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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SATFROAT. I)K(’KMISKR «. 1»V?. LETTERS FROM GEORGIAN READERS ON TIMELY TOPICS RESTRICTIVE LIQUOR LAWS. To th« Editor of The Georgian: It affords mo great pleasure to find [ myself In accord with The Georgian, and this pleasure I have nearly every evening. When I am compelled, there, fore, to disagree with you It Is all the more painful, albeit such disagreement Is very Infrequent. The proposed restrictions which I I' understand the council Is about to en* I act are a delusion and a,snare. The | ? effect on the minds of many people will be to lull them Into a sense of P security and make them refuse to’do I anything to dislodge thq Ifffuor trattle, • They argue, that the traffic Is under i* such wholesome control that It .need I not be disturbed.' That argument has ». been prevalent 4n Atlanta for fifteen >. years, and Iras staved off every effort to abollsb the traffic by local option, and has arrayed Atlanta and Fulton county Against, every effort that has been made to secure state prohibition. And, I tell you how, If the', Atlanta prohibitionists ajlow that argument to turn them aside from their demand for county prohibition this time, and thhse reafrtctlye 'measures are made ordinances of the city, the'liquor men will hold the city for twenty years to come, unless state prohibition should . drive It out before the twenty years have passed. pitt the proposed legislation Is a de lusion for the reason that no promise mads by the ’present council to re- strial the number of barrooms will bind any future council. The present body dies with this .year; the new council can repeal that ordinance within for ty days. If they go to the legislature and have the charier amended and put It In the charter. It will bind nobody. The next legislature can strike It out of the charter.' • The proposed regu lation has nothing' In It, except that It Is hoped by It to stand off the .pend ing local option election. The proposed restrictions are bad anyway. If the city thinks that It Is bound to provide a well-policed system, by which Its'peoplemay buy Intoxicat ing drinks. It ought to so gauge that system as to make its burdens fall as lightly as possible on the wives and children of poor' meh.' The liquor Is . too high for them new. Pure liquor costs so much that cheuper stuff hss to 1 be supplied and, we are told, of all sorts of mixtures and decoctions that are banded out as strong drink. If tho . *2,01)0 license Is required., tho price of drink* will go up and the quality of liquor will go doWn. And yet the lemptatlop to drift* will bo hanging out .across the sidewalk In front of every saloon: In town. And men who now , spend erfMJitrd of their earnings In TRADE EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH By M. P. HIGGINS, Worcester, Mass. IMIHIMIHMMI iteaaaaaaiaaaaaaaai >e#*e#**»•*••••••#•»#t*ee*e**#eeeeeeeeeeeet IXHWIHtHMMMWHMIHMMMHMMtMMI The object of this article is to set forth a most Important consideration In connection with the educational ad vancement that Is going forward In Georgia and. throughout the South, After considerable personal Investiga tion the writer Is Impressed with the absolute need of special Industrial edit- cation for a grade of young men who ore not able, or who do not cage to go to ooU-ue or a t-ebnjca! school. I have been much Impressed with tlto earnest-charaefer and.mechanical abil ity of the foung people.M Oeorgla, and am confirmed In art-opinion formed sev eral years ago. when, as one of the faculty, of the Georgia School at Tech nology, the opportunity wa* open to me to Judge of the Southern boy-lii regard to. nls natural ability and Inclination for mechanical skill and productive In dustry. There can be nothing more promising for these young people and for the South than a school suitable for boys |o learn mechanical trades. There le no iofiger a question as to whether or hot such boys should have an educa tion, but It Is a vital question os to what kind of educatlon.lt shall be. There are two phases of Industrial education which, should be empha sized. First,' the pructlcul utility of in education of skill In mschanlcal work In preparing for tlm first duty In life, vis., self-support; and, second, a newer phase, via, mechanical work os the drink Will: find thqmsclvcs obliged to ttgdstplrds to satisfy their erav spend Inga. Much exorbitant taxation Is op. preaslve.i '■ . Besides that, the evil of the traffic will still ;be on be unabnted. Young men wlth'the drink appetite and small salaries will And In the higher price for drinks a new temptation to. dis honesty. Anil withal tho quantity of liquor sold will not be greatly lessened. The necessity for strong pollco force and the constant menace of riot and bloodshed will be here Just ns they are now. . Resides that, the temptation to run blind tigers Is always greatest In places of high license, unless the license Is so high ns fo be prohibitive. If there were np license to be paid tor nt all there uvtqld bo no blind tigers, nt course. test mean* of Individual culture and discipline. , Wffcn I speak of manual'work ns a line of education I mean much mors than Is carried in the term manual training, Sloyd. nature study, etc., etc., all of which are gdod: but none of them strike deep enough Into the life of the boy to convoy the best Idea of manual work ag a Channel of self-sup port. educntlpn and culture. Ip the first place, I believe mechani cal work may profitably occupy, not merely n fragment of the school lime, hut fully one-half of the school hours of the pupil every week; and that the work element muy be made so scientif ic, exalted and Interesting that all ob jections that momentarily arise from the thought of drudgery, fatigue, etc., will vanish entirely. In consideration, first, of ths question of utility ns an Immediate means of self-support while In school, and at financial success after leaving school, let us think of a real, practical Indus trial school, located, say at Atlanta, or anywhere else In the South. The first requirement for such school Is earnest boys with desire and natural capacity for mechanical Indus- trial training. After yearn of observa tion and experience with tha young men of Georgia, I believe, as a class, they are particularly adapted to Indus trial Uvea, requiring skill, devotion and Comprehension of mechanical princi ples. This Is especially true of the Oeorgla country boys. It was always a surprise to And so much Inventive In terest and mechanical skill among a people whOfhave had but little to de velop mechanical ability. The next requirement for auch n school Is ths material and home-field for the mechanical Industries to he taught In the school. Let us see what Georgia offer* In this respect. When the following statements are made In regard to the possibilities, tha conclu sions are based largely upon an expe rience of twenty-eight years, of teach ing young man and boys to do mechan ical work, and directing auch work at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where the product of the school shops was profitably sold In the open market for the self-support of the school, and where boys had the best possible ad vantages for learning, not only the me chanical trades, but the scientific prin ciples underlying all trades. The stu dents worked with employed mechanics of the highest skill and intelligence, who acted as teachers, both by exam ple and precept. In these shops a large variety of high-grade machinery was produced and sold In the market upon ts merit. I think that the location for tha successful operation of such school shops In Oeorgla Is belter In many re spects than in Massachusetts, and the opportunities to develop local Indus tries are very superior. To Illustrate briefly what Is meant by opportunities to develop local industries where boys could be taught profitable mechanical skill: Let us not look above common things. For Instance, Inks Georgia clny ns a material. It Is abundant and excellent. Well-made, su- pcrlnr bricks are always In demand, ns staple In tho innrket aa almost any product, almost ns good property as metal or money. This preduct requires knowledge, skill, labor, fuel and clnv. In the South we should have knowledge and skill In os great abundance as ta bor and raw materials. From the same material why not make roof tiling? There Is no better roof, there Is no other roof so pleasing and artistic. It haa stood the test of centuries. Thsre Is no limit to the demand If the tllea are of superior quality And produced at low cost Stone and brick walls, well laid, are most valuable and desirable In any community. They are essential In good building, but It requires knowledge and skill such as can be taught In a special trade school to produce tham. The value of ttye trade school many communities consists largely of tho Items of labor and skill. Unskilled labor, Georgia already haa In abun dance. The necessary skill will come from schooling of the right kind, be. cause her sons and daughters are nat urally skilful and would take the train ing readily. In Georgia there are thousands of acres of timber lands to be had for a few dollars per acre. These lands are covered with the best kinds of timber and woods, suitable for useful articles, suitable for all the furniture and farm Implements that can be made of wood that Is strong and beautiful. These hard woods would bo obtained so near the school shops that large freight hills would not be incurred. This timber It most suitable for chairs, tables, chests, rurm Implements, suctu** wheel-bar- rows, plow handles, shovel handles, wngons and carts, wheels many of which are needed In the neighborhood, and others are readly marketed. Every home In the vicinity could be furnished with useful things made In the school shops. School furniture, Including modern desks and seats, should be a most Important product of the South. At present Iron very near at hand le shipped to some distant city In the North or West, where lumber Is scarce and high-priced and where tabor coat* double what one would have to pay for the same In Georgia. And the South seems content to buy back these school desks at a high cost plus a large pram. Southern boys In school shops and foundries could, while attending school, learn a trade and make all the school furniture for the entire South. A school foundry Is not an untried experiment. It Is simple to organise and to operate, and no field Is more promising, not only to the pupils who learn the trade, but also It I* promising and safe for the school shop's financial success If properly undertaken. Fur thermore, the foundry business most promising Industry for any Southern community that will develop It wisely. These are but a few of the things that should be taught to boys who have natural mechanical ability. Such boys are justly entitled to such train ing, and the state needs young men with Just Nuch mechanical skill. The question of Industrial education and mechanical skill for girls Is just as Important ns It ts for boys. Domes tic skill and science open a field wide and attractive. Industrial *ch-„.i« n.i trade schools for girls cannot hn dls- cused here, beenuse I wish to touch upon an clement of great vital impor tance In tho consideration of the suc cessful Introduction of Industrial edu cation. I mean the clement of so-called culture. This consideration In the fam ily North or South will never be left out when tho schooling of a child Is to be determined. Industrial training nnd scientific manual work as a means of Imparting culture to a pupil has not yet had full or fair consideration by educa tors. It Is rather a new claim In the sense I now wish to present It I am sure that much already has been Just ly claimed for manual training, so- called, and It Is not dlfflcut to see that the moral and mental character of cer tain pupils Is greatly Improved by this training. But th* newer and broader view la this; The study of the sciences and me chanical Industry Is as llksly to de velop character and culture In the pu- f >ll aa Is tho study of languago and Itsrature, and n life devoted to pro ductive Industry Is In Juelf better suit ed to produce a character balanced with culture,, efficiency and refinement than any other life, provided other things and other conditions of life are equal ly favorable. In order to come Into a correct view of just why this claim Is made, one must remember that although universi ty men are generally, and have always been, the cultured men of a community. It Is not by any means because they are university men or In consequence of tho kind of work they do. They usu ally come from homes.of refinement, and all they gain In this respect In college is not so much what they learn from the unlveralty studies aa from their contact with superior teachers and-their association with classmates of equal or superior culture. ‘‘Because we find two things together, It does not follow that one is the cause of the other." It is of great slgnflcance to recognise that no power In man is pr can be greater or more exalting than the cre ative faculty, and that from the nature of things there Is no'employment In life so calculated to develop the creative power ns designing and making useful things. This work, of creating is the daily occupation of the Inventor and designer of machinery. He constantly evolves new combinations of motion and force, new application of methods and means so that with th* mechanic and en gineer the workman himself Is wrought Into hts work, and his heart goes with the love of his work. There Is no peo ple or land where the possibilities of adding culture to skill, and enjoyment to affluent self-support, are greater than among the young men of the new South. / Before Industrial education In any community can have a full opportunity for success, the parents must come to realise that culture and character, are Just as sure. through these lines as through any other course of training. Tho time Is coming when It will be recognized that the apprentice to a me chanical trade, With ail the advantages of the education that In the future must be a part of his training, will "stand in the first Tanks of cultured men. He cannot fail to gain great advantages over all the scholars who are compelled to depend solely on the college carricu- lum*for mental training. It may bo a long time before the mechanic and the artisan will In all respects stand at the front a* representatives of refined cul ture, but, other, things being equal, his chances are superior simply from the exalted nature of his work. Thera are ho people on earth .who have a more genuine appreciation of true cuUure than the native South- ernere, and the parent who sends his son or. daughter to college feels that the course that will Impart the truest culture Is the one to tako. So ir is not so very strange that we find Greek, Latin and all that makes a crowded literary course most popular. But this Is also most pathetic when It Is sotrue that all they naturally yearn for In the unknown and vague realms of refine ment may ns surely be attained In the studies and discipline of an Industrial school property organised and taught. ATLANTA MORALS AND PROPOSED CAMPAIGN As the cost of license Increases the number of blind tigers Increases. A saloon man who pays *2.000 for the privilege of selling liquor In n given place can easily inulntaln half a dozen or more other pieces where his agents can dispense drinks on the sly. He can thus greatly Increase his sates with out Increasing his contribution to the city treasury. If men arc found drunk who obtained their liquor from these blind tigers It Is alwuys easy to sup pose that they got It In a licensed saloon. And that supposition protects the blind tiger from suspicion. Ill B ares where prohibition prevails the tnd tigers have no such protection. When people are found getting drunk ■ 'everybody Is put on the trail of tho tiger at once. But. my dear Mr. Editor, why should the city feel Itself compelled to provide strong drink for Its people? Is It good for the people? Is It right to put thy I rattle to thy neighbor's lips ami tnako ; him drink also? Is It right, by high license, to extort money from iho peo ple lit the cost of the bread and cloth- '. Ing and shelter and life Itself of the I persecuted and oppressed wives nnd suffering children, that the city may have money to build Itself up? "Woe unto him that bulldeth a town will blood and establlshelh a city by ill Iqulty. They labor In vain that build It." The drink traffic Is wrong per so, or It Is right per se. Which Is It? If It Is right, then It should be free. The only ground upon which restrict ive legislation ran lie rightfully applied to tho drink traffic is that It ts an evil business.' If it be on evil business, the restrictive legislation does not make It * good business. No amount of li cense tax, much or little, can purify It. "It Is evil and only evil and that rontlnually." And when good men ore persuaded to let It alone, because of the money It pays and the restraints that It endures, those good men making a compromise with sin and are betraying the l-ord that bought them. The agitation of the liquor question in Atlanta has aroused the state. The prosecution of the light In Atlanta to a good finish will go far toward mak ing a state law available. But if tho Atlanta prohibitionists waver nnd glvo way, In the next legislature Fill ton county will be arrayed with quadra- led power against a state law. and pled Full _ jlton county will largely shape the legislation and the prospect for state £ rohlbltlon will lie extremely remote. et Atlanta prohibitionists stand llrm. Cali the election, make the light, carry the county If they can. and If they get defeated carry the light Into the legis lature and help to drive the traffic from the whole state. Don't ask the iirohlbitlonlsts to relax their efforts. Don't talk about the enmities and hard feelings that a prohibition fight might engsnder. If you attend the police court for one single week you will witness more hard feelings, enmity and deadly, destructive strife, produced In seven days by the sale of liquor, than will be engendered In tbe whole city In the next four months by the pro posed liquor election. There Is no more of such strife In a liquor fight than there Is In any other election. Nobody thinks of calling off an election that has for lu purpose simply the changing of municipal officers, because In such election friends are estranged and feel. Ings are hurt. It looks to me like hy pocrisy to contend that we should tol erate existing evils to avoid the strife of an election to mitigate or remove them. J. L. D. 1IILLYEB. P. S.—If Atlenta prohibitionists lose In the pending contest. It will be be cause the negro vote will go for liquor. If that happens, il will make great strides toward finishing the coffin that is now well under way In which negro suffrage will be burled.—J. L. I). IL To the Editor of The Georgian: Have Atlanta morals kept pace with the Atlanta spirit? An humble Atlanta exile, nnd ono who is optimistic, Would rejoice to thjpk so. Only a short distance removed from the dust and din of her dally life, It Is barely possible that one might see with dearer vision anil hear with keener ability to distinguish sounds than when Immersed In Hie midst of btr rtoiAltk h/tlVltles. Profit tnor point nf view of forty miles distance your humble writer has been observing our proud capital city with the eyes and ears of a jealous lover, os a son regarding Ms mother city. Neither Is It nlono through his own eyes nnd ears that ho catches tha drift of the metropolis, but every wind wafts echoes of It; every outgoing train, every villager returning brings tidings of iter. Perhaps Rome never stamped her Impression more Indelibly upon the empire than Atlanta bus done upon Iter surrounding towns, vlllnges and hamlets. As goes Atlanta, »» g>ies Geor gin. Has an outrider naught to do with Atlanta? She Is our capital city, pattern metropolis. What do these myriad voices «ay of her? First. In the realm of human kind ness. there seems to be n gradual clos ing of the lacteal ducts. This harden ing is noticeable more thnn ever In Iho Inhumane treatment of .domestic animals. Where could there be n more terri ble purgatory for dumb brutes than be tween tho shafts of delivery, milk nnd Ice wngons, hacks nnd drays tn At lanta? In the suburbs, where the roads are heavy, distances great and time press ing, delivery horses suffer nil tho tor ments of the damned. Is It mere sentimentalism? By no means. It becomes a great welling up conviction to an eye witness that some thing ought to be done. "A righteous man regardoth the life of his beast." The llagellntlons administered -to half-sound and over-worked stock Is heart sickening. Where Is the humane society? It ought to hove representatives In the suburbs. Sueh cruelty Is Innate and would manlft si Itself toward any object where the fear of the "hangman's whip" did not "hold tho wretch In order.” It shows Its cloven hoof In greater ferocity than marks the cannibal, and Is a menace to life and honor of the people. Second. In the real of Ideals there Is a sad falling down. Obscenity was never more open in Atlanta than It was last week. Waiting for a car on Peachtree street the writer was beguiled Into nn ex hibition of slot machines. Il seemed nl- most Impossible tc realize that this was Atlanta and within a block of the latr mud-cap riot. Nero's dancing hull was no more Indecent. This place wai full of school chil dren of both sexes. It Is needless to say that auch places, made attractive with music and sanc tioned by respectable patronage arc more dangerous foes to purity than haunts of shame. If parents would follow their children with their |ien- nles they would shudder with a great horror. This accustoms the eye of the young to vice; It Is Insidious; It Is debasing. Where are the police authorities? Third, in the godless domain of the liquor power what do we see? The whisky, buslnsss, octopus like. Is reaching out as never before for the "Jug trade." It was never more ag gressive. Its naming bills are seen In every town and Its circulars are sent In every mall into our defonselese dry countios, rattening I he liquor dealer and swelling tbe revenues of Atlanta with the blood of our boye. -Woe to him that bulldeth a city with blood!" It Is an old story, but never pi°re ickrnlng than now. Talk of remedies! If we could see he Iniquitous traffic anept out of At* free.' And the moments swift were ■tendered msil with doubt snd fear. And jabbering volcea at my ear— The Jeers of demon! borering near— I liesanaht tbla modest rose Her hitmen seeret to dlaeloae; nut her silence woa unbroken my fare bad all tbe teaming Innta we would have a nearly dry state. Atlanta Is the distributing center for scores of already dry counties. Have we no Interest, then, In the At lanta campaign V Where Is our chivalry, our valor, our Christian manhood? These evils grow dally, and unavoid ably affect every part of the city’s varied life. One can almost Imagine there Is a lowering of tone In the best circles;’ more beys on tho streets; more "knowing" children; more open exhibitions of Indecency patronised by ■he respectable. Tho newspaper.: are being swayed by material Interest; liner sentiments sac rificed at the shrlno of mammon; the churches presenting a pathetic specta cle, like Lot In Sodom, vexing their righteous souls from day to day, but helpless and unable to meet the needs of the hour, awed If not Intimidated by fear of hopeless fullure! In a state of siege—afraid to go out or come In before the enemy! During the period of decadenco In —- —, the English church prior to the Amerl- Though nxuora * can revolution, a favorite maxim of the Vbloi that nwinl™ onl clergy was "non quleln movero. Do | A youth once besrd not disturb the things which arc quiet. t’apltuluto before the enemy before the battle. What a motto and how dlsas- Irous! Under It tho church was ul ready dying. Much less Is It n sultnhl* motto for a church In nn aggressive age, when the enemy never sleeps. The enemy may bo trembling now for fear tho lion will nrtiuze himself. Is It not high. time to awake our sleep, and, putting up one fervent, united prayer to God, open the battle somewhere along the line, trust In Him ami keep our powder dry? You can get all kinds of help to light rhe campaign. We certainly are a largo host w ho believe In tho righteous ness of the crus? against so great and common nn enemy. REV. EUGENE U. PENDLETON. Coving ton, Ua. A 8ILENT TOKEN. Eniliofsed with Benrcs arahssqne Was tbsl qnslnt old rate upon my desk. Out of which, with modest grsce, A rose onre looked Into my face As If 'twere eager to Impart koine secret hid wlthlu Its bssrt; And— Wondering If those tender llpe Tlist toifcbed this rose’s petal-tips Would e'ermore grant me tbe btfse of another lingering kiss— I felt iny eoul within me burning Aud my being thrill with yearning While my heart grew olck with palu nrlous ivnyg of scl To gain loro's bidden token. And atilt— ..... Unheeding nil my dreaming and my nrbem- And tb* fervor of my patalon far exceed- That of all prnyera proved before— Not one word would Miss Hose utter Ho I could not help lint mutter: '•Ob, thou queen, I so sdore. DRAWBACKS TO IMMIGRATION. To I be Editor of The Ueorglau. I notice n profound pull Is living made these days to Induce Immigrants tn locate here. Now, to tny mind, there ore two serious drawliacks to the success of the plan. The first Is the eternal pruseentlons and ngltatlo ... _.er the iMMinage matter. Tbla la fostered aud mode more Halite to coutlune to lie 11 trouble In Georgia by reason of one of the most drastic labor lawa that ever lilottcil the statute Ixmlis of any state. In. fact. It Is purely and .. . —.Jcalltlee that will lieat around the stltutlon of the United States and declare the law valid. It Is a law that, followed to Its legitimate i-onclnstuu. will oooner or later amount to serfdom of *11 lalnir. While or colored, who happen to tlm mis fortune of not tM'Ing able to Iny by a little to guard against It. This law and Its abuses I* th*' curat* of some sections. It will frighten, snri abonhl frighten. * laboring man who Mill considers long before placing bU liberty In Ita reach. Much could Ik* «ttli| nhout It, but It U known too well to need nn argument. Ita iioaiilbllltles are denouncers; study them well. Nest. In the rural eomiuunltle* where there arc often live negroes to one white person, there mnr *«e nn Inducement for the family raised to It having their nil at stake In the farm, mid having no means to engage In other business. Fo remains bat with the negro menace, with the fear of the alwaya-pres- ent danger, with the competition of the heap (even If Inferior! negro kitmrer work mau. brl«'k mason, saw mill band. etc,, tlwre Is not the Inducement for the Immi grant that other sections nfford. No society of his clasa is offered, many times no schools near enough for poor chtldreu to reatb. often no ticlghhors near enough for the protection of Ida women when he iota to town — • —»•*» M »* business, who would This Is made two- w . one who does not kuow conditions by reason of the fact of riots. Idg headlines In the apers and ' pppWP——P——JwijP—— tinned agitation, fclnco white folks heal tate to euter a black twit. what Is to In done to remedy conditions ami make t hatifo for the letter. Frankly, the mat Ajro While j Hindering o'er Koine forgotten lore On that uuforgcttnlde. Yet e’er regrettable. PA TRICK HENRY’S FIRST CASE; WON OVER THE EVIDENCE That word ao oft repented by a raven. Yet never oner eitfrented by u craveu— That awelnsplrlug. tantalising, agonizing Word—‘Noveriuore. ” Then— With all my nrdor apent, And alck with discontent— Methlnks some frail, white baud. From out some star kissed fairyland. Must have touched that quaint old vase, For the rose fell gently ou my face; Aud Ita tender petal-tips. Pressed In tnsdness ’gainst my lips. Thrilled mr *oul with ecstney Ere they /ell crushed upon the flcftr: And she whq sent this rose to me On that balmy night of yore . now hare THANKS FROM THE COTTON GROWERS’ ASS’N. unco ou our numial conference at Mllledge- vllle, ami anal. In looking through my Mss. tint | him- overlooked thanking you for iur splpnilbl artlcln relative to the Cotton Growers' Association. I Join with.you In tha- hope that at the uieettug In January auch policies will be made na will pnt i*w lire Into the organization. With kindest regards nnd beat wlshee, am Kluccrely yoltr friend, Sparta, On. JOHN D. WALKER. A Real Pog. From The Detroit Newa. They were seated on the cracker bar rels and snap boxes In the vlllace gro cery In Oakland county town swapping yarns. •i saw a fog on the Pacific eoaat," said one. "which woa so thick that you couldn't sec a lantern ilx Inches away!” "Pshaw!” said a native. "HI Jinks, tho carpenter, tells of goln' out to shin gle a house one foggy mornln' right In this town, an' shinglin’ four feet out on the bosom of the fog before he no ticed his mistake. Made Hi terrible angry to waate an hour rlppln’ off all them ahlnglea!” To the Editor of The Georgian In thr"Nooka and Corners of Ameri can History," In The Georgian of last Wednesday, It Is stated that. In ITU, Patrick Henry "had Just passed his ex amination and been admitted to the bar," and "had not yet had a case” when he was retained as counsel for the defendants In the celebrated "Par- sons* Tobacco Case.” This Is an error. At that time Pat rick Henry had been In the nctlve practice of the -law for nearly four years; and his fee book (still preserv ed) shows that he had appeared In 1,1*5 cases, besides having prepared mnny legal papers out of court. It Is truo that, single handed and alone, he won for the defense In tho "Parsons' Case,” but It Is known to every Intelligent lawyer that he won It against the evidence and over the plain provisions of the law. His tri umph Is usually attributed to his mar velous powers of eloquence, and un doubtedly that had much to do with It, but there was something behind It all which Is not generally considered. It was the hostile character of the Jury toward the claims of the plaintiff. In other words, Mr. Henry had popu lar sentiment behind him. Let me briefly explain: From the earliest period of the Vir ginia colony, the church of England was established by law; and, like ev ery other Institution of government, It was supported by revenues derived from taxation. Tha local subdivisions were called perishes, and the local of ficers who managed tho business were called vestrymen. Among the functions conferred upon these vestrymen by law was the hir ing of the rector and fixing and paying his salary. Ever since the early days of the colony, the amount of salary had been stated, not In money, but In to bacco, which was the staple of tha colony. In 1745 the colonial legislature passed an act directing that every parish clergyman should receive an annual salary of 1,500 pounds of tobacco, to be levied, assessed and paid by the Yea- try, This act waa duly approved by tne crown, and thua became a law which could not be repealed, suspended or altered without the approval of the king. Thus was established a valid contract for tho annual payment of 1,500 pounds of tobacco, which, at the average market price gave the parish rector a salary of £400 sterling—then about *2.000 In our present currency. In 1755, when the tobacco crop was short, and the price high In conse quence, the colonial legislature passed an act virtually suspending the law of 1745 for ten months, and requiring the clergy, at the option of the vestries, to receive their salaries for that year, not In tobacco, but In the depreciated paper currency of the colony at the rate .of 2 pence per pound of the to bacco due them. This act had never received the royal approval, and for that .reason It was unconstitutional nnd void. But, being shrewdly limited to ten months, It accomplished Its ob ject, since the time was too short for the royal Intervention against It to be of any direct avail. The clergy bore their losses, not without murmutlngs, but without any formal protest. Three years later, In 1755, the legla- , passed at lature, with even less excuse, act similar to that of 1755, Ita force being limited to twelve months. Like the other. It never received approval of the crown, and like the other, was, of course, Invalid; but, like the other. It served Its purpose. By this act ths clergy were forced to accept the I pence per pound In depreciated paper money of the colony, then worthless abroad, and with little purchasing power even at home, while the tobacco which was due them was an Instant and advantageous medium of exchange everywhere, and aspeclally In England. The clergy having been denied a hearing before the legislature, appealed to the government, but without avail. They next appealed to the crown. After a full hearing, the privy council do- dded that the clergy had "their certain remedy at law," since “no court of Judicature could look upon the late net (of 1768) except aa one of mnnlfeit Injustice." So their enses were car ried before the law courts of the col ony. The first case to come up was that of Rev. Alexander IVhlte, but the court. Instead of either sustaining or rejecting tne disallowed act, shirked responsibility by refusing "to meddle In the matter," and Insisted upon THE SHIP 8UB8IDY FACT8. To the Editor of The Georgian- In reading the article In an Allan., evening paper of December 1, entitle! “SIllD SuIihIiIv nn Knnrmmt. o.. .. ; • ** *5*xi iiiaiwii gaiiu iiibisicu uj*J. leaving "the whole affair to the Jury! And the Jurfc thus freed from all ju dlclal control, rendered a verdict of "neat and comprehensive lawlessness" In favor of the defendants. (See Per ry History qf the Colonies, 1, 4*7.) This was the stage of affairs when the celebrated case of Parson Maury come up In Hanover county. The court having before it the evidence of the royal disallowance of the act of 1751 "adjudged the act to be no taw." (Ib. Id). The case was, therefore, a clear one. It only remained to summon a special jury on writ of Inquiry to de termine the amount of damage sus tained by the parson, and as this was a simple question or arithmetic, the counsel for tbe defense expressed a de sire to withdraw from case. Being thus assured by their counsel that any further struggle would be use less, the defendants turned In desper ation to Patrick Henry for help. He accepted their retainer, and by his shrewd management In the selection of a Jury, and by hts marvelous power of eloquence secured a verdict In favor of hla clients, for In the very face of the moat conclualve evidence, and contrary to the law In the case, the plaintiffs were awarded one penny damages.” WILLIAM L. SCRUGGS. Atlanta, aa.. Nor. SO, IM5, Ship Subsidy on Enormous Steal '• am somewhat surprised at the lark , knowledge there displayed. ol That seventy-five steamships of u. 000 tons measurement would cost *Jo 000,000 Is certainly much less than th.'-" could be bought for in England, and that price England would be no tom petltor of ours In the building of *hi, I and free trade' In ships no benefit Sixteen thousand ton ateamers would cost more than two million (Is.oooorm! of dollars each and seventy-five would represent an investment of over lu... 000,000. If we can Induce Capitalists to Invest that amount of money In n ... terial and labor to build ships In tin, country, and 80 per cent of the coat of a ship Is paid to labor, we can well if ford as a nation to contribute *5.000 ono (though tho bill before congress onlv calls for three and a half millions) V. Stated, which Would only represent 4 per cent on the Investment or a leu Inducement than some of the towns aii<i cities of this state are now giving i., cotton factories to be located In their midst, and tho cities that thus obtain the cotton factories find It a profitable Investment In their Increased trade and tho enhancement of property values in their location. - It Is no greater stein for the’ govern- ment to stimulate the building of shies by government aid than It Is for a riiy to give a bonus In real estate'or money free water and free lights and exemp tion from taxation for a term of years to a cotton factory or other imiustri ii enterprise. Instead of an appropriation of six ,, r nine millions; as stated In the article I allude to. the present blit calls for .in appropriation of only three million ih.i- lara, which. If assessed as n per capita tax In this country, would amount to only S 1-3 cents per head, t And the connections these proposed steamer* would give, between the'Southern port, ant) South America, Africa and the Orient would Increase the consumption of cotton fabrics so we could supply to them the forty-two million • bales or cotton which It IS estimated the world would consume If the goods could delivered. A two-mllllon-balo surplus In .our cotton production has been Known to depress the value of the staple t> cent* per pound or *30 per bale on fourteen million bales, amounting to a Ion* this section of our country of J420.- 000,000, or *5 per capita for the people of the United States. Would It not be well to invest In an assessment of 3 2-3 cents per capita rather than stand a loss of 35 per cap ita? But aa this loss falls entirely upon the people of. the South, I*, would amount to eight times this per caplia to the cotton producer. He who op poses the development of our merchant marine and the extension of our mar kets Is opposed to tho development, wealth and prosperity of the South. With cotton at good prices we pros per. We know what 4 or G-cent cotton doe* for us. The Cotton Growers’ Association and the Farmers' Union are both trying tn reduce the acreage of cotton to prevent over-production because with our pres ent lines of trankportatlon our market* are limited and a small surplus Is ruin ous, and yot, with all their united ef forts, the only limit to production is the scarcity of labor. The paper* are advocating foreign Immigration, which will necessarily In crease the labor on the farms nnd make nugatory tHb efforts of both these as sociations, for it they go Into the fac tories or public works they will dis place tabor there already'employed and drive them to farming, thus Increasing production, making low prices for lit. farmers' products, and hard times will follow. Would It not be the better part »r wisdom to first enlarge our markets by both steamship communication with the markets of consumption, thus provldlng against over-production, before open ing the door to foreign Immigration to Increase a product—cotton—which year by year Is dangerously near the line of over-production, and a targe surplus means a losa to the Southern farmer? Another million balea added to the preaent crop would have dropped tho price below tho coat of production. Let ua have steamships direct to all the markets of the world and the farm er will never again dread over-produc tion and loss In raising this great staple of the South. 1 am not a "hired writer," but simply a farmer. CHARLES L. WHITE. A CHRI8TMA8 SUGGESTION. Te tbe Editor of The Georgian: Will you giro me space ror s enzgeetlm * t our busy stores put up cards In every lir,.>ir,.>llll,lv t fil'd UIH linnn Wbll* TOtt Uut for jroor own llttl* onn we'll, DELIVER THF* UjpODK. If tho stores will do this, then lot fffMMl paper* fumUh free tbe requisite m her of ranis. Yours for Christmas charity, . . UBUI.AU It. STEVENS THE ANTIDOTE TO THE BOLL WEEVIl menace that frightens the white settler away. Let them occnstom the other See* tlons to the presence of the neirn> until hy will not drend him *o much here. I*et them make * problem wherever tbejr rau until tbe problem of tbe black belt frill reuse to ularw tbe laborer who wonWI eome. them weed out the one class (the nc< other (the whites!. If this would work a hsrdshlp during the crop arnwtnj make *n opcu season; sajr, fi * to January L Injr Nor ember But. by nil means, lower ter ts a puzzle. But It iloes seem that the thinning of the Mark lielt will help to solve the conditions and better things very great* ly. Hut how? In tbe Aral place, there Is nn our stat- nte iMjok* a law that lets no one try to Induce emigrants to leave the state without heavy license*. Repent the law. L*t the IVgleg William* fellows come along. |.ct them enter tbe black lw*|ta while tbe other comes In. There room for the white nnd the colored laborer slilc by side. Koine solution In tbe way of remorlirg the overplus of the one rlsss will have to be adopted tieforv the other will come. Remove tbe emigrant agent barrier. Let dowu the liars that there may be room for tbe tide of Immigration, for It ran not tie Induced to come under the present mag I>t them grmlnally Iblu out the We will either have to continue with the black liett*. or make them white belts by B, " n ‘ ""cftftstfU! THE DISPENSARY VS. 8TATE PROHIBITION Why not pnt Ike fence up all the way •round? There Is too many gaps, too many ways found To Ml up the cun, to Ml up tha can. Templing the will of the wayfaring m*ti. Through one of throe gaps another Just fell. The ninlmlSBce below starting straight to ward hell: Many another stands on the same brink, NEW Y0RKER8. By WILLIAM F. KIRK. “New Yorkers are corkers,” Sold young Mr. Brown, As we sat In * well-known cafe; Tbelr hustle and bustle have made this old town The greatest of cities today. To the Editor of Tbe Georgian. I nete la the column* of The GeoraLt of ths Nth instant that tbe boll weevil hm made 70 tnllro, advance toward the ras this last season. And sit experts say 1 “ whole "See thht fellow dressed In block Over near tbe checking rack; WelL that’s Editor Maloney— 1'aestux through the gap. down they wlU Let us tighten the ropes around the prod- Came from Phoenix, Arlsony. And hla friend la Playright Grim; K. A B. are after him. pice tall, Stretching around cliffs, valleys snd Where the ambulance piles, ringing Let as tighten ffi- ropes srotud that which dethroned. Let us call In the nld of good brother Jones Tn marshal the force with hts grains rone Which sparkles like genu; there Is none to compare. As ho turns an the light yon must dls- -A. D. RIGDEN. Cause Followed Effect. Did yon notice thnt the dead man's phy sician was riding In the Brat carriage after Vro: It's the Brat time I ever saw the ennae follow the effect.—I* Bine. Quite the emootheat chap I know— Came from Butte * year ago. Then there's Kane, the architect. Self-made chap from hose to dome— Ban Francisco was hls home. That theatrical promoter Used to live In North Dakoter. "New Yorkers are corkers," Said young Mr. Brown. As we sat In a well-known cafe; Their hustle and bustle have made this old town' The greatest of cities today." .Hor One Retail Line. "What tmslnesa It IItea Gaddle lay -■SS-: 3ly r la Juat aa aare to cover tbe whole eolt-i belt In a abort white, and Ita oaward nun; I will b» faater and faster, tbe saute as l» Colorado potato beetle came 8ontb, alarum 25 ntllea per year. Increasing Its speeil ' 125 miles In the seasou, bat n rcmisly vm found. Although not stamping oat the i» -i we wtlll go on growing crops of mile 1 Jnst so with the cotton weevil. It J* * the cotton gelds to stay, nnd none of tl, government eieprts has f-msd an aval able remedy. It la an oaay matter when a Insect feeds on tbe leaf, but when It d‘ riven Ita life by auction or boring Into plaut. It I* another question. I hare solved that protdem. however, an these last three seasoss. daring my stn with the tate Sam P. Joses., aoy expert tn i ‘' have been solely to get tbe right prop' tlons to apply to the pUnt, aud am sal Ing « party fo Join In the ^ Cirtersvllle. Oa., December T. IP*. MY RECOMPENSE. If love rirbro. dear, a peupei >ve were would he. . For all my wealth of tors fre given on But yet. dear love, the lose I would d For I*ii»d a recompense In the light wllli -EARLE E. GRIGGS. Charged and Proved. UJones—Why "he grouchV I'smllb—3Jy wife called me a fool. RJooes—Uheer up. It may Bot be trite. Pemltb—lint It ta Mat proved IL and dag np a buck of my old love Inl and read ’em to me. to eceiol She rotalle tbnt."-HhlUdelpkin Ledger. "Tee. ell except when It <