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THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE.
And Press
Published Every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
By
The L.eader Publishing Co.
ISIDOR GELDEIRS .. . ... Managing Editor.
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Under Act of Congress, March 18th, 1897
OFFICIAL ORGAN Sity of Ficaserald ana
Rates for Display Advertising t'urnished on Application
Local Readers 10c per Line for each insertion. no ad
taken for less than 25c.
Valued at $75 per bale, and it has brought above that price, the
local cotton buyers have already paid out more than a quarter of a
million dollars to Ben Hill county farmers. Add to this immense
sum the value of the cotton seed and it will give a fair idea of what
the immediate future may hold in store for us, our merchants, the
banks and all others who are serving the public, if ONLY the proper
steps are taken to attract these immense sums into circulation.
If Fitzgerald alone has this fund to draw from her own county,
what an opportunity by spreading out and getting the larger terri
tory surrounding our county, and which is facing an equally pros
perous period, to trade with Fitzgerald institutions.
“MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES” is especially ap
propriate this year, for another year like this may not come again
soon. The time to act is now and as one man. Get your plans
made to co-operate with the LIVE ONES in the city and make the
time count.
CONGRESS MAY SETTLE RAILROAD MUDDLE
Congress will be called upon, according to the latest develop
ments in the railroad muddle, for a solution of this problem and to,
if possible under present conditions, enact some law or laws that
may be put into operation to avoid the cessation of railroad opera
tions. Many plans suggested are under comsideration. Of the
measures proposed for immediate use, there are several which ap
peal to the general public as fair to the main parties concerned and
- to the great third party, the public, which merely demands the con
tinuance of railway transportation without taking any partisan
stand as regards the final settlement between the two contracting
parties. The government is representing the masses, or should be,
and in that relation the administration will have the support of the
people, if it succeeds in continuing the uninterrupted traffic arrange
ments of the roads.
The measure given most serious consideration was one drawn
along the lines of the Canadian act, which provides for investiga
tion of industrial disputes by a commission for one year and prevents
strikes or lockouts during the period of investigation. If it finally
is decided to press such a measure an effort will be made to put it in
to effect at once.
Other legislation under consideration included the following
measures :
An eight-hour day law for railroad employes. |
A bill increasing the membership of the Interstate Commerce
Commission from seven to nine members, with authority to divide
into groups.
A resolution stating it to be the sense of Congress that if the
railroads grant a basic eight-hour day, they should be entitled to in
creased revenues compensatory with the increased operating ex
penses. :
A bill, already pending, directing the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to ascertain minimum, maximum and average wages paid
with hours of service to overy class of railroad employe, compare
them with the wages of other industries in which similar skill and
risk are involved, to determine the relation of railroad wages to rail
road revenues, and urge both sides to the present dispute to defer
action pending the investigation. :
-+ Consideration was also given to the problem of keeping the
railroads in operation in the event of a strike and how far Congress
should go in extending federal authority over the railroads.
The final solution will certainly be government ownership of all
transportation lines. This may not be possible at this particular
period but that the parties of the future will have to incorporate this
demand as one of their party principles, is beyond argument. The
lesson learned, if only in anticipation of trouble by the nation, will
mark the route which future statesmen will have to travel to get
recognition by the voters. :
PATRIOT OR REBEL? :
Later experiences have demonstrated the futility of providing
better definitions than those stated in the old saying that “The rebel
is a patriot who has failed and a patriot is a rebel who has won.” By
only a narrow margin was it decided that Washington was a hero
and Arnold a traitor—the federal government could find no law to
support the declaration that Lincoln saved the Union which Davis
sought to destroy, and when Britain had conquered the South Af
rican republics she could not hang their champions as traitors.
British authorities acknowledged that Miss Cavell had violated
the law but held that only Huns would have insisted on the legal
penalty, yet British statesmen declared it would be weakness only to
commute the punishment of Sir Roger Casement because it would
i : unwise or inexpedient. Europe is full of suppressed nationalties
..t Germany denies the right of Russia to execute a Pole for treason
¢ ~ugh she has no hesitation in burying her Poles for the same of
“:rse; Russia is shocked though Germany applauds when Austria
< -cutes Dr. Kramerz and other Czech leaders who hope to alleviate
= woes of their Ireland! Now Italy grows bitter because Austria
1 nishes an Italian who died for her Unredeemed Lands! ‘
In our own land we find the president arraigned by Germani
Catholics for having indicted certain citizens for seeming disloyaity
and counter charges read against him in that he has failed to avenge l
e attacks on a church in Mexico because these “imperil the con-
3700 BALES TO DATE
THE LEADER ENTERPRISE AND PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1916..
TWD YEARS IN BED
AND ROLLING CHAIR
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Mrs. Wilson Says She Had Given
Up All Hope—Gains 25 Pounds
on Tanlac and Is Now a Well
Woman.
“For two years I spent all my
time either in the hospita!, in bed,
or in a rolling chair, and during
that time I was given up to die,
and I don’t guess I would be here
now if it hadn’t been for Tanlac,”
said Mrs. E. O. Wilson. Mrs.
Wilson is well known in Atlanta,
her husband having been em
ployed by- The Constitution for a
number of years.
"I was a great sufferer from
lCln‘nniv indigestion,” continued
l.\lrs. Wilson, “and don’t guess
anybody ever had to go through
with what T did. I was very weak
and nervous, and at times had
those dreadful smothering sensa
tions to the point of fainting. I
had dreadful headaches, severe
pains in my back and over my
kidneys, and my joints ached all
the time. For two years I had to
live entirely on boiled milk, toast
and soft boiled eggs, and even
that didn’t digest well, and would
sour on my stomach. 1 didn’t
know what it was to get a good
night’s sleep. 1 took one kind
of medicine after another until
our house was almost filled with
empty bottles, but instead of im
proving I was getting worse all
the time. Finally they took me
to the hospital for treatment, and
I'lay there for five long months.,
but even that didn’t make me
well. It was taking nearly every
cent of my husband’s wages to
pay the doctor and drug bills—
our drug bill alone amounted to
$l4 or $l5 a month and one doc
tor bill amounted to $lOB.
“It looked like everything had
failed to help me, and I had about
given up all hope when one day
my husband brought a bottle of
Tanlac home with him and asked
me to take it. He said he had been
reading and hearing a lot of good
things about it, and didn’t see
any reason why it shouldn’t help
me. I was confined to my rolling
chair when I began taking it.
“Do I look like an invalid now ?
I certainly don't feel like one, and
[ have actually gained twenty
five (25) pounds on eleven bot
tles of Tanlac and feel as well as
[ ever did in my life. I can eat
anything I want—such things as
‘meat, turnips, hard-boiled eggs
don’t hurt me a particle, and I
sleep as good as T did when T was
a girl in my teens. I can ’get
about as well as anybody and just
the other day I waiked down
town, and T am running around
the neighborhood calling on my
friends nearly all the time now.
I haven’t a pain about me. 1 be
lieve I am the happiest woman in
Atlanta, and I think T have a
right to be. T think my recovery
is almost a miracle, and every
body in our neighborhood thinks
the same.”
Tanlac is sold by Denmark
Drug Co., Fitzgerald, Ga.; Giles
Drug Co., Pitts, Ga.; Paxon’s
Drug Store, Abbeville, Ga.; Vis
cher’'s Pharmacy, Rochelle, Ga.;
Wilson’s Pharmacy, Pineview,
Ga. adv.
WEAVER-JONES
Married on Wednesday, Aug.
23, Mr. Willie Weaver, of this
city, to Miss Francis Jones, of
Brunswick. The ceremony was
performed by Father Ritch at the
home of the bride oh Norwood
Avenue.
summation of social efficiency in our country!” How could any sit
uation be found more confusing or more complex? Is it expected
that each of us judge and vote according to our social, religious or
political prejudices, leaving charges of treason and disloyalty to re
main undefined by the law?
Why should the members of one congregation insist that the
nation protect a church or its membership even to the extent of de
‘claring war against another nation for this purpose? Once this
jpractice had the highest international sanction; France exiled Pro
testants and England Catholics; Spain fought England to make her
Catholic and England fought Spain in defense of the Protestants of
Flanders—are such times returning?
| It seenis to Americans that Europe has gone mad—are we catch
ing the infection of her madness without waiting for a bite? In
America some Protestants organize themselves to exclude Catholics
from office—in reprisal or defense we find the Catholic societies hold- |
ing 2 national convention to announce their intention of standing
shoulder to shoulder, not as citizens but as Catholics! Pres. Wil- !
son is attacked on one side because his secretary is a Catholic and |
on the other for rejecting the demand of Catholics that he resent at-?
tacks by the Mexican government on Catholics: Candidate Hughes}
declares his Americanism is one hundred per cent pure, but will he |
reject the support of those Protestants and Catholics who make a
religious issue in their war on his opponent >— Jacksonville, (Fla.)i
Times-Union. ¥ |
News of Interest to
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the Buying Public
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Abram’s Dry Goods Company
“Your Moneys Worth and A Smile Thrown In”
SAM ABRAM, Manager - 107 South Grant Street
FOR CONGRESS
To the Voters of the Third Con
gressional District of Georgia:
I hereby announce my candida
cy for election as your Represen
tative, from the Third Congress
ional District of Georgia, to the
Sixty-fifth Congress, subject to
the primary to be held September,
12, 1916, and respectfully solicit
your support to this position. If
nominated and elected, I pledge
myself and the best energies I am
capable of exerting to your every
interest, and especially to procure
for you:
I.—The co-operation of the Nat
ional government with the several
states in the enforcement of their
prohibition laws to the extent of
denying application for license to
manufacture or sell intoxicating
liquers in such states, and the
procurement of such necessary
changes as will prohibit the ship
ment of intoxicating liquors in
prohibited territory; and will
earnestly advocate every legal
measure that will tend to procure
for the whole people National
Prohibtion.
2—~ll will stipport such rural
credit legislation as will actually
give to the farmers of our country
the relief that has been so often
promised, by making available to
them, with good security on land
or cotton, long loans of money at
low rates of interest, such loans to
be made directly by the govern
ment to the farmers.
3.—1 will favor a sufficiently
equipped army and navy to com
mand peace at home and respectg
abroad, and the manufacture of}
our navy and army equipment by‘
[the government.
~ 4—The restriction of immigra
tion at least to the extent of re
quiring immigrants to register,
givng all information necessaryl
as to their previots lives, and the |
signing of a pledge that within
three months after entering our
country thev will become citizens
in a legal way.
5—A complete separation of all
affairs of church and state.
6—The extension of the Rural
Free Delivery system and the im
provement of the Parcel Post
system, to the end that the rural
districts throughout the country
may be benefitted thereby.
I purpose to conduct my cam
paign on a high plane. I do not
desire to be elected on the demer-
its of others, but on my merits
alone.
My campaign headquarters will
be at Americus, Georgia, - where
my secretary or I will be glad to
welcome and advise with friends
at all times, and if clected by the
good people of the district, I
promise to faithfully discharge
the duties of this great office with
fidelity to your every interest.
Respectfully,
THOMAS G. HUDSON.
HEREAFTER 1 shall deposit in
the EXCHANGE NATIONAL
BANK. I surely can make no mis
take to deposit my money where
many other people have deposited
thousands and thousands until the
‘bank has larger deposits than any
other bank in this portion of the
state and where the HONORABLE
‘TREASURER of the UNITED
\’STATES deposits U. S. Government
}moneys.—-Mr. Prudent.
1 Capt. McCrary and family
spent a week at Newport, Fla.,
on a fishing trip. If you want to
hear }JOME fish stories, ask the
captain.
All news contributors to this paper
will greatly oblige the management if
they will only write on one side of
their manuscripts.
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POPULAR SOUTH GEORGIA
CANDIDATE FOR COURT
OF APPEALS
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 26.—Roscoe
Luke, of Thomasville, who has
just announced his candidacy for ¢
one of the three new judgeships
on the state court of appeals, is
by no means a new figure in Geor
gia politics.
As a well known South Geor
gia lawyer of more than twenty
years practice, during which he
served as solicitor of his cdunty,
he was recently mentioned for
the office of United States district
attorney, and 'was backed so
strongly that he missed the ap
pointment only by a ,narrow
margin. In his race for congress
some years ago he received a
splendid vote in the Second dis
trict.
Mr. Luke’s home people and
those of surrounding territory are
pushing him as the Souigh Geor
gia judge on the bench, and they
believe, for that reason, that his
candidacy will make a styong ap
peal to the entire state. -
Mrs. George Pierce and. three
little daughters, of Belton, Texas,
are the guests of Mrs. Pierce’s sis
ter, Mrs. J. E. Ricketson, on West
Palm Avenue.