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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22
LOCAL NEWS.

Look up the bargains in our advertis-
ing columns before you come to town.
9 packages of Arbuckles coffee for
$1.ooat J. A. Lipsy's.
Mr.. D. G. Avery, of Smithville was N
Leesburg Thursday,
Plain and striped linen finish cham
brays. all colors at ]. A. Lipsy's
Mr.. D. W, Green of chokee, was in
town Thursday.
Green coffee at L. A. Odom's Ioc per
pound.
c. H. Beasley has been on the sick list
this week.
Satisfaction guaranteed in every re-
spect on purchases made at L. A. Odom's
See j. A. Lipsy's piques, lawns, check
ed muslins and IDENTITIES.
Mr.. D. E, Powell went to Albany
Wednesday.
For all kinds Of hardware you viii
find it at J. A. Lipsy's.
Mrs. F. M. Mines and daughter WIS.,
tied Albany Thursday
IS pounds of granulated sugar at L. A.
Odom's for $Ioo
MI. J. A. Hill, of Smithville, was in
Leesburg Thursday,
IS pounds of graduated sugar for s., 90
at J. A. Lipsy's.
Leesburg is very much in need Of a
bank. Let's have one.
rs pounds ricefor $780, green coffee
&C per pound, ]. A. Lipsy.
A merchant who advertises generally
has something worth buying
If you want taylor made pants, go to
L. A. Odom.
DR.. Logan Thomas of Armenia, was
in town on business Wednesday
have them.
J. A. Lipsy
~ =. :,
in town "Wednesday shaking hands with
his friends.
Try package OF W1lburs stock food
Llpsy'
Mrs. c. F. Putnam left last Wednes-
dav for New Orleans where che aoas -
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22

The election for the state officers was
quietly pulled off here Wednesday, We
predict a much livelier time for the coun-
ty election next August
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-22

Call on me for Fire Insurance, I can
place You in the very best company's
and give you the protection You need
S. J. Powell.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
OWATONNA'S SHAME.

AS we anticipated, the Nelson boys,
sentenced to hang this month for the
murder of Krier, the Owatonna sa-
loonkeeper for whom they worked, Sc
cured a Communication of their sentence
to Imprisonment for life and are now
in the penitentiary. Sutton, their &C
complete, who turned states evidence
and had entered upon life sentence
at Saltwater, has died during the
month. Mentally weak, he had run
down from the beginning of his incar-
ceration, doubtless under the weight
of his crime and treachery. He was
only seventeen years of age and the
Nelson brothers lack two and four
years of having reached their major
ity. So ends the first chapter of the
history of this dastardly crime, more
full of shame to Owatonna, to Mime
sofa and to the United States than to
those who are suffering it's penalty.
When County Attorney Littleton
opposed, before the Board of Par
dons, the communication of the sentence,
Chief Justice Start Of the Supreme
Court, a member of the Board, said,
Hanging boys for murder does not
stop other boys from committing MUIR
der. Would it not be better to stop
the dens where their feet are first
turned toward hell from keeping open
in consideration of the miserable
monthly stipend called fine? Would
it not be infinitely better and cheaper
to look after our boys and safeguard
them than wait until they have be-
come criminals and then hang them?"
Did not the Chief Justice know that
our beneficent CD liquor law prohib-
it's the sale of liquor to minors? In
deed he did. How then could he
criticise the state for not safeguard
ing our boys from the legalized pit
falls which throng their pathway?
Only on the hypothesis that this law
is Systematically violated. This is
perfectly safe assumption. It is
more; it is a matter of common
knowledge. The liquor traffic is every
where and always law-breaker.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
Brief and Brainy.

There is no greater failure than the
success Of wrong.-R. R. KEENAN,.
You may not like Mrs. Nations hatch
ct; so put a sharp edge on your ballots
E. L Hyde
It is worth a life effort to lift man
from degradation, but to prevent his fall
is far better.-John B. Cough.
Every church member who does not
vote that the saloon must go, votes that
the saloon must stage. N. Howard.
Where there is so much to be done,
there must be something for me to do
Elizabeth Fry, the Quaker philanthropist.
The governments attitude in the ma
ton, state or municipality is determined
by the ballots of the citizens.-W. G.
Calderwood
Upon the churches of America rests the
responsibility to drive the saloon from the
land.-National convention of the Anti
Saloon League, 1903.
ALI moderate drinkers may not become
drunkards, but every drunkard began as
a moderate drinker.-Rev J. J. Lawler
Cathedral parish, st. Paul.
If can't pray "Thy kingdom come"
without voting as if I were praying to the
devil, I'll stop praying altogether until
I can be true.-R. r. KEENAN,.
In a republic where the law provides
for the perpetuation of the liquor traffic
by license, not to vote against it is to con-
sent to it-Chillicothe CO., Presbytery.
The chief law breaker of our land is
the saloon. The people are beginning to
realize it. When they do to the fullest
extent, the saloon dies.-H. A. Larson.
Waupaca, Wis.
The college work is progressing far bet
ter than ever before. The same amount
Of work shows far better reSultS.-Harry
S. Warner, general secretary Intercolle
giate Prohibition Association.
There are no decent saloons! The more
decent saloon is, the more indecent it
is; the better the fixtures, the worse it
is; the more elegant, the more damnable.
DR.. w. A. Quayle.
The principle of prohibition seems to
me to be the only safe and certain rem
edy for the evils of intemperance This
opinion has been strengthened and con-
firmed by the hard labor of more thap
twenty years in the temperance cause
Father Mathew.
The greed for gain more than the ap-
petite for drink is responsible for the
continuation of the business. The open
barroom fosters the social habit of treat
ing; this creates appetite, increases the
demand for drinks and multiplies the evils
Of intemperance.-Rev.W A. Vrooman.
What we want is men and women who,
for the love of home and country, will
enter the struggle to win, and after care
fully studying the plan of action, draw
the sword and throw away the scabbard,
determined only to cease the struggle
when victory comes to bless our homes
and country.-John B. Finch.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
DOLLARS OR MEN?

eve must have the license money"
Are you impressed with the weight
of this reason(?) why you should vote
for license? This issue of Backbone
is packed with facts and figures which
show conclusively that license puts
not a dollar into the pockets of tax
payers, nor into the tills of merchants,
nor, in any proper sense, into the
village or city treasury but robs all
these, lives upon them, sucks their
life blood.
So we do not care to argue that
phase of the issue just now. We
rather appeal to your love of your
fellowmen, to your chivalry to women
to your sense of justice to children,
to your patriotism. Do you not think
the time has come to put away the
saloon forever? Even if you still
think it contributes something to the
public welfare, does not the infinitely
greater evil wrought by it demand
that it shall cease to be? Shall not
the lives and characters and prosper
ity and peace and happiness Of our
fellowmen outweigh gold and silver?
Shall we not cease to put our white
brother-and sister-upon the auction
block and knock them off to the high
est bidder?
It is clear that our nation is stead
lily moving toward that better day.
In the years to come what shall be
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
er whose taxes amount to many times
this and who is the chief beneficiary
of saloon license, chuckles on.
MAKE A STAND,

"But the law cannot be enforced"
Why not? It has been enforced as
faithfully as other laws in thousands
of communities and they have gradu-
ally but certainly stamped out the
whole business. The fact that every
saloonist big and little opposes the
law, proves it's success even though
not always perfectly enforced. The
law is necessary and just. It only
needs to be backed by righteous
public sentiment and be placed in the
hands of officials who respect their
oaths of office. The difficulty of en-
forcing law for either the restraint or
the abolition of the liquor traffic re-
veals it's character and shows the i'm
perative need of destroying it. This
may not be done in day. But be-
ginning should be made. The first
thing for a right-thinking voter to do
is to throw his influence and vote
against it.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
Tit for Tat.

1t is conservatively estimated that
over 80 per cent of the so-called whis-
ky on the market to-day is fraudulent
Barrels and Bottles.
And this is the pure" genuine"
product we read so much about in
the advertising columns of the press!
The whole business is a deception
and a fraud and whatsoever is de-
ceived thereby"-either by the drink
or by the specious arguments ad-
vanced in defense of the profitable
ness of licensing it's sale-"is not
WISE"
The Marshall city council will I'M
doubtedly issue a license to Charlie
Snapp.-Both Sides.
It will be snap for Charlie,
certainly to receive from a city of
Marshall's character certificate of
piety and even to be able to induce
that municipality to go into partner
ship with him in his work of robbing
the purse and destroying the souls
and bodies of it's citizens. Probably
Marshall considers it snap to get
Charles $500. If peanut stand
were run on such business principles,
it would go to shucks.
Any man at all familiar with police
and detective work laughs to scorn
the pretense that any administration
cannot stop public gambling instantly
and forever, whenever it pleases to do
so.-St Paul Globe.
It ought to be just as clear that the
people can stamp out both the legal
lied saloon and the blind pig when
ever they get ready to do so. The
saloon is herein your community
and in these great cities-because
"my people love to have it So" or
at least because they do not abhor it
sufficiently to be willing to pay the
price of it's determination.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
THE BEST is NONE TOO GOOD

A little bird whispered into our ear
that State Chairman Higgins made
several big speeches at the Chicago
Conference of state chairmen and Sec
retaries. That will surprise no one
who knows him. His great efforts,
however, are not of the spread-eagle
order. Rather, he doesn't make any
effort. He just talks-but says some
thing. An instance: In his brief ad-
dress at the Calderwood house-warm-
ing he said it had been remarked to
him that it was a pity such a man as
Secretary Calderwood, who could do
so much better for himself in another
avocation, should be sacrificed for our
cause; "but I replied" said Chair
man Higgins, "'Not at all; Calder
wood is none too good for such a
cause as this" How more strongly
or in fewer words could one express
the thought that is taking possession
of the minds of all our workers that
this cause of God and brother man,
of suffering womanhood and helpless
childhood is worthy of-demands-
the most and best of our time, talent
and money?
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
GETTING AMERICANIZED.

If a foreigner on his arrival in this
country learns that under the protec-
ton of local, state and national gov
ernments, which are supposed to pro-
tect life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, he may engage in a bust
ness which destroys life, overthrows
liberty and turns happiness to the
gall of bitterness, is it strange that
he should take this method of earn
ing CD living? When he after
ward discovers that the municipality
is not only willing to receive his
money but that it's palms itch for it,
and when he listens to the defenses
urged in behalf of the saloon business
and of it's legalization, is it strange
that he should vigorously deny the
charge that he is murderer? Or
even that after while he should come
to imagine that he is kind of philan-
thropist, without whose labors and
contributions the community could
hardly thrive?
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
PRETTY CUTE.

1t is funny-or would be if it were
not so contemptibly mean-to see the
earnestness with which some men
of property urge the owners of mod
est homes, worth perhaps $1,000, to
vote for license in order to keep down
taxation. They are often abstemious
in their personal habits. Sometimes
they love themselves too we'll to drink
at all. But money is their god and
they chuckle to themselves as they
see that they are succeeding in per-
suading a small taxpayer to aid them
in paying their taxes. II the saloon
is opened the, aforesaid humble home
owner may spend $50 a year therein,
perhaps more. He does not stop to
think how much the license money
will save (!) him on his taxes of per-
haps $40. But the lordly property own
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
Pith of the Press.

White Ribbon: 1t has been truly said
that beer has made Milwaukee FAMOUS
and many men homeless.
White Horse: In Christian citizenship
resolution shows how the resOlver
feels, a ballot shows where he stands
Pennsylvania Methodist: The pastors
who claims that this prohibition business
has been overdone, are having no revivals.
Defender: An exchange heads an arti-
Gle, How Alcohol Works." Well, it gen.
orally works hole in a mans pocketbook
and moral character at the same time.
Happy Home: Intemperance and i'm
morality are old and inseparable COM
panions. The wineroom and it's compile
ment the bagnio, are within hailing dis
lance.
State Issue: If the saloons should be
closed to save the ballot on election day,
in times of public calamity and in times
Of riot, why not close them on other days
to save the homer?
Champion of Fair Play illinois liquor
organ): There is not a saloonkeeper in
Illinois that does not well know that he
is liable to prosecution under the law
a dozen times each day.
The Voter: An industry that makes
necessary police and courts, penitentiar-
les, aims houses and insane asylums to
care for it's products, is one that good
citizens ought easily to find a way to
destroy.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
WHAT HE MADE,

II have made one thousand dollars
during the last three months" said
saloonkeeper, boastfully, to a crowd
OF companions. you've made more
than that" quietly remarked listen
err. whats that?" was the quick re-
spouse. "You have made wretched
homes-women and children poor,
sick and weary of life. You have
made my two sons drunkards," contin.
ued the speaker, with trembling ear.
nestness; you made the younger of
the two SO drunk that he fell and in.
jured himself for life. You made
their mother broken-hearted woman.
Oh, you have made much-more than
can reckon, but you'll get the full
amount some day."
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
TREAT YOUR PARTNER FAIRLY

Don't set your bulldog on the sa-
loonkeeper or bartender who calls on
your daughter unless you vote against
his business. He is your partner. A
man who goes around even talking
against his partner is a mighty mean
man. Your criticisms would drive
him out of the firm instanter did not
the business give him such an easy
and liberal living Then, too, it is
a great comfort to him to have so re-
spectacle a partner.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
BACKBONE.

your memory of the part played in
this conflict by your village or city
and by you? Shall it not be in the
march of progress? The communities
and states which were among the
earliest and bravest to ally themselves
against slavery are justly proud Of
their record. Shall not your commun-
ity thus honor itself in it's relation
to this later reform?
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01

We would be delighted to receive club
Of so, or 100 or 1000 from you. We only
ASK you for a club of EIGHT. But we
ask for that earnestly.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01

Backbone begins Its EIGHTH year on
the lump. Help us to celebrate the event
by uetting EIGHT new subscriptions.
We will accept them at EIGHT cents
each, provided they ALL pay THEIR
OWN subscription.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1904-02-01
EDITORIAL.
NO-LIcENSE NUMBER.

for use in local option contests. 1t con-
tains no matter on the party phase Of the ne
be a maker of no-license sentiment and
votes.
We will mail any quantity desired,
bundles or to separate addresses at s1.oo
per 100. If your community is to vote on
the issue this spring have copy sent
to each voter. If you cannot afford to
officers and members of w. c. T. Unions,
Prohibition Alliances and clubs, Good
Templar lodges, etc. in all such communi-
ties will please consider this an invita-
ton to bring the matter at once to the
attention of their societies.
We shall have a few thousand extra
copies printed but when our forms are
distributed, no more can be printed.
If the saloon business is good
enough for us to authorize, isn't it
good enough for our partner to run?
If it's right for the city to receive
it's "divvy'' from the saloon business
in $500 lump, isn't it right for the
saloonkeeper to receive his in nickels
and dimes?
Is it strange that since the saloon
meets no need but lives on the selfish
appetites of men, it should pander
to their vices also and become the
seat of crime?
Is it to be wondered at that men
can be found who are willing to en-
gage in the saloon business if we are
willing to authorize them to do so for
a share of the profits?
The manufacture of liquor is enti-
tied to be classed as an industry"
only because a large number of people
must be very Industrious in order to
get the means to keep it going.
The special object of good govern
ment is to protect the weak and help
less. Yet women and children are
every day trampled under the heel of
the liquor traffic according to law as
ruthlessly as though the law in their
case read, "This woman's heart shall
be crushed" or "This child's life shall
be cursed"
One OF the signs of the times is
the growing frequency in the German
Fatherland of such utterances as this
from Tageblatt, published at Leipsic:
cit will not be possible to produce any
law adapted to really put stop to
the evil of drunkenness without re-
Iinquishing some of our popular ma
tionaI conceptions about interference
with individual liberty"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-08-13

FROM EAST

Applicants far teachers licenses
for the first grade are belug exam
iuad az Rauks ball todaY The
largest number of new applicants
for these certificates are being cN-
amIued that has ever been known.
County superintendent ilartranft IL
la charge and Is having a busy time
an uY himself
Yesterday afternoon about $50 APP
plaanI took the examinations ON
school law The examinations for
thf uaat two dsya have been held
Iu the SECOND and third sfsdrs and
nearly 1eu were present all daY yes.
teHdaX There are "a great number
1T applicants from the East iu fact
"a grgateF part ut them arr ucW ar
rivals iu this sestIeu
Yesterday morning had the
pleasure uf llstsuiuE tp the tharMa
of the LEht Brigade 100 times.
said SIR UartrBnfI last uiEht and
/ have eut 80 ! can go through 4
backwards I am surprised ne the
number 81 Eastern candidates Tor
0efIn atra this year
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-08-13

nance against the pool rooms u
f. asserted In some ahurters that
two Cuuugilmfu are actually lu The
game 10 use the money 10 carry che
proposition through the council u
h said that es.Hhcriff A 4. Van De
Yautcf and Dave Argyle are con
Quoting the aRht for the gamblera
The gamblers have no hope ut
running the pool roofna vlth police
protection only and want 10 secure
the passage 81 an ordinance licenh#
ING them for a substantial sum and
repeating the present ordinance.
Pool rooms are such paying propo
aitiaus that the gamblers can afford
- spend a good deal - money 10
get them sanctioned b. the auihori-
ties
They have found IL Impossible %
carry an their operations success
fully In Georgetown aud Ballard.
To-day IL leaked ont for the first
time that the fooBeuine ~ the pool
rooms haH been discussed a. several
of the recent meetluFr 81 the civil
service uud salaries committee.
which have been closed 90 the pub
lie The matter was discussed in
connection wtfh inefoa the po-
lice force and securing sufficient
revenue o. increase the salaries Of
other city employees
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-08-13

Mayor nblHnFyr will not tolerate
a e. opening OF the pool raoma In
Seattle Even the alluuiue bait held
under hia uoao by the gamblers of
increasing the size aud the pas OF
chief Delaney police fotsc. which
haH been the greateat ambition OF
the uitNa chief executive su far
during bis administration. has fail
ed Ca move him Although the may
or Wlll not aud has not said na Boa
public. be practically shook hIa nsI
AZ the persistent horse race gam
tIoH last evening aud told them
that he would not stand faf any
Kind OF gambling TIA Seattle even
II bits policy meant the cutting down
uf the police fuur to uue man
Pursuant 10 the announced luten
ton ut thg gamblers o. secure an
other fHuthoid lH Seattle. al told u
The Star yesterday Scott benjamin.
chairman 90 the license and revenue
committee 90 the council. called mp
eu Mayor HaIiukrr yesterday exc
uiuE ta uand him upon tbg matter
What tnHHpIrtd between them ehH
supposed "a b. private. bat che r.
auli uf the interview had br.umt
known throughout the gambling
fraternity hY aeon today
The words that passed between
me tVa officials Nefr not bot once
but there aaH no miuHiuH If maf
ferH uu either side Tho mayor IH
little eifsn ia excessive tfmHHHffa
fI1n les the lfauaa .tIuu ~ public
business. HHt II d saId that De .ams
nearer raising the fbof uf The ea'
IapaIuH .Hf ball building yesterday
afternoon than ever before dBfIHF
hH administration
When fhH mayor vas seen fhia
m1fniuE - q star man be- He'tar
ated the statements la regard 90
gambling that he has made on pre-
FIoua oaeaaIuns tlia statements we're
eauahsH iu polite LANGUAGE tHf
there $50 a erapusas about them
that Indicated carefully HeuEf.aed
desire 70 zee strong quaiiff.ns AL
Isefixra
Yes Mr Benjamin called urHn
mo yesterday afternoon ard talked
about gambling matters. said tie
mayor The runvefaafiou aas ~
a private nature aud ! did NOT Hup.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-08-13

pose it would como out told him
plainly that would not stand for
the running Of pool rooms In the
city
Is it true that no told you that u
YOU we're good ta the gamblers the
council ur ut luaat "A large major.
itY of lie members would withdraw
ltH opposition to the ordinances YOU
have fur months desired 10 have
usaaed increasing the police force Co
leo men aud increasing the pay ~
the officers In fact abandon the
policy Of hostility that IL has been
pursuing toward yuuf
Ne It is not. replied the mayor
.uid he make any direct Iuaiuua-
tIans of this tInt
Ne. BE- dld NOT make any such
direct iutimaii0uH replied the
mayor. with knowing look. but .
cannot honestly say that he did not
vaguely intimate that / would get
better police force 10 consented
tu the move
The mayor ghrued a glEarNlei1Hs.
ly and EaEgd alatautly out of the
window
The public well knows my att.
tudr on the gambling question hr
continued after a pause As 7
stated ar the beginning of ms "a
mInaffntiou : absolutely viii not
tolerate IT.
There be- then uu truth in che ~
uaft that fuur administration va
preparing 90 adopt a more euuslita-
toB policy towards ibe gamblers
that certain forms 90 samhIlns were
suInF o. BE- allowed g. fHn eifh rs
lice protection and that thH manner
fu which raHrH gambling EamrH afs
uav said "a be running vas pfopf
Of che fact
Ne. there f uot" replied TIE
mayor. positively @ intend "a rl0a
ff ouf the wishes ~ ths sltlfeHs -
seattle wiIi carry aut the What
The majority A. all hazards and 7tn
FfrI Is moral questions I an pfes
pared to de- What Z think = rIEht
81 beth ~ she majority - the HIu s~as
think go or not / took this OFF,
With no other pufnae than thatCf
HuIuF shat + consider ms dHfY snH
~ So u ! elIi retire satisfied
q suppose there are some hHFi=
nesa men 10 tate ritY uho would