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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER. THURSDAY. MARCH 25. 1909.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
DULY AND WEEKLY
The Amuicus Recorder, Established
187b.
The Americus Times, Established 1890.
Consolidated April, 1891.
now it can be seen that they are wan
ing beneath the strong light of com
mon sense, that the pendulum Is once
more swinging back toward equal
rights and curtailed privileges. Prin
ciples that are but the expressions of
great fundamental truths, that meet
the most vital necessities of a pro-
Entercd at the postofflce at Amerl- gresslve manhood,*mny be occasional
cns as stcond-class mall matter.
THOMAS GAMBLE. JR.,
Editor and Manager.
X W. KL'RLOW City Editor.
i". L. DUPREE, Asst. Business Dept
Editorial Room Telephone 99.
The Tlmes-ltecorder Is the
Ofllciul Organ of the City of Americus.
I Official Organ of Sumter County,
i Official Organ of Webster County.
; Official Organ of Railroad Commis
sion of Georgia for 3rd Congres
sional District.
Offlci.t! Organ U. S. Court. Southern
D.-.trict of Georgia.
Americas, Ga. March 26th, 1901).
GOOD ROADS LEAD TO WOOD
TOWNS,
good
After all of the arguments for
good ro ids are condensed, they
simply mean In their results good
roads from good farms to good
•owns —Exchange.
Good i ..ads lead from good farms
to gocrt towns. There never was
greater : :: It expressed lu a fewer
words. That is what we want right
here in i-umter county, good roads
leadini from good farms to
towns.
We have some good farms, but they
-Can be made better. We have some
pocr f irms, and they can be improv
ed ml. hilly. We have a heap of land
that is liot under cultivation and that
can be converted into productive ind
profitable farms.
The vay to do it is to build good
roads. There is nothing that does
more ia develop a country than good
roads. They are as necessary as rall-
ly obscured and thrust to the rear,
but their dyamic power is still in
tact. The engine with steam up may
stand an Inert mass upon the track,
useless, devoid of motion. But nil it
needs is the hand of the capable en
gineer upon the throttle, the nerve of
confidence and experience to guide
and direct, to send It speeding upon
Its way, a thing of usefulness and ben
efit to those in whose service it
enlisted. So with the principles that
really represent the historic Demo
cracy. All they need Is the revivify
ing touch of n soul that Is afire with
zealous dovotlon to the people's In
terests. the Impulse of a brain that
can grapple with wrong and, knowing
no fear, wrestle with It through the
darkness to the dawn of a better day,
Democracy does not need new prin
ciples. It wants capable, sincere, ex
perienced leadership that will prune
off the excrescences, that will tear
< It is the common report of men
.who have traveled to any extent that
when* r they find a section with good
toads tiny find fine looking farms,
they find attractive farm houses, they
find good stock, and they find good
towns. They all go together. You
cannof separate them. It is just as
impossible to have measly farms, de-
Ckeplt stork, and run-dowu-pt-the-
heels towns in a county that is cross
ed in every direction by up-to-date
highways, as It is toflnd clean, high
toned, prosperous geAitlenien In the
guise of hums.*' Good roads are an
incentive to improvements that speed
ily build up the county In which they
lire built. They give a stimulus that
nothing i Ise can do.
' Let us have the report go out that
. Bumtcr county is to have good roads
from one efid of It to the other. Let
all progressive cltixens work In that
Hired Ion. I aft us have another bond
election and this time let us carry It.
mere will not be a citizen in Sumter
county one year after good roads are
built who would vote against such
proposition.
IM-
DEMOCRACY'S PRINCIPLES
MORTAL.
That we are to-day |>erilously
close to a division of the white
people of the South ts not due to
any tendency toward! Republican
ism. It grows out of a profound
disgust with the National Dem
ocratic party u at preaent consti
tuted and managed.—Extract from
Hon. W. W. Osborne's recent let
ter to Georgia public.
If ochlocracy Is decadent, in the
South or elsewhere, It Is not due
any shrinkage In the vitality of the
original principles of Democracy, but
- to poisonous excrescences that have
foisted themselves upon the party and
for years have been continuously sap
ping Its life away. False leaders have
ruined many a good cause In the past
temporarily, but false leaders, while
they may have betrayed or Jeopardised
have never succeeded in destroying
principles thst were based on great
primal truths. At (imea it may seem
as though l-owcll were correct when
he wrote
"Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne."
But a closer study of the history i f
mankind demonstrates that eventually
wrong is dethroned and truth assumes
the place from which It had been un
justly driven.
Democracy's original principles are
Immortal. They will never perish.
The party name may pass Into obliv
ion. Its bogus leaders may bring
down the organization into Irretriev
able ruin. But the foundations on
Which the glorious superstructure of
the past was reared will remain, will
still he there awaiting the master
bnUders who will reconstruct upon it
a fairer, a far loftier and far more
enduring jiolltlcal edifice, dedicated to
those inalienable rights of mankind
(hat have been slowly but steadily
forging to the front in every land be
neath the sun through centuries of
misrule and class power,
t Parties pass away. The Federal
party, the Whig party, theta are bnt
memories. The Democratic party may
Join them aa one of the reminiscences
of American political history. There
has been a pasting recrudescence of
the theories of Federalism, but even
away the rubbish and let the grand ed
llice of the past stand out again in
all its pristine glory. That “pro
found disgust" to which Mr. Osborne
refers will then be succeeded by en
thusiastic devotion, the vast army will
fall Into line once more, keeping step
lo the stirring air of "America," and
march triumphantly on to victory.
Like the great processes of nature
|he principles of Democracy muht
continue on, constant, unaltered and
unimpaired. The party may disinte
grate, hut out of the chaos of it ami
other parties a new and purer nud
grander parly must arise, dedicated to
the same aspirations, the hopes that
dwell untutored in every breast that
Is uncorruptcd by avarice and un-
polsoned by "the system."
Reared in an atmosphere in which
personal liberty is still the dominant
clement, the American people are not
apt to ever relinquish "Those sacred
rights to which themselves were
born." The pessimist may at times
feel Inclined to the belief that the
principles of Democracy ore slowly
dying, that aristocratic theories are
assuming sway and firmly establish
Ing themselves In the warp and woof
of the institutions- of the land, but
there Is no reason for such “com
mcrce with despair." It Is as true to
day as ever that
"They never fall who die
In a great cause—Still their spirits
walk abroad.
They but augument the deep and
sweeping thoughts
Which overspread all others and
conduct
The world at last to freedom."
gogues obscured these facts for a
time. They lead the people, or some
of the people, In Georgia and other
states to look upon railroads ns de
vouring monsters that sucked the life
blood away from the people and gave
nothing in return. The majority of
those who were lead astray by theso
men now wonder how they could
have been so foolish as to attack their
own personal Interests by driving
away capital and hampering the dev
elopment of their own state and coun
ties. They rqallze now the part the
ra:iroads play In opening up new
sections to settlers, the part they
play In bringing new blood into com
munities that have been lying stag
nant. Now the cry 1b, extend your
roads, build new ones, advertise the
opportunities that are lay
ing dormant here. let the
world know what we have lo
offer, help us to make Georgia, to
make the South, wliat nature design
ed it to be, the world's greatest land.
May the evil day never come back
when men with political ambitions
will pounce upon railroads and other
forms of aggregated wealth and seek
to puli them down solely to advance
their own selfish aspirations. It they
ever do It again in Georgia may the
rebuke they receive be so severe
to forever check them nnd their kind
from similar efforts again.
“CAPITAL FOLLOWS OOOD ROADS"
This Is the caption of an editorial
in the Forsyth Banner, one of the ar
dent advocates for good roads
every Georgia county. It quotes from
the Covington News to the effect lhat
good roads are the best advertisement
a county can have. Us argument Is
concisely put and is conclusive
character. It is a pleasure to repro-
due it a sa statement that embraces
much in a short space. Here it is:
People will move to a county with
good roads more quickly than they
will where the roads are |>oor. Capl
talists and promoters are looking for
counties with good roads to locate
and invest their money. Good roods
to a county mean a saving of time
to every citizen. It Is no small mat
ter when a farmer can put four bales
of cotton on his wagon and trot his
team to town with more ease than he
can put two bales on the same wag
on and climb the hills and wear out
his vehicles nnd kill his stock over
some of the roads that have to be
traveled under conditions where the
roads are poorly worked and kept
up.
WHERE IS THE MONEY TO COME
FROM f
SHOt'LD BRING TIIE DEATH
PENALTY,
The interest of the country has
been largely centered on the efforts
made to recover the son of -William
Whitla, kidnapped from Sharon. Pa.,
and held for a ten thousand dollar
ransom. The parents, eager to re
gain possession of their child, were
willing to pay the nmount demanded.
But for the intervention of the po
lice of Cleveland they would probab
ly have succeeded in doing this last
TIIE NOITII AND TIIE RAILROADS
We have made all of the Harrl-
man roads good roads. It is the
best system In the world today
and we constantly are working to
make It better. We are not tak
ing money out of the country;
we aro putting more money Into
development. The railroads are
the greatest force of civilization
at work today. In olden days the
population was thinned by civil
war. Now the country Is crowd
ed and the people must find new
homes. I take It that it Is scarce
ly necessary to point out the part
which railroads play In opening
up new country.—Extract from In
terview with Edward Harriman.
A much better feeling exists toward
railroads In the entire South today
than there did two yean ago, or even
one year ago. The demagogues whose
sole political capital was their vicious
onslaughts on capital In Incorporated
forms, and especially on the great
lrans|K>rtation lines of the land, have
largely been relegated to their proper
place and their voices no longer have
the power lo incite the people into
passionate applause of harmful and
incendiary utterances. It Is realized
in the South, as probably never be
fore, that the railroads are not the
enemies but the friends and develop
ers of this section, that more and more
railroads are needed to open up this
great Southland, that untold wealth
must be poured out here In the exten
sions of old railroads, the bettering
of their facilities, and the construe
tlon of new roads to meet the de
mands of a growing population and
to open up the country to farming and
Industrial life generally.
As Harriman says, "the railroads
are the greatest force of civilization
today." What are the backward, half
civilized, unprogrexxlve communities
of this or any other state? Those
that have not direct or near access to
railroads, those that are remote from
transportation facilities. What Is It
that Infuses new life Into a cross
roads village, that brings new possi
bilities to a county, that sends a
thrill of expectancy through a com
munity? The building of a railroad
that will connect it with the great
outside world, that will enable Its
people to come Into dally contact with
the markets of the country, that will
permit them to handle their products
to advantage and to vary the output
of the soil It they so desire. Dema-
wcek. But the authorities there, and
at other points, maintained that If the
father were allowed to do this
would be an encouragement to other
desperate criminals to kidnap the
children of wealthy men, and that an
rfra of such crimes would be Inaugu
rated. They accordingly discouraged
and in effect thwarted the efforts
the father to settle with the kidnap
pers on a cosh basis and secure the
return of his boy. The latest reports
are to the effect that the father by
avoiding any relations with the reg
ularly constituted authorities, and
employing a private detective agency,
negotiated with the kidnappers, paid
the J10.000 quietly, and In good faith,
and secured the return of his boy.
With the child's mother In a condi
tion of despair approaching insanity,
with his own heart torn with anxiety
and anguish, the money was a trifle
hardly to be considered.
Yet one cannot but feel that the law
officers were In the right, that It Is a
dangerous precedent, one that will
encourage kidnapping ns a systematic
and highly profitable crime, to per
mlt parents whoso children have
been stolen from them to recover them
by the payment of large sums
money. Through all civilization the
individual frequently suffers for the
good of society as a whole. In the
famous Charley Ross kidnapping caze
of 1876 the return of the child could
have been secured but for the refusal
of the police to permit the father to
pay a large sum of money quietly and
with an agreement not to prosecute.
It Is a terrible situation In which to
place a parent. The love for his
child conflicts with his duty for so
ciety as a whole. Love would gen
erally triumph If permitted to work
by Itself. In this latest Instance the
father recalled the fact that Charley
Roes waa never returned and that his
fate has nlways remained a mystery.
Rather than have a similar horror
shadowing the life of himself and hla
wife he would willingly have relin
quished far more than the kidnappers
demanded.
The Ross case was the first of ahy
prominence In this country. Since
then there have been several others
that have attracted national attention.
In Italy and Greece the brigands make
a business of kidnapping. With the
advent of thousands of undesirable
foreigners Into the country we may
sooner or later expect kidnapping to
develop Into a continuously practiced
crime If it Is not nipped In the bud.
Every state should make it a crime
punishable with death and every state
should use every resource at Its com
mand to hunt down those guilty of
such an offense. It Is one crime,
like that of rape, that cannot be suf
fered to pass without adequate pun
ishment.
The Atlanta Georgian says there are
84,000 children in Georgia who must
be forced to go to school. It will take
at least 1,700 more teachers to ill
struct them. At the small average of
$300 for a teacher this means $510,000.
The treasury Is "busted" half of the
time, and the existing corps of teach
ers get their money six to twelve
months after it.is ranted . Candidly
speaking, do the financial conditions
permit of a compulsory educational law
such as the Georgian is fighting to
There is an old saying about cutting
the garment to suit the cloth. Had
we not I tetter arrange to pay the
teachers wc now have rather than add
an army of seventeen hundred more
unpaid ones to the list? Not a single
one of those advocating a compulsory
educational law has conic out with a
proposition showing where the money
Is to come from. And, after all, the
money must be provided first.
Cant Wear
Ready-Mades?
‘EFF-EFF”
S&rJPrrftfjrimrrJP&fjrl
ONE WAY TO BUILD IT SI'MTE
The Macon News regrets the position
In which the six bolting Georgia Con
gressmen have put themselves. It says:
That Cannon will use his power In
the future as he has Id the past there
Is little doubt. These bolters, who
have made his continuation of despot
ism necezzary, may get a sop for their
pains, but when the occasion arizes,
unless the leopard has changed hla
spots. Cannon will deal democracy
blow that will cause hla newly found
friends In that party to stagger; and
when this time comes they cannot lift
their voices In honest protest, because
they gave him that power when mem
bers of hla own party would hava
wrenched it from him.
In going over its numerous
changes the Times-Recorder always
keeps an eye open for articles that
contain hints that may be of benefit
to the people of Americus and
Sumter county. The main purpose
of a local newspaper, situated aa this
paper is, we construe to be, next
the printing of the ordinary news,
stimulate and encourage everything
that will promote the building up of
(he city and the county, to direct at
tcntlon to efforts that are making
elsewhere that could be emulated
here, and to persistently endeavor to
awaken In our home people a desire
to unite In movements having the
development of the city nnd county
In vley.
In the Fitzgerald Dally News a few
days ago we found an editorial that
fitted conditions In Sumter with con
considerable forcefulness, although it
perhaps does not apply quite
strongly here os in Ben IIII1, where
there has not been equally, as great an
agricultural progress os In Sumter.
But, speaking broadly, there Is con
siderable similarity In the conditions
existing in all Georgia counties, and
the suggestions and efforts that are
mode In one county can generally be
found valuable for the consideration of
the people of other counties.
The News, as will be seen from
the editorial which we print below,
puts forth a plan for the building
up of Ben Hill county that Is welt
entitled to careful attention. It is
a plan that commends Itself to this
and other counties. Our Board of
Trade might well follow the same
general plan, secure exactly the same
class of Information, and through
pamphlet setting. It forth and given
wide circulation be the means of
stimulating a considerable immigra
tion in this direction. Here is the
News editorial:
The editor of the News has a plan
to populate Ben Hill county within
two years If the land owners of the
county will co-operate In the move
ment.
Every man In the county who owns
as many as twenty acres of land, and
who would be willing to sell half of
it at a reasonable price, to build
house and settle a family on, is In
vited to write or see the editor of the
paper within the next ten days, and
give a description of the property and
the lowest price he will sell half of
it for.
If the party owns a hundred, ftvo
hundred, a thousand, five or ten thou
sand acres, he Is asked to name a
price per acre on every other twenty
or forty acre tract In that body, he
retaining each alternate tract.
If hla offer be taken Into the plan
that Is to be proposed, It will mean a
house and a family on every other
twenty or forty-acre tract In his body
of land, which will Increase the value
of that which he has left from one
hundred to ten thousand per cent.
Therefore he can afford to sell the
Hist halt at a much lower rate p or
acre than If he were selling It all In
one body.
„ In order to make the plan a suc
cess It will be necessary to sell the
first half at very reasonable prlcu,
and upon that fact will be based the
acceptance or rejection of any lands
offered for this proposition.
The editor of The News baa the
There was a time when, if you were partic
ular, you’couldn't get your clothes notions car
ried out except at a tailor’s. But that was in the
R days of sweat-shops—before such great institu
tions as the Fechheimer Fishel Co., or New York
City, were in existence.
Their garments are designed and tailored by
the most skilled craftsmen in the world. Not
only Ae cloth, but every detail of the workman
ship is subjected to the critical scrutiny of ex
perts before it leaves the factory.
, No fabric can go into an “Eff-Eff” garment
that has not withstood the rigid rain and bleach
ing test to which all cloth used by the Fechheimer
Fishel Co., is subjected—whether it be a suit or
coat for $18 or $35.
New Spring
Chas.
Styles Now Ready
L. Ansley
— ‘V.J-’NO NEED OF A
VETERINARY
plan and he Invites the same
from every man who entera Into It
with him. The plan proposed will I
have no trick or rlek In It for any I
person who becomes a party to It.
The offer of this land will not bind
owners who make tho offer. It Is “ We run a IJvery. Feed and Sale
merely to ascertain Jf the land own- Stables, have a city transfer aaU
era want to bring one or two thou-1 handle hard and soft coal*and conss-
?? B Termer* to the coun- fiuently we need a good many horses,"
th S "*.** two years ' 03 “» f.Y Bedcl1 Brp “ - of Mount Camel,
aid to the development of our rich •••■ "We have used 81oan's Liai-
farm lands and consequenUy to de- ment and Veterinary Remedies tm
velop every other enterprise which a years and find they give perfect satis-
f er .frer PU ra ,l0 V Wl ," d0 ' l faCt '? n ' ^ long as sioti'. remedies
* rt *r the plan Is proposed in a ‘re in our barn we do not need a
P“ b 2i* meetl , a B which la to bo held veterinary surgeon. We are never
< ! a i e ' the Individual without them and and conscientiously
?v do "?* r ,8h t0 undertake the recommend them to all horsemen"
plan, they will be under no obligation
to 00 80. '
What Is wanted now ig Information
concerning land In Ben Hill county,
the location, character of land and
the lowest price at which It may be
purchased, taking only a portion of
what each party owns.
’f 1 v'! i® 11 ®!* or Information be
made brief and to the point and it is
necessary to answer this appeal quick-
CANT “SNAP"
BATHERS
Bill to Bar the Camera from Atlantic
City Reach
Colby Bros., of the Mineral City
Uvery, Fort Dodge. Ia.. write :-I
have used Sloan's Colic Cure, Mal-
ment and Fever and Distemper Rem-
tv for the P** 1 ten yean, and since
I have been using them, I have never
had a veterinary In my barn, and have
not lost a horse from either colie or
distemper and will say that any man
with a horse or horses who keeps
Sloan's Liniment and Veterinary Rem-
edlea In hla barn will never have sc-
c oi° n *° ca ^ a veterinary.
Sloan’8 Treatise* on the Horae, seat
L r *® ( ° *ny horseman. Address Dr.
fcnrl S. Sloan, Boston, Maas.
i
iitpr of
You’ve got no uk for any msga-
ainef No?
Atlantic City, March 25.—Council
man Henry Bolte. Jr., "baby" member
of the municipal body has introduced
a bill to bar photographers from the
beach Heavy fines aro to be Imposed
on offenders who persist In taking
pictures Of pretty girl bathers.
"Some of them are willing to be
photographed on any and all occa
sions, said Mr. Bolto today; “but the
custom is exceedingly distasteful to
others and my bill aeeka to stop it
-i,h ge K a Tha WU W,U do away
with hordes of Itinerant photograph
ers who have made themselves offen-
slve by their Insistence on picturing
bathers who do not wish to have I
their beech appearance orM****^„ L _
pr ***rved. [For Sale at Holliday's Book Store.
Don't need EVERYBODY'S? No?
Doesn’t concern you ? No ?
BUT high-priced freight, coal, and
lumber—pure food—cheap water
way!? That hits you ? Yes? That'z
what EVERYBODY’S Is for-
Gut it; cm out sn article occuion-
•Ily and send it to your congressman.
Things will begin to move—you
won’t feel so powerless. 1