obligation to
do unto others as wo would they should
do unto us, and if wo have been doing
injustice to th® Turkish character It
would becom® us to set about a recon
sideration of that error.
There is a feature of this Turkish
business which s®ems to bo overlooked
and which Is worthy of consideration.
Tho trouble which gives rise to the
present strained relations between the
two governments grows out of persecu
tions of missionaries who went into
the Turkish empire. Undoubtedly the
missionary, preserving the character of
the country whence he hailed, is enti
tled to the protection of his country to
the uttermost limit. But between what
a man is entitled to and what is pru
dent for him to claim, there is often a
difference. A merchant goes to a for
eign country for the single and sole
purpose of making money and coming
away. The missionary goes to make
himself one with these people, in order
to lead them to tho adoption of his
views. Standing among them as an
ambassador from heaven, with an orig
inal commission and facing the fate of
the carlj’ apostles, ho is content to pay
tho penalty of his zeal. But if he
stand* among them with his political
character hiding his mission, he is
likely to arouse race and national jeal
ousies which will interfere with his
mission. Os course those are questions
for those concerned to consider, but
thev seem to be worthy of thought. If
w® would look at the ultimate results
which ar® to bo gained.
A Question of Morality.
Even Tho New York Evening Post,
which is practically in the same boat
with Senator Hoar, is beginning to
look askance at. the' position of the
Massachusetts statesman and to per
ceive that there is something wrong
somewhere. Thereupon the editor sits
down after dinner and writes an essay
on "Taking Politics Seriously."
This essay we have read with some
care, and wo cannot but feel that the
editor misses tho real point at issue
between Hoar tho patriot, and Hoar
the politician. Os Mr. McKinley’s pol
icy Senator Hoar remarked that it
means “the abandoiunent ot the pt in
ciples upon which our government is
founded.” Os the arguments and rea
sons which tho president has from
time to time put forth in support of
his policy, the Massachusetts senator
declares that they represent “the doc
trine of purest ruffianism and tyran
ny.” Moreover, the senator announced
tliat Mr. McKinley’s reasoning on the
consent, of tho governed “would have
been received with a burst of derisive
laughter in hell, and Satan himself
would hav® led the chorus.”
Now what The Evening Post com
plains of is that in spite of this fiery
breathing, Mr. McKinley retains his
place in tho senator's disturbed mind
as “tho great president,” who "holds a
place in th® affections of the people at
large which none of his predecessors
ever attained In his lifetime.” This,
the editor cf Th® Evening Post “can
but think Is an example of the Amer
ican want of high seriousness in poli
tics." Furthermore, “it lends point to
the charge of foreign critics that Amer
icans are dowered with too fatal a gift
of good nature to keep their political
life pure.”
The editor then refers to tl.? rupture
between Burke and Fox, and to the at
titude of Calhoun, who refused to as
sociate with men whom he believed to
be plotting the ruin of the country,
and finally asks if nothing should bo
said of the growth of tolerance. Some
thing. certainly, he admits, and this
everybody will admit; but he goes on
to say that “offensive personalities in
politics are th® only sure means of es
tablishing responsibility, and responsi
bility is the breath of life of free gov
ernment.” f
We have tried in vdn to hitch this
essay of the eilitor of The Evening
Post to the attitude of Senator Hoar.
Th® hook is there, but no hasp is visi
ble. Our conclusion therefore is that
our contemporary has felt it necessary
to his comfort to Ignore the really vi
tal meaning of Senator Hoar’s speech
when compared with his attitude. Th®
suggestion in regard to "offensive per
sonalities in politics” has nothing
whatever to do with the matter. “Of
fensive personalities” are not argu
ments. They are as foolish and as dis
tasteful in politics as they ar® in pri
vate life. They advance no cause and
are usually a symptom of weakness
and folly.
Senator Hoar could not possibly
prove that he is right and the presi
dent wrong by Indulging in personal
abuse. Such an exhibition on the part
of a man of his years and experience
would create amusement where It did
not give rise to disgust. No; the editor
cf The Evening Post is miles away
from the real weakness ot Senator
Hoar’s speech, and from tho real pesti
lence that infects republican politics.
The on® thing necessary for a man,
either in public or in private life, to
achieve respect for his convictions and
a thoughtful consideration of his views,
is to act upon them. That is not only
the supreme test of his honesty and
earn* stness, but it is the gauge by
■which his utterances will bo measured.
The speech of Senator Hoar, we do
not hesitate to say, is one of the most
d< moralizing and unmoral addresses
that has ever been delivered in this
country. It is calculated to sow a dead
ly poison in the minds of the young
mon in New England, where the nanio
of the senator stands for the highest
ideals in what may be call' d partisan
politics.
This speech, then, Is worse than de
moralizing, and, to the extent of the
impression it makes on the minds of
voung men. the senator has delivered
a deadlier hb»w at “th® principles on
which our government is founded,”
than anything that Mr. McKinley has
don® or possibly can do. Ihe presi
dent’s efforts can be counteracted by
th® people or corrected by the supreme
court; the poison that Senator Hoar
has sown In the minds of those who
look up to him as an exemplar can
never b® completely eradicated.
And this is true, not because Senator
Hoar has failed to mak® the president
Hi® object of his personalities, but be
cause he has denounced a certain line
of policy and in the same breath has
made it clear that, that policy is good
enough for him. It is “ruffianism and
tyranny." but these things ar® not suf
ficient to drive him to act upon his
convictions and oppose the ruffians
and “tyrants.” < »n the contrary, he will
act with them, and by giving them his
support, will enable them to carry out
their “ruffianism and tyranny as far
as they can.
This is th® poison that Senator Hoar
spreads all about hint; that convic
tions, no matter how firmly held, or
how important they may be, are not
to be acted on if there are any serious
obstacles in the way. They may he
publicly advertised; they may be em
ployed as the basis of declamation, or
they may servo as the framework of
showy rhetoric; but farther than this
they need not carry man. What par
ticular lesson does the speech of the
Massachusetts senator teach the young
men of the country who ar® amenable
to his words and his example? Why
simply this, as plain as language can
make it: That “the principles upon
which our government Is founded" are
not as important as tho party organi
zation which Is preaching that these
principles shall forthwith be aban
doned.
Now we are not engaged in making
a “point” against Senator Hoar be
cause he is a republican. We are con
scious of no feeling of partisanship or
prejudice. We are not discussing his
convictions; wo are not approving or
disapproving them; wo are simply
showing to what degrading uses he
puts them, how he tramples them un
der his feet.
The North Carolina Campaign.
The democratic managers in the
North Carolina campaign will lose
nothing by declining to bo drawn into
a controversy with belated popifllst
enemies, who seek to do the work of
republican schemers.
The great issue before tho people of
the Old North State is the final estab
lishment of Caucasian civilization. No
matter how great the peace of the pres
ent day may bo, as long as a dangerous
clement exists in the electorate, they
know not when disaster and confusion
may intrude. It is in tho interest of
self-preservation that they must pro
ceed to tho adoption of the constitu
tional amendment, which will sa'vo
them in tho future from the scandals
which hav® marked tho past few years.
While, as a general principle, it is
true that opposing political parties are
a benefit, yet conditions in the south
are such that when one of these par
ties makes itself the agent for the ig
norance and the crime of the state, in
the interest of good citizenship its
fangs must be extracted, and the body
politic be saved from tho dangers
which threaten it. The inability’ of the
republican party to win for itself a
respectable position in the southern
states is inherent. Even at the present
day it is as much the slave of venality
an<l of ignorance as it was in the days
of reconstruction. When we see an al
leged claimant for the governorship
of Kentucky fly his own state from an
Indictment, ami place himself beneath
tho bomb proof of another jurisdiction,
wo have but a fair example of repub
lican lawlessness and weakness.
What is true of North Carolina and
of Kentucky is equally true of every
other state in the south, ami it, there
fore, behooves the people of these va
rious communities either to reform the
franchise so as to exclude undesirable
elements or, following th® example of
Georgia, organize such a white primary
that, all questions being settled, the
regular election will but register the
will of the conservative people.
The Cheese Industry.
Or of the most successful works
can i d on by the Geo-gta experimental
station is that of cheese-making—not
that the industry has developed to any
extent, but that the experiment has
proven th® possibilities ahead.
The cow—and we should speak of
her with the greatest respect—is one
of the greatest wealth-producers fn the
world. Whether we consider her in her
self or in her prixluct. she always re
mains a fruitful source cf profit. States
of tho n. rthwest have escaped a condi
tion of mortgage through her aid, and
in no form more effectually than in
that of cheese does sh® answer expec
tation.
The vain® of the cheese Industry has
been brought into prominence by the
activity at Washington of cheese man
ufacturers to obtain legislation pre
venting the misbranding of this prod
uct. At present the yearly output is es
timated at dos® upon 265,000 pounds.
Ohio contains 4,897 factories and has
increased about 30 per cent during the
past five years, but Pennsylvania, New
York. Illinois. Wisconsin, Michigan
and Vermont are well up In the list.
Os course, the butter industry is the
most important industry among the
dairy Interests, its annual production
mounting •»;» to 850,0<m»,ooo pounds. It
is estimated that th® United States
consumes about 210,000,000 pounds a
year, of which 12,000.000 is imported,
while our own industries export fully
70,000.<mi0. During the last four years
these last figures have been practically
doubled, most of our exported cheese
going to England, where it is a fashion
of speech to say that tho “Cheshire
cheese” sold in Ixmdon all comes from
this country.
in drawing attention to this bi-prod
uct of tho stock industry The Constitu
tion hopes to center interest upon this
most abundant source of income—one
Which can be rendered local in every
community in the state. Georgia has
th® grasses, the running streams, tho
shades and the climate which favor
most the dairy Industry. There is mon
ey in the farm, not for th® mere hum
drum worker, but for the man of com
mon sense and intelligence who puts
his head into his business.
Double Payment for Officers.
the position that The Con
stitution has recently taken that offi
cers should not receive double pay, The
Chattanooga Times has this to say:
Admiral Dewey’s pay is $13,000 a year.
General Otis’s pay is $7,500 n year. Tho
admiral Is not subject to retirement. IBs
pay is full for life. Otis's retired pay
would be $5.i>25 a year. A man at sixty
four and from that on Is not apt to ha vs
much family to support and he need he,
as a retired army ottieer, at no expense
for "style.” These facts, under all the
circumstances, make the proposition to
pay these officers $20,000 for some purely
routine work that could have been done,
probably, as well without them, work
that Involved no manner of r®si«>nsibllity
and was of no special benefit to the coun
try—the d>*man<l is dishonest and the rec
ommendation of the president ts an act of
cowardice.
Since the demand made by thes® of
ficer.® for double pay it has developed,
through the inquiry of Senator Bacon,
of Georgia, that a number of officers
in Cuba and I’orto Rico hav® been in
regular receipt of double pay. contin
uing to draw salaries for the military
duty from which they were detailed
while drawing still larger pay for the
civil duties to which they’ had been as
signed. This is establishing the vicious
policy which lay at the root of Spain’s
misgovernment of her colonies, which
finally resulted in her loss of them al
together. Thus it wits to the interest
of the military ring to keep up contin
ued disorQer in the colonies in order
that the double pay might be kept up
indefinitely.
In tho case of General Otis it. would
become triple pay for one year—s7.soo
for his major generalcy, SIO,OOO for
membership in the commission and SB,-
otmi for the governor generalcy, or $25,-
500 in all.
The system is an outrageous one!
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
The Watermelon Way.
I up on gone at de breakin’ er de day.
En I plowin’ up de grass so dat he'll never
come ter hay;
En I wish de furrow load me ter de water
melon way,
Kaze I nongry fer de melon in de
mawnln' 1
I up en gone at de breakin’ er de day—
Dar's lishln’ In de river, but I ain t got
time ter stay,
En I pray de road'll lead me ter de water
melon way, .
Kaze I hongry fer de melon in de
mawnln’!
Oh, I wish dat I wuz livin' whar de water
melon stay.
’Stid er follcrln’ de furrow at de breakin
er de day; . .
Kaze de road I knows de bes , sub, go «
watermelon way,
En I hongry fer de melon in de mawn
ln’!
A Dedication.
Herein are love, and tenderness, and all
Sweet influences; such as make the waj
Sure to the white perfection of the day—
The wood-dove's moaning and the robin s
call.
And Faith that finds fair stars, and sees
no wall
’Twixt earth and heaven: but still tne
rainbow's ray
In the black storm; and marvel not if
May
Herein shall see the tears of April fa.l.
Here sing the birds; here the wild blos
soms, blown
By rain-dashed winds, fall thick upon
Love’s tresses!
Here In dim woodlands all the trushes
throng.
In flower-sweet mornings and starred
nights unknown
This singer knew an Unseen hand’s ca
reuses
And a great Voice that told here all
her song!
When You Hear the Whistle Blow.
I dunno much ’bout lamin’, en de onl>
flng I know .
Is ter look out fer de engine w’en I nean
de whistle blow; t
Ter sorter crawl ter kiver wen dey
prophesyin’ snow,
En rise up w’en de rooster crow ter
mawnln’!
I dunno much ’bout nuthln’, but I alius
feelin’ sho’
Dar’s a engine on de railroad wen you
heah de whistle blow;
En he got de right er way, suh, en I give
him room ter go
’Twell ho tie up at de station In th
mawnln'! j
En dey wouldn’t be no trouble in dis wil
derness below
Es you ® look out fer de engine w en you
heah de whistle blow;—
Es you’d only crawl ter kiver Wen «•
prophesy In* snow,
En rise up w’en de rooster crow fe
mawnln’!
A Song of Sunshine.
Praise God F r the sunshine! It’s over
the hills--
It's white on the rills!
It 's th re-on the green o’ the tneadow.-
it’3 there.
On th * gold IjOVo s hnir.
It has kissed to wild joy all the valleys
From Uu- sod it is luring the seed to the
And wuking the world from its desolate
dreams:
Praise God for its beams’
IT.
Praise God for the sunshine! His blessing
draws nigh.
And heaven's not high!
You can see the bright windows S wln a
W’ide in the blue
Lov® has arched over you!
And the whole world is singing a song
that is blest—
And fair are the Howers I*ovo brings to
For the toiling the sunshine, with bounti
ful team#,.
And the stars for Love’s dreams.
Hearts Can Forget.
Never y 'U tear that I m weeping for you—
Sighing ever a sweet dream yet.
Wander you on in the dawn and the dew.
Hearts can forget!
Do you not see In you heaven tho blue—
Beautiful after Lives sun is set.
Dream you no more that I m weeping for
you:
Hearts can forget!
Sweet was the dream: but no dreams,
dear, coma true!
Would it avail if Love’s eyelids wero
wet?
Life is too real to be weeping for you.
Hearts can forget!
At the World’s Gates.
I.
Thft starving cry at the world’s gates for
Their are healed, their famished
lips are fed:
But there are Ilves that, starving, pass
unknown. .
Never Oh, never to Love s storehouse
led!
IT.
A Tantalus athirst for waters sweet—
For fair fruit ripening in tho summer
Storing to drink, with bitter grief and
moan.
And evermore tho sweet streams in.
retreat!
ITT.
This casts tho shadow o’er life s morning
fair;
This brings tho gray Into th® golden hair;
This nu kes the green of all the graves
below
Fairer than laurel for the brews to wear.
TV.
Not all the heroes war on kingdoms
make;
Not all tho martyrs perish nt th® stako.
God give us patience His high will to
kno X,
And strength to bear until the heart shall
break.
The Light Is There.
Clouds that sail in a stormy sky
And darken the landscape dre«r;
But ever the song, anil never the sigh.
For I know that the light ts there!
Tn the valleys of despair
There are hints of summer fair;
After the night
The light! the light!—
I know that the light Is there!
Thorns that menace the weary way,
A cross, and a sad heart-care;
L>ng it seems to the wished-for day.
But 1 know that the light is there!
In the valleys of despair
Flowers of a Springtime f dr;
After the night
The light! the light!—
I know that the light is there!
Never forsaken, or all unblest.
Even In the darkness drear;.
Over the mist-wreathed hills is rest:
I know that the light is there!
In the valleys of despair
Flowers by the light mtide fair;
After the night
The light! the light!—
I know that the light Is there!
Bill Arp’s Letter
(Written for The Constitution.)
Wfien we were school boys one of tha
questions that was discussed in our debat
ing society was, "Is There Such a Thing
as Disinterested Benevolence?" The af
firmative side generally gained the vic
tory, and ought to, though it must ba
admitted that selfishness is at the bot
tom of many acts of charity and pre
tended friendship. Indeed, disintterested
benevolence is so rare that wnen a well an
thentlcated ease occurs it is talked about
and gets in the newspapers. In the olden
times it became a matter of history and
has c« me down to us like the parabit, of
the good Samaritan and the story of Da
mon and Pythias. Indeed, if our lament
ed soldier boy. Sam Davis, who died rath
er than betray a friend, had lived in
Boman times he. too. would come
down to us as a sainted hero. There are
Knights of Damon and Knigts of Pythias
and there ought to be knights of earn
Davis. Parental love, fraternal love, con
jugal love are not to be coopted in these
historic Incidents. Such love is to oe
expected from those relations. That good
ness of heart which prompts a man to
befriend those who are no kin to him and
from whom he expects no reward is dis
interested benevolence. Samuel Davis was
the highest type of loyalty to friendship
that history makes any record of. Pythias
was condemned by Dionysius to suffer
death for a crime of which he was guil
ty. He begged for a short respite to go
home and arrange his family affairs, and
Damon took his place in prison and agreed
to die for him if he failed to return. But
he did return, and Dionysius was so im
pressed with admiration for their love for
each other that he pardoned Pythias and
became the friend of both. But Samuel
Davis had no friend to take his place,
nor was the federal officer who condemn
ed him as merciful as Dionysius. He
died to save the life of a federal officer
who might have saved him. but did not.
That soldier kept his own secret and
keeps it yet if he is alive. What an op
portunity he had to save his friend and
immortalize himsel’’. No doubt he, too,
would have been perdoned. as I’ythias
was. Mr. Lincoln would have pardoned
Sam Davis if he had known of it.
I wish that every boy in the southland
knew of the sad and glorious death of
this Pulaski hero. Tennessee has a stato
history. I know, but I do not know wheth
er the story is In it or not. If it is not
it should be recorded there in the next
edition. My friend, Sumner Cun
ningham, has done all he could to make
it historical in The Veteran and to have
a noble monument erected to his memory.
It is a comfort to know that many fed
eral soldiers and many big hearted people
from the north have contributed largely
to it.
Goldsmith’s Hermit in his sore dis
appointment asks:
"And what is friendship but a name—
A charm that lulls to sleep?”
But when his Angelina found him he
sang a differefit song. True friendship
is like the love of God. It is an emana
tion from divinity, ixlndness of heart,
whether to man or beast, brings its own
reward. The pretty story of Androclus
and the lion has come down to us through
nineteen centuries. Much ado is bemj
made over abstruse theological questions,
but the fourth chapter of the first epistle
of John is creed enough for all mankind.
Selfishness Is so much th® sin of the
world that It has come to be a proverb,
"Every man for himself and tho det i!
take the hindmost.” "Oh Lord, bless me
and my wife, my son John and his v> ife,
us four and no more,” is the common
prayer. The ostentatious charities of the
millionaires are nothing in the sight of
God—nothing compared with the widow s
mite. Their accumulate,ns came in drops
from the sweat of tie people and for
every gallon they g» t tftiey pour back half
a gill in the jug and q.re satisfied. Tha
rest they keep for the succession and tho
succession goes to law to escape the in
heritance tax. My son John and his wifo
want it all.
No. there are thousands If acts of dis
interested kindness, but they are generally
among the humble, common people. "Law®
grind the poor, and rich men rule th"
law," wrote Goldsmith 15® years ago, and
it is the same wav yet, but still the com
mon people are able to live in this bless,Yl
country and to help one another in dis
tress. Wherever we go we witness “lit
tle deeds of kindness—little acts of love.”
While traveling in Florida net long ago
an old lady was carefully helped onto the
train by the conductor. She was timid
and feeble, and said «n<- wanted to go to
see her daughter at Wildwood, who was
very sick. "You wont carry rm- by. will
you?” she asked in a pleading tone. “No,
ma'am. 1 will not,” he said. "1 will surely
stop the train and help you off. Dont
be alarmed al all. I will take good care
of you.” And he did. Every little while
he went to her and quieted her fears.
When we reached the junction where tha
train backs to Silver Springs he came to
me and another veteran and invited us to
walk back to the rear end of the next car
and see the Ix-autiful country ami the
springs that we were nearing. We did
so. and then he politely helped us down
and onto the platform that overlooks the
beautiful spring, and then conducted us
back to the car. He di,l not know us, and
1 am sure his civility came from his rev
erence for age and his natural kindness
of heart. Just before we reached Ocala I
Inquired his name, and he said: "My
name is Beckham. "Governor of Ken
tucky?” said I smiling. "No,” said he,
"but my uncle is. The governor is my
father’s brother.” Well that settles it.
I am for Governor Beckham now against
the world, for I am sure he is from good
stock.
I dont know when I have felt so well
rewarded as I was at Jasper, where a
handsome, hardy man came to see me and
said, "1 have come nine miles to see
you and to hear you for my mother's
sake. She lives in North Carolina, and
when, I wrote to her that you wi re to
be here soon she wrote back that 1 must
come and see you and thank you for that
letter you wrote begging the absent boys
to write letters home to their mothers.”
My young friend said that his mother sent
a ccpy of that letter to each of her boys
and they had not failed since then to
write to her every week.
Well there is comfort in that. The yearn
ings of these dear old mothers for their
boys who are far away and do not writ®
distresses mo. The boy ought to write
once a week if possible; once a month
anyhow, if he is behaving himself ha
will do it and if he does not do it. it is
a bad sign. BILL Alli’,
Books of the Old Testament.
The lines were composed by Rev. Dr. Stough
ton. a distinguished Baptist minister, who waa
a pastor in Philadelphia, and then president
of Columbia college in Washington city, where
he died in the year 1820.
The great Jehovah speaks to us
Io Genesis and Exodus;
Leviticus and Numbess. see.
Followed by Deuteronomy.
Joshua and Judges sway the land,
Huth gleans a sheaf with trembling
Samuel and numerous kings appear
Whose Chronicles we wondering hear.
Ezra and Nehemiah now.
Esther the beauteous mourner show:
Job speaks in sighs. David in Psalms.
The Proverbs teach to scatter alms;
Ecclesiastes then come on.
And the sweet songs of Solomon.
Isaiah, Jeremiah, then
With lamentations takes his pen;
Ezekiel, Daniel. Hozea’s lyres.
Swell Joel. Amos. Obadiah's.
Next Jonah. Micah, Nahum come.
And lofty Habakkuk finds room;
While Zepaniah. Baggai calls.
Rapt Zachariah builds his walls—
And Malachi with garments rent.
Concludes the Ancient Testament.