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VOL NO. 89* NIiW"IIIThRY. S. C ERthAY, OOrOiTh:R26. lOOt TWICE AWEEK. Si 50 A YEAR
BISHOP GALLOWAY'S TRIBUTE
TO REV. SAMUEL P. JONES.
At-lanta Constitution.
In his address on Rev. Sam P.
Jones, at Cartersville, Bishop Gallo
way said:
' I am here not to eulogize the dis
tinguished (lead, but to lay a flower
upon tho grave of a personal friend,
and pay grateful tribute to the mem
ory of a most remarkable man. I have
come 'to weep with those that weep.
A great State has lost its best known
citizen, a great church its most pop
ular and powerful preacher, the na
tion its most noted evangelist and the
cause of public morality one of itt
mightiest and most fearless champ
ions. In the strength of his years
when his sun was at the zenith before
his powers had begun to fail or his
voice to lose its charm, this grea't
man in Israel has beeni simmoned to
his rich reward.
''What strange paradoxes were
wrapped up in that masterful man
and his brilliant career. He was a
genius without eccentricity, a great
personality witifout peculiarties, uni
que without being erratic, a wonder
ful orator without the graces of ora
tory, a marvelous preacher with lit
tle concern for the rules of homile
ties, and a philosopher without the
aid of a pale guide and a student's
lamp.
''He had all the gifts, withomt. the
cultivation, of a great philosopher.
What he lacked in learning, was made
up in the keen penetration and clear
discernment of a student of human
nature. If limited in his familiarity
with history, he knew the forces that
make history and determine destiny.
"Had his knowledge of books
equaled his acquaintance with men
had he known the history of the hit
man heart as well as he knew its great
motives and subtle. passions-he
might have commanded a much larger
place in the story of his times.
"lHe had many rare qualities anid
attractive virtues, but one gritt gift
the gift of commanding utterance.
And upon that his fame will rest and
his influence abide. His preeminence
was as a preacher. God anointed him
ta be a power in Israel, and clothed
him with a power seen bn't a few
times in a generation. He was not
called to wield a pen, but to be a
voice crying in the wilderness. He
might have succeeded at, the bar, but
his throne was the pulpit and his mis
sion the redemption of his fellow men.
''And what a master of assemblies
lie was! Measured by the multiplied
thousands that crowded again and
again to hear him, and by the dead
consciences he awakened, and the
penitential tears lie started, and the
reforms lie instituted, and the conver
ted souls lie led to his Lord, lie must
lown to history as one of the most
conspicuous figures of the last half
century,
Springs of His Power.
'' Were I called upon to state in a
few words the qualities that give
greatness to-this master of assemblies
and enabled him to sway with the
"wand of a magician the vast thouis
nIs that crowded to his ministry, I
should say they were his philosophi
cal insight into the secret springs of
motive, his powe r of luciA and lumin
ous 'staten'er c, his rare genial humor,
the breadth~ and wealth of his genuine
love for humanity, and the marvelous
qualities of his wonderful voice-all
under the domination and inspiration
of the Holy Spirit.
i-I said more quotable. things thani
any man of his generation. There
are few homes in whlich. some saying
-of his is not rep'eated. He had a gen
ills for proverb-making.
''I believe that one secret of lis
strange power as a preacher was the
fact that all his iippeals were direet
ly to the human conscience. His the
ory was that the conscience was on
the same level whether in a philoso
pher or a child-whether in a schiolai
or an illiterate. And that the message
needed to arouse the one could not
fail to awaken the sothier. Therefore,
like St. Paul, lie felt himself a deb
tor to the Greek and the Barbarian,
to the wvise and the unwise.
"'He demonstrated the fact that the
day of the preacher and public speak
-or has not passed. 'The h1, ing voie
is as potential today as ever in tt
world's history. The printed pak
may inform the mind, but the liviii
messenger is necessary to kindle pai
sion and urge men to action. Tl
preaching function of the priesthoc
gan never lose its authority. As I
the olden times, when Isaiah's voi
was heard in Isreal and Pail preacel
on Mars Hill, the divinely called mc
with a message will ever be the mig
tiest. - force in his generation.
''His life of almost unexampled a
tivity was domiinated by one high aii
holy purpose-to (10 good to his fe
low mon and faithfully serve his ge
eration by the will of God. Fro
that purpose lie was niever deflecte
and from God's service his heart ne
or felt the slightest alienation. 'I
that high aim every ambition wi
subordinated, and every energy pi
in commission.
'Believing that Providence lht
clearly indicated his field of large
asefulness, to be unConfined by tl
narrow limits of a local pastorate, 1
retired front the regular itiieral
ministry,- and made the nation hI
pa rish. Whatever the judgment i
others as to the wisdom of th
course, he never doubted that Gi
had ordered it, and His blessin
would approie it. In every State <
the union his voice was heard by ea;
er thousands, preaching with t1
same fearless fidelity and Christ
syml)atlhy as to the humbli friends f
neighbors on his first Georgia circui
Features of a Noble Oharacter.
''Without attempting any recit
the facts of a brilliant history, I sh
merely mention a few features of
noble character.
"First of all, because above all at
best of all, our honored brother w;
remarkable for the strength ai
solidity of his moral character. The
was grainite in its foundations, at
every stone was polished after tl
-4imilitude of a palace. Flaws the
may have been, but no fissures-di
colorations, but no suggestion of di
integration. The storms of life som
times strained,- but never moved i
the rains d ded, the floods can
and the wiinds blew, but When ti
sky had cleared lie stood unshak<
and majestic as a mighty mountai
tlowever much men may have criti
.isedl his utterances, or questioned t
wisdom of his policies, no one ev,
doubted the integrity and purity
his character. Had there been in
any serious weakness, sone curious 4
eritical or envious eye would ha'
quickly discovered it and loudly pr
claimed it, but throughout his brill
ant Career, every hour in the fier,
public glare, his mission and methoo
as a reformer inviting and encounte
ing stubborn hostility, lie fought at
wrought and finally died, without t1
faintest shadow on his beautiful cha
acter. There were notches on Ii
trusty blade, but not a blur on h1
noble1 name.
''Hie genuinely loved his folke
men, and lie tever lost hope for hi
inanity. He believed in a gosp)el th
cani redleemi a wVorldl, and like Ii
Lord, wvent out to seek and save il
lost, And no( p)oor prodigal ever got;
low or wandered so far as to be b
yond the reach of his hopeful messai
and( helpful symp)athly. And thi
Imadle the erl love him so. There
nothing more divinely attractive thn
the radliance of hope, anid nothii
more cheerless and forbidding thi
the notes of discouragement and de
p)air. Tell a poor1, blasted, b)listeri
soul that there is hope for him, ai
his wailings will turn to pleading
and his despair iinto tlje tones of pi
vailing praye,r. It was this ever i
iterated gosp)el for the worst sinn
that helped to attract the thousan
to the miiiistry.
''The bells of St. Michael's chiur
in Charleston, S. C., that have clii
ed the hours -of morninig and ovenii
prayer since Colonial times, have
strange history. They have cross
the Atlantic ocean fivo' times. Dru
ing the Civil war they we. s(iipp,
to Columbia for sake-keeping. B
on a certain famuous "irch to the s
they were burnied n: -oken to fra
nien to oy the ba fls of a v'audal. E
ery sacred piece was gathered u.
and all shipped back to the found
in which they r'ere originally Cal
Timen they were mada nnew .i
0 and brought home to the tower of #
-0 Mlicheal's wituot the loss of a sing
g note or the lowering of a single hia
I- estic tole.
6 "Thus, this good man believed 6t
d could do with every sinful, broken h
man life. Gather up scarred an
* scattered fragments, make them ane
d in His image, and put cathedral mtis
into the redeemed soul.
Sublime Moral Courage.
''His moral courage was nothilt
a less than subline. What. lie conceivC
- to be the path of (ity he would pu
sue, though a lion crouched in ti
A shadow of every tree. No threat
1, an, or fear of all the legions
darkness could sta-; ns course or huf
'o his imperial voice. And yet there wi
is in him nothing of rashness, and 1
it never spoke without premeditatio
His was not a harsh, but a gentld i
A hire. He had a strong, safe han
;t The tones of his voice were authorit
le tive, but the undertones were Il
te ness and love. Though he sometim
it showed the sternness of a Hebre
is prophet, lie really had the tenderne
>t and sweet persuasiveness of an apc
it, tIe. Who but this master of the I
oi mnan heart could unite such startlil
y and overwhelming plainnoss of spee4
>f with lyric tenderness and irressistib
persuasiveness! With a sternness th
Ie was at times as awful as Sinai,
ly united a pathos that made every e,
a fountain of tears.
. "If lie sometimes used the mu
rake, it was not silply to expose t
a rottenness of society and the wicke
11 ness of the world, but that the heali
n light of the truth might shline up
and cure it. He uncovered sin ti
d it might be destroyed. le rent t
rObe of hypocrisy that its ghastly i
e formity might cease to deceive.. B
e for every penitent lie had a mantle
d charity, and for every home-comi
le prodigal a joyous welcome.
S ''le was free from the weakness
and vices of narrow natures. 1U
s reat soul was too generous for jeo
outs and too broad for bigoti
t, Envy found no hiding place in I
e brotherly and sunny heart. He co
e voted no man's position orI posse
" sions, and envied no human being 1I
' fame or his fortune. It never occurr
~ to him that any rival stood in the wf
of his attainments or achievement
r No Mordecai sat in the gateway
his noble soul. He rejoiced that t
it world is wide. wth an inviting fie
" for every hone6st toiler, and ample a
e ward for every faithful workma
that there is a chaplet for every he
ic brow, and a throne for every rei
e ly royal soul. While deeply appi
Is ciative of his large I-lace in the nt
tion's esteem-pardonably proud
his wonderful and long sustained po
uliarity-he gelerously rejoiced in t
~ honors and success of every worti
s man. I never heard him speak a di
is paraging word of any mortal who h.
high aims and a serious purpose. I]
w enierous haind would have wither
ii- had lie attempted to pluc1k a star frc
it aniothter's crown. Such -magnanimi
Iis one of the final tests of true groer
eC ness.
'But time fails me to speak mo
-at length of my glorifed friend. V
re would fain have kept him loniger, b
at lie Lord Knows best. His was a Ii
a hat cannot go out, it wuill go on.
fn ''The end came, not exactly as
igad1( ihped, but as beautifully ai
m~ triumphantly as any heart could wi.
SIt was just after a great revival
which, as on so many notable occ
sions, God had wonderfully honor
s' him inistry. With the tears of
e- ontitenlt still gladdening his eyes,t
e-tiredl preacher was told that it is tim
rto rest. Bet ween a revival and an c
5pected family reunion, the angels iv
hii ministry. With the tears of
!many u sions. In that Hleaver
n-j home :-.n. there be nto vacanti chair
a IDon 't . hrmr if yat m-e iiifrrii
ed I( wvhien:you am e taalkin*g. It mi
Shave ovent Ied ye'i tfrom sayi1
somnethinag fois.-Atch;in'n (Cob
ut
3" Seeing~ the sights of Paris gave t
SLord Mayor. of London a severe a
ack of acute astonishmenit.
y .ifr. Roosevelt is going to.- ma
t. merely a Poultry Bigelow stay
SEATTLE'S OWNERSHIP IDEA.
Unique Campaign of Education Put
Quietus on Scheme to Build Now
Street Car System.
Seittle, Wash:ington, ;one 'of the
k livest and most independent towns
on earth, has just settled the munici
pal ownership question, after one of
the most exciting campaigns any city
ever had. The fight was particularly
interesting in view of the methods
d utilized to combat the municipal own
r,, ership idea and because of the fact
ie [hat the vote finally cast represented
) a reversal of sentiment against an
)f election held before a complete cam
ih paign of education was organized.
te 8eattle has now, therefore, refused
16 to build an independent street rail
, way system. It already has a very
t& complete traction system, the major
. ity stock in which is owned by Messrs.
Stone and Wheeler, the Boston cali
e- talists who make a specialty of con
31 ducting public service plants through
W out the country.
ss The plan submitted to the people
8- was exceptionally clever. It made
k up of three elements: (1) A proposed
1g system of 20.17 miles of track, to be
'h constructed as soon as possible,' And
ts to be paid from an issue of $1,272,030
at in bonds; (2) a trackage of 58 miles,
le to be constructed as soon as practi
e cable, provided the initial system
could be made to produce a revenue
k sufficient to induce investors to pur
'o chase bonds based on a percentage of
d- gross earnings, involving an addition
Ig al bond issue of $3,000,000; and (3)
subway and elevated systems at. a
further cost of $3,307,904.
We 7ouldn't Cost a Cent.
e- Although the people were asked to
Lit authorize bond issues to the amount
If of $4,272,000, it was only proposeI
g to build at once the 20.17 miles of
trackage. Nevertheless claborate
or maps, showing the proposed systlm,
Is in its entirety, including elevated
1. tracks and subways, the present build
y. ing of which was in no way contem
is plated, of municipal ownership. By
such arguments it was sought to show
- how Seattle could acquire this great
is system ''without costing the municip.
Ad ality a cent."
ty The municipal ownership forces
s. were organized and skillfully led.
)r They held their first meeting, sur
, rounded by representatives of labor
l4 unions, and formed a campaign conm
- mittee, of which Judge W. 1). Wood,
a former Mayor, was made chairmnai.
They began their campaign at once
.1- with much vigor and system.
e- Many conditions favored the side
n. of the oppositon. Probably a greater
)f portion of mechanics, artisans and
p- working men of Seattle own their
le homes than in any other city in the
lv United States. As a result of this
s the influence of labor organization is
,d not as great there as elsevhere. More
is over', thle ci ty had niumerouis import
3(d ant and insistent needs straining lher
m financial resour.ces. IHer debt already
ty reached the constitutional limit. The
t- valuations were about to he raised
fully 50 per cent., thus providing a
re ret.ly augmnen ted borro wing ca paci
To ty, but event this would only furnish a
tfund barely sufficient for~ carrying
.,out necessary imnproveCmen3ts including
the onlar'gementl of water supply, pay
in:, sewer extenit I.n, and ot her im
di l.rovemenIts.
SSeattle's Present Street Railroads.
in Another factor which favored the
a- opplositionl was that half dozen years
3d 9- seattle wvas seved' by no less than
a thirteen separate street car lines.
ce most of thiem operated b)y receivers.
ne The ScentIle Eh etrie Compar.y t he ma
x. jority of sto !k in which was owned
et by Stone & Webster, consolidatedC~
a those lines. put them under one cen
ly tra! managemenlt, inaugurated a corn
' rite transfer~ system, renewed and.
i,iproved thle eqipm)nenlt, and as a re
- s -it imm3easurably impiroved the sCr
iy swO.
ig The1 popuIlation of Seattle is now
.offlesally estimated at 17~6.000 and(
the trackage of the electric company
be3 ami unts to 1 14 miles, or one mile f'or
t- eve"ry 1,540 persons, a tr'aekaige far
above the average toi resid1enlt of
American cities. The service is as
ke near'v' perfect as the rapid growth of
mf the city will permit. It was niot (if
ficu1t, therefore, to show that Sat
Lie might be a good deal worse off i
its street car service than was aetua
ly the case.
But. opponents of mu111nicipal owl
Drship had to combat a sentiment i
its favor which had been fostered f<
many years. This sentiment had cri
italized in the nomination for May<
in January of this year of Williai
Richman Moore, a Democratic and
prominent lawyer. The platform c
which he stood was devoted exchl
sively to the advocacy of municip
1iwership and operation of the strei
railways of Seattle. The platfor
declared that. no new franchises <
renewals should be granted, excel
after submission the direct vote
the people; that no futher gran
should be made to the Company no
operating in Seattle, except for mini
recipient was asked to sign and r
turn. About 20,000 of these we
sent out; and 1,500 favorable respo
ses were recioved.
A statement of the financial co
dition of the city was preplred, sho
ing the debt which it already (arrie<
the debt which it, would have to car:
inl order to have adequate water fa
ilities, and the debt which was pr
posed to fix upon the city in additio
for an llnnecessary experiment. T
tremendotis increase of Seattle's de
within three years was set forth 1
this debt statement, which was ma
cd to all the registered voters of t
city.
The League next secured the se
vice of several competent speakei
and these it, furnished to local it
connections and necessary extensio
to residence districts, and that the
shouild be submitted to the peol
at the earliest( date practicable a ph
for a system of municipal lines t.o
constructed from monley raised
bonds, based on the credit of the s:
temt and its revenues. Mr. Moore w
elected, so that when tlc referendi
was presented the opponents of miml
cipal ownership had to start with t
initial verdict of the people alrea
apparently against them.
Opposition -Gets Together.
Thus handicapped, the first st
was to organize the opposition. Ti
was done by the formation of t
Seattle Economic League. J.
Frink, a former Mayor of Seatt
and a man of wealth and high stan
ing, was elected Presidt:nt, with Jol
H. McGraw, former Governor of t1
State of Washington, as ri'dit-ha
man). The League decided on a c(at
paign of education, an(1 although
Was late inl the field it pressed
work with great vigor. Its plans a
methods were decidely uniqe.
It first. issued anl address to t.
voters, in Which if Clearly set for
the reasons of its opposition to t
street railway proposition. Eneh
ed with the address was a postal ca
addressed to the League. This t
proveiment, clubs an(] other bodi
considering the minicipal ownersh
p)rolemn. A pamp)hlIet was pr1epa r<
showving the improvemients whlich t
city's growth rendered1 imperat i'
and1( it was p)ointed out to the vot
that because oif the debt limit chioi
w~ouhld have to b)e made1 beOtweVen thc
and1 ilj. municipal rail way expe
menit. This was circulated in the d
tricts most in neced of more water a:
more sewers.
A Oampaign of Education.
( nferences were held with (lie e<
toirs of a local newspaper, to sysi
mt izie thie niewspaper campa0igni. TV
Seat tle 'Times entered hieartily into
plans for a systematie campaign
educactioni, and for twvo weeks 1pi
cdinig the election practically ga
over its news anid editorial cohun
1o a rgunemnts furniishied by the Lecag
C iV preared by pu11rchaud space
he newvspapers, and( b)eg'an therein
series of ''Daily Talks~ to Voters
which cont inued until election dIf
Ina these talks it was aimed1 to simnp
fr the arguments and( to p)resenit en
h111y onie goodl coi)Isi ve r'eason
vct!ing against thie municipal "t re
rail wa1y proposit ion.
S"t s of cards, o,r "'thr mow-away:
were dlevised-six in nuimber-sho
inig on the rever'se a lar'ge sepuarei
licat ini t.he amount of territory to
motiten'ed to piroduce thle micie
st reet car system,10 and a much small
s(lpiare inidlienting the territory whi
would be served or posible hbenfit
n by (ihe proposed lines. On the face of
I- the cards various sigestions, calcula
ted to set, the voter thinking, were
i- printed.
n In all the League circulated during
r the campaign over 250,000 pamphlets
,- and cards, not including matter pub
Il lislied in the newspapers. Every vot
It ei in Seattle received at. least three
a separate comnieni ations; half the
i voters received four, and many re
:- ceived five. Ahout 10,00 advisory
d ballots were prepared and distribut
't ed on election (lay.
n The friends of muni ipal owner
it ship were very active. but the Beon
it mlie League (onitiiled to present its
of facts undaunted and relentlessly. It
I's was Callmpaign of education pure al
w simple, no personalities entering into
)v it. The result disclosed what can be
P- aecomplislied by an appeal to reason
o and sober judgnent. When the bal
I- lot, . were counied they showed 5,856
in favor of iiiiuiiicipial street cars and
1- 7,336 against. The opposition major
v- ity was thus 1.480. As a three-fifths
1; vote wsit required to carry the scheme,
'y it fell short of success by about, 2,100
e- Votes, an astonishing pereentage, in
I- view of the vote of only a few nioiths
ni, before.
le --
At FULTON MEMORIAL.
>y
i- Special Day to be Set Aside at James
le town Exposition in Honor of the
Invention of the Steam
boat.
n, Norl'olk, Vii., O0t. 25.-Believing
a14 11ha1 it is e'speviilly appiopriate that
r (lhe niam1le of Robert FulitoN stiould be
le honored at the .1amlestowNIl Ter-Cen
in tennmal lpositii to be held at 11llamp
be ton limids near Noirfolk in 1907, the
[t autliitoies i that great. celebration
's- live decided to set aside a (yIl to
as be known as Rohert Fulton Day. The
rul New Y(ik stite conunissimiers live
i- appoiited Hugh Gordon Miller, now
lie o)f New York but formerly of this
ly state, a relreseitative to arrange
with the authorities for the special
honors whieh will he paid to the imcim
p ory of Robert Fiulton at the Exposi
is lion, iTe will appoiit such commit
le tees as Iaity lie nlecessiry.
4. A mnovemcnt is now on foot ill New
le, Yoik eity to have a gigantic monn
d- meit erected in soie part of tlie city
mn (mm111em(oratngi. Fulton's n11am1c. It 1q
he Iloposed to I)Iild this ImemIoiial ut at
Id (ost of mo)(rev 11han1 $6000,000. It. will
n-- Serve not 0oINly as ;I monumenil)-]t to the
it' meIn wvoN initir'oduved staim 1avi!".ntion
Is but alls( as tob. ornelius Vati
id deibilt is tlie Presidti and Mark
Twainl tle firisl vile Pr1-esidiit of the
lie aissocialtilll whiih his beein or-ganlize(d
th to ereet tilwI Inonunient.
lie Those t tile hleald of, tle Imloveienlt
desire h) 1.lisv tlie money necessary
d to ereet the mionumielt by public sub
lie scription and ie ing vigorolus ef
s to popidliiiize tie moveiienit. The
i fticiail name of, tie or-ganlilizailion is
d, thle Fulton Mounment Associailoni anid
he it has its hieadbiar mter's in P ark Row,
,aNew Yo rk. A number of' designIs have
er been submiiiitt ed to thle associalt on for
e I'lr I'secured(' most appro11 viil from the
sclpjtor 4'(1opold BrInloony~'' 1md1 shmow
t hat hniuv~e deloped(l i thIirough the help
ofi steam ina1vigat ion. ft further' spo .
hbil ize's Ithe mannr in0' wIhich the
Isteambnli hiasl i'otughit togethieir the
Ce foim-i carner s of I le earth I. The moun
menlt isi surmoaunuttedl by a st atue of:
ill ober't 14ulton1 ('(litempilait ing a mode)
of li'his f'irist stea mboatI, the Clei'mont.
C[1 is t)roposed Ito moant th le situe on
a hollow shiaft inside of' which wvillI
1be a wi'nding staji'.
Amon(Ilg thle fuamouis per'sonis associa
toil ini the pi'ojecrt to hionor 'Fu"lton are
Sthe follow iw' peo.ple: Johin Jacobii
Ii.Chi oat, MIer,ille l> Stonue, (George J.
Gloudl, Fredeoi'rk Oalatiin, (Gove'nor'
I'ranik WI. I izi uis, Laevi P. M:orton,
N Bs~.hpI haid Hi . (heer0l, Maoro (leo.
Grant unad N'icoas Murry ' Biutler.
e ,,u dayu~, nin honor oiif Flton1.
re.'Oi ijitito an impjetuis to thle pr)ojec,
yl ~ on arei ant uri'.liy rp,de it's pre't