The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-31
GEORGIAN OPPOSES
PROTEST MEETINGS
Says We Should Sweep Before Our
Own Door Before Trying to
Helm Others.


Help Others.
Editor of The News: AS an hum
BILE resident of Terrell county l can
not refrain from expressing the nope
that any movement among our people
passing resolutions condemning the
Cobb county mob shall be promptly
squelched. Such action would put US
in the class with those Pharisees and
hypOcrites in other sections, who are
right now shutting their eyes to sins
at their own doors while they point
the finger of scorn at Georgia. We
cannot consistently endorse Terrell
county mobs and rail at laWlessness
in other sections. 1t is just such
conduct that is making some of our
citizens appear ridiculous in the eyes
of outsiders who do not forget. We
all know perfectly well that crimes
have been committed right at our
door and the perpetrators have gone
scot free because Of political intiu-
ence. These are painful facts, but
| do not believe we can do anything
better for our state just at this hour
of her trial than to think on these
things. When we failed to stand for
what we knew was right in certain
matters here at home we helped to
lower the moral tone of the entire
state. No amount of whiteWashing
can ever remove the stain. Each CIT
iZen is in a measure responsible for
local conditions, and leaving other
communities to solve their own SAD
problems, it seems to me the best We
can do is to repent of past mistakes
and put forth our best efforts as in
dividuals to obey the law ourselves
and see that it is enforced by the
powers that be-" We do not need
instruction in law and order from
Boston, Chicago or New York, and
for one l am heartily sick of their
meddling in our affairs. No state in
the union has nobler citizenship
than our own, and l am tired of being
told that we should bury our heads
in the dust over Georgia's shame. l
do not intend to get in that attitude.
lift my head just little higher
this bright morning in thankfulness
that large majority of our people
stand for law and order. All hail to
the Empire State! Just little bet
ter than ever before l love her loyal
sons and daughters and every foot of
her sacred soil. The masses of our
people are no more responsible for
the terrible murder in Cobb county
that has shocked the world than l.
Georgia's good name has many times
suffered from the schemes of politl-
clans who care more for their own
advancement than they do the repu-
tatiOn of their state.
We don't need the rawlings of the
people up north to convince US
that mob rule is a crime and a dis
grace. Right thinking people in
Georgia are just as much opposed to
! IawleSsness as the self-righteOus med
dlers in other parts of the country,
who are holding US UP as unciyillzed
savages. i come of race of people
who have for generations stood un-
compromising against every form
of lawlessness and from my youth |
have been taught that only towards
90 forth under cover of darkness to
wreak vengeance on helpless victims.
Mature years have in no sense chang
ed my views. Was it necessary to
raise large sums of money that JUS
tice be done a prisoner at the bar OF
Georgia? If so that is our shame.
mission, the governor be depended
on to do their full duty as they were
sworn to do? If not that is the blot.
Personally l thank God that as long
as there was some doubt of the pris-
Cners guilt his sentence was COM
muted so that we were saved the no.
ror of judicial murder, but | verify
believe the activities of certain indi-
viduals who insulted the intelligence
of our people by running up and
down the state to create sentiment
did more than anything else to lash
into fury irresponsibles who executed
the dastardly deed. So, from my
point of view in this mob business,
it would be more becoming in us to
use only the soft pedal as we register
high resolves to make better our own
good town and county. Yours for
rich and poor alike, GEORGIAN.