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Mount Vernon. Ga.. Thursday Morning, Sept. 19, 1912.
The proposition to divide Geor
gia into two states is hut another
silly agitation to give opportunity
for the explosion of a lot of gas
in the legislature, and take up I
time that might be spent in leg
islating upon matters of real and
vital importance.
When the Atlanta Journal runs!
out of soap, there is only one
theme that pops into the head of
its editorial writer and that is
the eternal abuse of Governor
Brown. The people of Georgia
have long since arrived at the
conclusion that it is a clear case
of Little Fido worrying the moon.
The muddle over the election
of the State Commissioner of Ag
riculture would lead a simple
minded citizen to inquire if some
one cannot be found in the great
state of Georgia with brains
enough to draft a bill in language
that cannot be construed in a
dozen different ways to suit the
whims of politicians.
Cotton is one of our principal
products, and yet cotton seed and
cotton seed meal form one of the
chief imports, as far as the far
mer is concerned. There should
be a cotton seed oil mill in every
county producing as much as
eighteen or twenty thousand
bales of staple. Montgomefy
county having produced last year
27,4-17 bales, would be entitled to
a cotton seed oil mill under the
above proposition. Ix't it come
sixm.
Let Montgomery county be re
presented at the Twelfth District
fair to lie held in Dublin October
Bto 12 inclusive. It will be an
inspiration to our farmers to at
tend, and if possible carry some
thing. Call at this office and get
a premium list, or write the sec
retary, R. M. Martin, at Dublin.
The time is near at hand. Uiurens
county is one of the most pro
gressive in the state, but she is
willing that the vast benefits of
district fair be divided among
tb<> counties furnishing exhibits,
and Dublin is too broad a city to
claim all the success of the ven
ture. Join her in the worthy ef
fort to bring out the best in the
district.
While it has been a great year
for politics and elections, let the
good people remember that there
yet remains two more elections
for the year the regular state
election October 2 and the na
tional election November 5. In
the state election it is very neces
sary to poll a full vote for the
state nominees as well as the
county nominees of Ixith the first
and second primaries held in this
county; while in the rational j
election of course everybody !
wants to cast a ballot for Wilson
and Marshal, lx't all true Dem-'
oeruts fill out the year’s program
by turning out on the dates men
tioned and finishing up the work.
Do not be afraid to drop in a j
dollar for the success of Demo
cracy. Every indication points
to the election of Mr. Wilson as
president. He is not asking
money, and will not accept any
for personal use; but the expen
ses of the campaign make it in
cumbent upon every loyal Demo
crat to help out the cause by
adding a mite. Eight years ago.
even though it was questionable,
and resulted in a world-wide dis
turbance, the Standard Oil Co.
gave to Ex-President Roosevelt’s
campaign fund practically as
much as Democracy has thus far
contributed toward the success
of the Democratic ticket. Send
your dollar to The Monitor office,
get a receipt for same, and have
it sent in to headquarters at
once. •
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Valdosta Times:—Reports from
different parts of Georgia indi
cate that vote buying in this state
has reached a shameful stage.
Public sentiment ought to become
so strong against such a practice
that no man would undertake it,
Graymont Hustler:—Graymont
is a place where few temptations
will meet you or the many evils
of life environ you. A place where
a man can live a Christian if he
wants to.
Monroe Advertiser: —The Col
lege girls have returned and For
syth is taking on new life; indeed
everybody seems to be “sitting
up and biking notice” again.
Whether it is the arrival of Fall
and cooler days or the return of
the Bessie Tift girls, we won’t
undertake to say.
Lyons Progress: Cotton pick
ers are being paid GO cents per
hundred right at the start this
year and we cant help but think
it is a mistake. At the price cot
ton is selling and taking into con
sideration the short crop, 50 cents
is a plenty to pay for pickers. In
the first place all small farmers
should cut their cotton crop down
to just what they can pick them
selves.
Tifton Gazette: Committee
rooms in the State Capitol are
being turned into office rooms for
the accommodation of the offices
created in recent years. Georgia
needs a new and larger State
House building and it should be
built at Macon.
Laurens Co. Herald; —A new
animal has stepped into the po
litical zoo. The donkey, the ele
phant, the hull moose and now
comes the camel. He is a prohi
bitionist, of course. Under his
leadership we imagine the ship
of state will have “dry” sailing.
Cuthbort Leader:- Please don’t
hand the Leader clippings just
to “help fill up. ” We don’t need
them, but have an opening for
scuppernongs, sugar cane, pea
nuts, sweet potatoes ‘possums
and persimmons. We have found
these very helpful in assisting us
to fill up.
Hawkinsville Dispatch-News:
—Now they are talking about
dividing Georgia into two states,
one to be known as South Geor
gia and the other as North Geor
gia. Well, in case such a thing
should happen, aren’t you glad
that you live in South Georgia,
or as Editor Mclntosh puts it,
! “down here in God’s country?”
Savannah Press: —A book on
plum culture and plum picking
has just been issued by the de
partment of agriculture. Probab
ly it is not for circulation among
the friends of the administration.
Adel News: The time has
about passed when a poor man
can run for a state office in Geor
gia. The candidates usually
spend more than the office to
which they aspire pays.
Americus Times-Recorder:
When you boost the Board of
Trade you are Ixxisting Americus.
And when you are boosting
Americus you are boosting your
own interests. It is an endless
chain.
Dublin Courier- Dispatch:—
Madero says that Mexico is able
to take care of her own revolu
tion, and dot's not need interfer
ence from the United Suites. The
past history of Madero’s regime
i does not supjxirt his statement.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR-THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1912.
i Warn Against Wildcat
Orchard Schemes.
I Washington, D. C. Sept. 12.
The department of agriculture,
in a report seqn to be issued, will
sound a note of warning to all
interested against orchard invest
ment schemes that hold promises
of profits far in excess of wh; t
the department experts regard
as warranted. Many inquries
| have reached the department
regarding orange, apple and oth
ier enterprises where the orchard
! izing is to he done by proxy and
in some cases the claims of profits
are alluring in the extreme. It is
possible that some of these claims
will he called to the attention of
the postoffice department because
of the circulation of the alluring
literature through the mails.
Not all the schemes are frown- ,
ed upon by the department as]
will be pointed out in the report.
This document, based upon in
quiry into a number of the plans, I
in at least one of which promi-;
nent government officials person
ally are interested, will give clear
suggestions and hints to city
folks who are considering mak
ing investments in the so-called
“orchardizing by proxy.” It
will indicate the conditions under
which successful fruit culture
may he expected and the reasons
given by the government experts
why certain system of orchard
izing must fail.
These investment plans have
flooded the country and have
aroused wide interest.
A Call for More Potatoes.
Mr. Eugehe 11. Grubb has a
2,000 acre farm at Carbondale,
Col., on which his principal crop
is potatoes. lie was sent abroad
by Secretary of Agriculture Wil
son to study foreign methods and
has improved on them.
“The situation we are facing
is of tremendous seriousness, ” he
said in a recent interview, “for
unless the American farmers can
be persuaded to adopt scientific
intensive farming in the place
of the present haphazard meth
the day is not far distant when
the masses will simply have to
go without potatoes. Not only
will the available supply of the
product diminish, but prices will
soar far beyond the normal mar
ket. And we have no other great
food supply to draw upon.
“We should easily double or
treble our potato production
without any increase in acreage.
In Germany the average produc
tion is about 200 bushels to the
acre: in the United States only
BG. With intensive scientific
methods of culture on my Car
bondale farm 1 never produce less
than 880 bushels per acre, and
without the use of commercial
fertilizers. This goes to show
what American soil will do when
given a chance.
“At first 1 found it hard to
believe that American farm prac
tice was fifty years behind that
of Eurape, but the more 1 saw
the more this disagreeable truth
was forced home to me. Luther
Burbank says that half of all hu
man effort is wasted by not
knowing how, and this remark
applies with crushing truth to j
American farming. ”
King Cotton Supplants
Beautiful Queen Elberta.
Americus, Ga.. Sept. 14. The
I destruction of the great Bagley
I peach orchard near Americus,
'I containing a quarter million
i bearing peach trees and reputed
;to be the largest in existence,
was completed today, the tret's
piled in heaps for burning. This
■| magnificent orchard was planted
|by 11. Clay Bagley of Atlanta
and was regarded one of the
show spots of Southwestern
I Georgia. It contained several
choice varieties of peaches, while i
. hundreds of carloads of fruit
have been shipped therefrom to
Northern markets. The present
| owner, who paid $136,000 for the
orchard, does not care for
poaches and will plant cotton in
stead. i
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A PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proposed amend- j
ment to the Constitution of the .
State of Georgia, to be voted on j
at the general State election to
he held on Wednesday, October
2, 1912, said amendment relating
to the making of tax returns to
the Comptroller-General. By His
Excellency, Joseph M. Brown,
Governor.
State of Georgia, Executive Department.
Atlanta, July 29, 1912.
Whereas, the General Assembly at its session in
1911 proposed an amendment to the Constitution of
this State as set fourth in an Act approved Aug
ust 19, 1911, to-wit:
An Act proposing to qmcnd the Constitution of
Georgia by adding to second Section of the seventh
Article of said Constitution a new Paragraph for
requiring certain tax returns to be made to the
Comptroller-General on or before the first day of
March of each year, and for requiring the taxes
arising on such returns to be paid on or before the
Ist day of September, and to authorize the Gener
al Assembly to pass such laws as may be necessary
and proper for carrying out said provisions.
Section 1 He it enacted by the General As
sembly. That it shall be and is hereby proposed to
amend the Constitution of Georgia, by adding to
the second section of the seventh Article a new
Paragraph to Ik* known as Paragraph six, as fol
lows: “All persons or classes of persons who
were, by laws of force January Ist, 1911, required
to make returns for taxation to the Comptroller-
General. ami all who may hereafter Ik* so required,
shall* on or before the first (lay of March of each
year, make such returns as of date of January Ist ;
of that year, and shall pay the taxes arising on
such returns in favor of the State on or before the
first of September of the same year, anything
heretofore contained in the Constitution or laws of
Georgia to the contrary notwithstanding. The
laws of force on said date governing such returns
and payments, and the collection and enforcement
thereof shall remain of force as applicable to the
returns and payments herein required until the
tame shall Ik* changed by law The General As
sembly shall have power to make or alter all laws
that may be necessary or proper for enforcing the
provisions of this Paragraph
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That whenever
the above proposed amendment to the Constitution
shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Xssembly. and the same has been entered upon
their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken
thereon, the Governor shall cause said amend
ment to l*e published in at least two newspapers
in each Congressional District in this State for the
period of two months next proceeding the time of
holding the next general election.
Sec. J. He it further enacted. That the pro
posed amendment shall Ik* submitted for ratifica
tion or rejection to the electors of this State at the
next general election to Ik* held after the publica
tion as provided in the s«*cond Section of this Act
in the several election districts of this State, at
which election every person shall Ik* qualified to
vote who i» entitled to vote for members of the
General Assembly. All persons voting at such
election in favor of adopting the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution nhall have written or
printed on their lallotn the wonts “For amend
ment to the Constitution requiring tax returns to
J the (Vwnptmller-General to be paid on »>r before
I September Ist of each year.** and all persons op-
I posed to the adoption of said amendment shall
I have written or printed on their hallota the words
j ‘Against amendment to the Constitution r«quir
-1 mg tax returns to the Comtroller-General to 1*»
! paid on or before September Ist of each year.”
Sec. 4. He it further mac ted. That all law sand
* parts of laws in conflict with this Art Ik*, and the
i same are. hereby repeated.
N«»w . therefore. I. Joscfth M Hmwn. Governor
|of said State, do this rny proclamation here
: by declaring that the foregoing projHwied amend"
rnent to th«* Constitution t« submitted for ratifica
i tkm or rejection to tb«- voters of the State quali
fied to vot* for member* of the General Assembly
i at the general election to l» held on Wednesday,
j October 2. 1012.
By the f*'V" r. .i JoMKl'lt M ttROWN,
Bull,Mr r«'»K. Secretary of State.
M. 15. CALHOUN,
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