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Warning
By Peter Radford.
country is suffering more from
mol. i po^^cs than from any other
B ady at the pre ßent time. There is
nlnff Cely a cam P ai 8& speech made, a
orm demand written or a mea
re ena cted into law that does not
arry taint of personal gain of
JjoUtician or political faction
There is more “blue sky" in cam
| a Promises of many politiciane
, linl ng for office than was ever con
the Prospectuses of the bold-
of chimerical business
emeu. There are more secret com
nations formed by politicians in the
ame of "My Country” than were ever
onned under any and all other
ases There are more political re
ntes hidden in the phrase “Be it en
acted than were ever concealed un
any and all other disguises.
The Inordinate thirst for political
power and unrestrained passion for
mastery has caused more distress in
this nation than the greed for gold,
and it ought to be regulated by law.
- o business combination ever pursued
their competitors as relentlessly or
visited more heartless cruelty upon
their customers than a political party
( that seeks to make junk of an in
dustry, or cripple a business for party
success, through tariff measures, po
litical supervision and ofttimes de
structive legislation. Many political
platforms are as alluring to the voter
as the story of the rainbow with its
pot of gold and their consummation
about as far-fetched. Self-gain is the
first law in politics. There are many
men in office today who, if they
could not shake plums off the tree of
American liberty or cut a melon taken
from Uncle Sam’s commissary, would
have less desire to serve the public.
The country is surfeiting with patri
ots, who will bare their breast to bul
lets in defense of their country, but
there are few men in public life who
will bare their breast to voters or run
the gauntlet of party disfavor in de
fense of agriculture or industry. No
representative of the people, who will
permit personal prejudice to dethrone
justice, party success to disfranchise
reason or the rancor of a political
campaign to Influence judgment can
render capable service.
The preservation of our prosperity
depends upon wisdom, courage and
honesty In government, and the Amer
ican voter should seek these attri
butes as implicitly as the Wise Men
followed the Star of Bethlehem and
they will often be found to rest over
the stable; the plow or the stafT of
the Shepherd. The surest cure for
tainted politics and machine rule is
fresh air and sunshine and these Im
portant elements are most abundant
tvpon the farm, and when farmers,
bankers and merchants are elected to
in legislative bodies, much
olPipe trouble in government will dis
appear.
WIRED SECURITIES
By Peter Radford.
Much has been said and more writ
ten about the evils of watered stock in
big business concerns and the farm
ers of this nation believe that every
dollar written into the life of any
business organization, should be able
to say "I know that my Redeemer
liveth,’’ but farming is the biggest
business on earth, and there is more
water in its financial transaction than
that of any other industry. There is
as much water in a farmer’s note
drawing eight or ten per cent interest
when other lines of industry secure
money for four or five per cent per
annum, as there is in a business pay
ing a reasonable compensation upon
the face value of securities repre
senting an investment of only fifty
cents on the dollar. The only dif
ference is, the water is in the interest
rate in one instance and in the secur
ities in the other.
The promoter ofttimes takes chances
and his success is contingent upon
the development of the property In
volved but the usurer, as a rule, takes
no chances and his success cripples
the property involved. There may be
Industries that cry louder but none
that sufTer more severely from finan
cial immorality in both law and cus
tom than that of agriculture.
The farmers of America today are
paying $200,000,000 per annum in
usury on real estate and chattel
loans, and this interest capitalized
at five per cent, represents $4,000,000,-
000 of fictitious values which the farm
er is paying interest on. This sum of
money is almost equal to the annual
value of crops produced in the United
States.
The earning power of the farmer's
note based upon his interest rate very
nearly divides likes the earth’s sur
face —three-fourths water and one
fourth land. The largest body of wa
ter that floats upon the financial hem
isphere now rests upon the farms
and its waves are dashing and its
MilnwH are rolling against seven mil
-3 ,> vjomes threatening ruin and dis
aster to the prosperity of the nation.
Will our public servants who under
hand how to drain the liquid off in
dustrial properties turn the faucet and
let the water off the farms?
It is an admitted economic fact that
there can be no permanent prosperity
without a permanent agriculture.
Agriculture is recognized -tts the
greatest of all industries and a pros
perous, progressive and enlightened
agricultural population is the surest
safeguard of civilization.
KNOW THY COUNTRY
“Know America" is a slogan that
should ring out from every school
room, office, farm and shop In this na
tion. No man can aspire to a higher
honor than to become a capable citi
zen, and no one can merit so dis
tinguished a title until he is well in
formed of the resources, possibilities
and achievements of our country.
This is a commercial age and civ
ilization is bearing its most golden
fruit in America. We are noted for
our Industrial achievements as Egypt
was noted for her pyramids; Jerusa
lem for her religion; Greece for her
art; Phoenicia for her fleets; Chaldea
for her astronomy and Rome for her
laws. Likewise we have men who will
go down in the world’s history as pow
erful products of their age. For, stand
ing at the source of every gigantic
movement that sways civilization is a
great man. The greatest minds travel
in the greatest direction and the com
mercial geniuses of this age would
have been the sculptors, poets, phil
osophers, architects, and artists of
earlier civilizations.
As Michael Angelo took a rock and
with a chisel hewed it into the image
of an angel that ever beckons man
kind upward and onward, Hill took
the desert of the Northwest and with
bands of steel made it blossom like a
rose, dotted the valleys with happy
homes and built cities in waste places.
As Guttenberg took blocks of wood
and whittled them into an alphabet
and made a printing press that
flashed education across the con
tinent like a ray of light upon
a new born world, McCormick took
KNOW THY COUNTRY
In discussing the commercial
achievements of this great age, we
shall approach the subject as the
historian chronicling events. This se
ries will endeavor to record in writ
ing the supremacy of American men
and industries in the world’s affairs
and perptuate an appreciation of our
marvelous industrial achievements by
presenting simple facts, figures and
comparisons that are overpowering in
their convictions.
America holds her proud place
among the nations of the earth today
on account of her supremacy in trans
portation facilities. The mighty minds
of the age are engaged in the prob
lems of transportation, and the great
est men in the history of the world’s
commerce are at the head of the
transportation systems of the United
States.
In the discussion of transportation,
let us consider separately our Rail
w'ays, Telegraph and Telephones, Ex
press, Public Highways, Steamships,
Street Railways, Interurban and other
forms of transportation, and this ar
ticle will deal with railways.
The United States has the largest
mileage, the best service, the cheap
est rates, pays labor the highest
wages, and we have the most efficient
ly managed of the railways of the
world. They stand hs a monument to
the native genius of our marvelous
builders, and most of the railroads in
foreign countries have been built
under American orders.
The railroads represent a larger in
vestment of capital than any other
branch of human activity. The mile
age in the United States exceeds
KNOW THY COUNTRY
lll—Telegraph and Telephone
Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great com
mercial age and the telegraph and tel
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of modern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
toiled for the human race.
They are of American nativity and
while warm from the mind of the in
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a net-work of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in its early youth, mas
tered the known world and the tele
phone has already conquered the
earth’s surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean.
No industry in the history of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever exerted a more powerful
influence upon the civilization of its
day than the Telegraph and Telephone.
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius—invention and organ
ization.
The industry was peculiarly fortun
ate in having powerful inventive intel
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct its organization and
growth. It is the most perfect fruit
of the tree of American industry and
when compared with its European con
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
Ambitious youth can find no more in
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GA., MAY 29th., 1915.
I —lntroductory
a bar of iron and bent it into
a reaper and with one sweep of
his magic mind broke the shackles
that enslaved labor of generations yet
unborn, and gave mankind freedom
from drudgery, ana lifted the human
race into a higher zone of life.
As Nelson organized the English navy
and made England mistress of the sea,
enabling the British Isles to plant her
flag upon every continent washed by
the ocean’s waves, and to make foot
stools of the Islands of every water,
Morgan organized a banking system
that has made America master of the
world’s finances, brought Kings to our
cashier’s windows, the nations of the
earth to our discount desks and placed
under the Industries of this nation a
financial system as solid as the Rock
of Gibraltar.
There Is no study quite so interest
ing as progress; no sound so magic
as the roar of Industry and no sight
so inspiring as civilization in action.
A full realization of America’s part in
the great events of the world past,
present and future will thrill every
human heart with pride, patriotism
and faith in Republican institutions.
Through the courtesy of the Agri
cultural and Commercial Press Ser
vice, the readers of this paper will be
permitted to study America; her ag
ricultural, manufacturing and min
eral development, mercantile, bank
ing and transportation systems which
are the wonder of the world. The
first article of the series will deal
with transportation and will appear
at an early date.
ll—Railroads
the accepted distance from the earth
to the moon. We had in 1911, the
last year in which figures for all
countries are available, on the
earth’s surface, 639,981 miles of rail
way divided as follows: United States
241,199, Europe 207,432 and other
countries 191,350. The United States
has 38 per cent of the world’s mileage,
seven per cent of the estimated pop
ulation and about five per cent of the
area. The total capital invested in the
railways of the world is $50,000,000,-
000, divided as follows: United States
$13,000,000,000 Europe $25,650,000,000
and - other countries $11,350,000,000.
Reduced to a mileage basis the cap
italization is as follows: The world
$78,000, United States $54,000, Europe
$124,000, and other countries $59,000.
A comparison of rates is equally as
interesting and the United States
takes the lead in economy and serv
ice. The average rate per ton per
hundred mile haul is as follows:
United States 76c, Great Britain $2.53,
France $1.44, Germany $1.44, Russia
92c, Austria-Hungary $1.30, Italy $2.30
and Switzerland $2.82.
The average yearly pay of all rail
road employes in the principal coun
tries is as follows: United States
$757, Germany $392, Italy $345, Aus
tria $322, Great Britain $279, France
$260 and Russia $204.
About 30 per cent, or 188,000 miles,
of the railways of the world are
government owned. About half the
railway mileage of Europe is govern
ment owned.
A comparison of the economy, in
time and money and the convenience
in travel, will be made In a later
article.
spiring company than the fellowship
of the giant intellects that constructed
this marvelous industry and a journey
along the pathway of its development,
illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the lightning-flashes of
brilliant minds, will be taken at a very
early date.
A brief statistical review of the in
dustry brings out its growth and mag
nitude in a most convincing and un
forgetable manner.
The telephone service of the United
States is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest talkers on earth.
We send 60 per cent of our communi
cations over the telephone. The world
has about 15,000,000 telephones and of
this number the United States has ap
proximately 9,540,000, Europe 4,020,000
and other countries 1,300,000 Accord
ing to the latest world telephone cen
sus, the total telephone investment is
$1,906,000,000 and of this amount sl,-
095,000,000 was credited to the United
States, $636,000,000 in Europe and
$175,000,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24.600,000,000 divided as follows: Unit
ed States 15,600,000,000; Europe 6,800,-
000,000, and other countries 2,200,000,-
000. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33,262,000 miles divided as
follows: United States 20,248,000, Eu
rope 10,335,000, and other countries
2,679,000. About, six per cent of
the world’s population and sixty-on*
per cent of the telephone w ire mile*
age is in the United States.
WHY IS WOMi
RESRESS?
DESTINY OF NATIONS DEPENDS
UPON CONTENTED HOMES.
By W D. Lewi*.
President Texas Farmers' Union.
Why la woman dissatisfied? Why
does she grow restless under the
crown of womanhood? Why Is she
weary of the God-given jewel of moth
erhood? Is it not a sufficient political
achievement for woman that future
rulers nurse at her breast, laugh in
her arms and kneel at her feet? Can
ambition leap to more glorious heights
than to sing lullabies to the world's
greatest genulses, chant melodies to
master minds and rock the cradle of
human destiny?
God pity our country when the hand
shake of the politician is more grati
fying to woman’s heart than the pat
ter of children’s feet.
Woman la Ruler Over All.
Why does woman chafe under re
straint of sex? Why revile the hand
of nature? Why discard the skirts
that civilization has clung to since
the beginning of time? Why lay aside
this hallowed garment that has wiped
the tears of sorrow from the face of
childhood? In its sacred embrace
every generation has hidden its face
in shame; clinging to its motherly
folds, tottering children have learned
to play hide and seek and from it
youth learned to reverence and re
spect womanhood. Can man think of
his mother without this consecrated
garment?
Why this inordinate thirst for pow
er? Is not woman all powerful? Man
cannot enter this world without her
consent, he cannot remain in peace
without her blessing and unless she
sheds tears of regret over his depar
ture, he has lived in vain. Why this
longing for civic power when God has
made her ruler over all? Why crave
authority when man bows down and
worships her? Man has given woman
his heart, hiß name and his money.
What more does she want?
Can man find it in his heart to look
with pride upon the statement that his
honorable mother-in-law was dne of
the most powerful political bosses in
the country, that his distinguished
grandmother was one of the ablest
filibusters in the Senate or that his
mother was a noted warrior and her
name a terror to the enemy? Whither
are we drifting and where will we
land?
God Save Us From a Hen-Pecked
Nation.
I follow the plow for a living and
my views may have in them the smell
of the soil; my hair is turning white
under the frost of many winters and
perhaps 1 am a little old-fashioned,
but I believe there is more moral in
fluence in the dress of woman than in
all the statute books of the land. As
an agency for morality, I wouldn't
give my good old mother's home
made gowns for all the suffragette's
constitutions and by-laws in the world.
As a power for purifying society, I
wouldn’t give one prayer of my saintly
mother for all the women’s votes in
Christendom. As an agency for good
government, 1 wouldn't give the plea
of a mother's heart for righteousness
for all the oaths of office in the land.
There is more power in the smile
of woman than in an act of congress.
There are greater possibilities for
good government in her family of
laughing children than in the cab
inet of the president of the United
States
The destiny of this nation lies in
the home and not in the legislative
halls. The hearthstone and the fam
ily Bible will ever remain the source
of our inspiration and the Acts of the
Apostles will ever shino brighter than
the acts of Congress
This country is law-mad. Why add
to a statute book, already groaning
under its own weight, the hysterical
cry of woman? If we never had a
chance to vote again in a lifetime and
did not pass another law in twenty
five years, we could survive the or
deal, but without home, civilization
would wither and die.
God save these United States
from becoming a hen-pecked nation;
help us keep sissies out of Congress
and forbid that women become step
fathers to government, is the prayer
of the farmers of this country.
A DIVINE COVENANT.
God Almighty gave Eve to Adam
with the pledge that she would be his
helpmeet and with this order of com
panionship, civilization has towered
to its greatest heights. In this rela
tionship, God has blessed woman and
man has honored her and after four
thousand years of progress, she now
proposes to provoke God to decoy
man by asking for suffrage, thereby
by amending an agreement to which
she was not a party
Woman, remember that the Israelite
scorned a divine covenant, and as a
result wandered forty years in the
wilderness without God. Likewise
man should remember that it is a
dangerous thing to debase woman by
law. Rome tried lowering woman’s
standard and an outraged civilization
tore the clothes off the backs of the
human race and turned them out to
roam in the world naked and un
ashamed. Vi
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CANNING CLUB MEET
O O
We have had one meeting. We
sure had a fine one, if‘all the people
had of been present, but there were
only five present, and they ail had
fine records. The meeting was held
at the home of Mr. Dave Douglas, on
the 24th of May. We had some vis
itors, Misses Annie Gillipsie, Pearl
Roberts, Beulah Purpis, Ida Gillipsie,
Blannie Roberts, Ruth Douglas, Joan
Thompson. BLUE EYES.
CARD OF THANKS.
I want to thank each and every
one that helped me when I lost my
house by fire a few weeks ago. I
will ever feel thankful to them. I
pray God’s richest blessings on each
and every one that was so kind to me.
Yours respectfully,
W. J. HUTTO.
BURKETT SINGING CONVENTION
It seems that we have made a series
of mistakes all through the notices
for this convention. The first an
nouncement said the second Sunday
the 13th, then a notice came and said
it was Saturday before, and I wrote
Saturday and Sunday. Now Mr. Bur
kett was in town last Monday and
said the convention will be on Satur
day, the 12th, and not on Sunday at
all. Remember now, Saturday be
fore the second Sunday.
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