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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Senator nncon.. Letter.

Senator Bacon's letter 10 the chairman
Of the spalding County Silver League is
not one that will strengthen him with the
people. As we view it there is nothing
in il which gives satisfaction to either
the free silverites or the friends OF sound
money. What Senator Bacon says. how
ever. on the silver question ne said when
he was canvassing the state for the SEN
atorship.
II we understand him correctly he favors
the coinage Of both gold and silver at such
ratio as viii keep the silver dollar on a
parity With the gold dollar. lie has no
opinion as to whether the silver dollar
would circulate on parity with the gold
dollar If our minis were opened to the
free. unlimited and independent coinage
Of silver at the ratio OF Is to !, and he
thinks the only way to find out whether
1T would or not is to open our mints to sill
yer at that ratio.
II looks to US as If Senator Bacon's aim
is TO please the silverites without losing
the friendship of those who want sound
money. He favors making an experiment
10 settle something that has been settled
already-an experiment that would cost
the country more than the war of seces-
sion. 1t is settled beyond reasonable doubt
that gold and silver money will not circu-
late on a parity when the coinage ratio
Of the two metals departs to any consider
able extent from the market ratio. The
reason silver was dropped from the
coinage in 1873 was because the market
ratio Of the two metals differed from the
coinage ratio to such an extent that the
silver dollar could not be kept in circula-
ton. Great Britain tried for five hundred
years to keep the two metals in circulation
on parity. and although their market
ratio differed from their coinage ratio
very slightly she failed-failed so dis
astrously that in 1916 she closed her mints
to free silver coinage. The financial his
tory Of the world is full of facts showing
that the thing Senator Bacon wants set
tied by an experiment has already been
settled. In calling for an experiment,
therefore, he counts human experience for
centuries as teaching nothing.
No. there will not be such experiment
as Senator Bacon calls for. Ifshe really
thinks it at all probable that the silver
dollar would circulate on parity with the
gold dollar II our minis were opened to the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to
let him advocate the opening of the mints
to both metals at that ratio and the re-
pealing of the law that makes them legal
tender. The gold dollar, we feel assured.
would have the same purchasing power
then 1t now has. but what under those
circumstances, would be the purchasing
power of the silver dollar? 1t would be
just about half that of the gold dollar,
and half of what it is now.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Unacceptable Looms.

Some surprise is being expressed that
Philadelphia per cent. gold bonds to the
amount Of $4,000 and New York 3 per
cent gold bonds for 100000 find few sub
scribers. These bonds We're offered last
week They are long time bonds and 1t was
thought they would be taken at once.
In Philadelphia only $325.OOO was subscrib-
ed for, and in New York the subscriptions
did not reach the amount of the bonds.
: There Is nothing the matter with the
bonds. 1t has not been very long since
New York borrowed money at 21a per cent.
The credit of each city is the highest
Were the loans declined because there is
better demand for money, and therefore
it can be invested more probably than in
per cent. bonds? That appears to be the
only reasonable explanation Prosperity
is returning, times are getting better, and
therefore money cannot be obtained at
as low rate of interest as it could little
while back.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
An Irish Agent,s wit.

The proprietor of a large building in
London, which contains several flats on
the upper floors, says he never succeeded
in renting these apartments readily until
he employed very eloquent Irishwoman
as his agent, says Answers. Several
times the graceful 'blarney" of this ex-
cellent woman has secured a customer,
where a less gifted agent would probably
have failed.
.'Kinvayniences, is it?" says she to APP
plicants for the rooms. Sure it's hot
an cold wather at all hours of the day
an noight, agrayable to yer tashte, an
scullery coppers that wud make a wash
erwoman of the Queen of England by
preference"
Are the rooms comfortably warmed?''
asks an inquirer.
air. Sure. wild a sloight turn O. yer
wrist We have amy degray O. timpera-
ture known to the therimether."
but the stair case; is that easy to go
up?"
Now, thin" says the eloquent agent,
as if she was reaching the climax of all
the wonderful advantages of the building,
1.-The staircase is that aisy that when
ye're gooin oop We would well b'lave
that yer comm down"
The intending tenant usually capitulates
at this point.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
The difference Pointed Out.

Some OF our contemporaries. among them
the Middle Georgia Progress. ind fault
with the statement we made a few days
ago THAT everybody knows that those
who will be at The Griffin convention are
in favor of the free coinage OF silver. and
therefore they won't accomplish anything
by meeting and passing resolutions to that
effect" These critics take the position
that from our standpoint the Memphis
sound money convention accomplished
nothing. because it was composed Of men
who were known to be in favor Of sound
money.
There is quite a difference between the
two conventions. It was being generally
asserted by the silverites that the south
was almost soiidly IN favor Of the free
coinage OF silver, and the Memphis con-
vention was called to show that such was
not the case. That convention was COM
posed Of representative men from every
southern state. and it is quite safe to say
they were all democrats. There might
have been a few republicans among them.
Whether there was or not we do not know,
DNL ineEe were no pupuilslS.
The convention had a most excellent eff
feet II demonstrated that the claim Of the
silverites that the south was almost solid
~ in favor of the free coinage of silver
was not true, and that the sound money
element was not only strong, but that
It believed it would control the south
when the time came for deciding the issue.
But what will the Griffin convention
show? 1t has never been denied that the
populists are in favor of free silver coin
age. and they will be a big element In the
convention. No one doubts that there arr
a good many Georgia democrats who are
victims OF the free silver craze. 1t is an
easy matter, therefore, for the silverites
to hold a convention in Griffin or in any
other town in the state. The convention
will not show that the Democratic party
of Georgia. or that a majority of Geor-
CLANS. favor free silver coinage. In fact
II will show nothing whatever except that
there are silverites in Georgia, something
that nobody disputes. 1t viii not even
show thai the silveritcs are strong in the
state. because IL is notorious that the
meetings at which the delegates are chosen
are ridiculously small Even in Atlanta.
where the silverites have their most pow
erful newspaper organ. and whore there is
a large population, there were less than
fifty people present. Instead OF complain
ing Of what we said of the convention, will
the Middle Georgia Progress tell what it
thinks the convention will accomplish?
Does it agree with what Mr.. Tom Watson
thinks it viii accomplish?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Watson FavOrs the Griffin Meeting.
From the Macon Telegraph Dem.).

Tom Watson advises the populists to go
to the Griffin free silver convention and af-
nhate With the dissatisfied democrats -
He says his party has nothing to lose by
II, and might gain a great deal. But Mr.
Watson, as boss, it is presumed, gives
them to understand that no principle
must be sacrificed. "Our party" writes
he, will countenance no fusion with eth
er of the old parties" This grand mogul
of the popul!sts sees rare chance to
make converts at Griffin and he saws:
Democrats will listen TO our speeches as
they have been mfsled, etc. etc.-Will
gradually comprehend the amazing pro
portions of their want of information +"
fed democrats will begin to look upon or
ganized democracy with distrust and will
tempt"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Mills Moving south.

The movement of cotton manufacturing
plants from the north to the south is not
receiving as much attention as 1t did few
months ago. but it is as great now. If not
greater, than at any previous time. A Biz
mingham. Ala, dispatch says that the
Thurlow Manufacturing Company of Ches-
ter, Pa. purchased on Monday buildings in
that city. and will at once move from
Chester to Birmingham 5000 spindle cot
ton mill. The new cotton mill Will be In
operation by Sept. /. The TIrlow Company
already has a cotton mill in North Carolina
and is. preparing to establish others in diff
ferent parts of the south. The company is
satisfied that the south is TO be the cotton
manufacturing section Of the country.
A glance at the list of new mills under
construction throughout the country for
the six months ending July l. shows that
the building of mills in the south is going
on at rapid rate. In North Carolina the
building of thirty-one new mills has been
begun and costly improvements are being
made upon a number of old plants. In
South Carolina twenty-five mills have eth
ef Dten tIetltu OF are III course Oh cree
ton. In Georgia the number of new mills
under construction Is fourteen, in Alabama
it is five. in Texas and Virginia three each,
in Arkansas two and in Louisiana one. 1t
is true that a great many new mills are
under construction in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, but
they do not attract so much attention as
those In the south, because manufacturing
in the southern states, on an extensive
scale, Is only just beginning. Each year we
may reasonably expect to see a steadily
increasing number of cotton and other
mills erected in the south The showing
which the south will make this year will be
an astonishing one. 1t viii appear. beyond
a doubt, that the belief that the south is
TO become the seat of the cotton manufac-
turing interests of the country is growing
among cotton manufacturers.
The most of the mills that are now being
erected in the south are large, showing a
growing appreciation of the south's ad-
vantages for manufacturing. Within ten
years the south's factories will rival those
Of New England in the number of their
employees and the amount of their output
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Cleveland Is Popular i'm Augusta.
From the Augusta (Ga.) Herald Dem.)


You can't discount II, you can't rub it
Quit is trye that in Augusta, the name
of Cleveland-is still something with which
to electrify. Proof after proof has been
given of this. Renewed proof was fur
nished last night. When Mr.. Patterson
mentioned the Presidents name the ap-
plause was unstinted and sincere. Mr.
Patterson, little later, paid tribute to
the President. He showed why southern
ers should homage the executive. Mr.
Cleveland had deceived no one. He had
gone 10 the white house as a single stan
dard Presldent-had so stated his position
before his election. He had four southern
ers in his cabinet, two of them southern
war veterans. He has placed southern
sympathizers at the court of st. James
France, st. Petersburg. at the City of
Mexico and had given the south influence
in the administration. He has done more,
MI Patterson claims, to put down section
aiism than any man who has ever lived.
THESE statements, happily made last
night. won the warmest Endorsement and
highest recommendation. In Augusta you
can stil charm with the name of Cleve-
land.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

1t is to be hoped that Congressman Tate,
of the Ninth district, who was quoted a
day or two ago as saying that he does not
know anything about silver, has read the
interview Of Congressman Lawson, of the
Eighth district, who knows a good deal
about silver. Congressman Lawson says:
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to BY our government alone would in
a short time result in silver monometall-
ism. Congressman Tate might take that
statement as an economic axiom and from
it form an opinion with regard to silver.
VIII the downfall of Blackburn. in Ken
lucky, have the effect of inducing a few
more Georgia statesmen TO make business
engagements to so to Europe before the
Griffin convention?
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

When the factories in the north and the
mines in the west were cutting down the
wages of their employees, the employees in
southern factories and mines continued at
work at the old wages. except in a very
few instances That is the reason the adj
vances in wages that are now being made
are confined principally the north and
west. In Alabama there were some wage
reductions a year or so ago, and these,
it is believed, have about all been offset
by advances since January. The increase
of wages in the north and west is of ben,
eft to the south, because the south has
melons. fruit and vegetables to sell to
those sections. whose purchasing powers
have been increased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
He shot at the Eyes.

one OF these willing story tellers told an
interesting account OF queer adventure
which happened 10 Detectives Mccormick
and Granger. who were attached TO the
Central station al the time the notorious
BIZ Allen, the negro murderer, escaped,
says the Chicago rimeE-f erald. The de-
tecttves received word that Bill Allen was
hiding IN West side barn. Both OF them
started for the place. ami when they ar
rived there they were told that the muir
derer could be found in the hay-lOft.
Granger, who was a single man, Volun-
teered TO go up first.
You stay down here" he said 10 Nc
Cormick. because you have a family,
and have not"
He made his way TO the hay-loft, and
IN the dark he caught a sight OF Two
eyes, which he supposed were the murder
er's.
Bill Allen" he yelled. Il don't want
10 take any chances with you; n You
don't give yourself up, I will shoot, and
shoot 10 kill"
The eyes stared at Granger for a sec
ond, then suddenly he saw them move,
and then they leaped to another corner.
But Bill Allen did not open his mouth.
There was the same stare and the gleam-
ing eye, but not sound.
The detective knew the negro was
desperate man. de again asked for
surrender, aud, receiving no reply fired.
To his surprise the eyes disappeared, but
there was no cry of pain. he made his
way slowly TO the place where he had
seen the eyes and then lit a match.
Imagine his surprise when instead of
the murderer he found a cat in the last
throes Of death. He had hit the animal
square between the eyes. His partner.
Mccormick, came up just as Granger
pulled the cat out Of the haystack.
Granger bought the drinks that day.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

The people need not give themselves
great concern about the naming of the
Cleveland baby. in the fear that an appro-
pirate name will not be chosen. The Presi-
dent Is sufficiently versatile to bridge a
political crisis and to name baby with
equal success. as he has already shown.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
CURRENT COMMENT.
The silver Boom.

From Louisville Courier-Journal Oem).
The free silver conference in Michigan
consisted of one delegate. and the demo-
cratic silver convention in Colorado num-
bered thirty. The silver craze is going
faster than the greenback craze went.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
The Test of Statesmanship.
From the Atlanta Journal Dem.).

The Constitution says Senator Bacon's
letter shows the broadest craftsmanship
and gives evidence of the most scholarly
research" All the craftsmanship and
scholarly research in it may be expressed
in one sentence: Try it at 16 to /, and If
that don't work. well try some other
ratio"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

II Is easy enough to perceive why the re-
publican papers are frying to break the
force OF the Democratic fight against tho
cheap money heresy. The republicans fear
try will become too prosperous to suit their
purposes Professionalism as well as popu-
lism thrives on calamity. hence it is good
politics. from a republican standpoint. 10
keep the country OF the opinion that Il Is
going to the dogs as fast as possible. and
that nothing but republican intervention
has kept il IN existence this long. The same
club that is killing populism Is the one
that will kill radical protectionism, and it
is labeled democracy"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

The superintendent of trolley line at
Oakland, Cal, says the receipts of his
company have been cut down one-third
through the competition of the bicycle.
and that every trolley line in that city
and in San Francisco is in The hands of a
receiver as result due very largely TO
the increased an increasing use of BIZ
cycles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

The New York Evening Post publishes a
list, compiled from the records, which
shows that very large percentage Of the
voluntarily advancing the wages OF their
workmen, under the Wilson tariff law. in
1890 and 1891 under the then new Mckinley
tariff law. were cutting down wages or
shutting up their works. So far from ruin
ing the manufacturing interests of the
country. the new tariff law and the sound
money policy of the administration have
given the manufacturing interests the
greatest boom they have enjoyed for years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

gians are too busy harvesting watermelons
TO dabble in politics." which is only partly
true. The solid farmers, the bone and sin
ew of the country, and the business men
who with the solid farmers are interested
in the welfare of the country. and who
pay the taxes and support the government.
are too busy to do much running around
on political errands. But there are a few
people in Georgia who have time enough
for any purpose. They are going to kill
some of it al Griffin next week in the hold
ing of a convention that will not amount
to row of pins
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

Hon. John w. Foster, who has Just re-
turned from China, has excellent reason
for thinking that diplomacy pays. 1t is
said that he received $4,000 for negotiat-
ing peace between China and Japan He
was absent from this country only about
eleven months.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Not What She Expected.

Down at George Vanderbilts expensive
house Biltmore, near Asheville, there is
a great room in which the furniture,
which is to adorn the mammoth abiding
place is stored, says an exchange. 1t is
a room in the stable, by the way, but the
stable is tiled with the sort of tiles most
of us consider a distinct luxury in a bath
room. There are great mahogany four
poster beds, carved oak cabinets, black
with age, ancient settees worth their
weight in gold, and goodness only knows
what else. And they tell a story of a
South Carolina woman who penetrated
to the glass door of that great room and
looked in. She had been told how many
miles of macadamized drives there are in
the estate. how long the house is, how
many feet wide the terrace is, and how
much the foundation cost. She was i'm
pressed till, as l said, she came to peep in
al the furniture. She looked at it in
amazement.
We'll" she said, 1.-THE idea of putting
all that old stuff into brand new house
I should think Vanderbilt could afford
better than that"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11
Paid His Tenants Moving Expenses.

A good story is told of a well known
landlord who has been having any amount
of trouble during the hard times to collect
rents from his tenants, says the Hartford
Post. There was a certain man with a
large family, who had occupied a part of
one of his houses in the suburbs for a
number Of years. The man was thorough
~ honest, but down on his luck. The land
lord bore the loss of his rent with consid-
cradle fOrtitude until he thought 1t was
some one elses turn to help the fellow a
little; then he went to him one day and
told him, with all seriousness, that he was
intending 10 give the house a going over;
II was out of repair and he had decided
to eXpend a little money on it, and make
some important alterations, and, as 1t
would be some expense for the man to
move, he generously offered to order a
team for him and settle the bill himself.
The matter was arranged with the ut
most friendliness on both sides, and the
landlord went his way, feeling quite a little
like the celebrated Pharisee. A week later
he asked his agent about some fats that
had been empty for a month or two. IAN
rented" said the agent, and he named the
parties, whereupon the landlord immedi-
ately descended to the plane of publicans
and sinners. When he had recovered him
self sufficiently to talk English, he pro-
ceeded to inform the astonished agent that
one of his acquisitions was the man he
had just moved at his own expense out
OF the house in the suburbs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-11

The reduction of the sentence of Eugene
Debs is a good thing in one point only. 1t
directs attention to the fact that Debs is
not being punished for participating in and
directing the strike. but for holding him
self superior to the law and disobeying an
order of the court The attempt has been
made to set Debs upon a pedestal as a
martyr for the workingmen, and TO make
It appear that he was put in Jail because
of his attempts to obtain what the en-
ployes of certain corporations believed to
be their rights. But such is not the case.
Debs defed the court and disobeyed its
order, and hence his punishment.