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The Good, the Bad, the Otherwise
and a Few Laconics
By L. A. L.
ITH all due respect to Solomon
and the brand of wisdom he
stood for, it must be ac
knowledged there is some-
W
thing new under the sun.
Within the past two weeks, three
new Governors of as many states,
have started their executive lives
with absolutely new theories.
For many years, New Jersey’s
source of revenue came from the
many enormous corporations which
had been granted franchises within
the state, while it was recognized as
an unalterable fact that their busi
ness was carried on in adjoining
states —notably in New York. The
abuses possible under this method
have been notorious, and New Jersey
has at last elected a Governor who
declares his intention of trying to
remove this stigma from the state he
has been chosen to govern. In no
uncertain nor half-hearted manner
he advocates laws to decrease the
powers of these enormous corpora
tions; he will, so far as he may be
able as executive, regulate and modi
fy charters existent and future.
The wave of fanaticism which
swept the country a few years ago,
under the name of “Prohibition,”
made some startling changes, espec
ially in the South; drastic changes
were made in the laws of many states,
relating t o the oven, public sa.'e of
beer, wines and whiskey. The fit of
hysterical enthusiasm indulged in by
some, blinded them to conditions as
they were, and evidently made them
feel conditions as they would have
them, really existed.
To the thinking man and woman
of the South, the absurd fallacy is
too apparent to need argument or ex
planation.
The new Governor of Alabama
fearlessly declares that the time for
conservatism had arrived and he
voiced the sentiment of many less
brave by declaring himself in favor
of the people themselves choosing,
each county for itself, the wisest oi’
preferable regulation of the liquor
traffic. In other words, the people
of Alabama will probably decide
“local option” as the only way to
regulate the sale of beer, wines and
whiskey, and that state at least will
no longer accept the farce of a pro
hibition that does not prohibit.
South Carolina is the third State
which has elected a Governor who
differs greatly from the average run
of governors, especially from the
class which the state has known for
some years past. He agrees with the
Governor of Alabama on the liquor
question, and proposes to let each
county in his state settle the matter
for itself and to its own satisfaction.
On another matter he expresses
himself freely, and this relates to the
press of his state; in his address he
attacked the press of the state, and
his words are worthy of reproduc
tion ;
“Independence of thought,
freedom of action, and abiding
trust in God won for me the
greatest political victory yet
recorded in this state. Aligned
Oxygen is a vital force and the
fundamental essence of life. As the
rising sun dispels darkness, so does
oxygen eliminate disease — a natural
cause producing a natural effect. And
as the dews gather upon the bosom
of the sleeping earth, to feed and re
fresh vegetation, so does the applica
tion of the Oxygenator while you
rest or sleep, cause your body to in
crease its vitality and thus overcome
its debility in a NATURAL WAY.
Watson’s Magazine for February,
which includes the Taylor-Trotwood
Magazine, is a live number. Now on
sale, 10c per copy; SI.OO a year.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
against me were a united daily
press and an almost solid weekly
press, pouring forth all kinds of
falsehood, vituperation and
abuse,, and receiving the assist
ance of a number of men who
call themselves ministers of the
gospel, who stood behind their
pulpits and gave vent to envy
and malice and slanders of the
most virulent and malicious na
ture against me.”
It is with a feeling of genuine
pleasure that this new brand of Gov
ernors is greeted: it proves that the
time is arriving when THE PEOPLE
are really to have a voice in their
own government.
Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey,
is showing the world that THE PEO
PLE of his state are not all in accord
with the swindlers and trusts which
have been enabled, under the laws
of that state, to fatten on the people
of the nation.
Governor O’Neal, of Alabama, is
showing THE PEOPLE of his state
that he recognizes their right to a
voice in the laws which are to govern
them.
Governor Please, of South Caro
lina, is showing THE PEOPLE of
that state that he will not be brow
beaten nor subsidized by a state
press which has ruled as it pleased,
when paid a sufficient price.
And now it is up to THE PEOPLE
of these three states, so fortunate in
securing fearless men when per
mitted to think and act for them
selves.
The seats of some Senators are as
uneasy as the crowns of some Kings.
All Tennessee papers should keep
standing the headline, “Pardoned by
the Governor.”
A new dress goods for women is
called “tear-drops.” Father drops
the tears when he pays for it.
Another fallacy is dented: an Ala
bama negro was killed by a blow on
his head, with a billiard cue.
We need not envy France Sarah
Bernhardt as long as we have Lillian
Russell—and we have one on France
in Nat Goodwin.
Needless to say, it was a Georgia
man who told the postmaster he
wanted the money order for two gal
lons.
The Congressmen in Washington
who vote for an amendment one day
and against it the next, are develop
ing feminine traits alarmingly.
At least Ballinger and Lorrimer
should be gratefully remembered by
those who otherwise w r ould never
have been able to break into public
print with their opinions.
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Besides being “some” wizard in
electricity, Thos. A. Edison has be
gun to prophesy what will happen to
this bad old world if it doesn’t stop
its money-grabbing.
Is it an oversight that none of the
reformers have tried to “prohibit”
Niagara Falls? Statistics show an
average of one suicide there for every
week in the year.
The trial of the woman in Wheel
ing, West Virginia, for the alleged at
tempted murder of her husband, fur
nished material for studying more
than the marital difficulties involved.
Dispatch from Lisbon says: “Life
of provisional government, of Portu
gal hangs by a thread,” and the
chances were in favor of the loving
subjects hanging Manuel by his
head if he had stayed—so what
would you?
Very High-Brow paper is going the
rounds, concerning the Garden of
Eden; the average mere man is wor
rying most now about his own garden
and his neighbor’s chickens.
Mebbe Prohibition is—in Georgia,
but we noted many feeling references
to egg-nog among the brethren,
’specially in the weekly press, an’
honest, some of the editorials read
exactly like “the day after.”
Little old New York is either of a
very trusting disposition, or else she
doesn’t read the papers; over one
hundred million dollars have been
swiped from the too trusting New
Yorkers by “get-rich-quick” schem
ers.
The Southern Poets’ Association
may now offer prizes for original
verses on Beautifulsnow, a storm
having recently given members their
first real experience with the fleecy
flakes.
And another thing about those up
per berths in the sleeping cars is,
you fall so far when you DO fall —
but read this: In a recent railroad
smash-up, lady named Rubberloss
was thrown from top berth, and as
she couldn’t bounce, she broke.
There’s religion, pro
vided you can make converts in
wholesale lots. Billy Sunday had a
meetin’ in lowa recently and con
verted 3,354 people, cleaning up
$7,000 for the job—and that’s a
trifle over $2.00 a head, isn’t it?
Husky lot of farmers in South
Carolina: newspaper account of the
killing of a farmer by his insane
wife, reads this way: “The back of
an axe was used to beat him into un
consciousness after the blade was
used to nearly sever the head from
the body.”
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Consumed Quart of Whisky Daily.
t CURED IN 72 HOURS
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Dear suds; here’s another preach
er fallen off the Perch of Righteous
ness—his trusting parishioners made
him a human safety deposit box for
their money, and when he had
vaulted SIO,OOO, he lit out —but the
police got him before he had spent
it all.
The latest and most audacious na
ture fakir tale comes from Ken
tucky, right after Christmas, too,
which sounds like egg-nog: Two
men claim found a bee-tree
which contained, besides honey,
seven coons, five opossums and three
squirrels.
’S’curious world; here’s a North
Carolina judge, locked up in a
Keeley Institute, trying to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. And he will recover, prob
ably to return to his job and send
brothers-in-temptation to long terms
in jail.
The great new serial by Thos. E.
Watson, “The Story of the South and
West,” will begin in the February
number of Watson’s Magazine, out
this week.
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Near Jefferson ESVfEnU
fan Plant preferred. Address
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you will receive a copy,
if sent by March Ist.
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