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The Jacksonian.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BUTTS CO.
PufcllsM €wfy frlday.
S. E. ANDREWS,
EDITOR.
Subscription SI.OO Per Yr.
Advertising Rates Furnished
On Application.
Entered as second-class mat
ter February 22, 1907 at
the Post Office at Jackson,
Ga., under the act of Con
gress of March 3, 1879.
A word to our farmer
friends.
We envite our friends of the Far
mer’s Union to make the Jacksonian
their County organ and use as much
•pace as they see fit without cost.
Send In your communications discuss
the conditions that the farmer is up
•gainst, exchange views, and—in
ihort use as much space in the Jack
sonian as you Deed. All we ask in
return is that you make your articles
not too lengthy, and that you send
them in Monday if possible.
Home Insurance for the
Farmers.
r
Tho Formers Union has a move
ment in progress to install within the
order s life Insurance Cos. The home
office will be at home in each county,
and there wH) be practically no ex
penses, such as annual dues and an
•Xtra 15c with each assessment for
the officers to put down deep in their
wwu pool-ttVe. Ihe officers will be
paid a salary sufficient to compensate
thorn for their trouble and the assess
ments will go to tba beneficiaries.
This is movement that promises
to be of much and lasting benefit to
the members of the Union, and we
predict that at some near future day
that some other Company* that have
proven snch a bonanza tothe officials
will go on the decline.
The State Senator.
It is practically certain that Judge
Frank Z Cutry will be in the race for
the state senate from this distrioot, it
being under xho rotation system
which obtains in the district, Butts
time to furnish the man Judge Cur.
ry will be to the farmers, a very valu
able friend in ti e senate. In private
conversation and close association wo
have learned the man aud know that
the farmers will find him a TRUE
friend. We believe that if ever a man
lived who loves a “square deal” it is
he.
In this day of combinations and
scheming" and trickery in tms'.ness,
we need just such brave and courage
ous men as Judge Curry in the Legis
lature. He is lava! to the farmers
Union and svmpathieee with them in
their effaits to obtain their rights as
much as any of it’s most ardent mem
bers. Baid he, tke other day: “I
would be willing to be reduced to beg
gary and made an out-cast if it was
the price of sueeees for the farmers to
win in their fight for 15* cotton”
The Jacksonian predicts that Judge
Curry will be our next senator from
the 26th dsstrict. There is so far
pr&otloelly no opposition in the race*
HOT SHOT
Tom and Jerry.
£ i j
Jn this column Tom <k Jerry has,
tor the pastjyear, waged a fight for an
observance of the orgauic, law of Jack
son on the part of the Mayor and
Council. From time to time we have
called attention to certain sections of
the Charter which were being ignored
We have called attention, again and
again, to the outrageous inequality
of the tax assessment. We have call
ed attention to the fact that a favor
ed few have enjoyed the protection of
the town government without the
payment of their equal share of its
cost. We have tld you how church-
men. (not Christians) hare loaded the
vicious, irreepoDsible and ignorant
n .gross with 1 q ior and purchased
their votes to burden the tax payers
with bond issues. Tbank God the
negro will soon be out of politics.
We have told you that to this iniquity
of running rough-shod over the min
ority with the ourchasable vote, the
orime of favoritism to kindred,friends
and the ri A, in carrying the tax bur
den of the Town, has been openlv and
with impunity, practiced. The poor
and unfavored have been made to
stagger under the butt end of the log
while the “family” have set on a
stump and chuckled with glee and
watched the boys roll up the log pile
of city revenue. The brazenry and
affrontery of the Mayor aDd Council
of Jackson in their present efforts to
float a bond issue to pay back debts
is appalling to one who is accustom
ed to respecting the law.
The minority (those who disfavored
the last bond issue) pfter the election
was carried iu a high-way-mnn’s
style, appointed a committee to con
fer with this :,bunch-oMaw-uut,o
t.hemseivcs” and see if we could not
bring shout an adjustment, of our
town differences.
Among other things the minority
demanded an equalizvtion of the tax
assessment of the real estate of the
tiwn. Upon this rock, mainlv the
borque of peace went to destruction
Shame! Shame!! Shame!!! Could
there be any fairer basis of settle
ment?
The minority were forced to go into
the courts and object to the last $lO,
000. bond issue being validated. The
objections will be sustained. Then
will come the fight to raise money
by an illegal tax levy, That fight
will be won by the objectors. The
very law which Tom & .Terry has cull
ed upon the Mayor and Council to
observe, has been treated os a nulity
and the willful vialations of the pro
visions of our Charter have landed
the town of Jackson into a hole. One
of the members of the council has al
ready, after objection being filed to
the validation of the last bonds voted
n, called on one of the minority ard
inquired it he had any suggestions he
could offr that would get them out
of the hole. Ah 1 You will wish for
the hole to cave in on you before
this thing ends.
If you had observed the law point
ad out to you, time and again, by
Tom Jerry, the finances of the town
would never have gotton Into the
present condition. From the suit now
pending In court it will be seen that,
besides all the hoods which have been
issued we are in debt $12,187 20. The
total indebtedness of the city for
bonds and all other items is about
$51,000.
Do you suppose the present officials
of the city would havo gone into this
prodigality if the tax burdens had
laid ou all alike? No! A thousand
times no. The strangest thing to me
is: Why do these Baptist deacons
and Presbyterian elder bow up in the
back and get so darn mad with one
when we only point out to the peo
ple their disregard for the law.
Why they absolutely hate Tom &
Jerry. I fell sorry for a man who
poses as a church official and can
work his heart up to such hatred.
“Whosoever hateth his brother is a
murderer: aud ye know murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him.
When such men say ‘‘Lt’s pray, I
feel like saying, let’s puke. Well boys
I am going to keep knocking at you
till you fall In love with the charter
of the town.
If you want to live in peace just
track the law and I will go with you
to the jumping off place.
Many of Butts County citizens
have asked me where I was going to
from Jackson.
The report has become circulated
chat I was fixing to leave Jackson.
One of ths very best and truest of
Jackson’s citizens said to me a few
days ago that the oppressed and poor
of the County needed me more now
than ever to fight for their rights.
True it is, you need someone towage
the fight for you, and let It be
KNOWN NOW, that I have never
given it a thought to desist from the
efforts I have begun to give you relitf
from the combines that exist in Butts
County which work great detriment
1 3 the laboring class and especially
to those who are engaged in farming,
I have seen the farmer made to walk
undej the wagon of despair like a
“yaller” dog long enough. The time
has come when the poor farmer with
his wife and children who toil day in.
and day out, should receive a greater
portion of the profitß from their har
vest than they do. The truth of the
matter is: The producers of the
wealth of the world are not, nor have
they, since I can remember, received
their proportionate share of what they
produce. The rail road stock holders
are rich and getting richer. The la
borer who digs the iron ore from the
bowels of the earth, the puddler at
the rolling mills, the machiuesb at
the shop, the track laborer, the cross
tie man and all the laborers from dig
ging the grade up to the superinten
dent are poor and no chance to alter,
their condition with the present con
dition of things prevailing. The cot
ton mill stock holders are rich and
growing richer as the years go by, but
Mi- pro.iuc- r of the raw material and
the operatives in the mills come to a
New Year with an estate not increas
ed. Thsir dividends are declared in
longer hours and lower wages. In ad
dition to ft redeeming of every plank
in the “Mueou Platform” we must
give aid iu every way requested by
che Fanner j Union in such legislation
as will strengthen them in their fight
for their rights.
Ail product from the farm should
by law (a constitutioual atneudment
.1 neoessary) be exempted from taxes
as long as it remains in the hands of
the producer. Every cotton slate
-hould so amend its Constitution,
aud when the producer undertakes to
whip just sucu a fight as is on now
ue will have this tax burden which is
laid ou his stuff removed.
I can not for the life that is in me
see why so many people combine &-
gainst tne farmer.
We fight in the uation for Federal
laws to control trust aud combines.
We should spend some of our ener
gies fighting for state laws which will
put an end to and prevent such state
of affairs as we have right here in
Jackson'.
A few men begun to get together to
organize au independent baDk in
Jackson and a commercial Judas Is
carriot found his way in their raid6t
and when it was organized it fell, by
contract, under the management of
the old bank, through this commer
cial Judas Iscarriot. The farmers have
since its organization beea kept un
der the belief that they had two
banks, under two separate and die
tiuct managements. Why, farmer you
have never been so deluded in all
your life as you have beeu in this
“new bank” for Jackson you have
heard so much talk about. Now just
such daraable double dealing on the
part of men should be brougnt to an
end.
Leave Jackson? No. The field for
my work of reform is too broad and
extensive here for me to quit aud
hunt another location of labor.
I never hope to get rich. I don’t
love a dollar well enough. I had ra
ther die in poverty and be buried at
the expense of the County than cease
the effort to bring my fellow man to a
realization and possessor of what is
rightfully his I do believe the day
will come, in my life time too, when
the oppressor will be made to cease
oppression and the rich will be made
to respect the inalienable rights of
the poor.
My path, I know, will be walked
with bleeding feet. Such has been
the lot of all those who have come
down the winding vista of the ages
fighting and pleading for the oppress
ed. God Almighty Himself who came
and lived in mortal flesh to preach
a gosptd which inspired anew hope in
the out-cast, neglected and poor, left
his bloody foot prints along Golgotha’s
way. The god of gold has his millions
falling freely at his shrine to worship
and so long as his countless devotees
chant praises unto his yellow lustre,
the poor of the succeeding ages will
be but turns at the mill of oppression
to be crushed between the upper and
aether stones of combines and wealth.
I long to see tbe day when men will
love to do right because it is right to
do right. I had rather be a mourner
Legal Adveifisments.
GEORGIA, butts County.
To the heirs at law and next of
kin of B. R. Doster, deceased, for
merly a resident of Blakely, Early
County, Georgia:
To the heirs at law and next of
kin of Mrs. Ella L. Alexander, decea-3
ed :
To W. H. Alexander, Sr., W. H.
Alexander, Jr., and Clarence T. Alex
ander :
Thomas H. Buttriil having applied
as executor for probate in solemn
form of the last will and testament of
Mrs. Vera . Doster Buttriil, late of
said County, you and each of you are
hereby required to appear at the
Court of Ordinary for said County on
the first Monday in November
next, when said application for pro
bate will be heard.
You are further notified that said
Thomas 11. Buttriil haa heretofore
Hied certain interrogatories in my of
fice for the purpose of obtaining at
che expiration of ten days a commis
sion for the examination of the fol
lowing witnesses, to-wit, alleged to
be tbe witnesses to the last will and
testament of Mrs. Vera Doster But
triil: J. E. Rail, Macon, Georgia, R.
D. Feugin, Macon, Gaorgia, and An-
Macon Georgia. A copy
of said interrogatories will be sent
you upon request.
This 8 day of October, 1907.
J. H. HAM, Ordinary.
I am not Joking.
FOR SALE.
175 acres in Iron Springs district, six miles from Jackson over
a smooth level road. There is 135 acres in cultivation which is
level and without rocks, that is, level enough that a mower
and binder machine can be operated over it. Much more level
than the average land of the county On the place are houses
which cannot be built for $2000.00. They consist of a five
room framed dwelling, weather boarded out and ceiled in,
with 8 foot hall-way, back and front verandas, 3 tenant hous
es with 2,3 and 4 rooms respectively. The dwelling was
built 4 years ago aud the two last mentioned tenant houses weer
recovered 3 years ago. Two barns on the place —one 16 by
20 sheded both sides and one 24 by 30 sheded both sides and
cow barn underneath 24 by 30. Corn crib 16 by 20 sheded
one side and up and down stairs built 3 years ago. The small
barn was built 3 years ago and the large one seven years ago.
Repair shop 12 by 16 built this year. AS FINE A PAS
TURE AS YOU EVER SAW CONSISTING OF TWEN
TY ACRES WITH BERMUDA GRASS, WITH A LIV
ING STREAM THROUGH IT THE DRYEST YEAR-
Three different churches within a mile and one about two
miles and a fine school within 20 minutes walk. This place
can be bought within the NEXT THIRTY DAYS fors3Boo.
00 cash, or $1500.00 cash and five notes for $400.00 each at 0
% interest pa3 r able Jan. 1 st‘l9o9 and each succeeding ye ar
till paid off. Place will rent for ten bales of cotton and crop
pers have been secured for another year. This is a big bar
gain and you will have to hurry if you get it. Buy it and let
the rents pay off the notes. I have Jackson property to show
3 t ou if 3 r ou want to invest in cit3' real estate.
Address, Frank Z. Curry.
Jackson, Ga,
This Sept. 26th, 1007.
at the altar of right than king
at a carnival of wrong. in
stance the fight of the un
ion which is now for 15c cot|
Who are arrayed against | pro .
dacer in this fight?
The combined world is agai him.
Why should not he receive Is ir hig
cotton? All admit that the s, nßrtj
can pay it and make BIG mcy 0Q
his mill stock. If we count th8)t 0 (
investment the farmer selling
ton at 15u does not make one b ag
much as toe spinner does on his, c fc
when he buys at 150. I saw in
tide a few days ago tbat the Eui a .
an spinners were paying at the n| B
now, 15c for cotton.
That being true cotton shod
bring in our market today 130 per.
What is the trouble?
Too many pressing the produr
and too few aiding him in his effot
to obtain what is rightfully his.
First Boatman to Second Ditto— ’1
got more brains in ’ls ’end than y
and me ’as got in tbe rest of our be
les.—London Tatier.
For Guardianship, i
GEORGIA, Butts County.—
To all whom it may concern:
W. M. Taylor, having applied for Gut
diauship of the persons an property of Vi
Taylor, and Madge Taylor, minor childn
ofE.C. Adams, late of pike County, and
ceased, Notice is given t atsaidapplic
tion will be heird at my office at ti
o’clock a.m. on the first Monday in Nove
her next. This Oct. 7-1907.
J. H. HAM, Ordinary.
J. W. Goddard )
vs. | Bill &c to reinov
Harry C. Goddard )cloud upon title, I
and Abram E. God-1 Butts Superior Court
dard J Aug. Term 1907.
To Harry C. Goddard and Abram E
Goddard.
You are hereby required personally or b;
attorney to be and appear at the next Supe
rior Court, to be held in and for said Conn
ty on the Third Monday in August nex
therfand there to answer the Plaintiff’s com
plaint in the above stated matter.
Witness rhe Hon. E. J. Reagan, Judge of
said Court. This July 29, 1907,
Ray & Ray I
Pliis. A tty s. j B . I*. Bailey, Cleik.
Curran’s Comment.
At a dinner table in London the con
versation turned on public speaking.
Curran stated that he could never ad
dress an audience for a quarter of an
hour without moistening his lips.
“I have the advantage of you there,
Curran,” said Sir Thomas Turton, al
pompous and pretentious member ofj
parliament “I spoke tho other night!
in the house of commons for five hours]
on the nabob of Onde and never felt
in the least thirsty.”
’’That is very remarkable indeed,’'
replied Curran, “for every one agrees
it was the driest speech of the session.”