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THE ROME RULE ISSUE IN IRE
LAND.
Dear Sir: For the first time, dur
ing a sojourn of some six years in
Georgia, have 1 had the pleasure of
reading an exact explanation of the
Irish Homo Rulo -question in an
in an American publication. I refer
to your article in last week’s Jeffer
sonian.
You have sounded a ringing note
on this much abused question, and
you have laid bare the real facts in
the case splendidly. I sincerely
trust many may “read, mark and in
wardly digest” your timely and cor
rect remarks on this vital subject
which is so little understood in this
country.
The press of the Nation is either
muzzled or densely ignorant of the
real issue of Rome Rule for Ireland
for we read of nothing but the
Nationalist side of the matter.'' The
daily papers may cry, “Give Ireland
Home Rule,” but to any one cog
nizant of the facts this points to
nothing less than ignorance of the
subject, or a "deliberate attempt to
withhold the real significance of the
present turmoil in the North of Ire
land.
Do the American papers or people
want to see Ireland revert to the
position of such countries as Spain,
Italy and other dead nations domi
neered by Catholicism, ignorance and
superstition? If so, the enlightened
North of Ireland gives them the lie.
Ulstermen are now showing of what
they and their religion are made
when they defy the British nation to
force Popery on them, they know
how little chance they would have
with the Catholic vote seven to one,
in matters of legislation and educa
tion, and although Ulster and the
Protestants of Ireland pay by far
the largest amount of taxes and own
and operate nearly all the industries
of the country, they know that soon
they would be legislated out of
existence and overruled at all
by the vote of those directed by the'
priests, and be absolutely subject to
Roman government.
Before the British Army is forced
to coerce Ulster into Popish slavery
it will have a tremendous task.
Arms are in the hands of determined
and well organized men and ammu
nition is in plenty, and if reason and
advice cannot stem the flood of pas
sion now aroused, many lives will be
lost before these strong willed, high
minded and determined Protestants
will give up their present freedom to
be pushed over the precipice into a
seething cauldron of Popish ignor
ance, laziness and superstition not
far removed from the fifteenth or
sixteenth century.
Ye gods! Can we realize the fall,
from one of the most industrious
peoples in the world, governed by a
righteous and upright government
down into the toils of a priest rid
den and politician ruled mob whose
present ideas are that it’s members
will divide the spoils when the hated
“Far-downer” becomes at their
mercy, and who will most likely, in
disgust, leave his home, give up his
birthright, his industries and coun
try, and flee rather than submit to
any such government as would most
likely follow the passage of the
Home Rule Bill. The Protestants of
America had better learn the facts
before advocating for others what
they would not tolerate themselves.
Keep up the good work, sir; your
friends are becoming legion.
Yours very truly,
“THE O’NEILL OF ULSTER.”
Atlanta, Ga.
WANTS HUGH DORSEY TO RUN
AGAINST SENATOR SMITH.
Dear Sir: I send you twenty more
subscribers, also check for SIO.OO to
pay for same. We would be glad to
see Hugh Dorsey’s name put forward
for U. S. Senator against Hoke Smith.
We are ready for the fight. Hope I
will be able to send more next week.
I am your friend to the finish.
Yours,
k H. A. HOLLIMAN.
Sandersville, Ga.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
TAX-ASSESSMENT LAW A BAD
ONE.
Dear Sir: Have always regarded
you as the best friend we laboring
people have, in public life. So lam
asking you to give us your opinion
of the constitutionality of the law
providing tax assessors for every
county. It seems to me that it is
confiscating the little we have left.
I am a farmer and own my land, but
think the way things are running
now I had rather the government
owned all the land. God help the
man who has to rent. What is the
use to have a receiver at a big salary,
who comes round and receives our
taxes as we value our property and
turn the receipts, which were made
under oath, over to* the assessors
who can raise it if they so desire?
Perhaps they have personal en
mity toward a man or owe him a
political debt and may have another
.chance to “do him a job,” is it not
likely they will set him up?
If a man’s taxes are raised on him
why is he not impeached? He has
sworn falsely according to the asses
sors decision. I make enough every
year on my farm to support me and
my family for five years if it could
be utalized in the raw state. We
eat our own meat, bread, syrup,
chickens, eggs, etc., as it comes from
the farm. _Now do you not think
four years labor is a heavy tax for
what little legal protection we have
and the few manufactured goods we
use?
If the government owned the land
I don’t believe our taxes would be
four-fifths of the production. Please
give us your opinion on the subject
in your Jeffs. Respectfully, -
Georgia. J. L. CALHOUN.
HUGH DORSEY URGED TO RUN
AGAINST HOG-EYE SMITH.
Carrollton, Ga., May 20, 1914.
Mr. Plugh M. Dorsey,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: Would you like to go to
the Senate? You can do it if you
will run against Hoke Smith, we be
lieve. We have noticed that some
are anxious for you to run for Gover
nor, but hear us, we don’t want your
ambition to stop at the Governor’s
place, when it is just as easy to go
to the Senate. Will you run? We
the undersigned would be glad to
write you a letter personally, but
feeling sure you are too busy to be
annoyed with so much mail, we will
just all sign this one. R. T. Nolan,
J. E. Upchurch, J. T. Sheffield, O.
W. Hanson, W. W. Hanson, W. D.
Pike, H. F. Wynn, B. F. Foalds, J.
M. Hull, S. J. Hull, H. T. Baker,
Thomas Williamson, A. E. Todd, C.
H. Davis, O. H. Dillard, J. C. Lofon,
J. P. Dillard, C. W. Giles, F. F.
Wynn, M. R. Broom, . A. Nix t J. W.
Hancock, H. N. Pritchett, R. T. God
bee, E. L. Pritchett, J. L. Spece, B.
F. Taylor, W. A. Pike, W. T. Lovern,
L. R. Scroggins, A. A. Turner, W. M.
Ivy, J. F. Driver, T. J. Howard, T.
A. McWhorter, J. L. Thompson, Ma
jor Fambert, N. W. Cooper, A. S.
Lovern, A. J. Digby, G. B. Neill, G.
H. Butler, W. E. Butler, I. B. Butler,
C. K. Mote, A. S. Roberson, J. G.
Lambert.
HUGH DORSEY FOR THE SENATE
AGAINST HOG-EYE SMITH.
My Dear Mr, Watson: Being an
ardent admirer of yours ever since
the Nineties, having voted for you at
every opportunity and would again
for anything on earth, and' thinking
perhaps you would like to see just
what otir two county papers had to
say about the will that led the Burns
in the wrong direction, I send you
some clippings. Let’s run Hugh
Dorsey for the Senate against the
Hog-eye brute. He can get anything
on earth that he asks for now.
Seventy-five ppr cent of the people up
here will support him for anything
(unless the opposition uses a car load
of money and a whole train load of
whiskey.) I am sending you 10 more
subscribers for the Weekly Jeff, this
is 33 in three weeks, and I have not
spent five minutes in all soliciting.
Fight on for old man people, you
have more friends today than you
have ever had, but watch out for
enemies, and just remember that the
devil never sleeps, especially on elec
tion years.
Believe me sincerely your friend,
Georgia. C. M. HEAD.
WANTS DORSEY TO RUN FOR
STEVE CLAY’S VACANT PLACE
IN SENATE.
Dear Sir: I just wanted to tell
you to urge Mr. Dorsey to make the
race for the Senate to take the place
of the late Steve Clay. It has been
vacant a long time you know. Mr.
Slaton nor any one else wants
that place, they all want the other
seat. Does any one know the reason
why? If you will endorse Mr. Dor
sey we then will have a man to slay
the mighty Goliath Smith. What
say you?
With best wishes.
Georgia. J. I. WATERS.
If Dorsey runs, I “shore” will en
dorse him. X. . T. E. W.
TOM WATSON ON THE FRANK
CASE.
The Honorable Thomas E. Wat
son, of Thomson, has added new
laurels and new lustre to his fame as
a writer of pure English by his arti
cles on the (in) famous Frank case.
His productions touching this case,
published recently in the Weekly
Jeffersonian are modern epics. They
are the work of an artist, a genius,
a great writer, a scholar and thinker,
and place Mr. Watson in the very
front ranks of present day literary
men. They have added a hundred
thousand new friends to Mr. Wat
son's long list, and given The Jeffer
sonian a standing and a circulation
in Atlanta and in Georgia never be
fore enjoyed by any Watson publi
cation. The Jeffersonian has been
sold on the streets of Atlanta by the
thousands, and the newsboys cry
them from every corner, week after
week.
The Madisonian is in no sense of
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the word a Wti*Son partisan. We
have long admired hiJ brilliancy, his
eloquence, bis literary attainments
and his talents—but fought hi- 1 Po
litically. We endorse him in th>»>
instance, however, and believe —with
thousands of other Georgians—that
he is eminently rigvt.
Frank had a fair trial, lasting 4 8
long days. A Fulton county jury
found him guilty of the crime of
murder. The Supreme court of the
State refused to grant a now trial.
It was nothing short of criminal,
when a slush fund sought to bull
doze jurors, suborn witnesses, inti
midate judges, subsidize the news
papers, employ lawyers and hire de
tectives for the purpose of setting
aside this verdict. Tom Watson ex
poses all these crimes in his most
excellent articles, while our dail^ -
papers, with rare exceptions, have
been pursuing policies of “watchful
waiting” in silence that has been
ominous. The Macon News has been
a delightful exception to this policy,
and has joined Tom Watson in the
fight in a most admirable and able
manner.
In the Jeffersonian of May 14th,
Mr. Watson draws some wholesome
lessons from the Frank case. In or
der that our readers may peruse this
wonderful pen production, we re »re
duce a part of it below. —The Madi
sonian.
“Huge battleships they build, and
huge guns they mount on these float
ing ramparts, until a file of Dread
naughts line the coastfor what?
To be ready for perils that may
never come. Bui I give them a piti
ful little purse; ami, in return, they
issue to me the lawful right to un
mask my batteries on every square;
and my guns piay upon humanity,
every day and every night, of every
year.”
From “The Song of the Bar-
Room,” in Watson’s Prose Miscella
nies, second edition. Price SI.OO,
postpaid. THE JEFFS, Thomson, Ga,
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Don’t let your subscription expire.
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