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Editorial Glimuses and Clippings.
Our farmers tell us that shucks on
the corn are unusually large this fall,
and that this is a sure sign of an ex
tremely cold winter.
The true idea is to work with a
willing hand and keep ahead of the
vorld, instead of getting behind and
being forced to work.
If the courage that is used in tear
ing down and destroying was used in
uplifting and saving, sorrow would
be banished from the earth.
The Savannah Press wants to know
“how about Major Barnes as a gu*
bernatorial candidate.”
No man could better fill the seat.
You can’t consistently condemn
ft in no for doing what you would no
yourself under the same circum
stances. #
Recently a Liverpool steamship
company has put on a line of steams
er-s to Port Royal, which will be run
between Port Royal and Liverpool.
Volume LXIV. |SQuvu^atpp^ooBi^EB b ^^^^^^t8i9.*fGoNsoLir.ATKD 1872 Milledgeville, Ga., October 17, 1893.
Washington Letter.
Extreme men gain a short-lived
notoriety, and that Is all they expect.
They know that the good common
sense of the people will not accept
their yiews.
The Tucker bill to repeal all exist
ing federal election laws passed
the House last Tuesday afternoon ,
by a vote of 200 to 101, party lines j passed it must either be indefinitely
being strictly drawn for and against.
from Our RegnlarOorrespondent.
Washington, Oct. 9, 1893.
Senator Voorbees on Saturday
gave notice that next Wednesday's
session of the Senate would be made
continuous, for the purpose of trying
to got a vote upon his bill for the
repeal of the purchasing clause of
the Sherman silver law, and since
then every Senator who is absent,
and not paired upon this bill lias
been notified to be on hand Wed
lifcsday. Numerous attempts have
been made in the past in the Senate
to force a vote upon measures by
holding continuous sessions, but
there have been more failures than
successes, and the peculiar circum
stances surrounding the present at
tempt make it almost certain to he a
failure. No party machinery can be
used in this contest, because there
are no party lines observed by the
friends and opponents of the repeal
bill. The question which is exciting
the most interest here is, what will
follow the failure to reach a vote on
the Voorbees bill! One of things two
must, be done. If the bill cannot be
the joint resolution offered by Rep
resentative Davey, of La., for the
appropriation ot *25,000 Tor the relief
of the cyclone sufferers on the south
ern coast gets through Congress.
Not because individual Senators and
Representatives are opposed to help
ing the sufferers, but because all such
appropriations by the general gov.
eminent haye been opposed on prin
ciple for many years, on the theory
that the several states should furn
ish needed relief to their own citizens.
However, this being an exceptional
case the House committee on Appro
priations, to which the resolution
was referred, may ignore precedent
and favorably report it. Should it
be favorably reported it would prob
ably pass.
President Cleveland and his family
moved out to his country residence
Saturday afternoon, and they will
remain there until cold weather, the
President coining into his office every
morning and returning in the after,
noon. Mrs. Cleveland is rapidly re.
gaining her strength and baby
Esther is enjoying good health. Miss
Ruth celebrated her second birthday
last week.
According lo the London 'j lines
there are in the world one hundred
and twenty.five million people who
speak the English language—iitariv
twice as rn&qy as speak any other
modern language.
An Arizona bank cashier nailed to
the door the legend: “This bank lias
not busted; it owes the people *36.-
000; the people o\ye it *55,000; it is
the people who are busted ; when
they pay, we’ll pay.”'
g |Xf the man who is determined to
go to Hell, would go alone it would
not, be so lameutable ; but be spares
no pains to take a lot of good fellows
aloDg with him. And this is what
causes man his deepest sorrow when
it is too late.
The convict, lease system is bein
abandoned, feaving the present law
in force, or a compromise amend
ment that can be passed be adopted.
Which will it be? No umu can at
this time answer that question with
absolute certainty, but it being gen
erally admitted that the present law
is a bad one the probabilities seetu to
favor a compromise, although a num
ber of prominent democrats, among
them President Cleveland, believe
that it would be better to abandon
the bill for a time than to adopt a
make-shift, compromise.
Whatever is the result, so far as
the Voorbees bill is concerned, the
opinion seems to be increasing daily
among conservative meu, regardless
of party affiliation, that Congress
discussed throughout the state and j must pass a bill authorizing the ad«
there is a strong and growing de
mand for its abolition. We invite
attention to an able argument against
the system by Mr. Lucius Lamar,
ot Atlanta, which will tie found in
this paper.
Charity begins at home, hut does
not end there. If men would only
be kind and helpful in matters close
at hand they would grow and broad
en until they could etnorace the
wo^ld. If charity or love does not
begin at home it, does not begin at
all.
A north Georgia man preaches a
whole sermon in a few lines. He
recently emigrated to Texas, and
the first letter received from him by
bis Georgia relatives ran as follows:
“I got here safe and sound, but 1 i»h the government supply of
don't see any chance to make money j would,in the opinion of shrewd ii-
to get back home on.” | nanciers, of itself act largely as a
In tlds country"2J500 women are 1 preventative of the exportation of
practicing medicine, 275 preaching ' gold.
ministration to issue bonds to in
crease the gold reserve fund when
ever it may become necessary in or
der to avoid panics, similar to the
oue the country recently passed
through, which may at any time be
brought on by lurge and continuous
exportations of gold. Men who six
months ago opposed an issue of bonds
under any circumstances are now
advocating that the authority for
issuing bonds he given to the ad
ministration, it would not neoes.
sarily follow that bonds would be is
sued. The Knowledge that they
could be issued if neeessarv to replen-
ld
the gospel, more than 0,000 maria
ing postoffices, and oyer 3,000,000
earni"g independent incomes.. Since
1880 the patent office has granted
over 2.500 patents to women, and in
New York city 27,000 women support
their husbands.
A convention of sportsmen will be
held in Atlanta on the 17th (today)
for the purpose of considering and
recommending to the attention of
the legislature Such changes in our
game laws as will add to their effi
ciency in preserving game and pre*
venting its extinction. It is thought
the attendance will be large.
Cheerfulness in speech has Its good
effects. Of that there is no doubt.—
The continued raying of third party
ranters upon our woes, financial and
otherwise, a great many of which
are imaginery, is disgusting to a high
degree. Even in times of depression
we believe with Frank L. Stanton,
the poet of tne Atlanta Constitution:
Talkin' good times make’ em good; ain’t a
bit o’ doubt.
An' talk is so amazin' cheap, no risk o’
rtinnln’ out!
What’s the use in grievin'? don't make the
wag'd go!
Jos’ keen on believin’, an’ the Lord’ll make
It so!
A Pathktic Lkave-Takinu.—a
correspondent of the Ram’s Horn
states that a certain country minis
ter took permanent leave of his con
gregation with tlie following remarks:
•‘Brothers and sisters, I.oometosay
good-by. 1 don’t think God loves
tlds church very much, because none
of you ever die. 1 don't think you
iove each other, because I never
marry any of you. I don't think you
love me, beeause you have not paid
my salarv; your donat ions are mouldy
fruits and wormy apples, and ‘bv
their fruits ye shall know them.’—
Brothers. 1 am going away from you
to a better place. I have been call
ed to be chaplain of a penitentiary
Where I go ye cannot come, but I
go to prepare a place for you, and
may the Lord lmvo mercy on your
souls. Good by.”
When the House adopted the or
der closing debate on the bill for tlie
repeal of the Federal election laws,
today (Oct. 9.) and directing that, the
voting on the bill and the amend*
mentis proposed thereto should begin
tomorrow and continue until the bill
was disposed of, it was thought that
the Senate would have before this
d .-posed of the Voorbees repeal bill
and have been ready to receive tHe
election repeal bill. The democrats
of the House will hold a caucus on
the subject tonight and inasmuch as
it might add additional complications
to the already sufficiently complicat
ed situation in the Senate to send
this bill over at this time the caucus
may decide that it is advisable to
defer final action on the election bill
for a time.
The Ford’s Theatre disaster has
been recalled to public notice dufiug
tbo past week by tbe opening of the
trial of the tour men indicted for
criminal negligence in connection
therewith; by a Senate resolution for
the appointment of a joint Congres
sional committee to ascertain the
responsibility of the government for
damages to the families of the vies
thus, and by beginning of repairs up
on the wrecked building. A rumor
that tlie men who occupied the build
ing at tlie time of the disaster ure to
be again put in there to work as soon
as the repairs are completed lias
raised a general protest, not only
from
01!R CHICAGO LETTER.
W. D. Boyce’s Correspondence)
Bureau Administration Building, -
World's Fair Grounds,)
October It, 1893.
About two hundred enthusiastic
citizens of Rhode Island arrived in
Chicago Wednesday. The party in
eluded Gov. Brown, with his staff,
and the Newport artillery as the
governor's guard of honor. Wed
nesday afternoon was spent in an in
formal inspection of Rhode Island’s
exhibit. Thursday had been set
apart as Rhode Island day, and the
state commissioner spared no pains
or expense in preparing a program
for the entertainment of the state’s
guests. The official delegation met
at the Rhode Island building at 12:30
o'clock, when the following exercises
were carried out: introductory, Dr.
F. Benjamin Andrews, president fair
managers; address of welcome, Gov.
Rus«ell Brown; oration, Prof. Alonzo
Williams; poem, Miss Caroline Ha
zard; address, Nelsou W. Aldrich;
address, Oscar Laphatu; poetn, Henry
R. Palmer. Esq.; address, Col. W. A.
James, address,Col. John C. Wyman
of the executive committee. The
paid attendance was 179,965.
An Indian prince is to marry a
Chicago girl, and tlie affair is otie of
the many World’s Fair romances. The
brine to be is Jat.e Lindbald, Robert
Lindblom’s private secretary and
the bookkeeper at the Swedish cafe.
Shumsner Khan, the prospective
groom, is an heir*presuuiptiye to the
throne of a petty principality in In
dia. He is now pouring tea at the
East India tea house.
One dav this week, in the assembly
room of the women’s building, Mrs.
Potter Palmer was presented with a
beautiful album, a gift from the
queen of Siam, the presentation be
ing made bv Mr. and Mine. Surayi,
royal commissioner. 1 he occasion
was distinctive!'. Siamese, and, amid
the other decorations, the red Hag ol
Siam was preeminent.
New York has decided to celebrate
Manhattan day at the fair Oct. 21.
This is right good nows for tlio vtotii-
amites are sure to make it a glo
rious event. New York is resolved
to show what she can do in that hue
and her pride is aroused. While it is
impossible that tlie whele population
of Gotham should come out to beat
Chicago dav, there will be ^ ew
Yorkers enough to do honor to the
fame of the fust capital of til.-
couutrv ami to make all Americans
proud of New York. They propose
to come in several large excursion
parties and bring several good brass
bands ... .
It would be difficult to imagine a
greater, grander, or more important
step in the civilization of the Amer
ican Indian than was given Thursday
by the students of the Cai lisle In-
diau Industrial so.iool band and
choir in festival hall. When the In
dian maidens, sixty in number,
dressed in m-uLfittiug blue cloth
suits and wearing the vcllow Satin
badge of their school filed on the
stage at 3 o’clock they were received
with rapturous applause by an au
dience of not less titan o00 chaistian
people. In age they ranged from 12
to 2° years, many of them having
undoubted pretensions to pretty and
occasionally handsome faces. Very
touchingly the sweet voices of the
Indian maidens rendered the “Lord's
Prayer,” by Leslie. Then followed,
with but a few moments’ interim,
“Gloria” from the Twelfth mass,
“TheMarch of the Men of Harlech,”
and “Joy. Joy, Freedom to-day,”
from “The Gypsy’s Warning.” Too
^ j j ' , T , much oraise cannot be given the ex-
the five hundred clerks and , ce | |eu j^ o{ t j le drilling or the sweet
their friends, but from the public at, p) a j„tive, vet precise, vocalization of
large. It would certainly seem to be these Iudiau girls The young men,
an unnecessary cruelty to compd j tdo, are receiving
those clerks to work in that bunding | ™ proflcient musical organization,
again. j paid attendance up to Oct. 6, 15,-
It is extremely doubtful whether 567,922.
Mr. President and Members of
the Cli:b.
I have listenened with interest to
the arguments that have been pre
seut.ed on both sides of this irnpor*
taut, question by the able members
of The Saturday Night Club, and
have tak"n occasion, while so en
gaged, to call to uiirul several points
in derogation to this iniquitous sys
tem that 1 desire to present to yon
this evening. I shall speak but n
few moments, sir, because that I do
not wish you to be able to apply to
me, before 1 shall resume my seat,
words that were applied to another
speaker under much the same cir
cumstance that surround us to-night.
A member of just such ft club as
this had arisen in response to a re*
quest from the Chairman of the
meeting to deliver a short, talk upon
some subject that was then under
consideration by the club, and be
gan his remarks with the question:
“Well, brothers, wtiat must I t>dk
about?” “Talk about two minute*
and a half, and sit down,” exclaimed
the wag in the corner, and a burst of
laughter went up from all quarters
of the house. [ Laughter.] 1 repeat,
therefore, time I shall lie brief to
night in what I have to say, in order
to relieve you of the necessity of ft
repetition of this occurrence.
“Resolved that the Convict Lease
Bystem as it exists in this state at
the present time is wrong, and
therefore should be abolished.” This,
sir, as I understand it, is the ques
tion that has been presented for dis
cussion and consideration this even
ing.
The Convict Lease System as it
exists in tills State at tlie present
time is wrong—it is radically wrong
and inherently so. Tlie system is
naturally, innately, essentially, fun
damentallv, and entirely wrong, and
deep-seated in its evil. And why is
it wrong?
In the first place, the system is
wrong and should therefore be abol
ished, because that the convicts are
not employed by the State in such a
manner as will bring the most bene
fit and the most good to the people.
The results of the labors of tlie con
victs to enrich the coffers of tbo les-
seees; the products of the labors of
the convicts are the possessions of
their masters; the lessees are made
Croesuses at the expenses of thg peo
pie, to whom the labor of the con
viols justly belongs. •
In the second place, sir, the system
is wrong, for that the convicts, un
der this system, are placed in direct
opposition to, anU competition with,
the free labor of the state. This has
ever been a most fruitful cause of
evil—prolific in engendering dissatis
factions, murmurs, complaints, evils,
and woes of the direst form. It is
absolutely impossible now, and it
will ever he simply out of Hit* ques*
tion, for the couyict lease system as
it exists in this state at the present
time to lie productive of good re*
suits, so long as the labor of tlie con*
victs is brought into direct competi*
tion with the free labor of the state.
In the third place, the convict lease
svstem as it. exists in this state at
the present lime is wrong,and should
therefore be abolished, because that,
under this system, there are afforded
absolutely no opportunities for the
education, Hie cultivation or the
training of the convicts. 1 lie con
victs have no chance for mental,
physical, or moral improvement, and,
for til’s reason, if for no other, the
system should be stamped as being
so inferior as that it should not be
toleiated a year longer. What, sir,
is a penitentiary? The-very etymol
ogy of the word implies that penal*
ties are laid in order to secure peni
tence. Penetentiary was established
for this reason and no other, and
I hat penetentiary that does not se
cure the accomplishment of this end
does not come up to the standard of
what a penetentiary ought to he,
and is wrong radically and inherently,
and so inferior as to be unworthy
eyen consideration, not to mention
use. Punishment is given criminals
to reform them; and can my honor
able opponent sav that the slightest
reformation is to be gotten 'rom the
iniquitous evils of the present con
vict lease svstem? No! Far from it.
The methods employed in this state
to-day invariably and inevitably end
in remorse and resentment. We are
told, sir, that when Dante, took with
him Virgil, and when they set out to
explore the iuferuul legions, as they
entered the gate-way to Hell, they
espied written over the door, these
words, in letters of fire: “All Hope
Abandon Ye That Enter Here! ’
And so it is with the convict camp.
All hope abandon they that entei
there. The convict is a permanent
annexation to the criminal classes—
that this is true will not be doubted
by my honorable opponent—and the
convict lease system as it exists in
this state at the present day has tlie
effect of making the convicts per
manently criminal, and not in a sin
gle instance n.as it the effect of work
ing tilt) improvement or the refor*
matiou ot the unfortunate wretch
The system, therefore, is wrong, I
repeat, and should be condemned
with all the bitterness possible.
la the fourth place, there is a
stronger and more powerful reason
why this system is wrong and should
ABSOLUTELY PURE
he abolisued, why it should be
wiped from the statute books,
and lie allowed to be practised no
longer. Cupidity is a passion tliut
can not be trusted with the delicate
and difficult work of the punishment
of convicts. It can not be denied
by my honorable opponent that the
slate does wrong in farming out her
functions She cannot do this inno
oently. 8he cannot do this without
inevitable injury. It is wrong, and
lias been proved to be wrong by the
experience of ages past. Rome ouce
farmed out her taxing nowei, and
what was tlie result? Why, there
was produced the publican—a pro
verb of rapacity and oppression,
which has come down to us at the
present day. The greatest evil that
for years fell with withering blight
upou the grand old Roman empire
and sapped its life blood was tlie
publican—extorting, as he did con
tinuously, the very sustenance of the
poor and the unfortunate, and cring
ing witli spittle-licking sycophancy
at the heels of his masters that his
opportunities for extortion might tbe
more be increased, [Applause.]
And yet, I say, thi* evils that bled
tlie itoman empire whilst, the devils
ish publican was at his nefarloous
work are but foreshadowed in the
evils that inevitably follow the
farming out of the convicts under
the present system. And, in our
own country today, the police
power, in some parts of Hie lund,
is allowed to be exercised for
hire, and what is Hie result? Why
we have the Pinkerton man—a 1
creature ns cruel and as extorfon-
a.e as the publicans of the Romans,
and as irresponsible as an outlaw. 1
tell you, sir, that, to farm out the
functions of a state is a dreadful
step, aud one that never fails t,r>
bring on In its wake a perfect train of
evils and of woes such as no other
cause could possibly produce. To
8 farm out our penal functions—to hire
‘ out our convicts, if you please,—has
engendered under this syst. m, and
will ever continue to engender, all
manner of evils, of cruelties, of bar
barities, and of corruptions. AM sir,
it is a sin against God and against
Divine Right for this state to give to
one man a moneyed interest in the
punishment of another man; and, as
sure as Heaven rules, this state will
suffer from it as it has neyer suffered
before. [Applause.J
III the fifth place, the convict lease
system as it exists in this state at tlie
present time is wrong, because, that
if persisted in, it will one day enter
tlie court'houses of the land, the
temples of justice of the country,
aud there dictate the length of ini*
prisoument to which able-bodied
prisoners may be sentenced and. an*
tireviftto the terms to be laid upon
tlie feeble convicts that promise
small returns lo the lessees, and will
thus succeed in corrupting the very
fountain head of justice, of law, of
truth, of equity, and of righteous
ness. Mav 11od preserve us from
such an evil!
In tlie sixth, and last place, the
;onvict system now practised in this
state is wrong, and therefore should
be abolished, because that, the whip
ping-post is resestahlished in a most
direful form. In the convict camp
this instrument of torture exists in
its worst posssble shape; and, al
though we flatter ourselves that the
wnippiug*post of cruelty has been
abolished from our fair land for ever,
I .say to you, sir, ttiat tosday it is
still with us. It has been transfer
red from the jail-vard to the convict
camp, and the system is responsible
for tlie transfer. Ah! sir, let ns rather
bear the increased burdens of taxa*
tion than to allow this stain on our
civilization aud progress longer. It
is a relic of a barbarous period in
our political history, put upou us by
aliens'and strangers, and should be
abolished nOw and for evermore!
[Applause ]
Atlanta, Ga., Hept. 24, 1893.
The general result, that cheap mo
ney drives more valuable money'out
of circulation is called the Gresham
law.
GOING BACK WITH A WJFE.
A Zulu Bewitched with a Pretty Maid
at the World’s Fair.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Bazgoa Gnztielin, a full blooded
Zulu, passed through the city last
night on his way to New York. With
him was a pretty little girl, hardly
more than 17 years old, whom he
swore to love and cherish less than
two weeks ago in Milwaukeee. The
strange couple attracted much at
tention ou Hie train, but the bride
did not seem to mind it a bit, and
c uug to h£r Zulu husband as if she
feared she might lose him. After
spending a few days in New York
Mr. Guzuella will sturt for Zululand
with his white wife.
The courtship and marriage of tlie
strongely«mated couple are peculiar.
In his own country Bazgoa Guzuella
is an aristocrat and closely related to
the king. Two months ago he came
to this country, and lias been at tbe
world’s fair for the past fiye weeks.
He discarded his native costume, and
one might take him for a negro, were
it not for his long luiir, which stands*
straight out from his head. He wore
no Imf, a band of white silk answer
ing the purpose ot a head-ooyering.
Guzuella had been in Chicago but.
a few days when he met Miss Minnie
Egbert, who, up to a few days ago,
tended a soda water fountain on the
grounds. Soda water was a new
drink to Bazgoa, and he visited the
counter and drank the foaming liquid
several times a day. Whether the
soda water or Miss Egbert’s him
eyes aud golden hair were the great
est attraction it is hard to say. At
auy rate, the two fell in love, and it
was not long heforo another girl oo»
copied Miss Egbert’s place behind
the counter.
Miss Egbert is an orphan, the only
relative -he has living being a broth
er in Texas. Mrs. Guzuella seems
thoroughly Infatuft 1 etl with her dusky
husband, and is anxious to go to hi*
native land and live with him among
his people. Before securing a post*
tion at the world’s fair. Miss Egbert
was employed in a Chicago candy
store. Mr. Guzuella 1ms nine other
wives in liis own country, but. he says
he is going to giye them to his broth
er as Booties he arrives home. If he
were not an aristocrat, and related
to tlie king, ins bride would be taken
from him as soon as he returned
but. as it is, he lias no fear Miat any
thing of that, kind will happen.
Mr. Guzuella has beeomequite at
tached to American ways, and savs-
he has adopted the American custom
of dress for good. He is carrying a
large number of presents home to his
relatives. He i* over six fee*, in
height. Proud o shoulders and has
almost regular featun i. His fingers
were covered with gold and silver
rings of various designs and in Ids
ears were large gold rings. He could
make himself understood in Eoglisl.
very well.
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