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The I Nugget.
DAHLONEGA, SEPT 30, 1904.
The Educational Amendment
To the Constitution.
Enetred ii( flic Ruhloncga, On
ns Second Clans Matter.
1*. O
KntToH NrttOKT:
The iiuople an; called ujmn to vote
for or against a proposed educational
amendment to our State Constitution
official Organ 'of "both City and ! at the election next week. The amend-
moot ought to receive the. sanction of
every voter in the state, especially
those who live in Lumpkin county.
I will give a few reasons why the
County.
All the parlies nominated for
county offices in Franklin county L me ndment should be adopted—I will
recently by the populists, have | not take up the time of your readers
declined to accept.
On the 24th inst. two trains [t
crashed together on the Southern
Railroad near Newmarket, Tonn.,
killing (52 and injuring 150 per
sons. Both locomotives wore de
molished.
One day last week a young ne
gro named Babe Brown wont to a
house and assaulted a fourtoen-
year-old white girl near Green
wood, S. C.. and told her elder
sister, when she enme to the rescue,
that he would kdl both if they told j j )(> ) onk , H tuthi
on him. and returned to the held
and resumed his work of picking
cotton. He was afterwards lynch
ed. Let justice be done though
the heavens fall.
... discussing at any length these
reasons, because the bare statement of
icm must strike the mind of the
voter.
1st. The present Constitution
of Georgia confines tin
•Schools of the Stale U> teaching only
those branches which pertain to ele
mentary English education. This is
better understood when I say Heading,
Writing and Arithmetic. Whenever a
teacher, in the public, schools, under
takes to teach more than these things,
including a little knowledge of the
principles of Health, he or she goes
farther than the law permits. The
teacher cannottak
public schools must remain at a stand
still.
8. The adoption of the proposed
amendment does not put the system of |
taxation for schools into operation. A
school district may unanimously vote
for the amendment but it may never
agree to be taxed for school purposes.
As the Constitution now stands it is
at most an impossibility U* raise mon
ey by direct taxation for school pur
poses. What is now desired is to en
able those districts that may want to
do so, to tax themselves, which cannot
now he done. Will any voter of Lump
kin county stand in the way of others
who may desire to progress on educa
tional lines? We must not act the part
of the dog in the manger. We will
not eat, and therefore, no one else
Public ahull do so.
9. Every dollar that a school dis
trict taxes itself will be spent in that
school district. The money will not
go out of the district. The trustees of
each’school district will decide what
amount, shall be raised and for what
purpose. The necessities of each
school district will likely differ from
those of every other school district.
Therefore each district must regulate
up the time which j i,s own school affairs.
1 10. This proposed amendment to
the Constitution, at least so far as the
tax money goes, is the highest form of
local option that could be devised for
the people. If a district is poor the
gs to tnc pupils in the elementary |
studies and bestow that time on what
might be called advanced scholars, i
The Board of Education of Lumpkin j
county has been appealed to time and
additional teachers | assessments will be correspondingly
again to furnish
for schools in ord
■r that the time o
Mr. W. 8. Carlisle, Chief Lngm
neer in charge of the Gainesville
ed pupils. Th
because to do so would be violating the
ami Dahlonega Electric Company, , aw Tlu . rt . I>ly to such applications is
has resigned his position to again
resume construction work. Mr.
E. 8. Copeland, who has been sec
retary, has also given up his place
to go with Mr. Carlisle. Mr. \\ .
H. Slack of Marietta, Ohio, a son-
in law of Gen. Warner, has assum
ed the duties of Messrs. Carlisle
and Copeland.—Gainesvillo News.
f small. I own lands in every school
one teacher might be'gi Jen"’to advane- district in the county, but I am willing
mid not be done, | u » P'D' ">>' s,1!lrc of the lax which cach
district may impose for school pur
poses. The country will be improved
thereby and my land become more
valuable.
Will the citizens of Lumpkin county
vote to keep it the most illiterate
county in the state, or will they carve
a way out of the disgraceful dilemma
duty of the State to allow more to WL “ lire now in ■
The new process recently put
into use at Duektown to roast the I forl
green ore, seems to be a failure,
as tho fumes from the present
smelting process are even more
wide spread and destructive than
from the old process. At Ep~
worth all yegetation is being kill
ed and parties whose purpose it
was to improve their property on
account of the seminary there,
have abandoned the idea of doing
BO.
that the parents of such pupils as re
quire instruction in higher branches
must pay for the additional teacher.
The intention of the frnmors of our
present Constitution seemed to be: to
meet parents half way ; that it was not
the
be taught in tho public schools than I
have stated, and after that the parent,
or pupil himself, should, obtain the
great advantages of higher education
by personal means and individual cf-
as well
parents
AV. 1*. Prick.
President Hoard of Education.
Ashley Said He Was Not a
Citizen of Georgia.
DO YOU NEED A
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There is no one who does not need e
Liver Medicine occasionally.
The symptoms of Liver Complaint are
well known to every one, such ns consti
pation, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, sleep
lessness, headache, a tired feeliug and
many others of a similar nature.
Thousands die annually by not heeding
the warning:, of nature.
Many acquire some chronic disease
from which they never recover.
Many of these could he spared for years
of usefulness, by keeping in the home
some reliable remedy.
We believe that we can convince any
fair-minded person that theic is no bet
ter remedy for the Liver known, than
Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup.
The formula is known, consisting of:
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many other formulas of a liver medicine
nre published? Ask your druggist about
this. It is already prepared and can he
taken immediately.
The strength is extracted in the most
skillful manner, certainly superior to any
powdered preparation known. (Wc also
manufacture a Liver Medicine in pow
dered form, with which any druggist can
supply you, but this, like all other dry
Liver Medicines requires preparation.)
A Blow Aimed at the Common
Schools of Georgia.
Ratification of Two Proposed Constitutional Amend-*
merits a Scheme to Withdraw State’s Aid
to Public Education.
If the people of Georgia do not vote
against two of the proposed amend
ments to the Constitution, which are
to bo voted on at the election on Oc
tober 6th, it will be because they do
not understand the far-reaching pur
poses and effects of these proposed
amendments.
In 1877, the people of Georgia
adopted tho present Constitution ot
the State. In recent years, hardly a
legislature has adjourned without
submitting for ratification by the peo
ple one or more amendments to this
Constitution. The thinking man hesi
tates before changing this organic law
in any particular. A large majority
of the voters of the State, engaged as
ver iTicuiuucs n.ijuiicr> |iic|jniduuu./
Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup they are in various pursuits, are fteces-
In preparing for tho trial of n
defendant at Huntsville, Ala., last
week the question was put to each
tails juty, if ho would hold a man
guilty of murder for being a mem
ber of a mob that committed mur
der, and sixty of them answered
“no.” They are like many people
in Georgia, believe that it is noth
ing but justice to «ret rid of till
persons, either black or white,
who arc guilty of outraging girls
and women, the quickest way po'ss
sible.
Bro. Rucker, of tho Alpharetta
Free Press, County School Com
missioner of Milton, is making a
fight against the proposed school
amendment to the constitution,
lie says ho is against it because it
is an effort to relieve the state of
the duty of educating the children
and putting it on the counties. It
is an effort to lighten the burdens
of the rich counties, and increase
the burdens of tho poor ones. It
means less taxes for the wealthy
corporations, and more taxes for
the poor man. It will result in
relieving railroads, banks, money
sharks, etc., of helping educate
the children, and putting it on the
land owner, the mule owner, and
the cow owner. He says it is a
great scheme to make the poor
man educate his own children, and
allow the rich to escape this bur
den.
On last Saturday morning at
3 o’clock the hotel at Dawsonville
was discovered to be ou fire and in
a short while it was nothing but a
heap of ashes. How the fire orig
inated no one knows. Editor ,).
B. Thomas of the Advertiser had
recently sold the hotel to Mr. 8.
L. Richards, of .htsper, Ga. He
had moved out everything except
his printing outfit and a few pieces,
of furniture to give possession and
Mr. Richards had sent a man oyer
to stay until he arrived. Mr.
Thomas’ loss is $600 with no in
surance uu the part of Mr. Thom
as. Wo regret to hoar of this de
struction, but are glad to learn
that Mr. Thomas is going to so
cure another out fit und (lie Daw
son vide Advertiser will soon ap
pear again.
Hu: framers of the Constitution,
1 as our law makers, expected
to provide school houses,
blit this expectation lias been rarely
realized. What school houses we have
in Lumpkin county have been built,
nine cases out of ten, by withdrawing
sufficient money from each school dis
trict to pay for the house, the parents
in each ease prefering this course to
subscribing money out of their own
pockets for that purchase. No school
can exist without a school bouse, and
the house, should bo made comfortable
for use in all seasons.
ft. The U. S. census for 1900 shows
that Lumpkin county lias more adults
who cannot read and write than any
other county in Georgia. The school
children of the county have made great
progress in the past four years, but the
children of other counties have like
wise progressed, leaving Lumpkin
county still the most illiterate county
in Georgia. We have had a college in
our midst for a third of a century and
many, young men and women have
gone forth from its walls, fully equip
ped fur life’s work, but nineteen-
twentieths of these educated people
have gone to other parts of the state,
and to other states, where their educa
tion would pay better than it would
here in this mountain country where
the population is spasce and poor.
1. Under our State Constitution the
legislature cannot improve our public
schools much more than at present.
The sum annually appropriated might
finally reach into millions, but no mat
ter what the sum appropriated amount
ed to it cannot, under our Constitu
tion, be made to meet all the demands
of our public schools. The salaries of
teachers may be. increased, and more
experienced teachers be secured, but
the fact still remains that they are not
allowed to instruct in anything but. the
elementary branches of an English I
education.
5. Lumpkin county is now tolerably |
well provided with school houses. |
Perhaps only two more are needed, to
make up for the two school houses that
were, burned, one at Jay, the other in
Porter Springs district. The only way
to secure these houses is to discontinue
the schools in whole or in part until
the Hoard lias the money.
d. Parents have come to rely upon
the state for almost everything which
pertains to the instruction of their
children. I have been appealed to in
a few instances to stop the pay of t he
teachers until the children could be
supplied with books, using the teach
er’s money for that purpose.
7. For thirty-three years I have
studied the wants of higher schools
and colleges. For about eight years I
have been a member of the Hoard of
Education of Lumpkin county, and
have given to the Public School system,
more thought and time than perhaps
any one you could mention, who lias
not been paid in money for his services.
My work has been for the public good,
and not for any public honor. I have
succeeded, with the aid of the County
School Commissioner and the Board,
in bringing up our schools to as high a
standard as can be accomplished under
the present Constitution of Georgia.
I must say, that unless the people—the
voters—now come to the rescue, our
Tho following affidavit made be
fore John H. Moore, Clerk Supe
rior Court of Lumpkin county,
containing the seal of his office,
explains itself:
State of Georgia, Lumpkin Co.
In person appeared before the
undersigned subscriber, an officer
of said state authorized by law to
administer oaths, James L. Heal -
an, receiver of tax returns for tho
county of Lumpkin, after being
duly sworn deposes and says: that
he was receiver of tax returns for
said county, in the year 1902; that
he is well acquainted with James
M, Ashley, and that he remembers
tho time that the said Ashley came
before him to give in the property
of tho Georgia Dredging Comprny
for taxation in the year 1902; that
at said time ho called the attention
of said Ashley, to his duty to re
turn his own property and poll for
taxation, and that the said Ashley
at the said timo remarked to him
that ho was not subject to taxa
tion in Georgia, that ho was not
at that time a resident of Georgia,
but was a resident of the state of
Ohio, that his legal residence was
Ohio, and that he paid his taxes in
the state of Ohio, and that he was
not a citizen or a tax payer in the
state of Georgia.
James L. Healan,
Receiver of Tax Returns of
Lumpkin County.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 2(>thday ot Sept. 1904.
John H. Mooke,
Clerk Superior Court of
Lumpkin County.
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M. G. HEAD, Prop’r,
Dahl onega, Ga.
First-Class Family and Transient Hotel.
RATES:
Per Day, $1.60; Week, $6; Month, $20.
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Help the Orphans.
Next Tuesday, Oct. 4th, we will
give our labors lo the orphans.
A enusc in which Christian, infidel,
and even atheist can join without
conllict.
We will give the profit on all
sales on the above date to Ihe or
phans at Decatur, unless tho
amount reaches $10, in which case
wc will divide it by sending one-
half to Hopcville. Also we cor
dially invite the pubic generally to
visit our store on the above date
and view the improvements made
during tho summer in our store
room. Also you will see a com
plete stock of general merchandise
and family groceries that, quality
considered, can not be equaled in
price in this section.
A few prices picked at random:
Copperas 4c; polished ginger .18c;
sulphur 5c; 2 boxes blueing 5c;
5c size turpintine 4c; one pound
vasaline 12c; good roasted coffee
L5c; extra good coffee 25c; Shreds
ed wheat biscuits 14c; Force 15c;
Quaker oat meal 12c; Blocks fresh
soda crackers, salted, 9c; common
soda crackers Tc; 2 gross white
chalk crayons 15c; 7 balls thread
5c; full weight oysters 10c; big box
toothpicks 4c or 7 packs for 25c;
Colgates Dental Powders 28c;
cashmere boquet and 4711 toilet
soap 18c.
A nice assortment of Blocks
fancy on tidy just arrived. A fine
new stock of calico at 1 cent less
per yard than usual price. A nice,
new lot* of shoes just received.
Buggy whips 8c to 75c. Umbrel
las 58c to $1.88. Clocks 75c to
$1.98. A nice assortment of
shirts and suspenders just received.
Call on us any time, but especs
ially you are welcome next Tus-
day.
B. R. Meade its & Sons.
THE BANK OF DAHLONEGA.
UNDER STATE SUPERVISION.
Daht.onega, Ga., Sept. 28. 1904.
To Outt CnsTOMEits:
On October 1st, Mr. If. B. Crawford will resign bis position us
Cashier of this Bank to accept' a similar position with the North
Georgia National Bank at Blue Ridge. Mr. H. 1). Gurley has kindly
consented to assume t he management of the Bank, and his son, Mr.
Claude Gurley, will be actively in the office us Teller. Mr. Gurley
is already better known to you than I am, but I take occasion to sav
that owing to his long residence among you, his success in his own
business affairs, bis personal acquaintance throughout this section,
and his tborough identification with the interest of the town and
county, make him especially fitted for the position. He will be Vice-
President and Cashier. Mr. Crawford retains his position as a Di
rector and will keep in touch with the business. Mv position
mains ns before.
Thanking you for your co-ope rut ion in making the Hank a suc
cess thus far, and soliciting a continuance of same under Mr. Gur
ley. 1 beg to remain
Yours verv truly,
JNO.‘ II. CARTER.
President.
sarily uninformed as to the purposes
and effects of these amendments.
As a County School Commissioner,
deeply interested in the education of
our children, I appeal to the people
to vote against the amendments pro
posing to limit the State tax rate to 5
mills, and the amendment providing
for local taxation for school purposes.
In ray judgment these amendments in
volve the most radical and dangerous
legislation proposed in the history of
the State. More than one hundred of
the ^smaller anvl poorer counties of
Georgia receive more money from the
school fund of the State than they pay
all purposes.
This benefits the poor children In the
rural districts, and works no injustice
to the wealthy commercial centers, be
cause the tax imposed to raiso tho'
Stase school fund is levied ad valorem.
The contention that the rich counties
are hearing the school burdens of the
poorer counties is without foundation.
The facts are that the wealth of the
State is being tax^d to educate tne
children of the Stato, and county lines
have, and should have, notning to do
with the question. Georgia Is Irrevo
cably committed to the principle of
Stale education.
It is not unnatural that tho larger
counties of the State should be dissat
isfied with this condition of affairs.
Originating as far back as 1896, th’ere
has been an organized ami constantly-
growing effort to engraft upon the sys
tem of public education in Georgia the
principle and practice of local taxa
tion.
The proposed amendment which he
people will be oaWed to vote upon
Is the entering wodge of that effort.
If this amendment should ho adopted,
mdouhtedly large numbers of school
• listricts would lie organized in Geor
gia, and large sums raiset^ by local
taxation. When this condition arises,
he enemies to-tho present public school
system would have in their hands the
one weapon with whicn to successfully
fight State appropriations to public
schools. They would point to-tho fact
that the people by their votes had
committed themselves to the principle
of local taxation, and thereby tacitly
approved iho withdrawal of the State's
aid.r They would point to the fact
that whereas large sums are now nec
essary to he appropriated by the State
for the maintenance of public educa
tion, such amounts would then be'un
necessary and extravagant, because
of the large sums raised by local tax?-
ation. As a necessary and certain re
sult the State's appropriation to pub
lic schools would, within a few years,
lie cut in half. With the State’s ap
propriation reduced, the counties that
have but little wealth, as compared
with the number of their children,
would have to levy a heavy local tax
or do without schools, ’the resu't
would he that the wealth would leave
the country and he carried to the cen
ters where its share of school taxes
would not he so burdensome. The oper
ation of such a system would devas
tate the rural districts and centralize
the wealth of the State. Besides, It
would destroy the unity and efficiency
of our present school system. Again,
the sole benefit of tho law providing
for the uniformity of text books—that
of grading the schools—would be lost
as counties which vote a local tax aro
not bound to use the books adopted by
the State.
Our friends who aro advocating the
adoption of this amendment Insist
that the object of it Is merely to allow
the counties which desire It to levy
a local tax as an auxiliary to the State
appropriation, f thereby giving moro
mow?, longer terms and better teach
es*. Thla Is an Innocent and attrac
tive-looking proposition, but woe t*
the simple-minded voter who is taken
in by it. it means no such thing, it 1
means to revolutionize the public ed*
cational system of Georgia. It mean*
the ultimate abandonment of State
education and the substitution of e u !i-
cation by local taxation.
The system of local taxation may tw
all right for Ohio and Massachusetts,
ail parts of which are thickly p U pp'
lated and wealthy, but it would o«
radically wrong and uujust in Georgia,
the greater portion of whidh Is sparse-
ly populated and poor. It would be
quite as just to say that every county
in the State had to '.ax itself to qaj
pensionsi%to its old Confederate sol
diers, as to say that each county a
the State should tax itself to support
its schools. Will the people of Geot-
gia by the ratification of this amend
ment commit themselves to this*prin
ciple? I believe not.
The proposed amendment limiting
the rate of State taxation to 5 mills
Is a twin evil to the one discuss-^
above. The professed object is to
prevent extravagant appropriations. U
is also argued that It, will induce lof-
eign capital to come to Georgia. What
ever may be its purpose, the real ef
fect is to make It impossible, sooner
or later, for the Legislature to briag
our public school system to perfik-tloa
by appropriating a sufficient amount
of money for this purpose.
More than 40 per cent of the total
amount, now raised by taxation m
Georgia is appropriated to public
schools. The tax rate for the prfesent
year Is 4.80 mills. The total taxable
property in Georgia for the pfesent
year is $530,000,000. In 1892 It was
$444,000,000; in 1895, three years later,
it was $410,000,000, showing a decreasfe
from 1892 to 1895 of $30,000,000, and
an Increase from 1895 to 1904 of
$120,000,000.
Assuming that the present expendi
tures of the State of Georgia are fair
ly economical, everybody knows that
the tax rate must depend in amount
upon the total of taxable property ca
the tax digest. This total Is constant
ly changing, as demonstrated by fits
above figures. It is reasonable to sup
pose that we will, in future, as In tho
past, go through years of commercial
depression, when there will be a largo
falling off of the tax digest When
such periods come, if this amendment
is ratified, the legislature will hart
no power to tax at a greater rate than
5 mills, or .20 of a mill more than th®
present tax rate. Therefore, they Will
he confronted with the absolute at*
cessily of cutting down appropriation!
oorrespondingly. Does anybody be*
lleve that when the timo comes to c#t
these appropriations the salaries of to*
State officials, and the comparative®,
small amounts now appropriated to
maintain public institutions, w® ho
cut? If not, such cuts must con*
through the public schodl appropria
tion, or from tho amount appropriated
to pay pensions to Confederate sOT
diers.
If this amendment Is adopted, within
less than five years the appropriation
to public schools will have to be out
tn order to njeet other necessary
maids made upon the State.
I am a friend to the public f<*ool
system In Georgia. I do not wnnt to
see the tax rate limited. I believe
'that tlie question of tnx rate can t*
safely left to the judgment of ijptnre
General Assemblies. I believe that
limit it will undoubtedly imps; th«
efficiency and prevent, the grov i 0
our public school system.
Vote down the amendment aud
leave the General Assembly in a w- 11 *
tlon to appropriate as liberally to
11c education as the needs ^ tw
schools and conditions of the
will warrant.
Our friends who reaily desire C
our public school system
should join hands with us in w'N-jW
to engraft the principle «f 1* • ’
ation on our Constitution. L*-
Join us in voting down the
to tie the hands of the Gen-vv •
sembly In the matter of Hp r
tions to pubMc sohooU. and
us all unite in an effort to ■
the school system by larger *“
atlons from the State. ^
(The foregoing arttete is * j ^
rial from The Alpharetta * • ’
by George D. Rnoter. EMitar r*.-
- - *—*—— ga 4-'
ty School
County.)
CosmrisskJoer
SHERIFF’S SALE.
Georgia, Lumpkin County,
Will be sold, on the first Tuesday in
October (1904) next, at public out
cry at the court-house in said County,
within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder for cash, the following
L'o- ! property, lo-wit:
Lots of land numbers 771, 772,
773 and 793, all lying and be
ing in tin* 5th district and 1st section
of said county. Levied on as the prop
erty of Martin Wolim t, Jr., by virtue
of and to satisfy two fi. fas.
issued from the Justice court, of
the- hinth district, G. M. of said county,
in favor of Eli M cliuul
Martin Wclmnt, Jr., said
ing in possession of said
hunt. Jr _ ,
This'Septombi-r 7. l"i .
J. M
I'.WU
NOTICE.
All who are unb illed I"
II. li. Smith, or I’. J- Fin
arc requested nl,ll ''', r T‘
once and savc cosl. ^ 11
come when wo in«-i
warning .o nil.