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THE
POST-SEARCH LIGHT
Published Every Thursday at
Bainbridge, Georgia.
E. H. GRIFFIN
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matter under Act of Congress
March 18 th, 1897.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TIIK CITV
OK HAINHKIDGK AND DECATUR
COUNTY.
Telephone No. 239
The enthusiasm for war seems
now on the rise and the people
will not rest until this matter is
pushed vigorously. The day of
temporising seem to have passed
in America.
Several bi-ennial sessions bills
have been introduced into the
legislature and there seems to
be enough sentiment to pass
them this session. The multitude
of^bills on the subject indicate
that the politicians have seen
that the people demand them.
The House has lots of im
portant matters before it this
session and they are showing an
Inclination to really work and
not play this summer. Something
like 12 important measures of
both commercial and civic nature
are on their passage and they
will be looked after very care
fully from all evidences.
The Savannah matter has got
ten to be a minor thing since the
parties on both sides have about
destroyed their strength in the
House. The chances are that
both sides will not be listened to
and the old precedent followed.
The charges and counter charges
of both sides have cost them con
fidence.
The talk of Captain Ennis, a
member of the National Gaurd
who has been called to the colors
and who is also the member of
the House from Baldwin County
was very enthusiastically receiv
ed. The house gave him leave of
absence enthusiastically.
THE MACON
CELEBRATION.
The Legislature and Senate
were entertained by the people
of Macon on the Fourth in a
most attractive and interesting
way. A big barbecue was given
to the visitors and courtesies of
every nature were shown them
from the time of their arrival to
the Central City until their de
parture. The entire city was
H over to the visitors and
——en vied with the other
a good time. The
fipetus to the capitol
bposition as many of
mt really know just
offered the people
lfiH in her bid for the
jne shows to the peo-
■P^he is solid and substan-
Kd not full of hot air, and
.nat she will throw around the
capitol such atmosphere as will
be real beneficial. The move
ment is a live one and will come
to a head in a very few days now
as the members w ho favor the
bill are very active and mean to
push every advantage to ad
vance it and get a final show
down on the bill. The day was
a most pleasant one and all that
went enjoyed themselves. Ma
con will put up a fight that will
long be remembered and it is
thought that her chances are
fine.
THE SOUTH AND
MEXICO.
(By James Callaway, in The Macon
Telegraph June 22.)
Of all people in the world who
do not want war it is the people
of the South. The war between
the North and the South was
enough for us for the next 500
years.
Every man from 16 years old
to 60 was in the Confederate
service. The whole South was a
military camp.
Crepe hung upon the door-post
of every household. As Sheridan
said: “Wherever I go I leave the
women and children with nothing
but eyes to weep with.”
The .South mourns her dead,
for she sent to her armies the
very flower and chivalry of her
towns and cities and her country
homes. The South has missed
her sons. Their places have never
been filled. Every mother of
the Confederacy wept for the
loss of a son.
If was not freedom of slaves
that hurt the South. It was not
destroying her property and
burning houses where only
women and children were shelter
ed but it was the loss of her sons.
You can rebuild houses, you can
remake fortunes, but you cannot
restore to life those dead sons.
It is the South’s irreparable loss.
And what a loss!
We feel it every day, we see it
in every line of business. Look
into your legislative bodies and
only a few men there are fit to
be law-makers.
So the South needs her sons.
She has not a one to spare. The
North never missed her dead.
Her population was too vast for
that.
And in case of a prolonged war
it will be unfair to call on the
South for her quota according to
population, for in several States
the negroes outnumber the
whites, and in Georgia sixty
counties have negro majorities.
In the War of the Sixties it
was safe to leave our homes de
nuded of its white men, for the
women were safe, a fact the
North never counted on. Indeed,
the surprise of Lincoln’s life was
that when he issued in 1863 his
emancipation proclamation that
our soldiers did not have to leave
the fields of battle to come to
protect their women and children
The North never understood the
patriarchal character of Southern
slavery.
But conditions have changed.
The North, for political purposes,
has educated the negroes against
the whites of the South. Let the
white men go as in the War of
the Sixties and no farmer’s home
would be safe. Hence it is asking
too much of the South to spare
her sons for foreign war in same
proportion as other States with
no negro problem.
Again soldiers are called ac
cording to population. Our ne
groes are included in the census;
they are part of the population.
But to call out our white boys
according to population would be
putting our white population on
double duty. We cannot afford
this double duty. Circumstances
forbid denuding the South too
closely for her white sons.
Lincoln said the war cannot
last but some three months, tor
the soldiers will be forced to
return home to protect their
firesides. In that he was wrong,
owing to kindly relations, home
like relations between the negroes
and their white people.
Unfortunately such is not now
the case. One could write a
book showing how Republican
policies severed the old-time re
lations, broke up the ties, and de
tached the negroes from us—all
for political purposes. But what
was done was done. It remains
done. The negro States like
Georgia, Alabama, South Caro
line, Mississippi and Louisiana
cannot spare too closely her sons
to fight even for America. Hence
the West and North must not
look to the South to do more
than her share. Prudence for
bids.
The South fought the Mexican
War. Her soldiers and her
leaders, Jeff Davis, Robert E.
Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and
Joseph E. Johnston conquered
Mexico. And after we won the
territories the South by Northern
majorities in Congress was de
prived of any of the fruits of the
victory won by her blood.
But that is neither here nor
there. The point is that owing to
the negro problem, not the result
of emancipation, but as the re
sultant of Republican policies
after the war for years and years,
educating the negroes against
the whites, conditions are now
such that certain Southern States
must not part with all her young
men. And sad to relate, those
women of the North, so active
in aiding to make present condi
tions such as they are, demand
that the 2.000.000 negro women
be allowed the ballot and compli
cate and aggravate those very
conditions.
It is not a question of loyalty.
The South is the most loyal asset
of the nation, and our ‘‘America
nism” is vigorous and ardent,
but it is a question of home pro
tection. The South cannot spare
all her sons. We have problems
to deal with which other States
have not; problems that would
have been no problems but for
the interference of other States
and the government in our affair.
The men had ceased that inter
ference, but it is taken up now
by certain fanatical women of
the South which will make con
ditions here in the homes and on
the farms intolerable if persisted
in. Don’t aggrevate conditions
here unless your Northern and
Western men will release our
boys from the duty of leaving
home.
These ominous home conditions
will be aggravated a thousand
fold by the passage of the Susan
B. Anthony amendment. Suffrage
now means that amendment and
nothing else. It is the thing de
manded. Alice Paul told Secretary
Houston they would take nothing
else, barter or no other terms.
The Anthony amencment revives
the fifteenth amendment, puts
negro men back into politics, ex
tends the ballot to 2,000,000 negro
women, who have no back taxes
to pay and are ready for the fray;
and those advocating it under
stand it and have accepted the
terms and results, besides reject
ing the great Southern principle
that to the States, by the people
and not by the Legislature, as
contemplated by the Anthony
amendment, belong the right to
control and regulate the franchise.
The Anthony amendment repu
diates this right and places con
trol and regulation under Con
gress.
So if war must come and our
State be denuded of her brave
sons, spare us the results of con
ferring the ballot on negro women
to join the negro men in night
meetings, the negro men being
brought back into politics by the
workings of the Susan B. An
thony amendment. Alice Paul
told Houston, “We accept noth
ing else.”
MONTHLY TRADE
DAYS
Special monthly trade days for
Bainbridge took definite form
Thursday afternoon at the
special meeting held by the di
rectors of the board of trade.
An unammous vote was cast in
favor of this commercial enter
prise and enthusiastically en
dorsed by the members present.
The movement was considered
wise in suggestion and timely
in behalf of both increased sum
mer trading and extended com
mercial patronage. That advan
tage might be secured at once,
a committee was appointed to
interview all merchants in be
half of a concerted movement Uso.uo; Total $i44u.uo.
to urge this issue to a success- ,f y° u sI)0u:d rent a like farm instead of buying von i
ful conclusion. The first month- T”,“
»bej Ti ., n rr„“rr t 'rrr!:;r
arranged for either the last! for nine years amounting to
Friday and Saturday of July or F° r second rental payment interest "for eight years
For third rental payment interest for seven years
ror fourth vear rent til nnumont ininmei
Fifty Homes For Small Fai
The Bainbridge Farm Company offers for sale fifty
of fifty acres each. Fronting on fine public roads, in Mi 1 '" 11110
close to schools, churches, railroad depots, telephones am] ntiRtl
These lands are very level about two hundred feet hi^T" m8il
level than the city of Bainbridge. Highly productive 0 fi i abov <
plenty of good water and healthful and will make ideal hoi S f8rm
ers. These lands are guaranteed to be of the very best iVttu f ° rs ‘
timber on them now is estimated worth five dolla-s per acre mS C0U:
perfect. ‘ e and the
Why not buy your farm instead of renting? We allow
pay for it. The difference between buying and renting j s th J° U , tt:
say that you buy a farm unimproved for one thousand dollars r °
farm the first year with your own means sufficiently to oep’nn .
it. You pay for the farm as follows: You give ten notes of 1
lars each with interest at 8 percent, from the date of the nureh Uml
one note each year with the interest only on the note you *' 1
ments will be as follows: At end of first year 1108 00- SeeJi ' Y ‘,
Third year $124.00; Fourth year $132.00; Fifth vear $140’oo- Si.J* 81 L
Seventh year $156.00; Eighth year $164.00; Ninth vear trZ 1
C. I kill I ii I. 'IV*n I I in nn J Jpjj
rio.40 per annum"
The many new county move
ments have swamped the house
and there seems to be a disposi
tion on the parts ot house to dis
courage them in every way.
They have been taking up so
much time that there is little
room for any other work to be
done unless they are discouraged.
County rooters are trying to cut
some counties as much as three
times.
Tom Felder is still in evidence
and is about the most reviled
man so tar as his political
character is concerned that we
have any knowledge of. His
open advocacy of anything seems
to frighten the boys off until
they can locate the negro in the
woodpile.
the same days for the first week
of August.
FARMERS’ INSTITUTE FOR
FIRST SALE.
In as much as farmers’ insti
tute had been contemplated for
Bainbridge to take place about
August 1st, the officers of the
board of .trade decided that it
would lend a double advantage
to the farmers and rural people
generally to hold the institute
upon one of the regular trade
days. The fact is apparent that
much of the information given
at these institutes apply with
equal force and advantage to
the wife and children of the
farmer and that the best edu
cational results are obtained by
the presence of the entire
family. In fact it be may declared
with much force that the boy
is fast becoming the father of
scientific corn and pig raising
in Georgia; also that the girls!
are the instructor of their
mothers in canning and the
preservation of food.. At this
meeting special attention will
be given and subjects selected
to conform with the interest aud
education of the boys and girls
in the county.
Reviewing the list of speakers
ler this institute the best author
ities available will he secured.
Commissioner of Agriculture,
W. A. McRae, of Tallahasseee,
Fla., and Mrs. G. H. Mathis, of
Gadsden, Ala., representing the
Bankers’ Association of Alaba
ma, and one of the best inform
ed authorities in the south on
agricultural and economic ques
tions will be especially invited
to be present.
Combining special trade ad
vantage with unusual education
al interest through the institute,
Bainbridge should be galy with
visitors for those days. The
time and occasion is auspicious
for boosting the town and affords
an opportunity for every citizen
to become a committee of one to
push this matter to a successful
conslusion. If Bainbridge is your
home or the site of your busi
ness, where your future living
is to be made, then be one to
interest and attract to Bain
bridge the largest possible num
ber of rural customers. Dis
tance has very little meaning
with those out of town customers
and they can and will find a
way to get to the town or city
where they get the most con
siderate personal treatment and
the most and best merchandise
for their money. Bainbridge has
both of these elements in abund
ance-personal good will and de
sirable merchandise at unusually
advantageous prices. Therefore
let us make ready to rejoice in a
closer personal touch with our
rural neighbors, also increase
our commercial interests by serv
ing this trade with financial ad
vantage.
Join 'the Club have all your
Pressing done for $1.50 month.
Julian Hodges. Phone 373.
Quite a lot to Fee around At
lanta now. Soldiers and brass
bands and all other panoply of
war add a zest to the work of
the statemen.
i j—■— v cu years
,. or l?", T ear rental payment interest for six years
lor fifth year rental payment interest for five years
Tor sixth year rental payment interest for four years
l or seventh year rental payment interest for three years' "
I-or eighth year rental payment interest for two years
lor ninth year rental payment interest for one.......
The total amount paid by you in ten years principal and interest bein»
lliree hundred,and twenty-eight more for rent than you would .
purchase of the farm. And the result at the end of ten years would i
you bought the farm it would be paid for in full with $1440,00 anti
own it with all thj improvement you put on it. But if you rented it J
buying it you at the end of ten years would have paid out $176,3.00 in ,
you would own nothing. The above figures seem to be indisputable
W e will also sell large tracts of land, from 1,C00 to 10,000 acres
or unimproved on Liberal Terms, for colonizing purposes But will
Ucipate m any colonizing organization or plan. Also will sell fifty
thVsY ln H ,he Clt y, 0f Bainbridge on six years time. One six?Iim
the balance in five equal annual installments with interest from date
B. B. BOWER, Sr., President!
Bainbridge, Georgia.
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Bainbridge, Georgia.
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
READ DRESS TALK NO. 11
Many a man is hot and irritable simply
because his underwear is uncomfortable,
yet he doesn’t realize it.
Here you will find the comtortable kind
right in the weight, and perfect in fit,
whether you are long or short, stout or
thin.
Step in and let us show you our line.
The largest and best in Bainbridge.
Geo. H. Fields
"THE FASHIONABLE HABERDASHER"
BAINBRIDGE. GEORGIA.