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The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
Further Legislation is Needed.


We are reminded of this matter anew bv tho
symposium published in the Biblical Recorder ~
Baptist organ at Raleigh. The editor of tbt
paper sent courteous letters to a half dozon
prominent manufacturers asking them to stoto
their side of the case and justify the defeat of
the child labor law before the recent General
Assembly, and all with one consent began to
make excuses. Not one letter could he get Ho
did send letters then to the missionaries in tho
mill settlements, and these show very clearly the
need of further legal restrictions. This should he
demanded of would-be legislators next year, We
have made little progress in humanity, as Some
one has said, if we have quit selling man to the
cotton fields only to sell a child to the cotton
mills And in this connection we cannot forbear
quoting again the striking language of Prof
jerome Dowd, formerly of Trinity College, this
State:
eff farmer were to hitch his young colts
to a plough and plough and work them eight
hours a day, his neighbors would denOunce him
as brute. What sort of horses would such colts
come to be? Can we afford to be less humane in
the treatment of children than in the treatment
of colts? The testimony of medical science and
of statistics is that child labor in factories short
ems life about one-half and stunts both the mind
and the body.
"This inhumanity to children has so outraged
the feelings of civilized people, that there is not
now manufacturing country in the civilized
world, except few States in the South, where
children without age limit allowed to work
in factories. Even Russia and Japan throw the
protecting arm of the law around these innocent
and helpless human beings. There are about
$4,000 children in the Southern States working
in factories under IA years of age, and many Of
these are under 10 years This is the greatest
blot upon Southern civilization.
"There is nothing in the world that can be
said as an excuse for child labor either in behalf
of the parent, the manufacturer or the public.
There is no kind of outcome of the non-employ-
ment of children that is not better for all con-
cerned than the grinding up of the children in
factories"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
The Reduction in Cotton Acreage.

The whole world is interested in knowing
whether or not there is to be reduction in the
cotton acreage this year. It's matter of inter
est to every class of people, and but of little
more interest to farmers than to manufactures
and merchants. We are going to give in this re-
view of events therefore the latest information
we have upon this point Mr.. B. Dixon Arm
strong, of the Southern Cotton Association, was
In. Raleigh last week and assured us of his belief
that the reduction for the entire Cotton Belt will
exceed the Is per cent which we had predicted,
and reach at least 20 per cent
Iexas, says Mr. Armstrong, has nearly 100000
planters pledged to 25 per cent CUT and the late
season coupled with the early appearance of the
boil weevil is going to further discourage heavy
planting. In the old sections of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory reduction of 25 per cent will
be made, and this will probably offset the increase
through the opening up of new In
Louisiana, 15 per cent reduction is expected; IN
Tennessee and Arkansas each 25 per cent, and IN
alabama IL to 20 per cent. Mississippi is one OF
the best organized States in the South, and full
70 Per cent cut is expected there. Georgia ana
LOUISIANA are each expected to plant one !n1W
less than last year; and Mr.. Armstrong and Secre
tary Parker both think that North Carolina will
do as WELL
Ihls IS a better showing than we had expected
but Mr. Armstrong; general tours of the Soutn
enable him to speak as one having authority;
Ine all-lmportant part is to have lul
county reports sent Immediately to each and every
state secretary. We earnestly urge Progressive
Farmer readers everywhere to give this attention.
However. much the reduction may really be, inc
price OF cotton will not advance unless this FfaRS'
h0n 10 officially proved.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09

o;ven by Mr. Hamilton w. Mabie in the current
South Atlantic Quarterly In an address before
the recent Educational Conference at Columbia
Mr. Ernest Hamlin Abbott of the New Y ork Out
look. spoke with like freedom of the broadening
sympathies of Northern fellows. With refer
ence to the past. he said, they believe that both
sections are responsible for slavery; that the
Confederates fought not to keep men in bondage
but to settle question the trainers of the Con
stitutions had not faced; that Reconstruction did
more than war to promote bitterness, and that
the prime blunder of this period was the North's
refusal to trust the Southern white man.
But the special message brought by Mr.
Abbott was that there is antagonism between
the ideals of the New North and the New South
The one thing which the South insists upon is
the preservation of race integrity. Thls the New
North accepts, and with this merely couples its
uncompromising belief in justice to every indi-
vidual and every race And its conception OF
justice, too, is quite different from that OF the
fanatical philanthropists of another era
"Justice" as Mr.. Abbott says, does not neces-
sarily mean that each race must have an identical
experience with every other race, any more than
Justice to individuals involves identical mode
of treating every individual. If a race is back
ward justice demands that public education be
adapted to bring it through the intermediate
stages from immaturity to full growth. And let
us remember. too, that race justice means justice
not only to the minority races but also justice to
the majority race; fairness to the negro and the
Mongol, and also to the white"
Moreover, the new North also accepts as true
that race justice does not necessarily involve
universal suffrage. Civil liberty for every person,
says Mr.. Abbott, should be granted; "but the
right is not part of civil instruments of govern
ment is not part of civil liberty; this right is
limited in every free government"
Ali this points the old moral that North and
South are at heart much nearer together than
either has yet come to understand and that
sectional misapprehensions will disappear when
we all recognize that there are two ideals which
are not open for discussion First, the best prac-
ticable development of each individual and each
race; and, second, at the same time the scrupu-
lous preservation of race integrity"
Child Labor in Our Factories.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
Child Labor in Our Factories.

When the North Carolina Legislature was in
session last winter, our readers will remember an
effort was made to have law passed requiring
CD That girls less than fourteen years of age
should not work in cotton mills
(2) That boys less than fourteen should not
work in cotton mills if they were illiterate.
CD That neither boys nor girls less than four
teen should work at night in cotton mills.
This law the manufacturers opposed and de-
feated, the inevitable corollary being that they
favor and practice these three things-the en-
ployment of girls, future mothers under four
teen; the employment of boys future citizens.
under IA and unable to read; the employment of
boys and girls, under fourteen, in the exhausting
night work of the factories
We believe in encouraging our manufacturers: !:
we would not do anything to foster prejudice
between them and our farmers Each class helps
the other, and both help the State
But our mills do not need to sacrifice child life
IN order to succeed. They do not need to hear
Mrs Browning's "Cry of the Children" in their
hour of triumph:
Our blood splashes upard o gold heaper
And your purple shows your path
But the chllds sob in the silence curses deeper
at. sh 4lha That the strong man in his wrath
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-05-09
EDITORIAL
CURRENT EVENTS: THE TREND OF THINGS
AS WE SEE 1T.

AS WE SEE 1T.
I While Mr. Roosevelt is away from Washington
recuperating, the world takes advantage OF the
opportunity afforded for much-needed rest.
Very ordinary events are therefore lengthlly ex-
plotted in the dailies nowadays. This morning,
for example we find that the first of the four
front page features" is report of a baseball
game; the second is the story of the New I ork
horse race; the third deals with the funeral OF
noted man, and the fourth is about the Chicago
teamsters' strike. But we may at least be thank
full that Miss Nan Patterson and her nauseatlng
experiences are to be given a temporary rest.
Having cried 'eWolfl Wolfr so often that
nobody credited it, the dailies last week could not
even threaten an engagement between Togo and
Rojestvensky. Nobody seems to known just what
these warriors are doing or are likely to do. But
if a battle does come, it may have notable
effect on Russian affairs 1t is generally believed
that serious naval disaster would even force
the bureaucracy to consider terms of peace.
The rottenness of the Cars government its
utter indifference to common human rights is
again illustrated by the massacre at Warsaw last
Monday, a smaller edition of the ST. Petersburg
The Warsaw workmen, it seems, were having
their usual peaceful May day celebration, and
while there may have been some noisness, there
had been no actual rioting when they were fred
into by the imperial troops. Thirty-one persons
were killed outright and many others wounded.
Some of these were women and children, and
not few of the men shot in the back
they were trying to escape from the unexpected
onslaught of the soldiers. And here again is a
fresh illustration of the Russian type of mind
the kind of temperament bred by the assumption
that the exist for the benefit of the classes
and have no rights that the government is bound
to respect. Nothing except this recklessness of
others rights would have led any body of soldiers
into the fishing feet blunder that almost brought
ON with England last fall.
Apropos of Fitzhugh Lees Death.
Commenting the recent death of General
Fitzhzugh Lee, the Richmond Dispatch
noting the great esteem in which he was held by
the North, makes the interesting inquiry as to
whether he would have been so much honored in
that section if he (then in the u S. Army had re-
fused to follow his mother State when she left
the Union in 1851.
"Men of the North, in all candor in the name
of honor and chivalry-nay, in the name of
patriotism itself-do you not in your heart of
hearts respect and admire Fitzhugh Lee for the
which he took hon hove
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
THE MASON AND DIXON LINE.

Famous Landmarks Have Been Restored
by Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The re-survey of the historic Mason
and Dixon line has been completed by
the corps employed jointly by the
states of Pennsylvania and Maryland,
saws the New York Mail.
When the legislatures of the two
states decided not to allow the famous
boundary line to disappear so far as
visible lines of its location were con-
cerned, they undertook a work that
proved very difficult and tedious. The
surveyors were obliged to cut a path
through the mountains, and found
many of the old markers and crown
stones displaced.
In Adams county, one stone was
used as door step in a dwelling, an
other in a church: some were doing
duty in bake ovens and others were
lying miles from their original places.
! All were recovered, although not
without vigorous objection on the part
of the persons who were using them.
The work of re-estab lishing the line
was very carefully done, and the old
stone posts set along its course after
! Charles Mason and jeremiah Dixon
marked it out in 1863 were reset in
solid cement bases, and iron posts
were substituted in places where the
old posts have disappeared.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
BY E. L. RAINEY.
TuE VIRTUE OF CLEANLINESS.

The editor of the Fort Gaines Sen
tinel is urging upon his fellow towns
men the necessity of cleaning up.
What he says of Fort Gaines can be
applied just as we'll to Dawson, and
the article is given in full as being a
timely and wise injunction.
every likely you may think that
vo,Ir PREMISES are all right, and be-
cause YOU haven't had spell OF fever
in your home, you are content to let
the matter rest. The sickliest season
of the wear is just now approaching,
and there may be fever germs lurking
in places you thought free. They 1--we
and breed in all damp, dark places
where lime and kerosene Oil IS not
freely used. Mosquitoes also lntest
these places, and carry the germs TO
inocculate the unwary. NOW Is the
time to clean up and use lime.
The city council has no right TO pre-
s,1me that YOUR premises are neglect
ed or unciean, but that body has a
right to pass an ordinance to invade
any mans back yard, and lind out tor
itself. This is simply a matter OF
Justice to all.
It has been demonstrated that one
mosquito will inject into person, IN
one night greater amount OF mala-
rial virus than that person would con-
tract through air and waite" in six
months. If we would be free from
malarial, continued fevers, chill and
fever, let us use no time in DESTROYING
the breeding place of the mosquito
It is an undeniable fact that there
are neglected places in the city. and
it is undeniabiy the privilege of the
city council to see that they are at
tended to. They ought not to delay
this important matter. After the town
is thoroughly cleaned up the mosquito
will disappear.
Now the truth is, we have very
healthy town, and for our own com
fort we ought to keep it so. Then it
is next to impossible to induce out
siders to come into our community as
settlers unless we keep our town clean
and healthy.
Clean up, and then clean up again.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
ROYAL ARCANUM RATES.

Under the constitution of the Royal
Arcanum a special session of the SUI
preme council may be called upon the
memorial of seven grand jurisdictions.
Ten have demanded a special session
to consider the increase of rates, and
the council has been called. If the
cost of insurance has been overrun-
ming the premiums paid, as the officers
say, and as the insurance commission
er of Massachusetts also says, it is
difficult to see how defeat of the in
crease of rates could have any other
result than to wind up the order. 1t
has got to get in more than it pays
out or stop. Albany Herald.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
DON'T LIKE THEIR PETS.

The city of Wilmington, Del, where
they sometimes burn negroes at the
stake, is now, it seems, in the hands
of a negro political boss. The negro
is one of the lieutenants of j. Edward
Addicks. By means of deal with
certain other politicians, and with the
influence of Addicks, he manages to
control the balance of power in the
city council. Having this power, he
runs things pretty much to suit him
self and dispenses patronage with as
much assurance as ever did Addicks
himself. The people of Wilmington
are said to be indignant, but they
will have to put up with the negro
political boss until they can get
chance to vote him out of Office
Savannah News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
SIZES FOR 10 CENTS.
Atlanta Lawyer Plaintiff in Smallest Suit
Perhaps Ever Eiled.


A shit for the recovery of eighteen
cents, the price OF a ticket from Al,
Ianta TO East Point, has been filed
against the Central Railway of Geor-
ola. The suit is the outcome OF an
experience had by Attorney Paul Eth
eridge of Atlanta at the terminal sta
ton.
companied young lady, who had
been visiting his family, to the ter
minal station, where she was to take
the train for her home in Americas at
s O'Clock. 1t is against the rules OF
the station for anyone to pass into
the train shed unless they have a
ticket. Wishing to go with the young
lady to her car, Mr.. Etheridge purch-
ased a ticket to East Point, for which
he paid Is cents. The ticket was
stamped redeemable, and he intended
to return it to the agent as soon as he
had returned from his mission.
On returning from the train to the
the agents office and demanding his
money back, he was turned down by
the agent. The latter declared that
the ticket had been stamped by the
gate keeper. Mr.. Etheridge, after
having a second request for his money
turned down, went at once to the office
of Judge Ormond, and brought suit
against the Central of Georgia rail-
road. The trial of the case was set
for the third Monday in this month.
The costs in the case will probably
amount to over $40, but the attorney
says he will gladly pay any amount
in order that the qunstion of principle
involved in the case may be settled.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
Farm for Sale.

A nice lot of 2O21a acres, two-horse farm OF B.
wear new ground mostly, balance this year
SiearinG-in cultivation Rest is timber that has
been sawed over years ago and easily cleared and
suitable for cultivation. Three room (rough lum-
herr house, new: stable and lot, fine we'll, titles
perfect with plat and grant; three and half
miles from Albany on Cordele railroad nine miles
from Leesburg Good white neighbors, rural
route good schools near, mile and half from
teIen60ne line if it rs desired to tap it. This land
will easily make a bale to the acre Price ~ per
acre. half cash, balance at per cent. Also the
Dan Lewis farm adjoining Lowrey Bros. Hollis
Mace. 300 acres at 81. 100.
- G. II REAZLEY. Leesburg. Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
HOW 1T LOOKS TO ALABAMAIANs.

From EufauIa Times,
From the way Georgia politicians
are sat it just now, they will have a
long campaign before them and it will
be wonder if they don't wear out or
at least wear the people out. 1t was
verging on to a long campaign in
Alabama with the same issue, as it
were, but the weather got too warm
and only few of the principal and
interested politicians have had their
meetings ETC., and that is about the
end of it, but it looks as though there
will be a campaign right when the
time comes for a show down of candi-
dates and issues.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
KIND WORDS FOR THE NEWS.

We appreciate the many nice
things being said about The Dis
patch and News. Some have even
been so lavish in their praise as
to designate it the best weekly pa
per in Georgia. If that be true we
have greatly exceeded our expecta-
lions, as we were only trying to
keep in the same class with the
Dublin Courier-Dispatch, The
Dawson News and the Valdosta
Times. While we have many other
excellent papers on our exchange
list somehow or other the above
named publications are always
among the first to bob up in our
mind whenever anything is said
about good papers. -HawkinSvllle
Dispatch and News.
The News appreciates these kline
words of it's contemporary. Without
the Alphonse-Gaston style
of reply, we can say in all sincerity
that The Hawkinsville Dispatch ano
News sets pace of excellence that we
would do well to follow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
is BECOMING AMEH1CANIzED.
from the Savannah News,

FTOih JlC SaVAhuah NEWS,
Emile Aguinaldo, sometime leader
of the Filipinos, is gradually becom-
ing Americanized. He has become a
farmer, and has been summoned to
attend court as witness in a petty
case. After while they will be sum
moning him to work on the roads, to
paw poll tax and to serve on the Jury.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
City Ordinance.

Be it ordained by the City Council of Dawson.
Ga, that from and after the passage OF this ordi-
nance that the corpse of no nonresident shall be
inferred within the limits of the city of Dawson
except on a lot purchased directly from the city
Of Dawson at the price fixed by the city OF Daw-
son for the sale of such lots to non~resldents, I'M
less the sum of ten dollars shall have been pail
to the Clerk of Council in excess of such fees now
required for each lot used by the nonresident.
Be it ordained that no permit shall be granted
to any nonresident of Dawson to have grave
dug in the city of Dawson, except on his or her
own lot purchased directly from the city until the
ten dollar fee has been paid.
Be it ordained that any one violating this ordl'
nance shall be punished as is prescribed in secs
zion 1856 of the City Code of the city of Dawson;
Ga, as adopted in 1892. and that the city shall
be empowered to fill up tAe grave so dug
All ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed
Passed as an emergency ordinance mt regular
meeting of City Council of Dawson, Ga, this
August Bird 1905. J. Z. MERCER, Mayor.
r. f. BELL, Clerk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09

Three covered wagons from Minneso-
ia, drawn by nine milk cows, passed
through Miller, Mimi, for the country
west Of the Missouri river, says the
Miller correspondent of the st. Paul
Dispatch. In addition to making if
teen miles a day with their loads, the
cows furnish milk for the movers.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
For DisnissiOn.

GEORGIA. Terrell County. Ordinary's Office;
ANo : i905 Mrs NJ. A. Hart, administrators of
the estate Of NJ. A. Harris, deceased, represents
sbo bas fulIv discharged the duties Of her said
1r,,et and prays for letters of dismission. This
is' Therefore. to notify ali persons concerned to
show cause. ifany they can, on or before the nrst
SIodoV in Seutenlber next why said administra-
~ s6onIj not lie discharged from said trust.
VIA j. W. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
For Leave to Sell.

GEORGIA. Terrell County. Ordinary's Office,
Anoust Z 1905 r. L. Bridges. executor Of John
Bridges deceased has applied for leave to sell
The land of said deceased. This is. therefore. to
notify all concerned to show cause, il any they
can on or before the first Monday in September
next. why said executor should not be granted
leave to Sell us applied for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
DIDN'T TAKE THEM ALL.

"What becomes of all the Bibles?"
asks the Dawson News. Editor Raj
ney probably took them with him to
Atlanta, to distribute among his fell
low legislators. You can come up
and use ours any time we are not
reading it.-Griffin News.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
For Leave to Sell.

GEORGIA. Terrell County. Ordlnary's Office.
Au0 : 1905 Mrs ida Moran, administrators Of
the estate Of E. E. Moran, deceased, applies to
me for leave to sell the land of said deceased
to file their objection il any they haYe. on or be-
fore the first Monday in September next, else
leave will then be granted said applicant as ap~
nIied for. j. w. ROBERTS, Ordinary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-08-09
EVAN HOWELL.

The death of Hon. Evan P. Howell
at mis- home in Atlanta Sunday is a
source of sorrow to friends through
out Georgia and the south.
Captain Howell had long been iden-
tilted with the states progress. He
was esteemed personally, prominent
politically and eminently recognized
in the world of journalism.
Returning from the civil war, after
service of honor and bravery, he
entered into the work of upbuilding
Atlanta with an earnestness and conf
dence that played conspicuous part
in the city 5 growth. He believed in
Atlanta's and GeOrgia's future. Civ
ing up the law for the love OF
journalism he put the power of his in
tellect and energy into the upbuilding
of the Constitution, and the develop
ment of that paper is tribute to his
work.
His political efforts were character
lied by frankness and fearlessness.
He was ranked as one of the leading
democrats of the south. AS holder
of public trusts his record was clean
and consistent.
Personally, he possessed charm
and magnetism that endeared him to
those with whom he came in contact.
Atlanta and Georgia will miss him.