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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-21

Reason and Religion" will be the sub
sect of Rev. Charles II. Strong, rector of
st. Johns, sermon tonight. Mr.. Strong
will preach at the morning services also.
An attractive entertainment, entitled "A
Box of Monkeys" will be given at Ma
sonic temple Tuesday evening, by the
choir boys of st Johns church, for the
benefit of the organ fund. A number OF
young ladies and gentlemen well known
IN amateur theatrcals and musical cir
cles, will assist. Refreshments and dane
ing will close the evenings entertainment.
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Presbyterian.

At the first Presbyterian church to-day
Rev. Arthur ]. Smith, the pastor, will con-
duct the morning and evening services.
Services will not be held at the Second
Presbyterian church this morning, so that
the congregation will be enabled to visit
the Independent church TO hear DR.. Tai
mage.
Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage will preach at
the Independent Presbyterian church this
morning
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ST. JOHNS CHURCH, MADISON
Square corner Bull and Charlton streets.
Rev. Charles II. Strong, rector Litany
at 10 o'clock; morning prayer and sermon
at II o'clock; Sunday school, at 4 D. m;
Evening prayer (choraD and sermon at s
o'clock Subject of sermon Reason and
Religion.n SIrangers cordially welcome.
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WESLEY MONUMENTAL (METHO-
disO church, Abercorn and Gordon streets.
Rev. A. NJ. Williams pastor. Preaching
by the pastor II a. m. and p. m. Even
ing tonic: THE Bible at the Close Of the
Nineteenth Century" Seats free. A
cordial welcome TO all.
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Or. II. Motley Dear Sir-Since using
your Lemon Elixir. / have never had
another attack of those fearful sick head
aches, and thank God that / have at last
found a medicine that will cure those aw-
ful spells. Mrs. Eta w. Jones,
The representative., 1897-10-27
GET A MOVE ON YOU.

The suggestion made by Mr.. J. c.
Hanley, the secretary of the F. A. &
I. u, in this paper, the other day, that
the bona-flde farmers of this state take
possession of the State Agricultural So
ciety, is already bearing good fruit, as
is shown by an interesting article on
our first page, of this ISSUE from the
Union Advocate" the great labor or
gan of the state, published in St. Paul.
We want our farmer friends to read
It carefully and act upon it. Let them
commence at once to see that the State
Agricultural society has a larger repre-
sentation of farmers on it hereafter
than it has heretofore possessed. It is
a disgrace to the agricultural class that
their association, organized to represent
their interests, should be made up of
bankers and 1umbermen end business
men. 1t is nothing short of an usurpa-
tion. Farmers cannot expect TO have
much respect paid them as long as thew
neglect their own interests in that wav
wake up and go to sleep right
I. D.
The representative., 1897-10-27
A GOOD IDEA.
We find in the Minneapolis Tribune
the fn11nwino tom IF

We find in the Minneapolis Tribune
the following item of news:
Democratic candidates for the Ohio legis-
lature at Cleveland have signed a pledge
not to vote for a millionaire for United
States senator. This bars out Editor Nc
Lean and Tom L. Johnson.
This is good idea, and every man
elected to the legislature in this state,
and in every other state, should sign
similar pledge in writing, to be pub
lished in the local papers. We are not
making war upon millionaires because
they are millionaires, but the faculties
which enable man to accumulate such
an immense fortune, are not those that
go to constitute a statesman: they de-
pend generally upon exaggerated sell
fishness and a shrewdness that guides
1t to success. And it Is almost certain.
that, If given a high place, they would
use those faculties for their own en-
richment and the impoverishment of
others.
II such a pledge was exacted from
every man who is elected to the legis-
lature, it would head off the possibility
of corruption at the hands of the very
rich. The men who represent the peo-
pie should represent the average condi-
tion OF the people, not it's abnormalities,
A millionaire is abnormal. he is of lit
tie use to the public and of still less to
himself. He is like a man, .who, hav-
Ing all the clothes he needs, should in
sfst on buying up two or three hundred
tailor shops containing several thou
sand additional suits; and then spend
half his time watching that nobody
steals them. He is an unhappy "cuss,"
loaded down with the superfluity of his
possessions: and with no consolation
but the vanity that he has more trash
than his neighbor-like a tumble bug
that Is proud that his ball of filth is
the biggest in square mile Id.
The representative., 1897-10-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

A wise man can always learn some
thing from his enemies, perhaps more
than he can from his friends. We find
in the Minneapolis Journal communi-
cation from it's noted correspondent,
Jerry J." which has great deal to
nesota. While we do not indorse one
tenth of his utterances, we think our
people will be glad to see what is said
about them. The article is as follows:
Middle-of- -the-road Populists are begin
ming to get ready for work next wear
Donneiy and Halvor E. Boen are the
logical leaders of this wing Of the So
called reform forces. and it is said to be
their program to bolt the proposed fusion
ticket Of 1898 and nominate a straight-out
Populist ticket, without entanglements OF
any sort. The middle-of-the-road people
will try first to control the state conven-
ton. but in this effort do not hope to sue
ceed. But they will make it as AN evil
dence Of good faith. After the convention
has decided on fusion. the middle-o Of the.
road delegates will rise up and march out
A well-known leader among this faction
told me the other day that he looked for
from IS to 100 delegates, or, perhaps. one
third of the convention, to join in this
protest against permitting the new" De-
mocracy to swallow the Peoples party in
Minnesota. The bolting delegates will ad-
journ to some convenient place and there
nominate their ticket.
why will you take this step in 1882"
l asked. why did you not take It in
1882"
WELL" he replied. last year our part.,
was carried away by a flood tide Of en-
thusiasm brought about by reason of the
splendid prospects that were ahead of US
for carrying the country. While some Of
us, as you will remember from what YOU
witnessed at the st. Louis convention
were opposed to fusion and did what we
could to stem this tide, We finally ac-
quiesced for the sake Of harmonious
campaign. We were beaten at the poles
and events that have taken place since
election convince that this new De-
mocracy is more than One-half cant Its
leaders are old-line Democrats pure and
simple. and what they want is Office
They have stolen enough Of our platform
to hide their deformities and are mas
querading as the friends Of the p.ople
If we repeat in 1898 the work Of 1896. the
Peoples party will be forever a thing Of
the past. We must protest next year as
a mere matter of MISREPRESENTATION In
Minnesota, where We have a magnificent
organization and splendid constituency.
the slow growth Of years of earnest and
self-sacrifcfng labor on the part Of a few
men, there Is no reason why, for rhe
empty honor of an Office, We should akdi-
cate and turn over all that we are and
ever hope to be to self-seeking, grasp
ing, unprincipled Democracy. which. al
though it processes to have undergone in
part change Of heart, is stin the old
The representative., 1897-10-27
MINI ZAP LIS. MINI.

that failure through vast regions Of
country, wheat would be cheaper today
than it was a year ago. This is proved
by the fact that corn Is actually lower.
1t will be noted that the only hope
the Tribune" has is that when the
corn comes to be husked out the
yield from the crop of 1897 will be found
disappointing, and that the price of this
cereal will yet approximate to a fair
ratio with that Of wheat"
This is a sad state of things; when
the only hope of the producers in Min
nesota of receiving a fair return for their
labor is that there may be a failure OF
crops elsewhere.
Eight million people have had to die in
India of starvation to enable the farm
ers Of Minnesota to receive little more
than half the old time price of their
wheat. And they call this a well-gov-
erned world; and the Republican party
claims the credit Id.
The representative., 1897-10-27
"DEEP DISTRUST."

Chauncey M. Depaw had the following
to say in his speech recently at Nash
! Vile, Tenn:
"The changing views Of people toward
! the concentration of great wealth in the in
| dividual or corporation or trust are the
| most interesting Of the evO1utions caused
by the increasing complexity OF our civiliz-
alton and the ever-weakening touch Of
| acquaintance and sympathy in crowded
| communities. The disappearance of the
ne.ghborliness of the old village and rural
| life of the colonial period and the early
| days Of the republic are our present danger
| and future peril.
"While building our state we were hero
worshipers. At first our idols were WASH
ington and his compatriOts, then the giants
in the senate and party leaders-W Webster,
Clay and Calhoun-and finally the captains
Of industry. Communities praised and
pitted their capitalists against each other.
as we now do the champions OF the ball
field the oar.
Admiration for self-made men of great
riches has turned to deep disgust of ac-
cumulated wealth. and yet the number Of
such people is now 80 large that it would
be impossible for anyone to WELD the
power for good or evil which was COM
mon generation ago. The agitator ig-
nores the resistless strength Of universal
suffrage and forgets or denies the ex-
perience Of the past"
There is some truth in all this. And
how far have our. people degenerated
when they could substitute for George
Washington such men as Chauncey De-
pew, who are the. mere representatives
Of the gigantic plunderers Of the peo-
pie? It is all very pretty to call them
II the Captains of Industry they are
really the robbers Of industry.
We are glad to see that Depew re-
cognizes the fact that there is in this
country today a deep distrust Of &C
cumulated and concentrated excessive
wealth.
Neither Is it true that rich men are
no longer to be feared because there
are 80 many of them; events have
shown their capacity to combine and
thus multiply many-fold their powers.
And what Is the use Of talking about
the resistless strength Of universal suf-
frage, when the people are piundered
and deceived by purchased newspapers
and their representatives; and bought
up by corporate wealth; until the whole
people are shocked at the corruption
of our legislative bodies, and men arc
boldly declaring cs:t free government
is a failure in this country. 1. D.
The representative., 1897-10-27
LABOR $50 YEARS AGO.
The Trouble Of II.

A machine is now in operation in San
Francisco that, with the assistance of a
boy, will turn out 1900 cans per hour,
such as are used in canning fruits, etc.
An expert timer could make but 500 in a
day. Now the expert timer, whom the
boy and machine have displaced, can
maintain their individuality" on the pro-
tective CO tariff bill and charity SOUP
Rights of Man. Minneapolis, Minn."
The first impression the workingman
gets upon reading such an article as
the foregoing is that the invention Of
machinery is his great enemy, and he
will almost feel like going out and rails
ing mob to sma.t and destroy all
implements that increase the labor ca
pacity of man. But this is not the right
way TO look at the question. These
things constitute the means of civiliza-
ton
We were reading the other day in one
of Ben Jonson's plays-"The Devil is an
Asa reference to the cost of cloth
250 years ago and the price Of it was
perfectly astounding; it was ten times
what it would be today; gentleman 5
cloak cost what would be equivalent to
5000 Of our money; the multitude could
not pay these prices and they simply
had to 60 without
Here is the quotation:
He has got the cloak upon him. A
fair garment X * *
1t was never made, sir, for three-score
pounds. I assure you.
The plush, sir, cost three pound. ten
shillings yard,
And then the velvet and lace"
This was equal to $3.50 a yard Of
our money; and pound then had many
times the purchasing power it has now.
Everything had to be made by hand
labor-a slow process.
The trouble n9 in cheapening of
prices or the increase in the labor ca
pacity Of the Individual, but it is the
fact that the benefits Of these inven-
tions have not gone to the laborers.
jE0 -~.---.
The representative., 1897-10-27

UP to the old standard? The last thirty
years will make black page in the polt-
ical history of our country, and one of the
blacklist columns will be that which tells
how the silver question was manipulated
to destroy the Peoples party,-Chicago Ex-
press.
We do not agree fully with our friend
of the Express" The silver question
Is still a great Issue: simply because
the reconciliation of silver would in
crease the circulating medium. and lift
up the value Of all property, and de-
crease the value Of all money But at
the same time we do agree with our
friend that the uproar concerning free
silver has been made by the leaders to
break up the Peoples party by con-
centrating the attention of the nation
upon one issue to the exclusion of a
great many others equally important.
We think. too, that the Express is
right in its suggestions as to the future
of silver. We notice in the Hastings
Minn., Democrat" a complaint of the
great scarcity OF silver money-it is
difficult to get enough to make change
with. The Democrat" asks the ques
tion whether there, is a game on foot
to buy up silver in anticipation Of a
large increase IN the value of the metal.
This is not at all impossible. The ac-
tion of the Bank Of England in deter
mining to keep a portion Of their re-
serve in the white metal, notwfthstand'
ing the fierce opposition of the news
papers, which in England, as in this
country, are owned by the money-lend-
ing class, must have been caused by
some secret action taken by men like
the ROthschilds, who are more than
mere money-lenders
1t is we'll for our people to keep their
eyes open and watch the progress OF
events. Id.
The representative., 1897-10-27
WILL WE HAVE TO DO ITs

The Populists of Ohio worked like beav.
ers and got their petition of 10000 names
all signed and filed in about 30 DAYS thus
giving them again a legal place on the
ticket of Ohio, which they had lost bv
1usion last campaign This took work
sacrifice. All honor to the Ohio bows IN
the trenches. Now let them put a Popu.
list guard around the state offices or some
Democrat or Hannacrat will steal two or
three thousand names off the hst like
they did IN Chicago, and then demand that
the ticket be denied place on the ballot,
II this Is attempted shoot the villain on
the spot. There is no greater crime than
that Of suppressing the opportunity to vote
your sentiments by suppressing your
ticket.-The Referendum
1t Is question whether the PopuIis,s
of Minnesota will not have to 60
through the same process. And vet We
held our own convention and nominate
cd our own ticket. The fact that we
nominated some candidates that were
The representative., 1897-10-27
THE RAILROAD DECISION.

After five years of argument the su.
preme court of Minnesota has overruled
the decision of Judge Kerr of St. Paul
in favor of the Great Northern railroad
company, in the Steenerson case. Now
1t goes to the supreme court at Washing
ton; and as that tribunal is six years
In arrears with it's business, some of US,
but not all, may hope to live long
enough to see the end of the case. If
not we can transmit it to our children
and grandchildren.
We hope therefore that there will be
no unnecessary excitement over this
decision in the Red River valley. While
the well-fed lawyers wrangle Jim Hill
Will still collect his charges on the
transportation Of their wheat.
But there is an election in Minnesota
next year, and two judges of the su-
preme court have to seek suffrages of
the people again, and third is a can
didate for governor, and so this decis-
Ion may help them
Some one asked Mr. Lincoln how he
stood the persistent jawing of his wife
SO we'll. WELL" replied the amiable
philosopher, ''it does not do me a par
ucle of harm, and it affords Mary a
power of comfort"
And so the railroads will feel that he
decision won't cost them dollar (for
their lawyers are hired b ythe wear,
but 1T may help the judges to some
votes next fall. Government owner
ship is the only remedy. Id.
The representative., 1897-10-27
A SUGGESTION,


The worst thing that can be said
against Luetgert is that he looks so
much like Grover Cleveland. He also
Is practical self-made man."
Luetgert 1t is said, boiled up his wife
In sausage vat. She was only one per-
son, but Cleveland advocated and en-
forced policies that have sent tens of
thousands to suicide, bankruptcy and
the state prison
We have not a doubt that Luetgert
upholds the single gold standard OF
course he does. He has just that cast
OF mind. He believes in substantial
tbings-like Mary Siemering and the
Widow Halpin-and is totally inditfer-
ent to human suffering.
He is also a contractionist See how
he contracted his wife to few sesa-
moids and a temporal bone.
II he is not hung-and we pray God
he may be-the gold Democrats should
assuredly make him their candidate for
president in 1900. Id.
The representative., 1897-10-27
PRICES.
1. D.

IL !s a matter of some significance that
Whlle wheat Is some % cents a husbai
,sner .man year ago. corn Is actually
lower. This would seem to indic.to a.,
the price of wheat has not been elevatad
Dy the generally improved condition NJ
business. but by special conditions. Will
corn ooes not as yet feel the impulse Of
+hr u"iy oeH ana However
tnere are those who believe that whan
the corn comes to be husked out the
yield from the corn crop of 1897 will, he
.ouho disappointing. and that the price of
this cereal will yet approximate r. ~ "
ratio with that of wheat-Minneano,is
Tribune.
Eight millions people have had to die in
India OF starvation to enable the farm
per, OF the fact that wheat is 20 cen,s
moro a bushel than it was a year apo
simply because of the failure of crops
IN the rest of the world; and but for
The representative., 1897-10-27
PUBLIC LIFE.
l. d.

The Mortified News. taking as a text
the way the late Senator Mcmillan dropped
out OF public notice after quitting public
office, ruminates sadly on the melancholy
fate of all public men. Very few public
men, says the News. with a sigh, lever
retain a place In the memory of the peo-
pie. The question arises: Is public posi-
ton worth striving for?" It is painful to
see B'rer Heatwole in this doleful state Of
mind, but we opine that Minnesota win
never be able to forget Joel entirely. Per-
ish the hought.-Minneapolis Journal.
There is good deal of truth in all
this. We don't believe there are ten
men in the state Of Minnesota, who,
without consulting books of reference,
can tell the names OF the different men
who have represented the state Of Min
nesota In congress, since the admission
of the state into the Union. They are
forgotten before they are dead. We
we'll remember the rejoicing there was
In Minnesota when Judge Mcmillan
then on the supreme bench, was elevat-
ed to the senatorship. His friends ex
pected that he would make great fig
ure in public affairs and render valu-
able services to the people. Instead
OF that his entrance into national life
had no more influence than would the
f1inging of a pebble into the Atlantic
He was good, honest amiable gentle
man; but when the papers announced
the other day that ex-senator McMil-
Ian was dead, thousands pricked up
their ears and asked who was Senator
McMillan?"
And, as it was with him so will it
be with others in the future. Twenty
years from now, who will know that
such man as Congressman Heatwole
ever existed?
We say this With all respect for Joel,
for he is an Amiable, capable gentle
man. 'f' ;"
The honors of public life are very
temporary and feeting. Who is there
in the United States, or in the world,
today, that could give the names Of the
Roman consuls? And yet In their day
they were more important than our
presidents. But Socrates, Plato, Cicero
and Tacitus will be remembered to the
end of civilization.
Public Office is simply a place in
which to make small men prominent,
and they rattle along during their brief
period like peas in bladder
1--WE are such stuff as dreams are made
Of; and
Our little life is rounded with Sleep"
l. D,
The representative., 1897-10-27
MAJOR BOWLER,

Major Bowler has written us a long
letter, addressed to us personally, and
not to the paper
Hhe Major cannot pick quarrel with
us If he wants to; and we do not think
he wants to. He sees as we do that
there are too few of us to fight each
other. and our enemies are too num-
erous
The only complaint we have against
the Major is that he is like poor dog
Tray" he sometimes gets into bad
company.
Study the Representative, Major. Let
that be your political bible. It has
never misled you and it never will It
has always been right.
Don't stick to the darned fools who
want to kill the Peoples party, as a
preliminary to a treaty Of union with
The representative., 1897-10-27

but to those who have fastened them
selves upon them, and are absorbing
the profits without doing anything in
return for the masses.
We believe the time will come when
all the necessaries OF life will be a
great deal cheaper than they are now.
and when the working man need not
work more than four hours a day to
obtain his share Of the good things Of
this life. That is the direction in
which civilization must advance; il it
does not it will end in catastrophe.
1t must not be thought that the pro-
gress Of new ideas ended when Tom
Jefferson wrote that "all men were en-
titled to life, liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness" there are other innova-
tions to follow as great as that declar-
alton was in 1776
Let the advance of Invention continue
until there is an abundance for all, and
leisure and happiness for all. God did
not intend that his creatures should be
AACAC WI Mig mdCllluCo w IOll lIOul IuC
beginning to the end of life without en-
joyment. In fact, to prevent such a
result, he has put the great inventions
into the minds OF men; but they have
not produced the results they should,
simply because the profits have gone
to few who have scarcely any part
in the production. What is needed Is
high intelligence among the masses,
and the capacity to organize and move
together for their own advantage. The
sharpers will always be able to live, no
matter how much the laws are in favor
Of the multitude; but If the sharpers,
as now, continue to rule the country,
they will bring down the country In
destruction upon their own heads.
l. D.
The representative., 1897-10-27

some other party. What would you
say, Major, of a farmer, in Renvihe
county, who would slaughter his horse
as a preparation to trading him away!
Hey! Major! Think Of that!
It must need be that God, in the in
finite variety of his workmanship, must
make idiots, but that is no reason why
we should tie ourselves to their sane
timonious shirt tails.
Sufficient unto the day Is the evil
thereof. Let us all work like fury for
the Peoples party this winter, and then
if we must quarrel next summer, go at
it hammer and tongs" l. D.