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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
Sam eJones Scores the Supreme Court.

Didn't they say, in effect. I'VE win dis
turb the state of things up there in
Barlow; we do not propose to let wen
enough alone: we are going to give
whisky one more chance in Barlow.
If anybody has such thoughts as
these about the supreme court of Geor-
gia, then how much respect can per-
sons thinking that way have for the
supreme court ] am after the whole
gang vitiating and voiding a law in
toto because of one little clause which
they decided unconstitutional, and
thereby disturbing and distressing the
better element of the county. and put
ting shouts and songs of triumph in
the mouths and hearts of the red-nosed
rascals and whisky devils.
1t has taught me this lesson: That II
I ever get involved in any way with
the whisky gang and the circuit court
goes against me; ] am going to throw
up my hands and surrender. feeling in
my heart that my case is hopeless in
the hands of majority of the supreme
court of Georgia.
If the judges at whom / shoot in this
article dislike what say on this sub
ject. IL they will get on the train and
come up to Gainesville / will show
them 500 decent. upright fellows who
are a thousand times more displeased
at their decision than the judges can
be at anything Sam Jones has said in
this article.
If was a Judge on the supreme
bench of state. and there was doubt
on a question of the constitutionality
OF law before / would give the bene-
fit Of that doubt against the sober. de-
cent element of a county. and give IL
i'm favor of rum and red-nosed ras-
Gals. I would deliberately resign my
position as judge and plough or work
on a railroad track for a living until
1 died, and die at last unwept. I'M
honored. and unsung. l am going
with the better element. gentlemen.
And ] am one of those who believe
that whatever is in the interest of
women and children and decent citi-
zenship is constitutional the supreme
court Of Georgia to the contrary not
withstanding.
What will be the end of this thing?
Already the whiskey gang stands on
the street corners and say: What
binders us from putting up saloons
in Gainesville, Kingston. AdaiFsville
and Emerson?' Tender your license
money, boys said one big dog In the
gang, land I will see that you get
your license"
But we wont have any saloons or
dispensary yet awhile in Carriers
vile. supreme court or no supreme
court and really until we do get them
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Emperor William has bestowed on the care
wich Grand Duke Michael. the order of the
Black Eagle. and has appointed him honorary
colonel Of the Alexander III. Uhlan regiment
BY the death of John Lawrence, at the adj
vanced age of a. notable ngure IN the Eng
lish hunting world disappears from the scenes
For upward OF forty years he was sole master
Of the Langibby hounds So.
DR.. Lyman Abbott in a recent lecture said he
was sure OF FIVE things-that there is diner-
ence between right and wrong; that Jesus
Christ Is the best expression; that there is
power not himself that works for righteous
ness; that the one to whom he is Indebted Tor
that assurance is Jesus Christ, and Il am sure
that / am /. D."
seicher Atsye. comedy Pueblo Indian
maiden has graduated at the head of the
class of professional nurses at the Woman 5
hospital in Pennsylvania. Miss Atsye skaters
general accepted ideas as to the personal ap,
pearance of Indian women, being petite ana
quite good looking. She was educated in the
Carlisle Indian school and has lived In the
east for a dozen years.
Senator Proctor owns nearly the whole town
OF Proctor, VT. where he employs over 2OOO
men in his vast quarries. He also owns the
where almost anything may be purchased: Mr.
Proctor pays good wages, but most OF ms
though he sells goods more cheaply than they
can be had elsewhere in that region.
Comment has been made on the small amount
between $50 600 and SS5.00O-left by Sir waiter
Besant In may, however be safely asserted
that except Sir Walter Scott novelist has
made such sums as would be regarded
by men I'm the money market as wealth. Scott
Income averaged for years $4,000 year. Dick
ems left $500 900; Thackeray less; Bulwer Lytton
with very keen eye for the main chance and
a considerable but encountered estate, 100000.
Although Maxine Cork has been known as a
writer only eight years more criticisms nave
sheen devoted TO him than to any RUSSIAN writer
except Tolsto He is only thirty-three years
of age was born in Mini Novgorod. lost his
father and mother before he was nine years
old and set out to make his way in the world
at a very early age. He wandered all over Rus
STA undergoing such privations and suffering
that on one occasion he tried TO commit SUI
icide At last. after ,herding with rogues and
vagabonds and tramps in both Europe ana
Asia he discovered hts vocation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.

Statistics sometimes prove that liars can
figure.
budding genius is all right until he begins
to blow.
Her fathers boot frequently makes an I'M
favorab impression.
Some dancing. instead of being the poetry
of motion, is mere doggereL
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, but
the cost of repairs is extra.
1t is better be wrong at the right time
than right at the wrong time.
The more a woman argues the more she is
unable to convince herself.
Too much of the noise in this world tries to
pass itself off music.
Young men think themselves wise and drunk
en- men think themselves sober.
The man who knows IL all is a ut companion
for the woman who knows nothing.
Any man can think he likes, but II ism
always policy TO put his thoughts into words.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.
H., ,,,,f-,z nina

kiss in time makes nine
Two rounds never made fight.
Somehow the best cooks give us the worst
indigestion.
A girl can get mad at you If you kiss her
or II you don't.
Company manners always wear out if the
company stays too long.
Most OF us make our incomes go so far that
we never see them again.
Lots of people will forgive their enemies but
won't stop lying about them.
The higher we go the higher up seems to be
the place we want to reach
The liver has as much to do with SOUL
sickness with other kinds.
A woman can stand stays or shoes being
tight or most anything but man.
1t takes women to support foreign missions,
reading societies and dude actors.
We hate a cold winter in winter almost as
much hot summer in summer
The first baby makes man crazy with Joy;
the others make him crazy without H.
woman can imagine anything in the world
except what she doesn't want TO imagine
A man is emperor in his own house till a
young son comes along to dethrone hlm'
Nothing makes a woman suspicious as to
have her husband volunteer to 90 to church.
You can tell an engaged girl by the funny
way she Fuckers her lips when she looks at
his photograph.
You can never convince a vain woman who
has grown fat that she Is until she gets stuck
trying to get in a carriage door.
When we hear angels wings fiuttering around
some people II is time to wonder Whist new
ueviltry satan is planning for them.
one OF the hard things TO understand is
how such nice grandmothers as everybody has
ever could have been mothers-in-iaW
Mental science is all right for heartaches
and things like that. but II has to take 10
the woods when il meets a good old-tashfoned
case OF rheumatism.
Proof to a woman that you love is when
she thinks you get miserable every once in a
while imagining how lonely you would be II
she went TO visit her mother.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

a part?
The honest answer which each man
in his own honest mind can give TO
those vital questions will make up the
real status and the real possibilities of
the race problem.
For my own part, I see no basis for
changing the steadfast opinion OF
these ten years past, and no reason
for believing in an affirmative answer
to these two propositions.
believe that even If the south
should be willing to accept the negros
full political equality, the northern
masses would continue to fiereely pro-
test 1t. I believe that no worth and no
attainment can obliterate the preJu-
dice which is racial and inherent ana
universal and ineradicable- l believe
as have always believed that the an
tagonism of the races is not a thing OF
merit or character or achievement. but
a thing of skin-an issue of color-a
repulsion of absolutely opposite races.
The philanthrOpists will not believe
this. The politicians have neither
time nor honesty to confess II, but
history and precedent thunder it as a
vast STERN fact on which all hopeful
platitudes are wrecked and against
which all ignorant philanthropies VIII
beat out their beautiful but mistaken
lives.
Professor Council. the wisest ana
most thoughtful Of them all-in my
opinion the abiest negro Of his race
declares with prophetic ken that in
dustrial competition will be the fierc-
est crisis of the race question, and
the battle of the loaf the deadliest
grapple of them all. He is right.
The country seems to have settled
itself to a long trial of the experiment
which Booker Washington has set up
at Tuskegee. and we can only wait the
result. From my point Of vision,
wait without hope. / cannot believe
that competition between opposite
races is to be rendered less deadly. by
putting equal weapons in their hands.
/ cannot believe that the leopard viii
change his spots or that the many.
white laborers in the shops and mines
and factories of the country viii sur
render their places peaceably to ne
groes. however well equipped; and
am sure that there is not an incident
of recent Industrial life in the country
which whould indicate the death or
abatement of race prejudice, or will
lingness of the dominant race to share
its labors. or to mingle equally at the
forge or the furnace or the loom with
the dark race.
The optimism that floods the mind
and eye of the casual student of the
negro problem is balanced by the SOM
bre vision of the man who. studies il
deeply and historically.
But between the two is the golden
mean Of conservatism which recogniz-
es the undated danger, and without
despairing, sets itself TO the only solu-
ton.
And that solution leads nearer and
nearer every year and by every pro-
cess of logic and elimination, stead
lily, progressively and remorselessly
to the definite end of separation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
THE NEGROS PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.

eloquent speech from Professor Mil
Ter at Charleston. declaring that there
is no such thing as social equality
anywhere in the world and that no
sane white man should fear it, and no
sensible negro expect it.
There is no sort of doubt but that the
negro is growing in vision and in COM
mon sense--growing marvelously and
hopefully in a sense of the true re-
lations of the races. and Of the duties
and possibilities of the culture.
The leaders of no race in history
have ever shown greater wisdom, good
temper and conservative discretion
than distinguishes the two or three
men who stand at. the head Of the ne
gro race in America today
make the assertion deliberately and
I express here the profoundest respect
for the patient. meek. sagacious, far
seeing philosophy which these really
wise and great men are preaching to
their fellows.
Whatever the future may bring the
present attitude of Washington and
Council and Dunbar and Miller will
reflect lasting glory upon the capacity
of the negro for leadership and states
manship.
Judged by these high types he would
seem to be worthy of all to which
he aspires. or of all to which he has
aspired, but which he now sadly and
wisely realizes that he can never at
tain.
confess that the higher develop
ments of the negro race have altered
the majority of my earlier opinions OF
the negro character. and elevated the
race immensely in my confidence and
respect.
/ confess. also. that the projection of
his proven abilities and character
against the sombre wall of hopeless
prejudice that forever limits his posi-
bilities in this land of his abiding
makes the most pathetic picture in the
book of the century. 1t is pitiful to see
a race grow worthier, and to realize
that in the territory OF it's growth it
can never reach the full fruitage and
reward of it's Improvement.
The Punishment of the idea of social
equality from the mind of the negro
race. even If it be real and general
and enduring. does not solve the race
problem. Far from it.
1t only eliminates, in possible meas
ure, one. and that the very least and
little threatening of the issues which
divide and antagonize the races.
There yet remain the two greater
and more vital elements of political
and industrial equality;
Will the white man of America. adj
init the negro. his full equal unoer the
constitution of the United States, to a
participation in the affairs of the gov
ernment-its rights opportunities and
emoluments-upOn terms of absolute
equality?
Will the negro. with his increasing
education and his surely and steadily
advancing worth and merit, be content
to accept in peace and humility, any
thing less than this full and equal
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

- HE GRAFTON at Charleston
on Wednesday of Thos. z.
Miller. president of Orange
burg college. is one Of the
many significant utterances recently
heard from the negro race.
The Booker Washington dinner at
the white house projected the ques-
ton of social equality more sharply
and generally upon public attention
than any incident OF recent years has
done.
For the three months which have fol-
lowed the dining. the press the public
of all sections. and the representatives
of the negro race have discussed the
issues which it presented with unre-
strained candor and directness.
1t is to the everlasting credit of the
negro race that the most conserva-
tive and sensible sentiments which the
discussion has evoked have come from
men who by position and attachments
are fairly and highly representative Of
that race.
Some foolish fanatics of New Eng
land. blinded by the passion of a pro-
fessional philanthropy. have been UNI
wisely clamoring for an equality which
could not maintain, and which New
England OF all sections most resolute-
~ refuses to accord him.
Nothing could better illustrate the
blind provincial prejudice and incon-
sistency of the New England of today
than the fact that while its agitators
were wildly endorsing the president,
and insisting upon the social recogni-
ton of the 'down-tfodden African"
Booker Washington, statesman and
philanthropist, was despairingly
knocking at the doors of half a dozen
hotels in Springfield, Mass, which, in
remorseless succession, were shut in
his face
Foraker and Hanna. begging votes
in Ohio. appealed pitifully to the pref
udices OF the negro voter on this issue,
and were rewarded by the crocodile
tears of the Republican machine which
resolutely excludes the eighty thou
sand negroes of Ohio from every sta
ton of trust and prifit in that state
and clamors for their admission into
the postoffices and custom houses of
the south.
And while the Pecksnifian Post
of New York RACES for equality, the
negroes and the whites of Harlem line
up fiercely in battle array and the po-
1 lice use their clubs with regard to
color rather than to right.
In marked contrast to these bowling
notes of fanaticism and of demagogy,
comes the sharp, clear common sense
of Booker Washington, declaring that
social equality is neither the cue nor
the line of the negro's ambition. 9th
er negroes of lesser note from Paul
Lawrence Dunbar down the list
have echoed the sensible view apd
indicated their own sanity by dis
claiming the foolish hope.
And here comes this notable and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
Failure in Every Way.
Philadelphia Ledger.

Philadelphia Ledger.
The high tariff wool prompted the manu-
facturers of cloth to exercise their ingenuity in
the way Of finding cheap substitutes for wool.
They devised a way of adulterating wool with
shoddy and cotton so as TO preserve a fair finish
in. the product. The Dingley rates on
wool were practically dictated by American
wool growers. who sought to handicap foreign
competition and to insure high prices for the
domestic article. With the greater introduction
Of shoddy and cotton the demand for wool
naturally essened The result Of the high tarin
is that the consumer pays wool prices for
shoddy garments and the wool grower is un-
able to secure the large profit that he expected
to get from the imposition Of the Dingley
schedule
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
CURRENT COMM EMIT.

Certainly Senator Quay will retire from pol.
itics before he publishes that book-that is, II
he intends to put half OF what he knows into
the book.-Pittsburg (Pa) Dispatch
One of the first object lessons to be given
ST. Louis in connection with the Worlds Fair
will lie the transportation. by contract, o.
over 900 trees from to Is inches in diameter
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Sir Edwin Arnold has published poem
suggested by the completion Of the Anglo
American Isthnian Canal treaty. IL Sir Ed
win is not careful people win be mistaking
him for the laureate.-lnd!anapohs uno.J
Journal.
Within the next three or four months the
Cuban republic will go into practical opera tion
but the appearance of Cuba, by the consent
of her own citizens. one or two states OF
the American Union may be relied upon as
being one of the eventualities Of the near
future.--St Louis GlHbe-Hemocrat.
At present from the standpoint OF facts
and not Of theories. the Monroe Doctrine IS
about as much worth fighting for as that
blessed word Mesopotamia. unless the United
States intend following the policy Of Russia
toward Poland, protecting its anarchy TIL
the time came to annex the helpless country
Yet even Russia had to admit others 10 snare
the spoils.-The Sphere, London. England.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
PERSONAL POINTS.

Mr. and Mrs Rudyard Kipling are to sail
from England to South Africa on Saturday.
Mr. Hughes lie Roux. the French journalist.
will lecture in the French department Of Yale
college in February.
Senior FiEarola Canedo of Havana, has given
that city a library Of 3. 600 volumes, only
coo of which, however. are bound.
Rev. Doremus Scudder. Of Boston started this
week for Japan. where he viii spend year
preparing for missionary work among the
Sandwich Islands.
General Lew Wallace has resumed work on
his autobiography. The general announces that
he will complete the book within the next
year AMI will offer it to the public BY this
time next season.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
Merely poIIIver,s, eratItude.
Journal.


The president must be very lacking in in
formation regarding Iowa politics II he at
taches much weight to Senator Delivers rec
concentration Of Governor Shaw. lnasmuch
as Doliiver owes his place in the senate to
Shaw's appointment IL would be strange. in
deed if Mr.. Dolliver should wax less than
dramatically enthusiastic over the appoint
Ynent OF his benefactor to the spacious office of
the secretary of the treasury.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
OPINIONS OF OTHERS.
The Way We Are Drifting.

Protection of the iron and steel industry
enabled Andrew Carnegie to gather together
several hundred millions he doesn't know what
TO do with. About the time get foolish
again and grant millions in ship subsidies
we'll wake up some fine morning to learn that
the protected trust owns the ships and we are
across the water to sell to foreigners at a
cheaper price than they ask at home
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
when Cuba WiIl Be Annexed.

St PAM Globe.
When the returns are all in and the wheels
of the new government are in operation il will
probably not take very long before the Cuban
people have beled the predictions OF their
enemies and of the American annexation
CLIQUE Cuban annexation will doubtless be
accomplished after a time but 1t will be, as
II ought to be, adopted the outcome of the
intelligent and free judgment of the Cuban
people.
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chance for Another Reprimand.

Johnstown Democrat
Perhaps il is not yet too. late for President
Roosevelt 10 reprimand Colonel Roosevelt Tor
the latter's remarkable round robin. OF the
wear of San Juan hill. Certainly nothing more
unmilitary ever came down the pike than the
rough riders wholesale indictment OF his su-
neriOrs.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09
Not Improved by Amendment.
Albany Argus.

Albany Argus.
The more the amended ship subsidy bill is
examined the less attractive it appears. Re-
ports to the contrary Notwithstanding, the
amenders seem TO have eliminated few, II any,
OF the most Objectionable features.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

There are said TO be 40 counties IN
Texas which have 20 seek legal advice
outside their limits. they have not a
single lawyer resident And evidently not
enough residents % any kind 10 get up a
difference OF opinion.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

Germany may be permitted to collect
that little account from Venezuela. but
the Monroe doctrine should begin 10 get in
It's work II there is any attempt 10 make
the Venezuelans sing. Hell. Kaiser. Dir
~ Spanish.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

The doctors in certain Illinois county
have resolved that no member shall ac-
cept the position Of county physician at
the price fixed b. the commissioners. Bur
there will probably ne some "scab" doctor
willing 20 do the work for less than union
wages.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

that the power plant Of the 81. Louis ex-
position Is 10 be the largest on earth. hsv-
ing the power OF 5l.0oo horses The Won
der Is they didn't measure its capacity BY
mules.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

BY the death Of the Populist governor OF
the state OF Washington a Republican
Lieutenant governor succeeds 10 the gov
ernorship- Looks Ike the country's going
Republican In spite OF everything.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

According 20 The Insurance Press. the
value Of property destroyed BY fire in this
country during last year viii exceed Sl7o.-
Ooo.ooo Atlanta contributed less than her
proportion OF the loss.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-09

II requires eight sons Of dukes 10 hold
up the kings train at his coronation. and
there are only Eve available. But in Amer
iea even one man has been known 70 hold
M a train SUCCESSFULLY.