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~ CONVICTED REHABILITATION
CONVICTED N1TRS NtiJeC1oN
A SET OF THINKS.

Think what Stephenson did in inventing the steam
locomotive
Think what Robert Fulton did when he built the
steamboat
Think what Samuel Morse did, who thought out the
first telegraph.
Think what Elias Howe did when ne invented the
first sewing machine
Think what Mccormick did, who invented the first
harvesting machine
Think what A. Graham Bell did, who invented the
telephone.
Think what Thomas A. Edison did with incandes-
cent light and electricity.
Think what Jacob Ritty did when he invented the
cash register
That is not all by a good deal: Think OF wireless
teIegraphy " which messages pass through the air,
without wires carry them. and what skilled surgeons
have been able to do to human life, and of the
x-ray. by which they example the interior of the
body from the outside etc, etc.
/ girl nine years old when the first message
passed over telegraph wire giving news of Folks
election.
was girl seventeen when I first the stitch
ing done by a sewing machine. married wom-
when the first harvesting machine, and saw
the first sleeping after the Civil war closed
i the first telephone used by the government,
which stretched between the capitol in Washington
to the government printing office. half mile distant
I saw the photograph exhibited. in Washington
City. over thirty years ago in the capitol
I any kerosene oil until after the Civil
war. We used candles and dangerous burning fluid
in glass lamps when did not use loud-smelng hsh
oil to burn.
These great inventors are whose names will
linger long after blatant politicians forgotten
I believe with all my heart that Thomas Edison is
the most famous planet He is called
Wizard, because he makes electricity do magic won
ders After surfet politics it is restfu to think,
and Think and think of what great men We have had
in science and invention.
THE MOST COSTLY THING Is CRIME.
heard preacher say some days ago that Harry
Thaw VINO killed man who had beer too intimate
with Thaw's wife, had cost New York state more than
100000. Thaw lives much longer in the New York
insane asylum he will perhaps cost much more.
Whenever you stop to consider what tax money
forthe courts judges bailis. sneris, prosecute
ing attorneys prisons chain gangs, not count the
lawmakers and prison commissiOns-you will agree
with most costly thing so far as money
goes. is crime criminal prosecutions. etc.
We spend untold millions battleships naval
yards marines, etc. Also more money is spent on
armies, soldiers, pensions awful drain
the taxpayers, but still the most costly thing
the nation is crime.
Why? Because the criminal does more narm to
cety more damage to domestic happiness and
deadly harm to the individual than everything else
And the harm to the individual cannot be reconed in
money because it is impossible to itemiZe the extent
1t. It not only aaicts the criminal unit but every
thing that is related to the criminal 1t begets nsan
ity well as depravity 1t affects the unborn as well
the living. 1t debases the innocent and robs child
hood of it's Joy and comfort 1t makes the mothers Of
shiver with anxiety and agony, until the afflicted
out How much better If he or she had died
at BIRTH"
And crime begets crime II
The herdng together of criminals is making
prison gangs crime centers 1t is well known that
hardened prisoners rest until they get back under
another expire They delight
in scattering crime in the minds Of Juvenile pris
ers. old pens that prevailed in Georgia
from 1857 absolute sinks of perditon The
half never told of them Yet the taxpayers were
forced to pay enormous to capture and convict
Them and seemed helpless to relief or reform How
they the spigot and lose at the bung? How
they strain at gnats and swallow camels? The most
deadly thing in time or eternity is crime
WHO DID THE GEORGIA DEMOCRATS VOTE FoRP
The primary vote for slaton last summer, when Hon
John NJ slaton nominated. counted at 10000
Hon J. H Hall got about $4,000 10000, and Colonel
Hooper Alexander 41,OO0. The election for pres
dent November has the official vote numbered at
$4,000 Now where is the remainder? It was Demo-
cratic primary in July and Democratic vote in No
vember but there $4,000 10000 Democratic
votes missing. Where are they?
In 1908 there Republican vote of nearly AZ
600 and a Populist vote of 1900. which adds up
fraction less than 10000 This Mr. Taft got 5000
against mis- 4s80O 1905 Colonel Roosevelt is al
lowed $4,000. What became Of the $4,000 Republican
votes in Georgia? somebody would explain be-
cause Democratic party actually beat the bushes
getting every possible Democratic voter to the polls
few days ago. and count only $4,000 OF the Demo
Gratis who voted Democratic primary last July to
the tune of 10000.
Governor Wilson did not get the Slaon vote by 20
000 and there is no report from those VINO Fosu Ao
and Alexander Surely these Things 90 nlysnIy!
And the national Prohibition ticket got only 14T
votes in the of Georgia. although they had
an organizer going all Georgia drumming up
crowds and las / am informed) getting SzVO Week
and EXPENSES He came to Gainesville and GRATED,
after he went to Atlanta and to preachers meeting
and where he drubbed out the preachers, calling them
towards and nypoerites!
And there is actually less vote to county!
IF national Prohibition has not petered out what has
beoome of the party? One hundred and forty~seven
votes for this party of high moral ideas and exalted
citizenshp-out of 100000.
Doesn't it beat the band?
The negro question mad nothing to do with the re-
suit year. far negro voting Is concerned II
"a NV opinion they decided not to vote at ALL very
sensible conclusion when their votes amount to moth
ing as usually counted.
But 1 want somebody to tell me what went Win
those Democrats who voted in July Democratic pri-
mary to the tune 10000 for saton 41O0e for Alex
ander and $4,000 or 10000 for Joe Hill Hall? There's
oonundrum in this voting business because the very