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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1910
Page
4
The Athens Banner reports on wartime postal rates and peace after elections while noting dry weather troubles for farmers. It covers Tennessee Democrats, Roosevelt’s potential run, Georgia betting laws, Mayor Gaynor’s grit after hospital discharge, and the Macon platform’s probable re-enactment. It also cites Atlanta's population surge, chimansee specimens, and Taft Roosevelts’ mutual goodwill.
The Manufacturers Record highlights Southern strengths including coal capacity threefold Britain and coal output surpassing U S 1880 levels, pig iron parity with 1880, cotton supply dominance, abundant water power, varied climates, large tracts of cheap land, extensive forests, and suitability for diversified intensified farming.
A Commons committee proposes a limited women’s vote as a tentative step toward full suffrage. It would grant voting rights to all householders and to property-owning women earning at least fifty dollars annually. The plan remains only a proposal and may not become law, but suffragists see it as leverage for broader concessions.
The message recalls Roosevelt's shifting view of the South from early contempt to praise for its progress. He called for southern contribution to national problems and stressed peaceful growth, noting the South's advance in the last two decades and predicting greater material progress ahead. He cited reverence for General Lee and the Federation's unity in pursuing national peace and constructive enterprise.
The Augusta Chronicle editor Tom Loyleas argues the people speak in Georgia and the state will. He notes Smith’s shift toward Progressive Democracy while warning against radicalism and the dangers of ongoing “do something” governance. He praises measured policy and steady administration as essential to prosperity.
The discourse delivered to Chicago newspaper men champions party unity yet condemns graft. It argues that honesty overrides party labels, urges strong action against crooked financiers and politicians, and vows to fight for clean government and equal justice for rich and poor alike.
The Macon Telegraph notes Governor Brown’s renomination defeat by a slim margin but emphasizes a strong statewide desire to keep Little Joe in office. It credits registration laws and campaign dynamics as factors and says the Telegraph still supported Brown for state good, while time will clarify the vote.
A Memphis Commercial Appeal synthesis notes France with 45 000 agricultural schools and shows how soil based wealth creation fuels prosperity. It argues the United States must expand agricultural education, cites 1904 1908 crop data and per acre yields, and urges Mississippi Tennessee Arkansas to launch county level agricultural high schools guided by land congresses and scientific farming.
The six months ending mid-1910 show 213 new or proposed mills, a rise from 1909. Massachusetts leads with 52 mills, North Carolina 28, New York 20, with the South adding many cotton and woolen plants. Georgia cites nine mills in West Point and various cities, totaling over 1.25 million dollars in investments.
The article notes a long term shift as Germans increasingly remain in the Fatherland. It highlights Germany’s compact population, limited land, and water economy, contrasting with U.S. absorption of emigrants. Emigration dropped from 225,000 yearly decades ago to under 40,000 recently, with Austrian and Swiss arrivals offsetting the loss.
A civic exhortation urging readers to forget past defeats and unite for Athens Clarke County Georgia. It calls for progress on roads land campaigns Greater Georgia and educational and industrial growth. The piece emphasizes cooperation among political supporters and opponents to advance the state's and city’s prosperity.
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