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THE CLARKE COUNTY COURIER.
VOLUME IV—NUMBER 48.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 26, 1004.
PRICE 60 CENTS A YEAR
Dispensary Commissioners
Eagerness For Election.
The Great Octopus Seems to Fasten Its
Tenacles Around All The People.
There has. always been some*
thing strange to ns wbat it is that
men of business refuge to make
the race for aldermen from the
eity, because they have not time
to spare from their bnsiness, the
salary outting no figure of course,
yst men have made this excuse
and have refused to make the
race.
Now there is another institution
in our town known as the Athens
Dispensary, and the act calls for
dispensary commissioners at a
salary of 0250 a year, and there
is always a scramble for the place,
Elections are lined up in a muni
cipal way, and the parties line up
and the fiercest kind of contests
arc waged, and other interests of
the city laid in background be
cause of a dispensary commis
sioner to be displaced or re-elec
ted.
Bad pieces are printed about
the institution and figures are
produoed, and while direot asser
tions are not made of graft, yet
there is rumblings in the rear of
mismanagementandl all that kind
of thing, ‘yet no one haa had the
backbone to oome up boldly and
demand an investigation. We do
not know whether it is baokbone
or whether it is a desire to
in the swim,” that causes all this
disruption and strife, and has put
the people against eaeh other, but
we do know that that is the case.
We have never been a dis
pensary commissioner, and
by your mother-in-laws red
stockings, we never want to be
one, and we do not see why any
one else should want it. We have
always believed that a man who
sold liquor could never live long
enough to make restitution for
misery and woe, and heartaches
4nd murders that are committed
from his sale, and while the com
missioners are not directly en
gaged in the traffio, at the same
time they see to it that it is sold.
But we ask again. Why is be
ing a dispensary commissioner so
eagerly sought for? Why are cer
tain aldermen petroling the town,
seeing men and trying to get per
sonal friends of oertain aldermen
to apeak a good word for them.
Are they so very anxious that
their friend should receive the
prinoely salary ot 0260 a year?
Is it because they are poor and
need the money to support their
families? Is there honor in it?
No. Well, holy smokes I what do
they want with it?
A little bird whispers in our ear
that there are other things that a
dispensary commissioner can ao-
complish if he wants to. Why, if
there are enough of them to vote
it, they oan turn off the present
broker and buy the beer and
liquor from eome other man or
some other house, or it is possible
that rebates might be given, whioh
would be aooeptable, and a com.
miasioner could make considera
ble money during the year in this
way, but we desire to frankly say
that we do not for a moment be
lieve that any of the present oom‘
Municipal Election.
We desire to say here that as
the municipal election is on its
way, and as great strides will be
made for each party it is earnestly
to be hoped that the old thing of
using whiskey for months before
hand, and sending men home to
their wives and children drunk
should not be tolerated by our
people. We not only do not be
lieve that the better people should
not support this clan, but they
should be ostraoiBed and kept
down if suoh a thing happens. It
is bad enough to selloheap liquor,
but to keep men continually
drunk is too great a sin to be
countenanced, and we believe that
it will be watched with a jealous
eye this year, and the man that
does it will have to ‘‘walk the
plank” of not only political de
feat but moral ostraoiam. The
people will see to it that the facts
are made public. Humanity de
mands it, the women who suffer
demand it; the children who oiy
for bread demand, it, and we be
lieve there are enough true-blue
men in Athens to listen to their
cry, and stand up against it.
Acknowledgements have been
made in elections that whiskey
was used, and eaoh side tried to
shield itself by saying the other
side used more than they did, but
that don’t settle the matter.
Men were made drunk, all the
tame, and women and children
suffered, and as truly as the good
women have alligued themselves
against the desecration of the
Sabbath, so alto will they be
found in battle array against the
wanton desecration of homes. A
olub should be formed at once to
see that this thing is stopped.
missioners or those offering are
or will be guilty of such conduct,
yet the way is open, and it might
at some future day happen.
We believe and always have be
lieved that the sale of whiskey in
a dispensary or bar-room, never
tended to make those connected
with it better, and brother, as
you and I are engaged in the sale
much as any one else we had
better look out.
But we do say again that the
dispensary should not be made
paramunt to the other interests of
the city. We have no axe to
grind m this matter, for to far at
we are concerned we have fought
it with all our might and try to
make that restitution that will
be necessary before we can ever
enter the Golden Gate. We con
cede that it it the worst form of
whiskey telling; that it causes
murders and suioides, and woe
and heartaohea and strife, and
what the oity gets is its streets
paved with blood and its homes
deseorated, its young men turned
into drunkards and its ehuroh in
stitutions are endorser and con
sequently have lost thsir power.
There'it no denying this fact.
Yet the people are blinded by the
glare of gold.
Compulsory Education
Is Needed In Georgia.
The Only Means of Carrying Out the Full
Interest of the Legislature.
Now that the good state of Ge<it-
gia has taken such strides in an
educational way, voting its mon
ey to give her children knowledge,
she should force these tame child
ren to accept it. It is well known
that over the state there are child
ren who do not attend school, yet
it is offered to them without mom
ey or without price, but the greedy
and grasping parent refuses to
send them, because he or she
wants the small pittance that they
can make to help keep them in
pants to wear out the seat of whioh
upon the banks of the river.
And should you adopt the com
pulsory clause, you would hear
some of them say, “The state has
no right to sav wbat I shall do
nourish and support and and keep
them forever tugging at hewers of
wiod and drawers of water, with
their minds beclouded all the days
of their life, because you were too
infernally lazy to support them.
The state ought to put you on the
rock pile, if you raise objection,
and pay you enough to keep the
child and the balance of the fami
ly-
We-are sure that it would be a
“ten-strike” if Capt. J. H. Ruck
er, our present efficient legislator,
would introduce and have passed,
as we really be]ieve lie can, a bill
of this kind. It would be a God
send to some of the unfortunate
ohildren of our state who will
never get it until it is doue.
While we were in New York state
with my child?” Yes it will have, wo saw bow admirably this system
you old worm of the earth. You’ve j worked by comiDg in contact with
no rightto dwarf the mind ofjno illiterate children, becausethey
those whom God has given you to I were forced to learn.
Should The Negro
Race Be Educated?
Is That Not a Means of Causing More
Crime and Inactivity?
Rural Constabulary.
A Narrow Escape
From a Fearful Death.
On last Saturday evening, a
little boy. of Mjt. jk. W. Vess was
out in the lot, wKen suddenly the
cow made a dive. at him, and one
of the horns struck the little fel
low in the abdomen, but glanced
and caught in the heavy waist
near the shoulder, and the little
fellow was thrown several feet in
the air.
Mrs. Voss was near, and as the
cow made a second lunge at her
she rushed between thorn,
and was knocked down by the cow.
Mr. Vest fortunately was near,
ijpAJieat the oqw off before any
o.-e damage was done.
It was fortnDate that the little
llow bad on a heavy waist, for
k it bad been otherwise, the cow’s
horn would have pierced him
through the abdomen and serious
results might have followed. We
are glad to note that all came out
with only a few scratches and
bruises.
Athens People Robbed
In The Central City.
Mrs. F. M. David, of this city,
while on a visit to friends iu Ma
con, was the victim of a robber on
last Friday night. She was at
the home of John McKinnon, and
while her little baby was quite
sick, she was up the most of the
night, and must have fallen
asleep when some ono opened the
window to her room, slipped in
and secured her cbatalaiu, in
which was a watch and tome other
aluable and about 010 in money.
The chatalain was found outside
next morning and the watch aud
The Courier does uot wish to
offend any one, but tome of the
publio vehicles of this oity are a
disgrace to it. We are sure that
an ordinance should be adopted
by our counoil refuting liceuse to
men unless the vehicle comes up
to a certain staudard. They are
awful looking things, and tuueral
processions in this town are often
commented upon by the dilapida
ted old rigs that might have been
good in the time of Noah’s ark.
Our attention has been called to
this numbers of times aud we
hope oounoil will take action.
Athene has beautified her streets
and outward appearance and over
come being a small town, and it
Is high time the wet taking strides
in a different direction to the bet
terment of other things like the
above.
other valuables secured, hut the
money was gone. On the same
night the home of Mr. John
S. Mitchell, formerly of this eity
was entered and 480 in money
stolen from him. Other houses
on that street were entered through
the blinds and the total amount
stolen was something like
4S0. The robbers have not been
caught, that we have heard of.
It behooves all the people to look
well to their blinds, as we know
not at what time a thief is lurking
around.
The Sunday Law
There is one of two things thst
should be done- -stores should be
allowed to be kept open or they
should not, and if the law says
they should not and the tiat has
gone forth, then the man that
transgresses it should be dealt
with severely. We hear of drinks
and other things being told on
the sly. We do not know of the
truth of it, but the officers should
keep a strict watch and if auy
“one-eyed tigers” are found they
should be brought to justice. We
make this statement in justice to
those of our citizens who abide by
the law, and it it uot right that,
the others should transgress it on
the sly.
Prettiest and cheapest line of
Wall Paper—largest stock at Jno.
L. Arnold’s.
The time is now ripe when the
state of Georgia should require
her counties to maintain a thor
ough system of constabulary.
The rnral districts are l>eing
rapidly populated, and as they
have absolutely no protection
now, it is high time that it was
done. Crimes of the most horrid
nature are being committed all
over the country. People are
murdered, women and girls are
ravished, the red-handed assassin
is on every hand, and these vile
devils, who are afraid to carry on
their nefarious deeds to any great
extent in cities, take the rural
districts, where they know there
it no protection, to accomplish
their hell-born work. In cities
police patrol beats and scouts are
out at all times of night in various
parts of town, and this fact is
knowu, which holds in check the
work of the would be marauders without prejudice and with all the
because taey don’t, kne*-- at what> fairness and conservatism ot jus-
minute a' policeman wfll be upon t.iue and- humanity, is it best for
In view of the outrages and
crime that is now daily aud al-
moet hourly being committed by
negroes throughout the country,
the problem is squarely up to the
white race, as to whether or not
it is best for the negro that he be
educated or whether or uot they
should aid in this line? Educa
tion is intended for advancement
to a higher order of civilization,
and the better and more useful
citizenship of the beneficiaries
thereof. When these ends fail to
be subserved then is education an
evil and by no means a benefit.
No sane person will deny this
proposition that so long as the
negro sojourns amongst the white,
or anglo-saxon race he must oc
cupy a menial or subordinate po
sition. When he assumes to more
than this. then, as a most natural
aud inevitable consequence, there
is a conflict and trouble of more
or less seriousness.
In the face of these undisptuta-
ble facts, let us now inquire,
them, but in the country it
different. The scream of a wo
man, or the appeal of a child for
honor and life, only causes an
echo, while the devilish fiend goes
on with his work.
We hear say that one of the
best things that Clarke county
could do, would be to establish a
county police force, who should
patrol just like they do in a eity,
and the mere knowledge of there
being such officers would save
many a life, aud many a woman's
honor. It will cost money, to be
sure it will, but what difference
does that make. In a short while
the county’s share of the dispen
sary profits would nearly pay the
wages, and our opinion is that the
dispensary will really be the
breeder of this kind of crime. We
hope our commissioners will see
if something along this line can
not be accomplished.
Dr. R. C. Orr, at John L.
Arnold's, will fill your pre
scriptions accurately and prompt
ly. Nothing but pure drugs.
Your patronage solicited.
The Bad Bridges,
We had occasion to call atten
tion to the bridges a few weeks
ago. Since that time the chief of
the fire department ran into some
defects in the Oconee street bridge
and was thrown from hit buggy,
while his horse was precipitated
forward. It is said that the plants
in the floor of this bridge should
be repaired, as they are loose and
shrunkeu aud otherwise iu a fear
ful condition. We hepe the city
will look into this, as they will
proceed to furnish a nice walk
across the bridge at no distant
day.
The llnggins China House car
ries the best stock of Crockery,
Glassware, Lamps, Tinware, Eu-
amelwaro, Knives and Forks,
Spoons and Housefuruishings in
Athens. Call and tee us.
the negro that he be made dis
satisfied with his natural and in
evitable condition by an attemp
ted education, aud consequently
an iusubordiuate and disquieting
element so long as his citizenship
is with the superior race.
Freedom with the negroes
means an immunity from labor,
which false idea iscrystalized into
an actuality whensoever they be
come educated within the limits
of their capacity or advantages.
Thus as idlers they become evil
doers aud an ineumbus to society.
The criminal statistics of the
country where the negroes most
largely abound, show that they
furnish the largest percentage of
our law-breakers, and out of this
percentage the largest number are
negroes who have had the advan
tage of au education.
Such a showing as this together
with the daily increasing crime
and outrage on the part of our
uegro population, whereby they
show no appreciation of, or bene
fit from, the efforts which have
been made in their behalf, should
cause our people to call a halt, iu
those educational endeavors which
are not appreciated, which arc
questionable from a human stand
point of view, and which seem to
have produced more of crime and
lawlessness, than peace aud good
order in society, so far as the ne
groes are concerned.
If the negroes must be educated,
then let them be separated from
the white race, and put to them
selves where they will not come
into unsuccessful competition and
damaging conflict with a superior
race.
For Sale.
I have some fiue building lota
close in which l desire to sell.
Some on Washington and some
on Thomas streets tnd in other
parts of the oity.
The lots can be either utilised
for business blocks or residence
lots. See me at once for bargains.
JOHN BIRD.