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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WEDNEHnAT, JCNE S". I*K.
Published Every Afternoon
Except Sunday by
THE GEORGIAN CO.
at 25 V. Alabama Street, |
Atlanta, Ga.
F; • ■ rut aa second-els aa matter April 26, 1106, at tb* PiatoftM at
Atlaula. Ga.. under act of congrcae of March l 1619.
him lo be anything hut straightforward in all hla deal- j tin eaiimate
| n g g . J Btudonta wh
And he cannot discharge the high duties assigned to
him without experience. The system which made these
offices a part of the spoils of political war prevented any
man from becoming highly efficient, particularly In the
consular departments. He no sooner bocame familiar
with the language and manners and cuttoms of the
country than he was brought home to give some other
man a Job.
This, we are told, la to end, and men are to be pro
moted from one grade to another on'a system of merit.
The value In dollars and cents to this country will be
very great, but It Is no less Important that they will
occupy a stronger position in the esteem of the country
to which they are accredited.
THE GEORGIAN COMES TO
GEORGIA AS THE SUNSHINE
"Liber'
restraint."
exists in proportion to wholesome
—Daniel Webster,
An Individual Defense of Savannah.
We publish today, at his own request, an open letter
from Mr. G. P. Whatley, of Savannah, jirotestlng against
ti ■; recent criticisms of the Savannah municipal election,
a 1 seeking to lay upon the shoulders of the Hon. Pleas
tu| A. Stovall and the Savannah Press a large part of
il <i responsibility for the published reports of the buying
d selling of votes and the political scenes which
hi >ught the cry of shame from the state upon the 8a-
nnah primary.
We publish Mr. WhaUey'a article because, whenever
v have felt called upon In the Interest of right and of
■ ' public morals to criticise, we hare never.felt Justified In
« hholdlng a hearing to those whom we bare assailed.
Mr. Whatley will bear In mind that the editorial com-
u -its of this paper had no reference whatevpr to the
sini of any particular club or faction lo Savannah. We
di-i not know when we wrote, and we do not know now
Hi- >n which aide the burden of this political Iniquity
should rest. We spoke of It ae a general thing, and pro
tested It aa a general thing, In the Interest of civic Integ
rity and of representative government, without regard
• a the source from which thla wholesale bribery found
Its Inspiration
We note that Mr. Whatley today concedes the exist-
race of thla bartering of ballots In the mart, but claims
some mitigation of the offense In the fact that there
lees of It than there had been In previous elections.
We are not disposed to discuss this matter wltb
lr. Whatley, because he doubtless knows more of the
lure end magnitude of the offense than we do. IJut, we
' feel and'do repeat that thla bartering of ballots In
en and ahameless Impudence and defiance of public law
and public morality In Savannah, and In one or two
ntliur cltloa of the state, whether It be In larger or smaller
degree, ought to come under the prompt and fearleaa
ban of public opinion and public condemnation, and that
while the offenae la freah the condemnation ahould be
lining and general throughout' the state.
The Hon. Uoykln Wright, of Aufcusta, moved perhapa
by some expertencea nearer home to him than 8avannah.
lies prepared a bill which wo alnoerely truat will not only
i-as* the Qeorgla legislature, but will moat vigorously
and fearleaaly be enforced In ovary city in which the law
i- mocked and public decency la defied by the ahameleaa
traffic of ballots In these primary and other elections.
With one phaae of Mr. What’lcy's letter wo have a
minment. It would be difficult to persuade tbe people of
<;. orsla. who have known and honored Pleasant Stovall
lor so many years, that he would willingly lend himself
to any form of public or private corruption, or that any
consideration of perianal spleen or venom would move
him to a reflection upon his people that was not. In his
honest opinion. Justified by the fact;.
F Wc can do no leu than believe that Mr. Whatley Is
j- sincere In bis protest against the aspersions which have
l-een left upon bis city. We have no other conclusion
than that he himself was not responsible for these tnon-
&. (trout perversions of civic Integrity, and that ho was
i iraself a proteatant against them, but we must protest
| to Mr. -Whatley our unwillingness to believe that any
thing less than clean, honorabje, and patriotic can come
from Plouunt Stovall In tho public or tho private func
tion* of his life.
We trust that both Mr. Whatley and Mr. Stovall will
Join their united and potential voice* with the chorua of
l -.test which la going up all over the state, and that
Savannah may have not only the restraining voice of Its
trlends abroad, but the strong and fearless protest of
Us sons at home against any repetition In the future of
_ Scenes, which, however Justifiable In the tulndi of par-
|» titans and however modified In degree by more conaerva-
tlvoi statement* of the Incidents themselves, are far from
Justified In public Integrity and In public policy/ and
should be unhesitatingly condemned.
A Measure of Consular Reform.
While the consular reform bill, which has recently
, bun enacted Into law, Is not all that Its moat devoted
advocates could desire, it Is a long step forward, and Its
practical operation will contribute In no small degree
t-i the Improvement of that Important branch of the pub-
11* service
Our consuls and commercial agents abroad are not
placed strictly under the civil service, and the reform
■Bvtn not be complete until they nre, but n policy of pro-
motion on the grounds of merit has been tacitly OS
S' tabUshed. and so long as a president remains In power
» 1 1 favors this efficiency plan the system will work
well.
A few days ago President Roosevelt appointed 6l
H consuls. Fifty-nine of these were In reality piomdtlons
F from one post to another and higher one, and In the two
■L^stances where this was not done the men who^ re-
h, retved the appointment had been for a long time Identl-
I' *u with work which peculiarly qualified them for the
■ ber of to which they were assigned.
n ngs t Is hoped that the good work will continue.
J ‘“fhe'Vhc nature of our consular system was for a long
it wll* serious reflection upon this great country. The
"|jj r assigned to fill theac offices were pets and favor*
j All i of the administration which happened to be In
jjfjjjfce. and the personal character of many of these
untutn made them proverbs of profligacy and Incapacity.
Such men are gradually being weeded out and men
pet) a higher stamp of manhood are being placed In office,
rully seems that the time Ja coming when diplomacy
■ay become a recogntxed and desirable career open to
aaen of ability. Tbe very nature of diplomacy hat
changed from tbe sinister days when a diplomat was de
scribed as a man "spat to II- abroad for hla country."
Chicanery and deception are no longer a part of the du-
Hk ties of the diplomat. He to expected to re a man of cul-
IB tare and education, with a working knowledge of Com-
I:
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The Pennsylvania Situation.
While prominent leader* of the Republican party
hare been In Philadelphia, celebrating tbe golden Jubilee
of that organlxatlbn, the eyes of the country have been
turned upon the crystallisation of policies which will af
fect the future of the state of Pennsylvania, and Inci
dentally of the entire country,-to h greater extent than
anything that baa happened In many a long day.
Comment waa made In theae columns some time
since upon the fact that Ihe regular Republican party
had nominated a practically unknown man by tbe name
of Stuart for governor of the state, and that this waa done
at the dictation of Senator Penrose, the creature and
disciple of Ihe late "easy boaa," Matthew Stanley Quay.
That Penrose Is an adept In the art of political manipu
lation there can be no doubt, at least on the part of
those who say, like the lamented Josh Billings, “1 never
argue agin a success."
It was demonstrated that he had the regular ma
chine as much under bis thumb as ever Quay had It
Perhapa It waa not the wise thing to make this fact
tod manifest at a time- when the entire people of Penn
sylvania bad become aroused against bosslam In the
state and In the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Weaver's
triumph over tbe ring was too recent and the people
are too strong In their determination to carry the crusade
against the machine to the point of annihilation.
But the fact remains that he did It.
The Independent, or Lincoln, Republican* of the
state refused to accept Stuart, and nominated Lewis
Emery for governor. This faction of the Republican
party, to pledged to the overthrow of the machine, and
the rehabilitation of the party and the state. It has a
large following, and will be a power at tbe next election.
But now comes a proposition from the Lincoln Re
publicans to Col. J. M. Guffey, the picturesque leader of
the Democratic party In the state, to Indorie their candi
date Instead of putting one of their own In tbe field.
Speculation It rife as to what Colonel Guffey will do. Ue
haa hla enemies. Indeed, It has been said of him that
"those who woultt flatter him, call him a fool." Juat
what they would eay If they Intended to speak unkindly
of him we are left to Imagine.
But there Is a Democrat by tbe name of Berry whose
strength Injects a new element Into the calculations.
Laat year be turned the Republican plurality of half a
million for Roosevelt In 1906 Into a plurality for himself
of 80,000 when he ran for the office of state treasurer.
Thus, up there where tho Dutch have been In possession
of Holland, ao to speak, from the foundation of the re
public, a Democrat was actually choaen by an over
whelming plurality. The Democrats took heart of grace
and have had their eye on Berry ever since.
Derry has already been nominated by the Prohibi
tionists, who poll a solid vote of 50,000, and If the
Democrats Indorse hla nomination there seems to be no
reason, according to the knowing ones, why he should
not also poll hla full party vote of 500,000.
In short, the Indications are good that a Democratic
nominee will be elected governor of the great state of
Pennsylvania this year, whichever course may be pur
sued. The atate has always gone Republican In national
election*, and a Democrat has been elected governor
of the atate only twice since a period before the civil
war.
So It will be a notable event Indeed If a Democratic
nominee—whether he be techlnacily a Prohibitionist or a
Llncolnlte—should be chosen to the chair of* the chief ex
ecutive.
Tho Important consideration Is that It would mean
the overthrow of the machine which Boee Quay built
up with ao much labor and aatutenesa, and after that
there Is no telling what the Democrat* may be able to
accomplish In Pennsylvania.
Chancellor Barrow All Right.
Thero will be found no man In Oeorgla to protest
the selection of David C. Barrow aa chancellor of the
State University, and there will be found thousands to
rejoice In it with unfeigned heartiness from the moun
tains to tbe sea.
The Georgian la one ot those who had nothing to do,
even by way ‘of suggestion, wltb the selection of Chan
cellor Barrow. We have heard from the beginning that
he did not wish the place, and we had only mentioned
him Incidentally among thoee whose names wsre held In
the balance ot Judgment by the trustees.
It seems now In the light of events, that It waa sim
ply stupid not to have teen that Clean Barrow waa
the logical man for the poaltlon, and perhaps In all the
mentioned Hat. the very best man that could have been
choaen. If there 1* nothing essentially dashing or ab
normally brilliant about the new chancellor, there la
everything which la absolutely sound and perennially
safe.
The one transcendent quality which the new chan
cellor possesses, and there Is no better fact In executive
station of leadership, to the possession of the absolute
lore and confidence of the student body which surrounds
him-
There are two things which The Georgian In nil its
discussion of university and college affairs, and of the
men who hold executive stations In these great Institu
tions, has claimed to be necessary.
We have always hsld that wherever It was possible,
a teacher should be selected for promotion to the high
places In the schools of the state. We have insisted
upon this In every particular In which the public voice
could participate In tbe deliberation* of school affair*.
The reasons for thla fact do not need to be repeated
here. Encouragement to teachers. Inspiration to effort,
and training and equipment, all combine to make this
principle dear. Chancellor Barrow embodies lo hlmaelt
this principle ln*he highest degree. He has been for
twenty-nine years a teacher or tutor In the university,
and hla promotion .comas normally, naturally and nobly
from rank to rank of usefulness to this high station tn
his alma mater now.
The other great requisite for success In a chancellor
to to be able to command the unbounded confidence and
affection of the students who are under hla authority. The
young republic of letters has its own creeds and Its own
Infallible judgments of measures and of men. and no
malurer manhood to ever quicker and more Infallible in
if the worth and merits of a leader than the'entera upon hla work with a promise of happiness and
i come In dally rontart with him. sureeaa which few men have ever carried to the pre-
It 1b safe to aay that no man In or out of Georgia ' aiding office of our state university. When to this Is
could command more perfectly and more universally! joined the amplest scholarship and the loftiest char-
tbe confidence and love of tbe stadent body of tbe uni- acter, the most thorough absorption of the traditions and
versify than the new chancellor, who for twenty years j Ideals of the university for more than a quarter of a
has been endeared to tbe university graduates and un-1 century, the close personal touch and affection wltb
der-graduates by the affectionate soubriquet of-“Uncle I tbe people - of Athens, and of Ihe state—with stalwart
Dave." They believe in him to tbe uttermost, they would | health and comparative youth, It would seem very clear
trust him wlthojt questioning In any statement or In any
decision he might make, and there Is not a man whose
name has been In touch with the university for two de
cades who would not deem It almost a sacrilege to ques
tion either the sincerity or tbe Justice of any ruling
which the beloved new chancellor would make. He Is
the embodiment of good character.
Upon the broad basis then of these two essential qual
ifications, it may safely be said that the new chancellor
A LETTER FROM JUNIUS.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Mr. Bryan can’t be elected president
of the United States two yean hence.
The great fight—the earnest fight, the
fiercest. political combat ever waged
In this or any country, In this or any
ags—will be between capital and la
bor. Mr. Bryan to not radical enough
for the labor party, and hla Integrity
and patriotism leave him entirely out
of the question as a candidate for the
syndicates, trusts and money power.
Corporate freed doesn't want him;
wouldn’t have him; couldn't use him.
He la not sufficiently "safe and aane“
for their purposes. Hr wouldn’t—hs
couldn't—work In their harness. The
is occupies makes It t
Impossible for him to be elected
trusts and money syndicates, from the
Standard Oil down to the least malo
dorous of thess, all would oppose him
stronger. If not more violently, than In
the past. They know the difference
between Mr, Bryan and the Socialist!
Is In degree, not In kind. They know,
as far aa he goes with reference to
public ownership of the public services
and of nature's bounties, he Is parallel
with their principles. They know that
auch a man la as certain to advocate
the right of every man to the undl
vlded fruit of Ids'Industry aa thq stnra
are to pursue their course. They know
that Mr. Bryan haan't become suffi
ciently advanced In political compre-
henalon to object to that great politi
cal "aermon on the mount," "the Dec
laration of Independence." They know
that Marx and Debba and Rebel and
Upton 8t. Clair and B. O. Flower, of
“The Arena,” and Bryan all hold this
superb expression of truth and courage
In equal esteem. They know that Mr.
Bryan would not come down to the
front of the atage at the beginning
of a contest between Right and Wrong
—between the robber and the victim,
fire off hla “hoaa pistols" with a whoop
of defiance that said to the people,
"Who but I?" and later, when the
whole fight had been won by another
In the Internet of the people, hide be
hind the amoke and noise of his foot-
light performance and anatch the mea
ger but hard earned vantage away, and
give It to corporate greed.
No. the respectable element, the con
trolling element, “ “ ‘ * *'
the Democratic
party,'beginning with Mr. Belmont, In
Wall street, and ending with the great
aubsldlsed press that fought him open
ly In 1896 or "damned him with faint
praise" and lack of help In 1900, bear
the aame relation to their greed, to
their wealth, and to Mr. Bryan through
their lust for wealth and power, they
did then. These men, this Wall atreet
Dsmocratcy at the head of the Demo
cratic party, with Ua organised wealth,
and the Republican party are one. One
In Interest, one In sympathy. In love.
In hate. In greed, In wealth. In being.
In everything except In name. Mr. Hill
used to say on every occasion, and as
nobody could understand how It could
be, there was always occasion for him
to say It: "I am a Democrat." And
the present Democratic party, organ
ised os I have stated It, and as It real-
jy l«. ought to go Mr. Hill one bet
ter—“I am two parties at once, either
at a time or the whole thing." The la
boring man has begun to mix his brain
with his brawn. He Is waking from
the slumber of ages. He to aroused to
life, to a consciousness ot his power,
from the spell of years. The awe In
which he has been taught to hold
wealth has changed with his new vis
ion of things to a respect for the great,
patient, tolling myriad; who produce
t. He knows that while he holds the
Egyptian laborer In contempt for
building pyramids of stone for fowl
sufficient one day to enable him to
serve.hla master the next, that he, here
In America. Is building pyramids of
gold and furnishing the gold through
hla labor that he may eat food and
continue this profitless toll ot heaping
plla upon pile of wealth through all
ils dreary, hopeless life.
Verily, verily, thla man of whom It
ever might have been, said," Vox pop-
ull. vox del." has learned Indeed whoae
voice Is meant and he 16 aa sure to
ralae that voice till It achoea around
thla greed-cursed earth aa tho- eternal
sun to sure to pursue Ua wonted
course. The geographic line that made
this former beast of burden a Demo
crat has faded from his awakened
•yea. The local prejudice that mad#
him a Republican haa vanished from
his enlightened mind. The universal
brotherhood of man, that he has aver
been taught to hate end despise; and
his brothers beyond certain Imaginary
limits that he has been brained and
drilled In the moet terrific enginery of
death-dealing destruction to dsatroy,
are the cause for which his party has
Its being. No longer does he. or will
he consider killing or maiming ihe un
fortunate laborer of another clime, a
sign of patriotism. Terrific explosions,
combined with the hardest, harshest,
most unyielding materials of the earth,
hurled at other unfortunate laborers
hired or forced to be In their way;
aa hs Is—no longer charm a savage In
stinct tn his breast.
The bounties of nature—the fruit, the
substance of the earth—yea. the full
ness thereof with the means of pro-
th.se bounties
_ _ ___ ightera of men
are his high and lofty purpore
The Orientals have a tradition that
the shadow of a dog shall not fall upon
tbe surface of the great world beyond.
« will not be long before the great
voice of the people shall declare that
the shadow of a stare, the shadow ot
one man tolling that another may have,
sowing that another may reap, shall
not be cast upon the earth. Samson
has learned hie strength. His hand to
reaching for the pillars of atate. Strong
hands, kind and steady and true: his
eyes are as clear, aa calm, aa unsullied
by temper as the stare of haaven. His
mind Is as loyal to tha right as the
needle Is to the pol*- These pillars will
be tom asunder. They will be made
stepping-stones tn better things. The
edifice will not fall and crush. There
Is naught but lore, universal for hu
manity. In Its removal It was built by-
Samson the blind, at the behest ot
greed. With eyre of love and light he
will build on the fatherhood of Ood and
tha brotherhood of man. and It shall be
bread enough lo shelter and protect
the human rare. And the North and
the South, and the East and the West,
and Antipole and Pole may asy. "It Is
mine, and It Is mine,” and It shall hr
theirs. All humanity's—In Joy. In love.
In triumph. In peace, la brotherhood. In
sisterhood, forever U shall be their*. -
JUNIUS.
that all thoughtful friends of education are In a position
to most heartily felicitate tbe university upon the wise
and prudent choice which-the trustees have made for a
chancellor to preside over Its future work.
And The Georgian, yielding nothing to any man In
the state In the* matter of personal affection and admira
tion for the new chancellor, sends to Chancellor Bar-
row the assurance of Its rejoicing approval, and the
pledge of Its earnest cooperation with his official work.
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New York, June 20.—The woman suf
frage movement getr small comfort
from Pope Plus X. In an Interclew with
the noted Austrian suffragist and
writer. Mme. Camilla Eeltner, hla ho
liness Is quoted as saying:
‘Women ought not In any case to
mix ihemaelves In public affairs. Thsy
will be neither electors nor elected,
men have enough troubles already In
agreeing among themselves; thsy do
enough to bring disorder Into parlia
ments.''
That thla will bring down upon hla
head the anathema maranatha of the
women who believe there should be no
eex In the rights of cltlxenehlp Is cer
tain. and even though the pope ex
presses full, sympathy In the advance
ment of women In other lines than pol
itics. He aays:
All that tends to raise the moral
and Intellectual level of humanity la
worthy of our encouragement, always
provided that It does not violate Chris
tian laws. It Is well that women are
freeing themselves from the heavy
yokes that society has Imposed on
them -for centuries. It Is well that they
are able to master their own means of
existence.
"For my part, I see nothing to pre
vent them from being lawyers, or doc
tors; doctors especially, so that they
can give proper care to their children,
which In all times has been their natu
ral avocation.
"Education Is also one of the pro
fessions which suits them best. Are
they not first teachers of their chil
dren, and thus of all humanity?”
Miss Helen and Mrs. -George J. Gould
have been granted the privilege of an
Folly of Life Insurance Investigation.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
What a great calamity and hardship
to policy-holders does all thla investi
gation entail!
Former presidents and ofilcers of
theae great Insurance companies have
stolen and grafted until they were
all rich men—had all they wanted. Now
new men are In who have little, who
are poor men, with only a million, and
need eight or ten. Thsy will now start
In to work to graft and get It from the
poor policy-holders and the whole mess
to go over again In a decade. Why
not leave the old regime aa It waa?
Policy-holders will be robbed more
than ever before, for the trail haa been
biased, legislatures, courts and all re
straint muaaled. Once upon a time,
long time ago, reads the fable: A rail
road superintendent called a conductor
of a passenger train Into hla office and
bald: "I am going to discharge you,
for I find out you have been taking
cash fares. 1 am going tq put a freight
conductor In your place.” Tbe pas
senger conductor said: "Don’t do It,
for It will cost you more. I have
made now about all I'll ever need out
of your road and this new man haa
never had the chance, and now he will
have to get hla pile out of you." The
moral Is obvious. There Is now about
12 to 26 paid out to life Insurance
companies In premiums to every St
paid back In death claims There Is
no reason on earth why any man
ahould take out a life Insurance policy,
for If he can't, by provident means, In
vest or save during hi* lifetime, can he
audience with the pope. Archbishop
Farley presented the distinguished
American women.
William B. Leeds will be called upon
to show cause why he should not pay
an 'additional duty of $100,000 on a
magnificent pearl necklace he recently
bought for hla wife tn Paris, and for
which he la said to have paid $400,000.
On pearla the United States govern
ment levies a duty of only 10 per cent
of the value. But let thoee same pearls
be strung Into the length of a necklace,
or aet, and the law, as Interpreted, en
titles the collector of the port to de
mand 60 per cent of the valuation.
But the pearls bought by Mr. Leeds
and brought to this country by M.
Cllroen. a member of the Cartier firm,
are said to be the most magnificent
string ever assembled.
The justices of the court of special
sessions have decided. In a test case,
that the negro organization of Elks, the
"Improved Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks of the World," may It-
gaily wear the badge Inscribed "I. B. P.
O. EL” without Infringing on the white
order.
Mias Jane, daughter of Randall Mor
gan. traction magnate of Philadelphia.
Is now a. New York bay pilot. She
already holds a license for navigating
oceans, obtained from the local boan
of steam vessel Inspectors In this port,
Now she has a license for navies "
the waters of New York bay as fa
Fort Washington point. She passed a
nearly perfect examination.
Mlaa Morgan holds a certificate a*
matter of her father's yacht, which
once belonged to Emperor Francea Jo
seph. She also haa a license for Phila
delphia waters.
WHATLEY RESENTS
REFLECTIONS CAST
Replies to “The Press”
in Open Letter to
-the People.
SAYS CHARGES MADE
BY LOT OF SOREHEADS
Deplores Vote-Buying,' But D«-
dares There Was Less of It
Than for Many Years,
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
JUNE 20.
1542—Ferdinand DeSoto, explorer, died.
Born 1496.
1532—Charter of Maryland received by
Lord Baltimore.
1719—Battle of VlllafranCa, Sicily.
1781—Richmond, Va, evacuated by
Lord Cornwall la
1701—Flight of Louis XVI from Paris.
1824—John T. Morgan. United States
senator from Alabama, bom.
1837—King William IV ot England
died; succeeded by Queen Vic
toria.
1862—City of Mexico surrendered by
the Jaurists.
1574—New conference currency bill la
passed by both houses of con
gress.
1876—Santa Anna, president ot Mexi
co, died; born February 21, 1795.
1886—Prince Lulppold made regent of
Bavaria.
1893—Lizzie Borden aequlted of tbe
murder of her pa rente in Fall
River, Man.
.span,
1895—Baltic ship canal opened.
1897—Queen Victoria began the cele
bration of her jubilee.
1698—United States troops reached
Santiago de Cuba.
1003—Cardinal Vaughan died. Born
April 16, 1123.
produce a family who could save or j 1005—Herbert W. Bowen, minister to
Venezuela, dismissed by Presl
keep a fortune left In life Insurance
after his death? In other words, on
the face df It. by their own figures,
life Insurance companies condemn
themselves for they show that for every
dollar they get they rarely pay back
60c. Does that look good to a work
ing man? N. K. SMITH.
Acworth, Ga.. June 17, 120$,
About Foreign Immigration.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
In your Issue ot June It there ap-
>eared two vary forcible articles on
orelgn labor coming Into the South.
Like very nearly every point of Issue,
there are two sides to It. Thera Is
really no dearth of tabor In the South
at present. It Is not a question of
quantity, but quality. The main reli
ance for manual labor, especially on
the farms, has been, and Is now, the
negro. This hss become very unrelia
ble and la getting more so each year.
There Is 'a great Inclination on the
part of many classes of working people
to congregate In cities and towns and
congest tbs labor market. It appears
now In Atlanta that there are enough
Idle negro men (and many poor whites)
to till evsry farm In Georgia. A negro
paper recently editorially commented
on the worthlessneee of the average
negro laborer. And, sad to say, educa
tion seems to aggregate this condi
tion. The foreman of an Industry In
your city recently stated In an Inter
view that he had often employed 68
and 108 negroes to work and no more
than half would report for duty. Many
would quit work without notice, some
not even coming for their pay. What
the South needs Is small colonies of
Norwegians, Swedes and Germans to
come over and be divided Into sections
and go out on the farms and tend the
crops. They are willing and able to
work; they know hard work and don't
shirk It. They are reliable, thrifty
and honest, and will make Ideal farm
laborers.
Very few Industries thrive without
competition and the negro laborers
seed competition, not to run them out
nor to eliminate them, but to awaken
them by want and poverty, to realize
their danger and depart from their
shiftless way. They are getting en
tirely too Independent. They will work
two days and rest three, because they
know If they lose one Job thev can get
another In an hour. This condition has
got to change or be changed. The
South Is prosperous and increasing In
population. Increasing In laborers, but
of the aame shiftless, useless, unrelta-
dent Roosevelt.
ble kind, both white and colored.
Thla to of no benefit, thla kind of
Increase to calamity.
Why on earth a white man or a ne-
gro will go to a city to earn a living Is
a puzzle. They are constantly leaving
the healthy surroundings of the Coun- 1
try. where they have few expenses and
ran raise their children morally, and
coming to the grinding life of the cities,
where labor Is high, but the coet ot
living reduces thslr prospect of laying
a penny by to the minimum.
Recently a blacksmith left North
Georgia for Atlanta. He had In the
country plenty of work, a good home,
garden, cattle and waa prosperous. He
gets to town; gets more wages, has
to live In a squalid den, taxes and
coat of living so Increased that Instead
of saving money he Is In debt and
can't get back to his old home.
A merchant told me recently In a
smaller town that he had several cus
tomers who had been farmers, whom
he sold on credit, as they made good
crops and wsre honest. When they
came to town and they put their fam
ilies In a cotton mill, he kept on selling
them on account, but In a short while
found out that l)« would lose every
penny he sold to them and that they
had become utterly unreliable and dis
honest. In tha country today there
are two Jobs for avery laborer; In town
two laborers for every Job.
In the country are. comfortable
homes, gardens, vegetables, a cow and
hogs tor every family, few expenses,
health and happiness. And If the con-
gestlon of tbs cltl«s Is not relieved and
the dearth of compatent labor sup
plied In the rural districts, then foreign
labor la bound to come and spread all
over tbe South and take advantage ot
the glorious opportunities now exist
ing for them. A great cry la going up
all over tha South now for tabor-
help! help! comes the cry. and those
near by hear It and harken not; soon
this cry will be heard beyond -the
ocean and men and women will come
and take up these homes with com
forts and Joys they have never Itnown
and draw from the bosom of Mother
Earth In this Southland untold riches
and power, and the shiftless Idlers, who
now spend their time loafing around
the saloons and corners of dark alleys.
In citlaa end towns, will see too late
what opportunities they have lost for
ever. N. K. SMITH.
Acworth, Oa., June 17, 19*8.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
It seems The Savannah Press,
through Ita hired correapondents. has
been very active In sending broadcast
throughout Georgia, reports ot whole
sale buying and selling of votes at our
late primary election here, and equally
oa active In collecting together from
Its exchanges adverse criticisms on this
election, and placing the same In a
double-column header In The Press of
Saturday laat. No one deplores vote
buying and selling at the polls more
than the writer, or for that matter,
than the average, upright, honorable
citizen of Savannah, anil tn view .if
tbe fact that there wsui no neceselty
for It In th» contest referred to, It la
still more to be deplored, so far as the
members of the winning aide were con
cerned, aa the vlctorywas bo decisive
and overwhelming, that the only posit-
ble excuse for It must be attributed to
the work of a few enthusiasts In their
zeal to still swell the majorltv, and
forever bury out of sight a crowd of
political corruptionists, harpies, gratt
ers, gamblers and Sunday liquor sell
ers, the equals of whom no city In
Georgia haa ever been disgraced with In
the annals of our fair state. The Press
was frank to acknowledge In Its com
ment on this election the next day that It
was the first time Ih the history of Sa
vannah that wealthy men, counting
their money by the hundreds of thous
ands. some of them, millionaires, were
found standing In line early In the
morning. In a pouring, drenching rain,
waiting their turn to vote, and did vote
before they left It, and before 9 o'clock
It was generally conceded by boih
aides that the election had been won.
Chaffing Under Defeat
Unfortunately, Mr. Stovall,, the edi
tor of The Press, and the Citizens’
Club candidate for state senator, went
down with his ticket. Chaffing under
his humiliating defeat. It was only nat
ural that hla paper, through Its corps
of correapondents, ahould send out this
charge of buying and selling votes.
Everybody well knows that If the Citi
zens' Club ticket and Mr. Stovall had
won, there would have been no report
of vote-buying and selling, or any oth
er Irregularity, no mattes- how fla
grantly and unbluthlngly It may have
been committed. .
This Citizens’ Chib, brought Into ex
istence here about twelve years ago,
with the open and avowed declaration
to reform, upbuild and nurture the
best moral, social and financial inter
ests of this city, has had a record of
crime that la without parallel In the
annals of Tammany in New York or of
the Mafia Society of New O/leans. It
haa cursed this town with more open
and notorious gamblers and Sunday li
quor sellers, protected by the sworn
officers of the law, than can be found
anywhere. It has brought untold sor
row to the Innocent, destitution, starv
ing and rags to the widow and orphan,
wrecked lives to our young men and
corrupted morals on every side.
Abusa Borne For Years.
After groaning under this gruesome
state of affairs for these long years,
with a patience and submission to which
only a noble and long-suffering people
llko those of Savannah could or would
submit, to It at all to be wondered zt
that an outraged people should rise up
and put them out? .
In the name and on behalf of the
good people of this city of my adoption,
where I have lived for the past quarter
of a century, where I have raised mr
children, where I have tried to live the
life of an honorable man and upright
citizen before Ood and man, I deny thle
wholeaale Indictment agalnat tnj- peo
ple and agalnat the fair name of this
city. It haa been conceived In envy,
bom In vengeance and sought to ne
nurtured at the expense of Justice and
,ruth - . .
Thla to Ihe whole story. Aa to tn«
buying and selling of votes, the num
ber waa less, for thq large vote polled,
than at any election In the history of
Savannah. Let the people of Geor
gia, therefore, not be deceived In this
abortive effort to traduce our fair name
by a lot ot soreheads, defeated at the
polls, whose only aim Is to wreak pri
vate vengeance at the expense of the
truth, and especially at the expense -d
the fair name of the city of Savannah,
before the people of Georgia-
O. R WHATLEY,
savannah, - Ga., June 18, 1908.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM-
By Prlrate Leased Wire.
New York, June 20.—Here are some
of the visitors In New York today.
ATLANTA—H. P. Mitchell. R *■
Daniel, H. Cohen. B. Goettlnger.
SAVANNAH—W. & Evens, J. c-
Fleming.
NOT BECOME CANDIDATE
FOB THE GOVERNORSHIP
Special lo The Georgian.
Jackson, Miss., June 20—T. V. fis
sion, district attorney of the Fifth dis
trict, haa tendered hie resignation to
the governor, effective July 1. ...
Four candidates are In the
Bates, of Calhoun: Lamb, of W *b»tsr.
Penson. of Choctaw: Turner, of vat
f jixdgd Frank A. Crttx. of West Point,
has Issued an address to the Democ-
tacy of the atate saying he has d»
elded not to become a candidate t-
governor.
CONDITION OF BANKS
WANTED BY BIDGELY
By Private Lsm6 Wire.
Washington. June 28.—The controller
or the' currency today Issued e call for
tha condition of all the national banks
at tbe dose of business on June 19,
