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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-17
The Statue of General Lee.

Recently DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor
of The Outlook Magazine, commented
unon the Emory college speech Oh
.Tndge Emory Speer. DR.. Abbott TOOK
occasion to say appreciative things OF
General Lee. of whom Judge Speer
spoke a eulogy, and to give full creul'
to the great Virginian as a patriot.
Now DR.. Abbott is being bonDafueu
with letters from northern correspond
ents denouncing the right OF General
lee TO the title of patriot" because
he chose allegiance to his state rather
than ia the union. Their screeds are
of the common sort emanating from
tha narrow-eyed folk who yet thlhk
the civil war was rebelllon- for
that reason they oppose with nlSnly
expenditure of vehemence the placing
of a. statue of Lee in statuary nan III
the capitol at Washington as one OF
the two allowed to Virginia.
The people of Virginia and OF the
eo,Ith do not care a baubee what these
fanatics think or say about the patrl-
otism Of General Lee. At the time ne
was called upon to act and choose pc
| tween his native state and the norlh-
ern idea of the nation" the union
was already broken. The question OF
secession was no longer under debate.
States had already ordained the union
at an end and had resolved to resume
their sovereignty. Virginia was one
Of the secedents. General Lee was
faced only by the choice of going with
his native state, or joining her de-
o1o,od anemies in an effort to COerce
and punish her for her act OF resum
ing her rights to state sovereignty
and government.
Had Virginia elected to remain I'M
der the constitution, Lees duty Woulo
have been to remain with her; as she
elected to withdraw from the unlor
and repudiate further allegiance to the
constitutions his duty was still to &C
with her. No mere epithet Of her enc
mics could, or yet can, change the lie
gal moral and patriotic righteousness!
of his decision. What has happened
since that decision is altogether an
other story-one in which Lee took
noble part-and that will not affect thu
glory of his character in the juds
ments of just men as long as the worlt
stands.
If the objection to Lees statue i
based upon the fact that he rendere
service to the Confederate States 0
America it is not good. Georgia pre-
poses to contribute a statue of Alex
nader H. Stephens, who was vice pres
, ident of the Confederate States, an
no objection has been heard to he
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mate, perils and drafts upon their
courage and endurance. Perhaps,
President Roosevelt can explain why
he has forgotten all those things
just now and only remembers that
Miles has had the courage of certain
convictions as head of the army that
did not yield to the ideas of the pres
ident
1t is no fight in which we, as demo-
Gratis, can be interested. AS an out
slider looking through a hole in the
canvas we can say without imperti-
nence that the treatment of General
Miles has been SO contrary to custom
as to shock the just sense of the
country, but even that treatment is
not of SO personal a character with
the active political factors of the
republican party as to warrant the
slightest hope that General Miles can
get within hailing distance of the
starter in the next republican nation
al convention.
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Convicts on the Public Roads.

Inc act of the legislature allowing
counties to elect the employment of
their short term felony convicts on
1helr public roads promises to be pop
uIar from the jump-off Already Full
ton and Troup counties have filed ap-
pilcatlons for all the under five years
sentenced conyicts credited TO them.
Reports from some other counties
are to the effect that as soon as their
commissioners or grand juries can act
they also will apply for their own
short term men to work on their pub
lie roads.
Every county in Georgia that can
muster from the penitentiary rolls
sulflclent number of such convicts as
10 promise their practical use on the
county roads should put in their appli-
cations at the earliest practical mo-
ment, meanwhile preparing for their
keep, guarding and employment. OF
the 1900 convicts, in round numbers.
one-third, or fully $50 of them, are I'M
der sentences Of less than five years.
IhIs is enough to enable half the coun-
ties in the state to have profitable
woodworking gangs. and the results
would be speedily manifest in every
county where they would be employed.
The amount OF work that $50 able
bodied convicts. working 312 days per
year, would perform will build and
put in firSt-claSS turnpi{7a condition
more than 600 miles of roads, or two
broad macadamized highways from
one end Of Georgia to the other. were
the work done on such continuous
lines. But when the work is done
from county centers into the country
districts the general and distributed
Falue OF the roads is greatly enhanced.
The test of whether convicts can be
proftablv employed in road building
under county management is one that
the people are waiting to see fully
made If it proves to be a profitable
thing the system will expand year by
year and the age term OF the convlcts
allowable for such labor will be raised
until the few not so employed Will be
only those derelicts whom the state
could not hire out and has to care for
in confinement more as a concern OF
humanity than punishment.
The Constitution hopes to see the
short-term convicts rapidly taken over
bv the counties and the state soon
begin to reap the substantial benefits
that always and everywhere follow
Grst-class county road systems.
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The Durbin Lett

The letter of Presidenlo0sevelt
to Governor Durbin, of Llama. is
filed with common trutaf ethics
and good government thbo right
minded citizen viii cont AS an
expression Of the presidt horror
of some of the heinous hses for
which men are lynched. lis Onno-
sition to lynch law undet circum-
stances and his desire fOt speedy
and certain operations Il courts
set to administer justlctler the
laws of the state. the letk timely
enough and conservativ4ugh in
tone and phraseology.
The letter, however, have
been better addressed. Qor DIR
bin does not deserve thlinction
the president seeks to r. unon
him. He is not a tit AMI reDra-
sentative of respect for laws of |
the state over which heEvernor |
On the contrary, he enthe evil
distinction of violating eerantee
of the national constituent the
comfy of states by refusf deliver
up to a sister state an I'D and
fugitive accomplice in thder Of
the goyernor-elect of. sister
state.
And in. the very mattet which
the president complimenhin the
latter refused to delivelliminal
who caused the Evansvi. to the
Judge and court asking Son for
trial. If this be the soEovern- {
or the president pleads more of
the states-then God hi coun-
try 6
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purpose from any part of the United
States. West Virginia already has in
statuary hall the statue of ex-United
States Senator John Edward Kenna,
who was confederate private soldier
and wounded while fighting the old
hag-and nobody objected to the plac
ing there Of his statue
The University of New York sub
mltted plebiscite to one hundred of
the most competent judges of famous
merit in the nation to nominate Amer
leans to be honored in its Hall of
tame. Only twenty of these judges
were from the south and fifty-one
votes were required to elect But
twenty-nine Americans received cleo
ton and the thirteenth was Robert
Edward Lee.
1t seems to us that the folk who are
now opposing the statue of Lee for the
capitol are in a hopeless minority.
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a Battle Royal in Cotton.

In an effort concerted by the mill
owners of the east to break down the
nrice of cotton they have shut down
many mills. stopped the whirr OF hun
dreds of thousands of spindles and
semi thousands OF operatives into idle
ness.
Their explanation is that they have
curnlus stocks that they desire to re-
duce and that they cannot get prices
for cotton goods that Will warrant
further manufacturing at the present
price of cotton
Roth these claims may be plausible;
oven substantially true. But what are
tho millowners and their employees
Going To do about it? The holders OF
the cotton now marketable seem to be
able TO hold it and we do not hear
of Scullv and Billy Brown and the
other bully boys kneeling around the
big oates of the eastern mills begging
their owners to buy that cotton at any
old nrice. In fact, the taurine push
seems to be in a far happier humor
tban the miIEowners and the mill
hands.
The manufacturers can afford to
ston their mills-they have something
1oid nv IN live on for a few months
~. years as their case may demand.
~ mill hands are the people who
40 Getting the limp hand in this af-
foir Most of them must work or
starve. And those who nave savings
,,,s+ withdraw them to pay the meat
and wheat men OF the west Tor SUP
sistenca and that weakens the money
eurn1us in eastern banks for hnancler-
ing manufactures.
P,,+ what about the new crop! mat
ls what is worrying the mill people IN
81 aoSt The American Cotton Man
'1footrrars' Association has just been
boIdirg a session in Boston to discuss
-ba+ very problem. If they have been
ohIo "a solve it to their satisfaction
49,, ore keeping the secret most pro
foundly. -..,
On the other hand, the British man
,,eoc+urers are also talking with them
bout the cotton conditions
49, are likely to prevail. They must
80 cotton. They cannot afford to
1at their machinery lie Idle theli
hands turned out to loaf ana einls,att
mr. their foreign trade 10 laii' tneS
cannot get cotton at one price thes
,,,rrt take it at whatever price.
nh, There is where the Brownies are
,;,,o1,- ~ make play that may cause
IN o.starn mill barons to drop thel
oandy england can put up the none.
- od,rance to buy the cotton out OF th'
nau cron that she needs and II th'
p,.own hulls offer her manufacturers
aouoassions-in other words. do a
80 eastern manufacturers do whel
thev sell their goods cheaper abroa'
than they do at home-'n0' o"N 90
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To Sidney Ianier

Ihou art singer Of the Southern seas.
Inc ariel clouds and amber sunrise dves.
me sailow sands and marshes whence
OF seagulls haunt the corn fields. Thou
the bees
And all that breathes and blooms in
odorous leas
Dost know and love. With wistfu1 eyes
Ihou yearn DIST in absence for soft Georgia
skies D.
To bend above thee when thv mellow, finite
Make music for thy head in listening halls.
Inc spirit of the forest joys or grieves
AT thy command. Thou priest of shrines
long mute.
The light through whispering branches
on thee falls,
Their minstrel thou. the Poet of the
Leaves.
GRACE w. LANDRJTM.
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Vardaman's Vote in Mississippi.

| Inc northern newspapers are com
mentlng with some unnecessary acer
| olty upon the fact that Major Varda
man received a plurality of the votes
| for governor in the recent Mississippi
primary. The interest they take il
the fact is because Major Vardama1
made his canvass almost wholly or
the issue of dividing the school FUND
of the state between the white and
colored children proportionately with
the taxes paid by each race.
The result of the primary was not
conclusive and the final heat is to oc
cur august 81, when the choice will
fall upon Major Nardaman and Judge
Critz. the two candidates having the
highest votes in the late primary
Colonel Noel drops out and his vote
will doubtless determine between
Vardaman and Critz. AS Noel stood
for the present plan of appOrtioning
the school funds according TO school
population, it is more than likely that
the bulk of his friends will fall in the
Critz column, in which case the Narda-
man paramount issue will be over
whelmed with defeat. The actual re-
suit of the second primary will, there
fore, be awaited with something like
national interest.
The people Of Mississippi are unus-
ually progressive and prosperous.
They have just completed fine new
capitol building and made perhaps the
largest appropriations to public educa-
ton that have been made by any
southern state. They are not likely
to take the backward step urged by
Major Vardaman and his small plural
ity in the late primary is no assurance
Of his success in the next one.
The real significance of the Varda-
man and Money votes in Mississippi is
wholly missed by our northern con-
temporaries. They represent in a
very emphatic way the protest of Mis-
sissippi against the policy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the republican
party on negro equality issues. The
lndianola postoffice affair was piled
by Major Vardaman and Senator
Money and the people of the state
aroused to resentment against the
presidents avowed purpose to make
them accept negro federal officials or
be penalzed for their rejection OF
them.
1t is an easy thing to drive Ameri-
cans &c. the point of self-defense and
ually confesses this truism IN ms
Durbin letter on lynching. And II Ne
we're to try his negro-graftlns poncy
bv appointing negro postmasters III
the white towns Of Ohio, Indiana OF
Illinois he would speedily be brought
tn face the same sentiment OF OPPOSE
tion that was presented in Mississippi
and South Carolina. Northern sentl-
ment in favor of opening official doors
of hope to the negro is like to josh
Billings preference of place TO nave
a boil-"on the other fellow.
The Mississippi vote for Naraalhah
should be a warning to the president
and his party that their permclous ac-
tivitv in forcing negro oiilclaiS upon
southern white communities is an en-
nifty against the negro more than
against the whites The latter Will al
WAYS find a way to defend themselves
against such enforced attempts 10
make them accept negro equality
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As to Southern P@

The latest and best Ut of
many Of the reputable stf the
north is to the effect tn was
more noise than wool al8outb-
ern peonage excitement cases
were found in four sd e in
Georgia. one in Florida, South
Carolina and a batch / ed in
but two counties of AlSince
the prosecutions of thes by |
southern men who area Of
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DR.. Buckley's Retort,

New YORK Mail and Express: Here Is
the latest tale going the rounds as to
of' Buckley the famous Methodist edi-
tor, orator and wit:
DR.: Buckley was a speaker at the re-
cent alumni luncheon at WESLEYAN Hc
began as usual, in a low tone; and. al
most Immediately, an over-anxious ln-
dergraduate, who was looking on from
me gallery, called out. Louder.' With
torted:
That young gentleman will be able to
near me distinctly if he will only use
the full length of his ears"
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all the money needed to corner the
new crop as they have done with the
tail end of the old crop.
1t is a great game and as long as 1t
goes on and the southern cotton
planter owns the table and gets the
benefit of a part of every play in his
kitty" he will not complain. Just
now his sympathies are all on the
side of the dealers headed by Brown.
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Sherlock Holmes.

And you say that when you grabbed
the poker the burglar turned and fed?"
said the great detective
Yes, that IS correct" said the lady
whose house was broken into.
All, said the great detective that is
a sure clew; he was undoubtedly a mar
ried man
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Northern self-Effaced Voters.

Nearly one-third Of all the males of
| voting age in the United States do not
| appear in the last presidential election
| returns. The total vote in 1900 was
| 1883. 653, while the total males of vot-
ing age was 20,S29,819. From which
it figures that 6,S70,166 of the latter
were either DISTINGUISHED or indiffer-
ent to and neglected their electoral
duty. And if you will deduct from
that last sum the entire number Of
negroes of voting age in the forty-tive
states, being 2,026,S51, you get 4,S43,-
315 white males of voting age who
were effaced by law and by their own
act from the returns, or nearly two
and half times the total number of
possible negro voters in the entire
union
1t would be interesting to know why
it is that in section of the union
where the right to vote is looked upon
as the chief end of man." to forage
on the shorter catechism, so many OF
the manhood suffragans of those states
fail to get to the ballot box in such an
allimpOrtant election as that of 1900.
when Mckinley, the gold standard
and prosperity" were all in the balance
against Bryan, half-dollar dollars and
the national doldrums."
For instance, the esteemed Portland
Argus might tell US why in Maine,
with 217,633 manhood suffragans, only
los, 720 got to the polls and a majority
Ill ,943-failed to make connection
with the sacrament of freedom at the
ballot boxes?
Likewise, the more esteemed Spring
field Republican might throw the
search-light of its always reliable il
Illumination upon the reason why 414,
sol Massachusetts manhOoders threw
ballots, when there were S43, 465 Of
them in the state? On what pleas did
O IA 1srit,r-.af- theIn-or- to-he exact.
Dooths, as much as to say "the coun-
try be id"
With the same enlightening gener-
oslty the Hartford Courant could OK
plain why of 280,s4O votables in Con-
necticut only 180,118 actually voted
and lo0,222 went fishing or using their
toes for clam-rakes?
The Evening Post could get busy |
with the facts in the New York case |
where 62o,624 eligibles did not partic-
pate In the solemn duty" The Phil
adelphia Press could easily helm ne
o knowledge of the wherefore of
'44,029 Pennsylvanians counted in the
'tates voting population falling to an
Wer to the Quay roll-calls at the hall
OF boxes. And The Cleveland Leader
ould tell why 172, $50 Ohio howlers for
ne right Of the negro to manhood suf.
rage did not thunder in the election
eturns?
Those six states showed I'D short of :
.019.632 votes, or 52,7S1 more than !
IL the negro votes in the United
tates, north and south. These. there
IRE, are interesting and important 4
In the general search for
agreeable arrangement of the suf- Y
age problem in general it is quite
eedful to have the explanations we
NV call for and We trust our nominat-
contemporaries will not DELAY talk l
g the stand to tell the truth. the
lole truth and nothing but the TRUTH A
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The republican governor of Wisconsin
is not talking for buncombe when he de-
clares: 1--WE are building up colossal for
tunes, granting unlimited power to cor
porate organization and consolidating and
massing together business interests as
never before in the commercial history Of
the world, but the people are losing con-
troll of their own government It's fouu.
datlons are being Slapped and its integrity
destroyed There is but one ren,eGr-
the return of the people to the land
marks OF the fathers of the republio
.hrough the medium of democratic vic
tory next year.
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Two Divorces Since.

Chicago Tribune: Playgoer-It seems to
me | have heard that you and Mile Hy
keek are relatives
Tragedian (scowling darkly)-I supnosa
might be called her husband. twice re-
moved
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ALWAYS Visible.

Mrs. Growells-You spend most of vo,,r
time finding fault.
Growells-Well, l don't have to snend
you,
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A Difference in Seasons

''Br'er Williams" said Brother Dickey,
you all time ralkin' bout wantin' ter
go ter glory in chariot er fire How'd
you like ter try 1t in dc middle er Au-
gust?"
"Br'ef Dickey," replied Brother VIII
liams. "W en- l made dem remarks we
WIZ deep In December. en- de white
snow wuz all over de ground!"
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The Business End.

A Billville poet sings as follows of ~
uncertain rewards of literature;
MANY a man on the road Of life
Succeeds where another fails:
Johnny is writin' stories.
And Billy Is splittin rails
Johnny is maxim a name and fame
Gle says While the years roll on.
But-Billy is maxim the money.
And Billy's supportip' joint
The Lazy Scolar.
Consider the lilies. how they grow
They say is a golden rule:
But-how can i consider tbs lilies
When I'll soon be off to SCHOOL,
No time for considerin nothin'.
For. mad will the teacher seem
IT l inst consider a lily
All DAY, IN sWimmin' stream,
A Georgia Revival Song.
Watch out, believers,
Eff you want de robe en- crown
You mus KEEP 70 lamps Albumin
Wen de
Sun
Goes
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Two Maxims.

mo use ter pray ter de AVID ter give
you charity: De better idea would be
ter surprise him by havin' it befo' han.
Fer de good Lawd sake quit growlin'
en- try ter persuade yo'se'f dat you hap
py one blessed day in de year!
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The Music of Earth.

Pears like heaven comes so night t
earth
We hear some whispered words;
Angels in competition :.
With sweetest mockingbirds!
But still our birds outsing them all,
And won't be soon forgiven
Fer sending Of them angels,
In sorrow, back to heaven!
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The Golden Harvest.

Away with all the sorrow-the grief that
makes US sight
Well reap a golden harvest believers.
by-and-byH
Bear well the MONDAY heat
The bitter storms that beat:
There's rest for all the weary, and the
resting time is sweet
Away with all the sorrow-the grief that
glooms the years.
A star there is in heaven that glimmers
through our tears
The sorrows and the signs
Make rain around the eyes,
But the morning breaks in splendor-the
light is in the skies,