Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-11-17
CONVICTED 81 YRS. INHIBITION.
rHE row PRICE or COTTON.

THE Low PRICE OF COTTON.
There never was a completer take
in than the methods used in market
ing the crop of 1911. There was a full
crop-and yet none too much-for the
exigencies Of trade and commerce, but
somehow there came on panic with
farmers, and they actually fell over
each other in their eagerness to sell
their cotton. They were frantic to get
rid of it. have been told that they
actually took the first bid in a multi
tude Of cases, and the buyers had only
to say 1.-The price is down today" to
crowd the streets with wagons and i'm
patient farmers-and they dumped their
cotton on the market. Just as though
they were dragging their stuff out Of
a burning barn-resolved to get little
money. and be rid OF their burden Now,
when the bulk Of the crop is gone and
what is picked after the drenching rain
storms will be stained and inferior
these hurry-to-sell farmers will discover
their mistake. Ifs0 per cent of the cotton
in Cherokee. Georgia. is already picked
sure me. then there Is less than 10 per
cent of the crop from which the men
who produced it may expect to get
any profit at all.
The farmer who has debts to pay
will find himself without money to pay
them. and the profit he should have
received will go into the pockets of
men who bought at low price ano
viii simply double HIS money-every so
days or less. 1t was the farmer this
year who robbed himself.
WHAT INToxICANTs CAN DO.
Only this morning read the story Of
the murder of a 70-year-old woman in
Macon, Ca, by her husband. aged II.
She was this murderer's wife for a long
term OF years, maybe half a century.
had a number of grown children. The
poor woman was asleep on her bed, un-
conscious of her impending doom, when
the intoxicated man placed a shotgun
against her back and thus blew her
vitals out of her body. The murderer
had been on a drunk" in Jacksonville,
Fla, for nearly three weeks, and was
doubtless insane from debauchery. He
was demoniac.
Fifty years from today 1t will be a
horrible thought that womenkind were
made so helpless and unprotected in the
presence of intoxicants. 1t would seem
now to be a relic OF savage barbarism
that this aged woman should be given
such an exit out of life. Doubtless Death
w a n har in hn haf he
will be no more exposed to the liquor
demon, acting through the crazed brain
of the father of her children. 81,
There should be no temporizing with
the sale of intoxicatints. Every compro-
mise is in the nature of surrender. The
sale of strong drink to that old man was
a crime, per Sc. just as the sale of poison
to, an innocent person is a crime before
the law.
Liquor has it's uses. In medicine, but
ii should bear the usual mark Of
deaths head and crossbones-and should
bear the same wherever vended as an
intoxicant. Liquor will kill and strych-
nine will kill and both should be labeled
as poison, because of their deadly quail
ties.
saw a man who killed himself by an
overdose of whisky. He was a congress-
man from a western state. Their apart
ments we're only separated from ours in
a large hotel by shor, corridor. He
had been drinking all day Sunday, but
saw himself and three children at din
ner that day.
About 10 o'clock heard him enter the
corridor on his way to his rooms. Be-
fore o'clock his wife ran screaming
from the rooms, and l rushed over there
as soon as l could throw on a wrapper
over my gown, and put slippers on my
bare feet The man was in commissions
and never regained full consciousness.
He died In less than ~ hours. AS he
passed through the hotel Office he called
for a quart of whisky. He had poisoned
his system with the intoxicant and died
nearly as soon as IL he had taken a
dose of strychnine.
The agonized wife said he had no limit
to HIS thirst for liquor. He could not be
satisfied and saw dozens of empty quart
bottles in their bed doom.
The sight 7 ohtaEred Of liquor poison
ing has never vanished from m
Fortunately for nls wife and children
he killed himself before his mania turned
to the destruction of his family.
The aged murderer in Macon would
have done better If he had pulled the
shotgun on himself before his mania ex-
hausted its force on that long-suffering
woman.
The question comes up. who got any
benefit out of the sale of that liquor
poison7''
Nobody. but the makers and vendors.
and Il horrifes me to know that there
are many people who contend that these
vendors shall have full liberty to sell
the poison that will make man shoot
his sleeping wife with deadly weapon.
Somebody should be made to answer for
the crime.
THE EXECUTION OF MRS. sUREATT.