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15he Doug'laj Enterprise.
DOUGLAS PRINTING CO., Proprietors.
W. C. BRYAN, - J Editor.
Entered as second a • >er 20 1905 at the Post Office
at Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1897.
’ ~ SATURDAY, MARCH 2nd, 1907. _____
Official Organ of Coffee County and City
of Douglas,
Do the Good People Endorse Our Stand ?
We are anxious to know if the good people of Douglas fully
endorse us in our effort to create a sentiment strong enough to bieik
up gambling and other sinful things in this town that are armm
ble to law? We think that the good people of the town should ex
press themselves and let the violators of the law know how th< y
stand.
Douglas is no worse place than thousand of other places the
size of Douglas. It is, in many respects, the best town in the
whole country. It is too small for these sins to go on here, as they
are too easily seen. Does a man think that he can gamble from
night to night and (well we have not a sufficient vocabulary to
handle it as it should be) but those who know can read between
the lines. The people know, and the people are getting tired.
We do not want to say enough to create too much trouble and to
cause unhappiness in some places, hut we want to be plain enough
to let those who are guilty know what we mean.
A small town like ours should be reasonably free from the sins
and vices that are found in many larger towns, and we think that
the law abiding people should see that there should not be so much
open and disgusting violations of common decency in such a way
'that the young people of the town can see and know what is going
on. Good people have sat idlv by and seen these things for some
time and said nothing and we think that the time has come when
something should be said in certain tones to some people who now
live in Douglas.
The people of Coffee County are as good as those of any county
in the state and the development is going on in Coffee unequaled
by any in the state, and for this reason we think that there should
be some improvements along other lines. The people of this
county, as a whole, are law abiding and are people of high moral
character, they are proud of old Coffee and hope to see the time
when it will take the lead in every line that is good and beneficial to
the human race, in the uplifting and development of the good that
is in man, and for these reasons, they are demanding that some
things stop, and they are determined to know why they do not
stop, if they do not stop. If they do not stop, some of these who
are guilty will serve a term in Coffee county chaingang before long,
and they will at least add that much to the good of the county, in
making better roads for the county.
If the readers of the Enterprise will stand by us, we will let
the columns of the Enterprise, while we are Editor, stand for the
good of our county, and will let its influence, in so far as it is
worth anything, go towards driving these thing out of the good
county of Coffee.
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The Law Must Be Upheld.
Read what Judge Cavanaugh, a prominent Jurist of Chicago,
has to say in regard to the Law, and why it should be upheld. He
asked a juror if his connection with a Union would bias him in his
action as a juror, and upon being answered in the affirmative, this
is what he said to him; “Young man, I can scarcely believe that
you mean just what you say. You may have many friends among
union men, but they should not stand before the law. There is no
other friend that you have who is as good a friend to you as the
law.
“It made provision for you before you were born; it enables
you to wear that coat on your back, those shoes on your feet, or
some one stronger than you would take them from you. The law
makes it possible for you to earn wages; without it you could not
collect your wages even though you earned them. It is a guard
over your house; it stands guard over you, your property, your re
putation, your life, and if you are sick and friendless it will take
care of you and look after you. If you are dyihg it will protect
your body.
“A man may be friendly to labor unions, yes, but no labor un
ion has ever been the friend to you that the law has been. You
ought to have respect for the law above any other institution.”
The law shall and must be protected and preserved, or there
will come chaos, destruction and ruin. There is nothing that
should, at this time of unrest and rushing to succeed commercially,
be more carefully looked to.
The way to preserve law is to start at home and work from
that point. We think that some good work can be done in Doug
las, and the Grand Jury should throw out a drag net and see if
there can’t be something done.
We hope that every reader of the Enterprise will reads this
article and that they will weigh well the words of Judge Cavan
augh.
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“Anonymous,” though prolific,
has never made much of a name.
Trouble is a great trickster;
turns up where least expected.
11l temper and intemperance
are the devil’s “working tools.”
Don’t try to do the things you
can’t—and don’t do some of the
things you can.
You will have smiling friends
as long as you keep still and let
your money talk for you.
Any man who can tell a lie,
but it takes a born diplomat to
induce people to believe it.
An automobile is a sign that
if the man who owns it didn’t he
would be able to pay his bills.
Some people never stop to count
the cost because they realize that
they haven’t got the price, any
way.
The Thaw trial seems to have
run down to a point, and is not
of much interest. Evelyn has
stepped down and out.
The United States sub-treasury
at Chicago has been robbed of
$175,000. We have r.ot been to
Chicago and besides you can
search our vest pockets.
It is quite certain now that
there will be no postal legislation
at this session of congress. Re
liable advices from Washington
indicate that the proposed meas
ure for the revision of second
class rates will not be reported
by the committee having it in
charge.
The farm labor problem is
growing more acute, and in
some respects money is a potent
feature. All enterprises have
increased wages, the cost of liv
ing has increased considerably,
and that work that pay most
gets the choice of labor.—Home
Journal.
Valdosta is not going dry on
the first of March after all.
This is because the city council
of that town suffered from an
uncommon malady known as
weakness of the knees or absence
of the back bone. The Valdosta
case is an interesting chapter to
the history of prohibition move
ments in Georgia.—Thomasville
Times.
It is interesting to note that
Japan’s policy after the war is
clearly indicated by next year’s
budget to be one of ‘‘economic
and peaceful development,” says
the Westminster Gazette. Har
bors and rivers are to be improv
ed, railway extended, navigation
promoted and eduaction (parti
cularly technical education)
encouraged.
During the present week
Washington will share with New
York in the notoriety of a sen
sational murder in which the
‘‘unwriten law” will play a con
spicuous part. Mrs. Bradley,
who shot and killed ex-Senator
Arthur M. Brown of Utah, will
be put on trial in the capital city.
And indirectly an actress of great
celebrity will be connected with
the case. Mrs. Bradley killed
Brown because he deserted her
and was on the point of being
married to Mrs. Adams, mother
of Ma id 4dams. Her defense
will be that he wronged her and
she had the moral right to kil 1
him.—Savannah News.
The commercial world is rapid
ly awakening to the fact that
perhaps after all the farmers
Union can control the price of
cotton to some extent. At Con
yers, the Union members of that
county openly declared in thei~
convention that they would not
sell a pound of cotton for less than
eleven cents, and have stuck to
their decision. As a result, the
buyer for a well known cotton
firm at that town has been in
structed to purchase the fleecy
staple at the minimum price set
by the union. Last week some
eight hundred bales were shipped
from Conyers, all having been
bought for eleven cents per pound
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