The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-04-19
Georgia's Industrial Development
Halted by Socialistic Doctrine
Promoted by Atlanta Newspapers

cry branch of our state government
gave ample protection to outside in
vestors, but the recent activities OF
the Municipal Leag6e, and the vicious
attacks on the Railroad Commission
have been so well advertised by the
Atlanta papers that have found east
ern capitalists very slow to furnish
the money that is the very life blood
of my business.
THE Atlanta people and the At
lanta papers would resent the idea
that they have been doing great dam
age to the state as a whole by their
attacks on capital, and | will credit
them with having done this ignorantly
and without intending the far reaching
effects of their acts, but they have
given the state so much adverse ad-
vertiSing that | find my business
greatly affected, and the eastern CAPT
talists have frankly told me that they
do not care to put money in the state
whose capital city is SO tainted with
bolsheviSm.
The leaders of the Municipal
League may mean WE'LL but their doc
trine and their ideas do not appeal to
the men to whom | have to go for
money to develop my business. Those
hard-headed business men are salts
fed with a small rate of interest, but
they demand complete safety OF their
investment, and insist that the moral
risk be reduced to the minimum.
THE Municipal League may not
know that there are in South Georgia
! about sixty thousand acres of magnl-
fcent pecan orchards, and that al
most every orchard has been financed
by northern men. The nut crop brings
into Georgia about 100000 annual
ly, which will largely increase as the
years go by, and practically every
dollar of this is due either directly or
indirectly to the outside money that
made it possible to bring these or
chards to maturity.
at may seem far cry from water
power to pecan orchards, but the
same type of men finance both, and
they have already become weary about
| helping us to build our pecan or
chards, and frankly tell me they fear
for the safety of their investments, 1t
the enthusiastic dreamers of the Mu-
nicipal League get control OF our leg
| islature.
Il have no personal or financial in
terest in any corporation in the state,
except in certain pecan orchards IN
Randolph Calhoun, Lee, Dougherty
and Mitchell counties.
Il have no interest nor concern in
the Atlanta gas rate, nor do care in
the least whether or not Atlanta buys
or makes her own power, but when
self-seeking politicians would, with
one hand, tear down our constitution
al limitation on taxation, while with
the other they wave the red flag OF
socialism, then l feel that it is time
for the sober minded business men OF
Georgia to get in the fight, and sweep
those fellows into the political rubbish
heap.
| "You have my best wishes in your
manly fight against the nefarious
schemes of the Municipal League, and
hope that you will feel free to call
on me, if | can assist you in any way,
not as a lawyer, but as business man
who is proud of his native state, and
proud of the part he has taken in
helping to build up some of the waste
places of South Georgia.
again assuring you of my interest,
and with highest personal regards and
best wishes, | am,
"Yours very truly,
| (adv. "a. S. PERRY.