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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year,
Entered aa second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
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company copy in all instances.
Are you a tin-plated patriot?
If you can’t push or pull, then
root.
Hearst is supporting Hughes.
It’s well.
Macon is putting on some real
steam these days.
We’re strong for the flag and
the boys at the front.
The ladies, too, shine when the
military command, “dress up,”
is given.
The Republicans and Progres
sives have run together like tal
low. But watch Woodrow win.
Let the people vote on matters
affecting their local interests.
This is good democracy and it’s
good common sense.
Why not send “Atlanta’sown”
down to Mexico and let the other
troops come home? All in favor
of this, stand up and be counted.
Macon last week voted bonds
for an auditorium and a hospital,
SIOO,OOO being included in each
issue. Macon is doing big things
these days.
We’re in favor of conscripting
an army of those who sneer at
the national guard, and let these
stay-at-home “patriots” have
their inning with the greasers.
Really, the Civic League ought
to see that some trees are planted
on the court house lawn. The
grounds are so hot and bare now
that the defect should not be al
lowed to exist.
This country was certainly in a
woeful state of preparedness.
After the men got to camp they
had no guns and equipment. It'
is nothing short of criminal the ■
way the national guard has been
neglected.
There was more interest in the
celebration of the Glorious Fourth
this year than has been seen in a
longtime. The flag means some
thing to the country now that we
are about to have to lick the
greasers.
Put the loafers to work. There
is plenty of work at good wages
and there is no excuse for white
or colored to hang round town in
idleness. ‘ ‘Get busy or get out, ’ ’
would be a good slogan for the
officials to adopt.
It would be nothing short of a
calamity for a strike to tie up all
the great railways of the United
States. The differences between
the railroads and their employees
should be left to the Interstate
Commerce Commission or some
other competent tribunal. In a
strike it is the public that suffers
most of all.
When we see a fellow that
spends several times as much for
soft drinks, tobacco and other
luxuries as he does for the sup
port of the government, kick
about taxes we feel like he ought
to have a dose of calomel.
It is really remarkable how
quick the military wave swept
over the country. But it is well
that the country take stock of its
fighting forces occasionally, for
heaven knows there was but lit
tle “preparedness” when the call
came.
It is nothing short of nauseat
ing the way Atlanta papers take
on over the Fifth regiment, “At
lanta’s own,” or the “Fighting
Fifth.” Man for man, the Second
regiment is the best and most
efficient unit of the Georgia nat
ional guard.
Not before in many years has
the gubernatorial campaign been
such a luke-warm, insipid, life
less affair. The people absolutely
refuse to enthuse. Here it is
July and not a single straw ballot
has been taken or a single well
known shirt torn.
We frequently receive business
notices from individuals and sun
dry enterprises, accompanied by
a request for publication, adding
that the favor will be “appreci
ated. ” The Observer will appre
ciate it if these persons will ac
company the requests with about
five cents a line. —Commerce Ob
server.
So, we are to have anew judi
cial circuit to be called the Indian
Springs circuit. The name is all
right, but it is not yet apparent
whether the people want this cir
cuit or whether the lawyers want
more courts, more frequent courts
and more jobs. But we shall see
what we shall see.
If Governor Harris, splendid
old patriot that he is, would rear
up on his hind legs and tell some
of his advisers to go to h-—l, he
would win the esteem of his
friends, and the people generally.
He seems to have been consider
ably henpecked over the parades
in Atlanta and Macon.
People who are low-down en
ough to write anonymous letters
probably couldn’t be expected to
know that the act is, in itself, a
confession of contemptible cowar
dice. They may thus conceal
their indendity, but in doing so
they reveal their lack of charac
ter.—Augusta Chronicle.
The report of the state auditor
shows that some of the methods
now in use are very much out of
date. Georgia ought to run its
business in jam up style, cut out
all the leaks possible and save the
taxpayers every cent practicable.
The auditing of public records is
a good thing and ought to be
more generally practiced.
The 1916 session of the Georgia
legislature will receive less at
tention than any similar session
of that body in years and years.
The war is holding the center of
interest now and the leather
lunged legislative patriots will
spout in vain. This is equally
true of thegubernatorial campaign
KHEUMATISM ARRESTED
Many people suffer the tortures of
mie muscles and stiffened joints because
f impurities iu the blood, and each suc
eeding attack seems more acute until
heumatisuibas invaded the whole system.
To arrest rheumatism it is quite as im
>rtant to improve your general health as
■ purify your blood, and the cod liver oil
- Scott’s Emulsion is nature’s great blood
utker, while its medicinal nourishment
rengthens the organs to expel the
•mrities and upbuild your strength,
colt's Emulsion is helping thousands
. .ery day who could not find other relief.
Refuse the alcoholic substitutes.
He who builds up health lays
up treasury in the Bank of Na
ture.
Have Manufacturing r ,
Costs Advanced **Bf**?-
Since 1880? '
Every business man, whether manufacturer or merchant, knows that the cost of
every manufactured article has advanced hemendously since 1880. The manufacturer
has, therefore, been forced to advance his price to the merchant, and the merchant to
advance his price to the consumer—in proportion to the increased cost of manufactur
ing—or else go into bankruptcy and close up shop.
The Railroads of Georgia are engaged exclusively in the manufacture and sale
of freight and passenger transportation. The transportation is manufactured out of
steel, and iron, and coal, and lumber, and crossties, and brick, and stone, and con
crete, and human brawn and brain.
The selling price of this manufactured article transportation was arbitrarily
fixed and promulgated in the year 1880 by the then newly organized Railroad Com
mission of the State of Georgia. The Railroads of Georgia are today operating under
rates ACTUALLY MUCH LOWER than the rates fixed by the Commission in 1880.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A REVISION OF RATES UPWARD SINCE 1880.
Has there been an advance in the cost of raw materials which enter into the
manufacture of transportation—steel, iron, lumber, crossties, brick, stone, concrete,
LABOR ?
There has! Below we present a table of 25 necessary articles in daily use by
every railroad in Georgia, showing prices actually paid during the months of August,
1914, January, 1916, and March, 1916, and a fourth column showing the percentage
of increase in prices actually paid by the Railroads of Georgia. The average increased
cost of the 25 articles of daily use is 77.71 per cent, and much of it is paid to Georgia
producers of the articles.
HERE ARE THE ARTICLES AND FIGURES IN DETAILi
26 ARTICLES IN DAILY USE— . Pet.
Increase
Mch. 16
August January March Over
1914. 1916. 1916. Aug. 14.
ANGLE BARS, per 100 lbs., f. o. b. mi 11..... . $ 1.50 $ 1.83% $ 2.16% 44.45 PC.
FROGS, spring rail, 85-lb. No. 10 42.30 46.62 48.42 14.66 Pc.
BOLTS, track, per 100 lbs 2.00 2.47 3.25 63.53 Pc.
SPIKES, track, per 100 lbs 1.48 2.29 2.37 61.88 PC.
BAR IRON, per 100 lbs 1.22 1.95 2.25 85.84 PC.
BOILER TUBES, per ft., 11 gauge 2-in. O. D.. .07% .10% .10% 39.88 Pc.
PLATES, boiler and tank, 12 ga., per 100 lbs.. 1.33 2.98 3.25 146.73 PC.
COPPER, electrolytic (bearings, etc.) per lb. . .12% .26 .28 128.57 Pc.
SHEETS, galvanized, per 100 lbs 2.80 4.88 , 4.96 77.68 Pc.
PIPE, black iron, 1%-in., per ft .046 .055 .06 29.87 Pc.
IRON, pig No. 2, per ton 10.92 14.83 15.00 35.88 Pc.
SHEETS, black, No. 2 Ga., per 100 lbs 1.85 3.26 3.56 92.21 Pc.
TIN —PIG, straights, per 100 lbs 35.03 44.50 48.42 37.80 Pc.
SPELTER, per 100 lbs - *8.76 23.00 25.33 246.86 Pc.
WASTE COTTON, per lb .052 .069 .07% 38.68 Pc.
COKE, foundry, per ton 2.33 3.50 3.59 53.70 Pc.
STEEL- BILLETS, per 100 lbs 2.07 2.65 2.68 33.17 PC.
LUMBER, car sills 20.40 25.00 26.66 36.14 PC.
ANTIMONY, per lb .08% .45% .45% 424.17 Pc.
TIRES, mill, 100 lbs 3.90 4.33% 4.33% 11.00 Pc.
SPRINGS, locomotive, per 100 lbs 3.03 3.84% 3.84% 24.87 Pc.
SPRINGS, freight cars, per 100 lbs 1.70 2.16 2.16 26.81 Pc.
NAILS, wire, per 100 lbs 1.67 2.38 2.57 54.00 Pc.
CROSSTIES, pine, each .35 .40.40 14.29 Pc.
BILLETS, forgings 25.00 55.00 55.00 120.00 Pc.
AVERAGE PERCENT OF INCREASE IN PRICE OF 35 ARTICLES, 77.71 Pc.
IMPORTANT NOTE:—In compiling the above figures, the percent increase in March
1916, over August, 1914, the percent of increase to each railroad was totaled and the amount
divided by the number of railroads affected. The figures in the last column above are, there
fore, not based on the figures shown in the first and third columns above, owing to outstand
ing contracts by many of the railroads.
There has not been any decrease in the price of any article, consequently the
above increases has not been offset, but are NET.
Previous to the establishment of the 1880 freight tariff the Railroads of Georgia
paid state taxes ONLY, the Constitutional Tax of five mills. The Railroads of Georgia
now pay city, county AND state taxes, which is a tremendous increase in taxes. But
we shall have more to say concerning taxes at a later date.
The above table does not take into consideration the greatest advance in the cost ’
of manufacturing transportation—and the most important one—LABOR. We shall pre
sent indisputable facts and figures concerning this important matter at a later date.
The people of Georgia expect and are entitled, to transportation. It is a FUN
DAMENTAL BUSINESS NECESSITY. The service MUST be supplied. FAIR com
pensation should be paid for that service. Such payment is good business morals and
will enable the railroads to render GOOD service, to which the people are entitled.
Intrastate rates should and must be made to conform to interstate rates. The re
vision of Georgia freight rates now proposed simply conforms to the principles fol
lowed by the Interstate Commerce Commission in its long and short haul order, issued
In compliance with Federal Law. No unjust discrimination of any character whatso
ever is contemplated, nor would such disc rimination be tolerated.
The Railroads of Georgia
The Railroads of Georgia
FOR SALE
Will be sold in front of the
court house, for cash, between
the legal hours of sale the first
Tuesday in September, 56 acres
of land, * mile east of Jenkins
burg, known as the J. G. Kim
bell place. T. P. Kimbeil, J. W.
Kimbell, Executors. 7-7-9 t
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C ASTO RIA
A DECLARATION 9F POLICY.
It ia not and will not be the policy of the Railroads of Geor
gia to propose any system of rates which would unjustly discrim
inate against the Georgia producer in favor of producers located
without the state. Should this principle appear to be violated by
any technical construction of our petition we give assurance that
we will not propose, nor will we attempt to adopt, in actual
practice, any rates at variance with the same.
We repair the Most Delicate
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