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tc be merry over the suggestion of
any exhaustion of the trustees that
it has taken patient.nature centuries,
even long geologic ages, to store in
America. But the fear is hardly ns
; preposterous as is assumed. Even
granting that we should do nothing
for posterity on the theory that it has
done nothing for us, we should make
sure that things should last during
our day. Already, for example, there
is talk of a timber famine, and if
paper manufacturers are to be be
lieved the supply of woodpulp is
almost gone. The price of oil in the
not distant future will probably be
a good deal higher than in the most
squeezing days of the Standard Oil
Company. Coal and pig iron seem to
have been lifted to a price-level per
manently higher.
But to discover a remedy is more
difficult than to discovejr an evil.
The President makes no practical
proposal. The natural resources of
whose destruction he complains are
almost entirely under private owner
ship. It is feasible so to enlarge gov
ernmental regulation that an inspec
tor will stand over every woodchop
per and miner, and supervise the
farmer into getting the most out of
his soil. Thus it was that the gov
ernors journeying with the President,
although doubtless academically ap
proving anti-wa§te ideas, asked for
a more specific statement before giv
ing their indorsement. —New York
Globe.
THE SOUTH AND DEMOCRA&Y.
The convention of Tennessee Dem
ocrats called to meet in Nashville for
the purpose of considering a move
ment to nominate a Southern Demo
crat for President, is attracting at
tention throughout the state *and is
likely to draw together in this city
a number of earnest men who believe
that this is the best policy for the
party to pursue in the election of
1908. The party has lost in three
presidential campaigns. It has real
ly no potential existence or well de
fined purpose outside of the South
and the question may well arise
whether the preservation of the par
ty does not depend on the South’s
assertion of itself with a candidate
of its own choice on those principles
that gave the Democracy strength
and vitality in the past.
The South supported Mr. Bryan
and Judge Parker with equal fidelity
and therefore the South suffers the
aspersion of having no fixed princi
ples in national politics and is charg
ed with clinging to the name Democ
racy whatever its platforms may de
clare or its candidates represent.
The South should give a clearer defi
nition of its attitude and one that
leaves less ground for the accusation
of blind partisan attachment.
The party in the Ncrth is badly di
vided. It has been in the past three
elections whipsawed between Eastern
conservatives and Western radicals.
New York, that had given a plurali
ty for Cleveland in 1892, recorded
250,000 plurality against Bryan in
1896, and Nebraska, that gave Bryan
% plurality in 1896, gave 80,000 plp
xlity for Roosevelt in 1904. What is
I South to do under conditions of
it kind! Could the nomination of
Southern Democrat possibly make
Rters worse! Is it not probable
bj the situation might be bettered!
.ere are men in the South who
have grown to < manhood since the
Civil War, men whoso patriotism
would not be doubted, whom the
Democratic party could offer as candi
dates. Certainly there is no treason
to the country implied in offering
such a candidate, and how could the
nomination involve any bad faith to
the Democratic party, that draws its
only electoral votes from the South?
James K. Polk, nominated in 1844,
was the last Southern man the united
Democracy dared to offer as its candi
date. That was sixty-four years ago.
Why should the South longer abase
itself and why cannot the Democratic
party trust it? This much is cer
tain: As long as the South of its own
accord remains in the background
there will be no insistence from oth
er quarters that it come to the front.
—Nashville Banner.
PETITION FOR CHARTER.
STATE OF GEORGIA-—County of
Fulton.
To the Superior Court of said County:
The petition of Thomas E. Watson
and James W. Green of the county
of McDuffie, and C. P. Byrd, E. A.
Keese and H. B. Suttles of the coun
ty of Fulton, all of said state, respect
fully shows:
Ist. They desire for themselves,
their associates, their successors and
assigns to be incorporated and made
a body politic under the corporate
name of ‘‘Jeffersonian Publishing
C 0.,” for a period of twenty years,
with privilege of renewal at that
time.
2nd. The capital stock of said cor
poration is to be Fifty Thousand Dol
lars ($50,000.00) divided into shares
of Ten Dollars $10.00) each, ten
per cent of which has been actually
paid in, or will be paid in before the
privileges prayed for herein will be
exercised. Petitioners ask the priv
ilege to increase the said capital stock
from time to time by a majority of
the vote of the stock holders to an
amount not exceeding Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) in
the aggregate, and to decrease said
capital stock similarly, but not be
low said original sum of Fifty Thou
sand Dollars ($50,000.00) and to re
ceive in payment of subscription to
said capital stock, whether it be orig
inal or subsequently increased stock,
money, real or personal property, in
cluding the good will and patronage
of any publication or publications
which the Board of Directors may de
sire to take over and edit and pub
lish.
3rd. The principal office and place
of doing business will be in Atlanta,
Fulton County, Ga., but petitioners
ask the right of doing business and
establishing branch offices anywhere
in the United States. The principal
object of the proposed obligation is
pecuniary gain and profits to its
stockholders. Petitioners propose to
engage primarily in the publishing
and circulation of the two publica
tions now known as ‘•Watson’s Jef
fersonian Magazine,” and ‘‘Watson's
Weekly Jeffersonian," doing the me
chanical work themselves o»* letting
out same by contract with others, but
petitioners desire the right to engage
in the business of publishing «ny oth
er periodical, magazine, or book, eith
er for themselves or under r.j.i tract
with others, as well as doing and ex
ecuting all kinds of commercial print-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
ing, binding, etc., and all other kinds
of work usual and incident to the
printing and publishing business, to
that end petitioners desire the right
to purchase, whenever the Board of
Directors may deem it advisable to
so do, such a printing and publishing
plant, including machinery, presses,
type, etc., for the better carrying out
of the purposes of this organization,
paying cash therefor, or buying same
on time upon such terms as the
Board of Directors may agree upon.
4th. Petitioners ask the right to
borrow money, issue notes and other
evidence of indebtedness therefor,
and to secure the payment of said
borrowed money by any form of se
curity agreed upon by its creditors;
to have and to use a common seal; to
sue and be sued by its proper name;
to buy or lease for cash or on time
any real estate necessary for use for
the purpose of this incorporation; to
make bylaws and do all things and
acts necessary or incident to the car
rying out of the purposes of this in
corporation, and generally to have all
the powers in addition to the above
as are given by the constitution and
laws of the State of Georgia.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to be
made a body corporate and politic un
der the name and style aforesaid,
with all the rights herein prayed for,
and entitled to the rights, privileges
j HIGH CLASS SECURITIES I
|| Amcsr others, we mention a small block of stock in one of the largest and most conserva- I
1 tive banking institutions in the >*outh, which will increase $50.00 per share in the next year. B
3 This is of interest to large or small investors and will be on the market but a short time. You •
wi 1 find this a genuine bartrain. Call or write
H CHAS. E. THOMPSON, Stocks and Bonds, 204 Equitable Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
Berckmans' Trees
NONE BETTER
We offer an immense stock of
Fruit and Shade Trees, Evergreen
and Deciduous Shrubs, Conifers,
Roses, Palms, etc.
Our stock is free from disease or insects.
Special Department for Landscape Work
We are prepared to make surveys and plans for
residential grounds, parks, cemeteries, mill and sub
urban villages. Consult us and our experts will help
you. Catalogue on application
P. J. Berckmans Co. inc.
FRUITLAND NURSERIES
Drawer 1070 AUGUSTA, GA.
Established 1856. We do not sell through agents.
and immunities, subject to the restric
tions, affixed bv law.
GREEN & WATSON,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
Filed in office this October 22,
1907.
STATE OF GEORGIA—County of
Fulton.
I, Arnold Broyles, Clerk of the
Superior Court of said county, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is
a true and correct copy of the appli
cation for charter of “Jeffersonian
Publishing C 0.,” as the same appeals
of file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of said Court this October
22, 1907.
ARNOLD BROYLES,
Clerk Superior Court Fulton County,
Georgia.
WAKEFIELD Poultry Yards has a few
more Barred Plymouth Rock and
White Wyandotte cockerels for sale at
$1.50. Send in your order now so yon
can get eggs early In the season. My
barred Rocks are almost perfect In
color. All orders filled from now until
February 1 at $1 for 13; after then
$1.50. Order now, will ship when you
want them. W. A. LILES, Prop., Wake
field, N. C. 3me
If there is a moral in the Fair
banks case, it is that no man should
be after the Presidency and a church
office at the same time.
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