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VOLUME I.
THE PUBLIC ROADS.
“W’s” Able Disquisition on
this Important Question.
TARIFF REFORM DOCTRINE.
The Great Sugar Ti-nst-Siomc
Paragiuplis of S^assiag
invents.
It is about time for a continuation of my
former article which appeared in The
Journal two weeks ago, and this will
probably be a conclusion on that, line. The
public roads of the county and the very
dsfective system of working them ought to
engage the attention of every citizen; and
it is certainly in order, it it ever was or
ever will be, for suggesting and caarving
into effect different and better methods for
putting in order and keeping in good con¬
dition the roads. All will readily admit
the truth of the foregoing, and admit
further that there is a remedy for the evil
—that it can bo removed, and that the ad¬
ditional expense which would necessarily
attend the introduction of a new system
would be comparatively light and would
not last longer than two or three years
No reasonable person can expect first-class
ways of travel unless there were some
different plan to that in operation in our
county for working and keeping up these
Those who have this thing in
charge arc not by any means culpable; for
these parties do remarkably well consider¬
ing the many difficulties with which they
have to contend iu performing their sever¬
al duties under the law which governs road
working in this county. The roads of a
number of Counties in Georgia are Worked
with convict labor ; and, for the most part.
reads in those counties are in good fix.
Crawford’s people are taxed for the trial
and conviction by the courts of those who
violate the laws of the State within her
- bounds. This is proper; but. inst*ad of
these criminals being sent from the County
and placed upon public works, or chain
gangs, in other counties, it appears that
they could he advantageously worked on
Crawford county roads. In this way our
citizens would derive some benefit from the
tax imposed upon them for the purpoie
of. enforcing laws against crime.
This, iu itself, would not bo sufficient for
keeping the roads in such condition as they
ought to he : but it could be supplemented
by a road tax, and in this way the roads
throughout the county couM soon be put
and kept in tine condition.
This kind of system would be a groat
improvement on the old plan which has
been tried sufficiently to convince every
body.that it is seriously defective in its
every feature, is the principal cause of bad
roads and should, as soon as practicable,
he displaced by the introduction of a now
and better system. Some rnay be in doubt
as to the right of a county to levy a tax
for this purpose. If any of our people are
troubled with such a doubt, they can ho
relieved olit by reading the second para¬
graph of the sixth section of our State Con¬
stitution, which provides that the General
Assembly of Iho State shall have the pow¬
er to delegate to any county the right to
levy a road tax. By a proper and judi
exercise of this right the burden of working
public, roads can he eo adjusted that every
one who is subject to road duty will have
to bear his just and equitable part of this
burden and not- be forced to do any thing
more than that. The writer deems all of
the suggestions that aro herein contained
as timely, and thinks that they carry
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA., MARCH 2, 1S8H
with them sufficient merit to influence
some kind of action on the part of the cit¬
izens of the county, every one of whom is
directly interested, whether he feels any
interest or not, in her future welfare.
The time has arrived when Crawford
County money ought to be expended in
Crawford county ; when there should he
uuited effort to establish a home market
for her products; when overy orio should
labor earnestly for the introduction of new
enterprises and for the success of all com
industries. A number of young men, who
have proved themselves to be men of busi¬
ness and such men as our county cannot
well afford to lose, have been forced to
leave home in search of employment This,
with other things that might be mentioned
and which are equally as hurtful, ought
not to be, and it behooves our people to
pull for a change.
Here is the question, and these hints are
left with you; Wouldn’t it be much bet.
ter for us to build-up and maintain first
class schools, to lostir new industries, to
work for the establisntnaut a of market in
the county town of our county until wo
get it, and for the promotion, in general,
of Crawford’s every interest, than to eon
linoc in the old way and let our county
s uffer- from our negligence? There is woj;k
for all and no time tor idleness. \V
A E* o «s £ r l'tt ri ll” IS e ft rni •
A tariff is a tax, and the purpose Of
a tax is to raise money for the support of
government- Anything move than enough
to support, improve and protect is unnec¬
essary and not in accord with the spirit
and intention of the constitution of the
United States. To extort more, money
from the people than is necessary for the
support of government is robbery, The
huge surplus in the treasury, despite the
extravagant use of millions annually, is
proof of itself that the government is rob¬
bing the people- Under the outrageous
protection laws the farmers are made to
pay tribute to the manufacturers of the
country.' Tliisisp'aln truth. The gov
ernmeut has placed such a heavy tax upon
all foreign goods brought to this country
that the factory men of the United States
are enabled to sell their goods at prices to
suit themselves, ami the farmers, being the
consumers of seven-eights of the products,
are obliged to pay the manufacturers of
this country what the goods are worth and
the per cent besides which would be exact¬
ed as tax if the goods came from another
The government has no move right to ex¬
act protection taws for one class- of indus
f ries against another than it has to take
one man’s private property and give it to
another. We believe in protection that pro
oot i the people, but not in discriminative
laws that foster monopoly in certain indus
tres to the detriment of other industries.
National laws that militate against the
agricultural interests of a people area curse.
'& FUSES,
A “trust,” so-called, of which ew hear
so much of late, is nothing more nor less
than a giant monopoly, grasping, irrespon¬ One
sible and ruinous to the country. of
the most dangerous of those with is the recently
announced “Sugar Trust," a capital
of $00,000,000, which has already secured
the control of nearly all of the important
refineries, and will soon have absolute con¬
trol of the entire business in the United
States. It will not only bankrupt of the
sugar planter by dictating the price his
crop, but will extort millions from the con¬
sumer. To independent American citizens
these rapacious monopolies will soon be¬
come unendurable ; and, unless Congress
provide^ speedy and effective relief, there
is going to he an upheaval ot political par¬
ties iu this country,—McDuffie Journal
SANDY FT. AND CERES
The Farming interest in Dif¬
ferent Parts.
AFFAIRS IN VARIOUS TOWNS.
Stilling- 841 ISabbits on a Blunt
—3I»\ John AsidrcAVS
iftad.
SautEy Point Siftings.
BY DAVE.
The freeze has done considerable damage
to the oat crop. Assume of the farmers
had planted their corn crops before the
freeze, they will have the pleasure (?) of
planting again.
The school is still making rapid tndes
upward. There arc 45 pupils now iu at¬
tendance.
Mr. Kingman Lowe spent last Sunday
with the family- of Mrs. L. V. Lowmau.
Air. vVili Ellis, formerly of this place,
but now of near Holton, is spending sev¬
eral days with relatives. Will has many
warm friends at this place who hope to
see him make a success of farming.
Mrs. J. N. Hums, an estimable lady-,
died on the 25th inst., and was buried at
Salem church last Sunday. The funeral
services were conducted by the Rev. I.
Grant.
Eddie Causey, son of Mr. S. H. Causey,
is rfliite sick. We hope to see him well
soon.
Why don’t everybody subscribe for the
Knoxville Journal? It is one of the
best papers published It is young, but
did you ever see anything grow like it ?
Every paper is better than the last. It
helps you, then why don’t you help it by
sen ding in the dollar ? We would rather
do without our supper any time than miss
getting The Journal.
Items E-’s-om Ceres.
BY WATCWXAX.
The farm wagons of this section carry
an odor with them which guano alone can
give.
Mr. .T. Webb went ont hunting one (lay
la3t week and killed twenty-four rabbits.
Some of our hoys have been staying at
home very close this year—waiting for
“loop-year calls” I guess. Now hoys if
you tiy it much longer, you will find out
that one of the three things the old qusker
woman wandered at'is not true;
Ooe of the young men of your town paid
our ville a visit last Friday on (courting)
business.
The oat crop of this section is very
promising.
The boys of our neighbor town don’t
give the girls any chance, they make culls
every night and write six notes daily.
We have a man in our neighborhood
who seldom read a paper, the same man
was among the first to subscribe for the
Journal and reads it regularly.
Mr. J. B. Jackson, after a long stiy
with relatives and friends of this county,
left Monday for his homo in Hernando
county Florida;
The health of this neighborhood is dis¬
tressingly good at present. Our doctor
has time to chop wood for his mama and
work the garden.
Mrs. G. E. Harrison and family arrived
in our ville Sunday. They have lived in
the State of Louisiana for six years, but
will make Crawford their future home.
Of all the good select the host. Crawford’s
good health—fertile lands of the West.
One of the young men of onr neighbor-
NUMBER 6.
hood (who is pushed up tor time) ivants to
know if he could go to school on Sunday
where'there would be but one pupil. The
reply from a school mistress was: “You*
can go to Sunday school!and'prayer meet
ing.
Ileg. J. A. Jackson and his daughter,
Miss Liliie Jackson were in our town,
Monday, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M,
J, Moore.
One of onr citizens went nut to survey
tiie angry clouds Sunday night, and while
so doing thought—where could I carry my
cavcass to bo safe from this cyclone.
«• B’». U-tler..
Ceres, Ga., Feb. 28.
mr. ewtor :—Please allow me a little
smco in your paper. I have seen a copy
of The Journal, and’ am glad to know
that Knoxville is on enough of a boom to
have a printing office. I am proud for
Crawford county, as it is my- old home.
I am thirty-nine years old, and have
spent most of my days at farming, and r
think that if is a fine occupation when a
farmer raises his own meat, wheat, corn,
oafs, syrup, etc., and that kind of a farmer
is most always out of.debt.
Small grain crops are looking well now,
and I think there are more planted than
usual. Mr. Milton Moore has planted tl:e
whole of the Ray place in oats, and they
are coming up and looking we!i. Farmers
have been busy preparing to plant corn,,
but the rains have stopped them For a»
while.
Mr. John Andrews, an aged citizen of
Meriwether county, died last w^elc and
was brought here to his old residence for
burial. Ga H. B,
The old Indian silver mine has been*
found in Fannin county. Watts, Sher¬
wood & Ware have leased it. The land
belongs to Pinckney Davis-, and it is sup.*
posed, judging from the tests made, to be
very valuable.
The paper mill at Athens made a sheet
of paper last week that was 5 feet wide
and 6 miles long without a break in it.
Covington,, with 2,000- inhabitants, is,
like Perry, without a Hebrew resident.
Several counterfeit jollars and hull dol
lirs have been found iu circulation at
Griffin.
Col. Jonathan Norcross will attempt to*
get the Comity Commissioners to appro—
priate .$ 200.000 for Fulton county in aid*
of the Atlanta and-Selma railroad.
The City Council of Milledguville has ;
passed a dog law, compelling owners of'
dogs not only to get out a badge by paying
into the treasury $2 for it, hut also to
muzzle the dogs to prevent them from
biting people.
Mr. and Mrs. lYilliam Withcrington,.
husband and wife, near Naylor, iu
Lowndes comity, died last Sunday. Their
son, John Witherington, 21. years old, died
on Thursday last, and Mrs. Santerfeit„
their daughter, is not expected to live, and’
two of the younger children are lying quite
ill. They were all sick with the fever of
the same type, and it was doubtless from
some local cause.
-J. R. Van Buren, of Griswold ville, ha^;
the contract to furnish all th - cross-ties for
the Covington and Macon road, the entire
from Macon-to Athens. All the cross
needed to complete the road to Madi¬
son will be cut on the lands of Mr. Van
Buren, and he has 100 able-bodied hands',
at work, who cut as rapidly as the;
construction force cun lay tho ties.
