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The Fifteenth. Amendment.
1 he fifteenth amendment to the fed
eral constitution is this:
The right of tile citizens ci tilt United
_States t 0 Vl/le stun not .icmd or
■ ridg :d by tiie I : ri.at oi bj
male on account ol race, <robur previ
ous ct’iiuiiluii o£ surviiuuL.
inis amendment has be n tor so
many jc-ar.t line the bpccier ot the
Breckeu to tiie boutitcin people that
most ot tnem are atuazoi to limi at
this late day that it is so Suiail a scare
crow and as ir.ii or bioivlioiim as the
contract armor ot a buttle ship.
In another place we print today a
review of a remarkable pamphi-.’i by
Hon. A. Caporton Braxton, <;i Staun
ton, \ a., in whh-it he traces the gene
sis, passage and pew ■ . . this pas-
siouaie piece or lcij:sl;;iim.. . Brax
ton nas pertcrnied a great public serv
ice by rollov.ing this article of ii;e con
stitution item its inception, through
all the stages of its g otutioit and ex
posing its real character.
Referring our readers to th. review,
we only note call attention to the two
strongest jwiiits brouglit ent b\ Mr
t • r.' •xi oh . nd in vi y 1
That thy • irecnth amendment was
parsed through both tiie m mite <. nd
house by a Tom Reed qtiaia-m-cutuiliug
coup de main ami that the strong prob
ability exists that lir supreme coin I
oi the United States, v, :icu it is forced
to the issue, will decide that it never
was constitutionally passed, submitted
and ratified, but is null and void.
Secondly, that as originally framed,
it contained the words "me right ot'
the citizens ot' the I liked Antes to
vote, cr hold office ." and tea. Hie con
ference lommitt' '■ of st-uai. a< >1 m. .
drink out the words "or hold office.”
So that the :.uieudm<'T!t only ape, s to
the right to vote anu not to the holding
office. There.orc. it would Lc com
petent for any state, without Infring
ing that am- uduieit', to enact a law ex
press! j- prohibiting any negro irom
Holding any ofib-i ere'?.: .-1 by the state.
These are im- .-win? iiuc. tions and
th. ‘outturn bizon should be thor
oughly informal <om • i":tithem. Me'
may have nec tor the m ■>< and prowl
ill the fililL' .
Cartooning the Preside::’.
in another coit.mn we print i. letter
from a premie, nt pi<■;r at Cornell
university, m which he prole, is
Hgai’i.-t cartoons in wltich the ptw • -
dent is more er m- ■. w; u tired, i:■
learned ami y uiioMe ;>:■<• or :M.d,s
such pictorial humin • and satires in-
Harm* the p:i:-.-n.i:s - d - ; -a . <■ ■
arc hists, and may lead to assail :
upon tiie < aim nmgb i rate the na
tion.
The Cous;. i n a : - <
impies:-cd witu d.... oi the
can be and lb.- r. n.o! ’■ o. ■ ■ ir /
ho not run to les
m what poit: I." may I l ’’-
attai it i pim th ' ."lc i
should lie , nil--tle-u.-ly :-v-id-.-i by
every go 1 ! 'o:■ a. Ciiml
lion as "the ci: n <>r to di
rect pitysll til W. . I'-t ! I
son ■would bo : . <. -a- < smli’c’.
But a pre 1 io <L-. i < 1.. -i re
sped ills oft- ■ moi r -ro! em.dm. :
in it as mm h . • -L. nis I v.-
citizens 11> ■ C " t : • 1! ’ 1i" >mm I
not violate th 1 ■ ano:," ■.,! good taste
in his pre.'.. :. ■ • "■■■■■: 1 •"
self-deme an : ; u iv ,u i vt- , or
commit oiilt • a< :> • dii amac*
and amuse ti,-. . nuiirwm None oi
these perTe Plata ■’ < ..a n. r, a. e pub
lic respect tor tl. perMin:.er et ,-n if
president
in another vi w. th-" m-ipai.t of tho I
white lious-. epr, , bi i: . president
of the wh >ic per-,de i| 1 e v. m’..'
immune from ,e- ■ . cc comm ■:.! an 1
criticism. Wo . b< - omw him-
self an active t■•irma.n agent in h:s
own and his j>a; ■>’.-• Lchoot be volun
tarily divests il.t' l i c toe pi ole -
tion of Cis e.. ■ mm •■do . ~m phi-
with other r.. rs and speiihimiers
of tho poiitii .1 ': arte
President •' evci’. iornmatcly.
has tiie saving .'.merit.an gra e 01. hu
mor. He seal The Constitution and
has raised no objection to our repre
sentations ot liiin.iii as ilie rider ot
Mark Hanna’s elephant. it was a
harmless piece of humor that we sus
pect the president enjoyed with gusto,
i Certainly, if it < ould inch ■ any ono
io go gunning, the hunter would have
been impelled to double-lead the own
er of the elephant rather than the
rider. But to show that the preside:.t
does not shy at an apt cartoon, we
reprint a letter to th. artist ol The
Constitution, as follows:
White 1 iousi , Washingt n.- W
Mr. Gregg: That i- ■- ...st-, < jc.it-
forni. and I am wma-nt to smnd on hp
]am very much am mi-J j w- ;i ,i with
th<> i-irtoon. .- m-i-r--'.- :■ nr. .
THEODORA ROt >SEVELT.
This referred to Mr Gregg’s ad
mirable stork cartoon.
So much so" the president's good
humored appreciation of a happy hit.
Now for tho more serious matter dis
cussed by our Cornell correspondent.
A few days ago the Associated
Press sent ou> to nearly every daily
newspaper in America a dispatch
from Cleveland, Ohio, the letter of
Secretary Shaw, a cabinet officer, ask
ing the president to approve his tak
ing part in the Ohio republican cam
paign. This is part of the president’s
reply:
1 am glad you are going to Ohio, and
I agree most heartily with all you say.
The return of Mr. Manna to the seriate
and the triumph of tiie prin<.-lple.s for
which lie stands in the present contest
are things chat concern not merely Ohio,
but our country as a whole; and I con
gratulate you upon having the chance
to do your share to secure not merely
triumjrh, bu; the decisive and overwhelm
ing triumph of Senator Manna and the
came which he n presents.
In this case Mr. Roosevelt plunges
into the lull swim of partisan poli
tics. fie sicks one of his chief offi
cers upon the political enemies of his
party and himself. Does he do so as
president or as Theodore Roosevelt,
citizen and candidate? We assume
the latter hypothesis. In which case
he must consent to be dealt with as
any other candidate and cartoons that
affect his availability and deserts in
the campaign are lilted clearly above
the criticism that they are incitements
against his official character and per
sonal security.
—____ .
Dr. Thirkield’s Criticisms.
The Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkield is a
strong and forceful talker, and his
sometime residence in the south is
calculated to give weight wj his criti
cisms oi the penitentiary systems of
the southern states. For some of his
criticisms there is the same good
ground that there is lor criticism of
any penitentiary system—none has
yi t been com - ived that apiuoaches
perfection. The meal system under
which there is just the right, amount
oi punishment and just tiie right
amount of reformation lor each con
vict will probably come with tiie mil
lennium.
The published extracts from the
speech of Dr. Thirkield indicate a
wholesale denunciation of the prison
systems of the southern states with
out discrimination between the good
and bad, and witbout, taking any ac
count of the marked reforms that the
past decade have brought forth. Ho
seems to be resting under the impres
sion that the relationship of the states
to their convicts is the same as that
established under the military govern
ment just after the civil war and
which, from force of cireumslances,
had io be maintained during the years
ot poverty and hardship immediately
following. The picture h<- draws ot a
system under which convicts are
"sold to the highest bidder,” with the
"bodies and souls” of convicts assign
ed io the lessees for the “exploitaiion
ot' criminals tor gain” may have been
apt enough oi' the old lease plan first
adopted in Georgia by Genera! RugC’’,
military governor, and extended by
the governors who succeeded him. un
der legislative authority, until IS7G,
when the last iiase was ma«L ' Imt it
is in no sense a just or proper diserip
lion of the present contract, system,
v. nil'll became effective in IS!H‘, upon
the expiration of that lem-x made in
187 G.
The old system reserved to the
state only the most nominal control
over tbi.* convicts. Since ISl‘7 t-lmre
i, ■ ; been no lease system in Georgia
nor, unless we ar<’ greatly mistaken,
is there in most of tiie otiier southern
suites. The Georgia plan is identi
cal with that of lii . Ohio peniten
tiary. immtily referred to as a moil''!,
with ' siugl exception that the
convicts here arc worked out ol doors
im lead ol within the penitentiary con- ;
tin->. Tins difference is maii. : i'est]y in
favor ot the health of the convicts, '
i 1- might be milled that in Georgia -
their labor does not come into confli'
vi’n free labor marly so r..: h as in
Ohio. There is m> lease system here.
i.-,i.- : . i.-jne t -.l'- . in Ij’-Ha tin laeor
tin r.invn t" is hire, to eo'itirtclcis,
ib,, i-me < ii.-'m.c .i es In. .tm. always
trie- r lite ■ oiilroi. tile ■ < stipi i ■
t jston ami tile sole scyn, v ,i-.on 0! the
: penitentiary obi' ,Lm.
Tm-re has in tin- t tin? y.-air. 1
Leen s vast in proventent ■ in t!
yi :a h. *;• iyis in ii(? hamis oi hohor
. ■. -.bright t’i'fi'J.d-■ vvh > s-i'” tl x ’ Llr.■:
b ~ • .-My to do their duly by tho--’
mm ’".i .a their elimye. as we 1 as by
I It • slid’.'. tilill <1 COH'
ditmti ot' 1-: ten ha ' L'- mi a iaim ■!.
but ceiumly thtro has been a vtt'.
in.silo''-' Mt- 'I hi'.'hid lei i
i:: 1,.... Th-.- is true wi'lt r-.mtrd to
me di winner a- well as the reg- !
liim. p- Mtentmry < and the la ■.
; . a I ■ th-' Itwt legislature will
: i .o;;'" Pirthi r b-' 11 1 ’Vim.lits la
Tin ■ city a-.d county camps, how
,-. • (1 , net . ill ior tin wuoh- -:-le -
;maatioit tney . or; umes gel
- lines the < i’.' stocka-11■ the critl
ci.-r.'.s oi' \vhi< h are rcpi'ated in tin'
Thirkield speech. A compleie inves
tigation into conditions there proved
Licit thel'e was little. :1' tiny, warr.il.’
ter the lath. !' som-.itnwai criticism of
ill, well-meaning' lad atM mmtio
ur a who attcm.L',.l the Charite a ami
Correction eonl'ereuce.
'fir. jmiiiti'iitiary pt'mlcm lu ri:•-
soiitln.rn states is no ' one. No
i .uy reaiiz •. this I '.t"t' than the
earnest and honest officials to whom
has been given the responsibility of
administratior.. Thest realize Chat
ptrt'eetiou b;:s not been attained, nor
do they expect to attain it in an hour
or a day. But they have accomplish
ed mueii and they deserve the credit
f-.r it.
The President’s Blumle’.'.
Tit'.’ report from Washington of the
‘‘pernicious activity” of the president
iu sending a platoon of high goveru
men’ oilicial:; to Ohio to help out 11: •
l ampmgii ot si'-; .'-tor Jinnim. is not sur
prising alter the publication, in the
same connection, of his recent letter
to Secretary Shaw.
But it ends fon-ier the pretensions
and pr- siig- of Colonel Roosevelt as a
civil service reformer. In his past of
ficial career that proi'e.-ision has been
tin.' chief plume in bis cap and has won
ti-r him more applause ami public con
fidence than his Haroun al Rasehid
stunts on Mew York police beats, or liis
well-timed ami deliberate "rush up
K 'ttlf hill.’ What now will tin’ Civil
Service Reform Association think of
; jir now self-dislocated idol? Will
they, at their next. --> con. drape his
conspicuous vacant chair in crepe and
tuiii his toothsome portrait to the
wall?
Colonel Roosevelt has by ordering
thi -: one swoop of his official eagles on
Ohio violated every tradition of pres
idential proprieties. What others did
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION* ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1903.
by indirection, he has done with a
shameless audacity. He does it, not
for love of Mark Hanna, or for the sal
vation of great principles, but to ad
vami: his own personally conducted
campaign to succeed himself in me
presidency.
Does he desire, further, to set a
precedent fcr his successors and have
future presidential campaigns con
ducted under white house orders and
ie people’s officials oruered out to oc
cupy the hustings and whoop up tiie
pap hunters lor the man at. the helm?
We imagine that he will soon learn
Hie magnitude of his inisiake. The
people will stand lor a lot of nonsense,
but they will not fail to resent this
flagrant prostitution of the presidential
office and officiary to partisan cam
paign uses.
The Bear and the Terrier.
Old Sister Bellona seems to be
brooding ominously over the Far East
and the trail of her bloody robe is
seemingly settling down on the penin
sula of Korea. Singular to say, the cu
rious people of that hermit empire are
not the folk who are blowing the bu
gles and fingering their fusils. It is
Russia on the one ham! and Japan
on the other that are maneuvering to
get at each other’s throat. And what
is the imminent rucus all abo-,:. ?
Japan has never been satisfied with
the occupation of .Manchuria by tiie
Russians after the Chino-Japanese
war and has since then bent every en
deavor to put het self in position to
cooperate with China in domamiii.g
ti-e expulson of Russia Horn that great
province and stronghold of Chinese
and Pacific control. Only the agree
ment of the powers to gt’.aran’.ee t.i .)
integrity of Chinese territory has re
strained Japan from some overt act to
execute tier policy of Russian repul
sion.
The meat political reason for Ja
pan's hostility to Riis'. ia is found in h r
desire to lead the hegemony of lue
yellow race ami preserve China, iJiam
and Tonkin from absorption bj par
tition among ami degluti: ion by tiie
w . leni powers. iSiie sees in Ru.-.-.sia the
python that has begun to swallow
China at the Manchuria end ami s
that turiher on Germany. England
ami Frai.ce will have to oppose the
gathering in of territuric-: of China
that they now hold in the sphere of
their c< mmereial centers of Shanghai,
!-.ioi'.-Chuw ami Cochin China.
It is lime, iu Japan's -opinion, to stop
tiie Kt- -sian dvance. Tiie Bth of Octo
ber. ilie day when Russia promise!
China and the United State:: to evaen
i'.io Mam-hiaia. is past. im t< K : ■ -.a
is ime.-in-r troops on tin: Yam ami hur
rying her fleets Irom Port Arthur ami
• • tok to a junction ii tl .
I--- tin strait, awl has many o' In. " war
ships already bumping elbows with tue
Japam. ie battlecraft in the harbor of
F . ' .....
1 he P,ritis'n-Japa’i".-e ailiau -e of Feb
inary, Ith 1 ? is one of tho strong lm
tors T .lupine-e confidem e. K w,.s
formed for "maintainnig, me im.iep.mi
cnee ami territorial inte-irity cl th-, em
pire oi' China anti the empire m
Koron.” Japan i . to be aided by
. . case she I me; involvt :
with more than one i>e?V'.r. As Russia
must rely upon ITanee io bacL. tip li
st lit me th • technical t ivo pov eri are
found '<• make Fm.giand a party wi a
Japan in the lOining fracas. Germany,
iliirir. ; i ho mel'"'. can L-e d- - ;i-’m’m on
to step in ami help bers.'ii to mot'' t'
ritm'y ami a better position in ( I'.iim,
in which it will be vt y wemdet
lai i; Hi i'vited Sttiiis timi" a wav >
keep otii oi tiie great gunm tor power
.■.ml Jiiitire commerce in tin: Orient.
•■Open Foits" in Warne Only.
S I) It. : Hay is justly praimM for
;.i- .ig-ii.y by viiieh he gi.med the
signing ot th,- t ijwa-Aiifri-an treaty
tn a w ci'K ago, whii't-Ly .‘■lu-.i.d . n -m.i
Kting i t'-o are gi'.aran 'i a as op' a
ports to <■ - ilti coi.:iiic.ce, but ?>i :.'i'i
■ in anu British ;m icitun'-s v.mo U:nm
,m the ra. mas: mi- not sure t:..it. me.,-
ii...n a paper v>m.o; - has be"t gameii.
tarn in the op> n pmt oi -Xiu C.iw:;
1,.,it of obsirtßiicm ami ca ; :t.
living to ir.m-i whti Mmrnhil
u;; rn ; tiinii ilussimi or Fruit h me.'-
l i., rtm.l tin -e dihicult:"S which
I!" ! I O. de.mai •-. i-t ihei''. ■'
i.momit ibut. With Kus. in siickim;
in Mam - aria it is it ten lor granud
t hat i : rnal l m:.i CAi'iiany-s ma bi
-.0 iri'i.r ii, tw-' m v, puilm imtn ..-
Kia vliA.m .. in ilmt <■'> -iit the com
,. er( Hit it id of ci\ 11 . 1 " out
s-U' of >ct: n will bait' :■ bill of
. bin ;... n't . m.iin " a sm.-'inin.
timi ris to imioice them.
IL-, policy of Rumrn is I'XiTmi.m.
Km v.’.'H imderstamis im i: im.-mm o;
i’ree connm ice on the > ■? ami
a child like rate Sne doe.
net w ant tlm Mm.: buriaiiw to l;m.»w
about i'i\ilization, l omnmmo
ami nt!i'.m.ii p-Mi'-h naan :T.v i lmo ■■ s
to U'.mli them. he Mancinis are
'j'-'lv sn'ijcvt to vie 1 a •' m anthor
ii v, ■ ,’iv tiie pm. ei that is s'l
pri mi., over iliem, eiim r i-'-ig to v.fi:'
er ;-.-■•vp.ug 11 stotid pm.ct' as tliej may
be eommamied.
With th Ra. 'ian flag up. with Rus
sian oh iters and m m ever iu c-vid me,
aL( i j;-. j;.n administrators in control,
the fiiturt is evmhmi. Anmriean
(j- Biiti-m mtreaani may enter l.m
good: in the treaty ports, bin can ’ ■
r a!i y farther with them? <h- : > 1,-..
. . is. e- . .; ol
it-; |->. a l I t;’l l 11) 1 i 111 ■ I I'S v'-' ■.'
Sienatcr Allison Staints I-'.ii
lu Ln opening speech in tlm lov. a
r'i'ubii .an < ampaign Senator Allimm
Ljmomi;.’ am! del’litely m.tmps upon
the "lowa idea.” He declares ii .'it tar
d-j not make, foster, shelter, or j
otherwise benefit trusts ami that it, by
remote chance, any revision of a tariff
schedule is found desirable, it cannot,
b, d virable until "after tin. pri'.-;ukm- ■
tial election,” and can only b<_> safely
cm rusted io the republicau party.
The important, thing about Senator
Allison’s speech is that, the republican ;
h : d jrs, ignoring as far as pos
every other issue, are going to force
if they can .lie tariff issue as the par
amount. (luestion in tiie campaign of
next year. In i* they Law' eim(idem'; ,
and in nothing else. The finam ial (pim -
tiou they tire deiormined to dodge. '
trusting to tue powers usurped in the j
treasury department to keep the Wall
street speculators and the bankers of
the country loaded with public fund;-. ■
and so placated.
But when it comes to the tariff they
feel every surety that in the east they
can alarm the manufacturers by shout
ing the horrors of "free trade” and so
get their money and their solid votes
lor tho party. With the workingman
they feel competent to deal, because
iliey have buncoed him so often, ami
he has got so used to it, that they do
not fear him. He will trot blithely in
iheir processions and vote the ticket
because Hanna is such a good friend
to labor and protection is the only
guaranty of good wages—God save the
mark and Old Mark in the same
breath!
The democratic leaders can now
dim cin clearly what they are to go up
against next year. They ought to be
able to formulate' a tariff revision and
I i'cciprccit j opposiiicu that will bring
i the republicans clown to a clear mark
■ ami lot the people decide understand
! ingly between a cimtinuance of a rob
i be:' tariff policy cr one that protects
I the consumer upon terms of equity
with the trusts and the lr employees.
Verdicts That Cheapen Life.
The two verdicts rendered in the
Carolinas this week in the Heywood
and Tillman murder cases will not .sat
isfy the public sense of what was due
to law, life ami good government.
We do not know all the evidence in
cither case, or the atmosphere of the
court rooms in which they were tried,
but we do know that upon the cases
as mid. i'siood by the public at large
something more was expected than the
full acquittal of either of the defend-
The cases are ended after trials that
met the forms of law, as we presume,
ami it is not necessary io question the
validity of the proceedings ami tiie
endings further than to say that the
i verdicts sully justify the prevalent idea
that human iifi is 1 eld at altogether
too cheap an e.-ciiaate in our commu
nit i< s.
The Constitution is as ready as any
reasonnbl" ; < ' »n ■ ould ask to make
urop-r aili.w : ii'".' for the histology of
somlie-rn ideals of honor, the jealousy
■ of its giiaiL.iarisliip ami the inipulsive-
I revs of sib-iic ion approved by tradi
i tion. •
' But th! ■ iicv;i>>>a;jor does not approve
! of high officii:is of stim . n.'i’re.sontative
■ men ol a communiiy, exemplar:-, of so
' eial and intelle'Ctual I:’-', going about
■. tli "■. and r<lady ■ o kill
on sight for offenses that law can pun
ami on the plea ol fears for life
■ >:>?.; no man with a grain of courage
' could rcasonaidj i.ntort.ain.
Life ov"hi to ' - as sacred mid safe
in the south a• anywhere on earth ami
v." at ■ IT:'? to say that a time is de-
■ -j.-abl • when they wlm take it reckless
ly. ■ i'i hin plm or influence,
. W;i' lind it bail! to iioodwink justice
' ai d im>>r ;!b!o to e-cap • her avenging
Effects of the English Campaign.
; ’.io Americans, the most interesting
■ ii .itm'e of '-lr. Chambeih.iiu's campaign
‘ in Gr- a. Britain lor i’-r tl. it trade pro-
what doption of
I his proposed policy would have on our
,1, v.iiy Ji: I' ::m ' t::"> .■ policy.
W oi’.'id ■ ' , < > !"■ ■ iigtlien our
I liivh proti etion policy. > ! " would it
I compel US o relax ii in favor ol'
tariff and reciprocity
\s far as now appear-'. l:e republi-
I can im-il't < xpei'ts mt'ect to 'lieve that
; p.-otei'iioit will gain in ti.: country by
i . ailontiun - Great Bri n. it will
' 1;.: claiim d ih ’t our policy Ims receiv
'cd a. filial vm-.i 1 "uu n when the largest
■ trade ma! , :!ng ami lactoriag comitry in
>.. ' ced to
' ~.. i:' . Tha’ < > mdtision, how-
( - v'. i:_the find tli '.I tiie -ystoni
;■ , ■ i.-reat ' rivaiii is noi on ah
i ion '.- wi.ii om' .ly.wcin, but i*. t“- -.ll} the
p .lu •• tl lb m-'.n M' Kirley sug-
■ ■ ■ ,| in liis Ilmlaio spee.'li i tie d.ty
i bi.- a-mi -imitlon. and which
a leiil-i'i'Mely ignored, it not
opci: Iy 11. nii'.: ' cd. iO' his ■ :y ■
In Ui.ii i’i> sidem. M- Kinky
;.:mi:
Want p. ~..1.1. I mi:' a
< . .. t.mm a , v '
V."- : Vulllil " " -I"'.''-
'v,m' . T-I. or' sill" m'-l piiMu-.'-
.-c .-cl i• , . ..ml.- ■ u. S- 1 -'l' C"-
i i;;m'b- ' 11' il bin’s.of < tlllllOt
c ■ t i.i.'J tower words the pt'O
. . ;i !; : L )c he . - m>w omm.'mliiu: to tiie
y. i.~■ 1 ■ oi' t’ ' 1 ii.t'.ll Kingdooi. He
v. im;: I'ccovei' ll’C meat "vent
m.e'oad” for l'.lnei>"ii ma.'imm.'titres that
1:,; country Ims Jost by following free
i. de. i1" want Io re-over io i.'is peo-
ple their immonopoly as the
'('in in John” of tl’.'? voi'id. miiler
mmiiii' even compiiiiior in ii.e mar
kets of '■> ■ : ‘ ' ' rea ''
in. ..- i'i . t iii .tain must luonop-
■ .im her bom" ami colonial mark’-ts
a : im- ; pm .dble, selling Iv'i’ innmi
-I'-. Hue- wii< vi-r rm- can i x.-hange
ihemi lor (lio filings emmet J.n'O
mme wbimi her elf, ami which her
’ imim in.ve as cheaply a : pos.-i-
only pvn ibility of doing that,
, .. i\ ami as he stmnis liiieiy
to male tin’ Brit; m voter i'-e it, is to
tido'-t in some d rfee the protective
pi ineip!' .
Ho'-.v ‘im' will strengthen protection
'a thi. comitry n mi interesting qu-'s
liom Will i> r im wages and prices
' in lingl.md? ii ■o, will it not increase
t., cost nf mamifaeuiring and so
: ]■ eve ii'- aide, with om - larger supplies
of milii'V raw mmermls mid more pro
dmiEri in a and mm-hinery. to suc
"allv m."'-- and Imtflo the Cham-
L< r’.a.in trade c'X.pm'i-'on jmli-'-y of Eng-
Imid? If t 1 tores Briti h markets to
ii. we will have to go out to other for
: cign mrn'i. T mid ummrsell British
ccod ; at iiatever con to our own
hoim producers, wlieiher in fi- ld or
factory.
s Fresinciit MeKinlr y said: ‘We
mit:-.t noi repose in fancied security
that we can forever sell everything
and buy Utile or nothing.”
Onr hard mid fast protectionists be
lieve jii ii tiie otiief way. Because v.o
can feed and clothe and shelter our
selves without recourse to other mar
kets, tliinsist that we can go on for
ever peddling our goods at bargain
comiter prices in every market of the
earth. To Ihe apps al of President Me
jd'-v.cv for >-m..’ reduction.- in the pres
ent im'iil’i "’mdulm as mi;,lit hold the
I‘ci',• ii mul'imts, they fatuously cry
".stand IT'.' regardless of every dic
ta! • of good business sense.
Wiih th; markets of Great Britain
closed to us, as they would be in tho
event of the adoption of the Chamber
lain pro;;rmmne, - ill not an overhaul
ing of the sacred Dingley law follow of
neecs’liy? Instead of harkening to
i], e siren song of the stand patters,
will not the American business man in
self-defense join in the demand for sen-
s
sible tariff reform which now finds its
only real support, in the democratic
pariy?
Any change in the policy •! Great
Britain is bound to have important ef
fect upon the business of this country
ami in consequence upon our own
tariff schedules and tariff policy. Just
what Cais will be must at present be a
matter of speculation only, since to no
man is given the gift of prophecy; but
it mum. be manifest that the British
campaign has a peculiar interest to
American business men and will play
an important part in American politics.
What will it be?
Whose Ox Makes the Difference.
It is rather amazing to find our as
tn.te Boston contemporary. The Herald,
uttering threats against the southcui
(ottun planters because the eastern
mill owners got innehed in the recent
cotton corner, it distinctly intimates
that if there are to be repetitious ot
like high-priced markets for the staple,
"our wishes for national supremacy in
cotton growing must give place to a
desire for a sufficiently world-wide
competition to prevent the, disastrous
results thus brought about.”
In other words, New England, alter
enjoying for a hundred years, almost,
a close monopoly of cotton manulaet
tiring, fixing the prices lor the staple
they bought as well as for the goods
they made of it and sold back to us,
now is hot in the collar because we are
doing some manufacturing on our on n
account and because conditions of the
trade in the law material permitted
the pushing up of its price.
If that is not a true specimen of New
England selfishness it. would be ban!
to imagine one. At the same time it
amounts to nothing more titan a hope
less snarl.
do not find In the Dingley act
any import tax levied on the bringing
into tho country law cotton from for
eign cotton raising countries. We
wonder, then, why the esteemed iler-
ah. constiitiencios did not avail thein-
Fe.lves of the very easy relief of im
porting foreign cotton to take the
place of our cornered crop. AAby not’
The supply ior 1902-3 is officially
given at 16.500.000 bales from our
oulti'.: n field!-', ami 2,050.1'00 Hom all
other countries on the globe. As the
New England mills used not quit.’
2.000.900 bales, it is plain to be seen
that it could haw gotten a full supply
from the world-wid-.- competitive n Ids
aforesaid'
It may be just as well to say to Tho
Herald that the south is growing very
independent these days and is really
not disposed to worry if New England
should‘whirl In ami get its cheap cot
ton where it is also getting its other
free raw material. . stii'b. as hides, iron
ores, coal and lumber.
Thou Shalt Not Steal.
Some days ago Tiie Constitution
sugvi'siim that the democrats would
do well to keynote their campaign
next, y.-m- with the commandment,
"Thou Jhalt not steal.” There seemed
to is a peculiar ap; :oi-iiatcucss about
its iteration in the face of recent rev
elations of tiro republican record in
administering th" government.
W; are surpri- ed and disappointed,
i-i a measure, io find our valued con
temporary, 'ilie V.ashiugton Post, iu
disagr .-ment with our proposal. The
Po; t takes the broad grounds tha:
Thou fcbalt not steal” would be an
unconvim tng ami unconveriing plank
in tie Ipatform, l.iOi ause everybody be
lieves in the priuciple and least of all
■amth! tit)' repubiittuis contest il. In-
■i- '.--I, inking alarm already over the
i --.tilts of their own investigations,
they ar;- trying to head oil the dem
-1 .1 'tic attacks on r- publican malleas
mit c:- by proposing prosecutions and a
(■ungi’i . ional investigation.
But a imitting ail The Post says con
cerning the case> at bar, we stiil in
; Ist that the commandment is an avail
able issue with tim republican system
■.< politic;.: tar and away beyond the
i-peiiiie instances ol mail-bag fasten-
■ cad . iiue-clocii. ce-ntraet, or any
other of 'Ti - cheap criminal grails o:
>) 'tiding ptosi < utionrf.
"Thou shall not steal” is a valid is
sue io malo. with the republican tariff
po’v-y. 'Po make it dow nut involve it
wholesale attack upon a protective
]><>!ii-y wisely adjusted to conservi' t’m
actual interests of American manu
t;u lure.-.- labor and comineit"'. P does
go, liowevi’, to tlii' very root of the
s. of i.'Onnties embodied in the
~ ■ .- bill and r< apt d ' y am otinta-
ble millions to those who have no
valid claim or homc-.t right to over
charge ami tli.’i'c’by rob the American
:de at large.
"Th.i > shait not steal' is a proper
prim [>l(> to oppose to t.h<- repttblii :i:i
s'stem oi. national finance, under
\. i li li Hie money powers of the < oun-
My are given power to cither command
or coerce the public treasury to serve
the purno: ■ s o.’ tm: moiu y mongers am!
specula.or.- of Wall street. 1> the ad
vantages thus given lu that, -.-rowd is
not robbery of the peoples rights am!
r. venues, then all the terminology of
lout has lost significance.
"Thou shalt not steal" would exact
ly lii the use of tjfe public funds as a
loan supply 'o western states for the
doubtful value. The whole arid lands
nriyation graft is a plan to rob Peter,
John and James to pay political debts
ami pint.' retainer fees to Patil, the
w; stern aposlle of paternalism and a.:-
sis.i- i boomerisin.
"Thou shalt m>t steal’ would answer
with it plain, unimpeachable, principle
the specious and impudent demands
ior siiip ■ ttbsidies--the scheme lor put
ting many millions ol the people s
money on the profit sice oi the ledgers
of American ship owners who even
now do not know what to do with
their profits from current business.
tn fact, we are of the camlid belief
tlia.l there could come only good 10 the
country by raising the issue of moral
ity in government to a position ot par
amountcy over mere questions of com
m rciali-m and sectional partisan is
sue:;. Nothing can put our political
discussions of next, year upon Him.
hi- •? plane than to iiidict The whole Re
publican outfit tot’ offenses against
this great commandment.
DOUBLE THE PRIZE MONEY.
To reach a circulation of full
800,000 copies of The Weekly Con
stitution, we will double every prize
offer This is not simply a remote
possibility; we expect to reach it and
pay the money out. Will you not
do your part to earn it?
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
The Old Sweet Days.
O. west winds, blow the blossoms from
unforgotten springs!
From meadows where the daisy feels the
shadow of Love's wings!
I .For I am weary o’ the way’s where not a
flower appears
And a moan is in the music of the wild
and wintry years!
Blow, sweet winds o the west,
I From the vales I loved the best,
Where not a >■ d thorn glistened in the
garlands on Love’s breast!
O. west wind.-, waft the singing from
violet vales ami streams
' And give to Love Urn glory of unforgot
ten dreams.
For I am weary o' the ways that know
but thorns and tears.
And a. moan is in the music of the wild
and wintry years!
i Blow, sweet winds o’ tho west,
' From the vales I loved the best,
, Where not a red thorn glistened In tho
garlands on Love’s breast!
From Dark to Day.
Sometimes weary o' the- way:
Long from darkness to the day
Where the Winter mourns the May
Forever!
Where the sorrows and the sighs
Make the mist around the eyes.
Yell the beauty o' the skies
Forever!
But at last the light appears
l.ike u glory o’er the years—
i Morning smiles through Midnight's tears
Forever!
Billville Literary Notes.
Four artesian wells are now in good
I working order, but Genius demands corn
liquor, without water.
if i'ui leading authors can make satis
factory arrangements with the railroads,
I they will plan: more watermelons and
'fewer heroes next season.
We’vo hud an Educational convention,
and some of the delegates to it < an now
.swear in tiarev languages that the G-eor-
I gia mule don’t understand.
* * 6 * *
Winter’s Sweets.
Don't you bo goln’
'Die sorrowful way;
Winter has sweets
j That can match any May;
I Same sky's above you—
■ No matter how gray,
l An’ we'll all sing for joy in the umruln '.
Don’t you be goin'
Tho sorrowful way;
' Take ujs with Joy
i Au’ invite him to stay;
The dime-' ;are ready
The fiddle’s to play,
' Au' we ll all sing for joy in (lu- morntn'!
Even in Autumn.
White clouds sailin' roun’ the blue—
,-iS!lii:’ mighty lazy;
I Drops of clear an’ shiny dew
I Pn-iußin' on a daisy.
[Fellers inakin' eamjxiign bets
| Raisin’ of a racket;
i Oil I a-plnnin’ violets
‘ On her sweetheart's j.-ickt".
I Don’t keer how the seasons ro'l -
I Lots o' comfort bringln’;
I Sunshme in a fi-Ib': ':? soul
I An’ a fiddle ringin’!
A Song- of Toil.
| Toil, toil,
For u crust o' bread.
' Till t'ao uraia re-'ls blind
And tie. hand falls d id.
I 'Pnorny way
For the leet to tread,—
But II .-ome day, in th- daisies!
Toll, toil,
Through the tlmakiess years.
Shake th:: . tt-t'S
Witii ,i mium of prayer: '
World that smiles
'Through a rain of tears, •
But Rest, some day. in the du'.-lles!
TuiJ, toil’—
"1": the way of Life:
\ Br- ist u sheath
for a cruel knife
That slays iis .hoi: -A ads
In th? strife, -
But Rest, some day, the daisies!
* + «•»*?
Settin’ by a Fir .
Politics don't bother me-•
Xiii’t what ! admire!
Aiway-' h..; .>> as kin be
Settin’ by a lit".
When the vol' rain’s spk.shin' down,
All my Iv if desire
I- -wit!’, noil' 1 but me aroun’—
S-". tin' by a lir-
l-’oik:-'-they shak<- their heads, an' say
Old age '’le'i'uin' nigher:
Move too much ■ ;’ it some day-
Settin' by a fire!
A Halleluia Fellow.
I ain't -I'.'.utti >' tie wot i-.l bv dreamy
night or day:
I'm a halleluiu i'-lb-r, an’ I'm happy on
tl:..- way.
Winter .-- jest w- 1 mm a- the music o'
tho Mt'.v-
l'm bound for the 1 land, I -
Hevers!
I n’-'.'er heed : harii.-ai..-, a-roarin'
round about:
j The black.-st storms of heaven only let
the rainbows out;
: Tiie valleys sing of happiness—tiie hills
i'orvv--:- shout ■
I I'm bound for the happy land, be
lievers!
t There's never u. >? in sighin' when the
world is goin’ wrong;
Tiie liarbor-li'-'.iiL are shinin’, Mo.'.igii the
tide is pullin' strong;
. The- home-shor. waftin' welcome in a
liallelui.' song'.—
I’m bound ter the happv land be
lle was I
De Col' Win’ Coinin'.
I hear de Col’ Min' coinin'
De clouds begin ter foam:
De Blizzard leave de big roa.l.
En ax me, "Is you home'.' '
De trees is all ondressin'
Right in de big worl’ sight;
De h'.lls— iley fix ter kiver
Wid freeuin sheers er wblt.-.
De Fire mighty t.'eblc
De honey let" de comb;
; Eu so. 1 ax Miss Charity,
j "Please, ma'am,—is you home?"
His Fueling Faculty.
"I don’t see anything remarkala- in
that mule,” said the prospective pm -
chaser, "ex. "pt that he's .stone blind!"
"Yes, suh, replied the mule’s proprie
: .or, "he blln’ in his eye—but you des orter
see him feci for you wi.l his heels!"
The Summer Birds.
Love sighs:—“The breeze hath blown
the birds
To seek a warmer coast;
Rut I'U be blowed—them's just my
words I
I if I don't have some o’ the birds
■ Served up on buttered toast.
’ Plunkett's Letter
OF course me and Brown had ts.
taka in the fair, and to say that
we were highly pleased is putting
il mildly.
1 There will be enough said about the
fair proper by others. The thing that
. pleases me most is the advertisement
that Georgia will receive through this
fair. The coming of visitors is the mos.
important feature of these fairs. The.-’
■ come, they see and then they go aw ax
I aiul tell it. As a rule these aie
not idle pleasure seekers. They are of
tenor solid business men and eainefeu
women who come to learn lor themscl'.e.->
: the conditions of our section. The.,
: watch for resources and weigh the
chances for opportunity.
The most of these visitors— especially
1 those from a great distance—will readily
admit that they never dreamed of suca ■>.
country here as they find. Afany who
come with fear and trembling and m
[ doubt about our civilization have met
with such a. cordial greeting and ache.
1 I so different to what they l|tid expect- d
that they are lost in wonder at w-hat
they see and are made to feel. Ihe
bloom ol health tliat shines so gracefully
, ' from the faces of our people, the - a.
: streams that rush tumbling and foaming
over the shoals of our streams, the roli-
I ing hills and productive vales, the mead
; ows, the woodlands and the variety o
: landscape views that are so restful t >
' thi eve and senses—these and such n■>
this is what many of these visitors <1: '•
I not expect to find. Thousands at a dis
' tance think that the "south'' means -<-
’ low. chilly, sultry climate, where frogs
croak in ponds of stagnant water and
where, people droop with sallow cheek-,
and wasted forms. Some of them have
■ thought that there were a few regi"i’-
: where mountains rolled and pure air and
; water pertained, but these regions w.'i"
: jjictured as [■laves only lit lor the nioou-
‘ : Millie-” element that would make It lit**,
i for any strang; r who might intrude. :
I is womb: rful that so int*.Tiigent people
visit our fairs from a distance shoul-i
have such iilcas of Georgia as manj (>■
i them do have. Rich and well informed
. jy.iopie fr im a distance that are up t->
da;..,' on all otT-r ma"'. rs s-.- m siirpri.-■■ 1
• that, there is not a "moom-blne still" -m
' -very stream ami a band of kuklux ■:
' every scope of woods. Oil' great good o
' the<e fairs i-' to draw these strangers
I her:, and dl-T" 1 all such foolishness
' their thoughts.
DeKalb county gets a full share "t
benefits from ev'rything o’ the kind >h.i:.
' Atlanta has. The city invites them
through her fairs and in other ways and
’ couiit.fi s lying near get the benefits bv
their coming out and scouting around.
I Brow.! and I take Interest in showing
: these visitors around, and when we g.-:
la chance at them we soon dispel
iheir false notions of our section. 1
tickles u~- to see what int>r"St al: th
<trnn:aw take in cotton —and it Is we:
derful hew many ot them have thought
that cotton is about all that, w- ea:
I produce. Anyhow, cotton is what ni:;-
> oat of ten of t!:-- a visitors ha. ? th
•greatest desire to s.?e growing, and w!i"'i
we go to show them this, then they n:
i surprised at the corn upon the stalk-,
th.? stacks of hay crowded from it
barns, the cow-, fine and sleek, giazin.
upon the meadows and in fields of Ifin ■
muda. and other grasses. And the hogs
thesit that the strangers see fat and :
abundance for home consumption is a
: urprise to many who have thought th..'
w” w re compelled to get our meat sup
ply from the grain growing states a".
' from climates very different from our
southern climate.
Me and Brown have be n just as clever
?s we could be to all the.se visitors wh<>
i have corn • our way and we have b">- ,
fully repaid by what we found out from
ib, in wlfile they were finding out about
.is. XYliih? cotton was the thing of great -
■si : :t-. r..st our wasting water pow -r
v..■■: the thing of greatest surprise. We
made it convenient to take them along
■th- creeks with good shoals after w
fiiund that this waste of waber power
was ■■'ucn a surprise. Shoal creek, >u; ns
name implies, bristles witii these .him:
from its beginning to where it empties
into South river, a distance of 8 milts.
Tb;.-: cr. • k was an object of wonoc-r t ■
every one of these visitors to whom i:
■a .s shown—the wonder wag that, kh--"
w.i'.-t pow- r should lie idle and —i
unthought of by ew n our own < itiz"’.
around it and - o near a great city !'k
Atlanta. ii i- a fact that there >
enough water uowi-r .yiug idle in th'*
< .'itiiy of Deiv.'Ub to run every fact- -
In fia'-" o f M: sae m.-.-tM .’nd f -
I tl'-- thing- is hard t > ]■<?■., .
by these str.ingi" ■> who vi ’it us. s.,
libss.-d by failure br--.nl all or’
: "Ctions. yet tl.,- opoortunit;, is noi
: -I. .'! advant mo of I? our own .
advei iseil to Ute world ibat str -:’
tii.-i" .-.>me ;;rrl d.-v"!«.p tiie s.inv .
i But. as the s-aying goes that a wise "■"'-
I clianges his notions. I am fully road-.- •?
:ti 1 ni;i that t r.. ■ iv may !>■-■ danger In th
. building of ton many I’:, .-tnrrrs h'Wc "
the smith \ fr’en-l - f rtin- wr".-- >■
■ from North that the t
is toward tahini*. -I! tlte whites from ’b’-
I '.arms and putting them in the f.ir-t <?■’ • -
This friend writes mo that Ito tear-: :
neui- future will mark th- time whor,
. gwill 11:1'. - f 1,1! •
iu Not lb. (’ •f.:l'::.t. wl.i' tm wb.il. .- ■■ ’
t ; Im eking out ami ;.bl- ~x j ... ri: . :
' the. frw-torh-s that Imre ! or wilt
built in t'oe- very j-.o.ai' future.
j That Is the trend in N.o".:: t ir, ! .
: - !<s my fti<nd. •■:■ lmy- bs -rv ,t' '
• sir own county j.mt from the bii'bling
factory malar me think Hint i d-; s
the uat’.'i'.tl . .:t,?■<’.[u. n.' of 1m? man’ .’
. those factori-m. am! if this be so th. y
. ' would j'-rove ■: curse. I think, rathm- ■
■ a blessing. J wn- down the Fovir,.-
rmid last w.- k ami peojilc tin's'- us-o ' .
tv a <'XC-?-dm.;ly pf. sp.-tntr-- mi the t -‘:>-
if they only know it, are in for goin. m
I H:e f.i.'iarv that is now ruiming at In
> side. Tit.- women osp. ••Lt.lly ar-’ a-xb
I : o make this 'hang-?. They point to
■ children out in the field picking the tl •
l smpb- and ■ : that they are tired ->f .
ing th'-.m work as tfi.-y do weak to ' e
a.ud i-ay rent. I here pe tple. m it
ago. pay ai.-.iit SIOO for a two-'-ir.-. f o ?■
This in 'hides about 60 ■7O a-r.-s of land
to cult vale, a house to hv- in. s-.i1.l
barn, tire wood am] so on. All of this f r
SIOO, .iii.l y. : they think it top m
What a delusion it is to c um- to sm . i.
; .'onelitsion. Hb von, my good ; ■ ol
. y;m don’t mind you will hav- to pa? th ,'
much for just a house to live in at t ,
factory and lhen bu? everything you mu
w.-ir or burn. 1 noticed the children as
they picked c.-tton in th? field an< f ti?
w?re - trong, bands ,me. intelligent -m I
: cheerful. It looks to me that it. would
I be sufficient lor such people to visit some
i oi tlm tactories and look upon the po.ir
| wan creatures there to b< :.
there is nothing to be gain. .1 by quitting
the farm.- to go to the factory, and ..
i the building ■.! f ictorles in the south
: means tm- taking of our southern whites
I ft't’ai th untry :-m] tstrnmg it over to
- negroes o: any otii :• nation ility, th< n I
, am not in favor of factories-lot them
, stay away if '.his is to be the cost.
■ But an? how, tn,- t-ip- now going on is
doing gi.od on lines es development, i m:
■ ■ ill he fairs or expositions that ha?e
. been held there done. Whether w ■
I get our Mb’ wat powers turned into
; things ■>! is. ; uln<--s or whether we want
tin- taeieries -r not. it lojirrts people, from
a dist'in.’e that conditions in the south
arc al! lor good—land, climate and peo
ple; morally, religious. y in ,i socially.
BARG E I’LUNKETT.