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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
Prefers Dog to Postum.

From the Macon Telegraph.
The characters and habits of the
opossum ought not to be set before
the children for admiration and emu
Iatlon. Where is its redeeming
trait? 1t is deceitful-plays pos
sum-and it is essentially a scaven-
ger. A common cur dog is a prince
by comparison. Some people think
they like to eat the opossum's fatty.
lhdlgestlble fesh-a sort of fad
winch does violence to gastronomy.
Dog no doubt is as good if not bet
ter food. If the opossum is to be-
come a national favorite. net and
and emblem then the turkey bUzzard
ought to mount to the eminence now
occupied by the American eagle. and
the skunk should be the hero of the
hreslde tales rather than Brer Rab-
bit. -''''
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
THE TENNESSEE TRIAL.

The public is following the course
of the Cooper-Sharp trial at Nash
vile with close attention and inter-
est. Senator Carmack of Tennessee,
who was shot and killed by young
Robin Cooper, was a notable charac-
ter and, moreover, there are Ten
nesseans all over the country who
keep close tab on the developments
OF the great trial. Some things have
been developed beyond doubt, to-wit:
that Carmack had a loaded pistol in
his pocket when he met the Coop
ers and used it before he received
his death wounds, and that he had
been looking for trouble with Colo
mel Cooper. He had lampOoned Col
onel Cooper an old confederate SOL
der and private citizen (even if he
was a politician) in his paper. The
same conditions in almost any COM
munity, especially in the south
would have ensured difficulty, and
probably a death. Mr.. Carmack was
an able, a brilliant man, but he was
too violent and intolerant. He
sowed to the wind, and he reaped
the whirlwind. 1t is a pity, but
what else could have been expected?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
President Taf's InauguraIAddressa and the S0uth
From the Macon Telegraph.

President Taft was sworn in as
president yesterday, and Mr.. Roose-
welt became once more a private citi-
zen.
For which The Telegraph is dis
posed to give thanks.
AS president, Roosevelt was a dan
gerous man, and he did, during
his seven years in the white house,
incalculable injury to the fabric of
our constituted government; but that
is another story. We are dealing
with his successor.
OF Taft's general policies we shall
not now speak in detail. Written
in the presence of and edited by his
predecessor, friend and political
benefactOr they are mildly Teddian,
but more distinctly republican.
When his late chief gets away to the
African bush, and the real Taft has
chance to develop, we shall see
what we shall see. We are distinct
ly hopeful that Taft will be a safer
and saner man in the white house.
But why should he take UP "the
south as one of the subdivisions
In his general address, and discuss
1t along with ''Our dependencies, " as
II it We're a conquered province? 1t
is true that his tone is mild, and his
suggestions tame, as compared with
the inaugurals of earlier republican
presidents; but why should he dis
cuss the south at all? Why not dis
cuss the east, or the west, or the
middle states?
Would it not have been wiser to
follow the example of Chester A.
Arthur and ignore the so-called
southern problem?"
Northern politicians are quick to
draw the line on the little brown
men in the western portion of our
country; but the black men in the
south have votes, their black broth
ers have votes in the north, and the
racial question when it touches them
is another affair altogether. The
president says he is not conscious of
any race prejudice. Can this be
true? Does he favor, then, re-
peal of the embargo on Chinese i'm
migration? Does he favor social
equality? Does he believe in inter
marriages of the blacks and the
whites?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
It's Town Sportsmen Who Complain.

It's Town Sportsmen Who Complain.
From the Shellman Sun.
The hunting season for doves and
partridges closes March 18th. There
is some agitation in the state press
for a shorter open season in GeOr-
gla. The law is all right as it is,
except, perhaps, the dove season be-
gins rather early-JuIy 18th. The
most OF the complaint in regard to
the slaughter of birds comes from
people in towns and professional
sp0rtsmen, many of them owning no
land and will never own any or even
nave temporary possession of any as
renters. 1t seems to never occur to
these pot hunters that if hunting
privileges were restricted to peo-
pie on their own lands and to
those people who tenant farm lands
there would be no necessity for state
game laws. The farmer could have
a mess of birds whenever he wanted
them; the children could set traps
whenever they wanted to; the man
IN town who owned land could go
bird hunting on his land whenever
he liked, and under this rule of
hunting the bird supply would not
diminish but would increase. The
landowners and tenants should be
the masters of the game rights in the
state. What produces a tired feel
ing is for a professional bird hunter
to say that any traps found set for
birds should be destroyed. He has
right Che thinks) to take his rapid
fire gun and his dog and go on any
body land and get birds by the sack
full, but he denies the farmer boys
right and enjoyment to set a trap
and catch probably dozen birds in
the whole season.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

Or is he talking for politics sake?
And, en- PEASANT, let us inquire of
the southern advocates of a shat
tered south how they like this part
of the address? Does it meet their
expectation and appreciation. Does
brother Rufe Rhodes of Birmingham
and the Atlanta political monde
scripts fall down and worship before
this deliyerance?
So far as we are concerned-take
it away!
The Telegraph believes that those
who feel as it does on this subject
are the real friends of the negro.
We wish them we'll We insist that
they shall be dealt justly by. We
urge that they are entitled to the
protection of life, liberty and prop
erty; but they are aliens and not
part of the blood and bone that won,
built and own this country; and
where by chance they are in the ma
JOrlty they have no right to rule it
no more than the Chinese in Cali
fOrnia have the right, where they
are in the majority, to rule in that
state. God has marked them apart
IL Jill CIS caucasian race, ana tie
put them in a dark corner to them
selves. Let them go back from
whence they came on Yankee slave
ships, or else be content to settle
quietly down in the industrial life
OF our cOuntry-the white mans
country-and abandon all efforts to
rule over it and the white men.
If this is race prejudice God made
it so, and it will show itself every
where and anywhere when an at
tempt is made to drive the human
course contrary to the Divine cur
rent. There will be agitation-there
will be no peace-just so long as
the politicians play for votes by
pranking with this question. We
could possibly believe in their sin
certify if they would put the yellow
baby of the Slope in the cradle and
rock it with the black baby of the
South; but they will never do it.
They will never be consistent, at
least so long as the pursuit after
votes runs in counter directions in
the different sections of the country.
We suggest to President Taft
let the south alone!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
THE LAST OF THE COUNTRY
LIFE COMMISSION.
rom the Griffin Sun and News.

From the Grl1n Sun and News.
When the report Of the confer
ence committee on the agricultural
bill was finally adopted by the
house and senate Tuesday the SEN
ate amendment providing an appro-
priatiOn for printing the report of
the country life commission was
stricken from the bill after a sec
Ond conference had been had on the
bill. The debate in the house on
this feature of the bill was marked
by caustic criticism of President
Roosevelt. Messrs. Reeder of Kan
sas, Stephens of Texas, Fitzgerald of
New York, Hepburn of Iowa, Lever
of South Carolina, Stanley of Ken
lucky and Tawney of Minnesota par
ticipated.
The democrats generally took the
position that the commission had
been created by the president with
out authority of law.
Mr.. Stanley was among the more
pronounced. He said: I'VE don't
want to have a bunch of men in
frock coats and silk hats riding
around in automobiles and eating
canvas-back duck and drinking
champagne trying to tell farmers
how to eat green's, draw water and
milk COWS. We don't want a city
commission to teach farmers
He said the commission probably
would not know the difference be-
tween chicken and a turkey, or
horse and a yearling calf.
Mr.. TaWney was sarcastic in his
opposition to the amendment. eff
we continue these commissions, he
said, I'VE will be having govern
ment by executive choice, and not by
law"
The provision was sent back to
conference by a decisive vote. At
the second conference the senate
conferees receded from their de-
mands for an appropriation of $25,-
600 to print the report of the COM
mission on country life, and thus
reached a complete agreement with
the bill.
This is the last of that absurd
body known as the country life COM
mission. AS individuals they may
continue for a little while to spas
medically and ineffectively thrust
their views upon the public in iso-
lated spots, but if their findings as
body are not to be printed at pub
lie expense there will be no more
findings. The farmer will get off
the fence and go back to his work
with sigh that his hard lot makes
him toll nearly half the year, and the
commission will go back to it's can
vas-back and champagne with a NAL
ediction on the ingratitude of re-
publics.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
THE PASSING OF THE APP
PENDICITIS FAD.
From the Augusta Herald.

From the Augusta Herald.
A dinner was recently given in
Philadelphia by physician, a noted
appendicitis specialist, to his pa
tients, at which it is said 100 guests
were present. This has drawn at
tention to this ailment which few
years ago had at most become fad,
but is now happily less appreciated
and consequently now of rare occur
renee.
Appendicitis was practically I'M
known in Georgia until Governor
Atkinson developed a case of it in
1895. Then Immediately it ap-
peared to spring into public favor,
becoming a fad to such an extent
that within a few years it seemed
that everybody would pass under
the surgeons knife: This populari-
ty has now passed, and it is rarely
that the knife is now found neces-
sary in the treatment of appendicitis
cases.
In other places it has been much
the same. According to the New
York World the first typical opera
I4On lOI dppeuulClJIeS appears TO
have been performed in New York
in 1886. In the following year at
Philadelphia occurred the first re-
corded removal of the appendix as a
precautionary measure. Appended
tbs surgery is thus less than a quar-
ter of a century old and distinctly
American in its origin and develop
ment. The professional standing of
the surgeons whose names were as
ISOLATED with the early operations.
among them DR.. w. T. Bull and DR..
Charles McBurney, and the promi-
nence of the first patients gave a
wide impetus to the surgical treat
ment of the disease. How many
tens of thousands Of appendices were
sacrificed to science during the de-
cade from 1890 to 1900 is a sub
ject for curious speculation. The
first flush of appendicitis surgery has
long since passed. The knife is now
less often resOrted to, having given
way to medical and hygienic treat
ment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

In the business affairs of a COM
munity, especially a small one like
this, the people are all, in some de-
gree, dependent one upon the other.
An injury to one class in the COM
munity is undoubtedly an injury to
the entire community. Whatever
tends to harrass and depress bust
ness in any of its branches is speedily
found to be a detriment to the well
fare of the whole community.
When the business men are suffer
ing from poor trade or poor collec-
lions the whole community goes I'M
der cloud. Sometimes this is, in
"a measure, unavoidable. But all
too frequently the condition referred
to is created unnecessarily by peo-
pie who are amply able to pay their
obligations failing to do so, putting
off to next month, or next fall, the
settlement of just debts that should
be paid now.
Merchants feel keenly, and Justly,
that those Of their debtors who fail
to pay their obligations when they
are able to do so are working an in
jury to them and to the city. 1t is
not possible here or anywhere else
for merchants to allow outstanding
bills for goods sold by them to con-
ttnue unpaid Indefinitely. No mer-
chant wants to go into bankruptcy,
and yet any merchant who is will
ing to allow such condition of af-
fairs to continue knows that he is
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
THE GOODS ARE COMING.

The Dawson merchants are re-
ceiving the goods these days. Thou
sands of dollars worth are coming
in, and the freights are loaded.
This shows that our home merchants
are not afraid of competition from
any foreign point, whether Macon,
Atlanta, Chicago or New York. And
the trading public are finding it out.
OF course some people haven't
the home pride, and send off for dry
goods, groceries, hardware, jewelry
and printing, but they get bumped
more or less in due time, and learn
who their friends are. They learn
who stands by them when credit is
needed-and it is not the mail order
houses.
And the merchant, when he wants
boosting, doesn't look to foreign pa
pers to do his boosting; it is the
home paper he depends on to stand
by him.
Merchants, and all other business
men of Dawson, let's get closer to-
gether and pull together. Then we
need not ask odds from anywhere.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
WANT SOMETHING ELSE TO TAX.

1t is stated that some of our leg
islators are studying up Georgia
finances with view of raising more
revenue at the approaching SEES
sion. AS the Augusta Chronicle says:
1t is well to go slow on this
line. 1t is not a good time to
increase the popular burdens
unless there is the necessity that
cannot be put aside We are
Over-CrOpped with taxation as it
is, and the pressing need is to
retrenCh and not augment our
state expenditures For the ifs
cal year 1907, the last Of which
we have the official figures, our
state treasury paid out $780,
465.59.
To save your money is one
way to make it go further. But
if we must go on taxing our
selves into prosperity then let
us see that all property shares
its fair part of the burden.
If our legislators would spend their
time cutting off sinecures and seeing
that the peoples money is economi-
cal and judiciously expended that
they devote in an everlasting hunt
for somebody and something else to
tax they might find that the financial
problem which eternally confronts
the state is not such a great problem
after all.
A good beginning would be to
quit creating new Offices with big
salaries to pay political debts, and
increasing the salaries of others.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
SASSER SETTINGS.
Examination of Head Showed Dog
Had Rabies. Personal Items.

nau haDIeS. 1efSOnaI items.
DR.. o. G. Cranfords Spaniel dog
has acted strange lately and bit
a negro employed by the doctor. The
dogs head was sent to Atlanta to
the State Board of Health, and af-
ter an examination it was pro-
nOunced hydrOphobia. The negro is
now under treatment for hydropho-
bia.
A blind negro preacher held ser
vices on the streets in front of Mr..
j. H. Davis store Saturday from
1 to 3 o'clock p. m. We don't know
whether the proprietor was convert
ed or not.
Messrs. Ed Brim and John Brim
and Miss Winnie Carter visited Miss
Jessie Jennings at her home in Daw-
son Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCurdy of Shell
man visited the families of Drs.
Crawford and Crawford Sunday.
B. w. Moreland, Esq, of Lee
county and Mr.. Travis Miller of Ar
mena were here Sunday.
Miss Bessie Willett has returned
to Lumpkin after visiting her sister,
Mrs. j. A. Joiner.
Mr.. R. G. Billings, a practical
watch repairer, has been in our burg
for a week.
Mr., and Mrs. Mack Brown visited
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Brim Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Joiner visited
friends in Leslie during the week.
Keep your eye on Sasser, and
watch her grow.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. L. Watson visited
in Sasser Sunday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
Why Hold Back the Paying of Bills?
From the Americas Times-Recorder.

on the road to financial wreck. Poor
collections, it is safe to say, do more
to put merchants into the hands of
receivers than any other single
agency.
The merchants are right in re-
questing that those who are indebted
to them make efforts to settle their
accounts regularly in full or part
and not fall into the unbusiness-like
and unsatisfactory method of de-
ferring payments to some unknown
time in the future. If all adopted
this method of prompt payment bus
mess affairs here, and in other towns,
too, would soon take on and main
tain a much brighter aspect. mas
much as the vast majority of people
are paid for their services weekly or
monthly there is no apparent reason
why they should not pay for the
goods they have bought similarly.
If this were done there would prob
ably be no living beyond incomes,
the evil that is said to be so COM
mon among American people. The
man or woman who adopts the pol
icy of prompt payment Of debts has
an easy conscience, is devoid of I'M
easiness about accommodating obliga-
tiOns and is on the road to Easy
Street. The one who adopts the re-
verse policy is more than apt to be
soon floundering in the mOrass Of
debt and suffering the consequent
mental anxiety and loss of credit.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
\ Mild Description of a Rad Man

From the Senoia Gazette-Enterprise
Inc only honorable and honest
way TO stop a newspaper is to stem
INTO the office and pay up all the
arrearage, get receipt and have
your name taken off the list To
IRE your paper back at the pubIish-
er marked refused" when Won owe
SIX months or a year and never On
near the office is not only disreptn-
laDie but superlatively dishonest as
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
Three Terse Truths.

from the Middle Georgia Farmer
because a man does not wear dia-
monds is not proof positive that he
cannot afford them-he may think
mem BIZARRE. Because a woman
Strolls with her husband is no in
dIcation that she loves him~eho
may fear some other woman docs
because a woman chooses singlo
plessedness does not mean that she
was forced to do so-she NAV Ge d 3ne
eliminating. ~ ui'-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
THE TORTURE OF SUSPECTS.

THE TORTURE OF SUSPECTS
Most people have read of "givin
a prisoner the third degree" pra
tice that has become common anon
Iatter-day sleuths and arresting of
GERS, but few have any idea of Whf
a brutal and really infamous pTactiC
the third degree" is; that the pre-
cedure is absolutely illegal and
disgrace to civilized and human
people.
That such is the truth gives rar
force and timeIiness to this editoris
article from a Texas contemporar!
the Houston Post:
The Norfolk Tirginian Pilot
calls attention to the practice
that has become quite common
with the police authorities Of
many American cities of seek
ing to eXtOrt confessions from
accused persons by applying to
them tOrtures that are alike vio-
lative of every principle of law
and shocking to the dullest
sense of humanity In showing
to what extremes the practice is
carried it cites the instance of
a woman to whom Slight cir
cumstances pointed as an ac-
complete in the murder of her
husband. The woman was taken
from the Jail in the dead of
night, hurried to the local
morgue and there confronted
with the nude and bleeding
corpse of the man to whom she
had plighted her faith Her
collapse gave every sign of hor-
rOr and grief, but none Of guilt.
But suppose it had been 9TH
erwise," says the journal re-
ferred to. Suppose she had
been shocked into damaging
admissions. No respectable
court would have tolerated the
production Of evidence so OBJ
tanned.
For the detection of crime
the law gives officials ample
latitude without resort to the
cruel methods that find eupho-
NOUS definition in the term
third degree" Every person is
entitled to the presumption of
innocence until duly convicted
of crime, and no person can law
fully be compelled to bear testi-
mony against himself. Yet the
fact is notorious that both of
these fundamental safeguards of
the rights Of individuals are
ruthlessly torn away from the
suspect who falls into the hands
Of the sleuths of many of our
American cities.
1t is high time the courts
were intervening to put stop
to the practice, otherwise the
time will come when all the
cruelties of the Spanish inquist-
ton will be practiced in our own
midst, 1t is the proud boast of
this country that all are equal
before the law, but if such
practices as described above are
allowed to continue the claim
will be nothing less than mock
cry.
We are indeed glad to see this
umane and just view of this matter
oming from great papers like the
irginian-Pilot and the Houston
ost. Their influence should hav,
reat force and value in CORRECTING
ne evil.
Too many judges, we regret t.
ly, seem to be Indifferent to the
'uelty and illegally of the "thirc
egree." There are here and there
ldges, however, who have the cour
&c and the humanity to raise thei1
oices against the wrong, and al
ldges should do that and stop the
tterly unwarranted procedure. ANY
ldge who desires to suppress i
ill find means to do so.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

Judge Lands said $29,240OOO,
but a higher court of Uncle Sans
says $4,000 will be enough for
Standard Oil to pay as penalty in
the Illinois rebate cases. Those fig
ures will look seemly to the Stand
ard group, and may be more just
than the Lands decree. Confisca-
ton is not one of the penalties that
civilized people propose for law vio-
lators save illicit distilleries and
counterfeiting plants.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

Mr. T. A. J Majors, for many
years one of the good newspaper
men of the state, has begun the pub
hcation of the Argus at Douglas
Vile. It's a bright and interesting
paper, too. Luck to him and his new
baby.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

Every word of this from the Perry
Home Journal about an organization
which has done much to stimulate
and benefit the farmers is true,
and gives credit where it is de-
served: THE Farmers Union in
Georgia will be largely responsible
for a greater degree of intensive
farming and diversified crops in the
state this year This alone will es-
tablish the order as a valuable and
most worthy organization"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

All the newspapers have had edi-
-orials on The Passing of Roose-
5elt,' but The News hasn't read any
Of them. It's sufficient to know that
he has passed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
Dawson Judged by The News.

From the Griffin Farmer.
The Dawson News is one of the
best weeklies of which we have anv
knowledge-ten pages and every
one of them up to the highest stand
ard, Judged by its paper Dawson
must be a wonderfully good town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

The friends of w. L. Williamson
of Commerce are pushing him for
commissioner of agriculture when
Tom Hudson resigns to run for con-
gress in the Third district" is what
we read in the newspapers. When
Tom resigns-well that's a good
joke on Williamson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

A healthy man is king in his own
right; an unhealthy man is as uD-
happy slave. Burdock Blood Bitters
builds up sound health-keeps you
we'll. '"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

They are talking now about MAX
ing Mr.. Taft a farmer on sight. "
We missed our opportunity in not
making him democrat on sight
when we had him down here in
Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

Lots Of corn is being planted in
Southwest Georgia just now; thou
sands of acres in Terrell county.
Here's hoping for a glorious yield
of the staff of life.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10

The Darien Gazette says Senator
Bacon is a great senator. Correct,
as usual