The Washington times., 1907-08-13
Newspaper Jewels in Georgia.


Georgia has been the butt of
good many butters-in of late.
Nothing her State legislators have
proposed pleases the Northern
press. If the fiery Fowler of Bibb
is out cunning for the gas and cleo
trio companies it is to make new
offices. If the aptly alliterative Joe
Hill Hall would tax all bachelors
and, by providing marriage licenses
according to a sliding scale, create,
secondhand as it were, a graduated
inheritance tax in prospect, he as
abused as an innovator.
But we like Georgia. We like her
people, her legislature, her papers,
Most of all we like the last-be-
cause they mirror the legislature and
the people like TO nature itself and
so are ever dashing, effervescent,
ebullient picturesque, very pala-
dins of Journalism with now and
then the yeIlowest of favors on
their arms.
Where else but in Georgia could
Tom Watson shine in Jeriheliou
splendor? He tried it in New York
and doused the glimmer. Now he is
back home-and this is what he
writes in the new Jeffersonia1:
Parties who sign their names in such
way that they themselves could not
make out what il is after they get
sober. will please keep such cOmmuni-
cations at home until they do get sober
and then write 1t over again
Parues VINO write comm Snicauons
with blunt. soft pencil will please en-
close a part Of the pencil II may aid
us in reading the letter.
All persons desiring u shoot. assault
or otherwise maltreat the editorial de-
Partment. are earnestly requested TO
deal directly with the Atlanta office.
And what other State could have
produced so true an analysis of a
desPicable character as this? 1t is
from the Atlanta Georgian:
The lobbyist has. by his sly work.
Kept you IN the past from having cars
for your peaches has killed laws that
would have regulated the fertilizer trust,
has made child labor lawful, has blocked
crime, and has kept the breads from the
mouths Of your little children and robbed
them of home and mother and happi-
ness; has stood at the school door and
driven them back with n laugh at their
| tatteTed garments and bare feet. He
has kept the doctor from the dying
mother with the newborn babe starving
on a bed Of shucks. and he has spread
hell in houses that honest lawmakers
would have made HOMES.
If like most folks, you have want
ed to know what's the matter with
the lobbyist now you have it. But
the best has been saved for the
last. 1t comes from the Augusta
Herald. The editors have evidently
come TO work by foot. a cotton
field has gone to their editorial
head, as witness the following:
But while you look the sun breaks
through the mist, and your eye reVelS
IN the richness and freshness Of the
color feast spread before it. The dark
green of the cotton foliage stretches out
10 where IL is merged and lost in the
gray mist which yet hangs low near the
tree fringed stream, and thickly inter
spersed among this green Of the leaves
are a myriad of cotton blooms, alter
mating white and red, each color dis
tinct, and all fresh as they open their
petals 10 the morning sun And from
each leaf suspended from each Of its
five sharp points, a dewdrop hangs sus-
pended; Quivering with motion and re-
fiecting in rainbow tints like sparkling
Jewels the first slanting rays of the sun.
Maybe there are some other
States that can beat Georgia in
other things. But if you want us
TO help find brighter newspaper
jewels than hers, we pass.