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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
The Alaskan Arbitration.

The announced settlement OF the
Alaskan boundary question by the
special commission that has been con-
sldering the case in London for some
weeks past is not only gratifying, but
significant. Here was question in
volying the right OF Canada or the
United States TO a large strip OF ter
titory lying between the summit OF
Mt Elias and the sea just north Of the
debouchment OF the Portland canal,
Such a line as Canada claimed would
nave cut across the arms OF the sea
and given to her the heads of the in
let's and the two mining ports of Dyea
and Skagway. The American claim
ran far north and east of the towns
and inlet heads and included the
Portland canal on the southeast,
practically shutting Canada off from
any outlet to the Pacific ocean north
of Vancouver.
The commission was a three-tO-
three body and at first that seemed
to bode another failure to reach an
agreement satisfactory 10 either par
ty. but the presence Of Lord Chief
Justice Alverstone as the British col
league OF the two Canadian commits
sioners left fractional hope, and it
seems now that he has been the man
who made a final decision possible.
The finding gives the entire line
claimed by the Americans down TO
the head OF the Portland canal, thence
west to the ocean, leaving the canal
entirely within Canada.
or
tial 10 us, but it was Of vital import
ance to Canada. We have ampl9 ac-
cess to our South Alaskan territory
and the Klondyke regions by the in
lers now lett undisputed in our pos
session Canada gets the Portland
canal and obtains access by it to the
Pacific ocean for the great Grand
Trunk Pacific railway which she has
undertaken TO build across from the
Atlantic ocean TO Port Simpson, a
projected maritime port 30 be bnilt
on the south shore OF the canal, which
is actually a large arm of the sea.
This settlement. we doubt not, will
be acquiesced in by this country and
the dominion and is a great triumph
for the Anglo Saxon idea Of arhitra-
ton. In times not long ago nations
would have gone to war promptly
over proposition OF this sort and
probably killed off hundred thou
sand men who hadn't actually cop
per cents worth of interest in who
owned the land. But this case VIII
remain as a high and worthy example
of the humanity and pure statesman
ship of the peaceful process of arbi-
tratiOn
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The Education That Fails.

The business men of the country
who are employers of the products OF
our school systems are generally com
planning OF the inefficiency Of our So
called educated youth in the simpler
and essential details of daily informa-
ton. The Baltimore sun editorially
voices this complaint and very CO.
gently argues for an honest reform or
our school systems III favor OF honest
foundation instruction
Nine-tenths OF the boys Of this coun-
try are not able TO stay in The schools
longer than is necessary TO pass the
grammar school grades. Those who
can afford 10 go through the nigh
schools are but a decimal or the vast
army that must be content with an
average OF three to FIVE years instruc'
ton in the simple forms OF an unoer-
wing education. The rest they obtain
in practical work.
Employers everywhere complain Oh
the bad spelling. the carolessness III
reading. the faulty writing and the at
most hopeless ignorance of common
arithmctical calculation characteristic
Of bows from the schools who apply
for work demanding Il degree OF per
lection in those three Rs.
The Constitution has always con-
tended for the very best training In
those essential branches. 1t has been
criticised by theoretical educators 1or
lack Of sympathy with the broader ana
higher education. But The Constltu-
ton IS in favor of broad and higher
education. bur not until proper ground
and foundations for il have been laid.
Education can be 50 broadened as 10
be TOO thin and SO elevated rs to crush
It's owner with its unbalanced weight
Foundations ample and deep are need
ed for all structures that are broad
and high.
The Constitution pleads Tor the
honest and practical education Of the
millions OF our children in those prl-
mary studies whose use they Will need
in their everyday HE and employ
ments They need accuracy III spell
ing. legibiity in writing, understand
ing in reading and facility in the ham
ding OF numbers and figures in The
simpler calculations Of barter and
trade
No system OF education that fails to
produce these abilities in the pupils.
and produce them before other fads OF
study are entered upon, is worth a
1.-THE Of the money spent upon It.
There is a crying need for this very
important educational reform right
here in Georgia. The same complaints
are heard in the business circles Of
Atlanta that have become forceful in
Baltimore If, then. our highfaluting
public school systems do not give us
the desired results, tor heavens sake
give Us back the old field schools OF
our daddles
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26

crn railway, for instance, have in
creased 155 per cent per annum in the
past nine years.
Last year the southern cotton mills,
for the first time in American history,
consumed more of our home crop than
the northern mills. And it is officially
reported that:
Since January !, along the lines of the
Southern railway. twenty-seven new
manufacturing plants have been eStap-
lished. including nineteen cotton mills
and eight knitting mills which have
added 10 the total equipment, 20, 81
oQnis and 727. $50 spindles, while there
are now under construction .wenty-three
other mills which will have an equip
dies. making a grand total, existing and
in sight, of GAP mills, s5,73e looms and
5.o7e 800 spindles
These are but few Of the items III
the account. They omit the vast oil
interests of Texas, the rapid and
enormous rice production of Louisiana,
the iron and steel interests OF Birming
ham and the phenomenal industrial
growths Of Atlanta, Nashville, Mem
phis Richmond and Newport News.
Truly the south is coming 10 her
own, to a prosperity that will com
mand permane and a commercial
and political importance that will
fruit in her oid-timc national power.
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Good Roads Mike Good Schools.

1t IS to he hoped that before the au-
thoYites Of any county al consequence
in the state decide definitely not 20 de-
mand their quota OF short term con-
vices for road building service they
viii debate the whole matter with i'm
partial and business sense.
Most OF the counties in Georgia need
good roads quite as imperatiyely as
fhev need money to support and en-
large their schools Coco roads inevi-
rabiv save money to every user of
mem enhance the value Of adjacent
nronerties ana increase population,
and these in combination make pos
eibIe larger appropriations, local and
general. Tor the county school sys-
tens.
Simply because the rate o1 convict
bira Is increased by the recent bidding
and more money to the counties is
promised from that source should not
weigh Tor 9 moment with truly patrl'
otic business men against usIrs the
county short term cQnvicts n the work
cf radialing the county with tjrst-class
and permanent "oads
In the end il will be found that the
refusal to work these convicts in max
ING good roads viii Prove self
defeating policy one county will
grah 1or the money and rejoice in
teaching It's youth the full iligree cur
siculun prescribed b. our modern men
al healing doctors OF pedagogy Anoth-
ST. county viii build GOOD roads, double
she ralue u It's farms, build UP the
commerce OF its towns find lis reye,
ancs enlarged ard its tax rate reduced
and the children Of The first county,
vhen acknowledged will promptly
.aoye over into that other county and
,rioy the good roads ard their conse-
iuences that their own daddiea denied
hem at home.
indeed, ii is hardly possible TO speci-
il mere unwiso policy for any pro-
gressive county in Georgia to adopt
than t, sacrifice the advantages OF the
convict road-building act to the pres
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Tie South Is AL Eieht.

Ii any OF The Constitution s readers
are stiil tangled up with the notion
mat the south is the poor relation"
OF the remainder OF the union they sim
ply need he physic OF q few large and
luminous facts
Oar cotton crop once was looked
upon a. the absolutely Indispensable
means of our bread and meat, our
boots and breeches-indeed all the
necessaries OF our daily lie. Some
people are Sill toting that notion along
III their rummage sacks. But the TACT
is that If our entire cotton crop were
TO fail. we have any year other re-
sources and Industries TO be exploited
that We did not have a generation ago,
and that would employ. feed, house,
clothe and enrich our people IN the
individual account the farmer may
make his cotton mean everything
but in Ike general business account it
could be lost, but that loss. while
heavily felt. would not put the south
10 trampjng and begging on he big
roads.
Last year the exports from our
southern ports increased IA over the
year before For the same period the
exports from northern seab0ard cities
increased only 80, which is three
tenths Of one pa centum Nearly ~
per cent ct the export trade Of the
country goes now through southern
porIs--the other 61 per cent going
through north-Atlantic and Pacific
ports But give us the isihmian canal
y will NO
exports from Ohio to the Rocky noun
tans
II hes not been SO many years ago
since man asked TO invest il south
ern railway would shy around the
proposition like Mark Twain's cat,
/ once blown up in blast, forever at
| forwards avoided even common post
| hole. But the earnings Of the South
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The Religious Rich.

In recent address to his Sunday
schooi class, Junn u. Ilucifrlcller, IL,
said.
am tod that near the Southern Pa
citic railroad there is 4 grave OF a con-
fedora &c solder on which Is this epitaph:
jJhn Smith who diei l2nting for Mat
he thousht was right. cannot imagine
a better epitaph to be placed on my
tombstone than this We should all strive
to be strong, bro&d-minGed helpful Chris
tan men. seeking to help others ana for
getting ourselves
doubtless there are millions in the
land who, if they should read that ex-
tract, would sheer at the utterances
and revile the man who made them.
Why? Because he is the rich son Of
blllionaire father. They are the
people who glibly declare that mo
man ever earned million dollars
honestly and to whom the possession
OF moneyed wealth is a sure sign that
the possessor is short of every virtue
and capable of every sin
But it is pertinent question TO ask
whether rich man has any rights
that the less opulent are in duty
bound 10 respect? Is il a right pray
err in the mouth OF any man to say:
God help the poor; the rich can help
themselves! Is there anything in the
scriptures, in the teachings of Jesus,
or in the Christian life that warrants
The judgment that riches and honest
piety are incomratible? For our part,
We think not
Because there are many rich who
are not religious; who are misers or
sybarites; who are hard-fsted or in
different to humane duties; these do
not establish the doctrine that to be
rich is TO be damned. There are good
rich men everywhere in the world.
Because their prayers are not made III
the market place and their aims pro-
claimed from tho housetops they sure
ly fulfill the Lords commands better
than those VINO give TO the church
what they should pay to their grocer
and howl about Macedonian massacres
when they ought TO be aiding the sick
poor widow and orphan Of their own
congregations.
The ambition OF young Rockefeller
is a most commendaDle one. His eX'
ample is worthy OF imitation. He
gives study and time to the work of
Christian education in the Sunday
school His doctrine that the man
who gives 10 good works is broad
minded, generous to degree, and try
ing 10 do omething for some one
else That creed he is following ana
SO long as he does so honestly ana
literally he is doing ali that sane
Christian altinism demands.
There is room III the house OF the
Lord for the rich and the poor to dwell
together He is the Maker OF them
all. It is more Christian IN John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr, to Go as he says he IS
doing than to give up all he possesses
to missions, superannuated preachers
or church builders and eschew reli-
gion. desert the Sunday school ana
church and devote his Sundays to golf
and POLO
Young Mr.. Rockefeller is accounted
a very sensible, clean and worthy man
In our humble opinion he can be safely
trusted to do what to his conscience is
his duty and Judgment upon his mo-
tives and methods De wisely omitted.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
Production and the Markets.


An interesting verbal controversy
las arisen over tie following deelara-
ion from the resolutions adopted by
the Farmers National Congress in SEES
sion recently at Niagara Falls:
The farmers of the United states have
solved the problems Of production and
national aid is now needed to find mar
sots. not 80 increase Or improve produce
t.ou
Secretary Wilson, OF the department
al agriculture. winch was established
primarily Tor the solution OF the prob
lens of production, quite naturally
takes eyc 0'ion TO such 3 sweeping
sentiment The secretary has gust re-
turned from attendance upon the SEES
sion of the national irrigation con-
gress at Ogden. Utah, an organize
ton the De ign Of which is TO vastly
increase agricultural production in the
United states, aud he is especially in
terested in the work of retaining the
vast arid areas oC the vest by this
means II the Niagara Fails declara-
ton voices true rural interests and
conditions. then the department. OF az
gicullure is largely superfluous and
from a selfish standpoint, inimical TO
the American agricultural producer,
since it's function is mainly 70 in
crease production and multiply the
bugaboos OF oyer-productlon.
In expressing his disagreement with
the declaration in question, Secretary
Wilson said in q newspaper Interview:
Tie last congress organized a depart
menf Of commerce for tne Nely pu llaa
Oh lna.i.A ~ |'' H. f5rn HE forest and
,nire 7 regret thai cannot fully agree
w.th the Niagara Fails congress IN 'heiy
conclusion that every INNS nts a. e', ~
, Xxx, aa,l Thera are sin few things
ieft The sister congress sitting at Og~
den lately was OF ne OPINION ina some
=, MS MI arj1 rD,,one nv anpivirie water
Better varieties Of plants are wanted in
nearly every part Of the United states
much o.! l'e e3.il'iN ,l'iS l,ue ''s n,- IN p,,.
~ ,7ir."rent iooaljties Attention should
be given TO the reforestation Of our own
country Ie eott9n pla4l lena ,'ds at
iDg Into invite et9dv. Wa should gov
6 bale of cotton where we are now grow
ing q haif pas TO the acre. And TINS
c b e rotatigs, r,.n1.s aiIin@ thd col
vith bIIOus ana Giving more attention ia
the grazing animals Il will be a long
ume oel9fe the7e pfooI''nS ar ali SOW
~ ~, s,an o,ontiono1 ''-''' Us
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
Songs Of the Soll'
An Old-Time Dance.
Sy FRANK /. STANTON

De Banjo sorter gifts me. 'twel L never
wants ter res
En- I'm happy Wen fiddie Is Il S''e''
OF its bes':
Den it's "Clar de way. my money i'''i'
Dc ringin. cas- ter wes'.--
En- dance twel de Daylight sa>' N''>'
nawnin!
don't keer CT / settin III de meetin
house, so STILL
A-lool,in' at dc brightness on de TOP 81
Zion Hill,
De singin' er fiddle make me lose my
way en- will
III dance 'twcI de Daylight say, ffoou
mawnin =
It's dat way in de Summer. Wen de
dreamy days begin,
En- de Lizard think he runnin' or race
he got ter win;
But has dc feelin' wusser wen dc
Christmas time come in,
En- we dance 'twel de daylight say
Good ma wnn'i'
Den it's never min dc weather wid he
slingin' or de sleet.
Wild De music dos a-makin' sich a iidset
in 20 feet:
Chris mus, en- a fddle-oh, Gey mighty
hard ter beat
En- wen dance 'twel de daylight say
Good mawnn''
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
A,ra-ica in ne Far East.

Ihe Ar9esIcan Asi3lic Association
.ues woU so alarm the tho1sattul
men on this country OF the tremcn-
50us interest we have IN the interna-
rioual adjustments now pending III
tac Far East CHINA is the battle
-roun6 o. present diplomacy and
NAV ialer on 5, 'aa Champ de Mars
over which The bataiions OF man.
greedy powers may ne conJerGing III
bloody enterprises
On the shores tnat border the Pc.
ifc ocean live more thar half the
inhabiJeurs Of the globe They are t.
ID exploited by the people o. civil-
x9tion. Nobody can dispute that. The
long centuries OF their isolation and
EXCLUSION Of world building iorces arr
past. The European nations are ben
in possessing the m0nsrel territories.
Russia is the most aggressive and de-
liant OF the invaders And Russian
.,licv is a compound Of Tartar tTeaco-
..rv and Slavic syndicating Oh selfish
ness
Tbe question is bound to face rs
sooner OF later as to whether the
United stat, VIII submit 10 be y.
clu led forever from the markets Of
the East. now growing and not ,
great way forward 70 be the most
yaluable for foreign trade to surplus
nroducing nations. 1t IS Well for Us
10 recognize The issue afar of and de-
nate our future policy while We have
peaceful opportunity.
Il IS our right TO share in the vast
commercial opportunities Of China
and other eastern countries Our
sailors and diplomats had most 10 d.
with unsealing the doors OF Japar
china and Korea. and it would be II
our everlasting humiliation TO be now
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26
Cotton Now and Next Spring.

Cotton experts, Including middlemen
and purchasing agents, agree III say
ing that the reason Why the incom-
ing crop is selling al . cents ana trac-
tons ABOVE is because 81 the condi-
tons IN the money market.
While il is admitted that there IS
money enough IN the banks and avail
able to tnem TO handle The crop at
- cents and more per pound, anG the
mill people would gladly stock up for
future needs around that figure, they
cannot get HE ready loan money from
he banks for tat purpose. Even nov
The southern mills are b1ying in only
small quantities because Of the pos
sibie contingencies OF the market and
The unwiIingness OF tie banks to adj
vance money Tor larger supply stochs,
Many mills that use from twenty 10
fifty bales per day have out orders
to purchase SO many day by day and
urging sales Of their goods 10 supply
cash Tor current purchases
The banks are keeping close watch
on crop reports and on The cotton
goods markets The latter have been
very tight recently and no great III
crease Of demand Ior the piece goods
Is felt even yet, with the oncomng
OF winter Prices do not rise because
the consumption Of the goods has
fallen of, indicating that fhe people
cannot or viii not pay more for them
let this condition cannot long re-
main The cotton is needed and must
be taken up by the Manufacturers, who
cannot afford 10 allow their plants to
lie idle Cotto. IS cheaper today. cal
cuated on the basis OF visible crop
and probable demand at 10 cents per
pound than it was a year ago al $50
cents per pound
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We Are with You. Colonel watteraop.

we Are with You. Colonel Watterson.
Oar valued friend. Colonel Henri
"atterson, OF The Louisville Courier
journal, exercising his provocative Of
team ri the southern press, calls upon
the Constitution by name TO quit
Chatting and get down to business
~ lie subject OF tle isthmian CANA.
Il says:
Isn COURIER Jouruai n.eus is sympathy
and s-r.s4rt: II il VIII take The .eea We
.gi'i wl.iae-y follow IL in the matter @
he is,t.fll..u canal question. No greater
sssl, ~ slaler.al sind h@s presented ~
efif -H ine elui s.tt,s Of tao south these
.ve ana thirty ycals
II Is always happy privilege 10 Us
10 follow tac strenuous campaigns 0
or friend on tho firing line al Louis
.ille Ma taye rejoiced 10 back him
in his assaults on III money devil, tn
ao.!oy ior aim when he havs the Sc
in! scanagraces ii the times and to
Keep sep behind him when re de-
inanas honest politics and democratic
equities in Government
For those good Ieaderships in the
last VIC are prepared row to touch q
COWS with him as our file-leader III
tae cndc2Ncr 70 'orce righteous action
n lie nIstter OF Tie construction o
ac iutcroce3nio canal.
The Constitution has never believed
hat the managers OF the republican,
parry have ever honestly had it IN
mind 10 build any canal-either viz
Panama OF Ela the Nicaragua route.
Faeir declaration To thar effect was
a,aca nj f.aulyai.rJ, ballast They have
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-10-26

believe they will subscribe to the i'm
piled idea that the encouragement OF
increased production through inten-
sive methods, under the agricultural
departments excellent system of
helps, is to be discouraged. The prob
Iems of over-pro,ln"tion will be met
tii.4uu5n charged markets and other
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forbidden by subsequent interlopers
from entering into those doors with
our trade. We are not prepared to
believe that the American people will
stand for that sort of treatment.
While we do not care to figure as
land-grabbers, we cannot afford TO be
ordered off what we have made
neutral ground by lot of sQuatters
from other countries.
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Dear Days of Autumn.

Dear days Of Autumn--skies that bend in
Yet nevermole day 50 dear as when
Love walked with you,
~ when Love walked with you. love.
world that was his own.
ana Lily was an altar, and meadow
was a thronel
Dear days Of Autumn all unshadowed
Vel nevermore a day like that when Love
kissed do~n the night.
And an the bloom and brightness OF all
the days and years
Are but the dreams Of what hiss been
sunlight that streams through tears,
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Wilson in the West.

Our genial and accommodating sec
rotary OF agriculture, Farmer Jim VIII
son, is out west telling the people good
news. He is republican evangelist
who always suits his gospel to the
needs OF the party and the party JUST
now has use tor the western states Ia
its business.
1t seems that some scientific rooter.
whom Secretary Wilson undoubtedly
believes to be of the democratic per
suasion has been out l.. the arid re-
gions telling the people that irriga-
ZION will raise the alkaii on their lands
and make the whole republican
scheme OF converting deserts into rose
gardens q sicky blooming delusion.
For that reason some OF the folk have
been saying that il were better for the
desert dwellers to do as did inc people
OF Kansas and Nebraska thirty years
ago-dig up the sod, plough the sur
lace. plant trees. sink wells and trust
Mother Nature to do her duty by
laughing back 10 them in bounteous
harvests.
But that sort OF practical philosophy
is too imp0nJicai 10 suit Uncle Jim and
the party They believe God made
the country ard just TO give them
chance to use the peoples government
money to irrigate it and so file &
gratitude mortgage on the votes OF al
the fellows who live below the dams
and undey the bitches. So the unc-
tious secretary is out there invoking
heaven TO witness that the alkali story
is democratic lie ana figuring ali
over the barn doors OF the ranchmen
to prove tnat when the republican
party turns or the water their lands
will be worth from Sc to $500 per
acre when now they are not worth
photographing.
This is u very large bribe to hang
ont over the nos OF people VINO are
eating sage hens canned goods and
always hoping for rain The irrigation
graft is purely political use OF the
peoples money for the purchase OF
votes for the republican parity but
what is the constitution and tiduciary
fidelity" when the z. o. p. needs votes