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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1902
Page
9
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Atlanta readers are told the beef trust fights legal action while the public calls for its destruction. The piece denounces tariff taxes on meat, urges repeal of those taxes as the key to breaking the trust, and argues for a political shift to end its influence. It portrays the president as not yet ready to strike at meat taxes and links trust power to party politics.
The amended national banking law spurred local capitalists to form banks and connect Southern towns to national finance. In fourteen southern states 167 national and 297 private banks were organized last year with Georgia adding ten national and thirty-nine private banks while Texas leads with eighty-four national and thirty-four state banks.
A Boston meeting forms the New England Democratic League to back Hon. Richard Olney for the 1904 Democratic presidential nomination. The piece argues eastern Democrats must actively campaign in New England to prove loyalty, win campaigns, and demonstrate a united party for national leadership.
A persuasive argument asserts that cotton will dominate the U S economy as southern mills expand. It claims three quarters of global raw cotton comes from ten southern states and predicts the south will monopolize national and world markets within two decades, pressuring eastern mills to relocate or fail.
The article surveys European reaction to Andrew Carnegie’s 20 million dollar gift for a national university in Washington. Dr. Kekule von Stradonitz argues the project oversteps prior benefactions, while American editors defend bold higher education backed by strong institutions.
A collage notes Georgia political life and poetry humor from rural voices, with lines about candidates preaching, poets musing on fame, weather and church gossip, and small-town justice. It references Billville, Whitsett, and Shelley's Adonais, mixing satire with rural reflections on liberty and daily life.
The Cedartown Advance Courier notes Terrell and Terry camp managers spar under the banner Brothery love with barbs about egotism while The Sparta Ishmaelite and Savannah Press weigh candidates. Many papers push Guerry, Estill, and Terrell positions with railroads, prohibition, and pensions debated.
PuTon Guerry replies to Warner Hill over alleged lobbyism linked to fees in a Macon case. He defends actions before the Georgia legislature, asserts no lobbying, challenges specifics, and maintains fees were lawful. He cites a petition concerning closing a city alley for a firm and a receiver, insists duties were within professional privileges, and accuses Hill of personal motives.
The council adopted resolutions congratulating James E. H. Warren of the third ward on his approaching marriage. It urged other bachelors in the body to follow his example, praising his cheerful nature and hoping for a smooth married life.
A large party of Atlanta fire insurance men leaves at noon for Old Point Comfort Virginia to attend the Southeastern Tariff Association annual meeting. President H C Stockdell and Secretary Charles C Fleming travel with others as Atlanta rates and officer elections draw keen interest. The first session opens tomorrow with committee work today. Changes in Mutual Reserve agents include Coryell Cummings dissolving Florida partnership and J R Coryell gaining sole control. F J Walker named district agent in Savannah and Frea H W Gould assigned around Birmingham. R A Garris of Equitable Life to south Georgia for company business.
A committee appointed after a Negro mass meeting proposes health sermons in colored churches and hygiene lessons in all colored schools to reduce the city’s excessive Negro death rate, which is twice the normal. The plan aims to educate the community on health and body care.
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