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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Economy and Excellence in the Proposed
judicial Reform.

Economy and Excellence in the Proposed
judicial Reform.
In the last issue of the HERALD we
undertook to show some of the great
advantages which would accrue to the
people by abolishing the Circuit and
Chancery Courts, and the adoption in
stead of one court for the administra-
ton of our civil law, wherein both legal
and equitable remedies would be grant
ed and enforced by one Judge. We
pointed out these advantages to be the
facilitation Of justice, the symmetrical
development of our Jurisprudence, the
decrease in the number of our Judges,
the simplification of our judicial sys-
tenn and the diminution of public ex-
penses. We quoted the most eminent
authority on the excellence of this Re-
form Procedure, and we cited the ex-
ample of nearly every State in the
Union to show the general concurrence
of progressive intelligence. In that
article we relied upon authority and
upon statements. AS to that portion of
our argument which urged the excel
lence of the Reformed Procedure, it
was perhaps we'll to rest it upon
eminent authority and enlightened ex-
amples, for those who are unacquainted
with the practical administration of the
law must resort to the opinions of
those whose learning and experience
qualify them to speak. Yet even one
unlearned in the law might be able to
see that it would be far better and
simpler for all rights and remedies to
be administered at one time by the
same Judge and in the same court,
without delay and free from the
dangers of the technical jurisdiction of
woseparate courts.
We have urged this reform in our
judicial system as one of the many good
reasons for Constitutional Convention
But for those mercurial temperaments
who cannot see in the excellence of
this reform sufficient justification for
mourning the expense of Constitu-
tional Convention, we propose to set
forth some facts and figures showing
the economy of the reform, which may
incline their hearts to a New Con-
sttutiOn.
The number of regular judges in Ten
nessee and the amount of their salaries
per annum are given in the following
table, tOWit:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

With the exception of five special
Criminal Courts which our Legislature
has established, our criminal law is adj
ministered in our Circuit Courts by our
Circuit Judges. 1t will be understood,
however, that when we speak of the
business of the Circuit and Chancery
Courts being done in one Court, we have
noreference to the administration of the
criminal law. That part of our judicial
system will be treated in a separate
paper.
A comparison of the above table with
the judicial system of the adjoining
States of Georgia and North Carolina,
both of which have abolished the dis
tinction between the courts of law and
equity, will teach us valuable lesson in
economy.
The following tables show the cost of
the judicial systems of Georgia and
North Carolina respectively, towit:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

THE last page of Munsey's Maya
zine has been sold for one year to
four advertisers, each of whom oc-
cupies quarter of page and pays
$4,000, making total of $4,000 for
the page. One line in the Youths
Companion, one time, costs SO, while
a page in the Ladies' Home Journal,
one time, costs $4,000. Yet there are
people, who want to advertise and
must advertise, who would think the
figures given above all out of reason
and who would hold space in one
publication to be just as valuable as
that in another. The reason the
periodicals mentioned above get the
price they ask and have their adver-
Using pages filled always, is because
they have the circulation and can
give patrons value received. The
medium to choose is not the one that
Offers the lowest figures, but the one
that can give you the best service,
the greatest number of readers, for
the money. And in placing your adj
vertising this should be looked to
just as when buying a suit of clothes
you examine the texture of the
goods. Every business man should
realize that this is an advertising
age, and that whether he wants to
or not, he must advertise, or his
more enterprising competitor will
Outrun him in the race for business.
The next question to be determined
is that of the medium; and to get
the fullest returns for his money he
should be careful in choosing that
medium, and not conclude that one
is as good as the other, or that the
cheapest is the best. The contrary
is most generally true. We throw
out these as suggestions for the New
Year. "A hint to the wise is suffi-
cient." The HERALD has nearly if
not quite twice as many actual bona
fide, paid up, live, reading subscrib-
ers, as any paper published in
Maury County.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

BRADsTREET'S review of trade for
the week ending Jan. 8 shows how
completely the endorsement of the
gold standard has restored pros
perity, and what a stupendous rush
of good times the country is having:
1.-THE weeks total of business fail
ures throughout the United States is
ass, one of the largest ever reported.
This is contrasted with 329 in the
last week of 1865, with 446 in the last
week of 1891, 495 in the correspond
ing week of 1893, and with 4S4 in the
like portion of 1892"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

y EGGING King Richards pardon, make the an
- nouncement that we have received this week 1881
Yards of White Goods in Check Muslins Plain
India Lnons, Checked and Striped Dmities, Pure
Linen Lawns and Thread Cambrics This together
with the than 6ooo yards of Embroderes and Laces
that received last week emphasizes the hepness of
this store to early spring sewers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

WE called attention last week to
the first of series of articles Mr..
Sam Holding is preparing for the
HERALD on the Constitutional Con-
ventiOn question, and we again call
attention to this series oe articles,
the second one appearing in this
issue. We are thus particular be-
cause we are anxious that our read
ers should begin with the series and
follow to the close. 1t is the most
important public question we will
have to consider this year, and one
that every voter should inform him
self on. Mr.. Holdings articles are
carefully prepared and every one of
them will contain valuable informa-
ton as well as interesting matter. His
comparison in this issue of the states
of North Calolin Georgia and Ten
nessee, and the cost of the Judiciary,
makes a strong argument for the
necessity of a change in Tennessee's
organic law. He shows that Ten
nesse, with smaller population
than Georgia and but little larger
than North Carolina, employs more
Judges than these two states COM
bined, and eXpends in salaries for
these officers 1921 $50, while Georgia
and North Carolina combined spend
only SOL, $50. No wonder our peo-
pie are grooming under burdensome
taxes. No wonder their complaints
are loud. No wonder the majority
of the dominant political party in
the State has slumped from $4,000
down to an unknown and uncertain
quantity. And yet these figures
relate only to the Judges. The I'M
necessary Clerks and Attorney
Generals are yet to come. And the
fee system with all of its extrava-
gance and corruption and abomina-
tions has not been touched. And
worse even than the fee system, that
ill-begotten, misshapen, ponderous
mistake of the times-the County
Court-with its sins of omission and
cOmmission-with its pig-headed
conservatism and parsamonious ex-
travagance; that joke upon juris-
prudence, the Honorable County
Court system of Tennessee, with
leakages innumerable and meander-
ing uncomfortable, is one of the
delectable subjects yet to be treated.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

AND now the Centennial advent
urers want the city limits of Nash
vile extended to the Centennial
grounds, so that whiskey can be sold
thereon. There's patriotism and old
glory for you
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

COUNTY ATTORNEY GREENLAw
has a card in this issue addressed to
Tax Assessors. 1t should be read
not only by the assessors, but by the
tax payers, for it contains valuable
information for all.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15
Two Weeks of HOuse-GIeaning, RE
BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY
REDUCING
STOCK,

and continuing until the date of stocktakng January
and we count the original cost of many of the bargains
offer, there's loss, but if the saving you,
and the possible profit by getting CASH MONEY for
ventures, think right in losing sight of pres
ent profit
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15
RAINS, THE DRUGGIST.

LAST Tuesday, for the first time
in twenty-four years, a Republican
was inaugurated Governor of North
Carolina. His name is Daniel r.
Russell.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

THE Republicans in the Indiana
legislature have caucussed and
agreed upon Charles w. Fairbanks
for the Senate. He will succeed the
gallant old Democrat, Daniel w.
VOORHEES,. Moore's the pity.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

No, OF 81

An examination Of the above tables
show that, while the population of the
three states are about the same, Tennes-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15

MACEo is real dead this week, and
it is thought he is dead to stay this
time.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15
M1Ke33o3, n3dQ7so3 8 Foster.

NOW is the winter of our discomfort,
Made glorious summer by our Invoice Sale
And all these pretty clouds of white goods.
To Thousand homes are scattered
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-01-15
Georgia
North Carolina.

No. of Salaries
Courts. Judges, each. Total
Supreme S2IJO.O Sl3T50.O
District II 2TJO.O1 8OW.O
II I675O.O0
The comparison of the population
Federal census lS9O) and aggregate
paid to the judges in each of the three
States will impress this lesson some
what more forcibly upon us.
The herald., 1897-07-09
No Demagogy There

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
Old: The Republican press is still at
it's old tricks-teaching it's readers to call
Mr.. Bryan a demagogue.
The Herald has put no such name upon
the Republican leaders, yet the Repub-
lican leaders cannot send man from
their ranks who can deliver such fair
and dignified address as this great
champion gave to his hearers at Fiesta
park. His complete silence on the har-
Ebor question, even when loud calls were
made for it's discussion, is positive proof
that he is no demagogue. Now let us be
honest about it. Every one will agree
that he is fully informed concerning
our harbor battle, and that he is cogni-
zant of the fact that the secretary of
war stubbornly refuses to execute the
law, yet Mr.. Bryan spoke no word at
Fiesta park which would go to show that
he was pandering to the popular feeling
and passion which we know to exist. 1t
was a splendid opportunity. OF course
he could have mentioned it and yet not
be a demagogue; but no demagogue
would have refrained from this subject
as he did. I am anxious that the speech
be put in pamphlet form. 1t would make
splendid material for pioneer work
among Republicans who see statements
in the Republican press and then inno-
Gently circulate them for the truth.
BIMETALLIST.
Monrovia, Cal, July s, 1897.
The herald., 1897-07-09
CELERY GROWING

The people of Southern California
ought to pay more attention to the grow
ing of celery. The ideal soil exists in
some sections. The current number of
the Los Angeles Farmers Friend has
a most interesting article on the expe-
riences of D. E. Smeltzer, who has won
the title of the celery king of Southern
California, and is making lots of money
besides.
Five years ago Mr.. Smeltzer discov-
cred, in Orange county, near Santa Ana,
a tract of peat land on which grew large
quantities of wild celery. He saw that
the tract would make an ideal celery
garden, and at once secured large por-
ton of it. His earlier experiments were
very successful, and he decided to make
business of celery growing. He sold
his product in Kansas City, Chicago
and New York, and the more he sold the
greater was the demand.
This year Mr.. Smeltzer has 100 acres
of celery under cultivation. The neigh
idea and have also gone into the bust
ness but they sell most of their product
to Mr.. Smeltzer. The seed is growr
right there at home and one bed com
prises ten acres, the largest celery seed
bed in the world.
TIL Smeltzer farm alone will produce
this year not less than 250,000 dozen OF
celery. Shipping will begin about No.
vember LIST, when the eastern market il
practically clear. The product bring.
about 40 cents dozen in the eastern
markets, and the actual average prof
TO the grower is about 5000 an acre.
These facts and figures go to show tina
Southern California is an ideal celery
growing country, and it is reasonable t,
believe that it will eventually supply tn,
whole country, especially in season.
when the market is bare of the eastern
product.
The herald., 1897-07-09
MAKE YOUR WILL!

The decision that has just been rem
dered by Judge Morrow Of the United
States circuit court at San Francisco
is not calculated to raise our judicial
system to any very giddy eminence in
the eyes of the average observer. II
fact, if intelligent human endeavor had
been directed in a particular case to
render the administration of justice un-
certain and vexatious the results could
hardly have surpassed the plain effect of
Judge Morrow's well-meant effort. This
decision has in terms. and probably in
effect, reversed all that had been settled
in the matter of the Blythe estate in
San Francisco. For nearly thirteen
years the heirs-at-law of Thomas H.
Blythe had sought the aid of the courts
in their effort to adjust their rights to
the succession of the dead millionaire.
During all those years the case was
in some form or other before the supe-
rior court of San Francisco. Seventeen
appeals were prosecuted to the supreme
court of the state, and finally last ap-
peal to the supreme court of the United
States This last was thought to be the
final step, inasmuch as the decision con-
firmed all that had been decreed by the
courts of the. state of California. Prob
ably half a million dollars would not
cover the amount of the disbursements
for costs and attorneys fees that had
been incurred and paid by Florence
Blythe, the successful claimant. Bu;
just as Florence had settled down to
enjoy her inheritance, at the close of
her protracted struggle, there comes
this new awakening, by which federal
court, welding a jurisdiction second
only to that of the supreme court of the
United States, makes it's decree, by
which it is solemnly adjudged that Flor
ence Blythe is not the rightful owner Of
any of the estate left by her father, and
that the whole estate must go to certain
other heirs named in the decree.
This is case which gives every reader
the opportunity to do some very ami
mated thinking. There is something
that is ludicrously uncertain, even in
public law, and If that element of un-
certainty which turks between the
printed statute and the letter of it's in
depreciation could only be extracted
it would yield the most astonishing
reality that ever turned the wheels of
modern speculation.
The herald., 1897-07-09

were practically prohibitive, while raw
material was on the free list all the way
from hades to the matutinal repast. The
sugar trust, the leather trust, the coal
trust, the wooden goods trust, the nail
trust the rubber trust and all the trusts
in which modern Republicans put their
trust. had their way in each item.
BY the action of the free silver Repub-
licans in the senate, in connection with
the Democrats, some relief was worked
out for the west and for the farmers.
The Democrats wisely Joined in the
great game of grab, SO that their people
might not be altogether robbed, and by
shfewd compromises little protection
was obtained on few of the products
of the farm.
The servants of the trusts announce
that they will attack these new provis-
ions in the bill and seek to return to the
rates in the original as framed by Mr..
Dingley and his aids from New England.
Hides, wool and other products of the
western farms will go in the free list or
nearly so If the real Republicans in both
houses can do it.
Anything the farmer or the western
man gets out of this new tariff will he
by the grace of the Democratic party,
aided by the Populists and the free sill
yer Republicans. Here and there a
western senator protests against the ac-
tion of his party, but those from the east
hold him in the traces. The Democratic
members, the Populists and free silver
Republicans have hard fight on hand
still to get any share of the big thick
protection blanket to cover the naked
ness of the great agricultural west.
The herald., 1897-07-09
FRIDAY, JULY 9. 1907
AFRAID OF A SILVER STANDARD

One Of the oft-repeated fallacies of the
gold standard people is that if silver
should be restored to its old place in
American coinage it would Immediately
drive gold to a premium and out of cir
culation; that the net result would be
to bring the country to single silver
standard, and the latter condition would
be worse than the former. People who
argue along these lines stubbornly re-
fuse to look at history and consider the
period from 1892 to 1873, when this coun-
try had the free and unlimited coinage of
gold and silver and yet maintained the
parity of the two metals. During that
long period there were great f1uctua-
tions in production and temporary scar
city Of one metal or the other, but
neither drove the other out of circula-
ton. 1t Is true that both gold and sill
yer disappeared from circulation lex
cept on the Pacific coast) during the war,
but that was due to other causes, and did
two metals.
How did gold and silver keep their
places during that period of eighty-one
years? Simply by the natural process
Of supply and demand The free and un-
limited coinage principle held them to-
gether at the established ratio. The
debtor being privileged to pay in either
metal. would speedily have taken the
cheaper if there had been any vari-
ance between them, and the rush for the
cheaper money would quickly have
brought it back to par.
1t was only when this natural and easy
process Of keeping the balance even was
dispensed with in 1873 by debarring sill
yer from free coinage that the mischief
was started.
Everybody is familiar with the opera
tion of that unfortunate makeshift-the
Sherman silver purchase law. 1t was an
artificial and forced method which failed
, to take the place of the former natural
and easy process.
We all know the tribulation involved
In endeavoring to maintain in the treas
lions of dollars with which to guarantee
the parity of the two metals in our coin
age. And out of this artificial and
strained expedient of a gold reserve
comes the embarrassment of the "end-
lees chain" which the goldbugs are so
fond of talking about
s All this difficulty arises from an effort
to substitute a poor makeshift for the
operation of natural economic princi-
pie. None of the expedients thus far
tried have sufficed, and none of similar
kind will suffice. The parity of the two
metals cannot be maintained in any
such way. 1t is like an effort to dis
place the law of gravitation with force
!. pump. 1t can't be done.
Strange, that after contemplating the
failure of all these makeshifts certain
class of people insist that we shall go
on with the fruitless experiments or try
others that are even worse. The remedy
which they propose for the "endless
chain" is to recall the greenbacks and
thus further increase the burdens of the
government. Any kind of scheme
seems to commend itself to these fatu-
GUS people. except a return to the nat
ural and easy process of free coinage
for both gold and silver. Why should
we not return to the good, safe old sys-
tenn which served this country SO well
for eighty-one years?
The herald., 1897-07-09

It's WONDERFUL prOouctS are rather IA
miliar notes to our ears. Not few ten
derfeet have been beguiled to leave their
eastern homes, come and part with their
ducats in exchange for a small piece Of
Mother Earth on our representations of
what might be grown on ten acres. and
the affiuence in which a family might
live on the net cash proceeds Of those
products. These statements have been
made, without any coubt. And in the
main these statements are true, unless
after selling the lands. and after the
buyer has raised the crops we turn
around and deliberately prevent him
from enjoying what we told him he
should have.
So we say, give the farmers chance.
The sheep fields of twenty years ago are
broken up into orchards and truck gar
dens. The plains, once as tenantless as
the desert, are dotted over far and wide
with beautiful cottages, where intelli-
gent American families dwell. They are
trying to enjoy the many benefits held
up 10 their eyes by the eloquent real es-
tate man when they purchased their
piece of ground and built their homes.
The orchard trees are growing thick
upon the mesa, the milch kline stand
knee deep in the alfalfa fields. The voice
of strutting chanticleer is heard in the
early morning, and the cluck of the hen
leads her brood to where the grasshop-
pers play.
1t is all right excepting as to the profit
to accrue. from $3.50 or $500 an acre land.
The products are on the spot. Climate
and soil have done their perfect work.
and unless the rapacity of a few busi-
ness men, backed up by the unwisdom of
city dads, nullifies it all, happiness will
reign supreme in the pretty cottages
along the country side, and real estate
agents will not be looked upon as of the
tribe of Ananias.
Give the farmers a chance. They are
the foundation stones of all our prosper
ity. How give them chance? Let
them when they have raised crop OF
fruit, flock of poultry or made
box of butter, sell 1t with
out putting limitations or restric-
tions on them. We say there
should be no license demanded of farm
ers who sell their own products in the
city. The farm wagon, whether it car
ries milk, butter, eggs, fruit or garden
truck, should be free as the sea breeze
to go where it will. from door to door,
to sell the stuff direct to consumers. This
course is of inestimable benefit to thou
sands of producers and to equal thou
sands of consumers. The farmer gets
more and the wage Garner in the city
pays less. On these two classes more
than all the others Of US, rests the pros
perity Of us all.
If the city maintains free market, or
ten free markets, they should be 80 let
out that no more should be attemptedto to
be raised than enough to pay. say, 8
per cent on the money invested and the
bare cost of keeping the market open on
the most rigid policy Of economy.
Yes, give the farmersa chance.
The herald., 1897-07-09
Incompetent Place Hunters

Mr.. Mckinley has now 80, ,627 places"
lin the public service to award. These
places" are worth anywhere from $400
to about $4,000 a year. Any good clerk
ship is worth more. Nevertheless Mr.
Mckinley has on his list no less than
los, ,106 names of applicants for these 32,-
627 places, or more than three appli-
cants for each place. This can only
mean that the most of the applicants are
persons so lazy SO incapable or so lack
ing in energy, that they cannot earn even
small wage in private work Such per-
sons ought not to be in the public SER
vice.-New York World
The herald., 1897-07-09
THE TRUSTS IN THE SADDLE

The tariff bill is through the senate
and now goes TO the conference com
mittees. The servants of the trusts have
already raised their warming notes that
they will attack the changes made by
the senate.
As the bill came from the hands of Mr..
Reeds obedient house of representatives
the trusts had abouteverything in sight
The great combines Of New England and
the middle states had supervised every
step n the fixing Of the schedules. Man
utacfrres were protected by rates thai