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BY E. L. RAINEY.
DAWSON, GA., Jan. 13, 1909,
WILL THEY GET UP A WAR?
Every once in awhile the country
hears something from ‘‘Hero” Hob
. son about a war with Japan. He is
now in the north on a lecturing tour,
and is preaching the probability of
war and the need of a larger and
better navy. '
If he and Mr. Roosevelt and oth
ers should get up a war with Ja
pan there is no reason to doubt
the United States could win, and it
seems hardly probable that England
or any other European country
would join Japan in such a war.
Still complications might arise. This
country has no need and is certainly
devoid of fear for any other nation,
but it has much to fear from the
brutalizing influence that war oxm'-‘
cises on her citizenship. Our Philip-‘
pine army with their barbarous water
cure and our soldiers in many in-l
stances have shown that' “the call of
the wild"” of the barbarous appealsi
to them. '
Mr. Roosevelt's idea that the way to
avoid war is to go around with a big
navy and a chip on our shoulders is
not the correct idea. In early days
it was commonly stated that no man
ever became involved in deadly diffi
culties except the men who went
around prepared for it. The same
:applies to countries. No war would
be probable did the United States at
tend to her own affairs, and refuse
to parade her strength and invite a|
contest.
Still the jingoes are, in our best
judgment, likely to precipitate a war,
and there are many who would justify
it. It is now about ten years since
we occupied the Philippines, and con
servative statesmen then predicted
that it would in less than ten years
cause a war. The war between Rus—l
sia and Japan may have delayved a
sound prophecy. In any event was is
the desire of the men who follow the
army and the navy and many who do
not.
It seems safe to believe if we hold
the Philippines and build a big navy
we Wwill be in a war in less than five
years. However, this country should
avoid war. We could gain no glory
from even a victorious war with Ja
pan, and a war lacking decisive re
sults would be most humiliating.
A TRIUMPH FOR LAW.
Eight of the night riders who
murdered Captain Rankin at Reel
foot Lake have been convicted at
Union City, Tenn., and the sentence
of death imposed upon six of them,
while two of them escaped with sen
tences of twenty years in the peni
tentiary. The result of the trial is
a distinct triumph of the law.
A civilized people can take no
pleasure in seeing the sentence
of death inflicted, but matters
have reached such a stage that
drastic steps must be taken if
the reign of terror and bloodshed is
not to continue longer. The night
riding spirit had spread from its
birth-ground—Kentucky—across in
to Tennessee, and with its spread it
gathered evil strength. More than
that, there had been sporadic out
bursts of it in other sections—even
here in our own Southwest Georgia
—until almost every southern state
has had a taste of this peculiar form
of lawlessness.
To Governor Patterson's 1)1’01111)t‘
and decisive action when the Reel
foot Lake outrage occurred is due
much for bringing these midnight
murderers to justice, and he has set
the governors of other states an ex
ample of how to stamp out lawless
ness of this character. Going out
after the participants in mob law is
much surer of results than sitting
back in a comfortable office and de
nouncing them and their crime and
offering a paltry reward for their
capture.
THE WAY OF THEM ALL.
It is not surprising that the At-t
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road has been placed in the hands ot‘]
receivers because of its failure to:
meet the January interest on itsi
bonds. It is the history of all new
railroads, and is merely the first step
towards getting rid of the little fel
lows. The president and vice-presi
dent of the road are the receivers.
The A. B. & A. is one of the best
équipped railroads in the South, and
its elegant passenger coaches, with
their electric fans, were a wonder in
this section when they were first put
in service. The road has opened a
fine section of country and been of
vast benefit, and The News hopes
nothing serious will result from the
present proceedings.
What Tillman did for Ted Roose
velt Monday was a plenty.
| OUR OLD HOME PAPER.
f The News joins in congratulating
Editor Hodges of the Perry Home
Journal that his paper has weathered
the storms of thirty-eight vears, and
entered its thirty-ninth volume on a
sounder basis and with a brighter
joutlook than ever” before. All of
]these long years the Home Journal
! has been loyal to the people of Hous
ton county. It has been a part of
their 'very lives—has shared with
them their joys and sorrows, and
contributed as much, or more, per
haps, to their pleasure and enter
tainment and general advancement
’than any other one thing, . Itiis
something less than thirty years ago
‘that the editor of The News did his
first newspaper work as °‘‘devil”’ in
the Home Journal office, and we
have an abiding affection for the old
paper. May it celebrate as many
more anniversaries, and every one of
them bring increased usefulness and
prosperity to it and its able and de
serving editor.
{ THE RECENT HORROR.
.« The: herrors of the Johnstown
flood, of Galveston and St. Pierre—
at least as to loss of life and human
suffering—seem to be surpassed by
the earthquake disaster in Italy.
Careful investigation does not reveal
less loss of life than was at first
reported. It is appalling beyond de
scription—the thought of the sudden
unheaval of land and sea and the de
struction of so many human beings,
as well as the fact that so many seem
to have died in agony, helpless vic
tims of the flames that swept the
wrecked cities immediately follow
ing the cataclysm. That it is a mon
umental disaster, a century disaster,
cannot be doubted, and it is a check
to human pride and arrogance to re
flect that with all his genius, prog
ress and power man cannot guard
against experiences of this charac
ter, the awful and supreme manifes
tation of Nature's latent forces.
It is needless to say that the sym
pathy and generous aid of all lands
has gone out to stricken Italy, and
such mitigation of need and suffer
ing as could be rendered has been
prompt and generous. Fifty years
ago weeks would have been required
to carry the tidings of the catastro
phe to the notice of the world. Now
it is flashed around the globe in an
instant, as it were, and all nations
apprised of the need of human sym
pathy and aid. And the world has
not been slow in its offers of service
to Italy, even if here in Dawson we
have not heeded the cry of aficted
brotherhood and have failed to con
tribute a mite toward assuaging
the suffering of some poor man, wo
man or child. It should be a great
comfort to everyone everywhere who
has contributed, no matter how
small, to these people.
There is no lesson to draw from
the cataclysm save fresh realization
of human helplessness against certain
manifestations of Nature's forces.
No human foresight could have
warded off the disaster. It is not a
“judgment,” either. God does not
wrong or burden his innocent creat
ures in such manner. It was nat
ural, and all there is to do is to help
those who, because of the horror,
need help.
We see it stated that in Atlanta
last year there were nine thousand
fewer arrests than during the year
before. This means that there were
many times more than nine thousand
fewer heartaches, fewer pangs of re
morse, and a great deal more happi
ness in many homes. If prohibition
has done this no one can dispute that
it is a good thing, and has been
worth while. -
The Augusta Herald wastes nearly
a column of good editorial space dis
cussing mint growing in Georgia.
There is no use for the aromatic
grass in this_state now.
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From the Macon Evening News.
Eight cent cotton is inducing many farmers to devote more acres to
corn raising and fewer to cotton growing. Many cotton fields are al
ready green with wheat, oats or rye, and in the coming months corn
will be freely planted in every southern state. In the districts afflicted
with boll weevil this policy is almost imperative, and in all other dis
tricts it ‘is desirable.
The man, says the Cotton Journal, who grows an abundance of
grain, hay, chickens, eggs, pigs and other things to eat, and with which
he can supply his own wants and that of the local market, is the man
who is at all times independent of the price of cotton to sustain him.
Nobody ever heard of the creditor or the sheriff making life miserable
to the man who has a full smoke house and corn crib. Such farmers are
not bowed with debts due to the supply merchant or the Ilocal bank.
Such men do not feel the depressing influences of hard times, low
prices or panics. They sleep well at nights, meet the whole world with
a smile of peaceful contentment and are always ready with a hearty
hand shake and with the latchstrings*on the outside of their hospitable
homes. They feel the powerful and fascinating influences of perfect
contentment at all times, and are what you would truly typify as inde
pendent husbandment.
The man who depends wholly on cotton and the credit system to
carry him from year to year will always have a hard and rocky road to
travel. There are hundreds of thousands in the south who each year
travel this road, and they will never see better times until they fall into
line and live at home instead of on the supply merchant and the eredit
system. Pick out the independent and successful farmers in any cotton
growing country and go upon their premises and the success of their
farming is soon found ia ihe well filled corn ecribs, hay stacks, smoke
houses and good gardens.
WHAT MAN DO YOU STRANGLE?
Some statistician figures that
$250,000,000 every year is being di
verted from the local merchants of
this country to the mail order coa
cerns in the great cities.
How much of that monumental
mound of money goes out of this
community?
THE BRIGADIERS.
Colonel William W. Oshorne of
Savannah, who, by the way, is a very
bright young man and until a year
or two ago a very successful politi
cal boss in his bailiwick, is passing
some strictures upon the “briga
diers” of the democratic party for
not throwing themselves into the
breach and preventing Mr. Bryan's
last nomination for the presidency.
Most people, somehow, have the idea
lthat Mr. Bryan was nominated in
spite of the brigadiers. But what
ever the brigadiers who have come
under Colonel Osborne’s eriticism
may or may not have done we do not
recall that any of their lieutenants
ever stuffed the ballot box several
thousand votes when there were no
opposing candidates ‘“‘just to make a‘
good showing.” This, as is known
to all newspaper readers, happenedl
when Colonel Osborne was a briga
dier of the Yamacraw braves. Of
course, it was not done with his
knowledge and consent, but he
should have had his staff officers bet
ter disciplined.
SHOULD HAVE READ THE NEWS.
H. T. Bridges of Terrell coun
ty made last year 105 bales of
catton on 100 acres. The pa- - |
pers did not state how much
fertilizer he used.—Shellman
Sun.
The Sun should have read The
News, and not obtained its informa
tion second hand from the daily
newspapers, which got the item from
this paper and omitted that part of
the story. For the benefit of The
Sun we will again state that Mr.
Bridges used from 600 to 1,000
pounds of commercial fertilizer to
the acre.
Its fine farm lands and intelligent
and progressive farmers we have
over here in Terrell county, Bud.
Governor Smith has called a meet
ing of the committee appointed by
the legislature and himself to con
sider the extension of the state’s
railroad to the sea. The News has
no, idea that the road will be ex
tended to the sea—not now, at any
rate. Railroads are having a rather
hard time of it these days, and be
sides it is no part of a state’s gov
ernment to engage in such enter
prises. When Judge Dick Russell
ran for governor the chief plank
of his platform was the extension of
the state's road, and he had neither
sympathy or encouragement from
Mr. Smith and others who are now
foremost in pushing the project.
Taft and Foraker have defeated
each other in Ohio, and it is likely
that both are satisfied. “Brother
Charlie,” who gave $llO,OOO to his
brother Williams’ campaign fund in
his race for the presidency and
thought he should be rewarded with
a seat in the United States senate
for it announced his withdrawal from
that contest a few days ago, and this
was soon followed with a similar an
nouncement from Senator Foraker.
Congressman Burton will be the next
senator from Ohio.
Uncle Sam has moved promptly
and generously to the aid of stricken
Italy. It is Uncle Sam’s way, and a
good way. And all the world is
moving to the relief of Italy, for the
reports continue to show that the
disaster is the greatest and in all its
details the most pitiable of the cen
turies.
THE DAWSON NEWS.
Every dollar so spent helps to
swell the heap in the city that has
no use for us except to get our good
money.
Every dollar mailed away helps to
strangle enterprises and scuttle pros
perity right here at home.
When you strangle your neighbor
you strangle yourself.
There are a number of bright
newspaper women in Georgia, but
one of the most successful of these
is Miss Nora Lawrence, who has just
succeeded her father as editor of the
Wiregrass Farmer at Ashburn, and
has associated with her as business
‘manager Mr. L. H. Jenkins. We ex
‘tend to the charming young editress
the compliments of the season, and
wish for her and the Wiregrass
Farmer all of the prosperity her tal
ented work deserves.
The Savannah News wants to know
if it will finally become necessary to
divide the state’'s penal establish
ment into eight sections, one for
white men, one for white women,
one for black men, one for black
women, one for white boys, one for
white girls, one for negro boys and‘
one for negro girls. The demand
seems to be for the absolute segre-‘
gation of the races and the sexes,
both adult and juvenile. 4
We are here to tell the monied
men of Dawson, the men who have
big holdings here, that the mass of
the people in the city are ready and
waiting to follow them and help in
efforts to promote the prestige and
growth of Dawson—mnot unwise, im
practicable measures or movements,
but undertakings needful and entire
ly within the reach of the community.
The Perry Home Journal utters a
great truth in a few words: ‘“Ma
terial prosperity depends more upon
personal effort than upon legislation
and general conditions.” And the
people of Georgia have had it strong
ly impressed upon them in the last
two or three years.
Some of our contemporaries can’t
rest at night for worrying about Mr.
Bryan not swearing that he will
never have anything more to do with
politics. ~The surest way to keep
Mr. Bryan in politics is for these
papers to continue to nag at him.
All of this gush over Taft and talk
of his breaking the solid south is
tommyrot. He will do it when ele
phants roost in rose bushes. The Ma
coranelegraph took it too seriously
when it devoted two columns of good
editorial space to it.
The Standard Oil Company has
the laugh on Judge Landis in the
wind-up. The $29,000,000 fine will
not have to be paid, which shows
that even the rich can get justice
from the courts in this glorious
country.
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There are now four southern states
in which state-wide prohibition pre
vails, Alabama, Mississippi and North
Carolina joining Georgia on January
Ist. And the others are merely damp
in spots.
The Darien Gazette thinks that
when Atlanta gets through slobber
ing over Mr. Taft he will wonder
why he didn’t get more votes in that
city.
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Atlanta has decided to quit hum
bugging her country cousins with
so-called fairs. The town council up
there has voted against having any
more of the fakes.
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The Macon News is right when it
says Billie Osborne had better have
himself remeasured before he finally
decides that Senator Bacon’'s toga
will fit him.
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Since men have deserted the great
outdoors for office life they are
forced to let the brain do the work.
And that is nothing to be proud of.
They are going to charge $lO a
plate to eat with Mr. Taft when he
visits Atlanta. There are a great
many people who are not hungry.
To all of its contemporaries or the
Georgia press The News wishes a
happy New Year and good fortune
through 1909,
The man worth while is the man
who will make two smiles grow
where only one grew before,
What does 1909 hold for Dawson?
Progress and prosperity. That is the
gospel The News preaches,
The Big Stick has lost its influ
ence. Even the officeholders are no
longer afraid of it,
For the home town first, last and.
all the time. And the town fs Daw-J
son.
DOVEREL SCHOOL WON PRIZE.
At the beginning of last yvear the
ladies of the Library Association
offered to the country school which
should make the greatest progress
in civic improvement and in library
work a reward of ten new books
for its library. It was found at the
close of the year that the Doverel
school, under the management of
Prof. T. E. Morton, had done most
to beautify its grounds and add to
its library. It was with great pleas
ure that the prize was given to them,
not only as a reward for their past
work, but as an encouragement for
the ensuing year.
fOPERA HOUSE THURSDAY NIGHT
Peck and His Mother-in-Law will
give another entertainment on
Thursday night, January 14th, ow
ing to the opera house at Bainbridge
being closed. They will again pro
duce tne play with new specialties
and scenery, and give the laughable
farce, ‘“A Dollar for a Kiss,” with
out extra charge. The company
played Monday night to a good
house, and from the amount of
laughter and appreciation by the au
dience showed that all were well
pleased. Don’t forget the date,
Thursday night, January 14th. Seats
will be on sale Thursday at Lavely’s
candy stand.
MORE UPLIFTING.
From the Macon Telegraph.
We still hear of the Government's
Country Life Commission and the
great work of rural uplift it has
generously undertaken. Dr. L. H.
Knapp, chief of the department of
agriculture’s ‘‘co-operative farm
demonstrative work’ in the south, is
thus quoted:
“One of the most important
steps in this uplift work is to
help the southern farmer get
out of debt, and I might say
that he is less in cebt than he
was five years ago. Secondly,
I would revolutionize their
homes, and third, I would take
over their schools and readjust
them.”
Why not also take over their
children so that the latter's bodies
may be fed only on baked beans and
their minds nourished chiefly on
Emerson, and thus the genuine model
New England product be evolved?
It seems that the Mothers’ Con
gress is to back up the government
and lend a hand. Mrs. Schoff of
Philadelphia pledges that benignant
organization’s ‘‘active co-operation
in the movement to better the condi
tiors of the average country woman
in the south, and to teach modern
methods of cooking.”
Once we took a pride—a foolish
pride, no doubt—in southern Cook
ing, in the delicious things the
trained black culinary artists of the
old plantation knew how to serve,
But now everything, even memories,
must be given up, for we are going
to be uplifted—to the elysian level
of baked beans, codfish and mashed
potatoes. It makes one giddy—al
most sea-sick—to think of so swift
an uplift to so wvast a height of
progress.
Mr. Dooley on Rockefeller.
In the December American Maga
zine “Mr. Dooley” writes of “A new
literary light.” Following is a brief
extract:
““Well, Hinnisy, tn- rmpression 1
got fr'm th’ little heart-to-heart talk
by the iditor was that me friend
Jawn D. was quite a jolly, rollickin’
old soul. I plunged fr'm thence into
his autobiography an’ immeejedly
plunged out again. I cannot tell ye
all iv this dashin’ story iv adventure.
I class it among th’ gr-eat fightin’
romances iv iitchrachoor. How he
was beset be rivals—how he pierced
wan with a rebate, how he broke th’
law over another’s head, how he
leaped through a loophole in a su
preme court decision an’ was safe f'r
a time, th’ great peril he was in
fr'm f'rgettin’ the combination to his
safe; how he was treecherously
sthruck down be Kenesaw M. Lan
dis; how honest Peter Grosscup came
along an’ lifted th’ fine an’ carried
him home an’ nursed him back to
life. I'll not tell ye about It. Yé
must reat it f'rw ye-er-silf, An' it
it’s not too much to ask, .read it
r me, too.
“There’s wan thing sure fr'm
what I see an’ that is that Jawn D.
hasn’t anny idee that he iver done
wrong to annywan. [ like that about
him. It shows he’'s a human being,”
“I Remember, 1 Remember.”
I remember, I remember,
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon,
Nor brought too long a day,
But now I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away!
I remember, I remember,
The roses, red and white,
The flowers and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday—
The tree is living yet!
I remember, I remember,
Where I once used to swing
And thought the air must rush as
fresh
As swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
And summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow!
I remember, I remember,
The fir trees, dark and high;
[ used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now ‘’tig little joy -
To know I'm farther off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
~—Thomas Hood,
JANUARY 13, 1909,
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market. We have them
now on display. Prices
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