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it honored, for being expected to inspect the reports
of oil inspectors who inspect the reports of oil com
panies.
The “one-eyed hoy of Pigeon Roost " has no san
itarium. ojdy a little farm of a thousand or so acres,
and so his salary of necessity must be a little bet
ter. in round numbers $2,490 a year, or S2OO a month,
lie must look up and compile, while not engaged in
farm work, the colonial and confederate historical
data that made our “daddies" famous or infamous
in 1770 and 1860. but which through some unaccount
able error has been overlooked by self-supporting
historians. His duties are stupendous and laborious,
much harder than th*' teaching of children or the
nursing of old sort's, and so he must be given a pretty
stiff income, promptly at the end of each month,
without discount or the wait of a year as our teach
ers, soldiers and jurymen are forced to do year in
and year out.
The general appropriation act of 1902 provides
that the money received into the treasury from tin*
sale of certain Georgia reports shall be used to sus
tain this position. Since December. 1902. the tax
payers have paid out l on it only $40,509.86. as fol
lows: To the “one-eyed boy.' $14.628.06: the
transcriber of London reports. $4,785,93; the printer.
$21,095.37. This monev, $14,500 from direct taxation
Lyle’s Hanging Followed by Double Lynching.
Waycross, Ga., the scene of the execution of the
lunatic, llarrv E. Lyles, .lune 22nd, for the murder
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of his wife and child, was convulsed a tew days
thereafter by tin* lynching of two negroes by a mob
of one thousand men for criminal assault upon a
white girl.
Does not this tend to prove that the cruelty of
the law. enforced without due consideration for
evidence and the circumstances surrounding the
commission of crime, is to breed crime rather than
to deter it Our system is not to reform but to pun
ish. to degrade, to torture and quarter, and as a
result we do not help, we hinder; we do not give
lite but death, and sowing death, should we hope to
reap anything else .’
A significant feature connected with the unfortu
nate occurrence following tin' hanging of Lyles, how
ever, is that the tragedy seems to be sincerely con
demned by the entire community. Certainly the
strong condemnation heaped upon those who commit
ted the crime by Judge T. A. Parker, of the Bruns
wick circuit, and his determination to prosecute the
members of the mob indicates that there is to be
trouble for those who take the law in their hands in
future.
Judge Parker’s statement of the affair as pub
lished in the public prints is as follows:
THE REASON
and $26,009.86 from the sale of Georgia reports, and
also of the colonial and confederate records, has
been paid directly out of the Georgia treasury on
executive warrants. These reports and records art'
printed with money raised by direct taxation and
are sold at cost, the proceeds going into the State
treasury and becoming a part of the general fund.
So there* is no difference in appropriating this money
and anv other monev in the treasury..
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The salt's of the colonial, revolutionary and war
records product'd by the “one-eyed boy ’ are infini
tismal. This is passing strange in view of their great
value ( .’) and the fact that they are offered at cost.
Some people with two good eyes can't see a bargain
wht'n it is “poked under their nose.
It is stated on what, is believed to be reliable'
authority that Hit' boy says he needs only one more
year, at $2,400 per. to complete his work.
It is not expected that the* General Oil Inspector
will be expected to get through inspecting the
inspectors until they complete their work of inspect
ing the inspected. Commissioner Hudson says flit'
job's a good one if a fellow does his duty, ami says
further that he's in favor of keeping the doctor, as
he works for only $l9O a month, a trifle less than
half flu* worth of flit' work!
“1 look upon it as one of the most dastardly out
rages ever perpet rated in Georgia. It was absoliit ely
inexcusable. If that drove of deputies from Wayne
county, together with tin* sheriff of this county, had
really wanted to prevent Hit* lynching they could
have done so. Their conduct in the affair is looked
upon more like an invitation to the mob than it did
like an effort to prevent the lynching.
“What was the use of taking the prisoners to the
Butler crossing in order to prevent tin* mob from
getting them, ami then going uptown and making
what might just as well have been a public announce
ment of that fact.’ ‘Oh, but the train was late,’
thev sav. Well. when that was found out, and the
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crowd began to gather where the officers were, and
to become threatening, why did not the officers take
their prisoners bark to jail, as they were urged to do .’
“1 believe that if Sheriff W, B. Lyons of Wayne
county, had had the prisoners in charge hi' would
have protected them single-handed and alone. He is
a man of courage, and when he says to a mob. ’Stand
back.’ his meaning is not easily mistaken. I hardly
think the result would have been different had
Sheriff W’oodard had forty-eight instead of eight
such deputies as he did have.
“The grand jury of this county will certainly fail
of its duty if it dot's not make a full investigation of
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