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|l CO A YEAR. ANARCHISTS WELCOME IN THIS MIRY SO SAYS ANDREW WHITE, EX- MINISTER TO RUSSIA, IN A LETTER TO THE PRESS. AN ARMY OF THUGS ENR0UTE Doctor White Declaras Farcical Mur¬ der Trial* Makes U- S. Haven for Criminals. New York.—A great host of accom¬ plished Anarchists and criminals is shortly coming to this country to join the thugs, yeggmen and blackhanders who already enjoy American hospital- ity, according to Andrew D. White, former president of Cornel university and ex-minister to Russia and Ger- many. In a statement to the press, Doctor White urges the immediate passage of laws to bar from the shores of the United States a flood of undesirables whom, he declared, will hasten hither as soon as England expels them. He says; “The assassin and Anarchist, whom London plans to be weil rid of soon, have an admirable refuge in the Unit¬ ed States—a country lying wide open to them, in which they will find more companions, sympathizers and effect¬ ive helpers than in any other. “Our nation affords them the hap¬ piest of happy hunting grounds. Many events in New York, in Los Angeles, In Chicago and other cities prove this. ‘This nation, with its carelessness In admitting foreign crimnals, ts inef¬ fectual ways of dealng>with them and its facilities for clearing them of guilt Is becoming more and more attractive stoi them every day. “In the United States the number of murders during the year just closed was 8,975, an increase of 900 over the year preceding. Only one murderer in 86 was given capital punishment. The number of murders in the United States is to the number in England as 114 to 6.” ‘ SOUTHERN CITIES’ CENSUS. Population Figures for South Carolina Cities Announced. Washington.—South Carolina’s mu¬ nicipalities having a population in ex¬ cess of 5,000 made an average increase cf 22.9 per cent, during the last dec¬ ade. Statistics of the thirteenth cen¬ sus issued show the number of these places increased from eight in 1900 to thirteen in 1910. Spartanburg, among the cities, made the most rapid strides in population increase. This increase amounted to •54.6 per cent. Greenville increased 32.7 per cent., while Columbia grew 24.? per cent, and Charleston only 5.4 per cent. South Carolina’s municipalities of over 6,000 population rank as follows: Place. 1900. 1910. Charleston . . 58,833 65,807 Columbia . . 26,319 21,108 Spartanburg . 17,517 11,395 GreenvHle , . 15,741 11,860 Anderson . . 9,654 5,498 Sumter ' 8,109 5,673 . . Rock Hill . . 7,216 5,485 Florence . . 7,057 4,647 Greenwood . . 6,614 4,824 Orangeburg . 5,906 4,455 Union . . . 5,623 5,400 Georgetown . 5,830 4,138 Newberry . . 5,028 4,607 Popular Election of Senators. . Washington—The senate commit¬ tee reported favorably the resolution authorizing an amendment to the Con¬ stitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The controversy in the committee turned on the question as whether the stale or Federal govern¬ ment should supervise the elections. The committee's provision directs that "the times, places and manner of hold¬ ing elections shall be pre-scribbd in each state by the legislature thereof.” Ten Shot From Ambush. McComb City, Miss.—Ten men, four whites and six negroes, were injured, some seriously, when a logging train of the J. J. White Lumber company, while returning to camp, was fired upon from ambush in Helena parish near the state line. An armed posse jeft here for the scene of the trouble. Tennessee Legislature at Work. Nashville, Tenn.—After being in session one week the Tennessee legis¬ lature was enabled to get down to its first real work when thirty-four Dem¬ ocratic members of the house, known ae the “Regular” faction,'were sworn in. The initial business came on the int*eduction of a resolution by Mr. Hall, Fusionist, providing that all con¬ tests for seats be withdrawn. The resolution was immediately adopted, and on motion of Mr. Stewart, a Reg¬ ular, the organization of the house was approved. ft i Clinch Ctmnli) Stews HOMER VILLE, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1911. 00 E TO FSElfiHT BATES IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PRESENT HIGH COST OF LIVING. Millionaire Says That People Are Bled to Pay Dividends on Nine Bil¬ lions of Watered Stock. Akron, Ohio,—Declaring that exaes- sive freight rates are responsible for the high -cost of living, Ohio C. Bar¬ ber, the millionaire match magnate, has sent a letter to every member of congress demanding reforms. In addition to the regulation of freight rates, he demands that laws he passed that will effectually limit ''abroad and industrial capitalization, He declares the freight business of the railroads costs each family $S7 a year. This latter, coupled with the other earnings of the railroads, he as¬ serts, has boosted the average rail¬ road cost per family to $127 annually. Barber starts his letter to the con¬ gressmen with these three demands. “What is the matter with America? “What is the matter with congress? “Why has the seat of government been transferred to Wall street?” Continuing, he says: “Personally, I appreciate fully the importance of stability , of vested rights in property, corporate or personal. “But I vigorously contend that the commission of excesses in the capital¬ ization of corporate companies for¬ feits instantly the right to claim face value for/%uch capitalization in the levying of a tax upon the American public for the payment of dividends upon this watered stock. And in this offense the railroads always have set the pace. “Conceived in the master minds of Huntington, Morgan, Hill and Harri- man, this polkjy has been worked out to a nicety. These clothed the scheme in the pretty catch phrase of a ‘com munity of interests’ and cleverly, set about to grab ali the through trunk lines of railroad from coast to coast. “They argued plausibly, and with truth, that these trunk lines were the great arteries which maintained the life of commerce; that they were a ne¬ cessity for quick transportation “Approximately nine billions of this eighteen billions of railroad capi¬ talization is fictitous; puraly and sim¬ ply watered stock, upon which the people of the United States are taxed in railroad rates to maintain the an¬ nual dividends. “Despite this tremendous stock wa¬ tering, the railway net earnings have advanced steadily and the average div¬ idend rates has more than doubled in the last 15 years. “In 1894 the dividend rate was 1.66 per cent. Last year it averaged 3.68 per cent, and the railroads earned a net income of $852,153,280. “And the people paid the freight! “Railroad presidents indignantly deny that freight rates affect the cost of existence. James J. Hill and W. C. Browne declare low acreage produc¬ tion by the farmer is responsible for high prices. "Trust magnates disagree. All seek to shift the responsibility. S. R. Gug¬ genheim says it is extravagance on the part of the laborer. Ogden Ar¬ mour says it is the law of nature. “This one problem of railroad freight rates is the great economic question of the age. Were it fairly solved all other lines of commerce and trade would soon adjust them¬ selves and a more equitable distribu¬ tion of the products of business would result. “What are you going to do about it? “Yours in militant sincerity, (Signed) “O. C. BARBER.” FOSS IS INAUGURATED. Democratic Governor of Massachu¬ setts Sworn In. Boston.—Eugene N. Foss assumed the office of governor of Massachu¬ setts. The inaugural ceremonies, before a joint convention of the senate and house, were in the nature of a Demo¬ cratic celebration, for Mr. Foss ie the first governor of the party since 1905 and the third in 18 years. Governor Foss also made another record by de¬ livering an inaugural address that was the shortest and plainest in the mem¬ ory of the oldest office holders be¬ neath the gilded dome. Harlan to Serve Term. Washington. — Attorney General Wickersh^m called upon the officials of the Supreme court to issue the mandate of the court in the case of W. S. Harlan alyl others connected with the Jackson Lumber company of Florida, who were convicted of de¬ taining laborers in involuntary serv¬ ice. The bondsmen of Harlan will be called upon to deliver him to the custody of court, he now being out on bail. Harlan will then be taken to the penitentiary in Atlanta to begin his sentence. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY. OR FIGHT > WE ** are starting some- thing next week that you can't afford to miss. It is the best *thing that ever appeared in this that community—something will interest and en¬ trance. It is a beautiful romantic story treating upon a historical fact— the annexation of the great scope of country stretching from Texas to Oregon. “There is scarcely any cause in which a woman is not engaged in some way fomenting the suit." And this is the interest¬ ing fact with which Em¬ erson ed Hough has featur¬ his great story of 54-40 OR FIGHT There is not a dull mo¬ ment in this story. Those who like romance are time more in than paid for their who reading it. Those like adventure will find pleasurable pursuit these wintry evenings in reading this great story. Those who stud> and ad¬ mire the great qualities that have made our men of history will immensely enjoy the shrewdness, John tact and diplomacy of C. Calhoun as he carries to successful com - pletion a great political achievement through his handling of women. Watch For It Read It Enjoy It tST-*. ’The first chapter of this story appears in this paper next weejc and will continue weekly until complet¬ ed. We have purchased exclusive rights and readers of this paper will be assured that it cannot be found in any other paper circulating in this community. i ENTER SENATOR’S RACE CANDJUER, BRANTLEY, HARD¬ WICK, COVINGTON AND TERRELL CANDIDATES. HOKE SMITH IS NOT IN RACE It Is Said That the Governor-Elect Is Not Thinking About the Senatorship. —Atlanta. To all intents and purposes, there are five candidates for the United States senatorship from Georgia to succeed the late Hon. Stephen S. Play, from the time that Senator Ter¬ rell’s special appointment expires in June. Not ali of these candidates have formally announced, but it is pretty generally understood among their friends that when the roll is called up yonder at the state capitol, or at the polls as the case may be, they will be there. Here they are: Murphey Candler, state railroad commissioner, first, cousin to Bishop Warren G. Candler and Asa G. Cand¬ ler, is considerably talked of. Congressman W. G. Brantley is widely reported as having the bee in his bonnet, buzzing so loudly that it is the only political sound lie can listen ti5. Congressman T. W. Hardwick wants it. His announcement is confidently predicted by his Augusta friends. Hon. W. A. Covington of Moultrie, former Georgia legislator, is mention¬ ed in the same connection and has a strong following in South Georgia. Senator Joseph M. Terrell will, of course, be in the race to succeed him¬ self. A significant circumstance is the fact that practically all these gentle¬ men are hypothesis figuring on entering the race on the that Hoke Smith will not be in it—that, is, all of them hut Senator Terrell, who will be in it whether or no. The situation sim¬ ply serves to illustrate, in this con¬ nection, the growing belief that Hoke Smith is, for the immediate future, more interested in the governorship than in the senatorship. If there are four or five candidates in the race, it will seriously compli¬ cate the question of holding or not holding a primary, for with that many men in the race it would be practi¬ cally cettain that a second primary would have to be held, involving dou¬ ble expense. The situation will not come to a head before the spring, but mean¬ while it wilf continue to be the chief subect for political speculation. Character of Georgia Soils. A handsome and well illustrated booklet, descriptive of the agricultu¬ ral resources and products of Georgia, lias just been issued by the land and industrial department of the Southern railway and the Georgia, Southern and Florida railway, for distribution in the North and West, in the work which these railroad companies are doing in the effort to attract desirable set¬ tlers to the South through the exploi¬ tation of its advantages and oppor¬ tunities. The volume is the third in a series on the different states tra¬ versed by the Southern railway and affiliated lines. Full information is given concern¬ ing the character of soils to be found in Georgia, its delightful climate and abundant rainfall, while attention is especially drawn to the healthfulness of the state. The agricultural advan¬ tages of the different sections of the state are set put showing the great yield of corn and other grams, grasses and forage, cane, potatoes, and truck, as well as cotton. Especial stress is laid on the growing attention to the live stock industry, which has been greatly stimulated liy the recent es¬ tablishment of a packing house in At¬ lanta and plan' for such a plant at Macon. Georgia's supremacy in the growing of peaches is attractively shown as are the opportunities for as' great profits in the growing of apples and small fruits. The forest and min¬ eral resources of the state are given a place and attention is called to the splendid educational advantages and the excellent transportation facilities of Georgia, with especial reference to the great work being done in the building of good wagon roads. In this work for the upbuilding of the South the Southern railway de¬ sires and appreciates the co-operation of the people cf the states which it serves, and any citizen of Georgia or any other Southern state who wil shes this publication placed in the hands of a friend or acquaintance in any locality in the North or West may have this done by sending- the name and address of such friend or ac¬ quaintance to M. V. Richards, land and industrial agent, Washington, D. C. NO. 1)8. Agricultural Survey Recommended. An agricultural survey cf the state of Georgia, to be paid for by an appropriation, at not too great ex¬ pense, by the state legislature, in or¬ der that the farmers mfiy be told in every section just what kind of land they have, what kind of fertilizers and treatment it needs and what crops it can best grow, is recommended by Dr. A. M. Soule and Governor-elect Hoke Smith. Dr. Soule says there is a constant demand for information from farmers in all parts of the state who are anx¬ ious to make more out of their land and to learn how to conserve it and acquaint themselves with the details of scientific farming as applied to their special localities. This demand for knowledge as the situation now stands, cannot be sup¬ plied. 1c Richmond county a special expert, E. S. Sell, a graduate of the agricultural college, has been employ¬ ed by the board of county commis¬ sioners, and is paid by them to teach improved methods to the farmers of that county. Other counties need the same thing, but can't get it. At least live counties. Doctor Soule says, have offered to pay good salaries, $1,500 and over to such men hut the gradu¬ ates of the college prefer to go back to their own farms. Doctor Soule believes and Governor- elect Smith agrees with him that aq agricultural survey of the state, with the results published in detail, would . furnish this information to all who desire it more quickly than any other expedient. The federal government would assist, of course, with the fed¬ eral survey, and the work would be such as not to usurp but rather take its place by the side of the lines car¬ ried out already by the commissioner of agriculture. State Treasury Report. Despite the “high cost of living,” and other much-talked-of depressing influences, the good old state of Geor¬ gia begins the new year with her pocket book well filled., It contained exactly $618,923.85 on the morning of January J, which is a good deal of money, even for a state, a good deal more in fac,t than the $486,157.89 which was on hand January 1, 1910. The balance on hand this year is about $20,000 less than was in the treasury January 1, 1909, wuen Gov¬ ernor Hoke Smith brought forward a balance of $638,717.82 These figures testify to the fact that Georgia's material prosperity is based on solid ground, and- that the long de¬ ficit predicted so long in the state has failed to materialize. Governor Names Trustees. Governor Brown appointed the fol¬ lowing trustees for the State Normal school at Athens: Emmett J. Bondu- rant of Athens, to succeed Hon. H. J. Rowe, president of the board, whose resignation has been accepted; Sena¬ tor E. A. Copelan of Greensboro, trus¬ tee from the Eighth district, to suc¬ ceed Hon. R. E. Davison, who was elected prison commissioner; lion. J. M. ileCulium, from the Third dis¬ trict; Prof. Lawton B. Evans, from Augusta, and Col. W. J. Morton of Athens, and Hon. J. R. Hogan of Ag¬ nes, Ga„ as trustees from the state at large. Atlanta Leads in Suicides. Coroner Paul Donehoo has submit¬ ted his annual report for the past year, showing that 20 suicides and 18 murders occurred during the year. There were 21 homicides, to whica there were no eye witnesses, and 18 of these were adjudged murders by the coroner’s jury. The coroner held 153 inquests, of which 75 were ad¬ judged from natural causes. In 24 cases evidence indicated suicide, 14 of the number being white men, 8 white women arid 2 negro women. Of this number 10 went out by the gun¬ shot route, 3 by hanging arid 1 by Hitting the throat. The others died from poisoning. Ttireo persons were drowned and 6 were killed in railway accidents. Others died front street car and auto accidents, falls, asphyx¬ iation and similar causes. Tifton.—A. Brown, on J. W. Hollis’ place, brought to Tifton the monster turnip of the season recently, It weighed ten pounds and three ounces, and is the biggest white globe to reach here. Griffin.—The Griffin Commercial has started a campaign for more mem hers. Cordele.—Cordele five years ago built a $29,000 school house, This year it was found necessary to vote bonds for a $10,000 high school an- nex. When this building is complet- ed the fourth grade will be added and a good laboratory. The principal has had two sets of parallel bars and six horizontal bars of different heights placed on tho school ground. have a basketball court also. The same textbooks are used in the high school and in the two ru¬ high schools. Pupils from the ru¬ ral schools can thus complete their course at Cordele. Tho county levies a tax of two mills for educational Tills, with the state funds, meets all expenses.