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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-08
The Giles Suffraee Cases.

The cases Of the negro Giles, who Is
being used TO test the validity Of the
suffrage laws of Alabama, are again
to be heard in new forms before the
supreme court OF the United States.
1t is to be hoped that the issues have
been so Joined rs to compel the court
to pass sQuarely upon the right of the
states to confer or withhold suffrage,
provided the terms ot their statutes do
not In totidem verbs discriminate be-
tween voters ION account OF race, col
or or previous condition OF seryitude."
II will be Of exceeding value in all
future suffrage legislation to know
whether California. Oregon and Neva-
da have the right to exclude from the
use of the ballot, as they do the Chi
nese, whether declared citizens Of the
United States or not.
Also will it be Of interest to know If
Vermont is acting within constitution
al bounds when it excludes from suf-
frage those who have not attained the
appreciation Of the board Of civil au-
thority of the town in which they re-
side If that plan Of qualifying
voters is thoroughly constitutional, we
might very easily satisfy northern
criticism Of our suffrage system in the
south by adopting the idea, which
would really work with charming eff
fectyeness in shutting oat the yenal
and ignorant voters of our precincts,
whether white or black In fact, the
Alabama registration law seems to be
trotting all-fours beside this same Yer
mont law.
1t is matter of common DOtOriety
that 10 people in any section Of the
country is more DESTROYS OF a defini-
tive decision from the supreme court
as TO whether or not the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments have given
or not given the absolute control OF
suffrage from state to congressional
authority We want TO know what are
our remaining rights in that matter
and how far congress has been invest
ed with. or usurped, power to coorce
Vermont or Georgia in the matter Of
suffrage.
Hence we repeat with all emphasis
that the time has come when this
thorn In the side Of the body polite
should be removed The supreme
court Is competent to remove it and
if 1t will handle the Giles cases with
patriotism and justice instead of from
the viewpoint OF craftsmanship, We have
no doubt both Georgia and Vermont
will be satisfied with the quietus4mak-
inc decision
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The Rod in School.

Perhaps SOlomons sage proyerb
anent spelling the child by sparing
the rod was not meant to apply to a
switch or black walnut rules in the
hand of a stern-visaged pedagogue-
and perhaps it was. Be this as it
may. the testimony of New York
school principals is overwhelmingly
in favor of the restoration OF their old
prerogative Of applying the birch
when and where needed. They have
tried the hands-off policy a long time
as the result of popular agitation. and
three-quarters of them do not hesitate
to express the opinion that it is a
failure and demoralizing to morals
and discipline.
Probably majority of the boys and
girls who go to school would be more
tractable as students if they were cor
rected co-poreally occasionally by
proper amount of chastisement by
their parents, perhaps the teacher
would not need to try his hand The
most unmanageable boys at school
are generally those whose parents
have lost all control Of them, or who
do not seek to control them-with a
switch
There can be little doubt that an
adequately guarded restoration of the
rod TO the schools that have lost that
potent ciyiliZing force would rebound
10 the good of the young idea and
the peace Of parent and teacher alike.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-08

The esteemed New York Mail and
Express contributes the following
comment anent an interesting topic Of
the hour:
The Atlanta Constitution has sat down
hard on the Cleveland boom, because Of
its opposition to the third-term PROPOSE
ton. Ii cites the resolution offered ny
Springer. Of Illinois, and adopted by the
house in 1873, declaring a third term to
be "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with
peril to our free institutions" II recalls
that this resolution was adopted by 223
to Is. and it received the vote OF every
democrat n the house. The Constitution
concludes: ANY attempt 10 argue that
such expression OF the universal demo-
cratic sentiment had reference only TO
three terms IN succession is a resort to
the cheapest of bubbles. The demo-
cratic principle and the American convtc-
ton are opposed to the third-term idea
In any form"
Our contemporary does us entirely
too much honor. The Constitution has
not sat down hard on any boom that
may have been attached to Mr.. Cleve-
lands fishing tackle. We have no
quarrel to pick with him on account OF
any position he has himself taken to-
ward the interests of the party for
the future. Mr.. Cleveland, SO far as
we are concerned, is as welcome as
any other American to get into line
with the democratic party and once
more devote his patriotism to its re
habilitation and recovery ON the right
to administer national affairs. MI.
Cleveland is but one democrat among
many who will do we'll to return to the
first roll call of the campsgn.
What The Constitution has done
was to call the attention Of some Of
Mr.. CleveIand's over-zealous hunchers
TO the fact that the representative Of
the democratic party nave unanimous
ly some on record in 1S75,<in the house
of representatives. as opposed to q
third term in the presidency for any
body of any party. They have said
such a proposition is "unwise, unpa-
triotic and fraught with peril to our
free institutions.
For that verdict every democrat re-
corded his vote in the affirmative and
with them were siXty-One republicans,
one Of whom afterwards became Pres
ident Garfield and another was James
Wilson, present secretary OF agricul-
ture in the Roosevelt cabinet.
The democrats of that day were a
unit against the proposition as it af-
fected a third term for Grant and there
Is no logical reason under heaven why
the democrats Of today should not be
as unanimous against the innovation
as it affects the proposal 10 nominate
Nh. Cleveland for third term.
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south chooses to accept the penalty OF
DISTINGUISHING negroes because they
are negroes (Which none OF them mas
done) it cannot be prevented.
1t settled the indestructlblllty OF the
union by processes Of secession and
thus stamped out of existence tne
northern ideas of Josiah Quincy IN
1911 and the Hartford convention.
along with those of Calhoun and the
southern leaders Of 1861.
1t settled the fact that the negro
must be punished for his crimes under
the same laws and conditions as arc
white criminals. There Is no slavery
in Acknowledgement If so, hundred
thousand negroes have made slaves of
themselves by not paying the taxes
to the state that would enfranchlse
them. There is no more slavery IN
the conviction of negroes in our courts
than there is in like convictions in
the courts of the north.
1t settled-and this Is for Rector
Rabbits ears, alsO-that the negro
ought to have the same rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit Of happiness
in the north that he has In the south!
But he hasn't them. He Is mobbed
there for asking work, shut out Of the
labor unions and denied his liberty
to work. and he is shot, hung and burn
ed in Ironton, Urbana and Leaven-
worth as he is anywhere in the south
for the same heinous and inhuman
crimes.
All yes. The war settled some
things. and among them that northern
extremists cannot dictate to the south.
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Furnishing Paul for Peters Theft

Furnishing Paul for Peters Theft.
When the plain people who live
along the lines of rural postal routes
on which free delivery has been prom
tsed through their congressman begin
to understand why they do not get
those mail deliveries the postal de-
partment will have all sorts of dornicks
and decayed vegetables flung at its
head from every point of the com
pass.
The postmaster general, In effect
bluntly informs Congressman Bartlett
Of this state, and other congressman
In like plight, that they cannot have
certain promised free delivery routes
because his subordnates in the de-
partment have been looting the appro-
priations. Therefore. to save his bal
ance-sheet from showing deficit so
large as to make a democratic cam
paign argument, Mr.. Payne shuts off
the creation of necessary rural deliv-
cry routes. Beavers, Machen, the
Groffs and others will probably get
away with their loot all right, and the
farmers of the country will have to
hold the empty bag. In other words,
the honest people of the farming dis
trcts must be deprived of the free de-
livery daily of their mails in order
that the department populations in
Washington may not produce too large
a deficit in the annual June so bal
anCe sheet!
Now everybody with a knowledge of
governmental data knows that the
postoffice department is not self
sustaining institution In fact, the
people do not expect it to be such
and in table before us Of appropria-
tions made by congress from 1894 to
1901 the figures for the pOstOffice de-
partment are omitted and the word
"indefnite" substituted
But the people are very likely to sit
up and take notice as to how these
deficits happen. II they occur in an
honest and enterprising Improvement
of the service nobody in the coun-
try will growl or kick at the cost
But when the deficits are caused by
official rascalities in the very heart
of the department itself the people
will kick when they are punished In
stead of the thieves
And that is just what Is now being
done The suspension OF projected
routes is ordered and the farmers and
others who live upon them arc pun
ished by Withholding the service the
stolen money should have paid for.
This is one good, strong reason for
a revival Of the campaign slogan;
Turn the rascals OUT
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-08

AS usual the presidential campaign
is opening up most 1iercely in the po-
litcal pulpits of the north.
Last Sunday Rev. Or. David Gregg
an amiable old gentleman who
breaches through the neck of an ample
silk gown, became afflicted in his pull
pit with a bad case of righteous rage
so to call it and keep polite He
declared that the civil war has rot
settled anything the south is
returning to the trade Of slavery and
that it is multiplying and suppressing
the negro vote. and finished off the
performance with lot of rancus rot
expectable in Decoration day sermons.
On the same day Rev Dean Rich
rond Rabbit. Of the Brooklyn Church
of the Epiphany, saw Brother Greeg's
vision and went the good old man q
few spots better. He said. in the
midst of his homiletic hash. of the
the people of the south:
vbev are rapidly robbing negroes by a
deliberate system not only of their in
qIicnable rights 10 life. liberty and nap
r,lress as citizens OF the great republic,
but we see state after state in the south
~oncocting in the devils workshop their
f,zs-ra hrHl ld or legislative EL4lilltdlloU W G
see some northern ministers applauding
+bera and applying the opDrobicus epithet
s.nigger'' to the hapless black man.
Now these statements would be I'M
nortant-if true!" Which. of course,
thew are not. The case recalls to us
mat of the old negro complaining to
= neighbor about the loss of some
chickens. Does yo' men ter exsin-
oh
the neighbor. NO" replied the loser;
~ nebber haz sed yo' tuck dem chick
ems. an amt gwine ter say yo' did,
hut I'm sho' gwine home ter dinner
wild yo' terday!"
And SO we wish to go home with
mr. Gregg to breakfast this morning
and tell him, before he can have anoth-
or attack of lapsus memoriae. that the
civil war did settle n whole lot of
II settled the fact that the south
ro,,er was in reasonable rebellion and
Tho history of the governments deal
tnoe with jefferson Davis, whose birth
no celebrate today, proves it.
# settled that this is white mans
country and government. for the north
never would have gone to war on a
basis that it was to tight for negro
Coordination alone and that freed ne
oroos were by the act of freedom to
racome voters, governors and the bal
nnce of power In determining the des-
tiny of the nation.
T. settled the right Of any state to
ao.1 with the question of suffrage as
a state sovereignty right and if the
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doctrine could ever be fit subjects for
arbitration boards.
Now 1t would be right happy
th1nS II Or. Abbott could impress
these views upon the majority of his
leilo"-cltlzens of the north. The
right or the negro, for instance, to
labor IN the north Is seriously and
wrong1ully abridged. Labor there Is
controlled by the trades unions and
the people OF that section sit idly by
ana permit the negro to be refused,
even by shotgun methods, the right
TO labor when he has the chance and
the ability to do the work that Is de-
handing his willingness and skill. OF
course, we know Dr. Abbott was not
thinking OF that phase Of the question
when he spoke. but we suggest to
him consideration of 1t. For 1t Is Of
more concern to the negro when he
goes north that he should be able to
work and earn his living than it Is
to have unimpeded right of way to a
ballot box. The latter has not yet
been able to afford him the right to
the free use Of his labor in the north.
But in the south he has that right
freely without any ballot box inter
vention
AS to the Monroe doctrine, DR.. Alb
bolt is right. It should never be sub
mitted to arbitration. 1t Is an Ameri-
can doctrine that no man. or set of
men, native or foreign, should be al
lowed to monkey with. We have said
it and it stands until every one Of us
who is true American shall be dead
In its defense.
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An Application to the Dumping Post

|
Dr. Lyman Abbott has given DR..
Newell Dwight Hills Roland for the
latter's Oliver and done so with some
cold facts that should hang in the
hair of Hills rs cockleburrs do in a
sleeps wool.
Not only Dr. Abbott, but the stall
wart republican New York Tribune
makes sport OF the Hills declaration
that
If universal suffrage Is wrong, then the
fifteenth amendment to the constitution
must be given up then Abraham Lincoln
was wrong IN his speech at Gettysburg
and III his inaugural. and the million sol
diers who gave up their lives for liberty
spilled their blood 10 the interest of folly
and superstition
The former shows from documenta-
ry evidence that Mr. Lincoln was
never in favor Of universal suffrage"
and when Governor Mike Hahn, Of
Louisiana, suggested to him that ne
groes be given the ballot. Mr.. Lincoln
would 90 no further than to say he
might approve q limited negro suf-
frage say, to hose negroes who
fought in the union army and could
read and write That happens, singu-
larry enough, to he the exact basis on
which the United States authorities
fixed the negro suffrage in the forma-
tive elections in Cuba.
DR. Abbott also points out that all
the new constitutions of the southern
states give the suffrage to such ne
groes and no more" and consequently
are in perfect alignment with Lin
coins ideas And hence since the ne
groes of the south have now legally
and actually all that Mr.. Lincoln
thought they should have. DR.. Abbott
frankly says 1t is his belief that Mr..
Lincoln would not wish to see uni
versal suffrage forced on the south by
congressional action or by public opin-
ION" II
Then comes The New York Tribune.
1t sits DR.. Hills on the Ounce stool
and puts in his hand "A Child's Prim-
er of Constitutional History" as 1t
were. 1t shows him that the consti-
tutionai convention Of 1887 never al
lowed for a moment a suggestion Of
universal suffrage and that such
doctrine had no standing until nearly
fifty years after the constitution was
into the ear Of Hills these news items,
that must work much to his discom-
fort, as well as enlightenment:
To quote Washington as an advocate
of universal suffrage Is to substitute rhet-
orical imaginines for matterof-fact
truths The declaration that If universal
suffrage is wrong Lincoln was wrong IS
q Rrotcsque non soquitur
The million men who went to the
war did so primarily TO save the I'M
ion, and not at all 70 give vote to
anybody, white or black.
That last sentence graduates Or.
Hills into the class Of the indocti and
makes toothpicks Of all his rhetorical
claptrap 1t is the truth, and truth
that is becoming widespread and in
structiye to public opinion in the north
with greater insistence every day.
When it becomes dominant the race
issue will be settled in day.
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..Tha Kings Private Band. y

King Edward has given orders for ths
DISARMAMENT of his private band. one of
the ancient features of his court In its
present form it was established by
Charles H. ana some authorities assert
that a state" band existed in the days
of Queen Elizabeth. 1t Is composed Of
thirty-four musicians. under the direction
of SIR Walter Parratt. master OF the
musick.' It's members are the best that
can be secured in England. and this IS
the real cause of its dissolution. Unlike
his mother, King Edward does not care
much for state concerts by his own mu-
sicians, and since his accession the du-
ties Of the band have been confined
chiefly to the playing Of light music, in
This they regard as undigAtied, and the
king regards as eXtraNagant The same
music can be played well by fewer and
less notab Bile musicians. Therefore another
ancient institution has been done away
with
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DR.. Abbott on Arbitration.

A part, at least, of the creative plan
was to make this little globe Of ours
the theatpr of doctrinaires and philos-
ophers of more or less cranky or
der. We used to look to Boston as
the center of these shooting stars,
theNe Leonides of the ethical heavens,
but as in ali other things New York
is coming to be the fiery fountain
of these selfluminOus meteors.
DR.. Lyman Abbott is one who has
projected himself frequently along pc
culiar curves of doctrine and indica-
ton, and has now taken q fresh shot
from the lovely heights where Lake
Mohonk lies like pearl Of providence
until its waters take ON their annual
muddle from the presence and pad
ding of the reform conventions.
In a recent address there DR. Alb
bolt declared emphatically that arbi-
tration has its limitations and is not
the solvent of all difficulties While
perfectly willing to see it worked to
its limit in available cases he yet held
that there are at least two causes
near to American mankind that are
above and beyond the jurisdiction Of
courts of arbitration. He would not
concede that the right of a free man
to labor at his will or the Monroe
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The Graduation Ride.

Hitch UP the OK team, Johnny-call al the
folks In reach:
We're goin' to where we all kin hear
Dicks graduatin speech.
An curry all the young uns, as fer sun
day meetin week.
Fer he's goin' to laugh IN Latin, an
throw somereets In Creek
Hitch up the OK team. Johnny-the prize
he's gon' to win:
Fetch all the little towheads, an help
yer mother in;
An greece yer hair, an greece yer
boots,-it's graduatn' week,
An you'll see 'em laugh in Latin, an
throw somersets in Greek,
Now. whip en- to canter'-ain't this p
jolly load
The old carts Jest a-rearin' an a-rockin'
dows the road
Touch hats to the protessor-be keerful
how you speak,
Fer they're goin' to laugh in Latin, an
throw somersets in Greek!
DE poor, righteous manu have treas
ure In heaven; but what a hlessin 1t
would be ef he could des use 1t fer col
lateral In dis wor."
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The Last Capitol of the Confederacy.

Our state news columns this morn
ing recite the proceedings to restrain
the county commissioners Of Wilkes
county from selling the old building,
owned by the county, and in which the
Confederate States of America may
be truthfully said to have come to its
end as a government. In 1t was held
the last meeting of Jefferson Davis
with his cabinet and from 1t he went
out on the venture to reach the trans
Mississippi country and met with cap
ture near Irwinville, In this state.
This event in the history Of the mas
sive, classic old building should dig
Nifty it into one of the landmarks of
the confederacy and lead to some set
tlement of county affairs in Wilkes
| that will preserve the building and
make it the property of the whole peo-
pie In the town Of Washington a
! loyal contingent of the citizens are
strenuously opposing the destruction
of the edifice and they appeal to the
people of the state to help them buy
| it from the county authorities and
make of it confederate memorial.
How many Of the landmarks of
the old revolution have suffered
from motives of commercialism, that
the people of today lament and would
restore if they could. AS it is they
can only, as in Philadelphia, Boston,
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A Sudden Drop.

Kansas City journal: Yep" said Da-
zota Dan, resting his glass on the bar.
"He pretended to be a friend of mine.
but he wusn't. Last summer he done me
a dirty, sneakin trick-sold me a saddle
that wusn't hisn, and ] had to give it
up
II suppose You were not very friendly
with him after that?'
"Nope--I dropped him then and thar.
His wilder married the sheriff last week"
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New York and Albany, distinguish the
spots by later-day tablets. Of bronze re-
citing their historic stories.
In the long years to come, when the
full story of the confederacy will be
better understood and more widely
reverenced than even today this old
house in Washington would be the OBJ
ject of many pilgrimages by interested
patriots.
The Constitution sincerely hopes
that the appeal for the preservation
of this building will be cheerfully and
adequately met.
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Hes long away
That's what they say,
An now the devil is to pay!
Brother Dickey's Lightning Lecture

'Iightnin is gittin' after de churches
agin." said Brother Dicl1ey-"hittin' EN-
right en- Ief'. up en- down De country But
de wicked needn't take any comfort fun
dat, kaze hit only demonstrates dat fire
is gittin too close ter EN- ter be com
Portable, Hits muffin mo ne'r less oah
Satan sarchin' out de wicked, en- de
wicked is famous fer craWlin ter de
kiver er meetin' house wen he see Il
storm comm. Den de lightnin blazes de
way ter him, en- de thunder growis on ms
track lax hound on a fox-trail, en- purity
soon de wicked is onklvered, en- de church
gifts too hot ter hold him! Lghtnln IS
purity much lax some folks in dis worl r.
good enough In hits way. long ez MT
keeps hits distance, but too high UP ter
be happy. en- too fond er huntin trouble
on de fas maili'
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The Great Old World.

Tho cynics mock her,
The red storms rock her.
The earthquakes shock her,
But on she rolls!
Downcast, elated-
For ruin slated.
She still goes freighted
With human souls
The great seas thunder
And rend asunder--
The white stars wonder,
AS Time grows gray;
But-reaplng, sowing
Her way she's going
To notwithstanding
A Judgment Day.
But-1oy 20 with her!
Nor slip his tether
When stormy weather
Makes grief and moan.
Tragedy-jeSt-world-
Lost unto-rest world.
Still-still the best world
We ever have knownl