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The' Atlanta Georgian.
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Mother
Griffin, Ga., Nov. 1, 1906.
Manager Georgian:
Dear Si*:—As these are the most important func
tions of the week, I send them in advance of weekly let
ter. Our minister, Mr. John S. Jenkins, pastor of the
First Methodist church, paid a beautiful tribute to The
Georgian Sunday to a packed house. Ho was preaching
a sermon on law and order to the policemen of the city,
and he said: •
“I would advise every man, beside his Bible, to
take at least one good daily paper, say, The Georgian,"
etc.
Knowing you’d appreciate this,-I thought I’d men
tion it here, as you might not otherwise hear of it.
Yours respectfully,
1 MBS. J.C. EDWARD.
No Whiskey
or Unclean
Medicine Ad
vertisements.
ATLANTA, GA., <? ."«» ; >AY , NOVEMBER 1906.
Son
(Sam P. Jones, Jr.)
Cartersville, Ga., Nov. 8,1906.
T6 the Editor of The Georgian:
Seeing in your paper of the 7th instant your editorial and advertisement con
cerning your circulation, I write these few words congratulating The Georgian on
its wonderful success.
It is my hope that your paper will grow in circulation and influence with each
day, and that it will ultimately fulfill one of the most earnest wishes that I ever
heard my nobio father give utterance to. . _ .
In his last sermon to a Cartersville audience he said: n
“I want to see the time come when The Atlanta Georgian will have one hun
dred thousand subscribers, and the other Atlanta papers three apiece.”
His earnest desire for your prosperity was voiced simply because he knew and
felt that you were on the right lines, and that your paper, conducted as it was, and
is, would have a vast influence for good. Just as surely as he wished for the prev
alence of the right, did he wish for the downfall of all that was evil, hence his state
ment that he hoped the other Atlanta papers would have only three subscribers
apiece. He had no feeling of ill will against the other Atlanta papers, nor anything
personal against any one connected with either of them, but it was his desire that
the church people and those who were against the sale of whisky in the state
would say tatfie owners of the papers:
“You cannot advertise this terrible enemy to'the peace and prosperity of our
homeland expect us to give you our support, either by reading your papep or by
giving your our advertising. ”
It was not the desire nor the wish of my father to see the great properties of the
Atlanta dailies destroyed, but he felt that it wjis in the power of the Christian people
of the state of Georgia to whip them into line, and cause them to stop the advertise
ments of the liquor traffic, by withholding from their their support and countenance.
To those who knew me, up to a short time before my father’s doath, this state
ment from me would perhaps provoke a smile, but I feel that God has left me a work
to do, and that as long as my life lasts it is my duty to do what I see before me. There
can be no doubt that the greatest burden of my father’s whole life was his enmity
to the Avhisky traffic, and in my humble way I expect to take up that part of his
work with all the power that God has endowed mo with.
I did not know, until he was gone from this life, what a man my father really
was, and how terrible were his battles against the sins of the world, unsupported as
he was by the open declarations and the consistent life of his older son, and name
sake. However, since he has loft us, I have realized in a way his greatness, and my
unworthiness to enter the battles that he so nobly fought. It-is my purpose to make
amends to his name and the memory of his great good life and work, and to the poo-
plo.of my stato by.taking upon me as such of his mantle as my shoulders will bear,
and to-give all the powers that I can muster to the work that God in His goodness
would not allow my father to pursue further under such terrible discouragements
and against such odds.
It is my earnest wish that The Georgian will be able, by its prosperity and its
extended influence, to show the people of the state, and the other papers, that it is not
absolutely necessary to the life and existence of the daily paper to print the invita
tions of the whisky dealers to the public to partake of their home-wrecking, peace-
destroying stuff.
May the success of The Georgian continue, and may it be the greatest paper that
the Southern states have ever seen. God speed you, is my prayer.
I SAM P. JONES, JB.
Daughter
$4.50 Year
Sharon, Ga., Nov. 9, 1906.
To the Atlanta Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga.
Father
Cartersville, Ga., Nov. 16,1906.
The Atlanta Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga.
If you have no objections, I would like to say a few
words in praise of The Georgian. It is dean, newsy and
can always be relied upon to tell the truth. Te edito
rials from the pen of John Temple Graves' are simply
grand. I have just been taking The Georgian about one
month, and wouldn’t do without it for any price. If, i u
any way, I can favor you or the paper, I will not hesi
tate to do so."
With all success to TlieGeorgian, and may it keep
up the maxim of telling the truth. I remain,
Yours veiy truly,
G. T. WORD.
No Whiskey
or Unclean
Medicine Ad
vertisements.
Dear Sim: Inclosed I hand you my check to cover
subscription to The Georgian to December 31,1907.
The Georgian is equal to the best newspaper in
Georgia, and outranks them all on its editorial page.
Above all, it can, without any hesitation, be placed
by the father in the hands of his daughter.
Great success to you. Respectfully,
$4.50 Y ear
A. C. DAVIDSON, M. D.
25,000 Circulation
