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THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE
DOI'GLAS. GEORGIA
ESTABLISHED 1888
Published Every Saturday By
THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
W. R. LRIER, Editor
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Publishes The Legal Advertising Ol The City O! Douglas,
Coffee County, And County Commissioners.
Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at
Douglas, Ga., under the Act of Congress of
March 8, 1879.
NO TIME TO SWAP HORSES.
Col. B. W. Hunt, writing to the New York
Times on the impropriety of exchanging lead
ers during a critical period, says:
“Just at this time I want to call attention
of patriotic Americans to the words of Alex
ander Hamilton, the Federalist No. L xxii
March 21, 1783: ‘Without supposing the per
sonal essentiality of the man, it is evident that
a change of the chief magistrate, at the break
ing out of war, or at any similar crisis, for an
other, even of equal merit, would at all times
be detrimental to the community, inasmuch as
it would substitute inexperience for experience,
and would tend to unhinge and set aflat the
already settled train of the administration.’
“How exceedingly apropos to the present
condition in the United States are these words
written 128 years ago by the man who, more
than any other, labored to weld the isolated
North American States into a non-dissolvable
\jnion.
“Let us heed the warning.”
Col. Hunt’s quotation from Alexander Ham
ilton is timely. Hamilton was Washington’s
right arm. This is no time to swap horses.
Ex-Justice Hughes has no advantage of Presi
dent Wilson. A change of administration at
this time would only unsettle matters.
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A ( REED FOR PROGRESSIVE FARMERS.
I believe in MYSELF—believe whatever
mistakes 1 may or may not have made hereto
fore, I am endowed with limitless possibilities
for growth, struggle, triumph, and develop
ment—making each today better than yester
day and each tomorrow better than today.
I believe in my WORK—believe it offers op
portunity as an industry, requiring faithful
labor; as a profession, requiring scientific
knowdedge; as a business, requiring commercial
ability—each with its challenge and its reward.
I believe in MY FARM—believe I can make
it rich with stored fertility; believe I can make
it beautiful with well-kept fields, luxuriant
crops and grazing herds; and believe that the
horfiestead, whether cottage or mansion, can
be made glorius with a wealth of a tree and
vine and shrub and blossom. *
I believe in MY FAMlLY’—believe that love
in the hme is God’s best gift on earth, and that
to rear noble sons and daughters—with strong
bodies, trained minds, clean hearts, and cheer
ful spirits—is the highest achievement in life.
I believe in MY NEIGHBORHOOD —believe
that by keeping everlastingly at it 1 can.get
such co-operation from young and old as will
make it a better and better place to live in;
and that whether neighbors help or hinder, it
is my duty to give some thought every day and
tio some work every week for the improvement
o? schools, roads, churches, social life, business
co-optration, and all the agencies of rural com
radeship and brotherhood, know ing that sooner
or later the sow ing will bring its harvest.
And finally, 1 believe in MY CREATOR
AND FATHER—believe in His will that His
Kingdom should come on earth, and come here
in my own particular nook of earth, and that
in my every aspiration toward this end, I am
a co-worker with Him whose power knows no
defeat.—The Progressive Farmer.
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Hugh Dorsey is an able and fearless Geor
gian, honest and sincere, and will make the
state one of the best governors she has had
in many years. That the people will elect him,
there seems to be no doubt. It’s a ground
swell, and we don’t believe any power on earth
can stem the Dorsey tide. It's the people s
fight and they should name the next state ex
ecutive. .. • a i.
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Don’t fret too much. The crops are not so
bad as you think they are. The rains will
damage, but remember, the damage could have
been a great deal more. There is always some
thing to be thankful for.
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New county matters seem to hold the at
tention of the legislators in Atlanta. Elimi
nate the<«» <z*rht~ r" •’ present session of the
HUGH DORSEY’S SPEECH.
The Hon. Hugh Dorsey, candidate for gov
ernor of Georgia, has come and gone, and left
behind him a vast multitude of friends and
supporters, made by his speech here on Thurs
day afternoon.
The Dorsey sentiment in Coffee county was
very strong before Mr. Dorsey came here. Af
ter he left it was a great deal stronger, and all
because of his frank and honest talk to the
voters. He did not “paw the dirt” or storm
the house with loud shriek noises, but simply
talked to his hearers in a calm and deliberate
manner, with great earnestness, and impressed
his hearers with his honesty of purpose and his
ability to carry out to his utmost the platform
on which his candidacy is based.
Mr. Dorsey does not claim he can do every
thing. He does not promise the people that he
will have enacted into law all the planks in his
platform, but he does promise them thdt he
will do his utmost to fulfill every promise, and
there was no one in the large crowd who doubt
ed him. He took up each of his opponents and
had a few pleasantries to say about each of
them, but there was no harsh attack in his
speech against either of them, r anyone else.
We repeat that his speech here made him
stronger in the county. It was the kind of
speech to inspire confidence, no rash promises
made, and his sincerity of purpose cannot be
doubted or questioned in the least. If elected
governor of Georgia, the state will have an
executive who will serve the people honestly
and fearlessly, fairly and ably, and w 7 e don’t
believe that the voters will ever have an oppor
tunity to regret the fact that they cast a ballot
for this able Georgian and helped make him the
executive of the greatest state in the union.
DAMAGE TO COTTON.
It is yet too early to attempt any definite
estimate of the extent of the damage done to
the cotton crop by the storm and overflowing
streams. There is no room for doubt, how
ever, that the damage has been considerable.
Fully two weeks before the storm complaints
w r ere already being made that the younger cot
ton needed fair weather to admit of proper cul
tivation. Rains had been of almost daily oc
currences and the grass and weeds were rapidly
getting the upper hand. On top of this comes
a rain-flood, more than ten inches at many
points. Obviously it will require a good while
for the fields to dry off sufficiently to allow
work to be done, particularly in the lower ands.
Some land, apparently a good deal, has been
inundated, and in such cases the crops will
doubtless be entirely destroyed. Such lands
are usually the most fertile, which makes the
loss relatively greater.
In the case of the older cotton, while much
has been blown and washed down, the greater
danger remains to be encountered. Hot suns
quickly following will scald the cotton, and the
sappy plant will shed its blooms and squares.
The ground about flourishing looking plants
will be strewn with these shed forms, each of
which should have made a cotton boll.
The floods have been worst in the section
most seriously threatened by the boll w r eevils,
and such conditions are most favorable for the
increase of these destructive insects. Much
uneasiness is felt over the possibility of weevil
injury in Southwest Georgia and Alabama.
On all such occasions the general tendency
at first is to over-estimate the damage. This
principle is so well recognized that It may
sometimes induce a disoelief in any material
damage. But this time the facts leave no room
for such skepticism, although any calculation
of actual losses in bales or dollars is impracti
cable. •--- '• ' u
ThePe is a great difference, too, between the
loss of bales and in dollars. If the loss in bales
is large enough to be serious, it would reduce
the loss in dollars; the fewer bales might even
bring in more dollars. If there is really ma
terial damage to the cotton crop the fanner
need not worry because the trade does not im
mediately realize the fact. The truth will be
fully demonstrated long before the crop will
be ready for market, and the effect will be
none the less pronounced for having been de
layed.—Savannah News.
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No more county treasurer's office in Coffee.
And at one time we had eight announcements
for this office at $lO. per. You see where we
come in on this.
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The congressional race is looming up after
so long a time. Bowden is putting ginger into
it, and Lankford promises to enliven matters
in a few 7 days.
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The Coffee County Hugh Dorsey Club was
organized on Thursday afternoon, and it prom
ises to be a healthy chap.
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It looks like a landslide in Coffee county
and the state for Hugh Dorsey.
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It *ee-ws to be Dorsey and Lankford in this
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