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GAZETTE.
Homer, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Last year we had a billion dollar
congress and this year the state has
had a million dollar legislature. I-et
us have a reformation.
Governor Northen has vetoed the
bill passed by the legislature making
it a ciimc for physicians and prescrip
tion clerks to give any medicine of
whisky. He has done right. No
one has any more right to drink
whisky than anoth r. If it is a crime
for one class to drink, it is a crime for
all people to drink. Our legislators
many of them, voted for every bill
against the use of liquor in any form,
and make for a barroom as soon as
they left the capitol.
It Is Coming.
The railroad we mean, provided
our people want it. It seems that
the railroad mooting held hi the court
house court week was not a fruitless
waste of time. The people of Banks
county havo been trifling with the
railroad matter for a long time, but
they are going to work new in the
right direction and with the right
spirit it is to be hoped.
From a communication in another
column it will be seen that an offer
is proposed tho advantages of which
our people will surely not be slow in
discovering. This is the only plan
that has ever been offered that gave
promise of anything, and is one which
if our people will take hold of as they
should, will guarantee to Homer and
Banks comity a railroad in less than
one yoar from now.
Tho road is going to be built to
some point, either in Jackson, Banks
or Franklin, and by reference to the
map it is a very easy matter to see
that Homer is the most desirable
point of any that is being suggested.
If tho peoplo of Banks county does
not seize this opportunity the chances
are she will never have a railroad.
Other points arc in contemplation,
and while some of the places are not
particularly anxious for the road they
will do all in their power to keep the
road from being built to this place,
and wc can’t blame them.
The proposed route, to be built by
Colonel James M. Smith, an exten
tion of his road from Danielsville,
offers advantages that no other route
that has ever been suggested offers.
This road, if built to this place from
Danielsville, a distance of twenty-fivo
miles, will penetrate and split tho
country lying between the Northeast
ern, or Macon and Northern as it is
called now, and tho Elberton Air
Line, a section vastly wealthy in
agricultural productions, besides innu
merable water powers of almost limit
less capacity, and natural forest per
haps unsurpassed by any section in
the state.
There are some cranks that are
always ready to mako discour
aging remarks, such as “It won't
pay.” We would be pleased to be
pointed to a railroad that has been
built, operated awhile and then aban
doned. 1 n some sections the country
is penetrated in every direction with
a net-work of railroads; and where
the roads arc so numerous of course
transportation rates are much lower,
yet we never hear of such a thing as
a railroad being abandoned. We
have know farms to he deserted, and
manufactories of almost every char
ter have ceased to be operated. We
have even seen towns, right by the
side of the railroad, depopulated, but
a railroad to pull up and quit work
we never heard of.
Lot us have Colonel Smith’s rail
road and move out of the slough of
despondency; connect ourselves with
the busy world by rapid transit, and
convert our county into a veritable
Paradise as it should be.
Coionei Smith is ready to build the
road. All he wants of us is our co
operation, just such help as we are
able to give.
Our Public Schools.
The fact that this important sub
ject never enters some of the bright
est minds of Banks county is some
thing very wonderful. Anothei mys
terious thing is, that those who do
sometimes think of the matter, and
see a thousand defects in the way
our public schools are run. never sug
gest a single remedy.
Now the time has come when the
school room needs to be governed by
a teacher who is qualified to make the
most rapid advancement possible with
the children. In order to do this
the teacher must be thorough in the
branches the pupils are pursuing.
The next thing is, what is such a
teacher to have for his servico in the
school-room? According to the way
the public schools of Banks county
are run, we can only say that ho is to
be paid the same as the lowest grade
teacher in the county. That this is
unfair is too plain to require the least
argument.
One impartial thought of this is
sufficient to convince everybody that
our teachers should be paid accord
ing to what they do. All other la
borers are graded and receive their
wages accordingly. A farmer pays a
boy twelve years old twenty-five
cents per day, and one eighteen yoars
old fifty cents per day. In like man
ner all other workmen begin by re
ceiving low wages which are raised
as a knowledge of the increases.
But teachers in Banks county are all
paid the same from the lowest grade
to the normal school graduate. Al
most all other comities of the state
have seen this great error and found
a remedy for it. They pay teachers
according to the grade of license;
and what is the result of this? Their
schools are being taught by the best
of teachers, and those that are not
well qualified are forced to seek em
ployment in some of the few counties
that pay all grades alike, or prepare
themselves to teach where they are.
Now let u * see what this is doing
for the schools of Banka county: It
i* causing our good teaches to go to
some other county and leave our
schools in the hands of the unqualifi
ed. It is well known that we have
some of the best teachers in Georgia;
and it is to our interest to pay them
such an amount as will keep them
with us.
This is a subject that will bo seen
of mure importance when due consid
eration is given it. Such an impor
tant question should not be neglect
ed, as the interest of the whole coun
ty is involved.
Let tho rulers of the public schools
take this matter into consideration
and open a better road for tho edu
cation of the coining race. S.
THE CHURCH
Opposes The “King Solomon”
Show at the Exposition.
The following article was clipped
from The Boss’ advance proof sheet.:
Mt. Bethel, Banks Cos, Ga, Oct.
1891. Editor Boss:—There is being
a groat deal said in the papers about
tho vulgar scene of “King Solomon”,
which will be exhibited in Atlanta at
the exhibition this fall. We are
truly glad that so many noble Geor
gians are coming to the front like
heroes and denouncing such a dis
graceful scene. We would respect
fully ask all Christians of every creed
to join us in denouncing such enter
tainments.
Our country is now being flooded
with panorama shows equally as de
moralizing in their nature, and
damning in their effects. They are
little things but are sinful. They
are just the tilings that the devil
wants for country people.
Let us raise the alarm and lie pre
pared to meet the devil with all his
cunning devices. T.et us protect the
church and church interests from the
devil’s agents who will seek to dese
crate and demoralize the church.—
Tho Church.
HOW lIWTJIIU.MM?
DOES THE PEOPLE OF THIS
COUNTY WANT IT?
Colonel Jas. M. Smith Proposes
to Huild a Kailroad if the
People Will Help.
Editor Gazztth.
Does Homer want a railroad ? If
so, now is the time. This is her op
portunity. Now is the time to ask.
Now is the time to speak. Homer
and Banks countv can get a railroad
now, by saying that they want it.
The road from Smithsonia to Dan-
ielsville is a certainty. It is no lon
ger a matter of doubt. The cars will
be rolling into Danielsville by the
25th of December, so say the citizens
of Danielsvdle, and so says Hon.
James M. Smith, the man who is
building the road. It is now graded
nearly to the G. C. &N. road. Mr.
Smith has no idea of stopping at Dan
ielsville. There are three routes
open to him. One from Danielsville
to Harmony Grove, another from
Danielsville to Carnesville, and still
another from Danielsville to Homer.
There is no questioning the fact that
the last named would be the best
route for the road. True, it would
be more easily built to Harmony
Grove, it being nearer, and besides, a
natural road bed. But these are not
the only tilings to be considered when
a road is to be constraoted. Men
who build roads have an eye (and the
one “eye single”) on the profits to be
derived. On what it will pay. On
the country to be devoloped. On the
amout of work tiie road will get to
do, when brilt. These things deter
mine the location of roads.
It is about fifty milies from Athens
to Toccoa. From Lavonia to Bellton
it is a distance of forty-five miles.
The proposed road from Danielsville
to Homer would pass through the
center of this territory.
There is no better section in Geor
gia, than is to bo found along this
line. It is clearly seen that this
route offers better inducements than
either of the others. Tho proposed
routo would run from Danielsville to
Fort Lamar, in Madison coflnty,
thence by way of Bold Spring to
Homer.
Mr. Smith is anxious to build the
road, and he is very favorably im
pressed with this routo, so much so,
that he says he will build the road if
we will help. When asked how much
help ho wanted his reply was “reason
able help,” such help as we are able
to give. And if we will do what wc
can, he will build it. But “Jim”
Smith, nor “Jim” Richmond & Dan
ville, nor “Jim” any body else is not
going to force a railroad on the peo
plo of Hotinor and Bauks county. If
they don’t want the road, all they
have to do, is to stand still and say
nothing, and they may rest assured
they will never get it. But, if they
want it and will say so, by action,
word, and deed, they will get it, and
get it within twelve months.
llow would you Hike to have the
cars pulling up into Homer by the
25th of December 1892?
Then this road offers inducements
to us that we could get from no other.
Mr. Smith already has a road fron.
his place to Winterville, or near
there, conencting with the Ga.
R. R. Then in coming from Smith
sonia to Danielsville, he crosses tho
G. C <fc N. So it would bring the
Ga. R. R. and the G. C. & N. and R.
&D. roads all in competition, and
would be much better for this sec
tion, than to have a branch from the
R. &D. with no competition. There
can be no road proposed that would
offer the advantages in the way of
competition that the road from Dan
ielsville to Homer would give. Mr.
Smith is not only willing to build
the road, but he is able to build it.
He is worth something over three
quarters of a million, and can com
mand all the money he wants. There
is nothing in the way but ourselves,
and if we will get out of the way and
off of the track, the cars will roll into
Homer. There has never been a
road built yet, but that it met with
objectors. This one will not be an
exception. For instance Danielsville
wants to be the termiuus, and she
will object, Carnesville will wants it
to go to that place, and she will ob
ject, Harmony Grove will object, be
cause it will take from them at least
two-thirds of their trade. The R. &
D. will object, because it will take
from them ever so much of their
business, and throw it into the lap of
the Ga. and G. C. <fc N. The friends
of the read will have all this opposi
tion to meet and overcome. But
this can be done. Now I repeat my
introductory question. Does Homer
want a railro: d?
J. F. Shannon.
Good Roads and Bad.
If the road congress, which is to
meet in Atlanta on the 28th of Octo
ber, accomplished no other result,
the mere fact that it assembles will
show that public interest in this im
portant matter is growing and in
creasing. The congress will undoubt
edly accomplish much more than
this. It may be impossible to
seize on and point out the practical
results that will ensue, but once the
people are thoroughly aroused on the
subject—once they can be brought
to see that the whole movement has
for its purpose the saving of thou
sands of dollars to neighborhoods and
individuals, to say nothing of the en
hancement of land values and the in
crease of the convencies of farm life
—once they can be induced to exam
ine the subject in all its bearings—
they will not fail to realize the vital
importance to their own interests of
improved roads.
It is true that habit and custom
have dulled the public mind in the
matter of public roads. Those that
we have in Georgia—and Georgia is
no worse off in this respect than the
other states —are an inheritance from
colonial times. Our method of mak
ing roads and keeping them in repair
is also an inheritance. There has
been no material improvement in this
method for a hundred yea's, and if
an attempt were made to show in
figures what this method has cost the
people of Georgia alone, to say noth
ing of the rest of tho country, with
no result whatever to show for the
outlay, the amount would be a start
ling one. If to the cost were added
the loss that has accrued by reason
of bad roads, the figures would be
almost past belief. But the estimate
is a very simple or,e, atid any intelli
gent farmer can figure it out to suit
bis own case. If, on a good road,
one horse can haul ag much as two
horses on a bad road—if one two
horse wagon can make two trips on
good roads with less inconvenience
than one trip could be made on bad
roads—the difference can very easily
be set down in figures.
It is claimed and with good reason,
that in the matter of progress and
development, the farming industry
has not kept pace with the other in
dustries of the country. This is part
ly accounted for by the vicious re
publican legislation of the last quar
ter of a century, but the main reason
is to be found in the fact that the
fanners, except in specially favored
regions, are handicapped by the
wretched system of loads which in
tervenes between home and market.
When the intelligent farmers of Geor
gia thoroughly realize this fact we
shall have a change. In the nature
of things it will be a gradual change,
but the rcsrlts thereof will be none
the less obvious.
It is not the cost of good roads
that has kept the farmers from agi
tating this question. When the cost
of goad roads is compared with the
wretched ones that are now in use,
the clement of economy is altogether
with the former. It would cost the
farmers less to have good roads than
it does to make a pretense of keep
ing up the present barbarous system,
taking into account, of course, the
wear and tear of stock artd vehicles,
and the lost time. The cost of haul
ing an average load ever the roads
as they exist is not less than three
times what it would be if the roads
were good, or even tolerably good.
It is this element of cost —the ex
travagant waste that is constantly
going on under the present system—
that will finally convince the farmers
of the necessity of making a radical
change in the character of the public
roads and in the method of mending
them.—Atlanta Constitution.
Legal Advertisements.
GEORGIA: Banks County.—
Mary J. Cbasteen, widow of J. D.
Chasteen late of said county dcc'd,
has applied to the undersigned for the
appointment of commissioners to set
apart to her and her minor chil
dren a year's support out of the estate
of said deceased. The commissioners
so appointed have made return
thereof to this office, and 1 will pass
upon the same the first Monday in
December next.
Given under my hand and official
signature, October, 26th 1891.
(♦2.05) T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
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