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IK ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor.
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John Watley Gains*, attlrad In a
Tuxedo and cream colored veat, uah-
*rcd tha tfty-nlnth congress Into la-
nocuoua deauetude.
If aomebody would only whang-
doodle that Ralaull chap the world
would owe the whangdoodle a lasting
debt of gratitude.
According to a Pennsylvania jristlcs
obraclng la luat "plain buggln', be-
"Naw York faedara strike," la a
nawapaper headline. It la hardly ner
rata rr to aay that It la not the free-
lunch boys, but tha preai faedara.
It would be eaay to gurta the aooa-
for who did not Introduce the
raaolutlon to Inveatlgate the expreaa
com panic*.
The Pulled State* eupremo court
haa decided that the us* of the Ameri
can flag on beer bottle* Is Illegal.
Thla will not delay the opening of the
bock action, however.
A Philadelphia congreaaman took a
mean advantage of a large number
of rapraaantatlvaa and nawapaper
men. lie Invited them to a banquet
and after the round-up read them
bunchta of hla own poetry!
If you have not been nominated for
chief of police kindly submit your
name to the board of submitters.
Congreaaman Van Outer, of Nevada,
caused a large. Juicy sensation In hla
only appearance during the past ses
sion of congress, and then only to j
draw toms SUOO mileage. He found!
a bunch of anxious creditors wailingI
to relieve him of the bundle.
The isle of newspaper* ft forbid-1
den ta Canada on the 8abbaih. It docs!
not Interfere with the reading habltn I
of the Canadian*, however, aa »»>\ri
al N'ew York papers send up line Sun
day aditloaa the Saturday evening be-
New York broken have loci heavi
ly by a big slump In the price of egg*.
And Ice for cold storage will ba high
Parta beggar* publish a directory of
"easy marha." Some of these modern
captains of Industry could beat them
to a Jelly oa that kind of a directory.
A man la New Jeraey has a gooae
that he elalm* la 72 years old. Don't I
knock. Jaet come on In. The Ananias
Ctafe gives eilb'uaiaxtic welcome to a
member of euch profound originality
About half I be population of Wis
consin shows clamorous wllllnguesr. to :
■aka a sacrifice by taklua Senator I
Spooner's Job.
tbs moor or tbs municipal owmbxibip
PROPOSITION.
The report of the expert employed by thn duly appointed lovaatlgatlag
committee of I be city council, vindicates every position that The Geor
gian has taken upon tha question of the Municipal Ownership of the city's
lights.
The sum tola) of the report whose premises are correct and whose
conclueions are Irreatatlblo Is that the Municipal Ownership of the city's
lights Is feasible, advisable and profitable. •
The Hall-IHgaa Company, among tba most reliable and capable of civil
euglnert. employed by the city eouudl to Investigate the matter, and with
no blae or preference laid upon them, have gone into the matter carefully,
coldly, methodically and In a business way, and have demonstrated conclu
sively that the city by owning its own lighting plant cannot only supply
th* people with light In the beat and moat acceptable way. but can earn
large dividends wblrb will serve still further to reduce In time the taxes
of the Individual cltlsens and to turn Into the treasury a surplus Just aa the
water works has done, to be used for tbe perfecting of the other depart
ment* of our municipal service.
It was demonstrated In thee* columns torn* day* ago that ths city
water work* which originally cast Atlanta 8500,000, haa now developed In
to a property which by lit Interact bearing valua la paying net less than
4 par cant on $8,000,000!
And th* ax part engineer In charge of thla propealtlen haa mad* clear
from actual figure* that th* municipal lighting plant which would coct
tha city about $278,000, would In an oqusl space of time ersat# for tho
municipality a property which would bo worth as much si th# water
works system of today.
How can honest and sensible cltlsen* fall to see upon principles of
mere common sense tba value of such Investment# for the city of which
they ere a part?
And how can Intelligent voters fall to cast their ballots for a policy
which Is so rich In oconbmy and In profit at this tlms, and In tha 'future?
And how can anyons fall to realise tho cause of tho dlllgont, tho far
reaching, and th# d**P delving policy of opposition which thla proposition
moots from those who are already rasping magnificent dividends from fur
nishing to tha elty a commodity which tha city ought by ovary Instinct of
wisdom, of Indtpsndsnea and of economy, to fumlch for Itself.
The entire report of the expert engineers was printed In full In our col
umns of Wednesday, and we refer Iboee who seek tjie detail Informa
tion to etudy carefully and earnestly tbe facts and figures set forth by
these responsible and practical aclentlsta baring the matter In charge.
To furnish lights ont-thlrd chsaptr than they are furnlshod now—to
furnish lights from our own plant and not as a more dependency upon a
corporation—and to equip tho city with a dividend paying Inveetment
which will reduce tho colt of living to almost ovary cltlxsn—surely this Is
a proposition whose desirability It notde no newspaper to thunder and no
speolous argument to prefer.
THE FACTS ABOUT NEGRO LABOR VINDICATE THE
GEORGIAN.
On September 3. 1(03. the editor of The Georgian, ntamllug upon tbe
commencement platform of the University of Chicago, made tbe state
ment tbat negro labor was no longer dominant In the Industrial develop
ment of tbe South, that Ibe majority of Ita crops and tbe vast majority of
Its manufactured product* were created by white labor, and that the per
centage of negro labor which concerned Southern agriculture and the
Industrial development of thla aectlon waa every year decreasing.
Thla statement waa received at tbe time with protest and almost uni
versally discredited. Doctrinaire* In and out of the 8outb with unctuous
misinformation derided tbe statement and declared It to be unfounded In
fact. Politicians who usually think upon the surface and follow cur
rents rather than depths, also denied It. and many newspaper* wbo have
been accustomed with pretentious pomposity for years to stand aa rep
resentatives of Southern life and progrees openly affirmed that the state
ment waa a flgmcnt of the Imagination.
But tbe editor of Tbe Georgian knew then aa he knows now what he
was talking about, and wa* Just about four years In advance of contempo
raneous Information In tbe recognition of a great and comprehensive fact
which la now vindicated In tbe Judgment of all the Industrial factors of
the South, and Is best emphasised by the extraordinary activity now being
manifested to Induce Immigration In order, to supply tbe scarcity or labor
In the factories and In thn fields of tbe South.
On* of the largest cotton manufacturers In South Carolina stated the
other day that 80.0M white farm hands and 10,000 white factory bands
were Imperatively needed In that state and aa man/ more In each of
the South Atlantic state* where Industrial development was halted by tbe
lack of a sufficient labor supply w^lcb Is every year growing scarcer.
Tbe editor of The Georgian stated In Chicago that In Texas, which
raise* one-third of tbe cotton crop of America and about one-llfth of
the cotton crop of the world, tbe yield was tbe product of from 12 to 30 per
cent of negro labor, and that tbe remainder waa produced by white men.
He stated from facts not at that flme confessed by the labor bureau of
th* gnveretkeht that the rice and the cane and the sugar of 1-oulslana
were raised by the Southern and Northern white mon and by the Italians
and Chinamen rather than by the negro.
He stated from facta of personal observation, that tbe majority of
th* cotton crop In Mississippi, which once ranked aa the leading cotton
state of the Unlou, was made largely In the upland* by the while men
and got hy tbe negro. And he related tho fact that In tkla whole great
section of Georgia, representing almost th* entire Savannah river front of
tbe atate, there wa* scarcely a negro laborer to b* found lu that abund
antly rich region of cotton production.
And here, from tbe pan of one of thn acuteat and moat trusted observ
er* of American life, comes a further vindication of thn statement made
on the platform of the Chicago university. William E. Curtis, of The Chl-
rago Record Herald. I* by common consent regarded aa tbe ablest, tbe
moat thoughtful and most philosophic and perhaps the moat accurate ob
server and correspondent of American Journalism, and In a letter to hla
paper dated from Atlanta on February 38th, William E. Curtis baa the fol
lowing statement which It both suggestive and Interesting to those con
cerned In Ibe development of Ibis region:
"Colored labor I* not counted any more. Colored labor Is not
employed In the manufactories: only lu aome degree on the
farms.' aa servants In the bouieboldi and (or rough work ou the
railroads and Ibe atreeta.
"Yet. In olden time*, all the plantation mechanlci were col
ored.
"There hae been a steady decadence In the quality of col
ored labor throughout tho South since the race waa admitted
■o cltlienihlp. notwithstanding all that Hooker Washington haa
ilono and la doing to train colored men and women. The greatest
illfficultv Is that they will not stick to their work. Every lime
they get a Itltla ahead they quit until Ihelr money la gone. They
are not reliable: they lack a aenae of reaponalbimy. and In the
factories colored operatives cannot be trusted with machinery—
neither women nor meu. No colored help la employed In any of
the cotton factories of the South for that reason. A few years
ax» a party of well-to-do colored cltlsen* of North Carolina or
ganised a company and built a factory In which none but colored
hands were to be employed. The chief object wa* to demon
strate that they are capable and trustworthy when they are prop
erly treated, but that factory was a failure. It demonstrated the
reverse of what wa* Intended.
"You often hear it asserted that a white man caunot work uu-
ricr a Southern aun. and yet I am assured that much more than
half the cotton crop of the South t* now raised by whlto men
without tbe nld or colored labor and that the proportion Is grow
ing larger verv rapidly. It la asserted that all the Increase In
the cotton crop or late year* represents white labor: that the
amount of cotton raised by colored labor la decreasing every year,
rhleflv because tbe colored hands are drifting from the farms In
the cities and while men from the North and other section* are
taking up land and tilling the nelds themselves. I went Into thla
question very thoroughly In Alabama and Mississippi two years
ago nud ahowed by the official figures that almllar assertion*
concerning those Hates were true."
It dors not alforri any particular satisfaction lo Tbe Georgian the vin
dication which lime has brought lo n statement so generally protested at
the time It waa made, and It la only presented to frame the observa
tlon that in consecutive Ifavel and Intelligent atudy one gathers many
(aria which do not come to the rasnal observer or I hr aurfaco thinker
who merely follows the politicians or the public prints.
The fans staled in 1*43 were gathered from contact vlit and obsvr-
vatlor of thouKlitfu' men and (rum au accurate mid comprehensive atudy
id tin race problem And the only mural which we have lo draw la that
ihmi mau wbo has made P his duty t» study these things and commits
hla fX|.erlenre to a comprehensive statement, tbat It I* a much wise-
thluri lu people lo luvvstlt'ate and consider It rather than lo protest It
wlndlly and arrogantly, only to be confounded by Us aubequect develop
ments.
.There la no doubt In the- world but tbat the collapse ol negro labor
In the Industrial Ufa of th* South promises soma vary grave and aa-
rloua development! In tbe future consideration .of the labor problem in
this section.
Nothing could be more unwise on the part of the negro and those who
need him than to permit this great country to realise tbe conclusion
that the negro Is no longer Indispensable to tbe Industrial development of
the South. The plea that he was Indispensable haa been heretofore the
chief material consideration that baa bound thla people to him, and the
dissipation of that Idea ta likely to do him greater damage than any oth
er which bit idleness and ahlftlsssnssi might posstbl^ provoke. •
Tbe friends wbo are seeking with earnest faith and lofty purpos* to
lead and uplift him. can do nothing better than to devise some potent
way to lead him backward to tbe farms aild the fields which b* has so
foolishly deserted.
COTTON AT ELEVEN CENTS AND THE FUTURE OUTLOOK.
The eelllng of cotton at 11 cents per pound In Georgia Is a matter of
general congratulation and encouragement throughout the atate and the
South.
For this result no honest man can fail to give a large nhare of credit
to tha firm and vigorous pronouncement of Barrett and Duckworth and
ihelr brethren of the Fanners’ Union, which set the vaat weight of Ite
magnificent numbers end* representative membership behind this jiropo-
, sltlon.
Representing a million farmers, more than one-half of whom are In
tbe South, the Farmers' Union, when It speaks, speaks In a vole* of
thunder and It Is heard to the furtbent confines of trade because It
speaks the sentiment of tbe men wbo aotually make and sell the cot
ton of the South.
Hut It would be' equally untruthful not to say that this development
Is due In some part also to the Increasing demand of the spinnere for cot
ton at this time and to tbe evidences accumulating on 1 every elde tbat
the demand will be ooptinued through another year.
The thing for thoughtful men to consider everywhere In thla connec
tion. relates to tbe nature and extent of the crop which la to be planted
for another year.
It Is utterly Impossible for any man, however line and philanthropic
hla motives, and however hla Judgment may be established in many thing*,
to present Infallible counsel to the farmers upon thla question of the
acreage, because a year la a long lime, and within the course of a year
many things may transpire to Change the current of trade and to upset
the price of tbe staple.
It may be aald truthfully and conservatively that at this time all the
Indications point to a sustained demand for cotton In larger quantities
during the present year and the year that la to come. Men who know
Ihe cotton market will agree that a crop of cotton too small might be a
calamity In the fact that It might be the causo of the shutting down of
many mills that would not have the material to run. and In thla way ac
tually depress the price. Ou the other hand no lesion has been more
deeply Impressed upon the mind and Judgment of the farmer than the evil
of an overcrop of cotton which would exceed the demand and would there
fore be held at a depreciated price.
Perhaps tn thla as In all matters the conservative mean Is the Une
of wisdom and of policy In these great battles of agriculture. Tho most
conservative thinkers and Judges that The Georgian has been able to con
sult upon this question, believe that tho mills and the markets of the
world will easily consume next year a crop of 13.000.000 bales of cotton,
und this estimate we give upon the basis that It represent* the Intelli
gent Judgment of men who are supposed to kuow tho cotton situation.
We have not cousulted any expert along thla line who doemoot feel that
It would be still a misfortune -for the Southern farmer to give all Ilia land
and all of his energy to the production of cotton. To plant hla fence Cor
ners and bla front yard In the imperial staple, to the neglect of other
crops, would be as great a,mistake tbla year as It haa ever been before,
and while tbe present prospect Is altogether pleasing, and the future
loom* lu solid promise, we feel aura that the years of trial and of misfor
tune tbat are paat have educated the Southern farmer to that discretion
which Is always Ifee better part of enterprise, and which would lead him to
adopt as hla safest policy the motto which was at once the proverb of Na
poleon and Mahomet: "In the hour of adversity let us not despair, and In
the hour of prosperity, let us not presume."
Army-Navy Orders
MOVEMENT OF VESSELS.
Army Ordtrt.
Washington, March 7.—Tha follow
ing order* have been Issued:
Private William T. Youart, Company
G. Twenty-sixth Infantry. Fort Ham
H. Hinton, transferred to general aerv-
Ice Infantry, report to recruiting officer
Dan Moines.
Flint Lieutenant Kdwnrri A. Htunrt.
artillery .corpa, before board at Pre-
sldlo of Sun Francisco for examination
for promotion.
Private Robert Dunn. Company D,
Twenty-eighth Infantry, Cuba, din-
charged froai the army.
HCcond-diSoi Private John P. Me-
Sweeney, ordnance department, from
Whtertown arsenal, general hospital
Washington barrack*.
Naval Orders.
Midshipman O. Bartlett, detached
Virginia to Vermont.
Midshipman H. T. Dyer, detached
Tcnnesaea to Vermont.
Warrant Ma^lnlet Cullen, detached
Franklin to Louisiana.
Movement of Vessels.
ARRIVED—March 4. Rockett at
Wanhlngton; March 6. Galveston ut
Cheefoo. Bcorpion and Yankton at
Santiago de Cuba. Nero at Guantana
mo. Florida at Hampton Road*.
HAILED—March 6. Galveston from
Cheefoo for Chingwongtnl. Scorpion
and Yankton from Guantnnamo for
Santiago de Cuba, Florida from Nor
folk for Hampton Road*. Princeton
from Han Diego for forint a.
PROSECUTION AND PERSECUTION
now proceeding In Sew York. It ererns thnt
it might Ih> well to mil attention to the
difference fts between the two word* nUivc
named. nml to |K>lnt out. ft* llluttmtcd In
«!•*• case referred to. tin- danger that e\
i«tn for even the Ih*»| of men when occu
pying the nil Importnn: potltton of s pub
lic prosecutor to degenerate Isto an lu
dt rid uni persecutor.
11 In B.-nrcely needful to remark that
tbl* abonld never he the •cs«e. but It in
all Important to note the fact that all
Thin state of things Is not nnlr *njn»i
ami unrighteous, but l« undlgntdnd. and
tend* to dltulnluh re*pe**t for the law uml
the court*, and resultant duregnrd of »H»ib
It would aeem a good thing nt tbl* time
to Introduce some rctnedlitl action for thla
atate of ttilug*. Pefbapa the Impoaltloti of
a fine levied upon connftet of Hther aide
for Inftultlng remark* to and offenatvv i|tm»
Honing of wltuesars and etpert* might
- salutary effect, a* nlao the In-
...4» of *’s baker’s doten In the Jury
box”—as recently suggested In The ffeor-
?\hr nAtHtre some one of high l»tal
standing and eoperteuce In oar dtr draw
B n niateuicnt with ouch a heading a*
nggestrd Itr form b In Our Law font la”
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
1791—Goold
’■will *>■'•*» u. meumni AtDerlClD
grammarian, born. Died March SI,
lSOl—ltrltSth naval and military expedition
imived In Abotiklr hay, Egypt.
1*25—llunry Clay, of Kentucky, became sec
ret ary of Mate.
IRSV-The “llook of Mormon." written by
Solomon 8jumbling. pnMJsbed lo New
York.
ISlS-SteamlMint Swallow wrecked In Hud*
son river, with loss of many lives.
1849-TlioniSH Kwlug. of Ohio, took office
ah itr»t secretary of the Interior.
JS&4- !-?(»•••! bin riot* In Milwaukee between
German and Irish.
1SC3—tVInccM Alexandra, of Denmark, ar*
rlvt-d In Fiigland to became bride of
prince of Wnlca.
$89^—Queen Victoria Instituted tbs Albert
medal reward for heroic actions
nmoug marlpere.
1897—Queen Hnmivalona II! of Madagascar
exiled by the French.
tTilna leased Port A
for ninety-nine rear*.
1*6—General strike of elevated railroad em
ployees In New York city,
"8AID ALEjTsTEPHENS."
To the Editor of Tho Georgian:
Referring to .Mr. J. I„ D. Hlllyer - "
communication In your Ixsua of the
llh ln»t.;
The Incident referred to may b«
found In Sir Walter 8cou’a Kenilworth
and l« us follonx.
“Why. thou little hop-the-autler,
thou nrt ax sharp ax vlnesar thlx aft
ernoon! Hut tell me. how didst thou
come off with yonder Joltrr-headed
(hint, whom I had left theo with? I
wax afraid he would have stripped thy
clothes and xo swallowed thee ax men
peel und eat a roasted chestnut."
"Had he done so," replied the boy,
he would have had more brains In his
(UIh than ever he had In hla noddle."
The above conversation wns between
Wayland Smith and "Dickie Huiudxe or
Filbert Iglbet."
Now, It must be remembered that
while the relxn of Queen Elisabeth
am related Charles the fteconri about n
hundred years. Sir Waller Hcolt lived
and wrote much liter and there- Is a
bare poxelhllltv that Ihe Incident as
attributed lo the dwarf, HIr Joeffrcy
Hudson, and Huckluxhnm. hy Mr. Ste
phen*. may he the true ortsln of the
iHDiruase and that Sir Walter Hcoit.
under the Itovellsl'x license, may lutve
misapplied It. Certainly Mr. Stephens
oueht tirhaveAnewn w hereof he spoke.
"How old was Ann?"
Very truly yours,
X. H. HASS.
Lavender. Ga„ March g, iso?.
OUR NBIGHBORS.
n.mieh,*iT tier you Is -triigctlng alone
“•— life's desert sand;
hole* slot rmir.lBe Inyet
h him a helping band:
Turn ou Ids ilsrknc.. s te am ef vnur ll*ht:
Kindle, lo jrntilo him, a lien cm lire ItrighT:
Cheer his dls.oumsvtueat, soothe his af
fright ;
f-orlagly lo Ip him to stand. i -
Somelmity near you Is hungry and raid; ’
i Mend trim seno< nld listny:
I SomeiHsly near yon Is feehte and old,
I left o-UlMMd hums 11 ,-lul.
Coder his harden, put tmnrie hind ami
stmnr:
, SiM-nl. t>- hint Icuderlr. slay loui a Unit:
; Kitsit*. to do somethin* to ti*-lt> him aloug
> Oter Ills weuty war.
i Heir one, I*- busy, for time til.-lb ftit.
, n-MUl It Will Sll he (one;
1 Soon will our season of aerth-e |.e |st»seJ,
Attests. ti«„
Lumber Dealers Meet.
Wuahlnxton, March T -Wil’d 2in del.
egates present the hftrenth annual
meeting of ilie Nations: Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association was open
ed \eaterdav in the led ball room of
the'Nywi Wlilatd. with l^wls Dill, of
Hall In We, Md, the president, m the
chair. '
-Olio- one nerds tlel|l, such
ford:
last" lu assist I,■ Uo- name
There am> hr a end to L
Announcement Is mads by Che Amer-
lous Tlmee-ltecorder that on March 1
(today) Mr. Thoms Gamble will as-
sums tbe ownership. aad editorial
management of that paper. Mr. Gam
ble haa been connected with the Sa
vannah newspapers for tbe paat twenty
yean, and will bring to tbs Amerlcus
prfper * rips experience and greet abil
ity. Mre. Marla Louise Myrlrk, who
haa been tbs sdltor and manager of
The Tlmea-Recorder for many year*,
luw built that paper up until It I* one
of the most valuable newspaper prop
erties In the state, and her retirement
from active newspaper work ta a
source of regret to the Georgia frater
nity and a, distinct loss to Georgia
journalism.—LaGrange Reporter.
This announcement brings both re
gret and pleasure. Regret that Geor
gia Journalism Is to lose one of Ita
jnoet brilliant women and pleasure at
tha return to the ranks of Tom Gam
ble. a Is certain tbat be will keep
The Tlmea-Recorder up to tbe hlgb
standard aet by Mrs. Myrlck.
Overlooking a 1st.
A cousin of Evelyn Nesblt Thaw be
longs to tha Atlanta police force. Tbl*
put* It up to some Mqcon man to prove
that ho once vlsltsd Pittsburg. Pa-—
Kawnan New*.
Doss look like Tom Simmons. John
Burke and Editor Pendleton bays
•lipped up on this fine opportunity.
Stop Monksying.
The monkey which commuted suicide
at the Grant park Sunday week oy
Jumping from hie perch In the top of
ths cag* and lighting on ills head In
the bottom of the cage, should Itave
adopted an easier method—that of elm-
ply hanging himself—by hla tall.—
Marietta Courier.
Jt I* unkind of ihe Georgia editors lo
persist In monkeying with that simian
caudal appendage.
Utopia le Found.
Carroll county la unique In piany
ways. One great thing about It, It le
ruled by no one man or set of men.
No politician. If there be one here, car
ries Carroll In his vest pocket. Hhe Is
the most Independent county In th-
stete. That comes about by the fact
that we have u reading and a thinking
act of people. It Is not divided Into
cliques or rings. -No section Is st
rayed against the other section. Each
rejol'-es In the pivot parity of every other
portion. Our people are happy and
prosperous whether they know It or
not.—Carroll Free Presa.
Here Is Utopia at lent. The condi
tion* ax portrayed by The Free Prep
are those dreamed of by men for cen
turies, but now happily realised for the
first time. The touch of humanness tx
added by tbe statement that "the peo
ple are happy and prosperous whether
they know It or not."
A Too Common Habit.
If you xee it 111 The Gazette it lx not
stolen.—Darien Gazette.
And that Is something worth saying.
It ta a fact that too many editors lend
themaelrea to tho practice of printing
other men's tdeaa and work without
the honesty to glee due credit. It is
usually because the editor lx not In
dolent to write himself, and not be
cause ho hasn't the ublllty. Editor
Grubb's editorial page rhino* both for
Ha brightness and for Its originality.
Are YouOne
of the
195?
SftTUfii.7TH.rti
ymi ars one of them? You
ran rellevr tired, strained
eyee by glasses; yes cat,
relieve latensa. ttobboru
ksadacfces: they will eak-
Me yon to do etose. dlffl
celt work when *su could
sol possibly doTt without
I kern. T
In fact, properly fitted
slasses will tiring weak,
defective eyes baek to
annuel, strong ones. If
takes lo thnt.
To fit glasses property,
‘ **4
aptlrb.
people has gives as.
< nnie lo sod let os fit
you a pair of (lasses at
A.K.HawkesCo
OPTICIANS,
Two) ItWMlfMU Straat.
Storaa ) 12S Paaehtraa ttraat.
ONESIDED TRADING.
To tba Editor of Tba Oaonrfao.
In patting off an aged, wlud-brokrti w*.
full flt’fthad or bloatad and rabbod to $ fl D $
glo*i>. the owner may call apodal attrnti<x
to an Intlgnlflrant blrmlab, but oT*mh«<iftw
tba rail pbjalcal dtflclaadaa by Imnitioc
qualities, ate. Both parties fed elated oa
the trade, but after tbe horse bn* t*n
teat ad!
Tbl* Jlluatrataa opoculatire tradiny. and
ion*. *
Now, thousands of Goorgla hoys unu»M t«
toll In ttlllnff the noil (clay) are deNlrtog
home* In striking distance of their partnt*
kindred. Bat there fa ■ fictitious
value placed on the exhausted bind* A
tbouftftiid acres In the choir* half of th*
Ntnle do not nfford C"<*d Umber for $ti:iking
a mmil, mi ax handle or hamper luukri.
mneb leaa for building purposea. Over aw..
i*W tons or romiuerclftl fartfllsera are itouxbt
to produce h single crop In this fttftte. and
Ntlll our work*atock and general nujiplits
are purchased and shipped In from mors
jiroiliicttve fteetlons. When youiiu
UoliiK
family
comfort* due o
pint* jt«.'
ordinary
laboring man. or reniluf
nround without n home, he chooses to jw
West. Loyalty to country without r Imtut
In It can not t»r expected, ftuhsfautlsl proa
perlty la dependent on productive toil, not
a ib«* sphere of the poor white folk*,
hey feel that they are balm; crowd*!
Tho boys t ail jp> West, but the firJf
mutt lie left to the lust of stranger*
If the amount of energy which Is !**in<
expended to supply the place of our natu«
hots who ore leaving agriculture were ri-
erted In securing homes for them here, and
branding and banishment ware the e«Ml-
IlNlied fate of criminals, ahd n large part -f
»rn land** wen* turned out for natural
cuperatlou. It would ba reasonable*
mi pilose that our leaders idrlreno ar*
prompted by patriotic doairaa for permabt-ut
prnaperlty.
T Til*, r
. 1 progress
white people wifb real homes lu the IhihI <-f
1 nativity. Theae, now. poor people »r*» In
the majority ns loyal, tolerant Inhabitants
of the state. None anrh deatre the Intr.-
dnotion of foreign labor In tbatr fields of
production. The erase for “new blood" u
on the pnrf of tboae wha'Wlll never plow a
furrow—tbe gang that goya for killing th*
goose. PLEBEIAN.
SOME THINQ8 THE PEOPLE WANT.
To the Editor of Tha Georgian.
Aa ona of thla great city, t thank you
kindly for the Intoreat you have taken on
bohalf of tba people In their rlghta lu
matters of public utilities.
sincerely treat that you will continue
fight on behalf of tbosa wbo arc iina-
through lack of organisation to apeak
for themselves. The people are very much
Interested In the results of what you nre
advocating.
the city It was l ....
proper facilities would be j
Is nothing unraanounldc lu
Ivrsoaally I would {athe
Considerable apace has been utilised Ih the
papers complaining aa to comlitloiiH exist
ing on the Mteain railroads of the «t?ite A
eonfemporary of yours has spent more Hutu
onltnnrr exertions for better conditions, the
railroad commission of the state Ium lieon
unduly maligned because of the eondltlotis
existing. Don't you think It Ndrlsahlr for
■unto of Ceorgla to pass such lows ns
will 'nrlud* the atraat cars within their
Jurisdiction?
They have the power to fix rates for Ibt
steam roflda-u hy not for the electric ilitf*?
They siweif.v aa to what facilities shall t*
accorded the people aa to depots, schedule,
etc.; why uot for the street cars? I h$»«
received such poor service In matter* ef
transportation. I built a home two mile*
fr«*m the center of the city. I was
to purchase property on the car line for the
Xpccted It would afford
\ 111
tutirh regret to have t« do tbla. a« 1 h"'*
n wtee home, fitted with errry convenient*
and pabl for. However, I am uhnlde ’
stand the conditions that exist at the pret
cut In fncillttra to get to and ftom nit
residence.
There are thousands In the *ame
Some relief *hould be accorded l*le.t«
ttnne the fight. The people of Atlsn 1
predate your efforts lu their behalf
jfttUfipG
PioWdei
Makes die finest* fight-
est,best flavored biscuit,
hot-breads, cake and
pastry. Renders the
food more digestible
and wholesome.
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