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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
Senator Carmack's Denial.

Senator Carmack says he does not
intend to offer any bill in congress
looking to the abolition of the fifteenth
amendment TO the constitution.
The amendment itself has served its
original ends. 1t satisfied both what
was called "the northern conscience
as to the political equality rights of
the emancipated negroes and that pro-
portion of hatred of the southern
whites that remained as an aftermath
of slavery and war among the people
of the north. 1t outraged the sense of
Justice Of the southern people and
embarrassed our political action for
many years because We did not qualify
the force of the amendment as tho
later decisions of the supreme court of
the United States have interpreted it.
Today there really exists in the
south no other than a surviving senti-
mental reason why the amendment
should be further feared or finally re-
pealed. Possibly some time ahead of
us it may be abolished, but when that
happens, if ever, 1t will be by the non
partisan action of the country at large
making a demand for the reaffirma-
ton in law of the incOntestabe fact
that this is and must remain a white
mans country.
We do not see how any man devoted
to white supremacy in state or ma
ton could wish for better conditions
in that respect than exist here in
Georgia. No state in the south, or
in the north where negroes live III any
numbers, has more peaceful and pros
porous relations between the races
than has Georgia. Yet this state has
never passed any act, in constitution
or statutes, DISTINGUISHING negroes.
Some of our sister states employed
other methods of minimizing the men
ace to good government that inheres
in general negro suffrage We believe
they have succeeded TO that end by
acts that are constitutional even under
the fifteenth amendment. And there
the whole matter may well rest TOT
tha nrFSPnt.
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The Furopean Zollverein.

If Professor Luzzatti, the eminent
Italian financier, believes, as he is re-
ported in our Rome correspondence
printed Thursday, that Emperor Will
liam contemplates the necessity Of a
European zollverein against the Unit
ed States. which would mean a perma-
nent commercial warfare, we beg to
say to the professor that the emperor
is. for once, talking through his per
forated summer helmet.
1t ought not to take man in the
commercial coming tower long to dis
cover that any attempt to unite Euro
pean nations in a general embargo
upon American agricultural products
and manufactures would speedily put
the people Of those countries on what
an American hobo picturesquely calls
the hog train
It was officially reported by govern
meut officers to the Farmers National
Congress at Niagara Falls, on Wednes.
day last. that ii the past thirty years
orr agricultural exports have increas-
ed 1870 per centum, while the number
OF persons engaged in their production
increased by IS per cent. And orr
ability to produce such crops IS capa-
Bile yet of an enormous expansion.
The United States produces ~ per-
centum of the worlds crop Of wheat
Whenever the rulers Of Europe think
it safe to cut in half the loaves Of
their people they can afford to boy
colt American wheat.
We produce three-fourths of the
worlds corn. three-fourtbs Of its cot
ton ana 40 per cent Of the provisions
used III international commerce. We
have laborsaying machinery and
skilled labor sufficient to produce
in six months all the manufactures our
own people can consume in whole
year The balance of the year we can
put in making goods to sell to Europe
cheaper than she can make them Tor
herself Now wouldn't it jar you to
imagine the folly Of those agricultural
ly pauperizcd and industrially para
lyzed countries going halt-fed and half
clothed as punishment TO Uncle
Sam?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
That TeXas Estimate

The Houston Posts estimate IF bat
2,500,000 bales for Texas and Indian
Territory may or may not be correct.
1t must be borne in nina that The
Post mas an excellent CORPS 9f clrre-
spondents throughout th& section
and the paper has no dasigc other
than to ger at the truth of The situa-
ton. When it comes to estimating,
however. NOBODY car BE iniaIibe.
1t is a little difficult H. understand
that portion OF the story tclegraphcd
from Houston which speaks of "tAe
popular estimate six weeks ago" being
100000 bales for that section We
have never heard of any such popular
estimate The records show chat the
high-watcr mark for that section was
reached in the crop OF 1S9S-g9. when
Texas and the territory contributed
3,555. 900 bales OF the total crop OF
11.275.000 bales. There must be some
mistake either in The Posts figures
or in the transmission OF the press
dispatch which contains the reference
to 100000 bales.
This, however. in nowise detracts
from the value OF The Posts estimate
based on the reports OF its correspond
ents, that the outlook for the present
crop does not indicate more than
100000 bales. OF course. the present
unfavorable conditions may yet show
a change for the better. but even
should the Texas section show It's full
share of an eleyen-million-bale crop,
the needs OF The consumers Will be
such that the growers OF cotton are as
sured OF a good price.
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DR.. Bradley's Sermons.

The first Of the series of sermons
by Rev. Dr. II. s. Bradley, announced
by The Constitution last week. is
published elsewhere today. The
foreWords concerning this series of dis
courses on christianity as Taught by
Christ have been caught up by the
press of the south and the enterprise
of The Constitution in forwarding so
unique a Christian propaganda widely
commended
Our readers we are sure will enjoy
the lucid, clean-cut sermons by Dr..
Bradley and find them well worthy
OF study and preservation for future
reference. They bid fair already, by
anticipation, 10 become notable pub
lications in the religious literature OF
the year they will run and we COM
mend them to our readers with every
confidence in their beauty and power
for good.
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Sugar Cane in Georgia.

The Gotten grower of south Georgia
has found profit III diversifylng his
crops and it as now demonstrated
fact that there are several staple
products adapted TO that section OF the
state, aside from fruit and truck,
which are more certain and profitable
than the feecy staple. Foremost
among these is sugar cane, which is
peculiarly adapted TO the wiregrass,
'piney' belt of the gulf states, and
nowhere so much SO as in a large por-
ton of Georgia
We are Interestingly reminded OF
what sugar cane has done and car
do for the Empire State of the South
by little pamphlet entitled The SUI
gar Cane and Sirup Industry in Geor'
gia Reviewed. written and compiled
by W. G. Cooper. OF Savannah. From
this pamphlet we learn something u
the magnitude and prosperous status
Of this exceedingly promising home in
dustry and what it means in making
Greater Georgia something more
than an enthusiastic catch phrase. A
decided revival in the cane industry
is taking place where, under the de
preston of a few years ago, it had
lapsed into a low state Of prosecution,
and again the matchless Georgia
strip" is becoming an important artl-
Gle of commerce. There is profit in
the saccharine juice to the grower-a
neat profit-and market conditions are
getting brighter and brighter
1t is only a matter OF time until
cane is extensively grown in south
Georgia for the sugar OF commerce as
well The plantation cane mill viii
inevitably be supplemented by the SUI
gar mill so well known to th1 rural re-
gions Of Cuba, and the smoke OF great
sugar reflneries viii Garken the atmos-
phere over growing wiregrass cities.
There Is practically no hmli TO t
area OF lanG susceptible OF profitable
cane cultivation in this favored region.
and the cane grown upon light ana
sandy sells has a larger content of su-
Gar than has the famous cane Oh
Louisiana II romans for enterprise
and capital to extract ii for sugar max
ing in competition with Cuba and
Hawaii. Since The United States buys
Sf25, 1000, CO., worth OF foreign sugar
every year. Notwithstanding the
growth Of the beet sugar industry in
the west, it VIII be understood that
the domestic market is practically un-
lin.ited Of Itself. and tie whole world
crying fer sugar,
We note that eastern Texas is arous-
ing to the possibilities ri cane ptoduc-
ton in that vast section. promising, in
Tov
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
Like Getting Money from Home.

Just now, while the boll-Weevil. the
army worm and Jack Frost are menac-
ing our cotton crops is a good time
fer the landowners of the south to
look a little about If they will do
that wisely they will find that there
are yet other ways by which they can
make money almost as easily as II
they got il from nome by postal or
der.
For the year ending in 1902 this
country Of ours-these Identical Unit
ed States imported from other coun-
tries over $l2,000,000 worth OF farm
products that should have been raised
easily and more cheaply on our own
farms Among these products there
were $37, 400 worth OF eggs, and that
means a whole lot OF eggs, yet every
one Of them could. with but little cap
ital and care OF hens, boen produced in
our own barn yards Then there were
ISL coo worth Of butter and $2,2oo,00V
worth OF cheese
But. more to be wondered at than
these items. let the southern farmer
look at the fact that 100000 was
spent for rice. at a time when Louisi-
ana and Texas have demonstrated
that rice is one OF the most prolific
and profitable crops our southern
coast farmers can produce. Beans and
dried peas were bought abroad to the
tune Of $1150,000, and yet Georgia
alone could have raised the total bulk
OF them and got herself that money
Take q look at potatoes-we con-
sumo in this country 8,00000o bushels
more than we produce and for foreign
potatoes paid last year $500 600
Close around Atlanta our farmers are
raising as good potatoes as are raised
anywhere on earth and Georgia might
easily produce the 100000 bushels
we now import.
Cash crops? Certainly The farmer
who Will raise these essential articles
can beat the cotton farmer to market
every season and be home counting
his profits while the cotton man is still
figuring with his creditors and Won
dering if he viii have enough LETT to
buy a dram after the years accounts
are closed.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
Guaranteeing the Cotton crop.

It is evident that raisers Of cotton
in some sections are rushing their
crops TO market as rapidly as possible
and from Texas comes the statement
that the railways are being hustled to
hurry consignments TO port.
In the light of the practical certain
ty that the yield of the crop VIII fall
largely below the estimates of fcw
weeks ago and that the supply to meet
the sure spinning and export demands
will not be adequate, it seems unbu5-
iness-like for any cotton raiser 10 rush
his crop to market in such haste, if
he is able at all to hold it, or part
of it, in his own control.
Present prices at points of delivery
may be tempting. There is a natural
dread on the part of producers that
prices will fall. The pessimism Of the
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food tax and sill maintain high
level OF labor wages and living.
Il Mr.. Chamberlain prosecutes his
campaign along these lines, indicated
IN the letter OF when W.
have the larger chance to win YER
dict from the English electorate. II
he can convince capital that it is
cheaper to IRISH dear loaf that 20 suffer
the paralysis OF the nation S Industries,
aud can bring the labor element to un-
derstand that cheap bread, bought at
the expense OF reduced labor oppor-
tunities and reduced wages, will be
dearer than bread made from wheat
taxed a shilling Il quarter, accompa-
MED by active industries and good
wages, his cause will win out. And
that appears to be the line OF argu-
ment that ae has determined to fol
low
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Mexico and the Silver Sweaters.


The commissioners sent BY Mc.;e9
to Europe to negotiate some plan iii
concert with the monetary authorities
there for stabiiizing the yalue OF silver
coins in those countries where they
must continue indefinitely 10 be the
currency OF the daily life OF their pee
pies, have returned like the seecp OF
dear Little Bo-Pcep. Their tales oil what
they encountered in ther tour and tho
total failure OF their pieadin8s are pa
thetic enough, but might easily have
been anticipated
They report, in effect, that England
because OF her trade interests, and
Russia. because OF her political and
graft interests. refuse absolutely to
consider the establishment OF sold
standard for China That means the
continuance OF international eX-
changes in that country upon bull
lion basis at iluctuating prices be
tween the metals-and that means big
profits TO the money-hanGiers and
spectators OF those gold countries
that trade in the East.
The Europeans also declared that
the closing of nints to free coinage Of
silver is condition precedent to any
endeavor to give the Mexican peso a
fixed value in gold. That is an ulti-
matum to Mexico that she must re-
duco her coinage Of sitter to a gold
basis, or continue to have her coined
and bullion silver treated alike as
mere commercial commodities, with
prices fixed by the incidents OF supply
and demand.
The effect is to put Mexico, China
and ali other silver level countries at
the monetary mercy Of the geld stand
ard countries. These latter can thus
purchase silver itself and all the com
modities OF the former at bullion silver
prices, fixed by the gold standard coun-
tries Nearly all European countries
live within themselves on the level Of
their silver subsidiary cOinages. Their
people are, as a rule, too poor to live
above the dollar-a-day line and so for
all the small exchanges OF their in
ternal commerce they need large vol
umes Of silver coins 0 a small denOm-
nation.
1t is one of the easiest governmental
gratis in the world to purchase bull
lion, or even coined, silver from Mex
leo, or drain the Mexican pesos from
that country and the Orient, and turn
them into English, French. Russian
and German silver small coins, PAID
out by the governments OF those coun-
tries as if they were gold, and thereby
reap Tremendous seigniorship profits
to their national treasures
Our American silver goes the same
way We mine il and sell 1t i'll bars
to European countries, at present
prices, for about 50 cents per ounce.
Those countries coin it and deal il
out TO their cwn people at currency
value of $1.32 per ounce. But as our
government is daily working the very
Same graft on us, we cannot kick. In
deed we are in worse plight than the
Europeans. for we cannot exchange
our silver for gold at our treasury.
while they can.
We really feel sorry for the Mexl-
cans because of the turn down they
have suffered, at the same time reserv-
ing sneaking sort of sympathy for
ourselves.
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class is proverbial But conditions
ought not to be ignored and the status
of visible supply to calculable demand
is such even now as to give every
promise that prices will advance rath-
er than decline whenever the approx
innate crop is known
The Constitution believes that 1t IS
not wise for any farmer to sell cotton
now that his actual necessities do not
compel him to part with. Every pound
of cotton will be needed and will be
bought later on at prices the farmers
who own it will make, and not the tax
erS Don't rush!
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The Gospel of Work.

(From The Chicago Tribuae)
w e. King. a negro editor down In
Galveston. Tex. takes sensible view
Of the race question and lectures his
people plainly in the columns of his pa
per He admonshes them that no one
will respect them so long as the bulk
of them are lazy, shiftess. character
less. and inclined to copy the vices OF the
whites while ignoring their virtues.
what the negro needs" he says. is
work six days il the week and every week
in the year
Editor King is right.
1t is the gospel Of work which is go
ing to redeem the negro ana the sooner
he discovers It the better it Will be
for him. il is plain talk. Perhaps, it may
be painful 10 the negroes but If they
expect u have their rights. whatever
they may be. they must SHOW themselves
worthy to have then, and understand lhat
a lazy ignorant dissolute negro Will
be treated just as the same Kind Of q
white man is. The negroes would do well
To listen to the advice Of such men as
King and Booker Washington and the
coiored bishops who nave recently talked
50 plainly to them. They are going to
stay I'M The south. and it will largely
depend upon themselves how they are
treated
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OFron The New York SUM
The remarks Of Governor Northen OF
Georgia on the negroes are sensible and
enlightened. They seem to have been
called out by the suggestion of Mr.. John
Temple Graves. an Atlanta editor. that
the only solution of the race question
a the south is to get rid of the negroes
By their concentration in some terri
tory. or insular possession Of the United
States At any rate, Governor Nor
then calls all such schemes Of negro
deportation absurd and impossible
Every sensible man at the south
knows that the governor is right in that
opinion, and his expressed preference
for negro labor also represents the gen
eral southern feeling L have spent all
my life among negroes" said Governor
Northen. and / want to live in no
country where there are none" At the
bottom of their hearts the great mass of
southerners, at least the "old school"
are of the same sentiment. On the other
side, among the great body of the ne
groes the response to that feeling is also
a preference for the south and for south
erners They understand each other,
respect and affectionately regard each
other Violence against the negroes is
as painful TO the white humanity of the
south as it is to the tenderest suscepti-
butes at the North-yes, even more
painful. No one can live among the
negroes, as Governor Northen has done.
without acquiring a strong liking for
them. in spite of their race weaknesses.
and even because of their weaknesses.
The absurdity and impossibinty of any
scheme for the deportation of the ne
eroes are shown in these comparative
statistics of the two races in the eleven
states which are banded together in
Che old secession confederacy;
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-05
Nacaroni Wheat.

(F'rom The Minneapolis Journall
Platical experiments made in Fargo
with macaroni wheat -four as a bread
flour are declared by Professor Zinthco
to show that las good broad can be made
from macaroni as from any other -four.
Many North Dakota mills arc grinding
macaroni wheat in large quantities. and
some OF them arc paying No | northern
prices for it. Macaroni is such a hard
wheat, that it requires slightly different
milling methods from those adapted TO
ordinary hard wheat The Farmers Min
and Grain Company. of Minor, n D.. re-
ports that after little adaptation it was
able 10 get as much flour out of macaronj
wheat rs out of hard wheat
At present the millers and grain men
are naturally suspicious of macaroni
wheat and it is quoted 20 cents a bushel
less than ordinary hard wheat But this
difference In price does not argue any
thlnS against the future appreciati ton OF
macaronl wheat or It's real value
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War on Lynching.

G7rom The Omaha World Herald)
The best service that may be rendered
TO cur civilizati with respect to this
problem is the cultivation of public
sentiment that will not condone resort
to lawlessness in the form of lynching
under any circumstances 1t is the duty
of men like Bishop Gambler and the
duty of all men who believe in the
maintenance of law and order. and who
understand that lawlcssness on the part
OF the individual can not be checked
and discouraged by lawlessness on the
part of the crowd, to bend their energies
10 this good work of stamping out the
lvpching habit not in the south alone, not
in the north alone. but in every sec
ton of this country
Whatever the offense may be. let law
and order prevail and permit the penal
ty to be imposed and inflicted by the
machinery of the state.
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their favor This is the peoples bus
moss and might Just as well be done
with open doors and free audience
Of all lhat The agents Of the publishers
have to say to the agents OF the PEG
pie. The text books are not secret
publications., but public wares. Their
merits can be talked openly and the
better course from all points OF view
would be to have them SO presented.
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Songs Of the Soil''
BY FRANK |. STANTON
When You Think About 1t.

When You Think About 1t.
vivian vou come 10 think about ton
this old. terrestrial bail,
PINNED with roses in the SprnStine'
heaped with fruitage o the Fan;
Though we all were born a-gro"ilh' an
we're axle-deep in doubt.
There is really very little for the world
to growl about!
CCept the coal bill an the gas,
An the grocery bill-alas.
An the ancient bill for rent,
When you haven't got a cent
An your friends say, "Timesll brighten
Be content"D
When you come to think about lido
your growlin' ever pay?
Did II ever bend ranbaw-chase
thunder-cloud away?
Don't it deafen all the angels when they
try to sing an shout?
Don't they know that you have hoIhlh
in the world to growl about?
CCept the labor. long an sad,
For the dollar, good or bad;
An the thought-from dark to dawn
That the jingling dollars gone
An your friends say. Times II brighten;
Labor on")
When YOU come to think about it-but
the best ways not to think
There's a spring there, by the wayside:
stoop, We travellers, and drink!
There's a green tree in the desert meath
a armament O. blue;
And a hive that's drippin' honey for the
famished lips of you!
CRlit the tree is far away,
DER the desert, dim and gray
An the Fates seem not to know
That you want the honey 50!
An your friends say, 'Timesll brighten;
Let her go.')
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that way and expect TO re-elect Gar
win, the democrat as governor this
year-in which event they believe
they can give Rhode Islands electors
to the democratic tickle. next year
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Laws Must Be Enforced.
Hrom The Knoxville Tribune3

Trom The Knoxville TribuneJ
If, we repeat, the people of this coun-
try. where our fathers fought for and
achieved victory expect to preserve and
maintain the liberty for which they sac
rificed their lives and shed their blood.
they must see that the laws are upheld
and enforced. And this means all law.
from the lowest to the highest. Law
breakers must understand that there Is
a public sentiment that will assure their
punishment. whatever their color. their
condition, Or their social standing.
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Too Cabin Philosophy.

De sayin is, dat de wicked fees Wen
no man pursues him Hit maybe how
somever de old lady's pursuin' of him,
wild de broomstick.
I.ightnin' don't strike twice in de same
place; kaze hit mos inginruily does its
work so we'll de fust time, dey amt no
use ter go back.
Dey can't be no lawyers in heaven,
kaze de hymn say dat YOU kin read
yo titles clear ter mansions in de skies.
TITS Pull Dick. pull devil" in dis worl;
On de devils got de bcs err it-kaze de
wcoIs all time flynn right en- ief