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10 Do we want another Preston Brooks affair? Do we want another “ bloody shirt” for North ern fanatics to wave? 'Do we want to make out of Foraker what the <cane of Brooks made out of Sumner? No matter how provoking Foraker may become, see to it that no angry Captain McDonald, or a<ny other infuriated Southerner, harms a hair of For aker’s head. No matter how bitter his language—take it, for the South’s sake. Make speeches of reply in which you maintain a composure, under trying circumstances, which will win the respect of the world. Make as many appeals to Public Opinion as you like, but base them upon fact and argument. Qood Paragraphs From Our Exchanges. THE ATLANTA RIOT. The committee appointed by a mass meeting of the citizens of At lanta to report on the riot that dis graced that city some weeks ago, has made its report. The committee reports that twelve people were killed and seven were wounded. Among those killed ten were negroes and two were white. Os the wounded ten were white and sixty were negroes. The report shows that not a single person killed or injured was a vagrant, but that each was at work and earning a good living. The committee reports that good citizens have been driven from At lanta because of the riot. From one small settlement in Atlanta twenty live families have moved away. The report concludes as follows: 4 i The crimes of the mob include robbery as well as murder. In a number of cases the property of in nocent and unoffending people was taken. Furniture was destroyed, small shops were looted, windows were smashed, trunks were burst open, money was taken from thq small hoard, and articles of value were appropriated. In the commis sion of these crimes the victims, both men and women, were treated with unspeakable brutality. “As the result of four days of lawlessness, there are in this glad Christmas time widows of both races mourning for their husbands and husbands of both races mourning for their wives; there are orphan chil dren of both races who cry out in vain for faces they will see no more; there are grown men of both races disabled for life, and all this sorrow has come to people who are abso lutely innocent of any wrong doing. “In conclusion, wo call attention to the fact that up to this time At lanta had been a law-abiding city and criminals of all kinds, with a single exception, had been punished by legal methods. Repeatedly, in view of hundreds of men, the sheriff has con ducted along the public highways, prisoners chaiged with the most odious crimes, and these prisoners have had legal trials, which resulted in the punishment of the guilty and the acquittal of the innocent. “Considering this record of a law abiding community it is amazing that the things we have recited could have happened in Atlanta and that the small minority which constitutes the Avoid abuse as you would poison. Remember the remark which Blaine made to L. Q. C. Lamar. After Conkling had worsted Gen. John B. Gor don in a Senatorial tilt, Lamar felt so badly over it that he took occasion, a few days later, to give Conkling such an awful trouncing as few United Stales Senators have ever taken. Conkling took it all right for, although a man of courage, he knew the deadly temper of Lamar when aroused. Conkling had said, alluding to preceding words of Lamar, “It would seem that the Senator from Mississippi meant to be insulting.” With an eye of fire and the roar of the enraged lion in his voice, Lamar made that celebrated re- tough element was allowed to crucify this community in the eyes of the world, and shock the moral sense of our own people.” It is always the ease that a riot does more harm than goqd. It has rarely happened that a lynching ac complishes the purpose that it in tended. Beyond saving the victim from having to go to the court house and testify to her shame, a lynching is void of good effect. A lynching creates discord rather than allays trouble. This was emphasized by the report of the Atlanta committee. It says: “Although less than three months have passed since the riot, events have already demonstrated that the slaughter of the innocent does not deter the criminal class from com mitting more crime. Rape and rob bery have been committed in the city and suburbs during that time.” It is not probable that Atlanta will have another riot soon. The people of that city will not stand for more trouble with the races. The business men of Atlanta are thor oughly aroused, and if another riot should start, the bankers, the mer chants, the lawyers, the doctors and the clergymen would shoulder arms and take a part in the fray. And woe be to those who start a row if the conservative people of a commu nity see fit to attempt to put it down. The most dangerous man on earth is a conservative man when he is arousal. The Atlanta riot has done the state of Georgia and the South a great wrong. It will take years to liv> down the odium of it. We hope that the fair name of the South will never be disgraced by another such as it was.—Dublin, Ga., Courier-Dispatch. THE DIFFERENCE. A couple of days ago the Leader commented on the difference in the treatment by officers of the law of the big thief and the little thief. This favoritism led to a sensational incident in a Chicago court on Tues day. A former vice-president of the board of trade was tried on a charge involving defalcations to the amount of $750,000. Notwithstanding that he was one of the “best” citizens of Chicago, that he moved in the “highest society” and that his wife spent $38,000 a year in maintaining VHE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. their “social position,” a jury found him guilty. As is usual a bailiff stepped for ward to take him into custody. He was ordered back by the judge, who showed some solicitude for the feel angs of the convict and who wanted to spare him from the indignity of being taken into custody by a com mon bailiff. At this the state’s attorney stepped up to the bar and said: “If Mcßeynolds had stolen a ham the bailiff would have grabbed him by the neck and carried him off to jail. Having figured in a big crime the man is treated as though he had done something for his country. I think this is one of the serious de fects of our laws.” But it is not due to any defect in our laws. It is due to the money worshippers whom we elect and ap point to office. They will not. admin ister the law without favoritism. Money always gets the best of it. There is no law needed to cure this. That may be accomplished by the people driving the money-wor shippers out of their temples of jus tice as the money-changers of old were driven out.—'Pittsburg Leader. •ft As To Dryden. Is New Jersey wholly servile? Is there no manliness in its citizens? Is its press seduced by the revenue from Mr. Dryden’s Prudential ad vertisements? A little vigilance, prompt pressure at the right time— these can make out of the pres ent New Jersey Legislature a body of record-breaking usefulness. For a generation it has been the easy yielding handmaiden to Mr. Dry den’s purposes. It passed the law that enabled him to rob the policy holders of tiheir surplus. Twelve years later it passed a law to legalize that robbery. When other States, protecting their own poor, condemn ed Mr. Dryden’s practices and threat ened to exile his company then the ever-willing New Jersey Legislature gave Mr. Dryden a retaliatory club with which to intimidate them. It passed a law of which the effect was thus described by the insurance commissioner of Massachusetts: If Ma.ssac.hu cetts should refuse a li cense to the Prudential, New Jersey could refuse to every insurance com pany whose home is in Massachusetts the right to do business in Now Jer sey. Never was the dignity of a com- bo!: “Yes. Mr. President, 11i Senator from New York has < Io he insulting. They are such man would deserve, and no wear. ’ * ' Did the taunt hurt Conkling in the North? Not the least bit. ■So well did Northern Senators understand that such attacks from Southern men would strengthen them in the North, that Blaine came over to his friend Lamar and said to him with playful badi nage: “Look here. Quint, the next time you have abuse of that sort to give to a Northern Senator, give it ito me.” Will Southern members take the hint and not a give Foraker the martyrdom lie courts? " GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK. Augusta, Ga. • Capital $200,000.00 Undivided Profits $298,000.00 We Give Attention to Small as Well as Large Accounts. L C. SMITH Visible Typewriter Writing* in Siglit Is in Line of Progress See Our 1907 Models B. M. ASHE CO. Ground Floor Y. M. C. A. Building ATLANTA, - GEORGIA Bell Phone 1541 6 1896 Standard Phone 296 We have SB,OOO worth of our competitors* standard machines which we will sell at less than half price. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA. L. C. Hayne, President; F. G. Ford, Cashier. 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