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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
A TEMPERANCE SERMON.

From The Jeffersonian
Last year the Jeffersonian pub
lished a brief editorial entitled 1.-The
Wine Cup" 1t struck a popular
chord. and was copied throughout
the union. From this country it
went to Europe, and so far as we
know is still on its travels.
An old friend, writing to us a few
weeks ago, expressed a wish for an
other article on Temperance.
Well, here is another. We were on
the cars going to Atlanta, our COM
panion being the best physician in
middle Georgia. The door at the
upper end of the coach was thrust
open, and in came a boy with his
arm full of small black bottles, cry
ing: lice cold Coca-Cola.'' The
doctor paused in his talk, glanced at
the boy and remarked to us in a
tone of quiet, deep conviction:
That stuff is doing more harm
than all the barrOoms dido
In former years soda water and
other harmless drinks were sold on
the cars. You won't find any of them
now. Coca-Cola has driven them out.
Every train is a Coca-Cola distribu-
tor, every passenger coach a purveyor
of hell.
Never until the advent of that in
sidiOus foe to human mind and
morals did anyone ever witness the
shocking spectacle of white ladies,
with upturned bottles at their
mouths, swill:ng a pernicious tipple
in public.
Any man, woman, boy or girl who
campers with Coca-Cola will form the
Coca-Cola habit. Any man, woman,
boy or girl who has become a slave
to the Coca-Cola habit is on the road
to ruin.
The appetite, like the whiskey
thirst, will establish a mastery over
the victim. 1t will demand more and
more. 1t will go from one glass per
day to two, and from two to four,
and from four to eight, and from
eight to sixteen.
1t will injure the eyes, wreck the
nerves, weaken the brain, loosen the
moral structure.
1t were better that your boy were
a drunkard than COca-Cola fiend.
In the one case there is always hope
for reformation, in the other there
seldom is. Bad as it would be for
your daughter to drink wine, far
worse is it for her to be the slave
of Coca-Cola.
What towards and hypocrites we
are! Any of us can preach against
John Barleycorn, damn the demon
Rum" and bang the barrooms, but
who dares to go up against a worse
foe to humanity's future than John
B. has been? Nobody.
Why?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
Mr.. Bryan as Senator.
the New York World.

From the New York World.
Regardless of any political differ
ences The World wishes Mr.. Bryan
we'll in his candidacy for United
States senator from Nebraska to
succeed Mr.. Burkett, whose term ex-
pfres in 1911. We say this without
modifying in any way our opposition
to many of the policies that he has
advocated or our dissent from many
of the principles that he upholds.
Mr.. Bryan would make good
senator. He would try to represent
the people, not the corporations, and
he would bring qualities of a very
high order to the upper house of
congress. He is an excellent debater,
able, eloquent and resourceful, and
would render a far greater service
to his party on the floor of the SEN
ate than he ever can as a candidate
for president.
Nebraska could not make a better
choice, and if the new primary sys-
tenn of that state enables Mr. Bryan
to become a United States senator
we shall consider his election a
great triumph for the principles
of direct nominations.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
HAS PLANTED LESS COTTON.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat
has presented its first cotton report
for 1909. The entire south, or the
cotton growing section, is covered
as late as June 10th, and the
Times-Democrat summarizes the con-
illusions warranted by its reports
as follows: (1) There has been a
moderate decrease from last year in
acreage, probably six per cent. CD
Taking the condition of the belt as
a whole the condition of the plant
leaves much to be desired. CD The
supply of labor, as whole, is ade-
quate.
We regard the estimates as pre-
scented by the Times-Democrat each
year as exceptionally intelligent and
reliable in character, and therefore
valuable. The extensive resources of
the paper and the comprehensive or
ganization of its facilities make it's
reports dependable.
Hence, We reach the conclusion
that it is safe to say the south has
planted less cotton than last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
THE CITY CHARTER.

The proposed new city charter as
adopted at a mass meeting of the
citizens of Dawson and recommended
to the mayor and council and the
senator and representative in the
general assembly for their favorable
consideration is printed in full in this
issue of The News.
The matter of new charter, or
constitution, is one that concerns all
the people, and there can certainly
be no objection to letting the people
who own the property, pay the
taxes and are interested in the city's
affairs-make known their ideas and
wishes.
What should be kept in mind by
all well-meaning citizens-all who
stand for the best interests of Daw-
sons that the consideration of
this matter is public, not personal
1t is simply a discussion of measures
and methods, an interchange of
views, and The News insists, there
fore, that it should not be invested
with acrimOny or personality, but
that harmony and friendly feeling
should prevail.
The mayor and council will no
doubt accede to the expressed wish
es of the people and present the
lcharter as agreed upon to the gen.
eral assembly, and it will no doubt
be the pleasure of the senator and
the representative to pass it through
that body.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
THE SAME IN OTHER TOWNS.
E Lawrenceville News.

From the Lawrenceville News.
This town is growing. Take The
News word for it. 1t would be
worth a great deal more, however, if
the improvements were along indus
trial lines instead of in buildings
Dawson News.
That's the trouble with other
towns. People put their money in
dwellings and not in industrial
plants, and soon they have a pie
thora of empty buildings. That is
the trouble with Marietta now. Our
people have not consolidated their
capital by forming stock companies
and building factories, but have built
more houses than they have tenants
for. What we want to do is to build
industrial plants in Marietta and
give people employment; then we
will take on greater business activity
Marietta is growing all right, but
not in factOries.-Marietta Journal.
The same state of affairs exists
in Lawrenceville. During the last
few years there have been numbers
of handsome residences erected, and
the good work is still going on, but
the same trouble obtains here as
elsewhere, namely: no establishment
of small industries, such as machine
shops, furniture plants, spoke and
handle factories, canneries and num-
berless other enterprises which do
much toward the upbuilding of a city.
Every town should have a wide
awake board of trade, which would
watch out for prospective investors
and encourage the location of indus
trial plants. These things are the life
Of community, and the sooner we
realize this fact the more advanced
will be our progress.
1t has been truly said that the
men who do town more harm than
good may be classified as follows:
First, those who oppose improve
ment
Second, those who run it down to
strangers.
Third, those who do not advertise
their business.
Fourth, those who distrust public
spirited men.
Fifth, those who show no hospital
ity to any one.
Sixth, those who hate to see 9TH
ers make money.
Seventh, those who oppose every
movement that does not originate
with themselves.
Eighth, those who put on long
faces when stranger speaks of To-
eating in their town.
Ninth, those who oppose every
public enterprise which does not ap-
pear of personal benefit to them
selves.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
THE TOWN THAT PUSH BUILT

In this issue of The News we print
the second of a series of pictures en-
titled THE Town That Push Built"
being part of our constant and con-
sistent efforts to push Dawson.
In nine chapters the wages of a
workman are traced through the ave-
nues of trade until the money is back
in the workman's pockets.
Several lessons are taught
Money spent at home comes back
to the spender. That sent away is
gone forever
By trading with home people we
help Push build up the town-we
help ourselves.
The two forces that go hand in
hand to build towns are buying of
the home merchants and advertising.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

The Marietta Journal truthfully
says that the new law requiring a
voter to register six months before
an election is calculated to disfran-
chise more voters than any law ever
enacted, because voters will neglect
to register that far in advance of an
election. Among the first things the
legislature does should be to amend
this law so that the registration
books shall not close earlier than
thirty or sixty days before an cleo
ton.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
Guyte Put EN- to Sleen.

From the Americas Times-Recorder
The port rate question, it is said
has been decided adversely to the
Atlanta contention, which also means
adversely to Governor Hoke Smiths
views. The port rate question cut a
wide swath in the governors first
campaign, but after his election was
permitted to lapse into that condition
which Grover Cleveland labeled lin
ocuous desuetude." Recently it was
revamped, and now the finishing
blow has been administered to it by
the governors appointee, Chairman
McLendon, who gave the deciding
vote against it. Outside of Atlanta
the state will accept the decision
with considerable equanimity. 1t has
always been looked upon as an At
lanta scheme to promote it's own in
terests.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
BASEBALL.

The hold baseball has upon the
affection of Americans is surprising.
In our greatest communities this is
the more developed, and the more
astonishing.
The people of the United States
pay nearly $11,000,000 into the
treasures of the clubs, and this rep
sents in patrons only about half of
those who see the games one way or
the other. From those perched on
trees or buildings overlooking the
enclosed grounds in the cities to see
the game without paying at the gate
fresh air deadheads-to those who
on the village green see juvenile
America disport itself the numbers
are well nigh countless.
With a payroll of nearly $1,000
900 for those hired to play the sala-
ries of the leading men for a season
of half year are not to be despised.
Even college graduates do not hest
tate to adopt the profession. one
fielder was paid $4,000 last year;
several received $4,000; while So
600 to $4,000 salaries were plenti-
full. Philadelphia and Pittsburg have
made so much money that each has
park in which $1,0OO,OOO is invest
ed Chicago, not to be outdone, is to
have one which will cost $1,500,000.
New York will have one, under the
spur of competition, which will sur
pass her western rival some of these
days which will cost 100000.
The country is mad on several
things, but on none more than base
ball
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
Good Roads for the Farmers.

From the Savannah News.
The Dawson News says Terrell
county is not going to get excited
over the good roads movement, "but
is going along in the even tenor of
her way improving the highways for
the benefit of the farmers, and all
other citizens" THAT is just what
Pulaski has been doing for some
time" says the Hawkinsville Dis
patch and News, ''as a result of which
we now have some of the best roads
to be found in the state" The Worth
County Local is another good roads
boomer, and stresses the fact that,
as the farmers use the roads more
than any other class of people, the
farmers will derive the greatest bene-
fits from having them improved.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
+ arm Lands

$500 acres, with stock. in
Guiding mules and brood mares
hogs, COWS and goats; corn. fod,
der and all farm Implements
including reapers, binders and
other improved machinery
This magnificent farm, togeti.
er with all of the above pron-
erty, can be had for SIS an
acre.
$50 acres, four miles south NJ
Dawson, at a price that cannot
be met in any similar value.
557 acres of land in i'm
proved state of cultivation. two
and one-half miles north of
Brentwood.
$50 acres of land southwest
of Bronwood, having on it a
large quantity of hardwood
timber.
1000 acres of land in tho
Fourth district. This place is
well improved.
300 acres of land in the Sixth
district, well improved.
$50 acres three miles north
of Bronwood, including stock
VIII give you a bargain in this
and terms if desired.
100 acres lying in and lust
beyond the limits of Dawson
100 acres OF land east of
Bronwood.
400 acres of well-improved
land a mile and half from
Dawson.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
PAYING THE TEACHERS.

Governor Joe Browns plan for
paying the teachers more promptly,
announced in recent speech at Ell
berton, has met with general approx
al throughout the state. Mr. Brown
characterizes the dilatory methods of
paying teachers now in vogue as
public disgrace, and declares that
the teachers, being among the most
valuable servants of the state, should
be paid with the same regularity as
the other state officers. To bring
this about he will recommend con-
stitutional amendment authorizing
a 100000 bond issue to be used to
create permanent loan fund to be
loaned every spring to the school
fund for the payment of teachers
salaries, and to be returned to the
loan fund when the taxes are collect
ed in December.
There has been a great deal said
by some politicians and newspapers
in recent years about the teachers
being the hardest worked and
poorest paid people in Georgia" OF
course everybody knows that is not
true by a good deal, but, neverthe-
less, it is no reason why they should
not be paid their salaries just as
promptly as others who work for the
state. If Governor Brown can ar
range to do this he will deserve the
thanks of the teachers and all 9TH
era.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

There is in the state treasury
$25O,O00 derived from the license
tax, on near beer awaiting disposition
by the legislature There is no doubt
whatever that that body will be equal
to the emergency, and the money will
soon be gone a-glimmering. By thu
way, the state is getting about as
much money from the tax on near
beer as it formerly did from the
whiskey tax before the days of pro-
hibition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

While it is far from advocating
prohibition the Washington Post does
not hesitate to attack the old fallacy
that a certain amount of alcohol is
good for man, making him strong
er, DETER or more brilliant for it's
use. The Post says in this connec-
ton: That man is an exception
whose brain is cleared by the fumes
of liquor. 1t is a rare orator whose
tongue is oiled and whose magma
ton is enriched by dalliance at the
wine cup. 1t is a still more rare
man of business or action whose
nerves are steeled, thoughts polish
ed, acumen sharpened by spirituous
stimulants."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

A New York newspaper fears that
the "flippancy with which Mrs. How
ard Gould tells of spending $4,000
for chicken feed and other necessa-
ries will help to increase the general
dislike for millionaires. But the
Savannah News is not sure there is
any such general dislike. Do not the
general" Of us fall over each 9TH
er's heels to get a glimpse of a mil
lionaire as he rides by, and if per
chance he should speak to US do we
not talk about it forever afterwards?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
THE QUEEN OF SUMNER.

June, the Queen of Summer, is
with us now. 1t is the season of
brides and birds and blossoms, of
grapevine swings and sweet girl
graduates Mother Earth is carpet
ed with her richest and greenest tap
estry, and field and forest have DOM
ed their most splendid robes. 1t is
in June that Nature is at her fresh
est and best, and lovely is she be-
yond compare when her eyes sparkle
with summer sunshine, her bosom
IsWells with the pride of her finery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Either without the other fails. To-
gether they succeed.
The merchant who does not adyer-
tise in the home paper cannot con-
sistently complain when the people
of his town send to Chicago for their
goods. He is not helping Push build
the town. Why should they?
The business man who does not
patronize the home paper is failing
in his duty to the town. No institu-
ton in a town does one-tenth as
much for that town as a newspaper.
1t tells hundreds of people every
week about the advantages of the
place and depicts its life, progress
and prosperity. Yet its usefulness
is hampered where only a part of
the business interests are represent
ed in it's columns.
By advertising and trading at
home Push can build any town.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

A Texas newspaper has been urg-
ing that all shirt tails be made two
inches longer in order to create a
heavier demand and a better price for
cotton. But now business organiza-
tions are demanding that cotton bags
be substituted for jute bags in the
shipment of sugar, coffee, rice, etc.,
and if this is done the elongated shirt
tail will be unnecessary, since the
use of cotton for bag-making will
consume the surplus.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Editor White of the McDuf1e Jour
nal notes that the general assembly,
sometimes wrongfully called the
Georgia Gas Works, will swarm into
Atlanta today. Governor Smith has
already vacated the executive man
sion, and our McDufie contemporary
does not believe it is likely that the
city will be disturbed by a clash of
the peculiar political aromas of him
self and his successor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
TAX ON IMMIGRANTS.

The amendment introduced to the
pending tariff bill by United States
Senator Overman of North Carolina
seeking to place a tax of $40 on all
immigrants coming to this country
is in our opinion a good one, and
should be adopted. The object of
the amendment is two-fold; first, to
increase revenue; second, to guar
antee a better class of immigrants.
Since 1875 the population of the
United States has increased from g.
100000 to 9O,OOO,0OO. One hundred
and thirty-three years is a small span
in the life of nation, and the in
crease in population has been rapid
Unfortunately a large percentage of
the foreigners coming to this coun-
try during recent years has been of
the lower class. 1t has been neces-
sary to place ban on the influx of
Orientals to our western shores.
AS the Charlotte News says, the
south in recent years has suffer
ed from need of adequate workmen
to till It's fields and run it's factories
and mines, but we have no room for
the shiftless scum of the old world.
For the industrious, energetic set
tier who will come among us, accept
our ideas of government and society
and lend a hand in the development
of our natural resources we have
both room and welcome. A tax will
tend to keep out the worthless class.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

and her hair is decked with roses.
The corn is putting forth it's silver
tassels, soon to grow into golden
banners, and the cotton plant puts
on myriads of squares rich with
promise Of white and crimson bloom.
Light is the heart of the summer
girl, and light the draperies that
wrap her sylph-like form. Light and
joyful is the song of the birds, and
light and joyful should be the heart
of man when the gracious kiss of
June brings out the best and most
beautiful there is in nature.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Chancellor David C. Barrow of the
State University has been agreed
upon as the third arbitrator in the
dispute between the Georgia rail-
road and the striking firemen. The
other two are Congressman T. w.
Hardwick of the Tenth district and
former secretary of the navy Hillary
A. Herbert of Alabama. The high
character and integrity of these gen
tlemen leaves no doubt that justice
will be done, and whatever their YER
dict is it will be accepted by the pub
lie as the right one.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
The Old-Fashioned Father.
From the Americas Times-Recorde

From the Americus Times-RecOrder
The Moultrie Observer pleads for
the return of the old-fashioned
father who knew the way to the
peach orchard when it was necessary
to select few switches for home con-
sumption. Out of the households
regulated in this fashion, it declares,
the best and strongest men of the
south have come. Reformatory
schools weren't much in vogue when
fathers administered necessary pun
ishment as occasions arose, if the
Observers memory serves it cor
rectly
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
A LEGISLATIVE CHESTNUT.

We see it stated that Hon. Carl
Vinson, representative of Baldwin
county, has prepared a bill which he
proposes to introduce in the legisla-
ture to divide the school fund be-
tween the races according to the tax
able property returned by each"
This is an old proposition that has
whiskers on it, and long since be-
came a political chestnut. At every
session of the legislature for years
past bill of this kind has been in
PRODUCED by some budding statesman,
and just as regularly dumped into
the legislative trash pile. But it
serves its purpose-gets the legis-
lator's name in print, and lets the
people at home know that he is on
the job.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23
The Foolish Fools.

One-third of the fools in the coun-
try think they can beat a lawyer in
expounding the law One-half think
that they can beat the doctor in heal
ing the sick. Two-thirds of them
think they can put the minister in a
hole in preaching the gospel; and all
of-them think they can beat the ed
itor in running a newspaper.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Hon. John Holder, who will be
elected Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives today without opposi-
ton, is country editor-having held
forth in the sanctum of the Jeffer-
son Jackson county, Herald a long
time. He is an experienced legisla-
tor, good parliamentarian, a
splendid gentleman and we'll worthy
of the honor that will be conferred
upon him by his fellow legislators.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Now some of the papers are ener-
getically circulating report to the
effect that it is the purpose of the
new state administration to abolish
the railroad commission. Of course
nothing of the kind is contemplated
All that Governor. Brown will at
tempt to do will be to lop off the
sinecures and abolish the jobs which
were created to pay off political
debts. This he promised to do dur
ing his campaign, it is in the state
democratic platform, and the people
expect him to fulfill that pledge.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

In the next few weeks there will
be a great deal in the newspapers,
especially those that are hostile to
the incoming administration, about
what Governor Brown expects to do
and not to do. About nine-tenths
of it should be taken with a big grain
of salt-in fact, two or three of
them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Mr.. A. j. Tyson, who at one time
published a newspaper in Dawson
(The Recorder) and for a quarter
of century was a we'll known news
paper man of this section of Georgia,
died few days ago at his home near
Cordele.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-06-23

Albany is Dragging on having the
muddiest streets. The faithful old
nag of prominent citizen, while
jogging along a principal thorough
fare Monday, suddenly sank out of
sight in the soft slush, and, accord
ing to the Herald, twenty strong men
were necessary to effect a rescue.