Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-31
THE MOST ASLNL1IE ACT
IN THE ANNALS OF GEORGIA

The most asnre act ever committed by a public official in
Georgia Brown last week when he ordered
troops the Durham coal mines because handful Oh WORK
ngmen had fallen out with their employers
doing only brought the highest office of the state
but he also prcptated affair that
might easily resulted in boodshed death Either IN
ignorance law he overepped all civil auhorl
ties all legal precedents peme upon peaceful community
thrust military force the i'll temper OF eighteen laa
consulting the judge OF the circuit the mayor
the sheriff of the he called out soldiers 10 seCe
agreement which as subsequent developments have shown was
only such as unnOced throughout the country almost every
month in the year.
And in order that the might carried to its end these
terrible eighteen laborers they had been captured ana
brought under the yoke actually paroed like prisoners Oh
banhed from the state Was there ever such ahoh
conquest back from Gaul9 We wonder inc
governor saw enemys flag captured too ana
trumphanty his feet the capltolf woud serve m "
an appropriate ensign the gubernatoa war this summer
present administration lies in the history OF georgia Inc
only four sprouts OF activity thrust ino w
Space only four official acts that can IN any SENSE "
likened deeds
First comes Governor proposal issue bonds in order
TO nav the teachers salaries When this brilliant suggestion
sprang from BRAIN finances of the state were IN
amply able to take teachers He might as well nave
proposed well water to keep the ocean from gong
Yet wanted plunge the state In debt SIMPLY 10 make
The next act of the that not to say
beous Misrepresentation of the state treasury Georgia was
pictured as of old Mother Hubbard without Done IN n
previous the OF it. Figures were
to order the state closed the year 1909 IN better
condition than it had all its history The present ao
mnsration predicted deficit of about million dollars On
January 1910 that day there was over four hunoreo
Thousand dollars of actual cash in the treasury.
His third act a arbitrary refusal to execute
legislature when 1T instructed MIN TO
for the states road valuable terminal lands at Ch
noopa Thereby Of the greatest opportunities
the state ever had this day he has been able TO give
a reason for his conduct
The last act to Brown has managed some
how TO besr himself incident of the Durham mines last
Wednesday night four things the sum total OF what
he has done oceand marvellous to relate ne
was dead wrong every proposition They constitute his mag
contribution the of Georgia Ihy represent
his pledges to up business of the state at hom 10
heighten and make good that promised
miracle of the loaves and fshes-'Brown and Bread ~
It thing order out the troops OF state Mill
ary force desperate of TO
itself When bayonets sinks and get ready to spin
their blood wisely provided in the constitution OF our
states of all Anglo Saxon people that military
force shall civil law unless most dangerous Ill de-
mands The OF Georgia is not warranted
in calling out troops he has the OF responsible civil
authorities that troops needed
ordering of the national guard to GOV
ernor Brown provocaon lie had only
long distance from private individual had
there been loss among soldiers citizens aborers OF
that community would have amounted to murder and Governor
Brown would have been morally accountable TOR It,
naturally mortlfed over what nap
pened at Durham but they are not surprised