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The Jacksonian.
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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On Application.
Entered at the Jackson (Ga.)
Post Office as secern! class
mail matter.
Many of the acts of men ‘hat, ap
pear self All are often the results of
hurry and thoughtfulness.
I . ' —
The Bryan Motto: free silver find
democratic doctrines-
Roosevelt Motto t do more and talk
less.
Don’t accuse anyone of slighting
you ins' because he rlid’t stop and
shake bands with you. lie may not
have known you wer# there.
“Ah at present advesed ’ the most
sensible thing for William Jennings
Bryan to do would be to nominate
Mr. Roosevelt ior president of the
United States.
The mun who fails to raisne his hat
to his wifii when ho moots her on the
Btroots is either lacking in the essen
tials of gentle maul > l binh, or gentle
manly training.
“My son what is the resemblance
between a man and a hog?”
“They both wallow In the mud.”
‘ Well are t hey expected to do that
“The hog is but the man is not.”
The l . S. peonage laws have done
mote to detnor alize labor in the
south than all the good that till the
education that can ho pumped into
the worthless vagabonds will and) for
yours to ciotno.
What is a “mollycoddle” anyhow?
It must he one of those fellows who
amagines himself overloaded with
brains, when as a matter of fact if jt
were not for his feet he would go up
like a gas balloon.
To act as though you were better
than others is an unmistakable sign
that you did not always enjoy social
distinction, and that some aitificial
prop is holding von up, that, were it
removed, would cause your social col
lapse.
We like a man who is honest and
speaks his mind. Dr Mays told the
writer recently that he (the writer)
was ora/v. Well that was more com
plimentary than the fellow who slip
ped around on the other side of town
and tel 1 a friend that, he (the writer)
didn’t have sense enough to !ad a
blind go"S'> t' water.
When the relations between people
aro already strained others should be
vo y careful to 1 to do Or sav a thing
that will mtiks reconciliation impos-
Sifcile. Often when a breach might be
healed, someone with more churlish
mass than often falls totheekareof
one person, will wantonly rush in and
commit some ahsuid folly that sepa
rates friends and brothers, and causes
hearts to ache and regret, that might
have been nailed and happy. But
eueh is human nature, and so will it
ever b..
CASTOR IA
ru r ixuauta ano vtuiureu.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
The Officers Have a Rich
Thing.
The next. Legislature of Georgia can
confer a lasting benefit on the mem-
I bers of The Mutual Life Industrial
Association of Ga , if they will pass a
measure compelling the company to
pay each beneficiary SIOOO. It is usu
ally the case that from fifty to one
hundred drop out at each assesment,
and the beneficiary only receives the
amt collected from the remainder of
the Thousand members. Now the di
vision is refilled by new members at
from $4 to $0 each and that money is
quiet ly t-1 iupe and down into the jeans of
the officers, who quietly wait for an
other death with the usual lapses so
that the division may be filled with
new members and as a consequence
fill tlieir pockets aguir.
We are informed that applicants
as old as sixty will be gladly taken,
and we presume that it doesn’t mat
terif they are consumptives or have
diabetics or some other deathly com
plaint, the more deaths the more mon
ey |n the pockets of the officers.
Swayed by argument
and not by evidence.
Charles D. Newton of the Thaw
jury was for “murder in the first de
gree’’ because “Jerome made a mosl
convincing argument”
This country is full of men who
can be swayed by the speech of a
slick tongued lawyer. Such a man
is nota suitable subject for citizenship
much less to sit in judgement on the
life of a fellow man. The truth in
such cases are that their verdicts
are made before they hear, and inde
pendent of the nature of the evidence
No Intimation of Graft.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre in re
gard to the municipal electric light
plant of Easton, Pa., the breakdown of
which has left that city iu temporary
darkness, says:
“There Is no intimation of graft. The
condition is due apparently to the fact
that city employees, appointed by men
holding political office, cannot be ex
pected to have the same knowledge of
the electric lighting business that skill
ed employees of private corporations
have, and consequently there is waste
and inefficiency In n city plant which
would not be possible in a well con
ducted private plant,’’
Why He Opposes “M. O.”
Asa member of our city council
some years ago I investigated this
question of municipal ownership be
fore we contracted for our electric
lights and found that in every instance
where the cost of municipal lighting
was reported below that offered by in
dependent contractors the difference
and more appeared on the general
taxes, and in most places It was frank
ly admitted that the light and water
plants were built by the city, but used
by the politicians.—l-lomer E. Stewart
in Warren (O.) Chronicle.
A G'impeo of the Millennium.
Government ownership of railroads
and telegraphs and municipal owner
ship of public utilities may come some
time, but will never come without dam
age to the public welfare until every
phase of the management and opera
tion of the same is put on a strictly
nonpartisan merit system and thorough
business principles. Muustield (O.)
News.
A Pertinent Question.
It seems to us well to ask ourselves
not whether we propose to run rail
roads. telegraphs, streetcars, water ari l
gas works, electric light plants and'
all the rest of it, but whether we in
tend to keep the same sort of govern
ment that we have had for more than
a hundred years.—Editorial in Indian
apolis News.
Municipal ownership is an experi
ment not lightly to he ventured upon
at the alarm call of politicians who
want to be elected to office.—New York
Sun.
How Vsnclalia Got Its Name.
Some of the names of towns are ar
rived at in a peculiar way—for exam
ple, the town of Yundulia,. In Illinois,
which was named in a singular man
ner. The man who owned the laud oa
which the present town of Yiuidalia is
situated was a man without a great
deal of education and wanted a lawyer
friend of his, who was a wag, to give
him a name fv>r his new town. The
wag*suggested thut the Vandals were
a very noted people and that he should
name the town Yuudalia, or the “home
of the Vandals.” It was at that time
the coming inetroj . iis of Illinois, and
subsequently the capital of that sn'te.
anti wan named Vandalta, the home of
the Vandals, according to the wit’s
euggestleu.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
GO \XP SEE!
Go and see the J. S.
Johnson Co’s Bath Tub
Lavatory and Water Clos
ets, aru’ Kitchen Sinks
displayed in their show
window, and give them
your order riyh- away and
be ready to enjoy the com
forts of water works. Get
ready. Now
NUGGETS CF SOUND SENSE.
Beware of the Entering ./edge of So
cialism — Public Owr.ersnip.
Iu recording the defeat of a munici
pal waterworks scheme iu Raleigh, N.
C., after an educational campaign of
several months’ duration, the Evening
Times of that city gives an analysis of
municipal ownership which is well
worth the careful study of all who
have at heart the welfare of their
cities. Omitting references to local
conditions, the editorial reads us fol
lows:
Lmiiclpai owner, hip - ultrarj’ 1(1 j
the fundamental doctrines of the Deni- j
oeratie puny, whip ... t oiral-j
ized parental government and cri.'S out j
for the freedom of iudivicuais. The j
function of the government is to gov- j
ern, regulate ami cm • v a 1 mm.-
made by the people and r.ot t- - -go {
in trailing anil trafficking for s.a .he i
five gain. The miserable failure which
the state, backed by all its power and
public treasury, made in the trading
business while it owned and operated
plank roads, canals and railroads is a
blatant warning against municipal
ownership.
“Municipal owm r.-L.p is the *i- T si.y
in socialism, which strangles individual
enterprise, deters the investment of
capital in our city and retards in
dustrial progress. When once started
there is no limit, to it-, scop- until there
becomes a large increase in municipal
debt and taxes and an impairment of
municipal credit. When a city en
gages in municipal ownership it runs
the risk of constant suits for damages,
while the stall- and county are de
prived of taxes upon that much prop
erty.
■'Wilde many towns owning water
works publish rates which appear to be
cheap, they are in many instances de
ceptive for the reasons that, in addition
to the rates, taxes are levied upon the
people to pay interest on bonds, which
when added to the rates make the
consumer pay more than the rates
charged by private plants. Many of
these municipal plants if examined by
experts according to the business rules
of examining the affairs of private cor
porations would be proved to be run
ning nt a loss Instead of a profit, as
claimed.
“t! tutor municipal ownership the
chance of the laboring man for em
ployment depends not upon his merits,
but upon his political influence and
pull, and if he is not able to use pub
lic water be still lias to pay taxes for
the 1-nelit of the rich man who does.
*• i’hore is no more reason for munici
pal ownership of water than there is
for butcher shop--, bakeries, clothing
so :res. drug stores, livery stables, etc.,
and under the system of municipal gov
ernment in this country it is a fertile
snore'* of graft, political corruption and
boss ism. a catchy slogan for a political
campaign, a slick article with which to
deceive the people and on which to
r'.r* two o.T e and a machine to per
petuate the t entrol of the boss. It has
been aptly called ‘that vivid saffron
gok! brick.’ under whose glittering tin
sel !,:rT- a delusion and a snare.
“Muak-1 mil ownership is dead! Long
live got .1 common business sensei”
It is a curious fact that the board of
a'derm on which voted unanimously to
renew the water franchise was elected
on a i:,uniei> d.owno’vh'.p ticket. Feels
boat fancies if they have a fair ehamo.
Pernicious Partisan Activity.
Nothin;' is more certain than that
public ownership multiplies the possi
bilities of pernicious partisan activity.
Employees of the poctoflee department
defeated Representative Loud of Cali
fornia because of some stand he took
in cougress relative to their desires.
This is an indication of what might
be expected under public ownership,
both in city and nation.
Strong men at the head of munici
pal employees in street cars, .parks,
paving, waterworks and lighting serv
ice could swing any election they might
desire to control. OtHcials would lie
v.ralv7cd as to their duties to the pub
lic through the necessity of placating
or hnmorirjT these iov >eos© bodies of
municipal employees. Then we should
have the leaders of the aggregation
making bargains with heavy interests
for the delivery of votes to desired
candidates or measures. Self interest,
more or loss corrupt, would supersede
the disinterested patriotic motives and
diffo-cnees of opinion eh wh' It men
now divide in local and general elec
tions.—Terre Haute Star.
V Sr. -t. V. x' Nvtx 'V XW \ifck
TLo Kind Y a Have Always Bought, and wlucli has been
in use f , over 30 years, bus borne- tuo of
yi and has been made under las per
/Tr // ' gonal supervision since its infancy.
?*£&%#&£ a Tin no one to deceiv e you in this.
Al! Counterfeits, Imitationsaud“Jnst-<-sooa**arebnt
- t,.t trlt’e with und endanger the health of
Infants u:id Children- -Experience against. Experiment.
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CEUUIitfE CASTORS A always
Bears the Signature of
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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They have given perfect satisfaction
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MADS BY
Dr. J. B. WATKINS,
SOIL'D EVERYWHERE. Jackson, Ga.
Legal Advertismsnts.
An>>i.v'istratok’s Notick To Sell.
By virtue of an order of the Court of
Ordinary of said County, will he sold at
public outcry, on the first Tuesday in May
MOT, at the Court-house in said county he
tween the usual hours of sale, the following
real estate situated in Butts County:
One half undivided interest in three fourths
of an acre of land, more or less, being in
the town of Jackson in the 012 District,
C. M. bounded Originally, Last hy alley.
North hv Wash Ball land, West by lands
of T. J. Peek and South by lands of T. J.
Beck. Terms Cash.
This April l IPOT.
lb P. Bailey,
Admr. of Julia Eeadden. Estate
For Years Support.
GEORGIA, Butts County.
Mrs. L.A. Funderburk, having made
application for twelve months support out
of the estate of T. B. Funderburk and ap
praisers duly appointed to set apart the
san)e having tiled their return all persons
concerned are hereby required to show
cause Before the Court of Ordinary of said
County on the first Mouday in May 1007
1 1 - <iid application should not he granted.
This 2eth day >f March, 1907.
J. TI. HAM. Ordinary.
F< n Dismission.
Whereas, Davis Kiu&rd Administrator of
George ILL.Km and ; presents to the Coin t
in his petitiou, duly filed and entered on
record, that he has fully administered
Oe re R. L. Kinard's estate. This is there
to! .oc.it. ..! ■,a .. is l OUCrrutd, kiiidroj|
and creditors, to show cause, if any
can, why said Ailuiistratoi should be m
charged from his Administration, dihD®
ceive letters of dismission, on the first Mon.
day in May 1007,
This April 4th 1907.
J. H. HAM, Ordinary, i
For Administration.
Georgia. Butts county.—*
To All Whom It May Concern -
Mrs. \v. F. Adams having, in prof*
form, applied to me for permanent Letters
Administration on the estate of B. ”
Adams late of said County, this i* ToC '
all and singular the creditors and next
kin of \V. F. Adams, to be and appear*
my otiice within the time allowed by la*
and show-cause, if any they can, why p#
manent Administration should rl " t .
granted to Mrs. W. F. Adams on B r . "
Adam’s estate.
Witness my hand and official sigu atul *
this Ist day of April 1907.
J. H. HAM. Ordinary
Sheriff Sales.
GEORGIA. Butts County.— (
Will be sold before the Court ho®
door hetweeu the legal hours of saleon fi|
first Tuesday iu May next the fullov®
described property to wit: Fifty acre*
land more or less lying and being
District G. 51. Butts Cos., Ga.and boun®
as follows. On North by lauds of I* ®
Washington, East by lands of Mrs. A.J
Aiken, South by lands of T. S. llama 10 ®
and West by lauds of Hammond i<r l
Said property levied on as the property®
J, D. Aiken by virtue of and to sfoAfv ®
fife >r C • ■
C(*" or of the Carmk-ha-u c®
...iisj). Aiken . Written
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