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THE GEORGIA, WHACKER.
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Gainesville, G-a., Dec. 3, 1898,
EDITORIAL. PARAGRAPHS.
Atlanta’s peace jubiiee win be
a big affair.
Economy will be the watchword
for the year 1899.
In the “wheat by and by” is the
Macon Telegraph’s song.
If there’s any live news going
you’ll read it in The Cracker.
Capture the tax dodger in Geor
gia, and taxes will be reduced.
Everything is cheap, but cotton
is the cheapest article on the mark-
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et. _ '
Christmas will be here in a few
days whether you are ready for it
or not. ,
Work for Gainesville and keep
her in the front rank of Georgia
towns.
Raise home supplies and cut off
your expense account, Mr. Georgia
Farmer.
It is said that Corbett’s star has
set. We hope the star of pugilism
has also set.
From indications, past and pres
ent, President McKinley has a
stiff upper lip.
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Get ready for another year’s bus
iness. In this world it takes hus
tle to get along.
Which prospers, the farmer who
raises his home supplies or the
one who buvs them?
Patronize those who advertise
in The Cracker. They appreciate
the trade of our readers.
The race problom is being wide
ly discussed. When will the prop
er solution be reached?
The first sleet of the winter sea
son fell in Georgia last Monday,
but it don’t cut any ice.
As a progressive city Atlanta
takes the cake. Progressiveness
is an admirable quality.
Buy nothing that can be raised
fit home, is what the Georgia
farmer should determine on.
The song of peace and plenty
-can be sung whep there's plenty
of home raised stuff to eat at
3iome.
Gainesville is steadily growing
find it is justly entitled to the
name—“Queen City of the Moun
tains.”
The strike among the mill oper
atives in Augusta did not seem to
do them much good. Strikes
never do good.
Thanksgiving is gone, Christmas
is almost hero, and the year 1899
is peeping over the hill. Time
moves in a rush.
The fortunate turkey that es
caped Thanksgiving is gobbling in
great glee. There'11 come a time
some day, even to him..
Editor McIntosh’s “hay, hog
and hominy” carnival at Albany
was a great success. There should
be more such carnivals in Georgia.
The mineral wealth of Northeast
Georgia is attracting more atten
tion than ever. There is a vast
amount of hidden gold in these
hills.
A MATTER OF
Governor Allen D. Candler sent
a lengthy message to the Georgia
I legislature Tuesday in which be
dealt particularly with the finances
! of the state, and strongly recom
mended that expenses be cut down.
He recommends that the school
fund be reduced $400,000 during
each of the next two years, and
that pensions be paid only to
those veterans and soldiers’ wid
ows who actually need help.
He says the state has been go
ing too fast in the matter of ap
propriations for education and reo
ommends strict adherance to the
constitutional limitation of com
mon school studies to the ordinary
branches of an English education.
The governor urges the im
portance of tax reform, but says
the estimates of the possible in
crease of the taxable property by
new legislation have overshot the
mark, and that it is absolutely
necessary to cut appropriations.
He states that after paying in
terest on the public debt and oth
er items which cannot be lawfully
reduced, there is about $3,000,000
left, and that of this $2,300,000
goes to schools and pensions. He
adds that if this amouqt and the
fixed charges are paid, there will
riot be a dollar left at the present
tax rate ‘though all salaries and a
number of other appropriations
are abolished.
The Cracker has never been
very much in favor of cutting
down the school appropriations,
but it is heartily in sympathy
with the work of weeding out the
pension roll, giving pensions only
to those confederate soldiers and
widows of soldiers who are actually
needy. There are now too many
drawing pensions who are fully
able to take care of themselves,
many ot them even having more
wealth than those who draw no
pensions at all. These should be
taken off the rolls instanter.
As Governor Candler says, it
might be best to cut off the $400,-
000 school appropriation for two
years and strictly adheTe to the
constitutional limitation of com
mon school studies to the ordi
nary branches of an English ed
ucation. We all know the present
tax rate in Georgia is too high,
and the people will not stand an
increase. If the school appropri
ation is cut for two years, and the
legislature enacts a just and
equitable tax law, and proper
economy m every department of
the state government is practiced,
we believe the treasury of the state
two years hence will be in con
dition to warrant the increase in
school expenditures to the present
amount, or even larger if deemed
n pessary, and that, too, without
an increase in the tax rate,or even
at a lower rate than it now is.
We do not want to see the com
mon schools of Georgia crippled,
and we do not believe to cut off
the $400,000 appropriation for two
years will cripple them, certainly
not if, as Governor Candler says,
the constitutional limitation is
strictly adhered to. We will then
make the most of what we have,
and the relief afforded the people
in the reduced rate of taxation
will cause them to be much bet
ter satisfied.
Some may say that this is too
radical a change, but what is
needed now is relief, and this can
not come until certain appropria
tions are cut long enough to allow
the laxity in the tax laws to be
come sufficiently tightened to
bring into the treasury of the state
the vast amount of revenue it is
justly entitled to.
Hood’s coupon
Calendar
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embossed in gold. Leave your name
with your druggist and ask him to save
you a copy or send 6 cents in stamps for
one to C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass
[Mention this paper.]
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Hence take only Hood s.
MAKES ENEMIES AND IN
GRATES.
Governor Candler was never
more correct than when he said,
in discussing the appointing power
a few days ago, that on.t of every
ten applicants its use results in
“nine enemies and one ingrate.”
It is to be regretted that this is
the case, but it certainly is true.
People forget that a Governor, or
any other appointing power, has
many applicants for each place,
and that he has to decide in his
own mind who is best qualified.
Those who fail to measure up to
the mark set by the appointing
power get mad because they do
not get what they want, and as a
result are ever afterward his ene
mies; and the one who gets the
place is usually ungrateful and
has not the proper appreciation.
The appointing pow T ei has a rocky
road to travel, and is never trans
ported upon flowery beds of ease,
as so many people think. It is
trying upon any man who has
patronage in his gift, and as Gov
ernor Candler says it makes ene
mies and ingrates.
It looks like Commissioner O.B.
Stevens is the right man m the
right place. It is said that the
contract just made by him for
printing tags eaves $4,000 for
the state.
More than half the present ses
sion of the legislature is gone.
Outside of the introduction of
numerous bills but little has been
done. Are the law-makers to do
anything for the relief of the
people? »
Your
Doctor
Knows
Tour doctor knows all about
foods and medicines.
The next time you see Mm,
just ask him what be thinka
seoirs Endsiofl
of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo-
phosphites. We are willing
to trust in his answer.
For twenty-five years doc
tors have prescribed our
Emulsion fbr paleness, weak
ness, nervous exhaustion, and
fbr all diseases that cause
loss in flesh.
Its creamy odor and Its
pleasant taste ft es
pecially useful fbr thin and
delicate ohUdren*
No other preparation of ood-
liver oil Is like it. Don't lose
time and risk your health by
taking something unknown
and untried. Keep in mind
th*t BOOTTH EMULSION
has stood the test.fbr a
quarter of a century.
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ABOUT THE PHILLIPPINES.
The following facts about the
Phillippines will prove interesting,
inasmuch as they are to become
the property of the United States.
They are taken from the figures of
former years. Until 1896 it was
about $17,500,000, and this sum
was obtained as follows: Direct
taxes on persons, $5,600,000; taxes
on business, $1,400,000; customs,
$6,000,000; monopolies, $1,000,-
000; state property, $500,000, etc.
There was a small surplus yearly,
which went to meeting various ex
penses of Spain incident to its
possessions in the East. - The
army took $6,000,000; the navy,
$3,500,000; the church and justice,
$2,000,000: administration, $1,-
500,000; home office, $2,100,000;
public works, $550,000. The exist
ing debt, created to meet the ex
penses of the rebellion, aggregates
$38,000,000, requiring about $2,-
385,000 for interest. The tariff
has till recently been much low’er
than that of Cuba.
A lot of people are yelling:
“Hoi dem Filuppines,” and afier
awhile a lot of people will be yell
ing : “Let loose dem Filuppines.”
But can we turn loose? asks the
Thomasville Times-Enterprise.
The people of Georgia want to
get their hands on the tax dodger.
He has already caused their taxes
to increase to a higher rate than
they are able to pay. The legis
lature should bring this individual
to the front.
No man is a good citizen who does
not own a home. See Dr. Adair’s card.
9100 Reward 8100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a con
stitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease and giying
the patient strength by building op the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith m its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that ft fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials
Address F. J. Chxxey & Co., Toledo,
O. Sold by druggists’75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
A state fair is being talked of
for Atlanta next fall. Unless the
farmers raise more home products
they wont have much to exhibit.
Four cent cotton wont make much
of a show.
The people are greatly divide
upon the question of cutting down
the school and pension appr°P rl
ations. The legislature will de
cide the matter.
Farmers 9
Or any other ladies who wish to w
Can earn Lots of Mont]
Working for ns in spare time at
on onr clothes. We offer y oU Jfag
chance to make plenty of s P e g peD d
money easily, in leisure hours,
l!c. for cloth and full directi
work, and commence at once,
sent anywhere. Address.
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Manufacturing Dep t.