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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
THEIR SOUL AND BODY.

The trusts have their attorneys, OF
course as able lawyers as they can find
and just as many OF them as they think
they need.
They have also a horde OF lobbyists,
shrewd. bold and influential men. They
employ other agencies to defend and pro-
mote their interests and their schemes.
All this costs an immense amount of
money. but 1t is a good investment for
the trusts. and the people foot the bill,
after all.
But among all the attorneys, strikers and
pullers Of the trusts we have yet to find
one who exceeds Senator Foraker in the
holiness and buoyancy with which he
champions the cause of these combines.
In a recent speech to an Ohio audience
Foraker said:
81 do not think a constitutional amend
ment can be adopted in time to regulate
any of the trust evils, nor do 1 even be-
lieye an amendment is actually necessary.
II seems TO me that commercial condi-
tions will before long regulate and con-
troll the trusts. Hostile legislation is
neither necessary nor desirable, because
you will find. at least here in Ohio, that
the great mass of the people is becoming
interested in the class of industrial and
Transportation securities where the trusts
have control.
Not so1ong ago, when the farmer saved
up a few hundred dollars he loaned 1t out
TO a neighbor or else he bought another
piece OF land with it. Nowadays, how
ever, he buys stock-not at all for specu-
lation, but merely as a profitable invest
ment-in some well-established railroad or
industrial corporation.
Mechanics, clerks and the class which
may be called the thrifty are, generally
speaking, the largest holders of the Sc
curities Of the great trust corporations.
They would not welcome hostile legisla-
ton, nor would it be to their best inter-
ests."
1t would be hard to beat this.
If Foraker is correct, the person who
would do anything to interfere with the
benevolent agencies called trusts is a pub
lie enemy and should be so treated by all
law-abiding citizens.
The senator waxed exceeding wroth a
few days ago when he alluded to Mr..
Bryan's declaration that there are some
trusts magnates in this country who
should be in the penitentiary. That struck
Foraker as one of the greatest outrages
upon the right of free speech ever per-
petrated, and the invectives that he pour
ed out upon Mr.. Bryan were terrific even
I'm cold type. They must have been almost
paralyzing to hear.
Lhe absolute and abject devotion of
Foraker to the trusts can hardly be equal
led among all who do the bidding of those
masters Of men.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
SAM JONES TELLS OF TRIP
THROUGH THE CAROLINAS

WILMINGTON, N. c., Sept. "a.
To The Atlanta Journal:
LEFT Atlanta midnight last Sun
day night, and am making a tour
of lecture engagements in the Car
olinas. I note with pleasure thee
splendid crops of the Old North
State. The best cotton. corn, po-
tatoes and tobacco OF any of the
southern states will be harvest
ed in North Carolina this fall. Some
sections of South Carolina also have
fine crops.
The towns over here ere growing
apace, and tine farmers are prosper
Gus. The numerous cotton mills are
becoming more numerous and more
prosperous. Charlotte leads, easy, in
growth and push. Then Greensboro,
then Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Dur
ham, etc. Wilmington holds her own,
and that's hard for her to do with
the prosperous inland towns drawing
away from her. ] find Wilmington no
longer troubled with her Leopard
Spots" She has quite a large colored
population, but that element is no
longer ''in it." Negro rule and mon
grel domination no longer has a place
in North Carolina politics. They are
aIIef senator PrltchardS scalp now,
and with his retirement the state will
be redeemed" so called. But with
the passing of the negro from the body
polite of North Carolina there still re-
mains something worse than ne
groes, and that's whiskey. Democratic
domination means perpetuation of the
liquor traffic.
Democrats do love whiskey. They
were born with that love, and never
go back on their first love.
Politicians may pirate, and states
men may howl, but I stick to it that
with the passing of the saloon there
will be a passing away of most all of
our other evils.
l dare the Democrats OF Georgia to
eliminate the negro vote from the bal
lot box of Georgia. If they will. then
Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, Macon,
etc, will go dry as soon as an election
can decide it. Saloons are being
driven out of the towns of North
Carolina at an alarming rate.
Politics are warm over here now
on the senatorial issue. The joint de-
bates of Pritchard and Craig are stir
ring up the animals Senator Pritchard
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Inns. S. c., one of the most prosperous
little towns Of the state. They seated
a warehouse and a great crowd was
at the lecture. The land around Null
Inns haa become too poor to raise cot
ton, they told me. and for the past
few years they have raised tobacco
and now the little town of Mullins Is
handling eight million pounds Of to-
bacco, and it brings from 10 cents
pound to 40 cents. and the farmers are
jumping UP and down. / stick to my
proposition that no section of this
great country is tied down to one COM
modify, even Florida has two--fish and
Yankees.
The south has never known 1.-THE
OF her wealth. Tobacco and taters. po-
tatoes and peanuts. cotton and corn.
all fruits and vegetables, our immense
pine forests, our phosphates, marble,
minerals and manufacturing. etc, etc.
We ought 10 be the richest people on
earth.
I visited my old friend and neighbor,
Bill Arp. the other day, and was great
~ pleased to find him so bright and
lively in his Affections. He a philoso-
pher at IS, ripe in experience and rich
in spirit I told him wanted him to
live until he was a hundred. for more
reasons than I could give. He is
most splendid neighbor. a genial friend,
a born philosopher, a model husband.
an ever kind and indulgent father, and
We shall have no one to wear his shoes
and carry his honors when he goes
hence. There are correspondents and
correspondents. but no one writes like
Bill Arp. More than an army OF people
read his letters weekly.
How sad that some men must die. or
depart from US. but the journey must
end with US all. The most healthy
of us will sicken and die. The
brightest minds VIII soon fade
in death. The greatest orators
will soon be silent. The great
est benefactors of the race viii soon
cease to give and do for man. 1T is
better that some men had never lived;
It is better for the world that some
men should never die.
But whether good or bad, when we
die our deeds win follow us, bring
their fruits here and give us happi-
ness or misery in the world to come.
Yours truly,
SAM P. JONES.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

is a strong man and has the nerve to
say his say. Craig is an orator OF no
mean ability. When he and Pritchard
lock horns the fur flies.
There are several candidates for the
honors which Pritchard wears. But
Craig has the start on the boys and
will doubtless win the crown. 1 would
love to see julie Carr, of Durham,
elected to the United States senate.
But Providence seems to protect julie
by getting him beat in every race he
has made, For whom the LORD low
eth He Chasteneth."
The average fellow will have a hard
time getting to heaven from the ev-
cry day walks of life, but the average
politician stands no chance at all.
Ask Lon.
/ notice President Roosevelt sudden
ly abandoned his western tour on ac-
count of an operation which was
necessary on HIS leg. If he don't con-
fine himself pretty closely TO Wash
ington and talk less, they are going
to beat him next fall. Don't he know
that no talking man was ever MADE
president except by accident
That tariff and trust business ought
not to be discussed except by the DEM
ocrats, and to save my life can't see
how the discussion will avail them
anything, for without a leader an
tissue don't count.
The Democrats remind me of the fell
low who lost ten thousand dollars on
pork because he didn't have the hogs
to kill. Issues, but no available can
didate. 1 expect Gov. Altgeld is glad
he has escaped the evils which were to
come.
When the oceans are desserts and the
devil shuts up shop. then we can look
for harmony between Watterson, Bry-
an. Tillman, J. X. Jones. Cleveland and
Hill. AS long as the Democrats fuss
with and fight each other. the Repub-
licans will reveI and rot in Office.
They call us Prohibitionist fools, but
a fellow that can beat the Democrats
acting the fool, then he ought to be
locked up as a protection to the public.
If the Prohibitionist is a fool, then
the Democrat is fool and rascal both,
and that makes the most incurable all
ment the doctors ever tackled.
had rather be plain fool and go on
my way rejoicing than a fool and ras-
cal both bewailing my fate.
lectured on Tuesday night at Null
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Daily News.

Chicago Daily News.
Some men never give up until after they
break down.
A Thermometer is used to measure heat and
the price of ice.
Some women are good looking until after
they find 1t out.
Lots OF men 60 short on fiction because It
is stranger than truth.
No. Cordelia, a plagiarist isn't necessarily
the author Of play
Beware of the hair tonic that a bald-headed
barber tries to sell you.
cool, crisp 500 bill is a good thing to have
around in hot weather.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness Is
built up from the bone.
No, Cordelia, the fishing smack was not in
vented by summer girl.
Poor regulations are due to the fact that good
intentions are seldom credited
An expert is a man whose ignorance over
shadows that Of ordinary men.
In chasing the ideal one often succeeds In
catching I'D with the material
What a shock It would be to most people IL
they could see us as we see ourselves
Judicious diet and exercise viii frequently
improve a mans opinion of his neighbors.
1t is enough to discourage a truthfm man
when even his friends refuse to believe him.
It's enough to make strong man tremble
TO think of poor shad with rheumatism in all
his bones.
The greatest mistake the average man makes
is in allowing himself to make many fool
mistakes.
When an old man tells young woman that
he loves her she naturally expects him to be
a paying teller.
. Cats may be Of some use IN the world. but
no sane person will deny that vocalists
they rank failures
A woman's idea of a bargain is something
she can't afford when she needs IL and which
is offered at a reduction when she has no use
for it.
When a man discovers that his best umbrella
has disappeared II indicates that storm Is
brewing-and the better the umbrella was the
harder the storm will he
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
BRIEF TALES OF FACT.
Chicago Daily News.

Chicago Daily News.
Organ grinders not often engaged for
drama an Italian whose repertoire includes
THE Holy City" will take small part. The
other day at a rehearsal the actor-manager
heard this song being played and imagined IT
was being rendered by the orchestra ITS
splendid he remarked, land it's Just the kind
Of music we want in this scene" The stage
manager was surprised and confessed to the
actor that he had nothing to do with this unre-
hearsed effect Its a man in the street." he
added Engage him, then. to play outside the
stage door every evening when this scene is
on" said the manager. The lucky Italian was
accordingly promptly engaged at $3.50 week
for his>vork.
A curious instance of the transmission OF
sound through the earth was noticed by two
French engineers at Kef. On July I'D they
happened to be in an excavation in a volcano
in the Dyr mountains which has been exunct
from time immemorial The altitude OF the
excavation was about S.4OO feet above the sea
level. Suddenly they heard the sounds of heavy
cannonading the reports following at regular
intervals Returning to Kef day or two later
they read in the papers that in the course or
some naval maneuvers the French Meet on the
day and at the hour at which they had heard
the reports had been engaged in bombarding
B.zerta. The sound, therefore, must have been
tranmftted through the earth from Bizerta 70
miles.
A guidebook is generally regarded as harm
less. Not in Turkey, as a German traveller
has learned to his grief. officials found In his
trunk "a guide through Turkey ana conns-
Gated it. The next morning the book was re-
turned to The German but with more than
hundred pages containing description OF Con-
stantinople torn out. The traveller went to the
censors office TO complain Of this inexphcable
treatment of his book. But the censor eX-
planned to him with irresistible logic that an
accurate description OF Constantnople could
not be suffered since a knowledge Of the To-
cality was calculated to facilitate an attempt
on the sultan's life
A London journal devoted to the interests Of
tailors SAYS that there are men who always
include a coat OF mail in their wardrobe and
that "a well-knOwn firm in the west end has
made during the past few years more than one
of these garments for the duke OF Orleans.
The dukes life is probably not in any danger,
but perhaps he considers that as righttul king
of France he ought TO be in peril of assassina-
ton and protects himself as an assertion OF
his kingly right.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

- WR - ITH the advent Of October the
N mining of anthracite coal win
NV have been suspended five
months. Millions Of people with
winter on their heels are without coal.
Even though the strike should be declared
off today, normal conditions could not
obtain in the coal market for weeks, and
perhaps months. A demand which usually
extends itself over a season will seek to
be satisfied in a day. Railroads already
taxed by an unusually heavy fall traffic
will be called on to handle a tonnage of
coal that should have been moving from
the mines to local depots all summer. Con-
gestion will result. Buyers will bid
against each other and there will be
high premium on speedy delivery. Prices
will be abnormal Thus the effect of the
strike will be felt long after the labor
trouble is adjusted or the miners or the
operators have submitted.
And yet coal consumers do not even
know what all the trouble is about. There
are two sides, and each side has filed
statement of the case. These statements
conflict. The court of public opinion can
not harmonic them, nor can it determine
which statement is the correct one.
According to the mine owners, the mine
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
GEMS FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS


will be lord over myself No one who cannot
master himself is worthy Of rule, and only he
can rule-Goethe
Where all are selfish the sage is no better
than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
-Froude.
What thin partitions sense from thought
divide.-Pope.
Necessity is the argument Of tyrants; It is
the creed OF slaves.-William Pitt.
was never less alone than when with my
sclf.-Gibbon.
There is probably no hell for authors in the
next word-they suffer much from critics
and publishers in this.-Bovee.
Art thou a pen, whose task shall be
To drown in ink
What writer's think?
Oh wisely write,
That pages white
BE not the worse for ink and thee
Ethel Lynn Beers
Better the rudest work that tells story or
records fact than the richest without mean
lng.-Ruslyiu
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

lesson OF vivid intensity to every man
or woman who tipples or uses. drugs to
deaden sense or responsibility. Here is
proof positive that nothing stands firm
with such indulgence in fun force.
He may have been drugged and robbed,
but he had no business in that crowd. He
disgraced his parents name, outraged
his wife's affection and polluted with his
presence every decent place that he en-
tered before he was stabbed or flung to
his death on that fatal night of dissipa-
ton and open disgrace.
1t is a long step downward from that
lordly home in Washington city as / re-
member his mothers elegant presence and
refined hospitality, to her miserable son
weltering in his gore, the victim of lust
and liquor in the streets of New York
city. May God pity and comfort the limo
cent and helpless who suffer for his sins
and disgrace!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.

New York Press.
fond parent makes a foolish mentor.
There's many a slip 'twixt the mustache
and Lip. 1e.
Women preserve scandal in the acid Of
malice.
wopder how solomon's wives got along with.
his cooks.
The best uncertainty is worse than the worst
actually.
1t is almost as hard to keep friend as It
is to lose an enemy. fA'
The boy who chooses rich parents takes the
first step to success.
Women with big feet don't always keep on
that way all the way up.
The average man can love a woman as long
as she can keep him from finding her out.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06
STRANGE BUT TRUE.

An annual nightingale competitive concert
is held in various cities OF Japan. The main
feature of the quaint recreation is to bring
together some tame nightingales Of melodious
voice, according 10 the accepted standard Of
the connoisseurs, and to let each of them
sing in turn. BY this singing the grade OF
the songster is determined.
Some lakes are distinctly blue; others present
various shades Of green. so that in some cases
they are hardly distinguishable from their
level, grass-covered banks; a. few are almost
black. The Lake of Geneva is azure hued;
the Lake Of Constance and the Lake OF Luz
cerne are green; the color Of the Mediterranean
has been called indigo. The lake OF Brienz Is
greenish yellow, and its neighbor, Lake Thun,
Is blue
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Rev. Charles N. Sheldon. the author OF
sIn Ills Steps" and the man who thinks
every body should first ask himself what
would Jesus do2'' has just refused a nom
inafon 70 congress he had to do il 70 be
consistent.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

That New Jersey preacher who has been
forced 20 resign because ne condemned
dancing and card playing ought To know
BY this time that IL is safer 70 discuss
politics in the pulpit-snd draws better
too.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

The statement that there Il slss in the
savings hanks fer every man. woman and
child IN the United States only goes 20
there are three kinds OF lie.-''lies. d.
lies and statistics" The bank wouldn't let
US have ours.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

A North Carolina politician has sued
and recovered $500 damages from a
railroad whose employees threw eggs at
him Evidently the railroads let one
North Carolina court get away from
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

The doctors who have charge OF PresI-
dent Roosevelt probably feel that they
didn't get as much advertising as they
were entitled 70 out OF that first opera
ton.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

They enjoined a prize fight in Louisville.
Ky. but that town stands for Sunday
theaters and baseball. which, looks some
thing Ike straining at a gnac and swal-
lowing a camel
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

The opinion seems 20 be getting general
President Baer to the contrary nOtwith-
standing. that Providence made a mistake
in placing the coal mines in the hands OF
such men.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

1T amt fair for a supreme court can
didate 70 put up barbed wire fences, no.
how"-Signed, Gober. Hammond. Russell,
Ross. p. S.-Wniiamsou
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

But what was 70 be expected OF a So
preme court aspirant who didn't know
that there Is no such thing as an of
fetal ballot" for a general state election
in Georxfa
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Secretary Shaw Is now prepared 20 re-
deem United States bonds at I05. We ad-
wise our farmers TO hold for lO7. There
IS a short crop OF United States bonds
this year.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Il seems 20 take a great deal more mon
ey 70 relieve the stringency caused by
gambling IN Wall street than II does to
move the crops.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

II we could only get Secretary Shaw's
ear for a moment. we could tell him
where there - another financial stringen-
cy that needs relieving.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

They are now accusing Tom johnson OF
being a tax dodger. But II all the other
tax dodgers vote for him he can win any
thing he tries for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Perhaps the people Of Mississippi feel
that they ought TO be excused for burn
ing a negro occasionally. with coal az the
present price
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Il begins 20 look like the people OF the
north viii have 20 come south TO keep
warm this winter.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

The Hon. David B. Hin appears to have
successfully sidestepped that New YORK
gubernatorial nomination
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

]. Pierpont confines 70 extend his infiu-
ence everywhere. The queen dowager OF
spain Is said 70 have made a Morganatic
marriage.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

II Governor Gambler accepts that invi-
tation 70 attend the Nashville horse show,
What class will he be entered in2
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Judge Gamblers election is further PROOF
Of the fact that advertising pays
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

These war games look 70 US very much
IKE 4 gunpowder plot-on the part OF the
manufacturers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

No wonder they wouldn't seat Devery :
delegation at Saratoga II might have
created a beer famine
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Speaker Henderson is a queer man. In
deed He Is not going 10 New York 20
practice law on the strength OF IT,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Somehow, President Roosevelt doesn't
look 70 US so strenuous as he did, when
he has to so to bed with a boil
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

II IS too bad that General Miles f. so
far away that he won't be able 20 hear
about the presidents sore leg until II Is
well again
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-10-06

Now. let the people take advantage OF
the luil 20 do q little fan blowing.