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The Miller Cftuntv Liberal.
VOL. X.
FARMERS WARNED
Continuance of Rural Routes
Up to Them.
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MORE INTEREST NEEDFUL ,
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1!
Where Rules of Delivery Service Are
Disregarded It Will Be Reduced ,
or Discontinued Altogether ’
W*»e
A Washington special says: The de
cision of the Fourth Assistant Post
master General DeGraw concerning
the discontinuance of rural ma. I
routes, where they are not supported
by those living along those routes,
is a matter of the utmost importance
to every R. F. D. route, especially
in the southern states.
Investigation shows that these
routes are not being patronized in
the south anything like as liberally ar, i
north of the Ohio river.
In order to ascertain the ca’ wtia t |
the trouble and to see „_ Q
extent R" - ” jutea generally ar “
being patronized, the postoffice de
partment during the past few months
instituted a careful inquiry through
out the country. Special inspectors
have been instructed {nake inves
c reporta recently
tigation. and th'' ‘
submitted account for the department
orders discontiiuing quite a number
of rural routes —more in the south
than anywhere else.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral DeGraw .las rendered a decision
insisting upon adherence to the reg
illations requiring that boxes on rural
mall routes should be erected by the
roadside so that carriers can get easy
necess to them without dismounting
from their vehicles. Not only are
boxes to be erected by those who ex
pect to patronize these routes, but
wheer it is ascertained that, residents
living along a route are not patroniz
ing the mall service to an extent that
will justify a continuance, of the route,
orders will be issued abolishing the
route, leaving the people to get their
mail the best they can by sending to
iht* noarpst * iinßnfficp
tne nearest posomce.
The policy of the 'h-partpeoplo
be that .. wlwtv .Ah-s ice, tney will
be given it, but it will not be forced (
upon communities that do not want (
it. Where a daily mail service Is pa
tronized it will be continued, but. if ,
the people do not manifest an Interest <
is such a service, it will be changed (
to a tri-weekly or even to a weekly
service, and if not patronized, the
delivery service will be dropped alto- .
gether, forcing recourse to the near '
est postofflce to which patrons will
have to send for their mail.
It is lllUv. I IX-
-n many
country .people in the south snuu..
manifest such little interest in a I
daily R. F. D. service, which, by uni
versal consent among farmers of the
east and west, is considered to be
the most advanced step ever take.i
for the betterment of country life.
In the south it is found that while
invariably the most up-to-date, pro
gressive farmers are deeply interest
ed in their R. F. D. service, a large
percentage of the patrons living along
the different routes pay but little at
tention to it, and seem to care very
little whether or not the service is
discontinued. It is such indifference
as this that may result in the dis
continuance of a great many south
ern routes; the liberal and progres
sive element paying the penalty for
the lethargy of the Indifferent and un
progressive residents living along the
route.
In some cases it has been found
where a route has been establish
es many as 125 homes to be serve!,
not more than fifty of these homes
would patronize the service after it
was established—the other seventy
five not even manifesting enough in
terest to put up mail boxes.
ROOSEVELT TO STOP WAR.
Big Stick and Mexican Troops May
Be Used Against Belligerents.
As the result of a series of con
ferences at Washington Monday by the
Mexican ambassador and all the Cen
tral American ministers with the as
sistant secretary of state, this govern
ment will join Mexico in stopping hos
tilities in Central America.
Joint intervention of the two peace
seeking countries will be made by the
means of the "big stick’’ in the hands
of Present Roosevelt and an armed
force, backed up uj resident Diaz,
if necessary.
COTTON GRADES CHANGED.
New York Exchange Eliminates
“Straight Low Middling Stained."
The New York cotton exchange <in
Thursday i>v a vote of 131
to 144 the amendments to the vy.
laws eliminating the grades of
ton known as “good ordinary’’ and
“low middling tinged,’’ and adopted by
a vote ok 231 to 94 the amendment
eliminating the grade known as
“straight low middling stained.
FIRE SWEEPS TOWN. |
Costly Conflagration in Newberry, S,
C., Wipes Out 23 Residences, 10
Stores and Two Churches.
Fire at Newberry, 3. C., Friday de
stroyed twepty-three residences, ten
stores and two churches, entailing a
loss estimated at between $150,000
to $200,000, with insurance of about
$85,000.
The range of the fire was from
Adams street to Calhoun, east and
west, and from Friend to Main or
side block on the other
side of Main street.
Most of the burned buildings were
negro shacks, and in their places will
rise modern buildings.
Surrounded on all sides by the
flames was the residence of Mrs. J.
B. Humbert, a widow of a former
Methodist minister, which was never
touched, although the heat from the
flames scorched the house several
times.
It is related that Mrs. Humbert,
! during the entire time of
I be spared. •
The fire originated in the three
story building occupied by R. C. Wil
liams, dealers in wagons and bug
gies. A new and handsome two-story
building owned by R. C. Williams
and occupied by Shelley & Summers,
furniture dealers, was in the path of
the fire, and from there the confla
gration spread.
Among the most prominent build
ings destroyed were the residences
of O. L. Schumpert and Henry Kinard,
two of the handsomest in the city, the
Presbyterian parsonage, residences
of James F. Tond and E. H. Leslie
both on the same block.
Aveleigh Presbyterian church, a
handsome wooden building, is a totai
loss, as is the old Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian church, which would
have been torn down shortly to be
replaced by a handsomer one. The
majority of the bullnings were small
wooden orb'rlck structures, some ot
which would have been torn down in
I the near future to be replaced by
more stables ones.
FAVORABLE TO BOLL WEEVIL
I ... r .»coi .-reaicts Ava
lanche of Them -This Year.
The cotton boll weevil will be un
usually nummerous and destructive ,
this year, according to a report by Dr.
W. D. Hunter, in charge of the boil
weevil investigation for the United
States department of agriculture. Hu
says;
I The conditions throughout the
past winter have been unsually favor
able for the hibernation of the boll
weevil. The two critical conditions
for successful hibernation, tempera
ture and dryness, have been as fa
vorable as they will probably ever be.
yiilci winter and spring is
having the etrcvi
, ... '"■using tinsual
emergence from hibernation. ..
son at Dallas and Keachoie, La., the
earliest weevils appeared on March
21. This season emergence began fully
thirty days prior to that date.
"The conditions indicate clearly
that weevils will be unsually abund
ant in the cotton fields this season,
and that great damage is to be x
pected. Some conditions that may oc
cur will have the effect of counter
acting the natural result from th?
present conditions. For instance, dry
weather during June and July, after
the cotton plants are well started,will
serve to check the insect.’’
ROBBERS LOOT BANK SAFE.
Six Charges of Explosives Were Used
and $3,000 Secured.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
jflWt., ’e§Hy "Friday "morning
and escaped with $3,000.
Six charges of explosives were used
by the robbers. The concussion burst
out the front windows and so badly
cracked the walls that the bank prop
erty Is practically ruined.
PARSON ACTED NAUGHTY.
Baptist Minister Fired for Kissing the
Wife of Another Man.
For kissing or attempting to kiss
Mrs. C. A. London, the wife of his
Sunday school superintendent, Rev. G.
L. Barnwell, the pastor of the Edge
wood Baptist church at Atlanta, has
been discharged from the pastorate
of the church by the board of ide’
1 cons. Mr. Barnwell declared *,’ ,
~ , .. . .. . . ms min-
would immedi-y , ■ surrey- 1 '
credentials and do penace tor
his misconduct.
CORTELYOU TO THE RESCUE.
Secretary of the Treasury Gives Aid
In Money Stringency.
Secretary of the Treasury Cortel
. you Tuesday directed the deposit of
customs receipts in the national bank
K depositories of New York city. This
y W an enlargement of the order re
t cN>tiy issued by him. It will in
s c.-“i*e public deposits in that city
about
COLQUITT. GA. WI 1 ES’DAY, APR! L 3. 1907.
OFFICIALS INDICTED CANAL wWiticizeo
By Contractor Ol? Conference in
■ •n r a. v il New Orleans —Vutions Adopt-
Head Men of N. Y. Central ed at f^ eting .
Held for Manslaughter. ' „ •’ ,
At Monday tit’s .session of the
southern states veglf coast Panama
BECAUSEOFBAD WRECKS canal conference ln4» .Orleans W. J.
Oliver, the contra.; made the rot
lowing criticism i’_6 canal work:
Vice President and the General Man- j g greatly • that
ager of the Company Are Held in the decided to
SIO,OOO Bonds by the Grand placo the constfou at the Panama
-—* uaua. in Ute n-M ,
, .. , instead of coning f ;j , tc to eon-
Indictments charging manslaughter n
. tractors. No n,... pw capable th
in the second degree were returned w
, , ... , army engineers nxa, r their training :
bv the grand jury at New York Wed-
y h ~ , „ has not been alonj lines of con
nesday, against the New York Cen-
b struction and dl )n O n a large
tral, Ira A. McCormick general super- sc&le They are .
intendent of the company, and Alfred ganization to draw g will al
ii. Smith, one of the vice presidents ways be wound up red tape,
of the road in connection with the Army methods wH ’avail, for a
wreck of the Brewster Express on civilian always ha- e more right
wrecK o. lhan a Eoldier _ Ue „ uit _ an( j lho
the Harlem division last mouth. Me- iligh . Bplrite(l A merl< Uzen will cer .
. r- ... J
Cormlck and Smith entered pleas ot
jot guilty, and were released on $lO,-
..... Annh T 1 ’—
handed up a presentment containing
many recommendations to tne state
railroad commissioners concerning re
strictions upon railroad operations in
New York state.
The grand jury declares that the
railroad company ‘‘feloniously, willful
ly and carelessly, with gross culpable
neglige nee and misconduct, omitted
to ascertain at what speed it was
safe for the train to pass around the
curve.
It charges also that the company
emitted to exercise any effective meas
ures to prevent the train passing
around the curve at a speed faster
than was safe, and that it placed the
train under the control of an engineer
not properly trained and experienced
and not competent to run the train
with safety. To the high speed the
jury attributes the derailment of tho
train and the death and injury of
the passengers.
Twenty-four persons lost their lives
and more than a hundred others were
more or less seriously injured in the
wreck. The train was one of the.
new electric type whicj? 1U ’ ■jflpntly re-
vives fipd<.tb''C‘ett?rarir ,’uburban serv
ice.
At Woodlawn curve the second car
of the train jumped the track, nnd :t
and those that followed were piled
up in a heap beside tne track. Some
of the witnesses established the speed
of the train at the time of the acci
dent as high as 70 miles an hour.
JUDGE MORGAN O’BRIEN BALKS.
Chairman of Thaw Lunacy Commis
sion Resigns Job.
A New York dispatch says: After
the jury which has been trying Har
ry K. Thaw for more than two months
. , iesdav uuu*
past WO« »» M
next Monday morning, Jyid the mem
bers of the lunacy commission named
by Justice Fitzgerald to inquire into
Thaw’s present state of mind had
been sworn in, there came the sud
den announcement late in the after
noon that former Supreme Court Jus
tice Morgan J. O'Brien, the chairman
of the commission, had resigned. In
a letter to Justice Fitzgerald, Judge
O’Brien stated that, upon reflection,
he was forced, because of the condi
tion of his health and professional
engagements previously entered into,
to decline to serve as a member of
the commission.
Justice Fitzgerald made a new or
der appointing David McClure, a well
known local attorney, and a mem-
ber of former Police Commissioner
Clure met the other members of the
commission during the afternoon and
was selected as chairman.
WARNING FROM HEADQUARTERS
Free Rural Delivery Mail Boxes Must
Be Erected.
In a decision rendered Wednesday
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
DeGraw insists upon an adherence to
the regulations requiring that boxes
on rural mail routes should be erect
ed by the roadside, so that carriers
can easily get access^
cut deviating f^“, lr ve hi C j ea . Failure
’ nOU Jmply with the regulations In this
respect, the decision states, is like
ly to result in the discontinuance of
the -delivery of mall by rural car
riers.
IMMIGRANTS IN COLUMBUS.
During Past Month Forty Germans and
Seven Scotchmen Arrived.
During the past month about 40 Ger
man-speaking immigrants and seven
Scotchmen have arrived in Columbus,
Ga. Practically all the newcome.v
were given work immediately upon ar
rival. Most of the German-speaking
immigrants have positions with local
textile industries.
taln'v .exercise th g ht when he I
>es to <. , w (he o ujetator .
wethods of army rt lous -
The conference a. mon . lng ses .
sion adopted the .wing resolu
tions;
1. The natural eCjical foute tv.
a large part of the ed states for
passengers and mat* intended for
Panama is via the ao f L be q u u
of Mexico.
2. The isthmian ~ commission
has been operating 'j s practically
a bi
vice from Now Y‘ w Havana, and
this exclusive' Sj V j a n ¥ w York
places the lndi.f oC the south,
the gulf states, Mississippi, Ohio,
Missouri, Alaba all ,| Georgia val
leys and cohtlgu^ rr j<,,ry at a pro
hibitive dlsadvau”
3. The sout) ern tes and gulf
coast Panama cont e represents
to President tooae '' hat at least
two of the s overnl g steamships
should be o. a gul£ p Orl>
because of- cl< proximity, by
som*» ***o miles, th au New
York.
4. We strongly Kj against the
discriminations of jprebasing de
partment. ot Railroad
ority uP’ordert ’ wed tU"Wr.i i 1
eastern states. V.. in this virtual
monopoly of ths pt-. Jnt canal trade
the gravest danger tdhie future pros
perity of sections Us the United
States, particularly ft southern and
gulf coast states, a‘s pe persistent di
version of trade to astern ports will
have the certain leniency to establish
and maintain a charnel of commerce
In that direction fem and through
the Panama canal w>en it shall have
been completed, theeby cutting off
the natural ports frot successful com
petition.
The resolutions co'‘~’ < ’d .by peti
tioning President ... .
. nips and also
government-controlled
. ason why the
to investigate the
i.iv.-, - . f .. oases fur ac-
i-vs aoce of n , ~
count of the I’atia steamship line
are made in the ea> rn states.’’
NEGRO TROC'F GUILTY
Was Verdict of Couimartial That Ex
onerated Majo Penrose.
The senate cornu tee on military
affairs at Washingto Monday receiv
ed a copy of a from Brigad-
ier General McCasby, commanding
the department of exas, concerning
the Major Penrose ourtmartial. The
telegram says that tnrose was exon
erated, but that thecourt found that
the shooting up of Brownsville was
1 done by members o the Twenty-fifth
infantry. The follovng is the text of :
the telegram:
martial, but the covt found that the
shooting in Brownstlle was done by
the men of the Twe<’-fifth Infantry.
Finding approved by s.
M’CASKEY,
’Commander."
CARNEGIE SCORE SPECULATORS
Says Wall Street Grblers Should Be
Given the CokShoulder.
Andrew Carnegie nde a vigorous
attack upon certain VII street meth
ods d s l>eech at -. dinner given
a his honor by tp United States
Military Telegraph orps at the Ho
tel Manhattan in Nw York Thurs
day night. Mr. Carnfie declared that
he ne ver mad-!a dollar gamb
ling in aE . a{ jjj ec j that it
was time that mfcn dec , fne
to recognize men w, raake mon(jv
in Wall street and , nder po
for it
BENTON SPECIL AGENT.
Georgia Man Namedo Probe Trade
Conditions in Forgn Countries.
A Washington d.Jatch says; Sec
retary Strauss of 1 department if
commerce and labonas appointed I.
L. Benton of Moncello, Ga., as a
special agent to instigate trade con
ditions in foreign ci ttries with spe
cial reference to t . m keting of
cotton seed produc
THE SHORT DISTANCE CHAMPION (
Knlcker—Why don't you gat a tour
ing car?
Bocker—What’s the use? I always
smash in two blocks anyhow.—New
York Sun.
FITS,St. Vitus’Dance: Nervous Diseases per
manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nervt
Restorer, tU trial bottle and treatise free.
Dr J? B. KHae. P3l ArcbSt., Phila., Pa I
A. really g.Vtxl complexion doesa; i
come out in tlie wash.
Bewar of Ointments For Catarrh
] mt Contain Mercury,
as mor* will surely destroy the sense of
smell ai i completely derange the wbo.e sys
tem w :cn entering it through the mucous
articles shoula never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable phv
rails, as the damage they will io is ten fold
fc ihe good yon can possibly derive from
tircni. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured
i h}’ I . J. Cheney & Co . Toledo, 0., contains
I uo mercury, anti is taken tuterr. acting
directly upon the blood and mucous stn -
of thesystem. In buying Hall’s Catarrh (,ure
be sure you get the genuine. It ia taken in
ternally and made m Toledo. Ohio, by r.
J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold bv Druggists; price, 75c. per hottie.
Take Hall’s Family rills for constipation.
The marriage of a tailor and a
dressmaker surely ought to be in ac
cord with the eternal fitness of •
things.
Plan for Good Health! Take Garr.tlu Tea
--v if tho livor and kidneys,
r- A <1 nation, purifies the blood
and eradicates <:' It is made wholly
of Herbs.
Flattery catches silly people, but
candor never catches
anybody.
A Square Deal
Is assured you when you buy Dr. Pierce’s
family medicines—lor all the ingredi
ents entering Into them are printed on
the bottle-wrappers and their formulas
are attested under oath as being complete
and correct. You know Just what you are
paying for and that tho ingredients are
gathered from Nature's laboratory, being
Selected from the most valuable native
m»ai.,)nal roots found growing in our
American f<5R potent to cure
are [>er ha r to tho most
delicate worn **K.a>«c*iil<rtWrr* Not a -tron
A nmeh tajlß-r agelTis qsed both IprxX
CK-to’ and preserving inq monmtnai
nriucliilcs use*; in them.Tvlz.-Eiyr, truTim
relineq glycerine. This agent possesses
I n tri ns ic toed ic I tea i properties of its own.
being a most valuable antiseptic and anti
ferment, nutritive and soothing demul
cent.
Glycerine plays an important part in
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery in
the cure of indigestion, dyspepsia and
weak stomach, attended by sour risings,
heart-burn, foul breath, coated tongue,
poor appetite gnawing feeling In stom
ach, biliousness and kindred derange
ments of t’-■■■•"p ;-d “V-IN r r J Jewels.
I' jTfArAAuji tbn”Golden Medical Discovery i
is a Specific for all diseases ot the mucous
membranes, as catarrh, whether of the
nasal passages or of the stomach, bowels
or pelvic organs. Evon in its ulcerative
stages it will yield to this sovereign rem
edy if its use l>e persevered in. In Chronic
Catarrh of the Nasal passages, it is well,
while taking the "Golden Medical Dis
covery ” for the necessary constitutional
treatment, to cleanse the passages freely
two or three times a day with Dr. Sage’s
Catarrh Remedy. This thorough course
of treatment generally cures the worst
cases.
In coughs and hoarseness caused by bron
chial. throat and lung affections, except con
sumption In Its advanced stages, the "Golden
Medical Discovery" is a most efficient rem
edy. especially in those obstinate, hang-on
coughs caused by Irritation and congestion of
the bronchial mucous membranes The " Dis"
covery " Is not so good for acute coughs aris
ing from sudden colds, nor must it be ex-
PC,Cjed to cure consumption In its advanced
th. oi>stinaW,d , n!ne will do that - but for all
lected, ot badly treat/o". whirl:. It neg-
Uou.it Is the best medicine Tna’C■■ar,'b6't‘X ..-n.
Some people think that it’s nevet
too late to mend a matrimonial mi-s
--take by applying for a divorce.
CURED OF GRAVED,
Not a Single Stone Has Formed Sinci
Using Doan's Kidney Pills.
J. D. Daughtrey. music publisher,
of Suffolk, Ya., says: "During two or
three years that I had
kidney trouble I
/ passed about 2 %
S pounds ot gravel and
I sandy sediment in the
iZJBrWIsxZ ur ' ne - I haven’t
passed a tone since
JMjSfeSwiSk using Doan's Kidney
Pills, however, and
that, was three years
I used to suffer
the most acute agony
fjOFer'usuarsFmpfoffis’&i
bles lassitude, headache, pain In
the back, urinary disorders, rbeu
i matte pain, etc. I nave a box con
taining 14 gravel stones that I
passed, but that is not one-quarter of
the whole number. I consider Doan’s
Kidney Pills a fine kidney tonic.’’
Sold by all dealers. 50centsabox.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
PLEASURE BY AUTHORITY.
Hostess —Goodbye, darling. So sor
ry nurse has come for you. I hope you
and Monty have enjoyed yourselves?
Darling- Thank you. Mother says
we’ve enjoyed ourselves very much.—
Punch.
FURIOUS HUMOR ON CHILD.
Itching, Bleedin,- Sores Covered Body
—Nothing Helped Her—Cuticura
Cures Her in Five Days.
“After my grana.’-oFkb'Mf seven
years f, ured 01 the measles. 3he
attacked about a fortnight Ijiter by a
furious itching and painful eruption all
over her body, especially the upper part of
it, forming ar»d bleeding sores, es
pecially rndtt the arras, at
size. She suffered a great deal and for
three weeks we nursed her every night,
using all the remedies we could think of.
Nothing would help. We tried the Cuti
cura Remedies and after twenty-four hours
we,..noted considerable improvement, and,
after using only one complete set of the
Cuticura Remedies, in five consecutive days
the little one, much to our joy, had been
entirely cured, and has been well for a long
time. Mrs. F. Ruefenacht. R. F. D. 3, Bak
ersfield, Cal., June 25 and July 20, 1906.’*
•
Carrabelle, Ta u ahassee & Oeorgia
1 idroad.
Passenger Train Bcr.-d '.- Corrected tc June 22, 1906
NORTHBOUND
Ex. Ex
D’ly Sun Sun D'lr e- di,- <-
AM P.M. AM. A?M. , A M F M
7:00 Lv , Apalachicola Ar :5
6:00 8:00 11:35 . . . Carrabelle . . . 2 6 3 ,A
6:45 8:20 11 50 . . . Lanark .... £ " 0
7:21 9:14 12:22 .... Sopchoppy .... I:ss 2:36 9:29 j
7:15 9 53 12:45 .... Arran 1:86 . r . 0-06
8:40 11:00 i 35 Ar ': llahaseee . Lv 12:51 12:30 8:15
6:40 8:50 3 25 Lv :’allalxasßee . Ar 12:46 8:05 8 .0
7:17 <9:25 4:05 Ar . . Havana . . Lv '2:02 7:27 8.
6:25 2 Lv . Oulncy .Ar 1:15 j ■■ Ih-i.o
7:10 3:45 A** . Hn.-c,... 11*15 9'25
Ne'e See Below.
7:17 9:30 4:05 Lv . Havana . Ar 12:02 7:22 «;l«
8:25 10:25 5:13 . . . Bainbridge . 11:00 6:20 7:10
9:25 6:10 . . . Colquitt .... 9:59 6:10
j.: 16 7:20 . . . Arlington . . . . 9:10 6:17
10:45 7:46 .... Edison B’3fi 4:45
11:35 8:30 Ar . Cuthbert .
Through Connections Via I a ' -hha.- •»«.
A.M PM. PM. A.M. I’M '.ML
' 7:40 Ar . JacksbnvTO Lv 4: -
11. 5 10:50 . . . Ponsacoir 5:t9
A.M Via Bainbrldg*-
9:40 V:iO B:Vu . n ‘ ~ s - 9;4 0
6:15 8:06 8:15 616 b ' 5V
P M. P M. Via Cuthbert
1:00 9:49 Ar . . Smithville . . .Lv 6:33
4:10 12:50 .. . Macon . . . . 8:35
7:55 7:10 . . . Atlanta .... 1201 8:00
PM. AM. A.M. A.M.
rroTiD—Additional trains, dally
Lv Havana 7:35.i u Quincy 8:20a
Lv Quincy lltOOn 4r Havana 11:45r
J. H. WILLIAMS, G. P. A.
finely mine Percent |
( C, the Wealth Is One
.? trs **/ ft ,
" £
Cy Henry L. Call. \
«■><IFTY years ago, there were not to exceed fifty- m s
yi He t teer- in the whole of the Unite:! Stales, and their combined <>r-
FY tu les —including the half millionaires as will—did not ex
~ O ctcd a probable $100,0(10,000, or 1 percent of the then ag
-2 gregate wealth of the nation. Sixteen years ago the <.om
<» bined fortunes of this class were estimated at $36,500,00i .-
OOtt, or 56 percent of our national wealth loday
I percent of our population owns practically 99 percent o
the entire wealth of the nation.
As a result of this wealth
divided into two classes, the enormously rich and the miserably poor, o
18,000,000 wage-eerr-rs receive an average of but S4OO per year; n’n ’' 11
of our business men are notoriously failures; onp clergy reed a y 1
annual salary of about $500; the average for the educators of the . _ •
2F'’, T ’,,J'’> V income of other professional men in proportion, sit ■'
f the .om ’ ? rV, H 3 ’ne-third are tenants, and the homes of one-thin.
' universall « (wo " !ir ds are nwrtgag-.-d. and a debt bur.!-a <• nlroosl
We arc in fact, a nation of debit.-, .... • . '
bond, and general indebtedness alone reaching a probable ‘vital -t ♦
o'.'o, or $375 per capita; in ether words, an amount equal to t' l 1-2 times our
per capita money circulation, and 22 times our savings banks lier- 1 - • • ■
the stacks of our industrial, financial, and public service corporalioi .- .< r e ■■
ported to draw dividends, and constitute as truly an indebtedness upon
part of the public to the owners of wealth, as do mortgages and bonds the: >
selves: and these, under their present enormous over-capitalization, wou '
swell our indebtedness to a probable total far in excess of the $110,000,000,000
estimated as the total aggregate wealth of tie nation, the whole being a first
lien upon the toil and property of the nati• n, with the power given to these
corporations to levy what tax they please thereupon
These conditions are net normal nor the result of “national law or causa
tion, but are instead the resuit of a monopoly of land and m; - - i si-'irc s.
' cf money, of transportation, md otli r public utilities as ab > of ii" '. ■
I This monopoly has, moreover, been brought about by meats of the corpui*
I tion, industrial, financial, and public service.
& The Coming ?
American Monarch
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By Mark Twain. *
-" UMAN nature being what it is, I suppose we must exp-’c
Hto drift into monarchy by and by. It is a saddening thought,
but we cannot change our nature; we are ail alike, we hu
man beings; an 1 our blood and bone, and ineradicable,
we carry the seeds oi of which monarchies and aristocra-
I B k j cies are grown, wors’- . gauds, titles, poww
We have to worship liese things and their possessors; w
I < > I are all born so and we cannot help it. We hi- etobo • e
spised by somebody whom we regard as above us. or
are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we
not be content.
In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary way... in
public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege but privately we hanker
after them, and when wo get u chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.
Sometimes we get a good man and worth the price, but we are readv to take
wM f’hLke?of --" bV S “ red and lon S deßc endod offal. And when
we get him - nation publicly chaffs and scoffs and privately envies,
and als i J P routl of the honor which has been conferred upon us. We run
over our ‘ i6t of '> )urchases evei Y now and '- hen >n the newspapers and
discuss t) iem and caress ’hem and are thankful and happy.
- in a monarchy the. people willingly und rejoicingly revere and take pride
in their nobilities, and are not humiliated by the reflection that this mhle
and hearty homage gets no return but contempt. Contempt does no’ sr.amo
them; they are used to it and they recognize that it is their proper due. We
are all made like that. In Europe wo «asiiy and quickly le~™ -to take that
attitude toward the soverigns and the aristocraci ri’thvover. it has been
observed that when we get the attitude we go and exaggera-- it presmtlr '
becoming more servile than the natives and vainer of it. The next •
rail and scoff at Republics and Democracies. All of which Is natural, for we
have not ceased to be human beings by becoming Americans, and the human
race was always intended to be governed by kingship, not by popular vote
North American Review.
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