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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, GA.
Geo. W. Harper.
One of the greatest needs of the
age is a broad, comprehensive in
telligence.
We will never attain it unless we
put ourselves in a lemon squeezer
and sqush the prejudice out of our
carcass. If we could do so and
not retain a drop of religious, politi
cal, sectional or any other kind of
virus, instead of shrinking up we
would expand and spread like a
“green bay tree.”
Rev. Perry Merrell, of Roopville,
and 1 were chums in our young
boyhood days (we are young yet.)
W e have chased the rabbit, possum,
coon, lizzard, rat and other danger
ous animals together, and when we
were not engaged at that we were
wrestling- There was never an
unkind word between us, but when
the war closed Perry happened to
line up on one side and 1 on the
other. Politics were hot in those
daysjand for nearly a year 1 thought
Perry chock full of “dog-gon mean
ness” but Perry was honest in his
views and it was 1 that was full of
the aforesaid meanness—or political
prejudice. Our friendship never
wavered but how hard it was for
me to concede that Perry was hon
est in his politics!
That same intolerance clings to
lots of us yet. Smith men think
Brown men are fools, and Brown
men have the same high opinion of
Smith men, in some cases.
When we lose sight of measures
and pin our faith to men, or ate tor
one man simply because we are
against the other, its a aiire symp-
ton that we have our carcass satur
ated with the same trouble 1 had
when 1 was thinking my friend
Perry was like he was from pure
“cussedness,”
There never lived a purer- man
than Perry Merrell and he was that
way when 1 thought he ought to be
strangled.
Some may be today like I wms
then, if so, squeeze it out. Its
dangerous for a voter to be so in a
government where the voter is
supposed to rule.
If we act from our prejudice in
stead of our mature judgement after
mature study, without prejudice,
we will always remain in “the gall
of bitterness and in the bonds” of
those who can stir up our prejudice.
Wear no man’s collar, wear your
own, but if you want to “save
your country, save yourself, save
all things,” and want all to bless
you, for your country’s sake get
prejudice out of you and wear your
collar intelligently, judiciously and
patriotically.
The best a voter can do is as
aforesaid and vote for the man most
competent for the job.
If we want a house built we don’t
let our prejudice interfere, but if
we want our grand old ship of state
remodeled, either by taking from or
adding to, we sometimes let our
prejudice do away with all judge
ment, throw our collars to the
wind, tamely let some man put a
collar on us and vote us like sheep
and employ men to work on the old
ship that don’t know anything more
about it than a pig knows of heaven.
Until we run politics as we do
our private business “pop-in-lays”
like mys It will breaK in and try to
tack all kinds of “planks” on our
ship of state. Some candidates I
see have “planks” they propose to
tack on that : s already on, and one
that has been so long that the ;
“memory of man runneth not to
the contrary.” Such won’t d -, for
if successful the old ship will be
sunk to the bottomless pit in a few
years. s
There is no kind of ship but has
its capacity. Go over that and the
ship and all on board will perish.
One Legislature will tack a
"plank” on the ship and up jumps
a patri d who is out and clamors for
its repeal before we know anything
of its merits or demerits.
I wonder if it would not be wise
to try a law until we knew some
thing about its merits? We do
everything else so why n f, t law?
We have hundreds of laws we don’t
obey and some of them splendid
laws. Disrespect for one law cools
our love for any law. This is the
road to anarchy. How many of us
are on the road?
! What matters it if it is your
I “native land” if we continue to
ignore law? As much as we boast
j of our civilization no one’s life or
1 property would be worth a snap if
it was not for law, and our “native
land” would be drenched in blood
in a short time but for law. It is
not wise to disobey any [law, for it
breeds contempt for all law. and a
contempt for all law breeds anarchy
and anarchy breeds rapine, arson,
robbery, murder and chaos.
As people “multiply and replen
ish the earth” questions as great
as the increase is, arise.
As roilroads, manufacturing of
all kinds and other interprises in
crease, so laws will have to be
made to fit and regulate our varied
industries. Tnis can’t be done by
a set of pygmies. Men whose souls
are so small that they could travel
a thousand years in a mustard seed
and then leave vast territories un
explored, would be like ticks in a
tar bucket trying to lump out, and
would make no more progress.
How can we make laws to apply
to all our industries and not hurt
any? How can we have them so
iust and equitable that all classes
will love and respect them?
The questions of the present day
and that are looming up in the near
future are no more to be compared
to the little questions arising in the
days of Washington than Roosevelt
is to myself. (The reader can re
verse the last sentence if he desires
—there is no law against it,)
Its our duty to our “native land’
to squeeze out all ,partianship and
vote as we please, of course, but
try to get the man tnat fits the iob
best. At the same time let’s let
our neighbor do the same.
Let us soak our skulls in oil so
our brain can expand. Then we
can see good in the other fellow that
has an opinion differing from ours.
Let us not stop our paper because
Copyright 1909, by C. E. Zimmerman Co.—No. 3
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Carrollton, Ca.
DEADLY POISONS.
Nearly One-half of Those Known Ar«
Chemical Rarities.
“There are only about 160 rleadb
poisons known to science,” said an
expert in poison lore the other day
“Of these 160 quickly fatal drugs
one-third are alkaloids, nnd more
than a score are complicated animal
and vegetable poisons not yet fullv
classified. Nearly half of the totali
number of known poisons are chem
ical rarities—not things that ever
pet into the coroners’ reports. Of
these 160 kinds of poison 1!) per
cent act directly on the brain or on
the spinal cord, either by bringing
on unconsciousness or by stimulat
ing the mind to such an extent that
delirium follows; .5(4 per cent affect
the respiration and only a little
more than -1 per cent the heart pri
marily. Nearly -10 per cent are irri
tant poisons, and the rest have s
mixed action on the human body.
Arsenic, for example, produces al
most the same symptoms as Asiatic
cholera; phosphorus produces jaun
dice, and strychnine’s effects resem
ble a case of lockjaw. All theso
symptoms, of course, are those that
precede death when a fatal dose has
been taken.
“A good many of these pbisons
are dangerous to manufacture. Mer
curic methide, for instance, brings
madness to those who work too long
at making it. A gas rises from it
that is not immediately fatal, but
that causes temporary insanity,
which may, of course, become per
manent.
“Potassium bichromate is another
dangerous chemical and one that i*
used in large quantities commercial
ly. The workmen who breathe in
the dust that rises from the manu
facture of this deadly poison finally
lose their noses. For that reason
those who work over this chemical
have their faces protected by respi
rators. Even then the dust is so fine
nnd insidious that they do not es
cape entirely, and many suffer from
painful affections of the skin. The
horses that work about the factory
where this potassium bichromate is
made on a large scale are mostly
lamo The dust gets into their hoofs
and caiises sores. Cyanide of potas
sium looks so much like sugar that
the workmen it the factories where
it is made keep their mouths band
aged to help them resist the temp
tation to e*t soma af it.
Jowett and Tennyson.
On one occasion Tennyson was
Jowott’s guest at the Master’s
lodge, Baliol, with a few other men,
nnd after some good talk the poet
had retired early to his room. Next
morning at breakfast Tennyson was
in a silent mood, but as the men
were rising from the table he said:
“Jowett, after I left you last night
I wrote a few verses. I am not sure
that I have ever done anything bet
ter. 1 will read them to you.”
Jowett, preparing to go off for his
day’s work, replied hastily: “Oh,
no; thank you, Tennyson. I’ve no
time for that sort of thing just now.
I am very busy.”
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the editor has an opinion of nis
own. If he or your neighbor is
wrong see if you can’t reform them
in a nice gentlemanly way. Argue
thequestions with them. Argument
sometimes convinces the man argu
ing that he is wrong himself.
Geo. W. Harper.
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