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More Talk About Cotton And the Supply of Labor Editor Constitution: The deep interest 1 feel In everything pertaining to agrl < dlt ir;. must be my excuse for again writing on a subject which comes home to cv..ry agriculturist in Gorgia and the etbci southern states. Since the (to me) v.-v'X,- cted prominence you gave my last , ; mlcation, and in view of some the subsequent comment upon the t -.sis therein contained, I have you might find space for a few • tnls- from me. 1 have no pride ~ Tship, however, and shall not be „ iiurt It you should determine that i available for publication. 1 B k i ; u the strain upon the columns . r like The Constitution is very '■ -. i that it is often impossible to •i tor tite effusions of outsiders B i pt ation of mj iirst comniuni- 9 « 1; • brought a large number of Jw'm h have reached me through ... jrtesy of your editor. Some of | v. on-allied sentiments of ap- uij suggestions, while others i orally, taken is ue with me. . ■ e at least two sides to every and 1 would have been sur q ideed it my suggestion as to the | .., i. .. of Chinese labor had not Io _ . some adverse comment. That ..... ■:i who have given close sluuy i - '.‘i.t agree with me is, how . . . - d .y the loliowing letter meat Georgian, which 1 lake .. :tj ol making a pat l ol this . imnuaii tllon: ! cl have just read, with mucl( ■ ; . . ■. y our leitei m Ine Atlanta Con- ; the ist instant, ano heartily S . o' <ry Worn that you say in re • e tie • ssily ot t tiinese labor ■ salvation lor the agricultu- i •- oi ill.- ssoutb. j have tor a q.3j . nt.Ttki.'ieii exactly your i ■■ otten so express* d my - » ■ ever in print. 1 think the tin. now arrived when a united id be made by every one, in ■i particularly, where we are ‘‘-a .■ pi-nd. nt on negro labor, to get admit the Chinese. 1 should t ; m some time when you \ and dis uss the matter I hope you will pardon the ken in writing you, but bject prompts me to ■ Very truly yours, J. B S. HOLMES. S i mi >er 4, 1903. lii'.mes is if 1 am not mistaken, ■ v Intel.'St. d in agriculture on irge seal" lb writes as no ■ orist, but as one having prac w'edgc of the difficulties which lliemseiv to every man who ■jf ' ’ plant cotton on a large scale, i.i produce any of the other staple M -t crops Hundreds of men like ■ n; self w< ul 1 be getting very ■ti results from our lands if '-W v. ■ w< r. permitted by conditions to se- a. better class of labor and more R 1 ere permit me to say that In a -S editorial reference to my card «■ Constitution s> emed to catch only "Fthm of my suggestion. You refer ' my having argued in favor of Chi labor rather as an ill istrati f ■ dei-iied efficiency to bo secured than S‘ " th " •-xpression of a desire for the pres r-e of the Chinamen themselves -'- s a matter of fact, what I meant to , ..nvey was not only the desirability W > aase. but 1 would, like to have the §■ <’hinest themselves; and I stand ready c ■ i do al] in my power to aid Dr. Holmes '■< anybody else in an endeavor to shap. *S public sentiment so as to bring about 'irm.-h change In our immigration laws •’m may mak. it possible to get China men for w -rk in cotton fields our lice fl.'.is and on our fruit farms. 1 v mt ■ i’n !>■ ■ i ■ 1 know of no 1 eq :.tliy ..s good. 1 havi seen and /(studied '.he results of their labor on the •>.dfruit f irms <>l he Pacific coast. I know Slow much they are valued upon the ■ great sugar plantations in th< Hawaiian ; nd ind 1 hav ■ read of the high 1 n. iati an which the planters in the < P . \pp!n< s and other parts of tropical .» Ai-i.i have of this indefatigable worker. .3. ao Id rather have Chinese labor than | any under the sun. only do I want them for myself. | . '.lrmly believe the importation of S 1 hundred thousand into Georgia ROOT OF THE MATTER. J a;; d Himself of Serious Stomach . ".' üble by Getting Down to First Principles. of large affairs in one of our » it eastern cities by too close at .. 10 business. too little exercise and ’ .y lub dinners, finally beg in to ire's tax, levied in the form of sfomach trouble; the failure oi .• tiiut brought about a nervous ~y making it impossible to apply i" Ids daily business and finally ng tic kidneys and heart. iwn words lie says: “I consulted ysi tan after another and each tied to understand my ease, but same they each failed to bring . : 1 eturn of my former digestion, igor. For two years I went . iar to post, from one sanitarium ’ I gave up smoking. 1 quit ...id even renoun, vd my daily glass •f beer, bur without any marked •is had often advised me to try a •vn .c ■!,>rb t..ry medicine, Stuart's .1 Tablets and I had often pe ril.. m wsyaper advertisements of ■ edy but never took any stock tn : ' . T < d medicines nor could believe a t patent medicine would touch 1. ike a long story short T finally . ,t a couple of packages at the near rug store and took two or three alt r each meal and occasionally ■t b. ween meals, when f felt any .c of nausea or dis omfort. I -as sutprised nt thr end of the first t... note a mark ’d improvement in tite and general health and be tiic two packages were gone I was ■ Stuart's I ■ ■ c .Ing so cur.- c-.rnpli tely. .ii.d they not disappoint me. I can eat and and enjoy my coffee and cigar and would suppose I had ever known ■ horrors of dyspepsia. : friendly curiosity J wrote to th» ri. t< s of the remedy asking for in - ...I ri as to what the tablets con tad they replied that the principal dients were aseptic pepsin (govern t-'i-t . malt diastase and other nat igestives. which divest food regard s the condition of the stomach " 1 -.,t of the matter is this, the diges ■ ' Tments rontafned in Stuarts Dys Tablets will digest the food, give •v. .-worked stomach a chance to re late and the nerves and whole sys . re< vivo the nourishment which can I > "me from food; stimulants and ■ ver give 1 ea 1 strength, thev !■ a fictitious strength. Invariable fol ■v< i by reaction. Every drop of blood, t nerve and tissue is manufactured " nr daily food, .and if you can insure ! prompt action and complete digestion 1 . regular use of so good ami whole- s a remedy as Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tabic's, you will have no need of nerve , t ■: i ,nd sanitariums. lb gh Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets hav. t■ . in the market only a few years, yet ; ..-.blv everv druggist m tl'.e United I States. Canada and Great Britain now sells them and considers them the m<’t popular and successful of any preparation for stomach trouble. would be of the greatest pos<ble benefit to this slate. I feel that it is a very good sign when a young man of such high order of abil ity as Professor Ulrich B. Phillips, a 1 student and a thinker, turns his atten tion to the discussion of so prosaic a subject as agriculture rather than to trying to "solve problems," which seems to be the favorite pastime of writers these days. With very much that Pro fessor Phillips has written in his two papers published tn The Constitution 1 heartily agree, but he and 1 differ sharp ly upon -one point, namely, the adequacy 01 the present labor supply. He says what Georgia needs is "not more labor ers, hut more efficient laborers;',’ 1 hold that we need both. Professor Phillips suggests that the importation of one hun- I ui"d Chinamen would mean nothing more titan driving that many other workers from the lields. to other pursuits. It is my contention that they have already left the fields, ami I feel that 1 have the indorsement of the l>st authority in the statement that the present supply of labor for the lields Is entirely inadequate to the possibilities of production which the lands present. You will recall what Mr. D. A. Tompkins, whom we all rec ognize as one of the best posted men on cotton conditions in the southern states, says about labor conditions in North Carolina. He shows that within the past lew years no less than one hundred thousand former workers in the cotton fields of that state have gone to worlfc. in the cotton factories and the other mills; and he expresses the opinion that the same kind of exodus has been going on in the other suites of the south. I believe this to be true here in Georgia as it is in North Cardlina. I believe we lack not only in the quality but in the quantity of the labor supply. 1 believe that if we were to put one hundred thou sand Chinamen down on the cotton and rice plantations and in the fruit orchards of Georgia, wo would not drfve other labor out. but w would make the waste places throughout the state blossom and bear splendid fruit. The entire state would bo greatly benefited. Now the bugaboo of cotton over-produc tion does not scare me m the least. Talk of that kind does not rake into consider ation the constantly increasing demand for cotton goods the world over. If there w to enough cotton in the world, why would European governments be bonding all their energies to promote the growing of cotton in the African and Asi atic colonies? Perhaps we might not be getting 12 cents for our cotton if the productiveness of Georgia soil were test ed to the limit, but increase of produc tion would not very greatly affect tite price in view of the constantly increasing demand, in any event, with proper labor the cost of producing the staple would be so ent that the result would be much more substantial net profit.-. XVhat hurts me is the yearly waste 1 am experiencing from my own lands. 1 am not bothering so much about the status of Georgia in relation to the cotton I industry forty or one hundred years in i the future, as I am about my own in ability to get results "is'iit now I have the land and 1 have sufficient means to make c-very square foot of it productive, but I cannot get the 'abor. i As I have previously said, I could have I made 1,000 bales of cotton this year in stead of the .leO bal ■ T expect to get, 1 if 1 had been abb* to sccuri the right sort ei' label. By tin- 1 ni'.in not qual j Ity abmo, but quantity. I I believe I have my properties operating on a strictly business basis. 1 do not ’ give my farms over cotton, for i I my supplies :,d I diversify mv j crop according to the capabilities of the ; land. But I have a bn of land which is 1 bringing me in nothing i.e> a use 1 cannot : get all thi’ lahor_ I I. Cotton is the ‘ great mon. y crop of this state, :in ,i 1 i naturally feel that 1 am losing heavily I each year because of my inability to se cure a sufficiency of <i. ; -irable labor to produce all the cotton ~f which my lands are capable. I could use to advantage a good many mor, negroes, but I would t cry much rather have Chinamen, be -au ■ I am convinced, as I have said, of the far greater efficiency of that laoor. A GEORGIA FARMER Houston County, Georgia, September 7, 1903. The Labor Problem. Editor Constitution; 1 have been in terested in the critlci-ms on Mr. Graves’ Chicago spei-ch. I think he is about as far wrong as the gentlemen who want to import Chinese laborers. If Mr. Graves’ ideas could bo, and were carried out, good farming lands 5 miles from the towns would sell tor $1 to per acre, and would be dear at that price. In that portion of my < uinty where the farms were stripped of labor by "Peg Leg” Willjams, land- did soil for $1 to $2 per lacte, awl can yet be bought tor less than What we want is a different system of farming, so as tite labor can bo utilized to a belter advantage. Planters and small farmers must abandon the almost universal tenant and cropping system and hire thiir labor for waves. l)o this and properly enforce, the Calvin vagrancy law and then will be a plenty of labor for everynody who is capable of managing it, and anyone who can’t manage the average plantation darky would certainly be in tile soup with a lot of cnolies ()n i.is hands. c. yi. SANDERS. Penfield, Ga., September 15. Machinery and Labor Needed. Editor Constitution; 1 read with much interest your ree.-nt articles on the labor situation as regards cotton production. Mr. Phillips' article on returning to the eld plantation method is suggestive and Is about tin only sy.-tem in use at present by which cotton growing is carried on as a business. Hut anything like a general adoption of litis method would oc met with such opposition from the very large per cent of our population whose liveli hood comes from "trading and traffick ing” with the small fry. as to hinder, if 1 not prevent it altogether. Anyone who will probe the matter will find the busi ness, professional and shade workers gen : erally howling for the small farmer. The reasons are well known and many. Some one else holds up the methods used in ing th great staples ol the north wst as a panacea. The south cannot hope to adopt tlr.se methods to the grow ing of cotton without a successful me chanical cotton picker. Under present ’ ei nditions if economy of production is practised by using machinery, you will find when harvest comes you ate short six hands tin' every two employ d. To meet this requires carrying over this much force or trusting on picking them i up when needed, a rather risky job. This ■ I fact is also responsible for the .low scale 1 I of wages for cotton growing, and the im- ' 1 ortation of Chinese, as one writer sug |gi sts, would not correct It. Furthermore, 1 I my observation is the foreigner does not I work for wages on the farm after one | or two years' residence in this country, lit is not pauper labor that is needed, | but rather machinery and intelligent la- ■ i bor ami fair wages. Until this takes ; piace" the factories, etc., will continue to ■ •draw the er. am from the lields. In the m antime the colored brother ami bis [ 'long-eared cousin" will be instrumental . i-i making and gathering the major por tion of the cotton crop [ CLIFF ADAMS. v Jacksonville, Texas. THE WEEKLY CONSTITL’TIOIx : ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, BEPTEMBEK 21, 1003. PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROSPERITY. (Richard H. Edmonds in The Manufac turers' Record.) Referring to what he calls the negro "problem,’ Mr. Graves said: "To (he white men of tite south the problem hampers its material develop ment. It halls our growth. By the rec ords of lite census ii frightens immigra tion Horn industrial competition wilii the negro. It largely deters capital from in vestment in tlie shadow of an unsolved problem. It makes a slandaid of labor mat prejudices all our southern poor against menial but honorable service, it depresses agriculture on the farms am. property in the suburbs, ami drives all who can air'ord the change to the safety afforded by proximity and police protec tion in the cities. Tin: south is un equaled in the four great basic raw ma terials of coal, iron, cotton and lumber. And yet, while $ 100.000.000 of our money goes yearly to Europe at -I per cent, these great fields are scantily developed. And thus, while one great section of our coun try is halted in development, the free movement of men and money in all sec tions is hindered toward the inviting field of opportunity." How often must the story of the south s amazing progress be told? How often must the facts be given to show a re demption from the poverty following the wreck and ruin of the war, unparalleled in history? in agriculture and manufac tures the south, despite all its burdens, all its false teachers, has in twenty years made a greater percentage of progress than the country at large. Since 1891, when it had less than 2.000,000 cotton spindles, it has increased its cotton mills by over 6,200,000 spimites, giving it now a total ot 8,250,000 spindles, while dur ing the same period England added only 1,650,000 to its 45,000,000 spindles, and New England added only 1,880,000 spin dles to ns 13,250,000. England and Hie north combined had in 1891'58.000,000 spindles, which they have since Increased by 3,300,000, while tite south had less than 2,000,000 spindles, which it lias since increased by 6.200.000. What has been done in cotton has to a considerable extent been done in lumber, coal ami iron. Since 1880 the south has iiict'i ased its pig iron production from 39/,000 tons to over 3,000,000 tons, reaching this year probably about 3,500,- 000 tons; it lias increased its coal out put from 6.000.000 tons to over 60,000,- 000 tons; its exports from 3261,000,000 to $510,000,000. In 1880 it had 20,600 miles of railroad, now it has about 60,- 000 mill's; then it had $23,500,000 capital Invested in lumbt r operations, now it. has $181,700,000, and the value of its lumber products increased from $39,900,000 in 1880 to $188,000,000 in 1900. And yet Mr. Graves talks about the south not progressing.. In tin light of such figures, which are open to the world, how utterly absurd seem the statements made by Mr. Graves. The fact is. starting with his false pre mises on the industrial line, he has large ly overdrawn the conditions. He has painted a picture of the south which is not true, but it is a picture which will lie distributed by northern and western railroads seeking to keep immigration Horn the south by the hundreds of thou sands "f copies, if not by millions. Eu rope, tin north and the west will be Hooded with it to prove that white peo ple must not go south. His speech will Connterai t Ute good work of a hundred railroad immigration agents, for. false though It be, it will be distributed i - the views of a soutln >ll nmn. From beginning to .ml Mr. Gravis' new things ire not triu' tilings, and bis true things are not. new tilings. CHALLENGES UNCLE MARK. John H. Clarke, of Ohio, Wants Joint Debate with Hanna. Norwalk. Ohio. Septf mb. r 18 lion. John 11. l':.irk< . democratic candidate for I nited Sttiti > temitor. In a speech Imre tonight formally challenged Senator Han na to nn i t him in joint dobati- on the is sues of tin campaign. Mi Clarke said in pa rt: "1 have been asked so frequt-ntiy dur ing tile past two weeks it tlmre would 1," a joint discussion of the issu ‘s of th s campaign betwi en Senator Hanna and myself that I .1 . ire to say publieiy hi ' e tonight that it would be- .'Xtremely agree able to me to meet Senator Hanna, if ins "health will permit, in joint discussion of the issm - whiclt v.e t. present." Referring to the recent propo ition of Chairman Sah n, of the democratic state i s'-.' Utiie. ' .mmitti o, m.'tdi’ to ('hairman Dick, of the republican committee, that campaign exp- ndltures on both sides he limited and that each committee publish a sworn statement Just, prior to election, showing the total amount thus expended, Mr. ('latke said lie greatly favored the plan. "I here and now .publicly pledge my self.” continued Mr. Clarke, "to make such stat, meet as proposed by Mr. Sah ii, of all expi-nditures made by rm- or with my knowledge. dircctiy or indirectly, without re.' rvation of any iharaeter. in my campaign for I'nited States senator, regardless of what General Dick's an swer may be.” THIRTY BOOKIES INDICTED. Wave of Morality Strikes the Chica go Grand Jury. Chicago. September 18. Indictments were today returned against thirty-three bookmakers doing business on the local race tt i a. Tim charge against them was made under the general law against gambling. Some evidence was offered against the officials of the racing associations, but no bills wi re rm n i - .1 igainsl tli-ni. Icarteßsl CURE Sick neadachoand relievo all the troubles inci dent to a bilions state of the Fyetem. such as Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress alter eating. Pein iu the Hide, While their moat rcuiarkaulo success has been shown in curing Headache, yet Carter’s Little Liver Pills ara equally valuable in Constipation, curing and pro v< nting this annoying complaint, while they also correct all disorders <.-f thoKtoixiacli,Btiiiiulat,e tho liver and regulate tho bowels. Even if they only “ HEAD Achethey would bealmostprlcelosstnthntinwho Buffer from this distressing complaint; but fortu nately their goodness <locs notoud hero,and thosa ivhooncotry them will fl »ul these little pills valu able in so many wavs that they will not. bo wil ling to do without them. But after all sick head ACHE Is the bane of so many lives that here is where wo make our great boast. Our pflls cure it while Others do not. Carter’s Littlo Liver Pills aro very «=mall and very easy to take. Ono or two pilfs make a doso. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripo or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents ; tlvoforsl. Sold by druggists everywhere, or sent by mail. CARTER MEDICINE C(X, New York. Ml Hl MJ lose, Ml Neo. Letters of Congratulation Pour in on Bishop Candler Editor Constitution: Since my article criticising lynching was published I have received a great number of letters from men in every walk jn life, and from men of both races, approving what I said against .this horrible mania. I give extracts from a few of them which will show how true to that which is right are the heads and hearts of the wisest and best among us; believing, as 1 do, that .hereby righteousness mav be en couraged and hope may be cheered in the hearts of both this white and black people of lite country. My own faith has been greatly confirmed by these let ters, and 1 trust that others may be similarly strengthened by reading ex tracts from them. Governor Terrell, the honored <hief magis'rate of our state, in a letter dated September 9. says: “I wish to extend both official ami personal thanks for your most excellent article on mob law. 1 h»vo not read anything in a long time that suits the conditions so well.” General Gordon, the brave soldier anik best beloved son of Georgia, writes: "Let me add an expression pf obligation lor your superb article on uKb law. It has the true ring lam with you. Judge Samuel B. Adams, whose brief service on the supreme bench, though brilliant, could add no honor to a name already lustrous with every personal ex cellency ami professional virtue, speaks with characteristic force and frankness: ”1 am glad that you wrote and published your communication on Lynching. It ought to do much good. Every word ought to meet the unqualified indorse ment of every good citizi n. No good man can afford t'j, excuse lynching in any Judge W. A. Covington, who is n young, but uncommonly able, judge, living at .Moultrie, Ga., writes in away to set sensible men to thinking in several im portant directions. He says; "Your re cent article in The AHAnta. Constitution •suits me.' Jn our recent local option campaign 1 had occasion to argue the truth of three propositions: ♦!). Ihe mob is generally drunk. <2;- Thu victim, when guilty, has, in the majority of cases, liven drunk when the crime was committed. (3)- Our people, white and black, are the most law-abiding tn the world' when sober, and the storm cen ters of lawlessness, the country over, are •wide open sections;' as in the ease of Breathitt county. Kentucky. 1 know that we are in a state of vast improve ment here, since we have made the change." in connection with these suggestive words of Judge Covington, it i- worthy of remark that, the "saloon problem" is a far more, urgent and difficult problem than the "race problem,” and the south more nearly than any o.ther section, has put down the saloon. With the saloon banished from every part of tb ' republic, all other questions would be simplitied immeasurably. Rev. James W. Lee, D.D.. that gifted and devoted Georgian, now resid nt in St. Louis, Mo., writes: "From, the bot tom of my heart i thank ym. and con gratulate the southern people upon your deliverance on lynching in I At lanta. i'onstitution, which has just- reach <-,l me today. The Emd blc.s ymt and guide you in yoqr grist work for the church and our country.” How the Best Negroes Feel. It is mportant tils ' and highly use ful, that tile white ; "'!<■ know ImM the bi si m gtocs feel ami think about this matter. Accordingly I give a few ex tracts from letters v. itten to me from representatives of that raei.. At I’.urn institute. Augusta. Ga., a ■ school established and i ndowi d by Metli ; odists of the south for the training of negto preachers ami ba. hers, Profess"f ' .1 W Gilbert labors as an instructor. He i graduated there, and went to Brown uni versity, where be was very successful, ' winning a scholarship in Grt"k, wliicu I gave him a term of years in Greece fm I the better studying o.f the language ami i history of that intef'.-iing people. It I may be doubted if the:" are many bet r Greek scholars in Georgia. 11" writes: "I can not help expressing my gratification and tr ttiic.de lor Hie ar ticle given by yott t in ('onstitution two or three daj's ago. I pray God that the day will soon come when the. ' Christian men and women, both white ' and black, in the south (Whatever other : people may do) will aside Hie Hi. - j turbing 'performers and p ittormer.', tiiat Citimo along with the other pests of I dog days. 1 confess that they, both ' white and black, son'.' Hines give. me I nightmares. It is so retr-shing and <m ; couraging to hear a cln - rlul ( hristian I voice like spurs say that all this talk! ;ab mt separation of tin races is the verii st buncombe. Ido n wish to leave I the white people, from whom I have re l ceived my Bible, my ti.aining, my inspira i tion, and all that makes me a civilized, I t’hristlan man. Th" demonstration of I the fact that we can live together is that we are doing so. ami have been do-i i ing go nearly tjiree hundred years. I ; want all Hie rap.ists kill'd, according to ; law and ori.li.r. and speaking for the class ' of negroes I represent, wc stand as ready to probet the .women >f the southern wlnje people as we. could to protect out own lives. I wish that the southern white people really kn* w how the best class of mgroes feel '"Ward them. My heart bleeds when the diabolical deeds of the slum negroes, ignorant, vicious and .bestial, are atiribD'd to the race rather than to the indiivduals who com mit them. As 1 said in Atlanta a few days ago. knowing ihe southern minis- ■ try as J do, 1 feel th it. they can be, de- ; pended upon to take the right, the Christian position, rvhcnevgr it comes ■to the question affecting (he races. I prophesy the passing aw_j,y of lynch law j and mob violence whenever the black I pulpit preaches against the crimes that ! provoke lytjching, and the white, pulpit ; against the. that, commit lynchings. I I. say this in references to the whole coun -1 try in general, and not with reference i to the south in particular, for it. is a question whether more of our friends l are north or souj_h of the Mason and I Dixon line.” ; Moses Amos, who is manager of the first : drug stoic conducted by a negro In Geor : gia, says under date of September 9: "I j thank you for your letter in The Consti i tution of today. 1 have lived in Georgia all of my life. I have been in thirty-six states in tin.' union, and I would not give up Georgia for an.v that 1 have seen. No good citizen can indorse lynching and all good citizens condemn crime. The law abiding negro is wilting to do anything in his power to promote peace between the races. e hate to have our black faces ; to cause us to be adjudged criminals, I thieves and rapists, when within our ' breasts burns the ardent desire to be good ; citizens, worthy of the respect and conti j deuce of the people with whom we live." Rev. L. H. Smith, a negro preacher liv i ing in .Macon writes: "Your letter, headed i ’The Good People Must Put Down the Mob or Be Put Down by It. gives much hope, light, spiritual strength and Chris tian courage to many despairing negro Christians who, like myself, more than forty years ago learned to love God, as revealed in Christ, through the teachings wo received from white Christians, men and women, of this and other south' rn states. There are thousands and thou sands of us who are heartily pained when ever anyone of our people (or any person of any race) sins or commits crime, be cause we know that sooner or later due punishment follows and overtakes every sinner or criminal. But, as you know, it Is very hard and discouraging for the very best of negro ( hristians when at. home or upon the highway they are often made to feel and to see that no better considera tion is given them by the mob you refer to than is given to the lowest in crime among us." Another says: "i am a member of the negro race (born since the war between the states), yet I believe that I voice the sentiment of all my people (1 mean the good) when I pledge my support (be tl’.at much or little) to help bring the evil doer to justice, and to uphold the strong arm of the iaw.” Still another writes: "No negro of ordi nary intelligence condones the crimes of his fellows. Nor do they want social equality. All they ask is fair treatment and an assurance of all our rights as law abiding citizens. You have struck the keynote of the situation, for I believe truly that If the ever present ‘space writer,’ ‘platformer’ and Chautauqua ora tor were shut off for only a little while, the result would be so apparent and satis factory that reputable newspapers of this country would never again admit the stuff that threatens to destroy the good rela tions between the racesq I,et all the good people of Georgia speak out and show the world how very, very small is the howling mob in this section of our great coun try.” Another declares: "With the spirit manifested in your article the solution of our difficulties is only a matter of time.” Limitations of both time and space for bid the use of other extracts from the large bulk of letters, written by represen tatives of both races, which I have re ceived. Your readers will recall with what conservatism and unanimity the preach ers of Atlanta, both white and black, re sponded to my article. In the light of all these expressions, and with thousands of other tokens of peace around us, I can not believe that the south is confronted by any problem that good men helped of God, can not and will not speedily solve. Worth Repeating. There is one sentence in Professor Gil bert's article which impresses me as be ing so sensible that I wish to repeat it here: "I prophes.v the passing away of lynch law and mob violence whenever the black pulpit preaches against the crimes that provoke lynching, and the white pul pit against the mobs that commit lynch ing.” I am persuaded that it is absolutely in jurious for white preachers and writers to spend their time denouncing the sins of the negro to the white people, and the negro 1 aiders to be everlastingly harping on the sins of the white people to negro audiences. It is always easy to denounce an absent sinner, but It. is more useful to rebuke the sinner present before us. If wo can induce each race to sweep clean before its own door the south will be the cleanest and happiest spot in the republic, and I am Inclined to think that even now. with all that remains to be done, it. is just that spot. WARREN A < ANDLER. The Law of Moses and the Courts Editor Constitution: I’b'ase grant m • a little space in your column; upon a question of personal privilege. Tlr< : re port of my sermon at Macon on "The Cities of U fuge," published in The Con stitution, some two weeks ago, was very accurate, but. in Hie abbreviated form that was unavoidable, there i s abundant temptation to read bejwee'.'. the lints and put things in my mouth I nev r .aid and ■to attribute conclusions to me that I never expressed. Cri'L'isms published in your paper < oni inced me that this has t een dene to a wide extent. 1 do not approve of lynching. 1 do not belli \c that anything could induce me t , participate in a lynehin.g. I Indorse the strong stand which Tite Constitution Ims taken against mob law, and big to unite in the great uprising of sentiment against it. and in everything that can be said ini denunciation of the lyching evil. But all this is combating a position very different from the one 1 took in the sei mon alluded to. The interest which seems to have been awakened by that sermon shows that the whole country is aroused on the subject. Even the clip ping bureaus are seeking my patronage. The scope of the comments, favorable and unfavorable. Justify my sermon. Many of these criticisms, with a zeal to denounce lynching as an absolute outlaw, err greatly when they give unqualified in dorsement to the criminal jurisprudence of our country, while they utterly ignore the facts that Hod has spoken on the subject of the punishment of crime. Mv sermon was preached to direct the attention to the law of God on the sub ject. Aly object was conservative. My method was strictly Biblical. As matter of illustration. 1 pointed out some of the ways in which <iyr criminal courts and pardoning boards Ignore the law of Moses and defj the law of God. Our laws say that crime is punished to deter offenders from t-p'-aling Hie erimes that they have committed, and to deter others from com mitting like offenses. Moses, on the cou t'iry says: "8o ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are. for blood it q. lileth the land; ami the laud van not be cleansed of Hie blood that, is shed bi t. iiu but By th v L>iood of him that sued ji. —Dent, xxx.v, 33 1 ,'t tite readyr turn to this chapter ano read i', especially from verse 3U to t> ' end. Hi re we see that Hie great. i. of the. divine law is expiation, and not simply punishment or warning. But our Gw courts ignore the. loctrine o£ ( xpiatmn. At'i' es 1 arbids me execution ol a criminal, except on the testimony of two willies l? ' ui . -'m tribunal that sits m j. mem. except in the case of the aeci dc'ilal killing of a person, seems to have been emistft-ited of thus" people who were situated as to the . rime. 11 was a tribunal of bystanders. The trial was free from formality, from te.-h - , hindrances. It followed the crime immediately, and the law wa s executed promptly- m cases of aceid. ntal killing, if the offender could reach a city .of refuge, he was protected from tin? otln r v iso summary trial .ami given an oppor tunity to show his freedom from malice. Our jury system, which is about 500 years old. was. doubtless, inaugurated to carry out the divine law. In its mam primiples it did this at first, but it does not do it now. Th- whole system is permeat' d with injustice to society. De lays and evasion have come in until it ‘■makes void the law of God by its tra ditions.” "The powers that be” are ordained of God. 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LOUIS, MO. is mere bombast to expatiate about Hie majesty ot' the law, when the law despise; the majesty of God. 1 believe that Moses was as safe and wise a lawgiver as Bjaekstone, ami that God knew what was best, better than any legitimate body that has assembled in England or America since the barons of England met King John at Runny mede. Let our people ami our courts get filled with the idea tha.t where a crime goes I unpunished, the whole land is guilty of j the crime. Let our governors and par- j cloning boards see. when they oxer- ' else their unlimited power to pardon they assume the guilt pf the accused. Tim crime of rape is merely incidental to this discussion. In Moses’ law it was punished immediately by a tribunal of bystanders, so far as we can see. I have not said that Moses’ method was the same as the lynch law of our day. Much less do I say that I would substitute lynch law for our common law, but I did say. and I repeat, that Moses’ method waq God’s law, and if the revolting methods of modern mob courts resemble God's law more than the meth ods of our modern' law courts resemble God's law, surely, there must be some thing wrong with our modern methods, which demand that tlmv he reformed JOHN L. D. IHLLY'ER. Rome, Ga. In Defense of Lynching. Editor Constitution: Judging from Ho recent issues of The Constitution, a par oxysm of holy horror, at the enormity of lynching seems to have seized the pr.'.-i --dent, an associat" justice of the supreme court of the United States, a governor, i bishop and various distinguished divine-, 1 white and colored. It appears to have as- j siimed the proportions of a. small cyclone, and the result is a nnnanimous ex e-Hb - lira, v.indy fiilmination against anarchy and mob law. Whence tlie present necessity of this fierce charge upon a man of straw ? Wlio in, Georgia favor anarchy or mob law mj Its true and offensive s tis .' When in th history of this great state wor. the p •- • pie more loyal to law and gov< rnimmi When wore courts nwre regularly 1c I ; and the law more speedily and justly d- . | ministered and her virtuous and patriot! • ! ! people more conservative and law-abid- ■ I ing? Th.'"e denunciations of mob iaw and anarchv are intended to characterize Hi > summar. pnnishtn.-nt of negroes for i -r --tain nameless crimes. Would it not ne ■ infinitely more wise to bestow a U thm learned breath in effort to remove the cause to stop the crime than to en- courage it unwittingly by silence at its enormity and bitter denunciation of its righteous punishment. A sweet girl in her teens, all unconscious of danger. I threading her way to school, is outran, al : i.v a beastly negro, her throat, cut and her i body dragged into the woods and hid to ' be devoured by dogs or vultures. An hon- j • i st, toiling farmer leaves in tin- morning ! for the lli al of his labor, tlie wile o' ni.- ■ love in fancied security in his cottage or ' rustle, supposed to be under the r>r<ictoc- . I Hon of a government he pays his monev to support and gives his blood to del-'tid. . i both happy; he returns in the . ■ nie ' •and instr'' of meeting at Hie gate Hie, I sparkle of in eye that watches his com ‘ ing am! grows brighter when he comes," ; he beholds th" moldering ruins of Ida I home and the charred remains ■>: tlio : idol of his heart, with her head crushed ; with a bludgeon, after she had suffer.'.! a , horror worse than death. The neighb' ts, with common consent and with comni.-n hands ami without the sordid Incentive j . <>f reward meet, hunt up the erimin.o. ; identify him. receive his confession ■>! I 'guilt and administer speedy, d< seived and suiTimary punishment, in which ■ j ments of justice, penalty, r.’v<-iige, pr- I vention ami pioteetion are o..mlamd. '".j is simply lynching, and gri at men utl.Ti' ignore the crime invo.ving lionet. s‘‘ 0.-ij ■ and life and raise a howl of indignati' ■'j against those who thus essay to semi: i protection and punish the criminal. ■ He: e [ denunciations may sola, e the relatives <n j Sam Hose, but they will nex.'i 0mt;..l ( action of conservative, chivalri ? Ge-oi-j glans. It seems to mo that if these who sc. lv j to teach Hie people and control I' ll1 '.’ sentiment und-TSiood th- genesis "f t.os crime, for which the Ameiicaii j 1 "11' i row, north and south, adopt lynching as the rightful remedy, they would tind i'-S ■ birth and origin IN THE INSANE DE .SIRE OF THE NEGRO FOlt SOi'l.'.i; EQUALITY WITH THU WHITE ft.V 'E 1 .Nl'Ol RAGED A.Nl> FOSTERED I'Y I THE I'EAUHING AND POLICY OF I'U 5 REPUBLICAN PARTY. The negroes ; were taken from Hie Heid and pa. to j making constitutions for the truest and I bravest people of earth. 'I im iiv dman - . bureau was establi ■ ■ . . ie i mtro ' \» !s e.s between the tiles anil tnc m- | ! ’-joes in nivor of the . \\ hilt. - m n » .1. cted to the legislatures were turned .mt and black men, defeated at Hie ballot b<’x. 1 were put in their places. Tii.’y wer... sem i to each house of congress and appoint' 1 I to important positions in Hie executivol department. Th. y were encouraged ■i, idleness and reliance upon the govern- i merit for a. livelihood by Hie proim.-• i | 10 acres and a muh . Tim forty-third con-1 gress. passed the civil rights oi l intend, d to inforce by law .obsolete s . i.il cqmi.:ity. | < President McKini. y r’de in state by tlm i side of negro. President Roosevelt dim d| , a negro with his family at th" whit■■ ■ , bouse. The highest official in tlie United I ( Slates, thus siting Hie exampie ot per- [ , feet equality with tlie negro in the most • , sact'od function of smiai lifi -dming ail . the family board with wit" and children. Minnie C"X. a negress. r fed at the pub-1 , lie crib, though out of office, while Miss. , Houldah Todd, a white woman and faith- , liil public officer, is put out of office at I , tlie behest of party henchmen. The latest , j miserable fraud and ib ccption p. iT"trat< d I . upon the m’gro by the republican party was Senator Hanna's late bill to pension i the blacks. All this professed devotion to | the negroes' rights, social equality in- | eluded, is a delusion and a snare intend ed, to secure the negro vote in the national I nominating convention from tlm i ‘onth ami the negro vote at the ballot box in the election In the middle and western states. The republican party cares mithiiifr for the I negro except his vote. Lynching may go I on, government may foster and rot down j with postal frauds in Cuba and at Wash- I ington if that, party can keep in -power. The negro lias been trained I . believe ; th it social as well as poiiti ■>l . 'id I il j equality is his due. and a blin idiot can I rend between the lines of Book r Wash ington’s teaching that his meaning is to incite the race to aspirations for social 1 equality and yet those who denounce con servative, patriotic white men for lynch- 1 7 ing would vote him an apothoesis. Tin crime for which lynching is the only effi cient remedy is the practical tost by th«i brutal negroes of Hie attainment of that social equality. The governor of Indiana i.s greatly dis turbed on account of lynching, yet that virtuous ofli lai in violation of his official oath and tlie constitution of his coun try, harbors the assassin of the governor of an adjoining state. I To denounce the brave, conservative i men in Georgia who justify lynching for I criminal assault, assassination and ar- I son and train wrecking for purposes ot robbery, as a riotous, lawless mob Is ,v perv. rsion of language am! an insult « the people. The proof that the people >■' Georgia, justify lynciilng in ex .optional case.s Is found in tlie fact that sworn grand jurors will not indict, nor traverso jurims convict citizens for lynching in these cases. The only official notice takmi of a lynching is the offering of a reward bv the governor, and a -barge to tli» grand jury by the judge, both of win. a are porfum tory pure and simple. Lynch ing im- criminal assault is not anarchy. It. is not mob law in the 'iffensi'ce sense of that term If mob law. it is only so in the teclmical smise of being with .ut or against the law. If mob law at all, it H only so in tin- sense that seizing the t-’l at Boston, and the powder at Savannah was mob law. to-wit: an extra legal pro ceeding to advance the right. It has no more similarity to the butchery of Ixiv endeo and Paris than light has: to dark ness. Nor does it bear the slightest anulogv to Lord G<org“ Gordon's riot ”* Iziml-m or H'.e Kensington riots of Phila delphia. Tim learned divines who de claim so vehemently against riot, an archy, etc., will find striking illustratiotis of wl'.at they cond-mn in the palac.: of tite high priest, ami Hie judgment hall of the Roman governor; also about the town hall at Ephesus, and the steps of th.- castle at J. rusalem. States arid statesmen are sometimes confronted with exigenei": that make it necessary to re sort to extra, or if you please, unconsti tutional measures. The purchase of Louisiana from Napoleon is an illustra tion. The ctnancii.ition proclamation ot \braham I Incoln is another. This is just ified upon the ground of state necessity. Society which is greater tiffin states and stair men; which makes and unmakes ernmerjts some times, not often <■■ inters exigencies or problems that, con slitut' .1 as human nature Ls. defy solu- ; tion in conformity with the cold letter of : i given rule Tlio southern whit..- people hav.. met a social condition, the like of i which never existed I 'fore, and upon which neither experience, observation, I Hur history can possibly shed any light. I It is a race conflict, now on, begun by the blacks and the lynching dance will and ought to go on. as long as the blood of murdered or the shrieks of ruined white women furnish tlie music. 1 agree with the Uonne. licet judge that it is bi tter to make the mob a. court than to make the .-ourt a moi', it is an immense mistake to suppose that only bad men engvige in lynching. Let. the Newnan . crowd answer that alb-gat ion. The men who engage in it do not oppose the ad ministration of the law; they only antici- i pate it. They do not oppose the govern ’ merit; they stand for the protection of society and th,. punUhment of crime. They do not destroy property; they do not interfere- with business; th. y do not ■ punish without evidence of guilt. They , peac.’ably and quietly assemble and when ■ their work is done they as peaceably and quietly dispers ■. But >t is said that, they ■ make a mistak ■ and punish an innocent man. This may be true, but it rarely I happens. Courts and juries frequent!..■ i make grave mistakes in tlie conviction of i the inno. <nt and the acquittal of the i guilty. Nihil inventum est, et simul per < fecturn. If the politician, the press and I the pulpit would devote more attention . to th ■ denunciation oi the crime and tlm I criminal lyn.-hed, and less to the abuse ! of the lynchers, -they would render a ! bett-T service to soci-ty ami less unin [ t entiou.-H .aid to crime. HIRAM B. BELL. i Cummins, Ga.. September 16, 1903. Wanted Two -' i! mnin . le n state; $50.G0 ar d exi'.'US'. : p:rmaneni poshiot,. I’enlck# Tbacco \\ '. 1,.• C I' nicks, V :1 WxLDER'S T'KN HOLD REUNION. Survivors of Famous Brigade Hear Speeches at Chickamauga. Chattanooga. Tenn., September 18.—Fif teen hundred survivors of Wilder s fa mous brigade today assembled on tlm Chakarcauga battle field near the spot w i’ci ■ th.? Wiit’cr memorial monument li'irf been er' t d. and are commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the bloody battle of C'la .'.kamaugn, ami Hie part which I'm? regimerq took in it. Tbere are mm.y visitors in lii-- city in addition t i the veterans. General John T. Wilder and nearlj' ail of the surviving ofiici of tlie brigade are in attendance toduy. Addresses were <hallied at (’hickamauga ;iy General Wildi'v. Cel"::. 1 Tomlinson Fort,’ a promi nent e.ir.f-derate i . tor.in. an i others, and tonight a campfire was given the visitors at the auditorium. Otu- of the features of tlie day was a revi"W .< th" Seventh cavalry by the v. tcrans. ONLY FOUR, DAYS FOR TREATY. Panama Canal Treaty Must Soon Be Ratified. Washington. September 18.—Only four d.i> > -main within which the ratifications ol the lanama canal treaty must be ex , iianv' d. lit H"i'ran, Hie Colombian charge, transmits promptly to the state d.partrnint such details of proceedings in the Colombian congress as come to him. but what their nature is he declines to reveal. IL? realizes the severity of the situa tion, but lie has not any instruction io ’• ■quest an extension of the time for rati fication, nor lias th" American govern ment intimated, r-o far as known, that it is anxious to grant it. IS THIS YOU? Do you spit up your food? Do you belch gas? Do you swell after Do you have heart i burn? J --■'Sj3>a Do you have short- *s?ness of breath? I i »«£>/ Do vou have pains In in ,iie ci "* st? Do yon have sore npss the siiie ? >'” :1 have numb i'?wW -and- and feet? Do you suffer with constipalio'n or diarrhea? 1 can cure you. W. J. TUCKER, 16 Broad Street, Atlanta, Q&.