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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
EoR HuMANITrs SAKE.

The Journal has had much to say I'm
favor OF the proposition TO establish a
state sanitarium for inebriates and the
more we consider the matter the deeper
grows our conviction that the present leg
stature should take steps in the direction
OF this great reform.
We are glad TO know that those who are
leading IN the matter have received as
surances OF sympathy and support in even
larger measure than they had hoped for.
Recently DIT. Willis b. Parks. who has
taken a very active part I'm pressing this
proposition upon the conscience and sense
OF the state, addressed a communication
to every member Of the house and senate
in which appeared this statement:
Those in a position to know. say that
an inebriate sanitarium for the state of
Georgia would be a saving I'm taxes, for
the modern plan OF such an institution
would be partly self-sustaining. beside
curing about 90 per cent Of all treated,
restoring them TO loved ones and making
them tax-prOducing citizens"
Then follows the question;
'.As a citizen OF Georgia, does such an
institution appeal to your best Judgment"
DR.. Parks hoped that there would be
many favorable replies to this query, but
the result has surprised his most san
guine expectations.
A majority OF both houses OF the legis-
Iature have responded to the question we
have quoted and Of those that have an
Swered more than twO-thirds express
themselves emphaticaliy in favor Of the
establishment by the state Of such an in
stitution as is suggested.
DR.. Parks presents some facts and rea-
sons that cannot fail 20 have effect upon
the legislature and the public generally.
He shows how an institution established
and conducted on the plans proposed
would effect an actual saving in taxes by
relieving the state sanitarium at Milledge-
vile OF the care OF inebriates who are
never sent there until they have become
confirmed In the temperate use of intox-
icants. by treating them in due season
ana thus increasing immensely the chanc-
es OF restoring them to good citizenship.
On a basis OF 100 patients he uses figures
to show how they could be kept and cur
ed at an inebriate asylum at one-half the
expense at present involved in keeping
them at the state sanitarium.
We cannot see how any member Of the
legislature can give this matter thought
full consideration without becoming con-
WINGED that the material, as well as the
moral, interests OF the state would be
advanced by the establishment of san
itarum for inebriates TO be conducted IN
der proper restrictions and on scientific
principles.
The press OF the state is beginning TO
give a cordial support TO this measure
and we hope TO see its influence thrown to
IL to the fullest possible extent.
A better opportunity TO serve the cause
OF humanity is not now presented to the
newspapers OF Georgia
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
A HOPEFUL COURT DECISION.

A decision has been rendered in San
Francisco by United States Circuit Judge
William W. Morrow that viii attract at
tention throughout the entire country.
The case involved the question whether
the Federal Salt company was violating
the Sherman antitrust law.
A temporary injunction had been obtain
ed against the company on the ground
that il is an Illegal combination in re-
straint Of trade.
This injunction applied to several cor
porations and TO numerous firms and indi-
viduals also 20 prevent their acting in con-
cert with the trust. and the parties con-
cerned were ordered to show cause why
Il should not be made permanent. This
they failed to do 10 the satisfaction of the
Judge. who gave a broad Interpretation
to the antitrust law and a broad con-
struction of the judicial powers in the
premises.
Regarding his own authority in the mat
ter before him Judge Morrow said:
1T is within the jurisdiction OF a chan
ceIIor to look into the entire case. He is
authorized to look behind mere contracts
and see the entire transaction. so that the
real effect is within the purview OF a court
Of equity. Hence the court is not restricted
to any mere technical defense as has been
claimed by counsel"
Therefore the court had only 20 consider
the character OF the agreement between
the parties resisting the injunction and on
this point the court reasoned as follows:
Now. it has been admitted by counsel
for the defendants that the Getz contract
is void, and no other defense could web be
made. But the other contracts still belong
to the same general scheme Of the Federal
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
Mark Twaln's Obituary.
Washington T1mes

Mark Twain has expressed desire TO
''call in" so to speak, the obituaries OF
himself which are doubtless lying snugly
in newspaper offices throughout the coun-
try, and edit them himself. He says:
It is my desire that such journals and
periodicals as have obituaries of me ly-
ing in their pigeonholes, with a view
to sudden use some day, will not wait
longer, but win publish them now snd
kindly send me a marked copy. My adj
dress is simply New York city, have no
other that is permanent and not transient.
1 will correct them-not the facts, but
the Notwithstanding out such clauses as
could have a deleterious influence on the
other side, and replacing them with
clauses Of a more judicious character. L
should, Of course, expect to pay double
rates for both the omissions and the
substitutions; and should also expect to
pay quadrupIe rates for all obituaries
which proved to be rightly and wisely
worded in the originals. thus requiring
no emendations at all. II is my desire
TO leave these amended obituaries neatly
bound behind me as a perennial consola-
ton and entertainment to my family, and
as an heirloom which shall have a mourn
full but definite commercial value for ny
remote posterity.
If this plan works, the correspondence
resulting therefrom is likely to be delect-
able.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Daily News.

Chicago Daily News.
A neglected opportunity never calls again.
often a shoemaker's first resort is his last.
Love may be blind, but the average mother
in-law isn't.
Dealers who sell bibles say there are great
prophets in them.
Money is king-and at the same time very
interesting subject.
IT'S a wise clerk who laughs at the pro-
prtetor's fool Jokes.
The head Of the weather bureau is sometimes
a weather-beaten. man.
All men make mistakes but what the type
writer girl does is write.
The hardest woman TO please is the one who
doesn't know what she wants.
A bad temper is an awkward thing to have
and a dangerous thing to loose
Though a mans will may be strong in law, a
womans won't is law unto itself.
There is almost as much realism in fiction
is there is Imagination in history.
II YOU would be a man OF mark. let the tat
too artist get his work in on you
Buzz-saws are usually temperate, but occa-
sionally they take two three fingers.
II a baby could say what it thinks when peo-
pie kirs IL one kiss would be sufficient.
A dealer in old iron may know nothing of
prize lights, yet he is familiar with scraps.
The average man doesn't amount to much
| when measured by his neighbours standard.
| One of two things always happens regarding
habit. You either master 1t or 1t masters
sou.
Policemen should be successful spectators;
| 30 many servant girls let them in on the ground
| floor
Avoid authorizations in writing-otherwise
you will get into the habit of breaking your
| word
Marriage is a rattle instead of lottery. One
man gets the prize while the others get the
/ shake
Probably the worst feature about the wisdom
shat age brings us is the short time we have
/ left 10 use IL.
Many a man who objects to carrying bum
| die home from dry goods store goes home
/ from his club loaded.
After eating onions a girl should sit down
and read ghost story that is calculated to
| take her breath away
II you are anxious to have lot Of people
mourn your death all you have to do is join
an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS association.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
RY JAMES 3. HEYWARp.

, No. will not do that, for II is only nee
essary that you look around your home.
No sectarian institution, be it church
or church school, is interested in the whole
people; on the other hano, its every pull
sation is solely for the Advancement OF
its one section of it-and the aversion any
one of them feels for Satan is mild, as
compared with the impious feeling of ri
valry entertained by those institutions as
to who shall teach the young ''go with us,
or go to hell"
Now, comparisons are odious. but to be
effective in reply to Bishop Gambler. one
must need follow his lead-so then / ask,
Is II fair for the state to help the young
mind draw conclusions on intolerance as
taught in sectarian colleges? In such in
stitutions the Roman Catholic of the six
teenth century is invariably depicted as
typifying our devout fellow Christians of
today in Georgia. Is this truthful or ben
eficent education?
AS between the two bodies of Christians,
the Methodist and Romanist now in Geor-
gia. the disinterested judge who knew
all the facts would have to pronounce the
Methodist as the more intolerant-and
were he to use the two respective leaders
OF Atlanta as types, then reason back
wards, the judge would probably prefer
to refrain from giving his opinion as to
what sort of spiritual advisor Isabella, OF
CASTLE, would have had In a Methodist
on the order of Bishop Gambler.
To PROFOUND a few questions. Does not
Bishop Gambler know that for every one
numerically strong and vigorously led re-
ligious organization now in Georgia,
there are a dozen or more weaklings?
Does he not well know that whilst the
former worship of God in magnificent
buildings, richly ornamented and COM
fortably cushioned, with well paid preach
ers clothed in fine linen and fed with the
fat of the land; yet that they are in the
minority Of Gods people, the majority Of
whom worship Him, some in cheap build
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
Elected on His Promise To Wed,
Governor Says He Can't Find Wife

was nominated for the second place on the
ticket, he now pleads that he is not bound
to comply with that promise.
While the Republicans reluctantly admit
the logic of Mr.. Hanna's argument, they
are also anxious that he. too, should wed.
He is a bachelor, and a double wedding
with the two successful candidates as the
bridegrooms would make every one In the
state happy.
The session of the legislature two years
ago appropriated money for the purchase
of an executive mansion. A seventy thou
sand dollar home for the governor was
selected, and Governor Stanley, who re-
tires in January, was the first executive
to occupy IL.
The politicians are exceedingly proud Of
the executive mansion, and do not propose
to have 1t occupied as a bachelors hall.
Society Of the state looks upon the man
sion as a place for its annual ball and
other social functions, and matrons de-
mand that the governor-elect enstall a
mistress in the house II he wishes TO oc-
cupy II.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
New York Herald.


TOPEKA, Kan, Friday. w. Bailey
governor-elect of Kansas, wants a VIE
and can't find one. In fact, 1t is absolute
Iy necessary that Mr.. Bailey should wed,
as his word is at stake.
When the politicians at Wichita nomi-
mated Mr.. Bailey 1t was with the agree
ment that he would find Kansas glri
for q wife. 1t was one Of the issues OF
the contest, and Mr.. Bailey, confirmed
bachelor though he was, promised the
voters that, If elected, he would install
a bride in the executive mansion. Now the
syovernor-elect pleads that he has dill
gently sought for a wife and has been
unable to find one.
The voters declare he must keep ms
pledge. and to further enable him to ma
q wife he has been permitted to search
outside of the state for one.
d. ]. Hanna, lieutenant governor-elect.
promised at the state convention that II
the Republicans would nominate him for
Governor he would find wife in Kansas
before the day of his inauguration. As ne
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
ADDIcKs CAPTURES PRESIDENT

President Roosevelt has provoked the
surprise and disgust OF the better element
of his party in Delaware. that is the ele-
ment that has refused to sell out to the
unspealxable Addicks, who has spent mil
lions of dollars in corrupting the politics
of that state and caused 1t to stand for
the last two years without representation
in the United States senate. a fate which
was never suffered before by any other
state uf our union, except in the days OF
the outrageous reconstruction regime in
the south.
AddicRs has bought up enough members
of the Delaware legislature at every cleo
ton for six years past TO prevent the cleo
ton of anybody to the senate who will not
go into a deal that will give one Of the
senatorial seats TO Addicks himself.
To the honor of the majority OF that
body, composed OF Republicans who refuse
20 wear the collar OF this dirty little boss
and Democrats whom he cannot bride,
be it said that they have preferred to be
without representation in the senate rath-
er than have their state disgraced by the
presence there OF Addicks.
He has offered to trade with Democrats,
Republicans-anyb or any interest-to
vote any way, or make any sort of deal
for a SUFFICIENT number of votes to make a
majority with those which he has already
bought and paid for.
We have had many boodlers in Ameri-
can politics, but none quite so nauseating
as Addiclks, not one who has resorted to
methods OF corruption quite so daring and
fragrant. 1t was taken for granted that
If President Roosevelt did not throw his
influence to the side of responsibility in
this Delaware deadlock, he would at least
remain neutral.
But he has actually turned the federal
patronage in that state over to Addicks,
thereby giving him great encouragement
and increasing greatly the chances Of his
election.
President Roosevelt has posed as a po-
litical purist and this taking OF Addicks to
his bosom has been witnessed with deep
regret. not alone by the better element of
his own party but by the country at large
without regard to partisanship. The OPP
ponents of Addicks in the Delaware leg
islature number thirty to his twenty-one
poems in that body and show no sign
of weakening.
The presidents patronage has not taken
of one Of their men. nor seemed to weak
en- their determination never to consent
to the degradation that Addieks seeks to
put upon their state.
Some of these men are Democrats and
some Republicans. but they are all for de-
cency and for the honor of their state.
They should combine upon two good
men, be they Democrats or Republicans.
secure full representation for Delaware in
the senate and save her the shame with
which she Is threatened.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.

New York Press
kissing isn't what Il is smacked up to be.
There is no middle road for virtue to travel.
Men betray their laughter with sighs; women
conceal their signs with laughter.
When wicked married man dies he gets
out of the frying pan into the fire.
Marriage is an expensive necessity, and
children still more expensive luxury.
II almost restores a woman's faith in her hus-
band to hear that he has gone into politics
A girl with nice, long, wavy hair can fix it
m SO that IL will fall down at the first posi-
BILE chance.
The Rirl who marries for love may be dis
APPOINTED, but the girl who marries for free
dom gets It.
Let a woman spend all the money she wants
and II she has any other troubles they will
not worry her.
The more a woman knows her husband Is
fool the madden 1t makes her TO have some
other woman find II out.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
DOES GEORGIA OPPOSE
EDUCATION BY CHURCHES

! ings and many in log houses or under
bush arbors?
Upon his scheme would not the well
TODD" Christians be indirectly adding
thousands in value to their professedly
benevolent institutions. whilst the indi-
gent would not only never receive bene-
fit of one cent, but would really be con-
tributors to the demands of the influential
rich?
Has the bishop ever realized that when
one adds to this primarily wrongful condi-
ton the probability that the rich some
times worship God under one creed and
the poor under another, then the state
would be taking from a Baptist to give
to a Methodist or from an Episcopalian
to give to a Romanist? Surely Bishop
Gambler cannot want such, yet his views
carried into effect could result in nothing
else.
No the state like the sun should shine
on all alike, the good and the bad; and It
is strictly the province of the family or
religious organization to teach and up
hold morals and creed. whether in a house
of worship or a school, but such aid as is
extended by the state should be limited to
the secular schools where no doctrine is
taught.
Civil government has always had a basis
which is quite distant from religion: and
whilst no American objects to any relig-
ious order establishing schools and coll
leges, every independent minded Ameri-
can does object to a whining pretension
of goodness which seeks to elevate sec
tartan education above creed.
For my part, can see neither piety
nor nationality in such a TRADE as that
by Bishop Gambler against the legislators.
1t was most undignifled to say the least.
and certainly not the way for a brainy
man to help shape legislation. One could
imagine him lecturing class of incorrig-
ible junior students. for his last clause
is about what Milton would style "a sew
en-fold chorus of hallelujahs."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24

= DISAGREE in toto with Bishop
Gambler, of the Methodist church
in Georgia, as to what is and what
is not union of state and church. :"
If non-taxation is not moral and finan-
cial support, pray what is it? What more
could one want than moral and financial
support to feel ones self in union?
One of the fundamental principles of the
Americanism under which freedom has
fiourished as under no other system
known to man is that no note whatever
shall be taken by the government Of the
religion Of the citizen. Be he atheist
or deist-Jew or gentile-Catholic or Pro-
testant, all shall be equal before the law.
Well, then, religion and church are sure
" synonymous terms; therefore should
by any law direct or indirect financial aid
be extended by the state to a college dis
tinctly Methodist, to that extent would
the state be in union with the Methodist
church.
Why does Bishop Gambler whip the devil
round the stump? Why does he use the
term church education? Is not this quib-
bling, pure and simple?
He is not after church education-he is
after sectarian education; and as Sec
tartan education, not founded with intent
to teach religion, would be nonsense, I'M
less civil government be an institution for
the propagation of religion, one might say
to Bishop Gambler: "Glean your scattered
sapience' before rashly styling those leg
islators who disagree with you as ''sappy
and sapient."
Sectarian education can only thrive on
bigotry; and intolerance Of the belief Of
others indoctrinated into any educational
system must be vicious-neither do hes
itate to assert that anyone who graduates
at one of these sectarian colleges either
has to become a convert to the creed es-
poused there, or ever often probably has
none. Shall 1 cite cases, or call names?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24

government and seems to be an inviting
field for anarchists and desperadoes.
Though 1t is a mere strip of land the
Isle Of Pines is of very great Importance
to the United States.
If Cuba is not annexed the control of the
gulf will be very greatly facilitated. by
the possession of the Isle of Pines:
It is only about twenty-five miles square
and lies directly south of Havana about
forty miles from Cuba's southern coast,
directly overlooking the steamship route
to the isthmus. 1t is evident that the
value of Porto Rico to the United States
will be doubled by the possession of the
Isle of Pines, and that in the event OF
war If the island were Cuban, the bay
of Siguanea on its west shore would af-
ford perfect neutral base for any hos
tile fleet threatening the American COM
merce in the gulf.
1t is very important that the dispute
over this bit of land be settled as soon
rs possible and settled in our favor.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
ABOUT DOGS.

Exchange.
Tim. a well-known and popular collecting
dog of Paddington station, London, Is dead.
About eleven years ago he arrived, waif, By
An early morning milk train, was adopted BY
an inspector and soon made himself at home
on the passenger platforms. He had box at
tached to him in which travellers were won't
at their will to drop coins, and Tim, though
no parasite had knack OF looking after nrst-
class passengers, 10 many OF whom he was IN
great favoratie and she always had donation
to give him, which was for the most part OF
gold King Edward and Queen Alexandra nke-
wSse subscribed to the fund he collected which
was for the benefit OF widows and orphans or
persons who had worked for the Great West
ern railway. The dog collected thousands OF
dollars.
Here is story from England: A retriever
long ago was sent into ditch TO bring out
winged partridge The dog picked up the scent,
rushed along the bottom OF the ditch under
emerged on the bank with an old rusty kettle,
holding it by the handle. Laughter greeted
this performances stop Bit" said the dog $
master Here Rover. give it to me-" And the
dog brought the kettle TO him. Taking II from
his mouth. his master put his hand into the
partridge Chased by the dog, 1t had crept into
the kettle TO hide. and the dog, not being able
to draw IL out, just brought the lot
At Browsholne hall, an old mansion in Lam
ca shire England. is shown a dog gauge, an
ancient relic of the forest laws, consisting Of
ring OF a certain size through which every dog
on the estate, except those belonging to the
lord or the manor must be able to pass This,
OF course compelled the farmers and others 20
possess only small-sized dogs, which could not
iniure the game.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-24
DUMMY RAILROAD COMMISSIONS.

The Alabama railroad commission finds
itself in a position similar to that which
the interstate commerce commission oc-
cupies. 1t possesses nothing more than
advisory powers. 1t may make rates but
however just or badly needed they be, the
commission has no power to enforce
them. The Alabama railroad commits
sion. like the interstate commerce COM
mission, is tired of being thus subjected
to the scorn, defiance and ridicule of the
corporations which need actual regula-
ton more and more the longer they are
permitted to disregard the rights of the
public and snap their fingers at laws,
state and federal, which were enacted
with the intention of restraining their
power within just and reasonable bounds.
The Alabama commission in its recent
report calls attention to it's present help
less condition and asks for power to in
stitute suits and enforce its orders by
mandamus and injunctions.
This appeal should not be made in
vain.
Unless the railroads have captured Ala
hama, lock, stock and barrel, it will not
be made in vain.
II VIII DC lhlSIeslihS " SOS "ASSnOA
the people of Alabama desire the railroads
of that state to have absolute power, or
to be held within reasonable bounds.
At present they seem TO be about as I'M
bridled as the most grasping monopolist
could wish to be, and they are naturally
enjoying the situation. The people of
Georgia would never submit to such
condition. and we are badly mistaken in
the people of Alabama if they allow them
selves to much longer be ridden as they
are now by railroad corporations.