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THE ATLANTIAN
THE SIXTH WARD BANK
Atlanta, Georgia
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Capital Stock - - -
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Furniture and Fixtures 2,230.34
Surplus and Undivided
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4,651.23
Cash on Hand and Due
Deposits
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from Banks - - 20,915.47
Bills Payable - - -
5,000.0®
Total - - - - $100,410.36
Total ....
$100,410.36
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J. S. SLICER,
President
M. C. KING,
Vice-President
WM. HURD HILLYER, WILLIAM MAULDIN,
Vice-President Cashier
IT’S A PITTY THE FOOL
KILLER IS BUSY.
When a man’s veins are filled with
good red blood, he should be a man.
If he meets defeat, take the “gaff”
like a man, go to work and come
again. No real man has any excuse
for being a quitter. Yet this bunch of
Tennessee legislators—like a pack of
defeated coyotes—have tucked their
tails between their hind legs and
hiked. They found they could not
EDWIN P. ANSLEY.
One of the Most Enthusiastic
Motorists in Atlanta and An
Entrant in the Glidden Tour.
run things up there to suit themselves
sc they quit the game. They sought
new pastures where they could gam
bol, while doing the baby act.
Politics at best is a peculiar game
and a disgruntled politician is about
the measliest, honeriest specimen of
the two-legged animal that we know.
He is all smiles if he wins, every
body is a good fellow and the vote
was honestly cast. But see him when
he loses. Nothing is right; every
one is a liar and the vote was counted
crooked. You’ve seen them, bud, and
know the game. But these Tennes
see politicians, they couldn’t have the
pie and like the dog in the manger
say that no one else shall have it.
You’ve seen boys playing, one wants
10 be it and when he finds out that
he can’t take his things goes off
bursting up the game. This is the way
Mr. Minority Tennessee Legislature
has acted. They can’t be it so they
run and burst up the Tennessee leg-1
islative game. Some good healthy j
Individual should take each one and
lay him across his lap and administer
a good dose of mother’s or father’s !
slipper to the seat of his trouser-loon®
until he learns what his duty is to
his State and those who elected him.
All men can not be with the major
ity if he has views of his own, but
real men will battle for what they be
lieve is right and not run like a whip
ped cur.
If the views held by this bunch of ,
minority Tennessee legislators are
good and for the best interest of their
State they should have stayed at home
and fought it out. Showed that they
were right and the future would have
given them the victory. But as it is
they will loose far aye.
They may be paying their expenses
and may be personally standing their
business loss, but we don’t believe it.
They are having a good time loafing,
going to the ball games on somebody’s
money. It may be their own, but and
there you are—“But” with a big B.
It’s a pity the State of Tennessee
can’t do like the law did with the
McNamaras and get them across the
border Willy Nilly and get them in
the legislative halls and poke some
sense in them.
We do hate a quitter and this Ten
nessee bunch belongs to the quiting
class.
A SERIOUS CHARGE.
(Prom the New York Commercial.)
The panic of 1907 was designed to
accomplish two things. The absorp
tion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company was one, that the control of
the steel business might be in the
hands of Morgan. The other was the
driving out of business for all time of
the only Wall-Street figure who'inter
fered with Morgan in banking and in
shipping, Charles W. Morse. Judge
Gary has told how Roosevelt aided the
“Steel Trust;” and sometime the facts
will be laid bare for the information
of the public showing how Roosevelt
assisted Morgan to put Morse out of
business and away for the rest of his
life. The committee should go to the
bottom of the panic of 1907. (New
York World.)
Are we to believe that the panic of
1907 was a manufactured one—not
one arising from an unforseen set of
circumstances but purposely “design
ed” by one man to accomplish two
distinct objects for his and his asso
ciates’ benefit? That disturbance has
sometimes been called the “Roosevelt
panic” and the “Morse panic,” but.
for the reason in the one instance
that the then President of the United
States by his “trust-busting” policy
C. W. McCLURE.
President McClure 10 Cent Co.,
and a Man Who is Very Popu
lar With Organized Labor.
| and general swash-buckling had driv
en the country into hysterics and un
settled business confidence, and in the
other instance that the “chain-of-
banks" man had so stirred up The
Street by his manipulation of bank
properties that the banking lequili-
brium could not be maintained and
something had to break. But this is
the first time that the panic of 1907
has been described as a purely artifi
cial product conceived and carried out
by one “captain of finance.” The
charge is a most serious one, and the
“Steel-Trust” committee of the House
of Representatives ought surely to go
deep enough with its probe to discov
er whether or not there is any basis
for the accusation. To a wholly un
prejudiced mind it is utterly incon
ceivable that there can be the slight
est foundation for it—for the man thus
assailed has a long record as a con
structor, not a wrecker, of fortunes.
THE HEIR’S REGRET.
(From the New York Sun.)
“I had a wealthy client who died
a while ago,” said Senator John Sharp
Williams. “He left his whole fortune
to his only son, with me as executor
of the estate.
“Now he had kept this young man.
who was just turned twenty-one, in
pretty close leash during his youth,
and it was with eyes bulging with ex
pectancy of a good, far flung fling
that the son called on me a few days
after the funeral to learn when he
was coming into his kingdom.
“ ‘I haven’t qualified as executor yet.
Bob,’ I told him, ‘but come around in
a week or so and you can get what
you want.’
“Promptly on the dot Bob turned
up.
“ ‘The period of advertising for claims
against the estate will not expire for
a fortnight yet,’ I told him this time,
‘so I can not legally pay you anything
until then. Drop in in a couple of.
weeks and I’ll fix you out.’
“Bob swallowed his disappointment
and took his departure. At the end
of a fortnight he promptly appeared
again.
“ ‘Sorry to disappoint you a third
time, Bob,’ I said, ‘but there have been
some purely formal claims filed
against the estate that can not be dis
posed of until next month’s term of
cf court. If you’ll call after that you
can get all the cash you want, but I
really don’t see my way clear to pay
out anything until these matters are
disposed of. Come back in a month
and it will be all right then.’
“Bob moved slowly to the door.
With his hand on the knob he turned
to me.
“ ‘Mr. Williams,’ he said, sadly, ‘do
you know sometimes I’m right sorry
the old man died!’ ”
“Don’t make me mad!”
“Why?”
“Because if I ever hit you I would
knock you so high in the air that you
would starve to death before you came
back to earth.”
—The Three of Us, at the Plaza Music
Hall,