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OLD FARMER COMES AGAIN. Dear Sir: *" How any one can read Mr. Ross’s paper in the Weekly Jeffersonian of November 28 and the many editorials from your own pen upon the same and kindred subjects and not see that our Government has got entire ly away from the Democracy of Jef ferson, Lincoln, et al., is more than I know. A failure in the mighty struggle now pending for the control of this Government would mean that we are little better than eighty million serfs, except for the right of revolution, which is always with us. It is com mon now in the Trust papers, and they own nearly all of them, to refer to “The Peepul” as a great joke. The express companies are merely barnacles upon the railroads, railroad employes doing all the work, except distribution. The great number of private car lines are other barnacles and if the railroads were honestly managed they would cry out for the public, or the Government, to help brush them off. The only conclusion ■ est is that the individual owners of the railroads above the management, share in these extortions, the public paying the score. If “The Interests” through their alliance with the thieves who We in power in California at the time of the so-called Japanese school troubles, helped by their treasonable intrigues with the “Jingoes” of Japan, could have caused serious trouble with that country, our greatest danger would have been whether armor plate, guns, et cetera, made by “protected” indus tries might not have been found de fective in action. But; we would have libraries and large contributions to the Peace Congress. Without fur ther instances the truth is that we are almost overwhelmed with graft, and disregard of law. These people say over their wine that they do not fear “The Peepul,” that they can hire any one part of them to betray the other. They used also to say that when ever they wanted anything in your beautiful Southland they dangled a “nigger” in your face and by the time you were through chasing him they had what they wanted. This statement has been modified since the successor to Calhoun failed to even cause a ripple, with his ti rades against the “nigger,” added to the close finish of their own John Sharp Williams in the recent elec tion. It seems to me that the country needs patriots more than place hunt ers, that it is vital that the pirates be first driven, from the ship, after that patriotism will point the way. All know Mr. Roosevelt to be hon est, and it takes ten times the courage tn face the things he meets every day that it took to walk up San Juan hill twirling a cane. He is beset on ev ery hand by traitors and spies, every weekly paper in the country using “patent outside” has articles on the first page lauding Hughes, since he “Jeromed” (this is a modern name for Golden Calf). You don’t find your publications (or any other man’s who says what he thinks) on the railroadt, and rare ly at news stands. In ths last issue of the paper “founded by Ben Franklin,” Mr. Archbold makes a statement for the Standard Oil ''Co. that in most ways would appeal to all of us, if it was simply a part of the commercial en terprise of the country drawing its powers from the Government, and obeying the laws thereof. Mr. Archbold must be ignorant of many things of common report con cerning his company. It is believed that the Standard Oil crowd control two-thirds of the railroads of- the country, that they own or dominate a large part of the banks and trust companies in financial centres, it is believed that they control the United States Senate and possibly the House of Representatives. It is believed that after they knocked out Gates and Heinze, they caused the banks and trust companies with Gates and Heinze affiliations, to be put out of business and to “discip line” the President forced the coun try to the basis of clearing house cer tificates; also that they are hoarding, either here or in large balances abroad, ten times more money than all the p?>ple. It is believed that they are now further depleting the circulation by causing their agents in nearly every hamlet in the United States to remit total receipts in cash direct to their office in New York by express. It is believed that it is their pur pose to force the nation to its knees, even as they forced the state of Mon tana under peril of starvation, to call a special session of the Legislature and pass a law drawn at 26 Broad way. A special plea is made for his company by Mr. Archbold on account of its Pension System. We have taught our children that this is the land of the Free, of opportunity, where a lifetime of labor and fru gality meant a competence, not a Pension. What is left of the Demo cratic party, is controlled by the Ry ans, Belmont, Whitney, etc., who are a part of the same combinations, at least they are always found behind the same breastworks. Therefore is it not the part of patriotism and wisdom that you, the Hon. Thos. E. Watson, invite Mr. Hearst, Folk, Wm. Allen White, Cummins of lowa, Tom Johnson, Deneen of Illinois, La- Follette, Hardaman, Glenn, Comer, Broward, let Mr. Bryan come if he wants to, and many others .kiat you know, to meet with you to consider ihe state of the c mntry ? It is be lieved by many that the result of this meeting will be first, to ?ny to Mr. Roosevelt, “You owe it to your country to continue the fight; if you do so we will hold up your hands.” I! he will not do o, put aside per sonal ambition, likes or dislikes, and all work together to save the country for it is in peril. AN OLD FARMER. There was an aged Irishman on a Peachtree street car the other day Lnid h pipe in his mouth. The conductor told him he could not smoke, but he paid no heed. Pres ently the conductor came into the car and exclaimed. with a show T of irri tation: “Didn’t I tell you, yon couldn’t smoke on this car?” “Well, Oi’m not smoking.” “You’ve got a pipe in your mouth, haven’t you?” THE JEFFERSONIAN. “So Oi have me feet in me boots, but Oi’m not walking.” FROM JUDGE JOHN J. HUNT. Charles D. Barney, banker, in Sat urday Evening Post, under the heading, “A Foe to Capital,” says: “Mr. Roosevelt is not a man of finan cial training, and yet he does not seem to take the advice of trained financiers, or men among his own per sonal following who are qualified to judge in such matters.’ So, we see, men must have special training and be qualified. In other words the class that now has the monopoly of issuing money also has a monopoly of finan cial wisdom and the exclusive privil ege besides of advising. In Clearing House Certificates we have now the worst sort of State Bank money, absolutely irredeemable as money should be redeemable. To be sure these certificates will be re deemed in time in National Bank Notes or other good currency, and no one wants National Bank Notes re deemed, because the Government is behind them. Yes, and if you will back Georgia State Bank money, or Texas State Bank money, each by its State, nobody will want it redeemed; but if they should, the State will pro vide for its redemption. It has been forgotten by many that an Augusta (Ga.) Bank, which went through the Civil War, its bills during that period passing as other depreciated curren cy, paid the face value of those hills in legal tender money some rears aft er the close of the war. Whv? Be cause there happened to be a strong law protecting that currency. There are State Banks as good and as solvent as National Banks, and there is no reason why they should be denied the facility of furnishing the public with good money. It is already conceded that the high price of Government Bonds precludes State Banks from being nationalized, and those that are from issuing money enough for the country’s needs. The whole argument against State Bank Currency reduced to its last analysis is that either the money will not be good, or, the privilege of is suing money should vest exclusively in a class. No one will have the gall to say any class should have exclusive privilege of furnishing the life blood of a great Nation, which is Money. In one of the late National Demo cratic Conventions (it seems to have been forgotten), there was a plank demanding the repeal of tax on State Banks of issue. Strange to say, Democrats in Congress, mostly New York Democrats, afterward fought it and defeated it when it was sought to be made a law. New York Demo crats, it may be remarked byway of digression, can be relied on to ignore platform promises. Everybody knows the National Bank Law was a war measure and tended more than any single act of legislation to produce centralization in Government. Its further effect, as evidenced by the present so-called panic is to centralize money, congest it in Wall Street. The fact that up to this time no Congressman, not even the President, has ventured to suggest practical re lief, looks to me like they are con vinced that the Money Issuing Pow- er only are capable of thinking on such a subject. GET TOGETHER, DEMOCRATS. The rank and file of the democratic party have usually stood very well to gether, but this has infrequently been true of democratic leaders. It will not soon be forgotten in the South that when the southern and northern democrats came harmonious ly together under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, and not only elect ed the big New Yorker to the presi dency but sent a good working major ity into both branches of congress, the leaders, both in and out of con gress, instead of standing together both for the country’s and the par ty’s good, got hopelessly apart, ren dering future party success almost impossible and succeeded in enacting no very significant legislation, to com mend the party to the future favora ble consideration of ths American voters. But Governor Hoke Smith during a recent visit to New York, anent the present political situation, said some things that are worthy of very serious consideration. We quote him as follows: “National politics are chaotic. The more I look at it the more chaotic the situation appears. Ido not know how things will develop. I do know that there is a sentiment among southern democrats for concerted ac tion. The south does not mean to be treated any longer as if it were in a state of secession. Southern demo crats are just as loyal as any others.j “There is no one in the south now’ who wants the democratic president tial nomination, but if the South had a candidate of its own, I think the southern democrats would not hesi tate to support him in the conven tion. The feeling is general among the] southern democrats that they must dal their own thinking in national affairs and not merely accept what others] have thought for them. “The feeling is that the time has] come for southern democrats to aca together and take part in the leader! ship of the party.”—Vienna News. National I ■ Union Farmer 1 1 HOMER L. HIGGS, Editor and Proprietor GREENFIELD, TENNESSEE (J A Farmers Union pa per strictly, has the <» unanimous support *' of the officials of the ” Tennessee Farmers ° Union. 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