The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-02-21
n1rNrY OF ROOM.

! In a recent address a DrOlulneA'
railroad man said:
"Our public domain is all gone,
and tine nation can no longer boast
that is has a home for all. Where
are the immigrants rushing to our
shore to end up? Not on the lana.
We have no more to offer them
They must crowd into the cities"
To many persons this opinion must
seem erroneous. There is still much
unclaimed land, and the land in prl-
vate hands has not all the people 1t
can support. Several forces are in
creasing the demand for settlers Inc
department of agriculture is teaching
the people to produce more on a given
acreage. Better cultivation means
economy of space and under stress OF
increasing population second-rate
land. and land inadequately worked,
must be made more productive. An
other agency in the distribution OF
population is found in the efforts OF
railroad companies and manufactur-
ers to take workmen to districts like
these here in the south, where there is
not enough labor.
So long as factories need help, so
long as millions of acres OF land are
not productive to their full capacity,
there is room for more people. Imml-
Grants are needed in the south, and
there is room for thousands OF the
right kind. The problem is not what
to do with them, but what kinds shall
be admitted and what kinds excluded.
THE NEWS believes Colonel John
Temple Graves and his associate will
make a mistake in beginning the pub
LEGATION of another daily newspaper in
Atlanta. People these days don't sup
port newspapers through sentiment,
and the Atlanta field is already fully
covered. However, Colonel Graves
is a most lovable gentleman and
fluent writer, and we wish him well.
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mers to reduce their cotton acreage
and diversity their crops. That is
good advice. Mr.. Jordan is watchful
of the interests of the farmers, and his
efforts have been of much benefit to
them during the past twelve months.
Two of the Savannah patriots who
engaged in pistol practice on prin-
cipal street of that city have been in
dicted for murder. The three who
were poor shots and did not hit any
one we're hardly dignifed with an in
vestigation by the grand jury.
REPRESENTATIVE LONGWORTH and
Miss Alice Roosevelt were married
Saturday, according to appointment
Glad it's all over. Much happiness
to them; and may the public have a
long, long rest between white house
weddings.
GERONIMO, the famous Apache war
rior, has just become a benedict for
the eighth time at seventy-siX years of
age. The old fellow insists on keep
ing up strenuous existence to the
end
THE department of agriculture at
Washington will take up the question
as to whether beer is a food product
or not. 1t has furnished food for re-
Election to many poor chap.
ATLANTA gets the state fair again
next year, but she had to go down in
her pockets and fork over $4,000.
Little things like that never bother
Atlanta.
THE New York Sun alludes to ''the
rich, tropical, romantic nature of
Georgia colonies" We believe that
includes everybody who owns a coca
dog.
BISHOP TURNER told a gathering
of negroes in Macon that "hell is
better than America. g" Well, he has
this papers permission to try it,
THE Fort G aines Recorder has shut
up shop for good. Another evidence
of the folly of trying to publish two
newspapers in one-paper town.
PROVIDE for plenty of hog and hon.
my Mr.. Farmer, and then make all
the cotton you can.
"ZE LITTLE AMERICAN MONKEY"
From the New York Times.
The marriage of the president S
daughter brings to mind another
Roosevelt wedding in 1899, in which
Baron Leditz, then attached to the
| German embassy in w ashingtOn, was
married to a cousin of the president.
The following incident was related in
the newspapers at the time:
Baron Leditz, who is shortly to
marry Miss Roosevelt of New York,