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Early County Mews.
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Blakely, Ga., April 29th, 1909.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.
(New York World.)
Without the aid of other people’s
money furnished by the chartered
banks of Chicago, how long could
James A. Patten manipulate the price
of wheat?
The banks that have loaned their
depositors' money and Government
money to Mr. Patten will say, of
eourse, that they are amply secured.
So they are. Elevator certificates
are good collateral, and the security
improves with every advance of an
eighth of a cent in the price of
wheat. But the public which provides
the monety and pays all the profits is
not secured.
If Mr. Patten had had to use his
own money to carry on his specula
tion there would have been no wheat
pool and no increase in the cost of
bread. But the American people are
very generous with the man who gam
bles on (he Board of Trade or the
Stock Exchange at the expense of the
general welfare. They grant liberal
charters and extraordinary privileges
to banks. They deposit their own
money in these banks. They allow
the man who does the gambling to
have access to this money and to
make enormous profits by employing
it to oppress the public. In Mr. Pat
ten’s case he has been able to levy a
lax of $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 upon
the households of the United States
by the simple process of borrowing
other people’s money and then turn
ing it against them. Every woman
that bakes or buys a loaf of bread
pays tribute to him.
All this is an old story both in Chi
cago av-d New York. Neither Chi
cago Board of Trade gambling nor
Wall street gambling could greatly
affect the general prosperity of the
country, except through its relations
with the organized banking system.
Wall street always gambles with oth
er people’s money. Gov. Hughes’ com
mission will not get to the root of
the evil unless it devises means by
which the chartered banks can be di
vorced from the exchanges, and the
gamblers compelled to provide their
own resources in the manipulation of
the market.
The United States is the only civil
ized country in the world which al
lows Its banking and Treasury sys
tem to be made part of the machinery
of stock and grain gambling.
The Augusta Chronicle thinks Rev.
Len Broughton’s attack on the South
ern Educational Conference was due
to the fact that Len couldn’t connect
up with the program and had to get
notoriety out of it in some way.—
Americus Tlmes-Recorder.
Will our Americus brother please
inquire of the omlnscient editor of the
Chronicle what inspired Bishop Can
dler’s virile opposition to the same
aggregation? The Macon Teleghaph’s
able editor also attempted to wain
oar people against selling their educa
tional institutions to the Standard Oil
Co. and allied interests. Was his,
too, a case of sour grapes?
The Columbia Breeze came to us
this morning flying the names of
Messrs. W. L. Crawford and C. H.
Davis at the mast head. We welcome
these clever gentlemen to the ranks
of the “Fourth Estate” and hope the
Breeze will flourish under their admin
istration. Good luck to retiring Edi
tor Koeber.
Longing for the “flesh pots” of
government! patronage is pHobably
the Inspiration for the greater por
tion of the so-called movemeut to
break the Solid South.
MILLIRONS WILL NOT HANG.
The Clay County White Man Will
Escape Gallows.
Governor Smith has commuted the
sentence of Louis Millirons, the white
man recently convicted of rape in
Clay county and sentenced to be hung,
and he will go to the penitentiary for
life.
The Atlanta Georgian says a child
ish letter, a scrawl written with a
pencil, was filed away in the execu
tive archives Monday morning by Col.
Calvin M. Hitch and to its receipt by
Governor Smith is probably due the
fact that Louis Millirons, of Fort
Gaines, will not die on the scaffold.
It was a plea to the governor rrom
the condemned man’s little hoy and
girl, begging for executive clemency,
and it was successful.
It was announced a day or two ago
that Governor Smith had commuted
Milliron’s death sentence to life im
prisonment, but it was not announced
how the two children of the con
demned man played a part in the
affair.
The letter was written by Preston
Millirons, the 9-year old son of Mill
irons, and he says he meant is for his
little sister, too, only she couldn’t
write.
In announcing his decision to com
mute the man’s sentence, the governor
went into the merits of the case and
gave good reasons why he should do
it. He did not mention the childish
appeal for a father's life to be saved,
but those who know the governor in
sist that it helped some.
“Here is a little boy,” the letter
began, “asking you not to let his fath
er hang. My little sister, Etta, asks
it too, Mr. Smith.”
Part 3 of the letter were almost im
possible co read, so bad was the
scrawl, but the governor knew what
the child meant. This part, for in
stance, was easily understood:
“If you only knowed, Mr. Smith,
how bad it hurts my heart to see Mr.
Wade Beard fixing the ga/llows to
hang my papa, you would not let him
do it.. Mr. Smith, please have mercy
on me and my little sister, and don’t
hang my poor papa. Mamma is dead
and him and grandma is all we got.”
Louis Millirons will not mount the
sra'lmvs.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Chamber, April 26, 1909
Call meeting. M. T. Chipstead, may
or, A. J. Fleming, C. F. Coleman, J.
W. Strickland, T. F. Cordray present.
Minutes of last meeting read and
adopted.
The following ordinance requiring
all automobiles to be lighted at night
was passed:
“On and after the passage of this
ordinance all automobiles shall be re
quired to have not less than two lights
on front of machine and one in rear
of machine at night. Any owner of
any automobile violating this ordi
nance shall be punished as prescribed
in Section 17 of the city ordinances.”
Moved and carried that within thir
ty days the water hydrant at Jack
Ross' be taken off the road and all
parties wishing to use the city’s water
in that locality will have to make ap
plication to the city authorities.
Moved and carried that the Superin
tendent of Water and Light Plant be
authorized to buy 7,500 feet of water
dpe and fittings.
Moved and carried that the Mayor
: e authorized to sign note for S2OO
with interest from April 27th, 1909, to
October SiY, 1909, at 8 per cent, the
above money to be paid to the Cotton
States Belting & Supply Company.
Moved and carried that ten cents
he charged for the renewal of electric
lamps. R. W. ALEXANDER, Clerk.
NEWS FROM STREETS OF ELMO.
By Old ’Gator.
Wonder who got fooled Sunday
last. Bet I know.
Miss Belle Poole spent Sunday with
Miss Callie Hoover.
Cotton chopping is all the go
among the good old farmers.
Miss Mattie Legere visited Miss
Ida Mae Royals one day last week.
Ha! ha! Ask two boys how they
like to cook when the old folks are
off.
Mr. Dostor Poole, accompanied by
Miss Mattie Legere, was out riding
Sunday afternoon.
Two boys of this place went to the
sing Sunday afternoon. Ask them
how it was.
I seems that we have had several
days of rain, but I reckon the old
farmers were glad to see it.
Well, I guess Old ’Gator will have
enough water to play In and fish to
eat and you know he will enjoy him
self then.
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