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THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER VOL. XLIII. NEWNAN, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1908. NO. 47. r t t u uutuuvv GENERAL MERCHANDISE AND FARM SUPPLIES The Ti ime Has C as uome FOR CUNNING and MAKING JELLY So we have just received a large shipment of Mason’s Jars, and Rubbers to go with them. A big lot of Jelly Glasses on hand also. Bargains in Bowls and Pitchers. We have a good Bowl and Pitcher for 98cfts. \ T.B. Come to see us for any thing you want, or’phone 147. Agents for the Chattanooga Wagon. t t A DEED AND A WORD. A traveler on the dusty road strefred acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up. and arrow into a tree. Love sought Its shade at evening time, to broathe his early vows; And age was pleased in the boat of noon to bask beneath its boughs; The doormouse loved its dangling twigs, the birds sweet music bore— It stood a glory in its place, a blessing evermore. A little spring had lost its way umid the grass and fern; A passing stranger scooped a well, where weary men might turn; He walled it in and hung with care a ladle at the brink; He thought not of the deal he did. but judged that all might drink. He passed again, and lo ! the well, by summer never dried. Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, and saved a life beside. A dreamer dropped a random thought, ’twas old and yet ’twas new— A simple fancy of the brain, but strong in being true. It shone upon a genial mind, and lo ! its light be- A lamp of life, a beacon ray. a monitory flame; The thought was small, its issue great ! A watch- fire on the hilt It shed its radiance far adown, and cheers the val ley still. A nameless naan, amid the crowd that thronged the daily mart, Let fall a word of Hope and Love, unstudied, from the heart, A whisper on the tumult thrown, a transitory breath— It raised a brother from the dust, it saved a soul from death. 0, germ ! O. fount! O, word of love ! 0, thought at random cast! Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last. —[Charles Mackey. & TELEPHONE 147 t i % Have just received two hundred Flower Pots- can furnish any size from half a gallon to five gallons.*. V.V.W.V. A big lot of half-gallon jars with tops. A big lot of gallon jars with tops —these jars are very fine for pickles. ICE CREAM FREEZERS. 2- quart to go at $1.50. 3- quart to go at $1.75. 4- quart to go at $2,00. 100 pounds of Landreth Turnip Seed. Send us your orders. E CO M NEWNAN, GEORGIA TELEPHONE 201 When Bryan Became a National Figure. Americus Times-Recorder. Twelve years have passed since Wil liam Jennings Bryan first shot into the political heavens like a flaming meteor. An astonished nation picked up its newspapers one morning in 1896 and read that William Jennings Bryan, of Nebraska, had been nominated as the Democratic Presidential candidate. From New York to San Francisco and from Portland to Tampa the query on every lip was: Who is Bryan? Twelve years are more than adequate to make and unmake reputations. To day the name of Bryan is a household word in this country, and throughout the civilized world he is recognized as one of the potent forces in the public life of the great American republic. Twice defeated, he continues his hold on the party as strongly as ever, and in a general way has risen higher in the public estimation with each defeat. Men who do not agree with his views on questions of the hour recognize the honesty of the man, they say, and do honor to him as one who is candid and sincere and as one who places morality above success, and convictions above office. The issue on which he first won the position of standard-bearer—free silver—is apparently buried beyond res urrection ; his second shibboleth of “imperialism” has but a languid in terest: his later doctrine of Govern ment ownership of railroads has been put among the dust-covered mummies; the initiative and referendum seems to have no vigor as a public awakener; but Bryan, the enunciator and support er of all of these policies, has appar ently suffered no diminution of strength by the obliteration of his sen timents. To-day he seems to hold the Democratic party in the hollow of his hand, as he held it twelve and eight, and even four, years ago. Under his leadership it goes into another nation al battle. If it wins Bryan will be President; if it loses Bryan will be— who can tell? The Philadelphia Ledger the other day published a page article concerning the man. It recognizes him as a won derful man, although it tolerates none of his political views. Speaking of that memorable day when he emerged from obscurity, it tells a graphic story that is well worth reproducing: “To return to the stirring scenes in the convention hall in Chicago on the hot summer day in 1896 when William J. Bryan, by a flow of flowery sarcasm and hits of a popular sort at the lead ing events of the day, boldly captured the Democratic party and became the idol of a large [section of it. There are times in men’s lives that, taken advan tage of, lead to a change of conditions. In the Chicago convention the question of adopting the silver plank and declar ing in favor of a ratio of ‘16 to 1’ was being discussed. Senator David B. Hill, of New York, representing the capitalists of the East, spoke for the gold standard. He made a logical. so»- entific and brilliant plea for hi3 side of the question. “It wa3 at this juncture, while the convention'.was in great confusion, that the opportunity was seized that led William J. Bryan to the nomination for the Presidency, and turned the Demo cratic party over to him. Few people of the East knew the well-formed, smooth-faced young man who was rushed to the platform of the conven tion by the free silverites. But the West knew him. and he had made many speeches at the behest of the silver kings. They had put him up to reply to Senator Hill. “As Bryan stepped to the front of the platform he raised his hand as a token that he desired order, ‘Who is that?’ asked one of the re porters of a veteran Washington cor respondent. “ ‘Oh. he is a dub Congressman from Nebraska named Bryan. I wish they’d choke him off and let us get out of here,’ was the reply. Bryan began his speech in a quiet way, with a few well-chosen words. He began to attract attention from the start. Gradually, like a storm sweeping over the country, his oratory became more flowery and the audience listened. It did more. It applauded. Like the distant roll of thunder the noise grad ually drew nearer and nearer, and An ally broke Into a great roar. When Mr. Bryan declared: " ‘We beg no longer; we retreat no more : we petition no more. W’e defy them!’ “The storm then broke on the con vention in all its fury. The people roared. The men who, ten minutes be fore. had inquired ‘Who is this young man?’ seemed to have gone wild and svere numbered among the thousands who mounted the seats and yelled for the young Nebraskan. Silver-tongued in the cause of silver. Bryan made a remarkable address. With consummate shrewdness he did not defend his posi tion, but plunged boldly into an attack of his enemies. His impressive man ner, indicative of perfect sincerity; his indomitable courage ; the audacity with which he declared that the friends of silver would no longer plead nor beg for justice; his graphic pictures of commercial distress, and. above all, his impassioned defense of the intelli gence, the patriotism and the rights of the masses of the people, swept all be fore him. When he declared : “ ‘There are two ideas of Govern ment. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous that their pros perity will leak through on those be low. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class and rest upon it.’ The convention went wild and cheered and cheered. But when he concluded his speech with the remark : You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!’ the scene was that of a howling mob. In less than 30 minutes the smooth-faced young Con- f ressman from Nebraska had emerged rom the obscurity of his Western home to become the most talked-of man in the country. He was carried from the stage to his place in the Ne braska delegation on the shoulders of enthusiastic Silverites. The nomina tion for President was his for the ask ing. Then and there did the Democrat ic party swallow William J. Bryan. Ana then and there did Mr. Bryan put the party in his vest-pocket, where it has remained ever since, and promises to stay until the coming Presidential campaign is over, at least.” The Worth of a Boy. Dr. N. C. Schaeffer. State Superin tendent of Pennsylvania, figures it out that it should be at least $22,000. “What is a boy worth? What is an education worth? An Indiana jury awarded $599.99 for the killing of a boy. A friend of mine, who is a super intendent in West Virginia, called that award an outrage. I asked him why. He answered: ‘To say nothing of the value of the boy’s personality and all that a boy is to his father and mother and home, the commercial value of a boy’s time at school is more than the award of that Indiana jury.’ I asked him how he made the calculation. He said: ‘You find the value of a boy’s time at school by subtracting the earn ings of a life of uneducated labor from the earnings of a life of educated la bor.’ Then he gave me'a calculation that I have used this year before every institute, for I am anxious to get it into the daily papers, to have it carried to every school-room and put upon ev ery blackboard, so that the pupils may carry it home and discuss it with their parents. “He said: ‘If an uneducated man earns $1.50 a day for 300 days in a year, he does very well; and if he keeps it up for 40 years, he will earn $1.50 x 300 x 40, or $18,000. An educa ted man is not generally paid by the day, but by the month and by the year. If you will strike an average of the earnings of educated men, beginning with the President of the United States, who earns $50,000 a year, the presidents of railroads and other large corporations, and run down the scale until you come to the lower walks in point of earnings among educated men, you will admit that $1,000 a year is a low average for the earnings of educa ted labor. For 40 years you have $40, 000 as the earnings of an educated man Subtract $18,000 from $40,000 and the difference, or $22,000, must represent the value of a boy’s time spent at school getting an education.’ “You will all admit that a man who works with his hands at unskilled labor puts forth as much muscular effort as a rnan who earns a livelihood by his wits and education. Now, if $22,000 represents the value of time a boy spends at school getting an education, what is the value of a day spent at school? “The average school life of every boy and girl in Massachusetts is seven years of 200 days each; let us say that it takes four more to get a good educa tion Reckoning 11 years of 200 days each, you will find that the 2.200 days at school are equal to $22,000, and a simple division on the blackboard will bring it home to the comprehension of every boy that each day at school, properly spent, must be worth $10.” You can take care of your boy's edu cation if you will. Spurning Their Own Bed. Atlanta Constitution. After ridiculing, in the campaign of 1906, the idea of party alignment and party regularity; after blatantly howling down those who in that cam paign stood for the preservation of party lines; after demanding then a wide-open white primary, in which the followers of Thomas E. Watson and all other white voters, regardless of polit ical affiliations, should be allowed to participate; after establishing the “white party” precedent, which, as it happened, did not work to suit its pur poses in the campaign of 1908, the Sparta Ishmaelite—a type of some oth ers now on the same line --delivers it self ns follows: “Watson has blown hot and cold in his effort to use our State Democratic primaries as a means to the end of ar raying Democrat against Democrat, so that, by favoring one faction, he could control the election. We have an idea that he ’recokoned without his host’ when he lined up with the Joe Brown crowd, and we ‘Hoke Smith boys’ wouldn’t touch him as quids as we would a polecat. Consequently, he tCH, fail ignominiously. Let us tighten up. Exclude from the party all hut Demo crats. Let us make our Democratic primaries family affairs, and meet the issues on election days like men. VVe concede to every man the right to his opinion, and to he a member of any po litical party. We concede the right of any party to exist. But we do not con cede to any man the right to enter the councils of a party in time of peace and desert its standard when the first gun of war is fired. •The Populist party for Populists! ‘The Democratic party for Demo crats !” The Ishmaelite should go back and consult its 1906 files. According to The Ishmaelite there was then nothing too good for Mr. Watson and his friends; now it would as soon touch a ‘‘pole cat.” Does not The Ishmaelite recall how, in 1906, staunch and loyal Democrats pleaded for the preservation of party regularity, and how The Ishmaelite, among others, branded them from one end of the State to the other as ene mies of thepeople because they did? If it does not, it should refresh its memory. And the people then and there re sponded to that demand, giving their indorsement to a wide-open primary, with no other qualification but that of “white.” Exultant in their victory, The Ish maelite and others did not then realize that they had created a weapon which so soon would be turned upon them. But it did, and instead of standing manfully up to the rack and meeting bravely a fate which, by their own acts, they invited, they now whine and cry for the old system which they then denounced as inimical to the people’s interests. The verdict of 1906 was accepted in 1908. The people had indorsed the prin ciple of the “white primary;” there were none who would deny it to them. The Ishmaelite and its kind made their bed ; then finding thorns beneath the ticking, put there by their own hands, they do not like to lie upon it As far as the national Democracy is concerned, it will suffer nothing as the result of the white primary precedent, now established in State affairs Georgia, for the State will roll up the usual majority for Bryan in November. But in the meantime, let’s not lose sight of the main point emphasized in The Ishmaelite’s latest somersault. As one of the chief concocters of the dose, it should now come cheerfully to the medicine chest and take its cap sule. The New Registration Law. Macon Tolejarraph. Reports from Atlanta say that “the Governor is jubilant over the success of his election measures, which were got ten through both Houses.” We have not before us the text of these measures, but The Telegraph’s Atlanta correspondent furnishes this information about one of them : “One of the election laws which is likely to meet with serious objection is that re quiring all voters to pay taxes and register at least six months before the general State election in October. If a voter does not qualify before April 1 he will be disqalified for the remainder of the year. In the same bill the au thority of registrars in the matter of purging the lists is greatly extended. It is not improbable that this bill will be the subject of protest, particularly from the workingmen. Most cam paigns really open after the registry lists have closed, thereby shutting out the men who, from lack of incentive or opportunity, will fail to get on the roll.*’ The intent of this measure is very clear. Its purpose is to disfranchise a large element of laboring people at the forge, and on the farm—a class that is more busy with bread-winning day in and day out, yeur after year, than with politics, and who are careless about registering; a class, however, that gets stirred up occasionally when their interests are seen to be at stake, and turn things around with a will, as they did this year. Those politicians that suffered at their hands now pro pose, by this new law, to put them out of politics. It remains to be seen whether or not they will be successful. Our own opinion is that it is a crime against good citizenship. The law-making power should make it easy and not hard for an honest man to vote. It should provide conveniences and not hardships. It should open wide the door, and not set trap-doors and snares to catch honest men. The labor ing people scarce get their due as it They get the hard end of life. They are entitled to a voice in full propor tion to their numbers in determining who shall govern. This is guaranteed by the most vital principle of our Gov ernment. Statutory subterfuges to rob them of this right is revolutionary and wicked. It is another turn of the thumb-screw by autocratic power. Not only the laboring people, but there are business men and profession al men, busy with the affairs of life and not given to watching political matters, who will be disfranchised by this new law. It has been their habit to look over the situation after the campaign has warmed up. and then qualify as voters. A few weeks before the election, or primary, they make up their minds to take a hand. From four to six months before a contest they care nothing about it, because they are busy with other affairs. This new trap set for them will catch them by the thousands. Instead of making it easy for them to register and vote, the law disfranchises them while they are off their guard. Isn’t it a shame! But another Legislature meets be fore the next State primary. The peo ple, particularly the laboring classes, ought to rise in a body and demand the repeal of the law. The venal and corrupt voter ought to be disfranchised. That goes without saying. But the law ought to make it easier, and not harder, for an honest man to register and vote. Operation for piles will not be neces sary if you use ManZan Pile Remedy. Put up ready to use. Guaranteed. Price 50c. Try it. Huffaker Drug Co. Wanted to Be Metered. When DaWson reached town the other day he was suddenly seized with a ter rific toothache, and he repaired at once to a dentist. Investigation showed that the tooth was in such a condition that the only way to extract it comfortably was to put the sufferer under the in fluence of gas. Consequently Dawson threw himself back in the chair and the tube was applied. 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