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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. *»* 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. .. ........ m il ii i liu m Do you want to save from 25 to 50 cents on every Dollar yog spend? 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