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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24
ITnder the Mckinley Tariff.

The claim that the Mckinley tariff
protected our industries and our wage
workers has been thoroughly exploded.
Under that tariff, half of our factories
had to shut down and wages declined
to a very low figure.
Ii is a welEknown fact that our type
writer manufacturers have been selling
their machines TO foreigners - per cent
lower than to American citizens. The
American last year had TO pay p per
cent more than customers in foreign
countries were charged. A commission
merchant writes to The New York
Journal of Commerce rs follows:
NV wife recently purchased a sewing ma
chine for $50. 1t was a good machine and
we did not complain of the price; but short
w after, a friend of ours, who lives in san
Domingo. came to visit us, and seeing my
wife's machine concluded to get one like it..
l went to the salesrooms with him ana was
surprised to find that he could purchase a
machine similar to my wife's for So 3d. The
seller would not deliver the machine to us,
but had it boxed, addressed and shipped on
board the steamer This, / understand, was
done to prevent Americans from coming
into the store, buying machines at the ex-
port discount, on the explanation that they
were foreigners. ana then keeping the ma
chimes for use in this country.
These cases are common. Cotton
goods and machinery are sold ON the
same plan, and it is the same way with
bicycles. Office desks sold at $40 in
New York are sold to foreign customers
for S2S, and 81 clocks are sent abroad
for $3.50.
1t win be seen from these figures that
high tariff means high prices for the
home market Our people are discrimi-
mated against. and the foreigners get all
the benefit With these facts before us,
the democratic programme of a low
tariff should be hailed with delight by
every American citizen.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

The big corn crop this year in GeOr-
gia and other southern states is sign
of promise
Ina the regions where corn is king the
people are independent and prosperous.
No other cereal counts for SO much rs
Il symbol of progress in this country.
A field of corn is tho best expression of
the American spirit of enterprise.
Where corn grows. everything that con-
tributes 10 human comfort is sure to
follow. When corn leads the way, farms
multiply, and new communities are
founded. As an eloquent champion of
this great staple has well said, the
soldicrly maize in taSSel. carrying the
scabbarded ears on either side, has
made possible all the glorious victories
that have been gained for. the material,
moral and political profit of the millions
whose homes are in the once silent and
waste places of the continent.
Like cotton, corn is also a king The
stalk that lifts its yellow kernel higher
and higher toward the skies bears
greater wealth and more resources of
human happiness than all our mines and
treasure-laden ships. Just think of what
a crop of 2.000.O00,O00 bushels will do
for labor. transportation and business.
Our corn states are the greatest In
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24
The Nalme OF Gold.

If the statistics furnished by our treas
ury are reliable, there is only S3,600O0O,-
900 of gold coin in The world.
Now, suppose the leading nations
should demonetiZe gold as they demone-
tized silver? Suppose they should de-
clare that after October list gold should
cease to be a legal tender, and that no
more should be coined at the minis? a
writer in The New York Recorder says,
in answer to these questions:
Creditors would not accept it as coin in
payment of debts. Governments would not
take it for customs dues or otherwise. AS
bullion, the minis would not receive 1T for
coinage What, then, would be the price of
gold? How would it be measured?
The answer, is plain. 1t would then have
commodity value, depending on the cost of
it's production and the amount of demand
for it for use in the arts.
Not much over 100000 ounces of gold is
annually called for for use in the arts.
Against this demand there would be the
entire existing gold coinage of the world
1880 GOO 600 ounces. The supply from that
source alone-gold coin in stock, needing not
to be mined produced at any cost, high
or low-would be equal to the entire demand
for sixty years to come.
1t is impossible To refute these con-
illusions All the talk about the intrinsic
value of gold would amount to nothing
if it was demonetized.
These propositions are worth all the
study that the anti-silver men can give
them. 1t is impossible to consider them
without recognizing the influence and
the power of what some people call the
fiat of the government.
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The Republican Programme.

In his recent speech ut olathe, RAN
ex- Senator INGALLS, said
want to say that am a bimetallist, pure
and simple. in favor of the free coinage OF
American silver at the ratio of 10 10 l. ana
l believe that the republican party stands
on that platform; and / 90 further ana say
that | believe that good portion OF the
Industrial difficulties that surround US. the
depression of value, the loss of credit, the
stagnation of business, is due to the de-
structon of the money purchasing power,
and business will never be restored until
silver is replaced in the full exercise of its
functions as one of the money metals of the
American people.
Senator Cameron is ON this line, and
Tom Reed has intimated that he is dis
posed to become an advocate Of bimctal-
liSm The signs of the times Indicate
that it IS a part of the republican pro-
gramule 10 make Il vigorous fight for
free silver.
1t is evidently the winning issue. but
there is no reason why democrats should
stand back and let their opponents ride
into power on the most popular plank
of the Chicago platform. The bimetal-
lists constitute the majority of the demo-
cratic party. They have the platform
and all the argument on their side. All
that they have 10 do is TO reatiirm their
allegiance to the platform. and send
men to congress who will stand by it.
The national democracy has led the fight
for free silver, and it cannot afford to
give it up now and allow the republicans
TO win n victory on the same issue. The
democratic policy should be summed up
in one phrase:
Cfaud hv fha nIa ffOpmf
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Lightning is most destructive in level,
omen country Cities, with their numerous
projections and wires, are comparatively
exempt.
A woman raised an umbrella at Irondale,
q Saturday several horses ran away,
and fifteen people were either killed or
riously injured. All of which but redem-
onstrates the fact that woman and an
umbrella form about the most deadly com
bination known to modern science.
1t is estimated that the agricultural earn
ings of the United States are $3i90,O00,000:
from manufactures, O. 33o.0000o from
mines $3.50, 600 coo; from transportation, ST.
1876, 000. 600; from commerce, $l60.0oO,COO; from
shipping $16C Oo0tO0, and from banking, SOU
600, 600.
Governor Flower took pains to talk about
the new tariff at the Binghamton, n. l.
cattle show Tuesday, and predicted That
it would satisfy the country as soon as II
got to working thoroughly. The Tree WOOL
experiment would prove so successful. he
thought, that the people would ciamor Tor
more of the free raw materials tonic. The
governor evidently expects to be renomin-
ated and as he has a rocky road to travel,
he has begun talking politics too soon.
The degrees of bachelor of medicine and
master in surgery have this year, for the
first time in the history of the Scottish uni
versities, been conferred on women. One
of these young women. who ranked third
in class of siXty-one members stood first
I'm her class of zoology, practical chemistry,
anatomy, history, physiology, surgery, med
icine, pathology and midwifery. Her elm
zeal work was done in the Royal Hospital
for Sick Children, and in the Royal in
frmary. The other young woman who re-
ceived a degree, and who has done excel
lent work during her seven years college
ant u n
her father, who is a Glasgow physician.
Paris has become second only to London
in her devotion to cycling. The use of the
wheel is so general there that the French
Academy of Medicine has been seriously
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

| in vain for a familiar face and form;
they listen for a mirth-provoking voice
| that they hear no more
What has become of our old friend,
the clown, who was so dear to the
| hearts of the boys and girls of the past
generation? Did his tribe, beginning
away back in the past when monarchs
kept their wise and witty fools always
| within call. die out with the inimitable
Johnny Lolow, who died in south
Georgia a few years ago?
The circus magnates of these later
days, misled by what is deemed to be
the popular craze for the spectacular,
can find no place on their huge pro
grammes for the genuine clown. They
are trying vainly to keep up the tradi-
ton by cheap limitations, whose chief
office is to drive a donkey wagon in the
street parade or TO sing Il silly ballad
between acts. But the old clown, with
| an abundance of motherwit and Il vast
| fund of humor. is no more.
And it is pity! Much better could
the public adapt itself to some coStler
feature of the passing show. In the old
|
among the first in the ring, and always
the last to leave it. He came in with
every act, and followed even the Spe
cialists into the ring. He trotted after
the trick horses, accompanied the per
| forming dogs, and gave zest to every
part of the entertainment.
We presume the small boys OF the
! present genera ton do not know what
| they have missed, but circus. no mat
ter how grand and costly, no matter
! how vast and brilliant, is not Il circus
to those who enjoyed the humor of Dan
| Rice, Dan Costello, Hiram Marks, and,
last and best OF all, johnny Iolow.
| These men were artists in the best
| sense of the word. They knew men,
| they knew human nature, and by word
and action they punctured its follieS
! lOloW was Il man of considerable
| gifts. and. in his particular line, was u
! genius He never uttered a word in the
ring nor made a gesture in pantomime
That did not burlesque some folly of hui
manity. 1t is said of him that when
! Death, the great ring master cracked
| his whip. Lolow smiled and said. as of
old: Here | am. like 4 flea in tar
| bucket" Peace to his ashes!
| His art died with him, and the man
ayers Of circuses have refused TO reSur-
| rect it, Straining after spectacles, they
have neglected to afford that most in
nocent and delightful Of all entertain
mentS-the humors of wise man wear
| ing the motley garments of the old-time
| circus clown.
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the union. In politics. commerce and
material development they stand in the
front rank. A writer i'm The st. Louis
GlobeDemocrat says:
1t is well known that the corn states
have produced some of the leading mill
tary and political celebrities of the country;
and they may confidently be expected to
do even better in the future, at least, so
Far as the proportion of great men is con-
cerned. 1t is useless to deny that the west,
instead of the east, is now the section from
which strong and triumphant characters
are most likely to come. This is apparent
in the general drift of events. The newer
states are furnishing men who attract most
attention, and have most influence in poll
tics. We may be sure that this is not ac-
cidental. 1t is due to definite and logical
causes, and signifies the development of
an intellectual capacity that is
peculiar to the region with which
1T is associated. There was o time
When the western statesmen were
rated as amateurs and imitators, and
treated in patronizng way by the eastern
observers, but that time has gone by, never
TO return. The same is true as to the other
Kinds of ability, and in other lines of ser
vice. We have daily evidences in this re-
spect that are not to be refuted or misun-
derstood. The west is constantly asserting
ITS supremacy, and becoming more and
more the seat of power in the republic not
only because of its numerical potency but
also on account of its increased and YER
satile intelligence.
IN the good old times the south pro-
duced all the corn that her people need
cd. Then, prosperity rcigned, ana the
farmers instead of going in debt and
borrowing from year TO year had money
to lend. 1t is Il good sign when our
people go back to the old policy, which
made them rich more than Il generation
ago. Our increasing output of corn will
be our salvation. 1t will enable us to
live at home, and il will keep millions
of dollars in our pockets We would
not dispute the kingship of cotton, but
if we are wise. corn will be allowed to
share its dominion. There is room
enough here for two such sovereigns as
cotton and corn.
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Japan and China.

The newspapers Of this country are
spending good deal of money ON their
reports from the Japanese and Chinese
seat of war, but it is almost impossible
to get full and reliable information.
The trouble is that there is censor
ship in both countries. The Japanese
have adopted the policy of silence, and
the Chinese are sending ont the most
astounding lies that ever ran through 4
cable.
1t is a pretty tough situation from a
newspaper point of view. Here are the
Chinese outlying Munchausen. while the
Japanese have not Il word 10 say. Tn
der the circumstances. the news col
lected and furnished by our press ser
vice will give our readers an idea OF
the resources of modern journalism. 1t
VIII cost hundreds of thousands of dol
lars and the lives of many good men to
report this business even in the con
denSed fashion seen in our telegraphlc
columns. 1t is Il hard matter to get
the facts when one party talks too much
and the other party will not talk ut all.
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advantages and profits that are now
hers? As with cotton, so with wheat
so with all the staple products on which
our foreign trade is based.
Our business men seem to look at this
matter askance. They appear to have
an idea that little small talk about
Sound money" and parity is all that
is needed to set things even. They do
not appear TO realize the fact that cheap
cotton in the south makes poor business
i'm the south. The price of cotton here
is the basis of business because cotton
is our staple product.
There Is one fact that both the farm
ers and business men of the south
should take into consideration namely,
that although this country has estab-
lished the single gold standard, we con-
tinue TO sell our crops and our staple
commodities for silver prices. In other
words, an ounce of silver will buy no
less cotton now than il bought in 1873
no less wheat, no less calico, no less
iron. But it viii buy only half rs much
gold This ought TO open the eyes of
sensible business men as to the increase
i'm the value of gold, but they do not
seem TO regard it i'm that light.
But there are other facts TO which
they can hardly close their eyes. As
the value of silver is increased, Great
Britain and Europe win have to pay an
increased price for our staple commodi-
ties An ounce of silver would buy II
buShcl and ten pounds of cotton in 1873.
1t will buy bushel of wheat and ten
pounds of cotton now. The price of
these commodities is fixed in London
or Liverpool. In whatever proportion
the value of silver is raised. i'm that
proportion the price of our commodities
is raised. If silver is 90 cents an ounce,
England will have to pay 90 cents for
a hushel of wheat ana Q cents Il pound
for cotton. If silver is worth S129
an ounce. Europe will have to pay $1.29
a buShel for wheat and l2.09 cents u
pound for cotton.
That is the interest the people Of this
country have i'm the silver question. IT.
is special and important-it is pressing.
The Georgia goldbugs say the Ohio demo-
Gratis will be soundly thrashed this fall. And
no doubt the Georgia goldbugs think the
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

Professor Taussig admits that in this
country prices have fallen since the de-
monetzation of silver in 1873, but he
claims that this decline has advanced
our prosperity.
ON the other hand, Mr.. Edward At
kinsOn, Of Boston, challenges anybody
TO name anything that has fallen in
price because OF the decentralization OF
silver.
Fortunately, IN English paper happily
winds mp the wrangle by characterizing
Mr.. Atkinson as II gentleman who can
get wrong on any subject with facility
quite without parallel
Some of our British cousins are mighty
sharp fellows.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24
RURAL LIFE IN GE ORGIA.

Madison Advertiser: One of our young la
uleS was seated at her piano the other night
Paying when a toad hoped up the steps.
came lhto the parlor and sat motionless
ulti the music stopped. The little animal
then turned around and hoped away. Can
1t be that the frogs love music
jackson Argus: John McCallun and Joe
Wright are thinking of having a laughing
match at jackson institute some time soon,
Tor the benefit of widows and orphans of
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The Florida Citizen has the following
suggestive editorial paragraph:
Wherever southern agents go In the north
they find the people ready to listen to them
when they tell about the advantages OF THIS
section as place of residence. The general
passenger agent of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa re railroad recently returned from a
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

three weeks trip, during which ne VlSiled
many points in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa anu
Nebraska, to fill engagements with VaI r.,e0
persons with whom he had been III coiio
pondence. He reports that he. never 90"
as much excitement and anxiety as tnere
is being worked up amongst people in THESE
states in reference to the south.
We can easily believe the statements
made by the general passenger agent
who is here quoted. A close reading Oh
our northern and western exchanges
convinces us that hundreds of thou
sands of people in those sections would
gladly come south if they had some re-
liable information about our advantages
and resources.
In the past we have had to contend
with many obstacles in the way OF I'M
migration The northern people were
misinformed. and our people dld not
care to undeceive them. In fact many
leading southerners We're opposed to
immigration.
But times change and men change
with them. Our best people are now III
favor Of immigration, if it can be re-
stricted to the native American element
We do not want to import hordes OF
pauper foreigners, but if the enterpris-
ing and weIl-to-do people of the north
and west will come here they will re-
ceiye Il cordial welcome, and nothing
will be left undone to make them feel
at home.
The agent of the Gulf, Colorado anu
Santa Fe railroad is doubtless man
of Judgment. with some knowledge of
human nature. A few such men sent
to the proper localities would soon start
II rushing tide of immigration in this
direction. When we convince outsiders
of the truth of our representations i'll
regard to the south we can get all the
population and capital that we have
room for here.
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lM ani7oad Resfcre5

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saIi 1919 ~ uSht on by indfscra5ion
sActsS viii le@r of a SIMPLE ..au..-a IN =
! =. .sttresslilG C--l-rA+rtt5,- VIII give a con-
cert OF vocal and instrumental music in
Swainsboro Friday evening next.
Gainesville Eagle: Uncle Jesse Cook made
another brilliant conquest the latter oart
of last week. This time he slew a rattle
snake four and half feet in length with
a diameter in proportion, sporting only
eighteen rattles. The next one will be one
size larger.
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Senator Voorhees,. after using his knife
on silver, is now numbering 4 good deal
over the decentralization Of the metal. 1t
is said that the bear who killed the wolf 5
grandmother went to the funeral dressed
in deep mourning and wept heartily.
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The discovery will presently be made that
the business men in the south are as much
interested in fair prices for cotton as the
farmers themselves.
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The Sheep War in Colorado.

AlX has broken the record because she Co
or he % was sired by Atlanta.
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No doubt the free coinage men in the
next congress will have working ma
jOrity.
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Conflicting Views.

Governor Flower concluded to utilize the
fire escape
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John Sherman viii tell you himself that
he has always been a consistent himetal-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

1t seems TO be about as easy for some
men to get rid of their democracy as it i
to throw away a chew of tobacco.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

Senator Voorhees, is a goldbug in Wash
ington and u free coinage man IN IN
diana.
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The Georgia goldbugs say the Ohio demo-
Gratis will be- soundly thrashed this fall. And
no doubt the Georgia goldbugs think the
Ohio lemoerats deserye their late.
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Coming South.

Allen w. Thurman is one of the coinage
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-09-24

Lightning is most destructive in level,
omen country. Cities, with their numerous
projections and wires, are comparatively
exempt.