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sickness, and, perhaps, death to many a little girl, many a frail woman, and many a feeble man. Gentlemen of the Commission! The Jefferso nian prays you, in the name of common hu manity, to compel these railroad companies to do something. The men whose votes put the present ad ministration in power live chiefly in rural com munities. Their wives and their children are suffering from your failure to take action. These men went to the polls, enthusiastic ally, last year because of certain promises that had been made. One of those promises was that the rail roads should be compelled to recognize the right of the passenger to decent accommo dation while waiting to take the trains. In a few months, those same men will be going to the polls, again. Every promise made them last year will be kept fresh in their minds. By the record, you will be judged. The Jeffersonian prays you, earnestly, to keep faith. We want no more than that, and that much we will continue to ask for, no matter how much the editors of the free-pass variety may have to say about Mr. Watson’s being “a Kicker.” P. S. When is the Commission going to give us that list of names showing what editors, politicians, etc., have been riding around on free passes? Give us the list, Guyt! We want to see who those free-pass fellows arel < *1 H You will miss it if you don't read Premium Offers, which appear on another page. z * * * Congressman A. A. Wiley. A man by the name of Hall is out after the scalp of Congressman Wiley who, by his vote in Congress, took the position that the Gov ernment ought not to be allowed to control the rates charged by the Pullman Palace Car Co., the Express Companies, the Telegraph and Telephone Companies. Wiley must be getting “skeered.” When a politician begins to double on his track, he generally does so for the same reason that the chased fox does. He fears that he is going to get caught and he doubles on his own tracks in the hope of throwing the pack oft the scent. Brother Wiley has recently published a card in which he hugs the Farmers, and tells them how utterly, bitterly, emphatically and aggres sively he is against foreign immigration. To give his views the greater publicity, he addressed his communication to President Seymour of the Alabama Cotton Association. Yet this is the same Congressman Wiley who, two years ago, went into ecstasies over the action of China in boycotting us, because we excluded Coolies. At that time, Congressman Wiley was hear tily in favor of foreign immigration—and had no fears even of the cheapest Coolies that China could send. “With Coolie labor,” said Mr. Wiley, “we can undersell the world.” Speaking of what the South needed, Mr. Wi ley said, “We need cheap labor.” Mr. Wiley was very clamorous on the sub ject of so amending the Chinese Exclusion Acts as to allow cheap labor from the Orient to come into the United States, so that the South might raise cheaper cotton, corn, vegeta bles and fruits. Now, however, he clamors against immigra tion, against cheap cotton and against cheap cotton seed. Go it, Wiley! You’ve doubled on your tracks, but you’ll get caught, all the same I WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. Ober In Alabama. A notorious Federal Judge, a man of the name of Jones, undertakes to put the state of Alabama out of business. With a spurt of the pen, this man Jones has abolished the Govern or, the Legislature, and the people of a great state. Yet we fancy that we live in a democratic republic. By the Eleventh Amendment to the Consti tution, a private citizen is forbidden to bring a state down to the level of a common litigant. But to such a man as this Jones of Alabama, the Constitution is nothing. He is so inebriated with silly ideas of his own power and import ance that he allows the insolent Milton Smith, of the L. & N. Railroad, to drag the state of Alabama into the courts, defying her laws, and paralyzing her constituted authorities with Injunctions! What an insufferable situation! Governor Comer cannot and will not back down. He must enforce the law. His oath of office binds him to do just that. His own sense of right will nerve him to do it. If this insolent Milton Smith and this usurping Federal Judge makes it necessary for you to do it, Governor, call out the military of the state to enforce the laws of the state. THEN the corporations will discover that the man in the White House is another An drew Jackson who will remember Old Hicko ry’s grim remark, “John Marshall has made his Decision; Now let us see him enforce it.” HOLD YOUR GROUND, GOVERNOR COMER. H M Honor 'Roll. P. S. Mcßae, Morven, Ga. J. W. Rainwater, Alpharetta, Ga. E. A. Stephens, Battlefield, Miss. J. E. Rankin, Nettleton, Miss. F. C. Self, Bullockville, Ga. John T. Monfort, Cuthbert, Ga. James A. Moore, Atoka, Tenn. S. F. Memory, Blackshear, Ga. R. S. Rutland, West Point, Ga. (To be Continued.) m n h "Editorial Notes. Sy J. D. Watson. Former United States Senator Henry Gas saway Davis, Judge Parker’s running mate in 1904, favors Judge Gray, of Delaware, for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1908. “I have always thought Judge Gray, of Del aware, would be an ideal candidate. He is a conservative man of great experience and ability, and, besides, has a strong following,” said the late candidate for Vice President, after holding a conference with Thomas F. Ryan. The source from which this announcement comes ought to be enough to nip in the bud Judge Gray’s Presidential boom. It speaks very poorly for the Democratic party to have to hunt the country over to find some Judge who is hardly known out of his own bailiwick and run him for the highest office within the gift of the people. The experience of 1904, when the party came near being annihilated, ought to be a lesson to be remembered in 1908 by those who have the welfare of party at heart. If the Democrats let Ryan or Belmont force the nomination of another Judge Parker in 1908, as Belmont did in 1904, the party is a dead one. * Mr. Roosevelt still has the politicians guess ing as to whether or not he will accept the nomination for a third term. We hear of a new boom almost every day but nearly all of them seem to get choked on a Fairbanks cherry before they are old enough to travel alone. In the meantime the President is sawing wood and saying nothing. The method of our present day high, finan ciers is being shown in the trial of John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago Na tional Bank. Walsh bought a railroad for less than $200,- 000, issued bonds for more than $1,000,000, borrowed the money from his own bank on the watered stock and left the depositors in the hole. This is the whole story in a nutshell, and it shows how our present day Captains of High Finance play the game while they are stealing the money of depositors and the people in general. Chicago bankers have notified the New York bankers that they are ready to resume business on a REAL money basis whenever New York is ready. This means that the Chicago banks are ready to pay to their depositors the money which actually belongs to the DEPOSITOR instead of FORCING him to take clearing house certificates. How kind of the banker to give to the de positor that which is LAWFULLY his! Many of the newspapers are wasting a lot of time and space in telling us how the issuing of clearing house certificates helped relieve the money situation, but you do not see so much about what HARM they have done. In the bigger cities where thousands of per sons have to be paid their salaries weekly in order to buy their weekly provisions MUCH harm has been done. In some instances the grocer refused them outright and in others he accepted them at a discount, thus leaving the laborer without means to buy the actual necessaries of life, or making him accept less for his labor than he was entitled to. In other instances swindlers have aroused the suspicions of the poor and superstitious and bought the certificates at a discount. But the loudest wail is yet to come. Wait until the day for redeeming these cer tificates rolls around. If there are not thou sands of them presented for redemption which the different clearing house officers will pro nounce counterfeit, it will be because the coun terfeiter’s sympathy for the people has been aroused to such an extent that he has sus pended business for awhile. Any good printer or engraver with the ordi nary outfit could counterfeit most of them, but some of them are so shabby looking that a first class printer w r ould be ashamed to ac knowledge doing the work. The wrapper around a five cent cake of tur pentine soap looks better than some of them while imitation money or a premium coupon from a package of Arbuckle’s coffee looks like a work of art when put by the side of the certificate. In New York City the theatrical managers have locked their imitation money, which they use on the stage, in their safes because so much of it was being stolen and passed off in exchange for the clearing house certificates— many people thinking it more like real money than the cheap looking slips of paper issued by the clearing houses. It is up to the Georgia Railroad Commission now to do something, or quit business under that name. The Commission issued an order to the Geor gia Railroad a few days ago, and the Georgia Railroad has told the Commission, flatly, that they will not obey it. In other words the Georgia Railroad has said to the State Railroad Commission, “You have ordered us to do a certain thing but we do not intend to do it. NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?” Speak up, Gentlemen of the Georgia Rail road Commission, it is your move. “WHAT ARE YOU' GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?” PAGE NINE