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The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
A Double Danger.

It Ia common for men, in times of un-
usual excitement, to put behind them
many things that ordinarily would not
be ignored. Whatever is for the time
uppermost Is the only thing seen and
talked about. Just now we have war
fever and we have it pretty bad. There
is so much politics with the other operat
ing causes that the disease Is becoming
dangerously complicated. For 1t is fast
developing two classes Of symptoms, in
dicating two distinctly different origins
and the same treatment will not cure
both. And while the play goes on the
stock jobbers and gold gamblers watch
and wait that they may avail themselves
of every favorable turn to improve their
personal fortunes.
1t is related OF Nathan Meyer (Roth-
child), the London member Of the great
est banking house In the world, that he
was contractor for the English govern
meRt. His prosperity resulted chiefly
from his introduction Of Continental
loans into the English market. He was
the very type and perfection Of stock
jobber." His first great undertaking in
London was to buy up, in 1910, number
Of Wellington's drafts for expenses in
CURED by the army In Spain" floating
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23

about or sinking In the market" He
purchased them at discount, then inn
mediately demanded their redemption at
par, The government, not being able to
do so, he himself furnished the funds to
the government at a premium. Twenty
years later he said 1T was the best
business ever did"
Being at HOugoumont when the battle
of Waterloo was fought, watching It's
progress, as soon as he saw the result,
"he hurried of, and, with help Of car
riers and horses carefully appointed
along his route, reached England a day
before any other messenger arrived. Dur
ing that day his secret agents, on the
strength of report, said to have origl-
mated with him, that the English forces
were defeated, bought at Spanish prices,
a cart-lOad Of shares, bonds, stock and
scrip Of every Sort all Of which as soon
as the true news arrived, and confidence
was thereby restored, he was able to sell
again for their real value, thereby, 1t
was rumored, he cleared G1,00O,0OO
($5,0 00,0O0)."
Rothschild's speculatiOns were to him
business-Only that and nothing more.
And every man engaged in the same
kind Of business that he was, is the same
kind Of man, neither better nor worse.
He would as lief profit by the misfor-
tune of his own country as by those OF
any other.
There Is danger In that direction. The
spectators in the credit Of corporations,
States and nations are now arranging
their schemes to accord with the popular
clamor, and when the proper stage is
reached their part of the game will be
made manifest. These gold standard peo-
pie, by what they did during the war Of
the Rebellion, by what they did and
caused to have done afterwards, and by
what has as they expected and desired
resulted from their conduct, have cost
the country far more than everything
else connected with that war.
The poor fellows that do the fighting
In war and perform the heavy hard man
ual labor in peace-they and such as they
pay the debts that follow battles. It Is
the duty of our lawmakers, having ac-
quired knowledge by experience, to pro-
tect the country against the spectators.
Unfortunately, our one-sided financial
methods have rendered the men at the
head Of the government easy victims to
the wiles of men engaged in reaplng
where they did not SOW.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
Adjustment OF international Disputes
by Arbitration.

This republic Ia just In the beginning
Of It's second century, yet we have had
three wars with foreign nations, one
with our own people and more than
hundred Of lesser dimensions with In
dams. Besides these we have barely ea-
capped q dozen or more WOrs and have
settled thirty-nine cases Of international
troubles by arbitration.
Beginning In 1894, the trouble about
the st. Croix river boundary was deter
mined in our favor by arbitration. The
same year two other cases-one relating
to assessments OF amounts to be paid by
the United States to Great Britain for
alleged losses to certain British subjects,
the other relating to claims OF citizenS
of the United States against Great Brit
ain on account of seizures OF American
yessels-were disposed OF by the same
peaceful means.
In 1914, three cases OF disagreement
between this country and Great Britain
were submitted to arbitration and were
thus peacefully disposed OF.
In 1918, the case OF some slave that had
been carried away by Great Britain, and
In 1927, the Northwestern boundary ques-
tion, both were settled without war.
And so ON with Mexico, Portugal, New
Granada (now Columbia), Chile, Para
quay, Costa Rlca, Ecuador, Peru, Vene-
zuela, Brazil, France, Spain, Denmark,
until the number reaches thirty-nine
cases Of differences between the United
States and other countries, that have
been adjusted by arbitration in one form
or other.
These are SO many good indications,
all pointing toward eventual settlements
of all disputes among nations without
resort to war.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
Great Britain as a COIonlzer.

The English people early developed a
wonderful aptitude for manufactures
For how much OF this admirable trait
they were indebted to Germany and
French artisans need not now be con-
sidered. The island Of Great Britain Is
too small to use the products OF large
manufacturing population, and tine nat
ural outlet was through foreign territory.
America, India, the islands of the sea-
and Africa--each and all felt the impulse
Of BrltainIs ambition to trade with the
world.
OF course wars followed in many In
stances, with accompanying haFdships.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23

But In the long run, Great Brltaln's stu
pendous system OF colonization has been,
from her standpoint, great success,
and this not only from commercial
point Of view, but from that higher
ground occupied by the philosopher
and statesman.
Great Britain, in spite Of all that has
been said to her detriment, has long
led the world In spreading the arts OF
peace. With all her cruelty, wherever
her footprints are found, they are imper-.
ishably placed in social and political
foundations as are those of prehistoric
races impressed in the rocks beneath lls.
Great Britain Is In the vanguard, and
though Russia is now coming quietly
and gracefully on the New Worlds NOV
ing stage, nothing the Gar can do or
undo will destroy or eclipse that which
England has done along the lines OK
commercial colonization.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
Public War and Private Quarrels.


Thoughtful men often wonder and ask
themselves why 1t is that nations are 50
frequently at war with one another. At
first blush 1t does look strange. And
yet, there is nothing about it to bewilder
the mind, unless we lose sight of men
and human nature. The faster and far
ther men move forward in what Is
termed civilization, the more boldly does
the quarTeling instinct stand out in their
individual lives. The argument is some
times advanced that, If 1t be true that
the Gentiles and the heathen, having no
law, are a law unto themselves, 1t Is
but waste OF effort to Christianize them;
and without stopping to discuss the ar
gument, we all do recognize that the ma
chinery of government Is growing more
and not less complex that legislation is
continually entering new fields, that
courts are multiplying, that reports Of
judicial decisions are becoming posi-
lively burdensome by reason of their
number; that legislation grows with the
years, that the army of lawyers who live
of the quarrels of their fellow men has
recruiting stations in every village, and
rs per cent. Of the men who make our
laws and interpret them are taken from
the ranks of professional combatants.
1t does really seem that men quarrel
as naturally and as gracefully as the
beasts and the birds. And If that be
true, why should we wonder that ma
tlons go to war? A nation Is made up
of Individual persons, but they cannot
always adjust their differences in the
same way, and when no terms can be
agreed upon peacefully, they appeal to
war, just as private persons frequently
fight 1t out" when no other resource
had proved eficacious.
The principal feature OF difference be-
tween public war and private quar-
rel consists in the fact that one is bigger
than the other and more people are en-
gagged in it.
AS to the brutality of war and its
cruelty, compare a battle with an Ordi-
nary fight between two men. II war
should be declared between the United
States and Spain and In an engagement
somewhere a Spanish army should fall
into our hands, every man in it, from
the generals down to the private SOL
diers, would be corralled, fed and housed
just as we do our own soldiers. But
suppose Senator Mason and the bellig-
erent Spaniard who is fighting him at
arms length across the ocean, should ac-
cidentally get into close quarters and the
Don should fall into the Yankees
clutches, it is safe to say that he would
not fare as we'll as IL he were captured
in war.
War is cruel, and you cannot refine 1t,
said General Sherman to the people Of
Atlanta, and he was right. But 1t is not
as much more cruel than private combat
as the numbers engaged are greater and
their power stronger.
The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23
CURRENT DISCUSSION.
BY EX-SENATOR PEFFER.

acy. But silver is the money Of the peo-
pie. 1t is the money of wages and re-
tail. It's tendency is toward diffusion
and dissemination. 1t enters into the
minute concerns Of traffic, and is ex-
changed day by day for our daily bread"
Extract from speech Of Senator ingalls,
in the United States Senate, February IA,
1878.
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18

the Gazette should boost Col. De Mahlor he being a part and dpar- eel of that paper, the Democrat ic voters of Arkansas are by no means unmindful of the i'm portance attached to this posi- ton, and from ehe hundreds of letters that we have read from farmers, lawyers, doctors. preachers. etc. to Hon x Y. Wadsworth. Of Drew county, We feel satisfied that there is no intention on the part of the people to divert this office from the channel i'll which twas made to run
 Mir. Wadsworth, as is gener- ally known throughout the State, is a practical planter, an experienced legislator, a gentle man of culture and one who loves Arkansas and her people. He is now 46 years old, in the prime of vigorous manhood lie has one grown son and two grown daughters who were born, reared and educated in Arkansas. and his happy home, 9 miles South of this city on Long Prairie. k the synonym of hospitality, and no one can visit It without being impressed with the superior ability and man agemcnt of it's owner. As an earnest of his standing at home, he has served his people for 19 successive years as School Di- rector of his district, and for three different terms he has rep resented his county in the Legis- latnre.
 There is not a man in the race better qualified for the office and no one who would or could fill t more acceptably, and taking into consideration that Southern Arkansas is just ly entitled to q place on the tick ct, we feel justified in asking the Democrats of the entire State to give MT WadsWorth their sup port and influence
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
For AsseSsOr.

Ne are authorized to announce Mir, Chas. l.. PickcnS as candidate for Assessor of Drew county: subject to the action Of the Democratic pafty,
 Ne are authorized to announce NIT. M f5rea as q candidate for Assessor of Drew conn N subject to the action of the Democratic par ty
 Ne are authorized to announce Mr. J E. Dam fel as candidate for Assessor of Drew county subject to the action of the Democratic party.
 We are authorized 10 announce Mr. W. F. Watts as candidate for Assessor of Drew coun. ty; subject to the action Of the Democratic par tY.
 We are authorized to announce Mr ] 4. Hillman as candidate for reelection to the of fee of Assessor of Drew county subject to the action of the Democratic party.
 We are authorized to announce Mir. George Hudspeth as a candidate for Assessor of Drew county subject to the action of the Democratic party.
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
DO THEY KNOW.

In commenting upon the minis ters of the gospel who from the pulpit have urged, and advocated war between the United States and Spain, the St. Paul Globe asks:
 Do they know what 1t Is of which they talk 50 glibly and reck- lessly' Were they ever in battle, possessed by the demoniac passions 1t stirs2 Did they ever serve on the grim detail sent out after the slaughtered to dig the long trench and gather the dead for burial, and feel. until feeling became case hardened by usage, the shock of horror as they lifted the shell-torn forms and carried them to the trench2 Did they ever go into the impoverished field hospital after the battle and see the surgeons busy with knife and saw, oper- ating on the mangled forms lying upon the rude operating tables, happily unconscious, under ana esthetics, of their agony2 Did they ever throw open the rear flaps of these hospital tents and feel their flesh creep with a new sense of the horrible as their eyes fell upon the gruesome pile of dis severed legs and arms, the harvest of surgeons labor2 And, if they have not, is 1t to such scenes and experiences as these that they would invite their fellow beings' : They want war and they want the consequences. Did they ever go through an invalid hospital of an army in the field and see the victims of disease, always far outnumbering those of the sword and the bullet, and req lize what sickness and death meant under such surroundings' Were any of these truculent disciples of the peace-teaehing Jesus ever an inmate of such a hospital, with its heartless nurses and indifferent physicians. and feel the awful yearning for the soothing hand of mother, sister or wife3 Do they not know that he who advises war, except under the direct need for defense of land or preservation of it's honor, eounsels the commission of wholesale murder3 Do they not know that war is helI?' .
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
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The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
Beware Of the Knife.

MT. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfeld, Mo-, writes: "For six years l have been sufferer from scrofulous affection of the glands of my neck, and all efforts of physicians in Washington, D. C., Springfield, Ill.,, and St. Louis failed to reduce the enlargement. After six months constant treatment here, my physician urged me to submit to re- moval of the gland. At this critical mo- ment a friend recommended S.S.S., and laying aside deep-rooted preju- dice against all patent medicines, l be- gan it's use. Before I had used one bot tie the enlargement began to disappear, and now 1t is entirely gone, though am not through with my second bottle yet Had only used your S.S.S. long ago, I would have escaped years of misery and saved over SI5o."
 This experience is like that of all who suffer with deep-seated blood troubles The doctors can do no good, and even their resorts to the knife prove either fruitless or fatal. S.S.S. is the only real blood remedy; it gets at the root of the disease and forces it out perma- nently.
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The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18

SALINE county, so we see it re ported, has taxed candidates for State offices $3 each for prima- ry election purposes. This Is money, and fl every other eoun- ty had done the same, very few men could have afforded tomake the race. Ne believe iii fixing things SO that poor men as well as rich ones can offer for State positions, but if each candidate is to be taxed as high as $500 in each county for primary elee- tion purposes, alone, a poor man would have to quit the race Drew county was liberal enough not to charge State of tieerS anything
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18

It will be bad day for the democracy of this State should the party by any means be be fuddled by the Arkansas Gazette into nominating NJ. L. DeMah- Ter, its staff correspondent, as commissioner of agriculture and mines-Arkansas Valley Pilot.
 While We have nothing but the best of feelings for Col De Nah Ter, we certainly feel that he is not the man for the place men toned. For this office, of all others in the gift of the people, a practical, experienced agricul- turalist should be elected. It IS not an office for newspaper men and newspaper men should neither expect to fill it or desire to do so, and when they do it only shows that the emolu- ments of the office is what they are seeking and not the good of the country.
 While 1t Is but natural that
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
WAR-THE SOUTH.

The leyel-headed men of the south do right in deprecating haste about their country going to war. They are on safe and sure ground when they contend that we ought not to accept the arbitrament of the sword. save as the very last possible means of preserving the national honor and the rights of the people.
 The south lost literally every thing in the civil war that closed in May 1865, thirty-three years ago. Her people had to begin with bare hands and empty purses, the struggle of life anew. All was gone, the labor system broken up, fencing, stock-all destroyed by fire or carried away. A gener- ation has been required in which to recoup these terrible material losses, and. alas, no number of years can return the brightest and best, the flower of the southern chivalry. that perished on the field or in the ill-supplied hospital. The south has peculiar reasons for re garding question of the war with the eXtremest conservatism. She has suffered from the scourge of Mars as no nation suffered in this century, and her older men and women have not forgotten the ter
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18

frame in the world that resists fat more persistently than the scrub cattle. They have become so in- urcd to short rations, grinning ribs and high hip-bones, that these features have become fixtures. And yet. this same breed, when crossed on the Durham or Devon, makes the finest beef cattle in the world, and occasionally produces d phenomenal milk and butter mak- CT.
 By all means, let the Georgia scrubs be crossed on shorthorns. and the Bermuda pastures will do the rest. It Is, of course, easier to state d fact than to produce the re- suit, but at the very least, Mir. Brown $ success should open the eyes of some of our people and stimulate them into venturing somewhat out of the ordinary lines of farming.
 It is true that cattle-selling is more profitable than cattle-raising, but there is no reason why our farmers with pastures that can be made permanent with one sowing, not be able 10 raise their cattle and sell them in the market where they will command premium. It is matter that only requires a lit more exertion-a little more exer- else of the business faculties.-At- ianta Constitution.
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18

tertalning and attractive-a fine type of our much renowned noble, Southern womanhood lady whose many excellent attalnments ot both heart and mind has made her one of the principle factors and leaders in all of our endeavors for the entertainment and better ment of society; in the person of onr dear little Claude, a sxeet-na- tured, true-hearted, even-tempered, nice, refined, gentlemanly little boy.
 3. That copy of these resoIu- tions be sent to both of the coun- ty papers for publication, and d copy be submitted to the family.
 COMMITTEE.
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
BERMUDA AID CATTLE RAIS-
 ING.

Reference is made elsewhere in these columns To the sale of 87o head of Georgia cattle to parties in Cincinnati bg Mr. T. l.. Brown, of Davisbara. ia tHie State II is stated that the transaction netted Mr. Brown *5=aoo-a pretty com fortable profit 10 make on any trade in these gripping times
 It is also said that Mir. Brown has been in tbe cattle business for several year9, and new sells .ooo head year Fhe probability ts, then, that he makes $1o,ooo a year This profit. however. does not come altogether from the bare sale of cattle anybody can sell cat tie; but ii comes from knowing how, and where, and when to sell them That comes from expert ence. but experience is worth little unless it is based on a fair degree of business aptness and ability.
 The real important fact in the transaction is that they are fatten- ed on pasture lands in the southern part of middle Georgia Whether the cattle were futened on wire grass or on Bermuda makes little difference. but the fact that they were ratteaed ia Georgia pastures is all important.
 Bermuda. which the farmers re- earded as little les ihan curse thirty years ago, Ha- proved to be great fege8eratar From Cut Wrights FaetarY. in Greene coun- ty, where 1t first made its appear anee, it has slowly spread all over middle Georgia and it is now no- ted as the most perfect stock feed, green or dry. the world has ever seen. Farmers in some sections are now wise enough to transplant il to their lands. and the result is always satisfactory. 1t interferes with no crop. t enrichcs the land. and makes pasture that produces better results than the famous Ken lucky blue grass.
 It will grow on any soil the sun shines on, red or black, or gray. When grown for hay. it produces phenomenal results. When pas rurcd, the results are equally sur prising Il grows rapidly, and an acre of it will fatten more cattle than an acre of any other grass. And it has this peculiarity-that winter frosts and freezes simply cure it in the field instead of kill ing it. II is fact well known that field of Bermuda, brown and apparently dead in winter, will keep cattle fatter than the for age cured and under cover There is more nutriment in the frost kill ed Bermuda than there is in an equal quantity of timothy.
 This being so. there is no reas- on why Georgia should not be come the greatest cattle-raising State in the union. Instead of fol- lowing Mir Browns example, let the farmers better IL There ls no
The Monticellonian., 1898-03-18
For Prosecuting Attorney.

NC are authorized to announce W. quin- ney Esq, of Bradley county, as a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the 10th Judicial Circuit; subject to the action of the Democratic party.
 We are authorized to announce w s Amis. Esq of Cleveland county, IS a candidate for rhe office of Prosecuting Attorney of the 10th Judicial Circuit: subject to the action of the Democratic party.
 We nre authorized to announce W. Rohy. Esq. of Ashley county. as candidate for Pros. eeutiug Attorney of the 10th Judicial Circuit. subject to the action of the Democratic party.