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6 THE GOBSTITOTIOH CLARK HOWELL Editor ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager “■*•***■* the Atlanta •'•■tofriee Seeand vlasa Mail Matter, N»t. 11, 1573. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, only $; per annum. Clubs of five, $| each; clubs of ten. $ I each and a copy to getter-up of club. WE W ANT TOT’—The Constitution wants an agent at *very postoffice in America. Agent’s r outfit free and good terms. If you are not !n a club, we want you to act as agent at your office. Write us. CHANGE OF ADDRESS—When ordering ad dress of your paper changed always give the old as well ae the new address. Always give postoffice, county and state. If your paper -» not received regularly, notify us and we will straighten the matter. IF YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers, please allow us a week to get the names on the list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much ciowded now. DO NOT FORGET to moke your renewals in time. Watch your direction tag and see when your subscription expires The next six month wi l be lull of interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con stitution. wend your orders at least a week in advance to make sure. It may not rake a week in every Instance, as we use the greatest diligence to get them on o »r mail list. There Was No Boss in 1900. Our valued contemporary, The Washington Post, is usually fair of spirit and seldom stubborn, but it will insist that Mr. Bryan “bossed 16 to 1 into the Kansas City platform in 1900.” It claims that the plank was reaffirmed by only one vote, and that was cast by Prince David, as delegate from Hawaii. Take that to be true, which it is. and what remains? If Prince David, of Hawaii, was admitted as a legiti mate delegate, why was not his vote as valid as that of Boss David, of New York, who voted the other way? And if the plank was adopted by one vote majority, did not that, give it as firm a place in the platform as if it had been put there without any objection. A governor of Massachusetts was elected many years ago by one vote that made his majority, and the extra institutional electoral commission of 1877 gave Hayes the presidency on 0110 stolen vote. The “one”-ness of the majority did not prevent the plank from becoming the backbone of the democratic cam paign in 1900, did not prevent the ticket from being supported by hun dreds of leading men who had op posed it in 1896, and did not cause nearly so much of public fright and condemnation as the same proposal did in 1896. The confparison of the democratic votes of the states supporting 16 to 1 with those of the states voting against its incorporation in the platform proves nothing with reference to whether or not Mr. Bryan “bossed the democratic party in 1900.” The esteemed Post knows that perfectly and knows it so cutely that it did not suggest to us to count the electoral votes of the states that voted pro and con. The Constitution must insist that its statement is correct and that Mr. Bryan did not force the Kansas City convention to adopt the 16 to 1 plank against its will. The delegates who voted for the plank had been elected to do so, and many more who had to be chosen with the like understand ing were persuaded after reaching Kansas City to act contrary to their expectation when they left home. We repeat emphatically that no one man bossed the party in 1900. There were men who wanted to do so —who went to Kansas City for that purpose —but when they went away were the shorn rather than the shearers. It is not a safe thing to try to boss the democratic party. The man who would try the experiment will do well to remember what Josh Billings said about where be would stand while preaching the funeral of a mule —at the far end from his hind legs! _e Writhings of the Money Power. Tne president, has been having a lit tle confabulation, as Brother Dickey would term it, with Senator Platt and Uncle Joe Cannon, down at Oyster Bay. The object evidently was to reach an agreement on the policy of the party In the November special session of congress on the financial relief ques tion. At present, the esteemed repub lican leaders are as much at logger heads over the matter as the demo crats were when they declared for 16 to 1, over the protest of others who insisted that we should be bigger and bolder goldbugs than any in the whole wide, wide world. The Fowler currency bill had a foot ball of a time in congress last session. Its principal aim is to declare th< ir revocable gold standard and expand the currency on the foundation of cred it measured by bank assets. The main objections to it, and which promise to be fatal ones, corne from his own side of the political arena. It does not give that sort of expansion of the currency that, the money powers desire, because it menaces their present monopoly in the money centers. Hence it is al ready aenemic and marked for death. Brothers Hanna and Aldrich, mean time. have been over at the Virginia Warin Springs brewing a new bill that they think is a pottage for which the American people will freely surrender their birthright of sovereignty over money to the mongers of the ex changes. These two —the Mephisto and the Machiavelli of the money power in the republican party—do not believe in giving plenteous money to the people, otherwise the people would not be dependent upon the Shylocks of Wall street. They want to maintain a money system that will keep control of the currency in New York instead of -n Washington. They believe the prosperity of the country writes its progress on the ticker-tapes of the ex change gt.mbler and not in the rec ords of the bureaus of the govern ment Secretary Wilson may count the bushels of our wheat, corn and and weigh the pounds of our cotton crop, but the IPanna-Aldrich combine is determined that Wall street shall fix the prices at the doors of the bins, cribs and gins of the whole C °Fvidently President Roosevelt wants something done to stop the rising tide f protest against money shortness in seasons of every other |ort of abund- ance. A presidential compaign with "prosperity” gilded on the banners and nothing to jingle in the pockets of the processionals will be a rocky road to the white nouse. But Uncle Joe Cannon will be a hard man to harness to th) juggernapt of Wall street. He has an old tar-heel’s faith In and sympathy for the common people. The mopey devil will win a famous victory if it pulls him into camp. Democrats Are Getting Busy. The democrats appear to be getting busy all along the line. Those who have been prominent as leaders have reached tho interviewable stage and new men with 'ideas of who’s who and what’s what are writing for the coun ty and provincial newspapers. This is a good sign. It shows that, the active factors in the party are not inclined to pessimism. The trend of all they are saying is that there is democratic life in the old land yet and if the followers of Jefferson will only get together upon a platform adjusted to the people’s national needs, no more and no less, there is an even caance to win next year. There seems to be no disposition anywhere to believe that Mr. Roose velt is aa invincible person. On the contrary, looking to his individual strength as a political leader, he is considered essentially weak at many points. His chance to win depends entirely upon the always superb or ganization and management, of the corruption funds of the republican party. That he has condescended to be led by the leaders of his party is now plainly seen by the whole coun try and his former prestige as a man of independent patriotism and execu tive firmness no longer exists. Another good sign in the democratic situation is that no I action of the party is urging any radical issues cal culated to divide the general action of the party. The spirit, of compromise and harmonious decisions within the ranks is everywhere felt and will man ifest itself in a positive way in the na tional convention. That body prom ises to be made up of earnest demo crats bent on making the party com pact. magnetic and aggressive. Discussions of the future platform all point in one direction. The coun try is suffering today the dread of ac cumulating evils from the Dingley tar iff schedules and the trusts they have saddled upon the backs of the people. Whatever expansion of currency as occurred by tne coinage of our silver bullion without warrant of law and by the enlargement of our gold stock has been overbalanced by the absorp tion and locking up of vast volumes of money in inflated stocks and bonds. Liquidation and losses from that peril of prosperity are already raising the specter of panic. It will be the opportunity of its life next year for the democracy to go to the country squarely with candidates and a platform guaranteeing honest American tariff reform and a financial policy for the benefit of business in stead of 1 y and for wall street gam blers. Rural Free Mail Deliveries. Since Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow took charge of the rural free mail delivery service he has begun a systematic interference with the scope and efficiency of that indis pensable service. After his crude, uppish and intrusive Kansas fashion he has begun, falsely in the name of economy, a system of reorganizations that are nothing other than reprisals against congressmen whom he dislikes and this section especially. It is not pleasant to make such a charge, but time enough has been had to give indubitable proof of these mean pur poses. For no good reason that he has been willing yet to disclose he refuses to establish six of the routes inspected ami recommended by his own confiden tial officers as necessary to a just ser vice of tlie people of Fulton county. In Newton county, where there is a perfected system of rural free delivery, he has undertaken to order off the dis tributing wagon and otherwise emas culate the service. The like com plaints come from congressmen of Georgia, of all the southern states and of the middle west and northwest. Now the people of the country, the business men of the cities, the news papers and the representatives of con stituencies do not mean to abide by these Russian methods of Mr. Bristow. The intimacy and efficiency ol the mall service touches almost every home, shop, store and office in the na tion. The postal department work is the one unanimously required and in dorsed function of the government. The man who mars its symmetry and balls up its efficiency will do so at his peril. In this case Mr. Bristow is not im periling his own head and Incumbency. He is doing an infinite damage to his party and to the president. Even the alleged marvelous popularity of Mr. Roosevelt cannot survive a wave of popular indignation against the wrongful acts of his fourth assistant postmaster general. As between get ting their mails promptly and getting Roosevelt for president and Bristow for his postal prophet it will not take the farmers and merchants of the United States more than a couple of minutes to decide which they will have. ■ •-» Business Safety—West and South. President Hill, of the Great North ern railway, is a. very astute observer of business conditions and is, perhaps, of all the great industrial magnates of the country the one who speaks most frankly and sincerely his opinions. After five weeks of observation in the east he tells his western friends that he has no fears for the future of the general business of the country. Whatever financial stress is likely to come will be largely confined to the eastern states, where the industrial plungers have manufactured a great mass of underwritten stocks that he very aptly, and better than Mr. Pier pont Morgan, describes as “indigesti ble” rather than “undigested” securi ties. It is the holders and dependents Upon these tons of paper values, so called, that are going to feel the pinch of hard times and many of the projects which have emitted these causes of financial dyspepsia will have to be wiped off the slate before the east can get down to solid earth again. So far as the west is concerned her record-breaking crop prospects will keep h£r on an even keel and as for THE WEEKLY (XXNSXITUTIOWi ATLARYJU MOUDAX, JULY 27, 1903. the south, her ancient conservatism and high-priced cotton has saved her from going anywhere near the finan cial whirlpool. It is pleasant to have these promises from Uncle Jim and we feel confident, from all the proofs at hand, that he has correctly sized up the situation. The Passing of Leo. The long-drawn struggle between life and death in the case of Leo XIII gave time and opportunity for the saying of all that is significant and enduring in his marvelous personality and pontificate. His going leaves a large vacuum in the world’s present completeness. A scholar, a statesman and a Cath olic Christian has passed out. from the array of supreme world-forces and, after the honors are done that mor tals can pay to his services and mem ories, interest will center upon his successor. Whatever cults and governments may do and assume as done, the fact remains that the Roman see cannot be counted out ctf the arena of universal earthly activities and influence. The wide dispersion of Roman Catholics throughout the world, their religious loyalty to the pontiff in the Vatican, and the influence of its doctrines and policy upon their citizenship purposes in every government of which they are a part, gives to the papacy a power that, the statesmen and rulers are nowhere disposed to ignore. Fortunate for the world’s peace was the gentleness, love and genuine catholicity of spirit of Pope Leo. Yet more fortunate will it. be if his suc cessor shall be a man who will walk In his footsteps and forward as he did the highest causes of Christian civilization throughout the earth. The Cotton Corner. The probabilities seem to be that the bull crowd in the cotton market has about reached its limit of power to sustain prices and that before the July deliveries are due there will come a fall in present prices. It is apparent that many southern planters, encouraged by present crop prospects, have sold for the fall months liberally and will, if the crop matures naturally, make excellent profits on spot cotton deliveries in those months. Tlie American spinners have closed mills and stopped a vast array of spin dles, while in many other mills short hours and small production is the pre vailing rule. The bull clique has had to take in 130,000 bales more than was calculated for by them when they started their campaign and the stock they have on hand is rapidly nearing the competition of the new crop. The fight now is to determine which can win out, the mills or the market boosters ? Meanwhile the effect on prices of cotton goods to the consumer is liable to be serious. In any event the mills must run sufficiently to meet actual and necessary demands and if they must produce with cotton costing around present quotations the extra price will have to be paid by the con sinners. English manufacturers are alarmed over the situation even more than those of America. The people who buy English and other conti nental woven cotton are less able to pay advanced prices than are Ameri can consumers. Cheap cotton is the sine qua non of successful cotton milling in over-the-sea countries and if American crops and goods maintain the average of prices for the past six months this country can stand the high levels while our competitors will have a hard row to hoe. If by any chance an agreement is reached between the cornering crowd and the mill people to keep prices of raw cotton higher than foreign mar kets can profitably pay it will not be long before America will hold the guiding reins of this branch of man ufactures and possess the world markets for cotton goods on terms with which no European country can compete. ♦ The Holocaust in New York. A page of flash-light photographs showing the night struggles of the tenement, dwellers in New York to get fresh air is before us. Men with haggard faces, women with drooping figures aitl naked children sprawling restlessly on roof and fire escapes—- all panting for a cooling breath of air! Out yonder a few miles the great ocean heaving out tons of health with the flowing of every wave and ozone for the support of a hundred million more than are in New York city is blowing in great gusts against Staten and Coney islands. But the great solid brick and marble build ings and the paved streets that are sending up almost volumes of radiat ed heat absorbed during the torrid days, cut off these free gifts of God as with a wail of fire, and the chil dren of the furnace-like slums of the city blister, wither and die by scores in a single street and hundreds in a single city ward every day. It is a most pitiful view of the maladministration of municipal life in our country. Millions have been spent in New York to build a speed way on which only the wealthy own ers of fabulously priced horses can drive. But better service to human ity and to the happiness of the poor by the expenditure of ten times as many millions in better housing and ventilation for the miserably cramped tenement dwellers in the thick of the city. Just such callousness by municipal authorities to the commonest, appeals of humanity provokes the suggestion that no man can say what will not happen to that city and that, nation which tolerates a residential condi tion for its poor million such as this New York paper has so graphically and ruthlessly exposed. The Piedmont Elysium. We wish that by some magic provi dence we could divide with the swel tering millions of our fellow-citizens throughout the country the splendid blessings of our north Georgia cli mate. It Is exhausting and sympathy creating to read the stories of suffer ing from the heat that come to us from all parts of the country north ward. Here in Atlanta, enthroned upon the foothills of the Blue Ridge, we are en joying immunity from the broiling vi brations of old Old Sol’s fiercest en ergy and drinking in the cooling airs of health from the pine forests and salt seas to the south of us. Really there] is no better summer climate anywhere on the continent than hero in these Piedmont hills. The days are bland without blistering breaths and the nights are cool with out the frosty dips and deathly dews of nights in western mountains or eastern island resorts. Men, women and children live and labor in this doubly blessed environment without distress and the poorest of our people are rich to repletion in the climatic kindness that Providence has bestow ed upon us. Indeed, we speed an invi tation to all who will to come and enjoy an idyllic summer and join with us in singing, “If there be an Elysium on earth, it. is this, it. is this!” Getting Ready For Fresh Robberies. Not so long ago there was a great deal of alleged activity in administra tion circles over the prosecution of the trusts. Although the president had said that congress was powerless to legislate the.e combinations out of their evil ways and his attorney gen eral had spoken at Pittsburg that congrats could do so and had done so, and to prove it got hot on the trail of the beef trust and the Northern Secu rities trust —where now is all that fierceness gone? Probably both the president and the attorney general think the stock mar ket is doing a-plenty to the trusts just now, when an oceau of “water” is be ing squeezed out of the dropsical and “indigestible securities” they have put forth upon the sea of monopoly and extortion. It may be they expect to see the common sense of the American people more quietly and quickly than any sort, of prosecutions force these “businesses” back to sound bases through the processes of non-support of their inflated capitalizations. Still it is not plain to the layman how the loss of a vast volume of paper profits, as they . re called, is going to help the common people who did not have any of these profits to enjoy “in their minds” and out of whom in the long run the trusts expect to make up their stock market losses. By the destruction of competition the smaller industrial enterprises have been bought out and bottled up and the money paid for them has gone into the savings banks, where it remains. The deposits in the banks are in ex cess of $8,500,000,000, which is equal to one-ninth of the entire wealth of all forms in this country Deposits in the banks for each of the two past decades have doubled the increase of wealth and population and that means that the people have generally refused to invest in the stocks of the trusts and prefer to loan their money through the agency of the banks. The natural consequence is now be ing felt in the liquidations by which the bondholders of the trusts are throwing the stockholders through the windows and reorganizations are the order of the day. Those who were speculative enough to buy the shares are now coming forth from the get rich-quick trusts utterly shorn of their golden fleeces. The administration has nothing to say, meanwhile. It has lost its trust hunting zeal and watches complacent ly while the manipulators of monopo lies ar<> strengthening themselves to rule the people on sn ier lines than ever in tho past.. Bcfu/e next win ter is over we think the people will have experiences with the trusts that control necessaries of life sufficient to turn them very strongly toward the democratic party as he only one that is pledged to remedial legislation. Immigration as a Menace. Immigration Commissioner Sargent utters a strenuous note of alarm over the increasing number and decreasing character of the immigrants that are overflowing upon our shores from every ship hailing from the other side of tlie Atlantic. The hegira from Egypt was not a circumstance to be mentioned in the same hour with observations on the enormity of the numbers of families fleeing from the congested districts of Europe and hard conditions of life on that continent. Somebody asks why do not Ger many, France, Italy and other coun tries try to stop this great loss of population? Because they are not losing population. Their millions are breeding new population faster than the ships can bring their surpluses to us. It is a relief to every one of those countries to get. rid of adult workers and eaters and make up the loss by infant births—the creatures tnat do not light for work and rage for bread. The problem this vast accumulation of immigration is creating tor the American people will soon become dominant and have to be dealt with. It. is a condition that, is already irans forming our cities —cities like New York, Boston, Cincinnati and Chicago —into foreign cities, the Americans being in an ominous minority. And it will be a question of moment in those states where, when voters were need ed, the foreigner was given the bal lot before he had time to exchange his European sabots for American brogans. They will find it difficult to change their suffrage laws and the Americanism of their people will be engulfed by the foreign influx, swelled into a decisive majority. The congress of the United States can afford some relief by hardening the conditions of entry for immigrants, but once entered they become incor porated in the citizenship of states with alarming suddenness and are not. to be relied upon to stand for all and singular the essentials of a loyal, in telligent and patriotic Americanism. It is building up a great problem that will require almost superhuman wisdom for its safe and right solu tion. All Should Read It- (From The Camilla Enterprise.) The Atlanta Constitution, in addition to Its already well filled columns of good reading matter, has added another fea ture that should considerably Increase its popularity. They are now publishing in serial form Thomas Watson's "Life of Thomas Jefferson.'’ This will be fol lowed by the lives of several other prom inent southern 'Statesmen. In these bi ographies Mr. Watson proposes to give all sections a fair show, and to correct some of the errors in regard to southern history, as written by northern authors. It is getting high time that the south should receive justice at the hands of the historian. We should read and en courage our children to read such books as Toni Watson's “Jefferson.'’ It should be read in serial form while being pub lished, placed in our library shelves when printed in book form, and taught in our public schools. Meekly Constitutions <£. Stanton. In the Bright Way. Never can tell what the joy Is in store— Keep In the bright way, believers! Blessing for rich and a blessing for poor— Keep in the bright way. believers! Never can tell, when the storm's in its might. What birds it may blow to us—swift tn their flight. Singing and winging their way to the light— Keep tn the bright way, believers! Never can tell what the harvest may be— Keep in the bright way, believers! Rivers, some day, will go singing to sea— Keep in the bright, way, believers! Never can tell what tho future may bring— What, harbor where sweet ail the sailors shall sing. What blossoming meadows that breathe of Life’s Spring- Keep in the bright way, believers! The Sun in the Skies. What of the bitter sorrow— What of the tears and sighs? TMnk of tho bright Tomorrow!— The sun’s up there in the skfesl Ever a hope we borrow Even where a bright hope dies: Ever a bright Tomorrow!— And Love and Light in the skies! Brother Dickey’s Philosophy. Folks is all time agertatin' de race problem; but de biggest race problem ter me is ter keep two miles ahead er de sheriff. DIS' ole country Is so great dat even de slickest er de politicians can't keep it sum goin’ ter glory. Folks what always growlin’ at de wort’ lose sight er de fact dat dey is ez much responsible for its condition ez anybody else. The Beautiful Morning. Birds in the blossoms sing sweet to the skies; Suns set in shadows, but bright stars arise, And joy, at the last, is the sweeter for sighs, And we drift to a beautiful morning! Bitter the crosses, and sad all the cares. But ever a rose in the thorns o’ the years, And the bright smile of Love tn a temp est of tears, And we drift to a beautiful morning! Kiss hands to the trouble—take heart in the strife. Though the sky with the black clouds and thunder is rife; We shall reap in God's sunlight the Hiles of life As we drift to a beautiful morning! Just His Opinion. Satan Is a queer one— He do dez ez he please; He burn you up !n summer. In winter let you freeze. But we wouldn't call him Satan, Nor ever sigh or frown, Es he'd light, -de summer tires Wen de snow is cornin' down. For the Best. Storms that strike the country From the great east to the west. But we still keep oh a-hopln' For the very level best! For all the lonesome night The harbor is in sight,— The darkness sweet with dreaming As we drift to morning light! And the tempest lias a rainbow, And the clouds fade from the skies, And tho stars of heaven are shining Forever in Love's eyes! The night drifts to the day. The winter blooms as May, And earth holds half of heaven As it rolls tlie Morning's way! An. Unfortunate Citizen. “I hear dat de rheumatism got Bre’r Williams in his good leg?” "In his 'good' leg?" "Yes; w’en liar's his wooden leg loan in' ’gin de wall, des ez healthy en wholesome ez kin be!” A Cheerful Brother. Though the sun is like a fire that Is blazin’, hot an’ red. Tears like I never mind it when there’s so much joy ahead! For when the big rain s drappln on tho cornblades, parched with heat, It sounds jest like the music of the fid dler's pattin’ feet! An' 1 say. “Blaze on. O summer! an' melt the world an' skies, For 1 see the love light dancin' in my sweetheart’s sparklin' eyes! An' the fields will yield their riches, an' paradise be found When my sweetheart’s in the 'quadrille an' I'm swingin’ her around! Sing' Away. Happy days in Georgia, An’ sing away, my honey! One house to live In, An’ one to hold the money! An' sing a song o' welcome For weather sweet an’ sunny— Good time a-comin’ in the mornln'! ’Possum soon elimb higher Where the happy hunter hollers; Wagons will be jinglin’ Like their wheels wuz silver dollars! An' the gals will dress In velvet. An' the boys wear shiny collars — Good times a-comin’ in the mornln'! e** ♦ ♦ A Lenient Prediction. Dev ain’t no use In sayin’ Dat de devil is ter pay; He des so full o’ patience He kin wait 'twell jedgmint day! So, take yo' time, my honey, En hooray 'long de way; You needn't pay de devil ’Twell dey blows for Jedgmint Day! ♦*♦ ♦ * At the Speech-Making. "I suppose the first word the speaker said was, 'What are we here for?’ ” “No; ho was pretty full when he drove up, an’ the first word he said wuz: 'How the devil did I get here?' ” « • ♦ * • "The now railroad has boon a great blessing to us," says a rural exchange. “In loss than six weeks we got enough damages out of it to build a town hall and grade the cemetery. A few more enterprises of this kind, and our town will rise to heights undreamed of in the history of new settlements." A July Morning. Blaze on. O, sun of summertime.wind have your brightest way! We d be howling for the summer if 'twas winter here today! It's Providence knows best for us—no matter what we say, And we’ll yet reach the happy land of tan! SSill THE saddest and the sweetest things ever written were concerning death and love. Montgomery, Scott, Long fellow, Lindley and Bourdillon and many others found their tenderest sentiments on these subjects. Lindley wrote his sweetest gems on the death of a young lady. Just such another would he have written had he lived until our loved one died. "Thou art gone from our gaze like a beautiful dream. Thy grace- and thy beauty no more will be seen; Tho’ lost Lo sight, to memory dear. Thou ever wilt remain; The only hope our hearts can cheer— The hope to meet again." Longfellow says: “The jilr is full of farewells to the dy-' Ing And mournings for the dead. There is no flock, however watched and tended. But one dead lamb is there; There Is no fireside, however defended, But has one vacant chair.” Montgomery says: "Friend after friend departs, Who has not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end.” And Longfellow says, byway of con solation: “There is no death. What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysfan. Whose portal we call death.” All this is very solemn and very sad, but it has its counterpart when they wrote of love. Scott says: "In peace love tunes tlie shepherd's reed. In war he mounts tlie warrior's steed, In courts is seen in gay attire, In harajets dances on tjie green. Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, And. men below and saints above, „ For love' is heaven pnd heavpn is love.” Solomon says, "Love Is as strong as death” and "God from necessity is love and "Love thy nei hbor as thyself.” And Wordsworth says, "A mother s love is the holiest thing alive.” A mother's love! 1 was watching the eagerness with which our neighbor, Airs. Munford, was cherishtßg the memory of her lost daughter, the sweet girl who had charge of the library books com mittee and whoso memory now seems like a beautiful dream—a dream to us, but not to the mother who never will forget. When the Cherokee Club prepared to make a memorial for Mary she pleaded for the privilege of iilacing it where Mary was wont to sit and have sweet companionship with those she loved. Her beautiful home was nothing-and money was nothing. She said the library Is in debt five or six hundred dollars. Flease let me pay it off, for Mary felt like it was her debt. Let me have the floor varnished and have chairs bought in stead of benches, and I want some nicer tables for Mary's sake. Please let me have a memorial for Mary here and give it her name—The Mary Alunford Me morial library'"’ And so it was done. Who could refuse a mother’s tears for the memory of her loving daughter, and so It was done and the sign over the door will be ihe Mary Munford Memorial library. But this is not all of a mother's love. She Is going to buy the books that Mary would have bought and make a donation each and every year. Now, good people, all who tarry or pass through Cartersville stop n little while and see what love has done—a mother's love,. I wish that committee appointed on Mr Stovall's bill would come and see this model library and go back and plead for that $6,000 where with to build the Winnie Davis Memorial hall. The patriotic women want it and so do the veterans whoso time is nearly out. May it be your last and best work for Miss Winnie, whom we all loved. BILL ARP. CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES Training of Priests Is Discussed with President Roosevelt. Oysfter Bay. N. Y., July 24.—President Roosevelt arrived at Sagamore Hill from Sayville at 11:'5 o’clock today. Tie left Lois Lake, the country home of his un cle, Robert G. Roosevelt, at 4 o’clock this morning, accompanied by his eldest son, Theodore, Jr., and his two nephews. Tlie trip consumed seven hours and a half. The president ami his young com panions arrived at Sagamore Hill some what fatigued, but. otherwise in excellent condition. Bishop Hendrick, of Rochester, N. Y., called oh the president this evening to discuss with him conditions in tlie Phil ippine islands, especially those directly affecting tlie Catholic church. He told the president that it would be the par ticular effort of the four American bish ops appointed recently for service in the Philippines to build up In the archipelago a high class native priesthood. It was the belief of the authorities of the Cath olic church, after an exhaustive investi gation, that the solution of many prob lems of both the church and the state In the Philippines was dependent in a great measure on the creation of a na tive priesthood. During the Spanish re gime in tiie islands every possible obsta cle was placed in tlie way ol tin: educa tion of native Filipinos as priests. In addition the suggestion of Father Edward Vattman, chaplain of the Twentieth United States infantry, that Filipino priests be brought to tills coun try to complete their education at the Catholic university at Washington -".nd other institutions in this country will bo followed. By this means tho native Fili pino priests will familiarize themselves with American methods and American ideals. The services of such a body of trained priests, it is pointed out, will bo of incalculable value, not only to tho Catholic church, but also to the American government in the islands. Both Presi dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root are in lienriy sympathy with the proposed effort because they realize fully its impar lance to the United States government. Secretary of the Navy Mpody arrived at Sagamore Hill this evening to discuss with the president some departmental matters, including, it is understood, the report respecting the increase of the navy. It is believed that, with tile ap proval of the president. Secretary Moody will recommend the construction of sev eral additional battle ships and a num ber of scout ships. NEW SPANISH CABINET FORMED Marquis Villavevde Will Hold the Place of Premier. Madrid. July 20. —The new cabinet has been definitely constituted as follows: Pn mier- Tho Marquis Villaverde. Foreign Minister—Covnt Sanbornardo. Minister of Justice—Senor Santos Guz man. Minister of Finance—Senor Besada. Minister of Wan—General Alartitegul. Minister of Interior-Senor Garcia Alix. Minister of Public Instruction—Senor Bugallal. Minister of Agriculture-Signor Gassot. Land Bill Before Lords. London, July 23.—The Irish land bill passed its first reading in tlie house of lords today. The second reading was fixed for August. cVizzyc* THE Ist of September Is the time designated for what is called Labor day demonstrations. 1 have concluded, from talking with la borers and watching these days in the past, that Labor day Is a most worthy occasion, inspiring the working people to higher aims and at l]ie same time making tlie opportunity for a display of wares of the different industries. From a business standpoint, no better way could be found fop impressing the stran ger within our gates of the resources and opportunities that are here among us. The trades have taken great Interest in tills Qccaslon apd mechanics deserve the credit for working it up to its present importance, but all other people should realize the importance of this occasion, and merchants and professions should make it an opportunity for showing oil our section to advantage as well as tak ing tlie opportunity lor individual adver tisement. But tho farmers, the dairymen, the nurserymen and those owning umbered lands and water powers, all of these are the ones that I would like most to im press with the importance of Ulis allu sion. Tho truck farmers especially could make this an opportunity to show off the variety of things that our soil and climate are adapted to. Taka Atlanta, for Instance, and hundreds of strangers— strangers to ou r section and. strangers to our soil and variety of production will watch the procession of that day and seeing they will go away and tell it and thus spread our wonderful re sourcefulness over the world. A few truck farmers of every settlement could combine and concentrate their products on one "float,” making the expense a matter of nothing. The large dairies could each afford a “float” of its own, while the small dairies might combine, as suggested, of truckmen, and bring the expenses down to nothing worth talking about. And nurseries should be certain to have a display of their trees and of their fruit in this procession. In my county, in a radius of, say, 5 miles, I can observe the Investment of full $200,000 in the dairy business, and the owners of this investment are men of financial ability and good business judg ment, showing that confidence In our adaptability is no dream or experiment, but a real substantial success. One of our largest dairymen Is a New Yorker. He came down here on a visit to our first exposition and he was so impressed as to buy an old, worn-out farm near East Lake. That farm is now a garden spot, and he has a mint in his East Lake dairy. He is soon to start another line of pro duction on his farm—the growing of hops. Air. Dorn was raised in New York state, where land is high and principally used for the raising of hops. He has been ex perimenting on this line, and has fully concluded that ten-dollar-an-acre land ol Georgia can be made to yield hops equal to the $250 and S3OO per acre land of New York. He will have a "float” in the Labor day proceedings, and besides bls dairy display ho will have as line a hop vine as was ever looked upon on tho "float" as an object lesson as to what Georgia can do in the raising of hops. But it is not tho fancy farmers that I would like the best to see become ir terested in this labor day procession. Tl.e common, everyday farmer, the man wno plows the corn and hoes the cotton, these are tho ones that could give the truest and the happiest picture of life in Geor gia on tho farm. And if tliis picture were given true to nature, and the implements of the average farm displayed just as it is. no doubt but that strangers from the great west would exclaim and feel that if Georgia soil can do what It does under such methods as are common, then what would that soil do under the methods of an Ohio or Indiana or an Illinois farmer? Aly friends cf Georgia, the utensils for farming on one of these western fatms— the tools—cost more than land, stock and everything here In Georgia. And yet there are those who abuse our Georgia soil. If any of the lands north of Mason and Dixon’s line was treatled in the rough-shod manner that we treat ths southern soil the people there would starve to death. The East Lake dairy farm produced 20 bushels of wheat to the acre this year on 40 acres and this was not a good wheat year, but it was a New Yorker that produced It. The Georgia crackers are tho ones that I would like the best to see make these great successes on their own soil, and to begin at once to take a part in all such demonstrations as labor day, I feel and know would boa great stimulant in that direction. When we think of what Georgia Is ca pable of and observe of what Jittle im portance the average Georgia farmer at taches to this resourcefulness it is enough to make one weep. Everything, nearly, comes from a distance. Flow stocks, swingletrees, ax handles—aU such as this comes from a distance, while every farm er knows that our own woods would fur nish just as good timber and the me chanical skill of our section should ba just as efficient. Canned goods both fruit and vegetables, are brought from a dis tance, when we all know that we have the same material here in abundance. It is a want of interest on other lines rath er than to be satisfied at staying back in the sticks ami plowing, as we d_o plow and hoeing as we (Jp hoe. To take part in such parajles as Labor day inspires us with pride and advertises our section to the world. The time has come when wo need to invite newcomers among us In every wav possible. If the young people and ne groes are bound to leave the farms, wo must have some one to take their places. No use in talking, farming must go on and perhaps one of the reasons for the dissatisfaction of our young peo ple lies in the fact that we take too lit tle Interest in things that others rejoice over. I do hope that farmers will stir themselves to take a part in Labor day— not as a. “labor” demonstration, which is not pleasing to some, but as a day which gives us an opportunity to adver tise ourselves and as a. stimulant, to the young people who are coming to feel that a life In the country Is stale and hard with but little to break the monotony or to stir up an ambition. Let the farm ers join in Labor day, September, first Alonday, I think. SARGE PLUNKETT. AMERICNA TROOPS TO LEAVE. Palma Will Thank Them for Services to Cuba. Havana, July 22.—When the remaining United States troops leave here they will be escorted by a Cuban detachment and will be thanked and congratulated by President Palma for their exemplary conduct. Two or three men who are serving sentences for petty misdemean ors will be pardoned and rejoin their commands. Colonel William L. Haskin will leave before the American troops on account of his promotion and retirement as brigadier general. The government is proceeding with the negotiations for the purchase of private lands within the naval sta tions area. New President of Santo Domingo. San Domingo, Republic of Santo Domingo. July 22. -Congress has proclaimed the election of General Wos y Gil as president of Santo Oomingo and General Deschamps as vice pres ident. The president wil; take oath at an early date. The oil lands in the Axu.x territory are said to be most valuable. The country- is quiet and business Improving.
