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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone 119.
Published very Friday ftt SIOO a yenr.
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malt matter.
E. V. CARROLL, Editor and Publisher
Official Organ of Butts County
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that
all legal advertising appearing
in The Argus must be paid lor
in advance as required by law.
Unless copy for such ads is
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JACKSON, GA., FEB. 7, 1913.
Law and Order.
V
Judge Daniel, in his charge to
the Monroe Grand Jury, draws a
most timely comparison between
Atlanta and Winnipeg with regard
to the observance of laws. Indeed,
were there mote men in the State
whose reverence of the law led
them to prosecute lawlessness like
Judge Daniel does, then the State
would be a better place to live in.
His faithful observance of the pro
hibition law has made it a sword of
fire within his circuit. And his un
compromising attitude of hostility
to all forms of law-breaking has
made him a menace to the lawless
people of this State. We heartily
endorse Judge Daniel’s views, and
wish to co-operate with him in his
splendid efforts. There is a great
deal of house-cleauiug needed in
Georgia’s commonwealth, and men
with views like Judge Daniel’s are
needed for the work.
Stealing.
Stealing and tax-dodging are one
and the same; only the latter adds
a lie to the theft. Under the pres
ent system of property tax in Geor
gia, the rich man can turn in his
taxes at what he pleases, but the
little that the poor man hath is so
-small that he must turn it in at par
value. Can anything be more un
just or iniquitous? The rich mau,
who receives most protection from
the State, pays but a decimal pro
l>ortion of his true share to its sup
port, the burden falling on the poor
auan, who canuot help himself. If
hurnau nature is no further devel
oped than that nine out of ten rich
men are dishonest with regard to
turning in taxes, then it is time to
call a halt and inaugurate a system
iiy which every man can be m.vdk
to bear his burden of expense of
the government. The mau who is
able and who dodges his just share
of ta ces should be outlawed, her
alded by low names w’liicb the
slang of the streets applies to the
thief. He should no longer be
looked upon as merely a shrewd
mau, but a mau whose shrewdness
is iuiquitous and dangerous to the
body politic. Beware of the tax
dodger. If he will swindle the
State collectively, he will swiudle
you individually.
Subsequent issues of The Argus
will disclose the names of tax
dodgers in Butts county.
“Prohibition That Will Pro
hibit.”
What grounds the liquor interests
have for the claim that “prohibi
tion doesn’t prohibit” are largely
due to the Federal interstate com
merce law As this statute is in
terpreted, the Federal government
exercises a protection over inter
state shipments of liquor that
makes it well-nigh impossible for
dry territory to protect itself against
shipments of liquor from wet States.
The Kenyon bill, now before
Congress, and set for discussion
and vote on next Monday, the 10th,
will remedy this obstacle to the en
forcement of prohibition laws. The
sole purpose of this bill may be
summed up in these words: When
liquor is shipped from one State to
another State, with the intention of
violating the laws of that State, it
shall be subject to seizure by the
officials of the State into which it
is sent.
It will be seen that the purpose
is to fortify and uphold local self
government. With one-half of the
nation’s population living in no
license territory, it is at once clear
that there is an overwhelming de
mand for the relief which this meas
ure will afford.
The temperance forces are bring
i ing the strongest kind of pressure
| to bear on Congress for the passage
of this bill, and there is at this
i time every indication that it will
soon be placed upon the statute
books of the nation.
Labor on Farms.
If the number of white home
owning small farmers in the South
were doubled, not only would the
small farmers we already have be
benefited in the ways I have al
ready mentioned, but the owner of
a big plantation could sell half his
acreage to them and find the re
maining half worth as much as the
whole is worth under present con
ditions. Moreover, his labor sup
ply—not the shiftless, ignorant,
unprofitable kind of labor, but the
really efficient, worth while sort—
would be improved. In Denmark,
the testimony is given, that while
the big estate owners at first de
clared that the creation of small
holdings would'ruin or demoraliie
their labor, many of them now de
clare that matters in this respect
have improved rather than wors
ened. The small holders or little
farmers, wheu work is not pressing
on their own farms, are glad to
earn something by helping the big
farmer. The farm boys, also, be
ing less intent upon running off to
town than they would be if their
parents were tenants, are more
available as laborers. Moreover,
grow’u-up men who would, under
ordiuary circumstauces, enter some
town trade, are quite content to
work as farm hands, seeing that
there is a chance, when they get a
nest egg, of acquiring small farms
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATE
10 FEDERAL COURTS NOTED
Our Correspondent Writes Interest
ingly of tlis Trip to the Central
City to Serve as Juror In the
United States Court.
FjDiTOR Argus: About two
weeks ago we received a summons
to be and appear at the United
States District Court room in Ma
con to be sworn as a traverse juror.
The first thing that impressed itself
very forcibly upon our mind was
the fact that Uncle Sam runs his
court quite different to our State
courts in one essential particular,
at least, and that is, in the United
States Court the judge is the whole
thing, so to speak. In our State
courts the lawyers and jurors may
be very important adjuncts, but in
Uncle Sam’s court the man behind
the gun is the judge.
We were at first at a loss to know
why Uncle Sam would summon
several panels of jurors and pay
them three dollars a day for several
weeks when he seemed to have so
little need for them; and we were
especially at a loss to know why
he would draft men from the coun
try counties when there seemed to
be so much better qualified mate
rial near at hand.
After thinking the matter over,
we finally came to the conclusion
that the reason Uncle Sam com
pelled the old farmers to come in
and serve on his jury was because
he realized that the farmer, when
left to pursue the even tenor of his
way, is apt to form many false no
tions as to his duties to rest of
mankind. Well knowing that our
whole social and financial fabric
depends upon the intelligence and
prosperity of his rural population,
he spares neither pains nor expense
in trying to lead the farmer out of
the old rut. He carries the mail
to the farmers’ door, and through
the parcel'post gives him an oppor
tunity to ship his produce at small
expense to all parts of the country
and receive in return the wares
that he needs from the most dis
tant market. He spends millions
in distributing free seeds, and mill
ions more through his experiment
stations and agricultural schools
and colleges in trying to demon
strate better methods of farming;
and last, but not least, he takes a
few farmers from the country coun
ties once or twice a year and makes
them take an enforced vacation
and study the city and city ways
by making them serve a few weeks
as jurors in the United States Dis
trict Court.
Being very fortunate in having
many friends and relatives in Ma
con who insisted that there should
be no actual expense to our stay in
their midst, we proceeded to use
our per diem iu furthering Uncle
Sam’s plan as we understood it.
We learned, incidentally, while
engaged in our jury duties, how
many Federal liquor licenses have
been taken out in Macon, and we
saw something of the effects of it,
especially on Saturday afternoon,
wheu we walked through the
crowded streets down toward the
Southern depot and heard the ca
rousals from within the bar rooms
and so-called drug stores. We
learned, also, that most of this vile
stuff is shipped from a city within
our prohibition State. But when
we remember how public sentiment
has changed, and how much better
things are now iu our own county
so far as liquor-driuking and sell
ing are concerned, we have no fears
but that in forty years more the
evils will be reduced for our pos
terity to the very minimum.
We spent most of onr time in
Macon with Brother John, who a
great many people down on the
Ocmulgee remember as a barefoot,
long-nosed, mischievous boy. Many
of his old schoolmates remember
that it was one of the standing
rules, from year to year, in Aunt
Sallie Jenkins’ school, that he and
of their owu, iu Germany, as Sir
Gilbert own.—Clarence Poe, in
The Progressive Farmer.
DEMPSEY HARDWARE 00.,
Jackson, - Georgia.
Clem Towles must never be caught
seated on the same bench in the
school room. By no other plan
could she maintain discipline, and
this rule was rigidly enforced.
When Clem gets to be United States
Marshal we trust he will remember
the friend of his youth and rescue
John from the “world’s ignoble,
maddening strife” in the city, buy
him a farm down on the Ocmulgee,
and keep him there the balance of
his life.
One more dear old Butts county
bey we had a pleasant time with
was our cousin, Gus Smith. Many
people down our way remember
that Gus originated on a farm near
Cork, and we take great pleasure
in saying to them, if it does not
seem too personal, that he is the
same plain, unassuming, true blue
old Gus, and is now some kind of
“chief cook and bottle washer” for
the Georgia Cotton Oil Compauy in
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