The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-01-26


Importance, when in point of fact, to
the world, they are non-entities. Met
aphorically speaking, until your cor
respondent spoke through the Journal
was unaware that he was in the leg
islature.
So much for the pension question.
As have shown, the Oracles have
spoken and have declared that the
newspaper view of the subject is the
correct one. OF course this settles the
matter. but if the controversy were
still open, if the solemn edict, cit will
come up at the next session, and l have
no doubt but what it will pass" had
not gone forth, it looks as though the
poor old soldier with one arm or one
leg or partially blind ETC., might still
be allowed to draw his. pension, though
not incapacitated for work nor entirely
INDECENT, the pension being graded to
the degree of his infirmity and his pow
erty.
Again, the Pundit declares in regard
to the Australian or secret ballot, "As
long as we can carry old Georgia dem
ocratic by 10000 majority, 1 am very
well satisfied with the present system,
anyway, and it will have to be mighty
good law if vote for any change"
What fools, then, in the face of the in
evitable fate that awaits this measure,
are the newspapers and people of our
state for insisting on purity of political
methods cease your clamor, brethren,
for the Double Distilled Concentrated
Extract of the legislature has declared
that he is satisfied with the present
system; ergo, there will be no change.
When / was school boy, I was taught
that a republican form of government
is founded upon the theory that the
will of the people fairly and freely ex-
pressed is the source of all power and
authority but it seems that the Con-
centrated Extract, in his wisdom, has
reversed the old idea and substituted
another in its stead: 1t matters not
what the majority of the people desire
so long as the result of a popular ex-
preston can be obtained favorably to
"my" side. For my part rather than
see the Democratic or any other party
retained in power by fraud and cor
ruption, l would prefer that it
xynV se,la kn al Al.
the secret ballot, the G. E. might not
now be in the legislature.
Again, Il favored a reduction of
100000 flor the public school fund for
the following two years; and led the
fight to that effect in the committee
room, and succeeded. 1 led it again on
its passage in the House, and am sorry
to say it was only reduced to $4,000
annually" Note, please, the depre-
catory expression in regard to the un-
expected partial failure of the measure
advocated by him before the whole
house, as though seeming to imply
that the mere fact of his having favor
ed it should have insured its complete
success. How particular he is to tell us
that HE led and HE succeeded, when he
is supposedly the champion of the Of
ficial acts of the legislature. I have
no idea that the leader of the Greeks
at Thermopylae, of the Six Hundred at
Balaklava, or of Picket's Brigade at
Gettysburg, displayed one half the
brilliancy and adroitness manifested by
our magnificent Leader on the ocea
sion to which he refers He was par
| TALLY successful but at what cost
to the poor people of the state, who,
battling to supply their children with
the bare necessities of life, have no
means with which to administer to
their mental wants; how hard it is
to behold human beings thrown
out upon the world unprepared
for the struggle for existence" com
| PEELED to earn precarious livelihood by
the sweat of their brows like dumb
brutes, instead of with their God-given
intellects. For, 1 believe, that with a
large proportion of the children of
| Georgia unless an education is provid-
ed them by the state, it never will be
obtained at at all. If in the future
some ragged, dirty and forlorn laborer
so kept by ignorance, should look up
from his pick and shovel and see our
Magnificent Leader pass, 1 am sure he
would not say, MY child, follow in his
footsteps"
Let us examine some of the reasons
assigned by the M. l.. for opposing a
liberal appropriation for the public
schools. Cd he objects to it because
"a lot of negro vagabonds that pay no
tax" would receive some of the benefit
of it, and says that the percentage of
illiteracy in the colored race has de-
creased in the last few years, twice as
much as it has in the white race. -
Hence we should cut off our noses to