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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.”