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THE BANNER-MESSENGER,
'i k Official Organ of Haralson County.
mrcHAJf/irG OKOiiraA, tmay' 14, ism.
A. E. NIX, Editor and Manager.
SUlMtClUPTION HATES.
’One Year - Si.on
Six Months no
Throe Months .25
“The Republican tariff reform party.”
Did you ever—
The Sunday issues of the Atlanta Con¬
stitution arc simply enormous in every
particular.
Why didn’t Col. Brock ask what do
you think about the little man Harrison
in the big hat? Isn’t he a * ‘tariff reform
Republican” too?
Col. Brock wants it distinctly under¬
stood that a paper of pins can now be
bought for less money than before the
war. Wonder what makes cotton so
-cheap? Is it the tariff?
An Elbert county fanner, who is dis¬
gusted with bis all-cotton brethren, says
lie prays every night that the price of
corn will go to 85 a bushel and meat to
■$2.50 a pound. He thinks that will bring
the people to their senses.
Taking the tariff off of sugar has made
it cheap; yet Colonel Brock says that a
high protective tariff makes things cheap.
If taking the tariff off of sugar makes it
cheap, why would it not make other
things cheap in proportion by taking off
the tariff?
The last Republican congress spent a
billion of dollars. Just think about it!
How much of the National debt did they
c incel, and how much aid and protection
did they render unto the great masses of
laboring people of this country? For
whose protection was this vast amount
■ of money spent?
If the “Republican tariff reform party”
added a hundred million dollars to the
money eircuTatidn'tve would like to know
whose pockets it has got into? Bo our
people fell any relief? Has the farmer
got any more money now than he had be¬
fore? Is he getting a better price for bis
cotton on the account of so much money
being in circulation?
Col. Brock says the Republican party
is going to give us more money. You re¬
member, Colonel, they promised to give
the negroes forty acres and a nude and
the white folks one cent postage, but in¬
stead they gave ns all a billion dollar con¬
gress with a public debt undimiuished,
and an increase of taxation or tariff. How
does that sound for a “Republican tariff
reform party?”
Col. Brock says that to-day in the town
of Tallapoosa any person can purchase a
nicely finished scooter plow for less than
was paid for the making of such a plow
previous to the year 1861. IIow is it
then, Colonel, that the wage laborer who
makes these plows is getting more for his
labor now' than he did then, as you claim?
If this government has not already gone
into the mortgage-brokerage business, as
Col. Brock terms it, we would like to
know the reason why. If you will only
examine the mortgage records you will
find that business pretty extensive, and
we are sure you w ill find such mortga¬
gers dead broke. If this isn’t mortgage
brokarage business what is?
Col. Brock says he denies that either
party is guilty of robbery. Then why
should lie be fighting the one aud uphold¬
ing the other if there is no difference in
them? There is one of two things: If
the Republican party is wrong on the
tariff question, she is unmistakably rob¬
bing the people, and if the Democratic
party is wrong she is only trying to do
what we believe the Republican party is
doing now, robbing the people. There
is a wide difference between a high pro¬
tective tariff and a tariff for revenue only.
If the one is just the other is inevitably
unjust, aud will pass for robbery. Now,
who is the guilty party?
A flnuui IU11}‘,
Lust Saturday morning wo were tender¬
ed a seat with Sheriff Johnson and mlide
our way to Pleasant Grovechureh where
a number of Alliance speakers had been
billed to speak. On arrival we found
more people there than could got in the
house and others still coming in. The
first man we met was Rev. H\ J. Walton,
one of the speakers whose presence alone
we felt sure would entertain and interest
the people. About the next man we met
was the Hon. R. W. Everett, and then we
knew the thing would be a success
pile the absence of Capt. Harry Brown
and Rev. H I). Hutcheson who had been
billed to speak there on that occasion.
Soon the Alliance and non-Alliance
alike began to crowd in the house until it,
was chuck full. After song and prayer
the Hon. R. W. Everett was introduced
as first speaker. In his introductory re¬
marks be stated that it was not his pur¬
pose to make a speech there that day, but
had come out to bear those who had been
advertised to speak. Nevertheless be did
himself honor in a most interesting
speech of one hour and a half. We never
saw a people more interested and atten¬
tive than were these people to the logical
and outspoken truths from this grand
and good man, who has just been elected
to a seat in the United States Congress.
We would like to go into the details of
this speech, but space forbids., Suffice to
say it was on the line of right and
reform and the people of the Seventh
Congressional district ought to be proud
of their next representative in the United
States Congress. We can speak for Har¬
alson and say slie is.
After speaking it was announced that
dinner would be spread on the yard for
all, which announcement all found to be
correct. Wo can say for the good ladies
of that section, and especially of Mrs. E.
Blackman, that they know what and how
to cook for large Alliance gatherings,
They must be some Alliance, too.
After recess of about an hour the
crowd gathered into the house again
to hear the Rev. W. J. Walton, County
Lecturer of Haralson county. It was not
our pleasure to hear this speech—having
sick folks at homo we had to hasten back
—but we are told that the speaker acquit¬
ted himself well and his speech was
well received. Mr. McGarity, of Paul¬
ding county, also addressed the people.
Wash Gets the Contract.
Mr. C. W. Golden, of this place has
been awarded the contract for building
the courthouse at Buchanan, Haralson
county, Ga.. at §17,000.
When asked as to when the work would
be commenced, Mr. Goldin said: “I will
begin on next Tuesday, and shall push
the work for all it is worth.”
Mr. Goldin will move his family to
Buchanan, until the work is completed,
which will be about February, 1892.
Mr. Golden was required to give a bond
of §34,000, which was at once signed by
over twenty of Haralson's best citizens,
This shows how well Mr, Golden is
thought of in his old native state.
Mr. Golden will resign the office of mar
shal, which position he has so ably filled
for the past five years.
The question now is who will be Ed
wardsville’s next marshal? There are
some who want the office, but who will
it be? We’ll tell you later on.—Edwards
ville (Ala.) Plowooy.
A Wonder Worker.
Mr. Frank Huffman, a young man of
Burlington, Ohio, states that he had been
under the care of two prominent pliysi
cians, and used tlieir treatment until he
w as not able to get around. They pro¬
nounced his case to be consumption and
incurable. He was persuaded to try I>r.
King’s New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds and at that time was
not able to walk across the street without
resting. He found, before he had used
half oi a dollar bottle, that be was much
better; he continued to use it and is to¬
day enjoying good health. If you have
any throat, lung or chest trouble try it.
Wc guarantec satisfaction. Tr.al bottles
free at Neill & Almon’s drugstore.
How does this strike you? It is from
a valuable state exchange: “It is easy
for an itinerant with a plausible lip to in¬
duce some business men into any of the
ineffectual cheap schemes for advertising
which are worked now-a-days, who
wouldn’t give the home paper even a
small card “on account of the cost.” If
they would take pains to count the cost
of the cheap schemes as compared to ben¬
efits, they will conclude that there’s by
far more money in a neat running “ad”
in the paper.
doing;,GOOD.
Bv MISS JANIE DOSTER.
There are those who would like to do
n otH ^ Ebcy say. “Oh! if I only had wealth
or if I had a high social position, how
mU ch I would accomplish for God and
the church.” Who are those who build
those large cities? Was it the eapital
ilits? No; the poor carpenters, masons
and plasterers dependent on a day’s wa
ges for a living; so it is in the great work
for the Lord. The chief part is to be
done by ordinary people with ordinary
speech and by ordinary means. If this
world is ever brought to Christ it will be
through the hard efforts of men and wo¬
men who do not wait for any special en¬
dowment, but consecrate themselves and
what they have to God. Some men with
ten talents are useless while others with
only one or two talents are doing a great
work. There arc hundreds of ministers
of whom you havo never heard; they are
in log cabins at the west and in mission
chapels in the east. You do not notice
tlieir going or their coming, but the re¬
cord of tlieir ministry is known in heav¬
en. Who are the best workers in our
Sabbath schools in this land now? Men
of vast estates aud high social positions?
Not them. It is men and women who
know tlieir Bibles; are earnest in prayers
and arc anxious for the salvation of the
children, and every Sabbath are willing
to sit down and tell of Christ and his
great love for us and of his death and
resurrection. None are too poor or too
feeble to be of great service. Think of
this and act upon it. If wo work upon
marble it will perish; if we rear up line
houses they will crumble into dust, but
if we work upon immortal minds and im¬
bue them with the just fear of God and
of tlieir fellow men wc engrave upon
these tablets something which time can¬
not efface, but which brighten to all eter¬
nity. It is a great tiling to stand in a
place for God and proclaim Ilis word in
the presence of angels and men. If you
Would show yourself a man in the truest
and noblest sense, go not to the dwellings
^ le 1 '* C 'G S° out to the palaces of the
kings; go not to the halls of merriment
:l,ul pleasure, but go to the poor and
helpless; go to the widows and orphans
ail( ^ relieve their woes ;go to the fallen anil
raise him up; goto tlio sinner and whisper
in !lis ear words of eternal life. A man’s
^rue wealth hereafter depends upon the
» 0 °d he docs in this world to his follow
men. IV lien he dies some people will ask
what property has he left behind him, but
the angels who examine him will ask,
“what are the good deeds thou hast
sent before thee?” There is nobody who
cannot do some good and everybody is
Bound to do all the good they can if they
evor get home to heaven. It is a false
a “d a faulty humility that makes people
s *t still and do nothing and say that they
are H °t capable of doing anything. Ev
erybody can do something; anybody can
encourage virtue and religion and de
“ounce sin and folly. Some writer has
said, “lie that waits to do a great deal of
good at once will never do any. Good
is done by degrees—this life is made up of
little tilings. It is very seldom that occa
sion is offered for doing a great deed,
True greatness is reached in being great
iu little things. We must be willing to
do a little good at a time; we must do the
first good thing we can and tlieir the next,
and so keep on doing good. Napolian
once saw twelve silver statues.
are these,” said the Emperioi? The
twelve apostles was the reply. “Well,”
said lie, “take them down and melt them
and coin them into money, and let them
go about doing good as their master
did.”;
May God help us all to lay aside all onr
excuses and enable us as we go about
through this world of sorrow to do all
the good wo can, is my prayer, and God
grant my prayer may not be in vain.
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