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PAGE SIX THt AUGUSTA MtRAID Publirheu Every Afternoon During the Week and on Sunday Morning by THE HERALD Ff'BUSHING CO. '.a'«ered at the Augusta I’ostofflce as Mail Matter of the Second Class. SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: Dally and Sunday, 1 year $6.00 Daily and Sunday, 6 months .. .. 8.00 Daily and Sunday. 3 months .. .. 1.60 Dally snd Sunday, 1 month 6o Daily and Sunday, 1 week 13 Sunday Herald, 1 year 1.00 Weekly Herald, 1 year 60 Business Office Telephone 20 < City Edftor .. 290 Society Editor 296 foreign represent at? v'es-tiu* Benjamin Ar Kentnor Co., 225 Fifth Ave, t New York City, 1108 Boyce Building, Chicago. Address all business communications tc THE AUGUSTA HERALD 731 Broad Btreat, Atiguntfi, Oa. "IF YOU WANT TIIK NEWS YOU NEED THE HER ADD. ' Augusta, Ga., Thursday, Sapt. 9, 1909 No communication will bo publlahoo In The Harold unions the name of the writer la alirrod to the article. The Augusta Herald haa a larger city circulation than any other paper, and a larger total circulation than any other Auguala paper. Thla haa been proven by the Audit Co., of New York "You’ll like Augusta”—the city which will put on the beat fair In two state* next November. Cook or Peary, who Is entitled to be styled the discoverer of the north polet You can't pet too much of n good thing, and this proves that discover ing a north pole is not a good thing. Cotton Is now coming In with n rush, and every bale that Is sold puts S6O Into the farmer's Jeans. The oyster supply also Is said to be extra large this year. Kverythtng is more plentiful this year than usual except booze. Those Atlanta young men who have invented a flying machine which they fly at night must have Invented ri night hawk. A new Cook hook Is blng prepared for the press and will he out ns soon ns the work can be done. But It will contain no cooking recipes. Now, Instead of trying to And the pole, arctic explorers will probably be trying to flml that brass tube Dr. Cook burled at the pole. A record breaking crop of Ben Davis apples ts said to be ripening on the trees. Everything makes a noise like prosperity tills year. "The open door" Just at this time Is not located In Asia and does uot refer to trade. Ask any school boy If this Isn't true. The "good old summer time" will soon bo over, and if you have any summer promises remaining unfulfill ed the time Is growing short. If there’s a reason for everything that Is being done, what Is the rea son why the dear girls wear dresses to button up in the back? French duelists seems to bo getting very careless. The other day two captains fought a duel In Pnris with •words, and both were quite severely wounded Mrs. Melody, a Chicago widow, Is suing for a big slice of the fortune left by "Silent" Smith. She will doubtless feel equal to her name If she succeeds. Mr Roosevelt will probably side with those who believe that Dr. (took Is not a faker. For you see. If Dr. Cook's story Is discredited the pole will not have been discovered during bis administration. Caruso has announced that he will wear a gulden brown dress suit. But the Idea Is not original with him, for he evidently got It from reading about the inauguration of Gov Brown. Mrs Annie Besant claims that she was born in Bern 12,000 years ago. That explains where she got all those antiquated notions she 1* trying to un load on gullible people. Dr Cook Is generous, but he Is mis taken when he thinks that there Is honor enough for both In the claim that each was the first to set foot on the pole. The Elberton Star telllnic about a man by the name of Plano, neglect* to state whether he square or upright The fart that he la a preacher can not be accepted as an Infallible guide. An Atlantic City parson has an nounced that the men In hta church may smoke while he preaches. But shouldn't he allow the women of hts congregation an equal chance to pre pare for the hereafter? It would be serving Chattanooga exactly right for the Tourists to heat the stuffing out of that team, got to gether Just for this set of games. And the Tourists are Just the boys to do that very thing From present appearances It will re quire a big dose of that loving ktna ness which Editor Dick Grubb like* to talk about to settle this little mat ter that har been sprung by those pole discoverers Lily Langtry is said to be writing her memoirs 1 ney will be inter esting doubtless, but not nearly so much as a biography would be writ ten bv some one acquainted with the facts and not dlaortmlntin* enough not to tell all. A LABOR PROBLEM THAT SEEMS TO BE VERY FAR-REACHING CAPITAL SAYS TO LABOR TAKE WHAT YOU FIND IN YOUR PAY EN VELOPE, BE SATISFIED, OR GET OUT Possibly the only thing in recent months that has seemed to mili tate against the great wave of prosperity that Is surging all over this country, has been a cumber of very acute labor problems and strikes that hive broken out In various cities, Industries and sections of the country. We have had the firemen’s strike on the Georgia railroad, in which not so much a question of wages was involved as there was a issue, which resulted, however, in the raise of the wages of the negro firemen; there have been street car strikes in a number of cities, but the most serious and far-reaching has been the strike of the steel pressed car workers at McKees Rocks, Pa., in which some very interesting questions have been brought to the surface. They are vital both to the labor and capital interests of the country, anti they affect as well the entire body of the people. Mr. Paul I' Kellogg, who has "been investigating the causes of the Mc- Kees Rocks trouble, thus states the Issue:'' It was a case of the em ployers saying to the employes: 'Take what you find In your pay envel opes and he thankful. Don't bother us with questions. If you are not satisfied with your Jobs get out and make room for the many who are ready to take them.’" From the standpoint of the non the Issue is thus stated: "It is a elean-rut illustration of she part which the Slavs may play In the indus trial life of this country. It. Is the protest of the half nsslmilated, the half-Americanized, the half-skilled against the very Industrial policies which have brought them here and which, by the deploying of fresh mi grations, tend to keep them all down to w-hat the company calls "ordinary day labor." ... It finds American workmen casting their lot with the Slavs, and It finds public opinion In the Pennsylvania steel district backing up their joint cause.” From the standpoint of the employers it introduces a new system of administration and Industry, The new system Is thus described: "They established a track system by which even a crude working force practically drives itself In turning out cars, and a pooling system of payment which keeps the labor cost per car within a fixed charge to the company and which unloads the hazards of lost time and mistakes In construction largely upon the men. The strike has been over a sweeping reduction in wages (as against 1907) which the men Inld up to this new system. Their grievances crystallized In the charge tha. they had no means of knowing what was coming to them on pay day, and that when they complained about It they were given neither rate nor redress. "They will not tolerate petitions or meet with representatives of the men, and they refuse to arbitrate. They hold that so long as a man ac cepts employment In their works he must accept the terms they grant or quit.; that so long ns he can quit work the man w,io thinks himself under paid has no grievance; and that (If one 1s to believe the Pittsburg press) wnether one man or a thousand quit work Is none of the pub lic’s business. Its part is to keep the peace. That ts what the company pays taxes for.” Mr. Kellogg’s statement of the case of the McKees Rocks trouble brings out some very grave and portentlous problems tbat seem bound to nffect tho relations of capital and labor throughout the whole country, as the ease Is a very acute one and brings out In striking contrast the demands of the Interests of the men and the employers. WORK AND RIGHTEOUSNESS It Is significant, that just so Boon as the Red-Shirt convention rloHod In Anderson, Richard Carroll started his big negro revival meeting In that city. Carroll preaches the doctrine of “work and righteousness" as the only "salvation" of the negro. However, Carroll’s doctrine of "work and righteousness” might very profitably lie preached by our white preachers for the benefit of a considerable number of whites. Laurensville Herald. It Is Indeed significant when ,i negro preacher preaches the doctrine of "work and righteousness" to negroes. Too much, when not preaching d'>ctrlnal sermons, has the subject of these discourses been the very opposite, and In a groat measure the fact that the negroes, as a race, have not made greater progress has been due to the fact that they have (brought more of "forty acreß and a mule” coming to them as a klft, of some government office or other soft snap where they wouldn't have to work, or of higher education and social equality. If there Hhall now come more negro preachers and negro leaders to preach to and teach their people the righteousness of work It will not only promote the harmony that now exists between the races in this section, hut It will tend hi the material advancement of the colored race, and this will bring with it moral elevation. The negroes In Richmond county pay taxes on a million dollar's worth of property, nearly all of which represents teo accumulation of tho reward of honest efforts It Is the negroes who own property who form In largest part, If nol exclusively, that portion of their race which holds the respect of all. and who are to be emulated by others ns their exemp lars When the negroes themselves look down upon the lazy. Idling and shiftless of their rare in contempt, then the time will have come when the relationship between tho races will be fixed, and abidingly agreeable and mutually helpful. Our Laurensville contemporary very correctly observes that the number of negroes who practice the righteousness of work Is now much greater than It wns during lted Shirt days. It was Idleness and the vlslousness begotten of Idleness which was the underlying cause of those troubles. It further scores a centre shot when It says that "the doctrine of work and righteousness’ might very profitably be preached hv our white preachers for the benefit of a considerable number of whites." Work is the keystone of nil success The successful men are all men who work, and thin applies not only to success materially, hut In every other way The white man Who Is poor and Is not engaged In regular work because morally degraded and vicious, the same cause having the same effect upon the white man as upon the black. And the white man who has the means to live without work and for that reason engages In no useful occupation almost Invariably goes to the dogs morally, for It ever remains true that Satan finds some mischief still for Idle hands to do. Work and righteousness are very closely related. It Is a doctrine that cannot be preached too much YOU’LL LIKE AUGUSTA Yes, you'll like Augusta everybody does. President Taft U com ing back this Fall and Augusta Is going to give hint a right royal and warm welcome, and Rockefeller and Harrlman and a thousand and one celebrities along with tho rest of the common people who can spero 'the time and the cash will also be on hand for the opening of the tour ist season and the new golf links, the Georgla-Carollna Fair, and do a little shopping and resting and recuperating, and talking over the sit uation. The Herald's Idea for a slogan for Augusta seems to be worrying s few of our sister cities of the state They already like the lino Tho Hernld has been running at the head of Its editorial columns; "You'll Like Augusta." ami ihe Columbus Enquirer sun says; "Should a progres sive city have a slogan? Augusta’s ts "You'll like Augusta." "Buffalo Means Business" "1 will" Chicago; "Detroit life Is worth living;" "Make Kansas City a good place to live and do business," etc. Yes, we would like to see Columbus have a good slogan, an appro priate slogan-something restful and peaceful. For many years Colum bus was the only tow- n in the world that sleeping cars ’ nevar ran through. Maybe they have sleeping ears nowadays that pass through Columbus If so. we suggest for Columbus' slogan “Take a sleepor and wake up In Columbus, or Why take a sleeper whon you can sleep in Columbus-" Columbus Is a good town and should by all moans have a slogan, SPECIAL MARKET NEWS OF THE HERALD At this soaeon of the year, the people of the Bouth. farmers men chnms. cotton factors, business men, In fact nearlv si! our r-ople are interested In the Dally Market News. Realising the s rea: business Im portance of furnishing Herald reade-s and subscribers at the earliest pos sible moment with this market news, 'the Herald has a special corre spondent in New Orleans with an office In tho Cottou Exchange Building who wires The Herald each day wha ; tho Now Orleans market te dolnt A similar service comes by wire each day from New York, You get the day', markets In The Herald lj hours ahead of the market service of the morning papers—you get tho nows of tho koto Jus; Is >rt get the news of the world tho dav bgpnpns In The Herald In addition to the regular city edition. The Herald also mib ■ iahes a Special Market Edition, devoted to market r.awa and vlow» P 'nr out of town subscribers. - * ror « “'**• •"* * • • **“•" ’■ -t «»" Fifty reals a month brings you The Dslly and Sunday Herald and you tl find It worth money for the market new# alone these days, THE AUGUfiTA HERALD THE PEONAGE CASES IN PENNSYLVANIA The Charges Against the Steel Trust Seem Much More Substantial Ihan Charges Against Southern Employers The prosecutions for peonage In Pennsylvania are most untimely—they are either based on such misrepresen tations as were uncovered In the case of Florida and other states, or they should have been Instituted many years ago. For the testimony offered and considered suffirtent to warrant prosecution now has been offered many times before—a congressional committee published a book full of *£uch testimony in its investigation of the old Homestead riots. The charges now made discover only the ordinary business method of certain corporations that have grown exceed ingly wealthy, while practicing them; may we not inquire what is beneath the sudden activity of the department? While President Roosevelt was horri fied at the suggestion of peonage in the South, nothing seemed wrong about Pittsburg, and he encouraged the special agents with praise and un stinted money to discover guilt where investigation promised political capi tal without a hint of what existed un der his eyes and nose. Might the complaints of the Italian government as to the treatment of im migrants have something to do with this abnormal activity In a solid re publican state? Is It necessary that a foreign nation apply the spur before our government can get busy with Its plain duties? The thought Is humiliat ing, but there Is enough apparent truth to Justify the suspicion that hu miliation is warranted by facts. The peonage discovered in the South was that of a hard driver to a defense less laborer —in every case where wholesale charges were made involv ing assured practice the proofs were thrown out of court. Now cruel men are to be found wherever there is MR- THAW’S MOTHER When Mr. Harry Thaw was recent ly refused a release from the New York Asylum for the Criminal In sane, he remarked, "with deep feel ing," we are assured by a sentimental writer, “I am so sorry for mother,” While it is by no means discredit able to Mr. Thaw that he should at last, have been moved to feel “so sorry” for his old mother, it is to he regretted both for her sake and for his that he was not impelled to that mental attitude some few years earlier Much of the bitterness of unrelenting regret might have been saved to many people, and months and even years of deep humiliation avoided thereby. Better than all of this, however, would it have been for both Harry Thaw and the elder Mrs. Thaw had ♦he voting man been c ” nsid . enough in earlier years to have been "glad for mother.” That was the great thing he neglected and omitted to do She lavished wealth upon him; she did all she knew how to make his existence bright and happy. She wanted him to enjoy life—*> e glad. Had he accepted her contributions to his pleasure— misguided as they may have been— With righteous apprecia tion and employed them in man.y. and honest way, he might have been very glad. Indeed; and glad tor his old mother's sake "Sorry for mother!” After dagfing her down to the depths of despair, as ter leading her along pathways of woe unutterable and anguish indescribable to he "sorrv for mother” Isn't much. Probably it" is the best a shriveled and sordid nature such as Harry Thaw’s has to give; and if that be the case, let him have such credit as may he due him for tt. As he sits in his Isolation at Matteawan and re views his wretched past —if he does that--is. may not, of coiusa, renr.elv a dop cridei: situation in any marked degre if now :nd then he feels "sor ry for r.:;nher. ’ As least, however, it will do it.m ro harm—Washington Herat t. ♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ EDITORIAL FUNNYGRAPHS ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The King of Spain has shaved his ! side whiskers. Just as well he did i so and saved some of the Insurgents the trouble. —Atlanta Journal. A young lady in Macon allowed her I lover to wear her watch and he went j off and married another girl. In place of watch she ought to have "chained" him. — Laurensville News Herald. * . They are planning some life-saving tests In Washington. One Is that married men who go home late at night shall be accompanied by a di plomatic friend. —Savannah Press. There Is one advantage in Walter Wellman's expeditions to the north | pole. No one has to go after and find | him. He always finds himself—or! j rather he neve- gets lost. —Macon i I News. I A man In Wilmington Is said to have painted a spider on hts bald spot. In order to scare away the files, i Think how foolish the poor fellow will feel when some one tells him that scientists say flies can't see.—Elbep ton Star. A Chicago judge has ruled that as the head of his household a man may eject his mother-ln-iaw. Truly, he may but very few men are disposed to hunt trouble. Atl&nts Constitution It is feared that In future people will not be allowed to use the abbre viation Ala., because it so near ale.—• Rome Tribune Herald. It has been suggested that Mr. Har , rlman who has lost 10 pounds and Mr. Taft who has many pounds he desires to get rid of, should pool their tissues and make the net result a Joint concern.— Birmingham Age-Her aid. An optimist Is a man who beltsres the time will come when the fashion in women's hats will change but once in three seasons—Anderson Mall. President Taft has consented to be preeent and open the Oeorgla-Carcllna, fair In Augusta this fall. Other at tractions are yet to be announcetL—, Oglethorpe Soho. J ignorance and helplessness—we would not hold Col. Roosevelt guilty if the contractor who furnishes women bear ers for his camp equipage should be shown to have used hippopotamus w-hips and plain sticks to urge effi ciency on the long march or to re press discontent when the waterholes are found dry on arrival. But he charged guilt to a whole people on the mere suspicion that wrong had been committed by an individual or a cor poration was he fair while insisting on justice and and equality of oppor tunity with his mouth? Let the Pittsburg cases he prosecut ed with one-half the acrimony that characterized the conduct of cases in the South—we shall not believe all Pennsylvanians are brutes, even tnough some be proved cruel and heartless. But men and women do not face bullets for imaginary wrongs, nor do they rise against the rapid fire guns till conditions become intol erable. There have been no such mobs in the South as we have repeat edly seen about the mines and found ries that evolve the Pittsburg brand of millionaires—not even against the wicked Standard Oil have employes become so embittered and so desper ate as to face the soldiery day after day, and send their women with sticks against sabers and bayonets or even to strike. Isn’t It a bit strange that a corporation to which employes have been remarkably loyal—a corporation at which a strike was never aimed, should have been selected as the type of overgrown and malevolent wealth, while the iron masters now driven to the front of the stage should have been selected for especial favors, even to the nullification of the law?—Jack sonville Times-Union. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ TALKS ABOUT GEORGIA ♦ Crime in Georgia. Georgia doesn’t ascribe all the crime to the weather, as the Florida Times-Union avers: much of the crime has been traced to the use of fire water of the Jax brand.—Bruns wick Journal. The Georgia Peach It transpires that the Georgia peach growers made a cool half million dol lars on the peach crop recently mar keted, notwithstanding the fact that It was killed a score of times last spring—Washington Herald. Can Only Work in Georgia. If Georgia people can neither drink nor gossip there is nothing left for them to no but to go to work.— Adalrsville Banner. COLDFEETO THE MONK. -SAT COLDPEETO, COME-IN )f _ DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE) AND JOfN OUR, LODGE, -MJR.E PRINCIPLED OF THIS. - * •VNE HAVE GREAT TIMED . \( i V NOBLE ORDER? J ARE —-— 1 — y ‘ ARE TOU —EMBED I E HARRISAN BtINOEOLD THE ( ~ TO UNDEftG-O THE" ( / Tu/rr'g mc I CANDIDATE AND LEADEN • fX \ PROVE TDUR COURAGE [ f r\ ) ( { THINK L’LL TOiM T Cby PLUNGING YOUR )\ V. 1 A TURN Spdpik, I '.w J--' REREIN 1 J — Your New Hat, Sir? We’ve quite the hand somest lot of styles this season that we ever saw. Every worthy shape, every worthy make, ever}' worthy shade. We can fit your in dividual taste or we know what best suits you —Soft or Stiff. $3 W $5 DORR Tailoring, Furnishings For Men of Taste. LOTS On High, Broad, Greene, Telfair and Walker streets, and Georgia-Caro lina Avenue, near Country Club, Lake View Park and Fair grounds. Rapidly increasing in value. Will sell on installment. Liberal dis count for the casu. Apply to CLARENCE E. CLARK REAL ESTATE. 842 BROAD. Hot Time For Georgia Coming. 1910 bids fair to become tile most caloric year, politically speaking, Georgia has ever known.—Meriwether Vindicator. BLANK BOOKS OFFICE STATIONERY OFFICE DESKS AND CHAIRS FILING DEVICES HIGH GRADE STATIONERY RICHARDS STATIONERY CO. DUNLAP HATS THURSDAY, SEPT. 9. TO MY PATRONS In view of the recent cuts and demoralization of the Patent Medicine business in Augusta, I simply make the statement to my friends and patrons that you need not go elsewhere for your medicine in this line, but I will meet any cut price and sell them for CASH as low as the* lowest, and you know that you will get the genuine goods from me and no bogus or Imitation goods. L. A. Sardelle DRUGGIST ALEXANDER’S DRUG STORE By reason of prevailing local conditions is meeting the prices set by others. Its standard of excellence, however, will not be lowered as long as It continues In business. Our prices are cash on all reduced articles. The Rexall Store Alexander Drug Co. COOK’S Goldblume The Best Brewed
