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TIFTON GAZETTE
r’ublitbed Weekly
J at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
[ Clan Hatter, Act of March S, 1879.
fh. Herring. -Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SUBSCRIPTION RATESi
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..78 Cants
SATURDAY NIGHT.
A Confederate Promises to Pay.
A friend hands us, as souvenirs, two Con
federate notes—one for $20, the other for $50.
From the front of each the face of a dead and
gone statesman stares solemnly, while on the
$20 note the Confederate capital looms impos-
ingly. Each bears that message so pregnant
then, so meaningless now, "Two Years After the
Ratification of a Treaty of Peace Between the
I Confederate States and the United States of
America the Confederate States of America Will
Pay to the Bearer on Demand—” With what
hope the promise was fraught; with what hope-
•' lessness many thousands later read I
. Rare as souvenirs now, forty-five years ago
f ’ these notes were as common as waste paper,
i An old trunk filled with them, ranging in den.
nation from $1 to $500 and $1,000, afforded
playthings for many of childhood’s hours. For
tile play at store; for the make-believe horse-
trade or other childish pretense at barter; for
even an occasional forlorn hope that somebody
might think them good for something, a roll of
jibe notes was usually carried with the other
jnnk that bulged the boy’s pockets,
jgf But despite many and varying attempts to
turn them to some use, no man’s use for them
was found, and finally the “Old Confed,” at
one time amounting in face value to near $100,-
' 000, disappeared. So far as known, not a
single note of those many hundreds is left. And
. that is perhaps equally true of many hoards or
what was once many family fortunes, through
out the Southern States.
Vividly the old notes bring to mind traditions
of the four years of trial, of sacrifice, of sor
row and grief, of heart-breaking waiting; later,
memories of the rebuilding of a land devastated;
of fortunes that disappeared over-night^rep-
K ted solely by these promises to pay of
__ hat was dead—promises as ashes, like the
r. hopes that gave them life.
But for many years, the faith of some of her
tons and daughters in the Southern Confed
eracy remained unshaken. While no such op
timism remained where the boy rumaged the
trunk full of emblems of wealth departed, there
was occasionally a man or woman who believed
firmly that some day the Southern Confederacy
would come into its own. There were others,
, not so optimistic, who thought there might be
a chance that some time the “money” might be
worth something. Still others, tenderly laid
; the old notes away, knowing them valueless in
dollars, but holding them priceless for their
. associations.
For many months before the fall of the
Southern Confederacy, its promise to pay had
steadily declined in value. At first it dropped
to 75 per cent of the value of specie, money;
then to 50 per cent; to 25 per cent, and during
the early months of 1865 it passed current, even
in the remote South, for only about ten per cent;
Vie. articles worth $1 in specie (of which there
was practically none) were priced at $10 in
Confederate notes. Even at (that price, the
dealer was often found who refused to receive
it altogether. The soldiers of Lee and Johnson,
paid off in these notes they had offered their
lives to redeem, found they would buy very lit
tle—almost nothing, of those things they need
ed worst.
But to the credit of those who were merch
andising in the South during the latter days of
'64 or the early days of ’66—principally women
and old or disabled men—they received the
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flFTON, GA.J FRIDAY, MARCH 14,191
with an earth-
Lee’s starving
r Appomattox,
vorld counts you
to us you are
in the days that
associations that
)d's earth now,
»eIow it—
i dead and gone,
low it
Again Petersburg trembles
quake; Richmond blazes,
veterans stagger, barefoot,
Although the commerc:
worthless, Confederate not
precious for what you me
are gone and for the sacn
ever around you cling;
"Representing nothing on G
And nought in the water
As a pledge of a nation that 1
Keep it dear friend, and f
"Show it to these who will lend an ear,
To the tale that this trifle will tell
Of liberty born of a patriot’s dreams,
Of a storm-cradled nation that fell.
“Too poor to possess the precious ores,
And too much of a stranger to borrow,
She issued today her promise to pay,
And hoped to redeem on the morrow.
“We knew it had hardly a value in gold,
Yet as gold our soldiers received it;
It gazed in our eyes with a ’promise’ to pay,
And each patriot soldier believed it.
Keep it—it tells our history o’er,
From the birth of the dream to the last—
Modest, and born of the angel Hope,
Like our hope of success, it passed I”
(Note—Strange to relate, the authorship of
the inspired verses above is in doubt. In the
Smithsonian Institute there is a Confederate
note With these lines inscribed upon it and sign
ed by Miss M. J. Turner, of North Carolina, but
there is no proof that this is the original copy,
Authorship has also been ascribed to Mrs. R, E.
Lytle, of Louisville, Ky., and Major S. A. Jonas,
of Aberdeen, Miss. The probabilities favor the
latter.” But they tell, as no others words, can
tell so well, the life and associations of the Con
federate note.)
TAKE NOTE OF THE LINE-UP.
THE DEMON REARS ITS HEAD.
This from the Valdosta Times: "People who
came in from Ray City the past day or two said
that some of the carousing element in that lo
cality have been having some lively times dur
ing the past few days. They had gotten hold
of a lot of moonshine liquor, the kind that sim
ply makes a man forget himself and everything
else. There were several free fights and a good
deal of threatening and considerable amount of
gun play. The lifely times reached their climax'
about last Thursday night. Things have been
getting quieter since then.”
Perhaps for many communities throughout
South Georgia this would be an apt description
of affairs. Certainly the illicit manufacture of
whiskey has brought about a situation worse
than existed ♦hile whiskey Jpes legally sold in
the state. ' f
The stuff made in practically every communi-
Before going further, just take note of the
line-up in the Senate against the League of
N*tio|»: ./
LaFoIlette, who only escaped being expelled
from the Senate for treason to ffis couptry be
cause there were so many more in that discred
ited body of the same stamp. Sherman, of Il
linois, pro-German of only a little milder type,
Reed, of Missouri, who has consistently from
the first pandered to the German vote of St.
Louis. These men obstructed the government
in every way they considered safe and in some
ways that verged on unsafety in its prosecution
of the war. Now, in their efforts to further the
cause of Germany by sowing the seeds of dis
cord among the Allies and in discrediting the
American President at home, they are but car
rying on the work in the interests of the enemies
of their country that has marked their conduct
for two years past. They are consistent, if they
are traitors at heart. They seek to culminate
their nefarious work of two years by making
useless the sacrifice of over half a hundred
thousand American lives and the valorous deeds
of a million and a half Americans overseas.
Unfortunately, they have associated with
them a few Republicans who put the welfare of
their party above their country’s weal, and who
would endanger the future peace of the world
with the hope of electing a President two years
hence. There are also a few other misguided
mortals who are by nature always constitution
ally wrong.
At home you will gee the same line-up. The
men opposed to the League of Nations are the
same who, only a few months ago, usually be
gan a discussion with “I am loyal, but—’’ as if
loyalty had any qualifications.
If in doubt as to what is right, look around
you and note the line-up.
'THE HANDWRITING APPEARS.
The first opportunity the people of this coun
try had to express themselves at the polls on the
issue of the League of Nations, they left no
doubt as to their sentiment.
In the Twenty-Second Congressional District
of Pennsylvania last year, E. E. Robbins, a Rep
ublican, was elected by a majority of 7,231 over
his Democratic opponent. Robbins died and
last week a special election was held to choose
his successor. The Democratic candidate in
this special election ran On a platform pledging
unreserved support to the League of Nations
and appealed for a vote of confidence in the
President’s policy. His Republican opponent
straddled the fence. The Republican majority
of 7,231 laBt November was changed to a Dem
ocratic majority of 473, and the District has a
... , .... .... . ... ,. . „ ... Democratic representative in Congress for the
ty and sold at such prices that the traffic yields .. . .JL.
nwrflh 1. On ho of ...oh „l t “ rB * * ,me ,n years.
The result may be a lesson to Penrose, being
so close at home, and it may not We hope it
won’t. We hope he, and Lodge, and LaFol
With one or two unworthy exceptions, every N
manin public life w£o opposed President Wil-
id-went before the peo-
defeated in the first election at which - .
— T _Jd get a chance at him. In every way "°°? **
possible, the people have expressed their con- period of
fidence in Woodepw.yilson and his policies, mothers
sqn and his policie
pie #as defeated ii
immense profits is said to be of such character
that it not only robs men of reason but robs them
of health as well, containing so much potash as
to be little short of poison. Perhaps present
conditions are only transitory, but certainly they
are bad. They may readjust themselves after
awhile, but prompt and vigorous measures will
do much toward bringing this readjustment
about.
A PROGRESSIVE NEW COUNTY.
The pace that Atkinson county has set i s a
fast one for new counties to follow.
Within a month after organization Atkinson
voted local tax for schools and now the moth
ers down there are increasing the population
three at a time. At that rate, Atkinson will
soon be out-voting Chatham ,and the children
coming on will be properly educated—local tax
insure^ this. We don’t know of anything that
strikes us as a higher type of development than
to rdise children and raise them right. .Atkin
soivshows the proper spirit.
We were rather inclined to be partial to Cook
but we warn Cook right here and now that she
will have to spur up if she keeps the pace Atkin
son has set.
lette, and Reed, and Sherman, and the rest of
that miserable crew will persist in their policy
of obstruction until the people get a chance at
them and send them to the scrap heap.
COMPULSORY SAVING.
You’ll have to get up an hour earlier after
the first of April. Do so and blame it on the
Senate filibusters. , The daylight saving law
was passed a year ago as a war measure and
its repeal was up for passage when the filibus
ters stopped the legislative mill. And just be
cause Sherman, LaFollett and their crew acted
the fool, the balance of the nation must suffer.
It wasn’t bad at all last year, when we had
Standard time, but now that we have Eastern
time, and add to that a "daylight saving” hour,
we’ll be getting up and hurrying the kids off
to school about daybreak.
The same Congress that was so anxious for
monejTof' such doubtful va’luel-a value" that' aBSUra " ce ‘ hat the President would not return
was steadily declining—in exchange for articles'* he railroads to their owners without giving said
Germany’s war bills are being figured up to
fifty billions, and the amount continues to in
crease. The $750,000,000 due this country is
amply secured by funds in the hands of the
Custodian of Alien Property aggregating in
valu«K $800,000,000. Our bill is for property
of standard or steadily increasing value, know-
at the time deep down in their hearts that the
"money” would probably “go dead” on their
hands. But the notes represented their country
and its cause and to both they were loyal.
Therefore, they accepted them at the current
rate, only to find that those from whom they
bought did not want the notes at any price.
And when peace came these notes repre-
sented fortunes that took wings on that April
morning when Lee surrendered.
So, the notes—bluegray backed; pale pink
faced—bring many visions to memory’s eyes:
The childish plays and dreams in which they
figured; and back of that those sacred things
’ they representedP-a people’s faith; a people’s
loyalty; a people’s devotion. They bring to
mind the knightly Lee; the priestly Jackson;
the dashing Stuart; the chevalier Beauregard;
the majestic'Gordon. As we look at them
. again, we hear the purling Rappahannock and
see in imagination the Johnny Reb on one bank
.floating across on a shingle his offering of tobac-
Jco to the Yank on the Other side for its equival-
. ent in coffee.' Again the smoke hovers over
-bloodJr 8hiloh; Pelham’s guns thupder ht Manas-
“r, the minnie-ball# whiz at Seven Pines and
dash along, the JPlank Road;
stone Wall
■
Congress a chance to legislate thereon, adjourn
ed without passing the appropriation necessary
for government operation, thus making it com
pulsory either to return the roads at once or to
borrow money with which to operate them. Of
the $750,000,000 asked for by the Railroad Ad
ministration, $381,000,000 was due from last
year’s accounts, $196,000,000 representing the
operating deficit.’ If the Railroad Administra
tion should cut wages to meet its lack of funds,
the obstructing Senators would hear from their
constituents when the next election comes
around,
Discussing the tremendous total of 7,354,000
men killed in battle, the Springfield Republican
says: “If the procession of the dead was to
pass a given point in single column, four
abreast, it would not get by in 10 years. Add
the war’s civilian dead from direct or indirect
causes, and file procession of ghosts would take
the average lifetime in passing.”
ed by illegal submarine warfare, for
American property seized in Germany and for
loss of American lives at sea, the latter being
computed on an average of $10,000 for each
individual under the compensation laws. These
figures do'not include any lives lost or damages
to persons and property in actual warfare. Ger
many is facing bankruptcy as well as revolu
tion, but she piust pay.
Yet to the Senate political opposition to the
President and resentment of his failure to in
vite a delegation from that body to accompany
him to the Peace Conference'flared up during
the last few days of the session to a movement
which, if carried to its logical conclusion, will
defeat the ratification of the final treaty of
peace if that treaty carries with to an incorpora
tion of the policy of a League of Nations.
Last year, because the Democrats showed
that they were more devoted to tradition and
parliamentary precedent than to the interests
of the people—because the party failed, in a
time of the country’s crisis to measure up to that
country’s needs, the people turned the Demo
crats out and put the Republicans to power.
Did the Republicans profit by the lesson?
They did not.
During the last hours of the Sixty-Fifth Con
gress, by filibuster and various deivices, they
managed to defeat the passage of important ap
propriation bills in an effort to force the Presi
dent to call an extra session. Still playing poli
tics of the lowest type; setting party weal or
partisan preference against the interests of the
nation and the people’s welfare.
Wilson wisely refused to call Congress into
extraordinary session to enact legislation which
had ample time for passage in the ordinary
course of events. He simply stood pat and let
the blame fall where it lies—on the obstruction
ists in Congress.
The Democrats are not free from blame, for
they should have so managed that the most im
portant legislation would have had right-of- way
for enactment long before the final hours of the
session. But having procrastinated and talked
instead of working while there was yet ample
time, they were caught at last by the Republican
obstructors and the legislation was lost.
These people—these Senators who are ob -
structing the President in his efforts to insure
peace for the world’s future and the men who,
for partisan advantage sacrificed the nation’s
needs to the final hour of settlement—these men
must to the course of events come before the
people again and when they do, they must set
tle with an outraged public. For they, by their
course are fomenting anarchy, bolshevism and
mob rule by destroying the peoples’ confidence
in their government. ;
Of course, those Senators do not intend, when
it comes to a final show-down, to defeat the
ratification of the treaty of peace—this they
would not dare do. But they will talk and ob
struct and spout and fume until the last minute.
Then, they will find some pretext for ratification.
But in the mean time they are marked men.
The day of settlement for them is coming.
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FROM THE CORDELE DISPATCH
Writ** Editor Brown
Tifton and Tift count/, and area iB
south Georgia, bare a treaauro In Editor
John Herring. Hi. deration to eommT
nity intereata, to friends, to humanity law
Ma newspaper labor renal the Very Urge"
ambitions that dominate all hla efforts
at betterment. If even one in a hundred
wen like him, what a renlatlon in pry
(nat your community and. oum night
enjoy.
Hla unaeUah devotion to all the vital
interest of his commnaity and hla peo-
pla an revealed in all his writings, in
his newspaper work, and In hla daily
association, with J#ie people with whofta
ho has worked side by side in many
For such a man it is never diSIcalt to
find a word of praise. To admin such
a citizen is easy, To love him is bat
as natural as the bright day. We are
sure ho well deserves the honor you ar*
so thoughtfully bestowiog at a time when
yon may land caeonragtmert.
‘ Vary Respectfully,
Chaa. E. Brown, Editor Oordele Dispatch
HEBBINB cures constipation and re
establishes regular bowel movements: Sold
by Conger Drug Co. . adv
TURNER SUPERIOR COCURT
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SELLING SWEET POTATOES IN MARCH.
Twenty-five carloads of sweet potatoes were
shipped from Moultrie recently, a majority of
them to Pittsburg, although shipments also went
to St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Evansville
and other points in the Middle West. These
potatoes are said to have netted the farmers
$1.10 a bushel.
The same potatoes were begging on the mar
ket before Christmas for any price. They were
put in a potato curing warehouse, which is oper
ated much on the priciple of a cotton warehouse
the managers looking after sales. The ware
housemen say that potatoes kept splendidly last
winter, the loss being less than one-half of one
per cent from decay.
As an indication of the possibilities in curing
and marketing sweet potatoes, the Moultrie Inci
dent is worthy of more than passing notice. The
farmers of this portion of South Georgia could
get independently rich raising sweet potatoes
at $1 a bushel, with an assured market.
The Bureau of Markets allows bonafide cot
ton sales under old style contracts for the sole
purpose of . liquidation, until May 1. Hope
Says John 7L Boifeuillet, to the Macon News:
“I am told thanState Senator James B. Clements,
who has been recently suggested for governor,
enjoys, among (other honors, the distinction of
being the first man from Irwin count}' to grad
uate at college.l He is an alumnus of Emory.
The judge has frequently been a member of
both branches off the general assembly of the
state, and has occupied a prominent and influ-
ential'part to legislative proceedings. He en
gages to a variety lpf business activities. Fann
ie with him al happy and prosperous pur-
, Included in \ his possessions are 13,000
acres of excellent I^nd to South Georgia.”
H toW'for ^ ^ootTpribe/ 1 ^u to
. J position of
Having deprived them of the chance to
while stridii
, win
.tells his. adventures
" . the room. It will
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Eflrrt
There may be difference of opinion among
the boys over there about many things, but all
agree on the Salvation Army. James Dampier,
writing to his home paper, The Adel News,
says: “I want to tell you now, If you ever pass
a Salvation Army’s representative, drop to
ff you want to give your money to help the A.
E. F. boys. They have been given the least and
have done as much or more than any other. The
only .place that I had coffee and doughnuts
given me, was at a Salvation Army canteen,
They were with us to reserve and When we went
into the lines they went with us. Almost every
canteen was run by ladies.” Dampier was.with
the 82nd to the Argonne and among. other
things, says: “I guess it will always be a prop
osition to explain to the dear Civil War Vets
why and how so many of our boys got wounded
to the back. These high explosives are load
ed with all kinds of scrap iron and when one
The first week of Tomer Soperior
Court, which was devoted to civil cases,
adjourned Friday night, tew cases being
tried. There was not much bustneea her*
fore the Court, but it was D0cessai7 to
keep it open on account of the Grand
Jury being In session. - '
The second week, or criminal term,,
opened Monday morning and will 'be t
busy one it wo may judge from the fart
that the Grand Jury returned forty-six
true bllle last week. .
Corns, Galluses
‘ Quit^ Quick!
Two Drop* of Will Do It
Ever hand-carve your too w
knife trying to got ri<3 of a
Ever use aclaaoro and snip or
of the com too dose to too i
-It EmU Corns <
Ever pack up yonr too <
traptlona" and plasters aa I
TftCT-
oS on your a
ty Upo thffit l
yon pull your *toe!
v foouih* when l or I
Ton «nr oort ore
lek. poinieafc »
IT WhypBti _
?» corn peine, 1
e«4: dance, «—
Ity the, common-aenso way.
lllone. ..It never fells.
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Sold in Dfton: and recommended a*
the world’s beet com remedy by Brooks ,
Pharmacy.
Says the Butier Hkrald: “Have you noticed
that the young'soldier just home from ti\e
• if ], e can help it? He „ — _ .— riTTr ,..
up above you to % I heard all ktoda of calls for help but the snipers
Do
enough FIRE
when your property
ted to the extent of
SIXTY per timt—be
safe side and carry
explodes a hundred feet to the rear it will get INSURANCE,
you just as though it was to front. The 8~ ~
was in the Argonne a- month and four i
without a reliefi during this time we, continued
to advance and there's no record of 3
82nd made a retreat I saw them Mil ....
way and all around me, saw some horrible
righto up there and had some close calla myself
bat my old 'Thirteen’ must have been with me.
. The ADDITIONAL INSUR- i
ANCE can be placed thru '
were on the job and had no trouble .to keep. u« murteoua attention,
down. I’ve seen the time when I would have > „ , , b , „ ,
removed my shirt if I cop^ftjugt to get nearer KUpu rUCKed 4
the ground. Its ho
. FAIREST COMPd
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* portion of your hoi
you ^ need additional
Dependable service; and