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ATLANTA, Georgia. We have come to Atlanta-aurely the Atlantis of Europe's dreams-beautiful At lanta, lovely Atlantis, steeped in her South ern heats, divided between her dream of the past and her hope of the future. But hope
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FOREWARNINGS OF TYPHOONS.
AND THE SUN,
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The following interesting statement lɛ- reproduced from the China Express and Telegraph (London)-
from the Supreme Court."Not unto us, not is always hoping to be the rich man, and unto us, but unto our country were then so be holds aloof from the labour unions; haours given. For Great Britar stands for he may want to exploit labour him high in this land. It is the land of the self to-morrow, and that might be Award THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON
dogate who still stand by Wilson and if he himself. And, became one of them. the League, and there has been nothing There are so many ways of getting more striking in our tour than the deep, rich in a new country. You
most solemn, acclamation to the name of an eil well in your back garden, or you that tick e-President at the banquet-given invent a new soft drink "-parbape with
The enormity of the typhoon and tidal to us at the Piedmont Driving Club lasta subtle flavour which just outwits the right that exquisite building, the home of Prohibition Act; or you invent a new card.
party and took such heavy toll of He the old driving days, with its lofty Gear board cap, or anew way of drinking out of wave that wrought such havoo to pro-. gian banqueting hall, picked out in spotless a ginger beer bottle nicely without using white, against which the black waiters hitt glass; or a new safety razor, or a new Swatew on the night of August had ability of "giving the longest possible- red to and frp like servitors of abony motor car and there you are! You have a 3rd, demonstrates again the desir Thera lay, no doubt, behind all this many arrived, and you build a suburban palace, warning of approach. It would be memories perhaps even a memory of and move from the factory side of the city Anitely to the advantage of those living certain English sympathies in that old to the palace side and you give up politics on the southern coasts struggle, and perhaps, behind it all, an and found a college. You quarrel with adjacent countries if disasters such as admiration for that great spirit of chivalry your wife and sone; you are chased by the this one, and the one at Hongkong int which still, at this moment, hines out, reporters; and you enjoy an envied, misar 1800, could have been foretold. At pres sent the warning conveys the information almost alone, on that little island in the able old age!
that a typhoon is coming, and the black North Sea. It is a chivalry which,THE NECESSITY OF CHEAP LABOUR.
signals indicate its "laïmitence, but no acen from afar, glitters like
But there are still some who go on living information is given as to how severe and makes the heart of the exiled Eng. lishman throb with a passionate pride down in the factory region, and they do not The moment when the news was flashed to always want free municipal golf courses or
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it is likely to be. The question is, Can
its sorority be forecast with dependabl
And
For but twenty years ago Atlanta was a little township of 20,000 people. Now it is a great city of over 200,000, and it is still grow. ing overy day-leaping forward into a fuller and larger life a greater and more splendid growth. But what a growth! Not the ugly angorerned sprawling of narrow streets, creeping like a disease over the face of Nature; not the selfish scramble of com- petitive villadom, fenced and red from one another's eyes but the triumphant march of well-planned, well-lighted roads, the spread of well-built houses girt with large and beatiful lawns, unfenced, uurail ed, and unafraid all this growth spread us here in "Old Dixie" that, while all free colleges. They sometimes want better accuracy? What follows would seem to ing wider and more freely with the help of the other Powers were banging back, houses, cheap clothes, cleaner politics, and show that the answer is in the affirmative. the cheap American automobile, which is Britain, alone and poor, had sprung to the perhaps even shorter hours and higher Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. giving new wings to man. The seven-help of massacred Christianity, was per- wagen. But at that point Big Business similar disturbances have been studied hy leagued boots of the giants are now the haps the proudest in our lives. It is this ceases to talk philanthropy. Cheup, docile wientists and much valuable informa seventy-leagued boots of Americ. There surt of thing that the South really admires labour-black and white that is the tion has been gained: Only one man hap is now no triumph of man so tremendada inyes, admires far more than the calculat- essential foundation of bis wealth. He calls however, evolved a reliable theory where its sweep, so harmonious and well-ordered, ing pradences of "Big Business which for it all the time. He will fight with his it is possible to foretell these catas The moon and the sup, especially the towns. It is the actual realisation of the bere in the Sonth the age of chivalry is now fighting grimly to keep sud hold it on former, have great influence, he says, 011 as the growth of these modern American at present dominates Washington. For back against the wall to secure it. He is trophic scientist qamed Clemente.
the railways, in the mines, and on the cotton earthquakes, eruptions, and storms. A plantations. If only that infernal Nother is well known, the moon, by her pull, in post's dream:
ner, who never understands a black man, fuences the tides, but under certain would keep clear and leave the "niggers" conditions her power is enormously in- to the South What is the sense of calling croised; so much so, that the pressure of sway the negress, happy in the South the atmosphere on the surface of the earth is disturbed, and in places so much on 300 a day, and giving her $5 a day for
weakened that the earth forces below the laundry work in New York?
De Tocqueville, one of the most luminous crust are given more freedom, which re- of American conditions "A quite in carthquakes and volcaute erup observers
still alive.
- THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCÉ. It is still a gallant, reckless country, this of the South. Here the air is filled with a spirit of romance and adventure which one misses in the North." And now these qualities of daring and energy have rushed into the work of reconstruction and develop.. ment. Business bere is one long romance.
Joy in widest commonalty spread. That is the point-the sense of the "widest commonalty" that inspires these great growth. Here in this town are four golf courses-two of them for the well-to-do, two for all Here are great public buildings--the Capitol, the town library, the city hall. Here in these towns are always the splendid American "public" schools On the top of one of the beautiful bills that hundred years ago, uttered one prophecy. tions if conditions, are favourable where
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a slave," he the Moon's pull attenuates the atmos and flourish the dozen or so of millionaries was emancipated. – “As The South is marching forward within Altanta who have grown rich from asid, he excites no rivalry. As a free phere, and initiates a vacuum, which at great strides.
To-day we have passed the sale of patent medicines and soft min, he will excite the envy of a conti- once begins to fill. Thus povere storms are caused, and this is probably what There the Coca-Cola King, beat. That is largely becoming true bere, happened at Swatow. It should be re through Birmingham in Alabama, a town drinks.
university of The Southerner talks to you very gently membered that the moon exerts her which is now the rival of its English who is building a namesake. Within a few miles of this town marble palaces in the woods-because and sympathetically about the black man.
hat this pull is very much inorcased i is a nountain of the best hematite iron- every good millionaire in America must The North don't understand the negro," greatest power at an angle of 45 degrees, ory and Bear by is coal. They have adopted build a university and if you build it in he says. "He's just a child. A good child the sun is so placed as to be pulling in the coke ven, the most modern system grean marble you spend the greatest possi--that's what he is. Got to be kept in his the same direction.
The first phase of the Swatow typhoon of steel production. They are pouring out ble number of dollars. Near by, in the same place. But educate him, and he becomes steel products by the Gulf of Mexico, both woods, he has built a hospital, with every-his own worst enemy!"....
Now the quarrel of the South with the may be said to have started af about 8.30 p.m... At the moment the moon" was above east and west-through the port of Mobile thing that is the latest in hospital develop-
For a North is that the North goes on sanding the horizon at an angle of 18 degrees eastwarda to Europe, and westwards ment And so the work goes on through the Panama Canal across the good American millionaire knows that if he down teachers to educate the negro-founds to Stow. The sun had set. and was at Pacific. Let old Brummagem take care! does not spend his money in this way he great colleges, produces negro, artisans, an angle of 107 degroes The angle be These climes breed a spirit of extraordinary must leave it to his children, and then his negro lawyers, and negro doctors. That is tween the two planeta was, therefore daring. They have no respect for the children inevitably turn their backs on the trouble. Then at the same time the about 60 degrees, so the moon was acting The disastrous phase of the Old World..
Methodism and march into the Divorce North keeps on drawing off the vast alone. This sudden uprising of the Southern Courts. As if to show the allernative in supply of cheap black labour required for storm began at 2.30 am and lasted till a
(The times quoted are losa! States of America has passed with tood colours, ons of the Coca-Cola sons has the cotton plantations. Just consider kow 3.10 a.m
a problem that is for some mean times). At 2.30 am. the moon bad little attention in Europe For a whole built a private racing track of his own just vast generation after the Civil War-almost up behind his father's marble university and 40,000,000 sores are given to cotton in sat, and bore to Swatow an angle of 45 these Southern States. Withdraw the degrees, and at 3.10 a.m. an angle of 40 The sun was also below the to 1900 she lay crushed, materially ex-up-to-date hospital in the woods!
degrees hansted both of men and worth, bruised Leaving that wood of mystery--the black inboer up North, to take the place horizon, and in such a position that it to the soul by her deep detent and Wood of the Thousand Patents our of the cheap foreign labour now being cord add its pull to that of the moon. humiliation The North trampled on her automobiles ran for miles, along broad excluded by the anti-immigration laws, and
Where will The result was an enormous tidal ware and a terrific storm. After 3.10 a.m. the Her own past clung to her. She oberished roads between great, sumptuous bunga- where "will the South der impotent thoughts of revenge. Her wealthy Low
have all sprung up Manchester be?
sun and moon drow further away from families were ruined by the freeing of their within
each other, and consequently their in- the last twenty years. The slaves without the compensation that we process is very simple. The. Souther.
Such are a few of the vast problems. fluence weakened and the storm diminish- gave to our slave-owners in the West her feels the sap rising in his bones. Then Indies. Their habits of idleness fought he buys a piece of land with his first profits. simmering here in these hot lands, under od. The positions of the sun and the against the prospects of revival-their 1hen be mortgages the land and builds a this weltering sun, cooled by incessant ice-moon and their bearings on Swatow have hatred of industry, their pride of leisure house. Then be mortgages his house and water and the buzz of electric fans. Such proof of the correctness of the theory has They detestcl the Northerners, in whose marches forward. And already you see his are a few of the black shadows that fall been adduced. If, however, these factors talk of freedom and emancipation they saw little white children playing in the verandah behind those sleek, smiling sons of Africa, could be obtained immediately the only a veil for greed. and cruelty towards beside their black Burses children who who wait on you so efficiently in the typhoon was reported, not only could the the South. So they burrowed underground look like white transparant crystals beside hotels and the railway trains thinking spot be accurately indicated where the I wonder, what thoughts? Höping, I storm would break, but the probable in Ku Fr Klan conspiracies, and they those figures of gonial darkness.
extent of its severity could also be "fore- carried qu'a vendetts of fury and midnight The same spirit of adventure rans wonder, what hopes ?
The drama of black and white shifts for told. murder against the North and its protégé through everything. Here is a great the black man.
woman's club, the Hall of the Daughters," the moment to Washington. There it is
In consequence of the proposal to stax. let us call it for every good American being fought out in the lobbies and cham- The ashes still smoulder. The Ku Klux woman is a daughter of something or other bera of power. The Northern Republicans, Klan itself is still alive. You meet from The women of Atlants wanted that club;always aiming at the negra vote-n voté capital in Switzerland, a vast amount of time to time furious partisans of the South, they could not afford it. If they had stronger, strangely enough, now in the North money has been invested abroad, parti during the war, and since the Armistice, even in New York-Daughters of the been just Englishwomen they would have than in the South, where it has lost its cularly in England and America. One Confederacy," and so forth. Down. South, gone without, and stayed at home to smoke voting power-have brought in an Anti- result is that the English pound, which, in Dixio Land," you still find all the cigarettes or mend their husband's socks. Lynching Bill. Now lynching is a thing has been worth as little as 165, la Switzer values inverted. John Brown is regarded But, being American women and Souther. which you do not talk about in the land, is now only 8d. below par.
tore they thought of a better plan. They. South. The killing and burning of sixty as a rame of infamy, their own struggle insured their lives; they paid the pre-negroes a year may be regrettable, but it is!
minms; but they raised money on the necessary to keep them in their proper policies sufficient to build and run the club, place." You do not speak about it before nation." And they have the great consolation of your womenkind but, the Ku Klux Klan South into a hard core of hatred and re- But the real sap is flowing elsewhere, knowing that if they die the money will goes on, although one of its leaders, & sentment: The North gave the negro the Those branches of the trea are perishing E, ant to their husbands, but to the club! Bottomler of these parts, has absconded vote; but the negro lived in the Souls, and a great to Europe with the cash. But now come the North could not prevent the South from So it is all along." Life is as the Civil War generation dies out. The young men and women of the South look adventure for these Southerners, even in these Northerners, who say the lynching taking the vote away. The result is that. only south of the Mason Dixon line there is to-day business. Here business is not only is a Federal matter. At present it forward, and no longer to the past.
Stata malter. But when a State takes practically no black vote. They hardened They have a phrase for those Contede business, it is a great romance, a great to lynching Italians and Japs, it is very the South into one great Democratic
At the present moment I am rate ladies" Non-reconstructed rebels." gamble.
told that what with the "boll weevil and difficult to explain the matter clearly to any blog," which has threatened the power of The South, after. long delays and much anguish of soul; at last the European depression, half the cotton foreign Governments who may be unreathe, North ever since. They divided the twenty years ago-set her face towards farms are mortgaged, and the banks are sonable enough to complain. So this is great American parties by a line there of a bill to bring in the Federal power to resentment which accounts for the terrible reconstruction; and now we see the results in aid to be on the verge of collapse. They punish lynchers. But the South is not bitterness of party strife in America to- this wonderful State of Georgia. There will not collapse. The newest idea is to going to allow that, and it is easy for day. They perpetuated the division-of aro grest resources in the South, besides aise the price of cotton by reducing the them to stop it. For in the Senate there North and South. Is there not in all this cotton. There are cral and iron, four production, and as the North is drawing is a closure. You can talk for a month a terrible warning to Edrope to-day and maize. The soil is of wonderful of the black labour that is going to be if you like So a rota of Southern We visited to-day cyclorama of the fertility, and the sun is king here. The easier. With the true gamblers instinct, Senators has been arranged. They will battle of Allants one of the Sorcest new movement aims at developing all these the South knows how to turn loss into speak for a week each: and the Anti- battles of the war. We were showa round resources, as well as cotton. More than, gain.
Lynching Bill will be dead. Great is freedom by a Confederate veteran who had fought ▲ COUNTET OF APENDEES........
of speech! And also the freedom to kill! in the battle. Listen to his accents of one string to our bow" is the cry of the Bouth to day, In spirit and outlook these The South spends its money freely. ItO Liberty" said Madams Boland at passion! Hear the echo of the bittery Bouthern towns now recall the West of is a country of "spenders." That is, I the foot of the scaffold, looking up to one inextinguishable memory Yet there was generation ago. The same wind of hope suppose, why I feel so much at home here of those statues which Dame Liberty loves a story he told which sums up the, whole blows through them; the same inexhat. Laviah" is a mild word to apply to their so much, "O Liberty, what crimes are sad history. He points to two figures. There is a Federal Blua soldier leaning stable resourcefulness; the same prido of entertainment, their gorgeous displays of committed in thy namet victory over nature; the same sense of garden flowers, their constant stream of These are the ruts on the road or re down to tend a wounded Confederate- the mastery of man,
melons, grape fruits, peaches, grapes, their construction. But turn again to the case "Grey. He hears his moans and leana- Now all this movement is extraordinarily exhaustible supplies of hospitable chicken, for the South. After the Civil War there down, and looks on the face of the gronn friendly to Great Britain. That was the their ice cream todas, iced tea, and floods was no real spirit of amnesty. The ing, wounded, dying man. It is his own meaning of the touching and almost of glorious coffee. It is a land literally assassination of Abraham Lincola was brother passionate fervour of the welcome.vouch-flowing with milk and honey, flowing all fearfully revenged on the Sontb. Negro Yes, we bute, and wound, and alay. Then, safed to us as the British Delegation bring the time to as visitors, who move from armies were billeted on their old white when we look into the face of the man wo ing the Salgrave gifta-this, and not the one house to another of our rich, hospitable masters The Northern carpet baggers in have slain we find that it is our own brother. statues of Burke and Chatham. How shall hosts, with their great suburban palaces vaded the rebel States. They were kept is the discovery of that fact that has we ever forget that welcome in the Becepand their wonderful sub-tropical gardens, out of the Union instead of being invited really arrested the march of hatred in this. tion Committee that sat up to meet us at There is another side to all this, of to come back. The North exploited, the country, and turned the face of the South two am, (the fleet of splendid raptor cars course, Where do your poor live? Bouth, Jolmson was nearly impeached for towards the future. The old generation placed at our disposal, the banquets, the innocently naked one of my generous, well pursuing a poley of mercy and forgiveness that fought and hated has now largely puas fanches, the teas not to mention, other groomed hosts. Away down among the Even General Grant was embarrassed when ed away all except a fow old men. The beverages by no menos prohibited factories, was the smiling reply. It is be became President, All the cheap young generation knows nothing of these to us? Then there was the deep clear that that was as it should be, for patriots who had not fought wanted to tear memones Itnees hope ahead. It beads to respect of the crowds in the streets where should the poor live except by the the South to pieces, to keep her down for the now taak It follows the Gleam. at the sight of the British dag; the side of their workshops? But the dif ever to punish her for ever for her alleged solemn reception by the Mayor at the Cityference is that the poor man of to-day war crimes. But you cannot kill Hall; the greetings from the Capitol and here is the rich man of to-morrow...” Ha. (Contimied at food of next column.).
classed with the War of Independence.
Dixie Land" is still sung:
We'll äre and die for Dixie.
Instead, they welded the
For over unto him that hopes and works
The golden year is evor at the door. Daily Telegraph.