The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-29
GOV. STATIONS
ADDRESS TO THE
GA. LEGISLATURE
Continued From Page One.


Mr.. President, Mr.. Speaker, and Gen.
tlemen of the General Assembly:
The progress of the world has been
accomplished by the optimist. He has
discovered new countries, builded
railroads, united continents, estab,
lished cities, founded institutions OF
learning, anG by his faith and courage
has proved a benefactor of his fellow.
man. Never have the people of Geor
gia had greater reason to be proud of
her achievements, nor more sanguine
of her future, than at present. In the
exercise of it, governmental functions
1t is rendering more service and con-
tributing more to the happiness of her
citizens than ever before.
Thirty years ago, struggling under
the burdens of the Civil war, our brave
and patriotic fore-fathers could hardly
provide more than the protection of
the courts, with a scanty allowance
for the education of her youth.
For the year. 1918, Georgia appro
priated $3.50, 100000 to her public
schools, of which nearly $4,000, 100000
comes directly from the Treasury No
larger amount is directly appropriated
by any Southern State, and almost by
no State in the Union. In those States
(which contributed much more than
Georgia for educational purposes the
honey is raised by local taxation.
+o+o
kne plan of working her convicts
roads in leu of hiring them to
parties and receiving the pro-
he + labor into her Treasury
has conferred on rural COM
IS Unreasonable benefits in rem
the markets accessible to theil
acts, has made possible the estab
ut of easier intercourse with their
gighbors. has caused the improve
hlent of their school, the facilitation OF
rural mail delivery, and has enhanced
to an Unreasonable extent the value
of their lands 1t is reported by the
United States Government that, in
1911, more work was done on the roads
of Georgia than in any other State,
New York alone excepted.
She has established her College of
Agriculture. and her Agricultural
Schoolsfm every District in Georgia.
where the farmer boys may learn the
dignity of their calling, and the high
ability and education which it's. intelli,
gent pursuit requires. By the instruc-
ton afforded along these lines her cit
liens are taught the scientific meth
DDS of multiplying the products of the
soil, and of Graduating those evils
which have ever menaced farm life. In
the increased production of corn, in
soil examination and the scientific sd.
plication of fertilizers, by the raising
of meat instead of it's purchase, stimu-
lated by knowledge of the means for
the eradication of diseases of hogs and
cattle, our farms receive a greater
charm, and our farmers a larger re-
ward for their labors
States Finances.
| desire to impress upon you with
all the force that a solemn duty com.
mands, that it is imperative for you to
make an investigation into the finan-
cial condition of the State, to consider
the reasons occasioning the present
situation and to take steps for the i'm
mediate correction of the evil. 1t is
not the part of the patriot to SHUT his
eyes to danger and to rush heedlessly
to ruin. Our wise Observation-Disclosures
men who never departed from original
of the histo-
ries and fatal lessons of other peoples
by constitutional provis-
ion to safeguard the expenditure of the
peoples money, and by the clearest
constitutional mandate to prevent the
incurrence of debt. They regarded the
payment of public debt as matter of
public honor, and every Georgian has
inherited that lofty Sconception of pub
lie duty
In 1884, 1890, 1894, 1900, 1908, the
people provided by Constitutional
for additional classes OF
pensioners, or Acts were passed in
pursuance of such amendments. When
the Constitutional amendment limiting
the tax rate to five mills was passed
= 1904, the sum appropriated to pen
sions was 1866, 100000 In that year
appropriated to Public Schools
from ad yalorem taxes, was $1,000
10000.
Now the amount appropriated to
Public Schools directly from the
Treasury, is approximately 100000.
While we are increasing the appro-
priations on the one hand, we have
been cutting off revenue on the other
hand
In 1908, the site received from the
hire of convicts be sum of $3.50, 70944. |
In 1909 t2nSe 5 received from this
source III 1854 $500 or loss I
Of = ,S18.3J. Since 1909, 1
n received into the
is source. Taking .
in 1908 as the ba- (
e hire of convicts
much less than .
z now, the Treas
have lost from
year 1908 to the
IL, the sum of
tay amounted IN