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2 THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1906. Judge Speer’s Able Charge to the Federal Grand Jury. » are the opportunities,^ serve I this prosperity stable, and give to the people otherwise than commensu- [the world a qorrect understanding of] rate with the powers and authorities the Incalculable values which belong of the courts. I have been many |to the people who own these lands. , times told by men, whose business Were we reckless—as I know we ara and Intelligence ought to give them | not—of the principles of humanity, • The following is the eloquent and It Is true tha for the sake of conven- accurate knowledge, that one vast trial [philanthropy and religion; though Able charge which Judge Emory Speer ic*nce we will soon have another hand* of a criminal case, Involving several the teachings of the blessed Master delivered to the grand Jury yeater i»onie building for the permanent quar* Influential defendants, in these courts had left no Impress on our hearts; jtera of these courts, but this, too. will had done much—some said more than [though we wore merely worshipers Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the be paid 1°r by your taxes, and It all other causes—to settle the titles to jof Mammon, and if the Devil himself Jury: It is highly improbable that be that y° u would have instruct- 'lands and superinduce that magnlfl-'was our Dlety; it would yet be true Any living American will witness a; ( 'd y° ar representative to ask the are cent prosperity which has come tr that the clearest teachings of Interest decadence in the Importance and t proprlation and bring the court to South Georgia. At the last term of ! would compel such Justice on our part, usefulness of that system of national jy° ur doors had you thought that the the court, a great case, involving the Much more then i 8 this true of men, courts, of whose procedure your a«- national court would come here as an alleged misappropriation of millions of who have learned thc-lr philosophy tloo Is'an essential part. The origin | a « p ncy of oppression. A permanent the public money, was tried at Sa- from Him who "spake as never man And evolution of these courts affaords ‘Institution ol that kind would never vannah. It was to the fearless, clear* j spake”; whose hearts are Instinct have been agreeable to the freemen sighted and Impartial Jury-body of {with the teachings of the "old time re* of Ixjwndes and the contiguous conn* j this Immediate section that the court HgIon;” who from the earliest senti- ties. The United States Judge might turned as It bad the right to do to en» periods of Infancy imbibed the have been compelled to hold his court [secure men who would worthily do truths of that religion from the fer- out In the main big road and when he their duty, no matter what Influences j vid—If untutored—eloquence of those adjourned for dinner to do as they . might be brought to control their'.servants of the Master who taught In used to do in the Georgia courts—J judgments, or what j?ewpv\^^nlg|AUhe simple counfry churches and from that Is, to turn a wagon body over be offered to degra<& con^ie beautiful hymnology of Watts and on the prisoner at the bar, and have [sciences.. How they did their duty I*. Newton and Wesley, as It mingled two heavy deputies sit on it until the [known of all men. The ever present with the Aeolian measures of the [court recovened. photographer caught with his won- mighty pines, and in strains of adora- 1 No our Georgia people now want [ derful Instrument a picture of that tion rolled away through the colum- jthe United Sta'es Courts, and If a,Jury. When the case was over, It nar aisles of the forest, man Is unfortunate enough to have to;was sent to the president, and in his Aye, here do interest, religion, and go to law—and all litigants are un- ; Impulsive way, he hastened to write humanity coincide. And that man, for unate whether they win or lose—' to the Judge In his own han£ "wha* and those men, who preach a cease- he is glad enough to get his case Into [a splendid looking body of men that less crusade of racial antagonism,; the United States court. One Jury was,” and yet they did not ex- disregard of constitutional law, and, reason of this is the perfect In- ;ceod the average Jury or grand Jury propagandIsm of race wars, are the I d« pendence of the Judges. They are [of this district In what Is termed "per- deadliest enemies of the southern peo-1 appointed during gr>od behavior. If ( sonn$ pulchritude.” Af.‘er aill, how- plo. They degrade our homes, j ONE PENNY Will bring you a very handittmely illustrated Cata ogne of the most rapidly rievelonuig College in the South. Youfig’s Female College, Thomasville, fteen Specialists in Faculty. Broad Degree and Certificate Courses Music and Expression. New Buildings, Newly Furnished. Steam Heat, Electric Lights. Gymnasium, Swimming Pool. Bowling Alley. Trained Nurse, and Physical Culture Director in House. BEST CHRISTIAN HOME INFLUENCES. Address: I. COCHRANE HUNT, President* Affirmation of the Scriptural admoni tion, "Despise not the day of small •things.” For moat of that period in which the war of American Independ ence was fought, courts of the United States there were none. Afterward the congress established what was termed a "Prlxe Court of Appeals". The Jurisdiction of that court was confined exclusively to questions aris ing In prize causes—that Is to say. In cases where British merchantmen or men of war, captured by the daring of American seamen or privateers men were sought to be condemned and sold for the benefit at the captors. This court, while relieving General Washington of an Immense amount of labor at first thrus* upon him by the activity of those American seamen, who knew and took a good thing In the way of a British ship, when they saw It was after all not a very vigor- our tribunal. It had no marshal, and mm the country had no executive to appoint one, there was no way of en forcing Its Judgments. Sometimes ap plication was made to a state court, which had all the powers of tho old Bogllsh courts, to enforce the Judg ments of this Prlxe Court of Appeals It was found, however, that to rely <m the state courts In that day for federal purposes was like leaning on m broken reed. Of course, that -would not be true now. Now the state -courts often help tho United States courts to enforce or administer laws and there Is usually, with rare excep tions. a vory admirable spirit of com ity between the courts of our state -and our national system. When, however, tho constitution ot the United States was framed in 1787 and was adopted, tho suprolm© coart was created by that instrument And congress was given tho power to create Inferior courts. You must not imfteiMwM -that* these oourfs worn in themselves "Inferior.” They were merely "inferior” to the supreme court. Because they are termed t“ln< ferior" by the constitution, woulcUnol In the presenco of the court Justify any one In attempting a wlticism like that perpetrated by the famous Judge Dooley, who Introduced one of] the Judge* of the old Inferior court of Xllbert county as nn "Inferior Judge of the Inferior court of the inferior coun ty ot Elbert,” and who got himself very promptly knocked <J own f °r 11,9 humorous discourtesy. By virtue of this power, congress “thereafter created, first, the District Court, of which you and I are mem bers. This was by the act of 1789, And I may say that It/ha* always been to me rather a source of pride that the Father of his Country himself, ns Mrat president, signed the act which created the court of which I am one of the judges. The Circuit Court, tho Circuit Court of Appeals, and other "Infer ior” courts were subsequently ostab- Hahed. Theso courts have been wonderfully multiplied and are now ▼ery close to the people. At the ▼ery recent period when I was ad mitted to the bar. wo had but two jilace* of holding the United 8tates court In Georgia. One was at Sn- rannah and one at Atlauta. Now we have nine such places. In the northern district, the courts are held At Atlanta, Athens, Rome nnd Colum bus. In the Southern district, they are held at Macon. Augusta. Savannnh. Albany, and In this, your thriving and prosperous city of Valdosta. Thla brings the courts very close to the people, nnd It ought to—and I think does—bring the people very close to the courts. Now nnd then, •some ancient "mossback”, who from the state of his "intellectuals” might have originated about the time of Ethelred or Ethelwulf. may he heard j rating about what he is pleased to term "Federal usurpation In the United States courts.” A reply to that venerable fallacy, may be made by a familiar Illustration. Travelers tel! us that on the stone In the great -church of St. Paul's In London, which marks the las! resting place of the . architect. Sir Christopher Wren, arc .•these ringing words in Latin: • "Si monumentem requlrls, clrcum- spice." which Imports, if you would behold hit monument, look around :ou. So of our national court. It Is - totting In the Georgia court house, vol- mn*mrily furnished by Georgian* with- wot fee or reward, to the government Uc United 8tates. Can It be that jtm would volunarily furnish a tem ple of Justice, wherein by "Federal ebon” yon would be deprived of liberties? Lumber Lumber. FENDER. LUMBER CO. Rough and Dressed Lumber DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF Between OeoJgTn Soothern & Florida nnd A*!nnti«: i oust Line Kwllro.t'is. Is honpst, there Is no motive ,cvor, to Juries, as well as to every-[our values, and our principles, and EYE OUTFITTERS , even unconscious-]body else, the old adage Is applicable, our humanity the world around. They * I smirch and belittle the abounding 'blessings, the unintermlttlng prosper ity which is at the door of this peo- j plo. Birds of ill omen, like the Harpies did the banquet In Virgil with [foedlsslma proluvies ventrls, they are j befoulng their own homes and the home of their people, and giving to mankind the world around that the southern states are the plague-spot of civilization, when no other land la so admirably fitted by its climate its fertility or Its people to be the home of unnumbered millions of happy and prosperous freemen, j That we have at time crimes com- jmltted upon our helpless ones which I are more abominable and execrably |than language may portray, Is true. I On this subject at? southern white ! men—and Indeed all decent white men [and I believe all decent black men— [everywhere, are of one mind. But let us have a care, lest by continuous and Intense agitation, we Incur the ganger, of fixing in, the minds of the few savage* and degraded that this is the most effective blow they can strike at the white who are hateful to them, and thus multiply Instances of the very crime, which stirs a fever In the blood of age, and makes the Infant sinews strong as steel. Your hitter enemy Is disposed to do you the very Injury which most you fear. Let the people of the South, dellber- j ately and calmly, and by whatever; expenditure may be necessary, make sure of the detection and arrest and lawful conviction of these criminals, j Let them stamp out the blind tigers and the illicit distilleries, whose mad dening product transforms a bestial but Innocuous, nature Into an animal as deadly as may bo found In those African Jungles from which ho sprang. Let us, on the other hand, uphold the efforts of those decent colored people, who are everywhere striving Everything to assist the eyes grown weak through advancing age or other causes. Optical Goods of excellent quality and great variety. Glasses of every des cription for distance or reading. Field Glasses, Opera Glasses and Eyeglasses. Thorough tests of the eyes are made here without charge. Spectacles and eyeglasses made from occulists. W.D. Dunaway, Valdosta, Georgia. ly to himself, dictate or control his "Handsome is as handsome does.” actions. Ho la likely—If he is the j And, gentlomen, what a heritage right man as was said of Chief Jus- has this j>eopG to protect by the rlgh* tlce Marshall—to know everything teou« and unswerving enforcement of about the case, and nothing at all law—both state and natioual.* When about the parties. Then, their judg- I was a small boy I often heard ments and decrees aro made to be this section of Georgia alluded to as obeyed. This l» also ascrlbablo In the "pine harrons,” and again in later j to draw class distinctions among their lnreg part to their Independence and years, It was predicted that when the [own race; who refuse to permit the tho security of their tenure of office magnificent primeval foro-d* of Geor- I association of their wives nnd chll-[ and more than all, to tho enormous gla pine should fall beforeJthe axe of dren with the lower elements; who) power of tho government behind such tho lumberman, the lands would lose (drive them from their homes; and Judgments nnd decrees. It Is snld their value, that the streams would 'who, I believe. If the Insane menace j however, United States Judges, like dry up, that the light and 9andy soil [of lynch law should bo abolished, will other meu, are Influenced by motives would resemble the desert of Sahara, of ambition and a desire for promo- How utterly mistaken was that Judg- tlon. Thla may at times be true, iment, how marvelous are the resourc- Federal Judgships are very nearly all 'ca of this Georgia country, the unan- equal In usefulness and lmj>ortance, | swerable records of each day’s bush themselves aid In running down those criminals, whose crimes do so much ! to bring destruction to the lives and the property of every negro man, wo-! man and child In our land however To the Patrons of County Schools. Your may exchange your old SCHOOL BOOKS or get NEW ONES at C. S. Bonduraot’s DRUGS AND SEEDS. aud not very far apart in dignity ness In this thrifty and prosperous city , Innocent they may he. nnd authority. At one time. I heard alone will demonstrate. There was ' The president of the United States j' such a great man as the la*e Sena- handed mo by a highly intelligent and 1“ his last message points out to the [ tor Hoar say that he would prefer [ valued friend, last night, this partial negroes of the better classes the in to be a district judge of the Uni'ed stateent of one day's purchases by evitable danger of harboring and pro states than to hold any other office his house of long staple co*ton In the tectlng the men whoso crimes so in- under tho government; and if I am Valdosta maiket: “ |furiato the southern people. They not very much mistaken In my mem-! B. F. Strickland & Co. bought fol- have perhaps no more efficient friend ory, I heard Mr. Cannon, who is speak- lowing cotton: jthan the fearless and broad-minded or of tho house of representatives. Dec. 8, A. N. Newsome 5391bs 'American who so ably untiringly and say practically the same thing. Dec. 8. A. N. Newsome R391bs at 33c .. . * Dec. 8. H. G. Moore, lbs at 33c .. . j.. Dec. 8. J. W . Brown, 37ibs at 33c .. . T.. Dec. S, Abe Riley, 42ilbS at 33 l-3c . Dec. 8, D. Smith. 4‘VlbS at 33-N,c .. 1 Dec. 8, W. I Rouitz, MSlbs 33 5-lCc .. .... 1 Dec. 8 D. R. Fonder, 4 •-Mbs at 33VjC .. Dec. 8. M. Pope, 429'bs at 33 l-3c . the chief magistrate of our country. I yield to no man In ray love of the best traditions of the Southern Now I have been district judge for this people for nearly a quarter of a century, and 1 have been also several times honored with a seat In the ap- l>eUate court. Here wo meet the peo- Doc. S, Abe Riley, 4-dbs M need be, with tho last drop of my pie face to face; there the court nothing but the musty record. Hero Dec. 8. D. Smith, U.tlbs teous purpose, for the safety ot all have all of the vividness and at tractiveness which belongs to nn or- Dec. 8, W. L. Rontx. TtfSlbs tory teaches mo that we will never lginal Investigation whore after tho 33 5-lCc 179.22 work out our salvation with the fire Jury is present listening to every Dec. 8 D. R. Fonder, 4«'9lba *nd the fagot, the club, the pistol, and word whore tho parties are deeply at 33YjC 137.01 the baiter. When these are wield concerned, whore the counsel are at Dec. 8, M. Pope, 429'bs °d by tho frenxy of what Lamartine their best, and where every incident lends to quicken every faculty, and , . the mob”. We must proceed to settle elevate and arouse every Intellectual 8 bale* cost .$1,237.15 our country’s problems In another way power. The labor* In the trial court, Tho men who sold this ootton. I The Law 4 * Delay, as was said of the speeches of Lord am told, are not rich; they are most must set rid of slowness and Kraklne, are "bark and steel to the of them men of slender meins. One indecisiveness of our criminal trials; minds.” Then too, to these courts the or more of them indeed were negroes. w ® must refuse to permit criminal ladles—God hies* them—some*iraea And yet contemplate for i moment aedulonsly to devise aohemes come, and lend the ineffable charm what stupendous outcome of product- by which a righteous conviction can which their presence always brings, ive value there Is made to appear this be averted, and by technical obit rue- The venerable Judges ot the circuit brief statement. \ tlon* execution delayed; ao that the court of appeal* have little experience From a purely selfish standpoint, nllty may chance to escape. We Georgians are too*of that peculiar and indescribable does It not behoove ns then to do ————— — •Ahrewd otyl too Independent lor that j charm and fascination. everything we poatibly can to make (Continued on Fifth Page.) You May Drive Home f with a wagon that everybody takes off his hat to if vou • trade with us. We are not given to extravagant state ments but the experience we have had selling Studebaker Vehicles and Harness > warrants us in putting it strong. That experience proves that nothing satisfies so well as Studebakers. We don’t need to tell you that they are honest goods. When you have made yonr pur chase you go home satisfied and star satisfied. That’s the kind of customers we need in the building of oar business. That’s why we handle the Studebaker line. Oo you nsad something? Let os Agar* on it with yoa. JotaT. Roberts, Valdosta. Georgia.