Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-02-21
ROYAL DANIELS
SPEAKS TO EDITORS

CAIRO, Ga.,-"The world TODAY is
sick unto death, its life stream is pol
luted with toxins of hate and suspi-
cion, and greed and poisonous germs
of devilish virilty and viciousness are
injecting its every pore, threatening
our established institutions, menacing
the very fabric of our civilization, pit
lously despoiling our virtues and cum
nlngly and insidiously undermining
the fundamentals of democratic gov
ernment
This was the startling declaration
OF Royal Daniel, Quitman editor at the
mid-winter meeting here of the Geor-
gia press Association. Mr.. Daniel was
tor many Years one of Atlanta's best
known newspaper men, whose work
placed him in the foremost rank of
Southern Journalists. Of late years he
hl conducted the Quitman Free Press
and his virile utterances have attracted
wide notice. He spoke on the subject
of "Corpusc1es and Cosmos"
We are outlawed by multiplicity
OF laws: we are b,rdened by taxation
to the breaking point; we are being
ground pitilessly but certainly be-
tween the millstones of the personal
ambitions of politicians and the evils
OF an Anticipated and inquitous sys-
tenn that makes abuses possible" de-
clared Mr.. Daniel.
He expressed the opinion that the
restlessness and resentment in the
public mind today, as he saw it, sis
the result of the system as applied to
the conduct of our government-mu-
nicipal, county, state and nation, rath-
er than any spiritual evolution or ten
dency toward contamination of our
code of morals or degeneration in our
Christian civilization"
THAT it may be understood by all,
/ will say in the terms of an universal
language" continued Mr.. Daniel and
he put it in these words: ITO hell with
politics such as they are"
Opening his address with a scorch-
ing arraignment of worlds conditions,
Mr.. Daniel, to use his own words,
hurriedly turned the pages of post
war history. He showed how quickly
the world got back to its selfishness.
We had not lost our ideals proclaim
ed from the house-tops of the war be-
cause we never possessed them, he
asserted. He pictured conditions, both
at home and abroad, citing many ex-
amples of an utter disregard of law
and humanity.
The Quitman editor expressed the
belief that redemption and salvation
shall come through the millions of vo-
ting women who, profiting through
the masculine errors of decades, will
see with clearer vision and be inspir-
ed through faith in principal rather
than friendship and personalities to
point the way"
State recommendations
Reverting to state matters, Mr.. Dan
iel recommended a business manager
for Georgia, the creation of a COM
mission to revise the statute laws, the
curtai1ment of the general assembly
to one organized body, decrease in
its membership to one member from
each congressional district and bienn-
ia1 sessions.
He told the Georgia editors that they
were the agency, so to speak, ito
whom the torch is thrown which is
destined to shed its light in dark plac-
es."
ITO you and to me comes said the
speaker in. conclusion, "no longer the
still, small voice, but clarion. world
cry for an anti-toxin from within that
will destroy the toxins from without
and by the help of God, we will wiz"