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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO * Letters intended for this de- * * partment must have full name * * ami post office address of writer. * * This is not necessarily for publi- * * cation, but its a guaranty of good * * faith. ♦ „ * THE JEFFS. * * * »:< :i: :?• ❖ >?• s<s :js $ * * * * * * * =! : * CONGRESSMAN FREAR OF WIS CONSIN IS HITTING THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. Dear Sir: A new $40,000,000 river and harbor pork barrel is promised by the waterway lobby which meets in Washington on De cember 9th. Although it annually demands $50,000,000 from Congress, lor what the New York Board of Trade condemns as a system of ■‘mutual bribery,” the lobby starts Cuis new bill at $40,000,000. Last'month an unprecedented pork barrel was defeated after a long fight in the Senate. That bill carried $5,000,3000 in cash and $33,000,000 in new projects, in addition to $6,- 99 0,000 carried by the Sundry Civil BiH, or $93,000,000 in all for water ways in 1914. A $20,000,000 substi tute was finally adopted. When legitimate waterway im provements are smothered by inde fensible wasteful projects backed by political pull, and a hundred million dollars war tax is levied to cover Ihe Federal Treasury deficiency, is it not time to block this new pork barrel ? Under separate cover. I am send ing you a copy of a speech contained in the Congressional Record for Oc tober 8, which throws light upon wasteful waterway pork barrels and the $50,000,000 annual lobby. An extract from the Record of Marek 21, pointing out water power, land reclamation, and other special inter est projects contained in the last bill, will be sent on request. Senators Burton, Kenyon and oth ers believe a high class board will remove waterway appropriations from political pull and from pork barrel methods. Publicity is the best weapon with which to expose- the present vicious system. Please in vestigate, and if you approve aid the movement. . Sincerely yours, Wis. JAMES A. FREAR. A BUSINESS MAN’S VIEW OF OUR PR USE N T SJTU AT ION. Dear Sir: There are two things that I wish to call your attention to very carefully: i. -The Regional bank has started here in this country today. The dis count rate here in the South to the member-banks is 6 1-2 per cent. To tic' member-banks in the North it is 5 1-2 to 6 per cent. Why this dis crimination against the Southern banker and people? Verify this, r w carefully, and then give them 1 11. Is it possible that we must si Hl pay tribute to Yankee money? N. v York plutocracy. If there ever v a limo in the wide world, when t’.f douth needed help, and low mon ey, it . now—right now. 2 Os course we all regret, the war. it's horrible, and the women '.ml eh ldrcm have our sympathy. AIL r we take care of the poor ones here, I am in favor of helping them, if possible There is, and will be, rent deal of suffering in this conn t: this winter. Thousands of peo i i are out of work, no money, no bro- d. Do you blame a man for stealing to feed his wife and babies? The government is spending a good deal of money, and is still spend i:', on the stock yards in Chicago, on mouth and fool disease of cattle. This is humane. What about spend ing some few millions to help people who can’t help themselves. There arc a great many people right now, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE THE JEFFERSONIAN in this country—here in the South, especially, who have been used to all of the necessities, and a few of the luxuries, that actually have not bread to eat from day to day. They are too proud to tell it —and too weak to work —what’s the result? Suicide, starvation, and ruination. Especially is this true in the cities, all over this country, and in the South. Heads of families, young men, young women, old men, are in the same box. You know that it is a great thing , for some one from a. distance to come in town, and be noticed and looked after. You find a lot of damn fools, sycophatic, hypocritical Pharisees, who would make the world believe in them, who take such up and do a world for them, advertise, etc., while all around are the “Acres of Diamonds,” who need, but to be noticed, and are worth more to the community. What they needed was just a showing, and to be helped a little. Many a boy, man, and young girl, right here in Atlanta, and all over this Southland who are a part and parcel of us, needs to be thus nursed for a little. Damn Rockefeller’s ships, damn the Governments sending mil lions to bring tourists, I want some thing that will build the yeomanry, womanhood of this Southland —keep her women and men still of the old South, and I want them educated, thrifty, technical, and in every way qualified to sustain her. Start the ball rolling this way. Don’t, stop, go after it strong all the time. J notice your endowment at Mercer, I read your paper and am a subscribed. Go after this running after strange gods from other climes, when we should take care of our own. Start right now to advocating for America what America grows. We don’t want any more Democratic presidents unless they come direct from this Southland, we will never support another above Mason and Dixon’s line. What we want, and are going to have is a man from Georgia, for president, we won’t give our votes again to any candidate outside of the State. If we will stand to this and vote for him next time the Solid South will be a factor and unit in this Union of States. The time right now is opportune, I never saw as much discontent as there is right now in Atlanta on this Democratic ♦policy. I verily believe that good, strong man, with the ability to tell it, could sweep the State against any man who would come out. Just think of this country building a $3 5,- 000,000 railroad in that ice frozen Alaska. Why that would build a canal across these Southern States to the Atlantic. To hell wiln the whole machine. Yours for business. PLAIN DEMOCRAT. Atlanta, Ga. THIS COLONEL WATSON FOUGHT FOR ENGLAND AND THE KING. Dear Sir: I read last night the “Life of General Marion.” I find in it a British Colonel named Watson. You will find it in Mr. J. T. Headley's “Life of Washington and his Gener als.” I want to know whethere Colonel Watson is anyways related to you. Answer through the Jeffer sonian. Your friend, Ga. LOYD C. CONNELL. (Answer.) This royal officer was probably of the same extraction as myself, but my immediate ancestors settled at Wrightsboro, Georgia, long before the Revolutionary War. T. E. W. Read Foreign Missions Exposed, by Thos. E. Watson. Beautifully printed. Profusely illustrated. Price 30 cents. The Jeffs, Thomson, Ga. OLD POP PEELS ’JUDGE REAGAN. Dear Sir: Usually my sympathy is with the under dog, but in the Reagan, Daniel and Progrssive con troversy, I am departing from the usuality. Judge Reagan admits that he was in the crowd of thieves who stole the seat in the U. S. Congress fromh Tofn Watson in the 90’s, Judge Reagan admits that he was in the same gang of robbers that stole Judge Hines election for Governor of this grand old State. The Judge says, “Had their correspondence given all the facts connected with the matter about which they under took to write, no reply would have been necessary.” Great Scott, why Judge Reagan, would you like to see all the facts connected with the perilous period from 1890 to 1898, in print? All the facts connected with that period would shame the Devil, would make the doings of the Suraffgettes of .England appear as child's play. But you are right, Judge Reagan,, when you said, “If they had given all the facts there would have been no need of a reply.” Sure, for you know that there would be none found that would undertake the task of such a defence. But Judge Reagan, there is another fact. You are with the same old gang in the blissful year A. D., 1914. that you were with in the perilous period from the year 1890 to 1898. Yes, my dear Judge Reagan, you have the scars to prove the facts, Gov Atkinson appointed those men to office who did the most to help him steal the election from Judge Hines. The same old gang did the same old stunt at the recent convention at Macon. Yes, Judge Reagan, you have the record, and carry the scars. Your record, self confessed, puts you in the gang who stoned the brilliant young lawyer and patriot in the 10th- Congressional District of Georgia, and robbed him of his just rights. You have the scars to prove it Judge Reagan. You were in and one of, the gang at Macon who defeated the will of the people and imposed upon them a most detestable servile tool of Roman Catholicism, you have the scars, Judge Reagan. If you glory in them it is your privilege, but Judge Reagan, will be well advised not to get behind us old Pops too hot about giving all the facts when we write. Yours truly, Ga. G. B. CRANE. A LETTER ON MASONRY. Dear Sir: Masonry, unlike other institutions of its kind, does not countenance the defending of its tenets, and we try not to say any thing that will influence others in becoming Masons. Freemasonry se cures its members in the fredom of thought and of speech, and permits each and every one to act according to the dictates of his own conscience in matters of religion and his per sonal preference in matters of poli tics. The laws of the institution re quire of its members a strict obedi nce to the laws of God and man. So far from being bound by any en gagement inconsistent with the hap piness and prosperity of the nation (as asserted by Catholics in your previous edition, Nov. 19,) every citizen who becomes a Mason is doubly bound to be true to his God, to his country, and to his fellow men. In the language of the ancient As usual, the new head of the Ro man Catholic church is an Italian: Is Roman Catholicism in America., identical with that of the popes? Read Watson’s “Open Letters to Car dinal Gibbons” and learn. Pnce, postpaid, 50c. THE JEFFERSO NIAN PUBLISHING CO., Thomson, Georgia. charges of the order, which are printed and open for public inspec tion, and which are used as text books in all the lodges, he is're quired to keep and obey the moral law, to be a quiet and peaceful citi zen, true to his government and just to his country. Masonry disclaims the making of proselytes. She opens the portals of her asylum to those only who seek admission with the recommen dation of a character unspotted by immorality and vice. She simply re quires of the candidate his assent to one great fundamental religious truth, the existence and providence of God, (“not Supreme Being,” but God,) and a practical acknowledge ment of those infallible doctrines for the government of life which are written by the finger of God on the heart of man. Entertaining such sentiments as Masons, as (Citizens, as Christians and as moral men, and deeply im pressed with the conviction that the Masonic institution has been and may continue to be productive of great good to their fellow men, the under signed can neither renounce or abandon it. Yours truly, Ga. J. A. BROWN. 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