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JOHN H. HODGES, Prop,. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS. PROGRESS AND CULTURE.
$l*SO a Tear in Advance
VOL. XXXJ.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1902.
NO. 30.
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The President and Trusts. •
Savannah News.
There was-very little-that was
fresh in the president’s speech on
trusts at Providence, R. I. He
had said prety much the same
things in other speeches. A fair
inference from what he said is
that the Republican party isn’t
going to make a bitter war on
trusts. Indeed, the President
thinks the public does not make
the distinction it should between
good and bad trusts—between
corporations which are monopo
lies and seek to rob the people and
corporations which are not mo
nopolies. Much of what he said
seemed like a plea for trusts. He
said, for instance, that nobody
had been made poorer by trusts,
but a few had been very much
richer, and that great fortunes,
improperly used, were a menance
to society. He also said that the
industrial progress which the
country is enjoying is largely due
to the great development of cor
porations..
We do not undertake to
however, that the president
sincere ip the war which he
poses to wage on trusts, but it
does seem as if he was somewhat
embarrassed. The fact is, he
knows that the best way to check
trusts is to eliminate the protec
tive principle in the tariff, but he
dares not say so. The Republi
can party dosen’t intend to re
duce the tariff on any trust pro
duced article. Indeed, it is doubt
ful if it intends to take any steps
against trusts which will alarm
them.
The President said’ that the
states now have a right to con
trol trusts, but that owing to con
flicts in their laws they could ac
complish nothing in the direction
of controlling them. Therefore,
in his opinion, the national gov
ernment would have to control
them, and that a constitutional
amendment might be necessary to
enable it-to do it. If a constitu
tional amendment is required Mr.
Morgan and his friends will have
the country bound hand and foot
with trust cords before a consti
tutional amendment can be ob
tained. It really looks as if we
were going to have a great deal
more of trust talk before any
thing definite is done towards con
trolling trusts.
Human Law and the Gospel,
The Georgian.
While human law and the Gos
pel are in spirit friendly aud in
effect co-operative, neither one is
or should be the master or ser
vant of the other.
It is the prerogative*! the state
to make law, construe aud en
force it.
It is the prerogative of the
Church to receive the Gospel of
inspiration, interpret and teach
it.
Human law in its nature and
purpose is largely negative, the
Gospel largely positive; such law
is mainly preventive, the Gospel
curative and regenerative, as well
as preventive.
In all our affairs it is wise to
often recur to first principles, and
and this is pre-eminently true in
affairs of governmet, both human
and Divine. ^
A departure from them may
frequently seem desirable, but in
the end the results of transgres
sion are inevitable.
The world is to be Christianized
not by law, but by love; not by
brute force, but by the power of
gentleness; not by morality or
philanthropy or patriotism, but
by the Gospel,
The idea, however, that the law
cannot make men more houest,
more peaceful, more sober, more
moral and more dutiful in all res
pects as citizens, is sheer non
sense-.
The chief good which the law
affords is not the justice which it
administers between parties, but
the injustice which it at large pre
vents. Were it not for rlie res
training influence of law, society
could not exist.
The best and cheapest way to
deal with evil is not with its cases,
blit with its causes.
It is stated in England that a
prominent brewer is ^building a
church as a memorial of King Ed
ward’s coronation. Dean Swift’s
cathedral~St. Patrick’s, Dublin
was restored by the late distiller,
Sir Benjamin Guineas. It was a
famous distiller, too, who rebuilt
the Protestant cathedral of Cork
and another distiller restored
Christ'Church in Dublin. One of
the famous brewing firms in Eng
land has erected not less than six
churches at various times.
A Parson’s Noble Act.
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writes Rev. 0. J. Budlong, of Ash
away, R. I., “what a thoroughly
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in Electric Bitters. They cured
me of jaundice and livor troub
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their wonderful work in Liver,
Kidney and Stomach troubles,
Don’t fail to try them. Only 50
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At a recent exposition in Berlin
trains of 10 or 12 cars were drawn
on a circulor railroad by alcohol
locomotives.
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Summoning The States.
World’s Fair, St. Louis, —Plans
are under way for a great three-
day ceremony at the World,s Fair
Grounds on September 80 and
October 1st and 2nd. President
David R. Francis has sent a letter
to the State World’s Fair Com
missions in twenty-nine states to
assemble in St. Louis on those
dates, when toe director of works
and the committe on grounds and
building will allot the sites for
State buildings. The allotment
will be made the occasion for elab
orate ceremonies. The state com
missions will be accompanied by
their governors and other distin
guished officials and a special pro
gram will be arranged by each
commission for the dedication of
each site when allotted. The
railroads will announce reduced
rates for the event. President
Roosevelt will be the guest of hon
or. Besides the governors of
states there will be present the
National Commission,-the United
States Government Board, Board
of Lady Managers and others of
prominence. One of the features
of the celebration will be a street
parade including military and
civil organizations. The States
and territories which have taken
action with the view of being rep
resented at the World’s Fair are
as follows:
Washington, Missouri, Illinois,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
Mexico,New York,South Carolina,
West Virginia, Wyoming, Idaho,
Colorado,Nebraska,Hawaii, Texas,
Georgia, Arizona, Montana, Iowa,
Kansas, Mississippi, Connecticut,
Florida, Wisconsin, Maine, "North
Dakot,a Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Indian Territory.
patrons in Houston County are my references.
Ship me your Cotton.
C. B. WILLINGHAM, Cotton Factor,
Gf-eoxgleu.
In a Democratic Country.
Macon News.
It has always been thought that
there was a better chance for poor
people to get sooial recognition
and courteous treatment in the
United States than in England;
but investigations seem to prove
that the contrary is true,—as re
gards the “poor relation” of the
rich any way. -
“In England,” says a writer in
the New York Sun, the poor rela-
is a possibility. In America he is
simply “impossible.” In England
he may inherit a dukedom or a
fortune, through the law of primo
geniture. In Amerioa he inherits
only his family pride, prejudices
and poverty.
In England the prosperous or
titled ones of the family make it a
religious duty to remember the
poor relative at stated, recurring
seasons, in substantial form. In
America he is shunned. like a lep
er by his rich relatives and even
his consanguinity denied.
The most powerful plutocrat in
America today dreads a loving let
ter from his poor relations more
than a threatening one from the
anarchists. He can provide
against the latter; the other de
fies precaution.
Why this discrepancy between
the two great English-speaking
nations? The answer is to be
fouud in the difference of the na
tional ideas and aspirations. On
this side material success in life is
the criterion of merit. In Eng
lish it is caste and culture. Which
is the better ideal?
There is room for thought in
these remarks. A democratic
country may set up an ideal that
is lower than that based on “caste
and culture.”
In avoiding one extreme, anoth
er may be adopted; in keeping
away from Scylla, there is danger
of falling into Charybdis; in dis
claiming the pre-eminence of
birth and breeding one may make
the mistake of taking money, as
the standard.
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A farmer whose daughter is vis
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tei stating she was engaged with
ping-pong and his comipent on it
was: “She can enjoy herself all
she wants to, but I’m gol darned
if she’s going to marry any Chi
nese into this family.”
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