Waycross weekly herald. (Waycross, Ga.) 1908-19??, July 18, 1908, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextL THE WAYCROSS WEEKLY HERALD THE WEEKLY HERA1B t ' A. P, PERHAM A SON. Editors and Publishers. Entered at the Post Office at War trass, Oa., as second clas matter.” The Evening Herald Is published •very evening except Sunday. The ▼solely Herald every Saturday. Ell subscriptions are payable la advance. Advertising rates reatonaWe and made known on application. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION: WAYCROSS, OA., JULY f, 1903. 4. Get your Bryan ticket ready. Taat it the size and the* color of It. -' Nobody seems to be worrying much about that MiHfranciilsemeut business since the primary. as nominated fell into line yesterday it the right At any rate tin* Georgia delegation • }#.• k r liiM stucK to Its Hag H it erything else. What has become of that Clarke ttowull boom fur second place an the ticket? — - Since the two attempts at robbery Lu the past two Jays, all tip* men lave been singing to their wives "I'm aft'uid to go notne in the dark." “Al right" Is the res|K»nse, “stay at home." —Thouiasvllle Tlmes-EnterprUwf. It is now Bill B.. and Bill T. -H— Tne Japanese are not pleated with tae Asiatic plank in the democratic p’utlorm. 4* 51r. Carnelge remarks: "You don't find much knowledge of poetry resi dent In the average millionaire.” * The cotton plants sre full of blooms snd the farmers sre patching up tnelr cotton baskets. ^ The melon season in South Georgia Is practically over, the crop has been good but we fear prices have not proven satisfactory. Dally, One Year $5.00 Jo. T. rroll said It waa the happiest Dally, Six Months $2.50 moment of his life and we believe he Dally, Three Months $1.25 meant It. At any rate Joe will never ■Weekly, One Year 60 deny saying so. ✓ 4- It is pleasant to repeat that tne crops of Georgia this year are simply magnificent, the finest we have had in twenty years. -4- Scab Wright says he will stand ditched to the Democratic rack for a while longer. The hitching rope should be a .strong one. AftffMr. Brown’s speech of accept ance Saturday Mrs. Brown says fears the new governor that is to no will develop Into a regular cyclone orator. We hope not on her account. , Tho Denver convention impresses us with its magnitude and enthusiasm •h also Its spectacular features. May It bring fort.i glorious results for the Democratic Party. Tho indications are that Mr. Bryaji is not to have the support of Mr. Hearst. Well we are not loosing any sleep over the luqp of something we never expected to get. Little Joe now knows that he Is the choice of a majority of the voters of Georgia for governor. And It is all over for t.ie present, not excepting the shouting. Keri: ry.uiiH with "fleam,'' well w* hearu Mr. Kern was nominated by the demi-prats for tho Vice-Presidency and we don’t care a dura, or words to that effect. THE FIRST LADY OF THE LAND. A charming little woman is the lady who is soon to be the first lady of the land—our land; of medium bight. fair of face, graceful of figure, highly ed* ucated and with the manners of a born gentlewoman, such is she. Dressed in plain white, without or naments or frills save a plain gold ring on her finger, this pleasant mtfe lady In the role of hostess at the re ception of the notification committee last Saturday, won the hearts and the admiration of all. Mr. Brown certainly has two things In life to be proud of, towit: When he married 5Irs. Brown and when he was nominated for Oovernor of Geor gia. Mrs. Brown is also proud of Mr Brown and she showed It by ^parkle In her eye and the Ingenious smile upon her face when he had fin ished his speech of acceptance. Quiet ly. however, and on the sly, sh< formed us that she now' feared that the next Governor of the Empire State of the South might develop into cne of those cyclone orators that we read about during the last guberna torial campaign. We do not. how ever, Join Mrs. Brown In her misgiv ings on this score, for we now fully understand that "Little Joe.” ha guiding star and a balance wheel that will keep him within proper bound Mrs. Brown has three children, two boys and a girl, a fine looking trio, better looking mayhap than their fa ther, but not nearly so handsome as their mother. The Governor’s mansion will be graced by her presence. There will be no osteptatious display or gaudy anj unnecessary formalities and sur roundings, but a charming little wo man with Intelligence and refinement .'ill dispense the hospitalities at the iovernor's home and make those visit her happy. JOS. M. BROWN ACCEPTED He Read Letter of Acceptance from Porch of His Marietta Home. They are now pointing out that John Sherman wus originally a green back er. and William McKinley on ardent tree ailverlte. When Alley charge Bryan with changing front by burying the free silver Issue the republicans are Ignoring the past records of .their uwu leaders.—Ex. New York Is to have a sky scraper thirty-four stories high, reaching 489 feet. It will lie tne tallest building reaching tho extreme" height of 909 feet. It will be the tallest butldlnf In the world next to the Eiffel tower. 4 The weekly editors will assemble U Gaimvlllo on next Tuesdny and Wednesday, and will be given such welconio as that progressive city can give thorn. While they are guests of that city every moment of their time will be filled with entertainment an< pleasure. Government by Injunction has be appealed to b> Joan Stolfa, u union white washer of New York. Finding kluiself unable to govern hla house hold in person, he has appealed to the court for aid. Fearing that ols wife was about to elope with a boarder %• applied for and received a writ from the court restraining tho board er Iron* turning away with the woman, hi Texas taey tuatmge things of the sort d I (Terentiy. On Hie tariff Issue the Democrats will make gains in every state. They will mase heavy gains In Mussachu* sits and in tne Middle West. The fight thould he squarely made; the Issue should be clearly stated and the p«*o- tie will respond. The democrats divided on many questions, but opin km is almost unanimous as to tarff re duction. Oil this question the party «an present a united front and wii! tore an enemy divided and demoral- lied.—Georgia. + Of all men the man who attempts to srray one class of our citixenshtp against the other, who tries to Infiame the mind of the working ntan against Lie capitalist or who on the other hbnd tries to prejudice capital against labor Is the least to be desired. He serves no good purpose, but sows seeds of discs rd. We nee 1 to under stand each other better, to realize that vo are in a large measure dependent apon the othpr and no amount of •base of one party will benefit the other.—Adel News. 4- hat. an go Joe Terrell has not been l? any more of those made to ovations lately.—Brunswick Joe Terrell can get all tho -ns no wants In Georgia and when •ants them. Don’t worry* about Tho party who started the rumor that there was to be no barbecue at the Brown notification, made a mis take, the barbecue was there in great abundance and the finest we over tasted. We were there and helped smell it. "Bryan and Kern” Is the ticket. It is arranged simply for the purpose of defying tho newspaper parqgraphcrs There is no symhony and mighty little we fear, to bo got out of that ticket. However, wo will do the best we can with it. There can bo no captious criticisms of Mr. Brown's speech of acceptance from the "safe and sane" citizens of Georgia. It Is mighty-nigh perfect, and my letter man, he wrote It him self and what is more, he will write others. 4 We note with sorrow that the New York Sun (Rep.) is not pleased with the nomination of Mr. Bryan by the Denver convention. At the moment we cannot recall that the Sun has ever been pleaacd with any candidate for President since "Boast” Butler.—Sav anna.! News. 4* TO PROHIBIT NEAR BEER. Near beers” 1 will “be prohibited from sale in oGorgla, if the bill of Dr. T. N. Berry representative from Union county, intends to Introduce in the ►use Wednesday become a law. This will class near beer with the genuluc beer. corn, rye, champagne. l*ort, sherry hlghb.Jls, gin, fizz, and other ^drinks, ac». concoct it Ions obso- lute in GcorglA In speaking o. .the proposed meas ure Dr. Berry said'yesterday: "I am at work on a bill to pro.ilblt the sale of near beer In Georgia, and Intend to Introduce It In the house Wednesday. "I believe that It will be Speedily adopted. “The state has become flooded with near beers, some of which are so noar that the confirmed old toper cannot ell the difference. "The,prohibition law was Intended to prcvSnt the sale of all drinks which had any alcohol in them at all. If the near beers’ cun get by. this law 1 In tend to frame one which will check them most effectually also. “The people are tirod of the ‘beor’ signs, the smell of near beer,’ and its sale. Georgia is a prohibition state, and we want It to prohibit everything that cun be clussed as alcoholic or noxious. "I have discussed this propose measure with a number of legislators and they agree with me. If a city can get tax on their sale and the federal government too. iniiioses a tax the state should be careful about' its ■ale, and 1 am in favor of prohioiting Marietta, Ga., July 11.—Hon. ^os. f work of the administration in Geor- M. Brown was today officially notified Ula; but as well might we deny that i.f hi j nomination for Governor of j the Missouri river is a material part Georgia by the Democratic party of of the lower hlississippi as to deny this- ttate. I that the threats and tne attempted The formal notification committee legislation in Georgia to place a tax of met at the Kimball House in Atlanta cne percent upon the gross incomes this morning, and after forming the of the owners of all corprations,regard- plans for the notification, left for this less of whether there was any net In city by electric car. The committee come, ele»en months ago. drove capital and guests were seated on the spa- tilt of our state or into the safety-de- "As it is the state gets no revenue from the sale of near beer. Boys and men alike are filled on It, aud it should be Tl riven out of Georgia.” “Any man who is good enough to be Vicfc-President, is good enouga to share the White House with me." said W. J. Bryan. The statement was made In answer to a question asked by one who had heard that If Bryan and Kern waa elected, it la the purpose of 5Ir. Bryan to offer the use of the Na tional mansion In part to the Vice- President In order that the expense of an extra establishment may not be added to hit outlay. Well let Jt go at that / We know now why so many want ed to go to Denver. A bar has been .provided for the delegates, several hundred feet long, with 4J expert mix- ologists to wait upon them. Three hundred can stand In front of the tar. talk politics, drink hlgn balls, and be supremely happy, all at one time. How unfortunate that Georgia’s delegates, being prohibitionists, will Cte. denied this supreme pleasure of walloped Hoke 8mith and hla crowd, coaveatioo days and be robbed of, As Mr. Watson had previously been memoriae that might cheer tkm U pretty well walloped by both thee# their darttlc— old age.—Arnsriqn R» Undent enemies honors would appear to be even, anyway.* * The Albany Herald says: "The Washington Herald thinks Tom Watson ought to be a very hap py man. But he isn’t. He Isn’t built that way. But the Washington pa per’s reasons for thinking Tom ought to be happy are good: "Tom Wasoa ought to be a very happy man. He took- up Hoke Smith's crowd two years vto and walloped Clarke Howell and his crowd, and only recently he too* Clark Howell and his crowd and HAM FOR THE WAKE. Mr. O'Brien was unwittingly placed himself In tho position of a gentleman of his own race, who, lying on his deathbed, was questioned by bis in consolable prospective widow. "Poor Mike” said she, “Is thero anythin’ that wud make ye comfortable Annythin ye ask for I'll get for ye.” ’’Plato, Bridget,” he responded, think I’d like a wee taste of the ham I smell a-bollln’ In the kitchen.’* "Arrah, go on,” responded Bridget. “Dlvll a bit of that ham ye’ll get ’TIs for the wake.”—New York Times. WHERE THEY KEEP THINGS. A NewEngland clergyman waa taking breakfast one morning In a hotel In a little Western town, says Appleton's Monthly. A rough old fellow across the table called over to blm: 'twin’ to the races, stranger?" The clergy man replied: *T don’t expect to.” ‘Coin’ to the ball game?” “No." “Well, where are you going-" "I’m going to church.” "Where do you come from?*’ "New England.” "Oh, that explains It! That's where they keep tha Sabbath and every oth er blamed thing the* caq lay their hands on." clous lawn In front of Rr. Brown’s residence. Mr. Brown, with his family, his campaign manager, Mr. Jas. R. Smith, aud a few guests,"were seated on the porch. After being notified of his nomination Mr. Brown responded by reading the following address: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: I have heard wit a emotions of pro found gratitude your official announce ment of the extraordinary honor which the white voters of our great and be loved *tate have so generously tender ed me. With tae heartfelt prayer that God will sustain and guide mo, I accept And in thus accepting it I deem it entirely proper that I should make the following declarations: Scarcely one year ago our state stood on the pinnacle of unparallelled prosperity. ’Capital was iccelving Its greatest dividends, labor its highest aces, and the products of the farm, larry ninl mine averaging prices toj>- *J with gain. Yet, even at that period a cloud was gathering uiion the sky of Georgia’s And, quickly following a change of administration, the storm- burst came. It is not needful that v:e recite tne details. The fact stands that the saw mill shut down.Sthe factory curtallaJ Its ouiput, the Jobbing house with drew its salesmen, the farmer found the price of his products reduced, the developer refrained from building the trolley line or the railroad, the labor ing man for many weeks was out of job. What was the causo of this paralysis of business? Agitation. Agitation which denounced the corporation, but ignored the fact that the-corporation was but the union of individual clti zens who, singly, were too weak to ac complish the purposes of development which with aggregated capital could build and was building up the state, riving, co-ordinately employment to thousands of the worthiest of low citizens. This agitation seemed to take no account of the fact that the interest of capital and labor are insep arably interwoven, that the blue thread of the one cannot bo withdraw: from the cloth without hopelessly weakening the texture of the thread of the other. It ignored the fact that the reduction of many hundreds of thousands of dollars which this sta te's authorities made or brought about In tho incomes, or tolls,received by the owners of certain corporations went into the pockets of a limited number of the classes,.and that the consumers, frr v’.om these reductions in tolls were intended, received absolutely not a penny of the amuont of the re ductions. It bodly declared that five per cent net was a fair return for those of our fellow citizens who invested their money in stocks of common car rier corporations but granted to those wh owned stek in other corporations the right to earn from twenty to one hundred per cent net. It manifestly took no account of the fact that If the officers of public utility corporations handling the affairs of these cor porations in such manner as was de trimental to the public interest, the just method of correcting such abuses was to deal with such officers, but not to inflict a penalty, through serious curtailment of income on their invest ment upon innocent stockholders of properties which pay one eighth of, the taxes of Georgia; snd so the really pathetic feature of the catastrophe lay In the fact that while the blow was blindly aimed at the dome of the cor poration it struck in the cottages of the minority stockholders and employ ees of the corporation; wb«ls it was intended to lessen the profits of one sptcles of corporations It crippled the stockholders and either seriously reduced or swept away the wages ot the employees of all corporations and Hon. John P. Holden, of Jefferson, will receive a warm support In this poeit vaults, caused the enormous shrinkage In /values, lessened the vol ume- of business, handicapped the farmers and threw thousands of men out of employment. In other words, ihe proof was absolute that just as the arm cannot be broken without Im pairing the power of the eutire man so war cannot be made upon onecompon- ent part of our civilization without damaging all other parts with which It hag even Indirect relationshrlps The proof was absolute that confisca tion. not proper control, was the logi cal result of thp crusade w hich had been waged against capital. The proof vrs absolute tf*at had the i>roniIse. "port rates” been put Into effect the; would have disastrously damaged ery manufacturing plant In Interior Georgia. Herein then lay the cause which in delibly Impressed upon capital a labor the fact that each, properly strained and properly protected, v absolutely indispensible to the oth and which forced them to unite In the judgment that the official policy the state had recently adopted,must be re versed, that property of all kinds must have equal rights, that conciliation and co-operation must take the nflstrust and -denunciation, that the hand-clasp must be offered instead or the big stick. It is not inconsistent In this connection to say, Let leciare war against corporations and invested capital indiscriminately; but let us, if needs be, wage war against those who violate the law which re quires fair and equal treatment for all and hold hot back till the guilty are punished. In this spirit we ■'have now met, r< peatlng those words from our state' constitution which but a few days ago were so impressively spoken by o’ Georgia’s most girted orators,, viz: "Protection of person and property is the paramount duty of government, and shall be impartial an J complete.” The protection Georgia guarantees equally to her own citizens and to the citizens of other states and other gov- mraents who locate their Investments within her borders. She guarantees «t equally to owners of farms, factories quarries, mines, banks, railroads and ill other legitimate investments. She guarantees it to each who holds his iroperty in severalty and to each who s a unit in a corporation. While ex acting of ail impartial (bligation on taxes good order and the other varied dutoes of citizenship or ownership she ensures to each one equal protection and equal opportunity. This reciprocal protection, obligation, and opportunity having been the es sence of the issues In the past cam paign, since disregard of them had brought paralysis to capital and atar- vat ion to labor, I have deemed it pro per to give primary attention to them. They are well crystallized in the sec ond plank of our party’s platform, as fellows: the powers the constitution places in the executive to enforce the protec tion and obligation above recited. The basework of the Impartial snd complete protection of person and property, with a free people, is tao protection of the proper use of the bal- Mot. Without this protection the poss ession of money, lands rnd all other material property Is a mockery, * snare, a peril. Hence, our platform wisely pledges us to a strict and ihk partial enforcement of the constitu tional amendment defining and fixing the right of suffrage, after that amend ment has been ratified, as it assuredly vMl be in October next. In like manner, to prevent the con- gestion of power In a few thickly- in- nabited centers, our platform wisely demands the restoration of the plan based upon the county unit. As to tjze other planks in our party'* platform, without taking time and i space to recite them, I will say that I am In hearty accord with each of them And now let me make this declara tion: In no act I have performed did I contemplate the condidacy the white voters of Georgia, speaking through jou, have asked me to assume. Tho unique fact stands that to no one have I given a promise of preferment, and to no one, more than to all the others who have called me, am I under pled- Hence, I am bound in law and In honor only to the unbiased and un trammelled course which the masses of the people of Georgia have the right 10 demand of their executive. That course In the fear of God and coun selling freely with my peers in every rank In our state, I shall conscientious ly pursue. I shall not use the office io which you have called me as a stepping stone to political preferment, la that office I shall have no purpose ' but to execute the people’s will. And, In executing that will, iet us assert that Georgia has'nO stepchildren. All who live or have their Investments In ner borders are as her sons, her' daughters. She treats no one as Ish- fiiael; she names no one fcchabod. Each man, caffh woman, each species of property has equal rights, and win impartial hand I shall protect them. In conclusion, ray countrymen, let put behind us the asperities of tha st campaign. While we have differ- as partisans let us unite as Geor gians. While we have held to diverse theories on economic questions let us cultivate amity between creeds, co operation between classes and peace between the races. Let us bear in mind that we are building not for *i season but for years, it may be for ages; hence, that reason, not passion, that concord not prejudice, must be the stones i/fflie wall of our structure. Let many useful deeds, not mane ™ burning words, be our characteristic. Let us apply the practicalities of busi ness to tho conduct of government.,, te care in giving an ecomoml- i al administration with the lowest f . tax rate consistent with the proper support of our public institutions, edu- oatonal and eleemosynary, and wltif duty to those who, wearing the grey, risked health and life for Geor gia’s weal, for Gborgia’a honor. Re membering that the civilization of our state is founded, upon the Ten Com mandments, the Sermon on the Mount and tho New Commandments, let us demand that our public affairs shall be conducted upon the blane which protects the weak, promotes the pure and establishes as living forces the principles of integrity and manly hon or. In brief, let us be true to the Ideals of Christian jnanhood an 1 In the blue firmament of righteous fame, Georgia ill shine with glory as the sun. "We pledge not only to citizens of this state, but to citizens of ***s. that all capital In vested In legitimate enterprises in Georgia, whether foreign or domestic, corporate or private, shall have the equal protection of the laws and the equal friendly consideration of those who admin ister the laws.” r Note the word, "equal,” as applied to the words, "foreign and domestic.” corporate and private.” God forbid that the corporation should have con- ceeJeh to it greater rights than those, conpeeded to Individuals; but God for bid that a citizen who Invests his money In the stock of a legitimate cor poration should ever again be Jeniel the right to receive a legitimate in come. God forbid that Georgia should ever favor a class at the expense ot the mass; but God forbid that a clasz should ever be unjustly treated even the name of the mass. As long as Georgia is true to the curtailed the comforts of life in ever/ pledge (n this plank we may rest as household In the state. ~ured that capital will abide with Us. I do not charge that this result wa. the design ot the agitators. Yet, tb ignorance of those who assume to b neck of the woods for speaker offteacbers can work as disastrous wreck the next house of repreesoUUree of m can the hand of Intelligent enmity. Qe-rgU. •A!#. I do not sey thAt the PMtfe jnu the sole iving to labor tta Justly-earned wages •nd giving for the products of tho term, quarry, mine. etc., the prices they merit It U entirely proper that I any Chet HIGHEST BUILDINGS. It cannot be denied that New York is looking to higher things, nor can be denied that Mr. Thomas F. Ryan is going to give them the highest things to look up to that they ever saw or those now living will probab ly ever see. It is the proposed new Equitable Life building, which the Press says will be Ryan’s monument just as the great Singer building is the monument of the sewing machine man. The new Equitable building will be of sixty-two stories, runnlnA to the hlg’ht of 909 feet from the pave ment—an elevation from which the famous Flatiron building will look like a wedge ot Swiss cheese on the side walk viewed from a second story win dow. The Eiffel tower, a skeleton of steel, is 984 feet high, but the ball on the flagstaff of the Equitable will be seventy-four feet higher than that The building, wnich Ig^to cost $10,000,- 000,will house literally the population of a small city and will be necessarll, supplied with an up-and-down rap: transit plant^hat will cost as mui is a small city's street railway sys tem. It was thought some time ago that the limit of sky-scraper buildings^ lad been reached, but this monitor shows that such to not the case. Maybe the New Yorkers are working surreptitiously along towards a Tower of Babel as the only prospective means ot communication between Wall Street and tbs gates guarded by SL Peter. ion ig Twenty poosd waUrmelou m »rt- ( pledge myMlf, U elected, to ue til Us* tor fire cent* It Vtyenw today.