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(Cuffci' (Urnutty Pragrraa.
Published Livery 1 hursday Afternoon
T. A. WALLACE. Editor
E. S. SAPP, Business Manager
J. E. BAR I LETT, Mechanical Mgr.
Pending Application to be Entered at the
Post Office, Douglas, Georgia is Second
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Thf Coffee County Progress makes this its
first appeasence under the auspices of no political
party, faction, boss or ring and without any politi
cal ambition other than to witness the rule of
all the people all the time. Their voice is the pow
er that be.
The purpose of this paper is to strive for
justice and right between all mankind, for clean
politics, good morals, honest office holders, County
State and Federal, Australian ballott system, hon
est and fearless judges, progress and advancement
along all lines, and a clean up-todate newspaper
that may be welcomed into the home of the great
and small, rich and poor, without fear of being
an unwelcomed visitor or shocking the modesty or
injuring the feeling of any one.
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Let us l\ave your ideas, they may be valuable
to us and to others, and if they do have merits we
we will gladly pass them along and thus think,
plan and co-operate to make The Coffee County
Progress a success. It will do you good to
express your thoughts and make room for greater
and better ones.
The day of “Do the thing and you shall have
the power” has fully developed and the spirit of
progress permeates the air of all South Georgia.
Coffee County has never lagged behind the proces
sion and she never will. It is an inspiring sight
to see the number of bright eyed determined and
ambitious boys and girls entering the campus
grounds of the two colleges of Douglas with appar
ently but one thought and that to prepare them
selves for the great duties of life. This may
witnessed within the confines of their native coun
ty, and in either of which colleges they can receive
a thorough and practical education sufficient per
haps for all needs of life. There are others who
should also be taking advantage of this great op
portunity while still the day of preparation holds
out. We are deeply interested in this subject and
we shall make a special effort to arouse the inter
est of those who have been allowing such chances
to pass them. In furtherance of this idea your
present County School Superintendent, Prof. .1. G
Floycl, t'.>as kindly volunteered to contribute to this
paper such' ideas and advice as he thinks would
lead to greater stimulation along educational lines
and we congratulate ourselves on securing his as
sistance for he seems completely given over to this
work and his every thought and effort is directed
'to the advancement of the cause of education.
Coffee County is to be congratulated also on hav
ing such an intensely earnest and capable
man at the head of her schools. In this connection
Col. J. IH. Wiliams, our courteous ex-county
Superintendent, has agreed to write for publica
tion in this papersome of his experience while in
that office, and thus express certain original ideas
conceived by hinfjwhile struggling with the prob
lems which that office placed upon him.
Also some of our leading Physicians of the
county have consented to write on timely subjects
affecting the health and comfort of school children
and suggest how to avoid a great many of the ills
which prevent either their attendance or the pro
gress they make while in school.
The people of the Unite,! States expect no sud
den change in the general cost of living but expect
and really hope that same will he gradual. We all
understand that one business becomes a prop and
stay for another and that the sudden destruction of
any business would tend to disrupt the whole and
really defeat the very purpose tariff revision. The
agencies responsibly for the distressing rise in the
necessaries of life will be handled with as much ex
pediency as possible and within a short time we
shall all begin to realize its benefits. The general
effect ultimately of tariff reduction will be toward
the lowering of the cost of living and necessarily
all of us will be directly benefited by it, but there
are some things which no tariff reform or money
legislation can accomplish for us and that is to give
us a living without work. Free beef dont, raise the
is made, no duty on bacon
ifroesift raise the flour and meal doesn't
plant the grain and harvest an ‘l one of the
great troubles today with the ciistNfcliying is that
there are entirely too many people a
living by some other means than working foHuffcl
1 ewer stil 1 are endeavoring tomake it in the old honN
e.st route via the sweat of the browktiliing thv
Th-at is the o„e way by which
Si ye the problem and we trust that Coffee Countv
will take the lead in that direction. We have lying
idle, thousands and thousands of acres of the very
best farming and cattle raising lands to be found in ■’
the South and adaptable to any and all kinds of farm *
ing; success and independence await the energetic j!
man of brain and muscle right heye in our Countv '■
mii: coffee: county progress, douglas, Georgia
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
Realizing that the news per business affords a
legitimate field of action and one that cannot un
der our form of government be abridged, monopo
lized or cornered, nearly one hundred citizens of
this county have united in efforts, energies, time
and money to create, establish and publish a clean,
thorough up-todate county news-paper for Coffee
County. To the great masses of the people of this
county shall we turn for judgement and to them
will our ears be ever’ open. To them shall we look
for encouragement and for success and to them
shall we listen for censure and condemnation should
our pen stray from the path of progress and recti
tude. To err sometime, somewhere, somewhen will
only prove us mortal and to immortality we assert
to claim in tin* flesh. We scarcely expect to publish
a news-puffer for any considerable length of time
and escape a verdict that somewhere wehaveerred,
yet the only tribunal before whom we shall apfrear
and recognize the authority and jurisdiction to ren
der- a valid binding judgement against us will be
in the grea forum of public opinion and we lay par
ticular stress upon the word “Public” for by it we
refer to the crystalized opinion of the whole. The
wisdom of the whole is the greatest of all wisdom.
No man or men whose caliber fails to embrace the
whole, need expect in any manner to influence the
purpose of tins paper. We do not mean by this that
we shall advertise for opinions before we publish
this paper or- before we write upon any particular
subject, or that in so doing the dictates of our con
science shall not be liberally considered, but if we
should through ignorance, oversight, mistake or
otherwise commit an error which should meet with
the disapproval of the honest thinking people as a
whole, then we shall bow the knee ami rectify the
wrong if within our (rower.
We want every upright citizen of Coffee Coun
ty to join us in uri effort to make this paper an in
si rument for the benefit of all the people. We want
you to realize that there is a common interest be
tween us. The man of today cannot keep abreast of
the times without reading the news-paper, the news
paper cannot exist without someone to read it.
Stretched out before she people of the twentieth
century, leading in every direction, are avenues of
success as numberless as the stars, through these
colums we hope to exchange suggestions, ideas and
experiences from which all may recieve benefits and
in furtherance of this purpose, we invite those
whoseexperiencesalorrgagricultural, industrial and
educational lines have demonstrated anything new,
successful or interesting or which will have a ten
dency to help each otherjand make the burden light
er t« express themselves in this paper and thus will
we help, inspire and encouroge others about us. Let
us forget the period in evolutionary life when the
race dwelt in caves and trees and ate each others
offsprings, when brute force determined a man’s
position in the tribe, when the single brain cell was
master of the cranium of man and coming to later
life, may wc put aside forever the individual selfish
ness, the little narrow thought, the cunning tricks,
the conduct unbecoming true manhood, recognizing
instead the great brotherhood of man, the source
from whence we all came and to which we must all
return when the spasm of life is over.
It was very gratifying to those primarily inter
ested in the establishment of this paper to find with
what comparitive ease the stock to same was dis
posed of. None required any begging and few hes
itated for further information than a brief outline
of the plans and purpose of the organization. The
information uniformly given was that the paper
should either be a weekly or twice weekly county
news-paper. There was no systematic plan used in
offering the stock, no steneous effort made to dis
pose of it and many would have subscribed who had
no opportunity offered, those in charge preferring
to merely wait and -present the matter to the pub
lic as they should come to Douglas and in numbers
of instances even then the promoters failed to see
them. And in this manner we have missed a great
number of good citizens whom we should have been
proud to have with us as stockholders, however be
cause you are not a stockholder in this paper makes
no difference in our feeling for you and good wishes
for your success and you will always find this office
open to receive you when in Douglas and we want
you to visit us and tell us the news. Others who
felt unable to purchase stock or disinclined to in
vest, assured us. some of them as high as five vears
subscription in advaee, some promised paying ad
vertising matters as long as the paper should be
published or # so long as they should remain in busi
ness, this we trust will be many years hence, so that
our success up to the time that our first issue goes
to press has been rather phenominai and exceeding
ly gratifying. At the first meetting of the pro
moters several weeks ago the idea of making this
paper a twice weekly was discussed but never fully
determined, however at the first meeting of the
stocholders after a charter has been obtained this
question will be determined and it is not at all un
likely that it will be determined to make a twice
weekly out of it. We have a (tress outfit of which
we are justly proud and we are in the newspaper
business for success, and if encouragement shall
prove a safe criterion then our success is already a
thing.of reality.
THE W’LSON ADMINISTRATION
The democratic administration has, up to this
time, made good. Its success seeing to be assured
beyond boubt. l’he leaders of the dominant party
Viave started out with courage and determination
\ i see the progressive principles of the Baltimore
jyiatform speedily written into the law of the land,
bid that these laws be executed and admistered in
with the spirit of democratic doctrine.
Jesident W ilson has accepted his commission as
Aosen leader of the people with a true conception
■QMfc?PW s hip ar -d responsibility. He has taken no
GTRttojrater on anv campaign, promise and already
we have the new tariff bill on the statutes, which,
in itself, is enough to justify the existence of the
present administration. The passage of the cur
rency bill at an early date is now assured, and the
field will be cleared by December for legislation
touching the regulation of the trust and monopolies.
As was said above, President Wiison is the ac
tive leader and the head of theadministraition. He
is progresssive and energetic. Under him the pres
ident is no longer a mere figure head, but a co-worker
with his colleagues for the redemption of his party s
pledges. The promises of the democrats were,
stated broadly and in general terms, that the gov
ernment would be restored to the people, and that
the industrial system would be so remodeled that
the government would no longer be a patron for the
distribution of special favors to the special and
predatory.interests. The recent lobby investigation
has shown that the special interests have dominated
congressional committees and have written the laws
of the country, and for that reason the govern
ment has not responded to the demands of the peo
ple, The iniquitous tariff system was the product
of patronage; the interests financed the campaigns
of candidates, and in return the law-makers passed
favorable laws whereby the contributors were re
paid many fold at the expense and oppression of the
people.
Wilson is well equipped to lead his party to suc
cess. He is wise and courageous. But Wilson is
not alone in the great work of making our govern
ment, in all its functions, progressive and popular.
His cabinet is composed of able, courageous, and
progressive men, and the entire executive depart
ment will certainly ring with progressiveism at qvery
turn. Nothing else could be expected at the hands
of such men as compose the present cabinet.
The senate is now in charge of leaders in full
sympathy with the administration, and we can ex
pect that the senate will no longer turn a deaf
to the demands of the people, and that it is no
longer the rnecca for the paid tobyistsof industries
seeking patronage. The House is thoroughly pop
ular and responsive to the real needs of the country.
The character and couragemf our President and of
our dominant leaders in Congress assure us that a
new era and a new freedom is soon to dawn and to
permeate the country, and that we may confidently
expect social and industrial justice to prevail in the
place of fovoriteism a^Tabninage.
The leaders of tfmlfdrojrHStration have a hard
fight to free the county amr secure for us popular
government in reality. We can certainly expect a
howl from the predatory interests when they are no
longer allowed to filch from the people tributes un
der the guise of protecting infant industries and
maintaining a high standard of wages for labor,
and we can expect them to boil with indignation
when their paid henchman are driven away from
congressional committees, and are no longer allow
ed to legislate for the people. There is no limit to
what they will try to do in furtherance of their
scheme to own and control the goverment. Many
of the captains of industry are really cowards and
are afraid that they cannot survive industrial com
petion without tne favor and patronage of the gov
ernment. They have lived and operated so long un
der the old Republican regime that they have come,
almost honestly, to believe that to rob and (tillage
the people is legitimate because, as they think, it is
necessary. We can trust our leaders at the helm
and are not afraid that they will give ear to the se
ductive wiles of the money and special favor crowd.
The conservatives are a great stumbling block
A Call To The Boys and Their pothers
There is something new for you here, and
We Want to tell you and your parents about it
RIGHT POSTURE _ f
A health giving patent, built into clothes
that are made to stand hard usage.
It is a patent elastic band built into the
shoulders and back of thecoat. Not a brace, *> 1 V \
but a gentle reminder to stand with head jP* Br I iIl 1
back, chest out, and shoulders squre. Jj f- \J I rf‘
A garment that encourages right-posture,
correct breathing and pride of appearance. | lii "%
We give a nice pair of Dumb Bell’s with ||l|
each Right-Posture suit. j l l
•We invite you to come and look them over. 11 Eji
• Wzjjaifc'
Peterson & Reiman
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• Douglas -:- Georgia
in the path of the administration, fj'fw a<? more
troublesome becouse they try to pose Is being in
harmony with the leaders. The objeclpns t»' these
fellows are that they are too scared tha something
awful is going to happen t<> the Constiuion;ir>d that
Constitutional Government is to be destroyed; they
think that the framers of our 'onstitution
and the authors of the earlier statud were divine
and knew how to write laws that wojld fit the in
dustrial, social, and commercial relations through
out all age 9. Their conception of a geat congress
man. or senator is one who never seety; to have any
law enacted but sits on the (<mstitutpn and is con
tinually hollowing “Constitution” wjen any reme
dial legislation is sought to be pa*se<. Thecon
servatives are necessarily an asset (»f gd interests,
and so abnoxious to the people were, in heir incep
tion, wise and just. Social andindustrjtl develop
ment and the general evoFutflfii of the tpuntry call
for new laws and the conservative is unible to grap
this idea. They -fail to realize that atv progress
can or ought to be made in regard to the enact
ment uf laws and their execution Even the
church which is the most conservative |elemertt in
all our civilization recognizes that progress is inev
itable in all things, and should bebncouraged.
We may expect to hear many protests from our
conservative democrats when Congress at the next
session directs its attention to the enactment, of
remedial legislation seeking tpgjve u the freedom
and justice and opportunity whith ought to be so
abundant in America. Tm <j' the senate in
"reorgnizing itself in accordanceJKh new progress
ive ideas and in “benching,” b, a certain extent,
certain conservatives will be i ore^tpparent.
We note that much has b; t* said recently by the
conservative organs of this S«ue in regard to cer
tain efforts to read out of the party the 'conserva
tive element in Georgia. It isa lamentable fact, at
thedawn of* the democratic administration which
is destined to mark the most expansjve and pro
gressive era in our nation’s Vistorv, that Georgia,
the greatest of the truly democratic States,
has so many hopeless and implacable conserv
atives who are total ly deaf to the eternal caff
of progress and who cann t unwed themselves
from the idea that this coun ry ought to be govern
ed by the plutocrats, and th 1 ultimate goal of the
government is to lookout fm the great captains of
industry and make the rich r cher, and bigunterests
and industries more powerful. and confidently trust
that the mighty and strong will take .care of the
weak and poor. Let the IT'Jffifi. 1 be the guardi
ans, without bond, of the veak is the gist of the
governmental programme p omulgated by thestand
pat republicans and conservative democrats. The
purpose and aim of the two -re the same and where' 11
in do they differ? There is |io effort to read anyone
out of the party. The consort, ative is just simply toe*
slow for the fastecompany in charge of the progres
sive administration,, it is simply back to the ‘bush
league’ him. The very fact that a man admits
being a conservative is an >pen confession of his
’rneompetoney; for he theieby confesses that the
way things were done one,hundred years ago are
gorid enough for him. lb abhors progress. He
would make a poor official, and he is entirely too
slow to get theappointmeil:. To the victor belongs
the spoils is an eternal diet.an when the victors are
the only ones qualified to administer satisfactorily
the booty. The conservative does nut think rightly,
he does not act rightly, aid he is too much out of
harmony to take any part whatever in an adminis
tration whose every functim and fiber is permeated
with purpose and progress