Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
Published Every Afternoon During
the Week and on Sunday Morning
by
THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO.
Entered at the Augusta Postoffice as
Mall Matter of the Second Class.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Daily and Sunday, 1 year ....$6.00
Daily and Sunday, 6 months .. . 3.00
Daily and Sunday, 6 months .... 1.50
Daily and Sunday, 1 month ... 60
Daily and Sunday, 1 week .... 13
Sunday Herald, 1 year 1.00
Weekly Herald, 1 year 50
TELEPHONES
Business Office 297
City Editor 299
Bociety Editor 296
No communication will be publish
ed In The Herald unless the name of
the writer is signed to the article.
NEW YORK OFFlCE—Vreeland
Benjamin Agency, Brunswick Building
225 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
CHICAGO OFFlCE—Vreeland-Bcnja
min Agency, W. H. Kentnor, Mgr.,
1108 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111.
The Herald is the official advertis
ing medium of the City of Augusta
and of the County of Richmond for all
legal notices and advertising.
Address all business communications
THE AUGUSTA HEKAID,
731 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
"IF YOU WANT THE NEWS
YOU NEED THE HERALD.”
Aunusta. Ga.. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1909.
There is no better way to reach the
Homes of the prosperous people of
this city and section than through
the columns of The Herald, Daily and
Sunday,
_.
Parties leaving Augusta can have
The Herald sent them by mail each
day. 'Phone 297, Circulation Depart
ment, when you leave Augusta, so
that The Herald can be sent you each
day.
The Augusta Herald has a larger
city circulation than any other paper,
and a larger total circulation than any
other Augusta paper. This has been
proven by the Audit Co., of New York
Weathei forecast: For Ihe sou th
em stater, Increasing dryness, wltii
a squall impending In South Caro
lina.
Well, suppose Mr. Tlllumii did
trunk ills typewriter, that la not‘go
ing us far as some, of whom It Is
said they kiss tin in.
The only Iwo days of had weather
Mr. Taft experienced In Georgia were
the two days he spent away from
Au.tusta. This Is significant.
After all the fuss thni has been
P about near beer the di.v ivery
has lu en mad'' that there is none.
Hut still the fuss makers nre not
satisfied and keep up the racket.
The Lord loves a cheerful giver.
That Is the reason probably why so
many people love to give advice to
other people.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee
declares that prohibition is au emp
ty dream. Which would Indicate
that he doesn’t believe It wiU result
In empty Jurb.
In Alabama the prefix Hon. is no
longer coupled to the names of mem
bers of the legislature. Was this re
form Instituted ns a timely precau
tion to prevent being added to the
Mine. Calve will not ride in an auto
for four of losing her voice. The
tombstone In various cemeteries
testify that many people have lost
their voice by this means.
In Emanuel county the school boys
are not to be permitted to play base
ball or smoke cigarettes. Those
Emanuel boys think their lot Is being
made a very hard one.
The Rome Tribune-Herald sav* that
the big hats are to be doomed. In
view of the vigorous way In which it
has proclaimed against the big hat It
is suspected that the last word was
a typographical mistake
"Virginia Tiring of the Poll Tax,"
is made the subject of editorial die
cusstou by the Houston l’ost. But
that Is nothing; some of the rest of
us have been tired of other taxes for
a long time.
Some of the farmers in South Geor
gia are complaining because they
haven't had weather cold enough this
winter to kill hogs. In other words,
they are squealing because they
couldn't make the hogs squeal.
A Georgia editor says that he has
no desire to discover the North Pole.
Same here; we have enough to do to
discover places to wet our whistle,
with blind tiger hunting such a fad
lor the time being.
No Paullue. when President Roose
velt took that ninety-mile ride, using
four horses, he did not ride them all
at once, but in rotation. He may
ride four at once after he coiues back
from that African big game hunt.
The attorney for the Heel Foot
Lake night riders wants a new trial
for his clients. Perhaps he want*
to put in a 30,000 word hypothetical
question, the regular order now m
murder trials, which he forgot in tint
first trial.
Now comes a minister as an icon
oclast and declares a ts doubtful that
ruch a person as Salome ever ex
isted. There is no doubt, however,
about the existence of imitation Sa
lomes, who dance arrayed in smiles
and very little else.
STARTLED BY A NEW THOUGHT.
When a new thought la presented
to a fellow who has been contentedly
rocking along among the fossils, of
course, he is startled. To attempt
to pull a traveler out of an old rut,
worn by ages of usage and which
he has followed simply because he
found himself In them, without evof
trying to get out of them or even
thinking of finding a better way, is
apt to arouse his resentment and call
forth from him an Indignant protest.
Hence it Is not strange that our high
ly esteemed contemporary, the Jack
sonville Times Union, should take thf
floor and denounce as "An Absurd
Proposition” the suggestion recently
made by The Herald that we should
manufacture the cotton we raise and
sell the cotton goods to those who
need them, instead of selling the raw
cotton to foreigners to manufacture
into cloth, by the use of cheap labor,
and drive the products of our mills
out of the markets of the world.
To convert the raw' cotton into
cloth very greatly increases Us value.
It Is assumed, for argument's sake,
that It quadruples its value. The
South Is now, and probably for all
time will remain, the producer of
three-fourths of tho world’s cotton
supply. The world must have clothes,
and cotton is practicaliy the only
thing which pow and In the future
must supply the material out, of
which the world’s clothes are made.
Then since our country must clothe
the world, why should we not, take
$300,000,000 annually for the cloth In
stead of taking $700,000,000 for the
cotton, as we do now, and lot other
mtloriß get. the lion’s share of tho
proflls out of this business by making
into cfolh ihe material which we only
onn ralße?
H is n self-evident proposition that
we should manufacture the cotton wo
grow, which not even the Times-
Union will dispute. Then, K it. Is do
slrahlo, how can It. be brought, to
pass?
Foreign countries have the advan
tage over us In that they have eheaper
labor. In Japan eotlon mill workers
are paid about one fourth of what
American operatives are paid. With
this condition we cannot possibly com
pete with Japan In the mnrkots of
Asia. It is only necessary for Japan
to put up the cotton mills to make
goods enough to supply the Chinese
trade, to completely exclude American
goods from China. This Japan Is do
ing as fast as she can build the
mills.
There Is only one way by which wo
ran save ourselves from total exclu
sion of this field. That Is by our abil
ity to make cotton goods and lay them
down In China as chenply as Japan
can do this. Two ways are open to
accomplish this: Cut down the wages
of American mill operatives to the
wages paid In Japan, or supply the
raw material cheaper to our mills.
One or the other must be done unless
we nre willing to let .Inpan grow rich
by mnking cloth for China out of the
cotton we raise, while we remain
poor ns do all countries which are
compelled to supply to the world's
trade only raw material.
Shull wo quit cotton manufactur
ing nnd let other countries have this
profitable business? Or shall wo
adopt pauper wages to be able to con
tinue manufacturing and meet com
petition in the markets of the world?
To both of these questions only an
emphatic and indignant “No" can be
given by any American. Then only
one other course is open: Make for
eign manufacturers pay more for the
raw cotton they spin.
This can be done by means of ar
export tax on cotton. It is a remedy
so simple that the only wonder is
that it had not been adopted long ago.
The only reason for this neglect is
that most people, like our dear Jack
sonville contemporary, travel along in
old ruts contentedly until they be
come hopelessly stuck, and are
startled Into tits If It be suggested
to strike a new track which will
make easy traveling towards the end
to be reached.
The objection raised that an export
tax on cotton would fall on the cot
ton growers will not hold. It is as
absurd as the claim that an import
tax Is borne by the Importer. An im
port tax falls upon the consumers of
the goods upon which this tax is laid,
and just so an export tax. if it be on j
an article of which one country has |
a practical monopoly, must fall upon
those who use the exported article.
This proposition is too plain to re
quire argument. If American mills
can get the raw material they use for
a lesser price than foreign mills must
pay. It would soon lead to all the
cotton we produce being made into
cloth at home.
The constitution, it is true, forbids
the Imposition of an export tax. But
that clause was inserted when few
of its framers knew what cotton was,
and when not a single one of them
ever dreamed that the time would
come when the world must be clothed
with cotton and that our country
would be almost the only source of
supply of this cotton. But the con
stitution was not made to remain un
changed forever. Its framers recog
nlicd this when they provided the
methods by which to make changes,
and this changing was begun almost
immediately. The constitution cannot
be changed by legislative enactment,
but it .can be easily changed when the
people realize wherein a change would
be of incalculable benefit.
This an export tax on cotton would
be. And there is nothing in the way
of securing it except to bring the peo
ple to an understanding of it..
THE RICHMOND HUSSARS AND
THE PRESIDENT’S INAUGURA
TION.
For the inauguration of President
Taft It has been proposed to send
the Richmond Hussars to serve as an
escort of honor in the Inaugural pa
rade. The proposition has been ac
cepted on all sides with approval.
Since Mr. Taft has been In Augusta
he has so favorably impressed the
people of the South that they would
delight to do him this honor, and
as his administration is to signalize
the recognition of the South to its
just rights, so long ignored, it would
be most fitting that the cavalry
branch of the home troops of that
Southern city which he selected as
hts winter ante-inauguration home
should escort him on his ride into
the White House.
The Hussar* are willing to render
the people this service. To each of
them It will mean an Individual sae
rlflce, but this they are cheerfully
ready to make. Not only the pres
ent active members of the company,
but some of the honorary members,
men who are past active service hut
who in their younger days helped tp
add to the fame of this noted troop,
will join In this service. This would
make It a unique feature of the pa
ride which could not. do otherwise
than result in good, In the effect it
will produce.
The cost of such a trip would be
considerable—more, perhaps, than
some of the members of the troop
could well afford, and the city coun
cil is to be asked to give a little
assistance. Could not this be done?
No bettor returns could he expected
for the comparatively small amount
that is asked, if applied in any other
way. It win advertise Augusta, and
help to keep It In the front of pub
lic attention which has so lately and
favorably been centered upon it.
By all means the Richmond Hus
sars should be sent, and a. small ap
propriation by the city couhcll will
assure their going. Cannot tho city
fathers loosen the purse strings to
this extent?
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
Today is the centenary of the birth
of Edgar Allan Poe, by many critics
regarded as America’s greatest poet
It will lie celebrated in a becoming
manner by literary societies through
out the country, and lead to a renew
ed acquaintance'with tne poems and
prose writings of the author of "The |
Raven" and of "The Bells.”
In one respect there is a sad paral- >
lei between the lives of Edgar Allan
Poe and Scotland's greatest poet.
While both wore endowed by heaven
with poetic souls, which led them to
strike the lyre and give to the world
songs that are deathless, both also '
were the slaves of an appetite sot
strong drink which largely lost them
the esteem of their fellow men, con
demned them to the misery and
drawbacks of a life of poverty and
Anally brought them to a drunkard's
grave before they had reached the
years of man's prime.
Poe’s father was of Illustrious and
wealth; parentage, who, because he
married au actress, was disowned by
his family. He took to the stage
himself, and both he and his wife
uled when Edgar was yet a mere In
fnnt. Ho was adopted by a wealthy
merchant of Richmond, Va., who
treated him as a son. gave him his
name (Allan) and spared no money
in giving him an education. After
having finished at the University of
Vlrgitn, Poe expressed n preference
for an army career, and his foster
father secured his appointment to a
cadetship at West Point; but hero
the convivial habits of the young
man led hint to such breach of dis
cipline that he was expelled. ’ Re
turning home to Richmond he here
behaved bo bad that his foster father
east him off. and he was left to his
own resources.
He drifted into journalism, and
quickly won recognition. He mar
ried his cousin, to whom he was a
most devoted husband, and it stands
as a redeeming feature of his charac
ter that his home life was such that
he possessed the almost idolatrous
devotion of his wife and her mother
to their death. The devoted wife
died after a few years, and left all
to himself the poet mired deeper into
the morass that had caught him. And
so he took that last fatal journey
from Richmou.., on the way, it is
said, to be married to a lady of
wealth in New York, during which
he arrived one night in Baltimore,
the city of his birth. It was the
night before an election, and liquor
flowed freely. Poe met with boon
companions, and on the evening of
the next day was found by his cousin
in a gutter, stupefied with liquor and
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
THE SUPERIOR CLIMATE OF GEORGIA
Its Winter a Season of Delight Which God Has
Lavished Upon This Section
The presence of President-elect
Taft at Augusta has naturally cen
tered public attention on Georgia. As
a result one finds in glancing over
newspapers published in the North
j comments on this state that are In
| tended to satisfy the awakened in
fteiest. Among them we find in the
| Philadelphia Press a reply to a cor
respondent who desired information
as to "the climate of Georgia,” and
j especially as to whether it was ener
vating to a native of the North. The
i Press good-naturedly gave him de
; tailed information as to temperature,
rainfall, etc., and closed with the ob
servation: "The summer is not par-
I ticularly enervating to Pennsylvan
j ians.”
The Prpss was only partially right,
I and as is often the case with a half
I truth, did Georgia an unintentional
| wrong. The climate is certainly not
enervating to a Pennsylvanian in the
summer, or at any other time. Tak
ing the year throughout it is doubtful
if a more delightful climate can be
found on earth than exists In south
southeastern and southwestern Geor
gia, the large section of the state
protected from the cold winds of the
mountains. The extremes of both
heat and cold are not felt. There are
none of the days of frightful heat
that mark Philadelphia and other
Northern cities in midsummer when
the ambulances are kept busy run
ning through the streets with the vic
tims of sun stroke, when hospitals
are improvised on lawns, and the
newspapers have columns of names
of those who fell victims to the solar
rays. Such a thing Is unknown in
WITH OUR CONTEMPORARES
One Peculiar Effect it Would Have.
If suffrage is ever granted women
why also make them pay poll tax,
and they would never get through
paying either, because a woman never
gets over fifty.—W’ilmingion Dispatch.
Signs of Returning Prosperity.
Who said good times were not re
turning? The Central has ordered
work resumed on its big shops at
Macon; the Seaboard will increase
its force at Americus; the Plant sys
tem is going to open its enormous
plant at Waycross. These are signs
that tell the story of prosperity
ahead. —Americus Times-Recorder.
Sunshine Here and There.
Venezuela is rid of her Castro and
the United States will soon be rid of
hers. It Isn’t every day that is dark
and dreary.—Sparta lshmiielite.
A Caution to Mr. Taft.
Mr. Taft; Beware of the men who
come to you with distressing stories
about child labor in the South. They
will fool you, if you don’t look out.—
Charleston News and Courier.
Rises to Make a Motion.
Let every good citizen of Georgia
rise and instruct his congressman and
senators to kill the effort to create
another United States District court!
out of Judge Speer's district. It
would be a calamity to the best mor
als of the section affected.—Vidalia
: Advance.
The Cost of the Panama Canal.
During the past several years the
Morning News has frequently ex
pressed the opinion that it would be
found impossible to construct the
Panama canal within the limits of
the first estimate of cost, or within
double that amount, the first estimate
; being about $150,000,000. Up to June
30 last, $170,000,000 had been expend
ied upon the canal, including the pur
chase price, and the job is not yet
half completed. The construction is
becoming more expensive as it pro
gresses, and will continue to do so.
Now it is proposed that there shall
be an issue of $500,000,000 of bonds
, for the benefit of the canal, and it
! isn't at all sure that even that will
be egough money. It may be found
necessary to put a thousand millions
into the great ditch before it can
be opened to commerce.—Savannah
News.
Dr. Trout and Miss Cocke have
been married in Virginia and the old
question of fish or fowl is thus re
vived.—Houston Post.
almost dead from exposure. He was
carried to the hospital, where he died
three days later without having re
gained consciousness. So miserably
ended the life of the man whose
genius will be admired by the world
as long as language remains.
The mantle of charity should be
cast over this unfortunate life. He
was his own worst enemy, but out
side of this one great weakness he
was a lovable man. ,The blood of
martyrs is said to be the seed of the
church, and the physical and mental
suffering of individuals is often the
price of genius, giving to the world
its literary masterpieces. Without
the long imprisonment in Bedford jail
Buuy&n could not have written the
Pilgrim’s Progress as he did. With
out the thrust of iron into his soul
Lord Byron could not have given the
world his immortal verse. .And with-
I out this cloud over the life of Poe
he could not have written the poems
and stories which possess a fascina
; tlon in their wierdness that takes a
I hold on every reader.
An unfortunate man; a great poet
I and writer. This was Poe. For his
! unhappy life he has the sympathy of
I posterity; for his gift to them of the
I works of his genius he has its ad
-1 miration.
Georgia, and yet there is not a yeai
in the Northern cities when such con
ditions do not prevail several times
during the summer. So in the win
ter time we find Georgia presenting
no stories of blizzards, of people freez
ing to death, of transportation block
ed and business stopped, and life
of all kinds impeded in Us natural
course. When they are shivering
over radiators in their steam heated
apartments, or desperately digging
their way through snow banks, or
facing the cutting blasts of icy winds
in Philadelphia and other Northern
states, down here in Georgia we are
eating gren vegetables, breathing an
aid that is cool, but only deliciously
refreshing, enjoying out of door life
with zest, and looking rorward to
summer, not with dread as a time
of sirrocco danger, but as merely an
other agreeable change in the seasons
of delight that God has lavished on
those so fortunate as to be enabled
to live in such a grand old state.
Really if the Northern people only
knew what they were missing by not
packing up baggage and moving down
to Georgia where there is land in
abundance for several millions of
them, where everything conspires to
make life a pleasure, the railroads
would not be able to accommodate the
home seekers. To the extent that
President Taft has centered public
attention on Georgia we are under
many obligations to him. May it be
fruitful of a better acquaintanceship
with what this state has to offer and
productive of a stream of desirable
immigrants aiming to better their
condition.—Americas Times-Recorder.
An Absurd Proposition.
In some mysterious manner an edi
torial in favor of an export duty on j
cotton found its way into the columns
of the Augusta Herald, one of the J
brightest afternoon papers of the j
South. Probably the editor was ab- \
sent. Surely no paper published in j
a cotton-growing state would delib- S
erately advocate the robbing of the;
farmers of the state in which it is ’
published of between $15,000,000 and
$20,000,000 a year. We had not be-!
fore had our attention called to the j
fact that a plan of robbery could be
so barefaced that the protectionists j
could not muster up the cheek to
advocate it, but we find in a Southern
democratic paper a proposition for :
plunder that the tariff barons have
not yet gone far enough to advocate.
Of course it is useless to discuss
this matter, for The Herald itself
quotes the constitution of the United ,
States as prohibiting an export tax; j
but The Herald disposes of this by S
saying that the framers of the con
stitution wore animal skins. No
matter what kind of skins they wore
the constitution they made cannot
be changed by legislative enactment.
It can only be changed as the instru
ment itself provides.
The Herald objects to the fact that
we ship our cotton in a raw state
when by manufacturing it all at home
it would be three or four times more
valuable for us. Who are “we" and
“us?” The man who sells the cot
ton in the raw state is the farmer.
He derives none of the profits of
manufacture whether it is manufac
tured in the United States or in Eng
land or Germany. The Herald pro
poses to make him sell to the Amer
ican manufacturer at whatever price
the latter may. pay for it or pay an
export tax to reach another purchas
er. If the tax were 2 cents per pound
the proposition would be to take 2
cents per pound for all the cotton he
grows out of the pockets if every
cotton grower in the South —about
$130,000,000 in the aggregate—and di
vide it between the cotton manufac
turers of the North and South.
We cannot believe that such a
proposition would have come from
the editorial rooms of any southern
paper except by some sort of mis
'• take. The cotton growers are al
ready taxed on practically everything
they buy and have no protection to
enhance the price of anything they
sell. Add to this the proposition to
! tax them on what they sell. It is as
; astounding as if a Southern paper
had proposed to put every Southern
farmer on the block and sell him to
the highest bidder.—Jacksonville
Times-Union.
HERALD ECHOES.
Persimmon Beer the Proper Stuff.
The Augusta Herald proposes tnat
persimmon beer be declared a na
tional drink. It’s a fine suggestion
and persimmon beer is the proper
stuff, but who would have ever ex
pected such a compromise from The
Herald.—Commerce News.
In the School of Experience.
“The deepest joys may be spiritual
ones," observes the Birmingham Age-
Herald. Strange how they all make
this observation when prohibition
strikes them, adds the Augusta Her
ald. —Savannah Press.
The Greatest Eclipse,
Strangely enough, as the Augusta
Herald has observed, the almanacs.
In noting the eclipses that will oc
cur during the year, have overlook
ed the greatest of all. It will begin
on March 4. and will be visible only
to portions of Africa during its most
interesting period.—Macon \’ews.
By Unanimous Consent.
Of course, it was all right for con
gress to appropriate SBOO,OOO for the
Italian earthquake sufferers, still It
would be interesting to know, says
the Augusta Herald, under what
clause of the Constitution this appro
priation was made.—Jacksonville
Times-Union.
A Vexing Problem Solved.
The Augusta Herald offers a solu
tion of the problem of "What to do
with our ex-presidents." “Send them
to Africa," savs The Herald.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
If You Desire
Really Fine
Tailoring You'll
Come To Dorr s
We don’t make cheap clothes.
We don’t try to skimp and try
to see how cheap a suit can be
made—our aim is to find out how
much ' alue can be put into the
garments we make. That’s why
Dorr clothes are as fine as can
be made. They cost slightly more
than the ordinary, but their value
is a hundredfold greater.
Tailoring, Furnishings
For Men of Taste.
FORTUNES
are made on land near cities, with
fifty thousand or more inhabitants.
Augusta is rapidly growing West
ward. Land for sale by the acre:
Summerville, High Point, near
Country club, Monte Sano, David
son, Fairmont, Wheless.
Apply to
Clarence E.Clark
REAL ESTATE.
842 BROAD ST. AUGUSTA, GA.
Wood,
$4.50 Per Cord.
Will deliver mixed Oak and Pine
Wood promptly any part of the city,
for $4.50 per cord. Split fc- tho
stove. Gvod wood and prompt ser
vice.
COAL.
I carry only the best Domestic
Coal. Jellico and Blue Gem. Yard
'phone 92; city office 16.
3. H. McDaniel.
To The Building Trade!
We are pleased to advise that the capacity of our Keystone
Lime Kilns has been increased to now the largest in the south, en
abling us to offer the famous
“KEYSTONE” WHITE LIME
in this territory for prompt shipment.
“KEYSTONE” is the highest priced, but the strongest, whitest
and best Lime for Brick Work and Plastering. It is packed in the
best cooperage.
We can sell you good TENNESSEE LIME at lower prices.
Let us quote you Delivered Your Town, car lots or less.
Carolina Portland Cement Co.
SOLE DISTRIBUTORS. CHARLESTON, S. C.
Eureka Roofing
The Roof without a fault, you can put it on right over shingles.
For sheds, barns, etc.; it has no equal. You can use it In the fire
limits. We will give you a little booklet telling all about this roof.
Come, write or telephone, us
Augusta Builders Supply Co.,
643 Broad Street. Telephone 321.
“The Last Sign of the Flood”
We will sell Ceiling for $lO and up; Floor
ing for sls and up. Spot Cash. Come Quick
INDUSTRIAL LUMBER COMPANY
Phone No. 282.
BLANK BOOKS
and Office Stationery
Fit your office and counting room with a sup
ply for the New Year, at
PENDLETON’S BOOK STORE
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1.
WHERE SERVICE
IS PERFECT
Is where you should trade
to get the value of your
money. We serve your com
fort, safety and convenience,
and it costs less to trade
with us.
COLD AND HOT
DRINKS.
at our Fountain made from
absolutely pure and clean
material.
Alexander Drug Co
708 Broad St.
For
The Nursery.
Mutton Suet in cakes, with cam
phor and turpentine to rub the
children before putting them to
bed. The old thing, and nothing
better, 15 cents cake.
Oardelle’s
620 BROAD.
Tooth Brushes
The celebrated English brands
R. S. W. and Thatsit at 35 cents,
and Gardelle’s imported Brush,
25c. All guaranteed. If bristles
pull out, come and get another.
Gardelle’s
620 BROAD.
FOR AT ABLE AND STATION^*
AND BOILERS
■aw, L*tk »oii Shinsci; Mill*. Injtatort,
Pumps and Fitting*, Wood Saw*, Spllttor*,
Shafts, Pulley*, Belting, Gaeollae Bngiaee.
“ GK J ,OCK LOMBARD
Ftttdjy, Machig* and Boiler Works and Supply Sian
AUGUSTA, OA.