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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08
4 BRIDGE NEEDED.

Incidental TO the improvement of the
business of a town or city upon a substan-
tial basis there must be a development
Of It's back country. One of the greatest
developers of back country is the improv-
ed country road providing the means by
which the residents of the rural districts
may reach the town quickly and comfort
ably, and transport their products to mar
ket at a minimum cost. Chatham
county is making first rate progress along
this line. Already many miles of good
road have been constructed and the pros
poets are that ii will not be a great while
before there will be left no cause for COM
plant against the countys roads
with the improvement of roadbeds there
must be, of course, the building of sub
stantial bridges across the streams; and
the policy of bridge building upon per-
mauent basis. has been a part of the
scheme Of improving the highways of this
county. There is however, one defect in
the Chatham system of improved high
ways at present which the taxpayers
would no doubt like 10 see remedied.
namely, the lack of a bridge across the
Ogeechee river on the public road from
this city. There was a bridge across the
Ogeechee on the road mentioned from the
early days of the colony up to the closing
days of the War of Secession when il
was destroyed for military reasons. II
has never been replaced though it has
long been needed as means of gaining
easy access to and from Liberty. Bryan
and other counties to the south of savan-
nah. For the want of this bridge a large
section of the counties named has ceased
to contribute TO the business of this city.
With a good bridge across the Ogeechee
there would be a quick development IN
the section referred TO- and the business
interests of the city would be consider
ably benefited. Cannot the County Com
missioners see their way clear 70 pro-
vidng bridge across the Ogeechee?
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

The New York Journal of Commerce. in
it's usual monthly resume of the growth OF
the cotton manufacturing industry in the
South, says that the movement during
February was not quite so active as for
the month preceding; nevertheless the
progress of the industry continues remark
able" The mills projected during Febru,
airy are to contain 125, AS spindles ana
more than 100 looms A conservative
estimate of the investment required for
the machinery is $2.5OOO0 In addition
10 these there are twelve other cotton mill
companies in process of formation, which
will probably be included in the March
resume and which will require an invest
ment of 81, 10000. There are now seventy
three new mills in actual process of con-
struction, representing an investment of
not less than $4,000 900. These mills now
being built will operate in round numbers
TAI 900 spindles.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

Controller Coler of New York, who is
religious man. told a Methodist meeting
at Syracuse the other night what it was,
in his opinion. that hampered the growth
of the church. III is a waste Of money"
he said, TO bui'd a 900 church, and
then use it only once or twice week.
These immense auditoriums should be
thrown open for education as well as re-
ligious teachings There should be libra
ries connected with every church, and
certain educational work should be start
ed" Probably the most salient point In
his address, however, was this: THE
church has had little success in the great
cities, of late years, to my mind, because
there has been. too much contemplation
and devotion and too little activity"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

The labor situation in Chicago is be-
coming quite serious. According to our
dispatches of yesterday there are now not
less than 5000 persons out Of employment
in that city. 1t does not appear from the
information that there is involved ques-
tons Of lack Of work or Of pay received
for labor, but the basis of the trouble
seems to be certain dsagreements respect
ing the recognition Of unions and the
rights of unions TO dictate TO employers
and others respecting materials to be used.
For some reason or other Chicago has
more labor troubles than any other section
Of the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

Gen. Maxine Gomez has been exceed
ngly quiet, for him, of late. 1t seems,
however, that he is becoming FESTIVE in
seclusion and is looking for an oppor-
tunity for getting into notice again. He
recently refused monetary assistance "at
time when Cuba's treasury is In the
hands of foreigners" ana bewalled the
fact that the Island was not mistress OF
her own destinies." II will be remem.
bered that Gomez is himself a foreigner 10
Cuba, being a san DOMINICAN.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

Fitzsimmons has always maintained
that he was robbed" of the decision in
his fight with sharkey on the Pacific coast
some time ago, and there really appears
TO be some basis for his claim However,
the men have been matched for twenty
five rounds on or about Aug l. II Fftz
was really robbed, he now has an oppor-
tunity Of retrieving part Of his lost pres
tige and getting once more into line for
the champonship.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

II now looks as if there would be not
less than five national tickets in the field
for the next election; the Democratic, Re
publican SOcial-Democrat and two Pop
ulist tickets. Nevertheless the contest
will be between the two old parties. with
not even a fraction of the balance of
power held by the small fry.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

in all probability Harlan Whitaker, the
Kentucky farm hand. who is accused Of
the murder of Gov Goebel is being used
as stalking horse from which to bag
bigger game. Meantime. the real muir
derer Of Goebel is probably quaking in his
boots.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

There was no attempt on the part of the
officers OF the law in South Carolina TO
put a stop to that recent cooking main
at Ten-Mne Hill near Charleston, be
tween Carolina ami Georgia birds. Posi-
bly, the authoritas entertain an opinion
similar to that often ascribed 70 certain
South Carolina gentleman formerly famous
for his fine strain of game cocks, namely;
1t is cruel TO prevent game chickens
from fighting, because the poor things en-
joy it so, and they have so few pleas
ures"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08
The Weather.

The indications for to-day for Georgia
are generally fair weather with variable
winds. and for Eastern Florida showers.
except in extreme southern portions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

The London Spectator is of the opinion
that when the Philippines are finally re-
duced to order. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt
would make an admirable governor of the
archipelago" The Philadelphia Times
pertinently asks How does the Specta-
tor know that the sreat-grandson of the
Governor of New York is going TO be
named Theodore
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

If President Mckinley has had his ear
to the ground lately, it must be that he
has lost confidence in his own ability to
read the rumblings correctly.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

With Flanagan dead the Atlanta news
papers will have to hunt up some other
sensation-provider, TO alternate with the
depot matter.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

There is talk Of the Hon. Joe" Sibley
endeavoring to reach the Pennsylvania
senatorship which Mr.. Quay has 50 far
failed 10 capture M sibley was a Dem
ocrat up to a short while ago, but is now
a Republican. Il is not in the least like
~, however. thar either faction OF the
Republican party in Pennsylvania would
put the recent convert into the Senate
even if it had the power to do it,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Greenville Is. c. News Oem) says:
This country is being secured for cotton
now. We confess continued glee at the
thought of the farmer having polite men
in buggies drive to his house to try to in
duce him to sell at almost his own price
the bales he has saved out. There is pleas
ure in the knowledge that our man with
the hoe has The English manufacturer at
his mercy and can squeeze him beauu-
fully We are mean enough to enjoy the
fact that the fellows who have been keep
ing down the price of cotton so long are
now toling to cough up thousands and
thousands of dollars while the price con-
tinues to soar before their bullying and
startled eyes"
The Birmingham News Dem) says:
Advocates of the public ownership of
railroads will get little comfort out of the
latest comparative tables of rates and
earnings. In France and Russia, where
the government controls most of the rail-
ways, the first class fares range from
cents to 3i5 dents per mile In the United
States the average rate last year, taking
into account mileage tickets, excursion
rates, etc, was / 9S-100 cents per mile.
And il is much easier to earn money in
this country with which to pay the fare.
What queer things we sometimes hear of
ourselves from our neighbors! The Hart
ford Comm Times Dem) says: THE
Georgia Democratic Convention, which is
to be held in June, is said to be sure to
be "a wildly expansion body" in spite of
the prospect that the National
Convention will declare for the
independence of the Philippines.
The chairman of the Georgia Ex-
ecuuve COMMITTEES. Fleming c. duBignon,
hopes TO obtain MIR. Baeon's seat in the
Senate by catering to the 'expansionists.'
The Cincinnati Enquirer Dem) says:
Looking back over the history of the
present President of the United States il
is hard to resist the conclusion that he
has had two sets of opinions on nearly
every important public issue that has
arisen during his public life. on the ques-
ton of tariff on the trade with Porto
Rico he has brought his record sharply
down TO date
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

An international revolver contest be
tween teams of Americans and French
men, is being arranged. It is proposed
that the Americans shall shoot on the
Sea Grit N. J.. range, and that the
Frenchmen shall shoot in Paris. Just by
way of precautor if the shooting is TO
take place at Sea Grit. it would probably
be as well for the Frenchmen to have a
delegation of spoilers at the target
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

President Mckinley Is making some
fine campaign material for Mr. Bryan. It
could hardly be better If II were made 10
order.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-08

For the first time since calendar
clocks came into use" said the Market
street jeweler, according to the Phila-
delphia Record, the faithful timepiece
with automatic calendar arrangement will
point to Feb. 20 on Thursday, March / :"
In explanation OF this remark the lew
eler said that by an ingenious device
every such clock is made TO indicate the
exact number of days. This is effected Inv
means of a month wheel which makes
one revolution a year and has a tooth
for each month, the length of the tooth
determining the number OF DAYS TO he in
dicated. The tooth for February is on a
little four-toothed wheel which is pivoted
on the month wheel every four vears
Three Of its teeth make the count fo,,
Feb. q days and the fourth tooth mali,
the count % days. This year the % wheel
is controlling. But astronomers have 40
creed that in order to keep the calendo-
In its present relation to the season n g.
necessary to change the natural lean ,,oar
TO common year when fl fails On a
century. by setting the clocks twent,,
four hours ahead all can be made riebt
and the calendar attachment win record
correctly for another century.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Church aud Rrctory Together.

A new idea in ecclesiastical archi-
lecture is to be carried out in New
York. In putting up the new edifice
of the Church of the Archaugel in st.
Nicholas avenue. Harlem. the plan Is
to include the church and rectory un~
der the same roof. 1t is said that this
is the first time such thing has been
attempted in that city and perhaps
anywhere. Tho entire building will
cost $4,000. The front of the struc-
ture will be the rectory. with tho
church at the back. rho entrance to
the church will be through and under
the rectory.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Iuperialistn.

The subjects. however. treated in
this letter. important as each may
seem in itself do not press so impera-
lively for solution as the question
which the platform declares to be the
paramount issue in this campaign.
Whether we shall adhere to, or aban-
don those ideas of government which
have distinguished this nation from
other nations and given to Its history
its peculiar charm and value, is ques-
tlon the settlement of which cannot
be delayed. No other question can APP
proach 1t in Importance; no other
question demands such immediate con-
slderatlon. II is easier to lose a repu-
tation than to establish one. and this
nation would find It long and labori-
GUS task to regain its proud position
among the nations. II. under the stress
of temptation, 1t should rcpudiato the
self-eyident truths proclaimed by our
heroic ancestors and sacredly treasured
during career unparalleled IN the
annals of time. when the doctrine
that the people are the only source OF
power is made secure from further at
tack we can safely proceed to the set
tlcmeEt Oh the numei d5 crcstions
which involve the domestic and eco
nomic welfare OF our citizens.
Very truly yours.
w. j. BRYAN.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Nicaragua.

The Democratic party is in favor of
the immediate construction, ownership
and control of the Nicaragua canal by
the United States. The failure of the
Republican party to make any prog
ress in carrying out pledge contained
in its platform four years ago, together
with the substitution in it's latest plat
form of a plank favoring an isthmian
canal for specific declaration in ia
vor of the Nicaraguan canal, would in
dicate that the Republican leaders
either do not appreciate the importance
of this great waterway to the mari
time strength and commercial inter-
ests of the country. or that they give
too much consideration to the interest
ed opposition of transcontinental lines
The Hays -Pauncefote treaty, now be-
fore the senate, would, if ratified
greatly lessen the value of the canal
II it would not indeed convert it into
a positive menace in time of war. The
paramount interests of the United
States in the western hemisphere, to-
gether with the obligations to defend
the republics to the south of us, makes
it necessary that our government shall
be able to close the canal against any
hostile power
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Reclamation of Arid Lands.

The time is ripe for a systematic and
extended effort to reclaim the arid
lands and ut them for actual settlers
The last agricultural report estimates
that homes can thus be provided for
many millions of people. The i'm
pounding and use OF the waters which
are wasted in the spring would people
the western states with thrifty, intelli-
gent. and industrious citizens. and
these would furnish a valuable market
for all the products OF the factories. A
small percentage of the money spent
in war of conquest would provide oc-
cupation and habitation for more peo-
pie than would ever seek residence
In colonies within the tropics.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Arbitration.

The platform renews the demand
for arbitration between corporations
and their employees. No one who has
observed the friction which arises be-
tween great corporations and their
numerous employees can doubt the
wisdom of establishing an impartial
court for the just and equitable set
tlement of disputes. The demand for
arbitration ought to be supported as
heartily by the public, which suffers
inconvenience because of strikes and
lockouts. and by tlfe employers them
selves. as by the employees. The estab-
lishment of arbitration will insure
friendly relations between labor and
capital, and render obsolete the grow
ing practice OF calling in the army to
settle labor troubles.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Sweetheart and Money Burned.

New York Correspondence of Pitts
burg Dispatch: AS the ashes of the
burned piers at Hoboken are cooling
off romances of the fire are coming to
the surface. One of the burned sailors
on the Main. August Stoltz. was to
have been married on Sunday. His
sweetheart, Annie Altz, who has been
employed as a domestic in South Da-
kota for two years, had come East last
week to see her sailor lover, and after
their wedding on Sunday they intend
ed to so to their old home in Germany
and live there for the rest of their
lives. He had shown her over the Main
and the girl had left him to buy her
modest wedding trousseau in New
York. She has been haunting the shore
opposite where the Main lies smolder-
ing ever since. Her fiance had their
joint savings, amounting to S1,50O. in
his belt when he came to his death.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Pensions.

The party expresses it's pride in the
soldiers and sailors of all our wars,
and declares it's purpose to deal gen.
erously with them and their depend
ents. A liberal policy is natural and
necessary in government which de-
pends upon a citizen soldiery, instead
of a large standing army. Self-inter-
est, as well as gratitude, compels the
government to make bountiful pro-
vision for those who, in the hour of
danger, and at great sacrifice of busi-
ness, health and life, tender their
services to their country.
The pension laws should be con-
strued according to the generous spirit
which prompted their passage. The
platform very properly reiterates the
position taken in 1896, that the fact of
enlistment shall be deemed conclusive
evidence that the soldier was sound
when the government accepted him.
A certificate given now to the health OF
a person 40 years ago, even If easily
obtainable, should not have as much
weight as the certificate of the medical
officer who examined the volunteer
with a view of ascertaining his fitness
for army service.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
The Southern Girl Not Athletic

The Southern girl does find time -
read, and write, and talk, as we all
know, although she can not fence and
dive, and pays no attention to cricket
or polo. She is apt to take more in
terest in the little curls on her brow.
the magnolia tint of her complexion,
and the picturesque droopiness of her
shady hat than a score in golf, BIZ
cycle gymkhana or a rowing match.
These things necessitate inelegant
haste and hustle and the raising of
voices, all of which the Southern lover
of grace disapproves. Give her fan
and pretty frock. a red parasol and
a young man to talk to. and the aver
age Southern girl is willing to let her
Northern sister take all the violent
sports and all the glories thereof. She
may fade faster than does her open
air sister of the North. and she may
not have as sound constitution. as
broad shoulders and as deep a chest.
but she keeps her hands small and
white and she doesn't learn how to
be rough in voice or manner.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Enrl with Long Mime.

The Earl of Rosslyn. who was taken
prisoner by the Beers and whose re-
cent message from Pretoria gave the
impression that the city was about to
surrender, is lieutenant in the First
Fifeshire Volunteer Corps. When he
signs his name officially it is James
Francis Harry st. Clair ErslSine. He
was captured with the Irish troops
while in the Orange Free State en-
route to Kroonstad. In noble circles
of England he is considered to be an
"eccentricity." He is only 30 years
of age, capital at amateur theatricals
and disposed to take to the stage for
livelihood
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Intcrstate Commerce.

The Republican party has persist
emily refused to comply with the ur-
gent request of the Interstate Com
merce commission, for such an en-
largement of the scope of the inter
state commerce law as will enable the
commission to realize the hopes
aroused by its creation. The Demo-
cratic party is pledged to legislation
which will empower the commission
to protect individuals and communi-
ties from d dscrimination, and the pub
lie at large from unjust and unfair
transportation rates.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20

merce is rapidly increasing. and we are
brought into constant communication
with all parts OF the world. Even II we
desired to do so. we could not afford to
ALLEVIATE many nations by cultivating
unnecessary intimacy with few. Our
strength and standing are such that it
Is lezs necessary than ever before to
lean for aid upon the friendliness Of a
foreign power.
We cannot connect ourselves with
European nations, and share in their
jealousies and ambitions without los
Ing the peculiar advantage, which our
location, our character and our insti-
tutions give us in the worlds affairs.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-20
Chinese Exclusion.

The Chinese exclusion act has proven
an advantage to the country, and its
continuance and strict enforcement, IS
well as its extension to other similar
races are imperatively necessary. The
Asiatic is so essentially different from
the American that he cannot be as
simulated with our population, and is,
therefore, not desirable as permanent
citizen. His presence as a temporary
laborer, preserving his national identi-
ty, and maintaining foreign scale OF
wages and living, must ever prove an
injustice to American producers, as
well as a perpetual source of irrita-
ton.