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THEPROGRESS VAN WILHITE, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. •U^ 'jrwT ' 1 . J lil 1 w&j-',l3y V- < JK V- T / 4Jmc ;g : y Y > Subscription $i oo Per Yr. Advertising Kates Furnished On Application. 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.” You may think . nobody knows about the money you have hid between the mattresses or in the old trunk or some other hiding place. Some day the. same old story of your being robbed or knocked in the head will be told like we see in the papers nearly every day. No need to take such risk when the Jackson Banking Company will save you from it and give absolute security and where you are protected from burglars and risk of lose. 4-23 v:L "Av .:*■ t&C-^XZKAOOOD “%£ CLOTHES FOR BOYS Ederheimer, Stein 6? 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