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THE DALTON CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921.
The Dalton Citizen
The Infamous Fordney Bill.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
SHOPS
McOAMY
. . ■ ,* ffiditor
Aaa*ci*to Editor
The republican party has been six months in
control of the country and has nothing to its
credit except talk, and not a very high order of
that all too plentiful commodity.
The Fordney tariff bill is a piece of legislation
more advanced than any other, and the least need
ed. In fact, there is no need for it at all.
It is an instrument that will do a full measure
Term, of Subscription I in keeping the cost of living high. With such a
One reM . 51.50 tariff bill, positively infamous, enacted into law,
Six Months .75
Official Organ of the .United States Circuit and District
Courts, Northwestern division, Northern District of Georgia.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WHITFIELD COUNTY.
Three Months
Payable in Advance
Advertising Bates on Application.
Entered at the Dalton, Ga., postoffice for transmission
through the mails as second-class matter.
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPT, 29, 1921.'
Perhaps \ one automobile owner in fiva can af
ford it.
The weather man says “sweet summer’s gone
away.” Well, for one we are net mad about it.
The difference between “Fatty” Arbuckle and
„some of the rest of them is' that “Fatty” is caught.
On the Firing Line at Last.
The Atlanta newspapers, all three of them, are
realizing that Ku-Kluxism is a dangerous menace,
and are speaking out plainly against it. Anything
that appeals to class prejudice, and seeks to re
kindle the fires of religious persecution has no
place in any community in this country. That old
spurious and repudiated oath, alleged to be taken
by the Knights of Columbus, has been going the
rounds again, and is calculated to do much harm
where the people do not know that it is a fake. It
has been figuring in Atlanta affairs, and is doing
much harm in dividing good people. The Ku-Klux
Klan is responsible for it. It is time the Atlanta
papers were speaking out.
That fellow Carl Hutchison, down Atlanta way,
ought to take something guaranteed to cure jack-
assitis.
with the present indefensible freight rates pre
vailing, the cost of living is bound to mount high
er and higher. The Fordney bill simply builds a
wall around this country, and says that all imports
must stay out or pay an exorbitant duty. In other
words the bill is drawn not to protect industry
in this country so much as to extort money from
the consumers and empty it into the pockets of.
the already amply protected interests.
The Atlanta Journal, speaking of the Fordney
bill, says:
It appears that the Republican party, or the
small part of it nucleated about Chairman
Fordney, has not learned very well the lessons
of the McKinley and the Payne-Aldrich bills,
which, in the blunt parlance of the common
‘ man, resulted in the Grand Old Party being
thrown out on its ear as soon aj possible after
their enactment.
The Fordney bill, incomparably worse than
either of the bills mentioned, or the Dingley
bill, is coming on for debate in Tlongress, and
according to Chairman Fordney himself, one
of the principal virtues advanced by fhe sup
porters of the bill is that it establishes a rate
of duty averaging between 18 and 20 per cent
N on a whole list of imports, while the Payne-
Aldrich average was only 18.55 and the Un
derwood rate is 6 per cent;
If this is Mr. Fordney’s idea of a virtue, he
must regard as singularly vicious the conclu- •
sion of the special tariff committee of the Chi
cago Association of Commerce, which has been
making a careful analysis of the so-called
American Valuation Plan proposed in the
Fordney Bill/
The Chicago body has concluded and pub
licly said:
“The American Valuation Plan In the Ford
ney Tariff Bill is impracticable and unwork
able and will result in tremendous loss and
confusion to all business connected with or
relating to the' importation of merchandise
subject to ad valorem rates.
“In shutting off our imports it will put a
bar up to our export trade, because those na
tions who cannot sell us goods will not buy
The man who walks a straight line will
never cross himself, nor double-cross any-.
body else.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
If a man drinks home brew hootch how is he to
walk a straight line? /
And another thing, if there isn’t any hell
where do the grown-ups who tell little chil
dren there isn’t any Santa Claus go to when
they die?—Macon Telegraph.
Syrtonomously speaking, maybe they think they ,|
will get off by going to Atlanta.
The Cordele Dispatch likes to see girls wear
ing gingham dresses because it adds to the
consumption of cotton. Yes, and it shows that
the girls have uncommonly good sense.—Wal
ton Tribune.
Gingham dresses are not so ugly, either, and
when worn by a pretty girl, the combination is
delightfnl as well as sensible.
ty Fair put him to thinking, also the Atlanta Jour-
nal, who was its pioneer and is still a constant
advocate of same. The same is true of The Dalton
Citizen, which ranks with the best, if not Georgia’s
best, county paper; therefore, it has now become
hopeful that at an early date Hon. Frank Reynolds,
who always lived at the climax of every public
interest will realize the fruits of his labor in his
early advocacy of recognizing' our native grasses,
as he is now enjoying the fruits of his early ad
vocacy of good roads.
Therefore, there is now perhaps one objection
that may be worthy of consideration, which is:
Our native grasses’do not meet the demand of the
fastidious appetite of our stock for which we an
nually expend something like one hundred million
dollars, while the best health, strength, brain and
appetite, to say nothing of our big fat, bouncing
babies, are found in that class of humanity who
live on the plainest, ordinary food.
Therefore, we fail to find the propriety, or con
sistency of humoring our stock more than our
selves and families at an outlay of the above sum.
' M. S. CHARLES.
The hay fever victim is packing his grip
far the mountains. ’Sneezy way to dodge it.—
B. Biffem, in Savannah Press.
As much as we dislike the Kooklucks, ke feel
that they should at least wait on Mr. Bifi'em, and
hand him what he needs.
By the way, and apropos of nothing in par
ticular, did you hear the one about the widow
who had carved upon the headstone marking
the place where Friend Husband was filed
away: “Rest In Peace.Until We Meet Again”?
—Johnny Spencer, in Macon Telegraph.
No, we never heard of it, and thank you for
passing it on. It isn’t at all bad.
The Mercer edition of The Macon Telegraph „ andI this will result in great additional losses.
1 “Other nations have no gold. They have'
was a great newspaper,
great every day.
In fact The Telegraph is
Should Resign or Quit the K. K. K.
Solicitor-General Boykin, of the Atlanta circuit,
admits he is a member of the Ku-Klux Klan.
We submit that the Ku-Klux Klan is not the
proper kind of an organization for a law-enforcing
official to belong to. An organization that incul
cates and encourages the spirit of religious hatred
and revenge is not fit for decent, law-abiding peo
ple to belong to. It appeals to race prejudice and
every other prejudice that will help bring in
$10.00 memberships.
There is no place in this country for masked
bands of midnight riders, administering the law
with tar, feathers, threats and bull whips. Such
proceedings are the very worst forms of lawless
ness, and for law-enforcing officials to join a “tar
and feather fraternity” is evidence within itself
that such officials endorse, wittingly or unwitting
ly, lawlessness as a means of suppressing it. It
is an inexcusable contradiction.
The mask has been torn from the Ku-Klux
Klan, and it stands revealed as a “hideous mon
ster of frightful mien.” That law-enforcing offic
ials should join such an organization is not so
easily understood when the horrible oath taken
is considered.
The solicitor-general of the Atlanta circuit ad
mits he is a member of the Klan. He should, in
our opinion, resign as solicitor-general, or quit the
organization, whose members tar and feather de
fenseless women and men. ■
How can a law-enforcing official afford to be
long to an organization that masks itself and goes
forth in the night to perform lawless acts?'
only merchandise. They cannot buy from us
unless we first buy from them L And unless
our farmers, our producers of raw materials
and our manufacturers who export can turn
their inventories into cash and have a' ready
market for their surplus, we are faced with
continued business stagnation.”
This is a fair example of the opinion of busi
ness men the nation over—the class of men
so frequently referred to as the backbone of
the G. 0. P.
Even with the congressional elections a year
distant, it is to be hoped in this crisis that
all the Republican members of congress have
not lost their congenital ideas of self-preser
vation.
“Dr.” Caleb Ridley says he is a Koo-Kluck,
and proud of it. And that is mainly-what is the
matter with the organization—made up of Ridley’s
sort of folks.
The Columbia (S. C.) Record puts it this way:
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where guns accumulate and plows decay.
What we would like to know IS, how Broth
er‘Shope of the Dalton Citizen, stands this hot
weather. If‘it is any cooler in Dalton than in
Rome we would like to know it.—Rome Tri
bune-Herald.
Certainly it is cooler in Dalton than in Rome,
and in the winter time it is warmer in Dalton than
in Rome.
The Dalton Citizen is opposed to the gov
ernorship being used as “a stepping stone for
the reclamation of a lost Arcadia,” and is out
and out for Gordon Lee. He has a long and
distinguished record of public service in Con
gress. Not in many years have we had a man
of his type as governor. But what are we go
ing to do about Willie Vereen, Roscoe Luke,
et al?—Madison Madisonian.
Forget ’em! If Hardwick makes any kind
of success as governor, which is doubtful, he
should have a second term if he wants it, but our
understanding is he doesn’t want a second cup.
So far his administration'has been farcical.
We, hereby put society and fashion sharks
on notice that we shall continue to wear our
straw hat (which is our best one) until Octo
ber 15, or later, if the mercury shall continue
to register in the nineties.—Cuthbert Leader.
This is a timely proclamation issued by a
brave editor. John Howell may be depended
upon to wear his straw hat until he gets a
winter outfit.—Jack Patterson, in Atlanta Jour
nal.
We admire the fellow who wears his' straw
hat according to the weather and not by the calen
dar.
Concerning True Americanism.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
* * * * In a previous message I urged the increase
of our membership as a potent means of showing
loyalty to our inherited American institutions in
these days of discontent and radicalism. We are
beginning to realize that socialistic and radical
teachings, so destructive of our most cherished in
stitutions, are insidiously creeping into our schools
and colleges and even into our churches. * *
Hitherto the radical, and the radically minded
reformer, have monopolized our oratory. They
are blatant and aggressive, while Americans go
about their business, heedless, for the most part, of
their propaganda. Hence it gains headway and
may lead to a serious upheaval, unless we offset
it by proclaiming the doctrines of sanity and com
mon sense. We must come out in the open on the
side of the Constitution, teaching the sound prin
ciples of liberty and justice. * * *
Loyal American women are needed by their
country today, as never before, to do their share
of patriotic educational work. Let them declare
the faith that is in them. Let them, by their in
fluence, guide others into the path of a sane and
healthy patriotism. * * * * Our ancestors establish
ed the^principles of freedom and justice which un
derlie our national life to these principles, else
we are false to our heritage. This is a responsi
bility ( which woman suffrage has infinitely in
creased.
Have we still that living faith in the Divine law
and guidance which brought the Mayflower across
the Atlantic? Are the fundamental qualities of
honesty and justice the mainspring of our business
and politics? Along with our vaunted education,
do we build up character in the children? Are we
teaching industry and thrift, and the dignity of
labor—the labor that does honest work for honest
pay and is not ashamed of it? Or are these virtues
too “old fashioned” to have a part in our life?
Washington, in his “Farewell Address,” said
that virtue is essential in a nation’s life if it is to
live and prosper.
Upon us lies the task of “character-building;’ 1
of fostering, not the austere “blue-laws,” but the
virtues of the past, the solid, sturdy virtues that
form the backbone of the nation and will pre
serve it.
ANNE ROGERS MINOR, Pres. Gen.D. A. R.
GHEERY LAYS
for DREARY DAYS
B, JAMES WELLS, The Printer-P^
It’s Done Come Fall
The sumach, red, is trvins
With the maple to be vieing
And the merry bob-white’s crvi„„
Amid the sedge grass, tall 8
The autumn winds are siehfn«
Where the maple leaf
O’er the fields a hush is ]y T n l ng;
For J u °>
It’s
Done
Come
Fall.
Hear that hunting horn a-blowW
See old Lead and Loud are
Brer ’Possum’s home they’re C-
Up in the oak tree, tall ° Wln «-
Hear their voices full, free-flowing-
Hear tne hunter’s voice halloW?’
Th?t C S1SnS th3t ’ S SUrelv lowing
It’s
Done
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How Mothers Sacrifice.
The Atlanta Georgian is now printing the
series of articles from the New York World, ex
posing the infamy of the Ku-Klux Klan. Won
ders never cease.
The Walton Tribune says the New York World
is making an “alleged” exposure of the Koo-
Klucks. Having read the entire series of exposure
articles, we can’t help but feel that the use of any
qualifying word is superfluous.
Now for the Bonds.
Dalton has outgrown her school facilities, arid
today every grade in the system is over-crowded.
This condition makes it unfair for both pupils
and teachers, and renders the best work impos
sible.
A new school building is a necessity, and there
is but one* way to raise the money with which to
build and equip the building, and that is by a
bond issue. It has been decided to ask the mayor
^and council to call an election for the purpose, and
it is generally believed that the matter will be
given this direction, and that soon the bond cam
paign will he on.
The Merchants Association has unanimously
endorsed the proposition, and the Civitans are
solidly back of it The Business Men’s League and
all women’s organizations will no doubt do their
full parts.
There is no political question involved, and it
is expected that the churches and lodges will lend
aid and encouragement to the movement to set
Dalton up another notch.
It is trite and common-place, of course, to
speak of the present generation of children as the
future citizens who will shape the destiny of this
country, but it is true, and should not be over
looked. As we educate them, and build for them,
so will the future be—a future ffiat will reflect
credit upon us who are now Charged with the re
sponsibility of building a good, substantial citizen
ship, that will make for the perpetuity and im
provement of the institutions of this great country.
There can be no serious objections raised against
a bond issue for school improvement, and The
v Citizen hopes there will be none attempted. There
may be some little differences of opinion regard
ing the scope of the work to be undertaken, but
nothing that cannot be easily and readily com
posed when men and women sincerely interested
in the future welfare of Dalton and her institu
tions come together for conference. '
Now, let’s all go together and pull together.
A new school building is a necessity.
There is no hypocrisy or affectation practiced
by a good mother where the welfare of her chil
dren is concerned. No sacrifice is too great—no
amount of love too much.
Many children, of course are petted and pam
pered and humored to their own harm, but, as a
rule, from over-indulgent parents, whose hearts
abound in love for them. Their judgments may
not be the best, but their hearts are not of stone,
and if judgments are always to be exactingly just
they must emanate from a case-hardened heart.
The Albany Herald, in noting that “82 per
cent of the persons who died or were injured by
fires in the country last year were mothers,” pays
a deserved tribute to the sacrificial traits of moth
erhood, as follows:
A little item in the news states that “82 per
cent of the persons who died or were injured
by fires in the country last year were mothers.”
It is interesting but not surprising informa
tion. It would also be interesting to know
what percentage of the mothers who lost their
lives or were injured by fires were saving or
attempting to save their children from death
or hurt when their own burns were sustain
ed.
r Of course a great many mothers are cooks,
and there is constant danger in kitchens, as
the thousands of accidents which occur in
them every year remind us—burns by fire and
by' boiling liquids, the latter the most painful
of all.
But when a child is in peril the mother in
stinct cares naught for fire or flood, for boiling
water or raging beast, for ifladman’s weapon
or traffic peril. Who ever knew a mother to
hesitate to brave any danger in the attempted
rescue of her child or children in peril? No
wonder 82 per cent of those who are burned
every year are mothers. We almost wonder
that the percentage isn’t even higher.
From statements we see in the press of the
state, it is the general belief that Mr. Hardwick
will be a candidate for the United States sen
ate. It was the common belief, when he was a
candidate for governor that the governor’s
office was merely incidental; that he only .
wanted a squatting place; that he intended to
use the office as a pigeon hole.—Commerce
News.
Just as you say, Brother Shannon. By making
an ass of himself Hardwick lost his senatorial
job in Washington, and is determined to regain it
if possible. But can he do it?
The Ku Klux Klan is simply a mercenary
proposition. It appeals to the organizers only
as far as ten dollars per member can reach.
That gone, it has no further charm. The poor
fleeced creature wants something for the ten
spot paid for membership and so he under
takes to parade—with his face hidden from
public gaze. This plan is splendidly conceived
by the organizer who gets the ten spot, be
cause he understands very well that the fleeced
“jiner” will want to keep his face hidden
when he comes to realize that he has been
swindled.—Cordele Dispatch.
That covers the situation about as well, or^
better, than anything else we have seen,
the victim has discovered that he is a sucker, we
reckon it is natural for him to want to parade in
a mask—at least $10.00 worth. i
One of the newspaper boys is anxious to know
if the Arbuckle case is going to have anything to
do with the price of coffee.
It looks to us like an “imperial wizard” ought
to be able to route a case of laryngitis right now.
Why doesn’t he wave the magic wand?
Atlanta has more little, narrow minded bigots,
both political and religious, than any other town
in the south. At least they make the most noise.
Half of the police force of Chicago are report
ed to be in league with the bootleggers. Well,
is that any worse than belonging to Koo-Klucks?
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Mr. Trotzky is going about with a chip on
his shoulder, saying that everybody com
menced with him first.—Atlanta Constitution.
All usurpers talk that jvay, you know.
The average motorist spends annually from
$125 to $150 for gasoline—and about $250 for
candy and flowers.—Rome Tribune-Herald.
And the balance of his income, we take it, he
spends for tires and repairs.
We find a little item in an exchange in the
nature of a remedy for a cold. It is called the
“shoestring remedy,” and while we are about
as doubtful of cold remedies as we are of
weather signs, we don’t mind giving it to you.
‘Tlje next time you feel that you are catching
cold,” says this little item, “stoop over and tie
your shoe. While you are at it you might as
well tie both shoes. Loosen the strings and
make a good job of the tieing. The principle
of the shoestring remedy is that in stooping
over the blood is brought to the head and the
circulation is otherwise favorably affected.
. Where there is perfect blood circulation there
is immunity from the taking of cold.” With
this information, if it is worth anything, there
is no reason why any one who wears shoes
should ever be troubled with a cold again.—
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
And we take pleasure in passing on the “shoe
string remedy,” but we rise to inquire about the
fellow who wears boots? Isn’t he entitled to some
consideration?
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First to Solve the Problem.
To the Editor of The Dalton Citizen:
The advice, admonition and suggestion given
the farmers through conventions, organizations
and agricultural colleges from time immemorial
on how to make farming a success have been very
good, but not altogether practical. Consequently,
the present condition of our farm lands ancT farm
interests. The present management of our Fair
is the first on record to grasp the significance of
our native grasses, by which to make - farming
a most enviable success, and emphasizes the same
by offering a gremium three times that for any
other grasses, thereby suggesting that we need
only to follow the examples of Mr. Edison, and
others who have-become world renowned through
their achievements, by simply calling nature’s
gifts to their aid, and thereby making it possible to
overcome Hie impossible, which achievements, or
opportunities, are now within our grasp, like that
of electricity, which for centimes -awaited an
Edison. Therefore, we are not at all surprised to
have thegmreserved approval of recognizing said
resources by such men as Hon. Gordon Lee, Col. P.
B. Trammell, Col. W. C. Martin, Dr. R. M. Soule,
the long esteemed and efficient president of our
agricultural college, who, in a recent article, call
ed attention to the merits of our native grasses.
Perhaps the premium list of the Whitfield Coun-
What Is Wrong With Congress?
A critic of Congress, whose letter is' printed
in the New York World, expresses the opinion
that “no intelligent American looks to the Senate
for high action or clear thinking.” This is sub
stantially true.
It can be said of the present session of the
Sixty-seventh Congress that the only man in either
branch who has displayed any of the qualities of
statesmanship and leadership is Senator Borah in
his resolution for a naval holiday, and he is now
under the ban of the Administration’s displeasure.
Everywhere there are complaints in regard to
the unrepresentative character of representative
government and its failure to meet public expect
ations. In the case of the Sixty-seventh Congress,
however, the failure is due in no small degree to
political perversity, and that explanation applies
to the Administration as well.
During the last two years of the second Wilson
administration the Republican majority in the.
House and Senate devoted itself entirely to ob
struction. Everything that Mr. Wilson did or had
done was to be damned, whether it was right or
wrong. The Republican leaders were not engaged
in building a policy of their own but in carrying
on propaganda against Mr. Wilson for use in the
presidential campaign.
In this exploit they were entirely successful,
but now that they are charged with the responsi
bilities of government their own record plagues
them at every stop. Their route is one of suc
cessive detours, and whenever they strike the
main road they are obliged to turn off at once in
order to escape the charge of inconsistency.
Having devoted a year and a half to abuse of
Mr. Wilson’s foreign policy, they are obliged to
resort to all manner of clumsy and ridiculous ex
pedients in order to frame a foreign policy of their
own. They cannot ever make a separate peace
with Germany in an honest, straightforward way.
Having pictured the existing tariff as the sum
total of all economic evil, they feel bound to adopt
a tariff of their own in spite of the fact that there
is practically no sentiment in favor of tariff tinker
ing and the country in general wants foreign com
merce fostered, not suppressed.
Haying preached eloquently ferf- years about the
iniquity of Democratic national finance, they feel
under obligations to provide their own substitute
whether it meets the requirements of the situation-
or not. They would like to do the right thing,
provided that would not be copying a Democratic
measure, but between following Democratic prec
edents and doing the wrong thing they believe that
it is their duty to do the wrong thing.
It is never easy to turn a programme of obstruc
tion into a programme of. construction, and the
Republicans have made a mess of it not because
they are lacking in ability but because they are
handicapped at every turn by the record they made
for themselves while Mr. Wilson was president.
As this record was wholly obstructive, there is no
possible way in which it can be squared with an
intelligent constructive policy. They tried to erect
hatred of Woodrow Wilson into a system of gov
ernment, and the system is unworkable.
Job E. Hedges once wrote a book to maintain
the thesis that the crowning evil of American poli
tics was not corruption but hypocrisy. If Mr.
Hedges had waited a few years he could have pre
sented the Sixty-seventh Congress as Exhibit A—
New York World. «
Wilson’s “Anniversary.”
On September 26, 1919, two years ago last Mon-
day, President Wilson passed from the realm of
political footlights and vigorous action and power
m public life into a fog and shadow in which he
became more or less vague and difficult for the
ordinary eye to discern. Curtains were drawn
that still have not fully been thrown back. The
Napolean of modern ages, as far as world power
is cconerned, retired behind the stage. And never
has the retirement of a great man in high office
been so thorough and complete.
As the Associated Press article of yesterday
said, Mr. Wilson is still “news.” It can much more
be said that he is still a consistent subject for
editorial discussion. And in the writing of his
tory* which is now in progress as always, he is
pnme front-page” and “feature” material.
H. G. Gardiner, formerly editor of the London
News, stated that he had never known a public
man who mdae politics so much of a religion. He
declared that one of the main causes of misunder
standing on the part of many people ds regards
Come
Fall.
fields the cotton whitens *
And the hickory’s burden lightens
Whde the flaming color brightens ’
On the old gum tree so tall
Birds of passage southward flvi n «
Giving vent to racous ervin"-
Slowly is the old year dying’
For
It’s
Done
Come
Fall.
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Lucky Guy.
The printer-man need never starve
And he can live at ease,
For he can step np to the’case
And pick a lot of p’s.
******
A Thief.
Sweet Sylvia is a very thief
HI swear by Cupid’s dart;’
At first she charmed away my grief
And then she stole my heart. ’
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Some Consolation.
One thing this win-
Ter will be nice:
We need not buy
A pound of ice.
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Paying Day.
Rock-a-bye baby, in the house'top,
Ere the rent day your cradle we’ll’hock—
Shekels must come, or landlord will call—
Kick out the baby, cradle and all.
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Rock-a-bye baby, in the house top-
Rock-a-bye babe till food stuffs shall drop-
Grocer-man’s daughter must dress in fine silk.
Hoisting the price of our baby’s canned milk.
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A Warning.
Oppress the poor, ye grasping fiend;
Aye, grind between your mill stones, fine-
Squeeze out their life-blood, every drop,
As from the grape the reddened wine!
Oppress the poor; there come’s a point
Which science calls the breaking strain,
And when it snaps such scenes will be
None thought to witness aught again.
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I’d Like to Be a Ku Klux.
I’d like to be a Ku Klux,
And with the Ku Klux stand,
A mask upon my forehead,
A whip within my hand;
And when some foxy party
^ Exposed just what we are,
I’d whip a pillow open
And use a coat of tar.
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Stnng!
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet
But sprang to her feet—oh, gee—
In this innocent tuffet
/Sat on by Miss Muffet
Was parked a mad bumble bee.
—Florida Times-Union.
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
Eating a Christmas pie;
He stuck in his thumb to puTT out a plum
And pulled out a doggone fly!
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What’s the Use to Cry?
Fortune gone against you?
What’s the use to cry?
Pull yourself together—
Have another try.
Quitters are the losers;
Winners play the game—
Whiners ne’er are heard of;
K , Fighters get the fame.
Take a little tumble?
What’s the use to whine?
Jest you get up smiling—
Swear the going’s fine.
Just keep on a-fighting;
Wear, a cheerful grin;
Never mind a stumble—
That’s the way to win.
Takes a lot of maulin’
In the game of life;
Fellow does the winnin’
Gets right in the strife;
Man that goes to whinin’
5 When he gets a fall
Stead of grinning gamely
Ne’er will win at all.
Mr. Wilson was that whereas his seriousness was
lit up with a fine, gracious humor when in private
contact—with his friends—his very austerity and
elevation of manner that generally characterized
him in public was forbidding to the ordinary
political type.
As an illustration of this elevation, it is reported
that he has no_ intention of answering Lansing or
any of -his. critics. He has turned over a vast,
amount of invaluable material to a historian, who
is at work upon it. He has told the historians
effect: “Ask me any question you like, but it’s
your work and riot mine; I do not even want to
see what you write;” which means “I do not want
to influence your judgments and conclusions,”
This is high ground, but it is the ground all men
ought to take. What more right have we to try
to influence the judgment of the historian than we
nnw® the findings of a judge?
\\ e are all glad that Mr. Wilson is gradually
and steadily improving in the matter of health.
It is especially gratifying to hear with what faith
fulness Mrs. Wilson is administering to him :n
these days of convalescence, and there is no doubt
that his strides toward recovery are greatly the
9^ ^ er constancy on the field of duty.
, .The fact that Mr. Wilson is again at work with
ms penj_ which indeed has proven more powerful
than many swords, merits the interest of the
world. What he is writing now is not known,
but it may shape the destiny of the race in no
mean way when the writer of these lines has re
tired entirely behind the scenes as a physical en
tity of this world and passed to his lasting reward.
—Macon Telegraph.