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The Democracy in 1904.
Commenting upon a recent interview
with the editor of 'lite Constitution
our e.-teetned contemporary, The . bar
Aston News and Courier, strongly in
timates that it doe;; not agree with the
btaiemcnt that a renomiuation of Mr.
Cleveland would disrupt the party, aid
plainly says that if that would be the
case it would be good for :he onutiy
the parly and the south!
The News and Courier ni.U •> ■ the
burue deduction that many othi r peo
ple do, which is that if • party no
not return to Cleveland it mur. remain
bound to Bryan. And that leads it i
say;
11 Bryanism is to on : - at “ - l
campaign of t i.-.- natio".raw
party, it will be v>
the party to attempt a i at t ■
polls.
But why tiiat ■■if"'.’ Tit r ■ .r-u';.' ci'
our contemporary i.- . more yoweiful
and revealing than on own j it :i"- . v
ers anywhere a sinyie sir:; ;l.a; Ihyait
ism, so-caiied. is to control tn lin next
campaign es tin national d-nicer;;'u?
party. The Con itilution has t thi
steadfast supporter ol the : nr ■ and of
Mr. Bryan wh .-n lie wa: >:■ B-gniar m
credited < and iat< i n ■ '
its position in th< cr-mpa <>■ -■ von
and three y< ars <: to H h.>.-. no words
oi despite or • •mrveiatien to jii.rl upon
Mr. Bryan < u count cl :!;■ .'■■■■■■ til -of
159 ti and 1!-' P. no 1: ttu able honest
and honored tiemocrai
Mr. Cic eland at 1 the fa i inst above
mentioned concerning Mr Bryan com-|
Lined wiih tin . Imaim-ii .;>•! ii a his o!
political and «.’cin, unit questions that
exist -n tile < ;>:inr ■■■ now. the Consti
tution 1-■ I: <•:■• h oi those cents -
men is <-v . Mod fro;,. couMd -ration as !
1904. Oth--i : -u : ami other men are '
b.ting loot i i'- I.- tn ; ink am! tile
of the rar.;. ;:n.i n!r> :-u; it 's ass'.n.i
ablc- as -i 1 realm.v that 'he national
< onveutmi: w.. 1 i.• >i: ;u«t K> a plat..ol 11l
ami find a < mididate unobjectionable
to any true <r mocr’it in rhe land.
To do rii.it. is the end toward which
every light . p rio-d democra' shomd
be alert. 1 persisien'. None oi t.hof-e
' op whom '■> m'l th‘- ney; mid bm
den of the coming ba’-c? should find
pleasure in laking over tin ash“s of
dead issu s or sti'-- •>- ip tl.-- tailing
embers of old disagreements. Hmy to
the party and t'm. pan it of right
should play In '■ i amt tutiiie
realizations of th people should in
spire US 11 < ; y e,.,t- > U pi im
prejudites and t otti
monious alignment nst the ■om
mon enemy
Tihose oi us who ere Bryanib s
at e first of all dem »cr: desirit no
belattod vindication bin anxious for
future v • •
lands t<-s at
ordiaate their st i:-um !!<>n to a re
newed zeal tor t’m fiaternization of the
factions on new, who:-, -otne and max
netlc issue--, vital to t le popular zood
and having the promi of f Lnia of
genuine aemocra .mt its eedowni'-nr
with ‘
Faith, in Southern Industrie:-.
That the ilnaii'ia. wo.ld ha- a
strong faitn in t!i v.hob. -'.metu.-ss of
southern business editions and tne
profitableness in southern industries
is illustrated signally b\ a re< --nt iu< .-
dent In N> Tori.
A large soul idust rial conc< ■
found itself in urgent need oi larger
and wanted it in a nurry J lie loan :
market in Wail strey-- had grown taut ;
. and strained. Everybody in the street
and many ndustii‘-.- in ail parts oi the
country were elamoting tor cash
money. It looked iii;e :.n excers oi itn
puden< lor an;- com ern to ask for
sil,Oil".- i‘ .n ;. bus'' I: Ihe gi l al hun
dred-mj-llion-dolla < Udat< 1 Lake
Superior Company was d- perately
begging for ss,UtiU,of'<.i to pay oft its
Spey -r mortgay, on : to g. t the mar
ble heart in reply and is now a mass
of industrial wre< in ■on iqu nee
Ot its failure to secure mis sum.
Stocks worn smiling hourly, some of
them to stvitu no more forever, and
things looked blm 1 as indigo to bor-
But this southern ■ .>m-ein walked
right in and laid down its ord< rs. pro.--
poets of profi.s and nee< si c-- before
rhe masters of the mark-t. Their se
curities wet .- good as could be demand
ed. The question of handing out the
money depended upon tlieii ability to
fill their orders and get th< lr pay for
their goods. The calculation was brief
and satisi'a; mry an 1 to tin amazement
->* the street the southerners bought
their passage home with the fateful
$t;.OOO,0vO to their credit.
How doe.- that stride you as an evi
dence of confidence, oven in panicky
Times, in the stability and earning
power of a typical southern industry.
True, the borrowers are to pay 18
p«T cent, or $1,080,0 o for the use of
i . n <fi;.ooO.( f'O for a year, but in that
'art the marvel grows. It must be a
■ptendidlv profitable li'tsiuess that can
pay such a .ate and yet make an over
profit. Bu‘ the Wall street lenders
convinced themselves that the concern
■ could do both, or they would not have
i loaned it six cents!
. ' The incident, shows that the solid
, : south is a term as expressive in terms
1 of business as in terms of politics.
More About Brown.
Recently The Constitution spoke of
' : Brown, of New Orleans, as worthy to
i be remembered by the cotton raisers
' oi us soum when '1 iiauksgiving day
' rolls around.
. The Columbia (S. C.) State thinks
■ ■ differently, it Houts the suggestion of
a b neiicc-nt Brown and reads on his
' escutcheon oi>iy the sign oi laurus
I rampant. Even so, the reading is sig
nificant. for the hull is .he zodiac sign
■ that, affects 'he human neck--and
Brown surely did land heavy on the
necks of tile lellows whose business
. tor immemorial years has been to spoli
ate the poor cotton cultivators of the
south! And that is why we were
moved to exclaim “Bully for Brown!''
But The State does say something
I pertinent that we may well examine
; lor the larger e'lificatton of our read
! ers. it is this:
! The Constitution’s position is that tlie
present price of cotton is fictitious tori ' .l
t.;, by Brown—when as a matter of fact
; with an exliausted supply at tl; . e’>enin.g
t . jp.. j, .son, with great destruction in
Texas and with a government report
.showing lb condition of t:i” crop to be
65. the prices should not be below io
! cents.
Rather has The Constitution insisted
; that the present an I recent prices of
i cotton represent more nearly the
! actual value of the staple. \\ edo not
believe that the price cottou has
usually brought, in the fall is fairly
rated ior the raiser, whether there are
boil weevils in Texas or a government
estimate of tT. per cent of a full aver
age crop. We insist now. as we have
always done, that the common prices
iiiadc for lotion white in the farmers’
bands Lave bet-ii lor two decades past
the fictitious prices, but. they were lle
-1 fjtiotmly low prices. They did not
represent t ’.air payment lor the in
i. ■ tment ot the farmer and seldom
ailov.ed him more than a meager mar
gin ol profit. Out view is candid that
tli" work of Brown, instead of making
cotton prices fictitiously high, only
reriiH cd in bringing them up to a rea
sonal.i',- fair level. Had lie not entered
th e.;e uinge those price.-; would have
gone down as in the past to fictitiously
low figures.
Brown ..imply followed the opera
tion:' ci' Brice, and then of Bully's
i-ic'.'.'ii. begun early in the year, after
miil stocks and export demands w. r>-
.till-- calculate-... Be saw that the de
mand for cotton would be greater than
available supply. IB bought tor
future delivery and his opponents sold
,’i.h the notion that, they could find
1,., >;iy ..I cotton to put on the Brown
crowd at the round-up. And they lost
out The Ss 11 '."' I th. Brownies made
.it'*’ taken from the over-lat ot the
bears, that's all.
Brown, then, <-ame into the game be
can. .• he knew that cotter, has had no
eh'.nce for year- to bring its real
value ;<t marketing time. Whenever
tin? cotton harvest begim- the bear.-,
'operaiing lor the differem-. be’w<-'n
'tn mi.e for which they can buy and
that" which the altei-haivest cotton
positions will '.'ntible them io demaud
' of consul. • rs of the raw cction, unit-?
■ ip’pr. .-s the pile. <>;' ihe ciop al!
:■$ tb.e line The cotton produci r i
h 1: ;s as a nst this consolidated
'oiii' 1 - corner. :ui!iti.>lly worked on
him, ami has h< retoforc had io take
: the market prit 's fixed by them.
Brown'•• corner was engineered trom
i! ; .- producer’s side of the fence. It
to his persona: ml. re.-. ’.<> pm tl: 1 '
price up am! t iar redounded immense
ly to tiie cotton raiser, who sold ahead
or futii’.'o delivery anti has netted the
I'armers of the smitl'. many millions of
dollars more tl- ‘a cthc-rwise would
have fallen to their .fide of the sea
son’s a< count.
As tor snot cotton if <?vo> ■■<! up with
.'"'uri-e ; ii Nov. York, it fell in Savan
nah and elsewhere for tl: ■ simple rea
son li'.tti i ( was not on ’ne spot at the
point of contract debt try when
There.orc wo still hold that Brown
lought with the tarm-rs and hence
t.ho: tears and cm -s in the bear pit!
The Southern Wcintiii.
Mvrta l.oekett Avaiy well-kn.cwn
lo literary anc social circles in At
lanta, ha.- an .irtlvle n Gunton's Mag
azine lor Oetobc.' on “The Old arid tin’
Now Regime in the South.’ with rei'-
rence entirely to tie' women of the
ante-bellum am.l tin- present eras. It
is an in .Testing symposium ol the
stat.- of mind inio whith sumo south
ern worn, n of the new era. nave auto
s’B.ir.:•.: ■it themselves ami we cannot
: :ty that they pi -r. 1 views of what
iho southern woman should be that
are eitlier patriotic or commendable.
In one pia«- sho quote- one ol her
southern women as saying:
. ■ - niothet s cull th.
■ ■ 1 ■■ p s 1
! is' "i vet huge:-::.' Lt ili.l fi"t
'■ south was emphatically American and
i the prepon. it luting infiuince in A’n < ri,...
We very much mspe< i that the lady
quoted was born some years alter the
war and has not rea.l with due com
prehension the, history o', her soul hern
. foi i-boars. although ;'-h : ' is de:''" ribed
as “progrossive as a Bostonia! 1 ! \nd
right there, we also suspc't. is the se
cret of too much of the sort <>.’ talk
quot' d by the "Titer <;f the article.
'l'ii..' women in it tall: like expatriates,
persons who ohicc moving th ir l«res
and i'. 'iutt's aed p« -nn’ary oiioris to
New York and Boston have absorbed
an ambition to be more “ntUiona!
than tin- Gown Easters themselves.
It is a distinct repudiation of all
tradition and all remaining witnesses
-of southern ante helium life to say
that our women of that period did not
, iliifercntmte between being southern
cis and Americans. The latter they
: were in tin ir brood aljcgiaiice to th?
I principles which the word American
' represented, but they were first of all
i Virginian.', and Georgians, and Texans.
! If not. how camo they to mother Rob
! eit E. Lee. and Bee and Bartow, and
Albert Sidney Johnston, who forsook
i ofi’ice. honors and bribes to do their
; full and sacrificial duty as Virginians,
i as (icoigians, as Texans —all cl’ them
i as southerner: ?
Nothing that we can conceive of
could I? more <■:>.amitons to southern
■ and to American life than to h ive our
southern women adopt, the sentiment
quoted above, or that other passion re
peated by the author from the lips of
one of her friends, to this effect:
For mys.’l'', J like tlie modern trend—
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THE WEEKLY COMSHITOON: ATLANTA. ©A.. MONDAY. OCTOBER 12, 1903.
the larger liberty for men and women!
Rather let our southern women de
spise the modern trend, for it is at right
angles with that sanctity of their sex
which has been the crown of their
glory in the past, and that harmony
of thought and nobility of action which
in the past made them the mothers
and wives of men who indeed exerted
“the predominating influence in Amer
ica.”
For our part, we would conjure back
to our southern homes the grand old
days and ways of the women whose
lives made possible that southern life,
that southern loyalty and that south
ern chivalry that in their revivals
would again .lignify southern society
and give conquering power to southern
patriotism.
A Woid to Cotton Raisers.
The easiest way to produce a panic
i is for everybody to whirl in and say
“it is coming”—and it will come, all
right. On the other hand, when peo
ple are buoyant and hopeful the at
mosphere becomes charged with the
electricity of enthusiasm and the bus
iness world thrills with confidence and
activity. ,
The cotton producers of the south
ought to take to heart just now these
i simple facts of human experience.
If present prices of cotton lead them
■ to say "The bottom has dropped out.
' of the market” and they rush to sell
their crop at 9 cents, because they say
•’next week cutton will bring only 8
I cents, and the week' alter only 7
! cents.'' it. is but logical that 7 cents
. cotton will come to pass.
It is just this sort of feeling that
the cotton buyers abroad In the land
! are deli hied to see pervade the situ
ation. Tin y want the cotton. The
nulls of th;' world are obliged to have
it. They are employing every possible
' artificial agency in their power to de
press the price. But the real position
of supply and demand no not warrant
the rush to market ami an anxiety to
i sell tiiat. is visible all over the cotton
. belt.
Tliere may be cases where the hold-
■ er is compelled to sell to meet matur
ing obligations. But these ought not.
■ to be so many as to justify a general
scramble to take any offer made at the
ware house door. Those who can bold
their cotton off Hie market, lor the
i res, nt are simply robbing their own
’ pockets to dispose of it at prevailing
prices.
It is distinctly to the interest of the
country and town men bams all
Hiroii-’b- th-* cotton region io discour
age such sales. Those made now will
yield large profits to middlemen But
i if the cotton is held until the legiti
mate season nr’ce becomes stable it
will mean immense profits to the farm
er and larger sales and profits to home
j merchants.
As to Those Amendments.
A number of our northern contempo
raries are exercising themselves un
duly in discussing how the Massachu-
■ setts democrats have served warnin ';
on Hie southern democrats by adopting
■ a platform resolution condemning any
: effort to secure the repeal of the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to
: the national constitution.
The southern democrats, be it
■ known to all .-oncerni d. are not inter
ested in the dechiration so made by
their brethren in Massachusetts. It
may be that the latter, for some un
rev. alod reason, have occasion to ex-
opposition to any mov. inont to
r.-peal those mneimnients, but the dem
' otTats of the south have no reason to
ii' <l.‘i. com ..'riling them in any word’s
wi.■ ■■-'. er a.i'l W' do not believe thos 1 '
artirlc? witl b? even mentioned in any
platform ’.mt the democrats of these
southern states may make.
Everybody who know political his
torv understands that the responsible
people ol the. southern mates did not:
•-."til. ihose amendinents. They were
forced :!toui;:i bastard legislatures by
ti.e bajenet: oi federal troops, 'io
. harge us '.'-'th repudiating the terms
oi our i" a.Hili'-': ! ui to our part ir. the
■.•ov<-rm..l'lll wii .-n we d<?clare our unal
•'■val'l ■ non-ciuiseut to the effects of
t nose amiT'dnff'nts is to make a inlso
and H.apardonable accusation. ih 'j
..... tagged onto the eonstitu-
ti.ui until the < rack o’ doom, for all
we rare, but tlicit permanency will
never wipe out ti.e infamy ol their con
c ptiou in haired of nr people and the
< rim.-s < ?ai<i i clviliz;;iii'ti P' ■ !>• ia ! '•
through their agency.
The fourteenth amendment was re
icei'-'d by 1 )<-.:> w;;..’. lie:’.: m-ky and
'Maryland', vnich then were loyal
.(jt,.. i'ii" fifteenth aim ndi," was
• morel bv Teniii ssee. .eject'd b; Cal
ifornia. D-.-lawar. Kentucky, Marykind,
N.-w J. ami Oregon, whiic New
York ratified i- and them ’.escindod
ilia' action. Why do i.ei our northern
emit', nijiorarles take note ol Ihu 0
ia.-t. a'.a j astc a bar sir ter oi trea
•on acre's their < .;cu'chmms also?
The Coming Er.l.a Session.
i l-’roni r'.dmble ;-mmim inters about,
ihe while house it ;,.vc;> out tiiat
reS s is to b. a ■ embii d in extra
se.-sion on tin. 9th of November, in
stead ol awaiting the regular session
i beginning *m i.rst Monday in Decern-
li is also state-.l emphatically that
extra sesi.ion is nut 1o d.iobl'.' *, iili
'the .■iii'ieii. y question, tariff revision,
or anv other living issue, but tiiat oi.
! arranging prclereiilial rates ior the
jieuefit of Cuban imports into this
countrx. Ami that can Im’.'dly be call
ed a living issue any more. It prae-
■ licalk. died under the name of “our
I’lain duty” in tne assassination of the
■ lamented McKinl. y and its ghost
' comes up now by the conjuring ol the
ni esidi nt as a special materialization
act in the vamlt vioe administration he
is < outributiiig to the couutrj s his-
: tot'.'. .
Do. :' he or any other man imagine
I that the cause m. reciprocity with Cu
' ba 1., any strong s now than when it
; was i mi11..■"..•:1y n Lien down by the last
i coimr< It- may be, as reported, that
ntuu lliain .Alden ?
■ oi Miihigan. has agree I to Im good and
j keep hi:; mouth shut off-from opposing
| ti.e Cuban ire: Iy, and possibly a lev.'
! others have boon 'fixed' to aid ami
I abet '.he Roosevelt programme; but
1 will those inuzzlin.gs in Hm house
; cause the high priests c£ protection in
I the seim.te to permit, the driving of this
thin end of a wedge into the king log
they have made of the Dingley act?
To give tree entry io Cuban sugar
means the. abrogation of a. practical
bounty of 2 cents nor pound on all Hie
cane and beet : ugar products of this
country. Our home producers oppose
that gift to Cuba which they say
means ruin to their fields and factories
in Louisiana, Texas and the sugar beet
states west and northwest.
So that if the republican party is to
"stand pat,” it cannot dodge this
proposition that Cuban reciprocity is a
repudiation of the protective policy.
Mr. Roosevelt thinks congress can suc
cessfully ride these two mules running
in opposite' directions and ihe whole
country will enjoy the free show of its
efforts to obey his command.
A. Mendacious Campaign Charge-
In his speech to the republican state
convention in Massaeimsetti we find
Secretary of the Navy Moody making
some statements not consistent with
Hie facts and his own reputation as a
man of information. Su-.-aking of the
democratic state platform demand fur
shorter hours and against child labor,
he contrasted it: with tlm ’'long hours
and the labor of children not. only con
tained in the platform, L it in the art
and practice of the whole uemoeratic
party throughout the south.”
It is scarcely to be believed that Sec
retary Moody could, have made such a
statement without knowledge of its
absolute falsity. Unless lie is the pos
sessor cl a “forgeitei ’ is convenient
of service as the one the president
used at Antietam, he must have re
membered that he never in his life
road a demand for long 1 mrs of labor
or foi child labor in any platform ever
adopted by a democratic onventiun in
an} state ol' the souiii. We distinctly
challenge him to the prom!
Nor can Secretary Moody truthfully
charge that those requirements ol long
hour, and child labor ar- ihe art and
piactii o ol ihe whole den icratie party
ihrougl out the south.’ He calmly ig
nores the fact that the :uple of the
south al large, led in <•> -ry instance
by .I‘inocrats, have agii,-:. -.1 for years
to i ■a ' ict and prevent ci Id labor and
have succeeded in having ?,uch prohibi
tory legislation '-na'icd in ineiy man
ufacturing state of the .'.uHi. except
Georgia. Here tie measure is still
ponding and ihe iierc.■■ i opponents of
its passage are mill men, some of the
strongest of whom come from Massa
chusetts or its vi' inity. and are repub
lican
W" confess to a. genuine astonish
ment that this cabin .J. officer should
have doom'?', it necc.'s. ary to bolster
his party's cause in his native state
with tbi:. inox'-iisablc misrepresenta
tion of i'aeis am! slander upon the deni
o'Tm y ot tin suutli. .’ it. perhaps he
knows his party’s peril better than
Chomb-rlain’s Policy A ainst Us.
'flic sjieecli of Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain at Glasgow, Tn?..lay evening,
is the r al opening gnu of his cam
paign for a proto, live trade policy for
Great Britain it is. < ven in the niea
r.' r outline, the cartoon of a bold ami
logic :1 app.'al lor I'm? abandonment
oi :'i'i? trade and the substitution of
defensive tariffs, it; some oi its pas
sages iini 1.0 caught ti.e light of his
educated comnierei;:! statesmanship
and Ironi them <an b' felt the intense.,
ardor of his patriotism. He m plaini..’
out to save England from indu.'i!: !
inanition and a constantly crushing
unequal competition.
r . he Ciimpaigit i ■ ! i>’'' to arouse the
ri'i.r.- c! the t'nit.ed Kingdom to a
sensof danger not 1 -s acute than
iliat ol th.' advance of the Spanish ar
mada or the necessity ot crushing the
Nanoltonic threat'?niiig of a hundred
years ago. And, though it may take
some time 10 lonvim. the majority,
the logic of im-e. mu i prevail am!
. hamberlain muw win.
The progr.'S ami t’"' outcome ot
this .great poii. v-making battie in Eng
mmi is of interest to H e whole com
mmrial world, lan perhaps upon nemo
;w. .’■mling nations will .. li'-V'.' ■ r
■c at t.nd far-reaching intm.uce its
up-on (..!:■ own count:;.. Tim London
Times gives th" real obje< t of the
U, ami;’ liain policy as this:
•J'he Brill 11 empire m k"? up large
B ...1 th.' world that its .■■ ■ si.ui- nt
parts, if brought into due union and co
li.■.•ion. woiil.l -'ll pi'ii'tieu purposes
Mr. Chaiaiierlain has studied trie
.•om.iii iems oi' Great Britain, tin dis
positions oi' tier colonies, and analyzed
Aim i- .’ii iri. Io moverm.'iff ? . > intelli
gently tiiat he knows thm union and
cohesion thai makes lor British inde
pendence mast be acquired by cement
ing the part- togetlicr with .ash in
. : a.i oi mure am. im. r.'.'li';-?ious senti
tii is kin a If- • 1 <iVcirid(His
human nature is the basis on which
he plants his policy of pret'erential
tariffs between the '.icti." country
and her colonies.
When be shall have brought the
masse.- ■ i' rliiglaml to this understand
ing ami established an imperial trade
y I. 'ween Engla’id and her c 010,...
~.. up,on terms of mutual exchange
and profits, w1: re will that event
leave die United States?
Today England and her colonies are
our be.- cusromers. \V. export to
j. ■ t largei volume.- of our sur
plu: prcducis. both agriculiuial and
m muiactui'uil. The (.'liamberlain pol
icy means lo cut those down year by
• ,'ar Canadian. Am-traimn, Indian,
uimi and South African supplies
; ) ! augmented and entered into Eng
land free, who • oui s our taxed. The
’■.! icrican larmers and manufacturers,
will! their depemli in laborers, must
see our exporm fall off annually, as
they a:e doing even m-until the
onl’ surplus we send <> England will
be that * wl'.ich pays the dividends,
rents and interest', on British capiial
invested in this country—and that will
be ail proiii.' to Jvngland and ad 10.-s
to us as borrowers.
Our Xmerican protectionist:-; w"l
find in the Chamberlain policy a hard
er proposition to handle than any they
have encounteied in our home poli
tics. They will be called upon to ex
plain to our own people a m w way
of disposing of our .surplus agricul
tural ami manufactured products.
Tliey will be compelled to find ami se
cure t i this count'. ,v now and adequate
markets ior those surpluses, or see
our farmers' products fall in price, oiu
!aetci'i".'> idle half the year, labor
v. t.ge -. leduced ami workingmen idle
three io six months out ol every
twelvemonth.
Ji' tli" English colonies can by im
perial reciprocity cause the transfer
of British capital to themselves, be
eau.-i.' its employment in their ex
ploitation will bring better profits
than it now gels in our country, on
tile continent or in South America,
their producing powers, agriculturally
ami in raw materials, will grow event
ually to the measure of English living
and'manufacturing demands, and the
exchange of their crude products for
*
the finished goods of English shops
will be profitable to both.
The withdrawal of the duke of Dev
onshire from the cabinet is a sign that
Chamberlain has alarmed the British
investors whose money is so largely
tied up in our own and continental in
dustries. Long ago those investors
tound it more profitable to build up
foreign sources of English supply than
simply to build up English manipula
tive industries. The increase of Eng
lish dividends, rents and profits from
capital invested in foreign parts have
more than offset in cash the loss of
export trade in English-made goods.
But tlie latter loss is to the whole na
tion. to the poor, to the farmers ami
to the? workingmen. The capitalists
will lose if Ch'imberlain wins, but Jim
masses will gain tremendously. The
truth is already verified to them that
11l fares the land, to hastening His a
Prey, ,
\V :erc wealth accumulates and men <le-
Al'-o, Mr. Chamberlain knows that
he has the United States impaled
upon the higher points of its own ar
guments. The high protectionists
have said that by their policy alone
can the home-market be monopolized
by the home producer and factor, the
American levels of high wages and
high living be maintained, and profits
lie made off foreign countries by sell
ing our surplus products in their free
markets for less than their own hands
and machines can < reate the like
goods. Mr. Chamberlain accepts these
stat'iments as true— congratulates
America for illustrating them to him
and his countrymen —aud now urges
tlm latter to use the same policy
against America’s trust-made cheap
floods aud cheap land breadstuffs in
order tin l .L England and her colonies
mav be as milependent of us as we
made our.-elv-.'S of British cheap wares
and cheap labor competition.
Ami what will our good D'ingley peo
ple no about it?
Tom teen Get Forty in Delaware.
“The Blue Hen,” Delaware, has the
unique distinction of being the only
suite in Hi ' union that still uses the
whipping post and the pillory as ac
cessories oi its jienal system. 'lhe lol
lowing telegram from \\ ilniington
gives a grapnie account of how those
devices worried in fourteen cases last
N illy 500 sj. .•later.- wat.'lied I’."' ->P
l lic.i timi oi corp.u '' punishment by '.Var
den A. S Meserve !■> tourtee.i cidprits to
i. ... Alfred S;>': ■. ) nm! 1 am:. ". alias
"W'hiskers" .Mullin, wait'-, convicted ot
robbing an old soidl’c of his pviisi
mon.>;. . W'.’ e given lorfy hi- lies .
Mullin took Ins wilhmit much display of
p.'in, but. Si' i.i i groaned aloud as t:,.-
cat descended on bls back, and It was
leari'd lie would I'aint besot" h‘: >i
througli with toe forty. His back look-.-d
like a piece of beef steak as 1." left the
post. In addition both men were, nut 1 ■
Die pillory to; ■. th ?:'. Then they were
till- n -a ?. t : l 1 ;" w-’i'k b ’ll.-" to s- rve
.a"'.!. II nry Bills, a nt-gi", :.rr st
. ! A.'.rtly liter the lynching ot’
V,on th" ■ Mirg, of attempted felo
n: .'is :■ - lull on tin wife of n trucker
lit,, li'-.. out thirty lashes al th?
p. -i amt also 'loo'i In the pillory tin hour.
11, will -r rve Bn ' . i;'.' in th- w...rk Loir ■ .
T' .tli- - vic: Inis'-wiT" thieves, who tc
r." .Veil ten Jasi'CH < ll.'h.
There ar.’ good, people in this world
who will have shudders when they
read of the application of the lash to
ihe broad backs of this crowd oi thugs
and thieves, and especially that one
who smight to c”. ! rage an unprotected
■.’.bite farm woman.
But there are millions of sensible
pcopl '. on Hie otlcr han;l. who will
think well of old Delaware for snbje. i
ing them to these stir.ginr remiuders
of the.'r r' ' alities a-' : n intro.li'ction
to the various ierms <■:' luxurious du
t-. 'i: ion in the penitentiary.
The::.' same people will t- gret also
il ;;i fl! the other states do not have
tm? courage ami justice to decree !':k"
punishtr.r-nts for their offenders
miainst the laws of pratcM-ion for per
sons, property and public deiency . To
them it seem: as fu as any human
i'.ennlty < an be ilia' petty thieves, wile
iie iter-., clrldren dost rters. women in
:-Mtc-"S, pistol toters, .■etoiid offense
'’runknrds and vagrants should “hng
the widow.” as t.lte whipping post is
called, and have lo ;lo"|> mi Himr stom
; chs a few ui hts from the offer: ■ of i
. uliy appl #i lash.
i’n"' i;: methods o' punishing sm-h
offenders seem io b" pla’nly inade
.pint:" and the substitute may }■■ ■: be
gctierally found in ihe Delaware idea.
The Carving Up oi' China.
Riis:iia remains in Manchuria. Cliimt
.. motion!', ■ s about it, but little Japan
s sc> ambling over Korea ami lining
up alom.’, the Yuiu river. Iler licet, is
in Korean waters and Russia’s ninety
sails are anchored hard by. Ever..-
■!iii;g is ready ior a scrap between U •
two except the first blow.
The condition.- are dynamic and the
n< x.t lew days may witness the begin
nk.ig of a war that will hazard t’to
peaceful flat iciis of all Europe ami
may cvennmlly call for American in
tervention. ’i'iie only question that
. ei 'iis to trouble thi greater powers is
whether it were bitter io l“t that war
come now, or a few years later on.
The most inevitable thing tiiat can
lie read on Hie world’s map is the com
i’:g partition of Cnina. She is the one
great obstruction in the pathway of a
wen Id-eiieirc'iiig civilizaiion. She is
becoming constantly a thorn in the
liesh of the progri asivi: nations. Rm -
sian aggression is .forcing r verdict in
her case and ju rliaps now is as good
a time in history to have it rendered
finally a can be anticipate;!.
Hoist by Their Own Fetard.
Our e.stc. in, .i republican coni??rapo
raries are up a stump, so to speak,
while discussing the Cnamberlain cam
paign in Great Britain. Th..' are
forced to admit, that < liamberlain is
using arguments for protection tiiat
American protectionist:: cannot afford
to deny. The logic of his contention
tiiat if American prosperity is the fruit
of jiroti I'tion, then English prosperity
can be had for the planting and culti
vating of the same rich oliva tree.
At the same time our esteemed re
publican friends are forced to admit
that when Great Britain goes onto
a. protection basis the results are go
ing to be extremely hurtful to Ameri
can producers. The cutting down of
our British exports will deprive us of
a great volume of exchanges, and call
for more American cash and less com
modities to pay our annual interest
and dividend dues to British capital
that we are using.
By the time the national conventions
are- held next, year our esteemed re
publican friends aforesaid may have to
get very busy over the tariff revision
they are now so cleverly dodging.
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
Ruled Out.
Dey rule me out
Whar de Fair folks rule -
One bale or cot ton
Lin a o’.e Ikin' Mule;
Three big ’po-.ssiims -
SlcM; on fat;
Ell I gwiu" back Lc.’.'ie
WL.ir my folks live at!
ICn aw;-? ili'.t cotton
W ilt 1,,-. J :-L'a-am!
Fn I'll -ee <1 ■ circus.
l-hi I'll drink my dram:
lln I'll sIL e iff ii ’p'' -am.:
Sleek en fat,
Fn Mlo'.lt h.'l'.ini;:
v\ liar lea.S'i is a: .
“It's FMth ii.it keeps de w ■!' mov
in','' .says iirotli’T VV iHiarns. ”I >.■ train
runs off de track en kill.- folks; but tlm'-
(ley gits It gwi.ic ag in it's eiiii’k full er
pa ssengers!”
Poor Adam!
Never v.mz a 'possum
W . li Ada a gr. a- <1 de griddle;
Never wuz a 'l.r akdown' -
Kaze Adam had no fiddle!
Oh. my Chilian,
Adam is ter pity;
Nev-r seen a railroad,
Or rid Inter a city!
Never wuz :i telegraph
In Adam’s ye'rs a h mmin;
Satan crops up on 'im
'Ko' he knowed lie wuz a-cornin'!
Oh. ir v chfilun.
Nev, r sc a a te'i :i;,!’.,
Or rid lot -i a city!
Bi other Williams in Washingtoii.
Some one i kcl lii-uinm' Willi ims how
he enjoyed his rerfiit trip to Washing
ton.
“De ‘.rip wnz .'ill right.” Im said,
“but ter s.:\'e me. I couldn't feel nt
home ’.ii ■•i’:’.si de r.-h'i. folks. Most er
dim said ir.' .n ’No. sir.’ ever
tin' - I nx d ’em :: 'mestfon! But de ■ ust
white home-folks I met on »de street
gimme a .r, cn 'aid: 'Wli.it in de
idlin’ v.'orl' is you " doin’ at de place
whar gover'ml’ii slay -you black ra.
kill, ' ' Take <;ls ticket, en go 'long
home, whir you come fum!’ En dat,”
added Bi ’:':"i- Williams, “rmulo me feci
so lioni' -e ,: ■■ I grabbed my eaipet
b.-u: en bit de i ist train far Georgy! ’
*****
A Plantation Jingle.
I'.:' :■ 'l'., sum wl.'j’ Ti.u oon -
Br’i r Alligaio- laugh s<> mm h
fl. roll clean off ■!.- log!
l.i my cU'l.m.
Ki • p ,1- G lory-vva v ;
■l’..' come d . T ’ dgniin: IF, '
Du i: • li y roll de roses.
v li.l de hiv ■' wiu bm.' '
En d-i: w- rob <! B" s'
(’. my chi!. 'in,
l<o p <l" Glory-way:
Sira' ge things gwine ter h m
’i'ii' come de Jedgn'int Day!
Wanted an Injunction.
"Es '.on please, -h.’ Slid til- 01. l
darkey to the lawyer, “I want t. - t
mu a i.arlln’ inj metier
“Whut iff, y"U mean by Ihat’.’ ' .1
ihe lawy-.-r.
•'( me.ii'S. mill, in I >:.y.x: a
ver.lie, ,e: Or II ' ; < r I 'Jm ■" ri.-Ml
l.i i,.a.1 v.i T roads ' V t
d e cl,, ’ooman g . Uw w.;y me go
mine.'’
■•I ..." mid :ii ■ L- x • - ' Yon wa it
:: div ji • to L ■ l’'-'g ami
gi.c Lei ■,:i:m.a.' '
■•Hat’s it. sum’ " .imi-.d '. : oiu man.
“I dmiao .'.ho e. i bed s gimme
:.• vy its her!’’
The Sivest, Best Days.
Till.' -'I: Wm:. r w; ■. > nj.- ’. ui-.i -r.
Am. A UUII’.III S pirn, mid grieve: .
1. !mi tlu r, . ii: Um : u.-s!
\\ t’n ■■ Im day ,m !>."■ I ■ ■ isi .
i.is: d:m.'
in ’ • Im j 'ni I a. : !
Ail that Lo’. "'.- ~:m. . •■:•!.' hold.
Till Autumn kissed hi r t i elids down
W mil t < I L • I .
A-.J w*.\ »• ijvi'i - ’< m |!. • i : •
The Story of a 'Possum.
dark, ■ u. th. ' ■> '::n L-- bml “tr.-od.'’
■ . '•■.'..
in' at m- . i ■ • ..?
“En you ilon’t see da.l fire what gwine
“N'er <Mn 'tat ■ m w' at’ll .J v.im ii de
But, ju-, il'.in !’.'• h--..’-.’ :!:e mam: of a
rille; Um 'imssimi t'.'l: a. his feet, was
p'ck.d . p by ill.- : tl w!m cwt. .1 the
11 nd. and carried u:’f in triumph.
Tim old man stood for some ’mm in
si!>n<-e ir ? him: t : '. :, h ■ -nut
ter, ■: to i.,m:'. If:
“Hit':-' iiuttm' in de romi' woi :' but Peso
po’ white 1 rush dal keeps .1 ■ i; .co
Brohl’rn slirr’ti’ tip <le country!” '
The Brighter Day.
No matter what tlm f Ilers sav
Tim brighter cay s r.-eomtn .
In bloom an' gloom, in mdu an' gray—
In winter, or tn rosy ?L-v
Hope whis.mrs of that ’orlglnm- d.-m
Tiiat .” wlmi tlw ?■ 1-. ■■n’ bugi"s say;
Timt'.- what the ’'.'mis in chorus pi..',-:
E.ltold tim brickin' o’ tfi_ day—
T'm- brighter .1 iy ■■ -’-emin’!
* » » ♦ *
A Future President.
■'Sim.tilin’t w ?ml r t that ho, ; . to
be president, some <my.”
'■Win.l nmk, it ;> ou : ?i,:i< .. ' "
••Got all the qmiHflcatiom-kin ri.le the
wil t boss in the comity, an’ hit the
bull's lie on tl im, a t’m.-r. with a shot
gun. nine thru ?• out o' tr n! '
v *
What We’re Wanting.
An’ brighter eyes,
1 .ov.-imr stars in bluer skies;
M.-allows sunr.y—
Milk an’ honey.
And a jinglin’ world of money!
fewer debts
An’ regrets
For Life's withered violets;
An’ still in sunny
Days the funny,
Unfamiliar fool of money!
Plunkett's Letter
IT is time that science had taken hold
of the question of oast winds, and
find if they can a remedy for trie de
pression it brings.
I spent all day Thursday watching tlm
effect of the east wind that. blew. The
vegetable kingdom seems to squirm as
I much from ih. touch of this wind as does
! tha animal kingilom, and its 1 light may
j b.; noticed in the drooping ot stems and
the wither of leaves. Oir B.'.i di . uglit
' ha:-: been inten-' • ;:m1 now every few
i day.-; comes an <u.-'t wind to cap the
i climax ’■ th" farmer's disappointments,
j Evra :■ hog setmltive to the blowing
1 o, ii u cust wind uiii (ii ttl<* draw th era
: selves up In a kimt '■>.-hind soibe place
I ol shelter am! eat Hit little of the food
• they seem much to need. The highest
' strung horse, drive dull against an east
’ wind and cows lull short in milk-ai;
I dairymen know that, ’.in.' birds appear
s with ruffled feathers and ail of them
ref'tse to sing while an mist wind blows.
I watched ’.-lus- Thursday all day and
not a song of a bird did I hear, not
even the chirp of a sparrow. There is
only one bird that seems to be cheery
whet* the wind is from the east and they
are nevu- cheery, their voice Is always a
doleful sound, as depressing as the wind
Itself—of course this bird Is the owl. The
owl’s “who-v.lio” and “who-whos” adds
to the dreariness of the night when the
east wind Mows. 'lhe human family is
so afflicted by the wind that it is dan
gerous to crack a. Joko or laugh a smile
There Is no old man that can stand an
attempt at humor v. nen this wind blows,
and the old women, Jerusalem! It woabl
tiring an that would burst the
fondest ties If we were to attempt to
be funny, cheerful or affectionate when
the east wind is blowing. f would no
more ..t.unpt to get up a smile at break-
I fast table on in .rnings wh n tin- wind :s
■ from the oas: than I wo.lil attempt to
■ tly. Ther i- '■ at one thing ib.it t'> :■<
I wind is good for. V.'lien a f"!low h;««
i gr iwn a lilt’." cun oil d about how he
1 stands or the kind of man he is. th >
| as an east wind "lows he can find out
■ how mean .in,! good for nothing he is. nt
| least m- and Brown do. and it is sur
prising just how much an old wom.'i:
can st i> ■ ■.'••• itlng f. r one of thi'se
Bat we hive to tn!:, these wind- as
th. y co.ne, ' they good or h- they evt!
till ■; i ■ ha.-, in veil i.--’I some means to
overcome the ’i. l off. The first step
I toward such an ■ nd .('O'li '< be to get those
: g’-ntb-n. n f i: '.l ‘ ...;-n of mind l<>
■ ke n i,: of the proportion of evil
; that eoim s with th <ns( wind’s blowing
The ot I , i“r ■' -• ns-- I to tell >::«
'.■iai. ;' y .-•••■;; i t ) whin the paper ws.«
r.oi'.g i" l.e ■>w l ■'! ".;,h crime. They
1 -r tha tl'.'.- s il: ■ most crime and
tl. " ■-;■?■. ,-i ne w’..-n ’*>•? .vin.i Is f.'utn
’1: u.-i <>n- of th -n assures me the:
i.ineoin . ir' G.’rf'.ol l wore both k“ ••
uml. r li: i T ,- of an CU-t wind. A
I,;;-’- inaco it his b:ist::.’/s to s'liov t:,,*
rime of De1'.,,11? in ■•,>::: •■ lion with
wind for il- forty or fifty ye'--~
ii' b tn i :"ci': points upon the miitt”?
at :he tim '■ r tl" no murder.
o 11 : '' " ■ in
. long ago. 11”" v. a=■ |-;i!"d by i’m-
of hi- ■? ■' ' ■ and if -as :t most ’•<-.
mn i-kab;. ■' al
Tin i ■ 'll th, rime was f:lr-,l out t"
a hole! at. All He nerfertm d all hi
usual wr.k. rio dnpli ■ tired to bed, but
■ '.'.■Hit. t1... n: I -. d from th
hot :. f" d- : :•'! th’ w: ’• to the movn
•x:ii -ixi'-cn i -’Mil'll his master nm
u - ■ t" 1" -I in il " hotel, wiihout
. < I.';:!, blond' r to It o ■
.., th" ■ .■' M t Ling t’mii Graham'
I.:: ! : : L ■! i ■' •“ ■:>, on, knew it. In
the citi. and before lie had had any
<l’.: . ■ ’O kno’A it ' ’ . ; 1( hfl( ; bp ,
11:. tv. im: - ■ :i upon film: I"
11,f d wi ■? t!erin’C. .-nd eon
fcss<d as th" ■: blew, and was
h-ing' <1 th' ;im, n .-.r Demiur I- :'":
war. Il ■ <■',:? :•. ! •' :tt an wi. ••
Am; :> ':■ ' l!;e t. I ,p of ,!•.!,. i ■ '
"'ii !>!< 't> ■nuiit'.- .'"? crl'ru <■?:■
nti t: *■ 1 ■'.>■. •*f I* r f l . • ".: - '■? i - i• ■
' ‘ m '. . i -
■ U p, in,";’ , | u t},:,; A-,,’ ,
’ ■ t- ■ 1 i::;- of It. ? <I,”-.t :t• i: » thev ' <1
J-'li’.' h *<l ;• , .ij trunk ?: a v.:iy, it
"ill r:w. 0., ;.;m r -1,. . ■ ■ ...
i cede:-' a mile against thi. ■ •
w;,nl artivpl ,tt the point win:.'
ng would d , ':■ a but intiriJ. r. ~? i
Tiled ’lie ".! I. 1' ■ b ui. -1 r in a?■ I
ami (!■■:.■ x as, ...,: a ~, rt :.-i" o'- •■■
i :',a; h.’ had co., iy- <I.. '
pcoolo 'ter • in DeK:’’" t ■ ..t -Ju ... ■ . I
tl." m.' .intiim. Jo!;. I. ■ • i ~■ ; ■ •
im- !:■ ■ and . and ihere 1,?. : ...
;!.- rnu. il'. :. ’: : : - ■ <.• ■ -.m, ■
• i !in ? . ;i■■• I . i,.i: i-.t It?i r . . o
. the. " tl'.' ■!u ' Iff we::: to T •'
in the . ."il m onr ' inniy. and ti<- i
you o I i_> llvil .! •. .-•! wind '.
and he ir, e him t.. th" "I.- /id ‘
When he a "'-■■ th" jailor a,, Ih:
wind from th" cast and ,i
--id Hi;.- nr.’. Tlie v.
wild, til! it w::.- the wild st d;v v
iuiown in 1 > Kai ~ bat Jolly r-I r -1
! The wind cot around mini th" "•.ttl
and then th rn :n wanted to 1> ' a ■-
t.-iticil having .-'mmiiUct an\ ; li
crime. But the p"Op!o w. '•• n,i . ■
tm-ned 'tlm ' Joiiv iarm 'u"sL"’ l.'wZ
They had ' ... d to a' grave . : ■ '
ihu it“. anti.’iv, hoWi e. r, the win.!
. wliirl'.l Pai-1; was . in Lw:..;
to confess. I! sent for the sheriff an!
i made a. full cor.B ssion . , l offcteil to -
and show where the girl was buried
’Arrangements v ere made, n t>am se
cured and they started v.itli Joliv tor
rhe pLi-'i. Upon arriving there w"re fnl-y
a thoi:..::nd peic le scattfi-l bl':.' a■ ->
■ tli"i-e Still si-aehinr; for tli" grnv ■, wh’ ; :
the east wind mourned and the ' sheritt
| became alar'n'.'d for hr. man. "Te.’t e w ■<
I no time for ilclay and there was not a.n?'.
I Jolly ordered the driver to turn i ut at .
J certain ’ph.i'e ami i."for r . tb> li-ul gone
I I', hundred yards in- pointed to the
I wly r.- briars and Is ■.? ? bml ■?’■,’« ■:
thicker than elsewhere and said Mmnlj :
“Tl: ic i-■ the plaei'!’’
Ihe sheriff erilled for :> man with shov
i’Kand the second spaileful uncovered the
: skull ol tlie gir] while til" east win.!
i mourned and Joliv .-hlvcrej. It was a
i race for life that got Joliv away fron:
i that crowd and back to jail, but it was
J accomplished and as tie ,-ntered Ins ceil
j th ■ wind whirled away from the east
a■.", Jollj was sorry he had coniessed.
■ Anyhow, hi- has lingered from then till
i now in the Georgia peni’entiary anil it ’
: doubt, like many another, naturally
I hates an east wind. I do Don’t vou?
I SARGE BEUNKETT.