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THE JACKSON ECONO/TIST.
VOL. VIII.
| JEFFERSON.
1 Miss Louise Pendergrass left last
I Tuesday for several weeks visit to Miss
I A J- M Stoory and W. W.
I picksou went out to Br ockton last Sun
-1 4 Miss Florence White an attractive
I joonp Indy of Mansfield, Ga. is visiting
■ relatives in town.
§ Miss Henrietta Childress returned to
1 home in Atlanta last Monday, after
I .pleasant visit to friends in town.
I Mrs. Emma Daniel, and Mrs. May
I pittman and Mrs. Lula Thompson spent
I i6t Tuesday in the country with Mrs.
1 John Boggs.
I jliss Nettie Howard of Atlanta is
I spending son e time at the Harrison
I Housa
I Miss Ora Lyle, after spending two
I weeks with Miss Nena Baily has re-
I turne d to her home in Gainesville.
I Miss Blanch Wheeler a very popular
young lady of Atlanta is visiting Mrs.
j, B. Pendergrass.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Mobley spent last
Sunday at Pondergrass.
Miss Kate Randolph left last week to
take up her school at Marcus.
The visiting lawyers in town this
week attending city court, are Col’s T.
S. Shackleford, Geo. C. Thomas Henry
West, Robt. Howara of Athens, and
Col’s. L. C. Russell and W. H. Quarter
man of Winder, and Col’s. R. L. J.
Smith and C. M. Walker of Harmony
Grove, and C. H. Brand of Lowrence
ville.
WOULD NOT SUFFER SO AGAIN
FOn FIFIY TIMES ITS PRICE.
I awoke last night with severe pains
in my stomach. I never felt so badly
in all my life. When I came down to
work this morning I felt so week I
could harkly work. 1 went to Miller &
McCurdy *6 drug store and they recom
mended Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. It worked like
magic and one dose fixed me alright. It
certainly is the finest thing I ever used
for stcmach trouble. I shall not be
without it in my home hereafter, for 1
should not care to endure the sufferings
ot last night again for fifty times its
price.—G. H. Wilson, Liver} man, Bur
gettstown, Washington Cos., Pa. This
This remedy is lor sale by Winder
Drug Cos.
RANDOLPH ACADEMY.
Our Sunday school has started in the
second quarter with great interest
manifested.
We will have a lot of new song books
next Sunday, and we are expecting
some excelent singing.
Mr. Parks Wilson will give ns a lect
ure next Sunday at Sunday school.
The two year old child of Mr. and
Mrs. M. T. Cooper was buried at Zion
last week.
Messrs. Braselton Bros. & Cooper
have started up their new mill and are
now ready for the public. Mr. W. S.
Shank, of Salem, Va., will run the mill
for a while. He has 12 or 15 years ex
perience in the roller mill business, and
is an expert miller.
Mr. Will Bridges, of Talmo, was
visiting here Saturday and Sunday.
Messrs. C. T. Berryman and B. Evans,
of Cedar Rock were on our streets Sun
day.
The Popnlibt of Hoschton district will
meet at Braselton Bros’. 6tore next Sat
urday evening to elect district chair
man, committees etc.
WORKNIG NIGHT AND DAY.
The busiest and mightiest little thing
that ever was made is Dr. King’s New
Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated
globule of health, that changes weak
ness into strength, listlessness into en
ergy, brain-fag into mental power.
They’er wonderful in building up
the health. Only 25c per box. Sold by
Winder Drug, Cos.
Randolph's District.
The Populists of Randolph’s district
will meet at Central Academy at 8
o’clock p. m. on July the 7th, for the
Purpose of selecting delegates to the
county convention and anew executive
committee.
The One Day Cold Cure.
. Kermott’s Chocolates Laxative Quinine for
cold in the head and sore throat. Children taka
‘hem like candy.
WINDER, JACKSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JULY 5, 1900.
Why the Daily Papers are
Recreant.
DeKalb New Era. (Democratic.)
People often wonder why it is that
the great daily papers are silent on so
many subjects of vital interests to the
public. It is the purpose of this arti
cle to explain way this is the case.
The ixpeuses ot a large daily are
enormous. It probably costs more to
run the Journal or Constitution one
week than to run the Era a yeur. It
is true that their profits are proportion
ately large. Indeed one might say that
their profits are disproportionately
large. There are few enterprises that
pay as handsomely as a large daily pa
per after it once gets on a payiiig basis.
Nevertheless it is always tine that the
management of a large daily paper is
face to face every week with an expense
account that is enormous in siz3 and
certain in character. They know that
their revenues are uncertain. They
make lots of money but their income
may wither in a night. They are at
all times in danger of losing some im
portant class of subscribers or advertis
ers, thus cutting down their income be
low their outgo aud so converting a
very profitable property into a losing
venture.
The support of a great daily paper
comes from all classes of business, so
ciety and politics. It is depend upon
every variety aud shade of interest and
opinion. Consequently it dares not tell
any truth or advocate any reform that
will hart or give offense to any large
class. In the nature of things therefore
the great dailies never aid the people in
the accomplishment of any step looking
to the betterment of human conditions.
For instance:—the liquor traffic is the
worst evil that afflicts mankind. It is
like that fabled Bohou Upas tree whose
poisonous exhalations carry miserj aud
death wherever they spread in stillness
or are wafted by the winds. There is no
excuse or justification for its continued
toleration by mankind and nine tenths
of the people of Georgia and four-fifths
of the people of Atlanta want it prohib
ited by law.
The Journal and Constitution know
all this. But they know also that there
are some hundreds of people in Atlanta
aud some thousands in the state who
are getting rich through the liquor
traffic by coining into cash the blood
and tears of women aud little children.
They know that this crowd is rich, ag
gressive aDd unscrupulous and that to
attack its business is to provoke eternal
enmity and bitter warfare from a re
lentless aud powerfully aggressive fac
tion. Therefore the Journal and Con
stitution dare not tell the truth on this
subject.
Again, suppose we take the specially
privileged cla-ses —the railroads, the
gas companies, the telephone monopo
lies and ail that—the classes whose
wealth is covered up under the forms of
ingenious legislation to escape their
just and proper part of the public har
dens. The Journal and Constitution
both understand perfectly well that
any telling of the truth about these
tax dodgers or any demand for equal
and exact justice against them would
precipitate a fight in which their reve
nues would suffer.
Therefore they are silent. Possibly
either of them would be willing to tell
the truth and so antagonize these pow
erful interests if the other would agree
to do the same Bat each knows the
other will not do so. Therefore both
are silent.
The course of the Journal has been
specially disappointing. When tne
present owners of that paper took
charge they causd the announcement to
be made that they were really going to
run a newspaper. They solemnly
pledged themselves at least to print the
news. This much they said they would
do, let it hurt what interests it might-
And they do print the news when it
does no other hurt than to wound the
feelings or lacerate the heart of some
unfortunate family touched by private
scat dal or made the victims of some
misguided bou’s insensate folly. But
tell how the great corporate interests
dodge their taxes or put the burdens of
government on the ignorant and poor?
Not much. Tell how New York waked
up and seized the glutted leeches to
compel disgorgement? Not on your life.
It is useless to expect the publication
by the great dailies of great and crying
wrongs. To do so would offend power
ful interests. To give such offense is to
provoke retaliation, and war on the
powerful hurts a newspaper. There
fore they are silent, gagged and bound
at the chariot wheels of power.
It ever has been and ever will be true
that the people must look to the small
papers and to them alone for the word
of honesty and truth and courage.
RED HOT FROM THE GUN
Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman
of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War
It caused horrib'e Ulcers that no treat
ment helpod for 20 years. Then Buck
len’s Arnica Salve cured him. Cures
Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons,
Corns, Sinn Eruptions. Best Pile cure
on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure guaran
teed. Sold by. Winder Drug, Cos.
The Situation.
From Dal' on Herald.
It is well to keep pace with the politi
cal situation as time riugs the changes.
The Populist have met in National
and in State Conventions. Asa na
tional organization the party has
cleansed itself from fusion—the sheep
have been separated from the goats.
Those who had forged to the lead
thro’ the ambition to hold office aud
share in the spoils, of the toiling
millions are robbed by vicious legisla
tion, have sought their affinity aud
practically allied themselves with the
leaders of the Democratic party.
Those whose sole purpose and aim in
serving their connection with the old
political organization was to devote a
life of toil in the vineyard ot the Lord—
a life of hardship aud privation in be
half of oppressed humanity—have once
more gathered together in National
convention and renewed their faith and
devotion to the sacred cause of God and
hainauity.
The Populist convention at Cinciu
nati during the present month was one
"f the most important gatherings of
men and women that ever assembled
upon this earth. It marks the begin
ning of anew era, in which men aud
women shall be free in fact as well as
in name.
The work of that convention finds a
response in the hearts of the people in
every nook and corner of this broad
laud. It has blazed the way to a higher
and grander civilization, and the peo
ple will not ba slow in rallying around
the standard there set up. The pro
ceedings of that convention should be
placed in the hands of every voter.
In Georgia the Populists have met iu
State convention aud presented to the
people a platform of principles to which
no man honest in his demands for re
form can object. Upon that platform,
pledged to its enactment into law and
its enforcement among the people, has
been placed a ticket, asking for the suf
frages 01 the people, which has never
had a superior in the State in point of
ability, integrity and patriotism. En
trusted wuh the legal power or the
State, the Populist party will inangu
rate every reform it has promised. And
who will say that reform in our State,
as well as notional, government is not
absolutely necessary to the preserv tion
of the liberty and iudepence of the citi
zens?
In mauy of the counties in Georgia
the Populists have already local tickets
in the field for the county officer Oth
ers have issued calls, and still others are
organizing for the fray. It is uot at all
a stretch of the imagination to predict
that the Populist vote in this State will
be this fall the largest ever polled by
odds.
The enthusiasm of the workers, the
exceedingly bad and unsatisfactory con
dition of public affairs as administered
by the politicians, all go to encourage
and strengthen the faith of the old time
reformers.
Taken all together, the outlook for the
future of the reform movement was
never so bright as now. The mask is
being torn from the politicians and they
stand today before the people in their
tru light- false to every pledge and
promise false to the trust confided by
the people; true only to their own am
bition for spoils and power, and agents
and servants of the trusts and the ma
nipulators of the wealth of the nation
Cure Cold in Head.
Kermott s Chocolates Laxative Quinine, easy
to take and quick to cure cold in bead and sore
throat.
The Career Of
Wharton Barker.
I
Wharton Barker was born in Phila
delphia May l, 1846. He is of Puritan-
Quaker extraction. Jacob Barker, his
grandfather, and Benjamin Franklin
were cousins.
Wharton Barker is A. B. aud A. M.,
University of Pennsylvania. He is an
active member of its board of trustees,
member of the American Philosophical
Sooiety, Academy of Natural Sciences
aud the History Society of Pennsyl
vania. For twenty-five years he has
been active in letters, business and
politics. From 1870 to 1880 he was ed
itor and proprietor of the Pennsyl
vania Monthly, and from 1880 to 1800
was editor and publisher of the Ameri
can. He has traveled iu all parts of
the world. Iu 1878 the Russian gov
ernment. placed him in charge of cruis
ers building in America at Cramp’s
shipyard. In 1879 Emperor Elexander
II conferred upon him the Order of
St. Stanislaus. Iu 1875 he was called
in consultation by the Chinese ambas
sador in regard to railroad building in
China, a modern system of national
finance and a general plan for the util
ization of the resources of China.
Since 1876 he has taken an active
part in politics. In 1880 he was forp
most among those who secure l the
nomination of Garfield for President.
He supported Harrison in 1888 and
Bryan in 1896, but immediately after
the election that year he joined the
People’* party. He urges trade expan
sion on national line* and opposes ter
ritorial expansion in the Orient. He
was among the first advocates of free
trade among the American countries.—
The Popnlist Journal.
Last fall I snraiued my left hip while
handling some heavy boxes. The doc
tqr I called on said at first it was a
slight strain and would soon be well,
but it grew worse and the doctor then
said I had rheumatism. It continued
to grow worse and I could hardly get
around to work. I went to a drugstore
and the druggist recommended me to
try Chamberlain'B Pain Balm. I tried
it and one-half of a 50 cent bottle cured
me entirely. 1 now recommend it to
a’l my friends —F. A B.vbcock, Erie,
Pa. It is for sale by Winder Drug Cos.
Read and Think.
*
There is a certain lumber company
situated on the line of the P. & G. road
that taps the best lumbar regions of
Arkansas and the south. A few years
ago its bookkeeper was found to be
crooked. in his accounts —being short
about $30,000. An expert accountant
was called in. Tbe state of affairs was
demonstrated. The president of the
company said to the derelict: “This will
place you behind the bars.” The de
faulter coolly replied: “Well, while I
look out of one jair of bars, you will
look out of the pair across the hall.”
The bookkeeper still holds his place.
The expert accountant who examined
the books told me that tbe lumber com
pany had been receiving rebates from
the railroad of $5 a car on all lumber
shipped out of the lumber regions,
whether the said lumber company ship
ped it or not 1 Clearly a violation of the
U S. law, and that is what the de
faulter knew aud why he still holds his
place. If the government had owned
aud operated the railroads such rebates
could not be made unless the whole
conutry knew it and the congressman
who would vote for such rebate would
not have a thing done to him! Bat
such are the beauties of private owner
ship in every field of industry, and that
is why one set of men “succeed” where
honest fellows fail. This expert said
that one lumber company put several
thousand dollars of its stock in the
hands of oertain railroad officials, a
present, that it might get the favors
from the road that self-interest wouli
induce the holders of the stock to make.
And the lumber oom any paid a dividend
of 160% a year! And the public footed
the bill.—Appeal to Reason.
A CARD OF THANKS.
I wish to say that I feel under lasting
obligations for what Chambirlain’s
Cough Remedy has done for our family.
We have used it in so many cases of
coughs, lung troubles and whoomiug
cough, aud it has always given the most
perfect satisfaction, we feel greatly in
debted to the manufacturers of this
remedy and wish them to please accept
oar hearty thanks.—Respectfully, Mrs
S. Doty, Des Moines, luwa. For sale
by Winder Drug Cos.
She Holds Her
Torch Too High.
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Goddess of Liberty, listen;
Listen, I say, and look,
To the sonnds and sights of sorrow
This side of Sandy Hook.
Your eye is searching the distance;
Yen are holding your torch too high
To see the staves who are fettered.
Though oiose at your feet tney lie;
Aud the cry of the suffering stranger
Has reached your oar and your breast,
But yon heed not the wail that comes
From the haunts of your own oppress
ed.
Goddess of Liberty, follow;
Follow me where I lead;
Come down into the sweatshop
Aud look on the work of greed;
Look on the faces of children
Old before they were born;
Look on the haggard women,
Of all gex graces shorn;
Look on the men—God help ui
If this is what it means
To beman iu the land of freedo a
And live like mere machines!
Goddess of Liberty, answer;
How can the slaves of Spain
Find freedom under your banner
While your own still wear the chain?
Loud is the screech of the eagle,
And boastful the voice of your drums.
But they do uot silence the wail of de
spair,
That rises out of your slams.
What wtH yo do with your conquests
how Bha ‘l your hosts be fed,
While our streets are filled with desper
ate throng--!, *
Crying for work or bread?
Public Ownership.
Hie British traveling men have in
augurated a campaign for the public
ownership of the English railroads.
They are carrying their convictions
into politic*. One of the great railroa 1
owners says: “The British railways
have no fear of nationalization.
The theory is altogether etherial. ’’
A member of the London Chamber of
Commerce is reported by the cablt-;
Taking over the railroads would involve
a larger sua than the national debt; but
apart from that consideration, the in
fluence of the railways is so powerful
that they conld throttle any attempt at
legislation to destroy their monopoly.”
So you see that monopoly is a fact, aud
that it will bribe to keep its privilege.
This Chamber of Commerce man pre
s ;nts an objection thut the purchase
will involve too much debt—just as if
it were better for the public to hire the
capital from the railroads aud have no
control over it, than to borrow it out
right aud control ii! The public pays
the railroads more divodeus than it
would for interest on the debt to absorb
the roads.
Bat privilege always acts thus. The
railroads in this ooautry are the same
thing, and the result will be that some
flue morning they will wake up like the
slave owners of 40 years ago to realize
that the people have taken the roads
and without paying a cent.
That is just what the democratic and
republican voters will do as surely as
thc<y did it to the chattel masters.
Things are getting to an interesting
stage in this country as in England.—
Ex.
One day last week, after the judge
had charged the jury in a certain Ten
nessee county not far away, a member
of the jury devoutly arose and calling
the judge and jury alike to prayer, of
fered a fervent petition to the Judge of
all the earth to guide the jury in all its
diliberations. There are some people,
too, who regard this action as of doubt
ful propriety. If more juries prayed,
fewer jaries would bluuder. —Cumber-
land Presbyterian.
HIS LIFE WAS SAVED.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen
of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonder
ful deliverauce from a frightful death.
In telling of it he says: "I was taken
with Typhoid Fever, that ran into
Pneumonia. My lungs became hard
ened. I was so weak I couldn’t even
sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. I
expected to soon die of Consumption,
when I heard of Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. One bottle gave great relief.
I continued to use it, and now am well
and strong, I can’t say too much in its
praise.” This marvellous medicine is
the surest and quickest erne in the
world for all Throat and Lung Trouble.
Regular size 50 cents and $1 00. Trial
bottles free at Winder Drug Cos.
Every bottle guaranteed.
NO 25.