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THE PROGRESS VAN WILHITE, editor and publisher. Subscription SIOO Per Yr. Advertising Kates Furnished On Application, Published €pery Chursday. Entered tin second-elans matter, Novem ber *, 1007, at thopoHtofflce at Jackson, Ga. under act of Congress of March 3, 1870. TELEPHONE NUMBER 166 Thoraaston Times: “From in dications the past month Thomas ton has been marked as a dead “easy town” by fake solicitors and cheap show's. There has been a veritable wave of such trash visiting the town. What is the cause of it? Are other towns beingthuslyafflicted?” Yegods! Yes! We all need faith in human nature—faith in our fellowman —faith in his good intentions, and disbelief in his natural mean-1 ness. Most of our troubles cornel about from a failure to un-l derstand each other, and if I such faith possessed us the I greater part of the enmity, strife and vituperation among us would cease forever. j AS TO ORATORY What is it that prompts some of our daily papers who were defeated in JL9O6 to talk so much about the decadence of oratory. Mr. Howell, Mr. Pendleton— won’t you please hush? Your crowd will say in one breath that oratory is dead and in the next (breath say that the demagogue, Hoke Smith “fooled” the people in 1906 by resorting to the dema gogue’s tool —oratory. If Smith “fooled” the people in 1906 how did he do it? In the same way that Clark Howell and the rest of the candidates tried to fool the people—oratory. You got beat in your own game—and now you are quite naturally con vinced that oratory is not the proper thing. This time you try ■“cards.” You insist that the growing intelligence of the people aided by the great dailies are now pre venting the people from being fooled. Admitted. You said you were right in 1906—that only you had the cold facts—which you now say the people always see in spite of oratory. For argument’s sake, admitted your assertion. Then according to your logic the people would not have beem “fooled” in 1906 as you say, oJ at least imply, they were “fooled* in electing Mr. Smith. Ag how can you, Mr. Howell, rJH .the scenes of the joint ddfl||i with Mr. Smith in 1906 anfl •oratory does not count? Little Astyanax is too great a hero in his own estimation to be mulled down to the plane of a |mere governor. Let him continue to hero with himself. Congress ought to proceed icautiously now on any undertak ing on foot. Minister Wu has issued another warning in con nection with China’s awakening. THE JONESES WILL DIFFER. The world is full of mysteries and human nature is won derfully queer. Not a day passes, but that you can, if you are interested in the make : up of we mortals, discover some new phase of that strange conglomeration of sympathy, jealousy, hate, anger and love which constitute our being, and once again realize the scriptural truth that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. ” Some would have The Progress advocate Mr. Brown, others think we should support Mr. Smith. As Tom Watson says, it is quite natural that the various contentions of the Smiths and the Browns should create a little diversity of opin ion among the Joneses. We happened to be in the class of the Joneses. And we' may add that it is a little bit silly in any member of the Jones faction who claims to be somewhat farther up in the scale of civilization than that represented by the family wrangles of the Kentucky mountaineer, not to allow the greatest and the freest tolerance to any other Mr. Jones who dares to have an opposite opinion. Some few of our friends have discontinued The Progress because it dared to have an opinion on the gubernatorial race. By their discontinuance, we take them to mean that The Pro gress ought not to exist because we cannot see as they do. If our humble editorial opinions are wrong, it may still be true that there is nothing else in The Progress which the people care to read; it may be that The Progress is not a clean news paper and that it is not entitled to the support of the people; it may be that we have done wrong in sacrificing a handsome number of dollars in order to make the paper a clean sheet; it may be that we have ‘not published what news a quiet town and county causes to exist; it may be that any newspaper,such as The Progress, is not in position to help the town and county and this section by advertising our advantages and telling the people what we are doing; and it may be, therefore, that our friends ought to crush The Progress’ feeble effdrts because it had an idea about something, but somehow we cannot see the matter that way—and do not believe the people as a whole do However, we are all thankful for the new subscribers we have recently received to take the places of those whose opinions are not exactly like ours. HAVE YOU REGIS IFRED: 1 As many of the voters of the county have not registered, it is in order to remind the people that the registration books for the primary to be held June 4th will close on Saturday May 23, and that those who would have some voice in deciding how the state shall be governed should not forget the date. The primary now means practically the same as our gen eral election and the man who waits until October to vote is practically disfranchised. We all ought to vote. We should not abuse politics as politics, but should be politicians enough to cast our votes. A good honest vote will hurt nobody—not even a preacher — but on the contrary will purify politics and “save the country” just to the extent of that vote’s influence. If you have not already done so, register by May 23. Straw Hats 50 per cent off We have closed a deal with one of the hat houses in the United States for a big lot of straws at 50 Cents in the dollar—-prices ranging from 19 cents to $15.00. Panamas! Panamas! The chance of your life to get a genuine Panama at about half price. THE FLO VILLA, GA. GO TO Middle Georgia Lumber and Man’g Go. H. F. GILMORE, Manager | FOR ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIALS FOR GOOD WORK AND LOW PRICES Flooring, 95c per hundred: No. 2. Shingles, $1.65 per thousand and No 1 Shingle at $3.75. We make all kinds of Sash, Doors, Blinds, Screens, all kinds of mouldings, brackets, baluster, etc. All kinds of turned and sawed work. See us when you want any building material. . Pianos and Organs I wish to inform the public that I am rep resenting the well-known and reliable “THE CABLE COMPANY” selling their high-grade Pianos and Or gans and can give lowest prices and easy terms. Those contemplating buying either will do well to see me before buy ing. Call on or write to JACOB T. MAYO, - Jackson, Ga. T Pea-Dropper id AND SAVE TIME AND MONEY Peas are high in price W and you can save enou 2h * n one ays pl ant i n g to // Etavffli pay for the dropper. We 1/ ill sell the GRIFFITH Pea f Dropper, the best made. PRICE ONLY, 81.25 Ham & Carter Cos.