Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

6 WOBSTITUTIOU CLARK HOWELL Edito. ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager ,ko Atlanta Foituft'n e«• Seconi .Mail Matter, Mot. 11, 1573. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, onlv $; per annum. Clubs of live, $| each; club.” of ten, SI each and a copy to getter-up of club. " WANT YOU—The Constitution wants an agent at every post office in America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms. If you are not in a club, we want you to net as agent at your office. Write us. CHANGE OF ADDRESS-When ordering ? 1- dress of your paper changed always give the old as well ae the new address. Always give pcstofflce, county and state. If your paper ** not received regularly, notify us and we ''lll straighten the matter. IF YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers. please allow' us a week to get the names on the list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much cicwded now. DO NOT FORGET tn make your renewals in time. Watch your direction tag and see when your subscription expiree. The next six month will be lull of interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con stitution. Mend your orders at least a week In advance to make sure. It may not sake a week In every instance, as we use the greatest diligence to get them on our niail uir list. 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! 4K- 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 THE WEEKLY OfWrmJTIONt ATLAWA. MONDAY, O( roBER 5, 1903 ’ 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’. •—•— 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.