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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
CAN THE COURTS ENFORCE THE LAwp

General
m every the whole
the persistent and sys-
the suppression Of competition by
court in this
known the in which in
state railroad rafhe handled was " be laid before the proper -,
the divides profits according to an agreement
the interests of trade and industry OF
the combined of the railroads
that last be corrected most welcome news the
It was found long ago that the interstate
y nothing than buou of public information and poeeSS " enforce
for the enforcement Of the
papahy violated by the pooling
pursued the attack upon
United grand jury
against prominent officials of nine railroads doing business that city
Atlanta has returned true bills
violations the antitrust act
for the citizen to throw up his hands ana
under which these indictments are
ascened whether
enforced or
There's be a itself
The department Of justice moving with eomenda6e energy 70 procure
railroad in the land and the grand aies are doing their duty IN s
has 70 % that will continue until the law has
and proper penalties received
incalculah the states and the
which the has enacted to
prevent them from infringing the rights of the citizen - ,,
on the principle Of Justice 10 an and they deprive no railroad any
privilege which the interested can lay claim
permitted take the law into
commercial and industrial inter
The railroads themselves
feeling that they fairly ndeate the rights of the
endeavOed apply to them
of the law and strict Observance Of
aOns constant resistance and more less cunning evson We be-
opinion becomes thoroughly aroused
by o
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
THE PRESIDENTS NEW TACK.

President Roosevelt has his heart so
set upon Cuban reciprocity that he will
not give IT up until he has exhausted ev-
cry possible effort in it's behalf
He was undoubtedly surprised and cha
grined when he found that sufficient
number Of senator's of his own party had
rebeIled to make the passage of the recN
procity bill impossible in the present con-
gress. but he is a hard fighter and would
not surrender on this defeat.
The president does not care very much
what route he takes so II will lead him
TO the result which he so ardently desires
He will be happy IL he can obtain by
treaty what he has failed to accomplish
through direct legislation and Is said to
have high hopes of securing the ratifica-
ton Of a convention with Cuba for 20
per cent reciprocal reduction of duties to
be changed to % per cent in the early
future. It is said that II he finds that the
ratification of such a treaty is impossible
at this session the president will call a
special session Immediately after adj
journment and urge the matter again.
We cannot see any probability that a
sufficient number Of the beet sugar SEN
ators will yield to the presidents blan-
dishments or opportunities to enable him
to carry out this scheme, but it would
be quite characteristic Of him to attempt
Il and make a very determined endeavor
for It.
The president believes that the weight
Of public opinion Is overwhelmingly with
him in this contest and that a considera-
BILE number OF the Republican insurgents
will weaken before long. On the first
point he is undoubtedly correct. on the
second he is probably wrong. His conf
dence may be rather an ebullition of the
optimism which is very. very strong in
Roosevelt rather than a logical deduction
from the conditions he has to contend
with. The presidents treaty would re-
quire Q twO-thirds vote for its ratification,
whereas the reciprocity bill which would
accomplish the same result would become
law by the vote of a bare majority Of
the senate.
How, then, can the president reasonably
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
A REAL REFORM.

The abolition of the former penitentiary
system of Georgia and the Substitution Of
the present plan seem more fortunate for
| the state the more we consider the mat
| ter
reform worthy of the name has been
| accomplished. The very favorable report
Of the operation of the present law which
General Evans, OF the prison commission,
gave in recent talk to The Journal ac-
cords with what we have heard from other
well-informed and reliable sources.
The demand for the better treatment of
Georgia's convicts and the adoption of
better business methods in the manage
ment of the penitentiary was strengthened
steadily for years until it became ire
sistible. When we consider hoy the leg
| islature dealt with the problem and how
the prison commission has attended to its
duties we think it must be admitted that
both have done well for the cause OF
humanity and the material interests of the
state.
In other southern states besides Geor-
gia much needed lenitentiary reforms
have been effected in the last few years
These states had to grapple with this
| difficult question when they were beset
with difficulties that cannot be affected by
those who were not then on the scene of
action.
1t is easier to criticise and condemn
what was done than to show how under
the circumstances the penitentiary sys-
TENS of states whose resources had been
so nearly exhausted could have been
handled in an entirely satisfactory man
ner.
The southern states have become much
more capable of taking care of their in
terests and administering their affairs
than they were In the days of reconstruc-
ton when the recently abolished peniten-
tiary methods were fastened upon them
and they are using their increased
strength and enlarged experience on the
whole very creditably.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26

again, but the negroes will probably have
TO go.
The Chicago Tribune has been denounc-
ing these outrages in unmeasured terms.
but the public opinion seems TO be back
of them in Eldorado and Harrisburg. The
same race antipathy that caused the
shooting down of negroes at Pana several
years ago because they went to work in
a coal mine has asserted itself in Illinois
again.
The Tribune Of last Monday publishes a
sea hing editorial on these assaults in the
course OF which IL says:
Some war bard Of the Angio-Saxon
race may some day put those deeds into a
stirring stanza or two. Meanwhile in prose
they stand thus;
"i,ne Eldorado African Methodist church
has been wrecked and its congregation
dispersed.
''The Eldorado public schools for color
ed children has been closed and the pupils
driven out of town.
The. Eldorado Normal and Industrial
Institute. modelled on Booker T. Washing
toms school at Tuskegee. Ala, has been
broken up,
Notice has been posted in Harrisburg.
the county seat, that all negroes must i'm
mediately leave town.
<"And what was the cause OF this ebuli-
tlon of valor? What was II that reused the
paladins of Saline county to so convincing
a display of their martial powers? Why,
simply the presence OF the blacks. This is
the most admirable part o. 1t all. The
black had committee no crimes, They we're
living inoffensiveIy. They had done moth
ing to incite their adversaries to violence.
But their adversaries did not need incite-
ment. They could fight without stimu-
lants Their courage blaZed out spontane-
ously. What could betoken finer fighting
qualities? Here are whites falling upon
blacks. destroying their property, and run
ming them out OF town simply because
they felt a belligerent inclination to do
80. Provoeation was 10 them super
fluffy.
And yet they belong to a race which
used 20 know something about juries and
habeas corpus acts. They have got over
the old superstitions beautifully"
There is a. deplorable condition Of af-
fairs in some parts OF Illinois, and we hope
10 see the negro granted due protection
Of the law in that wicked state.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
ELECTROMAGNETIC Law Will
Cause Price of Butter to Soar

for the same month of last year The
gain in the receipts for the. month Of April
represented about 50 per cent. of the to-
tai increase for the ten months Of the
fiscal year. The figures for May are not
yet ready, but many of the collectors ran
out Of stamps and had to make additional
requisitions. Now then comes the ques-
ton. at what rate will the oIeomargarine
men put their surplus stock on market?
Will they sell II so as to realize the usu-
al profit or will they boost 1t ten cents
a pound. in accordance with the increased
tax? The department officials are inclin-
ed to think that the dealers will adopt the
former course, for by doing so they can
control the butter trade for the next six
months or so. Some people think that
cleo will go up ten cents a pound after
July 1, in which event the manufacturers
who are now so busy will get an addition
al profit of eight cents a pound on their
product. The net profits from the sale
of this stock would be very large and
would feather the nests of the oleo men
while they make their fight to prevent
the complete determination Of imitation
butter.
II is understood at the Treasury De-
partment that IL is the intention to edu-
cate the public to eat uncolored cleo.
which resembles white butter. Experts
in butter say that there is no difference
whatever in the taste or the dead white
cleo and the product that has the rich
color Of pure butter. II the people Will
eat white oleo as they do the colored pro-
duct the price will be even lower than II
was before talk of the increased tax was
agftated, for the internal revenue tax on
the uncoIored stun is only one-fourth OF
one cent a pound.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
CAN THIS BE OUR JONES?

There has not been in the United States
senate. or anywhere else, in the last ten
years a man who was more dogmatic than
Jones of Arkansas in his demand for a
literal construction OF the Democratic
platform and more relentless in his de-
nunciation of all Democrats who dared
to even question the wisdom OF its slight
est word. ease
Jones has been for reading out of the
party every man who did not swallow
every line and letter Of Democratic prin-
ciple and policy as set down by the ma
tional convention of the party
Jones wrote the clause in the platform
adopted at Kansas City IN 1900 which
commits the Democratic party specifically
to the Nicaraguan canal route and when
the question came TO a voteuin- the senate
this same champion of blind adherence
to platform resolutions achieved the un-
enviable notoriety Of being the only DEM
ocrat who voted against. pledge Of his
party of which he himself proposed and
insisted upon.
The New Orleans Times1Democrat says
that III such a betrayal OF trust did not
sometimes occur parliamentary life would
have no existence outside Eutopia. And
II is not a novel thing to find one who
processes greater zeal and loyalty than
his colleagues fail to come to the scratch.
His recent overwhelming defeat in the
Arkansas Democratic primaries seems to
have swept Jones clear away from what
ever mornings he had before and sent
him off as the lone Democrat In Hanna s
Panama procession.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
rHELonRrs VICTORY.

Rarely has any measure passed either
house OF congress which. according to the
genera belief. was more dependent upon
influences that operate in the lobby than
is the, Panama canal bill.
The republican bill passed the house
early In the session by such an over
xhelmingly vote that the public jumped
20 the conclusion that II would have lit
tie opposition in the senate. But the
enemies OF the entire transisthznian canal
idea were laying low and hxing their
plans shrewdiy. They are opposed TO the
scheme IN any form for the sufficient
reason that II would pay them handsome
" to defeat Il.
They concentrated their fire on the MI
caragua bill because Il took the lead and
Il seemed good politics 10 play the Pan
ana plan against II.
The Pacific railroads are. OF course,
the main forces back OF this plot. The
French company that is trying to work on
its gold brick on us has put up some OF
the money with which the Hepburn bill
has been beaten IN the senate. but that
company IS a very puny concern in COM
parlson with the Pacific railroads. which
have made a vast amount OF money out
OF the favors Of the government and are
now using the wealth thus acquired TO
beat the government back from the con-
struction Of an interocean ship canal in
this hemisphere.
Just after the Hepburn bill passed the
house a new light seemed 70 dawn sud-
denly on the senate.
The Panama canal had for years been
considered as practically abandoned. But
an at once it was brought forward by
men high in influence as the best posi-
BILE route.
This new found zeal was displayed by a
number OF senators In a manner that
could not fan 10 cause comment.
At length the report began 20 gain cur
rency that the Spooner substitute was
showing strength" little later the
taEk that the spooner substitute had be-
come very formidable began to go the
rounds. Finally weIl-posted observers
about the senate chamber discovered on a
count Of noses that the bill which had
only a shadow Of opposition in the pop
ular branch Of congress was beaten in the
house upon which the trusts and corpo-
ration depend in their hour of need or
danger.
Nobody believes that all the senator's
who voted for the srooner substitute are
IN favor Of building a ship canal across
Panama or anywhere else. under any
conditions.
Some Of them viii be as ready 70 beat
on Panama as they were 20 cry down
Nicaragua. n any likelihood that the ac-
tual work may be done at Panama shall
ever appear. They have at least made it
certain that there will be no isthmian ca
nal construction for several years to come
and that assurance Is OF almost meal
culable value to the Pacific railroads. A
complication and conflict have been
brought about which may for an indeh-
mite time 10 come leave the overland
transportation routes undisturbed.
The situation IN which the adoption OF
the spooner substitute places the Pacific
railroads Is worth many millions TO them,
and q great deal tcS4ome other folks.
What the people viii say about II can
only be ascertained when the matter
comes up as an issue. as Il surely will in
the early future.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26

washington Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
1t seems that some people are going to
make a lot of money out of the rise in
the cost of butter which will undoubt-
eddy follow the enforcement of the anti
oleomargarine act on July l. That law
puts tax of 10 cents a pound on artifi-
cially colored oIeomargarine and the price
of the genuine COW product is already be-
ginning to soar in anticipation of the in
creased tax on the Imitation article. But
ter retailed in Washington is now about
four cents a pound higher than it was
two months ago and in another month
the advance is expected to amount to
four or five cents more. 1t is apparent,
however, that the pure butter men are not
the only ones who are making money out
Of the new legislation. The tax on oleo-
margarine does not go into effect until
July<1 and all oleo that is manufactured
in the meantime and gotten out of the
factories goes at the old rate of two cents
a pound. The manufacturers are making
hay while the sun shines and ever. since
1t was certain that Congress was going
to pass the hostile law the factories have
been working night and day. Tremen-
dous quantities. of oleomargarine have
been turned out and packed away in cold
storage. IT is estimated that enough sur
plus stock to supply the country for six
months will have been on hand by July
i.
The Treasury Department statistics
show that the factories are being worked
to their utmost, for there has been great
run on Commissioner Yerkes for oleo
stamps. For instance, the receipts from
the sale of two cent internal revenue oleo-
margarine stamps during the month of
April were $1O1,269 more than they. were
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
rHE NEGRO iN ILLINOIS.

Though Governor Yates has proclaimed
very volubly repeatedly that the rights
and property Of neg-.=s shall be protected
throughout Illinois. their persecution con-
tinues. The mobs who engage in this des-
picable and outrageous work defy Cover
nor Yates.
They began a week ago 20 terrorize all
the negroes in and about Eidorado. where
the best negro. school in the state is To-
Gated, and have kept up that game pref
~ steadily ever since.
The negro batting has extended 70 Har'
risburg. the entire negro population OF
that town having been warned TO leave
the place.
Governor Yates will probably proclaim
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
WHY THE SOUTH DOES NOT
CELEBRATE THE FOURTH OF JULY

unless we happen to notice that bank
is closed. or a cheap excursion goes yell
ing bv. we will have fallen below the
high estate of the men whose names IL
Iumine and emblazon with their undying
Iuster the pathway along which the ma
ton has marcned. such observances, If
we regard them Alright, have deep and
sacred significance. We cannot neglect
them without losing something OF what
they betoken, and none of IT we can AFFORD
to give up.
Whenever as a people we get down to
a matter-of-fact patriotism the quality
oil American manhood viii no longer be
found up TO what the fathers would have
called par. A distinguishing character
istic of our people in the earlier days
of the republic was not that they were
merely loyal and true to our national
ideals, traditions. and institutions, but
that they were proudly and exultingly so.
They loved to tell over the inspiring story
they made II more enchanting than TO-
nance to their children Under its spell
their boys so burned to do something for
their country that they felt that some
thing requiring sacrifice and suffering
would be most welcome because IL would
be so sweet; their wives and daughters
envied the mothers and maids Of the revo-
luton who made the flags that lighted
the way TO liberty, looped their sashes
In the sword hits OF heroes whose Ike
all the lists of knighthood could not
show, and seized the powder horn in
the trenches to load one rife while an
other was blazing at a redcoat. Are We
of this later and ripper time too dignihed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.


The best any one can do Is never very bad
Tenderness comes high when handed out by
a butcher.
When a man tells a Joke he seldom forgets
to laugh
Dampness caused by crying woman Is al
It's only matter of time till the undertaken
overtakes us all. .tt
As girls grow older they think less Of love
AMI more OF money. ttr+.
When each player gets four OF kind IL Is
certainly a great deal.
A lot OF truth is wasted in trying to get
useless lies established.
Mon wonder where the summer girl was
slowed away during the winter.
Some men object to dogs and some women OBJ
ject to men who object to dogs.
. wise man looks into things for the pur-
pose Of conscience or hts stomach.
Many a man who lays down the law TO his
wife is unable TO pick II up again.
wise man looks into things for the purpose
of enabling him to Size up the outlook.
Nothing pleases a man so much as the in
ability of others to get onto his curves.
What brilliant lot we should be If every
man was half as smart as he thinks he is.
Any man who pays spot cash misses lot
Of worthless cigars on the first OF each month.
The willingness OF a new office boy is often
more annoying than the unwillingness OF an old
one.
Time may be money but the average man
would rather give you two hours talk than lend
you quarter.
begins TO tell OF the hundreds Of dollars ne re-
fused for him.
1t is always cowardly to speak I'll OF a man
behind his back and IL is often dangerous to
say II to his face.
Man attracts attention only at hts birth, at
his wedding and at his funeral. three Times
and out II were.
A man Is always wondering what his neigh
Dor thinks OF hiTn-and his neighbor Is prob
ably wondering likewise.
Many a rapid youth finds II easier TO contest
a
than while he lie on earth.
There are several kinds of talking machines
on the market, but none of them can hold
candle to those in evidence at an old-fashioned
sewing circle.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
HOT WEATHER RULES.

There's a difference Of opinion as TO whethsF
We should do this thing or that In summer
And you'll hardly ind two men that think to-
AS to What we ought to wear or ought to
eats
your diet
Should exclude all meats until the early fall
But you've hardly taken up his plan 10 try Il,
Till the crank on meats says you should eat
'em ALI
AS to what you ought 10 wear. they also differ
One man says your shirts should all be neg
Says the next: IF anything. they should Be
sim shirts-keep the heat. as well as cold.
You should wear your collar low, or wear IT
You should have your hair cut short or leave
And with forty-seven brands of countermand-
You discover. when you're right. you're al
ways wrong
So II goes-you listen TO yodr friends advices,s
And you have a different layout every meal,
And you alter your sartorial devices
TIL your cerebellum's In frightfui reel;
And at last, as winter frOwns you're realizing
IuAL LIle silly summer seasons on the wanes
ana the fruit Of all your loyal friends devils
ing
viii be out of style when summer comes
agaili
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-26
LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING

There is a town of 500 inhabitants on the
top of the Mount Of Olives.
In the United States newspapers appear in
twenty-fOur different languages.
Women are TO be employed 10 work the sig
mails on the Southern railway in Austria.
In 1890 there were IA. 600 Mormons in this
country. In 1900 there were more than 500, 900.
An abcess the liver caused by a cherry
stone was responsible for the death Of a
Londoner recently.
There are over 10000 total abstainers in the
British army, but no moral lessons are being
drawn from the fact.
Settlement Of the estate OF James G. Fair.
Of San Francisco, involved lawyers fees
amounting to nearly 81. O00,0 900.
The Limerick fishermen who netted a nine
foot royal sturgeon sent IL TO King Edward
This is not the local Limerick.
In China grand banquets last twelve hours
or even longer and the menu includes such
delicacies as picked birds nests.
Visitors to Stratford-On-AvOn complain that
small boys after them calling "all about
Shakespeare for a hapenny."
A giant crab which spread eleven and one
half feet. has been presented by Eugene G.
Blackford to the Brooklyn Institute museum