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—Sir John Denham.
Mr Joseph M. Jones left on Sunday to attend the
commencement exercises of Princeton University. Ills
elder brother, Mr. Robert- H. JoneB, Jr., graduates at
Princeton on the 11th lnatant with high nnd well-deserved
bonora. Robert H. Jonea held the first place In the Boys’
High school at Atlanta, from which h« graduated a few
y<ars ago. Ho has held many responsible positions In
Princeton during his college course. The merit of his
uchfcvement rest* In the fact that Robert H. Jones, Jr.,
has worked hla way through Princeton with money which
| lie made through hla own Individual efforts In Atlanta
\ after he left the high school. Few young men have
borne themsclre* more highly and creditably both In
the matter of application and character at home, and
of attainment at Princeton, than this young graduate of
the Atlanta high school, and we congratulate his parurlta
and his friend* upon the brilliant promise which these
high and honorable achievement* afford of a noble and
useful career In the future.
President Cassatt has returned honu
that thero la something to pay, and the
In time to find
water Is hot.
The Vast Question of Immigration.
Immigration looms large now upon the horizon of the south’s future aa one of the great problems which
we in ut-grapple and utilise to the develpoment and prosperity of this country.
The Washington Post, always one of the ablest and most thoughtful of American newspapers, has mnnl-
f-Mod a very largo and wholesome Interest and enthusiasm In this question, nnd has laid tho South under ob-
11 Rations for the special evidence of the Interest which it baa manifested In this section.
There are some very aerious and Important problems Involved In thla question of Immigration.
In the first place, the South la confronted with great and menacing acarclty of labor. In tho factories, In
inc fields, on the fsnas and In domestic employment the cry goes up top moro and better labor than we have
tndi-
3fe With"our population of negroes, which in every state is nearly equal to the white population, and which
In many states is largely in excess of the white population, we yet have a scarcity of labor In all the details
of our sectional industries, while thousands of negroes are Idle In the smaller towns, and more particularly In
the larger cities.
This phase of the problem la being touched Upon very gingerly In some secUons, very timidly In others,
and very Ignorantly In yet other bands. The truth of the business Is that the scarcity of labor Is not alto-
gciher due to the scarcity of laborers, but to the unwillingness of natural laborers to do the work which
they have been accustomed to do. The factories hnve not stolen from the farms the cotton pickers who havo
(tesertod those fields of the staple, because tn the majority of cases the factory workers belong to the wblto
race. It Is perfectly certain that domestic life and the kitchens have not robbed the cotton fields of tbo no-
groes who have been accustomed to labor there. In Whatever degree these considerations may have diminished
tin- lubnr supply of the country, It Is nothing less than true and honest to say that the present lack ot labor
la iluo In large part— •
First, to the Idleness and profligacy of the negro laborer; second, to the schools and educational Institu
tions supplied by Northeh philanthropy which are educating the negro out of the cotton fields Into either tdlo
loafing, or more pretentious avenues of endeavor, and third, the theories of social equality primarily 'and In-
Inreatly taught by Booker Washington, and promulgated widely In the prints and publications of tbo negro
race, which are destroying more and more In the negro the willingness to do manual labor In the fields, In the
furtnries and In the kitchens, and are carrying him more and more either toward more pretentious lines of
work, or toward Idleness and loafing In the towns and cities ot the country.
Whatever the cause, the fact stands that the negro la becoming lest and leas a part ot the Industrial, life
ut tho South, and every year less Indispensable to bur Industrial and agricultural development
And this by hla own fault and the fault of the system that seeks to lift him above his status and
above hla capacities.
Now, to supply this noed of laboe caused by the defection and the demoralisation of the negro, the cry
i* piling up from every section of the South for Immigration, and that Immigration Is being sought from the
countries across the seas x
Tills Js natural enough, and In time past the developments of Immigration have been productive end ben-
ellclal to the country. The danger, however, in thla line He* In the fact that the changed quality and nature of
iin- immigrants who have of late years been coming to the 8outh, entails upon our civilization danger! and
iimu-ultlea which are really ot greater menace than the deficiency of labor which they are meant to aupply.
Time was whan most of our Immigrants came to this country from England, Scotland and Ireland. From
i-.'O to ISOS seven million, two hundred and eighty-six thousand came from these countries, and gave ui a
• sa of Immigrants who were homogeneous, helpful and productive to our national life. The tlmo was when
th- Irish race was almost being transplanted from Ireland to the United States. Four million ot Irish lmml-
giants came to this country from 1820 to 1902, and wo have never had anything hut good results from the Irish
i lire. From 1820 to 1905 Germany sent to our country five million, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand
liiiiulgrants, and our German citizens are among the soundest and thriftiest of our population. Scpndlnavla,
• -insisting of Denmark. Norway and 8weden, furnished one hundred thousand Immigrants to the United States
in 1882, and the Northwest has been enriched and fructified by these thrifty and admirable foreigners. But
iim.-s have changed, and the sources of our immigration have completely altered. The Immigration from Eng
land. Scotland and Ireland has fallen off more than 40 per cent. The Influx from Ireland has decreased 50 per
lent, the German Immigration has decreased 35 per contend Scandinavia lent ui only 19,000 Immigrants In 1902
n gainst 105,000 In 1882.
Now the sorrow of the situation la that while the Influx from these wholesome, helpful and homogeneous
countries Is falling off It Is leaping marvelously forward from the undesirable countries of Europe. Here Is
a statement from recent statistics which Is simply startling along this line. «
in 1809 the Immigrants from Austria. Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia were about one one-hundredth of
tin- number from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany and Scandanavla; In 1880 they were about one-
ti-nth; In 1894 they were nearly equal, and In 1901 the Ipimlgratlon from Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and
Russia was three tlmee a* great to the United States as from the other countries just named, and during the
l.-n i year nearly three-fourtha ot the one million twenty-six thousand Immigrant! which came to the United
States came from these countries of southern Europe and from Asia.
Tho menace In this situation lies In the fact that tba claaa of foreigner! who come to our country from
those stormy, revolutionary countries ot southern Europe are so full of the anarohy, riot and lawlessnesi of
the countries from which they came, that their presence becomes a menace and entalla another mighty problem
iii>nu the civilisation which must amalgamate and absorb Into citizenship these alien and almost unasslmlla-
bit- i;i< i-s who have no conception of our government and no sympathy with our Institutions, and whoae creeda
ami i- cords are reeking with the lawleatnese which baa made Chicago and Pittsburg and other cttlee centers
t>( m volution and of annrehy.
The amalgamation ot these foreigners wjio represent almost the scum ot southern Europe, Is one ot the
trcmnndoni problems of our civilisation. Fortunately for us, few ot them have coma to the South. Ot the
1.026.000 Immigrants who came to our country ls»t year, the commissioner general of Immigration eayn that
3ir>.5l l went to New York; 210,708 went to Pennsylvania,72,160 went to Massachusetts, 72,770 went to Illinois, 67.-
2fs went to New Jersey, nnd 49,361 went to Ohio, from which It appears that 707,000 or 76 per cent of the en
tire number went to six states, while the Rocky inountsln region nnd the West received 48,561, and tha state*
south ot the Mason and Dixon line received only 46,000 or 4 1-2 per cent. Of this number Maryland, West
Virginia and Florida received nearly 9,000, Louisiana 5,000,.Texas 4,000, Kentucky 618, Tennessee 782, North
Carolina 183, 8outb Carolina 328 and Georgia 618.
The avoidance of the 8outh by these Immigrants, even of the Interior caliber, plainly Indicates that the
shadow of the negro keeps Immigration from our shores, and that the peoplo of foreign races do not Ilka to come
where the negro Is the standard of labor and makes from the beginning an equality with themselves, which
even the most remote ot foreign races reject and repel.
Wo cannot shut our eyes to the fact that the influx each year of hundreds of thousands ot Immigrants,
unriiiulllar with our language, Ignorant ot onr manners and cuatoma, and without any conception of our govern
ment curates a -stupendous problem which not only concerns the amalgamation of these divers races Into
broad citizenship, but aleo the economic question at to how they can be cared for and controlled.
One thing, at least, la clear to the South In this matter, and that la that It Is better for ut to have no
Immigrants at all tn Dixie than to bare this undesirable breed ot anarchists, assassins and vice-breeding races
which by the record contribute 60 to’ 70 and sometimes 80 per cent of the crime and vice from the locality In
which they live.
It la also clear that because the South needs Immigration and needs It badly, that Southern business
nu n should vigorously impress upon their representatives In congress the necessity of euch restriction of for-
■■ini. Immigration ns wilt exclude from our shores the scum of Europe and the undesirable and lawless repre
sentatives of these southern countries, and by rigid Inspection shall permit the landing upon onr shores only
ut than* reputable and desirable peoples who we can amalgamate Into our civilisation and adapt to the Indus
trial iii-velopment and glory of onr country.
It Is the poorest of statesmanship and tho weakest of economy to bring to this country thoee whom we
can never make part of It, and It Is better for us to go baiting and slowly Into the development ot tha future than
to a<1d to our population elements that multiply and double the tremendous racial problem which we already
ha\- on hand.
But there Is a middle ground, and we know that If Southern senators and congressmen will clamor for the
rigid Inspection by our consuls and immigration'agents abroad of every immigrant who seeks passage to these
►tmrei. we ought to be able by care and diligence to bring to the South such a claaa of people aa will make ua
independent in our labor .conditions and prosperous beyond Imagination.
We need euch pebpin of the better clans. The negro- has already drifted almost out of our Industrial lire-
M ivt supply hie place with that class of Immigrants who will he assimilable to ourselves—Germans, English-
men. Irishmen, Danes. Norwegians. Swedes and Frenchmen.
We need them In onr factories, we need them on our fields and farms, and we need them and will need
th, more and more to take the place In onr homes of thooe shiftless nnd shifting servants who are making
•i -ii, stlc life almost an Impossibility to the women ot the 8outh. White eervants tn the homes are becoming
’-■-noet as great a necessity as better labor tn the fields and factories.
The subject le too large to be treated briefly, and wn can only recur to It from time to time. In order to
; impress both the necessities and the dangers which are Involved In this great question now stirring the mind
d li e heart of the South.
j The Beef Poisoners Worse Than Morales.
Tho civilized world which throws up It# hand* In
! horror over the fiendish crime of Manuel Morales, the
bomb thrower of Spain, may well turn with a greater
loathing and aversion toward thoee magnate# of the beef
triiHt in America, who are willing; to scatter their dis
eased and horrible food through the home* of their fel
low countrymen.
The death list of Manuel Morale# was comparatively
small, and it had at Irnst the explanation of a fanatical
creed, In which one thought that he was punishing the
enemies of hi# faith and order.
But there 1# no possible explanation or mitigation
of the unspeakable crime of the great rich corporations,
already grown bloated with fullness and prosperity, and
in the mere Instinct of human greed and stinginess will
ing to scatter through the nation the germ and microbe
of putrid diseases and of death.
There Is no crime In history which In Its compre
hensive scope of malignity can compare with the crime
of the beef packers In their reckless and horrible distri
bution through the ranks of millions of innocent fellow
citizens.
The punishment meted to the bomb thrower nnd an
archists should be doubled and quadrupled when applied
to those who are responsible for this unparalleled out
rage upon law nnd humanity.
Tnfortunately the punishment, if punishment be
meted at all, will scarcely touch the thick hides of the
selfish scoundrels who have done this cruel and re
morseless thing. But there certainly should be framed a
statute, which So the future* will reach, not only the
pockets, but, if necessary, the necks of the monsters who
are willing to j>oison a nation in order to pufT their own
dividends and to line' their own pockets with filthy and
taluted coin.
Public sentiment should whip to a fall and remorse
less retribution the movement that is now pending in
our public life to bring these unspeakable villains to a
sterner Justice than that which our present law provides.
all these measures, while the broad court construction
appears not to have been touched.
Perhaps the most notable change is the omission of
the “Jin: Crow" car provision. The negiv. members of
the Republican party went Into something like «- panic
when they discovered that the section providing “equally
good service and accommodations to all persons paying
the same compensation," opened the. way for the estab
lishment of separate accommodations, and in effect rec
ognized the principle of the "Jim Crow" car. A delega
tion called on the senators, and now we find that the
conferees have yielded to the representations of the dele
gation, and the objectionable paragraph has been KtriCKen
from the bill.
The negroes have won their point, but not before
discovering that at heart the Republicans are as much
opposed to riding with the negroes as ore tho iteoplo
from any other section of the country.
It Is hoped that the two houses will lose no tlmo In
adopting the bill as reported by the conferee'?. There i3
a great deal of legislation which Is badly needed. The
beef scandal has come to the front in such shape that
there should be no delay In providing for the most rigid
inspection laws, and there sve still other measure* which
should he placed on the statute books.
THIS DATE IN’ HISTORY.
JUNE 5.
1465—Henry IV, kins of Castile, de-
posed.
1568—Count d’Egmont and Count Horn
beheaded at Brussels. m
||95—Battle of Fontaine, France.
i ohn Henry H °UtnKer died.
1/23—Dr. Adam Smith born.
1783—First balloon ns, cnslon marl.
Franco'" 1 ""' a ' r Bt Ann *>nay!
1798—United Irishmen repulsed at New
n ->— with (treat loss.
h evacuated Zurich.
lalmed hla brother
f Holland.
roclaSmed her lnde.
John D. Rockefeller, having regained hla health, de
clared the other day that he no w “feels like a rich
man,” and Immediately comes the announcement from
Sarah Bernhardt, after snooting the chutes at Coney,
that It mnde her “feel like a young girl."
The Ducktown Case,
The announcement In yesterday's Georgian that the
supreme court of tho United States had overruled the
demurrer of tho Tennessee Copper and Iron Company,
should have contained the statement that associated with
Attorney General Hart In the conduct of this Important
case is Special Counsel Llgon Johnson, who has been In
immediate charge ot the matter. Mr. Johnson Is one
of the ablest and most thoroughly equipped members ot
tho bar of tbo state and he has taken an absorbing In
terest In the pending litigation. Judge Hart Is to be
congratulated not only on his own high ability, but upon
the wisdom with which ho chooses his assistants.
The Ducktown case Is one of the most Important
that has come before the supreme court of the United
States In a number of years. Tho position taken by Iho
court thnt It has jurisdiction to entertain applications for
Injunction In cases Involving disputes between two states
will have a. lar-reacblng effect, and already Special
Counsel Johnson has received a number of letters from
New York and elsewhere requesting his brief In the
present -case.
The state of Georgia Is certainly entitled to relief
from the disastrous fumes which are destroying the vege
tation In a number of the upper counties of the state, and
It Is hoped that this relief will bo speedy and complete.
The efforts of the Chicago papers to show that the
report on packing house conditions would be “tame" are
not altogether successful. It Isn't tame enough to cat
out of the hand of the beef trust, at any rate.
A young artisan out In SL Louis engraved the entire
alphabet on the bead ot a pin. By engraving people's
names on the pins perhaps so many of them would not
be Io»t every year.
The Conference Rate Bill.
The conferees of the house and senate have lost no
time In agreeing on aa amended rate bill, and It-may be
expected that the measure, ns It now stands, will soon
become the law of the land.
That Is to say It will bo entered on the statute books,
for one of the amendments agreed upon Is to tho effect
that the measure when It passes both housos, shall not
become effective until the lapse of sixty days after It!
passage.
It muit be conceded that the senate bill baa not been
greatly changed by the conferees and that aucb changes
aa are made are manifest Improvements. The prohibition
of passes la made clear and unequivocal; railroads are
distinctly prohibited from tarrying commodities In which
they have a proprietary Interest, except auch goods aa
are for their own use; the penal sections, repealed by the
bill Introduced by dear old Steve Elkins to protect his
friends, and restored by the senate, are retained by the
conference committee; the Interstate commerce com
mission I* Increased to seven members, wtlh terms of
seven years each at ! salary ot $10,000. -
There will be but little queitlon as to the wisdom of
A Rockefeller Mystery.
Announcement Is made that a man who recently died
In Freeport, 111., .was the father of John D. Rockefeller,
and had been living for a number ot years past under an
assumed name.
Some of the papers which have been discussing the
matter make the definite charge that the aged'man
had been kept In obscurity by his son, because he was
ashamed ot him, and furthermore that the old man him
self was anxious to conceal bis Identity because nn In
dictment for horse stealing had been hanging over him
for a number of yenra.
When Miss Ida Tarbell wrote her scathing sketch of
Rockefeller last year she told a great many unpleasant
things about the father of the oil king. She told how
“Dr." William A. Rockefeller had been shrewd beyond the
bounds of honesty, how he had been a wild and reckless
fellow all his life and combined the occupation of n
ancer doctor 1 ' with that of horse trading,
A picture of the old man was published at the time,
which citizens of Freeport Immediately fecognizei as
that of’Dr.” William Livingston, who not only resembled
tho picture, but had all tho characteristics of tho elder
Rockefeller. He made long trips from home, after pur
chasing quantities of herbs at the local drug store, aud
would give no account of where he had been.
A further fact which lent color to tho theory that
he was the elder Rockefeller was that ho cashed checks
for what he said were dividends from Standard Oil stock
which he owned. The Improbability of such a man own
ing atock In that exclusive corporation was an impressive
tact, and was commented on at tho time.
To cap the climax, John D. Rockefeller refuses to
throw any light on the question. He will not say whether
his father Is still living, or. If dead, when ho died, or
where.
He simply preserves a significant silence on tho
subject.
The public has become Inured to tho cold-blooded
ness of Mr. Rockefeller, but If ho has Indeed kept his
father In an Ignominious obscurity and left him under a
cloud of suspicion during nil theso years, violating the
primary laws of natural affection, he will descend, If pos
sible. a degree further tn tho opinion of the world and
once more Justify tho scorn in which ho and his methods
aro held.
England Is at last waking up to tho beauties of
baseball, and there are predictions that the national
pushpin match known as cricket will soon be on the
wane.
The Negro in the Army.
In tho matter of tho negro’s wearing qualities In the
United States army tho following table of tho cofored
troops now In the service may bo Interesting:
Colored Troops.
In U. S. Army—Twenty-fourth regiment Infantry,'
Ninth regiment cavalry; Twenty-fifth regiment Infantry,
Tenth regiment cavalry.
In National Guard of State*—ToUl 27. Connecti
cut. one company; District of Columbfa, one battalion
(four companies); Illinois, one' regiment (Eighth) of
twelve comiwnles; Maryland, ona company; Ohio, one
regiment (Ninth), four companies and hand* Rhode
Island, one company; Tennessee, ouo company: Texas
one battalion of three companies.
' Colored Officers In United States Army.
Each colored regiment has a colored chaplain- one
colored captain In Ninth cavalry (graduate of West
Point); one colored lieutenant In Tenth cavalry one
colored lieutenant in Twenty-fifth Infantry. '
After aH that has- been said and boasted In recent
yean of the negro* proficiency as a soldier, this table
marking such a steady decrease, will be both Interesting
and Instructive. "
1799—Frenc
1806—Napoleon pi
Louis king
1811—Venezuela |
pendence.
1813—Battle of Ktoney Creek. Canada.
1826—Carl MarleVon Weber died.
1829—Branch of United States mint e>.
tabllshed at St. Louis.
1833—Black Hawk and companions re
leased.
1855—American (Know Nothing) conn,
cil met at Philadelphia.
1857—Mutiny at Gawnpore, India.
1862—United State* congress i.
nized Independence of Halt! and
Liberia.
1864— General John C. Fremont accept
ed presidential nomination and
resigned from tinny.
1865— Galveston taken by the Federal!,
last port to surrender.
1870—Great tire of Constantinople.
1873—Rattazzn, Italian statesman, died
1886—Maxwell convicted ot tho murder
of Preller at St. Louis.
1888—Great fire at Hull, Ontario; 2,000
rendered homeless.
1894—United States senate passed sug
ar trust bill.
1899—Frank Thompson, president of
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
died.
Hs Likes The Georgian.
To the Editor of Tho Georgian.
Although congratulations have al
ready fallen In copious showers upon
the heads of those In control of every
department of your most excellent pa-
per. yet a word more of commendu-
tlon from one of the unnumbered host
of your admiring friend* may not be
amiss. I subscribed to your Journal
six or eight weeks before It made Its
appearance, and to sny now, after read
ing It regularly from Its Initial copy,
thnt I am delighted with. It expresses
my Sentiment but mildly. It’s a paper
of the highest order, second to none
In the entire South. The wide circula
tion so quickly gained attests Its popu
larity. The success of your enterprise
to without a parallel In Southern Jour
nalism.
The publisher Is a man of high Ideal,
of noble purpose, of sympathetic na
ture. He gets close to the people. We
think he is eminently fitted for the
work In which he Is engaged.
The brilliant editor Is without a su
perior. The Influence of his gifted pen,
which Is never blunt, Is felt far and
near.
And now. with best-wishes, let me
say, long live The Georgian, and may
Its great storehouse of knowledge sup
ply in generous measure .the need of
the hungry mind,, and may Its.rays of
snnshlne “clear th’e darkened windows’’
of many sad hearts and homes.
Yours very truly,
E. PERCIVAL CLARK.
Bethesdo, via Savannah, Go.,- June 1.
A Chance for a Pa’rk 8ite.
To the Editor of The Georgian.
Tho matter of providing at this time
for public parke and breathing places
In the center of the city before the land
necessary for tho same roaches a pro
hibitory figure, suggested by the card
of Mr. Rossjnan and your editorial of
the 2d Inst., should not be allowed to
drop, and In this connection I wish to
call your attention to a tract of land
In the thickly populated part of the
city, which, I am Informed, can be pur
chased now at a very reasonable figure
and for location nnd "lay of th* land’’
would make an Ideal park with but a
comparatively small expenditure. This
tract to bounded by Piedmont avenue,
East Pine, Bedford place nnd Currier
street, being approximately 650 on the
west side, 1,200 feet on the south elde,
580 on the east side and 1,200 feet on
th* north side. 7tM ja an approach
from Piedmont avenuo about 120 feet
wide, a street running from Forrest
avenue Into this tract, nnd also a street
I - East Pill.- si reel. The I;--.
on this’ tract would add to Instead ot
detract from the value of the land for
park purposes. The city now owns ths
southwest corner of ibis property,
160 by 200 feet, on which to located
the Calhoun street school. The east
line of the Sixth and Fourth wards
divides this property. Here to an op
portunity to acquire a piece of park
property close In and at a low figure
that will not occur again soon, U ever.
RESIDENT SINCE ’ll.
A TAINTED UNIVERSE.
(A UNITARIAN PROTEST.)
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Dr. R. A. Toney's sermon ot Thurs
day, May 17, aa atenographlcally re.
ported under the direction of George T.
B. Davis, historian ot th* Torrey-Alex-
ander meetings, contains these words:
-“There I* no love In helL I believe that
one of the darkest experiences of that
outcast world will be the way In which
people who loved one another on earth
hate one another down there."
It seems to me that Dr. Torrey should
■Ire ua some explanation of the trans
formation of that love Into hatred. The
damned, according to him. In certain
cases at least, “loved one another on
earth." Though “lost," they diet then,
with some good tn them. Now, Incredt.
hie as It may be to th* orthodox, we
Unitarians are Irrational enough to
think that that good should be "saved”
and not “lost" even In a theological
hell; and we are wicked enough to
T. P. A. VOTES THANKS
TO THE GEORGIAN
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I beg to notify you that at s meeting of the board of directors of the
Georgia division. Travelers' Protective Association of America- on the
evening of June 2, a rising vote of thanks was tendered you for the
strong editorial In a recent Issue of your paper In behalf of the traveling
cent# 0t °* 0r ? la ln th * lr eftoru to obl * ,n Interchangeable mileage st 2
This editorial to greatly appreciated by every traveling <- ml.
end thla vote of the bo£dSm<£ the aenUme™offvera"J* m2?
of thla Association, aa .well M other traveling men In Qeorata. ** em .
Tours very truly,
J - H - ANDREWS, Secretary Georgia Division.
of a second. To Illustrate: You die
at midnight. Even though you have
rejected Chrlat and are “loat," still at
W* That no smallest quantity of )p>od Mom midnightjreu ’loved
anywhereln God’, universe is to God SdSStvSI^no^U XdTtodSS
but your Immortal soul to only two
aeeonds older than It was when It had
a negligible quantity.
We ask, therefore, who to responsible
for th* destruction of that love and
the creation of that hatred? “The sin
ner, by hi* own Ilf* end the rejection of
Christ end salvation." the orthodox
might answer. But the very orthodox
Dr. Torrey to our authority for the as.
sertlon that the sinner, tn spite of
rhto rejection of Christ end salvation,"
did possess some love, and therefor*
some goodness. That love, that good-
ness. Dr. Torrey tells us, to destroyed
after the sinner’s death. when hla life—
his perfbd of probation and free-wtlL
has ended. Who destroys It. or what
destroys tt?
Does death destroy ItT' Not if the
soul to ImmortaL For the death of the
Ibody to a mere Incident In th* life ot
the eouL end does not interrupt thatl
that goodness in It—that love for anl
other. Has tt lost that goodness? If
It has—It within one second after
leaving what theologians are fond of
calling “the poor sinful body," a man’s
aoul changes so rapidly for the won*
that love becomes hatred, w* should
revise our notion of the relation of the
body to the soul, and give credit to our
bodies fbr much of our virtue. Instead
of blaming them for moat of our vices.
But tha soul does not change for the
wore*. It to th* body that Tot* and
not the souL
Can hell destroy that goodness? Hell
to either a place or a condition. If hau
ls a place, then the mere transfer of
a soul from one region of God’s unt
life for the most lnrtnltesiim.il part vers* to another region cannot destroy
whatever goodness may be In that aoul
Goodness la not dependent upon sid
ereal latitude and longitude. When Sa-
JE**L!*8*»!»* ° r wen referred to by
WS?" ‘o »m In heave*
avll was evil In heaven* and goodness
U tf In the dee ** Bt ot hells.
If hell Is not a place, but a condition,
any goodness existing in the sinner
must stlU be preserved, Sr th« gSSd-
<* * constituent pert of hla rondl-
aVtiL, u J* * ,,er hl * con
dition, and, on the hypothesis that hell
l***" “ 1 * *° *’" r
If there were such a thing aa helL
not Satan himself could alter Us con-
atltutloo. Hto duty In the orthodox hell
to that af a stoker. God has never
abdicated from any part of Hto unU
*n(! orer that part made the deni
an absolute monarch. If there were
«fh * thing as hell. It would he JuT
jNt to God a justice and goodness and
be controlled by them. If there were
auch a thing aa hqll, a Just and good
®! belt, a ,
Odd Fellowship in Gsorgia.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
The recent convention of the Odd
Fellows of Georgia at Augusta was no
table In many respects. It was an emi
nently successful convention, attended
by representative men from every sec
tion of the state. A striking feature
of the convention was the large num
ber of young men present.
Within the live years Just past Odd
Fellowship has mnde great strides Id
the state, and conditions have Improved
in a marvelous manner.
Five years ago there were 123 lodges,
with a membership of 6.TSS. Finances
were at a low ebb. Today there ars
228 lodges, with a membership of 25.-
000. The finances of the order are In
healthy condition; no bills outstanding.
There has been a net gain In the
number of lodges of 216, In membership
"4S; foregoing fact* vverO obtained
of Dr. T. A. Cheatham, of Macon, grand
treasurer. Dr. Cheatham is nn enthu
siastic Odd Fellow, exemplifying the
tenets ot the order by Ills dally life and
walk. '
Odd Fellows constitute the largest
fraternal order In the world, having s
membership of over 1,600,000, and an
nually disbursing for the relief of sics
and distressed members 24,500,000.
God could never command that event
evil In It should have a “thirst for the
infinite" of evil, while every germ <>r
vestige of goodness there should be
ruthlessly destroyed.
A hell, either as place or condition,
wherever It might eternally exist or in
whomsoever It might eternally endure,
would be an eternal filth and Infamy.
A hell would pollute God’s universe
throughout all the poisoned course «
eternity, and the universe of an so”
good and all-powerful God would b«
forever a tainted universe.
JAMB8 J. DOOLING-
18 West Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, O*.
P. S—Matt. 10:28, “And fear not
them which kill the body, but are not
able to kill the soul; but rather f«r
Him which to able to destroy hots
soul and body In belt" . . „
to there anybody so orthodox that n*
Interprets those words so a* to read-
F**r Him (God) w hich to able to cor
rupt and make viler and viler hot!
soul ami body tn hell?—J. J. D