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THE TIMES-RECORDER
ESTABLISHED 1879.
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Americus. Ga„ July 17. 1917 i
Have you a’ little weevil on your
» i
farm’
To stop loss of hair—get a divorce.!
(Deep stufl.)
The report that the All Highest had
abdicated was very evidently, to quote
the late Mark Twain, very much exag
gerated.
Here's hoping Thomas A. Edison
springs something on Kaiser Bill that
will knock his aspirations to “weld
politik” into a cocked hat.
Moderation is unquestionably a most
desirable virtue but when thought of
in connection with the treatment of
German spies it loses much of its
popularity. j
Old John Barleycorn is in the hands'
of the Philistines at last and before
the present seance at Washington is
concluded, his name will have been
added to the already sizeable blacklist.
If Thomas Wilhelm Hardwick still
retains any shreds of his political epi
rermis after the efficient flaying oper
ations of the Georgia press, (as well as
divers and sundry outspoken individ
uals throughout the state) he must
have to take out a search-warrant to i
discover them.
The press boys are foregathered in *
Thomasville today having the time of
their young lives, but, drat the luck,
ye scribe must bang away on the old.
masheen and try to forget all aboutj
that barbecue which the citizens of j
Boston fixed up for the edification of
the “unfettered press.”
Georgia’s senior senator, having i
been given a visual demonstration as <
the exact status of his constituents' 1
opinion on supporting the President, is . 1
passing out the word to his henchmen ’ i
to bear down strong on such scatter- ’
ing remarks of Hoke’s that might be|
construed as favoring the policy of
the administration.
The trouble in East St. Louis went
deeper* than the surface—in the begin-'
nings of the awful rioting. East St.
Louis has been for years such a wide- 1
i
open town, there has been so much
lawlessness, there have been so many
crimes of all sorts which the officers
did not prosecute, that there was gen
eral disregard for law, disrespect for
ordinances, scorn at authority—and
hence a very large element capable of
doing the horrible things which have
stained that community for all time to
come.—Athens Banner.
WILSON AND THE SENATE.
Regardless of how his sympathies
may be inclined as between Sen
ator Hardwick and the administra
tion, the average interested observer
of the politics of the federal judge
ship situation at the Washingtonu
end of the line will hardly fail to
hold to the opinion that the Senate
treated the President with extremej
discourtesy’ in its handling of the
Thomas nomination.
The Senate is reported to have j
acted unanimously in its adoption j
of the unanimous report of the ju
diciary committee. Tfhere is there- .
fore no questioning the fact that
the senators knew their own minds. |
They were already familiar with the (
nature of the differences between ,
Senator Hardwick and the President, .
and their action was not as impuK-1
sive (a strong word to employ in i
referring to ‘‘the most august legis-1
lative body in the world”) as it
would at first blush appear.
But it will occur |to those who
read the report of the Senate’s ac
Ition that it was discourtesy borde
ring on rudeness to reject the n ,mi-.
! nation of Judge Thomas without ,
i waiting to receive from the White.
' House the papers which in due time |
| would have been transmitted to the |
' Senate through the usual channels.)
Because the case was an unusual
one, and because of the peeul'ar |
circumstances under which the,
name of Judge Thomts had been ,
sent to the Senate, there was rea ,
' son to anticipate that the President
would send with the papers in the
case something more than the cus
tomary endorsements of the nominee.
Perhaps we exaggerate the im
portance of the whole matter
| though there seems to be in it fuel
for a stubborn fire of opposition to
■ the President —or at least of lack
lof cooperation with him —which has
! been smouldering in the Senate for
' some time.
The President, as the country
knows, has been striving to spur
Congress to action on urgent legis
-1 lation that is pending, and that is
I sorelv needed to enable the country
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Jto vigorously prosecute the war. He
i has not been conspicuously successful
thus far, but the sympathies of the
people have been largely on his side
as he has endeavored to inject a
J little “ginger into the deliberately
• ■moving legislative branch of the gov-
I eminent. The Senate, in particular,
> •
| has not met the President in that
cordial spirit which the country
'hoped for, and the manner in which it
1 disposed of the .Georgia judgeship
lease is not calculated >to improve
the situation. It is evidence of a
state of affairs as between the Presi
dent and the Senate that is far from
being reassuring.—Albany Herald.
CHAMPIONING THE SOUTH.
While engaged in presenting mat-
I ters of national import, and especial
! ly looking out after the business of
i the nation, The Manufacturers Re-
I cord always takes occasion to uphold
the South, and in discussing the re
-1 cent disastrous occurrence of St.
! Louis, 111., it has the following to
1 say anent conditions and criticisms
■directed toward the South:
“The disgraceful riot in Illinois
against the negroes of East St. Louis
who, persuaded by promises of high
wages and short hours by men who
rank among the great business lead
ers of the country, had flocked to
that city in order to secure work, ’
has called forth criticisms and sug-'
newspapers in the East, and West
largely against the South.
' ' Some of them denounce the
South because it has not paid negro j
laborers wages sufficiently high to
keep them. from emigrating North '
,and West.
| “Some of them have denounced the ■
I South from other points of view,*
I seeking in. many cases to cover up*
‘the disgrace which has come to 11-'
I linois by trying to raise a smoke in
' ,the South.
■| “It has come to be true of the
'.South, as the old saying has it, that
1 it is ‘Damned if I do, and damned
f if I don't.’
? “If the South raises cotton, it is
J criticized for not raising corn.
If it lessens its cotton acreage, at
I the demand of the United States de
' partment of agriculture, in order to
; ' raise more corn, it is criticized for
reducing its cotton crop and starving
. the world for cotton.
• j “If, after nearly starving its cotton
growers for the last half-century, it
1 succeeds, by virtue of present eco
-1 nomic conditions, in getting a full
* price for cotton, it is denounced as
' ’selfish' and ‘unpatriotic.’
“If negro laborers on southern cot-
I ton plantations were paid sufficient- <
I ly high wages to match the factory
' wages paid to them in the North
and West, as some of the South’s
I critics claim should be done, then
' cotton would have to command 25
j cents a pound, but very much more .
1 than that to enable the South to
1 raise it and live. But if, year in and '
' year out, the South had to receive 1
I more than 25 cents for its cotton'
' in order to pay adequate wages to !
| its farm hands, there would be a I
' howl on the part of the critics of ‘
the South, w(ho would berate this 1
section for demanding such prices i
for a world-needed product.”
The foregoing is very interesting, I
and especially the last paragraph
1 with reference to the price 0f25 cents 1
' per pound for cotton. One thing the'
' war has done—as the Chronicle has I
1 mentioned previously —is to revolu- •
' tionize southern farming and par-1
ticularly cotton farming.
I We have seen the end of low-priced 1
' labor and low-priced lands in the
South, and this means the end of the
low-priced products, because without
1 teh fundamental resources procurable
at low cost, it is imposible to produce
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a cheap product, and therefore, the I
South may be expected to take its I
rightful position along with the other I
leading agricultural communities of
! the world—Augusta Chronicle.
’ WHAT REV. J. W. LEE TOLD
ST. LOUIS CONGREGATION ABOUT
ILLINOIS NEGRO MASSACRE
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat.)
"Never again can one section of
the country select and set apart any
other section as barbarians to a great
; er extent than other places. We
’ ! have been having lynchings in the
' ■ south, and lynchings in the north,
1 but no part of our country can say to
any other part, ‘Physician, heal thy
; self.’ All parts are guilty under the
1 stres of mob hate of giving away to
' the vilest passions of which human
nature is capable.
“The sad thing about this spirit
1 of lawlessness and lynching, and mur
r der, is found in the fact that is us
’ ually practiced against the negro, who,
I without his consent, was brought to
' | this country, who lived in a state of
1 slavery until 1865, and who was made
' 1 a contribution to the agricultural
11 wealth of the country perhaps great
er than any other race of American
people, and yet he is selected as the
object upon which to vent American
lawlessness..
“There never was an anarchist
' among the negroes. They believe in
. observing the law, and yet anarchists
I like Emma Goldman can stir up se
dition, urge insurrection against the
government, and go practically un
' molested, while the poor negroes in
’ Blast St. Louis, for no other crime
than they wanted to work, were pounc
ed upon, many of them beaten to
1 death, their homes burned, and they
’ themselves driven from their homes
by hyenas and tigers in human form.
' Father a Slaveholder
"My father was a slaveholder. I
: was brought up on a plantation near
' Atlanta, Ga. When my father join-
I ed the Confederate army he left my
mother and his children on the plan-
I tation with no other protection than
such as the negroes could give. This
‘ was true with the families of slave
holders all south. And yet,
' while the soldiers of the northern
armies were fighting to free the ne
-1 groes and the negroes knew it, there
has never been a case reported where
the negroes failed to be loyal and
j true to the familes of the southern
.soldiers. The fidelity of the negroes
jto the defenseless women and child
, ren in the south during a war, waged
: , to determine whether they should be
• kept in slavery, has no parallel in
i history. All the meanness the ne-
s groes practice today, they have
learned from mean white folks.
t “The best people of East St. Louis
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
are not to blame, as the best peo
ple in the south were never to blame,
for the lynchings in that section.
The whole situation, north and south,
is due to the fact that politicians,
without conscience, have been per
mitted to occupy places of authority
and they have deliberately excused
dives and places of immoral resort,
if they have not even fostered them,
and through the influence of such
places there have grown up among
us a class of people that are a menace
to orderly government and to Ameri
can civilization itself.
Need New Civilization.
In view of all this, it must be clear
that what we need in the United
States today is a new civilization,
in which there must be the silen
reassertion of the principle of author
ity—of an authority purged and puri
fied by the rejection of all unworthy
elements, an authority based on the
reality (of eternal laws. We must
bring back into human life that
recognition of the value and sacred
ness of life, that we have more or
less lost in the past fifty years.
“The mark of western civilization
has been working in one direction
as individualism, in another as scep
ticism and in another as materialism.
All this has resulted in the question
ing of authoity in every department
of Mfe. The idea has been the liberty
of the individual in condistinction
from the freedom of the whole. There
must come to us the the realiza
tion that there- is, after all, a moral
and unless this does come there can
never be accomplished the re-estab
lishment, within the social order of
jour nation, that authority necessay
Ito preserve us from anarchy and
chaos.
Best People Must Unite
“We must establish a class made
up of the best people, who shajl as
sume the responsibility of elections to
office, and keeping in office only
such persons as will themselves ob
serve the law and force others to
observe it. We must come to the
recognition of the oneness of our
lives, the dependence of every man
upon every other man, and with the
realization of this universal unity of
dur people, the cruelties of our civili
zation will disappear, for the simple
reason that they will be eno longer
tolerable.
‘‘The indifference to the lot of oth
ers, which we recognize in the law
less outbreak of hate in East St.
Louis, give place to a growing sen
sibility and growing feeling of the
vital unity of all the people who
make up the social order. So much
of our civilization is based upon sheer
negligence and inconsiderateness that
it is often oblivious to sheer cruelty,
quickened conscience of the people.
All this must be doomed by the
“The vision of the best and noblest
must, in the ages to come, be a uni
versal fact. In the civilization of the
future all optimists must believe in
a world that s becomng ever more
thoroughly purified of cruelty, one
pinked up in all its parts by an ever-
I widening sympathy, and informed by
lan ever purer spirit if kindness. This
j war is preparing the way foj such
J a new order of life. All who believe
this bave on their side the machinery
of the universe and inevitably what
is best must prevail.”
If the Germans are running short on
torpedoes, as certain officials would
have us believe, they are makin?
mighty good use of what few they
have left, to judge from the weekly re
ports of vessels destroyed by Von
Tirpitz’s pets.
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Fraternal Hall, Lamar street. All vis
iting Sovereigns invited to meet with
us. STEPHEN PACE. C. C.
NAT LeMASTER, Clerk.
F. and A. M.
• AMERICUS LODG3
■raA F. & A. M., meets ev-
jk ery second and
fourth Friday night
.* v. at 7 o’clock.
FRANK J. PAYNE, W. M.
J. RESCOE PARKER, Sec’y.
• M. B. COUNCIL
LODGE F. and A. M.
meets every First and
Third Friday nights,
r * -Visiting brothers are
Invited to attend.
DR. J. R., STATHAM, W. M.
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WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14,
P. 0. S. OF A.
Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. O. S. of A. Hall, No. 21K
Lamar St. All members in good stand
ing invited to attend. Beneficiary certi
ficates from $250.00 to $2,000.00 issued
to members of this camp.
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0. D. REESE, Recd’g. Sec’y.
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Fbe Progressive Railway ot the Soutti
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TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1917