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1 GEORGIA BRIEFS f
; Dispensary Bill Signed.
Governor Terrell has signed the
Buchanan bill, which allows coun.
ties in which dispensaries are locat
€d to decide their fate by ballot.
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Slap Ccst Just $lOO.
For slapping a white boy, George
Meyers, Clayborn Crawford, a negro
bicyele dealer, at Columbus, was fined
$lOO, with the alternative of sixty
days on the chain gang by Acting
Recorder Williams, who expressed his
regret that he could not make the sen
tence five times heavrer,
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Election Blanks Sent Out.
Chairman M. J. Yeomans of the
gtate democratic executive sommitteo
has forwarded the blanks for election
returns to the chairman of the differ
ent county executive committee to be
used in the primary, August 22. The
tickets were sent out several days
ago.
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Many Requisitions Issued. :
The records of the executive depart
ment show that in July Governor Ter.
rell broke the records of all months
of previous years in the matter of
issuing requisitions: an governors of
others states for fugitivegs from jus
tice, He issued twenty-six. The next
highest is twenty-one, issued in’ 1892.
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Phil Cook County Favored.
After remaining in executive ges
sion but a few minntes, the members
of the committee on new counties an.
nounced to the waiting crowd of in
terested persons that the committed
had reported unanimously in favor of
the proposed new county of Phil
Cook, which is to include parts. of
the present countices of Pike and
Monroe,
Capital of Georgia Banks.
State Treasurer Park's report to
the Uniteq States comptroller shows
that the capital of all banks in Geor
gia, not national, is $2,895,000. From
July 1, 1905, to June 18, of this year,
the state has issued ninety charters.
No banks have failed during thag pe
riod. One sold out and merged into
another, which is now the Bank of
Savannah, It has a capitalization o
$700,000.
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Alf Moore Given Respite.
Governor Terrell grantedea respite
to Alf Moore, who was implicated in
the murder of the Carter children, un
til Qctober 5. This is done because the
negro will be needed as a witness in
the trial of the Rawlings, which has
been appealed to the United ‘States
supreme court,
The decision of Judge Speer of the
United States district court at Ma
con will stay the execution of Raw
lingg until the cage is heard. An opin.
jon to this effect was submitted by
State Attorney General Hart to Gov
ernor Terrell, and the respite of the
negro followed.
Fraternal Pins an lssue.
A bill has been introduced into the
Georgia senate to stop negroes from
wearing the pins of the white fra
ternal organization. The bill is to be
general in its character. It applies
by name to every secret order that
has any standing at all in Georgisa,
and makes it a misdemeanor for any
one to wear a pin or an emblem of a
regularly chartered secret or frater
nual organization unless he is a mem
ber thereof. It is hoped in this way
to retire the numerous Elks heads,
three links of the Odd Fellows and
the F., C. angd B's of the Knights of
Pythias which now adorn the lapels
of s 0 many negroes’ coats.
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Bench Candidates Bobbing Up.
Judge W. R, Hammond, Judge How
ard B. Van Epps and Hon. Benjamin
H. Hill, all of Atlanta, will be candi
dates for seats upon the new court
of appeals, which has been establish
ed by the legislature.
‘The election for the three judges
will occur early in '‘November, pro
vided, of course, ihat the people of
Georgia at the October election rat
ify the action of the legislature in
creating the new court. To create it,
a consiitutional amendment is neces
sary, and this will be voted on at
the regular October election.
Until permanent quarters can be
obtained the court of apeals will use
the supreme court hall. The court
will be in sessjion during the supreme
court’s vacation hours.
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c'onditlon of Various Crops.
Commissioner Hudsen of the state
agricultural department has issued a
c¢ircular, which shows exceedingly
well the conditions of crops in Geor
gla, and what are the prospects. The
gircular is as follows:
On July 21 the Georgia department
of agriculture sent out the usual
number of circulars to intelligent cor
respondents in every county with
questions concerning the condition
and prospects of all the crops. An
unusually large rpercentage of these
correspondents returned answers with
the folowing results:
Total average for the state: Cotton
71 1-3; corn 89 1-3; rice 72 1-2; to
bacco 85 1-2; sweet potatoes 87; sugar
cane 99 2-3; melons 68 13 peaches
63; applees 65 1-3; cantaloupes 70 ;
groundpeas 89; field peas 67 1-3; cars
peaches shipped last year 309; cars
cantaloupes last year 141; cars canta
loupes this year 124. Wheat: Yield
comparegq with an average 91 2-3 per
cent; average yield per acre this year,
bushels, 10 1-3. Oats: Yield compared
with an average §€¢ 2-3; average yield
per acre this year, bushels, 16. Hay:
Yield compared with an average 97;
estimating that Georgia made 1,750,
000 baleg cotton in 1905, how many
balees will be made in the state in
19662 1,372,000.
It will be noted that the July cot
ton report has fallen from an aver
afe condition of from 85 per cent to
71 per cent,
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Asylum a Dumping Ground.
“The asylum at Milledgeville is a
dumping ground for every poorhouse
in the state. Why, they actualy keep
drunken people there until they sober
up.”
Such is the substance of a state
ment made upon the floor of the
house by Hon. Joe Hill Hall during
a speech in opposition to a bil appro
priatinz $lO,OOO for the erection of
four cottages or buildings for the iso
lation by sex and color of the con
sumptive insane confined in the state
ganitarium at Milledgeville, Mr. Hall
attached no blame to the officials. The
bill was passed by a vote of 120 to
7 ,with the provision that.the sum
mentioned be taken from the state
appropriation already made for the in
stitution.
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The Revised School Laws.
Commissioner W. 3. Merritt has
worked faithfully and wisely to se
cure a revision of ¢he school iaws
of the state. Nearly three years ago
a commitiece from the senate was
appointed to revise and codify the
gchool laws, This committee received
the co-operation of Mr. Merritt and
other educators. The new law has
passed both houses of the general as
sembly. It is a distinet gain for com
mon school cducation. ;
Among the chief provisions which
it injects into the old laws are the
folowing: It provides for higher qual
ifications of board members and per
mits one of said members to be se
lected from a local system; makes
the maximum pay of bcard mem.
bers $3 a day; provides that sthool
districts shall not contain less than
60 chiidren except under certain re
strictions; provides that teachers
shall make reports of all children in
their districts nct in attendance and
the cause of their non-attendance ;
provides for 'help from the county
school funds for help to school libra
ries, provided the school community
raises an equal amount, Under this
law it will be possible for every
school community to have a good
library and to add from ten to
twenty dolars’ worth of books each
vear, The law provides for consol
idation of schools, transportation of
pupils; provides that applicants for
county school commissiorers’ posi
tions who have not served before
must have had successful experience
as teachers; that commissioners must
visit schools twice each year; that
school funds be available during th®
school months of the year; that
funds receiveg for teachers’ salaries
must be paid out within ten days;
and that school year shall begin in
September instead of January.
Another bill has passed the hous?,
which is of immediate importance, as
it corrects the errors in the local
tax law. With the passage of this
by the senate, we expect to see mauny
districts voting a. school tax, there
by improving the school conditions.
With this law enacted it will be a
dying town that refuses to put in a
modern, free, nine months public
schod system.—J. S. STEWART.
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There is a paragraph going the
rounds of the press to the effect that
in a crowded street car in Washing
ton the other day Secretary Taft rose
and gave his seat to three ladies.
LIVITS SPEED OF AUTOMOBILES.
Northern Laws Copied in Bili by Georgiz
House ol Representatives,
By an overwhelxping vote of 119 to
2, the QGeorgia house of representa
tive Thursday passed a bill to reg
ulate the running of ‘all automobiles
and other similarly propelled vehicles
upon the public highways of tie slate.
The measure conforms to the law of
mwost of the northern states.
Statute Restricting Work of Women
and Children Knocked Out,
JUDGE GROWS SARCASTIC
Declares New York Statute is an Un=
warranted Invasion of Constity~
tional Rights.
The state law of New York restrict.
Ing the labor of women and children
to ten hours a day and sixty hours
& week in a factory, was declared Fri
day by Justice Olmstead in a decis
ion handed down in the court of spe
fiial sessions in New York city to be
an unwarranted invasion of consti
tutional rights.”
The ruling was concurred in by
Jstice McKean and Justice Deuel.
Judge Olmstead declareq that the law
was class legislation,
Justice Olmstead said in his decis
ion:
“To labor and employ labor are
inherent and inalienable rights of om
citizens, and cannot be taken away
in whole or in part unless upon the
broad ground of public good, which
must be apparent, and cannot be pred
icated upon legislative dictum.
‘lt may be stated as a well settled
legal proposition that the right to
labor and contract for that labor is
both a liberty and a property right;
when therefore the legislature enacts
a statute such as that under consid
eration it must be admitted that it
has infringed in the enactment the
rights which are very clearly accord
ed by the constitution te the individ
ual citizen.
“The people,. therefore, are called
upon to justify this invasion, * and
there is but one plea in justification;
that the statute was enacted to pro
tect the comfort, welfare and safety
of the whole peaple, and the individ
ual must suffer this curtailment of his
granted rights in the interest of the
common gcod,
“In the case under consideration
the right of the employed and the
right of the employer are equally in
volved. Nothing to the contrary ap
pearing it must be assumed that the
woman was a willing worker for a
willing employer and that the result
was mutually satisfactory and profit
able.
“The. present constitution of the
state of New York was adopted in
1894, and became effective January 1,
1895. All of the rights which adult
women possessed at that time were
confirined by that dccument. One of
those rights certainly was the right
to contract for her labhor and to work
when ang where she pleased without
reference to the position of the hands
of the dial of the clock.
“1t was not until four years after
that the lawmaking power sought to
place the limitation under considera
tion upo nthem. What was the leg
islative intent in doing this? The at
torney general finds and urgey nu
other reason than that the general
welfare of the state demands that
the progeny of women of the factories
have mothers with healthy bodiees
to the end that the state may have
sturdy citizens. Does the state look
merely to the children of the factory
women for its future good citizens?
Why should not the housewife, the
woman who toils at tiome, in mercan
tile houses, in offices, or she who
toils not at all—the society woman—
be exempt from legislative interfer
ence, injunctive or mandatory, for the
same reason? Some of them may be
mothers of future citizens, and it
shouid be of great interest to the
state that their progeny should have
birth and breeding to conserve its
welfare.”
fvery Point Won By Miners.
Coal miners and operators of the
Coshocten, Ohio, field completed a
settlement of the wage controversy
Friday, the miners winning out on
every point. The new scale adopted is
exactly that of 1903.
MUTINLERS ARE HELD PRISONERS,
One Thousand in Chains and More Thaa Six
Hundred Missing.
Advices from Hensingfors, Finlau,,
state that one.thousand of the muti
neers are now in chains on Skatud
en Island. The missing number 650.
A correspondent was permitted to
look over the fortress of the main
islani as well as other fortifications
overlooking the town. 'The scenes
prove the truth of the statements pre
viously cabled, that the mutineers had
the upper band in practically all the
fortresses until the arrival of the war
ships.
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Where Ocean Breezes Blow |
is the place to go in the summer for rest, / 5
recreation and a real good time. Travel via / / '\ o)
The Central of Georgia Railway. ° b
In a few hours you can be on the shores of the Atlartic, listening -
to the roar of the surf, drinking in the wine-like air, bathing, boating,
fishing and dancing, and mingling with a gay throng of charming,
good-natured people; the bluest of blue skies above you.
A maximum of pleasure at a minimum of cost.
For full information, rates, schedules, etc., ask your nearest
Ticket Agent.
LOW-RATE EXCURSION TICKETS &scuine ode | £
. ticket offices of the | £ Nflml i
W. A. WINBURN, J. C. HAILE, F. J. ROBINSON, ! |
Vice-Pres. and Trafic Mgr. Gen'l Pass’s Agent. Ass't Gen'l Pass'r Agent. Lo |
‘T?re Real Enem'es
Eugene V, Debs.
S well established and quite as necessary as the industrial “boss”
is the political “boss,” in the existing social syster:. His busi
ness is to run the political machine, not in the interest of the
- people, or even of any particular porty, but in the interest of
\‘“,‘ ,c"«'): the private owner of the pablic utility, or the private controller
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i of the social need, whose economic interest conflicts with that.
of the people, and who must, therefore, control the political 1_11&
chinery so as to obtain control of government. e
The political “boss” is the creature of the modern capitalist; he was
spawned in, and has developed with, the capitalist svsrem, and is as necezsary
to that system as is the capitalist himself. : /
There is but one way to get rid of “boss rule” in politics, and that is by
abolishing the system of private cwnerzhip which produces him and makes thei
few the beneficiaries ®f the ccuntless inigpities visited upaa the great mass of
the people. ”
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No “boss” is in politics in that capacity on his own account. The boss:
must have the “boodle.” They are inseparable. Without “boodle” there 18-
no “bhoss.” !
The *‘boss” does not furnish the “boodle.” ) )
Who does?
Aye, that’s the question! . ;
Turn on the searchlicht in that direction and you will be horrified by the:
revelation.
You will see that private interests are the enemies ©of the public weal; that
trusts and corporations deliberately pollute the po}itica.’“'“.flntuin and contam
inate all its national, state and municipal streams; and that the principal
perpetrators of these crimes, in which the political “Loss” is but a mere pup
pet, are representative capitalists, financiers and promoters, most of whem are
also recognized pillars of the Christian church. :
These, and not their repulsive political “boss.” who is gimply their politi
cal walking delegate, are the real enemies of the people and detauchers of the:
nation’s morals.—Success Magazine.
feelefeiolaivieielol defoloioiofeloiololaieioleed
The Lust For Wealth,
A Plea For The Retirementof Every Man Who Has
Enough For Ease and Dignity.
By A. V,
W \ reference to Bishop Potter's remark, in an interview mpon his.
return from abroad, that the insurance scandal ia viewed in Eng
; land as emphasizing American greed, it cannot be denied that.
S this view is in a great measure justified; for there can be no gxes
(L;’@T\j tion that the effect of this insatiable greed for wealth tends to
e L promote no degree of respect for our couantry Yeyond th.at
: which gold alone ccmmands. The effect a. home 18
certainly not beneficial, inasmuch as the increasing wealty of those
who are contributing to this condition deprives some of théir fellow beings of
the benefits to he derived from the ever increasing surplus. ;
Far better if ali Americans would follow the custom of their English breth®
ren, who, having amassed a fortune which if investad, say, in the conservative:
4 per cents. insures an income to warrant their retirement, quit the field of.
commerce, travel and finally settle upon an estate in the country. There they
find time to gratify their desires for literary and other pursuits.
Why not rever: to the ideal existence of the cnly true aristocracy this
- country has ever known, that of the South before the civil war; an aristocracy
the process of whose extinction furnishes one of the saddest mamories of that
war? Surely aay one who has read the existing literature of that brave peo
ple cannot have failed to recognize the absence of any desire to acquire more
wealth than was nece::zary to,uphold the spirit of respectability and hospitality
which pervaded the very atmospliere as with the spirit of contentment.
The effect of greed upon the mora's of the community is the chief object of
my discourse, but a still greater evi! from the same source is that which con
cerns our political welfare; this has’ Jeen made very apparent by the position
of dishonor today of some who but yesterday were resnooted men both in the
world of politics and commerce,
WARARDA LARRAR LA LR A A
Why War Must Be.
By George William Coale.
N T would be of advantage to those who believe that they can give
&S the God of War a knockout blow to read the following quotation
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o from John Stuart Mill:
. “But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a
m nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of
: things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and Dpatriotic
teeling which thinks nothing worth a war is worse. When a peo
ple are used as mere human insiruments for firing cannon, Or thrusting
bayonets, in the service and for the selfistil purposes of a master, such war de
grades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical in
jusnce. a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which
is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, is of
ten the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is will
ing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his
personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free, un-
I.ess.made ax}(l_kem s 0 by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as
justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascen
dency in the affairs of mankind human beings must be wiliing when need is to
do battle for the one against the other.”
Washington said: ‘To be prepared for war is one of the most cffectual
means of preserving peace.” /
pxnc?ln said: "\}’i:h malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm
ness in the x-xght'; as‘(rod gives us to see the right, iet us strive on to finish the
work we are in.” That work was war.
None of these men was'grue:l. and their words will live forever. War will
disappear when all other evils disappear.