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THOMSON, GA., APRIL 15,1915.
Government Insurance, For Cot
ton Gamblers and Ship
Owners, Only.
IT is amazing how few Democratic busi
ness men, who rely on the local dailies for
information, know that on September 2nd,
1914, Congress created a Bureau, of Insurance.
That Bureau was under-pinned with $30,-
000,000 of your public money, squeezed out of
you by tariff taxation.
At the time the Government went to insur
ing cotton—for export —at $70.00 a bale, and
the brokers and the speculators were buying it
for $30.00.
The Government financed the speculator
through the Regional Banks, by creating
$400,000,000 of new paper money, which it
loaned to the banks at 3 per cent.
The Government then financed the gamblers
and exporters by insuring the cotton from
loss, and charging only 5 per cent premium.
At that time .the premium charged by pri
vate insurance companies (marine) ranged
from 15 to 30 per cent.
Beginning with the informal risks of Sep
tember 2, 1914, and counting all policies up
to March 27, the Government has written in
surance to the amount of $66,988,242.
The premiums paid are $1,702,984, and the
losses already incurred amount to 740,000,
with the practical certainty that many other
insured ships and cargoes will be lost, and
will have to be paid for.
In other words, the Government is carrying
over $65,000,000 of risks, on a margin of
premium amounting to only $1,000,000.
The loss of one first class steamer and cargo,
wouhl tripe out all the premium, and leave
the Government facing a possible loss of many
millions of dollars.
ft's pretty tough on the Democratic cotton
grower to raise cotton that cost him at least
$-10.00 a bale, and then have the Government
have him where he is obliged to sell it at
S3O a bale, and then take your public money
and pay S7O a bale, for the same cotton, when
it is lost at sea.
If a Republican Administration had perpe
trated this infernal outrage on the South,
wouldn't our dailies have HOWLED?
Life and Speeches of Thos. E. Watson will
encourage every ambitious young man who
lias to struggle for success. Price 50c. The
Jeffersonian Publishing Company, Thomson,
Ga. I
THE JEFFERSONIAN
How This Government Uses the
Navy For the Meet Trust, and
the Catholic Millionaires
of Mexico.
HIS Democratic Administration is the
1 best Trust-owned Government the world
has ever seen.
It is “personally conducted'’ by the Money
Kings. It has no concern whatever for the
common people, so many millions of whom
it has been instrumental in bringing to finan
cial ruin.
Did you realize the full meaning of the
news item which went the rounds last week,
to the effect that our Government had com
pelled General Carranza to lift the blockade
of Progresso?
Did you think of what it meant, when our
Navy was used to bring hemp from Yucatan?
Let me explain it to you:
The ccoast of Yucatan is about 1,000 miles
south of New Orleans: its area is about
80,000 square miles, and it belongs to Mexico.
Its soil and climate make it the ideal home
of that species of century plant which pro
duces henequin, or sisal hemp.
The farms belong to Spanish Catholic
grandees, one of whom owns 15,000,000 acres.
ABOUT FIFTY OF THESE SPANISH
CATHOLIC LAND-KINGS OWN THE
WHOLE OF YUCATAN!
They live—when at home —in the beautiful
palaces of Merida.
Most of their time is spent on their yachts,
or in their splendid homes in Europe.
These fifty Spanish Catholic land-kings
own about 130,000 slaves.
Os course, they are not called “slavesthey
are called “peons,” but they belong to the
Catholic land-kings, just as completely as the
Southern negro used to belong to the planters.
These peons are bought and sold, like cattle.
They have their market price, like cattle.
They are brutally beaten by task-masters,
are housed like cattle, and are fed on just
enough to sustain physical strength.
This devilish slave-system reached its worst
form under Dictator Diaz; and it was into
this slavery that he sold every Yaqui Indian
he con Id ca pture.
Not only were Indians sold into it, but
thousands of free men in the Mexican cities
were kidnapped, and sent off into Yucatan to
become the slaves of these hemp kings.
The Catholic slave drivers of Yucatan paid
Diaz’s Government $65.00 apiece for each
Yaqui Indian.
In Yucatan, they sell for S4O0 —sometimes
as high as SI,OOO.
Do you suppose that President and
Secretary Bryan are ignorant of these hor
rible conditions in Yucatan?
The facts have been published to the whole
world for many years.
Now, General Carranza, the patriot leader
in Mexico, is trying to do for his country what
George Washington did for ours.
He is fighting for Independence and Home
Rule.
lie wants to break the iron yoke of the
Spanish land-kings and their accomplices in
crime, the Spanish high-priests.
In order to get funds to carry on the war,
General Carranza levied a tax on these fifty
Spanish’ Catholicc slave-owners and land
kings who own Yucatan.
They refused to pay it, and to enforce the
payment, he bockaded their seaport, Pro
gresso.
7 hen the Steel Trust, v/hich has to have the
sisal hemp, demanded of Wilson and Bryan,
tht they compel Carranza to open the port.
Accordingly, our Democratic Administra
tion ordered its war vessels to Progresso, and
they not only opened the port, but hauled off
the hemp!
So, there you are.
The Steel Trust violates the law, buys leg-
islation which puts net profits in $1,500,000,-
000 of fraudulent stock sand bonds, robs the
people outrageously with extortionate prices,
leagues itself with the fifty slave-kings of
Yucatan, ancZ 77ws criminal combine gets
the use of the battleships of the United States,
TO HAUL THE PRODUCE OF THEIR
SLAVE LABOR!
What Is the Secret of the Favor
itism of This Democratic Ad
ministration to the Lawless
Trusts and Combines ?
(continued from page one.)
If anything could make the situation more
bitterly intolerable, it is, to have President
Wilson go to Indianapolis, and make a sanc
timonious speech in which he says f fiat there
is no distress among the people.
The people are not suffering for lack of
prosperity, but are depressed, “psychologi
cally,” by “a state of mind.”
The ruined merchant, the debt-ridden
farmer, the unemployed workman whose chil
dren cry for bread, are told by the President
that they-are not really in a bad fix, but are
merely the victims of “a state of mind.”
I hold in my hand a statement made to a
Georgia friend, by a commission house in
Chattanooga.
It show’s that, out of a shipment of five
crates of cucumbers, the Express Company got
$3.08, while the shipper got $1.42.
The Express Company worked a few hours,
and got more than twice as much as the pro
ducer, who worked several months.
On two carloads of melons, from a Georgia
tow-n to Atlanta, the railroads got S4O. and
the farmer $Bl.
The railroads took no risk, and worked only
a few hours: the farmer took all the risks,
and worked several months; and for hauling
the melons a few miles, the Northern carrier
charged one-half as much as the producer
got.
. * * wonder that the producers are in
a terrible condition?
Isn't it a maddening situation, when the
men who produce the wealth are not allowed
by law to keep any of it?
We have practically come to that; and the
greatest progress the non-vroducers have ever
made in the same length of time, HAS BBEN
MADE UNDER WOODROW WILSON.
No other President has ever dared to show:
his hand so openly in his service of inordi
nately greedy capital.
N o other Administration ever openly
financed cotton gamblers in their gigantic
raid on the growers—a raid which forced the
farmer to sell at S3O a bale (which was
below 7 cost of production), and then immedi
ately valued the cotton at SIOO a bale, for gov
eni men tai insu ra n co.
My countrymen! When are you going to
begin to vote for yourselves, your home and
the loved ones in it?
When are you going to defy the efforts of
tricky and lying politicians, to shift you back
ami forth between the two old parties?
Both, the old parties are alike.
The two wings of a buzzard are not more
necessary to the flight of that obscene bird,
than are the Democratic and Republican par
ties to the heartless system of class-legisla
tion, which makes the rich richer, and the
poor poorer.
One wing flops, in one election, and th©)
other wing flops at the next; but both ’Wings
belong to the same buzzard, and he has to use
them both in getting to the carcass/
Will you never see the utter hopelessness of
trusting either of these old parties?
Both of them belong to the/same Trusts,
and both of them have to serve/the same mas
ters. }
