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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Industrial Development in Georgia
and Alabama.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus
trial Index, published at Columbus,
Ga., says:
“If further demonstration might bo
desired of the stability of industrial
development in Georgia and Alabama
and of the substantial character of
the uninterrupted progress which is
being made in these two States, it is
to be found in the magnitude of enter
prises that have been definitely pro
jected during the week ending today.
A number of these involve large in
vestments, and illustrate the varied
resources of Georgia and Alabama.
At Gadsden, Ala., furnaces which have
been idle for some time have been
placed in operation, and about $125,-
000 will be expended, principally by
St. Louis capitalists, in making im
provements and extensions. At Rock
mart, Ga., a cement plant will be es
tablished and a large deposit of ce
ment rock will be developed. An
electric power plant will be estab
lished near Albany, Ga., and 10,000
horse-power will be developed, to be
transmitted to nearby cities and
towns for the operation of manufac
tories, and for other purposes. A cot
ton mill will be built at Ashburn, Ga.,
by a company which will have capital
stock of $250,000. Operations in a
brown ore mine in Northwest Geor
gia will be enlarged extensively/ A
movement has been begun for the
building of an electric railway be
tween Blakely, Ga., and a point on
the Chattahoochee river, where con
nection will be made with steamboat
lines; practically all of the required
local funds have been raised foi
building an electric railway between
Dothan, Ala., and Geneva, Ala., and
the making of preliminary surveys
for an electric railway between Ma
rietta, Ga., and Atlanta, Ga., has been
ordered.”
New Star Added to Flag.
Oklahoma adds a new star to
America’s Hag. President signs proc
lamation making two territories one
State. The signing of the proclama
tion was done in the cabinet room.
Secretary Loeb placed the proclama
tion on the large square blotter at
the President’s position, at the head
of the cabinet table.
The President entered and took his
seat at once, was handed a long eagle
quill pen by the secretary, and him
self lifting the lid from the inkstand,
dipped the pen, making an audible
scratch with each movement. When
he had finished his signature the
President picked up a small blotter
with which he blotted his name, and
then looking up, exclaimed:
“Oklahoma is a state!”
The signing and all the incidents
connected therewith occupied but one
minute, and at their conclusion the
President bowed himself back to his
private office with the remark:
“Good morning, gentlemen.”
Uncle Sam now has forty-six
States.
Convention in Florida.
The Florida and Georgia Union Sea
Island Cotton Convention of the
farmers’ Education and Co-Operative
I nion of America, convened in the
Columbia county court-house at Lake
City, Florida, this morning, subject to
the call of the executive committee
of the Florida State Farmers’ Union,
G. N. Trawick, president of the Flori
da State Farmers’ Union, and R. F.
Duckworth, president of the Georgia
State Farmers’ Union.
National President Chas. Barrett
presided at the convention.
There was found to be about 400
delegates in attendance, representing
every sea island cotton and ribbon
cane county of Florida and Georgia.
After an interesting program the
convention closed with a prayer by
the chaplain.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
The President of the United States
has reiterated the proclamation of
Thanksgiving of our Puritan Fathers.
Through his secretary of State Presi
dent Roosevelt has issued his Thanks
giving proclamation, naming the last
Thursday in November for the date.
His proclamation in part follow’s:
“Once again the season of the year
has come when, in accordance with
the custom of our forefathers for
generations past, the President ap
points the day as the especial occas
ion for all our people to give praise
and thanksgiving to God.
“During the past year we have
been free from famine, from pestil
ence, from war, we are at peace with
the rest of mankind. Our natural
resources are at least as great as
those of any other nation. We be
lieve that in ability to develop and
take advantage of these resources,
the average man of his nation stands
at least as high as the average man
of any other. Nowhere else in the
world is there such an opportunity for
a free people to develop to the fullest
extent all its power of body, of mind,
and of that which stands above both
body and mind —character.
“Much has been given us from on
high, and much will rightly be ex
pected of us in return. Into our care
these talents have been entrusted;
and we are to be pardoned neither if
we squander and waste them, nor yet
if we hide them in a napkin, for they
must be fruitful in our hands. Ever
throughout the ages at all times and
among all people, prosperity has been
fraught with danger, and it behooves
us to beseech the Giver of all things
that we may not fall into love of east
and luxury; that we may not forget
our duty to God and to our neighbor.
“A great democracy like Olli's, a
democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated
only if in the heart of the ordinary
citizen there dwells a keen sense of
righteousness and justice. We should
earnestly pray that this spirit of
righteousness and justice may grow
ever greater in the hearts of all of us,
and that our soul may be inclined
ever more both toward the virtues
that tell for gentleness and tender
ness.
Government Asks for Bids.
The government is asking for bids
on Panama bonds. Fifty million dol-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
lar issue is offered Tor sale to the
public. Paper for $100,000,000 in
debtedness, or as much as is neces
sary, is announced, and meets hearty
approval of President Roosevelt.
Calamaties Predicted.
Rev. Thomas Clark, of Virginia,
who foretold the eruption of Mount
Pelee and the destruction of Galves
ton, and other calamities, has made a
prediction that the earth would be de
stroyed early next year. He also pre
dicts that there will shortly be an
other outbreak in the Philippines, and
that New York City will be partially
destroyed by fire early in December.
COTTON SEED PRODUCTS
WANTED BY FOR
EIGNERS.
Exports for the Year Valued at $40,-
500,000, an Increase of $9,500,000
Over 1906 —Decline in Ex
ports of Cotton Cloths.
Washington, D. C., November 24. —
Fifteen billions of dollars represent
the value of the annual production of
manufactures in the United States.
After careful estimates were made by
experts, Colonel-' John M. Carsun,
chief of the bureau of manufactures,
>vas able to make this statement in
the annual report of the operations of
his bureau, made public today. The
figures do not represent finished prod
ucts entirely, but include products in
various stages of progress.
Last year the aggregate value of
domestic merchandise exported was
$1,854,000,000, an increase of nearly
$136,000,000 over the precoding year.
In this classification, “manufactures
ready for consumption” are credited
with $480,000,000, and these figures
are generally accepted as the extent
of the exports of manufactures.
The report of the bureau, however,
groups this classification with those
of “foodstuffs partly or wholly manu
factured” and “manufactures for
further use in manufacturing,” the
aggregate exports of which last year
were $606,000,000, and this amount,
added to “manufactures ready for
consumption,” make the aggregate
value of manufactures exported in
the year ended June 30, $1,086,000,-
000, or more than 58 per cent of the
entire exports for that year. Special
significance is attached to the in
crease of nearly $20,000,000 in the
exports of completed manufactures, in
view of the fact that the exports of
cotton cloths declined more than $21,-
000,000, this loss being entirely in the
coton trade with China. The popular
feeling aroused in that country grow
ing out of alleged outrages against
Chinese residents in the United States
is assigned as a contributory cause for
this decline.
The cotton seed product exports for
the year were upwards of $40,500,000,
an increase of $9,500,000 over 1906.
Tn commenting on these figures the
report says:
“Aside from its intrinsic value this
relatively new industry has an econo
mic value and importance to the coun
try, the beneficial results of which are
especially felt in the several states in
which cotton is indigenous, and in
which the cotton seed industry is nat
urally located. ”
The success attending investigation
by experts sent abroad has led to the
adoption of the policy of specializing
investigation of trade conditions in
foreign markets.
One of the obstacles to the enlarge
ment of export trade is the uncertain
ty of transit between places of pro
duction and the seaboard. Merchants
in the Orient, especially, complain
that calculation can not be made as
to when goods ordered in the United
States will be delivered, and, in con
sequence, orders go to
houses that should come to those of
this country. The bureau has been in
correspondence with managers of rail
way and ocean steamship companies
with a view of securing more reliable
and rapid transit for merchandise des
tined to foreign countries.
Demands made by business men for
the extension of the parcels post to
foreign countries is discussed. It is
claimed that this extension would
open markets now closed to American
business men for lack of transporta
tion facilities, but which are open to
their competitors who have advan
tage of the parcels post system.—At
lanta Constitution.
An exchange asks why returning
tourists’ are always spoken of as
“harrying home.” A look at their
pocketbooks might explain the mat
ter. —Washington Post.
POPULIST SPEECH.
(Continued from Page One.)
and saved our country, which has been
held by us as a just equivalent for
the blood of our soldiers, the lives of
our sons, the widowhood of our
daughters, and the orphanage of their
children. I stand here for a currency
by which the business transactions of
forty million people are safely and
successfully done. Which, founded
on the faith, and wealth, and prop
erty of the nations, is at once the ex
emplary and engine of its industry
and power. That money which saved
the country in war, and which has
given prosperity and happiness in
peace. To it, four million men owe
their emancipation from slavery. Tp
it labor is indebted for elevation from
that thrall of degradation in which
it has been enveloped for ages. I
stand for that money, therefore,
which is by far the better agent and
instrumental exchange of an enlight
ened and free people, than gold and
silver, the money alike of the barba
rian despot.”
James G. Blaine, in a public speech
in 1864, said: “What is this, a dol
lar, and a good dollar, good for the
farmers, the mechanic, the merchant,
the sailor, everybody. What makes
it a good dollar? Because every dol
lar’s worth of property in the United
States is behind it, and the life blood
of every true and loyal American
citizen is behind it.”
Now, to use good common sense,
who would question the ability of this
nation to redeem its treasury notes—