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The^ Fitzgerald Leader.
Est&folisHecl 1896.
VOL. II.
JOHN B. VINCENT,
Attorney-at-Law.
Lunbcrger Building, Cor. Pino and Grant St.,
Fitzgerald, : : Georgia.
CHENEY & BURCH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office— In Paulk Building, GrantStreet,
FITZGERALD GEORGIA.
E.W.Ryman, L. Kennedy,
Of South Dakota. Of Savannah.
RYMAN & KENNEDY,
Office— In Fitzgerald Block.
JAY & HENDERSON,
Attorney-at-Law,
Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Office— In the Slayton & Kern building on
Pine avenue.
W. F. THOMPSON,
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
(Late of the Best American Hospitals)
Specialist in Chronic Diseases
Of A-Ieii and 'Women,
Office, S. Grant street, near Magnolia. (Per¬
manently located.)
W. J. LAYMAN & CO.,
Real Estate & Insuranc Agents
,} Loans ZZcgo tiated.
Irant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Drs. C. A, A L> C- Holtsendorf,
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DXSHTf
Office— In Slayton & Kern building’, oppo-
ce Commercial hotel* Fitzgerald, Ga
.Ehone 21 .
PINE STREET
Meat Market
Carries a full line of Fresh and Salted
Meats of every description. Armour’s
celebrated .Western Beef always on
hand. Turkeys and Chickens bought
and sold.
H. L. BEAUCHAMP,
Proprietor.
WE
List - Property
> =y AND ====+
Pay : Taxes
Fornon-roaident property owners. Small and
large tracts of land for sale. Enclose stamp
giving full information.
F, WILLIAMS, SON & CO, Fiaagerald, Ga,
Real EstateDealers.
OPTICIAN
Have your eyes fitted by John Ad¬
ams, a man that lias had twenty-seven
years experience. I have the best as¬
sortment of goods in the city. Gen¬
eral line of optical goods in stock.
Lenses, spectacle and eye glass frames,
cases, also opera and field glasses, tel¬
escopes. barometers, microscope, com¬
passes, etc.
JOHN ADAMS,
GRANT street,
FITZGERALD, G A.
43
For Tailor Suits
CALL ON
E. J. DANCY,
Fine At-, Next Door to Commercial Hotel
A perfect fit guaranteed. A trial is all I ask.
Allgarments cut and made on premises. •
Cleaning. Repairing and Pressing a Specialty
WHY HO TO ATLANTA
To have your Eyes fitted with glasses?
You can save time and money by call¬
ing at Baldwin’s, the Eye Specialist, Have
who is a graduate optician. a
room especially for examining the
eyes. Headache, vision blurred, can¬
not read by lamplight, can be relieved
by proper glasses. Take no chances,
but have»your eyes fitted with glasses
■correctly. C. S. BALDWIN,
Two Dooas East of Postnffice,
Fitzgerald, ! : Georgia.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLER.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 30, 1897.
A Happy New Year.
Dear reader, “A happy New Year”
and a long life of happiness are the
best wishes of The Leader. Com¬
mence the New Year with the resolve
that you will be better men and
women hereafter, and that you will
endeavor to make those around you
happy. If you are not a religious
man, gather your family around you
New Year’s morning, and read to
them one chapter from the old family
bible, or if that is asking too much,
read to them from the same book the
family record the names of the living
and the dead loved ones that are not
with you on this, the first day of the
New Year. This will perhaps cause
tears to fall when you think of the
loved ones that are absent. Tears,
yes honest tears, are a sure indication,
on this occasion, you have not forgot¬
ten the dead and the living, and that
there is yet in the deep recesses of your
heart a little spring that is bubbling
with the love of God. Give this little
spring a chance a flow, and our word
for it, the New Year will be the hap¬
piest one of your life.
To you, young man, we would say,
do not put the intoxicating cup to
your lips. Whatever may be your
future, let it be said that “ on January
1, 1898, I drank no intoxicating
liquors.” We ask this in behalf of
your dear old mother, who perhaps is
not with you now. Boys, try and be
a man for your mother’s sake.
We’re a Two-Year-Old.
With this issue of The Loader we
leave behind volume 2 and commence
on volume 3. Just two years ago The
Leader printing material arrived at
Lulaville, the end of the railroad,
where we had a number of teams and
a small army of men waiting to bring
the plant to Fitzgerald. The job was
a long and tedious one, but neverthe¬
less we succeeded in bringing every¬
thing across the country without hard¬
ly a single mishap.
On January 9th the first copy was
turned from The Leader’s big Hoe
cylinder press, and not an issue from
that day until this has each subscriber
failed to get his paper as far as we
know. We’re a two-year-old, and
we are proud of it. So hereafter we
will throw our excessive modesty aside
and stand upon our prerogative and
speak our mind upon things without
fear or favor, and if some don’t like it
they can just come and speak to us
about it, and we will excuse them. We
are not only proud that we are a citi¬
zen of this great Slate, but we are
proud that we are a citizen from choice
and not from necessity. We are also
proud of the fact that we are a citizen
of the city of Fitzgerald, a city that
possesses all the advantages, both nat¬
ural and acquired, to become the me¬
tropolis of wire-grass Georgia in man¬
ufacture and trade, if her people will
only wake up and quit this everlasting
and disgusting wrangling. E Pluribus
Unum. Subscribe for The Leader.
The individual who attempts to do
everything seldom succeeds in doing
anything well. Life is not long
eno ugh to exhaust even one branch of
science, art or industry. When one
needs anything out of his line of busi¬
ness, it is far better to make the pur¬
chase of an experienced and trust¬
worthy neighbor than to undertake to
learn another branch of business,
with all its cost of experience. The
concern which undertakes to make all
the money, to get along without mak¬
ing any purchases of others, and to
monopolize all the avenues for profit,
generally gets left in the race for
wealth. The most successful individ¬
uals and firms are those which have
developed a promising specialty, leav¬
ing collateral matters to the attention
of their neighbors in trade and in¬
dustry. The possibilities of any one
branch of manufacture grow upon in¬
vestigation, and develop rapidly under
fostering care. The man who gathers
all the profits that are in one branch
of legitimate industry can well afford
to give his brother in trade a chance
as well.
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For all the news, read The Leader.
R. H. Mabry, local agent of the
Express Co. at Brunswick,
skipped out with $14,500. The
and Traders Bank has
closed its doors and the “ city by the
is on the ragged-edge of excite¬
ment.
_
A mugwump being defined to an
Englishman as “ a republican who
votes the democratic ticket,” he quick¬
ly asked: “And what would you call
a democrat who voted the republican
ticket ?’’ “ 1 would call him a d—
fool,” was the correct response.
Last Saturday two old comrades
met, and in the course of their con¬
versation drifted into politics. They
were discussing the present adminis¬
tration, when one of them said : “ I
voted for McKinley, and I want you
to kick me across the street.” His
friend obligingly did so and tlien re¬
marked : “ I voted for him, too, and I
want you to kick me back again.” It
is needless to say that he was kicked.
The Aspen (Colo.) Tribune remarks:
After serving sixteen months of a five
year sentence in the New Mexico pen¬
itentiary, President S. M. Folsom, who
was found guilty of wrecking the First
National bank of Albuquerque, has
been pardoned by the president. This
is the ninth bank president released
from prison by Mr. McKinley since he
assumed office nine months ago. Those
fellows undoubtedly realize what the
McKinley wave of prosperity really
means.
Penalty for Slander.
We believe the law is wrpng that
makes the penalty for slander a money
consideration. The punishment for
defaming tbe character of woman
should be swift and sure, out when it
is in the nature of. a- speculation, the
ends of justice are apt to be defeated
and the law made the tool of design¬
ing persons. Again this fact will dis¬
tort or at least bewilder the judgment
of well-meaning jurors who are unable
to determine from the presentation
the case whether they are listening to
the demand for reparation fora great
injury done, or whether it is a well de¬
vised scheme to mulch some one with
property who is a little indiscreet in
the use of his tongue. Frequently we
hear remarks made in regard to woman
in idle gossip or vulgar jest, that
scattered broadcast might be very
hurtful, but if the tattler is not in
hearing, such remarks fall dead and
meaningless and leave not a stain or
blot on the pure character. The spec¬
ulator hears the course flippant or an¬
gry remark—it may be the person at
whom the remark is directed, or it may
be an attorney who sees a fat fee in
the prospective half, immediately the
low remark of a foul-mouthed black¬
guard is clothed with a dignity that
never belonged to it, and a woman’s
character as drawn through the filthy
mire of a public trial to whiten it.
The law is wrong, because first, no
money consideration can compensate
a woman for an injury to her charac¬
ter ; second, when she asks such re¬
muneration, it is considered by many
a virtual concession that her character
is for sale, and weakens her plea for
vindication ; third, to deprive a tra-
ducer of v Oman’s character of a part
of his property is not adequate or ap¬
propriate punishment for the vilest
and most cowardly offense that a crea¬
ture in the semblance of a man can be
guilty of, and the law deters the chiv¬
alrous impulse of many a true gentle¬
man to drive his fist into the foul,
slanderous mouth. Every man that is
a man, feels called upon to defend the
character of any woman assailed un¬
less he knows she is unworthy, but a
character that can be measured by
dollars and cents is not a sentiment to
call out the finer emotions of chivalry.
This class of cases is very common in
Georgia, and it involves a heavy ex¬
pense on the tax-payers and we think
if the money clause were stricken
from the law and the penalty made
the same as for larceny and murder
combined, it would demands certainly of come
nearer satisfying the exact
justice.
City Plats at The Leader
Office.
The Record of Nine Months.
The McKinley administration has
been in power nine months and what
is its record:
1. The Dingley tariffhas failed to
produce sufficient revenue to pay the
expenses of government. The true
deficit is over forty-six millions of dol¬
lars.
2. The administration has railed to
secure international bimetalism or to
make any serious effort to that end.
McKinley appointed a commission,
but handicapped that commission by
hostility to the measure during the
time the negotiations were in progress.
3. The administration was pledged
by the convention that nominated Mr.
McKinley to friendship toward the
struggling patriots of Cuba. McKin¬
ley’s pro-Spanish message is the ful¬
fillment of that solemn pledge.
4. It has failed to restore prosperity
to the country, and instead the finan¬
cial condition has grown worse than it
was before McKinley was elected.
5. It promised that the interests of
the common people should be looked
after, and now the plan is to give the
national batiks tbe sovereign power of
issuing the money of the country.
It has failed, miserably failed to
meet the wishes and expectations of
the men who cast their votes with an
honest desire for a better condition
than existed at the time of the election.
It is true that the corporations and
trusts are well pleased with the admin¬
istration, but a majority of the repub¬
licans are disappointed and dissatisfied!
Gold for Greenbacks.
Breaking the endless chain in any
other way"than by observing the law
as it now exists is easier to talk about
than io'accomplish.
An . esteemed contemporary says
that with the banks in control of the
currency this country would have a
financial system as sound as that of
the bank of England or the bank of
France. But the bank of France
breaks the endless chain just as the
treasury of the United States ought to
break it, and has the legal right to
break it.
Gold cannot be had at the bank of
France for export. The man who
presents the bank’s obligations is not
asked whether lie wants gold or silver.
He is paid in the coin which best suits
the bank’s convenience. There is no
such thing as an implied obligation to
pay in gold.
And yet republican newspapers talk
about a currency in the United States
which is to be made as good as that of
the bank of France. Certainly the
bank of France is good, and so also is
the United States treasury, but the
comparison comes with peculiar em¬
phasis from an advocate of the endless
chain system of redeeming greenbacks.
President McKinley’s plan to re¬
deem greenbacks in gold and pay them
out only for gold is rendered inope¬
rative by his proviso that this shall be
done when the revenue shall equal the
expenses of the government. Under
the Dingley law, which is producing
a deficit af about 89,000,000 a month,
the time for breaking the endless chain
appears also to be endless.—Chicago
Dispatch._
A reader of newspapers is often
struck with the foolish bills offered in
our various State legislatures. One is
almost forced to believe that in numer¬
ous instances counties send their big¬
gest fools to legislate for them instead
of selecting their brainy men. Almost
every legislature has its crank who de¬
sires to legislate against football, horse¬
racing, or wearing tights on the stage,
and numberous other such silly ac¬
tions. We can get at a moment’s no¬
tice a waste basket full of damphool
legislation. What we need and can
not get are laws for just and equal
taxation, for the punishment of crime,
for the protection of honest, toiling
humanity from trusts and corporate
greed. We already have a surplus of
worthless laws ; let us have some com¬
mon sense legislation for a change.
A bill passed by the Georgia legis¬ by
lature providing for issues of notes
State banks is very properly desig¬
nated by the New York Times as “ a
bill to promote litigation at the ex¬
pense of the tax-payers of Georgia.”
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Has the best and largost stock of Jewelry in Fitzgerald: Solid Gold Goods **
and lots Sterling of them. See Silver our genuine Novelties—Latest Opals, set in Kings, Designs Pins and Earrings! ! Wt
We have Rogers’triple-plated No. 12 Knives and Forks for $3 25 per set of
»•'* 6 each! We have Teaspoons at 75c per set of 6 ; Tablespoons at $1.25 per set *
of six. See our Ladies’ Guard Chains!
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for your boy than a suit of clothes or a nice pair of shoes? Make
him a present of something that is of value and which wfll do
him service. It £ money in your pocket. Perhaps the shoes. men
% folks are in need of. \ new suit, pair of pant3, hat or
They will appreciate sue.\i present above all others. J
f Oiif Holiday Prices.
Mens’ all-wool suits, were $15.00, Holiday Price
$12.00. X
Mens’ all wool suits were $12.00, Holiday Price k&
$ 10 . 00 .
Mens’ all wool suits were $10.00, Holiday Price
$ 8 . 00 .
Mens’ all wool suits were $8.00, Holiday price $6.00.
Mens’ all wool suits were S7.00; Holiday price $4.00.
Boys’ all wool suits were $2.00; Holiday price $1.50.
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Fitzgerald, Georgia.
^Ask for our Store when in town.
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Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night.
I JOSEY’S DRUG STORE M
South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
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Contractor # Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock Box 8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.