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Malison. Florida.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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COLUMBUS B. SMITH. Editor.
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THE NEW E.VTF.RPKISK.
THUKSDAY, MARCH 23, 1009.
One hundred and sixty thous
.joi pounds of fine wrapper to
36CC0 went up' in smoke at
'Otimcy last Friday night. The
Cms amounts to about 175,000.
Ibugh on the owners of the leal
ilit then that is what the to
Jueco was made tor to burn,
now the whole woilcl may
assured that Gadsden county
Jsbacco WILL BURN.
The Quincy Moon has gone
.out of business, permanently,
the plant and good will h.n in
oeen taken over by theGausde
i-tmnty Times of which R. E.
JkFarlin is the new editor an
proprietor. The Moon existed
precariously since its beginning
and we arenot surprised that i
as finally forced to close out
Ti the Gadsden Couuty Times
and its new and owuer we ex
tnd our very best wishes.
f he county jail at Monticell
was destroyed by fire last week
3X was on a par with the court
bouse ot the same county about
3eventy-five years behind times
Sow that Jefferson has let
contract for a new and modern
tourt house the old lail would
have been even more conspicu
oas for its antediluvian appear
ance. A good fire properly
located sometimes proves
blessing in disguise. Jefferson
"ill of course, have to build ;
acw jail, and we are of th
opinion that it will be as modern
and attractive as the new court
"4ouse.
Brother Wilson of the For
Pierce Tribune has evidently
run up against something no
Tery pleasing and he comes back
pon somebody or something in
this most truthful and virorou
style. He says in his last issue
A. newspaper, it it das any
brains, conscience and muscle
tack of it, must continually de
cide between doing its duty and
injuring its pocket. In any
position but that of editor the
public is able to separate the
individua' from the collective
citizen. But if an editor does
ot please them it is at his
pockets they aim. Thus it is
the newspapers learn who their
fiends are. The man who reads
a newspaper and admires it all
the year round, j'et gives bis
Cosiness support to some other
concern, is not a friend to the
former newspaper. Admiration
alone will not run a newspaper.
There are too mauy men who
xpect an editor to slave in de
fence of their pet notions and
bobbies, advocate their views
against the strongest ODposition
and coolly withold their busi
ness support, by which alone a
country newspaper can live.
Talk about a paper having a
public duty to perform and an
editor having to work for his
principle is cheap when others;
stand back and extend a luke
warm neutrality,"
Where are the strong men of
the past generation who took
the lead in the community life
of the South; who were wise in
counsel, pjompt in decision and
courageertu in action; whose
voices were not silenced by
timidity, policy or expediency
in those constantly recuring is
sues between rigut ana wrong
in every city, town, village and
rural neighborhood? They were
positive men, of force and de
cistoti of character, lhey were
deeply grounded in the religion
of the Jen Commandments.
They believed ia strong, effec
tive government in the family.
the community and the State
They believed in the enforce
ment of law. There was iron in
their blood, and they insisted
on penalties for wrongdoing'and
in prompt obedience to the voice
of justly authority.
Such men made that priceless
force, now so lamentably scarce
public sentiment, bra ve, clean,
righteous public sentiment that
was the very moral lifeblood of
the com jiunity for under the
infenction of their high exam
Dies ottier men, lacking t tie
qualities of leadership, were nr.t
airaid to speak out when speed)
oat when speech was needed in
denunciation of evil and evil
doers, and thus public sentiment
was crystalized and made a
mighty force for good. Such
men were positive, frank and
tearless, stern apostles of law
and order and moralty who
ffould make no compromise with
vice or crime, but were always
tolerant of the rigbts of others
and held to no iron code or creed
to restrict freedom of opinion
and its decent expression. 0'ie
such man in a town was a steady
tonic, a source of moral health
and strength and courage to all
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MADISON, FLORIDA
Then there will be a grand
illuminated launch parade on
the bay in front of the city. The
entire city will be brilliantly
illuminated for this occasion
and there is no rioubt that many
thousands of vistors will be in
attendance.
the rest, and around him in every
public emergency, large or SLY EDITOR SMITH
small, the better elements rail The Starke Telegraph says
lied, sure that he would take that thirty liens were filed for
the riirht side and confident in record in one week in the clerk s
his leadership. office, averaging 140 each, given
But where is that type ' ot the by citizens of Bradford county
Old South now? Has it disarv tofa liirbtning rod agent. These
Deared in the timiditv and LTeed liens are blanket affairs which
of commercialism? Has it flow
ered and gone to seed? Never
did we need such such "?en more.
and it we naye ceased to pro
duce them there must be some
tliiug fatally defective in sys
tern tr.at tails at so vital a
point. Here is a paragraph on
'.his line taken from a late ex
change:
No community can flourish
unless it has its proper quota of
will enable the company ti sell
all a man's possessions. One
man who was too poor to put
a chimney to his house hart it
covered with lightning rods.
Levy county farmers are warn
ed o look out for the lightning
rod agent. He's a smooth arti
cle. Bronson Times-Democrat.
We might extend the same
warniugto Madison county far
mers if it were,, necessary, but
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tonic to the business and social A sly way Editor Smith has
atmosphere. The negative man, of putting bis readers next on
on the contrary, depresses, and the lightning rod proposition.
so far as his influence goes he What has become of all those
serves to check the spirit ot en Madison county people who a
terprise and thereby works few years ago bought rights to
against the progress of the sell patent rights in a washing
place in which he dwells." machine? Siarke Telegraph.
Lve Oak Democrat. We pass it up, brother Mat
thews. We support that they
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April 1 and 2, will be Pain's
reworks display on the last
evening of the celebration. The
committee in charge has gone
to great expense to secure a
pyrotechnic display that will
be entirely out sf the ordinary.
I
knows."
The true old soldier despises
the misapplication of militaty
titles and General E. M. Law of
the Bartow Couries-Informant--
who was a sure-enough so'dier,
rnmeducely after this display justly and honorably entitled
ill come an attack on old Fort to his military appellation-
waxes righteously indignant as
follows: "In the noted Cooper.
Cirmack trial, which is now
the defence of the fort by the drawing to a close in Nashville,
United Sta'es regular troops. I fiFKEEAL Meeks, one of the
Marion by the Indians, Span U I
ards. French and 'British and
rnnncal t IL. 1 r
.uuuoi mi i lie ae enre. an
nounced his belief that it is the
proper thing to shoot down an
editor for any distasteful criti
cism of politicians or other pub.
lie characters. The doughty
GENERAL seems to ignore the
fact that most editors can. on
occasion, handle a gun about as
well as political bummers like
his clients, the Coopers, or
shyster lawyers like himself.
We never heard of the GENER
AL during the war. lie is no
doubt same tinhorn affair who
never smelt gunpowder or 'heard
a cap pop' in his life. Such
blatherskites are always care
ful to indulge their bloodthristy
. . .
the court, and if confronted irf,
the business end of a gun won ,
afford a fine opportunty to at; J
one who could get near enouj
to him to play marbles od t
coat tail. -
veterans would suirceat to the
heroics under the protection of cnt state psaiion law. .
With 8,500,000 feet ot mahofiV
bandied through Pensacola du'':
1908 ihat port stands second in -importing
of that wood In the Uei
States. New York stands first
12,000,000 feet.
The State pension board, tbroi
Its secretary, Miss Jefferson Bell, '
writingto the various camps of Ci;
federate Teterans in Ihe state to '
out what Amendments, if any,