The Brunswick news., 1909-07-27
BROWN AND BREAD UP TO DATE.

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Atlanta journal is really interesting.
In strident shouts above the beat
ing Of the tom toms ana in letters
Of living high above the transparen-
cies, during campaign which has
not yet faded from the memory Of
man, Mr. V Populi and Hon. P. 3.
Publico were wont to read or hear
the moving motto OF the stirring slo-
gan: Give US Brown and Bread.
Those were great days. noisy days,
forgotten days, for the
candidate was abroad in. The land.
and catchy slogan is half the bat
tie.
The members Of the marching club
were, for the most part, rotund and
well-fed. They locked as though they
hadn't missed meal since they left
the bottle. 1t was only by means Of
the newspapers that they learned a
panic had been dancing the ghost
dance somewhere in the neighborhood
Of Wall street II somebody hadn't
told them that the great state Of
Georgia was on tis way to the bow
vows they would never have guessed
it.
But some political genius had hit
upon apt alliteratlons artful aid, and
Brown and Bread made a cracker
jack war cry. SO they went to and
fro in the earth shouting Brown and
Bread.
Anyone waeeishly inclined might
find a certain amount Of amusement
IN the subsequent developments.
About the first thing we heard when
the candidate Of their choice got into
the governors chair was the sugges-
that in order o pay The s.:ao2i teach
ers the state Of Georgia w3ula have
to issue bonds. OF course, bonds
had nor been the war c~s because
bonds means Interest ana Interest,"
means more taxes And. rio',oyc
the idea of bonding the 7to 70 na,t
current expenses is not I3ol,cd upon
as sound -tatesmanship in th lest
informed circles
Almost on top of this recommep-
dation came the alarming cry that
the great state of Georgia was aead
broke. Sob Toombs used 10 say that
SO fer IRON it's being true that fig
ures never lie, they are the biggest
liars in the world when you put EN-
down wrong
And something Of the kind &C
counted Tor the dread and fear which
suddenly fell upon the administration
Bt the simple process of subtractine
a quarter of million dollars in one
place without adding it in another,
we were face to face with a deficit
on paper The lawmakers themselves
We're told that there was some doubt
as to whether the state would be able
to pay them their per diem.
They had their Brown. but they
We're stll anxious about that matter
OF the bread
1T was promptly pointed out that
the late administration had left the
treasury in better condition than II
had ever been in before at this sea-
son OF the year and that by using the
near-beer money TO pay the teachers
what we owed them, even they could |
have bread
But the end is not yet
Now comes a tin in this first ses-
sioa of the millenial administration |
which proposes to increase the con-
sututional tax rate from five mills
to six mills,
when you talk to taxpayer in
terms OF an extra mill he knows
what you are talking about. and don't
you doubt it,
But he is on TO that extra mill
and he scratches his head and asks
himself if this is the practical ap-
plication Of the war-cry Give US
Brown and Bread
1t sounds to him now more like
Brown and bonds, or Brown and
extra taxes and that wasn't what lie
voted for
We have more than suspected that
the millennium was not going to come
through shose who were promising US
Brown and Bread, and now the hor-
rible suspicion is confirmed"
VERMONT AND NEGRO SOLDIERS