The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-04-29
SOME RECENT GEORGIA HISTORY
WHAT GOVERNOR HOKE SMITH
HAS DONE.

WHAT GOVERNOR HOKE SMITH
HAS DONE.
1. He has increased the price OF
railroad tickets that ordinary people
ride on from PA cents to 2 u cents
per mile, but has decreased the fare
for FIRMS and CORPORATIONS and
their employees to 2 cents per mile
by allowing them special mileage
book, which the ordinary person can
not buy.
2. He has increased the freight
rate on cotton from interior points
to Savannah to the tune of Z IL cents
per bale, which costs the farmers of
Georgia about $150,OOO more annu-
ally than they were paying when
Smith was making his promises.
Terrell countys prorata of this eX-
TIA burden is something more than
Is 2,600.00.
3. He has now concluded that
( the financial condition of the rail-
roads is such that it is inadvisable TO
make a general reduction of freight
rates at this time, but commences on
a small scale for the present, ana,
according to reports, has maze
slight reduction on the trelght rate
on face powder.
4. He has instituted rule to au-
thorize the successful candidate to
appoint all the delegates to the nom
mating convention (Which also Sc
Iects delegates to the national con-
vention and voices the state OF Geor-
gia in selecting our candidate for
president), and thus eIectually
closes the mouths of all persons OPP
posed to the successful candidate
on both state and national issues.
He has also instituted rule to Ell
fectually close the mouths of the
small counties in the nominating
conventions, and thus relieve the sue
cessful candidate of the distasteful
procedure of listening to the people
or to the counties that are not IN
sympathy with all the views OF the
successful candidate. The Car OF
Russia doesn't have any greater pow
ers.
5. He signed the general state
prohibition bill, and declared that it
was the happiest day of his life; and
is so heartily in favor of this law
that if the people" should be so
foolish as to elect a legislature to
amend or repeal the prohibition law
he will veto the bill.
6. He requested the legislature
to pass a law requiring railroads to
, pay an income tax on their gross re-
ceipts and to tax farmers 25 cents
per ton on fertilizers, but the legis-
lature decided that this was class
Legislation, unconstitutional, and con-
trary to the rule of equal rights to
all and special privileges to none,
and refused to pass the laws.
Z. Governor Smith hasn't been to
any county for the purpose of con-
demning any member of the legisla
ture for refusing to pass the income
| tax law against railroads; nor has
he condemned them for failure to
assist him in passing this special tax
upon the farmers who use CONNER
| cial fertilizers.
8. He has raised the advalorem
tax on the People" to the constitu-
tional limit; he has levied an extra
tax of $50 on every life insurance
company doing business in Geogia,
which must be paid by the People"
/ he has levied an extra tax of $50 on
every assessment fire insurance COM
pany in Georgia, including the
Farmers Mutual of Terrell coun-
| ty, which tax must be paid
by the People" and besides this
they must pay tax of $40 in
every county where the company OPP
crates in Georgia, which is in addi-
tion to the taxes required of such
companies heretofore; he has levied
tax of IS for each "draught arm"
of the soda fountains, which is a tax
E! that must be paid by the people"
he has even levied a tax of 5000 on
the news-butchers who sell us fruits
on the trains, and have always
charged high enough for their goods,
!
ira for this privilege; also our
Confederate Veterans, who spent
their best days in our lost
cause, but are now among us
with enfeebled footsteps and locks
intermingled with gray, most of them
dependent upon the small stipend
so cheerfully granted them by the
/ young manhood of the state, are now
misput, cannot make the visits they
had planned to take as comfort in
their old age, nor pay the account
which they promised to pay, depend
ing upon their pensions; they must
| beg, fOrego the anticipated pleasures
or fail to pay their bills according to
promise, or, probably, suffer all of
these inconvenience.
Hoke and Hard Times O.; Joe 10.
! A poll of nineteen voters was made
in the Office of the Western House