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VOLUME 26.
MORAL PERSONEL OF JACK
SON AS SEENBY AN OBSERVER
We recently had a sermon by Mr.
Willingham on ‘‘taking the town (or
Christ” which we felt was timely,
and would do good. Would that our
people would see the great necessity
of taking a Bland for Christ, which
would soon result in the taking of
this community for Christ. But not
only must our *church people take a
stand, butmust be seen and felt by
those who do not profess to beChrist
tian. They must be living examples-
Then when we come to elect people to
office who are to administer our laws,
see to it there is none elected who do
not respect the laws of our lan d—
men whose walk and life will impress
■people by their moral conduct and
•conversation will be such that our
boys could listen to, ond be impressed
withjthe uprightness of the adminis
trators of the law, and the justness
of the laws of the land. Now could
we say with pride that we have such
officers who administer the laws of
-Jackson? Well who are the men who
have charge of the affairs of Jackson?
Let us count up and see. Three dea
oons of the Baptist Church, 1 deacor
of the Presbyterian Church.. Well
With that much said could we go fur
ther and say with pride that they are
living such lives as will impress the
people for good and upright living?
With four deacons on the council we
have made a good start toward taking
the town for Christ. But what are
the qualifications of a deacon? Do
these deaeons come up to the qunlifl
eations? If they don’t then can the
respective Churches where these dea
cons come from do anything towards
taking the town for Christ? Are
their religious lives such that impress
the people among whom they live for
good, or does it have a bad influence,
ana tend to drive people from Church
and Christ? What think yon of them?
Then if these four deacons’ lives are
not what they should be, then what
'kind of influence do they have with
the people of the town of Jackson?
What kind of laws will they make?
Will thelaws be just, or will they be
corrupt? Will they enforce and re
quire strict obedience to the laws, or
not? If they don’t do this, then how
can we take the town for Christ?
Well what next? Our Mayor.
What about his standing for Christ
and good morals? Does his life im
press people with whom he comes in
touch with, as a man who stands for
the up building of the morals of the
boys and giils of Jackson? If this is
not so, what should we do? Is he sc
administering the laws of Jackson so
as to impress the county tiiat|Jackson
stands for somethinghigher than and
nobler than a place of desecrating of
the sabbath ba allowing various kinds
of business carried on on the streets
on Sunday such as we see as we go to
Sunday school ans Church? Does the
Mayor Marshall and Attorney of the
city patronize these different busines
ses themselves, thereby saying to our
children as they pass around the
bootblack on the sidewalk every
Sunday morning shining shoes
for the officers of the city of
Jackson, that we stand for —what?
The abolishing the observance of the
Sabbath? Weil if this be the case
can you expect any thing more of our
boys to do just as bad or worse? By
this example can we take this town
for Christ, when drinking saloons a.:
allowed open on Sunday, and 'll
Mayor and other officers patror
them, could we expect our boys
to use bad language and listen t
oaths and vulgar language u
officers of the town? vi 1
better of
than wc
THE JACKSONIAN.
BIG REVIVAL AT PEPPERTON.
THIRTY FIVE ACCESSIONS.
Avery interesting protract®!! meet
ing was held at Pepperton Baptist
Chuich by Rev. W, D. Oweus pas
tor. Great interest was taken in the
meeting all the way through. Large
crowds came every night and men ana
women who Lad'never taken any in
terestin the meetings, came up and
professed Christ as their personal sa
vior . Homes were made happy. The
grandest time of the meeting was
4th Sunday in ApTil which started
with sunrise prayer meeting. 85
were addeed to the church 31 for
Baptism and 4by letter. Baptism
May 12 in afternoon.
Down In Dixie.
The project to establish a municipal
electric light plant was defeated by
the board of aldermen of Lynchburg,
Va., on the recommendation of a spe
cial committee appointed to investigate
the matter.
In Natchez, Miss., the citizens voted
down a similar proposition.
Ineapability of City Government.
I am opposed to municipal owner
ship because our city governments
have not shown as yet any capacity
for properly conducting their business.
—Major Henry L. Hlgginson.
Yestreen when to the trembling string
The dance gaed through the lighted ha*
To thee my fancy took Its wing.
I sat, but neither heard nor saw,
Though this was fair and that was braw
And yon the toast of a’ the town.
I sighed and said amang them a’,
"Ye are nae Mary Morison.”
Oh, Mary, canst thou wreck his peace
Wha for thy sake would gladly dee?
Or canst thou break that heart of hla
Whase only fault Is loving thee?
If love for love thou wilt not gle.
At least be pity to me shown.
A thought ungentle canna be
The thought of. Marjr Morison.
Horpiexing Associations.
The frequent association of things be
tween which there is no obvious con
nection is always rather perplexing,
says Barry Pain. Why do vegetarians
generally believe In votes for women?
Why are good chess players generally
fond of coffee? Why have artists gen
erally got pleasant voices? Why aro
humorous writers mostly melancholy
people? I suppose there is an explana
tion if one could think it out.
this be true, then how can we take
the town for Christ? There are of
fices kept open in Jackson on Sunday
and God and those who visit them
only know what is done there on Sun
day. What can we expect to become
of the bo/s who are te take the places
of the men who now fill these places
of honor?
Well we have just such men in of
fice as we want. They are elecfel by
the voters of Jackson. Then who is
to blame if our laws are not properly
administered? The people of course.
Then how can we take this town for
Christ? Repent every one of us. and
get right with God, and by our Godly
work, acts and conversation, impress
sinners that we stand for right, and
we will have no sidewalk bio kaded
with bootblacks and open places of
business on Sunday. Our officers will
be Godfearing men, and their walks
will be such that men will respect the
laws through respect of the
officers vrho administer the
laws, and not from fear of be
ing punished for violating the law,
and breaking that commandment
which says, “remember the sabbath
day to keep it holy.”
We insist that we turn anew leaf,
that those who profess to be Christ
ians live right, that our four deacons
who are on council live right and do
fright; that our Mayor set an example
fore our people by a right life;
\t our Marrshall live such a life
little boy can at any time
their conversation which will
to respect the law through
'Lthe marshall, Then we will
\yn for Christ. What say
JACKSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY loth 1907.
NOTICE.
Many complaints are prevelent a
bout the subscription price paid last
year for the Journal, Cultivator,
Home and Farm and Constitution and
not turned over to the publishers.
All parties who are being presented
with bills for tflese papers, who have
paid for same, are requested to meet
at the office of The Jacksonian on
Saturday the 18th inst. at 8 o’clock
p. m. for the purpose of taking such
steps as may be deemed best in the
premises.
This Bth of May 1907.
J. H. Ezell.
HUDSON'S VIEWS
ON IMMIGRATION
Says We Cannot Get Sufficient
Amount of Labor
FROM THE NORTH AND WEST
After Carefully Considering the situ
ation, He Declares that We Must
Turn Our Attention to Foreign
Countries for Laborers.
Atlanta, Ga., March 24th, 1807.
Extracts from a Recent Speech Made
by T. G. Hudson, Commissioner of
Agriculture.
"The legislature, realizing the Im
portance of advertising her resources
and encouraging Immigrants Into our
state, passed an act in the year 1894
making the commissioner of agricul
ture ex-offlcio Immigration commis
sioner. Believing it to be the
duty of every officer tfi faithfully
and fearlessly perform the duties
imposed upon him law, I
have tried to the best of my ability
to conform to what I believed to bo
my duty as prescribed by this law. I
have collected and arranged In system
atic order information as to the min
eral, geological, agricultural, horti
cultural, timber and fishing resources
of the state, and have distributed
them In various ways throughout the
United States and foreign countries.
Demand for Labor.
“The appropriation for carrying on
this work 1 find to be totally Inade
quate. However, 1 have endeavored
to stretch it out and make it go as
far as possible. Nearly every mail
to my office brings requests from
farmers, dairymen, fruit growers and
manufacturers, urging me to help
them procure labor necessary to carry
on their work. Some farmers de
sire tenants, but the majority of them
desire farm laborers. I have done all
I could to secure help for them, but
on account of limited means have
been unable to do very much for
them. I have corresponded with bu
reaus, societies and organizations,
having for their purposes the sending,
In and furnishing to different states
desirable immigrants. My efforts have
mainly been directed to the east,
north and northwest, believing that
If possible, should get our help
from those sections. The great ad
vantage to their favor, it seemed to
be, was that they were accustomed to
our habits and speak our language.
The greatest trouble we have had to
encounter, they consider the low
wages offered here in Georgia, com
pared to what they get for 'their labor
iin the east, north and northwest. I
find it is hard to get them' to fully
realize the great advantage we have
to offer them In the way of cleap liv
ing, in comparison to -what it costs
them to live in their sections. After
carefully looking over the situation
from every standpoint, I ant convinced
that it will no’t be possible to get
sufficient amount of labor from the
sections above mentioned, and that
we must turn our attention to for
eign countries. A large per cent of
the farm laborers have left the farm
and gone to the cities and public
works, where wages are much higher
than the farmers are able to pay.
Cotton Too Cheap.
“A great many people seem to think
10 cents or 11 cents per pound a fair
price for cotton. It was a few years
f.g'„ T -hut-it is. cot now. Ervemhiux
LTaf*ehTers fnto the production of cot
ton Is Increased from 100 to 200 per
cent in price. The farmers, there
fore, will not bo able to offer suffi
cient high wages to attract any con
siderable number of laborers to the
farm. The laborer on the farm can
live for one-half of what It costs him
to live In the city, vet It Is very hard
to get him to realize this. He Is
rather attracted by the amount he
gets by the month or day than the
amount he can lay up by cheap living.
The tenant system will come nearer
catching the foreigner than the wage
system. The amount he realizes for
Ills wages under the tenant or crop
per system depends entirely upon the
amount of skill, energy ami science he
applies to the cultivation of his crops.
Of course, the seasons have a great
deal to do with the production of his
crops, but, thanks to an all-wise God,
he never allow‘B us to have a fam
ine In our state. If we do our .part,
we make*fairly good crops every year.
New Method* Advocated.
“I would advise the farmers not to
depend entirely upon the Immigrants
to relieve them of the labor condi
tion in Georgia, but insist that they
should change their method of farm
ing. They should first put all the
land that They have on the farm which
they can not hope to produce crops on
at a profit In pasture. To fence
this land and do nothing more would
be worse than folly. He should sod
It with bermuda and other grasses,
and thereby make a pasture that
would furnish something for his cat
tle to graze upon the year round.
"Second. He should diversify his
craps and Increase heavily the crops
that are profitable, yet require so
much less labor to grow than cotton.
Suoh crops as corn, peas, hay, sor
ghum, truck of all kind. He should
ale© raise hie horses and mules. It
is Mediess to argue as to whether
(file method of farming will pay or
not. A great many of our farmere
have adopted this plan and they have
all prospered.
"Tbljd. He should secure for this
farm all the improved machinery nec
essary to cultivate his crops. Farm
ing with Improved machinery Is no
longer an experiment, but has been
demonstrated by hundreds of farmers
to be absolutely practical. They have
long since discarded the old methods
of farming in all. the states except a
few In the Souts. When the farmers
adopt these Improved methods they
will not need more than 75 per cent
of the labor now required to make
their crops.
Should Exercise Precaution.
“We should try to Increase our labor
by bringing into our state a class of
sturdy and industrious laborers. Do
not open your gates to the riff-raff
of the earth, but do all you possibly
can to bring the honest and Industri
ous laboring class to our state. I
have numerous requests from people
living In south Georgia for home-seek
ers, stating that they have large
tracts of land that are fertile and
suited to all crops .grown In our state,
and that they desire to cut It up in
small tracts and sell to parties desir
ing homes. We should spare np*.time
VERY LOW RATES
TO
NORFOLK Va.
and Return
Account Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition
Via
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Season, sixt> day and fifteen day tickets on sale daily com**
mencingApril 19th, to and including November 30, 1907.
Very low rates will also be made for Hilitary and Brass Bands
in uniform attending the Exposition
Stop Overs will be allowed on season, sixty day and fifteen day
tickets same as on Summer tourist tickets.
For full and complete information call on Ticket Agents South
ern Railway, or write
J. C. LUSK, Dist., Pass., Agt., Atlanta Ga,
nor expense 'ln "advising some schenW
to furnish to 'this class of our cltlzeilj.
such people as they desire. Sureljj
no one who will stop to think will ob<M
Ject to the bringing Into our state $
good class of people, who desire
buy laud, build homes, and thereby,
add to our wealth and prosperity. t
occasionally run across a man whet
,says to me that he does not detlfA
that the foreigners be brought la and!
settled upon the uncultivated and
developed lands of our state, becauaii
he la afraid It will bring about an ovffl
production of cotton. I have InquiretL
Into the customs and habits of thoMH
we have already among us on the far A
and find that the foreigner doe* not
take to cotton growing, but Instead
raises grain, hay, oats, groundpeai*
strawberries and Irish (potatoes. I*
fact, he grows everything to the ax
elusion of cotton. This Is natural
as he has never been accustomed tot
the growing of cotton, and does knovfi
something of growing other crope<j
and he soon learns they require SOI
much less labor and are more
neratiVe than growing cotton. if
seems to me that instead of a
he will fill a long-felt want by sKw<
lng those articles we so much QecdJ
and yet have been so hard to get oup
native people to grow.
Factory Labor Scarce,
"Labor in the factories la
scarce. I find, after carefully Inqulf-,
lng Into the mill situation, they haV©
had to let at least one-tenth of theif
spindles remain idle on account ot
their being unable to secure suffi
cient labor to operate them. The mill
operators are dependent upon th©
whites of our state for their labor,)
and they have not been able to secure
a sufficiency In the state to keep their
spindles going, and are prevented by,
the federal laws from going into for
eign countries to obtain them. Oeorn
gta,
secu.e this help. What will you and
about It? 1 say, go and get It. Bom©
of our good frlendß say, “Are you not
afraid of these people coming to your
state and sowing seed of dlsconf
among the laborers we have already
with us?" My friends, In the Saif
they have hauled our raw cotton hun-*
dreds of miles to their mills and wltlj|
this labor we are now seeking to
tain have grown rich, and every lim
terest In their section Is In a
ous condition. Why should hot th!
mills In the center of the cotton nelfUJ
with This same labor, become Cf|n
more prosperous than tßey, and ft*
the mills become prosperous eo
every other interest In our state
come prosprous?”
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SCHEDULE
FOR JACKSON.
Local Passenger train* pass th)
Depot, at the times mentioned below*
,)
NORTH BOUND.
No .7 9 :57A. M-
No. 15 2:82P. M.
No. 9 8:48 “
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SOUTH BOUND.
No. 10 7:38 A. H.
No. 8 8:08 P. M.
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