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The Atlanta Georgian.
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Entered as aeeoad-elass matter April 9. INS, at the Postofflee at
Atlanta. Oa.. under act of consresa of March S. 1ST*.
Fairbanks Glorifying John Brown.
Three weeks from today the vice president of the
United States and presiding officer of the upper house
will participate in the fflorlflcatlon of a man whose
crowning work was thus characterised by a select com
mittee of the United States senate, appointed at the
timo to Investigate It:
"The Invasion (to call it so) by John Brown and
hla followers at Harper's Kerry . . . was simply the
art of lawless ruffians, under the sanction of no.
public or political authority—distinguishable only
from ordinary felonlea by the ulterior enda con
templated by them."
Until these historic words, signed by a majority of
that select committee, are expunged from the'Idas of
the Congressional Globe, and the truth of history la offl
dally made a lie, the vice president of these United
States, who so recently was the recipient of Southern
hospitality, might be doing something better than thus
entering Into fellowship with treason and felony and
stirring the sltmbering embers of a sensitive sectional
ism.
Tbat John Brown, of Osawatomle, was a felon and
a traitor no sane man can deny in the face of the ver-
dicte of the courts and the summary punishment vis
ited upon him for his crimes. It Is not a matter of
opinion. It la a fact of official record.
In the opinion of a more tranquil and conservative
posterity bitterness has In a large measure given plaae
to a cynical pity for bis civic obliquity, compounded ns
it was of malice and madneas. He la looked upon by
the dispassionate thinkers of today as a dangerous Don
Quixote whose self-imposed and chimerical task ended In
hls own undoing aa the Inevitable consequence of bis
fanaticism and folly.
- The rancor with which bis name was once dis
cussed has pasted away, but hts wisdom and foresight
have not grown upon the world.
That he was a madman and a firebrand, and that
he brought reproach upon the honest and well meaning
people who differed politically from the South Imme
diately before the war, stands undisputed and Indis
putable.
Three weeks from today will be the fiftieth anni
versary of that military fisticuff known at "the battle
of Osawatomle." On the twenty-first aunlversary of
that event a monument waa erected on the scene of
the contest, out there on, the plains of Kanaai. In tha
dedicatory speech of that occasion the orator of the
day declared that John Brown "dared to bo a traitor to
the government that be might be loyal.to hnmanlty."
Hls loyalty to humanity consisted In part In tho cold
blooded murder of five mep who dared to dlffor with
him and hls followers as to the form of government
which the state of Kansas should adopt
Hls treachery to the government Is not denied
Wo might well Imsglne that some such sentiment
na "treason to the country that they might be loyal to
humanity" would have risen spontaneously to the lips
of August Spies, Adolph Fisher, George Engel and Al
bert Parsons as they walked to the gallows 20 years
ago for their part In the slaying of seven policemen and
wounding of twenty-seven more because those officers
of the law had attempted to disperse an anarchist
meeting In the Hsymarket square of Chicago. They
were glorified enough, God knows, and nothing they
could have said tor themselves would have sounded
more grandiloquent than "treason to the government
and loyalty to humanity.”
It would have been a reign of anarchy. Indeed, If
John Brown and hla misguided followers had succeeded
In acquiring any momentum when they captured the
government arsenal on that 8unday night of Ootober,
1859. It would have set a precedent for murder and as
sassination Infinitely worse than organised warfare.
The determination to make a hero of this shiftless,
thriftless fanatic—the unsteadlest product that ever
came out of the "Land of Steady Habits”—has Inten
sified the bitterness between North and South a
thousand fold more acutely than the meeting of brave
men on the battlefield, where each rendered willing
tribute to the skill and courage of the other. It has
brought forth more Tiomb-proof rodomontades and cor
ner grocery bitterness than Gettysburg and Manassas.
It bat been the text of a world of “envy, malice and all
unchaiitableneas" wbicb North and 8outh alike would
do well to forget.
John Brown la dead, and htq soul,, so far as there Is
tiny satisfactory evidence, has long since ceased to go
mnrcblng on except to stir up occasionally, even as It
did when It Inhabited the flesh, needless rancor and
recrimination.
At any raid the Idcular Mr. Fairbanks, who Is at
present Important chiefly because he Is vice president
of tho United States, could be engaged In many things,
or even anything, more timely and In better taste, than
participating In the glorification of John Brown and hls
guerrilla warfare of treason.
thing Is done.
and limb as It now stands. The holes and abrailons
expense and an annoyance to the public and those Inter-1 make travel a positive danger snd very far from a
pleasure.
The effort to secure united purpose on the part of
the abutting property owner* and the street railroad
was regarded In advance as a difficult undertaking, end,
In point of fact. It was not easy to accomplish, but this
co-operation ha* long since been secured. Thoao In
terests are agreed, and the amount which the city will
be railed upon to pay Is very smslL Under these clr-
imHtanren there seems to lie no good reason why the
not create a very favorable Impression. jwork should be further delayed. It is conceded hy all
And yet thla la not perhaps, after all. the strongest - concerned that tho present asphalt Is actually and hopo-
reaaon to be advanced for hastening this work. The j Iesaly worn out. It would be Idle to talk further of re
condition of Peachtree Is undoubtedly a menace to life j pairing It or adopting any kind of makeshift.
Curb the Lobby But Be Fair to Vested
Interests.
Perhaps no bill passed by the present legislature
will meet with more general Indorsement and approval
than the anti-lobby bUt presented and advocated by
Hon. Seaborn Wright, of Floyd.
It Is'yet to be taken In hand by tbe senate and
there can scarcely be any doubt that tbe senate will
pass It as emphaUcally as tbe bouse has done.
The public will applaud this bill In every section
of the state. It la aimed at an evil which has too long
existed, and which baa for many yean been a source of
annoyance and Irritation to She voten of the state.
But If the legislature paaaee this bill there will de
volve upon that body certain self-imposed responsibili
ties to tbe large vetted Interests which are represented
In legislation throughout the state.
In the first place as it appears to a newspaper seek
ing only the right thing, it should be the duty of the
members of the legislature to personally Investigate all
the bills they vote upon.
In the second place, the committee having In charge
legislation of an Important ebaneter should have hear-
ested In special legislation to have to visit tha capltol
and wait for a hearing.
Fourth, tbe rule covering committee meetings should
be such ae to secure the attendance of ail of the mem
bers of these committees unless there be a valid excuse
for not doing so.
Fifth, tbe chief reason for the so-called lobby Is In
the fact that unless matters of great Importance are pre
sented to members with a personal Interview an<J within
a limited time, they will be delayed and quite often
legislation Inimical to the best Interests of tbe state may
bo enacted.
Tbe legislature will do a wise thing In passing this
bill. There has been too much lobbying and too much
of personal Interest of an unworthy kind. But no body
of honest legislators can forget tbat commercial and
personal Interests have a right to be heard fully and
freely on all sides of every public question, snd that it
Is s duty to avoid a one-sided or prejudiced hearing of
public queatlons. “ -
It Is very clear that only by the most liberal treat
ment of public and private Intereft* along tbeee lines,
and by the putting up of the most careful safeguards for
the proper hearing of advocates, can the legislature
justify the admirable reform Instituted In the Wright
bill.
The rush of the Roosevelt rendmlnatton Is not so
violent as It was a month ago. Has Taft, who “sat on
the lid,” now also blocked the line?
We Join the Red Cross Society.
Surely there ought to be some one In this 'time ot
bitterness and trial to play the part of peacemaker and
to moderate so far as possible the bitterness of the
ballot.
In every war there follows after the mailed battal
ions of the warrior the ambulance and the'Red Cross
brigade. And In tbls wild war of words where missiles
ot discussion fill the air with their mission ot 111 the
civilisation about ns ought to furnish some element of
reconstruction, of reorganisation and of healing.
As The Georgian la a non-combatant In this strife
of oltlsens, we propose to join tbe Red Cross brigade of
relief and so far as in us lies to heal the wounds of the
battle and to preach tbe peace which ought to follow
as Us aftermath.
Men all over Georgia are thanking God today that
this bitter and remorseless campaign Is drawing to Its
close. It has been without a parallel In the history of
tbe state, and Its casualties In character and In repute
will outnumber the actual destrucUon wrought among
the combatants most nearly engaged.
For It has corns to pass that not only do tbe candl-
lates themselves through their organs belabor each other
with Unceasing venom, hut If a citizen of any age or any
station or ot any character, sees fit to exercise hls civic
liberty In declaring In public for one or for another of
these candidates, he becomes the Instant target for the
abuse and malediction of tbe organs of the other aide,
and every amall and trivial criticism that has been made
In the past Is Instantly raked from tbe records of other
years to refloat -upon him and to prejudice public sent!
ment against bis Influence and hls namo.
No part of this campaign Is more lamentable than
this, Surely'men without malice who entertain and ex
press their preferences for one or another of the op
posing candidates In tbls election, are not tbe legiti
mate targets for tbe criticisms and the abuses of the
organs of the candidates opposed. In most Instances
these men who take a stand for one or the other of the
aspirants for gubernatorial honors do so holding
In their minds and in their hearts the klndeet feeling for
the others, and the decision of the ballot Is reached
In most Instances purely on public and economic reasons
and with no persons! discrimination between tbe various
gentlemen involved.
And yet for this simple exercise ot personal and
civic right these men are critlcizcd'nnd assailed as vio
lently as are the candidate# themselves.
So that out of the noise and the bustle of the pens
and the papers, the tongues and the tempera, the com
mittees and the caucuses, the methods and the mass
meetings, tbe air Is thick with arrows, each with a pois
oned tip, and the hospitals of our fair repute are filled
with tho wounded whose minds are sore and whoee
characters are aspersed.
Surely the time has come for the relief corps of the
hospital and for tbe evangels ot peace. And so, without
any other than a self-appointment and with no commis
sion beyond the Impulse ot general good will. The Geor
gian has pinned the Red Cross upon the arm that moves
tbe pen snd we will seek so far as In us lies from time
to time to soften the asperities of a malignant war with
the mission of relief. We will seek to show that many
of the men whose hands are now at each others’ throats
are not natural enemies and may yet be frlonds. We
will seek to show that many ot the eminent Georgians
from whose garments drip tho Ink and mud of opposi
tion camps, are neither traitorous nor dishonored. And,
tbat within six weeks from' this blessed day, when the
storm Is stilled and the tempeet Is over, they will each
and all abide once more along the tranquil waters of a
serene and placid period enjoying tho rest and receiv
ing the blessing and the salutation of their fellow men.
Unless sll precedents are broken, unless all tradi
tions are destroyed, and unless history for tbe first time
refuses to “repeat Itself,” the next six months must and
will record not only the rehabilitation of character, but
tbe restoration of the entente cordial between the fierce
and heated combatants who now have the state In a
steam and the people In a stew.
Give Peachtree a new pavement, and let us have it
completed before tbe State Fair begins.
The official police of the Jameaton Exposition will
be called the "Powhatan Guard.” Good. Now see to It
tbat the uniform la either Indian or Colonial, and that
the" taciturnity of tbe Indian is freely relieved by the
friendliness of the Colonial, and a wholesome willing
ness to surrender Information.
Growth and Progress of the New South
Booth which de*erv*»» something more tbnn pass-
Pave Peachtree Before the Fair
The whole community te becoming thoroughly
aroused over the delay In repaving Peachtree street.
There was every reason to hope that tbls work
would be taken up and authorised by tbe lest session of
council, and It Is putting It mildly to say tbat there was
a general feeling ot disappointment when this was not
done.
There are a hundred good reasons why this work
should be hurried to completion snd not one, so far as
we are aware, why the delay should bb continued.
One of the strongest considerations is that the State
Fair will be held In this city next October. Tbat time le
rapidly approaching. Little more than two months now
remain before the gales are thrown open to tbe public.
There will be visitors In the city not only from all over
the state, but from tbe country at large. It Is a matter
of some Importance that this leading thoroughfare of the
city should not be found in Its present condition when
those visitors come. They will be disposed to Judge
Atlanta as a whole by the condition of this chief high-
How Southern Spindles Multiply
The song of the looms snd spindles In the South already Indicates that
this section of our common country la enjoying a large degree of pros
perity, and the rapidity with which those vehicles of Industry are multi
plying gives great promise for the future, A
Everybody thought the South, was doing remarkably well when 190,-
000 spindles were added or contracted for In Southern mills during.the
first quarter of the present year, but the second quarter did even better,
for It brought out the announcement (hat a still further number of 127,-
000 spindles hnd been added or cohtracted for during that period of time.
It Is even predicted by those who are In the best position to know that
the Increase In the number of cotton spindles In the South during tbe
present year will amount to practically one million.
Georgia la holding her own In this Increase. That excellent trade pub
lication, "Cotton,” In presenting' the figures, says that North Carolina’s
enterprise Is easily first this year, bar additions In April, May and June
aggregating 157.210 spindles and 2,270 looms. South Carolina comes next
with 101,104 spindles and 1778 looms, and Georgia fellows with 44,600
spindles and 170 looms. Mississippi added during the second quarter 0,000
splndlae, and Virginia Installed 0,012 spindles, ,
Alabama has a record In the second quarter of 4,082 eplndles and 24
loome, thus outdoing Tennessee and Texas. Tha new spindles In Ala
bama are to be placed, not In new mills, but In old mills st Sylacanga and
Girard. In the Sylaeauga mill 1,180 spindles are to be placed, In the
Girard mill 800 spindles.
In this connection we reproduce the following timely and Impressive
paragraph from The Cleveland Leader:
When the veteran editor Henry Watterson delivered an address be
fore the students of Brown university at Its commencement exercises he
advised the young men who were seeking for opporluntles to go South. He
knew whereof he spoke. The land beyond what was once Mason and Dix
on's line has at laet awakened Industrially and the people are beginning
to gather In the fruits. In New Orleans the building under way represents
210.000. 000. During the lest year the building Improvements In San An
tonio, Tex., cost 81,021,000. The year'a record for Chattanooga Is about
81.600.000. During the same month (or Louisville, Ky„ they cost 84*6,000;
for Atlanta, Ga, 2687,000. A significant faature of this record Is the fact
that some of the best new buildings are railroad stations. Atlanta has a
fins new passenger depot and Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, New Orleans
and Little Rock will soon be similarly provided. The Southern states are
surely coming Into thetr own.
WHAT IS THE DESTINY OF THE NEGRO RACE?
EXTINCTION
By DR. WM. EDWARD FITCH
In th* working out of the problem
oi the survival of the fittest the handi
cap Imposed tpr nature upon the black
race Is slowly, but surely, telling
against the negro. Hls little knowl
edge and hla Indifference to the
qulromenta of sanitation compel him
to suffer the Impost of a heavy penalty
In the form of disease engendered by
hls surroundings. Torn from
moorings by the tide of war, the negro
In America Is drifting steadily toward
oblivion and will eventually disappear
below tbe soclologlc horlxon, following,
but more alowly, the North American
Indian Into extinction. The race prob
lem will eventually solve Itseir, pos
sibly In less than a century, for tbe
negro In America has served hls pur
pose and must now move on to give
place to the resistless Anglo-Saxon,
whose manifest destiny Is to control
the world.
The coming of the negro to America
u tbe result of tha needs of condi
tions thsn existing and ths necessity
for their fulfillment In ths develop
ment of the country, and particularly
of the southern hair. With the termi
nation of these conditions by war, a
new era In the development of the
Southland was Inaugurated In which
the dark-skinned race .la but little
available and as a free agent the ne
gro Is left to work out hls own des
tiny. That he will play any part ot
Importance In the future development
of hls adopted country Is Improbable,
snd as sn economic factor may be
Ignored, (or as a race he has fulfilled
the object which made hls presence
necessary, and is now a discarded bit
of the mechanism of the world's ad
vancement.
Thetr gregarious tendencies have
caused them to gather Into towns and
villages In large numbers and to exist
there under conditions far less favor
able to their existence than In the
country districts. The urban life of
this hapless race Is accurately de
scribed by Dr. Seale Harris, of Ala
bama, In American Medicine, who
states that "they are poorly fed, Im-
wrly clothed, and their homes ere
ted on ths lowlands In the suburbs
of the towns, where the dampness of
the atmosphere predisposes to tuber
culosis and where all the filth and Im
purities of the towns drain directly
Into their wells and streams, contami
nating their only source of water 'sup
ply."
Harris further adds that "with such
surroundings and an utter lack of re-
S ard or appreciation for the laws of
ealth, they become very sueceptible
to all forms of disease, particularly
typhoid and malarial fevers and tuber
culosis: and for the same reasons their
tissues, having less powers ot resist
ance to the ravages of disease, they
fall easy victims to the fell destroyer.
Hybridisation among the negro race
an Interesting subject from an
anthropological standpoint. It Is a
well-known fact In horticulture that
If. for Instance, cantaloupe and pome
granate seeds are planted side by side
they will hybridize, and the fruit
borne on the respective vines will not
be either a Juicy cantaloupe or a fra
grant pomegranate, but a hybrid par
taking of the nature of both, and unfit
for use. Seeds taken from the fruit
of each vine and replanted will pro
duce a fruit of sn Interior quality, the
seeds after being planted again will
fall .to germinate and the hybrid be
come* extinct. We have an Illustra
tion In animat life that hybridisation
leads to extinction. The ass crossed
with the horse produces an animal
which Is neither horse nor ass. but a
mongrel hybrid—the mule, which la
Incapable ot procreation.
An Interesting side-light could he
thrown upon the general question of
the Increase In the negro population. If
reliable statistics were obtainable as I
to the numbers of full-blooded negroes
and the numbers of mulattos!. An at
tempt waa made. In the census of 1880,
to classify the negroes In proportion
to the purity of their blood, but the
results obtained were so unsatisfactory
that nothing of the kind was done when
the last census was taken.
About ten years ago Professor
Bloomfield, of Johns Hopkins Univer
sity, wrote a remarkable series of ar
tides, In which he discussed the race
queetlon from the standpoint ot a
naturalist and anthropollglst and
reached the conclusion that the per
centage of full-blooded negroes waa
gradually decreasing. Professor Bloom
field believed that the Darwinian law
of natural salectlon was working In
the negro race, and that In accordance
therewith there was a constant ten
dency on the part of both men and
women to mate with thoee ot lighter
color than themselves. As far as there
may be fresh Infusions of white blood
Into the race, the bleaching out pro
cess would be accelerated, hut, of
course, It would require many can
turies to so far eliminate the negro
blood ae to make the race as a whole
lose the distinctive characteristics ot
ths negro.
One who has observed the negro race
In the South must admit that It is the
tendency of both sexes to mate with
mulattoea lighter In color than them
selves. The fruits of such marriages Is
amall families—two, three, or perhspe
four, children, whereas In ths full'
blooded black families from ten to
sixteen children are common. -
In order to give our readers the
status of the death and birth rate of
the negro race, we quote from tbe last
census report:
If thla Is true, there Is no doubt that
the negro population of the cities, If
not recruited by new arrivals from
the country, would rapidly diminish.
Out of fifty-six cities reported hy the
census, In all parts of the country—
North, South, East and West—the
denth rate among the negroes Is found
to be greater than'the birth rate In
fifty cities. The remaining six cities
are nearly all places with very small
populations, where the amall *x-
f the birth rate reported might
be accounted for by an accidental fall
Ing off In the death rate for that par
ticular year.
There Is no part 'of the country In
which the registration of vital statis
tics Is so nearly perfect as In New
England. For this reason the figures
for Boston are particularly interesting.
They show that during the census year
there were 21,9*1 births and 11,277
deaths among the white population,
making an excess of 2,714 births.
Among the negro population of Bos
ton In the same year the births num
bered 240, and the deaths 827, making
the excess of deaths 87.
Greater Non- York there were
94,164 births and 70,229 deaths among
the white population, maklqg the ex
cess of births 15,9*6. Among the ne
gro population there were 1,970 deaths
and 1.420 births, making tha excess of
deaths 640. In Buffalo there were 9,-
227 births and 6.167 deaths among the
white population, making the excess
of births 4.070. Among the negro pop
ulation there were 2* births and 60
deaths, making the excess of deaths
81. In Chicago there were 48,0*8 births
and 17,528 deaths In the white popula
tion, mak'nr an excess of births 15,585.
Among the colored population there
were >89 births and 97* deaths, making
the excess of deaths 190.
In St. Louis there were 12,940 births
and 10,120 deaths among the white
papulation, making the excess of births
2,440. Among the colored population
there were 694 births and 1,166 deaths,
making the excess of deaths 5(1. In
New Orleans there were 6.224 births
among the white population and 4.977
deaths, making the excess of births 247.
Among the colored population there
were 1.786 births and 8.810 deaths,
making the escass of deaths 1,676.
COMMENT OX REVELATIONS
IN COTTON ASSOCIATION
Mr. Jordan on Futures.
From The New York Journal of Com
merce.
There Is nothing strange In the fact
that Mr. Harvie Jordan, president of
the Southern Cotton Association, sup
ports with such vigor is he Is capable
o> the bill which has passed the lower
house of the Georgia legislature pro
hibiting contracts for the sale and fu
ture deliver}- of cotton, grain, provis
ions and other commodities, or of
stocks, bonds and other securities, or
what Is commonly known as “dealing
In futures." -Mr. Jordan has shown on
so many occasions hls limited knowl
edge and understanding of commercial
and economic principles, and such an
Incapacity for clear reasoning that any
vagary Is to be expected of him. The
only thlng'-that makes what he says
upon such a subject of the least con
sequence Is the position he holds as the
head of the Southern Cotton Associa
tion and editor of what assumes to be
the special organ of ihe cotton Industry
and trads of ths South, and the oppor
tunity this gives him to mislead the
minds of those whose understanding
may be no better than hls own. Wha;
Is to be regretted Is that the legislature
of nnV state should at this late day be
misled by the fallacious arguments
used against speculative dealings on
Hu- regular exchanges In commodities
or representatives or value for which
systematic distribution snd stability of
market price can be established and
maintained In no other way. Mr. Free
man. whose reply to Mr. Jordan's At'
lama article we published yesterday,
put the general case forcibly; but thi
matter need* to be pressed home espe'
daily to those the market for whoee
product would be constantly In confu
sion except for dealings In futures upon
the cotton exchanges.
Cotton Is a product with which the
advantage of. constant buying and sell
ing on contracts for future delivery Is
especially conspicuous and easy of
comprehension. It Is a commodity of
which about three-fourths of ths
world's supply Is produced In our
Southern states and two-thirds of our
product la sent to foreign markets. It
takes half the year to prepare the
crop for the harvest that begins about
September 1, and the natural tendency
would be for It to pile Into the market
In about three months after that date,
though the demand for It Is a continu
ous one throughout the year and year
after year. Efforts to adjust supply
and demand at a fair price for producer
and consumer is a difficult one at best
on account ot the uncertainty ot the
crop, owing to climatic and other con
ditions. But whatever may be the re
sult of such efforts, so far as a season's
output Is concerned, the value will be
determined by the relation of supply to
demand. The most Important thing Is
ao to distribute the marketing and de
livery of the product over the year as
to have that value represented for sell
ers and buyers by a price as nearly
uniform and stable as it can be made.
The effect of wide fluctuations will he
disastrous to selling producers end
buying consumers alike, and proflta'
ble only to middlemen and speculators
for Immediate taking and delivering,
which need not be simultaneous or In
close succession. When the product
comes Into the market under such con
ditions competition to sell will depress
the price and men with capital may
capture much of the supply to hold for
higher prices, and spinners cannot tell
what to calculate upon.
Ran With Hare and Held With Hounds
From The New Orleans Item.
The committee of five who have been
Investigating the charges made In the
Georgia legislature, to the effect that
Richard Cheatham, secretary of the
cotton association, has bean dealing
with bucket shops, report that the
chargee made against him are true. He
owned stock In what Is known as.a
bucket shop. He bought' and sold un
der assumed names, and he often
signed "secretary" after hls own name,
to give credence to the Idea that hls
operations were for ths association,
whereas they were exclusively for him
self. The committee, while admitting
that there Is no law against buying
and selling futures, condemn Secretary
Cheatham for using hla official position
to speculate In a bucket shop, a part of
the stock of which he was an owner.
That Cheatham knew that he was do
ing something Improper Is shown by
the fact that he opened accounts In
fictitious names.
This report will be forwarded to
President Jordan and acted upon by the
executive committee, which meets Sep
tember (, at Hot Springs. A singular
feature of this affair Is that the charges
against Cheatham, were made by hls
bucket shop associates, who discovered
that Cheatham was using hls Influence
before tbe legislature to secure the
age of anti-bucket shop measures,
in a man runs with the hare and
bolds with the hounds, he Is apt to he
caught. The wrong In this case was
that Cheatham made use of hls know!
edge of the condition of the cotton crop
to bull or bur the market at pleasure
for hls own profit. He did exactly
what he so vehemently denounced gov
ernment officials for doing.
8hou!d Probe Further.
From The New York Commercial.
The Investigation of the affairs of the
Southern Cotton Auoclatlon should not
tae stopped where It Is. There Is a
whole lot of things yet to be brought
out, and the probe should be sent to
the bottom. There was a great chance
of a great deal, after that famous New
Orleans muting, but unfortunately
there was a mtacue somewhere.
8hort on Past, But 8trong on Futures,
From The Americus Tlmes-Recorder.
Secretary Cheatham may not deal
largely In the past, but he Is certainly
there with the goods when It comes to
dealing with the futures
Living Down Hit Nama.
From The Rome Tribune.
"My Dear Dick" Cheatham was, per
haps, merely trying to live down hls
name.
Has Earned a Rsst
From Th# Americus Tlmes-Recorder.
The Hon. Harvie Jordan has gone to
New York upon a pleasure trip. The
mixing of that barrel of whitewash.
By Private Erased Wire.
New York, Aug. 9.—John D. Rocke
feller's fondness for oil has at last tri
umphed and he has given hls consent
to.have hls picture painted, wig and alL
Nerval H. Buuy is the artist who Is
to go into ths history of American art
as the only map who ever "done John
D. Rockefeler In oil."
It was a portrait of Samuel T. Todd,
the retired general solicitor of the
Blander Oil Company, done by Ur
Busay, which gave Mr. Rockefeller the
Idea of having hls wig palmed. After
seeing the portrait of Mr. Dodd, he call,
ed at the Busay studio and asked th*
artist how he thought a portrait of him
wearing a wig would look. The artist
with supreme frankness replied:
"It would be a great Improvement.
Your expression would not be so stolid
and hard."
•Well, suppose you begin right
away," said Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr.
Busay began. The famous portrait
will be ready for an admiring world
before long. *
The strenuous highway comlsslonert
of Oyster Bay have been foiled, for a
time at least, In their crusade against
the encroaching piers which they de
sired to clear away. An aged lady.
Mrs. Frederick R. Coudert, put a atop
to their work of demolition. When
Commissioner Hawkhurst led a gang
of men and began to tear down tbe
pier, Mrs. Coudert, who Is 72 years
old, ran out from th* house and order
ed them to stop. They paid no atten
tion to her and ripped a few planks
from the structure. Then the old lady
ran out on the pier and dared them to
pull It down and let her drown. She
waa Joined by Mrs. E. C. Whitney, a
friend, and the two women defied th*
commissioner.
Mrs. Coudert ordered her servants
to bring camp chairs and the women
made themselves comfortable. Com
missioner Hawkhurst called for them
to come down, hut like Casaablanca,
she refused to leave her post of duty.
Hawkhurst finally turned on his heel
In disgust and went away.
"No, I don’t fight women," said he
as he went. Then gathering hls men
together, he told them to follow. As
they turned the bend of the beach they
saw two women standing on the pier.
One was waring a handkerchief.
Hungarians In New York are prepar
ing today to select a committee to at
tend the unveiling at Budapest, on Sep
tember 16, next, of a monument to
George Washington. Ths movement
for the monument was started several
years ago by Hungarians in America.
GEORGIANS IN GOTHAM.
New York, Aug. 9.—Following are
among the visitors In New York today:
ATLANTA—Miss Dubois. W. M.
Richards, R. B. Bey, S. L. Leers, Mrs.
Rosenbaum, A. Wellhouse, R. O. Camp
bell.
AUGUSTA—D. L. Green, P. F. Mc
Carthy, J. J. Tarleton.
SAVANNAH—Mrs. Fltxgerald, W. P.
Powers, J. P. Lyons, H. Small.
MACON—J. H. Crandall, Jr, J. C.
Holmes.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
AUOU8T 9.
l«t—John Dryden, post, born. Died 170L
1*71—New York surrendered to th* Dutch.
1767—Fort William Henry surrendered to
Montcalm.
1809-Nonlmportstlon act proclaimed by
President Madison.
1819—Battle ot Stonlngton, Coon.
France proclaimed king of
1141—Steamer Erie burned on Lake Erie; 176
lives lost.
IMS—Mrs Churl** Matthews, actress, died.
1883—President Lincoln called (or 800,000 men
for nine month*.
2871—Celebration of tho Sir Walter Scott
at Edinburgh,
mnsplrators . ...
-j penal servitude for life.
ISM—Severe osrthqunke shock* In Califor
nia.
1894—The yacht Britannia best the Vigilant
at Cowes.
1889—Hurricane In West Indies; 8,000 drown-
1908—Pope Pin* X crowned.
1904—Ei-ttenatnr George O. Test, of Mis
souri, died. Bora Dorember 4, 1880,
Ths Association Must Act.
From the Charlotte Chronicle
Tho Georgia legislator certainly
made good hla charges of bucket shop
ping against Messrs. Cheatham and
Fairchild, two officials of the South
ern Cotton Aaoclatlon. Mr. Fair-
child lost no time In resigning. Mr.
Cheatham holds on under censure.
This may be well. The Chronicle Is
not one of the papers that calls for hi*
resignation, It Is perhaps beat for the
whole matter to go to the executive
committee and from that body to th*
association Itself. About the best thing
that could come to pass would be for
the association to take account of af
fairs, which It probably will do at Its
next annual meeting.
Wants ths Whole Truth.
From the Washington Gasette.
They are' smiting Harvie Jordan hip
and thigh on the bucket shop and
cotton future business. We hare a
very high regard for Mr. Jordan snd
hope he will come through without th#
smell of Are about hls garments, hut
nevertheless w# want to see th# whole
truth come out no matter who It may
hurt.
No Explanation*Will Satisfy.
From The Marietta Courier.
It seems that Mr. Cheatham, of th*
Southern Cotton Grower*’ Association,
has gotten himself Into a very embar-
raslng position. No explanation that
he can make will satisfy the public.
Jordan’s Poor 8oloctlop«-
From the Waycroes Herald.
The Southern Cotton Association
seems to have received a blsck eye,
Mr. Jordan does not seem to be Im
plicated, but he should have been more
careful In selecting hls associates.
Ths People Pay ths Penalty.
From the Etlavllle News.
It actually looks as If the Southern
Cotton Association had gone Into th*
gambling business. Away goes another
reform move In th# Interest of the dear
people, and money was the cause of it
all.