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.AMERICUS. GA., JULY 26, 1907
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Alabama is near prohibition.
It looks like beer against tea at
the state eapitol.
It looks like Savannah, Macon and
Augusta’s fight.
We admire Gov. Glenn's backbone.
Let the issue be settled.
The Georgian calls on the prohis
to stand by their guns.
A woman can smile, and smile, and
smile —and criticise you still.
Macon is working negro women on
the streets. This is not to the cred
it of Macon. '
Every prohi wore a white rose on
_• Wednesday. The roses wilted but
the wearers stood true to the cause.
The New York Sun says that “it
is too soon to say that Hoke Smith is
an object of compassion.”
It is. either a straight defeat or a
■—■Straight victory. No compromise.
This is the ultimatum of Seal) Wright,
prohi leader.
The Speaker of the House insists
that it is a dangerous rpecedent to
interfere with the individual rights
of a member.
The Cordele Rambler objects to
a crowd of “long haired men and
short haired women” running Geor
gia. The Rambler's protest is of no
avail.
The Augusta Herald says there is
no summer dullness in that city.
Neither is there in Americus. We
simply rest so ra few weeks to count
past profits.
The Augusta Herald still insists
-""’Thatt here ■ D every
question. It ought to try to make
Seab Wright believe that.
A few years ago the establishment
of vineyards in Georgia for the mak
ing of domestic wines was being
encouraged on all sides. What is to
become of the vineyards, now.
Many northern papers are maintain
ing that the Federal courts are go
ing too. far in their injunction pro
ceedings. The country seems to be
vastly divided on this question.
The Springfield Republican holds
when government by injunction reaches
the point of involving the jugging of
a whole State government in ordinary
contempt process It may be said to
have arrived at its bright consum
mate flowering.
Three minutes are not much, but
when thirty men take three minutes
each to explain their little vote it is
as good as two hours gone. At this
rate it is not a difficult matter to
keep the filibustering rolling along
indefinitely.
Savannah wants a local man on
the railroad commission. Savannah
gets so little out of the State politics
that the request is a thoroughly reas
onable one, outside of the great part
that port plays in the commercial
life of Georgia.
As long as the minority keep their
tempers they will apparently be able
- to hold up prohibition. If they have
the physical fibre to hold out the
remainder of the session, some twen
ty days, the Hardman bill may fail
of passage yet.
It looks as though some of the
his were quietly helping the antb
along in their fight. They are siniX
ply for prohibition for political pur
posesaud if it can be defeated with-,
themselves will be glad,
■ way. y
quested that his salary be cut
the work did not justify him in reffi
ceiving so much. A vigilance com
mittee has been organized by the
Savannah office holders to lynch the
first man there who makes so terrible
a break. #
All sorts of railway supplies have
increased materially in price since
last year; steel angles have increas
ed 31 per cent., bronze journal bear
ings 25 per cent., copper 22, car
wheels 21, malleable iron castings 20
per cent., and so it goes down to
4mber and airbrakes, which are 7
fc* per cent, higher respectively.-
an they were in 1906. The coinci
dence of a rise in price of supplies,
an increase of wages of employes
and the lowering of rates by State
legislation is certhinlv hard on the
railroads.
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT. |
There are two ways of looking at ,
the situation at Atlanta.
One is that a minority has no right
to thwart the will of the majority,
that it should bow submissive to the
dictates of those numerically in con
trol, and in nowise impede the pro
gress of legislation no matter how ,
obnoxious it may be to the minor
ity.
This is the view that the prohibi
tionists, the majority, now take of
the situation. They resent the idea
of a small minority blocking thfe de
sired legislation, of thirty-nine mem
bers holding up the entire House
and effectually stopping law making
for the time being.
In a sense this view Is correct.
This is a land where the smajority
rules. Sometimes the majority is
in the wrong. It svoice is-not al
ways the voice of good sense, let
alone the voice of God. But under
WTfYoYms of government the major
ity must~Tf>BLrol and legislation must
be along the flfies desired by them.
That is the view'-ttaPHlief four
fifths of the House take.
But there is another ’ view that it
just as sound in its foundation and
premises. It is this:
A minority represents an element
of the people, large or small, whose
rights and interests it is its duty
to promote and protect to the limit
of its ability.
The minority at Atlanta represents
the wet element of the State, those
who are opposed to prohibition,
those who believe that if the ma
jority desire prohibition it should yet
deal justly by the minority, deal
equitably by thse who have money
invested in the business that is to
be proscribed by law.
The majority has undoubtedly been
riding rough shod over the minority
up to this time. Refusal was made
to the reading of petitions protest
ing against the bill in question, the
leaders have announced that they
would not consider na amendment,
that they had the reins in their
hands and proposed to drive the
team.
A little spirit of compromise, com
promise that would not have really
affected any moral issues, might have
. avoided the deadlock now on. But
i there has been a brutal determina
tion to make the measure as drastic
as possible, to show' no mercy to the
! financial interests involved, to con
. sider no rights save those that ap
, peal to the majority. The minority
have rebelled against this.
It is true that a majority should
i prevail. Yet it is none the less
i true that, like any other giant, it
i should use its strength with reason,
with justice, with due consideration
of the rights of others. Prohibition
, Georgia will have. We feel no doubt
I as to that. Yet it is none the less
true that justice demands that a
i somewhat longer time be givjn to
those whose propel-ties are at stake,
and that the bill be amended in that
respect as well as along the lines of
common sense with regard to the
use of liquors as medicines.
Says the New York Sun; “The
rights and immunities and prero(qj|
t.ives of the North
are perfectly safe in tli£ hands of tfl
Federal judiciary.” And the Phiß
delpliia Record adds: “But so tlB
are in the hands of the North
lina judiciary; and there are right*
immunities and prerogatives of StaM
Courts which the Federal judicial*
has no business to interfere wit*
The powers of a Federal Circuß
Judge are not yet quite equivalent I
those of a British Resident at tfll
court of a mediatized Indian Rajah.”
They are going to burn the pic
tures held by the New York police
of men and women who have been ac
quitted of criminal charges. The
Savannah Press is inclined to think
that many of the originals are al
ready burning.
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matter in" the world to step into the I?
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They all sell it. They all recommend it as the ideal temperance Jg|||j ~
beverage. It quickly relieves fatigue, destroys that “let down t
’JP$|mL feeling” (don’t care whether tomorrow comes or not) that
comes after dissipation of the mental or nervous forces.
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OF CURRENT INTEREST
AN OLD INSTITUTION THREAT
ENED.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
Beer and Barbecue! Mark well the
collaboration. Long years of asso
ciation have made them as insepar
able as though the conjunction were
nature's own handiwork —a union
threatened now with violent divorce
by the ruthless hand of man. The
legislative edict is the beer must go;
then, alas! for the Georgia barbecue,
for it, too, must jiass with that com
panion without which it is not arid
cannot be.
Is the work of ages thus to be
shattered at a blow? Is foundation
thus thoughtlessly, recklessly, madly
to be torn away to witness the fall
of mighty superstructure which for
years has stood and grown and reared
aloft its head to winnow smiles from
the chief of goddesses—Joy!
But mystery of mysteries! Our leg
islator folk return to town steeped
in the lady's smiles, only to begin
the proceedings destined to pro
nounce forever the decree of separa- ;
tfon. The speaker’s guests at the
Cold Spring cue grounds, they saw
and felt there, few, if any of them
for the first time, that joyous, soul
thrilling combination which has so
often stirred the multitude and play
ed its part in history-making.
Beer and Barbecue! Must they
part? There seemed no sadness at
the feast, and yet it was as if a sad
goodby were said to lifelong friend.
But after all, may there not be
hope? It is not just possible that
' the majority, in the excitement of its
1 activity, aimed toward a particular
end, has overlooked the imminent
‘ danger which threatens extinction to
’ one of the greatest of Georgia insti
* tutions?
May we not yet cherish the hope
' that when the smoke of battle clears,
' and the bill comes forth in all its
. amended perfection, provision will
' have been made for the survival of
“ that famous institution without which
Georgia will seem but a memory of
■ its former self —Beer and Barbe
f cue?
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1 It is a coincidence—merely an in
teresting conincidence—several nor
thern papers point out, that two days
3 after he issued his injunction Judge
Pritchard’s son should have been
appointed a surgeon to the Southern
v Railway.
3 Mr. Bryan is not only as fertile as
3 Mr. Roosevelt in the invention of
3 issues, but the Philadelphia Record
■> thinks he is quite as ready to aban
i don or modify them when it seems
i expedient to do so.
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s It has been demonstrated that the
» minority have some rights that the
J majority must respect. it remains
, to be seen whether the majority have
t rights that the minority must res
f pect.
Prohibition may be delayed but
we have not the slightest doubt but
that it will come. The great major
j ity of the white people of the State ;
■ of it at
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The W. C. T. U. has blacklisted tli#
forty minority members. None <$
them need apply for membership. '
■ Like the Irishman, we dearly love
: to see a scrap. And the minority is 1
putting up a pretty, even though in
the end, ineffective one.
Tears, Idle Tears.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what
they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine
despair,
Rise in the heart, and gather to the
eyes, t
In looking on the happy Autumn
fields,
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no
more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on
a sail,
That brings our friends up from the
underw’orld
[ Sad as the last which reddens over
one-. ;
■ That sir.Ks with all we love bel »w
i the veege;
r So sad, so fresh, the days that are ,
I no more. |
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1 Ah! sad and strange as in dark s.un- ]
i mer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awaken’d i
birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes !
The casement slowly grows a glim- |
mering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are
no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after
death.
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy
feign’d
On lips that are for others; deep as
love,
Deep as first love, and with all re
gret; _ w
O Death in Life, the days that are
' no more. —Tennyson.
The Poor Horses.
How’they are treated!
Their feelings aren’t considered.
Yet the glare and the heat effect
them.
Some horses even insist upon stop
ping to rest.
How few drivers think to leave their
horses in the shade!
On a recent burning day a man left
his horses for half an hour on the
sunny side of the street, when there
was good shade 10 feet away.
Mr. Bryan sees no where any
desire to make government ownership
an issue in 1908.”
Will’ the speaker of the House de
velop into a Tom Reed before the
scrap is over.
Joe Hill Hall may be the guiding
hand behind the minority. Who 1
knows? 4
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