The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-26
BIG PROGRAM OF lMPRovsM ENTs
AND NREEoRMs OUTLINED
BY HIM.
WANTS REDUCTION 0FE
RAILROAD Commission
Declares That Strikes and Fie-ups
Makes a Compulsory Arbitration
Law Necessity-He Flags Action
of the Labor Unions.

Il Law Necessity-He Flags Action
of the Labor Unions.
Atlanta, June 25 In a message
that was heard tocay with profound
attention by the general assembly.
because it outlined big program Of
improvements and reforms in Geor.
gias laws, Gov Jos. NJ. Brown urged
the legislature to amend the registra-
ton lawsS to create commissioner
Of publiNhighways; to establish the
Office g state anditor; to appoint a
committee to draw up farm credit
system; to render Georgia's tax sys-
TEN more effective; to provide an in
! hel itanee tax; to economize in appro-
priatons; to revise the penal laws
to establish compulsory arbitration
and TO uphold the power of the mi
litia.
In the course OF his message, Gov.
BROWN says
Tbs eauirement that registration
laws should S6 closed six months in
advance of regular elections is more
drastic than that in any other state
in the Union. Under the present law
upwards Of 10000 white voters in
Fulton county alone are deprived OF
the right to vote. and the total num-
Der throughout the state exceeds 49,
coo. The continuance Of the law as
now framed will bring reproach upon
the state.
Il recommend that the office of
commissioner OF public highways be
es ablished and that it be filled with
an experienced civil engineer
Il recommend that you establish
the office Of state auditor. With such
clerical force as is found needful
II recommend the appointment Of
Joint committee for the purpose of
securing and placing before our people
the most available plan of securing
for our farmers at the lowest rates
of interest such money as they may
need for the conduct of their af-
fairs.
In the enlightened view of leading
publicists and economists of our time
no reason exists why Inheritance
should not be subject to taxation.
Il suggest that the cooperative re-
lations between the state university,
the State College of Agriculture and
the district schools be made closer
han they have heretofore been.
Il urge the necessity for taking
such steps as will enable the execu-
tive office to make prompt monthly
payments on the appropriations to
The public schools. | urge your hon
orable bodies to exercise great dis.
erection and care in the matter of ap-
propriating the peoples money"
Referring to the lawless demonstra-
tions against negroes in Forsyth, Daw
SON. Cobb and other counties, he says
in part:
I am reliably informed that num-
Der OF farms in Forsyth county have
been practically abandoned this year
for lack Of labor, which has fled be-
fore these threats. The state cannot
tolerate such condition of affairs.
/ recommend the enactment of a stat
ute THAT will meet the situation above
indicated and punish all who would
impair the powers Of honest labor.
81 recommend the reduction of the
membership of the railroad commits
sion from five members to three.
Inasmuch as our penal laws have
undergone little change during the
last half century, it might be timely
for you to make inquiry looking to
amendments necessitated by changed
conditions and modern developments. -
Gov Brown reviews the harm that
has come to the public from strikes
and tie-ups. and declares that a com.
pulsory arbitration law is necessary.
Summing up the status of the strike
by employees on the public service cor
porations, we cannot fail to know
that there are more than two parties
to such strikes There is a third par
ty, the public. which is subject to
unmeTited and unnecessary inconyen
ience and loss, ad above all others
the fourth party, the state. whose
constitution the strikers have ignor
ed and whose laws they have tram
pied under foot. The executive of
fee has not made this issue. The state
of Georgia has not made 1t. The la
Dor union has openly and recklessiS
thrown down the gauntlet. The state