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pcuoLAi county ggmgEL, pouglabyille Georgia. Friday, jpiy 4,1919.
Marchraan’s Pharmacy
FORMAL OPENING
Saturday, July 5 1
A REPLY TO OAPT. DAKE AMD
HIS MONKEY ON ROAD
BONDS
New store, new fixtures, new
stock, new fountain.
Souvenirs Free
Will give a useful souvenir to
every one who visits our store on
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this occasion.
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Come, let us get ac
quainted. We are here
to serve you and want
to meet you.
MMtCHMAN’S PHARMCY
Next Door to Post Office.
Captain Dak.' a few weeks ago
invvited his subscribers to a free
and open discussion of the road
bond question through the col
umns of the Sentinel and ! tokk a
shot at it and because it did not
meet with the editor’s views he in
flated his protuberant punnet and
'blew forth a tirade of stale acqu
isition whollty foreign to tihe road
bond question intended as a slur
on my integrity and mental cap
acity, and a reflection ii|K>n all cliil
dren and their parents who were
notboruto see arid do as Capt. Duke
nays do. He says that, “ 1 was horn
in the objective Case.” I want Capt
Dake to tell the people how to av-
oid bringing children into the wor
II intlheolijectiveease. Parents can
not help what, case their children
are born in, neither can -the child.
All this work of a kind and mer
ciful heavenly Father. If (.'apt.
Dake is not satisfied with the ease
in which people’s children are horn
into the world, it might lie a bri
ght idea to have him t.i suggest
how they shall he horn. The Dake
case might suit some, and it might
not. so I will not suggest any case
lie says that,"lam suffering from
some hallucination that has caused
me to loose confidence*in my fel
low man. "He must be suffering
from file same mania or lie would
not he charging people who do not
fail down and do as lie says do,
of being objects of pity and lab
oring miler mental delusions so se
ver and hallucinating that he sees
monkeys sliping through his pal
ace. windows seeking a comfort
able night’s repose on liix protub
erant. ('apt. Dalles’ hallucination
is spiked with something worse
than ‘‘Paulding Moonxrine.’Tt is
with a desire to guLI the farmers
into voting a tax on land to build
national highways for some men
tal giants to transport tlheir ana
tomy over at the rate of 40 or SO
miles per hour while they labor in
iflie fields to [lay the tax and en
joy seeing them sweep by. I am
sorryflrat the Irish Sin Fein and
the monkeys are haunting Capt.
Dake, by sitting on the foot of
his lied at, night.
Oaipt. Dake you look close the
next Time that monkey comes in
your room, ami if you are certain
it is a monkey and von want to
get rid of it andyou think a little
“PauWing Moonshin” would run
it. off let. me know ill time and I
\Fill try to procure enough to qui
et your nerves.
Capt’s.. Itake’s .Monkey story
reminds me of tlie monkey and
organ grinder. The organ grinder
makes the music while the monkey
loos flic dancing and collects the
pennies, and turns them over to
his master, who uses them to fill
Ilia own maw first and the monkey
gets What’s left.
Capt. Dake wants Hie farmers
to vote bonds to build the Banls-
hea.il Highway and then sell them
to the money trust at a discount
of from 25 to 40 per cent on 1h<
dollar and pay them 5 pet cent, in
terext. o ntlie par value aiul then
when the Bankhead Highway is
completed, we farmers like the n.o
nkey will get what is left, and it
tuny he nothing but wind.
Capt. Dake. yon can’t lay mv
hallucinations to drinking "Paul
ding.Moonshine” 1 have not drank
any Paulding'Moonshine in lo yea
rs, that 1 reutemlhor of. About
the last sociable drink of booze
that I ever took I took with yon
and if it hallucinated me any more
than it did you, I have never been
able to tefll it.. 1 remembered that
it tasted all right*
Capt. Dake, says that my article
on the bond question "sounds like
the wail of a demagone” A demag
ouge is one who inveighs against
constituted authority. The people
still have a right to. consure their
servants on any question envolv
ing the constitutional rights of a
free and independant government
If the wails of the people against
constituted authority makes out a
priina facie ease of demogism the
great majority of the Amberiean
people are demagouges for they
are wailing against the present
administration from one en dof the
country to the other.
Capt. Dake headed his reply to
■my article on road bonds by ask
ing the question is W. I. D. Right
after saying that 1 was born-in the
objective case and laboring under
mental (delusions and halleninat-
ions, a-.demagonge presuming on
the ignoranceof the people and
then turns around and ask some
body to fell him whether W. I. D.
is right of not. It sounds to me
like Oaipt Dake, is presuming too
much on his own ignorance. If I
was so densely ignorant that I
could not tell right from wrong
without asking Someone to tell me
I Would close my euit out and Blip
out of town just as easy us 1 could.
A mayor of a great muncipility
like Douglasviile who can’t tell
right from wrong, after hearing
the evidence, places the defendant
at. the bar, in a hell of a fix. Asik
.John Dunean, may he that he can
ttell you whether 1 am wright or
wrong. He ’sNi slick schemer. A ma
Who is a member of the Bankhead
liigliway movement, and who has
attended a number of highway
meetings, and who has heard the
great good-roads orators and ex
pounders of highway propaganda
and then can't tell whether I am
right, or wrong, liad either better
resign or play off deaf and dumb.
Some years ago when the leg-
lislutive bee was buzzing around
Capt. Dake’s head be came out in
his paper with a lengthy article
advocating the sale of the State
Railroad. In that article he used
about the fillowing language: Sell
the IVV. & A. Railroad, pay off the
States’ bonded indebtedness of ov
er six million dollars redeem the
States credit and stop the tax that
lias dost the tax payers thousands
of dollars, and has consumed so
much (time of the Georgia legisla
ture. “ At that time 1 dont think
you owned an automobile, ami
your sympathy was with the poor
tax payers. At that, time you wan
ted the state clear of debt and its
redit redeemed, and now you have
switched to the other side and
want to Imrdlen the tax payers
with another fifty or a hndred
million dollars to build national
highways for the legislature and
lie highway commision to rangle
over at the expense of the tax pav
ers. At that time you wanted to
build up the states credit and now
you want to impure it more than
ever.
Pile W. & A. Railroad is one
of the best exacts of the State, and
lias been for a- long term of years
for about fti00.000.00 per annum
without any burden to the state
The money from the present lease
will pay the interests on the \V. &
A. Railroad bonds and retire them
n 20 years, if it is all used for
that purjiose. The W. & A. Rail
road bonds are based on one con
crete proposition hacked by twent
million dollars worth f property
arrying only a six million dollar
mortgage and paying a net income
in tlie State treasurey of $000,000
per annum. Will your Bankhead
highway bonds do that? Last sun
mer when Oaipt, Dake. was feeling
for a i-lranee to run for the legis-
lature lie was advocating a divis
ion of Hie $100,000.00 of motor vci
side tax not retained tiy the stati
among the counties to lie applied
road building in the eouuti
How do you stand on this question
now? Dont you favor taking aB
the. automobile tax away from tin
(unities and pitting it in the hand
of the. State Highway Commision
to lie [Ait on such national high
ways as they see fit? Don’t you lav
or adding to the State automobile
tax fund, fifty or a hundred mil
lion dollars in highway bonds to
he placed in the hands of the state
Highway Commision to he used in
building national highways wher
ever they and the Federal govern
ment see fit? Don’t you favor for
cing the counties to levey bonds
to take care of the rural roads or
do without them? Why do you
want a double set of bonds viz. con
nty and state bonds? It looks like
a scheme to me. to get one fund
to build national highways and an
other fund to work county roads
and make the count pay for both
These highway bonds will besold
to Hie money trust at a discount
of from 25 to 50 percent on the dol
lar. They willl he nontaxable and
will draw- 5 per cent per annum
on their par value. Better levey
bonds to build schoolhouses. to pay
teachers and educate your children
before the catholics take them over
A few months ago the Sentinl’s
Editor was-advocating rigid econo
my by advising the people to buy
less, eat less work harder, save
more and stay out of debt, and now
he wants them to mortgage their
homes to build national highways
for pleasure seekers to ride on.
Oil! What a charming Moses
leading the lyealites out of the
wilderness. Go to your county ree
ords and see how many mortgages
are recorded against homes and
automobiles in your county, and
then go to the banks and see how
much money has been -borrowed to
buy automobiles, and you will be
gjn to*wonder how wild and care
less people are getting about in
‘debit.edness.
Hundred of thousands of homes
are being urnrtaged every year to
buy automobiles to ride in, and if
the craze keeps on the automobile
trupt and the Standard Oil'Co.will
own the 11. S. A.
So great is the automobile that
people are neglecting, their church
es their schools, their homes, their
farms and tlheir business for a life
of pleasure and idleness.. Thou*
ands Of children that should be in
school are slaving in the cotton
fields, offices stores and selling
newspapers on the streets, to keep
up and pay for automobiles.
The farmers in the states of New
York and Maxseehusetts who axe
not able to own automobiles and
{trucks are asking the state to
build them, reads on each side of
the national highway?; so that they
can market their produce with hor
ses and mules. They claim that
the hard surface roads ruins the
hoi-ses feet and that t hey are so
slick in wet weather that tlie horse
can’t, keep on their feet, and that
the automobiles hav erowdd them
ff in the ditches. Some Weeks ago
Caiptf Dake published a note in
tis paper headed "What’s the mat
ter with Atlanta?” Some four or
five years ago the people of Atlan
ta were asked by the Atlanta Con
stitution to vote for three million
dollars worth of -bonds to build
school-houses, liny pumps and im
prove their streets, and they re
sponded. Since Christmas Atlanta
has made two efforts to increase
the tax rate 25 cents on the hun
dred dollars and issue one million
dollars in bonds, Jbut the voters
said no, you have fooled away
three million dollars of bonds and
we don’t propose to give you any
more. No wonder the people of
Atlanta are tired of bonds. They
saw the bonds sold to certain in
terests at low prices, and they saw
ertain sections of the eitv get the
lenefit of it. They see how they
were gulled by contractors, ma-
rial men aiwl high salaried of
ficers, and did right in refusing
to vote bonds to he gobbled up by
few favorites. Look at Atlanta’s
streets to day. Many of them are
in as bad fix as Dake’s Bankhead
'highway. The school buildings
are inadequate to accomodate the
hild-ren. and many of them built
with Hie bond money are said to
he fire traps, and there is not
nougli money to pay the teachers
a living salary’- The people of At
lanta were told in the tilul.ee mil
lion dollar bond cam|*aign, that
the three million dollars would
put Atlanta on a firm financial
footing and give her all the mod-
r n improvements, without increas
ing Iter tax rate. What happened ?
In a few years she was-calling on
Hie people for a raise in tax rates
and a million more in bonds, and
the good people arose and voted it
lowu. Then what did 1 the sehem-
-rs do? They laid it all on the
negroes. Hurrah, for the negroes
they got wise to the schemers’
ricks and saved their scalps. We
farmers had better get wise and
save ouur scal[is before .it is too
late. Tlie defeat of the tax rase
and the bond issue iin Atlanta
brought forth a wail of distress
from Capt. Dake. “What’s the
matter with Atlanta?” A majori
ty of tlie people of Atlanta defeat-
d the tax raise and the bond issue,
and Capt. Dake, a good democrat,
should abide by the majority. No,
he seems to be born with a mania
for bonds, and bonds he must have
or lie will he like his monkey, in a
hell] of a fix.
The fellow who marries or in-
erits property do’nt mind blowing
it, but the poor devil who digs it
out of the ground by the sweat of
the brow knows-how it comes, and
is not very apt to want to 'blow it
in on building national highways
for other people to ride on,wliile
lie pays tax, and dntges..
The only safe way to supplement
the Federal road fund is to tax tlie
beneficiaries. But it on motor ve
hicles and save the home if the mo
tor ears all go to the devil. Keep
taxes down on your homes and
Ion’t bond them for a few pleasure
trips on a national highway. One
dollar on the horse power of each
motor vehicle in t-he state will
more than supplement the Federal
road fund' and that is the only fair
way to raise the money. A man is
not oblige to have a car, but -lie
must Wave a place to live. I do
not object to good roads. I wish
that, everybody had good roads, a
good home, plenty of money and a
nice automobile to ride in. But
there is only about one-tenth of
the people who are able to own
an automobile, and to tax nine-
tenths of the people to build high
ways for t-he' ottier tenth is not
fair.
Yott cannot hope to build and
anent highway in
tlie nation ’in the next one hundred
years, and as fast as they are built
the automobiles will take posession
of them, and they should pay the
tax..
I say that if the State of Georgia
wants national highways and
wants to ? supp}ement the. Federal
fund to build the-in, levey it on the
motor .v eh dies and leave off bonds.
So far as the.counties are concern
ed they will have to take care of
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