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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1908)
r\or\tgorr\ory /Monitor. PI BUSHED EVERY THIRSDAY. OFFICIAL ORGAN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Kntfiofl at ft* Postofllcr in Mt. Vernon. (>h. an Spcond-Claid* Mail Matter. h. B. FOLSOM, Editor and Prop. $t a Year, In Advance •*-1 I *<l«-i tnwmeiit* miiHt invariably l.e |H»t<l im advance, at Hie l*«»l rate, auil a* I lie law direct*; anil miMt be in baml not later than WtHinewlay rnnrtiltiK of the tirat week of inaertlnn Mt. Y'ernon, Georgia, Thursday Morning, Aug. 6, 1908. FARMERS' UNION OPPOSE CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM A special to the Constittil 1011 1 tinted at Macon July JW•, aaya: “The last work of the session of the Georgia Farmers’ Union was completed at noon today with two very im|»ortont resolutions, one ii|miii the immigration ques t u»n, and anot her upon the pres ent method of handling the state prisoners. A very large number of the inemlters remained to the Inst moment, and the work of the session is reported to have been more thorough and more effective than that of nny former annual meeting. A great deal ot the work that was done was held as secret, owing to its character. The resolutions passed touching the convict question were as fol lows : “Resolved, By the Georgia Di vision of the Farmers’ I'nion, in annual convention assembled — “I, That wo heartily favor the speedy and if possible the imme diate abolishment of the convict lease system. “Said system is utterly wrong in principle, th<* state having no right to delegate its soverign pow er to punish criminals to private citizens. Said system is altogeth er ('rile I, for the lessens in their efforts to get, the biggest possible profits, work such convicts under terrible condit ions, which are re volting to every dictate to hu manity and justice. “That we favor legislation which shall put all the able-bod ied convicts, felony and misde meanor, at work upon the public roads of tie* state, under such di visions and conditions as will tie fsir and equitable to all sections and all counties of tin* state; and the establishment of central farms upon which a sufficient number of the convicts mnv tie employed only for the purpose of raising such agricultural products as may be necessary for the feeding of all the convicts of the state and not for the pur|Misi< of selling farm products for profit in the open market. That a copy of these resolutions In* furnished to the press for pub lication, uud we hop** that the general assembly of Georgia, now in session, w ill wipe away the stain so long resting upon the fair name of our beloved state,exterminat ing this blighting evil forever, and to that end we favor a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting the leasing of convicts. OPPOSED TO IMMIUKATIoN. Many of the members of the i'nion expressed themselves ahead of time regarding the immigration matter, but when it came to in-! dorsing resolute ns it. was clearly shown that there was little favor for any s >rt of movement tow ards bringing foreign labor to the state. Tin* resolutions which went on record touching this topic were as. follows : “Whereas, foreign immigration is proposed for the agricultural sections of the south, and “Whereas, the federal govern- i ment is especially investigating the attitude of southern farmers toward the distribution and diver sion of the present alien mtlux to tlie south, and “Whe r**as, the farmers of Geor gia are unalterably opposed, and in favor of the'euhstantial exclu sum of the classes now pour ing into this country. Therefore, Is* it Resolved, That the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Uti ion of the state of Georgia, in an nual convention assembled, rep resenting over 100,000 farmois do taw*by this J(fly JO to 30, iOOts. at Macon, Ga., expo se our opposi tion to foreign immigration, and 1 urge our state and nation officials to use their utmost influence ini every possible wav to secure the j substantial exclusion of the ['res ent foreign influx, and to prevent Georgia and the South being; made u dumping ground for for eign immigration, and be it further “Resolved, That n copy of these resolutions he sent to the immj-j gratinn commission at Washing lon, D. (/., our senators and con-; grcsHineii, and to our general as sembly, and that local presidents l and lecturers emphasize this ques -11011.” NN EMBARRASSING SITUATION FOR GEORGIA SOLON’S CATGUT AT POKER. Five Members of Georgi’s Re form legislature Arrested Atlanta, Ga., July Hi —Detect ives raided a room in the Kimball House, one of Atlanta’s leading hotels, this afternoon, and arrest ed live members of the Georgia legislature, who were engaged in a game of poker for high stakes. When the detectives rushed into the room there was a ‘‘jnek-pot” on the table worth over jjtfiOO. The legislators got busy with the phono, and by the use of in fluence gave bond fo r #3OO each i and kept their names off the po lice record. The roo m w „s fitted up with a regular poker table, and lb** detectives allege that it has been used for gambling by the leg islators over since the session be gnu. The above is reproduced from a ! Northern metropolitan daily. Georgia seems to be truly nn- I'ortnnalo at times and is caused !to suffer unnecessary disgrace at I the hands of some of its citizens | from whom wo should expect most. Rather an unpleasant fact that i while the stories ol Georgia’s cru elties to her criminals are going to | the world us a tale of horror se|- ; dom ('(pialed in the world today, i hut the story of live members of the legislature to whom we must look for relief are caught violating the law and arrested, goes wiih it. Is if any wonder we are com- I pelted to fight, the re-dnaotment,of the convict lease, is it any wonder that millions of dollars of Geor gia’s money lias gone to private individuals at tho expense ot hu man life and blood, when our leg islature contains men who have so little respect for the state they rep resent ns to be its worst criminals? If it were not for unjust dis crimination and “inriiHuice”these men would have been consigned to the very chaingangs they are per mitted to sit in judgment on and participate in continuing. There is a big difference in a SSOO poker game by mem tiers of | Georgia’s legislature and a ten- I cent crap game by a half-dozen negroes. 1 he negroes make good convicts and in some cases net. the sub lessee as high as #-100 a year each. And then the sub-lessee is often the friend of the poker-playing legislator.—Atlanta Georgian. MONEY TO LOAN. Money to loan at l> and 7 jw*r cent, on improved farms. A. B. Hutcheson, Mt. Vernon. Ga. The best wav to keep decent is to keep busy. Tins applies to men and women, boys and girls, the rich and very rich, the poor and the devilish poor, the great and the near great God may have made a world and poop lad it with a race that could live happily aod enjoy prosperity without lal>or. Some ot the big stars that we see at night may be such a world, but he didn’t fix it that way on this little earth. Here it is necessary for every useful citizen to keep j busy at some decent employment. Get Bt’sv at something i skeui Fitzgerald Enterprise. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDAY. AUG fi, 1908. BAD HEALTH AND DEBT CAUSES MAN TO SUICIDE Jos. M. Cribb, a justice of the peace and a prominent resident of Waresboro in Ware county, com mitt**d suicide just after midnight Friday night by shooting himself through the heart with a shot gun. Mr. Cribb sat. on the side of his bed, and placing the muzzle of the gun to his heart, pulled the trigger w ith his walking cane. The 1 entire load of No. fi shot entered Ins finely causing instant death. The body of the suicide fell upon some quilts which apparently had been arranged for the purpose. The man’s little 15-year old son j had just been sent across the |street to awaken neighbors who were asked to come over and sit 1 up with him, and his little girl of 15 was alleeping in the room ad ! joining. Mr. H. J. Jeffords, who had been awakened by the boy was coming over to the house when lie heard the gun fire Mr. Cribb was | dead when ho reached the room. A letter con timing seventeen I pages from the dead man to his | brother was found on a table in the room. The letter explained ! that the writer intended to kill himself. Mr. Cribb bad evident ly used care m preparing the let ter. He stated that, his debts worried him all the tune, and his health, which had been bad for sonic time, did not improve. He said that he wanted all his court papers to go to Cap Rouse, the constable, who would know what to do with them. Mr. Cribb has been a resident of Ware, county practically all his life. At one time he was a man of ! some means, but in recent years lie had apparently lost all inter est in himself. A daughter, Mrs. I Martin, resides on Thomas street i in Waycroes. The funeral occurred at the W a res boro ce me te ry. ! A REAL WARNING BUT WILL THEY TAKE IT In speaking of the recent Sun day night tragedy which happened in Jacksonville, Fla., the JOth ult., the Fitzgerald Enterprise, one of the Imst papers in South I Georgia, says; ‘‘The terrible tragedy at Jack sonville Sunday night in which young Buckley shot his wife to j death is a lesson that every man ; who touches whisky should study j well. The young man came of a j good family. His people here are among the best, and the Jackson ville papers state that he was well thought of in that city. He had the natural traits of a good citi zen. but he was a victim of demon rum. If he had been a sober man. he would have been the pride of his old fat her and his sustaining support in his old age. As it is, he will no doubt, sacrifice every ; dollar he can raise to save the boy I from the gallows or a life in prison.” LANDS IN WIREGRASS WILL ADVANCE IN PRICE. Wo love Georgia very much — loyally and we shall not disparage a single acre of her soil Middle Georgia is nI right; it, is fine coun try. Bat there is this difference— this vast difference in favor of the wire grass section in comparison with the good old red hill section ; | Our land down here will produce as much on one acre as three or * four acres of the r»*d hill count ry w ill produce und the price of the land is exactly reversed, that is : the middle Georgia lands sell for three times as much as the wire grass lands. A few years ago they sold for four or five times as as much. Now as the wore grass lands will produce as much on one aero as three acres of red hills produce and the wire grass lands can be had for one third the price of the middle Georgia lands, it’s a plain mathematical calculation, three times three is nine. Multiply the present price of the wire grass lands by nine to find their fair value. Yes, we expect to see w ire grass lands nine times the present prices at which they are selling. ! —Fitzg»rald Enterprise. WHY HE SLAVEO Senator Johnson of Alabama lownsa beautiful home surround ed by several acres in Birming liain and takes great delight in . donning a pair of overalls and a split hickory hat and working in ; the garden. One day a fashion-1 ably dressed woman, who had re sided in Birmingham only a short! time and bail never seen Johnston < called on bis wife. No one an- j swered the bell, so she walked j out among the flower beds, where i the ex governor was hoeing some i geraniums. He bowed and she Asked him how long he had worked for the 1 Johnstons. “A good many years 1 madam.” he replied. ‘‘Do they i pay you well?” “About all I get j out of it is my clothes and keep.” “Why. come and work for me,” she said. “I’ll do that and pay you so much a month beside.” “I thank you, madam, ’’bowing very low, ‘but I signed up with Mrs. Johnston for life.” “Why, no such contract is binding. That is peonage.” “Some may call it that but I have always called it marriage.” For Year’s Support. Georgia—Montgomery County. To all whom i' may concern : .Nils. Clara White having marie ap plication for a 12 months support for herself and minor children out of the estate of Jasper L. White, deceased, and (he appraisers duly appointed for valuation and setting apart hav ing filed their return, this Is to cite all parties concerned to be and ap peal at m,v office within th.e time al lowed by law and show cause if any theycan why said application should : not he granted. This the 6rh day of July, 1 Stott. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Citation. neorgia— Montgomery County. To all whom it may concern: W. it. Mosley having In proper form applied to me for letters of ad ministration o» the estate of Henry A. Joyce, Hr., late of said county, deceased, this is to cite al> and sing ular the creditors and next of kin of said Henry A. Joyce, Hr., to he and appear at in.v office within the time allowed by law and show cause ir j any they can why administration should not. he granted to said W. R. Mosley oil said Henry A. Joyce, Sr’s • state". Wit ness my hand and oftle -1 ial signature this the 6th day of July iuoh. Alex McArthur, Ordinary. Citation. Georgia—Montgomery Connty : To all whom it may concern: Mrs. Eugenia Martin having in proper form applied to me for letters of administration on the estate of | Mrs. Nancy Billiard, late of said county, deceased, this is to cite all and singular the creditors and next of kin of said Nancy Bullard so be and a open r at iny office within the time allowed by law and show cause if any they can why administration should not be granted to said Euge nia Martin on said Nancy Bullard's estate. Witness my hand and official signature this the 6fh day of July, IWOX. Alex McArthur. Ordinary. Notice lo Debtoni ami Creditor*. Georgia—Montgomery County. All creditors of the estate of L. O. Uilli9, late of Montgomery County, deceased,are hereby noti fied to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law and nil persons indebted to said estate are required to make imme diate payment. This 9th day of; July, 1908. T. A. Gillis, 7-16-4 t Adr Estate L. O. Gillis. Nl7 B. 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