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PAGE TEN LETTERS LEOTI THE PEOPLE GOT WHAT HE EXPECTED. I desire for you to publish this communication, which is as follows: “Lavonia, Ga., Nov. 19, 1907. “President Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. “Dear Sir: On Nocember 4, I wrote you a letter enclosing stamp for reply, stating we have five banks in Franklin county, Georgia, that say they are tight up for money just at this time. I wish to know’ if you can make some arrangements to furnish these banks if they will give ample security. I see you have helped ‘Wall street/ The people say, in this Southland, that they can secure any amount they desire to borrow. “If you have not the spare time to answer this letter, please get one of your boys or girls to reply. lam very anxious to know 7 . I enclose an other stamp. “Very respectfully, ‘ “J. A. M’DUFF.” “Washington, Nov. 23, 1907. “J. A. McDuff, Lavonia, Ga. “Sir: Your letter of the 19th inst., addressed to the President, lias been referred to this department for re ply. In response, you are informed that it is not feasible at this time to grant your request and make de posits of public funds in the banks of Franklin county, Georgia. “Respectfully, “J. H. EDWARDS, “Assistant Secretary.’’ Will say that I had to register the last letter to get a reply, and I got about what 1 expected. Respectfully. J. A. M’DUFF. November 25, 1907. THINKS BEST NOT TO BUTT IN. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 22, 1907. (It may be Thompson, or Tompson, or Tomson, or —well, it’s up the Geor gia Railroad, for I have been there.) Dear Sir: You will find enclosed one year’s subscription to the Weekly Jeffersonian. Address 839, as before, dates will be October 11, 1908. I regard your Weekly one of -the best I have ever read, and the monthly wit h ou t com pa ri son. Once, when much younger than I am now, 1 occasionally “butted’’ in to the newspapers, and still feel at times like calling some things by names other than those now 7 applied, but I guess seventy-seven is too old to serve on the jury. Yours truly, W. W. WOODWARD, SR. 839 Phillips street. ONE OF JOHN MORGAN’S COM MAND. Gashland, Mo., Nov. 20, 1907. Dear Sir: Enclosed find $2. Ex tend my subscription to the maga zine and Weekly. I have been a sub scriber since your first venture in New York, and am well pleased with both publications. You can count on my subscription as long as I live. I served four years in General John Morgan’s command, and was sur prised and delighted in Gen. Basil Duke’s position in Kentucky. I hope the General is getting your magazine. If not, send him a sample copy. The ex-Confed’s position in Kentucky is io be commended, and when such men as General Duke and General Buck ner get upon their high horse, we lit tle Confeds know 7 something is going to happen. 5 our publications are all and more than one might expect. Every fea ture of them, particularly wour edi torials, is worth more than the sub scription. Your friend and well-wisher, J. B. JOHNSON. R. F. D. 1. (Note —Hon. Homer Sturgis, and hundreds of other survivors of Mor gan’s cavalry will be interested in this letter. Yes, General Basil Duke shall have copies. The General’s “Life of Morgan” is in my li brary.—T. E. W.) AN OREGON VIEW. Portland, Nov. 16, 1907. Dear Sir: We are just now having a beautiful example of our best bank ing system that the world has ever seen, we have had in the West for the past six or seven years, what the plutocrats call great prosperity; wages were high and all kinds of goods that the laborers must buy were much higher, so the trusts got all there was left after the people got to the end of the month. But that was not enough. The banks got all the money there was in the country on de posit, and as the demand for loans was not enough at home to use it at a large interest, they sent it to New 7 York banks to be loaned on call, at any rate obtainable. The trusts w 7 ere about ready to make a squeeze, so they got the governor to declare a holiday. Now 7 the question is, will the people see through this scheme, or will they be fooled again as ever? It is the old, old game over and over, the laws are made to govern the poor, and the rich govern the laws. If it be true that you can’t fool a ma jority of the people all the time it is about time we began to see some evidence of it. We have made some headway in Oregon, as we have the initiative arid referendum, and through it have got a good direct primary law 7 , in which we elect United States senators by direct vote of the people, and now that the politicians see what it means, they are conspiring to get the courts to declare it unconstitutional, but we are making ready to meet them by initiating four more laws to be voted on this coming election, which I tiring will give them something else to think about. I will send you a copy of those law’s soon. Yours very sincerely, FRANK R. WILLIAMS. LAST LEGISLATURE HURT THE OLD VETS. The last legislature hurt the old vets when it made the change in payment of the pensions. If payments were in the old way, I could borrow money enough to relieve my present distress, hut now I could not borrow enough Io buy fifty pounds of flour. Respectfully yours, E. J. STEPHENS. Newnan, Ga., Nov, 23, 1907, THE JEFFERSONIAN. THIS IS APPRECIATED EVER SO MUCH. Aragon, Ga., Nov. 21, 1907. Dear Sir: I have your postal of the 19th inst., and am plea§£<d to say that both Weekly and monthly come to me with due regularity. That I appreciate your splendid work is evi denced by the fact that, on Septem ber 24th last, I sent you my chefck to pay for renewal for another year. And so it will be each year, when the October month arrives, expect a re mittance from me. When the time shall come that my renewal fails to materialize, just say, “Another old Federal soldier has gone to the join the Grand Command.” You have my earnest and sincere good wishes in your brave effort to bring about the re-establishment of those principles of government that we both love — equal rights to all and special privi leges to none. God bless you. Cordially yours, T. A. DOLAN. P. S. —Our postmaster, Mr. Law’son, is your agent at Aragon. FROM A RETIRED UNION ARMY OFFICER. N. 11. D. V. S. Ohio Crossroads, near Dayton, Mont gomery Co., Ohio, Nov. 8, 1907. Dear Sir: Allow me to salute yon as a. veteran and also acknowledge the Weekly’s salute by saying it is a brainy paper, edited by a brainy man, just what I like, and must have. My eye is intent on the magazine, so allow me to say, by following the lines of Abe Lincoln’s (remark at Gettysburg, w 7 hen he said, “God must" have loved plain people; he made so many of them.” So, in his wake, ,allow me to say, “God must have loved fools; he made so many of them who vote against their person al interests by neglecting to subscribe 100 cents for the Weekly Jefferson ian. I like The Commoner very much, edited in Lincoln, Neb. It is on the line with the Weekly Jeffersonian. Tn nature there is two of a kind of every existing thing. The white oak, the black oak, and so on throughout the universe, ending in a. God, a devil, a heaven, a hell. In my last Weekly I was impressed with the idea of the presidency. Two of a kind. Which shall I select? Thomas E. Watson or William Jennings Bryan? The white oak is the best timber for certain pur poses. The black oak the best for other purposes. Watson and Bryan are both oaks. Which is the best? None but the mechanic, the farmer and wage earner can tell. Thomas Jeffer son, assisted by Thomas Paine, is my test. This is an age of reason, not fault-finding. Equal rights under the law for all our natural rights so far as they are consistent with the public good. CAPT. ADDISON R. TITUS, IN “BETHANY” SHE LIVED IT ALL OVER AGAIN. Austell, Ga., Nov. 25, 1907. Dear Sir: I have neglected no op portunity of supporting and trying to advance all your publications. I sub scribed and received the Tom Wat- son Magazine until it was dead; the last numbers were not so interesting. Watson was missing. This year I have had the Weekly Jeffersonian. Could not afford the magazine. The old widow’s bank account is dead. In February last I sent you a club for the premium, “Bethany.” Thank you for “Bethany.” It gave me more real enjoyment than any 7 book since the Civil War in reading it. I lived my life over. I laughed and cried. Lived through the . of election of Lincoln; the hard con test on secession, with the South’s greatest and best statesmen on both sides. I had been a close observer and reader through the fifties; was twenty years of age when all this was at fever heat. Yet “Bethany” gives me the sad pleasure of living it over again at sixty-six, 1907. Yours truly, MARGARET A. KERLEY. WANT THEM BOTH AGAIN. Anniston, Ala., Nov. 25, 1907. Dear Sir: Please find enclosed P. O. money order for $2, to renew my subscription for the magazine and Jeffersonian paper. I have been get ting them regularly, and don’t want to miss a single , copy. My time will be out December Bth arid 13th. Yours truly, I. N. DUKE. MUST HAVE IT AGAIN. The Rock, Ga., Nov. 23, 1907. Dear Sir: Enclosed find sl, for which please renew my subscription to your valuable paper, the Jeffer sonian. Respectfully, * W. J. M’DANIEL. CONTINUES. Camilla, Ga., Nov. 25, 1907. Dear Sir: I am a subscriber to your Jeffersonian Magazine, and wishing to continue the same I here with send you postal order for $1.50. Please continue to E. H. Akridge, Camilla, Ga. E. 11. AKRIDGE. HOW IT IS IN IDAHO. Winona, Idaho, Nov. 7, 1907. My Dear Sir: Please find enclosed the poem that I promised to send you. In writing same from memory I omitted the third verse which you will find on a separate sheet. As you are evidently an admirer of poetry I hope you will like this. What do you think of the financial embargo? Has the Republican party the power and prowess to bring to the nation prosperity, and also the dangerous black art of spreading over us the pall o fadversity with its attendant ills and uncertainties? Here the farmers take their grain to the storehouses at Tramway and railway stations, and they get neither cash nor cheeks for it. Nothing but a receipt, with a promise that when the “money famine” is over, and when the N. P. Railway Company will lurnish cars, checks may be forth coming. Crops here were unusually abundant, and the fall weather bright and mjld, until three days ago, when