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PAGE FOUR THE AUGUSTA HERALD Published Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO. Entered the Augusta Postofflce as Mail Matter Of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Dally and Sunday, 1 year 16.00 Daily and Sunday, 6 months ?.00 Dally and Sunday, 3 months .. .. 3.60 Daily and Sunday, 1 month 60 Dally and Sunday, 1 week 13 Sunday Herald, 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald, 1 year 60 . City Editor 299 Society Editor -96 FOREIGN i Vreekmd-Benjamin Agency, 226 Fifth Ave., New York City, 1108 Boyce Build ing. Chicago. Address all business communications to THE AUGUSTA HERALD 731 Broad Street, Augusta Ga. "IF YOU WANT THE NEWS YOU NEED .THE HERALD." Augusta, Gl., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 1909. No communication will published In The Herald unless the name of the writer Is signed to the article. The Herald Is the official advertising medium of the City of Augusta and of the County of Richmond lor all legal notices and advertising. There, is no better way to reach the homes of the prosperous people of tills city and section than through the col umns of The Herald, Dally and Sunday. Telephone the Circulation Departmen’, Phone 297. when leaving Augusta, and arrange '.o have The Herald sent to you by mall each d#y. The Augusta Herald hi»s a larger city circulation than any other paper, and a larger total circulation than any other Augusta f>uper. This ha* been pro von by the Audit Co., of New York. Mr. Harrlman is now camping in TexaH. Ho says hi- came to Georgia for Bunshine. Wonder what, lio ex pects to get in Texas? Tiie reports ns to Taft’s cabinet make mention ot no Georgian among the bunch. Consequently the reports must be wrong. The Cleveland man who beat his wife because (lie baby cried demon strated the good there is In able bodied mothers-in-law. He had mum Gen. Hell thinks that "wars are likely to bo more common In future than In the past.” He evidently hati been reading after Hobson. If Maxim's new noise absorber could l>e utlached to motor eyclus, everybody would agree that it was a valuable invention. It is reported that the prohibition law is a farce In Montgomery, Ala, Hut this report causes no surprise In other cities where the prohibition law is being tried. But why should Hon. George Bell be confined In the lunatic asylum eljx ply because he has delusions? Do rii all active legislators havo de lusions? II Is announced that Vice-President Fairbanks lias bought a fruit raiicn in California. Wonder If ho can have taken such a fancy to lemons that ho wauls to raise more of them? Can that Atlanta lady detective smoke a pipe? Without this accomp lishment, it must bo remembered, she can never hope to equal the detective feats of Sherlock Holmes. California has passed an anti rare track Rambling law. Playing potter and operating In milling stocks Is all (hat 1# now left the old sports In that state. A ’’alienee" room Is to be added to a Chicago church. Such a room would bo an excellent addition to many churches, to put the preacher In during the services. In New .lersev a man has Just died from the effects of taking a drink of water. Hut such a fate is no pity for a man in New Jersey, where they don't have to drink water. Some scientist claims thnt whiskey and corsets are the two greatest curses of the age Then having abol ished whiskey, the prohibition law should be made to include the cor sets also. Writing messages to congress will soon be a lost art to Teddy. In thnt accomplishment the country will never have Ms like again, and our posterity will be more fortunate than we have brow. The Atlanta Journal predicts thnt in time airships will be as common n sight as the water wagon If this pre diction comes true, let us hope at least that It wlli not V>e as easy to fall off ___ They are having ‘ real, militant en forcement" of the prohibit ton law In Macon, according to the News. So the old booze lighters are trying hard to put the stuff down in the Central City, are they? Mr. Taft will certainly become n Jack et all-tt ados He is already a cabinet maker, carries a Mason’s card and is a lock expert And ns soon as he gets in the swing he exnecta to give assistance to the tickers on the tariff. A Ft. I.ouls woman framed up a set of ten commandments to govern her husband’* conduct and he sued her for a divorce. Still a set of writ ten commandments is better than having the law laid down to you ev erv day. and that Is the sad experi ence of most husbands. The Alabama law prohibiting the carryhig of pistole Gxss than 24 inches long has been declared uncog, Mituticnal It is now up to Oregon to do the same with its 'aw against the wearing of but plus ten Inches long. THE BUSINESS BAROMETER The Herald believes that Augusta especially, the South and the country generally, are going to experience a steady, general and heal thy revival of business in all lines of trade's, commerce and industry during ihe j>-ar 1909. Already farming operations are well under way in this section of the South and the revival of business is felt quietly anil steadily at work in all directions. Locally, this is one of the best winter tourist seasons Augusta has ever had. Real estate and building operations are showing up favor ably, retail arid wholesale- trade is picking up, and with the opening proper of the spring season, The Herald expects to see Augusta tenor upon its best and biggest and busiest year. The advertising columns of the newspaper are pretty good indexes of the business conditions prevailing in any section of the coltntry, and the advertising records of February indicate that Augusta and its terri tory and merchants expect to do a bigger and better business this year than last. For the first week in February, 1909, The Herald’s records showed an increase in Display Advertising over last year of 137 Inches, or 1918 agate lines. For the second week in February, 1909, The Herald's records showed an Increase in Display Advertising over last year of 400 inches, or 6,600 agate lines. “ For the third week in February, 1909, The Herald’s record showed an increase in Display Advertising over last year of 359 inches, or 6,026 agate lines. For the three weeks of this February, an increase of 896 inches, or 12,544 agate lines, over the corresponding period of last year. As a measure of confidence and as an Index of enterprise and business hustle, the advertising columns of the daily newspaper are pretty good business barometers. The year 1909 is going to be a good year for Augusta and all its people. And The Herald trusts that it will be a successful and profitable one in all lines of trade. The way to do JmsincKs is to do business, and Augusta seems to be doing busi ness all right. AUGUSTA ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA The federal government has given its sanction to the building ot a dam across the Savannah river at Price’s Island, for the purpose of developing water power. Work on the undertaking is to be started im mediately. This will mark the beginning of a now era of development and growth for Augusta. Just as the enlargement of the canal thirty years ago led to the establishment of new enterprises which doubled th>- population of the city, so will the developement of this new power plant lead to the same result. During the next decade Augusta will grow us it did during the decade following the completion of the canal. This improvement will begin at once. By the terms of the grant the dam must be completed within two years. The magnitude of the work can be best appreciated when it is remembered that the plant com plete will call for an outlay of $3,000,000. This means the turning loose In immediate neighborhood of a large part of this great sum, beginning at once and continuing for two years, for the work of con struction. it will be a great Impetus given to business. Two years at least will elapse before this power that is to be de veloped will bo available. For what purpose is it to be used? This is a question which time must determine. When the canal was being built the same question presented itsolf. It is fully assured today, and lias been for several years. So It will be with this new power plant. The power being known to be here it will quickly be used. More and more is it being recognized that this section offers ex ceptional advantages for manufacturing. In climate, In labor and other conditions we havo advantages not exqualled by states in the North, and these advantages are leading not only to the investment of new capi tal in manufacturing enterprises in the South, but to the transfer to the South of capital already so invested in other sections. The development of this great water power will claim the attention of men of enter prise. and as soon as the power shall be available there will be men ready to make use of it. There Is no doubt that the power developed will soon find users, and the time will come, as it quickly did with the canal, when it will all be taken. And if not all of It, certainly the greater part wHI be applied in Augustu. Nothing is more certain. This given the absolute assur ance that, beginning with the work on this Twin City Power Co.’s dam, Augusta will enter upon a new era of rapid development and greater growth. LEARNING IN THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE From Ottumwa, lowa, the story comes ot a great mob gathering mound the Jail, intent on lynching a negro. Only the want of a leader, so the report runs, prevented the mob from storming the jail, and the sheriff in the meantime spirited away the negro prisoner who was wanted by the mob. The people ot that quiet little lowa town have been greatly wrought up by a number of crimes ngnlnst white women committed by negroes in quick succession. No less than six crimes of this nature sro mentioned, in one case the victim having been murdered after the assault. lu two oases the criminals were convicted and sent to the penitentiary; in two other enses they were tried and acquitted. Now again a white woman was assaulted by a negro, who entered her home while she was alone with a small child, and was confined to her bed by illness. With such crimes coming in rapid succession it is no won der that tho white men of that town should rise and try to take the law into tlielr own hands. In Pittsburg. Pa., tho experience has been much the same. That city, according to reports, is absolutely being terrorized by vicious ne groes. Assaults on white women have become so numerous that in oirlaln sections of the city they do not dare to leave their homes, and in their homes they consider it neeossar.v to be armed for self-orotec tion. Young white men patrol the streets at night, for the safety of their homes and the protection of women, and a race riot has more than once been only narrowly averted. It Is thus that by sad experience tho people of the North are learn ing that there Is one phase of the negro problem which until nowthey havo utterly failed to understand It has been customary at the North, when a negro was lynched in the South, to denounce the southern people. Some of these northern critics, like the editor of Collier s Weekly, have gone so far as to make the most unworthy and damnably false Insinuations in regard to those crimes which provoke the lynching spirit. Now that this evil is com ing home to tile North It may be expected that the northern people will gain a better and more correct understanding of tills race problem, and with n more correct understanding of it the right solution will be soon er reached. As yet tlu re are comparatively few negroes In the North. When even with this there are Springfield riots and Ottumwa horrors, surely the thinking people of the North can appreciate conditions In the South where in many sections the negroes outnumber the whites. It is not all negroes who are bad. The vicious element among them constitutes on!> a minority but it Is growing. Tho old ante-bellum ne groes as a rule do hot belong to this class, which Is compared of younger negroes and principally of such as loaf around the towns, and this class Is continually growing. It Is where this class congregate that they constitute the greatest menace, and one that must be provided against effectively, for uuless thin is done conditions will grow from bad to worse. It now appears what a sad mistake was made when as a reconstruc tion measure It was determined to give full citizenship to a race Jus* liberated trom bondage. It was this which led to the deterioration ,of the negroes morally. Before the war such crimes were never commit ted. Immediately after the war they were unknown. It was not un til the negroes were subjected to the debauching Influence of politicians. In the i (Tort to corral their votes, that such crimes began, and that tills evil has grown. It was a fearful blunder that was committed when full citizenship was thrust upon n race which was entirely unlit by previous training to exercise It. To undo what has been done Is never pleasant, hut sometimes it may be absolutely necessary. It Is so in this case. It was a mistake to confer full citizenship on a race untrained to exercise or properly to appreciate it, the bitter frutts of which are now beginning to be gathered in the North* where there are bnt few negroes. This points the way to the root of the evil, w hich should ho cut off la the North us it is being done In the South. THE AUGUSTA HERALD GEORGIA FAVORS OUTSIDE MONEY LENDERS Home Capital is Charged Two Per Cent, While Out side Holders of Mortgages Pay Nothing The state of Georgia may be just ly termed the paradise of the non-rest, dent money lender. Not only are in terest rates much higher for tho same class of security than in the north and middle west, but the laws I that state actually discriminate against home funds by imposing an ad valorem tax averaging two per cent per annum, while mortgages owned by non-residents go scot-free. It .is a fact that in this state in terest rates on real estate security rule about one per cent higher, other things being equal, than in the east and middle west. This is partly ac counted for by the relative newness of the country from an Industrial standpoint, and by the relative sparse ness of population, hut not wholly so. Many states —Oklahoma, for ex ample—are far newer, more experi mental, more sparsely settled, than Georgia; yet in these states five per cent is the ruling rate for farm loans and for city loans five to six per cent. We must look for some factoors other than those enumerated above, to ac count for this result. The solution is found in the pecu liar economic and legal conditions surrounding the mortgage loan mar ket in Georgia—conditions which have made this field perhaps the most attractive to mortgage investors of any now available. 1 The Georgia tax laws provide that all notes, bonds, mortgages, or choses in action shall be taxable at full ad valorem rates if held by a resident of the state of Georgia. Such securi ties are treated as part of the per sonal property of the taxpayer, and are assessed as such. Up to within recent years the bulk of these loans escaped taxation, ow ing to the refusal of mortgage-hold ers to return the same. Of late, how- , ever, there has been much agitation on the subject of "tax-dodging moil- j ey-lender*,” and the result has been the collection of ad valorem taxes, ranging from one to two and a half per cent per annum on an increasing volume of real estate loans, when these are owned by Georgia people. Tho rounding up of these unfortunate investors has been the more easy, owing to the customary form of such security—more fully explained below —which involves the spreading of the THE BIG DITCH The Augusta Herald is of the opin ion that the Panama canal will not prove much of a blessing to this coun try, that the bulk of business with the Orient will still be carried on from our Pacific ports and that in case of war the canal would be a source of weakness instead of strength. We cannot agree with The Herald in the conclusions reached. To our mind it seems to be inevitable that the completion of this canal will mean much to the business interests of the South and to those of the en tire nation. In war It will enable our government to put Its ships Into the Pacific with perfect ease and to meet the enemy quickly and effective ly, using the Hawaiian Islands as a base in mid-ocean It is a costly business it Is true and it Is costing this government more money than it was ever dreamed It. would cost, hut even at that it will be a good Investment from a financial standpoint and will be of invaluable service In time of war.—Athens Ban ner. ♦ «♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦<» ♦ TALKS ABOUT AUGUSTA ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ <t ♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ John D. is reported to have left an Augusta banquet hungry. What’s the matter with Augusta’s hospitality.— Atlanta Journal. Oyster Bay will soon have an op portunity to recognize Augusta, Ga , as an esteeded contemporary in ob scurity.—Houston Post. Wisconsin cast its electoral vote for Taft “of NeW York"—and after all tho advertising Augusta had, too.— Jacksonville Times-Union. Augusta Is having a dam site of trouble just now over the develop ment of a new water power.—Macon News. Recent dog fights In Augusta re sulted In one dead dog, two dead men and some law suits. And the dog wasn't a winner at any dog shows, either. -Brunswick Journal. Atlanta, Savannah and Augusta are fighting over the pleasure of naming their baseball team The Tigers.” For either or all It would be appropriate all right.—Thomasvtlle Times-Enter prise. Georgia will be well represented at the Taft inauguration next month. All those who expect something will be there all right, ail right.—Darien Gazette. If this is true Augusta and Atlanta will be practically depopulat ed—Columbus Enquirer-Sun. If Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t find any! good sport in Africa he might go to Augusta and tackle blind tigers.—An derson Mail. -fudge Taft has been elected an hon orary member of the Augusta Bar as sociation. They should call it the Taft bar.—Columbus Ledger. Some idiot in Augusta, started the I report that the Savannah river whs ; nbmit to flood the city, a cloudburst I having taken place. With memories of ; the Augusta flood still vivid those | living nearest the river began to pack lup their belongings or to lay In a j supply of food. A few years In a state institution would be none too j bad for such a fuunv fellow.—Atuer i icus Times-Recorder. | whole transaction on the public rec order Outside investors labor under no I such handicap. Yet the rate of in ! terest is materially affected by the ex | istence of such a tax. The lender I figures,- let us say, five per cent for himself and one per cent extra for taxes. This makes the rate six per cent, on a loan that ordinarily would be placed at five. The non-resident lender steps in and takes this six per cent loan to net six per cent, pocket ing the whole amount of interest without deduction for taxes. He is really getting six per cent income on | an investment that ought to be on a five per cent basis. It is a sort of : protective tariff that the state has ! erected —unwittingly perhaps, but ef fectively—for the benefit of non-resi dent investors. In the song run the resident mon ey-lender must succumb to this sott of competition, and all the really good loans will be driven out of the state. This will have the effect of gradually reducing the rate of Interest to a tax exempt level. But for some time to come the unequal contest will be waged, and the opportunity will be presented for non-resident funds to reap the benefit. Nor is there any likelihood of a change in law during the next few years. Legislative attitude towards the lender of money on real estate security has never been friendly enough to lean in the slightest to wards exempting mortgage loans from personalty tax. When the sit uation becomes better understopd, it is barely possible that such a result will be achieved. When this is done —if ever—home and foreign funds will simply be put on an equal basis. Georgia is a highly prosperous state. The effects of the late panic were less severe, and seem to be more rapidly passing off, than In al most any other locality. Hence, the demand for funds, which can be prof itably employed in real estate ami other investments, is at all times enormous. This is the second great factor contributing to high interest rates. People pay six, seven, and eight per cent, because they can af ford it. The money earns more when re-invested. Property in the growing cities of the state is especially re munerative. —William Hurd Hillyer oi Atlanta in Bonds and Mortgages. CHINA’S MODERN IN DUSTRIALISM Fifteen hundred tons of pig iron from the iron and steel works of Hanyang, China, traveled 600 miles down the Yangtse river and 14,000 miles by sea, and were laid down in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1907, at $17.50 a ton. Thus did commercial competition come knocking at our doors to serve notice that the new China was no longer a surmise, but a fact. Under semi-official management 3,500 work men at Hanyang turn out daily 500 tonß of pig iron and 250 tons of steel. They made the rails and much other constructive material for the? 750 miles of the Peking-Hankow railroad, and for most of the other Chinese lines since then, besides exporting in 1907 37,000 tons of pig and manufactured iron. Today they are putting up an other plant for the manufacture o£ cars, steel bridges and other structu ral material. This is a partial expres sion of the new China, and in such language there is no equivocation. Thirty years ago the Chinese gov ernment purchased the first, railroad constructed on Chinese soil, tore it up, and dumped it in the sea. A wiser court came back to Peking in 1902. Perhaps they had not learned to love the foreigner any better for his in struction, but they had discovered that the only China that could resist his encroachments was a unified Chi na, a China of railroads and tele graphs, a China of well-drilled sol diers and modern rifles, a China that exploited its mines and pushed Its manufactures, and, above all, a China with a national spirit and a thorough going education. —American Review of Reviews. ♦ * ♦ POINT AND COUNTERPOINT ♦ ♦ ♦ Discrimination in Giving Kisses. Jack Binns and little Joe Brown are the two public men that are now being kissed by sen timental ladters. It’s the penalty they must pay for greatness.— Augusta Herald. It must be admitted, however, that the ladles always exercise consider able discretion when they go into the kissing business. They rarely waste their energies on the undeserv ing.—Rome Tribune-Herald. Mr. Harrovian as a Kink Straightener It just now begins to dawn on some people that while Mr. Har riman wgs talking about taking the kinks out of the Central of Georgia railroad, wha* he really had in mind was taking the kinks out of the people.—Augusta Her ald. There are more people with kinks in them in Georgia than in any other state. If Mr. Harriman has found some means of straightening off? their kinks he can afford to give his railroads away.—Jacksonville Tlmes- UDion. Riding Donkeys in Atlanta. In Atlanta they are now talking about trying the experiment to live like Jesus. It's no use, you can't turn water into wine, and It’s useless to try.—Augusta Her ald. Wager dollars to doughnuts that none of the live like Jesus sort rode a jackass through the streets [of Atlanta as the Paragon of P<r | section did in Jerusalem. —Quitman I Advertiser. About the Booze Artists. The Augusta Herald says there Our Spring Shirts Are Beauties There was never a season that produced such exquisite tones in men's shirts as we are showing now. Delieate tints in varied hues not confined to the old-time staple col orings, Borrowing the tones from the rainbow, the designers have produced patterns that cannot be matched for beauty. sl, $1.25, $1.50, $2, $3. 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. AMD BOILERS Rw, JUffctU and Shiluris Mills. laj»otor% mps *nd Fittings, WoodSsw*. 8plltt««» •hafts, Pulleys, Beitlnff, Gasoline Snglae* “*™r OK . LOMBARD, farig, MkMm iid fMte Wait m 4 Supply Sin* AUGUSTA, QA. Wood, $4.50 Per Cord. Will deliver mixed Oak and Pine Wood promptly any part of tho city, for $4.50 per cord. Split fc- the stove. Good wood and prompt ser vice. COAL. I carry only the best Domestic Coal. Jellico and Blue Gem. Yard ’phone 92; city office 16. A. H. McDaniel. are only two classes of citizens in Jacksonville now, the booze sellers and the booze fighters. How about the booze consumers? Don't they county?—Amertcus Times Recorder. The booze consumers are the booze fighters, always trying to put down the booze. They don’t count the cost oi their indulgence, for if they did the prohibition question would be set tled without any laws on the sub ject. c Newspaper |V!en and R. R. Ownership The Augusta Herald again “Prosperity ol 1906 Is About To Return.” Build Now or Pay More Which Will You Do? INDUSTRIAL LUMBER COMPANY Home Builders. Phone 282 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 sourh, 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 iess. Carolina Portland Cement Co. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS. CHARLESTON. S. C. “CHIROPODY.” AND MANICURING AT HICKEY'S HAIR DRESSING PARLORS. ROOM 213 HARISON C 'ILDING. “Hickey's Barber Shop.” 221 EIGHTH STREET. TUESDAY, FEB. Ztf. Are You Going To Paint A House ? Before doing so, won't you see us, get color cards and informa tion about Devoe’s Pure Lead And Zinc Paint, Price is reasonable, quality can’t be better. We will be glad to suggest reliable paint ers to do the work for you. Alexander Drug Go. 708 Broad St. HOT AND COLD DRINKS. Specialties In Garden Seeds LIVINGSTON’^ Special grown Tomato Seeds in original quarter pound packages, all varieties, including the New Stone. wood’s ”*n "jt Special grown Canteloupe Seed. Early Hanover, Perfection, Rocky ford and new this season, the ex tra early Rockyford, larger and two weeks earlier than the old Rockyford. L. A. Gardell^’s Seed Department 620 BROAD. Want to Contract -For -1,000 tons of Tomatoes 100 tons of Sweet Pota toes. 100 tons of Beanr. 100 tons of Peaches. Augusta Canning Go. FRANK ROUSE Pres, and Treas. ’Phone 477. Turkish SI.OO Russian 75c Shampoo 50c TURKISH 6ATH HOTEL, HARISON BUILDING. asks: “Who are the real owners of the railroads?” This thing is getting awfully embarrassing for us. Once and for all and finally we will have to insist that we don’t. —Macon News. Who ever heard of a newspaper man being worth even a spike.—But ler Herald.
