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THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE &y the Eajjle Publishing Company. VOLUME LIII. I j UP h aC j ■t nm cm m i um To advertise the DURHAM DUPLEX $5.00 RAZOR we will gi ve you a Razor tor only the distributing expense, 35 cents Fill out coupon below and bring it to us with 35 cents: Name Street City State ONLY ONE TO EACH MAN. Piedmont Drug Company If it’s from the Piedmont, it’s the best. We send for and deliver your prescriptions free. WILL GIVE ATTENTION TO OTHER ROADS IN COUNTY. fill Public Roads Leading to City to be Put in Good Condition. The County Commissioners will probably move the convict camp to the Athens road at an early day. The Jackson county authorities, who owe us six days work, have begun on the county line and are coming this way. Nine miles of Lawrenceville road has been put in excellent condition and branches leading to Flowery Branch and Oakwood have also been worked. So that section has been treated handsomely. Hon. John A. Smith, Chairman of the Board, thinks it will be the proper thing to now give the other roads leading from the city some needed attention, and a meeting of the board will be called soon to determine this matter. All the other roads are badly in .need of work—the Candler road, the road to White Sulphur, the Clark’s Bridge road, the New Bridge road, the Thompson’s Bridge road, the Iron Bridge road, and the Brown s Bridge road. There is a huge task in front of the Commissioners to give all these roads their due, especially with the bad weather we have had for many months. A New Doctor. Dr. ,1. C. Orr, from Dossville, Miss., physician and surgeon, has located in Flowery Branch for the practice of his profession. He is a graduate of the Atlanta College of Medicine and Surgery. We predict for him a successful career in his new field. The Pierce Reunion. There will be a reunion at Gaines ville, on the 23d of this month, of the Pierce children and grandchildren, and relatives and friends. They are all invited to come with well-filled baskets. Dr. Pierce and relatives will be up from Atlanta. John Finger Goes to Atlanta. Mr. John Finger of this city, who has been with the M. C. Brown drug store for a number of years, has left the city for Atlanta, where he goes to take a position with Lamar <fc Bankin. druggists, in the capacity of traveling salesman. Mr. Finger is a hustler and one that makes friends as he goes, and that he will be a success in his new field is a cer tainty. Do You Go There? Where? To Gower Springs Union Sunday School every Sunday after noon. at 4.00 o'clock. A real, sure enough Sunday School, using the , regular S. S. International Lessons, and undenominational literature. Twenty-eight was the number pres ent last Sunday, in spite of threat ening weather. Some who come to to this school have never before at tended any Sunday School. Teach ers and musicians are needed. Come out and help us in this work. Worker. TINO IMPORTANT PROJECTS WILL RIPEN AT EARLY DAY. Machinery and Men are Here and at Work on Main Street—Southern is Unloading Men to Tear Down Old Depot. Owing to a delay in the machinery and material arriving for the pav ing of Main street it was impossible for the work to begin last week, but now the engines, rollers, plows and every impelment to be used are here and the work of grading the street preparatory to laying the founda tion began Monday morning bright and early. On last Friday and Saturday the Southern Railroad side-tracked 12 work cars at the depot with suffi cient men to roll the old depot down to the present freight depot, in prep aration for the erection of the new’ one. They will connect the present passenger depot with the old freight depot, making it larger and more in keeping with the present volume of business that is done out of Gaines ville port. The erection of the new’ depot will be let out by contract, while the moving of the old depot and con necting it with the freight depot will be done by employees of the South ern. These are two projects that the city is very much in need of, and really it is hard to see how this beautiful health resort has been con tented without them so long. Tile the walks in the square, gentlemen! Dr. Denton Leaves Piedmont. Dr. Dan S. Denton, who has been connected with the Piedmont Drug Co. ever since its organization, has sold his share, and will leave the Company about August Ist. The friends of Dr. Denton regret to see him leave the “Piedmont” and hope that he will not leave the city entirely. When we have a good man like j Dr. Denton in our midst we like t ; keep him. District Conference. The Gainesville District Confer- I ence of the M. E. Church. South, will meet Monday night. July 22. at Winder. Dr. Luke Johnson, presid ing elder of the Gainesville district, will preside. ■ The Gainesville Midland has gran | ted a 2-cent rate, or a 4-cent round trip rate, good on train leaving Gainesville Monday. July 22. at 5.35 p. m. The delegates from First church , Gainesville, besides the pastor, are J. T. Tucker. J. W. Hargrave. J. C. 1 Edmondson. W. J. Whitehead. J. L. Ellis. H. J. Pearce. J. H. Hosch. | and Hammond Johnson. An Old-timer Back. John L. Palmour. who was once a successful merchant and cotton buyer in Gainesville, leaving here about twenty years ago for Oklaho ma. is here on a visit to relatives. He is accompanied by by his wife and little daughter. His brother, Raymond, also accompanied him. , John looks about the same as of i yore—only a little handsomer. GAINESVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1912. CAN YOU LEGISLATE RELIGION INTO THE HEARTS OF MEN? If the Tippins Bill Passes will it Lesson Whisky Drinking in the State of Georgia? BY STICKEM. There has been much legislation in recent years against the use of whis ky—many bills introduced by poli ticians for doing away with whisky entirely—wiping it from the face of the earth—but perhaps one of the most drastic bills that has ever gone before the representatives of the people in a law-making body, is that of Mr. Tippins, which has just passed the House and stands a first-rate showing in the Senate, and may re ceive the Governor's signature, and it may not. It is really amusing to a man up a tree, and one who does his own thinking, to watch the shrewd politician use the whisky problem for a hobby to ride into office —and it is the most effective that has come under our observation. Just let a man come out on the Prohibition Ticket, and it matters not whether his brain would fill a wash tub. or whether it would rattle in a mustard seed, he goes right in. ‘“Oh, yes, he is going to hit liquor a rap that will knock it into the middle of next July.” But have you ever seen it done? Have we had a body of law makers who could legislate Christi anity and temperance into the hearts of men? Whisky drinking is a heritage; one that can only hope to lose out in the fifth or sixth generation from the generation that is not given to drink. So it is writ: ‘‘For I am a jealous God; visiting the iniquities of the fathers unto the third and fourth generations.” When a man begins drinking in his youth, it becomes a part of his nature —it is instilled into him—it is a part of the carnal man, and when he becomes a father, the child is in his own likeness —a part of his fie*h and blood —the child inherits the taste for drink. Occasionally the father is not re sponsible. Sometimes it was grand father that sinned, and it skips a generation, while less seldom it passes the third generation, but just as sure as you live and God's word is true, it will strike before the fourth generation is passed away. God, in his wisdom, hath made man so. Should the Tippins bill pass, the only thing we see in it, is this: It will stop physicians from prescrib ing alcohol in any form—for the bill allows only one-half of one per cent alcohol in drugs, or any kind of med icines that require its use. It will knock out patent medicines entirely, for there are many of them that con tain from one to eighty per cent alcohol, and there is one other thing that we should not lose sight of —the Blind Tiger. The Tigerswill flourish as they ne’er have done before. There was such a thing as a Blind Tiger when the State was “wet' but it was kinder on the blink; its business w’as limited to Sunday trade, in those counties that local option ran “dry”—but it has been far from “on the blink” since the prohibition bill was passed—it has had a good business, and a business that is rap idly increasing, and one that will increase more in the next for years than it has in the past four—under the Tippins bill—a Prohibition Law that doesn't Prohibit. There are White Tigers and Black Tigers and Yellow Tigers, and there will still be tigers, fßr the whisky men will have whisky and.the pro hibition men will have prohibition— it has always been thus. A white man or a negro can take a capital of $5 and get rich bootlegging whi-ky. It has been done, and it will still be done, and there is no revenue col lected. He will get two gallons of whisky for $5 —which is equivalent to 16 pints. .ie will sell that whisky for $1 per pint —occasionally he makes twenty pint* out of it with water and bead ing oil—then he has cleared sls with the expenditure of $5 —why should he not take the risk of being caught? Is it not worth it? The taste will have to run out by generations. You can't legislate religion and temperance into the hearts of men? “Raise your children in the way they should go, and when they are 1 old they will not depart from it.” Established in iB6O. Charters Makes Splendid Speech To Crowd Overflowing Room. Cheering that Shook Walls of Court House, with a Sprinkle of Old Rebel Yells. Colonel Charters in his speech at the court house Monday brought back the good old days—the good old days of oratory. This ancient heritage of the South had lapsed into decay since the era of the chincapin statesman. But it got back Monday. Chartershad long had the reputa tion of a great speaker at the bar; but in trying a case in court a genu ine orator lacks elbow’ room. But on the hustings he is an orator, with all that term can possibly im ply. He is polished, ornate, grace ful of phrase; and, overshadowing all else, he has that splendid thing without which all oratory is as a tinkling cymbal—he is a logician, a masterly logician—in the same sen tence spinning the gossamer and forging the giant anchor. At the adjournment of court he was introduced by Col. Howard Thompson to an audience that filled every niche and corner in the court room. The Tariff was among the first things discussed by the speaker. He was in favor of levying only enough tax on imports to pay the actual ex penses of the Government. “This is the good old Democratic doctrine — and I am a Democrat. lam rather a Free Trader. I am in favor of taking the tariff off everything that contributes to the comfort of the common people and putting it on the luxuries of the rich. “Mr. Bell talks about the present Democratic platform and says he standson that. Well, four years ago the Democratic party made a plat form and Mr. Bell stood on that, too. That platform demanded free lumber in the interest of the people. Mr. Bell voted with the Republicans to put a duty on lumber. He voted in the caucus against the reciprocity treaty with Canada, which would have put lumber on the free list.” Lorimer, who had just been ex pelled from the Senate, had been elected by the lumber interests through bribery. There was a big lobby at Washington, and the leader, Hines, declared on one occasion that “it was an awful job to keep the Southern members in line.” The speaker declared himself op posed to foreign immigration—or in favor of limiting it, at least. This country had been bought with the blood of our forefathers, and was for Americans, and not for the vicious classes of Slavonians, Hungarians, and Italians. Was opposed to the present mode of distributing garden seed —third- class seed at that—which now costs $575,000 of the people’s money. He was in favor of the Agricultural De partment having charge of this mat ter, so that the people would get good seed. Said the speaker: “If I were a member of Congress, and it came to the pass that I had to use such a paltry method to hold the voters 1 would resign.” He spoke of the Federal pensions— said there were more names on the list than were ever in the Confed erate army at any onetime; that the cost amounted to $155,000,000 a year; that the present Democratic House had voted an increase of $30,000,000 a year. Mr. Bell left Gainesville on Monday; on Tuesday the bill was passed. Mr. Bell did not vote. Only two Georgia members spoke against this bill—Tribble and Roddenbury. Mr. Beil had got a Mr. Lummus of Milton county to write him a letter asking what he had accomplished in Congress. Mr. Bell immediately re plied to Mr. Lummus and gave a few shining examples of his ability to get things for his constituents. The chiefest among these was the securing a pension of $3,100 for Mary Trask of Habersham county. “I was solicitor-general then," said Col. Charters, “and convicted her of an immoral crime. Afterward con victed her for being drunk on the public highw’ay. This was belore Mr. Bell got her the $3,100. After she secured this princely fortune she went over to Toccoa, taking with her a coal-black negro woman, as her “maid.” She had heard that rich ladies always had maids. They en tered a drug store, and Mary called for‘twococa-colas.’ Two?' inquired the clerk, ‘who is the other one for?' ‘For my maid.’ answered Mary. The clerk then and there kicked her out bodily— not figuratively, but bodily— and threw’the ‘maid’ out after her." Here some one in the audience.w ho knew’ the “lady,” remarked: “She's spent all her money now— she spent her last dollar for a dog.” “Yes.” replied the Colonel, ““and John Holder put a dollar tax on the dog.” “Now’, remember,” said Col. Char ters, “the $3,100 that this woman got was the people’s money. You and I paid our part of it.” “If I am elected to Congress,” said the speaker. “I shall use my utmost endeavors, in season and out of sea son, to secure Government aid in the building of better roads for the people. The Government is amply empowered by the Constitution to do this. The millions appropriated every year for river ami harbor im provement are “to facilitate com merce.” There is very little freight hauled on our rivers that does not pass over the country roads. The Government is spending $20.000.0QQ annually for roads in the Philippine Islands, and large sums in Cuba, but not a cent at home, among its own people. “A very short while ago the Gov ernment built a ‘dreadnaught’—the battleship Texas. Then England built a “superdreadnaught.’ Then the Government concluded to build a ‘scaredo'nothing’—and they are now building it —to cost $15,000,000. They took the Texas and used it as a tar get for the sailors to practice shoot ing. And each shot cost $1,200 — enough to build a mile of road.” “Now. fellow-citizens,” said the speaker, “if I am elected to Con gress I intend to be heard on the floor—not only in the committee rooms, but on the floor of the House. I intend to be heard on these ques tions. I will not be content to be a Whip. Do you know what a Whip is? He is a bailiff—a messenger. When a vote is pending and some members are absent, the Whip is told to thrash around and get ’em up. That is what a Whip is.” “And there is Holder—he fought the bill putting the convicts on the public roads until the session ex pired, and Governor Smith had to call an extra session, at great ex pense to the people. And all this in the interest of a convict lessee of great corporosity and a wen on his neck —old Jim Smith. “Holder has introduced a bill al lowing women to practice law. That is another thing he had done for the people. I am opposed to women practicing law’, serving on juries, or voting. lam opposed to woman un sexing herself. I am opposed to crowing hens. I love to think of my mother, who died w’ben I was nine years old—l love to think of her not as addressing a jury, hut as holding her hand on my head as I knelt at her knees and said my evening prayer. ‘Now’l lay me down to sleep; I pray thee. Lord, my soul to keep.' That is the way I love to remember my mother.” The speaker held up a copy of Hol der’s celebrated “Sleep Circular.” which is a testimonial from his 14 tenants that he sleeps with them and they w’ith him. Said he. impress ively, “That thing is an insult to every intelligent manin the district.’’ “Pardon a personal reference.” said Col. Charters: “My father was a poor man. He was a Confederate soldier and died from wounds re ceived in the war. I w T as raised a poor boy. The only aid I ever re ceived was from an uncle, who was a journeyman painter, and a poor man himself. What I am and what I have I made myself. “Mr. Holder was born with broad acres. But that is not to his dis- I credit. Yet it is comfortable to be born thus.’’ Col. Charters received a great ova tion when he had finished his speech. If this speech w T as not a vote-maker, the audience was different from any i we have ever seen. t Not in years have w’e seen so much i enthusiasm during a political speech. SI.OO a Year id Advance NUMBER 29 HALL COUNTY PERRY CLUB ORGANIZED FRIDAY NIGHT With Several Hundred Names on List and More Being Added Daily. A largely attended meeting was held at the court house last Friday night for the purpose of organizing and electing officers for the Hall County Perry Club. The list showed several hundred names, and the reports showed that every one was signing immediately upon upon being asked. Mr. W. A. Miller was elected pres ident of the club. Mr. Guy Clopton vice-president.’ and Mr. W. M. John son secretary. Several addresses were made be fore the meeting. The opinion w’as unanimous that Mr. Perry’s pros pects were exceedingly bright and that his campaign only needed pub licity—that the people only needed to be waked up to the merits of the situation. The newspapers of the city were appointed as a committee of public ity.and an executive committee of ten was appointed to further Mr. Perry's interests. This committee is com posed of: Hayne Palmour, John Redwine, J. H. Hoseh, J. O. Ad ams, R. D. Mitchell, J. B. Rubofph, Jno. A. Smith, Geo. M. Quillian, and Ben A. Rogers. Col. W. B. Sloan addressed the meeting and moved that a commit tee of three be appointed to draft resolutions indorsing Mr. Perry as a citizen and public offical, and that this resolution be published in the Atlanta papers and other dailies. The committee is composed of W. B. Sloan. B. P. Gaillard, and Guy Clopton. Col. White of Cleveland addressed the meeting, reporting that the outlook was very bright in his sec tion. The club will enter upon an ac tive campaign in the interest of Mr. Perry. A meeting of the Club will be held at the court house Saturday after noon at 2.30. Every citizen of the county is invited to come. Some Peaches. Mr. L. A. Davis, from down Cal vary way, brought us a nice bucket of peaches last Friday—the finest of the season. Thanks! Next? Prof. C. G. Payne an old Hail county boy, who was recently elected to the superintend ency of the Dallas public schools, passed through the city last Saturday en route to Clermont to visit his parents. Mr. Robert Beaty. Mr. Robert Beaty a prominent far mer of Hall county, died at his res idence in Whelchels district last Saturday from hemorrhages of the lungs. He is survived by a wife. The funeral and interment occurred at Corinth Sunday. Rev. T. L. Rob inson officiating. The Dr. Got Around. Several years ago W’e taught Dr. Daniel how’ to raise tomatoes and every year about this time he brings us his biggest one. sometimes two. He got around Monday morning bright and early—and it was an awful nice one. Dr. Daniel is sure a big-hearted man. Jim Byrd Killed on Southern. Mr. James Byrd, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Byrd of this city, was killed in a wreck on the Southern near Greenville. S. C.. last Saturday when two freight trains crushed I head-on. Mr. Byrd will be remembered as having been in the employ of the Gainesville Iron Works at this place for a number of years, going later to Birmingham, w here he was taken from the Southern Shops at that place ami put on the road in the ca pacity of fireman ; ami had only been firing about six months privr to his death. Mr. T. M. Byrd, father of the dead boy. has been an engineer for over thirty years, and has never had so much as a scratch from an acci dent. \ The funeral and interment oc curred at Duncan. S. C.. Sunday, a\ long cqncourse of friends going over to pay a last tribute to the deceased. Rev. A. F. Nunn of this city had charge of the services. Mrs. W. A. Charters will have as her guest for several weeks Mrs. Fred A. Murray of Guayama. Porto Rico.