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Bryan Urges Both Parties
To Co-operate in Exposure
Os Reactionary Schemes
BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
There is a natural line running
through politics, as well as through
society in general, separating the
conservative from the radical. The
division is due in part, but not en
tirely, to difference in information.
Two people, equally well Informed,
may take opposite views of a subject
because of what may be called a con
stitutional tendency. These two
forces contribute, each its part, to
the welfare of society. If it were
not for the conservative the radical
would go too fast; if it were not for
the radical the conservative would
not go at all. In so far as the con
servative simply cbmpels delibera
tion, he performs a real service, and,
when conscientious and not influenc
ed by ulterior motives, he gradually
yields to public opinion, based upon
intelligent discussion.
But, while the conservative can be
tolerated because of the element of
caution that he contributes, the reac
tionary belongs to a very different
class. The conservative accepts
progress when it becomes an ac
complished fact and uses that which
has be . acquired when he contests
some new step in advance. The re
actionary. on the other hand, is
usually the secret agent of a public
enemy and, therefore, less candid in
giving reasons for his course. An
honest conservative points out the
dangers as he sees them and utters
a warning as conscientiously as the
radical pleads for a change. But
the reactionary, conscious of his in
ability to defend his position by open
argument, resorts to subterfuge and
false pretense. The progressive
forces of society - have nothing to
fear from honest conservatism; on
the contrary, they welcome its chal
lenge and meet its inquiries in the
spirit in which they are presented.
But the reactionary, working in
the dark and actuated by motives
he can neither disclose nor defend,
is the real foe whom the reformer
has to fear and against whom he
must continually fight.
Why Stake Is Bigger
The conflict between the unorgan
ized masses, who ask only justice
and are content with the recognition
of their rights, and the predatory in
terests, rages in every land, and no
where more bitterly than in the
United States. The stake is bigger
here because the wealth which is
within the reach of avarice here sur
passes the dreams of the plutocrats
of other lands, and the very intelli
gence of our people becomes the ave
nue through which misrepresenta
tion can be spread when great news
papers are brought to the support of
schemes of exploitation.
The corporation, a real invention in
commerce, and an apostle of democ
racy when properly employed, has
become the means through which
greed does the major part of its mis
chief. A corporation permits a
large number of people to co-oper
ate under conditions much more fa
vorable than any partnership can
offer, a” when properly managed,
furnishes to the masses a means of
sharing in great industries and en
terprises. But the corporation, like
# every other good thing, is liable to
be abused, and it has been grossly
abuse' in the United States. A few
i designing men can, when they obtain
control of a corporation, turn a well
intended instrumentality entirely
away from its proper course and use
it for the enrichm-”t of those who
are in a position to direct its ener
gies. When once a-controlling inter
est is secured and the valuable priv
ileges which accompany the manage
ment of corporation are turned to
the p ry advantage of ...tose in
charge.
Passing over the period during
which the trusts reached their max
imum development, let us consider
the change that followed the elec
tion of 1912. When President Wil
son entered the White House he had
a senate and house in sympathy with
him, and a >empcratic party made
a record along the line of economic
reform without a parallel in our his
tory. It lowered the tariff; it enact
ed a currency law that has proven to
be the best in the world; it gave
the farmers relief through a farm
loan law; it created a federal trade
commission and began a war against
the trusts. It distinguished between
labor and merchandise and gave to
the wage earner protection from
government by injunction and also
gave an eight-hour day. All of these
steps In advance we. e contested by
the big corporations. The tariff lar
ons fought the tariff law; the finan
ciers waged a fierce fight against the
currency law. the trusts bitterly op
posed legislation aimed at them and
all combined to resist the eight-hour
day.
Women Saved Party
In the campaign of 1916, the pred
atory interests made a united at
tack upon the Democratic party and,
but for the women’s vote in the west,
would have succeeded in overthrow
ing the party. And it should be re
membered that the election in the
west was won, not upon economic
grounds, but because the president
had resisted the efforts made to
force him into the European war and
into the war with Mexico. He re
ceived so large a support in the suf
frage states as to be elected bv a
small Imajority in the electoral col
lege in spite of the east. An inspec
tion of the returns of that election
leaves no doubt as to the complete
ness of the political organization
formed by the moneyed interests of
the country.
Then came our entry into the war
when, as a war necessity, the gov
ernment took over the railroads, the
telegraph lines and the telephones.
This angered the monopolists bevond
measure. yVhile they had to confess
the inability of private management
to meet the exigencies of the war,
they saw at once that they had to
meet the issue between private mo
nopoly and government ownership.
From that moment the fight was on
in earnest, and government owner
ship was the point of attack. With
the railroads, the telegraph lines and
the telephones under the manage
ment of persons opposed to govern
ment ownership (it being impossible
under the circumstances to substi
tute new men for those in charge),
the experiment had to be tried under
the most unfavorable conditions. The
fact that those in immediate control
were out of sympathy with the poli
cy of government ownership would
have been enough to paralyze the ex
periment, but to the lack of sym
pathy was added an active effort to
demonstrate the failure of govern
ment ownership, and every newspa
per, controlled or owned by monopo
lies, local or national, teemed with
criticism.
The Republican victory in the con
gressional campaign of 1918 was due
primarily to the aggressiveness of
these predatory interests, rallied by
the promise of the Republican lead
ers, and the congress elected in 1918
has so far lived up to the highest
expectations of those who desire to
return the government to the control
of the big interests.
We are now approaching the cam
paign of 1920 where thd case is to
he tried out before the people— not
fairly, by an open, honest statement
of issues, but by evasion, misrepre
sentation and subterfuge. No party
dares openly to espouse the policy
of the big financial magnates who
demand nothing less than the abso
lute control of the federal govern
ment in every branch that the power
of private monopoly may be com
plete. They want the president be
cause his veto would throw upon
twem the necessity of having two
t«4r<ls of both houses—a preponder
> T-jCe they cannot hope to secure.
71« y elso want a president who will
Turn the federal reserve system over
to Wall street and put friends of
the railroads on the interstate com
merce commission and the supreme
bench. They want a senate that can
prevent any interference with the
ambitions of monopolies, profiteers
and exploiters, and a house of rep
resentatives subservient to the de
mands of the favor-seeking corpora
tions. They vUll try to control both
parties, write both platforms and
nominate both candidates; then they
will be able to throyr the Democratic
party on the ash p'ile and give the
Republican party a majority large
enough to encourage it recklessly to
obey the instructions from Wall
street. »
Expose Reactionaries
The talk of a "business man’s can-
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKEY JOURNAL.
FINANCIAL
OUTLOOK
BY STUART F. VTSST
(Copyright 1920, by the Atlanta
Journal.)
WALL STREET, NEW YORK.
May 29.—The turn for the better in
the speculative market this week has
been very definite and convincing,
but it is of far less consequence than
change which has come over the in
vestment market. All competent
judges have predicted that when
money conditions eased, when there
came a let-up in the credit strain,
it was to be accpted as the signal
for a great revival in bonds and in
all other securities the yield on
which is fixed. We have begun to
see during the course of the week
these predictions verified. The
drastic measures .put into force by
the fedral reserve authorities to cur
tail loans to non-essential enter
prises have started the credit de
flation which could not be accom
plished by the raising of official dis
count rates. The improvement in
the traffic situation and the belief
that it will be carried further has
counted heavily along the same lines
Frozen bank credits are in rapid
process of liquidation and the prac
tical result has been seen already in
the increased offerings at reduced
rates for time money, the first break
in the time money market deadlock
in oyer a year.
With the abundant evidence af
forded that the credit position is
on the mend and with the appearance
of aji increasing supply ,of time
funds shrewd investors realized
that the market for bonds and pre
ferred stocks had reached bottom
and that much better times ’lay
ahead. One would have to go back
to the autumn of 1914, to find a
week where bond prices made any
such gain as they have this week.
Liberty bonds have led the way. In
a few days they have regained the
entire ground lost in more than a
month. Corporation bonds are up
two, three and five points, and at
the close of the week there are not
only no indications of a let up, but
on the contrary, the buying move
ment seems to be acquiring mo
mentum. But the resumption of gold
imports and the prospect that these
importations will expand until they
reach a total possibly as high as
$100,000,003 before the end of the
summer, has ben an almost equally
powerful influence.
Federal Bank’s Power
Now this fear has been pretty
well dissipated. People have begun
to recognize the essential difference
between th present situation and
that of thirteen years ago, namely,
that then there was no contral con
trolling agency in the banking sys
tem of the country and that now
there is. The federal reserve board,
despite all former shortcomings, is
proving its great ufility. It has the
power and it has now shown that
it also has the ability to prevent the
crisis that might have come with
in the next few months had there
not been a rigorous cutting down of
loans in order to provide a fresh
supply of free credit available for
financing the new harvests. The
criticism against the present meas
ure comes from purely interested
quarters. The common sense view
is that the federal reserve heads
have chosen by far the lesser of
two evils. It is unfortunate that
industrial production has to be de
creased. But it is of far more im
portance that the credit strain be
relieved. It is better by far to have
a temporary let up in business than
run the risk of a panic, which it
would take years for the business
community to recover from.
The best judgment, of bankers and
financial authorities as it has been
given the public on numerous oc
casions during the last week is that
the credit difficulties have reached
the peak, that the tension is sub
siding and that th e relief measures
Plus the gold importations will put
the banks of the country in a strong
enough position to meet the crop re
quirements of the summer and au
tumn without any serious results.
It is upon this conviction that the
whole financial situation has turned,
that new buying power has been de
veloped, that liquidation of securities
has ceased, and that Wall street men
have come to take a brighter view of
the outlook than they have felt like
taking for over six months. The in
vestment section of the market is
undoubtedly upward. Old line rail
way stocks, which even a week ago
were unpopular, have come especially
into favor. They are the ones which
stand to benefit particularly by the
easing of money on the one hand and
the prospect of much higher freight
rates on the other. It is reasonably
felt that there are immediate and
very promising possibilities for spec
ulation in the low-priced non-divi
dend paying rails, this because of
the very forceful case that has been
made out at the interstate commerce
commission hearings on the side of
higher freight rates.
Stock Dividends
The financial community has been
particularly impressed with the fig
ures submitted by which the repre
sentatives of the railroads proved
that in most instances where there
had been a valuation on the basis of
reproduction costs this was shown by
the commission’s experts themselves
to be considerably higher than the
valuation represented by property
and Investment account.
With the industrials the coming
market is likely to be a much more
discriminating one. Stocks which
have distributed stock dividends have
for the most part shot their bolt. So
have stocks of companies whose in
ventories will have to be whittled
down as part of the commerce re
adjustment that is in store, and there
is little speculative incentive in the
case of stocks of concerns producing
non-essentials. On the other hand,
the equipments have a very bright
outlook and so have most of the high
grade oils.
didate’’ is only a premonitory symp
tom of the nonpartisan movement
now on foot—nonpartisan, because
big business has no politics. Its
patriotism is the “patriotism of pelf’’
and its God is Mammon. Its arrog
ance and inscience do more to breed
anarchy and stir up discontent than
all the utterances of those who pro
fess to be anarchists.
The reactionary movement has Its
headquarters in the Republican
party; it is now in the saddle in
both seriate and house; But the
Democratic party is honey-combed
with secret supporters of the reac
tionary movement. If the Repub
licans have a close vote and lose a
few of the progressives in their
party, they are not without hope,
for they count upon getting enough
recruits from the Democratic party
to make up for their losses. The
reactionary is in politics today as he
has not been in years; he has money
without -limit and newspapers ga
lore. His stake is control of the
government of the richest nation in
the world. Nothing but an aroused
electorate can save the country from
an unexampled era of exploitation.
If the rank and file of the Re
publican party can be awakened in
time to prevent the nomination of
a reactionary, every patriot will have
reason to rejoice. If the conscience
of the Republican party does not
assert Itself at the convention the
responsibility thrown upon the Dem
ocratic party will be grave indeed.
It might be to its political advantage
to carry the standard of reform
against a Republican reactionary, but
the only safe plan is for the friends
of progress in both parties to con
trol their respective conventions,
then, no matter which party wins,
the country will be safe. If either
party champions the reactionary
movement no prophet can foretell
the result. If both parties are cap
tured by the reactionaries the uncer
tainties will be multiplied. It be
hooves every lover of his country to
work from now until the conventions
meet to expose the schemes of the
reactionaries in both parties and to
prevent their consummation.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Impediments to Wheat Exports in
Argentina Gave Strength to Corn
Arrivals of Corn Appeared So
Meager Compared With
What Had Been Expected
That Hopes of Plentiful
Supplies Next Week Were
Largely Wiped Out
CHICAGO, May 29. —Impediments
to wheat export business in Argen
tina gave an advantage to bulls to
day in the corn market here, and
so likewise did the fact that receipts
of corn were smaller than had been
looked for. Prices closed unsettled,
1 1-4 net lower to 3 1-2 advance,
with Julv 166 1-4 to 166 1-2 and Sep
tember 1'53 3-8 to 154. Oats finished
1-4 off to 1 3-8 up, and provisions
COTTON
NEW YORK COTTON, NEW YORK
STOCKS AND GRAIN MARKETS
CLOSE’ ON ACCOUNT OF MEMO-
RIAL DAY.
NEW ORLEANS)’, May 31. —Favorable pri
vate weather reports from the interior of
the cotton belt, and a local paper’s condition
of 67.4 per cent, contributed to an initial
decline of 8 to 15 points, owing to the east
ern holiday and the desire to await the
bureau report, and after sagging to 34.85 c
for October on the first call, values steadied
up, and toward the close of the first hour
of trading October had recovered to 35c.
NEW ORLEANS, May 31.—The rally ex
tended to 35.07 c for October during the sec
ond hour, when July sold 17 points net
higher; but the market continued very quiet,
with trading light. There was no decided
trend toward the middle of the session,
when the new crop positions stood within a
few points of last week’s close.
The market remained quiet and practically
unchanged during the last hour with the
price movement confined to the earlier
range. Scattered evening up in advance of
the bureau represented practically the only
business and the close was steady at a net
gain of 4 points on July to a net loss of
13 to 15 points on the new crops.
Spots quiet and unchanged at 40c for
middling.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in tbs
exchange today:
Tone steady; middling, 40c, steady.
l,ast Free
Open. High. Uiw. Sale. Close. Close
Jan. .. 33.35 33.35 33.35 33.35 33.33 33.46
Mar 32.82 32.95
July .. 37.80 38.08 37.78 37.95 37.94 37.92
Oct. .. 35.00 35.07 34.85 34.96 34.93 35.08
Dec. .. 33.88 34.05 33.5 S 33.92 33.92 34.05
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, May 31.—Spot cotton
quiet and unchanged. Sales on the spot
168 bales, to arrive 300. Low middling,
31.00; middling, 40.00; good middling, 44.00;
receipts 8,629; stock 1,023.782.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, steady; sales 3,000; good middling,
29.33 d.
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
Jan 22.42 22.63 22.52
Feb 22.53 22.22
March .... 21.90 2.12 22.00
April 21.87 21.75
May 24.85 25.35 25.00
June 24.64 24.95 24.48
July 24.12 24.55 24.23
Aug 23.90 24.25 24.03
Sept 23.70 24.01 23.82
Oct 23.11 23.66 23.52
Nov 22.93 23.20 23.09
Dec .... 22.63 22.87 22.79
Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., President
of White Provision Company.)
Good to choice steers, 850 to 1,000 pounds,
$11.50@11.75.
Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds, sll.oo@
11.50.
Medium to good steers, 750 to 850 pounds,
$10.50@11.00.
Good to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
pounds, $9.50@10.00.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds,
$8.50@9.00.
Good to choice heifers, 850 to 650 pounds,
$8.00@9.00.
The above represents the ruling prices on
good quality fed cattle. Inferior grades
and dairy types quoted below.
Medium to good steers, 700 to 800 pounds,
$9.50@10.50.
Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds,
$7.50@8.50.
Mixed common cattle, .$6,0(J@7.00.
Good fat oxen, $8.50@9.50.
Good butcher bulls, $6.50@8.50.
Choice veal calves, $9.00@10.00.
Yearlings, $6.00@7.50.
Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds, $14.00@
14.25.
Light hogs, 135 to 165 pounds, $13.50
@13.75.
Heavy pigs, 100 to 135 pounds, $12.00@
12.25.
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, $10.50@
10.75.
The above applies to good quality mixed
fed hogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, May 31. —Cattle; Receipts,
10,000; beef cattle, 15c to 25c higher; top
yearlings, $14.30; best heavy, $13.75; bulk,
all weights, $12.00@13.15; calves, steady to
strong; bulk vealers, $13.50@14.25; feeders,
steady to strong, but quiet.
Hogs—Receipts,- 45,000; light weights, 15c
to 25c lower than Saturday’s average; top,
$14.90; bulk, all weights, $14.00@14.75;
pigs, 25c to 50c lower.
Sheej)—Receipts, 8,000; bulk lambs,
steady; others lower; sheep, 50c lower; good
and choice shorn lambs, $16.50@17.00; com
mon kinds, mostly $12.00@13.00; choice
spring lambs, $17.50; others mostly $16.25.
LOUISVILLE, May 31.—Hogs: Receipts
2,200; steady to lower; 225 pounds up,
$13.75; 165 to 225 pounds, $14.75; 120 to
165 pounds, $13.50; pigs, $10.00@11.50;
throw outs, $10.25 down.
Cattle—Receipts 300; slow. Heavy steers,
$12.00@12.50; beef steers, $8.50@12.25; fat
heifers, $8.50@12.50; cows, $4.75@11.00;
feeders, $9.00@10.50; Stockers, $7.00@9.75.
Sheep—Receipts 1,500; active. Lambs,
$18.00; seconds, $14.00; sheep, $9.00; bucks,
$6.00 down.
Cotton Gossip
Times-Plcaj-une says: In addition to ex
tensive replanting considerable acreage has
been abandoned or diverted to other crops,
after the cotton had failed to come up.
• The excessive rains which retarded crop
reparations and early planting in the entire
eastern half of the belt have continued dur
ing the last period to within a week of the
date of our reports. In the western half
of the belt where planting was delyade ow
ing to lack of rain the situation lias been
generally relieved, although the rains have
been excessive in north Texas and Oklahoma
and in parts of Arkansas.
As a result of their many delays and the
scarify of labor the crop is from two weeks
late in the most forward districts to four
weeks behind in the greater portion of the
belt.
While the completion of planting was
pushed energetically during the last portion
of the period under review planting has not
been finished except in Louisiana and
Florida.
Cultivation has been far from thorough
owing to the scarcity and indifference of
labor and many sections report that grassy
fields are now giving trouble.
By states:
North Carolina and Virginia 71.0
South Carolina 68.0
Georgia 59.0
Florida 68.0
Alabama 64.6
Mississippi 70.0
Louisiana 73.0
Texas 66*0
Arkansas 65.0
Tennessee and Missouri 66.0
Oklahoma 64.0
California, Arizona, etc .... 75.0
Total 67,4
Forecast—Virginia; Tliuudersliowcrs prob
ably tonight or Tuesday, warmer tonight
in central portion.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida: Showers probably tonight and Tues-
Extreme northwest Florida: Thundershow
ers this afternoon or tonight; Tuesday partly
cloudy.
Alabama: Local thundershowers this after
noon or tonight, and probably Tuesday. ’
Mississippi: Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday, probably local thundershowers.
Kentucky, Tennessee: Unsettled tonight
and Tuesday.
Louisiana, east Texas, west Texas: To
night and Tuesday partly cloudy.
Arkansas: Tonight and Tuesday cloudy.
Oklahoma: Tonight and uTesday partly
cloudy.
varying from sixty-five cents decline
to a rise of seventeen cents.
Active export demand for wheat
at gulf ports in the United States
lent special significance to word that
wheat shipments from Argentina had
been stopped temporarily and to later
advices that although the suspension
had been removed the Argentine gov
ernment would heavily increased tax
ation on wheat exports. With wheat
consequently three cents higher tn
the United States, sentiment as to
corn quickly became favorable to an
upturn in values. Besides, arrivals
of corn appeared so meager compared
with what had been expected that
hopes of plentiful supplies next week
but the finish in other months was
last call for May delivery died away,
were largely wiped out. Toward the
strong.
Oats merely reflected the' changes
tn corn.
Provisions averaged lower, influ
enced chiefly by weakness of the hog
market. Demand for the May shorts
helped rallies somewhat.
GRAY JOINS BLUE
IN TRIBUTE TO
FEDERAL DEAD
BY H. F. BAUGHN
Staff Correspondent of The Journal
MARIETTA, Ga., May 31.—Veter
ans of the Confederacy joined sur
vivors of the army of the North Sun
day in paying fitting tribute to tne
memory of the 4,000 union dead who
sleep in the Marietta National ceme
tery.
Under smiling skies, and while a
throng of 2,000 looked on, enfeebled
veterans of the Stars and Bars ten
derly placed wreaths upon the
graves of the gallant men they
marched against nearly sixty years
ago, giving touching evidence of the
tie of respect and devotion that now
binds together the fast waning
ranks of the heroes who wore the
blue or the gray.
Small American flags, waving from
every marker and headstone, whipped
in the breeze a vibrant message of
love and gratitude for the distinctive
service of those who rest in the
great white camp of silence.
An infantry battalion and band
from Camp Gordon, the Mitchell
post, G. A. R., the United Confeder
ate veterans, Spanish war veterans,
American Legion, Women’s Relief
Corps, Daughters of the American
Revolution, and the Helen Gould
auxiliary of the Fitzhzugh Lee camp,
Spanish war veterans, participated in
the impressive ceremonies, which be
gan at 12:30 o’clock p. m. in the
heart of the cemetery, with Captain
C. R. Haskins, of Atlanta,'chairman
of the Memorial committee, presid
ing. .
Linco'iii’s Address Read
Declaring that the Issues of the
sixties have been swept away and
lorgotten, Colonel J. Colton Lynes,
past commander of the Georgia Con
federate veterans, attired in the
same uniform of gray he wore dur
ing campaigning days, read Lincoln’s
Gettysburg address, pronouncing it
"the gem of American literature.”
"The embitterments of 1861 have
passed,” said Colonel Lynes, “and
it long since dawned upon us that
the soldiers of each army were act
uated by the same sacrificial spirit.
No longer is there a north or a
south, for we are all Americans, and
on this national Memorial day we
are here as a united people to pay
homage to heroes who fell in our
country’s service. This great army
of silent sentinels is a glowing trib
ute to American valor.”
Major General David C. Shanks,
commander of Camp Gordon, remark
ed that it was a beautiful and me
mo'rable event for a Confederate sol
dier in the heart of the south to read
Lincoln’s address at a memorial
service in honor of the union dead.
He lauded the deep sentiment that
prompted the holding of an annual
memorial service. “Sentiment,” said
he, “is the greatest thing in the
world. It was the controlling -fac
tor in the glorious success of our
army in the World war.”
Captain W. H. Kimball, veteran of
the union army, glorified the valor
and sacrifice of both the north and
south in the great struggle, and de
clared he was supremely happy to
see the veterans of the Confederacy
join in the memorial exercises.
“Once we longed to grasp each
others’ throats,” he declared, “but
now we love to grasp each others’
hands in a spirit of fraternity and
devotion.” He remarked that he had
often wondered, as the union ranks
depleted, who would care for the Ma
rietta graves after the last of the
veterans parsed away. “But I no
longer wonder, for this service has
shown me that the Mason-Dixon line
is no more,” he concluded.
Other Speakers
Major Trammell Scott, of Atlanta,
son of a Confederate veteran, paid
tribute to, the soldiers of the north
in behalf of the American Legion.
“The American Legion,” said Major
Scott, “will always honor the mem
ory of the veterans of the Civil war,
blue and gray. Our organization
knows no south and no north; we
are all Americans. The legion sends
you a tribute for your dead and
comradeship for your living. And
when you have passed into the un
known beyond, it shall be our duty
and privilege to keep these graves
green for you.”
Captain Henry F. Schroeder, Span
ish war veteran and now an army
officer at Camo Gordon, declared 1
American soldier was known the
world over as the foremost warrior
of all time. "He only attained this
standard,” he said, “by following in
the footsteps of those who wore the
blue and the gray before him.” Cap
tain Schroeder paid a beautiful trib
ute to the dead of the union and the
Confederacy.
Other speakers were Commander A.
M. Cosby, of the Mitchell post, G. A.
R.; Adjutant W. M. Scott; Chaplain
George C. Stull, Fifth division, and
William Wilson, keeper of the Na
tional cemetery.
Mrs. R. A. Byers, of Marietta,
sang “Abide With Me,” and "Tent
ing on the Old Camp Grounds,” after
which Chaplain Stull read the list of
union soldiers who had died during
the past. year. This was followed
by a salute of twenty-one guns by
one of the field pieces which the
, Fifth division used in France. The
4>and played the national anthem as
the flowers were distributed on the
mounds.
Six Hurt When Auto
Plunges Into Creek
THOMSON, Ga., May 31. —Albert
Mitchell, of near Sandersville, Ga.,
while en route from Augusta to War
renton on Saturday afternoon, when
going down a hill west of Boneville,
at Sweetwater creek, lost control of
the automobile he was driving, and
the car ran into the creek and turn
ed over, seriously injuring four of
the occupants. Mrs. Albert Mitchell
was seriously hurt about the breast;
Miss Pinkie Mitchell, aged twelve
years, of Warren county, had her
thigh crushed and was otherwise in
jured; Tom Mitchell, of Warren
county, and Albert Mitchell received
painful injuries. Two other occu-1
pants of the car. Misses Raburns, of
Warren county, received only slight
injuries.
The injured parties were brought
to the Watson Memorial hospital in
Thomson, where they are under the
care of Dr. Sterling Gibson.
Strike Is Blamed for
Killing in Rock Hiil
YORK, S. C., May 31. —Oliver N.
Dawson, forty-three, charged with
killing M. S. Butler, abouyt sixty, at
Philips' market, in Rock Hill, Sat
urday night,, would make no state
ment when seen at the jail here Sun
day. Dawson is suffering with bul
let wounds through his left arm and
left hand.
Dawson is a loom fixer at the Car
hartt mill, in Rock Hill, while Butler
was also formerly employed in the
same mill. 11l feeling is said to have
been held between the two men be
cause of a strike of operatives at
the Carhartt some time ago. Daw
son having returned to work and
| Butler having refused.
COCA-COLA CASE
DISMISSED FROM
STATE COURTS
(Continued from Faffs 1)
This testimony had to' do with the
sale of the original Coca-Cola com
pany to the Delaware corporation,
the re-organization and financing of
the new corporation and the business
relations between the bottlers and
the defendant company.
Defendants’ Fosition
In their answer to the suits, the
Coca-Cola company, of Delaware,
among other things, contended that
the contracts, as construed by the
bottlers, were in violation of state
and federal laws. Subsequently, dur
ing the hearing of the case before
Judge Pendleton, the defendant filed
an amendment to its original re
sponse, in which it set out that the
contract, as construed by plaintiffs
and as forming the basis for their
claim, is contrary to public policy
and non-enforcible, for the following
I’easons:
1. In that it is claimed to be per
petual.
2. It is opposed to the law of
Georgia laid down in section 5253 of
the code of Georgia as to the re
straint of trade.
3. It is opposed to the constitution
al provision laid down in section 6166
of the code of Georgia making illegal
and void any contract or agreement
whatsoever between corporations
which may have the effect,’ or be In
tended to have the effect to defeat or
lessen competition in their respective
businesses, or to encourage monopoly.
4. The said contract, as construed
by plaintiffs, is violative of federal
legislation touching monopolies, and
the restraint of trade, and is there
fore non-enforcible.
Attorney John Sibley, of counsel
for the bottlers, explained Monday
morning that the withdrawal and
dismissal of the suits in the state
courts would expedite the ultimate
termination of the litigation. When
the suits originally were instituted
in the Fulton superior court, Mr. Sib
ley said, the plaintiffs did not con
template that the defendants would
attack on federal grounds the validity
of the contracts between the bottlers
and the Coca-Cola company, as
amended by counsel for the company.
Notable Counsel
In consequence of this attack, Mr.
Sibley said, counsel for the bottlers,
after conference, had decided to dis
miss their suits in the state court
and reinstitute them in the federal
jurisdiction. Otherwise, he said, the
litigation would be unduly drawn
out.
The litigation has engaged the
services of a galaxy of notable coun
sel. Representing the plaintiff bot
tlers were the firms of King &
Spalding; Rosser-Slaton-Phillips &
Hopkins; Charles T. & Linton C. Hop
kins, and several attorneys from
Chattanooga. Representing the Coca-
Cola company were Candler, Thom
son & Hirsch; Anderson & Rountree;
Robert C. & Phillip H. Alston, and
Judge Samuel B. Adams, of Savan
nah.
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TO PLACES MONDAY
(Continued from Fago 1)
pdesident, as had been requested by
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
and other brotherhoods of the Cen
tral road. Important developments
could be expected during the after
noon, he said. He was in conference
during the morning with J. W. Brid
well, mediator appointed by the fed
eral department of labor.
No response had been received
Monday morning to the telegram
sent Saturday by the board of di
rectors of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce to E. H. Fitzgerald, of
Cincinnati, head of the national
brotherhood. The message had out
lined the unsuccessful conference
held at the chamber Saturday and
had requested Mr. Fitzgerald to take
charge of the situation here because
of the chamber’s belief that the
strike is illegal and unjustifiable.
No General Walk-out
The walk-out of clerks on all roads
of the southeast, which had been
predicted for Monday by J. W. Nel
son, grand vice president of the
clerks’ organization, who is in charge
of the situation, had not developed
up to noon Monday. Mr. Nelson
stated Saturday that tile Southeast
ern Federation of Railroad Clerks al
ready had taken certain action as to a
course of procedure and intimated
that a general strike was forthcom
ing.
Forwarding and delivery of through
carload freight only was reported
Monday morning at the Southern
railway and the roads comprising the
Atlanta Joint Terminals—the Atlanta
and West Point, the Georgia railroad
and the Louisville and Nashville
railway. The Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railway and the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
way, two roads which have main
tained normal freight movements de
spite the loss of a portion of their
forces, reported no change in the sit
uation. The Central of Georgia was
receiving and delivering freight as
usual here but reported that several
embargoes outside Atlanta made it
necessary to ’refuse shipments to sev
eral points.
Indirect effects from the strike
were in evidence at the warehouse
of the Seaboard Air Line railway
on Monday. For one day only no
freight would be received for ship
ment, it was announced. Congestion
caused by an abnormal diversion of
tonnage to the Seaboard from roads
on which the strike is in effect neces
sitated measures for cleaning up the
warehouse, if was said.
Harris Urges Action
On His Resolution to
Reveal Profiteering
EY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, May 31. —Senator
Harris returned Monday from a busi
ness trip to Georgia and on arriv
ing here said he intended to press
for action on his • joint resolution
calling for a statement from the
treasury of the excess profits and
income tax returns made by corpora
tions for the past two years. Sena
tor Harris hopes to show by such
information the extent of profiteer
ing during the war.
The resolution is no wbefore the
finance committee, and Republican
members have so far withheld action
on the theory that the expense of
compiling such data would be too
great. This is challenged by Sena
tor Harris.
The junior senator also said that
he is receiving hundreds of telegrams
urging favorable action at this ses
sion on increased pay for postal em
ployes. The joint postal commission
has not filed a complete report as
yet, and the Republican steering
committees of both houses have
made no arrangements for taking up
postal salaries before the recess of
congress, although it is admitted
that hundreds of men are leaving the
postal service because of the low
pay. Senator Calder, Republican, of
New York, recently directed the sen
ate’s attention to th e distressingly
low salaries paid postal workers.
Senator Smith Praises
America’s V/ arriors in
Washington Address
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, May 30.—Senatoi
Hoke Smith on Sunday delivered an
address in the American Memorial
church commemorative of the serv
ices of the American soldiers in the
world war.
Senator Smith referred in lauda
tory terms to the valor of the Amer
ican soldier. The part he played in
crushing autocracy and the great ac
complishments of the nation as a
whole during the war period. He
made particular reference to the
work done by the army and navy
during a period Os great emergency.
The Georgia senator closed with
an appeal for more liberal treatment
of the men who were wounded ani
disabled in the service.
TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1920.
Proceedings to Test
Legality of Motor
Vehicle Law Begun
Proceedings to test the constitu
tionality of the motor vehicle license
la wof Georgia, which produces the
revenue for the state highway de
partment, were instituted late Satur
day night.
The test case is brought in the
form-of a petition by Governor Dor
sey for a writ of mandamus requir
ing Comptroller General Wright to
show cause why he should not ap
prove a warrant by the governor on
the highway fund.
The petition was filed with Judge
George L. Bell, of Fulton superior
court, late Saturday night, and was
set for a hearing on Tuesday, June 8.
Recently it was ruled by Attorney
General Denny that the motor ve
hicle law is unconstitutional be
cause it was passed by the house and
senate without a roll call vote as re
quired by the constitution on all bills
involving appropriations. Acting on
this ruling. Comptroller General
Wright declined to approve a vouch
er drawn by the governor on the
highway fund. The warrant was
drawn by the governor for the pur
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