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Published €wry Thursday.
Entered as neconil-clasH matter, Novem
ber 8, 1907, at the postoffice at Jackson, Ga.
n tuler act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
TELEPHONE NUMBER 166
Do the people of Georgia want
her ship of state guided by a man
who has, heretofore, known little
but to work FOR the railroads?
All needed reforms do not come
in a day. Neither have they
come, nor will they come in the
short space of Hoke Smith’s or
any other governor’s’ adminis
tration.
People have been talking about
justice and equality since the
world was made and yet their
ambitions are not realized. Per
haps, after all, it is best to do
like Little Joe Brown—promise
nothing.
The Brown organs sneer at the
allegation that the liquor and
railroads interests are behind
“Little Joe’s” campaign for gov
ernor. The people have much
reason to make such a charge
and would appreciate some facts
to the contrary if they exist.
Hon. C. L. Bartlett again an
nounces for Congress in this issue.
He as yet puts forth no platorm
except that of the principles of
democracy which he says is veri
fied by his record in the past, to
which he invites the closest
scrutiny. Mr. Bartlett is very
popular over the district and will
no doubt receive strong support.
Because the railroads have
been so influential that the pres
ent administration has not en
tirely succeeded in making the
railroads conform in every re
spect, to the wishes of the peo
ple is poor reason why the job
should be turned over to a man
who has spent a life working for
and viewing issues from the
viewpoint of the railroads.
CROWN ON THE PORT RATES
In speaking of the * ‘port rates”
Candidate Brown says that they,
it established, would have en
abled Georgians to buy goods
cheaper from outside concerns
than from native industry.
That home industry should be
naturally encouraged is a fact,
but such talk on the part of Mr.
Brown indicates that he is not a
Democrat on the tariff proposi
tion. For, to be consistent with
himself, he ought to advocate an
amendment to the Federal con
stitution which would allow Geor
gia to levy a tariff on imported
goods. Then indeed we could
buy and would be forced to buy
from home Georgians.
A high freight rate has exact
ly the same effect as a tariff in
that it keeps out compition from
other states to the extent of the
amount of the rate. If Mr.
QUARTERLY PAYMENTS OF PENSIONS.
It seems unfair to censure the present governor on account
of the state’s resort to the quarterly payment of pensions
when the real facts in the case are taken into consideration.
In the first place the change in pension payments was not
suggested by the governor to the legislature. The committee
on appropriations provided for the new law and this was so be
cause of the poverty of the State treasury at a time when t e
pension commissioner was calling for an unusual amount o
pension money and when the state revenue had been reduced
by $250,000 on account of the prohibition law; also, at a time
when the state’s army of teachers were clamoring for their
pitifully small salaries on which they are dependent and out of
which, in many cases, needy families of the school teachers
partake the staff of life. .
Conditions and problems awaited Governor Smith s admin
istrations that did not exist when his predecessor ruled, and
under such conditions, it is not fair to censure the governor for
any reasonable resort, such as quarterly payments of pensions.
In such a case the most reasonable policy was pursued.
It is all well enough to sing about the deeds of the much
loved vets. We all admit the beauty and truth of such songs,
but at the time the pension law was made the state could only
do its best under the circumstances.
MORE CIVILITY.
Civil-ize: To make civil—to use gentle methods instead
of violent and vicious.
Savages are not civil, neither are barbarians. Also, some
so-called civilized people are not civil.
When the Jerkwater stoppt at Grigsby station and Aunt
Jane announced to the occupants of the ladies car, What this
country needs is not more civil engineers, but a few civil con
ductors,” having just had an interview with a grumpy ticket
puncher, she voiced a partial truth.
What this world needs is more civility. As yet we are
only partially civilized. As long as we deliberately follow the
example of the wrong-doer and rob the man who robs us and
kill the man who kills another, doing to others as they do to us,
we stand for robbery, violence, blood and death.
Civilization is only a comparative term. A vast yearly
expenditure for killing apparatus in countries calling them
selves civilized, with many men all ready to waive the ten com
mandments and return to savagery on short notice, tokens a
very crude and coarse form of civilization. Even a dull imagi
nation can send a glimmering search-light down the future, and
imagine something better. And the thing we can imagine we
can bring to pass.—Philistine Magazine.
Brown wants Georgians to trade
with Georgians, let him advocate
custom houses on our boundary
lines—a thing that the national
constitution prohibits.
The one thing we all want is to
buy the best goods at the lowest
possible price and if we all could
do this, everybody would be com
fortable and happy and some of
us might then see the fallacy
of the argument that gives any
industry the right to force its
customers to pay its own price
for an article regardless of how
much lower a price at which the
same article might be bought
elsewhere.
KEEPING BAD COMPANY.
We are reliably informed that
one of the' constant visitors at
the headquarters of Mr. Brown in
Atlanta, one of the constant ad
isers of the opposition candidate
for governor, is Mr. I. W. Hey
ward. Mr. Heyward makes his
livelihood by acting as agent of
the National Liquor Dealers’ As
sociation. His acting as advisory
counsel for Mr. Brown, when
taken in connection with the
million-dollar fund which the
liquor dealers' association de
clared they would spend in Geor
gia this year to turn back the
tide of prohibition, is significant.
Mr. Brown may be all that is
claimed for him, though the gen
eral impassion seems to be that
he is not, but the people of
Georgia will not stand for a gov
ernor whose campaign was con
ducted under the auspices of the
liquor dealers' association.
Another significant fact is that
in Glynn, Bibb, Chatham and
Richmond counties Brown men
are claiming loudly that these
counties are going solid for Mr.
Brown, and it is also well known
that in these counties the liquor
fight is on, and they are supposed
to be anti-prohibition counties.
We don’t like the company he
keeps.
The people of Georgia don’t
like the company he keeps.
The constant association of the
secretary of the liquor dealers’
association and the candidate for
the hignest office in the gift of
the grandest state in the South
does not accord with our Georgia
Cracker ideas of the eternal fit
ness of things.—Waycioss Jour
nal.
HR. SEARCY COMPLIHENTS
COL. O. H. B BLOODWORTH
Mr. W. E. H. Searcy, who has
for a long time been the official
stenographer of the Flint circuit,
of which Hon. O. H. B. Blood
worth is Solicitor General, thus
speaks of Mr. Bloodworth in an
editorial in his paper, The Mid
dle Georgia Farmer:
“We have been closely asso
ciated with Col. Bloodworth for
the past twelve years, and have
never seen him do a wrongful or
sinful act. That is saying a
great deal, but we believe a good
man should hear a word of ap
proval sometimes and not wait
until he is dead to send flowers
to bedeck his bier.
Col. Bloodworth is a fine law
yer, a graduate of the State Uni
versity, and is capable of repre
senting the District in Congress.
See his announcement elsewhere
in this paper.”
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about the money you have hid
between the mattresses or in the
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