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CLARK HOWELL Edito.
ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager
,ko Atlanta Foituft'n e«• Seconi
.Mail Matter, Mot. 11, 1573.
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Sugar Cane in Georgia.
The cottcn grower of south Georgia
has found profit in diversifying his
crops and it ;s now a demonstrated
fact that there are several staple
products adapted to that section of the
state, aside from fruit and truck,
which are more certain and profitable
than the fleecy staple. Foremost
among these is sugar cane, which is
peculiarly adapted to the wiregrass,
’■piney” belt of the gulf states, and
nowhere so much so as in a large por
tion of Georgia.
Wo are interestingly reminded of
■what sugar cane has done and car.
do for the Empire State of the South
by a little pamphlet entitled "The Su
gar Cane and Sirup Industry in Gv
gia Reviewed,” written and compiled
by W. G. Cooper, of Savannah. From
this pamphlet we learn something of
the magnitude and prosperous status
of this exceedingly promising home in
dustry and what it means in making
"Greater Georgia” something more
than an enthusiastic catch phrase. A
decided revival in the cane industry
is taking place where, under the de
pression of a few years ago, it had
lapsed into a low state of prosecution,
and again the matchL "Georgia
sirup” is becoming an important arti
cle of commerce. There is profit in
the saccharine juice to the grower a
neat profit—and market conditions are
getting brighter and brighter.
It is only a matter of time until
cane is extensively grown in .in’.;
Georgia for the sugar of commerce as
well. The plantation cane mill will
inevitably be supplemented by the su
gar mil! so well known to th ■ rural re
gions of Cuba, an,’ the smoke ol great ;
sugar refineries will dark, n the atmos
phere over growing wiregrass cities.
There is practically no lint:-
area of land st- optible of profi’able
cane cultivation in t Dis favor. <! region,
and the cane grown upon light and
sandy soils has a larger content of su
gar than his rhe famous cane of
Louisiana. It remains for enterprise
and capital tn extract it f sn.gir mak
ing in competition with < nba and
Hawaii. Since the 1 ni;ed States buys
$125,000,00: worth of foreign sugar
every year, uotwith lai.c :’n■■
growth of ti ■ ndustry in i
th° west, it will b - H;iib ' stood that
th? domestic marl ■“ is ; rai ' ■:•'!'.■ un
limited of it.-.i’ll’, and tie v.hole world
erving fcr sugar.
W« 1
ing to the- post ibilitie •>; c.-h, pi educ
tion in that vast tie.,, promising. in
a few years, to rival Georgia and
Louisiana a it : e- ah -e ■. .-u • r-> ,]
♦ho scepter of Ki; g t’onon •IT . riv
er ar’ the Brazos.
U. us have an awakenin' •■> oh! i
Georgia to out m.iv ' a •„
vantages, <r i .
elrnp and sugar.
That Texas Estimate.
The Houston P< t- -Hit .. • ■ but
1
Territory may or may no 1 be corierl.
It must be born., in i in.] that The
I’ost has an excellent . u, , >t ( :i -i ■-
spondents throughout th?. section
and the pap*-, has :n '■ other
♦han to get. at th truth of the sit na
tion. When it eoii ei t . . miniating,
however, nonody a: be infallible.
It is a little dilficult ti. understand
♦ hat portion, of ♦ <ory t*. legraph* 1
from H listen '■ h -ii-.- "'.m-i
popular estimate ;x we. ks, ago" being
6,000,000 ba ■.- i* >: that section. We
have never ; >;J <>t any sima “popular
estimate." T. ri.-i.-d> show that the
high-water mark for that section was
reached in :];< crop of 18!*.s-!t9, when
Ti xas and tic- territory contributed
3,555.000 bah-s of the total crop of
11.275.000 b.r There must, be some
mistake either in The Post's figures
or in the transmission of the press
dispatch whimi contains the reference
to 6,000,000 bales.
This, however, in nowise detracts
from the value of The Post’s estimate,
based on ths reports of its correspond
ents, that the outlook for the present
crop does not indicate more than
2.500,000 bales. Os course, the present
unfavorable conditions may yet show
a change for the better, imt even
should the Texas, section show its full
share of an * leven-million-bale crop,
the needs of the consumers will be
such that the growers of cotton are as
sured of a good price.
Overmarketing the Cotton Crop.
It is evident that raisers of cotton
in some sections are rushing their
crops to market as rapidly as po sib!“
and from Texas coups the statement
that the railways arc- being hustled to
burry consignments to port.
In the light of the practical rcitain
ty that th*’ yield of the crop wil fall
largely below the -tiinai.es of a few
weeks ago and that the supply to meet
the sure spinning ami export demands
will not be adequate, it seems nnbits
iness-like for any cotton raise.- to rush
his crop to market in such haste, if
he is able at all to hold it. or a part
of it, in his own control.
Present prices at points of delivery
may be tempting. There is a natural
dread on the part of producers that
prices will fall. The pessimism of the
' class is proverbial. But conditions
j ought not to be ignored and the status
j of visible supply to calculable demand
is such even now as to give every
promise that prices will advance rath
er than decline whenever the approx
imate crop is known.
The Constitution believes that it is
not wise for any farmer to sell cotton
now that his actual necessities do not
compel him to part. with. Every pound
of cotton will be needed and will be
bought later on at prices the farmers
who own it will make, and not the tak
ers. Don't rush!
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Brown, of New Orleans.
When the Thanksgiving season ar
rives the cotton people of the sottin
should not forget Brown of New Or
leans. He has been their benefactor
in so substantial away as to make
his name memorable and to give him
a large share of the gratitude of those
people. The high prices prevailing in
the cotton markets are due more to
the prescience and pluck of Brown
than to any other factor in the fixing
of quotations. And if Brown in the
meantime has cleaned up a few mil
lions for his protection in a rainy day
the whole south, in the taurine ex
clarnatoriness of his excellency, Pres
ident Roosevelt, should roller "Bully
for Brown!”
For Brown has been the ind of a
"bull" the cotton raisers have been
waiting to appear in the arena for
ever so many years. Others have es
sayed the role in times past only to
fall down and be torn by the bears
into inglorious shreus and patches.
Brown, however, went in with herns
aflare and soon had them decorated
with ihe blood and hair of the bears.
Brown of® New Orleans had both
courage and cash and the way he has
held up the market has been a can
lion to Davy Crockett. The exporters
t.ir European spinners have been made
to bleed cut some of the millions they
hav > made off •iitr cottcn farmers by
beaHng down .pices just when the
planter was compelled io sell to
square his mortgage accounts. He
also made the New England contin
gent come across with higher prices
or shut up shop. The result has been
to add millions to the wealth of our .
cotton raisers and to raise Brown of
N'.-w Orleans to the rank and honors
of the Lord Warwick of King Cotton.
Press Muzzling in Colorado.
An armed force of state troops at.
\ -i tor, Colo., surrounded a newspaper
office Wednesday, arrested most of the
publishing force "for coercing, intimi
dating and criminal libel" through the
columns of The Daily Record, which
ha; iens to b*' the official organ of the
n ’nei s' union, now on strike in that
di trict. Martial law, as we under
stand it, prevails in the district by
P ■ < !amatlon of Governor Peabody and
tiie state soldiery is being used on the
,•> pplieai ion of the mine owners to pre
serve the peace, protect property and
enforce the orders of the civil author-
Governor Peabody distinctly disa
vows that be is substituting military
for m il government and stonily de- ;
ni that he is seeking by the display
n. of the troops to exercise any
<■<■-1(101, or intimidation of the strik
ii: . miners. He may have am, Jo rea
t i his own judgine it for bell -ving
lire the good order, peace and dignity
o’ tin- state require the use of the
: ■. :ii;i an armed posse for their
pre -nation. It is his prerogativr to
so argue and to so order.
But this newspaper incident carries
ns back to those parlous days at the
end of the civil war when Uncle Char
ley Grosvenor, of Ohio, was rampsing
around .Macon, our sister city, closing
tip print shops and suppressing news
papers that did not write the sort of
self- s w allowing an d loyal ty-avo w i n g
i iito.lals that he thought the only
thi'-.L"- ' fit to print." At that time, of
coiir.se, no southern editor had any
ri tiiat. a brigadier in blue was
b< ;i <1 to rcspi ct, but even then there
v. i . influential men and jour- als in
♦ i north tiiat protested any military
snpcrvision of a free press that was
not printing scandalous, libelous and
.i ■ ■nsonablc matter.
The Colorado newspaper men may
ia . - printed criminal libels. If so,
most i lia gon with the offense were
subject to arrest according to law.
But why the sheriff could not have
mu le tin- arrests instead of a file of
art,i' I soldiers docs not appear m trie
di.-; atclies. li. is this last feature of
th<- - use that makes it offensive and
gives it the color of a prearranged
coup to interfere with the publication
of Lie paper, to intimidate the publisn
<-r--. and. in fact, to enforce silence
upon a press entitled to a free voice.
How Rhode Island Shows Up.
The fact that. Rhode Island has a
democratic governor ami otherwise is
rankly and irredeemably republican
is a puzzle to many who do not know
the true inwardness of the situation.
Timte a e iuiL five counties in the
state and these are divided into town
ships and incorporated cities. These
elect thirty-eight, state senators and
seventy-two representatives, each
township and city being entitled to
one senator.
Any man acquainted with modern
politics is able to figure out that all
the r -punli- an ring in Rhode Island
needs to do in order to control the
legislation of the stale and tnereby fix
its political subserviency to them
selves is to buy up twenty of the sen
atorial districts and elect their own
henchnu-n. And those rotten boroughs
are easily purchased, since the selling
of votes has < onie to lie a recognized
industry in the pee-wi-e state and is
even justified as no worse than the
selling of any other chattel by its
owner.
Civic prile has ceased to be a
virtue in Rhode Island am! honesty
among its electors is looked upon as
tlie survival of an ancient fad. Popu
lar government does not exist in
R'n.id-’ I- and. since those twenty lean
ami hungry towns can nullify the will
of ihe great majority of the people.
The stat* has a population of 428..‘5(>.
of which 127,144 are males of voting
age. but the average vote east, in elec
iion's is around 55,060, or loss than
naif of the total voting strength.
These facts will convince anybody
that Rhode Island is a veritable polit
ical peach for tne Aldrich-Brayton
boodh is, and because the democrats
arc a poor, and barrel-less, and fair
playing crowd, we have the spectacle
of a bargain counter state, lit to be
the yoke mate of Delaware.
But the democrats are hopeful up
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’ that way and expect to re-elect Gar
vin. the democrat, as governor this
I year—in which event they helm.
I they can give Rhode island’s electors
to the democratic ticket next year.
Senator Carmack’s Denial.
Senator Carmack says he does not
intend to offer any bill in congress
looking to the abolition of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution.
The amendment itself has served its
original ends. It satisfied both what
was called "the northern conscience”
as to the political equality rights of
the emancipated negroes and that pro
portion of hatred of the southern
whites that remained as an aftermath
of slavery and war among the people
of the north. It outraged the sense of
justice cf the southern people and
embarrassed our political action for
many years because w<> did not qualify
the force of the amendment as the
later decisions of th*’ supreme court of
the United States have interpreted it.
Today there really exists in the
south no other than a surviving senti
mental reason why the amendment
should be further feared or finally re
pealed. Possibly some time ahead of
us it may be abolished, but when that
happens, if ever, it will be by the non
partisan action of the country al large
making a demand for the reaffirma
tion in law of the incontestable fact
that this is and must remain a white
man’s country.
We do not see how any man devoted
to white supremacy in state or na
tion could wish for better conditions
in that respect than exist here in
Georgia. No state in the south, or
in the north where negroes live it. any
numbers, has more peaceful ami pros
porous relations between th*' races
than has Georgia. 5 *-t this state has
never passed any act, in constitution
or statutes, disfranchising negroes.
Some of our sister states employed
other methods of minimizing the men
ace to good government that inheres
in general negro suffrage. Me believe
they have succeeded to that end by
acts that are constitutional even under
the fifteenth amendment. And there
the whole matter may well rest for
the present.
The European Zollverein.
If Professor Luzzatti, the eminent
Italian financier, believes, as he is re
ported in our Rome correspondence
printed Thursday, that Emperor Wil
liam contemplates the necessity of a
European zollverein against the Unit
ed States, which would mean a. perma
nent commercial warfare, we bog to
say to the professor that the emperor
is. for once, talking through his per
forated summer helmet.
It ought not. to take a man in the
commercial conning tower long to dis
cover that any attempt to unite Euro
pean nations in a general embargo
upon American agricultural products
and manufactures would speedily put.
the people of those countries on what,
an American hobo picturesquely calls
“the hog train.”
It was officially reported by govern
ment officers to the Farmers' National
Congress at Niagara Falls, on Wednes
day last, that in the past thirty years
our agricultural exports have increas
ed 130 tier centum, while the number
o<‘ persons engaged in their production
increased by 75 per cent. And our
ability to produce such crops is capa
ble yet of an enormous expansion.
The United States produces 49 per
centum of the world’s crop of wheat.
Whenever the rulers of Europe think
it safe to cut in half the loaves of
their people they can afford to boy
cott American wheat.
We produce three-fourths of the
world's corn, three-fourths of its cot
ton ami 4b per cent of the provisions
used m international commerce. We
have labor-saving machinery ami
skilled labor sufficient to produce
in six months all the manufactures our
own people can consume in a whole
year. The balance of the year w-e can
put in making goods to sell to Europe
cheaper than she can make them tor
herself. Now wouldn’t it jar yon to
imagine the folly of those agricultural
ly pauperized ami industrially para
lyzed countries going half-fed ami half
clothed as a punishment to Uncle
Sam ?
Chamberlain's Campaign.
The foreword to a volume of protec
tionist articles, written by Hon. .Joseph
Chamberlain, to Th*' London Daily
Telegraph, ami printed in The Consti
tution yesterday, is a discovery shot
that will suffice, no doubt, to open all
the batteries of his enemies.
The document itself it not very orig
inal, tor Mr. Chamberlain is not urging
his campaign for a governmental in
quiry into tiie advisability of creating
an English preferential tariff policy on
any novel grounds. He is astutely
planting himself ou the solid •
lion of ascertained economic history
and home trade conditions that no
man tan ignore or deny. He is not
proposing a formal system, offering
definite schedules, or demanding the
acceptance of a pre-constructed policy.
His wisdom steers him clear of the
mistake of proclaiming "protection for
protection’s sake” and posting bis
ideal in the form of a Dingley bill.
Mr. Chamberlain understands his
Briton. The prejudices and stubborn
ness of those who have for two-thirds
of a century been ingrained with the
faith that free trale is the palladium
of British prosperities—the aegis of
the agriculturalist and the life-guard
of th? working classes —are not to be
depreciated by this thorough-paced pol
itician. He approaches the natural po
sition of the foes of his policy on the
Hank of their weakest tenure.
For his ultimate purpose he points
rather away from it than point blank
towards it. By riveting public atten
tion upon the sell-evident decline of
British industries and export trade,
he puts the economists in the opposi
tion hard up against the conundrum:
“What shall we do to be saved?" Every
English investor in industrial enter
prises am! every English work!:igman
dependent upon them is brought up
standing and sobered before that prob
lem. As yet none of them seem able
to offer a probably adequate arisw’er.
In contrast with their dumb confu
sion, Mr. Chamberlain makes sugges
tions. Having proved that a danger
ous condition of failing prosperities
exists, he says let us officially discover
the causes of it and inquire as to what
line of a’ction will recover the nation
to the sprety of adequate food supplies
and revive industries and exchange to
those profitable conditions that, will
enable the English people to pay a
food tax and still rn.iintain a high
level of labor wages ami living.
I;' Mr. Chamberlain prosecutes ills
campaign along these lines, indicated
in the letter of w-hicn .
i<a\c ihe laeger chance to win a ver
dict from the English electorate. If
he can convince capital that it is
cheaper to rish a dear loaf tiiat. to suffer
the paralysis of the nation's industries,
ami can bring the labor element to un
derstand that, cheap bread, bought, at.
the expense of reduced labor oppor
tunities and reduced wages, will be
dearer than bread made from wheat
taxed a shilling a quarter, accompa
nied by active industries ami good
wages, his cause will win out. Ami
that appears to be the line ol argu
ment that lie lias determined to fol
low’.
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The Farmers’ Inning.
At the recent national farmers’ con
gress, held at Niagara Falls, N. ¥.,
which ole< ted a Georgian io its pres
idency, Secretary Cortelyou, of th*' de
partment of commerce and labor, ex
plained the various functions of the
new department to the delegates, ami
O. I’. Austin, chief of tile bureau ■
statistics of that, department, made
quite an exhaustive address on "Farm
Products in the Markets of the
World." From tiie striking array ol
facts presented by the hitter official,
it is dear enough that the American
farmer figuratively bolus tiie commer
cial world in tiie hollow of his horny
hand. While we all knew this with
out reiourse to statistics, the statis
tics are none the le-c- i'it< resting ami
instructive.
Statistician Austin has found that
in the three decades bet . ~e n ]S7O ami
1900 the population ha - increased 1.00
per cent and .igrif-ulim.il exports 130
per cent. At tm smm- time tin ten
il< m y cityward has mb! tn*' jner.'aso
in the number of people i ngagod in
agricultural pursuits Io only 75 per
cent, thus redm ing Ihe larnier’s com
petition the while his ;• irk<-t is con
stantly broadening at home ami
abroad. The I'nited F’.ites now pro
duces 19 per cent of the world's
wheat supply, against per cent in
1575, notwitln.l anding the vastly in
creased outputs of Canada, India. Rus
sia. Siberia ami ptln r developing
wheat regions. This country also sup
plies t hree fourths of tiie corn con
sumed by mankind, wlm a the peoples
of the older continents are more and
more being taught to em, and Lw
fourths of tiie cotton to clothe man
kind. Os tin' provisions used in in
ternational commerce, the ( i.l
States supplies 40 per <■ t.
It is gratifying to k’ < that tho
agricultural exploitation oi the coun
try has practically kepi !<■“ e with its
great industrial devde- inont, ami
tiiat tin commercial ‘‘inv, ; ion” of the
old world I’’, the hustlin vankee has
also been an r,gi icttltui a! one. Still,
we have barely seraichf i! our natural
possibilities in this r peei. The
south could re ulily dotii- i! cotton
output, as could th west .- corn ami
wheat, output. The Li <1 States
could literally feed ami clothe tho
world, which it is last cor ag to do.
Surely the farmer nor had more
reason to
every section of our common coun
try. ‘
Balfour and the Bash'-Bazouks.
The letter of ?lr. Ball'cnr, English
prime minister, explaining his offi
cial view’ of th*' near Eastern question
verifies what Tho Constitution wrote
of that matter imt a lew days ago.
Indeed, Mr. Balfour explicit!'- de
clares wlat Wi then as tnted to lie
the truth, that ic Ma have
aroused the preapnt bloody stat.ns m
order to play upon the i ympt.thi ?s ot
European people, ami ntak • t. in to. 1
it imperative to imervene ami c tab
li-h a PJaccdonian aaitoiu-fiy. > -:i.
dependent or ;'-'ii' 't vised by th’ powers
apart from the Turk.
Even if Mr. Balfour is right and the
Macedonians have so conspired, why
should that vie* of the ca-<■ b ■ held
to warrant tin lethal work ol mas
sacre and thu at n. <1 anni.iil :: ion now
being carried <n, by rhe basin bazouks
of Abdul Hann ? The mm action of
the powers, iiw iding England, simply
means that i' must be accepted
throughout. Europe that no p opto can
('lit('l'pi‘i. (* for rc uioiii ti-jm oppio-'
sion, or for lil Tty from a u >juj at< d
allegiance, wi ‘tout lorteitinj’, <s l •?
right to audi' e lor their < -anse ami
humanity in th ir treatment.
pttor f Mr. I’T.ilour moans
that, the right inheres m tiie '"'irk to
suppress the i .surreetion of the Mac
edonians, not only by engaging then
armed fore, i . battle. Imt l.y destroy
ing their villages ami cities ami mnssa
creinK [.heir helploss old men, their
woim n ami i aio* <mt child’’ u. It is
the most h 11* < '
doctrine of divine right to nil*- that,
has ever been made in modem times
■i-'d conics w ill more astounding ill
gracc from England than n would
Show if issue'.! by any other European
power If England lives up <o the
Balfour ideas her status as a. humane
;in <l lust nation will lo scar.eiy high-
( ,_ j n |i ie estimation ot good tmm than
that of Turk, y, the chief malefactor.
A Case for Open Doors.
The stale having elected, by legis
lative action, to enter upon a. uniform
text book sjstem, the actual work of
examining and selecting the best
books for uniform use in out public
schools IS at hand. Tl;< i mulat ami
Bubcommission have agre< d to give
hearings V the representatives ol
publishers v.ho desire to argue the mer
its of tbei. offerings, amt it. is said
these hearings wiil be held behind
doors.
It Is a nr re question ot convenietiee,
perhaps, with the excellent geiii lemon
who compose the commission. The peo
ple know hem io be i.-u ot expert
intelligent, ami unquestioned probity,
imt in a matter ot thi.-. kind there
cannot be too much caution am! pru
dence of a*,lion. Unfortunately in
nearlv e.'ry stale where tiii •iir’.irm
text book system has been established
its inauguration has been markud c;.
jealousies between rival bool; eomm-ns
and these have gendered scandals.
It was s> in Virginia, in West Vir
ginia. in Oregon and in other states.
Charges of criminal conduct were
freely bown abroad, in some cases
affecting the boards as well as leading
to court ndictrnents and legislative ar
raigning is of book agents.
It wot Id not. we think, be wise for
our commissioners to take any chances
of misrepresentation and angry resent
ments by disappointe*, bidders lor
■ their favor. This is the people s bus
' iness amt might just as well b? done
with open doors, and a free audience
of all ilia" the agents of the publishers
| have to say to tiie agents of the peo
ple. The text books are not secret
publications. Imt public wares. Their
merits can be talked openly and the
better course from all points of view
would be to have them so presented.
Dr. Bradley’s Sermons.
The first of the series of sermons
by Rev. Dr. IL S. Bradley, announced
by The Constitution last week, is
jiublished elm 1 where today. Th*'
forewords concerning this series of dis
course's on "Christianity as Taught by
I Christ" have been caught up by the
press of the south ami the enterprise
of The Constitution in forwarding so
unique a Christian propaganda widely
commended.
Our r eaders we are sure will enjoy
the lucid, eleameut sermons by Dr.
Bradley and find them will worthy
of study ami preservation for future
reference. They bid fair already, by
anticipation, to lu-come notable pub
lications in the religious literature of
the year they will run and we com
mend them to our readi'i’S with every
confidence in their beauty and power
for good.
Like Getting Money from Home.
Just now, while the boll-weevil, tho
army worm amt Jack Frost are menac
ing our cotton crops is a good time
fcr tiie land-owners of the south to
look a little about. If they will do
that wisely they wiil find that there
are yet. other ways by which they can
make money almost as easily as ii
they "got. it from ironic'’ by postal or-
I der.
For l!i" year ending in 1902 this
■country of ours -these identical I nit
ed States- imported from other coun
tries over $12,1’00,000 worth of farm
I products that should have been raised
■ easily and more cheaxiiy on our own
• farms. Among these products, there
: were $37,400 worth of eggs, and that
! means a whole lot of eggs, yet every
i om’ of them could, with but little eap
< ital ami car.- of hens, been produced in
' our own barn yards. Then there were
! SBI,OOO worth of butter and $2,550,000
’ worth of cheese!
But, mure to 1”’ wondered at than
these items, let the southern farmer
■ iook al. tiie fact that $3,0’0,000 was
! spent for rice, at a time when Louisi
' ana ami Texas have demonstrated
that rice is one ol the most, prolific
ami profitable crops our southern
coast farmers can produce. Beans and
dried peas were bought abroad to the
turn' of $1,15 ',OOO, ami yet Georgia
alone could have raised the total bulk
of them and got herself that money.
Take a look at potatoes —we con
sume in this country 8.000,000 bushels
more than we produce ami for foreign
potatoes paid last, year $3,100,001'.
Close around Atlanta our farmers are
raising as pood potatoes as are raised
anywhere on earth ami Georgia might
easily produce the 8,000,000 bushels
we now import.
Cash crops? Certainly' The farmer
who will rei.-- ' those < svntial art i- les
can beat the cotton farmer to market
every season ami be homo counting
his profits while the cotton man is still
figuring with his creditors and won
dering if he will have enough left to
buy a drain after the year's accounts
are closed.
Mexico and the Silver Sweaters.
The commissioners sent ny .vic -.;- ■,
to Europe to negotiate some plan in
concert with the monetary authorities
tuere for stabilizing the value of silver
coins in those countries where they
must continue indefinitely to be the
currency of the daily life of their peo
ples. have returned like the sheep of
dear Little 80-Beep. Th;-ir tales of what
they encuunt( red in their tour ami ttio
total failure of their pleadings arc pa
thetic enough, but might easily have
been anticipated.
They report, in effect, that England
b, euiis'’ of her trade interest; , ami
Russia, because of her political ami
graft interests, refuse absolutely to
consider the establishment of a gold
standard for China. That means the
continuance of international ex
changes in tiiat country upon a bul
lion basis at lluciuating prices be
tween the metals- -and that means big
profits to the money-handlers ami
speculators of those gold countries
that trade in the East.
Tiie Europeans also declared that
ihe closing of mints to free coinage of
silver is a condition precedent to any
endeavor to give the Mexican peso a
fixed value in gold. That, is an ulti
matum to Mexico that she must, re
(im.i. her coinage of siltei to a gold
basis, or continue to have her coined
and bullion silver treated alike as
mere commercial commodities, with
tirices fixed by the incidents of supply
ami demand.
The effect is to put Mexico, China
ami ali other silver level countries at
the monetary mercy of the gold stand
ard countries. Those latter can thus
purchase silver itself ami all the com
modities of tin’ former at bullion silver
prices, fixed by the gold standard coun
; tries. Nearly all European countries
1 Jive within themselves on the level of
their silver subsidiary coinages. Their
people are, as a rule, too poor to live
above the doliar-a-day line and so for
all the smail exchanges of their in
termit commerce they need large vol
umes of silver coins o‘‘ a small denom
ination.
It is one of the easiest governmental
grails in the world to purchase bul
lion, or even coined, silver from .Mex
ico, or drain th*' Mexican pesos from
that country ami the Orient, ami turn
them into English, French. Russian
am] German silver small coins, paid
out. by the governments of those coun
tries as if they were gold, and thereby
reap tremendous .■ dguiorship profits
to their national treasuries.
<>:»r Ymerican silver goes the same
way. We min*' it ami sell it in bars
to European countries, at present
prices, for about 59 cents per ounce.
Those countries coin it and deal it
out io their ; wn people at a currency
value of $1.32 per ounce. But as our
government is daily working the very
same graft, on us, wo cannot kick. In
deed. w<‘ are in worse plight than tho
Europeans, lor wo cannot exchange
our silver for gold at our treasury,
while they can.
We really feel sorry for the Mexi
cans because of the turn down they
have suffered, at the same time reserv
ing a sneaking sort of sympathy for
ourselves.
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
When You Think About It.
When you come to think about it on
this old. terrestrial ball,
Rimmed with rose* in U"' Springtime,
heaped with fruitage o' the Fall;
Though we nil were born a-growlin', an
we’re ;ixle-decp in doubt,
T l„. ri . is really very little for the world
to growl about!
(’Cept the coal bill an’ the gas,
An’ the grocery hill alas'
An’ the ancient bill for rent,.
When you haven't got a cent!
An' your friends s?y. “Times it brighten.
Be content!"}
When you come to think about it—did
your growlin' ever pay?
Did it ever bend a rain'oaw —chase a
til under-cloud away?
Don’t it deafen all the angels v-hen they
try to sing an' shout?
Ifon't they know tiiat you have nothin
in the world to growl about.
('Cept the labor, long an’ sad,
I-'or tiie dollar, good or bad;
Au’ the thought—from dark to dawn,
Tiiat the jingling dollar's gone!
An’ your friends say, “Times'll brighten:
Labor on!”)
When you come to think about it—but
tiie best way's not to think!
There’s a spring there, by the wayside:
Stoop, ye travelers, and mink!
There's a green tree in the desert 'neath
a. firmament o’ blue;
And a hive that's drippin' honey for the
famished lips of you!
(But the tree is far away,
O'er the desert, dim and gray;
An' the Fates seem not to know
That you want the honey so!
An’ your friends say, “limes 11 brighten.
Let her go!”)
*♦* * ♦
Log Cabin Philosophy.
De sayin' is, dat d< wicked tlees w'en
no man pursues him. Hit maybe, how
somev<*r. d' 1 old lady's pursuin ol him,
wid de broom stick.
I.ightnin' don't strike twice in de same
place; kaze hit mos' inginruily does its
work so well de fust time, d>-y ain't no
use ter go back.
Dey can't be no lawyers in heaven,
kaze de hymn say dat you kin read
vo titles clear ter mansions in de skies.
“If. “Pull Dick, pull devil.” in dis wort;
cn d<- devil's got d'' b-s' er it kaze de
wool's all time ilyin' right en b l
A Song of the Way.
I ask not any stay of Time—
Th* lengthnin' of a day;
Night draweth nigl.: My soul and 1
Are weary o’ th« way!
Are weary o’ the wav
Where Winter weeps for May;
The last, sweet rest.
With flowers abreast.—
Ah! that’s Life's holiday!
\\ ■■ \-( had our dreams in years gone by-
An’ then our bitter waivin'!
An<l sweet came song, the way along,
Whilst the poor heart was breakin'.
But, weary o' the way,
Song thrill.' no more the May;
To sing through dreams
Os Life's last holiday!
We’ve bad our toil, and our reward,
A-jom'm ying down tile years;
G<>d gave ns Love -all gifts above—
And tile gif: of tears.
But, weary o’ the way,
We greet the shadows gray,
And thankful rest
With Howers abreast.
Tn Life's last holiday!
The Wise Colored Angels.
“I never licz seen a book wid ctillud
angvls in it." said I::■ >tii■ • I'lokey.
“But," obj ct;-d Brother Williams, de)
sho' must be ctillud angels up yand-i?
“No doubt er it." replied Brother Dick
ey. “But dey too wise ter projick roun’
much; one dey gits in dar. dey say
nut tin’, en I <.v low!
When a Fiddle’s Singin’ Sweet.
Don't like thi< Op’ry mi.• ic -though they
say it's hard to b.-at
But it’s “Glory halklui;'." wlv’n i fiddle’s
singin' swe t!
When th. y form the sets f.-r dan in' with
the sweet an’ rosy girts.
An' you see their I.rigid, eyes glen in',
an' they're sliakin' of tlwir curls!
Then il's “Ready, fellers nil!"
Vfi,. n you hear the tiddler call:
An' take yor rosy partners, an' swing
'em roun' the hat!!
It beats tills Op'ry music—-a fiddle on the
With the room u-swinimin' roun' you as
you trip it. heel-an'-toe!
Wh u roof aT rasp rs ringin'—the shin
gles overhead
A-danerti' to :l>< music that’s a-thrillin’
through the shed!
Then It's “Ready, fellers—all!”
M lien you hear the fiddler call;
An' take yer rosy partners, an’ swing
'em roun' the hall!
Getting in Time for It.
“Marse Tom." said the old family ser
vant, “you lookin' lots better dese days.”
“Tliink so?”
“Yes, sub. You mu. ' lie soberin’ up
ter start IT' s'n t.'hri.-'mus!”
* «
Spring in Autumn.
Springtime in Autumn-birds are on the
wing:
(There's a sprightly moekin'bird a-fixin’
for to sing!)
Rivers makin' music whore honeysuckles
spying -
Snringtime an’ Autumn time in Georgia!
Springtime In Autumn—goldcij rod
a-gleam:
Dike the plains o' Paradise the golden
meadows seem;
Life th,it moves to music in Hie pathways
of a. drcam —
Springtime an’ Autumn time in Georgia!
Springtime in Autumn—firmament of
blue—
Stars tiiat see their faces in tho crystal
o' thp dew;
Love that smiles as sw.etly as your
sweetheart looks at you—
Springtime aij’ Autumn time in Georgia!
A Favored Citizen.
“1 lives right at. home.'' said the old
colored citizen. "Hog cn hominy feeds
me; cotton puts cloze on me; one cow
bi.h sho. s dg whole fambly. en whips de
eliillun inter de right wav ; tire don't cost
nuttiii' in winter; two mules ter keep do
farm gibin', en a sleek ho.-s ter ride ter
h< aven on ev ry Sunday nieeldn' Uayi”
*** • *
A Song of Cotton.
Oh. Dixie tan' de lan’ er cotton—
Man dat made it, clean forgotten.
Work away.
Work away
For de cotton days in Dixie!
De farmer toll we'n do days Is sunny.
Make de cotton, but miss de money,
Work away
For de cotton days in Dixie!
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,
Laws Must Be Enforced.
(From The Knoxville Tribune.)
If, we repeat, tiie people of tills coun
try. win re our fathers fought for and
achieved victory, expect to preserve and
maintain the liberty for which they sac
rificed their lives and shed their blood,
they must see that the laws are upheld
and enforced. And tiiis means all law,
from the lowest to the highest. Law
breakerp must understand that there is
a I'liblif sentiment that will assure their
punishment, whatever tlnir color, their
condition, u.r their social standing.
War on Lynching.
(From The Omaha World-Herald.)
The best service that may lie rendered
to our civilization with respect to this
problem is the cultivation of a public
sentiment that wit! not condone a resort
to lawlessness in tiie form of lynching
under any circumstances, it is the duty
of men like Bishop Candler and tiie
duty of all men who believe in tho
maintenance of law and order, and who’
understand that lawlessness on the part
of the individual can not lie checked
and discouraged by lawlessness on tlm
part of the crowd, to bend their energies
to this good wjrk of stamping out the
lynching haltit not in the south alone, not
in tiie north alone, but in every sec
tion of this country.
Whatever tiie offense may lie. let law
and order prevail and permit the penal
ty to j)e imposisl and inllieted by tile
machinery of the state.
The Gospel of Work.
(From The Chicago Tribune.)
W'. E. King, a negro editor down in
Galveston. Tex., takes a sensible view
of the race question and lectures his
IK-ople plainly in the columns of his pa
per. He admonishes them that no one
will respect them so long as the bulk
of them are “lazy, shiftless, character
less. and inclined to copy the vices of the
whijes while ignoring their virtues."
“What the mgro needs.” lie says, 'is
work six days 1q ihe w< ek and every week
in the year..."
Editor King is right.
it is the gospel of work which is go
ing to i < deem tjie negro, and the seom r
lie discovers 1: tile better it will be
for him. It is plain talk. Perhaps, it may
be painful t > the n-groes, but if they
• xpecl t'j. lav their lights, whatever
they may be. they must snow themselvis
worthy to Jiave them, and understand '.hut
a lazy, ignorant, dissolute negro will
be treated just as the -,im<- Kind of .t
wliiti man is. i'li" in■ s would do well
lo listen to the advice f such nu n as
King i<nd Booker Washington and the
colored bishops who have recently talked
so plamly to them. They are going to
stay in Ir s"’ til. and it will largely
depend upoji thcms'ives how they ace
treated.
WLat the Sun Said.
(From The New York Sun.)
Th" remarks of Governor Northen of
Georgia on tile negroes are sensible an i
enlightened. They seem to have been
'■ailed out ! y the suggestion of Mr. John
Temple Graves, an Atlanta editor, that
the only solution of the race question
a’ the south is to got rid of the negroo.-
by their concent ration in some terri
tory- or insular posstsslon of the United
States At any rate, Governor Nor
then calls all such schemes of negro
deportation absurd and impossible.
.Every s< lisitde man at the south
knows that the governor is right in that
opinion, and his expressed preference
for negro labor also represents the gen
eral southern feeling. “I have spent all
my life among negroes,” said Governor
Northen, “and I want to live in no
country where there are none.” At th"
bottom of their hearts the great mass of
southerners, at least the “old school,”
are of the same sentiment. On the other
side, among the great body of the ne
groes, th" response to that feeling is also
a preference for the south and for south
erners. They understand each other,
respect and affectionately regard each
otlv r Violence against the negroes is
as painful to the white humanity of the
south as it is to the tenderest suscepti
bilities at the North—yes, even more
painful. No one can live among the
nwiroiv, as Governor Northen has done,
without acquiring a strong liking for
them, in spit< of their race weaknesses,
ami even because of their weaknesses.
The absurdity and impossibility of any
scheme for the deportation of the. ne
gr-ws are shown in these comparative
statistics of tiie two races in the eleven
states which are’ banded together In
the old secession confederacy:
Whites. Negroes
Alabamal,ool.l 52 827.307
ArkansasS44.sßo 366.856
F10rida297.333 230.730
Georgia 1,181.294 1.034.813
1 a... ..729.612 650,804
N wt'a (' ! ina1.263,603 62*fc/69
South Carolinass7.Bo7 728,321
Tennesseel.sJo 186 480.243
Texa52,426.669 620.722
Virginial.l92,Bss 660.722
That is, in those states, in 1900, there
were 7,132.617 negroes to 11.776.291
whites. How would it be possible to get
rid of these negroes without disrupting
every industry In the whole region'.’
They furnish the great bulk of the la
bor. They are an integral part of south
ern society, and are essential to it.
Are they laborers full of shortcomings?
Very likely; yet to the marvellous de
velopment of the south in the last twen
ty years their labor has been a prime
contribution. Southern agriculture de
pends on them. Would there be a $600,-
000,000 cotton crop this year if negroes
were not pretty goi. I agricultural la -
borers? How can the south ’>e very
I id!) off far labor when it is bccom
ii"' the most prosperous part of Hie
union ?
Go; rnor Northen expresses the sen
timent of the reasonable and enlightened
south concerning the negroes, ami it is a
Sentiment which will protect them
against injustice and assure to them ev
ery right as ,i part of th" community
needful for its prosperous development.
The south get rid of the negroes!
Start a movevent to do ii. Mr. John
Temple Graves, and see what happens
as soon as you have got ft well under
wit) . Tit*’ south nun's tho negroes, not
merely boeause it needs their labor, but
also because it likes them, prefers them
to any other labor. In the- process of
time south. ru conditions will he chang i
by tho diversion thither of considerable
streams of immigration; hut tho revolu
tion in labor will b" slow, and southern
ers will always look back with pleasant
memories to the days when negroes
almost exclusively tilled their fields and
were for them servants.
If th<? negroes are to lie deported, all
of them must go. those at the north no
less than those at the south, for there Is
the same objection to them in both sec
tions, and at the north there is not tho
liking for them which Gov. rnor Nort’i"'i
so truthfully says exists .at the south. IT
the negroes go at all. they will have to
go as a whole.
Macaroni Wheat.
(From The Minneapolis Journal.)
I’iati' nl experiments made in Fargo
with macaroni wheat Hour as a bio.id
Hour are declared by Professor Zintheo
to show that “as good br. ad can be made
from macaroni as from any other Hour. '
Many North Dakota mills are grinding
macaroni wheat in large quantities, and
some oi tin ni are paying No. I northern
prices for it. Macaroni is such a hard
wl. it, lb.u it requires slightly different
milling methods from those adapted to
ordinary hard wheat. ’l'ho Farmers’ Mill
and Grain Company, of Milnor, N. D.. re
jn.irts that after a little adaptation it was
aide io get as much Hour out of macaroni
wheat as out of hard wheat.
At present the millers and grain men
are naturally suspicious of macaroni
wheat and ii is quoted 20 cents a buslv 1
less than ordinary hard wheat. But this
diherence in price does not argue any
thing against the future appreciation of
macaroni wheat or its real value.