The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-07-30
Reflected Dissertations
BY MAX {. LAND.

News comes from Atlanta that our
Legislature is busy outside playing pol
itics, while the business of the state
is suffering for lack of attention, and
that the speaker is threatening to have
members arrested in order to get
quorum for the transaction of bust
ness. ...
Politics is becoming the, enemy of
all business, even the business of pol
itics and chaos and confusion, seems
to be the order of the day. This is
certainly bad report for the law-mak-
ers, especially when they have so
many matters of importance before
them. o. T..
There is the state road matter, the
state warehouse, bill, the highway
commission bill, the, biennial sessions
bill, the educational bills and many
others. l suppose the bill which is
receiving the most attention is the
one which proposes to give the peo-
pie of Savannah the right to vote for
mayor This bill carries enough fuss
and feathers and exploitation to en-
gage the attention of the average leg
islator and predict it will hold the
front of the state, while the business
bills which concern the rest of the
people of the state will go dormant.
1t is a pity there are not enough
business men in the legislature who
would play business and not politics
with our state railroad, and recon-
mend that it be sold. Georgia should
get out Of debt and stop having to bor-
row money to pay school teachers and
Did soldiers pensions. l heard HON.
Joe Hill Hall say this same thing ten
years ago, and time has more clearly
demonstrated the far seeing wisdom OF
this man. Every man, according to
his own view, but to my mind Joe Hill
Hall was, and is today, the most I'M
selfish, the wisest, safest and most &C
curate statesman Georgia has had
since the days of Alex Stephens and
Ben Hill. He has not been properly
appreciated because he has always
been big enough and conscientious
enough to take the right side of ques-
tons, whether they were popular at
the time or not. AS the years pass the
more | am convinced that we Geor-
gians failed to appreciate our greatest
man, one who is the expansion of his
thought and the sincerity of his pur-
pose was another Thomas Carlyle.
Good business demands that the
road be sold before the other roads
render it worthless or worth fifty
cents on the dollar Building the road
| to the sea is step in the face OF the
Constitution which forbids the state
| % build railroads or issue bonds there
| for Besides how can the state occu-
by the conflicting position Of prohibit
ng a parallel North Of Atlanta while
commanding one south, in proposing
TO extend to the sea? Talk of an eX-
pert accountant or business man OF
good Judgment, who is familiar with
the proceedings of the Louisville &
Nashville and he will say by all means
the road should be sold before it is
too late. Still politicians who must
have votes follow the old and suppos-
eddy popular argument to hold the road
and extend it to the sea. There is
every reason why it should be sold
and no good reason. save politics, why
it should become a loss to the state.
| President Wilson must think Ohio is
the most independent or doubtful
state in the union the way he goes
I'D there in making appointments. 1t
| is seldom he hits south of the Mason
and Dixon line. He did go over to
New York to get Isadore Tkus Elkus to
send as envoy TO Turkey. The name
and place seem to blend most har-