The representative., 1900-05-03
OUR TRIP TO GEORGIA.


On the 9Th of April last, accompanied
by my wife, left Hastings on the Mil
waukee & st. Paul train for Chicago.
The Milwaukee road, by the way, is one
United States, and, consequently, in the
world
We reached Chicago next morning
at $3.50 and took the bus at once to the
Monon depot, and that evening. about
$3.50 we reached Cincinnati, and at the
Queen & Crescent junction, just outside
of Cincinnati, we took the Southern rail-
road and arrived at Atlanta the next day
at noon. There we wore met by the
Peoples party state committee and were
taken to q comfortable and unpreten-
tious hotel near the depot-the Hotel
Jackson.
was struck by the fact, as we travel
ed along, that vegetation did not seem
to be any farther advanced in Ohio and
even Georgia than it was in Minnesota
when we left. The fields were gray,
and there were no leaves upon the trees.
On our way back to Cincinnati, three or
four days subsequently, it turned SO cold
that had to put on thick clothes such
as had worn during the winter in Min
neapolis.
I was interested in observing every
where the vast expanse of clay; it was
wrought into hills and valleys, generally
of the same color as it is in Minnesota
yellow; occasionally, where it was asso-
GATED with iron-rust, red. In my book,
"Ragnarok," / had argued that these
continental masses of clay and gravel
were due to contact between the earth
and streams of cosmical matter, the
debris of former worlds, that had been
destroyed and ground up during mil
lions Of years of flight through space.
The old school claimed that it was due
to glaciers descending the sides of
precipitous mountains; but the answer
to this was that there were no noun
tains between the Gulf of Mexicoand the
Great Lakes, and where there were no
mountains there would be no glaciers.
Prof. Wright and others pretended that
they could find the edge of the glacial
deposits along the southern line of Ohio
and Illinois, and that beyond that there
was nothing of the sort; but here in the
middle of Georgia the whole country
was covered with the same deposits,
h,sN1 de- - RAo to- io1x
there is no doubt that similar deposits
extend into South America, and are piled
up on the equator itself.
was gratified to observe all this, as
it was strongly confirmative of my own
views, and it was good deal more
important to know where the drift came
from than to foretell who would be the
next president. The whole history of
the globe and the human family was
wrapped up in the former question,
while hundred years from now no one
but antiquarians will be able to tell
who was elected president in 1900.
AS we got into Georgia one Of the first
signs Of spring were the beautiful pink
blossoms of the peach trees-that de-
licious fruit that fourishes here like
weed.
The aspect of the country is generally
beautiful, the Land is rolling, and the
hills and valleys fringed with forests.
The state convention, which was held
on the 10th, was a very interesting body
Of men: more grave, earnest, sincere
and honest set of delegates it would be
hard to find anywhere. The convention
was not as large as was anticipated, be-
cause Of the poverty OF the people;
money Is very scarce in Georgia. One
gentleman said to me: mfr. Donnelly,
you have no idea how big thing dime
is in this section" The faces Of the
people showed they were studying a
grave problem-how to make both ends
meet
Northern and foreign capital Is COM
tng In and building great cotton mills;