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6 WOBSTITDTIOII CLARK HOWELL Editor sOBY ROBINSON Business Manager the Atlanta PantofTice aa Secand u ««»M«il .Hattor.Kav.il, IS?3. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, only SI per *nnuni. Clubs of five, $| each; clubs of ten, *ach and a copy to getter-up of clcb. K X\ ANT YOU—The Constitution wants an agent at *\ery postoffice 5n America. Agent's • ntfit fre e and good terms. *f you ar«* n?t 1: - a club, we want you to act as at. your office. Write us. C^; VNGE OF AD DRESS-When ordering ad dress of jour paper changed always give t’ie o.d as well ae the new address. Always give Foetcffice, county and state. If your paper 3 . rU>t reeei ved regularly, notify us and we *»!• straighten the matter. IF YOU SEND IS AN ORDER for new sub fiurlbers, paeasu allow us a week to get the names on the and paper started I efore you write a complaint, a- we are very much cicwdvd now. DO NOT FORGET to make your renewals in time. Walch your direction tag and tee when your subscription expires. The next 8 ~ month wi«l be full of interest, and you should nut miss a single copy of The Con stitution. your orders at least a week iu advance lu make sure, it may not <ake week In every instance, as we use the greatest diligence to get them on car nrnll list. 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.