Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-08-30
FOR THE UPBUILDLNG OF GEORGIA.

unhampered
progress always constructive its aim and results
This the spirit and the great purpose of Progressive
Democracy Georgia Whatever has done in the past for the
of ills but the larger end of upbuldng
broadening enrchng the life of the whole people,
The gubernatora campaign only incident in
progress The day after the primary The journal
urged Lets forget and fall to work. The principles 1t eab
broad and that they will bless those who
lately thought and effort henceforh
bring good harvest of which these policies
the seed.
This specifically that the laws established by Georga
Progressive that the work or
public building strengthened and amphed that
plans for extending the Western and Atlantic
railroad thereby vastly increasing the value OF this
splendid property bneg every phase the states COM
mercia @ and of all that the of educaton
particularly with respect agriculture and rural communities
be upbuilt.
Three of the laws and that
be perpeuated the pure election law the railroad COM
negro dsfranchement law Each OF these
highly constructive in character and
guarantees the purity and power of the ballot 1t
enables citizens Georgia control their affairs at the
polls By fixing the registration period sufficiently in advance
elections guards against the importation OF purchasab and
floating voters the time giving bona fde citizen
ample opportunity for registering Honest elections are
the foundation of good This the one aim ana Inc
great accomplishment the pure election law in Georgia
The railroad commission law likewise preemneny con-
substantially the that under which the
vast commercial York and Massachusetts,
propering nondustra development security
of investments just and effective laws. Every public
company Georgia enjoys equal rights and protection
merchant the manufacturer the farmer and the people
large They could ask and they given no less And
their splendid the present railroad
mission established by progressive Democracy they have
thrivn before No in the union holds out arer
capital its ter consideration than
Georgia The very fact that the public well public
corporations assured deal larger
portunities for them both.
The negro Acknowledgement law of the earliest and
is still essential achievements of Progressive
its
majority half the counties of Georgia and had they been organ
by designing politicians could have controlled the election
public officials But under the Acknowledgement ac
strengthened by the registration their influence has become
negligible This law represents antagonm The fact is
the Negroes well societys good and in
dosed by sanes enlightened thinkers quarter
of the union.
The integrity of all these laws means development the
continued state politically industrialy and
cay To them will be of the aims of Progressive
Democracy
still other constructive work to be done Under
the administration of Smith 1907 1909 there
passed abohng the convict lease system The states
victs private and put to work build
good roads for the pubic profit Within single year after
the had nauguaed six thousand miles of roads
graded and made and fifteen thousand miles of
considerably improved The cost of convict
the county only forty fifty cents day. Thus the counties
getting their highways constructed for about half OF what
they formerly paid By developing this system broadly and
definitely by encouraging its general spirit and assisting in the
perfection its details Progressive Democracy render
enduring service farmer land owner and
merchant and school child in the state
The Macon convention declared in 1906
o
o
contemplated Cir
seriously the question
Of Its
To this great plan and far possible to carry
effect should be of the browning efforts of Progressive
Democracy Throughout the union there few lines of railroad
which, taken mile by mile valuable than the Western
and Atlantic 1t is of Geoga priceless assets but i'm
portan still of her largest opportunities for commercial
growth extended the sea- fathers originally intended
with outlet through the of Savannah and Brunswick
would the continental trunk lines of the
mighs industrial highways in America The wholesome
petition established would very large extent settle the
question of fair freight rates New territory would be opened
called into being The Importance of
summating enterprise becomes especially striking when it