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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ' - CHN Tiunt CSAftS. CHI*' f. 1. smr, FresidcBt Published Every Afternoon. (Except SitpdAp By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY. At 26 West Alabama Bt. Atlanta. Ga. Subscription Rates. One Tear Fix Month* vtlww Months u/ Carrier. Per Week.. .14. ta 2.80 1.25 Smith L TbWpsou, advert 1*1 ng rep resentatives for all territory outside of Georgia. Chicago Office ....Tribune Rhlff. New York Office.. Potter Bldg. If yon hare any trouble getting THE GEORGIAN, telephone the Circulation Department and have It promptly rem edied. Telephones: Bell *77 Mala. , _ W words In length. It Is Imperative that they be elgucd. as an evidence of good faith, though the names will be withheld If K reqeeeted. Rejected nisnuscripis will t be returned unleee stampe ere east t the purpoee. THE GEORGIAN prints no nnclenn or obftcftiofigbLs advertising. Neither does It print wnlsky or nujr liquor ads. i for Atlanta's owning Ite own gas sun electric light plants, as It now owns Its water work*. neper cities do this and set gas as tow ns 60 cents, with n profit to the city. This should Ite done nt once. The Georgian be lieves that If street railways can be Apeniteri successfully by European tit lee, ns they are. there is no good ten son tvby they cannot no ao operated face In Hint direction NOW. The Art Exhibition. Atlanta Is to be congratulated ui>on ’the excellence of the art exhibition now being conducted under the aus pices of the. Atlanta Art Association; and the Art Association, In Its turn, Is to he congratulated upon having se cured the corporation of a man who Is so identified with the best Inter ests of American art at Is James B. Townsend, of Now York. The exhibi tion reaches the highest standard of excellence, and deserves- upon Its own merits the liberal patronage of the public. The Importance of advancing the art Interests of tmr city cannot be overestimated. Tho vital relation of beautiful pictures, drives, pnrkB, build ings and statuea to civic progress and social welfare la an established fltct, and scientific thought is dally accord ing these a more dominant Infiuenco upon tho moral Bnd economic condi tions of the state. So. whether our people are mep and womcirot culture; whether they see with discerning eyes; whether they listen with cars that catch tho fuller and finer mean ing; and above all, whether the; en rich human, life with the emotion that cornea from an Intelligent appre ciation of the beautiful, can never be matters of Indifference to us. The Atlanta Art Association Is striving toward ends which must broaden and elevate, not only tho standards of onr civic life, but t|ie standards of education and culture throughout our state. It la taken for granted that Its exhi bition will meet with the patronage of the colleges In Atlanta and through out the state, whose students will not meet another such opportunity outside of New York, nnd that people from all parts of Georgia will taka advantage of the reduced rates offered by the railroads during the exhibition. THE CHRISTIAN LEAGUE. Those thoughtful, earnest, practical Christians who make up the Atlanta Business Men's Gospel Union here assued a statement, appear ing elsewhere on this page, which should be read by every one In the South, Irrespective of rsce or creed. This statement'is 'the result of weeks of serious, prayerful study by such men as px-Governor W. J. Northen, D. I. Carson, E. 8. Gay, W. H. Patterson, Dr. J. D. Turner, Marion M. Jackson, John A. Brice, J. \ ’. Pat terson, W. D, Manley,'Dr. Marlon McH. Hull, John J. Eagan, U. C.* Calla way, Asa G. Candler. A. W. Parlinger, Frank M. fnman. H. C. Leonard and W. 8. William, r/f tho ways of meeting tfie rao problem. At the end, It was decided to form a Christian League, composed of whites and blacks. They hava decided that fidelity to the tenets of Christianity IS the only solution. In their appeal to the public, they quote tbe\words of an Atlarita minister as their working basis; “The Christian religion Is a working force, the function of which Is to fashion men after the likeness of the joving God in whose Im ago they'were created. If In this or that section of human population It falls to perform Its God-ordalned function, then the only legitimate Inference Is, Its power !b arrested or perverted by the hate of those' who refuse to be dominated by Its energy. While the Christian reli gion Is a universal .working power. Its sphere Is among, persons who can reject or pervert or misdirect- Its provisions, or come Into com plete harmony with them. “What Is on trial at this time in Georgia and.nt the 8011th Is not the Christian religion, but those of us who profess It. We are on trial before the onlooktng. world. We have been trying to solve the negro problem without calling to our aid |t|ie ppwer of the Christian religion.*' • - ' ’ And so the Business Men's Gospel Union calls to our aid the power of the Christian religion.’ • This step Is the most important ever made toward the solution of our problem, of problems., Although the movement is as yet amorphous, and merely a beginning, it is born of a prayerful determination, and it la bound to accomplish good. The conditions are delicate but the plan as reached will commend Itself to the thinking people of tho community and of the South. As Governor Northen says; , ‘‘We’ cannot afford to continue the conditions under which we now live, and we have not been able to find any better remedy than Christian sympathy and Christian co-operation on the part of good white iieople and good negroes for the adjustment of the relations of the races." The Georgian urges the extension of the Christian League to every city and community In Georgia and in the South. Tariff the Iuue? nominating over the recent general elections. The New York Evening Post draws the conclusion, which Is t; u > historical perspective It will fur- majority In the Sixtieth congress much lower." At the same time there Is coming, from a non-partisan source, a cam palgn of education. It la a historical series by Ida M. Tqrbell on the sub ject of the tariff. The first article ap pears In the American Magaslne for December. Without prejudice or pas sion she goes*“straight to the telling of a great stoty— ; a story which sho herself evidently sees looming.hjg- story which from the earnest Indica tions seems likely to prove far more Important than the History of Stand ard OU_ The iiew history begins whore "The Tariff In Our Times” began—at tho opening of the civil war. Here was our country, with a depleted treasury and an expensive war on hand, nn Income of $G4,000,000 a year, were spending yt,000,000 a day. As a country, we were getting beyond our depth—financially. So, In distress, our government met the sudden replrcments of an emer gency by departing from a low tariff policy, on which the minds of the peo ple were settled, nnd raising duties on Imported goods. But these high tariff laws were not all passed at . once; neither were they passed without com bat and cxcltemont. There were great congressional battles. In which legis lative generals were developed. There was Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of tho treasury—face to fnee with the awful necessity of raising money, und of raising It quickly. There was Lin coln—too absorbed In other things to give attention to the details of tariff legislation. There were John Sher man, Justlp, S. Morrill, Thadduus Stevens and William Pitt Fessenden —congressmen and senators who wore leaders In the various lights to get the bills through congress. There were men who took advan tage of their country's prcdlcument to further their own Interests by se curing higher and higher duties In or der that they might charge more and more for their goods. Several impor tant men are, In this first article, dis covered In unexpected and unfavorable lights. But there were men conspic uous for their devotion to the public good at the expense of their private Interests. Not the least Important thing about the serial, therefore. Is case was marked by the same ear nestness and zeal of hla confreres. The unfortunate omission of Mr. McClelland's name might be con strued by some as an Intentional slight, hence this statement. BRIEF NEWS NOTES held by many of the leaders of the Democratic party, that the tariff re mains the most salient point on which Democracy can successfully attack the Republican party. The Post says: "Three prominent standpatters were defeated, the liest-known be ing Met'leary, of Minnesota, whose plurality of 9.059 in 1904, was this year turned Into a plurality of 1,500 for his Democratic opponent after n campaign In which the tariff was almost the only subject discussed. Lacey, of Iowa, one of the readiest protectionist debate's In the house, and a staunch Shaw partisan- was beaten by about 2 - 200 votes in a district which gave him 9.373 plitrallfy in 1904. and even thin year was carried by Cummins for governor.* In luili-; ana. a plurality of 8,185 III 1984 for Frederick l-atutls, who Is known' as a high tariff orator, became a plurality of 1,000 for his opponent. Several Reimbltcan members of the ways and means committee bad a rough road to travel. Chair man Payne and John Dalzell had their 1904 pluralities more than cut In half, while Watson, of In diana, and Curtis, of Kansas, man aged to retain their seats by hare pluralities only. “On the other hand, two Demo cratic members—Champ Clark, of Missouri, and Granger, of Rhode Island—more than doubled their pluralities of two years ago. In Massachusetts. Samuel W. Mc Call, an avowed Republican revis ionist, carried Ills district by a greater vote than that given to Roosevelt In 1904, and ran over 3,000 ahead of Governor Guild. "Considering these figures, tt may safety bo said that a bold and energetic tariff revision cam paign throughout the country would have cut the Republican nlsh—the perspective that equips the everyday merican better to understand the men and movements of the present time. Preceded by a heavy fall of rain, 1.14 Inches, within threo hours, a snow gale with a velocity of 58 miles an hour swept over Chicago and Its suburbs, destroying much property yesterday A chimney of a building at 128 Clark street was sent rrnshtng through a sky light of a restaurant and several per sons were bruised. Charged with the murder of Mrs, Georgians Ullano, whose charred body was found In the woods, Theodore Ul lano, her husband, and John, their son, have been arrested at New Provi dence, N. J. A revolver and blunt In strument was found In the home. The woman owned property, while the hus band and son were spendthrifts. Clay Pierce, of St. Louis and New York, president of tile Waters- fleree Oil Company, has been Indicted by the grand Jury at Austin, Tex., for un alleged false affidavit, made to the secretary of state of Texas saying that the Standard Oil Company did not otvn or control stock In Waters-Plerce Com- puny. Fishermen at Coney Island are using electric lights nt the wnters' edge to nttract the fish. Many of them carry their own electric plugs, globes and wires and lit the plugs to the sockets ot lamps on the Dreamlund pier. The lights attract fish In large numbers. When Patrick Mullen, of Issabelt nvenne and Evergreen afreet, Bayonne, N. J., cut open the head of a dressed piK h*' f'ninil In It a large pearl. It was round Just back of the pig's snout. Mul len refused 8100 for the stone. Two special grand juries will be called In December by District Attorney Krlwln W. Sims to Investigate the bank wrecking methods of John B. Walsh, of Chicago, who Is said to have appro priated 13,000,000 from three banks to his own scheme. LIBERALLY TO FUND FOR NEW TEMPLE Dinner and Good Fellowship In Followed by Sub scription. A combinatiou of til? Atlanta spirit with tho Masonic spirit worked wonder* at nu enthusiastic meeting held Wednesday night* and made the new mammoth Masonic Tem ple a certainty. Of the $175,000 necessary for the construc tion of tbO temple,-nearly $96,009 wan sub scribed, which, together with that, pre viously subscribed, leave* a balance of only $40,000 to be raised. And that this amount will be forthcoming there ia lit tle doubt. Probably not ** many Mason* were ever gathered together iiefore In any meeting in Atlanta than Wednesday night. Between BOO and 700 were present inj the temple nt East Mitchell and Booth Forsyth streets, and there was absolutely no lack of ‘MAJORITY MUST RULE;” DR. LEN G. BROUGHTON MAKES STRONG REPLY Answers Dr. White’s Card on Election For Prohibition. tbustssra. Following a delirious repust, a business meeting was held In the assembly room, with J. K. Orr presiding, and not until that meeting whi called to order did most of those present know that money for the new temple was-to !»e raised. And the news enme ns an ngrecnbl prise. Judging from the alacrity with which the subscriptions were made. Chnlrmun Orr Introduced J. WUIe Pope and Juine* I,. Mnyson. who made stirring s|M*»*ehcN In behalf of the movement, ami these were followed by Captain James W. English, Harry Htackdell and John It. Wil kinson. who spoke In a similar strnln, nnd aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Not only did members of loflgea In At lanta respond liberally, but mem tiers from odges In the suburbs were equally as unx- loua to have tbelr names placed upon the I list. | l AtMIIPMIliPMHVIPIIPVIH from Atlanta nnd the surrounding tern Every scrl tiers being given Still- - .. not ay. but luvesteil, and flint President Bird 8. Coler. of the bor- •ugh of Brooklyn, yesterday appoint ed o’Donovan Rossa, the Irish patriot, ns a corporation Inspector at a salary of $4 a day. ago Mr. Rnssa was choseif by the county council of Cork, Ireland, as Its secretary and got a big send-off In Brooklyn before his de parture. He found the place unsatis factory and soon returned to this coun The crusade against the trusts has J try. much to the surprise of hts friends, to a considerable extent obfuscated' . .. , , , , . , . A rare phenomenon was witnessed the popular vision toward the means! by the people on the steamship El by which nearly nil the trusts have ] Nona, which has just arrived In New grown to Gargantuan size ami atrength ! .T'T'l,,fie n ‘-^“- Purln,t —a criminal tariff. Bishop John J. Tigcrt. In the death of Bishop John J. Ti ger t the Southern Methodist church j loses one of its ablest members. He was a man of splendid scholar-j heavy fog nt night the ship ran through •a phosphorescent sea. .which lighted up the ship so that Captain Htpner could read a newspaper on the bridge. It was as if the ship was sail ing through the milky way. Jennie Yeaimms, the actress. Is sup posed to he dying at the Hotel Gerrord, 123 West Forty-fourth street. New York, of consumption. The doctors say all of It would Tome Imek. Prominent Masons present at the meeting •ere highly dated nt the outennie, nnd (pressed the belief that the luilnnee of the money would he subscribed within a short lime, when plans will Is* made for starting work on the new structure. List of Subscriptions. The contributions were ns follows: Ike Hchoen. Piedmont lodge, $250; E. Oberdor* fer. Piedmont lodge, $100; .1. II. ■ Frost, ’nlcstlue lodge, $125; II. A. Baker, Pales* Ine lodge, $25; I,. L. Solomons. Fulton slge, $10; David Htrauss, Fulton lodge, $25; 1>. P. Wall. Piedmont lodge. $100: t.\ Pnrubnm, piedmont lodge. $50; Alex thon. Gate City bulge, $10; John Al- drick, Gate Pity bulge, $75; John I*. Sim mons, Gate Pity lodge, $.w»; II. P. Mal lory. Gate Pity lodge, $25; Dr. W. I,. Phaiuplou, Palestine bulge, $25rt; P. M. Payne, Gate Pity bulge, $25; E. M. Gibson, Gate Pity bulge, $50; Harry M. Htrauss, late Pity lodge. $100; II. \V. Dent. Gato Ity lodge, $125; W. E. Pampbell, Gat# Tty lodge. $500; G. V. Gross, Gate Pity lodge, $100; H. Buff. Gale City, lodge. $10; John G. Waltt. Gale Pltv lodge, $50; T. A. Alter. Gate Pity bulge. $75; P. C. Kiser. !80; Jack P. Brantley. $50; J. |. Hendricks, M. P. Sharp, Gate Pity lodge, $100; W. Chapman. Gate City lodge. $125; V. Wingfield, Gate City lodge, $100; W. . Fniu, Gate City lodge, $200; Edgar Latham. $100; Clarence May, Gate City lodge, $50: W. B. Stovall, Gate City lodge, $125: Lewis Starr, Gate City lotlge, $50; J. " BhHslworth, Gate City lodge. $o0: A. ... Carlson, Gate City lodge, $100; I’hllo Holcomb, Georgia lodge, $25; George Kelu- tox, Georgia lodge, $100: D. E. Ashy, Geor gia lodge, $50; M. Z. Crist, Georgia lodge, i 1100: John l„. Moon* & Sons. Gate City lodge. $250; J. D. Dunwoody, Georgia bulge. $60; W. A. Martin, Gate City lodge, $50; James E. Belcher, Gate City lodge, $50; A. U Cuesta. Atlanta Irtdge, $1,000; Iioke Smith. Georgia lodge, $1,000; W. B. Hamby. Atlanta lodge, $1,000; F. E. Purse. Solo mon lodge. Savannah. $1,000; John It. Wil kinson, $1,000; J. Will*' l’opt*, W. D. Ltteklc lodge, $1,000; |**e Barnes, Palestine lodge, $1,000; J. M. McEnchern. W. D. Luekle lodge, $1,000; W. I\ Dodson. Gate Pity lodge, $250; Josh II. Cniford. Atlanta lodge, : l.tfW; W. J. Davis, $500; P. It. Howard. 1500; Elmo Mnssengale. $500; R. E. Pierce, i t.OoO: P. L. Malone. $500; .1. L. Muysou, $500; Hugh McKee. $600; S. E. Smith. Gate Ity lodge. $500; B. A. Moore, $250; II. I.. older. $250; J. B. C. Wright. $250; M. E. Turner, $25o; Jisck Itldley, $£i0; Julius Brown. $5oo; C. Wright. $25o; J. B. Uoberts, 11500; II. M. Ashe, $250; George Ibiginnu, $250; Ilenry Miles, $500; Talley Graves, $250; Joe Ely, $250; J. N. Ragsdale, $250; If. L. Walker, $250; Thomas Evans. $250; L. J. Harris, $250; T. L. Malone. $250; F. Miles, $125; M. Lichtenstein. $125; E. C. Braun, It. N. Fltchett, $60;. A. D. Howard, $125; Henry Garrett, $125; J. S. Arnold, $125; A. P. Harrington, $125; 8. A. ami B. H. Don Ship and Indomitable real, a man whoj^\. a ‘ T U.f Turagluer Tnn.. eurnerl enough money to pay for his j YeBmans, me veteran player. The pair schooling by driving a wagon. Although he hail been n member of the college of bishops only a few j tencc th the Kentucky penitentiary for months, he had for years been one of complicity In the assassination of Hon- ! have been In vaudeville lately. Henry Youtsey, serving a life sen- the most distinguished figures In the church, and his place will caBtly filled. ator William tioebcl, during the lut- j ters contest for the governorship of not Ire ■ Kentucky In lSrttf, has asked Governor : J. C. Beckham for pardon Stephen S. Sullivan, a Western Union _ ... . i telegraph operator, in a hotel In Fall In Justice to Mr. McClelland. I Rtver, Shot himself in the hend early Thursday on the upper deck of the It has been called to the attention < steamship Puritan, of the Fall River of The Georgian that iu the editorial, nnd died before the boat reached “I-esauti of Joe Glenn and Two Law- j * *" ot ' yers,” which was published last week,] Miss Katherine Van Slyke, aged 22, the name of Mr. J. E. McClelland was 'lea.I Tluisdny by her father. « . , , . . , E. \\. \an Plyke, a , Binghampton, omitted tnroueh an ovorsleht. I v v architect and contractor. She omitted tnrough an oversight. Elsewhere In this issue appea had saturated the pillow with chioro- letter front Mr. Luther Z. Rosser. In; f,,rm burying her face In It. which he pays to Mr. McClelland the! tribute bts services deserved, Owing to the Ini reused strain on the Brooklyn bridge all conductors of trol- i ley ears that are being operated by lei. <18; T. Fleming, $IJ5; Ivnnlmc Phllt. 8125; W. T. t-oombs, 8125; T. \V. Baxter. 8125; — Mmiens, 8125; (ienrge II. Itc-k, 8125; Charles P. King, SICS: J. A. Kvnn*. Mich igan. 8125; W. II. Wllmerdlng. 8125; \V. Bal- lnnl. 1125; S. W. Foster. I12S: Z. fasti ry. 1125; .1. C. Znber, 1125; W. P, Howard, 8i25; J. A. ltossl«>r, 8125; F. Buchanan, 8125; J. W. Fielder, 8125; Wells, 8125: John Terrell, 8t25: S. W. Day. 8125; Tom Day 8125; S. G. Turner, 8123; T. I,. Irvin, the K. B. I.luihnugh, 8D»0; W. II. Terrell. 810> It. J. 1‘rltrhnrVI, 8H»: It. K. Willis. 8IO); .1, Adolphus, 8100; Ike l.lpstclu, 81on; U. F, Jester, 8100; X. A. Kaplan, 8M0; J. W Duncan, Bate City lodge, one share; S. J. Prltgeu, 81011; 'V‘. W. Traeey. 81’P; Torn Thompson, 8100; It. I.. Chrlsteuberry, 8125; W. B. Carnes. 8123; W. II. Kitchens, 8100; II. II. Smith. 8100; II. o. Turner. 8100; Ilenry Sehnul. 830!; Barry storkdeU. agent, 81.000; C. W, Seales, 825; D. E. l'rtee, Georgia lodge, 8t25; I*. F. Brinkley. 8123; F. A. Ilurgln. 830; Sam Wilkes, gits); W. II. Thomas. 850; f. W. Merawllilor. 8150; Milt Saul, 8100; Calhoun, 826; J. M. Woods, <5o; E. I 1 . Aserhns'k. 850: W. S. Yente 830; ti. i!. French, 830: N. s. Culpeper 825; S. Hoorsti n, 8100; J. A. Chapman, 85 W. .1. Stoddard, 8100; A. II. Machard. 8WO; W. C. Harper. 830; E. II. Webb, 823; W. B. Stevens. $50; s. B. Cochran, 825; Sam Znhan. gviu F. Cowherd. $25: T. J. Shep herd, IS; rle Ptnherg, $25. IN dustrTesorgai'uzed DURING THE PAST WEEK. Special to The Georgian. Columbus. On., Nov. 22.—The Geor gia and Alabama Industrial Index soya In Its regular weekly Issue: “Substantial evidence nt the Increas ing Industrial development of Georgia and Alabama and of the upbuilding of cities nnd towns of the two states Is given In advance reports to The Index for the past seven days. A 81,000,000 cement company—all of the stock taken—has been organized at Selma. Ala., and will build un $800,000 plant. A Birmingham company contemplates building a 81,300.000 power plant; a 10,000-splndle yarn mill will be built at Columbus, Ga.; a 8100,000 company has I wren organized at Birmingham. Ala., to deal in milt and mine supplies: at Thornasyllle, Ga., » tKijitaon timber land deal hga been consummated; Au gusta, Go.. Is. to have a $100,000 fer tilizer factory: a $50,000 coal mining company has been organized at Birm ingham. Ala., and another company has been organized at the same place to develop coal lands purchased at Dr. I-en G. Broughton, pastor of the Baptist tabernacle, evangelist and prin cipal worker for the prohibition cause In Atlanta, has Issued a card In answer to the communication of Dr. John F. White, pastor of the Second Baptist church, published In The Georgian of last Tuesday. The card was received by The Geor glan too late for complete publication on Wednesday. In It Dr. Broughton takes the position that Dr. White rep resents but a small minority of the Antl-Haloon League, and that his In formation regarding the proposed elec, tlon was not gained from a represen tative proportion of citizens. His card. In full, follows; Dr. Broughton’s Csrd. To the Editor of The Georgian: Inasmuch as you publish a state ment from my friend and brother, Dr. John E. White, setting forth hta rea sons for trying to prevent a prohibition election In Atlanta this spring, and In asmuch as his reasons are quite suffi cient to you and other prominent citi zens of our city, and yet not satisfac tory to many others equally as good. If not as prominent, I write this card to set forth, If I may, the reasons why some of the rest of us are pushing for the election In the spring as per peti tions now being circulated. To begin with. Dr. White Is a mem ber of the board of directors of the Anti-Saloon League, and the majority of his brother directors In the city are In favor of bringing on the election. The principal of democracy to which we all subscribe In this country Is for the majority to rule. It seems to me that It Is assuming a good deal to say that all the wisdom la rested In the minority In the case. Again, under the auspices of this Bame league, of which Dr. White Is a director, two mass meet, tags of citizens were held, and the whole thing gone over, and, finally. It was resolved to’hold nn election In the spring, and a committee was appointed to name an executive committee and otherwise arrange for the election. They were not appointed to test sent! ment. The mass meetings of 300 to 500 citizens had done that. They were appointed to namo the sxscutivs com mittee and arrange for the election. Dr. White was a party to this action, or else he was with the minority. “What Was Dons?” But what was done by this commit tee, or rather what was not done? They simply went out nnd saw a few leading men, ns they said, and “sounded" them, and finding that they were noi In fa vor of the election which had been ordered by the mass meeting, the com- mlttee did nothing. The league then called another meet ing—called It .on the quiet. No general announcement was made of It. They wanted to carry out the Instructions of the two great mass meetings, that was all. Dr. White then proceeded with his now famous Interview of 260 of the “leadIn?; men" from certain churches, with The result as published, and pub lished very thoroughly for reasons that nre obvious. One hundred nnd forty- five were opposed to the election. In the meantime another petition was cir culated among the voters, nnd out of about 30ft people 90 per cent of them said: “C’nll the election as soon as pos sible." There were twice as many In the other petition who said “as soon ns possible." And this number was got ten In less than half the time that* It took to get Dr. White’s list. Here, again. DiT White was In the minority, and yet he talks of “pugilistic, zeal, etc.," on the part of those who favor the call. We submit to Dr. White thut we are In favor of the principles of democracy In this anil all matters of public concern. We deny the right of any minority, however ‘'leading," re spectable and nice, to dictate the poli cy, much less the conscience, of the majority, and especially do we draw the line when It comes to efforts to make believe that we are hot-heads and pu gilistic for sticking to this American principle of majority rule. Was it Majority. Once again, take the much-talked about nineteen who carried the prop, osltlon. I want to aek Dr, White If again this famous nineteen was not a majority? The opposition would have the public believe that a great crowd left, and only nineteen remained, and carried It, whereas not over five had Jeft, and they, with one or two excep tions, were In favor of It, and said so. The fact Is every meeting has gone for the election In the spring by a great majority vote, and Dr. White knows It, and yet he persists In fighting with the minority, and trying to make be lieve that we are unsafe and unsound. I ask him to point out one time when the Anti-Saloon League has culled a meeting that the majority has not been In favor of the election to be held as early as the spring. And yet, now that the League does what It Is bound to do, listen to the majority, it Is abused and criticized as hot-heads and cranks. Take even his petitions: The peti tions the Anti-Saloon League obtained outnumber his two to one; that Is, for every one he found opposed, the League's petition found two In favor of It. These facts were before that meet ing last Friday. What was the league going to do other than what it did, unless It was to shut Its eyes to the majority, abd go* with the minority. Just because Dr. White said so? We are not noted for that kind of thing public matters in Atlanta. Let Dr. White answer these questions now be fore he goes further In attempting ti defeat the will of these who are push tag the fight. •‘People To Be Heard.” We say the people are to be heard and one man's wants Is worth as much as another's, and these petitions are going to be circulated and signed, and then we will see. I have been in thjs city nine years fighting just as hard as anybody else. I know the masses, and I know that never since I hat- been here has there been such a de termination to get rid of whlzky as notv. Last night 500 voters stood up In my church pledging to help put It out In the coming election. All tve want ' fair play. If Dr. White wants to go the face of his majorities and lend his strength to defeat the cause of prohi bition, he has a perfect right to do It, but we do feel like we are entitled to fair play, and this we are not getting. Even the newspapers, some of them, are so afraid to let us be heard that they refuse to publish even a card of explanations, still they can write ed itorials nnd urge us to listen to their counsel. Now let me say It real strong. We will listen to nobody, no time, nnd nowhere who Is so unfair as to refuse us the same chance that Is given the other side. This may well be under stood. We have been loyal citizens and spend our lives, some of us, for Atlanta's unfortunates. Our time and our money has gone that way. and now we resent the refusal of newspapers In Atlanta to let us be heard even In n card of explanation, nnd to point out our position. It Is unralr and unust, and yet tt Is the way the cause of pro hlbitton has always been treated. The petitions hre going. Let every mftft pray before he refuses to sign. LEN G, BROUGHTON- 1 GOSSIP Paul E. Wilkes. I*nul E. Wilkes, who hns l»eeu oily ed itor of The Mncon, News for the past three years, has resigned his position, and tomor row morning will Join the reportorlal stafT of The Atlanta Georgian in Atliintn. This nonouneoment will lie received with great regret Ity the hundreds of Mr. Wilkes' friends in Maeon. Since coming to the city he has made many friends nmuug the people In all walks of life, and every one of them will be sorry to know that he Is changing Uls residence. The News sincerely regrets to glv his services. He hns done splendh! work for the paper since his connection with It, nnd we predict for him u very brilliant future In the newspaper world. He hns t.11 the tnlents necessary to the success fill newspaper mail, and we feel sure that his ninny Mncon friends will have cuus4> to 1m» even prouder of him thsn ever. The Georgian gains a very vnlttnblc man to its stnflr. while The News loses c Mncon New*. BUSINESS MEN'S UNION FORMS CHRISTIAN LEAGUE TO SOL VE RA CE PROBLEM cost of $800,000; Wrightsville. Oa., to have a $40,000 cotton oil mlllf Dir Mr. McClelland was appointed, along j ^ Bn..,k,vn Hapl.i T^nGrcompanJ with Messrs. Luther 7.. Rosser and! have been Instructed, commencing Charles T. Hopkins, by the court to * Thursday night, not to permit their I Ga., chair factory and Ensley, Ala., defend Jou Glenu. His conduct in the “ the,an<5 Andalusia. Ala, each a machine Is . Birm ingham. Ala., 840,001) bottling plant; Athens. Ga.. broom factory; Covington. ■hop and foundry Dlunt." The executive committee and general officers of the Business Men's Gospel Union, In consultation nnd co-operation with the ministers of the city, have undertaken the readjustment of the re lations of the races at the South, through the formation of a Christian league, to which shall be eligible ap proved members of both races who will agree to promote, under the di rection of the Gospel Union, the high est type of citizenship, maintain all existing laws and promote peace and good will. The Christian League as such Bhall not be an organization, but its mem bers shall consist of those who wilt agree to hold themselves subject to the call of the Business Mens Gospel Union and who will ugree to co-operate with It In its work as outlined in Its constitution. With this Christian league effected, Its members, both white and colored, will constitute themselves a sort of Southern legion of honor, hoping to be more powerful In preserving patrl- tlsm and high morality than all laws or law officers elected to enforce them. When this proposition was present ed to a representative body of colored ministers and colored laymen, assem bled In the hall of the colored Y. M. C. A., It was accepted In full appreciation of the spirit In which It was offered und in good faith nnd with reciprocal good will. It was proper that the Initiative In Is movement, looking to the readjust ment of the relations of the races at the South, should be undertaken by the white people, uoz only because of their greater numbers and superior wealth and Intelligence, but for the reason that they constitute the ruling class and are. therefore, chlelly responsible for our present social. Industrial, moral and political conditions. The negro can not act without invitation from the white man without the risk of Incur ring criticism and censure and probable rebuff. Believing that the readjustment we « r “ !• a* found in the Drtn-1 clples and the preaching of the gospel, pfayer services will be held each Tues day evening itt 8 o’clock In the hnll of tho colored Y. M. <’. A., No. 182 Au burn avenue, to which the Christian people of both races are Invited. It has been further arranged that every minister In the city, both white and colored, shall preach a sermon the second .Sunday In December on obedi ence to law, upholding, In the presence of their respective congregations, the majesty of the law and pleading that criminals shall be punished to the ex tent of the law, and at the same time insisting that all punishment shall be administered under due process and by the authority of the law. A prominent minister In the city, speaking of our race trouble), has pub licly said: “The Christian religion Is a work ing force, the function of which Is to fashion men after the likeness of the loving God, In whose Image they were created. If in this or that section of human population It falls to perform Its God-ordained function, then the only legitimate Inference Is, its power Is arrested or perverted by the hate of those who refuse to be dominated by Its energy. While the Christian re ligion Is a universal working power, Its sphere Is among persons who can reject or pervert or misdirect Its pro visions, or come Into complete harmony with them. “What Is on trial at this time In Georgia and at the South Is not the Christian religion, but those of us who profess It. We are on trial before the onlooklng world. We have been trying to solve the negro problem without calling to our aid the power of the Christian religion." That our people may no longer be put to shame, we are now usklng the hearty and active co-operution of every Christian man In the community. Those who will Join us In thla move ment will please give their names to Mr. Marlon M. Jackson, secretary. No 215 Equitable building. We hope to see the purpose and Uie plan of our effort or something simi lar thereto put Into organized form for action in ever)- community In tfie state and at the South. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSI NESS MEN'S GOSPEL UNION. By CHOLLY KNICKERBOCKER., New York. .Vov. 22.-5John Gibbon, a young publisher of Philadelphia fen In love several years ago with sn„ Lellu M. Brown, a blue-eyed little an of Quaker ancestry. Her nmtiiei and father were residents of Franc, and. while she was there with thcni , French count paid court to her * The story goes that her parents fa vored the count. She lied from Frame returned to Philadelphia and was n « by Gibbons. They were married in ' hurnr and on August last they ei ,lie a for Havre. The bridegroom ami brId2 were the only cabin passengers aboir t the vessel. 1 Captain Jonlcs w-as delighted to have the couple on board, and summoned the twenty-four cabin stewards and told them to please look out for th, young Americans. The couple sampled ail the state rooms, Including the chamber de i„v e In which they spent moat of their time while the bride was not out oil deelr' caressing Marthe, her pet horse, which was shipped with the couple, or pi av . tag the piano for the captain and the ship's officers. A flurry of Interest stirred Lake- wood society when the announcement was made that Irving T. Bush, multi- millionaire head ot the Bush Terminal Company, of Brooklyn, member of ti le Union League, and other clubs, anti owner of one of tbe finest cottage, at Lakewood, had been sued for dlvone on statutory grounds. More than a year ago the Dttshe, separated, Mrs. Bush leaving Lakew ood with her two little girls, Beatrice and Eleanor, aged 10 and 6 year.,. Sint, then, It Is said, she has been living at Los Angeles. Lord Curzon, while stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, said he had received no intimation of hi, being considered for the post of ambassador to the United States. He said he had merely stopped for a day, and was about to go on to Chicago. Mias Catharine Rldgley, daughter of the controller of the currenoj-. and Mrs. William B. Rldgley, entertained a theater party of twenty-four In Wash ington, In honor of Mlaa Esther Denny the debutanto daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Frank L. Denny, and her gues; Mlsa OrndorIT, of Springfield. III. The guests Included Miss Katherine wn- Mams, of Chicago. Mrs. 'Theodore Slionts, wife of the chairman of the Panama canal com- mission, and the Misses Shnnts, sailed yesterday from Panama. They win g„ directly to Washington and open their new home. Mrs. Slionts will Introduce her two daughters, Miss Marguerite Shonts and Miss Theodosia Shorn,, to Washington society on December 13. London cable says that George Bernard Shaw’s new play, “The Doc tor’s Dilemma," which has just been produced, Is bound to arouse the med ical world und the pulpit. The plot la briefly this: A famous consulting physician can. If he will, save the life of a brilliant young decadent artist. The doctor knows the youth to bo bad to the core. He also knows that some day the ar tist's tutoring Wife will ■ find him nut. So, partly because the doctor want, to save the pain and ahume-ot dlwiiv- erlng that her husband Is.a. wretch and partly because the doctor himself loves her. ho transfer*.Die patient to a crlmlnnlly Incompetent but fashions, ble physician nnd lets hlin be murdered. The chief problem which the play offers for discussion Is: Wn, the doc tor right? The first act Is an amusing satire on doctors. ( An Atlantic City, N. J.. girl lui, evolved the Idea of avenging the treat) ment of Countess de Castellano by venting her spite on Count Bonl with un Illustrated post card, nnd hus start- ed a fad that promises to swamp the count with tokens of Amerlcun disap proval Starting with the one card on which Bonl la reminded that he Is now a ■dead one,” dealers along the board walk assert that hundreds of cards ary being purchased by smiling maid, ana mutrons to be mailed to the spendthrift nobleman. Beside the "dead one" card, which is the most popular, others call the atten tion of the count to his financial state with “You’re all right but youtr broke," "When father goes to work nnd other similar reminders. YOUR THANKSGIVING BREAKFAST SERIAL THE OLD FOLKS AT HOME. By W«x Jones. The air was bitter cold. No wonder; it had no clothes <*n. The snow was cold. The Ice was cold. , Everything was cold but the heart «i Hiram HlKln-'Ign. That bubbled "'* r with human kindness. Hiram wn* ex tracting maple syrup from a can *’i molasses and sulphuric acid. He hum med to himself the old sugaring Dig the maple tree a dig; Get the Jolly juice. Dig the mttple tree a dig; Leave alone the spruce. Maple Sugar! Maple Syrup! Yum, yum, yum! Maple Syrup! Maple Sugar! Away with chewing gum! As Hiram raised his axe, a *"*" blow on the back of the head atn him senseless! (To be continued.) uhctl GEORGIANS IN GOTII New York. Nov. j£.—Here ore ip vIkUoi'h in New York today: ATLANTA—c. It. Boyd. tt. I- eras Aliil’KTA—A. S. Iinnlair. Ml** 111 . Mulherin. Jr. MACON—C. It. Lewis. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. NOVEMBER 22. '41— IMot perfected for the coup ' I'.lir.ilifth of Russia. '4—ltolH»rt, Lord (’live, hero of I < eoiumittcd •ulciile. florti 1725. U54—‘Thouiiis I’yia I’ope, who e*tn!' first Hup of pni f*ojm\ who cstohjij .wtefcet* between i I Liverpool, died. H»»n 1567—Jefferson Itatis returned to ItHmi- Vo. 1871—StPiimliojit City of Loudon burned i Norwich, t'oou.; Berenices H' , *‘ '. 1892— International uiouetsry roufer**u»»* tn RniNsel*. . .,. 1W&-President Kruger Uu.icl at Mar»*M.« nail wn* given finthasfciHtie recei'HOH 1902-Frederick A. Krtij.p, great «er