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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. CALHOUN,
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Atty at Law,
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Mt. Vernon, Georgia.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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ia and Federal. <s.
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Lauds a Specialty. . . .
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Attorney and Coun
selor at Law,
ricRAE, A.
Criminal Law am! CoUrohuna, lacladiog R»il
■ oail Tni t Curt, a Specialty.
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