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THE TIMES-RECORDER
DAILY AND WEEKLY
The Americus Recorder, Established
1879.
The Americus Times, Established 1890
Consolidated April, 1891.
THOMAS GAMBLE, JR.,
Editor and Manager.
C. W. CORNFORTH,
Associate Editor and Assistant
Manager.
J. W. FUR LOW, City Editor.
W. L. DUPREE,
Assistant Business Dept.
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
The Times. Recorder is the
Official Organ of the City of Americus
Official Organ of Sumter County.
Official Organ of Webster County.
Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for the 3rd Congres
sional District.
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Americus, G?
Americas, February 7. 190**
The public has one consolation.
Harry Thaw will not go on the stage.
The “reactionary” is the man who
wants to stop and get a breathing
spell.
There’s nothing chilling about the
reception accorded the American fleet
by Chile.
Seab Wright may yet run against
Senator Clay for the Senate. Will
Seab point to the locker club “with
pride?”
Harry Thaw does not like the com
panionship of the criminally insane.
They are too degenate for Harry,
perhaps.
Taft's friends say he will be nomi
nated by acclamation. Outside of
the South we are very much afraid
the election will be somewhat in the
same style.
Generally speaking, the newspapers
of Georgia are opposed to the pro
posed -inscriptions to Major Wirz.
They believe the truth might be told
without giving much offense.
The Savannah Press Says John
Sharp Williams is always on the spot
and always ready with a crushing
reply. Congressman Edwards seems
to be very much on the spot, too, but
we can’t vouch for him otherwise.
Americus will be the only smsU
city in Georgia to have a street cav
line. AV e believe the project will
be carried through. Don’t be pessi
mistic about the enterprise. Faith
is the basis on which to build up a
town and we must all have faith in
everything that points to a future
greater Americus.
“There’s no place like home, sweet
home.” The negroes who left old
Sumter for the golden promise of
Calfornia ar e now casting longing
eyes toward the cotton fields and mel
on patches of this vicinity. In black
breast, as in white, the love of the
old home is the deepest and most abid
ing of attachments.
Governor Smith has not begun his
Ananias Club, but if he does ex-
Commissioner Joe Brown will be the
first member. Joe persists in call
ing attention to the unlawful things
the governor promised to do wher
he was a candidate. Brown evidently
forgets that it is the prerogative ol
a candidate to promise and of a
governor to forget.
An interprising newspaper has
drawn a parallel between the Thaw
trial and that of John J. Scannell anc
R. E. Preusser, the last two having
also been accused of murder and senl
to an asylum. Scannell was set free
two months after being sent up, whip
Preusser was released after a year's
interval. Both were sent up from New
York. A question mark is left foi
the date of Thaw’s release.
The Supreme Court has held that
a railroad schedule is not a con
tract, and that a suit for failure tc
deliver goods on schedule time does
not hold. Governor Smith will have
to rehabilitate the Supreme Court, as
he did th e Railroad Commission, un
til it meets his views of what equity
is. The Supreme Court must be forc
ed to work in harmony with Smith
reform ideas. If not, what's the use
of having a reform governor with
senatorial aspirations, postponed for
the moment?
Ye Gods and little fishes! Col. Law
ton, vice-president of the Central,
actually draws fifteen hundred dol
lars a year as director in the Atlan
tic Compress Company! This is one
of the grave reasons advanced by
Commissioner McLendon as to why
the railroad passenger rates should
be reduced. After while the Commis
sion will dictate not only the traffic
rates but the salaries and wages to
be paid. If the railroads did not re
sist the tendency of tlm present com
mission there is no. telling the length
to w'hich it would seek to go in con
trolling them. Proper regulation is
one thing, but it looks very much as
though the line was being decidedly
passed some times and the public
not benefitted, either.
One of the blessings secured by
the closing of the Thaw trial is the
retirement of Lillian Bell, who has
been writing a lot of driveling rot
about the trial and analyzing the char
acter of Thaw’s wife in her own ini
mitable style. She ought to be sent
to the pest house to be fumigated af
ter scratching among filth in such
a gleeful fashion. Lillie is like a
reincarnation of that wild wail from
Butte, one Miss Mac Lain.
THE REIGN OF THE DEAD."
(From Savannah Evening Press, February 4.)
“Laws that incorporate traditions and prolong the reign of the dead.”
It was thus that an English historical writer referred to ancient stat
utes that hampered the progress of humanity and hung upon the forward
of mankind like the shackles on a vassal.
Slavish adherence to the past is oftentimes concealed under the guise
of conservatism.” Every .step that seeks to lift up the masses, that
tends to advance “the greatest good of the greatest number. is beset
by howling dervishes whose shrieks fill the air with terrible forebodings
as to the calamitous results that must ensue if there is any departure
from ancient ideas and principles.
The so-called conservative element in business and political life is
too frequently an element guided in its course by personal selfishness,
by the desire to perpetuate ancient wrongs from which it directly and
ceaselessly profits, its clamorous claims that it seeks the public good are
generally but a mask to conceal the fact that what it really seeks is to
promote its own personal ends.
Throughout history the beneficiaries of exisiting systems are found
zealously working to prolong “the reign of the dead.” The vested inter
ests that have been handed down to them are sacred in their eyes, regard
less of their bearing upon the welfare of the millions who have been
robbed of their birthright by the avarice and influence of those in power
in the past. When Peel sought the passage of the Reform Bill in 1832
the mass of the clergy of England protested against it as a "meddling
with institutions consecrated by religious associations and convictions.”
They stood, as they have almost uniformly stood, for "the reign of the
dead.”
In European countries the great landed estates are an instance of
the hand of the dead still clutching humanity by The throat. They hold
in mortmain still their old possessions. Millions are deprived of the use
of the God-given land, rendered unable to eara K a livelihood, and driven
to foreign soil, by reason of the fact that at a remote period robber
barons secured to themselves untold thousands of acres and laws have
been maintained in force to perpetuate the wrong then committed.
The shout goes up that to change such laws would be radicalism,
it would be an attack on the “sacred rights of property,” it would be
socialism, anarchy, or some other terrible rnenac e that is held like a
hobgoblin jack-o-lantern to scare the great wronged public from a for
ward step for the restoration and protection of its own inherent rights.
In this country we have, at present, no such problem to be grap
pled with, and no such system to be overthrown. Thanks to, Thomas
Jefferson there is no law of primogeniture. But we have other evils
equally as pernicious, and equally as well bulwarked in the claim that
so-called "vested rights” by some occult process, have been made sacred
in the sight of God and man and must not be touched by profaning fingers
that seek to rend them for the public good.
Manipulators and tariff beneficiaries have for years held up some
such bugaboo to the public gaze, while behind the curtains of vested
rights they have robbed the people unmercifully. At every movement
to rout them the clamor has gone up that all business interests y.*ere be
ing assailed, that “the sacred rights of property” were at stake.
But the public is being rapidly disillusioned. The great mass of
the people have at last realized that the cry which has been so skill
fully used in the past had no foundation to it, that “new conditions make
new duties,” that there is no right oftion to it, that rises superior to the
rights of mankind, and that no laws or systems established in the inter
ests of any class are to perpetually hamper the onward and upward
movement of a fre e people.
When reformers in England sought to stop the cruelty to children
employed in the mines and factories and limit the hours of labor for
them, a great cry went up from the interested that the “sacred” right
of parents to control and utilize the labor of their offspring was being
violated. That cry for many years impeded th e work for the salvation
of the children, but eventally the cause that set it up as its slogan
went down in ignorhinous and irretrievable defeat.
In Georgia we have seen the same endeavor to use an ancient and
worn-out issue in defense of the employment of young children in the
cotton mills and other industries, to their physical, mental and spiritual
detriment. Again the “sacred rights” of parents have been set up by
the selfishness of the mill owners to scare off reformers, .and again, in
a measure, the enlightened common sense of the public has prevailed
Once more “the reign of the dead” has been broken.
It is the constant .effort of those benefitted to perpetuate the wrongs,
the mistakes, the injustices, of the past. Time never yet made a wrong
right. The mere fact that a system has existed for centuries does not
change its moral nature. If it was an injustice to mankind in the be
ginning, it is equally unjust now. It has not become a “sacred right”
merely because the forces working for good have not been able to suc
cessfully assail and overthrow it. But just as long as men are selfish
and working for their selfish ends, just that long will they seek to “pro
long the reign of the dead,” just that long will the battle of the people
go on against “laws that incorporate tradition.”
By degrees the wrongs that have been imposed on humanity through
countless ages of misused authority and power will be remedied. Gen
eration after generation will leave “its outgrown shell by life’s unrest
ing sea.” As each generation comes upon the stage of action it will profit
by the struggles of its predecessors against vested injustice and ap
proach more closely to that perfect time when each man shall stand pan
oplied in the full possession of his rights, unhampered by special privi
leges granted to others that now bar the way to higher things.
FREEDOM OF THE PHILIPPINES
Senator Stone's proposition that a
definite date be set for the turning
over of the government of the Philip
pines to the natives of the islands
will doubtless provoke a very decid
ed difference of opinion in and out of
Congress.
To those at a distance, and unac
quainted with the actual conditions
existing i nthe islands, it is an ex
ceedingly difficult matter to pass
upon. There is no doubt that the
great mass of the American people
would like to see the Philippines in
the hands of their own people, a
self governing nation under the pro
tection of the United States, with
every opportunity to work out their
own destiny'along the lines best suited
to their peculiar status.
Whether an arbitrary date can be
assigned when the people, or the
mass of the people of the islands,
will be equipped by education and
self restraint to take upon themselves
the responsibilties of self-government
is the real question at issue. No mat
ter what progress may have been
made in the mental training of the
people of the islands it is safe to as
sert that they are still far removed
from the standard set in this country
under parliamentary government such
as it is proposed to confer upon the
Filipinos.
Even with a guarantee from the
leading powers of Europe that the
liberty of the islands will not be mo
lected if the inhabitants are given
self-government it will be an open
question whether the Filippinos can
be turned loose from the apron strings
of the United States and made to
stand or fall upon their own re
sources. Cuba, so much farther ad
vanced, is yet a doubtful experiment
and there will be at least a possibil
ity of this country being called on
to intervene in that island at any
time for the next quarter century.
Why then, may well be asked, are we
to suppose that it will be an entire
ly safe proposition to turn the Philip
pines over to their people five years
from this time?
Senator Stone's resolution will
hardly pass, but it will awaken a
new interest in the future of the is
lands and will probably convince
the world that sooner or later they
are to become a sovereign state.
Prohibition was declared to be re
sponsible for the charges against the
Southern’s agent at Hiram, Ga., who
was before the Railroad Commission
as a result of complaints by patrons
of the road. The agent declared that
his accusers were those who wanted
a side door to carry their jugs of
liquor out, which he refused to give.
To furnish a fire and water he said
would be to make the waiting room a
loafing place for the town. He says
that the charges are spite on account
of his expressed views on hypocrites
and their jugs.
Macon has started the test case on
the subject of lockers by bringing in
to court the secretary of the local
Elk lodge. The city says there shall
be no locker club, while the Elks
maintain that such a decision is un
constitutional.
Anent the latest presidential mes
sage, the independent Philadelphia
Ledger has a cartoon showing a ter
rific cyclone issuing from the White
House and all the financial magnates
taking to their storm pits.
Politics in Sumter county will re
mind one very much of Savannah this
summer, with two or more candidates
for nearly all of the juicy plums.
Strange, isn't it, that hankering of
the average man for public job?
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A JUMBLING OF IDEAS.
Leslie's Weekly falls into an error
when it confuses the Prohibition
Party with the prohibitionists in the |
various states which have enacted j
prohibition laws. -With this erron-;
eous premise, that journal comes to
the conclusion that the Prohibition
Party will probably hold the balance
of the power in the coming Presiden
tial election by having votes in the i
electoral college sufficient to turn *■
the result at will.
While the Prohibition Party has
done a great work in the agitation
against the whiskey traffic, yet in the
states which have adopted state pro
hibition, the Prohibition Party is
numerically weakest. In Georgia the
party received in 1904 845 votes, as
against 1,396 four years before. In
Alabama in 19 >4 the party vote was
612. and four years before, 2,762. Ok
lahoma. the third state which de
clared for prohibition last year, was
not in the Union during a national
election.
As a matter of fact, the Prohibition
Party looks on state prohibition as
somebody else’s scheme, theirs being
to have national prohibition with a
party to enforce it.
Throughout the article referred to
there is a jumbling of party and non
partisan work. After speaking of the
growth of rhe Prohibition Party,
lie's says: The marvelous expan
sion which they have made since 1904,
hovever, as shown by the territory
which they have put on the 'dry
list' makes it exceedingly probable
that the ticket to be nominated at
Columbus will poll at least 1,000,000
votes. As already mentioned, St.
John defeated Blaine for President
twenty-four years ago and broke the
spell of the Republicans’ imagined
invincibility. it is easily possible
that the Prohibitionists may hold
the balance in 1908 in several states
and turn the scale one way or the
other in the electorial college.”
That the party will even poll one
fourth of the vote in Georgia or Al
abama is an absurd proposition.
There will not likely be any “balance
of power” in the electorial college on
the part of the Prohibition party
State sentiment has been very'
badly confounded with party senti
ment by the esteemed Leslie's
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Considering the materials at hand
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is being made at the Third Agricul
tural College. In a large measure,
however, the superintendent and his
staff of efficient workers are handi
capped by the absence of proper
equipment.
An agricultural college does not
consist merely of grounds and build
ings. It should be supplied with the
very latest agricultural appliances,
it should have ample stock of a
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hampered in its important work by
inability to give the students train
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There is no agricultural college in
Georgia that is better situated than
that of the Third District, or which
has better lands or lands more adapt
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Those who have investigated the
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this respect. It can be made a tre
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the agricultural interests of every
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Because of this Ainericus is vitally
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