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VOLUME SIX
Why Not The
Ballot To Women?
A prominent Georgia woman
wrote not long since asking, “What
objection to giving the ballot to
women?”
The reply was: “The ballot
means politics. As our pulpit
should be uncontaminated by poli
ties, so our women should be.
‘Votes for women’ will affect not to
much our political as our social
life; it will revolutionize the home
life. Our homes are the basis of
our State and National prosperity.
Ballots for women will strike at the
unity of the home. Unity of inter
est is found between man and wife.
There is antagonism in every other
relation of life. It is social revolu
tion when the man and wife are no
longer one, but two. When two,
antagonism destroys that unity in
tended when (iod made the twain
as one. They tire one, yet two;
they are one in mind, while two in
body. When two in mind ami two
in body, the Scriptural idea of mar
riage is lost. The family should be
a well organized social nr it, consti
tuted on the principle of autocracy.
The woman ballot destroys this,
and the relation becomes a co-equal
copartnership. In other words, the
marriage relation as established by
the Bilde degenerates into a mere
cTvil contract, with its changing
fortunes.
“Nowhere in the world are
women treated with such honor as
in the South. It is as if they were
superior beings: reverence for them
is a distinguishing characteristic of
Southern men. Hence they are
placed on a pedestal, abovS" such
ignoble contaminations as are now
attached to practical politics. South
ern ideals and Southern civilization
involve the lofty eminence upon
which we place our wot? ten. We
would save them from the mire of
polities. The ballot means polities.
Practical politics will commonize
onr women. Now they are sacred
in our eyes. The aroma of the
violet is not more pervading than
her intluei.ee. Will it be so when
women enter into politics? The
Scriptural view of marriage is dis
carded, and marriage merely a civil
contract when the ballot is confer
red. Is history to repeat itself?
The Telegraph, editorially, not
long since, showed that women
bought the ballot in Rome, and
with what result? They sought
emancipation from the laws of God
and nature, and the result was not
only a political but social revolu
tion. The home life was affected.
The Roman woman demanded not
a home constituted on the principle
of autocracy, or the social unit, but
on the principle of co-equal part
nership —the same as American
suffragettes now demand. Man
and wife were no longer one, but
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two. Marriage became merely a
civil contract, is con*inuance de
pending on mutual consent. The
bond was dissolved at will. Mar
riage became a joke. Even Cicero
repudiated bis wife. Maecenas,
the friend of Horace, continually
changed bis wife. Even Cato sold
bis wife to bis friend Hortensius.
The ballot made women brazen.
They lost ilieir femininity. They
lost their modesty and refinement.
Can the dress of today with the
diaphanous skirt !>e a forerunner of
the ballot for women? It was so in
pagan Rome. |g
The marriage became so
uncertain, so “intolerably disagree
able” that men shunned it. Wives
quit husbands and husbands quit
wives on tiny flimsy pretext. Some
prominent women, leading suffra
gettes, took unto themselves twen
ty-five husbands in the course of
of five years. So that men refused
to marry.
Augustus Caesar offered handsome
bribes to induce men to marry.
But laws could not save the Empire
She who had rocked the cradle and
gave Rome strong men became a
politician. Men were wanted and
Rome fell for lack of men. The
women had ceased to furnish, edu
cate tnd train men for the defense
of the empire. When the woman
undertook to do mans work and
neglected her sphere, affairs were
thrown into confusion.
The Southern man shudders when
he contemplates how these strong
minded women of the north and
west —the Jane Addarns crowd —
are leading our Southern women to
organize suffrage associations, and
plunge into the arena of politics.
He is aware how it will commonize
them’and degenerate them, reduce
marriage, in course of time to a
mere civil contract between two
co-equal partners and strip it of the
sacredness under its Scriptual bonds
of wedlock. As has been said “The
family as organized by Christ, is a
social unit, a harmonious whole,
with one head. The man and wife
are one, not two”.
The Chicago suffragettes tell us if
the Bible conflicts with the suffrage
movement, then the Bible must go.
Perhaps they see in the perspective
the conditions that “Woman’s
rights brought to Rome and they
desire that history repeat itself. If
Northern and Western women want
to become as men, let us hops our
Southern women will refuse to fol
low their example. The suffragists
of today are weary of the conven
tionalities of society and they seek
that militancy which overthrows
the Bible philosophy of Woman’s
sphere These pagan organizations,
defying marriage as ordained by
Christ are as nrfich an attack on the
home as a social unit, as the
movement, originating in Nebraska
and fo s tered in Oregon, to supplant
the representative system with the
old effete direct system of govern-
COCHRAN, BLECKLEY COUNTY GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1913
i irst Bale Of
New Cotton
About 7:110 A. M. Henry .J. Dix
on rolled through town with a bale
of seed cotton on Lis wagon on the
way to the Cochran Oil Mill and
Gninety. Just about fifteen min
utes before this hale was ginned
an I haled ready for market, Mr.
James M. Buchanan came in fiom
Empire, drove up to the Planter’s
Warehouse and delive.ed to them a
bale that had been ginned at Em
pire Wednesday. This hale was
raised on a farm located both in
Dodge and Bleckley, the county
line running through the plantation
l! wa.t sold to the Planters Ware
house Company for 15c a pound.
The other hale belonging to Henry
.1. Dixon was raised on W. R Mc-
Nair’s place !) miles from Cochran
and was delivered to the Farmers
Union Warehouse fifteen minutes
after the Buchanan hale was deliv
ered to the Planters Warehouse.
The hale weighed 50(5 lbs and was
sold to the Union Warehouse for
fifteen cents per pound.
mentis an attud on the Constitut
ion of our country.
But as the wisdom and virtue of
womanhood will come to the rescue
of religion and society, so the patri
otic, thinking people of this country
wilt pome to tire rescue of the Con
stitution and maintain and protect
that system of government establish
ed to the fathers of the republic.—
Janres Calloway in Macon Telegraph
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Prof. Monts
Moves To Cochran
Prof. R. M. Monts the new Sup
erintendent of the Cochran High
School has arrivedkin tire City with
his family and they are occupying
the residence formely occupied by
.T. H. Mullis, Jr., on the corner of
Second and Beach street. Prof.
Monts is delighted with our new
school building, which by the way
is one of the best in Georgia. He
is.enthusiastic over the future out
look for a splendid school, and very
hopeful for a substantial increased
attendance. We extend to Prof.
Monts and his family a most cord
ial welcome, and hope that t hey will
not only find a pleasant and profit
able home among us, hut a happy
one also. j
Brown’s Palace
Changes Hands
Mr. M. Martin of IBuvkinsville
has purchased Brown’s Palace for
mely owned By D. A. Brown and
will soon start up the moving i>ie
ture show. Mr. Martin will run
this business under the name of the
Cochran Fruit and Candy Co. and
will keep at all times a nice stock
of fresh fruit and candy, toilet
articles, cigars and all kinds of cold
drinks.
We wish to call attention to sev
eral new adds in this week’s issue.
Baseball Wednesday,
Cochran vs Plains
The Hefty base hall team of
Plains, Gci.., arrived in the City at
noon Wednesday, to begin a series
of three games with the home team.
The (irst game started at four
o’clock Wednesday afternoon with
the following line up:
Battery for Plains, Carpenter and
Howell.
For Cochran, Lester, Hendricks
and Wynne. *
The Cochran team was not up
to the usual standard on account of
several players being out of place.
Plains scored one in the first in
ning on three errors, one in the
fifth on two errors and a sit gU, one
in the sixth on an error and a sin
gle. In the eighth inning Timmer
im walked being hit by Lester,
jHowell followed with a short lly to
center field, Merrett threw the ball
to Snow hut the ball dropped to the
ground and was lost in the grass.
Howell ran around the bases forc
ing in Timmeron; Moran fanned;
Rowland grounded out second to
first. Ross Hied to Snow who let
the hall fall close to him and was
safe at second on Wynne’s wild
throw. Jennings pasted out a long
one for two bags scoring Ross; Wel
lons was safe at first on Lester’s
error and Jennings scored; Carpen
ter was awarded his base on balls.
Brannon singled. Timmeron
grounded out third to first. In
this inning two men walked, two
singled, one man doubled, three
men errored, one threw wild, one
stole second and a lost hall scored
two, five men reaching home plate.
Played Ring-a-Round-a-Rosy for Eight
Runs.
Cochran earned a run in the sec
ond inning. The other three runs
were scored in the seventh inning
as follows; Wynne hunted a slow
one to pitcher hut was safe at first
on Timmeron’s error; Lester singl
ed over second base advancing
Wynne, Merrett flew out to first.
Taylor flew to right field the ball
falling near the foul line which
looked like a single hut the tall
grass butted in the game again and
Taylor ran around pushing Wynne
and Lester across the plate. When
NUMBER 1
the lost ball was found by the Um
pire and most of the players and
some of the spectators, a wraTlgle
started over the decision, the visi
tors kicking vigorously.
Umpire Coley was complained at
in the third inning by the visitors
and then - request to put in Mr.
Manheim from Hawkinsville, was
granted.
tHTHIHKi ■:!
ET 1
Raised a Yell on the Decision, 'j
The writer lias credited Taylor/
and Howell with home runs, but
inasmuch as they gained only on
account of the ball being lost, he
does not think that either player is
entitled to the box of cigars which
was offered by Walker’s Pharmacy.
Manager Adams stated that he
would abide by the decision of the
Umpire or the scorer and would
gladly give the cigars if in the opin
ion of either the player are entitled
to them.
It is to be hoped the two other
games will he more interesting.
With a srrengthened team, Coch
ran should win the other two
games.
COCHRAN AB RHE APO
Merrett, cf 5 0 0 1 0 1
Taylor, A. rf._ 5 1 10 0 0
Thompson, If.- 4 0 0 0 0 0
Snow, 2b 4 0 0 1 3 1
Jackson, 3b... 4 1 104 2
Lyles, lb 4 0 0 3 2 8
Taylor, J. ss_. 4 0 1 0 0 1
Hendricks, c__ 2 0 0 1 0 10
Lester, p 4 1 1 015 1
Wynne, c 2 1 0 2 0 3
Total 38 4 4 8 24 27
PLAINS AB R H Ii A PO
Brannon, ss 5 1 10 4 1
Timmeron, lb 5 1 0 2 113
Howell, c 5 2 1 0 0 8
Morlan, If 5 0 0 0 0 1
Rowland, rf 5 0 2 0 0 0
Ross, cf 5 1 10 0 2
Jennings, 3b 4 2 1 0 3 1
Wei lons, 2b 4 1 0 0 2 1
Carpenter, p 4 0 1 0 10 0
Total 42 8~ 7 2 21 27
Score by innings: R H E
COCHRAN 010 000 300 4 4 8
PLAINS 100 011 050 8 7 2
Summary: Two base hits; Jen
nings, Home runs. Taylor A., How
ell. Sacrifice fly Jackson, Sacrifice
hit, Timmeron. Stolen Bases, Tim
meron, Rowland, Snow, Jackson
two, Taylor. Hit by pitcher Jack
son, Snow, Timmeron. Struck out
by. Lester 12, By Carpenter 8. Um
pires Coley 3 innings, Manheim 6
inning. Time 1 hr. 50 m. Bases
on balls off Lester 3, off Carpenter
3.