The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-05-06
HAVE FAULTY VACCINATIONS
Those Questions That Were Pro-
pounded to Governor Smith DO
Not Deserve Serious COnsid-
Grafton

| Grafton.
| Prompted by faulty imagination,
or the thought that the majority of
their fellow citizens in Terrell county
! do not take the papers, read and
think for themselves, the Brownies
PROFOUND many questions, no one of
which deserve serious consideration,
but we instance two or three as an
evidence of their shallowness.
They ask who paid Mr.. Smiths ex-
penses when he accompanied the edu-
cational train few days over the
state, very proper procedure by
the Governor under such circum-
stances. They seem to think we all
have forgotten that the railroads
thought so we'll of the future posi-
bilities of that train that it was run
at their expense, carrying Professor
Soule, the Governor, and all on board
without charge, even taking aboard
common citizen along the way oc
casionally.
They ask why Mr. Smith makes the
common folks pay 1-2 cents a mile
railroad fare and allow firms or cor
porations to go for cents per mile.
Guess they thought this a stunneri
VIII they tell us if it was not Mr..
Smith first campaign which brought
the present reduction in passenger
rates? Did not the railroads fight
any and all reductions, and did they
not use Little Joe's' numerous carus
l0S THAR
cheaper fares? Do the Brownies
place such low estimates on our 1.-THE
common peOple's) intelligence as to
suppose we do not know that any
citizen can get the 2-cent ticket, -
600 or 1000 miles, if he cares to ride
SO far and has the money? Do not
merchants sell their goods cheaper if
purchased in large quantity? Do they,
the Brownies, think the common
man has read so little of the news of
the day as that he does not know
that he can purchase a 500-mile
ticket for the low rate of 2 IA cents
to be used by any or all his family?
VIII Mr.. Brownie now be honest
Ienough to tell us whose energies and
agitations it was that brought about
all these reductions, whereby the
travelling public, common people as
we'll as the firms and corporations"
is saving many thousands of dollars
annually in passenger fares?
Was it not the work of Mr.. Smith
and his friends who secured such
legislation as has removed the posi-
bility of that petty bribery, the free
pass, thus making the politician and
the other favored few pay for his ride
or walk, as does the farmer and other
laboring man?
They ask who is taking care of the
. Governors duties while he is making
speeches around the state. In making
these speeches he is but performing
the duty he owes to his fellow citi-
. Zens to go face to face and give an
account of his stewardship, explain to
them fully why he has and is advo-
eating and carrying out certain poll
cieS. All of which he should do now
that Little Joe" has brought upon
the state a political turmoil so I'M
usual, so uncalled for. Mr. Smith
does not hide either himself or his
light under bushel." He has the
, manhood and the ability to meet his
, fellows in broad daylight, after the
style of men who deserve to be Gov
) ernor of state. -
What other Governor or Railroad
Commissioner ever thought enough
of the safety of the travelling public
when the road beds were giving evil
dence of being in a perilous condi-
ton to employ experts to carefully in
spect these road beds, thus putting
: the railroad authorities on notice
that public safety must be cared for,
: and proper schedules made?