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TgyjyAYCBosa journal,
MOSS WEEKLY JOURNAL
Established in 1880.
Published Every Friday at
Waycross, Ga.
VOLNEY WILLIAMS
Editor and Manager
The Only Weekly Paper Publish
ed at the County Seat.
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THE PROGRESS OF WOMAN
SUFFRAGE
An enthmuastic article on the
woman suffrage movement,
George Creel in the Century Mag
axinc for March, shows that ten
States and one Territory hav
“already answered in the affirms
tive,” that the lawmaking bodies
of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
are on record with favorable li
not final action, that Montana,
Nebraska and the two Dakotas
will vote on the proposition
1914, and that the legislatures of
New York, New Jersey and low
have taken the first steps for sub
mitting a constitutional amend
ment to the people in 101!
This is undoubtedly an impro*
aive showing and, ns such,
would rob the demand for nation
wide Federal action of any force
it might possess even if Federal
action in this particular were not
contrary to constitutional provis
ions. What more can the woman
suffragists want. The matter
properly belongs to the State for
separate consideration, snd the
States are considering and acting
as rapidly as any sane observer
has reason to desire or any right
to expect.
The ten States and one Territo
ry in the woman suffrage column
and the dates of their action
given Ns follows:
sex is everywhere more pronounc
ed than that of the other, and
tending to confirm the other claim
that women voters will become in
different after the novelty of the
experience haa worn off.
GET IT ON STRAIGHT.
Savannah Press. | sa
On matters o fintemational ob-IJf
. ..1869
Colorado
189J
Utah
1S!)(
Idaho
ISflf
Washington
191(
California
1911
Oregon
1912
Kansas
1912
Arizona
1912
Illinois
1913
Alaska
1913
It will lie observed that the
movement originated in Wy
ing forty-five years ago and for a
quarter of a century made no fur
ther progress, that twenty-one
years ago it began to show life
again, and that fonr years ago ita
forward career beoamo rapid.
Little did those ehivalroua cow-
hoys of Wyoming dream what
war to romo, when, 45 years
•go, they conferred the ballot by
way of compliment on perhaps
half a hundred women whom they
worshipped as goddesse*. It w»«
the chivalry of these cowboys that
really began the movement, for
they acted before thore was any
genuine agitation even among the
women themselves. It i* true thnt
Elizabeth Pailv Stanton, the anti-
slavery reformer, called n "wo
man’s rights eon vent ion “ in a
private house at Seneca Falls. N.
Y., in 1848, twenty-one years ear
lier, hut that was really a part of
the antislavery movement which
by that year had reached an in-
raudeiiccut stage, and Mrs. Stan
ton sought “votes for women”
with the aim of regulating and in
terfering in the internal affairs of
the Southern States by means of a
reconstruction of the slavery.pro-
viding Federal Constitution.
Conceived in the anti-slavery
agitation and horn out of tie
chivalry of the Wyoming eobw
boy*, women suffrage developed
as a movement of the restless
ohungciu!, "ism’’-seeking, social
istu* West, as the listed States o
Colorado. Utah. Idaho. Washing
ton, California, Oregon. Kansas
and Arizona clearly show.
It is interesting to find that Mr.
Creels article, though the work
of an enthusiast for the cause and
partisan throughout, incidentally
admits that in Idaho st the last
election only seventy-six per cent
of the women voted as compared
with eighty-four per cent of the
men. thus weakening the claim
that the public spirit of the one
ligations ami responsibilities the
average American citizen is decid
edly vague, ho it happens that
when a question of the Mexican
sort is presented for general dis
cussion we run upon opinions
whjeh are violent and intemperate
to a degree proportionate to the
topsv tnrvy and care free manner
of their formation. If, for in
stalled, ftii* British gov-
were half ho unreasonable and
belligerent ah some of our De
cratie contemporaries—sol dinant
—what a fearful row we would he
having to he sure!
Ah far as loyalty to the admin
intration is concerned, howi
let iih grant every right of <
eisin. In thin country every man
should do his own thinking am
let it carry him where if will, bu
the pity of if is that the read
c conclusions which are n
forth in ho many of the newspa
pers present great temptations to
the lazy-minded.
It is a far easier thing to adopt
a badly drawn conclusion than
to draw one for one’s self, i
penally when one does not go
hack to take measure of the prem
ises It is a far easier thing to
formulate and vituperate against
things aa they are than to fulfill
the responsibility of working out
the problem. President Wilson
and the secretary of stato are get
ting particular fits from certain
quarter* because Villa lias not
acted with discretion in regard to
one of Great Britain's subjects,
and those who hove, from the
first, desired intervention and the
subjugation of Mexico are fur
nished with another splendid op
portunity for an emotional dis
play of impatience nil intolerant
at the way the powers in Wash
iugton are handling the matter.
It is rather amusing to notice
passing also that those very edi
tors who sounded the alarm that
Mr. Bryau in the department in
stato would ho sure to plunge the
ountry into war are now full of
scorn and indication to find
him determined to delay this pain
ful process as long ns it is bon
ornbly and justly possible.
The attitude of the British gov
ernment in the Benton ease is far
more broad Anil reasonable than
he attitude qf the British press,
but the British’'press is not so lit-
and bloodUiinity by a jugful
some of the anti-Wilson papers
right hero i» Georgia.
Tho average newspaper in Eng
land seems to asauiup that this na-
*,ion la responsible for General
Villa’s actions because it does not
understand that this government
has npt given Villa recognition.
The suapeiiHion by President Wil
son of tho embargo against the
importation of arms from this
country into Mexico can by no
tnurture of interpretation be ac-
pted as recognition to Villa.
It is important to bear in mind
that the citizens of every other
ountry are free to sell arms in
* hut tho const it utionalist
have not access to these
arms and a continued r« fusal on
the purl of the United States to
xport arms into Mexico would of
If amount to the moat partial
assistance to Huerta, a thing,
hick this government cannot af
ford to give to a lawless assassin
whose right to a dictatorship in
Mexico it has refused to reeog-
ni/.o. The embargo was put upon
the exportation of arms from tliii
country at a time when conditions
in Mexico were such that it af
forded a hope that strife might
thereby be discouraged, but the
privilege of selling arms in Mexi
co, which the United States at one
time withheld for good and suffi
eient reasons, is now no longer
forbidden because our neutral
position obliges us to realize the
flagrant injustice of forbidding
the followers of Carranza the
same chance* which those of
rta are getting from foriegn
sources. So far as this country is
concerned the constitutionalists
are on no other footing than the
other insurreetoes of Mexico, who
are in revolt against Huerta.
Great Britain has no desire to
force an imaginary responsibility j
for the acts of Villa upon this na
tion. Sir Edward Grey has made
this point very clear, but there
plenty of people in this coun
try who are too hungry for eon
quest to examine and wiegb the
rights and reasons involved in the
situation and are jumping euge
ly upon this incident u.f an excuse
for stirring up all sorts of con
fusion and hornets nests.
While it is true that interven
•ion may eventually be necessary
there seems to he no excuse for
ontemplating such a drastic
course at this time. Kcpirntion
for the killing of Benton can be
ured through the ordinary di
plomatic methods and one sue
incident in a lawless territory
like that of Northern Mexico con
stitute* no cause for such fantas
tic international chivalry as arm
ed intervention.
When we get on our war bon
net* lot’s at least get them on
straight.
ant half of the state, and is en
titled to just as much recognition
as North Georgia. As Congress
man Edwards says, “South Geor
gia does the fighting and North
Georgia gets the spoils.”
We do not know how other peo-
It should be bom in mind that the
direct rays of the sun exert a
powerful germicidal influence.
While washing and sunning are
of great value, they are not al
ways sufficient, or always appli
cable. So to make assurance
EDWARDS IS RIGHT.
Congressman Charles 0. Ed
wards of the First Congressional
District hit the nail squarely on
the head when he said “IT IS
TIME FOR SOUTH GEORGIA
TO GET TOGETHER, FORGET
TING OLD FACTIONAL LINES,
AND FIGHT FOR SOUTH
GEORGIA.”
This is the same doctrine* that
the Journal has been preaching
for several months. Like Cong
ressmaii Edwards the Journal has
grown sick and disgusted with
this everlasting talk and fighting
About questions that are nothing
more or less than factional. We
folks down in South Georgia have
been going around long enough
with over ready drawn swords
to fight for a Hoke Smith man, or
Joe Brown man for some polit
ical offico. We have clearly shown
that we have more fighting nerve
than we have political sense. It
perfectly alright for us to be
for or agaitutt Hoke Smith for
United States Senator, but it is
all wrong fpr ua to forget our
own interests to such an extent as
to vote for any man just because
he happenod to be with us in the
political battle* that gave birth
the Hoke Smith-Joe Brown fac
tion.
What South Georgia wants in
tho state and the nation is offi
cials that recognise the fact that
South Georgia is the most import-
DR. DICKERSON
WhmBmetttdaWbem Others Fall
t’criMiwat MEN (AanwuS
^ iKm't wait ui
the »}is*«*e di*
w.-s important i
and nerve*. Mop now.
Thousand* of m>~~
en wrecked
BLOOD
POISON
Ncwlr Contracted
andt hronw fates
of Ihirninf. Itch
ing ■ nd Inflam
mation stopped
promptly.
“914” BLOOD POISON “606’
Absolute cures in nil rurshle c«*e* of cor
traded dne«»e*. alto Kidneys, Itladd.r an
Prostate, burning snd frequent deuie. Wes’
net* of Men snd Women. Varicocele, Woo
I Vi ton. Pile* in all form* and romp0r»tior
... “.-Hay and a
chV directly
a blootl ailbout eullino >
from busin-
M-ItVOl’S DEBILITY
Are yn« weak, n.-re out. broken
hWr l*o y«»u lack in tim. tier ai
Why not have these Doublet cared?
WY RERVHTS COST YOU NOTHING
UNLESS JfOU ARB PLUM A-
KI.VTLY CUBED AND SATISFIED.
It I* because my w ell tried, effectie* methodi
re succrtstul mttu h • lame per cent of rates
■at 1 am able to |i«r tins sdrutia* which
other specialists do not oScr.
miX CONSULTATION
EXAlUNATtOX
-uttiuK or drtyntio
vitality:
OK. BELL'S
Antiseptic Salve
ssss
genctM, am foe Re. Jh* « -1—r-fnr *7?Te. I
“Tall It By TW Bell"
ntion before taking
md treatment quicker arid brtter'than'ebc^
‘its.
Dr. Geo. L. Dickerson
1 H W. Fornjrth Street
' Neat to lUrnett Hank i
JACKSONVILLE t t s FLA.
pie stand, but the Journal several doubly sure, the employment of
months ago decided that in the high degrees of heat or of some
future it would consider WIIAT i chemical substance may become
THE CANDIDATE, if ELECTED, I necessary. Boiling or burning
WILL DO FOR SOUTH GEOR- j readily kills germs of all descrip
GIA, and not whether he was forjtions, but freezing rarely, if ev
or against Hoke .Smith when he^er, does so. Articles, therefore,
was a candidate for governor. We j which have become contaminated
shall not make it an iron clad rule and are of small or no value, can
to support only South Georgia I be burned. If the article is val-
men, but support men who will uable, however, and if it is of
promise to do the right thing by [such a nature that wetting will
South Georgia. We shall always not hurt it, it can be either hnilpd
cognize ability in candidates as,or soaked in water containing a
well as their chances to win, so if chemical disinfectant. Either of
a North Georgia man who faith-j the following solutions is effica-
fully promises to represent South cions for this purpose: :
Georgia, has a better chance to (1) Carbolic Solution: Mix a
win than a South Georgia man,'glassful of pure carbolic acid to
then we shall support the North javery gallon of water used. It is
Georgia man. In other words we best to use hot water. This solu
feed that what we want is not so tion is very satisfactory for gen-
much South Georgia men, as men eral purposes, and according to
who STAND FOR SOUTH GEOR- Bark and Williams, of New York,
GIA. Of course, with all things it will not destroy fabrics, colors,
pial we should favor a South, metals, or wood. Care should be
Georgia man. taken that the pure acid does not
In this connection we might say come in contact with the skin. If
that while Governor Slaton’s ap- this accident happens, immediate-
pointee as U. S. Senator should ly apply alcohol to the spot,
have been about our Inst choice,!^- Bichloride Solution (Biehlo-
still he recognized South Georgia,!ride of mercury or corrosive sub
just as lie has on many other oc- j limate: Dissolve 60 grains of bi-
casions since he has been serving chloride of mercury and two ta-
os governor. He has been South ( hlespoonfuls of common salt in
Georgia’s governor as well as each gallon of water. This soln-
North Georgia’s, and is entitled |tion should not be used on metals
to just honor for same. If he ( or kept in metal vessels. To
Should become a candidate for avoid accidents, it is best to color
Senator Bacon’s seat in the Sen- this solution (colored tablets can
ate there is no reason why Sonth
Georgia should not support him.
RICH MAN 'S TOLL.
be obtained from the stores.) It is
important to remember that these
solutions are very poisonous
when taken in the mouth, but are
Two bogus sheriffs, one of harmless when applied to the
whom, Peter Giles, is now in cus-jskin. If swallowed immediate!,
tody, have been making money give the patieiit whites of eggs or
for some time in this city by a *nilk and send for a physician at
most successful extortion trick.' °nce.
Having out of date sheriff's badg-1 Soak the article to be disin
they would flash them ami ( fccted in one of these prepara
threaten with qrrest wealthy men tions for an hour or more, then
they found with women in posi-1 boil in hot soapy water. All dis-
tions which might have been [charges from a patient suffering
made to, seem compromising., with a trunsmissable disease
They have been paid large sums should be at once disinfected,
by their victims and sometimes That from the mouth can be re
took their furs as well.—Toledo ceived on a cloth which can be
Exchange. t burned or treated as above. The
spit from consumptive patients
SOME DISINFECTANTS I should be ' received iu covered
AND HOW TO USE THEM.' spit-cups containing the carbolic
■ ■ i. [solution; and the bowel move-
Have you ever been in a room J Inen ts and urine, particularly in
where there was someone sick ami. typhoid and dysentery cases,
noticed little saucers of diainfec-1 ■hould be received into a glass or
tants sitting around the room? earthen vessel containing the car-
Surely you have, for it is a very. holic preparation. The solution
common practice and it is just as, &ru ^ the discharges should be
worthless as it is common. It dis-1 thoroughly mixed by stirring to-
infecta the inside of the saucer K e ther and allowing to stand for
an hour or more well covered up
from the disease carrying flies.
The secretions from the month,
like those of the nose, in scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles and
similar diseases, can be caught on
cloths and treated as described
above.
manner possible.
Cool heads have predominated
in the administration of the coun
try's affairs, and thus far have
won. Hasty action has many
times been urged, but fortunate to
this country, and to the whole
world, such action has not been
taken. And be it said to the hon
or of Great Britain, she has like
wise been led by cool heads, and
good temper. In speaking of the
position England has occupied
connection with the Mexican situ
ation the Macon Telegraph says:
“Groat Britain has not master
ed a world-girdling empire dur
ing centuries for nothing. If
Benton had been an American,
the first uloiy of his murder or
execution, or whatever it was,
would have stirred popular feel
ing to such a high pitch that the
administration might have been
stampeded and intervention fol
lowed. But the British, out of the
multitude of their experiences,
have acquired patience.
The tone of the British press is
temperate anil the British gov
ernment will leave the question of
intervention to the United State*.
Any other course would be impo
lite, according to the statement
made in the House of Commons
by the Under Secretary of For
eign Affairs. Presumably this re
fers partly to the danger of a
misunderstanding with the United
States and partly to the fact that
England is estopped by her re
cognition of the nuerta govern
ment.
Moreover, a degree of calmness
was rendered inevitable by the
claim of Gen. YUla that Benton
was put to death “because he
went into my room and pulled
out a revolver to kill m«.” This
may be, and probably is, a gross
exaggeration of Benton’s atti
tude of protest, but proofs that it
is untrue are lacking, and the mil
itary laws of all nations intended
to protect commanders from as
sassination are very stem.
Probably the matter will end in
a mere claim of damages in be
half of Benton’s family, so far as
England is concerned, hut even
Villa must realize now that he
acted unwisely, that the Consti
tutionalist cause has been greatly
harmed, and that Huerta has been
correspondingly strengthened
Mr. Bacon had been laid to rest.
In geniinely Hardiwickian
style, therefore, he began to tell
folks abqut it.
When it got into the newspa
pers, too, he didn’t trim or side
step the situation. He said he
wasn’t really anxious that the lid
be kicked off quite so soon, but
that, so long as it was off, why—
it was off, that was all!
It soon became apparent, how
ever, that Mr. Hardwick’s an
nouncement had been seized upon
by ertain anti-IIoke Smithitea as
a circumstance tending to show
that the senior United States Sen
ator was undertaking to “grab
the whole works” in Georgia, and
that Hardwick, being closer to the
Senator than anybody else, was,
of course, a party to the plot.
This, apparently, was not doing
the senior Senator any particular
good with the common or garden
variety of voters, and so it was
stated that Senator Smith had
nothing whatever to do with the
Hardwick announcement, and
would have nothing to do with
the junior senatorship race, any
way.
Still “people will talk”—and
WHY GET FRIGHTENED?
but that is all. For a disinfectant
to do its work, it must be brought
in concentrated form in direct
contact with the article to bf dis
infected. For a person to sprin
kle some chemical substance
around the room or burn just en
ough sulphur or formaldehyde
candles to create a bad odor and
think the pretni«M arc properly | Mrs. A. U. Tabor, of Crider,
Uninfected, is just ns foolish n.t Mo., )ln ,| been troubled with sick
i- r ° r !1 *>'K burly ostrich to .headache for about five years,
ck Ids head in the sand end wht .„ shl . began taking Chamber
suppose las entire body to be hid. |,dns Tabled.. She has taken two
Su. h practices, of course, arise bottles of them and they hav
from n desire to do the right thing <. llr „ ( | her . sick headache i
so to speak, hut show a woeful, ,. aU8t ,,| by a disordered stomach
lack of knowledge ... regard to for , vhi , h thesc tab !cts are rape-
what ,s necessary to he done and cia || y inte , nded . Try th gct
how to do it. Changing the odorj wu „ 4#d „ ay we „ ’ Sold bv aI|
m a room by some noxious side ! d ,. a ] prs
stance, or even completely ileode-1
ri/ing it. does not necessarily
mean that disinfection has occur*
l. This article, therefore, and |
the one to follow it in a few days.' F®r several months the Tinted
issued hv the State Hoard of Mates Government has been fae*
Health to inform the people of ' n g one of the greatest problems
along these lines so as to 'hat has ever confronted it.
aid them in their tight against While the Democratic ad.uinistra-
disease. tion has been working almost
The subject being a very big night and day to work out certain
-me and space for its elucidation great reform measures to govern
being limited, we will confine our- this country, it has at the same
reives to the description of the time been dealing with some per*
simplest and most economical pleiing questions as regards oth-
rarthods which have been proven er nations. One of these ques*
by many tests to lie satisfactory, tions is the situation in Mexico,
To begin with, cleanliness, as oh- and while there has been much
tained by frequent use of hot wa* criticism from time to time it
ter and soap thoroughly applied, must he admitted that thus far
COOL HEADS WIN.
Our friend James Nevin, au
thor of “Side Lights on Georgia
Politics,” that appear in the At
lanta Georgian, is seeing things
of late, tnd very strange things,
too. The announcement that both
Congressman Thomas Hardwick,
and Attorney General Felder will
(be oandidates for Senator Bacon 'a
place in the Tlpited States senate
has caused Brother Nevin to have
all sorts of dreams. But in all of
these dreams the clever writer
sees the same deep plot of Sena
tor Hoke Smith's to throw the
“Slatonites,” ns he calls them,
into a state of confusion, and
thereby not only keep himself in
the senate, hut also to elect one
of his followers the Junior Sena
tor.
In Sunday's Georgian (dated
Mondavi Mr. Nevin dreams tin-
following:
As has been remarked before,
there is some very pretty jockey
ing for position going on in Geor
gia political circles nowadays, and
the preliminaries yet are far from
framed up to stay put.
The greater degree of aggres
siveness to date has been shown,
moreover, by the Smith-Hardwiok
Felder faction, if one may be per
mitted to call it that—it being ne
-ssarv to tack on a few titles and
so forth now and then—with the
Slaton-Brown-Howell faction bv
no means disposed to sleep over
rights, real or imaginary, it
may have.
It seems fairly well authenti
cated that some of the Smith-
Ilardwiek-Felder faction have not
been any too well pleased with
Tom Hardwick's precipitate
“butting in” to the senatorial
game.
Still, Hardwick ever has been
one of the kind thst “butts in”
About this time Attorney Gen
eral “Tom” Felder went to
Washington on State business,
and then there began to filter
hack to Georgia rumors of his can
didacy for the junior senatorship.
"Sakes alive!” hollered the an-
ti-Rmithites right here. “Can
things he thus!”
“Is it pos-si-ble that Hardwick
and Felder both are to rnn for the
junior senatorship, thus making
the eleetion of an anti-Smithite
practically certain t”
The anti-Smithites could not
swallow—at least, not as at one
gulp—news so amazing.
They viewed it with evident
suspicion, if not alarm!
‘No.” said they to themselves,
said they, “it can not be so. Ah
—we have it! noke is undertak
ing to save bis own face by ap
parently dividing his following
over the junior senatorship!”
What a plotter and a schemer
Iloke is, anyway!
So now "they say” Hoke delib
erately is dividing his support on
the junior senatorship, in order
that he may say, “I didn't have
anything to do with the junior
senatorship race. If T were un
dertaking to 'hog the whole show’
in Georgia, surely T would not let
my dear friends Hardwick and
Felder slash one another’s throats
in order that my enemy—say,
Slaton—might win!”
There is this about the thing:
No matter what Hoke says, he
can not please an anti-Hokeite;
snd no matter what he says, he
can not displease a Hokeitc.
Some people go so far as to sus
pect the senior senator of a deep-
seated design to achieve his own
re-election, and not to (Bother ex
tensively over anything else.
They are people who don’t get
excited much about things, in the
tain.
And really
After having been told that the
athletic girl was one of the most
notable products of our times we
are now informed that she has
lisappeared. This is probably
s of considerable more value than the Mexican situation, as well as whenever he gets good and ready. I the quickest ease of decline anil
he imperfect use of the various other foreign questions have been j He decided, maybe all by him- fall on record.—Chicago Record-
Hsinfeeta.it: without cleanliness, handled in the best diplomatic self, to run for the Senate, after'Herald.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
CITATION.
EORGIA—Ware County.
To All Whom it May Concern:
John I. Boyles having in prop
er form applied to me for Perma
nent Letters of Administration on
the estate of Eli Boyles, late of
said county, this is to cite all and
ingrular the creditors and next of
kin of Eli Boyles to lie and ap
pear at my office within the time
allowed hv law, and show cause,
if any they can. why permanent
administration should not he
granted to John I. Boyle* on Eli
Boyles estate.
Witness my hand and official
signature, this 2nd dav of March
19I4.
B. II. THOMAS, Ordinarv.