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The President and the Politician.
The president anti the politician are
not one. but two. They bear too often
ihe same relation to each other as did
Dr. Jeky] anti Mr. Hyde. In this coun
try sensible people know how to eas
ily dissociate them, as Senator Gor
man. the statesman-surgeon did in his
recent speech in Maryland. He took
an opportune occasion to flay the poli
tician of rhe white house in away that
lias aroused to rabid howls every syco
phant coyote in the republican camp.
At safe distances they are all up on
their haunches and howling at him in
angry chorus, lie hit the raw place
and the thrill of the pain pervades the
whole host.
When so able and astute a news
paper as The Philadelphia Press can
say of Senator Gorman s arraignment
of President Roosevelt’s descent tioni
the presidency to become the partisan
political dictator <■:’ lb l- republican
campaign in Maryland, that:
This out-Her.ds Herod. It surpass."'
llerr Most or Emma .;<il«lm;n It ov i
lops the tea. 'lings which th I the pistol
of' McKinley’s .As ,-si:
the hurt must be deep and wide as
Mercutio’s. And it ought to be just
as sufficient!
The Constitution repeats again that
it for one. holds all possible respect
lor the pr< sidential office and always
as much as is fairly possible for any
American who occupies it So long
as that gentleman act* as a president,
is under solemn covenant to act and
supports in his person and conduct
the impartial dignities c.f his office we
will always respect both.
Rut if The Pliil'dclphia Press, or ,
any one else, thinks that Mr. Roose
velt. self-divested of his presidential i
dignities and doing a common politic
clan's stunts m > mpaigt .- here, there
and everywhere. is going to be given
immunity from criticism and freedom
from attack, such thinkei has many
other thinks coming to him.
Senator Gorman was in his place
and far within his rights when li< ar
raigned Mr. Roosevelt as an intermed
dler in the state campaign in Mary
land. To characterize his rank parti
san activities as they deserve is not
to make Senator Gorman a pariah tit
only for elassitleation with John Most.
Emma Goldman and the unspeakable
Czolgosz. V<h< ever so classifies him
abandons sanity, engages in hrutalisni
and seeks to set up standards ot pres- .
Idential autocracy, audacity and au
thority that the Xinern an people have
never before witnessed ami will not
bear with meekness
If Mr. Roosevelt desires th. spoof
and protection of his president Hl . t
flee, he must occupy it ami not sally
out to spread himself and his political
domination over ihe whole nut]) of tin
state s Senator Gorman is but ot.e of
many millions of mmi in \m< rica who
think alike- on this su! t ami will
back up th-ir thinking with theit bat
lots
Stick tn Jeffersoninnisni
In a recnt interview in The Wash
Ington Post wo find Mr. Jefferson
(.’handler, an aeliv' ami influential
democrat, talking hots. • "tise <>i the
three X brand. Hi prelude that,
"the salvation »f the country hinges
oil the- mainte'i. iib > of 'he op] demo
e rath doetritn -e xpound'd by Thomas
.lefte rson.' t>n that plank every dem
tietai in th- land, whether a regular
brave- e>t a ba< ksliib-i. can line-up
without trup.;b wt h his conscience
lt< tte-i than any <>th- r man who has
e-\i-r laid down principles lor the
eie-m -maev of America Thomas Jeffer
sein understood the* scope, the charac
ter and tin' limitations that the makers
of our governmental vst.-tu intended
it should have. Mr. Chandler is emi
neatly right then, in .aying that "th''
tendency toward centralization of pow
er at Washington must be- combatted
at every point Tim d» mo. racy atom'*
is in position, historie ami by present
oppeisitions. tee set lorw aril a popular
revolt against the slow and prepense
iipublican work of wresting the con
stitution ami ,-iting up in tin- capital
a partisan imperialism such as tin'
fathers ot the republic never dreamed
would ever In attempted by any party
in the re public.
On the rights of the states to man
age their own local cone crus Mr. Chan
dler is equally emphatic anel special
izes the right of every state to pre
scribe the qualifications of its voters.
That right has not been divested or
surrendered by ’he act of any state
-end e iTstitutionally the gene ral gov
ernment cannot absorb anel exercise
It as a federal function. For the salva
tion of this state right the common
wealths of the north will, if forced to
the issue, fight as boldly and strongly
as the states of the south.
Mr. Chandler is mistaken when he
predicts that “the ascendency of the
white race in America’’ is to furnish
the paramount issue of the presiden
tial campaign next year. The south
does not desire to make the, national
campaign on that issue because it be
lieves the question of white suprem
acy in the states and the union is a
settled question. It can only be unset
tled by the action of the republican
party and that party can be trusted
not to challenge the instincts of the
American voters of the north on that
issue. Republican newspapers say
they are ready and eager for that is
sue, but they do not mean what they
say. It is all bravado and bluff.
I The southern states, as to which
I only the issue could be plausibly made,
j have settled the dangerous elements in
; their suffrage situations to their own
j safety. The settlements thus made
I can only be overthrown by the su-
■ preme court of ihe United States con
: struing the constitution advirsely to
■ them. The republican universal negro
■ suffragists would rather go to the
j everlasting torrid place than to that
I tribunal with their “one nigger, one
! vote” claim.
The democracy of 1904 should wise
ly beware of unnecessary issues. If
we could write the platform we would
make its whereas the famous creed
that Jefferson inserted in his first pres
i idential address. In it are found the
■ axiomatic democratic principles which
, apply as pertinently to the problems of
■ this day as to those of his day. In
times like these, when the party in
•power is lawlessly arrogant and using
the federal powers with reckless defi
ance of the constitution there can be
found no better chart titan Jefferson’s
j for the great opposing democracy,
i The cry of every enemy of republican
i ism should be "stick to Jeffersonian-
I ism!"
The Democratic Platform.
One of the .mrnortal things, as mttn
, dane matters are counted, is the dem
i ocratic party. Neither time, nor
I chance, nor defeats, nor sudden I’ren
i zies. can destroy it. The foundations
of the party are those few plain stern
principles of popular sovereignty tor
i the dominance of which mankind
' have struggled in all ages and all na
tions.
The democracy may or may not win
! control of the national administration
in the coming election. Certainly it
cannot possibly gain the senate before
1907 by the most optimistic calcula
' tion; more probably not until 1909,
after the presidential election of 1908.
But in any event the democratic party
will strengthen with time. As its
basic principles are immutable ele
: incuts o! the political faith ot man
: kind, there will always be a mighty
host of patriots in America, who will
i do battle for them.
The main question of democratic ac
tion next year will be the platform.
! It is not well enough to sneer at na
tional platforms as inconsequential
and bombastic pronum iamentos —
sounding large and meaning little.
The truth is that the bulk of sensible
voters have great regard lor platform
declarations and expect parties to be
faithful to them. In a very peculiar
sense the entire nation will look more
curiously and carefully to the demo
cratic platform of 1904 than to any
platform of either party since 1892.
Unless the platform is so framed
as to at once challenge the respect
and confidence of the great body of
voters in the nation it will boa hard
task to commend it to them after
wards by arguments and spell-binding
hurrahs. The times demand of the
democracy a platform that will be
simple, statesmanlike and thoroughly
in keeping with the solid needs of the
nation.
The platform of 187(5, upon which
Mr. Tilden was elected to the presi
dency, was a model of wisdom and
brevity. It .said what the party meant
am] the temper of the party combined
with the personnel of the ticket won
for it a popular majority that was only
nullified by ungodly frauds and a
packed electoral commission.
It. is perfectly possible that the
democracy next year can from the is
sues now before the country—find
none of which are promised settle
ment by the stand pat republican man
agers a platform that will ring like
the short, sharp, compelling blasts of
the horn of Rhodcrick Dhtt. Thou
sands upon thousands of honest vot
ers who have abandoned faith in lite
poptcar purposes of the republican
party will Hock to the democratic
standard as the highlanders did at.
'j of ’bo flaming cross of Malise.
Wi believe the work of the convention
next year will bo thus wise and the
suit of the campaign beyond doubt .
fiom its eoinmeniement.
The Blue-Back Speller.
Tito < orm-r >toiio nt the education
ot tit. older generatio)..- of Anietiitins
now li'ing was the old utm blm-baek
..poller ot Welisf'T. Drilled and hick
oii. il through that inspired h xieon of
the American language as it should bo
spelled and written the- sure lounda
tion was laid in the minds of the pit
pils tot any breadth of after liberal
education
Nowadays our children are shut oIT ,
fiom the ten-c. nt blue-back speller
and forced by the faddistic educators
of the day to pay from 10 to tbi cents
lor fancy, pictured and phoneticized
“language books” that are delights to
the artistic eye and daily-dealing to
the children who ate set to studying
them Some ot the specimens we
have lately seen would be good refer
ence and guide books to a post-gradu
ate student of scientific philology, but
for 1< aiming a seven-year-old child to
go with understanding precision from
a-b- ab to “incomprehensibility” they
are the veriest gold bricks ever sold
i to Reubens come to town.
The Constitution knows that it
speaks for a majority of the common
sense parents and tax payers of Geor
gia when it appeals to our school au
thorities not to forget old principles
i in tlic mad rush for modern tads. Our
! people need and want education, they
are perfectly willing to pay for it,
they do not m ed preachments of the
, value to tlie state of an intelligent,
citizenship. But they want what they
set out to got for their children at lair
price and not at exorbitant cost.
What the state of Georgia needs is
i adherence within reasonable bounds
to the plan of public education enjoin
* ed by the constitution of the state.
; The section of the constitution to
which we refer says:
; There shall be a thorough system of
j common schools for the education ot ehil
! dren in the elementary branches of an
I English education only, as m arly uni
■ form as practicable, et.-.
The state needs the faithful educa
' tion of its children in those funda
: mentals of an English education that
| will equip them for the ordinary re
: quirements of daily life. The first and
oath-bound duty of the state and
county school officials is to give thor
ough instruction in spelling, reading,
writing and arithmetic. Our children
ought not to be cheated out of their
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1903.
right to a fundamental education by
frilled and furbelowed modern Athen
ian experiments.
Georgia is about to adopt uniform
text-books for the next five years. Let
the books be cheap, simple and capa
ble of being intelligently used by the
kind of teachers we have. The end
will be a great gain in real education
in the next lustrum.
Sail on, Senator Morgan!
As Columbus, in that master poem
by Joaquin Miller, replied to the mas
ter of his flag ship, “sail on, and on,
and on!” so does the great voice of
Americanism say to Senator Morgan,
in the isthmian canal crisis, ‘‘sail on,
and on, and on!”
'l'lte president lias produced the con
ditions of the crisis and his ultimatum
to the country and the world is “Pana
ma, or nowhere!” The interests of the
United States have already been
voiced in extant legislation and spells
“Panama, or Nicaragua!” Now that
Panama lias been made inaccessible by
the action of those who control its dis
position, if that is to be obtained
peaceably, the only plain sailing for
us that remains is to turn to the Nica
ragua route. Otherwise there is no
hope except in a new version of the
Polk ultimatum of "fifty-four forty, or
fight!” But will Roosevelt stand for
"Panama or tight.”
The people of the union say “no,”
and lie even will hardly think twice
of pushing matters to that point. He
is resting secure in the notion that he
has five years and a half more of the
presidency ahead of him and that dur
ing that period Colombia will get an
appetite for our offer and consent to
do business with us on our terms.
But the question to be dealt with is
not the slow coercion of Colombia, but.
the creation of new and needful condi
tions tor Columbia —our own country.
Our commerce remains fearfully handi
capped by tlie continued delay of the
building of the canal. Events are on
the eve of swift movement in the Far
East that, may affect our relations to
that vast future trade El Dorado. So
long as that neck of land down in the
tropics remains uncut, our naval licet
must be divided. The trip of the Ore
gon around tlie Horn demonstrated by
the greatest possible argument our
need lor the strategic power of the
int erocean ie canal.
The south, more than any other sec
tion of the union, has an imminent and
immense interest in the construction
of that great waterway. Wo produce
the materials, taw and finished, that
are most desirable to the lour hun
dred millions of people in the Orient
who are to become buyers of such
products and to reach whose trade wo
demanded and are holding at. vast cos:,
the commercial vantage point of tlie
Philippines.
Senator -Morgan should not hesitate
to press tlie canal matter to the front
in tlie senate. Democrats in the house
should assist to the same end and this
administration should be forced to be
gin tlie canal or discover itself to the
country as the marplot, of tiie auti
caual railway trust. Sail on, senator;
the people are with you!
Baek Out, or Get a Navy.
Admiral Dewey is in favor of the
United States adding about fourteen
war ships per annum to our present
naval outfit. Ju this he is voicing the
ideas in tlie concrete of most Ameri
cans who have studied our present na
tional status and possible future needs
upon the high seas.
This thinking of ourselves as "a
world power” is a new' experience.
Wo have not as yet gotten our minds
and methods adjusted to tlie role.
But it is an enormously large and se
rious fact and we will toy with the
novel situation at our peril. Common
sense urges that, we accept our posi
tion at its full significance and pre
pare ourselves to act the character i
with proper dignity and appropriate
armament.
As most ot tin' world dickerings
ami adjustments of rights in the fu
ture are to be determined by the
formidableness ot sea power, as all in
ternational experts agree, the I’nited
States should possess the largest, and
most effective navy of tlie world.
It is a more question with us of
taking time by tlie forelock. We can :
build, equip ami sot in array the best,
fighting ships ami men on the globe.
We lia'e plent' of money to carry out
the Dewey reeommendations and what.
Dewey says on this special subject
will go almost, unanimously with the
people
It’ we are going in to pose ns a
world power lot us do it with solid
backing enough to make our claims .
stick wherever we post them up.
A Base Proposition.
A number of eastern newspapers are
now seriously proposing that the I nit
cd States, after winning the real is
sues of the Alaskan boundary dispute. .
shall now, as a measure of generosity
to Canada, open to them a treatj’ right,
to the use of the Lynn canal.
It is as easy to see the motive of
this proposal of surrender to Canada
of rights for which she fought, and
fairly lost. The section of tlie union '
making the proposal is anxious for
reciprocity with Canada ami hopes by
this concession to open the doors of
the Dominion to their manufactured
products. It is simply one of those
shrewd devices that the east is always :
trying to work for its own benefit at
the expense of the remainder ot the
nation.
We have come nearly to war with ■
Great Britain by reason of the pig
headedness with which Canada sought
to seize our possessions. We have -
stood in peril of sacrificing a hundred
thousand lives and a thousand millions
of money to uphold our honest rights ;
in that Alaskan controversy. It would
be a rank injustice to our American
traders will) the Yukon country to now
go over and hand to Canada a volun
tary invitation to accept half our vic
tory and possess themselves of more
than half our commerce in the Lynn
canal.
—
Honesty as an Issue.
The Washington Post still protests
to The Constitution that questions of
official honesty and official rascality
cannot be made campaign issues be- I
tween tlie parties next year. It argues
that to attempt it will be much like
tlie case of tlie pot calling the kettle
"a nigger.”
However, such an issue was defini
tively raised between the parlies in
1876 and the people who think honesty
in public office a desirable thing sided
with Hie democrats by a large major
ity. To make that issue in the lace
of a plain record of republican ras
calities, not. confined to one instance,
or one branch of the public service,
but ramifying many of them, is as le
gitimate a moral political issue as any
ever raised—and is one that ought to
be raised when warranted.
it cuts no figure that a long tenure
of control by democrats would event
ually develop democratic rascals quite
as bold and impudent as those now on
exhibit in the republican scavenger
dump. But when that shall happen it.
will be time to unload the dominant
democracy for “something better.”
But it is neither fair nor according
to human equities to argue against
giving the democrats control of the
government for a finicky fear of the
rascals it might develop in file far fu
ture. It is a dtead too much akin to
that of the old beldame who laid
awake ’o nights to prevent rhe call
from chewing up her grindstone!
The issue of good government in
volves the principle of “thou shalt not.
steal” and we yet think the democratic
party is in duty bound to make that
issue strongly next year.
What Does It All Mean?
Recently the N('w York Central rail
way peremptorily discharged 1,500
men. The Pennsylvania system dis
charged some 1,20 p. Down on the
Southern Pacific 1.000 more have been
“laid off indefinitely.” Ont in Mon
tana 20,000 miners are suddenly
thrown out of work. And these are
only the big items in a li. f of labor
reductions that in the aggregate ''-ill
probably reach over 100,000 and means
loss to the daily wage-bought living
and comforts of half a million people.
Are these some of the fine results
of republican prosperity for which the
people tire being everywhere advised
by that party’s spellbinders to stand
pat? Can Uncle Mark. Hanna arise in
a labor conference and explain the
consistency of sustaining the party
under wiiose regime these wholesale
lock-outs of labor are occurring? What
explanation can Secretary Shaw make
to the hungry, shivering households
of many of these men to convince
tlieni that their hard winter lot is one
of the ides, ings of Ids financial sup
port of the speculators in Wall street?
Will President Roosevelt order his
secretary of the treasury to go to the
relief of these discharged laborers as
be did when he directed him to lend
tlie money gamblers JtO.oOOjttlO or
more of lite people's money? We
think not. The Wall street gamble
lias come to the eash-up stage ami the
speculative Irusts are c<llapsing,
money is being hidden away, enter
prises calling for labor are being can
celled and the working men are the
scapegoats of the whole cataclysm.
Truly tlie republican party is up
against a scries of very ominous and
dangerous interrogation points with
housands ot voters behind each ol
them.
The Germ of Political Graft.
The Loudon Spectator has some
lucid comments upon the revelations
of political graft in our government
departments. It says with fairness
that such official scandals of fraud
ami peculation are by no means sin
gular and worse witli us than in other
countrii s. Rather they are rarer with
us and raise greater tides of popular
indignation than in most Eupropean
countries.
It is the genesis of these official de
relictions that The Spectator deals
with and it finds, witli direct logic,
that they are chargeable to our system
of making so many appoint merits to
office for political service and reward
ami creating a national machine in
Washington, a lessor machine in each
state and a still less, r machine in each
congressional district. All of which
js indisputably true and peculiar to our
American system.
The Spectator does not se»-m to
know the remedy, for it naturally and
generously refuses to r, ier our official
crimes to a general tliic\i hi: of the
American people. Btu there is a iem
edy and it is. easy of application.
When senators and (Oiigrcssmen arc
forbidden by law to rccomniend ami
demand appointments to office as
rights belonging to them halt the evil
of bad officialism will be at once
cured. And win u all officers dealing
directly with the people's affairs in
slates ami di.iriets made elective
by the people aliei'ted. fix' larger part
of the other half of th< evil will lie
cured. Then only a lew cabinet, de
partment and diplomats- offices will
be left to the jircsidenf and the peo
ple can properly hold him absolutely
rc sponsible tor their comluct.
Some <ia? some par;y presenting
that reform will whip to a. finish any
other party ol spoils and graft that
dares to ask for popular indorsement.
The Flcrida Shi) Canal.
The ('oust it tn ion would like to see
the enterprising citizens of Jackson
ville signalize the celebration of
their city's rehabilitation by inaugu
rating a strong movement in favor of
tlie building of a shit) canal across
the upper neck of Florida. As its
contribution Io (lie celebration afore
said The ('oust it nt ion join its
forces heartily with the canal project
and do all it can to have the govern
ment execute the great work.
The route has long since been sur
veyed fully and reported upon by
government, engineers and the esti
mates of its feasibility and cost, made
by General Gilmore, are, we believe,
on file in the war deiiarlment and
can be easily gotten and used as the
bases of a present day < aleulation.
The Florida ship canal, in view of
Hie increased traffic through the gulf
ports from Pensacola to Galveston,
will soon become a commercial ne
cessity of the first, rank'. Tlie quick
ening of time, tlie saving ol risks of
insurance, wreckage and heating ol
grain cargoes, in rat, : of exchange
and more rapid shuttling ol canital
would save a sum in ten years almost
as great as the cost of the canal.
One or two locks at most are all that
are needed in this practical sea level
canal. To a student of commercial
transportation a glance at the route
from tlie mouth of the. Suwanee river
to a point where the short-cut is
made to tlie St. Mary river, and
thence to the St. Mary and Fernan
dina harbors, will at once convince
him of tiie great, advantages ol the
canal
Jacksonville will reap the greater
advantages from the canal by identify
ing herself with it and securing many
of its advantages by the transship
ments of freight from the interiors
north and south of her to the canal
docks.
While a great scheme is being push
ed to secure the permanent leveeing
| of the Mississippi river and the Isth
mian canal is bound to be built, now
is the accepted time for Jacksonville
and all Florida to get behind this
splendid connecting link project,
i Georgians, we are sure, will lend all
; their aid in working for its accom
plishment. Vv’hat 'say our Florida
friends?
The People Will Hold Him Accounta
ble.
That little Oliver Twist lay-out call
ed tin 1 Republic of Colombia is kick
ing up its contempt nous heels in the
very teeth of President Roosevelt. It
has" sent him back the Hay-Herran
I treaty with tiie d< maud for $15,000.1)00
more cash and the right to rig itself
tip in its sovereignty and sandbag
i every craft that goes through the
■ ditch.
What amazes the country is that the
i bear-eating and mountain-lion rnasti
: eating occupant of the white house is
willing to stand for tlie marmozet
antics of the saddle-colored grafters
wito infest the panel-house capitol at
Bogota This bold fin do sieele Paul
Jones of 1898, who wanted to smash
! the Spanish noct in Spanish ports be-
■ fore a declaration of war. and who
I utter bringing San Juan hill into his
trophy kit, and boarding the lion of
Detroit in his war-office den, now act
! ually presents the sorry spectacle of
being bulldoz d to a standstill by a
lot of cheap greasers with gall enough
to fill a. finished Panama canal.
Why are these things thus? Simply
because the president is hungering for
another four years in the white house
and tears tlie power of the transconti
nental railway trust. It is to please
this gang ot grafters that tlie presi
dent ignores tlie law, defies tlie wishes
of tin- people am. postpones the needs
and victories of American commerce.
In all this he frames an issue which
the democrats must not ignore. They
arc under obligation to challenge this
special act of infidi lily on his part, and
appeal to Hie < ountry to condemn and
punish his flagrant sacrifice of a para
mount national enterprise to Ihe ex
igencies ot his personal ambitions. It
is a shameless piece of stubnorn self
ishness and the American voters will
hold him accountable for it-
Settle the Indian Problem.
Through Brother Smiley and his
Lake Mohonkers, with the cooperation
of tiie Indian Rigiits Association,
, many di predations upon tiie proper
! ties and rights of tlie reservation In
dians, by the help of agents of the
interior department. have been
Drought to light. 1 lie revelations
show another broad streak of rotten
ness in the administration of the gov
ernment by tlie republican sarcophiles
to whom all helpless flesh looks alike.
The Indian, however, while a pa
tient sufferer, is also a shrewd retriev
* er. He hires good lawyers to present,
as well paid for what he loses as any
His little bill of damages to the gov
ernment every time and probably gets
parly witli whom Uncle Sam has to
deal. In fact. Mr. Lo owns Hie best
lands in the country, on the reserva
tions he is fed. blanketed and general
ly made comfortable as a loafer at
public expense, and finally has $240,-
000,000 to his credit in the national
' treasury.
j The Indian knows well enough how
to finance his affairs with the govern
ment ami all he needs to become alert
enough to his interests to take care of
them as fully as any other citizen is
to be segregated from his tribal lite,
individualized in his property hold
ings, made to take liis motley out. ol
the public treasury and to hustle for
his living and his rights as the rest of
: us do.
The only sensible policy that the
government can pursue is to wash its
hands of the whole Indian business.
Settle up with him honestly, give him
his homestead, and it is a sale wager
that he will soon shed his blanket and
get out and malic good as a useful and
sale American.
BOLL WEEVIL TO BE FOUGHT.
Convention at Dallas. Texas, to Da
vise Remedy for Pest.
XV. J. Meiitgomcrv, pi - sid nt and
Oil . , .11! I t!w Al.ib.im.i ("otton
,It I <'- im ] >:i !I > . till t“ ■-1 ('< si I? I 1 ■ ‘I by I I' 1 ’"
pre. LI, m ol' tie- I II’ •I -1 -'ll Uotten S<---d
, Tl.Allis’ A: sir.'H I inn tO go US .1 <l-i
--.,.((» I'll! !; . T'"< . ■ vumb' i 5-7. irotn
»; oruia nd .\ i;i l-uim, I«» attend the •-
■ t ti"\t nlioii ''f tbnl a.-E' H'i.i t i'Hi licit!
Mr. Mcntaornury r-. <i\ <1 an urgent
Hui o:..11 letlir ! ,- <>ni tie' stt i’dary ot the
' asst" i.ititm inviting him to attend the
■ ■ meeting as a delegate. He. has
er.uticating II: - boll W ( ' ' it, wiiieh has
;,laj -ni i) ba'oc witli tin- <-.»! ton et-ip
m tin- .-i.iii ■■ \vc I of t’’" Mi ’isAppi. and
,s r, ;:ard, ,1 ; an antliority on cotton
j in.-i 11, rs genera Uy.
This H the tii: t time in the history
of tlie Inteist.i:,- ('otton Sc, >1 Urtn-hi-rs’
,\ soci.ition that two ••• ’nv< ntions have
lie.-n held in tin- same .'ear. The Jirst
we. 1,. 1.1 al Alcinplii-. Tomi., in May.
and tliis meeting i: l«r the spei i.it pu.-
P“ ; of taking action in regard to the
.M <X l .111 boll weevil. 'I lie state of l‘e.'.,|S
lias appropriated til, sum of $50,000 for
,-xpe: inu-iils looking to its extermination.
Millions o: dollars damage b is be. n .lone
by Ulis insect, and a most determined cl’-
fort is to 1,0 made to e.- '-up,' such ravages
in tlie future.
RICH TREASURE FROM NOME.
Three Arriving Steamers Loaded
with the Yellow Dust.
Seattle, Wash.. O. tolc r 28. Three
Nome st' .ini' IS, tin- Senator, licaiioko and
Ohio, re-ialied S'a 11 1< ,-arly today, bring
ing a total of 1,200 passengers and over
a. halt million doll irs in tresurc. The
Roa mke b it S:. Michaels October 18. and
tlie Senator and (>liiu . ill .1 from Nome
October 19. None of them sighted the
Disabled st< anon Meteor, winch has a
valii-ildc cargo, and is I cing towed south
war 1 by tie slennaa EiU '-k.i Th r , \ .
eaue ei.tier.- Manning and Bear were
preparing to start out in s'-arch ot the
Eureka and lie. tow.
Carnegie Medal Won by Gibson.
Bhiladelphia, October 30, William M.
Hibson, of New York, fortnerly of the
Assoeiated Press and now witli a broker
linn, tonight won tlie Carnegie medal and
tlie world s championship as tlie "best
all around telegraph op rater'’ at the
Lournaincnt of th \tnerii .iii T. legrapli
ers" Association Ini tonight. |< E.
Bruckner, of tile t o tai Telegraph Com
pany. Chicago, wo-: tiie ■ ■ e >nd prize
Gibson's victory was ;i brilliant one, as
lie had for "pi client-- -.'in. or Un- h, t
telegraphers in the , a n y including I’.
\i. M.C’linl in, of tile A ..Minted Prifs.
Dallas. Tex., who won tin championship
last year. |
“Songs of the Soil”
By FRANK L. STANTON
We Sorter Looked for More.
It’s a curious woiT, believers—with the
rich ones an" the poor:
We’re thankful fer a plenty, ’mt we
sorter looked for moi’6’.
't he harvest rich an" golden-no lean wolf
at tho door.—
oil, we’re thankful fer a plenty, but we
sorter looked fer more!
Our neighbor—heaven bless him!—didn t
toil the summer long;
But he's doin’ well, an’ singin’ of a hal
leluia song!
An’ we’d swel; the ringin’ chorus from
tho mountains to the shore.
But—although we’ve got a plenty, yet
we. sorter looked for more!
Here's the table jest a-groanin’ with the
fattest in the land,
An’ we’ll try to ask a bless!n'—right in '
line with t’lie command!
“Tlii' Good Jxn'd make us thankful for
what we have in store:”—
It really Is a plenty, but we sorter look- ■
ed fer more!
♦•• • •
Brother Dickey and Bre’r Dowie.
“Talkin' ‘bout Bre’r Dowie bein’ Elijah .
de Second,” said Brother Dickey, “you kin
git de. people er dis day en gineration ter
bTeve anything In dp roun' worl’—fum
smoke on de Moon ter 'Possums climbin’
de North Pole! Why, es I wuz ter tell
folks dat I wuz de whale what swallercd
Jonah, dey'd say right off dat I looked
tough enough, anyhow! En es I wuz ter
see a bull rush in a pasture, en I wuz
ter jump inter a river ter save tnyse.'f,
dey'd fish me out en swear dat I wuz
Moses, come ter life ag’in! Dey would
dat—on no mistake!”
The Far, Bright Lights.
Dark days an’ dreary—but Faith'll still
abide:
The bright lights of Canaan on the shin- :
in' other side!
An echo in the breast
Os tic: bells a-rlngin' rest—
O, the bright lights of Canaan on the
shinin’ jßher side!
Dark days an’ dreary—the River dim an’ i
wide;
But the bright lights of Canaan lightin’ :
U P tlje other side!
An’ sweet the chorus swells
To that, ringin' o’ the bells
In tlie bright lights of Catuian on the
shinin’ mher side!
Dark world an’ weary, an’ hearts are
crucified;
But—rest in the bright lights on the shin- i
in’ other side!
Across the river's f<jam
The lights—the lights of Home, —
The bright lights of Canaan, on the shin- '
in’ other side!
* « • « •
A Word from Bre’r Williams.
I don't worry 'bout no high seat In
heaven. 1 des wants ter slip in whar
dey won't, ax too many <iue£tions.
Es it hadn’t been fer apples Adam
wouldn't 'a' had no trouble in Paradise. '
Howsomever, 1 ain’t got no fault ter find
wid ’em.
Religion is so free dat lots er folks got
de idee dat dey kin pick it un in de
street any time dey wants it.
De man what shouts de ionites’ in meet
in’ is do one wli.it got de leaat ter say
at home. Dal's a.ll his consolation.
t has des erboifit concluded dat de :
h. atlicns 'cross de water is fur mo’ civ
ilized dan lots er de heatljens right here
at hoipe.
Many a man makes a virtue er swine '
ter church, w'en de real reason is—be kin
sleep better dar dan at home.
The Dim Way.
So dim the way:
And yet—tlie thorn-road to eternal Day! j
So brief the years:
Yet seen forever through a rain of tears!
Yet, heaven's Jn sight—
With sweet “Good Morning” for Earth's I
lust "GooG Night!’*
V ♦ • * •
Wlioop Up the Music!
Don't dat Win’ a wailin’ rotin’ de win
ders, lak’ a witch,
Raze do cracks let. in de daylight, en I
twenty mile sum rich;
En de tr.dn er Mister Charity hez gone
en jumped de switch,—
Hut. whoop up de music 'twel de I
inawnin''
Don’t lak de Trust dat keepin’ era co'ner :
on de coal,
Wen do trees is all a sheddin’ en de
blizzard thunder roll;
Hut 1 bet I it keep do sunshine on do
glory in my soul,
S ', whoop up de music 'twel do mawnin’!
Country Court in Billville.
"Arc you a witness in this case?”
"i Li 'long, jedge. you knows I is!”
"Di<l you see the prisoner steal the i
"My. rny, Jedge- don't you know T seen
him’.’”
"Well what time was it?"
"Judge, yon knows ez well cz I does,
dat hit wuz watermillion time!”
'But what time was it by the clock?" j
"Lawd ho'p you, jedge!—how could dey
be a clock in de middle era watermillion
patch, half a mile sum a house what
never had a clock In it senco do day de
fust, shingle wuz. nailed on? flow some
'■r you white folks ever gits tor b" judge
is mo' dan I kin onderstan'!"
Mister Winter in Town.
I bet you Mister Winter made his mln’
ter come ter town.
By de way de green Is turnin’, on de :
leaves a-rainin’ down!
Don’t you sec de rabbit friskin’ in his I
oxercoat er brown?
Oh. ’twill soon be Mister Winter in de i
ma wilin’!
r pet you Mister Winter call his clouds .
Imn fur away,
l-ii tell em dat de Summer Is a takin'
holiday,
En ie want ter raise a racket—make do
stormy fiddles play,—
Oh, 'twill soon be Mister Winter in de
mawnin'!
Rut-’o’m come, en I dust er-freeze de
furrer - fling de sleet,
En strip ,le trees ter ribbons whar do
birds wuz singin’ sweet;
Wo safe in winter quarters, down on
Halleluin street.
Oh. ’twill soon be Mister Winter, ft, de
mawnin’
*****
A Song of the Heathen.
You got tor save de heathen—
Don’t Iteer how you do;
He swaller all de Gospll],
Ett de Missionary, too!
Ho set en lissen patient
\\ en do preacher conic in view;
He say: "I like yo’ )ir. achin'
But whar dat Barbecue?"
11. mightily perplexity
Across de ocean wide.
En dis v r what he toll ’em;—
"I wants do Gospill—fried!”
i Plunkett's Letter
I _—
' Here we go ’round the rosmary bush,
Here we go ’round the rosmary bush.
' jp.,.,. we g<> ’round the rosmary bush,
Till early in the morning.
The country parties have now began
and we think that a. heart that does not
respond to the songs they sing and games
they play' needs doctoring, and such folks
are the most to be pitied ot all the
world. You ought io have been with me
and Brown night before last and h;r.«
feasted on the delights of a genuine of.
time play- L°ng before we arrived at
the house we could hear the songs a
ringing and the feet as they' trainped tmj
floor. Just how young people can make
such songs jingle and the patter of theii
feet to lose all harshness and sounds
with glee one must attend to understand.
I
“Choose you a partner and come along In,
I Choose you a partner and come along in.
Choose you a partner and come along in,
I Till early in the morning.”
■ Anyway, a merry time is had at ill
' the.se parties and a sweet memory vvu!
I linger of them through all our y'n s.
j Os course, we had a good lunch spread
i about midnight and these lunches arc not
I the smallest part of all the delights. Tl.a
■ old kitchen where we went to eat ti n
! lunch on this occasion smacked so nvmn
I of before the war that a flood of happy
memories came upon the spice of the nu a .
i The old fireplace reached nearly aero
I one, end of the kitchen and an obi pot
rack still hangs there just as they used
|to hang before the days when stn.-.i
! were seldom known, and I know that
! it is no delusion to think that bread Is
■ bett-r cooked in ovens at these tiri-pb' .
j and custards and pies and sweetmeats
are all better. A big logheap fire blazed
to cheer the room and they chunked, ia
i the lightwood just as they used to do
l and we came away thinking of hapi ;.
things and forgot the mass meeting t:; .
was being arranged to let the peoj
i show their indignation at the manag.
ment of our county affairs. Let us ho, .
I that we will have more of such hap; ~
| occasions and less of such gatherings g
! gather like a cloud and embitter tha
j minds of the youthful countryman ta
think that everything is corrupt a- ■'
I against the farmers and their interest -
' there is much in the impressions that
‘ we make upon young folks fur good
I for bad.
I As for me and Brown we have loi g
■ since learned that it is better to rub
: your wrinkles from the brows of old ano
i young and beguile all hearts of sorro-v
I than to be forever wrangling over pod
l tics or speculating on things tli.it we
know invites hard feelings and opposition
' between neighbors. I had rather visit 0r,.-
of these country parties and wat'h th-■
: young folks there than to attend al! the
I mass meetings that could ever gath<:
j It is our opinion that about three-fourths
, of the trouble wo have is borrowed ft
! much better to look for the good :n ".
escape .all the bad that we possibly ■ . .
, One item for good that we learned ;
' talking to the young folks at the party
was that girls have almost entirely quir
riding bicycles along our country t■■
land to country gatherings. The thing
has dawnod upon us in this neck of th
woods that girls who rode bicycles
seldom marry. This is a fact the young
folks tell me. If you will keen an a
count of al] tile marriages of this wlnt
you will find that a monstrous small jv
cent of them are bicycle riders. Bit!,'"
the boys don’t hanker after bicycle gliD
or bicycle girls loose all taste for mar:-,
. ing. As this unhappy state of
i lias come to be known we will have I,
bicycle riding and more marrying
tliis, I think, is a matter to rejoice ov<s
1 here can be no more delightful thing
j than to get out among these country p* o”
i pie, and it is my notion that tlivr- v " :
i be found no more instructive thing f. -
' even our statesmen. The towns will take
i care of themselves in their own w.
i Country people have no desire to intrud-<
; their opinions upon these towns, i.et
i weakness that seems to possess’ nea '.
I every town man is that they know r..
I about farming and of how farmers s >"
i live and do than the farmers flietnselve
j A bright country editor told me last w- ■
. that he had discovered that every nv
i "ii earth knew better how to run liis ,
' per than he did himself. The same
. plies to farming j n a. marked deg"
■ Every town fellow that I ever k>
I knows more a.bout farming than in
I Brown both put together—or think tl
; know.
| 1 lie truth is there is much thought
. skill and experience needed on a * r:
■ and especially are. these accomplish™'- :> ■
! necessary to get the sweet delights t:.i:
! come from church .'i.ssoclati"ns and h .:■
: py country gatherings.
Me and Brown have both decide.) t >
I indulge in but little advice, but there
one thing that ■ very one do< kt ov
i that is that farming is the fociidatioc ' <
’ all prosperity and one of -is slm
■I" whatever we can to help up >i ■
| lines. Cheerfulness and th £ ey.n-.irng
ment of these innocent and happy . '
1 erlngs is one way to help agrie;il)' 1
[ conditions. \Ve should all understtuid tu
force of the saying that wi- must Dt;
ourselves to have the world laugh •
us. Thousands of young pe.,;,' t
hold a distaste for country ;jf< b. ~.
"f so little effort to get. tho sweet
lights that are hid in tlie assp. ial;.m
happy winter parties.
it takes men of considerable enerc',
work up a first-class mass meeting. .
clally a meeting where tlie Indlgn it:
a community can be made to a;.:., a
The truth Is that if such energy was .
in getting up gatherings of a li.it-I'
trend it would lie much better t..r i
in,l would help to make Hie voiing GJ
satisfied with country conditions l 11 a
been a great mistake and a blight .... w
that ~ur young folks have heard so mi
In disparagement of country life. A "
p,u t ol the dissatisfaction tha t w
caused by a. desire of these ta.
meeting r! ■ inators to get tl
that the other fellow holds In •
county lu re where we know that :
may be happy if they will. th.a-' has «:
up such a. wrangle between th.— w
now hold the offices and tho; <• wh.
sire to get these offices, that it look a
J they will make a case of th<
kenny eats" out of the tiling. \v.. though'
that wlirn the populist party quit '1
efforts and left tho whole tiling to the
grand old party” to run as she iib-ase-t.
that wo would have political p< -
us. but it is tiol so. ’i’lioro at.- l.iu :
issues on the schools ami on the chain
gangs and the forth, r we go the fattli :
apart wo seem to get.
My remedy would be h <
ical wrangling and more country parti,
and corn shuekings. Even now I ■ ,n h< "
Brown’s children out at the cri’a. win i"
they have guthtr.-d to get out of the t .in
and they are practicing on some of the
song, that they win sing at the . ■ so
shuekings:
Bad a dog. his name was Lion,
Here, Rattler, her-, her."
Icin a t rack as >lp j r .| t .
Here. Rattler. In,-., her.-"’
As tor me. and I speak for Brown, too.
I hope that tlieie will be n party and a
Shucking at every house in DeKalb, and
that we will be invited to them all.
SARGE BLUNKETT.