The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-25
SARGE PLUNKET.
THE OLD MAN MEETS WITH n GREAT
SCIENTIFIC GEETLEMAN.
The Good Man Is Disfranchised, but the Bad
Mans Suffrage Is Secure Under the OPP
erations of the Toombs Ei1l.



A long haired, Study-worn, scientific
scholar could never have got us to listen to
him, had it not been that we are 50 worn
out with politics that we accept anything
for a change. Yesterday there came along
of these Scholars" and he had it his
own way for about four hours, but when
he had gone we had it our way. The fellow
was bri8tling with literature. The pockets
of his seedy Prince Albert was strutting
with periodicals, and his arms were filled
with treatises upon every subject from the
little ant to the mighty elephant, from the
milnoW to the whale, from the sparrow to
the great American eagle. The evolution
OF man-'how to breed men'-is the pres
sure Which bore upon him through the
four hours with US, and he is coming back
in August to spend month With LIS, IN
order 20 continue the subject.
Me ana my old oman are always modest
upon subjects we have but little experience
in, but Brown and his old oman 10 ohed
like they were on nettles just to get g.
chance at this what-ever-you-In may -call-hlm
scholar. Not word could they get H.
this fellow went on to convince them
that it Was just as easy-if they had Known
how-to have their whole thirteen chill
dren heroes and heroineS as TO have them
the Elan cooks and cloGhoppers that tEey
are. At every turn he would llsa cut &
paper to prove what he was saying. l ne
concentrat ton of the mind upon the h1nd
ChlIu one WlSIlGU was al p|lGAlo Aou ~
do TO fill the word with Napoeo1s, femme
Linds George Washingtons and 1Idisons
Mrs. Brown shook her head a few times.
and Brown WunlI at me, but the felIoW
awed them with his papers on the SUBJECT
and even opened the lids Of our Rible afd
turned to where Joseph put up the striped
poles in the sheep ranch, in proof OF MS
theory. He had his own way Tor four
hours, but when he vas gone we hac II
our way, and all OF us voted THAI Browns
experience was better than book learning
to Judge this subject upon-it is Gil d fallacy,
says Brown; 1t is all a fallacy, says Mrs.
Brown. If ever two people did have their
hearts set and their minds concentrated on
having their boy great, 1t was this couple
the boy iS nothing.
OF course, we could not pass around in
Atlanta without listening to something
political When Mr.. ToOmbs pressed MS
bill into the constitution Of the state,
forcing the payment of taxes right for
suffrage he little dreamed of how many
of his own race would be DISTINGUISHED by
It's operations. Ii the grand old man was
living he would be too honest to deny but
that the bill was aimed at the negro. NO
defense be made for a man not pay
ing his taxes but it is a fact that it is
growing to such proportions that 1t should
catch the attention of thoughtful men and
q remedy should be sought after. Il might
astound some of our Statesmen" to find out
in Georgia at this time. and the number Is
still growing. 1t is not the Dad clements
that is mostly affected by this law.
bad man can always manage TO set BIS
taxes payed, even if he pro;ttu es the
ballot box by making this tax the Price
Of his vote Some good men real good
men, but poor-ara unable to vote or &C
count OF this law, and it is g shame as
we'll as i.npolitic that it should be SO. 1t
was never the intention of Robert ToonbS
to diafranchise white Gcorgidu--the nGtsf<
can take care Of himself in this matter.
I have said il before, but it viii bear re-
peQting right at this time, that it is tho
poor white man who needs some & the
attention that is keeping problem aoiVefS'
awake at night and a-hoWlinG ny cay. /
have never been in sympathy With the
poor mans FRIEND idea, as used in pcll-
tics, and have always been suspicious OF
candidates VINO use the theme, but L DO
thinl. that the time has come when the
conditions and the future of The poor
whites OF the south should have attention.
The world has been too busy helping the
negro to rise for thirty years to give a
thought to the poor white man. In his
abundance OF seIf-HOnlid@nc9, the poor
whites have been blinded TO the great
strides OF the negro, and +or3ot that
wealth has much 10 30 with responsibility
they forgot, or did not think of many
things but / can tell you again, as | nave
sol4 YOU before, that money makes The
l an well known as being against SO much
organization, but we have ORGANIZED q
society in settlement recently that
give my hearty support ana sAnt1lSr 70.
The OBJECT OF this society is /" foster
and encourage tn? settlement of our own
surplus population upon lands in the coul-
this society is that tie money spent in
bringing emigrantS from away off shall be
spent in unloading the towns of their sur
plus. | for the presidency CT this So
cety. but my opponent had such q good
- Of no. n
tain, that [ was Overwhelmingly defeated
The rascal fooled me into voting against
myself. This fellow, in his opening address,
said some things that / thought was sen
big men" lock TOO far off to find their
material for the Improvement OF the south.
Commence right here, and encourage and
aid all you can the men who are IDLE
after our own capital and labor has profit
able employment, it viii be time to reach
out--make haste at home. In the course OF
his remarks, the president exclaimed with
a great flourish that the state Of Georgia
donates $4,000 year to her mlltafy en-
campn ent-if she would donate this amount
to building factories over there on sh9aI
creek there would soon be some excuse Tor
Inviting foreigners to come and labor IN
cur viney2rd!' | don't see what the mill
tary encampment has to do with our SO
ciety, bur the crowd went wild with cheers
all CROWDS do when you mention the doing
away with this encamnment. Some fellow
won't be me, for Will never run again.
Bat am not going to sullt because | got
peat lOt tIe presidency. L ne bOC4ciy HAS
some good features il their president
has sense enough to carry them out. Some
OF their notices read
"Chdrity Begins al Home"
'Patronize Home Industry"
What l think is the best clause In the
sOciety'S bylaws reads: mo dues shall
be eXaCted from any member, but il a
brothers crop gets in the grass from mis-
fortune. shall work him out"
This clause sounds like old times. It used
to be the custom to work 81 neighbOr's crop
in cases of misfortune. There real
poverty among country people of the south
in old times. A poor man had no anxiety
about losing his crop if be had sickness
a fro!c for the neighbors to gather
at the sick mans house and work his
crop over in one day. The sick man was
not disturbed in these workings, even to
feed the workers--all carried dinner and
feed for stock, and the day passed in cheer
ana froic
| viii mention one more clause of the
bylaws, because I think it grafic "If any
man shall mention politics in this society,
the doorSeeper snail mash his mouth with
a stick" l am mighty fearful there will be
some mouth MASKING" for 1t is most
hard to keep from talking politics as it
used to be for q young man 10 keep from
t9lllng weather to his sweetheart.
Brown is the president Of this society
he is the man who beat
The farmer boys are beginning to lay-by
corn, and blackberries are rpening. Chick
ems are ripe for the fries, and pies and
ffbfe- mpat;Oc'' is nearly here The