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Newspaper Page TextTHE ATLANTA UEUKUJAN AND NEWS. lAiunuAtt nsrrbMnMt i, ur-v. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELY, President. Published Every Afternoon, (Except Sunday) By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At S Writ Ale heme St.. Atlinte. Ci. Subecription Retell «'ne Tear Ml* Six Month! JPJ Our Month;. ■•* By Carrier, l’er Week » Telephones ^onnrrtlnx ell drpitt- arete. Long dletepre trrmleile. Now York Office......Brunswick llldg. If ysu bato niir trouble /retting TUB (Jb'OKUIAN aNI) N»w5, tolepbon# tb# circulation deportment nnd boro It promptly remedied. 'felephonea: Boll Wf main; Atlanta 4401. It la dsslrahle tbat nil communtca* tlona Intended foe publication In TUB GEORGIAN AND NKWH In* limited to §00 words In length* It la Imperntlro tbat they be slanede aa an erWence of good faith. Dejected tnanuacrlpta will THK OKOnoiAN AND NEWS prints no unclean or objectionable adtsrtls* lag. Neither does It prlot whisky or any liquor ads. V OUR PLATFORM: THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS stands for Atlanta's own ing fta own gna and electric light plants, as It now owns Its water works. Other elites do this and get gas as low as 60 cents, with n profit to the city. This should be done at once. THE GEORGIAN AND NEWS bolleTes that If street railways can be operated successfully by European rltlea, aa they are, there Is no good reason why they can uot bo so oper ated here. Bnt we do not hellere this can be done now, and It may be some years before we are ready for so big an undertaking. Stilt Atlanta should set Its face In that direction NOW. A Beer Advertisement in The Georgian. By accident, a beer advertisement appeared in Tuesday’s Georgian. The public knows pretty well that The Georgian does not print whisky, beer nor any unclean advertising. ' When The Georgian took over the business of The Atlanta News, a mass of advertising plates were transferred to The Georgian office. Notice came from an ngency Tuesday to start cer- . tain advertising that had been nm by The News. / . Among the plates for the aeries of fids ordered run was one of a certain beer, resembling In general appeaw ance the other plates In the series. This was beaded "A Plata Statement” and did not show on the face of It that It was a beer advertisement. The ; plUtpjf having been run before, there was no copy or proofs for them. No body detected the stray plate of the beer ud until (he paper was out. • The Georgian baa never received a penny from liquor advertising. Under Its present ownership, it never wilt. The brewing compnny, whose ad ap peared on Tuesday, received freo ad vertising for once, for The Georgian will never accept their pay. la tbat sufficient? F. I.. SEELY, Publisher. Notwithstanding the view of The Georgian, we hold to our for merly expressed opinion that lock er clubs, with unlimited supplies of liquors, can be established nnd maintained anywhere in Georgia if there are men who are willing to pay the license. If we are In error we will have to be shown, but of one thing we feel practical, ly assured, and that Is thnt,the law means many good fees for lawyers.—Montgomery Advertiser. The Advertiser Is at least correct In the view that the lawyers are to fat ten on the "lockers." For the prohls are surely going to apply the last limit of the law against the effort In behalf of lockers, and we are firmly persuad ed that a few bouts in the courts will establlih the fact that In Georgia at least prohibition is going to prohibit. We have discovered the pungent paragrapher of The Houston Post. He Is George M. Dailey and he hag been for some yenrs a brilliant sinner In his line. Mr.eDalley has been u Washing ton correspondent of metropolitan papers and acquired his splendid facil ity In the same atmosphere which now nourishes and encourages the Iniqui ties of Jim Nevln of The Washington Herald. There Is no more brilliant editorial writer on the Southern press than George M. Dailey of the Post, bnt his chances for heaven are—purely paragraphic. Even The Georgian acknowl edges that "The only fellow who pays full value for his railroad pass Is the newspaper man. who Invariably gives a little more In advertising than ho gets In trans portation." Ain't this a change In trout to please the brethren of the weekly press, who have been doing a little thinking about the puss question of late without regard to how certain Atlanta organa feel? —Americas Tlmcs-flecorder. No. esteemed contemporary, u |, tlo t a change of front. We were not com mitted to the “wholesale elimination” liefore,. nor in thfa Instance have we taken a stand against It. We merely directed at tent Inn to tho practical and vety considerable losses which would b " "“tailed upon the weekly press, and plainly disclaiming any specific opposi tion. merely called tills phase of the question to the consideration of the Cuiuuilsalou- HOW CHICAGO TRADES WITH THE TELEPHONE COMPANY If any member of the city council or any eltlsen of Atlanta thinks that The Georgian has been hard In the terms that It baa sought to have the city make with the Bell Telephone Company, a comparison of the contracts of that company, with other cities will easily dissipate this delu sion. , We have already shown how much more wisely the people of Rlch- ’ mond and Norfolk and other Southern cities have traded with the tele phone company than we have. Let ua take another and a larger Illustra tion: The Chicago Dally Tribune Is one of 'the greatest newspapers In the United States. It Is a stalwart Republican organ, and certainly no one would ever credit The Tribune with a tendency toward "yellow journal ism” or to any unfriendly attitude toward the corporations. Least of all would any Intelligent reader of American newspapers suspect The Tri bune of any disposition to advocate a "confiscatory policy" toward the tel ephone capitalists. We have before Us the Issues of The Tribune of September the 4tb and September the 5th. Doth of these are filled with the discussion of the new telephone ordinances now In the hands of the city council of Chicago for action. Under the terms of this ordinance the company Is to pay the city of Chicago 3 par cent of Ita groas receipts of all local business and Its books are to lie open to public officials for verification. The company furnishes an unlimited list of free telephones to tha city hall, the Are company, and ten for the hoard of education. In addition to this the company Is to pay also to the city on net earnings all In excess of ten per cent on Its average investment for the year, and In determining the net earnings the three per cent on the gross to lie paid tho city Is deducted with all taxes, special assessments and other governmental requirements general and legal for maintenance and repairs and a reserve fund of not more than eight per cent of the aver age Investment. According to the expressed sentiment of a majority of the city coun cil of Atlanta this Ih a very extravagant demand to be made upon the,tel ephone company. And yet the conservative Tribune In a leading editorial, vigorously protests “the meager compensation of 3.per cent” which the city of Chi cago la to receive I It declares that the ordinance recommended by the committee to the general council Is admirable only from the point of view of the telephone company, but not from the point of view of tho average citizen, and ear nestly protcats against the unwisdom of the council In closing a contract so llttfe profitable to the city end so largely favorable to the corporation. And this at 3 per cent I Surely with this Illustration added to what we have already shown In Richmond and Norfolk and other cities of the country. It will bs quite evi dent that the Bell Telephone Company, to eay the leaet of It, hae been treated In Atlanta with tlio moat extraordinary and lavtah liberality and contlderatlon that a body of publlo servants could ahow toward a public utilities corporation. conatructed, and tbeae elements were so satisfactory to the builder that Mr. Andrews voluntarily added to the fee of President Bernhardt a sub stantial token of bis high esteem. Altogether the Andrews building marks a forward movement In the commercial structures of Atlanta, and the builder Is entitled to the con- gratnlatlons and appreciation of the commercial world about him. THE NEGEO INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. Few enterprises more significant and Interesting have been presented to the attention of Atlanta than the proposed Institutional church now under promise of construction through Dr. H. H. Proctor, the pastor of the First Negro Congregational church of Atlanta. The scheme from the beginning Is one of bold enterprise and benefi cent motives. It Involves the highest and best accepted plans for the de velopment and happiness of the negro race of which Dr. Proctor Is per haps the leading representative In Atlanta. Most wonderful of all Is the fact tbat of the $25,000 required for.the building of this structure, $12,000 of It has been contributed by the loyal negroes who make up the congre gation. These with their friends have given as heroically and loyally as perhaps any negro congregation In America has ever done. The remainder of this money is being generously contributed by cltl- xens of Atlanta who are friendly to the race, end the pastor has been in vited to open his campaign for funds In the North at Washington Glad- den’a famous church at Columbus, Ohio, on the 20th of October. The white people of Atlanta who respect sincere and capable effort for development along high lines, can not fall to give the full measure of their respect and co-operation to this devoted pastor whose work.la likely to make him not only famous but useful In his day and generation. THE “MUD MOB” FOR "IMMORAL EARLES." In the silly nnd absurd story of tho Earle "affinity marriage” in New York, tho only sound and wholesome thing Is tho mob at Monroe. It was not a murderous mob; It had no intention to take human life or to malm a human being, but It wns Just a good healthy and whole some uprising of American citizens who had tranquilly made up their minds to wallow this man Earle In the mud nad slush In which ho had dragged the holy Institution of marriage. There were normal nnd wholeBoine citizens of the state In that mob— the very litilwurk of representative and reputable society—men who bad good wives, and good homes, mon who honored and respected the mothors of their children, and the help-meeta of their material and moral strug gles In the world. They felt, as all good men feel, that this man with his Insane fads and his tommy-rot of socialism about "affinities” and “pre natal marriages” was a gross publlo offender against the morals of the community—that he was nn enetny to tho home, a corrupter of youth, an Insiilter of the marriage relation, and they knew that he was at heart an empty and lustful hypocrite seeking convenient theories to excuse tho lowness of hla base desires. ’ And so this healthful and wholesome mob of Monroe, N. Y„ gathered their little equlphient together and when this llisolent itmnoralist came boastfully back to the community Whose domestic purity be had Insulted, they Just; simply “gathered him In” and coated him with a lltfln of tho slime aud dirt which Ills Infamous doctrines had plastered upon the com munity. ' Tom Dixon wrote a hook once called “Tho One Woman”—an tnfamoua sort of book—whose story was almost word for word the story which this man Earlo has tried to enact In real life. Tom Dixon openly declnrod that his hero, whom Earle has tried to follow, was simply putting Into execu tion the doctrines of Socialism as they have been advocated and urged by every Socialist from Marx down through the list. The Socialists deny tho charge, but It Is significant beyond expression that the men who do these things and the men who practice these Infamous doctrines of domestic In fidelity nnd treason are men who have Joined themselves to the Socialist creed. *We would be willing to wngcr that Earlo has read "Tho One Wom an" eagerly. Whatever may he the exact truth about It we can not forbear to ex- press our appreciation of tho mob at Monroe. It was the only wholesome antidote to the poison and allme of the propaganda of Earle. If men like Earle are allowed to stand up and use tho public prints to air their Infa mous desertion of good women, the mother of innocent children. It la a source of congratulation that there are to he found resolute communities of American cltlxens who are prompt to express to a practical way their condemnation of moral slime and depravity. If Earle and hla divorce aud Ita publicity had been allowed to go un checked and unanswered In New York, tho Impression might have pre vailed that his sympathizers were In tho majority aud that his act was a fair type of the civilization of the community in which he lived. But when n resolute assembly of modern citizens take the propagandist of such principles und hiss him In the streets, roll hint In the mud and spank him lu public before the applauding crowds. It Is n pretty fair evidence that the man represents only himself and tbat however much the Individual may mock society and shame decency In Monroe, the majority of Its peo ple love home and honor women and respect the ordinance of God. It Is sincerely to be hoped that wherever an Earle Is developed out of the abnormal Isms of society that the "Monroe Doctrine of Morals” In New York may be found ready te administer the wholesome, even If the very earthy antidote. Bell Telephone Arrogance tttllHMtSS By TH08. E. WATSON, in Watson'* Weekly Jeffersonian For Sept. 5. Wo rejoice in I ho fact that The Gsor- Ulan Is groin* after the Atlanta end of the Bell Telephone corporation. It was hljrh time that somebody should be calling down the hlgh-*liea<l- ed gentry who manage that public utility. Somewhere near the head of the management. In Atlanta, Is an Insolent and arrogant little autocrat who de serves to be hung up by the thumbs on one of hts own lines v He has a mean way of “ordering out" the 'phones when people don’t do to suit him. If you had a claim for any amount against the Bell Telephone Company, you would have a sweet time getting your money. The red tape, the letters to and fro, the auditing, the delays long drawn out, would wear you to a frazzle. Unless the claim la a big one, it will pay you to make uny of these Yankee corporations a present of It, rather than try to collect It. If they smash your freight, or let your peaches rot, or lose a bale of your cotton or fall to deliver a telegram, or overcharge on express pat cels, you find il almost Impossible to get tho thing Attended to, and the claim paid. But If you happen to owe one of these Yankee concerns a dollar or so—Lord, how they make you dance! They don’t want any red tape delaying them. They can’t wait for any system of auditing accounts to grind their meat into sau sage. No slrree. Bob! You must go down Into your Jeans, at once, and get that money, or some thing bad will happen to you. With the telephono company this “something bad” means that a little stuck-up tyrant in the head office “or ders out" yon r 'phone. Then your business suffers, and you are Inconvenienced; and you pay the bill, which may be wrong, rather than endure the Injury. That’s what the mean little tyrant counted on when he “ordered out’’ your ’phone. It was a hold-up, pure and simple; and the morals of It are on a par with the morality which Is giving such n busy time to the prosecuting attorneys* and the Standard Oil gsng. The Bell Telephone Company coolly moved Into my farm nnd set up Ita poles, nnd stretched Its wires for a mile over m.v land; they never paid a cent; they had no legnl right to be there; their legal attitude Is that of tolerated trespassers. Any day that 1 get ready I can go there, chop down those poles, and throw the Bell Telephone Com pany off my property. Yet, because I wanted to wait until I could ascertain why nn unpaid Febru ary bill should turn up In June, when I had receipted bills down to May, my ’phone was “ordered out,” and my busi ness made to suffer. The clerk In the office h id more sense about stlch matters than I have—so ho knuckled down to Gesslcr’s hat, nnd the ’phone went In again. Had I been willing to inconvenience thousands of Innocent patrons of the telephone com. puny, I would have given It a big dose of Its own medicine. Those poles which It set up on my land, without the slightest legal right to put them th*re, would have been cut down and thrown out I glory In the spunk of The Geor gian. Let It keep up the good fight. What we must tsach these Yankee cor porations lr. this: They are not private owners of pri vate utilities. They are operating pub lic utilities. Their power Is granted by the state. In order that they may servo the people. When the state gave them power, the state Imposed duties. Neglect the du ty, and the power is forfeited. ARMY-NAVY ORDERS —AND— MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS Army Orders. Washington, Sept. 7.—Lieutenant Colonel Elijah Halford, deputy pay master general, placed on retired list; Major William Black, Captain Frank P. Avery and First Lieutenant James O. Green, all retired from army of Cuban pacification. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick V. Ab bot, corps of engineers, and Captain 8tanley T. Blck, coast artillery, to Phil ippines, duty pertaining to construc tion of fortifications at Manila ar.d Subic bay. Cagtaln Clyde E. Hawkins. Second cavnlry, at hts own request, from Infantry and cavalry school. Fort Leavenworth, to proper station. First Lieutenant Philip W. Booker to Battery E, Kecond field artillery. Captain Francis H. Lomax, to One Hundred and Fifty-third company, coast artillery corps. First Lieutenant John P. Keeler, to Ninety-third company, coast artillery corps; Captain Eugene R. Whitmore from Fort Riley and Loyd Leer Krebs from Fort Hancock to Philippines; Ma jor Ernest Hinds adjutant general from department of Texas to Fort Riley. Naval Ordera. Rear Admiral E. C. Pendleton, Cap tain B. A. Flske, Commander E. Thelsa and Lieutenant Commander 8. V. Gra ham, commissioned. Movements of Vassals. ARRIVED—September 3, Saturn at Marc Island, Strlngnam at Newport; September 4. Louisiana at Norfolk. SAILED—September 3, Strlngham from nary yard, New York, to New port; September 4. Louisiana from Hampton Ronds for Norfolk. LOCAL OPTION NO MORE THAN A PROVISIONAL PLAN. To the Editor of The Georgian: nreful consideration ought to convince Its supporters thnt local op tion in Its relation to the saloon and liquor traffic Is nothing more nor less than a provisional plan and a paving of tho wny for final prohibition within the Jurisdiction, when, concerning the subject matter, a general legislative power can bo exercised. Local option otherwise regarded than n provisional or Initiative reme dy will lead to confusion, and If too long accepted or , tolerated will react unfavorably agatnst the very end It was Intended to servo. Any territory that local option has elected to make dry, contiguous or ac cessible to any place or county that la not dry, Is subject to an excessive number of the baneful features of the liquor business, with coresponding lose to Its public treasury and greater In come to the public revenue from busi ness in the localities where there t» no prohibition. This downright inequal ity and injustice caused tlie legtslatur. A NOTABLE ADVANCE IN BUSINESS BUILDINGS. Ordtuarlly tho erection of a new building In the city of Atlanta is not a matter worthy of editorial comment nnd is generally referred to the local and advertising departments. But the erection of the new Andrews building on Marietta street de serves something more than a passing local comment. The building Is doubtless the finest and costliest business structure outside of the great office sky-scrapers in the city of Atlanta. It Is built In the highest and best form of business arrangement and equipment kuown to the larger cities. It Illustrates on the part of Mr. Walter P. Andrews, the builder, a Arm faith In the future of Atlauta aud an absolute confidence in the continued development of tbat large and important thoroughfare known as Marietta street. The building is in Itielf not only an expression of the faith of the owner, but as well a prophecy of the increase of Atlanta In cosmopoli tan ways and equipments. All public Improvements are contagious and a building like this will inevitably suggest if It does not require a similar excellence in future buildings of the same kind. It Is an advance to better housing In the commercial life of the city In the fact that it Is constructed particularly to save our business men from the sweat shop cubby holes which have been too often constructed' for the transaction of commerce In lesser cities, and this one, in its airiness, light and scope, will make a new and more wholesome pattern for the commercial structures of the future. Mr. Andrews has carried out with this building a unique experiment. Himself.a friend of and a believer in union labor, he departed from the usual custom of committing his work to a formal contractor, and going to President C. W. Bernhardt of the Federatipn of Trades committed the entire enterprise to his hand6 to Ih? constructed from start to finish by union labor. The vindication of this confidence is seen In the perfec tion of the Andrews building and in the economy with which it has been is entitled to the credit of being the first American government to exclude the liquor traffic. When Georgia went from “dry” to “wet” In resentment of the change by Its including the Intro duction of slavery, she lost a large number of her colonists. These were the Moravians, who scattered or em igrated to Pennsylvania. That which made It so difficult for the struggling colonists to maintain their attitude of resistance to slavery and rum was the presence nnd profit in both of theso articles of trade by her neighboring colony, South Carolina. Considering the narrow confines on the coast In which the Oglethorpe col onists were striving under every dis couragement to make the beginnings of empire In the wilderness, both under the original charter and the crown col ony, which succeeded it, we have here an historical Instance of local option eager for success, but subdued finally by a propinquity, which convinced the British government that*If South Car olina was inclusive of both slavery and rum, Georgia could not very well, nor very profitably, continue with their ex clusion. Dispensary and local option egulation in the modern sense are the those state pro hibition laws; and which, under the operation of similar conditions, make concurrent all the Southern states In this reformation. Then a relic or survival of barbar ism will begin to disappear, whose cumulated evils arc equal to wny that belonged to the institutions to which the terms were opproblously and >. fiercely applied In the past. CHAKLKS J. SWIFT. Blue Springs, Oa. AS TO FREE PAS8ES FOR THE NEW8PAPER8. To the Kill tor of The (Jeorgian: I noihvil in Friday's Issue it mrU will- ten by It. II. Hardly, of Bartlesville, Gh„ In reference to passes given to newspaper ed Itorn by the railroads in exchange for nd rtUlug: also the comment of The Geor* uk: ginn. Mr position that tin* mllronds will not pav *asl» for advertising tlielr schedules, anil Ilnrdv, of Jbiriic ihe^ower^o^Bmrcrand Hhinlx City j ffiy n ev2h»t?ona whllTaT, make local option effective In both “ n 1 evomuons " n,ul aie * places, whenever prohibition should be established In Columbus, Just across the river on the Georgia side. Local tlnn In one aspect, where established one* or more localities, becomes s suiting power and opportunity to ren r nugatory tho best efforts that havi been legally made to get rid of all the worst effects and consequences of the liquor evil. Muscogee county and the countlen adjacent to 11 in Georgia have been dry, hloh attribute of self-righteousness I.? gieatly to he commended ns a mag nificent abstraction, hut these dry counties have been disabled and Impos. ed upon the whole time that Columbus has bad the exclusive right of selling liquor to the surrounding counties. Girard and Phenix City and the Ala- buntP. legislature were not so intensely gullible as not to know that licence in Columbus would be fatul to local pre ventions on their part. Much more willingly than Mahomet went to the mountain, the votaries of whisky, if it will not como to them, they will go to it, and bring home with them its worst effects und frequently its most tragic ones also. It may not be generally known that the grant and charter under which Oglethorpe made the settlement of Georgia, Inhibited both rum und slavery. These proscriptions lasted until tho first and private charter was surren dered and Georgia became a crown colony, a dispensation which lasted until Georgia with the other twelve sis. ter colonies secured Independence from the mother country If Georgia had continued the exclusion of slavery, it i eafe to say that tlu bloodiest war in history would never have been fought. Inasmuch as Georgia would have been a buffer and barrier to slavery’s In vasion of the Southwest, when the peculiar Institution became prolific of value and when its problems became the source of both its retention end exten slon. The whl|6 man's burden in the South will Increase In heaviness so long as whisky and drunkenness are not sought to he arrested by all possi ble hunmu efforts in their blighting und degrading effects upon the negro race. • Georgia Is, distinctively the first and only one of the American colonies that v a* founded under a charter forbid ding the liquor traffic, and the recent Prohibition legislature In Atlanta will restore Georgia to thu status which was peculiar to her primitive and pio neer settlement. >r w Georgia, and uot the state of Maine, j'liuges.'Tlie MdVitofs* •*nsii For fiiivertlfting tlielr sciiediilos, ami thst the local editors nre rotnpellfil to no- —it free paeses to get anything nt nil. he Georgian takes the position thnt It Is no more harm f«> etehsiigo free posses for advertising than It Is fi*v n farmer to esehnnge n Imle of enttnti for twenty bales of hay. lint The Georglnn goes further nnd says: "The only dnnger we enu see In the matter Is the npprehenstou that In the mere placing *>f these nilvertfsemenf* the railroads mould find a way to influem e the opinion nm! expression of the press upon nf- fairs In which the railroads are Interest ed.** This Is the trouble In n nutshell. If the press nnd the railroads would bnl.inee up *e- •‘•units for advertising nnd for passes oner everv month, there might Ik* a short period of time that the press did not feel under ^litigation to the railroads for fnvors ex ternal. Mr. Hardy intimates that the ad vertising of the railroad s(»hcdales are Items of news ns well ns advertising mat ter, nnd thnt the local edltorn did not have the cheek to charge them up to the rail roads with any hope of colieftfng mime. That Itetng true, the pass4>s given bv the railroads are gratuitous, nnd the editors (1ml themselves under obligations to the railroads. Aside from this. I see no Im propriety In the exchange. This very thing was what mnseil the people to deouuid that the legislature cut out free passes Nothing else was so Impressive upon the Blinds of the public as the courtesies ex- tended by the railroads without compeiisa- tbltgat tons for rourtesles. Mr. Rdf tor. as ■■■ h wonderful |mwer in crystallising the whole poop occupying dangerous ground for them to a#- oopt free istsses given by the railroads for servf(*cs. the payment for which is doubtful mid nm-mUetible. | think, sir, the s»me reasons thet were brought to l**ar prevent the acceptance of free pnsse* by the members of the general tmsmhly. the obouhl prevent PLEA FOR EIGHT-HOUR LAW AND REFORM IN COURT TRIALS. To Che Editor of Tho Georgian; Having watched your many efforts to bring ubout reforms ho much needed by our people, many of which have been accomplished already through tho un mistakable medium of your invaluable paper, and believing that you stand ready to take up every movement that tends to the welfare of the people, 1 make bold to address you this com munication, simply to remind you of one or two very live and important Issues before our country that need your attention almost if not quite as much as the prohibition movement did, or the righteous Income taxation of the Bell Telephone Company. I mean, first, the agitation of the eight-hour law for railway operators and other employees of our state, and, second, some plan to break up the In iquitous practice, of our courts in fa voring tho rich man to the detriment of the poor man In cases where tho best legal talent Is needed and can only be afforded by one of the principals. . Regarding the eight-hour law, as I understand It, some representative from one of the eastern counties had a bill framed nnd ready to launch at our last session of the legislature, but for some reason It was overlooked, and unless some one comes to Its aid It will per haps never bo. heard from again. You no doubt have already heard the argu ments favoring such a law, nnd It Is needless to go into that, but I am sure you will build for your great and ever growing paper a monument more last ing than time if you woujd take up this matter at some time not far dis tant and thus have it thoroughly un derstood before the next session of the general assembly. Relative tq the other great Issue, 1. e. the discrimination against the poor man In law, we all know quite well that whenever a case comes up, for instance, in the criminal court of our state, say for assault to kill or murder, the first move generally on the part of the ac cused Is, If able to affor* It, to secure at once the best lawyer to be had In that section, with the result In most cases of either the absolute acquittal of the defendant, or, by keen manipulation and doubtful Interpretation of the law, generally with the aid of packed Juries and a friendly Judge, of a reduction of. the offense to a nominal fine. On the other hand, if the party as saulted hns^no money or Influential friends, his Interests are carried on In a half-hearted manner, being compelled to secure and accept of the services of some well-meaning, perhaps, but sadly deficient lawyer, who has no reputation to speak of. And fight as he may, tt always turns out that the raids are too great, and although his client maj' have been assaulted without the slightest excuse, the man goes free, and Justice Is left unsatisfied, because of the mam- on of unrighteousness. I think something could, nnd should, he done to stop one man from receiving better advantages than another be cause of financial differences. Surely this Is enough to appeal to all right- thinking people, and some plan can be formulated and worked through the legislature to put e*ery man on ’he same footing when It comes to the trial by our courts. Mj’ heart’s deepest convictions prompt me to dare to write you along these lines, well knowing that from a point of education und prominence I am not likely to be treated seriously by the public, ns I am only an every-day working man, but one who wants to see the strongholds of our courts thorough ly in sympathy with fhe true definition of the word "Justice.” I do not write this desiring any public notoriety In the papers, or with any idea that I am smart enough to take up questions of such universal significance, but only desire to remind you of them, that you may, with the same pen wielded for prohibition and other reforms, take up the fights of these two neglected issues. JUSTICE. Atlanta, Ga. MADD0X-RUCKER BANKING CO. OPERATOR TAKE8 ISSUE WITH COMPANY REPORTS, GOLD ON FARMS. iFroi Then* Ih niiirli actual gold stl >vere*J in the South, hut the cotton /frown initially bv that aectlou U worth fur more thau all the gold and Oliver produced the world In tin* same time. Between and 1806. for Instance, the total value of Gwjvorld'a gold and silver output wan |2.- 6QS.68S.IOO. and the total value of the cot- erop of the South, iueludliig seed. In Mine period was kU'Cy.^.OOO. a dif ference in favor of cotton la the hIx years of 61.062.313,600. Tin* total value of the eorn, wheat and outs raised in the South in the ten years from 1897 to I'm wn H more tlnin tl.eto.ow.doo. Tb***. Item.;, imllratP ihitt the urn who arv ruMng the ...tton to clothe nnd the corn to the gold and silver miners have the advantage over the totter. I lowing for gold la still much more profitable than digging for gold. i* e weu‘ ,|>tHnC * ° f ft<H? I™**** by editors, Who Ih aide to measure, or in nt»y other way. to estimate the power of the preasT I.«H»k at the position The Georgian tiH»k tSLSST fi m, *'bitiou. and how aueecriiftillr prohibition won. I admit thnt acntlm'm •“•’“t was like -the din- loini ni the rough —it needed to Ih* noj. Hhed. to tH* centralised and to Ih* ensml- itscfl. and who did or cottld have dn'ii*. i» more nobly than The Georgian? I tnke the |.4M$ition that eiitom «H*enpy position* public trust, an.! .tumid imt mS fo? r.*oelve fim*. tlutt would place them uii- I .1/ . 1 ‘ 1 I>f tbr in. Jnrtljr of Am.Tl.nn .Ills.,!, , vb „|“ .1” *Tie. linpn'irnltjf lr.1. tu ' T Jrffrm.o. C *■ To the Editor of The Georgian- The statement so often repeated w Mr. J. Levin, genera! superintendent ,> the We,tern Union Telegraph ny, tn the effect that his company lii handling business normally and tt,,,, the strike Is forgotten, seems to an nnunce a mysterious problem that eye. the critical mind of the public has thu, fnr failed to solve. * The cotton buyer Ip this section see, this statement in the morning pane, and immediately calls on the operator at the depot, who has always hoe. equal to any such demand, for a q U , lt ., tton on cotton. He la willing to nav any reasonable price for it, but the answer always ccmos: "I am sorry, but the Western Union wires are cut out of my office, and t have not handled a message since An. gust 12." Half mad and disappointed, he walks away, stilt trying to And come truth In the statement of so prominent a man as Mr, J. Levin, whom he Is not quite willing to condemn. Possibly the cut. ton buyer Is more generally affected than any other business man, ns hi, business demands more rapid anil con ntant dispatch, yet the continual dc-‘ mauds from all classes of business and society serve their part In discrediting tho absurd statement of Mr. Levin. The public Is certainly not duped or oven mystified. Who does not know by this time that every office on the railroads throughout the country Is en. tlrely cut out and closed by order of the Western Union Telegraph Compa. r.y? Who does not know that such of. flees nro those from which the cuntpa- ny collects the greater part of the busl. ness handled under normal condition,.’ Why have they closed these nflices’ Is It not plain that the fear of damage suits arising from the non-dcliverler nnd delays on this vast amount of bu,i. ness Is the reason? Let us sum up the situation: As the operators began to leave their keys In the various cities throughout the country, thefo was a state of con fusion never before experienced bv the companies. They Immediately set nbout to provide' for the handling of the Im mense volume of business then pouring Into every relay office from the way- wires, as they arc called, which nn the wires reaching out through all parts of the Various sections of coun try to every railroad station. To make this provision, It wns found necensai" to employ the use of the mnils, which they knew to be a slow method of ''tel egraphing,” and one that the public would not Indulge; hence the order to all linemen to cut out all offices oper ated Jointly with the railroad,. ThU action nnrrowed the business down .0 that originating In the cities alone, and a canvass of any city will show that the business men are withholding their business and sending by mall rather than subject It to that "indefinite de lay” stamp used by both companies and having them mail It. We can safely state that less than 10 per cent of the normal amount ot business Is being handled, and even that bears the old familiar stamp. “Subject to Indefinite delay,” firmly fixed to assure the companies ample protection when the wise customer en ters suit. Finally, don't worry about the oper ators; they are made out of the proper stuff nnd are all out for a Just enu," and a cause that will win. 1 would suggest that tha telegrarh eompanl*-.; Interest th’msolves in directing d>' talent of the Infant generation to su persede their faithful old employees, rather than await their return with- nut the scale asked fnr. Very respect fully, H. W. RIVIERE. Rochelle, Ga. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Poor excuses we have always with af. A fool can answer questions that a wise ■nan would be nibaiueU to ask. An artist la no more noxious to secure , model wife than I, any oth^r msn. Don't attempt to hand a woman enti-f ury .-..miiltmunt, unless you nre an a.-cero- Our Idea of an Innocent woman I, * thinks a man ebewa clove, because ly like them. brown taste lit his month. ’ a man's anlury la more than his spend site will forgive him for tie! ; Ing handy nrottnd the honee.—rtihmgn " Two of a Kind. A welt known elnbman In New York b* nothing better than to hunt ”b!ff usne- British (’oh,1,this. During hla last cvp-' to that region he wna In camp ” |f 1 ; friend from Minnesota. Townnl nH " tn ' 1 ’.. soya the New Yorker, he awoke shire™* with cold. The fire woe •very low. 'ompanlnn wae fast asleep. Isn't id.-.- to get out of 0 warm om set to roll frosty logs to the tire, -o , wily New Yorker gave hla friend a kick * then pretended to let asleep. There «»“ " response, and presrntlv the man trout York trt.el another Urk. . „ ,c At this the Westerner broke Into a bic- I dlil the same thing to you.twenty w" nte, ago," ho explained, "and that * B yon. came to lie awake." . „iU Then, of eourse^ Imth turned out to nm’ arc.—September l.tpplneott'o.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Atlanta Georgian and news. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1912, September 07, 1907, Image 4