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AN OLD POP’S REMINISCENCES
) AND A SIDE-LIGHT ON AN
“INSURANCE INVEST-
J MENT.
Dear Sir: Thirty years ago yours
affectionately with three other Geor
gia delegates attended the National
Convention of the National—or as
our opponents styled us—“ The
Greenback Calamity Howlers.” Then
and there for the first time with
any political party of the U. S. was
discussed the desirability of a Postal
Savings bank which finally became
one of the platform demands of our
party. The details of our plan not
only embraced the saving of the
earnings of the people, but also the
loaning on real valuable security di
rectly from the post office to those
who needed the same, thus letting
such “charity” beginning at home,
stay there as long as needed and
thus giving employment to some
worthy and well qualified young
man or woman among the home
folks, at reasonable compensation;
the interest to be something reasona
ble and within the limits of the
yearly increase of wealth which
ranges from two to four per cent.
Say then the depositor gets 3 per
cent on his deposit, and the bor
rower pays 5, the 2 cents difference
abundantly paying the necessary ex
pense of ihaintaining the system.
Well after 8 or 10 years the old
parties took up the demand which
has finally culminated in a Postal
bank tail with a Regional National
bank head, through the operation of
which, if any of the depositor’s
money gets back, as a loan, into the
neighborhood of which it was earned,
it must do so through the jaws of
the National bank shark and its nu
merous eight armed money octopuses
at rates of interest ranging from
twelve to thirty per cent.
Well we’ve got the Shark, the Oc
tupus and the Postal Bank, what
next? Among the most voracious
of the Octopus family are the Life
Insurance Companies, I’ve been deal
ing with one for the past eleven
years.
Eleven years ago on the 7th day
of December, I was just 69 years and
one day old—l suppose about break
fast time in the morning, for at that
time I took out a policy under the
agreement as I undestood it, that if
I lived and paid 25 cents a week
until my 79th year of age, then I
would be considered as good as dead,
and my funeral expenses of SSO
paid, but when that time came
aro.Uftd-- i -a year ago—l was informed
that I had overlooked the word an
niversary, and I’d have to continue
the 25 cent a week “chip in” for
another year.
Well the anniversary has arrived
and I’m still a little bit alive at p?st
80 years of age, and I guess I’ll get
my $5 0 which, as I figure it, princi
ple, interest, land the same com
pounded, has cost for the 11 years
I’ve been paying it, about one
hundred and eighty-eight dollars.
I get the SSO, the octopus and its
tentacles get the balance.
Now back to our Postal Savings
bank, as beforee said, I’m not yet
quite altogether dead, and as when
I do altogether die, sometime with
in the anniversary thereof, as my
folks will want to see me decently
cremated or interred, I’ve concluded
to deposit the SSO in the P O. and
then the whole U. S. becomes re
sponsible therefor, making it per
fectly safe for the use of my execu
tor, administrator, etc., just as soon
as the book with evidence of my de
mise can get around to the National
Regional bank shark and back.
And yet there is danger, for while
President Wilson has been “Watch
fully waiting,” haven’t these wicked
and sub-serviant Mexicans been un
j observantly and constantly salut
i ing our flag across the Rio Grande,
? until even the Governor of Texas, so
? good a Wilson supporter that he
chipped in over SIO,OOO to insure his
election, is now so disgusted with
the results that he is adopting a
policy approaching (insubordination
In defense of the rights and lives of
THE JEFFERSONIAN
the people of Texas. So Mexico, with
Japan’s wily intrigues already mani
festing in the Philippines and other
places, and then, what then? Who
knows?
Well Champ Clark appears to be
afraid that instead of remaining the
Republic of these United States we,
or those of us who are left, will be
subjects of the Great American Em
pire.
I hope this won’t happen until af
ter my folks have withdrawn my SSO
deposit, and in the meantime I’m a
Greenbacker and the true and faith
ful friend of T. E. W. and the Jeff.
Ga. C. T. P.
FROM A PENNSYLVANIA READER
Dear Sir: I have been a reader
after you for about three years; if
we both live and keep our health and
reason I expect to read your papefr
and other writings much longer.
I had thought the Frank case was
settled, (as it should be,) but I see
from our daily papers that the Cor
nellites expect to present 300 peti
tions, signed by Cornell graduates,
to the Governor of Georgia, asking
leniency for Frank.
I intended writing you some time
ago telling you how we played Popery
in this State, with one exception.
We elected a good, conscientious,
Christian Governor, M. G. Brum,
baugh, but Lieutenant Governor—
his name is McClain. Now look out
for another Sulzer affair, as I am
personally acquainted with Brum
baugh, and do not think he can be
handled by the machine that used
him to white-wash the Republican
ticket of the State.
As I have possibly taken up more
of your valuable time than I should,
I will close, hoping God will spare
you to see the noble work started
fully completed.
Yours to a finish,
Pa. READER.
IN THE MEANWHILE, T. E. W.
WILL KEEP ON THE JOB.
Dear'Sir: Some day, it may be
fifty years hence, but some day the
people of Georgia and also the Uni
ted States, and when I say people, I
mean all the people, rich and poor,
high and low—will vie with each
other in singing your praises, and
paying tribute to your name. Geor%
gia will be proud that she can call
Tom Watson one of her sons. By
this I don’t mean that you are in
fallible or perfect, but I do mean
that you are doing more to educate
the people as to actual conditions
today than all other men in Georgia
put together.
Take the Frank case, for example.
There is not an editor, lawyer, doc
tor or business man, or any other
man in Atlanta, who has studied the
HAS A CURE FOR PELLAGRA
Pa.rrie Nicholas, Laurel, Miss.,
writes: “Seems to me if I had not
obtained your remedy when I did I
w T ould not have lived much longer.
I am glad you discovered this won
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odd pounds; now it is 90-odd. I
would like to have this published
and sent to sufferers of Pellagra.”
This is published at her request.
If you suffer from Pellagra or know
of anyone who suffers from Pellagra
it is your duty to consult the re
sourceful Baughn, who has fought
and conquered the dreaded malady
right in the Pellagra Belt of Ala
bama.
The symptoms—hands red like
sunburn, . skin peeling off; sore
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a flaming red with much mucous and
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There is hope if you have Pellagra
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evidence, and does not know that
Frank is guilty. lam in a position
to know. Ask any thoughtful man
you meet, provided there are no
Jews in hearing, and he will say
Frank is guilty, but will never hang.
The secret of the whole business is,
the professional, business and all
other men of Atlanta are afraid to
take up the fight against Frank, for
fear of losing trade or positions. I
am in a position to know'. I live in
Atlanta myself and am a city sales
man.
Why even the news boys are afraid
to sell your paper, The Jeffersonian,
on the street now for some reason.
You can’t find it at the news stands
which used to handle it. Why?
Because to handle The Jeffersonian
will lose other business. Why? Be
cause an effort is being made to
mold public opinion to the extent
that a pardon can be granted Frank.
But just the same the people
know you are right Tom. Some
wont say so unless they know to
whom they are speaking.
Atlanta. A FRIEND.
THIS LOOKS GOOD TO THE JEFFS
An Agreement:
I am going to ask every subscriber
and every reader of The Jeffersonian
to send in at least a club of ten to
said Jeffersonian in the next sixty
days. The time is at hand when
every true American should read said
paper and take its teachings to heart.
Respectfully,
Ga. W. H. BUSH.
THINKS THE JEFF GETS BETTER
AND BETTER.
Dear Sir: I have just finished
reading my Jeffersonian of the last
date, and it seems to me that each
copy gets better and better. I don’t
w*ant to consume much of your time,
nor much of the space in The Jeff,
but as I read the letters from the
people, it makes me feel like writ
ing too.
In regard to Catholicism I want to
say that there is not another man in
the world that can handle the ques
tion as well as you are doing. It is
true that you should have the co
operation of everybody, and espe
cially those that admit that you are
doing a good work, such as the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate and
the Christian Index.
They all agree that you are right,
but wont help. Our Methodist
preachers all say that you are doing
a noble work, and why don’t the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate help
fight?
After you whip this fight, all they
can say is, we hollowed, hurrah!
There is five feet and eleven inches
of me, and every inch Methodist, but
I can see our faults.
You know the Scripture says,
“That he that is not for me, is
against me.” This clause can be ap
plied as well reversed original,
IN CLUBS OF TEN ONLY,
With cash accompanying the order,
can The Weekly Jeffersonian or
Watson’s Magazine, be offered at the
rate of fifty cents for a year.
Where lists containing less than
ten names, are sent, the subscrip
tions will be entered only for six
months.
There can be no deviation from
this rule.
JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING CO.
Thomson, Ga.
napoleon!
I By THOS. E. WATSOM I
| THIS BOOK IS REGAWEB AS fl STfIWOfIWB, |
I BV EMINENT SCHOLARS I
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therefore if the Christian Advocate,
and the Index don’t make it plainly
known to all that it is against it, it
seems plain that they are for it.
Most of us are open to conviction,
tlflbse of us who are not grown to
Hoke Smith, and all that we need
is to have the thing explained to us,
as you have explained Foreign Mis
sions. That hallucination that was
in a lot of people several years ago
is fading away rapidly. So will
Catholicism. Respectfully.
Ga. B. L. KENNON.
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