The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-19
Trying to Convert the BIaoks.

| The reason the pop1lists are making
! such extraordinary efforts to get the
blacks to vote with them is that they
have wholly failed in this campaign to
make converts among the whites. II
they do not succeed better among the
blacks than they have among the whites
they will not make much of showing at
the polls
In some localities the blacks are listen
ing to the promises the populists are
making them, but there is no evidence
| yet that they intend to vote the populist
ticket. The intelligent blacks take no
stock in populist promises. Whether or
not the ignorant blacks do is a question
that cannot be satisfactorily answered at
| present. The populist workers succeed
in getting some of them to attend mid
night meetings, though why the meetings
| should be held at midnight is not easy to
explain. Perhaps the populists think the
blacks like mystery, and can be the more
easily imposed upon at meetings held at
that hour of the night.
There is no doubt that a systematic and
vigorous effort is being made to induce
! the blacks to vote the populist ticket, and
1t is probable that some black votes will
be obtained, but the great majority of the
black voters understand the political sit
uation pretty well and they see nothing
in the populist party that promises to
benefit them. Most of those of them who
have promised to vote the populist ticket
will not go to the polls.
An Iowa man who had been to Europe
| for six weeks landed in New York the
other day with an amusing tale to tell.
He says he was the victim of an excursion
agency's book, How to Do Europe for
Six Weeks on $3.50" The book marked
out the itinerary and the expenses so
! plain that he was sure there could be no
mistake. He wanted TO go to Europe,
and as he was $3.50 ahead, he concluded to
make the trip. He started with three
/ trunks and variety of hand baggage.
He did" Europe, or small part of it :;
but his $3.50 didn't hold out. When he
got back to his steamship town he hadn' t
copper left. On the way over-the fact
that he had a return ticket enabled him
to get back-he naturally wished to par
take of some of the refreshments served
on the ship. In order to do it he had to
pawn his three trunks to the steward for
Sl4. And he says he was not alone in his
misery. He found at least nine other
4 young men whose baggage was lin hock''
to the steward. And they were all VIC
tins of the books telling How to Do
Europe on $3.50"
The agricultural department of the
state of Georgia has just issued an i'm
portant bulletin on commercial fertilizers
and fertilizing chemicals inspected,
analysed and admitted TO sale in the state
up to June 20, 1894. The bulletin. com
7 piled by DR.. G. F. Payne state chemist.
! is one of the most complete ever issued by
the agricultural department. 1t shows
that the fertilizer business is one of enor-
nous Importance in Georgia, and is grow
ing in every state in the union as well as
over the civilized world. Georgia is the
largest consumer of fertilizers of the
United States, and pays the smallest tax.
/ The department of agriculture is of no
expense whatever to the state, the small
fee on fertilizers and oils paving all ex-
penses and leaving surplus to 20 into the
StuLC GICdSuIys Inc DulleLln, besides
showing all of these gratifying things,
contains much matter Of useful informa-
ton 10 melon growers, truckers and
general formers.
] The new tariff law makes 'horizontal
reduction" on clothing. The Mckinley
law taxed wooden clothing per pound four
and one-half times the duty on unwashed
wool of the first class, or 495< cents per
| pound, and in addition thereto go per
cent. ad valorem. The new law makes
the tariff As per cent ad valorem fat.
/ Yet, under the new law, we see the
/ clothing makers Of New York getting
better wages than they have received in
/ years. Last week the sweating" system
OF clothing making was virtually broken
! up and the sweaters wages were ad-
vanced, and on Monday, according TO our
dispatches Of yesterday the striking
tailors we're granted their demand for
! higher pay.