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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
The Truth About State Banks.

The Chicago Tribune bitterly attacks
the state bank plank in the democratic
platform. and claims that it is mainly
supported by southern democrats.
Our contemporary endcavors to convey
the impression that it is simply Il swind-
ling scheme on the part of reckless south
ern Adventures, who desire to food the
country with lot of worthless money. 1t
says:
The south was always in favor Of state bank
issues: that section believed that that impor
tnut attribute of soyereignty-furnishins the
people with currency-ought to be split up
into chunks each state to have one. The
south was against national bank bank
of the United States because it believed i'll
state supremacy. Another reason why the
south favored the state bank shinplasters was
because it was able to make pretty penny
out of them by circulating the trash i'll the
north, For years southern SharperS started
hanks in southern cities, towns, and villages,
issued their wildcat and reddog notes, and
peddIed them out to southern merchants who
owed debts at the north and loaned them to
northern SPECTATORS. The creditors who took
tbe leafs" and dogs" were afraid Of it and
scattered it as fast as possible at Il discount
and the stuff went drifting from hand to hand
Mt greater discounts until finally the state
ereicuty institutions busted and the notes sank
TO zero. The war put an end to that great
southern shinplaster industry but the chiv-
alric gentlemen of that section are anxious to
renew it.
But this is not all. The Tribune links
wildcat shinplasters with tariff REFORM
which it calls free trade, and goes on to
say:
The democratic free trade policy will cut
,or, wages one-half. The democratic finan-
cisl policy will pay that remaining half in
wildcat and reddog shinplasters issued by
Mobile Macon, Milledgeville Atlanta. Nash
vile Little Rock, Galveston, Jacksonville,
Columbia, Savannah, Charleston Waycross,
and brandon banks worth something Or moth
ing ON the dollar, as it may happen. A dem
ocratic platform with free trade but without
wildcat would seem forlorn and incomplete.
This is sheer impudence and dense ig-
norance, if not something worse. The re-
cent reduction Of wages in highly pro-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
Two Dodgers.

Why does the Hon. John Sherman
dodge the force bill in his republican
greenback speeches in the west? 1t is
black and white in the Minneapolis plat
form and Mr.. Sherman owes it to his
party to say something about it if only in
a casual way.
The funny part about it is that the Ohio
senator doesn't do his lodging as voclfer-
ously as Editor NJ HalStead, his old COM
panion in arms. When Sherman lodges
he simply disappears behind his red barn
and the only noise that is heard comes
from the small commotion that his pres
ence makes among the fowls. Whereas,
when Editor Halstead finds it necessary
to dodge he runs roaring to the bushes
like q scrub bull with a skyrocket tied
to his tail
Yet Editor HaIstcad is modester man
Of the two. Ee doesn't perform the roar
ing oct for the purpose of attracting at
tention to himself lie is simply an emo
tional man, and when q panic Oyertakes
him he is compelled to give vent to his
feelings He knows that the force bill
is an affair to be lodged by his party,
and he sets the pace by retreating with
a loud noise John Sherman also knows
the force bill is to be lodged, and he dis
appears behind n smile as cold and as pale
as the fame of n BlueRidge lightning
bug. Nevertheless Sherman voted for
the measure and would gladly vote for
it again. Halstead advocated 1t in 1890,
and would gladly advocate it again.
1t is q beautiful spectacle presented by
these hardened republicans, and if it could
be crowded together under one tent
would prove to be a popular attraction.
But the thought is vain. John Sherman
could sleep comfortably in q goober hull,
but for the idea of confirming Halstead to
circus tent no larger than Barnum's is
preposterous.
At the same time, the force bill is
still an issue.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

It has defrauded them of countless millions.
1t has turned their prosperity INTO poverty,
For one we will not stand consentlngy by
and see it prolonged. We would be recreant
to the highest obligations Of nature to thus
betray the people we live among ana love.
II we are constrained to use strong ana Sc
we're language, it is because the evil is great
and deserves to be SO characterized we
cannot use soft words to describe what we
believe to be robbery OF the worst klnd' anu
an evil that threatens the gravest dangers 10
our material. civil and politicl welfare
The south must get out from under
this grinding oppression, or our cotton
planters will be ruined. Already our
people see the danger, and during the
past year they have had very little to
do with futures The beneficial effects
of this course are beginning to be seen
in our commercial reports. Dunn's agency
this week reports for the quarter just
closed in the south that the failures are
less in liabilities than for any year since
1881, while in number they are much
below the average.
This means something. 1t is the best
showing that we have made in eleven
years, and it is mainly due to the fact
that we have held aloof from future deal
ing. Let us continue to fight it out on
this line and urge our congressman to
push the anti-option bill through. Only
in this way can we get rid of the rings
now engaged in depressing the price of
cotton
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and the remainder, $3.50. SO to the advan
tage of the free delivery service. Nearly
all the postmasters in their reports to the
department Endorsed the new plan, and
the postmaster general strongly advocates
it.
These facts will doubtless satisfy our
correspondent. The arguments in favor
of the proposed reform have already been
fully set forth in our columns.
Mrs. Andrew Crosse, in her cold Memo
ries," of well known men contributed to Ten
pie Bar, says that Buckle, the author Of the
''History of Civilization" was entirely self
taught His health, as a boy, was so delicate
that he never was sent to school and was left
to learn little or much he liked and how he
liked. When be had grown to middle age his
accumulated knowledge even of small things
was prOdigiOuS
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

Captain Harry G. Browns letter in an
other column should be read by every
allianceman in Georgia until now Captain
Brown has been recognized as third party
man.
The writer is devoted to the alliance.
He hoped through its educational work
to see the farmers of the country throw
off the yoke of plutocratic oppression.
He is still fighting it out en- that line, but
he cannot close his eyes to the fact that
political agitation has nearly killed the
alliance, while the new party assumes to
be its executor and the republican party
stands waiting to be its legatce!
Captain Brown makes the point clearly
and strongly that the only hope Of the
people is in the success of democracy.
The democratic plan of reviying the old
state banks is far better than the third
partys government land loan scheme
which would simply build up landed
aristocracy, leaving the poor man out in
the cold.
SO, while he is in full sympathy with the
third party in it's struggle against monop-
oily, he declines to invite republican sue
cess, with the force bill and the same old
plutocratic system.
1t is frank, manly letter, and we hope
that it will be read by every farmer in
lie south.
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tected industries answers some of this

tected industries answers some OF tnls
nonsense, and the testimony of the oloer
business men of the country should reIlte
the falsehoods about the state Dahhs
For about eighty years the American peo-
pie got along very well with state lSlnk
currency. They developed their resources
and grew powerful and prosperous
There were a few wildcat banks III the
frontier states of the west, but exposure
was always prompt and they were unable
to swindle the public long. The notes OF
the banks in Georgia, South Carolina,
Louisiana and other southern states, were
as good as gold all over the union, and
even in Canada. During the war confed-
crate prisoners in the north were able to
exchange their Georgia bank notes for
greenbacks.
If we revive this system now 1t VIII Dc
better and more closely guarded than IN
the old days. Efficient state inspection
will keep our local banks up to the proper
standard
We have already accepted the state
ment of our opponents that state BANK
notes would constitute a local currency.
That is precisely what we need. Our gold
and silver treasury certificates and nation
al bank notes will give the country q ma
tional currency, and the notes of our local
banks will then naturally circulate in the
localities where they are to be redeemed,
and where the people have full knowledge
Of the resources, standing and credit OF
the incorporators of the banks. We want
just such a currency-a currency that VIII
not drift to the eastern centers and stay
there.
Our Chicago contemporary will find
upon investigation that this is no sectional
issue Many Of the wisest and soundest
financial experts Of the east and west
favor this REFORM and sooner or later it
is bound to come.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

Editor Hastead was right when he re-
marked in stentoran voice that Georgia
would be safely democratic He is one OF
our most gifted prophets, but his voice was
not loud enough to suit the occasion.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

newsstand the waiting telegraph opera
tors made their keyboards click as they
never clicked before. and the red-hOt
wires all but melted under the rushing
tidal wave of news!
And this Is how we covered the state
Wednesday night.
The result is worth all that it cost us
In time, labor and cash. For the first
time in nearly a generation the most in
tense interest has been felt all over the
country and here at home concerning this
election. Until now we have had practi-
cally only one party in Georgia since the
days of reconstruction, and the result was
always foregone conclusion. This year,
however, the activity of the third party
and the fight made by its candidates for
the governorship, statehouse Offices and
for seats in the legislature in every coun-
ty drew public attention upon us, and all
over the union, as well as here, people
have felt feverish interest in the result,
and have awaited it with impatience. To
rise responsive to this general demand
and print the official returns almost be-
fore the crisp ballots had ceased to rustic
in their boxes was the achievement we
sought to accomplish. How far we have
succeeded in fulfilling our mission will be
seen in our columns today!
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

A correspondent asks us to state
whether or not the experiment of free
rural mail delivery has been tried.
Free delivery of mail in the rural dis
tricts of Great Britain has been SUCCESS
fully carried on Tor many years. In this
country the experiment dates from the
summer of 1890. when congress empower
ed the postmaster general to use $4,000
to ascertain the feasibility of extend
ing free delivery to small towns and rural
districts. The postmaster general in his
report the following year said that he had
tried the experiment in forty-six commu-
mites or mail districts. In seven months
these forty-six offices cost for carriers
$4,32O 60. lnirty-nine offices showed an
increase of gross receipts amounting to
S6,213 40, and seven showed a decrease
amounting to $707 80. OF this balance
of increase in gross receipts to $5,5O6 10
the postmaster general attributes $4,655-
60 to natural growth of the communities,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
After the Battle.

Many good democrats in Georgia and
in other southern states have drifted into
the third party under the mistaken i'm
preston that it pointed the way to reform
The lesson of Wednesdays election will
not be lost upon this class of voters. They
will now be convinced that the over
whelming majority of their friends and
neighbors, so far from favoring Il new
party, are more than ever satisfied that
our only hope of political salvation is
bound up in the democratic party
The third party reformers have tested
their experiment. and they have found
that the people will have none of it.
There is now only one thing for them
to do. AS good citizens they must sympa-
thize with the determined effort of die
great mass of our people to maintain
white supremacy and save the solid south
from the force bill and the oppression
of republican, plutocratic rule. They must
see that their only hope Of obtaining 1inan-
cial and tariff reform depends upon the
success of the national democracy, and
they should need no urging to induce
them to return to the ranks Of their old
party.
We know that many of these third party
voters honestly desire to advance the
cause of genuine reform. They believe in
democratic principles, but they made n
mistake as to the methods best calculated
TO insure success. They have given the
matter q fair, square test and the result
speaks for itself. There is no good reason
why they should sulk in their tents or
hold aloof from their old friends. The
patriotic course to pursue is to return to
the democratic camp and aid in winning
Il victory in November that will save the
south from the force bill, smash the rob
Der tariff, emancipate us from our serf
dom to plutocracy and redeem the repub-
lie of our fathers
Rally round the old flag again.-come
back to your places in the ranks, and
show yourselves as of yore the loyal sous
of the solid south
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

There is still time for the democrats who
have been acting with the third party to
return. The doors are open. Let them
walk right in, sit down on punkin and
helm us skin a later
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

After all, the people know where to get
the news, and The Constitution knows how
TO get it. The public and great newspa-
per make an inyincible combination.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

In this hour of his need the only defenders
that W. r. Grace can find are Colonel Cock
erills two republican newspapers.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

Grace says he won't put out an anti-snap
ticket in New York city. This is probably
because there is nothing substantial in it
for Grace.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

We are waiting for Editor Halstead to
up and remark with an awful frown that
somebody or something was counted out in
Georgia last Wednesday. If he will keep
right on and say the voters themselves per-
formed the contingent act, we shall ap-
plaud the statement
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11

Editor Dana is never caught mapping Be
fore leaving for Europe, he paired with
an honorable republican" This is It vote
for Cleveland
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ganization have been most grievously dis
appointed. The solid good sense Of the
democratic alliancemen has prevailed, and
they have refused to go with the third
party.
The result Of last Wednesday ought to
put an end to the schemes of those who
have been trying to ride into office on the
grievances of the farmers. 1t ought also
to put an end to the idle dreams Of those
who imagine that any sort of real reform
in legislation can be accomplished outside
the democratic party. Let the people Of
Georgia get together. The election in
November is more important than that
which has just taken place in Georgia.
There are larger issues at stake.
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great day Tor Inc Constitution.
Now for November!
1t was great victory in Georgia
Wednesday, but there is still another vic
tory for the democrats to win. The or
ganization and discipline which have Civ
en- the party a clear majority of seventy
thousand should be rigidly kept up. We
shall need the same or a larger ma iOrity
in November, when the people of the
south and the honest voters of the whole
country are pitted against the force bill
party, which is seeking to perpetuate its
control of the government, its disastrous
financial legislation and its burdensome
tariff taxes by controlling the state cleo
tons in the south.
In this business the democratic party Of
Georgia ought to have the en-
thusiasuc aid and support of
those democrats who, for rea-
sons of their own, supported Colonel Peek
for governor last Wednesday, No man
can give an intelligent or even an intelli-
gible reason why any white voter in the
south should assist the republicans by
throwing away his ballot on Weaver.
We have gone over the arguments Of the
third party leaders time and again, but
we have never been able to find in them
any logic or reason, or anything that ad-
justs itself to the demands of common
sense. The Constitution has sympathized
with the farmers in their demands for
financial relief. 1t still sympathizes with
them, and it will never cease its efforts
i'll their behalf until relief is obtained
III some shape.
The democratic party is pledged to that
relief, both in its platform and it's pur-
pose, and no sensible person looks for it
elsewhere. Those who would cripple or
destroy that party under the pretense of
seeking relief, are simply endeavoring to
perpetuate republican rule, and with it
all the evils from which the people are
now suffering.
BY speaking for the farmers The Con-
stitutiOn has earned the right to speak to
them. 1t has been made the object of
abuse by short-sighted and narrow-mind-
ed editors who cannot see two inches be-
You'd the ends of their noses, because it
justified the agitation which has been go
ing on among the farmers as the result Of
an aggravation of evils. Pursuing its pol
icy regardless Of the criticisms of the
shOrt-sighed or the enviOus, The COnsti-
tuition now urges those democratic farm
ers who have been deluded by the argu-
ments Of the third party leaders, to re-
turn to the party and join with us in an
effort to sweep the republican party out
of power and to put in operation those
principles which represent the true peo-
pies party-the party Of Jefferson and
Jackson.
1t has just been shown in the most sig
nificant way, that those who expected any
large number Of the farmers of Georgia
to unite with the third party schemers in
an effort to destroy the democratic or
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-11
Now for November!

1t was a great day for Georgia, and a
great day for The Constitution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-17
The Craze for Souvenirs.

The popular craze for souvenirs which
now prevails among persons who have
money to spend il spreading in various
directions. Formerly the silver spoon
held undlsputed sway, bnt now there are
souvenir bracelets, souvenir napkin
rings, souvenir buttons and souvenir
fans. The silyersmiths are kept busy
getting mp new and novel designs, and
each jewelry store of any Importance
has its souvenir department, Spoons of
course are still in the greatest demand.
One young married woman in this town,
who is an ardent collector Of souvenirs,
is the proud possessor Of nearly 100
spoons, each representing city or vii
lage that she has visited, New York
Times.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-17
HIS REVENGE.
What the Man Who Started the Louisiana
State Lottery Did.
L. A Il IL Il

w nat the NJ an VINO SiaIICU VIC AOA-9
State Lottery Did.
From the Atlanta Herald.
Since the officers of the Louisiana
State Lottery have decided TO throw up
the sponge, am reminded of the man
who first started it.
His name was Howard, l believe, and
he was a rev Yorker.
There is attached to his coming to
New Orle ms quite an interesting little
story.
When Howard came t. New Orleans
he was a very wealthy man, worth mil
ZION or more. He tried to enter the best
society in New Orleans by the aid of his
money. His effOIts were tutila.
In some way he got his name proposed
in "The club of New Orleans" He was
black-balled AS soon as he heard of it.,
Howard sent word to the club that he
would soon own their race-track and
W ould MAKE a city OF it.
"My house, he declared, 'shalI be the
finest in it,
This Club was composed of the richest
and best men in the city. The dab own
ed beautiful race track and grounds
comprising some thirty acres.
Gradually Howard bought up all the
stock of the club. The members receiv-
ed notice that they must vacate their
rooms. There was to be no moro racing
their driving grounds had been bought.
Howard TUNED the club grounds into a
cemetely-a veritable city Of tne dead
and, as it is said, that true 80 his word
Towards monument is the most i'm
posing and beautiful piece of work in
the cemetery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-17
Loving HOlaem

Nothing appears to US so beautiful in
human expert ance as the reciprocal affee-
zion of parents and children, especially
after the latter have attained maturity
anu, 1T may be, formed new relations in
life. We have seen the loving and lovely
daughter, after she had become a wife
ant mother, seize every Opportunity of
visiting the parental home to lavish her
aitectionate attention upon her parents
and, by Thousand graceful and tender
kindnesses, assure them that. though she
vas an idoliHed wife AMI happv moth
err her affections still clung with ever
strengthening fervor to the father and
mother who watched over her infancy
an | guided her youth. IL has been opr
privilege to know such. and we b,vo
" messed the outpourings of love and
happiness between the these devoted and
glowing hearts, we have felt that suraIv
much of heaven might DO enioved here
II all f}miiieS were equally attached
And would that every daughter kna,r
what pure joy she might create in tbe
parental bosom by constant keenin.
alive Of tho spirit Of fi}ial devotion and
Selling frequent opportunities to mani
Test little act Of gent'eness and love
notwithstanding the child may have be-
come parert. The child never crows
cid to 4 fond parent. 1t is always the
dear child, and never SO dear as when il
keeps up The childish confidence and
love of its earliest years.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-02-17
No Place Like HoMae.

lie was writing an essay on the beauty
OF home life, and with his pen held sus-
pended in tie air, sol;loquized thusly:
There is no place like home
Papa, called boy voice at the door,
will You mend my sled?'
'T'o away, sir. Don't you know bet
ter than to disturb me when l am writ
ing Now that idea is gone and must
begin all over again. There is no
place.
1t was a woman's voice this time:
Reginald, the gas is leaking like
everything, and you must see the compa-
ny and have it stoppei"
There is no place like home" beoan
the wretched man again, just as Han
Aah, the girl, thrust her head in to ask
Did you order the ldndlin's?"
Then he seized his pen and wrote flu
entity for full five minutes hcfore he gave
up ais wild dream of fame. "raere is
no place like home for discomfort. an
hoyances, cold, hunger ami every kind
4 disturbance On the face of the earth.
at the most inopportune and trying mo
mSnt, Detroit Free Press.