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THE JACKSON ARGUS
Telephone 119.
Published every Friday at SI.OO a year.
Entered at Jackion Poatofflce as geoond class
nail matter.
1. W. CARROLL. Editor and Publisher
MRS. E. W. CARROLL, - Manager
Official Organ of Butts County
JACKSON, OA., APRIL 11, 1913.
THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN
ADVERTISING BV THE
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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
WOODROW WILSON’S PRAYER
Hade Up Almost Entirely of
Phrases Taken From
The Inaugural
nation deeply stirred by sol
emn passion,
At sight of wrong.
Calls to heroic work of resto
ration
The brave and strong.
Vith heartstrings swept as by
an air from heaven—
From God’s white throne,
We listen to the moan of count
less thousands,
Life’s undertone.
to day of triumph but of dedi
cation
Is tl>is our time;
Hen's hearts, men's lives,
men’s hopes appoint us
Our task sublime.
God. here at the hearthstone
of the conscience,
We seek Thy light;
ustice, and only justice is our
motto,
Show us the right!
—Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican.
Let Me Call and
Show You the 1913
Styles in Home
Decoration —
My 1913 American
Wall Paper Sample Books
have arrived.
They contain the most up
to-date, largest and most artistic
line of Wall Papers ever shown
All of the latest things—all of
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R. F. HIGGINS,
Jackson, - Georgia.
Lv)ST —Black Male Setter,
tan mouth and feet, bobbed
tail. Betrayed on night of
March 27th. liberal reward
f r any information as to his
whereabouts.
Hansf.i l B. Malone,
Monticello, Ga.
PEANUT POLITICS.
It is indeed bard on the voters of the state that personal politics
of so bitter a tinge prevail in Georgia. It is hard for a man who
is trying to choose between two candidates for office to he pulled
into a personal broil between these two men, and yet this system
prevails here, and it is never this principle or that principle that
the voters of the state cast their ballot for, it is always this man or
that man.
Under this regime of personal politics, the demagogue has full
sway. lie can run for an office upon his personal platform, and
then betray the trust of the people by putting into effect his rotten
political intrigues, or the intrigues of his crooked friends. We
say this much merely as an eye-opener to the thousands of citizens
of this state who follow their leader blindly. No man has a right
to dictate to you whether he be your friend or not. Ask his prin*
ciples.
There are men in Georgia today who are trying to build up
their political power merely by attacking the existing order. How
did Theodore Roosevelt form the Progressive party? He started a
row with Taft, and in congress, splitting the Republican party
hopelessly,—tor his own selfish purposes. The men in Georgia,
who are continually indulging in sarcastic slurs against the pow
ers that be, are merely trying to do the same thing.
There are some daily papers in the state who continually em
phasize the hoard of disappointed office-seekers. Did these pa
pers support Wilson?
These men and these papers, if attacking Senator Smith and
President Wilson are barking at the moon. They howl at that
which is far above them, and that which they are powerless to
change.
They, however, shrewdly suspect that there are men to whom
this grouchy line of stuff appeals, and who will be taken in thereby
What if enough of the voters of Georgia follow these dema-*
gogues who are attacking the existing powers? In a case,
we shall certainly have a “progressive” party iu the state domina
ted by the greed of demagogues. The good old Empire State
which has for so long been stauding for democratic principles will
be lured away from her birthright by the stealthy on her
leaders. Do not for the sake of all that is good and just, allow
the principles and ideals upon which the South muststaud fast and
impress upon the national administration, be trampled beneath the
feet of some petty peanut politician.
Do not follow the cry of the demagogue. If’a man is known to
be selfish, discount what he says against others. He is sayiug it>
for his own benefit. If a paperis yellow, and its owner
count its criticisms as compliments, for a man has tojliave great"3
power for these papers to attack him. Think the thiugl.out, and 9
then vote that way whether Tom Jenkins or Bill Smith said.„so or
not.
Over Sixty-Eight Years Ago
We reprint below advertisements
that were written more than sixty
eight years ago by a business man
of Jackson. We doubt if there are
more than one or two persons liv
ing in the county that remember
these parties.
The farhers’ house
OH. MCCLENDON takes this
• method of informing his
friends and the public generally
that he has opened a New Hotel in
Jackson, Hutts county, Ga , at the
house formerly occupied by Wm.
A. Florence. Hits charges will cor
respond with the hardness of the
times. The house will be fitted up
in good style, and nothing shall be
wanting on his part to render those
comfortabte who may call—let this
suffice. Call and see.
Jackson, Feb. 21, 1545. 8-2 m
JACKSON MOIbL,
JACKSON, BUTTS CO., GA.
TJAVING opened a house of en
** tertainmeut iu this village,
directly on the Square, the sub
scriber assures the public he wlil
sj are no pains to merit a liberal
share of patronage.
\VM. IRVINE.
January 9, 1H45.
Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Etheridge
visited Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Ste
phens, of Forsyth, Sunday, and
Mr. Stephens had “The Little
Georgian,” a paper printed in For
syth at that time, containing these
Jackson ads, and clipped them put
for Mr. Etheridge, who, in turn,
gave them to us. The paper had
been kept by Mr. Stephens’ parents
for some reason, and at their death
he still preserved it. It now is yel
low and tender with age: it has to
be handled very carefully. If there
are any who personally knew aud
dealt with the parties mentioned iu
these advertisements, we would be
AFFIDAVIT.
Statement of the ownership,
management, etc., of The
Jackson Argus, published
weekly at Jackson, Ga., as
required by the Act of Con
gress of August 24, 1912.
Editor, E. W. Carroll, Jack
son , Ga,
Managing Editor, Mrs.
E. W. Carroll, Jackson, Ga.
Business Manager, Mrs. E.
W. Carroll, Jackson, Ga.
Publisher, E. W. Carroll,
Jackson, Ga.
Owner (not a corporation).
Estate of Mrs . A. H. Shaver,
H. Y. McCord, Administrator,
Atlanta, Ga.
Bondholders, mortgages,
etc., none.
Mrs. E. W. Carroll.
Sworn to and subscribed be
fore me this 31st day of March,
1913.
S. J. Foster, C. S, C.
B. C. Ga.
SUNDAY SERVICES AT
METHODIST CHURCH
On Sunday at 11 a. m. Rev. M.
S. Williams will preach a special
evangelistic sermon. No services
at night.
It will be of interest to many
to learn that anew flat has
replaced the old one at Thom
as’ Ferry.
glad to have them write us a letter
for publication oil the subject of
the times and conditions at that
date.
The original cau be seeu at this
office.
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JACKSON, - OA.
SHORT MESSAGE
STICKSTO TARIFF
Prosldent Wilson Advises tin
_ Extra Session.
Nhl -
URGENT NEED OF REFORMS
Chief Executive Say* Recent Election*
Laid a Duty Upon th* Democratic
Party, Which Mu at Lighten the Bur
dan of tha People—Saya It Would Bo
Unwio* to Movo Forward Hoadlong
or With Rookies* Hoot#; That Buai
noaa Mu at Bo Encouraged, Not De
stroyed, but That Everything That
Haa a Bemblance of Privikog* Mud
B* Abolished—Promises Special Mee
aago Daaling With Needed Banking
and Currency Lawa.
To the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives:
I have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because a
duty was laid upon tbe party now In
power at tbe recent elections which it
ought to perform promptly in order
that the burden carried by the people
under existing law may be lightened
ns soon as possible and In order, also,
that the business interests of the coun
try may not be kept too long In sus
pense as to what the fiscal changes
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sos_
FRESIDENT WILSON.
I are to be to which they will be requir
ed to adjust themselves, it Is clear
to the whole country that the tariff
duties must be altered. They must he
changed to meet the radical alteration
In the conditions of our economic life
which the country has witnessed with
in the Inst generation. While the
whole face and method of our Indus
trial and commercial life were being
changed beyond recognition the tariff
schedules have remained what they
were before the Change began or have
moved in the direction they were giv
en when no large circumstance of onr
industrial development was what it la
today. Onr task is to square them
with the actual facts. Thp sooner that
is done the sooner we shall escape
from suffering from the facts and the
sooner our men of business will be
tree to thrive by the law of nature
fttae nature of free business* instead
of by tbe law of legislation and arti
ficial arrangement
How Tariff Has Grown.
We have seen tariff legislation wan
der very far afield in our day—very far
Indeed from tbe field in which our
prosperity might have had a normal
growth and stimulation. No one who
looks the facts squarely in the face or
knows anything that lies beneath the
surface of action can fail to perceive
the principles upon which recent tariff
legislation Inis been based. We long
ago passed beyond the modest notion
of “protecting" the Industries of the
country and moved boldly forward to
the idea that they were entitled to tbe
direct patronage of 'he government.
For a long time—a time so long that
the men now active in public policy
hardly remember the conditions that
preceeded it—we have sought in onr
tariff schedules to Five each group of
manufacturers or producers what they
themselves thought that they needed
in order to maintain a practically ex
clusive market as against the rest of
the world. Consciously or unconscious
ly we have built up a set of privileges
and exemptions from competition be
hind which it was easy by any. even
the crudest, forms of combination to
organize monopoly, until at last noth
ing is normal, nothing is obliged to
stand the tests of efficiency and econo
my. in our world of big business, but
everything thrives by concerted ar
rangement. Only new principles of
actioD will save us from a final hard
crystallization of monopoly and a com
plete loss of the influences that quick
en enterprise and keep independent en
ergy alive.
Must Abolish Privilege.
it is plain what those principles must
be. We must abolish everything that
hears even the semblance of privilege
or of any kind of artificial advantage
and put our business men and pro
ducers under the stimulation of a con
stant necessity to be efficient, econom
ical and enterprising, masters of com
petitive supremacy, better workers and
merchants than any in tbe world.
Aside from tbe duties laid upon arti
cles which we do not and probably
cannot produce, therefore, and the
duties laid upon luxuries and merely
for the sake of the revenues they yield,
the object of the tariff duties hence
forth laid must be effective competi
tion. tbe whetting of American wits by
contest witli tbe wits of the rest of the
world.
It would be unwise to move toward
this end headlong, with reckless haste
or with strokes that cut at the very
roots of what has grown up among
us by long process and at our own In
vitation. It does not alter a thing to
upset it and break it and deprive it of
a chance to change. It destroys It.
We must make changes in our fiscal
laws. In our fiscal system, whose ob
ject is development, a more free and
wholesome development, not revolution
or upset or confusion. We must build:
up trade, es|>ecially foreign trade. We
need tbe outlet and the enlarged field
of energy more than we ever did be
fore. We must build up industry as
well-and must adopt freedom in the
place of artificial stimulation only so
far as it will build, not pull down. In
dealing with tbe tariff tbe method by
which this may be done will be a mat
ter of judgment exercised item by
item. To some not accustomed to the
excitements and responsibilities of
greater freedom our methods may in
some respects and at some points seem
heroic, but remedies may be heroic*
and yet tie remedies. It is our busi
ness to make sure that they are genu
ine remedies. Our object is clear. If
our motive Is above just challenge
and only an occasional error of judg
ment is chargeable against us we shall
be fortunate.
Thorough, but Moderate.
We are called, upon to render thej
country a great service in more mat- 1
ters than one. Our responsibility
should be met. and our methods should
bo thorough, as thorough as moderate
and welt considered, based upon the
facts as thoy are. and not worked out
us if we were beginners. We are toi
deal with the facts of our own day.
with the facts of no other, and to make
laws which square with those factor.
It is best—indeed, it is necessary—to
begin with the tariff. I will urge noth
ing upon you now at the opening of}
your session which can obscure that!
first object or divert our energies from
that clearly defined duty. At a later j
time I may take the liberty of calling!
your attention to reforms which should j
press close upon tbe heels of the tariff!
changes. If not accompany them, of!
which the chief Is the rifnrtn of onr
banking and currency luivs. but just
now I refrain. For the Bri-seiit I put
these matters on one siA and think
only of this one thing—nfhe changes
in our fiscal system whlA may best
serve to open once more tne fret* chan
nels of prosperity to a Jfreat people
whom we would serve !■ the utmost
ind throughout both ruilKjntiil tile.
\v< >Ol map w 11. son.
The White House. April 8, 1913.
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