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TIjb ^alton Citizen.
CONVICTS AND ROADS.
PUBLISHED BVEEI THURSDAY
By
(HI A. 3. RHOWALTER CO., Proprietors
T. 8. 8HQPJ4 Editor.
T. S McCAMY Associate Editor.
TELEPHONE 18.
It is to many people in this county
a source of regret that no convicts are
to be worked on the roads. Nearly
all the counties in the state are now
engaged in making good roads with
bad men, or those who have misdi
rected their energies in- the past.
The specious argument has been
used that it was objectionable to use
convicts on the roads in competition
with free labor. Evidently such con
clusions have been reached by the pro
cess of reasoning from false premises.
True, the work done on the roads by
convicts could be done by free labor,
but is it not clear to anyone that the
convicts will be working somewhere
else, and that wherever it is and what
ever it is they are working at, could
be done by free labor?
It makes no difference where the
convicts work they will be doing that
which free laborers could do, be it in
the coal mines, the turpentine camps,
The roads being pub
lic institutions, it is but fair to assume
that it is more in keeping with the
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Entered at the Dalton, Ga. v Pest
office for transmission through the mails | 0 r on the roads,
as second-class matter.
The Citizen will not accept whisky ad
vertisements. Patent medicines of a ques-
tlonable nature, and cure-all nostrums can progress of the times to work the con-
have no entry into these columns. yicts on them .
DALTON, GA., THURSDAY, APR. 22. The grand jury of intelligent men
which adjourned last week recom
mended that no convicts he worked on
the roads, and for what reason we do
not know, unless as above assigned.
The people of the county, if we mis-
Elbert Hubbard says you can’t tell take not, want good roads. They are
a live wire from a dead one by merely entitled to them. They are compelled
looking at it. to travel over them. The Cohutta lor
-t — cal, of the Farmers’ Union has passed
The Augusta Herald says the resolutions in favor of working con
state’s bad men are making good roads, victs, and we have been told that oth-
Not in this county. ers will. This paper never intends to
-♦ quit talking about good roads, and
‘Conductors have a legal right to those people who have anything to say
refuse five-dollar bill, ’ says a head- on the subject, will find The Citizen
is made and its particular germ is
ascertained, yields readily to treat
ment. Here we have the seat of
the disease pretty well known; it
is in the hearts and consciences
of the people themselves. Readh
these; cure them of their hard
ness, their indifference and their
selfishness and the remedy will
come along speedily. To apply the
remedy is the thing—difficult but
not impossible.
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AN APPRECIATED COMPLIMENT
(Macon Telegraph.)
Hon Charles L Bartlett was doubt-j fed and kindred trusts was vividly sug-
less supposed by many who heard him, gested by Representative Sabath, of I
Pity poor Castro can’t fly. i
$
Spring and poetry have arrived.
line.
But will they
right where it has always been—advo
eating good roads.
In closing, let us again emphasize
con
victs work they will compete with free
.... .. . .... I labor, and less on the roads than anv-
Whatever it is that is the matter ’ . ,
where else, because there is less work
Those convicts writing poetry and
picking the banjo, let us hope, ai e not | f act uo ma tter where the
in competition with free labor.
with the city council must be conta
gious, for the grand jury caught it.
done there, and that the only way to
take the convicts absolutely out of
Dr. Broughton’s chief objection to I competition, is to take them to a camp
the educational convention seems to be and board them, where they can write
was not asked to lead in Poetry and pick the banjo, while the
that he
prayer.
taxpayers foot the bills!
The Fort Valley Leader says Atlanta |
has more loud talk and sickening flap
doodle than any city in the United j
States.
"HE CAUSE OF INCREASING CRIME
Mrs. Rosa Monnish, after being sen-1
tenced to two years imprisonment, sui
cided. Thus Atlanta, Ga., lost quite a|
celebrity.
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According to the Darien Gazette, pro-1
hibition makes law-breakers, but re
duces the number of drunkards. Which |
is the worst?
That was a very nice compliment
Tom Murphy paid the country weekly
in his “Talking It Over” column in the j
Augusta Chronicle.
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Once it was said that the fool hath
said in his heart there is no God. The I
fool now is the one who professes to ]
know r all about Him.
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The Elberton Star advises those men Hon. Sam P. Maddox in a speech be-
who are laughing so loudly at the fore a jury last week. The truth in
ladies’ hats, to wait and see what dame it is self-evident. Just so long as laws
fashion has in store for them. are not enforced, just so long will
-4 there be contempt for all law which
Len Broughton could no longer stand breeds crime,
the obscurity, so he came out into the At this p 0 j nt we emphasize
limelight long enough to say the South- a statement we have made many times,
There is scarcely a man in this
house that will not admit that
crime in this country is increasing
at an alarming rate; that as a
result human life and property are
unsafe. No man is certainly sure
of xus life. Read the daily papers
and what do we see? There is
scarcely a day but the pages of
these are not overrun with ac
counts of murders.
There is some cause for this. In
my opinion it is directly due to
the failure of jurors to do their
duty and find convictions where
the evidence and the law justifies
it. I very much fear that the
shrewdness of lawyers, the techni
calities of the law r and the wilful
sinning of our jurors is responsible
for it.
The above statement was made by
ern Educational Board is “paganistic.
Don’t blame Judge Fite for wanting
the court of appeals abolished. If we
had been reversed by it as many times .
_ . :J and demagoguery, are a type of the
as he has, we would want to see it
I \/P rv \Aift ref I o vn/o rho*
and which has a forcible connection
with this discussion, namely, that laws
enacted in advance of public sentiment,
and which are the result of fanaticism
dynamited.
Chattooga county is spending $55,000
for a court house, and the county site,
Summerville, is spending $3,500 for a
school house. This is a case of mak
ing the spigot bigger than the hung.
The Atlanta Georgian makes
statement that “Mississippi is the only 1 observes:
very worst laws that get on statute
books, getting there under the guise
of "morality,” and causing the great
est possible disrespect of all law, the
weakening of morality and a general
demoralization among all classes of
people.
Commenting on the remarks of
the I Judge Maddox, the Chattanooga Times
state in which the blacks outnumber
the whites.” What’s the matter with
South Carolina, with 557,807 whites |
and 782,321 negroes?
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If Editors Hilton and Stanley, of I
Dublin, pull off that singing match we[
are going to attend. Being a musician
of high rank and a steer-plower of
ability, we feel we should be allowed
to referee the match.
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The grand jury just adjourned recom
mended the abolishment of the court
of appeals, the city court of Dalton,
that no convicts be worked on the
roads and that the newspapers he paid
$5.00 each for printing their present
ments of about five columns!
We have for some time had mis
givings abut the propriety of our mak
ing two close connection with the Og
den educational movement, hut since
Dr. Broughton has come out and de
nounced it, we realize our mistake. The
movement must be right.
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The Dublin papers are having a
controversy over what is classic music.
One of the belligerents says “There’ll
be a Hot Time in the Old Town To
night” is a fair sample, while the other
protests that “All Coons Look Alike to
Me,” is really the only classic piece
he ever saw or heard.
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Convicts in competition with free
labor on the public roads! Great
Scott! Are the people so simple as
to be always hoodwinked! It makes
no difference where the convicts are
worked, they will he in competition
with free labor, hut on the roads less
than anywhere else. They have to
work somewhere, don’t they?
Dalton is one of the most beau
tiful and orderly of the many little
cities in Georgia and is located in
one of the most progressive coun
ties in the state. Naturally it
would be supposed that the city
and county would be—and doubt
less they are—among the most or
derly, law-abiding and peaceful
communities in the state. But we
are here told by a responsible man,
man of experience and who
measures his words and their
meaning, that crime is increasing
alarmingly, not only elsewhere, but
right in Dalton and Whitfield coun
ty. It is true that not a day passes
that the daily press does not re
port from three to a half dozen
or more crimes of violence, blood
shed and murder occurring some
where in the country and all of
them are not reported by any
means. Mr. Maddox charges it
primarily to the failure of juries
to convict under the law and evi
dence. Undoubtedly this has much
to do with it, but as a matter of
fact the failure of the jury is only
symtomatic of the deadly malady
—contempt for law. There is
something radically wrong with
public sentiment; if it were not
so juries would not fail to do their
duty; officers would not fail to
i enforce the law; there would come
about a more serious and whole
some regard for human life and a
more cordial submission to legal
restraints.
In the scientific world it is only
needed to know the cause in order
to be able to discover the remedy
for disease. The most aggravating
maladies, once a correct diagnosis
At times when an editor—especially
of a “country” weekly—takes time off
to see if his work is doing any good
he is almost certain to think that few
if any appreciate his efforts, despite
the fact that he is putting his whole
heart into his work. The words of
praise he receives are few and far be
tween; and when anyone dares to
break away from his fellowmen and
say that he profits from reading the
country weekly,” it makes the editor
feel so good to know that all of his
efforts are not wasted, that he wants
other people to read what a certain
person thinks of his paper.
And so, braving a charge of vanity,
The Citizen prints a paragraph in a
letter received from F. T. Reynolds, a
former editor of this paper, showing
that some people really enjoy reading
the weekly newspaper:
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 15, 1909.
The other night Col. Tom Fort,.
El Howell, W. F. Fischer, Mr. Bar
clay, of Hotel Patten, Capt. Gould-
ing and myself met Governor-elect
Joe Brown and proceeded to give
him a genuine Georgia welcome,
and while we were waiting for the
train to come the gentlemen, for
some unaccountable reason, fell to
discussing country papers. One of
the party said he did not read
them. Col. Fort remarked, “Then,
young man, you’ve got a lot to
learn. I read the Dalton Citizen
regularly, and I tell you there is
brains hack of it—particularly in
the editorial columns.” At this
juncture Capt. Goulding said, “I
used to read it with pleasure and
profit when my friend Reynolds
was the editor.” Of course I felt
good over these things, coming as
they did from these gentlemen of
high estate, and while I do not wish
to throw bouquets at myself, yet we
fellows so seldom get what is
coming to us I cannot refrain from
letting you know what they think
of your work. Think it will do
you more good to hear it now than
to wait until your biographer takes
it second-hand from your monu
ment to get it “ok’d” by Saint
Peter, the unerring proof-reader.
Wish I could think of all the good
things Col. Fort and Capt. Gould
ing said about the influence of fine
country papers like The Citizen.
One idea advanced was that the
world of finance and all other work
was executed by what the country
editors under 40 years of age de
mand.
The Macon Telegraph says, “Some of
the Georgia papers are fussy as old
hens.” Judging from the way some
of them cackle they must be laying a
great deal.
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The Augusta Chronicle says the con
victs left in the penitentiary have gone
to writing poetry. A great many peo
ple up this way wish they were making
roads in Whitfield.
We desire to commend the city coun
cil for its action in making it plainly
understood and imperative that Ham
ilton street must be sprinkled and kept
sprinkled when it needs it.
Professor Marshall of the University
of Pennsylvania says; that whiskey
does no good in cases of rattlesnake
bite. This is destined to make fishing
unpopular, as it is no fun to go without
bait.
A St. Louis negro, hauled before the
police court for forgery, charged his
downfall to “super-education,” being a
graduate of Yale. We suspect that the
cause of his downfall was a desire to
get something for nothing without be
ing caught.
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One of Rome’s preachers is objecting
to the use of wine at the merchants
and manufacturers’ banquet Friday
night. It may not have occurred to
him that these merchants and manu
facturers pay the taxes, make the city
possible, meet pay rolls and also pay
his salary, and that no doubt they can
attend to the banquet without debauch
ing the town.
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EDITORIAL VIEWS.
How They Can Do It.
An exchange says “most anybody
can edit a newspaper.” Yes, but
everybody can’t stand the con
stant kicking.—Elberton Star.
Yes, again, if somebody will pay the
bills.
Bust and Buckhead.
The Brunswick News wants to
know, “where is Buckhead in Ful
ton county?” We don’t know,
really, but it sounds like the loca
tion of a blind tiger.—Rome Trib
une-Herald.
And also like the results of a visit
to one.
About Easter Hats.
The Western Christian Advocate
thinks that the new Easter hats
are ^outlandish, hideous, unseem
ly, obstructive, Impudent, self-as-
to be recklessly exaggerating when he
said that under the Payne bill the poor
will still be compelled to pay tribute
to the multi-millionaires of New Eng
land, who do not regard themselves
as rich until they have acquired three-
quarters of a billion dollars.” It is
quite true, however, that when a mem
ber of the Ways and Means Commit
tee asked a rich cotton manufacturer
of that section, Mr. Henry F. Lippett,
what he considered a large fortune,
he replied that nothing short of three-
quarters of a billion dollars could be
properly so described.
We do not subscribe to the notion
that the rich are necessarily not what
they ought to be, a notion which is
becoming dangerously popular and is
thus sowing the seeds of future rev
olution. But when men become as
rich as Mr. Lippett thinks they must
before they can rightfully claim to
possess “a large fortune,” or even half
as rich, the blamelessness of the means
and methods whereby they have
amassed so great a sum, as well as
the righteousness of the laws under
which they have been permitted to do
so, may well be questioned. Not only
does wrong enter into the accuiihulation
of such abnormal riches, too often in
large part the fruit of legalized indi
rect taxation of the masses of the peo
ple, but demoralization attends the
effort to spend such fortunes in the
usual spectacular manner. The riot
ous living of the “barons” of the tariff-
Illinois, the other day as follows:
“A few thousand ‘Londonized’
and ‘Parisianized’ ‘trust barons,’
who spend their winters in extrav
agant luxury in Florida and Cali
fornia and their summers in Eu
rope and return in the fall to col
lect their ‘booty’ (applause);
whose sons spend their days in
idleness and their nights in shock
ing debauchery; whose daughters
are in hot pursuit of some degen
erate and impoverished scion of
nobility in order to secure a title,
though it subjects the American
people to severe ridicule.” (Ap
plause.)
We are reminded not merely of the
saying of the Apostle Paul that the love
of money is the root of all evil, but of
Milton’s
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell: that soil may
best
Deserve the precious bane.
It stands to reason that not all of
the multi-millionaire class are of the
vulgar and immoral type described by
Mr. Sabath, and as for the moderately
rich, many of them, as everyone knows,
are included among the country’s best
people. Moreover, not a few of the
poor would be equally bad or worse
than the most immoral millionaires if
they could change places. Yet it is
true that too many vast fortunes have
grown in hell,” and have wrought
nothing but evil.
Georgia People Were Shenaniganed, Thought a Citizen of This I
Counts. *S3KiWS
A humorous story concerning Gover-1 history of the state, as is also a well
nor-elect Brown’s recent visit to this known fact.
city is going the rounds; but just who
is responsible for the story The Citi
zen is not in position to say.
It is a fact well known to every
Georgia citizen that during the recent
campaign for the governorship, Hon.
Joseph M. Brown remained at home,
not caring to follow Governor Smith’s
lead and make stump speeches over
the state. Now, before the campaign,
very few people had heard of “Little
Joe,” let alone seen him; and his pic
tures sent out were really better look
ing than the man. The Citizen would
not make such a statement if Gover
nor Brown was sensitive about his
looks, but as he is perfectly willing
to make the same statement publicly,
it goes.
When the day for voting came
around, Mr. Brown won a great vic
tory over Governor Smith, thereby
creating the most talked of political
Well, to come to the story:
It happened, as the tale goes, when
the governor-elect arose to address a
large crowd at the court house. As
he was bowing and waiting for the
cheers to subside he gave those pres
ent an excellent opportunity to size
him up.
Two of our friends from the country
were sitting at an advantageous place,
and got a full look at Mr. Brown; and
as he cleared his throat preparatory
to speaking, one of these gentlemen
leaned over to his friend and the fol
lowing dialogue ensued:
“Is that the ‘feller’ we swapped Hoke
Smith for?” asked the first of his
companion.
“Yes,” was the monosyllabic reply.
“Then, I’m damned if we didn’t
swap with the gypsies,” said the first,
as he settled down comfortably to
hear the governor-elect’s address.
TOM R. JONES WILL ACCEPT OFFICE
AS VICE-CONSUL TO GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
Tom R. Jones, of this city, Saturday
received his appointment as vice-consul
to Glasgow, Scotland, and will sail soon
to take up his duties there. The ap
pointment is an excellent one, and Mr.
Jones is receiving the congratulation^
of his local friends on securing it.
The position places Mr. Jones in line
for promotion to bigger things, and he
has made up his mind to accept the
office. It is open to him when he gets
ready to go; and he will probably leave
this city within one month.
Glasgow is one of the important I
coast cities of the world, having a pop
ulation of over one-half million. The [
post ranks in the fourth class.
In addition to being vice-consul the j
appointment gives Mr. Jones the title J
of deputy-consul also. It is a frequent
occurrence that deputy consuls are
sent to smaller cities where they open
up offices under the main consul offices.
While Mr. Jones’ local friends regret
that he will leave Dalton, still they re-1
joice with him in his good fortune.
sertive, loud, dominant aiders and
abettors of the devil.” When a
religious editor can talk like this,
what may be expected of the yel
low journals?—Macon Telegraph.
Nothing. They are the victims of
relentless usurpation.
Now, Who’s Skinned?
The editor of the Dalton Citizen,
who has recently acquired the hab
it of animadverting on the per
sonal pulchritude of a member of
the Tribune-Herald staff, should
remember that beauty is only skin
deep, and we’ve got him skinned.
—Rome Tribune-Herald.
Since pulchritude means beauty, an
imadverting as to the gentleman in
question, on the subject named, would
be impossible.
Rowell borrowed from us be promptly
returned, and if the worst comes to |
the worst, he can go to bed or
bathing.
JIM
HERRON TO TRAVEL
FOR DRY GOODS HOUSE]
Will Work
For Lyles-Black
Nashville.
Co., of
The Difference.
Truly old liquor is on the run
all over the country. It is actually
getting hard, in this section, for
good temperance brothers to‘get a
little for emergencies.—Middle
Georgia Farmer.
Well, we are sorry to say it is not
that way up here. Everybody—men,
boys, old soaks and temperance broth
ers can get all they want most any
old time.
A New Style.
A few days ago one of Dublin’s
fair young ladies went autoing.
And as she went by the convict
camp where the heavy steam roller
was being used for road packing,
her hat blew off, the ponderous
machine passing over it. Thus
the latest style in ladies’ hats was
created.—Dublin Times.
Can’t make any new styles in this
county, as we have no machines, no
convicts, anjl the roads nothing about
which to brag.
An Exchange of Courtesies.
We have hesitated to mention so
flagrant an abuse of hospitality,’
but it is our only recourse. We
must request Editor Shope to re
turn the toothbrush he borrowed
from us the last time he was in
Rome.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
We promptly returned it, and now
we must ask, embarrassing though It
m;'.y be, that the suit of clothes Clair
Mr. H. J. Herron, Jr., will leave next
week to accept a position as traveling
salesman for the dry goods firm of
Lyles-Black Co., of Nashville. Mr. Her
ron’s friends are confident that he
will make good, and will prove a valu-1
able man for the Nashville house.
Mr. Herron attended college at the |
University of Georgia, and, after leav
ing there, he began working for the I
firm of Herron & Thomas, one of the |
leading dry goods firms of this city.
He has made a good salesman; but is I
leaving his position for a new field. |
Being a young man of ability and hav
ing a good business head on his shoul-1
ders, he should rapidly come to the [
front as a traveling salesman.
CITY BEAUTIFUL CLUB
TO CLEAN CEMETERY
Soldiers'
Grave Yard Will Also Be |
Made Neater.
The cemetery committee of the City
Beautiful Club has decided on the last
three days in this month as the days
in which to give the cemeteries of
the city a thorough cleaning. Those
who own lots are requested to be on
hand to assist in the work.
The cemetery committee is one of
the most active of the committees of
the club, and they intend to do good
work next Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. West Hill cemetery and the
Confederate soldiers’ burying ground
will be where the efforts of the ladies
will be directed.
Foley’s Honey and Tar is a safe
guard against serious results from
spring colds, which inflame the lungs
and develop into pneumonia. Avoid
counterfeits by insisting upon having
the genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar
which contains no harmful drugs. For
sale by all drugglBts.
FLOOR
COVERINGS?
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a strong
pretty,
Good se-
We have
line. New,
substantial,
lection Rugs, Art
Squares, Carpets, Mat
tings, etc., of the best
makes.
Our Art Squares are
the prettiest ever
brought to Dalton.
We have just re
ceived a new line of
the well known
“Odorless 99
Refrigerators
We have handled this
line for several sea
sons and have many
satisfied customers in
Dalton.
There is but one fac
tory making the gen
uine “Odorless,” and
we are their represent
atives in this section.
Buy one of these
and get satisfaction.
Come to us for any
thing in Furniture, etc.
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LEONARD-McSHEE
FURNITURF GO.
Furniture and Undertaking.