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ZETZERJ nOJI THE PEOPLE
Toomsuba, Miss., Nov. 8, 1907.
Dear Sir: Your editorial in this week’s
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weekly, “Wall Street Heroes,” is in exactly
the same line as I have been talking to my
friends about this panic we have now.
It is strange to me that some people seem
to use good sense and judgment about all bus
iness except affairs of general government. I
consider it a very simple matter to control
the money power. But getting people to un
derstand it and then forcing their law mak
ers to obey their will is a hard thing. As a
general thing I believe the law makers give
us as good laws as we demand. But how
many actual “demands” do they get? You
demand the money of the Constitution and
so do I. And so do a few others. But what
about the other 14,000,000 voters? How
many of these vtoers know what they vote
for? If they had to stand a rigid examina
tion on the matter I do not believe more than
one out of five hundred would get his “sheep
skin.” Political ignorance is the bane of,
the IT. S. Government. How easy it would be
for that “$100,000,000” gold reserve to be ap
plied on the public debt, thus stopping a lot
of expense in the way of interest, and at the
same time getting part of the money into gen
eral circulation. Then the good work could be
extended by issuing “greenbacks” and paying
public expenses with them instead of taxing
the people for funds. By doing this it would
enable the people to keep what money they
have now on hand, and at same time put more
money into circulation. And this would (in
my notion) put Mr. Wall Streeter back into
his hole and beg for mercy. And there are the
tariff and many other things that could be
used as “patches 1 ’ on our leaky financial
fabric. But the money powers DEMAND oth
erwise and get their demands granted. And
the common people just go on and “vote her
straight” and get what their ignorance de
mands.
R. E. THOMPSON.
P. S. —I knew you would (or ought to, at
least) get Brother Lindsay on that “Where
am I at?” There are a lot of “fool” peo
ple around me that believe it was .you that
coined this expression when you were in con
gress. But I have informed many of them
that it was not you, but someone else. And as
to who it really was that did use the expres
sion I am uninformed, but it is my recollec
tion that it was Cobb of Alabama. Though
I have never positively stated that it was
Cobb. R. E. T.
It was James E. Cobb, of Alabama.
T. E. W
WHAT MISSOURI POPS THINK.
December 16, 1907.
Hon. Thos. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
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