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Vol.V 111.
- CLEAN SWEEPSALE B&EGINNING
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31stat 8 o’clock a. m.
~ The success of our Sales in the past will be greatly out rival
ed by this Clean Sweep Sale.
Our Mr. Churchwell has just retuined from New York and Eastern Markets. While there he bought specially
for this sale ,
Jobs, Samples and Special Lines Bankrupts FEtc.
y Which'will enable you for ten days to secure Choice Merchandise at from one third to one fourth off.
iK ED TAGS ON EVERY BARGAIN, <sone.
1000 Yards Calicoes and Lawns. Thisis a collection of Remnants, some-
N loanii ety uve Sale plvevrd . o e o an L e B 8
5000 yards. yd wide sheeting, clean sweep sale, price toyds. ___________ 46¢
Bleached Cambric, 10 to 20 yd pieces, loc goods, Salz price 5161
Men’s Shirts, odd lot of these goods some wrrth to 75¢ choice during |
Men's $lO suits, specially for this sale we have a few of the~e suits, Clean
Bheel sale wrice - o e e e e R B
- Clean Sweep Sale prices on these Goods, Clothing,
Shoes, Dress Goods, Linnens, Underware, Shirts, Hats
&c. ‘ : |
For lack of space we arsunable to giveyou all prices, Get the bill that tells you
all. Let us know we’ll mail you one. Date Aug. 31st for 10 Days. Place Albany.
L A. F. CHURCHWELL,
62 Broad St,
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TURRED £ TOMERSAULT
Opportunist Statesman Who
Made a Complete Flop.
PROTECTION VICIOUS IN THEORY.
Some Republicans Support “Sclely
on the Grounds of Expediency.”
President HRocosevelt's Extraordi
nary Change of Base,
. Many people nowadays possibly for
get that the discussion of ‘the tariff and
protection is no new thing in American
politics. As long. ago as 1824 it was
often a paramount issue, and national
campaigns were fought over schedules
and rates of duty, as will- probably be
the case in this campaign. President
Roosevelt in his life of Thomas H.
Benton, on pages 66 and 67, explains
this and tells why. Benton voted for a
protective tariff bill. Although repre
senting Misseuri, an agricultural state,
because of the bribe of “a heavy duty
on lead he felt himself forced to sup
port it.” President Roosevelt extenu
aies Bentonfs sudden change of front
by saying thidt “he was like “a good
many other men who in their publie
capacities are obliged to appear as pro
tectionists, but who lack his franknpess
in stating their reasons.”
Then President Roosevelt notes that
Webster changed his position when
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
Leesburg, Georgia, Friday, September, 2, 1904.
- Massachuse:ts, which had hitherto sup- l
ported iree trade, Liecame through the
- growth of her manufactures more in- '
terestod in tiheir protection than in the
general welfare. He says, describing '
the attitude of those two statesmen,
~that, “turning a full and complete som
ersault, neither the one nor the other
~was to blame,” and adds that “It is in
reality purely a business matter and
should be decided solely on grounds of
expedaiency.”
As President Roosevelt was practi
cally a free trader when Le wrote the
life of Benton and has been decidedly
a tariff reformer untli a short time ag2o,
his efiort to show that Benton and
Webster were not to blame was really
& defense of his own “full amd com
plete somersault” on the same impor
tant issue. How he viewed protection
l is clear, for on the next page he says:
“Political economists have pretty
- generally agreed that protection is
vi~lous in theory and harmful in prac
tice. But if the majority of people
- wish it, and it affects only themselves,
there 13 no earthly veason why they
should not be allowed to try the ex
periment to thelr hearts’ content.” !
That President Roosevelt is now a
) candidate of a party that favors and
’ bas put inte eifect the highest pro- |
| tective tarif ever concelved by Amerl
can statesnien and wlill in Lis letter ot
l,g\cgeptance indorse the platform adopt
efl at Chicago hardly agrees with his
‘former position that ‘“political econo
mists have pretty generally agreed that
arotection is viclous in theory and
' Ladies dress Skirts.
Were £1.50 Clean sweep Sale Pl eTI e L
I 6 300 < o “ G SI9B
l syl o 0 ol e
: a 0 M o el st e R s Gde e
PIC"URES;— 16x20 Al Giit frame piciuted .- -L SR e B
lsr 5O 4000 WouLßNgo, Sale trton .7L b eeLa e S
i harmful In practiss”
Perhaps President lloosevelt now, as
! when he ‘wrote the life of Benton, be
lleves the tariff Is “purely a Dbusiness
’ matter and should be decided on
grounds of expediency.” He doubtless
finds it expedlent not to disagree with
the high protection policy of the party
whose cand!date he ig, and he may bug
the selfish delusion that it is no affair
of his if the American people elect
him to office cn a platforua whlch ad
vocates this “vicicus theory” and this
“harmful practice.”
If President Rooseveit was not con
sidered ‘such a decisive wan, always
expected ‘to fully express his true opin
fons, his plea of expediency and his
evident adherence to tle “opportunist”.
school of ‘politics would not cause him
to be open to criticisui on Lls extraor
dinary change of political convictions.
He may console himself with the fact
that “If the majority of peopie in inter
est wish it, and It aifects only them
selves, there 18 no earthly reason why
they should not Le allowed to try the
experimeént to their hearts’ content.”
Still that !s the poiicy of the trimmer
and politician In its worst sense and
mnot the attitude of the statesman. >
l A Notable Difference.
| In the ecase of Judge Parker the of
. fice seels the man. In that of Presi
‘ dent Rovsevelt it has been w relentless
| and not altogether serupulous hunt of
| the man for the place-—Philadelphia
Record. ;
| CABINET CiHANGES. -
! No Greant Republican Leader In Pres
‘ ident’s Council.
' Presldent Roosevelt has evidently
abandonel the eastern gtates as “the
i enemy's country” and 18 now looking
to the west alone for electoral votes.
- In" reconstructing his cabinet only
Moody of Massachusetts remains from
I any state ecast of the Alleghfinies, un
~less John liay, who claims.to belong
to the DRistrict of Columbia, but is real
ly an Ohio. man, is so consldered.
There is now no great Republican lead
er in the cabinet.. All are accidents,
nonentities or young men that Presi
dent Loocsevelt has- selected over the
heads of those who have been consid
ered fit by former presidents to hold
the important office of cabinet min-
Ister.
The latest dlscovery, Paul Morton,
who Is secretary of the navy, 18 a high
official of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad. It is reported that
he has been granted leave of absence
from his railroad duties and will re
turn to them after a few months. He
18 sald to be a late convert to Repub
lieanism, and his reward 1s none too
- great, for any one that can be brought
! to stomach *and indorse the present
~ policies of that party should be am
ply recompensed. -
DRI 7ST W LSSTR I W 0 ORI A" £ 25 WU YR AINE T ARTEI . R e &
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Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
Digesis what you eat.
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