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V 111E VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDA OECMJ R 23, 1905. A fHE VALDOSTA TIMES. C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor. £. L. TURNER, ButlneM Minager. 1UBSCRJPTI0N PRICE $1 A YEAR Entered at the ’'oetofflce at Valdosta, Qa., aa Second Oats Mall Matter. VALDOSTA. GY , DEO. 23, 1»05- IWELVE PAGES. If looks as (hough the Reichs and tho senate were both waiting for some one else to step on the fuse. RAILROADS AND THE PUBLIC, and hare had for the pant four or fire A NATION Of SOUVENIR FIEND8 The Times has never been an anti- 5 ,eara - that a few years ago the rank It is agreeslj e to hear. ' ^®* . of the unemployed were about as full culty at T corporation newspaper, because we as those who had employment. It Is and the Ji are too well aware of the good works . . . „ .. . . _ .. 1 ... . _ , — , ,, . hard to realize that four or five thous- has been aojsatad satUftotorily to that are done by the corporations and men were hunting , n valn for ‘ both sides, Wo recognize the Immense value the j work In cities no larger than Macon * for tbe stool railroads are as developers of the * or Savannah, and that General Coxe7 had sat country and how much every growing should have marshalled an army of pay high section owes for its development to'the unemployed to go to Washington and these agencies. and make an Idle appeal at the doors request the But there are occasional traits ot legislation, thrown Into the management of these | Scenes of that very character are corporations which give ground for ^ being enacted In England at present complaint and which will cause the , time. The industrial centers there The report (hat Webster Davis Is going to run for congress falls to to state on which ticket. Now is the season whrm the coal trust reminds us that It Is more bles sed to give than to receive. Mr Thomas Ryan and Mr. Benja- man Odell about agree regarding Mr. Harrinian’s shortcomings as a Jok«*r. people to go to the extreme In hand ling them If they do not look out. Corporations, which serve the public as common carriers, cannot ride rough-shod over the public without meeting their abuse of their privilege in the road sometime, somewhere We take one case In point. It Is like others that occur in this city every day. The Times received this week a car load of newspaper, was expec'. >J io reach this city over the Atlantic Coast l.lue as wo have a rontod warehouse on the tracks of Whatever else may be said about the president’s Santo Domingo policy. It has had a mighty discouraging ef fect on revolutions in that country. | ^at company. In some way or other/ It came via the Georgia Southern & Florida road. We desired to have the car transferred from the Georgia Southern tracks to those of the Atlan. tic Coast Line. Of course we expect ed to pay the usual transfer charges. We were told that the transfer could not be made as the Coast Line is not handling cars In the city that come by way of the other road, ex cept for parties who are doing bus iness on the Coast Line tracks. Of course The Times is not a very large The declaration of Mr. Loomis that he is not going to take any federal •office would have been Just about as accurate If he had said he was not going to get one. Mr. Williams probably made fewer onemies by his committee appoints- ment in the house than did Speaker Cannon. He had fewer places fill. Tho senate will save a lot of mon ey on that $10,000 appropriation If they do not fill Mr. Bishop’s place till they need a historian for the Panama canal. At tho end of the fiscal year we had received $3,645,052 indemnity from china for damages by the Boxer re bellion. Other nations are similarly paid. Not only, however, does the United States produce two thirds of . the bak ing powder of thp^rorld, but It also raises a large tflpwrllon of dough. Tho RusaoJapbli^ wrfr is reports^ to havo damaged Clhiun to the extent of $20,000,000 and poor, old China Isn't to linve any share of the gate receipts either. Twenty-five hundred Vlrglnfa farms have within the past year been sold to people who have not previously resided In that state. Just because the president has purchased one. eh! And Jusl think, too, of all the go.id words you have said In the past for your fuvoritc life insurance company and never got n cent for It. No, not even one of those deferred dividends. One good thing about the Insurance Investigation Is that It enables you to talk Intelligently to the life Insur ance agent who calls, wheren former years ho "monopolized all the ■conversation.” shipper receiving only four or five car loads of paper a year and It only has storage room rented for Its supply of paper. But it strikes us, that as common carriers, the At lantic Coast Line has no right to mnke an exception of those who do business on Its tracks or those who simply rent room there, or vice-versa, the] though we are Informed that they W claim A contemporary warns us that the centralization ling has now attacked- the body politics. Wlmt with tti< red tape worm, the graft bacillus and .the boll wevn, this country Is having an awful hard time. The New York Journal referi the republican party of New York ns "a party without a boss.” The n cent election in some, of the large cities, developed quite a number c “bosses without a party. ‘Now that the people of Quitman walking on paved streets, they are talking about an anti-spitting ordi nance.” They are right. The pro tnlscuous spit ter is one sort of hog whose liberties ought to be limited The future farmer must be edu cated. If our boys cannot attend the agricultural college a systematic course of agricultural reading is pos sible during tho winter evenings and the time could not be better employ, cd. While on his way back to South Africa General Cronje stopped off In London recently and. giving his tm* pression of this country, said: "Very big, very fine, very quick.* Yes, our -country, U indeed quick. One might way almost sudden. A Chicago paper asserts that more than 15,000 lame and broken down horses are annually slaughtered In that city for sausage purposes. Be fore purchasing your bologua or frankfurti-r it may be well to see that a home brand Is blown upon the en- ▼elope. The Industrial edition of the Thom- asvllle Times Enterprise was a splen- I did papor In every way. It was well ! printed, well edited and it reflected credit upon Thomasville and the ed itor* of tho Times-Entcrprise. The Time* U glad to recognize the thrift -which if indicated. claim that right under th* law, Mr* Harris tjje A. C. L hfrenT here says the Georgia Southern ami Flor Ida road first established the rule refusing to handle cars from compet itive points which come over the Coast Line, and the Georgia Southern and Florida attaches say that the Coast Line began it by refusing to accept enrs from them, citing the fact that, ns the Coast Lino tracks are nearer the business center of the town And the hulk of the warehouses, the rule manifestly works Injury to them. But It Is Immaterial ns to who started The fact remains that the busi ness men and patrons of the road are the sufferers. It Is this sort of short-sighted po’ ley —"the public be damned”—t^n Is making people all over the country Income prejudiced agniust the r*i*’ toad corporations. Monopolies nr able to hold their own only by giving absolutely good service to the ul !!.* Those mono|K>lles that defy th people—like those railroad compnuic that run rough-shod over them—will meet the people in the halls of legl? latlon some day and then they will reap a harvest ov narrowness and lit lioness as the nnturnl product ol the seed they nave sown. The laws may then be changed to suit the views of the people, even though they Ik* Intolerant views. If the railroads are wise they wll cut out the foolish practice which they have established ns a rule In Val dosta and which places the shippers great disadvantage7 The*Times must hire a drav to haul a car load are thronged with Idle men and wo men .while great parades are march ing through the streets of the cities like an army with banners, the appeal being for work and not charity. These demonstrations by the unemployed have been made everywhere—at the doors of parliament, through the bus- iness streets and in the leading churches. There Is not a great deal of differ ence between conditions In England and in this country. When the lights go out In the factories there and the smoke ceases to come from the smoke stacks the effect Is depressing In this country, because the conditions which bring about Industrial inactlv- Ity in England are likely to bring them about In this country. The laboring classes In this coun try are better off today than in any part of the world. There are fewer idlers, more work to do and more wages for the workingmen. It would take only a slight change in condi tions to almost reverse this situation. A thousand laborers hunting for em ployment In a great city, If they be skilled laborers, can force a cut In the wages of ten times that many. It may be that we are on the very crest of the wave of industrial pro* perity and that a change In condition! may be near at hand. At any rate, it Is a good time for laborer and capital ists to try and keep down dlssentlona and live in harmonious relations with each other. A great labor ’war, ’the 'p&Mmjrr$tafar wfmlftdp t'l things, might bring on a collapse that would be as distinct as the famine which followed the years of plenty In Egypt. It would hurt all classes, but the laborer the more, because wage earner Is least able to “tide ” through periods of Industrial stagnation all is weih' Asking •which Admiral Togo had intended to the Japanese hero omentarlly to the •se Exhibited that perfect conrUsy for which they are distinguished; Then came the ex plantation, Oslicately made that the stool was ail heirloom of great value, and then tho return of it, with proper apology ffon) Mr. Bryan. The Orient of Occidental curiosity ting atad for the moment aays the Washington of paper across town. Just because of the littleness of some of the small bore railroad managers, who have es tablished an iron clad rule which they may keep or break—owing entirelyto whether the patron be large or small. 18 THE TIDE TURNING? How long is the present wave of Industrial activity to keep up? It has been the history of the world for gen erations and centuries that good times aud bad times follow each oth er. alternating with the regularity ot the tides of the sea. The -even years of plenty and the seven of famine in the days of the Pharoahs”has - been a very good type of the ebbing and flow ing of business and Industrial activ- it>\ever since then. In times like we are having now, GEORGIAS BAD RECORD. In spite of the fact that Georgia boasts of ove: 1 one hundred "dry conn ties", the state Is making a very un enviable record In the matter of Ille gal liquor selling. A report Just is sued by the Internal revenue collect or shows that there were 788 arrests in Georgia last year of parties wh(> were alleged to be engaged In the Il licit ;nnufacture of liquor. During the same time three hun dred and forty seven liquor stills were destroyed .because they paid no tax to the government. This does not Include the very lnrge number of stills that are being operated iu dry coun ties and which pay the regular reve nue required by the government. It also does not Include the large uum’ her of stills that are doing business every day and which have succeeded in evading the officers of the gov ment. Neither does it Include those thrif ty individuals who are operating "blind tigers" In the dry counties, or who are making "buck" and the many other decoctions that add to the rec ord of lunacy and crime in many sec tions. The record shows that the reform wave must go a great deal deeper than mere legislative acts to legalize the sale of liquors. Efforts must be made to Improve the Individual—de velop better citizens. It may be done like Burbank improves his fruit or the ranchman bis stock, but it will not be done by trying to force men along given lines. The record In Georgia Is bad and the returns in Christmas crimes and indulgences will probably make it worse. But reform In all lines must begin In the Individual—and general ly it would be well to start a few gen erations back. FultoiTcutting has resigned the presidency of the famous Citizen*' Union aud left that political organiza tion without a leader but that matter* little as tho organization does not ap- pear to be going any where. got 1 and relic hi was shockj Star. With usl^bat sort of thing is car ried to thi greatest extreme. We hardly taka account of how far it is carried. There is a rush for the pen with wh! |h the president or some popular f'jlfernor of a state, has sign a measure of unusual interest. A scramble Jiets up for a cane or a rid ing cntopjlJiat some popular favorite has use&j Prince Louis when In New York attended a show and aakel about Ujja lighted cigar he held In his hand. Smoking, he was told, against the rules, but the rules in his case ware suspended. But he polite ly decllisd ‘ the compliment’ put out the Are and’threw the weed aside. The stump at once became precious, and ohe of his hosts secured It and has it among his priceless and smoke less possessions. And so on. Another fad of ours Is photography Kodaks are thick as blackberries In season, anybody can work one. AH celebHties are made to stand and deliver. It is a case of your picture or your' life. Visiting foreigners of distl|K){ion are caught in every atti- tunt Witte and his staff and tura and his staff met pho tographers at every turn of the road lo the Portsmouth country and sat ’ll over their hotel, horns man wRU JF the same gdiiut- saw h!s face twenty times a day in the newspapers. Well, its all right. The public de mands it and in this country we all strive to please. THE ROYAL COTTON PLANT The following tribute to the cotton plant Is from an address delivered before a gathering of farmers in At lanta: * Take your leading crop, the coton plant. What a royal plant it is The world waits in attendance on growth. The shower that falls whis pering on its leaves is heard around the earth. The sun that shines on it is tempered by the prayers of all people. The frost that chills it and the dew that descends from the stars is noted, and the trespass of a little worm on its green leaf is more to England than the advance of the Russian army on he Aslan outposts. It is gold from the Instant it puts forth its tiny shoot. Its fiber is cur rent in every bank, and loosing its fleece to the sun, It floats a sunny banner that glorifies the field of the humble farmer That man is mar shalled under a flag that will compel the allegiance of the world and ring a subsidy from every nation on earth. It is the heritage that God gave to this people forever as their own— when he arched our skies established our mountains and girt us about with the ocean, loosed the breezes, tem pered the sunshine and measured the rain—ours and our children’s for- ever, as princely a talent as ever came from His hand to mortal stew- artship.” YOU SHOULD KNOW- That poor glasses worn without being properly fit ted will ruin your eyes. Any glass improperly fitted will ruin your eyes. Intelligent people that care for their eyes entrust them to the care of the Specialist. If yon could see the ruined eyes that I do, you would not wear the cheap stuff you do nor would you neg lect your eyes. Geo, B. Wood EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. Office Over Dim mock’s Pharmacy The Horn of Plenty Is Always A Com= panion of Dear Old Santa Claus. How the Children love this horn when it is filled with Toothsome Xxmas # CANDY. True and truer still you can keep on getting this toothsome candy” after Santa has paid his visit and gone. For confectionery in variety that’s best suited for Xmas, our present assortment is without comparison. BUY IT AND TRY IT. Stanford & 107 N. Ashley St. P ortr. Phone 52 H++ ++ + + ++ + + + v. V. t Vi V* V* « RECORD BREAKERS Our New Suits Cretainly Beat the Record 77a W E have distanced our best of last season and that’s no ordinary achievement. We deter mine to make it difficult for any one to pick a flaw in our suit stock, and a careful glance will show what it is possible to do when fabrics are care fully chosen and tailored. We have a great showing of fall suits. Turn them inside out—every stitch, every little detail shows, the touch of the master tailor—no hurried work—no skipping, nothing slight ed. This is why our suits fit so perfectly and hold their shapes so much longer and better than any other kind. $7.50 TO $25.00. Name your prices and we will show you the strongest line to be found, for the price will more than meet your expectations. Boys Clothing Line Complete. 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