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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!
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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.
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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!
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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?' ”
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"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.