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THE BANNER-MESSENGER.
Tbe Official Organ of Haralson County.
r.i'CUAWAN, GEORGIA, APRIL 3.1.185»i.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
One Year - w
Six Months
Three Months ,25
What is the matter with Col. Pearce,
the Journal man?
The Carroll County Times is trying to
hatch a fish story. Can’t somebody help
it?
Fifteen pounds of tho best granulated
sugar for one dollar! Taking the tariff
off did it.
The Alliance of Carroll oounty "set
down” on all representatives who voted
for Gordon. This takes in their own.
The inspired writer has truly said,
“He that will not plow by reason of cold
shall beg in harvest and have nothing.”
A great deal of poverty is suffered be¬
cause men will not work unless the con¬
ditions are favorable. It is the constant,
steady, day effort that wins success and
comfort.—Ex.
Germany has a farmers alliance that is
growing almost as powerful in that coun¬
try as its American prototype has already
become in the United States. Count Von
Molkte and Prince Bismark, both of
whom are said to be practical farmers,
have announced their allegiance to the
farmers alliance.
Comptroller-General Wright decides
that all rent notes are taxable and must
be returned in proportion to tho amount
earned on April 1. In other words, a
rent note given January 1 for nine months
at one-third its value
on April 1. When a note is given for
produce the value must be determined by
tim tax-payer and tax receiver.
Five years ago when we set out to
house keeping we bought a sugar bucket.
That bucket has never been filled but
once since that time, the tariff having
kept it partly empty. But the other day
we went in with this same bucket and
handed the merchant the usual
amount of money we had been handing
him, and as we stepped out at the door
the snow white grains of sugar raised the
lid above the top of the bucket and seem¬
ed to say to those standing by, “you
see what the tariff has done for you.”
When we arrived home the better half
and little ones were made to rejoice and
expressed a hope that better times were
coming. And so there are, for tariff re¬
form is going to prevail.
The Tribune of Rome, in speaking of
the senatorial race in Florida, thinks it
would bo a mistake to elect Call. Here
is what a correspondent in the Atlanta
journal says:
“Call certainly has a strong support
from the genuine wool hat Alliance legis¬
lators, and his followers are the presiding
officers of both the senate and house, as
well as the caucus. Ilis opponents are
laigely corporation lawyeis, railroad of¬
ficials, politicians and the ambitious of¬
ficials of tho State Alliance, making the
fight somewhat like Gordon’s in Geor¬
gia.”
And here is what the Savannah Morn¬
ing News says about it:
“There is really no good reason for not
re-electing Mr. Call. He has been a faitli
M public servant, and has represented
in the Senate with marked Ability
jzen years. And there has been
^ively |^Aas little fault found with the
pursued. The opposition
■Bo up for the greater part of
HHH^asons HHH^ktiiig personal to t.iem
him re-e’eett n."
.o. politicians. ,
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
It was Senator Sherman who originn*
ted the expressive political phrase: “I
am looking after my fences,” and he has
mnv started a new one on his travels by
saying: ”1 came out here to build a
barn.” There arc not a fow people in
Ohio who would like to know the kind
of crop the Wily politician proposes to
that barn.
V
he adage that few "office-holders die,
and none resign” will have to bo revised
if Senator Edmund’s example becomes
contageous. However, come to think of
it, an epidemic of resignations would
please a great many people.
%*
Mr. Harrison evidently isn't supersti
tious or lie would not venture to “swing
ai . oun j tj le circle” in the face of the fate
of the other Presidents who accomplish
ed that feat.
***
There is one thing that should not be
exhibited at the World’s Fair—a Chicago
municipal election.
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There is a wide difference of opinion
in the ranks of the republican party on
the puestion of Canadian reciprocity.
Senator Morrill says: "It will never
come,” ;xud ex-Bepresentative Butter
worth says: “It is bound to come.”
These, of course, are the extremes, but
even among those who favor the idea
there is little hope of anything being ac¬
complished under the present circum¬
stances.
“Insanity” as a plea for murderers has
given way to “hypnotism, or as old
timers used to call it “mesmerism.”
V*
Secretary Tracy is deserving of the
sympathy of all honest people in his ef¬
fort to take the navy yards of the country
out of polities, but he will probably re¬
alize, if he has not already done so, that
he has undertaken the largest contract of
his life, and his failure to carry it out
need not surprise anybody. Mr. Tracy
is only one man and the politicians who
worS the navy-yards for their own per
sonal benefit are numerous and influen¬
tial.
V
There is always hope for a man who is
aware of his own falts. Ex-Senator Blair,
just before sailing for China, his new
post of duty, declined to be interviewed,
sayin: “I have talked too much already.”
lie had evidently read the newspapers.
***
Ex-Senator Ingalls says he proposes to
devote his attention to making money by
farming. We trust that lie will succeed;
but whether lie does or not he will be bet¬
ter occupied than in making money out
of the farmers, by exacting usurious
rates of interest for money loaned upon
mortgage, as he is credited with having
done for years.
***
We haven’t much of a navy to fight
Italy with, but if the American eagle
emits one of his fiercest shrieks the or¬
gan grinders will all be frightened out of
seven years growth.
***
The much reviled hay seed has become
an object of admiration with the politici
ans * Verily, the “world do move.”
***
When the young emperor of Germany
has a spell of indigestion and speaks a
little cross, as all of us are liable to do
under'similar circumstances, all Europe
shivers with fear and the air is full of
war rumors. Americans have many
troubles, but, thank heaven fear of war
isn’t one of them.
V
Who pays for the costly and magnifi¬
cent special train that the railroads have
placed at Mr. Harrisons disposal during
his across-the-coutinent trip? The peo¬
ple at large do, and you, dear reader,
must put up your share of the money in
some shape, for yon may be sure that,
although the railroads furnish the train
free of any charge to Mr. Harrison or any
member of his party, they expect to be
recomposed therefor. It occurs to us, in
this connection, that an accurate statc-
incut of tho expense' p by the run
ning of special trains re on all the
railroads of the com would make
W liat the lute Horace ( sly used to call
-‘mighty interestin'’ reading for the peo
p] e , and italso occurs to us that if this
expense, which must he enormous, was
wiped out by abolishing the practice that
the railroads could afford to make a m a
ferial reduction in the price of both
freight and passenger traffic without re
dnoing tlioir j>rolits.
V
Is John Bull hatching up a scheme to
capture the President of the United
States for the purpose of holding him
a hostage until certain disputed qttes
tions a re settled? The mayor of the
town Victoria, British Columbia, has in
vited Mr. Harrison to visit that town
when he gets in their neighborhood,
which he will do this month,
TIIE COUNTY ALLIANCE.
Carroll County Times,
The Carroll county Farmers’ Alliance
held their quarterly meeting at Old Cam])
Ground church Wednesday. President
J. A. Murrali presiding.
Mr. L. T. Russell was elected county
treasurer to fill the vacancy of John D.
Morgan, deceased.
The County Alliance recommended its
members to plant less cotton and more
grain and grasses.
The next meeting will be held with Bob
Toombs Alliance.
The dinner was said to be as fine as
was ever set in Carroll county.
A committee was appointed on build
ing cotton compress, viz: M. I). Wat¬
kins, G. A. Bonner, B. A. Sharp.
lion. W. S! Copeland, state lect-ui er de¬
livered a fine address.
A resolution was introduced nnani
mously passed recommending the dele
gates to the State Alliance to vote for
Hon. L. F. Livingston for president of
the State Alliance, provided the charges
that it was said would be brought against
him, were brought and be tried and vin¬
dicated. The resolution also condemned
Gov. Nortken and the Mansion caucus
and extoled “Peeping Tom” for his ex¬
posure of said caucus. It also condemn¬
ed state Sec. R. L. Bulks, hut endorsed
Hon. W. S. Copeland for State Lecturer.
It condemened certain members of the
State agricultural society and all Alli¬
ance Representatives for voting for and
electing Gov. Gordon to the United States
Senate “for six long years.” The reso¬
lution stated that this was rather late,
but they must enter their protest
The above was passed after coesidera
ble discussion.
You see two large birds soaring in the
air above you. They are nearly the same
size. They are colored alike. They have
the same extent of wing. They dscrihe
the most graceful curves. They seem to
an ordinary observer to be birds of the
same species. But when you look at
them more carefully, you notice that one
of them looks sunward, and gradually
rises upon iris great pinions into tho high¬
er atmosphere, enjoying the intoxications
of his mighty flight. You also notice
that the other looks earthward, and
slowly settles down into the mephitic va¬
pors of tiro reeking earth. The one has
the sun in his eye and soars upward; the
other has the exhalations from some bit
of stinking putrescence in his nose, and
lie settles downward. The one is the im¬
perial eagle; the other is the thirty buz¬
zard. These birds may bo taken as types
of men. Some people aspire; other peo
pie grovel. Some people fix their atten
tion upon the things that are pure and
ennobling; other people bend all their at
tention upon reeking nastiness. The ea¬
gle these; the buzzard those!—Progress¬
ive Farmer.
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