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THE ENTERPRISE.
ESTABLISHED 1865.___
THE COVINGTON STAR EST. 1874. CONSOLIDATED 1902.
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Entered at the Postofftce at Covington, Ga., as Second-Class Mall Matter.
COVINGTON. GA.. DECEMBER 7. 1906.
The jug trade keeps up in Covington.
And Ben Tillman spoke itj Chicago.
The Georgia Railroad lias changed its schedules.
Have you subsetibe anything yet for the Agticul’ural College/
Of course you won’t feel just right if the Agricultural school is
located in Newton—and you never helped!
will be t * the gentleman from Oklahoma » J
In congress it soon
and the “senator from Oklahoma. » »
There is a gentleman hy the name of “Buoze” who is delivering
temperance lectures thru the country. He has a drawing name.
The Supreme cour of Tennessee decided that a lawyer could not
collect a fee from a client from whom lie had solicited the litigation
Hard on the pettifoggers. ,
What’s the trouble with the preachers? In a Carolina town they
have three preachers in the same jail—all of a different denomination
and no two for the same ollense.
Old Warren Keizer, of Ohio, will spout his usual fulminations
agfliust the Eolith during the present session of congress. Some
museum ought, to buy old Keifer as a relic of the days of sectional
hate and prejudice. No sensible man in the North or South takes
Warren seriously.
THE TEACHERS’ PAGE.
We have arranged with Prof. J. 0. Martin, of Macedonia, to con¬
duct an educational page in Thk Enterprise, beginning January 1st
We trust the teachers of the county will rally to the support of Prof.
Martin and help him to m ike the educational page the most attractive
and beneficial page in the paper.
Any composition, essay, or thing of merit that comes from your
school, send it to Prof. Martin.
The teachers can also exchange ideas through the editorial pag,-.
Teachers need to exercise more sympathy and interest, for each
other ; they are their worst enemies. Don’t let a little pedogogical
jealousy keep you from manifesting that broad and generous spirit
which you are supposed to inculcate in your pupils.
Tell through the papers how you manage to kf-t-p up interest,
what your pupils are doing, etc., ahd let’s make the Educational pag^
an inspiration and help the teachers and pupils of the count)’.
We are counting on you. We promise to do anything in out
power to help you and aid you In the greatest work on garth.
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THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Congresc opened Monday. Nearly all of the senators and repre¬
sentatives were on hand. There will he but f w changes in the per
sonel of the members before March 4th, and then the changes
not affect the republican maj irity.
There are many important measures to come before this congress.
Among them were: Changes in the postal laws, eight hour law, an¬
ti injunction bill, codification of the revised statutes, Chinese
sion law, reduction of tariff on Philipine products; to make Purta
Ricans citizens ot die United States. The Smoot case,
treaty; publicity in campaign nffiirs, Santo Domingo treaty, immi¬
gration restriction, the -hip subsidy bill.
President Roosevelt advocates an enheritance tax, and will proba¬
bly insist on congress passing a law to that effect, but this being the
short session and there being so many bills already underway it is
hardly probably that any efforts will be made by the congress to carry
out the president’s wishes in regard to the tax.
COMPULSORY ’iDUCATlON.
A certain farm magazine, which purports to be representative
the South, has been making frantic displays in its efforts to decry the
work and intention of th se people in the South who favor a coinpul
sory school law.
If real tacts are ii dic;itive of anything, then the following tacts
ought to speak louder than words:
In twenty-one foreign countries, the most intelligent countries
the earth,.and in thirty-three of the states of the American Union com -
pulsary education is in v<uu-*.
The same old argument is used here in the South that you are
interfering with a parent’s rights and liberties when you enact a law
which compels his children to attend school. But lets see. The
exacts tax*-s < )f the parent to maintain schools and to support the g OV
eminent,, keeps up pauper farms, and prison houses, and if the
is right in taxing a raau for the purpose of maintaining schools,
certainl) ought to have the right and the power to exorcise that right
to see to it that children make use of the opportunity provided
them.
For our part, we can't see why it is not just as reasonable for the
state to compel the children to attend school aud learn how to
mselul citizens as it is for the state to compel them to fill jails, peniten¬
tiaries and chaingangs aft‘ r they have gone astray.
The average large tax payer does not regret paying taxes to
port schools, but he do^s rrgret paving the sup¬
tax and then stand by and
se e indilT, rent parents let tlimr chi ldren grow u p in idleness and ig¬
norance and not take advantage of the money thlFhTs bTTuTdTiide
for them.
Uni 388 we read tbe signs wrong, compulsory education i
ing thu south. is com
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THE ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON GA
BEN TILLMAN AND CHICAGO.
There was a great bullaboo the other day as to whether or i*"t ;
Ben Tillman would deliver his lecture in Chicago after the threats j
that had been sent broad cast over the country by neg r oes and negro- j
philes. Those who had any doubts on the subject certainly were not j
acquainted with B*n Tillman, If there is one word in the English
language that has bean banished from the Tillman vocabulary, that
word is “fear.” He will make the same speech in Boston. Mass., that
he will make in Edgelied, S. C. Tillman stands today as one of the
greatest statesman of the time. Intelligent men all over the United
States have come to recognize his ability and to accord him a place in
galaxy of the 20th century’s thinkers.
One reasuii Tillman has such a hold on the common people is that
he fig-hts their fight fearlessly and is always right. The ladies all over
the country have the greatest respect for him—this shows that Till¬
man is worthy ot the fame and support he gets. Long live Ben Till¬
man—the peoples’ champion.
THE DEEPER LAWLESSNESS.
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory.
j New York American s
The lawlessness that is now ram
pant in the land is well calculated
to make us think. But while
thinking we would do well to think
deeply, so as to get down to the
roots of the matter.
The lynching of a man by a
mob is a bad piece of business, and
no right-thinking citizen can do
■otherwise than to deploie it. ;
The theory that the laws should
be supreme, and that all offences
should be dealt with by the duly
constituted authorities, seems to
be perfectly correct.
It is correct; and unless it is
maintained against those who ig
uore it we must he prepared to see
the end of all law and order.
In other words, we must be
pared to see bell inaugurated in
our midst. If we would escape
hell we must see to it that the laws
| of the land are respected.
But there is lawlessness and
lawlessness; and it is us certain as
anythir.g can be in this world that
the lawlessness which manifests
itself in these lynchings is but the
effect of an another sort of lawless
ness of which no one seems to take
any particular notice.
The lawlessness of lynching is
decidely dramatic and spectacular,
To hang a human being to a tele
graph pole in the presen^ ot
thousands of people, or, before a
Similar audience to chain him to
stake and burn him to a cinder, is
to do that of which the
world shall immediately hear.
But there is a sort of
that ,8 carried on underground,
silenc-, stealthy, but none the
surely and destructively.
This lawlessness takes raai) y
forms.
There is the lawlessness that
many merchants could tell us
abont if they were so
tbo lawlessness o! adulterated
goods and lying scales. There are
whole districts in this city, and
probably every other city and large
city and large town in the country,
where the dealers’ scales are
liberately “fixed” so as to cheat an
unsuspecting customer out of what
belongs to him.
And there is the lawlessness that,
is welt known to the “bosses > ) in
the big mills and other establish
ments where thousands of young
women aud girls are employed—
the lawlessness which makes these
JOU11 " ill >d girls work at
wages which will hardly pay their
board and car fare—the lawless
r* " b,c '' llM «» for ‘he
10,101 and pmit v of these young
-
womPU and 8 U ‘ 9 > a “d which un
j biushingly says to them, when
1 f ' ,r more P a 3’ : “Let you
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j some klnd - h * arted young
! man fnend " ho VV ‘H helpyou out.”
1 hen lhere i>! tllP lawlessness of
S ° mw officials—the
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i.e.-s that is expressed in the two
infamous words, “hush money”—
the lawlessness that lives on crime,
that fattens on the shame it was
elected to wipe out!
Not to be overlooked is the law
lessness of many lawyers, so-call
ed. These wolves in Bheep’s
clothing, these degraded parasites
of a noble profession, make it their
sole and only business to teach
men not bow they may obey the
law', but how they may evade the
law.
By their low-down pettifoggery
and shameless trickery they are
steadily doing what they can to
bring the law into contempt. For
a ten dollar note they will do any
thing, and every “client” who has
to do with them leaves them * t fit
for treasons, statagems and spoil, > >
We naturally think next of the
lawlessness of the unprincipled pol
iticiun—the graceless scoundrel
who, lor the sake of office, is will
ing to poison the very fountain of
civic life and destroy the very
foundations upon which his his
country rests !
• 4 My election,” the shameless
scamp cries, “and after that the
deluge 1 i J To get elected he
is
willing to debauch the franchise,
to degrade his country’s citizen
ship, and to give the death blow
to all civic decency und honor.
And there is the kindred lawless
\ , )e8S D f t ; le “lobby » > Wlien the
scamp gets to the place for which
he was “elected,” there with him
is the “lobbyists,” the paid agent
of th„ bi* corporation, whose
j iness it i3 to .. pm . all „ upon him
to get some piece of lawlessness
put into the guise of law for the
benefit, of his masters, the trust
! magnates, ^
Compared with these , tHings, t| le
i 1 '.v"ehi“ R s that we read
of are nothing.
j It is well enough
i to talk against
^ ies,; °ulbreaks of the mob. They
j ou ^ ht t0 talked against, But
| 8 ball we say nothing against the
c5ee l ,er an <l more dangerous evils
" hicl1 are sil, -ntly but, inevitably
I eating out the very life ot the na
i lion?
1 L“t us put down the rule of the
i mob; and let us put down the rule
j °f the unprincipled greed which is
doing its best to destroy the jus
! Uce of the courts the purity of
elections, the honor of our legisla
tors and the intergrity of our
daughters.
Lynching is a bad tlrntg, and ,t
ought to be Mopped; hut if we find
j out that we cannot stop it—if the
mob is determined to keep on with
its work—turn it in the direction
the men who are up to the bus
iness we have been trying to de
I scribe—for if men ever deserved to
be lynched, they are the ones,
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