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CAMILLA ENTERPRISE.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY*
WALTER A. ALLEN
KIHTOK AND PUBLISHER.
Entered at Camilla, Ga., post of¬
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Official organ of Camilla, Ga.,
• • And Mitchell county • •
TELEPHONE NO. 64.
FRIDAY, OCT. 21. ’904.
The consolidated returns fo»
the state election show that a lot
cf people forgot to vote for the
superior and supreme court
judges.
Georgia Is a democratic state,
all right enough, but lets turn
out and poll the biggest vote ever
catt in the state for a presidential
candidate.
A new project lor Quitman, to
be owned and operated by the
town and used to haul coal and
cotton, as well as passengers, i*
fen electee railway,
Savannah is now going [in (or
modern sky scraper buildings.
She has just finished one eight
stories high and has let the con¬
tract for one to be ten stories
high.
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It is only a few more weeks
now before the national election.
Make your arrangements to turn
out and vote for Parker and Da¬
vis, the standard bearers of de¬
mocracy.
Twelve beeves were barbecued
at Peru, Ind., to feed the crowds
that went to hear Bryan’s speech
in that city last week, Bryan,
as well as Hearst, is doing good
work in this campaign.
Commissioner 0. B. Stevens,
estimates the cotton crop of Geor
gla for this year at 1,388,000'
bales. This estimate is based on
800 letters received atihe depart¬
ment of agriculture from every
section of the state.
Here’s tc Herring and his new
county movement. John was the
first newspaper man to tackle this
question and now that the amend¬
ment has been carried he should
be honored by the commission
with the first new county.
The much abused and adver¬
tised Statesboro has had another
incendiary fire. Loss $8,000, with
no insurance. That is getting
rid of it in a cotton hurry. Twenty
seven bales of belonging
to farmers in the neighborhood
were consumed in the flames.
An editprial in a late issue of
the Savannah News deplores the
gambling in cotton, carried on so
extensively in the South. We
quote an extract:
“All over the cotton states
there are agencies for dealing in
cotton futures. There is plenty
of evidence that they are well
patronized and reap a rich har¬
vest. Many millions of dollars
annually go to enrich cotton fu
ture brokers and fill. the pockets
of the big cotton speculators of
New York. If the Southern peo¬
ple had put into cotton mills the
money they have lost in cotton
gambling the South would row
be in a position to manufacture
into cotton fabrics the greater
part of her cotton crop. She
would be in the enjoyment of an
immense income from her cotton
manufacturing industry.”
Loans.
Five year loans negotiated on
farm lands at lowest rates. When
you come to make application
bring your chain of title.
Edwin L. Bryan, Att’y at Law,
Moultrie. Ga.
SENSIBLE TALK.
W. L- Douglas, the great shoe
manufacturer, has been nomi
nated as the Democratic
date for governor of Massachu¬
setts. He may not be elected,
but it can also be said that he de
Serves the honor. His letter
acceptance is brief but pithy.
is a model of sound, business
sense. It has been said
Massachusetts clung to the
because it protected her indus¬
tries. The clamors for free raw
materials, but if that were ac¬
corded, she would be doubly pro¬
tected. She would catch the coon
going and coming, But Mr.
Douglas says:
“I would gladly give up the 25
per cent, duty on shoes to obtain
free hides and free sole leather.
I could produce shoes at as low
cost as any manufacturer in any
foreign country, and meet the
competition of the world. Cheap
labor is cot cheap. It is dear
when effectiveness is considered.
It is the high cost of materials
that bars us from foreign mar¬
kets.”
Illustrating how the great shoe
industry ishandicspped heshows
that the product for 1903 was
$159,247,529. The value of the
stock used was $l00,300,5t4,
which was “tariff-taxed” at $9,
900,000, or 10 per cent. Nearly
all this tariff tax goes to the bedf
trust by virtue of the 14 percent,
on hides, and to the leather trust
through the 20 per cent, tax on
leather. The output of boots and
shoes in Massachusetts for 1903
was about 110,000,000 pairs, at
an average cost of about $1.44
and an average tax of at 1< ast 9
cents a pair. It is this tax, with
the increased cost of manufac¬
turing, all for the benefit of pow¬
erful and rich trusts, that limits
the product and shuts the indus¬
try from the foreign markets it
could easily command were it
freed from this arbitrary bur¬
den. With greater output and
wider markets would come
more employment for labor and
a material reduction in one of the
necessaries of life.
New Engiang men are famous
for figuring on profits and losses.
This plain talk of Mr. Douglas
should open the eyes of thous¬
ands of Massachusetts people
who hitherto have swallowed all
the fictions that the “stand pat”
Republicans have told them.
There are some Massachusetts
people who are prejudiced
against the South, on the race
question; but had they not better
examine if there is not a white
slavery at home, a slavery to
high-protected Tariff lords and
Trust barons or bandits? , t
Mr. Douglas continues. jHe
savs:
Careful estimates of the tariff
profits of one of these trusts, the
United States Steel Corporation,
indicate that they amounted to
$162,000,000 for the years 1902
and 1903—the total net profits
being $242,000,000. These dif¬
ferences were based on the dif¬
ferences between the export and
home prices of steel products
and goods, the differences being
multiplied by the quantity, qf
each kind of product sold, as
given in the annual'report of this
company for the year ending De¬
cember 81, 1903.
This S162,000,000 is clear tariff
profit. That is, had there been
no duties on these steel products,
and had they been sold here at
the same price at which they
were sold abroad, they would
have cost our consumers $162,
000,000 less than L they did. As
nearly all of these are unfinished
products, it is evident that Amer¬
ican manufacturers to whom
steel is a i aw material have to
pay nearly $ 80 , 000,000 a year
moie for these materials than is
paid by their foreign competi¬
tors, even though both buy steel
of our Steel trust.
Such are the ramifications of
high tariff extortion that the won¬
der is so many millions of voters,
who are robbed hy the Dingley
tariff and in no way benefitted by
it, do not rise in their might and
not only defeat Roosevelt but
give Parker a landslide victory
that will insure a Democratic
House of Representatives and
presently a Democratic Senate.
—Augusta Chronicle.
Bainbridge A rgus: We saw a
coon pass this sanctum today
with a fat turkey under his arm.
We mov>e this turkey be let out
on bond for his appearance at
regular terra and time of judg¬
ment the latter part of Novem¬
ber.
What is the Matter With Bailey ?
Call and see if there is anything the matter with him. He
ean show you one of the slickest winter lines in town.
Ladies, you need skirt goods, waist goods, dres¬
sing sack goods, etc. all these and more you
will find at Bailey’s.
ljow about a nice wool jacket
for Winter?
We have got an up-to-date line of wool Underskirts, and will be pleased to send,
down a sample for you to look at. Just ring us up!
Yours Very Truly,
Bailey
The first breath of Cold Weather has
come.
Those chilly mornings when one of these winter weight suits
we are selling so cheap would feel so comfortable on you.
Tobacco Browns, Light Blues, Dark Navy Blue, Iron Gray and
A)1 C 0 J> rs Men’s. Youths’ and Boy’s Suits.
A new line, personally selected by Mr. Berman in N. Y. City.
Men’s Suits From $4.00 to $18.00 Each.
20 Men’s brand new oxford overcoats, worth $12 to start season-at. $ 6.95
126 Ladies’ Monte Carlo jackets, brand new, latest 5th ave. style, all cas¬
tor and brown colors, tailor made them to sell for $20, we start them off at $ 5.50
A Ladies’ big, new dress line and of walking boys’ knee skirts pants, from... and $1.50 to $6.50
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