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THE ROME IRIBUNE. Published continuously since IM3. Name changed in 18S7 from The Rome Courier to The Rome Tribune. W. A. KNOWLES, . . Editor. The Rome Tribune ie published daily and weekly at THE TRIBUNE BUILDING, No. 327, Broad Street. Business offtre second-floor. Editorial rooms third /loor. Telepl ones—Business office, No 73, one ring; Editorial rooms, No. 73, two rings. Entered at the postoffiee at Rome, Ga., according to act of congress, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Mail, in Advance, Postage Paid. Dally Edition, one year IS no Daily, six months Weekly Euiticn, one year • * w In the city and suburbs delivered to any address by c»triers for ten cents per week, i n advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertising rates depend on position, number of insertions and other require ments, and will be furnished at the busi ness office. . , Advertisements in the ' Want column, 1 cent a word each insertion No adver tisements accepted for less than V 5 cents. Funeral notic»s. death notices end mar riage notices, SI 00 each. Cards of thanks, resolutions of respect and notices of church and society and other entertainments will be charged for at a reduced rate Communications should bs addressed and al I orders, checks, drafts, etc., made payable to ROME TRIBUNE, Bomb, Ga. France must back down, or fight. The farmers of North Georgia should plant large crops of wheat this fall. . > Rome should congratulate itself on the re organization of the Lanier circle. Who will succeed Laura Jean Libbey as the writer of novels for lovers? , If Spain should be so foolish as to desire to renew the war Uncle Sam can accommodate her. The up-to-date story of Sampsom differs considerably from ;the biblical version. It is a Schley story. The Memphis yellow fever and na tional quarantine convention has been called for Nov. 28, 29 and 30. The Veterinary surgeons in session in Chattanooga should adopt resolutions of regret at the absence of Dr. Rush Hnidekoper. • The Cuban General, Jose Martel, has issued a proclamation addressed to the people of Cnba, demanding Cuba for the Cubans. It is predicted that Dodson, for president of the senate, Little, for speaker of the house and Boifeuillet, for clerk of the house, will be the winners in the Georgia legislature today. The average yield of wheat the world over is 12.7 bushels per acre according to statistics gathered by Sir William Crookes, F. R. 8., presi dent of the British association. It will thus be seen that North Georgia’s yield is far above the average. Hobson told a Boston reporter on his arrival there Monday that the government had appropriated $500,000 for the raising of the Cristobal Colon. He thinks it will be money well spent as the is worth $4,000,000. The Reina Mercedes can be raised with little cost, but the Vizcaya wjjl re-' quire an outlay of $1,000,000. The Almirante Oquendo is a hopeless wreck. Two of a Kind. The spectacle of Teddy Roosevelt cavorting over New York state in the role of Buffalo Bill is only equaled by that of McKinley parading through the west in the role of a little tin God. Both are disgusting and in the name of political decency they ought to be stopped. Got the Wrong Sow by the Ear, Old Bombastes Furiosso Biagg of Wisconsin who played out |with Cleve land lifts his hoary head from the politi cal cesspool in which he is wollering long enough to yawp: ‘•Coin clipping” was a crime at com mon law. Debasement of currency is a crime against the people, a crime against honest government, a crime in morals, a viola ion of recognized princi ples of right, a violation of economic laws, a repudiation of national credit and honor. All these heresies aie adopted as democratic principles when you swallow Bryan and the Chicago plat* or m. The old sinner don’t know what he is talking about. The debasement of the currency was effected in 1873 when the republicans dishonored and debased silver, thereby destroying half the basic money of the country. The Legislature, The legislature of the state meets today. It will be a body of more than ordinary strength and intelli gence, and comes from near r the hearts of the people than anv rep resentat ve body that has assembled in the capital for many years Their nominations were iu most cases made by the people theme Ives iu open primaries, instead of the old fashioned way of political hugger mugger) and it is safe to say that ttiey will come nearer representing the wishes and interests of the people than any legislature ever before convened. A more than ordinary responsi bility rests upon each member. Rep resent! < g the people, instead of a po litical clientele, they will have a wider and broader field for the exercise of their judgment and political talents. Though soundly democratic to the core, the present legislature will be practically non partizan and will in fact represent all the people for all the people,thank God,are democratic. A number of important measures will be brought before the legisla ture, all of them on the line of re form. One of these, the most important of all, will be election laws, and it is to be hoped they will so amended as to provide for the Australian ballot. There is no doubt but what the people of the state are practically unanimous in their wish for the Aus tralian ballot. Everywhere that it has been tried it has proved highly suocessrtil, as it comes nearer giving the people a free and unbiased ex pression of their choice of offiicals. As to Intrinsic Value, The Indianapolis News says: “A gold eagle passes for simply what the gold of which it is composed is worth. The exact value as money of a quantity of gold eagles or sover eigns can be determined by weighing them as well as by counting them. In all ‘international transactions, in fact, gold passes by weight and not by tale. Gold coins will stand the anvil or the melting-pot test. That is to say, you may hammer them into any form or melt them ipto a shapeless mass, and still anywhere in the civilized world they are worth as much in the pay ment of debts or in the purchase of commodities as they were before. The eagle is worth in all kinds of exchange just what the quantity of gold in it is worth and vice versa. When we speak as intrinsic va'ue of coins that is what we mean. Whether that is the best phrase to express the fact is immaterial. The fact is there and is inescapable. And it makes not the slightest difference with the fact what elements contribute to make it a fact.” This is all true so far as present conditions are concerned, but it was not always so and may not always remain so. The New’s idea of intrinsic value may do for the present but it is not the true meanings! the term. The intrinsic value of a thing is inherent in itself and cannot be changed by circumstances, it is more of a quality than an attribute and though the use of a thing may change and there by change its value, the intrinsic quality that makes it useful will remain the same. The intrinsic value of any metal' is what it is worth in the arts and not in commerce. The Intrinsic value of silver is the same now that it was before its de monetization although its commercial value is not half what it was then. As to the test of the hammer and the melting pot, that is no test at all. A hammered piece of gold can be carried to the mint and recoined free of charge to the owner, but a muti lated piece of silver is outlawed and must be melted into bare and sold for what it will fetch, and that is why the gold bar is worth as much as bullion as it would be if converted into coin. The time was, and not so far back when a silver bar would briug more in bullion than it would if coined into American dollars. That time was when silver bars could be carried to the mint and coined into money. That time will come again and when Jt does come the bar of silver will be worth as TM> KOMk TKIBVMJC, riILLSDA 9 OCTOBER 27, IbVb. much as its weight iu dollars. The News has a dim idea of the fallacy of its argument when it saje: “When we spiak ot intrinsic value of c 'ins that is what w mean. Whether that is the best phraee to express the fact is imm<t>rial.” Os course if you mean a goat when you say sheep it must be a goat. There is nothing in a neine nohow. The Tribune's Figures, In an editorial a few days ago refer ring to the figures, quoted by the Wacuu Telegraph tr'iu the Treasury Bureau of statistics, The Tribune said the figures in question were false and misleading. We should have explained their falsit then but we felt sure the’Telegraph would chal lenge the statement and demand the proof. Just as we expected the Telegraph comes back at us and says: “Now The Tribune says these figures are false «nd misleading, but it does not tell how it learned that fact. It is not worth while to discuss the several doctrines of the several churches with one who denies the authority and truth of the Scrip tures. To deny and dispute the most reliable official statistics which we have, and which are sustained by the reports of all the commercial bodies and set up a bald ipse dixit agains them, is to close discussiou and bar out reason. We will not attempt by counter dogmatism to establish their correctness. ” This is a very polite way to put it and as such distinguished courtesy deserves a reply, we will state that knowing the partisan character of the administration in all its ramifica tions and the penchant it has for doc toring all its reports for partisan effect we always take them cum grano sails, and never use them without compare ing them with other more reliable and ess partial authorities. In the case of the cotton table given out by the bureau, which our highly esteemed comtemporary so credu lously accepts as law and gospel, we thought it well to compare its figures with the reports of cotton men, men skilled in the trade and whose busi- * nees was to know what they reported and to report nothing but the truth. One* such report, that of Latham, Alexander & Co., the highest cotton authority.knowrqand who can account for every bale of cotton marketed in the last half a century, hap pened to be on our table at the time and referring to it we found that the cotton crop 1872-3, amounted to 3,930,508 bales of 444 to the bale, which reduced to pounds make 1,745,455,532 pounds The treasury expert made it 1,384,- 084,496 pounds so here is a discrepency of 361,061,056 pounds. The price reported .by Latham, Alexander & Co., was 18.15. The price quoted by the treasury expert was 22.19, so here is another discrep ency of 4.04 cents in price. This is why we characterized the treasury report as misleadingly false. So much for The Tribune’s bald ipse dixit, but the Telegraph goes on, and asks: •‘What does our contemporary mean by ‘fall of prices?’ We presume he means the comparative difference between prices now and prices at some other time. What other time or times? When they were very much higher than now, of coulee. When were they higher, and why were they higher? are important questions.’ You should not presume sonny, but take us literally at what we say. We were explicit in our citation of prices and of dates. We are not given to a repetition of our own editorials but in order to answer the Telegraph we will have to reproduce our state ment that so puzzled our befuddled if not obtuse neighbor. Here it is verbatim et literatim: “And there is another thing con nected with this.matter that we would ask our readers to think of, and that s the close almost m athematical con nection between the fall in the price of cotton and cotton goods, and the price of silver.. In 1873 the price of silver iu London was 1,02; in 1883 it was 83,1. In 1893 it was 41 06. Nor is this connection with cotton the only thing that is remarkable. In 1873 breadstuffs, veg etables etc, were 106: In 1883 they had fallen to 83 and in 1894 to 55 Sugar, coffee and tea in 1873 were 160; in 1883 they h«<l fpl’en to 76, and in 1894 to 65. Minerals, all classes averaged, in 1873 were 141; In 1883. 76, and in 1894,64. Thus we see as silver went down as I measured by rhe sln.le gold dollar, everything else cluug to it and wen> d >wu w>th it, and an ounce of it tixiav will buy Hsmuch of aggregated c<iiiiiU‘>ditieH as it would have bought i 1873.” W gave the dares by decades as t e downward trend of prices Was 1 S ' uniform and gradual that it did not I necessitate giving them each year. The j ears quoted w-re 1873, 'B3 and '93 Lest the Telegraph should “pre sume” hat we are giving these figures upon our “bald ipse dixit” we "ill state that they are taken from tanles prepared by Augustus Sauerbeck,, himself a gold bug, for the Royal Statistical Society of London, first given.iu 1886 and continued down to March 1895. The labor statistics so gushingly presented by the Telegraph with which to confound the “stock con tention of the average per capity crank” are as false and misleading as the figures of the Treasury Burea of statistics. We happen to know something of the junketing commission that col lected and collated the statistics. It was gotten up in the interest of tariff legislation, and the figures had to be doctored to suit the occasion. Any workman, skilled or unskilled can tell that he cannot get half the work to do now that he could in 1873 and that be cannot get half the pay for what he does as be got then, And by the way as to the ‘‘per cap ity crank;” is not the Telegraph dig ging his goldbug confreres in the rib-. “Per capity” belongs wholly to them, they invented it to humbug the people with the idea that there was oodles of money in the country. Twenty four dollars for each man, woman and child, negro, Indian and mongrel in the land. The expression has the gold idiot earmark if not its trade mark, and is on a beautiful parity with its finan cial yard stick and its “honest” dol lar. Humbugs all! , The Reason Why. The Chattanooga Times in answer to The Tribune’s suggestion as to the silence of the Chicago Inter-Ocean silence on the Virden affair says: “The reason the Inter Ocean stands mute is found in the action of Qov. Tanner. He takes sides with the armed strikers and against the coal company, and against the imported negro miners. He is after the votes of the strikers and the votes of their friends. He cares nothing for the laboring man only to use him for his purposes. Hi» organs must, of course, give tacit and silent consent to the high banded and lawless course of the rather low demagogue who is governor of the great state of Illinois by republican votes. He ran 20,000 votes behind McKinley in 1886, and if the people had a chance at him now he’d go. His mobocracy and dema gogy wouldn’t save him.” Too Much of a Good Thing. Iu his grand hallelujah,, “big in jin me” hoorah out west McKinley said at Bushnell 41L, “there were 200,000 vol unteers within sixty days.” Whereupon the New York World irreverently asks: Very true. But why? Would not 50,000 at the outside have been enough? And did not General Schofield warn you that 50,000 were as many as could be handled without needlessly imperilling lives and health? The question of the World is*perti net, and we would ask further, what was the use of a single volunteer? We < ad, or was supposed to have had a regular army of 25,000 men, which was more in fact than was used at San tiago. And further, now that the peace jubilee has been jubilated why nor dis miss the volunteer army and let the regulars run it? Faith in Hood’s The Great Cures by Hood’s Sarsa parilla Are Indeed Marvelous. “My husband suffered with stomach trouble so bad at times he could not work. He has taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it is helping him wonderfully’. • He also had a scrotum.humor but Hood’s Scrsapt” - illa cured this and he has had no trouble with it since. My little boy, too, has been taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it has given him a ;ood appetite. Wehave great faitbin Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” MRS. J.ll. Edwards, .">0 Edinburg 81., Rochester, New York. Be sure to get Hood's because £ *** Sarsa- ITISOOU S psrilla Ist it-1> < in faettlie line True Blood Purifier. Sviu Uy all druggists. Si; six lor $5. I Ollie are the best after-dinner 1 lOOu » I 11 lb pills, aid digestion. 25c. .8. Bur-., Pre. H.H.rwv, Vi,.e.r re .. s.m ■ IS ** Q-tf-OwA., gH |O ‘ L, ** >W '*° u O Q ■ M ? / J/ ~~~~ ■ i MIIMjSII • gfeafißL,/a tS ' fSfta iPk vft BargainsGakirtT I At lhe People’s Store i I The Crowds Continue. Neto These Prices. The Rs I One lot of stamped linens, closed One lot French! n 1 out a drummer’s samples; cant and extra widd * *°° II get them again; at the low I price ofsc, 8c and 10c each ne ay ser ‘’’ e > ’ I w, a e The new Battenburg M.u, latest AH-wool Sooteh , re ,' the I fads for Dresser. . ~s l sc thing for street )J Ladies’ trimmed white aprons.. 10c Ladies’ cloth 54 iLide and I Long mantle Lambrequins, made all W ° ol l of golden draperies2sc One lot black canid whip I Extra Long Feather Boas39c , Ladies heavy fleeced undervests 15c clltck glasXl 8 .. 1 Ladi* 8 heavy gray ribbed vests, Lar o e bleached fnd OWv ] 8 jl Onei'a style2sc Extra large bleach L] towel !■ Ladies’ wool mixed union suits, Splendid twill schofebrella tl Oneita style79c Large Carala steel il m hrella J Children’s Merino vest or pants 10c Silk gloria, steel rodV re lla I We have a few left of those 4t a LADIES FINE MU beaver jacketsV«v Ladies’ Plush Capes $1.48 and upwards. Ladies’ Cloth Cape from 19c to $7.48. Children’s school Shoes from 30c to $1.50. The best|ir<on Come to the Busy Store For Bargains this Wek. Governor Atkinson's Message. Today Gov. Atkinson will transmit to the legislature bis last message. As we have seen some of the most impor tant portions of the message from advance proofs we can predict that it is a state paper which will create much comment. It is an able paper, concise clear and forcible and cannot fail to have a telling effect upon the legislature. The governor deals exhaustively with ths question of ballot reform strongly recommending a primary election law in which the action of parties in nominating primaries may be vested with the authority and prestige of 'aw. He suggests that primaries for general elections shall be held throughout the state upen the same day, and that day, be fixed by law. He also, recommends that the pri mary itself be provided by law and not dependent upon the pleasure of the party executive committees. Upon this point the governor will say: •‘The practice of general primaries upon a stated day, under fixed rules, which has been found so satisfactory in recent years, should be made the statutory law, which cannot be changed at the whim of a committee, or the will of a candidate who may control a ma jority of its members,and should be binding upon all parties. In framing such a statute, there will be many additional features besides those with which we have been made familiar, the character of which I can only suggest here, leaving the details to the wisdom of your body, should you give this matter the considera tion which, in my earnest opinion, its importance demands. So satisfactory has been the prac tice of holding state primaries on one day that I would by all means incorporate this in the law; and I would also advice that the date of the primary be made a fixed day, at such season as may be most con venient to the masses of the voters. If necessary, separate succeeding days might be named for each party, or all could be held on one day. The first provision prevails in New York, whose legislature last Match unan imously passed what is generally regarded as the broadest aud mos’ com plete law regulating primary elections, political committees- aud conventions; thq second provision is part of the recently enacted law of Michigan, Such a proviso would be peifectly just and satisfactory to all candidates aud factions alike, and would remove a serious cause of complaint made. ’ ’ ® The governor thus imDortnnce of an absolutely secret sacred ballot and says: “No possible opportunity given to the briber to see that/he corruptly purchased is faitJlfally livered, and thus corruption" i'l couraged. Neither should an have any method of ascertaining his employees really vote, and thus laboring man, whose interest always be the same as that of talist, but whose views are worthy of exppresston in a free rnent, cannot be successfully This becomes more vitally every year, as industrial and factors enlarge their scope and increasing numbers of intelligent gists, whose franchise cannot be ■ vigilantly protected against any proper influences. ” H The governor recommends sues® change in the assessment laws otM state as will assure a more equal dial® butioa of the burden of taxation® making all pay in equal proportion. ■ Altogether the message will P tjV *® valuable „contribution to the politu® literature of the state. B Somebody advertises in the Forth® Oregonian for “a small boy to debt® oysters that can ride a wheel. B The first day of January and the® day of October of any year, fall on ® same day of the week, unless it beß leap year. 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